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A Still More Excellent Way
by James Piorkowski
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A Still More Excellent Way was inspired by a comment that guitarist Ken Meyer had made to me in regard to another composition of mine. Ken attended a rehearsal of my chorus and guitar work, The Greatest of These, and mentioned that he imagined a potential piece for two guitars based on that music. Years later, when Ken eventually requested that I compose a new solo guitar piece for him, I recalled his comment about The Greatest of These. I revisited my choral work, and wondered if a solo guitar composition could be birthed from it. I decided that it could, and so I went to work. While some passages are similar to the choral piece, other passages were reinvented, and new material was added (e.g., the ending). The libretto of The Greatest of These was excerpted from the biblical letter known as First Corinthians, (the text illustrates love, e.g., “love is patient; love is kind; it does not envy…”). The verse that immediately precedes the selected text that I used for The Greatest of These is “a still more excellent way,” which leads to the upcoming discourse on love.
James Piorkowski
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