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Cherubs on the Ceiling [saxophone alto et trio à cordes / alto saxophone and string trio] avec la collaboration de: with the participation of: n/d-n/a, violon / violin n/d-n/a, alto / viola n/d-n/a, violoncelle / cello |
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| Brina Michel Bourliea is currently enrolled at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. where she is a student of Dr. Griffin Campbell. Since the fall of 1996 she has participated in numerous University ensembles including the Symphonic Band, Symphonic Winds Band, and the Jazz Lab Band.
Ms. Bourliea has been a section saxophone with the Baton Rouge Symphony since 1997 and also serves as a substitute in a local jazz ensemble, The Stardust Orchestra. In 1997, she began playing alto in the LSU Undergraduate Saxophone Quartet which attended the 1998 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference in Evanston, IL. The Quartet was chosen as alternate at the Louisiana Music Teacher's National Association Chamber Music Competition in 1998 and also performed at the NASA Region VI Conference at the University of Georgia in 1999. Solo performances include a recital in July 1997, a performance at Mississippi College, and an anticipated recital July 1999. Ms. Bourliea plans to receive the Bachelor of Music degree from LSU in May 2000 and begin graduate school the following August. |
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Cherubs on the Ceiling was commissioned in 1990 by Dr. Griffin Campbell and members of the Valcour String Quartet. The commission stipulated that the piece should be based, in some way, on one of any of the photographs in Clarence Laughton's book Ghosts Along the Mississippi. The composer selected a photograph of three cherubs painted on the ceiling of an antebellum mansion. The resulting composition is a single-movement scherzo which pits a decidedly uncherubic saxophone againts three string instruments."
-Paul Hayden |
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