Concert Band Joan Dealbuquerque, Conductor
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Luther College Concert Band Joan deAlbuquerque, conductor 2016 MIDWEST TOUR 1 Program JOAN To be selected from the following: DEALBUQUERQUE, CONDUCTOR Dance of the Jesters (1873) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Joan deAlbuquerque was Arr. Ray Cramer appointed director of bands at Luther College in 2011. She conducts the Luther Everything Beautiful (2014) College Concert Band, Wind Samuel Hazo (b. 1966) and Percussion Ensemble, and Varsity Band. Prior to Rio Grande (2015) joining Luther College, deAlbuquerque served as Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) the associate director of bands at California State University, Long Beach and as interim director Wind Quintet in C Major, Op. 79 (ca. 1898) of bands at Adams State College in Alamosa, August Klughardt (1847–1902) Colorado. An experienced public school teacher, she was director of bands at Pinckney High School IV. Adagio–Allegro molto vivace in Michigan, where she conducted the wind Norse Wind Quintet: Ziggy Mustain, Kierra Blackstad, symphony and marching band in addition to teaching Ches Craig, Timothy Radermacher, Nathan Fippinger instrumental and general music at the elementary and middle school levels. A Weekend in New York (2008) Philip Sparke (b. 1951) Professor deAlbuquerque earned a doctor of music arts degree in wind conducting from the University of North Texas as a student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon. She holds a master of music degree in INTERMISSION wind conducting from Michigan State University, where she studied with John Whitwell. A graduate of Macomb Community College, deAlbuqerque earned Star Wars (Main Title) (1977) a bachelor of music education degree from Michigan John William (b. 1932) State University. arr. Stephen Bulla As a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, Molly on the Shore (1918) deAlbuquerque has worked with middle school and Percy Grainger (b. 1882–1961) high school bands throughout the Midwest, Western United States, and Israel. She has presented clinics and workshops for the Southern California School Transcendent Journey (2010) Band and Orchestra Association (SCSBOA) and Tau Rossano Galante (b. 1967) Beta Sigma, and has conducted at conferences for the SCSBOA, California Band Directors Association, Who Puts His Trust In God Most Just College Band Directors National Association national Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) conference (CBDNA), the Music Educators National Arr. James Croft Conference, and the Iowa Bandmasters Association (IBA). Stars and Stripes Forever (1896) A regular contributor to the Teaching Music through John Philip Sousa (1854–1932) Performance in Band series, published by GIA Publications, deAlbuquerque has also written for the Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Bet Sigma publication, The Podium. She is on the board of the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association as the college affairs representative and is a member of IBA, CBDNA, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Sigma. 2 Notes Dance of the Jesters (1873) Q&A WITH DEALBUQUERQUE Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) Arr. Ray Cramer What are your expectations of Concert Band members? This dance is taken from incidental music written for the bal- let The Snow Maiden. The Snow Maiden retells the Russian You’re not just there to play your part—that’s so folktale of Snegurochka, a beautiful snow nymph who yearns small compared to the big picture. I want the to be human. Her mother, Spring, bequeaths the Snow person there, not just the part. You can’t just show Maiden with the ability to know mortal love, but when the up, be on time, and know your notes. I need you to Snow Maiden falls in love with a mortal man, she melts away show up, be on time, know your notes, and love it. I from the warmth produced by her heart and by living under want to know that every member of Concert Band, the sun. is giving 100 percent of themselves, because I guarantee I’ll give 110 percent. Always. Tchaikovsky’s music uses a bevy of Russian folk songs; this nationalism was at least partially inspired by the style of What’s your favorite thing about directing? fellow Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Like his Hearing the difference between where we are at much more famous music from the Nutcracker, The Snow the beginning of the year to where we are at the Maiden employs plot devices to maximize the number and end of the year is just so exciting. When we have types of melodies used through spectacular displays like this a concert, it’s not so much about how great we play, dance of jesters—also translated as “tumblers.” The light- but how much we’ve grown to that point. hearted, athletic music mirrors the dancers on stage. I just love that. What do you like most about Luther? When they interviewed me they told me, “This place Everything Beautiful (2014) is special,” and I thought, “Yeah, okay, sure…” But Samuel Hazo (b. 1966) it really is. Luther’s really a very special place. Truly. The title Everything Beautiful comes from a line in the film When I came here, everyone welcomed me with Sleepless in Seattle when Tom Hanks’ character describes open arms and open doors. The Midwest is just so his wife: “She made everything beautiful.” Composer Samuel friendly. It’s just more like family. And I want people Hazo uses this line to describe the piece’s dedicatee, educa- to think of the Luther band program as their family, tor Chuck Campbell. Each movement of this requiem, “The no matter what group they are in, because I think Stillness of Remembering,” “Irish Tune,” and “While I Think on that’s something that makes Luther very special. Thee, Dear Friend,” corresponds to a memory Hazo has of Campbell. What are your goals for the Luther band program? The melody of “Stillness of Remembering” started at the I want to keep growing the quality of the program, piano, moments after Hazo learned, via email, of Campbell’s focusing on recruiting players at the highest level. passing. He writes, “There are very few textures that express I’d say Concert Band is among the top tier of under- pain and joy simultaneously; holding that balance between graduate ensembles, but the goal is to continuously the optimism of open voicing and the introspection of subtle make it better. And when you raise the level of the note clusters.” The title is from Steve Nicks’ famous song top group, you automatically raise the level of the “Dreams.” other two bands. It’s also so important to maintain the feeling of the Luther band program as a family, Like a heartbeat drives you mad regardless of ensemble. in the stillness of remembering What you had and what you lost, What are you most looking forward to about and what you had, and what you lost. tour? Making music with my students. I admit that I’m Irish tunes are often associated with wind band music; the exhausted at the end of tour, because it’s late nights piece Molly on the Shore by Percy Grainger, featured later in and early mornings, but it’s really a lot of fun, and this program, embodies the style. Hazo’s second movement, it’s where I think we really spend the most time “Irish Tune,” is not a folk tune but instead an original melody. bonding, building that Luther band family. He connects this movement to Campbell through the dedica- tee’s love of Irish Tune from County Derry—another Grainger piece. In the last year of his life, Campbell conducted Irish Tune from County Derry at the Kentucky Music Educators’ 1 Program Notes TOUR SCHEDULE convention. In celebration and mourning, an ensemble Friday, March 18 / 7 p.m. played that same piece a year later without a conductor. First English Lutheran Church, North Site Movement three takes its name from the last couplet of Appleton, Wis. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 30”: Saturday, March 19 / 7 p.m. King of Kings Lutheran Church But if while I think on thee, dear friend, Woodbury, Minn. All losses are restor’d and sorrows end. Sunday, March 20 / 8:15 a.m., 9:30 a.m. Palm Sunday Services Hazo ends Everything Beautiful as such because “this final King of Kings Lutheran Church movement is the permission to feel the joy he (Campbell) Woodbury, Minn. absolutely wishes for each of us; to be our whole selves.” —Adapted from notes by the composer Sunday, March 20 / 7 p.m. Westby High School Westby, Wis. Rio Grande (2015) Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) Monday, March 21 / 7:30 p.m. North Iowa Community Auditorium In Rio Grande, Daugherty recreates with music a land- Mason City, Iowa scape that he describes as “stark, haunting, agitated, and Tuesday, March 22 / 7 p.m. magestic.” The Rio Grande flows from southern Colorado Galesburg High School Auditorium into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas. The river is Galesburg, Ill. politically significant for the border it demarcates between the United States and Mexico but its natural significance Wednesday, March 23 / 11:30 am is utmost in the Big Bend National Park. Through this arid, Dubuque Senior High School Auditorium magical, canyon-speckled place the Rio Grande is a vital Dubuque, Iowa life source. Thursday, March 31 / 7:30 p.m Center for Faith and Life Daugherty builds this landscape with a throbbing percus- Luther College sion section that forms an undercurrent for the angular, Decorah, Iowa high-pitched motifs first heard in the woodwinds. These angular motifs are passed around the ensemble. This theme is interspersed with “ghostly Mexican mariachi music echoing faraway through the canyons” in the wood- RECORDINGS Available on site winds and trumpets. Morning Sun Upon Rio Grande for symphonic band was premiered by the the Wild Prairie North Texas Wind Symphony last fall.