Dialogue (2013)
PURCHASE SCORE
Dialogue
solo flute // 8:00
Premiere: May 2013
Commissioned by the Boston Composers Coalition and written for Sarah Brady, flute
Program note:
The inspiration for Dialogue came from an unlikely source. Composer Earl Kim (1920-1998) wrote a song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble in 1982 entitled Where Grief Slumbers. The cycle’s fourth song, Ophelia, opens with a beautiful and tragic solo soprano line. Kim’s melody plays with intervallic material related to the major 7th, a dissonant interval which juxtaposes nicely with the consonant octave. Dialogue explores and develops related intervallic ideas on the flute but adds a crucial component, the interplay of a vocal line sung by the flute player. As a result of the melodic flute line against the vocal drone, an interference occurs which distorts both the flute and the vocal line. An eerie and intriguing sound ensues.
Awards
Published by Society of Composers, Inc, “SCI Journal of Music Scores” Volume 52, New York, NY, Sept 2014
Accepted at 2014 College Music Society Rocky Mountain Regional Conference (performed by Kathryn Shaffer, flute)
Accepted at 2014 College Music Society Great Lakes Regional Conference
Accepted at the 2014 New Music Festival, University of Nebraska at Kearney (performed by Franziska Brech, flute)
Performed at 2022 Evening of Dance; performed by flutist Caroline Shaffer and choreographed by Cynthia McLaughlin