Victoria Bond
Shenblu
Year: 1987
Duration (in minutes): 5'39;
Difficulty: Medium (college/community)
Category: solo instrument other than piano, solo woodwind instrument
Instruments: any woodwind, flute
Publisher: Southern Music
Description: Prem: 5/16/87; Shanghai, China
Recording: 1995; GEGA
“Contains an element common to both Chinese music and American jazz: the pentatonic or five-note scale. A fun piece to perform, it’s success depends upon the flutist’s ability to present the changing moods from languid and expressive to intensely driving, primitive and guttural, in a multi-metered dance-like section.” Flute Talk
“A tour-de-force for flute...the work is a fascinating compositional tease and a technical challenge.” The Ithaca Journal