The Ambiguity of Love
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| Dates: | Sunday, June 8, 2025 - Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
| Hours: | 3:00 PM |
| Ages: | Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
Alexandre Kosmicki (1978 - ), Nitescence crépusculaireAlexandre Kosmicki is a French composer, educator, and clarinetist.
He holds four first prizes in harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and orchestration from the National Conservatory of Music in Paris as well as the Prize of the City of Paris in musical analysis and clarinet.
Kosmicki’s composition Nitescence crépusculaire introduces us to an imaginary and fantastic world of his creation.
'Nitescence' in French is used to describe something clear and bright.
It could be the opposite to 'crépusculaire' (twilight).
This composition refers to this ambiguity and evolves around two main themes.
The first theme is exposed from the very beginning by the Flute and the Glockenspiel, and then, the English Horn joins them, finding a path towards relative serenity.
The second theme emerges from a brutal confrontation between the Timpani and the wind ensemble.
It is played by the Euphoniums and the Clarinets.
This theme highlights very different images: a fantastic ride, a bellicose scene but also full of tenderness, and hope as revealed through the Marimba.
After a tormented waltz we return to an atmosphere already heard, but whose determination will lead to the climax of this opening movement.
A Euphonium solo releases the accumulated tension and naturally leads to a slow movement.
The absolute calm of this movement contrasts sharply with the opening.
The return of the waltz releases some of this tension but very quickly other thematic elements will re-emerge and follow on, always more dynamic and rhythmic, leading to a total rupture.
By this rupture, we suddenly leave this imaginary world.
We return to the very beginning of the piece where, after an intense epilogue of the English Horn, the music flows little by little to a dream-like conclusion.
Frank Ticheli (1958 - ), Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble
Frank Ticheli is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works.
He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Composition at the University of Southern California.
He earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Education from Southern Methodist University.
He then went on to receive his master's and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Michigan.
After graduation, Ticheli taught Music at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas before moving to USC.
Our soloist, Jason Huffman is a Boston based composer and trumpet player whose works take their inspiration from the interplay of mathematics and the perception of time and sound.
He has for many years also served as the principal trumpet player of the Charles River Wind Ensemble.
He received a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Trumpet Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Masters of Music in Composition from Boston Conservatory where upon graduation he received the Roger Sessions Memorial Composition Award.
Christopher Marshall (1956 - ), Glimpses of Love
Christopher Marshall was born in Paris, France of New Zealand parents and educated in Australia and New Zealand.
A self-taught composer, he holds a Masters of Music degree with Honours, from Trinity College London, and a Teaching Licentiate in Piano from the same institution.
Marshall’s orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber and choral music have been very widely performed and broadcast particularly in the United States and Europe.
His music is accessible, idiomatically written, and often exhilarating in its rhythmic ingenuity.
It also places great emphasis on expressive melody and frequently delights in integrating diverse stylistic elements.
Glimpses of Love is a setting of texts by Jalal ad-Dīn Muhammad Rumi (a poet of Afghani and Turkish heritage, 1207-1273) for Choir and Wind Ensemble.
It was commissioned in 2011 by the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble, Director, Matthew Marsit, and the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, Director, Robert Duff, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Hopkins Center for the Arts (1962-2012).
The work was premiered on February 24, 2013 by these two groups, under the baton of Matthew Marsit.
The work is organized into fourteen short, diverse movements.
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