Center for the Performing Arts Concert HallFridayApril 14, 20237:00 p.m

Gotkowski, Dennis, Piano

Koch, John M., Director

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Koch, John M.

Gotkowski, Dennis

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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Music Programs Music 4-14-2023 The Illinois State University Civic Chorale Spring Concert: Music of ISU Composers Past and Present, April 14, 2023 John M. Koch Director Dennis Gotkowski Piano Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp  Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Koch, John M. Director and Gotkowski, Dennis Piano, "The Illinois State University Civic Chorale Spring Concert: Music of ISU Composers Past and Present, April 14, 2023" (2023). School of Music Programs. 4925. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/somp/4925 This Performance Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Music Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact ISUReD@ilstu.edu.   The Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts and the School of Music PRESENT: The Illinois State University Civic Chorale Spring Concert: Music of ISU Composers Past and Present Friday April 14, 2023 7:00 p.m. John M. Koch, Director Dr. Dennis Gotkowski, Pianist Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall This is the one hundred and fi/ieth program of the 2022-2023 season. Please silence all electronic devices. Feel free to take video but please no flash photography!  The Violet (2019)                      Mackenzie Ahlman             (b. 1997)             Text by Jane Taylor             (1783-1824) “Down in a green and shady bed A modest flower grew, its stalk was bent, It hung its head, as if to hide from view, And yet it was a lovely flow’r its colors bright and fair, It may have graced a rosy bow’r, instead of hiding there, Yet there it was content to bloom, in modest ?nts arrayed, And there diffused its sweet perfume, within the silent shade. Then let me to the valley to, this preDy flow’r to see, That I may also learn to grow in sweet humility, And yet it was a lovely flow’r, the violet.”  Em Mancillas, soloist  when I was young (2022, World Premiere)       Mackenzie Ahlman Text by Edna St.       Vincent Millay (1892-1950) “I shall go back again to the bleak shore, And build a liDle shanty on the sand, In such a way that the extremest band of briDle seaweed Will escape my door. But by a yard or two; and never more shall I return, To take you by the hand, I shall be gone to what I understand, And happier than I ever was before. The love stood in your eyes; words lay upon your tongue, Are one with all that dies, liDle said and a liDle over sung, But I shall find again the sullen rocks and the skies, Unchanged from what they were when I was young.”  dark harlem (2022, World Premiere)      Ty Bloomfield           (b. 2000)           Text by           Langston Hughes           (1901-1967) I would be simple again, simple and clean, Like the earth, like the rain, Nor ever know, dark harlem, The wild laughter of your mirth Nor the salt tears of your pain. Be kind to, oh, great dark city. Let me forget. I will not come to you again.  My BeauAful One, Come with Me (2012)     Jiyoun Chung           (b. 1982) Arise, my darling, my beau?ful one Come with me. See!  See! The winter is past See! The rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth. The season of singing has come, The cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; My beau?ful one, come with me.  Luke Kirby & Jessica Bella, soloists  The Military Wife (2022, World Premiere)     Mackenzie Ahlman The Military Wife (2022) is a mini opera for Tenor and Piano. Set in 1960’s South Hampton, Bermuda, Mrs. Leslie DeMarco has discovered another love leDer sent to her husband, Naval Captain Leslie “Les” DeMarco. Feeling angry, betrayed, and heartbroken, she responds to the woman’s leDer pleading with her to realize that this is not the first ?me he has cheated, nor will it be the last. When Mrs. DeMarco finishes her leDer, the atmosphere suddenly changes and Captain DeMarco begins wri?ng a leDer to the other woman, Kathy, asking if he can visit her soon, as he has become newly single.  Zach Bodnar, soloist  from Virginia and Vita (2023, World Premiere)    Mackenzie Ahlman    Your leGer from Trieste    I am reduced Virginia & Vita (2023) is a one-act opera for three Treble voices and Piano, comprised of the leDers and diaries of Bri?sh poets and novelists, Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962).   Mackenzie Ahlman & Jessica Bella, soloists  Sleep and TransiAon (2016)       Cullyn D. Murphy           (b. 1993)           Texts by J. Dwyer                                                                                                                                       Murphy I stare down the ?me.  I rinse my last dreams off my face. I wake my house.  I move through the day. I move through people.  I move through the day. I move through the people, people, people. I wake up my house. I build my dreams through the day. And tuck them in my head. As I move through the people my day goes by. My house goes off to sleep. I wash my face and consider my dreams. The ?me stares me down stares me down to sleep. Time.  Time.  Time..  Elegy (2002)           Dennis Tobenski              (b. 1982)              Text by Mary Hines Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush, I am the swic uplicing rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soc stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there I did not die.  Spirit Song Over the Waters (2002)      Dennis Tobenski           Text of Johann                                         Wolfgang von                                    Goethe (1749-1832)                    Translated by E.A.                                           Bowring                             (1826-1911)  The soul of man resembleth water: From Heaven it cometh, to heaven it soareth. And then again to earth descendeth.  Changing ever. Down from the locy rocky wall streams the bright flood, Then spreadeth gently in cloudy billows oe’r the smooth rock, And welcomed kindly, veiling, on roams it, Soc murmuring t’ward the abyss. Cliffs projec?ng oppose its progress, angrily foams it, Now, in flat channel, through then meadowland steals it, And in the polished lake each constella?on joyously peepeth. Wind is the loving woo’r of waters, Wind blends together billows all foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water!  Thou art like unto wind!  *******************  ABOUT THE COMPOSERS…  Mackenzie Ahlman, a naave of Grand Island, Nebraska, is a current graduate student at Illinois State in Vocal Performance.  She recently appeared in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel as Gretel. As a vocalist she specializes in contemporary works of Libby Larsen.  "The only reason I started composing was because of the abhorrent lack of representaaon of queer/LGBTQAI+ people in classical music. My goal as a queer musician and composer is to bring this much-needed perspecave to the foreground of modern music by seing text/poems by queer people to music.”  Ty Bloomfield is a Chicago naave looks towards simplicity for inspiraaon. Since his start in 2019, Bloomfield has wriken numerous works for winds, primarily focused on wind ensemble and miniature-based chamber works. His works have been commissioned from many of his peers and received performances at several fesavals such as the Internaaonal Clarinet Associaaon’s New Music Weekend and ISU’s Red Note Fesaval. Currently, he is currently compleang his BM in Music Composiaon at the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts at Illinois State University where he studied with Carl Schimmel and Roy Magnuson. Jiyoun Chung received her Master of Music in Piano Performance and Composiaon at Illinois State studying with Carl Schimmel and Martha Horst.   She received her DMA in composiaon at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Music at Central Washington University. Cullyn D. Murphy is a composer, conductor, and reluctant vocalist, focusing on amplifying the already existent musical components of sight, taste, touch, and smellin order to gain access to different modes of storytelling through music.  He received his BM at Illinois and recently finished his Doctorate in Composiaon and Theory from the University of Piksburgh and is teaching at Beloit College. Dennis Marshall Tobenski, a naave of Kankakee, Illinois, received his BM in Vocal Performance and Music Theory & Composiaon in 2004 from Illinois State University, and his M. A. in Music Composiaon from The City College of New York in 2009. His principal teachers have included David Del Tredici, Chester Biscardi, and David Feurzeig. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creaave Arts, the Prairie Center of the Arts, the Ucross Foundaaon, and the Staunton Music Fesaval.  Dennis founded NewMusicShelf, an online marketplace for independently published composers to sell digital ediaons of their scores. In 2018, he expanded the scope of the business into publishing, and created the NewMusicShelf Anthologies of New Music. The inaugural volumes are four voice type-specific collecaons of art songs: 80 songs by 63 composers from around the world. The mission of the Anthologies is to bring new and unknown composers and repertoire to the awareness of both student and professional performers, and to foster a stronger new music community through collaboraaon. In 2021, NewMusicShelf became the first publisher in the world to release a collecaon of vocal works specifically for trans and nonbinary singers.  ISU CIVIC CHORALE MEMBERS Mackenzie Ahlman Chloe Baisa Jessica Bella Dominica Bakaglia Jaimee Beyer Zach Bodnar Jackie Brigham Colleen Cavi Daniel Cavi Bev Collins Jusan Cooper Lucas Dahmm Beau Darling Shannon Darling David Edmondson Grace Eom Char Fesler Ali Francisco Lewis Gadomsky Lawendy Gilmore Hannah Hembrough Tom Howe Li Huang Skylar Johnson James Kalmbach Alexandra Kanari Hannah Kang Yeim Kim Luke Kirby Sonja Larson-Streif Kaitlyn Lay Somlee Lee Em Mancillas Bill Parli Cindy Parli Julie Prandi Lesley Price Jim Reid Tess Scok Marcus Scok Olivia Schickel Isaac Sitenga Shelley Spence Staton Strecker Tina Sipula Kristyn Szwajka Shem Villacarlos Jean Wallace  THANK YOU! Illinois State University Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts Jean Miller, Dean Polly Bedford, Director of Development Adriana Ransom, Director, School of Music Nick Benson, CPA Manager, Center for Performing Arts  Sara Semonis, Associate Dean of Research and Planning  Janet Tulley, Assistant Dean for Enrollment and Student Services  Ann Haugo, Director, School of Theatre and Dance Tyler Lotz, Director, Wonsook Kim School of Art  Rose Marshack, Director, Creative Technologies  Kendra Paitz, Director and Chief Curator, University Galleries  Stephanie Kohl Ringle, Business Communications Associate  Eric Yeager, Director, CFAIT  Illinois State University School of Music Oforiwaa Aduonum, Ethnomusicology  Allison Alcorn, Musicology Debra Austin, Voice Mark Babbitt, Trombone Emily Beinborn, Music Therapy Glenn Block, Orchestra and Conducting Andrew Bruhn, Choir Renee Chernick, Group Piano David Collier, Percussion and Associate Director  Andrea Crimmins, Music Therapy Peggy Dehaven, Office Support Specialist/Scheduling  Benjamin De Kock, String Bass Anne Dervin, Clarinet and General Education Gina Dew, Music Education Advisor Geoffrey Duce, Piano Tom Faux, Ethnomusicology Angelo Favis, Guitar and Graduate Coordinator Tim Fredstrom, Choral Music Education Trevor Gould, Facilities Manager David Gresham, Clarinet Rachel Grimsby, Music Education Mark Grizzard, Theory and Choral Music Christine Hansen, Lead Academic Advisor Kevin Hart, Jazz Piano and Theory Phillip Hash, Music Education Megan Hildebrandt, Music Therapy Rachel Hockenberry, Horn Martha Horst, Theory and Composition Mona Hubbard, Office Manager Igor Kalnin, Violin John Koch, Voice & Civic Chorale Jillian Kouzel, Oboe Marie Labonville, Musicology Katherine J. Lewis, Viola TJ Mack, Assistant Director of Bands Roy D. Magnuson, Theory and Composition and CTK*  Anthony Marinello III, Director of Bands Thomas Marko, Director of Jazz Studies Rose Marshack, Music Business and Director of CTK*  Joseph Matson, Musicology Anne McNamara, Trumpet Shawn McNamara, Music Education Thornton Miller, Musicology Paul Nolen, Saxophone Kim Risinger, Flute Cindy Ropp, Music Therapy Andy Rummel, Euphonium and Tuba Midori Samson, Bassoon Carl Schimmel, Theory and Composition Daniel Schuetz, Voice Lydia Sheehan, Bands Office Administrator Anne Shelley, Milner Librarian Matthew Smith, Creative Technologies David Snyder, Music Education Alex Stephenson, Theory and Composition Ben Stiers, Percussion and Theory Erik Swanson, Jazz Guitar Cora Swenson Lee, Cello Elizabeth Thompson, Voice Tuyen Tonnu, Piano Kaitlyn Tossie, Business Administrative Associate  Matthew Vala, Voice Rick Valentin, Creative Technologies Justin Vickers, Voice Michelle Vought, Voice Mack Wood, Associate Director of Bands  *Creative Technologies Program (CTK)  

The Illinois State University Civic Chorale Spring Concert: Music of ISU Composers Past and Present, April 14, 2023

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