My latest composition is named in memory of my wife’s grandmother Florence Michallis. I had the privilege of meeting her this past summer at a family reunion. Charismatic, joyful, and quick witted are just a few ways to describe her lovable personality. I will always remember sharing tea with her and our conversation of learning cursive using chalkboards in Catholic school. 🙂 I hope I was able to capture her fun personality with this solo.
FLO is written for two mallets, marimba, microphone, and delay processor. It travels various time signatures, tempos, and mallets to blend textures and develop sections. Broken into four main parts, performers will be challenged to traverse different delay effects, mallet changes, and phasing.
Below are excerpts from various parts of the work. The full recording will be released soon! Contact me if you are interested in sheet music.
FLO – For marimba and digital delay – Excerpts
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