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Concert Recording 2014-02-24, Maurizio Moretti

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonata kv 281 / W.A. Mozart -- Notturno op postuma in do minore ; Notturno op. postuma in do diesis minore ; Polonaise op 26 n 1 ; Tre mazurche op 67 / F. Chopin -- Arabesque op 18 / R. Schumann -- Musica callada (book 1) ; Recitativo ; Improvvisando ; Melodie / F. Mompou -- Preludes livre I. Voiles ; Serenade interrompue / C. Debussy -- Les Annees de pelerinage: Suisse. Vallee d'Obermann / F. Liszt -- Allegro barbaro / B. Bartok

Concert Recording 2014-03-13, University Of Arkansas Fayetteville. Schola Cantorum, S. Michael Shuman

Concert Recordings & Programs

Star spangled banner / Key ; Smith ; [arr.] Caldwell -- La Borinquena / Juncos ; Ramirez ; [arr.] Caldwell -- Ave verum corpus / William Byrd -- Ave Maria / Plainchant -- Ave Maria / Stephen Caldwell -- Christus factus est / Anton Bruckner -- Geistliches Lied, op 30 / J. Brahms -- Dos Espanoles coral himnos. Ayl Santa Maria / Anon. -- Dos Espanoles coral himnos. Alabado sea el Santisimo / J.B. Comes -- Malograda fuentecilla / [arr.] J.T. Wilkes -- Mata del Anima Sola / [arr.] Antonio Estevez -- Soneto de la noche / Morten Lauridsen -- …

Concert Recording 2014-04-10a, Joel Head

Concert Recordings & Programs

Funeral music for Queen Mary. March ; Man that is born of a woman ; Canzona ; In the midst of life ; Thou knowest the Lord ; March / Henry Purcell -- Serenade in c minor / W.A. Mozart -- Divertimento / Karel Husa -- Masquerade / Joshua Reed

Concert Recording 2014-04-13, Robert Morris, Jake Pearlman, Felipe Antonio

Concert Recordings & Programs

Don't get around much anymore ; Duke Ellington -- Girl from Ipanema / Antonio Carlos Jobim -- Stompin' at the Savoy / Edgar Sampson -- Isn't she lovely / Stevie Wonder -- All the things you are / Jerome Kern -- Alone together / Arthur Schwartz -- Joy spring / Clifford Brown

Concert Recording 2014-04-25, Diego Plata, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Sonatina for flute and piano / Eldin Burton -- Fantasia no 2 in a minor / Georg Philipp Telemann -- Concerto for flute and orchestra / Jacques Ibert -- Sequenza I / Luciano Berio -- Suite paysanne hongroise / Bela Bartok

A Study Of J.S. Bach’S Sacred And Secular Vocal Works Influenced By Popular Stylized Dance Of The French Baroque Court: A Performer’S Guide, Dione J. Napier

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Among the existing body of literature on J.S. Bach’s massive compositional output, a scarce percentage of this research is dedicated specifically to the study of French Baroque court dances and their influence on Bach’s solo vocal repertoire. This study presents secular and sacred solo vocal works by J.S. Bach that were influenced by popular French court dances of the eighteenth century. The study explores musical and dance traits extracted from some of the most popular French Baroque court dances and incorporated into solo vocal repertoire. The intent of this paper is to provide a resource from a performer’s perspective that …

A Performance Guide To Glenn Kotche's "Monkey Chant", Jonathan Sharp

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Solo percussionist and composer Glenn Kotche has achieved international fame with his experimental percussion-based music, collaborating with and composing for renowned contemporary music ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet, Band on a Can All-Stars, So Percussion, and Eighth Blackbird. One of his most celebrated compositions in recent years is Monkey Chant, which combines acoustic and electronic elements in a solo multiple percussion setting. Written and premiered in 2006, Kotche was inspired to compose Monkey Chant after listening to original field recordings in Bali from the Nonesuch Explorer Series. Found in these recordings is the popular Balinese music and dance …

Italian And Spanish Influence On Selected Works Of Mexican Composers: María Grever, Ignacio Fernández Esperón “Tata Nacho,” And Agustín Lara, Manuel M. Castillo

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The last decades of the 19th Century and the first decades of the 20th Century encompass a revolutionary movement worldwide. The growth and advances throughout all disciplines of study and especially the collaboration across Literature, Music, Performing Arts, Culture and Politics became stronger and more evident than ever before.

As the Mexican Revolution (1910) developed in frightening fights, the country became increasingly insecure and violent. It was the duty of the living artist to create pathways to escape reality, embellishing the surroundings with its music, paintings and poetry. This climate is what paved the way to the bohemian living-style that …

An Examination Of A Conductor’S Performance Preparation Of The Mendelssohn Violin Concerto In E Minor, Robert J. Seebacher

Theses and Dissertations--Music

The music of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-47) has earned a prominent position in the orchestral repertoire. One of his greatest works, and certainly one of the most performed, is his Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. The work enjoys much popularity with, and recognition by, soloists, orchestras, and conductors alike. Even with its fame and familiarity, it remains a work that must be carefully studied and prepared by the conductor. This document presents an examination of a conductor’s performance preparation of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. The purpose of this examination is to equip the conductor with a depth of knowledge …

Beverly, “Music Misses You”: A Biographical And Performance Guide To American Mezzo-Soprano Beverly Wolff’S Career And Her Subsequent Impact On American Opera And Art Song, Sarah C. Downs Trail

Theses and Dissertations--Music

American mezzo-soprano, Beverly Wolff has not received the credit or respect that she deserves in operatic history. Her career began in 1952 and flourished until her retirement from the stage in 1981. Her intense characterizations, innate musicianship, and intelligence made her one of the most sought-after performers from the 1950s to the 1970s. For thirty years, she worked with some of the operatic world’s finest musicians, including Leonard Bernstein, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Ned Rorem, Beverly Sills, Norman Triegle, Placido Domingo, among others.

She was represented by Columbia Artists Management Inc (CAMI), one of New York’s oldest and most prestigious …

A Performance Guide To Gabriel Fauré’S La Chanson D’Ève, Op. 95, Sarah E. Klopfenstine-Wear

Theses and Dissertations--Music

In this study, background information, International Phonetic Alphabet pronunciations, poetic translations, and musical analyses of the ten songs that comprise Gabriel Fauré’s La Chanson d’Ève, Op. 95 are provided. Included is the relationship between his original poetry and Fauré’s resultant song cycle. Additionally, a portion is dedicated to an overview of the registers of the mezzo-soprano voice, and it specifically addresses who is best suited to perform La Chanson d’Ève. This document looks at the vocal challenges presented for the mezzo-soprano voice within each song, particularly the subject of vowel modification as it relates to the IPA pronunciation …

Explorations In Double-Stops: Three New Pieces For Expanding The Role Of The Double Bass In The Jazz Ensemble, Ashley De Neef

Theses : Honours

This dissertation investigates the potential for using double-stops - the sounding of two or more simultaneous notes - as a means for extending the traditional role of the double bass, within compositions for a small jazz ensemble. It is the contention of this dissertation that it is possible to use double-stops to perform a more advanced function within the jazz ensemble, without compromising the double bass’ primary harmonic and rhythmic duties.

A historical overview of the history of the double bass within western classical and jazz music will be provided, as to outline and define what the double bass’ role …

Claude Debussy: Harmonic Innovations In Historical And Musical Context, Ford Joseph Forqurean

Theses and Dissertations

Claude Debussy's music developed as a product of his environment and culminated in the creation of a unique harmonic vernacular that permeates the twentieth century's tonal language. Through a historical and musical context, his early life through his formative years as a composer will be examined as a natural progression of his environment. The first section of this work will discuss these developments while the second part will analyze the structure and form of the Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano to illustrate the culmination of this trajectory.

Late Romanticism pushed tonality to its breaking point. Composers were forced to …

Eighteenth Century Techniques Of Classical Improvisation On The Violin: Pedagogy, Practice And Decline, Flavia Claudia Todea

Theses : Honours

The art of improvisation flourished in both instrumental and vocal music during the late seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth centuries. The violin techniques of improvisation taught in the eighteenth century (such as ornamentation of melody, decoration of fermatas, extemporization of cadenzas and creation of preludes) formed an integral part of instrumental pedagogy and performance practice at the time, which then declined significantly from the early nineteenth century onwards. It seems that this practice of improvisation has been neglected and its principles almost forgotten in the world of classical Western music today. This paper makes an argument for the re-introduction of …

Concert Recording 2014-11-05, Yulia Orlova, Daniel Salls, Christopher Senty, Taylor Wilson, Kailey Miller Erwin, Morgan Aldridge, Savannah Bequeaith, David Malis, Judd Burns, Lisa Kulczak, Leanne Scaggs, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Theater

Concert Recordings & Programs

La mia Dorabella capace non e from Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- En vain pour eviter from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- In un coupe...O Mimi, tu piu non torni from La boheme / Giacomo Puccini -- Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar from Le nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Son rinato...Prender moglie? from Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti -- Barcarolle from The tales of Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach -- Au fond du tmeple saint from The pearlfishers / Georges Bizet …

Concert Recording 2014-11-07, Yulia Orlova, Daniel Salls, Christopher Senty, Taylor Wilson, Kailey Miller Erwin, Morgan Aldridge, Savannah Bequeaith, David Malis, Judd Burns, Lisa Kulczak, Leanne Scaggs, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Opera Theater

Concert Recordings & Programs

La mia Dorabella capace non e from Cosi fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- En vain pour eviter from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante from Carmen / Georges Bizet -- In un coupe...O Mimi, tu piu non torni from La boheme / Giacomo Puccini -- Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardarfrom Le nozze di figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Son rinato...Prender moglie? from Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti -- Barcarolle from The tales of Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach -- Au fond du temple saint from The pearlfishers / Georges Bizet -- …

Concert Recording 2014-12-10, Casey Cope, Rob Edwards, Caleb Evans, Ryan Ashworth, A. J. Carson, Austin Farnam, Hillary Fromme, David Grayling, Laura Hart, Jessica Johnson, Ron Juzeler, Alfredo Maruri, Vordie Mathis, Cari Moll, Sara Remoy, Jason Reznicek, Grant Sims, Robert Wiser, Rosabelle Zhou, Taylor Wilson, Yulia Orlova, Brittany Schroader, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Nathan Olson, Mark Haney, Aaron Bloodworth, Olga Greenhut, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Trashy elves / Ed. Argenziano ; arr. Janet Knighten -- Mein! from Die Schone Mullerin, D.795, no.11 / Franz Schubert -- Le charme / Ernest Chausson -- Johanna from Sweeney Todd / Stephen Sondheim -- Non posso disperar / Giovanni Bononcini -- Concertino in B flat major, opus 12 for bassoon and piano / Ferdinand David -- Chant lointain / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2014-12-10, Casey Cope, Rob Edwards, Caleb Evans, Ryan Ashworth, A. J. Carson, Austin Farnam, Hillary Fromme, David Grayling, Laura Hart, Jessica Johnson, Ron Juzeler, Alfredo Maruri, Vordie Mathis, Cari Moll, Sara Remoy, Jason Reznicek, Grant Sims, Robert Wiser, Rosabelle Zhou, Taylor Wilson, Yulia Orlova, Brittany Schroader, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Nathan Olson, Mark Haney, Aaron Bloodworth, Olga Greenhut, Tomoko Kashiwagi

Concert Recordings & Programs

Trashy elves / Ed. Argenziano ; arr. Janet Knighten -- Mein! from Die Schone Mullerin, D.795, no.11 / Franz Schubert -- Le charme / Ernest Chausson -- Johanna from Sweeney Todd / Stephen Sondheim -- Non posso disperar / Giovanni Bononcini -- Concertino in B flat major, opus 12 for bassoon and piano / Ferdinand David -- Chant lointain / Eugene Bozza

Concert Recording 2014-10-29, Andrew Baker, Tomoko Kashiwagi, Elvis Barksdale, Hannah Mindeman Shuman, Christopher Barnett, Christine Hsu, Dorian Scott, Sean Breast, Kristine Mezines, July Emery, Helena Aung

Concert Recordings & Programs

Concerto for oboe and orchestra. Aria ; Rheita dance / John Corigliano -- Concerto for oboe and strings. Rondo pastorale / R. Vaughan Williams -- Concerto in C major. First movement / W.A. Mozart -- Midnight euphonium. First movement / Goff Richards -- The swan from Carnival of animals / Camille Saint-Saenes -- Come raggio di sol / Antonio Caldera

Concert Recording 2014-10-30, Kristine Mezines, Matthew Hildebrand, Michael Moore, Stephan Mitchell, Chase Teague, Brandon Bahara, Stephen Thorn, Alex Grisos

Concert Recordings & Programs

Oliver's birthday / Bruce Broughton -- Sonata for trumpet and piano. I. Mit Kraft / Paul Hidemith -- Concerto / Alexander Arutunian -- Sonata for trumpet and piano. II. Adagio tenero ; III. Allegro / Halsey Stevens -- Prayer of Saint Gregory / alan Hovhaness -- Concertino / Ennio Porrino -- Arabesque / Joseph Turrin