Spoken by Sunlight

This piece was commissioned by the Texas Flute Society and individual donors Deborah Ragsdale, Ann Vinod, and Spencer Hartman for the 37th Annual Myrna W. Brown Competition. 

Spoken by Sunlight explores the ideas of light and shadow and the interplay between them. 

The title comes from a passage by one of my favorite authors:

In that moment [he] understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred in the leaves; it seemed to him that he himself was a word spoken by the sunlight.

Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)