Autumn Study

“Autumn Study” for piano solo was inspired by Anna Kamieńska’s poem “A Prayer That Will Be Answered”; also by the autumnal weather and light when I wrote the piece in the fall of 2023.

A Prayer That Will Be Answered
Anna Kamieńska

Lord let me suffer a lot

and then let me die



Allow me to walk through silence

Let nothing not even fear linger after me

Make the world go on as it always has
let the sea continue to kiss the shore



Let grass still remain green

so a little frog could find shelter in it

and someone could bury his face

and weep his heart out



Make a day dawn so bright
it seems there is no more suffering



And let my poem be transparent as a windowpane
against which a straying bee hits its head