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Dorff Daniel
Adler, Samuel
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"Sonatine de Giverny" for piccolo and piano
"Sonatine de Giverny" for piccolo and piano
D. Dorff: "Sonatine de Giverny" for piccolo and piano was written in 2000 by commission of Piccolo Committee of the NFA, and premiered by Jan Gippo at the NFA 2000 Convention.
"When Jan Gippo commissioned me to compose a piccolo & piano recital piece to premiere at the National Flute Association's annual convention in 2000, I felt right away that it should be a somewhat neo-classical sonatina, perhaps with some French flavor. (Perhaps I was under the influence of the great piccolo solo opening Ravel's piano concerto.)
By happy coincidence I visited Paris for the first time a few months later and spent a day in nearby Giverny at the estate of Claude Monet, the great impressionist painter. As I saw the ravishing flowers, peaceful water gardens, and charming village, it became clear that the inspiration for the piccolo sonatina was falling into place. Sonatine de Giverny captures my experience seeing what Monet saw and is a musical setting of Giverny in our lifetime, not of Monet's paintings. The Giverny estate is carefully preserved to look just as it did 100 years ago, so there is a fascinating and almost eerie blend of old and new.
Les fleurs ravissantes depicts the brilliant ravishing flowers in the upper garden near Monet's house, with bright poppies and other plants interrupted by countless colorful butterflies and tiny flowers creating a ripply visual texture which certainly influenced Monet's work. Les jardins d'eau reflects the profound calm at the lower water garden which Monet created, with the famous Japanese footbridges, weeping willows, and water lilies. The photos on the cover of the publication were taken by me in 1999, but they appear timeless. En ville leaves Monet's estate to capture the bubbling charm of the rural towns of Giverny and Vernon."
Daniel Dorff
Dorff Daniel
Daniel Dorff (1956) is an American composer.
Born in New Rochelle, New York, he studied at Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick.
Dorff was a clarinetist, saxophonist, and bass clarinetist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence.
From 1996 until 2015, he was a composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey.
His works have been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz. He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.
Dorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music; many of his works are written for young audiences, including Three Fun Fables, a setting for narrator and orchestra of familiar Aesop tales; Billy and the Carnival, a narrated guide to the instruments of the orchestra, and many more.
Among his compositions for flute: "9 Walks Down 7th Avenue" Rondò Variations for flute and piano; "April Whirlwind" for flute and piano'; "August Idyll" for solo Flute; "Concertino" for flute and orchestra; "Flash!" for piccolo and piano; "For Elise" for flute and piano; "Nocturne Caprice" for solo flute; "Nocturnes for the Nativity" for solo flute; "Snow Angel" for flute and piano; "Sonata "Spirit of the Hudson" for bass flute and piano; Sonata "Three Lakes" for flute and piano; Sonatine de Giverny for piccolo and piano; "Songs of the Open Road" for solo flute etc.