THE LEWIS-PALMER HIGH SCHOOL
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
is
Through the Ages
Flute
Kyosuke Bugg
Eleanor Flinn
Katelyn Jones*
Andrew Kandrak
Jodi Mayfield
Cassie Reever
Oboe
Camille Apineru*
Finn Jones
Clarinet
Mirabel Barr*
Mylee Bemis (bass)
Olivia Johnson
Zoe Johnson
Lila Knapp
Flute
Max Keener
Erin O’Connors*
Oboe
Ivy Evans
Michael Nunez
Lily Sobers*
Bassoon
Madelyn Friesen*
Lewis-Palmer High School Symphonic Band
Saxophone
Lilly Bolton, alto*
Bryce Harris, alto
Chia-Hsuan Yu, tenor
Trumpet
Corey Cinalli
Silas Ewer
Isaac Grosjean
Grant Hamershock
Samuel Hunt
Hosanna Kirkbride
Horn
Tessa Berthelotte*
Brooke Tuck
Trombone
Jack Bucheit
Grace Guerra*
Michael Hollist
Milo Ribaudo
Euphonium
Connor Antenor
Clarinet
Ella Armstrong, bass
clarinet
Abigail Meggett
Leah Robarge
Greysen Stevens
Cooper Wentworth*
Saxophone
Emelia Dukes, alto
Brekkan Kelly, bari*
Blake Stolley, tenor
Julianna Wainright, alto
Trumpet
Audrey Armbruster
Brian Hawkins
Evan Marsh*
Jaxson Warman
Horn
Noelle Garcia*
Trombone
Elsa Conley
Grace Kovar, bass
Erich Lambrech*
Tuba Viktor Soucek*
Percussion
Trajon Bruce Brodie Davis
Bodie McNeill*
*principal
Names are ordered alphabetically to emphasize the importance of each performer
Euphonium
Nicholas Berthelotte*
Mallory Rowe
Tuba
Charles Scott *
Percussion
Brianna Chester*
Elle Ruth Adams
Symphonic Band Program Notes:
Spring Festival: Chen Yi wrote Spring Festival for the most important Chinese celebration of the year, New Year or Yuan Tan, a fifteen-day event. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival because it marks the time when winter ends and spring is close at hand. This festival begins on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. On a western calendar, the date usually falls between the end of January and the beginning of February. The composer drew her melodic ideas from a southern Chinese folks ensemble piece called Lion Playing Ball. The form of the music is constructed using a mathematical scheme called the Golden Section - a mathematical construct based on the ratio known as phi. The ratio is equal to 1.61803, and was thought by ancient civilizations to be a perfect proportion most pleasing to the eye. When the ratio of line segments, geometric shapes, objects in nature, or proportions in a building is equal to 1.6, it is called the “golden ratio”.
-Program note from Chen Yi
Prospect: Prospect is a setting of the folk song of the same name, also known as The Seaman's Hymn. It is simple, yet expressive; it builds slowly and steadily to a broad quasi-fanfare finish. The melody comes from The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, published in 1835. This was one of the more popular "shaped note" (pictured below) tunebooks in 19th century America. Each of the four pitches had its own particular notehead shape, making the music easier to read. The Southern Harmony is also the source of the hymn tunes Amazing Grace and Rock of Ages.
-Program note from Robert Strong and David Fullmer
Grand Finale: The cantata opens in familiar fashion with a spectacular chorus. In this case it's more familiar than usual, since Bach adapted the third movement of the first Brandenburg concerto, BWV 1046 (or possibly an earlier common model), to serve here. It's a brilliantly succesful adaptation that helps to remind us that many of the wonderful choruses in the cantatas may very well have originated in concertos, now lost to us. A recitative praising the youthful vigour of the professor leads to the first aria, for tenor, introduced by a catchy figure from the orchestra. Despite some very attractive ideas, the connective material is less interesting and one is left with the impression that more could have been made of this. Another recitative leads into a duet between the bass and the soprano, in which hard work and industry is applauded, to a simple accompaniment from the continuo section. Thirty four bars of very attractive orchestral ritornello (a la Brandenburg, again) provide an interlude. The alto then has his (or her) chance in a movement whose instrumental ritornello is drawn again from the first Brandenburg concerto, and very nice it is too. A final recitative leads in to the closing chorus, fully orchestrated and most splendid. -Program note from Simon Crouch, Bach Cantata Listener’s Guide 1999
Wind Symphony Program Notes:
The Marriage of Figaro: Mozart's famous opera The Marriage of Figaro, composed in 1786, was the first of his greatest series of operas. The combination of DaPonte's witty text and Mozart's sparkling music was irresistible, and the opera was an immediate success. The adventures of the resourceful barber (who appears again in Rossini's Barber of Seville) are illustrated by some of the most delightful music Mozart ever wrote. The overture, which is in one tempo throughout, is a pure gem of spontaneous melody and skillful design.
-Program note from Program Notes for Band
Renaissance Suite: One of the greatest advances in music of the Renaissance, was the emergence of instrumental music separate and distinct from vocal music. Before this period, instruments were used chiefly for accompanying vocal works. However, by the end of the sixteenth century, partially due to the introduction of printed music, there was an abundance of instrumental material available. This music was written for an infinite variety of string, wind, and keyboard instruments, many of which were forerunners of our modern instruments.
-Program note from Edward M. McLin
Homage to Machaut: Medieval Suite was written in homage to three great masters of the Middle Ages: Leonin (middle 12th century), Perotin (c. 1155- 1200), and Machaut (c. 1300-1377). These are neither transcriptions of their works nor attempts at emulating their respective styles. Rather, the music served as a sort of launching pad for three pieces which draw on some of the stylistic characteristics of music from that period, e.g., repetition of rhythmic patterns or modes, modules of sound, proportions that produce octaves, fourths and fifths, use of Gregorian chant, syncopation, long pedal points where a sustained tone regulates melodic progression.
Homage to Machaut evokes the stately, gently syncopated and flowing sounds of this master of choral writing. The movement consists of a statement with two repetitions, each with different instrumentation. It closes with the same chant and instrumental textures which opened the suite. -Program note from Ron Nelson
The Exposure of Cherubino, scene from The Marriage of Figaro by Italian
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Lewis-Palmer High School Administration
Amber Whetstine, Superintendent
Brooke Mendez, Assistant Principal
Jeffrey Zick, Principal
Richard Thiele, Assistant Principal
Nick Baker, Assistant Principal / Athletic Director
Stacy Roshek, Assistant Principal / Activities Director
Lewis-Palmer High School Performing Arts Faculty
Kris Lilley, Theater Madeline Douthit, Choir
Sam Anderson, Band