Frank ELEGÍA ANDINA

ELEGIA ANDINA for Orchestra

From the G. Schirmer Rental Library Date of Printing________________

Gabriela Lena Frank

G. Schirmer, Inc. New York, NY

Gabriela Lena Frank

ELEGIA ANDINA for

Orchestra (2000)

Made possible by the Albany Symphony Orchestra American Voices Commission

Premiered on December 10th, 2000 by the Albany Symphony Orchestra David Alan Miller, Conductor Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Troy, New York

G. Schirmer, Inc. New York, NY

Instrumentation

2 Flutes (2 doubling Piccolo) nd

2 Oboes

2 Clarinets in Bb

2 Bassoons

2 Horns in F

2 Trumpets in C

Timpani (4 drums)

Percussion: Glockenspiel Large and Small Triangles Slapstick Suspended Cymbal Temple Blocks

Woodblock

Strings (8,8,6,4,2)

Duration ca. 11 minutes

Performance Note

Trills should all be played to the half step below unless otherwise indicated.

Composer’s Note

Elegía Andina for Orchestra (2000) is dedicated to my older brother, Marcos Gabriel Frank. As children of a multicultural marriage (our father being Lithuanian-Jewish and our mother being ChinesePeruvian-Spanish), our early days were filled with Chinese stir-fry cuisine, Andean nursery songs, and frequent visits from our New York-bred Jewish cousins. As a young piano student, my repertoire included not only my own compositions that carried overtones from Peruvian folk music but also rags of Scott Joplin and minuets by the sons of Bach. It is probably inevitable then that as a composer and pianist today, I continue to thrive on multiculturalism. Elegía Andina (Andean Elegy) is one of my first written-down compositions to explore what it means to be of several ethnic persuasions, of several minds. It uses stylistic elements of Peruvian arca/ira zampoña panpipes (double-row panpipes, each row with its own tuning) to paint an elegiac picture of my questions. The flute part was particularly conceived with this in mind but was also inspired by the technical and musical mastery of Floyd Hebert, principal flutist of the Albany Symphony Orchestra. In addition, as already mentioned, I can think of none better to dedicate this work to than to “Babo”, my big brother for whom Perú still waits.

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ELEGIA ANDINA for Orchestra

Gabriela Lena Frank (2000)

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