Robert Blocker, Dean

thomas c. duffyMusic Director

september 292009

with Vincent Oneppo, clarinet

BIGGER THAN LIFEBIG BAND MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN

yale jazz ensemble

Let’s DanceTom Bergeron, trumpetTsega Bekele, tenor saxophoneDominic Insogna, tenor saxophone

S’WonderfulTom Bergeron, trumpetDominic Insogna, tenor saxophoneBret Hembd, piano

The Man I LoveBret Hembd, pianoTom Bergeron, trumpetAndy Rogers, alto saxophone

One O’Clock JumpBret Hembd, pianoTsega Bekele, tenor saxophoneBrett Leghorn, tromboneSamuel Adams, bassTom Bergeron, trumpet

Love For SaleBret Hembd, pianoCarl Runge, trumpet

Mission to Moscow

Intermission

Fanny Baldridge and Gregory StoneArr. Fletcher Henderson (1939)

George GershwinArr. Tommy Todd (1947)

George GershwinArr. Jimmy Knepper (1962)

Cole PorterUnidentified arranger(1946)

Mel Powell (1942)

september 29, 2009 · 8 pmMorse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

BIGGER THAN LIFEBIG BAND MUSIC OF BENNY GOODMAN

Clarinade

Somebody Loves MeDominic Insogna, tenor saxophone

Don’t Be That WayBrett Leghorn, tromboneAbe Bekele, trumpet

Memories of YouChris Akins, GuitarBret Hembd, pianoSamuel Adams, bassMatthew King, drumsBret Leghorn, trombone

Sing Sing SingMatthew King, drumsBret Hembd, piano

Mel Powell (1945)

George GershwinArr. Fletcher Henderson (1936)

Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar SampsonArr. Edgar Sampson (1938)

Eubie Blake

Louis PrimaArr. Jimmy Mundy (1937)

The arrangements performed in tonight’s program have been selected from the Benny Goodman Papers in the Gilmore Music Library. We are grateful to the library staff in making these materials available for performance, and encourage the audience to visit the Gilmore Library in Sterling Memorial Library to view items on display from the Goodman Papers, on view until November 2.

a tribute to the king of swingA Festival for Benny Goodman’s 100th Birthday

(continued)

alto saxophoneAndy Rogers ‘10Julian Domo ‘11

tenor saxophoneDominic Insogna ‘12Tsega e Bekele ‘10

baritone saxophoneZoe Lapalombara ‘13

trumpetTom Bergeron ysm’09Carl Runge ‘13Abe Bekele ‘13

tromboneBrett Leghorn gradSaranya Sethuraman ‘11Abby Lawlor ‘11

pianoBret Hembd law

guitar Chris Akers ‘13

bassSamuel Adams ysm

drumsMatthew King ‘10

yale jazz ensembleThomas Duffy, Director · Samuel Adams, Assistant to the Director

The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band, performs a wide variety of music, from pieces in the Benny Goodman archive to the newest, most progressive jazz compositions.

The ensemble has performed in the United States and internationally at such noted venues as New York’s Village Vanguard and Iridium Jazz Club and London’s Ronnie Scott’s.

The YJE has played with or opened for the Mingus Big Band, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis.

artist profiles

Vincent Oneppo has performed the big band music of Benny Goodman numerous times at Yale over the past several years. He was soloist in two concerts of music from the Goodman papers, including an all-Fletcher Henderson program, under the direction of Willie Ruff, and organized The Flipside Jazz Orchestra in a concert on the Chamber Music Society at Yale concert series commemorating the George Gershwin centenary.

A year later, with Thomas C. Duffy and the Flipside Jazz Orchestra, he performed as soloist in a program entitled “Benny Meets the Duke,” and played several times with Duffy and the Yale Band in recreations of Glenn Miller’s 1943 radio broadcasts from Woolsey Hall. Also a saxophonist, Mr. Oneppo has performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, including a jazz program for the centenary of Richard Rodgers. He has played with many local jazz groups and dance bands, including the Bales- Gitlin Band, with whom he has been associated for over 30 years.

A 1973 graduate of the Yale School of Music and a student of Keith Wilson, Mr. Oneppo has performed with the New Haven and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestras and Orchestra New England. A long-time employee of Yale University, he is currently director of the concert and media office at the School of Music.

Thomas C. Duffy, composer and conductor, is professor (adjunct) of music and director of bands at Yale University. He served as acting dean of the School of Music in 2005–2006, having served as associate dean since 1996 and deputy dean since 1999. He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee and a member of the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee. He attended the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education in 2005.

He has served as president of the New England College Band Directors Association and the College Band Directors National Association (cbdna) Eastern Division, editor of the cbdna Journal, publicity chair for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees, and he has represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program. He is president elect of the College Band Directors National Association. He is a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, and BMI.

An active composer with a D.M.A. in composi- tion from Cornell University, where he was a student of Karel Husa and Steven Stucky, he has accepted commissions from the American Composers Forum, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Field Band, and many bands, choruses, and orchestras. He joined the Yale faculty in 1982.

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