SKU: PR.114418600
ISBN 9781491111543. UPC: 680160642656.
Telemann for Two Volume I, Fantasias 1-6 arranged for Two FlutesWhat could be more delightful than playing Telemann duets, or playing the Telemann Fantasias? Sharon Sparrow and Jeffery Zook have created a remarkable set of duet adaptations of the Fantasias,sounding as if Telemann himself had composed them as two-part inventions. The original Telemann works are shared between the two players, mixed with counterpoint to enhance the authentic solo works. The result is equally suitable for formal recitals and recreational duet playing! The present publication includes two performance scores of their settings of Fantasias 1-6, with a Volume II to include Fantasias 7-12.______________________________________Text from the scanned back cover:SHARON SPARROW is Assistant Principal Flute of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She began musical studies on piano at age four, but it was the flute that led her to the Juilliard School for a Bachelor degree with Julius Baker. She received her Master’s degree with Thomas Nyfenger at the Mannes College of Music. Sharon’s professional career began in the Memphis Symphony, followed by tenured positions in the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and Detroit Symphony, and guest positions in the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Baltimore, Chicago, and Pittsburgh Symphonies. In 2016, Presser published her successful audition training book, 6 Weeks to Finals, and she is a much sought after coach for audition candidates across the country, as well as a frequent Master Class clinician at major schools including Boston University and Peabody Conservatory.JEFFERY ZOOK has been a member of the Detroit Symphony since1992. His formal musical studies began at Interlochen and continued at University of Michigan and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His teachers have included William Bennett and Trevor Wye. A prize winner in the NFA Young Artists Competition, Mr. Zook made his solo debut with the Detroit Symphony as a senior in high school, and has since performed all the Vivaldi concerti with them. He has recorded extensively for MusicMinus One and performed frequently at NFA conventions, including the concerto gala in 2017. Mr. Zook has served on the faculty at University of Michigan and Oakland University. In 2002 Zook and Sharon Sparrow founded the Detroit Flute Connection, a series of masterclasses for flutists.
SKU: PR.114416460
ISBN 9781598067811. UPC: 680160620616. 9x12 inches.
POEM for Flute and PianoKozuch’s POEM is a plaintive elegy, perfect for memorial concerts, in religious services, or as a lyric interlude in recital. Although composed with piano accompaniment, the music is also very effective in performance with organ. Thaddeus Kozuch (1913-1991) was a Chicago-based pianist, composer, and professor at DePaul University and Northwestern University. His beautiful POEM was composed originally for violin and piano in 1937 for his wife-to-be, Jacqueline Frye. He revised POEM for flute and piano in 1988 but the work was discovered only recently in a piano bench by the composer’s daughter, flutist Ann Fairbanks.Although the final pencil manuscript is musically complete, it lacks dynamics, and this publication presents the music as the composer left it.The following performance suggestions are provided by Ann Fairbanks:Many nuances of the work may be left to the discretion of the performer. There are quite a few notes that may be slurred, such as sets of eighth notes or triplet-eighths; if notes are articulated as written, the tonguing should be legato.Dynamics for both flute and piano could be as follows: begin the work p, then crescendo to f in bars 6-7. Decrescendo in 10-11 to a p in bar 12. The most intense section (bars 16-32) should be played with energy and full sonority, including a crescendo in 26 to fin 27. The conclusion, beginning at bar 42, should be played p, with the last measures performed quietly.
