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Western/Northwestern Division Conference MARCH 21-24, 2018 SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY WELCOME FROM ANDY COLLINSWORTH Welcome WELCOME FROM JUDY SAKAKI President Welcome to Sonoma State University! We are honored to have you on our campus for the College Band Directors National Association Western/ Northwestern Division Conference. Our campus is one of twenty-three campuses in the California State University, the largest public university system in the country. Andy Collinsworth, our Director of Bands and Music Education, and his team have worked diligently to make this 15th biennial conference a memorable experience for each of you. We are so pleased that nearly 100 college band directors and 500 students have traveled here from universities throughout the Western United States and British Columbia. As you enjoy concerts from ten outstanding ensembles over the next four days, I hope that you will reflect anew on the value - some might say necessity- of music in our lives. Following the wildfires that devastated our North Bay region last fall, it was music in our Green Music Center that helped many in our community to heal and to be resilient. It was music that brought us together and lifted us up. We are now ready to rebuild our homes, lives and communities. I hope this conference will enable you to learn, feel, experience and connect. Welcome and enjoy the conference! With gratitude, Judy K. Sakai, Ph.D. President WELCOME FROM ANDY COLLINSWORTH Conference Host Greetings and welcome to the Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center for the 15th biennial CBDNA Western/Northwestern Divisions Conference. I am honored to host the conference and would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to our previous hosts at the University of Nevada—Reno, Reed Chamberlin and A.G. “Mack” McGrannahan, for their longstanding commitment to making this conference a prestigious event. Our biennial conference offers multiple rich opportunities to learn, grow, share and interact. Inspirational performances will be given in magnificent Weill Hall by nine outstanding ensembles from universities throughout the Western United States and British Columbia. The Intercollegiate Band, an enduring and significant component of the conference comprised of outstanding student musicians from two and four-year universities, will perform Saturday afternoon under the baton of Larry Gookin, Professor Emeritus from Central Washington University. Likewise, we will be inspired by the many presenters who will share their expertise and insight on a variety of topics related to performance practice, repertoire, historical and social contexts, conducting and program development. We are pleased to welcome Allan McMurray, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the University of Colorado who will lead sessions in rehearsal clinic techniques and conducting. Composer James Stephenson will be here to celebrate the premiere of his latest composition for our “Bridgeworks” commission and to share insights related to his craft. Finally, I would like to thank the board members of the Western and Northwestern Divisions for their dedicated efforts toward presenting this conference, which has been two years in the making. I hope you enjoy the conference as well as your stay in California’s beautiful Wine Country. Sincerely, Andy Collinsworth, Conference Host Conference Schedule WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2018 1:45pm - 2:45pm Shuttle Service from Doubletree and Oxford Suites Hotels to University 2:00pm - 7:00pm Registration Weill Hall Lobby 3:00pm - 4:30pm Intercollegiate Band Chair Auditions Warm Up Rooms Rooms 1057/1058 Flutes, Oboes Room 1045 Clarinets Schroeder Hall Saxophones, Low Woodwinds GMC Library Horns Room 1027 Trumpets Room 1141 Trombones Room 1029 Euphoniums, Tubas Room 2052 Percussion Sectional Room 1028 4:00pm - 9:30pm Midwest Sheet Music Open Weill Hall Lobby 6:00pm - 8:00pm Rehearsal: Intercollegiate Band Larry Gookin, conductor Professor Emeritus, Central Washington University Room 1028 8:00pm - 9:00pm Concert: Sonoma State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble Andy Collinsworth, conductor Weill Hall 9:00pm - 9:45pm Shuttle Service from University to Doubletree and Oxford Suites Hotels Conference Schedule THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 7:15am - 8:15am Shuttle Service from Doubletree and Oxford Suites Hotels to University 7:30am - 5:00pm Registration Weill Hall Lobby 8:00am - 11:30am Rehearsal: Intercollegiate Band Larry Gookin, conductor Professor Emeritus, Central Washington University Room 1028 8:30am - 9:20am Session: Inspiring Passionate Ensemble Performance: Using Interdisciplinary Context as Externally Facing Artistic Practice David Vickerman San José State University and Colleen Sears, College of New Jersey Room 1057 In a recent keynote address to the 2017 New Music Gathering, percussionist and conductor Steven Schick advocated for what he calls “externally facing artistic practice,” a process by which musicians, educators, and artists situate their music making within the broad spectrum of the human experience in contemporary society. The presenters will describe how innovative, socially conscious programming and collaborations between a college wind ensemble conductor, a music education professor, and a high school band director involved band students in concert experiences that engaged both performers and audiences with contemporary social issues. These projects can serve as a model for music educators and students in our ensembles; showing how deep historical study and student-centered discussion enhance rehearsal practice and result in high quality performances and enduring, meaningful educational experiences for everyone involved. 9:00am - 5:00pm Midwest Sheet Music Open Weill Hall Lobby 9:30am - 10:20am Session: Building Bridges through Inter-Generational Music Melanie Brooks, Arizona State University Room 1058 This session will encourage music educators to build bridges across communities through the performance of new and innovative mixed-ability-level band and orchestra repertoire. In 2017-2018, twenty-two new compositions by local, national, and international composers have been commissioned for a collaboration between the Arizona State University large ensembles and students from the Harmony Project Phoenix, Brophy College Preparatory School, and the Niños de La Guadalupana Via Del Campo music school in Tijuana, Mexico. The compositions are 3-minute “mini concertos” that celebrate beginning-level soloists with an intermediate/advanced ensemble accompaniment. The mixed- ability-level concertos introduce a new niche of ensemble music into the market that engages musicians of all ages in community-building and collaboration projects. One such project is the “Building Bridges through Music” festival, which was held at Arizona State University on January 27. Information about the Building Bridges festival, participating composers and publishers, and audio/video recordings of the performances will be included in the session. Conference Schedule THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 10:30am - 11:30am Session: A Conversation with Jim Stephenson Allan McMurray, moderator Room 1057 Jim Stephenson Allan McMurray 1:00pm - 2:00pm Concert: Pacific Lutheran University Wind Ensemble Edwin Powell, conductor Weill Hall 2:15pm - 3:15pm Concert: Fresno State Wind Orchestra Gary P. Gilroy, conductor Weill Hall 3:30pm - 5:45pm Rehearsal: Intercollegiate Band Larry Gookin, conductor Room 1028 3:30pm - 4:20pm Session: Charles Mingus’ “Adagio ma Non Troppo” Patrick Brooks, Idaho State University Room 1057 Early in 1971 the iconic American jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader Charles Mingus was approached by Columbia Records with the suggestion that he record a new album of his compositions in arrangements for expanded studio orchestra. To arrange his 1963 composition “Myself When I Am Real,” Mingus hired New York composer, arranger, and trombonist Alan Raph. The resulting work was the renamed “Adagio ma Non Troppo,” a work some 8 ½ minutes long scored for a group of winds and percussion that closely resembles the instrumentation of the modern wind ensemble. (Mingus later referred to the recording of “Adagio ma non troppo” as one his favorites of his entire career.) Despite the critical success of the record, “Adagio” has never been performed since the recording session, and the original score and parts have been lost. This session will serve as an introduction to this unique work by an important American jazz artist and provide details about the background of this work and how it has now become available for modern performance. 5:30pm - 7:00pm Midwest Sheet Music Open Weill Hall Lobby Conference Schedule THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 7:00pm - 8:00pm Concert: University of British Columbia Symphonic Wind Ensemble Robert Taylor, conductor Weill Hall 8:15pm - 9:15pm Concert: Central Washington University Wind Ensemble Lewis Norfleet, conductor Weill Hall 9:30pm - 10:15pm Shuttle Service from University to Doubletree and Oxford Suites Hotels FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2018 7:15am - 8:15pm Shuttle Service from Doubletree and Oxford Suites Hotels to University 7:30am - 8:30am Past President’s Breakfast Doubletree Hotel Restaurant 7:30am - 5:00pm Registration Weill Hall Lobby 8:00am - 11:30am Rehearsal: Intercollegiate Band Larry Gookin, conductor Room 1028 9:00am - 5:45pm Midwest Sheet Music Open Weill Hall Lobby 8:30am - 9:20am Session: The Lost Work of Dick Kattenburg Troy Bennefield, Washington State University Room 1057 Over fifty-five composers were killed during the Holocaust. While musical life in the concentration