The Untimely Ones is a compilation of Romantic piano works, including several by the composer Frederick Chopin. A great improviser, Chopin would create dreamy intrigues of the spirit with his accomplice the piano. Listeners in adjacent rooms would stop their conversations and children would look up from play to hear his marvelous music. Afterwards, manuscript paper before him, he would try to capture these splendid ideas. As elusive as these thoughts were, in spite of his ranting and raving, in spite of the hair that he pulled at in frustration, a work would at last be born for the ages!
Mark's own compositions are also reproduced here as he created them, in spontaneous performances in hisNew Jersey Studio, over ten years ago. Incidentally, Hal refers to the baleful computer in Peter Kubrick's 2001. Untimely Ones and Kurosawa are inspired by the German Poet Friedrich Nietzsche and the Japanese film director Kurosawa, respectively. The two pieces by J.S. Bach and Rachmaninoff are not very well known but etch deep patterns in one's soul.
