Season 35, Concert 3 - February 9, 2018 ONTRIBUTORS 2017-18 C The New Jersey Wind Symphony gratefully acknowledges the support of our donors and subscribers whose generous support makes these programs possible.
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Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, Music Director
From the Heart
FEATURED GUESTS Kristen Plumley, Soprano Ron Levy, Piano Roger Widicus, Trumpet Mark Donellan, English Horn
PRELUDE CONCERT - 7:30 PM Midland Park High School Wind Ensemble David Marks, Director
Friday, February 9, 2018 - 8:00 PM West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. is a Proud Sponsor of the New Jersey Wind Symphony About the New Jersey Wind Symphony
Dr. Chris Wilhjelm, community leaders, and musicians founded the Ridgewood Concert Band (RCB) in 1983 with the idea of providing high quality performing venues for the many accomplished wind and percussion players living in the New York metropolitan area. On July 1, 2017, the Ridgewood Concert Band formally changed its name to the New Jersey Wind Symphony (NJWS) to better reflect the identity of the organization.
Through the years, consistently high level performances have led to the production of two commercially released CDs, performances on the East Coast, and peer recognition through the Printing of this program generously underwritten by awarding of the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s coveted Sudler Silver Scroll Award in 1996. Konica Minolta Business Solutions. The NJWS performs an annual series of concerts presenting the very finest in wind band literature for capacity audiences. Ranging from light classics and famous marches to cutting edge ______compositions by today’s brilliant composers, the band’s programming has drawn critical attention for its variety and depth. Originally launched as the Ridgewood Community Concert Band, an early review praising the band’s fine performance proclaimed this is no “Community” band. The Board of Directors decided to incorporate as the Ridgewood Concert Band. Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the The members of the New Jersey Wind Symphony come from all walks of life. The musicians and board members are drawn together by a common dedication to the study, performance and Arts/Department of State, through grant support of great music. funds administered by the Bergen County The quality of NJWS performances has attracted world-class soloists from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, radio and television personalities and Department of Parks, Division of other nationally renowned performers and conductors. The New Jersey Wind Symphony has also been active in the commission and performance of new works. Cultural and Historic Affairs.
The New Jersey Wind Symphony is actively engaged with area schools, offering opportunities for ______talented school musicians to perform with the band. In 2006, the band launched a scholarship program that reaches a large network of high schools in the region, inviting musicians who plan to seek a career in music to compete for scholarship funds. Winners showcase their talent as a The New Jersey Wind Symphony would like to featured soloist with the band. The competition and concert is one of the highlights of each season. thank all of the many volunteers who have made Each year the NJWS performs a subscription series of concerts at their performance home in the this concert possible. West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey. ______The NJWS has also obtained world-wide recognition through international touring: 1998 – Central Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria 2003 – Southern France: The Riviera Reeds Festival, La Croix Valmer; Le Pradet 2008 – China: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xian, Beijing The New Jersey Wind Symphony would like to give 2009 – Brazil: Sao Paolo, Santos, Novo Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Ouro Preto a special “thank you” to David Marks and the 2010 – Germany, Austria, Italy: Garmisch, Munich, Salzburg, Schladming Festival, Venice Midland Park School District. The Midland Park
High School band room is our weekly rehearsal site.
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NEW JERSEY WIND SYMPHONY MEET THE NJWS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart, D.M.A. is a dedicated teacher, chamber musician, and an enthusiastic advocate PRESIDENT: for contemporary music. She is the director and founder of The Flute Academy, located in Bergen County, New Deloss Schertz Jersey. She is passionate about working with aspiring young musicians, helping them shape their love of music.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Dr. Bacchiocchi-Stewart has served on the faculties of Union College, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins Mark Zettler University, Frostburg State University, Ithaca College and Schenectady County Community College. She is an instructor and administrator for the Marina Piccinini International Master Classes VICE PRESIDENT: and has also been on the faculty for the Savage Mountain Summer Chamber Music Summer Series and Flauto Musicale. Lawrence Friedman She was a prize winner at the 2002 National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, a participant in the First Beijing Nicolet International Flute RECORDING SECRETARY: Competition and has appeared as a semi-finalist in the Myrna Brown and Ducrest Young Artist Competitions. Annette Lieb Dr. Bacchiocchi-Stewart is principal flute with The New Jersey Wind Symphony and is a member of the Lyra Ensemble. She has performed with TRITONIS (flute, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: cello, and guitar), guitarist Joel Brown, percussionist Michael Zell, I Venti Semplice, the Evolution Contemporary Music Series, and the After Now: Nothing You’ve James Mallen Heard Before music series, among others. She has given concerts, lectures, workshops and master classes throughout the United States and has also performed in several groups throughout Europe and Japan. TREASURER: She has maintained large flute studios for over 20 years both privately and in the Neil Sheehan college setting. She has taught levels ranging from beginner, intermediate, adult amateur, advanced, college and professionals. Her students have been among the flute sections of several youth orchestras and admitted into prestigious schools MEMBERS AT LARGE: such as The Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon, John Butler New England Conservatory, The Peabody Institute, Indiana University and Ithaca College.
Mike DePompeo Her academic achievements include a Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree from the David Marks Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Music Degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor Beth Seavers of Music Degree from Ithaca College. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, and the Zurich Masterclass series. John & Marilyn Wagner Her main teachers have been Marina Piccinini, Bradley Garner, Wendy Mehne, Claudia Anderson and Selma Moore.
Soprano with a sparkling voice to match her personality, Connecticut native Kristen Plumley brings her joy of being on stage to every role she performs. Lauded as “sensationally note-perfect” (St. Petersburg Times), “a roguish comedienne” (The Middletown, CT Press) and “Met-worthy” (The Dallas Morning News), Ms. Plumley has portrayed Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore) and Gilda (Rigoletto) with Greensboro Opera Company, Musetta (La bohème) with Amarillo Opera, Norina (Don Pasquale) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Virginia Opera, Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) with New York City Opera, Norina (Don Pasquale) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Virginia Opera, Nannetta (Falstaff) and Amor (Orfeo ed Euridice) with Opera Festival of New Jersey, Sophie (Werther) with Chautauqua Opera, Adele (Die Fledermaus) with Boheme Opera (NJ) and Opera Theatre of Connecticut, Despina (Così fan Tutte) with Lyric Opera of Cleveland, the Sultan of Egypt (Glück’s Les Pelerins de la Mecque) with L’Opéra Français de New York, Yum-Yum (The Mikado) with Opera Memphis, and Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Nevada Opera.
Other roles to her credit include Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), and Kathy (Student Prince), and musical theater favorites Maria (West Side Story), Carrie (Carousel), Fiona (Brigadoon), and Laurey (Oklahoma!).
On the concert stage, Kristen Plumley has performed a broad spectrum of works, including Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, she has sung Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Elgar’s For the Fallen, Bach’s Coffee Cantata and Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, as well as Jack Everly’s Sci-Fi Spectacular (music from science fiction movies and television shows) with the Cleveland, Indianapolis, Seattle, and Baltimore Symphonies, and An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan with the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Richmond, Memphis, and Minnesota.
Enthusiastic about contemporary works, she has been active in many new operas at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada) and in companies throughout New York City. In 2015 Kristen created the role of Ruth Draper in Icarus Rising, a new dance opera about the life of Lauro DeBosis, an Italian freedom fighter during World War II, with Verlezza Dance.
Ms. Plumley received an Artist Diploma in opera from the Hartt School of Music and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and music from Holy Cross College. Twice a winner in the Connecticut Opera Guild Scholarship Competition, she is also a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant (Shoshana Foundation).
Ron Levy, internationally acclaimed pianist, has been called “first-class” by the New York Times. He regularly appears in major venues, both as a soloist, and in partnership with many of the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. A graduate of Oberlin, Mr. Levy has been pianist and harpsichordist of the Oberlin Orchestra, the Westchester Symphony, and the Albany Symphony, among others. Presently, he is the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood Music Director, Associate Artist with the All Seasons Chamber Players, and is the pianist of the Orpheus Men’s Chorus and the award-winning Palisades Virtuosi of which he is a founding member. For over 20 years, Mr. Levy was associated with the Manchester (VT) Music Festival, of which he was a faculty and Board member. While living in Vermont, he was Music Director & Conductor of the Opera Theatre in Weston, and impresario of the “Third Saturday” chamber music series at the historic Equinox Hotel, as well as the “Music on the Hill” music series at the Southern Vermont Art Center. Mr. Levy has taught at numerous colleges and is currently an instructor at Montclair State University; he maintains an active and on-going affiliation with the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, and NJ PAC. A two-term President of the Professional Music Teachers’ Guild of NJ, he is a contributing editor to BIM Music Publications, Switzerland. In the Spring of 2011 Mr. Levy made his debut at the Academy of the Arts and the University in Oahu, Hawaii. Recordings by Mr. Levy are available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch International, MMF and High Point labels.
Jeffrey Kaufman attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Julliard School of Music. He has served as a Radio Producer (first music producer for National Public Radio); Concert Producer (concerts featuring Yo Yo Ma, Stephane Grappelli, Lena Horne); Theatrical Producer (latest production "An American in Paris") and Record Producer with over 300 recordings to his credit. He has received awards and grants from: The New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, ASCAP Standard Panel Awards, The Rockefeller Foundation, and is a three-time Grammy award nominee.
Michael Valenti composed, arranged and conducted the music for the Emmy Award winning television series "A Walk Through the 20th Century. For CBS radio he shared the Peabody Award for "Newsmark."
His numerous Broadway credits include "Honky Tonk Nights," "Oh Brother!," "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" and "Blood Red Roses." Off-Broadway he composed scores for, among others, "Mademoiselle Colombe" starring Tammy Grimes, which received five Outer Critic Circle Award nominations including two for Valenti's book and music. His "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is still the longest running children's musical ever produced in New York, and his score for "Beauty and The Beast" continues to enjoy productions worldwide.
In 1995 Mr. Valenti composed "Processional for a Pontiff," a large orchestral work which was written for the entrance of Pope John Paul II into Central Park, NY, on the occasion of his celebration of the Eucharist. In 1989 he conducted the premier of his dramatic oratorio, "The Way," which is based on the fourteen stations of the cross and starred Davis Gaines, Judy Kaye and Christine Andreas.
In its permanent repertory The Goldman Memorial Band at Lincoln Center has performed several of Valenti's pieces. In August 1987 he was given a retrospective at Lincoln Center under the direction of maestro Ainslee Cox, during which the band performed all of his published concert band music and premiered his "Big Apple March." The following year Valenti was invited by the band to conduct the premier performance of his "Black Hawk March." Chorale and Alleluia – Howard Hanson (1896-1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of classical music. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality conservatory and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his Symphony No. , Opus 34”The Requiem” and received numerous other awards. Chorale and Alleluia is Howard Hanson’s first work for symphonic band and was commissioned in January 1954, where it was given its premier performance at the convention of the American Bandmaster’s Association at West Point. The composition opens with a fine flowing “Chorale.” Soon the joyous “Alleluia” theme appears and remains in evidence throughout, while a bold statement of a new melody makes its entrance in the lower brasses. The total effect is one of cathedral bells, religious exaltation, solemnity, and dignity. This wonderful work has become a classic in the repertoire for wind symphony.
Second Rhapsody for Solo Piano and Wind Ensemble – George Gershwin (1898- 1932) is perhaps one of the best-known but most misunderstood of all composers. His association with the world of popular music has led many to underestimate his genius as a composer. This statement could not be more apposite when it comes to the neglected score of Gershwin's Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra. This is a remarkable work, containing at its center one of Gershwin's most haunting themes. Yet, few concert goers are familiar with the work as its appearance in the concert hall is very rare indeed. Perhaps the Second Rhapsody's neglect was aided by the deliberately low key title which Gershwin chose for the work when compared with his previous concert work titles 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'An American in Paris.' To add to its troubles, the Second Rhapsody was revised many years after the composer's death by music editors more keen on their own self glory than preserving the masterpiece of a genius. As a result Gershwin's own masterly orchestration has rarely, if at all, been heard by audiences in modern times. This orchestration has been masterfully placed into the symphonic wind genre by James C. Ripley, which will surely bring this Gershwin jewel to the ears of more concert audiences.
Asphalt Cocktail – John Mackey (b.1973) holds a Master of Music degree from The Julliard School and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John Corigliano and Donald Erb respectively. Mr. Mackey particularly enjoys writing music for dance and symphonic winds, and has focused on those mediums for the past few years. Mr. Mackey has received numerous commissions for his writing, including works for The American Bandmasters Association, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and a concerto for New York Philharmonic Principal Trombonist Joseph Alessi. The composer best describes this work in his own words: Asphalt Cocktail is a five-minute opener designed to shout from the opening measure, “We’re here.” With biting trombones, blaring trumpets, and percussion dominated by cross-rhythms and back beats, it aims to capture the grit and aggression that I associate with the time I lived in New York City. Picture the scariest NYC taxi ride you can imagine with the cab skidding around turns as trucks bear down from all sides. Serve on the rocks.”
Program Notes compiled by Marcie Phelan
PROGRAM NOTES Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, conductor, professional musician Quiet City – Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York, going on and educator, has been the New to study piano and composition both home in the United States and in Europe for some time. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential Jersey Wind Symphony's (formerly music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms. Some of Copland’s Ridgewood Concert Band) Musical most prominent pieces included Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico and Appalachian Spring, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Copland was also Director since it was founded in awarded an Oscar for his film score for The Heiress in 1940. By the 1970s, he had 1983. He was also Music Director ceased crafting new works, and focused on teaching and conducting in his final years. Quiet City was originally intended as incidental music to a short-running play by Irwin of the renowned Goldman Shaw. The play focused on two main characters: A young Jewish boy, awestruck by the Memorial Band in New York City. steely modernity of his city environment, yet still profoundly in touch with his own As a guest conductor, Dr. feelings and heritage; and a poor, dispossessed, and lonely man, for whom the city provides no refuge. The music begins and ends with a depiction of the still night air of Wilhjelm has conducted the West the slumbering city invoked by the improvisatory sounds of the trumpeter, with the Point Band, the United States Army Field Band, the Virginia English horn portraying the homeless man. While the spaciousness of Copland's musical textures has often been compared to the vastness of the American landscape, Wind Symphony, the Allentown Band, the Hanover Winds, Quiet City is emblematic of an urban, internalized facet of Americana. the Raritan Wind Symphony, and the Norwalk Symphony.
Court and Jester – Jeffrey Kaufman (b.1947) has been an active music industry Dr. Wilhjelm has been the conductor of the annual New professional for more than fifty years, after studying at both the Manhattan School of York City Tuba Christmas since 2000. He was recently Music and The Julliard School. As a music producer, he has the distinction of being the appointed the conductor of the Ramapo College Concert first music producer for National Public Radio (NPR)and has produced more than 300 recordings and concerts featuring great well known artists. In describing his musical Band. As a French horn player, he has performed under the piece presented on this program, the composer states, “The original title of this world’s great conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Seiji composition was the Statements for Piano and 23 Winds. It was only many weeks after finishing the now titled Court and Jester that I heard the programmatic aspects of the Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis and Arthur Fiedler. Dr. Wilhjelm has work, which caused me to consider the new name. How could I have missed not played the French horn with the Boston Symphony, the hearing the obvious? Beginning with the opening noble and magisterial entrance Boston Pops and, as a principal, with the Boston Ballet followed by the piano’s jesting theme; and where did that strange circus band come from? The trickster takes a bravura solo before the court, only to reveal his romantic Orchestra, the Boston Opera Orchestra and the Richmond heart. The court and jester banter back and forth and come to a big dramatic happy Symphony. ending.”
Blood Red Roses – Michael Valenti (b.1942) is an American composer and conductor. An honors graduate of the New England Conservatory, he His many awards include an Emmy for the score of the television series “A Walk Through the 20th Century” and a Peabody Award for the “Newsmark” music for CBS received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1998. He Radio. Blood Red Roses was written for the Broadway theater production of the same was the band director at Pascack Hills High School from name presented in 1970. The musical was presented in two acts and was subtitled “A 1984 to 2017. Dr. Wilhjelm was recently honored by his Play with Songs.” The production was an anti-war creation written to portray an example of the “triumph of futility and brutalization” in war. Though the Broadway election to the American Bandmasters Association. He is the production was short-lived, Valenti’s songs resurfaced a few years later with a variety of 2012 recipient of the Outstanding Conductor Award performers in Off Broadway revues. The overture presented here provides a listener’s stroll through some of the original play’s melodies. presented by the Association of Concert Bands. Dr Wilhjelm is the state chair for the National Band Association. In 2013,
he was elected to the Board of Directors for the Association of Concert Bands. PROGRAM
Prelude by the Midland Park High School Wind Ensemble
David Marks, Director
The March from “1941” - John Williams, Arranged by Paul Lavender Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, Music Director Lincoln - John Williams, Arranged by Jay Bocook Solas Ane (Gaelic: Yesterday’s Joy) - Samuel R. Hazo PICCOLO SAXOPHONES STRING BASSES Max Taylor Lois Hicks-Wozniak * - Sop./Alto David Marks Make Our Garden Grow - Leonard Bernstein, Arranged by Joseph Kreines Ryan Mantell - Sop./Alto Charlie Nolet ------FLUTES Jacqueline Sarracco - Alto Chrysten Angderson Thomas Wise - Tenor PERCUSSION Quiet City Aaron Copland Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart * Michael DePompeo - Baritone Nick Dekens Arranged by Donald Hunsberger Patricia Barlow Greg Landes Roger Widicus, Trumpet Lisandra Hernandez CORNETS/TRUMPETS Yuto Takamoto Mark Donellan, English Horn Annette Lieb Mike Connor Chris Tarantino
Tomomi Takamoto Dave Hurd John Wagner * Max Taylor Dave Luquette Derek Wohl Court and Jester Jeffrey Kaufman Jennifer Wise Tamara McLaughlin Mark Zettler Ron Levy, Piano Richard Roberts World Premier Performance OBOES Michael Russo HARP Mark Donellan * Thomas Siebenhuhner Irene Bressler Blood Red Roses Michael Valenti Drew Greis Ann Sirinides World Premier Performance Molly Raum Tony Spinuzzi PIANO
Joseph Stella Don Dean ENGLISH HORN Roger Widicus * I Could Have Danced All Night Lerner & Loewe
Molly Raum * PRINCIPAL PLAYERS from "My Fair Lady" Transcribed by Robert Russell Bennett FRENCH HORNS ______Kristen Plumley, Soprano BASSOONS Ben Fine
Jessica Frane Joshua Jenkins ASSOCIATE CONDUCTORS Christy Luberger * Carolyn Kirby * John Palatucci Kiss Me Again Victor Herbert Colette Mather Richard Summers Arranged by George J. Trinkaus CONTRA BASSOON Brian McLaughlin Kristen Plumley, Soprano Robert Gray Deloss Schertz LIBRARIAN Dave Bychek Eb CLARINET TROMBONES Jeff Bittner Thomas Abbate * PERSONNEL MANAGER INTERMISSION Stephanie Dutcher Richard Summers CLARINETS Ryan Halliwell Jeff Bittner Paul Kirby STAGE MANAGER Chorale and Alleluia Howard Hanson Suzanne Coletta Keith Marson Tony Spinuzzi Naomi Freshwater Rob Paustian Second Rhapsody for Solo Piano George Gershwin Joe Mariany Nate Rensink BOX OFFICE Leigh Myers Kristen Siebenhuhner Marilyn Wagner and Wind Ensemble Arranged by James C. Ripley Marcie Phelan Robert Tiedemann Ron Levy, Piano Jean Roughgarden PARKING DIRECTOR Rachel Schulman EUPHONIUMS John Hahn Embraceable You George & Ira Gershwin Beth Seavers Robyn Keyes Arranged by Warren Barker Neil Sheehan John Palatucci * WEB ADMINISTRATOR Kristen Plumley, Soprano Karen Summers Don Van Teyens Deloss Schertz Richard Summers * Sabrina Tempesta TUBAS PROGRAM DESIGN Asphalt Cocktail John Mackey Michael Gould Joseph Stella BASS CLARINETS Bob Sacchi * Brendan Hughes *Flash photography and audio or video recording of this concert is strictly prohibited.* Joel Kolk *
PROGRAM
Prelude by the Midland Park High School Wind Ensemble
David Marks, Director
The March from “1941” - John Williams, Arranged by Paul Lavender Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, Music Director Lincoln - John Williams, Arranged by Jay Bocook Solas Ane (Gaelic: Yesterday’s Joy) - Samuel R. Hazo PICCOLO SAXOPHONES STRING BASSES Max Taylor Lois Hicks-Wozniak * - Sop./Alto David Marks Make Our Garden Grow - Leonard Bernstein, Arranged by Joseph Kreines Ryan Mantell - Sop./Alto Charlie Nolet ------FLUTES Jacqueline Sarracco - Alto Chrysten Angderson Thomas Wise - Tenor PERCUSSION Quiet City Aaron Copland Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart * Michael DePompeo - Baritone Nick Dekens Arranged by Donald Hunsberger Patricia Barlow Greg Landes Roger Widicus, Trumpet Lisandra Hernandez CORNETS/TRUMPETS Yuto Takamoto Mark Donellan, English Horn Annette Lieb Mike Connor Chris Tarantino
Tomomi Takamoto Dave Hurd John Wagner * Max Taylor Dave Luquette Derek Wohl Court and Jester Jeffrey Kaufman Jennifer Wise Tamara McLaughlin Mark Zettler Ron Levy, Piano Richard Roberts World Premier Performance OBOES Michael Russo HARP Mark Donellan * Thomas Siebenhuhner Irene Bressler Blood Red Roses Michael Valenti Drew Greis Ann Sirinides World Premier Performance Molly Raum Tony Spinuzzi PIANO
Joseph Stella Don Dean ENGLISH HORN Roger Widicus * I Could Have Danced All Night Lerner & Loewe
Molly Raum * PRINCIPAL PLAYERS from "My Fair Lady" Transcribed by Robert Russell Bennett FRENCH HORNS ______Kristen Plumley, Soprano BASSOONS Ben Fine
Jessica Frane Joshua Jenkins ASSOCIATE CONDUCTORS Christy Luberger * Carolyn Kirby * John Palatucci Kiss Me Again Victor Herbert Colette Mather Richard Summers Arranged by George J. Trinkaus CONTRA BASSOON Brian McLaughlin Kristen Plumley, Soprano Robert Gray Deloss Schertz LIBRARIAN Dave Bychek Eb CLARINET TROMBONES Jeff Bittner Thomas Abbate * PERSONNEL MANAGER INTERMISSION Stephanie Dutcher Richard Summers CLARINETS Ryan Halliwell Jeff Bittner Paul Kirby STAGE MANAGER Chorale and Alleluia Howard Hanson Suzanne Coletta Keith Marson Tony Spinuzzi Naomi Freshwater Rob Paustian Second Rhapsody for Solo Piano George Gershwin Joe Mariany Nate Rensink BOX OFFICE Leigh Myers Kristen Siebenhuhner Marilyn Wagner and Wind Ensemble Arranged by James C. Ripley Marcie Phelan Robert Tiedemann Ron Levy, Piano Jean Roughgarden PARKING DIRECTOR Rachel Schulman EUPHONIUMS John Hahn Embraceable You George & Ira Gershwin Beth Seavers Robyn Keyes Arranged by Warren Barker Neil Sheehan John Palatucci * WEB ADMINISTRATOR Kristen Plumley, Soprano Karen Summers Don Van Teyens Deloss Schertz Richard Summers * Sabrina Tempesta TUBAS PROGRAM DESIGN Asphalt Cocktail John Mackey Michael Gould Joseph Stella BASS CLARINETS Bob Sacchi * Brendan Hughes *Flash photography and audio or video recording of this concert is strictly prohibited.* Joel Kolk *
PROGRAM NOTES Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, conductor, professional musician Quiet City – Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was born in Brooklyn, New York, going on and educator, has been the New to study piano and composition both home in the United States and in Europe for some time. He became one of the century’s foremost composers with highly influential Jersey Wind Symphony's (formerly music that had a distinctive blend of classical, folk and jazz idioms. Some of Copland’s Ridgewood Concert Band) Musical most prominent pieces included Fanfare for the Common Man, El Salon Mexico and Appalachian Spring, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Copland was also Director since it was founded in awarded an Oscar for his film score for The Heiress in 1940. By the 1970s, he had 1983. He was also Music Director ceased crafting new works, and focused on teaching and conducting in his final years. Quiet City was originally intended as incidental music to a short-running play by Irwin of the renowned Goldman Shaw. The play focused on two main characters: A young Jewish boy, awestruck by the Memorial Band in New York City. steely modernity of his city environment, yet still profoundly in touch with his own As a guest conductor, Dr. feelings and heritage; and a poor, dispossessed, and lonely man, for whom the city provides no refuge. The music begins and ends with a depiction of the still night air of Wilhjelm has conducted the West the slumbering city invoked by the improvisatory sounds of the trumpeter, with the Point Band, the United States Army Field Band, the Virginia English horn portraying the homeless man. While the spaciousness of Copland's musical textures has often been compared to the vastness of the American landscape, Wind Symphony, the Allentown Band, the Hanover Winds, Quiet City is emblematic of an urban, internalized facet of Americana. the Raritan Wind Symphony, and the Norwalk Symphony.
Court and Jester – Jeffrey Kaufman (b.1947) has been an active music industry Dr. Wilhjelm has been the conductor of the annual New professional for more than fifty years, after studying at both the Manhattan School of York City Tuba Christmas since 2000. He was recently Music and The Julliard School. As a music producer, he has the distinction of being the appointed the conductor of the Ramapo College Concert first music producer for National Public Radio (NPR)and has produced more than 300 recordings and concerts featuring great well known artists. In describing his musical Band. As a French horn player, he has performed under the piece presented on this program, the composer states, “The original title of this world’s great conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Seiji composition was the Statements for Piano and 23 Winds. It was only many weeks after finishing the now titled Court and Jester that I heard the programmatic aspects of the Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis and Arthur Fiedler. Dr. Wilhjelm has work, which caused me to consider the new name. How could I have missed not played the French horn with the Boston Symphony, the hearing the obvious? Beginning with the opening noble and magisterial entrance Boston Pops and, as a principal, with the Boston Ballet followed by the piano’s jesting theme; and where did that strange circus band come from? The trickster takes a bravura solo before the court, only to reveal his romantic Orchestra, the Boston Opera Orchestra and the Richmond heart. The court and jester banter back and forth and come to a big dramatic happy Symphony. ending.”
Blood Red Roses – Michael Valenti (b.1942) is an American composer and conductor. An honors graduate of the New England Conservatory, he His many awards include an Emmy for the score of the television series “A Walk Through the 20th Century” and a Peabody Award for the “Newsmark” music for CBS received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1998. He Radio. Blood Red Roses was written for the Broadway theater production of the same was the band director at Pascack Hills High School from name presented in 1970. The musical was presented in two acts and was subtitled “A 1984 to 2017. Dr. Wilhjelm was recently honored by his Play with Songs.” The production was an anti-war creation written to portray an example of the “triumph of futility and brutalization” in war. Though the Broadway election to the American Bandmasters Association. He is the production was short-lived, Valenti’s songs resurfaced a few years later with a variety of 2012 recipient of the Outstanding Conductor Award performers in Off Broadway revues. The overture presented here provides a listener’s stroll through some of the original play’s melodies. presented by the Association of Concert Bands. Dr Wilhjelm is the state chair for the National Band Association. In 2013,
he was elected to the Board of Directors for the Association of Concert Bands. Chorale and Alleluia – Howard Hanson (1896-1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of classical music. As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality conservatory and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for his Symphony No. , Opus 34”The Requiem” and received numerous other awards. Chorale and Alleluia is Howard Hanson’s first work for symphonic band and was commissioned in January 1954, where it was given its premier performance at the convention of the American Bandmaster’s Association at West Point. The composition opens with a fine flowing “Chorale.” Soon the joyous “Alleluia” theme appears and remains in evidence throughout, while a bold statement of a new melody makes its entrance in the lower brasses. The total effect is one of cathedral bells, religious exaltation, solemnity, and dignity. This wonderful work has become a classic in the repertoire for wind symphony.
Second Rhapsody for Solo Piano and Wind Ensemble – George Gershwin (1898- 1932) is perhaps one of the best-known but most misunderstood of all composers. His association with the world of popular music has led many to underestimate his genius as a composer. This statement could not be more apposite when it comes to the neglected score of Gershwin's Second Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra. This is a remarkable work, containing at its center one of Gershwin's most haunting themes. Yet, few concert goers are familiar with the work as its appearance in the concert hall is very rare indeed. Perhaps the Second Rhapsody's neglect was aided by the deliberately low key title which Gershwin chose for the work when compared with his previous concert work titles 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'An American in Paris.' To add to its troubles, the Second Rhapsody was revised many years after the composer's death by music editors more keen on their own self glory than preserving the masterpiece of a genius. As a result Gershwin's own masterly orchestration has rarely, if at all, been heard by audiences in modern times. This orchestration has been masterfully placed into the symphonic wind genre by James C. Ripley, which will surely bring this Gershwin jewel to the ears of more concert audiences.
Asphalt Cocktail – John Mackey (b.1973) holds a Master of Music degree from The Julliard School and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John Corigliano and Donald Erb respectively. Mr. Mackey particularly enjoys writing music for dance and symphonic winds, and has focused on those mediums for the past few years. Mr. Mackey has received numerous commissions for his writing, including works for The American Bandmasters Association, the Dallas Wind Symphony, and a concerto for New York Philharmonic Principal Trombonist Joseph Alessi. The composer best describes this work in his own words: Asphalt Cocktail is a five-minute opener designed to shout from the opening measure, “We’re here.” With biting trombones, blaring trumpets, and percussion dominated by cross-rhythms and back beats, it aims to capture the grit and aggression that I associate with the time I lived in New York City. Picture the scariest NYC taxi ride you can imagine with the cab skidding around turns as trucks bear down from all sides. Serve on the rocks.”
Program Notes compiled by Marcie Phelan
Ron Levy, internationally acclaimed pianist, has been called “first-class” by the New York Times. He regularly appears in major venues, both as a soloist, and in partnership with many of the world’s leading singers and instrumentalists. A graduate of Oberlin, Mr. Levy has been pianist and harpsichordist of the Oberlin Orchestra, the Westchester Symphony, and the Albany Symphony, among others. Presently, he is the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood Music Director, Associate Artist with the All Seasons Chamber Players, and is the pianist of the Orpheus Men’s Chorus and the award-winning Palisades Virtuosi of which he is a founding member. For over 20 years, Mr. Levy was associated with the Manchester (VT) Music Festival, of which he was a faculty and Board member. While living in Vermont, he was Music Director & Conductor of the Opera Theatre in Weston, and impresario of the “Third Saturday” chamber music series at the historic Equinox Hotel, as well as the “Music on the Hill” music series at the Southern Vermont Art Center. Mr. Levy has taught at numerous colleges and is currently an instructor at Montclair State University; he maintains an active and on-going affiliation with the Manhattan School of Music, Juilliard, and NJ PAC. A two-term President of the Professional Music Teachers’ Guild of NJ, he is a contributing editor to BIM Music Publications, Switzerland. In the Spring of 2011 Mr. Levy made his debut at the Academy of the Arts and the University in Oahu, Hawaii. Recordings by Mr. Levy are available on the Albany, Centaur, Eroica, Koch International, MMF and High Point labels.
Jeffrey Kaufman attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Julliard School of Music. He has served as a Radio Producer (first music producer for National Public Radio); Concert Producer (concerts featuring Yo Yo Ma, Stephane Grappelli, Lena Horne); Theatrical Producer (latest production "An American in Paris") and Record Producer with over 300 recordings to his credit. He has received awards and grants from: The New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, ASCAP Standard Panel Awards, The Rockefeller Foundation, and is a three-time Grammy award nominee.
Michael Valenti composed, arranged and conducted the music for the Emmy Award winning television series "A Walk Through the 20th Century. For CBS radio he shared the Peabody Award for "Newsmark."
His numerous Broadway credits include "Honky Tonk Nights," "Oh Brother!," "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" and "Blood Red Roses." Off-Broadway he composed scores for, among others, "Mademoiselle Colombe" starring Tammy Grimes, which received five Outer Critic Circle Award nominations including two for Valenti's book and music. His "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is still the longest running children's musical ever produced in New York, and his score for "Beauty and The Beast" continues to enjoy productions worldwide.
In 1995 Mr. Valenti composed "Processional for a Pontiff," a large orchestral work which was written for the entrance of Pope John Paul II into Central Park, NY, on the occasion of his celebration of the Eucharist. In 1989 he conducted the premier of his dramatic oratorio, "The Way," which is based on the fourteen stations of the cross and starred Davis Gaines, Judy Kaye and Christine Andreas.
In its permanent repertory The Goldman Memorial Band at Lincoln Center has performed several of Valenti's pieces. In August 1987 he was given a retrospective at Lincoln Center under the direction of maestro Ainslee Cox, during which the band performed all of his published concert band music and premiered his "Big Apple March." The following year Valenti was invited by the band to conduct the premier performance of his "Black Hawk March." Soprano with a sparkling voice to match her personality, Connecticut native Kristen Plumley brings her joy of being on stage to every role she performs. Lauded as “sensationally note-perfect” (St. Petersburg Times), “a roguish comedienne” (The Middletown, CT Press) and “Met-worthy” (The Dallas Morning News), Ms. Plumley has portrayed Adina (L’Elisir d’Amore) and Gilda (Rigoletto) with Greensboro Opera Company, Musetta (La bohème) with Amarillo Opera, Norina (Don Pasquale) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Virginia Opera, Barbarina (Le Nozze di Figaro) with New York City Opera, Norina (Don Pasquale) and Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Virginia Opera, Nannetta (Falstaff) and Amor (Orfeo ed Euridice) with Opera Festival of New Jersey, Sophie (Werther) with Chautauqua Opera, Adele (Die Fledermaus) with Boheme Opera (NJ) and Opera Theatre of Connecticut, Despina (Così fan Tutte) with Lyric Opera of Cleveland, the Sultan of Egypt (Glück’s Les Pelerins de la Mecque) with L’Opéra Français de New York, Yum-Yum (The Mikado) with Opera Memphis, and Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) with Nevada Opera.
Other roles to her credit include Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), and Kathy (Student Prince), and musical theater favorites Maria (West Side Story), Carrie (Carousel), Fiona (Brigadoon), and Laurey (Oklahoma!).
On the concert stage, Kristen Plumley has performed a broad spectrum of works, including Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Haydn’s Mass in Time of War with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, she has sung Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Elgar’s For the Fallen, Bach’s Coffee Cantata and Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, as well as Jack Everly’s Sci-Fi Spectacular (music from science fiction movies and television shows) with the Cleveland, Indianapolis, Seattle, and Baltimore Symphonies, and An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan with the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Richmond, Memphis, and Minnesota.
Enthusiastic about contemporary works, she has been active in many new operas at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada) and in companies throughout New York City. In 2015 Kristen created the role of Ruth Draper in Icarus Rising, a new dance opera about the life of Lauro DeBosis, an Italian freedom fighter during World War II, with Verlezza Dance.
Ms. Plumley received an Artist Diploma in opera from the Hartt School of Music and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and music from Holy Cross College. Twice a winner in the Connecticut Opera Guild Scholarship Competition, she is also a recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant (Shoshana Foundation).
NEW JERSEY WIND SYMPHONY MEET THE NJWS
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart, D.M.A. is a dedicated teacher, chamber musician, and an enthusiastic advocate PRESIDENT: for contemporary music. She is the director and founder of The Flute Academy, located in Bergen County, New Deloss Schertz Jersey. She is passionate about working with aspiring young musicians, helping them shape their love of music.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Dr. Bacchiocchi-Stewart has served on the faculties of Union College, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins Mark Zettler University, Frostburg State University, Ithaca College and Schenectady County Community College. She is an instructor and administrator for the Marina Piccinini International Master Classes VICE PRESIDENT: and has also been on the faculty for the Savage Mountain Summer Chamber Music Summer Series and Flauto Musicale. Lawrence Friedman She was a prize winner at the 2002 National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, a participant in the First Beijing Nicolet International Flute RECORDING SECRETARY: Competition and has appeared as a semi-finalist in the Myrna Brown and Ducrest Young Artist Competitions. Annette Lieb Dr. Bacchiocchi-Stewart is principal flute with The New Jersey Wind Symphony and is a member of the Lyra Ensemble. She has performed with TRITONIS (flute, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: cello, and guitar), guitarist Joel Brown, percussionist Michael Zell, I Venti Semplice, the Evolution Contemporary Music Series, and the After Now: Nothing You’ve James Mallen Heard Before music series, among others. She has given concerts, lectures, workshops and master classes throughout the United States and has also performed in several groups throughout Europe and Japan. TREASURER: She has maintained large flute studios for over 20 years both privately and in the Neil Sheehan college setting. She has taught levels ranging from beginner, intermediate, adult amateur, advanced, college and professionals. Her students have been among the flute sections of several youth orchestras and admitted into prestigious schools MEMBERS AT LARGE: such as The Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Carnegie Mellon, John Butler New England Conservatory, The Peabody Institute, Indiana University and Ithaca College.
Mike DePompeo Her academic achievements include a Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree from the David Marks Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Music Degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor Beth Seavers of Music Degree from Ithaca College. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, and the Zurich Masterclass series. John & Marilyn Wagner Her main teachers have been Marina Piccinini, Bradley Garner, Wendy Mehne, Claudia Anderson and Selma Moore.
About the New Jersey Wind Symphony
Dr. Chris Wilhjelm, community leaders, and musicians founded the Ridgewood Concert Band (RCB) in 1983 with the idea of providing high quality performing venues for the many accomplished wind and percussion players living in the New York metropolitan area. On July 1, 2017, the Ridgewood Concert Band formally changed its name to the New Jersey Wind Symphony (NJWS) to better reflect the identity of the organization.
Through the years, consistently high level performances have led to the production of two commercially released CDs, performances on the East Coast, and peer recognition through the Printing of this program generously underwritten by awarding of the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s coveted Sudler Silver Scroll Award in 1996. Konica Minolta Business Solutions. The NJWS performs an annual series of concerts presenting the very finest in wind band literature for capacity audiences. Ranging from light classics and famous marches to cutting edge ______compositions by today’s brilliant composers, the band’s programming has drawn critical attention for its variety and depth. Originally launched as the Ridgewood Community Concert Band, an early review praising the band’s fine performance proclaimed this is no “Community” band. The Board of Directors decided to incorporate as the Ridgewood Concert Band. Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the The members of the New Jersey Wind Symphony come from all walks of life. The musicians and board members are drawn together by a common dedication to the study, performance and Arts/Department of State, through grant support of great music. funds administered by the Bergen County The quality of NJWS performances has attracted world-class soloists from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, radio and television personalities and Department of Parks, Division of other nationally renowned performers and conductors. The New Jersey Wind Symphony has also been active in the commission and performance of new works. Cultural and Historic Affairs.
The New Jersey Wind Symphony is actively engaged with area schools, offering opportunities for ______talented school musicians to perform with the band. In 2006, the band launched a scholarship program that reaches a large network of high schools in the region, inviting musicians who plan to seek a career in music to compete for scholarship funds. Winners showcase their talent as a The New Jersey Wind Symphony would like to featured soloist with the band. The competition and concert is one of the highlights of each season. thank all of the many volunteers who have made Each year the NJWS performs a subscription series of concerts at their performance home in the this concert possible. West Side Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey. ______The NJWS has also obtained world-wide recognition through international touring: 1998 – Central Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria 2003 – Southern France: The Riviera Reeds Festival, La Croix Valmer; Le Pradet 2008 – China: Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xian, Beijing The New Jersey Wind Symphony would like to give 2009 – Brazil: Sao Paolo, Santos, Novo Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Ouro Preto a special “thank you” to David Marks and the 2010 – Germany, Austria, Italy: Garmisch, Munich, Salzburg, Schladming Festival, Venice Midland Park School District. The Midland Park
High School band room is our weekly rehearsal site.
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Dr. Christian Wilhjelm, Music Director
From the Heart
FEATURED GUESTS Kristen Plumley, Soprano Ron Levy, Piano Roger Widicus, Trumpet Mark Donellan, English Horn
PRELUDE CONCERT - 7:30 PM Midland Park High School Wind Ensemble David Marks, Director
Friday, February 9, 2018 - 8:00 PM West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ
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Season 35, Concert 3 - February 9, 2018