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Three Weeks in Cincinnati in December

THREE WEEKS IN CINCINNATI IN DECEMBER — by William Hellermann

New World 80789-2 (2017)

This is the finest performance of music by another composer that I shall ever record! Back in the 1970s, when I was asking composers to write for me, Bill Hellermann wrote the absolute best solo flute piece composed for me. Epic in proportion at 51:31 (not a typo), the piece begins with mysical whispertones and settles into a continuous world of multiphonics, played without break with circular breathing. The duality of this piece is extraordinary — a floating, ephemeral world produced in an incredibly physically demanding way. Playing this piece, which I trained for like an athletic event, was like running a marathon on a continuous uphill course. Yet the goal was the feeling of out of body effortlessness. Recorded by the masterful Judith Sherman. Notes by Allan Kozinn.

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