WINTER PARK HIGH SCHOOL BANDSWednesday, May 3, 2017 | 7:00 PM

Winter Park High School | Ann Derflinger Auditorium

PROGRAM

JAZZ ENSEMBLE IIMichael Clemente, director

So What (1959/1990) Miles Davisarr. Frank Mantooth

There’ll Never Be Another You (1942) Harry Warren & Mack Gordon

FRESHMAN JAZZ BANDChristopher Blackmer, director

Slow Hot Wind (1965/2016) Norman Gimbel & Henry Manciniarr. Paul Murtha

Summer Never Ends (2008) Bill Liston

The Opener II (2014) Carl Strommen

JAZZ ENSEMBLE IMichael Clemente, director

Sunrise Lady (1978) Woody Hermanarr. Bruce Johnstone

All of Me (1931/1984) Seymour Simons & Gerald Marksarr. Lennie Neihaus

Stuart Thomas, vocalist

Someone To Watch Over Me (1926/1996) George Gershwin and Ira Gershwinarr. Dave Wolpe

Davan Francisco, vocalist

Sing Sang Sung (1999) Gordon Goodwin

CONCERT BANDChristopher Blackmer, conductor

The Fairest of the Fair (1908/2016) John Philip Sousaarr. Andrew Balent

Grand Ledge Overture (2001) John Moss

Loch Lomond (2002) Frank Ticheli

Celebration (2016) Randall D. Standridge

SYMPHONIC BANDMichael Clemente, conductor

Shine (2010) Michael Markowski

Courtly Airs and Dances (1995) Ron NelsonI. IntradaII. Basse DanseIV. SaltarelloV. SarabandeVI. Allemande

Circus Days (1944/1997) Karl L. King

WIND ENSEMBLEChristopher Blackmer, conductor

Overture to “Candide” (1956) Leonard Bernsteintrans. Walter Beeler

Beelzebub (1912) Andrea Catozziarr. Julius S. Seredy

Michael Clemente, conductorAlex Carpenter, tuba

The Godfather Saga (1972) Nino Rota & Carmine Coppolaarr. Marcel Peeters

Give Us This Day (Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble) (2007) David MaslankaI. Moderately slowII. Very fast

OUR SENIOR CONCERTO WINNERS

EDUN KALMAR is the winner of the 2017 Senior Concerto Competition. He has studied privately with Daniel Ferri, Nikolay Blagov, Scott Devlin, John Olearchick, and Eric Levine. He has been the Principal clarinet player of the Winter Park High School Wind Ensemble, Park Philharmonic Orchestra, and the “Night on Broadway” Pit Orchestra for four years. In addition, he was the second principal clarinet in the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Symphonic Orchestra during the 2014-2015 season. 

Music honors include being the recipient of the John Philip Sousa Band Award and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award at Maitland Middle School. Also, he has been a participant in the Orange County All-County Jazz Band for six years, and the All-County Band for five years.

Edun is very excited and extremely honored to perform Weber's Concertino in Carnegie Hall and would like to thank his parents, Amir and Lena Kalmar, and all of his music teachers and mentors of whom Edun is so grateful for their invaluable support who guided and encouraged him to follow his passion of music. This summer, Edun will be participating in the Clarinet Workshop and Young Artists Wind Ensemble under the direction of David J. Martins and H. Robert Reynolds at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. In the fall of 2017, Edun will attend Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, and major in music education.

ALEXANDER CARPENTER is the first runner-up for the 2017 Senior Concerto Competition. He has studied music performance privately with his father, Robert Carpenter, principal tubist for the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra; Mike Roylance, principal tubist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Claude Kashnig, principal tubist for the Brevard Symphony and professor of tuba at the University of Central Florida.

Alex has performed as a member of the Winter Park Wind Ensemble, Park Philharmonic Orchestra, Sound of the Wildcats Marching Band, the American Youth Ensemble, and the Youth Brass Band of Central Florida. Alex has also attended the

Boston University Tanglewood Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts.

In 2016, Alex toured Germany, performing with the American Youth Ensemble. He has also composed works for tuba, which he premiered at the University of South Florida’s “Florida Tuba and Euphonium Day.” His composition was also played by Mr. Roylance and Mr. Kashnig at BUTI. Music honors include four years in the Orange County All-County Band, superior ratings at Solo & Ensemble Music Performance Assessments, and selection as soloist in the 2016 WPHS Marching Band show. Alex is graduating from Winter Park High School with an International Baccalaureate major in music. In the fall of 2017, Alex will attend UCF to pursue degrees in music and engineering. Alex feels very fortunate for this performance opportunity, and would like to thank his parents, Robert and Julia, and all of his outstanding music teachers, past and present, for their invaluable support and guidance.

PROGRAM NOTES

The Fairest of the FairThe Fairest of the Fair was written in 1908 for the annual Boston Food Fair and dedicated to the Boston Retail Grocers’ Association. The Sousa Band was a primary attraction for several seasons at these fairs. It is said that the memory of a pretty girl Sousa had seen at a previous fair was the inspiration for this march, which is more melodic and less military in style than most of his marches.

Grand Ledge OvertureGrand Ledge Overture was commissioned by Michael Kaufman and the Grand Ledge High School Band (Grand Ledge, Michigan) in honor of the retirement of Eileen Houston, Director of Bands at Hayes Middle School, one of two middle school feeder programs at the time. In addition to being a master teacher of middle school bands, Mrs. Houston was a trombonist and taught many of the trombone students who went through the Grand Ledge band programs. Prologue (its original title) was premiered by the Grand Ledge High School Wind Symphony at the 2000 Midwest International Band & Orchestra Clinic held in Chicago.

Loch LomondAt the time in Scottish history when “Loch Lomond” was a new song, the United Kingdom (which united Scotland, England, and Wales) had already been formed. But the Highland Scots wanted a Scottish, not an English king to rule. Led by their Bonnie Prince Charlie (Prince Charles Edward Stuart) they attempted unsuccessfully to depose Britain’s King George II. An army of 7,000 Highlanders were defeated on April 16, 1746 at the famous Battle of Culloden Moor.

It is this same battle that indirectly gives rise to this beautiful song. After the battle, many Scottish soldiers were imprisoned within England’s Carlisle Castle, near the border of Scotland. “Loch Lomond” tells the story of two Scottish soldiers who were so imprisoned. One of them was to be executed, while the other was to be set free. According to Celtic legend, if someone dies in a foreign land, his spirit will travel to his homeland by “the low road” – the route for the souls of the dead. In the song, the spirit of the dead soldier shall arrive first, while the living soldier will take the “high road” over the mountains, to arrive afterward.

From the composer, “In my setting, I have tried to preserve the folksong’s simple charm, while also suggesting a sense of hope, and the resilience of the human spirit. The final statement combines the Scottish tune with the well-known Irish folksong, ‘Danny Boy.’ It was by happy accident that I discovered how well these two beloved songs share each other’s company, and I hope their intermingling suggests a spirit of human harmony.”

CelebrationFrom the composer, “Celebration was inspired by the simple ideas of joy, exhilaration, and good will. The piece uses dance rhythms and sparkling colors to create a musical portrait of a grand event with confetti, fireworks, and happy people everywhere.”

Celebration was commissioned by the Prairie View High School Band of Hernderson, Colorado, and their director, Greg Haan.

ShineThe composer writes, “Shine is an exploration of brighter instrumental colors within a world of softer, more muted textures. For me, the imagery of light becomes all the more striking when rationed against these darkly romantic landscapes.”

“You can hear this sort of rationing throughout the piece. For example, the piece begins with a tight, sustained, three note cluster that is meant to induce a kind of quiet, harmonic friction. The saxophones enter first, flickering, and are soon joined by the French horns, whose flutter-tonguing intensifies the aural electricity. The rhythmic and melodic energy builds to several short, brighter moments, but these joyful moments don’t stay for long as we quickly submerge back into more meditative tones.”

Courtly Airs and DancesCourtly Airs and Dances is a suite of Renaissance dances which were characteristic to five European countries during the 1500s. Two of the dances (Basse Dance and Allemande) are meant to emulate the music of Claude Gervaise by drawing on the style of his music as well as the characteristics of other compositions of that period. The festival opens with a fanfare-like Intrade, followed by Basse Danse (France), Saltarello (Italy), Sarabande (Spain), and Allemande (Germany).

Ron Nelson, a native of Joliet, Illinois, received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1952, the Master’s degree in 1953, and the Doctor of Music Arts degree in 1956 from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He studied in France at the Ecole Normale de Musique and the Paris Conservatory under a Fulbright Grant in 1955. Dr. Nelson served on the faculty at Brown University from 1956 to 1993, and has gained wide recognition as a composer of choral, band, and orchestral works.

Circus DaysCircus Days is one of the all-time favorite works by America’s great bandmaster and composer Karl L. King. It is a bright march, moving rather quickly between sections with much going on in each strain. King used to tell the members of his Fort Dodge Municipal Band that he liked to play his gallops at “one beat to the page.”

Overture to “Candide”Leonard Bernstein’s adaptation of Voltaire’s Candide ran fewer that eighty performances when it opened on Broadway on December 1, 1956, however, over the past sixty years, it has become one of his most successful works for the musical stage – along with On the Town (1944) and West Side Story (1957). Like a traditional musical production, the overture states several of the main themes of the songs found in Candide. The overture received its first concert performance in 1957 by the New York Philharmonic with Bernstein conducting, and it is considered by many to be one of the greatest overtures every written.

Candide was a collaboration between Bernstein and Lillian Hellman. Hellman’s concept was to adapt Voltaire’s original work for the modern day, satirizing the McCarthy anti-communism of the early 1950s, which both she and Bernstein had experienced firsthand.

Leonard Bernstein is considered to be the first internationally-known musician to be entirely the product of American schooling, and was one of the few composers equally at home in the popular theater and concert hall.

He wrote music for orchestra, chorus, musical theater, motion pictures, and television. In 1959 he became the first American-born music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also well known for his many recordings and his tireless efforts on the behalf of young conductors and composers around the world.

BeelzebubAndrea Catozzi’s Beelzebub was the prize-winning entry in an 1886 competition for instrumental solos sponsored by the Carl Fischer Company. Catozzi was a well-known tuba soloist in the New England area during the late 19th century where he performed with bands in both Togus, Maine and Salem, Massachusetts. Beelzebub is composed in the grand style of an “air varie,” or melody with variations.

The Godfather SagaWidely regarded as one of the greatest motion pictures of all time, The Godfather, based on the Mario Puzo novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (portrayed by Marlon Brando). When the don’s youngest son, Michael (played by Al Pacino) reluctantly joins the family business, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. The film was the highest-grossing film of 1972 and was, for a time, the highest-grossing film ever made. It won ten Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor (Brando), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola). In 1990, The Godfather was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and it is ranked second only to Citizen Kane as the greatest film in American cinema by the American Film Institute. It was followed by two sequels: The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).

The Godfather Saga includes some of the most familiar themes used throughout all three Godfather films, including: “The Godfather Waltz,” “The Theme from Godfather Part II,” “The Godfather Mazurka,” “Michael’s Theme,” “Vincent’s Theme,” “The Godfather Tarantella,” and “The Love Theme from The Godfather.”

Giovanni “Nino” Rota was an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor who is best remembered for his film scores, and especially for the scores to The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (for which he received the Academy Award for Best Original Score). Rota was an extremely prolific film composer, producing more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979 – an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period.

Carmine Coppola (the father of director Francis Ford Coppola) was an American composer, flutist, editor, musical director, and songwriter who contributed original music to The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and The Godfather Part III (for which he was nominated for Best Original Score).

Give Us This Day (Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble)Give Us This Day was commissioned by a consortium headed by the Rancho Buena Vista High School Bands in Oceanside, California, and the premiere took place in February 2006. The piece is in two movements, and the subtitle “Short Symphony” alludes to the use of a symphonic model for this work.

David Maslanka writes, “The words, “Give us this day” are, of course, from the Lord’s Prayer, but the inspiration for this music is Buddhist. I have recently read a book by the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh (pronounced ‘Tick Not Hahn’) entitled For a Future to be Possible. His premise is that a future for the planet is only possible if individuals become deeply mindful of themselves, deeply connected to who they really are. While this is not a new idea, and something that is an ongoing struggle for everyone, in my estimation it is the issue for world peace. For me, writing music, and working with people to perform music, are two of those points of deep mindfulness. Music makes the connection to reality, and by reality I mean a true awakeness and awareness so that we can build a future in the face of a most dangerous and difficult time. I chose the subtitle “Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble” because the music isn’t programmatic in nature. It has a full-blown symphonic character, even though there are only two movements. The music of the slower first movement is deeply searching, while that of the highly energized second movement is at times both joyful and sternly sober. The piece ends with a modal setting of the choral melody Vater Unser in Himmelreich (Our Father in Heaven), no. 110 from the 371 Four-part chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach.”

UPCOMING EVENTS

Spring Guard ShowcaseThursday, May 4, Auditorium, 7 PM

New York Tour Mandatory Parent/Student MeetingWednesday, May 10, Auditorium, 7 PM

Band BanquetFriday, May 12, West Cafeteria/Auditorium, 6:15 PM

RSVP on Band Calendar by Wednesday, May 10

Marching Band Mini-Camp I (New Marchers/Leadership)Saturday, May 20, 12 PM – 6 PM

Marching Band Mini-Camp II (All Students)Sunday, May 21, 2 PM – 8 PM

New York City/Carnegie Hall TourThursday, June 1 – Tuesday, June 6

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