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Reborn in Flame

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"Reborn in Flame" is a tone poem depicting the life cycle of a phoenix. The piece opens with the old, dying phoenix struggling to hold on to life. This struggle is represented by the opening theme first stated by the cello. The piece relaxes between increasingly dramatic statements of this line as the bird drifts in and out of consciousness, the mysterious dreams expressed by the augmented chords in the cello and a slower, drifting variation of the opening theme in the flutes. After the final struggle, the music dies away as the phoenix burns to ash. The music builds into a lament for the dead bird in the form a Gregorian chant. This chant dies away and the dream theme returns in the flute as the ashes are blown away revealing an egg. The excitement brews with the augmented chords starting in the alto flute. This breaks into trills in the flutes and pizzicato in the cello as the new, baby phoenix hatches from its egg. The trills in the flute die down as the new, young phoenix theme is stated for the first time by the alto flute. This theme builds as the phoenix soars through the air, its youth represented by the ornaments in the flutes, the pizzicato in the cello, and the new major tonality.

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from Reborn in Flame, released February 18, 2016
Leah VanLaarhoven flute
Ian McKnight alto flute
Carson Farley cello

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