At the Origins of Art Music for the Flute in North America: An Early American Music program, 1800-1858, is being recorded in Florence this summer, at the historic Villa Favard of Rovezzano, one of the buildings of the Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Cherubini" di Firenze. ICAMus and the Florence Conservatory of Music are collaborationg on this project, integrating research, performance, teaching, and recording of Early-Romantic American Music.

Works by Edward Riley (1769-1829), Benjamin Carr (1768-1831; in America from 1793), Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861), Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864).

The performers are: Amelia Burns, soprano; Kyle Sullivan (baritone); Viola Shaula Valerio (flute); Anna Toccafondi (solo piano, piano accompaniment, ensemble direction); a project by Aloma Bardi.

This is the first program carried out by ICAMus within the recently-established Affiliation Agreement with the Music Conservatory of Florence.

AT THE ORIGIN OF ART MUSIC IN NORTH AMERICA, 1800-1858

An ICAMus Project by Aloma Bardi

PROGRAM

EDWARD RILEY (1769-1829)

Riley’s Flute melodies (2 vols., 1814-1820; solo flute):

     I,201     Anacreon in Heaven

     I,51       President’s March

     II,1        President Monroe’s Hornpipe

     II,328    America Commerce and Freedom

     I,188     New Orleans Waltz

BENJAMIN CARR (1768-1831; in America from 1793)

Rondo in E flat for piano/fortepiano (c. 1800)

Rondo in B for piano/fortepiano (c. 1800)

EDWARD RILEY (1769-1829)

Riley’s Flute melodies (2 vols., 1814-1820; solo flute):

     I,288     Yankey Chronology

     I,120     Negro Dance

     I,187     The Celebration March: On the Peace of 1815

     I,201     Anacreon in Heaven

ANTHONY PHILIP HEINRICH (1781-1861) 

The Dawning of Music in Kentucky (1820):

     The Musical Bachelor (song; voice [soprano], flute and piano)

     Sensibility (song; 2 voices [soprano, baritone], flute and piano)

     Sensibility’s Child (song; voice [soprano] and piano; new arrangement for soprano, flute and piano)

The Voice of Faithful Love (song - sheet music publ.; in Scrap Book, 1075a-1078; 1832; voice [soprano], flute and piano)

STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER (1826-1864) 

The Social Orchestra (1854):

     Anadolia  (original version, solo flute)

     Irene [see Linger in Blissful Repose] (Author's arrangement for solo flute) 

Linger in Blissful Repose [see Irene] (1858; song - sheet music publ.; Author's arrangement; voice [soprano] and piano; Introduction and Finale: new arrangement for soprano, flute and piano) 

Old Folks Quadrilles: Old Folks at Home; Oh Boys, Carry Me Long; Nelly Bly; Farewell My Lilly Dear; Cane Brake Jig (sheet music publ.; 1853; solo piano) 

The Social Orchestra (1854):

    Old Folks at Home, with variations (Author's arrangement for solo flute)

    Old Folks at Home (song - sheet music publ.; 1851; original version for voice [baritone], chorus [soprano, baritone] and piano)