Piece Comment

Review of Retiring with Dahlias


Here is an interview with a WWII veteran that sequ?s from his story during the war into his current passion, his colorful dahlias. A charming idea that intrigued me quite a lot - and in fact, the interview is full of delicate moments and potential juxtapositions. Here is where I feel bound to give the opinion that I wish it were more imaginatively produced. The interview is evenly edited with a kind of generic guitar picking slipped onto the beginning and end - his speech being slow and measured (normal considering his age) this music does little to underscore, and little is done in the production to use the ebb and flow, peaks and valleys of the imagery. There are lovely details here, especially in the end, his comments. (An interview nicely conducted.) I'd be delighted to listen again to this one, re-worked with a compositional mindset.