Penalty Box was written for Holly Roadfeldt, and was my first so-called post pandemic piece. It was written in May-June, 2021, right after covid mandates were lifted in Massachusetts.
I had originally shared on social media a picture of myself gesturing during a Brandeis colloquium, and I titled the post "Illegal Use of Hands." At this giddy post-pandemic point, it seemed it was a good title and premise for a piano piece. Then, naturally, it occurred to me that other sports penalties could serve as the idea for short piano pieces, I made a list of a lot of them, and eventually I wrote two more.
Holly and her husband Kirk did a multicamera video of it, after Holly had performed it several times, and here we have it.
