Only the dead have seen the end of war

Only the dead have seen the end of war for flute and piano.

A duet for flute and piano for the higher grade and college/conservatoire performer.  Approximate duration of 8 and a half minutes with some flutter tonguing and uses the majority of the range of the instruments.

There are 20 A4 pages to the PDF, 5 pages for flute and 13 pages for the piano, in the 2.0MB download.

Reflecting on one hundred years of conflicts, starting with the First World War, was the catalyst for this composition.  The title is from The sense of beauty being the outlines of aesthetic theory by George Santayana and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1896.  Even after everything that has happened during this period humanity seems to have learnt very little from these catastrophes and the necessity to exert power by fighting continues today.  George Santayana seems to have had a good insight into the human condition.