ABOUT THE ARTISTS Noon Concert

Keith Michael Bohm, noted for his “virtuosity” and “expressive playing” This performance is made possible in part by the generous support from the (Sacramento Bee and San Francisco Classical Voice), earned his BM from CSU, Joy S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concerts endowment. Sacramento, under Dr. Jack Foote, his MM degree from the University of Southern Mississippi under Dr. Lawrence Gwozdz, and a DMA from the The Department of Music presents University of Missouri-Kansas City, Conservatory of Music under Dean Tim Shinkoskey Noon Concert Timmons. He has also studied in Lörrach, Germany, with Harry Kinross White and Carina Raschèr of the Raschèr Quartet. Dr. Bohm Faculty Recital is currently an ACME Artist and has performed recitals across the United Keith Michael Bohm, saxophone, with John Cozza, piano States, including a live broadcast performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. He has toured Europe, including the Bicentenaire de la Revolution française, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, and music festivals throughout Italy, and performed world Program premieres of works by American composers , William J. Lackey, Jerome Begin, and Leo Eylar. Sonata No. 5 in D Minor (1725) Jean Baptiste Senaillé Introduction – Allegro spiritoso (1687–1730) Winner of the 1998 Mu Phi Epsilon International Competition, Bohm Arr. Harry Gee toured for two years as an ambassador of Mu Phi Epsilon. He has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, Merced Caprice et Variations (1861) Joseph Arban Symphony, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, Diablo Symphony, Gold Country Chamber Orchestra, UCD Orchestra, (1825–89) CSUS Symphony Orchestra, California Wind Orchestra, San Jose Wind Symphony, Tacoma Wind Symphony, Sacramento Symphonic Winds, UCD Intermezzo for and Piano (2003) Mark Carlson Wind Ensemble, CSUS Wind Ensemble, and Davis High School Wind (b. 1952) Ensemble. He has also been the principal saxophonist with the California Wind Orchestra, Mississippi Wind Band, Camellia Symphony, and in E Minor, op. 102 (1926) Jascha Gurewich Empyrean Ensemble. He is professor of saxophone at CSU, Sacramento Maestoso (1896–1938) and artist affiliate in saxophone at UC Davis, and artistic director of the Festival of New American Music at CSU, Sacramento. Night Bird for Alto Saxophone and Electronics (1997) Karen Tanaka John Cozza is in demand throughout California as a teacher, coach- (b. 1961) accompanist, chamber musician, adjudicator, and clinician; he teaches accompanying and piano at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1930) Wolfgang Jacobi Pacific in Stockton, California, and is staff accompanist at CSU, Sacramento. Allegro, ma non troppo (1894–1972) He holds a DMA degree in piano performance, vocal accompanying, and chamber music from Northwestern University, and earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Southern California, where he was named valedictorian of the School of Music. His principal teachers have been Daniel Pollack, Dr. David Kaiserman, and 12:05 PM Thursday, January 13, 2011 Professors Hans Graf (solo piano performance) and George Ebert (chamber Room 115, Music Building music) in Vienna. He attended the Hochschule für Musik as a Rotary Foundation Scholar in 1986–87, then returned for further study in 1988–91, and received the coveted DMA in both piano performance and chamber We ask that you be courteous to your fellow audience members and the performers. Please turn music. Dr. Cozza is also the current President of the Sacramento Saturday off your cell phones and refrain from texting. Audience members who are distracting to their Club, the oldest musical organization in Sacramento, and one of the oldest neighbors or the performers in any way may be asked to leave at any time. Also, this performance west of the Rockies. is being professionally recorded for the university archive. Photography, audio, or audiovisual recording is prohibited during the performance. Notes Notes

Jean Baptiste Senaillé was a French-born Baroque composer and violin Jascha Gurewich (b. Russia 1896) learned to play the saxophone in an virtuoso. He was appointed in 1713 to Les Vingt-quatre Violons du Roi, then American military band after being refused as a trumpet player. In 1920 traveled to Italy, and rejoined the “Violins of the King” in 1720. Senaillé he was hired as a saxophonist with the John Philip Sousa Band. After studied under Jean-Baptiste Anet, Giovanni Antonio Piani, and in Italy Sousa was seriously injured from a fall, Gurewich did not return to the under Tomaso Antonio Vitali. His major contribution to music consists of Sousa Band. Gurewich eventually became famous on the vaudeville and approximately fifty violin sonatas—important because Senaillé was the first movie-house circuits and performed a well-reviewed debut recital at New to combine aspects of the French style with Italian conventions. They contain York’s Aeolian Hall in 1926. The advent of sound movies in 1927 and the the elegant melodies, violin virtuosity, and enigmatic dance rhythms of the stock market crash of 1929 affected the music industry and no mention of French and the imitation and melodic thoroughbass of the Italian manner. Gurewich can be found after 1927. He died in 1938 at the age of forty-two. Introduction – Allegro spiritoso is the fast, lively movement from the Sonata The Concerto in E Minor, op. 102, was composed in 1926 and dedicated to No. 5 in D Minor for Violin, which has been published for a wide variety of Lieutenant Commander John Philip Sousa. Gurewich was a huge fan of the instruments, from violoncello to saxophone to euphonium. This transcription Romantic masters, and he composed in the style of Brahms, Mendelssohn, for alto saxophone and piano was arranged by saxophonist Harry Gee. Chopin, Kreisler, and Saint Saëns, including over twenty works for the saxophone. The Concerto is the only work not out of print. The opening Joseph Jean Baptist Laurent Arban was a cornetist, conductor, Maestoso has a rich and robust texture, along with a fury of a cadenza. pedagogue, and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston, or valved cornet. He was influenced by Paganini’s virtuosic technique on the violin, Karen Tanaka (b. Tokyo, 1961) is acclaimed as one of Japan’s leading and he developed the same on his instrument in an attempt to “prove” the living composers. She has composed extensively for both instrumental and cornet as a true solo instrument. Born in Lyon, he studied trumpet with electronic media. “Her music is delicate and emotive, beautifully crafted, Francois Dauverné at the Paris Conservatoire, 1841–45, was appointed showing a refined ear for both detail and large organic shapes.” Her professor of saxhorn at the École Militaire in 1857, and became professor recent works, The Song of Songs, Night Bird, and Metal Strings, develop new of cornet at the Paris Conservatoire in 1869. His Grande méthode complète directions by using the latest technology and reflecting different aspects of pour cornet à pistons et de saxhorn (published in Paris, 1864), often referred contemporary culture. In recent years, Tanaka’s love of nature and concern to as the “Trumpeter’s Bible,” is still studied by modern brass players. His for the environment has influenced many of her works, including Frozen variations on The Carnival of Venice remain one of the great showpieces for Horizon, Water and Stone, and the tape piece Questions of Nature. cornet soloists today. Night Bird for Alto Saxophone and Electronics was composed in 1996 and was Arban’s Caprice et Variations was composed for Adolphe Sax in 1861, as commissioned and dedicated to French saxophonist Claude Delangle. Night contest music for the Paris Conservatoire, and follows the Romantic style of Bird is a love song filled with tender whispers of lovers: “I have tried to weave instrumental variations. colors and scent into the sound of the alto saxophone and tape.” Tanaka’s highly individual musical world makes clear the reference to the image of Intermezzo for Alto Saxophone and Piano was composed in 2003 for seduction so often associated with the saxophone. saxophonist Douglas Masek, a colleague of Carlson at UCLA. Its beautiful and haunting melody returns throughout the composition. Mark Carlson’s German composer, Wolfgang Jacobi considered himself a neoclassicist lyrical, emotionally powerful, and stylistically unique music has earned him and wrote about 200 compositions and several textbooks. Unfortunately, the admiration of audiences and musicians throughout the , some of these works have not survived. Many of the early works were lost Canada, Mexico, and Europe. A versatile composer and recipient of over during the Second World War, or did not stand up to Jacobi’s self-criticism fifty commissions, he has written nearly 100 works—art songs, chamber and were destroyed by him. music, choral music, , and songs for musical theater. His CD “The Hall of Mirrors” won the Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award The Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano was composed in 1930 at the for 2001. His music is published by Yelton Rhodes Music, Pacific Serenades request of his friend, German saxophonist, Sigurd Raschèr. Raschèr played Music, C. Swigart Music, Black Squirrel Music, and Thorpe Music. He the three-movement work all over the world and helped establish Jacobi’s teaches music at UCLA, is the founder and artistic director of the Los recognition as a composer. The opening, Allegro ma non troppo, is a fast, Angeles chamber music ensemble Pacific Serenades, and is also active as a exciting movement that uses a repetitive melodic and rhythmic motif. It flutist, performing primarily chamber music. combines a rhythmic fury with melodic angst.