University Symphony Orchestra
Henry Charles Smith, guest conductor
Charles G. Vernon, guest trombonist

School of Music
Herberger College of Fine Arts
Arizona State University

Monday, February 5, 2007
7:30 p.m.
ASU Gammage

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Program

Program Note — Chick'a'Bone Checkout

Stephen Yarbrough

Alleluias for Orchestra

Christian Lindberg

Chick'a'Bone Checkout

1. Vivid City (Stormy, husky, brawling, city of big shoulders)
2. Fort Dearborn (One of the smallest battles in history: 60
Indians dead within 90 minutes)
3. The Chicago Butcher (You better make sure it reaches
Bennigans at Michigan Avenue...fresh and tender!)
4. The Frogs at Hawthorn Woods (The moon is full, the brain is
silent...but the bullfrogs make me surrender!!)
5. Prohibition (Exultation from Scarface, one of the most
infamous bootleggers of them all)
6. Morning with Orange Juice (A moment of simple joy and
happiness)
7. Wind and Mortar (Dig and dream, dream and hammer until
your city is finished)
Charles G. Vernon, trombone soloist

About the Composer

Intermission

Symphony No. 6 in B minor, opus 74
Adagio — Allegro non troppo
Allegro con grazia
Allegro molto vivace
Finale: Adagio lamentoso

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Out of respect for the performers and those audience members around
you, please turn all pagers, cell phones, and watches to silent mode.
Thank you.

My first experience of Chicago was overwhelming. I had been invited to fly in
from Sweden on the 4th of July 1986 to play Pryor's Variations on Blue Bells of
Scotland and other showpieces in Grant Park, and when I walked onto the stage I
looked out on a crowd of people!! I was immediately hypnotized by this amazing
city, and since then I have grasped every opportunity to get back, including this
one: to hear the premiere of my new piece commissioned by the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra.
Chick'a'Bone Checkout is a tribute to the city of Chicago and the music is
primarily inspired by Carl Sandburg's colorful poems. At the same time, many of
the original motifs, or embryos upon which the piece is based, came to me while
reading an exciting book called Chicago by Swedish author Jan Olof Olsson. The
book taught me a lot about the history and people of Chicago that was
indispensable in writing the piece. So, too, was what I learned on rides around the
city organized by my dear friends in the Chicago trombone section. I ended up
with a vast amount of material and a wealth of ideas.
As I don't want to get in the way of each listener's unique receptivity and
imagination, or to write on anyone's nose so to speak, I will not detail the history
behind each movement. (This would fill at least five pages and bore you all to
death.) Instead I have used descriptive titles for the seven different movements of
the piece (which run without pauses) and these should give everyone familiar with
Chicago quite enough hints. On the other hand, the listener is free to forget about
Chicago and to listen to the piece purely as a concerto for trombone and orchestra,
featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's unbelievably gifted trombonist
Charlie Vernon.

Christian Lindberg was born in 1958 into a family of artists, both his parents
being painters. He started playing the trombone at the age of seventeen, and within
two years he was a member of the Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra. A year later
he left the orchestra for studies in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, before
finally stepping out into previously uncharted territory, determined to become the
first professional trombone soloist in history.
Today he plays over one hundred concerts per year with orchestras such as
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Japan
Metropolitan Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and at festivals such as
those at Lockenhaus, Schleswig-Holstein, Sydney and the Barbican. He has made
numerous recordings for BIS.
Christian Lindberg is an artist of great versatility. He not only performs the
contemporary repertoire in a way that breaks down conservative resistance
everywhere, but he is also a scholar of the baroque repertoire which he performs
on original instruments; he is equally interested in playing the classical and
romantic repertoires. Furthermore, he is a very innovative artist who gives unique
solo recitals and 'one-man-shows' which include a major element of theatre,
sometimes in costume. He has also inspired more than sixty composers (including
Iannis Xenakis, TOru Takemitsu, Alfred Schnittke, Michael Nyman, Jan Sandstrom
and Arvo Part) to write works especially for him.

Christian Lindberg has become the hero and role model for a new generation of
young musicians who will continue to benefit from his pioneering activities.
Together with the Conn Instrument Company, he has developed the trombone
further and designed mouthpieces available to players all over the world. He was
among the nominees for the prestigious 'Musician of the Year 1993' award and he
has been granted the honorary title of 'Prince Consort Professor of Trombone' at
the Royal College of Music in London. Christian Lindberg lives in Stockholm with
his wife and four children.

Biographies
Henry Charles Smith won the Grammy with the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble for
"Album of the Year, Classical" in 1969. While associate and resident conductor of
the Minnesota Orchestra, he conducted over 1000 concerts. As principal
trombonist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he played over 2000 concerts with
Eugene Ormandy and many other of the 20 th century's greatest conductors. As
trombone and euphonium soloist, as chamber music player, and as writer and
editor, his recordings and editions are internationally known. His guest conducting
includes the Detroit, Dallas, Kansas City and National Symphony Orchestras, the
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis, San Antonio, Delaware, Oregon,
North Carolina and Phoenix Symphonies. He has conducted the Calgary
Philharmonic and Edmonton Symphony in Canada.
Mr. Smith has served on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music, Indiana
University, Temple University and the University of Texas at Austin. From 1989
until 1993 he was Director of Orchestral Activities at Arizona State University. He
is now professor emeritus at ASU. He was music director of the South Dakota
Symphony for 12 years and is now conductor emeritus. Smith was conductor of
the Mendelssohn Club Choir of Philadelphia and the Bach Society Chorus of
Minnesota for six years each.
Henry Charles Smith is a frequent conductor of All-State and other
educational festivals. He conducted the Young Artist Orchestra at Tanglewood for
two summers and was music director of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at
Interlochen for 16 years.
Henry Smith was born in Philadelphia and is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania and the Curtis Institute of Music. He currently lives in Bloomington,
MN with his wife Mary Jane. They have three children, eight grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
Charles G. Vernon is the Bass Trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Prior to assuming his post, he held the same positions with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony. He has also
appeared as guest alto trombonist with the Atlanta Symphony, and has
commissioned numerous works for alto, tenor and bass trombone.
A native of Ashville, North Carolina, Mr. Vernon attended Brevard College
and Georgia State University. His teachers included William Hill and Gail Wilson,
as well as his mentors Edward Kleinhammer and Arnold Jacobs.
Mr. Vernon has been on the faculties of Brevard Music Center, Catholic
University, Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts, Temple University, the
New School of Music, the Curtis Institute of Music, and the DePaul School of
Music. He is also a clinician for the Selmer Instrument Company, and frequent
guest artist for the International Trombone Association.

Upcoming Events
ASU Chamber Orchestra

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
7:30 p.m.
ASU Gammage
Joel Smirnoff, guest conductor
Catalin Rotaru, double bass
University Symphony Orchestra
A Concert of Soloists and World Tour

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
7:30 p.m.
ASU Gammage
Jana Minov, Jacob Harrison, Brandon Matthews,
and Jesus Camalich, conductors
ASU Sinfonietta

A Night in Spain
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
7:30 p.m.
ASU Gammage
Jacob Harrison and Brandon S. Matthews, conductors
James Smart, guest conductor
ASU Chamber Orchestra & Sinfonietta
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
7:30 p.m.
ASU Gammage
Jana Minov, guest conductor for Chamber Orchestra
Jacob Harrison and Brandon S. Matthews, conductors
University Symphony Orchestra & combined ASU Choirs
From Sorrow to Happiness

Thursday, April 26, 2007
7:30 p.m.
ASU Gammage
David Schildkret, conductor
Carole FitzPatrick, soprano
Robert Barefield, baritone

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The Arizona State University Orchestra Program in the Herberger College of

Fine Arts School of Music is dedicated to providing the finest musical and
educational opportunities for those qualified individuals interested in studying and
performing a wide variety of orchestral music. The faculty and administration are
committed to the training and development of professional orchestral performers
(instrumentalists and conductors), orchestral music educators, music therapists,
musicologists, theorists, composers, arts administrators and future arts supporters.
The students share in this commitment, aspiring to the highest possible standards
of musical excellence.
Currently the program includes three ensembles: the University Symphony
Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra and the Sinfonietta. The University Symphony
Orchestra presents approximately seven concerts on the ASU campus each year in
the internationally acclaimed ASU Gammage, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. In
February 2005, the ASU Symphony Orchestra performed the featured concluding
concert at the American String Teachers Association's National Conference in
Reno, Nev. They offered "An Evening of Jazz" with the acclaimed jazz violinist
Regina Carter, her quintet and members of our own ASU string faculty. The
symphony and chamber orchestras have recorded commercially released compact
discs (Perception, Lilacs: The Music of George Walker, A Brassy Night at the
Opera and The Hoover Clarinet Concerto, respectively). The ASU Symphony
Orchestra has offered such programs as "The Classics Meet Jazz" with clarinetist
Eddie Daniels and Doc Severinsen as well as a Tribute to filmmaker Blake
Edwards with Monica Mancini and a Tribute to Rafael Mendez with trumpeters
Jens Lindemann and Allen Vizzutti. In 2002, the ASU Symphony Orchestra
collaborated with the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet in full-length performances
of La Bayadere as well as with Ballet Arizona in presenting four performances of
Tchaikovsky's full-length Swan Lake Ballet.
Soloists with the orchestra have included renowned faculty performers as well
as such visiting guest artists as violinists Glenn Dicterow, Szymon Goldberg,
Dylana Jenson, Ani Kavafian and Edvard Melkus; cellists Colin Carr, Stephen
Kates and Lazio Varga; pianists Andre Watts, Ursula Oppens and Jeffrey Siegel;
guitarist Manuel Lopez-Ramos; sopranos Faye Robinson, Anna Christy and
mezzo-soprano Isola Jones, the Roger Wagner Chorale; guest conductors Lukas
Foss and Vincent Persichetti; and the hilarious PDQ Bach and Victor Borge. The
orchestra combines annually with the School of Music's Choral Union to present a
"Holiday Concert" to sold-out houses. This performance features such works as
Handel's Messiah, the Vaughan Williams Hodie, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms,
and other great choral works. They also collaborated on such giant masterworks as
the Verdi and Brahms Requiems, Orff s Carmina Burana, and Mahler's
"Resurrection" Symphony.
Outstanding student soloists, chosen through a rigorous competition on
campus are presented in a "Concert of Soloists" each February. This concert also
features the world premiere performance of the work that has won the annual ASU
Student Composition Contest. The orchestra is committed to the performance of
contemporary music and has premiered pieces by Michael Conway Baker, Randall
Shinn and Chinary Ung, and performed concerts with visiting composers Michael
Daugherty, Joan Tower, Phillip Glass, George Walker, and Gunther Schuller.
Please visit our Web sites at JUtp .11mosic.asu.edo for further information on
the School of Music, and bttp://mnsie.asii.eilii/nerformance/orchestras.htni for
its Orchestra Program.

Timothy Russell, Director of Orchestras
Trumpet
Timothy Wootton*
Bill Anonie
Kyle Anderson

Violin I
Steven Crichlow**
Xian Meng
Angela Cassette
Christian Simmelink
Agnieszka Laskus
Sarah Bowlin
Chrystal Smothers
Patricia Cole
Tamara Freida
Eliza Hesse
Holly Roberts
Gina Dyches
Bonnie Teplik
Allison Kellis
Ricardo
Elias-Rodriguez

Bass
Christopher Rose*
Lucian Manolache
Daniel Stotz
T. J. Maliszewski
Rossine Parucci
Juan J. Garcia
William Brichetto
Kale Gans
Joe Tyksinski
John Sims
Ray Thiry
Flute
David Nischwitz^
Katie Valadez^
Jessica Polin

Edwin Brown

Orchestra Librari,
Jacob Harrison
Jan Matthews

Harp
Virginia Blake

Orchestra Managt
Rossine Parucci

Violin II
Laura Speck*
Rachael Massengill
Xi Wang
Jenwei Yu
Taylor Morris
Crystal Gheen
Alyssa Saint
Molly McCarthy
Kate Bivona
Vanessa Castillo
Chung Gum Kang
Jessica Brooksby

Piccolo
Kathryn Schaap

Piano
Evan C. Paul

Orchestra Office
Specialist
Linda Bennett

Oboe
Caryn Creamer*

Timpani
Matt Holm*
Laura Wiedenfeld

Viola
Matthew W. Gordon*
April Losey
Louis Privitera Jr.
Padua Canty
Cicely DeSalle
Alexander Vittal
Megan Leigh Smith
Courtney D. Chapman
Cello
Nelly Rocha*
Hope Shepherd
Jenna Dalbey
Adele Stein
Amy L. Huzjak
Ruth Wenger
Willie Braun
Vanessa Belknap
Jennifer McConaghie

Trombone
Matthew Petterson*
Tim Ness

Bass Trombone

English Horn
Hung Quoc Nguyen
Clarinet
Mark Kleine*
Stefanie Harger
Jennifer Kabbas

Orchestra Assistm
Jacob Harrison
Brandon S. Matthei
Jana Minov

Charles Hopkins
Tuba

Katie Mordarski

** Concertmaster
* Principal
" Co-principals
# Assistant

Percussion
Matt Holm*
Laura Wiedenfeld
Tyler Stell
Matt Watson

Bass Clarinet
Stefanie Harger"
Jennifer Kabbas^
Bassoon
Hugo Doege*
Ashley Haney
Contra Bassoon
Mikaela Miller
Horn
Adam A. Nelson*
Guan-Lin Yeh
Jordan Robert #
Eric Damashek #
DeAnna Rene Uranga #

Special thanks to
Gail Wilson
Elizabeth Buck

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