In keeping with time-honoured tradition, I have stolen from myself in the course of this work, and in others as well. In fact I have re-used the "Lonely Princess" theme (3rd movement of this suite) not once, not twice, but thrice, and I may not yet be finished. That section originally appeared in my children's ballet, Aladdin, a year before this suite was begun (and before my daughter was born). The Princess' theme from the ballet so charmed me that I inserted it into my suite and arranged it later for flute and guitar (in which form it eventually became the processional for my wedding to Andrea Mellis many years further on). You can read more about - and stream - that version if you click here. Most recently it has been re-cast for recorder quartet and harpsichord, and in this form it was premièred in Colchester, England in 2016. It can be heard at the Colchester New Music site (along with another pieces of mine called "5-Part re-Invention").

       I felt guilty after my second daughter was born, for not writing something for her also. But all parents know that the second, and later, children get the short end of the stick. At last however, I have corrected that lapse. In 2013 I wrote Dances for Camille, a suite for two pianos which is also recorded on this album. All is now right with the world!