FROST WIND ENSEMBLE Message from the Dean On behalf of Robert Carnochan, our gifted students, and my faculty colleagues, we are proud to present our Frost Wind Ensemble to the distinguished and discriminating audience of the Florida Music Educators Conference. Dr. Carnochan has selected a program that reflects the unique values and excellence of the Frost School of Music, where our motto is “Build Yourself”. We encourage students to curate artistry and skill sets that are both deep and broad, in a diverse, un-siloed environment. The Frost School represents the best of time-honored traditions, while preparing graduates for relevant careers in the 21st century. The repertoire for this evening reflects the Frost School’s values. Carlos Simon’s “AMEN!” honors the African American church tradition, while Jennifer Jolley’s “The Eyes of the World Are Upon You” pays homage to the fallen and asks for our better angels to prevail in the wake of tragedy. This evening’s performance is dedicated to all those at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Brad Warnaar’s “New Alliances” is a tour de force composed for our virtuosic Professor Richard Todd, one of the world’s foremost French Horn artists - known for his breathtaking sound, agility, and formidable improvisation skills. Our program closes with a time-tested masterpiece, Hindemith’s monumental Symphony in B-flat. About the Frost School of Music I invite you to enjoy and be inspired by one of The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of degrees in Studio Music and Jazz, Music leading to the Master of Music, Master Music, established in 1926, ranks among the Therapy, and Accompanying and Chamber of Science in Music Engineering, Doctor the country’s greatest wind ensembles, under most comprehensive and innovative in all of Music and is now the year-round home of of Musical Arts, and Ph.D. degrees. New the direction of Maestro Robert Carnochan. higher education. The Frost School of Music the Henry Mancini Institute and the Bruce graduate degrees include a J.D./M.M. in Music is the “Mortar of Humanity”, and I am offers premiere performance experiences Hornsby Creative American Music Program. Music Business offered jointly with the grateful to the FMEA attendees who dedicate for instrumentalists and vocalists. Its faculty University of Miami School of Law, and a their lives to the future of great music. has pioneered new curricula including The Frost School awards the Bachelor M.A. in Arts Presenting, where students the groundbreaking Experiential Music of Music degree in ten majors, the prepare to profitably manage performing Shelton G. Berg Curriculum, and was the first in the nation Bachelor of Science in Music Engineering arts venues and festivals. The Frost School’s Dean, Patricia L. Frost Professor to offer professionally accredited bachelor’s Technology, the Bachelor of Arts, which innovative programs, combined with its Frost School of Music and master’s degrees in Music Business and enables students to combine music with traditional concentrations, offer its students Music Engineering Technology. The Frost another discipline; diploma programs in one of the widest choices of career School was also among the first to offer performance; and numerous programs programs of any music school in the nation. FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC | 1 Program Program Notes AMEN! (2017) AMEN! – Carlos Simon I. Lively AMEN! (2017) was commissioned by the services is a vital vehicle in fostering a genuine II. Soulfully University of Michigan Symphony Band and spiritual experience for the congregation. s III. My teriously is a homage to my family’s four generational affiliation with the Pentecostal church. My The three movements in AMEN! are performed New Alliances (2018) Brad Warnaar (b. 1950) intent is to re-create the musical experience of without break to depict how the different parts an African American Pentecostal church service of a worship service flow into the next. In the Richard Todd, horn that I enjoyed being a part of while growing up first movement, I’ve imagined the sound of in this denomination. an exuberant choir and congregation singing harmoniously together in a call and response The Eyes of the World Are Upon You (2017) Jennifer Jolley (b. 1981) Pentecostal denominations, such as: Church fashion. The soulful second movement quotes of God in Christ (C.O.G.IC.), Pentecostal a gospel song, “I’ll Take Jesus For Mine” that Gary Green, Guest Conductor Assemblies of God, Apostolic, Holiness Church, I frequently heard in many services. The title, among many others, are known for their AMEN!, refers to the plagal cadence or “Amen” Dedicated to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the Parkland community exuberant outward expressions of worship. The cadence (IV-I), which is the focal point of up by half step until we reach a frenzied worship services in these churches will often the climax in the final movement. Along with state, emulating a spiritually heightened have joyous dancing, spontaneous shouting, heavily syncopated rhythms and interjecting state of worship (Notes by Carlos Simon) Symphony in B-flat (1951) Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) and soulful singing. The music in these worship contrapuntal lines, this cadence modulates I. Moderately fast, with vigor II. Andantino grazioso New Alliances – Brad Warnaar III. Fugue, Rather broad New Alliances, for solo horn and small wind 16th-note repetition of a very dissonant chant-like melody is repeated several times. ensemble, is a substantially re-worked version chord from which the melodic elements The overall effect is quite primal - almost of a previous composition, “Alliances”, written gradually emerge. This is followed by the first tribal - in nature. This in turn gives way to a for the same combination of instruments and of two cadenzas for the solo horn, leading jazz-like section which affords the solo horn premiered by Richard Todd with the University into an ostinato in piano, harp, and mallet the opportunity for some actual improvisation, of Southern California Wind Ensemble in 1993. percussion, over which the solo horn intones after which the piece settles into a calm The title refers to the alliances formed by the long, quasi-improvisational lines. Another ending. addition of various instrumental voices to the cadenza follows, with the solo horn employing solo horn line, giving an ever-changing color to extensive use of pitch-bending by means of Richard Todd and I were French horn the melodic element. manipulation of the right hand in the bell of “partners-in-crime” for decades in Los the instrument. The next section is slow and Angeles, playing together in the LA Chamber New Alliances is in one movement comprised dreamy, meant to evoke travel through outer Orchestra, on records, and for countless of several sections. It starts with a raucous space. Out of this emerges another ostinato, movies, television shows, and commercials. rip from the horns, woodwinds, brass, and this time consisting of percussion playing on It is with great pleasure that I dedicate New percussion which introduces an insistent the rims of the instruments, over which a new Alliances to him. (Notes by Brad Warnaar) 2 | FROST WIND ENSEMBLE FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC | 3 Program Notes Ensemble Members The Eyes of the World are Upon You – Jennifer Jolley Last summer I read an article in the New York Times entitled “Texas It has been almost fifty-one years since this shocking event, and Lawmakers Pass a Bill Allowing Guns at Colleges,” which stated that many things have changed. There are now campus police forces and “students and faculty members at public and private universities in significant improvements to mental health services were also made Texas could be allowed to carry concealed handguns into classrooms, in the aftermath of the shooting. The UT Tower Shooting is both a dormitories, and other buildings….” In a grim coincidence the article tragic living history, as well as a celebration of resilience. As stated also noted that the new campus carry law would go in effect on the by the UT Austin President Gregory L. Fenves at the Tower Memorial fiftieth anniversary of the UT Tower Shootings. Rededication, “We will never eliminate the memory of the horror that consumed this campus on August 1, 1966. Nor should we try. This chilled me. But by focusing on the good—on the stories of the heroes and lives of the survivors here with us this afternoon—we can finally begin to Oboes UT Austin was the scene of the nation’s first campus mass shooting. remember and endure our burden of the past.” Paul Chinen, DMA Performance; Honolulu, HI On Monday, August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman murdered his mother Cameron Roberts, BM Performance; Friendswood, TX and wife, then climbed to the top of the University of Texas Tower This piece is a celebration of life: to those who died that day, but also Jessica Myers, DMA Performance; Westfield, IN and fired his first shots just before noon. The killing spree went on to those who survived. (Notes by Jennifer Jolley) Flutes Karen Trujillo, BM Performance; West Palm Beach, FL for ninety-six minutes until Whitman was gunned down; seventeen Emily Bedard, DMA Performance; Grand Ledge, MI people were killed. Alyssa Mena, BM Performance; Miami, FL Aaron Rib, BM Performance; Clearwater, FL Anjali Shinde, BM Performance; Orlando, FL Symphony in B-flat – Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Symphony in B-flat was commissioned in the first movement of a classical symphony. by Lt. Col. Hugh Curry, conductor of the For his second movement, Hindemith United States Army Band, and premiered combines the traditional styles of a classical in Washington D.C. on April 5, 1951 with symphony (in which the second movement the composer conducting. The symphony is typically slow, and the third a quick minuet is an excellent example of the application or scherzo) and condenses these two ideas of Hindemith’s systems of composition, into one middle movement.