The University of Western Ontario Wind Ensemble ritions A App AppAritions Dr. Colleen Richardson, conductor Shawn Spicer, trumpet Jim Territo | Fanfare: 1 Chronicles 13:8 Jason Noble | Dopplepolitik www.albanyrecords.com TROY1336 albany records u.s. Richard Rodney Bennett | Elegy for Miles Davis 915 broadway, albany, ny 12207 tel: 518.436.8814 fax: 518.436.0643 Yo Goto | Lachrymae albany records u.k. box 137, kendal, cumbria la8 0xd Ernest Tomlinson | Suite of English Folk-Dances tel: 01539 824008 © 2012 albany records made in the usa ddd Anthony Iannaccone | Apparitions waRning: cOpyrighT subsisTs in all Recordings issued undeR This label. The Composers & The Music English composer and pianist richard rodney bennett (b. 1936) has written more than 200 works for the concert hall and approximately 50 film scores. In the fifties, he studied with Jim Territo (b. 1978) has his BMus in Composition from the University of Michigan. Since Lennox Berkeley and Howard Ferguson at the Royal Academy of Music; spent summers at Graduating in 2001, he has been regularly composing and arranging for bands, orchestras, choirs, Darmstadt; and in 1957, Bennett received a grant from the French government that enabled him theater productions, and chamber groups. Several of his works for band are available through to study with Boulez for two years. However, his expressionistic style seems to derive more from Jalen/Matrix Publishing. He lives in the Detroit area, where he teaches music theory as well as Berg than from Boulez. In 1995, Bennett moved to New York and his interest in jazz led him to elementary and high school band at Detroit Country Day School. He also plays freelance rock sing and play cabaret in various jazz clubs with such artists as Cleo Laine, Stan Getz, and Marion piano and works as a music director for local community theatres. Montgomery, among others. Awards include the Arnold Bax Society Prize (1964), the Ralph Vaughan Williams Award for composer of the year (1965), a BAFTA Award for Murder on the Fanfare: 1 Chronicles 13:8 was written for the Miami University (Ohio) Wind Ensemble, Gary Orient Express (1975) and an Academy Award nomination for the same score. Bennett has been Speck, conductor. They performed it at the Midwest Music Educator’s Conference in 2004. The knighted for his service to music. biblical passage 1 Chronicles 13:8 makes reference to King David dancing “with all his might.” The music begins with the image of an approaching parade, and culminates with an expression The Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Orchestra was written in New York between April and June of unrestrained joy. —Jim Territo of 1993 and is dedicated to Timothy Reynish. Subtitled “Elegy for Miles Davis,” the second move- ment begins in the style of a jazz ballad, and includes amplified bass, piano, and ride cymbal within the band accompaniment. The movement continues with a rhythmic vivo theme reminiscent of the Newfoundland born composer Jason noble (b. 1980) completed his masters in composition at first movement, which benefits from constant variation and unpredictable phrasing. The University of Western Ontario in 2010, and he is currently working on his doctorate at McGill University. Noble has received commissions from individuals and ensembles, including the Amabile Choirs of London, as well as the Shallaway and the Newman Sound Men’s Choirs yo Goto (b. 1958) received his B.M.E. degree from Yamagata University, Japan. He continued of Newfoundland. Twice named the Newfoundland and Labrador Registered Music Teachers’ on to a Performance Diploma Course at the Tokyo College of Music, studying composition with Association’s Composer of the Year, Noble’s pieces have been featured on CBC Radio and in the Shin-Ichiro Ikebe and Joju Kaneda. In 2001, Goto moved to Texas to study composition with Festival 500 and Newfound Sound Music Festivals. His piece The Stupendous Adventure of Gregory Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas, where he earned a M.M. in composition and Green for wind ensemble and narrator is published along with an illustrated storybook by Boulder a M.M.E. Besides being performed at WASBE and CBDNA conferences, his works have been Publications. The MUN Chamber Choir, Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra, UWO Symphony selected as test pieces for the All Japan Band Contest and presented at the Midwest Clinic. Goto Orchestra, UWO Singers, Primus Amabile, and Soundstreams have performed his works. is also recognized internationally as a distinguished educator and researcher in the field of wind music, receiving the Academic Society of Japan for Winds and Band Academy Award in 2000 for Doppelpolitik was written for the UWO Wind Ensemble and was premiered by this ensemble on excellence in clinics and wind literature research. 22 October 2009. Noble was inspired by the contradiction between the luxury and opportunity enjoyed by many North American citizens, and the violence and exploitation that make that way Lachrymae was commissioned by The Executive Committee for Twenty-first Century Wind of life possible. This is expressed through three contrasting musical ideas: a superficial “daily life” Music in Japan and completed in September 2005. The work was premiered on March 5, 2006 by theme, a recurring “American dream,” and sections of brutal militarism. —Jason Noble Kanagawa University Symphonic Band, Toshiro Ozawa, conductor. The piece was composed as a requiem for victims of political and religious conflicts throughout the and in 1995, he won the American Bandmasters Association/Ostwald Composition Competition for world. The people mourned in this music are not only the victims of the tragedy on September 11, Sea Drift. One of his most performed works, Waiting for Sunrise on the Sound, was awarded second 2001 in New York City, but also all innocent people killed by “righteous” force throughout history. place in the 2001 London Symphony Masterprize Competition from a field of 1,151 works submitted Therefore, this piece is a protest against political violence. The work borrows from the dirge from around the world. As an active conductor of both new music and standard orchestral repertory, Lachrimae Antiquae, a pavan of John Dowland (1563-1626) from Lachrimae or Seven Tears. Iannaccone conducts numerous regional and metropolitan orchestras in the U.S. He has also con- ducted several European orchestras, including the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic, the Bavarian Festival Orchestra, the Janacek Philharmonic, the Moravian Philharmonic, and the Slovak Radio ernest Tomlinson (b. 1924) was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire into a musical family. At the Orchestra. Since 1971, Iannaccone has taught at Eastern Michigan University, where, for 30 years he age of nine, he became a chorister at Manchester Cathedral, and at 16, he earned a scholarship to directed the Collegium Musicum in orchestral and choral music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. attend Manchester University and the Royal Manchester College of Music. Tomlinson’s compo- The concept of Apparitions was inspired by Whitman’s brief poem of the same name. The sition studies were interrupted briefly during WWII when he joined the Royal Air Force. He composition deals with both the appearances (of “apparitions”) and true nature of an abstract graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Composition) in 1947, and became a Fellow of the Royal idea, whether it is a poetic image or a musical phrase. The abstract idea exists or lives only in College of Organists as well as an Associate of the Royal Manchester College of Music. After the human imagination, which animates and connects the melody, texture, or image with its moving to London, Tomlinson became a staff arranger for Arcadia and Mills Music Publishers, own experience of the real world. By transforming the character of the musical or poetic setting working on scores for the stage as well as for radio and television broadcasts. In 1949, he had his or context, a composer or a poet can make both “strange and clear” (to quote Whitman) a first piece broadcast by the BBC, and in 1955 he formed the Ernest Tomlinson Light Orchestra. remarkable variety of “apparitions” all derived from the same musical shape or poetic idea. In 1951, Tomlinson, at the invitation of his sister Freda, a keen folk-dancer, attended a Festival of The three basic musical shapes which “appear” in Apparitions all share the pitch pattern of a falling Dance and Song presented by the English Folk Dance and Song Society at Royal Albert Hall, London. fifth and a rising sixth. They are, in order of “appearance” first, a sweeping wave of accumulating He was so captivated by the tunes danced to that he resolved to write an orchestral suite based on notes — a cold wind on a dark night — borrowed from my first orchestral symphony (written in some of them. The Suite was published in 1954 and has become a classic in the orchestral field. The 1965); second, a musical quote from Schubert’s song, the Erlking, in which a child pleads with his composer’s arrangement for wind band (2000) follows closely the textures and color contrasts of the father to see an “apparition” which the father cannot see but which is terrifyingly real to the little orchestral original. The Suite of English Folk-Dances, which he dedicated to his sister, is in six move- boy; and third, a quote from a Luther/Bach chorale tune that outlines the falling fifth and rising ments, all the tunes being selected from the first edition of John Playford’s The English Dancing sixth of the child’s melody in Schubert’s song. —Anthony Iannaccone Master, published in 1651. Apparitions New York-born composer anthony Iannaccone (b. 1943) studied at the Manhattan School of A vague mist hanging ’round half the pages: Music and the Eastman School of Music.