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AMERICAN BREEZE THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN MUSIC AND DESIGN a required element for all designs. The compositions MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET were designed on the computer and transferred to When the Musical Arts Quintet embarked upon a black foam core, 30 x 40 inches. The designs were Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky this recording project one of our discussions displayed in Mueller Lobby of Sursa Performance was the treatment of the CD cover. We decided 1. Con fuoco (2:32) Hall on the Ball State University campus at the to create an immersive learning experience for 2. Notturno (4:18) Musical Arts Quintet’s spring 2011 concert. Ball State art students by including them in a 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08) An audience poll was taken to help determine contest of sorts in which they created a design 4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) eht krow taht dluow ecarg eht revoc fo eht .DC that represented their interpretation of one of 5. Giocoso (2:36) Jaclynn Dunlap’s representation of David the quintets we performed on our April 3, 2011 Maslanka’s Quintet No. 4 was the winner. Five Frogs Jenni Brandon concert. We wanted our audience members to -Elizabeth Crawford 6. Leaping (1:21) look at the works during intermission and submit 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11) their suggestions for “best” design. 8. Swimming (1:52) I approached Associate Professor of Art Sam 9. Bullfrog (2:56) Minor who teaches Visual Communication. 10. Catching Bugs (1:52) He was very enthusiastic about the project and 11. Epilogue (1:51) incorporated it into his Spring 2011 graphic design class. The students were given a project entitled 12. Night Journey (10:33) Bruce Adolphe Music to My Eyes: Auditory Art to Visual Art in

13. Pastorale (3:09) Amy Beach music as an art form whose medium is sound with the common elements of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, 14. Autumn Music (11:33) Jennifer Higdon timbre and texture. In addition, he told them that Quintet No. 4 David Maslanka music ranges from strictly organized compositions to improvisation and aleatoric forms. Each genre 15. Slow, Progressively Faster (9:04) and subgenre of music is open to individual 16. A Lullaby – Inward and Hesitant (2:39) interpretation and is occasionally controversial 17. Very Fast (6:32) because all people have their own distinct feel in gs a bout m us i c an d how i t mov es the m. MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET For the project, the students were required Mihoko Watanabe, Flute and Piccolo to study all the works on this recording in order Johanna Cox, Oboe and English Horn to create a visual representation of one of the Elizabeth Crawford, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Keith Sweger, Bassoon music. While the students were free to develop Gene Berger, Horn their own color palette, the use of green was

STEVEN STUCKY (b. 1949) The sound world of these pieces depends above She has received numerous commissions and BRUCE ADOLPHE (b. 1955) SERENADE FOR WIND QUINTET (1990) all on fresh, unexpected sonorities combining awards for her music and is an active performer NIGHT JOURNEY (1986) who has sung with the Boston Pops, Los Angeles Steven Stucky studied with Richard Willis at and on the use of extreme registers, especially Philharmonic and other noted large ensembles. American composer Bruce Adolphe is a music Baylor University (BM, 1971) and with Robert scholar, author and pianist, who has been on Palmer, Burrill Phillips and Karel Husa at Cornell other hand, there are no extended techniques such Ms. Brandon writes: the faculties of the Juilliard School and New University (MFA, 1973; DMA, 1978). Dr. Stucky as multiphonics or key clicks, only the traditional "Five Frogs for woodwind quintet was inspired York University and has been a Visiting Lecturer taught at Lawrence University from 1978–80, playing methods.) by a book titled One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki at Yale. He has composed for some of the world’s before his current appointment to the composition Although serenade originally described music to Sato. This little book takes a look at one hundred department at Cornell in 1980. In addition, he has be played outdoors for evening entertainment, the different translations, haikus, sonnets, prose the Beaux Arts Trio, the National Symphony also served as composer-in-residence and new term long ago detached itself from these origins, and many more. In addition, he is known for his music adviser for the Los Angeles Philharmonic poems, and even limericks based on Basho’s and such composers as Mozart, Brahms, and weekly segment, “Piano Puzzler” on American Orchestra. His awards include a Guggenheim haiku, “Old Pond/Frog jumps in/The sound of Schoenberg have written serious concert works Fellowship (1986), a National Endowment for water.” Each of the instruments in the ensemble Public Media’s Performance Today, which under this title. Likewise my Serenade—though the Arts fellowship (1986) and commissions from is so different and so exceptional in their sound features Adolphe playing popular music and of course I hope it will entertain and delight the Philadelphia (Concerto for Orchestra) and and abilities that I realized each one could be folk tunes in the style of Classical composers the ear—is a serious work in which the first Minnesota (Dreamwaltzes) orchestras. a ‘frog.’ The clarinet is perfect for “Leaping” for call-in contestants. four movements, however slight, are musically because of its agility and grace, the way a frog can Of his quintet, Dr. Stucky writes: Commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet, concentrated. Only the last movement, despite its be still one minute and gone the next. “On the Lily Adolphe speaks of Night Journey as “a tone poem “The Serenade for Wind Quintet was moments of bluster, turns playful. Pad” depicts a frog sitting, as frogs often do, but in a mysterious mood. The image is one of a night commissioned by and is dedicated to The The work was sketched mostly in Los Angeles in I felt that this frog might be contemplative and Pennsylvania Quintet, in residence at Penn State fall 1989, and the score was completed in Ithaca, thoughtful and that the oboe could sing a beautiful back into darkness.” An ostinato (heard primarily University. The request from this ensemble for New York, in July and August 1990. It lasts about song of the pond. For “Swimming” I chose the a new composition gave me a welcome opportunity French horn as the frog, swimming gracefully in the clarinet but represented throughout the to return to chamber music for the first time at Penn State University on 10 October 1990.” through the water as the other instruments act quintet) is suggestive of a train moving quickly since 1985 (Boston Fancies), after a period of over the tracks. Adolphe says, "Night Journey as ripples in the water and the motion the frog five years devoted exclusively to the symphony might leave in its wake. The “Bullfrog” could is music of dizzying, shifting pulses and ever orchestra. Indeed, I was interested in part precisely JENNI BRANDON (b. 1977) be none other than the bassoon, not only for its changing instrumental timbres. After composing evif ylno rof krow a ni taht wenk I esuaceb I wenk taht ni a krow rof ylno evif FIVE FROGS (2005) it and trying to find an appropriate title, wide vocal range, but also for the various colors it players there would be no easy refuge in the Jenni Brandon is an active composer, singer, could evoke, the way frogs’ sounds entangle with I was reminded of watching colors and shapes elaborate textures which an orchestral composer conductor and teacher. She is the resident the other sounds of the night. “Catching Bugs” dart by the window of a train during a night can find habit-forming. composer with the Vientos Trio in Los Angeles gave me the opportunity to use the piccolo and journey. Inside the train all is still while outside and is Artistic Director and a founding member allow the ensemble to run ‘amok’ after their bug is a whirl of activity. This experience, familiar aphoristic pieces, each of them a vividly colored of Synchromy, a group of Los Angeles based dinner. Finally in “Epilogue” all the frogs sing to us all, is a vivid (and I hope helpful) “musical moment.” The movements are not composers who present collaborative concerts together, each one bringing their own song into metaphor for the rhythmic, textural, timbral related; each contrasts strongly with the next. of their music with guest artists and ensembles. this final movement." world of Night Journey.”

AMY BEACH (1867-1944) performances a year of her works. Her music is DAVID MASLANKA (b. 1943) a challenging emotional space. The second PASTORALE (1941) published exclusively by Lawdon Press. QUINTET NO. 4 (2008) movement is a brief lullaby, with solo oboe taking Of Autumn Music, she writes: the lead, and with an utterly simple supporting Amy Beach was deemed the leading female David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, web of colors and gentle rhythms in the other “When I started thinking about writing a piece Massachusetts in 1943. He holds degrees from instruments. The fast and furious third movement woman to succeed as a composer of wide reaching for woodwind quintet, my mind began to the Oberlin College Conservatory (BM) and art music. She was almost completely self-taught contemplate all of the wonderful chamber music Michigan State University (MM, PhD) and spent with just a year of formal training in harmony a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. My mind kept going back to one of the greatest MUSICIAN BIOS and counterpoint. Independent study of the Among his many awards are grants from the contributions to the woodwind quintet literature, masters was the manner by which she modeled her Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, ASCAP, MIHOKO WATANABE, a native of Japan, is Associate Samuel Barber's "Summer Music". Having the compositions. She was a formidable pianist, with Professor of Flute and a member of the privilege as I do of having been a student and now MacDowell Colony fellowships. He has received solo recital and concerto performances receiving a teacher at the same school where Mr. Barber was Musical Arts Quintet at Ball State University. numerous commissions for a wide variety of enthusiastic acclaim. When she was eighteen both, I am ever aware of the gratitude and esteem Prior to joining the School of Music faculty, chamber, orchestral and choral pieces. she married Dr. H.H.A. Beach, an eminent with which I hold this artist who created so much Dr. Watanabe taught at the University of Boston surgeon who encouraged her composing beautiful music. It is with a humble heart that Dr. Maslanka has served on the faculties of the Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the Memorial University of while limiting her concert appearances. I pay homage to him and to the genre of woodwind State University of New York at Geneseo, Sarah Newfoundland and the University of Windsor, Partially thanks to him, she composed over quintet literature with this piece. Autumn comes Lawrence College, New York University and Canada. She has won competitions sponsored to us in many guises: incredible explosions of Kingsborough College of the City University of New by the Japan Flute Association and the National Though her music was considered out of style color; air that suddenly snaps with crispness and York. He currently resides in Missoula, Montana. Flute Association, and has appeared in Japan, before she died, it has been greatly appreciated for Israel, England and Canada as a recitalist, clarity; a tinge of melancholy on the eve of change He writes: “Quintet for Winds No.4 was its passion and sensuality. rebmahc naicisum dna otrecnoc .tsiolos in all of our lives. This piece is a musical portrait commissioned by the Florida West Coast The Pastorale for woodwind quintet, her only work Symphony for its resident Florida Wind Quintet. part of the quintet represents the beginning of Orchestra and performs with the Indianapolis for this genre, was composed late in her life when The premiere performance was given in Sarasota, the season, with its explosions of color, sharp line Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she performed she was living at the MacDowell Artist Colony. Florida in March of 2008. and vivid imagery; always changing and always with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, Pontiac vibrant. The musical lines are sometimes present After all the innovations of the past century– Oakland Symphony, Newfoundland Symphony, JENNIFER HIGDON (b. 1962) with each instrument carrying a different rhythm, the explosion of forms, methods, and Windsor Symphony and Warren Symphony. AUTUMN MUSIC (1995) reminiscent of the way leaves float down from media– Quintet No.4 will seem to be radically As a pedagogue, she has given numerous a tree in a very unsynchronized manner. conservative. It is a compact 20-minute work masterclasses and has adjudicated competitions American composer Jennifer Higdon received the As eht tetniuq sevom otni eht tsal trap fo eht in three movements and its main historical throughout the United States, Canada and Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto in work, there is more of an introspective and reference is French wind music of the 1930’s, Japan. In 2005, she joined the faculty of the 2010. The same year she also received a Grammy melancholy quality to the music; the music itself ‘40’s, and ‘50’s, especially that of Francis Poulenc. Brevard Music Center Festival. Dr. Watanabe is for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for I love melody, and music that speaks plainly. also devoted to the study of ethnomusicology with her Percussion Concerto. She holds the Rock Chair the sound. It is the passing of the season.” an emphasis on Japanese traditional music. As in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music This work was commissioned in 1995 by Pi Kappa a very quiet and plaintive music, but the body such, her published article, Essence of Mei, from in Philadelphia. Higdon enjoys several hundred Lambda Music Honorary. of the movement is a hard trek through the Flutist Quarterly of the National Flute

Association in 2008, has been featured in lecture performing oboe and English horn. During her the conference. In addition to the ICA, she has Sweger was named the recipient of the 2007 recitals at conferences around the world, including leave of absence in 2010, she toured with the also performed for the International Double Ball State University College of Fine Arts Dean’s the NFA and British Flute Society. In 2011, the Musical Arts Quintet at Ball State University where Reed Society and the National Flute Association. Teaching Award and the 2008 IMEA Outstanding article was translated into Dutch and published she was Visiting Associate Professor of Oboe and She is the Indiana State Chair of the International University Educator Award. in Fluit recorded American Breeze, through a grant from Clarinet Association and Coordinator of the ICA’s Association. Dr. Watanabe received degrees from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has High School Clarinet Competition. GENE P. BERGER is Assistant Professor of Horn at Ball the University of Michigan, the Eastman School been a member of the Breckenridge Music Festival State University and a member of the Musical Arts of Music and the Musashino Academia Musicae Orchestra since 2002. KEITH SWEGER is Professor of Bassoon at Ball State Woodwind Quintet. In addition to his teaching in Tokyo. Her teachers have included Bonita University. In addition to teaching studio position, Mr. Berger is the Principal Horn with Boyd, Leone Buyse, Fenwick Smith, Takao ELIZABETH CRAWFORD is Associate Professor of bassoon, his responsibilities include performing the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Southwest Saeki and Ervin Monroe. Music at Ball State University where she teaches with the Musical Arts Quintet, faculty ensemble Florida Symphony (where he has been a featured in residence at Ball State. Dr. Sweger is principal soloist) and a member of the Traverse Symphony. clarinet and performs with the Musical Arts bassoon of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Prior to his appointment at Ball State University JOHANNA COX is Associate Professor of Oboe at Quintet. She holds performance degrees from contrabassoon of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in 2010, Mr. Berger was a member of the Louisiana State University School of Music. Florida State University, the University of and performs regularly with the Indianapolis Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops She performed her Carnegie Hall solo debut in Michigan and Furman University. Prior to Ball October of 2005. A graduate of Northwestern Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Sweger and The Florida Orchestra. He can be heard on State, Dr. Crawford taught at colleges in Florida, University and the Eastman School of Music, Cox performed with the American Wind Symphony numerous recordings with the Cincinnati Pops the Stevenson School in Monterey, California was chosen for Eastman’s Freiburg Exchange Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel and the and the Hill House School in London. She has Program, bringing her to Germany to study Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and others and Grammy winning recordings of the Cincinnati given classes throughout the United States and in with soloist Heinz Holliger at the Freiburg served as principal bassoon with the Music at Symphony Orchestra under conductor Paavo Musikhochschule. Cox has been featured as South Africa. She was a long time member of the Penn’s Woods and Green Lake Festival Orchestras. Järvi. Mr. Berger has been an active educator, soloist on the “Live from Hochstein” broadcast Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and has worked He has recorded on the Arsis, Capstone, formerly teaching at the Interlochen Arts on WXXI FM radio in her hometown of Rochester, with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Colorado and Alicia labels and has been a recitalist at Academy, University of Central Florida and Music Festival, Baltimore Opera Orchestra, conferences of the IDRS, CMS, NACWPI and the University of Tampa. He has presented at age 17, and performed with the Rochester Indianapolis Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic MTNA and at colleges and universities around master classes, lectures, educational recitals and Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1997, Johanna and and others. In the United Kingdom, she performed the country and abroad. Recent international hosted clinics throughout North America. In twin sister, Lenora, performed the Bach Double extensively with the Royal Philharmonic performances include those at the 2011 Asian the summers, Mr. Berger is on the faculty of Concerto with the National Repertory Orchestra. Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Double Reed Society conference and the 2012 the Music for All Camp and the Filarmónica In 2010 she gave the world premiere performance the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and virtually Beijing International Bassoon Festival. Active in Joven de Colombia. He has made performance of Miguel del Aguila’s “Rondo Roto” for English all of the other major British orchestras. She has the International Double Reed Society (IDRS), he appearances with the Sun Valley Summer horn and orchestra. She can be heard on the CD recorded for the BBC and at Abbey Road, Angel hosted its 2006 international conference at Ball Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Music in Gale Force (Albany Records), with the woodwind State, has been chair of its Gillet-Fox International quintet Prairie Winds. Cox was Associate Professor and Olympic studios in London. Her performance the Mountains, The Spoleto Festival and the AIMS of Oboe at the University of Oklahoma School of at the International Clarinet Association’s 1995 on its Executive Committee. His students are Festival in Graz, Austria. Mr. Berger received his Music where she joined in Fall 2004 and became conference was included on a “Highlights from playing in orchestras and teaching in universities, Master of Music degree from Southern Methodist a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, ClarinetFest ‘95” CD, one of a select group from colleges and public schools around the country. University and his Bachelor of Music degree

from Florida State University. His principal One of the country's oldest and most distinguished ACKNOWLEDGMENTS teachers were Gregory Hustis, Principal Horn chamber ensembles of its kind, the Musical Arts Recorded: May 16-19, 23, 24; June 6, 7, 2011; of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dr. William Quintet was established in 1957. Eight cross- Sursa Performance Hall, Ball State University Capps, former Principal Horn of the Berlin Radio country tours, from New England to the Pacific School of Music, Muncie, Indiana Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, coast and from the Dakotas to New Orleans, have and Frederick Schmitt, charter member of the brought the quintet an enviable reputation and Producer: Keith Kothman New York Brass Quintet. high critical acclaim. The MAQ made its New Co-producers: Elizabeth Crawford, Keith Sweger York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in November Recording Engineer: Keith Kothman The MUSICAL ARTS QUINTET (MAQ), resident 1963. In residence at Ball State University, the Assistant Recording Engineer: Andrew Reiman faculty wind quintet in the Ball State University quintet has gained national attention for its Editing and mastering: Keith Kothman School of Music, was awarded an American performance and support of contemporary music. Recorded using: Bruel & Kjaer 4007 (2) Masterpieces: Chamber Music grant from the At Brandeis University, the ensemble gave the Booklet editor and notes: Elizabeth Crawford Romanza for National Endowment for the Arts in 2010. Booklet cover design: Jaclynn Dunlap – visual Fine's memorial concert. At Valdosta State The grant award supported the MAQ in representation of Quintet No. 4 by David Maslanka performances, educational activities and a tour College, the quintet presented the premiere of Booklet layout: Jaclynn Dunlap throughout the state of Indiana during fall 2010 Morris Knight's Concerto for Quintet and Piano Inlay: Jaclynn Dunlap and spring 2011, and a recording of American with Michael Bourgeot, under the auspices of the quintet repertoire. The quintet performed and Georgia State Arts Commission's Project Radius. Booklet photo: John Huffer Project Director: Elizabeth Crawford w dedrocer w skro yb sresopmoc ecurB ,ehplodA In 1994 the quintet gave the premiere Amy Beach, Jenni Brandon, Jennifer Higdon, David performance of Karen Thomas' Sopravento, Publishers: Theodore Presser (Serenade for Wind Maslanka and Steven Stucky. The MAQ is one of a work for quintet and percussion, at the Quintet), Boosey & Hawkes (Five Frogs), 72 organizations from around the country selected conference of the National Association of Keiser Classical (Night Journey), Hildegard for a 2010 NEA American Masterpieces: Chamber College Wind and Percussion Instructors. Publishing (Pastorale), Lawdon Press (Autumn Music award; other recipients include groups such OW Records issued the first recordings of Music), Carl Fischer (Quintet No. 4) as the American Brass Quintet, Chamber Music the quintet, which are devoted to the works Society of Lincoln Center, Kronos Quartet, Ravinia of contemporary American composers. SPECIAL THANKS TO: Music Festival and San Francisco Symphony. The MAQ has performed at conferences of The National Endowment for the Arts As part of the NEA grant, the MAQ presented the American Society of Composers, Music Ball State University College of Fine Arts: Robert Kvam, Dean performances in Anderson, Elkhart, Carmel, Educators National Conference, Music Teachers Ball State University School of Music: Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, National Association, Indiana Music Educators John Scheib, Director Kokomo, Seymour, Valparaiso and Wabash as well Association, National Association of College as on the Ball State University campus. Wind and Percussion Instructors National Kristi Koriath, Director James Minor, Associate Professor of Art The culmination of the grant was the recording Symposium, Society of Composers, Inc. and Friends and family for their support throughout project that resulted in this CD. International Double Reed Society. the project. AMERICAN BREEZE AMERICAN BREEZE MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky TROY1369 1. Con fuoco (2:32) 2. Notturno (4:18) 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08) 4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET 5. Giocoso (2:36) Five Frogs Jenni Brandon 6. Leaping (1:21) 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11) 8. Swimming (1:52) 9. Bullfrog (2:56) 10. Catching Bugs (1:52) 11. Epilogue (1:51) 12. Night Journey (10:33) Bruce Adolphe 13. Pastorale (3:09) Amy Beach 14. Autumn Music (11:33) Jennifer Higdon Quintet No. 4 David Maslanka 15. Slow, Progressively Faster (9:04) 16. A Lullaby – Inward and Hesitant (2:39) 17. Very Fast (6:32) Total Time= 1:12:29 MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Mihoko Watanabe, Flute and Piccolo Johanna Cox, Oboe and English Horn MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET WOODWIND MUSICAL ARTS Elizabeth Crawford, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Keith Sweger, Bassoon Gene Berger, Horn TROY1369

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from Florida State University. His principal One of the country's oldest and most distinguished ACKNOWLEDGMENTS teachers were Gregory Hustis, Principal Horn chamber ensembles of its kind, the Musical Arts Recorded: May 16-19, 23, 24; June 6, 7, 2011; of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dr. William Quintet was established in 1957. Eight cross- Sursa Performance Hall, Ball State University Capps, former Principal Horn of the Berlin Radio country tours, from New England to the Pacific School of Music, Muncie, Indiana Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, coast and from the Dakotas to New Orleans, have and Frederick Schmitt, charter member of the brought the quintet an enviable reputation and Producer: Keith Kothman New York Brass Quintet. high critical acclaim. The MAQ made its New Co-producers: Elizabeth Crawford, Keith Sweger York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in November Recording Engineer: Keith Kothman The MUSICAL ARTS QUINTET (MAQ), resident 1963. In residence at Ball State University, the Assistant Recording Engineer: Andrew Reiman faculty wind quintet in the Ball State University quintet has gained national attention for its Editing and mastering: Keith Kothman School of Music, was awarded an American performance and support of contemporary music. Recorded using: Bruel & Kjaer 4007 (2) Masterpieces: Chamber Music grant from the At Brandeis University, the ensemble gave the Booklet editor and notes: Elizabeth Crawford Romanza for National Endowment for the Arts in 2010. Booklet cover design: Jaclynn Dunlap – visual Fine's memorial concert. At Valdosta State The grant award supported the MAQ in representation of Quintet No. 4 by David Maslanka performances, educational activities and a tour College, the quintet presented the premiere of Booklet layout: Jaclynn Dunlap throughout the state of Indiana during fall 2010 Morris Knight's Concerto for Quintet and Piano Inlay: Jaclynn Dunlap and spring 2011, and a recording of American with Michael Bourgeot, under the auspices of the quintet repertoire. The quintet performed and Georgia State Arts Commission's Project Radius. Booklet photo: John Huffer Project Director: Elizabeth Crawford ,ehplodA ecurB sresopmoc yb skrow dedrocer skrow yb sresopmoc ecurB ,ehplodA In 1994 the quintet gave the premiere Amy Beach, Jenni Brandon, Jennifer Higdon, David performance of Karen Thomas' Sopravento, Publishers: Theodore Presser (Serenade for Wind Maslanka and Steven Stucky. The MAQ is one of a work for quintet and percussion, at the Quintet), Boosey & Hawkes (Five Frogs), 72 organizations from around the country selected conference of the National Association of Keiser Classical (Night Journey), Hildegard for a 2010 NEA American Masterpieces: Chamber College Wind and Percussion Instructors. Publishing (Pastorale), Lawdon Press (Autumn Music award; other recipients include groups such OW Records issued the first recordings of Music), Carl Fischer (Quintet No. 4) as the American Brass Quintet, Chamber Music the quintet, which are devoted to the works Society of Lincoln Center, Kronos Quartet, Ravinia of contemporary American composers. SPECIAL THANKS TO: Music Festival and San Francisco Symphony. The MAQ has performed at conferences of The National Endowment for the Arts As part of the NEA grant, the MAQ presented the American Society of Composers, Music Ball State University College of Fine Arts: Robert Kvam, Dean performances in Anderson, Elkhart, Carmel, Educators National Conference, Music Teachers Ball State University School of Music: Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, National Association, Indiana Music Educators John Scheib, Director Kokomo, Seymour, Valparaiso and Wabash as well Association, National Association of College as on the Ball State University campus. Wind and Percussion Instructors National Kristi Koriath, Director James Minor, Associate Professor of Art The culmination of the grant was the recording Symposium, Society of Composers, Inc. and Friends and family for their support throughout project that resulted in this CD. International Double Reed Society. the project. AMERICAN BREEZE AMERICAN BREEZE MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky TROY1369 1. Con fuoco (2:32) 2. Notturno (4:18) 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08) 4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET 5. Giocoso (2:36) Five Frogs Jenni Brandon 6. Leaping (1:21) 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11) 8. Swimming (1:52) 9. Bullfrog (2:56) 10. Catching Bugs (1:52) 11. Epilogue (1:51) 12. Night Journey (10:33) Bruce Adolphe 13. Pastorale (3:09) Amy Beach 14. Autumn Music (11:33) Jennifer Higdon Quintet No. 4 David Maslanka 15. Slow, Progressively Faster (9:04) 16. A Lullaby – Inward and Hesitant (2:39) 17. Very Fast (6:32) Total Time= 1:12:29 MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Mihoko Watanabe, Flute and Piccolo Johanna Cox, Oboe and English Horn MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET WOODWIND MUSICAL ARTS Elizabeth Crawford, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Keith Sweger, Bassoon Gene Berger, Horn TROY1369

AMERICAN BREEZE THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN MUSIC AND DESIGN a required element for all designs. The compositions MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET were designed on the computer and transferred to When the Musical Arts Quintet embarked upon a black foam core, 30 x 40 inches. The designs were Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky this recording project one of our discussions displayed in Mueller Lobby of Sursa Performance was the treatment of the CD cover. We decided 1. Con fuoco (2:32) Hall on the Ball State University campus at the to create an immersive learning experience for 2. Notturno (4:18) Musical Arts Quintet’s spring 2011 concert. Ball State art students by including them in a 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08) An audience poll was taken to help determine contest of sorts in which they created a design 4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) the work that would grace the cover of the CD. that represented their interpretation of one of 5. Giocoso (2:36) Jaclynn Dunlap’s representation of David the quintets we performed on our April 3, 2011 Maslanka’s Quintet No. 4 was the winner. Five Frogs Jenni Brandon concert. We wanted our audience members to -Elizabeth Crawford 6. Leaping (1:21) look at the works during intermission and submit 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11) their suggestions for “best” design. 8. Swimming (1:52) I approached Associate Professor of Art Sam 9. Bullfrog (2:56) Minor who teaches Visual Communication. 10. Catching Bugs (1:52) He was very enthusiastic about the project and 11. Epilogue (1:51) incorporated it into his Spring 2011 graphic design class. The students were given a project entitled 12. Night Journey (10:33) Bruce Adolphe Music to My Eyes: Auditory Art to Visual Art in

13. Pastorale (3:09) Amy Beach music as an art form whose medium is sound with the common elements of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, 14. Autumn Music (11:33) Jennifer Higdon timbre and texture. In addition, he told them that Quintet No. 4 David Maslanka music ranges from strictly organized compositions to improvisation and aleatoric forms. Each genre 15. Slow, Progressively Faster (9:04) and subgenre of music is open to individual 16. A Lullaby – Inward and Hesitant (2:39) interpretation and is occasionally controversial 17. Very Fast (6:32) because all people have their own distinct feel in gs a bout m us i c an d how i t m o v es the m . MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET For the project, the students were required Mihoko Watanabe, Flute and Piccolo to study all the works on this recording in order Johanna Cox, Oboe and English Horn to create a visual representation of one of the Elizabeth Crawford, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Keith Sweger, Bassoon music. While the students were free to develop Gene Berger, Horn their own color palette, the use of green was

STEVEN STUCKY (b. 1949) The sound world of these pieces depends above She has received numerous commissions and BRUCE ADOLPHE (b. 1955) SERENADE FOR WIND QUINTET (1990) all on fresh, unexpected sonorities combining awards for her music and is an active performer NIGHT JOURNEY (1986) who has sung with the Boston Pops, Los Angeles Steven Stucky studied with Richard Willis at and on the use of extreme registers, especially Philharmonic and other noted large ensembles. American composer Bruce Adolphe is a music Baylor University (BM, 1971) and with Robert scholar, author and pianist, who has been on Palmer, Burrill Phillips and Karel Husa at Cornell other hand, there are no extended techniques such Ms. Brandon writes: the faculties of the Juilliard School and New University (MFA, 1973; DMA, 1978). Dr. Stucky as multiphonics or key clicks, only the traditional "Five Frogs for woodwind quintet was inspired York University and has been a Visiting Lecturer taught at Lawrence University from 1978–80, playing methods.) by a book titled One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki at Yale. He has composed for some of the world’s before his current appointment to the composition Although serenade originally described music to Sato. This little book takes a look at one hundred department at Cornell in 1980. In addition, he has be played outdoors for evening entertainment, the different translations, haikus, sonnets, prose the Beaux Arts Trio, the National Symphony also served as composer-in-residence and new term long ago detached itself from these origins, and many more. In addition, he is known for his music adviser for the Los Angeles Philharmonic poems, and even limericks based on Basho’s and such composers as Mozart, Brahms, and weekly segment, “Piano Puzzler” on American Orchestra. His awards include a Guggenheim haiku, “Old Pond/Frog jumps in/The sound of Schoenberg have written serious concert works Fellowship (1986), a National Endowment for water.” Each of the instruments in the ensemble Public Media’s Performance Today, which under this title. Likewise my Serenade—though the Arts fellowship (1986) and commissions from is so different and so exceptional in their sound features Adolphe playing popular music and of course I hope it will entertain and delight the Philadelphia (Concerto for Orchestra) and and abilities that I realized each one could be folk tunes in the style of Classical composers the ear—is a serious work in which the first Minnesota (Dreamwaltzes) orchestras. a ‘frog.’ The clarinet is perfect for “Leaping” for call-in contestants. four movements, however slight, are musically because of its agility and grace, the way a frog can Of his quintet, Dr. Stucky writes: Commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet, concentrated. Only the last movement, despite its be still one minute and gone the next. “On the Lily Adolphe speaks of Night Journey as “a tone poem “The Serenade for Wind Quintet was moments of bluster, turns playful. Pad” depicts a frog sitting, as frogs often do, but in a mysterious mood. The image is one of a night commissioned by and is dedicated to The The work was sketched mostly in Los Angeles in I felt that this frog might be contemplative and Pennsylvania Quintet, in residence at Penn State fall 1989, and the score was completed in Ithaca, thoughtful and that the oboe could sing a beautiful back into darkness.” An ostinato (heard primarily University. The request from this ensemble for New York, in July and August 1990. It lasts about song of the pond. For “Swimming” I chose the a new composition gave me a welcome opportunity French horn as the frog, swimming gracefully in the clarinet but represented throughout the to return to chamber music for the first time at Penn State University on 10 October 1990.” through the water as the other instruments act quintet) is suggestive of a train moving quickly since 1985 (Boston Fancies), after a period of over the tracks. Adolphe says, "Night Journey as ripples in the water and the motion the frog five years devoted exclusively to the symphony might leave in its wake. The “Bullfrog” could is music of dizzying, shifting pulses and ever orchestra. Indeed, I was interested in part precisely JENNI BRANDON (b. 1977) be none other than the bassoon, not only for its changing instrumental timbres. After composing because I knew that in a work for only five FIVE FROGS (2005) it and trying to find an appropriate title, wide vocal range, but also for the various colors it players there would be no easy refuge in the Jenni Brandon is an active composer, singer, could evoke, the way frogs’ sounds entangle with I was reminded of watching colors and shapes elaborate textures which an orchestral composer conductor and teacher. She is the resident the other sounds of the night. “Catching Bugs” dart by the window of a train during a night can find habit-forming. composer with the Vientos Trio in Los Angeles gave me the opportunity to use the piccolo and journey. Inside the train all is still while outside and is Artistic Director and a founding member allow the ensemble to run ‘amok’ after their bug is a whirl of activity. This experience, familiar aphoristic pieces, each of them a vividly colored of Synchromy, a group of Los Angeles based dinner. Finally in “Epilogue” all the frogs sing to us all, is a vivid (and I hope helpful) “musical moment.” The movements are not composers who present collaborative concerts together, each one bringing their own song into metaphor for the rhythmic, textural, timbral related; each contrasts strongly with the next. of their music with guest artists and ensembles. this final movement." world of Night Journey.”

AMY BEACH (1867-1944) performances a year of her works. Her music is DAVID MASLANKA (b. 1943) a challenging emotional space. The second PASTORALE (1941) published exclusively by Lawdon Press. QUINTET NO. 4 (2008) movement is a brief lullaby, with solo oboe taking Of Autumn Music, she writes: the lead, and with an utterly simple supporting Amy Beach was deemed the leading female David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, web of colors and gentle rhythms in the other “When I started thinking about writing a piece Massachusetts in 1943. He holds degrees from instruments. The fast and furious third movement woman to succeed as a composer of wide reaching for woodwind quintet, my mind began to the Oberlin College Conservatory (BM) and art music. She was almost completely self-taught contemplate all of the wonderful chamber music Michigan State University (MM, PhD) and spent with just a year of formal training in harmony a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. My mind kept going back to one of the greatest MUSICIAN BIOS and counterpoint. Independent study of the Among his many awards are grants from the contributions to the woodwind quintet literature, masters was the manner by which she modeled her Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, ASCAP, MIHOKO WATANABE, a native of Japan, is Associate Samuel Barber's "Summer Music". Having the compositions. She was a formidable pianist, with Professor of Flute and a member of the privilege as I do of having been a student and now MacDowell Colony fellowships. He has received solo recital and concerto performances receiving a teacher at the same school where Mr. Barber was Musical Arts Quintet at Ball State University. numerous commissions for a wide variety of enthusiastic acclaim. When she was eighteen both, I am ever aware of the gratitude and esteem Prior to joining the School of Music faculty, chamber, orchestral and choral pieces. she married Dr. H.H.A. Beach, an eminent with which I hold this artist who created so much Dr. Watanabe taught at the University of Boston surgeon who encouraged her composing beautiful music. It is with a humble heart that Dr. Maslanka has served on the faculties of the Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the Memorial University of while limiting her concert appearances. I pay homage to him and to the genre of woodwind State University of New York at Geneseo, Sarah Newfoundland and the University of Windsor, Partially thanks to him, she composed over quintet literature with this piece. Autumn comes Lawrence College, New York University and Canada. She has won competitions sponsored to us in many guises: incredible explosions of Kingsborough College of the City University of New by the Japan Flute Association and the National Though her music was considered out of style color; air that suddenly snaps with crispness and York. He currently resides in Missoula, Montana. Flute Association, and has appeared in Japan, before she died, it has been greatly appreciated for Israel, England and Canada as a recitalist, clarity; a tinge of melancholy on the eve of change He writes: “Quintet for Winds No.4 was its passion and sensuality. chamber musician and concerto soloist. in all of our lives. This piece is a musical portrait commissioned by the Florida West Coast The Pastorale for woodwind quintet, her only work Symphony for its resident Florida Wind Quintet. part of the quintet represents the beginning of Orchestra and performs with the Indianapolis for this genre, was composed late in her life when The premiere performance was given in Sarasota, the season, with its explosions of color, sharp line Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she performed she was living at the MacDowell Artist Colony. Florida in March of 2008. and vivid imagery; always changing and always with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, Pontiac vibrant. The musical lines are sometimes present After all the innovations of the past century– Oakland Symphony, Newfoundland Symphony, JENNIFER HIGDON (b. 1962) with each instrument carrying a different rhythm, the explosion of forms, methods, and Windsor Symphony and Warren Symphony. AUTUMN MUSIC (1995) reminiscent of the way leaves float down from media– Quintet No.4 will seem to be radically As a pedagogue, she has given numerous a tree in a very unsynchronized manner. conservative. It is a compact 20-minute work masterclasses and has adjudicated competitions American composer Jennifer Higdon received the As the quintet moves into the last part of the in three movements and its main historical throughout the United States, Canada and Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto in work, there is more of an introspective and reference is French wind music of the 1930’s, Japan. In 2005, she joined the faculty of the 2010. The same year she also received a Grammy melancholy quality to the music; the music itself ‘40’s, and ‘50’s, especially that of Francis Poulenc. Brevard Music Center Festival. Dr. Watanabe is for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for I love melody, and music that speaks plainly. also devoted to the study of ethnomusicology with her Percussion Concerto. She holds the Rock Chair the sound. It is the passing of the season.” an emphasis on Japanese traditional music. As in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music This work was commissioned in 1995 by Pi Kappa a very quiet and plaintive music, but the body such, her published article, Essence of Mei, from in Philadelphia. Higdon enjoys several hundred Lambda Music Honorary. of the movement is a hard trek through the Flutist Quarterly of the National Flute

from Florida State University. His principal One of the country's oldest and most distinguished ACKNOWLEDGMENTS teachers were Gregory Hustis, Principal Horn chamber ensembles of its kind, the Musical Arts Recorded: May 16-19, 23, 24; June 6, 7, 2011; of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dr. William Quintet was established in 1957. Eight cross- Sursa Performance Hall, Ball State University Capps, former Principal Horn of the Berlin Radio country tours, from New England to the Pacific School of Music, Muncie, Indiana Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, coast and from the Dakotas to New Orleans, have and Frederick Schmitt, charter member of the brought the quintet an enviable reputation and Producer: Keith Kothman New York Brass Quintet. high critical acclaim. The MAQ made its New Co-producers: Elizabeth Crawford, Keith Sweger York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in November Recording Engineer: Keith Kothman The MUSICAL ARTS QUINTET (MAQ), resident 1963. In residence at Ball State University, the Assistant Recording Engineer: Andrew Reiman faculty wind quintet in the Ball State University quintet has gained national attention for its Editing and mastering: Keith Kothman School of Music, was awarded an American performance and support of contemporary music. Recorded using: Bruel & Kjaer 4007 (2) Masterpieces: Chamber Music grant from the At Brandeis University, the ensemble gave the Booklet editor and notes: Elizabeth Crawford Romanza for National Endowment for the Arts in 2010. Booklet cover design: Jaclynn Dunlap – visual Fine's memorial concert. At Valdosta State The grant award supported the MAQ in representation of Quintet No. 4 by David Maslanka performances, educational activities and a tour College, the quintet presented the premiere of Booklet layout: Jaclynn Dunlap throughout the state of Indiana during fall 2010 Morris Knight's Concerto for Quintet and Piano Inlay: Jaclynn Dunlap and spring 2011, and a recording of American with Michael Bourgeot, under the auspices of the quintet repertoire. The quintet performed and Georgia State Arts Commission's Project Radius. Booklet photo: John Huffer Project Director: Elizabeth Crawford recorded works by composers Bruce Adolphe, In 1994 the quintet gave the premiere Amy Beach, Jenni Brandon, Jennifer Higdon, David performance of Karen Thomas' Sopravento, Publishers: Theodore Presser (Serenade for Wind Maslanka and Steven Stucky. The MAQ is one of a work for quintet and percussion, at the Quintet), Boosey & Hawkes (Five Frogs), 72 organizations from around the country selected conference of the National Association of Keiser Classical (Night Journey), Hildegard for a 2010 NEA American Masterpieces: Chamber College Wind and Percussion Instructors. Publishing (Pastorale), Lawdon Press (Autumn Music award; other recipients include groups such OW Records issued the first recordings of Music), Carl Fischer (Quintet No. 4) as the American Brass Quintet, Chamber Music the quintet, which are devoted to the works Society of Lincoln Center, Kronos Quartet, Ravinia of contemporary American composers. SPECIAL THANKS TO: Music Festival and San Francisco Symphony. The MAQ has performed at conferences of The National Endowment for the Arts As part of the NEA grant, the MAQ presented the American Society of Composers, Music Ball State University College of Fine Arts: Robert Kvam, Dean performances in Anderson, Elkhart, Carmel, Educators National Conference, Music Teachers Ball State University School of Music: Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, National Association, Indiana Music Educators John Scheib, Director Kokomo, Seymour, Valparaiso and Wabash as well Association, National Association of College as on the Ball State University campus. Wind and Percussion Instructors National Kristi Koriath, Director James Minor, Associate Professor of Art The culmination of the grant was the recording Symposium, Society of Composers, Inc. and Friends and family for their support throughout project that resulted in this CD. International Double Reed Society. the project. AMERICAN BREEZE AMERICAN BREEZE MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky TROY1369 1. Con fuoco (2:32) 2. Notturno (4:18) 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08)

4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) MUSICAL A R 5. Giocoso (2:36) Five Frogs Jenni Brandon 6. Leaping (1:21) TS W 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11)

8. Swimming (1:52) O 9. Bullfrog (2:56) O D 10. Catching Bugs (1:52) WIND QUINTET 11. Epilogue (1:51) 12. Night Journey (10:33) Bruce Adolphe 13. Pastorale (3:09) Amy Beach 14. Autumn Music (11:33) Jennifer Higdon Quintet No. 4 David Maslanka 15. Slow, Progressively Faster (9:04) WIND QUINTET 16. A Lullaby – Inward and Hesitant (2:39) O D

O 17. Very Fast (6:32)

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AMERICAN BREEZE THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN MUSIC AND DESIGN a required element for all designs. The compositions MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET were designed on the computer and transferred to When the Musical Arts Quintet embarked upon a black foam core, 30 x 40 inches. The designs were Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky this recording project one of our discussions displayed in Mueller Lobby of Sursa Performance was the treatment of the CD cover. We decided 1. Con fuoco (2:32) Hall on the Ball State University campus at the to create an immersive learning experience for 2. Notturno (4:18) Musical Arts Quintet’s spring 2011 concert. Ball State art students by including them in a 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08) An audience poll was taken to help determine contest of sorts in which they created a design 4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) the work that would grace the cover of the CD. that represented their interpretation of one of 5. Giocoso (2:36) Jaclynn Dunlap’s representation of David the quintets we performed on our April 3, 2011 Maslanka’s Quintet No. 4 was the winner. Five Frogs Jenni Brandon concert. We wanted our audience members to -Elizabeth Crawford 6. Leaping (1:21) look at the works during intermission and submit 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11) their suggestions for “best” design. 8. Swimming (1:52) I approached Associate Professor of Art Sam 9. Bullfrog (2:56) Minor who teaches Visual Communication. 10. Catching Bugs (1:52) He was very enthusiastic about the project and 11. Epilogue (1:51) incorporated it into his Spring 2011 graphic design class. The students were given a project entitled 12. Night Journey (10:33) Bruce Adolphe Music to My Eyes: Auditory Art to Visual Art in

13. Pastorale (3:09) Amy Beach music as an art form whose medium is sound with the common elements of pitch, rhythm, dynamics, 14. Autumn Music (11:33) Jennifer Higdon timbre and texture. In addition, he told them that Quintet No. 4 David Maslanka music ranges from strictly organized compositions to improvisation and aleatoric forms. Each genre 15. Slow, Progressively Faster (9:04) and subgenre of music is open to individual 16. A Lullaby – Inward and Hesitant (2:39) interpretation and is occasionally controversial 17. Very Fast (6:32) because all people have their own distinct feel in gs a bout m us i c an d how i t m o v es the m . MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET For the project, the students were required Mihoko Watanabe, Flute and Piccolo to study all the works on this recording in order Johanna Cox, Oboe and English Horn to create a visual representation of one of the Elizabeth Crawford, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Keith Sweger, Bassoon music. While the students were free to develop Gene Berger, Horn their own color palette, the use of green was

STEVEN STUCKY (b. 1949) The sound world of these pieces depends above She has received numerous commissions and BRUCE ADOLPHE (b. 1955) SERENADE FOR WIND QUINTET (1990) all on fresh, unexpected sonorities combining awards for her music and is an active performer NIGHT JOURNEY (1986) who has sung with the Boston Pops, Los Angeles Steven Stucky studied with Richard Willis at and on the use of extreme registers, especially Philharmonic and other noted large ensembles. American composer Bruce Adolphe is a music Baylor University (BM, 1971) and with Robert scholar, author and pianist, who has been on Palmer, Burrill Phillips and Karel Husa at Cornell other hand, there are no extended techniques such Ms. Brandon writes: the faculties of the Juilliard School and New University (MFA, 1973; DMA, 1978). Dr. Stucky as multiphonics or key clicks, only the traditional "Five Frogs for woodwind quintet was inspired York University and has been a Visiting Lecturer taught at Lawrence University from 1978–80, playing methods.) by a book titled One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki at Yale. He has composed for some of the world’s before his current appointment to the composition Although serenade originally described music to Sato. This little book takes a look at one hundred department at Cornell in 1980. In addition, he has be played outdoors for evening entertainment, the different translations, haikus, sonnets, prose the Beaux Arts Trio, the National Symphony also served as composer-in-residence and new term long ago detached itself from these origins, and many more. In addition, he is known for his music adviser for the Los Angeles Philharmonic poems, and even limericks based on Basho’s and such composers as Mozart, Brahms, and weekly segment, “Piano Puzzler” on American Orchestra. His awards include a Guggenheim haiku, “Old Pond/Frog jumps in/The sound of Schoenberg have written serious concert works Fellowship (1986), a National Endowment for water.” Each of the instruments in the ensemble Public Media’s Performance Today, which under this title. Likewise my Serenade—though the Arts fellowship (1986) and commissions from is so different and so exceptional in their sound features Adolphe playing popular music and of course I hope it will entertain and delight the Philadelphia (Concerto for Orchestra) and and abilities that I realized each one could be folk tunes in the style of Classical composers the ear—is a serious work in which the first Minnesota (Dreamwaltzes) orchestras. a ‘frog.’ The clarinet is perfect for “Leaping” for call-in contestants. four movements, however slight, are musically because of its agility and grace, the way a frog can Of his quintet, Dr. Stucky writes: Commissioned by the Dorian Wind Quintet, concentrated. Only the last movement, despite its be still one minute and gone the next. “On the Lily Adolphe speaks of Night Journey as “a tone poem “The Serenade for Wind Quintet was moments of bluster, turns playful. Pad” depicts a frog sitting, as frogs often do, but in a mysterious mood. The image is one of a night commissioned by and is dedicated to The The work was sketched mostly in Los Angeles in I felt that this frog might be contemplative and Pennsylvania Quintet, in residence at Penn State fall 1989, and the score was completed in Ithaca, thoughtful and that the oboe could sing a beautiful back into darkness.” An ostinato (heard primarily University. The request from this ensemble for New York, in July and August 1990. It lasts about song of the pond. For “Swimming” I chose the a new composition gave me a welcome opportunity French horn as the frog, swimming gracefully in the clarinet but represented throughout the to return to chamber music for the first time at Penn State University on 10 October 1990.” through the water as the other instruments act quintet) is suggestive of a train moving quickly since 1985 (Boston Fancies), after a period of over the tracks. Adolphe says, "Night Journey as ripples in the water and the motion the frog five years devoted exclusively to the symphony might leave in its wake. The “Bullfrog” could is music of dizzying, shifting pulses and ever orchestra. Indeed, I was interested in part precisely JENNI BRANDON (b. 1977) be none other than the bassoon, not only for its changing instrumental timbres. After composing because I knew that in a work for only five FIVE FROGS (2005) it and trying to find an appropriate title, wide vocal range, but also for the various colors it players there would be no easy refuge in the Jenni Brandon is an active composer, singer, could evoke, the way frogs’ sounds entangle with I was reminded of watching colors and shapes elaborate textures which an orchestral composer conductor and teacher. She is the resident the other sounds of the night. “Catching Bugs” dart by the window of a train during a night can find habit-forming. composer with the Vientos Trio in Los Angeles gave me the opportunity to use the piccolo and journey. Inside the train all is still while outside and is Artistic Director and a founding member allow the ensemble to run ‘amok’ after their bug is a whirl of activity. This experience, familiar aphoristic pieces, each of them a vividly colored of Synchromy, a group of Los Angeles based dinner. Finally in “Epilogue” all the frogs sing to us all, is a vivid (and I hope helpful) “musical moment.” The movements are not composers who present collaborative concerts together, each one bringing their own song into metaphor for the rhythmic, textural, timbral related; each contrasts strongly with the next. of their music with guest artists and ensembles. this final movement." world of Night Journey.”

AMY BEACH (1867-1944) performances a year of her works. Her music is DAVID MASLANKA (b. 1943) a challenging emotional space. The second PASTORALE (1941) published exclusively by Lawdon Press. QUINTET NO. 4 (2008) movement is a brief lullaby, with solo oboe taking Of Autumn Music, she writes: the lead, and with an utterly simple supporting Amy Beach was deemed the leading female David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, web of colors and gentle rhythms in the other “When I started thinking about writing a piece Massachusetts in 1943. He holds degrees from instruments. The fast and furious third movement woman to succeed as a composer of wide reaching for woodwind quintet, my mind began to the Oberlin College Conservatory (BM) and art music. She was almost completely self-taught contemplate all of the wonderful chamber music Michigan State University (MM, PhD) and spent with just a year of formal training in harmony a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. My mind kept going back to one of the greatest MUSICIAN BIOS and counterpoint. Independent study of the Among his many awards are grants from the contributions to the woodwind quintet literature, masters was the manner by which she modeled her Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, ASCAP, MIHOKO WATANABE, a native of Japan, is Associate Samuel Barber's "Summer Music". Having the compositions. She was a formidable pianist, with Professor of Flute and a member of the privilege as I do of having been a student and now MacDowell Colony fellowships. He has received solo recital and concerto performances receiving a teacher at the same school where Mr. Barber was Musical Arts Quintet at Ball State University. numerous commissions for a wide variety of enthusiastic acclaim. When she was eighteen both, I am ever aware of the gratitude and esteem Prior to joining the School of Music faculty, chamber, orchestral and choral pieces. she married Dr. H.H.A. Beach, an eminent with which I hold this artist who created so much Dr. Watanabe taught at the University of Boston surgeon who encouraged her composing beautiful music. It is with a humble heart that Dr. Maslanka has served on the faculties of the Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the Memorial University of while limiting her concert appearances. I pay homage to him and to the genre of woodwind State University of New York at Geneseo, Sarah Newfoundland and the University of Windsor, Partially thanks to him, she composed over quintet literature with this piece. Autumn comes Lawrence College, New York University and Canada. She has won competitions sponsored to us in many guises: incredible explosions of Kingsborough College of the City University of New by the Japan Flute Association and the National Though her music was considered out of style color; air that suddenly snaps with crispness and York. He currently resides in Missoula, Montana. Flute Association, and has appeared in Japan, before she died, it has been greatly appreciated for Israel, England and Canada as a recitalist, clarity; a tinge of melancholy on the eve of change He writes: “Quintet for Winds No.4 was its passion and sensuality. chamber musician and concerto soloist. in all of our lives. This piece is a musical portrait commissioned by the Florida West Coast The Pastorale for woodwind quintet, her only work Symphony for its resident Florida Wind Quintet. part of the quintet represents the beginning of Orchestra and performs with the Indianapolis for this genre, was composed late in her life when The premiere performance was given in Sarasota, the season, with its explosions of color, sharp line Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she performed she was living at the MacDowell Artist Colony. Florida in March of 2008. and vivid imagery; always changing and always with the Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, Pontiac vibrant. The musical lines are sometimes present After all the innovations of the past century– Oakland Symphony, Newfoundland Symphony, JENNIFER HIGDON (b. 1962) with each instrument carrying a different rhythm, the explosion of forms, methods, and Windsor Symphony and Warren Symphony. AUTUMN MUSIC (1995) reminiscent of the way leaves float down from media– Quintet No.4 will seem to be radically As a pedagogue, she has given numerous a tree in a very unsynchronized manner. conservative. It is a compact 20-minute work masterclasses and has adjudicated competitions American composer Jennifer Higdon received the As the quintet moves into the last part of the in three movements and its main historical throughout the United States, Canada and Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Violin Concerto in work, there is more of an introspective and reference is French wind music of the 1930’s, Japan. In 2005, she joined the faculty of the 2010. The same year she also received a Grammy melancholy quality to the music; the music itself ‘40’s, and ‘50’s, especially that of Francis Poulenc. Brevard Music Center Festival. Dr. Watanabe is for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for I love melody, and music that speaks plainly. also devoted to the study of ethnomusicology with her Percussion Concerto. She holds the Rock Chair the sound. It is the passing of the season.” an emphasis on Japanese traditional music. As in Composition at The Curtis Institute of Music This work was commissioned in 1995 by Pi Kappa a very quiet and plaintive music, but the body such, her published article, Essence of Mei, from in Philadelphia. Higdon enjoys several hundred Lambda Music Honorary. of the movement is a hard trek through the Flutist Quarterly of the National Flute

from Florida State University. His principal One of the country's oldest and most distinguished ACKNOWLEDGMENTS teachers were Gregory Hustis, Principal Horn chamber ensembles of its kind, the Musical Arts Recorded: May 16-19, 23, 24; June 6, 7, 2011; of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dr. William Quintet was established in 1957. Eight cross- Sursa Performance Hall, Ball State University Capps, former Principal Horn of the Berlin Radio country tours, from New England to the Pacific School of Music, Muncie, Indiana Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, coast and from the Dakotas to New Orleans, have and Frederick Schmitt, charter member of the brought the quintet an enviable reputation and Producer: Keith Kothman New York Brass Quintet. high critical acclaim. The MAQ made its New Co-producers: Elizabeth Crawford, Keith Sweger York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in November Recording Engineer: Keith Kothman The MUSICAL ARTS QUINTET (MAQ), resident 1963. In residence at Ball State University, the Assistant Recording Engineer: Andrew Reiman faculty wind quintet in the Ball State University quintet has gained national attention for its Editing and mastering: Keith Kothman School of Music, was awarded an American performance and support of contemporary music. Recorded using: Bruel & Kjaer 4007 (2) Masterpieces: Chamber Music grant from the At Brandeis University, the ensemble gave the Booklet editor and notes: Elizabeth Crawford Romanza for National Endowment for the Arts in 2010. Booklet cover design: Jaclynn Dunlap – visual Fine's memorial concert. At Valdosta State The grant award supported the MAQ in representation of Quintet No. 4 by David Maslanka performances, educational activities and a tour College, the quintet presented the premiere of Booklet layout: Jaclynn Dunlap throughout the state of Indiana during fall 2010 Morris Knight's Concerto for Quintet and Piano Inlay: Jaclynn Dunlap and spring 2011, and a recording of American with Michael Bourgeot, under the auspices of the quintet repertoire. The quintet performed and Georgia State Arts Commission's Project Radius. Booklet photo: John Huffer Project Director: Elizabeth Crawford recorded works by composers Bruce Adolphe, In 1994 the quintet gave the premiere Amy Beach, Jenni Brandon, Jennifer Higdon, David performance of Karen Thomas' Sopravento, Publishers: Theodore Presser (Serenade for Wind Maslanka and Steven Stucky. The MAQ is one of a work for quintet and percussion, at the Quintet), Boosey & Hawkes (Five Frogs), 72 organizations from around the country selected conference of the National Association of Keiser Classical (Night Journey), Hildegard for a 2010 NEA American Masterpieces: Chamber College Wind and Percussion Instructors. Publishing (Pastorale), Lawdon Press (Autumn Music award; other recipients include groups such OW Records issued the first recordings of Music), Carl Fischer (Quintet No. 4) as the American Brass Quintet, Chamber Music the quintet, which are devoted to the works Society of Lincoln Center, Kronos Quartet, Ravinia of contemporary American composers. SPECIAL THANKS TO: Music Festival and San Francisco Symphony. The MAQ has performed at conferences of The National Endowment for the Arts As part of the NEA grant, the MAQ presented the American Society of Composers, Music Ball State University College of Fine Arts: Robert Kvam, Dean performances in Anderson, Elkhart, Carmel, Educators National Conference, Music Teachers Ball State University School of Music: Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, National Association, Indiana Music Educators John Scheib, Director Kokomo, Seymour, Valparaiso and Wabash as well Association, National Association of College as on the Ball State University campus. Wind and Percussion Instructors National Kristi Koriath, Director James Minor, Associate Professor of Art The culmination of the grant was the recording Symposium, Society of Composers, Inc. and Friends and family for their support throughout project that resulted in this CD. International Double Reed Society. the project. AMERICAN BREEZE AMERICAN BREEZE MUSICAL ARTS WOODWIND QUINTET Serenade for Wind Quintet Steven Stucky TROY1369 1. Con fuoco (2:32) 2. Notturno (4:18) 3. Allegro scorrevole (2:08) 4. Calmo, contenerezza (4:22) MUSICAL A R 5. Giocoso (2:36) Five Frogs Jenni Brandon 6. Leaping (1:21) TS W 7. On the Lily Pad (3:11)

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