Serenade To Eve, After Rodin
For Flute and Guitar - Set of Two Performance Scores
by Daniel Dorff
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music flute, guitar

SKU: PR.114410230

For Flute and Guitar - Set of Two Performance Scores. Composed by Daniel Dorff. Edited by Christiaan Taggart. Sws. Set of parts. With Standard notation. Composed Mar-99. 12+12 pages. Duration 9 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41023. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114410230).

ISBN 9781598060331. UPC: 680160015047. 9x12 inches.

DANIEL DORFFDaniel Dorff ’s music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch, commissioned five times by the Philadelphia Orchestra’s education department, and commissioned twice by the Minnesota Orchestra’s Kinder Konzert series which has programmed his music over 200 times.Dorff ’s works have also been performed by the Baltimore Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Eastman Wind Ensemble; chamber concerts of the Chicago Symphony, St. Louis Symphony and Oregon Symphony; on the 1998 Chicago Symphony Radiothon, by flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Walfrid Kujala, Denis Bouriakov, Donald Peck, clarinetists of the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic, and by pianist Marc-André Hamelin and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh.Other commissions have come from the Colorado Symphony’s Up Close and Musical series, Sacramento Symphony, Young Audiences, Ithaca College School of Music, Haddonfield Symphony, Network for New Music, National Flute Association Piccolo Committee, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and other organizations. Dorff has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and for pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.Daniel Dorff was born in New Rochelle, NY in 1956; acclaim came early with First Prize in the Aspen Music Festival’s annual composers’ competition at age 18. Dorff received degrees in composition from Cornell and University of Pennsylvania, serving as a Teaching Fellow at Penn. His teachers included George Rochberg, George Crumb, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick; he studied saxophone with Sigurd Rascher. In 1996, Dorff was named Composer-In-Residence for the Haddonfield Symphony, in which he played bass clarinet from 1980 through 2002.For more current and complete information, please visit www.danieldorff.com.
PROGRAM NOTESSERENADE TO EVE, AFTER RODIN was commissioned by the duo of Eileen Grycky and Christiaan Taggart; the idea came from a multimedia performance fresh in my mind when they approached me.In October 1998, choreographer Anne-Marie Mulgrew invited me to perform as an improvising solo clarinetist to accompany her and 3 other performers from her dance company at Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum. We were invited to perform in the outdoor garden, but luckily rain forced us inside, in front of Rodin’s imposing Adam and Eve sculptures. Anne-Marie’s choreography involved dancers taking postures and characters of Rodin’s works, and the last minute change into the gallery added extra drama to our performance, now in front of the sculptures themselves.To integrate music and dance, I wore all-white like the other performers, plus a top hat as a French gentleman of Rodin’s era might have, moving around the stage as part of the ensemble. The musical language was reminiscent of Debussy, Rodin’s contemporary.Rodin’s larger-than-life sculptures of Adam and Eve being banished from Paradise added a bold dimension to our semi-improvised event. I found Eve’s grief, terror, and shame overwhelming. I couldn’t resist playing to Eve as much as to the live dancers, and found myself fascinated with serenading this tragic figure.