Escaping the Delta (2005)
for flute & cello (with optional electronics)
commissioned by the c²

duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds
download score (as pdf - 672 KB)
performance materials are available on request

also needed (for optional electronic part only):
computer with stereo audio interface
stereo playback system

Full recording:

Escaping the Delta –c² (Lisa Cella & Frank Cox)

Program Notes:
Escaping the Delta was inspired by Elijah Wald’s book of the same title, a biography of the iconic bluesman, Robert Johnson. Wald’s revisionist history sketches Johnson as an itinerant musician, who moved fluidly between musical worlds and styles. This chronicle imagines the Delta blues, and the music of the subsequent Blues Revival, as only possible through this type of synthesis of sounds and experiences. Similarly, my composition imagines a blues informed by the traditions of concert music.

Performance History
October 2006
Clark University, Worcester, MA
C-squared
(premiere)

March 22, 2007
University of San Diego - San Diego, CA USA
C-squared

March 24, 2007
University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA USA)
C-squared