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Fanfare 36 was composed especially for the 2008 National High School Flute Choir, with its premiere performance on during the 36th Annual Convention of the National Flute Association (NFA) in Kansas C...

Fanfare 42 is a composition with intricate splashes of colour set amidst brilliant melodic harmonic writing. The number 42 in the title is in commemoration of the forty-second annual convention of the...

Newfoundland, the last province to join Canada (in 1949) is a rugged and beautiful island shaped by the many inlets where tiny fishing villages are huddled. The Newfoundland ballads and shanties that...

In a simple, yet charming style, Kelly Via has set the well-known tune, Arirang along with Gold Grass and Blue Bird to form a suite of three contrasting movements. Arirang, the most familiar Korean fo...

Psalm 126 is a reading heard most frequently at the time of harvest. It is also particularly appropriate for the second Sunday of Advent or the fifth Sunday of Lent. The vocal line is reminiscent of m...

Albisiphonics is a piece for bass flute and piano written for Peter Sheridan on the occasion of his acquiring an Albisiphon Baritono. This rare flute was manufactured c. 1920 and was designed by Albel...

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, op. 92, created in 1812, was composed entirely without a slow movement. Instead, this famous Allegretto opens with a statement of an A minor chord followed by a rhythmic...

An appropriate way of adding thoughtful and musical reflections about the expansive beauty and grandeur of the United States of America is Kelly Via's lovely two-verse setting of this well-loved tune!

Four movements of American folk tunes in settings for flute choir by Kelly Via. Movements include Wayfaring Stranger, The Bridle and Saddle, Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens, and Fiddle Tunes.

Apollo and Hyacinthus K.38 is the first full, three act opera composed by the eleven-year-old prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created for his fellow youth at the school of the University of Salzburg...

Written for the Canadian Flute Association for flute choir, this work was inspired by the life of Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), an Irish-born playwright, who spent much of his life in France. The comp...

Of the six Concertos, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, despite the fact it is composed for string orchestra, is the least like the traditional baroque concerto grosso, in that there is no solo or conce...

In this florid setting by Kelly Via of a quiet and haunting Celtic folk tune, By Kells Waters, in the Dorian mode, this melody is first featured in the bass flute, followed with many lyrical lines sha...

Published in 1610, Canzona 'La Padovana' is from Viadana's only purely instrumental collection, his Sinfonie muscali for eight voices, op. 18. Each of the eighteen canzoni therein is named after an It...

The Concerto in G minor (HWV 287) was written around 1703 while Handel was a young man still living in Hamburg. The four-movement form is rather unusual for the time. Even though the concerto was the...

Antonio Vivaldi (c. 1678-1741) remains one of the most-loved and oft-performed of the baroque composers. In 1703, he was appointed to the position of music master at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice...

Cross the Wide Missouri includes the setting of the folk song 'Shenandoah' by Kelly Via. This piece is a tribute to the Missouri River which flows through Kansas City, site of the 36th Annual Conventi...

Land of the Silver Birch is a well-known, well-loved traditional song sung widely around campfires across the Canadian province of Ontario. In this fantasia setting the colors of the alto and bass flu...

While the tune 'Red River Valley' itself is known by several different titles and there are a number of versions of the lyrics, it is certainly one of the most beautiful American folk songs. The lyric...

This classic virtuoso piece is an entracte in Act III of the fairy-tale opera 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan.' Though the opera has largely been forgotten, the Flight of the Bumblebee has been transcribed f...

In 1908, fourteen years after composing the Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Claude Debussy completed the piano suite, Children's Corner, which was dedicated to his daughter 'Chouchou.' The sixth an...

I'll Love My Love is a Cornish folk song made familiar by Gustav Holst. This arrangement was inspired by the settings of the song used by Holst in his 'Second Suite in F for Military Band', as well as...