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COLLEGE OF FINE ARts ADMINistRatiON Benjamin E. Juarez, Dean Boston University Robert K. Dodson, Director, School of Music Jim Petosa, Director, School of Theatre Arts Tanglewood Institute Lynne Allen, Director, School of Visual Arts John Amend, Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration presents Patricia Mitro, Senior Assistant Dean of Enrollment Stephanie Trodello, Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations Laurel Homer, Director of Communications BUTI ADMINistRatiON Phyllis Hoffman, Executive and Artistic Director Young Artists Wind Ensemble Shirley Leiphon, Administrative Director Lisa Naas, Director of Operations and Student Life David Faleris, Program Administrator Grace Kennerly, Publications Coordinator Manda Shepherd, Office Coordinator Mandy Kelly, Office Assistant Jensen Ling, Private Lessons Coordinator and Assistant to the Program Administrator DAVID MARTINS, conductor Travis Dobson, Stage Crew Manager Steven Fulginiti, Paul Kinsman, Andres Trujillo, Matt Visconti, Stage Crew Shane McMahon, Recording Engineer Xiaodan Liu, Piano Technician YOUNG ARtists WIND ENSEMBLE FACULTY AND staFF David Martins, Conductor H. Robert Reynolds, Conductor Jennifer Bill, Wind Ensemble Coordinator and Saxophone Coach Franziska Huhn, Young Artists Harp Program Assistant Director, Coach Samuel Solomon, Percussion Coordinator and Coach Axiom Brass Quintet, Brass Coaches and Artists-in-Residence Dorival Puccini, Jr., Colin Oldberg, Matthew Oliphant, Caleb Lambert, Kevin Harrison Sunday Vento Chiaro Quintet, Woodwind Coaches and Artists-in-Residence Joanna Goldstein, Ana-Sofía Campesino, Chi-Ju Juliet Lai, Alexandra Berndt, Anne Howarth July 14, 2013 Michael Israelievitch, Percussion Coach Jessi Rosinski, Flute Coach 2:30pm Molly Walker, Clarinet Coach Thomas Weaver, Staff Pianist Seiji Ozawa Hall Betsy Polatin, Alexander Technique Instructor Jeremiah Moon, Librarian Florence Gould Auditorium SUPPORT FOR THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD Seiji Ozawa Hall INSTITUTE IS PROVIDED BY: Tanglewood Young Artists Wind Ensemble DAVID MARTINS, conductor bernstein Slava! Gillingham A Light Unto the Darkness hart Cartoon ~Intermission~ GRAINGER The Gum-Suckers March arr. Mark Rogers welcher Zion SPARKE The Year of the Dragon Toccata Interlude Finale IN MEMORIAM The Boston University Tanglewood Institute acknowledges with sadness the passing of Dr. Larry Jones on April 2, 2013. He was a devoted member of the BUTI Advisory Board. Larry’s love for music and This program is supported in part by awards from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Klarman Family his commitment to our young artists programs was evident in his constant presence here along with Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the ASCAP Foundation his support for the work of his wife, Dr. Ann Howard Jones, for 17 years conductor of the Young Artists Irving Caesar Fund, Zildjian, and the Bose Foundation. Chorus. His leadership was exemplary for the planning of BUTI’s 40th anniversary celebration as was his consistently generous support for the scholarship fund. To honor him and all that he has meant to Yamaha is the official piano of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, arranged in cooperation BUTI, all performances for the 2013 season are dedicated to his memory with our abiding gratitude and with Falcetti Music. affection. BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS DAVID MARTINS, conductor David Martins is Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is part of the educational and artistic pro- Adjunct Professor of Music at Boston University. He has degrees from the Eastman grams of the Boston University School of Music. Founded in 1873, the School of Music School of Music and the University of Lowell, College of Music and was a recipient of a combines the intimacy and intensity of conservatory training with a broadly based, Berkshire Music Festival Tanglewood Fellowship (now the Tanglewood Music Center). traditional liberal arts education at the undergraduate level and intense coursework at Professor Martins combines an active teaching and conducting schedule with a perfor- the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, composition and theory, mance career as a clarinetist performing in both orchestral and chamber music venues. musicology, music education, collaborative piano, historical performance, as well as a He is the Director of the Boston University Wind Ensemble and the University of Mas- certificate program in its Opera Institute, and artist and performance diplomas. sachusetts Lowell Wind Ensemble. Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized private research As the founding music director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensem- university with more than 30,000 students participating in undergraduate, graduate, bles, Professor Martins conducted the senior division from 2002–2012, including their and professional programs. BU consists of 17 colleges and schools along with a number performance at Carnegie Hall. He is Music Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Wind of multi-disciplinary centers and institutes which are central to the school’s research Symphony which, during his tenure of ten years, performed at the National Conference and teaching mission. The Boston University College of Fine Arts was created in 1954 of the Association of Concert Bands and commissioned numerous compositions. Dur- to bring together the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual ing the past several years, he has been in demand as a guest conductor and has con- ducted festival ensembles throughout the Eastern United States. From 1999 to 2006, Arts. The University’s vision was to create a community of artists in a conservatory- he served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute as Coordinator style school offering professional training in the arts to both undergraduate and gradu- of Wind Activities for the Young Artists Orchestra, and since the summer of 2005, has ate students, complemented by a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduate students. conducted the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Wind Ensemble. Since those early days, education at the College of Fine Arts has begun on the BU campus and extended into the city of Boston, a rich center of cultural, artistic and intel- He is a member of the clarinet section of the Boston Classical Orchestra and performs lectual activity. as a substitute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. For twenty–five years he performed as second clarinet with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with the Springfield Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Alea III, Musica Viva, Monadnock Music Festival and New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. In past years, he has toured with the Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra of Germany on their U. S. tours, the Puccini Festival Orchestra throughout Italy, and has performed six tours throughout Greece and Russia as soloist and member of the contemporary chamber ensemble Alea III. He can be heard on orchestral and chamber recordings on the CRI, Koch, Titanic, Gasparo and Albany labels. PROGRAM NOTES LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE Slava! The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is a program within the School of Music in Leonard Bernstein, a renaissance man in his own right, is perhaps considered the American the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. musical voice of the Twentieth Century. A composer, conductor, educator, and philanthro- pist, Bernstein encapsulated in his music the sound of the American landscape during the In 1966, educational programs at Tanglewood were extended to younger students of turmoil of WWII through the anti-war movements of the 1970s with the fall of the Berlin high-school age, when Erich Leinsdorf invited the Boston University College of Fine Wall and Soviet Communism. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1918 and the son of Russian immigrants, he attended Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and the Curtis Arts to become involved with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s activities in the Berk- Institute of Music. In the summers of 1940 and 1941 he studied conducting at the Tangle- shires. wood Music Center with Serge Koussevitzky. During his time at Tanglewood, Bernstein was influenced deeply by Koussevitzky’s instruction as well as the musical ideals of his dear Today, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, in its unique association with the friend Aaron Copland. Just two years later, Bernstein became instantly famous by filling Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center, is recognized inter- in last minute for Bruno Walter for a national broadcast of the New York Philharmonic on nationally as an outstanding educational opportunity for young artists. Under the November 14, 1943. He would eventually become music director of the New York Philhar- guidance of dedicated, established professionals, and in the constant presence of the monic in 1958. Additionally, his Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah” was premiered by the Pittsburgh Symphony in January 1944 followed by Fancy Free and On the Town by the end of the year. Boston Symphony Orchestra, young people devote themselves each summer to an Bernstein came into even further fame with the popularity of West Side Story, Candide, and artistic experience