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Rouse Christopher
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Flute Concerto
Christopher Rouse: Flute Concerto was written in 1993, in Fairport, New York, and dedicated to Rouse's wife Ann. The Flute Concerto was composed for Carol Wincenc and first performed on October 27, 1994, by Wincenc and the Detroit Symphony at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, Michigan.
The piece was inspired by Celtic music and consists of 5 movements.
“Although both of my parents’ families immigrated to America well before the Revolutionary War, I nonetheless still feel a deep ancestral tug of recognition whenever I am exposed to the arts and traditions of the British Isles, particularly those of Celtic origin.”
Christopher Rouse
1. Anhran.
The first and last movements are entitled “Anhran,” which is Gaelic for song. Rouse says, “They were intended in a general way to evoke the traditions of Celtic, especially Irish folk music, but to couch the musical utterance in what I hoped would seem a more spiritual, even metaphysical manner through the use of extremely slow tempi, perhaps not unlike some of the recordings of the Irish singer Enya.”
2. Alla Marcia
An energetic and boisterous march proceeding directly (attacca) from the first movement.
3. Elegia
Rouse: “structural and emotional centerpiece of the work.” It is a mournful lament for the dead, specifically composed to the memory of James Bulger, a two-year old English child who was abducted from a mall and brutally murdered by two ten-year-old boys.
4. Scherzo
Rouse writes that the fourth movement “keeps trying to become a jig.”
At some point, the jig is lost when the tempo accelerates to a point where the music becomes almost out of control.
Gradually, the chaos recedes, and without a break, the flute leads us into the final movement.
5. Anhram
This piece ends similarly to how it began: in an arch-like form.
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), The Houston Symphony, 1997, Telarc/Concord
1. Ànhran
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), The Houston Symphony, 1997, Telarc/Concord
2. Alla Marcia
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), The Houston Symphony, 1997, Telarc/Concord
3. Elegia
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), The Houston Symphony, 1997, Telarc/Concord
4. Scherzo
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor), The Houston Symphony, 1997, Telarc/Concord
5. Ànhran
Christopher Rouse (1949 – 2019) was an American composer, best known for his emotionally intense orchestral works and a wide range of concertos, symphonies, and chamber music. Even though some of his works were predominantly atonal, he was considered as a neoromantic composer, producing six symphonies, a dozen concertos, and various works for orchestra and ensembles.
Born in Baltimore, Rouse decided at age 6 to become a composer after his mother played a recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony for him. “It was like the heavens opened up,”.
He received his bachelor’s at Oberlin and his MFA and doctorate at Cornell. He studied with Richard Hoffmann, Robert Palmer, Karel Husa, and George Crumb. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Eastman, Aspen, and Peabody. For the last 20 years of his life, he was a faculty member at Juilliard.
Among his most noteworthy compositions: Symphony No. 1 (Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, 1988), the Trombone Concerto (Pulitzer Prize, 1993), and Concert de Gaudí (Grammy Award in 2002).