Jazz Student Composers' Big Band Concert

Jazz Student Composers’ Big Band Concert Matt Holman (MM ’10, DMA ’18), Coordinator With the Buster Williams Ensemble Buster Williams, Instructor Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 7:30 PM Neidorff-Karpati Hall Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 7:30 PM Neidorff-Karpati Hall Jazz Student Composers’ Big Band Concert Matt Holman (MM ’10, DMA ’18), Coordinator With the Buster Williams Ensemble Buster Williams, Instructor PROGRAM Welcome & Introduction Michele Wright, Associate Director, Jazz Arts, Intermission & Buster Williams, Instructor Eliana Fishbeyn Quiet Resistance Ben Feldman Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor Chapel Hill, North Carolina Seattle, Washington Sang Jun Lim Run With Scissors Matt Malanowski Show Me British Columbia, Canada Farmingdale, New York Buster Williams Ensemble Cole Hazlitt Waltz (on Route 66) Clearwater, Florida Introduction Matt Holman, Coordinator Oscar Perez Release the Albatross West Orange, New Jersey Jazz Student Composers’ Big Band Matt Holman, Coordinator Rin Seo The Old Man Tells the Story Seoul, South Korea Erik Larsen Rajas All compositions will be conducted by their respective composers. Visalia, California Robert Buonaspina Smile Pretty North Babylon, New York Jazz Student Composers’ Big Band Matt Holman, Coordinator PROGRAM NOTES BUSTER WILLIAMS ENSEMBLE Rajas Buster Williams, Instructor Erik Larsen Rajas is one of the three Gunas, or personalities, in Hindu Sankya philosophy Imani Rousselle, voice and can be characterized by qualities of passion, activity, and egoism. It Dallas, Texas embodies the nature of the “Doer” and all the instability that comes with self- Shun Katayama, flute seeking drivenness. Chiba, Japan Makar Kashitsyn, alto saxophone Smile Pretty Moscow, Russia Robert Buonaspina Abdulrahman Amer, trombone Smile Pretty was composed originally as a commission earlier this year for Brooklyn, New York the Jazzkombinat Hamburg’s European Vibes concert series in Germany. A Juan Diego Villalobos, quintessential big band waltz with a lot of attitude, the composition follows vibraphone a simple ABAB’ form throughout and features a trombone solo about 60 Maracaibo, Venezuela percent in. The piece has an unusual character—one that colors the music Michael Gonzalez, frequently with abrasively clashing harmonies and sporadic interruptions of guitar the “waltz” time feel. The head’s melody also fluctuates between tonal centers, San Juan, Puerto Rico implying an A-flat dominant tonic in constant juxtaposition with D-flat Matt Malanowski, dominant, thus engendering some sort of obvious identity crisis at the very piano base of the music itself. Farmingdale, New York Ben Feldman, bass With its robust, mechanical energy—and peculiar textures aplenty—this Seattle, Washington composition represents, in its purest form, the humorously performative Kofi Shepsu, drums notion of “pushing through” and “smiling pretty” when the going gets tough. Richmond, Virginia 4 5 JAZZ STUDENT COMPOSERS’ ABOUT MANHATTAN BIG BAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC Founded as a community music school by Janet Daniels Schenck in 1918, today MSM is recognized for its 970 superbly talented undergraduate SAXOPHONES TROMBONES and graduate students who come from more than 50 countries and nearly Austin Zhang, alto Remee Ashley all 50 states; its innovative curricula and world-renowned artist-teacher Austin, Texas Berkeley, California faculty that includes musicians from the New York Philharmonic, the Met Dor Chaviv, alto Gregory DeAngelis Orchestra, and the top ranks of the jazz and Broadway communities; and a Hod Hasharon, Israel Farmingdale, New York distinguished community of accomplished, award-winning alumni working Shun Katayama, alto* Paco Andreo at the highest levels of the musical, educational, cultural, and professional Chiba, Japan Paris, France worlds. Jason Chrisman, tenor Seth Birrell Weaverville, North Carolina Austin, Texas The School is dedicated to the personal, artistic, and intellectual Rico Jones, tenor development of aspiring musicians, from its Precollege students through Denver, Colorado RHYTHM SECTION those pursuing doctoral studies. Offering classical, jazz, and musical theatre Jarod Apple, baritone Morten Aarup, guitar training, MSM grants a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees. True Russellville, Arkansas Berlin, Germany to MSM’s origins as a music school for children, the Precollege program Sam Towse, piano continues to offer superior music instruction to 475 young musicians between TRUMPETS Huntington, New York the ages of 5 and 18. The School also serves some 2,000 New York City James Evans Chris Palmer, bass schoolchildren through its Arts-in-Education Program, and another 2,000 Afton, Virginia Los Angeles, California students through its critically acclaimed Distance Learning Program. 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