Program for performance of October 26, 2008

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba—G.F. Handel (Arr. John Brown)

Andante et Scherzo—Eugene Bozza

Royal Garden Blues—Arr. Paul Nagel

Allegro Molto Quasi Presto—Ludwig van Beethoven (trans. Robert Frascotti)
From Quartet in G Major

Four English Folk Songs—Raph Vaughan Williams
The Dark Eyed Sailor
Just As The Tide Was Flowing
The Lover’s Ghost
Wassail Song

Rialto Ripples—George Gershwin and Will Donaldson (Arr. William Perconti)

Three Preludes—George Gershwin (arr. Wolfgang Schlei)
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Andante con moto e poco rubato
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

Fugue in G minor—J.S. Bach Arr. Ralph Martino

When I’m Sixty-Four—John Lennon and Paul McCartney (Arr. Ramon Ricker)

That’s a-Plenty—Arr. Paul Nagle

Karen Bentley-Pollick, Violin
Grant Dalton, Percussion

In recital

Sunday, May 4
3:00 pm
Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham

Djembach:  Suite for Solo Violin & Percussion (1997) Christian Woehr (b. 1951)
Commissioned by Kathleen Mattis Dedicated to a busload of Violists with one empty seat

• Prelude for Tom Dumm:  Allegro
• Allemande for Bill Martin:  Andante
• Courante for Susan Kier:  Moderato
• Sarabande to LIbba & Wolf:  Adagio
• Gavotte for Mo Jacob:  Moderato con maestoso
• Trio for Leonid Gotman
• Gigue for Katy Mattis:  Allegro Vivo

March for Solo Timpani (1950) Elliott Carter (b. 1908)

Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi for Solo Violin (1984)

Impossible Animals (1989 version for Violin and Synthetic Voices) David Jaffe (b. 1955)

Salsa for Karen for Violin and Percussion (1998) Ole Saxe (b. 1952)

Satumaa:  Finnish Tango (Fairytale Land, 1955) Unto Mononen (1930 - 1968)

Fanitullen for Norwegian hardangerfele Odd Bakkerud (1931 - 1989)

Poem by Jorgen Moe (1813 – 1882)

Orange Blossom Special (1936) Ervin T. Rouse (1917 – 1981)

Recent Works for Cello
Craig Hultgren - cello

Program

Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 7 pm Unitarian Universalist Church

Longevity II for solo cello (2007) Glenn Engstrand

Bare ruin’d choirs… for cello alone (2001) James A. Jensen

Quiet Music for solo violoncello (2008) Andrew Rindfliesch

• Waltz Music
  
• Fast Music
  
• Slow Music

Elegy for cello (2001) Amy Canada

* Intermission *

Chiaroscuro for cello & electroacoustic music (2006) Mikel Kuehn

Sans Titre V for amplified cello (2006) William Price

Analogies of Control for cello, sound files & aural score (2005) Richard Nance

• The First Minute
  
• Bell Crawler
  
• 999 Parables
  
• Skimming
  
• Slipping
  
• The Last 3 Minutes

Combustion for solo cello (2007) Mary Elizabeth Neal

• Incomplete
  
• Respiration I
  
• Turbulent
  
• Respiration II
  
• Rapid