Episode 14 - May 3, 2021
This concert is also available in a video version on our Concerts Page.
Jeff Counts hosts a full-length concert of music by your favorite NOVA musicians. Jason Hardink and Caitlyn Valovick Moore perform works by three great American composers. Then six violists and cellists each take on a movement of Bach’s famous Third Suite for Solo Cello.
CONCERT PROGRAM
Welcome and Okpebholo Introduction (00:16)
Jeff Counts | host
SHAWN OKPEBHOLO: ψαλμοὶ καὶ ὕμνοι καὶ ᾠδαὶ πνευματικαί (psalmoi kai ymnoi kai odai pnevmatikai / psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs)
I. Ede Ede (Nigeria): an ostinato (01:00)
II. Bringing in the Sheaves (USA): a variation (05:35)
III. Jisasi Fukemino (Papua New Guinea): an impromptu (12:54)
Jason Hardink | piano
Loggins-Hull and Hailstork Introduction (19:11)
ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL: Homeland (19:50)
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: Flute Set (25:13)
I. Moderato con anima
II. Vivo
III. Lento e teneramente
IV. Allegretto
Caitlyn Valovick Moore | flute
Bach Introduction (30:17)
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Suite No. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello, BWV 1009
I. Prelude - Matt Johnson | cello (31:01)
II. Allemande - Bradley Ottesen | viola (34:31)
III. Courante - Pegsoon Whang | cello (37:57)
IV. Sarabande - Julie Edwards | viola (40:21)
V. Bourrée I / II - Anne Lee | cello (44:10)
VI. Gigue - Whittney Thomas | viola (48:21)
recorded by Michael Palmer and Wesley Morrison at Utah State University’s Caine Wanlass Performance Hall in Logan, Utah
recording mastered by Michael Carnes
produced by Chris Myers (argylearts.com)
NOVA Chamber Music Series would like to thank the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University for their generosity in providing recording facilities and staff on the Logan campus.
Copyright © 2021 NOVA Chamber Music Series. All rights reserved.
Transcript
Narrator
Welcome to the NOVA Podcast
Jeff Counts
Hello and welcome to this digital presentation of the NOVA Chamber Music Series. My name is Jeff Counts, and I’m delighted to be your host through this concert of soloists. This is an intimate look at artists who face the challenges of their repertoire alone, ,unaccompanied.
We start with the music of Chicago-based composer Shawn Okpebholo. This work for solo piano, psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, is an exploration of the hymn form seen through three very different cultural lenses: that of Nigeria, the American South, and Papua New Guinea. Here is NOVA Artistic Director Emeritus Jason Hardink.
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You’ve just heard Jason Hardink, pianist, on Shawn Okpebholo’s psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
Next up, Utah Symphony flutist Caitlyn Valovick Moore presents two contrasting works for her instrumnet. We’ll hear the Flute Set by American legend Adolphus Hailstork. This work from 2003 is a set of three short mood pieces.
But first, something a little bit newer, from 2018. Allison Loggins-Hull created Homeland as a way to capture the feeling of home at a time of great unrest and the complete absence of comfort.
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That was Caitlyn Valovick Moore on Allison Loggins-Hull’s Homeland and Adolphus Hailstork’s Flute Set.
We move next and last to the music of Bach. Particularly the C Major Cello Suite. This music is popular today for many reasons, but not least among them is the great affinity held for it by instrumentalists who don’t happen to be cellists. Bassists, tubists, marimbists, even horn players have tried to make this music their own for many many years now.
Most popular among the borrowers are the violists. I hope you enjoy this collage performance of the cello suite. Six artists, alternating violist and cellist on each movement.
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Narrator
This has been the NOVA Podcast. Today’s episode was hosted by Jeff Counts and featured performances by Jason Hardink, Caitlyn Valovick Moore, Matt Johnson, Bradley Ottesen, Pegsoon Whang, Julie Edwards, Anne Lee, and Whittney Thomas.
Musical performances were recorded by Michael Palmer and Wesley Morrison at Utah State University’s Caine Wanlass Performance Hall in Logan, Utah.
The recording was mastered by Michael Carnes and produced by Chris Myers.
NOVA Chamber Music Series would like to thank the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University for their generosity in providing recording facilities and staff on the Logan campus.