Recording of Frances White's Valdrada. "Valdrada" is based on an excerpt from Le Citta invisibili" by Italo Calvino. Calvino's book is a collection of prose poems, connected by the scenario of Marco Polo telling Kublai Khan stories of the fantastic cities which he has visited. The piece is based on Marco's description of Valdrada, a city built upon the shore of a lake. Marco tells of how an arriving traveler sees not one but two cities : the "real" one above and its reflection in the water below ; he then explains the peculiar awareness which the inhabitants of Valdrada have of their reflections in the lake. So great is their obsession with these mirrors of themselves that it becomes not so much their own actions and passions which are of importance to them, but those of their images in the water. Finally, Marco tells of the relationship between the city and its mirror : "the two cities live for one another, their eyes locked together, but there is no love between them". In composing "Valdrada", Frances White wanted to draw upon the imagery, atmosphere, and poetry of the text without creating an explicit "setting" of it. In particular, the …

Choral and Chamber Wind concert performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Chamber Wind Ensemble performance at UNT College of Music Recital Hall

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Faculty voice recital performed at UNT's College of Music Recital Hall.

Percussion concert performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Ensemble concert performed at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Texts by Sophocles and her translation by Hölderlin. Fragments, snatches, decomposition, bursts of voice. Sometimes it mingles with that of an invisible choir, then of nakedness, stripped of its flesh, remains as a trace or emerges, alone, through a song of love of pain and solitude. That of Antigone buried alive for doing the forbidden gesture to be in agreement with herself? The musical writing of the band is based on the states of the voice material of the singer obtained as a result of various electronic and digital processing. The soprano part is itself a voice material by its dynamics and its colors to become singing, then alternates between these two states. First movement: Alle tyrannis Alle tyrannis polla t'all 'eudaimonei xaksestin aute Dran legein thabouletai Second movement: The child cries in a shrill voice', As a bird grieves to find its empty nest, Abandoned from its untold grave, falls, underground remains where to watch forever. Seeing the naked dead, she began to groan, and she cursed with dreadful imprecations the one who did that. For a long time they swept away the dust, baring the wet body until the orb of the sun came to bow straight above …

Faculty performance in memory of Philip Montalbo M.D. given at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

A faculty recital performed at the UNT School of Music Recital Hall.

A concert performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall

Brass concert performed at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Recital presented at the UNT School of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Brass concert performed at the UNT School of Music Recital Hall.

Symphonic Wind Ensemble performance at UNT's College of Music Concert Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

A faculty recital performed at the North Texas State University School of Music Concert Hall.

Ensemble concert presented at UNT School of Music Concert Hall.

Ensemble concert presented at UNT School of Music Recital Hall.

UNT University and Concert Bands performance given at UNT College of Music Concert Hall.