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THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC Presents

THE UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE David Plack, Director Drew Hardy-Moore and Michael Tignor, Graduate Associate Conductors

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Seven-thirty in the Evening Ruby Diamond Concert Hall

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PROGRAM Cuban Overture

George Gershwin (1898–1937) arr. Mark Rogers

Shaker Suite (For Brass Quintet and Concert Band) Rayburn Wright

(1922–1990)

arr. Mark Davis Scatterday Matthew Strickland and Bob Kerr, trumpet Luis Oquendo, horn; Christian Estades, trombone; Matthew Morejon, tuba Festival Variations

Claude T. Smith (1932–1987)

Overture to “The School for Scandal”

Drew Hardy-Moore, graduate associate conductor

Samuel Barber (1910–1981) tr. Frank Hudson

Hymn to A Blue Hour

Michael Tignor, graduate associate conductor

Eternal Memoir (Saga of the Lucky Dragon)

John Mackey (b. 1973)

Hirokazu Fukushima (b. 1971)

Please refrain from talking, entering, or exiting while performers are playing. Food and drink are prohibited in all concert halls. Please turn off cell phones and all other electronic devices. Please refrain from putting feet on seats and seat backs. Children who become disruptive should be taken out of the performance hall so they do not disturb the musicians and other audience members. Health Reminder: The Florida Board of Governors and Florida State University expect masks to be worn by all individuals in all FSU facilities. Thank you for your cooperation.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR David Plack was appointed to the wind band conducting and music education faculty at Florida State University in 2004 as the Director of Athletic Bands. His responsibilities include the “world renowned” Marching Chiefs and FSU’s athletic pep band program, Seminole Sound, which primarily supports the men’s basketball program, the women’s basketball and volleyball programs, and provides numerous other performances in support of FSU athletics and the University at large.

Other responsibilities include supervision of music education intern teachers, teaching the Marching Band Techniques course, and conducting the University Symphonic Band. Plack was recently nominated for the prestigious University Teaching Award for his contributions and work with undergraduate students at FSU. Plack graduated from Shaw High School in Columbus, Georgia where his high school band director, Timothy Zabel, was a significant influence on his desire to become a music educator. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Master of Music Education degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education degree from the Florida State University College of Music, where he studied with Richard Clary, Patrick Dunnigan, Clifford Madsen, Bentley Shellahamer, and his primary conducting teacher and mentor, James Croft. Prior to his collegiate teaching, Plack taught seven years at Vero Beach High School alongside James Sammons.

He holds active memberships in the National Association for Music Education, the College Band Directors National Association, the Florida Music Educators Association, and the Florida Bandmasters Association. Plack is also a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha, and holds honorary memberships in both Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi, serving as the faculty sponsor for both organizations at FSU. He currently serves as the President of the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association.

Plack is an active drill designer and arranger having provided numerous creative projects for the Marching Chiefs and other athletic band endeavors. He is also an active guest clinician, conductor, and adjudicator.

NOTES ON THE PROGRAM Gershwin: Cuban Overture George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 - July 11, 1937), born Jacob Gershowitz, lived a tragically short life, but in that time he had a wildly successful career writing music for Broadway musicals, films, and orchestra. His pieces, such as Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris helped create a uniquely American sounding musical genre that combined elements from classical and jazz music.

During the summer of 1932, while on a trip to Cuba, Gershwin developed a fascination for Cuban music and the percussion instruments that gave it its distinctive sound: maracas, bongos, claves, and the guiro. These instruments became the inspiration for his third orchestral work entitled Rumba, later changed to Cuban Overture. The piece premiered on August 16, 1932, in Lewisohn Stadium, in New York City.

The premiere was a hit with 17,845 tickets sold, and 5,000 people at the closed gate trying desperately to get in. Gershwin noted this about the evening, “the most exciting night I have ever had, first, because the Philharmonic Orchestra played an entire program of my music, and second, because the all-time record for the Stadium concerts was broken.”

Wright: Shaker Suite Rayburn Wright was an American trombonist, composer, conductor, and professor of jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music, and is responsible for initiating the university’s famous jazz program. He had a successful career composing for both film and television and was nominated twice for Emmy awards. He also co-authored a popular book on film scoring, On the Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring.

His piece, Shaker Suite, uses several Shaker melodies including the familiar “Simple Gifts,” along with “The Happy Journey” and “I’ve Set My Face for Zion’s Kingdom,” and features a brass quintet comprised of members from the FSU Wind Ensemble.

Smith: Festival Variations Claude T. Smith wrote over 180 works for band, orchestra, choir, small ensembles, and soloists. He began his musical career as a trumpet player, but upon being drafted into the Army during the Korean Conflict, auditioned and won a position in the 371st Army Band on French Horn. Smith’s contributions to the music profession are noted by his many commissions, including works for many of the Armed Services’ Bands as well as his composition Flight being adapted as the official march of the National Air and Space Music of the Smithsonian Institute.

Festival Variations was commissioned by the United States Air Force Band and premiered at the 75th anniversary of the Music Educators National Conference (now NAfME). At the premiere, the conductor, Colonel Arnald Gabriel said that the piece was filled with “brilliant technical passages coupled with glorious romanticism,” and would “rank as one of the monumental compositions of the 21st Century.” Despite its difficulty, this piece is performed often amongst the top wind band ensembles.

Barber: Overture to “The School for Scandal” Samuel Barber was born on March 9, 1910, in West Chester, Pennsylvania to a family full of professional musicians. His musical talents began to show at a young age, studying piano and composition at the age of seven. As a young teenager, Barber entered the Young Artist Program at Curtis Institute of Music where he spent the next decade studying composition,

piano, and voice. During his final year at Curtis, Barber premiered his first piece for full orchestra, Overture to “The School for Scandal.”

The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a satirical comedy that premiered May 8, 1777. The main characters, Lady Sneerwell and her henchman Snake, are gossipers who cause chaos with their many schemes.

Samuel Barber composed his overture not as a prelude to the play but as “a musical reflection of the play’s spirit.” The overture opens with a sneering fanfare followed by a nefarioussounding melody that scurries along in the clarinet section. Barber contrasts the opening with a second theme, a sentimental melody introduced by the oboe. This contrast of themes happens frequently throughout the piece and helps create a sense of drama and suspense, reflective of the story. The transitional music in-between themes is quite challenging, keeping both the audience and performers on their toes.

Mackey: Hymn to A Blue Hour John Mackey is one of the most well-regarded composers of the 21st century. Despite his nontraditional background in music, he holds degrees from Julliard and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mackey is known for his unique sonorities and interesting use of constantly changing meters. His works are some of the most commonly played pieces in the wind band arena.

Hymn to a Blue Hour is one of Mackey’s earliest pieces for Wind Band. It represents the idea of sacred tones and the color blue, which has many ties with American music. The piece is built upon three recurring motives: a series of descending thirds, a stepwise descent, and finally an upwards ascent that represents hopeful optimism. The piece, though not its intent, shares many similarities to Mackey’s earlier piece for Wind Band, Aurora Awakes.

Fukushima: Eternal Memoir (Saga of the Lucky Dragon) Hirozaku Fukushima is an active Japanese composer and arranger in the wind band and orchestra medium. He is the winner of the 1999 Asahi Composition Prize for his work, Chant of Dosozin and the 2001 Japanese Bandmasters Association Shitaya Prize for his composition Ryujo no Mai. Eternal Memoir (Saga of the Lucky Dragon) was inspired by American artist Ben Shahn’s painting series called the Lucky Dragon. This painting series is dedicated to the Japanese fishing boat, Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon V), that was contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the United States’ Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test in the South Pacific on March 1, 1954. Fukushima writes, “I composed this work to promote remembrance of the Fukurya Maru’s truth. The English title is derived from the Japanese subtitle, Daigo Fukuryu Maru no Kioku (Memoir of the Lucky Dragon V).” The piece begins with the tragedy of the event followed by the second half which represents a dragon, the boat’s spirit, “breathing life to become the Lucky Dragon, rising to Heaven.”

University Wind Ensemble Personnel David Plack, Director Drew Hardy-Moore and Michael Tignor, Graduate Associate Conductors Piccolo Kylie Boschen

Bass Clarinet Carly Davis

Flute Adeline Belova Allison Acevedo Cameron McGill Isabelle Rodriguez

Contrabass Clarinet Mark Stevens Soprano Saxophone Jason Shimer

Bass Trombone Tristan Goodrich

Oboe Veronica Jacob Sarah Ward Alex Rushe

Alto Saxophone Jason Shimer Evan Blitzer Drew Hardy-Moore

Euphonium Luke Heinrich Adam Zierden

English Horn Alex Rushe

Tenor Saxophone Ethan Horn

Bassoon Timothy Schwindt Zach Martin Ryan Kegg

Baritone Saxophone Alex Krynski

Contrabassoon Ryan Kegg E-Flat Clarinet Jalen Smalls B-Flat Clarinet Jariel Santiago Sadie Murray Reymon Contrera Leah Price Jalen Smalls Morgan Magnoni Jesse Rigsby Mark Stevens

Trumpet Matthew Strickland Bob Kerr Easton Barham CarlosManuel Aceves Thum Rangsiyawaranon Thana Rangsiyawaranon Israel Martinez Horn Luis Oquendo Alex Garcia Patrick Creegan Jordan Perkins AC Caruthers

Trombone Christian Estades Taylor Haworth Connor McDonald

Tuba Matthew Morejon Levi Vickers Sebastian Bravo String Bass Lucas Kornegay Harp Isabelle Scott Piano Oliver Schoonover Percussion Jordan Brown William Howald Jake Fenoff Will Vasquez Program Manager Chelsea Blomberg

Coming Soon UNIVERSITY WIND ORCHESTRA featuring special guests

Stacy Garropp, composer David Thornton, conductor Geoffrey Deibel, saxophone Justin Benavidez, tuba Wednesday, November 16, 2022 7:30 PM | Ruby Diamond Concert Hall Tickets and information at tickets.music.fsu.edu

2022-23 Concert Season

www.theartistseries.org 850-445-1616 Live Concert, 4 PM Opperman Hall Livestream & Video available

September 18, Bak & Chang, viola/piano

October 23, Dominic Cheli, piano

January 22, Sinta Quartet, saxophone

February 17, Jasper String Quartet, Valentine Fundraiser, 7 PM St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral

March 5, Coro Vocati, vocal ensemble

May 7, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, string quartet

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