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Gala Flagello
Добавлен 17 окт 2011
》 Gala Flagello | composer, educator, nonprofit director 《
Gala Flagello (b. 1994) is a composer, educator, and nonprofit director whose work is inspired by a passion for lyricism, rhythmic vitality, and fostering meaningful collaboration. With music described as “both flesh and spirit, intensely psychological without sacrificing concrete musical enjoyment” (I Care If You Listen), Flagello collaborates with leading ensembles, artists, initiatives, and institutions nationally and internationally to craft impactful projects for performers and audiences alike. She is the Festival Director and co-founder of the nonprofit contemporary music festival Connecticut Summerfest, and has been a Composition Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and Aspen Music Festival. Please visit www.galaflagello.com for more information.
Gala Flagello (b. 1994) is a composer, educator, and nonprofit director whose work is inspired by a passion for lyricism, rhythmic vitality, and fostering meaningful collaboration. With music described as “both flesh and spirit, intensely psychological without sacrificing concrete musical enjoyment” (I Care If You Listen), Flagello collaborates with leading ensembles, artists, initiatives, and institutions nationally and internationally to craft impactful projects for performers and audiences alike. She is the Festival Director and co-founder of the nonprofit contemporary music festival Connecticut Summerfest, and has been a Composition Fellow at Tanglewood Music Center, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and Aspen Music Festival. Please visit www.galaflagello.com for more information.
Love & Nature, for wind band | Gala Flagello (with score)
Love & Nature, for wind band
0:00 I. Flower Power
2:49 II. Star-Crossed
7:13 III. Slow Burn
Performance by the United States Coast Guard Band, conducted by CDR Adam Williamson
Program notes:
Love & Nature (2024) was commissioned by a consortium of wind bands led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and explores how love prevails through cosmic lore, social movements, and mercurial mythos. Each of the work's three movements connect a different instrumental sound world to the concepts of earth, air, and fire, depicting a blossoming of kindness and hope for the future of our planet. The first movement, "Flower Power," is inspired by the titular social movement of the 1960s-1970s and soni...
0:00 I. Flower Power
2:49 II. Star-Crossed
7:13 III. Slow Burn
Performance by the United States Coast Guard Band, conducted by CDR Adam Williamson
Program notes:
Love & Nature (2024) was commissioned by a consortium of wind bands led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and explores how love prevails through cosmic lore, social movements, and mercurial mythos. Each of the work's three movements connect a different instrumental sound world to the concepts of earth, air, and fire, depicting a blossoming of kindness and hope for the future of our planet. The first movement, "Flower Power," is inspired by the titular social movement of the 1960s-1970s and soni...
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Burning Day, for two alto saxophones | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 7321 день назад
Burning Day (2019), commissioned by saxophonist Giovanna Virgil, is a piece about the life cycle of a phoenix. The work does not trace the mythological creature’s death and rebirth exactly, but rather explores the idea that the phoenix symbolizes both destruction and renewal. There is something really poignant about a grand and beautiful animal bursting into flame and becoming a grey and papery...
Where the Boats Go, for horn and piano | Gala Flagello
Просмотров 57Месяц назад
Where the Boats Go and Downpours (2022, rev. 2024) Live premiere performance by Brett Hodge on March 9, 2024 at SUNY-New Paltz. PROGRAM NOTE: Where the Boats Go (2022, rev. 2024) for horn and piano was commissioned by Cay Cummings and is dedicated to Marina Krol, our fellow horn player and good friend who left this world too soon. This work is an attempt to process grief while celebrating Marin...
Droughts and Downpours, for bass septet | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1252 месяца назад
Droughts and Downpours (2024), commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center Live premiere recording from July 7, 2024 in Seiji Ozawa Hall. PROGRAM NOTE: Droughts and Downpours (2024) was commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center and explores the concepts of scarcity and abundance through the sonic depiction of rainfall (or lack thereof). The ensemble evokes doubt, longing, hope, and joy throug...
Comments by Computers, for high voice, clarinet and piano | Gala Flagello
Просмотров 503 месяца назад
Comments by Computers (2015, arr. 2024), arranged for high voice, clarinet, and piano Commissioned and premiere by Haven Trio, on June 8, 2024 at @ConnecticutSummerfest Purchase: justatheorypress.com/products/comments-by-computers-trio Program note: The text for Comments by Computers was taken from the comments sections of websites and blogs, where spam bots had left the most “human” sentences ...
Red Giant, for saxophone quartet | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1793 месяца назад
Red Giant (2023) for SATB or AATB saxophone quartet This work was commissioned by a consortium of saxophonists organized by Matthew Younglove and Joshua Thomas as a part of the Assembly Quartet Pedagogy Project. Assembly Quartet members are Adam Estes, Ian Jeffress, Jeffrey Heisler, Matthew Younglove. More about the piece: www.galaflagello.com/external-catalog-jatp-dts/red-giant PROGRAM NOTE: R...
Until My Last Breath, for solo horn and horn sextet | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 754 месяца назад
"Until My Last Breath" (2023) for solo horn and horn sextet Commissioned by Brett Hodge and Horns of the Heartland Premiere conducted by Marty Hackleman PROGRAM NOTE: "Until My Last Breath" (2023) was commissioned by Brett Hodge and Horns of the Heartland and was written in honor of Marina Krol Hodge. The piece's title comes from a set of matching metal cards that Marina and Brett exchanged for...
Persist, arr. for two trumpets and chamber orchestra | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 394 месяца назад
@dupagesymphonyorchestra with soloists @MaryElizabethBowden and Garth Anderson - performance from May 18, 2024 After writing the text for Persist (2020), I realized that it read like a combination of a bedtime story and a call to action. This reflects the way in which the poem and the opening of the piece came to me. I was awake at 3 A.M., my mind racing, trying to sort through the many problem...
Vitality, for wind band | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 2557 месяцев назад
Vitality (2022) was written for the Aspen Conducting Academy 2022 orchestral readings and was inspired by a quote by Martha Graham: “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening, that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” Graham beg...
Smoke and Mirrors, for tenor saxophone and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 677 месяцев назад
Smoke and Mirrors (2024) sonically conjures misdirection, mystery, and the obscuring of truth through two opposing but complementary themes, one curling and mischievous, the other measured and yearning. The tenor saxophone and piano collaborate, converse, jeer, sympathize, and dream, ending where they began but with new perspective gained from navigating this exercise in smoke and mirrors. Huge...
Comments by Computers, for high voice and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 398 месяцев назад
The text for Comments by Computers was taken from the comments sections of websites and blogs, where spam bots had left the most “human” sentences their algorithms could produce. These comments each took on their own unique character: honest, poetic, joyful, pleading. The comments’ use as lyrics led to these mezzo-soprano and piano miniatures, so that each “writer” might have their own distinct...
Comments by Computers, for trombone and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 318 месяцев назад
The text for Comments by Computers was taken from the comments sections of websites and blogs, where spam bots had left the most “human” sentences their algorithms could produce. These comments each took on their own unique character: honest, poetic, joyful, pleading. The comments’ use as lyrics led to these mezzo-soprano and piano miniatures, so that each “writer” might have their own distinct...
Mother TIme, Father Nature, for bassoon and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 568 месяцев назад
Mother Time, Father Nature (2021) was commissioned by Joseph Swift, bassoonist, and eight consortium members as part of the Room to Breathe commissioning project which reflects on the confluence of crises in 2020 and 2021 and humankind's perseverance through them. This work was inspired by a sentence I found in my journal from June 2020: "I feel like I'm mourning the loss of a season that hasn'...
Watch Me, for low voice choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 558 месяцев назад
Watch Me (2023) was written for the University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, Mark Stover, conductor. The piece explores the difference in intensity between the verbs “see,” “look,” and “watch,” juxtaposing the individual perspective (“me”) with that of the collective (“us”). Throughout Watch Me, the choir demands attention, asks for consideration, and defies expectation through dynamic, registra...
Sweet Nothings, for alto saxophone and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1678 месяцев назад
Sweet Nothings (2022) was commissioned by Connor O’Toole and a consortium of 17 saxophonists and explores the idiom “sweet nothings” through both lyricism and virtuosity. The first recorded use of this phrase occurred in 1876 by poet Edwin Coller in his “Black Sir Ralph: An Essex Legend,” published in Volume 28 of the London magazine Belgravia founded by novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Today, ...
Candlewood, for soprano saxophone and piano | Gala Flagello
Просмотров 868 месяцев назад
Candlewood, for soprano saxophone and piano | Gala Flagello
Enough, for violin, bassoon, piano, percussion | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 3138 месяцев назад
Enough, for violin, bassoon, piano, percussion | Gala Flagello (with score)
Ask the Orange, for SATB Choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1378 месяцев назад
Ask the Orange, for SATB Choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Dabble, for saxophone quartet | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1358 месяцев назад
Dabble, for saxophone quartet | Gala Flagello (with score)
The Parting Glass, for SATB choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1208 месяцев назад
The Parting Glass, for SATB choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Snow Whispers, for SSAATTBB choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 2198 месяцев назад
Snow Whispers, for SSAATTBB choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Flower Chant, for treble choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 1668 месяцев назад
Flower Chant, for treble choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Asphodel, for flute and clarinet | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 318 месяцев назад
Asphodel, for flute and clarinet | Gala Flagello (with score)
Breathing Light, for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 598 месяцев назад
Breathing Light, for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello | Gala Flagello (with score)
Fragile Goods, for solo percussion | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 488 месяцев назад
Fragile Goods, for solo percussion | Gala Flagello (with score)
Persist, for two sopranos and chamber orchestra | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 968 месяцев назад
Persist, for two sopranos and chamber orchestra | Gala Flagello (with score)
I Could Fall, for treble voices | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 138 месяцев назад
I Could Fall, for treble voices | Gala Flagello (with score)
Anonymous Woman, for SSAATTBB choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 288 месяцев назад
Anonymous Woman, for SSAATTBB choir | Gala Flagello (with score)
Speak, for solo percussion | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 258 месяцев назад
Speak, for solo percussion | Gala Flagello (with score)
If I, for soprano and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Просмотров 78 месяцев назад
If I, for soprano and piano | Gala Flagello (with score)
Looking forward to playing this in march :)
Wow! Great premiere recording! Congratulations, Gala!
This is an awesome work and a terrific performance too! May there be many more!!
Wow! Whoever recorded this must be the best band ever!
Yeah for sure
🎉
Fr this is so fire whoever the second horn was in this must be cracked and the best player ever 🫣
@@reidallen6983yeah the alto section is also really good! (Besides alto 4)
Yeahhh. This is really, really good
Fantastic! Love the instrumentation.
Thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :)
Eloquent and attractive!
Thank you!
Interesting
Very beautiful!
Thank you very much!
Really lovely!
Thank you! 😊
Congrats Gala!!
Gala, that was an amazing exploration of the piano's myriad voices in a mere 8:26! Brava!
Bravo! Beautiful piece of music played by the amazing Aero Quartet.