Andante tranquillo - Allegretto / Andante tranquillo - Dolcemente moderato / Andante tranquillo - Allegro

Vittorio Rieti, a close friend of Sylvia Marlowe's for many years, was an old-fashioned gentleman, soft-spoken, intelligent and gracious. He was nice enough to visit my apartment in 1985 to coach Wendy and me in his new harpsichord duet, Trittico (Tryptich). Probably he just wanted to make sure we were doing it right, as any composer would reasonably wish to do. The work is an unabashed portrait of Sylvia in which he demonstrates with amazing perception her passion for (and possible confusion between) past and present and her unique mixture of rhythmic and melodic elements; there are also brief snatches of a definite Russian flavor in memory of her loving husband, the exquisite painter Leonid Berman.