in remembrance

and hope

AustinSymphonicBandCommunity in Concert

December 2, 2011 8 p.m.Bethany Lutheran Church, Austin

ASB Board of Directors and Officers

Musical Director & Conductor: Richard FloydPresident: Karen Kneten

Past President: Steve NeinastPresident Elect: Ron Boerger

Board Members At Large:Keith ChenowethThomas Edwards

Kevin JedeleCindy Story

Secretary: Marilyn GoodTreasurer: Sharon KojzarekLibrarian: Karen VanHooser

Historian: Tim DefriesAssistant Director: Bill Haehnel

Concert Coordinator: Kevin JedeleTransportation Manager: Chuck Ellis

Webmaster: David JonesBusiness Manager: Dan L Wood

Thanks to our Austin hosts: Matt Atkinson, Connally High School Director of Bands

Rehearsal Space/Equipment Use

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Austin, Texas 78762(512) 345-7420

Web site: www.austinsymphonicband.orgbusmgr@austinsymphonicband.org

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Richard Floyd, Musical Director

In 1983 Richard Floyd was appointed State Director of Music Activities for the University Interscholastic League at the University of Texas at Austin where he coordinates all facets of secondary school music competition for some 3500 performing organizations throughout the State of Texas. He has served as Musical Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphonic Band since 1986. Prior to his appointment at the University of Texas, he served on the faculty at the University of South Florida as Professor of Conducting, and at Baylor University in Texas where he held the position of Director of Bands for nine years.

Performing ensembles under his direction have performed for the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, American Bandmasters As-sociation, and the Midwest Clinic, as well as numerous state and regional conferences. Mr Floyd has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and Europe as a clinician, adjudicator, and conductor including appearances in 41 states and 9 foreign countries.

During his professional career, Mr Floyd has held positions of leadership on many state and national committees for music education and wind music performance. At present he is a member of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) Board of Directors, John Philip Sousa Foundation Board of Directors, chairman of the ABA Educational Projects Committee, ex-officio member of the Texas Music Educators Association Executive Board, and serves on the jury for the College Band Directors National Association Youth Band Composition competition. In 2002 he was named recipient of the American School Band Directors Association A A Harding Award for significant and lasting contributions to school bands in North America. In 2006 he was named Texas Bandmaster of the Year by the Texas Bandmasters Association. In July of 2011 Mr Floyd was inducted into the Bands of America Hall of Fame.

Bill Haehnel is completing his 10th year as Assistant Direc-tor of the Austin Symphonic Band. He has been a Texas music educator for 31 years, and is presently Director of Bands at Bailey Middle School in Austin. Prior to joining the Bailey faculty, he was the chairman of fine arts and director of bands at Pflugerville High School where his high school bands marched in the Orange Bowl Parade, the Fiesta Bowl Parade, and the Tournament of Roses Parade.

Mr Haehnel has also served on the music faculty at the University of Texas in Austin and as instructor of percussion at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin.

Bill Haehnel, Assistant Musical Director

Program

The March from "1941" . . . . . . . . . . . . John Williams, adapted Paul Lavender

Victory at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Rodgers, tr Robert Russell Bennett

Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn) . . . . . . Claude T SmithBill Haehnel, Conductor

In the Miller Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr Warren Barker

Duty, Honor, Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . arr Harold L Waltersafter General MacArthur's "Reminiscenses"

Narrated by David Crews

Esprit de Corps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Jager

Intermission

Fanfare and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing . . . . Chip Davis, ad LongfieldRecorded by Mannheim Steamroller

The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol . . . . Percy Grainger, arr D Stotter

Patapan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shelley Hanson

Russian Christmas Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alfred Reed

The Night Before Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John MossNarrated by Bruce Bray

Sleigh Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leroy Anderson

Program Notes

The March from "1941" — Williams/LavenderThe March from the movie “1941” is the most memorable part of this Steven Spielberg 1979 production starring John Belushi . The lack of success of this slightly campy movie may stem from the plot that depicts hysteria in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when fear of a Japanese invasion was imminent . It is hard to appreciate humor in the actions of manic service-men, zealous store owners, and bickering Nazis . Spielberg once commented he should have sold the movie as a drama . The March’s bright and patriotic theme reflects the cheeky attitude of the original movie . Spielberg parodied his own film in the animated movie Animaniacs when an exploding bomb disguised as a videotape bore the image and title “1941” .

The musical score for 1941 was composed and conducted by John Williams, one of the most prolific and successful movie score composers of the past six decades (Star Wars, E T, the

Extra-Terrestrial, Harry Potter to name a few). The March is used throughout the film and is undoubtedly the most memorable piece written for it . The score also includes a sound-alike version of Glenn Miller’s In the Mood heard later in tonight’s concert in recognition of the close tie the music of Glenn Miller had to the ethos of the era .

Victory at Sea — Rodgers/BennettVictory at Sea, a 26-episode series on World War II, revolutionized the concept of documentary television . It was a gamble for NBC and its parent company RCA that paid off handsomely in the long run . The series premiered on the last Sunday of October, 1952, and subsequent episodes played each Sunday afternoon through May, 1953 . Each half-hour installment dealt with some aspect of World War II naval warfare . The footage was carefully edited and organized to bring out the drama of each campaign . That drama was enhanced by the stirring musical score, a lush instrumental evocation of the naval battles in the Pacific . One familiar with the musical South

Pacific will be reminded of songs like “Bloody Mary” in the iconic “Guadalcanal March” . The score was sold in several record versions through RCA-Victor . By 1963 the album version had grossed $4 million, and one tune from the collection, “No Other Love" , earned an additional $500,000 as a single .

Richard Rodgers was fresh from several Broadway successes, and his name added prestige to the Victory at Sea project . He actually contributed 12 themes, short piano compositions a minute or two in length, which may be examined in the Rodgers Collection at the Library of Congress . Robert Russell Bennett did the scoring, transforming Rodgers' themes for a variety of moods, and composing much more original material than Rodgers, as may be observed in Bennett's written scores, also enshrined in the Library of Congress . However, Bennett received credit only for arranging the score and conducting on the soundtrack recording sessions .

Eternal Father, Strong to Save — Smith

The powerful hymn Eternal Father, Strong To Save, written by William Whiting of Winchester, England in 1860, is often referred to as the “Navy Hymn" . It has become the signature hymn of presidents, seamen, and naval officers and is often used at funerals for dignitaries . This stirring setting by the prolific composer Claude T Smith features uplifting fanfares and a set of variations based on thematic material extracted from the hymn tune . As the work nears closure, the entire melody is finally revealed first by a noble French horn choir and then repeated richly, scored for the full ensemble . The work was written in 1974 and was dedicated to the U S Navy Band, N E Muffley, Conductor .

Claude T Smith was born in Monroe City, Missouri . He received his undergraduate training at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri and at the University of Kansas where he originally majored in French horn . Mr Smith taught instrumental music in the public schools of Nebraska and Missouri and served as a member of the faculty of Southwest Missouri State University in Spring-field, Missouri, where he taught composition and theory and conducted the University Symphony Orchestra . Sacred music was also a deep love of Mr Smith's as he directed a church choir for five years in Cozad, Nebraska, 10 years in Chillicothe, Missouri and nine years in Kansas City, Missouri . He died on December 13, 1987 in Kansas City, having just completed conducting a Christmas concert at his church .

In the Miller Mood — arr BarkerThe music of Glenn Miller was synonymous with the war efforts in Europe . Beginning in 1943, the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band engaged in over 800 performances . Of these, 500 were broad-casts heard by millions . There were more than 300 personal appearances, including concerts and dances, with a gross attendance of over 600,000 . In the fall of 1944, the band was scheduled to be sent on a six-week tour of Europe and would have been stationed in Paris during that time . Miller decided to go ahead of the group, in order to make the proper arrangements for their arrival . On December 15, 1944, Glenn Miller boarded a transport plane to Paris, never to be seen again . Warren Barker’s arrangement for symphonic band captures the unique qualities of the “Miller Sound” and features some of his biggest hits including In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade, I’ve Got a Gal in

Kalamazoo, Serenade in Blue, Little Brown Jug, At Last, and Anvil Chorus.

Born in Oakland, California, Warren Barker attended the University of California at Los Angeles and later studied composition with Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco and Henri Pensis . At the age of 24 he was appointed chief arranger for the National Broadcasting Company's prime musical program, The Railroad Hour, and went on to a distinguished career as a composer arranger-conductor for motion pictures and television . His work includes music for the TV show Bewitched, My World

and Welcome To It (based on the life of James Thurber), and arrangements for the smash hit Hello Dolly. Warren Barker died on August 3, 2006 .

Program Notes

Duty, Honor, Country — arr Walters On May 12, 1962, West Point presented General Douglas MacArthur with the Thayer Award . This award, established in honor of Col Sylvanus Thayer, "Father of the Military Academy", is presented to an outstanding citizen whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify the Military Academy motto, "Duty, Honor, Country" . The text of General MacArthur’s acceptance speech serves as the narrative basis for this work by Harold Walters . General MacArthur was 82 years old when he gave the speech . He spoke without notes for 34 minutes from the "poop deck" in front of the 2,100 cadets . Among the eloquent phrases with which MacArthur challenged all who were in front of him were these words, “The long gray line has never failed us . Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country .”

Harold L Walters (1918-1984) was one of the most prolific composers of band music of the 20th century . He composed under his own name and under the pseudonym of Fred L Frank . Walters began his music career at the age of eight studying cornet, and graduated from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and the American University . From 1938 to 1943 he performed and served as chief arranger with the US Navy Band in Washington, DC . After his military dis-charge he was with CBS Radio in Washington for a year and then moved to New York City where he served as conductor-arranger for Warner Brothers Theatre, Fox Newsreel features, Randolf Hurst News, and various orchestras, including the Sigmund Romberg Orchestra . In 1949 he began a 20-year relationship with the Rubank Music Publishing Company as editor, composer, and arranger . Walters’ published compositions and arrangements number over 900 for band and over 600 for strings, woodwind, brass, and percussion solos and ensembles .

Esprit de Corp — JagerBased on The Marines’ Hymn, this work is a kind of fantasy-march, as well as a tribute to the United States Marine Band . Full of energy and drama, the composition has its solemn moments and its lighter moments (for example, the quasi-waltz in the middle of the piece) . The composer intended that this work should display the fervor and virtuosity of the Marine Band and the musical spirit and integrity of its conductor, Colonel John R Bourgeois, for whom the initial tempo marking, "Tempo di Bourgeois," is named .

Robert Jager was born in Binghamton, New York in 1939 and is a graduate of the University of Michigan . For four years he served in the United State Navy as the Staff Arranger/Composer at the Armed Forces School of Music . Jager taught for 30 years at Tennessee Tech University and is now a professor emeritus . He makes his home in Colorado . Jager has over 65 published compositions for band, orchestra, and various chamber groupings, with more than 35 commissions which include the United States Marine Band and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra . He has won a number of awards for his music and is the only three-time winner of the American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award .

Program Notes

Fanfare and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — DavisAdapted from the Mannheim Steamroller CD, A Fresh Aire Christmas, this opening glori-ous fanfare in the High Renaissance tradition of antiphonal brass choirs echoing one another is followed by a contemporary Mannheim Steamroller treatment of the familiar carol, complete with a rock groove combining rhythmic and harmonic surprises . The musical group Mannheim Steamroller takes its name from an 18th-century German musical technique, Mannheim roller (ger .: Mannheimer Walze), a crescendo passage having a rising melodic line over an ostinato bass line, popularized by the Mannheim school of composition .

Chip Davis, composer, arranger, and founder, startled the music world 25 years ago by proving that an independent music label offering Christmas music in a contemporary rock format could be a smash success . The annual Mannheim Steamroller juggernaut rolls on appearing in Austin this month (December 28) at the Long Center for the Performing Arts . Davis was born into a musical family in Sylvania, Ohio . He began his career as a classical musician trained in bassoon and percus-sion, taught public school music, and then became a jingle writer for a thriving Omaha, Nebraska advertising agency . He and one of the agency’s ad execs, Bill Fries, dreamed up a fictional truck driver named CW McCall for a series of commercials for The Old Home Bread Company . The charac-ter became so popular it led to a record deal to produce recordings under the name of CW McCall . One of the songs, a single called “Convoy” blew open the popular CB radio craze of 1975 . Within two months, 10 million record buyers were singing along and two years later Kris Kristofferson starred in the hit movie by the same name .

Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol — Grainger/StotterMummers Plays originated in England and spread throughout Europe . The plays were seasonal folk plays performed in the streets, in house-to-house visits or public houses by troupes of actors known as mummers . This work is a transcription from Percy Grainger’s 1911 piano setting of the Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol . His notes on the transcription read as follows: The tune

was noted by Miss Lucy E Broadwood at Lyne, near Horsham (Sussex), in 1880 and 1881

from the singing of Christmas Mummers called “Tipteers” or “Tipteerers” during their

play of “St George, the Turk, and the seven champions of Christendom" . Richard Franko Goldman encouraged Grainger to arrange the Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol for band and it was Goldman who undertook the completion and scoring of the work in progress at the time of Grainger's death in 1961 . This arrangement was written by Dr Douglas Stotter, Director of Bands, Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Wind and Percussion Division in the UT-Arling-ton Music Department .

George Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was an Australian-born composer, pianist and cham-pion of the saxophone and the concert band . Grainger was an inveterate collector and preserver of folk music, and also an innovative musician who anticipated many forms of 20th Century music well before they became established by other composers . In 1932, he became Dean of Music at

Program Notes

New York University, and underscored his reputation as an experimenter by putting jazz on the syllabus and inviting Duke Ellington as a guest lecturer . Twice he was offered honorary doctorates of music, but turned them down, explaining, "I feel that my music must be regarded as a product of non education ."

Patapan — HansonPatapan is a French Christmas carol in Burgundian dialect, later adapted into English . It was written by Bernard de La Monnoye and first published in Noël bourguignons in 1720 . Its original title is "Guillô, Pran Ton Tamborin" . The carol is told from the perspective of shepherds playing simple instruments, flutes and drums .

Shelley Hanson, a Twin Cities, Minnesota, composer, arranger, teacher, and professional musician, has an affinity for writing and performing folk music . Her band, Klezmer and All That Jazz, recorded traditional and original music for the audio book version of the Yiddish play “The Dybbuk” . Ms Hanson holds a PhD in Performance, Music Theory, and Music Literature from Michigan State University . She is a member of the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra and serves on the faculty of Macalester College .

Russian Christmas Music — ReedIn 1944, in an attempt to improve Soviet-American relations, a holiday symphonic concert was held in Denver, Colorado . The intention was to premiere new works by Soviet and American composers . Sixteen days before the concert, it was discovered that the Soviet music selected to be performed, Prokofiev's March, Op 99, had already premiered in the United States . With only 16 days to com-pletion, 23-year-old American Alfred Reed was assigned to write a new piece of "Russian music" to be performed at the concert . Thirteen days later, on December 12, 1944, on nationally broadcast NBC radio, Russian Christmas Music made its debut .

An ancient Russian Christmas carol (Carol of the Little Russian Children), together with a good deal of original material and some motivic elements derived from the liturgical music of the Eastern Orthodox Church, form the basis for this musical impression of Old Russia during the jubilant Christmas season . Although cast in the form of a single, continuous movement, four distinct sections may be easily recognized: Children’s Carol, Antiphonal Chant, Village Song, and the closing, Cathedral Chorus . The liturgical music of the Eastern Orthodox Church is entirely vocal, admitting no instrumental music into the services . Alfred Reed has captured the sonorities, rhythmic inflections, clarity, and flowing phrases of the human voice in his composition .

Alfred Reed was born on Manhattan Island in New York City on January 25, 1921 . His formal music training began at the age of 10, when he studied the trumpet . As a teenager, he played with small hotel combos in the Catskill Mountains . His interests shifted from performing to ar-ranging and composition . In 1938, he started working in the Radio Workshop in New York as a staff composer/arranger and assistant conductor . With the onset of World War II, he enlisted and was assigned to the 529th Army Air Corps Band . During his three and a half years of service, he

produced nearly 100 compositions and arrangements for band . After his discharge, Reed enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music and studied composition with Vittorio Giannini . In 1953, he enrolled at Baylor University, serving as conductor of the Symphony Orchestra while he earned the Bachelor of Music degree (1955) . A year later, he received his Master of Music degree . His interest in the development of educational music led him to serve as executive editor of Hansen Publishing from 1955 to 1966 . He left that position to become a professor of music at the University of Miami, where he served until his retirement in 1993 . After retirement, he continued to compose and made numerous appearances as guest conductor in many nations, most notably in Japan . At the age of 84, on September 17, 2005, Alfred Reed passed away after a short illness .

Guest Narrators

Bruce Bray hails from the Panhandle of west Texas, growing up in the small town of Abernathy, located 17 miles north of Lubbock where he was born on July 18, 1955 . He has taught music in Texas public schools since graduating from Texas Tech University in 1978, and is in his 11th year as the associate band director at Hopewell Middle School in Round Rock . Mr Bray is an actor, writer, poet, artist, and composer with works published by Larry Daehn Music Publishing Company, RBC Music Publishers, and TRN Music .

David Crews grew up in Odessa, where he began his career in broadcast television and radio . He is a graduate of UT- Permian Basin, where he also taught television production . Mr Crews has worked as a director and editor for broadcast stations and cable systems for nearly four decades and now owns and operates CrewsCreative, his own award-winning post-production business based in Round Rock . For the last several years, David has also been a staff announcer for Austin’s classical station, KMFA . He is a composer, musician, author, and avid traveler . Apropos to tonight’s performance, David’s father, John Crews, is a World War II combat veteran who earned two bronze stars fighting with Patton’s noted 12th Armored “Mystery Division" .

Next ASB Concerts

February 24 - Joint Forces - Grace Covenant Church 8:00 pmFebruary 25 - Joint Forces - Dripping Springs PAC 8:00 pm

April 21 - Melodies of Nature - McCallum Arts Center 8:00 pmApril 29 - Texas Community Music Festival Concert - Central Market North 5:15 pm

May 13 - Mother's Day - Zilker HIllside Theater 7:00 pmJune 17 - Father's Day - Zilker HIllside Theater 7:30 pm

July 4 - Round Rock Independence Day Festival July 7 - Bastrop Patriotic Festival

ASB Players

BaritoneSteve Neinast

OboeFred BehningKristen MasonBrittany Toll

BassoonAndrea ComachoWalter Pasciak Brian ProvostJohn Walter

Bass ClarinetSharon Kojzarek*Ruth LimLynn McLarty

TrumpetEric BittnerDavid B . CrossGeorge GreeneDavid JonesJohn KingErin Knight*Steve MorelandKaren PennMargaret SorgeeBruce Wagner

French HornMarc AudyLeslie BoergerRon BoergerChuck Ellis*Marilyn GoodMichael GoodJerry HayesJo Oliver

Carl Vidos

TromboneJohn Bodnar*Jim CrandellDale LininigerScott MawdsleyDonald McDaniel Paul PutmanKen RileyKyle SchwamkrugDerek Woods

EuphoniumAllan Adelman*Tim DeFriesRichard KlingnerJerry SchwabJami Yarbrough

TubaKeith ChenowethRobert HeardAl Martin

String BassThomas Edwards

PercussionAlan ClineTamara GalbiBill HaehnelJim HubbardAdam KempKatie LeanderRob Ward*

* Section Leader

FluteBeth BehningWade ChilesKyndra CullenNan EllisByron GiffordSally Grant*Penny GriffyLinda LiningerSara ManningKaren VanHooserKristi Wilson

ClarinetLibby Cardenas*Sally CharboneauDave EasterAnthony FrascoRamona HeardClifton JonesKaren KnetenRegina MabryEri MaedaNancy NorthNancy MurphyClary RocchiHolly ThompsonRay ShroederFaith Weaver

Saxophone AltoEddie Jennings*Bob MillerCindy StoryBrenagh Tucker

TenorSusan Abbott

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