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JAMES DEMARS

PROGRAM

James DeMars is a prolific composer with many major works to his credit,

Overture to "The Italian Girl in Algiers"..

Gioachino Rossini
(1792- 1 868)

Michael Hoerber, conductor

Big Two Hearted River for Alto Flute and Orchestra......James DeMars
(b. tes2)
Part

I:

"up into the woods..
Allegretto cantabile
Allegro agitato

Part II: "...at the river"
Largo dolore
Allegro scorrevole

MICHAEL DAVID HOERBBR

Eric Hoover, alto flute
James DeMars, conductor

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 10

several of which explore Native American, Arabic, and African resources.
Among these are The Propher (a cantata based on the writings of Sufi teacher
Jalaladin Rumi), Tito's Say (an Hispanic cantata with text by Alberto Rios), ?"wo
World Concerto (for Cedar Flute and Orchestra)and the Sabar Concerto for
African drum ensemble and orchestra. His American Requiem for chorus,
orchestra and vocal soloists recently received its national premiere at the
Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., with subsquent performances at the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir,
conducted by the composer. A 90-minute program of this performance has been
broadcast on over 90 PBS affiliate stations throughout the U.S. In 1997 DeMars
conducted members of the Choer FranEais d'Oratorio and L'orchestre de Paris in
the European premiere of the Requiem at La Trinit6 in Paris. He has been
inducted into the French Order of Arts and Letters. James DeMars has been
teaching at Arizona State University since 1981.

.Friedrich Fesca
(1789-1826)

Poco adagio; allegro molto assai
Andante con moto
Scherzo - Presto
Finale - Allegro molto assai

Michael Hoerber, conductor
ASU Master's Thesis - Eric Anderson Olear, editor

Michael David Hoerber is a summa cum laude graduate from Arizona State
University, where he received his Bachelor's degree in Instrumental Music
Education. Upon graduation, he was honored with the Most Outstanding
Undergraduate in Music Education Award given by the Director of ASU's
School of Music, Dr. Toni-Marie Montgomery.
Since age 16, Mr. Hoerber has been conducting, composing and arranging
music for band, choir and orchestra. He has written music for Arizona State
University's Sun Devil Marching Band and the Symphonic Band Brass and
Percussion Sections. He has also written and arranged music for the Paradise
Valley High School Marching Band, the Auburn University WarEagle Marching
Band, and the Ft. Lewis College Marching Band.
Mr. Hoerber is originally from Phoenix but grew up in the West Palm Beach
area of Florida's east coast. While in Florida, he studied clarinet with Mr.
Jerome Levine of the prestigious Juilliard School of Music. During his
undergrad at ASU, he studied five years with Dr. Robert Spring, Professor of
Clarinet.

Mr. Hoerber is continuing his studies at Arizona State University as a
graduate teaching assistant for Dr. Timothy Russell, Director of Orchestras. He
is working towards a Master's degree in Music Education with a concentration

in orchestral conducting.

ASU ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
The Arizona State University Orchestra program is dedicated

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL
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

Ruth Ann Platt**

Ryan Kuck*

conductors), orchestral music educators and 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

Min-Kyung Park
Astasia Al-Shamaileh

Kevin Kirkpatrick
Patrick Hershey

Lawrence Huang
Yoon Jung Kim
Eugenie Wu

FIute

Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra, and the Sinfonietta. The University
Symphony Orchestra presents many concerts on campus each year in the
intemationally acclaimed Gammage Center for the performing Arts, which was
designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Soloists with the orchestra include 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, andLazlo Varga; pianists Ursula Oppens and
Jeffrey Siegel; guitarist Manuel Lopez-Ramos; soprano Faye Robinson, the
Roger Wagner Chorale; guest conductors Lukas Foss and Vincent persichetti;
and the hilarious PDQ Bach and Victor Borge. Annually the orchestra combines
with the University Choral Union to present a..Holiday Concert,' to sold_out
houses - featuring such works as Handel's Messiah, the Vaughan Williams
Hodie, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and other great choral works.
Outstanding student soloists, chosen through a rigorous competition on campus
are presented in a "Concerl of Soloists" each February. This concert also features
the world premiere performance of the work which has won the annual ASU
Student Composition Contest. The Orchestra has a commitment to the
performance of contemporary music and has recently premiered pieces by
Michael Conway Baker, Randall Shinn and Chinary Ung, performed a concert
with visiting composer Joan Tower, and produced a CD recording of works by
Eugene Anderson called Perception which is available on d,Note Classics.
Please visit our website at http://www.asu.edu.cfa./music/ for further
information on the Arizona State University School of Music and its Orchestra
Program.

Violin

I

Bass

Violin II
Drew Irvin*

Sarah Andrew ^

Lisa Dektor ^

Trumpet
Scott Miller*
James Schmidt

Trombone
Erik Bestmann

Harp
Gayla Smith

Oboe
Michele Murray
Ryan Zwahlen

Jason Covert

Stephanie Groot
Jessica Solano

English Horn

Percussion

Maria Roggenhofer

Ryan Zwahlen

Robert Oeser

Rachel Sompong
Shee

Ling

Timnani

Viola

Clarinet

Orchestra Assistants

Jeffrey Normanx
Jennifer Walker

Benjamin Baron*
Anne Watson

Joel Brown
Michael Hoerber

Karen Hayes

Bass Clarinet
Anne Watson

Orchestra Librarian
Ivan Insua

Michelle Peterson
David Rigby

Bassoon

Orchestra Manasers

Cello

Dmitrius Whelan-Gonzales
Timothy Wigginsx

Andrey Astaiza
Christopher Niileksela

Katherine O'Brien
Emily Pullen

Ellie Weex
Andrew Hamby
Merrick Jones
Ozgur Elgun
Kerry Campbell
Bonnie Andrus
Richard

Li

Horn
Alan Benson
Jennifer Kangas*

**
*

Concertmaster

Principal
Co-principal

UPCOMING EYENTS

Symphony Orchestra

University Symphony Orchestra
"A Mariachi Festival"

Concert of Soloists"

Frank Spinosa, conductor
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
7:30 p.m.

Sunday

Location

Gammage Auditorium

University Symphony Orchestra
"Fantasy"

ASU Chamber Orchestra
"A Tribute to Copland"

Featuring the ASU Choral Union
George Umberson, guest conductor
Michael Hoerber, conductor
Caio Pagano, piano soloist

Mischa
Robert
Sunday

Tuesday,

April

18, 2000
7:30 p.m.

2p.m.
Fleischer Museum in

Gammage Auditorium

ASU Sinfonietta
''A

"The History of the Symphony"
Michael Hoerber, conductor
Thursday. April 27, 2000

J

Samuel
Joel

7:30 p.m.
Gammage Auditorium

ASU Chamber Orchestra
"CIassic Favorites"
Joel Brown, conductor
Martin Schuring. English horn
Gary Leopold, trumpet
Tuesday, May 2. 2000

30,2000

TF

UNIV I-RSITY

College of Fine Arts

7:30 p.m.

Music Theatre

School oI Music

Main Campus, P.O. Box 870401, Ternpc, AZ 85287-0405