The Birthday Project- Four....Three Blake Songs/Shadow Play for Flute and Pan

So after struggling to come up with a musically satisfying setting of The Blossom I have decided just to make the piece a three song collection rather than create something I am ultimately unhappy with. I have submitted the first draft of the final score and await comments from my vocalist.

Now that the first piece in the Birthday Project is all but finished I am looking forward to writing my first purely instrumental piece in three years for my close friends Jason Baskin and Beaux Lux. The piece is tentatively entitled Shadow Play and will be for Flute and Lead Pan. The term shadow play refers to many facets of creating art with shadow ranging from photography, dance, and Balinese shadow puppetry. I want to incoporate musical ideas inspired by all of these elements in the work as well as using Jungian concepts of the Shadow in the piece somehow. That being said I am just in the very beginning stages so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.The deadline for this piece is March 6th, the latest of the two birthdays in the duo.