Duration: c. 5'
DETAILS
COMPOSED IN RESIDENCE at Ardmore Avenue Elementary School, Lansdowne, PA, after a poem by 6th grader Joy MacAlister.
PREMIERED two days later by an ensemble of 2nd-year flutists; subsequently performed frequently at university recitals, including multi-media adaptations.
AVAILABLE from your favorite sheet music dealer or direct from Presser.
WATCH a live performance at the 2021 MMEA Winter Festival by students at University of Minnesota-Duluth (starts at 9:30 into the video).
PROGRAM NOTES
This music was inspired by the following poem by Joy MacAlister, a sixth-grade student at the Ardmore Avenue Elementary School in Lansdowne, PA, during a residence supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Artists in Education program.
THROUGH A MISTY ARCH... may be performed as a concert piece for flutes alone, or as music underscoring a reading of the poem. In addition, dance may be added.
When using both the poem and the music, read lines 1–6 beginning in bar 11, then read lines 6–10 beginning in bar 36.
I walk into another world,
Through a misty arch
Nothing is around me
Except dry, empty space
The sounds are quiet and soft
Just as at home
Through a misty arch
To a quiet place
The quiet is a lullaby
To rock me to sleep
© 1985 by Joy MacAlister
Used by permission
REVIEWS
"A very nice piece, with pleasing harmonic progressions."
– New Flute Review, Winter-Spring 1988.
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