The Flute Comes Alive! (5–8) Students are
involved in a discussion of mood and feeling in music. The flute’s tone,
technique, interpretation and expression are discussed. Concepts of acoustics
are also included. (single
session)
The Magic Flute! (1–4) Students interact
with the performer through musical storytelling. The instruments of the flute
family: piccolo, flute, alto flute, recorder and wooden flute are introduced,
as well as musical concepts such as dynamics, timbre and rhythm. (single session or
mini-presentation)
Music and the Flute (9–12) Acoustics, music
history and musical interpretation are all part of this presentation of the art
and technique of the flute and the flute family. An introduction to
representative composers and the literature of the flute is also provided. (single session or
mini-presentation)
Andrea Kapell Loewy holds a Bachelor of Music from Eastman
School of Music, Master of Music from Emporia State University, and a Doctor of
Musical Arts from the University of Memphis. Her teachers have included Joseph
Mariano, Harold Bennett, John Heiss, Samuel Baron, Phillip Kaplan, and Bruce
Erskine. She played with the Mid-America Woodwind Quintet and was Co-Principal
Flutist of the Orchestra of the State of Mexico. Prior to her present job as
Professor of Flute and Theory and Graduate Coordinator at the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette, she was Adjunct Flute Instructor at Rhodes College.
In 1993 she was awarded the
University's "Distinguished Professor Award." She is Principal Flute
of the Acadiana Symphony, and has played several concertos with the orchestra,
including Mozart's Flute and Harp Concerto, Faure's Fantaisie, Zwillich's
Concerto, Godard’s Suite op. 116, J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertis #2 and #5,
J. S. Bach’s Suite in B Minor, and Viivaldi’s Il Cardellino. In addition, she
has performed both chamber and solo works at several of the National Flute
Conventions. She recently released a CD with Centaur Records, Apparitions and
Whimsies featuring twentieth century compositions for flute. She has
presented concerts and classes both at the national level at universities and
touring venues and internationally in China where she has performed and taught
on four separate concert tours during the past several years. She holds the Heymann
II Endowed Professorship in Music.