Pequena Suite, by Rene Amengual
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Summary Extended Description Audio Sample   CMP 1393 Solo for flute with piano accompaniment. Grade 4. Approx. duration: seven minutes. Set includes a piano score and one part. In 1945, Chile’s Institute of Musical Extension (IME) invited the American composer, conductor and flutist (formerly a member of the Chicago Symphony), David Van Vactor (1906-94), to conduct that country’s national symphony in a series of concerts that would feature the music of North America. In addition, he was to direct a series of chamber music concerts and teach a class in instrumental and choral ensembles in Chile‘s National Conservatory. Particularly because of the latter, not long after arriving in Santiago he developed a relationship with Chilean composer René Amengual, who was professor of composition in the National Conservatory and also the director of the IME chamber music program. Within a relatively short amount of time, Amengual had not only composed his “Pequeña Suite” (Little Suite) for the North American flutist, but the two of them had also premiered the work during June, 1945, on the season’s fifth chamber music program. For his part, Van Vactor composed a Sonatina for flute and piano that was also performed for the first time during the same event. In this four-movement work, Amengual combines Ravelian impressionism and elements of neo classicism, which was a stylistic trend that had begun to gain adherents in Chile during the late 1910s. Therefore, there are structures that are imitative as well as an extended harmonic palette that consists of unlikely pedal tones, suspensions or respellings of notes and chords. Amengual, Pequeña Suite, III, “Aria” Laurel Zucker, flute; John Cozza, piano. For more by this composer... ... click here to go to Maestro Amengual’s composer page.

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