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Glistening (2020)
flute solo

  • Duration
    2½
    minutes
  • Premiere (virtual)
    November 11, 2020
    Helen Cho

    ​Second Harvest Food Bank, Nashville, TN
  • Dedication
    for Helen Cho
​
Program Note
When my friend Helen Cho, a student with me at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, asked me for a two-minute solo piece for her junior recital, I immediately had the idea for something shimmering and sparkling. She said her recital’s theme would be related to winter, so I titled the resulting piece “Glistening,” remembering how sunlight would dance atop the fallen snow on a cloudless winter day back home in Wisconsin.

Glistening is in three sections: first, a hesitating introduction emerges around the pitch A; second, a warped phrase evolves into a decisive rhythmic theme; finally, a quietly ecstatic arpeggiated tune bounds joyfully to the piece’s conclusion.
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—Jacob Beranek
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Helen Cho discusses Glistening.
Performance by Helen Cho, ​videography by Joshua Weinfeld.
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