02.03.2020 FAC Reighley

FACULTY RECITAL Kimberly Reighley, flute

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2020 MADELEINE WING ADLER THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 7:30 PM

In the composer’s words…

Arauco – Vistas Vistas is a suite of four pieces inspired chiefly by artworks that I have loved and admired for a number of years; the movement titles identify these varied creations. Only the third movement, “Bagatelle,” stands outside a visual frame of reference.

Kawase Hasui’s woodblock print, Snow at Shiba Park, housed in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is a beautifully poised composition in which motion is balanced by stillness. The movement of the falling snowflakes, for instance, also exhibits a static quality with each flake affixed perfectly in position. I was intrigued by the combination of energy and tranquility in Hasui’s work, and tried to capture something of this special state in my first movement.

Claude Monet’s Landscape: The Parc Monceau, found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicts a totally idyllic, springtime setting. I thought of how one might enjoy walking through it, or simply taking in the view from a window of the hôtel seen to the left of the picture.

Josef Albers’s Park, held by the Josef Albers Foundation, is a “glass picture” in which small colored squares of glass separated by thin metal strips are mounted into a wooden frame. Albers’s work, completed at the Bauhaus around 1924, is markedly more abstract in character than his previous pictures, yet it retains a singular warmth and humanity. The predominant green and blue hues are broken by one small pink area, the “heart” of the picture. In my music, I try to reflect the warmth which radiates from that heart while working with abstract tonal materials.

That the three artworks should all depict parks was entirely coincidental; however, these “vistas” are glimpses at totally different artistic worlds. Together with the Bagatelle, my musical representations offer a stylistic mixture which aims to achieve its own internal balance.

Vistas was commissioned through the Anthony P. Checchia Composers Project of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and was first performed by Jeffrey Khaner, flute, and Charles Abramovic, piano.

Amaya – Pre-sent Pre-sent was commissioned by Gerald and Tanya Carey of The Carey Consort, which is a tribute to their courtship and journey of their musical life together.

Brown - Trillium Trillium, for solo flute, was commissioned by the National Flute Association for the High School Competition for the year 2000, and has subsequently been performed nationwide. The trillium is a beautiful early spring woodland wildflower with leaves and white petals in threes. The flute language of Trillium is heavily influenced by the Japanese shakuhachi music and birdsong. There are a number of unusual timbres and trills, many involving microtones.

Hoover – Medieval Suite Medieval Suite was inspired by characters and events described in Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror, a history of fourteenth-century France. It was a violent, bitter century of extensive wars, and Ms. Tuchman sees it as something of a reflection of our own. The first movement, Virelai, uses parts of a work in that form by Guillaume de Machaut, a French composer of that era. The Black Knight, was a valiant, violent British prince, barred from his beloved fighting by a wasting disease. The fourteenth century was a low point for the Catholic Church with warring Popes in Rome and Avignon, and Avignon, and The Drunken Friar, was apparently a common sight. In this movement I have freely adapted and embroidered a Gregorian chant and quoted a well-known round of the time Summer is acumin in. Princess Isabelle describes a daughter of the King of France who was engaged at the age of six, sent to England to live permanently, and wed at twelve – a common fate for royal children. The Demon’s Dance was a desperate marathon dance done by some in hpes of avoiding the Black Plague.

PROGRAM VISTAS ...................................................................................................................... Ingrid Arauco (b. 1957) I. Snow at Shiba Park (Kawase Hasui, 1931) II. Landscape: The Parc Monceau (Claude Monet, 1876) III. Bagatelle IV. Park (Josef Albers, ca. 1924)

Kimberly Reighley, flute Lotus Cheng, piano

PRES-ENT FOR FLUTE AND CELLO ...................................................................... Efraín Amaya (b. 1959) I. Enamored II. Disquiet III. Pas de Deux

Kimberly Reighley, flute Douglas McNames, cello

TRILLIUM ............................................................................................................ Elizabeth Brown (b. 1953)

Kimberly Reighley, flute

MEDIEVAL SUITE ............................................................................................Katherine Hoover (1937-2018) I. Virelai II. The Black Knight III. On the Betrothal of Princess Isabelle of France, Six Years IV. Demon’s Dance

Kimberly Reighley, flute Lotus Cheng, piano

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