1. Prelude: Sea and Foam

2. Bodysurfing

3. Clouds

4. Harbor Seals

5. Aspen Brook

6. Deep Blue

7. Carefree

8. Tidal Hymn II

9. Grunion

10. Procession

11. Postlude: Foam and Sea

THE STORY BEHIND BEACH PEBBLES

Beach Pebbles is a large collection of short piano pieces in three volumes that take a journey back to feelings we first had for beauty and wonder in our world. Rather than the German fairy tales of Robert Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, Beach Pebbles evokes the sandpipers and sand castles of… Malibu. It begins in a prelude of Sea and Foam, the water all chromatic, murky, and muddled. It eventually clears, we find ourselves back in psychological time to the feelings of summer dreams, romance, sailboats, two lonely seagulls, etc. The pieces are short, romantic, nostalgic, and unabashedly tonal.