Concerto: Cold, Silent Snow is a not a traditional concerto. The harp and flute are woven into with the orchestra, in three concerted sound poems. As if they are snowflakes, the harp and flute's perspective is in the midst of the orchestra - falling snow itself. I am attempting to emerge the listener in the act of snowfall - beautiful, and even in the fury of a blizzard, silent. I. Rising on the wind's whim, the allegro first movement, uses mercurial musical gestures to create the impression of lighter-than-air snowflakes swept up in wind. II. Beautiful, it's silent fall, muses on the profound quiet of windless snowfall. III. One part water, three hundred parts air, presto, explores the intricate and ever- changing relationship of snow, air and gravity as the snow falls. — Libby Larsen