Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987870 Composed by Azim Lewis Mayadas. 20th Century,Classical. Score. 3 pages. Azim Lewis Mayadas #516715. Published by Azim Lewis Mayadas (A0.987870). This elegiac piece was composed by me in the wake of the awful massacre on Friday, November the 13th of Parisian citizens by murderers of French and Belgian background belonging to the self-named terrorist Islamic State. As a college student in London in the 1950's I invariably took in the City of Light during my many summer holidays spent in Europe, usually accompanied by my best friend, Gerard, of Lyons. He taught me how to savor the best that a French restaurant had to offer, as his mother was a Cordon Bleu when it came to the cuisine of that fair land. We also visited Brussels in Belgium and the French Riviera and parts in between to partake of the various excellent wines that the region had to offer. En route to settling in the USA two decades later my family and I spent a few days in Paris, so that I could convey to my wife and three girls what France had done in contributing its language and culture to so many parts of the world, including out native India. In some small way, I offer this effusion of grief in a positive, if not joyous vein, because that's how the melancholic chords end - in a tierce de picardie from A minor to A major.
