THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MUSIC
presents
THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS INC. REGION IV CONFERENCE
November 17-19, 1988 Frank Moody Music Building Tuscaloosa, Alabama Society of Composers, Inc. 1988 Region IV Conference Schedule of Events
THURSDAY - Noyember 17
8:45 a.m Registration Lobby (Coffee and Doughnuts and Tour of Music Building) 9:45 Welcome- Dr. Dennis Monk Choral-Opera 10:00 Lecture Choral-Opera Darmstadt 88 and the New Pluralism - Mark Lee
10:45 Concert Choral-Opera 5 The Unified Arts Ensemble of Motlow State Community College Stockhausen - Tierkries, Wellen Feldman - Durations 2 Monk - View 1, Ester's Song, Paris Glass - 1 + 1, Opening, The Olympian
1:30 p.m. Concert FNB Concert Hall --- 6 Clemmons - Sonata - solo violin (Rubin) Presser - Horn Quartet (Snead, Linsley, Mattingly, Furry) Smoke - Three Movements - clarinet & percussion (Bridges.Mathis) Pinney - (4*2) + 2 Mason - Windage - organ (Cook) 3:00 Recital Huey Recital Hall 6 Benoit - Suite No.2 - piano (Smith) Ledee -ABCISSA - clarinet (LeDee) Wendt - Elegy - trombone (Stalling) Landers - Fugue - piano (Frederick) Thompson - Three Pieces - cello (Holland) Whitfield - Piano Trio No. 1 (Dyer, Stout, Freeze) Robbins - Percussion Trio - (Walters, Mosley, Williams) 4:15 Lecture/Panel Discussion Choral-Opera Collaboration Between Composers and Poets - Lola Haskins Respondents - Dinos Constantinides, Harold Schiffman, John White Moderator - Harold Phillips
8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall --- 7 The University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra Schiffman - Capricci Concertati Phillips - Popul Vuh
Constantinides - Four Songs on Poems by Sappho Howe - Elegy for Strings White - Symphony for a Saint 2 FRIDAY - November 18
9:00 a.m. Late registration Choral-Opera 9:30 Recital Huey Recital Hall -----· 11 Lee - 2R - guitar (Lee) Kinningham - Tribute - clarinet & piano (Crabtree, Freeze) Sain - Parallel - flute (Sain) Millen - Fantasy - flute & piano (Bull, Perez) Eastman - The Signs of The Zodiac - flute (Cohen) Robison - Quartet - woodwinds & tape (Boyd, Sanders, Crabtree, Simpson)
11:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -----11 Sleeper - Four Miniatures - bassoon & flute (Sleeper, Rickman) Weigal - Augmented Break - violin (Constantinides) Ovens - Third Improvisation - percussion (Ovens) White - Homage a Gxe:xx Gxx.xd - piano (White) Robertson - Music - cello & piano (Harrell, Lee)
1:30 p.m. Paper Huey Recital Hall The Alabama Electronic Studios - Brad Albers
2:15 Panel Discussion Huey Recital Hall The Design of Electronic Music Studios and Musical Bias Panel - Brad Albers, Hubert Howe, John Melby, Sylvia Pengilly Moderator - Marvin Johnson
3:45 Electronic Music Concert FNB Concert Hall -----12 Pengilly - Dimensions of Space and Time - tape (Pengilly) Albers - Nexus - tape (Albers) Freund - Steel Grey Sky - electronic keyboard (Freund) Melby - Chor der Toten - tape (Melby) Howe - Piece for DX-7 Synthesizer Ensemble
5:30 Wine and Cheese Party (Cash Bar) University Club
8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -----13 The Alabama Wind Ensemble Davis - Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo Montalto - Symphony Hayden - Scintilla
Van Appledom - Cacophony Finney - Saxophone Concerto 3 SA TUR DAY - November 19
8:30 a.m. Business Meeting (late registration) Choral-Opera 9:30 Recital Huey Recital Hall 17 Van Der Slice - Variations - flute & piano (Cohen, Penick) Daugherty - Numinous Ignotus- clarinet & piano (Bridges, Wilder) Hoffman -Autumn Song - violin (Ross) Adams - Syzygy - violin & marimba (Monacelli, Walters) · Raitt -Aromas cello & piano (Holland, Smith) Garcia - Sonic Islands in a Sea of Solitude - flt, ob, clar, tbn (Boyd, Irish, McFarlen, Mason) 11:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall 17 Tipton - Four Alice Walker Songs - baritone, piano, percussion (Tipton, Perry) Montalto - Quiet Waters - soprano & tape (Dorough) Contemporary Ensemble of The University of Alabama Drennen - Palempsest - piano (Frederick) Eastman - A New Day - soprano, alto, tenor, bass, piano (Hatchett, Johnston, Freeze, Tibbs, Frederick) Johnson - Parsley Sage - chorus and tape Kam - Allelulia - organ (Risinger) Kindred - Hagia Sophia - baritone, organ, chorus (Tibbs, Risinger)
2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion Choral-Opera Twentieth Century Music and Aesthetic Diversity Ross Lee Finney, Don Freund, Hubert Howe, Dennis Kam Moderator - Frederic Goossen 4:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall 23 Constantinides - Sonata No. 2 - solo violin (Rubin) Freund - LifeGoes On - violin & piano (Ross, Freund)
Goossen - Tenebrae - piano (Murray) Sieg - Piano Trio (Cadek) Kallstrom - Tropism - piano trio (Cadek) 5:30 Alabama Teachers of Music Theory Choral-Opera Business Meeting
8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -- 24 Contemporary Ensemble of the University of Georgia Finney - Quartet/or Oboe, Cello, Percussion, and Piano Melby - Concerto for Clarinet and Tape
Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King
10:00 Party (cash bar) Sheraton Hotel 4 Thursday, November 17, 1988 10:45 a.m. - Choral Opera Room - Moody Music Building
The Unified Arts Ensemble of Motlow State Community College Tullahoma, Tennessee Mark Lee, Director
PROGRAM Tiel 1 Karlheinz Stockhausen Tierkries ( 197 6) Mark Prince Lee, guitar Wellen (1968), from Fiir Kommende Zeiten Mark Prince Lee, guitar Beverly Barnes, keyboard Patrick McCurdy, bass Tiel 2 Morton Feldman Durations 2 (1963) Kristie Beavers, piano Patrick McCurdy, bass Tiel 3 Meredith Monk View 1 Ester's Song (1986) from the ballet/opera Turtle Dreams Paris (1978) Kristie Beavers - soprano, keyboard Beverly Barnes - alto, keyboard Mark Prince Lee - guitar, keyboard Patrick McCurdy - bass Alan Odegaard - saxophone Teil 4 Philip Glass l+l Opening The Olympian Kristie Beavers, piano Beverly Barnes, keyboard Mark Prince Lee, keyboard Patrick McCurdy, bass Alan Odegaard, saxophone
Forty-third Concert of the 1988-89 Season
5 Thursday, November 17, 1988 1:30 p .m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
Sonata (1975) W.R. Clemmons Variants Sentiments Caprice Reflections Henry Rubin, violin
Horn Quartet William Presser Charles Snead, Victoria Linsley, Alan Mattingly, Stephanie Furry
Three Movements Gary Smoke Scott Bridges , clarinet Larry Mathis, percussion
(4*2) + 2 Gregory Pinney Contemporay Ensemble of the University of Alabama Scott Bridges, conductor
Windage Charles Mason Jim Cook, organ
Forty-fourth Program of the 1988-89 Season
Thursday, November 17, 1988 3 p.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM Suite No. 2 Kenneth Benoit Jonathan Smith, piano
ABCISSA Mikel LeDee Mikel LeDee, clarinet
Elegy Lewis Wendt Richard Stalling, trombone Gerald Loren Welker, conductor 6 Fugue Joseph Landers Amy Frederick, piano
Three Pieces Peggy Thompson James Holland, violoncello Piano Trio No. 1 Matt Whitfield Monica Dyer, violin Joe Stout, violoncello Greg Freeze, piano Percussion Trio Scott Robbins Cori Walters, Kevin Mosley, Woody Williams
Forty-fifth Program of the 1988-89 Season
Thursday, November 17, 1988 8 p.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
The University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra Carlton McCreery, conductor
Capricci Concertati Harold Schiffman I. Allegro giocoso II. Andantino gracioso III. Precississimo Michael Gattozzi, violin; Diane Boyd, flute Robert Sanders, oboe; Billy Crabtree, clarinet John Irish, clarinet; David Simpson, bassoon Mark Foster, trombone; Cynthia Zoller, percussion Gerald Loren Welker, conductor
Popol Vuh H. Garrett Phillips Allegro moderato-Adagio sostenuto-Allegro assai Henry Rubin, violin; Melissa Ross, viola Alan Harrell, violoncello; Scott Bridges, clarinet Larry Mathis, percussion; Jonathan Smith, piano Gerald Loren Welker, conductor
INTERMISSION
Four Songs On Poems By Sappho Dinos Constantinides I. Homecoming 7 II. To A Handsome Man 111. Candor IV. Light Vanishing Susan Fleming, mezzo-soprano
Elegie For Strings Hubert Howe
Symphony For A Saint John White I. Prologue II. Nuptual Mass III. The Conversion Of Valerian IV. Martyrdom V . Transfiguration Cecilia- Karen White , soprano Valerian- Stephen Cary, tenor Narrator- Ed White, bass-baritone
Forty-Seventh Program of the 1988-89 Season Four Songs on Poems by Sappho Symphony for a Saint I. Homecoming I. You have come. Comes now, comes now Cecilia Well done. Like a weeping bird whose sob is joy, I longed for you. Who flies to the glass of her own reflection You have given fire to my heart Who seeks the inside of the sanctuary, which burns now for you. Who falls among the little leaves Welcome, be welcome. And is held gentle in his hands that carry Welcome for all the hours of our separa her within. tion. Comes now, comes now Cecilia Like a simple flower that sings the sun II. To a Handsome Man inside her petals when the sun is gone, Stand up and gaze on me who brought Valerian to the Lord, as friend to friend. who taught him to cup the rain in his Reveal openly to me wounds as he left the Earth the beauty in your eyes. to the executioners whose wiped swords made flowers of their robes. III. Candor (to Akaeus) Comes now, comes now Cecilia If you cared for the good and the beautiful to stop your ears with music. and your tongue were not hiding evil, shame would not harbor in your eyes. II. Your would speak out your real desire. For all the bold shivers of your strings, all the tumult of your pipes, IV. Light Vanishing It is only you I hear. The moon has gone down, Your soft dark wings, the shadow of your gone down the Pleiadcs. wings comfort me. Night is half-gone, Oh Lord who sings in my heart when I and life speeds by. come to you 8 I will carry you no tears in my hands. And see how my bones are brightening, I sing of you, you in my heart, and see how my blood is rising. for you these garlands bloom, these Praised be the light that grows upon the dancers dance. walls, here where the weather flames For you the giddy flowers of your dance. beyond my reach, here where the hot salt Your peace be with me now. purifies my eyes. I hear his voice, his feathered words of love and I find my life in Him. III. She finds her life in whom? My sweet grey dove, among the trees there are such swellings. I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... All the throats of the dark leaves are And see how the rain seeps through the singing, my sweet grey dove. stones, a mist to cool my torrid cell, I will be so near to you, near as the sap Like the gentle mist that shivered from the which rises in the hombeams. low ravine the day I walked with Him I will open you as gently as does Junius among the ilex trees. persuade each single petal of the rose. Since we were children by the river I have And while the ashes cross upon my brow, loved you. I am a mother who calls her children, "See it is morning." Ah, Valerian, have you seen the dawn? A miracle, a miracle! Have you seen? Who is it? What is it that is here? Have you seen the dawn when the whole horizon is singing? I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... Have you heard the bearded music of the And now who is this Lictor, this soldier goats in fog? bearing the axe of Rome? Have you stroked the lacy, gentle, mossy Who is he but your servant? Who is he but skin that creeps along ihe forest? your slave? Have you picked the bread of snow? For see the lictor with his axe, three times There are such mysteries, there are such he strikes for Rome. myst'ries in the Lord And the little pagans in the dark, they And He is the one and only God, chitter at his blows and are gone. And He is filled with all the start, And in His hands HI! carries night and day, I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... And He spills the sun like water What gushes from my throat is song. Ah, Valerian, we can be of one blood in For I have washed in my own blood and I His blood if we come to him. am clean But if you reach to me as man for woman Do you see? Do you see the field of you will find me closed strawberries flowing to the sea? As the bitter almond 'round its bitter, bitter I kneel in the wild I gather tiny fruits, I seed. taste the sweetest seeds. As the white eye of the mimosa in the silent field. Praise Him! v. Here lies your saint among the cold and sweating stones, she who died for love. IV. And if we should unseal her grave I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome, singer of we can see what heaven has left us here songs. What relics of her death, what wings of' Confesser of a darkling joy that cannot die. res trrrection. 9 Come with me into this little dark. Touch her, she is dust. Here she lies, her hands drawn up in sleep. Her cheeks turn powder over bone, her lips Tenderly as a child, a child wrapped in fall away to air. gold, Yet in the dim I hear a quickening of And at her feet her linens steeped in blood. wings. And a sweet singing. Do you see? Do you see the filed of strawberries flowing to the sea I am Cecilia. come low with me come gathering. And a sweet singing. I am Cecilia.
VIOLIN I Elizabeth Monacelli BASS HORN Concertmistress Robert Dickson Alan Mattingly Dana Lambert Principal Principal Laura Edgar Fred Coons Stephanie Furry Hilarie Harp Monica Hairston Shanon Jones FLUTE Tori Linsley Jeong Ae Park Diane Boyd Greg Sinatra Ai-Yi Bao* Principal DonnaDavis TRUMPET VIOLIN II Dutchess Jackson Joe Ardovino Robbie Lee Bowie Kerrie Mills Principal Principal Terahl Webster Monica Dyer PICCOLO Lester Walker Bridget Phillips Donna Davis Michael Gattozzi* TROMBONE Kristine McCreery* OBOE Thomas Davis Robert Sanders Shane Bowles VIOLA Principal Will Stapp Selena Nawrocki TUBA Principal Mike Mason Kathryn Greene CLARINET Charles Hott* Billy Crabtree TIMPANI Melissa Ross* Principal Matt Whittemore Paula Howard CELLO PERCUSSION James Holland BASSOON Cindy Zoller Principal David Simpson Sean Noyes Lisa Probeck Pamela Hebert David Lans Alan Harrell Barry Bailey Joe Stout
* Faculty/Staff
10 Friday, November 18, 1988 9:30 a.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
2R Mark Lee Mark Lee, guitar
Tribute Alan Kinningham Billy Crabtree, clarinet Greg Freeze, piano
Parallel Jim Sain Cynthia Sain, flute
Fantasy Variations Rhendle Millen Catherin Bull, flute Patricia Perez, piano
The Signs of the Zodiac Donna Kelly Eastman Aries Cancer Libra Capricorn Taurus Leo Scorpio Aquarius Gemini Virgo Sagitarius Sheryl Cohen, flute Quartet Tucker Robison Diane Boyd, flute Robert Sanders, oboe Billy Crabtree, clarinet David Simpson, bassoon
Forty-eighth Program of the 1988-89 Season
Friday, November 18, 1988 11 a.m. • FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
Four Miniatures Thom Sleeper Kathern Sleeper, bassoon Jean Rickman, flute
11 Augmented Break Jay Weigal Dinos Constantinides, violin
Third Improvisation Douglas Ovens Douglas Ovens, percussion
Homage a Gxess Gxxxd John D. White John White, piano
Music for Cello and Piano Edwin Robertson Alan Harrell, violoncello Christy Lee, piano
Forty-ninth Program of the 1988-89 Season
Electronic Music Friday, November 18, 1988 3:45 p.m .. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
Dimensions of Space and Time Sylvia Pengilly
Nexus Brad Albers
Steel Grey Sky Donald Freund Donald Freund, electronic keyboard
Chor der Toten John Melby
Piece for DX-7 II Synthesizer Ensemble Hubert Howe Ronald Goldstein, Daniel Pyle, Andrew Risinger, Gary Smoke
Fifty-second Program of the 1988-89 Season
DX-7 II Synthesizer provided by: Music Alley, Inc. 113 Brook Village Birmingham, AL 35216 Steve Garett, owner - (205 )988-3688 12 Friday, November 18, 1988 8 p.m •. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
The Alabama Wind Ensemble Gerald Loren Welker, Conductor
PROGRAM
Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo William Davis
Symphony Richard Montalto I. Energetic II. Mysterious III. Allegro
Scintilla Paul Hayden
INTERMISSION
Cacophony Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn
Concerto Ross Lee Finney I. Moderato II. Allegro Energico Jimmy Bowland, alto saxophone
Fifty-Third Program of the 1988-89 Season
PROGRAM NOTES
Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo for wind ensemble was composed in 1983-84 for the 1985 bicentennial celebration of the founding of the University of Georgia. The work opens with a fanfare for brass and percussion; later in the Fanfare section the woodwinds enter, but in a subordinate role. The woodwinds play a more important part in the lyrical Meditation, which begins with high woodwind trills. The main theme of this section is played by unison high woodwinds accompanied by soft chords. This quickly builds to a fortissimo climax, which is followed by a return to a soft dynamic level and an extended flute solo. The Scherzo is a virtuoso showpiece for the entire wind ensemble. It begins with 13 three-part counterpoint; the three parts, while non-imitative, nonetheless share common motives. Soon various sections of the wind ensemble are featured alone: the double reeds are heard, then the piccolo and flutes. Following this, unison clarinets alternate with solo brass instruments which bring back motives from the Meditation After a fermata, the three-part counterpoint begins again in the woodwinds against the opening fanfare played by muted brass. Following a tutti climax, the saxophones, clari nets, trumpets, and trombones are featured. The opening brass fanfare continues to be heard in the work's coda.
Symphony Richard Montalto hold degrees in composition from the Uni versity of New Orleans, Tulane University, and North Texas State University. His works have been performed at the Montreux International Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, and the 1981 International Computer Music Conference. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Mississippi University for Women and Conductor of the Columbus (MS) Symphony Orchestra. Symphony was composed in 1979 and won an ASCAP Grants to Young Composers Award in 1981. The three-movement work explores the tremendous range of instrumental color of the con temporary wind ensemble. Free use is made of twelve-tone tech nique, resulting in various combinations of motivic, melodic, and textural musics.
Scintilla Paul Hayden received his graduate degrees in composition from the University of Illinois after studying with Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, and Thomas Frederickson. For seven years, Hayden was an assistant professor of music at Louisiana State University and he is presently associate professor of music at Eastern Illinois University. Scintilla was a finalist in the 1987 American Bandmasters Association/Ostwald Band Composition Contest and the Virginia Band Directors National Association Symposium XII Composition Contest. A "scintilla" is a spark. The notes of the opening piano/ marimba scales provide the kernal or spark fromwhich much of the material of the piece is derived. The work is in one movement and is divided into five sections that create an overall arch form (ABCBA). Scintilla was commissioned by the LSU School of 14 Music in celebration of the opening of its new music building and dedicated to Frank Wickes and the LSU Wind Ensemble.
Cacophony Cacophony for Winds, Percussion and Toys is an original composition which freely organizes noise in various combinations of rhythm, timbre, and texture. Members of the ensemble clap, speak and shout at times, and each member (except the percussion players) must procure some type of noise maker such as rattles, metallics, bells, toy horns, whistles and even sirens. Cacophony was commissioned by the Women Band Directors National Asso ciation and premiered by the Spring High School Band of Spring, Texas, at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in December of 1980. It was an award-winning composition in the Virginia Col lege Band Directors National Association Competitions in 1981.
Concerto Ross Lee Finney was born in Wells, Minnesota, in 1906. His entire life has been spent in the academic climate of the college and university- teaching, composing, and lecturing. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Alban Berg, and Gian-Francesco Malipiero, and he has taught at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, the Hartt School of Music, and Amherst College. Finney has received many award including a Pulitzer Scholarship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Boston Symphony Award and A Rockefeller Foundation Grant. He was composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1960, and was elected to the National Insti tute of Arts and Letters in 1962. From 1948 until his retirement in 1976, he was composer-in-residence at the University of Michigan. In 1982-83, Professor Finney became the first holder of the En dowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama. The Concerto was commissioned by friends and students of Larry Teal, a longtime friend of the composer, and, until his retirement, a distinguished professor of saxophone at the Univer sity of Michigan. The first performance was presented by the University of Michigan Band, H. Robert Reynolds, conductor, with Teal's successor at Michigan, Donald Sin ta, as soloist. The concerto represents the epitome of technical proficiency, not only for the soloist but even for the wind and percussion players in the ensemble. Despite its heavy, Romantic resources and proportions, the composer achieves opacity and translucence between soloist I
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JimllJ.y Alan Bowland, of Paducah, Kentucky, is principal saxo phonist of the Alabama Wind Ensemble. A two-time first chair saxophonist of the Kentucky All-State Band, Mr. Bowland was Quad-State Soloist of the Year and winner of the John Philip Sousa Award While a student at Lone Oak High School in Padu cah. He performed as a member of the Disney All-American College Band in 1986. Winner of the Phi Kappa Lambda Out standing Sophomore of the Year Award, he was a state winner in the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Compe tition and represented the School of Music on a concert tour of Costa Rica in the summer of 1988. He is a saxophone student of William K. Dole.
ALABAMA WIND ENSEMBLE PERSONNEL
FLUTES Shannon Whitley Diane Boyd John Irish Principal Jewell Whitt Catherine Bull BASSOONS PICCOLO David Simpson Donna Davis Principal Malinda Williams OBOES David Salter (Contra) Robert Sanders Principal SAXOPHONES Greta Shockley Jimmy Bowland Nora Mcfarlen Principal Alto Julie Reichert (alto) CLARINETS Christopher Bentley Laura Grantier (E-Flat) (tenor) Billy Crabtree David Johnson (Bari Principal tone) Krista Brunner Assistant CORNETS Terry Rainey Lester Walker Richard Mason Principal Jennifer Borden Scott Berry Elizabeth Vollers Assistant Catherine Taylor Terahl Webster Heather Crossley John Cain
16 Saturday, November 19, 1988 9:30 a.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
Variations John Van Der Slice Sheryl Cohen, flute Amanda Penick, piano
Numminous Ignotus Michael Daugherty Scott Bridges, clarinet Pamela Wilder, piano
Autumn Song Laura Hoffman Julian Ross, violin
Syzgy Daniel Adams Elizabeth Monacelli, violin Cori Walters, marimba
Aromas Kevin Haitt James Holland, cello Jonathan Smith, piano
Sonic Islands in a Sea of Solitude Orlando Garcia Diane Boyd, flute Nora McFarlen, oboe John Irish, clarinet Richard Mason, trombone
Fifty-fourth Program of the 1988-89 Season
Saturday, November 19, 1988 11 a.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
Four Alice Walker Songs (1985) Clyde Tipton Love is not concerned
17 I Torture We alone Wasichu Clyde Tipton, baritone Cynthia Perry, piano Kim Collins, percussion
Quiet Waters Richard Montalto Dina Dorough, soprano
Palempsest Dorothy Drennen Amy Frederick, piano
A New Day Donnal Kelly Eastman Beth Hatchett, soprano Marjorie Johnston, alto Greg Freeze, tenor Dewin Tibbs, baritone Amy Frederick, piano
Parsley Sage Marvin Johnson
Allelulia Dennis Kam
Hagia Sophia Janis Kindred Andrew Risinger, organ The University of Alabama Contemporary Ensemble Marvin Johnson, conductor
Fifty-fifth Program of the 1988-89 Season
PROGRAM NOTES Four Alice Walker Songs Written in contrasting styles- pan-diatonic, tonal, 12-tone and bi-tonal, these four songs have in common the composer's non virtuoso approach to the interpretation of these poems by Alice Walker. Influenced by Satie, Webern and Stravinsky, he is con cerned with writing simply, using understatement and an economy of material. The composer intends the music to be congruent with the words of these poems, which seem to bypass the peripheral and extraneous to focus on the essential themes of love, non-violence and a reverence for nature. 18 "Wasichu" is a Sioux word which means "he who takes the fat" and refers to the wasteful exploitation of the white man.
Palimpsest * from The Symphony by Sidney Lanier Once said a Man - and wise was he - "Never shalt thou the heavens see, Save as a little child thou be." Then o'er sea-lashings of commingling tunes ... Gray-beard old harpers ... chanted runes: "Bright-waved gain, gray-waved loss, The sea of all doth lash and toss, One wave forward and one across; But now 'twas trough, now 'tis crest, And worst doth foam and flash to best, ...
Life! Life! thou sea-fugue, writ form east to west, Love, Love alone can pore On thy dissolving score Of harsh half-phrasings, ... And double erasings Of chords most fit. Yea, Love, sole music-master blest, May read thy weltering palimpsest. To follow Time's dying melodies through, And never to lose the old in the new, And ever to solve the discords true - Love alone can do. And ever Love hears the poor-folks' crying, And ever Love hears the women's sighing, And ever sweet knighthood's death-defying, And ever wise childhood's deep implying,
And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred, O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word.
*Palimpsest: a manuscript on which the first writing has been superficially erased so the parchment could be used again.
19 A New Day Man awakes to a new day. Glittering dewdrops, Shimmering sunlight, Pulsating, stimulating anticipation The promise of a new day.
Man finds an imperfect world of imperfect beings Greed which grips humanity! Eradication of nature's beauty; Hungry bodies, hungry souls grasping, thrashing, screaming The challenge of an imperfect world
Man hopes for a solution: One small answer to one small problem; The missing piece to a larger puzzle; Leading to an even greater equation; Groping for that final discovery, only to begin again. The ingenuity of mankind- The search for a solution.
Man loves, and cares, and trusts. He shares his life and all good he possesses. He tenderly teaches his children right from wrong. Laughing, crying, singing, man offers warmth and comfort to those he loves Man loves He loves.
And, man sleeps an innocent deep sleep. A weary body finds its rest; Rejuvenate, renew, revitalize; Sweet slumber with dreams of tomorrow The luxury of a peaceful sleep Prepares man for a new day.
Parsley Sage Can you make me a Cambric Shirt without a seam or needle work?
Can you wash it in yondor well which never bore water nor rain ever fell? 20 Can you hang it on yonder thorn which never bore water since Adam was born?
Parsely Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and you shall be a true love of mine
Now you have asked me questions three I hope you will answer as many for me.
Can you buy me an acre of land between the salt water and the sea sand?
Can you plow it with a ram's horn and sew it all over with one pepper corn?
Can you reap it with a sickle of leather and bind it up with a peacocks feather?
Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and you shall be a true love of mine.
When you have done and finished your work then come to me for your Cambric Shirt.
Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdoin)
Praise God in His wisdom; Praise God in His understanding; Praise God. Hagia Sophia, Hagia Sophia, Hagia Sophia. II Chronicles 1: 10 Give me now wisdom and understanding, that Imay go out and come in before this people.
Praise God in His wisdom; Praise God in His understanding; Praise God.
Job 28: 12-14, But where shall wisdom be found? 20-21,23 And where is the place of understanding? We know not its value. It is not found in the land of the living. The deep says, "It is not in me." I And the sea says, "It is not in me."
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- It is hidden from the eyes of all living, And concealed from the birds of the sky.
Where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
God understands its way; And He knows its place.
Proverbs 3: 13-17, Blessed is the one who finds wisdom. 19-20 The one who gains understanding. For her profit is better than silver, And her gain than gold. She is more precious than jewels; And nothing you desire compares with her. Long life is in her right hand; And in her left hand, honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, And all her paths are peace. The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heaven. By His knowledge the depths are borken up. And the clouds drop down the dew.
II Chronicles 1: 10 Give me now wisdom and understanding, that I may go out and come in before this people.
Hagia Sophia
22 Saturday, November 19, 1988 4 p.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building
PROGRAM
Sonata No. 2 Dinos Constantinides Henry Rubin, violin
Life Goes On Donald Freund Julian Ross, violin Donald Freund, piano
INTERMISSION
Tenebrae Frederic Goossen Bruce Murray, piano
Music for Piano Trio Jerry Sieg
Tropism Michael J. Kallstrom Andantino Adagio Allegro The Cadek Trio Richard Bosworth, piano Henry Rubin, violin Carlton McCreery, violoncello
23 ' Saturday, November 19, 1988 8 p.m .. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Uµilding r - .
The Contempora ry Chamber Ensemble of the University of Georgia Lewis Nieson , conductor
PROGRAM
Quartet (19 7 9) Ross Lee Finney Prologue Allegro Mod era to Interlude Allegro Capriccioso Epilogue D ouglas Keith, oboe,' Juanita Karpf, cello John Connolly, percussion,' Glenda Goss, piano
Concerto for Clarinet and Tape John Melby Richard Maynard, clarinets
INTERMISSION
Eight Songs for a Mad King Sir Peter Maxwell Davies I. Sentry II. Country Walk III. Lady In Waiting IV. To Be Sung On The Water V. The Phantom Queen VI. The Counterfeit VII. Country Dance VIII. The Review
Wayne Jones, bass-baritone,' Lynn Pruitt, flute Jeffrey Waters, clarinet; Lane Donaldson, violin Juanita Karpf, violoncello; Kenneth Bradway, percussion Renee Waters, piano
Fifty-eighth Program of the 1988-89 Season
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