Kresge Library > Events at OU > Faculty Chamber Music Recital - February 18, 2009

George Stoffan Clarinet bio	Yin Zheng Piano bio

with
Guest Artist

Joan Hovda, Cello
bio

Performing the Music of Nielsen, Devienne, Delano and Brahms

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8pm Varner Recital Hall

Admission is Free!
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The Program

Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano....................................................	Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Sonata No. 2, in E-flat Major, for Clarinet and Piano......................    Allegro con spiritoso    Adagio    Rondeau- Allegretto	Francois Devienne (1759-1803) (rev. Jacques Lancelot)
Intermission
Tres Payasadas (Three Burlesques) for Clarinet and Cello............    Payoso gracioso (Funny Clown)    Payoso triste (Sad Clown)    Payoso bobo (Silly Clown)	Jack Delano (1914-1997)
Trio, Op. 114, in A minor, for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano.................    Allegro    Adagio    Andantino grazioso    Allegro	Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

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Resources about the composers*:

Carl Nielsen
Fanning, David. Nielsen, Carl. Grove Music Online.
Krabbe, Niels. (2007) A survey of the written reception of Carl Nielsen, 1931-2006. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 64(1): 43-56.
Grimley, Daniel M. (2005). 'Tonality, clarity, strength': Gesture, form, and Nordic identity in Carl Nielsen's piano music. Music & Letters 86(2): 202-33.

Francois Devienne
Montgomery, William. Devienne, Francois. Grove Music Online.
Devienne, Francois. Naxos
Oleskiewicz, Mary. (2000) François Devienne's Nouvelle Méthode Théorique et Pratique pour la Flute: Facsimile of the Original Edition, with an Introduction, Annotated Catalogue of Later Editions, and Translation [book review]. Notes 57(2): 388-389.

Jack Delano
Thompson, Donald. Delano, Jack. Grove Music Online.
Photographs of Jack Delano (Library of Congress)
Oral History Interview of Jack and Irene Delano, June 12, 1965 (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

Johannes Brahms
Bozarth, George S. and Frisch, Walter. Johannes Brahms. Grove Music Online.
Rudolf, Palmer and Dillon, Ravindra. (2007) Musical meaning for the few: Instances of private reception in the music of Brahms. Current Musicology 83: 109-130.
Arnone, Augustus. (2006) The aesthetics of textual ambiguity: Brahms and the changing piano. Current Musicology 82: 7-32.

*Access to full text resources from off campus is limited to current Oakland students, staff, and faculty.