Side by Side: The Nutcracker Swings!

Yale Concert Band and Yale Jazz Ensemble Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director present

Side by Side: The Nutcracker Swings!

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite” transcribed for wind band by Mayhew L. Lake and arranged for big band by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Saturday, December 1, 2018, at 2 p.m.

Woolsey Hall 500 College Street, New Haven Free Admission*

*Cash donations will be accepted to support IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services)

Program

SLEIGH RIDE Leroy Anderson Yale Concert Band THE NUTCRACKER SUITE Peter I. Tchaikovsky Titre original Yale Concert Band Yale Jazz Ensemble arr. Mayhew L. Lake arr. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn Overture Miniature Miniature Overture Overture Jazz Solos: Ethan Dodd – tenor sax; Mike Gancz – trombone; Thomas Blum – trumpet Danse Arabe Arabian Dance Arabesque Cookie Jazz Solos: Nick Indorf – piccolo; Lyman McBride, Mike Gancz, Andy Pantoja – trombone; Ethan Dodd, Christian Fernandez – clarinets; Nick Szabo – bass clarinet; Hersh Gupta – alto saxophone Danse de la Fee-Dragee Dance - Sugar Plum Fairy Sugar Rum Cherry Jazz Solos: Nick Szabo – baritone saxophone; Nick Indorf – tenor saxophone Danse Russe Trépak Russian Dance Volga Vouty Jazz Solos: Jason Altshuler – trumpet; Hersh Gupta – alto saxophone; Lyman McBride – trombone; Ethan Dodd – clarinet Danse Chinoise Chinese Dance Chinoiserie Jazz Solos: Ethan Dodd – clarinet; Nick Indorf – tenor saxophone Danse Des Mirlitons Dance of the Reed Flutes Toot Toot Tootie Toot Jazz Solos: Nick Szabo – baritone saxophone; Ethan Dodd – clarinet Valse des Fleurs Waltz of the Flowers Danse of the Floreadores Jazz Solos: Lyman McBride, Andy Pantoja – trombones; Nick Szabo – baritone saxophone; Jason Altshuler – trumpet; Ethan Dodd – clarinet Marche March of the Toy Soldiers Peanut Brittle Brigade Jazz Solos: Nick Indorf – tenor saxophone; Marc-Henry Dorval – trumpet; Ben Grobman – piano Please donate to IRIS! In the spirit of the season, we are collecting cash donations to support Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS). Please give as generously as you can at one of the Yale Band tables located in the first and second floor lobbies. Thank you!

Yale University Bands P.O. Box 209048, New Haven, CT 06520-9048 ph: (203) 432-4111; fax: (203) 432-7213 stephanie.hubbard@yale.edu; www.yale.edu/yaleband

About the Music Director Thomas C. Duffy (b. 1955) is Professor (Adjunct) of Music and Director of University Bands at Yale University, where he has worked since 1982. He has established himself as a composer, a conductor, a teacher, an administrator, and a leader. His interests and research range from non-tonal analysis to jazz, from wind band history to creativity and the brain. Under his direction, the Yale Bands have performed at conferences of the College Band Directors National Association and New England College Band Association; for club audiences at NYC’s Village Vanguard and Iridium, Ronnie Scotts’s (London), and the Belmont (Bermuda); performed as part of the inaugural ceremonies for President George H.W. Bush; and concertized in nineteen countries in the course of sixteen international tours.

Duffy produced a two-year lecture/performance series, Music and the Brain, with the Yale School of Medicine; and, with the Yale School of Nursing, developed a musical intervention to train nursing students to better hear and identify body sounds with the stethoscope. He combined his interests in music and science to create a genre of music for the bilateral conductor - in which a “split-brained conductor” must conduct a different meter in each hand, sharing downbeats. His compositions have introduced a generation of school musicians to aleatory, the integration of spoken/sung words and “body rhythms” with instrumental performance, and the pairing of music with political, social, historical and scientific themes. He has been awarded the Yale Tercentennial Medal for Composition, the Elm/ Ivy Award, the Yale School of Music Cultural Leadership Citation and certificates of appreciation by the United States Attorney’s Office for his Yale 4/Peace: Rap for Justice concerts – music programs designed for social impact by using the power of music to deliver a message of peace and justice to impressionable middle and high school students.

From 1996 to 2006, he served as associate, deputy and acting dean of the Yale School of Music. He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee, the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee, and the Grammy Foundation Music Educators Award Screening Committee, and completed the MLE program at the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education. He has served as: president of the Connecticut Composers Inc., the New England College Band Directors Association and the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA); editor of the CBDNA Journal, publicity chair for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles; and chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees. For nine years, he represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program. He is a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, the Social Science Club, and BMI. Duffy has conducted ensembles all over the world and was selected to conduct the NAFME National Honor Band in the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. Upcoming Yale Bands Performances • Friday, February 15, 2019: Yale Concert Band Winter Concert. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. La Fiesta Mexicana (H. Owen Reed), Magic of this Dawn (Christopher Sainsbury), 7:30 pm, Woolsey Hall. Free.

• Monday February 25, 2019: Yale Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Program TBA. 7:30 pm. Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Free.

• Sunday, March 31, 2019: Stan Wheeler and Marcia Chambers Memorial Jazz Concert. Yale Jazz Ensemble, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director, and the Reunion Jazz Ensemble. 2:00 pm, Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street. Free.

• Friday, April 12, 2019: Yale Concert Band Spring Concert. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. The Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky/Terry Vosbein), Symphony No. 1 (FrankTicheli). 7:30 pm, Woolsey Hall. Free.

• Monday, April 15, 2019: Yale Jazz Ensemble in New York. Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Featuring Randy Brecker and Wayne Escoffery. Dizzy’s Coca Cola Jazz Club, Lincoln Center. Details TBA. • Sunday, May 19, 2019: Yale Concert Band Annual Twilight Concert. Ceremonial music on the eve of Yale’s Commencement. 7:00 pm, outside on the Old Campus. Free.

YALE CONCERT BAND 2018-2019 THOMAS C. DUFFY, Music Director STEPHANIE HUBBARD, Business Manager

Piccolo Ben Tillinger MY 21 Flutes Beatrice Brown PC 19* Jeremy Goldwasser MY 21 Julia Cai BR 20 Melissa Leone SY 21 Yaa Owusu JE 22 Katie Handler TC 21 Sarah Monahan MY 21 Oboes Ryan Tie-Shue SM 22* Madison Murphy JE 22

Bassoons Maddy Tung TD 21* Bradford Case SM 20 Kunsang Dorjee TD 22 Alto Saxophones Nick DeWalt SY 21* Jacob Hillman BK 19 Flynn Chen TC 20 Jose Key TC 22 Tenor Saxophone Antonio Medina MY 19 Baritone Saxophone Sara Harris SY 19

Eb Clarinet Alex Brod BK 19 Clarinets Christopher Zhou PC 19 Keith L. Wilson Principal Clarinet Chair** Eric Wang PC 21 Daphne Zhu ES 22 Christian Fernandez BF 20 Jessica Oki TC 20 Heather McClure MY 20 Derek Chen TD 22 Bass Clarinet Maddie Bender TD 20

Cornet/sTrumpets (rotating) Eli Baum JE 19* James Brandfonbrener MC 21 Joseph Cho BR 22 Adam Tucker MC 21 Jacob Zavatone-Veth MY 19 French Horns (rotating) Claire Calkins PC 22 Miriam Huerta BF 22 Michael McNamara TD 20 Sida Tang SY 19 Trombones Elliott Smith BR 22* Robert Howard GH 21 Luke Benz SM 19 Jordan Crimminger YSM 20

Euphonium Daniel Vaitkus YSM 19 Tubas Adam Wolnikowski TC 21 String Bass Kelvin Ng YSM 19 Harp Michelle Tong MY 21 Celeste Julia Weiner BK 19 Percussion David Zuckerman DC 20* Meshach Cornelius ES 22 Ryan Haygood BF 21 Jack McArthur MY 22 Lance Saddler MY 22 Alexandria Wynn TD 22 Music Librarian James Brandfonbrener *principal

**Friends of Keith L. Wilson (Director of Yale Bands from 1946–1973) honored him by endowing the principal clarinet chair in the Yale Concert Band in his name. If you would like information about naming a Yale Concert Band chair, please contact the Yale Bands office.

YALE JAZZ ENSEMBLE 2018-2019 THOMAS C. DUFFY, Music Director STEPHANIE HUBBARD, Business Manager LYMAN McBRIDE, Assistant to the Director

Clarinet Christian Fernandez BF 20 Alto Saxophones Hersh Gupta GH 20 Jose Key TC 22 Tenor Saxophones Nick Indorf DC 19 Ethan Dodd JE 22 Baritone Saxophone Nick Szabo BK 20

Trumpets Chloe Swindler MUS 18 Marc-Henry Dorval BK 22 Jason Altshuler ES 22 Thomas Blum DC 22

Piano Ben Grobman SY 21

Trombones Lyman McBride YSM 20 Andy Pantoja BK 22 Michael Gancz MY 21 Zach Haas MUS 18

Bass Calvin Kaleel TD 22 Adin Ring SY 22

Guitar JJ Borja GH 20

Drums Russell Fisher YSM 20