Recital: Erika Josephine Rohrberg '23 MM, Flute
NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow.
Erika Josephine Rohrberg '23 MM studies Flute with Cynthia Meyers.
This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live
- Erika Rohrberg '23 MM, flute
- Pualina Lim Mei En and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
- Cynthia Meyers, studio teacher
Three of the four works on this recital are reprogrammed from my senior recital at The Hartt School, which would have taken place in April of 2020. Nearly three years later, this performance is a celebration of tenacity, growth, and new adventures. It is dedicated to all of you, and all of the wonderful ways in which our paths have crossed and re-crossed over the past few years.
Georg Philipp Telemann | Fantasia No. 7 in D Major, TWV 40:8
Alla francese
Allegro
Largo
PrestoValerie Coleman | Fanmi Imèn: Poem for Flute and Piano
Poem by Maya Angelou
Program note
Human Family
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.
The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown and pink and beige and purple,
tan and blue and white.
I've sailed upon the seven seas
and stopped in every land,
I've seen the wonders of the world
not yet one common man.
I know ten thousand women
called Jane and Mary Jane,
but I've not seen any two
who really were the same.
Mirror twins are different
although their features jibe,
and lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
I note the obvious differences
between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
from Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
New York : Random House, 1994Artists- Pualina Lim Mei En, piano
André Jolivet | Chant de Linos
Artists- Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Gabriel Fauré | Sonata No. 1 in A Major, op. 13
Allegro molto
Andante
Allegro vivo
Allegro quasi prestoArtists- Pualina Lim Mei En, piano
Thank you to all of my ‘human families’ at home and at NEC,
and especially to my incredibly wonderful teacher, Ms. Meyers.