Doebler, Lawrence

Ithaca College Choir

Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble

Ithaca College Wind Ensemble

Marimba Ragtime Band

Peterson, Stephen

Titlebaum, Mike

English

Ithaca College

Ithaca CollegeDigital Commons @ ICAll Concert & Recital Programs Concert & Recital Programs5-16-2009Concert: The 42nd Annual Commencement EveConcertIthaca College Wind EnsembleStephen PetersonIthaca College ChoirLawrence DoeblerMarimba Ragtime BandSee next page for additional authorsFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programsPart of the Music CommonsThis Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Concert & Recital Programs at Digital Commons @ IC. It has been accepted forinclusion in All Concert & Recital Programs by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ IC.Recommended CitationIthaca College Wind Ensemble; Peterson, Stephen; Ithaca College Choir; Doebler, Lawrence; Marimba Ragtime Band; Ithaca CollegeJazz Ensemble; and Titlebaum, Mike, "Concert: The 42nd Annual Commencement Eve Concert" (2009). All Concert & RecitalPrograms. 4512.https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/4512AuthorsIthaca College Wind Ensemble, Stephen Peterson, Ithaca College Choir, Lawrence Doebler, MarimbaRagtime Band, Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble, and Mike TitlebaumThis program is available at Digital Commons @ IC: https://digitalcommons.ithaca.edu/music_programs/4512COMMMENCEMENT EVE CONCERT Conceived and Directed by Dana Wilson To Dream, Perchance to Hope ... Procession of Nobles Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Ananged by Leidzen Ithaca College Wind Ensemble Stephen Peterson, Conductor Ezekiel Saw de Wheel Arranged by William Dawson Xylophonia Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler, Conductor Marimba Ragtime Band Gordon Stout, Director and Soloist Joe Green Dream a Little Dream of Me Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt Arranged by Mike Titlebaum Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble Mike Titlebaum, Director My Lord, What a Mornin' Traditional Carami Hilaire, Mezzo-Soprano Soloist 0 Fortuna! (from Carmina Burana) Carl Orff Ananged by Krance Ithaca College Choir and Wind Ensemble Lawrence Doebler and Stephen Peterson, Conductors Back Talk Harry Breuer Marimba Ragtime Band Gordon Stout, Director and Soloist Responding (from Leader Lieder) Dana Wilson James Covington, Trumpet Soloist Ithaca College Wind Ensemble Stephen Peterson, Conductor Defying Gravity (from Wicked) Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Adapted by Cody Wymore '09 Meredith Beck and Hillary Patingre, Soprano Soloists Deep River An-anged by H. T. Burleigh Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler, Conductor Marimba Spiritual (excerpt) Minoru Miki Marco Schin-ipa, Marimba Soloist Crescendo in Blue Duke Ellington Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble Mike Titlebaum, Director Ithaca Forever Lyrics by Alicia Carpenter Music by Philip J. Lang '33 Arranged by Dana Wilson Ithaca College Choir and Wind Ensemble Lawrence Doebler and Stephen Peterson, Conductors Special Thanks Gregory Woodward, General Coordinator; Dean, School of Music Steve Teneyck, Lighting Designer, Department of Theatre Arts Erik Kibelsbeck, Technical Coordinator, School of Music Lawrence Doebler is the director of choral activities at the Ithaca College School of Music. During his 31 years at the College, he has led the choir on tours in the United States and Ireland, founded the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest and Festival generating 30 conunissioned works pub-lished by Theodore Presser, appeared at major National Association for Mu-sic Education and American Choral Directors Association conventions with the choir, and conducted the choral union and orchestra at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and other major venues. Orffs Carmina Burana and Verdi's Requiem are the works he has conducted most recently at Lincoln Center. Professor Doebler is an active guest conductor and clinician offering work-shops in movement, editing Renaissance music, and conducting. His early training in keyboard, strings, voice, and brass led to his degrees in conduct-ing from Oberlin Conservatory and Washington Univerpity in St. Louis. Doebler began his professional career in 1969 at Smith College. From 1971 to 1978 he taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madi-son. He has received awards for research and teaching excellence from the University of Wisconsin and Ithaca College, and he helped to~establish the master of music in conducting degree at Ithaca College. The Lorenz Com-pany in the Roger Dean catalogue publishes Professor Doebler's editions of Renaissance music. In addition to his academic appointments, he has served as music director of the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble and has been the director of music at churches in Cleveland, St. Louis, Madison, and Ithaca. In 1998, Stephen Peterson was appointed director of bands at Ithaca College, where he currently conducts the College's wind ensemble, teaches courses in conducting and wind literature, and heads the band and the master's of music wind conducting programs. From 1988 to 1998, he served as the associate director of bands at Nmthwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Professor Peterson was also conductor of the renowned Northshore Concert Band. He served on the faculty at Stephen F. Austin State Univer-sity in Nacogdoches, Texas, and has several years of successful teaching experience in the public schools in Arizona. Peterson holds a doctor of music degree from Northwestern University, and master's and bachelor's degrees from Arizona State University. His ensembles have appeared before conventions of the American Bandmasters Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, the American School Band Directors Associa-tion, as well as al Orchestra Hall with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Lincoln Center. For many years Peterson served as a new music reviewer for Instrumentalist magazine, and he is active as a conductor and clini-cian throughout the United States, Canada, Ireland, the Republic of China, Luxembourg, and Qatar. He is a member of the Music Educators National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the New York State Band Directors Association, the New York State School Music Association, and he has been honored with membership in the prestigious American Bandmas-ters Association. Gordon Stout is a professor of percussion at the Ithaca College School of Music, where he has taught percussion since 1980. A composer as well as percussionist specializing on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Wanen Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck. As a composer-recitalist Stout has premiered a num~er of his original compositions as well as works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published and have become standard repertoire for marimbists worldwide. His recordings include not only his own music but also that of the general standard repertoire by influential American composers. A frequent lecturer-recitalist for the Percussive Arts Society, Professor Stout has appeared at 12 international PAS conventions as a featured marimbist, as well as throughout the United States and Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Hungary, and Mexico. He performed clinics and recit-als in France, Germany, Holland, and Belgium with "transcendental virtu-osity," being described as "the Rubinstein of all aspects of the marimba." In the summer of 1998 he was a featured marimbist at the World Marimba Festival in Osaka, Japan, and he was a member of the jury for the second and third World Marimba Competitions in Okaya, Japan, and Stuttgart, Ger-many, respectively. On New Year's Day in 2006 he conducted a 100-person marimba orchestra in the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, as part of the Taiwan International Percussion Convention. Since 2008, Mike Titlebamn has been director of jazz studies at Ithaca College, where he directs three large jazz ensembles, coaches combos, and teaches improvisation, arranging, pedagogy, and history. He earned his bachelor's degree in saxophone performance from the Eastman School of Music in 1991 as well as the coveted performer's certificate in saxophone. He received his master of music degree in 1992 from Eastman in jazz and contemporary media. As a student, he won nine "DeeBee" awards from DownBeat magazine in multiple categories, including jazz performance ( on saxophone and trumpet), classical perfonnance, jazz ananging, and compo-sition. He has played in many of New York City's world famous musical venues, in-cluding the Blue Note, Smalls, Augie's, Fez under Time Cafe, CBGB's, and in the pit orchestra of the Broadway musical Cats. He has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and with dozens of internationally recognized artists, such as Jason Robert Brown, Red Rodney, the Mingus Big Band, Natalie Cole, Billy Taylor, Mel Tonne, Branford Marsalis, Clark Terry, Lee Konitz, and Kenny Wheeler. Titlebaum has published compositions and arrangements through Lorenz (Heritage Jazz Works), Advance Music, and GIA Publications. He was awarded an honorable mention at the Center for Jazz Composition's interna-tional jazz affanging competition honoring Michael Brecker in 2007 and al the Foundation Orchestra Association's international composition competi-tion in 2006. Recent perfonnances of his work include, the premiere of his "Latino Sambosa: A Tango for Orchestra" performed by the Fmi Dodge Area Symphony in 2008 and "World War II Pizza Man" performed by the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Dana Wilson is currently the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music at Ithaca College. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by such diverse ensembles as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Buffalo Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony, Dallas Wind Symphony, Voices of Change, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Syracuse Sym-phony, and Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. He has written solo works for such renowned artists as Gail Williams, Larry Combs, James Thompson, and David Weiss. Wilson has received grants from, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, Arts Midwest, and Meet the Composer. His compositions have been perfonned throughout the United States, Europe, and East Asia, and are published by Boosey and Hawkes and Ludwig Music Publishers. His works have received several awards, including the International Trumpet Guild First Prize, the Sudler International Composition Prize, and the Ostwald Composition Prize. They can be heard on Klavier, Albany, Summit, Centaur, Innova, Meister Mu-sic, Elf, Open Loop, Mark, Redwood, Musical Heritage Society, and Kosei Recordings. Professor Wilson holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. He is coauthor of Contemporary Choral Arranging, published by Prentice Hall, and has written articles on diverse musical subjects. He has been a Yaddo Fellow (at Yaddo, the artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York), a Wye Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Charles A. Dana Fellow, and a fellow at the Society for Humanities al Cornell University. l II il Ithaca College Choir Lawrence Doebler conductor Jennifer Sengin, graduate conductor Ana Withiam, graduate conductor Soprano I Megan Armenio Hilary Bucell Cristina Faicco Elena Galvan Nicole Guberman Alison LaGarry Soprano II Tina Boosahda Kristen Gobetz Allison Macri .Jennifer Sengin Sarah Vincelett Erin Winker Alto I Loreto Angulo-Pizarro Elizabeth Faranda Margaret Flower Carami Hilaire .Jesse Kumicinski Sara Mowery Alto II Katherine Penyak Katherine Selig Melanie Wade Sara Weaver Emily Wilkins Ana Withiam Tenor I Sam Bianco Alex Canovas Andrew Mattfeld John Stanton Nate Tao Mark Van De Water Annandale, New Jersey Edinboro, Pennsylvania Commack, New York Ithaca, New York Hillsborough, New Jersey Massena, New York Herndon, Virginia' Stony Brook, New York Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Princeton, New .Jersey Alpine, California Beltsville, Maryland Rockaway, New Jersey Spring City, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Brooklyn, New York Newburgh, New York Dillsburg, Pennsylvania N01th Granby, Connecticut Brockp01t, New York Ledyard, Connecticut Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Macungie, Pennsylvania Lansing, New York Syracuse, New York Bethlehem, New York Westtown, New York Poughkeepsie, New York Reston, Virginia Hamburg, New York Tenor II Mario Burgos Robe1t Dietz Thomas Furey Jared Goldstein Louis Hatzipetrakos Garry McLinn Omar Najmi Baritone Steven Humes Thomas Lehman Timothy Meola Sean Perry Jon Riss Bass Michael Gae1tner J. Michael Hollabaugh Matt Jones Michael Wade Christopher Weigel Stephen Wilkins Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Ithaca, New York West Barnstable, Massachusetts Monticello, New York Syosset, New York Burke, Virginia Reading, Massachusetts Kensington, Connecticut Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania Mt. Olive, New Jersey Kingston, New York Smithtown, New York Wexford, Pennsylvania Winchester, Massachusetts Lansing, New York Rome, New York Farmington, Connecticut Spartanburg, South Carolina Ithaca College Marimba Band Gordon Stout, director Gordon Stout, marimba Spencer, New York Colleen B. Clark, marimba Colchester, Connecticut Andrew Boynton, percussion Batavia, New York Emily Ickes Kalamazoo, Michigan Peter Kielar, marimba Utica, New York Marco SchiITipa, marimba solo (on the Miki, Marimba Spiritual) Syracuse, New York Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble Mike Titlebaum, director Woodwinds Jason Juliano Emily Pecoraro Nick Rizzo David Dehority Remy Kunstler Trumpets James Covington Mikey Conerty Bobby Spellman Mike Banewicz Kevin Guest Trombones Alicia Aubin Danielle Fraser Alexis Can-Steven Cooney Rhythm Ben Russo, piano Kyle Olmstead, bass Colleen B. Clark, drums Tonawanda, New York Guilford, Connecticut Syracuse, New York Syracuse, New York Wellesley, Massachusetts Meriden, Connecticut Rockville Centre, New York West Newbury, Massachusetts Hagaman, New York Westborough, Massachusetts Glocester, Rhode Island. Deering, New Hampshire Concord, New Hampshire Seaford, New York Basking Ridge, New Jersey Wayland, Massachusetts Colchester, Connecticut Ithaca College Wind Ensemble Stephen Peterson, conductor Piccolo Emily Wespiser Flute Aimee Shorten* Rebecca Copek Amelia Baran Emily Wespiser Lee, Massachusetts Moscow, Pennsylvania Rochester, New York Endicott, New York Lee, Massachusetts Oboe Jamie Davis* Justine Popik Alana Rosen Bassoon Jillian Bushnell* Meghan Kininger Jessica Tortorici E-flat Clarinet Vanessa Calahan B-flat Clarinet Brianne Remaley Laurel Stinson Amanda Strickland Daniel Vesey Mark Wolocki Bass Clarinet Brendon Lucas Alto Saxophone Gabe Fadale Ryan Salisbury* Tenor Saxophone Seval Kanik Baritone Saxophone Rachel Perry Trnmpet Mike Banewicz Brian Binder James Covington Chris Tolbert Ethan Urtz,* Emily Waltz Fallon, Nevada Westminster, Massachusetts East Rockaway, New York Syracuse, New York Buffalo, New York Rochester, New York Delmar, New York New Windsor, New York Doylestown, Pennsylvania Chesapeake, Virginia Smithtown, New York Rochester, New York Blauvelt, New York Homer, New York Johnstown, New York Irondequoit, New York Otselic, New York Hagaman, New York South Brunswick, New Jersey Meriden, Connecticut Fulton, New York Liverpool, New York Cinnaminson, New Jersey Horn Laura Francese Wallkill, New York Ella Nace Queensbury, New York Tyler Ogilvie Cobleskill, New York Lori Roy* Schoharie, New York Elizabeth Teucke Roxbury, New Jersey Trombone ('f Ryan Kuehhas Lake Ronkonkoma, New York I Mark Neville* Old Lyme, Connecticut Bass Trombone Michael Nave Baldwinsville, New York Euphonium Michael Horsford* Auburn, New York Aaron Rivkin Cherry Hill, New Jersey Tuba Kevin Madden Manchester, New Hampshire Dan Troiano* Lake Grove, New York String Bass Kevin Gobetz Stony Brook, New York Percussion Andrew Boynton* Batavia, New York Daniel Cathey Wichita, Kansas Colleen B. Clark Colchester, Connecticut Peter Kielar Utica, New York Timpani Emily Ickes Kalamazoo, Michigan Piano Nathan Gulla Graduate Assistants ', Timothy Arnold Owatonna, Minnesota ~ Susan De Vore Wichita, Kansas * principal -----~-----Ithaca Clasp a And here Although I Ithaca, forever e on Lyrics : Alicia Carpenter Ensemble by Dana Wilson on me, ways be, how beautiful you are: snowy mile. lma mater true; remember you. Like a shining beacon light and day. And here's to Ithaca, my Ithaca, how bright your vision ffl !llllk May all your sons and daughters dare to live their dreams. "Ithaca Forever " was composed by Philip Lang '33, a graduat e of Ithaca's School of Music and orchestrator of dozens of Broadway's best-loved musicals, including Hello Dolly, 42nd Street , and An-nie. Collaborating with professional lyricist Alicia Carpenter, who has published over 150 works in education and symphonic/choral music, Lang completed the iece in 1984. Join Us for Firewo r ks Following the concert , all are invited to close the night with refresh-ments on the acad emic quad from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. , highlight ed by a fireworks display. ITHACA 

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