05/18/2024
Recital Program for the families of Christine Evelyn’s Music Studio
May 18th, 2024 @ 10:30AM
Eliana Castro Lightly Row, S. Suzuki
Daewah W. Khunaye Minuet No. 1, J. S. Bach
Sofia Factora Minuet No. 2, J. S. Bach
Jaden Corrette The Happy Farmer, R. Schumann
Henna Barrios Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus, G. F. Handel
Kaylee Chio Gavotte from Mignon, A.Thomas
Jay Pelayo Chio Minuet in G, L. Van Beethoven
Kryzlynn Camille Chio Bouree, J.S. Bach
Rebecca Corrette Concerto Am Op. 3 No. 6, Allegro, A. Vivaldi
Daniel Mukiawa Russian Fantasy No. 2, L. Portnoff
Christine Evelyn on Viola Sicilienne, Op.78
and Lauren Brown on Piano G. Fauré
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This year you have Performed for:
American String Teacher Association Certificate Advancement Program
Victor Valley College Orchestra Programs
Church Programs
Competitions
Whispering Winds, Apple Valley
Sterling Inn, Victorville
… and more…
A Special Thank you to Jenny Barrios for coordinating our post concert potluck.
Thank you to Heidi Arthurton for providing accompaniment.
Thank you to the Nazarene Church in Hesperia for hosting our Annual Recital.
Please silence all devices and hold applause until the end of each complete work.
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Program Notes:
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924) was a composer, organist, pianist and teacher, and he is widely regarded as the foremost French composer of his generation. Although Fauré greatly admired Wagner he remained relatively free of Wagner’s highly-colored influence, and instead led his own harmonic revolution; in the process he successfully bridged the styles of Saint-Saëns (his teacher) and Ravel (his student). Fauré’s compositions are distinguished by perfectly crafted melodies floating over rich and radiant backgrounds. Among his best-known works is the hauntingly beautiful choral Requiem, and his songs and chamber music have as a devoted and well-deserved following.
Fauré is widely regarded as the greatest master of the French art-song, and the heart-wrenching Après un rêve (“After a Dream”) is perhaps his greatest song. Au bord de l'eau (“On the Bank of the River,” 1875) demonstrates Fauré’s uncanny ability to marry music to words, as the flowing melody and accompaniment conjure the image of the flowing water, and the subtle shifts between major and minor echo doubts about the permanence of love while watching passing clouds and distant smoke dissolve and observing how a flower’s fragrance dissipates--but the belief in love is ultimately affirmed in the optimism of a major chord. Rencontre("Encounter") is the first of the three songs that comprise Fauré’s Poème d'un jour ("Poem of a Day"), Op. 21 (1880).
The cello and piano version of Fauré’s Sicilienne, Op.78, was completed by the composer in 1898, salvaged from the incidental music begun in 1893 for an unproduced play, and ironically it became one of its composers best-known works after being orchestrated and inserted into the incidental music for an 1898 production of a different play, Pelléas and Mélisande.
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