PROGRAM NOTE “Hatzvi Israel” Eulogy for female voice, flute, string quartet and harp was written in 1968 on commission by New York Philharmonic violinist Stanley Hoffman. I wrote it at a pivotal time in my life when I was departing for the first time from the safe and familiar world of tonality, having found myself…
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PROGRAM NOTE The Sonatina for two flutes was written in Tel Aviv, Israel, and represents an important moment in my life. Having begun composing at the age of seven, all my early creations involved either the piano or the human voice—singing or narrating—and thus could be realized in performance by me alone. When I was…
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PROGRAM NOTE O The Chimneys is a setting of five poems by Nelly Sachs, the great German-Jewish 1966 Nobel Prize co-winner in literature, whose writing concerned itself almost entirely with the subject of the holocaust. Composed in 1969, the work was my personal way of saying, through my own art, ‘do not forget’. I selected…
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PROGRAM NOTE EAST WIND for solo flute was commissioned by the National Flute Association for its annual Young Artists Competition, and was first performed by the six semi-finalists at the l988 San Diego NFA Convention. The work’s opening motif is a slightly varied treatment of the simplest of ideas—a single note which is then encircled…
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