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• 'Q, Doc Sever1nsen ·.·, , and His November 20, 1998 Wait Chapel

Wake Forest University Winston-S(:llem, North Carolina The Secrest Artist Series and The Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive r .. TheDoc Severinsen Big Band concert is a special event of the 1998-99 Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive. Established in 1980 in memory of a Wake Forest graduate (1968) and great athlete who died of cancer, the Brian Piccolo Fund Drive is recognized as the leading charitable project of the year at the University. It is unique in that, under the leadership of the Wake Forest fraternities and sororities, the Cancer Drive is completely student-initiated and mobilizes the entire campus community in a unified effort to raise funds for cancer research at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University. The inaugural year of the drive generated $3,500, and each successive year has seen increases in both community involvement and monies raised. As the Cancer Drive enters its nineteenth year, our students hope to surpass last year's amount of nearly $30,000 and bring the total cumulative contribution to more than $400,000. The current Brian Piccolo Drive began in September and will run through February . At this time a check will be presented at the Florida State-Wake Forest basketball game. During the months leading up to this final presentation, many Wake Forest students and their organizations engage in numerous creative and recreational activities to raise money for the Cancer Fund Drive, such as Kappa Alpha Theta's Kickoff Classic, Theta Chi's Casino Night, and Alpha Sigma Phi's Run with the Deacs. Tonight, students will be selling soft drink products donated by Pepsi-Cola Company and tapes and CDs. The proceeds of these sales will be contributed to the Piccolo Cancer Drive. It is a privilege for the Secrest Artists Series to be associated with such a worthy cause. In the audience tonight are staff members of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and members of the twenty fraternities and sororities that comprise the Inter-Fraternity Council. We are especially grateful to the Pepsi-Cola Company, America Charters, Ltd. of Winston-Salem, and Amherst and Telarc Records for their generous support and cooperation. We thank the fraternities and sororities for serving as ushers at this event.

If you would like to make a special donation to the Cancer Drive, please send your contribution to:

Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive PO Box 7454 Reynolda Station Winston-Salem, NC 27109

All gifts aretax deductible. 2 DOC SEVERINSEN & HJS BIG-BAND r Doc Severinsen ,. , vocalist

TRUMPETS Tom DeLibero /Lew Spisto Dennis Tribuzzi

TROMBONES Mike Dalgeau Ernie Tack

SAXOPHONES John Bambridge Karolyn Kafer Doug Webb Bill Perkins

RHYIHMSECTION , drums , , bass

Management by ICM ARTISTS, LTD. 40 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019 Bernadette E. Hilario, Road Manager, and Mark Ockenfels, Production/FOR Mr. Severinsen will announce the program from the stage . There will be one 20 minute intermission.

3 Voe Severinsen l VoeSeverinsen performs in a vivid array of exhilarating styles-with a varied array of J exhilarating groups. One of the most dynamic and certainly one of the most dazzling instrumentalists, Doc travels the country performing with symphonic orchestras, and big bands; making recordings and commercials; and designing and manufacturing . The versatile Doc is also the principal Pops Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Phoenix Symphony. His performances are consistently sold out.

Known to television audiences as the flamboyant Grammy Award-winning Music Director of the "Tonight Show Band," his group is composed of the best of that show's musicians- Ed Shaugnessy on drums and Snooky Young and Conte Candoli on trumpets-and now tours the country as Doc Severinsenand His Big Band.Doc has recorded more than 30 , from big band to jazz fusion to classical. His most recent CD from Amherst, "The Very Best of Doc Severinsen," reprised 15 of Doc's signature pieces. He received a Grammy Award in 1987 for "Best Jazz Instrumental Performance- Big Band" for his recording "Doc Severinsen and The Tonigh t Show Band-Volume I." (Some of these recordings are on sale in the lobby at tonight's performance, with the proceeds benefiting the Piccolo Cancer Fund). Doc's virtuosity is heard every weekend on CBS News Sunday Morning performing the popular television show's exhilarating fanfare.

Severinsen's achievements date back to his home town of Arlington, Oregon. He was nicknamed "Little Doc" after his father, Dr. Carl Severinsen, a dentist. Doc had originally I wanted to play the , but the senior Severinsen, a gifted amateur violinist, urged him to study violin. The younger Severinsen insisted on the trombone but had to settle for the only horn available in their small community- a trumpet. One week later with the help of his father and a book of instructions, the seven-year-ol d was so good that he was inv ited to join the high school band . At the age of twelve, Little Doc won the Music

4 1 J Edu cator's National Con test and, while still in high school, was hired to go on the road with the famous Ted Pio Rito Orchestra.

After completing his education and serving in the Army, Severinsen toured with the , and bands. He finally settled down in New York as an NBC staff mus ician in 1949, joining "" Orchestra in 1962 and becoming Musical Director in 1967.

Somewhere along the way the "Little" was lost, but "Doc" remained, and Doc Severinsen became a favorite of audiences across America.

5 BarbaraMorrison

F rom to Doc Severinsen to to to the Crusaders, songstress Barbara Morrison has one of those all-star resumes whose associations reveal an history. Though her 25-year career has featured world renowned performances and appearances on over 20 record ings in every genre from traditional jazz and gospel and pop standards, Morrison's two-and-a-half octave range is known for its ability to belt out down home, soul-stirring blues.

Well known in for her duo and trio dates, Morrison has traveled extensively with Ray Charles throug h out Europe and has recently begun to tour with Doc Severinsen's Big Band. Born and raised in Michigan, her first recorded appearance was on the radio in at age 10 singing a tune, Castlesin the Sand. Over the years, she has worked alongside some of the grea t names in jazz and blues-Ray Charles, , Esther Phillips, David T. Walker, , , Dr. John, Kenny Burrell, Terrence Blanchard, , Nance Wilson, Mel Torme, Tony Bennet, Joe Williams and many more.

Morrision sums up her lifelong affinity for the blues and jazz with the acknowledgment that "... jazz and the blues are timeless because they are the beginning of music in this county, from the slave chains in the fields to Louis Armstrong and . They offer a challenge to experimen t and stretch out and have kept people intrigued since those days because of the feelings they provoke and emotions which never go out of style. Music makes it natural for us to feel emotions, and are very much linked to why we cry, why we laugh. I've been blessed to be able to do this."

6 Coming Events at Wake Forest . ..

Department of Music

Leone Buyse, . Guest Artist, Mini-Recital/Masterclass. Sunday, November 22 at 3 pm in Brendle Hall. University Orchestra Concert. Monday, November 23 at 8 pm in Brendle Hall. David Hagy, conductor. Wind Ensemble Concert. Tuesday, December 1 at 8 pm in Brendle Hall. Kevin Bowen, conductor. Holiday Choral Concert. Thursday, December 3 at 8 pm in Brendle Hall. Brian Gorelick, conductor. A concertto benefitCentral American victims of HurricaneMitch througha goodwilloffering.

School of Medicine

Medical Center Arts Alive: "Holiday Harmorty" Vocal Quartet. Davis Memorial Chapel, Bowman Gray Campus. Thursday, December 3 at 12:15 pm.

WFU Fine Arts Gallery

Faculty Choose Faculty WFUStudio faculty members selected members of other university art faculties to exhibit with them. Opening today and on view through February 2.

Year of Globalization and Diversity Lily Afshar, guitarist. Thursday, February 4 at 8 pm in Brendle Hall.

7 SECREST ARTISTS SERIES 1998-1999 SEASON

Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin (Sunday, February 7 - 3 pm in Wait Chapel) - conducted by Raph ael Fruhbeck de Burgos. Vladimir Spivakov plays Tchaikowsky's Violin concerto, plu s orchestral works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky ("The Rites of Spring").

Muir String Quartet with David Shifrin, clarinetist (Saturday, March 20-8 pm in Brendle Recital Hall) - A return appearance by the Muirs, featuring Brahms ' Clarinet Quintet and string quartets by Haydn and Debu ssy.

Claire Bloom (Saturday, April 10)- The distinguis hed British stage, screen, and television actress in one of her widely acclaimed solo evenings entitled "Portraits of Shakespeare's Women."

Wake Forest University expressesits deepappreciation to rs. Marion Secrestand her husband, the late Dr. Willis Secrest, for generously endowing the SecrestArtists Series. t ·····~' ------···--··-----~

Ushers are representativesof twenty fraternities and sororitiesat WakeForest.

The use of recordingdevices is not allowed.

Ticketsfor all SecrestArtists Series events are availablewithout chargeto all WakeForest students, faculty and staff They are sold, individually arid by subscription, to the generalpublic. To purchasetickets, call the Theatre Box Office at 336-758-5295. MasterCardand Visa accepted.

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