"Hall of Ghosts" for Solo Piccolo, by: Amanda Harberg--Alexandra Langley

Monday, April 29, 2024
Happy Monday! Today marks the continuation of a long-awaited series on my TH-cam Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital.
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We continue the recital program with one of my favorite piccolo solos. This is Amanda Harberg’s “Hall of Ghosts” for Solo Flute. Amanda Harberg is an American composer famous for luscious excursion in melodies in her pieces. Her composition “Hall of Ghosts” was composed in April 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic and lockdowns. The piece was written as a thank you to the large community of flutists who joined her in her virtual flute orchestra project called Prayer Project. She gained inspiration for the piece by piccolist Gudrun Hinze, who participated in the Prayer Project. Hinze recorded her contribution in the Gewandhaus Chamber Musical Hall. The hall, once filled with performing and rehearsing musicians, became an empty space filled with the old memories and echoes of before the lockdown. Harberg used that ambient aspect surrounding the lonesome piccolo to implore the spirits and ghosts to bring back the music. The unaccompanied solo is divided into three large sections. The opening section is an expressive environment creating immersion with dramatic pits and plaintive, searching piccolo phrases. Underneath the lively second section, there is conflicting dialogue between the accelerating time ticking staccato figures and the piccolo trying to make itself heard amongst the chaos. The third section returns to the expressive recapitulation from the beginning immediately followed by the reprise of the lively section. In a sense, it creates the question: Who wins the conflict: the music or the spirits? That is up to the performer. I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹
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[@nigelbrown3678]

Very enjoyable. I would also like to thank you for taking the time to write the background story of the piece which enables the listener unfamiliar with the work to understand the musical context. Thanks for sharing.

[@AlexandraLangleyflute]

Thank you so much! I'm glad that you enjoyed the performance and the context helped you understand it more.