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    Students show off their musical talent during woodwind performances

     Clarinet choir member Olivia Cadiere smiles at the audience after performing "Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73" by Carl Maria von Weber during the 
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    Junior Sydney Finneman held a flute recital with the Clarinet Studio Recital following her performance.

    The flute recital was held on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. along with the Clarinet Studio Recital, which was held on the same day from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Both events were held in the Pottle Auditorium and were open to the public.

    Finneman who majors in music felt that her performance went well but could have been better.

    “I thought it went really well,” said Finneman. “There were some things that could have gone better, but one of the realities of performing is that you’re gonna mess up on things that you’ve never messed up on before. I think one of the biggest things about being a performance major is just being able to accept the mistakes that you make and move on. So, I think it went really well.”

    The songs Finneman played during her concert were: “Hamburger Sonata” by CPE Bach, “Feld Sonata” by Jindrich Feld and “A Night Piece” by Arthur Foote.

    Finneman said that the selection of the songs were based off of suggestions that were made by her music teacher.

    Finneman said, “Mostly my teacher just said those are the time periods I want you to perform from, so, find some repertoire and pick from that time period. It was just a lot of listening to a bunch of different literature. A lot of it just kinda came from randomly googling things like, ‘graduate flute audition’ or like ‘flute recital’.”

    When it came to the theme of the show, Finneman said that no theme existed for the performance because the songs came from different time periods.

    “‘Hamburger Sonata’ was from the classical time period I think,” said Finneman. “The ‘Feld Sonata’ was 20th century, and ‘A Night Piece’ was romantic.”

    Finneman explains what her favorite aspect of music is.

    “One of the things that I like is that it’s really challenging,” said Finneman.  “So every time that I was in the practice room, I always had something I needed to work on. It’s really important as music majors to not get complacent with the music that you play because then it’s not an exciting performance for the audience. If you’re always on your toes when you play, then it’ll be more exciting for them and for you.”

    Finneman also explained the reason for the name of the performance.

    “Woodwind is essentially like a type of instrument,” said Finneman. “There was a performance right before mine and it was a graduate lecture recital by Tara Hymel. She was also playing the flute which is a woodwind. My recital which was on flute is a woodwind. Then the clarinets, the oboe and the bassoon are all being featured on tonight’s performance with the clarinet choir. So, essentially, it’s like a large gathering of woodwind performances tonight.”

    The Clarinet Studio Recital also received many attendees that included students and parents. Freshman music education major Brandon Gordon participated in the performance playing “Sonata in Bb for Clarinet and Piano” by Paul Hindemith.

    Gordon also explained the purpose of the recital and why they decided to have it.

    “We do the recital every semester just to show off what we been doing throughout the semester,” said Gordon. “The performance was really good.”

    Instructor of Clarinet and Assistant Director of Bands Victor Drescher also shared his opinion of the recital.

    “The students played very well,” said Drescher. “It’s always nerve wracking playing by yourself or playing in a small group, and this gives them an opportunity to do that.”

    Drescher also said that there is no theme to the recital.

    “I select all the chamber music,” said Drescher. “The solo music are pieces that are at their level that I pick for them. They work on them in one-on -one lessons, and then this is their performance.”

    Drescher also shared what he wants attendees to take away from the performance.

    “I hope that everybody got to listen to a wide variety of music tonight,” said Drescher. “I just hope that they go away enjoying what we did.”

    Senior computer science major Nick Dolan who performed “Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 29 by Malcolm Arnold” shared how excited he was about this being his last performance for the semester.

    “Personally, I’m super excited because this is my last one,” said Dolan. “But I thought it went well. We have a lot of different classifications in the choir now. So, it’s good to see that there’s some super talented freshmen and that the upperclassmen are still contributing to the ensemble.”

    Senior music education major Abigail Lambert also took on a new role in the recital taking Drescher’s place as conductor due to new changes in the performance.

    “I think the performance went really well,” said Lambert. “I got asked yesterday to conduct two pieces for the choir because they had a senior who got sick that couldn’t perform. So, the guy conducting Mr. Drescher, had to play his part. So, I got asked yesterday to conduct, and that’s why I had to learn two pieces. So, it was interesting, but it all came together really well, and they played well.”

     

     

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