Abigail Miller
Ria Patel, soprano
Audrey Ewing, Joseph Schwarz, Edmund Bascon, clarinets
Patricia Grimm, collaborative piano
Saturday, April 19, 2025 12 pm
Recital Hall
Two Nursery Rhymes (1921)
The Ragwort
The Dandelion
Ria Patel, soprano
Patricia Grimm, collaborative piano
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
Grazioso
Andantino
Zarabandeo (2016)
Première rhapsodie (1910)
Patricia Grimm, piano
Divertimento for Clarinet Quartet (1942)
Andante sostenuto
Allegro con brio
Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
Arturo Márquez (b. 1950)
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Alfred Uhl (1909–1992)
Audrey Ewing, Joseph Schwarz, Edmund Bascon, clarinets
Patricia Grimm, collaborative piano
This recital is presented as a degree requirement for a Bachelor of Music in music performance.
Abigail Miller is a clarinetist whose dynamic and thoughtful interpretations reflect her dedication to creating both art and entertainment through her performances. At University of the Pacific, Miller studies clarinet under Professor Patricia Shands.
Miller is a member of Pacific Orchestras and Pacific Wind Bands, as well as Pacific Clarinet Quartet. She also serves on the executive boards of Mu Phi Epsilon and Pacific Repertoire Orchestra. After graduating, Miller plans to work as a regional arts administrator and pursue a career as a private clarinet instructor.
TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS
Bliss: The Ragwort
The thistles on the sandy flats
Are courtiers with crimson hats; The ragworts, growing up so straight, Are emperors who stand in state, And march and march about, so proud and bold, In crowns of fairy story gold. The people passing home at night Rejoice to see the shining light; They quite forget the sands and sea Which are as gray as gray can be, Nor ever heed the gulls who cry. Like peevish children in the sky.
—Frances Cornford
Bliss: The Dandelion
The dandelion is brave and gay, brave and gay,
And loves to sit beside the way, to sit beside the way;
A braver thing was never seen, never seen,
To praise the grass for growing green, growing green;
You never saw a gayer thing,
To sit and smile and praise the Spring.
The children with their simple hearts, simple hearts,
Simple hearts, the lazy men that come in carts, lazy,
The little dogs that lollop by, lollop by, They all have seen its shining eye, shining eye;
And every one of them would say; They never saw a thing so gay.
—Frances Cornford
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