UCLA Wind Ensemble

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Music Presents UCLA Wind Ensemble “American Inspirations” Travis J. Cross Conductor H. Robert Reynolds Guest Conductor Ian Richard Graduate Assistant Conductor Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:00 p.m. Schoenberg Hall — PROGRAM — Overture to Candide ................................... Leonard Bernstein/Clare Grundman O Magnum Mysterium ........................... Morten Lauridsen/H. Robert Reynolds H. Robert Reynolds, conductor Sketches on a Tudor Psalm ................................................................ Fisher Tull — BRIEF INTERMISSION — George Washington Bridge ..................................................... William Schuman H. Robert Reynolds, conductor Dusk .............................................................................................. Steven Bryant Ian Richard, conductor Zion ................................................................................................ Dan Welcher * * * * * Please join the members of the UCLA Wind Ensemble for a reception in the Schoenberg Hall lobby immediately following the concert. The reception is sponsored by UCLA’s Epsilon Kappa chapter of Tau Beta Sigma and the Psi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, national honorary band sorority and fraternity. The UCLA Wind Ensemble extends a special thank you to Michele Eckart, Corey Frey, Kathleen Moon, and the rest of the Schoenberg theater staff. Thanks also to Umberto Belfiore, Luis Heñao, and Loren Nerell for their assistance recording and webcasting. * * * * * * * ABOUT THE ARTISTS TRAVIS J. CROSS serves as associate professor of music and department vice chair at the Herb Alpert School of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band and directs the graduate program in wind conducting. As wind ensemble conductor for five years at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Cross led students in per- formances at the Virginia Music Educators Association conference, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall and developed the Virginia Tech Band Directors Institute into a major summer conducting workshop. Cross earned doctor and master of music degrees in conducting from North- western University in Evanston, Ill., and the bachelor of music degree cum laude in vocal and instrumental music education from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. His principal teachers were Mallory Thompson and Timothy Mahr. Prior to graduate study, he taught for four years at Edina (Minn.) High School, where he conducted two concert bands and oversaw the marching band program. In 2004, Cross participated in the inaugural Young Conductor/Mentor Project sponsored by the National Band Association. The same year, he received the Distinguished Young Band Director Award from the American School Band Directors Association of Minnesota. From 2001–2003, Cross served a two-year term as the recent graduate on the St. Olaf College Board of Regents. In 2006, he was named a Jacob K. Javits Fellow by the United States Department of Education. From 2011-2015, he served two terms as national vice president for professional relations for Kappa Kappa Psi, the national honorary band fraternity. Cross contributed a chapter to volume four of Composers on Composing for Band, available from GIA Publications. His more than 20 original compositions and arrangements are published by Boosey & Hawkes, Daehn Publica- tions, and Theodore Music. He has appeared as a guest conductor, composer, and clinician in several states, Canada, China, Korea, Thailand, and at the Mid- west Clinic and leads honor bands and other ensembles in Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Da- kota, South Carolina, and Virginia during the 2015–2016 season. H. ROBERT REYNOLDS is the principal conductor of the Wind Ensemble at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he holds the H. Robert Reynolds Professorship in Wind Conducting. This appointment followed his retirement, after 26 years, from the School of Music of the University of Michigan, where he served as the Henry F. Thurnau Professor of Music, director of university bands, and director of the division of instrumental studies. In addition to these responsibilities, he has also been, for over 30 years, the conductor of The De- troit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily of members from the Detroit Symphony. Reynolds has conducted recordings for Koch International, Pro Arte, Caprice, and Deutsche Grammophon. In the United States, he has conducted at Carne- gie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Powell Symphony Hall (St. Louis), Academy of Music (Philadelphia), and Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles). In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an opera for La Scala Opera (Milan, Italy) and concerts at the prestigious Maggio Musicale (Florence, Italy), Tonhalle (Zurich, Switzerland), and Holland Festival in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, Holland), as well as the 750th anniversary of the City of Berlin. He has won the praise of composers: Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, Henryk Górecki, Karel Husa, Gyorgy Ligeti, Darius Milhaud, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others for his interpretive conducting of their compositions. Reynolds has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Duquesne University and, in addition, holds degrees in music education and performance from the University of Michigan, where he was the conducting student of Elizabeth Green. He began his career in the public schools of Michigan and California before beginning his university conducting at California State University, Long Beach, and the University of Wisconsin prior to his tenure at the University of Michigan. He received the Citation of Merit from the Music Alumni Associa- tion of the University of Michigan for his contributions to the many students he has influenced during his career and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Michigan Band Alumni Association. He is also an honorary life member of the Southern California School Band & Orchestra Association. Reynolds is past president of the College Band Directors National Association and the Big Ten Band Directors Association. He has received the highest national awards from Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Mu, National Band Association, and American School Band Directors Association, and he was awarded the “Medal of Honor” by the Midwest Clinic—An International Band and Orchestra Conference. He is the recipient of a “Special Tribute” from the State of Michigan, and he served for many years on the national awards panel for the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and in 2001 received a national award from this organization for his contributions to contemporary American music. He is also listed in the Grove Dictionary of American Music, and his frequent conducting appearances have included (among others) the Eastman School of Music, New England Conser- vatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Northwestern University, Manhattan School of Music, Tanglewood Institute, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Reynolds has been a featured conductor and lecturer at international confer- ences in Austria, Norway, Belgium, England, Holland, Slovenia, Sweden, Ger- many, Denmark, and Switzerland. He has conducted in many of the major cit- ies of Japan, Spain, and Sweden, including concerts with the Stockholm Wind Orchestra, Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, and professional wind ensembles in Bilbao and Barcelona, Spain. Many of his former students now hold major conducting positions at leading conservatories and universities, and several have been national presidents of CBDNA. IAN RICHARD is pursuing a master of music degree in conducting at the University of California, Los Angeles. He previously taught for four years at Harrisonburg and Rappahannock County high schools in Virginia. He cur- rently directs the Open Academy Orchestra, which serves middle and high school students in the mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. Richard earned a bachelor of music degree in music education from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he played tuba in the wind symphony, symphony orchestra, and brass band and served as drum major of the Marching Royal Dukes. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lauren. NOTES Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide Born in Massachusetts to Russian immigrant parents, Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as both a conductor and composer, becoming one of the most important figures in the history of American classical music. He first received widespread attention conducting the New York Philharmonic for a national radio broadcast at the age of 25, stepping in on short notice for the ailing Bruno Walter. He later became conductor and music director of the same orchestra, with which he also led a special series of televised concerts for young people. Bernstein enjoyed long associations with the Boston Symphony Or- chestra at Tanglewood and the Vienna Philharmonic, and he guest conducted virtually every major orchestra in the world. A prolific composer of music for both the concert hall and the Broadway stage, Bernstein often incorporated jazz rhythms and harmonies into his classical music and frequently explored mixed and asymmetrical meters. Candide opened on Broadway in 1956, a collaboration between Bernstein, lyricist Lillian Hellman, author Richard Wilbur, and director Tyrone Guthrie. Falling somewhere

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