University of Toronto Wind Symphony Jeffrey Reynolds, Conductor

University of Toronto Wind Symphony Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor

Saturday, October 13, 2018 7:30 pm MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. University of Toronto Wind Symphony

Jeffrey Reynolds, conductor

PROGRAM

Fall Fair Godfrey Ridout (1918-1984)

Dusk Steven Bryant (b. 1972)

English Dances Derek Healey (b. 1936) i. Processional (Morris Dance) ii. Cheshire Rounds (Country Dance) iii. Jenny Pluck Pears (Elizabethan Dance) iv. How d’ye do, Sir? (Morris Dance) v. Pop Goes the Weasel (Morris Dance) vi. Sir Roger de Coverly (Country Dance)

Intermission

English Folk Song Suite Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) i. March - Seventeen Come Sunday ii. Intermezzo - My Bonny Boy iii. March - Folk Songs from Somerset

Culloden Julie Giroux (b. 1961) i. Heilan Lochs, Bairns and Heather ii. I Hae Grat for Tho’ I Kend iii. We Toomed Our Stoops for the Gaudy Sodgers Wind Symphony

Flute Saxophone Tuba Nerses Amirkhanyan Sydney Chiu Mateo Giron (Piccolo) Thomas Chong Tony Luo Kaitlyn Aquino Chiara Fernando Pinar Ayverdi Jovanka Rodrigo- Lynette Choi Candappa Double Bass Lisa Han Benjamin Rositsan Shaun Rogers Sophia Han Nicole Tse Sierra Kim* Marco Wong (Soprano) Jennifer Lee Percussion Annie Lu Shaked Danieli Alana Ngo (Piccolo) Horn Evan Deveaux Rebekah Tam Rosa Alaimo Boyce Jeffries (Teaching David Hunter Assistant) Benjamin Law* Keshav Sharma-Jaitly Oboe Sophie Shah Jacob Valcheff Eric Luo Catherine Wang* Qiuchen Wang Luca Ortolani Shin Yu Wang Nathan Williams Joanne Yin Piano English Horn Vivid Ma Eric Luo Trumpet Matthew Banfield Harp Clarinet Boris Chung Kayla Falkenholt Mary-Anne Barter (Bass) Samantha Dale Rowyn Campbell Jaya Dickson Carina Chan (Contra-alto) Charlotte MacIntosh *ensemble managers Gennady Grebenchuk Bailey Underwood-Doe Adam Heagle Ben Yoon Tommaso Masnari (E flat) MacMillan Theatre Jolynn Robbins (Bass) Ian Albright, Steve Seo Trombone Technical Director

Christopher Slade Maria Bayato Olivia Tenn Abigale Erwied Les Stockley, Technical Assistant Simone Viola Christian Fernando Jack Gagner Solivan Lau Ross Hammond, Bassoon Production Assistant Gabrielle Eber Rebecca Finn Euphonium Malou Gloria Raymond Chiu Performance Collection Zenghao Wang Michele Sevaggi Karen Wiseman, Librarian PROGRAM NOTES

Godfrey Ridout was born in School with John Corigliano, at the Toronto in 1918 and died in 1984. University of North Texas with Cindy He received his musical education McTee, and at Ouachita University in Toronto under Ettore Mazzoleni, with W. Francis MacBeth. Charles Peaker and Healey Willan. Ridout was appointed to the staff of About the work he says: “This simple, the Toronto Conservatory of Music chorale-like work captures the (now the Royal Conservatory) in reflective calm of dusk, paradoxically 1939 and to the Faculty of Music, illuminated by the fiery hues of University of Toronto, in 1948 where sunset. I’m always struck by the he was an Associate Professor. He dual nature of this experience, retired from the Faculty of Music in as if witnessing an event of epic 1982. proportions silently occurring in slow motion. Dusk is intended as a Fall Fair, written in 1961 for a concert short, passionate evocation of this at the United Nations, is his most moment of dramatic stillness.” (From frequently performed composition. publisher’s notes) The present transcription, by Stephen Bulla, was commissioned by the Dr. Derek Healey was born in Ridout family and premiered in Wargrave, in the south of England; 2014 at the Faculty of Music by the studied with Herbert Howells at the Wind Symphony under the direction Royal College of Music, London, of Tony Gomes. As an exuberant and with Boris Porena and Gofredo musical depiction of one of Ontario’s Petrassi in Italy. He has won prizes most joyful celebrations, the piece in the UK, Italy and the USA and is a complete success. From the has taught Theory, Composition opening fanfare, through trills and and World Music at the Universities excited exchanges across the of Victoria, Toronto, Guelph and ensemble, to the lyrical contrasting Oregon, finally becoming Academic melody, sharing the same opening Professor of Music at the RAF School pitches as the fanfare, the work of Music in Uxbridge, England. expresses excitement and joyful Healey has written works in most energy. It is most deserving of its genres, having had some 50 works popularity and we are proud to published in the UK, Canada and present it tonight. the USA. His earlier neo classic style gave way to atonal and aleatoric The American composer Steven influences in the 1960s. Bryant composed Dusk in 2004 on a commission from the Langley The present work, English Dances, High School Wind Symphony and its treats traditional material from conductor, Andrew Gekoskie. Bryant Great Britain in often humorous and studied composition at The Juilliard sometimes profound settings of considerable complexity, employing Bushes” are found in the middle polytonality and complex rhythms. movement, Intermezzo, one of the Among the tunes Healey weaves most enduringly beautiful pieces of into this work are “Chester Rounds,” music in any repertoire. “Jenny Pluck Pears,” “How d’ye Do, Sir?,” “Pop Goes the Weasel” and Julie Giroux received her musical “Sir Roger de Coverly.” Originally training at Louisiana State University written for the University of Oregon and Boston University, studying Percussion Ensemble in 1987, this composition with John Williams, Bill set of six dances was rewritten for Conti and Jerry Goldsmith. She is a wind ensemble in 2004, and, along superb orchestrator, giving her work with his One Midsummer Morning, rich and varied timbres. She has a setting of English folk songs, has composed for film and television, enriched immeasurably the wind earning several Emmy nominations, band repertoire. and arranged for such artists as Celine Dion, Little Richard and Another eminent orchestral composer Michael Jackson. In addition to these gave the wind repertoire one of commercial music successes she has its most enduring staples, English composed extensively for wind band, Folk Song Suite. Ralph Vaughan and Culloden is a strong example of Williams collected folk songs from her writing. villages across Britain, along with his friend and compatriot Gustav About the work Giroux writes, Holst, as part of a wave of interest “Culloden is an attempt to present in folk music towards the end of the the folk and Gaelic “commoners” 19th century and into the twentieth. music from the 1745-6 period of Written for the Royal Military School Scotland in my own way, without of Music and premiered there in losing its original charm and 1923, the Suite was subsequently flavour…[fulfilling] my desire to see transcribed for orchestra and then them breathe the air of the 21st brass band, becoming a staple of the century.” Timbres recalling the repertoires of all three ensembles. sounds of bagpipes, fiddles and This work, and the suites by Holst, marching drums alternate with tunes pioneered the composition of more reflecting the “dark, still waters of serious repertoire than often played the lochs,” creating, in her words, a by bands of the day. “kaleidoscope of colourful sounds and pictures.” Among the many The first and last movements are Scottish tunes included in this three- marches, “Seventeen Come Sunday” movement work are “Blue Bonnets and “Pretty Caroline” in the first and Over the Border,” “My Love is But “Blow Away the Morning Dew,” “High a Lassie Yet,” “The Duke of Perth,” Germany,” “The Tree So High” and “The Feet Washing,” “The Rover” and “John Barleycorn” in the third. The “The Nuptial Knot.” haunting “My Bonny Boy” and “Green Program Notes by Jeffrey Reynolds. Biography

Jeffrey Reynolds has conducted Prior to the University of Toronto, major ensembles and at various he taught at Malaspina College times has taught trumpet, and McMaster University and for conducting, jazz education, several years was an instrumental jazz history and chamber music specialist with the Scarborough since the early 1980s. Presently Board of Education. Dr. Reynolds is Brass Area Head, he served as the author of a trumpet pedagogy Performance Coordinator for book in the Dummies series, five years, until 2015. He holds a Trumpet for Dummies, has recently PhD in the philosophy of music completed the compilation of education and a Master of Music trumpet repertoire for the Royal in trumpet performance. Dr. Conservatory of Music, along with Reynolds has performed and Dr. Gillian MacKay, and contributes recorded as a trumpeter with the articles to several journals. He Calgary Philharmonic, Victoria frequently conducts workshops in Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, southern Ontario schools, and is in Hannaford Street Silver Band, the demand as an adjudicator at music Stratford Festival Ensemble and the festivals across the country. Orchestra of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, as well as many other orchestral, chamber and solo performances. Upcoming Large Ensemble Performances

Then and Now U of T Wind Ensemble with James Campbell, clarinet Fri Oct 19 at 7:30 pm MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park

Voices of the Land and Sea MacMillan Singers and Women’s Chamber Choir with special guest Jenny Blackbird Sun Oct 21 at 2:30 pm Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor Street West

Kurt Weill’s Street Scene U of T Opera’s Fall Main Stage Production Thu Nov 22, Fri Nov 23 and Sat Nov 24 at 7:30 pm Sun Nov 25 at 2:30 pm MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park

A Child’s Prayer Choristers from the Schola Cantorum and Theatre of Early Music Sat Nov 24 at 5 pm Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue

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