THE SUNDERMAN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC presents THE GEttYSBURG COLLEGE SYMPHONY BAND AND WIND ENSEMBLE Dr. Lewes Peddell, conductor Winterwith Dr. Erica Band Neidlinger Concert & Alex Langley ’08, guest conductors Friday, December 1st, 2006 8:00 P.M. Majestic Theater Sunderman Conservatory of Music Events 2006-2007 December 2nd • 8:00 p.m. • Christ Chapel • Choral Christmas Concert MISSION StATEMENT December 5th • 12:00 noon • Paul Recital Hall • Brown Bag Jazz • Eric Mintel Quartet Sunderman Conservatory of Music February 16th • 8:00 p.m. • Majestic Theater • 18th Annual Winter Jazz Concert College Jazz Ensemble • George Rabbai, Guest Soloist Core Purpose th To create an intellectual and artistic community for musical discovery March 24 • 8:00 p.m. • Christ Chapel • College Choir & Camerata within a rigorous liberal arts curriculum. April 13th • 8:00 p.m. • Majestic Theater • Jazz Ensemble & Camerata Core Values April 14th • 8:00 p.m. • Majestic Theater • Symphony Band & Wind Ensemble Respect th To engage in intellectual and artistic pursuits with openness and April 15 • 8:00 p.m. • Christ Chapel • Choral Showcase sensitivity to different and changing values. April 28th • 8:00 p.m. • Majestic Theater • College-Community Orchestra & College Choir Creativity and Intellectual Curiosity Libby Larsen World Premiere Composition To integrate musical tools and concepts to produce unique vehicles th th of personal expression. April 29 • 2:30 p.m. • Majestic Theater • 175 Anniversary Celebration Concert College-Community Orchestra & College Choir • Libby Larsen World Premiere Composition Innovation To experience musical, personal, and professional growth through new repertoire, concepts, and opportunities. Breadth of Experience To explore the diversity of universal musical expression. Admission is Free to all Concerts. For information 717.337.6815 www.gettysburg.edu/sunderman • www.gettysburgmajestic.org Dr. Lewes Peddell, is Director of BandsConductor and Orchestral Biographies Activities and also teaches instrumental methods Program and conducting in the Music Education program. Born in Australia, he received a Diploma of Teaching Symphony BAND in Music from the Queensland University of Technology, and a Bachelor of Music and Graduate Diploma – both in trumpet performance – from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music. After 10 years of successful Bullets and Bayonets ..............................................................................................Sousa (1854-1932) middle and high school teaching Dr. Peddell traveled to the US A where, at the University of Minnesota, he Ed. Fennell completed a Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting, and a Ph.D. with concentrations in conducting and music education. His principal conducting teacher at Minnesota was Craig Kirchhoff and more recently Grant Them Eternal Rest ........................................................................................... Boysen (b.1968) is Stuart Malina, principal conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. This spring Dr. Peddell will I. Introit be conducting the Cumberland County Orchestra, guest conducting the Hofstra University Orchestra and II. Kyrie will be presenting at the PMEA Conference. III. Dies Irae IV. Sanctus Dr. Erica J. Neidlinger is Assistant Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Bands at the University of V. Agnus Dei Nebraska at Omaha, where she serves as Conductor of the University Concert Band, Associate Conductor of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Director of the Marching Mavericks. In January of 2005 the Marching Mavericks represented the state of Nebraska in Washington, D.C. for the Presidential Inaugural Parade. Folk Dances ...............................................................................................Shostakovich (1906-1975) In addition to her conducting responsibilities at UNO, Neidlinger teaches graduate and undergraduate Arr. Reynolds conducting as well as instrumental methods courses. She completed her Ph.D. in music education with wind Guest conductor: Dr. Erica Neidlinger conducting emphasis at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Professor Craig Kirchhoff. Her research concerns the use of Laban Effort/Shape theory for the development of expressive skills in young conductors. WIND Ensemble Dr. Neidlinger is the current conductor of the Nebraska Wind Symphony. Under her direction the Wind Lincolnshire Posy ............................................................................................. Grainger (1882-1961) Symphony was selected to perform for the 2005 Association of Concert Bands National Convention in Quincy, I. Lisbon (Sailor’s Song) Illinois. She is also co-founder and conducts the Omaha Area Youth Wind Ensemble. Prior to her doctoral II. Horkstow Grange (The Miser and his Man: A Local Tragedy) studies, Neidlinger was a member of the band and music education faculty at The Ohio State University. III. Rufford Park Poachers (Poaching Song) IV. The Brisk Young Sailor (who returned to wed his True Love) Alex Langley is a junior from Pittsburgh. He is majoring in Economics and Management. Alex, a V. Lord Melbourne (War Song) percussionist, is a member of the Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra. He’s also a part of the VI. The Lost Lady Found (Dance Song) Bullet Marching Band and served as Head Drum Major this fall. Symphony BAND Finale from Symphony No.5 ....................................................................Shostakovich (1906-1975) Arr. Righter Sleigh Ride ...........................................................................................Leroy Anderson (1908 - 1975) Guest conductor: Alex Langley ‘08 TRUMPET (continued) Maggie Dobbs ‘08 *+ Environmental Studies/Anthropology Ellicott City, MD Torrey Drum ‘09 + Theatre Arts/Management Milton, PA Bullets and Bayonets Program Notes Justin Laury ‘10 History Sparta, NJ Bullets and Bayonets is held by a legion of march aficionados to be one of the best in Sousa’s legendary output; Caterina Mainardi ‘10 Music Education Boonton, NJ many believe it to be his best. Sousa was sixty-four when he wrote it in 1918 and is solidly constructed music James Merrifield ‘10 + Music Waldoboro, ME conceived in the maturity expected of so experienced a composer. It is truly composed, with flashes back Anthony Nappo ‘10 + History Westtown, NY to the charming style of his marches of the mid-1880s. And the scoring is fresh, imaginative, wonderfully Susannah Rhodes ‘07 History Hagerstown, MD sonorous – even sparse in some sections, compared to other of his blockbusters. The musical ideas, deceivingly Joshua Siner ‘10 *+ Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Mullica Hill, NJ simple, are solid and immediately rewarding to the player and the listener. It is, in short, a bold Sousa model Lauren Tedesco ‘09 + Psychology/Elementary Education St. Davids, PA fulfilling his statement that “…A march must be as free from padding as a marble statue.” At the time of his choice of name, bullets and bayonets were a frightening reality – perhaps bitter and repulsive TROMBONE – to the thousands of his soldier-countrymen then engaged in their use in the struggle then raging on the Stephanie Allen ‘10 Japanese Studies Yadkinville, NC western front in World War I. But, after these aggressive associations are stated, the music in no way seems Evan Cyran ‘09 *+ Philosophy Baltimore, MD to generate a military posture; even the low-profile regimental trumpeting in the final trio strain hardly Nicholas Kukla ‘10 + Undecided Jupiter, FL qualifies. Always, by way of his marches the musical commentator for people, events, and places, Sousa’s title Carinne Park ‘08 Chemistry Pittsburgh, PA and its dedication “To the officers and men of the U.S. Infantry” are no surprise. (Frederick Fennell) Katherine Rodda ‘10 *+ Music Downington, PA Daniel VonSchmidt ‘07 + Physics New Egypt, NJ Grant Them Eternal Rest Grant Them Eternal Rest was commissioned by Andrew Mast and the St. Ambrose University Symphonic EUPHONIUM Band and is dedicated to those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. The piece follows the general Jimmy Connor ‘09 *+ History Annandale, VA outline of a requiem mass, but without voices, including five movements: Introit, Kyrie, Dies Irae, Sanctus, Melissa Weisbach ‘09 Health Science Pennsburg, PA and Agnus Dei. TUBA Boysen writes: Marissa Dakay ‘09 + Environmental Studies Eden Prairie, MN “Dr. Mast and I are very good friends, and I was extremely honored when he asked me to write a piece for him Jenna Deaven ‘07 + Physics Ono, PA and his ensemble. Over the course of several months, he and I discussed various approaches to the commission Emma Snellings ‘10 * Undecided Needham, MA and eventually we settled on a multi-movement work that would reflect the various aspects of childhood. I began to play around with some ideas and to search for poetic texts that might influence the piece. PERCUSSION Joshua Caruthers ‘10 + Mathematics Lancaster, PA I was almost ready to begin the work and spent part of the September 8-9 weekend finalizing ideas. All of Timothy Geis ‘09 + Biology Southampton, PA that changed, of course, on the eleventh. The overwhelming emotions that I experienced on the Tuesday were Meghan Kelly ‘10 + History Monroe, NY something that I had never before experienced in relationship to an event outside my personal sphere. I can’t Alex Langley ‘08 *+ Economics/Management Pittsburgh, PA begin to explain them. I simply knew that I wanted to express them somehow. Dr. Mast agreed that changing Kayla Lenkner ‘08 Classical Studies/English