Desert Tableaux is comprised of four ‘sound portraits’ for flute choir. The first, ‘View of the Catalinas’, portrays the Catalina Mountain range as viewed from the Tucson Valley. My intention was to create a shimmering effect by way of a variety timbres, textures and other musical elements.
‘After a Summer Rain’ is a gentle, playful dance movement. As the title of the third movement suggests, ‘Desert Spirits’ is dark and mysterious in nature with a special emphasis on the piccolo and lower flutes.
The work concludes with the joyous ‘Dance of the Pollinators’. Here the music makes use of odd meter and is replete with a dazzling display of rhythmic interactions.
Below you will find the sound files for each movement. A complimentary score and set of parts is available by request.
Trying to get your email address. I mentioned this piece to Sandy Schwoebel and to the Southern Arizona Flute Orchestra’s current conductor, Jack Schmidgall
I thought your email was jayvosk@cox.net .
Possibly you haven’t you haven’t set up your email on yahoo.com who is now handling cox.net.
Paul
Hi Paul:Great to see you last night! I do have my cox mail on Yahoo don’t know why you couldn’t reach me there.. You can also reach me at Jay.Vosk@gmail.com. I also sent Desert Tableaux to Sandy a while back and she forwarded all the materials to the conductor. Thanks for everything.
best,
Jay