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Ithaca College Digital Commons IC All Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs 10-2-1999 Concert: Grand Opening Concert for the James J. Whalen Center For Music: Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Stephen Peterson, conductor Ithaca College Wind Ensemble Stephen Peterson Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Ithaca College Wind Ensemble; Peterson, Stephen; Ithaca College Choir; Doebler, Lawrence; Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra; Peltz, Charles; and Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, "Concert: Grand Opening Concert for the James J. Whalen Center For Music: Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Stephen Peterson, conductor" (1999). All Concert & Recital Programs. 7861. https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/7861 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons IC. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons IC. Authors Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Stephen Peterson, Ithaca College Choir, Lawrence Doebler, Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, Charles Peltz, and Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra This program is available at Digital Commons IC: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/7861 ITHACA SCHOOL g~LLEGEMUSIC TIS A PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU to the grand opening of the James J. Whalen Center for Music. Following several years of planning, construction of the facility started in December 1997 and I was completed during the summer of 1999. Students and faculty began to occupy portions of the facil- ity in March 1999 and have been thrilled with the enhanced opportunities for music study, rehearsal, and performance that the new space offers. New construction adds 68,000 square feet to the 72,000 square feet originally provided by Ford Hall, the home of the School of Music since 1965. Among the major new spaces in the Whalen Center are a recital hall, large rehearsal halls, a lecture hall, classrooms, faculty teaching studios, and an ensemble library. The four-story atrium that connects a large portion of the new construction to the original building is breathtaking. The over- all effect of the center's design is one of b eauty and functionality, making the Whalen Center one of the finest facilities for music study in the country. The capital campaign for the Whalen Center was announced in December 1996 and was successfully completed two years later. The School of Music wishes to thank Marjorie Rooke Schwab '69, the campaign committee, and the many donors who made it all possible. We owe particular thanks to president emeritus James J. Whalen, under whose leadership the campaign and construction began and for whom the center is named. We also thank President Peggy R. Williams for seeing the project to completion. Tonight's concert celebrates the completion of the James J. Whalen Center for Music. It brings together the talents of students, faculty, and alumni in solo and ensemble settings that present a wide range of music in a variety of styles. It also features music composed and arranged by Ithaca College faculty-music that is part of the large body of repertoire performed by ensembles well beyond the Ithaca campus. There is probably no music more exciting to an audience than a large ensemble with soloists, and three different pieces in the pro- gram tonight will feature soloists in a variety of settings. This concert pays tribute to some of the people who played significant roles in the history of the School of Music while also highlighting today's distinguished faculty and students. Music remains at the core of Ithaca College. With the added resources of the new James J. Whalen Center for Music, the School of Music is now poised, together with the College's other schools, to move with continued excellence into the new millennium. Arthur E. Ostrander Dean, School of Music RAND OPENING CONCERT FOR THE JAMES J. WHALEN CENTER FOR MUSIC G Ford Hall October 2, 1999 8:15 p.m. Welcome Arthur E. Ostrander, Dean, School of Music Overture to Candide (1956) Leonard Bernstein ( 1918-90) Col. Arnald D. Gabriel '50, M.M. '60, guest conductor arr. Walter Beeler '30 Rhapsody in Blue (1923) George Gershwin (1898-1937) Read Gainsford, piano arr. Thomas Verrier '87 Triplets of the Finest Paul Henneberg (1863-1929) Frank Campos, Kim Dunnick, James Ode, cornets Ithaca College Wind Ensemble, Stephen Peterson, conductor Frostiana (1959) Randall Thompson (1899-1984) The Road Not Taken Text by Robert Frost The Pasture "" I Come In The Telephone A Girl's Garden Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Choose Something Like a Star Ithaca College Choir, Lawrence Doebler, conductor Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, Charles Peltz '83, conductor Intermission Celebracion (1997) Karel Busa (b. 1921) Wallin' (1997) Dana Wilson (b. 1946) Konzertstiicke in F Major, op. 86 (1851) Robert Schumann (1810-56) Horn soloists: John Fairfield '75, Richard Graef '89, Richard Menaul '76, Gail Williams '73 Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra, Charles Peltz '83, conductor IOGRAPHIES OF CONDUCTORS AND SOLOISTS Frank Campos, a professor of trumpet in the School of Music, has had extensive professional expe- B rience. Currently principal trumpet with the Binghamton Symphony Orchestra and the BC Pops Orchestra, he was formerly principal trumpet with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, the Texas Baroque Ensemble, Dallas Brass, and the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra. He was also a member of the Fort Worth Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic Orchestras and has performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Hope, and Johnny Mathis. In addition, he was a featured soloist with the University of North Texas 1:00 Lab Band and the Dallas Cowboys Band. A Yamaha artist, Campos earned his bachelor's degree at California State University, Fresno, and his master's degree at the University of North Texas, where he won the Pi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Master's and Doctoral Student Awards as well as the Hexter Prize for outstanding graduate student. Lawrence Doebler is a professor in the School of Music, where he is director of choral activities. Currently in his 22nd year at the College, Doebler conducts the choir, madrigal singers, and choral union and teaches conducting (both in undergraduate courses and to graduate majors privately), choral techniques, and choral literature. Early training in keyboard, strings, voice, and brass led to degrees in conducting from Oberlin College and Washington University. Doebler began his professional career in 1969 at Smith College. From 1971 through 1978 he taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1979 he founded the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival. Outstanding high school choirs have given over 100 performances of works by international composers who were finalists in the competition. Doebler has received several awards for research and teaching excellence from the University of Wisconsin and Ithaca College and has appeared throughout the eastern and midwestern United States as a clinician and guest conductor. He edits "no barline" Renaissance music, and his works are published in the Roger Dean catalog, issued by the Lorenz Publishing Company. Doebler has served as director of music at churches in Cleveland, St. Louis, Madison, and Ithaca. He is currently music director of the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, a professional chamber choir in Ithaca. Kim Dunnick, a former member of the United States Army Band in Washington, D.C., and the Knoxville Symphony, is now principal trumpet with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and the Elmira Symphony. From 1978 to 1987 he played solo trumpet for the Victoria (Texas) Bach Festival Orchestra. He has also performed [ with the Binghamton Symphony Orchestra, the BC Pops Orchestra, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. A former student of Charles Gorham, Louis Davidson, David Flowers, and Herbert Mueller, Dunnick holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Indiana University and a master's degree from Catholic University of America. Author of several articles on the trumpet, he has served as a book review editor for the International Trumpet Guild Journal since 1976 and is currently the guild's president. Dunnick has taught trumpet at Indiana University as a graduate assistant and at Tennessee Technological University as an assistant professor. He is currently professor of music at Ithaca College, where he was awarded a Dana Teaching Fellowship in 1986 for excellence in teaching. John Fairfield '75 has been professor of horn and chamber music at Northern Illinois University since 1985. A native of New York State, he earned a bachelor of music degree at Ithaca College in 1975 and a master of music degree at Northwestern University in 1977. In addition to his duties at NIU, Fairfield is active as a chamber musician and occasional soloist throughout the Chicago area. He has served as principal horn with the Chicago Sinfonietta since 1987, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra since 1990, the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra since 1992, and the Illinois Chamber Symphony Orchestra since 1996. Fairfield is a member of Midsummer's Music, a mixed chamber ensemble that performs in Door County, Wisconsin. He also performs regularly with many other groups, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Symphony II, the Millar Brass Ensemble, and Mr. Jack Daniel's Original Cornet Band. Col. Arnald D. Gabriel '50, M.M. '60, retired from the United States Air Force in 1985, at which time he was awarded an unprecedented third Legion of Merit for his service to the air force and to music education through- out the country during his distinguished 36-year military career. He was commander/conductor of the interna- tionally renowned United States Air Force Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Singing Sergeants from 1964 to 1985. In 1990 he was named the first conductor emeritus of the air force band at a special concert held at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.