Incitation To Desire (Tango) for piano (1984), was written for Yvar Mikhashoff who first performed it at the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo on April 14, 1985 and whose recording of it appears on a New Albion Release in 1995. It was originally published by Quadrivium Music Press as part of the International Tango Collection which included 88 composers as varies as John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Virgil Thomson. It is one short movement starting with brief, flashy introduction, then the Tango itself entitled "In The Style of a Tango-Cancion" ...with abstracted characteristic habanera rhythmic patterns in 2/4 meter and sentimental melody, and then a brief driving coda. The title comes from H.C. Colles' "Tango" entry in the Fifth Volume if the 1944 THird Edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: "The movements of the dance are less presentable to a polite audience than those of the Habenera, and as now performed in the cafes chantants of Madrid and other cities of Spain the Tango has become nothing but an incitation to desire" Read more
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