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.Illinois State Llniversit.'J

ICollege off ine Arts School otMusic

I I Gold Series: I Illinois State Llniversit_y S_ymphon_y Orchestra

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featuring

Concert Choir and

Concerto Aria Competition Winners

Kar~I Carlson, Director'of Choral Activities and

/nterim Music Director for 53mphon3 Orchestra

Centertorthe f' ertormingArts F ebrua'::I 28, 2008

Thursda9 Cvening

8:00 p.m.

This is the one hundred and tirst program of the 2007-2008 season.

frogram I fl ease turn ot+ cell phones a nd pagers tor the duration ot the concert. Thank.Yo u. I

Kathr~n Kerr, Assistant /nstructional f'rofessor of Engl,-sh,

Fem Hill (1960)

D~lan Thomas a nd his poem Fern Hill I

Concert Choir, ISU 5.':)mphon.':J Orchestra

Kassandra Krause & Sarah Kaminsk.':J, soloists

John Corigliano (born 19381

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* * * * l)rief F ause * * * * I I from Tuba Concerto

Lullaby James Bamesl

(born 1949)

Concerto/ Ana Competition Honorable Mention

Humberto f\ivera , tuba I fl From The Old Maid and the Thie/(1939)

Steal Me, Sweet Thief

from Concerto (1948) Movement2

Concerto/ Ana Competition Winner

Kristin White, sorrano

Concerto/ Ana Competition Winner

Dorian Jackman, double bass

* • • * l)rief Fa use****

Gian Carlo Menotti (born 1911)

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Eduard Tubinl (1905-1982)

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I I Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36 Niko lay Rimsky-Korsakov I

( 1844-1908)

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Fern Hill

Text

Dylan Thomas

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs· About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,

The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb

Golden in the heydays of his e)es, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns

And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley

Down the rivers of the windfall light

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,

In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be

Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves

Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath rang slowly

In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air

And playing, lovely and watery And fire green as grass.

Arid nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,

All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flying with the ricks, and the horses

Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all

Shining, it was Adam and maiden, The sky gathered agail

And the sun grew round that very day. So it must have been after the birth of the simple light

In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm Out of the whinnying green st:ille

On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,

In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways,

My wishes raced through the house high hay And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows

In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs Before the children green and golden

Follow him out of grace.

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by tre shadow ofmy hand,

In the moon that is always rising, Nor that riding to sleep

I should hear him fly with the high fields

And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains I ike the sea.

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f rogram Notes ~~ I This 1960 composition by John Corigliano is the second movement ofthe Dylan Thomas Trilogy. It c

be described as an oratorio of melancholy and colorful memories. John Corigliano has received several Grammy awards and a Pulitzer Prize (I 991) for Symphony No. I. He won an Academy Award in 1997 for his score for the film The Red Violin. Corigliano currently serves on the faculty at the Julliar I School.

Russian Easter Overture: One hundred and twenty years ago, in 1888, Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov produced two of his best known and most loved works. One was Sheherezade, the story of an infamou biblical temptress. The other was an overture, Svediy prazdnik or Russian Easter Festival, which is 1I I evocation of the great Russian orthodox celebration of the resurrection. j

The themes of the overture are drawn from the Obikhad, a volume of Russian-orthodox canticles. Rimsky-Korsakov felt that only those who had attended an Easter Mass at a great Russian cathedrall I would be able to truly appreciate the music. The enthusiastic response it has received over the year'IJ proves that it has universal appeal.

These two pieces are Rimsky-Korsakov's last major works in the purely orchestral medium, and in h1· I autobiography he ex.presses his belief that they were his finest works in a distinctly Russian style. Late that year he encountered the music of Richard Wagner, and his style, like that of many other composer was altered considerably by Wagner's powerful influence.

Rimsky-Korsakov was one of a group of five composers known as the Moguchaya Kuchka, or "Might I Handful." He and his comrades: Modest Musorgsky, Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin and Cesar Cui were also known simply as The Five. At a time when national styles were becoming preeminent, their creations were the embodiment of Russian nationalism in music. '

About the Artists .... I I Humberto Carlo Rivera Del Valle was born in Humacao Puerto Rico began his musical studies at thl age of eleven. Studied his Bachelor in Music with a concentration in tuba performance and a minor i voice in the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. At the moment he is studying his Master Degree in Tuba. For the past six years has been the principal tuba of the Festival of the Young Orchestra of thel Americas. Humberto is a founder member of the Borinquen Brass Quintet and the Gravissimo Tub Quartet, ensemble with which has presented concerts in Costa Rica and Panama. \

Dorian Jackman, a native of Billings Montana, will complete his studies at Illinois State University this May, earning a Bacheiors degree in Music Performance. Recently, he has studied with Dr. Willial Koehler, Lawrence Hurst, and Jack Budrow. For the past three summers, Dorian has worked as a cabi counselor and studied privately at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. He currently perform regularly with the Peoria Symphony and Illinois Symphony Orchestras, teaches privately, and remains active in jazz. In 2007, Dorian was awarded the Presser Foundation Scholarship at Illinois Stat' Uni~ersity and received an honorable mention in the !SU Concerto-Aria Competition. He plans to pursu a Masters degree in Double Bass Performance beginning in the Fall of 2008.

Kristin White is currently finishing her Master of Music in voice performance at Illinois ·State University, and studies voice with Debra Austin. For the past five years, she has been a voice instructol at Illinois Central College in Peoria, Illinois. She appears as "Hanna" in the upcoming !SU collaborativ School of Music and School of Theatre production ofFranz Lehar's The Merry Widow.

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Joe Arko Ben Bettis Michael Brown* Nate Coon Colleen Duffy Grace ·Ecker Arny Feulner Jason Fischl** Jessica Freeman Pete Grundas Scott Guerrero Tristan Hansen Sarah Hepner Karen Herzel Christine Hicks Sean Hoffinan Melissa Hueneburg Morgan Joyce Sarah Kaminski Katie Kelly Kassy Krause** Courtney Kruckeberg Brian Lonergan Molly Martin Melissa McMahan Anna Mc Williams Megan Miller Lisa Montgomery

Illinois State (jniversit9 Concert C~oir

Janel Natale Jon Nelson Sarah Oliver Brian Robinson Mary Rocke Billy Russell Elizabeth Sachtleben Stephanie Schroeder Shaina Sedder* Andrew Seng Arlene Siagian*+ Gordon Stillwagon Erin Stinson*+ Lauren Stoeck Kate Strosahl-Johnson John Todd*+ Nathan VanDam Heidi VanDeVoort Kara Vombrack Amanda Walsh Paige Wiley Laura Williams Rebecca Woodle Tim Zajac Derek Zinke

*denotes section leaders **librarians +MM in choral conducting

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Illinois State (Jniversit_y 5_ymphon_y Orchestra · I I

Violin I Emily Morgan, concertmaster Andrew Frani,ois Jennifer Kluchenek Arcadia Kust Benjamin Nadel Marie Louise Petersen Philip Rudd Stacey Turner

Violin II Jennifer Ringsby, principal Jordan Blitz Chica Cabalona Danielle Fox Britt/111Y Johnson Michelle Krewer Rodney McCalister Taylor Nix Robert Reilly

Viola Colleen Doyle, principal Alex Anlas Matthew Harper Jessica Lee Kevin Lin

Cello Shannon Schultze, principal Devon Anderson Beau Commanday Sam Fishman Nate Kappes Josh Stuart

Bass Mike White, principal Mallory Alekna David Genty Devin Godzicki Chris Griffith Al Hackel Andy Israelson Chris Williams

Flute Christa Krause, principal Carmen Hawkins Na Choi Stefanie Lindsay Bethany Padgett

Oboe Sara Rogis, principal Sonya Ash

Clarinet Jessica Boese, principal Brittany Delsignore

Bass Clarinet Hannah Edlen, principal

Bassoon Brian Cooley, principal Yasmin Torres

Contrabassoon Brian Cooley, principal

Horn Janie Berg, principal David Bakst Casey McCormack Krista Reese Lindsay Schultz David Shewan

Trumpet Laura Hall, principal Timothy Dillow Becky Gawron Andrew Gerbi_tz

Trombone . Julie Gray, principal Mike Klos

Bass Trombone Chris Darwell, principal

Tuba Ingrith Saavedra-Austin

Percussion Ryan Borden, principal Tim Dariiels

Piano/Celesta Jennifer Hedstrom,principal

Staff

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Jennifer Kluchenek, orchestra manager Philip Rudd, asst.· orchestra librar1· Matthew Harper, orchestra librari Mike White, webmaster '

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Committtee Dorian Jackman, chair Janie Berg Ryan Borden

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November 17 Capitbl Saxophone Quartet

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April 26 C:hristopheren Nomura,

baritone

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