(2013)
Inst:
Solo Flute
Duration:
9.00' minutes
Commission:
Dr. Mário Garcia
Premiere:
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, Emmanuel Church, Boston on May 9, 2013
Cartas do Oriente (Letters from the East) is inspired by the writings of Portuguese traveler Wenceslau de Morais (1854-1929). Moraes was fascinated by the East, his writings portraying the aura of of late 19th-Century Japan.