Description
Written in the memory of Samuel Baron and commissioned by the National Flute Association, this work upends the typical theme and variations genre. The composer uses melodic and harmonic cells or fragments appearing through the course of the four interconnected variations. For most of the piece, the theme seems almost like a mirage, just imagined or hinted; re-interpreted before the fact, as it were. The theme finally appears near the end of the owrk, and turns out to be a languid, richly-harmonized bluesy ballad Currier has called “Time and Time Again.”