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B 3 -+a- 200 1 /2-L{ University of Washington 2001-2002 School ofMusic ~-~/tt,u3( Presents c...Ds. :1F (1,Qito II.f/Qlfl - THE WIND ENSEMBLE Timothy Salzman. conductor THE CONCERT BAND David Wayne Waltman, conductor December 4,2001 7:30PM Meany Theater 'AMERICA' C'J)ofF J'1-, OljO . ill f/Pplv. vS-e. PROG RAM ~ srlT1C.- SP1N&L.8) 8A:-NNtr<.. 1-=21 THE WIND ENSEMBLE o ;tP(J[C\!)S~ /' ,--- l1J ASPEN JUBILEE .••....... , ...........................\......!..Q ..:.. ~.;::..............................:.........................RON NELSON (8. 1929) . David Waltman, conductor I Jennifer-Leigh Miller, soprano ~ (D Vt\ Me-v1'TS -T, S.4-1. 2..\A.1 A-N .,.. J , . ( a' r::;=t-) ~ MINTON SPLAYHOUSE(1994) ............................................. J, ..; .......... ............................................. JAMES SYLER Saxophone Quartet: Brad Fitch I Barbara Larson I Scott Tewel I Sarah Cavassa Ef\ I1'P p lo.vs.e. Ii] A CORNFIELD IN JULY AND THE RIVER (1991 ) .............(. ...1.~lfa)............................. WILLIAM PENN (8. 1943) 1m . Julian Patrick, baritone LlJ t1-p pia v.s-e ~ARCTIC DREAMS (1991 ) ............................... ~~.\?..~)................................. MICHAEL COLGRASS (8. 1932) Inuit Landscape In Spring Light: Ice Floating in the Sea Throat Singing with Laughter The Hunt Whispering Voices o/the Spirits who Ride Drum Dancer with the Lights in the Sky Kristin Bush / Arianna Fillips I Sarena Hyman I Jeannette Mitchell ~ Y1 ) J-e.'fI";;. N..edY'vd J 6\1\c;.Y'(oi.... Wcdl€.~~S I ~ef$ INTERMISSION c..D~ I~,o,+! THE CONCERT BAND CD (OW'lWJVATS ,J), WA-t-TW\kN G] VICTORY AT SEA .....................c...:l.;..':f..?::.).. ................. RICHARD RODGERS (l902-1979)/R. R. BENNETI (ARR.) 1]) WHEN JESUS WEPT / CHESTER...........C.l.U..?:C?.2........................................ WILLIAM SCHUMAN (1910-1992) (performed without pause between piec~s) 11I AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL ....................c~.}.. ~.!) ......................... SAMUEL AUGUSTUS W ARD/CARMEN DRAGON Lb f sTi"\'1<- S lIND ~ TR I ~0 A:J«.j?It::rZ (D 1,0 «) ) I.... The music attempts to express what might have gone through ASPEN JUBILEE was commissioned in \984 by the Manatee the minds of those great musicians as they played a standard High School Band in Bradenton, Florida. Composer Ron ballad in the last set of the evening. Their thoughts must have Nelson's thoughts about Aspen Jubilee: been filled with the anticipation of experimenting with new ideas "I was thinking of the stupendous beauty of the Rockies in in an attempt to forge out a neW music. general, of blinding sunlight of snow-covered peaks; of the The U.S. Air Force Sax Quartet premiered Minton's Play frontier spirit of old Aspen with its brash, funny dynamism, house in 1995 with the U.s. Navy Band at George Mason Uni its Gorny ragtag Fourth of July parades and fireworks versity, Fairfax, Virginia for the 18th International Saxophone displays. I was also thinking about indescribably beautiful Symposium. Lt. Col. Alan Bonner, conductor. nights under star filled skies (the middle section is titled 'Nightsong'). There is only a passing nod to the Aspen which has now become a playground for the rich and famous. A .CORNFIELD IN JULY and THE RIVER is based upon the "I spent thirteen of the most memorable summers of my life writings of Hamlin Garlan, an American short-story writer and at the Aspen music festival. I was able to immerse myself in , novelist whose most· recognized work has been in the area of music, meet fascinating people, and recharge my batteries. realistic portraits, dealing with the lives, times and hardships of Each year it became progressively more expensive and t;-Iorthern Midwest farmers at the turn of the century. Tradition sophisticated, but I still associate it with wonderful music has it that he was born in a log cabin in the Midwest in 1860. An making." educational pursuit prompted his move to Boston in 1884, where he was influenced by the realism of William Dean Howells. He Ron Nelson wrote his first composition at age six and began subsequently returned to the Midwest in 1887, where he began to studying piano that same year. He taught himself to play string write his first stories based on the lives of the American farmer. bass in order to play in the Joliet Township High School band. The two major collections of short stories that came from this The director, Bruce Houseknecht, encouraged him to compose, period are Main-Travelled Roads (1891) and Prairie Folk so Dr. Nelson wrote a twenty-two minute concerto for piano and (1892); a companion volume, Other Main-Travelled Roads was symphoniC band, which he performed at age seventeen. He published in 1910. During the mid-1980s he toured around the studied composition at the Eastman School of Music with How country from New York to the Yukon Valley and in 1899, ard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Dr. Nelson earned his BMus married Zulime Taft and settled in Chicago. In 1930 he moved degree in 1952, MMus in 1953, and DMA in 1956, all from to Los Angeles, and lived there until his death in 1940. In 1921, :Eastman. He went to Paris in 1954 on a Fulbright Grant and A Daughter of the Middle Border. his second of four . studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique and the Paris Conser autobiographical narratives, won a Pulitzer Prize. vatory with Tony Aubin. Returning to Eastman, he became in The premiere performance of this work took place on " '.::.".'()\V~ w;th film music. ~ol:o:vin.6 graduation,. he jOin.e.d the l\Iovember 21, 1991 by Gary Green and the University of c;:. 'mUSIC faculty of Brown Umverslty 10 1956, served as ChaIrman Connecticut Wind Ensemble with Robert Maher, baritone soloist, -: of the Music Department from 1963 to 1973, and in 1991 became at Storrs, Connecticut. the first musician to be awarded the Roy Acuff Chair of Excel lence in the Creative Arts. Upon his retirement in 1993, he was A Cornfield in July n text named professor emeritus. An active composer, conductor, and ' clinician, Dr. Nelson now resides in Arizona. Some of his other A cornfield in July is a sticky place. The soil is hot and dry; works for band include Rocky Point Holiday (1969), Aspen the wind comes across the lazily murmuring leaves laden with Jubilee (1984), Resonances I (1991), Morning Alleluias (1991) a warm sickening smell drawn from the rapidly growing, and Passacaglia (Homage on B-A-C-H) (1992). His entire oeu broad-flung banners of the corn. The sun, nearly vertical, vre can be accessed at www.ronnelson.info. drops a flood of dazzling light and heat upon the field over Conductor Leonard Slatkin described Dr. Nelson thusly: which the cool shadows run, only to make the heat seem the "Nelson is the quintessential American composer. He has the more intense. The sun's nearly vertical. , ability to move between conservative and newer styles with ease. During the hot days of summer the river came to be of The fact that he's a little hard to categorize is what makes him greater value to those of us toiling in the hot com rows, and , interesting." trips for bathing and fishing were looked forward to with keenest longing, and remembered with deepest delight. Many of our sweetest recollections of nature were associated with , MINTON'S PLAYHOUSE is a composition written as a tribute these swimming excursions. To go from the dusty field of the 'to the early 1940's nightclub at 210 W. 118th Street in New York prairie farms to the wood shadows and to the cool murmuring City. The weekly jam sessions and after hours experimenting of water, to strip stark to the caressing winds, and to plunge in - that went on there, and at other area clubs played an important the deeps ofthe dappled pools, was like being born again. part in the development of bebop, and consequently marks the beginning of modern jazz. The River -- text In honor of the 50-year anniversary ofthis form of jazz this It comes from the meadow \york looks to the past, and at the same time, to the present. Where cool and deep, Using a sort of hybrid eclecticism, Minton's Playhouse is a jazz In the elm's dark shadow, based concert work employing bebop lines ala Charlie Parker In murmur ofdream and of sleep, and a jazz ballad of my own writing, in a sort of concerto grosso .etting for saxophone quartet and wind ensemble. And I, a bare-legged boy [girl] again, Can hear the low, sweet laugh of the river , - '''I ~" fA, ~ '''V \If .. ,," , " Y' rJ;. THE WIND ENSEMBLE *CONGRASSPffiCEONLY TRuMPET **SYLER PIECE ONLY John Bendetti, Sr., Music Perfonnance, Ravensdale Mike Dorr, Soph., Trumpet Performance, Lynnwood FLUTE Eri Inoue, Soph., Music, Toyama, Japan Svetlana Abramova, Fr., Music, Federal Way Josh Pfeiffer, Sr., Music & NeurObiology, Vancouver Dane Anderson, Sr., Music Perfonnance, Fresno, CA *Chris Seamens, Fr., Undeclared, Amber Cannon, Fr., Flute Performance, S. Jordan, UT Micah Warren, Grad., Math, Kirkland Jennifer Christie (+picc), Sr., Music Performance, *Hilma Yantis, Fr., Music Education, Vancouver Katharine Plimpton, Soph., Music Education, Seattle Trombone Catherine Ray, Fr., Chemistry, Seattle Dyne Eifertsen, Grad., Trombone Performance, Roseville, CA OBOE Stuart Hambley, Sr., Jazz Studies, Langley Lin Yuh-Pey, Grad., Music, Taiwan Ali Kazemian, Fr., Undeclared, Edmonds Chris Sigman, Jr., Music Performance, Lynnwood Jason Roe, Fr., Music Perfonnance/Psychology, Seattle Ashley Cragun, Sr., Music Performance, Pt. Angeles Karl Smith, Fr., Business, Spokane *Michael Leone, Sr., Music Ed, Mill Creek CLARINET Kristen Brady, Fr., Undeclared, San Luis Obispo, CA CONTRABASSOON