Conversation
(1975) 4 min.
flute, oboe
Premiere
premiered November 20, 1975
Robin Peller, flute
Mark Hill, oboe
Stony Brook, NY
Reviews
Tom Flaherty’s Conversation, a first performance, made a brief but sweet interlude, inertwining and juxtaposing the instruments to plaintive effect. [Mark Hill, oboe; Robin Peller, flute]
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—Donal Henahan,
The New York Times
This piece, sensitively played by Madeline Berkely (flute) and Helmut Seeber (oboe) is, as the title suggests, a dialogue between the two instruments in a lyrical, atonal style. And thanks for repeating this item. [Concorde]
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—Barra Boydell,
The Irish Times
Notes
Conversation for Flute and Oboe was written for flutist Robin Peller and oboist Mark Hill when we were all graduate students at Stony Brook. Its amiable opening gradually leads to good natured debate and eventually a heated argument. All is forgiven in the end, with a well earned and warmly embraced unison.
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