Composition for Forests:Installation/Recital

Shawn Skabelund, artistJanice ChenJu Chiang, piano

Thursday, September 22, 2016Saturday, September 24, 2016Monday, September 26, 2016

Wednesday, September 28, 20167:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 25, 20165:00 p.m.

Ashurst Hall

PROGRAM

Please hold your applause until the end of the performance.

Nature

AustraliaEarth Mother Fantasy (1990) James Penberthy (1917-1999)

The United States of AmericaBirds: A Suite of Impressionistic Studies (1971, 1973) Seymour Bernstein (b. 1927)

The Hummingbird (Bk. I)The Woodpecker (Bk. I)The Chickadee (Bk. I)Roadrunner (Bk. II)Condor (Bk. II)

NigeriaNigerian Suite (1961) Ayo Bankole (1935-1976)

Forest RainsOrin Fún Òsùmàrè (“Music for the Rainbow”)

ArgentinaDanza del cuervo (“Dance of the Raven”) (1957) Manuel Gómez Carrillo (1883-1968)

Fire

JapanFeu (“Fire”) from Trois esquisses (1982) Masayuki Nagatomi (b. 1932)

United KingdomWinter Waters: Tragic Landscape (1915) Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

CanadaLament (1958) Paul Pedersen (b. 1935)

Love and Death

SpainEl amor y la muerte: Balada (“Ballad of Love and Death”) Enrique Granados (1867-1916)from Suite for Piano Goyescas, Op. 11 (1911)

There will be Question & Answer time with Shawn Skabelund and Janice ChenJu Chiang

following the performance.

Thank you for attending Composition for Forests: Installation/Recital.

We hope you enjoy the production and the issue it addresses:the catastrophic fires now occurring more frequently due to years of fire suppression and global warming.

In order to maintain the proper ambience, the artists request the following:

~ Please turn off cell phones.~ Photography is allowed without flash.

~ Feel free to walk around during the performance, but please do not talk.

~ No video or audio recording during the performance.

Special Thanks To:

Arizona Commission on the ArtsSupported in part by a grant from the Arizona Commission on theArts which receives support from the State of Arizona and the Na-

tional Endowment for the Arts.

Also, Many Thanks To:

Alexandra Carpino, Todd Sullivan, Peter Friederici, Michelle James,Annette McGivney, Brooke Brewington, Kim Fessenden, Chiara

Skabelund, Adrian Skabelund, Calvin Legassie, James Murray,Brett Kitch, Kathy Battali, Bonnie Stevens, Kathy Farretta, Shawn’s

interns Teddi Caputo and Jazz Crowley, and Robert Faucett.

Puffin FoundationFunding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation.

Ornithology Collection, Burke Museum at the University of Washington

PROGRAM NOTES

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven. Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore—Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

—Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven”

Nature

Australia

Earth Mother Fantasy (1990) James Penberthy (1917-1999)

An Australian composer and journalist, James Penberthy once served with the RoyalAustralian Navy during World War II. He then obtained first class honours in compositionat the University of Melbourne and later studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Franceand conducting with Sir John Barbirolli in England. He was known as a lifelong advocate,particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, to include Australian indigenous elements in the music.He co-founded the West Australian Ballet Company, and his ballet Kooree and the Mistsfeatured the first Aboriginal dancer, Mary Miller.

The United States of America

Birds: A Suite of Impressionistic Studies (1971, 1973) Seymour Bernstein (b. 1927)The Hummingbird (Bk. I)The Woodpecker (Bk. I)The Chickadee (Bk. I)Roadrunner (Bk. II)Condor (Bk. II)

Seymour Bernstein, an American concert pianist and composer, is well known throughoutthe world for his educational programs and master classes. He inducted into the army duringthe Korean War, he gave concerts on the front lines and for top military leaders. During thisexperience, he came to understand that he possessed a missionary zeal, a desire to bringmusic’s message to a wider audience. A concert career that took him to Asia, Europe, andthroughout the Americas brought this goal to fruition, as have his books With Your Own TwoHands and 20 Lessons in Keyboard Choreography, which have been published in German,Japanese, Korean, and Russian. The two Birds series are the results from his “composing andcommuning with nature” when he spent his summer time in Maine.

Nigeria

Nigerian Suite (1961) Ayo Bankole (1935-1976)Forest RainsOrin Fún Òsùmàrè (“Music for the Rainbow”)

Ayo Bankole was born in 1935 at Jos, in Plateau State of Nigeria. Between 1958 and 1964, hestudied piano, organ, and composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in Londonand Clare College in Cambridge. Shortly after, Bankole received a Rockefeller FoundationFellowship to study ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hereturned to Nigeria in 1966 and eventually accepted a position in music at the School ofAfrican and Asian Studies, University of Lagos. While Bankole’s instrumental works are moreWestern in “conception and realization,” his vocal works are infused with an indigenousNigerian element.

Argentina

Danza del cuervo (“Dance of the Raven”) (1957) Manuel Gómez Carrillo (1883-1968)

Manuel Gómez Carrillo is an Argentine composer and ethnomusicologist. He wascommissioned by the University of Tucumán to collect folk music in north Argentina; hecompiled more than 400 Inca-Calchaqui themes and published as Danzas y cantos regionalesdel norte argentino (Buenos Aires, 1920).

Fire

Japan

Feu (“Fire”) from Trois esquisses (1982) Masayuki Nagatomi (b. 1932)

Nagatomi studied at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, now TokyoUniversity of the Arts and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris,where he graduated in 1965. After he returned to Japan, Nagatomi taught at the TokyoUniversity of the Arts and Seitokou University in Matsudo. Trois esquisses (“Three Sketches”)consists of three movements: “Air,” “Fire,” and “Water and Earth”—four out of five elementsin Japanese philosophy (Godai). “Fire” represents passion or aggression, to heat or transform.

United Kingdom

Winter Waters: Tragic Landscape (1915) Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

English composer and poet Sir Arnold Bax formed his musical language in an early stagewhen he discovered Russian, Celtic, and Nordic themes are fascinating materials to veer awayfrom Wagnerian spell, thus created a complex, lush, and dark, yet unique, type of music. AfterWWI, he was seen as an important figure in British music. As a prolific composer, his worksinclude seven symphonies, four piano sonata, and many other chamber works. Winter Waterwas composed in 1915 in a dark and dramatic style.

Canada

Lament (1958) Paul Pedersen (b. 1935)

Paul Pedersen is a Canadian composer and professor retired from the University of Torontoin 2001. He has taught science and mathematics for a year at Parkdale Collegiate in Torontofollowed by two years as Music Director at Camrose Lutheran College in Alberta. He receiveda Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Toronto, studying psychology of musicperception. He founded the McGill Records label for which he produced some thirtyrecordings including diverse media-instrumental, vocal, orchestral, and electroacousticworks. As hobbies, he does photography, woodworking, and genealogy.

Love and DeathSpain

El amor y la muerte: Balada (“Ballad of Love and Death”) Enrique Granados (1867-1916)from Suite for Piano Goyescas, Op. 11 (1911)

Granados, a Spanish pianist and composer, was considered as a leader of musical nationalismin the late-nineteenth century. His music is in general represented a romantic, Spanish stylewith improvisational quality and requiring fine tone production. The Goyescas is his mostfamous piano work that was inspired by Francisco Goya’s paintings and tapestries. It consistsof six pieces in two books.

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2016-2017 Horizons Concert Seriesjoin us for these exciting performances in Fall 2016 . . .

“Composition for Forests” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22; Saturday, Sept. 24; Monday, Sept. 26; Wednesday, Sept. 28 at Ashurst Hall5:00 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25 at Ashurst HallShawn Skabelund, artistJanice ChenJu Chiang, pianoA site-specific installation combined with a musical program addressing climate change, this one-of-a-

kind collaboration explores the issue of the catastrophic fires now occurring more frequently dueto years of fire suppression and global warming. Each performance has a limited capacity of 40people, so get tickets in advance.

Support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.Free, but tickets required.

“From Russia with Love”3:00 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at Ardrey Memorial Auditorium Chamber Orchestra Kremlin Misha Rachlevsky, music directorEnjoy the luscious Russian string sound direct from Moscow in a program featuring compositions by

Rossini, Bekmambetov, Schnauber, and a second-half audience choice (Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, orSchoenberg).

Sponsored by Mike and Karen KittTickets required. $20 Adults, $12.50 Seniors & NAU Employees, free for children & NAU students with ID.

“Sonic Border”7:00 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at Ashurst Hall Guillermo Galindo, performance/film/lectureMultimedia presentation based on the Border Cantos exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art.

Guillermo Galindo makes musical instruments from objects found along the US/Mexico border—water jugs, border patrol flashlights, children’s toys, discarded clothes—and composes music forthose instruments.

Co-sponsored by NAU Latin American Studies and the NAU Department of Comparative CulturalStudies

Free, but tickets required.

“Faust I”7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 31 at Ashurst Hall Jeffrey Swann, pianoOn Halloween, hear solo-piano music inspired by the disillusioned scholar Faust and his unholy pact

with Mephistopheles. Tickets required. $20 Adults, $12.50 Seniors & NAU Employees, free for children & NAU students with ID.

For tickets, contact the Central Ticket Office at 523-5661 or nau.edu/cto

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