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E V E N T S C A L E N D A R Date Event Time Location Fri., 3/1 JSU Flute Festival 6-9 p.m. MH/PC 10 a.m. – Sat., 3/2 JSU Flute Festival 4 p.m. MH/PC Sat., 3/2 JSU Flute Festival Gala Concert 3-4 p.m. MH/PC Junior Recital-Jessica Lister, First Presby. Sun., 3/3 Soprano 3:00 p.m. Anniston Jr. Recital-Dillon Connell, FUMC Thurs., 3/7 Trombone 7:30 p.m. Anniston Fri., 3/8 C & R Student Performance Hour 1:45 p.m. MH/PC ΣAI Spring Musicale “Music in Sat., 3/9 our Schools Month” 5:00 p.m. MH/PC L’Heure Exquise, A Concert by 1st Presby. and Sat., 3/9 Dr. Nathan Wight, Baritone 7:30 p.m. Anniston Sun., 3/10 Roman Festival Brass Concert 3:00 p.m. MH/PC A Cappella Choir/Civic Chorale The College of Arts and Sciences Spring Concert: FUMC Sun., 3/10 Mozart’s “Requiem” 3:00 p.m. Anniston Kaleidoscope Festival of the Arts Tues., 3/12 Steel Band Concert 7:00 p.m. MH/PC Thurs., 3/14 Percussion/Mallet Ens. Concert 7:30 p.m. MH/PC Fri., 3/15 C & R Student Performance Hour 1:45 p.m. MH/PC Soph. Recital-Kristen Balschi, First Presby. presents Fri., 3/15 6:30 p.m. Anniston 1st Baptist

Sat., 3/16 Jr. Recital-Jacob Tweedell, Sax. 2:00 p.m. Jacksonville Sat., 3/16 Soph. Recital-Olivia Brown, Flute 5:00 p.m. MH/PC FUMC Sun., 3/17 Jr. Recital-Ethan Owens, Oboe 3:00 p.m. Anniston Mon., 3/18 Jr. Recital-Ellen Abney, Soprano 7:30 p.m. MH/PC Wed., 3/20 Symphonic Band Concert 7:30 p.m. MH/PC The Orchestra Chamber Winds Concert with In Concert Thurs., 3/21 Guest Artist, Alan Baer, Tuba 7:30 p.m. MH/PC Fri., 3/22 C & R Student Performance Hour 1:45 p.m. MH/PC Mon., 4/1 Blue Ridge Trombone Quartet 6:00 p.m. MH/PC KK Psi Membership Candidate Mon., 4/1 Recital 7:30 p.m. MH/PC Sr. Recital-Michael Greenwood, Tues., 4/2 Flute 7:30 p.m. MH/PC Fri., 4/5 JSU Festival All Day MH/PC Fri., 4/5 JSU Jazz Festival Concert 7:30 p.m. MH/PC Friday, March 1, 2013  7:30 p.m. Sat., 4/6 6th Annual Honors Recital 3:00 p.m. MH/PC Leone Cole Auditorium (JSU Campus) Visit us on the web at http://www.jsu.edu/music for more upcoming events. Clarinetist /saxophonist Matt Koza PROGRAM is a native New Yorker, born in and raised in ARTIE SHAW ORCHESTRA - CONCERT Brooklyn. He studied saxophone at PROGRAM WILL BE SELECTED FROM THE FOLLOWING: Binghamton University-State University of New York, where he NIGHTMARE received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1995. During the fall 1994 S’WONDERFUL semester, Matt was awarded a Lemelson Fellowship to study music MOONGLOW at Hampshire College, Amherst, INNUENDO MA. He attended graduate school at Youngstown State University in FRENESI Ohio and Queens College-City I’M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT University of New York, where he was awarded the 1999 ASCAP Foundation Scholarship. I WAS DOING ALL RIGHT SOFTLY AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE In 2000 Matt began playing tenor saxophone with the Artie Shaw Orchestra, directed by Dick Johnson. During his tenure as the featured saxophone SUMMIT RIDGE DRIVE soloist with the orchestra they toured extensively worldwide, accompanying the likes of , Jack Jones and Buddy DeFranco, and were featured at the Newport Jazz Festival. In 2004 the orchestra had the honor of CARIOCA performing at the dedication celebration of the National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC. BACK BAY SHUFFLE

Matt is proud to assume the position as the director of the Artie Shaw STARDUST Orchestra, and after years of being inspired by Dick Johnson's virtuoso TEMPTATION clarinet performances, he is honored to be the next to carry on Artie Shaw's legacy. DANCING IN THE DARK

DAY IN, DAY OUT

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THE GLIDER This program was made possible by the generous support of the College of Arts and Sciences as part of the Kaleidoscope Festival of the Arts 2013. TRAFFIC JAM ARTIE SHAW ORCHESTRA HISTORY THE ARTIE SHAW TIMELINE

On the eve of America's entry into World War II, TIME magazine reported 1930-36: Artie started working in New York and became a top studio alto that to the German masses the United States meant "sky-scrapers, Clark sax and clarinet player. Gable, and Artie Shaw." Some 42 years after that, in December l983, Artie 1936-37: He Jed his first band, an unusual Dixieland-style group with horns, Shaw made a brief return to the bandstand, after thirty years away from guitar, bass, drwns, and a string quartet. was on sax and vocals. music, not to play his world-famous clarinet but to launch his latest (and still 1938-39: He switched to a more traditional . Notable members touring) orchestra at the newly refurbished Glen Island Casino in New included , , Tony Pastor, , and singers Rochelle, New York. This new Artie Shaw Orchestra remains one of the and . He had his first smash hit recording, swingingest outfits around. Under the direction of clarinetist Matt Koza, the Begin the Beguine. Artie and the band were featured in the 1939 movie group hews to the Shaw legacy, and continues with the time-tested formula Dancing Coed. that has always pleased a full spectrum of audiences from the “Begin the 1940: Shaw recorded and toured with a large band with a string section Beguine” fans of yesteryear to the new jazz fans who want to imbibe in an added. His hits from this hand were Stardust, Frenesi, Moonglow, and exciting and heady evening of Swing. Dancing in the Dark. Notable players in this band, playing the solos on Stardust, were on trumpet and Jack Jenny on trombone. A Brief History of the Artie Shaw Big Band Artie and the band were featured in the 1940 movie with his Artie Shaw was born in on May 23, 1910 and was in the top Concerto for Clarinet. This band also featured a smaller combo, the echelon of bandleader/soloists from the great of 1935-45. He Grammercy 5, consisting of clarinet, trumpet, harpsichord, bass, and drums. made his first public appearance as a leader in 1936, in a Swing Concert 1941: He eliminated the strings, going back to a standard big band, with 4 (history’s first) held at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. Shaw could scarcely trumpets, 3 trombones, 5 saxes. guitar, piano, bass, and drums. have known that within a short time he would make a hit record of a song 1942-43: Artie joined the Navy, and led a Navy band in the South Pacific, called “Begin the Beguine,” which he once jokingly refers to as “a nice little with some outstanding musicians, including the well -known trumpeter tune from one of ’s very few flop shows.” Conrad Gazzo. Shortly before that he had hired Billie Holiday as his band vocalist (the first 1944-45: Out of the Navy, he had a dance band, featuring musicians such as white bandleader to employ a black female singer as a full-time member of on guitar, on trumpet, and vocalist Mel Torme. his band). The break-through hit record catapulted him into the ranks of top This band recorded extensively, including his hit of S'Wonderful and many bandleaders and he was immediately dubbed the new “King of Swing.” more. Today, Shaw’s recording of “Begin the Beguine” sells thousands and has 1946-49 He played and recorded . appearing in concert become one of the best-selling records in history. with several major symphonies.

1949: He started a jazz-oriented big band playing , with 4 The Baton is Passed trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxes, and guitar, piano, bass, and drums. Al In 1954 Artie Shaw made his last public appearance as an instrumentalist Cohn and were featured in.this band. when he put together a new Gramercy 5 made up of such superb modern 1953-54: Artie formed the final version of his small group, the musicians as pianist , guitarist , bassist Tommy Potter, Grammercy 5, including Hank: Jones on piano and Tal Farlow on et al. He gave his blessing in the 1980s to an Artie Shaw Orchestra led by guitar, with vibes, bass, and drums. He then quit the music business Dick Johnson, who led the orchestra for 25 years until his retirement in completely in 1954. 2008. The baton has now been passed to clarinetist Matt Koza. 1983: Artie asked Dick Johnson to lead a new Artie Shaw Orchestra.

Artie Shaw’s Career 2004: Artie Shaw passes away at the age of 94. Artie Shaw led several different bands throughout the 1930's, 40's and 50's, always trying new ideas. A musical innovator and always a perfectionist, he was a fantastic clarinetist, and his music remains some of the most interesting of the big band era.