Also available on CD TIMOTHY REYNISH CONDUCTING: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE VOL 1 (4949-MCD) Samurai (1995) . Nigel Clarke Diaghilev Dances (2003) . Kenneth Hesketh Danse Funambulesque (1930) . Jules Strens L’ Homme Armé (2003) . Christopher Marshall Concerto for Wind Orchestra (2003) . Christian Lindberg UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE VOL 2 (5347-MCD) Dances from Crete (2003) . Adam Gorb Gran Duo (2000) . Magnus Lindberg Awake, You Sleepers (2002) . Laurence Bitensky Per la Flor del Lliri Blau (1934) . Joaquin Rodrigo ITHACA COLLEGE SYMPHONIC BAND VOL 3 (6733-MCD) King Pomade Suite No 2 (1953) . Ranki Gyorgy Elegy for Miles Davis (1993) . Richard Rodney Bennett Symphony of Winds (1981) . Derek Bourgeois Blackwater (2006) . Fergal Carroll Tails aus dem Vood Viennoise (1992) . Bill Connor THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA CHAN 9549 Percy Grainger Works for Wind Orchestra Volume 1 CHAN 9630 Percy Grainger Works for Wind Orchestra Volume 2 CHAN 9697 British Wind Band Classics, Holst & Vaughan Williams CHAN 9805 German Wind Band Classics, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Toch & Blacher CHAN 9897 French Wind Band Classics, Berlioz, Schmitt, Milhaud, Bozza & Saint-Saens DOYCD 037 Morning Music - Midnight Music:Richard Rodney Bennett & Irwin Bazelon DOYCD 043 Wind Music by Edward Gregson DOYCD 127 Wind music by Judith Bingham, Adam Gorb and Roger Marsh KLAV 11152 Wind music by Nigel Clarke, Adam Gorb, Martin Ellerby & Geoffrey Poole More information on Timothy Reynish visit www.timreynish.com For info on recordings of WASBE Conferences in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007 go to www.markcustom.com Records • 10815 Bodine Road • Clarence, NY 14031-0406 phone: 716.759.2600 • fax: 716.759.2329 • www.markcustom.com 6804-MCD ൿ 2006 Programme Notes historic periods, new commissions, and those newer works that serve to expand the evolving repertoire for the wind ensemble. Guest conductors and composers from around the globe who have worked with the ensemble include Samuel Adler, David How can you bridge the gap between so-called contemporary music and more popular music known and Amran, Frank Battisti, Warren Benson, John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, David Dzubay, Lukas Foss, Arnald Gabriel, John used much more widely, and how can you make the music for our time more accessible to the layman? Answering Harbison, Robert Jager, Karel Husa, Libby Larsen, David Maslanka, Ron Nelson, Larry Rachleff, Tim Reynish, Carl St. Clair, these questions was worth a try. Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Richard Strange, Frank Ticheli, and John Whitwell. The distinguished Luxembourg composer, Marcel Wengler, writing about his work Versuche uber einen Marsch, articulated Membership in the 48-member ensemble is determined by audition in the fall of each academic year. The wind and the excitement that is abroad today about wind music and the emerging wind repertoire. percussion players in the Wind Ensemble are among the most talented in the School of Music. Almost all of the performers in the Sir Simon Rattle acknowledged the incredible standard of wind, brass and percussion playing of our time when he told me: ensemble are undergraduates; the majority are studying music education. ... the more we encourage composers to use the wind ensemble, the better it's going to be, particularly Ithaca College's School of Music, housed in the James J. Whalen Center for Music, enjoys a distinguished reputation with the generation of wind players that's out there now. among institutions for professional music study in the United States. A celebrated faculty teaches some 500 undergraduate music In Spring 2006, Leonard Slatkin conducted the US Marine Band at the Strathmore Music Center, Baltimore, in majors each year, maintaining the conservatory tradition within a comprehensive college setting. The School of Music is home to a sensational programme of Bach, Prokofiev and the new Corigliano Symphony, Circus Maximus. When he last specialists in virtually every orchestra and band instrument; in voice, piano, organ, and guitar; and in music education, jazz, conducted the President’s Own, he said of the medium in an interview: composition, theory, history, and conducting. Ithaca's music professors perform regularly on campus and throughout the country What I think you are finding is that more composers are using the orchestral venue to experiment and use in recitals and concerts, contribute to publications and professional organizations, and make presentations at numerous different frameworks. So, some of the works that are emerging for wind ensemble are designed not only for use conferences and workshops every year. with band but for use within an orchestral concert where you might not require the strings. I first "discovered" the medium twenty-five years ago when Frank Battisti brought the first International Conference to the Royal Northern College in Manchester. I have been increasingly excited by the potential of the medium ever since, despite the ITHACA COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE dead hand of commercialism and compromise that dulls so many wind concerts and recordings. Piccolo Meggan Frost Tenor Saxophone Jenna Troiano Timpani Melissa Bravo Amanda Jenne Deanna Loertscher Rose Valby * Valerie Vassar Sir Michael Tippett wrote: Amanda Kellogg We all know that the big public is extremely conservative and is willing to ring the changes on a few Flute Baritone Saxophone Trombone Percussion Jacquie Christen Anne Woodard Andrew Lawrence Megan Boutin * Matt Donello * beloved works till the end of time, and that our concert life, through the taste of this public, suffers from a kind Mary Parsnick * Bass Clarinet Alan Danahy Jennie Herreid of inertia of sensibility, that seems to want no musical experience whatever beyond what it already knows. Trumpet Oboe Kelly Bochynski Bridget Colgan D. Phillip Truex Vincent Malafronte Surely the matter is that the very big public masses together in a kind of dead passion of mediocrity, and that Monica Eason Bassoon Gregory Harris Euphonium Evan Peltier this blanket of mediocrity is deeply offended by any living passion of the unusual, the rare, the rich, the Emily Mure Katie Barker * Lindsey Jessick * Phil Giampietro * Greg Sutliff exuberant, the heroic and the aristocratic in art. Christopher Neske * Jessica Tortorici Calvin Rice Mike Vecchio Piano I would like to thank the staff and students at Ithaca College for inviting me to work with them and to introduce so much Eb Clarinet Jeff Ward Omar Williams Tuba Joshua Horsch new repertoire. This disc is a completely unedited recording of the Wind Ensemble concert in a programme drawn from an Lauren Del Re Alto Saxophone Tim Winfield Jessica Mower * Graduate Conductors international repertoire, which includes music from Greece by way of the USA, USA albeit by a Knight of the British Empire who Bb Clarinet Heidi Bellinger Horn Susan Wheatley Andrew Krus happens to live in New York, New Zealand, England and Luxembourg. Three of the six works were commissioned by my wife and Kaitlyn Alcorn Allison Dromgold * Gina Zurlo String Bass Dominic Hartjes Chelsey Hamm myself as part of our series commemorating our third son, William who died in the Pyrenees five years ago. The Makris is Will Cicola * Justin Wixson * Denotes section leader published by Ballerbach and is almost totally unknown. The work by Wengler I have published in the ongoing battle to make non- Carlie Kilgore * commercial wind ensemble works available, and the performance of Reflections by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett is a 70th birthday tribute to one of our most significant English composers. We commissioned Chris Marshall’s Resonance especially for the Ithaca ITHACA WIND & PERCUSSION FACULTY Wind Ensemble, and this is a recording of the première. Arthur Ostrander, Dean; Director of Bands: Stephen Peterson This repertoire disc is from an unedited recording of the concert on 27 April 2006. Wendy Mehne, Flute Steven Mauk, Saxophone Harold Reynolds, Trombone Kelly Covert, Flute Lee Goodhew Romm, Bassoon David Unland, Euphonium & Tuba Improvisations-Rhythms Andreas Makris Paige Morgan, Oboe Frank Campos, Trumpet Gordon Stout, Percussion Improvisations-Rhythms was composed for a high school band and premièred at the Mid-West Clinic. The first part is Richard Faria, Clarinet Kim Dunnick, Trumpet Conrad Alexander, Percussion based around the opening quasi improvisando theme, which is stated on the first clarinet after a short introduction for piccolo Michael Galvan, Clarinet Alexander Shuhan, Horn and triangle, stating a note row, which later assumes importance in both woodwind and brass. The woodwind have a chance to introduce their own improvisation, molto pianissimo, under the original Makris motif on flutes and piccolo. Concert recorded live at the Ford Hall, Ithaca College Thursday April 27th, 2006 The second part is mainly in 15/8, but the bar is broken up into 5/8 + 6/8 + 4/8. The flow of the dance is interrupted by Conductor: Timothy Reynish Assistant Conductor: Andrew Krus Produced by: Mark J. Morette repeated codetta motifs of 5/8 or 7/8 and the piece comes to a rousing conclusion. It is hard to see why an original band piece Programme Notes: Timothy Reynish Mastered by: Chris Chaffee which introduces contemporary concepts of improvisation and mixed metres should be almost totally neglected by the band world. Recording Engineers: Students of the I.C. Recording Program Design and Layout: MarkArt - Jason Boldt 2 7 for many years to Hans Werner Henze in the Musikhochschule in Cologne. Wengler has written over eighty works including Andreas Makris was born March 7, 1930 in Salonika, Greece and came to America in 1950 on a Rockefeller Grant to symphonies, concertos, works for the stage, film, chamber groups, and the ballet. attend Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. He attended the Kansas City Conservatory, graduated from the Marines College of Music, and also studied privately with Nadia Boulanger in 1958. For many years he was a violinist with the National Symphony, Timothy Reynish studied horn with Aubrey Brain and Frank Probyn. He was a music scholar at Cambridge, working under from 1979-1990 he also served as resident composer and an advisor to Maestro Rostropovich for new music selection.