Wind Dance by Todd Coleman

SRU Flute Ensemble
Directed by Dr. Cassandra Eisenreich
Program Notes:
Wind Dance was written on commission from the Penfield Music Commission Project. From the beginning, the arrangement of players on the stage played an integral part in the composition of this work. Many spatial effects are woven into the fabric of the music, casting foreground against background, left against right, middle against outer edges, etc. Coleman found inspiration for the antiphonal effects in the polychoral masses of the early Renaissance. He also employed aspects of the Baroque concerto grosso in which a small number of soloists (the concertino) are set against the rest of the ensemble (the ripieno). Hence there are various contrasts in texture, timbre, register, doubling, and the musical function of particular players at any given moment (melody vs. accompaniment).