— Belongs in Helps’ unique and favored genre of mood pieces with refined sonorities, uncanny development, and sensitive pedalling. The composer never elucidated a fundamental mystery surrounding this composition: should the title be pronounced as American English or à la française[EE—MAAAAAAAZH]?
Duration: 3 minutes
Image appears in the now classic collection New Music for the Piano (published in 1963 by Lawson Gould — now G.F. Schirmer). Helps later recorded the entirety of this anthology as pianist.
The original booklet cover art to the LP release of New Music for the Piano
