Senior Recitals Recitals

2-13-2011

Senior Recital Senior Recital

Kristen Mosca University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Albina Asryan University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Eric Foote University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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I

UNLV I College of

FINE ARTS

Department of Music College of Fine Arts

presents a

Senior Recital

Kristen Mosca, flute Albina Asryan, piano Eric Foote, bassoon

PROGRAM

Jean-Marie Leclair l'aine (1697- 1764)

Robert Maggio (b. 1964)

Andre Jolivet (1905- 1974)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)

INTERMISSION

Sonata in E Minor, Op. 4, No. 2 I. Dolce, Andante II. Allemanda, Allegro ma non troppo ill. Sarabanda, Adagio IV. Minuetto, Allegro non troppo

Elysian Fields for solo flute

Chant de Linos

Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 94 I. Moderato II. Scherzo III. Andante IV. Allegro con brio

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance.

Kristen Mosca is a student of Jennifer Grim.

Sunday, February 13, 2011 7:30p.m. Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Recital Hall Lee and Thomas Beam Music Center

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

PROGRAM NOTES

Sonata in E Minor, Op. 4, No.2- Jean-Marie Leclair l'aine Leclair, born May 10 1697, was both a ballet master and concert violinist. Before he was found murdered in October of 1764, he wrote 15 groups of works, including trio sonatas, concertos, and 48 violin sonatas. He sometimes suggested the flute to be an occasional alternative for the solo violin part, but he wrote eight sonatas with flute as an explicit alternative. The second sonata in the fourth group was this Sonata in E Minor.

Elysian Fields for Solo Flute - Robert Maggio Elysian Fields was commissioned by the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Fund and composed in the beginning of 1994. It was premiered at the Boston Conservatory of Music on April17, 1994. "Elysian Fields is a fantasy on themes from Gluck's "Dance of the Blessed Spirits"- one of the "greatest hits" in the flute repertoire, and a favorite of Mr. Pappoutsakis- from the opera Orfeo ed Euridice. The narrative flow of the music is drawn from the reunion of Orpheus and his beloved Eurydice in the fields of Elysium, the mythological dwelling place of virtuous people after death. Today the word "Elysium" describes a place or condition of ideal bliss or complete happiness - in short, paradise." - Robert Maggio This piece is written in three parts: PART ONE: .. . the lyre gave forth some mournful notes, in which the flute imitates the sounds of a lyre while in the story, Orpheus mourns the loss of his beloved Eurydice. PART TWO: ... The poet's shade fled beneath the earth

Part two is labeled "mercurial, schizophrenic," as it alternates between fast runs and calm quarter notes, where it states " ... and recognized all the places he had seen before ... " PART THREE: ... and, seeking through the blessed fields, found Eurydice

Orpheus is searching for his love in the underworld by calling out to her. She hears him softly, and calls back. They gradually get closer to each other, " ... and caught her in his eager arms ... " The rest is marked "ecstatic, rapturous" through the end of the piece and consists of a continuous sequence and runs. " ... The poet's shade fled beneath the earth, and recognized all the places he had seen before; and, seeking through the blessed fields, found Eurydice and caught her in his eager arms. Here now side by side the walk; now Orpheus follows her as she precedes, now goes before her, now may in safety look back upon his Eurydice."- from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book XI, translated by Frank Justus Miller, 1916

Chant de Linos - Andre Jolivet Chant de Linos was written at the request of Claude Delvincourt, head ofthe Paris Conservatory, in 1944. Jolivet was asked to write a piece for the term-ending exams for the current performance students. The only requirement in writing this piece for them was that it be "difficult." Being that it was written at the end of World War II, Jolivet stated that this piece "was in ancient Greece a variety of threnody: a funeral lamentation, a grieving interrupted by cries and dances."

Sonata for Flute and Piano, op. 94 - Sergei Prokofiev This sonata was premiered on December 7, 1943 during World War II in Moscow. Unlike the usual borrowing of music from the violin repertoire to the flute repertoire, this sonata was written originally for flute and piano, but was later transcribed for violin and piano at the request of David Oistrakh, as opus 94a. In order for western musicians to enjoy this piece, it had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union and was finally premiered in Boston in 1944. Written in four movements, this piece is now a standard work in the flute repertoire.