Music and Prose by Byron Adams: A Celebration

We celebrate the creative and scholarly work of Distinguished Professor Byron Adams on occasion of his retirement, with a reading of his work on French music, and performances of his music, including a premiere choreographed for two dancers by Professor Linda Tomko.

The Department of Music honors the creative and scholarly work of musicologist and composer Byron Adams, Distinguished Professor at UCR, who will retire at the end of this academic year. This interdisciplinary program features four of his compositions for voice, piano, piano duet, and small ensemble, including a recently composed Musette for Dancing, choreographed for two dancers by Professor Linda Tomko, emeritus from the Dance Department. Distinguished Professor Walter Clark will read an excerpt of Byron Adams’s scholarly prose, on the Requiem by French composer Gabriel Fauré.

PROGRAM

Illuminations for piano (2008) Byron Adams (b. 1955)
Dr. Gary Barnett, piano

Three Songs for soprano and piano (1991)
Dr. Melissa Givens, soprano
Prof. Genevieve Lee, piano

A reading from Lux aeterna: Fauré’s Messe de Requiem, Op. 48
Dr. Walter Clark, reader

Trittico for piano duet (2014)
Professors Kimberly Amin and Gary Barnett, duo pianists

La Muszette à deux (c. 1713)
music composed by André Cardinal Destouches, from Callirhoé (1712)
choreography by Guillaume-Louis Pécour, notated by Michel Gaudrau
dance direction by Linda Tomko
dancers: Jill Chadroff and Hye-Won Hwang

Musette for Dancing (2022)
music composed by Byron Adams
choreography and dance direction by Linda Tomko
dancers: Jill Chadroff and Hye-Won Hwang

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