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Hall, Steven

Johnson, Peggy

Lawson, Kay

Lawson, Stephen

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Marshall UniversityMarshall Digital ScholarAll Performances Performance CollectionWinter 2-10-2010Marshall University Music Department Presents aFaculty Recital, featuring, Stephen Lawson, horn,assisted by J. Steven Hall, marimba, percussion, KayLawson, bassoon, Peggy Johnson, pianoStephen LawsonMarshall University, lawson39@marshall.eduSteven HallMarshall University, hallj@marshall.eduKay LawsonMarshall University, lawsonk@marshall.eduPeggy JohnsonFollow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perfPart of the Fine Arts Commons, and the Music Performance CommonsThis Recital is brought to you for free and open access by the Performance Collection at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion inAll Performances by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact zhangj@marshall.edu.Recommended CitationLawson, Stephen; Hall, Steven; Lawson, Kay; and Johnson, Peggy, "Marshall University Music Department Presents a Faculty Recital,featuring, Stephen Lawson, horn, assisted by J. Steven Hall, marimba, percussion, Kay Lawson, bassoon, Peggy Johnson, piano"(2010). All Performances. Book 523.http://mds.marshall.edu/music_perf/523Department of Music MUSIC presents a Faculty Recital featuring Stephen Lawson, horn assisted by J. Steven Hall, marimba, percussion Kay Lawson, bassoon Peggy Johnston, piano Wednesday, February 10, 2010 Smith Recital Hall 8:00 p.m. Ensemble Concerts are presented by the College of Fine Arts through the Department of Music, with the support of student activity funds. For more information about this or other music events, please call (304) 696-3117, or view our website at www.marshall.edu/music. Program The Call of Boromir Daniel McCarthy (b. 1955) Solo Suite for Horn and Improvisatory Percussion I( TJ = 96) II. Slow III. (9 = 138) Interval to restage Trio for Horn, Bassoon and Piano I. Lento, Allegro agitato II. Andante III. Lento, Allegro molto Alec Wilder (1907~1980) Eric Ewazen (b. 1954) Three American Folksongs arr. Randall E. Faust I. The Wabash Cannonball II. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child III. To Study War No More Notes Written for Chris and Leslie Norton, Tlte Call of Boromir is based upon. a character from Tolkien' s Lord of the Rings epic, who blew his horn in times of distress and battle. Like many of McCarthy's other works, the marimba part is extremely idiomatic and blends nicely with the timbre of the horn. This rhythmically driven piece goes and goes, leaving the audience out of breath." - Daniel McCarthy. Daniel McCarthy is Chair of Composition and Theory at the University of Akron, School of Music. Previously, Daniel was a Distinguished Creative Professor in composition at Indiana State University where he directed the Contemporary Music Festival with the Louisville Orchestra .. He is founder of the Midwest Composers' Forum and has served as President of the Cleveland Composers Guild. During summers, he is instructor of composition at the Interlachen Arts Academy. (From his web site) Solo Suite for Horn and Improvised Percussion was written by Alec Wilder in 1954. Wilder was one of America's great composer iconoclasts. Though he studied at the Eastman School of Music, he did not graduate. He was awarded on honorary degree in 1973. It has always been difficult to classify the works of Alec Wilder. His works of the 1930's and 40's are largely popular music and songs. He was good friends with Frank Sinatra, Mitch Miller and wrote songs for luminaries such as: Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Mabel Mercer, Cab Calloway, The Mills Brothers, etc. He also wrote works for Jan DeGaetani and Eileen Farrell, New York Brass Quintet, New York Woodwind Quintet, large ensemble pieces, operas, children's songs, commercials for television, ballets, film scores, solo works for most instruments, etc. Throughout his life, Wilder did not believe in acquiring possessions. He only owned what he could carry in three suitcases. Typically, he would travel and stay with music friends, and while there, write pieces; part inspiration and part compensation for his stay. John Barrows, horn was a very good friend of his, and it is thought that this suite was written for him, as . most of the horn music that he wrote was premiered by Barrows. It is unknown for whom the percussion part was intended. However, given his many popular music friends, it could have been a popular percussionist of the day. The horn part is notated, and the percussionist is instructed to improvise, as compliments the horn part -even as to the choice of instruments. Trio for Horn, Bassoon and Piano by Eric Ewazen was written for Scott Temple, horn and Toni Lipton, bassoon in 1983 and was premiered by them with Ewazen on piano. Scott Temple performs with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, NYC Opera Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Toni Lipton has retired from her position as contrabassoon of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Both Temple and Lipton teach and perform in the Bel Canto Institute Summer Program in Florence, Italy. Ewazen studied at the Eastman• School of Music and earned a doctorate at Julliard. Among his' teachers were Milton Babbitt, Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Gunther Schuller. Ewazen joined the Julliard faculty in 1980 and is a professor of composition. He has won several awards for compositions including a BMI award, and the Howard Hanson Prize. He has amassed a considerable repertoire of chamber works for brass, woodwinds, mixed ensembles and works for band. This trio represents his early years as a faculty member at Julliard. Though several Ewazen "signatures" can be heard, it seems less formulaic than later works. Themes are developed in all instruments and sometimes in curious juxtaposition, i.e., at one point the horn and bassoon have a theme written 1/16th apart. Three American Folk Songs arranged by Randall Faust presents "The Wabash Cannonba!I", "Sometimes !Feel like a Motherless Chilcf', and "J ain 't gonna study war no more" using settings that are both traditional and personal. There are sound effects, such as: plucking and/or· strumming the strings of the piano, and horn playing chords and spatial effects using the bell. Randall Faust teaches at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, and has taught at the Interlachen A,rts SummerAcademy and Auburn University. He has served as president of the International Hom Society and has been a frequent contributor to The Horn Call and composed several works for horn and horn ensemble .•. and an all around good guy! 

Marshall University Music Department Presents a Faculty Recital, featuring, Stephen Lawson, horn, assisted by J. Steven Hall, marimba, percussion, Kay Lawson, bassoon, Peggy Johnson, piano

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Marshall University Music Department Presents a Faculty Recital, featuring, Stephen Lawson, horn, assisted by J. Steven Hall, marimba, percussion, Kay Lawson, bassoon, Peggy Johnson, piano

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