Thursday
December 7, 2006
7:30 p.m.
David Greer Concert Hall
Bloomingdale School of Music
323 West 108th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 663–6021
1 train (map) to 110th street and Broadway, walk
south for two blocks to 108th street, make a right towards Riverside Drive, the
school is half way between Broadway and Riverside Drive.
Nearby buses (map), M104, M4, M116, M60, M5. Other MTA
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Ancient Airs and Dances
Description:
Any art form is an expression of a culture in a given time.
Dance can be a social experience, a ritual with shared steps,
a visceral connection between body and music, it can be a repository
of nationalistic or ethnic identity. Composers of the 20th
century were often inspired by older dance forms as a conduit
to tradition and collective memory—these artists used the medium
of dance forms to explore both their ethnic heritages as well
as their musical traditions to more fully develop their own
unique voices.
Debussy explored the Baroque dance suite in his Suite
No. 2 by transforming the Sarabande, Passepied,
and Menuet through his use of harmonic color and language.
Ottorino Respighi, known for his colorful orchestral evocations
of Rome, was also a musicologist and scholar of 16th–18th
century Italian music, and used lute music of the Renaissance
as the foundation of his Ancient Airs and Dances. Jurriaan
Andriessen was a member of a prominent Dutch musical family
and was inspired by colorful Spanish musical forms of the 1500's
in his Sciarada
Spagnuola.
Folk music in many countries was a bountiful source of inspiration
for many artists, particularly in Eastern Europe. Ferenc Farkas
was a Hungarian composer, and his Regi
magyar tancok (Antique
Hungarian Dances) was inspired by his study of folk dance.
The program ends with Argentine Encores comprised
of dance and song forms still being played and developed today,
the milonga and tango.
Program:
Claude Debussy
Suite No. 2
arr. Gordon Davies
Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances
arr. Adam Lesnick
Jurriaan Andriessen
Sciarada Spagnuola
Ferenc Farkas
Regi magyar tancok
Arr. Silvia Coricelli
Four Argentine Encores
Performers:
Circadia
Kaoru
Hinata,
flute
Alexandra Knoll, oboe
Christopher
Cullen,
clarinet
Chad Yarbrough, horn
Gilbert DeJean, bassoon
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