Program for Saturday

This is my first graduate harp recital studying under Faye Seeman at NIU. Ms Seeman is an incredible harpist who has helped me delve into my deepest musical reserves.

So here is my program everyone (I will post program notes later before my recital so stay tuned):

Sonatine opus 30----Marcel Tournier (1879-1951)
allegrement
calme et espressive

Red Quintet----Gustavo Leone (b. 1956)
*Ilana Waniuk, violin
*Alex Wang, violin
*David Lee, viola
*Jason Young, cello

Four Preludes for Two Harps----Tournier
tranquillo
pas trop vite
lent
allegro
*Assisted by Joanne King, harp

Birds in Winter----Michael Mauldin (b. 1947)
presto
allegretto
with precision
dolce
in one
con moto

***I am especially excited about the Red Quintet and Birds in Winter.

FIRE
Red Quintet is an extremely passionate piece inspired by the color red. It explores all the combination of sounds in the string instruments to bring this passion to life, mixing mesmerizing segments of free floating sounds to sections of calculated metrical movement.
ICE
Birds in Winter is a hauntingly beautiful serious of movements that are pictorally programmatic. I have interpreted this piece as a progression through the winter season, starting with the first snowfalls in the beginning, to the windy, frozen ice covered dead of winter in IV, echoes off the cold canyons in V, and spring finally returning with the melting snows in VI. Throughout the piece, birdcalls (or absence of) can literally be heard in the music. With this in mind, I invite everyone to let their minds wander and draw up whatever pictures the music inspires.

The Tournier pieces are also very expressive and beautiful.

I have really enjoyed exploring the depths of my musicality working on this program. I hope you enjoy it as well!