Opus number: 4
Title: Mirage
Instrumentation: flute and piano
Date written: 1972, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina
Length: ca. eight minutes
Premiere performance: Salem College, Winston-Salem. Nancy Neidlinger, flute, and Gregory Kosteck, piano, 1972
Important subsequent performances: East Carolina University; Composers Conference in Johnson, Vermont, Karl Kraber, flute, and Robert Miller, piano, summer 1972; David Erlanger, flute, Larry Bell, piano, April 17, 1980, Paul Hall, Juilliard
Program notes: “Mirage” for flute and piano was written in 1972 when the composer was a sophomore at East Carolina University. It was first performed by Nancy Neidlinger, flute, and the composer’s teacher, Gregory Kosteck, pianist. It received first prize in the North Carolina Music Teachers Association competition in 1971 and was first performed at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the spring of 1972. It was subsequently performed at the Composers Conference in Johnson, Vermont, by Karl Krager, flute, and Robert Miller, piano.
