Recital: Erika Josephine Rohrberg '23 MM, Flute

NEC: Pierce Hall | Directions

241 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.

Erika Josephine Rohrberg '23 MM studies Flute with Cynthia Meyers.

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

Artists
  • Erika Rohrberg '23 MM, flute
  • Pualina Lim Mei En and Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
  • Cynthia Meyers, studio teacher

  1. Three of the four works on this recital are reprogrammed from my senior recital at The Hartt School, which would have taken place in April of 2020. Nearly three years later, this performance is a celebration of tenacity, growth, and new adventures. It is dedicated to all of you, and all of the wonderful ways in which our paths have crossed and re-crossed over the past few years. 

  2. Georg Philipp Telemann | Fantasia No. 7 in D Major, TWV 40:8

    Alla francese
    Allegro
    Largo
    Presto

  3. Valerie Coleman | Fanmi Imèn: Poem for Flute and Piano

    Poem by Maya Angelou
     

    Program note

    Human Family
    I note the obvious differences
    in the human family.
    Some of us are serious,
    some thrive on comedy.

    Some declare their lives are lived
    as true profundity,
    and others claim they really live
    the real reality.

    The variety of our skin tones
    can confuse, bemuse, delight,
    brown and pink and beige and purple,
    tan and blue and white.

    I've sailed upon the seven seas
    and stopped in every land,
    I've seen the wonders of the world
    not yet one common man.

    I know ten thousand women
    called Jane and Mary Jane,
    but I've not seen any two
    who really were the same.

    Mirror twins are different
    although their features jibe,
    and lovers think quite different thoughts
    while lying side by side.

    We love and lose in China,
    we weep on England's moors,
    and laugh and moan in Guinea,
    and thrive on Spanish shores.

    We seek success in Finland,
    are born and die in Maine.
    In minor ways we differ,
    in major we're the same.

    I note the obvious differences
    between each sort and type,
    but we are more alike, my friends,
    than we are unalike.

    We are more alike, my friends,
    than we are unalike.
    We are more alike, my friends,
    than we are unalike.

    Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
    from Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
    New York : Random House, 1994

     
    Artists
    • Pualina Lim Mei En, piano

  4. André Jolivet | Chant de Linos

    Artists
    • Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano

  5. Gabriel Fauré | Sonata No. 1 in A Major, op. 13

    Allegro molto
    Andante
    Allegro vivo
    Allegro quasi presto

    Artists
    • Pualina Lim Mei En, piano

  6. Thank you to all of my ‘human families’ at home and at NEC,
    and especially to my incredibly wonderful teacher, Ms. Meyers    .

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