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Inst:piano

        Date:2001

        Duration:8'05"




        Performances:Premiere 2009:  Max Lifchitz, piano, Union College, Schenectady, NY










            [Buy Score](https://thty8p35tm9d6f9.onstatic.studio/product/dark-dreams-for-piano-digital-score/)


            [View Perusal Score](https://thty8p35tm9d6f9.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Dark-Dreams-Piano-PERUSAL-No-print.pdf)








*Released 2008: [Moods: Piano Music by American Women Composers](https://thty8p35tm9d6f9.onstatic.studio/discography/moods-piano-music-by-american-women-composers/), Max Lifchitz, piano, North/South Recordings*

Audio features a concert recording by pianist, Desiree Bonitz at the 2016 Missouri State University Composition Festival

*Dark Dreams* was inspired by a painting by Jared FitzGerald.  The germinating idea for the piece relates to the image of an angel in the moonlight wrestling with a shadowy figure. *Dark Dreams* extends the metaphor to the struggles with emotional demons confronted in life. – RW

![Jacob Wrestling the Angel](https://thty8p35tm9d6f9.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Jacob-Wrestling-the-Angel-1024x821.jpg)

Painting by Jared FitzGerald