Music by DANIEL DORFF |
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Three Little Waltzes for Flute and Bb Clarinet |
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Duration: c. 5' DETAILS RECORDED on Albany Records by Leonard Garrison flute and Shannon Scott clarinet. PROGRAM NOTES THREE LITTLE WALTZES is a quirky set of surprises composed for flutist Cindy Anne Broz. The first and third waltz are each shorter than a minute and serve as a prelude and postlude for the large middle movement which is over 5 minutes. Freshly composed in 2010, the 1st and 3rd movements are freely based on rhythmically-challenging waltzes that I wrote in high school (1974), frequently teasing between a waltz-like accompaniment and various ways of contradicting any sense of regularity, thereby providing a happy sense of arrival whenever the rhythms get back in sync. The second movement is a sort of backwards-constructed set of variations, in which fragments are built together and tease at congealing throughout the movement, finally climaxing in a full statement of the theme for the grand finale that reveals the full theme.UPDATES AFTER THE FIRST PRINTING Mvt 1, bar 37: add mp cresc. for the flute Mvt 1, bar 53: the final clarinet note is pp, not mp. Mvt 2, bar 3: change the clarinet's nuance to "answering strongly" REVIEWS "Little gems with a Peter Schickele-esque whimsical quality. These duos rise above the mundane with interesting harmonic twists." – The Clarinet (Gregory Barrett), March 2016 |
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last updated April 18, 2026 |
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