Family Weekend: Symphonic Band   Elizabeth B. Peterson, conductor   Steven Mauk, guest artist 

Jazz Ensemble   Mike Titlebaum, director

Ford HallSaturday November 3rd, 20124:00 pm

Program

Symphonic BandElizabeth Peterson, conductor

Variations on “America”           Charles IvesTranscribed by William Rhoads

(1874-1954)

Acrostic Song from Final Alice David Del TrediciTranscribed by Mark Spede

(b. 1937)

Cloudburst             Eric Whitacre(b. 1970)

Catch Me If You Can            John WilliamsArranged by Jay Bocook

(b. 1932)Steven Mauk, saxophone

His Honor March Henry FillmoreEdited by Frederick Fennell

(1881-1956)

Intermission

Jazz EnsembleMike Titlebaum, director

Ko Ko Duke Ellington

Awful Mean Paul Chambersarr. Mike Titlebaum

Bary Me Not Bill Holman

Ornithology Charlie Parker

All The Things You Are Jerome Kern

Groovin' High Dizzy Gillespie

BiographiesDr. Elizabeth Peterson

Elizabeth Peterson currently serves as associate professor of music,and member of the music education department at the Ithaca CollegeSchool of Music. Peterson teaches brass and woodwind pedagogy,instrumental conducting, secondary instrumental methods, andgraduate level music education courses. She supervises studentteachers at the junior and senior level and is the placementcoordinator for the Junior Instrumental Student Teaching program. Peterson has conducted the Ithaca College Brass Choir andAll-Campus Band, and currently conducts the Ithaca CollegeSymphonic Band. Her research interests include the study of first yearmusic teachers and the pursuit of music and life long learning.

Dr. Peterson is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and schoolmusic consultant in the United States and Canada. She presentsclinics at the local, state and national levels in the field of musiceducation. Peterson’s book,  “The Music Teachers First Year:Tales of Challenge Joy and Triumph”, is published by MeredithMusic.

Professor Peterson received Bachelor’s Degrees in Music Educationand English from the University of Michigan and a Master’s Degree inTrumpet Performance and Music Education from NorthwesternUniversity. She has a Doctor of Musical Arts in Music EducationDegree from Shenandoah Conservatory. Peterson played trumpet inthe North Shore Community Band under the direction of John P.Paynter and studied trumpet with Armando Ghittala and VincentCichowicz.

Prior to her appointment at Ithaca College, Peterson was an artsadministrator and director of bands in the public schools of Ohio andIllinois for ten years. She is a “New Music” reviewer for theInstrumentalist Magazine and been published in that magazine, aswell as the Music Educator’s Journal. She currently serves asco-conductor of the Ithaca Concert Band, Ithaca's adult communityband. Dr. Peterson holds a number of professional membershipsincluding the College Band Directors National Association, TheNational Association for Music Education, New York State SchoolMusic Association, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lambda (an honorarymusic fraternity). Peterson is also a member of the Midwest ClinicBoard of Directors.

Steven MaukSteven Mauk has served as Professor of Saxophone in the School ofMusic at Ithaca College since 1975. He has presented numerous solo,chamber music, and concerto performances in such internationallocales as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, China, Japan,Australia, Canada, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia, andSlovenia. His performances in the US have included those in New YorkCity, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Atlanta, Boston, Washington, Cleveland,and Chicago. Mauk has given three recitals at Weil Hall (formerlyCarnegie Recital Hall), a concerto presentation at Alice Tully Hall(NYC), four concerto performances with the United States Navy inWashington (DC), five concerto presentations in Russia and two inChina.

One of the foremost authorities on the soprano saxophone, Mauk isoften invited to present lectures, recitals, and articles dealing withthis member of the saxophone family. He is the soprano saxophonistand a founding member of the Empire Saxophone Quartet, Troica,Remeleixo, and Tango de Cámara. Twenty-five works have beendedicated to him by such composers as Dana Wilson, David Kechley,Meyer Kupferman, Lawrence Weiner, Marc Satterwhite, GregoryWoodward, Peter Rothbart, and David Deason.

Mauk has recorded 21 albums, written over 100 articles, andauthored four books. He is an artist/clinician for both Selmer andVandoren, and presents numerous sessions dealing with saxophoneperformance and pedagogy. He has presented master classes atmany major universities in the US and abroad.

As an active member of the North American Saxophone Alliance,Mauk has held the offices of President and Director of ScholarlyPublications. He has received a Dana Teaching Fellowship and a DanaResearch Fellowship at Ithaca College for his excellence in teachingand research, as well as an Ithaca College President's RecognitionAward. Mauk was the recipient of the 1995-98 National Artist Awardfrom the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and received Ithaca College'sExcellence in Teaching Award for 2001-2002. In 2012, Mauk wasawarded anHonorary Life Membership from the North AmericanSaxophone Alliance, that organizations highest honor, in recognitionfor his "outstanding achievements and service."

Mike TitlebaumSince 2008, saxophonist/composer/arranger Mike Titlebaum has beenDirector of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College, where he directs large jazzensembles, coaches small combos, teaches jazz saxophone andcourses in jazz improvisation, repertoire, arranging, pedagogy andhistory. He is the founding member of the Ithaca Jazz Quartet and thecreator of the Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble Composition Contest.

He was born and raised in Rochester, NY, where he earned his BM inSaxophone Performance from the Eastman School of Music in 1991,as well as the coveted Performer's Certificate in Saxophone. Hereceived his MM in 1992 from Eastman in Jazz and ContemporaryMedia. As a student, he won nine "DeeBee" awards from DownBeatmagazine in multiple categories, including Jazz Performance (on bothsaxophone and trumpet), Classical Performance, Jazz Arranging, andJazz Composition.

He played in many of New York's world famous musical venues,including the Blue Note, Smalls, Augies, Fez/Time Café and theinfamous CBGB's as well as the pit orchestra of the Broadway musical"Cats." He has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra,the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, and with dozens ofinternationally recognized artists and groups such as Jason RobertBrown, Red Rodney, Randy Brecker, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, theMingus Big Band, Cab Calloway, Jeff Tyzik, Natalie Cole, Billy Taylor,Mel Torme, Manhattan Transfer, Branford Marsalis, Clark Terry, LeeKonitz, Kenny Wheeler, Billy Hart, Paquito D'Rivera, and many others.

Titlebaum has published numerous compositions and arrangementsthrough Lorenz (Heritage Jazz Works), Advance Music, and GIAPublications.

Program NotesSymphonic Band

Charles Ives was born in Danbury, Connecticut, in 1874. His father was aformer Civil War bandmaster who taught his son music fundamentals in theirhome, in the town band and in a variety of church jobs. He also encouragedCharles to experiment with polytonality, atonality, polymetric patterns andmicrotones years before either had heard the music of Schoenberg,Hindemith or Stravinsky. 

Variations on “America” is a witty, irreverent piece for organ which Ivescomposed at the age of 16 and is his earliest surviving piece usingpolytonality. William Schuman wrote an orchestral transcription of the work in1964, and it is this version upon which William Rhodes based his bandtranscription.

Pulitzer prize-winning composer Del Tredici’s Final Alice is the fifth of six largeworks for soprano and orchestra based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderlandbooks. “Acrostic Song” is the lullaby-like concluding aria from Final Alice. Thetext is the seven-verse epilogue poem to Through the Looking Glass, thesecond of Carroll’s Alice books.  The poem is an acrostic; the initial letters ofthe lines spell out Alice Pleasance Liddell, the name of the real-life Alice forwhom Carroll wrote his stories.

Eric Whitacre wrote, “Cloudburst was my second classical work, originallywritten for chorus in the fall of 1991; it was inspired by an astonishingthunderstorm I witnessed earlier that spring in Northern California.  While thechoral version of this piece is intimate and delicate, the version for winds isstrong and assured, and to my ears it sounds like it’s suddenly inTechnicolor… on a 50 foot screen.” The piece begins with players singing ‘lalluvia’ meaning ‘the rain’ in Spanish.

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime film based onthe life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfullyperformed cons worth millions of dollars. His primary crime was check fraud;he became so skillful that the FBI eventually turned to him for help incatching other check forgers. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg andstarred Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.  John Williams is an eminentcomposer, arranger, pianist and conductor.  His career has spanned over sixdecades and he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores inthe history of Hollywood including, “E.T”, Harry Potter, Star Wars, JurassicPark and Jaws.

Henry Fillmore was the most colorful bandsman of his time, and that erastretched across fifty vibrant years during which he probably wrote moreband music – much of it under assumed names – than anycomposer/bandmaster in history. Fillmore dedicated “His Honor” march toMayor Russell Wilson of Cincinnati, and it was probably played for the firsttime by the Fillmore Band during their concerts at the Cincinnati ZoologicalGardens in 1933.

Program information from the composer or Norman E. Smith

Personnel

Symphonic BandElizabeth Peterson, conductor

Piccolo  Alto Saxophone  Trombone Sarah Peskanov Eli Holden * Benjamin Allen *

Gregory Sisco Cara OlsonFlute  Christine Saul Andrew NaveJustine Stephens * Benjamin Montgomery Luke KutlerAllison Kraus Will VanDeMark Teresa DiazChelsea Lanphear Alec Miller Nicole SissonKirsten Schmidt Emily PiersonChristine Dookie Tenor Saxophone Diana Ladolcetta Yuyang Zhang Bass Trombone Sarah Ridenour Matt Limbach Mitchel Wong

Christian KmetzOboe  Baritone SaxophoneMelissa Knapp *   Euphonium Katie Jessup Alex Judge Elise Daigle *   McDermott James Parker Erin StringerColleen Maher   Tom Aroune

Trumpet English Horn  Jack Storer * Tuba Katie Jessup Matt Venora Corbin Henderson *   McDermott James Rose Luke Davey

Rosie Ward Ian WieseBassoon  Vincenzo Sicurella Matt Bailey-AdamsMeghan Kelly * Stephen Gomez John BerwickAndrew Horwitz Max Siegel

Max Deger Percussion Eb Clarinet  Greg Tilden Will Marinelli *Allison Smetana Ben Van De Water Nicole Dowling

Brian Sanyshyn Shannon FrierClarinet  Michael Samson Colleen HarwoodDevon LePore * Gabe MillmanKestrel Curro Horn  Julia McAvinueAllison Smetana Emma Staudacher *Michelle Schlosser Victoria Boell Timpani Jill Gagliardi Lauren Maaser Andrew HedgeNathan Balester Josh JenkinsOlivia Ford Nate MinerBrianna OrnsteinCarly Schnitzer * section leader

Bass Clarinet Erik Johnson

IC Bell Peoplefeaturing Emily Hensler, Becky Kabel, Anna Goebel, Megan Brust 

Jazz EnsembleMike Titlebaum, director

Saxophones  Trombones Richard Rose, alto 1 Ethan Zawisza, leadWill VanDeMark, alto 2 T.J. SchaperAlec Staples, tenor 1 Bill ConnorsDavid DeHority, tenor 2 Jeff Chilton (bass)Andrew Horwitz, bari

Rhythm Trumpets  Joshua Condon, pianoDanny Venora, co-lead Alana Dawes, bassJack Storer, jazz soloist Damien Scalise, guitarMatt Venora, co-lead Will Sigel, drumsColin Johnson, co-leadJames Rose  

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