The concert tonight is lovingly dedicated to Michael Aberback. Our thoughts for a speedy recovery remain with him.

Program

Tambuco (1967) Carlos Chávez For Steven Nowakowski, Mike Jaquot, Samir Egusquiza, Patrick Lapinski, Kiana Salameh, Joe Scala Gary Van Dyke - Conductor The William Paterson University Etude No. 11 (1986) Michael Udow Arrangement for Percussion Ensemble presents Payton MacDonald, John Henry Bishop, Kenneth Cubillas, David Endean, Tim Malone, Steven Nowakowski, Dakota Singerline

Arranged by John Henry Bishop and Steven Nowakowski New Music Series Payton MacDonald – Coach

Peter Jarvis, director Suite for Percussion (1958) William Kraft For Percussion Quartet I. Fanfare II. Andante III. Ostinatos IV. Toccata V. Cadenze David Endean, Tim Malone, Kenneth Cubillas, Patrick Lapinsky John Ferrari – Conductor

Monday, April 22, 2013, 7:00 PM Rain Tree (1981) Toru Takemitsu For Percussion trio Shea Center for the Performing Arts Travis Salem, Patrick Lapinsky Samir Egusquiza – Vibe Solo Peter Jarvis - Conductor

In Memory of Milton (2011) * David Saperstein Piano Concerto with Mixed Ensemble

Lynn Bechtold, Dan Cooper, Samir Egusquiza, Anthony Fabrizio, John Ferrari, Jeffrey Kresky, Patrick Lapinski, Payton MacDonald, David Saperstein, Gary Van Dyke

Max Stehr – Piano following midday. Its hundreds of thousands of tiny leaves - finger-like - store up Peter Jarvis – Conductor moisture while other trees dry up at once. What an ingenious tree, isn't it?"" - From weimprovise.net * = World Premiere In Memory of Milton: David Saperstein

In Memory of Milton (2011), a concerto for piano and open-ended orchestra, Program Notes was written during the weekend of Milton’s passing (1/29-1/30/2011). It is in thirteen sections, each with a specific instruction as to pitch material, dynamics, and other Tambuco: Carlos Chávez features which may be used. The tempo stays steady at one beat per second throughout I have named this piece Tambuco because the word itself has a percussive the entire piece. The piano opens the work, presenting us with the opening notes of the sound and we are concerned with a work for percussion instruments. Otherwise, there piece, the notes C, Db, F and Gb. In the second section, the piano gives us a quote from is no relation whatsoever between the name and the music. The music in this work the literature which is suggested by a detail in the opening section. In the third section, develops in a constant process of consequent evolution. That is to say, an initial idea each member of the orchestra enters individually. In the fourth section, the piano serves as antecedent to a consequent, which in turn immediately becomes an responds to the material presented by the orchestra in section III. In the antecedent to a new consequent, and so on until the end of the piece. Also, a minimum fifth section, both piano and orchestra open the section (giving us the notes C, D, E, F, of repetitive and symmetric elements are present. This of course, constitutes a F#), but then the orchestra drops out. At the beginning of the sixth section, the piano considerable deviation from the conventional contrapuntal procedures and classical drops out and the orchestra splits into two groups. The orchestra continues divided until developments, and indeed from serial techniques in all its forms, since all these the 11th section (the fifth and eleventh sections being the only sections in which both expedients are based on repetition and symmetry. Finally, the variety of sound colors piano and orchestra play together). chosen determines a special problem of sound composition, or let us say, of - David Saperstein instrumental economy; in other words the problem of how to spend sensibly the sonorous wealth in the course of the whole work. - Carlos Chávez Biographical Information

Etude 11: Michael Udow Lynn Bechtold: Etude No. 11 is from a collection of 20 multiple percussion solos in Michael Violinist Lynn Bechtold has appeared in recital throughout the U.S., Canada, Udow and Chris Watts' The Contemporary Percussionist. The arrangement heard tonight Holland, and Switzerland. An advocate of contemporary music, she has worked with is by John Henry Bishop and Steven Nowakowski. Bishop and Nowakowski will be composers such as Gloria Coates, George Crumb, John Harbison, Steve Mackey, and among those heard in the performance tonight. Morton Subotnick. In 2001, she gave the premiere of "Violynn," a work for violin and electronics written for her by Alvin Lucier. As a member of groups that have included Suite for Percussion: William Kraft Zentripetal, the East Village Opera Company (rock/opera band), the SEM Ensemble, and Suite for Percussion is one of the earlier pieces for percussion in William the NY Symphonic Ensemble, Ms. Bechtold has performed around the world, and has Kraft’s catalog. He wrote nearly two dozen percussion pieces over the course of some been heard on CBC Radio, CBS-TV, NHK-TV, and WNYC. Other programs have been with five decades. Suite for Percussion remains a piece of standard repertoire for college Absolute Ensemble, DJ Spooky, North/South Consonance, Parsons Dance, Paul Taylor percussion ensembles. Dance Company, the Vermont Symphony, VisionIntoArt, VOX Opera Readings, and Pablo Ziegler. In addition, she's performed with entertainers such as Boyz II Men, Willie Colon, Rain Tree: Toru Takemitsu Sheryl Crow, Escort, Roberta Flack, Left Banke, Smokey Robinson, J-Pop band SMAP, and There are three compositions by Takemitsu on the subject of the Rain Tree. Donna Summer. An active performer, she has performed at diverse venues such as Alice Rain Tree Sketch (1982) and Rain Tree Sketch II (1992, in memoriam Olivier Messiaen) Tully Hall, the Blue Note, the Frick Museum, the Harvard Club, Joe's Pub, Merkin Hall, are among Takemitsu's most often performed piano works. The origin of the Rain Tree nublu, le Poisson Rouge, St John the Divine, and Zankel Hall. She received her Masters Sketches can be traced back to Takemitsu's percussion trio Rain Tree (1981). Degree from the Mannes College of Music, where she was a student of noted violinist Rain Tree is used as a metaphor of water circulating in the cosmos, and Felix Galimir. Prior to that, she received a double-degree in Violin and English from the Takemitsu employed Messiaen's modes of limited transposition in order to construct New England Conservatory and Tufts University in Boston. In addition, she likes to the pitch collections evocative of cosmic imagery. Takemitsu's goal as an artist was to compose electroacoustic works, and to write articles about food/music/life. Her expand the possibilities of music, and to express himself through creation of a compositions were recently performed on the Composers Concordance Festival and the universal language. The title was suggested by a passage from the novel Atama no ii, Music With a View Festival during the 2011-12 season. She is on the faculty of Ame no Ki by Kenzaburo Oe: "It has been named the 'rain tree,' for its abundant foliage Greenwich House Music School in NYC, and the Norwalk Youth Symphony. continues to let fall rain drops collected from last night's shower until well after the (www.zentripetalduo.com)

Dan Cooper: School of Music’s graduate Contemporary Performance program. He is also on the Dan Cooper’s music has been noted in The Associated Press, American Record teaching artist rosters of Hunter College (since 2008) and Princeton University (since Guide, Berkshire Eagle, Boston Globe, CurtainUp, Fanfare, Greenwich Times, Metroland 2010). Albany, NMC, The New York Times, Times Union, and Time Out New York, among others - "contemporary impressionism," "inventive," "creative," "vibrant," "drawing on Peter Jarvis: vernacular styles," "especially fascinating," "full of instrumental virtuosity and sly Peter Jarvis is a percussionist, conductor, drummer, composer, copyist, print humor," "utterly charming," "incorporates blues...into a contemporary context," music editor, consultant and educator. Over the years he has performed as soloist, "whimsical," "carefree," "acute," "daring," "well-plotted," "hauntingly beautiful," and chamber player, principal percussionist in several orchestras and with choruses with a "spirit of originality, verve, and humor, now being passed on to a new including the Society of Lincoln Center, The Group for Contemporary generation." Cooper was born and raised in Manhattan, and educated at Horace Mann, Music, The American Modern Ensemble, The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble (which he Columbia, NEC, and Princeton. His music has been recognized with various awards, directs), The Greg Smith Singers, Bang On A Can All-Stars, Talujon and on new commissions, premieres, recordings, showcases, and residencies from Albany music/arts festivals throughout the United States and abroad. Symphony, Albany Records, ASCAP, Artists International, Cary Trust, Circadia, Electro- Some of his recent and ongoing projects include scoring, arranging and Music, ESYO, Engine 27, Femmes Four, Fontainebleau, Imani Winds, ISC, June in Buffalo, performing for film and television including work on the award winning HBO series Meet the Composer, NARAS, NEA, NYNME, NYYS, North River Music, Palisades Virtuosi, Boardwalk Empire (seasons 2 and 3) and for ’s Moonrise Kingdom, which ACO / Sonic Festival, Tanglewood, Vox Novus, Walter W. Naumburg Fund, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Score along with an Academy Award Zentripetal Duo, among others. He has performed at Anadolu Auditorium Istanbul, nomination. Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, BNH, Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Casino As conductor he has appeared with the Saint Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, The de Paris, CBGB, Chicago Theater, Davies Hall, Galapagos, Grande Auditório do Centro New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Ensemble21, Cygnus Festival Orchestra and numerous Cultural de Belém, Hong Kong City Hall, Irving Plaza, Joe's Pub, Koseinenkin Hall Osaka, other groups. He has appeared as guest conductor on the ’s LPR, Massey Hall, Munich Philharmonic Hall, Palau de la Música Catalana, Piccolo Teatro ‘New and Unusual Music Series.’ di Milano, Rockefeller Center, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Royce Hall UCLA, Jarvis teaches music at Connecticut College and William Paterson University. Staatsoper Berlin, Sydney Opera House, Taplin Auditorium, Teatro Albeniz Madrid, His teaching responsibilities include academic classes, percussion lessons, Teatro Cultura Artística São Paulo, Teatro Grand Rex Buenos Aires, The Blue Note, The coaching/conducting chamber music and directing several concerts a year at Gershwin Hotel, The Harvard Club, The Knitting Factory, The Stone, and Town Hall, Connecticut College and the New Music Series at William Paterson University where he among others, plus broadcasts on NBC, BBC, Radio France, Bravo, and RAI. In 2002, is Director of New Music. He is frequently invited to do Masters Classes throughout the Cooper was appointed to the faculty of the SUNY / FIT, where he has created new SUNY United States. General Education Requirement courses in American Music, European-Classical Music, His compositions are published by Calabrese Brothers Music, LLC, Indian and Latin-American and Caribbean Music. In addition, Cooper teaches composition at Paintbrush Productions and L-T Music Publishing. He is a member of BMI. the 92nd St Y School of Music, and music and Shakespeare classes at Greenwich House Additional information can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jarvis Senior Center. He is a co-director of Composers Concordance. - From Wikipedia

John Ferrari: William Kraft: John Ferrari is active in classical, jazz, pop, Broadway, film, television and Mr. Kraft was awarded two Anton Seidl Fellowships at Columbia University, dance music, the avant-garde, and multi-media. He has performed and given master graduating with a bachelor’s degree cum laude in 1951 and a master’s degree in 1954. classes nationally and abroad, and appears on dozens of recordings as percussionist, He studied composition with Jack Beeson and , orchestration with Henry drummer and conductor. He is a founding member of the Naumburg Award winning Brant, percussion with Morris Goldenberg, from Saul Goodman, and conducting New Millennium Ensemble, a regular guest artist of the Chamber Music Society of with Rudolph Thomas and Fritz Zweig. Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, and has been a member of Meridian Arts During his years in New York, Kraft was also active as a freelance musician and Ensemble since 1993. Mr. Ferrari has also appeared and/or recorded with many other had the privilege of working with some of the most well-known musicians of the mid- notable organizations such as: Bang On A Can All-Stars, Da Capo Chamber Players, twentieth century. Kraft thoroughly enjoyed doing freelance work. Among his gigs, he Manhattan Symphonietta, Perspectives Ensemble, The Group for Contemporary Music, played as an extra percussionist for the Metropolitan Opera and played percussion and Orpheus Chamber Players, Riverside Symphony, Locrian, Cygnus, Pittsburg Collective, conducted for Ondine. In 1954, Kraft joined the Dallas Symphony. After only one season John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble and others. He most recently has been heard in there, he moved to Los Angeles. orchestras for the Shakespeare In The Park production of 'Into The Woods' and 'Evita' He took a position with the beginning in the on Broadway. He also launched the premier concert of the Kag Ensemble this August at 1955/56 season. He spent 25 years in the orchestra, the first eight as a member of the the DiMenna Center in New York. Mr. Ferrari holds DMA and MM degrees from SUNY percussion section, and the remaining 17 as principal timpanist. Kraft was also the Stony Brook, and a BM from William Paterson University where he has served on the assistant conductor of the orchestra for 3 seasons under . From 1981–85, performing arts faculty since 2002. In fall 2007 he joined the faculty of Manhattan Kraft was the Composer-in-Residence for the orchestra, during which time he was also His philosophy of "sound as life" lay behind his incorporation of natural sounds, as well responsible for the founding and directing of the Philharmonic’s New Music Group. as his desire to juxtapose and reconcile opposing elements such as Orient and Occident, During his early years in Los Angeles, he organized and directed the Los sound and silence, and tradition and innovation. From the beginning, Takemitsu wrote Angeles Percussion Ensemble, a group which played a vital part in premieres and highly experimental music involving improvisation, graphic notation, unusual recordings of works by such renowned composers as Ginastera, combinations of instruments and recorded sounds. The result is music of great beauty Harrison, Krenek, Stravinsky, Varese, and many others. As percussion soloist, he and originality. It is usually slowly paced and quiet, but also capable of great intensity. performed the American premieres of Stockhausen’s and Boulez’s Le Marteau The variety, quantity and consistency of Takemitsu's output are remarkable considering sans Maître, in addition to recording Histoire du Soldat under Stravinsky’s direction. that he never worked within any kind of conventional framework or genre. In addition - From Wikipedia to the several hundred independent works of music, he scored over ninety films and published twenty books. Payton MacDonald: Takemitsu had no important teachers, and his musical career really began Payton MacDonald (b. 1974, Idaho Falls, Idaho) is a with the formation of the Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop) to promote and composer/improviser/percussionist. He has created a unique body of work that draws perform mixed-media art works. It was Stravinsky's acclaim of the Requiem for strings in upon his extensive experience with East Indian tabla drumming and Dhrupad vocal, 1959 that launched Takemitsu's international career. The next few years produced a American military rudimental drumming, Jazz, European classical music, and the wide variety of works including Takemitsu's prolific film work, and numerous new music American experimental tradition. He works across multiple musical genres, often at the concerts and festivals that culminated in 1967 with a commission for the 125th same time. MacDonald studied music at the University of Michigan (BFA) and the anniversary of the New York Philharmonic. By this time, Takemitsu had begun using Eastman School of Music (MM, DMA, Performer’s Certificate). His composition teachers traditional Japanese instruments in his music. November Steps is one of his most include Sydney Hodkinson, Robert Morris, Dave Rivello, Bright Sheng, and Augusta Read successful combinations of Eastern and Western music; Takemitsu's style was created Thomas. His percussion teachers include John Beck and Michael Udow. Further studies from, and rooted in both. Takemitsu's international fame skyrocketed after this include tabla with Bob Becker and Pandit Sharda Sahai and Dhrupad vocal with premiere, flooding him with commissions and honors that established him as one of the Ramakant Gundecha. MacDonald is a disciple of Mr. Sahai. The New York most influential Japanese composers of the century. Times described MacDonald as an "energetic soloist" and The Los Angeles - From allmusic.com Times described him as an ". . . inventive, stylistically omnivorous composer and gifted performer . . ." MacDonald is an Associate Professor of Music at William Paterson Michael Udow: University. Michael Udow has an expansive diversified career including the symphonic and opera repertories, contemporary solo and chamber music and composition. Dr. Max Stehr: Udow served as principal percussionist with the Santa Fe Opera from 1968 through his Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Max Stehr is a bassist, pianist and retirement after the 2009 season. His credentials also include being a member of the composer who holds a BM in performance and an MM in arranging from the William New Orleans Philharmonic, Summit Brass, the dance/percussion duo Equilibrium, the Paterson University jazz program. As a bassist, Max has performed at numerous venues Tone Road Ramblers, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Galaxy Percussion Group and and settings in the New York and New Jersey area. He has been a member of the New numerous other chamber ensembles. Michael has also designed and manufactured Jersey Percussion Ensemble since 2006 and has been featured as soloist on many innovative percussion instruments and accessories used by major orchestras, service occasions; in 2010, he premiered an electric bass solo by Peter Jarvis and an upright bands, and percussionists throughout the world. bass solo by David Saperstien. Max's deep interest in ethnomusicology led him to - From the University of Michigan website Kenya, with the help of a research grant, to study native music and to India to study with renowned South Indian classical percussionist and singer T.V. Gopalkrishnan. Gary Van Dyke: He has studied with Steve Laspina, Jim McNeely, Kevin Norton, Armen Donelian, and Gary Van Dyke is an accomplished percussionist who is active as a performer, Peter Jarvis. He performs currently as the bassist for the Erica Seguine Jazz conductor and educator. He studied percussion with Raymond DesRoches for six years Orchestra and with the Ba Ban Chinese Music Society. and earned music degrees from William Paterson College and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Van Dyke performs and conducts with the New Jersey Toru Takemitsu: New Music Ensemble and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. He can be heard on Toru Takemitsu (1931-1996) was a self-taught Japanese composer who Nonesuch, Composer’s Recording Inc., New World and Capstone recording labels with combined elements of Eastern and Western music and philosophy to create a unique the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble under , Harvey Solberger and sound world. Some of his early influences were the sonorities of Debussy, Raymond DesRoches. and Messiaen's use of nature imagery and modal scales. There is a certain influence Mr. Van Dyke has held teaching positions since 1978 and currently of Webern in Takemitsu's use of silence, and Cage in his compositional philosophy, but teaches/conducts for the Teaneck Public School system in New Jersey, serving seven his overall style is uniquely his own. Takemitsu believed in music as a means of ordering or contextualizing everyday sound in order to make it meaningful or comprehensible. schools, grades 4 – 12, and is an Adjunct Faculty at William Paterson University, April 22, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and conducting and performing new music and percussion ensemble literature. New Music Ensembles perform music by: Toru Takemitsu, Carlos Chavez, David Mr. Van Dyke makes his home in Ramsey, New Jersey with his wife, Linea and Saperstein, Leo Kraft and others. their three children, Amanda, Kyle and Briana.

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New Music at William Paterson University New Music Series – 2012-2013 All Concerts are at 7:00 PM unless otherwise stated.

All performances are in Shea Auditorium unless otherwise stated.

All programs are subject to change without notice.

October 29, 2012 ; 7:30PM – Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: Works by , Earle Brown , Christian Carey, Peter Jarvis, György Ligeti, Gene Pritsker, and James Tenney. Two world premieres will be performed.

Guest artist: Taka Kigawa and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble November 26, 2010; 7:30PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles. Featuring “Stream Runner” by Robert Morris. Robert Morris will be our guest at the concert. Other composers include: Elliott Carter, Daniel Levitan, Pierre Boulez, Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti and Peter Jarvis

Please Note – Beginning February 4, 2013, all concerts on the New Music Series will start at 7:00PM

February 4, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: Featuring Composers Concordance March 4, 2013; 7:00PM – Shea Center. Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles March 7, 2013, 12:30PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: Composer in Residence Day performed on the Midday Artist Series. March 25, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: As part of the William Paterson University Cross Cultural Arts Festival: works by Qu Xiao-Song, Keiko Abe, Rüdiger Pawassar, Nicolas Doktor and . April 1, 2013; 7:00PM - Shea Center, Shea Auditorium: WPU Percussion and New Music Ensembles perform music by James Romig, Michael Colgrass, Peter Jarvis, Evan Hause, Gene Pritsker and others.