Étoiles Par Grand Vent for guitar duo (Homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) for guitar duo (2019)

This composition is the guitar duo version of my piano and guitar work of the same name. This version was premiered by Kithara Duo at the Florida State University Guitar Festival in October 2019. “Étoiles Par Grand Vent” was originally written in 2019 for Jay Kacherski (guitar) and Lina Morita (piano).  It is inspired by the life and work of Antoine de Saint-Éxupery, the great French author and pioneering aviator of the 20th century.  Saint-Éxupery is best known throughout the world for his work “The Little Prince;” however, it is his book “Wind, Sand, and Stars” that most directly influenced my composition.  In that autobiographical novel, Saint-Éxupery captures many profound, poetic, and terrifying experiences of flying his airplane in various parts of the world and weather conditions.  My composition seeks to capture the beauty, danger, and poetry of the experiences described by Saint-Éxupery: being caught in a cyclone off the coast of South America, miraculously surviving a crash in the Sahara desert, flying solo at night under the stars, soaring over mountains and the sea.  In this piece, I hope to pay homage to a beautiful human being and a fellow wanderer. 

Approx. Duration: 11 min.

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