Name: Caprice No. 9 for solo flute: Invocation ("up" version) by Timothy Hagen
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Description: Invocation is Caprice No. 9 from The Caprice Project, Volume 1, by Timothy Hagen. The piece is meant to serve as a prelude to an event and includes different choices for the performer to either excite or soothe the audience. This version ("up") is intended to excite.

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Roberta Michel, flute. Mirna Lekic, piano

Lacquer and Grit

Invocation is Caprice No. 9 from The Caprice Project, Volume 1, by Timothy Hagen. The piece is meant to serve as a prelude to an event and includes different choices for the performer to either excite or soothe the audience. This version ("up") is intended to excite.

Caprice No. 9 for solo flute: Invocation ("up" version)

Kohaku was inspired by a school of Koi. Peaceful and serene with their decoration and embellishments in their habitat. A. Busby is performing

Kohaku

After Berklee and The Boston Conservatory begun discussing plans to merge last year, it quickly became clear that synergies between the two institutions had been building for many years. Students, faculty, and alumni have often collaborated, and several faculty members can say that they have worked for both Berklee and the Conservatory.

One such example is Jonathan Bailey Holland, who is currently a professor of composition at both institutions. Holland studied composition with Ned Rorem at the Curtis Institute of Music and later received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. His works have been commissioned and performed by the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Colorado, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Memphis, Minnesota, National, Philadelphia, San Antonio, St. Louis, and South Bend symphony orchestras, as well as several other ensembles. He has received honors from the Fromm Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Music Center, ASCAP, the Presser Foundation, and more. He has served as composer-in-residence for several major orchestras and ensembles. He is also a founding faculty member in the low-residency MFA in Music Composition program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Recent highlights include the premiere of Equality for narrator and orchestra for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, using the poetry of Maya Angelou. Listen below to this week's featured podcast selection, Dark Flowers, a two-movement piece written by Holland for the CD, Four Prayers, featuring Christopher Chaffee on alto and bass flutes, and Josh Nemith on piano.

Learn about the Berklee-Boston Conservatory merger:
https://www.berklee.edu/berklee-boston-conservatory

Jonathan Bailey Holland, "Dark Flowers"

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Bite (2016)

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This composition – inspired by Harvard Square, a poem by the Japanese poet, Miho Nonaka – is a work for solo flute, composed for and premiered by my friend, Caen Thomason-Redus. It was not my intention to, necessarily, text paint each word of the poem; rather, I tried to evoke the essence of the poem’s meaning.  In one word, Nonaka describes her poem as being about ‘resonance.’  A natural term in the music world, the word ‘resonance’, figuratively speaking, can also mean evoking images, memories and emotions, which she beautifully achieves in Harvard Square. This composition is for the virtuoso flutist, utilizing various extended flute techniques. For example, the composition begins with the flute playing bamboo tones, a way for the modern western flute to, by using nontraditional fingerings (which I notated in the score), sound like a shakuhachi flute, a Japanese bamboo flute.  

On a Poem By Miho Nonaka: Harvard Square

Alex Temple, "Willingly" (2013)

Lily Floeter, flute
David Chavannes, piano
Alex Temple, electronics
studio recording, 5.26.13

More info: 
https://www.alextemplemusic.com/willingly

Caprice No. 9 for solo flute: Invocation ("up" version)

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