Drawing its title from St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, Face to Face for solo piano is the companion piece to an earlier composition of mine, also for solo piano (and also drawing from the same source), called Through a Glass Darkly. The subject of the present composition is transcendence. The music reflects my relentless search for it and the intuitive understanding that has been developed within an environment that constantly militates against it and attempts to delegitimize it. Although I seek spiritual transcendence with unassailable certainty, its mastership has evaded me so far, undoubtedly due to my own continuing spiritual weakness. Just like a lighthouse during the older days of seafaring, however, this certainty has kept me from crashing upon the rocky shores of worldliness and allows me to keep on searching elsewhere for answers.
