Flute

10Dec '18 0

The Round (2018) soprano + flute: text by Walter de la Mare

In: Chamber, Flute, Voice/By: KyleHovatter/0 Comment/

Live recording from Holy Innocents Episcopal Church San Francisco – May 5, 2018

02May '18 0

cold (2017) two flutes

In: Chamber, Flute/By: KyleHovatter/0 Comment/

“cold” was premiered by the Siroko Duo on January 27th, 2018 at Seventh Avenue Presbyterian, presented by Seventh Avenue Performances. https://sirokoduo.com/ [/embedyt]

17Aug '16 0

by a spirit of uselessness (2016) flute + piano

In: Chamber, Flute, Piano/By: KyleHovatter/0 Comment/

This work was written for Christina Guenther and Ron Petti and their performances in September and October 2016. The title is stolen from a line of the William Carlos Williams poem “At the Ball Game”.

The crowd at the ball game

is moved uniformly

by a spirit of uselessness

which delights them—

all the exciting detail

of the chase

and the escape, the error

the flash of genius—

all to no end save beauty

the eternal—

So in detail they, the crowd,

are beautiful

for this

to be warned against

saluted and defied—

It is alive, venomous

it smiles grimly

its words cut—

The flashy female with her

mother, gets it—

The Jew gets it straight— it

is deadly, terrifying—

It is the Inquisition, the

Revolution

It is beauty itself

that lives

day by day in them

idly—

This is

the power of their faces

It is summer, it is the solstice

the crowd is

cheering, the crowd is laughing

in detail

permanently, seriously

without thought

18Apr '16 0

Cascade (2016) flute, bassoon + piano

In: Bassoon, Chamber, Flute, Piano, Quotation/By: KyleHovatter/0 Comment/

Written for and dedicated to the Silver Keys Trio

Score and Recording Coming Soon

01Oct '15 0

I Might Speak (2015) flute, bassoon + piano

In: Bassoon, Chamber, Flute, Imagine Music Publishing, Piano/By: KyleHovatter/0 Comment/

Score Published Through Imagine Music Publishing

SILVER KEYS TRIO – ALL AMERICAN MUSIC

Center for New Music in San Francisco, Sept. 30, 2015 – 7:30pm
San Jose State University, October 1st, 2015 – 12:15pm
Sacramento State University, October 2nd, 2015 -4:00pm

Program Note: When granted the opportunity to write for the Silver Keys Trio’s instrumentation, my wife and I had just begun to expect our new daughter. I swung between exhaustive fragility and terrifying elation and still do with Alice now here and born. This text has become my much needed mantra, as anything I do, from parenting to music, is destined to fail without love. My deepest thanks go to the virtuosic Silver Keys Trio for organizing the commissioning consortium that brought about this seven movement piece.

I Might Speak
With Tongues of Angles
Yet Without Love
I
Have Now Become
A Clanging Cymbal
Resounding