Taking Flight!
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This is my piece for flute in a syncopated pop style.
I was inspired to compose it after watching an awe-inspiring exciting aerobatic display by the British Red Arrows display team.
The spectacular display featured jet planes flying at 600 miles per hour, at a distance of 4 feet apart.
Truly amazing.
Play along to the lively backing track, play to the piano-only track, or perform with a live piano player!
Grateful thanks to the wonderful "Red Arrows" Team for the stunning footage on the YouTube video.
I was inspired to compose it after watching an awe-inspiring exciting aerobatic display by the British Red Arrows display team.
The spectacular display featured jet planes flying at 600 miles per hour, at a distance of 4 feet apart.
Truly amazing.
Play along to the lively backing track, play to the piano-only track, or perform with a live piano player!
Grateful thanks to the wonderful "Red Arrows" Team for the stunning footage on the YouTube video.
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Planes in flight..
After watching an aerobatic display by the British Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team, I originally was inspired to compose this piece.
However, the piece may be used to interpret any means of flight - flights of birds, for example...
After watching an aerobatic display by the British Royal Air Force Red Arrows display team, I originally was inspired to compose this piece.
However, the piece may be used to interpret any means of flight - flights of birds, for example...
A wonderful feat of nature - birds in flight
Listen to "Taking Flight":
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung.
High in the sunlit silence, hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting winds along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
To download the flute and piano score,
or
Flute and piano (or backing track).
Score and flute part in one download:
$6 (£5.49)
9 pages.
