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Bright Air/Brilliant Fire. (Woodwinds).
Bright Air/Brilliant Fire for flute (alto) and tape, by Diane Thome. C.F. Peters Corp. (373 Park Ave. South, New York, NY 10016), 2001. 14pp., $12.95 (score and flute part). DAT tape available from publisher. Performance time eleven minutes.
Composed on commission from Sigma Alpha Iota (music fraternity for women), this work evokes vivid images of "bright air and brilliant fire." Inspired by a quotation from the ancient Greek philosopher and poet Empedocles, this composition utilizes computer-generated sounds as a backdrop for the solo flute line.
The work is divided into three sections, the first of which is extremely "atmospheric." One can imagine the wind--at first gentle, later rushing in gusts through mountain canyons or on the ocean shore--while the flute arches smoothly across wide pitch intervals or creates points of sound "like distant stars."
In the second section the flute ignites ...
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