{"product_id":"orchids","title":"Orchids","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Orchids\" was composed after my first trip to Asia in 2000. I had been invited by my friend and fellow composer, John Sharpley, an American expat living in Singapore, to premier his Viola Sonata with him at a recital of all of his own music in Victoria Hall. After the event I stayed an extra week to a􀀁end a festival of World Musics in Kuching, Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, with Sharpley. It was fortuitous since I'd just been asked by Hendrix College to teach a course on world musics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I returned to the USA I was engaged to play principal viola for Pinnacle Players, a conductorless chamber orchestra modeled on the Orpheus Ensemble, based in Little Rock. Its founders included the six people - principal players from the Arkansas Symphony - for whom I composed Asian Souvenirs, and who premiered the work on one of the Pinnacle Players series concerts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarolyn Brown, as principal flutist, had been written up as one of the ten best things about Arkansas at around the same time. With her DMA from Eastman, she is a friend and colleague and carpool buddy to ASO gigs, since she lives in Conway and, at the time, taught in the local universities and college. So, I singled her out in both the Sri Krishnan Temple movement and in Orchids. Krishna is often portrayed playing flute, so that was obvious, and I actually a􀀁ended Krishna's Birthday at that temple in Singapore during my visit! John and his partner, Raj, met my flight at the Singapore airport with a huge bouquet of orchids before taking me to my hotel. Next day when we began rehearsing, I noticed they had sprays of them all through his home, and that they grew everywhere \"wild\" in Singapore. Their elegance and color seemed to go hand in hand with Carolyn's rich golden tone, and the sprays of orchids (not single stalks like you find in grocery stores in the United States) with their twisting branches, gave me the contours of the theme for this Orchids movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Karen Griebling","offers":[{"title":"Physical","offer_id":67903615500508,"sku":"ACA-GRIK-040","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital (PDF)","offer_id":67903615533276,"sku":"ACA-GRIK-040e","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8198\/2428\/files\/ACA-GRIK-040eGriebling_OrchidsforAltoFlute_Page_1.jpg?v=1793017711","url":"https:\/\/composers.com\/products\/orchids","provider":"American Composers Alliance","version":"1.0","type":"link"}