Letter from the Department
Welcome to this concert presentation by the Music Program in the Department of Performing Arts. We are delighted to have the wonderful support of great families and friends. A very special welcome goes out to our visitors from the community who may not have any affiliation to our students, and simply come to hear spectacular musical performances by these talented student musicians. We hope everyone in our audience is pleased with the musical selections; and proud of the achievement of the students involved.
The students you will hear at this performance are not music majors. They do this for their love of music and dedicate their time and energy to cultivating their passion for this art form. They are as dedicated to their studies and career pursuits as they are to this intrinsic passion they have within them. The program is fortunate to have a bounty of students with this yearning. We would not exist without them!
The Music Program and Department of Performing Arts is dedicated to providing robust opportunities in the performing arts while students are at Drexel. Our goal is to provide a positive and supportive environment for our students. It is our hope that students and audiences alike feel they are represented in the selections being performed. The human connection is most important to us all.
Thank you for attending this performance. Being here is the greatest show of support for the students, the Music Program, and the Department of Performing Arts. Thanks to the dedicated leadership of the faculty ensemble directors and staff, we are pleased to present you with the following program.
Sincerely,
Luke Abruzzo, Music Program Director Miriam Giguere, PhD, Department Head, Performing Arts
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Luke Abruzzo, Music Program Director; Miriam Giguere, Performing Arts Department Head; Debra Ruben, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design’s Interim Dean; the administrative team, Ellie Ebby, Hannah Burke, Lauren Tracy; and our graduate assistant Elisha Robinson for your work, guidance, and support of our students in the Drexel University Concert Band.This does not happen without you!
Thank you to the Drexel community at large for your support and encouragement of this group of young musicians.
Drexel Performing Arts would like to thank Senior Vice President for Student Success, Dr. Subir Sahu, for his continued support of Performing Arts at Drexel.
About the Ensemble
The Drexel University Concert Band connects students from across the university through shared experience and performance. The students who make up this ensemble are non-music-performance majors who come from backgrounds in architecture, biology, engineering, computer science, fashion design, behavioral and health sciences, music industry, and more. These students rehearse twice a week, Monday and Wednesday, and perform great works from the concert band repertoire. Concerts are held at the end of fall, winter, and spring terms and are free and open to the public. Admission to the ensemble is by audition only.
About the Concert
Historical context for tonight’s repertoire
Travis J. Weller’s Metro Dances is a contemporary concert band work built as a sequence of short “ scene ” sections that mirror the stop-and-go choreography of city driving, including titled episodes such as “Hit the Gas!”, “Traffic ‘Jam,’” “Big Trucks,” “Rush Hour,” and “Breaking Free.” The piece uses those snapshots as a narrative device, turning everyday motion into musical pacing, color changes, and rhythmic propulsion.
Julie Giroux’s Impressions reflects a late-20th/early-21st century trend in wind writing that favors cinematic contrast and emotional pacing, organized in clearly differentiated sections that function like a condensed storyline. Publisher and repertory notes describe it as a highly contrasted journey, shaped as a musical synopsis of a single person ’ s life and loves, placing it firmly in the modern “tone-poem for winds” tradition.
Daniel Kallman’s The Jig Is Up begins with an intentionally “Irish-sounding” original jig theme, but its concept is explicitly historical: Kallman conceived it as an homage to Percy Grainger and the wind band repertoire Grainger helped define. Over the course of the piece, that tribute expands into a broader collage, including a prominent percussion “jam” that introduces additional global rhythmic influences alongside the jig material.
About the Concert
Grainger’s Irish Tune from County Derry is one of the cornerstone works of the band literature because it bridges folk song preservation and sophisticated early20th-century scoring. The melody is the traditional “Londonderry Air,” later famous worldwide as the tune for “Danny Boy.” Grainger’s band setting was published in 1918 and grew out of earlier versions dating to the early 1900s, demonstrating how a single folk air could be transformed into a landmark work of wind sonority and phrasing.
Andrew Boysen Jr.’s Kirkpatrick Fanfare (25th Anniversary) closes the program by looking back to a specific institutional moment: it was commissioned by Central Missouri State University for the dedication of the James C. Kirkpatrick Library in March 1999. Boysen intentionally leans into an Irish flavor, including a recognizable “Danny Boy” reference, and the new 25th Anniversary edition refreshes the engraving and presentation for continued use in today’s band world.
Drexel University Concert Band
Dr. Domenic Pisano, Music Director & Conductor
Travis J. Weller
Julie Giroux
Daniel Kallman
Percy Grainger/ ed. Rogers
Andrew Boysen Jr.
Ensemble Members
Piccolo/Flute
Sydney Chiang
Flute
Hannah Bashore
Dane Gentles
Arina Glozman
Arya Gopikrishnan
Oboe
Abby Holmberg
Bass Clarinet/Alto Clairnet
Thomas Cope
Bass Clarinet
Arthur Millet
Contra Alto/Bass Clarinet
Talia Spolansky
Clarinet
Fisher Anderson
Brandon Colan
Eleanor Davis
Nelson Feidelson
Akhil Roy
Angela Silva
Katherine Wolfe
Vincent Yang
Alto Saxophone
Allison Dern
Carys Raber
Andrea Sperl
Tenor Saxophone
Ana Clara Ramirez
Chelsea Douglas
Bass/ Contra Bass Clarinet
Amanda Douglas
Program Note
Drexel University Concert Band Members are listed in alphabetical order to denote each member’s importance to the ensemble.
Ensemble Members
Baritone Saxophone
Elena Gonzales
Faith Harden
Trumpet
Nicholas Gazzara
Ethan King
Karson Paul
Brandon Stern
Mason Vetter
French Horn
Natalie Cisneros
Trombone
Luke Faircloth
Muniru Kabba
Leandro Lucas
Guillermo Martinez-Rodero
Bass Trombone
Nikola Jokic
Euphonium
Hannah Buckleman
Andrew Cox
Benjamin Liber
Tuba
Lane Winterstein
Matt Velardi
Percussion
Jason Adams
Alex Craig
Nicholas Croft
Benjamin Elliot
Reeve Kleger
Alex Lopez
Mia Nagy
Jacob Soslow
Loretta St Andre
Sim Wafula
Program Note
Drexel University Concert Band Members are listed in alphabetical order to denote each member’s importance to the ensemble.
About the Composers
Travis J. Weller
Travis J. Weller (b. December 1973) is an arranger, composer, educator and advocate of music education.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Grove City College, a Master’s Degree in Music Education from Duquesne University, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from Kent State University.
He has been the director of bands at Mercer Area (Penn.) Middle-Senior High School since August of 1995. Travis is a member of Phi Beta Mu (Nu Chapter), ASCAP, and the National Band Association. He has presented on instrumental music education at the PMEA State Conference, professional development sessions, and secondary music methods classes at area colleges and universities. He has been a contributing author for articles in Teaching Music, The Instrumentalist, The PMEA Journal, Phi Beta Mu International Newsletter, National Band Association Journal, and Learning and Leading with Technology. He is in frequent demand as a guest conductor for honor bands and composer in residence sessions with school bands across Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio.
As a composer, Travis's 2009 piece Journey to the Prairie received third place in the 2nd Annual Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. In addition to commissioned works from school groups and community bands, he has received several J.W.Pepper Editor’s Choice nominations, several Bandworld Top 100 nominations, four ASCAP Plus Awards, and has received a number of reviews of his works by The Instrumentalist. His pieces for band have been performed by groups ranging from elementary to the collegiate level. Dr. Weller is [2021] director of music education at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
About the Composers
Julie Giroux
Julie Ann Giroux (pronounced Ji-ROO (as in "Google," not Ji-ROW, as in "row your boat") (b. 12 December 1961, Fairhaven, Mass.) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and numerous concert band works.
She received her formal education at Louisiana State University and Boston University. She also studied composition with John Williams, Bill Conti, and Jerry Goldsmith.
Julie is an extremely well-rounded composer, writing works for symphony orchestra (including chorus), chamber ensembles, wind ensembles, soloists, brass and woodwind quintets and many other serious and commercial formats. Much of her early work was composing and orchestrating for film and television. Her writing credits include soundtrack score for White Men Can't Jump and the 1985 miniseries North and South. She has also arranged music for Reba McIntyre, Madonna and Michael Jackson. Ms. Giroux is a three-time Emmy Award nominee and in 1992 won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction.
About the Composers
Julie Giroux
Ms. Giroux has an extensive list of published works for concert band and wind ensemble. She began writing music for concert band in 1983, publishing her first band work Mystery on Mena Mountain with Southern Music Company. Giroux left Los Angeles in 1997 to compose for concert bands and orchestras full time, publishing exclusively with Musica Propria. In 2004 Gia Publications, Inc. published the book entitled Composers on Composing for Band, Volume Two which features a chapter written by Julie Giroux. Her insightful chapter gives a down-toearth description which is often humorous of her personal methods and techniques for composing for bands. In 2009 Giroux, an accomplished pianist, performed her latest work, Cordoba for Solo Piano and Concert Band, in five U.S. cities and attended the premier of Arcus IX, a work for solo F tuba and concert band, at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas.
Her 2009 film and documentary orchestrations and compositions include the ongoing project "Call for Green China" which, primarily funded by the World Bank, was recorded, performed and broadcast live in china in 2007. In 2009 the project was extended with new musical material, recorded and set to tour seven cities in China where the show was performed live.
Giroux is a member of American Bandmasters Association (ABA), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP, and an honorary brother of the Omicron Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at West Virginia University. She was initiated into the fraternity on April 2, 2005.
About the Transcriber
Daniel Kallman
Daniel Kallman (b. 11 August 1956, Heibelberg, Germany) is an American composer.
Daniel Kallman received his musical training at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and at the University of Minnesota where he studied composition under Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler.
Kallman’s compositions for orchestra, winds, and choir are widely published and have been performed across North America, Europe and East Asia. His steady stream of commissions also includes music for worship, theater, dance, and the young musician. Kallman has composed for the National Symphony Orchestra, the Air Force Academy Band, the Hong Kong Children’s Choir, the Minnesota Orchestra, A Prairie Home Companion, and a wide variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles He has received support from the American Composers Forum, Meet the Composer, and the McKnight and Jerome Foundations
Kallman’s most popular work for winds, The Jig Is Up, has received hundreds of performances by college, high school, professional and community bands. The Vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro (Tribute and Lament for Winds) was commissioned by the Air Force Academy Band for their California tour in March of 2007. Other recent works for band include Streets of Honor, commissioned by the 34th Infantry Division Band of the Minnesota National Guard and a 19-member consortium of college, high school and community bands; and Alyeska: The Great Land, written for the Minnesota Symphonic Winds 2006 tour of Alaska.
Kallman’s orchestral works have been performed by both amateur and professional ensembles across the country, including the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony. His holiday works have been programmed by the Milwaukee Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra under the baton of Doc Severinsen. Orchestral arrangements by Kallman have been commissioned for Garrison Keillor’s concerts with several major American orchestras, most recently the Boston Pops. Messiah, Prince of Peace, a meditation for orchestra, has been used repeatedly to open the nationally broadcast St. Olaf Christmas Festival.
About the Transcriber
Daniel Kallman
Kallman has established a reputation as a composer for the young musician and youth audiences. He recently composed Pura Vida!, a multimovement work combining the Minnesota Orchestra with young musicians and dancers to introduce Latino styles of music to the young listener. Other projects have been completed for the Hong Kong Children’s Choir, the Columbus Children’s Choir, the Northeast Pennsylvania Choral Society, the Lake Superior Youth Chorus, and two consortiums of high school and college wind ensembles. His works for young audiences with narration include the wind octet Sea Creatures, and Yankee Doodling: A Young Person's Guide to the Concert Band, recorded in 2005 by the Air Force Academy Band. His most recent commission for young singers, Come Make a Home, was written for the sesquicentennial celebration of Northfield, Minnesota, where the composer resides. Kallman is often invited to conduct his own work and to speak with students and audiences about his compositions.
As a composer of music for worship, Kallman is best known for his liturgical setting Light of Christ, commissioned for the Lutheran hymnal With One Voice and included in the Presbyterian hymnal Holy Is the Lord. His youth choir musical, Jubilee, We Are Set Free, has been widely performed. Kallman’s church choir anthems, hymn settings and other liturgical service music are sung throughout the country. Kallman has served as resident composer for the Great River Shakespeare Festival and is currently collaborating with Herbert Brokering on The Way Home, a musical based on the parable of the prodigal son. All of Kallman’s works are catalogued on his website at www.kallmancreates.com.
About the Composers
Percy Aldridge Grainger
George Percy Grainger (8 July 1882, Brighton, Victoria, Australia – 20 February 1961, White Plains, N.Y.) was an Australian-born composer, pianist and champion of the saxophone and the concert band, who worked under the stage name of Percy Aldridge Grainger.
Grainger was an innovative musician who anticipated many forms of twentieth century music well before they became established by other composers. As early as 1899 he was working with "beatless music", using metric successions (including such sequences as 2/4, 2½/4, 3/4, 2½/4).
In December 1929, Grainger developed a style of orchestration that he called "Elastic Scoring". He outlined this concept in an essay that he called, "To Conductors, and those forming, or in charge of, Amateur Orchestras, High School, College and Music School Orchestras and Chamber-Music Bodies".
In 1932, he became Dean of Music at New York University, and underscored his reputation as an experimenter by putting jazz on the syllabus and inviting Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer. Twice he was offered honorary doctorates of music, but turned them down, explaining, "I feel that my music must be regarded as a product of non-education."
About the Composers
R. Mark Rogers
R. Mark Rogers (b. 20 January 1955) is an American composer, arranger and conductor.
Dr. Rogers has degrees from Texas Tech University and the University of Texas.
As managing editor for Southern Music Company, he is the author of editions of the music of Percy Aldridge Grainger and John Philip Sousa that have entered band repertory worldwide. He is also widely published as an arranger and transcriber, with performances by all five of the Washington, D.C. service bands.
Dr. Rogers is on the adjunct faculty of San Antonio College, Texas Lutheran University, and Trinity University. Prior to coming to San Antonio, Dr. Rogers was on the faculty of the University of South Alabama and a staff member of the University of Texas Longhorn Band. He has guest conducted numerous community and professional bands, regional honor bands and orchestras, and is an active clinician for area high school and middle school bands and orchestras.
A bassoonist, he performs with the Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Laredo Philharmonic, the MidTexas Symphony, the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. Rogers is the conductor of the Heart of Texas Concert Band in San Antonio. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 2022.
About the Composers
Andrew Boysen Jr.
Andrew Boysen, Jr. (b. 29
September 1968, Iowa City, Iowa) is an American composer, arranger, conductor and educator.
Boysen earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where he served as conductor of the Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He received his Master of Music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University in 1993 and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education and music composition from the University of Iowa in 1991.
Boysen is presently a full professor in the music department at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and teaches conducting, composition and orchestration. Previously, Boysen served as an assistant professor and acting associate director of bands at Indiana State University, where he directed the Marching Sycamores, conducted the symphonic band and taught in the music education department. Prior to that appointment, he was the director of bands at Cary-Grove (Ill.) High School and was the music director and conductor of the Deerfield Community Concert Band. He remains active as a guest conductor and clinician, appearing with high school, university and festival ensembles across the United States and Great Britain. Dr Boysen also maintains an active schedule as a composer, receiving commissions from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Orchestra Festival, the Iowa All-State Band, the Rhode Island All-State Band, the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association, and many university and high school concert bands across the United States. Boysen won the International Horn Society Composition Contest in 2000, the University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and has twice won the Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in 1991 for I Am and in 1994 for Ovations. Boysen has several published works for band, orchestra, clarinet and piano, and brass choir.
About the Works
Metro Dances - Travis J. Weller
There is a unique aspect of driving in Pittsburgh in that you can see where you want to go, but rarely is the drive a straight shot, and the trip will likely involve a fair amount of vehicular "dancing."
Metro Dances is a work in five sections that seeks to replicate such a (not uncommon) driving experience. We launch the opening section Hit the Gas! with a full cup of coffee and just a little less time than normal to reach our destination. This is followed abruptly by Traffic "Jam," which comes out of nowhere in true Pittsburgh fashion. Big Trucks appear, appropriately represented with important material for the lower winds. Next is Rush Hour, which features an optional open section with suggested solos for trumpet and alto sax. Finally, Breaking Free culminates with a brisk finish as traffic opens up and there's smooth sailing on a free and open highway.
- Program Note from publisher
About the Works
Impressions - Julie Giroux
Impressions takes the listener on a journey consisting of several highly contrasting sections. The opening theme, which is highly rhythmic in nature, is referred to as "Mathematics." The second section, entitled "The Most Noble of Professions," is broad and sweeping in nature, representing the impact teachers have on their students over the course of generations. The next section, entitled "Two Pitches for Two Sisters," is a poignant section featuring a melody which consists primarily of only two pitches, representing Karen Judge and her sister Janice. (Karen commissioned this work in memory of her sister Janice, a math teacher who lost her battle with breast cancer.)
The next section, entitled "Musicals", is odd-metered, rhythmic and energetic. Light-hearted in nature, the melody gets tossed around the band much in the fashion of the choreography of a musical. The final section is a reprise of the "Noble" theme in a grander, uplifting style. The piece as a whole is very much a musical synopsis of the life and loves of a single person, in this case, Janice, giving it the fitting title of Impressions.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned for the 2014 Western Canada High School Grade Twelve Wind Ensemble, Calgary, Canada, Brendan Hagan, Conductor.
- Program Note from score
About the Works
The Jig is Up - Daniel Kallman
My original intent in composing The Jig is Up was to create a playful, lighthearted tune and dance as an homage to composer Percy Aldridge Grainger, whose music for winds I have always admired and whose biography I had recently read. However, as is often the case with the musical treatment of Irish folk music these days (the main "jig" theme, while an original melody, has the sound and feel of an Irish folk tune), other ethnic elements found their way into the work, particularly in the percussion "jam" that underscores a large portion of the middle and end of the composition. A chorale-like segment comes out of the first jam and then transitions back to the 6/8 jig tune. With a return to the percussion tutti, the winds build to a unison flourish to conclude the piece.
- Program Note by composer
About the Works
Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Grainger/ ed. Rogers
Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry has stood the test of time for a number of reasons: colorful sonorities, straightforward accessibility, and a memorable climax. It is also a versatile piece, playable by both younger band and mature players, symphonic bands and wind ensembles. Irish Tune could balance a heavier work on the concert program, or it could be a thoughtful closing piece just before intermission. The broad appeal of this piece will undoubtedly assure its position atop the wind band repertoire for years to come.
- Program Note from Great Music for Wind Band
No. 20 of British Folk-Music Settings. Lovingly and reverently dedicated to the memory of Edvard Grieg.
- Program Note from score
This tune was collected by Miss J. Ross, of New Town, Limavady, Co. Derry, Ireland, and published in The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Dublin, 1855.
- Program Note from score
About the Works
Irish Tune from County Derry - Percy Grainger/ ed.
Rogers continued
For the following beautiful air I have to express my very grateful acknowledgment to Miss J. Ross, of N.-T.-Limavady, in the county of Londonderry — a lady who has made a large collection of the popular unpublished melodies of that county, which she has very kindly placed at my disposal, and which has added very considerably to the stock of tunes which I had previously acquired from that still very Irish county. I say still very Irish, for though it has been planted for more than two centuries by English and Scottish settlers, the old Irish race still forms the great majority of its peasant inhabitants; and there are few, if any, counties in which, with less foreign admixture, the ancient melodies of the country have been so extensively preserved. The name of the tune unfortunately was not ascertained by Miss Ross, who sent it to me with the simple remark that it was " very old," in the correctness of which statement I have no hesitation in expressing my perfect concurrence.
- Program note by Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry (published 1918) is based on earlier settings that date back as early as October 1902 with an essentially identical setting of this melody for wordless mixed chorus. Later versions for solo piano (1911) and string orchestra with two optional horns (1912) followed. The wind band setting is cataloged as British Folk Music Setting Nr. 20, and like all his settings of British folk music is “lovingly and reverently dedicated to the memory of Edvard Grieg.” The composer ’ s brief program note states, “This tune was collected by Miss J. Ross, of New Town, Limavady, Co Derry, Ireland and published in The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Dublin, 1855.”
- Program Note by R. Mark Rogers
About the Works
Kirkpatrick Fanfare (25 Anniversary) - Andrew Boysen Jr. th
Kirkpatrick Fanfare was commissioned by Central Missouri State University for the dedication of the James C. Kirkpatrick Library in March 1999. This work has a definite Irish flavor, including a strain of Danny Boy. The "fanfare" features driving rhythms and exciting brass figures, making this dramatic work sure to please both performers and audiences alike.
- Program Note by composer
The premiere took place at the dedication ceremony held on March 24, 1999, conducted by Patrick F. Casey. It was an event of considerable pride for CMSU: the keynote speaker was Missouri’s then-Governor Mel Carnahan. Kirkpatrick had been Missouri’s secretary of state for 20 years. Casey described Kirkpatrick as “famously ‘Irish’ with his humor and attire.” Boysen had been made aware that Kirkpatrick was very proud of his Irish heritage, hence the resulting Irish flavor of the music.
- Program Note from VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band concert program, 22 December 2017
Dr. Domenic Joseph Christian Pisano Concert Band Music Director & Conductor
Dr. Pisano is currently the Director of the Drexel University Concert Band and Pep Band, as well the Coordinator of Visual and Performing Arts for the Brandywine School District, serving over 80 teachers in 16 schools with over 8,000 Visual and Performing Arts students.
Dr. Pisano has been a music educator for almost 30 years, teaching at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and the Upper Perkiomen School District before becoming the Music Department Chair and instrumental music teacher at Concord High School in Wilmington, Delaware for 17 years.
Dr. Pisano has written extensively about music education, including “Music Educators:
Investigating the Relationship Between Undergraduate Music Education, State Certification, and Professional Responsibilities,” and he was a contributing author for the book “Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips: A Mobile Technology Guide for Music Educators.”
He has directed ten honor bands through Europe with American Music Abroad and edited several pieces of band literature with his mentor, Dr. Jack Stamp. Dr. Pisano has also served as a clinician, guest speaker, adjudicator, guest conductor, and lecturer for Universities and several state MEAs and worked on educational policy with various state agencies.
Drexel offers four different music minors:
Music: requires 26 credits, including work in Music Theory, History, private lessons, ensemble performance, and 9 credits of music electives.
Music Theory and Composition: aimed at people who are writing their own music or who would like to begin doing so. You will take courses in Music Theory, Arranging, Composition, and Digital Composition, and end with a portfolio of several completed pieces.
Music Performance: requires two years of private lesson studies with our artist faculty culminating in a recital. The Music Program will provide support for the recital venue and accompanist.
Jazz & African-American Music: includes course work in Jazz History, African-American Music, Jazz Theory, private study in Jazz performance, and ensemble work in several ensembles devoted to jazz.
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Music
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