4 Preludes for AUGUST LONDON RACE Riots by EARL MARTIN

I am so proud of this slow august music. Finally something came across as I meant it.The pop song like simplicity and transparency lends itself to the short prelude form.I thought of the famous e minor and d flat preludes of Chopin and the neurosis at the very soul of Scriabin's music. Id like to think the early expressionism of Berg and Schonberg are in this but it's a little too simple in formal elements to harken any wandering that way.As originally written there is more subtlety in the right hand lines some voicings I have mot learned how to get different lines in one stave so when i do I will have to return to this first "August" prelude.
I sit here in WEST Palm Beach , Florida dimly aware of tensions mounting in North Africa and again in eastern Europe and the various Russias and many African nations.This prelude is a standing still waiting for the execrable again to come crashing into our lives! The resentments and mental calumny that echo,rebound & builds when a member of the protective branch of government fatally wounds a young black man. Looting and damage have no excuses in this world but neither does murder so these two insidious ,unbalanced "crazy "effects meet each other on the road of excess awareness and excessive despair.
I'm always amazed when White people say they don't know how such&such can have occurred or Why. BECAUSE YOU refuse to listen see and hear this is why atrocities happen all over the world. People lash out when they are ignored.Bankers and politicians and mortgage loan bureaucrats steal daily & that is how it goes on & on. t
There will be 3 preludes following this one almost whispering ,silent one . They will be alive,(vivant et brute)brutal,aggressive and chaotic like the opening movement's of Pierre Boulez's masterwork second sonata. I will push every brain in my psyche to achieve this.12 tone and the complex rhythms make sense to those who know and feel what kind of world we live in!