Concert Program - American String Teachers Association

American String
Teachers Association
2013
National Orchestra Festival ®
February 28 – March 2
Providence, Rhode Island
Veterans Memorial Auditorium
sponsored by
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ASTA thanks
The Potter Violin Company
for its
generosity in sponsoring the
2013 National Orchestra Festival®
You Are Invited!
Please come and hear the winning Grand
Champion orchestra perform a concert on
Saturday, March 2, at 11:15 a.m.
at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium
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Welcome!
Dear Festival Enthusiasts,
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the 10th annual National
Orchestra Festival, (NOF) sponsored by the Potter Violin Company. The NOF
showcases15 spectacular ensembles that represent l3 schools from across the
United States. But, before this event begins, our sincere congratulations to all these
hard-working groups on accomplishing the feat of participating in ASTA’s premier
festival.
The NOF is proud to have some of the nation’s finest music educators as our
adjudicators, performance clinicians, and master class clinicians. Each festival group
will receive taped and written comments, as well as a rating by all three concert
adjudicators.
At the finish of every concert performance, our highly qualified clinicians will
provide each group with a personal clinic focused on enhancing their music-making.
ln addition, each orchestra will have the opportunity during the conference to
work with master class clinicians. These clinicians have national and international
reputations as musicians and teachers. ASTA is committed to delivering the highest
artistic and educational experience to its members and their students. We are
confident that the 2013 NOF will meet this goal.
For the vast majority of students, teachers, and educators participating in NOF, Ray
Charles’ statement about music and it’s profound impact on his life is perhaps, very
relevant to all of us:
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys,
my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on
the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
The students and teachers involved in performing at the NOF are blessed to have
this opportunity to discover and present the beauty and excitement of music. Thank
you for your devotion to this art, for your preparation and dedication to each other,
and, finally, for your performance today. We wish you all the best of success!
Sincerely,
Valerie M. Palmieri
Organizing Chair
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Adjudicators
Gail V. Barnes
Gail V. Barnes earned her B.M., and M.M., at the University of Michigan and
her Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She teaches undergraduate and
graduate courses in music education at the University of South Carolina (USC).
She also serves as director of the internationally recognized USC String
Project. Her duties as director of the string project include overseeing a staff
of preservice teachers and graduate students who annually instruct more than
400 children and adult students. Within the program, she directs the
advanced middle school ensemble, “Intermezzo.” She has published articles in American String Teacher, the String Research Journal, Update,
Music Educators Journal, the Bulletin of the Council on Music Education and the Journal of
Research in Music Education. She edited the book, Applying Research to Teaching and Playing
Stringed Instruments that is published by ASTA. She serves on the editorial board of the
Journal of Music Teacher Education. She has presented at conferences of the Music Educators
National Conference, American String Teachers Association, the College Music Society, and the
International Society of Music Education. Additonally, Barnes has presented clinics for teachers,
conducted student honor ensembles, and judged orchestra festivals throughout the U.S. She
taught elementary, middle, and high school strings for 18 years in the Norfolk Public Schools.
Her performing experience includes being a member of the viola section of the Virginia
Symphony and Virginia Opera Association
Robert Gardner
Robert Gardner is a bassist, conductor, and composer with experience in a
wide variety of musical genres. He has served on the faculty of the Penn State
School of Music since 2003, where he is an assistant professor of music
education, specializing in stringed instrument playing and teaching, orchestral
conducting, and eclectic styles for string ensembles. Gardner has written
chapters and articles in various publications, including Arts Education Policy
Review and American String Teacher, and has given presentations at conferences
and workshops throughout the country. His research has focused on the nature
of improvisation and composition, as well as the supply and demand of American public school
music teachers. Several of his compositions and arrangements for string orchestra are available
through Alfred Publishers. Gardner received his bachelor’s degree in music education from the
Ohio State University, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in music education from the Eastman
School of Music. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, he served as orchestra director and
instructor for public school districts in Ohio and New York. Gardner was also music director for
two youth orchestras at the Hochstein School of Music, and has been guest conductor for many
honors ensembles. He has designed and directed programs for adult learners and eclectic styles
for string ensembles. He served as chairperson of the Alternative Styles Task Force for ASTA,
and as president of the Pennsylvania Delaware chapter of ASTA (PADESTA).
Jonathan Handman
Jonathan Handman, conductor and cellist, is a co-founder and artistic director
of the Stringendo Orchestra School of the Hudson Valley. During its 11 years,
it has grown to six orchestras, ensembles, a comprehensive traditional fiddling
program and summer strings. Stringendo’s most advanced orchestra, Vivace
was the recipient of the grand champion orchestra at the 2009 ASTA
National Orchestra Festival.
Jonathan is also as a string teacher at Arlington High School in Poughkeepsie,
New York. This past year, Arlington’s Phiharmonia Orchestra received first place in the
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American Prize Competition for high school orchestras. Prior to teaching in Arlington, he taught
in the Spackenkill Union Free School District.
Handman has conducted for American Music Abroad Tours, numerous regional orchestras, and
has been the faculty and high school orchestra director at the NY-ASTA String Camp in Ithaca.
His studies include the Eastman School of Music (trombone performance), the Oberlin
Conservatory (B.A. in music education, cello) and an M.A in orchestral conducting from SUNY
Fredonia.
Clinicians
David E. Becker
David E. Becker is the director of Orchestral Studies and conductor of the
symphony and opera orchestras at Lawrence University’s Conservatory of
Music in Wisconsin. He was the recipient of the university’s 2010 “Excellence in
Teaching Award.”
From 1984 to 2005, he was director of orchestras and professor of the
graduate orchestral conducting program at the University of WisconsinMadison. It was there that he and his students received critical acclaim for tours
to central Europe and Spain.
Becker’s career as a violist has included the Atlanta, Syracuse, Savannah, Louisville, Memphis,
and Madison symphonies; the Santa Fe and Miami operas; the Sewanee, Tennessee, Brevard,
North Carolina, and Peninsula, Wisconsin summer music festivals; the resident faculty string
quartets at the universities of Miami, Georgia, Memphis State, and Oberlin Conservatory, and
touring in the U.S. and Europe with the Eduard Melkus String Quartet.
Becker is recognized for his dedication to teaching young musicians, which has resulted in guest
conducting, orchestral clinics, and all-state honor orchestras. Most recently, he was invited to
guest conduct the Zhuying Symphony Orchestra in Guangzhou and Zhanjinag, China and the
NAfME all-national honors orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Michael Hopkins
Michael Hopkins is an associate professor of music education at the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he teaches courses in string education. Prior to
joining the faculty, Hopkins was an associate professor of music at the
University of Vermont (UVM) from 1999-2010, where he was conductor of the
UVM Orchestra and taught courses in music education and music technology.
Hopkins has appeared as a guest conductor at orchestra festivals throughout
the U.S. and is the founding director of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra. He
is active as a composer and arranger, with more than 30 published works for orchestra. His
works have been commissioned by many schools and ensembles.
He is the author of the award-winning website the String Pedagogy Notebook, a resource for
string teachers and performers. He has published articles in the Journal of Research in Music
Education, American String Teacher, and The Instrumentalist. He has served on the faculty of the
American String Workshop, as the executive director for the Green Mountain Chamber Music
Festival, and is past president of the Vermont chapter of ASTA with NSOA. Hopkins received his
bachelor’s degree in music education from Colorado State University and his master’s and Ph.D.
in music education from the University of Michigan.
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Performing Groups
Anderson High School Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Welch, Director—Cincinnati, Ohio
Dorseyville Middle School Sinfonia
Jeff Bryer, Director—Pittsburgh, Penn.
Garfield High School Symphony Orchestra
Marcus Tsutakawa, Director—Seattle, Wash.
Heritage High School Philharmonic Orchestra
Jason Pfeifer, Director—Saginaw, Mich.
Interlake High School Chamber Orchestra
Shira Katsman, Director—Bellevue, Wash.
Iolani Middle School Orchestra
Katherine Hafner, Director—Honolulu, Hawaii
Liberty Senior High School Chamber Orchestra
Mary Lou Jones, Director—Liberty, Mo.
Musica Dolce Youth String Ensemble
Kathleen Monroe, Director—Westerly, R.I.
Nyack High School Chamber Orchestra
Christine Gero, Director—Nyack, N.Y.
Pioneer High School Chamber Orchestra
Jonathan Glawe, Director—Ann Arbor, Mich.
Randolph High School Chamber Strings and
Randolph High School String Orchestra
Eric Schaberg, Director—Randolph, N.J.
Simsbury High School Chamber Orchestra and
Simsbury High School Concert Orchestra
Ryan Ford, Director—Simsbury, Conn.
University High School Symphony Orchestra
Grace Lee, Director—Irvine, Calif.
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Welcome to the
2013 National Orchestra Festival !
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CHSS – Competition High School String
CMSS – Competition Middle School String
CHSF – Competition High School Full
RC/HSS – Ratings and Comments, High School String
CSYO – Comments, String Youth Orchestra
Thursday, February 28
10 a.m. Dorseyville Middle School Sinfonia Orchestra
Pittsburgh, Penn.
Jeff Bryer, Director
CMSS
Serenade in G “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” K.525
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co
Serenade for Strings in E flat major, opus 6, Josef Suk
Andante con moto
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co
Canzonetta, opus 62a Edwin F. Kalmus & Co
Perseus
FJH Music Company
Jean Sibelius
Arr. Otto Taubmann
Soon Hee Newbold
11 a.m. Simsbury High School Concert Orchestra
Simsbury, Conn.
Ryan Ford, Director
Andante Festivo
Performers Editions
Jean Sibelius
Marche Slav
FJH Music Company Overture to Lucio Silla
Tempo Press
Blue-Fire Fiddler
FJH Music Company
RC/HSS
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arr. Sandra Dackow
Soon Hee Newbold
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1 p.m.
Heritage High School Philharmonic Orchestra
Saginaw, Mich.
Jason Pfeifer, Director
The Shepherd King Overture
Great Works Publishing, Inc.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arr. by Percy Hall
An English Folksong
Neil A. Kjos Music Company Co. Geometric Dances Square Dance
Round Dance
Triangle Dance
Highland/Etling
Traditional
Arr. Terry McQuilkin
Richard Meyer
Blue Rhythmico
Wingert-Jones Publications
Kirt N. Mosier
Three Outdoor Sketches
Work Song
Twilight
Men and Machines
Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Brendan McBrien
Molly on the Shore (Irish Reel) Tempo Press, Inc.
Percy A. Grainger
Arr. Sandra Dackow
Variations on America, September 2001 Great Works Publishing, Inc.
2 p.m.
Percy Hall
Iolani Middle School Orchestra
Honolulu, Hawaii
Katherine Hafner, Director
Geometric Dances
Square Dance
Triangle Dance
Alfred Publishing Company
Richard Meyer
Capriol Suite
Basse-Danse
Pavane
Mattachins
G. Schirmer
Troika
Boosey and Hawkes
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RC/HSS
Peter Warlock
Sergei Prokofiev
Arr. Paul Lavender
CMSS
The Girl With the Flaxen Hair
Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Claude Debussy
Arr. Deborah Baker Monday
Overture to Nabucco
Tempo Press
4 p.m.
Giuseppe Verdi
Arr. Sandra Dackow
Interlake High School Chamber Orchestra
Bellevue, Wash.
Shira Katsman, Director
CHSS
Divertimento for String Orchestra in D Major, K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co
Serenade for Strings in E Major, op. 22
Moderato
Tempo di valse
Masters Music Publications, Inc.
Antonín Dvořák
Ed. William Ryden
Simple Symphony
Benjamin Britten
Boisterous Bourree: Allegro ritmico
Playful Pizzicato: Presto possibile pizzicato sempre
Sentimental Saraband: Poco lento e pesante
Frolicsome Finale: Prestissimo con fuoco
Oxford University Press
5 p.m.
Simsbury High School Chamber Orchestra
Simsbury, Conn.
Ryan Ford, Director
Holberg Suite for String Orchestra, op. 40
Praeludium
Luck’s Music Library
Lullaby for String Orchestra
Windsor Editions
Serenade for Strings, op. 20
Allegretto piacevole
Larghetto
Allegretto
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co.
Symphony No. 41—Final
Highland/Etling
CHSS
Edvard Grieg
George Gershwin
Arr. Jeff Manookian
Edward Elgar
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arr. Todd Parrish
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Thursday, February 28
6 p.m.
University High School Symphony Orchestra
Irvine, Calif.
Grace Lee, Director
Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48
Pezzo in forma di Sonatina
Alfred Music Publishers
Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
J.W. Pepper
CHSS
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Friday, March 1
9 a.m.
Randolph High School String Orchestra
Randolph, N.J.
Eric Schaberg, Director
RC/HSS
Drifen Shirl Shirl Jae Atwell
Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Plink, Plank, Plunk!
Leroy Anderson
Alfred Publishing Belwin Division
Don Quixote Suite Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture
Awakening of Don Quixote
His Attack on the Windmills
Sighs of Love for Princess Aline
Sancho Pansa Swindled
Rosinante Galloping—The Gallop of Sancho Pansa’s Mule
Don Quixote at Rest
Luck’s Music Library
The James Bond Theme
Monty Norman
Alfred Publishing Belwin Division Arr. Victor Lopez
Russian Sailor’s Dance
Reinhold Gliere
Kendor Music, Inc.
Arr. John Caponegro
Snake River Stomp
Steven Laven
Wingert-Jones Publications
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10 a.m. Pioneer High School Chamber Orchestra
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Jonothan Glawe, Director
Divertimento in F Major, K. 138
Allegro
CHSS
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia No. 10 in B minor
Two Elegiac Melodies, op. 34
Heart’s Wound
Last Spring
Felix Mendelssohn
Edvard Grieg
La Follia: Variations for String Orchestra Arr. Michi Wiancko
Francesco Geminiani
11 a.m. Liberty Senior High School Chamber Orchestra
Liberty, Mo.
Mary Lou Jones, Director
Sinfonia No. 9 in C Minor
Grave: Allegro
Luck’s Music Library
CHSS
Felix Mendelssohn
Serenade for Strings in E-flat Major, op. 6
Andante con moto
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Josef Suk
Song of Moresheth
Jeremy Schwinger
Commissioned for the 2013 ASTA National Conference
Unpublished
Vistas al mar
Allegro con Brio
Noctur
La mar estava alegre
Unión Musical Ediciones, S.L. (Rental Only)
1 p.m.
Eduardo Toldra
Randolph High School Chamber Strings
Randolph, N.J.
Eric Schaberg, Director
String Symphony No. 8 in D Major Adagio e Grave & Allegro
Luck’s Music Library
October Hal Leonard Corporation
Sinfonia for String Orchestra, op. 110 from String Quartet No. 8
CHSS
Felix Mendelssohn
Eric Whitacre
Dmitri Shostakovich
Arr. by Lucas Drew
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Largo
Allegro molto
Allegretto
Largo
Largo
Edwin Kalmus & Co., Inc.
American Sketches: A Fantasy for String Orchestra Joshua Reznicow
Lorenz Music
2 p.m.
Nyack High School Chamber Orchestra
Nyack, N.Y.
Christine Gero, Director
Andante Festivo
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Jean Sibelius
Two Waltzes for String Orchestra,
op. 51, Nos. 1 and 4 Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Antonín Dvořák
Concerto in G Major “Alla Rustica” op. 51 No. 4 Presto
Adagio
Allegro
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Diverse Cartographies of 136 Unpublished (2012)
CHSS
Antonio Vivaldi
Michael Adelson
Serenade for Strings, op. 20 Edward Elgar
Allegro piacevole
Larghetto
Allegretto
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
3 p.m.
Anderson High School Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, Ohio
Jonathan Welch, Director
Toccata
Belwin
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Arr. Kindler
Rhosymedre: Prelude on a Welsh Hymn Tune Ralph Vaughan Williams
Galaxy Music Corportation
Orchestrated by Foster
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Komm, süsser Tod Johann Sebastian Bach
Luck’s Music LibraryArr.Stokowski
Overture to Egmont, op. 84
Kalmus
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Ludwig van Beethoven
CHSF
4 p.m.
Garfield High School Symphony Orchestra
Seattle, Wash.
Marcus Tsutakawa, Director
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (“From the New World”), op. 95
Adagio; Allegro molto
Largo
Allegro con fuoco
Luck’s Music Library
CHSF
Antonín Dvořák
Saturday, March 2
9 a.m.
Musica Dolce Youth String Ensemble
Westerly, R.I.
Kathleen Monroe, Director
Largo
Belwin Mills Publishing Company
CSYO
George Frideric Handel
Arr. Bob Cerulli
Prelude and Gavotte
Arcangelo Corelli
Carl Fischer Music Arr. Doris Gazda
A Beethoven Lullaby (Air on Ode to Joy)
Brian Balmages
FJH Music Company
Sundance
Carl Fischer Music
Carl Strommen
Arr. Robert Sieving
Cavatina (from Romontische Stiicke, op. 75, No. 1) Antonin Dvorak
Highland/Etling
Arr. Robert Sieving
Rondo (from Incidental Music for Abdelazer) Ludwig Masters Publications Dance of the Harlequins Carl Fischer
The Code Carl Fischer
11:15 a.m.
Henry Purcell
Arr. Douglas Stroud
Larry Clark
Alan Lee Silva
National Orchestra Festival Winner’s Concert
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2014
NHSHO
The next National High School Honors Orchestra (NHSHO) will be held March
5 - 7, 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky, in conjunction with the national conference. The
NHSHO is a performing group of 120 competitively selected high school musicians.
High school students can now apply directly to the national level using the new online
DecisionDesk software that ASTA is utilizing. Students interested in applying need to
fill out basic application information and upload the required audition repertoire in
audio formats: mp3, ogg, m4a, aiff, wma, wav, aac.
The 2014 NHSHO will be under the direction
of Gary Lewis, a strong advocate of music education, chosen conductor of numerous honors
orchestras and all-state orchestras, and a regular
presence at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp for
many years. He is in great demand as a clinician,
having worked with hundreds of public school
ensembles across the nation. ASTA is excited to have
him conduct the 2014 NHSHO. Interested students
can start preparing by using the repertoire found on
the ASTA website. Online submissions are due
June 15, 2013.
The 2014 NHSHO Concert program will be
Symphony no. 5 in D minor, op. 47, by Dmitri
Gary Lewis
Shostakovich. Application and information are
now available on ASTA’s website.
DecisionDesk is the new, easy software
ASTA is using to collect auditions for the
National High School Honors Orchestra.
www.astaweb.com
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