SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director San Francisco Symphony SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS RagnAr Bohlin, Chorus Director San Francisco Symphony Chorus Edwin Outwater, conductor Christine Bailey Davis, flute Thomas Robertello, flute Tracing Mississippi Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate Concerto for Flute and Orchestra b. 1968 1. Taloowa’ (Song) (6:23) 2. Missipi’ Aabi (Tracing Mississippi) (6:23) 3. Shilombish Anompoli’ (Talking Spirits) (9:48) 4. Hashi’ Hiloha (Sun Thunder) (6:29) Christine Bailey Davis, flute Iholba’ Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate For Solo Flute, Orchestra, and Chorus b. 1968 5. Halbina’ (The Gift) (15:01) Produced by Alan Bise Thunderbird Records, Inc. 6. Iholba’ (The Vision) (10:44) 1645 Eddy Road Thomas Robertello, flute Cleveland, OH 44112 888.349.3310 ACD-71242 works by Distributed by Azica Records, Inc. OP & © 2008 Thunderbird Records, Inc. 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Box 1548 • Ada, OK 74820 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY CHORUS Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate RagnAr Bohlin, Chorus Director Composer The San Francisco Symphony has been known since its first concerts in 1911 for championing new music and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate was born in 1968 in music by American composers. Under the leadership of Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director since 1995, the Symphony has not only performed much music created on native soil but has staged festivals devoted Norman, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Chickasaw entirely to American music. The San Francisco Symphony therefore continues a tradition as it participates Nation. Mr. Tate is dedicated to the development of in this groundbreaking project, recording works by American Indian composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate. American Indian classical composition, and a recent review by The Washington Post states that “Tate’s Over the years, the San Francisco Symphony has grown in acclaim under a succession of music directors: connection to nature and the human experience was quite Henry Hadley, Alfred Hertz, Basil Cameron, Issay Dobrowen, Pierre Monteux, Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Seiji apparent in this piece…rarer still is his ability to infuse Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Herbert Blomstedt, and, today, Michael Tilson Thomas. The SFS has won such classical music with American Indian nationalism.” This recording awards as France’s Grand Prix du Disque, Britain’s Gramophone Award, and the United States’s review was a response to a performance of Iholba’ (The Grammy. For RCA Red Seal, Michael Tilson Thomas and the SFS have recorded music from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Mahler’s Das klagende Lied, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, two Copland collections, a Vision), for Solo Flute, Orchestra and Chorus, which was Gershwin collection, Stravinsky ballets (Le Sacre du printemps, The Firebird, and Perséphone), and Charles Ives: commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra and An American Journey. Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 inaugurated a Mahler cycle on the Symphony’s own label premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. and in 2003 captured a Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance. In 2004, the MTT/SFS recording of © AlanaRothstein.com Mahler’s Third Symphony captured the Grammy for Best Classical Album, and last year their recording of In 2006, Mr. Tate was the recipient of the Joyce Award which supported the commission Mahler’s Seventh Symphony captured Grammys for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Classical Album. of Nitoshi’ Imali, Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, which premiered in 2007 with Some of the most important conductors of the past and recent years have been guests on the SFS podium, soloist Jason Vieaux and the Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis, conducted by Cary John among them Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein, and Sir Georg Solti, and the list of Franklin. His new work for orchestra and children’s chorus, commissioned by the composers who have led the Orchestra includes Stravinsky, Ravel, Copland, and John Adams. The SFS Youth Orchestra, founded in 1980, has become known around the world, as has the SFS Chorus, heard on recordings American Composers Forum Continental Harmony Project, celebrates the opening of and on the soundtracks of such films as Amadeus and Godfather III. Adventures in Music, celebrating its 20th the new Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma. anniversary in 2008, brings music to every child in grades 1 through 5 in San Francisco’s public schools. SFS radio broadcasts, the first in America to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, today carry the Mr. Tate received his BM in Piano Performance from Northwestern University where he Orchestra’s concerts across the country. In a multimedia program designed to make classical music accessible studied with Dr. Donald J. Isaak. He then completed his MM in Piano Performance and to people of all ages and backgrounds, the SFS has launched Keeping Score on PBS-TV, DVD, the World Wide Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Elizabeth Pastor Web (keepingscore.org), and radio (The MTT Files). San Francisco Symphony recordings are available at and Dr. Donald Erb. Shortly after beginning his piano studies at the Cleveland Institute shopsfsymphony.org. of Music, Jerod’s first composition, Winter Moons ballet score, was commissioned by Dr. The San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus are honored to collaborate with Patricia Tate and premiered at the University of Wyoming in 1992. Colorado Ballet composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate in recording his music, bringing to a worldwide audience the works subsequently performed it in 1994 and 1996. of a composer descended from the original occupants of the North American continent. Since then, Tate has received numerous commissions and his works have been performed chofallina pisalika; cleaning them: I can see; by the National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic foyopakma akmi. its breath is frozen. Orchestra, the Colorado Ballet, The New Mexico Symphony, the Contemporary Music Oklhiliat aloota: The night is full: Forum, Dale Warland Singers, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society and the toshpat kánnallikat it moves quickly and, Oklahoma City University Wind Philharmonic, to name a few. ilhpokonnat nokfónkhakat; dreaming, remembers; fochik malili'at áyya'shaka. there are shooting stars. Mr. Tate is Artistic Director for the Chickasaw Chamber Music Festival. He is Akpi'so: I cannot see: Composer-in-Residence for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy and was Composer- Aamalilili Okkata' Am I running on Sea in-Residence for the Grand Canyon Music Festival’s Native American Composer ba' Shinok paknaka? or Sand? Apprentice Project in 2004 and 2005. In 2007, he was Composer-in-Residence for The Ankano'mi Oklhiliat anola'chi ki'yo. My cousin, Darkness, will not tell. Joyce Foundation/American Composers Forum, teaching composition to American Indian high school students in Minneapolis. Nittaki: Morning: Himmaka'. Now. Mr. Tate received the 2006 Alumni Achievement Award Mishsha' pillaat shoppálla'a. In the distance it's light. from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has also Toomikat kallochikat, Shining loudly, received awards from Meet the Composer and the shotikat akka' mintit alakat, the sky coming down, Percussive Arts Society. He is happily married to Ursula shilombishat sashoolika its spirit hugs me, Running Bear, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux ilbak-oshi' asafoloppichikat tracing me with its fingers, Tribe (Sicangu Lakota). sashkin okchi' kashoochikat, wiping away my tears, kaniya' ishtasona it takes me to where Mr. Tate’s middle name, Impichchaachaaha’, means “high Chihoowaat amanompola'chika I no longer have to wait corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw akhimonoka'chika. for God to talk to me. house name. A corncrib is a small hut used for the storage Aba’ Binni’li’, yakkookay. Thank you,