Foreign Lands, Rainy Nights-Hiromasa Keya Kobayashi

“Foreign Lands, Rainy Nights” is a piece inspired by a stormy rainy night while I was briefly staying in Melbourne years ago. After a cadenza-like introduction depicting thunder, lightning, and splattering raindrops, the piece is divided into 2 parts. The first part is a brooding melody in G minor which describes the homesickness I was feeling during that sleepless night, while the brighter and livelier G major second part describes the city's traffic and neon lights intermingling with the wind and rain. The piece ends peacefully, illustrating the breaking of dawn and the tranquility after a night's rain.