Soul Flow
for speaker & chamber ensemble
Date
May 2013
Duration
8 minutes
Orchestration
Speaker, Fl, Cl (doubl. bass), Vla, & Vc
Soul Flow
Carolyn Johnson, speaker
Rebecca Powell Garfield, flute
Richard Nunemaker, clarinet
Erika Lawson, viola
Patrick Moore, cello
COMMISSION
American Festival for the arts 2013 Collaborations concert
About
“Soul Flow” was commissioned by the American Festival for the Arts for the 2013 Collaborations Concert in Houston, Texas. The commission was for a new work for speaker and chamber ensemble, with writer Tacey A. Rosolowski and composer Aaron Alon responding to the year’s theme, “Desiring Her Soul to be Beautiful,” a line from a Ruth Valladares Corrêa poem that Heitor Villa-Lobos set in his Bachianas Brasileiras: Aria (Cantilena).
Premiere
July 12, 2013
American Festival for the Arts Collaboration Concert
Anderson Fair, Houston, TX
Rebecca Powell Garfield, flute; Richard Nunemaker, clarinet; Erika Lawson, viola; Patrick Moore, cello