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Inst:piano

        Date:2007

        Duration:8'




        Performances:Premiere 2011: Nataliya Medvedovskaya, piano, Bargemusic, Brooklyn, NY










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



            [Read Reviews](#view-reviews)






*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*

Video features pianist Nataliya Medvedovskaya stunning performance at Bargemusic.

*Hourglass* is a musical reflection on the passage of time and the delicacy and variable nature of its passing – as in the shifting phases of sand in a turning hourglass. – RW




### Reviews of Hourglass

“Rain Worthington’s mood sketches…have a delicate wistfulness and Satie-like repose. I’m not often a fan of minimalism, but these chordal repetitions and loopings are strangely compelling. The shifting sands of ‘Hourglass’ stretch time seductively;…” – Jack Sullivan, American Record Guide, January/February 2010