20240424_Wind Orchestra

THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Presents THE UNIVERSITY

WIND ORCHESTRA

Rodney Dorsey, Director

Jacquelyn Tabone, Graduate Associate Conductor with Pamela Ryan, Viola

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Seven-thirty in the Evening

Ruby Diamond Concert Hall

Fanfare for Uncommon Times

PROGRAM

Dixtuor pour Instruments à Vent

Valerie Coleman (b. 1970)

Claude Arrieu

I. Allegretto moderato (1903–1990)

II. Moderato

III. Andante

IV. Cantabile

V. Allegro risoluto

Jacquelyn Tabone, graduate associate conductor

I wake in the dark and remember

Joel Puckett

I. Rain Journey (b. 1977)

II. I lie listening to the black hour

Pamela Ryan, viola

INTERMISSION

Sinfonietta

Ingolf Dahl

I. Introduction and Rondo (1912–1970)

II. Pastoral Nocturne

III. Dance Variations

Candide Suite

Leonard Bernstein

I. The Best of All Possible Worlds (1918–1990)

II. Westphalia Chorale and Battle Scene

III. Auto-Da-Fe (What a Day)

IV. Glitter and Be Gay

V. Make Our Garden Grow

Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting while performers are playing. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Please turn off cell phones and all other electronic devices. Please refrain from putting feet on seats and seat backs. Children who become disruptive should be taken out of the performance hall so they do not disturb the musicians and other audience members.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Rodney Dorsey is Professor of Music at the Florida State University College of Music where he conducts the FSU Wind Orchestra and guides the graduate wind conducting program.

Dorsey comes to FSU from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he conducted the IU Wind Ensemble and taught graduate conducting courses. Prior to his tenure at the Jacobs School, Dorsey served on the faculties of the University of Oregon, University of Michigan, DePaul University and Northwestern University. He also gained extensive experience teaching in the public schools of Florida and Georgia.

Dorsey studied conducting with Mallory Thompson, John P. Paynter, and James Croft. He was a clarinet student of Fred Ormand and Frank Kowalsky.

During his conducting career, Dorsey has led performances at several prominent events including the American Bandmasters Association Convention, College Band Directors National Conference North/Northwest Regional Conference, and the Bands of America National Festival. He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the United States. International engagements include Hungary, Canada, and Bulgaria.

Dorsey’s commitment to community has been demonstrated by his participation on the board of directors for Music for All and the Midwest Clinic. He currently serves as the president of the Midwest Clinic. Other professional memberships include the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, Florida Bandmasters Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma (honorary), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. Dorsey is also an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association. Most recently Dorsey was named a Yamaha Master Educator.

ABOUT THE FEATURED SOLOIST

Professor of Viola Pamela Ryan has performed many concertos with orchestras, most recently the Vaughan Williams Suite for Viola and Chamber Orchestra at FSU with conductor Alexander Jiménez in 2023, the Bartók Viola Concerto with conductor Darius Mikulski, and the Shulman Theme and Variations with conductor Gudni Emilsson of the Thailand Philharmonic.

Ryan has been a chamber music collaborator/faculty artist for summer festivals including Aspen, Brevard, Yellow Barn, Schlern/Italy, Green Mountain, Idyllwild and Bowdoin, and recorded critically praised chamber music for Naxos and the Canadian Broadcasting Company labels. Ryan was the violist of the Bowling Green String Quartet, working with composer George Crumb and touring Carnegie Hall and Mexico City. As a guest chamber musician, Ryan has returned to Seventh Species (Oregon) and the Amelia Island Festival. Ryan served as principal violist of the Southwest Florida Symphony/Sanibel Chamber Orchestra and the Tallahassee Symphony (28 years). As a researcher of Balinese rebab masters, she performed rebab with gamelans in Bali and San Francisco. Ryan has performed regularly as a jazz violist with JazzEtcetera of Tallahassee since 2010. Recently, she has accepted an invitation to serve on the artist faculty of the Round Top Festival Institute.

Ryan won the Aspen Young Artist Viola Concerto Competition, the FSU University Teaching Award and several research grants, and has been praised by the American Record Guide for “superb technique and musicianship.” She gave the collegiate viola masterclass at the American String Teachers national conference and presented for ASTA at several national conferences. She has been a soloist, presenter, featured journal author, adjudicator and national board member for the American Viola Society and has given a jazz workshop for the International Viola Society/AVS conference (Columbus 2022), and a lecture recital at the IVS/Thailand Viola Society conference (Salaya 2023). A dedicated teacher and adjudicator, she is proud of her former students holding leadership positions in orchestras, chamber ensembles, and schools on 5 continents worldwide.

NOTES ON THE PROGRAM

Coleman: Fanfare for Uncommon Times

Valerie Coleman is an American composer and flautist who began composing in her teenage years. By the age of fourteen, she had already written three symphonies and won several local and state competitions. Coleman holds a double bachelor’s degree in theory/ composition and flute performance from Boston University and a master’s degree in flute performance from the Mannes College of Music. She is the founder and composer-inresidence for Imani Winds, a Grammy award-winning chamber ensemble. Coleman has also served on the faculty of The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program and Interschool Orchestras of New York. Currently, she serves on the advisory panel of the National Flute Association.

In an interview regarding the premiere of Fanfare for Uncommon Times, Coleman remarked on the challenging times the world is facing, stating, “It almost seems sarcastic... to write a fanfare for the times we are currently living in.” However, her work is far from sarcastic. Coleman aimed to create a piece that unifies people and instills hope. She sought to incorporate the Black experience, including the turmoil and upheaval of today’s conversation on race in America.

Arrieu: Dixtuor pour Instruments à Vent

Claude Arrieu, a prolific French composer, and classically trained pianist from the Conservatoire de Paris, drew inspiration from composers such as Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel. Her compositions span various styles, including works for theater, film, radio, and music hall. Arrieu’s music is characterized by its flow, elegance, and clarity.

Dixtuor pour Instruments à Vent (1967) is scored for two flutes, an oboe, two clarinets, two bassoons, a horn, a trumpet, and a trombone. This work showcases Arrieu’s elegant composition style and Parisian neo-classicism, utilizing orchestration to create textures and emphasize moments throughout the five short movements.

Puckett: I wake in the dark and remember

Joel Puckett (1977) is an American composer. He spent his childhood improvising with his father, a Dixieland jazz musician and classical tubist. As a composer, Puckett has held fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival and at the University of Michigan where he received the D.M.A. in composition studying with William Bolcom and Michael Daugherty. His work has been performed by many ensembles across the country including the University of Michigan Symphony Band, Baylor University Wind Ensemble, and “The President’s Own” Marine Band. Puckett is the recipient of the first American Bandmasters Association/University of Florida Commission.

Puckett is on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory after previously having served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at his alma mater, Shenandoah Conservatory.

The composer provides the following:

W. S. Merwin’s poetry has been a constant in my adult life. His words bring me comfort in times of anxiety, smiles in times of happiness, and comfort in times of grief. 2020-2021 brought difficult times for all of us, and I once again found myself turning to Merwin’s words.

I rarely know exactly what his poetry means, but I love how they make me feel. This was no different for the poem that inspired my viola concerto, I wake in the dark and remember. As I was writing, I rolled over the imagery in my mind: “wake in the dark and remember,” “listening to the black hour,” “you are asleep beside me while around us the trees full of night lean,” etc. These images are so vivid and clear, yet they lack any strict narrative, so my imagination became free to run wild and see the sounds the words inspire.

I wake in the dark and remember was commissioned by an international consortium of universities led by Damon Talley and the Louisiana State University. It is dedicated with great admiration and gratitude to the extraordinary violist Kimberly Sparr, who gave the premiere.

Below is the W.S. Merwin poem that inspired this concerto. Please take a moment to read these words and listen to the sounds they provoke in your imagination.

Rain Travel

I wake in the dark and remember it is the morning when I must start by myself on the journey I lie listening to the black hour before dawn and you are still asleep beside me while around us the trees of night lean hushed in their dream that bears us up asleep and awake then I hear drops falling one by one into the sightless leaves and I do not know when they began but all at once there is no sound but rain and the stream below us roaring away into the rushing darkness

From the Essential W.S. Merwin, courtesy Copper Canyon Press copyright W.W. Merwin, 2019

Dahl: Sinfonietta

Ingolf Dahl was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. At about 20 years old he emigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles to work alongside Ernst Krenek, Darius Milhaud, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Ernst Toch. In 1945 he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. Along with his arranging and composing for many films at Fox, Goldwyn Studios, Columbia, Universal, MGM, and Warner Bros., as well as the post-production company Todd-AO and for The Twilight Zone. He was an avid performer notably for Stravinsky’s works and collaborated with him to create a two-piano version of his Danses Concertantes.

Dahl’s Sinfonietta is a piece modeled after the Serenade style and written in a broad arch form that spans three movements. Dahl said of the piece, “First of all, I wanted it to be a piece that was full of size, a long piece, a substantial piece–a piece that, without apologies for its medium, would take its place alongside symphonic works of any other kind. But in addition, I hoped to make it a “light” piece. Something in the Serenade style, serenade “tone,” and perhaps even form.” Sinfonietta was commissioned by the College Band Directors National Association in 1961 and received its premiere in 1962 by the USC Wind Ensemble under the direction of William Schaefer.

Bernstein: Candide Suite

Leonard Bernstein was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. He attended Harvard University and the Curtis Institute of Music. He became assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1943 and it was in this role he became famous by filling in last minute for Bruno Walter for a national broadcast on 14 November 1943. In 1951 he became the head of conducting at Tanglewood and seven years later became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic (1958-1969). In this position, he promoted new music, developed a series of Young People’s Concerts, and recorded the symphonies of Gustav Mahler but was limited in his time to compose. His achievements included the Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime of Contributions to American Culture Through the Performing Arts, 11 Emmy Awards, election to the Academy of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Candide Suite, arranged by Clare Grundman, is made up of five movements from the musical Candide. In the first movement, The Best of All Possible Worlds, Doctor Pangloss, Voltaire’s satirical portrait of the philosopher Gottfried von Leibnitz, tutors his Westphalian pupils. In the second movement, Westphalia Chorale and Battle Scene, the devout Westphalians sing a chorale praising the integrity of their homeland, after which they are invaded by the Bulgarian army. In movement three, Auto-de-fe, Candide and Dr. Pangloss find themselves escaping from prosecution by the Spanish Inquisition. The fourth movement, Glitter and Be Gay, depicts Cunegonde, Candide’s true love, singing of her attempts to maintain a brilliant, carefree exterior, while she may (or may not) be

tortured inwardly by self-doubt. The final movement, Make Our Garden Grow, Candide realizes that the only purpose of living is to cultivate the earth and to create a garden.

While the first iteration of Candide was not popular among audiences, Bernstein and others continued to improve the show. With each revival, Candide won bigger audiences. In 1989, the already seriously ill Bernstein spent his last ounces of energy recording a new concert version of the work. “There’s more of me in that piece than anything else I’ve done,” he said.

Piccolo

Isabelle Rodriguez

Flute

Pamela Bereuter*

Steven Fireman

Adeline Belova

Rachael Lawson

Oboe

Abby Kothera

Elijah Barrios

Andy Swift

English Horn

Andy Swift

Bassoon

Cailin Mcgarry

Ryder Kaya

Contrabassoon

Carson Long

University Wind Orchestra Personnel

Rodney Dorsey, Director

Jacquelyn Tabone, Graduate Associate Conductor

E-Flat Clarinet

Dave Scott

B-Flat Clarinet

Connor Croasmun*

Anne Glerum

Hannah Faircloth

Audrey Rancourt

Travis Irizarry

Andrew Prawat

Sadie Murray

Joshua Collins

Jalen Smalls

Jariel Santiago

Bass Clarinet

Brad Pilcher

Contrabass Clarinet

Jariel Santiago

Saxophone

Jason Shimer

Evan Blitzer

Micah Cheng

Ethan Horn

Trumpet/Cornet

Madison Barton*

Vito Bell

Vance Garven

Bob Kerr

Thana Rangsiyawaranon

Thum Rangsiyawaranon

Schelvin Robinson

Horn

Tommy Langston *

Ac Caruthers

Abby Odom

Clare Ottesen

Luis Oquendo

Trombone

Connor Altagen*

Will Roberts

Justin Hamann

Euphonium

Jonah Zimmerman*

Luke Heinrich

Tuba

Mike Anderson*

Charlie Nelson

Sebastian Bravo

String Bass

Max Levesque

Piano

Jackie Yong

Harp

Lauren Barfield

Percussion

Ryan Boehme*

Jake Fenoff

Miranda Hughes

Austin Pelella

Darci Wright

Jessica Weinberg

* Principal

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2023-2024

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*University Musical Associates Executive Committee

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