Summary
Jerod Impichch-aachaaha' Tate, whose middle name means "high corncrib" in his native Chickasaw, makes his Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival compositional debut on Thursday,
Aug. 20. The occasion is a Lensic Performing Arts Center performance of a work commissioned by R. Carlos Nakai: the Bec Quintet for flute, Native American flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, and bassoon. A pianist as well as a composer, Tate has written film scores, music for chorus and orchestra, choral works, and chamber music, mostly on Native themes or texts.See the full content of this document
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Tones by Tate
Pasatiempo: What tuning did you write for,
for the Native flute? And what range?Jerod Tate: All the [Indian] flutes are capable of chromaticism. They can have all kinds of combinations of fingerings to get notes. All the flutes R.C. plays have a very comfortable range...See the full content of this document
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