SKU: A0.736263

PROGRAM NOTES
Reflections of Water for Flute & Piano
by Phyllis Avidan Louke

1.  A Cool Mountain Stream
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2.  A Quiet Morning on the Lake
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3.  Frolic in the Surf
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This piece was written in memory of my father. So many childhood memories of Dad revolved around water-summer vacations spent with my family camping by a mountain stream, fishing in a lake and outings to ocean beaches near my childhood home in Southern California. This programmatic work is in three movements.

1. A Cool Mountain Stream utilizes the pentatonic scale to depict a stream as it meanders along, frequently bouncing over rocks and sometimes heading down a slope, eventually ending in a small waterfall that empties into a deep pool. During a summer vacation, my family camped by a stream that was a natural waterslide. We spent many happy hours sliding down the waterslide into the pool below.
2. A Quiet Morning on the Lake uses the repetitive rocking motion of the piano to represent the soothing motion of the rowboat as I spent summer vacations fishing for trout with my dad on a quiet lake in the San Bernardino Mountains.
3. Frolic in the Surf brings out the playfulness felt at the ocean beach, while getting used to the water temperature and trying to predict when the waves will hit the shore. Many summer days were spent on Southern California beaches with family and friends, body surfing, tanning and simply playing in the waves.

Scored for flute and piano.  5:00    Level 3

Phyllis Avidan Louke (b. 1954), a flutist, teacher, and award-winning composer, living in Portland, Oregon, has been arranging and composing since 1990, with over 70 pieces published.  Many of her works have received recognition in the annual National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition and other composition competitions.  Ms. Louke has also been the recipient of annual ASCAP awards since 2004.  Her compositions and arrangements have been much-performed nationally and internationally and many have been recorded.  She is also the co-author of an award-winning series of pedagogical publications for the flute published by Theodore Presser Company.  Her music is published by Theodore Presser Company, ALRY Publications, Falls House Publications, Fabulous Flute Music Company, Nourse Wind Publications, and SMP Publications.

 For more information on compositions by Phyllis Avidan Louke, go to http://www.phyllislouke.com/compositions/

SKU: B0.PDF-BAND296

8.5 x 11 inches.

Reflections is a lush ballad for band which is suitable for concert or contest. Clarinets do not cross the break and the high note for trumpet is fourth line D. Reflections can be used by more mature bands as an excellent warm-up selection.

SKU: A0.835869

Reflections on a Haunted House, by Paul Burnell.  Composed 2021 for Piano.

Movements may be performed individually. 

'Reflections on a Haunted House' comprises sixty short pieces, thirty of which are for piano.

The piano movements may be performed as solo items, or alternately performed with pre-recorded backing tracks.

If all piano movements are performed as a solo set without backing the total duration is 29 minutes.

The titles of the piano movements are derived from the short story 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). The story was first published in the 1921 collection 'Monday or Tuesday' and later in the 1944 collection 'A Haunted House and Other Short Stories'.

The backing tracks are included on the album 'Reflections on a Haunted House' (IPBO11) released in 2021.

SKU: F0.S4069

UPC: 674398207329.

Reflections is a quiet, contemplative solo that is wonderfully choreographed with root-position chords and great voice-leading. A perfect summer solo.

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