THE BRITISH ARE COMING

Sunday APRIL 29 2018 at 2:30PM The EISEMANN CENTER in Richardson

The PLANO COMMUNITY BAND CONDUCTORS

JOE FRANK, JR., Plano Community Band’s Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, is a retired music educator and band director with over 35 years of experience working with student and adult musicians in Texas and Georgia. He was born in Harlingen in the Rio Grande Valley and spent most of his adult years in Richardson and Sherman, Texas. Joe is a third-generation band director. His father, Joe Frank, Sr., was a well-known Texas band director and orchestra director and charter member of the Phi Beta Mu Band Director Hall of Fame. Joe taught for 17 years in the Richardson ISD where mentors such as Joe Frank, Sr.; Richard Floyd; Tommy Guilbert; Robert Floyd and Howard Dunn helped form his concepts of teaching students and interpreting, rehearsing and performing wind band literature. In 1990, Joe became Director of Bands for the Sherman ISD and helped lead the Sherman Bands to 14 years of successful performances, competitions and statewide recognition. While living in Athens, Georgia, Joe became director of the Classic City Band and developed a love for working and making music with adults. Joe currently lives in Dennison, Texas, with his wife, Becky. He is a frequent clinic/consultant and adjudicator for middle school and high school bands. His daughter, Jessica, is a stay-at-home mom and volunteer youth leader. She currently plays clarinet in the Band. His son, Jeff, is a pediatric neurologist in Oregon. Joe enjoys sailing, golf, snow skiing, and traveling with Becky.

JIM CARTER, Plano Community Band’s Associate Conductor, was born in Texas City, Texas, and has made Plano his home since 1969, going through the Plano schools and the band program at Plano Senior High. During his high school days, Jim was privileged to have played with Doc Severinsen and Alan Vizzutti, and his first love always seemed to be jazz. After graduation, he was selected to play with the National Bandmasters Association Jazz Band, performing with Marvin Stamm at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Jim attended Sam Houston State University on a music scholarship, receiving his degree in Music Education in 1991. While at Sam Houston, Jim studied under Dr. Fisher Tull, Dr. Gary Sousa and Dr. Rod Cannon. Jim also headed up the recording and archiving of concert performances and was a member of Kappa Kappa Psi. After teaching a couple of years, Jim returned to Plano and began working in the communications field. He currently holds the position of Director of A/V and Computer Services for the 4,500-member Custer Road United Methodist Church. To keep music in his life, Jim joined the Plano Community Band in 1993 as the baritone saxophone player. Jim also plays with many Dallas-area jazz and big bands. He became the Band’s associate conductor in 1995.

BOB STRAKA is completing his 35th year of music education and his eighth year as the Band Director at Schimelpfenig Middle School in Plano. Prior to SMS, he taught in the Allen ISD for two years at the Allen Freshmen Center and Ereckson Middle School. Mr. Straka spent three years at Berkner High School and nine years at Apollo Junior High School in the Richardson ISD. In 2001, his Apollo Junior High Symphonic Band was selected as the BBB Texas Honor Band. For five consecutive years while in Richardson, he was chosen as the most influential teacher by a Top Ten Graduating Senior of Berkner High School. Before moving to Texas, Mr. Straka spent twelve years teaching music in Connecticut. In 1992 he was named Teacher of the Year for the Regional School District Sixteen in CT. Mr. Straka is a graduate of West Virginia University and the Yale School of Music where he earned his Master’s degree in performance on clarinet. He has performed in various orchestras and bands throughout New England and has toured Italy, performing with Musicisti Americani. More recently he has performed with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra and is currently principal clarinet of the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra. Bob has been performing with the Plano Community Band since 2014.

JASON WALLACE is currently the Director of Bands at Wilson Middle School in Plano, Texas. He previously taught for 10 years at Cain Middle School in Rockwall and 4 years at Coyle Middle School in Rowlett. Jason started his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Arlington under the guidance of Richard Murrow, his first tuba teacher. He continued his education at Eastfield College where he studied tuba and bass trombone with Keith Meek. He finished his bachelor’s degree at Texas A&M University-Commerce where he studied tuba with Ed Jones and bass trombone with Jimmy Clark. Other important influences in his education include Matt Good and Patrick Sheridan. Jason is currently the principal tuba in the Dallas Winds and the Lewisville Lake Symphony Orchestra. Jason is active as a freelance musician/clinician in the DFW area. He resides in Fate, TX with his wife Kara, and their daughter Grace. FROM THE PODIUM

WE ARE VERY EXCITED to present music by three pillars of wind-band literature: , Ralph Vaughn Williams, and Gustav Holst. More than anyone else, these three composers helped establish the wind band as a legitimate musical ensemble and wind-band music as an established genre. The Grainger set, in which we present one movement from his monumental , and “,” a wonderful Irish reel originally composed for string quartet, showcases tunes cultivated from English/Irish . “Horkstow Grange (The Miser and His Man: A local Tragedy)” is the most well-known movement of Lincolnshire Posy. It is considered by many in the concert band world to be one of the best-written, best-orchestrated, and most beautiful pieces in the repertoire. “Molly on the Shore,” a tour de force for the clarinet section and woodwinds in general, is a classic Morris Dance imbued with Grainger’s typical splashes of sound and dynamic energy.

English Folk Song Suite by Vaughn Williams is also a collection of British folk songs. It features two marches positioned around a soulful second movement, “My Bonnie Boy.” This passionate song about betrayed love is paired with the lilting English waltz “Green Bushes.” Gustav Holst, a significant 20th century composer, blessed the wind band with two wonderful suites that have been a cornerstone of wind-band literature since their composition in 1909-1911. Around these concert “anchors” we have placed two wonderful marches: “British Eighth” and “Men of Tomorrow” (please see notes about this special world-premiere piece) and the lighter fare of music by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber.

In addition, this is our third season to feature the directors and music from our middle school “Music for Life” outreach program. Over parts of an afternoon and evening, select members of the PCB worked with these talented middle-school students using a combination of individual, group and complete band clinic rehearsals to sit “side-by-side” and model individual and ensemble playing techniques. The combined bands then performed for parents and family members. We are excited to welcome to our audience these students, and welcome to our stage Jason Wallace, band director of Wilson Middle school and Bob Straka, band director of Schimelpfenig Middle School. They will be conducting the PCB on two of the pieces on which the PCB worked with their bands.

I am very proud of the excellent musicians in the Plano Community Band and pleased to be able to showcase their talents and enthusiasm for making music. Please enjoy “The British are Coming.”

Joe Frank, Jr. PROGRAM NOTES

British Eighth March Alonzo “Zo” Elliott Procession of the Sardar, from “Dedicated to the members of the immortal British Caucasian Sketches Nicolai Ippolitov-Ivanov Eighth Army and accepted for them by General Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) was a Russian com- Sir Bernard L. Montgomery.” —Zo Elliott poser who studied under Rimsky-Korsakov and later was What many consider as a quintessential “British March” was the director for the Moscow Conservatory for many years. actually composed by a “preppy” New Englander. Alonzo His most famous composition, “Procession of the Sardar,” Elliott (1891-1964) was born in Manchester, New Hamp- is the fourth movement of his Caucasian Sketches for or- shire. He received his education from Phillips Academy chestra, which was inspired by the folk music of the Cau- (Andover, Massachusetts), Yale University, Cambridge Uni- casus mountain region. The Caucasus region is located at versity (England), Columbia University Law School, and the the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black American Conservatory (France). “British Eighth” is one of Sea and the Caspian Sea and occupied by Russia, Georgia, the most performed marches on both sides of the Atlantic. Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Sardar is a title for a military com- “British Eighth” was composed by Elliott shortly after a tri- mander, leader or dignitary used historically in the region. umphant sweep across North Africa when the Eighth Army under the leadership of General Montgomery defeated the English Folk Song Suite Ralph Vaughan Williams famed Afrikakorps and their first commander, Erwin Rom- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was an English com- mel, in the middle of World War II. Yes, we snuck this one in poser whose works include operas, ballets, chamber music, even though the composer isn’t British! secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral composi- tions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Selections from Grainger: “Horkstow Grange (The Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk songs, Miser and his Man: A local Tragedy)” and “Molly on he and his friend Gustav Holst prompted a return to English the Shore” roots, marking a decisive break in British music from its Ger- Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a globe-trotter. Raised in man-dominated style of the 19th century. Melbourne, Australia, he moved to London in 1901 as a Having collected over 800 folk songs in his lifetime, it is not concert pianist. He toured Britain, central Europe, and Scan- surprising that his first band piece was the English Folk Song dinavia and then became an American citizen in 1918. He Suite written in 1923. The suite was written for the Royal Mil- is, perhaps, best known as a folk-song collector, though itary School of Music and uses nine folk songs to create the he was most successful as a concert pianist. Grainger was, three-movement suite. The first movement includes “Dives by any standard, unaccountably odd. He favored garish and Lazarus,” “Pretty Caroline,” and “Seventeen Come Sun- outfits (made of towels) of his own design, was known to day,” in a rondo form. The second movement, Intermezzo, mount concert platforms at a running leap, and pushed includes “My Bonnie Boy” and “Green Rushes.” The third his favorite piano stool around in a wheelbarrow. In 1945 movement is a collection of songs from the county of Som- he devised his own composer-rating system and ranked erset, including “Blow away the Morning Dew,” “High Ger- himself ninth—above Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Lincolnshire many,” “The Trees So High,” and “John Barleycorn.” Posy, from which “Horkstow Grange” is taken, is considered to be Grainger’s masterwork for wind band. It is based on folk songs that he and Lucy Broadwood collected in Lin- colnshire in 1905-06. “Horkstow Grange” is a beautiful sad, yet intense setting of a folk song about a fight between an elderly man and his assistant; the solo trumpet featured in the middle of the movement represents the town crier recounting the tale to the people. “Molly on the Shore” is an arrangement of two contrasting Irish reels, “Temple Hill” and “Molly on the Shore,” that presents the melodies in a variety of textures and orchestrations. No, Percy Grainger isn’t British, but he based much of his music on English folk songs, so we included him anyway. PROGRAM NOTES

Second Suite for Military Band Contrasto Grosso Jacob de Haan in F major Gustav Holst Jacob de Haan, born on March 28, 1959, in Heerenveen, the Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934) was an English compos- Netherlands, is a contemporary composer known for wind er, arranger and teacher and is counted among the most music. Contrasto Grosso is a three-movement suite rich in significant composers of the 20th century. There were pro- dances, full of contrasting styles, dynamics, and instrumen- fessional musicians in the previous three generations of tation. The title of the work, Contrasto Grosso, is actually a Holst’s family and it was clear from his early years that he pun on the term “concerto grosso,” which is a form of ba- would follow the same calling. He hoped to become a pia- roque music in which the musical material is passed be- nist, but was prevented by neuritis in his right arm. Despite tween a small group of soloists and full orchestra. In the his father’s reservations, he pursued a career as a composer, concert band setting of Contrasto Grosso, small groups of studying at the Royal College of Music. Unable to support the band perform as if they were soloists. Throughout the himself by his compositions, he played the trombone pro- three parts these solo groups interpret contrasting styles as fessionally and later became a teacher—a great one, ac- well as renaissance-style fragments. cording to his colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams. His con- tributions to literature for concert band are monumental. Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Symphonic Portrait Holst wrote the Second Suite in 1911, using English folk songs arr. Jerry Nowak and folk dance tunes throughout. This Suite opens with a (featuring: “Superstar,” “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” March that combines a Morris dance with folk songs. The “King Herod’s Song,” and “Memory”) second movement features a lyrical tune which tells of lov- Andrew Lloyd Webber has created some of the most recog- ers separated by their parents. This is followed by the Song nizable Broadway music of all time. Along the way he has of the Blacksmith, complete with a lively rhythm played on collected a variety of honors, including knighthood, seven the blacksmith’s anvil. The Suite concludes with the Darga- Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar and Kenne- son country dance and folk song entwined with the well- dy Center recognition. Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on known Greensleeves melody. March 22, 1948, in London. His father was the director of the London College of Music, his mother was a piano teacher Men of Tomorrow Festival March Vilém Tauský and his younger brother, Julian, is a renowned cellist, so one arr. Earl “Buddy” Mattei might say that he was born with musical blood running Vilém Tauský’s Men of Tomorrow was written for the BBC through his veins. A true prodigy, early in life Lloyd Webber Concert Orchestra in 1958, but there are no known record- played the piano, the violin (at age 3) and the French horn, ings of the march. Tausky is the great uncle of PCB piccolo- and began writing his own music (at age 6). ist Janice Wolff (uncle of PCB fan, Elizabeth Wolff (Tauský)) Lloyd Webber found a great partner in Tim Rice. Their first and he gave a copy of the score to her in the hope that collaboration, with Rice writing lyrics, was Joseph and the one day someone could arrange it for concert band. That Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, followed in 1971 by Jesus “someone” is Earl “Buddy” Mattei: composer, arranger and Christ Superstar. Presenting rock music in classical operatic tenor saxophone player with the PCB. Buddy is a graduate form, Superstar began the Lloyd Webber-Rice tradition of of the University of North Texas School of Music, and has recording an album’s worth of music first and then produc- continued to teach and write and perform as a highly re- ing the play from it. In 1976 Rice and Lloyd Webber reunit- spected professional musician. He has enjoyed a very suc- ed to create Evita as a concept album. The song “Don’t Cry cessful twenty-year career as a public school band director for Me, Argentina” was a hit, propelling the popularity of in Princeton and Allen. He further served in McKinney for 16 the musical, which hit the London stage in 1978. It moved years as Director of Music Ministries at Stonebridge United to Broadway the following year. Cats opened in London in Methodist Church. He has many arrangements and com- 1981 and became the longest-running musical in that city’s positions published by Kjos, Big 3, Studio P/R and Mattei history, running for 21 years. On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 Music Services. He is the composer and producer for The years. Association of Texas Small School Bands all-state jazz en- semble audition music, published by Mattei Music Services. We hope you enjoy the world premiere of this arrangement of Men of Tomorrow, a Festival March. SPOTLIGHT ON ... VILÉM TAUSKÝ

VILÉM TAUSKÝ (1910-2004) was a composer and conductor. Tauský was born in Přerov, Moravia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and later became a Czech citizen when the Republic of Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918. He was born into a musical family; his mother had sung in the Vienna State Opera and his uncle was the composer Leo Fall. Vilém learned to play the piano from a young age and showed an early interest in composing. The Tauskýs held musical soirees in the family home, socializing with the families of Gustav Mahler, Antonin Dvořák, Josef Suk, Franz Lehar and Oskar Straus. On the advice of his parents, Tauský enrolled in Brno University to study law at the age of seventeen, but he also secretly enrolled at the Janáček Conservatoire in Brno, gaining entrance there by submitting a cello sonata written when he was 15, and worked towards the two degrees simultaneously. He fled Czechoslovakia following the Nazi Germany annexation in 1938. It was decided that the composer would travel to Paris under the guise of transporting costumes from the Brno Theatre to the Paris Opera. Nikolai Tcherepnin, who was principal of the Russian Paris Conservatoire, helped Tauský to obtain a French visa and Tauský orchestrated an operetta based on music by Bizet in exchange for the money for an exit visa, which he collected from the Gestapo in person. While in France, Tauský was in charge of the Czech military band, but there were limited resources. Bohuslav Martinů provided the instruments and sheet music for Tauský to arrange and rehearse. After the fall of France in June 1940 the Czech Army were ordered to retreat. Tauský persuad- ed the captain of a Yugoslav coal hauler headed for New- port, South Wales to carry his troop and him to safety in England. The troop hid in the ship’s hold wearing civilian clothing as it was forbidden to carry soldiers. He was later awarded the Czech Military Cross. Tauský enlisted in the Czech Army based in Britain and worked as musical director, and band and choir leader, often promoting Czech music through his concerts. After the war he remained in Britain and became the musical director for the Carl Rosa Opera Company, conducted the Welsh National Opera, was the principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra from 1956-1966, and was director of opera and head of conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1966-1992. He was awarded a CBE in 1981. The CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) is an honor awarded to an individual by the Queen of England and is one step away from Knighthood. Submitted by Janice Wolff, who knew Tauský as “Uncle Willy” PROGRAM

British Eighth March Zo Elliott Joe Frank, Jr., Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

Selections from Grainger Percy Aldridge Grainger Horkstow Grange (from Lincolnshire Posy) Molly on the Shore

Procession of the Sardar, from “Caucasian Sketches” Nicolai Ippolitov-Ivanov Bob Straka, Schimelpfenig Middle School

English Folk Song Suite Ralph Vaughan Williams I. March – “Seventeen Come Sunday” II. Intermezzo – “My Bonny Boy” III. March – “Folk Songs from Somerset” Joe Frank, Jr., Artistic Director and Principal Conductor

INTERMISSION

Second Suite for Military Band in F major Gustav Holst I. March: Morris dance, Swansea Town, Claudy Banks II. Song Without Words “I’ll Love My Love” III. Song of the Blacksmith IV. Fantasia on the “Dargason” Jim Carter, Associate Conductor

Men of Tomorrow Festival March Vilém Tauský (world premiere) Arr. Earl “Buddy” Mattei

Contrasto Grosso Jacob de Haan Movements I, II, and III Jason Wallace, Wilson Middle School

Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Symphonic Portrait Andrew Lloyd Webber Joe Frank, Jr., Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Arr. Jerry Nowak PLANO COMMUNITY BAND PERSONNEL

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The Plano Community Band would not be the band it is today without the dedication and musicianship of certain members who have been with us for more than thirty years. Two of those members have recently retired from the band, and we want to recognize them for their leadership, inspiration and longevity. It is their passion for music that inspires us all. Thank you Bill Bryan and Carlie Banks. BILL BRYAN (39 years) Bill is the retired Chaplain and Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministries at the Dallas Theological Sem- inary. Bill joined the Plano band in its first season in 1979, after his wife saw a brief article in the Plano newspaper inviting prospective musicians to join the newly formed ensemble. Music has always been very important in Bill’s life and he believes the band is a marvelous venue in which to keep making music. Bill still plays occasionally with the Kings of Swing, a Big Band that performs at the Plano Senior Center. Bill played with the band well into his 80s and reluctantly retired this season. His wisdom to our members and audience is to keep producing and you won’t grow old! CARLIE BANKS (35 years) Carlie is a retired exploration geologist who has worked in every area of geology—uranium,­ coal, geothermal, metallic minerals, oil shale, and international oil and gas. Carlie joined the Plano Commu- nity Band playing French horn, in the fall of 1983 when her employer at the time was going through yet another corporate reorganization. She was looking for stability and something fun and decided the Band was the answer. Carlie enjoyed the preparation, focus and concentration that allowed her to perform as part of a team. She feels that performing as part of a group, the individual musician enters a creative zone that refreshes the spirit. She has always felt that music is a wonderful way to keep a balanced perspective on what is important in life. She continues to include music in her life by playing in the handbell choir at Plano First Presbyterian Church, where she has rung since 1976.

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