Composer’s note from the CRI recording: “I composed VALLEY SUITE for the Keene Valley Library’s American Bicentennial Celebration, its movements reflecting the Valley’s woods and clearings, its peaceful cemetery atop a hill, the person of a beloved resident and friend, Raymond Edmonds, and Johns Brook, familiar to many an Adirondack afficionado. I am grateful that it is played by Max Pollikoff who has devoted so great an amount of his art to American works.”