Remembering John Cage (2019) was commissioned by Duo Ebano (Marco Danesi, clarinet, Paolo Gorini, piano & toy piano) and exists in versions for clarinet, English horn, and a new version for 5-string violin & electric keyboard/toy piano adapted especially for Hannah Weirich and Ulrich Löffler. John Cage (1912-1992) may have been the first to write concert music for toy piano in the 1940s. This piece remembers him through the toy piano's nostalgic timbre along with the deceptive simplicity and calm found in some of Cage's early work. As an object onstage can be lit from different angles, changing appearance according to the direction of the light, so too the "frozen" rising and falling notes of the harmonic series, which appear to change depending on surrounding harmonies in the violin and keyboard parts. - RS