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For Flute and Piano
Duration: 1'45"
I first met Tyler Emerson my freshman year at Eastman. I had met his older brother Perry in the airport on the way to our Eastman auditions the previous winter, and we had become friends during our first year together. Tyler visited at some point that spring and I met him at the Eastman Opera Theatre's performance of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene". I saw him several times after that, both when I visited Perry in Vermont, and when he stayed in Perry's and my apartment senior year.
After I left Eastman, I stayed in touch with Perry and gradually began to get to know Tyler better as well as we talked and I continued to visit Vermont. I wrote him a long, heavy piece in 2019 and now have the occasion to write a much lighter piece - as a gift for his wedding to the delightful and incomparable Jillian Reed, who also happens to play flute!