The Mukwonago High School Music Department is proud to present:
“Autumn Leaves” Featuring the Junior and Senior Jazz I Combos
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Monday, October 22, 2018 Greenwald Foundation Performing Arts Center Emma Angoli, Director
Program
2018-2019 MHS Band Performance Calendar
Junior Combo The Big Giant (2013)
Chapman & Coffin
Strollin’ (2013)
Chapman & Coffin
One More Once (2013)
Chapman & Coffin
Just Say NOLA (2013)
Chapman & Coffin
Senior Combo Selections to be taken from: Autumn Leaves (1946) Lady Bird (1948) Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (1967) Solar (1954) Take the ‘A’ Train (1939)
Joseph Kosma Tadd Dameron
Date
Ensemble(s)
Event
Location
Performance Start
12/01/18
Jazz Ensemble I and II
Midnight Magic
Mt. Olive Church
5:00 PM
12/12/18
HS and PVMS Concert Bands
Winter Concert
Greenwald Found. PAC
7:00 PM
1/12/19
Jazz Ensemble I
Night on Broadway*
Greenwald Found. PAC
7:00 PM
3/6/19
Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band
Spring Concert
Greenwald Found. PAC
7:00 PM
4/6/19
Solo and Ensemble
Solo and Ensemble
Greendale HS
TBD
4/13/19
MHS Percussionists and Blue2 Indoor
Night of Percussion
North Gym
6:00 PM
5/7/19
HS and PVMS Jazz Ensembles
Spring Concert
Greenwald Found. PAC
7:00 PM
5/4/19
State Solo and Ensemble
State Solo and Ensemble
UW-Parkside
TBD
5/21/19
Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band
Finale Concert and Awards**
Greenwald Found. PAC
8:00 PM
Josef Zawinul Miles Davis Duke Ellington
* Night on Broadway has an entrance fee as it is a fundraiser for our choral department. There will one performance for Night on Broadway this year. **End of the Year Awards will take place in the Commons prior to the concert - more details to come in Spring!
Program notes Special Thanks MASD Board of Education Shawn McNulty, MASD Superintendent Nick Reichhoff, Director of Student Learning Tom Karthausser, Director of Business Affairs Ben Kossow, Coordinator of Student Assessment Data and Analysis Tim Lemke, Director of Pupil Services Dustin Lehman, Coordinator of College and Career Readiness Susan Muenter, Director of Human Resources Eric Weier, Pupil Services Program Support Coordinator Curt Wiebelhaus, District Construction Coordinator Andy Wegner, District Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds Jim Darin, Principal Colleen Hoyne, Lou Pawella, Ron Schlicht, Assistant Principals Andy Trudell, Activities Director Dean Kovnesky, Head Custodian Charlotte Kolby, MHS Choir Director Roxanne Carloni and Dale Wimer, MHS Orchestra Directors Jenny Peterson, PVMS Band Director Nyla Clements, Ben Warrichariet, & Kasara Sinkula, MES Band Directors JoAnn Barkley, District Printing Mukwonago Fine Arts Boosters
The Big Giant (2013) Strollin’ (2013)
Caleb Chapman (b.1973) Jeff Coffin (b. 1965)
One More Once (2013) Just Say NOLA (2013) These four pieces were all selected from “The Articulate Jazz Musician”. The authors, had this to say about the book: Often, it seems that jazz instruction begins with improvisation concepts, rather than the foundational elements of the style. It is similar to attempting to teach a child how to build sentences in the English language or teach the rules of grammar before arming the child with a basic vocabulary. In 1947, the first degree program for jazz was introduced at the college level at the University of North Texas. This may sound like a long time ago until you compare it with the hundreds of years it took for traditional music education to develop. As a result there are still no universally accepted rules on jazz articulation, phrasing, and interpretation. While there have been some articles on the topic and mentions made in books, this is the first book dedicated in its entirety to the subject.
The language of jazz is one of the most beautiful and varied in music. Many times, because of the many complexities of jazz, young musicians and educators get so hung up on the mysteries of the music that they give up before they even get started. This book makes approaching the jazz styles easy and fun. (Program Notes by Caleb Chapman and Jeff Coffin)
Autumn Leaves (1946)
Joseph Kosma (1905-1969)
Although best known as a jazz standard, this piece is actually derived from a number of other sources. It was originally based off the French song “Les Feuilles mortes” which in turn came from the music from the ballet “Rendez-vous”. This piece borrowed from “Poème d'octobre” by Jules Massenet. The simplistic form and easy changes makes this piece one of the great introductory works for jazz musicians and is one of the reasons it has been covered by famous bands and musicians alike for decades. (Program Notes by Emma Angoli)
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Lady Bird (1948)
Tadd Dameron (1917-1965)
Tadd Dameron as a composer and arranger was the man who in the 1940s and ‘50s was among the first to use the sometimes raw and undisciplined devices of the then- new style of jazz called bebop in well-developed arrangements for big bands and small groups. Perhaps more than any other musician, Dameron added form to the then-emerging style of bop. He began experimenting with new ideas while writing arrangements for the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra. Dameron recalled, “I started writing in my own style when I got on Count Basie’s band.” Arranging for Gillespie’s big band, Dameron took the long phrases, powerful upbeat rhythms and chord changes of bop that Dizzy and Charlie Parker were pioneering, and used them in big band arrangements. Among his early compositions for Gillespie was “Good Bait.” Dameron wrote such standards as Good Bait, Our Delight, Hot House and Lady Bird, including his best known composition, “If You Could See Me Now,” recorded by Sarah Vaughan and Dameron’s old boyhood buddy Freddie Webster. Lady Bird is a jazz standard and is the origin of the Dameron turnaround. (Program Notes by Leo T. Sullivan and Ed Sarath)
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (1967)
Josef Zawinul (1932-2007)
Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz musician, was a leading composer and keyboardist in jazz-rock fusion music, most famously in the combo Weather Report, which he and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter led (1970–85). Zawinul was a successful jazz pianist in Europe before moving (1959) to the U.S. He became noted during his years (1961–70) playing in Cannonball Adderley’s bluesy hard-bop Quintet, and he composed Adderley’s biggest hit, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (1967). (Program Notes by Britannica)
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Solar (1954)
Miles Davis (1926-1991)
Solar is a musical composition attributed to Miles Davis on the studio album Walkin' (1954), considered a modern jazz standard. The tune has been played and recorded by many musicians, including his former bandmates Bill Evans, Dave Holland, Keith Jarrett, Lee Konitz, and Jack DeJohnette. The mission of the Mukwonago Fine Arts Boosters is to enhance achievement and appreciation of the fine arts by uniting faculty, staff, community and students in building, sustaining, promoting and supplementing the fine arts programs that enrich students’ lives and make our community a better place to live, learn and grow.
A controversy exists over authorship of this composition. One consensus is that Davis took "Solar" from the song "Sonny" written by jazz guitarist Chuck Wayne.
What is MFAB? We are a parent booster group for all of the fine arts in the Mukwonago School District What does MFAB do? We actively support the arts through direct support of fine art students and directors. In the past two years we have raised over $25,000 to help purchase the grand piano for the Performing Arts Center. We also have supported the band with the purchase of a marimba, the orchestra with the gift of an electric cello and bass, the choir with new show choir dresses and drama with costume racks. In the last two years we have given out over $2500 to help 18 middle and high school students attend summer camps, and have awarded $1800 in scholarships to graduating seniors. We also support the individual programs by providing funding for program needs at the director’s discretionlike cookies for concerts or end of year celebration expenses and senior recognitions. This year we plan to double the amount given as scholarships and camp sponsorships as well as to provide funds to elementary and middle school performing arts programs to enhance their programs. How can you get involved? Join MFAB!!! 25% of our budget is funded through memberships. Pick the level that best fits your family budget at $30, $60 or $90. Volunteer to help at Concessions! Another 25% of our budget is funded through Concessions at Basketball and Baseball games. Watch for links to sign ups in the near future. Attend an MFAB meeting to learn about more ways you can be involved! We meet on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:00 PM in the MHS library. Watch for information about our annual fundraiser this spring.
(Program Notes by Steve Voce and Larry Appelbaum)
It is important to remember that some MFAB funds for programs are distributed based on the number of parent members from that fine arts program. In other words, the more parent members from a specific program, the more money is given to that program!
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Still, this piece is one of the best known from Miles Davis early career and continues to be performed as one of the standards in jazz.
Take the ‘A’ Train (1939)
Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)
Billy Strayhorn composed Take the ‘A’ Train in 1939. It was conceived lyrically, as Strayhorn used Ellington’s directions to his home in Harlem to formulate the melody. The melody has interesting large intervallic leaps and chromaticism that foreshadows Bebop. Strayhorn used the whole-tone scale in the introduction which he might have gotten from a similar motif in “Voiles,” a prelude by Debussy. Take the ‘A’ Train was the composition Strayhorn played for Ellington that won him the creative opportunity of doing “whatever you feel like doing” in Ellington’s organization. In return, all of his living needs were taken care of. Thus the historic import of this tune cannot be overstated, as it started Strayhorn’s and Ellington’s twenty-seven-year musical relationship. First recorded and released on a 78 rpm disc in the winter of 1941, it quickly became a top seller. By fall it had replaced Sepia Panorama as the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s theme song, opening and closing almost every performance moving forward. Thus it easily became the most performed tune in Ellington’s book. It has long been considered a jazz standard that every jazz or jobbing musician needs in his or her repertoire. (Program Notes by James Kaczmarek)
JUNIOR COMBO Due to the importance of every part, students are listed alphabetically. Alto Saxophone Julian Barlow Ethan Winkleman
Trumpet Lauren Mueller David Savignac
Tenor Saxophone Hannah Herbst McKenna Sherrod
Piano Ethan Nettesheim Percussion Ethan Jaworski Bass Morgan Tews
Bari Saxophone Joey Peterson
senior COMBO Trumpet Riley Barlow Noah Fairchild
Piano Ethan Nettesheim Percussion Ethan Jawaroski Bass Jon Blessing
BLUE2 PERCUSSION AND BLUE2 WINTERGUARD The start of the 2018-2019 Blue2 Indoor season is just around the corner! Blue2 Indoor operates two performing ensembles, Blue2 Percussion and Blue2 Winterguard. In addition to a high quality music/performing arts education, these ensembles are a fantastic way for students to get to make friends and connections with students from other MASD elementary schools, giving younger students a chance to perform with others who are more experienced and giving older students a chance to mentor the new members. Find more information go to www.mukwonagobands.org/blue2 Blue2 Percussion is open to ALL MASD Percussionists (Grades 5-12) and to band students who play “non-marching band instruments” (ie. oboe, bassoon). All other wind players may audition in to any open spots. Blue2 Winterguard is open to ALL MASD students and to students from outside our school district in Grades 5-12. No audition required.