The barest of minimums
This instrumental may sound plaintive, but the more I listen, start to hear it as the breath of victory that arrives after an exhausting ordeal. It is an “on the road” piece in which the clarinet is only a student rental instrument that I play at a time when coincidentally my recording equipment also happens to not be performing properly. The guitar and clarinet improvise with sympathetic melodies that will never sound the same again; like hearing an invisible owl floating through the mist. SRB
Goodbye and farewell
Whirls and pearls
Moose appearance
“Moose appearance” composed and performed with two guitars by Sanford Ross Bender on September 22, 2024 (Autumn Equinox).
A royal cat
My father’s beard
My father’s beard
My father,
with sprouting beard,
and dancing eyes,
returning from the Maine woods,
smothered his face,
with creamy lather,
at my mother’s
razor command.
-SRB January 7, 2024
Tranquility
A chance encounter
Soldier’s remorse
