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Fanmi Imèn
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Fanmi Imèn by Valerie Coleman Chamber Music - Sheet Music

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Fanmi Imèn Poem for Flute and Piano by Valerie Coleman Chamber Music - Sheet Music

By Valerie Coleman
Chamber Music flute, piano

SKU: PR.114419090

Poem for Flute and Piano. Composed by Valerie Coleman. This edition: saddle-wire stitch. Sws. Score and parts. With Standard notation. 16 pages. Duration 0:06:30. Theodore Presser Company #114-41909. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419090).

ISBN 9781491113578. 9 x 12 inches.

The title Fanmi Imèn is Haitian Creole for Maya Angelou’s famous work, Human Family. Both the musical and literary poems acknowledge differences within mankind due to ethnicity, background, and geography, but Angelou’s refrain: “we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike”, reaffirms our humanity as a reminder of unity. Coleman’s work draws inspiration from French flute music blended with an underlying pentatonicism found in Asian traditions, a caravan through Middle Eastern parts of the world merging with Flamenco, and an upbeat journey southward into Africa with the sounds of Kalimba (thumb piano). Fanmi Imèn was commissioned by the National Flute Association for its 2018 High School Soloist Competition.