PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM Quintette Pour Instruments À Vent - Paul Taffanel Claude-Paul Taffanel Was a French Flutist, Conductor and Teacher
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New York jazz scene since the 1990s, and continues to maintain a busy schedule of performing and recording. Her most recent album is Janice Friedman Trio: live at Kitano. Terry Pollard was a pianist, vibraphonist, composer, and bandleader. As part of the WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Detroit jazz scene of the ‘40s and ‘50s she worked with many great artists including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef, and Dorothy Ashby. Her stunning bebop College of Fine Arts and Communication playing on both piano and vibes can be seen in her famous performance with vibraphonist & School of Music Terry Gibbs on the Tonight Show with Steve Allen from 1956. present Carla Bley is a composer, bandleader, and pianist. She came to prominence on the New York scene in the late ‘50s composing for Paul Bley and George Russell, and then formed the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra in 1964. She later wrote compositions for Gary Burton, FACULTY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES Charlie Haden, and her own projects as a leader. Bley founded the Watt record label in 1973, and remains active as a composer and recording artist to the present day. CONCERT I Emily Remler was a guitarist, composer, and bandleader. She graduated from Berklee The Camerata Woodwind Quintet College of Music at the age of 18, and played with prominent artists such as Nancy John McMurtery, flute Wilson, Herb Ellis, and Astrud Gilberto early in her career. She released a successful string of albums on Concord records in the 1980s, many of which feature her distinctive Emily Hart, oboe original compositions. Remler was known to struggle with substance abuse, and she Eric Ginsberg, clarinet tragically died of a heroin overdose while on a tour of Australia in 1990. Brisa de Paula, bassoon Jena Gardner, horn FACULTY CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 2018-2019 The Hopper Jazztet John Cooper, trumpet CONCERT II: Wednesday, November 7, 7:30pm John Vana, alto saxophone Julstrom String Quartet & LaMoine Brass Quintet George Turner, guitar CONCERT III: Wednesday, February 6, 7:30pm Whitney Ashe, piano Mixed Chamber Repertoire Matt Hughes, bass Kevin Nichols, drums CONCERT IV: Wednesday, March 6, 7:30pm LaMoine Brass Quintet & Hopper Jazztet CONCERT V: Wednesday, April 3, 7:30pm Wednesday, October 3, 2018 Camerata Woodwind Quintet & Julstrom String Quartet 7:30 PM THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION PROUDLY CELEBRATES 50 YEARS AT WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY This performance is No. 11 of the School of Music’s 180 performances scheduled for the 2018-19 season. Ushering services provided by the Western Illinois University Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon. PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM Quintette pour Instruments à Vent - Paul Taffanel Claude-Paul Taffanel was a French flutist, conductor and teacher. His performing and Quintette pour Instruments à Vent (1876) Paul Taffanel teaching career, over thirty years, came to define the French flute school well into the I. Allegro con moto (1844-1908) twentieth century. His student and colleague Adolphe Hannebains taught Marcel Moyse, II. Andante and Joseph Rampal, father to Jean Pierre. In addition to promoting a smoother style of playing with a light articulation, he brought the previously untaught and unappreciated III. Vivace music of Bach and other 18th century composers to his students at the Conservatoire. Taffanel composed his quintet in 1876 as his entry into a woodwind quintet competition. Aires Tropicales (1994) Paquito D’Rivera His quintet won the contest and an enthusiastic reception at its premier and subsequent I. Alborada (b. 1948) performances. Throughout the three movements Taffanel combines the timbres of the II. Son instruments in interesting ways, while always showing off the instruments’ virtuosity and III. Habanera lyricism. These are the inherent qualities of French woodwind literature that you will find to IV. Vals Venezolano this day. The long, sinuous melodies and bubbling technique should always be executed with elegance and aplomb. This is Professor Taffanel’s lesson to us and our heritage. The Camerata Woodwind Quintet Aires Tropicales - Paquito D’Rivera Paquito D’Rivera, Cuban clarinetist and saxophonist, was commissioned by the Aspen John McMurtery, flute Woodwind Quintet to compose Aire Tropicales . The group premiered it in 1994 at New Emily Hart, oboe York City’s Frick Collection. It invokes the different musical traditions of Cuba, beginning Eric Ginsberg, clarinet with the traditional Alborada, Son, and Habanera, and pays homage to two musicians, Brisa de Paula, bassoon Antonio Lauro and Ernesto Lacuona, whose Latin musical nationalism in Venezuela and Jena Gardner, horn cuba in the early twentieth century was an inspiration for D’Rivera. An additional movement is dedicated to the great American jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie, and the final movement, Afro, is an homage to the source of jazz and indigenous folk musical traditions INTERMISSION in the Americas. Instrumental jazz has historically been a male-dominated field. While female jazz vocalists have been prominently celebrated since the swing era, female jazz You Shall Reap What You Sow Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971) instrumentalists and composers have been the exception rather than the rule until relatively recently. For this month’s Faculty Chamber Series concert the Hopper Jazztet performs In the Land of Oo-bla-dee Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) compositions by six important female jazz instrumentalist/composers, ranging in era from the 1920s to today. Feels Like a Dream Janice Friedman Lil Hardin Armstrong was a pianist, composer, bandleader, and singer. After working as Fedj Terry Polland (1931-2009) a sheet music demonstrator she joined the Original Creole Jazz Band in Chicago, where she also worked with King Oliver and Louis Armstrong. Her recorded work includes Lawns Carla Bley (b. 1938) Armstrong’s Hot Five sessions and her own 1930s Decca recordings; her best known compositions include “Struttin’ with some Barbecue” and “Just for a Thrill”. Mozambique Emily Remler (1957-1990) Mary Lou Williams was a pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. After working with vaudeville acts as a teenager, Williams became an important swing era pianist and arranger, working with many prominent bandleaders such as Andy Kirk, Benny Goodman, The Hopper Jazztet and Duke Ellington. She embraced the innovations of the bebop era, and worked with John Cooper, trumpet many important bop artists including Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine. In later years John Vana, alto saxophone Williams was known for her extended sacred works, and her work as a jazz educator. George Turner, guitar Whitney Ashe, piano Janice Friedman is a pianist, composer, bandleader and vocalist. She received a jazz Matt Hughes, bass studies degree from Indiana University, and has toured with the Woody Herman Kevin Nichols, drums Orchestra and pianist Marian McPartland. Friedman has been an active member of the .