Resphigi | Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite III
Vivaldi | Piccolo Concerto
L’éventail de Jeanne:
Ravel I. Fanfare
Ferroud II. Marche
Ibert III. Valse
Roland-Manuel IV. Canarie
Delannoy V. Bourree
Roussel VI. Sarabande
Milhaud VII. Polka
Poulenc VIII. Pastourelle
Auric IX. Rondeau
A program inspired by dance. We will begin with Resphigi's Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3 based upon old Baroque dance forms. A neo classic work, which Resphigi crafts into a delightful grouping of four dances.
We welcome piccolo virtuoso Molly Barth, who will perform Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto. Vivaldi wrote over 400 concertos for various instruments including violins, recorders and even the mandolin. Molly Barth teaches at University of Oregon and was a founding member of the internationally renowned and Chicago based ensemble, Eighth Blackbird.
L’éventail de Jeanne (Jeanne’s Fan) is a grouping of ten dances commissioned by Parisienne hostess and patroness of the arts, Jeanne Dubost, who ran a children’s ballet school. In the spring of 1927 she presented ten of her composer friends with leaves from her fan, asking each of them to write a little dance for her pupils. Those ten composers included Ravel, Ibert, Milhaud, Poulenc and Roussel. We will perform nine of these dances with choreography provided by W. Earle Smith and the Madison Ballet. This ballet was so well received, it was taken into the repertory of the Paris Opera. The orchestra will remain on stage, as the ballet will be performed downstage.
Described as “ferociously talented” (The Oregonian), Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Alicia Barth is an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, specializing in the music of today. As a founding member of the new music sextet eighth blackbird, Molly toured extensively throughout the world, recorded four CDs with Cedille Records, and was granted the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and first prize at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Currently, as co-founder of the Beta Collide New Music Project, Molly collaborates with individuals from a broad spectrum of disciplines such as music, art, sound sculpture and theoretical physics. Molly is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Oregon and has taught at Willamette University and held residencies at the University of Chicago and at the University of Richmond. She plays a Burkart flute and piccolo, and a 1953 Haynes alto flute.
Madison Ballet is a registered 501(3)(c) non-profit, professional performing arts organization which holds as its mission to promote appreciation and access to ballet by providing training and performing opportunities through professionally produced productions and educational initiatives.
Originally founded in 1981 as The Wisconsin Dance Ensemble, the organization’s primary purpose was the production the Nutcracker, an annual community event. In 1999, the organization changed its name to Madison Ballet and embarked on an ambitious plan to become a professional performing arts organization, which offered quality arts experiences for youth throughout South Central Wisconsin.
