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Inflections and Innuendoes

Play an exceprt from the first movement
of Inflections and Innuendoes.

Play an exceprt from the second movement
of Inflections and Innuendoes.

Play an exceprt from the third movement
of Inflections and Innuendoes.

Play an exceprt from the fourth movement
of Inflections and Innuendoes.
These recordings are from a live performance at
at the Midwest Composers' Symposium at
Indiana University in 1996.

Composer: Lesley Sommer
Instrumentation: 9 Flutes
Year Composed: 1994
Duration: 9 minutes (4 movements)
Note: This work is in calligraphic rather than computer notation.
Cost:
  • Rental: $95.00
  • Purchase: $125.00
Representative Performance:
  • New Music and Art Festival, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH (October 1997)
Program Notes:

Inflections and Innuendoes is cast in four short movements. The musical influence of Ligeti (especially his Piano Etudes, Book I) is prominent throughout, primarily in terms of dramatic pacing and registral organization.

The titles used in this piece were taken from Wallace Stevens poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, which was a source of extramusical inspiration for the composer. Inflections and Innuendoes is not, however, intended to be a musical narrative of Stevens poem.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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