Still Life with Fruit

Play the first 1'30" from Still Life with Fruit as performed by McCormick Duo (Kim McCormick, flute and Robert McCormick, percussion).

Composer: David Heuser Instrumentation: Flute and Multi-Percussion (one player) Year Composed: 1996 Duration: 6 minutes Pages: 15 Cost: Purchase: $10.00 Recording: This piece can be heard on the CD Twilight Remembered (performed by the McCormick Duo), available from Amazon. Representative Performances Verederos (Jessica Johnson, flute; Payton MacDonald, percussion), Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 8, 2003 Carolyn Brown, flute; Erick Sauod, percussion, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, March 5, 1999 The McCormick Duo, Percussive Arts Society International Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 6, 1998 Percussion Required: bell tree, 3 sus. cym., cowbell, wood blk., small gong, 3 tomtoms, bass dr., vibes Program Notes: Still Life with Fruit was written in the Spring of 1996 for the McCormick Duo. This is a fast paced work in three large or six small sections, depending on how you want to hear it. Either way, Still Life... is an arch form, although the returning material is significantly altered, particularly by register and dynamics. A major concern was balancing the two instruments so that the work is not a flute solo with percussion accompaniment. One of the ways I dealt with this was to change the relationship between the two from section to section. As a result, there are bits where one or the other dominates as well as parts where the two are equal.

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