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May 2013 in Melbourne, Australia and also Hodgson Wind Ensemble Program Notes performed it later that year at the Sydney International Brass Festival. As the title in- dicates, the driving rhythms and intense ar- Katy Abbott (Born 1971) Thursday Scholarship Series ticulations create an impact for the listener. Thursday Punch (2013) 2018 • 7:30 p.m. Adam Schoenberg (Born 1980) April 19 The International Alliance of Women in Music proclaims that the music of Katy Ab- Picture Studies (2012) bott “demonstrates a keen ability to musical- conductor Cynthia Johnston Turner ly capture and transform human experience The works of American composer Adam graduate conductor Bradley J. Esau through a poignantly sensitive approach to Schoenberg have been among the most of- percussion composition”. ten performed in the U.S. in the mid-2010s. Timothy Adams Schoenberg, along with Jennifer Higdon, Abbott (b. 1971) is an Australian composer Osvaldo Golijov, and others, is a member of PROGRAM based in the city of Melbourne. Her com- the so-called Atlanta School of contempo- positions have been performed by many of rary composers championed by the Atlanta Katy Abbott (Born 1971) Punch (2013) the leading Australian ensembles, which Symphony and its conductor, Bradley J. Esau, graduate conductor include Halcyon, The Song Company, The Robert Spano. Like that of other members, Syzygy Ensemble, and the Melbourne Sym- his music is vividly evocative and “acces- Adam Schoenberg (Born 1980) Picture Studies (2012) phony Orchestra. Her works have been sible” without being backward-looking. played in the UK, Europe, Asia and the I. Intro USA and have been featured in Australian Schoenberg was born November 15, 1980, II. Three Pierrots and International music festivals includ- and grew up in rural Massachusetts. He III. Repetition ing the International Alliance of Women in is unrelated to Arnold Schoenberg (or IV. Olive Orchard Music (IAWM) Conference in Beijing and Claude-Michel Schönberg), but is dis- the Melbourne, Perth and Canberra Inter- tantly related to Arnold Schoenberg’s ten- V. Kandinsky national Festivals. nis partner George Gershwin by marriage; VI. Calder’s World Schoenberg and his wife, playwright and Abbott has written for several different per- screenwriter Janine Salinas Schoenberg, live VII. Miró forming ensembles, including symphony in Los Angeles and have one child. Schoen- VII. Interlude , vocal ensembles, chamber en- berg studied at the Oberlin Conservatory as sembles, electronics, and brass ensembles. IX. Cliffs of Moher an undergraduate, moving to the Juilliard In 2013, Abbott won the Boston Metro Op- School for master’s and doctoral degrees. X. Pigeons in Flight era ‘Gold Medal for Art-Song’ for her new At Juilliard his teacher was John Corigliano song-cycle The Domestic Sublime. She also and Robert Beaser. spent several weeks at the Banff Centre for Jeff Tyzik (Born 1951) Riffs (2010) the Arts on an independent residency at About Picture Studies, the composer writes: Timothy Adams, percussion the Leighton Colony, and in 2016 an artist residency at Bundanon Trust. Abbott’s cur- In November of 2011, I received a rent work is a festival piece for The Song commission from the Kansas City Company and Syzygy Ensemble based on Symphony and the Nelson-Atkins Thursday Scholarship Series the hidden thoughts’ of women collected Museum to write a 21st-century in an anonymous survey. Abbott is Lecturer Pictures at an Exhibition. The idea The Thursday Scholarship Series began in 1980 and continues the tradition in Composition at Melbourne Conservato- seemed both intriguing and ambi- of “Music Appreciation Programs” started in the 1930s by Hugh Hodgson, rium of Music, University of Melbourne. tious, and given my own interest in UGA’s first music professor and first chairman of the Department of Music. visual art, I welcomed the challenge. Proceeds from these concerts are the primary source of funds for School Punch was commissioned for Don Immel After conceptualizing the piece for of Music scholarships. and the University of Melbourne Brass En- six months, and visiting the Nelson- semble at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Atkins on three different occasions, I HODGSON CONCERT HALL Music. The ensemble premiered the piece in decided to compose a series of studies.

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Unlike Modest Mussorgsky, who set III. Repetition (based on Kurt Baas- IX. Cliffs of Moher (Hiroshi Sugi- Symphony and The Florida Orchestra. This all of his movements to the work of ch’s photograph, Repetition): Four moto’s photograph, Atlantic Ocean, season, Tyzik will celebrate his 23rd season Viktor Hartmann, my piece brings figures walking, and each person is Cliffs of Moher): Delicate and flow- as Principal Pops Conductor of the Roches- eight seemingly disparate works of clearly in his or her own world. The ing, find a way to musically repre- ter Philharmonic Orchestra. art to musical life. In honor of Musso- idea of repetition can lend itself to an sent the ocean and cliffs in the most rgsky and his original work (for solo ostinato. This is a photograph, a slice gentle and subtle means. A return to Committed to performing music of all ), four of the ten movements of life, and represents only one mo- an ostinato. genres, Tyzik has collaborated with such were conceived in the form of piano ment in time. Take this concept of diverse artists as Megan Hilty, Chris Botti, etudes and later orchestrated. My time and manipulate it. Change the X. Pigeons in Flight (Francis Blake’s Matthew Morrison, Wynonna Judd, Tony main objective was to create an archi- scenery (lighting, shade, color), so photograph, Pigeons in Flight): I’ve Bennett, Art Garfunkel, Dawn Upshaw, tectural structure that connected each to speak, with a shutter click before never looked at pigeons this way. Marilyn Horne, Arturo Sandoval, The movement to the next while creating returning to its original state. ABA There appears to be so much joy, Chieftains, Mark O’Connor, Doc Sever- an overall arc for the entire piece. form with an abrupt switch to B to beauty, and depth. This will be the insen and John Pizzarelli. He has created represent the shutter click. longest and most expansive move- numerous original programs that include I used this series as a way of pushing ment. Fly away. the greatest music from jazz and classical to myself both intellectually and emo- IV. Olive Orchard (Vincent Van Motown, Broadway, film, dance, Latin and tionally as a composer. I felt inspired Gogh’s painting, Olive Orchard): Ex- swing. Tyzik holds Bachelor’s and Master’s and liberated as I gave myself permis- tended impressionism. Colorful, full Jeff Tyzik (Born 1951) degrees from the Eastman School of Music sion to explore new compositional of love. Perhaps a meeting place for (2010) in Rochester, New York, where he met and terrain. The outcome is Picture Stud- two lovers. Start thin, gradually build Riffs performed with such legends as Ray Wright ies, a 26-minute work for orchestra to an expansive texture, end colorful. Grammy Award winner Jeff Tyzik (b. and Chuck Mangione. based on four paintings, three photo- ABC (C references A to show the or- 1951) is one of America’s most innovative Riffs is a one movement composition in graphs, and one sculpture. Creating ganic growth of the piece). and sought after pops conductors. Tyzik is this series pushed me in a new direc- three sections which include a fast swing, a V. Kandinsky (Wassily Kandinsky’s recognized for his brilliant arrangements, heavy medium swing, and an Afro-Cuban tion and allowed me to grow as an original programming and engaging rap- artist in the most unexpected ways. painting, Rose with Gray): Geo- finale that turns the wind ensemble into a metrically fierce, angular, sharp, jag- port with audiences of all ages. Tyzik holds huge jazz band with the drum soloist lead- The following impromptu notes were ged, violent, jumpy, and complex. A The Dot and Paul Mason Principal Pops ing the way. In the spectacular cadenza, the jotted down from initial impressions battleground. Mustard yellow, encap- Conductor’s Podium at the Dallas Sym- soloist works out a call and response section and repeated viewings of the art- sulates a sustained intensity. Block phonyOrchestra and also serves as Prin- with the other percussionists on stage. Riffs work, after my selections had been structures, cut and paste. cipal Pops Conductor of the Seattle Sym- is jazz at its finest! made. These original notes helped phony, the Detroit Symphony, the Oregon dictate the form, style, and musical VI. Calder’s World (Alexander arc of each movement, and ultimately Calder’s sculpture, Untitled, 1937): school beginning instrumental music in To- the entire piece. As if time has stopped, dangling met- ronto and choral music in Switzerland. al, atmospheric, yet dark. Quasi-ale- About the Artists I. Intro: Ghost-like piano theme (us- atoric gestures, perhaps improvised. Cynthia Johnston Turner is Director A Canadian, Cynthia completed her Bach- ing the piano to pay respect to Mus- Gradually fade to niente. elor of Music and Bachelor of Education de- sorgsky) that transports the listener of Bands, Professor of Music, Area Chair of Conducting, and Artistic Director of Rote grees at Queens University and her Master to the inside of the Nelson-Atkins VII. Miró (Joan Miró’s painting, of Music in music education and conducting Museum. Women at Sunrise): Child-like, yet Hund Muzik at the Hodgson School of Mu- sic, University of Georgia. Turner conducts at the University of Victoria. Touring with delirious. There appears to be a sexu- her ensembles inspired her master’s thesis II. Three Pierrots (based on Albert ally ambiguous tone. Try something the Hodgson Wind Ensemble, leads the MM and DMA programs in conducting, and on the musical and personal transforma- Bloch’s painting, Die Drei Pierrots new, a saxophone or bombastic Eb tions that occur on tours, and her D.M.A. Nr. 2): Comedic, naïve, and excited. solo. Something spontane- oversees the entire band program including the 430-member Redcoat Marching Band. thesis at the Eastman School of Music cen- A triad will represent the three Pier- ous, bouncy, tribal, and raw. tered on the music of William Kraft, one of rots, and throughout the movement VIII. Interlude: Return of original Before her appointment at the Hodgson this generation’s leading composers. At East- the triad will be turned upside down, man Cynthia was the recipient of the pres- on its side, and twisted in every pos- Ghost-like piano theme with mini- School at the University of Georgia, Cynthia mal additional orchestrations. Takes was Director of Wind Ensembles at Cornell tigious teaching award in conducting. She sible way. The form will be through- received the National Leadership in Edu- composed. End big. us to the final chapter to be played University. Earlier in her career Cynthia was without pause until the end. a high school music educator, taught middle cation Award (Canada), the Excellence in 34 Performance UGA April May 2018 35 Hodgson Wind Ensemble

instrument master classes for Costa Rican Bradenton. Bradley led and assisted with the An orchestra musician of the highest caliber musicians, and the donation of over 250 in- instruction of the 300-member program, for over 30 years, Adams began his entrée struments to music schools across the coun- which included 3 concert bands and 3 jazz into playing professionally while still in high try. She led the Hodgson Wind Ensemble to bands, as well as the orchestra and several school as a substitute percussionist and tim- Panama in January 2016 to teach, perform, chamber ensembles. Bradley was also the panist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. and donate instruments. director of Forest Grove Middle School in Fort Pierce, FL for 3 years. During this time, Timothy Adams Jr., the Mildred Goodrum Among other recent engagements, Cynthia he won the Outstanding First Year Teacher Heyward Professor in Music, was named has guest conducted the National Youth Award and the Distinguished Minority Edu- Chair of the Percussion Department at the Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, the Syra- cator Award, and helped lead the program Hugh Hodgson School of Music in fall 2010. cuse Symphony Orchestra, the National to its first Superior rating in four years. The A master educator, Mr. Adams’ students Youth Band of Canada, Concordia Santa ensembles under Bradley’s supervision have have seen great success around the country Fe, the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, the earned either Excellent or Superior ratings and the world as performers, educators, and Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Latin Ameri- at Florida Bandmasters’ Association District music therapists. can Honor Band, the National Band of Cos- Music Performance Assessments. ta Rica, the National Orchestra of Heredia, Prior to joining the faculty at UGA, Mr. Ad- ams held the post of Principal Timpanist Education Award (Ontario Secondary and numerous state honor bands. Cynthia Bradley earned a Bachelor’s of Music Edu- of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for School Teachers Federation), and the Mar- has been invited to present her research cation degree from the University of South fifteen years and was Professor of Music at ion Drysdale Leadership Award (also from with teaching and technology, innovative Florida, where he studied under the direc- Carnegie Mellon University. During his ten- OSSTF). She is also the recipient of the Don- rehearsal techniques, and service-learning tion of John Carmichael and Matthew Mc- ure in Pittsburgh, Adams spent ten summers ald A. Reick Memorial Award for research and music performance at numerous con- Cutchen. Bradley is also an accomplished as Percussion faculty at the Brevard Music with wearable technologies and music peda- ferences nationally and internationally, saxophonist. He has recorded and arranged Center where he was frequently a featured gogy, and the American Prize for innovative and she has been invited to teach conduct- music on several studio jazz albums in the soloist and recitalist. programming with wind bands. ing home and abroad. She is published in Tampa area. He is also in demand as a jazz such journals as Music Educators Journal, and saxophone instructor and clinician. An orchestra musician of the highest caliber Cynthia has commissioned numerous new Interdisciplinary Humanities, International for over 30 years, Adams began his entrée works for wind band, contemporary mu- Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Bradley’s professional affiliations include the into playing professionally while still in high sic ensembles, and orchestra, and she con- World Association of Bands and Ensembles, Collegiate Band Directors’ National Asso- school as a substitute percussionist and tim- tinues to actively promote commissions by Fanfare Magazine, and Canadian Winds, ciation, the National Association for Music panist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. today’s leading and emerging composers and has recorded CDs with the Innova and Education, the Florida Bandmasters’ Asso- ciation, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. around the world. Under her direction, the Albany labels. Adams is a prolific composer, having writ- Cornell Wind Ensemble was invited to per- Cynthia has served as a board member with ten solo, and chamber works for percus- form at the College Band Directors National Timothy Adams Jr., the Mildred Goo- sion published under Mostly Marimba Association’s Eastern Division Conference WASBE, and is an active member of CD- BNA, Conductor’s Guild (peer reviewer), drum Heyward Professor in Music, was Publications. His timpani etude book, in 2007 and 2012, and the Hodgson Wind named Chair of the Percussion Department entitled, “75 Etudes for the Accomplished Ensemble performed at CBDNA National College Music Society, Humanities Educa- tion and Research Association, the National at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music in Timpanist” is self-published under his in Kansas City in 2017. In 2008, the Merrill fall 2010. A master educator, Mr. Adams’ own, Demery Bennett Music. In 2008, Presidential Scholars at Cornell recognized Association for Music Education, and Na- tional Band Association. students have seen great success around the Adams premiered his composition, Kyoto Cynthia as an outstanding educator, and in country and the world as performers, educa- duo concerto for percussion and violin 2009, she was awarded the Kaplan Family tors, and music therapists. with the Pittsburgh Symphony and Andrés Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. Her per- Bradley J. Esau, a native of Central Islip, Cardénés as violin soloist. formances have been praised by such com- New York, is currently in his second year of Prior to joining the faculty at UGA, Mr. Ad- posers as Steven Stucky, William Kraft, Ste- study at the University of Georgia in pursuit ams held the post of Principal Timpanist Adams received both his Bachelors and ven Bryant, Marc Mellits, Nancy Galbraith, of the Masters of Music degree in Conduct- of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Masters degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Peter Lane, Eddie Mora Bermudez, Dana ing. His duties involve all aspects of the band fifteen years and was Professor of Music at Music under the tutelage of the great Cloyd Wilson, Roberto Sierra, and Karel Husa. and wind ensemble program including or- Carnegie Mellon University. During his ten- Duff, Richard Weiner, and Paul Yancich of From January 2006, Cynthia led the Cornell ganization, logistics, and instruction. ure in Pittsburgh, Adams spent ten summers the Cleveland Orchestra. During this time, Wind Ensemble on biennial performing and as Percussion faculty at the Brevard Music Adams became first call substitute percus- service tours to Costa Rica that included Bradley taught for five years in Florida, most Center where he was frequently a featured sionist with the Cleveland Orchestra, and performances across the country, conduct- recently as the Assistant Director of Bands soloist and recitalist. was also utilized as keyboard substitute. ing master classes with Costa Rican teachers, of Electa Lee Magnet Middle School in 36 Performance UGA April May 2018 37 Hodgson Wind Ensemble Hodgson Wind Ensemble director Cynthia Johnston Turner It’s showtime in the springtime.

Flute Tenor Saxophone Euphonium Rachel Anders Dan Phipps Eric Dluzniewski* Mindy Griffith Nathan Galerstein Shana Stone Baritone Saxophone Emily Zirlin* Miller May Benjamin Vasko* Elvis Yang Kenny Bader Shaun Branam William Jones* Yanbin Chen* String Bass Amelia Merriman Joel Garcia Diogo Lima Marah Stefanisko Tyler Jesko Shengduo Kim Percussion Clarinet Joseph Reid Trevor Barroero* Jason Abraham Emily Johnson Andrew Barber Grayson Mullis Mateus Falkemback Nic Aquila Dylan Nixon Ivan Hernandez* Dilon Bryan* Keller Steinson Jesse Norton Nathan Dial Kelly Riordan Emma Dickinson PIANO Maggie Watts Jordan Lockridge Heejin Park Anna Zurawski Harp Jennifer Grubbs Ellen Foster Nib McKinney Joel Clevenger Hank Morris* Nick Evans * denotes principal player Steve Jessup* ALTO Saxophone Harrison Clarke* BASS Trombone Megan Elks Jordan Stone

All players rotate in their sections.

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