Yale Concert Band Spring Concert - April 14, 2022

Yale Concert Band Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director

Spring Concert Thursday, April 14, 2021 at 7:30 p.m., Woolsey Hall, Yale University

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ADA Fanfare (1997)

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Crystals (1985) I. Dark Ice II. Underwater Rubies III. Cyanide IV. Monolith

GEORGE GERSHWIN arr. Jerry Brubaker

An American in Paris (1929/1994)

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A Parisian in America (2000)

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To the Horizon (2007)

~ INTERMISSION ~

ALAN HOVHANESS arr. Thomas. C. Duffy

Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, op. 211 (1965/1998) Alex Wynn TD ’22, marimba

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Century Shouts (An Urban March) (2012)

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Frozen Flames March (2009)

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And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest (2000)

About Tonight’s Music The one-minute ADA Fanfare is constructed from the pitches A, D, and A, drawn from the acrostic of the American Dietetic Association. As this Association works with topics of interest and concern to all people, the composer embraced the similarities between the ADA musical motive and the materials of Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. This fanfare was premiered at the 1997 national conference of the American Dietetic Association in Boston, Massachusetts, as the result of a collaboration between the composer and the ADA president, Branford (CT) resident Polly Fitz.

Program notes for the following pieces will be presented from the stage.

Crystals was commissioned in 1985 by the Killingly (CT) High School Concert Band, John Kusinski, Director. It is published by Ludwig Music Publishing Company.

An American in Paris (1929) – George Gershwin/arr. Jerry Brubaker.

A Parisian in America was commissioned in 2000 by the Connecticut Chapter of American School Band Directors Association. It is published by Plankton Press.

To The Horizon was commissioned in 2007 by Wayne State College Wind Ensemble, David Bohnert, director.

It is published by Plankton Press.

Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op. 211 – Alan Hovhaness/arr. Thomas C. Duffy. This transcription is published by C. F. Peters.

Century Shouts: An Urban March was commissioned by the Neighborhood Music School Youth Wind Ensemble to celebrate the centennial of the Neighborhood Music School. It is published by Plankton Press.

Frozen Flames March was commissioned in 2009 by Sony Pictures for the soundtrack of the movie “The Bounty Hunter,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. It is published by Plankton Press.

And Flights of Angels Sing Thee To Thy Rest was commissioned in 2000 by the New England College Band Association, in memoriam Stanley Hettinger. It is published by Plankton Press.

YALE CONCERT BAND

About the Music Director Thomas C. Duffy is Professor (Adjunct) of Music, Director of University Bands, and Clinical Professor of Nursing at Yale University, where he has worked since 1982. He is known 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 New York City’s Village Vanguard, Birdland, Dizzy’s Club, and Iridium; Ronnie Scott’s (London); the Belmont (Bermuda); as part of the inaugural ceremonies for President George H.W. Bush; and concertized in twenty-one countries in the course of eighteen 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.

Duffy has 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, 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. 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, including the National Association for Music Education’s National Honor Band in the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. (More extensive data is available at www.duffymusic.com, including a high resolution downloadable photo.)

Upcoming Yale Bands Performances • Sunday, April 24, 2022: Yale Concert Band Special Concert, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director. Works by Duffy, composer and Director of Bands since 1982, to celebrate his 40th year at Yale University. Feat. Butterflies and Bees!, Crystals, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, A+, And Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest, and a special movie showing of the Yale Concert Band’s 1993 peformance of Duffy’s Whispers of the Patriots, Walter Cronkite, narrator. Woolsey Hall, 2:00 p.m.

Free tickets required/get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/300796860507.

• Tuesday, April 26, 2022: Yale Jazz Ensemble Big Band in New York, Wayne Escoffery, Music Director and saxophone.

Celebrating the centennial of the birth of legendary bassist and composer Charles Mingus. With special guests trombonist Frank Lacy and trumpeter Michael Philip Mossman. Dizzy’s Club, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. $ Tickets required/get tickets here: https://2022.jazz.org/the-yale-jazz-ensemble.

Attenance is limited to asymptomatic, fully vaccinated individuals with an up to date vaccination status. Up to date means a person has received all recommended COVID-19 vaccines for their age range, including any booster doses when eligible. Guests will be required to show proof of vaccination and a matching photo ID at the door. Face masks must be worn at all times while inside the venue. Other individuals are invited to view the live stream at https://bands.yalecollege.yale.edu/listen-yale-bands-0.

YALE CONCERT BAND 2021-2022 THOMAS C. DUFFY, Music Director STEPHANIE HUBBARD, Business Manager

Piccolo Salena Huang GSAS 26

Bb Bass Clarinet Kean Xiong YSM 23

Flutes Rosa Kleinman BF 23 principal Emily He DC 24 Maddy Park MY 25 Seb Seager SM 23 Yaa Owusu JE 22* Katie Handler TC 22* Elijah Bakaleynik DC 24 Denise Peng ES 25

Bassoons Pax Ryan BK 25 Katia Osorio YSM 22

Oboes Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma BR 23 principal Ana Rodrigues BR 25 Ryan Tie-Shue SM 22* Zara Ashford SY 25 English horn Ryan Tie-Shue SM 22* Bb Clarinets Jalen Li PC Keith L. Wilson Principal Clarinet Chair† Margalit Patry-Martin GH 24 Daphne Zhu ES 22* Joshua Rothbaum TD 23 Jessica Liu GH 25 Daniel Denney ES 24 Kayleigh Hackett SY 25

Alto Saxophones Tony Ruan BF 25 principal Sahil Mane TC 24 Matthew Fan BF 24 Dennis Lee DC 24 Alina Martel TC 23

Trombones Theo Haaks BR 24 Aaron Smith BF 25 Cody Uman MC 25 Euphonium John Liu TD 25 Tubas Bridget Conley YSM 23 Vivian Kung YSM 22 Sourav Roy TC 25

Bb Tenor Saxophones Aaron Yu MC 25 principal Esteban Figueroa MC 25 Eb Baritone Saxophone Michael Chen GH 23 Cornets/Trumpets James Brandfonbrener MC 22* principal Jordan Romano TC 25 Izzy Lopez MY 24 Shania Cordoba YSM 23 French horns Annie Citron MC 25 Stephanie Fritz YSM 23 Raoul Herskovits MC 25 Keenan Miller DC 24

Organ Ethan Haman YSM 22 Percussion Jack McArthur MY 22 Max Su SY 25* Tristan Weaver SM 22* Alex Wynn TD 22* Michael Yeung YSM 22 Music Librarian Michael Chen GH 23

* Seniors graduating in 2022 † 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 CONCERT BAND OFFICERS President: Alina Martel General Managers: Theo Haaks, Tony Ruan

Publicity Chair: Seb Seager Social Chairs: Jalen Li, Joshua Rothbaum

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