Ferry Boat Ride

Breezy, blustery, invigorating. That’s the feeling in Ferry Boat Ride. This piece has three different musical ideas and the challenge is holding the piece together as a whole. A right hand legato melody constructed of fifths alternates with left hand fifths that provide an energetic musical response using a detached tenuto. The second musical idea suggests the motion of waves. Then immediately the middle section, with its bright, sparkling melody, rises with excitement which finally falls gently into the wave motion again. The challenge of the middle section is to keep the sixteenth note rhythm precise - avoiding triplets. Finally, a re-statement of the first section and a pause at the end sees the Ferry come to rest.