Albumleaf 216: November 13, 2025 (Bologna)

0:39 — “Can I be your friend?”

Albumleaf 214: October 16, 2025 (Bologna)

There are some ideas in this one. 

From the dense, cloudy chords, the music extracts perfect fifths (first heard at 0:05), the most consonant interval between two different pitches, a symbol of the absolute, an ideal, a concept of perfection, “hidden words.”

But in two instances, dissonant intervals emerge from the chords.  In the first case, a harsh major seventh (0:28)—an interval to represent anxiety and doubt.  After more perfect fifths (like, at 0:54), a second dissonant interval emerges: a major ninth (1:24)—a less dissonant interval, less anguished and doubtful; in fact, the interval is simply two stacked perfect fifths.  Some peace has been gained.

The meter is also in three, the historical “tempus perfectum” of music.  But the meter is articulated only faintly: its perfection is always there, but it’s not always easy to perceive

So, the piece is a small statement of faith, of the healing potential of religious contemplation.

Albumleaf 212: August 4, 2025 (New York)

Revised October 13-14 (Bologna)

Albumleaf 211: July 15, 2025 (Bologna)

Albumleaf 209: June 20, 2025 8Bologna)

“La carta Vincente” (“The winning card”) is inspired by a leitmotif in Stefano Massini’s Lehman Trilogy in which a dwarf shows onlookers a card, places it face down on a table with two other cards, maneuvers all three extremely rapidly, and then invites onlookers to identify the position of the previously shown card.