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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 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, ; 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 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 , 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 . His principal teachers were Vittorio Giannini, Aaron (Sometimes how strange and clear to the soul, Copland, and David Diamond. With approximately 50 published works, including symphonies, that all these solid things are indeed but apparitions, smaller pieces for orchestra, as well as works for chorus with orchestra, chamber ensemble, wind concepts, non-realities.) ensemble, and several extended a cappella choral compositions, Iannaccone’s music is performed by —Walt Whitman professional and university ensembles in and abroad. He has received many awards, The Performers is indebted to the leadership of past con- Hunsberger DVD within GIA’s three DVD Originally from , ductors: Donald McKellar, A. James Ford, set entitled Three Icons: Frank Battisti, Donald Shawn Spicer went to McGill Charles (Chuck) Dalkert, Wayne Jeffrey, Hunsberger, and H. Robert Reynolds. University in 1987 to study Jerome Summers, David McKinney, and Gary A native of Winnipeg, Dr. Richardson with James Thompson, cele- The Don Wright Faculty of Music within The McCumber. With the appointment of their graduated from Brandon University with a brated principal trumpet of University of Western Ontario is one of the current director, Dr. Colleen Richardson, bachelor’s degree in music education and the Montreal Symphony. top centers for musical excellence in Canada. in 2006, the Wind Ensemble continues its earned a Wind Conducting Diploma from After completing his studies, Nationally recognized scholars, composers, journey towards excellence in performance the University of Calgary. While working Shawn moved to Toronto to participate in the administrators, teachers and performers — and wind band education. towards her diploma, she studied with many Orchestral Training Program at the Royal leaders in Canadian music — engage students well respected composers and conductors, Conservatory. Upon completing his masters in a learning environment equaled by very few Colleen Richardson is including: Craig Kirchhoff, Karel Husa, at Yale University, he went on to positions in institutions. The Faculty offers a broad range Coordinator of Bands, directs Warren Benson, David Maslanka, Eugene the Thunder Bay Symphony and the Calgary of undergraduate and graduate programs, the Wind Ensemble, and Corporon, Mallory Thompson, Dale Lonis, based Foothills Brass Quintet. Shawn has also a challenging learning experience, a col- teaches undergraduate music Allan Bell, Robert Reynolds, Jerry Junkin worked as a freelance musician playing with legial atmosphere, and outstanding facilities, education classes as well as and Tyrone Paterson. In 2001, she completed all of the major southern Ontario orchestras, including one of North America’s top music graduate courses in conduct- her master’s degree in conducting with including the Canadian Opera Company, libraries. With more than 500 undergraduate ing and wind literature. Dr. Glenn Price at the University of Calgary, the National Ballet, and the orchestras of students, 110 graduate students, and more Her research focuses on wind literature, and in 2005, completed her DMA in Wind Kitchener, London, Hamilton and Windsor. than 100 teachers, the Faculty is small enough chamber wind repertoire, conducting pedagogy, Conducting with Rodney Winther at the In 1999, Shawn was appointed principal to foster the development of close-working ensemble rehearsal techniques, Messiaen’s University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory trumpet of Orchestra London Canada. relationships with professors and colleagues, compositional techniques, and Varèse’s of Music. While in Cincinnati, she co-directed He performs regularly as a musician at the yet large enough to support two orchestras, connections with visual artists. Besides having the Tri-State Chamber Players and served as Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and he is two bands, two jazz ensembles, an early music presented her research at conferences in the Music Director for the Cincinnati Youth active in the early music community, playing ensemble, fully staged opera and musical Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Taiwan, and Wind Ensemble. Prior to her doctoral studies, baroque trumpet and cornetto. Performances theatre productions, and four choirs. Canada, Dr. Richardson is active as a clini- Dr. Richardson taught instrumental music in on these instruments have taken him as far cian, adjudicator, and guest conductor. Her the Canadian public school system for 14 years. away as Japan and Brazil. Evolving from the Symphonic Band, the publications include articles for the Canadian Shawn has also been active as a teacher. University of Western Ontario Wind Winds, and the Canadian Music Educator He was trumpet instructor at the Canadian Ensemble was established by Jerome Summers Journal, as well as teachers’ guides for the Forces School of Music from 1991-1998 and in the 1980s. Recognized as one of the finest Teaching Music Through Performance in Band currently teaches trumpet at The University wind bands in Canada, the Wind Ensemble series. Recently, she produced and edited the of Western Ontario. Shawn is very proud to be a Yamaha artist. The University of Western Ontario Wind Ensemble

WE Personnel Bass Clarinet Trumpet Percussion WE Personnel E-flat Clarinet French Horn Tuba 2007-2008 Ellissa Yazbeck Maddie Bitove Jamie Bird 2009-2010 Ian Clarke Kieran Berry Paul Brown Joel Bradford Stephanie Davila Catherine Fraser Jeff Dittmer Jarrett McCourt Piccolo Soprano Saxophone Piccolo Andrew Bray Eric DeVooght Katie Fitzsimmons Margot Northcott Kristen Hill Laura Kerslake Jennifer Harris-Lowe Clarinet Diana Murawski Alex Heidinger Aaron Neeb Ian Clarke Piano/Keyboard Flute Alto Saxophone James Shepherd Toby Hindel Flute Christine van’t Voort Antonio De Luca Neal Cabigon Danielle Carter Laura Kerslake Jared Steuernol Jim Toner Laura Andrew Catherine Fraser Trumpet Jennifer Harris-Lowe Josh Morrison Andrew Virtue Clayton Vella Kylie Greenham Keyboard Marc Gareau Matthew Bacon Soo Jeong Lim Steve Richards Jennifer Harris-Lowe John Yun Trombone Piano Sarah McKean Alanna Birtch Erin Scheffer SuGee Kim Tenor Saxophone Zac Laidlaw Christine Tithecott Carmen Lee Joel Bradford Percussion Josh Veenstra Hera Lin Marcia Melick Dylan Meuser Jessica Lockhart Peter Gajdek Cameron Beare Bridget Love Oboe Michelle Roy Elissa Yazbeck Thomas Güngör Warren Elder Baritone Saxophone Brooke Taylor Rachel Abbott Stephanie Stobbe Jim Shepherd Alex Heidinger Stuart Armstrong Bass Clarinet Brock Balsam Oboe Jared Steuernol Gavyn Holt Bass Trombone Devin Kwok Bassoon Samantha Clare Krysten Zator Kyle Nurse English Horn Ryan Mix Emma Ashmore Megan Vamos Alto Saxophone Jaclyn Paul Rachel Abbott Trombone Euphonium Jennifer Blackwell Jim Toner Sara Bryan English Horn Dan Carroll E-Flat Clarinet Steve Burditt Alex Espinosa Sarah Bell Evan Morrison String Bass Contra Bassoon Michael Fraser Erin Wideman Melissa Tipson Michelle Roy Justin Leyte Heather Hutchison Naotaka Noguichi Bassoon Nadeem Pirani Clarinet Stephanie Stobbe French Horn Ian Siess Emily Adams Tuba Tenor Saxophone Muriel Tse Rachel Arbuthnot Iraj Tamadon-Nejad Katie Dreger Paul Brown Gerard Spicer David Basu Roy Euphonium Catherine Fraser Lorne Plooard Contra Bassoon Aaron Neeb Baritone Greg Corcoran Marc Gareau Elena Cimolai Ruth Morden String Bass Saxophone Kate Morton Melissa Goodchild Eric Mohr Mike Smith Michael Jameer Veronica Lai Erin Wideman Jake Paleczny Melissa Tipson Acknowledgments Publishers This recording project started in the Jim Territo: Fanfare: 1 Chronicles 13:8 2007-2008 academic year. The Bennett, published by Jalen Publishing Tomlinson, and Goto were recorded Ernest Tomlinson: Suite of English Dances in that year. The project continued in published by Novello & Company Limited 2009-2010 after renovations to the theatre. The Noble, Territo, and Iannaccone Jason Noble: Dopplepolitik available direct were recorded in the newly renovated from the composer Paul Davenport Theatre. Richard Rodney Bennett: Elegy for Miles Davis from Concerto for Trumpet Producer: Colleen Richardson and Wind Orchestra published by Novello & Company Limited Recording Engineer: Ed Marshall, Marshall Arts Productions Yo Goto: Lachrymae published by Brain Company, Ltd. Cover Art: Richter, Gerhard (1932-) Anthony Iannaccone: Apparitions © Copyright of the Artist. 23.3.88 1988. published by Ludwig Music Publishing Co. Colored ink and watercolor on paper, 6 ½ x 9 3/8 inches (16.5 x 23.9 cm). Gift of the International Council in honor of H.R.H. Prinz Franz von Bayern. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A., Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY