Caprice No. 2

Opus Number
51
Date
summer 1999, Boston
Instrumentation
solo flute
Duration
4 minutes
Commissioned
Liz Muir
Dedication
Liz Muir
Purchase Score
Premiere

April 7 and 9, 2000, Andrea LaRose, flutist, Just in Time Composers and Players, The Boston Conservatory.

Program notes

“Caprice” for solo flute was written in May 1999 in exchange for an oil portrail by the composer’s friend Liz Muir. It can be heard as a very subtle two-part canon compressed into a single line. The title of the piece comes from the whimsical character of the piece–much like a flute being chased by its own shadow.

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