Afterthoughts 1 consists of six different "orchestrations" of a basic tune, starting with a tango-like harmonization, moving through jazz and finally ending up with a rather technically difficult setting in a style which draws heavily from the classical concert music of that era. It was written at a time when the Gryphon Trio was touring performing Old Photographs (PE104) almost everywhere, either as a program item or as an encore. The new work was intended as an eventual replacement for Old Photographs in the Gryphon Trio programs. As it happened, Dance of the Dictators came along a year later and that became the "replacement" pieces instead, Afterthoughts 1 remaining in the sidelines for a while.
