Commissioned by Cassandra Eisenreich and Dan Parasky in 2022 for the Flute Community of Pittsburgh, PA - Steel City begins as a dark, brooding, relentless, trundling machine. A soulful, lamenting melody is created from the opening theme, and then an element of “Heavy Metal” with some brutal and rocking unison cross-rhythms. The lamenting rising theme continues throughout, getting a playful groove, and then climaxing to an epic finish worthy of your favourite Marvel movie!

Premiered at the Slippery Rock University All-Stars Flute Choir weekend on February 26th 2023.

Instrumentation:

Concert Flute x 4
Alto Flute x 1
Bass/Contra x 1