Valentine

My little Valentine was written in 1995 for Carol Wincenc, for whom I had composed my Flute Concerto two years earlier. It is also something of a valentine for the Byrds' Roger McGuinn, whose Kathleen's Song has been deconstructed for my own purposes in this work.

— Christopher Rouse

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