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Concert: Ithaca College Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble

Ithaca College Symphonic Band

Ithaca College Wind Ensemble

Henry G Neubert

Rodney K Winther

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ITHACA

SYMPHONIC BAND

Henry G Neubert, Conductor

PROGRAM

Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face Vincent Persichetti

(1915-1987)

I Adagio-Allegro

II Adagio sostenuto

III Allegretto

IV Vivace

ITHACA COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE

Rodney K Winther, Conductor

First Suite in E-flat (1909)

I Chaconne

II Intermezzo

III March

Mark Mandarano, Guest Conductor

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

(b 1954) Introduction

I Calmly

II Wistfully

lll Calmly

Gordon Stout, Marimba

* Premiere Performance

WALTER FORD HALL AUDITORIUM

Monday, October 12, 1987

8:15 P.M

irerrory of Vinceat Persi.detti who died on August 14, 1987 at the age of 72 The New York Tines of Saturday, August 15, 1987 wrote,

" ••• during a career that spanned half a century, Mr Persichetti wrote nine symphonies, chamber compositions for many different combinations of instrurrents, unre than a dozen sonatas for piano

and harpsichord, songs and choral ~rks, an opera - ''The Sibyl," based on the fable of Chicken Little - and an enotllDUS quantity of Ill.lSiC for wind band• 11

The " ~ for Band" is Persichetti's best known composition for winds Written in 1958, this composition stands alongside his other wind ~rks which have "provided an engaging, sophisticated introduction to conten:porary T!llsic for thousands of young

TlllSicians" (New York Tines, August, 1987)

Gregory S (b 1954) is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the School of Music at Ithaca College,

fu holds a B.M and M.M in composition from the University of Connecticut and Ithaca College, and the D.M.A from Cornell

University His lll3.jor teachers have been Karel Husa and Charles Whittenberg, with additional study with Steven Stucky and Donald Martino Mr Woodward has received composition grants from the National Endowirent for the Arts and Meet the Composer of New York State fu is also in the fourth year of a six year appointrrent as

a Guest of the Sanford Visiting Lecturer Series at Yale

University's School of Music Recently, Mr Woodward has received comnissions and perform3.nces from the Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University, the Ithaca Festival of the Arts, the Syracuse Society for New Music, Speculum Musicae, Chris Vadala of the Chuck

Mangione Q 1artet, the Billy Taylor Trio, and llJJJler<)US soloists and

recitalists Sone of his compositions will be available from the Brass Press and the Southern Music Company

Gonion Stout: is currently Associate Professor of Percussion at the Ithaca O:>llege School of Music A composer as ~11 as

percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied

composition with Sanuel Adler and Warren Benson, and percussion with Janes Alrron and John Beck As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and ~rks by other contemporary composers

Many of his compositions for marimba are published and have

already becoire standard repertoire for rnarimbists world-wide fu

is the only Anerican concert marimbist to have recorded

extensively

A frequent lecture-recitalist for the Percussive Arts Society, he

has appeared at six International PAS Conventions to date as

featured narimbist fu has also appeared throughout the US and

Canada and is Director of the Mallet Workshop at the Birch Creek

Performing Arts Academy in lx>or County, Wisconsin

'De Silver Web, A Concerto for Marimba with Wind Ensemble, was

composed during the sUI1I1Er of 1987 The original inspiration for

the work was to write a piece to showcase the enorm:ius talents of

tonight, s soloist, Gonkn Strut As the soloist and composer

collaborated in the early stages it was decided to compose a

concerto with wind ensemble This project was then greatly

assisted by a sumrer research grant from Ithaca College in which

the composer could study the evolution of concerto form and m:xiern

marimba techniques, culminating in the work to be he:ird tonight

1A

work is loosely based on a poem, "June l" by Bradford Alan · W

Woodward, and is notivically based on t'io.U Ill.lSical ideas associated

with the pretic text, a "June l" sonority, and a character of

rising fourths and seconds/sevenths These t'io.U notives combine in

a Ill.lSical arguirent and resolution within a large quasi-sonata

allegro form in three sections with an introduction and coda

This formal plan draws upon the traditional concerto fornat while

creating a nore m:xiern, large single iroverent composition After

all the materials are exposed in the Introduction, there follows a

rather traditional Exposition with t'io.U "there" textures and tonal

enviroI1Ill2nts, a central, contrasting lyrical section, functioning

as one of the nany possible ~velopnental sections, and a

Recapitulation and reconcilliation of the opening materials,

follo~ by a Coda which recalls the opening and completes the

arch-famed journey of the prem

The composer I\U.Ud like to gratefully acknowledge the support of

Ithaca College, the hard urk and considerable skills of the Wind

Ensemble and it, s director, Rodney Winther, and the inspirational

talents of Mr Stout

Toni.ght, s perfornance is dedicated to the irenory of my

great-grandn:nther, Mary Hattie Woodward, the central subject of the

prem, and to the pret, whose warmth and gracious hunanity are a

constant inspiration (Program notes by the composer.)

SYMPimIC HAID

Imry G lbibert, Cocdnctor

Nancy Apple Bill Crankshaw

FillIE

Maria Cicciarelli Paul Mayhew

Kristin Srrock Nathan Sinarrler

Susan Ridley

Julie Larson SAXlJ.>lllE

Jennifer Reisig Chris Foster

Paula Larrlry Joan futton

Kristin Sterbenz Creryl furrlee

Lisa Kellar Susan Brace

Kaaren Remley

M::=!g Green FRFRllllffl

Annika Bergesen Robin Benowitz

Julie Woods

OllE George Keo:la.11

Ginny Shopland Kelly Cran:lall

Barbara Porcelain Kerry An:lrews

An:lrea Phillipi

Laura Warren 1'R[fflET

Steve Trowbridge

~ri Harris Terry M::=!tzger

Pam Beasley Jennifer Ten Eyck

Cris Cadiz Jon fun:itz

Nikki limµlrey Mark M::=!ier

Maria Valente Ben Berner

~bbie An:lrus Tinnthy Q.ri.rk

Bethany Reardon

Llsa Patnode '.llOBIE

Kathleen Kresge Dan Burgess

Mike Pamres Kim Jones

Lenny Aspalto Dan Lopata

Pam Edwards Mike Osowski

ElIPHlffiM

Steve Rapp

1UBA

Jeff Lacoff Kirsten H3af Corey futcrer

TIMPANI

Richard Fish

Pl!BOE51Cll

Adam Beacrer George Porpiglia

Susan Boyd Mike Markus Peter Bell

LIBRARIAN

Ginny Shopland

l1WlCA OXIFIB WIN) ERiEl1BIB

Rodney K W:intler, Cooductor

FWIE/PlaIID

I.Dis Ferrari Kenneth Kayser

Whitney l:bose Kristina Keller

Kristina~*

Karla Scluerzinger Janes Krerrp

Micrelle Nethaway Lana Green*

Margaret Waizecker* Joseph lbrner

F2G.ISHIIEN '.IDU.l SAXCFimE

Nicola Peoples Kenneth Gioffre

Ian Whiting Susan Irvine

Barbara Desjardins lhldi Farbstein

Richard Faria* Gibs Flock

Christina lliffat l.Dra Katz

Deborah t-brris Steven Laifer*

Nicholas Pauldine

Karen Wright 'IRl.MPET

Constance Alvord

Robert Buonamici Lyrm llirris

Sharon P~l*

BASS ClARilEf Scott Rabeler

Kevin KaufllEll Lloyd Walton

~ri Harris Steven Button*

John &efner Tim Mattison, bass

* In::licates Section Leader

ElJPIINIIM

Patrick Fagan Bruce McFarland*

WBA

David Hamilton* Janes Trowbridge

TIMPANI

David Gluck

PffiOJSSIOO'

Susan Boyd Richard Fish Jon funk.ins Matt t-brano Steven Palumbo Chris White*

OllSIE/PLWl

l:€len Gregory

LIBRARIAN

Sharon P~l

Robert Buonamici fulen Gregory Mark Maooarano

~rs of the Wind Ensemble have been listed

alphabetically to errphasize the rotation of parts

within sorre sections and the importance of

each individual