Recital: Daihua Song '23, Saxophone

NEC: Burnes Hall | Directions

255 St. Botolph St.
Boston, MA
United States

NEC's students meet one-on-one each week with a faculty artist to perfect their craft. As each one leaves NEC to make their mark in the performance world, they present a full, professional recital that is free and open to the public. It's your first look at the artists of tomorrow.

Daihua Song '23 studies Saxophone with Kenneth Radnofsky and is the recipient of the Tan Family Foundation Scholarship.

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live

Artists
  • Daihua Song '23, saxophone
  • Ziang Yin and Ziang Xu, piano
  • Kenneth Radnofsky, studio teacher

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach | Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013

    Allemande
    Courante
    Sarabande
    Bourrée anglaise

  2. Jacques Ibert | Concertino da Camera (1935)

    Allegro con moto
    Larghetto, animato molto

    Artists
    • Ziang Xu, piano

  3. INTERMISSION

  4. William Albright | Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1984)

    Two Part Invention
    La follia nuova: a lament for George Cacioppo
    Scherzo: “Will o’ the wisp”
    Recitative and Dance

    Artists
    • Ziang Yin, piano

  5. Jianchang Tan (arr. Haowen Wang) | The Cloud of Hometown 故乡的云

    Program note

    I was commissioned by Daihua Song to arrange the Chinese pop song "The cloud of hometown" (故乡的云). I tried to combine Chinese folk music and western music theory system with my homage to them.  In this piece, I used the scales and rhythms of Chinese folk music. As Daihua and I are both from Shandong, I quoted the melody of the classic Shandong folk song ”沂蒙山小调“.
            Besides that, I have tried to apply a series of Western twentieth-century theories such as two of Messiaen’s  7 modes of limited transposition, the whole tone scale and the octatonic scale, in this piece.  One of the things I would like to emphasize is the three-voice counterpoint at the end of the piece. The top voice is from the chorus melody of “The cloud of hometown”, and the middle voice is from a variation of the Shandong folk song,"    沂蒙山小调". The motive for the bass part comes from a design of mine, where I used the names of the tones of the Chinese tonal system "宫, 商...清角,变宫“ etc. as the first horizontal row, and the 26 letters of the English corresponded to the first row in turn. Finally, the three tones corresponding to the acronym "DHS" for DaiHua Song are used as the motive.  I figured that since I had already arranged the piece, I might as well leave a mark for Daihua in the piece in this way. 
           I would also like to take this opportunity to wish him a happy graduation.
    —Haowen Wang

     
    Artists
    • Ziang Xu, piano

  6. I want to express my lifelong gratitude to my Professor Kenneth Radnofsky
    and thank my parents for always supporting me.

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Student RecitalsCollegeWoodwindsSaxophonePiano