Music by DANIEL DORFF |
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| For Elise for Flute and Piano | |
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DETAILS PROGRAM NOTES In 2016, flutist Cindy Anne Broz commissioned me to write her a piece to play in celebration of her granddaughter (named Elise) who had recently turned 2 and liked tooting through Cindy's headjoint. I imagined the sweet and playful spirit of a two-year-old girl (which my daughter had been years earlier), and composed a piece conveying that charm. The format is essentially slow-then-fast, although not purely as a two-section competition piece. The fast section has some rhythmic bumps in the road, eventually bursting into a joyous and melodic jazz waltz. REVIEWS "After a sensuous opening, the composer give us pointillism in music in a fast 6/8, bouncing around the flute, the piano, the registers, the keys, and the rhythms. In particular, syncopation in unusual forms and after-the-beat entrances make for a lively and shifting landscape with a recurring jazz waltz." – Flute Talk (Anne B. Reynolds), April 2019 |
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