Yale Concert Band and Yale Jazz Ensemble Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director present
Side by Side: The Nutcracker Swings!
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite” transcribed for wind band by Mayhew L. Lake and arranged for big band by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Saturday, December 2, 2017, at 2 p.m. Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New Haven Free Admission* *Cash donations will be collected to support IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services)
Program
SLEIGH RIDE Leroy Anderson Yale Concert Band THE NUTCRACKER SUITE Titre original Yale Concert Band Yale Jazz Ensemble Peter I. Tchaikovsky arr. Mayhew L. Lake arr. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn Overture Miniature Miniature Overture Overture Jazz Solos: Christian Fernandez – clarinet; Mike Gancz – trombone; Chloe Swindler – trumpet Danse Arabe Arabian Dance Arabesque Cookie Jazz Solos: Wil Wortley, Mike Gancz, Hillary Simms – trombone; Christian Fernandez – clarinet; Nick Szabo – bass clarinet; Hersh Gupta – alto saxophone Danse de la Fee-Dragee Dance - Sugar Plum Fairy Sugar Rum Cherry Jazz Solos: Nick Szabo – baritone saxophone; Nick Indorf – tenor saxophone Danse Russe Trépak Russian Dance Volga Vouty Jazz Solos: Eddie Joe Antonio – trumpet; Hersh Gupta – alto saxophone; Wil Wortley – trombone; Christian Fernandez – clarinet Danse Chinoise Chinese Dance Chinoiserie Jazz Solos: Christian Fernandez – clarinet; Nick Indorf – tenor saxophone Danse Des Mirlitons Dance of the Reed Flutes Toot Toot Tootie Toot Jazz Solos: Nick Szabo – baritone saxophone; Christian Fernandez – clarinet Valse des Fleurs Waltz of the Flowers Danse of the Floreadores Jazz Solos: Wil Wortley, Hillary Simms – trombone; Nick Szabo – baritone saxophone; Eddie Joe Antonio – trumpet; Christian Fernandez – clarinet Marche March of the Toy Soldiers Peanut Brittle Brigade Jazz Solos: Nick Indorf – tenor saxophone; Kari Hustad – trumpet; Ben Grobman – piano Please donate to IRIS! In the spirit of the season, we are collecting cash donations to support Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS). Please give as generously as you can at one of the Yale Band tables located in the first and second floor lobbies. Thank you!
Yale University Bands P.O. Box 209048, New Haven, CT 06520-9048 ph: (203) 432-4111; fax: (203) 432-7213 stephanie.hubbard@yale.edu; www.yale.edu/yaleband
About the Music Director Thomas C. Duffy (b. 1955) is Professor (Adjunct) of Music and Director of University Bands at Yale University, where he has worked since 1982. He has established himself as a composer, a conductor, a teacher, an administrator, and a leader. His interests and research range from non-tonal analysis to jazz, from wind band history to creativity and the brain. Under his direction, the Yale Bands have performed at conferences of the College Band Directors National Association and New England College Band Association; for club audiences at NYC’s Village Vanguard and Iridium, Ronnie Scotts’s (London), and the Belmont (Bermuda); performed as part of the inaugural ceremonies for President George H.W. Bush; and concertized in nineteen countries in the course of sixteen international tours. Duffy produced a two-year lecture/performance series, Music and the Brain, with the Yale School of Medicine; and, with the Yale School of Nursing, developed a musical intervention to train nursing students to better hear and identify body sounds with the stethoscope. He combined his interests in music and science to create a genre of music for the bilateral conductor - in which a “split-brained conductor” must conduct a different meter in each hand, sharing downbeats. His compositions have introduced a generation of school musicians to aleatory, the integration of spoken/sung words and “body rhythms” with instrumental performance, and the pairing of music with political, social, historical and scientific themes. He has been awarded the Yale Tercentennial Medal for Composition, the Elm/ Ivy Award, the Yale School of Music Cultural Leadership Citation and certificates of appreciation by the United States Attorney’s Office for his Yale 4/Peace: Rap for Justice concerts – music programs designed for social impact by using the power of music to deliver a message of peace and justice to impressionable middle and high school students. From 1996 to 2006, he served as associate, deputy and acting dean of the Yale School of Music. He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee, the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee, and the Grammy Foundation Music Educators Award Screening Committee, and completed the MLE program at the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education. He has served as: president of the Connecticut Composers Inc., the New England College Band Directors Association and the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA); editor of the CBDNA Journal, publicity chair for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles; and chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees. For nine years, he represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program. He is a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, the Social Science Club, and BMI. Duffy has conducted ensembles all over the world and was selected to conduct the NAFME National Honor Band in the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Upcoming Yale Bands Performances • Friday, February 16, 2018: Yale Concert Band Winter Concert. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Wine-Dark Sea (John Mackey), Dragon Rhyme (Chen Yi), Three Places in New Haven (Thomas C. Duffy), 7:30 pm, Woolsey Hall. Free. • Monday February 26, 2018: Yale Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Program TBA. 7:30 pm. Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Free. • Thursday, March 8, 2018: Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Feat. Ask the Sky and the Earth (Tony Fok), with Chinese choir [in association with the College Band Directors National Association Eastern Division Conference, hosted by Yale University Bands]. 7:30 pm, Woolsey Hall. Free. • Friday, April 13, 2018: Yale Concert Band Spring Concert. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Program TBA. 7:30 pm, Woolsey Hall. Free. • Sunday, April 15, 2018: Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert. Yale Jazz Ensemble, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, and the Reunion Jazz Ensemble. 2:00 pm, Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Free. • Sunday, May 20, 2018: Yale Concert Band Annual Twilight Concert. Ceremonial music on the eve of Yale’s Commencement. 7:00 pm, outside on the Old Campus. Free.
YALE CONCERT BAND 2017-2018 THOMAS C. DUFFY, Music Director STEPHANIE HUBBARD, Business Manager
Piccolo Ben Tillinger MY 21 Flutes Beatrice Brown PC 19* Monica Barbosa DC 19 Jeremy Goldwasser SM 21 Neyén Romano BK 18 Catherine Lacey BR 18 Julia Cai BR 20 Rona Ji MC 18 Melissa Leone SY 21 Joan Gomez-Aguilar BK 20 Seungjung Sohn ES 19 Oboes Lauren Williams MUS 18* Lauen White MUS 19 Eb Clarinet Alex Brod BK 19 Clarinets Christopher Zhou PC 19 Keith L. Wilson Principal Clarinet Chair** Alexander Ringlein BR 18 Eric Wang PC 21 Jessica Oki TC 20 Christian Fernandez BF 20 Madeline Bender TD 20 Heather McClure MY 20 Betsy Li MY 18
Bassoons Maddy Tung TD 21* Bradford Case SM 20 Jorge Nunez MC 20 Alto Saxophones Jacob Hillman MC 21* Nick DeWalt SY 21 Flynn Chen TC 20 Antonio Medina MY 19 Tenor Saxophone Daniel Morgan TC 18 Baritone Saxophone Sara Harris SY 19 Cornet/sTrumpets (rotating) Eli Baum JE 19* James Brandfonbrener MC 21 Christoph Funke ES 19 Noah Montgomery GH 19 Holt Sakai BR 18 Adam Tucker MC 21 Jacob Zavatone-Veth MY 19 French Horns (rotating) Michael McNamara TD 20* Sida Tang SY 19 Allison Hammer BF 20 Derek Boyer BR 18 Juliet Yates TC 21
Trombones William Burns MC 20* Robert Howard GH 21 Luke Benz SM 19 Matthew Kegley PC 19 Euphonium Ryan Lindveit MUS 19 Tubas Josef Lawrence TC 20* Alison Ross GH 20 String Bass Kohei Yamaguchi MUS 18 Harp Michelle Tong MY 21 Piano Julia Weiner BK 19 Timpani Rebecca Leibowitz TC 18 Percussion David Zuckerman DC 20* Ryan Haygood BF 21 Nasser Odetallah BR 20 Jonathan Roig ES 18 *principal
**Friends of Keith L. Wilson (Director of Yale Bands from 1946–1973) honored him by en-
Bass Clarinet Eleanor Handler ES 18
dowing the principal clarinet chair in the Yale Concert Band in his name. If you would like information about naming a Yale Concert Band chair, please contact the Yale Bands office.
YALE JAZZ ENSEMBLE 2017-2018 THOMAS C. DUFFY, Music Director STEPHANIE HUBBARD, Business Manager THEO VAN DYCK, Assistant to the Director
Clarinet Alexander Ringlein BR 18 Alto Saxophones Hersh Gupta GH 20 Nick DeWalt SY 21 Tenor Saxophones Nick Indorf DC 19 Christian Fernandez BF 20 Baritone Saxophone Nick Szabo BK 20
Trumpets Elliot Connors MC 20 Chloe Swindler MUS 18 Kari Hustad BR 21 Eddie Joe Antonio JE 19
Piano Ben Grobman SY 21
Trombones Hillary Simms MUS 18 Wil Wortley MUS 18 Michael Gancz MY 21 Zach Haas MUS 18
Bass Nicholas Serrambana JE 20
Guitar JJ Borja GH 20
Drums Colum O’Connor BF 18