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The Joy of Fluting: Paula Robison & her mentor Marcel MoysE
Paula Robison is a flutist who is a great artist. Born on a Sunday in Nashville to an extraordinary family of actors, writers, dancers, and musicians, she grew up in Los Angeles not only playing the flute, but studying dance with Bella Lewitzky and theater with Jeff Corey. When she was twelve years old, music claimed her heart and she knew she wanted to be a flutist. At seventeen she was off to the Juilliard School to study flute with Julius Baker, the principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic, but it was during her time in New York that she learned that the great French flutist Marcel Moyse would travel to the city to teach periodically. His singing approach, honesty, and metaphorical and animated way of teaching set Paula on fire and began an important period of mentoring. Her time with Marcel propelled her to great achievement such as winning the First Prize at the Geneva International Competition in 1966, the first American to receive this honor. Her long, lively, and continuing career includes countless recordings, commissions, awards, and devoted students and mentees of her own –all of them flavored with that trademark joie de vivre-something she shared with her mentor Marcel Moyse.
MUSIC:
George Frederic Handel, Flute Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 11, HWV 369: Allegro (Paula Robison-flute, Timothy Eddy-cello, Kenneth Cooper-harpsichord)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Concerto No.1 in G major, K.313, Allegro maestoso, (Paula Robison-flute)
Apanhei-Te, Cavaquinho! (Paula Robison-flute, and Romero Lubambo, Tiberio Nascimento, Sergio Brandão, Stanley Silverman, Cyro Baptista)
Robert Beaser, Cindy, from Mountain Songs for flute and guitar (Paula Robison-flute, Elliot Fisk-guitar)
Robert Beaser, Quicksilver, from Mountain Songs for flute and guitar
Ol' Man River, Paul Robeson
Wade in the Water, Fisk Jubilee Singers
Robert Beaser, Barbara Allen, from Mountain Songs for flute and guitar
Benjamin Godard, "Valse" from Suite De Trois Morceaux, Op. 116 (Paula Robison-flute)Astor Piazolla, "L'Histoire du Tango": Nightclub 1960 (Paula Robison-flute, Elliot Fisk-guitar)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Voi che sapete", from The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 arranged for flute and string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen (Paula Robison-flute, and the Borromeo String Quartet)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Flute Concerto No.2 in D major, K.314, Allegro aperto (Marcel Moyse-flute)
P.O. Ferroud - Bergere Captive from Trois pièces pour flûte seule (Marcel Moyse-flute)
Albert Hammond - It never rains in Southern California
Camille Saint-Saëns, The Swan, Carnival of the Animals, (Marcel Moyse-flute, Louis Moyse-piano)
Camille Saint-Saëns "Voliere" from Carnival of the Animals (Paula Robison-flute with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Giuseppe Verdi, Il Trovatore, (Marcel Moyse-flute, Louis Moyse-piano)
J.S. Bach Trio Sonata in G major Moyse Trio, BWV 1038, Largo (Marcel Moyse-flute, Blance Moyse-violin, Louis Moyse-piano)
Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen, "Sisters" from White Christmas
Theobald Boehm, Variations sur un Air Tyrolien (Marcel Moyse-flute, Louis Moyse, piano)
Claude Debussy, Syrinx (Paula Robison-flute)
Georges Hüe, Fantasie (Marcel Moyse-flute, Georges Truc)
Jean-Louis Tulou, Air Ecossais (Marcel Moyse-flute, Blance Moyse-violin, Louis Moyse-piano)
Claude Debussy, "Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune" (Paula Robison-flute)
J.S. Bach BWV 244-58 Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben, BWV 244, from the Saint Matthew Passion, Herbert Karajan conducting
Paula Robison and Marcel Moyse , 1964, Marlboro, Vermont
photo credit: Boris Goldenberg