Elena Kats-Chernin: Unsent Love Letters

A meditation on Erik Satie. When Erik Satie died, friends found dozens of unsent love letters in his Paris apartment. Composer&Note: I&often wondered, as we all do, what was written in all those unsent love letters found inside Satie&apartment. I found myself using material with a G flat major chord as the centre and thinking about two things: tenderness and obsession. I kept doubling back (a little like a mind fixated) and that makes this piece a slow reveal. The climax is in the middle when the material suddenly moves more quickly from key to key drawing back the veil on much warmer feelings.