Name: Air by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) by sjordanmusic
Duration: 6 min 27 s
Description: Air (1995) for flute solo, dedicated to Aurele Nicolet for his 70th Birthday, is Takemitsu's last completed work. Unlike in his other flute works, Takemitsu uses few extended techniques in this piece. He does still incorporate the use of flutter-tonguing and a few "bent" or slow glissando notes for emotional expressivity. This recording features Sarah Jordan on flute.

Music & lyrics - Joan Silentio

Jest mi smutno 
Tekst banalny
Lecz naprawdę jest mi smutno
Tak tu pusto
Światła zgasły
Noc chce zakryć ręką pustkę

Teraz dzieli nas już wszystko
Szron na oknie lodowisko
Telefony ludzkie żale
I to że nie wrócisz wcale

Jest mi duszno 
Tekst żałosny
Lecz naprawdę jest mi duszno
Opieram się
Na leżance
I Freuda wcale nie słucham

Teraz dzieli nas już wszystko 
Szron na oknie lodowisko
Telefony ludzkie żale
I to że nie wrócisz wcale

Światła Zgasły

Air (1995) for flute solo, dedicated to Aurele Nicolet for his 70th Birthday, is Takemitsu's last completed work. Unlike in his other flute works, Takemitsu uses few extended techniques in this piece. He does still incorporate the use of flutter-tonguing and a few "bent" or slow glissando notes for emotional expressivity. This recording features Sarah Jordan on flute.

Air by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)

Sarah Jordan is a composer, flute performer, and music educator residing in Eugene, Oregon. Sarah has always thought of music as her voice to express the thoughts and emotions she wishes to convey and inspire within listeners. Though this is her personal way of communication, she also hopes to lend a platform in which other’s texts, emotions, and ideas can live. For every composition and performance she aims to understand, engage, and collaborate with the performers and audience in a way that all can feel confident and passionate about a work. 
Her works have been performed internationally by musical artists and ensembles including, the Delgani String Quartet, Duo Ostinato, Estelì Gomez, Arwen Myers, The Principal Brass, Sound of Late, and the Quasar Saxophone Quartet. Her most recent activities include her piece Hour Twenty-Three (2018) for Flute, Viola, and Double Bass premiered by members of the Sound of Late ensemble during the 2018 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium; her piece November (2018) written for soprano and string trio premiered by grammy-award winning artist Estelì Gomez during her University of Oregon residency in November, 2018;  her percussion trio Desperation with a Smile (2018) premiered and by the University of Oregon Percussion Studio in February 2019; her piece *rktho- (2018-2019) for Chamber Orchestra was premiered by the Composers of Oregon Chamber Ensemble (COCO) during their 2019 Spring Concert at the University of Oregon; her piece Sisters in the Garden (2019) for Flute/Bass Flute, A Clarinet, and Viola was commissioned by the TaiHei New Music Ensemble for their award winning project “A Day in a Chinese Garden” and was premiered at the University of Oregon and the Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon, USA;  her alto saxophone and piano piece Paroxysm (2019) premiered by Duo Ostinato was commissioned by the Thailand International Composition Festival in August, 2019 at Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand; her piece Suite of Miniatures for Flute Choir (2019) for Flute Choir was premiered by the University of Oregon Flute Studio in their Fall 2019 concert, conducted by Sarah; she then gave her Master of Music in Composition Recital at the University of Oregon, Beall Concert Hall which featured many of her recent works, including the premiere of her chamber orchestra piece, Fragmented Messages (2019); her third string quartet, Anticipation (2020), premiered by the Delgani String Quartet in February 2020 at the University of Oregon; A Lone Woodsman (2018) for Bb Clarinet solo was performed during the International Women’s Day Recital at the University of the Pacific in March 2020; her piece Thoughts (2020) for Soprano was premiered during a YouTube live concert event by Arwen Myers in May, 2020; then in June 2020 she performed and premiered her work Isolated Reveries (2020) for flute, string trio, and electronics, Late Night Contemplation (2020) and Memories (2016) both for solo flute during the 2020 Fresh Inc Festival: Digital Edition. 
	In 2016 Sarah received a dual Bachelor of Music in Composition and Flute Performance from the University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music where she studied composition with Dr. Robert Coburn, Dr. Francois Rose, and Dr. Eric Wood and flute performance with Prof. Mathew Krejci. She then received her Master of Music in Composition in 2020 from the University of Oregon and is currently continuing her education there to obtain a PhD in Music Composition under Dr. Robert Kyr and Dr. David Crumb. 

For inquiries, commissions, and for parts/scores/performance please contact Sarah at: sjordanmusic@gmail.com

Air by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)

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