This composition follows two weeks after the writing of “Tuscan Affair”.
I was playing around with the different instruments in GPO and was struck with inspiration when I got to the piccolo. With the record button on I simply played whatever came to mind (or from the heart). The solo piccolo line that begins the composition was the result and on which everything else was built. So I left it intact.

Orchestration is rather difficult for me so there was a lot of trial and error. In some places the accompaniment came first followed by secondary themes. Sometimes secondary themes preceded and dictated the accompaniment. The violin descant came last quite by mistake. After a little bit of development it saved the day.