Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Trio Flute - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.533636 Composed by Carson Cooman. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. 4 pages. Musik Fabrik Music Publishing #3034041. Published by Musik Fabrik Music Publishing (A0.533636). Distant Glittering Orbs (2003) for solo alto flute was commissioned by Frederick Butler andwas written for and dedicated to flutist Laurel Ann Maurer whose brilliant playing was fullyin mind during the composition.The title of the work provides the poetic image behind its conception -- imagining interstellarobjects (suns, stars, planets) existing just outside of our field of clear vision. It is an intimatepiece, yet exploring a conception of the far reaching beyond -- making use of the alto flute'sdistinct timbre.The opening section of the work is slow and flexible -- with a series of expanding and freerangingchromatic gestures, exploring and augmenting sets of notes. A faster section occursnext -- marked glittering spirals -- consisting of sweeping gestures. A return to the originalmood follows, and a simpler lyric melody emerges in a straightforward fashion (coming outof all the earlier chromatic excursions.) Finally, a few spirals from the faster music interjectbefore an intimate and reposed coda concludes the piece.