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Dr. Andrée Martin: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction In and Out of the Studio
KW: What was your meditation practice like before you did your training at Brown University’s Center for Mindfulness? AM: Although I had been…
FE Intermediate Repertoire Project
For the past year or so, I’ve been actively searching for new and “new to me” repertoire for my middle school students. At…
Paddling As Fast As We Can
I’ve been a kayak owner since 2001. Here are some circumstances that require fast paddling. 1) There’s a big black cloud behind you,…
Folias Duo Celebrates 20 Years
How did you both meet and form a band? In the fall of 2002, Andrew and I met as graduate students at Michigan…
Making Sense From Nonsense
We live in a day and age of incredible technology with information streams at our fingertips. It is just so easy to do…
“Remember Who You Are” for solo amplified flute by Melanie Mitrano
Remember Who You Are is a vocal trance EDM (electronic dance mix) in which the flute emulates the human voice. The message is…
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“Remember Who You Are” for solo amplified flute by Melanie Mitrano
Remember Who You Are is a vocal trance EDM (electronic dance mix) in which the flute emulates the human voice. The message is…
“When I Dream, I Dream of You” for flute & electronics (opt. live acc) by Whitney George
‘When I Dream, Dream of You’ is from the larger set ‘Solitude & Secrecy’, which was written between 2020-2021. Composed during a time…
“Moon Full, Tide Low” for Alto Flute by Hilary Tann
The piece was completed in 2020 at the request of the Royal Academy of Music as part of the run-up to the 200th-year…
“Prelude” for flute solo by Mary Ann Joyce
In Prelude, the poet John Millington Synge (1871-1909) takes us away not only from the City with all its noise, chatter and chaos,…
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Making Sense From Nonsense
We live in a day and age of incredible technology with information streams at our fingertips. It is just so easy to do…
Beginning Piccolo – Learning to Walk Before You Run
Well, it is summer and many music departments are on break for a little while. Soon enough, the melodious sounds will start resonating…
Pieces And Parts – A Piccolo COA
Intro from Jessica: Keith does amazing work on instruments, so when it’s time for my piccolo’s annual COA, there’s nobody else I’d take…
I Found A New Flute! Now What?
Many of us have been in the situation where we realize that it is time to upgrade our flutes and we make the…
An Ounce of Prevention
Here we are, starting to see the leaves change again and digging for the sweatshirts in the back of the closet. I got…
It’s All In Your Head – Part II
I recently had a dear friend’s piccolo on my bench for an overhaul. It was a well-loved older Haynes piccolo. When an instrument…