Now

Score title: Now
Composer: Mary Ellen Childs
More about the composer: Mary Ellen Childs
Date: 2012
Instrumentation: Piano
Sample: Listen on Spotify
Library copy: Borrow from UMKC Libraries
Program note: "In the lyrics of 'Now-Later-Soon,' I love the way Sondheim, in the end, turns 'Now' into 'Later,' 'Later' to 'Soon' and 'Soon' to 'Now,' turning everything on its head. My version is mostly 'Now,' with a little bit of 'Later' and 'Soon' sprinkled here and there, my way of mixing 'Now' and 'Later' and 'Soon' together. These words refer to time, so I decided to play with the meter. Since this piece and all of 'A Little Night Music' is in various meters of three, it seems especially inviting to tweak the meter with sevens and fives, truncating here extending there, momentarily lurching forward or drawing out, all while simultaneously flowing along."