Instrumentation: Flute and String Orchestra (7:00)
First Performance: New York, NY 2019
Lisa Hansen, flute with North/South Chamber Orchestra, Max Lifchitz, cond.
Katrina Krimsky composed Fluid Silk (1998) for piano. It was arranged for flute and strings in 2019
This piece draws on California's diverse and beautiful natural landscape with dazzling computer-generated art images by mathematician and artist Frank Farris. The orchestra performs with these fantastical symmetric creations projected overhead in a fusion of music and vibrant animated mathematical imagery. Commissioned by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings. (11:00)
based on the piano work of the same name.
Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation
1st Performance: Aspen Music Festival, August, 1987
Gaudeamus Music Festival, Hilversum, Netherlands, VARA Radio Orchestra, Ernest Bour, cond.
Duration: 15:00
scored for sinfonietta: flute, oboe / bassett horn, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass.
The piece is based on amazing photographs of trailing vortices and other flow phenomena in Milton Van Dyke’s An Album of Fluid Mechanics.
Trailing vortices from a rectangular wing (An Album of Fluid Motion, Milton Van Dyke, 1982).
Trailing Vortices are spiraling wind streams formed when air passes over an airfoil. These graceful spirals suggest diverse musical interpretation.