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Program - Including MP3 Audio Excerpts
Bad Pets ~ Paul Salerni
 1. Golden Retrievals [3:22]
2. The Cow in Apple Time [3:46]
3. Alley Cat Love Song [3:16]
(with Jan Opalach, bass-baritone)
Regrets, Tears, and Blarney ~ Glenn Caluda
4. House Carpenter [1:51]
5. Geordie [4:15]
6. The Leprechaun [2:05]
7. Michael’s Goodnight ~ John Arnold [4:56]
(Homage to Michael Hedges)
Speaking of Love ~ Paul Salerni
8. Speaking of Love [3:16]
9. Orchestra [3:15]
10. The Song [2:16]
(with Patricia Koch Budlong, soprano)
11. How Sensible ~ Manley Mallard [3:34]
12. Tango Triste ~ John Arnold [6:21]
Two Partita ~ Paul Salerni
13. Bossa [2:11]
14. Corrente [2:04]
15. Sarabande [1:44]
16. Jazz Dance I [1:43]
17. Siciliano [2:27]
18. Jazz Dance II [2:24]
Recorded, mixed, and pre-mastered at Red Rock Recording, Saylorsburg, PA
Cover Photo: WilderImages, Southbury, CT
Dog Photo: Linda Johnson/Hinda Schuman
Design & Mastering: Clear Note
The repertoire for a flute and guitar duo is wonderfully extensive, ranging from arrangements of Elizabethan lute music to Bach, from Italian serenades to modern tangos, and much more. Happily, it also includes new works – music written in the 21st century by talented contemporary composers. This CD represents a collection of works written for Two Part Invention by a group of these talented individuals, all of whom we are also honored to call our friends. Our sincere thanks and appreciation go to composers Glenn Caluda, Manley Mallard, and Paul Salerni, as well as to guest vocalists Patricia Koch Budlong, soprano, and Jan Opalach, bass-baritone.
JOHN S. ARNOLD, guitarist, is presently the guitar instructor at Moravian College, and prior to this position taught guitar at Vermont’s Bennington College. In addition to numerous solo performances, he is an active chamber musician, performing with the Pennsylvania Sinfonia and Allentown Symphony Orchestras, SATORI, the Gabriel Chamber Ensemble, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Two Part Invention. He is also the founder and director of the annual Bethlehem Guitar Festival. Mr. Arnold holds an Artist Diploma degree from the Hartt School, University of Hartford, where he studied with Richard Provost; and Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Guitar Performance and Guitar Pedagogy from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University, where his major teacher was Glenn Caluda. Mr. Arnold has published arrangements for guitar with Clear Note Publications and Guitar Chamber Music Press.
NORA SUGGS, flutist, is a graduate of Houston’s Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine, with extensive private education in music and degrees in biology, English literature, medicine, and surgery. She has played in England, Canada, Japan, and throughout the United States. Dr. Suggs is a founding member of the Lehigh Valley’s classical chamber music ensemble SATORI, and a regular performer of both traditional and contemporary chamber works. In addition to numerous solo and ensemble performances, she is active as a teacher, recitalist, and free-lance musician. Dr. Suggs teaches at Bethlehem’s Moravian College Music Institute; coaches flute ensembles and chamber music at the Community Music School of the Lehigh Valley; plays flute and pennywhistles with area Celtic bands; and studies and performs on shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese flute.
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