CD Release

July 15, 2022 Being Golden (Wofltone Media) WM22061

Suzanne Shulman, flute | Erica Goodman, harp

The album title ‘Being Golden’ is the name of the second movement of the suite ‘The Rings’, composed for Suzanne and Erica by Eric Robertson. It was originally conceived to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of Suzanne and her husband Peter. Gary Michael Dault’s poems which inspired each of the eight movements are meditations on the symbolic rings of relationships over time. The entire recording also showcases the fifty years of Suzanne and Erica’s musical collaboration.

The opening selections ‘Swing No. 1’ and ‘Cinque piccoli duetti’ are by French composers Jacques Bondon and Jean Françaix, reflecting the energy, wit and subtlety of the music of the mid-1970’s.

Debussy’s ‘La plus que lente’ leads us back into the more romantic territory of Robertson’s ‘The Rings.’

Concluding the recording are four contrasting works by Maurice Ravel, ‘Pièce en forme de Habanera’, the beloved ‘Pavane pour une infante défunte’, and his ‘Deux melodies hébraïques’: ‘Kaddisch’ and ‘L’enigme éternelle.’

Available on Bandcamp: shulmangoodman.bandcamp.com