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JB SMITH, PERCUSSION
I(ATIE MCLTN, VIOLIN
ANDREW CANAPEBLL, PIANO
ECKART SPTTUEIM, PIANO

KATZIN CONCERT HALL

Sunday, September 23,2001. 2:30 p.m.

PROGRAM

At The Desert's Edge
Three for Two for Clarinet and

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Pluned Danish
Veiled Images
Outta My Way!

Percussion

SLANG for Clarinet, Violin and

Piano

Eric Mandat
(b. 1957)

Libby Larsen

**There will be a l)-minute intermission**

Shadow Boxing*

Glenn Hackbarth

Grand Duo Concertante
I. Allegro con fuoco

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Carl Maria von Weber

Andante con moto
Rondo, Allegro

La Ronde des Lutins,

Antonio Bazzini

scherzo fantastique, op. 25

*World Premiere
A reception willfollow in Cowley Lobby.

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Dr. Mclin performs on the 1735 Petrus Guarnerius violin which is part of the
Long Collection of Musical Instruments in the School of Music.
In respect for the performers and those audience members around you, please turn
all beepers, cell phones, watches to their silent mode. Thank you.

Performance Events Staff Manager
Paul W. Estes

Perforrnance Events Staff
Andrey Astaiza, Rebecca Bell
William Cushing, Erin Dow
Jihyun Lee, Elizabeth Maben
Katie Ann McCarty, Kelli McConnehey
Jarnes Parkinson, Greg Striemer
Jessica Wood

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Three for Two was commissioned by, and written in 2001 for clarinetist Robert Spring
and percussionist JB Smith. "Pruned Danish" uses an expanding-interval pattern as the
quasi-harmonic framework over which free material is interwoven with quotes from Carl
Nielsen's Concerto for Clarinet. "Veiled Images" uses the pitches of Woodstock
Chimes' "Chimes of Persia" over which little improvisations emerge from an opening
melody, like chimes touched by breezes emanating from somewhere before eternity.
"Outta My Way!" is a duel between clarinetist and percussionist, with both players
eventually crashing headlong into the double bar at the end.

Eric Mandat received his education from North Texas State University, the Yale School
of Music and the Eastman School of Music. He tours frequently, presenting recitals and
master classes featuring new American music and extended performance techniques. In
addition to his solo and chamber music performances in the United States and abroad, he
is a member of the Tone Road Ramblers, an eclectic sextet specializing in improvisation,
and performs frequently with the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of
Chicago and for the Chicago Symphony's MusicNow contemporary chamber music
series. Also an active composer, his music has been performed throughout the world and
he was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Composition Fellowship in 2000. Eric Mandat
is Professor of Clarinet at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he was
recipient of the 1999 SIUC Outstanding Scholar Award.

Shadow Boxing was written in 2001 for clarinetist Robert Spring. The work is part of
my continuing exploration of the interaction between live performers and computer
controlled electronics, an area that I have been investigating since the early 1990s. In
Shadow Boxing, the computer monitors the clarinetist during the performance and
responds by providing its own score to the work. Unlike the live perfiormer/tape genre of
works which has existed for over 50 years, this type of arrangement is much more
flexible and "human" since the electronics can adjust its entrances, speed of events, and
dynamics to be in concert with the performer. While it might appear that the computer
should be the "infallible performer," I might add that it, too, is capable of errors and
stumblings -- in part due to the technology and in part due to the prowess of the
programmer.

Glenn Hackbarth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Following an early training in
jazz,he received degrees in music from the University of Wisconsin and the University
of Illinois, where he studied composition with Herbert Brun, Ben Johnston and Edwin
London. Inl976 he moved to Phoenix to join the faculty at Arizona State University
where he is currently the director of both the New Music Ensemble and the Electronic
Music Research Studios. The recipient of grants and awards for musical composition
from ASCAP, the Arizona Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts,
he has composed for a large variety of instrumental combinations in both the acoustical
and electronic mediums. His music is available on the Crystal, Access and Orion labels.