What do a baby and a new musical work have in common? can tell you.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a really unique experience to collaborate with a composer on a new work. It鈥檚 a little like creating a child, having a baby. You start where there鈥檚 nothing, and then together, through collaboration, talking with one another, getting ideas, trading sketches 鈥� suddenly there鈥檚 a new art work,鈥� Goodman said in a recent interview. 鈥淎nd then it becomes so much more than just the composer or just me as the interpreter. It goes out to the audience, it鈥檚 heard by others, and then everyone gets their own unique experience for it.鈥�
Principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony and solo flutist of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Goodman, who lives in Pickerington, is a staunch proponent of new music and actively commissions new works. To date, Goodman has commissioned more than three dozen new works for flute, alone and in surprising combinations with other instruments.
Goodman鈥檚 debut solo recording, reach through the sky (New Dynamic Records, 2016), contains performances of works commissioned since 2010 and composed by six contemporary composers writing in a wide range of styles. If you think new music is all about bloop-bleeps and fingernails-down-the-chalkboard, Goodman鈥檚 debut recordi