Jean-Pierre Vial
Haloing Fantasia
(2012)
for alto flute, clarinet in Bb and piano
Duration: 1'
Instrumentation details:
alto flute
clarinet in Bb
piano
Haloing Fantasia
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Work introduction
Jean-Pierre Vial composed this short fantasia in 2012.
In Haloing Fantasia, chromaticism can suggest the pallid and polychromatic light of a halo that reflects or refracts the sun or moon light, i.e., a parhelion.
The piece was dedicated to the Parhelion trio (i.e., Sarah Carrier, alto flute, Crystal Gloria Medina, clarinet, and Andrea Christie, piano) who premiered it in New York city, in 2012.