The 3rd Annual University of Scranton Premiere Composition Series under the sponsorship of lfORTHEASTERN BANK

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presents

The University of Scranton Symphonic Band and Choir

Cheryl Y. Boga, Conductor • Thomas L. Frew, Assistant Rev. Ron McKinney, S.J. Moderator Rev. J . Patrick Mohr, S.J. Moderator

performing

a World Premiere commissioned work composed and conducted by

JONATHAN TUNICK Fri. April 25th

8:00p.m. U of S Eagen Auditorium

Jonathan Tunick has had an extraordinarily varied musical career, which has included work in the professional music fields of composition, arranging, orchestrating, conducting and performance, as well as education. Born in New York City, Tunick is a graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School of Music, where he studied composition with Paul Nordoff, Vittorio Giannini and Leonard Bernstein. He is considered to be the most significant orchestrator in the history of musical theater. In the book Broadway Musicals, Stephen Sondheim refers to Tunick as "my never failing alter· ego". His list of Broadway orchestration credits includes Sweeney Todd, Balroom, Nine, Pacific Overtures, A Chorus Line, A Little Night Music, Follies, Bernstein's Mass, Dames at Sea, Company and Promises, Promises. He has orchestrated the scores for the motion pictures Stavisky, Young Frankenstein, The Twelve Chairs and Blazing Saddles.

Tunick has composed and conducted the scores for the motion pictures Fort Apache, The Bronx and Endless Love, the P.B.S. miniseries Concealed Enemies, and the P.B.S. series of John Cheever stories. He has also contributed scores to the American Short Story, Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories, and the mystery series Columbo. He llas had works commissioned by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and the Benny Goodman Orchestra, and the Playwrights Horizon has presented an evening of his songs in concert. He has received the Emmy and Drama Desk Awards, and for his work on the film version of A Little Night Music he received the Academy Award. Recently, he returned from England, where he worked with the London Symphony and Sarah Vaughan in making a new recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, featuring his orchestrations which will be released soon. His guest conducting credits both here and abroad are extensive, and he is currently preparing a course in Theater & Film Music Composition for the Juilliard School. In addition to all of this professional activity, he still occasionally finds time to grab an instrument and "sit in" on jazz club dates. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Scranton to the legendary Jonathan Tunick.

OTHER COMPOSITIONS BY JONATHAN TUNICK

MUSICALS & OPERA Marty Travellers The Lesson Days of Wine and Roses (in progress)

ORCHESTRAL WORKS Cheever Country Victorian Suite Serenade for Strings Serenade for Oboe & Strings Vibrations (Ballet) Nightmares (Ballet)

CHAMBER MUSIC Winter Pieces (Woodwind Quartet) Suite for Clarinet and Piano Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano 3 Pieces for Piccolo and Piano Rod's Blues (trumpet and piano) Double Fugue for String Quartet

VOCAL AND CHORAL To An Isle in the Water (text by W.B. Yeats) 3 Women (text by C. Jacker) Buffalo Bill's Defunct (text by E.E. Cummings) Lady of Silence (text by E.E. Cummings) Animal Rounds (text by Ogden Nash)

INCIDENTAL MUSIC Timon of Athens (New York Shakespeare Fes­tival)

A Clearing in the Woods

FILM & TELEVISION Amazing Stories (Steven Spielberg-Universal) American Masters (P.B .S . Documentary

Series) Brotherly Love (C.B.S.) I Want To Go Home (A.B.C.) Concealed Enemies (P.B.S. Miniseries, Emmy

nom.) Alice in Wonderland (P.B.S.) Marilyn Horne's American Songbook (Music Dir.

& Arr., Emmy nom.) I Am The Cheese (Ind. Feat. w/ Don Murray &

Hope Lange) The Shady Hill Kidnapping (P.B.S.) Endless Love (Polygram) Comedy of Terrors (C.B.S.) Blinded by the Light (C.B.S.) Hal Linden's Big Apple (Music Dir. & Arr. A.B. C.) Swan Song (20th) America 2100 (A.B. C.) John Cheever Stories (P.B.S. Series) The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (P.B.S.) Columbo (Universal) Flying High (C.B.S.) Rendezvous Hotel (C.B.S.) A Little Night Music (Score & Music Sup.,

Academy Award)

Tonight's premiere works, Shakespeare at Dusk and The Mysterious Cat, are based upon other works of art.

Shakespeare at Dusk was inspired by Edward Hopper's painting of the same name. Hopper, a great American Realist, had little sympathy for impressionism, and remained impervious to post-impressionism and other contemporary devel­opments as cubism and futurism Hopper is concerned with the works of man (buildings, highways, bridges, statues, etc.) and the struggle between man and his environment. Usually his works are strangely empty of human inhabitants, although they are set in places where people would be expected to be present in numbers. The compositions are strangely permeated with an intense humanistic content, even if empty of actual human figures, and convey a sense of loneliness and finality. The human figure, when it is introduced, is isolated and non­communicative. Often his works make the observers feel as if they are violating the privacy of the picture, and one of his characteristic motifs is to approach his subject in a manner, or from an angle, that encourages this (e.g. a window through which one glimpses intimate episodes of private life). One of Hopper's primary compositional tools is his use of the definition and realization of light as it falls on architectural forms. His unobtrusive paint quality deliberately avoids brilliance, there is no distracting detail, and there is a monumental ordering of his compositional elements (possibly harkening to his earlier career as an illustrator). These elements combine to give his realistic designs an abstract power.

Hopper's Shakespeare at Dusk is a 17" x 25" oil on canvas, which depicts a dusk scene of the sun setting in a curiously yellow green sky on the mall at N.Y.'s Central Park. On the lower left hand side of the painting is the Shakespeare monument, which is made conspicuous by understatement. The remainder of the painting shows the walkways, grassy knolls, trees, lampposts, and a small part of the N.Y. skyline looking to the west, all lit in the yellow green light of the setting sun.

The Mysterious Cat is based upon the text of a poem of the same name by Vachel Lindsay. This work is anamolous to his other works, in that it lacks elements of sobriety. It is a rather simple and beautifully straightforward piece written by a rather disturbing and complex man. Lindsay claimed that he was in search of "the soul of the U.S.A.". He was a Romantic, who saw man as a heroic figure, able to impose his will to control nature, and this can be traced to his boyhood during the Industrial Revolution. He was a man at war with himself, with strong elements of both the saint and the sinner, and this was reflected in the majority of his work. Lindsay was a Populist, and most of his works contain strong socio­political overtones. He has been described as mad as Quixote, yet having strange Quixotic grandeur. There were strong doses of awe and wonder mixed in with the pathos that was Vachel Lindsay, and The Mysterious Cat is an example of this awe and wonder, as well as of his fascination with animals. The enigma, confusion, and brilliance that America knows as Vachel Lindsay committed suicide at the age of 31 by drinking a common household disinfectant and proclaiming "I got them before they could get me -they can just try to explain this, if they can!"

PROGRAM U. of S. Alma Mater .. . .. .............. .. Gannon, Fisher/ Robinson, Boga Salute to P.M.E.A. March . ..... ... .. .. ... . .... . ... . ... . ...... Davenport Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair . .. ........... traditional / Curnow Normandie & Alsace - Lorraine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darius Milhaud

from "Suite Francaise" Danzon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernstein/Krance

from "Fancy Free" Scenes from "The Louvre" .. . ......... .... . .. ... . . . .. . Norman Delio Joio

The Portals The Kings of F ranee

Finale Thus Do You Fare, My Jesus . .... . ..... .... ................. Bach/Reed

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Semper Fidelis . . . ... . . ... . .... . . .. .... .. . .... . .. ..... John Philip Sousa Scheherazade Suite ........ . ..... . . . ..... . . ... Rimsky-Korsakov/ Curnow

I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship II. The Story of the Kalendar Prince

III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess IV. The Festival At Baghdad

Hallelujah .. ..... ... . . .. . .. . . . . .... . .. . ..... .... .. ... Rhonda Sandberg Ching-A-Ring-Chaw . ..... ....... . ... . .... .... . ... ....... Aaron Copland The Mysterious Cat ... ... . ............ . .. ... . ..... . .. .. Jonathan Tunick

World Premiere Performance conducted by the composer

Shakespeare at Dusk ... . .. ... ................. . . .. . ... Jonathan Tunick World Premiere Performance Conducted by the composer

SINGERS SOPRANO Alice Batt Martha Brier .--~''' , Eileen Cleveland){_ · Gina DeFrank Debbie Fertal ,-q Susanne Kays Melissa Karoly Renee Palmer Linda Sweeney Christine Tadley (!) Charisse T enewitz Mary Helen Whalen(!) Meg White

ALTO T ricia Calamoneri , Sue DeGiralamo .;x( Nanci Franzo Eileen Gallagher Laura Jarusik Laura Kane (!) Karen K. Kormis Diane Lange ':f · Lisa Lupico · Dr. Christine McDermott(Bio. Dept.) Maureen Muller .1.

Rose O'Neill-{ Theresa Ott Rachel Pawlowski Alicia Smith Lisa Smulligan Mary Beth Spede Gene Steiger Barbara Svachak Terry Tamaroglio Mauri Tartella

1TENOR c:)>t'Joseph Carello (intern-Jordan Assoc.)

' Richard Dillon James Duffy Michael J . Fowler (!)

'>t,Thomas Frew (Asst. Dir.) Paul Kernan Keith McGurrin Gregory E. Paul(!) Shawn M. Sekela (!) Carl Sisolak Christopher Wakefield

. Michael Yasich --':f Kevin Young

BASS James Agostinelli John Beidler Don Brasek Frank Chindemi Michael DeMichele Tullio DeLuca Alexander P. lsakov (!) John Kelly Christopher Nally(!) Anthony J . Perry(!) Brian Quinn(!) Ditmar Redfern Keith Slattery David Thomas Joseph Zakreski Marnix deMar (intern-GSGSB)

ACCOMPANISTS Jennifer Boyce(!) Jennifer T retia

(!) - Member 1985 Pennsylvania State Intercollegiate Chorus

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BAND OFFICERS '85- '86 President - Todd Davis Vice President - Anthony Perry Secretary - Joseph Bertolino Treasurer - Rose Cramer Managers - Frank Chindemi

David Migliore Librarian - Michele Ksenich Jazz Rep. - Jennifer Boyce Historians - Michele Ksenich

Frank Chindemi Student Conductor - Theresa Ott

SINGERS OFFICERS '85 - 86 President - Jennifer Boyce Vice President - Mary Whalen Secretary - Terry T amaroglio Treasurer - Gregory Paul Manager - Keith McGurrin Librarian- Christine Tadley Freshman Rep.- Ditmar Redfern Historians - Michele Ksenich

Frank Chindemi Student Conductor - Ther.esa Ott

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FROM ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE U. OF S. BANDS & CHOIRS

~~ INSTRUMENTALISTS ~~ PICCOLO Rose E. Cramer

FLUTE Trina Atkinson Rose E. Cramer Christine DeMichele Michele Haage Lisa Harrin~ton (!) Giannie RospigliosT Joelle Sherlock Mauri Tartella Leigh Ann Wilcox · "f

OBOE Kelly E. Coughlin(!) Penelope Samsel

Eb SOPRANO CLARINET Karen K. Kormis

CLARINET Joseph J. Cadden Karen DeMeis Michele DeMichele Mary Hermanns Alexander P. lsakov Melissa Karoly Karen Koronkiewicz Meghan McQuaid Wendy Moser Theresa Ott Rachel Pawlowski Mike Pepsm Amnony J. Perry Ditmar Redfern Karen Scarangella Linda Scheick Mary Snyder Steve Solomita Linda Sweeney Meg White Michael Yasich Lynne Zajac

ALTO CLARINET Dena Marie Mootz

BASS CLARINET Alicia Smith

ALTO SAXOPHONE Laura E. Bassak Patrick W. Barnitt '· Michele Ksenich Daniel J. McGarry John Seigle ('85)

TENOR SAXOPHONE Kris Hendrickson Paul Percival

BARITONE SAXOPHONE Brent G . Davis (West Scranton H.S.) Gerald Zaboski

FRENCH HORN Una Espenkotter (!) Eugene X. Langenberger ('84) Dr. Christine McDermott (Bio Dept.) Karen Pensak (!) Michael Yevich

TRUMPET Todd Davis Robert A. DeColli Richard Dillon John J . Healy Jeffrey R. Leas Steve Shemo Greg Young Steve Yuhas

TROMBONE Mark Beres ('82) Stanley G. Kalafut ('80) Joseph A. Kasarda ('85) John J . Lepore Judith A. Walker (1) David Winfield

BARITONE HORN Kathy Bossert Frank Chindemi Maria Doria Ann Marie Haladay Christopher ;M. lsakov (Scr. Prep.) Melinda Jennings ·"'-•·

TUBA Matthew V. Felicetti Fr. J . Patrick Mohr (Philosophy Dept.) David Oven (Scr. Prep.) Lisa Smulligan

PERCUSSION Nicholas M. Catalano (Scr. Schl. Dist.) Thomas Frew (Asst. Dir.) David T. Migliore Mark Montella (Computer Center) Tony Saranchak Barbara Svachak

(!) - Member 1986 Pennsylvania State Intercollegiate Band

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