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COLLEGE BAND DIRECTORS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION CONFERENCE February 20 - 22, 2020 Holtschneider Performance Center 2330 North Halsted Street • Chicago Ronald Caltabiano, DMA, Dean Friday, February 21, 2020 • 10:00 AM CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY Dr. Erica Neidlinger, conductor Mary Patricia Gannon Concert Hall 2330 North Halsted Street • Chicago Friday, February 21, 2020 • 10:00 AM Gannon Concert Hall CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY Dr. Erica Neidlinger, conductor PROGRAM Yo Goto (b. 1958) Songs for Wind Ensemble (2009) Christopher Heidenreich, conductor Carl Orff (1895-1982); trans. Hermann Regner Four Burlesque Scenes from Der Mond (1939/1997) I. Dance of the Peasants in the Tavern II. “The Moon is gone” III. “Oh, look there hangs the Moon” IV. “The Wine is good, the Moon so clear” James Ripley, conductor Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) Fantasia on an English Folk Song (1984) Devin Otto, conductor Bernard Gilmore (1937-2013) Five Folk Songs for Soprano and Band (1967/2002) I. Mrs. McGrath II. All the Pretty Little Horses III. Yerakina IV. El Burro V. A Fiddler Matthew Schlomer, conductor CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL WIND SYMPHONY • FEBRUARY 21, 2020 PROGRAM Antonio Gervasoni (b. 1973) Peruvian Fanfare No. 1 (2014) Glenn Hayes, conductor Andrew David Perkins (b. 1978) Until the Night Collapses (2018) Michael King, conductor Jodie Blackshaw (b. 1971) Peace Dancer (2017) John Stewart, conductor Healey Willan (1880-1968); Ed. William Teague Royce Hall Suite (1949) I. Prelude and Fugue II. Menuet III. Rondo Daniel Farr, conductor CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL WIND SYMPHONY • FEBRUARY 21, 2020 BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Erica J. Neidlinger is Associate Professor and wind conductor at DePaul University. Additional responsibilities include teaching conducting and wind history/repertoire courses. Dr. Neidlinger’s conducting experiences are broad, ranging from chamber ensembles, contemporary ensembles, symphonic bands, and wind ensembles. She has conducted perfomances across the United States and in Europe, has traveled to Singapore and Canada as an ensemble adjudicator, and has been featured as a guest conductor and clinician in Riga, Latvia and Moscow, Russia. Presentations at international conferences include the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. She has conducted honor bands and presented at many conferences across the United States in addition to maintaining a highly active schedule as a clinician or ensembles visiting Chicago. Before her position at DePaul, Dr. Neidlinger served on the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where she conducted university concert ensembles and directed the marching band. She has been a member of the band and music education faculty at The Ohio State University and has also served as conductor of the Nebraska Wind Symphony. Neidlinger completed her doctoral degree at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Professor Craig Kirchhoff. Her research applies Laban’s Effort Shape Theory to the expressive development of conductors. CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL WIND SYMPHONY • FEBRUARY 21, 2020 PROGRAM NOTES Yo Goto (b. 1958) Songs for Wind Ensemble (2009) Duration: 7 minutes Yo Goto is recognized as one of the leading composers and educators in the field of wind and percussion music in the United States and Japan. He is currently the executive director of the Japan Academic Society of Wind Music, the executive advisor of the committee of the Japan Band Clinic, and the professor of the Showa University of Music. Goto received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Yamagata University, Japan, and studied composition with Shin-ichiro Ikebe at the Tokyo College of Music, completing a performance diploma. As active composer, arranger, and clinician, Goto moved to Texas to study composition with Cindy McTee at the University of North Texas (UNT) in 2001. He holds a Master of Music degree in Composition and a Master of Music Education degree from the University of North Texas. His work, Songs for Wind Ensemble, won the 2011 Sousa/Ostwald Award held by the American Bandmasters Association. The composer states: Songs was commissioned by the Hamamatsu Cultural Foundation, Japan. The commission project, titled “Band Ishin” that means “Band Restoration,” commissions new works for wind ensemble from Japanese composers who especially work in the field of orchestra, chorus, jazz, television, and film. The work was completed in December, 2009 and premiered in March, 2010 in Hamamatusu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. This piece requires 24 parts and each part is played by just one player. Therefore, players are regarded as soloists. Soloists are expected to play simple “songs” and song fragments in their own way and sometimes in their own tempo. Consequently, Songs sounds like an accumulation of freely performed melodies. Although some “songs” have different characters, all of them are derived from a melody played by the clarinet at the beginning of the piece. Notes by Chris Heidenreich Carl Orff (1895-1982); trans. Hermann Regner Four Burlesque Scenes from Der Mond (1939/1997) Duration: 11 minutes Orff, who wrote both music and libretto for this single act opera in 1939, was inspired by the Grimm brothers’ fairytale of the same title. His choice of a young boy as the narrator led him to describe Der Mond as “kleines Welttheater” or, “small world theatre”. The work delves into a universe split CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL WIND SYMPHONY • FEBRUARY 21, 2020 PROGRAM NOTES between heaven, earth, and the underworld, all overseen by St Peter. The earth is split into two countries, each a mirror image of the other. The title “burlesque” here alludes simply to the theatrical nature of the scenes. From a country in which the moon never rose and no stars ever shone, four young men once went on their travels. In another kingdom, a shining ball hung on an oak tree, every night shedding a soft light far and wide: the moon. While the farmers are drinking and dancing in the inn (I Dance of the Peasants in the Tavern), the young men fetch the moon down from the tree and bring it triumphantly back home. When the farmers stagger out of the inn, it is now dark (II. The Moon is gone). Back at home the young men hang up the moon; together they fill it with oil, clean the wick, and each week they receive a Taler for their work. When they grow old and die, they are each buried with one quarter of the moon, in the underworld. When, however, the pieces of the moon had united themselves together again in the world below, where darkness had always prevailed, it came to pass that the dead became restless and awoke from their sleep. They were astonished when they were able to see again; the moonlight was quite sufficient for them, for their eyes had become so weak that they could not have borne the brilliance of the sun. They rose up and were merry, and fell into their former ways of living (IV. The Wine is good, the Moon so clear). The noise became greater and greater, and at last reached even to heaven. Saint Peter who guards the gate of heaven thought the lower world had broken out in revolt and gathered together the heavenly troops, which are to drive back the Evil One when he and his associates storm the abode of the blessed. As these, however, did not come, he got on his horse and rode through the gate of heaven, down into the world below. There he reduced the dead to subjection, bade them lie down in their graves again, took the moon away with him, and hung it up in heaven. There it hangs once more flooding the night-landscape with its light. A small child discovers it and is amazed by the sight (III. Oh, Look there hangs the Moon). Notes by James Ripley CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL WIND SYMPHONY • FEBRUARY 21, 2020 PROGRAM NOTES Gordon Jacob (1895-1984) Fantasia on an English Folk Song (1984) Duration: 6 minutes Based on the folk tune “Dashing Away with a Smoothing Iron,” Gordon Jacob’s Fantasia on an English Folk Song is a brief, single-movement setting that includes poignant lyricism and jaunty, up-tempo passages, all in a compact 6-minute frame. Despite being one of Jacob’s lesser-known works for winds, it has something to offer everyone; Jacob’s writing features opportunities for each section of the band to shine, and the charming tune combined with Jacob’s compositional prowess make it thoroughly enjoyable for the audience. This piece was out of print for quite some time, but is available for purchase again through C. Alan Publications. Notes by Devin Otto Bernard Gilmore (1937-2013) Five Folk Songs for Soprano and Band (1967/2002) Duration: 18 minutes In Five Folk Songs, Gilmore chose melodies and subject matter to entertain his audience, but also called attention to issues people have dealt with for centuries: war, poverty, love, dreams, and family. The careful and chamber-like orchestration balances symphonic forces with the vocalist and gives solo opportunities to several instrumentalists. As conductors search for variety in programming, there is a paucity of works for voice and band. Gilmore won an award for Five Folk Songs from CBDNA for “Best Original Composition” in 1967. The handwritten parts were difficult to read, making subsequent performances cumbersome, until it was republished in 2002. While it has received some attention since then, it fills a large hole in our repertoire with creativity and poignancy. Notes by Matthew Schlomer CHOSEN GEMS WITH DEPAUL WIND SYMPHONY • FEBRUARY 21, 2020 PROGRAM NOTES Antonio Gervasoni (b. 1973) Peruvian Fanfare No. 1 (2014) Duration: 5 minutes Antonio Gervasoni Florez-Estrada, born in Lima, Peru, is a composer and educator.