drippity drippity drop: A Junior Recital by Caroline Lilly

carthage music department presents

drippity drippity drop A Junior Recital by Caroline Lilly

Saturday, May 1, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. | Recital Hall

program There is no intermission Trumpet Concerto in E flat Major

Prayer of St. Gregory Fantasie in E flat It’s Been a Long, Long Time

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Joseph Edouard Barat (1882-1963) Jule Styne (1905-1994) Sammy Cahn (1913-1993)

program notes Trumpet Concerto in E flat Major Born as an only child, Johann Nepomuk Hummel had plenty of time to study his way through hours of composing pieces and practicing piano. After years of practice and study, he began composing works for solo instruments with orchestral or piano accompaniment. During the beginning time of his retirement, he wrote the famous Trumpet Concerto in E flat Major for Viennese trumpet virtuoso Anton Weidinger who performed it on New Year’s Day of 1804. Since that first performance, Hummel’s captivating composition has become a staple in the standard trumpet repertoire. The three movement piece highlights the contrasts and ranges of dynamic, tempo, and character that are possible for the trumpet. The first movement starts with a sonata form and an energetic first subject with a slightly more playful second theme.

The brief second movement has a more lyrically attractive solo that allows the trumpet to sing. The final movement is a cheerful and vigourous rondo with considerable technical demands for the soloist, especially in the trills and flourishes following the central minor section, before the work ends in victorious triumph.

Prayer of St. Gregory Alan Hovhaness, of Armenian and Scottish descent, began composing as soon as he could read music at age 4. At the time of his death, he ended up writing more than 360 works including a plethora of orchestral pieces, concertos, oratorios, operas, chamber works, songs, and 52 symphonies, one of which being, Prayer of St. Gregory. The composer himself described the piece as a “prayer in darkness”. It then premiered in New York city during the middle of 1946 and quickly became one of his Hovhaness’s most beautiful and popular pieces. Starting in a moderate tempo, Prayer of St. Gregory begins with gentle chords in chorale-like, melodic and lyrical phrases. And in the harmonic vein, the slow trumpet melody gradually unfolds itself showing Hovhaness’s style of beautiful gentle music.

Fantasie in E flat French composer Joseph Edouard Barat studied at the prestigious Paris Conservatoire as a young adult. He went on to take a position in Lyon, France

program notes as a military bandleader, where he stayed for a number of years. Taking a bit of inspiration from his time in the military, Barat wrote Fantasie in E flat towards the end of his life, to tell a musical story of the different moods that he had once experienced while leading a military band. With the piece containing many tempo changes and lots of dynamic contrast, Barat allows those who play it a very emotive and intriguing performance. The piece contains a plethora of tempo changes and dynamic contrast that makes for a dramatic and slightly atonal sound and performance.

It’s Been a Long, Long Time Written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, It’s Been a Long, Long Time is a big-band era jazz tune that was most famously played by trumpeter, Harry James, with featured vocalist, Kitty Kallen. The song became a hit amongst married couples during the time of World War II as the lyrics show longing for spouses who have just returned from war, and even made an appearance in Marvel’s box office hit, Avengers: Endgame, where it was used in that very same idealistic way. Originally employing a jazz combo instrumentation, the modern song switches between swung and straight beat patterns that leads into a powerful and catchy climactic ending that captivates audiences.

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