b'Program NotesGabriela Lena Frank(b. 1972) Elega AndinaComposed 2000Composer\'s Note:Elega Andina for Orchestra (2000) is dedicated to my older brother, Marcos Gabriel Frank. As children of a multicultural marriage (our father being Lithuanian-Jewish and our mother being Chinese-Peruvian-Spanish), our early days were filled with Oriental stir-fry cuisine, Andean nursery songs, and frequent visits from our New York-bred Jewish cousins. As a young piano student, my repertoire included not only my own compositions that carried overtones from Peruvian folk music but also rags of Scott Joplin and minuets by the sons of Bach. It is probably inevitable then that as a composer and pianist today, I continue to thrive on multiculturalism. Elega Andina (Andean Elegy) is one of my first written-down compositions to explore what it means to be of several ethnic persuasions, of several minds. It uses stylistic elements of Peruvian arca/ira zampoa panpipes (double-row panpipes, each row with its own tuning) to paint an elegiac picture of my questions. The flute part was particularly conceived with this in mind but was also inspired by the technical and musical mastery of Floyd Hebert, principal flutist of the Albany Symphony Orchestra. In addition, as already mentioned, I can think of none better to dedicate this work to than to "Babo," my big brotherfor whom Per still waits.~ Gabriela Lena FrankInstrumentationtwo flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, glockenspiel, large and small triangle, slapstick, suspended cymbal, temple blocks, woodblock, and stringsDuration12 minutesprincetonsymphony.org/ 13/ princetonfestival.org'