Baldwin, Wesley

Rovit, Peter

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Ithaca CollegeDigital Commons @ ICAll Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs10-6-2011Guest Artist Recital: Peter Rovit, violin and WesleyBaldwin, celloPeter RovitWesley BaldwinFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programsPart of the Music CommonsThis Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted forinclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC.Recommended CitationRovit, Peter and Baldwin, Wesley, "Guest Artist Recital: Peter Rovit, violin and Wesley Baldwin, cello" (2011). All Concert & RecitalPrograms. 245.http://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/245Guest Artist Recital: Peter Rovit, violinWesley Baldwin, celloHockett Family Recital HallThursday, October 6, 20117:00 p.m.ProgramTom (2008) Marc Mellits(b. 1966)Suite for Violin and Violoncello (1997)I. PreludeII. With energyIII. Stately, slowIV. Very fast and skittishV. Street DancesWilliam Bolcom(b. 1938)Rumi Settings (2001)Movement I(see notes for text to all movements)Movement IIMovement IIIMovement IVAugusta Read Thomas(b. 1964)IntermissionThe World is Aflame (2006) Christopher Theofanides(b. 1967)Duo for Violin and Cello (1965)I. Allegro giocosoII. IntermezzoIII. MarchIV. FinaleAlan Shulman(1915-2002)Two as One as Two to One (2011)I. FranticII. VersesIII. WhisperIV. 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Dr. Baldwin has performed chamber music at theAspen, Cazenovia, Hot Springs, Ojai, Sandpoint, Mainly Mozart, May in Miami,Skaneateles, and Subtropics Music Festivals, and internationally in Italy, France, MonteCarlo, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Argentina, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica.   Wesleyis now cellist of the James Piano Quartet, the resident ensemble at Sweet Briar Collegeand the Wintergreen Festival. In the summers he performs and teaches at the MichiganCity Chamber Music Festival, the ARIA academy, and at the Wintergreen Festival,where he serves on the faculty of the Wintergreen Academy and holds the LeonardRose Memorial chair as principal cellist of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra.   Apassionate teacher, Wesley serves as the youngest full Professor in the School of Musicat the University of Tennessee, where he received the Chancellor's Award forProfessional Promise. His former students play and teach throughout the United States. Dr. Baldwin founded and directs the Tennessee Cello Workshop, an annual three-daygathering of roughly 100 cellists of all ages from throughout the United States held eachFebruary.   Mr. Baldwin plays on a cello by J.B. Vuillaume. He lives in Knoxville withhis wife (soprano Melisa Barrick), three great children, and three dogs.NotesRumi SettingsMovement IDon't worry about saving these songs!And if one of our instruments breaks,it doesn't matter.We have fallen into the placewhere everything is music.Movement IIThe strumming and the flute notesrise into the atmosphere,and even if the whole world's harpshould burn up, there will still behidden instruments playing.So the candle flickers and goes out.We have a piece of flint, and a spark.Movement IIIThis singing art is sea foam.The graceful movements come from a pearlsomewhere on the ocean floor.Poems reach up like spindrift and the edgeof driftwood along the beach, wanting!They derivefrom a slow and powerful rootthat we can't seeMovement IVStop the words now.Open the window in the center of your chest,and let the spirits fly in and out.

Guest Artist Recital: Peter Rovit, violin and Wesley Baldwin, cello

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Guest Artist Recital: Peter Rovit, violin and Wesley Baldwin, cello

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