I'm listening your beautiful Interpretation already the third time in a raw. I tried to find the sheet music, could you help me where can I order it? 😊
Thank you for your comment and interest! Aria is the middle movement of Crossroads- a trio in three movements. I will release a video of the full piece soon. Aria can be played as an independent piece if preferred. Here is a link to where you can find materials for the full work: amandaharberg.com/crossroads/
The precision and control required just to produce quality tones on a piccolo is exuberantly difficult. This musician’s ability is dauntingly impressive.
I am eagerly waiting for a Harberg flute sonata as all the sonatas - piccolo, tuba, clarinet - are some of the best contemporary works out there. It would become standard repertoire so quickly. Or imagine a Harberg flute concerto even, flute concertos are seriously lacking compared to other instruments. Otherwise we need to do as with Mozart oboe concerto and borrow this!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I would love to write an actual flute sonata or concerto someday. Meanwhile, Court Dances is in the flute sonata family! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-keiv4bR0bDY.html
The Phoenix Symphony played this composition on Sunday, October 15, 2023. Ms. Harberg was in the audience. I enjoyed listening to her composition. Listening to it, I thought about the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft about the size of a small car, zooming around the Sun and collecting information on the Sun's solar wind and the corona. The Parker Solar Probe is small but it's courageous and determined like R2-D2.
Amanda: I believe my daughter has met you (perhaps at Interlochen?). In any event, she loved learning and loves playing, Hall of Ghosts (piccolo). She is now studying at a conservatory in Europe and is working on this piece. We are looking forward to hearing her perform it.
I was actually at this performance last summer at the behest of Mr. Lastrapes, the cellist here, who I was studying with at the time. Dr. Harberg gave some brief words describing the piece that we were about to hear, and then they started playing. I was totally enthralled in the music while picturing the vivid imagery or her son’s garden that Dr. Harberg had described to us before the piece. I met the performers outside after the recital and talked, but I was still slightly stunned by the great music that I had just heard (I actually got Mr. Lastrapes to take a photo of Dr. Harberg and myself). When I was walking with some friends the day later, I spotted Dr. Harberg and had to tell her how much I had loved her piece the night before. It had touched me the same way when I first heard some of my favorite music, such as Dvorak’s American Quartet or Mahler’s 9th, and I told Dr. Harberg that this piece is the epitome of contemporary music. I’ve found myself revisiting this memory and this piece recently, and thought I should share my story of how I got to experience a bit of the joy that Dr. Harberg finds in her children. Chamber music is the most intimate art-form there is, and I hope that generations to come will still be able to experience that which I and many others have felt by listening to and playing beautiful music.
You brought this up in class today so I searched for it and it’s just beautiful. I’m super excited to hear WYWS play the orchestrated version this weekend! :)
