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Music Department

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The Sixty-eighth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,771st Concert

Harold Jones, flutist 

Peter Vinograde, pianist

Presented in honor of

African American History Month

February 24, 2010 

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfree
Program

Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763)

Sonata no. 2

Grave

Allegro 

Adagio

Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Rondo

Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)

Concertino, op. 107

William Foster McDaniel (b. 1940)

Variations on “Were you There”

Traditional/Arr. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)

Lit’ Lite 0’ Mine/Sparklin’

Lloyd McNeill

The Falling Snow

Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916)

Sonatinefor Flute

The Musicians

HAROLD JONES

The career of flutist Harold Jones includes solo, chamber, and orchestra

performances that enchant audiences everywhere. His concert tours have 

taken him across the United States and throughout Asia and Europe. He

has been first flutist and soloist with a number of orchestras, including the

American Symphony Orchestra, the Bach Aria Orchestra, the Brooklyn 

Philharmonia, the Municipal Concerts Orchestra, the National Orchestra

Association, and the Symphony ofthe New World, working under such

conductors as David Amram, Leon Barzin, Frank Brief, Lukas Foss, Julius

Grossman, Everett Lee, Benjamin Steinberg, and Leopold Stokowski. Most 

recently, Jones has appeared as a soloist with the Butte, Montana, Symphony

Orchestra; the Chamber Orchestra ofAlbuquerque, New Mexico; and the

Kalamazoo, Michigan, Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his solo performance schedule, Jones has collaborated

with the prize-winning Audubon Quartet, internationally renowned pianist

Leon Bates, and guitarist Peter Segal. Jones also serves as musical director

and founder ofThe Antara Ensemble. Committed to bringing a wide range

of classical music to the culturally diverse neighborhoods of New York, the

ensemble performs repertoire that spans many centuries and includes works 

by African American and other American composers as well as composers

from throughout the developing world.

Jones began his musical education at age ten as a violin student in

Chicago. Upon hearing another student play piccolo, however, he immediately decided that the flute was the instrument he wanted to play. He was

awarded a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music, and received the

Outstanding Woodwind Player award prior to graduation. He continued his

studies with Marcel Moyse, the most famous French flutist of his generation.

In 1966 Jones played his New York recital debut at Town Hall. He later

appeared at cami Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Jordan Hall in Boston. He has

recorded the flute concertos of Antonio Vivaldi for the Library of Recorded

Masterpieces and has four solo albums to his credit for Antara Records.

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Jones teaches at Brooklyn College, the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division, Manhattanville College, and the Westchester Conservatory of

Music, and is a past president ofthe New York Flute Club.

PETER VINOGRADE

Pianist Peter Vinograde has developed a reputation as an outstanding interpreter ofthe music ofJohann Sebastian Bach and contemporary composers. 

He annually tours Asia, Canada, and the United States. His most recent

appearances in Asia have included a solo recital tour in China, performances 

with the Macao Orchestra, and a promotional tour with flutist Lydia Yang.

As a chamber musician, he has appeared at the Bard, Bargemusic, Caramoor,

and WolfTrap Festivals. As a collaborative performer, he has toured throughout Asia with violinist Midori. Vinograde has played Bach’s Goldberg Variations and two-and three-part inventions in recitals at the National Gallery

and a solo recital ofmusic by American composers as part ofthe Gallery’s

Sixty-third American Music Festival. In conjunction with his new class at

the Manhattan School of Music, “Bach for Pianists,” Vinograde presents the 

Goldberg Variations in lecture-recital format, which he has also presented at

the Juilliard School of Music and other music conservatories.

Vinograde has many world premiere performances to his credit, including Nicolas Flagello’s Concerto no. j (1962) in Owensboro, Kentucky; Hal

Campbell’s Piano Concerto (1997) in Utah; and Mark Zucleerman’s On the

Edges (1996) in Taiwan. Vinograde’s numerous distinctions began with

first prize in the 1971 Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition in 

Washington, D.C., followed by his New York debut at Carnegie Hall and a

Lincoln Center recital at Alice Tully Hall, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been featured on American Public Radio’s Performance Today and cbc-tv’s The Journal, cds include releases on Albany, cbc,

Linfair (Decca) and Phoenix Records. Peter Vinograde teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a student of Zenon Fishbein, and at

Lehman College ofthe City University of New York.

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Program Notes

A student ofthe oboe, the violin, and voice, Giovanni Benedetto Platti was

born and raised in Italy, where he lived until 1722, when he was called to

Wurzburg, Germany, to work for the prince-bishop of Bamberg and Wurzburg. Platti married a German singer, Theresia Langpriickner, with whom

he had eight children. He was also one of the first composers who learned to

play the recently invented fortepiano and composed sonatas specially for it.

His compositions for oboe and violin were published as pieces “for violin,

flute, or oboe,” in order to maximize the opportunities for sale ofthe music.

Cecile Chaminade wrote the Concertino, op. 107, in 1902 as an examination piece for flute students at the Paris Conservatoire, where it was used

for many years thereafter. The work is dedicated to the famed French flutist 

and teacher Paul Taflfanel, who served as flute professor at the Conservatoire 

from 1893 until his death in 1908. Chaminade’s composition begins with

a broad and graceful melody. After a more active central section, marked Piu

animato agitato, a short phrase leads into a cadenza for the flutist. A reprise

ofthe opening melody and a rousing coda conclude this melodic and

attractive work.

William Foster McDaniel was born in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating

from public schools in Columbus and Dublin, Ohio, McDaniel went on to

study piano with Loy Kohler at the Conservatory of Music of Capital University in Columbus and music theory and counterpoint with William Bailey.

He continued his studies at Boston University, where he studied piano with 

Lawrence Leighton-Smith and Bela Boszormenyi-Nagy and composition and 

orchestration with Gardner Read. He spent the 1966-1967 school year in

Paris as a Fulbright scholar, studying piano with Jacques Fevrier. In addition 

to composing and playing solo recitals and chamber concerts with the New

Symphony of New York and the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, McDaniel

has directed and conducted performances of The Fantasticks, Bubblin' Brown

Sugar, Timbuktu, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Sophisticated Ladies, Fiddler on the Roof,

Flouse ofFlowers, and Once on This Island. He won first prize in the 1965

National Piano Competition ofthe National Association of Negro Musicians.

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Artist, composer, and flutist Lloyd McNeill was born in Washington, D.C.,

and is currently based in New York City. Having studied art and zoology at 

Morehouse College, he then attended Howard University, where he was the

first recipient ofits master of fine arts degree. In 1964-1965, he attended

tlie Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he spent considerable time working

on lithography with Pablo Picasso and his wife, Jacqueline. McNeill also 

studied composition privately with Hale Smith, music theory and flute technique with jazz flutist Eric Dolphy, and classical flute technique and repertoire with Harold Jones. McNeill is presently professor emeritus ofmusic

at the Mason Gross School ofthe Arts at Rutgers University. In the 1970s

McNeill taught African American music history and launched the jazz 

studies program at Rutgers.

McNeill has exhibited his paintings and drawings at several galleries

and colleges in the northeastern United States. He has published two volumes of poems: Blackline and AJier the Rain. In 2007 McNeill was chosen

by the United States Postal Service to design a postage stamp for the celebration of Kwanzaa in 2009.

Unlike his mature works, which show a serious attempt to emulate Bela

Bartok, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern, Henri Dutilleux’s Sonatinefor Flute

(1942) revels in youthful overstatement and saucy French mannerisms. Lasting barely ten minutes, the work consists ofthree sections played without

pause. It begins with a mysterious, tonally ambiguous theme, which the flute 

plays over an angular rising and falling piano motif. As the piece unfolds,

the flute offers some brighter material, including a tense and questioning

flute cadenza and an expressive, lyrical slow section reminiscent of Francis

Poulenc in his quietest moments. By the time the Sonatine draws to a close,

it will have tested the flutist’s articulation, breath control, and agility.

Program notes by Stephen Ackert, head ofthe music department, National

Gallery ofArt

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Next Week at the National Gallery of Art

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Music by Bizet, Buononcini, Gabrieli,

Golijov, Ortiz, and Shostakovich

Presented in honor of

The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting

and Sculpture, 1600-1700

February 28, 2010

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Moscow String Quartet

Music by Gubaidulina and Haydn

Presented in honor of

Women’s History Month

March 3, 2010

Wednesday, 12:10 pm

West Building Lecture Hall