ASU
COMPOSITION
STUDIO

STUDENT RECITAL SERIES
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2006 • 7:30 PM

MUSIC
-erbergerCollege
of Fine Arts
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Program
Unnoticed Episodes of Seduction,
Cannibalism and Desperation on an
Otherwise Perfectly Enjoyable
Midwestern Summer Evening (Fireflies2)

Eric Schultz

Ensemble TBA
Personality Flaws
Katie Valadez, flute
David Nischwitz, flute
Kathryn Schaap, alto flute
Brian Stevenson, euphonium
In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
Nicole Marie Namaski, contralto
Steven Schermitzler, piano
Two Pieces for Solo Marimba
I. Warm, Fuzzy Harmonies
II. Vertical Spaces

Beth Ratay

Lydia Eickstaedt

Jeremy Jarvis

Jeremy Jarvis, marimba

OK
Taylor Morris, violin

Tom Peterson

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Arizona State University

Composition Studio Recital

11 September, 2006

Program Notes...
Personality Flaws
- Beth Ratay

Unnoticed Epidodes of Seduction Cannibalism and
Desperation on an Otherwise Perfectly Enjoyable
Midwestern Evening (Fireflies2)
- Eric Schultz

Personality Flaws was written for Brian Stevenson last
spring. The choice of flutes for accompaniment was made
upon the recommendation of Sam Pilafian. The piece is in
three short movements. The first and last are short dance
movements and the middle movement is a lament. The title
"Personality Flaws" refers to the piece's inherent
unpredicatability.

A field of fireflies on a Midwestern summer
night can be somewhat hypnotic - hundreds
of gently ascending pulses of that familiar
orange-yellow glow combining together in a
delicately undulating ocean of nostalgic
calm until night falls and the last light
goes out. For human participants, the
experience is calming, almost meditative.
For fireflies, the experience is somewhat
different. A field of lightning bugs is
actually a biological disco of desperate
males determined to attract the invitation
of a willing mate. On a given night, only
about one in eight males finds what he's
looking for.
Some are lured by deceptive
females and eaten.

In Cabin'n Ships at Sea
-Lydia Eickstaedt
A short piece setting the first verse Whitman's poem
'In Cabin'd Ships at Sea' about traveling over the
sea, this is a folksy tune meant share the same bold
brassy feeling that the sea itself has inspired in
sailors since the first set out to sea.

Unnoticed Episodes of Seduction, Cannibalism and Desperation on an Otherwise Perfectly Enjoyable Midwestern Summer Evening
(Fireflies2) is a musical and visual medi-

tation on this strange duality.
ps, at sea,
In
The boundless blue on every side expnding,
With Whistling winds and music of the waves - the large imperious waves - In such,
Or some lone bark, bouy'd on the dense marine,
Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white sails,
She cleaves the ether, mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night,
By sailors young and old, haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,
In full rapport at last!
- Walt. Whitman

Two Pieces for Solo Marimba
-Jeremy Jarvis

OK
-Tom Peterson
"OK" is my first foray into microtonal music, and while
I've been interested in microtones for some time, this
music was not written specifically so I could experiment
with them. It arose, rather, out of the need for the
music to match the alienating and uncomfortable parts of
the film.
When I originally saw it, I didn't think it needed music.
Jared, the film's writer/director convinced me otherwise,
and I found that the only thing that fit was a musical
version of what my own responses had been upon watching
it.

Composed in 2003. "Warm, Fuzzy Harmonies" is dedicated to Michelle Polk.
"Vertical Spaces" is a short etude consisting of sixteenth notes without
rests. I wrote it for my own use as a
daily warm-up in order to work on certain four-mallet techniques.
After the premiere performance, my
theory professor walked up to me and
said, "what a splendid little parody on
those Bach cello suites that young
marimbists are forced to practice so
incessantly".

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