International Women's Day Recital 3.6.20

92nd Performance I 2019–20 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific

CONCERT PROGRAM I MARCH 6, 2020 I 2:00 PM Memories of the Seashore

Keiko Abe (b. 1937) Samantha Sanchez, marimba

Invasion of Clowns

Dosia Mckay

Christina O’Brien and Jack Chivers, trumpets; Braydon Ross, horns Rebecca Growcott, trombone; Joshua Lopez, tuba

The Lone Woodsman

Sarah Jordan (b. 1992) Scott Pastor, clarinet

Sonata for Viola and Piano I. Impetuoso Emily Waters, viola; Sabine Klein, piano

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA MEN’S CHORUS

Jorge Torrez, Music Director

Peter Altamura Byron Ayala Renee Jesse Bagus Justin Beasley Jack Chivers Andrew Davis Felix Diaz Contreras Tristen Collinsworth Nick Davis Josh Dunsford Arturo Garcia Zac Grenig Will Hauan Robert Huntington Kevin Iwai Domenic Jimenez Dorian Jones Joseph Kruse

Stephen Lambert Kyle Lesh Joshua Lopez Matt Loya Bryan Mah Andrew Marcopulos Andrew McKimmy Dion Nickelson Marcus Romero Ryan Porter Braydon Ross James Scott Charles Tuttle Trevor Trinity-Rees Tyler Van Zuiden Dereck Vicevich Curtiss Wright

MARIACHI OCELOTLAN DE PACIFIC Daydreams

Elizabeth Bocks (b. 2001) Ashlynn Sima, Michaela Aimone, clarinets; Tyler Van Zuiden, bassoon

Quintet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, and Piano Ellen Taaffe Zwilich I. Quarter Note = 60 (b. 1939) Ayocuan Pacheco, violin; Emily Waters, viola; Amy Wheeler, cello Yuki Nagase, double bass; Leo Chang, piano

Wanting Memories

Ysaye M. Barnwell (b. 1946) Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Men’s Chorus

Serenata Huasteca

(traditional) Mariachi Ocelotlan

Violin and Voice Ellie Aquino Caroline Burke-Baker Violin Celeste Carranza Analy Cruz Manny Manriquez Trumpet and Voice Julia Murillo

Trumpet Cruz A. Gonzalez Vihuela Miguel A. Corona Sandoval Guitarrón Salvador Garcia

PROGRAM NOTES Memories of the Seashore Keiko Abe is a Japanese composer and virtuoso marimba player. She has been a primary figure in the development of the marimba, both in terms of musical usage and of the design of the instrument itself. Abe is also the first woman to be inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1993. When it comes to creating her compositions, Abe uses improvisation as an important element in developing musical ideas. Through vast dynamics and melodic phrases with rich underlying harmonic texture, Memories of the Seashore emulates the crashing of waves on a beach and it’s natural return back to the ocean.

Invasion of Clowns Dosia Mckay is known for weaving vibrant colors both into her music and her abstract paintings. She has written works for orchestra, choir, solos for a variety of instruments, and chamber ensembles. Accompanying her blend of avant garde and classical harmony in her music is her art which features portraits in neon colors and images of waves, statues and buildings. Invasion of Clowns is a great example of her wild, yet charming compositional style, with running chromatic lines and syncopated rhythms.

The Lone Woodsman In 2016, Jordan graduated with a dual Bachelor of Music in Composition and Flute Performance with a Minor in Music History from the Conservatory of Music at University of the Pacific, where she studied with Dr. Robert Coburn, Dr. Francois Rose, and Dr. Eric Wood. She is now pursuing her Master of Music in Composition under Dr. Robert Kyr and Dr. David Crumb at the University of Oregon. She is simultanously working as a composer, performer, ensemble director and private music instructor. The Lone Woodsman is a solo work that is centralized around modal thematic elements depicting a man who lives alone in a mountainous homestead. Please relax and enjoy as the clarinet tells the story of a hermit who goes about his daily routine. Can you identify his different actions and impressions throughout his day?

Waking up Boiling water Making coffee Starting the work outside Splitting wood Water break

PROGRAM NOTES Crash! In the bushes ... what’s that rustling?

It is just a chipmunk The river Casting the fishing line Contemplating the past/The birds/The river The stars appear It is time for bed Sonata for Viola and Piano Rebecca Clarke was an English composer and violist born in 1886. Her family was musically inclined and enrolled her at Royal Academy of Music in 1903, but she was withdrawn in 1905 due to her teacher proposing marriage to the young student. She then went to Stanford, becoming the first female composition student there. In 1919, she entered her beloved viola sonata in the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music, where it tied for first place. This work took to fame, but it quickly vanished until the 1970s, where it became a part of the standard viola repertoire. At the start of the first movement, entitled “Impetuoso,” Clarke includes a poem by Alfred de Musset: Poète, pretends doth luth; le vin da le jeunesse Fermente cette Muir dans les veins de Dieu.

Poet, take your lute;

the wine of youth Fermented tonight in the veins of God.

Daydreams The piece Daydreams is about how the expectations you have in life shouldn’t always be held so highly in your eyes. Throughout the semester I wrote this, I had many expectations about who I was and who other people were. It took me a long time to realize that having those expectations was unfair to the world around me, and as I stopped having expectations about how life should be, life around me started getting a lot better.

Quintet for Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, and Piano Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer born in Miami. Her career has an abundance of accomplishments that have begun to pave the way for women composers of today. Not only was she the first woman to receive her doctorate in composition from Juilliard, she was also the first woman to receive the coveted Pulitzer prize in composition for her first symphony in 1983. This quintet was

PROGRAM NOTES written in 2010 for the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio along with Micheal Tree, viola and Hal Robinson, double bass. Zwilich has said that this quintet has great characteristic depth, sparkles, and fresh sonorities, in addition to paying a blues-inspired homage to Schubert’s Trout Quintet. Although this piece is contemporary, it is structurally familiar, featuring energized counterpoint, terraced entrances, and intense unisons.

Wanting Memories Ysaye Barnwell, born in New York State, is a composer, singer, actress, scholar, author, and publisher. She is perhaps best known as a member of the ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, devoted to original a cappella music that springs from African-American idioms. She has sung with that ensemble since 1979. Her original music and settings of spirituals have been heard on three continents, and she is a prolific creative force. Her website notes that “Three axioms have proven significant in Barnwell’s life: To whom much is given, much is required. As one door closes, another door opens. Everything matters.” The composer notes: “Wanting Memories was part of a suite of songs commissioned for a dance theater piece called Crossings. I did dedicate the Wanting to my father when we recorded it but it was written while both my parents were still alive. What was special though was that I am an only child and when my father died and then my mother, and I prepared to sell the house I grew up in, I found bags of photos, letters and other memorabilia - the kind of things especially an only child hopes for … So in a sense, the song was an unconscious wish or prayer that actually came true.”

Serenata Huasteca (traditional) Since its inception, Mariachi has not only been a male-dominated genre but one that unabashedly champions machismo. Serenata Huasteca has always been performed from the male-perspective, its title translating to “Serenade” in the traditional style of son huasteco. In this arrangement, the perspective is shifted, creating a more unique story that is not common in Mariachi music where the woman is defined as the one that is unapologetically bold. This arrangement has been performed by Mariachi Reyna de Los Ángeles, America’s first all female mariachi ensemble and features the son huasteco style. Son Huasteco, also known as huapango, is a Mexican folk music style and dance originated in the northeastern Mexican region of La Huaseca, located along the Gulf of Mexico.

This style is mainly characterized by its bold rhythmic structure, lively violin playing, and extensive use of falsetto.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you for making this concert possible: Nicolasa Kuster Dr. Sarah Waltz Veronica Wells Sylwia Lipiec-Qualls

UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS Mar. 17 I 7:30 pm Tuple Duo, bassoons Recital Hall Mar. 24 I 5 pm Master Class with Christopher Costanza, cello Recital Hall

Mar. 26-28 I 7:30 pm Mar. 29 I 2:30 pm The New Mikado

A retelling of the classic operetta in a new version by Lamplighters Music Theatre

Faye Spanos Concert Hall

Apr. 1 I 7:30 pm Pacific Percussion Ensemble Faye Spanos Concert Hall

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