New Music from Diverse Voices!
A guide to new music purchased as part of the 2021 effort to diversify the Music Library Collection.
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Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Karen Olson
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Solo Flute
- Diaphonic suite no. 1 by Ruth Crawford (woman)
- performed by Joseph Ostryniec (on oboe)
- Song by Jennifer Higdon (woman, LGBTQIA+)
- Prelude for unaccompanied flute by Ulysses Kay (Black)
- Le vent a travers les ruines by Yuko Uebayashi (woman, Japan)
Solo Flute with Piano
- D'un matin de printemps by Lili Boulanger (woman)
- Six poèmes noir by David Baker (Black)
- performed by Laurel Zucker (tracks 7-12)
- Velocity by Kenji Bunch (East Asian)
- Movement III from The golden flute by Chen Yi (woman, China)
- Three bagatelles from China West by Chen Yi (woman, China)
- In light we see, in light we are seen by Elaine Fine (woman)
- Movement II from Sonata by Lita Grier (woman)
- Allegro rustico by Sofia Gubaidulina (woman)
- Sounds of the forest by Sofia Gubaidulina (woman)
- Demon's Dance from Medieval Suite by Katherine Hoover (woman)
- Trace by Melissa Hui (woman, Hong Kong)
- Poema del pastor coya by Ángel Lasala (Argentina)
- performed by Patricia Da Dalt (flute and harp version)
- Alma by Tania León (woman, Cuba)
- Mnicakmun by William Linthicum-Blackhorse (Latinx, LGBTQIA+, Lakȟóta Sioux)
- Rhapsodia Andina by Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas (woman, Argentina)
- no recording available
- Fantasy on a vocalise by Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke (woman)
- Vignette by Eugénie R. Rocherolle (woman)
- Prayers by Ned Rorem (LGBTQIA+)
- Klatka still by David Sanford (Black)
- Momis komet (Keep striving) by Grace Wiley Smith (woman, Muscogee Creek)
- no recording available
- Whippoorwill by Grace Wiley Smith (woman, Muscogee Creek)
- no recording available
- Pastorale by Germaine Tailleferre (woman)
- Sonata pour flûte et piano by Yolande Uyttenhove (woman)
- Movement I from Concerto for flute, strings, and percussion by Melinda Wagner (woman)
- Movement II from Concerto for flute and orchestra by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (woman)
Solo Flute with Electronics
Chamber Music with Flute
- Ritmo Indio by Louis W. Ballard (Cherokee, Quapaw) for woodwind quintet
- Freedmen of the five civilized tribes by Valerie Coleman (Black) for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
- Umoja: the first day of Kwanzaa by Valerie Coleman (Black) for woodwind quintet
- Downwind of roses in Maine by Libby Larsen (woman) for flute, clarinet, mallet percussion
- Ecstatic science by Missy Mazzoli (woman) for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, cello
- Still life with avalanche by Missy Mazzoli (woman) for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello
- Trio by Joe W. Moore, III (Black) for flute, clarinet, percussion
- Seven episodes by Louise Talma (woman) for flute, viola, piano