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MUSIC
Emory Wind Ensemble
Michael Kobito, conductor
Sunday, October 20, 2024, 4:00 p.m.
Emerson Concert Hall
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Program
Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 40 Arthur Bird (1856—1923)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro assai
Old Wine in New Bottles Gordon Jacob (1895—1984)
I. The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies
II. The Three Ravens
III. Begone, Dull Care
IV. Early One Morning
Candide Suite Leonard Bernstein (1918—1990) (trans. and adapt. Clare Grundman)
I. The Best of All Possible Worlds
II. Westphalia Chorale and Battle Scene
III. Auto-da-fé
IV. Glitter and Be Gay
V. Make Our Garden Grow
Lincolnshire Posy Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961)
Michael Kobito, conductor
Michael Kobito is a music educator, conductor, and trumpeter from Cartersville, Georgia. He serves as the conductor of the Emory Wind Ensemble and associate conductor of Tara Winds.
Prior to his appointment at Emory University, Kobito served as director of bands at Woodland High School in Cartersville. During his tenure as director, the band performed at multiple national events including the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade in Washington D.C., the Georgia Music Educators Association In-Service Conference, the Southeastern United States Honor Band Festival, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, University of Georgia’s Janfest Honor Band Festival, and most recently in the 2023 London New Year’s Day Parade. He also taught AP Music Theory, where his students earned a 100 percent pass rate on the AP exam.
As a conductor and trumpeter, Kobito is an active musician, performing regularly around metro-Atlanta in Tara Winds and the Georgia Brass Band. As a conductor of Tara Winds, the band was invited to perform in France at the 2023 Festival des Anches d’Azur in La CroixValmer, and has been invited to perform at the 2024 GMEA In-Service Conference. Additionally, with these groups, Kobito has performed at multiple honor invitational events including the Midwest Clinic in Chicago and the North American Brass Band Competition in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He has served as a guest conductor for the Georgia Brass Band and has been the clinician for multiple honor bands around Georgia and the United States. He has been the recipient of the National Band Association Citation of Excellence for his work with the Woodland Band and Tara Winds on five occasions.
Kobito is a dedicated advocate for education, having served as an ambassador for educators in the state as the 2023 Georgia Teacher of the Year. He is an active keynote speaker, clinician, and panelist on topics around best education practices and pedagogy, teacher recruitment and retention, and the future of education.
Program Notes
Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 40
Serenade for Wind Instruments, op.40 was written in 1898 for two flutes, two oboes (second oboe doubling on English horn) two clarinets, two horns, and two bassoons. It won the Paderewski Prize as the best chamber work by an American in 1901 and was premiered in Boston by Georges Longy and his Woodwind Club on March 31, 1902.
The first movement, Allegro moderato, is in sonata–allegro form with fine thematic contrast, a brief development section, and a coda. The Adagio features English horn and is followed by an Allegro assai.
—Program note from Program Notes for Band
Old Wine in New Bottles
Old Wine in New Bottles is a light-hearted setting of four early English folk songs. It was premiered by the BBC Northern Orchestra Winds and conductor Stanford Robinson at the St. Bees Festival in 1959, and remains one of Jacob’s most popular compositions. The “old wine” in the title refers to each of the folk songs that the four movements are based on. The “new bottles” are the creative melodic treatments, the unexpected harmonies, and the “freshness” and new life breathed into these old melodies.
—Program note from Appalachian State University Wind Ensemble concert program, December 2, 2015
Candide Suite
This suite, arranged by Clare Grundman, is made up of five numbers 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 massacred by the invading Bulgarian army. In movement three, Autoda-fé, Candide and Dr. Pangloss find themselves in Lisbon, where, being free-thinkers, they are prosecuted as heretics by the Spanish Inquisition; however, Candide and Dr. Pangloss escape.
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, has Candide realizing that the only purpose of living is to cultivate the earth and to create a garden.
—Program note from the University of Texas Symphony Band concert program, November 30, 2016
Lincolnshire Posy
Lincolnshire Posy, as a whole work, was conceived and scored by me direct for wind band early in 1937. Five, out of the six, movements of which it is made up existed in no other finished form, though most of these movements (as is the case with almost all my compositions and settings, for whatever medium) were indebted, more or less, to unfinished sketches for a variety of mediums covering many years (in this case, the sketches date from 1905 to 1937). These indebtednesses are stated in the score.
This bunch of “musical wildflowers” (hence the title) is based on folksongs collected in Lincolnshire, England (one notated by Miss Lucy E. Broadwood; the other five noted by me, mainly in the years 1905–1906, and with the help of the phonograph), and the work is dedicated to the old folksingers who sang so sweetly to me. Indeed, each number is intended to be a kind of musical portrait of the singer who sang its underlying melody—a musical portrait of the singer’s personality no less than of his habits of song—his regular or irregular wonts of rhythm, his preference for gaunt or ornately arabesqued delivery, his contrasts of legato and staccato, his tendency towards breadth or delicacy of tone.
—Program note by Percy Aldridge Grainger
Emory Wind Ensemble
The Emory Wind Ensemble (EWE) is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to performing wind literature of the highest caliber while nurturing individual artistic excellence within an ensemble setting. Membership is determined by audition each fall. Concert programming comprises a wide variety of styles, forms, and genres from several centuries of compositional practice, designed to provide comprehensive exposure to the masterpieces for winds and percussion from the Renaissance period through the modern era. A flexible instrumentation is employed with predominantly one player per part, giving students the opportunity to experience true wind ensemble performance practice.
The EWE performs two concerts each semester, regularly participates in world premieres of new music, tours the United States and abroad, and is a national leader in the commissioning of new music, including works by Warren Benson, Steven Bryant, Stephen Paulus, Bruce Broughton, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen, John Mackey, David Maslanka, Jonathan Newman, and many others. In 2017, the ensemble was showcased by the College Band Director’s National Association among its peer institutions with a citation for musical excellence at the “Small Band Showcase,” presented at the Association’s National Conference in Kansas City.
The EWE’s recent collaborations include performances with the Emory University Chorus; the Emory Dance Company; Emory’s Mary Emerson Professor of Piano William Ransom; Chris Martin, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic; Stuart Stephenson, principal trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Joe Alessi, principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic; Adam Frey, international euphonium solo artist; and Grammy Award–winning solo clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
The EWE has performed concert tours of Munich, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Lucerne, Graz, Prague, Vienna, and Greece. Additionally, it has performed at the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) State Convention in Savannah, Georgia; at the Southern Division College Band Directors National Association Conference (CBDNA); and for various events on Emory’s campus, including the inauguration of James Wagner as president of Emory University. Most recently, a brass ensemble made up of EWE members performed live during a national broadcast by the National Basketball Association. The EWE is recorded on the NAXOS and Centaur music labels.
Emory Wind Ensemble / Contemporary Music Ensemble
Sections listed alphabetically
Flute/Piccolo
Aricka Boosa
Audrey Chen
Hannah Huang
Aldo Rios
Sophia Song
Rosie Wu
Oboe / English Horn
Sissi Chen
Amber Ford
Zachary Kant
Sophia Kim
Zlang Zhang
Clarinet
Kayla Bak
Minjoo Kim
Sam Kutsman
Ian Moon
Joe van Duyn
Nick Wandrick
Bass Clarinet
Sam Chernoff
Saxophone
Abby Balson
Martin Lin
Andy Nguyen
Jonathan Uhlengerg
Bassoon
Nicole McGill
Horn
Aditya Dutta
Josh Lee
Justin Wang
Trumpet
Jin Nguyen
Natalie Park
William Sun
Austin Watkinson
Trombone / Bass Trombone
Tim Brewer
Chris Cheong
Ethan Hsuing
Jakob Ostheimer
Euphonium
Tyler Edwards
Tuba
Anna Gayler
Harp
Brigid May
Percussion
Nellie Gregg
Meredith Liu
Aiden Neuser
Sunny Zheng
Music at Emory
The Department of Music at Emory University provides an exciting and innovative environment for developing knowledge and skills as a performer, composer, and scholar. Led by a faculty of more than 60 nationally and internationally recognized artists and researchers, our undergraduate and graduate students experience a rich diversity of performance and academic opportunities. Undergraduate students in our department earn a BA in music with a specialization in performance, composition, or research, many of whom simultaneously earn a second degree in another department. True to the spirit of Emory, a liberal arts college in the heart of a research university, our faculty and ensembles also welcome the participation of non-major students from across the Emory campus. Become a part of Music at Emory by giving to the Friends of Music. Your gift provides crucial support to all of our activities. To learn more, visit our website at music.emory.edu or call 404.727.6280.
Upcoming Emory Music Concerts
Many concerts at Emory are free to attend. Visit music.emory.edu or schwartz.emory.edu to view complete event information. If a ticket is required for attendance, prices are indicated in the listings below in the following order: Full price/Emory student price (unless otherwise noted).
Saturday, October 26, 8:00 p.m., Emory University Symphony Orchestra: Family Weekend Concert, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free, tickets required
Sunday, October 27, 7:00 p.m., Emory Choirs, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Friday, November 1, 8:00 p.m., PUBLIQuartet—Rhythm Nation, Schwartz Artist-in-Residence Program, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, $30/$10, tickets required
Saturday, November 2, 8:00 p.m., Friends and Mentors, ECMSA: Emerson Series, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Sunday, November 10, 4:00 p.m., Emory Chamber Ensembles, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Sunday, November 10, 7:00 p.m., Emory Collaborative Piano, Performing Arts Studio
Monday, November 11, 8:00 p.m., FRL with Nikola Peković, Performing Arts Studio
Wednesday, November 13, 8:00 p.m., Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Wednesday, November 13, 8:00 p.m., Bojana and Nikola Peković Perform Serbian Folk Fusion, Performing Arts Studio
Saturday, November 16, 8:00 p.m., American Railroad: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, $70/$10, tickets required
Friday, November 22, noon, Danielle Hahn Piano Trio, ECMSA: Cooke Noontime Series, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Saturday, November 23, 3:00 p.m., Emory Javanese Gamelan Ensemble, Cannon Chapel
Saturday, November 23, 8:00 p.m., Emory University Symphony Orchestra, Emory Wind Studies, and Tango Artists, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Sunday, November 24, 4:00 p.m. (rescheduled), Jack Mitchener, University Organist, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Tuesday, December 3, 8:00 p.m., Emory Big Band and Jazz Combos, Schwartz Center, Emerson Concert Hall, free
Wednesday, December 4, 8:00 p.m., Fall Composition Showcase, Performing Arts Studio
Friday, December 6, noon, Norman Krieger, piano, ECMSA: Cooke Noontime Series, Carlos Museum, Ackerman Hall, free, registration required
Music at Emory brings together students, faculty, and world-class artists to create an exciting and innovative season of performances, lectures, workshops, and master classes. With more than 150 events each year across multiple Emory venues, audiences experience a wide variety of musical offerings.
We hope you enjoy sampling an assortment of work from our student ensembles, community youth ensembles, artists in residence, professional faculty, up-and-coming prodigies, and virtuosos from around the world.
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