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Ithaca College Digital Commons IC All Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs 4-8-1995 Festival: Wind and Percussion Invitational Festival Ron Nelson Ithaca College Wind Ensemble Rodney Winther Ithaca College Symphonic Band Henry G. Neubert See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Nelson, Ron; Ithaca College Wind Ensemble; Winther, Rodney; Ithaca College Symphonic Band; Neubert, Henry G.; Ithaca College Concert Band; and Fonder, Mark, "Festival: Wind and Percussion Invitational Festival" (1995). All Concert & Recital Programs. 8183. https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/8183 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons IC. Authors Ron Nelson, Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Rodney Winther, Ithaca College Symphonic Band, Henry G. Neubert, Ithaca College Concert Band, and Mark Fonder This program is available at Digital Commons IC: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/8183 ITHACA COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MUSIC WIND AND PERCUSSION INVITATIONAL FESTIVAL Saturday, April 8, 1995 The purpose of the annual Ithaca College Wind and Percussion Invitational Festival is to recognize and encourage excellence in musicianship and performance. The festival brings together outstanding high school bands with Ithaca College faculty for intensive workshops, rehearsals, and performances. This year the following ensembles have been invited to participate: Fairport High School Fairport. New York Donald L. Poole, conductor Liverpool Central School Liverpool, New York James Spadafore, conductor Owego Free Academy Owego, New Yorlc Daniel Fabricius, conductor ITHACA COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION President: James J. Whalen Provost: Thomas Longin Dean, School of Music: Arthur Ostrander Assistant Dean, School of Music: Jamal Rossi Music Admissions Coordinator: Graham Stewart RON NELSON A native of Joliet, Illinois, Dr. Nelson, born December 14, 1929, received his bachelor of music degree in 1952, a master's degree in 1953, and a doctor of musical arts degree in 1956, all from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He studied in France at the Ecole Normale de Muisique and at the Paris Conservatory under a Fulbright Grant in 1955. Dr. Nelson joined the Brown University faculty the following year as an assistant professor and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1960, and full professor in 1968. He served as chairman of the department of music from 1963 to 1973, and remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1993. At present he lives in Scottsdale,Arizona. Ron Nelson has gained wide recognition as a composer of choral, band and orchestral works. He is the composer of a widely performed cantata, The Christmas Story, an oratorio, What is Man? and an opera, The Birthday of the Infanta. His other compositions include: Savannah River Holiday, Sarabande: For Katherine in April, Rocky Point Holiday, Five Pieces for Orchestra After Paintings by Andrew Wyeth, TeDeum Laudamus, Aspen Jubilee, Morning Alleluias, Passcaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H), choral fanfares and background music for numerous documentary and educational films. In all, over 100 works are published. Dr. Nelson has received commissions from the National Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the American Bandmasters Association, the United States Air Force Band and Chorus, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, and numerous choral organizations, colleges and universities, including the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Western Michigan and Lawrence, as well as the Classic Chorale Brevard Music Center, and Aspen Music Festival. He has also received grants and awards from the Howard Foundation, ASCAP, Brown University and several from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1991 he was awarded the Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts, the first musician to hold the chair. In March of 1993 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from ECDBNA. His composition Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) was awarded the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald prize; the National Bandmasters Association Prize and the Sudler International Wind Band Compositon Award. He was awarded the John Philip Sousa Medal of Honor in 1994. THE GUEST PARTICIPANTS FAIRPORT HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT BAND The Fairport Central School District is located in southeast Monroe County and \ serves a student population of approximately 7,500 students in grades K-12. The Concert Band is made up of ninth through twelfth grade students from Fairport High School. The ensemble provides an opportunity for its members to explore the limits of musical expression of the modern wind band. Membership is decided by competitive audition and is the culminating step in the district's program of wind and percussion instruction which begins in fifth grale. The Concert Band presents four major concerts each year in addition to college performances, Major Organization Competition, exchange programs and other area performances. Donald L. Poole received his Bachelor of Science degree from the State University College at Potsdam and completed his graduate work at the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Poole has been an instructor of brass and percussion in Fairport since 1967 and has worked with all levels of ensembles throughout the district. He is presently director of the Fairport High School Marching Band and Concert Band. Mr. Poole has been active in the Monroe County School Music J Association, serving as treasurer, solo festival adjudicator, and as guest conductor in the Rochester area. He presently plays bass trombone with the Greater Rochester Area Music Educators Wind Band and the newly formed Rochester Area British Brass Band LIVERPOOL HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC BAND Liverpool is a public, comprehensive high school with 2,700 students. The facility, which opened in 1967 was designed around the house plan. Beginning with the 1994-95 academic year, however, changes in the organizational structure were implemented. Liverpool High School is now organized into two communities for students in grades ten through twelve, and an annex for all students in grade nine. Each of the two communities in the main building includes a principal, assistant principal, four counselors, approximately eighty teachers and one-half of the student body. The managing principal, as chief administrator of the high school, oversees the two communities. Liverpool High School has been recognized as an exemplary public school by the Secondary School Recognition Program of the United States Office of E<location. Liverpool High School offers several credit-bearing courses including two Concert Bands, Concert Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Concert Chorale, Concert Choir, Orchestra, Music Theory I and II and Performing Arts. Several music groups rehearse after school including the Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, Marching Band, a Musical group, Vocal Jazz Ensemble and several small ensembles. The Symphonic Band has performed at the New York State Band Directors Association Convention and will travel to Virginia to perform at George Mason University and also the National Adjudicators Invitational. OWEGO FREE ACADEMY CONCERT BAND Owego Free Academy is the home to high school students of the Owego Apalachin School District, a rural/suburban area west of Binghamton and just north of the Pennsylvania-New York border. With approximately 23,000 residents living in the school district area, the four schools in the district have a total K-12 enrollment of 2,800 students. From the first log school built in 1797 to the first Owego Free Academy completed in 1828 to the modem school facilities now in use, the residents of Owego and Apalachin have been justifiably proud of their schools and students. Owego Free Academy offers a comprehensive academic program in all disciplines. Included in the instructional program are four college level courses taught in conjunction with Syracuse University. Several advanced or specialized courses are taught on a distance learning system that allows Owego students to participate in a "classroom" with students in two other schools via an interactive television system. Owego Free Academy students can study music in course offerings such as • Concert Band, Jazz Band, Concert Choir, Select Choir, Women's Chorus, and ~- both Music Theory I and II. Students also participate in a variety of extra curricular musical offerings including Marching Band, Barbershop Chorus, and Women's Swing Choir. Several instrumental ensembles, such as the Saxophone Quartet, Woodwind Quintet, Brass Quintet, and Clarinet Quartet rehearse and perform through the school year. Music students are also typically involved in many other activities in addition to music such as student government, athletics, drama, and school service clubs. Over the past several years, Owego students have had the opportunity to work and perform with several visiting guest artists such as jazz trumpeter/composer Jeff Jarvis, jazz trombonist/composer John Fedchock, composer Dana Wilson and jazz guitarist/arranger Steve Brown. Daniel Fabricius has been Director of Bands at Owego Free Academy since 1989. He also serves on the music faculty at Binghamton University where he is an adjunct instructor of percussion and conductor of the University Percussion Ensemble.