{"id":62025,"date":"2013-02-28T15:14:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=62025"},"modified":"2016-02-01T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T16:45:28","slug":"orch-student-soloists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/28\/orch-student-soloists\/","title":{"rendered":"Student soloists featured in Bates College Orchestra concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hiroya Miura conducts the Bates College Orchestra. Photograph: Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n

Three Bates seniors are featured as instrumental soloists in works by Franz Strauss, Max Bruch and Wolfgang Mozart as the Bates College Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n

Admission is free, but tickets are required. To reserve, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bates orchestra is conducted by Hiroya Miura, associate professor of music. The March 9 program comprises five works:<\/p>\n

Edvard Grieg’s music for Peer Gynt<\/em>, Suite No. 1;<\/p>\n

the first movement of Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1, featuring hornist Molly Bruzzese of West Hartford, Conn.;<\/p>\n

Bruch’s Romance for Viola and Orchestra, with Jessica Cooper of Unionville, Conn., as soloist;<\/p>\n

the first movement of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major (K. 622), showcasing clarinetist Catherine Tuttle of Pittsford, N.Y.;<\/p>\n

and Maurice Ravel’s Ma m\u00e8re l’oye<\/em> (“Mother Goose Suite”).<\/p>\n

“We hosted a concerto competition this year,” Miura explains, “and with the high level of musicianship these three students showed, I was glad to program not just one, but three varied movements with three soloists.”<\/p>\n

The program is further distinguished by its literary connections, Miura points out. Grieg originally wrote the Peer Gynt<\/em> material in 1875 as incidental music for Ibsen’s play, while Ravel’s 1910 Mother Goose Suite<\/em> was a response to children’s stories by Mother Goose Tales<\/em> author Charles Perrault and others.<\/p>\n

“The Ravel and Grieg are phantasmagorical, colorful suites,” Miura says. “Perrault wrote Ma m\u00e8re l’oye<\/em> for his own children, but some of the stories are quite poignant with a great sense of irony—like many of these children’s fables are.<\/p>\n

“Grieg shares that humor and irony, but more blatantly, and both composers treated these stories masterfully while carefully balancing the sense of fantasy and ironic humor.”<\/p>\n

Franz Strauss, father of the better-known composer Richard, was celebrated as a master of the horn. The first of his two concertos for the instrument, this work in C minor was premiered by the composer in 1865.<\/p>\n

Bruch is known as a composer in the German Romantic vein exemplified by Brahms. He published his Romance for Viola and Orchestra in F major (Op. 85), one of the few Romantic-era compositions with viola as lead instrument, in 1911.<\/p>\n

A standard audition piece for clarinetists, the first movement of the Mozart concerto is an allegro. Written in 1791 and one of the composer’s last compositions, the concerto as a whole is characterized by the delicacy of the conversation between soloist and orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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