The barest of minimums

“Walking pier” photographed at Harvey’s beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut on October 20, 2024
:The barest of minimums” composed and performed with guitar and clarinet by Sanford Ross Bender on October 23, 2024

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

“Fort Point bell and light houses, Maine” photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on October 12, 2024
“Goodbye and farewell” composed and performed by Sanford Ross Bender with guitar on October 12, 2024.

Island of promise

“Island of Promise” (Island passed on ferry from harbor in Stonington, Maine) photographed by Sanford Ross Bender on May 26, 2024.
“Island of Promise” composed and performed with guitar and slide by Sanford Ross Bender on May 24, 2024.