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Symphonic Wind Ensemble Sacramento State Symphonic Wind Ensemble Flute Tenor Sax Euphonium Olivia Chaikin Michael Buckman Vincent Salvitti Kelly Bacon George Preston Kristen Hogan Baritone Sax Gabriel Meline Andie Stokes Tuba Javier Ramirez Daniel Coronado Scott Stewart Evan Charles Oboe/English Horn Horn Erik Moberg Natasha Buckman String Bass Symphonic Wind Ensemble Maximilianó Elam Arianna Guntvedt Teddy White Veloy Tafoya Dr. Matthew Morse, director Clarinet Ryan Datar Harp Madison Armstrong Emily Mader with guest Luis Cruz Trumpet Emma Keisler Ruvem Kutsar Piano/Celeste Cosumnes River College Concert Band Natassjah Diaz Jordyn Kennell Paul Salzberg Maxwell Kiesner, director Noah Blevins Jared Blum Zhanna Belokopytova Hannah Minge Amanda Lopes Taylor Browne Samuel Elmore Percussion Justin Nguyen Colin Matthewson Marcos Torres Grant Johnson Bassoon Trombone Ismael Lopez Owen Polkinghorn Joseph Murray Jonah Wagner Martin Uytingco Wesley Schoch Morgan Resendes Fritz Heilbron Christopher Harris Alto Sax Vince Hjerpe James McCarthy Bass Trombone Dr. Matthew Morse Samantha Wilbanks Autumn Istre Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. March 4, 2020 Capistrano Concert Hall Program Personnel Cosumnes River College Concert Band Maxwell Kiesner, conductor Cosumnes River College Concert Band Scenes of Wonder (1994) Mark Williams (1955-2008) I. Stonehenge Dulcimer Horn II. The Louvre Wenying Wu Cesar Zarate III. Fiesta de Pamplona Susan Balkan Flute Julianne Draper Dreamsong (2006) Richard Saucedo (b.1957) Donna Hannickel Wenying Wu, hammered dulcimer soloist Saverio Bernardi Trumpet Grant Johnson Kevin Adams Suite Provençale (1989) Jan Van der Roost (b. 1956) Hunter Franklin I. Un ange a fa la crido Clarinet II. Adam e sa Coumpagno Lynn Tetlow Trombone III. Lou Fustie Lonna Johnson Jason Elmore IV. Lis Escoubo Lina Crouson Andy Vo Gabriel Umali Amber Long Brid Og Ni Mhaille for Elaine Gierek arr. J. McLaughlin/P. Harrington Bass Clarinet Euphonium Abraham Perez Corona Phillip Long BRIEF INTERMISSION Ryan Hache Contra/Alto Clarinet David Wood Tuba Sacramento State Symphonic Wind Ensemble John Caves Bite the Bullet (2018) California Premiere Jorge Machain (b. 1993) Bassoon Eby Ifyefobi Dr. Clay Redfield, conductor Angela Flanery Percussion Alto Sax Daniel Snell Theme and Variations Op. 43a (1943) Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Joshua Elmore Zamaria Nichelson Dr. Matthew Morse, conductor Matthew Pabon Nova Sharma Vesuvius (1999) Frank Ticheli (b. 1958) Tenor Sax Arianna Guntvedt, graduate conducting associate Tobechi Maduchukwu Hymn to a Blue Hour (2010) John Mackey (b. 1973) Baritone Sax Adam Santos The Cowboys (1972/2007) John Williams (b. 1932) arr. by Jay Bocook Dr. Matthew Morse, conductor School of Music | csus.edu/music School of Music | csus.edu/music Program Notes Program Notes a sense of nostalgic remorse and longing -- an overwhelming sadness that is the Mark Williams was an American composer and band director. Mr. Williams held same as the typically morose jazz form. Blue also has a strong affiliation with the Bachelor of Arts in education and Master of Education degrees from Eastern nobility, authority, and calmness. All of these notions are woven into the fabric of Washington University, and served as woodwind performer and arranger for the the piece. The piece is composed largely from three recurring motives -- first, a 560th Air Force Band. One of the premier composers for school bands and cascade of falling thirds; second, a stepwise descent that provides a musical sigh; orchestras, Mr. Williams had over 200 published works to his credit. Renowned for and third, the descent's reverse: an ascent that imbues hopeful optimism. From his compositions for band, orchestra, and choir, Mr. Williams earned numerous the basic framework of these motives stated at the outset of the work, a beautiful awards including the Western International Band Clinic's Gralia Competition and duet emerges between horn and euphonium. This melody superimposes a several ASCAP Special Awards. Scenes of Wonder is a suite in three movements, sensation of joy over the otherwise “blue” emotive context -- a melodic line that each expressing the different emotions felt when visiting certain “scenes of over a long period of time spins the work to a point of catharsis. In this climactic wonder” in Europe. The first movement, “Stonehenge”, with its intricate moment, the colors are at their brightest, enveloping their surroundings with an harmonies and “rock solid” style, depicts the power and mystery of the ancient angelic glow. As is the case with the magical blue hour, the moment cannot last monument. The second movement, “The Louvre”, is written in an impressionistic for long, and just as steadily as they arrived, the colors dissipate into the style and features beautiful solo opportunities for trumpet, trombone and horn. encroaching darkness, eventually succumbing at the work's conclusion with a The suite concludes with “Fiesta de Pamplona”, a rollicking “paso doble” in 5/4 sense of peaceful repose. - Program note by Jake Wallace time conveying the excitement of the “running of the bulls” in Pamplona, Spain. John Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Williams studied Richard Saucedo was Director of Bands at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. piano and composition at the UCLA and The Juilliard School in New York City. By Under his direction, Carmel bands received numerous state and national honors the time he was in his late twenties, he was an active jazz and studio pianist and in the areas of concert, jazz, and marching. The Indiana Bandmasters Association began composing music for television and films. In 1974 he met an ambitious named Mr. Saucedo Indiana's “Bandmaster of the Year” for 1998-99. Mr. Saucedo young director named Steven Spielberg, and the two forged a friendship that is a freelance arranger and composer, having released numerous marching band would prove to be one of the most successful partnerships in the history of arrangements, concert band works, and choral compositions. He is currently on filmmaking. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the writing staff for Hal Leonard Corporation, and is constantly in demand as an the most famous film scores in Hollywood history, including Star Wars, Superman, adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor. Mr. Saucedo did his undergraduate the first three Harry Potter movies, and all but two of Steven Spielberg's feature work at Indiana University in Bloomington and finished his Masters at Butler films, including the Indiana Jones series, Schindler's List, E.T., Jurassic Park, and University in Indianapolis. On Dreamsong, Mr Saucedo writes: Jaws. The Cowboys is a typical example of John Williams’s capacity to enrich a Anyone who has children knows what a blessing they are. I am extremely film story with an almost narrative musical score. Taken from the 1972 motion fortunate to have my wonderful daughter, Carmen, who puts up with my crazy picture “The Cowboys” starring John Wayne, Williams’ score complements the teaching, writing, and travel schedule, and still treats me wonderfully. The story of a 60-year-old Montana cattleman who enlists and mentors ten original title of this piece was “Little One’s Dream,” and comes from the fact that I schoolboys as cowboys after the regular ranch hands have left with Gold Rush have always referred to her as my “little one!’ Like any parent, she will always be fever. The music conveys the high spirit of wild horses and their taming, jollity my “little one” no matter how old she is. Obviously, one of my main goals in life is around the campfire, loneliness of the open range, and the beauty of the plains. to help Carmen achieve her dreams (and she has many!). This piece is my way of Williams describes the motivation to create a concert piece from this music in saying that I will always support her as she tries to reach those dreams. these words from the program notes in the score: The movie required a vigorous musical score to accompany virtuoso horseback Jan Van der Roost studied trombone, history of music, and musical education at riding and calf roping, and when my friend André Previn heard fragments of the the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven (Belgium) and continued his studies at the Royal score, he suggested that a concert overture lay hidden within the film's music. Conservatoires of Ghent and Antwerp, where he qualified as a conductor and a Several years slipped by, and each time I saw the indefatigable Previn he would composer. At present, he teaches at the Lemmensinstituut, is special guest ask, “Have you made an overture of Cowboys yet?” He kept this up until 1980, professor at the “Shobi Institute of Music” in Tokyo, guest professor at the when I finally worked out the piece and played it at a Boston pops concert. Both “Nagoya University of Art”, and visiting professor at Senzoku Gakuen in Kawasaki the orchestra and audience seemed to enjoy the music to such an extent that it (Japan). Besides being a prolific composer, he is very much in demand as an has been part of our repertoire ever since. adjudicator, lecturer, clinician and a guest conductor, and his compositions are School of Music | csus.edu/music School of Music | csus.edu/music Program Notes Program Notes being performed and recorded all over the world. Suite Provençale is a four- by his friend and president of G. Schirmer Music, Carl Engel. While not written in movement suite is based on authentic folk tunes from the beautiful southern the composer’s famed twelve-tone style, Schoenberg still believed Opus 43a to be province in France, the “Provence”. The instrumentation is very colorful, paying a of practical and artistic significance. The piece is comprised of a 21-measure lot of attention to the different timbres of both brass and woodwinds as well as to theme followed by seven variations and a finale.
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