ASU Large Ensembles Present ASU Concert Band . Band Classics! Bryan Raya, conductor Melanie Brooks, conductor School of Music Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts Arizona State University 2015-2016 Season March 22, 2016 7:30pm j . Evelyn Smith Music Theatre ·Herberger Institute FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS A R I Z 0. N A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y ASU Concert Band Bryan Raya and Melanie Brooks, conductors The Liberty Bell ................................................................. John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Bryan Raya, conductor Chorale and Alleluia .......................................................... Howard Hanson (1896-1981) Bryan Raya, conductor Satiric Dances ......... ...... ... .............................................. Norman Delio Joio (1913-2008) Melanie Brooks, conductor Ginger Marmalade ..............................................................Warren Benson (1924-2005) Melanie Brooks, conductor Rest .. .............................................................................................. Frank Ticheli (b. 1958) Melanie Brooks, conductor Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo ............................................. Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) arr. John Paynter Bryan Raya, conductor To respect the performers, please silence all electronic devices. ASU Concert Band Piccolo Micaela Rebb Flute Kathie Beckman Megan Bromley Lyzeth Carrillo Emily Ford Jenna Jorgensen Maria Morrow Alisa Rade'r Micaela Rebb Kaila Shaw Jacquelyn Smith Kyle Strickland ~atalia Thompson Alexandra Wisniski Oboe Corey McNeish Katie Weber Bassoon Heather White Clarinet Lauren Allison Dianna Beckman Stephanie Brennan Emily Cunningham Maggie Gould Alex Olson James Phan Alexis Rael Abigail Schneider '., Bass Clarinet Conor Smith Tetsuo Yoneuchi Alto Saxophone Zach Eschenbrenner Ariel Hoyos Brandon lnciso Eduardo Salazar Tenor Saxophone Davis Smith Cole Wehling Baritone Saxophone ~ayle Hoefer Trumpet Austin Cahoon Ian Cuevas Jaclyn Kenney Brandon Kollmorgen Kenneth Lowe Anthony Manluccia Sean McGarry Rachel Quirbach Alyssa Salas Jonathon Svoboda Alana Torres French Horn Walter Bonar Tristan Jagielko Alyssa LoDolce Devyn Ozolnieks Trombone Michael Clark Eric Friesenhahn Maggie Henning Emma Lynch Kristina Misch Euphonium Jonathan Bush Alec Puente Tuba Tyler Anderson Matthew Bransfield Justin Le Percussion Clay Ashworth David Combs Alex Garza Maine Otsuka Program Notes Bryan Raya is a first year D.M.A. conducting student and teaching . assistant at Arizona State University with Professor Gary Hill. Raya recently earned his M.A. in instrumental conducting at Fresno State in Fresno, California after serving over eight years in the United States Army as a trombonist and bandmaster /conductor. Throughout his musical career, Raya has performed with various military and civilian ensembles throughout the world including events for numerous dignitaries and government officials including the President and Vice President of the United States of America. His military assignments include bands in Alabama, Texas, Hawaii, and South Korea as well as a 14-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Raya has numerous military achievements and honors including being named the 2006 U.S. Army, Pacific Soldier of the Year and being the Distinguished Honor Graduate for the Advanced Leader Course in 2010. Before he joined the Army, Raya earned a B.A. in trombone performance from Fresno State, and he also performed with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps including their 1999 championship season. Raya has worked with numerous high school marching band and collegiate athletic band programs, and he is currently on staff with the Sun Devil Marching Band. Melanie Brooks is completing her M.M. in wind conducting this year at Arizona State University with Professor Gary Hill. Last year, Brooks received a Fulbright grant to study wind conducting at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. While in Finland, she conducted four of the country's five professional military bands, worked at youth and adult music camps in Kouvola and Teralahti, directed student honor bands in Varkaus, Lahti, and Tampere, visited music schools across the country, and met Santa on the Arctic Circle just outside of the city of Rovaniemi. She also performed with the Sibelius Academy Wind Ensemble at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago as a saxophonist. Before beginning her graduate education, Brooks taught 5th grade and high school band in Pine City, MN for two years, directing two concert bands, jazz band, jazz combo, marching band, and pep band. Her first teaching job was at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, MN, where she directed 5th grade band, 6th grade band, grades 7-12 band, jazz band, pep band, and marching band for one semester as a long-term substitute teacher. Brooks received her Bachelor of Arts from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where she performed with seven ensembles as a saxophonist and directed the college athletic band. She has since performed several recitals with .the Kaze Saxophone Quartet, premiering and commissioning new pieces written by Finnish composers Jaime Ikonen and Jukka Viitasaari. The famous march king, John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), wrote The Liberty Bell in 1893 following the success of his other marches including Semper Fide/is and Washington Post. The title of the work was inspired by the liberty bell in Philadelphia, which had been on tour around the country. The piece incorporates a large chime throughout the work to represent the sound of the liberty bell with distinct moments where the chime is distinctly in the texture of the ensemble. Chorale and Alleluia was completed in January, 1954, and was Howard Hanson's (1896-1981) first work for symphonic band. The composition opens with a solemn chorale and then incorporates a joyous alleluia theme. A new theme is introduced in the allegro section combined with alleluia theme. The music is impressive, straightforward, and pleasingly non-dissonant, and its resonance and sonority are ideally suited to the medium of the modern symphonic band. An American-born composer, Norman Delio joio's (1913-2008) compositions have been performed for decades, especially in the band, choir, and orchestra mediums. He won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Music and a ·1965 Emmy Award. Satiric Dances is a three movement suite that was composed in 1975 and is influenced by Mediterranean folk dance tunes. Detroit-born Warren Benson (1924-2005) was self-taught in composition and has become a celebrated American composer. Ginger Marmalade features a thin texture of instruments and carefully orchestrated pitches and accents. Benson writes that "the spice is in the orchestration. It must be the ginger marmalade and ricotta cheese on pumpernickel toast every morning-and coffee, lots of coffee ... " Frank Ticheli (b. 1958), Professor of Composition at the University of Southern California, is one of the most celebrated composers for the wind band medium. Rest, written for band in 2010, is an adaptation ofTicheli's SATB chorus piece, There Will Be Rest (1999). The piece is based on a poignant poem by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933): ~ There will be rest, and sure stars shining Over the roof tops crowned with snow, A reign of rest, serene forgetting, The music ofstillness holy and low. I will make the world of my devising Out of a dream in my lonely mind I shall find a crystal of peace, --above me Stars I shall find. Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) originally wrote Little Suite for Brass (1963) for brass bands in England. Later, John Paynter (1928-1996) would expand the work to include woodwinds and additional percussion and titled the work Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo (1977). The piece c~nsists of three short movements. 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