Voyage
Bailey, Don

Papillon

Kohler, E

This adaptation of Koehler's Papillon is part of Falls House Press's Voyage Unlimited series,a collection of transcriptions for flute and string quartet or string trio. This piece was first premiered in August of 1999 at the National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta by Don Bailey, flute, and members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Their New York premiere took place in October of 2008 by Don Bailey with the Attacca Quartet. Voyage Unlimited is a New York nonprofit organization committed to the performance, recording, and publication of new and standard chamber music,headed by native Mississippi flutist and teacher Don Bailey. Bailey recorded many transcriptions the Voyage Unlimited series for Summit, which have garnered critical acclaim and worldwide airplay, but they were previously unavailable for public performance. Orchestrated by the esteemed Polish pianist Adam Manijak, Bailey's inspired series has helped create an exciting chapter in repertoire for flute and string ensembles.

Sonatine

Ravel, M

This adaptation of Ravel's Sonatine is part of Falls House Press's Voyage Unlimited series, a collection of transcriptions for flute and string quartet or string trio. It was first premiered in August of 1999 at the National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta by Don Bailey, flute, and members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Their New York premiere took place in October of 2008 by Don Bailey with the Attacca Quartet. Voyage Unlimited is a New York nonprofit organization committed to the performance, recording, and publication of new and standard chamber music, headed by native Mississippi flutist and teacher Don Bailey. Bailey recorded many transcriptions in the Voyage Unlimited series for Summit, which have garnered critical acclaim and worldwide airplay,but they have not previously been available for public performance. Orchestrated by the esteemed Polish pianist Adam Manijak, Bailey's inspired series has helped create an exciting chapter in repertoire for flute and string ensembles.

Menuet

Paderewski, IJ

Paderewski's famous Minuet in G gets the Voyage Unlimited treatment, which means a transformation into an exciting new program piece for flute and string trio. This is the fourth such arrangement from flutist Don Bailey and orchestrator Adam Manijak, following the previously-released Tchaikovsky November, Kohler Papillon, and Ravel Sonatine. For intermediate to advanced performers.

November

Tchaikovsky, PI

This adaptation of Tchaikovsky's November from The Seasons is part of Falls House Press's Voyage Unlimited series, a collection of new transcriptions for flute and string quartet or string trio. Voyage Unlimited is a New York nonprofit organization committed to the performance, recording, and publication of new and standard chamber music, headed by native Mississippi flutist and teacher Don Bailey. Bailey recorded many new transcriptions in the Voyage Unlimited series for Summit, which have garnered critical acclaim and worldwide airplay, but they have not been available for public performance until now. Orchestrated by the esteemed Polish pianist Adam Manijak, Bailey's inspired series has helped create exciting new chapter in repertoire for flute and string ensembles.

This was one of a set of twelve pieces entitled The Seasons (1875-76), Opus 37b, commissioned by the magazine Nouvelliste. The moods correspond with the titles of the compositions and the magazine's monthly images. November's 'Troika' has jingling sleigh-bells and whirling notes intended to create an impression of falling snow.

Sonata para Flauta y Piano (Sonata for Flute and Piano), by Malena Kuss. In three movements: Allegro ma non troppo presto, Cantilena (Andante con malinconia), and Allegro vigoroso. From the composer: 'The Sonata for Flute and Piano (1960), an unabashed exploration of post-tonal sonorities that betrays a youthful disregard for instrumental difficulty, marked the end of six years of private composition lessons with Ginastera, who taught me more musicology in his compositions classes than any of my [future] famous teachers, among them Schoenberg’s pupil Leonard Stein, theorist and composer George Perle, and the polymath Robert Stevenson. For a promising young pianist who eventually studied with Gyorgy Sandor and Rosina Lhévinne, Ginastera approached the teaching of composition as a history course, demanding that students hone their skills by writing in chronologically unfolding styles. ... The extraordinary experience of studying composition as part of training as a performer was interrupted in 1960 when Gyorgy Sandor offered me a full scholarship to study piano with him at SMU. The piece is dedicated to Don Bailey, a brilliant flutist and dear friend who survived my music history courses at UNT with stoic perseverance.' Performance edition by Don Bailey and Yujung Um.

Katherine Hoover presents Antics for two flutes. Premiered at the National Flute Convention in Washington, D.C. August, 16, 2002 by Katherine Hoover and Don Bailey.

'If you feel that the mainstream flute duet repertoire is a little ordinary then perhaps you should look at this challenging piece by the American composer Katherine Hoover. The title is graphic as the two flutes dodge round each other in both rhythm and tonality. The parts are always very close together in pitch and there are dissonances which add an interesting and evocative colour.'

- Chris Hankin; Just Flutes

Cadenzas for the Concerto in G, K. 313

Various

These cadenzas are the results of a contest sponsored by the National Flute Association to provide cadenzas for Mozart's Concerto in G, K. 313 in an appropriate style for the 1991 competitions. There are four (or five) different cadenzas to choose from for each movement.

A Lively Irish Medley

Traditional

uch Irish music was written to be danced to and if performed in concert settings, the repetitions necessary to flesh out a single work for a good length make it sometimes boring. This medley incorporates nine different Irish dance tunes into a single concert work, playing each tune in its entirety but not adding repetitions. The melodies incorporated are: Limber-up Reel, Donnybrook, Dundee Hornpipe , Bunch of Roses Reel, Lamp Lighter's Hornpipe, Exile's Lament, Speed the Plow, The Last Rose of Summer and The Rakes of Mallow. The beautiful slow melody of The Last Rose of Summer is set in counterpoint to the lively Speed the Plow. Each of the sections can be performed on its own without the rest of the medley, making it a versatile work for every flute choir's library. Each instrument gets to play the melodies at various times, turning this into much more than a simple oom-pah accompaniment with the melodies in the top part.

Instrumentation: Piccolo, 2 C flutes, alto flute, bass flute.