Advanced Composition Search: 1988

Flocks, for flute quartet, was inspired by the annual migration of flocks of birds from their summer home in the North to their winter home in the South. The piece is loosely programmatic, beginning with the first restless urges of some, then even the most reluctant birds, to leave their northern home, through their joyful flight south -- often flying in parallel or similar motion --, to the sighting of their southern home, and finally the quiet of sleep after the long journey.

Songs:
To the Road! - Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Homesick Blues -Langston Hughes (in high and low key versions)
Li'l Gal & My Man - Dunbar
Love Come and Gone - Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Wider View - R.H. Grenville
Love Rejoices - James Dillet Freeman

Miniatures for woodwind duo