Product Description
The Fallen Flute Concerto (string parts flute and string orchestra) MO163C-G
String Parts in Three Movements (score and flute solo part available)
Music by Mark OConnor
50 pages - 18:00 minutes in length
The Fallen for flute solo and strings composed by Mark OConnor in three movements was commissioned by two different flutists for their respective music festivals in the summer of 2003; Marya Martin for the 20th anniversary of her Bridghampton Festival in New York, and Beth Ross-Buckley at her Camarada Festival in San Diego. The compositional process for the piece began for OConnor in 2003, the very day the war was launched in Iraq. The piece was finished about three weeks later around the time the statues of the Iraqi dictator fell in Baghdad. This music is a reflection of the people who lost their lives in the war. This particular impact on his music makes for quite a different result from OConnors usual optimism. However he finds a way to weave in a sense of a better future in the third movement. By transforming the tragic and darker qualities of the first movements themes, and making a departure from the quirky "feet on the ground" playfulness of the second movement, here OConnor yearns and urges for a more beautiful world.
Original music printed from the composers manuscripts.
Music editing, copying and engraving by Mark OConnor
using "Finale" on Apple Macintosh 2003
Composed by Mark OConnor
Commissioned by Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates, New York and Camarada San Diego
Can be heard on "Beauty In America" MSR Classics
Carla Auld flute, Eric Jacobsen - conductor
Catalogue Number MO163C-G
Copyright © 2003 by Mark OConnor Music International
For more information on violinist and composer Mark O'Connor, OConnor String Camps, Touring Ensembles, Discography, Bio, Repertoire and more, please visit
www.markoconnor.com
For information on the "OConnor Method" instructional book series for violin, viola, cello and school string orchestra programs:
www.oconnormethod.com
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