By Sarah McMillin, Staff Writer
Juniors Ali Hordeski and Charlotte Wood performed a joint recital on April 13 in Stretansky Concert Hall.
Hordeski and Wood performed on piano and clarinet, respectively.
Wood took the first half of the recital, performing three pieces on her clarinet while accompanied by Lecturer in Music Jamie Namminga.
Wood began with “Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano,” a piece composed by Gerald Finzi. She played the first, second and fifth movements, entitled “Prelude,” “Romance” and “Fughetta.”
During the piece, she showed various images from around England on a screen behind her. All the pictures were taken by her family from England.
“The Finzi is often showcased with visual media and it’s normally paintings or oil drawings, but I thought photographs would be nice,” Wood said.
The other pieces Wood performed were “Sarabande et theme varie” by Reynaldo Hahn and the third movement, “Rondo,” from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622.”
For Hordeski’s half of the recital, she also played three pieces. The first was Domenico Scarlatti’s “Sonata in F Minor, K 239.” Her next set included two Mazurka’s by Frederic Chopin, “Mazurka in A Minor, Opus 17 No.4,” and “Mazurka in B-flat Major, Opus 7 No. 1.”
She closed with all six movements of Claude Debussy’s “Children’s Corner” suite.
Both Wood and Hordeski emphasized the effort put into their recital.
“I was really super stressed beforehand,” Wood said. “I stepped on the stage and it was like, this is it. This is what I was born to do.”
“The whole process leading up to it was a lot of hard work, but the word I would use to describe the recital itself is exhilarating,” Hordeski said.
For Wood, this half-recital was her capstone for her music education degree, as next semester she will be student teaching. For Hordeski, the half-recital is more of a preparation for the full hour-long recital they give as their capstone.
