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Article: Fof Martin Boykan's Birthday Festschrift.(Brief Article)
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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I FIRST GOT TO KNOW Marty Boykan through his music. I heard Eric Moe perform Marty's Fantasy Sonata on an Earplay concert in San Francisco, and I was bowled over. The piece was beautiful and extremely lyrical, and formally it was crystal clear. I could hear passages where intervals were distinctly being emphasized, each time a different interval. And the piano writing was quite natural and personal. Never before, or since, have I heard myself uttering such a gushing phrase about a piece as I did to a friend at intermission: the piece caressed its intervals. Never since, either, have I been moved to write to a composer I hardly knew about how profoundly beautiful I found ...