2020-21 Carthage Music Department Presents
CROSSOVER Mixing musical styles in miniature
AMATI Concert Band Percussion Ensemble Wind Orchestra James Ripley, conductor
Friday, Feb 19, 2021 7:30 p.m. A. F. Siebert Chapel
program
*denotes flexible instrumentation piece
There is no intermission. Please remain seated during esnemble changeovers.
AMATI Noble Gases* Andrew Perkins Helium (b. 1978) Neon Argon Krypton Xenon Radon Percussion Ensemble Eastern Intermezzo, from “Youthful Suite” Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) AMATI Miniatures Giovanni Santos Jump Start (b. 1980) Embrace the Ambiguity Gianna’s Song Legos for David Song Mangú Commission World Premiere Concert Band March for Anna Magdalena Bach* Dance Brasiliera No. 1 & No. 2* Hard Times Come Again No More* Sharp Nine*
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) arranged by Percy Grainger Ricardo Silva (b. 1976) Stephen Foster (1826-1864) arranged by James Syler Omar Thomas (b. 1984)
program Wind Orchestra Mam-Blu*
James Syler (b. 1961)
Allegre
Tania Leon (b. 1943)
Collage * Loop D Loop*
Tetsunosuke Kushida (b. 1935) James Stephenson (b. 1969)
personnel Concert Band Flute Milo Allen Gabriela Booth Emma Eckes Clarinet Natalie Cambone Tajaniah Drone Rosemary Ehle Jack Massari Abby Vidruk Saxophone Karlee De Jesus Alec DiGriolamo Luke Eidsor Olivia Luetterman Trumpet Vinny David Jarrod Thompson Guillermo Trujillo
Horn Courtney Boeder Jonathan Landeweer Audrey Marshall Samuel Williams Euphonium Lucus Schneider Tuba Michael Flesher Emily Frost Percussion Andrew Jocham Grace LaBriola Noah Wilson
personnel Wind Orchestra Flute Gabrielle Garnowski Bailey Schneyr Oboe Amber Ward Hannah Wong Bassoon Emma Azinger Bryan Weiss Clarinet Emma Hardwick Lexy Klawonn Katiann Nelson Maile Riedel Zachary Ward Bass Clarinet Sophie Shulman Saxophone Alexandrea Bawek James Chaudoin Sophia Larsen Joseph Mihevc Julia Owens Horn Meg Larson Lena Welch
Trumpet Colin Conway Michael Freeman Caroline Lilly Trombone Sam Hoopingarner Taylor Zorn Euphonium Eric Benson Tuba Drake DeBoer John Lew Percussion Aaron Paulsen Henry Meyer Aaron Paulsen Lily Peterson Christian Plonski William Shuster Hailey Williams Piano Nick Renkosik Organ Ryan Boren
program notes Our “Crossover” program is largely constructed of musical mixtures in miniature. Over the course of the last 100 years composers have explored unusual, sometimes termed “exotic” types of music, and incorporated those sounds into their own musical language. Most recently composers have been combining multi-media, theater, and electronics into their works to create an even more diverse hybrid experience in the arts. Each selection is an excursion into some type of blended music, ranging from Bach to a World Premiere. Many of these works were written in the past year in a flexible instrumentation format to allow for greater flexibility in performance during the pandemic. Science and art are blended in the first work, “Noble Gases” by Andrew Perkins. These six elements on the far right of the periodic table are given musical treatments ranging in style based on their relative activity. The Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889, a colossal World’s Fair, exposed many to a Javanese Gamelan for the first time including the young Claude Debussy. These sounds would be captured in his piano prelude “Pagodes”. Pianist/composer Percy Grainger found these sounds appropriate to orchestrate for tuneful percussion, including multiple pianos, dulcitone, staff bells, harmonium and all manner of keyboard instruments. His own “Youthful Suite” for orchestra included a movement reflecting these exotic sounds, which he also arranged in 1933 for this group of instruments. The next two selections were written as dedicatory works: J. S. Bach’s “March in D” from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, and Giovanni Santos’ “Miniatures”. Each of the “Miniatures” describe a family member or mentor in the life of this young Californian composer, which is receiving its world premiere this evening. It is a delightful mix of musical styles and descriptive sounds. The setting of Bach was “dished up” by Grainger into a hybrid of Baroque flourish and British march propriety. “Two Brazilian Dances”, “Hard Times Come Again No More”, and “Sharp Nine” form a mixture of music in its most elemental state. The joyful dances, plaintive song, and improvisatory blues dig in to the heart and soul of what moves us as humans when we listen carefully. James Syler’s “Mam-Blu” is a true mixture of the rhythmic dance style known as mambo with the same chord changes as those heard in “Sharp Nine”. Similar in nature is “Allegre” by Cuban composer Tania Leon, a delightful work from one of our most distinguished female composers.
program notes Traditional Japanese festival dance music forms the basis of Kushida’s “Collage”, which is enclosed in outer sections by ritual temple music. It was just over a year ago that the Wind Orchestra made their sixth trip to Japan, experiencing the mix of music and culture typified in “Collage”. The program closes with a work originally written for solo trombone and looping machine, a device that records sounds and then replays them in a continuous “looping” fashion. Jim Stephenson’s revision for flexible instrumentation captures all of the idiosyncratic looping gestures in an revisioning of music like the Pachelbel Canon, but crossing over into the styles of rock and pop.
upcoming events for carthage community Eurydice Feb. 19-20 • 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 • 3 p.m. Wartburg Theatre • Tickets required Carthage Philharmonic Strings Concert Saturday, Feb. 27 • 7:30 p.m. A. F. Siebert Chapel • Tickets required Student Recital: Mitchell Dziewior & London Roysden Sunday, Feb. 28 • 2 p.m. Recital Hall • Tickets required Student Recital: Azniv Khaligian Tuesday, March 2 • 6:30 p.m. Recital Hall • Tickets required Away From the Mirror March 5-6 • 7:30 p.m. Wartburg Theatre • Tickets required Student Recital: Ryan Boren Satuday, March 6 • 3 p.m. A. F. Siebert Chapel • Tickets required Student Recital: Morgan Taylor Sunday, March 7 • 2 p.m. Recital Hall • Tickets required Student Recital: Thomas Cargille Saturday, March 13 • 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall • Tickets required Choral Concert Sunday, March 14 • 2 p.m. A. F. Siebert Chapel • Tickets required
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