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PROGRAM NOTES
Reflections of Water for
Flute & Piano
by Phyllis Avidan Louke
1. A Cool Mountain Stream
http://www.phyllislouke.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1.-Reflections-of-Water-mvmt-1.mp3
2. A Quiet Morning on the Lake
http://www.phyllislouke.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2.-Reflections-of-Water-mvmt-2.mp3
3. Frolic in the Surf
http://www.phyllislouke.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3.-Reflections-of-Water-mvmt-3.mp3
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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/
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