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Gunther Schuller
Distinguished Artist in Residence in Music

Arizona State University
Jazz Repertory Band

KATZIN CONCERT HALL
Thursdayo April 22,2004 ' 7:30 P.m.

PROGRAM

Arr. Ralph Burns

Apple Honey (1944)

Dusk (1940)

Comp./Arr.
Duke Ellington

Woody Herman Orchestra
Duke Ellington Orchestra

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Got Rhythm (1937)

George Gershwin
Arr. Glenn Miller

Daybreak Express

(1933)

Comp./Arr.
Duke Ellington

Glen Miller Orchestra

Duke Ellington Orchestra

Million

Dollar Smile (1948)

Comp./Arr.

Milt Buckner

Robbins's Nest (1947)

Sir Charles Thompson

Arr. Gil Evans

Lionel Hampton Orchestra
Claude Thornhill Orchestra

Mood Indigo (1930)

Comp.iArr.
Duke Ellington

Things to Come (1946)

Duke Ellington Orchestra
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Mood Indigo (1946)

Duke Ellington
Arr. Sid Schwartz
Hal Mclntyre Orchestra

Azure (1937)

Comp./Arr.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Orchestra

KoKo (1940)

Comp./Arr.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Orchestra

**There will be a l0-minute intermission**

Moon Mist (1940)

Comp./An.
Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington Orchestra

rzzy Gillespie Orchestra

Arizona State University.Iazz Repertory Band
Sam Pilafian, Director
WOODWINDS

TRUMPETS

John Dawson

Jacob Fierro

Mike Epping

Erik Hasselquist
Andrew Kissling
Mark Menges

Ryan Gill
Julian Peterson
Ron VanHorssen

Comp./Arr.
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Orchestra

Josh Whitehouse

TROMBONES
Allison Barsnica

RHYTHM SECTION

Matt Lennox
Ken McEnaney
Dustin Wright
Shiori Yoshida

Steve Himmelstein,
Guitar
Rob Moore, Drums
Ray Thierry, Bass

GUEST PERFORMERS
Lauralyn Padglick, Horn
Rose French, Horn

William Russell, Tuba

C Jam Blues (1940)

John'Dizzy' Gillespie
An. Gil Fuller

Reva Kuzmich, Violin
Aaron Morales, Vibraphone

Joel Eckroth, Piano

Gunther Schuller has created more than 160 original compositions, which include his
1994 Pulitzer Prize winning work, Of Reminiscences and ReJlectiorts, plus An Arc
Ascenrling, Tl'te Past is in the Present, and Riunica-Melodica'Arnrcnica' As editor-in-chief
of Jazz Masterworks Editions and co-director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks
orchestra in washington, D.c., Mr. Schuller has sustained Ameican jazz performance
traditions. During his tenure at the New England Consefvatory, Mr. Schuller helped
reinrroduce the music of Scott Joplin to the American public, in part through his
development of the conservatory's Ragtime Ensemble. Under his direction it won a 1973
Grammy Award for its performance of Joplin's The Red Back Book'
In ad<lition, 1e was editor of Charles Mingus' immense final work, Epitaph' which received
a posthumous premiere at Lincoln Center in 1989 and subsequently was released on
Columbia/Sony Recorcls. He also is founder of two publishing and recording companies,
Margun Music and GM Recordings.
Among Mr. Schuller's many awards include the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for composing, a 1991
MacArthur Foundation "genius" Award, inaugural member of the American Classical
Music Hall of Fame, DownBeat Lifetime Achievement Award, the Gold Medal for Music
from tl-re Arnerican Academy of Arts and Letters, the BMI Lifetime Achievement Award
and the William Schuman Award from Columbia University for "lifetime achievement in
American music composition." He has been awarded 12 honorary degrees'

Mr. Schuller was bom in New York to German immigrants. As a youngster he studied
flute, hom and music theory. At age 17 he joined the Cincinnati Symphony as principal
horn and at age 19 became a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Mr. Schuller
jazz
also became active in the New York bebop scene, performing and recording with such
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ioscanini andthe NBC Symphony, Aaron Copland, Ornette Coleman, Leonard Bernstein,
Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, John Updike, Joe Lovano, Elvis Costello, Wynton Marsalis,
Frank Zappa and manY more.
a distinguished teaching career as a facuity member at the
Manhattan School of Music where he taught horn. I-Iis academic positions have included
Professor of Cornposition at the School of Music at Yale, Presidcnt of the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston, and Artistic Director of the Tanglewood Berkshire Music
Center and The Festival at Sandpoint in Idaho.

At 25, Mr. Schuller began

Mr. Schuller serves as distinguished artist in residence in the School of Music and holds the
Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists'

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