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Maureen Hurd Rutgers Wind Ensemble WIND BAND CLASSICS The opportunity to record Michael Daugherty’s Brooklyn Bridge has given Photo: Larry Levanti The Rutgers Wind Ensemble Maureen Hurd a unique chance to come full circle. While a resident of presents concerts at the highest City, her great-great-grandfather, Robert Lipton, an Irish immigrant, attended the artistic level, performing both opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, not long after landing in New York from masterworks of the wind Ireland at the age of seventeen. Lipton later continued his journey westward, repertoire and new works, STRANGE HUMORS putting down roots in and becoming mayor of a bucolic town in Iowa where Hurd including pieces composed was born and raised. Now a Brooklyn resident herself, Hurd has performed as expressly for the group. In 2005, soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist throughout Europe, Asia and the group performed at the Mackey • Daugherty • Syler North America. She has appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and with the CBNDA National Conference Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and in performances of contemporary chamber held at New York University and music at New York’s Merkin Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln also presented a concert at Maureen Hurd, Clarinet • Todd Quinlan, Timpani Center in Alice Tully Hall. She has been a frequent featured performer at Carnegie Hall later that spring. International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests® and she has appeared in concert The Ensemble played in Town Rutgers Wind Ensemble • William Berz in Japan, South Korea, France, England, Canada and Mexico. She has also Hall in 2000 and Symphony Photo: Danika Knop recorded for the MSR Classics and Marquis Classics labels, most recently a CD Space in 2009, both in New York including première recordings of clarinet works by Evan Hause, William Bolcom, Alan Shulman and Morton City. It has performed at regional CBDNA and MENC conferences and has presented 17 performances at New Gould. Hurd earned all of her graduate degrees including the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Jersey Music Education Association conventions since 1993. The Ensemble has recorded 21 compact discs, which Music where she studied with David Shifrin and Charles Neidich and worked with materials in the Benny Goodman have collectively earned 33 Grammy Entry Listings. Its first disc on the Naxos label featured the music of Karel Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. Hurd earned the Bachelor of Music degree at Iowa State University. Husa, H. Owen Reed, and William Schuman (8.572230). In the words of Classical New Jersey critic William Allin Having joined the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, in 2002, she frequently Storrer, the Rutgers Wind Ensemble is “the Rolls Royce of wind ensembles.” performs recitals and gives master-classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She is a Conn-Selmer Artist. William Berz

Todd Quinlan William Berz is Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has given the premières of many Todd Quinlan currently lives in Houston, Texas where he is a free-lance performer new works for winds, and has won the praise of many distinguished composers, and teaches private percussion lessons. He was appointed Director of Operations including , Karel Husa, Norman Dello Joio, David Del Tredici, for the Eastern Music Festival where he has spent the past five summers as a Roger Nixon, Walter Hartley, Martin Ellerby, Adam Gorb, Jonathan Newman, percussionist for the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra-in-residence at Steven Bryant, Eric Whitacre, Kenneth Lampl, John Mackey, Daniel Ott, Mark the festival. His Bachelor of Music Performance, Magna Cum Laude, is from Zuckerman, Eric Moe, Michael Daugherty, Frank Ticheli, and H. Owen Reed. He Boston University. He was a graduate student at the Mason Gross School of the served as Music Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Arts at Rutgers when this recording of Raise the Roof was produced. Quinlan’s Orchestra from 1988 until 1994 and of the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra from private teachers include Timothy Genis, Chris Deviney, Alan Abel, She-e Wu, and 1984 to 1987. From 1984 until 1989 he was Assistant Conductor of The Jupiter Markus Rhoten. Symphony and Naumburg Orchestra, both of New York City. In addition to his work as a conductor, he is active as a researcher and writer. He has published many articles and presented sessions in music education and conducting.

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Strange Humors: John Mackey (b. 1973): Strange Humors • Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Michigan Governor’s Award (2004). In 2005, The University of Michigan Symphony Band with American Music Center in New York, and the 1993 of the heavens. He finds it pointless and in Raise the Roof • Brooklyn Bridge • James Syler (b. 1961): The Hound of Heaven Daugherty received the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Michael Wayne, solo clarinetist, gave the première of Arnald Gabriel Composition Award. He has been on the section III he decides to turn to the little Composer’s Award, and in 2007, the Delaware Brooklyn Bridge on 25th February, 2005 at the national adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at San children. He believes he can find happiness John Mackey (b. 1973): Strange Humors the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five Symphony Orchestra selected Daugherty as the winner CBDNA conference held in New York. (The Rutgers Antonio since 2001. From 1998-2001 he was on the here, but just as the children begin to respond brothers, all professional musicians. He studied music of the A. I. duPont Award. Also in 2007, Daugherty was Wind Ensemble also performed at the conference.) faculty at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, they are suddenly taken away by death. He is The original version of Strange Humors dates from composition at the University of North Texas (1972-76), named “Outstanding Classical Composer” at the Detroit Daugherty has provided the following note: Florida and from 1995-1998 at Flagler College in St. now a desperate soul who, in section IV, in one 1998 and was for string quartet and djembe. Mackey the Manhattan School of Music (1976-78) and computer Music Awards and received the American Bandmasters Augustine, Florida. last attempt turns to nature for repose. But wrote it while pursuing his graduate degree at The music at Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris (1979-80). He Association Ostwald Award for his composition Raise As I have lingered and walked across the The Hound of Heaven is a programmatic work nature, as beautiful as it is, is unable to fill the . It was soon adapted for use by the received his doctorate from Yale University in 1986 the Roof for Timpani and Symphonic Band. His music is Brooklyn Bridge over the years, the stunning based on a poem of the same name by British poet void in his heart and again he hears the footfall Parsons Dance Company, with choreography by Robert where his teachers included Jacob Druckman, Earle published by Peermusic Classical and since 2003 by vistas of the New York skyline have inspired me Francis Thompson. The allegorical title describes God of his pursuer. There is nothing left now. He has Battle. In a review of this performance, The New York Brown, Roger Reynolds, and Bernard Rands. During Boosey and Hawkes. to compose a panoramic clarinet concerto. Like as the loving hound who is in pursuit of the lost hare, the tried everything and in section V he is smitten Times found the piece to be “a sultry score.” It this time, he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Raise the Roof was composed in 2003 for timpani the four cables of webs of wire and steel that individual soul. The work is in six sections: “I Fled to his knees. In a dream he sees his past life represents a merging of musical cultures. According to Evans in New York, and pursued further studies with and orchestra, on commission by the Detroit Symphony hold the Brooklyn Bridge together, my ode to Him, Down the Nights,” “The Gold Gateways of the wasted on foolish pursuits, none of which has Mackey, the work attempts to merge pseudo-African composer György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany (1982- Orchestra. Daugherty adapted the work for band in 2007. this cultural icon is divided into four Stars,” “Within the Little Children’s Eyes,” Nature’s – given him love and happiness. The chase is hand-drumming and pseudo-middle eastern folk-music. 84). After teaching music composition from 1986-1990 That version received its premier by the University of movements. Each movement of the clarinet Share with Me,” “And Smitten Me to My Knee,” and “I over. In section VI the loving Hound of Heaven Mackey was commissioned to transcribe it for band by at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daugherty joined Michigan Symphony Band on 30th March, 2007 at the concerto is a musical view from the Brooklyn am He Whom Thou Seekest!” An antiphonal trumpet stands over him and the gloom which he the American Bandmasters Association, and this version the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & National Conference of CBDNA held in Ann Arbor. Bridge: I. East (Brooklyn and Brooklyn speaks between each section and serves as the musical thought would follow this surrender is only the was given its première in March 2006 by the Baylor Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan where, since 1991, he Daugherty writes that the piece was inspired by the Heights); II. South (Statue of Liberty); III. West voice of “The Hound of Heaven.” James Syler explains shade of God’s hand coming down to embrace University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Richard has been a mentor to many of today’s most talented construction of grand architectural wonders such as the (Wall Street and the lower Manhattan skyline further: him. He realizes his foolishness and now knows Floyd, to whom the work is dedicated. young composers. Daugherty is a frequent guest of Empire State Building. The score features a photograph which was once dominated by the World Trade he has true love and happiness as his pursuer professional orchestras, festivals, universities, and of that building under construction. Towers); IV. North (Empire State Building, Section I depicts the fearful attempt to flee from speaks to him with the words, “I am He whom Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Raise the Roof • conservatories around the world, where he participates Daugherty says that he composed music that “gives Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center). In God knowing all the while that he is being thou seekest!” Brooklyn Bridge in pre-concert talks, teaches composition master-classes, the timpanist the rare opportunity to play long the final movement of the concerto, I also pursued. Section II tells of how the fugitive hare and works with student composers and ensembles. expressive melodies, and a tour de force cadenza.” A imagine Artie Shaw, the great jazz swing tries to escape in his imagination to the beauty William Berz Michael Daugherty is one of the most frequently Daugherty has been the composer-in-residence with the wide variety of performance techniques are employed, clarinetist of the 1940s, performing with his commissioned, programmed, and recorded composers Louisville Symphony Orchestra (2000), Detroit including extensive use of foot pedals for melodic orchestra in the once glorious Rainbow Room on the American concert music scene today. His music Symphony Orchestra (1999-2003), Colorado Symphony tuning, placement of a cymbal upside down on the head on the sixty-fifth floor of the Rockefeller Center. is rich with cultural allusions and bears the stamp of Orchestra (2001-2002), Cabrillo Festival of of the lowest drum to play glissandi rolls, and the use of classic modernism, with colliding tonalities and blocks Contemporary Music (2001-04, 2006-08), Westshore many different kinds of mallets (regular mallets, wire James Syler (b. 1961): The Hound of Heaven of sound; at the same time, his melodies can be eloquent Symphony Orchestra (2005-06), Eugene Symphony brushes, maraca sticks, and bare hands). and stirring. Daugherty has been hailed by The Times (2006), Summer Institute (2006), Music The work is based on two themes. The first is heard James Syler was born in Hyde Park, NY and raised in (London) as “a master icon maker” with a “maverick from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival (2006) and almost immediately in the solo tuba. The second theme, New York and Florida. In 1983 he received a B.M. imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous Pacific Symphony (2010). which immediately follows the tuba solo, is somewhat degree from Northern Illinois University and in 1988 a ear.” Daugherty first came to international attention Daugherty has received numerous awards, reminiscent of a medieval chant and is presented first in M.M. degree from the University of Miami. In 1991 he when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by distinctions, and fellowships for his music including a the flutes. The two themes are then developed in a great continued his studies at the University of Texas at David Zinman, performed his Metropolis Symphony at Fulbright Fellowship (1977), Kennedy Center many ways. As the work continues, the two themes are Austin. He has studied privately with composers Alfred Carnegie Hall in 1994. Since that time, Daugherty’s Friedheim Award (1989), Goddard Lieberson eventually combined. “The music is a cascade of major Reed, Karl Korte and Pulitzer prizewinner Michael music has entered the orchestral, band and chamber Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and and minor triads, like laying down bricks and stones to Colgrass. His awards include a 2002 commission from music repertoire and made him, according to the League Letters (1991), fellowships from the National build up a ‘wall of sound’.” Eventually the work “rises the American Composers Forum in New York to of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed Endowment for the Arts (1992) and the Guggenheim toward a crescendo of urban polyrhythms and dynamic compose the String Quartet No. 1 for the Artaria String living American composers. Foundation (1996), the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber contrasts, allowing the timpani and symphonic band to Quartet of St. Paul, MN and the 1993 National Band Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty is Music Society of (2000) and the create a grand acoustic construction.” Association Composition Award; two grants from the

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Strange Humors: John Mackey (b. 1973): Strange Humors • Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Michigan Governor’s Award (2004). In 2005, The University of Michigan Symphony Band with American Music Center in New York, and the 1993 of the heavens. He finds it pointless and in Raise the Roof • Brooklyn Bridge • James Syler (b. 1961): The Hound of Heaven Daugherty received the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Michael Wayne, solo clarinetist, gave the première of Arnald Gabriel Composition Award. He has been on the section III he decides to turn to the little Composer’s Award, and in 2007, the Delaware Brooklyn Bridge on 25th February, 2005 at the national adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at San children. He believes he can find happiness John Mackey (b. 1973): Strange Humors the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five Symphony Orchestra selected Daugherty as the winner CBDNA conference held in New York. (The Rutgers Antonio since 2001. From 1998-2001 he was on the here, but just as the children begin to respond brothers, all professional musicians. He studied music of the A. I. duPont Award. Also in 2007, Daugherty was Wind Ensemble also performed at the conference.) faculty at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, they are suddenly taken away by death. He is The original version of Strange Humors dates from composition at the University of North Texas (1972-76), named “Outstanding Classical Composer” at the Detroit Daugherty has provided the following note: Florida and from 1995-1998 at Flagler College in St. now a desperate soul who, in section IV, in one 1998 and was for string quartet and djembe. Mackey the Manhattan School of Music (1976-78) and computer Music Awards and received the American Bandmasters Augustine, Florida. last attempt turns to nature for repose. But wrote it while pursuing his graduate degree at The music at Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris (1979-80). He Association Ostwald Award for his composition Raise As I have lingered and walked across the The Hound of Heaven is a programmatic work nature, as beautiful as it is, is unable to fill the Juilliard School. It was soon adapted for use by the received his doctorate from Yale University in 1986 the Roof for Timpani and Symphonic Band. His music is Brooklyn Bridge over the years, the stunning based on a poem of the same name by British poet void in his heart and again he hears the footfall Parsons Dance Company, with choreography by Robert where his teachers included Jacob Druckman, Earle published by Peermusic Classical and since 2003 by vistas of the New York skyline have inspired me Francis Thompson. The allegorical title describes God of his pursuer. There is nothing left now. He has Battle. In a review of this performance, The New York Brown, Roger Reynolds, and Bernard Rands. During Boosey and Hawkes. to compose a panoramic clarinet concerto. Like as the loving hound who is in pursuit of the lost hare, the tried everything and in section V he is smitten Times found the piece to be “a sultry score.” It this time, he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Raise the Roof was composed in 2003 for timpani the four cables of webs of wire and steel that individual soul. The work is in six sections: “I Fled to his knees. In a dream he sees his past life represents a merging of musical cultures. According to Evans in New York, and pursued further studies with and orchestra, on commission by the Detroit Symphony hold the Brooklyn Bridge together, my ode to Him, Down the Nights,” “The Gold Gateways of the wasted on foolish pursuits, none of which has Mackey, the work attempts to merge pseudo-African composer György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany (1982- Orchestra. Daugherty adapted the work for band in 2007. this cultural icon is divided into four Stars,” “Within the Little Children’s Eyes,” Nature’s – given him love and happiness. The chase is hand-drumming and pseudo-middle eastern folk-music. 84). After teaching music composition from 1986-1990 That version received its premier by the University of movements. Each movement of the clarinet Share with Me,” “And Smitten Me to My Knee,” and “I over. In section VI the loving Hound of Heaven Mackey was commissioned to transcribe it for band by at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daugherty joined Michigan Symphony Band on 30th March, 2007 at the concerto is a musical view from the Brooklyn am He Whom Thou Seekest!” An antiphonal trumpet stands over him and the gloom which he the American Bandmasters Association, and this version the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & National Conference of CBDNA held in Ann Arbor. Bridge: I. East (Brooklyn and Brooklyn speaks between each section and serves as the musical thought would follow this surrender is only the was given its première in March 2006 by the Baylor Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan where, since 1991, he Daugherty writes that the piece was inspired by the Heights); II. South (Statue of Liberty); III. West voice of “The Hound of Heaven.” James Syler explains shade of God’s hand coming down to embrace University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Richard has been a mentor to many of today’s most talented construction of grand architectural wonders such as the (Wall Street and the lower Manhattan skyline further: him. He realizes his foolishness and now knows Floyd, to whom the work is dedicated. young composers. Daugherty is a frequent guest of Empire State Building. The score features a photograph which was once dominated by the World Trade he has true love and happiness as his pursuer professional orchestras, festivals, universities, and of that building under construction. Towers); IV. North (Empire State Building, Section I depicts the fearful attempt to flee from speaks to him with the words, “I am He whom Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Raise the Roof • conservatories around the world, where he participates Daugherty says that he composed music that “gives Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center). In God knowing all the while that he is being thou seekest!” Brooklyn Bridge in pre-concert talks, teaches composition master-classes, the timpanist the rare opportunity to play long the final movement of the concerto, I also pursued. Section II tells of how the fugitive hare and works with student composers and ensembles. expressive melodies, and a tour de force cadenza.” A imagine Artie Shaw, the great jazz swing tries to escape in his imagination to the beauty William Berz Michael Daugherty is one of the most frequently Daugherty has been the composer-in-residence with the wide variety of performance techniques are employed, clarinetist of the 1940s, performing with his commissioned, programmed, and recorded composers Louisville Symphony Orchestra (2000), Detroit including extensive use of foot pedals for melodic orchestra in the once glorious Rainbow Room on the American concert music scene today. His music Symphony Orchestra (1999-2003), Colorado Symphony tuning, placement of a cymbal upside down on the head on the sixty-fifth floor of the Rockefeller Center. is rich with cultural allusions and bears the stamp of Orchestra (2001-2002), Cabrillo Festival of of the lowest drum to play glissandi rolls, and the use of classic modernism, with colliding tonalities and blocks Contemporary Music (2001-04, 2006-08), Westshore many different kinds of mallets (regular mallets, wire James Syler (b. 1961): The Hound of Heaven of sound; at the same time, his melodies can be eloquent Symphony Orchestra (2005-06), Eugene Symphony brushes, maraca sticks, and bare hands). and stirring. Daugherty has been hailed by The Times (2006), Henry Mancini Summer Institute (2006), Music The work is based on two themes. The first is heard James Syler was born in Hyde Park, NY and raised in (London) as “a master icon maker” with a “maverick from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival (2006) and almost immediately in the solo tuba. The second theme, New York and Florida. In 1983 he received a B.M. imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous Pacific Symphony (2010). which immediately follows the tuba solo, is somewhat degree from Northern Illinois University and in 1988 a ear.” Daugherty first came to international attention Daugherty has received numerous awards, reminiscent of a medieval chant and is presented first in M.M. degree from the University of Miami. In 1991 he when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by distinctions, and fellowships for his music including a the flutes. The two themes are then developed in a great continued his studies at the University of Texas at David Zinman, performed his Metropolis Symphony at Fulbright Fellowship (1977), Kennedy Center many ways. As the work continues, the two themes are Austin. He has studied privately with composers Alfred Carnegie Hall in 1994. Since that time, Daugherty’s Friedheim Award (1989), Goddard Lieberson eventually combined. “The music is a cascade of major Reed, Karl Korte and Pulitzer prizewinner Michael music has entered the orchestral, band and chamber Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and and minor triads, like laying down bricks and stones to Colgrass. His awards include a 2002 commission from music repertoire and made him, according to the League Letters (1991), fellowships from the National build up a ‘wall of sound’.” Eventually the work “rises the American Composers Forum in New York to of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed Endowment for the Arts (1992) and the Guggenheim toward a crescendo of urban polyrhythms and dynamic compose the String Quartet No. 1 for the Artaria String living American composers. Foundation (1996), the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber contrasts, allowing the timpani and symphonic band to Quartet of St. Paul, MN and the 1993 National Band Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty is Music Society of Lincoln Center (2000) and the create a grand acoustic construction.” Association Composition Award; two grants from the

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Strange Humors: John Mackey (b. 1973): Strange Humors • Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Michigan Governor’s Award (2004). In 2005, The University of Michigan Symphony Band with American Music Center in New York, and the 1993 of the heavens. He finds it pointless and in Raise the Roof • Brooklyn Bridge • James Syler (b. 1961): The Hound of Heaven Daugherty received the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra Michael Wayne, solo clarinetist, gave the première of Arnald Gabriel Composition Award. He has been on the section III he decides to turn to the little Composer’s Award, and in 2007, the Delaware Brooklyn Bridge on 25th February, 2005 at the national adjunct faculty at the University of Texas at San children. He believes he can find happiness John Mackey (b. 1973): Strange Humors the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five Symphony Orchestra selected Daugherty as the winner CBDNA conference held in New York. (The Rutgers Antonio since 2001. From 1998-2001 he was on the here, but just as the children begin to respond brothers, all professional musicians. He studied music of the A. I. duPont Award. Also in 2007, Daugherty was Wind Ensemble also performed at the conference.) faculty at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, they are suddenly taken away by death. He is The original version of Strange Humors dates from composition at the University of North Texas (1972-76), named “Outstanding Classical Composer” at the Detroit Daugherty has provided the following note: Florida and from 1995-1998 at Flagler College in St. now a desperate soul who, in section IV, in one 1998 and was for string quartet and djembe. Mackey the Manhattan School of Music (1976-78) and computer Music Awards and received the American Bandmasters Augustine, Florida. last attempt turns to nature for repose. But wrote it while pursuing his graduate degree at The music at Boulez’s IRCAM in Paris (1979-80). He Association Ostwald Award for his composition Raise As I have lingered and walked across the The Hound of Heaven is a programmatic work nature, as beautiful as it is, is unable to fill the Juilliard School. It was soon adapted for use by the received his doctorate from Yale University in 1986 the Roof for Timpani and Symphonic Band. His music is Brooklyn Bridge over the years, the stunning based on a poem of the same name by British poet void in his heart and again he hears the footfall Parsons Dance Company, with choreography by Robert where his teachers included Jacob Druckman, Earle published by Peermusic Classical and since 2003 by vistas of the New York skyline have inspired me Francis Thompson. The allegorical title describes God of his pursuer. There is nothing left now. He has Battle. In a review of this performance, The New York Brown, Roger Reynolds, and Bernard Rands. During Boosey and Hawkes. to compose a panoramic clarinet concerto. Like as the loving hound who is in pursuit of the lost hare, the tried everything and in section V he is smitten Times found the piece to be “a sultry score.” It this time, he also collaborated with jazz arranger Gil Raise the Roof was composed in 2003 for timpani the four cables of webs of wire and steel that individual soul. The work is in six sections: “I Fled to his knees. In a dream he sees his past life represents a merging of musical cultures. According to Evans in New York, and pursued further studies with and orchestra, on commission by the Detroit Symphony hold the Brooklyn Bridge together, my ode to Him, Down the Nights,” “The Gold Gateways of the wasted on foolish pursuits, none of which has Mackey, the work attempts to merge pseudo-African composer György Ligeti in Hamburg, Germany (1982- Orchestra. Daugherty adapted the work for band in 2007. this cultural icon is divided into four Stars,” “Within the Little Children’s Eyes,” Nature’s – given him love and happiness. The chase is hand-drumming and pseudo-middle eastern folk-music. 84). After teaching music composition from 1986-1990 That version received its premier by the University of movements. Each movement of the clarinet Share with Me,” “And Smitten Me to My Knee,” and “I over. In section VI the loving Hound of Heaven Mackey was commissioned to transcribe it for band by at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daugherty joined Michigan Symphony Band on 30th March, 2007 at the concerto is a musical view from the Brooklyn am He Whom Thou Seekest!” An antiphonal trumpet stands over him and the gloom which he the American Bandmasters Association, and this version the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & National Conference of CBDNA held in Ann Arbor. Bridge: I. East (Brooklyn and Brooklyn speaks between each section and serves as the musical thought would follow this surrender is only the was given its première in March 2006 by the Baylor Dance in Ann Arbor, Michigan where, since 1991, he Daugherty writes that the piece was inspired by the Heights); II. South (Statue of Liberty); III. West voice of “The Hound of Heaven.” James Syler explains shade of God’s hand coming down to embrace University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Richard has been a mentor to many of today’s most talented construction of grand architectural wonders such as the (Wall Street and the lower Manhattan skyline further: him. He realizes his foolishness and now knows Floyd, to whom the work is dedicated. young composers. Daugherty is a frequent guest of Empire State Building. The score features a photograph which was once dominated by the World Trade he has true love and happiness as his pursuer professional orchestras, festivals, universities, and of that building under construction. Towers); IV. North (Empire State Building, Section I depicts the fearful attempt to flee from speaks to him with the words, “I am He whom Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): Raise the Roof • conservatories around the world, where he participates Daugherty says that he composed music that “gives Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center). In God knowing all the while that he is being thou seekest!” Brooklyn Bridge in pre-concert talks, teaches composition master-classes, the timpanist the rare opportunity to play long the final movement of the concerto, I also pursued. Section II tells of how the fugitive hare and works with student composers and ensembles. expressive melodies, and a tour de force cadenza.” A imagine Artie Shaw, the great jazz swing tries to escape in his imagination to the beauty William Berz Michael Daugherty is one of the most frequently Daugherty has been the composer-in-residence with the wide variety of performance techniques are employed, clarinetist of the 1940s, performing with his commissioned, programmed, and recorded composers Louisville Symphony Orchestra (2000), Detroit including extensive use of foot pedals for melodic orchestra in the once glorious Rainbow Room on the American concert music scene today. His music Symphony Orchestra (1999-2003), Colorado Symphony tuning, placement of a cymbal upside down on the head on the sixty-fifth floor of the Rockefeller Center. is rich with cultural allusions and bears the stamp of Orchestra (2001-2002), Cabrillo Festival of of the lowest drum to play glissandi rolls, and the use of classic modernism, with colliding tonalities and blocks Contemporary Music (2001-04, 2006-08), Westshore many different kinds of mallets (regular mallets, wire James Syler (b. 1961): The Hound of Heaven of sound; at the same time, his melodies can be eloquent Symphony Orchestra (2005-06), Eugene Symphony brushes, maraca sticks, and bare hands). and stirring. Daugherty has been hailed by The Times (2006), Henry Mancini Summer Institute (2006), Music The work is based on two themes. The first is heard James Syler was born in Hyde Park, NY and raised in (London) as “a master icon maker” with a “maverick from Angel Fire Chamber Music Festival (2006) and almost immediately in the solo tuba. The second theme, New York and Florida. In 1983 he received a B.M. imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous Pacific Symphony (2010). which immediately follows the tuba solo, is somewhat degree from Northern Illinois University and in 1988 a ear.” Daugherty first came to international attention Daugherty has received numerous awards, reminiscent of a medieval chant and is presented first in M.M. degree from the University of Miami. In 1991 he when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by distinctions, and fellowships for his music including a the flutes. The two themes are then developed in a great continued his studies at the University of Texas at David Zinman, performed his Metropolis Symphony at Fulbright Fellowship (1977), Kennedy Center many ways. As the work continues, the two themes are Austin. He has studied privately with composers Alfred Carnegie Hall in 1994. Since that time, Daugherty’s Friedheim Award (1989), Goddard Lieberson eventually combined. “The music is a cascade of major Reed, Karl Korte and Pulitzer prizewinner Michael music has entered the orchestral, band and chamber Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and and minor triads, like laying down bricks and stones to Colgrass. His awards include a 2002 commission from music repertoire and made him, according to the League Letters (1991), fellowships from the National build up a ‘wall of sound’.” Eventually the work “rises the American Composers Forum in New York to of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed Endowment for the Arts (1992) and the Guggenheim toward a crescendo of urban polyrhythms and dynamic compose the String Quartet No. 1 for the Artaria String living American composers. Foundation (1996), the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber contrasts, allowing the timpani and symphonic band to Quartet of St. Paul, MN and the 1993 National Band Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Daugherty is Music Society of Lincoln Center (2000) and the create a grand acoustic construction.” Association Composition Award; two grants from the

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Maureen Hurd Rutgers Wind Ensemble WIND BAND CLASSICS The opportunity to record Michael Daugherty’s Brooklyn Bridge has given Photo: Larry Levanti The Rutgers Wind Ensemble Maureen Hurd a unique chance to come full circle. While a resident of New York presents concerts at the highest City, her great-great-grandfather, Robert Lipton, an Irish immigrant, attended the artistic level, performing both opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, not long after landing in New York from masterworks of the wind Ireland at the age of seventeen. Lipton later continued his journey westward, repertoire and new works, STRANGE HUMORS putting down roots in and becoming mayor of a bucolic town in Iowa where Hurd including pieces composed was born and raised. Now a Brooklyn resident herself, Hurd has performed as expressly for the group. In 2005, soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist throughout Europe, Asia and the group performed at the Mackey • Daugherty • Syler North America. She has appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and with the CBNDA National Conference Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and in performances of contemporary chamber held at New York University and music at New York’s Merkin Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln also presented a concert at Maureen Hurd, Clarinet • Todd Quinlan, Timpani Center in Alice Tully Hall. She has been a frequent featured performer at Carnegie Hall later that spring. International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests® and she has appeared in concert The Ensemble played in Town Rutgers Wind Ensemble • William Berz in Japan, South Korea, France, England, Canada and Mexico. She has also Hall in 2000 and Symphony Photo: Danika Knop recorded for the MSR Classics and Marquis Classics labels, most recently a CD Space in 2009, both in New York including première recordings of clarinet works by Evan Hause, William Bolcom, Alan Shulman and Morton City. It has performed at regional CBDNA and MENC conferences and has presented 17 performances at New Gould. Hurd earned all of her graduate degrees including the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Jersey Music Education Association conventions since 1993. The Ensemble has recorded 21 compact discs, which Music where she studied with David Shifrin and Charles Neidich and worked with materials in the Benny Goodman have collectively earned 33 Grammy Entry Listings. Its first disc on the Naxos label featured the music of Karel Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. Hurd earned the Bachelor of Music degree at Iowa State University. Husa, H. Owen Reed, and William Schuman (8.572230). In the words of Classical New Jersey critic William Allin Having joined the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2002, she frequently Storrer, the Rutgers Wind Ensemble is “the Rolls Royce of wind ensembles.” performs recitals and gives master-classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She is a Conn-Selmer Artist. William Berz

Todd Quinlan William Berz is Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has given the premières of many Todd Quinlan currently lives in Houston, Texas where he is a free-lance performer new works for winds, and has won the praise of many distinguished composers, and teaches private percussion lessons. He was appointed Director of Operations including Charles Wuorinen, Karel Husa, Norman Dello Joio, David Del Tredici, for the Eastern Music Festival where he has spent the past five summers as a Roger Nixon, Walter Hartley, Martin Ellerby, Adam Gorb, Jonathan Newman, percussionist for the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra-in-residence at Steven Bryant, Eric Whitacre, Kenneth Lampl, John Mackey, Daniel Ott, Mark the festival. His Bachelor of Music Performance, Magna Cum Laude, is from Zuckerman, Eric Moe, Michael Daugherty, Frank Ticheli, and H. Owen Reed. He Boston University. He was a graduate student at the Mason Gross School of the served as Music Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Arts at Rutgers when this recording of Raise the Roof was produced. Quinlan’s Orchestra from 1988 until 1994 and of the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra from private teachers include Timothy Genis, Chris Deviney, Alan Abel, She-e Wu, and 1984 to 1987. From 1984 until 1989 he was Assistant Conductor of The Jupiter Markus Rhoten. Symphony and Naumburg Orchestra, both of New York City. In addition to his work as a conductor, he is active as a researcher and writer. He has published many articles and presented sessions in music education and conducting.

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Maureen Hurd Rutgers Wind Ensemble WIND BAND CLASSICS The opportunity to record Michael Daugherty’s Brooklyn Bridge has given Photo: Larry Levanti The Rutgers Wind Ensemble Maureen Hurd a unique chance to come full circle. While a resident of New York presents concerts at the highest City, her great-great-grandfather, Robert Lipton, an Irish immigrant, attended the artistic level, performing both opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883, not long after landing in New York from masterworks of the wind Ireland at the age of seventeen. Lipton later continued his journey westward, repertoire and new works, STRANGE HUMORS putting down roots in and becoming mayor of a bucolic town in Iowa where Hurd including pieces composed was born and raised. Now a Brooklyn resident herself, Hurd has performed as expressly for the group. In 2005, soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist throughout Europe, Asia and the group performed at the Mackey • Daugherty • Syler North America. She has appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and with the CBNDA National Conference Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and in performances of contemporary chamber held at New York University and music at New York’s Merkin Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln also presented a concert at Maureen Hurd, Clarinet • Todd Quinlan, Timpani Center in Alice Tully Hall. She has been a frequent featured performer at Carnegie Hall later that spring. International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests® and she has appeared in concert The Ensemble played in Town Rutgers Wind Ensemble • William Berz in Japan, South Korea, France, England, Canada and Mexico. She has also Hall in 2000 and Symphony Photo: Danika Knop recorded for the MSR Classics and Marquis Classics labels, most recently a CD Space in 2009, both in New York including première recordings of clarinet works by Evan Hause, William Bolcom, Alan Shulman and Morton City. It has performed at regional CBDNA and MENC conferences and has presented 17 performances at New Gould. Hurd earned all of her graduate degrees including the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Jersey Music Education Association conventions since 1993. The Ensemble has recorded 21 compact discs, which Music where she studied with David Shifrin and Charles Neidich and worked with materials in the Benny Goodman have collectively earned 33 Grammy Entry Listings. Its first disc on the Naxos label featured the music of Karel Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. Hurd earned the Bachelor of Music degree at Iowa State University. Husa, H. Owen Reed, and William Schuman (8.572230). In the words of Classical New Jersey critic William Allin Having joined the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in 2002, she frequently Storrer, the Rutgers Wind Ensemble is “the Rolls Royce of wind ensembles.” performs recitals and gives master-classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She is a Conn-Selmer Artist. William Berz

Todd Quinlan William Berz is Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has given the premières of many Todd Quinlan currently lives in Houston, Texas where he is a free-lance performer new works for winds, and has won the praise of many distinguished composers, and teaches private percussion lessons. He was appointed Director of Operations including Charles Wuorinen, Karel Husa, Norman Dello Joio, David Del Tredici, for the Eastern Music Festival where he has spent the past five summers as a Roger Nixon, Walter Hartley, Martin Ellerby, Adam Gorb, Jonathan Newman, percussionist for the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestra-in-residence at Steven Bryant, Eric Whitacre, Kenneth Lampl, John Mackey, Daniel Ott, Mark the festival. His Bachelor of Music Performance, Magna Cum Laude, is from Zuckerman, Eric Moe, Michael Daugherty, Frank Ticheli, and H. Owen Reed. He Boston University. He was a graduate student at the Mason Gross School of the served as Music Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Arts at Rutgers when this recording of Raise the Roof was produced. Quinlan’s Orchestra from 1988 until 1994 and of the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra from private teachers include Timothy Genis, Chris Deviney, Alan Abel, She-e Wu, and 1984 to 1987. From 1984 until 1989 he was Assistant Conductor of The Jupiter Markus Rhoten. Symphony and Naumburg Orchestra, both of New York City. In addition to his work as a conductor, he is active as a researcher and writer. He has published many articles and presented sessions in music education and conducting.

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8.572529 Strange Humors (2003) 5:17 Michael Daugherty (b. 1954): 2 Raise the Roof (version for timpani The Rutgers Wind Ensemble here and wind band) (2007)* 12:58 presents four engaging works rich with Brooklyn Bridge (2005)** 28:41 cross-cultural allusions by leading 3 I. East 8:06 American composers. John Mackey’s 4 II. South 8:43 TAG HUMORS STRANGE 5 III. West 3:23 aptly named Strange Humors merges &

6 IV. North 8:31 African hand-drumming, an Orientalist 2010 Naxos Rights International Ltd. James Syler (b. 1961): musical style and the big band sound The Hound of Heaven (1988) 18:25 into a sultry brew. Michael Daugherty’s 7 I. I Fled Him, Down the Nights 2:21 8 II. The Gold Gateway of the Stars 3:26 virtuosic Raise the Roof for timpani 9 III. Within the Little Children’s Eyes 1:53 and wind ensemble pays homage to 0 IV. Nature’s – Share with Me 2:23 ! V. And Smitten Me to My Knee 2:41 buildings such as the Empire State, @ VI. I am He Whom Thou Seekest! 5:41 while the clarinet concerto Brooklyn Maureen Hurd, Clarinet** Bridge takes panoramic views across STRANGE HUMORS Todd Quinlan, Timpani* New York City. James Syler’s The Rutgers Wind Ensemble Hound of Heaven charts the spiritual journey of a desperate soul who seeks DDD William Berz and finds the balm of God’s grace. Recorded at Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, on 29th March, 2007 1, 27th March, 2008 2, 28th March, 2008 3-6, and on 20th October, 2007 7-@ www.naxos.com 8.572529 8.572529 Producer: Joe H. Brashier • Engineer: Mark J. Morette Editor: David St. Onge • Booklet notes: William Berz Publishers: Otsimusic 1; Hendon Music / Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Inc. 2-6; Ballerbach Music 7-@ Cover: Bruce Rolff (Dreamstime.com) NAXOS