Eight Reflections on Swing Low” for string quartet is based on the spiritual, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” It consists of eight short vignettes, each one about a minute in length, with parts of the original melody making appearances in each of the movements. The brilliant variety of texture and timbre, held together by the simple melody, make this charming work a great addition to the string quartet repertoire. ||||||
ALRYCM135|Jan Swafford composed The Garden of Forking Paths No. 2 Lines for Flute and Piccolo Trumpet in 1970. The idea for the work came from a fantasy story by Jorge Luis Borges. In it, a write creates an apparently incomprehensible novel of that same name in which, as it turns out, every moment of a store, as of life, lies at a forking path that can go in many directions. In Borges's imaginary, impossible novel, they do. In the first movement, the piccolo trumpet plays an insistent fanfare: the flute replies with sultry glissandos, and the paths never meet. The second movement has both instruments playing the same melody, but not in the same rhythm. In the last movement, the two subsumethe characters of all the music that came before, but each still on his or her own path. This work is dedicated to Jan Gippo, flute, and Jim Thomson, trumpet. The two premiered the piece at the New England Conservatory in 1971. ||||||
ALRYCM136|Jan Swafford composed Shore Lines for Soprano and Flute in 1982 and dedicated it to Melinda Kessler Spratlan, soprano, and Akaldev Khalsa, flute. It consists of five poems by Denise Levertov set to music, as well as two movements of incidental music, before the first poem, and following the final poem. The poems include: The Tide - A Silence - 'So You, too...' - A Music - The Tulips. ||||||
ALRYCM137|Influenced by the sights and sounds of Puget Sound, this work was inspired by the town of Gig Harbor, Washington. Composed by award-winning composer and flutist Laurel Zucker, Harbor Sounds evokes a pastoral mood while featuring plenty of interplay and counterpoint between the parts. ||||||
ALRYCM139|A seven movement song-cycle based on poetry of Philip Terman. The movements are titled Prelude, Spring, Summer, Interlude, Fall, Winter, Postlude. ||||||
ALRYCM144|Christmas Together is an arrangement of familiar and well-loved Christmas tunes, including: Here We Come a Wassailing, Ding, Dong Merrily on High, What Child is This, and Auld Lang Syne. The arrangement brings a variety of moods, from the lyrical and thoughtful to the bright and merry. Let’s have Christmas together! ||||||
ALRYCM145|Five Variations on a Korean Hymn Tune, based on God's Great Grace It Is Has Brought Us" is suitable for both the concert hall and religious settings. The total length of this work is approximately seven minutes, however, the variations can be mixed and matched at the discretion of the performers if a shorter length is needed.
- ISMN: 9790302114123 (M302114123)