Student Recital Series
2023 – 2024 Season
Sara M. Snell Music Theater Saturday, April 13th at 2:30 PM
Christopher Connors, Flute
Keilor Kastella, piano
John Natale, Guitar
Histoire du Tango (1985)
II. Café 1930
IV. Concert d’aujourd’hui
John Natale, Guitar
Sonata for Flute and Piano (1945)
I.Allegro Moderato
rapidfire (1992)
Keilor Kastella, Piano
Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890 – 1959)
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1965)
Christopher Connors is from the studio of Dr. Brian Dunbar.Program Notes:
Histoire du Tango (1985)
II. Café 1930
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
“This is another age of the tango. People stopped dancing it as they did in 1900, preferring instead simply to listen to it. It became more musical, and more romantic. This tango has undergone total transformation: the movements are slower, with new and often melancholy harmonies. Tango orchestras come to consist of two violins, two concertinas, a piano, and a bass. The tango is sometimes sung as well.”
IV. Concert d’aujourd’hui
“Certain concepts in tango music become intertwined with modern music. Bartok, Stravinsky, and other composers reminisce to the tune of tango music. This is today’s tango, and the tango of the future as well.”
program notes by Astor Piazzolla
Sonata for Flute and Piano (1945) Bohuslav Martinů (1890 - 1959)
“The First Sonata for Flute and Piano was composed in 1945, dedicated to the great French principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Georges Laurent, whose playing personified the beauty and style of the French School of flute playing. Martinů was inspired by wildlife in his immediate vicinity of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. One day Martinů became fascinated by the curious call of a bird, a whippoorwill. He imitates its striking call a half-dozen times in the course of the finale of the First Sonata, first performed at the New York Flute Club on December 18th, 1949 by flutist Luis Schaefer.”
program notes by Wei-li Kang
rapidfire(1992)
Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)
“rapidfire was written to portray the violence of the cities; more specifically, the innocent young who are cut down in their homes and on the streets. It is an expression of rage, of pain, and of disbelief; it is fear and terror; it is an inner city cry. rapidfire was commissioned by flutist Peter Brown. It is dedicated to his memory.”
program notes by Jennifer Higdon