Recital: Graham Alexander Winsor Lovely '24, French horn
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.
Graham Alexander Winsor Lovely '24 studies French horn with Eli Epstein and is the recipient of the Willem A. Valkenier Scholarship.
This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live
- Graham Alexander Winsor Lovely '24, French horn
- John Ferguson, piano
- Honor Hickman, flute
- Alexander Lenser, oboe, English horn
- Evan Chu, clarinet
- Abigail Heyrich, bassoon
- Mauricio Martinez, French horn
- Eli Epstein, studio teacher
Johannes Brahms
from Hornsongs, Vol. III, arr. Verne Reynolds
Es rauschet das Wasser, op. 28
Der Jäger und sein Liebchen, op. 28
Weg der Liebe, op. 20
Walpurgisnacht, op. 75Artists- Mauricio Martinez, French horn
- John Ferguson, piano
William Grant Still
arr. Alexa Still
Song for the Lonely
If You Should GoArtists- John Ferguson, piano
Paul Hindemith | Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano
Ruhig bewegt
Lebhaft
Sehr langsam
Lebhaft
Poem recited between 3rd and 4th movementsThe Posthorn
Hornist:
Is not the sounding of a horn to our busy souls
(even as the scent of blossoms wilted long ago
or the discolored folds of musty tapestry,
or crumbling leaves of ancient yellowed tomes)
like a sonorous visit from those ages
which counted speed by straining horses’ gallop,
and not by lightning prisoned up in cables;
and when to live and learn they ranged the countryside,
not just the Closely Printed pages?
The cornucopia’s gift calls forth in us
a pallid yearning, melancholy longing.Pianist:
The old is good not just because it’s past,
nor is the new supreme because we live with it,
and never yet a man felt greater joy
than he could bear or truly comprehend.
Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise
to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful,
and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.- Paul Hindemith
Artists- John Ferguson, piano
INTERMISSION
Carl Nielsen | Wind Quintet, op. 43
Allegro ben moderato
Menuet
Prelude: Theme and variationsArtists- Honor Hickman, flute
- Alexander Lenser, oboe, English horn
- Evan Chu, clarinet
- Abigail Heyrich, bassoon
Alexander Scriabin | Romance for Horn and Piano, op. posth.
Artists- John Ferguson, piano