CBDNA REPORT SPRING 2019 SCOTT S. HANNA Editor REPORT SPRING 2019 IN THIS ISSUE From the Podium – 1 Commissions and Premiers – 2 Programs – 3 FROM THE PODIUM The College Band Directors National Association is a Washington May 29-June 1. Our next national grass-roots organization that serves its membership in a conference will take place in Athens, GA, hosted by myriad of ways. At its inception CBDNA sought to Cynthia Johnston Turner and her staff at the University address common issues facing the college band director, of Georgia Hodgson School of Music February 17-20, raise the artistry of its conductors, and develop a 2021. repertoire of music distinct from the orchestral world CBDNA is overseen by a board of directors for which I and traditional marches. One of its early missions was to am president until 2021. This board also includes our six commission renowned composers who had never written division presidents, past president, immediate past for band, and great new pieces were composed by Ingolf president, president-elect, vice president, secretary, and Dahl, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, and Ernst treasurer. All positions except secretary and treasurer are Krenek to name just a few. These efforts resulted in a elected by the membership. There are a number of proliferation of consortia by band conductors that standing committees working on various topics and continues to this day, adding to a vibrant repertoire of issues. new music for band. In short, the College Band Directors National As the years have gone by our organization has tackled Association is a vibrant community of musicians many different issues facing our profession. Today interested in and working in the field of bands of all CBDNA serves a wide variety of constituents, from the shapes and sizes. We seek to be the best conductors, conservatory wind ensemble, to the athletic band, to the musicians, and educators that we possibly can be, and small college band, and everything in between. We meet pass that baton to the next generation. at five division conferences in even-numbered years, and at our national conference in the odd years. There is also -Mark Spede an annual athletic band symposium; the 2019 conference will be hosted by Brad McDavid at the University of CBDNA REPORT SPRING 2019 COMMISSIONS AND • Orange County School for the Arts - Anthony Mazzaferro PREMIERS • Riverside City College - Kevin Mayse • Sacramento State University - Matthew C. Morse RISE – Adam Schoenberg • San José State University - David Vickerman The California Wind Band Consortium was inaugurated • Sonoma State University - Andy Collinsworth by co-leaders Rickey Badua (Cal Poly Pomona • Symphonic Winds of the Pacific - Jeffrey de Seriere University) and John Burdett (Azusa Pacific University) • University of San Diego - Jeffrey A. Malecki in April 2017. California hosts a vibrant arts/music • William S. Hart High School - Anthony Bailey community that for generations has been home to some of the world’s finest composers. This consortium was Adam Schoenberg was commissioned for this inaugural created to commission leading California-based project. Schoenberg was recently named one of the Top composers to contribute substantial works to our wind 10 most performed living classical composers by band medium around the world, while inspiring professional orchestras in the United States. Recently, enthusiastic collaboration amongst California collegiate our revered U.S. “President’s Own” Marine Band and high school wind band communities. An impressive released a CD featuring a transcription of Schoenberg’s 32 institutions and ensembles joined this consortium stunning orchestral work “Picture Studies,” which has representing every region of California: since been a popular work performed amongst our wind • Azusa Pacific University - John Burdett band community. Additionally, Jerry Junkin and The • Cal Poly Pomona University - Rickey Badua University of Texas Wind Ensemble commissioned • California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Schoenberg to write his Symphony No. 2 “Migration” Obispo - Christopher J. Woodruff for Band, and premiered it at the 2017 CBDNA • California State University, Bakersfield - Leo National Conference in Kansas City. Schoenberg is a Sakomoto proud resident of Los Angeles, and currently teaching • California State University, East Bay - Danielle and leading the composition area at Occidental College. Gaudry PROGRAM NOTE: • California State University, Fullerton - Dustin Barr • California State University, Los Angeles - Emily RISE is a two-movement work commissioned by the Moss California Wind Band Consortium. I wanted to create a • California State University, Northridge - Lawrence new piece that could be presented in three distinct ways: Stoffel Both movements played back-to-back; standalone • California State University, San Bernardino - movements (“Beginnings” can be a concert opener or Nicholas Bratcher encore, and “Farewell Song” can be placed anywhere in • California State University, Stanislaus - Stuart a program); or having the movements bookend an entire Sims program (i.e., the concert begins with “Beginnings” and • Caltech-Occidental Wind Orchestra - Glenn D. closes with “Farewell Song.”) Price “Beginnings” is designed to function as a long gradual • Canyon Crest Academy - Amy Villanova crescendo. It begins with a rhythmic ostinato that • Cathedral City High School - Matthew K. Howe becomes the driving force for the entire movement. As it • Chabot College - Timothy Harris progresses, the orchestration and overall intensity grows, • Chaffey College Community - Patrick Aranda ultimately creating an uplifting and optimistic ending. • Clovis North Educational Center - David Lesser “Farewell Song” is based on the final movement of my • El Dorado High School - Eric Samson violin concerto, Orchard in Fog. This movement is meant • Fresno Pacific University - Erik Leung to have a timeless feel, simultaneously serving as an • Fresno State Wind Orchestra - Gary P. Gilroy atmospheric and pastoral-landscape type of sonic • Glendora High School - Scott Schwarz experience, while also being imagined as a goodbye song • La Sierra University - Giovanni Santos to a loved one. • Long Beach Polytechnic High School - Andrew Osman A special thank you to John Burdett and Rickey Badua, • Mira Mesa High School - Jeanne Christensen who were not only instrumental in making the • Mt. San Antonio College - Gregory X. Whitmore commission happen, but also provided me with CBDNA REPORT SPRING 2019 invaluable guidance in creating a piece that would work Falling – HyeKyung Lee for both high school and collegiate ensembles. Falling was commissioned by the Denison University - Adam Schoenberg New Music Initiative in the Schools for Dr. Chris Westover and ETHEL. The pounding percussions, falling winds, wandering melodies... The driving 16th In Memory Of – Ching-chu Hu notes are constantly bouncing between instruments. The long held notes over them are anxious and sometimes How do we remember those we’ve lost? We treasure urgent. Even when everything is falling apart, you find moments as events of the past flash before our mind’s something to be cheerful… eye. Regardless of how a loved one passes, we hold on to the happier times, remembering them in anecdotes, in shared stories, in memories. These two works represent the first iteration of the The inspiration for In Memory Of came from my inner Denison University Initiative for New Music in the response of the 2012 devastating Sandy Hook Schools. These works were commissioned by Chris Elementary shootings. While a dark subject, the work David Westover, the Denison University Wind Ensemble, itself has many light moments. In Memory Of is a and ETHEL—friends, artists, and ambassadors of the collection of snapshots, of memories, of those we all have spirit we all strive to possess. Made possible with lost in our lives. While we grieve, we remember people generous support from the Licking County Foundation full of life and love. and a consortium of institutions: the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bixby While each member of the string quartet takes turns to High School (Oklahoma), Michigan Technological lead the ensemble, memories collect until a moment of University, and Concordia University--Ann Arbor. The reflection. At this point, you’ll hear the violin and the works will be available for performance beyond the glockenspiel (an orchestral bell) begin to honor the 27 consortium in Spring 2020. victims, beginning with the children. Each chord signals the age of each child, and this moment of respect builds Contact [email protected] with questions. until the entire ensemble takes part. At that point, the orchestral bells continue tolling for the victims, honoring the seven adults. The list of victims are students: Charlotte Bacon, 6; Daniel Barden, 7; Olivia Engel, 6; Josephine Gay, 7; Dylan Hockley, 6; Madeleine Hsu, 6; Catherine Hubbard, 6; Chase Kowalski, 7; Jesse Lewis, 6; Ana Márquez-Greene, 6; James Mattioli, 6; Grace McDonnell, 7; Emilie Parker, 6; Jack Pinto, 6; Noah Pozner, 6; Caroline Previdi, 6; Jessica Rekos, 6; Avielle Richman, 6; Benjamin Wheeler, 6; Allison Wyatt, 6; adults: Rachel D'Avino, teacher's aide; Dawn Hochsprung, principal; Anne Marie Murphy, teacher's aide; Lauren Rousseau, teacher; Mary Sherlach, school psychologist; Victoria Leigh Soto, teacher; and Nancy Lanza, the perpetrator's mother. This work is commissioned by the Denison University Initiative for New Music in the Schools