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MUSIC BY:RichardsWilsonSaint-SaënsSchmittCastèrédeDaugherty

FRANÇAISE ET AMÉRICAINE

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA WIND SYMPHONY

DAVID A. WAYBRIGHT, CONDUCTOR

1 Desi ..................................................MICHAEL DAUGHERTY

2 Passamezzo Antico ..........................PAUL RICHARDS

3 Medium Funk Prelude ..............PAUL RICHARDS

4 Vortex ....................................................DANA WILSON

5 Dionysiaqúes........................................FLORENT SCHMITT

Divertissment DètÉ..................JACQUES CASTÈRÉDE

9 March Militaire ..................CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

10 Pas Redoublé ..................................CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS

THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAWind SymphonyWind Symphony 2001

KEVIN ORR, PIANO

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KAY FACHKO

KRISTEN GENTRY

SHANNON

PARRAMORE

HELEN PHILLIPS

STUART TAFT

CLARINET

TOM CARTER

GABE FIELDER

MELINDA GADOURY

GEOFF GILLIAND

ABBY GOLDSTEIN

CHRISTA HEIPP

MARIE KISSINGER

DARYUSH MEHTA

KIM SMITH

ERICK STALLINGS

OBOE

ANGIE ABBOT

ERIKO GROVER

ROBYN RAYO

BASSOON

BOBBY CHASTAIN

MATT CRUNDEN

SHANNON LOWE

SHIRLEY SANTOS

SAXOPHONE

MIKE BOVENZI

PHIL BRAVO

JASON OBARA

MICHAEL SCHWEIM

TRUMPET

YAR CHOWDHURY

JULIE GLASER

KRISTEN HAYNES

RANDALL HAYNES

CHRIS LOPEZ

ERIN WELDON

HORN

AARON COLLINS

JACQUIE DANIELS

HANA LAHR

JENNIFER MASCIULLI

SEAN MORGAN

TROMBONE

J.C. BEESON

SUSAN MARSHNER

MELISSA

MONEYPENNY

MOISES PAIEWONSKY

EUPHONIUM

MATT DECUBELLIS

MATT FAIL

TUBA

BRANDON JARVIS

ART MASCIULLI

PERCUSSION

SCOTT BALDWIN

JESSICA BARTON

CHIP BIRKNER

JON LORIMER

DEBRA MANNA

MIKE SAMMONS

JUSTIN STOLARIK

TOBIN WAGSTAFF

STRING BASS

LINDSEY SMITH

HARP

DAWN EDWARDS

PIANO

JUSTIN STOLARIK

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PRODUCED: JOHN LAVERTY, MARK J. MORETTE

DIGITALLY EDITED & MASTERED: DAVID ST. ONGE

EDITS: DAVID WAYBRIGHT

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KEVIN ROBERT ORRPianist Kevin Robert Orr, Assistant Professor of Piano/Piano Pedagogy at

the University of Florida, received his training at the Dana School of Music,Youngstown, Ohio, and at the Cleveland Institute of Music under masterpedagogue Paul Schenly, where he was the recipient of the William KurzbanPrize in Piano. A frequent soloist and collaborative pianist in the United Statesand abroad, Dr. Orr has premiered works by John Weinsweig, Robert Rollin,Dana Wilson, Paul Richards, and others.

While maintaining principal focus in classical piano performance andteaching, Dr. Orr is accomplished in other musical styles, improvisation, and

music technology, all of which are implemented into his teaching activities at the School of Music. In2001, Dr. Orr initiated the University of Florida Young Pianists Festival, a weeklong event for pre-collegepianists, held in early June of each year at the School of Music.

DAVID WAYBRIGHTDr. David Waybright attended Marshall University and received the BA degreewith Honors in Music Education and the Master of Music degree in trumpetperformance in 1978. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree inorchestral conducting from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in1982. He taught in the public school system of West Virginia and has heldProfessorships at Ferrum College in Virginia, Plymouth State College in NewHampshire, McNeese State University in Louisiana and currently is Director ofBands at the University of Florida where he holds the rank of full professor andis the head of the conducting area. He administrates the entire band programat UF, conducts the wind symphony, and guides the graduate-conductingprogram. Ensembles under his direction have made appearances at WASBE

conferences in Skien, Norway, and Manchester, England, National ABA, MENC, and CBDNAconferences and numerous state and regional conventions.

He is the author of several articles in the field of music education and there are many recordingsavailable featuring musical ensembles under his direction. He is active as a guest conductor andclinician with all-state and regional bands, orchestras, and choirs and has conducted throughout theU.S. and Europe. He is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and is active inCBDNA, WASBE, MENC and the Florida Bandmasters Association.

Michael Daugherty’s Desi forsymphonic winds waspremiered at the 1991 CollegeBand Directors NationalAssociation Convention inKansas City. The compositionis a tribute to Desi Arnaz, whoplayed the Cuban band-leaderRicky Ricardo alongside hiswife Lucille Ball in “I Love Lucy,”widely regarded as one of themost innovative televisioncomedy shows of the 1950’s.The opening rhythmic motive isderived from the “CongaDance” made famous by Arnazwhen he sang and playedbongos in Hollywood filmmusicals in the 1940’s. In Desithe bongo soloist andpercussion section provide alively counterpoint to intricatelystructured canons and four-note cluster chords, creatingpolyrhythmic layers thatintensify and build to a sizzlingconclusion. Desi evokes aLatin sound punctuated by bigband trumpets, tromboneglissandi, and dazzlingwoodwind runs.

Passamezzo Antico is acommon name for one of thestandard harmonic patternsused in the late Renaissance.This work, commissioned byThe Baylor University WindEnsemble, Michael Haithcock,conductor, is a fantasy looselybased on this progression.Passamezzi were used chieflyfor dance and entertainmentpurposes, where performerswould improvise over a steadyprogression. In written form,the passamezzi represented asort of composers’improvisation, and it is in thisvein that the present work wasconceived. Considerable libertyis taken with the standardprogression in terms of rhythm,register, and, above all, style, asthe music travels from theRenaissance to the modernera, and many points in-between. A typical example ofthe sixteenth-century variety, byVincenzo Galilei (Galileo’sfather), is quoted half waythrough the piece on malletpercussion.

Medium Funk Prelude is abrief dance in which a smallgroup of figures aretransformed and tossed aboutthe ensemble. The title comesfrom thumbing through a jazzfake book, where tunes aregiven tempo markings suchas slow swing, fast samba, ormedium funk.

The Southeastern ConferenceBand Directors Associationcommissioned Vortex, whichwas composed by DanaWilson. A vortex is a whirlingmass, such as a tornado orwhirlpool, which is createdwhen a source of momentumcauses a thick layer ofunstable stratification to movewith ever stronger tangentialvelocity as the medium (air orwater) converges to a smallerradius. The vortex graduallygains power and momentumwhile, ironically, forming avacuum at its center. It is thisimage of opposites, oneinfluenced by the other, thatwas the genesis of this piece.

The piece alternates betweenmoments of extreme stasis andwhirling energy. While the workis not a concerto, the pianooften serves as the source ofmomentum, pulling theensemble into the whirlingvortex.

Dionysiaques was composed in1913 for the 100-member GardeRépublicaine Band of Paris andfirst performed in 1925. Thetitle, from Greek mythology,refers to the gods of drama andwine, similar to the Roman godBacchus. Whether Schmittconsidered the French bandmembers as imbibers of toomuch wine is not known,however his sense of humor is amatter of record. Typical of histitles, for example, is his violinconcerto, Habeysée, thephonetic representation of ABC,as pronounced in French. Thework is a technical challenge forany professional-level wind band.

Divertissement d’eté, diversionof summer, is a delightful workfor wind orchestra without

saxophone or euphonium. It was written by Frenchcomposer Jacques Castèréde.He was born in Paris in 1926,and in 1954 was awarded thecoveted Prix de Rome, afterwhich he lived for four years atRome’s Villa Medici, gatheringplace of great composers fromDebussy’s time onward.Castèréde taught at the ParisConservatory, following in thefootsteps of his illustriousteacher, Jacques Ibert. Thereis a great deal of Ibert inCastèréde’s Divertissement,which he created for theAmerican Wind Symphony in1965. Castèréde’s piece is inthree movements: a jolly, happyromp called “La Plage” (TheBeach); a quiet, wonderfullycolored section called “Pêchesous-marine” (Fish SwimmingUnderwater); and an elfin,graceful March.

March Militare Française isderived from a larger work ofSaint-Saëns. The subtitle ofSaint-Saëns’ Algerian Suite is“Picturesque Impressions of aVoyage to Algiers.” Of its four

movements, three aredecidedly oriental in coloring.The fourth, the Military March,is by contrast quite French; itwas intended to emphasize thecontrast found at Algiersbetween the native and theFrench settlements. In a noteon the score the composeremphasized the fact that he notonly felt joyful at seeing Frenchsoldiers, but was conscious ofthe security he enjoyed undertheir protection.

Pas Redoublé is a “quick-step” concert march that isreminiscent of Offenbach andperhaps related to thenineteenth century galop.Originally written for four-handpiano it was transcribed forband by Arthur Frackenpohlwho is recognized as anAmerican composer of merit.The music, as indicated by thetitle, moves at a fast and steadypace. There are three principalthemes separated by interludesand then restated, the firstbeing reiterated with a changeof instrumentation and thesecond and third combined,leading to a coda.

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1 Desi .............................................MICHAEL DAUGHERTY [5:15]

2 Passamezzo Antico ................PAUL RICHARDS [11:14]

3 Medium Funk Prelude .........PAUL RICHARDS [3:27]

4 Vortex................................................DANA WILSON [11:58]

5 Dionysiaqúes ..........................FLORENT SCHMITT [11:04]

Divertissment DètÉ..........JACQUES CASTÈRÉDE

9 March Militaire..............CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS [5:04]

10 Pas RedoublÉ.......................CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS [3:20]

KEVIN ORR, PIANO

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