Program Notes

Lili Boulanger, Vieille Priere Bouddhique

Lili Boulanger, arr. for flute, oboe, and piano by ARRANGER

Ethel Smyth, Variations on "Bonny Sweet Robin" for flute, oboe, and piano

"My robin is to the greenwood gone" is a Renaissance folk tune.

Thea Musgrave,

Madeleine Dring, Trio for Flute, Oboe, and Piano

Chaya Czernowin, The last leaf for solo oboe

The title of this piece is taken from the O. Henry short story "The Last Leaf". The story is about artists living and dying in Greenwich Village at the beginning of the 20th century. One woman is dying of pneumonia. There is an ivy plant outside her window, and the ivy is shedding its leaves. The dying artist watches this shedding, and she decides that when the last leaf falls off of the vine, she will give up her ghost. The story is moving and beautiful in its own right. One wonders how much more than the title served as inspiration for composer Chaya Czernowin's equally touching piece by the same name.

Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Oboe Sonata in B-flat major

Maurice DuruflE, Quatre motets sur des thEmes grEgoriens

Igor Stravinsky, Pastorale, arr. I. Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Oboe Quartet

Henri Dutilleux, Les Citations, Diptych for Oboe, Harpsichord, Double Bass, and Percussion

Lili Boulanger, Nocturne

Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Oboe and Piano

Camille Saint-Saens, Oboe Sonata

Technically termed, "Sonata for oboe with piano accompaniment," Saint-Saens's oboe sonata is yuhduh.