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Wind EnsembleRodney Dorsey, Conductor

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music presents the

American Bandmasters Association 87th Annual National Convention

Indiana University Wind Ensemble

Rodney Dorsey, Conductor

Schrott Center for the ArtsIndianapolis, Indiana

March 3, 2022 9:10 PM

1921 – 2021

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Ra! (2002) David Dzubay (b. 1964)

David Gregory, Guest ConductorDirector of Bands, Reinhardt University (Retired)

From Glory to Glory (2011) Kevin Walczyk (b.1964)

Ray E. Cramer, Guest ConductorDirector of Bands Emeritus, Indiana University

The Governor’s Own (1921) Alton Adams (1889-1987) (ed. Mark Clague)

Eric M. Smedley, ConductorAssociate Professor of Bands, Indiana University

Symphonic Movement (1966) Václav Nelhýbel (1919-1996)

Andrew Boysen, Jr., Guest ConductorWind Symphony Director, University of New Hampshire

In the Offing (2021, premiere) Joel Love (b.1982)

Stephen W. Pratt, Guest ConductorDirector of Bands Emeritus, Indiana University

From Double Concerto (2010; version for band, 2021, premiere) Anthony O’Toole (b.1988) Nocturne Scherzo-Finale

Otis Murphy, Alto SaxophoneProfessor of Saxophone, Indiana University

Demondrae Thurman, EuphoniumProfessor of Euphonium, Indiana University

Alexander Kaminsky, Guest ConductorDirector of Bands, Vandercook College

From Three Visions (1935) William Grant Still (1895-1978) Summerland (version for band, 1936)

Robert Sheldon, Guest ConductorComposer and International Clinician

From Symphony No. 2 (2003) Frank Ticheli (b.1958) Apollo Unleashed

Rodney Dorsey, ConductorProfessor of Bands, Indiana University

Program

PiccoloAshley Wening

FluteChris Pegram, principalSara BredemeyerOlivia DorerYuyang Wu

OboeKearsen Erwin, principalRachel BurkhalterMax Ryan, English Horn

BassoonKatie Mills, principal Evan Duffey

ClarinetJoe McKeever, principalKaitlyn YoungAaron Lipsky, E-FlatJake BasilAdrienne WardRayhan AhmedFrancisco VidalesAbbie QuesenberrySonya Bangia

Bass ClarinetMorgan KochanowskiAndrew Auchstetter

SaxophoneJosh Tzuo, principalKacie BrownJake SimonsBrandon Trent

HornSydney Ballensky, principalJames LinderSteven LibermanTrevor ZavacTylar Nichols

TrumpetAndrew Roembke, principal Tyler JeskoNick ThomasQuinton MashlerJohn LaCombe

TromboneJaewoo Lee, principalErich CorfmanMegan MartinSam Bowers, Bass Ryan Liu, Bass

EuphoniumBen Horne, co-principalCayden Miller, co-principalKunal Tiwari

TubaJohn Paul Powers, principalNate SemanLeah Warman

TimpaniAlec Hines

PercussionMichael McKeague, principalDylan Shane Eric Zielsdorf Casey Street Chance Caprarola Caroline FeryoEthan Sherlock

HarpJulia Johnson

PianoMei Yin Wong

Double BassLauren Franzetti

LibrariansBen MangononMadeline McCarthyJacen Smith

Rodney Dorsey, Conductor

Wind Ensemble

Rodney Dorsey is professor of music and chair of the Department of Bands at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Dorsey is the conductor of the Jacobs School’s internationally recognized Wind Ensemble and guides all aspects of the graduate wind conducting program. Past positions include director of bands at the University of Oregon, associate director of bands at the University of Michigan, associate professor of music at DePaul University, and director of athletic bands at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. Dorsey also taught public school for eight years in Florida and Georgia. Ensembles under his direction have performed at state and national events including the College Band Directors National Conference North/Northwest Regional Conference and the Music for All National Festival. He is an active

guest conductor, having led intercollegiate, all-state, and regional honors bands around the country. International engagements include Hungary, Canada and Bulgaria. An advocate for the composition of new wind repertoire, he has been involved in several commissioning projects with such composers as Andrea Reinkemeyer, Steven Mackey, D. J. Sparr, Anthony Barfield, Stacy Garrop, Andrew Rindfleisch, and John Mackey. Dorsey has presented clinic sessions at national and state conferences, inclduing the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, College Music Society, and the Midwest Clinic. He holds professional memberships with the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, Indiana Bandmasters Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma (honorary), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. He is also an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. His commitment to the music community has been demonstrated by his participation on boards of directors for the Midwest Clinic and Music for All. His lifelong commitment to teaching saw him recognized as a Yamaha Master Educator. A native of Gainesville, Florida, Dorsey earned degrees from Florida State University and Northwestern University. He studied conducting with James Croft, John Paynter, and Mallory Thompson, and clarinet with Fred Ormand and Frank Kowalsky.

Eric M. Smedley is associate professor of music in bands and director of IU athletic bands at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. In addition to the Marching Hundred and other athletic bands, he also directs the Symphonic Band and teaches undergraduate and graduate instrumental conducting courses. He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Washington and Master of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from the Jacobs School of Music. He previously served on the music faculties of Boise State University and Western Kentucky University, and as a public-school music educator in Cocoa Beach, Florida; Santa Monica, California; and Kenosha, Wisconsin. He has conducted throughout North America, Russia, and Japan. He maintains an active

schedule as a clinician, guest conductor, adjudicator, and trumpet performer. His Symphonic Band was selected to perform at the 2018 College Band Directors National Association North Central Conference. Smedley’s research interests are varied and include projects in the areas of contemporary wind band literature, wind band orchestration, and conducting pedagogy. His book chapters on composers Joseph Turrin, John Mackey, and David Dzubay are published in A Composer’s Insight: Thoughts, Analysis, and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band. Additional research appears in the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series. He is also an empirical researcher, most recently publishing “Conductor Gestures Influence Evaluations of Ensemble Performance” in the refereed journal Frontiers in Psychology. Smedley is a member of the Gamma chapter of the international band fraternity Phi Beta Mu and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association and the National Association for Music Education. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with his wife, Jessica, their daughter, Ella, and their Bedlington Terriers, Piper and Finn.

Conductors

Guest Conductors

Andrew Boysen Jr. is a professor in the music department at the University of New Hampshire (UNH), where he conducts the Wind Symphony and teaches conducting and composition. Under his leadership, the UNH Wind Symphony has released six recordings and been invited to perform at regional conventions of the College Band Directors National Association and National Association for Music Education. Previously, Boysen taught at Indiana State University and Cary-Grove (Illinois) 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, Great Britain, and Australia. Boysen earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the

Eastman School of Music, where he served as conductor of the Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He earned a Master of Music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University in 1993 and a Bachelor of Music degree in music education and music composition from the University of Iowa in 1991. He maintains an active schedule as a composer, receiving commissions from festival, university, and high school concert bands across the United States. He won the College Band Directors National Association Composition Contest in 2013, the International Horn Society Composition Contest in 2000, the University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991, and has twice won the Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in 1991 and 1994. He has several published works with the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Wingert-Jones Music, Alfred Music, Ludwig Masters Music, and C. Alan Publications, including pieces for band, orchestra, clarinet and piano, and brass choir. Recordings of his music appear on the Sony, R-Kal, Mark, St. Olaf and Elf labels.

Ray E. Cramer earned degrees from Western Illinois University and the University of Iowa, and honorary doctorates from Western Illinois University and the VanderCook College of Music. In 2009, he was awarded an honorary professorship at the Musashino Academia of Musicae in Tokyo. Cramer was a member of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty for 36 years. While he was director of bands, the IU Wind Ensemble earned an international reputation for outstanding musical performances. He is a past National President of the College Band Directors National Association and The American Bandmasters Association. He also served as president of the Indiana Bandmasters Association, the North Central Division of CBDNA and the Big Ten Band Directors Association. He was a member of the Midwest

Clinic Board of Directors for 20 years and was president 13 of those 20 years. He is an advisory board member for the Japan Band Clinic and was elected as an Honorary Member of the Japan Band Directors Association in 2016. Cramer has received numerous awards including the Edwin Franko Goldman award (2002), The MENC Lowell Mason Fellow Medallion (2003), Midwest Clinic Medal of Honor (2005), Bands of America Hall of Fame (2006), The Northshore Concert Band Lifetime Achievement Award (2006), the 17th Japan Academic Society of Winds, Percussion and Band Award (2007), The Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts by the National Band Association (2008), the John Paynter Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) the National Band Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Conductors (2009) and the CBDNA Lifetime Achievement Award. (2015). Cramer remains actively involved in clinics and guest conducting engagements nationally and internationally. He serves as a regular guest conductor for the Musashino Academy of Music in Tokyo and has conducted the Musashino Wind Ensemble on tours throughout Japan and at three performances at the Midwest Clinic (1995, 2006 and 2018). He and his wife Molly reside in Colorado Springs.

David Gregory, founder and conductor emeritus of the Georgia Wind Symphony, is former director of bands/coordinator of music education at Reinhardt University (retired), conductor emeritus of Tara Winds Community Band, and a past president of the National Band Association. At Reinhardt, Gregory taught music education classes, conducting, orchestration/arranging, conducted the Wind Ensemble (as well as the University Orchestra for four years), supervised student teachers, and was coordinator of the Music Education program. He also taught graduate classes in conducting, scoring/ arranging, and literature, and directed international studies. Gregory’s bands received invitations to perform at virtually every music conference of significance including the National MENC Convention, the CBDNA/NBA

Southern Division Conference (4 times), the American Bandmasters Association National Convention (3 times with 3 bands), GMEA state conferences (14 times with 4 bands), and the Midwest Band Clinic (3 times with 2 bands). His ensembles have been invited to perform at 46 conventions and conferences of state, regional, and national significance. He was elected to the Phi Beta Mu Georgia Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 1998, received the PBM Outstanding Bandmaster Award for the state of Georgia in 2003, was honored with the GMEA Distinguished Career Award in 2011, and was awarded the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal that same year. One of his most significant honors was the 2013 Elizabeth Moss Bailey Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award for Reinhardt University, one of the highest awards of that institution. His past and present professional affiliations are extensive. He is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and a former member of the Board of Directors for that organization. In February of 2020, he was inducted into the National Band Association’s Hall of Fame of Distinguished Conductors and was named as a Midwest Legend for the 2021 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic

Alexander Kaminsky was appointed director of bands and associate professor of music at VanderCook College of Music in 2019 after a highly successful tenure at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Prior to that, he led the band programs at Buchholz High School, Lincoln High School, Auburndale High School, and Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School, all of which excelled under his direction. He earned degrees from the University of Florida and Indiana University, is active as an adjudicator, and is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician across the country. Throughout his 30-year career as a high school band director, Kaminsky’s ensembles consistently earned Superior ratings at all levels of evaluation and received invitations to perform at the Midwest Clinic (2005, 2009, 2014, and

2018), ABA National Convention (2014), CBDNA/NBA Southern Division Conference (2004 and 2014), FMEA State Conference (2014), Music for All National Concert Band Festival (2002 and 2012), and the National Wind Band Festival at Carnegie Hall (2009 and 2018). His marching bands consistently placed in the Florida Marching Band State Championship Finals, twice winning consecutive FMBC State Championships (2013 and 2014, 2017 and 2018) as well as being named a finalist band at BOA regional competitions. Kaminsky has been awarded the National Band Association’s Citation of Excellence numerous times and has been recognized with several achievement awards for education, including Florida’s 2019 FMEA Secondary Music Educator of the Year Award, FBA Oliver Hobbs Award, FBA Andrew J. Crew Award, National Honor Roll’s Outstanding American Teacher, Nobel Educator of Distinction, Teacher of the Year, and is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. An elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and the American School Band Directors’ Association, he also holds memberships in CBDNA, NBA, NAfME, and Phi Beta Mu and is a Conn-Selmer Educational Clinician.

Guest Conductors

Stephen W. Pratt was a member of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty from 1984 to 2018 and currently is professor of music emeritus. From 2005 to 2018 he was director of bands, and his appearances as conductor of the IU Wind Ensemble included a concert in Carnegie Hall, the CBDNA national conventions in Nashville, and Ann Arbor, the Music Educators National Conference national convention in Milwaukee, and the American Bandmasters Association national convention in Indianapolis in 2012. He is a recipient of The Distinguished Service to Music Medal awarded by Kappa Kappa Psi, the Outstanding Bandmaster Award and the Hall of Fame of Indiana Band Conductors by the Gamma chapter of Phi Beta Mu, the Outstanding University Music Educator Award and the Outstanding

Hoosier Musician award given by the Indiana Music Educators Association, the James B. Calvert Outstanding Music Educator Award, and the Paula A. Crider Outstanding Band Director Award from the national council of Tau Beta Sigma. Since retiring, he has held residencies at Baldwin Wallace University and Indiana Wesleyan University and served as guest conductor/clinician across the nation. He is the conductor of the Southern Indiana Wind Ensemble, an adult group consisting of professional players, college students, and other talented musicians. He served as president of the Big Ten Band Directors Association, the Indiana Bandmasters Association, and the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association. His graduate conducting students (M.M./D.M./Ph.D.) hold positions at leading colleges and universities in the United States and internationally, as well as at outstanding high schools and academies. He is married to Darlene, a clarinetist and former band teacher/conductor, who holds degrees from the Jacobs School. Their children, Abigail and Nathan, are both honors Jacobs graduates.

Robert Sheldon is an internationally recognized clinician whose music is performed around the world and frequently appears on many internation-al concert and contest lists. Sheldon has conducted Regional and All-State Honor Bands throughout the United States and abroad. He often appears as a music education clinician and has presented sessions and seminars at nu-merous colleges and universities as well as state Music Education Associa-tion conferences. He has served as a conductor and clinician throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, Canada, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Austra-lia, and China, and has conducted performances of his works in New York’s Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Taipei’s National Concert Hall, Matsumoto’s Seiji Ozawa Performing Arts Center,

Hamamatsu’s ACT City Concert Hall, the Sydney Opera House and the Kennedy Center for the Perform-ing Arts in Washington D.C. His teaching career included 28 years in the public schools as well as at the University of Florida, Florida State University, Illinois Central College and Bradley University. He also held positions as conductor of the Alachua County Youth Orchestra in Gainesville, Florida and the Prairie Wind Ensemble in East Peoria, Illinois. He maintains membership in several organizations that promote music and music education, and is lead author for Sound Innovations for Band, serving as co-author for Measures of Success, Sound Innovations for Strings, Sound Sight-Reading For Band, and Music Fundations.

Otis Murphy holds the position of professor of music (saxophone) in the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, joining the faculty at age 28 and becoming one of the youngest faculty members in its history. He is in great demand as an international artist, having performed in more than 25 countries worldwide across four continents. Murphy has garnered a number of awards, including prizes in Belgium’s Adolphe Sax International Saxophone Competition and France’s Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition, and he has appeared in major concert venues including Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, Merkin Hall (New York City), Casals Hall (Tokyo); Palau de la Musica (Valencia); and Muziekgebouw aan het Ij (Amsterdam). He has taught at music schools and festivals

worldwide, including the Paris Conservatory, Amsterdam Conservatory, Cologne Academy of Music, Japan Band Clinic, Institut Franz Schubert, Liceu de Barcelona, Midwest Clinic, London Royal College of Music, Shanghai Conservatory, Sydney Conservatorium, and many more. Murphy also is a recipient of teaching awards from Indiana University, including the 2019 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award and the 2019 Indiana University New Frontiers of Creativity and Scholarship Award. Murphy’s students have received accolades in national and international competitions and are members of premier military concert bands in the various branches of the U.S. military, including the Army, Navy, and Coast Guard bands. In addition, Murphy’s students hold teaching positions in public school music programs and collegiate teaching positions throughout the country and abroad. Murphy earned Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Jacobs School, graduating with the Performer’s Certificate, the highest honor given to a performer at this institution. In addition, he pursued advanced studies in France under a Fulbright Fellowship for foreign study as a pupil of Jean-Yves Fourmeau at the Conservatoire National Régional de Musique in Cergy-Pontoise, earning the Prix de Perfectionnement by unanimous decision of the jury. Murphy leads a very fulfilling life with his wife, pianist Haruko Murphy, and together they are dedicated parents of their six children.

Over the last 20 years, Demondrae Thurman has established a world-wide reputation as a euphonium soloist, educator, chamber musician, and conductor. He has given performances in Canada, Hungary, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, Macau, Norway, China, Italy, Austria, England, Wales, and throughout the United States. Thurman is a frequently invited guest at many of the world’s most noted festivals and low brass conferences, including the International Euphonium Tuba Conference, the United States Army Band Tuba Euphonium Workshop, and the Leonard Falcone International Solo Competition. Thurman is known for his signature sound and overt musicality. Conductor Gerard Schwarz says, “When he plays, he’s speaking his own euphonium language, part singer, tenor and

baritone, and part remarkable brass player. He sings on his instrument and reaches everyone in his audience. His technique seems flawless and his phrasing is remarkable.” An advocate of new music, Thurman has commissioned or premiered several works for euphonium, including Schwarz’s In memorium for euphonium and band, Anthony Barfield’s Heritage Concerto for euphonium and band, Doug Bristol’s Fantasy for euphonium orchestra, and John Stevens’s Soliloquies for unaccompanied euphonium. Thurman has released three solo recordings to stellar acclaim. His latest album, Snapshots, received the Global Music Awards silver medal for Best Album. The Sotto Voce quartet has four studio recordings in addition to a live performance recording from the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. He can also be heard on recordings with the Temptations, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Brass Band of Battle Creek, Saint Louis Low Brass Collective, and the Isthmus Brass. Increasingly focused on conducting since his 1999 debut, he has appeared as a guest conductor with numerous wind bands, brass bands, and symphony orchestras. Thurman is a Miraphone Performing Artist and plays exclusively the Miraphone 5050 Ambassador Edition euphonium—designed specifically for him—and the custom “Thurman” model mouthpiece manufactured by Warburton Music Products. He is also a Shires Trombone Performing Artist. Thurman is professor of music (euphonium) for the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Soloists

About Us

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Wind Ensemble

The Indiana University Wind Ensemble is one of the premier ensembles in the Jacobs School of Music and performs the most outstanding literature of the wind band medium, including music for both chamber winds and large ensemble. The IU Wind Ensemble has premiered many works for wind band by leading composers. The Wind Ensemble has performed many times at national and international venues, including appearances at the Palladium Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, the American Bandmasters Association national convention, the Japan Bandmasters Association convention, the College Band Directors National Association divisional and national conventions, the Music Educators National Conference national convention, and Indiana Music Educators Association conferences, as well as the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. The Wind Ensemble performed at the 2008 MENC National Convention in Milwaukee (WI),at the 2010 CBDNA North Central Division Convention in Normal (IL), at the 2012 ABA Annual Convention in Indianapolis (IN), and in Carnegie Hall at the 2016 New York Wind Band Festival Showcase Concert. Former Indiana University Jacobs School of Music students who have been members of the IU Wind Ensemble are currently performing in many of the leading professional orchestras of the world as well as the top United States military bands. Others are faculty members in college and university music departments across the nation or distinguishing themselves by teaching music in the public schools.

The Department of Bands and Wind Conducting

Rodney Dorsey, Chair, Professor of Music (Bands)Eric M. Smedley, Associate Professor of Music (Bands)

Jason H. Nam, Assistant Professor of Music (Bands)Tiffany J. Galus, Assistant Professor of Music (Bands)

Associate Instructors:Tess Jones, Doctor of Music in Wind Conducting Associate InstructorTim Loman, Doctor of Music in Wind Conducting Associate Instructor

Christopher Nelson, Doctor of Music in Wind Conducting Associate InstructorEsther Tupper, Doctor of Music in Wind Conducting Associate Instructor

Luis Espinosa, Master of Music in Wind Conducting

Claire Tafoya, Assistant Administrator

The Department of Bands exemplifies musical leadership in the wind band field, with three music-major Concert Ensembles, an All-Campus Band, The Marching Hundred, the Big Red Basketball Band and the Crabb Pep Band, as well as the Summer Concert Band that performs outdoor “Sousa-style” concerts.

Our repertoire includes band classics, commissioned premieres, chamber music and multimedia collaborative works. Guest soloists regularly include world-renowned faculty from the Jacobs School of Music and others of international stature. Composers who have recently visited the campus to supervise performance preparation of their works include David Biedenbender, Anthony Plog, and Joel Puckett.

Wind conducting students enjoy numerous performance opportunities with all the ensembles in a well-round-ed conducting program. The IU Jacobs School of Music ensembles are made up of talented student performers who train with a world-class performance faculty, all of which leads to an unparalleled education as conductor and musician.

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Jeremy Allen, Dean (Interim)Brenda Brenner, Executive Associate Dean (Interim)Lissa May, Associate Dean for InstructionDavid Cartledge, Director of Graduate StudiesJoey Tartell, Director of Undergraduate Studies

As one of the world’s premiere music schools, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music maintains a distinguished reputation for the quality of its music programs and the professional preparation it affords graduates. Students from all 50 states and over 55 countries study in a conservatory atmosphere with 170 full-time faculty members who are among the best performers, scholars, and educators in the world. Talented students consistently win national and international competitions and advance to significant ca reers in performance, scholarship, and teaching. The Jacobs School offers over 1,100 performances, including 6 fully staged operas and 3 ballets, annually. World-renowned faculty, exceptional students, and incomparable artistic achievement are the hallmarks of the tradition at the Jacobs School of Music, which touches virtually every segment of musical life in the Americas and beyond.

Indiana University Bloomington

Pamela Whitten, PresidentRahul Shrivastav, Provost and Executive Vice President

Founded in 1820, Indiana University Bloomington is the flagship campus of IU’s seven campuses statewide. Innovation, creativity, and academic freedom are hallmarks of our world-class contributions in research and the arts. Environmental policy, social psychology, music, nuclear physics, foreign languages—our diverse academic programs are among the best, with several ranking #1 and in the top 10 nationally. IU faculty, students, and alumni aspire to the highest standards of their fields, bringing home prestigious national and international awards: Tonys, Oscars, Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, Emmys, Grammys, Olympic medals, Guggenheims, and Fulbrights. The top-ranked IU Jacobs School of Music and our fine arts, theater, and entertainment offerings rival much larger cities. IU stages more than 1,000 performances every year, in venues that are artistic experiences in themselves. The Musical Arts Center—which we call “the MAC”—is one of the grandest arts venues in the United States, seating 1,460 and featuring a 90’ x 60’ main stage. We extend our famous IU “Hoosier hospitality” to ideas as well as people. With open-mindedness and kindheartedness, we support a diverse, international environ-ment that seeks out all perspectives and draws on our global experiences. IU consistently earns accolades for overseas study programs, worldwide philanthropic ventures, and for a forward-

Our student-to-faculty ratio of 7:1 ensures an exceptional level of personalized attention from faculty and an intimate setting in many of your classes. Regardless of degree, you will study with one of our 175 resident faculty members in your major performance area.

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Ra David Dzubay

The sun god Ra was the most important god of the ancient Egyptians. Born anew each day, Ra journeyed across the sky in a boat crewed by many other gods. During the day Ra would do battle with his chief enemy, a serpent named Apep, usually emerging victorious, though on stormy days or during an eclipse, the Egyptians believed that Apep had won and swallowed the sun.

Ra! is a rather aggressive depiction of an imagined ritual of sun worship, perhaps celebrating the daily battles of Ra and Apep. There are four ideas presented in the

movement: 1) a “skin dance” featuring the timpani and other percussion, 2) a declarative, unison melodic line, 3) a layered texture of pulses, and 4) sunbursts and shines. The movement alternates abruptly between these ideas, as if following the precise dictates of a grand ceremony.

-Program note by the composer

From Glory to Glory Kevin Walczyk

From Glory to Glory was commissioned by the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference to honor and celebrate the life of Heather Reu, daughter of Molly and Ray Cramer. The entire work’s melodic and harmonic constructs are derived from pitch structures based on words and folksongs relating specifically to Heather’s life. The work is in seven sections with the primary tonality of each sec-tion spelling out the word “Heather”. The first, third, and fifth sections of the work utilize motifs and harmonies based on her complete name - Heather Ellen Cramer Reu, while the second and fourth sections feature two folksongs indigenous to the

countries from which Heather adopted her four children. The Vietnamese folksong, Oh, My Beloved! Stay With Me! is featured throughout the second section of the work and the Chinese folksong, White Birds is featured in the fourth section of the work. In the sixth section of the work, these two folksongs, representing Heather’s children, are united with the musical motifs that spell Heather’s name; thus, musically uniting Heather and her children. The seventh section serves as the work’s coda and, similar to the entire composition, reflects the energy, commitment, dedication, love, passion and spirit that Heather lived her life. This work is dedicated to all those who have been blessed by Heather’s life. “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” - II Corinthians 3:18 [NKJV] -Program note by the composer

Program Notes

The Governor’s Own Alton Augustus Adams / ed. Mark Clague

Born in 1889, Alton Augustus Adams became the first black bandmaster in the United States Navy in 1917 when his all-black Adams Juvenile Band was inducted as the United States Navy Band of the Virgin Islands. At the onset of American entry into World War One, the U.S. had purchased the islands from Denmark to deny Germany a submarine base so close to U.S. shores. Adams’s band served as a cultural and social bridge between the islands’ new, all-white American administration and its mostly black native population. Adams was soon in charge of three bands, his own in St. Thomas and two groups on St. Croix. He also volunteered as Supervisor

of Music for the islands’ public schools to create its first music curriculum.

Based on the bugle call to attention, the trumpets’ snappy opening four-note motif announces the beginning of The Governor’s Own march and serves to call listeners in preparation for the arrival of the Virgin Islands’ governor. The principal theme of the march was inspired by its original dedicatee, Admiral Joseph Wallace Oman, naval governor of the Virgin Islands from 1919 to 1921. The melody seems to depict the governor who Adams described as a “short, jaunty, snappy sort of fellow” while it similarly echoes the energetic themes of Sousa’s “King Cotton” or “Manhattan Beach.” Adams felt that Sousa’s music perfectly captured the “spirit of militant vigor and courage” emblematic of the march. As a boy, Adams had imagined himself conducting Sousa’s band while listening secretly to phonograph records outside a neighbor’s home. He studied composition and orchestration in part by copying the individual parts to Sousa’s marches into full score. (At the time, conductor’s scores were provided only in abbreviated short score formats.) Originally known as “Governor Oman,” the march was renamed “The Governor’s Own” in time for its initial publication with Carl Fisher in 1922. Acknowledged as one of Adams’s best compositions, “The Governor’s Own” was among the top four best selling marches for Carl Fisher in 1924 and became the official commencement march of Howard University. In 1963, Adams rededicated the march to the people of the Virgin Islands and its status as music for government occasions on the islands was recognized by the legislature. It is the official march of the islands’ governors, akin to “Hail to the Chief” for the U.S. President, although Adams’s piece may be freely performed on occasions when the governor is not present. -Program note by Mark Clague

Symphonic Movement Václav Nelhýbel

Symphonic Movement is dedicated to John Paynter and the Northwestern University Band. Gill Mitchell, a former Assistant Director at The U.S. Army Band, played a recording of Nelhýbel’s Trittico for Paynter, who immediately asked the composer to consider writing a work for Northwestern. Symphonic Movement arrived in the mail five days later. It is believed that Nelhýbel had already started the work, but was inspired to complete it. The piece was immediately popular among bands, and Nelhýbel conducted the Arkansas Tech University Band in a performance at the 1967 College Band Directors National convention.

Symphonic Movement is composed in five continuous sections: Adagio, Allegro, Poco meno mosso, Allegro, and Adagio. Nelhýbel described Symphonic Movement as “my first composition for band written completely on a symphonic level.” He opens the work with an eerie and suspenseful introduction; then builds the eight-note fragment that will be the foundation of the work. The piece is highly percussive in nature, and features unique material for each instrument family throughout the ensemble. The summation of this material creates a true tour-de-force, with intensity that grows until the final climax of the piece.

-Program Note from Army Field Band

In the OffingJoel Love

The word “offing” has two meanings: 1) the more distant part of the sea seen from the shore, beyond the anchoring ground; and 2) the near or foreseeable future. When I was writing this piece during my Copland House Residency in the summer of 2021, I frequently went to Charles Point on the Hudson to run in the evenings and watch the boats come in and out of the harbor. The sunset colors above the hills and the views from the shore were inspiring and are where this piece first got its genesis. Over the past 18 months, everyone has been challenged by the pandemic. This piece is an expression of hope and forward-looking optimism about the full

return to making music that is in the near or foreseeable future. Like many other composers, it has been difficult to write while in semi or full lockdown, but when I was at Copland House I was reminded of why I write music; I consider composing an awesome privilege and to be able to create something that we can all commune with in the moment is truly wonderful. I was reminded of one of my favorite Einstein quotes: “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” As we return from our homes and back into the wonderful world of making music again, I hope that we are all rapt in awe, can open our eyes and ears, and ultimately are grateful for this wonderful thing that I took for granted: the simple act of making music together.

-Program note by the composer

In the Offing was commissioned by and dedicated to the American Bandmasters Association and the University of Florida Bands.

from Double Concerto: Nocturne, Scherzo-FinaleAnthony O’Toole

Commissioned by Will Gillespie (saxophonist) and Mike Waddell (euphoniumist), this work is inspired by painting and photographs of Chicago in the 1930’s. The first movement is a musical portrait of the city skyline as it is built higher and higher with each additional skyscraper, the music of the bustling streets during daytime. The second movement, Nocturne, is all about the gritty night-life, hot jazz and gangsters. The concluding movement is inspired by the painting “Steel Mills at Night” by Richard A. Chase and shows the industrial side of this Midwestern metropolis. All the material is revisited in the finale.

-Program note by the composer

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from Three Visions: SummerlandWilliam Grant Still

Summerland was originally the second of Three Visions (1936) for piano, but was recast in 1937 by the composer for different instrumentation. Still asks the listener to be aware that each of the visions are real only to the dreamer. “Summerland” depicts the promised beauty of the afterlife. Composer William Grant Still was often associated with the Harlem Renaissance. He matured as a composer in Harlem in the 1920s and is known for blending African American musical idioms and spirituals with European styles and forms. With more than 150 compositions to his name, he received numerous prestigious awards and notable commissions throughout his life-

time. He was also the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra (Los Angeles Philharmonic) and to have an opera performed by a major opera company (New York City Opera).

-Program note courtesy of the Houston Symphony

from Symphony No. 2: Apollo UnleashedFrank Ticheli

The symphony’s three movements refer to celestial light -- Shooting Stars, the Moon, and the Sun. The finale, Apollo Unleashed, is perhaps the most wide-ranging move-ment of the symphony, and certainly the most difficult to convey in words. On the one hand, the image of Apollo, the powerful ancient god of the sun, inspired not only the movement’s title, but also its blazing energy. Bright sonorities, fast tempos, and galloping rhythms combine to give a sense of urgency that one often expects from a symphonic finale. On the other hand, its boisterous nature is also tempered and enriched by another, more sublime force, Bach’s Chorale BWV 433 (Wer Gott vertraut,

hat wohl gebaut). This chorale -- a favorite of the dedicatee, and one he himself arranged for chorus and band -- serves as a kind of spiritual anchor, giving a soul to the gregarious foreground events. The chorale is in ternary form (ABA’). In the first half of the movement, the chorale’s A and B sections are stated nobly underneath faster paced music, while the final A section is saved for the climactic ending, sounding against a flurry of 16th-notes.

My second symphony is dedicated to James E. Croft upon his retirement as Director of Bands at Florida State University in 2003. It was commissioned by a consortium of Dr. Croft’s doctoral students, conducting students and friends as a gesture of thanks for all he has given to the profession.

-Program note by the composer

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