Alex Shapiro, composer: Re:pair

Re:pair
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Re:pair for Two Baroque Flutes

(Duet for Baroque or Modern Flutes).
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2000)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2000 by flutists Tom Moore and Laura Ronai.
One movement work. 13 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Audio excerpts of the premiere, in January 2001
at Princeton University, NJ.,
by Tom Moore and Laura Ronai.

Also available as:

Re:pair
for Flute and Bassoon
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2002)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Commissioned in 2001 by the L.A. Alumni Chapter
of Mu Phi Epsilon.

Premiered in March 2002 in Los Angeles, CA.,
by Patti Cloud, flute and Carolyn Beck, bassoon.

Audio clip performed by Patti Cloud, flute and
Carolyn Beck, bassoon.

Re:pair
for Flute and Oboe
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2002)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Premiered in June 2002 in Ontario, Canada,
by Penelope Clarke, flute and Colleen Gibson, oboe.

Audio clip performed by Pamela Vliek Martchev, flute and Rong-Huey Liu, oboe.

Re:pair
for Two Bassoons
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2001)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Re:pair
for Clarinet and Bassoon
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2008)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Audio clip performed by Sue Collado, clarinet and
Pat Nelson, bassoon.

"Delightful."

-------— Gordon Rumson, Music & Vision Magazine, May 2001

"Musical pickings are sparse during the summer months, but rewards await the ardent serendipiter... I happened upon an eminently satisfying chamber-music concert in a UCLA lecture hall, and was glad I did. The players were five members of Mládí, the ensemble whose wintertime programs in an old apartment building near Silver Lake I have also found reason to praise... The Bruman concerts are solid, interesting and challenging. Last week’s program consisted of four new or newish works for winds.

One, a perky and thoroughly delightful duet for flute and oboe by the local composer Alex Shapiro, was brand-new, and Shapiro was on hand to deliver a few words about her piece..."

------— Alan Rich, L.A. Weekly, July 2005

View page one of the score to Re:pair for two flutes
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Listen to an audio clip of Re:pair for flute and oboe
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Listen to an audio clip of Re:pair for clarinet and bassoon
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Purchase any of these scores Score and parts available from Activist Music for $15.00.

Re:pair was originally composed for two baroque flutes, at the request of Tom Moore and Laura Ronai, two baroque flutists who enjoy the somewhat unusual mission of presenting audiences with contemporary music written for their instruments. The title is a triple entendre: fixing something that in some cases is... baroque (ouch), having to do with a duo, and then having that duo musically deconstruct and pair up again. I took a very modal approach to this piece, using harmonies and rhythms that refer to music from a few hundred years ago, while placing them in a contemporary context.

Although I wrote Re:pair specifically for baroque instruments, it sounds equally well on modern flutes, and other woodwinds as well. These additional versions employ a few higher pitched notes, for a brighter sound than what would traditionally be written for wooden flutes.