Alex Shapiro, composer: Re:pair

Re:pair
and
Re:pair for Two Baroque Flutes

(Duet for Baroque or Modern Flutes).
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2000)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
Commissioned in 2000 by flutists Tom Moore
and Laura Ronai.
One movement work. 13 pages, 8.5" x 11".

Audio excerpts of the premiere, in January 2001
at Princeton University, NJ.,
by Tom Moore and Laura Ronai.

Also available as:

Re:pair
for Flute and Bassoon
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2002)
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Commissioned in 2001 by the L.A. Alumni Chapter
of Mu Phi Epsilon.

Premiered in March 2002 in Los Angeles, CA.,
by Patti Cloud, flute and Carolyn Beck, bassoon.

Audio clip performed by Patti Cloud, flute and
Carolyn Beck, bassoon.

Re:pair
for Flute and Oboe
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2002)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Premiered in June 2002 in Ontario, Canada,
by Penelope Clarke, flute and Colleen Gibson, oboe.

Audio clip performed by Pamela Vliek Martchev, flute
and Rong-Huey Liu, oboe.

Re:pair
for Flute and English horn
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2014)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Re:pair
for Oboe and English horn
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2013)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Premiered in March 2014 in Hartford, Connecticut,
by Ling-Fei Kang, oboe
and Charles Huang, English horn.

Audio clip performed by Mateo Mendez,English horn
and Kesem Shaier, oboe.

Re:pair
for Oboe and Clarinet in Bb
Total duration ca. 6 minutes (2016)
One movement work. 9 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Premiered March 2017 in Fullerton, California,
by Rong-Huey Liu, oboe and Eli Eban, clarinet.

Re:pair
for Oboe and Bassoon
Total duration ca. 6 minutes (2022)
One movement work. 9 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Premiering July 2022 at the IDRS convention in Boulder, CO,
by Stephanie Patterson, bassoon and Susan Tomkiewicz, oboe.

Re:pair
for Two Bassoons
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2001)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Re:pair
for Clarinet and Bassoon
Total duration ca. 7 minutes (2008)
One movement work. 8 pages, 8.5" x 11".
Published by Activist Music (ASCAP).

Audio clip performed by Sue Collado, clarinet
and Pat Nelson, bassoon.

View page one of the score to Re:pair for oboe and clarinet
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Purchase any of these scores Score and parts available from Activist Music: $25.00 print; $10.00 digital.

Re:pair was originally composed for two baroque flutes, at the request of Tom Moore and Laura Ronai, two baroque flutists who enjoy the somewhat unusual mission of presenting audiences with contemporary music written for their instruments. The title is a triple entendre: fixing something that in some cases is... baroque (ouch), having to do with a duo, and then having that duo musically deconstruct and pair up again. I took a very modal approach to this piece, using harmonies and rhythms that refer to music from a few hundred years ago, while placing them in a contemporary context.

Although I wrote Re:pair specifically for baroque instruments, it sounds equally well on modern flutes, and other woodwinds as well. These additional versions employ a few higher pitched notes, for a brighter sound than what would traditionally be written for wooden flutes.

"Delightful."

— Gordon Rumson, Music & Vision Magazine, May 2001

"Musical pickings are sparse during the summer months, but rewards await the ardent serendipiter... I happened upon an eminently satisfying chamber-music concert in a UCLA lecture hall, and was glad I did. The players were five members of Mládí, the ensemble whose wintertime programs in an old apartment building near Silver Lake I have also found reason to praise... The Bruman concerts are solid, interesting and challenging. Last week’s program consisted of four new or newish works for winds.

One, a perky and thoroughly delightful duet for flute and oboe by the local composer Alex Shapiro, was brand-new, and Shapiro was on hand to deliver a few words about her piece..."

— Alan Rich, L.A. Weekly, July 2005

Enjoy listening to a definitive performance of Re:pair
at the 2011 Arizona State University International
Double Reed Society Conference,
performed by Sarah Ambrose, flute, and Lara Dahl, oboe:

Enjoy this video of flutist Ann Marie Yasinitsky
and oboist Keri E. McCarthy performing Re:pair
in February 2013, on a concert of Alex Shapiro's music
during her vist as the resident composer for
the Festival of Contemporary Art Music (FOCAM),
at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington:

Here are Eliza Shephard, flute,
and Chris Martin, bassoon,
performing Re:pair in March 2021:

And here are Beth Ross Buckley, flute,
and Andrea Overturf, English horn,
performing Re:pair in April 2018,
at Bread & Salt in Barrio Logan,
San Diego, CA.:

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