Dear Subscribers/Listeners: In celebration of having achieved 900 listeners I will download 3 new pieces called, Three Movements for Piano. These pieces have a history that I’d like to share with you. In 1975 I moved to Paris, France to study with Nadia Boulanger, a great pedagogue of music education. I was very lucky to work with this 89-year-old woman who had known great composers such as Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky, the many of the French School of Composers and teacher of many American composers. During the time in Paris, she reviewed with us Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, both volumes. She told us that she had memorized these pieces by the time she was 5 years old. Before I left for Paris, I visited my first cousin, Dale, who was in the hospital. We were extremely close during our childhood but as we grew up into our later teens he started surfing while I studied music. I didn’t realize how sick he was and found out that he had cancer. Some months into my time in Paris I received a communication that he had died. I felt I needed to express my grief and wrote these three pieces which are unnamed and go by I, II, and III movements. In 1977 I returned to the United States and moved to New York City. At that time, I started to work with the composer, David Diamond. I reworked these pieces with him. Most recently, I was going through some boxes of my music and found these pieces. They have never been performed. I reworked them again and present them here for your listening and enjoyment. Frank Russo