MERCURIAL

for flute | 7’ | 2020

Instrumentation - unaccompanied Flute

Winner of the Selection for Classical Work in the MiddleWestern Voice 2021 Publication

Recorded by Jennie Oh Brown at the Gretsch Studio at Elmhurst University.

Later revised and performed by Michael Barrera in two live settings at Elmhurst University.

DIFFICULTY

Advanced

Program note

MERCURIAL is a free-form work for flute that was a challenge for me, a style of writing outside of my own predispositions for the instrument. I wanted something wild, something inconstant, something almost sassy and biting. I wanted the flute to soar in its upper registers and wallow in the lower. I feel that these differing textures, articulations, abrupt tempo changes, and interjectory percussive attacks embody that "mercurial" flow I first imagined.