Nexus, A Contemporary Music Concert

Sunday I November 10, 2019 I 7:30 pm DeRosa University Center Ballroom 28/78 NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE BRASS OVER BRIDGES

27th Performance I 2019-2020 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific

CONCERT PROGRAM

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

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7:30 PM

Brass Over Bridges

Mini-Overture (1982)

Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)

Copperwave for Brass Quintet (2006) The Theogony - Birth of the Gods (2019) World Premiere

Joan Tower (b. 1938) Robert Huntington (b. 1997) Anthony Plog (b. 1947)

Four Sketches (1989) I. Allegro II. Allegro Vivace III. Andante IV. Allegro Intermission

CONCERT PROGRAM

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

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7:30 PM

28/78 New Music Ensemble

At the Purchaser’s Option with Variations (2016)*

Rhiannon Giddens (b. 1977) Arr. Jacob Garchik (b. 1976)

Maya Balachandran and Emily Criss, violins Marissa Staffero, viola; Malcolm King, cello

Little Black Book (2018)*

Jlin (b. 1987) Arr. Jacob Garchik (b. 1976)

Maya Balachandran and Emily Criss, violins Marissa Staffero, viola; Malcolm King, cello

Music in Circles (2012)

Andrew Norman (b. 1979)

Carrie Asai, flute; Gwen Tacan, clarinet; Thomas Hubel, trumpet; Emily Criss, violin Marissa Staffero, viola; Malcolm King, cello; Braydon Ross, conductor

Some Connecticut Gospel (2008)

Timo Andres (b. 1985)

Carrie Asai, flute; Mitchell Beck, bassoon; Rebecca Growcott, trombone Diego Bustamante, piano; Maya Balachandran, violin; Marissa Staffero, viola Malcolm King, cello; Trinity Wood, bass; Braydon Ross, conductor

* These pieces were commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, a project of the Kronos Performing Arts Association. The score and parts are available for free online at kronosquartet.org.

28/78 NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE

28/78 New Music Ensemble is a student run performing ensemble at University of the Pacific’s Concervatory of Music. The ensemble focuses on the performance of contemporary music works from a diverse array of composers. 28/78 was formed in March 2018 by conductor Andrew Lu, with founding members Laila Mameesh, Scott Pastor, Thomas Hubel, Joshua Dunsford, Diego Bustamante, Tristen Collinsworth, Fernando Lozano, Micah Vogel, Sabrina Boggs, Anne Plescia, and Laura Robb Martín.

The goals of 28/78 are to provide a valuable supplement to ensemble members’ musical education, become ambassadors of the Conservatory’s contemporary music scene, encourage the listening to and performance of new music in the Conservatory and greater Stockton communities, and commission and promote the performance of works by a diverse range of composers. The ensemble works to achieve its goals by hosting the annual 28/78 New Music Festival, presenting collaborative concerts, bringing guest artists and speakers to campus, and sharing the elements of contemporary music with the Pacific community through Open 78 workshops.

Carrie Asai, flute Gwen Tacan, clarinet Mitchell Beck, saxophone Thomas Hubel, trumpet Rebecca Growcott, trombone Diego Bustamante, piano

Maya Balachandran, violin Emily Criss, violin Marissa Staffero, viola Malcolm King, violoncello Trinitie Wood, upright bass Braydon Ross, conductor

BRASS OVER BRIDGES

Based in San Francisco, Brass Over Bridges is a brass ensemble whose members understands that music is all about connection. Inspired by the artistic community of the San Francisco Bay Area, Brass Over Bridges seeks to engage audiences with music across barriers of style and artistic discipline. In addition to performing concerts, Brass Over Bridges is passionate about supporting school music programs through outreach performances designed to educate and inspire young musicians.

In their 2019 - 2020 season, Brass Over Bridges is performing a three-part concert series based in San Francisco, with more performances in Santa Cruz, Grass Valley and other cities throughout the Bay Area. Having recently performed their season opener at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the quintet is preparing their Holiday concert featuring music from around the world arranged by members of the ensemble. Brass Over Bridges is a fiscally-sponsored affiliate of InterMusic SF, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to small-ensemble music in the San Francisco Bay Area. To learn more about their upcoming projects and performances, visit www. brassoverbridges.com.

Ari Micich, trumpet Matthew Ebisuzaki, trumpet Margarite Waddell, horn Esther Armendariz, trombone Lucas Jensen, bass trombone

PROGRAM NOTES Copperwave for Brass Quintet (2006) Joan Tower (b. 1938) “My father was a geologist and mining engineer and I grew up loving everything to do with minerals and rocks. Copper is a heavy but flexible mineral that is used for many different purposes and most brass instruments are made of copper. The ideas in this piece move in waves, sometimes heavy ones and at other times lighter — also in circles, turning around on the same notes. Occasionally, there is a latin type of rhythm that appears, which is a reminder of my years growing up in South America where my father was working as a mining engineer.”

- Joan Tower At the Purchaser’s Option with Variations (2016) Rhiannon Giddens (b. 1977) Arranged by Jacob Garchik (b. 1976) Composed for 50 For The Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire Rhiannon Giddens’ At the Purchaser’s Option with Variations is an instrumental variation of a song from her album Freedom Highway (Nonesuch, 2017), arranged by Jacob Garchik. She wrote the song after finding in a book a 19th-century advertisement for a 22-year-old female slave whose 9-month-old baby was also for sale, but “at the purchaser’s option.” This piece comes from that advertisement, and from thinking about what that woman’s life might have been like.

Little Black Book (2018) Jlin (b. 1987) Arranged by Jacob Garchik (b. 1976) Composed for 50 For The Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire “I chose the name Little Black Book because there is a black notebook that I own that I literally write down every creative idea I have in it. It is my book of absolute freedom. The book is very special to me, as it was given to me on my twenty-first birthday by my eldest cousin. When Kronos approached me about doing this project I was quite ecstatic, and immediately knew I wanted to take this on from a perspective of absolute freedom of sound. I didn’t care how crazy it sounded, I just wanted the instruments and choice of instruments to be free. Freedom was my goal no matter how left-field or unconventional. I love that Kronos decided to play this track as they deemed fit versus trying to follow what I did.”

- Jlin

PROGRAM NOTES Music in Circles (2012) Andrew Norman (b. 1979) “Music in Circles features some material I wrote and rewrote and rewrote many times over for different groups of instruments. I’m currently in the process of finalizing the score for the most recent version of piece (using flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, and cello), which ymusic included on their sophomore album, Balance Problems.”

- Andrew Norman Some Connecticut Gospel (2008) Timo Andres (b. 1985) “I wrote Some Connecticut Gospel in the couple of months leading up to the 2008 presidential election. It’s partly a piece about Charles Ives, and how his music and inimitable personality have become a legend for composers, and also about some strange feelings (hope? patriotism?) that had been welling up inside me for the first time in my life. Connecticut is unlike some other states, whose residents seem to have a strong sense of group identity, even pride. I never feel “Connecticutian”; I tend to think of myself as a misplaced Californian, even though I only spent the first five years of my life in the Bay Area. Did Connecticut use to have more of a personality? Before the factories shut down, before every city became a depressed corpse, before Route 7 became a parade of strip-malls and the southwest corner a spec-house paradise, the state must have had some real charm. Some Connecticut Gospel is a song of praise to this imagined place — Ives’s Connecticut.”

- Timo Andres

SPECIAL THANKS Timo Andres Brass Over Bridges Conservatory Assistant Dean Briana Bacon Composers Club Dr. Andrew Conklin Eric Dudley Kim Girardi James Gonzales Robert Huntington Yvette Khan Conservatory Assistant Dean Nicolasa Kuster Sylwia Lipiec-Qualls Andrew Lu Andrew Norman Molly Westlake Conservatory Dean Peter Witte

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