Acknowledgments Producer Scott Christian The East Coast Contemporary Ensemble Cover art: “Four Seasons” by Roberta Aylward Maria Wildhaber, Executive Director John Aylward John Aylward & Dominique Schafer, Producer (Bolamkin)Photo of Matthias Pintscher by Andrea Medici Artistic Directors John AllemeierPhoto of Jo Ellen Miller by Mark Bradley Miller Photo of John Aylward by Derek Jacoby Recording Engineer: Joel Gordon RecordingPho Engineertos of Paint Trail and Parker River National Assistant Recording Engineer: David CorcoranRick Dior Wildlife Refuge by John Aylward Producers: John Aylward and Joel Gordon DesignThe following grants through Clark University All music is available directly Steve Criadohelped in part to fund this album: from John Aylward Faculty Development Grant , Higgins School of Humanities, For William Gerard Aylward Photo Credit Sarah Buie, Director (December 12th 1936 – July 30th 2009) The Oberports Faculty Research Grant, Thanks to ThoAllma of sthe an dpieces Monik werea, recorded at AcousticO ce of Barn Spo nStudios,sored Pr Charlotte,ograms an dNC, Research, and to Helen Mulligan in October 2014 Naandncy June Budwig 2015., Dean of Research

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WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1676 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TROY1283 ALBANY RECORDSTEL: 518.436.8814 U.S. FAX: 518.436.0643 915 BROADALBANYWAY, ALBAN RECORDSY, NY 12207 U.K. TEL: 518.436.8814BOX 137, F KENDAL,AX: 518.436.0643 CUMBRIA LA8 0XD East Coast Contemporary Ensemble ALBANY RECORDSTEL: 01539 U.K. 824008 BOX 137, KENDAL,© 2017 ALBANYCUMBRIA RECORDS LA8 0XD MADE IN THE USA TEL: 01539 824008 DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. © 2011 ALBANY RECORDS M ADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. Lindsey Goodman is known for her “generous warmth of tone and a fluid ASSEM3LY is a dynamic trio championing the virtuosity” . Renowned chamber music of our time for flute, piano, and (Charleston Gazette) for her “brilliant”, “bravura performances” percussion. Comprised of flutist Lindsey Goodman, “played with conviction” pianist Anne Waltner, and percussionist Scott Christian, (Tribune-Review) , “flair, and emotion” ASSEM3LY is committed to both promoting works by (New York Times) , Ms. Goodman is in high master composers like Morton Feldman and Joseph (Gazette) demand as a soloist, chamber collaborator, Schwantner and commissioning new pieces from orchestral musician, recording artist, emerging and established American composers. Known teacher, and clinician around the country. for their exemplary live performances, ASSEM3LY has A strong advocate for living composers and performed on series and at universities in Ohio, Virginia, electroacoustic or interdisciplinary works, North Carolina, West Virginia, and South Dakota, and Lindsey’s debut CD of commissioned works, their debut recording of Erich Stem’s New Year’s, which reach through the sky, is available on is available on the CD reach through the sky from New New Dynamic Records, and she is an active Dynamic Records, has been played on radio stations in commissioner of new pieces, having given five states. In addition to concertizing and promoting nearly one hundred world premieres. new music, ASSEM3LY is dedicated to outreach, presenting panel presentations, masterclasses, and student composition reading sessions at high schools Lindsey is principal flutist of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and colleges in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio, and solo flutist of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and adjunct performing live on West Virginia Public Radio. lecturer at West Virginia State University and Marietta College. A student of Walfrid Kujala (to whom she dedicates this recording) and Robert Langevin, Lindsey holds degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and Northwestern and Duquesne Universities. Ms. Goodman resides in Ohio with her husband Chris Carmean and dog Jack. www.LindseyGoodman.com Pianist Dr. Anne Waltner has performed Scott Christian is the principal timpanist of the on five continents in numerous solo and West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, percussionist collaborative roles. Formerly assistant with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary professor of music at Eastern Mennonite Music, and serves on faculty at West Virginia University (VA) and West Virginia State State University. He has also held positions as University, Anne is regarded both as a principal timpanist with the Huntsville Symphony demanding teacher and a highly artistic Orchestra and acting principal timpanist with performer. Previously, she taught at the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. He has Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India and appeared as substitute principal timpanist with at the Rainey Institute in Cleveland, Ohio. the Atlanta, Cleveland, National, Saint Paul A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Chamber, and San Diego Symphony Orchestras. Music with a doctor of musical arts degree A passionate chamber musician, Christian has and an artist diploma in collaborative recently performed on concerts for ChamberFest piano, she studied with Anita Pontremoli Cleveland, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and Olga Radosavljevich. Waltner received Charleston Chamber Music Society, Charlotte her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in solo Chamber Music, and Kanawha Forum, as piano performance from Chicago College well as at Baylor University, Eastern Mennonite of Performing Arts with Ludmila Lazar, University, Ohio University, University of Indiana and from Goshen (IN) College with Marvin Southeast, University of Texas, University of Blickenstaff, respectively. Currently, Anne North Texas, and West Liberty University. He is is engaged full-time in a row-crop farming a founding member of ASSEM3LY, a trio for operation in South Dakota, where she lives flute, piano, and percussion. Scott is a graduate with her university music professor husband of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he and young triplet girls. studied with Paul Yancich and Richard Weiner. He also studied extensively with Peter Kogan of the Minnesota Orchestra. Taking Charge was commissioned by the Northwestern University Bienen Joseph Schwantner is one of the most prominent American School of Music to celebrate professor Walfrid Kujala’s distinguished composers today. He previously served on the Juilliard, Eastman, 50-year tenure. Framed in three contrasting movements, the flute, with and Yale faculties, and is a member of the American Academy of its “take charge” character, initiates a wide range of primary musical Arts and Letters. His music has been performed worldwide by the elements that are developed throughout the work. “Fast forward” Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, BBC Orchestra, Royal opens with an assertive percussion introduction that establishes the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and London Symphony, among many movement’s propulsive quality and sets the stage for the flute’s assertive others. Schwantner's compositional career has been marked by many ascending gesture, along with the interplay of those primary melodic, awards, grants, and fellowships, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 gestural, and rhythmic materials. “A voice from afar” presents a solitary and several Grammy nominations. Among his many commissions is and obsessive five-note chromatic figure played against a shimmering his Percussion Concerto, commissioned for the 150th anniversary background of non-pitched percussion. The forlorn quality of the music season of the New York Philharmonic, and one of the most performed gently concludes with a hushed piccolo playing a cyclical, ever-distant concert works of the past several decades. Christopher Lamb, soloist “processional” music. “Coming together” begins with the flute playing in the Naxos recording of Schwantner's Concerto with the Nashville an extended series of ever-ascending phrases. Material from the first Symphony Orchestra, received a 2012 Grammy Award for "Best movement combines with elements in movement three, leading to an Classical Instrumental Solo”. Schwantner's music is published by Schott exuberant final jig-like section for piccolo. Helicon Music Corporation and the C.F. Peters Corporation, and is recorded on labels including Hyperion, BMG/RCA Red Label, Innova, Koch International Classics, Boston Records, Albany Records, and EMI/ Virgin Records. Bolamkin Bolamkin was as fine a mason John Allemeier’s music has been described as having a “sweet sense of Over the past few years, I have been As ever laid a stone. mystery” by Fanfare and as being “rapturous” by the American Record Guide. experimenting with incorporating aspects He built a fine castle, His music has been performed by Ethel, Boston New Music Initiative, Charleston of folk music into my compositions. Most and the pay he got none. Symphony, Beo Quartet, Due East, Duo XXI, Kassia Ensemble, Low and Lower, of my recent compositions have been in Madison Park String Quartet, Terminus Ensemble, and on venues such as the collaboration with choreographer E. E. Bolamkin rocked the cradle, Charlotte New Music Festival, TUTTI New Music Festival, International Double Balcos. In these collaborations, we have and the faltress she sung, Reed Society, International Clarinet Society Conference, International Society been using the narratives of folk songs as While the tears and the red blood of Bassist Convention, Piccolo Spoleto, 5th Annual Festival of Contemporary the inspirations for our work and retelling the from the cradle did run. Music in San Francisco, and the Spark Festival in Minneapolis. He received his folk stories through music and movement. Ph.D. in Composition from the University of Iowa, his MM in Composition from Bolamkin is a trio for alto flute, vibraphone, My composition focuses on three aspects of Northwestern University, and his BM in Performance from Augustana College. and piano that is based on the folk song of the original folk song. The narrative of the He currently teaches composition and music theory at the University of North the same name. Bolamkin is one of the most folk song serves as the formal design of Carolina at Charlotte. More information is available at www.johnallemeier.com. horrific folk songs I have ever encountered. the piece in which the composition unfolds There are various version under multiple parallel to the story. The motive that is Prospero on the Beach is the opening scene from a ballet, Caliban Ascendant, names: Long Lankin, Bo Lambkin, and derived from the line “the pay he got none” based on The Tempest by William Shakespeare. The work is being developed Bolamkin. In all versions, the basic story is in the folk song appears at key moments by the composer and choreographer Joshua Legg. The ballet is a distillation the murder of a woman and her infant child. in the composition (G, B flat, G, A flat, of the play, focusing on the relationship between the colonist Prospero and the Depending on the origins of the version, G). Throughout Bolamkin, a “music box” indigenous people of a far off island, characterized by Caliban and Ariel. This the motivations of the crime are presented motive is used as a backdrop to reference opening scene introduces Prospero, frustrated by his plight and gearing up to cast differently. In versions from the British Isles, the nursery where the crime occurs. In the his vengeful magic. Enter Caliban and Ariel playing the role of supplicant and “Lankin” is a boogey man figure that commits final section of the composition, the music slave. In this scene, we begin to see that Propsero's power is only the force of his the crime without motive. In the American box motive takes over the entire texture with will and control over Caliban and Ariel, who wield true magic. The scene works version, most often cited as the version sang the exception of the “the pay he got none” into an asymmetrical meeting of wills where Prospero wins out, leaving the slaves by Frank Proffitt, the murderer is a mason motive that is presented in the piano. The bent and working their spell. All this happens before the famous storm. who never received payment for his work. In composition ends as the music box runs revenge for the wrong that has been done out of spring, and the music slowly stops. to him, he murders his employer’s wife and Bolamkin is dedicated to ASSEM3LY. son. Ty Alan Emerson is a composer, conductor, and musical organizer. Known Randall Woolf studied composition privately with David Del Tredici, Joseph for his eclectic style and sensitivity, his works have been featured at concerts Maneri, and at Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. He is a member of the across northeastern Ohio and at several prominent music festivals from Louisiana Common Sense Composers Collective and was composer/mentor for the to Huddersfield, England. He is a two-time recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Brooklyn Philharmonic. He composed a new ballet of Where the Wild Things Individual Artist award, the Morton Gould Award, an award from the Academy Are in collaboration with Maurice Sendak and Septime Webre, and has created of Arts and Letters, and he was a resident at the McDowell Colony. Emerson has four pieces for video and live instruments with Mary Harron, director of American served as President of the Cleveland Composers’ Guild and is currently the director Psycho, and John C. Walsh. Working frequently with John Cale, Woolf has of the Cleveland Chamber Collective. In addition to his work in the concert world, arranged over 40 of Cale’s songs for chamber orchestra, including the entire Emerson has worked as arranger, conductor, and host with the Musical Theater Paris 1919 album, Music For A New Society, and songs from The Velvet Project on a variety of concerts, including full length shows featuring the theatrical Underground & Nico. His works have been performed by Kathleen Supové, music of Kurt Weil and Leonard Bernstein. Jennifer Choi, Timothy Fain, Mary Rowell, Todd Reynolds, ETHEL, conductor and flutist Ransom Wilson, Tara O’Connor, Le Train Bleu, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Between Me, Myself, And The Lamp Post Kronos Quartet, TURNmusic, Fulcrum Point, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, One of the things I love about writing classical music is that you have a lot of Righteous Girls, Sonic Generator, Bang On A Can/SPIT Orchestra, American freedom to write just about anything you want. And yet, one still winds up with Composers Orchestra, NakedEye Ensemble, Seattle Symphony, Louisville a list of things that you want to do, but somehow feel a little shame or guilt Orchestra, West Michigan Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, and others. about. I guess it's similar to the "guilty pleasures” that everyone has as a listener. Sometimes, it's something you think is just too easy, or too crass, or that you have done too many times. In this piece, I indulged in some of these. I could tell you what and where they are, but I prefer to keep that between me, myself, and the lamp post. It's also an "Anti-Fragile Etude", a series of pieces using Nassim Taleb's idea of anti-fragility, meaning systems that require a small amount of disorder, randomness, and lack of coordination to be at their best. In this instance, that means the players have some freedoms, and are not always asked to play in a single unified way. As a consequence, the piece is a bit different in every performance. TROY1676

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