Symphonic Band Concert 10/12/22

UIC SYMPHONIC BAND Bring the light!

Nicholas J. Carlson, director Wednesday, October 12, 2022 7:30pm UIC Theatre 1044 W Harrison St

UIC 10TH ANNUAL HONORS BAND FESTIVAL

NOV. 4-6, 2022

The UIC Honors Band Festival brings together top high school students from the Chicago area and other parts of Illinois for a challenging weekend of collaboration to create a wonderful concert experience. During the festival, your student will work with a renowned guest conductor as well as UIC faculty and students. The festival also includes a performance from UIC Ensembles, a master class with UIC performance faculty, and a

FESTIVAL CONDUCTOR Ogechi Ukazu, University of Texas NOMINATION PERIOD Sep 12- Oct 14, 2022 BAND DIRECTORS Nominate your students at

go.uic.edu/honorsband Oct 10 - 21, 2022 Students selected to attend the

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Repertoire

Fanfare-Hayabusa (2011)

Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 1975)

Chorale and Shaker Dance (1972)

John Zdechlik (b. 1937)

The Hunger Games (2012)

James Newton Howard (b. 1951) arr. Jay Boccok

Mephisto Masqué, Polka Fantastique (1889/2021)

Edmond Dédé (1827-1901) arr. Lawren Briana Ware

consortium premiere

Heavenwards (2015)

Illumination (2013)

William Owens (b. 1963)

David Maslanka (1943-2017) UIC Symphonic Band Nicholas J. Carlson, director

Personnel Flute Mario Saucedo* Lupe Cuellar Oboe Chihiro Bacon Clarinet Karthik Thangasaravanan* Bridget Danaher Mia Hage Seokhoon Jeong Brandon Quintero Danny Chavez Kattya Orozco Mauricio Mora Jakob Cederlund Citlalli Santiago Heather McCall Bass Clarinet Arely Gil Bassoon Carmen Thom

Alto Saxophone Nathen Priyonggo* Hillary Hymbaugh* Jazmine Ralford Anna Fagan Jasmine Gutierrez Logan Johnson Pauline DeGracia

Trombone Rebecca Nika* Isaiah Brew Anne Gallo Robert Cornett Euphonium Avjeet Aulakh* Gabriel Flemenbaum +

Tenor Saxophone Adam Morales Baritone Saxophone Jocelyn Wagner Roberto Gutierrez Trumpet William Shepelak* Aubrie DaVall Uriel Delgado Alan Gonzalez Rodrigo Orozco Valentin Zamudio Horn Kyle Hankosky * Colin Waratuke Mathias Morales Lauren Cole

Tuba Emmanuel Pizana* + Eduardo Alonso Percussion Mia Peric* Anna Elsen* Ethan Cruz Matthew Fabian Daniel Perez Arya Dalal Piano Matthew Fabian *Denotes principal or co-principal + Denotes member of Kappa Kappa Psi

Program Notes Fanfare Hayabusa Satoshi Yagisawa was born in 1975 and graduated from the Department of Composition at Musashino Academia Musicae. After completing his master's degree he continued research studies for two additional years. His compositions for wind orchestra are popular in Japan and many other countries. They were introduced in Teaching Music Through Performance in Band published by GIA Publications in the United States, published by De Haske Publications in Holland and Bravo Music in America, selected as a compulsory piece for the University of North Texas Conductors' Collegium, and performed at the 12th World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Singapore and the Midwest Clinic (2008) in Chicago. In Japan, he has composed music for National Arbor Day, National Sports Festival, Japan Intra-High School Athletic Meets as well as numerous leading ensembles in Japan. Yagisawa was appointed Ceremonial Music Director for the National Sports Festival 2010 in the State of Chiba, Japan.

Developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Hayabusa asteroid probe returned to earth on June 13, 2010, completing its mission as the first ever spacecraft to obtain surface samples from an asteroid. Fanfare Hayabusa was commissioned by the band of NEC Tamagawa, conducted by Ikuo Inagaki, to commemorate the success of the Hayabusa mission. At the premiere performance in Minato Ward, Tokyo, the piece was so successful the audience demanded it be performed again as an encore.

-program note by the composer

Chorale and Shaker Dance Chorale and Shaker Dance, written in 1972, combines a simple chorale theme, introduced by the woodwinds, with variations of the well-known Shaker hymn Simple Gifts. There is a progression of instrumental timbres and chord textures as the theme alternate and co-mingle. Brief solos for flute, clarinet, saxophone, and trumpet occur at tempo changes. The brass and woodwinds exchange the themes as time signatures cause in increased in both tempo and intensity. Sustained brass sections play the chorale with woodwinds performing a fiery obligato based on the Shaker hymn as the development peaks. A demanding tympani part punctuates the dramatic ending.

-Program Note by Santa Clara University (Calif.) Wind Symphony

The Hunger Games In Suzanne Collins’s 2008 young adult novel The Hunger Games, readers are introduced to a dystopian America of the future. In this totalitarian state, the Capitol and its citizens are bathed in wealth and comfort, while its outlying districts must live in poverty, working tirelessly to provide resources for the Capitol. Each year, the districts must send two children—one male and one female—to the Capitol as tributes to fight to the death in a pseudo-natural arena until only one victor remains.

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This annual ceremony, known as the Hunger Games, is regularly instituted by the Capitol as a reminder to the districts of the power of the government and the futility of uprising. For the 2012 film adaptation, composer James Newton Howard’s score captures both the bloated, artificial pomp of the Capitol’s ceremonies and the painful relief that a victor must feel as they return home after surviving a nightmarish ordeal in which they must kill in order to survive.

This arrangement opens with the flute sounding the four-note motive of Rue, an innocent young girl who dies in the arena. This motive is repeated three more times with whistles, simulating the mockingjay, a bird that mimics what it hears and that ultimately becomes a symbol of the united districts as they band together against the Capitol in later novels of the series. This gives way to a lyrically bittersweet section, “Tenuous Winners/Returning Home.” Suddenly, a broad march (“Horn of Plenty”) breaks forth led by the drums and trumpets. The march is steady and impressive, but it lacks any authentic joy. It is pomp without heart, a musical picture of the Capitol.

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Note by Nick Cherone

Mephisto Masque, Polka Fantastique This arrangement is based on the composer’s version for the piano, but Dédé also composed a version for solo ophicleide and orchestra during the same year. The work conveys many of the stylistic characteristics of the late Romantic era including using the well-known form of the polka with the standard harmonic modulations, characteristic rhythmic motives, chromaticism, and flashy sixteenth note scalar passages. In the context of Dédé’s career, this work arrives fairly late. After gathering funds from friends and neighbors and successfully auditioning to enter the Paris Conservatory in 1857, Dédé really never turned his back on life in France. He married Sylvie Leflet in 1864 and earned his first appointment in Bordeaux, France where he led the Theatre l'Alcazar (seen pictured below on the left) for the next twenty-seven years.

Prior to his time in France, Dédé began his career in New Orleans. His first work to be published, Mon pauvre coeur for voice and piano, is widely regarded as the first composition published by a Creole composer in New Orleans.

At the time, he supplemented his income from composing and performing with his steady work at the local cigar factory while he saved up for a steamboat ticket to France. In 1865, Dédé had his first major work premiered, the Quasimodo Symphony, which was conducted by leading Black conductor Samuel Snaër, Jr., in New Orleans with an integrated orchestra in front of an integrated audience. Throughout his tenure in Bordeaux, Dédé honed his compositional, conducting and violin technique. His work there required him to provide audiences with consistently original, impressive and exciting performances and this frequently meant that he gave violin concert pieces, leading the orchestra from the podium. Consequently, much of his musical output would be considered akin to overtures complex works with a variety of themes that are tied up in under six minutes.

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In addition to the numerous overtures, Dédé wrote eight operas and eleven ballets. It was near the end of his tenure in Bordeaux that Dédé composed Mephisto Masque, one of four published polkas (he also published ten waltzes).

A major event in Dédé’s life was his only return to New Orleans in 1893. Impressively, the steamship wrecked off the coast of Texas and Dédé survived, although his prized Cremona violin did not. The concert tour went off without another hitch and was held with critical acclaim. One year into the journey, after becoming increasingly weary of the indignities of segregation and racist policies, Dédé returned to France with his wife and son to live out their years in Paris before he passed away in 1903.

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Program note provided by the publisher

Heavenwards Composing music to honor the memory of a departed loved one is never an easy task. At the request of the Crane (TX) High School Band and director Daniel Todd, this work comes with deep condolences and a heavy heart.

Heavenwards is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Stephanie Alvarez, whose life and those of her parents were tragically lost in 2013. As the work solemnly cherishes dear ones lost, the occasional uplifting moments in the music strive to depict three beautiful souls walking hand-in-hand toward eternal happiness. Interestingly, the last chord of the piece does not resolve in traditional fashion, suggesting everlasting peace and tranquility.

- Program Note by composer

Illumination “Illumination” -- lighting up, bringing light. 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. Illumination is an open and cheerful piece in a quick tempo, with a very direct A-B-A song form.

Illumination: Overture for Band was composed for the Franklin, Massachusetts', public schools. The commission was started by Nicole Wright, band director at the Horace Mann Middle School in Franklin, when she discovered that my grandnephew was in her band. The piece was initially to have been for her young players, but the idea grew to make it the center of the dedication concert at the opening of Franklin’s new high school building. Rehearsals of Illumination were actually the first musical sounds made in their fine new auditorium.

- Program note by composer

Biographies Nicholas J. Carlson Nicholas J. Carlson joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Chicago in the fall of 2010 and currently serves as Senior Lecturer, Acting Director of Bands, and Coordinator of Instrumental Music. His responsibilities include conducting the Wind Ensemble, teaching the undergraduate conducting curriculum, teaching clarinet and chamber music, and all administrative aspects of the UIC band program. Mr. Carlson is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Band Conducting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to his work in Chicago, he was a graduate associate for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) band department, where he earned a Master of Music degree with a dual concentration in instrumental conducting and clarinet performance under the direction of John Climer and Todd Levy, respectively. He served as the graduate conducting associate with the UWM University Band and UWM Youth Wind Ensembles and assisted with the overall administration of the university band program.

Mr. Carlson is an active conductor, clinician, and freelance clarinetist and performs regularly throughout the Midwest. He is the Music Director/Conductor of the University of Chicago Wind Ensemble and the Music Co-Director/Conductor of the Chicago Public Schools All-City Symphonic Band I. He has given numerous clinics throughout the greater Chicagoland area and has guest conducted honor bands in Wisconsin and Georgia. He is the principal clarinetist of the Chicago Arts Orchestra, Symphony847, and the Lake County Symphony Orchestra (LCSO). Other recent performances include the world premiere and recording of Music for Five by Marc Mellits, the Midwest premiere of Mohammed Fairouz’s clarinet concerto Tahrir, and a featured performance with the concert series New Music Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center. As a featured soloist of the LCSO, he performed the world premiere of Donald Walker’s Fantasy for Clarinet & Orchestra and the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto. He has also performed with the Milwaukee Skylight Opera, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Elgin Symphony Orchestra, Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, and the La Crosse Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Carlson attended the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in music education with Honors. Mr. Carlson taught instrumental music in the La Crosse Area School District and maintained a large private lesson studio. His professional affiliations include College Band Directors National Association, National Band Association, Music Educators National Conference, Illinois Music Educators Association, and Kappa Kappa Psi National Music Service Fraternity.

UIC Bands Personnel Faculty & Staff Nicholas J. Carlson, director of bands Ronald Stemley, pep band director Jordan Kamps, percussion Leon Fittanto, staff Luis Lema, staff Julian Peinado, staff Jason Soto, staff Phoebe Stoughton, staff

Kappa Kappa Psi National Band Fraternity Executive Board Luis Lema, president Liliana "Lily" Cruz, vice president of service Jericho Kadusale, vice president of membership Lauren Cole, treasurer Joshua Gibson, historian & secretary

Applied Faculty Mariana Gariazzo, flute Eugenia Moliner, flute Ricardo Castañeda, oboe John Gaudette, bassoon Nicholas Carlson, clarinet Jordan Lulloff, saxophone David Inmon, trumpet Jeremiah Frederick, horn

Andy Baker, trombone Scott Tegge, tuba/euphonium Sam Shuhan, string bass Jordan Kamps, percussion Ivana Bukvich, piano

About About UIC Bands The University of Illinois at Chicago Band Program is comprised of five different performing ensembles: the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Summer Winds, Pep Band and Percussion Ensemble. Throughout its history, the musicians in the band program have had the privilege of working with leading conductors, composers, and instrumentalist in the field. Recent guest artits have included such names as the New Century Saxophone Quartet, John Hennecken, James Syler, Brian Balmages, Xin Gao, James Grant, Marc Mellits, and Cater Pann. Each year the UIC Band Program hosts four youth programs: The UIC Honors Band Festival, the UIC Flames Band Day, the UIC Band and Orchestra Festival, and the UIC Symphonic Band Camp. Now in it’s ninth year, the UIC Honors Band Festival invites area high school musicians to collaborate and interact in a professional setting under the direction of nationally recognized conductors. The Honors Band Festival encourages students to individually grow as musicians and strengthen their high school ensembles. The festival also includes a performance from UIC ensembles, a master class with UIC faculty, and a shared final concert with the UIC Wind Ensemble.

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Calendar Wednesday, October 12 UIC Symphonic Band Concert UIC Theatre L280 1044 W. Harrison St. 7:30pm

Friday, October 21 UIC Choirs Notre Dame de Chicago 1334 W Flournoy St 7:00pm

Thursday, December 1 UIC Mariachi Band UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

Saturday, October 15 UIC Wind Ensemble Concert UIC Theatre L280 1044 W. Harrison St. 7:30pm

Friday-Sunday, November 4-6 UIC 10th Annual Honors Band Festival UIC Student Center East - Illinois Room 750 S Halsted St 2:00pm

Friday, December 2 UIC Percussion Ensemble UIC Theatre L280 1044 W. Harrison St. 7:30pm

Monday, October 17 UIC Jazz Workshop & Combo UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

Monday, November 21 UIC Symphonic Band Concert UIC Theatre L280 1044 W. Harrison St. 7:30pm

Saturday, December 3 UIC Holiday Concert Benito Juarez High School 2150 S Laflin St 7:00pm

Tuesday, October 18 UIC Orchestra Invitational UIC Student Center West 828 S Wolcott Ave 7:00pm

Tuesday, November 22 UIC Pop Rock Ensemble UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

Sunday, December 4 Small Ensembles Concert UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 3:00pm

Wednesday, October 19 UIC Jazz Ensemble & Combo UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

Tuesday, November 29 UIC Jazz Workshop & Combo UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

Thursday, October 20 Mariachi Fuego UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

Wednesday, November 30 UIC Jazz Ensemble & Combo UIC Recital Hall L285 1044 W Harrison St. 7:30pm

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