For Solo Piano-Fantasy For Piano was composed by Samuel Adler for his former student Michael Brown who premiered the work at Juilliard at a concert featuring works by Adler in honour of his 85th birthday. This one-movement work begins with a majestic introduction that is interrupted twice by short spurts of agitated music. This unfolds into a fast virtuosic main section that was composed to show off the dexterity of the soloist. Adler himself wrote about the work 'I have always felt that we are living in a most exciting time and the agitation and exuberance of this main section is to demonstrate my veryoptimistic outlook.'
