09 Hy-Huu Dang June Final Bachelor Recital Bernard Haitinkzaal 14.30 Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Works by Glazunov, Robert, ter Veldhuis, Webern & Wildberger
IJ Saxophone Quartet, Tobias Borsboom, Lisa Schreiber, Jen-Hong Wu, Pedro Silva & Xabier Oruesagasti
Watch the livestream via www.consam.nl/live Anton Webern (1883-1945) | Langsamer Satz (1905) originally for string quartet, arranged for saxophone quartet by Arno Bornkamp
Chi-Chun Chen, soprano saxophone
Thitipol Piseskul, alto saxophone
Hy-Huu Dang, tenor saxophone
Sebastiaan Cooman, baritone saxophone
Jacob ter Veldhuis (1951) | May this bliss never end (1996) for tenor saxophone & piano & soundtrack
Hy-Huu Dang, tenor saxophone
Tobias Borsboom, piano
Lucie Robert (1936-2019) | Cadenza (1974) for alto saxophone & piano
Hy-Huu Dang, alto saxophone
Tobias Borsboom, piano Jacques Wildberger | Portrait (1983) for solo alto saxophone
Hy-Huu Dang, alto saxophone
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) | Concerto in E-flat major (1934) arranged for alto saxophone & saxophone sextet by Vincent David
Hy-Huu Dang, alto saxophone
Saxophone Sextet
Lisa Schreiber, soprano saxophone
Jen-Hong Wu, alto saxophone
Chi-Chun Chen, tenor saxophone
Pedro Silva, baritone saxophone
Sebastiaan Cooman, baritone saxophone
Xabier Oruesagasti, bass saxophone
Swann van Rechem, conductor Anton Webern (1883-1945) | Langsamer Satz (1905)
Anton Webern, born on 3rd December 1883 in Vienna and died on 15th September 1945 in Mitterstill. Near Salzburg, was an Austrian conductor and composer. He is one of the founding fathers of the Second Viennese school alongside Arnold Schönberg and Alban Berg, being well-known both for his atonal and serial works.
Langsamer Satz, originally for string quartet, was written in 1905, when he was only 22 years old. It was rooted in post-Brahmsian romanticism and tonality, before he started to write more atonal music. He was said to have been inspired by a hiking holiday in the mountains outside of Vienna that Webern took with his soon to be fiancée and later wife. He intended to write an entire quartet but put it aside after completing this one movement.
Jacob ter Veldhuis (1951) | May this bliss never end (1996)
Jacob ter Veldhuis, also known as JacobTV, is a Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer. He got well-known for his so-called Boombox compositions for live instruments, in which melodies, rhythms, and harmonies are built around sound samples of the human voice. He favours tonal and melodic compositions.
May this bliss never end was first written in 1996 for cello, piano & boombox for the Duo Berman Wieringa. It was his first ever composition with boombox and a tribute to jazz trumpet player Chet Baker, who struggled with drug addiction and went in and out of the jail despite his fantastic music career. This piece consists of sound bytes from one of his last interviews before his tragic death in 1988 in Amsterdam. The melody, rhythm and harmony are literally based on Chet’s words. In 2005. it was arranged for tenor saxophone, piano & soundtrack by request of Matthew Sinchak and Brook Cuden. In 2008, Arno Bornkamp recorded May this bliss never end for his new JacobTV album Buku of Horn, consisting of mostly all saxophone works by the composer. Jacob ter Veldhuis (1951) | May this bliss never end (1996)
Try to be quiet It was a dream you know It’s that kind of tune you know Things like that don’t happen Those chords are in the first measure! There’s pain in my heart A lot of fucking attitudes going on here… Every memory I’ll keep Getting the shock treatment And at the same time There’s pain in y heart Kind of put myself in a trance and a Devastating feeling… Dadada dadada dada Man that was a rude awakening let me tell you… So it was kind of tricky business May this bliss never end…. Do my business I didn’t know that would be possible Do my business I didn’t know that would be possible Oh ssz bwh… I guess they call it a speed bowl!
There was a bright blue color Somebody put that down there There was a bright blue color When I say blue, I mean blue He almost died that day Lucie Robert (1936-2019) | Cadenza (1974)
Lucie Robert is a Canadian-American violinist, composer, and college professor. Robert was born in Montreal. When Robert was five years old, she taught her older sister how to play the violin. Robert was the youngest musician at the Conservatoire de Montréal when she was 11 or 12 years old. She attended Indiana University Bloomington when she was 18 years old to study with the well known violnist Josef Gingold at the Jacobs School of Music. During the last three years of her nine year stay in Bloomington, she was Gingold’s assistant. At 26 years old, Robert became a teacher at the Manhattan School of Music whe she has taught at for over 20 years. Robert has also held a teaching position at Mannes School of Music. She has played the violin for National Public Radio, the CBC Radio, Radio Canada, and Radio France.
Jacques Wildberger | Portrait (1983)
Jacques Wildberger, born on 3rd January 1922 and died on 23rd August 2006, was a Swiss composer. Wildberger became a member of the Swiss Party of Labour (PdA) in 1944 and composed battle songs for the Base workers’ cabaret Scheinwerfer and the Neue Volksbühne Basel; in 1947 he left the PdA as a reaction to Stalin’s politics. After first studies at the Basel Conservatory he studied from 1948 to 1952 with Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel in Ascona, in particular the twelve-tone technique (dodecaphony). Initially criticised for his dodecaphonic works in Switzerland, he later caused a sensation abroad as the successor to Arnold Schönberg with his twelve-tone compositions. From 1959 to 1966 he taught musical composition, music analysis and instrumentation at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. After a stay in Berlin as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service in 1967, he was professor for music theory and composition at the conservatory of the City of Basel Music Academy from 1967 to 1987. He died in Riehen at age 84. Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) | Concerto in E-flat major (1934)
Alexander Glazunov, born on 10th August 1865 and died on 21st March 1936, was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor in the late Russian Romantic period. He already began composing at the age of 11 and was a private student of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was selected to become the director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1905. The best-known under his tenure during the early Soviet years was Dmitri Shostakovich. He favours Russian music.
The Concerto in E-flat major was written in 1934, deeply rooted in Romanticism and has become one of the most standard piece in the classical saxophone repertoire. Being amazed by the sound of the saxophone, this concerto was credited to Sigurd Raschér, who premiered it in Nyköping in Sweden on 25th November 1934. Hy-Huu Dang | Some little words…
4 years ago, I got an email, stating that I got admitted to the saxophone class of the Conservatory of Amsterdam. What a proud moment it was for my family and me!! Now, after 4 years. I have my final Bachelor recital performed. Time truly flies…
I’d like to give some huge thanks to the following ones: - To Arno Bornkamp & Willem van Merwijk for the support, the guidance, mostly your inspiration!! I truly learned a lot from you and saw myself grow as a musician and human being during my last 4 years as a Bachelor student. I can’t wait to still get going for the next 2 years as a Master student at the Conservatory of Amsterdam!!
- To Tobias Borsboom and Tjako van Schie for accompanying me on the piano in the last 4 years, giving me worthful advices and sharing your musical experiences with me!!
- To my (former) colleagues from the CvA Saxophone Class for unforgettable memories, both in music and outside activities!! It has been fun and exciting, and I am very looking forward to spend time with you at least for 2 more years!!
- To all my truly friends and especially to my family for their mental support. It has been challenging for me emotionally sometimes during my study years, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. I had some ups and downs, but thanks to you, I still could keep going!!
- To everyone for following my musical path and their support!!