Nightnotes with Cornelia Sommer

Co-sponsored by Victoria King & the Family of Burton D. Jones

DSO bassoonist Cornelia Sommer makes her first Nightnotes appearance with a performance previewing her new album, New Enchantments: Fairy Tales for Bassoon, featuring her own arrangements of works inspired by fairy tales. She’ll be joined by DCWS/DSO principal oboist Alex Kinmonth, DSO principal bassoon Conrad Cornelison, and pianist Dror Baitel, a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame.

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NEW ENCHANTMENTS features six world premiere recordings for bassoon inspired by the magical world of fairy tales. Three pieces are Sommer’s arrangements of classic fairy tale music, and the other three pieces are commissioned works based on tales from the composers’ own cultural heritages. The album is a companion to Sommer’s scholarly work on fairy tale music; in her dissertation, she defines three major archetypes present in fairy tale music: magic, a distant setting, and simplicity. On NEW ENCHANTMENTS, these archetypes come alive in the delightful musical language of each composer. This album was made possible by grants from the Presser Foundation, The Juilliard School, and the International Double Reed Society.

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