Distance Like A Fiction (2014)

for flute and alto saxophone

Commissioned by the Awea Duo

Duration: 8 minutes

Distance Like A Fiction was inspired by the following quote by Marsden Hartley describing the landscapes of northern New Mexico: “Great isolated alter line forms that stand alone on a great mesa with the immensities of blue around and above them and that strange red earth making such almost unearthly foregrounds. The spaces are so huge here and so simple and details are so clear that nothing seems far off, and distance is like a fiction for the eye.”

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