THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MUSIC

presents

THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS INC. REGION IV CONFERENCE

November 17-19, 1988 Frank Moody Music Building

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

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Society of Composers, Inc. 1988 Region IV Conference

Schedule of Events

THURSDAY - Noyember 17

8:45 a.m

9:45 10:00

Registration Lobby (Coffee and Doughnuts and Tour of Music Building) Welcome- Dr. Dennis Monk Choral-Opera Lecture Choral-Opera Darmstadt 88 and the New Pluralism - Mark Lee

10:45 Concert Choral-Opera 5 The Unified Arts Ensemble of Motlow State Community College Stockhausen - Tierkries, Wellen Feldman - Durations 2 Monk - View 1, Ester's Song, Paris Glass - 1 + 1, Opening, The Olympian

1:30 p.m. Concert FNB Concert Hall --- 6 Clemmons - Sonata - solo violin (Rubin) Presser - Horn Quartet (Snead, Linsley, Mattingly, Furry) Smoke - Three Movements - clarinet & percussion (Bridges.Mathis) Pinney - (4*2) + 2 Mason - Windage - organ (Cook)

3:00 Recital Huey Recital Hall 6 Benoit - Suite No.2 - piano (Smith) Ledee -ABCISSA - clarinet (LeDee) Wendt - Elegy - trombone (Stalling) Landers - Fugue - piano (Frederick) Thompson - Three Pieces - cello (Holland) Whitfield - Piano Trio No. 1 (Dyer, Stout, Freeze) Robbins - Percussion Trio - (Walters, Mosley, Williams)

4:15 Lecture/Panel Discussion Choral-Opera

8:00

Collaboration Between Composers and Poets - Lola Haskins Respondents - Dinos Constantinides, Harold Schiffman, John White Moderator - Harold Phillips

Concert FNB Concert Hall --- 7 The University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra Schiffman - Capricci Concertati Phillips - Popul Vuh

Constantinides - Four Songs on Poems by Sappho Howe - Elegy for Strings White - Symphony for a Saint

FRIDAY - November 18

9:00 a.m. 9:30

Late registration Recital Lee - 2R - guitar (Lee)

Choral-Opera Huey Recital Hall -----·

Kinningham - Tribute - clarinet & piano (Crabtree, Freeze) Sain - Parallel - flute (Sain) Millen - Fantasy - flute & piano (Bull, Perez) Eastman - The Signs of The Zodiac - flute (Cohen) Robison - Quartet - woodwinds & tape (Boyd, Sanders, Crabtree,

Simpson)

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11:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -----11 Sleeper - Four Miniatures - bassoon & flute (Sleeper, Rickman) Weigal - Augmented Break - violin (Constantinides) Ovens - Third Improvisation - percussion (Ovens) White - Homage a Gxe:xx Gxx.xd - piano (White) Robertson - Music - cello & piano (Harrell, Lee)

1:30 p.m. Paper Huey Recital Hall The Alabama Electronic Studios - Brad Albers

2:15 Panel Discussion Huey Recital Hall

3:45

The Design of Electronic Music Studios and Musical Bias Panel - Brad Albers, Hubert Howe, John Melby, Sylvia Pengilly Moderator - Marvin Johnson

Electronic Music Concert FNB Concert Hall -----12 Pengilly - Dimensions of Space and Time - tape (Pengilly) Albers - Nexus - tape (Albers) Freund - Steel Grey Sky - electronic keyboard (Freund) Melby - Chor der Toten - tape (Melby) Howe - Piece for DX-7 Synthesizer Ensemble

5:30 Wine and Cheese Party (Cash Bar) University Club

8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall The Alabama Wind Ensemble Davis - Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo Montalto - Symphony Hayden - Scintilla

Van Appledom - Cacophony Finney - Saxophone Concerto

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SA TUR DAY - November 19

8:30 a.m. 9:30

11:00

Business Meeting (late registration) Choral-Opera Recital Huey Recital Hall 17 Van Der Slice - Variations - flute & piano (Cohen, Penick) Daugherty - Numinous Ignotus- clarinet & piano (Bridges, Wilder) Hoffman -Autumn Song - violin (Ross) Adams - Syzygy - violin & marimba (Monacelli, Walters) · Raitt -Aromas cello & piano (Holland, Smith) Garcia - Sonic Islands in a Sea of Solitude - flt, ob, clar, tbn (Boyd,

Irish, McFarlen, Mason) Concert FNB Concert Hall 17 Tipton - Four Alice Walker Songs - baritone, piano, percussion (Tipton, Perry) Montalto - Quiet Waters - soprano & tape (Dorough) Contemporary Ensemble of The University of Alabama Drennen - Palempsest - piano (Frederick) Eastman - A New Day - soprano, alto, tenor, bass, piano (Hatchett,

Johnston, Freeze, Tibbs, Frederick) Johnson - Parsley Sage - chorus and tape Kam - Allelulia - organ (Risinger) Kindred - Hagia Sophia - baritone, organ, chorus (Tibbs, Risinger)

2:00 p.m. Panel Discussion Choral-Opera

4:00

Twentieth Century Music and Aesthetic Diversity Ross Lee Finney, Don Freund, Hubert Howe, Dennis Kam Moderator - Frederic Goossen Concert FNB Concert Hall Constantinides - Sonata No. 2 - solo violin (Rubin) Freund - LifeGoes On - violin & piano (Ross, Freund)

Goossen - Tenebrae - piano (Murray) Sieg - Piano Trio (Cadek) Kallstrom - Tropism - piano trio (Cadek)

5:30 Alabama Teachers of Music Theory Choral-Opera Business Meeting

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8:00 Concert FNB Concert Hall -- 24 Contemporary Ensemble of the University of Georgia Finney - Quartet/or Oboe, Cello, Percussion, and Piano Melby - Concerto for Clarinet and Tape

Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King

10:00 Party (cash bar) Sheraton Hotel

Thursday, November 17, 1988 10:45 a.m. - Choral Opera Room - Moody Music Building

The Unified Arts Ensemble of Motlow State Community College Tullahoma, Tennessee

Mark Lee , Director

PROGRAM Tiel 1 Karlheinz Stockhausen

Tierkries ( 197 6) Mark Prince Lee, guitar

Wellen (1968), from Fiir Kommende Zeiten Mark Prince Lee , guitar

Beverly Barnes, keyboard Patrick McCurdy, bass

Tiel 2 Morton Feldman Durations 2 (1963)

Tiel 3 View 1

Kristie Beavers, piano Patrick McCurdy, bass

Meredith Monk

Ester's Song (1986) from the ballet/opera Turtle Dreams Paris (1978)

Teil 4 l+l Opening

Kristie Beavers - soprano, keyboard Beverly Barnes - alto, keyboard

Mark Prince Lee - guitar, keyboard Patrick McCurdy - bass

Alan Odegaard - saxophone

The Olympian Kristie Beavers, piano

Beverly Barnes, keyboard Mark Prince Lee, keyboard

Patrick McCurdy, bass Alan Odegaard, saxophone

Forty-third Concert of the 1988-89 Season

Philip Glass

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Thursday, November 17, 1988 1:30 p .m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

Sonata (1975) Variants Sentiments Caprice Reflections

Horn Quartet

PROGRAM

Henry Rubin, violin

Charles Snead, Victoria Linsley, Alan Mattingly, Stephanie Furry

Three Movements Scott Bridges , clarinet

Larry Mathis, percussion

W.R. Clemmons

William Presser

Gary Smoke

(4*2) + 2 Gregory Pinney Contemporay Ensemble of the University of Alabama

Scott Bridges, conductor

Windage Charles Mason Jim Cook, organ

Forty-fourth Program of the 1988-89 Season

Thursday, November 17, 1988 3 p.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building

Suite No. 2

ABCISSA

Elegy

PROGRAM

Jonathan Smith, piano

Mikel LeDee, clarinet

Richard Stalling, trombone Gerald Loren Welker, conductor

Kenneth Benoit

Mikel LeDee

Lewis Wendt

Fugue Joseph Landers Amy Frederick, piano

Three Pieces Peggy Thompson

Piano Trio No. 1 James Holland, violoncello

Monica Dyer, violin Joe Stout, violoncello

Greg Freeze, piano

Matt Whitfield

Percussion Trio Scott Robbins Cori Walters, Kevin Mosley, Woody Williams

Forty-fifth Program of the 1988-89 Season

Thursday, November 17, 1988 8 p.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

The University of Alabama Symphony Orchestra Carlton McCreery, conductor

Capricci Concertati Harold Schiffman I. Allegro giocoso II. Andantino gracioso III. Precississimo

Michael Gattozzi, violin; Diane Boyd, flute Robert Sanders, oboe; Billy Crabtree, clarinet John Irish, clarinet; David Simpson, bassoon

Mark Foster, trombone; Cynthia Zoller, percussion Gerald Loren Welker, conductor

Popol Vuh H. Garrett Phillips Allegro moderato-Adagio sostenuto-Allegro assai

Henry Rubin, violin; Melissa Ross, viola Alan Harrell, violoncello; Scott Bridges, clarinet Larry Mathis, percussion; Jonathan Smith, piano

Gerald Loren Welker, conductor

INTERMISSION

Four Songs On Poems By Sappho I. Homecoming

Dinos Constantinides

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II. To A Handsome Man 111. Candor IV. Ligh t Van ishing

Susan Fleming, mezzo-soprano

Elegie For S trings

Symphony For A Sa int I. Prologue II. Nuptual Mass

Hubert Howe

John White

III. The Conversion Of Valerian IV. Martyrdom V . Trans figuration

Cecilia- Karen White , soprano Valer ian - Stephen Cary, tenor

Narrator- Ed White, bass-baritone

Forty-Seventh Program of the 1988-89 Season

Four Songs on Poems by Sappho I . Homecoming You have come. Well done. I longed for you. You have given fire to my heart which burns now for you. Welcome, be welcome. Welcome for all the hours of our separa­tion.

II. To a Handsome Man Stand up and gaze on me as friend to friend. Reveal openly to me the beauty in your eyes.

III. Candor (to Akaeus) If you cared for the good and the beautiful and your tongue were not hiding evil, shame would not harbor in your eyes. Your would speak out your real desire.

IV. Light Vanishing The moon has gone down, gone down the Pleiadcs. Night is half-gone, and life speeds by.

Symphony for a Saint I. Comes now, comes now Cecilia Like a weeping bird whose sob is joy, Who flies to the glass of her own reflection Who seeks the inside of the sanctuary, Who falls among the little leaves And is held gentle in his hands that carry her within. Comes now, comes now Cecilia Like a simple flower that sings the sun inside her petals when the sun is gone, who brought Valerian to the Lord, who taught him to cup the rain in his wounds as he left the Earth to the executioners whose wiped swords made flowers of their robes. Comes now, comes now Cecilia to stop your ears with music.

II. For all the bold shivers of your strings, all the tumult of your pipes, It is only you I hear. Your soft dark wings, the shadow of your wings comfort me.

Oh Lord who sings in my heart when I

come to you

I will carry you no tears in my hands. I sing of you, you in my heart, for you these garlands bloom, these dancers dance. For you the giddy flowers of your dance. Your peace be with me now.

III. My sweet grey dove, among the trees there are such swellings. All the throats of the dark leaves are singing, my sweet grey dove. I will be so near to you, near as the sap which rises in the hombeams. I will open you as gently as does Junius persuade each single petal of the rose. Since we were children by the river I have loved you.

Ah, Valerian, have you seen the dawn? Have you seen? Have you seen the dawn when the whole horizon is singing? Have you heard the bearded music of the goats in fog? Have you stroked the lacy, gentle, mossy skin that creeps along ihe forest? Have you picked the bread of snow? There are such mysteries, there are such myst'ries in the Lord And He is the one and only God, And He is filled with all the start, And in His hands HI! carries night and day, And He spills the sun like water Ah, Valerian, we can be of one blood in His blood if we come to him. But if you reach to me as man for woman you will find me closed As the bitter almond 'round its bitter, bitter seed. As the white eye of the mimosa in the silent field. Praise Him!

IV. I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome, singer of songs. Confesser of a darkling joy that cannot die.

And see how my bones are brightening, and see how my blood is rising. Praised be the light that grows upon the walls, here where the weather flames beyond my reach, here where the hot salt purifies my eyes. I hear his voice, his feathered words of love and I find my life in Him. She finds her life in whom?

I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... And see how the rain seeps through the stones, a mist to cool my torrid cell, Like the gentle mist that shivered from the low ravine the day I walked with Him among the ilex trees.

And while the ashes cross upon my brow, I am a mother who calls her children, "See it is morning." A miracle, a miracle! Who is it? What is it that is here?

I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... And now who is this Lictor, this soldier bearing the axe of Rome? Who is he but your servant? Who is he but your slave? For see the lictor with his axe, three times he strikes for Rome. And the little pagans in the dark, they chitter at his blows and are gone.

I am Cecilia, daughter of Rome ... What gushes from my throat is song. For I have washed in my own blood and I am clean Do you see? Do you see the field of strawberries flowing to the sea? I kneel in the wild I gather tiny fruits, I taste the sweetest seeds .

v. Here lies your saint among the cold and sweating stones, she who died for love. And if we should unseal her grave we can see what heaven has left us here What relics of her death, what wings of' res trrrection.

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Come with me into this little dark. Here she lies, her hands drawn up in sleep. Tenderly as a child, a child wrapped in gold, And at her feet her linens steeped in blood.

Do you see? Do you see the filed of strawberries flowing to the sea come low with me come gathering. I am Cecilia.

VIOLIN I Elizabeth Monacelli BASS

Touch her, she is dust. Her cheeks turn powder over bone, her lips fall away to air. Yet in the dim I hear a quickening of wings. And a sweet singing.

I am Cecilia.

And a sweet singing.

HORN

Concertmistress Robert Dickson Alan Mattingly

Dana Lambert Principal Principal

Laura Edgar Fred Coons Stephanie Furry

Hilarie Harp Monica Hairston

Shanon Jones FLUTE Tori Linsley

Jeong Ae Park Diane Boyd Greg Sinatra

Ai-Yi Bao* Principal DonnaDavis TRUMPET

VIOLIN II Dutchess Jackson Joe Ardovino

Robbie Lee Bowie Kerrie Mills Principal

Principal Terahl Webster

Monica Dyer PICCOLO Lester Walker

Bridget Phillips Donna Davis

Michael Gattozzi* TROMBONE

Kristine McCreery* OBOE Thomas Davis Robert Sanders Shane Bowles

VIOLA Principal

Will Stapp Selena Nawrocki TUBA

Principal Mike Mason

Kathryn Greene CLARINET

Charles Hott* Billy Crabtree TIMPANI

Melissa Ross* Principal Matt Whittemore Paula Howard

CELLO PERCUSSION

James Holland BASSOON Cindy Zoller

Principal David Simpson Sean Noyes

Lisa Probeck Pamela Hebert David Lans

Alan Harrell Barry Bailey

Joe Stout

* Faculty/Staff

Friday, November 18, 1988 9:30 a.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building

PROGRAM

2R Mark Lee

Tribute

Parallel

Mark Lee, guitar

Billy Crabtree, clarinet Greg Freeze, piano

Cynthia Sain, flute

Alan Kinningham

Jim Sain

Fantasy Variations Rhendle Millen Catherin Bull, flute

Patricia Perez, piano

The Signs of the Zodiac Donna Kelly Eastman Capricorn

Quartet

Aries Taurus Gemini

Cancer Libra Leo Scorpio Aquarius Virgo Sagitarius

Sheryl Cohen, flute

Diane Boyd, flute Robert Sanders, oboe

Billy Crabtree, clarinet David Simpson, bassoon

Tucker Robison

Forty-eighth Program of the 1988-89 Season

Friday, November 18, 1988 11 a.m. • FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

Four Miniatures

PROGRAM

Kathern Sleeper, bassoon Jean Rickman, flute

Thom Sleeper

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Augmented Break Jay Weigal Dinos Constantinides, violin

Third Improvisation Douglas Ovens Douglas Ovens, percussion

Homage a Gxess Gxxxd John D. White John White, piano

Music for Cello and Piano Edwin Robertson Alan Harrell, violoncello

Christy Lee, piano

Forty-ninth Program of the 1988-89 Season

Electronic Music Friday, November 18, 1988

3:45 p.m .. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

PROGRAM

Dimensions of Space and Time Sylvia Pengilly

Nexus Brad Albers

Steel Grey Sky Donald Freund Donald Freund, electronic keyboard

Chor der Toten John Melby

Piece for DX- 7 II Synthesizer Ensemble Hubert Howe Ronald Goldstein, Daniel Pyle, Andrew Risinger, Gary Smoke

Fifty-second Program of the 1988-89 Season

DX-7 II Synthesizer provided by: Music Alley, Inc.

113 Brook Village Birmingham, AL 35216

Steve Garett, owner - (205 )988-3688

Friday, November 18, 1988 8 p.m •. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

The Alabama Wind Ensemble Gerald Loren Welker, Conductor

PROGRAM

Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo William Davis

Symphony Richard Montalto I. Energetic II. Mysterious III. Allegro

Scintilla Paul Hayden

INTERMISSION

Cacophony Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn

Concerto Ross Lee Finney I. Moderato II. Allegro Energico

Jimmy Bowland, alto saxophone

Fifty-Third Program of the 1988-89 Season

PROGRAM NOTES

Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo Fanfare, Meditation, and Scherzo for wind ensemble was

composed in 1983-84 for the 1985 bicentennial celebration of the founding of the University of Georgia. The work opens with a fanfare for brass and percussion; later in the Fanfare section the woodwinds enter, but in a subordinate role. The woodwinds play a more important part in the lyrical Meditation, which begins with high woodwind trills. The main theme of this section is played by unison high woodwinds accompanied by soft chords. This quickly builds to a fortissimo climax, which is followed by a return to a soft dynamic level and an extended flute solo. The Scherzo is a virtuoso showpiece for the entire wind ensemble. It begins with

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three-part counterpoint; the three parts, while non-imitative, nonetheless share common motives . Soon various sections of the wind ensemble are featured alone: the double reeds are heard, then the piccolo and flutes. Following this, unison clarinets alternate with solo brass instruments which bring back motives from the Meditation After a fermata, the three-part counterpoint begins again in the woodwinds against the opening fanfare played by muted brass. Following a tutti climax, the saxophones, clari­nets, trumpets, and trombones are featured. The opening brass fanfare continues to be heard in the work's coda.

Symphony Richard Montalto hold degrees in composition from the Uni­

versity of New Orleans, Tulane University, and North Texas State University. His works have been performed at the Montreux International Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, and the 1981 International Computer Music Conference. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the Mississippi University for Women and Conductor of the Columbus (MS) Symphony Orchestra.

Symphony was composed in 1979 and won an ASCAP Grants to Young Composers Award in 1981. The three-movement work explores the tremendous range of instrumental color of the con­temporary wind ensemble. Free use is made of twelve-tone tech­nique, resulting in various combinations of motivic, melodic, and textural musics .

Scintilla Paul Hayden received his graduate degrees in composition

from the University of Illinois after studying with Ben Johnston, Salvatore Martirano, and Thomas Frederickson. For seven years, Hayden was an assistant professor of music at Louisiana State University and he is presently associate professor of music at Eastern Illinois University.

Scintilla was a finalist in the 1987 American Bandmasters Association/Ostwald Band Composition Contest and the Virginia Band Directors National Association Symposium XII Composition Contest. A "scintilla" is a spark. The notes of the opening piano/ marimba scales provide the kernal or spark fromwhich much of the material of the piece is derived. The work is in one movement and is divided into five sections that create an overall arch form (ABCBA). Scintilla was commissioned by the LSU School of

Music in celebration of the opening of its new music building and dedicated to Frank Wickes and the LSU Wind Ensemble.

Cacophony Cacophony for Winds, Percussion and Toys is an original

composition which freely organizes noise in various combinations of rhythm, timbre, and texture. Members of the ensemble clap, speak and shout at times, and each member (except the percussion players) must procure some type of noise maker such as rattles, metallics, bells, toy horns, whistles and even sirens. Cacophony was commissioned by the Women Band Directors National Asso­ciation and premiered by the Spring High School Band of Spring, Texas, at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in December of 1980. It was an award-winning composition in the Virginia Col­lege Band Directors National Association Competitions in 1981.

Concerto Ross Lee Finney was born in Wells, Minnesota, in 1906. His

entire life has been spent in the academic climate of the college and university- teaching, composing, and lecturing. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Alban Berg, and Gian-Francesco Malipiero, and he has taught at Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, the Hartt School of Music, and Amherst College. Finney has received many award including a Pulitzer Scholarship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Boston Symphony Award and A Rockefeller Foundation Grant. He was composer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1960, and was elected to the National Insti­tute of Arts and Letters in 1962. From 1948 until his retirement in 1976, he was composer-in-residence at the University of Michigan. In 1982-83, Professor Finney became the first holder of the En­dowed Chair in Music at the University of Alabama.

The Concerto was commissioned by friends and students of Larry Teal, a longtime friend of the composer, and, until his retirement, a distinguished professor of saxophone at the Univer­sity of Michigan. The first performance was presented by the University of Michigan Band, H. Robert Reynolds, conductor, with Teal's successor at Michigan, Donald Sin ta, as soloist. The concerto represents the epitome of technical proficiency, not only for the soloist but even for the wind and percussion players in the ensemble. Despite its heavy, Romantic resources and proportions, the composer achieves opacity and translucence between soloist

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and accompaniment. This is stock-in-trade of Ross Lee Finney .

JimllJ.y Alan Bowland, of Paducah, Kentucky, is principal saxo­phonist of the Alabama Wind Ensemble. A two-time first chair saxophonist of the Kentucky All-State Band, Mr. Bowland was Quad-State Soloist of the Year and winner of the John Philip Sousa Award While a student at Lone Oak High School in Padu­cah. He performed as a member of the Disney All-American College Band in 1986. Winner of the Phi Kappa Lambda Out­standing Sophomore of the Year Award, he was a state winner in the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Compe­tition and represented the School of Music on a concert tour of Costa Rica in the summer of 1988. He is a saxophone student of William K. Dole.

ALABAMA WIND ENSEMBLE PERSONNEL

FLUTES Diane Boyd

Principal Catherine Bull

PICCOLO Donna Davis

OBOES Robert Sanders

Principal Greta Shockley Nora Mcfarlen

CLARINETS Laura Grantier (E-Flat) Billy Crabtree

Principal Krista Brunner

Assistant Terry Rainey Richard Mason Jennifer Borden Elizabeth Vollers Catherine Taylor Heather Crossley

Shannon Whitley John Irish Jewell Whitt

BASSOONS David Simpson

Principal Malinda Williams David Salter (Contra)

SAXOPHONES Jimmy Bowland

Principal Alto Julie Reichert (alto) Christopher Bentley (tenor) David Johnson (Bari­tone)

CORNETS Lester Walker

Principal Scott Berry

Assistant Terahl Webster John Cain

Saturday, November 19, 1988 9:30 a.m. - Huey Recital Hall - Moody Music Building

Variations

Numminous Ignotus

Autumn Song

Syzgy

Aromas

PROGRAM

Sheryl Cohen, flute Amanda Penick, piano

Scott Bridges, clarinet Pamela Wilder, piano

Julian Ross, violin

Elizabeth Monacelli, violin Cori Walters, marimba

James Holland, cello Jonathan Smith, piano

Sonic Islands in a Sea of Solitude Diane Boyd, flute

Nora McFarlen, oboe John Irish, clarinet

Richard Mason, trombone

John Van Der Slice

Michael Daugherty

Laura Hoffman

Daniel Adams

Kevin Haitt

Orlando Garcia

Fifty-fourth Program of the 1988-89 Season

Saturday, November 19, 1988 11 a.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

PROGRAM

Four Alice Walker Songs (1985) Love is not concerned

Clyde Tipton

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Torture We alone Wasichu

Quiet Waters

Palempsest

Clyde Tipton, baritone Cynthia Perry, piano

Kim Collins, percussion

Dina Dorough, soprano

Amy Frederick, piano

Richard Montalto

Dorothy Drennen

A New Day Donnal Kelly Eastman Beth Hatchett, soprano Marjorie Johnston, alto

Greg Freeze, tenor Dewin Tibbs, baritone Amy Frederick, piano

Parsley Sage Marvin Johnson

Allelulia Dennis Kam

Hagia Sophia Janis Kindred Andrew Risinger, organ

The University of Alabama Contemporary Ensemble Marvin Johnson, conductor

Fifty-fifth Program of the 1988-89 Season

PROGRAM NOTES Four Alice Walker Songs

Written in contrasting styles- pan-diatonic, tonal, 12-tone and bi-tonal, these four songs have in common the composer's non­virtuoso approach to the interpretation of these poems by Alice Walker. Influenced by Satie, Webern and Stravinsky, he is con­cerned with writing simply, using understatement and an economy of material. The composer intends the music to be congruent with the words of these poems, which seem to bypass the peripheral and extraneous to focus on the essential themes of love, non-violence and a reverence for nature.

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"Wasichu" is a Sioux word which means "he who takes the fat" and refers to the wasteful exploitation of the white man.

Palimpsest * from The Symphony by Sidney Lanier Once said a Man - and wise was he -"Never shalt thou the heavens see, Save as a little child thou be." Then o'er sea-lashings of commingling tunes ... Gray-beard old harpers ... chanted runes: "Bright-waved gain, gray-waved loss, The sea of all doth lash and toss, One wave forward and one across; But now 'twas trough, now 'tis crest, And worst doth foam and flash to best, ...

Life! Life! thou sea-fugue, writ form east to west, Love, Love alone can pore On thy dissolving score Of harsh half-phrasings, ...

And double erasings Of chords most fit.

Yea, Love, sole music-master blest, May read thy weltering palimpsest. To follow Time's dying melodies through, And never to lose the old in the new, And ever to solve the discords true -

Love alone can do. And ever Love hears the poor-folks' crying, And ever Love hears the women's sighing, And ever sweet knighthood's death-defying, And ever wise childhood's deep implying,

And yet shall Love himself be heard, Though long deferred, though long deferred, O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred: Music is Love in search of a word.

*Palimpsest: a manuscript on which the first writing has been superficially erased so the parchment could be used again.

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A New Day Man awakes to a new day.

Glittering dewdrops, Shimmering sunlight, Pulsating, stimulating anticipation­

The promise of a new day.

Man finds an imperfect world of imperfect beings Greed which grips humanity! Eradication of nature's beauty; Hungry bodies, hungry souls grasping, thrashing, screaming­

The challenge of an imperfect world

Man hopes for a solution: One small answer to one small problem; The missing piece to a larger puzzle; Leading to an even greater equation; Groping for that final discovery, only to begin again . The ingenuity of mankind-

The search for a solution.

Man loves, and cares, and trusts. He shares his life and all good he possesses. He tenderly teaches his children right from wrong. Laughing, crying, singing, man offers warmth and comfort to those he loves

Man loves­He loves.

And, man sleeps an innocent deep sleep. A weary body finds its rest; Rejuvenate, renew, revitalize; Sweet slumber with dreams of tomorrow­

The luxury of a peaceful sleep Prepares man for a new day.

Parsley Sage Can you make me a Cambric Shirt without a seam or needle work?

Can you wash it in yondor well which never bore water nor rain ever fell?

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Can you hang it on yonder thorn which never bore water since Adam was born?

Parsely Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and you shall be a true love of mine

Now you have asked me questions three I hope you will answer as many for me.

Can you buy me an acre of land between the salt water and the sea sand?

Can you plow it with a ram's horn and sew it all over with one pepper corn?

Can you reap it with a sickle of leather and bind it up with a peacocks feather?

Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and you shall be a true love of mine.

When you have done and finished your work then come to me for your Cambric Shirt.

Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdoin)

Praise God in His wisdom; Praise God in His understanding; Praise God. Hagia Sophia, Hagia Sophia, Hagia Sophia. II Chronicles 1: 10 Give me now wisdom and understanding, that

Imay go out and come in before this people.

Job 28: 12-14, 20-21,23

Praise God in His wisdom; Praise God in His understanding; Praise God.

But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? We know not its value. It is not found in the land of the living. The deep says, "It is not in me." And the sea says, "It is not in me."

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It is hidden from the eyes of all living, And concealed from the birds of the sky.

Where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?

God understands its way; And He knows its place .

Proverbs 3: 13-17, Blessed is the one who finds wisdom. 19-20 The one who gains understanding.

For her profit is better than silver, And her gain than gold. She is more precious than jewels; And nothing you desire compares with her. Long life is in her right hand; And in her left hand, honor. Her ways are pleasant ways , And all her paths are peace. The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heaven. By His knowledge the depths are borken up. And the clouds drop down the dew .

II Chronicles 1: 10 Give me now wisdom and understanding, that I may go out and come in before this people.

Hagia Sophia

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Saturday, November 19, 1988 4 p.m. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Building

Sonata No. 2

Life Goes On

Tenebrae

PROGRAM

Henry Rubin, violin

Julian Ross, violin Donald Freund, piano

INTERMISSION

Bruce Murray, piano

Dinos Constantinides

Donald Freund

Frederic Goossen

Music for Piano Trio Jerry Sieg

Tropism Andantino Adagio Allegro

Michael J. Kallstrom

The Cadek Trio Richard Bosworth, piano

Henry Rubin, violin Carlton McCreery, violoncello

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Saturday, November 19 , 1988 8 p.m .. - FNB Concert Hall - Moody Music Uµilding

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The Contempora ry Chamber Ensemble of the University of Georgia

Quartet (19 7 9) Prologue Allegro Mod era to Interlude Allegro Capriccioso Epilogue

Lewis Nieson , conductor

PROGRAM

Ross Lee Finney

D oug las Keith, oboe,' Juanita Karpf, ce llo John Connolly, percussion ,' Glenda Goss, piano

Concerto for Clarinet and Tape John Melby Richard Maynard, clarinets

INTERMISSION

Eight Songs for a Mad King I. Sentry

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

II. Country Walk III . Lady In Waiting IV. To Be Sung On The Water V. The Phantom Queen VI. The Counterfeit VII. Country Dance VIII. The Review

Wayne Jones, bass-baritone,' Lynn Pruitt, flute Jeffrey Waters, clarinet; Lane Donaldson, violin

Juanita Karpf, violoncello; Kenneth Bradway, percussion Renee Waters, piano

Fifty-eighth Program of the 1988-89 Season