Scored for: Native flutes and Transverse Flute Duration: 17 min. Commissioned by: Lisamarie McGrath Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
UNIMAGINED BRIDGES, by contemporary composer Andrea Clearfield,
(www.andreaclearfield.com) was commissioned by, and dedicated to,
Lisamarie McGrath. Ms. Clearfield’s inspiration for this four movement
intimate duet between the Transverse Flute and Native American Flutes
came from her love of our planet and all living things, the
Soulcentric Wheel of Life as described in Bill Plotkin’s visionary
book, Nature and the Human Soul, and the following poem, reprinted in
Plotkin’s book.
As once the wingéd energy of delight
carried you over childhood’s dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.
To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions…For the god
wants to know himself in you.
Unimagined Bridges
Lisamarie McGrath
Scored for: Native flutes and Transverse Flute
Duration: 17 min.
Commissioned by: Lisamarie McGrath
Published by: Self-published, Angelfire Press
Contact Andrea Clearfield for score and parts:
See preview score pages: UNIMAGINED BRIDGES EXCERPT (PDF)
PROGRAM NOTES
UNIMAGINED BRIDGES, by contemporary composer Andrea Clearfield,
(www.andreaclearfield.com) was commissioned by, and dedicated to,
Lisamarie McGrath. Ms. Clearfield’s inspiration for this four movement
intimate duet between the Transverse Flute and Native American Flutes
came from her love of our planet and all living things, the
Soulcentric Wheel of Life as described in Bill Plotkin’s visionary
book, Nature and the Human Soul, and the following poem, reprinted in
Plotkin’s book.
As once the wingéd energy of delight
carried you over childhood’s dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.
To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions…For the god
wants to know himself in you.
– RAINER MARIA RILKE
RECORDING
CD will be released in the Spring of 2010