SHEPHERD SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICE CHORALE HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS CHAMBER CHOIR Larry Rachleff, conductor Friday, April23, 1993 8:00p.m. Stude Concert Hall "-' sfkteherd RICE UNIVERSITY Sc~ol Of Music PROGRAM Fanfare for a Great City Arthur Gottschalk (b. 1952) Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) INTERMISSION Carmina Burana Carl Orff ( 1895-1982) Rice Chorale Houston Children's Chorus Chamber Choir Kelley Cooksey, soprano Francisco Almanza, tenor Robert Ames, baritone In consideration of the performers and members of the audience, please check audible paging devices with the ushers and silence audible timepieces. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are prohibited. SHEPHERD SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Violin I Viola (cont.) Oboe Trumpet (cont.) Julie Savignon, Erwin Foubert Margaret Butler Troy Rowley concertmaster Patrick Horn Kyle Bruckmann David Workman Claudia Harrison Stephanie Griffin Jeffrey Champion Trombone Barbara Wittenberg Bin Sun Dione Chandler Wade Demmert Jeanine Tiemeyer Andrew Weaver Karen Friedman David Ford Kristin Lacey Sharon Neufeld ~ Brent Phillips Mihaela Oancea English Horn Cello Kyle Bruckmann Inga Ingver Tuba Katherine de Bethune, Yenn Chwen Er Clarinet Jeffrey Tomberg principal Yoong-han Chan Benjamin Brady Danny Urban ~ Jeanne Jaubert Magdalena Villegas Joanne Court Scott Brady Timpani and Tanya Schreiber Kelly Cramm Mary Ellen Morris Percussion Rebecca Ansel Martin van Maanen Robin Creighton Douglas Cardwell Eitan Ornoy X in-Yang Zhou Amy Harr Nathan Davis l Melissa Yeh Rachael Snow Eric Kutz E-flat Clarinet Erich Loftis Jonathan Swartz Mary Riles X in-Yang Zhou Andrea Moore Aileen Pagan Joanna Nelson Bass Clarinet Violin II Allison Braid Frank Ronne burg Martin van Maanen Johnny Chang, Darrett Adkins Stephen Steele Joel Stein r principal Ellen Fuchs Bassoon Sarah Mauldin Eric Anderson Double Bass Piano Amanda Walvoord James Mallet, Charles Bailey Ming Fong Anna Cromwell principal Kellie Dunlap Daniel Velicer Zhang Zhang Richard Hardie Joshua Hood Courtney LeBauer Celeste Robert Beck William Hunker Shen Yeh Gerardo Edelstein David Murray Colleen Brannen Contrabassoon Siobhan Kelleher Orchestra Manager Tomasz Golka Joshua Hood Nicholas Walker Martin Merritt faa Alexander Kurt Johnson Horn '( Zachary Carrettin Orchestra Librarian Pamela Lopes Wade Butin Linda Hill Kellie Dunlap , . Robert Stiles Tricia Giesbrecht Vanessa Cook Thomas Jostlein Stage Technicians Mary Helen Harris Flute Michael Mayhew Wade Demmert Janice Chow Elizabeth Buck Kimberly Penrod William Hunker Christina Olien ..._ Brian Davis Iris Rosenstein James Mallet Lisa Garner Ross Snyder Viola Michael Mayhew Kris Guthrie Martha Thompson Anne Miller, Jeffrey Tomberg ;. Susan Kerbs Elizabeth Zwicky principal LaNelle McDowall Library Assistants Rifat Qureshi ~ . Trumpet Eric Anderson Wei-Guo Yin Piccolo Dennis de long Charles Bailey Tibor Molnar Elizabeth Buck James Lake Erwin Foubert ~ Aaron Bielish Lisa Garner Kevin Noe Anne Miller Rudolf Haken Susan Kerbs Elbert Pruitt Sharon Neufeld -<: WINDS, BRASS, AND PERCUSSION LISTED ALPHABETICALLY. RICE CHORALE Thomas Jaber, music director ) Kimberly Camp Orr, assistant conductor Donald Doucet, rehearsal pianist Jonathon Adler Susan Galloway Alina Klimaszewska Brett Peters Julian Altschul Gary Garverick Tse-Ying Koh Stephanie Petrusek Jeffrey Andress Julianne Gearhart Michael Koltz Christopher Pickett Greg Applegate Nora Ghbeish John Koshy Caroline Plowden Jennifer Arisco Gina Goff Katrina Kropa Lydia Rebholz Kathleen A vera Raymond Granlund Lyn Kulapaditharom Benno Remling Angelena Baines Alan Green Andy Kuo Claire Rieffel "'-., Don Barkauskas David Greene Keith LaFoe Joel Riphagen Kelley Barnes Max Greenfield Liz Lam Christopher Rodriguez Diane Barrett Mark Gremillion Lorelle Lamascus Deric Rosenblatt ' Luciana Barroso Meg Grulee Glenn Larratt Kimala Ross Sara Bayer Steve Gutheinz Graham LeBron Scott Rudy Micah Bennett Stuart Hall Jeffrey Lien Jennifer Ruland Michael Benson Felix Hamelbeck Ashley Lile Andrew Rye Susan Bernat Minh Han Peter Lindskoog Brian Sadovsky ~ Susan Boettger Leslie Hanson Karen Loti Jenny Salomon Christina Bravo Cari Harris Deborah Lutes Paul Schleuse Lara Bruckmann Larycia Hawkins Thomas Maddox Aaron Schnurbusch Mark Carlisle Brian Haygood Mary Louise Marent Amy Scurria Marcia Carlson Caroline Heatherton Reece Marshall Cambria Smith Chris Caudle James Hickman Rose Ann Martinez Jeanne Stein Alice Chen Laureen Hildebrand Justin McCarthy Jason Stevens Anne-Marie Condacse Hai HughHo Wendy McGahee Geoffrey Sturm or T.K. Conrad Yvonne Ho MaryAnn McKibben Alex Stutler Michael Cook Kristi Holder Katherine McKinin Eric Sutton Melissa Cue Christine Hopper David Mebane Jude Theriot Susan D'Albergo Paul Howard Nick Mahieu John Tripp Robert Dana Jon Hunter Ryan Minor Yodi Trujillo David Deggeller Jennifer Jacobs Edward Morris Dan Velicer Mark Deggeller Elke Jahns Ernest Mueller Stacy Vial Kirsten DeHart Lura Johnson Beth Munkres Kathleen Webster Carolyn Delaney Courtney Jones Robert Murry Nathan Wight o4 I Margaret Denton Kara Kane Elenor Nardy Kandi Wiley -1 Toby Eisenberg Nikko/a Karlsson Paul Neal Jessica Williams .. ; Sean Elgin William Kelley Manya Newton Joanna Yeoman Karen Foster Joe Key Jeffrey Nytch Stephanie Zelnick Joseph Fowler Ashley Kim Kimberly Camp Orr George Zener ~ Gabriela Frank Tami Kimmel David Palmer Jennifer Zimmerman HOUSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS CHAMBER CHOIR Stephen Roddy, founder and director Matthew Amthor Nathan Herrington Julia Krohn Greg Poirier Missy Burchfield Sarah Hight Mandy Lawshae Michelle Potts Jenny Burchfield Benjamin Jaber Travis Layton Cye Sanati Anjan Choudhury Anne James Ronda Lyles Randy Thompson Amanda Connolly lana Jones Amy Mayerhoff Jennifer Wallace Clare Conway Patrick Kelly Charlie Muras Jennifer Westerfield Larkeytra Davis Kristin Kiker Meredith Nichols Grant Wilson Allyson Gibson Chisa King Glenn Phillips Evans Wittenberg PROGRAM NOTES Fanfare for a Great City . Arthur Gottschalk Arthur Gottschalk is an Associate Professor of Composition and Theory and the Direc- ,. tor of the Electronic Music Laboratories at The Shepherd School of Music, where he has been a member ofthe faculty since 1977. Born in San Diego in 1952, he received his D. M.A. from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Ross Lee Finney, Leslie Bassett, and William Balcom. In anticipation of the twenty-fifth anniversary of NASA's Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center, the Houston Festival (now the Houston International Festival) requested a work from Gottschalk. At that time ( 1983 ), he was the Composer-in-Residence at the Columbia­ Princeton Electronic Music Center and was living in New York's Greenwich Village. The Festival had intended a piece for the celebration of Houston, but Gottschalk was more inter­ ested in celebrating New York's "concrete jungles" than Houston's "semi-tropical foliage." The Festival, unaware of Gottschalk's feelings, expected to receive a tonal, celebratory work, but instead received an ambiguously titled work that the composer describes as "monolithic." Fanfare for a Great City is not programmatic but representative. It is sectional in struc­ ture,firmly rooted in the key ofB-flat. In the course ofthe work, the harmony progresses from dominant to tonic. Rhythmic drive supplies an element of cohesion. The instrumenta­ tion calls for four trumpets,four horns, three trombones, and one tuba. Arthur Gottschalk has received the Charles Ives Prize, the Charles Ives Center Fellow­ ship, and the Sigvald Thompson Award. His works have been recorded by Crystal, Orion, Golden Crest, Summit, and Polygram. Fanfare for a Great City is published by Seesaw Music Corporation. Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a Johannes Brahms Johannes Brahms was well established throughout the world as a composer of chamber music, concerti, choral works, and lieder when he began composing his first complete sym­ phonic work, the Variations on a Theme of Haydn, Op. 56a. The techniques he used and mastered in the work, which premiered November 2, 1873, as well as the instant success of the Variations, encouraged Brahms' continued work on his first symphony, which was twen­ ty years in the making. The Haydn Variations, along with the two string quartets of Op. 51, and the orchestration ofthree Hungarian Dances, were integral in the development needed for Brahms to finish this much-anticipated Symphony No. 1. Besides being Brahms' first truly orchestral work, the Haydn Variations holds other significant distinctions: it was the first set of independent variations for orchestra, and it was the first time a passacaglia was used to conclude a set of variations in a symphonic work. (It is interesting to note that in the finale of his Symphony No.4, which was composed thirteen years later, Brahms returned to this technique.) The variation technique was not new for Brahms, since many ofhis earlier works had been constructed with this technique, including the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel, Op. 24, of 1861. (The Handel Variations were written for piano, as were one version of the Haydn Variations, Op. 56b.) The theme chosen by Brahms as the basis for this set of variations was once thought to be by Franz Joseph Haydn, but later research has proven that it was written by an unknown composer. Commonly referred to as the St. Anthony Chorale, it provided Brahms with a melody which could be ornamented and harmonically reinterpreted without the listener losing a sense of the original