Freedom Flights
Jay Vosk
About this work:
Free Flights for Solo Trumpet.
One advantage of writing a work for a solo
instrument is that the instrument doesn’t need to justify itself in a texture with other instruments. Thus the instrument can function freely, much like a hawk floats through the sky or a person on a hand glider floats freely through the air. Free Flights for Solo Trumpet is in four brief movements each in reference to the movement of a body through the air.
In I. ‘Floating freely’. I try to capture the motion of a glider floating lightly through the air. In 2, ‘With velocity’, is in reference to a jet streaking through the sky. ‘With Repose’ refers to the flight of a raptor such as a hawk effortlessly riding the thermals on a summer afternoon. The piece ends with ‘Fleeting’. Here I imagine a flock of doves rushing home as the sun sets at days end. Free Flights is around 8:30 minutes in length.
Year composed: 2013
Duration: 00:07:00
Ensemble type: Solo instrument, non-keyboard:Trumpet
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