Instrumentation:

solo flute

or

solo violin

Duration:

5 min 30 sec

Year:

2009

Program Notes:

music makes me want to DANCE was written in 2009 for my dear friend, Kylie Collins, and revised in 2021. It weaves flute and stomping feet together into a celebration of rhythm and dance. A raucous dance with off-kilter rhythms opens the piece and has traces of Bartok as its inspiration. The middle section features a quasi-tango melody that duets with increasingly more complicated feet work, before returning to the opening material and a dizzying dance to the end.

Performance History:

Kylie Collins, flute

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, December 2009

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