Frost Flute Choir

Cecilia Irvine

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Frost Flute Choir

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• Arts

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• Publié par: yrokaleb
• Nombre de lectures: 59
• Langue: Français

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Morning “Morning” is the first composition in Greig’sPeer Gynt Suite. The piece depicts the rising of the sun, and has been used in countless television commericals and motion pictures around the world. The Death of Ase This piece depicts the death of Ase, a peasent widow and Peer Gynt’s mother. When performed with an orchestra this piece is performed predominantly on stringed instruments. Anitra’s Dance This piece is a fast paced riveting dance that depicts the part of the play where Peer tries to seduce Anitra, a chief’s daughter, who in turn runs away from Peer. In the Hall of the Mountain King This is the final piece in Edvard Grieg’s PeerGynt Suite.In the Hall of the Mountain Kingcontains one of the most memorable musical lines in the whole world of classical music. With it’s Nutcrackeresque ascending then step-wise descending line, that will get any music lover humming along with the melody.  –Anna Melvin - Night and Day Night and Daya memorable tune originally written by Cole Porter for the musical isGay Divorcewhich premiered on Broadway in 1932 starring Fred Astaire and Claire Luce. In the play, novelist Guy Holden falls in love with the mysterious Mimi who disappears after their initial meeting. When they happen upon each other again, Mimi mistakes Guy for the man she hired to facilitate her divorce.The musical was later adapted into the Academy Award- winning movieThe Gay Divorceestarring the infamous duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The song has become a classic, recorded many times over by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. This version for flute choir is by Calvin Custer, a noted arranger of famous songs from Broadway musicals.  –Paige Roberts - Tico-Tico no Fuba’ Tico-Tico no Fuba’(meaning”the sparrow in the cornmel”) was composed by the Brazilian songwriter Zequinha de Abreu in 1917.Abreu was a moderately successful bandleader and composer who wrote various choros (waltzes) and polkas before his hit song,Tico-Tico no Fuba’. Tico-Ticofound mild success in the dancing rooms of Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro throughout the 1920s and 1930s until 1942, when the famous Brazilian choro singer Ademilde Fonseca teamed it with lyrics.In 1943, it became an international hit after it was played in the Walt Disney animated filmSaludos Amigosactress Carmen Miranda. The performed it tin the 1947 movieCopacabanaIn 1952, the Brazilian movieas well.Tico-Tico no Fuba’ wasreleased which detailed the life of Zequinha de Abreu.Denis Dumont sang a Cuban version of the song in Woody Allen’s 1987 movieRadio Dayswith Tito Puente on percussion. Inthe late 1940s,Tico-Ticowas one of the most recorded pieces of Brazilian pop music in the world and an international hit.  –Bethany Tallman -

Frost Flute Choir T ERRI M ITCHELL ,D IRECTOR  Wednesday, November 29Two Thousand and SixEight o’clock in the Evening   Victor E. Clarke RecitalHall Universityof MiamiCoral Gables, Florida