Bigger Than Life: Benny Goodman

BIGGER THAN LIFE BIG BAND MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN

yale jazz ensemble thomas c. duffy Music Director september 29 2009 with Vincent Oneppo, clarinet

Robert Blocker, Dean

september 29, 2009 · 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

BIGGER THAN LIFE BIG BAND MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN

Fanny Baldridge and Gregory Stone Arr. Fletcher Henderson (1939)

Let’s Dance Tom Bergeron, trumpet Tsega Bekele, tenor saxophone Dominic Insogna, tenor saxophone

George Gershwin Arr. Tommy Todd (1947)

S’Wonderful Tom Bergeron, trumpet Dominic Insogna, tenor saxophone Bret Hembd, piano

George Gershwin Arr. Jimmy Knepper (1962)

The Man I Love Bret Hembd, piano Tom Bergeron, trumpet Andy Rogers, alto saxophone One O’Clock Jump Bret Hembd, piano Tsega Bekele, tenor saxophone Brett Leghorn, trombone Samuel Adams, bass Tom Bergeron, trumpet

Cole Porter Unidentified arranger (1946)

Love For Sale Bret Hembd, piano Carl Runge, trumpet

Mel Powell (1942)

Mission to Moscow Intermission

a tribute to the king of swing A Festival for Benny Goodman’s 100th Birthday

(continued)

Mel Powell (1945)

Clarinade

George Gershwin Arr. Fletcher Henderson (1936)

Somebody Loves Me Dominic Insogna, tenor saxophone

Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson Arr. Edgar Sampson (1938)

Don’t Be That Way Brett Leghorn, trombone Abe Bekele, trumpet

Eubie Blake

Memories of You Chris Akins, Guitar Bret Hembd, piano Samuel Adams, bass Matthew King, drums Bret Leghorn, trombone

Louis Prima Arr. Jimmy Mundy (1937)

Sing Sing Sing Matthew King, drums Bret Hembd, piano

The arrangements performed in tonight’s program have been selected from the Benny Goodman Papers in the Gilmore Music Library. We are grateful to the library staff in making these materials available for performance, and encourage the audience to visit the Gilmore Library in Sterling Memorial Library to view items on display from the Goodman Papers, on view until November 2.

yale jazz ensemble Thomas Duffy, Director · Samuel Adams, Assistant to the Director

alto saxophone Andy Rogers ‘10 Julian Domo ‘11 tenor saxophone Dominic Insogna ‘12 Tsega e Bekele ‘10 baritone saxophone Zoe Lapalombara ‘13 The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band, performs a wide variety of music, from pieces in the Benny Goodman archive to the newest, most progressive jazz compositions.

The ensemble has performed in the United States and internationally at such noted venues as New York’s Village Vanguard and Iridium Jazz Club and London’s Ronnie Scott’s.

The YJE has played with or opened for the Mingus Big Band, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis.

trumpet Tom Bergeron ysm’09 Carl Runge ‘13 Abe Bekele ‘13 trombone Brett Leghorn grad Saranya Sethuraman ‘11 Abby Lawlor ‘11 piano Bret Hembd law guitar Chris Akers ‘13 bass Samuel Adams ysm drums Matthew King ‘10

artist profiles

Thomas C. Duffy, composer and conductor, is professor (adjunct) of music and director of bands at Yale University. He served as acting dean of the School of Music in 2005–2006, having served as associate dean since 1996 and deputy dean since 1999. He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee and a member of the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee. He attended the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education in 2005.

He has served as president of the New England College Band Directors Association and the College Band Directors National Association (cbdna) Eastern Division, 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, and he has represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program.

He is president elect of the College Band Directors National Association. He is a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, and BMI.

Vincent Oneppo has performed the big band music of Benny Goodman numerous times at Yale over the past several years. He was soloist in two concerts of music from the Goodman papers, including an all-Fletcher Henderson program, under the direction of Willie Ruff, and organized The Flipside Jazz Orchestra in a concert on the Chamber Music Society at Yale concert series commemorating the George Gershwin centenary.

A year later, with Thomas C. Duffy and the Flipside Jazz Orchestra, he performed as soloist in a program entitled “Benny Meets the Duke,” and played several times with Duffy and the Yale Band in recreations of Glenn Miller’s 1943 radio broadcasts from Woolsey Hall. Also a saxophonist, Mr. Oneppo has performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, including a jazz program for the centenary of Richard Rodgers. He has played with many local jazz groups and dance bands, including the BalesGitlin Band, with whom he has been associated for over 30 years.

A 1973 graduate of the Yale School of Music and a student of Keith Wilson, Mr. Oneppo has performed with the New Haven and An active composer with a D.M.A. in composi- Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras and Orchestra tion from Cornell University, where he was a New England. A long-time employee of Yale student of Karel Husa and Steven Stucky, he University, he is currently director of the concert has accepted commissions from the American and media office at the School of Music.

Composers Forum, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Field Band, and many bands, choruses, and orchestras.

He joined the Yale faculty in 1982.

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