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SHANNON LEONARD SCOTT GARRISON

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Chimera_1652_book.indd 1-2 9/22/16 11:58 AM ic us the m its intoxicating exuberance. The piece is influenced by the colorful music of Astor Piazzolla, a friend of Borges. In 1965 Piazzolla and his band set some of Borges’ poems to music, resulting in the great recording El Tango. Borges wrote: “Las calles de Buenos Aires ya son mi entraña — My soul is in the streets of Buenos Aires.” Chimera Waltzes (2016) This music seeks to transform these images, as Borges said, “into symbols, into John David Earnest writes: My goal was to link together ideas that were from music, into something that can last into man’s memory.” completely different sources, in the same way that the chimera of ancient mythology were hybrid creatures made of parts of several different animals (e.g. the head To the Spirit Unappeased and Peregrine (1998) of a lion, the body of a goat, the tail of a serpent). Chimera Waltzes is a musical American composer Harvey Sollberger wrote this tribute to another American narrative built on a theatrical procession of musical “characters,” each one a hybrid composer, Charles Wuorinen, for Wuorinen’s sixtieth birthday. The work is of contrasting ideas that create a balanced tension between the mutability of chaos comprised of 60 measures, each in a different tempo and meter with and the stability of order. The overall structure of the piece is anchored by three contrasting musical gestures. Entradas, which announce each of the three “acts” of this miniature drama. The Barcarola (a boat song) and the Tempesta (a maelstrom) are built on the conflict Twin Trio (2006) of easy grace and agitated strife. Only the Lagrima (tears) keeps its calm center Derek Bermel writes: I got my first inkling of inspiration for the piece upon visiting throughout and refers obliquely to the pervasive waltz rhythms of the rest of the Jonah and Delphine, newborn twins of my friends Evelyne Luest and Aaron Kernis. work. The final section, Exeunt (a stage direction for all the characters to leave Shortly after birth the two, though bound by identical genetic code, were already the scene), introduces a slight music box waltz tune, then drifts dreamily to a asserting themselves in different directions and showing their uniqueness. The contemplative, but uncertain, conclusion. flute and , while different in sound production, are similarly bound by their common “woodwind”-ness and by their similar range. The trio movements each Las calles de Buenos Aires (2012) focus on a specific interval and its corresponding octave twin; major 2nd and minor Murray Gross writes: Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine writer and poet, loved 7th in the first movement, mirror; perfect 4ths and 5ths in the second movement, to wander the streets of his birthplace, Buenos Aires. He wrote “Buenos Aires is converse; major 3rds and minor 6ths in the final movement, follow. The third the next street, the one I’ve never walked; it is all that’s been lost and all that’s to movement, share, is a flute/clarinet duo in which I explored the gravitational come; it is what lies beyond, the things we do not understand yet love.” This short pulls of minor and major 2nds. trio reflects the contradictions of this beguiling city — its dark corners as well as

Chimera_1652_book.indd 3-4 9/22/16 11:58 AM rs me th for Zoe and Xena: A Romp in the Park (2015) e per Daniel Dorff writes: When Leonard Garrison and Shannon Scott were planning their CD of my music, they both wondered if the composer of Two Cats might be interested in writing a sequel celebrating their two dogs, Xena and Zoe, young and exuberant Golden and Labrador retrievers. However, we had enough music for the The Scott/Garrison Duo, clarinetist Shannon Scott and CD already and a timeline to follow, so this interesting thought wasn’t mentioned flutist Leonard Garrison, has performed together since again. A few months after the CD came out, Leonard phoned to propose the “two 1988, with a long commitment to contemporary American dogs sequel” as a secretly commissioned gift for Shannon. I was eager to write a music. They have been featured at many national confer- new piece for them, but not another flute/clarinet duet. The solution was a perfect ences of the National Flute Association, College Music win-win; composing a duo for piccolo and would create repertoire Society, and National Association of College Wind and for a neglected and ripe instrumentation, and the powerful energy inherent in this Percussion Instructors, have been awarded grants from combination would be ideal to depict the gleeful gait of young retrievers running the Brannen-Cooper Fund and the Oklahoma State Arts free in a big field. Council, and are members of the Flute-Clarinet Duos Consortium, which commis- sions new works from major composers for flute, clarinet, and piano. Sonatina (2000) Paul Schoenfeld composed Sonatina for close friends Sam and Thelma Hunter Shannon Scott is Assistant Professor of Clarinet and History of Music, clarinetist on the occasion of their fiftiethth wedding anniversary. Schoenfeld celebrates the for Solstice Wind Quintet at Washington State University and Principal Clarinet of the couple with a Charleston, a “classical” rag, and a Jig. Walla Walla Symphony and the Eastern Music Festival.

Serenade and Dance (2013) Leonard Garrison is Associate Professor of Flute and Associate Director of the John David Earnest writes: In one movement with two contrasting sections, the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho, flutist in the Northwest work opens with the Serenade, which is tranquil and melodic. It is followed by Wind Quintet, Principal Flute of the Walla Walla Symphony, and has held several the energetically angular, raucously rhythmic Dance that features a catchy tune leadership positions in the National Flute Association. alternating several times with contrasting melodies, all in the spirit of a lively romp.

Chimera_1652_book.indd 5-6 9/22/16 11:58 AM s edit Rajung Yang, an Associate Professor of Piano at the University cr of Idaho, has won several top prizes in national and international competitions including Ibla Grand Prize and Bartok-Kabalevsky- Prokofiev Competitions in Italy in 2005. Subsequent performances included her debut recital at New York Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and other major venues in Italy and Recorded May 13-15 and 22-25, 2016 at the Administration Auditorium, University France. of Idaho, and the recording studio at Washington State University.

Melissa Loehnig Simons, Assistant professor of Music in Piano Produced by Leonard Garrison and Shannon Scott and Music Theory at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, is active as solo pianist, chamber musician and Engineered by David Bjur collaborative performer. She has performed throughout the and as a guest artist, as well as holding staff pianist Cover art by Katherine Wildermuth, inspired by an image on mythortruth.com. positions at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and at Red Publishers Lodge Summer Music Festival. John David Earnest’s Chimera Waltzes and Serenade and Dance are published by ESC Publishing; Murray Gross’s Las Calles de Buenos Aires is available from the composer; Harvey Sollberger’s To the Spirit Unappeased and Peregrine is published by the American Composers Alliance; Derek Bermel’s Twin Trio is published by Peermusic Classical; Daniel Dorff’s Zoe and Xena is published by Theodore Presser; Paul Schoenfeld’s Sonatina is published by Midgal Publishing.

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Derek Bermel (b. 1967) Twin Trio for Flute, B Clarinet, a and Piano (2006) b TROY1652 er 4 mirror [2:53] chim 5 converse [4:20] 6 share [1:59]

7 follow [3:16] Rajung Yang, piano THE SCOTT/GARRISON DUO SHANNON SCOTT, CLARINET | LEONARD GARRISON, FLUTE Daniel Dorff (b. 1956)

8 Zoe and Xena: A Romp in the Park [ ] John David Earnest (b. 1940) for Piccolo & Bass Clarinet (2015) 7:24 1 Chimera Waltzes for Flute/Bass Flute, Paul Schoenfeld (b. 1947) Clarinet, & Piano (2016) [13:43] Sonatina for Flute, Clarinet, Melissa Loehnig Simons, piano & Piano (1994) [ ] Murray Gross (b. 1955) 9 Charleston 5:51 [ ] 2 Las Calles de Buenos Aires 10 Hunter Rag 4:36 [ ] for Flute/Alto Flute 11 Jig 3:40

Clarinet & Piano (2012) [9:15] Rajung Yang, piano Rajung Yang, piano John David Earnest (b. 1940) Harvey Sollberger (b. 1938) 12 Serenade and Dance [ ] 3 To The Spirit Unappeased and for Clarinet & Piano (2013) 9:21 Peregrine for Flute/Piccolo & Melissa Loehnig Simons, piano B Clarinet/Bass Clarinet (1998) [6:58] Total Time= 73:11 b TROY1652

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