Music by DANIEL DORFF |
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Through a Misty Arch... for Flute Ensemble (with optional narrator and/or dance) |
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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. WATCH a live performance at the 2021 MMEA Winter Festival by students at University of Minnesota-Duluth (starts at 9:30 into the video). BUY from your favorite sheet music dealer or direct from Presser. 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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