Interchanging Idioms

Based on the Zuni myth Four Flutes .

Minha Deseja (my longing> was originally a guitar and alto flute piece, re-written here for concert flute & piano Is this a dance? Of course, as love should be a dance. The longing for someone, to be near them and yet balancing the day to day life is a dance we play and not always successfully. Infused with passionate Latin rhythms, Minha Deseja is a dance for flute and piano. I hope you enjoy it. Score Flute

LSO Principal Flute Gareth Davies will perform Nielsen’s Flute Concerto with the Orchestra, conducted by Xian Zhang, at the Barbican on Wednesday 9 November. Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite and Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid complete the programme. Gareth Davies joined the LSO as Principal Flute in 2000 and is a prolific blogger for the Orchestra on tour. Gareth’s blog posts can be found at http://lsoontour.wordpress.com/ . Gareth has recorded Nielsen’s Flute Concerto for the Naxos label. Xian Zhang performs regularly with the London Symphony Orchestra and is Music Director of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi and Artistic Director of the NJO / Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy. The performance of Nielsen’s Flute Concerto complements the Orchestra’s ongoing cycle of Nielsen’s Symphonies with Sir Colin Davis which comes to a close in December, with performances of Symphony No 2 ‘ The Four Temperaments ’ (4 & 6 December) and Symphony No 3 ‘ Sinfonia espansiva...

Meerenai Engages the Listener with Pure Flute Technique and Sound on her Debut Album Flutes are delightfully simple, yet incredibly complex instruments. When you look at the wave form, the sound of the flute is pure and clean. The emotional range and technical possibilities of the instrument are astonishingly diverse. Meerenai's new CD Sometimes the City is Silent seizes all these subtleties, yet proffers them in such a splendidly pure way, we are intrigued by the flute with all of its complexity without being immersed in an overly effected recording. The opening track “Hamburger” Flute Sonata in G major was written by CPE Bach in 1786. The music is florid and ornate, yet with a sense of regular structure typical of the early classical period. Meerenai captures the mood of the music on her modern Boehm-system flute with a sense of ease. While there are moments the performance doesn't quite flow naturally, we do get a sense of the playful nature of the...

On Sunday, June 26, the Vail Valley Music Festival opens with a free solo recital played by the festival’s newly appointed Artistic Director, the beloved pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. For six weeks from June 26 to August 3, three world-class orchestras – the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Dallas Symphony Orchestra – will set up residence in the magnificent Colorado Rocky Mountains. Programming highlights for 2011 include explorations of the musical titans Beethoven and Mahler; two thematic series respectively showcasing American music and programmatic orchestral works; chamber music, jazz, and pops; and New York’s Gabriel Kahane as this season’s composer-in-residence. The impressive guest-star roster presents such conductors as Alan Gilbert, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Stéphane Denève, Jaap van Zweden, and Bramwell Tovey, and more than 50 soloists, including pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yuja Wang, and Kirill Gerstein; violinists Gil Shaham, Nadja Salerno-Sonne...

Celebrating the 70th birthday of “the man with the golden flute,” Sony Masterworks releases the new collection, James Galway Plays Flute Concertos . For the first time, all flute concertos recorded by Galway are available on Tuesday, May 24 as a 12-CD set. With music ranging from Baroque to Modern, James Galway Plays Flute Concertos includes works by JS Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Stamitz, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Baldassare Galuppi, Romano Antonio Piacentino, Giuseppe Tartini, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Joachim Quantz, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Domenico Cimarosa, Franz Danzi, Saverio Mercadante, Carl Reinecke, Joaquin Rodrigo, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Jacques Ibert, Carl Nielsen and John Mayer.

Music From Japan and its Artistic Director, Naoyuki Miura, are thrilled to present Festival 2011: a weekend of events in New York City’s Baruch Performing Arts Center (Feb 12 & 13, 2011), and a concert at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC (Feb 16). Now in its 36th season, the festival introduces the worlds of Japanese song and flutes, showcasing the talents of leading exponents of both art forms through traditional and contemporary music, including world premieres of two new Music From Japan commissions. In New York the festival is presented in two programs: “Flutes from the East and the West,” which explores the relationship between these two great musical cultures from multiple perspectives, and “Song from the Spirit of Japan,” which celebrates the nation’s enduring song-setting tradition. “Flutes from the East and the West,” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 12, features Kohei Nishikawa and Elizabeth Brown performing new and traditional music for Wes...