Yale College Family Weekend Gala Concert
Saturday, October 8, 2016 7:30 pm Woolsey Hall
Program I. Y ale Glee Club Jeffrey Douma, Music Director Gaudeamus igitur Traditional Student Song Bogoroditse Dyevo Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) The Road Home Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) On My Journey Home Traditional sacred harp arr. Jeffrey Douma Eli Yale Traditional Student Song Emma Hathaway, president; Jane Strauch, manager – soloists Football Medley arr. Fenno Heath Bright College Years Carl Wilhelm arr. Robert Bonds ’71
II. Yale Concert Band Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director Centennial Celebration Fanfare (2010) John Alan Carnahan Avelynn’s Lullaby (2011) Joel Puckett Rocky Point Holiday (1966) Ron Nelson III. Yale Symphony Orchestra Toshiyuki Shimada, Music Director Symphony No. 3 in C Minor East Coast Premiere I. Andante II. Andante ma non troppo III. Juba: Allegro IV. Scherzo: Finale
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Florence Price
Yale Glee Club–156th Season Jeffrey Douma, Music Director T. Sean Maher, Business Manager Nathan Eriff MUS ’17, Assistant Conductor Serene Li, Student Conductor Sam Hollister, Student Conductor Emma Hathaway, President Jane Strauch, Managerr Danny Keller, Alumni Coordinator
Soprano 1 Emily Boring ’18, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Emma Hathaway ’17, Music Sierra Janik ’17, Economics Alison Levosky ’17, Music, Psychology Erika Lynn-Green ’18, English Alexandra O’Brien ’20, Political Science Abby Sneider ’17, History, Music Kiri Van Lengen-Welty ’17, History Charlotte Winkler ’20, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Julie Zhu ’17, Political Science Soprano 2 Magda Andrews-Hoke ’19, Linguistics, English Grace Castillo ’19, English Kristine Chung ’19, Architecture Sedina Dzodzomenyo ’18, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Margaret Grabar Sage ’19, undeclared Sofia Laguarda ’20, undeclared Isabella Pazaryna ’19, History Courtney Sanders ’17, Music Eleanor Slota ’17, Political Science, Theater Studies Stephanie Smelyansky ‘19, Mollecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Jane Strauch ’17, Statistics Alexa Vaghenas ’20, undeclared Alto 1 Zoya Afridi ’17, Global Affairs Kayla Bartsch ’20, undeclared Madeline Bogert ’19, History, Psychology Ece Bozkurt ’20, undeclared Abigail Cipparone ’19, Psychology, Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Irene Connelly ’17, English Mari Kawakatsu ’17, Physics, Sociology Madeline Lemberg ’18, Philosophy Serene Li ’17, Global Affairs Audrey Luo ’17, Psychology, Neuroscience Nicolette Mantica ’19, Statistics
Stage Manager: Tristan Brockwell Archivists: Nicolette Mantica, Evaline Xie Community Engagement Officers: Jared Michaud, Mari Kawakatsu Tour Managers: Claire Carroll, Simon Horn Mini-Tour Managers: Max Bryski, Courtney Sanders Publicity Chair: Sara Speller Social Chairs: Isabel Pazaryna, Jackson Leipzig Wardrobe Managers: Jonah Pearl, Erika Lynn-Green
Alto 2 Claire Carroll ’18, English, Computer Science Maryanne Cosgrove ’20, undeclared Marianna Gailus ’17, History Mahima Kumara ’20, Geology & Geophysics Meg Mathile ’17, Art Anna McNeil ’20, Classics Mary Petzke ’18, Statistics Sara Speller ’19, Music Claire Williamson ’17, East Asian Studies Evaline Xie ’19, undeclared Tenor 1 Zachary Blickensderfer ’17, Computer Science & Mathematics Xinyuan Chen ’17, Electrical Engineering Luke Ciancarrelli ’19, English, Math & Philosophy Nolan Crawford ’19, Political Science Ethan Lester ’20 , undeclared Jack McAuliffe ’20, undeclared Jacob Miller ’19, Applied Physics Nathan Reiff som ’17, Choral Conducting (dma, som/ism ’21) Ryan Reza ’17, Mechanical Engineering Sam Lauten ’19, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Tenor 2 Andrew Bean ’17, Applied Math Cooper D’Agostino ’17, Humanities Nicholas Dell Isola ’18, Classics, Mathematics Myles Garbarini ’17, History of Art Tyler Harkness ’18, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Jackson Leipzig ’19, History, Philosophy Timothy Lind ’18, Archeological Studies Shaun Radgowski ’20, Applied Physics, Economics Charlie Romano ’19, Music, Biomedical Engineering Calvin Schwarztberg ’20,undeclared
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Bass 1 Nick Biniaz-Harris ’18, Music Aidan Brooks ’19, Mechanical Engineering Jake Gluckman ’20, undeclared Dayrin Jones ’17, Classics Johanan Knight ’19, Environmental Engineering Max Levatich ’20, Math Will Magliocco ’18, History, East Asian Languages and Literatures Jared Michaud ’19, Theater Studies James Nydam ’19, Linguistics Daniel Packard ’18, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Paul Styslinger ’17, Political Science, History of Art Greg Suralik ’17, English Bass 2 Nicholas Agar-Johnson ’17, Psychology Neuroscience Tristan Brockwell ’18, Psychology Neuroscience Mitchell Bryski ’17, History Anthony Hejduk ’20, Philosophy Sam Hollister ’18, Music, Mathematics Simon Horn ’18, Humanities John McKissack ’20, undeclared Devin O’Banion ’20, Economics Jonah Pearl ’18, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Christopher Valdes ’17, Chemical Engineering Keniel Yao ’19, Applied Mathematics
Upcoming Yale Glee Club Concerts n Thursday, October 13, 2016: Guest Choir from Norway - Edvard Grieg Kor. 7:30 PM, Marquand Chapel. Free. n Saturday October 29, 2016: 155th Anniversary Yale Glee Club Concert
In celebration of the Yale Glee Club’s 155th Anniversary, YGC alumni will join together for a concert in Woolsey Hall. 5:00 PM, Woolsey Hall. Free. n Friday November 11, 2016: Yale-Princeton Joint Glee Club Concert
The Yale Glee Club and the Princeton Glee Club will be performing a wide variety of repertoire, from classical choral repertoire, to spirituals, to new music, to everyone’s favorite fight songs. 7:30 PM. Woolsey Hall. Free. n Friday, November 18, 2016: Yale Harvard Joint Glee Club Concert
Yale and Harvard Glee Club join in their annual concert on the evening before THE GAME. 8:00 PM, Sanders Theatre, Harvard University n Sunday December 11, 2016: Messiah Audience Singalong.
Accompanied by the Yale Symphony. 1:30 PM, Battell Chapel, $5 suggested donation. Scores will be available for purchase and a portion of the donation proceeds goes to benefit New Haven’s Homeless. n Saturday February 11, 2017: Carmina Burana.
YGC combines forces with the Yale Symphony to perform one of the most popular works of the 20th century, Carl Orff ’s tremendous masterwork. 7:30 PM, Woolsey Hall. Yalesymphony.com n Wednesday, April 12, 2017: New Haven High Schools Choral Festival. Anton Armstrong, Clinician.
7:00 PM, Woolsey hall. Free. n Friday April 28, 2017: Beethoven Mass in C & Eligischer Gesang.
7:30 PM, Woolsey Hall. Free. n Saturday, May 20, 2017: Yale Glee Club 2017 Commencement Concert.
8:00 PM, Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Tickets are $15 General Admission, $12 Students, 203-432-4158.
Contact: Yale Glee Club P.O. Box 201929 New Haven, CT 06520-1929 sean.maher@yale.edu www.yalegleeclub.org
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Yale Concert Band Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director Stephanie Hubbard, Business Manager Officers: Catherine Lacy BR ’18, President Melina Delgado TD ’19, General Manager
Christopher Zhou PC ’19, General Manager Rona Ji MC ’19, Personnel Manager Beatrice Brown PC ’19, Publicity Chair Hayley Kolding SY ’17, Social Chair Antonio Medina SM ’19, Social Chair
Piccolo Rona Ji MC ’18
Baritone Saxophone Sara Harris SY ’19
Flute Beatrice Brown PC ’19, principal Neyén Romano BK ’18 Monica Barbosa DC ’19 Catherine Lacy BR ’18 Julia Cai BR ’20 Hayley Kolding SY ’17 Matthew Le JE ’20 Joan Gomez-Aguilar BK ’20 Seungjung Sohn ES ’19 Oboe Jake Houston CC ’19, principal Noah Kay MUS ’18
Trumpet (parts rotate) Eli Baum JE ’19, principal Christoph Funke ES ’19 Noah Montgomery CC ’19 Holt Sakai BR ’18 William Thompson GSAS ’21 Jacob Zavatone-Veth SM ’19
English Horn Noah Kay MUS ’18 Eb Clarinet Andrew Brod BK 17 Bb Clarinet Christopher Zhou PC ’19, Keith L. Wilson Principal Clarinet Chair Alexander Ringlein BR ’18 Alison Ho CC ’20 Jessica Oki TC ’20 Anson Wang DC ’17 Christian Fernandez TC ’20 Jacob Neis SY ’17 Alex Brod BK ’19 Madeline Bender TD ’20 Heather McClure ES ’20 Ellie Handler ES ’18 Betsy Li SY ’18 Bb Bass Clarinet Libby Dimenstein MC ’17 Bassoon Bradford Case SM ’20, principal Jorge Nunez MC ’20 Alto Saxophone Antonio Medina SM ’19, principal Onyx Brunner MC ’20 Tenor Saxophone Karina Franke TD ’20
French Horn (parts rotate) John McNamara CC ’17, principal Derek Boyer BR ’18 Allison Hammer DC ’20 Michael McNamara TD ’20 Nishwant Swami SM ’17 Brandon Wanke MC ’17 Trombone Luke Benz SM ’19, principal William Burns MC ’20 Matthew Kegley PC ’19 Euphonium Kevin Truong SM ’20 Tuba Josef Lawrence, TD ’20, principal Alison Ross CC ’20 String Bass Jordan Calixto MUS ’18 Harp Shin Young Yu MUS ’17 Piano/Celeste Julia Weiner BK ’19 Timpani Rebecca Leibowitz TC ’18 Percussion Melina Delgado TD ’19 Nasser Odetallah BR ’20 Jonathan Roig ES ’18 David Zuckerman DC ’20
Music Librarian
Derek Boyer BR ’18
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Upcoming Yale Bands Concerts n S unday, November 13, 2016: Yale Concert Band Matinee · 2:00 PM, Woolsey Hall
Southern Harmony (Donald Grantham), Autumn Walk (Julian Work), Endurance (Timothy Mahr), Circus Polka (Igor Stravinsky), Compass (Charles Romano SM ’19) [premiere]. Free. n F riday, December 2, 2016: “Rhythm and Remembrance” · 7:30 PM, Sprague Memorial Hall.
The songs of Fred Astaire and Cole Porter, featuring New York cabaret artist Steve Ross, with 9-piece Yale Jazz “All-Stars.” Free. n S unday, December 4, 2016: Yale Concert Band Old-Fashioned Christmas Concert · 2:00 PM. Woolsey Hall.
Program TBA. Free. n F riday, February 19, 2017: Yale Concert Band Winter Concert · 7:30 PM, Woolsey Hall.
Hiraizumi: Cyberpunk for Wind Ensemble (Simon Hutchinson), Festive Overture (Dmitri Shostakovich), Cartoon (Paul Hart), Les Couleurs Fauves (K. Husa). Free. n M onday March 6, 2017: Yale Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert · 7:30 PM, Sprague Memorial Hall.
Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Program TBA. Free. n F riday, April 7, 2017: Yale Concert Band Spring Concert · 7:30 PM, Woolsey Hall.
Symphony from Ivy Green (Mark Camphouse), based on writings by Helen Keller, Janna Baty, soprano; Roma (Valerie Coleman); Postcard (Frank Ticheli). Free. n S unday, April 9, 2017: Stan Wheeler Memorial Jazz Concert · 2:00 PM, Yale Law School
Yale Jazz Ensemble, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, and the Reunion Jazz Ensemble. Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Free. n S unday, May 21, 2017: Yale Concert Band Annual Twilight Concert · 7:00 PM, Old Campus
Ceremonial music on the eve of Yale’s Commencement. Free.
Contact: Yale University Bands P.O. Box 209048 New Haven, CT 06520-9048 stephanie.hubbard@yale.edu www.yale.edu/yaleband
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Yale Symphony Orchestra Toshiyuki Shimada, Music Director Brian Robinson, Managing Director Student Officer Corps Assistant Conductors Elias Brown, Ian Niederhoffer President Cindy Xue
Violin I Emily Switzer, Concertmaster Cameron Daly, Asst. Concertmaster Annabel Chyung Ana Barrett Albert Cao Julia Carabatsos Jennifer Cha Miriam Gerber Yumi Koga Jessie Li James Lin Kay Nakazawa Serena Shapard Stephen Tang Andrew Zhang Violin II Evan Pasternak, Principal Alexander Wang, Asst. Principal Vanessa Ague Madeline Bauer Hannah Lawrence John McKissack Taishi Nojima Eileen Norris Patrida Rangchaikul Jasmine Stone Alice Tao Margo Williams Cindy Xue Julia Zhu Viola Abigail Elder, Principal Sarah Switzer, Asst. Principal Morgan Belina Sonali Durham Ethan Gacek George Gemelas Wei Li Linus Lu Lauren McNeel Ian Niederhoffer Grant Young
Librarians Emily Switzer Shiori Tomatsu Dennis Zhao
Social Jessie Li Arvind Venkataraman
Publicity Noah Stevens-Stein Jacob Sweet Stephen Tang
Violoncello Harry Doernberg, Co-Principal Amanda Vosburgh, Co-Principal Sofia Checa Kimberly Lai Paul Lee Henry Shapard Robert Wharton Contrabass Connor Reed, Principal Spencer Parish Aedan Lombardo Arvind Venkataraman Noah Stevens-Stein Flute Monica Barbosa Beatrice Brown Michelle Peters
Alumni Coordinators Annabel Chyung Amanda Vosburgh
Trumpet Ryan Petersburg Elias Brown Joseph Blumberg Trombone Alexander Walden Hillary Eliud Garcia Tuba Josef Lawrence Harp Caroline Zhao, Principal Kai-Lan Olson Celesta Miles Walter, Principal Percussion Adrian Lin, Principal Charles Comiter Sean Guo Ephraim Sutherland
Oboe Laura Michael Collum Freedman English Horn Jake Houston Clarinet Allen Chang Jacob Sweet Bass Clarinet Dennis Zhao Bassoon Dennis Brookner Daniel Henick Horn Mary Martin Leah Meyer Nishwant Swami Morgan Jackson
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Florence Beatrice Smith Price, Symphony No. 3 (1940) In 1979-80 I catalogued the music manuscripts and published music in the James Weldon Johnson Collection of Negro Arts and Letters held in the Beinecke Rare Book Library as part of my M.A. degree thesis in the department of African American Studies. It was in the Johnson Collection that I discovered the music of Florence Beatrice Smith Price, including the unpublished manuscript of her Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (1940). The performance by the Yale Symphony Orchestra represents the first full performance of the Symphony on the East Coast. Florence Price longed for a hearing of her music by an orchestra in the East. In the anniversary year of the Beinecke and the James Weldon Johnson Collection, it is most fitting that the Yale Symphony Orchestra recognizes this important composer’s legacy. Florence Beatrice Smith Price was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, April 9, 1887. After receiving her early music training from her mother, she attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She graduated in 1906 with a soloist’s diploma in organ and a teacher’s diploma in piano. It was at the Conservatory that Florence Beatrice was selected by the eminent composer George Whitefield Chadwick to study with him in his private studio. After graduation, Price returned to the south to teach music at Shorter College in Little Rock (1907-1910) and at Clark University in Atlanta (1910-1912) where she was head of the department. In 1912 Florence Beatrice moved back to her hometown where she married Thomas Price, a very successful lawyer. To escape the escalating racial tension in Little Rock, the Price family (she had two children) moved to Chicago in 1927. In the Windy City, Price established herself as a concert pianist, organist, teacher and composer of about 300 compositions. Price’s art songs and spiritual arrangements, for which she is best known, have been sung by such world renowned singers as Marian Anderson, Todd Duncan, and Leontyne Price. When her Symphony No. 1 in E Minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1932, she became the first African American female composer to have their music performed by a major American orchestra. Her achievements included performances by the Michigan WPA Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Woman’s Symphony Orchestra, and numerous professional chamber ensembles. Price died in Chicago in 1953. Price’s Symphony No. 3 in C Minor was premiered in 1940 by the Michigan Works Progress Administration Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Valter Poole. The WPA music ensembles were organized to provide work for the large number of unemployed musicians during the Depression years. Through its regularly scheduled concert season, Poole raised the level of this full-size symphony orchestra to national prominence. Price’s Symphony begins with a solemn introduction before giving way to a bold theme in the lower strings. Like most sonata form movements, this one has a contrasting second theme of some lyrical beauty. The second movement of the Symphony features antiphonal “choirs” of instruments. It is rich with beautiful melodies, some reminiscent of the African American spiritual, though bathed in orchestral color. Price’s love of French impressionistic music is particularly evident here. The third movement, entitled “Juba Dance,” is based on characteristic antebellum African American dance rhythms. For Price, the rhythmic elements in African American music was of utmost importance. She wrote, “it seems to me to be no more impossible to conceive of Negroid music devoid of the spiritualist theme on the one hand than strongly syncopated rhythms of the juba on the other.” The listener will recognize the Latin-American habanera dance, which by 1940 had made its way into American popular music. The xylophone, an instrument common to jazz, is also featured in this movement. Although Price was not a jazz musician, jazz was all around her in Chicago, and its style and rhythms did have an unconscious impact on some of her compositions. The last movement of the Symphony is a lively allegro movement, which is concluded triumphantly by a lengthy Beethoven-like coda. Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D. Provost and Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA
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