A CD of 21st century chamber music compositions, Guided Imagery is a showcase of recent works by composer and pianist, Dan Campolieta. Dan’s musical interests range from historically informed early music, to the most avant-garde, and everything in between. Having trained as both a classical organist and jazz pianist, his style of composition often fuses elements of both genres. -------------------------------- Guided Imagery (2011) started as an idea to write a work for my good friend and singer, Marques Jerrell Ruff, and to set the poetry of another beloved friend, Linda Beher, to music. Linda’s poems are timeless, and she has the amazing ability to sit still, observe, and beautifully recount the simple moments of life. She handed me a stack of over fifty unpublished poems in the summer of 2010, and if I had the stamina I would have set all of them. I picked eight, which I thought told a story and which follow the changing of seasons. Li...