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American music for
flute and piano -
heard by RON BIERMAN

'Amy Porter plays with feeling and clean, seemingly effortless articulation ...'

American Art - Burton, Beaser, Daugherty, Caliend. Amy Porter, flute; Christopher Harding, piano. © 2012 Equilibrium

This release contains works for flute and piano by four American composers. Though recognizably modern, their melodies and harmonies are relatively conservative.

A young Eldin Burton's 1948 sonatina won a New York Flute Club competition. Burton continued to compose, but appears to have completed only one or two other pieces, and was soon concentrating on a career with Schirmer, the company which had published his sonatina...

Copyright © 3 July 2014 Ron Bierman,
San Diego, USA

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AMERICAN ART - BURTON, BEASER, DAUGHERTY, CALIENDO

FLUTE MUSIC

PIANO MUSIC

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

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