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Luna (Alphorn and Fixed Media) now available!

Luna, for Alphorn, Natural Horn, or Valved Horn and Fixed Media, was written in 2025, commissioned and premiered by Shawn Hagen. This work could be played on F alphorn (two version of accompaniment track tuning are provided to facilitate alphorn intonation), F natural horn, or regular valved horn! Shawn writes the following:

"It speaks to impermanence and the insight that emerges from loss. It suggests that challenges and loss aren’t purely negative. Also, like the moon, a sense of stillness, beauty, and awe is always present, whether your barn is standing or ashes upon the ground."

Barn's burnt down -- now I can see the moon.

–Mizuta Masahide, a 17th -century Japanese poet and samurai

06/24/2025

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