Scattering Bright
for flute and percussion
2012
commissioned by the Hayes/Peterson Duo
instrumentation: flute and percussion (vibraphone, crotales)
duration: 9 minutes
Program Notes
Scattering Bright is inspired by John Donne’s poem “Angels and Air.”
…Thy every hair for love to work upon
Is much too much ; some fitter must be sought ;
For, nor in nothing, nor in things
Extreme, and scattering bright, can love inhere ;
Then as an angel face and wings
Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear,
So thy love may be my love’s sphere…