Bach to the Future: Student Recital by Gabrielle Garnowski

carthage music department presents

Bach to the Future Flute Student Recital featuring

Gabrielle Garnowski with guest artists Bailey Schneyr, flute Fumi Nakayama, piano

Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | Recital Hall

program Sonate II, BWV 1031 in Eb Major Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) I. Allegro Moderato Fumi Nakayama, piano Fantaisie pour Flûte et Piano Philippe Gaubert (1879-1941) Fumi Nakayama, piano Three Dances for Flute and Piano, mvt. 2

II. Moody Fumi Kakayama, piano Bailey Schneyr, flute

Gary Schocker (b. 1959)

Sonata for Flute and Piano, mvt. 4 Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)

IV. Allegro con moto Fumi Nakayama, piano

program notes Bach Sonata Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and mainly wrote music during the Baroque era (1600-1750). J.S. Bach’s Eb Major Flute Sonata is one of the six sonatas he composed for transverse flute and basso continuo. There are three movements in this Sonata (Allegro Moderato, Siciliano, Allegro).

The sonata displays several characteristics of music of the Baroque Period for example, including long melodic lines with some ornamentation. It is said that Bach’s son Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach copied one of the two surviving manuscript copies which sparked the debate about who really composed this Sonata based on such little information that we have.

Fantasie for Flute and Piano Gabriel Fauré’s Fantasie for Flute and Piano was dedicated and commissioned to Paul Taffanel for the “Concours de flute” (flute competition) that took place in the Conservatoire de Paris in 1898. Fauré was hired by Taffanel to write a piece that met the Conservatories requirements which was a maximum 6 minute piece for the students there. Taffanel gave Fauré free range on the form of the composition that he would write, but it needed to contain elements like expression, tone quality, virtuosity, and phrasing that had a piano accompaniment. He created a 4 and a half minute class piece in 2

program notes movements. Before Fauré left to go to London, he told Taffanel that he could edit any sections of the piece if he would like. The original manuscript has been lost, so we do not know what Taffanel had edited on the piece, but there was a letter later written by Gabriel suggesting that Taffanel edited the piece: “Forgive me for not having thanked you immediately: I have been constantly busy here. Your revision is perfect and I beg you to make as many changes you want, and not to worry at all. I will be extremely grateful”. At the time, that was portrayed as what standards students should be able to meet while learning and playing the flute.

Three Dances for Flute and Piano Gary Schocker is a Pennsylvania based musician and composer who started playing the flute at the age of 10. When he was 15 he was a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Later in life he attended the Juilliard School and won competitions such as the East and West International Concert Artists Competition, New York Flute Club’s Young Artist Competition, National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, and many more. As a gifted composer, he has written music for almost every instrument and has been recognized by the International Clarinet Association and National Flute Association. Most of his flute compositions have been considered a standard for flute repertoire, competitions, and study. Shocker wrote Three Dances for Two Flutes and Piano in 1993 with a Latin dance feel.

The themes are based on Beethoven’s Leonore Overture, and Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel and Salome. The second movement Moody is a beautiful yet erratic piece that will take the audience through a ride of emotions.

Muczynski Sonata Robert Muczynski was born and raised in Chicago and has published over 50 compositions that have been premiered and played worldwide. Muczynski started composing Sonata for Flute and Piano, Opus 14 while living in Oakland, California in 1960. He wrote the first 2 movements in Oakland, and wrote the third and fourth in Chicago after he moved there in 1961.

The Sonata was later premiered that year at the Academy of Music in Nice, France and was awarded the Concours International Prize. The fourth and last movement (Allegro con Moto) has a restless urgency with a motive that is gradually expanded, varied and developed as the movement progresses.

The piece then arrives in a reckless cadenza with the flute and an outburst from the piano with both instruments ending in staggering rhythms sure to capture the attention of the audience.

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