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7:30 PM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
MARTIN THEATRE
SIR JAMES GALWAY,
flute
LADY JEANNE GALWAY,
flute
CHRISTOPHER O’RILEY,
piano
GAUBERT
Flute Sonata No.
Allegretto
Intermède pastoral: Très modéré
Final: Joyeux—Allegretto
FAURÉ
Morceau de concours
(
)
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FAURÉ
Fantasy for ute and piano
Andantino—Allegro
POULENC
Flute Sonata
Allegro malinconico
Cantilena: Assez lent
Presto giocoso
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–
HARTY
In Ireland
(Fantasy for ute and piano)
DAVID OVERTON
Selections from Four Irish Folk Songs
*
Spinning Wheel
She Moved rough the Fair
e Star of the County Down
F. DOPPLER
Andante and Rondo for two utes and piano
Sir James Galway
;
Lady Jeanne Galway
MORLACCHI
Il pastore svizzero
*
*
First performance at Ravinia
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Featured Sponsor
e Negaunee Foundation
.
PHILIPPE GAUBERT (1879–1941)
Flute Sonata No.
Son of an amateur clarinetist, Philippe Gaubert
studied violin in his hometown of Cahors but
switched to ute a er moving to Paris. He re-
ceived his rst lessons from Jules Ta anel, the
father of Paul Ta anel, who convinced his son
to accept the young boy as a private student.
Gaubert entered the Paris Conservatory in
and earned the
premier prix
for ute one year
later. Composition studies continued much lon-
ger under Charles Lenepveu; Gaubert received
second prize in the Prix de Rome competition
in
.
By then, Gaubert had been named utist of the
conservatory’s Societé des Concerts and at the
Paris Opera. Following the path of Paul Ta anel,
he became second conductor of the Societé des
Concerts in
and, years later, its primary
conductor. e conservatory appointed Gaubert
professor of ute in
, a position he held until
when he became artistic director of the Par-
is Opera. Gaubert completed Ta anel’s compre-
hensive
Méthode complète de ûte
(now known
as the Ta anel-Gaubert method) a er his for-
mer teacher’s death.
Gaubert wrote several works for ute, either
solo or part of an ensemble. ese include three
sonatas created between
and
. His ird
Sonata possesses a greater degree of improvisa-
tory freedom and dramatic expression than its
predecessors. Gaubert dedicated the score to
Jean Boulze, the utist of the Paris Opera and
the Concerts Lamoureux.
GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845–1924)
Morceau de concours
(
)
Fantasy, op.
Fauré developed into one of the most in uen-
tial French musicians at the turn of the century,
despite the fact that his individual composi-
tion style consolidated very slowly. He received
musical instruction at the École Niedermeyer,
Philippe Gaubert (ca. 1920)
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