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Dragonfly
…and then the Universe exploded Contre Qui, Rose
Song for Lyndsay
Katahj Copley
Morten Lauridsen
trans. H. Robert Reynolds
Olivia Kieffer
Andrew Boysen, Jr.
Chandler Wilson Caravan
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University Band
The Cave You Fear
On Shores of Endless Sea
Scrapin’ España Cañi
Illumination
Michael Markowski
Kevin Day
Pascual Marquina
arr. Robert Longfield
Benjamin Horne
David Maslanka
DragonFly (2019) (4’30”)
Katahj Copley (b.1998)With this piece, I wanted to pay homage to a composer who has influenced me in a huge way since my childhood, Joe Hisaishi. Mamoru Fujisawa, better known as Joe Hisaishi, is a Japanese film composer born in 1950 who has over 100 film scores and solo albums to his name. Dubbed “the John Williams of Japan” by Pitchfork in 2017, he has won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Music seven times. He is best known as the main musical associate of the Studio Ghibli film studio. With this piece, I wanted to use his colors and his palette to paint a picture of intensity, beauty and adventure. From the beginning of the piece, it is an explosion of color and energy - representing the world of the DragonFly - and from there it is a journey of flight and peril for the small creature of the sky.
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Katahj Copley, a native of Carrollton, Georgia, has written over 100 works for chamber ensembles, large ensembles, wind ensembles, and orchestra. His compositions have been performed and commissioned by universities, organizations, and professional ensembles, including the Cavaliers Brass, Carroll Symphony Orchestra, California Band Director Association, Admiral Launch Duo, and the Atlanta Wind Symphony. Katahj has also received critical acclaim internationally with pieces being performed in Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, and Australia.
Contre Qui, Rose (1993/2006) (5’)
Morten Lauridsen (b.1943), trans. Reynolds
Contre Qui, Rose is the second movement of my choral cycle Les Chansons des Roses, on poems by Rilke, a poet whose texts were also used for my Nocturnes and Chanson Éloignée. Rilke’s poetry is often multilayered and frequently ambiguous, forcing his reader to use his or her own imagination to grasp the text. This wonderful little poem poses a series of questions, and the corresponding musical phrases all end with unresolved harmonies, as the questions remain unanswered.
Against whom, rose, Have you assumed these thorns?
Is it your too fragile joy that forced you to become this armed thing?
But from whom does it protect you, this exaggerated defense?
How many enemies have I lifted from you who do not fear it at all?
On the contrary, from summer to autumn you wound the affection that is given you.
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Morten Lauridsen is an American composer of Danish ancestry. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, and attended Whitman College and the University of Southern California, where he studied advanced composition. Among his early teachers were Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen. In 2006, Morten Lauridsen was named an “American Choral Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2007, he was the recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President George Bush.
…and then the Universe exploded (2017/2021) (5’)
Olivia Kieffer (b.1980)
...and then the Universe exploded is a wild and joyful piece for concert band. It was written for and dedicated to the Reinhardt Symphonic Winds, and was premiered by the ensemble on April 11, 2017. The beginning source material comes from an unrealized concept album I started back when I was writing electronic beat music. This feeling of everything seeming to happen at once, and all the time, has not disappeared in my life; I am no stranger to fairly continuous life changes. In its essence, this piece is about the End of Everything. We often think of the end of things as a loss, or bittersweet at best. But sometimes, the very end is the most beautiful.
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Olivia Kieffer is an American composer, percussionist, and educator. Ms. Kieffer has degrees in percussion from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Georgia State University. She studied composition with Jon Welstead at UW – Milwaukee, where she earned a master’s degree in music theory and composition. She completed doctoral studies in music composition at University of Miami, studying with Lansing McLoskey and Charles Norman Mason. She is currently a visiting Professor of Music at Grand Valley State University, and serves on the Percussive Arts Society’s Composition Committee.
Song for Lyndsay (2005) (5’30”)
Andrew Boysen, Jr. (b.1968)
Song for Lyndsay was commissioned by Jack Stamp at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. It is an expansion on a short and unnamed piano piece that Boysen wrote for his wife, Lyndsay, in 2005.
The wind piece is larger in length and scope than the source material; in the score, Boysen describes it as “a very personal work ... more than anything else a simple love song dedicated to Lyndsay and what she has meant in my life.”
The piano piece is used as a starting point, and the material in the winds is either based on or a direct quotation of it. Lyrical in nature and just over five minutes long, solo horn and solo flute are prominent throughout; this scoring is deliberately and symbolically used because Boysen plays the horn and his wife plays the flute.
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Andrew Boysen, Jr. is currently a Professor of Music 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.
Caravan (2023) (6’)
Chandler Wilson (b.1984)
Caravan is a work that represents a journey like that of the Bedouin, found in the desert regions of the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited those regions, and are known as herders of camels and goats. Many have abandoned their nomadic and tribal traditions, but some still maintain traditional Bedouin culture through music, poetry, and dance. Caravan was commissioned and premiered by the University of Central Florida Concert Band, and their conductor Dave Schreier.
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Chandler Wilson is the Assistant Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Florida State University. His responsibilities with athletic bands include being a part of the creative team behind the Marching Chiefs and FSU’s athletic pep band program, Seminole Sound. Dr. Wilson earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Florida A&M University, a Master of Arts in Wind Band Conducting from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Music Education with an emphasis in Wind Band Conducting from Florida State University. Many of Dr. Wilson’s compositions have been premiered and performed on the concert band stage with All-County/District Honor Bands, and performed at the Music for All National Festival and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
The Cave You Fear (2014) (3’40”)
Michael Markowski (b.1986)The Cave You Fear is a suspenseful musical journey into the unknown with the mysterious and tantalizing sounds of this intriguing piece. Serving as a thrilling call to adventure, the moving music urges the listener to venture out of their comfort zone and take chances while seizing the opportunity to aspire to and achieve greatness. So for the next four minutes, let’s take a chance, let’s venture into the dark unknown, let’s fight whatever monsters we find in there. And although we might not always prevail, at least we’ll have a story to tell by the end.
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Michael Markowski graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in ‘Film Practices’ from Arizona State University. While Markowski never studied music in college, his primary music teachers have included Gary Larkins, Dawn Parker, Jon Gomez, Dr. Karl Schindler, and Michael Shapiro. He has continued this education by participating in a number of extracurricular programs, such as The Art of Orchestration with Steven Scott Smalley (2008), the National Band Association’s Young Composer and Conductor Mentorship Project (2008), and the NYU/ASCAP Foundation’s Film Scoring Workshop (2014) where he was named one of ASCAP’s Film & TV “Composers to Watch.” Mark Snow, composer of The X-Files and one of the workshop’s guest mentors, says Michael’s music was “extremely sophisticated” and “complimented the mood and emotion of the scene with unusual maturity and sensitivity.” Most recently, Markowski was invited to join the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (2015) as a composer and lyricist.
On Shores of Endless Sea (2022) (6’00”)
Kevin Day (b.1996)
On Shores of Endless Sea depicts feelings of serenity, while longing for a paradise of immense beauty and majesty. A place where endless seas and endless peace abide. This piece is based on the hymn “Called By Earth and Sky,” particularly this verse:
Precious these waters endless seas, deep ocean’s dream, Waters of healing, rivers of rain, the wash of love again.
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Kevin Day is an internationally acclaimed composer, conductor, and jazz pianist currently based near Toronto, Canada. His music has been performed by some of the world’s top instrumental soloists, wind bands, chamber ensembles, and symphony orchestras. Day has composed over 250 works, several concerti, and has had performances throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Japan, and more. He is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship for Music Composition, a winner of the BMI Composer Award, a three-time ASCAP Morton Gould Finalist, a finalist for the ABA Sousa-Oswald Award, a finalist for the NBA Revelli Award, and was considered for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Concerto for Wind Ensemble.
España Cañi (1921/1998) (3’30”)
Pascual Marquina (1873-1948) arr. Robert Longfield
España Cañi has been one of the band world’s most popular pasodobles for many years. Known equally well at the bullfight arena and in the concert hall, the mood of the work is set at the opening with staccato rhythm patterns played at a deliberate tempo -- as if from a distance. Unlike the typical military or concert march, the pasodoble is often performed at a tempo which may vary from time to time, depending on both the circumstances of the performance and the apparent wishes of the composer. Marquina’s varied experiences in the musical and social life of Spain obviously helped him in the composition of this imaginative and exciting pasodoble.
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Pascual Marquina was a prolific Spanish orchestral and operatic composer, known particularly for his pasodoble works. His first music lessons came from his father, but after seven years he became part of the Children’s Choir of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. By the age of nine he was playing flute with the Musical Band of the Bilbilitana Union. At fifteen he wrote his first composition, a work for tenor and organ entitled Osarum. He became director of Band of Daroca at age seventeen. Following military service in the Regiment Band Luchana in Barcelona, Marquina studied composition and harmony at the Municipal Music Conservatory of Barcelona under the supervision of José María Varela Silvari and Martinez Sorolla y Bonet, among others.
Scrapin’ (2021) (3’30”)
Benjamin Horne (b.1995)
Scrapin’ evokes the scene of some type of an argument or scrap. The work includes influences of trap music while also providing an educational opportunity with aleatoric music. Scrapin’ was composed as one of six new works for “The Young Bands Composition Consortium” and premiered by Wildwood Middle High School, conducted by Anthony Morris.
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Benjamin Horne is currently a Doctoral Wind Conducting and Master’s Music Composition student at Michigan State University. He previously earned a Master’s degree at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Euphonium Performance and earned his Bachelor’s at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University (GA) with degrees in Music Education, Music Performance, and a Certificate in Music Composition. Horne studied composition with Dr. James Ogburn, Dr. Don Freund, and Dr. Sky Macklay. His works and arrangements span various styles. Horne’s works and arrangements have received many honors and have been performed around the world including at the Latzsch Trombone Festival in Germany, as well as performances at other events such as the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, the International Trombone Festival, the Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra and Music Conference, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the International Horn Society Symposium, and many state education conferences.
Illumination (2013) (5’00”)
David Maslanka (1943-2017)Illumination is an open and cheerful piece in a quick tempo. I am especially interested in composing music for young people that allows them a vibrant experience of their own creative energy. A powerful experience of this sort stays in the heart and mind as a channel for creative energy, no matter what the life path. Music shared in community brings this vital force to everyone.
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David Maslanka has become one of America’s most original and celebrated musical voices. He has published dozens of works for wind ensemble, orchestra, choir, percussion ensembles, chamber ensembles, solo instrument, and solo voice. However, he is especially well-known for his wind ensemble works. Of his nine symphonies, seven are written for wind ensemble, and an additional forty-one works include among them the profound “short symphony” Give Us This Day, and the amusing Rollo Takes a Walk. Year after year, Maslanka’s music is programmed by professional, collegiate, and secondary school wind ensembles around the world.
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