Also available on CD TIMOTHY REYNISH CONDUCTING: THE BRITISH ARE COMING: (6787-MCD) 2006 Midwest Clinic Exploring Musicianship Through 25 years of New Literature for Middle and High Schools Timothy Reynish, Clinician ITHACA COLLEGE SYMPHONIC BAND VOL 4 (6804-MCD) Improvisations-Rhythms (1975) ...... Andreas Makris Reflections on a 16th Century Tune (2000) ...... Richard Rodney Bennett L’ Homme Armé (2003) ...... Christopher Marshall Resonance (2006) ...... Christopher Marshall Dances from Crete (2003) ...... Adam Gorb Marsch from Versuche über einen Marsch (1981) ...... Marcel Wengler ITHACA COLLEGE SYMPHONIC BAND VOL 3 (6733-MCD) King Pomade Suite No 2 (1953) ...... Ranki Gyorgy Elegy for Miles Davis (1993) ...... Richard Rodney Bennett Symphony of Winds (1981) ...... Derek Bourgeois Blackwater (2006) ...... Fergal Carroll Tails aus dem Vood Viennoise (1992) ...... Bill Connor UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE VOL 1 (4949-MCD) Samurai (1995) ...... Nigel Clarke Diaghilev Dances (2003) ...... Kenneth Hesketh Danse Funambulesque (1930) ...... Jules Strens L’ Homme Armé (2003) ...... Christopher Marshall Concerto for Wind Orchestra (2003) ...... Christian Lindberg THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA Conducted by Tim Reynish Chandos CHAN 9549 Percy Grainger Works for Wind Orchestra Volume 1 CHAN 9630 Percy Grainger Works for Wind Orchestra Volume 2 CHAN 9697 British Wind Band Classics, Holst & Vaughan Williams CHAN 9805 German Classics, Hindesmith, Schoenberg, Toch & Blacher CHAN 9897 French Classics, Berlioz, Schmitt, Milhaud Bozza & Saint-Saens Doyen DOYCD 037 Morning Music - Midnight Music: Richard R. Bennett & Bazelon DOYCD 043 Wind Music by Edward Gregson DOYCD 127 Wind Music by Judith Bingham, Adam Gorb and Roger Marsh KLAVIER KLAV 11152 Wind Music by Clarke, Gorb, Ellerby and Poole Also with three major British Works: KLAV 11150 Conducted by John Boyd - Bennett, McNeff, Marshall

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Records • 10815 Bodine Road • Clarence, NY 14031-0406 5342-MCD phone: 716.759.2600 • fax: 716.759.2329 • www.markcustom.com ൿ 2008 Music is something which is about emotion. It is an experience. - UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE Flute/Piccolo Maria Johnson, Tiffany Scolf, Seth Morris, Angela Clark, Hana Swain Para mí, las tres mejores cosas que hay en el mundo son: la música, la mujer, y la paz. For me, the three best things in the world are: music, women, and peace. Oboe/Cor Anglais Megan Bitzer, Lauren Skelton, Molly Kraus - Joaquin Rodrigo Eb Clarinet Gunnar Hirthe When you are a young , you believe in certain things and you hate other things. You see Bb Clarinets Josh Gardner, Liz Berndt, Tabitha Dillinger, Tonya Reeves the nature of music from a very narrow perspective. With me it’s been a case, not so much of liberation, but of tolerating Fabrice Curtis, Dillon Lloyd, Erin Pivonka things much more, of trying to see music-making in this wider perspective – but not pushing it into a kind of populist approach; there has to remain something you can call style. Bass Clarinet Willow Cooper - Magnus Lindberg Contra Alto Clarinet Meagan Scudder The Yiddish culture is about travelling and picking up influences, it’s also about a certain sense of irony, comedy and Saxophones Scott Estes, David Harper, Jim Geiger, Angela Ortega, Doug Drueck, tragedy at the same time. The thing that interests me about trying to write comedy is the proximity of tragedy, they go Stevi Nolan, Stephani Frantz together hand in hand. - Adam Gorb Bassoons/Contra BJ May, Brett VanGansbeke, Kristen Goguen Horns Jenny Kearns, Kelly Kutzlo, Lyunn Lanham, Ginnie Plunkett, Tim Reynish writes: David Sullivan DEVELOPING AN INTERNATIONAL REPERTOIRE Trumpets Jonathan Stites, TJ Thomas, John Tuck, Josef Traver, David Salas, For over two decades I have been closely involved with the work of the World Association for Symphonic Bands & Daniel Jarvis, Kevin Williams Ensembles, WASBE, in developing recognition of new and forgotten works from around the world. This is the second volume in a planned series of discs featuring live performances of major international repertoire, much of it unfamiliar. My Trombones Dave Bubsey, Lee Allen, Valerie Evans, Chuck Morris first concert with the University of Kentucky Wind Ensemble was recorded on 4949-MCD, and featured music from Euphoniums Tommy Johnson, Scott Graham Belgium, Sweden, New Zealand and . This second concert explored works from , Spain, United Kingdom and United States. The series aims at putting on record unfamiliar repertoire which often does not have the Tubas George Pelton, Kyle Hurst, Adam Edwards, Kent Myers advantage of a strong popular appeal nor commercial interest. Percussion Kenneth Metzger, Colin Berner, Kyle Forthoff, Emily Hagihara, Percy Grainger once stated: Ian Murphy, Davy Anderson I firmly believe that music will someday become a 'universal language'. But it will not become so as long as our musical vision is limited to the output of four European countries between 1700 and 1900. The first step in the right Guest Players: direction is to view the music of all peoples and periods without prejudice of any kind, and strive to put the world's Harp Sally Kelton known and available best music into circulation. Only then shall we be justified in calling music a universal language. Double Bass Blake Cooper I believe that he would have welcomed the work of WASBE in developing international contacts and leading us to explore Piano Kim Scott a wider range of repertoire. Out of the nine works played on these first two discs, seven have emerged at WASBE Conferences in the past decade. Concert recorded live at the Singletary Arts Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington EMOTION IN MUSIC Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 David Whitwell, the editor of the WASBE Journal of 1998, wrote in his Preface that we have arrived at a stage of development in wind band performance which exhibits remarkable technical achievement in the performance of Recording Engineer: David Henderson • [email protected] commendable literature, but which nevertheless, often leaves the listener unmoved. Conductor: Timothy Reynish Let me quote Grainger again: Assistant Conductor: Scott Estes Acting Director of Bands: George Boulden Possibilities of the Concert Wind Band from the Standpoint of a Modern Composer 1918 Programme Notes: Timothy Reynish & Adam Gorb No doubt there are many phases of musical emotion that the wind band is not so fitted to portray as is the symphony Programme Editors: George Boulden and Scott Estes orchestra, but on the other hand it is quite evident that in certain realms of musical expressiveness the wind band has Design & Layout: Jason Boldt (MarkArt) no rival. 2 7 As a soloist, Mark has appeared throughout the United States, Germany, , Switzerland, Italy, and Ireland Mark is Notes Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Prior to this appointment he was Instructor of Trumpet and Director of the Jazz Band as a member of the faculty at Mars Hill College. Dances from Crete Adam Gorb (born 1958) Published by Maecenas/Music Masters Mark holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College. While earning his Master of Music Degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts, Mark received a fellowship as lead trumpet for the NCSA Jazz Ensemble where This work was commissioned by Timothy & Hilary Reynish as part of a series to commemorate their third son William he also served as co-principal trumpet for the NCSA orchestra, and was a winner of the 1990 International Music Program Reynish who tragically died in a mountaineering accident in 2001. The world premiere took place at the Royal College of Concerto Competition. Sought after as a clinician, Mark makes numerous appearances annually as guest adjudicator, Music in London in November 2003. instructor, and soloist at both the High School and Collegiate levels. He has written and developed educational programs among which are the Brass Builders Clinics and the acclaimed Science of Sound interdisciplinary presentation. Adam Gorb writes: Dances From Crete is in four movements and is intended to celebrate the good things in life, drawing much of its material from the dance music from the Greek island of Crete, where many of the ancient Greek myths took place. Timothy Reynish studied horn with Aubrey Brain and Frank Probyn. He was a music scholar at Cambridge, working under The first movement, Syrtos is intended to serve as a portrait of the Minotaur, the famous creature that was half bull, Raymond Leppard and Sir David Willcocks and held principal horn positions with the Northern Sinfonia, Sadler’s Wells half man, and fed upon young men and women who were sacrificed to him every year. He was eventually killed by (now ENO) and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. His conducting studies were with George Hurst, Sir the hero Theseus. The character of this movement is harsh and ruthless. Charles Groves and Sir Adrian Boult on short courses in UK, and with Dean Dixon in Hilversum and Franco Ferrara in The second movement, Tik is a more graceful dance based on the sinuous movements of young women, but it is also Siena. A prizewinner in the Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in New York, he has conducted concerts with characterised by a certain roughness and is in 5/8 time. Tim Reynish writes that “in this movement the whole the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC orchestra should feel the pulse like a Cretan Peasant on the threshing floor.” Following on from this the third Regional Orchestras and the London Symphony Orchestra as well as in Norway, Holland and Germany. In 1975 he became movement in a slow 7/4 time is darker in mood and inspired by a steep and perilous walk down the Samaria Gorge; tutor for the Postgraduate Conducting Course at the Royal Northern College of Music, and two years later he succeeded one of the most spectacular of all walks. The movement eventually rises to a triumphant peroration, depicting a Philip Jones as Head of School of Wind & Percussion, a post he retired from after twenty-one years. welcome plunge into the Libyan Sea. Following distant offstage fanfares, the finale, a modern Greek dance, Syrtaki, bursts in with the offstage trumpeters swaggering back on stage playing a deliberately vulgar theme. The music soon He was awarded a Churchill Travelling Fellowship in 1982 which enabled him to study the training and development and becomes very fast and eventually ends in total festive anarchy, although before the final apotheosis the ghost of the repertoire of the American symphonic wind band movement. He developed the wind orchestra of the RNCM to become Minotaur can briefly be heard joining the party. recognised as one of the best in the world, commissioning over sixty works from major including, Richard Rodney Bennett, John Casken, Thea Musgrave and , performing regularly in Festivals including, Aldeburgh, Adam Gorb is one of the leading young British composers of wind music today. His first work for wind was the exciting Cheltenham, Huddersfield and Three Choirs, broadcasting for BBC and Classic FM, playing at three WASBE Conferences and exacting Metropolis (1993, Maecenas) which won the Walter Beeler Prize in 1994 and was written for the Royal and making commercial compact discs for Doyen, Serendipity and Chandos. Academy of Music Wind Orchestra. Since then he has written the brilliant “post-Bernstein” Overture, Awayday, (1996, Maecenas), an Euphonium Concerto (1997, Maecenas), Yiddish Dances (1998), perhaps his most successful work to date and a number of works for less experienced bands, Bermuda Triangle, Bridgewater Breeze, Candlelight Procession and He has given clinics, lectured, guest conducted and adjudicated in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In 2000 he was the March of the Little Wooden Warriors. His most substantial work is a Percussion Concerto for Evelyn Glennie, The a Housewright Scholar at Florida State University; in Spring 2002 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Music, Baylor Elements (1998, Maecenas). Adam is Head of the School of Composition and Contemporary Studies at the Royal Northern University, Texas, and in the fall of 2003 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky. He is a former President College of Music in Manchester. of WASBE, the World Association for Symphonic Bands & Ensembles. For ten years he was Editor of the Novello Wind Band & Ensemble series and he is now Editor with Maecenas Music. Gran Duo Magnus Lindberg (b.1958) Published by Boosey & Hawkes

The University of Kentucky Wind Ensemble is made up of the finest wind and percussion performers in the School of A Millennium Commission by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & the Royal Festival Hall. th Music. Performing at least six concerts each year, the Wind Ensemble is the centerpiece of a band program which has served World premiere by the CBSO at the Festival Hall, 8 March 2000, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. the Commonwealth of Kentucky for over 100 years and is recognized as a premiere instrumental ensemble in the Bluegrass region in the public performance of new compositions. The Wind Ensemble has performed at the College Band Directors Gran Duo is a dialogue between the two orchestral families of woodwind and brass, each with their respective material. National Association National Conference (CBDNA) in Athens, Georgia, CBDNA Southern Division Conferences in Biloxi, Their initial characters, equating to the poetic stereotypes of “masculine” and “feminine”, become progressively blurred and androgynised during the course of the work as larger sound masses give way to -style sub-groupings and Mississippi and Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Kentucky Music Educators Association Conference held annually in individual instrumental solos. Louisville. In March of 2003, the UK Wind Ensemble was a featured ensemble at the College Band Directors National Association National Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Director of the Ensemble was Richard Clary, prior to his As regards scoring the composer has stated that “if no-one is playing, nothing is heard”, so the illusion of sustained sound appointment to Florida State University. During 2003/2004, the Ensemble was under the direction of George Boulden, has to be created without recourse to strings. Similarly, clear attack and accentuation have to be carefully sculpted, as there Acting Director of Bands. is no percussion to help articulation. 6 3 The scoring for orchestral wind and brass is identical to that of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments apart from Laurence S. Bitensky is a composer and pianist, at present Assistant Professor of music at Center College, Kentucky, the addition of a bass clarinet. The critic Richard Whitehouse wrote after the first performance: The five sections of the specializing in teaching composition, music theory, world music and piano. He received his undergraduate training at New Lindberg play continuously for some 19 minutes, traversing a cycle of “characters” that mutate into each other with evident England Conservatory, and his Masters and Doctorate at Ithaca College and Cornell University respectively. He is the organic logic. Musical types vary from passages of intensive motivic writing to others of purely timbral impact; the whole recipient of numerous commissions and awards throughout the United States, and has no less than four special awards from contained within a harmonic framework, and with a culminating chorale sequence of Sibelian plangency. ASCAP. His piano work, Shouts and murmurs was the winning work in the 1997 Friends and Enemies of New Music Composition Competition. After studying at the in Finland, Magnus Lindberg studied privately with Grisey and Globokar in Paris and with Donatoni in Siena and Ferneyhough in Damstadt. The style in his early works was indebted to serialism, heavily Per la Flor del Lliri Blau Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) influenced by composers such as Stockhausen and Milton Babbitt, though more recently he has moved towards the differing Published by Piles sound worlds of Berio, Stravinsky, rock and ethnic music. In the mid-eighties his punk-inspired work Kraft brought him to international prominence, and this reputation was confirmed in the nineties with a series of major commissions. One of Rodrigo’s most substantial works, this symphonic poem was written in 1934 and premiered in Valencia on July 26th by the Orquestra Sinfonica de Valencia. The composer made the transcription for wind band, and the work has been strangely He was recently awarded the , a prestigious award that carries with it one of the largest cash sums in neglected. Perhaps the new edition published by Piles in 2002 will restore what is a major work in a 19th century tradition. the sector, EUR 100,000. The prize has been awarded on only ten occasions since its inception in 1953, and Lindberg joins a select band of fourteen other composers, including (1953), (1958), Igor The composer comments: Stravinsky (1963), (1965), (1971), György Ligeti (2000), and fellow-Finns such as The title of the work is not in Castilian but in the language of the province where I was born. It means “For the Flower , , and the most recent Finnish winner Aulis Sallinen (1983). of the Blue Lily”. The music is based on a Valencian legend and takes the form of a symphonic poem. The end of the text is also in Valenciano and must not be translated; it reflects the mourning of all nature for the death of the young prince. Awake, You Sleepers! Laurence Bitensky (b. 1966) Published by Silly Black Dog Music The poem, which is included in the score, tells of the legend of the three sons of a king, who are promised great wealth if they can find and bring back the flower of the blue lily, with which to cure the king of a sickness. The young prince who finds the World premiere July 2, 2002 at the 2002 International Trumpet Guild Conference, Manchester, England flower after much searching returns triumphant, only to be slain by his jealous brothers. Nature itself weeps at the deed. Soloist John Hagstrom, Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra conductor Timothy Reynish. This piece was made Passa, passa bon germa, possible by a grant from the Fromm Foundation. Passa, passa i no em nomenes, Que m’han mort en riu d’Arenes, Laurence Bitensky writes: Per la Flor del Lliri Blau Awake, You Sleepers! is based on the free and supple improvisation of traditional Jewish chant, and some of its spirit of metrically-free improvisation should be maintained. The soloist and conductor should strive for a very fluid and Joaquin Rodrigo was born on St Cecilia’s day, 22nd November 1901 and died July 6th 1999. He studied in Paris from 1927, flexible sense of tempo throughout using much rubato. a student of Dukas, and was good friends with de Falla, Honneger, Milhaud, Ravel and many others. He was abroad during the Spanish Civil War, but returned in 1939. In 1940, the world premiere of his Concierto de Aranjuez was given, a The work is in three movements which are linked together masterpiece which has overshadowed his many other works. As a result of an epidemic of diptheria, he became blind at the I Tekiah“… as morning dawned there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud over the mountain; there was age of three, and of this he wrote: a loud shofar blast and all the people in the camp trembled.” (Exodus 19:16) I believe my blindness gave me more insight with the inner world, the world in which we the blind live. While sitting II Shevarim“The great shofar is sounded and a still small voice is heard” on this wicker chair I am thinking that the illness, the loss of vision, was the vehicle that took me down the road to (Excerpt of the Unataneh tokef prayer, attributed to Rabbi Amnon of Mainz) music. I have more auditory memories than visual memories; I remember the song of the crickets, of the cicada, the III Teruah“Awake, You Sleepers! Awake from your sleep! You slumberers, awake from your slumber!” pounding of the waves, the sound of organ and church bells in my hometown. (Maimonides, Hilkhot Teshuvah III.4) Mark Clodfelter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is currently one of the The ancient instrument known as the shofar, or ram’s horn, has a special place in the Jewish tradition. Legend most active performers in the Southeast and can be heard with the Giannini Brass recounts that its sound was heard at the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai, at the tumbling walls of www.gianninibrass.com, as Principal Trumpet of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra Jericho, as a call for battle, and that its sound will be heard to herald a messianic era. The instrument has survived www.ashevillesymphony.org as well as with the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra (DOJO) through post-Biblical and contemporary times and features prominently in the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish www.milesosland.com and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra. He has recorded extensively New Year. in styles ranging from classical to rock, and has appeared with such headliners as The O' Jays, Gladys Knight, Mannheim Steam Roller, and the Moody Blues. Mark is a Yamaha Performing Each of the three movements of Awake, You Sleepers! is based on one of the three calls associated with the blowing Artist. In addition, from 1999 through 2002, he served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the of the shofar. Tekiah is a long note rising in pitch; Shevarim is three shorter notes; and Teruah is a long repeated Smoky Mountain www.smbrass.com Brass Band www.smbrass.com. staccato blast. Each movement is also preceded by well-known verses from the Rosh Hashanah liturgy. Much of the music for Awake, You Sleepers! is based on Rosh Hashanah motives and melodies that occur in the German/East European musical tradition. 4 5 TIMOTHY REYNISH Vol. 2 with The Univ. of Kentucky Wind Ensemble5342-MCD .PerLaFlordelLliriBlau 4. GranDuo 2. 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