DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

WIND SYMPHONYDR. JARED CHASE, MUSIC DIRECTOR

GRAHAM THOMPSON, CONCERTO COMPETITION WINNER

RAHMY ELTOURY, STUDENT CONDUCTOR

“DREAMS AND FANTASIES”SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014

7:30 PMLINEHAN CHAPEL

PROGRAM WIND SYMPHONY

Fantasia for Band (1963) ..............................................Vittorio Giannini (1903-1966)Rahmy Eltoury, student conductor

Morceau de Concert, Op. 94 (1893) .......................... Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) I. Allegro moderato Transcribed by Peter Schmalz II. Adagio

III. Allegro non troppoGraham A. Thompson, horn

Symphony No. 1 “The Lord of the Rings” (1988) .....................Johan de Meij (b. 1953)I. Gandolf (The Wizard)II. Lothlorien (The Elvenwood)III. Gollum (Sméagol)IV. Journey in the Dark a. The Mines of Moria b. The Bridge of Khazad-DûmV. Hobbits

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PiccoloJoanna Zaccaria+

FluteNicole Darling^Meghan Doorty^Enrico Iraci^Emileigh Kukuvka^Heather Langley+Kyle Martin^Brogan O’Halloran+Emily O’Sullivan+Kaysea Scott+Stacey Yazo^Joanna Zaccaria+Jennifer Zheng#Stephanie Zimmer^

OboeJaclyn Richards~Hannah Schuetz^

Eb Clarinet Meredith Rice+

Clarinet Elizabeth Bablok#Claire Cannon`Stacey Coogan+Gina Lane+Kathryn Oman^Meredith Rice+Jessica Tripi^Meghann Williams+

Bass ClarinetRachel Hall^Louise Ly+Nick Sutton*

BassoonChristopher Redmond*

Alto SaxophoneKristen Bervy^Suzanne Grant^Anthony LaPenna^Lauren McGowan~Phoebe Shelton^Brad Steiger^+Nick Sutton*

Tenor SaxophoneJake Wark*Anastasia Polashenski^

Baritone SaxophoneRahmy Eltoury^Nick Lord+

HornWhitney Fairchild+Brenna Griggs^Arissa Kyler+Mariah Rector^Andy RockafellowGraham Thompson*

TrumpetAngel Figueroa~Tori Gac+Katie Keesom`Brandon McArdell^Norene Meyer+Yuan Miao*Sara Rogers+

TromboneEmily Chin+Tim Dyet^Olivia Fontana`

Bass TromboneKara Rider+

EuphoniumSarah Drozda~

TubaIain Cockram~Nathan Humphrey#

PianoLizz Abt^*

PercussionMatt Bevan-Perkins^Jamison Brooks*Torrey Cobb^Ira Fair*Camen Hunn^Dylan Niver^

~ Music Business^ Music Education*Music Performance+ Music Therapy# Bachelor of Arts` Non-major

PERSONNEL WIND SYMPHONYDr. Jared Chase, music director

The Nazareth College Wind Symphony is under the direction of Dr. Jared Chase. It is available for ALL majors at Nazareth College. The ensemble is dedicated to presenting an exciting variety of works from all musical periods, cultures and styles, featuring both core and contemporary repertoire, and new pieces by emerging composers.

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PROGRAM NOTES ABOUT RAHMY ELTOURYRahmy Eltoury is currently a junior working towards his Bachelor of Music Degree in Instrumental Music Education here at Nazareth College. He is from Quincy Massachusetts. Rahmy’s primary instrument is the saxophone, and is a student of Dr. Chisato Eda Marling. Earlier this year, he was awarded an Honors Recital, which he performed in March. This is Rahmy’s first concert which he is conducting, under the guidance of Dr. Jared Chase. He is also currently working on a project with Dr. Jennifer Bellor, an arrangement of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon for saxophone choir, percussion, and dance for the upcoming Fringe Festival in Rochester this fall. Rahmy is looking forward to student teaching this fall.

ABOUT GRAHAM A. THOMPSONGraham A. Thompson is a native of Gloversville, New York and is a senior music performance major. Graham was a winner of the 2011 Nazareth College Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, a 2011 and 2013 Honors Recital recipient, and was Principal Horn of the Small College Intercollegiate Band under the baton of Craig Kirchoff at the 2013 Collegiate Band Directors National Association National Conference. Aside from horn, Graham also plays the highland bagpipes and has traveled to Glasgow, Scotland to compete at the World Pipe Band Championships annually from 2007 to 2011.

Some 30 years ago, when Johan de Meij conceived the idea to write his first symphony, many people advised against it. The fact that it would be his Opus 1 also did not inspire much confidence. After 25 years, thousands of performances and dozens of recordings, we now know that those friendly warnings were totally off the mark. In one fell swoop, his Symphony No. 1, The Lord of the Rings, made de Meij’s name world renowned as a top composer for wind orchestra, a rank he retains to this day with his later symphonies and other works. Johan de Meij’s first symphony “The Lord of the Rings” is based on the trilogy of that name by J.R.R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The symphony consists of five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the book. The symphony was written in the period between March 1984 and December 1987, and had its première in Brussels on 15th March 1988. In 1989, The Symphony “The Lord of the Rings” was awarded a first prize in the Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition.

Although it is not simple to summarize such an extensive and complex work, the main outline is as follows: the central theme is the Ring, made by primeval forces that decide the safety or destruction of the World. For years it was the possession of the creature Gollum, but when the Ring falls into the hands of the Hobbits the evil forces awake and the struggle for the Ring commences. There is but one solution to save the World from disaster: the Ring must be destroyed by the fire in which it was forged: Mount Doom in the heart of Mordor, the country of the evil Lord Sauron. It is the Hobbit Frodo who is assigned to carry out this task, and to assist him a company, the Fellowship of the Ring, is formed under the leadership of Gandalf, the wizard, which includes the Hobbits Sam, Peregrin and Merin, the Dwarf Gimli, the Elf Legolas, Boromir and Aragorn, the later King. The Companions are secretly followed by Gollum, who does not shun any means, however perfidious, to recover his priceless Ring. However, the Companions soon fall apart, after many pernicious adventures and a surprising dénouement Frodo and Sam can at last return to their familiar home, The Shire.

Explanation of the five movements:

I. GANDALF (The Wizard)The first movement is a musical portrait of the wizard Gandalf, one of the principal characters of the trilogy. His wise and noble personality is expressed by a stately motif which is used in a different form in movements IV and V. The sudden opening of the Allegro vivace is indicative of the unpredictability of the grey wizard, followed by a wild ride on his beautiful horse “Shadowfax”.

II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood)The second movement is an impression of Lothlórien, the elvenwood with its beautiful trees, plants,

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exotic birds, expressed through woodwind solo’s. The meeting of the Hobbit Frodo with the Lady Galadriel is embodied in a charming Allegretto; in the Mirror of Galadriel, a silver basin in the wood, Frodo glimpses three visions, the last of which, a large ominous Eye, greatly upsets him.

III. GOLLUM (Sméagol)The third movement describes the monstrous creature Gollum, a slimy, shy being represented by the soprano saxophone. It mumbles and talks to itself, hisses and lisps, whines and snickers, is alternately pitiful and malicious, is continually fleeing and looking for his cherished treasure, the Ring.

IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARKThe fourth movement describes the laborious journey of the Fellowship of the Ring, headed by the wizard Gandalf, through the dark tunnels of the Mines of Moria. The slow walking cadenza and the fear are clearly audible in the monotonous rhythm of the low brass, piano and percussion. After a wild pursuit by hostile creatures, the Orks, Gandalf is engaged in battle with a horrible monster, the Balrog, and crashes from the subterranean bridge of Khazad-Dûm in a fathomless abyss. To the melancholy tones of a Marcia funèbre, the bewildered Companions trudge on, looking for the only way out of the Mines, the East Gate of Moria.

V. HOBBITSThe fifth movement expresses the carefree and optimistic character of the Hobbits in a happy folk dance; the hymn that follows emanates the determination and noblesse of the hobbit folk. The symphony does not end on an exuberant note, but is concluded peacefully and resigned, in keeping with the symbolic mood of the last chapter “The Grey Havens” in which Frodo and Gandalf sail away in a white ship and disappear slowly beyond the horizon.

ABOUT DR. JARED CHASEDr. Jared Chase is an assistant professor of music at Nazareth College where he directs the wind symphony, teaches courses in conducting and brass methods, coordinates the instrumental department as well as performs in the faculty brass quintet. Before coming to Nazareth, Dr. Chase was the Director of Bands and Chair of the Department of Music at Bethany College. Dr. Chase received his MM in trumpet performance and DMA in wind conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He has been awarded grants to present research on the wind music of Gustav Mahler and Reynaldo Hahn’s Le Bal de Béatrice d’Este at the College Band Directors National Conference. He has also presented at the Ohio Music Educator Association (OMEA) Conference, and the World Associate of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) 14th International Conference. Dr. Chase studied music education and trumpet performance at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He continues to be an active freelance performer and has performed with numerous professional orchestras and ensembles. During the fall of 2013 Dr. Chase was a visiting assistant professor of ensembles and conducting at the Eastman School of Music where he conducted the Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Dr. Chase has taught courses at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Bethany College, Sinclair Community College, Central State University, the Eastman School of Music, and in the public schools of Ohio.