The flute chants inside the piano. Ther overtones from the aural

resonance unfold the harmonies of a mysterious chromaic landscape

that ultimately evolves and pushes through to a world of tonal serenity.

That is essentially the journey of my Fantasy for Flute and Piano. I composed

it during my first year as a doctoral student at Harvard, at a time when I was

working hard to discover a connection back to tonality from the atonal music

I had written for Arthur Berger at the New England Conservatory the previous

two years. Many of those atonal sonorities I found quite beautiful, especially

those spread across the keyboard. In this piece, I imagined them leading

towards a key, instead of away.