La Serenissima (2013), by Thomas Oboe Lee

La Serenissima (2013)

by Thomas Oboe Lee

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	1.	Introduction and Allegro 02:44
	2.	Largo 03:10
	3.	Presto 03:22
	4.	Allegretto 01:39
	5.	Adagio 05:19
	6.	Molto Allegro ... TRIO 03:50

about

Nancy Braithwaite, for whom I have written many works - all of them featuring her instrument the clarinet - told me that she was a member of a wind group based on Richard Strauss’ Serenade in E-flat Major, opus 7, for thirteen instruments: two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, four horns, two bassoons, and contrabassoon. I said to Nancy, “I should write a piece for that group.” She said that was a good idea. I soon discovered that the name of the group is La Rondine, or the swallow. I then remembered that Puccini wrote an opera called La Rondine. So I told Nancy that I might do a little research on the Puccini opera and come up with a piece inspired by thematic snippets I found in the opera.

Well, I did not find Puccini’s music that conducive to a transformation into TOL music.

Around the same time, I stumbled upon a 27-CD box set of nine operas by the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi. As I was listening to these obscure operas by Vivaldi it dawned on me that I was very attracted to what I was hearing, and it was seeping into my musical thinking in the most natural way imaginable. Very quickly I was hearing things for this work I planned to write for Nancy’s group, and the music just moved along quite smoothly from one movement into another. At the same time I began reading about Vivaldi and his life as a priest, violinist, teacher, impresario, and composer in the city of Venice and other cities nearby. What a fascinating life he led!!! I also discovered in my reading of his life that the city of Venice at that time was called “La Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia.”

So, instead of a “serenade for ten instruments,” my work for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two horns and two bassoons, is called “La Serenissima” as an homage to Antonio Vivaldi and that glorious city of Venice.

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released January 17, 2015

Eric Hewitt, Music Director
Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble

Allison Parramore, flute
Kanae Kimura, flute
Daniel Stackhouse, oboe
Angela Lickiss, oboe
Brittnee Pool, clarinet
David Angelo, clarinet
Phillip Kandel, bassoon
Tylor Thomas, bassoon
Nicholas Auer, horn
Emma Staudacher, horn

Music by Thomas Oboe Lee

© Departed Feathers Music, Inc. - BMI

Futura Productions Studio in Roslindale, MA.
Halloween night, October 31, 2014.
Michael Culler, engineer and editor

Photo credit: Thomas Oboe Lee

YouTube link: youtu.be/wc9FVAejUww

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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