Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM includes:
Cello Duet in C Major ... Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879)
Kohner Smith & Paul Christopher, cellists
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Hollywood Heroes and Heroines
Riverfront Amphitheater
April 20, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Alexandria, Louisiana
POPS PROGRAM
Ben Hur Prelude ... M. Rosza
Themes from 007 ... arr. Custer
Gonna Fly Now ... B. Conti, arr. Holcombe
Theme from Schindler's List ... J. Williams
Dr. Lin He, violinist
Raider's March ... J. Williams
Colonel Bogey March .. K. Alford
Magnificent Seven ... E. Bernstein, arr. Phillippe
How Far I'll Go ... L. Miranda
As Time Goes By ... H. Hupfeld, arr. Lewis
Let It Go ... R. Lopez
Over the Rainbow ... H. Arlen, arr. M. Renzi
Happy ...P. Williams, arr. Bachalis
Claire Marie Miller, vocalist
Star Wars - Throne Room ... J. Williams, arr. Holcombe
56th Annual Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival
Fourth Wall Concert
First United Methodist Church
2727 Jackson Street
Alexandria, Louisiana
April 13, 2024, at 7:30 pm
PROGRAM
Four Motivations ... Robert Owens
I. The Cottager to her Infant (text by Dorothy Wordsworth)
II. Hope (text by Emily Dickinson)
III. A Complaint (text by William Wordsworth)
IV. Could I But Ride Indefinite (text by Emily Dickinson)
Terrance Brown, baritone
From the Hearts of Women ... William Still Grant, lyrics by Verna Arvey
Little Mother
Midtide
Coquette
Bereft
Tiffany Bostic-Brown, soprano
Chialing Hsieh, piano
Three Songs on Tests of Paul Laurence Dunbar ... H. Leslie Adams
The Meadowlark
The Valse
He/She Gave Me a Rose
Terrance Brown, baritone
Siying He, piano
Heart on a Wall ... Robert Owens, text by Langston Hughes
I. Heart
II. Remembrance
III. Girl
IV. Havanna Dream
V. For Dead Mimes
Tiffany Bostic-Brown, soprano
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Student Cello Duo Recital
Santiago Rovira and Jesus Calderon
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 5:30 pm
Varnado Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
FEATURING JS Bach
Solo Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major ... BWV 1007
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Minuet I and II
Gigue
Solo Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major ... BWV 1009
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Bourree I and II
Gigue
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Congratulations to Santiago Rovira Ortiz
Dear Santiago,
Based on your audition materials, we are pleased to be able to offer you a position at the 2024 Renova Music Festival!
The dates of the festival are Sunday evening, June 2 through Saturday night, June 15.
We will be in touch with more details in the coming weeks.
I look forward to seeing and working with you,
Joshua Zona, Music Director
A Conference for Portable Chamber Duos
2024 International Duo Symposium
April 5-6, 2024
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM included
Riding to School with Samuel Becket ... Neal Endicott
Malena McLaren, bass clarinet
Paul Christopher, cello
Assobio a Jato (The Jet Whistle) ... Heitor Villa-Lobos
Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Vivo
Stephen Clark, flute
Paul Christopher, cello
Faculty Guitar Recital
Luke Brouillette with special guests
Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM included
Douce Ambience ... Django Reinhardt
Minor Swing ... Reinhardt/Grapelli
Gypsy Jazz Trio Luke Brouillette, Patrick Bordelon, and Paul Christopher
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Aill Harris III Senior Cello Recital
PROGRAM
Duo in G major, Opus 37, No. 1 ... Sebastian Lee (1805-1887)
Allegro non troppo
assisted by Paul Christopher
Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 ... JS Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Menuette 1 and 2
Gigue
To The Victors
Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center
Alexandria, Louisiana
Saturday, March 23, 2024, at 7:30 pm
PROGRAM
An Overture to Spring ... Daniel Perttu
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, op. 64 ... Mendelssohn
Allegro molto appassionato
Kelsey Jones, violin
Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra, op.14 .... Larsson
Allegro molto moderato
Adagio
Allegro scherzando
Preston Hernandez, alto saxophone
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 ... Beethoven
Allegro con brio
Andante con moto
Scherzo: Allegro
Allegro - Presto
Monday, March 11, 2024
Shattering the Glass Ceiling Recital
Diversity Recital Series 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM included:
Knocking to Silence ... Jane K (Evgeniya Kozhevnikova) (b. 1987)
Paul Christopher, cello
White & Red from Four Personalities ... Alyssa Morris (b. 1985)
Leah Forsyth, oboe
Dr. Chialing Hsieh, piano
Sonata for B-flat Clarinet and Piano ... Amanda Harberg (b. 1973)
Gently, Playful
Dr. Malena McLaren, clarinet
Dr. Chialing Hsieh, piano
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| Drs. McKee, McLaren, Hsieh & Christopher, Forsyth |
2022 Wideman Piano Competition Gold Medalist
Shreveport Symphony Special Event
Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 3:30 pm
RiverView Theatre
Shreveport, Louisiana
PROGRAM
Prelude in B Minor ... Bach (1685-1750), trans. A. Siloti (1863-1945)
Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 10 ... Beethoven (1770-1827)
Vivace ma non troppo - Adagio expressivo
Prestissimo
Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
La Valse, M. 72 ... Ravel (1875-1937)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 ... Brahms (1833-1897)
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| Dr. Hsieh's Piano Studio Class |
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| NSU alumni: Ramos, Andrews, Castro |
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Sunday, March 3, 2024
Recruiting in Monroe
600 Forsyeth Avenue
Natalie Johnson, Music Director & NSU Alumnae
Monroe, Louisiana
Leap Year Day Recital
Student Chamber Music Recital
Watson Memorial Library, room 201
February 29, 2024, at 5:30 pm
PROGRAM
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 ... Bach (1685-1750)
Prelude
Jesus Calderon, cello
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001 ... Bach
Adagio
Carlos Diaz Del Valle, violin
Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
Prelude
Santiago Rovira Sanabria, cello
String Trio in E-Flat major, Op. 3 ... Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro con brio
Abigail Morales, violin
Ronald Zaldana, viola
Santiago Rovira Sanabria, cello
String Quartet No. 2 in D major ... Borodin (1833-1887)
Allegretto moderato
Nocturne: Andante
Carlos Diaz Del Valle, violin I
Oscar Andres Carballo, violin II
Ronald Zaldana, vola
Jesus Calderon, cello
Lenten Worship
First United Methodist Church
400 East 6th Street
Texarkana, Arkansas
February 28, 2024, at 12:15 pm
Musical Meditation
Elegle in C minor, Op. 24 ... Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2 ... Beethoven (1770-1827)
Adagio con molto sentiment d'affetto
Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 ... Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Andante
Paul Christopher, cello
Dr. Chialing Hsieh, piano
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
Faculty Oboe Recital
Leah Forsyth, Oboe
Monday, February 19, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM included:
Trio for Oboe, Violin, and Cello ... Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Adagio - Molto Allegro - Adagio
Andante - Agitato - Adagio
Vivo
Emilio Castro, violin
Paul Christopher, cello
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Guest Artist Guitar Recital
Cain Budds, Louisiana Tech University
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, at 5:30 pm
Varnado Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM
En Los Trigales ... Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Four Venezuelan Waltzes ... Antonio Lauro (1917-1986)
El Marabino
Angostura
Carora
Maria Luisa
Six Balkan Miniatures ... Dusan Bogdanoic (B. 1955)
Jutarnje Kolo (Morning Dance)
Zalopojka (Lament)
Vranjanka
Makedonsko Kolo (Macedonian Dance)
Siroko (Wide Song)
Sitni Vez (Tiny-knit Dance)
El Decameron Negro ... Leo Brouwer (b. 1939)
El Arpa de Guerrero
La huida de los Amantes por el Valle De los Ecos
Ballada de la Donecella Enamorada
Three Fantasies ... Mark Anthony Cruz (b. 1963)
Fantasy on Instrumental Motifs by Led Zeppelin
Fantasy on Instrumental Motifs by Yes
Fantasy on Instrumental Motifs by Rush
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| Christopher, Drs. Sanders, Budds, Brouillette |
Monday, February 12, 2024
Guest Artist Recital
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall
Monroe, Louisiana
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 11:00 am
PROGRAM featuring solo cello works by Christian Wolff (b.1934)
Cello Suite Variation (2000)
Tempo of Prelude
Tempo of Saraband
Tempo of Gigue
One Cellist (2013)
Small Pieces for Cellist (Anton) (2018)
Friday, February 9, 2024
Guest Artist Double Bass Recital
Yung-Chiao Wei, Double Bass
Chaio Chou, Piano
Friday, February 16, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM
Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2 ... Beethoven
Allegro con brio
Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto - Attacca
Allegro - Allegro fugato
Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99 ... Brahms
Allegro vivace
Adagio affettuoso
Allegro passionate
Allegro molto
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
New Orleans Ballet
Rapides Symphony Orchestra
Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center
Alexandria, Louisiana
Sunday, February 4, 2024, at 2:30 pm
PROGRAM
Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043 ... JS Bach
"Concerto Barocco" choreographed by George Balanchine
Dances Sacred and Profane ... Debussy
Deborah Goppelt, Harpist
"Esplanade" choreographed by Diogo de Lima
Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48 ... Tchaikovsky
Andante non troppo-Allegro
Valse. Moderato
Elegia. Larghetto elegiaco
Finale (Tema russo). Andante-Allegro con spirito
"Serenade" choreographed by George Balanchine
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| Josias Ramos, Christopher |
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Solo Cello Recital
Faculty Recital by Paul Christopher
Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 5:30 pm
Magale Recital Hall
Natchitoches, Louisiana
PROGRAM featuring solo cello works by Christian Wolff (b.1934)
One Cellist (2013)
Cello Suite Variation (2000)
Tempo of Prelude
Tempo of Saraband
Tempo of Gigue
Small Pieces for Cellist (Anton) (2018)
Program Notes by Dr. John T. Dunn, Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Christian Wolff (b. 1934) a self-taught composer of the “New
York School,” which consisted of a group of artists that drew inspiration from
surrealism and avant-garde artistic ideas. He was born in Nice, France, to the
German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who published works by Kafka
and Walter Benjamin and later helped found Pantheon Books. His family escaped
fascism in Europe in 1941 by emigrating to New York City, where they started a
business, publishing English translations of European literature. When Wolff
was 16, his piano teacher sent him to study composition with John Cage, one of
the leaders of the New York School. The two quickly became friends, and Wolff
was closely involved with Cage’s inner circle, which also included musician
Morton Feldman and dancer Merce Cunningham. He never left his literary roots,
however, and was soon hired to teach Classics at Harvard University specializing
in the works of Euripides, and later taught classics, comparative literature,
and music at Dartmouth College. He became the Strauss Professor of Music there,
and finally retired from teaching in 1999. He remains active with his
compositional output in retirement.
Wolff’s early works have a strong emphasis on exploring silence, indeterminacy, and often explored creative, new ways of including improvisation. He would often create new notation to explore his soundscapes his music would often be based on complicated rhythmic schema, systems of aural cues, or contain political texts based on the policies of the Industrial Workers of the World (or Wobblies). In Wolff’s collaborations with choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham, the two created something innovative at the time (but more common now): performances where dance and music would happen simultaneously yet would be artistically two separate statements. Wolff’s music has reached a wider range of audiences than most other avant-garde composer thanks to his collaboration with the rock band Sonic Youth and their album, Goodbye, 20th Century.
Wolff composed Cello Suite
Variation at the urging of the Slovakian composer Daniel Matej after a
discussion of performance practice. Here, Wolff shows that a museum piece of
the canon, such as Bach’s First Cello Suite, can be transformed into new music.
When Cello Suite Variation borrows melodic material from Bach, it is as
a structural element not an aural quotation that is readily identifiable (as is
heard in the music of Charles Ives, for example). By marking each movement
“Tempo of,” he establishes that liberties with other aspects of music such as
pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and technique occur, but the tempo of each of these
Baroque dances should be maintained.
One Cellist (2013) was
composed for Charles Curtis, Professor of
Contemporary Music Performance at the University of California at San Diego.
The piece is built on small musical units, divided by indeterminate amounts of
space, that the performer then connects. Some ideas repeat in various guises,
but it is up to the performer to create unity, or disunity, through their
pacing. As in most of Wolff’s scores, microtones are used to provide an unusual
coloration, and dynamics are left up to the performer.
Small Pieces for Cellist (2018) uses a different technique in each
movement to extend the performer’s control over various dimensions of music. As
Wolff notes, “There are five pieces. In the first, second and fifth there are
phrase sequences with free pauses between them. There are also notations for
just dynamics (sounds free), and for just rhythms (free sounds). The third and
fourth pieces are on grids of 6X6 and 8X8 bars, allowing continuities to be
chosen in variously free ways.” The “Cellist” in the title is the dedicatee,
cellist Anton Lukoszeviere, who gave the world premiere of this piece at St.
James church in London in 2018.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Brahms and the Bandoneon
Saturday, January 27, 2024, at 7:30 pm
RiverView Theater
Shreveport, Louisiana
PROGRAM
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) ... Debussy
La Tierra Sin Mal ... Richard Scofano
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 ... Brahms
I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro
II. Andante sostenuto
III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso
IV. Adagio; Piu andante; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
Saturday, January 20, 2024
The Temptations
Perot Theater
January 19, 2024, at 8:00 pm
Texarkana, Texas
PROGRAM
Temptations Overature
Papa was a Rolling Stone
Get Ready
Medley:
The Way You Do the Things You Do
Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Ball of Confusion
Wish It Would Rain
Just My Imagination
Can't Get Next to You
Love Medley:
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me
Please Return Your Love to Me
Since I Lost My Baby
Is it Gonna be Yes or No?
Stay
Treat Her Like a Lady
My Girl
Losing You
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| Rodriguez, Castro |
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| Chris Cox, alumnus |
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| Coreil, Christopher, Martinez |
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| Zaldana, Paz, Forsyth |
Monday, January 15, 2024
2024 Marjorie Stricklin Emerging Artists Competition
Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Saturday, January 13, 2024, at 7:00 pm
Finalists in Concert
PROGRAM
Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 .... Tchaikovsky
III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Sophi Vu, violin
Richard Seiler, piano
Concerto in D Minor, K. 466 ... Mozart
I. Allegro
Victor Tan, piano
Sung-Eun Ryu, piano
"Steal Me Sweet Thief" ... Menotti
from The Old Maid and the Thief
"Prendi per me sei libero" ... Donizetti
from L'Elisir d'amore
Jessica Aime, soprano
Richard Seiler, piano
Double Bass Concerto No. 2 ... Bottesini
I. Allegro
Po-Yu Fang, double bass
Yung-Chiao Wei, piano
Concerto for Saxophone and String Orchestra ... Lars-Erik Larsson
I. Allegro molto moderato
Preston Hernandez, alto saxophone
Richard Seiler, piano
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| Marjorie Sticklin, sponsor |
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| Judges: Christopher, Davis, Dillingham, Thacher |
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| Winner: Po-Yu Fang, double bassist, LSU |
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