Performer: Ellen C. Johnson

This piece is notably the first idiomatic flute solo written by an American composer.  Stephen Collins Foster also wrote many popular tunes during the mid-nineteenth century, including Oh Susanna!

Performer: Ellen C. Johnson

Ian Clarke says, "In the case of Zoom Tube there are many inspirations: rhythm & blues, Bobby McFerrin, Stockhausen, Robert Dick, Ian Anderson & South American flute playing spring to mind fairly immediately but I'm sure there's more if one wanted to delve further. Beyond this I had an impression of what I wanted to achieve and, since I am a composer & flautist, naturally enough its birth was largely through experimentation and improvisation on the instrument.  The extended techniques and hence palette of colours was very much a means to an end rather than just an end in itself.  Amongst other things I wanted the flute to groove, much as a rhythm guitarist might...."

Performers:  Ellen C. Johnson, flute; Colleen Manseau, viola; Sergio Acerb, double bass

Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff lived from 1894 to 1942 and his life was tragically cut short by the Nazis in the concentration camp at Wülzburg.  His musical influences include Debussy, Strauss, and Scriabin.