Senior Recital: Lara Carr, Soprano

Upcoming Events at KSU in Music Friday, May 7 Georgia Young Singers 8:00 pm Stillwell Theater Kennesaw State University Saturday, May 8 Department of Music Junior Recital Musical Arts Series Danielle Hearn, flute presents 5:00 pm Music Building Recital Hall Senior Recital Shannon Hampton, clarinet 7:30 pm Music Building Recital Hall Lara Carr, soprano Friday, May 14 Senior Recital Huu Mai, piano Senior Recital 8:00 pm Stillwell Theater Sunday, May 23 Faculty Recital Christy Lambert, piano Oral Moses, bass-baritone 3:00 pm Music Building Recital Hall Thursday, May 6, 2004 8:00 p.m. Music Building Recital Hall 63rd concert of the 2003/2004 Musical Arts Series season This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. I. The pain of betrayal by a lover is expressed in the text, but the music sounds quite bright and cheerful for its spiteful words. This song, Les nuits d’été (Gautier) Hector Berlioz like the others, has a dance quality to it, which originates from its (1803-1869) folk form. Nana, a completely contrasting song and is calm, hushed, Villanelle and soothing. It is a lullaby sung by a mother to her baby, in which she beautifully expresses the intense and unique love a mother has How wonderful it will be when spring comes, my dear one, when nature will for her child. The rhythm of the piano is perfectly even, creating a hold new wonder and beauty for us to explore and enjoy together! lulling, rocking feeling. The meter is 2/4, and there are exactly eight 8th notes in each measure, four in the left hand and four in the right. Au cimètiere The two hands alternate so that one solitary note is played on each 16th pulse throughout the entire piece. Seguidilla Murciana is also a A person drifts into the memory of a mystical visit to a cemetery, recounting the fast piece, in ABAB form. Its basic chord progression is ii-V-I, and strange, wonderful, and frightening power of the dove’s song heard there. After the repetitiveness of this and the vocal line lends to the emotional encountering a veiled ghost-like form of light, the person swears to never return irritation and frustration in the text. to hear the dove. Lara Carr is both a Vocal and a Piano Performance major at L’îsle inconnue Kennesaw State University. Currently a student of Valerie Walters, she has also studied with Wanda Hughes and participated in master Tell me, beautiful girl, where you would like to go, all the conditions are perfect classes with Richard Lalli, Uzee Brown, Mary Dibbern, Copeland for us to sail! What? To the island called “Faithful?!” You ask to go some place that has never been found. Let us go! Woodruff, and Dwight Coleman. In the summer of 2003, she was accepted into the Harrower Opera Workshop at Georgia State II. University where she had coachings with Reed Woodhouse, Peter Marshall, and Christy Lee. She won the title of Outstanding Performer at the Georgia Music Teacher’s Association competition Ständchen (Kugler) Johannes Brahms in 2000, 2002, and 2003, and performed in a winner’s recital at (1833-1897) Mercer University in 2002. In 2004 she won 3rd place at the The moon shines, the night is quiet, the brook murmurs in the garden, and soft music “sneaks” up to a sleeping young girl. She sees her lover in her dreams LaGrange Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition and is and whispers, “forget me not!” to perform in recital with the 1st and 2nd place winners this May. In March she was a winner of KSU’s annual Concerto Competition, Wie melodien zieht es mir (Groth) and is to perform with the Cobb Symphony Orchestra next October. She played the role of “Johanna” in KSU’s 2001 production of A poet tells of his simultaneous frustration with and love for the elusiveness of Sweeney Todd, and has participated in three performances of the words, for as they pass out of his grasp, they emit a fragrance so beautiful that it Opera Workshop class at KSU . A fan of the theater, Carr has moves him to tears. performed in both plays and musicals, and she also enjoys participating musically at her church. A member of Pi Kappa Auf dem grünen Balcon Hugo Wolf Lambda honorary music society, she was also chosen as “Senior of from Spanisches Liederbuch II, No. 5 (1860-1903) the Year” at KSU for the BM Performance degree in 2003. Carr trans. by Heyse & Geibel (from the Spanish of Ocaña) plans to attend graduate school and continue her vocal studies. Even through my pain, I’m hopelessly in love with a young woman, who from her balcony smiles and lovingly beckons me with her eyes, but if I try to respond to this, she hastily tells me “no!” Falla’s first experience with music was piano lessons with his III. mother, in which he showed significant talent by age 10. As an adolescent he loved writing, especially short stories, and before he chose No Word From Tom (W. H. Auden & Kallman) Igor Stravinsky music as a career he planned on being an author. Later, this was fulfilled from The Rake’s Progress (1882-1971) as Falla wrote his own librettos and articles on music. At this time in Spain, music was far less important to the public than art and literature; The young Anne Truelove struggles with the decision to travel to London in the only popular form of music was zarzuela, a drama with song, dance, search of her wayward yet beloved Tom Rakewell, or to stay at home in the and speech. Therefore, Falla’s performances and compositions went protection of her father. She prays for courage and concludes that Tom is largely unnoticed, despite winning numerous competitions held in his the one who needs her most, and that under no circumstances will true love native Spain. In 1905 he won a Spanish opera contest with his gypsy fail. opera La vida breve. Although a performance was supposed to have been part of the prize, it never took place. Frustrated, Falla accepted an IV. invitation to tour France as an accompanist, and afterwards remained in Paris for the next 7 years. Siete Canciones Populares Españolas Manuel de Falla While in Paris, Falla became friends with Claude Debussy, (1876-1946) Maurice Ravel, Isaac Albéniz, and Ricardo Viñes. His association with El Paño Moruno these musicians enriched his harmonic style, which Spanish critics blame for his absorption of “too many international flavors”. In Paris, La vida An allegory: A fine fabric loses all worth if a stain once ruins it. breve was translated into French, and 8 years after it won the competition Canción in Spain, it was finally performed in Nice. This was Falla’s first significant success, and at last brought him both recognition and a Out of everything that is so painful about you, your traitorous eyes cost me publishing contract. He was 37 years old. the most - I will bury them deep within me! Falla was forced to return to Spain at the outset of World War I. A few months after his return, La vida breve was performed in Spain, as Nana were his Siete Canciones populares españolas of today’s program (written in France). Based on folk songs, Falla’s Canciones are the most Sleep, precious baby, you who are my soul and the very light of my day. widely performed solo Spanish art songs of today. He is lauded for planting rich harmonic chords underneath the rough, primal quality of Seguidilla Murciana the original melodies, while keeping a delicate balance of melodic simplicity, metrical play, and textual subtleties. Popular from their birth, An instructional piece of advice, first given generally and playfully, then these songs have gone through numerous transcriptions by various with vehement spite to an unfaithful lover. composers, including orchestral arrangements by Luciano Berio and Ernesto Halffter. El Paño Moruno is the first song of the set, and begins with 22 bars of piano introduction. It is a brief, swiftly moving song, guitar-like with lots of staccato and triplets. The narrator allegorically tells of a fine cloth that can be ruined, completely losing all value if even one stain falls on it. Canción is in ABAB form, and is fast, picking up the energy in the set after the lullaby. It too has a repetitive piano rhythm in the left hand, but the right hand is more independent. In the second A and B sections, the melody is the same as the first but is harmonically altered. Unlike other recitatives in this opera, this is a more strictly Hector Berlioz, the first child of a highly respected and prosperous rhythmic accompanied recitative, in which the entire orchestra family, was born in La Côte-Saint-André, France. His only musical participates. The aria is a bit faster, but remains minor and experiences in youth came from music he heard in church. He studied dissonant. Although dark and mysterious, it is also beautiful, flute and guitar, but his piano skills never went beyond knowledge of a like the prayer of a heavy heart. few simple chords. He taught himself basic theory and harmony by The second recitative begins suddenly when Ann’s father’s studying Rameau’s Traié de l’harmonie, and then began composing calls interrupt her thoughts, causing Ann to question her plans. This music, publishing his first song at age 15. is a typical secco recitative, (a type of recitative in which the singer He had a great passion for music, but his father, a doctor, forced freely speak-sings the text, while accompanied only by the basso Berlioz at age 18 to study medicine in Paris.

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