Stage set for intimate lyrical performance
Robert Garner
Issue date: 2/11/09 Section: Lifestyles
The air inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall will be filled with the sweet sounds of the Lyrique Quintette tomorrow night.
The group is comprised of five UA music department faculty members who also have served as musical ambassadors throughout the country and abroad. Theresa Delaplain is the group manager and the oboist of the quintette. Nophachai Cholthitchanta will join her on stage on clarinet along with Ronda Mains on flute, Richard Ramey on bassoon and Timothy Thompson on French horn, according to a press release.
The group has been critically acclaimed for providing very moving and emotional performances in an "intimate, personal and comfortable setting," according to the press release.
Mains said the group's history helps them give such intimate performances.
"We have been together almost 20 years, and we have performed all over the world together," she said.
Formed in 1990, Lyrique Quintet has undergone only one personnel change, Mains said.
In addition to their normal duties as professors within the music department, members of Lyrique Quintette also dedicate time to work on editing projects and their upcoming performances, she said.
Tomorrow evening's program will feature the premier of "Quintet for Winds" composed by Christopher Lacy, a music department faculty member and the artistic director of the Opera Theater.
Another piece on the program will be Claude Debussy's "Children's Corner Suite." Richard Bobo, a UA alumnus, composed the arrangement for the quintet, Mains said.
"The six movements are quite short and full of lush sonorities," she said.
The piece also will feature a variety of instruments, including the alto flute, the English horn and a tiny recorder, she said.
The final piece on the program is Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," transcribed for the quintet. The composer was inspired to write the piece while walking through an art exhibit, according to the press release.
Each movement of the piece represents a picture, Mains said.
As an homage to Mussorgsky's inspiration, the quintet's performance also will include a slide show of some of the original paintings, which include the famous "Hut of Baba-Yaga" and the "Great Gates of Kiev."
Admission is free for all to attend. The performance will begin 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
More information about Lyrique Quintette can be obtained by calling the music department at 575-4701 or by visiting its Web site at www.music.uark.edu.
The group is comprised of five UA music department faculty members who also have served as musical ambassadors throughout the country and abroad. Theresa Delaplain is the group manager and the oboist of the quintette. Nophachai Cholthitchanta will join her on stage on clarinet along with Ronda Mains on flute, Richard Ramey on bassoon and Timothy Thompson on French horn, according to a press release.
The group has been critically acclaimed for providing very moving and emotional performances in an "intimate, personal and comfortable setting," according to the press release.
Mains said the group's history helps them give such intimate performances.
"We have been together almost 20 years, and we have performed all over the world together," she said.
Formed in 1990, Lyrique Quintet has undergone only one personnel change, Mains said.
In addition to their normal duties as professors within the music department, members of Lyrique Quintette also dedicate time to work on editing projects and their upcoming performances, she said.
Tomorrow evening's program will feature the premier of "Quintet for Winds" composed by Christopher Lacy, a music department faculty member and the artistic director of the Opera Theater.
Another piece on the program will be Claude Debussy's "Children's Corner Suite." Richard Bobo, a UA alumnus, composed the arrangement for the quintet, Mains said.
"The six movements are quite short and full of lush sonorities," she said.
The piece also will feature a variety of instruments, including the alto flute, the English horn and a tiny recorder, she said.
The final piece on the program is Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," transcribed for the quintet. The composer was inspired to write the piece while walking through an art exhibit, according to the press release.
Each movement of the piece represents a picture, Mains said.
As an homage to Mussorgsky's inspiration, the quintet's performance also will include a slide show of some of the original paintings, which include the famous "Hut of Baba-Yaga" and the "Great Gates of Kiev."
Admission is free for all to attend. The performance will begin 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.
More information about Lyrique Quintette can be obtained by calling the music department at 575-4701 or by visiting its Web site at www.music.uark.edu.
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