Monday, May 13, 2024 Happy Monday! Today marks the finale of a long-awaited series on my YouTube Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital. . To end the program, I present my encore, Keith and Kristyn Getty’s “He Will Hold Me Fast”. Keith and Kristyn Getty are a Grammy-nominated hymn-writing and performing duo based out of Northern Ireland. Their goal as a Christian duo is to write and perform these beautiful hymns of the church in hopes of sharing God’s goodness and power to others. He Will Hold Me Fast is a comforting hymn with the message of encouraging God’s people to live out faith in Christ amid pain and suffering. The hymn carries the same message as Be Still My Soul, which that specific melody serves as an introduction and outro to this piece. The thin harmonic texture in the first verse symbolizes one person singing the melody at first. As the song progresses, the texture grows thicker, and the dynamics grow stronger as more people in the congregation join their voices together in praise. Finally, the melody and harmony are full by the final chorus as a strong declaration of hope guaranteed by the reality that Christ is risen and coming once again. The hymn in its entirety is a vessel to encourage one that no matter the hardship or trial, God is in control, and he will preserve us to the end. I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Monday, May 6, 2024 Happy Monday! Today marks the continuation of a long-awaited series on my YouTube Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital. . We continue the recital program with the grand opus! This is Francois Borne’s “Carmen Fantasy”. François Borne is a French composer, professor, and virtuosic flutist famous for his technical improvements to the flute. He is notably remembered for his romantic staple piece of flute repertoire, Fantasie Brillante on Themes from Bizet’s Carmen. His publication of the Carmen Fantasy was published in 1877, drawing on themes and variations from George Bizet’s famous opera, Carmen. Borne opens the Fantasy with a short piano introduction displaying the anticipating doom. The flute emerges and opens as Carmen’s Act 1 entrance with its “improvised” melody filled with material not heard in the original opera. He intends that melody to illustrate a bird which Carmen alludes to. Following the bird melody, the menacing “Fate Motive” enters and repeats throughout the opera as an omen of death. The famous Habanera theme arrives in its original form signaling the third section of the work. The flute immediately repeats the theme in two large variations. The first variation is triplet-focused with cascading arpeggiated figures filling in the empty space between the original melody’s notes. The second variation uses the same cascading effect in a duple-based variation with 8th and 16th note passages. Both variations create effective contrast in dynamics and articulations. has been rewritten by several flutists over the past 150 years with their own takes on the variations and other editorial changes. Following the Habanera, the Les Dragons d’Alcala military theme plays as a brief interlude leading into the grand last section. The finale highlights the Song of the Toréadors (the most familiar of operatic themes). As the piano plays the Toreadors Song, the flute improvises rapidly leading to the brilliant grand ends. I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Monday, April 29, 2024 Happy Monday! Today marks the continuation of a long-awaited series on my YouTube Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital. . We continue the recital program with one of my favorite piccolo solos. This is Amanda Harberg’s “Hall of Ghosts” for Solo Flute. Amanda Harberg is an American composer famous for luscious excursion in melodies in her pieces. Her composition “Hall of Ghosts” was composed in April 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic and lockdowns. The piece was written as a thank you to the large community of flutists who joined her in her virtual flute orchestra project called Prayer Project. She gained inspiration for the piece by piccolist Gudrun Hinze, who participated in the Prayer Project. Hinze recorded her contribution in the Gewandhaus Chamber Musical Hall. The hall, once filled with performing and rehearsing musicians, became an empty space filled with the old memories and echoes of before the lockdown. Harberg used that ambient aspect surrounding the lonesome piccolo to implore the spirits and ghosts to bring back the music. The unaccompanied solo is divided into three large sections. The opening section is an expressive environment creating immersion with dramatic pits and plaintive, searching piccolo phrases. Underneath the lively second section, there is conflicting dialogue between the accelerating time ticking staccato figures and the piccolo trying to make itself heard amongst the chaos. The third section returns to the expressive recapitulation from the beginning immediately followed by the reprise of the lively section. In a sense, it creates the question: Who wins the conflict: the music or the spirits? That is up to the performer.  I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Monday, April 22, 2024 Happy Monday! Today marks the continuation of a long-awaited series on my YouTube Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital. . To continue the program, I present Robert Dick’s “Fish are Jumping” for Solo Flute. Robert Dick is a highly prolific American flutist and composer known for use of jazz, extended technique, and electronics in his flute works. This piece “Fish are Jumping” is an unaccompanied jazz-styled flute piece published in 1999. Dick wrote this solo to be an up-tempo, Chicago-style 12-bar blues for the flute. In other words, he included blues chords, pitch bends, pitch slides with the keys, and wild dynamics and articulations that would please a blues fan. He intended this piece to act as a logical “sequel” to his preceding flute solo “LOOKOUT” by taking the extended techniques and adding them to the beloved American Jazz style. It ends with room for the performer to let loose in an improvised cadenza in the blues character. I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Monday, April 15, 2024 Movement 2: Flight - 0:10 Movement 3: The Journey - 3:53 Happy Monday! Today marks the continuation of a long-awaited series on my YouTube Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital. . To continue the program, I present Herman Beeftink’s “Birds” for Mixed Flute Trio, Movements 2 and 3, featuring Kiana Fatemifar on Flute and Derek Smilowski on Alto Flute. Herman Beeftink is a Dutch composer, pianist, and studio musician whose career skyrocketed in 1982 when his musical compositions were published in film and television after moving to America. His flute trio “Birds” was written originally for three Concert Flutes. However, he rearranged the piece to make it playable for the mixed flute trio containing flute, piccolo, and alto flute. The trio contains three movements all connected in telling the story of three birds going on a flight journey together. In the second movement, Flight, Beeftink utilizes arpeggios to illustrate the three birds gaining excitement for adventure. With the duet establishing harmony, it shows the birds reflecting on their past and thinking about the changes that will come their way at the new destination. When the birds start flapping their wings, the 16th note arpeggiated figures grow more frequent and intense leading into the third movement, Journey. The arpeggios continue in slurred 8th notes to create a flowing and soaring effect as the journey continues. The piccolo spikes throughout the movement in spontaneous, off-beat melodies, and exclamations to show thrill among the three birds. When the birds finish the journey, the movement concludes with the reflective theme for earlier showing the melancholy emotion that led them to take the long flight in the beginning. I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Monday, April 8, 2024 Movement 1: Grave - 0:10 Movement 2: Allegro - 2:05 Movement 3: Adagio - 4:09 Movement 4: Allegro molto - 5:48 Happy Monday! Today marks the beginning of a long-awaited series on my YouTube Channel. This is my 6-part series called "My 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital"! Over the next weeks, I will share a new installment of my most recent recital. . To start off the program, I present Platti's "Sonata No. 2 in G Major for Flute and Piano". Giovanni Benedetto Platti's Flute Sonata No. II in G Major, written in 1743, remains true to the Baroque style by bringing out the timbral and tonal qualities of both the flute and the continuo accompaniment. This work contains four movements and is performed with piano accompaniment. The first movement, Grave, is a cantabile binary movement. The melody holds a beautiful singing quality through its arpeggios and dynamics. Its use of 32nd note motifs creates the impression of ornaments in the melody for a rubato effect. The second movement, Allegro, highlights the triplet melody in a faster setting. Throughout the brisk melody, it carries staccato articulation to create a light and playful character. The third movement, Adagio, holds a simpler melody compared to the Grave movement. The simple melody creates room for the performer to be expressive in their cantabile tone. The expressive nature connects the lines in a luscious, elegant manner. The final movement, Allegro molto, displays the most energy not only through tempo but through light staccato, sharp accents, and sudden frequent dynamic contrast. The contrast is shown through several singular measure motifs being repeated often starting forte and repeating piano. All the traits together show a grandiose end to the sonata through the fast energy propelling forward. I shall link the entire video in my bio. I hope you enjoy the beginning of my recital! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Sunday, March 31, 2024 Happy Easter! He is risen! He is risen, indeed! In honor of the celebratory day of Christ rising from the dead, I present my arrangement of the beautiful hymn “Agnus Dei”. This is a simple beautiful hymn that makes a strong declaration of faith with little words: “Holy, holy, are you Lord God Almighty! Worthy is the Lamb!” I thought this is a perfect song to share on Resurrection Sunday as he is the King of all Kings who did exactly what set out to do: conquer death and save us from sin. This is also special as I’m performing this song with several friends and colleagues today. A huge thank you to (In order of appearance): -Deborah Titus, Piano -Myself, Flute 1 -Pauline Colas @pauline.flute, Flute 2 -💛💛Kailey💙❤️ @r_e_i_n_a555 -@caleyentology, Flute 4 -Antonio Jasiczek @antoni.jasiczek, Flute 5 Thank you for joining me on this special project and it was a pleasure working with you! All of you sound beautiful! I shall link the entire performance in my bio. May you enjoy this hymn and Happy Easter to you all! God bless! 💐😄🎶❤️🪈🩷🌹✝️ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com

Monday March 25, 2024 Happy Monday! Welcome to another new video on my Youtube Channel! This my "Day in my Life Vlog: 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital Edition". As you know, I had my 1st Artist Diploma Flute Recital this past Thursday and it went successfully! Now that I am post recital, I figured to take you through my experience during that day. I show everything from beginning to end with the steps I took to prepare for the event: exercise, physical care, worship, and musical preparations. You could say this my recital routine, if you will. May this video give you a few ideas yourself when preparing for a big performance yourself. Have a Happy Monday! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Alexandra Langley and my mission is to take you on a journey through my flute music. Check out my website https://www.alexandralangleyflutist.com/ Follow me on Instagram @alangleyflute Follow me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alangleyflute123/ Business Inquiries: alangleyflute@gmail.com