Program Notes

on september 11,2001, I was teaching my music theory class at The Juilliard School' when we werc notified of the

catashophe that was occurring seveml miles south of us in Manhattan. Gathering around a radio in the school's library' rve heard the

eyents unfold in shock and disbelief. Afterwalds, walking up Broadway on the sun-fitled day, the sfieet was full of silent people' all

quickly heading to their homes. During the next seveml diys, our.great ciry became a landscape of empty streets and implomptu'

heartbreaking memorials mouming our tlost citizens, friends and family. But then on Friday, a ferv days later' the city seemed to haYe

been transformed. On this eyening, walking up Brozrdway, I saw muititudes of people holding candles, singing songs' and gathering

in front of those memorials, paying tribudto'the lost, becoming a community of citizens of this city, of this country and of this

world, leaning on each other for stiength and support. A Hymn for the lnst qnl the Livi,l8 portrays those painful days following

september l1th, days of supreme sadness. It is intended to be a memolial fol those lost souls, gone from this life' but who are

foreyer treasued in our memodes. Eric Ewozen

In its original form, A Hymn for the l/,st andthc Living was composed for wind band, and was commissioned by and is

dedicated to the US Air no*" ff"it g" oi America Band, tanglej eir Force Base, Virginia, Major l-arry H' Lang' Director' The

arangement for trumpet and piano was made by Chris Gekker'

About the ComPoser and Arranger

Eric Ewazen was born in 1954 in Cleveland, ohio. He studied composition rvith Samuel Adtel, Mitton Babbitt' waren

Benson, Gunther schutler, and Joseph schwantner at the Eastrnan School of Music, Tanglewood and The Juilliard School' where he

received his DMA. He has been a member of the faculty at Juiltiard since 1980, composer-in-residence with the St' Luke's Chamber

Ensemble of New york city, lecturq for the New York Philharmonic's Musical Encounter series and vice-president of the kague of

Composers-ISCM.A rccipient of numerous composition awards and prizes, his \yorks have been commissioned and performed by many chamber

ensembles and orchestras around the world. Soloists in performance of his music include members of the New York Philharmonic'

the philadelphia Orchestra, the tsoston Symphony, thi Clevetand Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic. iis muslc has been heard at fesiivals such as Woodstock, Tanglewood' Aspen' Caramoor'

and the Music Academy of the West.

His chamber music and his sonatas for wind and brass instruments have quickly become staples of the repertory' Southem

Music company has published a number of compositions by Dr. Ewazen, including his sonatas for trumpet' hom and trombone; the

Concerto for Tuba (or Bass Trombone); Conrerto for Trumpet and Strings: Roaring Fork Quintet (woodwind q)ifiel)i Ballade for

Trombone (or Bass Tromboru) and Piano; Balhde, bastoralc and Do ce for p1,fie, Hom and Piano; Downa River of Time' a corrcerto

fot oboei alnd Trio for TrumPet, Violin and Piano-

Chris Gekker is Prot-essor of Trumpet at the UniYersity of Maryland. As a soloist, he has been featured at Camegie Hall'

Lincoln Center, and tbroughout the United S'tates, Asia, and Euope. He can be heard as soloist on more than 20 recordings' and on

more than 100 chamber music, orchestral and jazz recordings'

For 18 yeam Chds was a member Jf the American Brass Quintet. He was Pdncipal trumpet of the Orchestra of St Luke's

and frequently performed and t"*rd"d u, principal of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra He remains in demand with these and other

group. ,u"t ur'qr" chamber Music Society or iincotn Centir. He is a former faculty memb€r of the Juiltiard school' the Manhattan

School of Music, and Columbia university. His Articulation Studies, 44 Duos, atd Endurance Drirls (Charles colin Publications)

are sold worldwide. He holds degrees from the Eastman Schoot of Music and the University of Marytand' and his teachers include

Emerson Head, Sidney Mear, Adel Sanchez and Gerard Schwartz'

Chris Gekker has written: "Eric Ewazen and I entered the Eastman School of Music as freshmen in 1972 We became friends

quickly, and I frequently prepared anJperrormeo etcs music.during those student yearc. In the more than 30 years since then' mrely

has a year gone by that I have not been involved in his music, and in some yea$ there have been Yery many performances' when I

joined the Amedcan Brass Quintet in 1981, it was with great pleasule that I introduoed pieces by Eric to the grcup' works that

immediately became standards on the Quintei's recitat programs and recordings. As far as our friendship has gone, well, some things

do get better with age, and it is with a d;ep sense of gratitude that I look back upon all our years as colleagues' Eric writes music that

is important to me, music that I heal when I am -away

flom my instrument, music that continues to challenge me to strive for

improvement as a musician and trumpet player,"

chris Gekker has recorded his arrangement of Edc Ewazen's A Hymn for the lnst and the Living wlth pianist Ted Guerant

on Albany compact disc TROY670.

*******The score and parts to A Hymn for the Lost and the Living were engraved using

Finale @ music software.

AHYMN FOR THE, LOSTAND THE LIVING

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