Katherine Hoover was a NYC-based American composer who is perhaps best known for compositions written for her own instrument, the flute. No doubt in part due to her interest in extended techniques on the flute, she found ways to express musical ideas through unconventional sounds and harmonies. Forest Bird evokes not a stylized and romanticized version of a bird such as we hear in Edvard Grieg’s Vöglein, but rather a more realist approach with attempts to express the actual sounds of a forest replete with a variety of creatures and rustling foliage.
