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“For Carl” Two Piano Duet (2004)
At the beginning of my 9th grade year, my father surprised me, as was his wont, with the gift of wonderful music. This gift took the shape of a “best of” album of the live, Montreal bistro-based two-piano duets played by Jazz giants Harold Mabern and Geoffrey Keezer. In that world, cruel as if... »
Putting Music to Tennyson’s “Ulysses”
The song uses as lyrics the highlighted section of the fourth stanza. Poem by A. L. Tennyson, 1833. Music by Deborah Stokol, April 22, 2012 Recorded, sung, and played by Deborah Stokol (“hard roads” sound on Alesis Q-88), May 17, 2012 Ulysses Ulysses, version 2 Ulysses It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with... »
Can’t Help Loving Dat Man of Mine, Cover
An interpretation of the old Showboat standard. Singing and piano by Deborah Stokol, 2001. Recorded at the Colburn School. Can’t Help Loving Dat That Man of Mine, Deborah Stokol 2001 Cover »
Alice in Wonderland
A cover of Bill Evans’ Alice in Wonderland, played by Deborah Stokol, and recorded December 2001 at Los Angeles’ Colburn School of Music. Alice in Wonderland, Deborah Stokol 2001 cover »
I Walk out on the Streets I used to Know so Well
An improvised piece about coming home after being gone for awhile. I Walk on all the Streets I used to Know so Well Piano , singing, words, by Deborah Stokol, January 23, 2011. I walk out on the streets I look and see the places I used to know so well. Nothing looks the same, but nothing’s changed Maybe– I’m the one who’s... »
Moonage Daydream-Improvised Cover
An improvised, and rough, cover of the David Bowie classic. Moonage Daydream Piano, singing, Deborah Stokol, recorded on iPhone January 15, 2011. »
My Heart is a House
From December, 2010. My heart is a house and sometimes a home with memories for rooms and floors of gem tones. You took charge of the place, like a merchant or king residing there, sweetly this place as your thing Sometimes these walls forsake me. I get lost in the halls I thought to command there, having built them, myself You filled the chambers with light and with... »
Whiter Shade of Pale-Cover
An improvised cover of the beloved Procol Harum song, using piano, singing, and iPhone, one afternoon in January of 2011. Whiter Shade of Pale-Cover »