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                                          School of Music  presents    KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY  Wind Ensemble   David Thomas Kehler, conductor        Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:00 pm Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center Performance Hall    Fourth Concert of the 2009-2010 season  Kennesaw State University  Upcoming Music Events  Wednesday, October 7 Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Thursday, October 8 Kennesaw State University Jazz Ensembles 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Tuesday, October 20 Kennesaw State University  Choral Ensembles 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Thursday, October 22 Kennesaw State University  Wind Ensemble and Concert Band 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Friday, October 23 Kennesaw State University Faculty Recital  Mary Akerman, classical guitar 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Tuesday, October 27 Kennesaw State University Male Chorus Day Concert 7:30 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  For the most current information, please visit http://www.kennesaw.edu/arts/events/   We welcome all guests with special needs and offer the following services: accessible seating, easy access, companion restroom locations, assisted listening devices. Please contact an audience services representative to request services                                         Kennesaw State University School of Music  Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center Performance Hall   PROGRAM   Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954)  Dmitri Shostakovich  (1906-1975)   arr. Hunsberger   Hold This Boy and Listen (2008) Carter Pann   (b. 1972)  Suite in Eb, Op. 28a (1909) Gustav Holst    (1874-1934)  I. Chaconne  II.Intermezzo  III.March   INTERMISSION   Children’s March “Over the Hills Percy Grainger   and Far Away”(1919) (1882-1961)  Give Us This Day (Short Symphony David Maslanka   for Wind Ensemble, 2005) (b. 1943)    I. Moderately Slow  II.Very Fast           Kennesaw State University  Upcoming Music Events  Monday, September 21 Kennesaw State University Faculty Recital Thomas Hooten, trumpet 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Wednesday, September 23 Kennesaw State University Faculty Recital Faculty Composers 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Friday, September 25 Kennesaw State University Faculty Recital Faculty String Trio and Friends 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Saturday, September 26 Kennesaw State University Guest Recital Lukasz Kuropaczewski, guitar 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Tuesday, September 29 Kennesaw State University Faculty Guest Recital Kevin Hampton and Lyle Indergaard, Four-hand piano 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Thursday, October 1 Kennesaw State University Faculty Guest Recital Helen Bickers, soprano and Russell Young, piano 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall  Tuesday, October 6 Kennesaw State University Faculty Recital  Sam Skelton, saxophone 8:00 pm • Bailey Performance Center Performance Hall                                         Kennesaw State University School of Music  Dr. Harry E. Price, Director  Dr. Michael Alexander, KSU Orchestra Dr. John Culvahouse, KSU Concert Band Dr. David Kehler, KSU Wind Ensemble Dr. Alison Mann, KSU Women’s Chorus Dr. Leslie Blackwell, KSU Chamber Singers and Chorale Dr. Russell Young, KSU Opera and Musical Theater  Instrumental Wind and Percussion Faculty Christina Smith, lute Rob Cronin, Flute Elizabeth Koch, Oboe Jennifer Potochnic, Oboe Ted Gurch, Clarinet John Warren, Clarinet Laura Najarian, Bassoon Sam Skelton, Saxophone Thomas Witte, Horn Thomas Hooten, Trumpet Jennifer Marotta, Trumpet George Curran, Trombone Tom Gibson, Trombone Bernard Flythe, Tuba and Euphonium Michael Moore, Tuba and Euphonium John Lawless, Percussion  Kennesaw State University Wind Ensemble  Personnel listed alphabetically    Flute/Piccolo Trumpet Holly Botella, Peachtree City, GA Timothy Allen, Kennesaw, GA Chelsea Estes, Atlanta, GA Peter Hall, Conyers, GA Megan Grauso, Alpharetta, GA Jackson Harpe, Marietta, GA Anna Catherine Harris, Gainesville, GA Turner Milsaps, Peachtree City, GA Emily Westbrook, Canton, GA Justin Rowan, Woodstock, GA  Josh Spitler, Rocky Ford, GA Oboe/English Horn  Harrison Benett, Suwanee, GA Trombone Kerry Brunson, Nacogdoches, TX Sam Aumann, Marietta, GA Caitlin Eicholtz Dolenc, Hoschton, GA Christopher Hinnant, Canton, GA  Lynda Jones, Powder Springs, GA Clarinet David Lennertz, Kennesaw, GA Danielle Arnold, Woodstock, GA Ryan Payne, Cartersville, GA Brandon Bell, Moultrie, GA  Katherine Cook, Loganville, GA Euphonium Amanda Daniel, Powder Springs, GA Staci Hatmaker, Lawrenceville, GA Bora Moon, Seoul, Korea Denis Johnson, Atlanta, GA Neil Newcomb, Flowery Branch, GA  Krystal Saenz, Roswell, GA Tuba  Austin Baxley, Kennesaw, GA Bass Clarinet  Stephen Jones, Suwanee, GA Double Bass  Louise DuBois, Atlanta, GA Bassoon  Jesse Carlson, Lilburn, GA Percussion  *Pershaud Robert Bolt, Omaha, NE Saxophone *Robert Boone, Augusta, GA Zachary Evans, Lilburn, GA Levi Cull, Richmond, VA Michael LaRose, Nicholson, GA *Katelyn King, Kennesaw, GA Noah Vece, Kennesaw. GA Katherine Lawrence, Marietta, GA Luke Weathington, Anniston, AL Jordan Lowery, Norfolk, VA  Zac Poore, Acworth, GA Horn James Shealy, Kennesaw, GA Alex Depew, Kennesaw, GA Brandon Worley, Canton, GA Megan Gribble, Marietta, GA    *Assisting on the Grainger Alex Hansell, Roswell, GA  Melissa Harris, Gainesville, GA Piano  Brett Carson, Canton, GA                                                   Program Notes  Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Russian composer who lived under the Soviet regime. Shostakovich had a complex and difficult relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work. Shostakovich's response to official criticism and, more importantly, the question of whether he used music as a kind of abstract dissidence is a matter of dispute. It is clear that outwardly he conformed to government policies and positions, reading speeches and putting his name to articles expressing the government line. It is also generally agreed that he disliked the regime, a view confirmed by his family and his letters to Isaak Glikman.  Shostakovich prided himself on his orchestration, which is clear, economical, and well-projected. This aspect of Shostakovich's technique owes more to Gustav Mahler than Rimsky-Korsakov. His unique approach to tonality involved the use of modal scales and some astringent neo-classical harmonies à la Hindemith and Prokofiev. His music frequently includes sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque.  Although Festive Overture music opens with the grandest of ceremonial fanfares, there are no solemn heroics in the piece, and of course it is not an overture to anything. It is simply a vivacious and thoroughly Russian celebratory gesture, in the bright key of A- major. The exultant mood is exhibited in passages alternately grandiose, lyrical and playful, with the pomposity of the opening gesture effectively submerged under waves of high spirits whenever it recurs.   Carter Pann (b. 1972) Carter Pann studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His teachers include Samuel Adler, William Albright, Warren Benson, William Bolcom, David Liptak, Joseph Schwantner, and Bright Sheng, and piano with Barry Snyder.  Carter Pann is one of the most versatile talents among composers of his generation. His music has been performed around the world by ensembles and soloists including the London Symphony, City of and Hong Kong.  In addition, exchange concerts were conducted with the Shanghai Little Star Orchestra and with the Hong Kong Youth Wind Philharmonia.       Previously, David Thomas Kehler served as Director of the Mustang Band and Conductor of the Symphony Band at Southern Methodist University (1995-2005), Associate Director of Bands at the University of Rhode Island (1992-1995), and as Director of Bands at Bay City Western High School, in Bay City, Michigan (1987-1990). Dr. Kehler has memberships in many musical organizations including GMEA, MENC, CBDNA, NBA, WASBE, and others, and is a frequent conductor and clinician throughout the United States.                                                                      Birmingham Symphony, Seattle Symph., Budapest Symph., Irish National Symph., New York and Chicago Youth Symphonies; the Radio Symphonies of Berlin, Stockholm, and Finland; the National Repertory Orchestra; Richard Stoltzman, the Ying Quartet, pianists Barry Snyder and Winston Choi, and the Antares Ensemble. Honors include the K. Serocki Competition for his Piano Concerto (premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw 1998), a Charles Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and five ASCAP awards including the Leo Kaplan award. In 2000 his Piano Concerto was nominated for a Grammy Award.  Carter is currently on faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Hold this Boy and Listen is an unusually soft and subdued work for band written for Carter’s third nephew, David Paulus, jr. The sentiment is at times innocent or wistful and at other times haunted and serene.   Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Gustav Holst was a British composer and educator. He learned piano at an early age, but was stricken with a nerve condition that affected the movement of his right hand, forcing him to give up the piano for the trombone. He received his degrees from The Royal College of Music in London, where he met fellow composer (and lifelong friend) Ralph Vaughan Williams and became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, interests that would later shape the course of his compositional output. Before Holst became a well-known composer, he relied on income from playing the trombone in the Carl Rosa Opera Company and in the White Viennese Band, a popular orchestra specializing in "light music." In 1905, Holst became Director of Music at the St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, London, and in 1907, he also became director of music at Morley College, retaining both positions until his death in 1934. Holst's compositions for wind band, although only a small portion of his total output, have made him a cornerstone of the genre.  In 1909, Holst composed the First Suite in E-flat, a revolutionary piece in that it was written exclusively for wind band. At that time, concert wind band repertoire consisted of reductions of pieces originally scored for orchestras, essentially program music. Holst wanted to make the concert band a serious concert medium, and this piece is seen as the first step in that direction. Holst’s style differs from other composers, who generally wrote for the concert band as they would for an orchestra without strings. The piece starts off with David Thomas Kehler conductor  DMA The University of Texas at Austin (2009) MM Michigan State University (1992) BM Michigan State University (1987)  David Thomas Kehler serves as Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Kennesaw State University. Here, he oversees all aspects of the University’s band program and teaches courses in advanced instrumental conducting and literature. Dr. Kehler most recently served The University of Texas at Austin as a Graduate Conducting Associate while completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting. His dissertation was on the wind music of Pulitzer Prize winning composer Michael Colgrass.   Previously, Dr. Kehler served America’s Premier Windband; The Dallas Wind Symphony as Associate Conductor where he was coordinator and conductor of the DWS International Fanfare Project.  Under his direction they received hundreds of fanfares from all over the world for its annual call for fanfares competition. In addition, Dr. Kehler conducted the Dallas Wind Symphony at various community and civic events throughout Texas.  Included in these events were holiday concerts, various Chautauqua Festivals, the annual Dallas Arboretum Labor Day Concert, and a formal gala presented by the United States Armed Forces with all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in attendance.  Dr. Kehler was also Founder and Conductor of the GDYO Wind Symphony, an ensemble affiliated with the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras, Inc.  Serving as its music director for ten years, the GDYO Wind Symphony established itself as one of the premier youth wind ensembles in the United States.   They were a featured ensemble at the Texas Bandmasters Association/National Band Association Convention in San Antonio, Texas, and were heard internationally on “From the Top”, a syndicated radio program featuring the finest young classical musicians in the country.  In addition, the GDYO Wind Symphony participated in exchange concerts with the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony and performed with Jeff Nelson, former horn of the Canadian Brass.  In the summer of 2008, the GDYO Wind Symphony embarked on an extensive two-week tour of China, performing at the music conservatories of Shanghai, Xian, Beijing,                                           the Chaconne, a melody of 16 notes that starts in the baritone makes its way throughout the entire band, and in the middle of the piece, the trombone plays the inversion of this progression. Building ever so slowly, the finale of this first movement is marked by a strong fortissimo in all instruments and a sustained chord by the upper winds as the lower brass drops out. The remaining two movements are actually based on a segment of this of this Chaconne theme. The Intermezzo is marked vivace and through the vibrant tempo we are shown the Holst’s mastery in writing for woodwind instruments. The piece ends with a March in the form ABA, yet what makes the march interesting is the combination of the two melodies in the finale with a sophisticated counterpoint.  Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) George Percy Grainger was an Australian-born composer, pianist and champion of the saxophone and the concert band, who worked under the stage name of Percy Aldridge Grainger. Grainger was an innovative musician who anticipated many forms of twentieth century music well before other composers established them.  In 1932, he became Dean of Music at New York University, and underscored his reputation as an experimenter by putting jazz on the syllabus and inviting Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer. Twice he was offered honorary doctorates of music, but turned them down, explaining, "I feel that my music must be regarded as a product of non education".  Children's March "Over the hills and far way" is one of the earliest works written for piano and wind band and the first of many such works by Percy Grainger. Written while Grainger was serving in the American Army as a bandsman, it was intended to make full use of all the instrumental resources available at Fort Hamilton where he was stationed. The First World War ended in November 1918 before Grainger had the chance to perform the work as originally planned. Its first performance did not take place until June 1919 at Columbia University, featuring the Goldman Band conducted by the composer with Ralph Leopold playing the piano part. It was subsequently published in an edition, which allowed it to be used by the wind section of the symphony orchestra with the piano part being cued into the wind parts. With the dedication "for my playmate beyond the hills," she is believed to be a Scandinavian beauty with which the composer corresponded for eight years but did not marry because of his mother's jealousy.  David Maslanka (b. 1943) David Maslanka born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, is an American composer. He attended the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied composition with Joseph Wood, and spent a year at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.  He also did graduate work in composition at Michigan State University with H. Owen Reed. Maslanka's works for winds and percussion have become especially well known. They include among others, "A Child's Garden of Dreams" for Symphonic Wind Ensemble, "Concerto for Piano, Winds and Percussion," his numerous symphonies, "Mass" for soloists, chorus, boys chorus, wind orchestra and organ, and the two Wind Quintets. In addition, he has written a wide variety of chamber, orchestral, and choral pieces.  The composer writes: The words “give us this day” are, of course, from the Lord’s Prayer, but the inspiration of this music is Buddhist.  I have recently read a book by the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh entitled For a future to be Possible.  His premise is that a future for the planet is only possible if individuals become deeply mindful of themselves and deeply connected to who they really are.  While this is not a new idea, and something that is an ongoing struggle for all of us, in my estimation it is the issue for world peace.  I chose the subtitle Short Symphony for Wind Ensemble because the music really isn’t programmatic in nature.  It has a full-blown symphonic character, even though there are only two movements.  The music of the slower movement is deeply searching, while that of the highly energized second movement is at time both joyful and sternly sober.  The piece ends with a modal setting of the chorale melody Vater Unser in Himmelreich (Our Father in Heaven), #110 from the 371 Four-Part Chorales of J.S. Bach.            

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