Illinois Valley Community College
        Division of Humanities/Fine Arts/Social Sciences, Dr. Manuel Gomez, Dean
            IVCC WIND ENSEMBLE
           Thursday, October 9, 2008, Mendota High School Gymnasium, 7:30 pm

Camelot (Highlights from) (1960)              Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe
                                                                                                   arr. Paul Yoder
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954)                   Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
                                                                                  arr. Donald Hunsberger (b. 1932)
Klezmer Dances (2008)                                                            Stephen Bulla

To the Heroes of the Patriotic War (1942)        Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
                                                                                               arr. William Berz in 2008
                                  
                                          Short Interlude (10 minutes)

 Barber of Seville (Overture) (1816)                 Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
                                                                                                 arr. by M. L. Lake in 1927
 Wizard of Oz (1938)                                               Harold Arlen (1905-1986)
                                                                                                     arr. James Barnes
 Shield of Liberty March (1939)                               J. J. Richards (1878-1956)
                                                                                             arr.by Andrew Glover in 2008

IVCC Wind Ensemble
(Listed alphabetically)

FLUTE
Jennifer Abernathy-Band Director-PrincetonHS
Charnelle Abrams-Student-IVCC
Donna Martin-Band Director-Ottawa
Bobbi Mielcarski-Teacher-Herscher Elementary

PICCOLO
Jennifer Abernathy-Band Director-PrincetonHS

OBOE/ENGLISH HORN
David Lehman-Band Director-DeKalb

BASSOON
Terri McTaggert-Music Teacher-Ottawa

CLARINET
Amber Badgett-Student-IVCC
Jackie Fischer-Band Director-LaSalle Elementary
Amber Hagemann-Student-IVCC
Rich Mayer-Band Director-Rockton
Sarah Reckmeyer-Band Director-OttawaHS
Danielle Soenksen-Ottawa
Karen Stachowiak-Counselor-IVCC

BASS CLARINET
Sara Broset-Daycare Teacher-IVCC

ALTO SAXOPHONE
Joe Oliver-Student-IVCC
Brandon Stover-Band/Choir-Princeton Elem

TENOR SAXOPHONE
Patrick Wilson-Dalzell

BARITONE SAXOPHONE
Ray Younger-Mendota

TRUMPET
John Armstrong-Teacher/Performer-Utica
Brandon Czubachowski-Band-Milton Pope
Andrea Farley-Student-Art Institute-Chicago
Milt Olson-Sign Designer-Mendota
Josh Severson-Student-IVCC
Tyler Swanlund-Student-IVCC
Phil Whaley-Band Director-Peru

FRENCH HORN
Joe Borman-Student-IVCC
Deb Joslin-Fin.Rep-Office Max
Ann Lusher-Band Director-Bureau ValleyHS

TROMBONE
Jim Bottenberg-Dist. Manager-Auto Zone
Greg Oseland-Faculty-IVCC
Mark Victor-Band Director-Seneca High School

EUPHONIUM
Rex Benson-Band Director-MendotaHS

TUBA
Deb Shofner-Band Director-Elgin

PERCUSSION
Kristie Holland-Band Director-Milton Pope
David Peterson-Band Director-Grand RidgeGS

CONDUCTOR
Gene Montgomery

We are extremely grateful to Rex Benson and Mendota High School for allowing us to perform here this evening. Mendota High School has a long standing tradition of wind and percussion performance and serves as an example for continued community participation. We recognize the love that Mendota has for musical expression and we are honored to be a part of that tonight.

Festive Overture, Op. 96
Originally written in A major to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the October Revolution, it took Shostakovich only three days to complete this Festive Overture. Shostakovich had a complex and difficult relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work.


Klezmer Dances
“Klezmer” is a Yiddish term that, translated, means “instrument song.” Klezmer music, with its documented history reaching at least to the 1600s, has origins in the villages of Eastern Europe, where troubadours performed at celebrations and especially weddings.

The melodies have come from traditional dances, handed down through centuries of Yiddish culture in Israel, Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, and countless more. The five melodies featured in this setting represent the melting pot of Klezmer influences both in traditional dance and energetic style.


To the Heroes of the Patriotic War
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) is a leading composer of the Soviet school of composition that also might include Prokofiev and Shostakovitch.

To the Heroes of the Patriotic War is a march in A-flat major originally written for wind band. It was composed in 1942 and first performed in a USSR Radio broadcast in that year. The composer recalled “It was often broadcast after Yuri Levitan had read the Supreme Command Order of the day.” The Patriotic War refers to World War II.


Barber of Seville
Written in 15 days, this work is probably the best known of all the operas composed by Gioacchino Rossini The libretto was given to Rossini in sections, and he wrote the music as fast as the verses were finished.

It is in the form of Opera Buffa, and the story is from a Beaumarchais comedy – the same story Mozart immortalized in the “Marriage of Figaro.”

The first performance of the opera was given at Rome, Italy, February 5, 1816. The first American performance took place in New York in 1825.



Shield of Liberty March
Richards’ first composition appeared in print in 1899 and certainly many of his early works were first performed by the bands that he led. Richards was the Ringling Bros. Circus Band director from 1911 through 1918 after serving as a cornetist and alto horn player. From 1920 through 1944 he taught in Illinois towns, most notably Sterling, Illinois, and conducted the Mt. Morris Band.

Richards was highly regarded by his peers. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1939 and served as its president in 1948. He composed well over one hundred works that were published, the most famous being the marvelous “Emblem of Unity” march.

Shield of Liberty was published in 1939 amid a growing uneasiness in the world political scene and quickly gained popularity among the major service bands in the U.S. This arrangement was premiered on Sunday, July 8, 2007 by the Karl L. King Municipal Band of Fort Dodge, Iowa.

 

Future performances:

Sunday, October 26, LaSalle-Peru HS Auditorium, Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, 3:00 pm

Thursday, December 4, Illinois Valley Community College Cultural Center, IVCC Wind Ensemble, 7:30 pm

Saturday, December 6, Ottawa HS  Auditorium , Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 pm

Thursday, February 26, IVCC Wind Ensemble, 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 8, LaSalle-Peru HS Auditorium , Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, 3:00 pm

Thursday, April 23, Illinois Community College Cultural Center, IVCC Wind Ensemble, 730 pm

Friday, May 1, Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, LaSalle-Peru HS Auditorium, 7:30 pm