Instrumentation: flute (in C and alto flute)

Duration: 9 minutes

Year composed: 2015

Performers: Orlando Cela

First performance: Orlando Cela, Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, (WA), January 21st 2018

Other performances: Orlando Cela, The Shedd Institute, Eugene, (OR) January 23rd 2018

Orlando Cela, Peace United Church, Santa Cruz, (CA), January 26th 2018

Orlando Cela, Beyond Baroque, Venice, (CA), January 29th 2018

Francesca Leo, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, (NY), November 7th 2019

Program note: Le soupir du roseau dans les bras du vent consists of several variations on the well known initial melody of Syrinx by Debussy. Each variation explores some timbral transformation of the melody through a set of extended techniques realized on the flute. The initial melody is slowly deconstructed throughout the variations to remain just a distant memory at the end of the piece.

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