352 - Pigeons From Hell

I was half heartedly watching an old episode of Boris Karloff’s anthology show Thriller as I was scribbling this down and the episode was the absurdly titled but effective Pigeons From Hell, which I knew was taken from the short story by Robert E. Howard, friend of H.P. Lovecraft, better known for his character Conan, the Barbarian, but if you ask me, more entertaining are his absurd tall tails featuring Breck Elkins, many of which can be found in the collection A Gent From Bear Creek.

Regardless, I thought slapping such a bizarre title on this somewhat gentle waltz would lend it an anempathetic effect but after I finished and set the piece, it does kind of remind me of hellish pigeons.

Go figure.

Side note - it took a lot of work to get ABC to play the first chord correctly. Turns out a flat9 on a chord starting on a flat scale degree is read by ABC as a double flat. ABC thought Eb b9 was an E double flat chord (Ebb), which is rich because I’ve TRIED to get it to play double flat chords before and it refused to cooperate!