A Lecture Recital by

Dr. Wendy H. Rolfe

A Journey with the Flute Through Music History - wood, crystal, silver and gold

A historical tour of four centuries of music and the flute.

A lecture recital featuring flutes from four centuries, which will inform and delight

both music students and concert audiences.

Flute highlights include:

A Crystal flute, made by Claude Laurent in Paris in 1818

A wooden Boehm flute, made by Rudall Carte Company in London in 1876

One-key wooden Baroque traverso flutes (reproductions of flutes ca. 1750)

Eight-key wooden Classical flutes (reproductions of flutes ca. 1790)

Modern Boehm system flute, made by Brannen Brothers, USA

and more….

Music highlights include:

Baroque favorites by J. S. Bach and G. F. Handel

Romantic favorites by composers such as Robert Schumann

Brazilian gems from the 19th and 20th centuries

Avant-garde compositions which extend

the possibilities of the flute

Works by women composers:

Brazil's great Chiquinha Gonzaga and Francisca Aquino

Romantics Clara Schumann and Amy Cheney Beach

Hilary Tann and Libby Larsen

I-Yun Chung and Kazuyo Kuriya

Beth Denisch and Gretchen Hewitt

Dr. Rolfe has presented lecture recitals at:

Louisiana State University (2005 and 2011)

University of Alabama (Artist-in-Residence)

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

University of Michigan (Stearns Lecture)

Kent State University, Ohio

Universities of Delaware and Wisconsin

And for the St. Louis, Northern Ohio, Greater Boston, and Texas Flute Societies (Texas Flute Fair)

                         Below: Lima, Peru, San Francisco Monasterio, May, 2011, with Ensemble Arion