What were you doing 20 years ago? How has what you were doing 20 years ago shaped who you are today? Are you proud of what you were doing? Can you not even remember or would you rather forget?

I ask these questions not to anyone in particular, but to myself. You see, Atlantis Lost was written 20 years ago. I had just bought my first piano (a beautiful baby grand). I was living in a small one bedroom apartment overlooking the Pacific Ocean. I had quit my job to devote my full time energies to composing this work. What was so compelling to me to drop a lucrative job, throw caution to the wind and take this chance? What was it that caused me to sacrifice literally everything I owned at the very beginning of my career, with no assurance that I would ever be back on my feet again? My friends, family and those around me at the time surely thought I was insane. Yet, with little more than a dream in my heart and an unyielding belief in God I walked up to the proverbial edge, closed my eyes and jumped.

Twenty years later, as I prepare to release the music I composed during that period, I realize that great dreams often begin with great sacrifice. Without faith, we are merely relegated to an obscure existence. Atlantis Lost represents a great leap of faith, and maybe more so, my personal conversations with God at a time when everyone around me told me that my beliefs were unjustified.

Now, at a time in history when strong belief sometimes unfortunately leads to a fundamentalism which causes death and destruction, I present to you my faith in the most peaceful manner I know, music. It is the only way I know to offer peace, while at the same time waging war against ignorance and injustice. After all, isn’t the key to a good life learning to play a few well placed notes?

I dedicate Atlantis Lost to your dreams, your strength to sacrifice and your faith to pursue the truth.

Peace,
Eric

 

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