Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Music Programs Music 2-16-1997 Wind and Percussion Divison 1997 Winter Tour School of Music Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation School of Music, "Wind and Percussion Divison 1997 Winter Tour" (1997). School of Music Programs. 1487. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp/1487 This Concert Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. I Music Department I Illinois State University WIND AND PERCUSSION DIVISION I 1997 WINTER TOUR .I WIND SYMPHONY, JAZZ BAND, I WIND AND PERCUSSION FACULTY AND I BOOSEY & HAWKES ARTIST AND SPECIAL GUEST SOLOIST i MARVIN STAMM I Stephen K. Steele, Wind Symphony Conductor Jim Boitos, Jazz Band Conductor I Graduate Assistant I Shawn Neeley Wednesday, February 12, 1997 9:30 am Aurora West High School I 12:00 pm Oswego High School 7:30 pm Bradley-Bourbonnais High School I Thursday, February 13, 1997 8: 15 am Central High School 11: JO am Lincoln way High School 7:30 pm Leyden High School I Friday, February 14 8: 15 am Warren Township High School 2:30 pm Marian Catholic High School I Sunday, February 16 3:00 pm Braden Auditorium I I I I I PROGRAM I I Wind Symphony I Quintessence (1997) David Gillingham I Faculty Brass Quintet and David Collier, Professor of Percussion I I Sketches on a Tudor Psalm (1973) Fisher Tull I I Sonneries (Faculty Woodwind Quintet) Scherzo Eugene Bozza I I from Six Bagatelles Gyorgy Ligeti Alie gro con spirito I I Jazz Band with Soloist Marvin Stamm To he selected from the following: I I Low Down Thad Jones Black Bottom Stomp Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton I I arr. Jaxon Stock Come Sunday Duke Ellington I I arr. Ernie Wilkins Nutville Horace Silver arr. Greg Hopkins A Lift of the Foot Alan Baylock Caravan Tizol/Ellington I arr. Jack Comer Alexander's Ragtime Band Traditional I arr. Jack Cortner I Marvin Stamm Things to Come Dizzy Gillespie an-. Gil Fuller Throughout his distinguished career, Marvin Stamm has been praised for both the art and the craft of trumpet playing. Leonard Feather believes that "Mr. Stamm is an accomplished performer whose technical skill is used as a means to stimulating original ends". Cherokee Ray Noble an-. Frank Mantooth While attending North Texas State University, a school noted for is innovative lab bands, Mr. Stamm was discovered by Stan Kenton. After graduation, he became South Rampart St. Parade Kenton's trumpet soloist for two years, recording five albums with the orchestra. Tradition In the mid-60's, he also toured worldwide with Woody Herman. an-. Oliver Nelson Settling in New York in late '66, Marvin Stamm quickly established himself as a Encore Tune (Billy Boy) Butch Nordal busy jazz and studio trumpeter. New York was bustling with jazz activity during that period, and Stamm performed at key venues with many of the significant players in the business. A member of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra My One & Only Love arr. Jack Cortner and Duke Pearson's Big Band, he also recorded with: Bill Evans, Quincy Jones, Oliver Nelson, Charles Mingus, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, Michael Legrand and Frank Foster, among others. With the advent of orchestral arrangements in rock, Mr. Stanun recorded with such artists as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin Wind Symphony and James Brown as well as such legends as Barbara Streisand and Lena Hom. Lover Man air. Jack Cortnerffaylor Marvin Stamm's first solo album, Machinations, on Verve was composed and ar­ Marvin Stainm ranged by jazz leg~nd John Carisi. After touring for several years with Frank Sinatra, he recorded Stammpede in 1982, which heralded his re-dedication to a solo jazz career. Eschewing the lucrative studio scene, he has focused on playing IL Don't Mean a Thing (If lt Ain't Got That Swing) Duke Ellington jazz, and in the past decade has worked with John Lewis' American Jazz Orches­ air. Jack Cortnerffaylor tra, the Bob Mintzer Band, the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Louis Bellson 's Marvin Stainm big band and quintet, as well as the big bands of emerging composers Maria Schneider and Rich Shemeria. Cm1ival Va1iations (Trumpet Trio ~md Band) Don Jacoby Consciously acknowledging his debt to the influence and guidance of former teach­ ~UT. Wilfoun McRae ers and fellow musicians, Marvin Stamm commits his time and energies helping Marvin Stamm, Arny Gilreath, Brian White young music students to develop their own voices. In the capacity of jazz educa­ tor, he visits colleges and universities across the U.S. and Europe as a performer, Lincoln Ponrait Aaron Copl~md clinician and mentor, perpetuating the tradition of excitement and innovation that a1T. Walter Beeler jazz represents. Stephen Parsons, NarraLion In 1991, Marvin Stamm recorded Bob Boy, which features Bob Mintzer on tenor sax, Terry Clarke on drums, Phil Markowitz on piano and Lincoln Goines on bass. Cartoon Paul 1!rut While continuing to tour with all-star ensembles, Mr. Stamm began working across the country with his own group. Mystery Man was released in the summer of 1993, and also featured Mintzer and Clarke, but this time in the company of Mike Richmond on bass and young piano wizard Bill Charlap. The critical response to Stainm's work in the 90's has been highly enthusiastic. Downbeat reported that Stainm "has a gorgeous tone on the trumpet and flugelhom, and he flies through changes". JazzTimes said "the Memphis native has chops and talent in abun­ dance. He can bum on bebop changes or mellow out on a ballad, all the time maintaining the lucid consistency that enthusiasm and experience engenders". I WIND AND PERCUSSION DIVISION FACULTY WIND AND PERCUSSION DIVISION FACULTY James Boitos, Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Saxophone received his Ed Livingston, Professor of Tuba and Euphonium, received a M.M. and Artists MM. from Northwestern University. He has been the featured soloist with the Performing Diploma from Western Michigan University, University of Michigan U.S. Navy Concert and Jazz Bands, appeared on recitals and jazz performances and the Royal College of Music, London, England. Professor Livingston has throughout the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. "Boitos is a glorious played with the Royal Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Ringling Brothers interpreter with infallible technique and pure artistic musicianship" ... Rehin/ Circus Band, and the Henry Mancini Orchestra. Neckar Zeitung. Joe Neisler, Professor of Horn, received his M.M. from Indiana University and Aris Chavez, Professor of Clarinet, received the M.M. degree from the Univer­ is a Doctoral candidate at Indiana University. He is principal horn in the Peoria sity of New Mexico. For fourteen years he was a member of the Santa Fe Opera Symphony and has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony, Julie Andrews Orchestra. Currently Chavez serves as the principal clarinetist for the Peoria and Tony Bennett. Professor Neisler studied with the legendary Philip Farkas. Opera and the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the Sonneries Quintet. Stephen Parsons, Professor of Trombone, received his D.M.A. from the University of Kansas in Trombone Performance. He was Assistant Principal David Collier, Professor of Percussion, holds a M.M. degree from Indiana Trombone with the United States Army Field Band and perfonned in excess of University and is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois. He was 150 concerts per year both within the U.S. and abroad. He performed with and awarded the prestigious Performer's Certificate from Indiana University. served as the Field Band Brass Quintet's clinician in both high school and Currently Collier performs with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Peoria college settings. Dr. Parsons has studied with Milton Stevens of the National Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Chamber Orchestra, and the Peoria Opera Orches­ I] Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. tra. Kimberly McCool Risinger, Professor of Flute, currently a doctoral candidate Judith Dicker, Professor of Oboe, received her M.M. in Oboe perfonnance 0 fl in Music Performance at the University of Maryland. She was the First Prize from Indiana University. She is a member of the Sonneries Quintet. She has Winner of the 1995 Washington Flute Society's Mid-Atlantic Young Artist taught at Wichita State, Indiana University and Huntington, New York as well as Competition and First Prize Winner of the Homer Ulrich Graduate Honors in Germany and Austria. fl Awards. She was Principal Flute in An American Requiem with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Kennedy Center and in New York City. Mrs. Risinger Michael Dicker, Professor of Bassoon, is a member of the Sonneries Quintet has received numerous awards and has perfonned as a soloist across the United and holds degrees in Music from UCLA, the University of Michigan and the States. Julliard School. He has performed as principal bassoonist in the Belgian U II National Radio/TV Symphony, Deutsche Oper Am Rhein, and the Essen Philharmonic. Dicker currently serves as principal bassoonist of the Peoria Stephen K. Steele, Director of Bands, received his D.M.A. in conducting from Opera and the Peoria Symphony. the University of Arizona and holds degrees in Music Education from the fl fl University of Arizona and the University of Oregon. He served as Assistant Daniel J. Farris, Assistant Director of Bands, received degrees in Music Director of Bands and Marching Band Director at the University of Arizona Education from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA, and the prior to his appointment at ISU.