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University of Maryland School of Music Presents

UNIVERSITY BAND AND MARYLAND COMMUNITY BAND

University BandCraig Potter, Conductor

Alex Scott, Assistant Conductor

George Washington Bridge ....................................................................... William Schuman

Mysterious Village ...................................................................................... Michael Colgrass

Colonial Song ................................................................................................. Percy Grainger

Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann ................................................... Robert Jager

INTERMISSION

Maryland Community BandJoseph Scott, Conductor

British Band Classics, With a Twist!

Vanity Fair ........................................................................................................Percy Fletcher

Sea Songs March ............................................................................Ralph Vaughan Williams

Serenade, Op. 22c ....................................................................................Derek Bourgeois

Moorside March ................................................................................................. Gustav Holst

The Symphonic Beatles .................................................................................. John Cacavas

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BIOGRAPHIESCRAIG POTTER, assistant director of bands, joined the University of Maryland faculty in the fall of 2015. At the University of Maryland, Potter assists with the operations of the Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band and the Maryland Pep Bands. He is also the music director for the University Band and has served as an assistant conductor for the UMD Wind Ensemble. Prior to coming to the University of Maryland, Potter served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Louisville. His primary duties included assisting with the Cardinal Marching Band and concert ensembles, as well as teaching conducting and marching band techniques courses. As an educator, he taught middle and high school band in the Catholic Diocese of Lexington (Kentucky). During his time at Lexington Catholic High School, the band earned distinguished ratings at the Kentucky Music Educators Association Concert Band Festival.

Potter remains an active performer on the tuba, with special attention to music with alternative accompaniments and electronics. He has soloed twice with the UMD Wind Orchestra, most recently on David Lang’s Are You Experienced? for solo electric tuba. Potter has appeared as a soloist and clinician across the United States. He has performed in music conventions and festivals around the world including the United States Army Tuba-Euphonium Workshop and the Jungfrau Music Festival.

He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the International Tuba-Euphonium Association, an alumnus of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Kappa Kappa Psi, an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma and a Sigma Alpha Iota Friend of the Arts. Potter holds a Bachelor of Music in music education from the University of Kentucky, a Master of Music in wind conducting from the University of Louisville and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland in tuba performance. Originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, Potter lives in Laurel with his wife Mallory and daughter Felicity.

JOSEPH SCOTT serves as assistant conductor of the UMD Wind Orchestra and UMD Wind Ensemble where he is in his second year of coursework towards a Doctor of Musical Arts in conducting. His primary conducting teacher and mentor is Michael Votta, Jr. In addition to his conducting responsibilities, Scott serves as interim director of the Maryland Community Band. This past year, Scott taught an undergraduate-level advanced conducting class, and this past spring was a guest conductor with the UMD Repertoire Orchestra. Before starting at the University of Maryland, Scott was the director of instrumental music at Clayton Valley Charter High School in Concord, California, where he was responsible for conducting the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band and Marching Band, as well as instructing Advanced Placement Music Theory.

Scott earned his Bachelor of Music in music education from the University of Oregon where he studied with Wayne Bennett and Robert Ponto. While at the University of Oregon, Scott was a founding member of the university’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi. After graduating, he returned to San Francisco where he received his teaching credential from San Francisco State University. While at SFSU, Scott was on staff at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts where he conducted the Concert Band and taught music theory and survey classes. Scott is a member of the College Band Directors National Association as well as the National Association for Music Education and served for three years as a board member of the California Music Educators Association-Bay Section.

Scott is currently a semi-finalist for the 2019 American Prize: Ernst Bacon Award which “recognizes and rewards the best performances of American music by ensemble and individual artists worldwide…”. This January, Scott was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2019 American Prize in wind conducting and was also selected as a semi-finalist in 2018. Scott was a tier one conductor for the 2017 Frederick Fennell Memorial Conducting Masterclass at the Eastman School of Music where he worked with Mark Scatterday, Donald Hunsberger and Craig Kirchhoff. Other conducting teachers include José-Luis Novo, Andrea Brown, James Ross, Michael Haithcock, Matthew Hall and Harvey Benstein. He has served as an adjudicator in California and Maryland for solo and large ensemble festivals and will be conducting the 2019 Damascus Lions Club Honor Band. Scott completed a Masters of Music in conducting from the University of Maryland in the spring of 2018.

While in the Bay Area, Scott kept an active schedule playing the clarinet, performing with the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Chabot Wind Symphony, Golden Gate Park Band and the San Francisco Wind Ensemble, which performed at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in 2015 and recorded its inaugural CD at Skywalker Ranch in 2014.

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ALEXANDER SCOTT is pursuing a Master of Music in wind conducting at the University of Maryland, where he currently serves as an instrumental conducting graduate assistant. He is a conducting student of Michael Votta, Jr., with additional mentoring from Andrea Brown and Craig Potter. In addition, he serves as assistant conductor for the Bel Air Community Band.

Before coming to the University of Maryland, Scott was the music department chair and director of instrumental music at Meade Senior High School in Fort Meade, Maryland, where he was responsible for conducting the Concert Band, String Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Steelband and Pit Orchestra for school drama productions, as well as instructing international baccalaureate (IB) music, advanced placement (AP) music theory and guitar courses. Additionally, he served as the school’s advisor for the Tri-M Music Honors Society.

While teaching at Meade Senior High School, Scott’s bands and orchestras consistently earned excellent and superior ratings at county and state adjudication festivals. His marching band earned 2nd place at the 2018 USBands Mid-Atlantic Regional Championships. And his concert band was a member of a commission consortium for Anthony O’Toole’s “Latin Dance Movements.” Scott was awarded as a semi-finalist for Music and Arts’ national Music Educator of the Year award (2016), the Maryland winner for School Band and Orchestra Magazine’s 50 Directors Who Make a Difference award (2018) and his departmental leadership was twice recognized by the NAMM foundation with a Best Communities in Music Education designation (2018, 2019).

Scott earned his Master of Music in music education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his Bachelor of Arts in music education from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). While at UMBC, Scott served as the inaugural undergraduate conducting fellow with the wind ensemble. Scott is a member of the National Association for Music Education and the Flute Society of Washington.

As a woodwind specialist, Alexander has enjoyed performing flute, clarinet, and saxophone in various community and amateur ensembles in the DMV area. He also plays the double seconds steel pan in the Baltimore-based steelband sextet Charm City Steel.

The UNIVERSITY BAND serves as a musical outlet primarily for non-music majors at the University of Maryland who are interested in performing in a wind band. Ranging in size from the mid-60s in the fall semester to over 100 members in the spring, students in the University Band rehearse once a week and receive academic credit for their participation in the band. The University Band performs traditional and contemporary works from the band repertoire, as well as transcriptions from other media.

The MARYLAND COMMUNITY BAND was formed in 1995 as a special outreach project of the University of Maryland Band Program in the School of Music. Open to all qualified adult wind and percussion players, the band provides an opportunity for musicians from different musical backgrounds and various skill levels to further develop their individual technique by performing in an ensemble that is both enjoyable and challenging.

The group draws its membership from university alumni, school music teachers, campus faculty/staff and adults from the greater Washington/Baltimore community. The 80-member ensemble includes musicians whose ages range from the early twenties to the early eighties.

The Maryland Community Band performs a variety of music ranging from classical symphonic repertory to military marches and from Broadway to film scores.

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UNIVERSITY BAND

George Washington BridgeWILLIAM SCHUMANBorn: August 4, 1910, New York CityDied: February 15, 1992, New York CityInstrumentation: Concert BandComposed: 1951

Duration: 8 minutes

There are few days in the year when I do not see George Washington Bridge. I pass it on my way to work as I drive along the Henry Hudson Parkway on the New York shore. Ever since my student days when I watched the progress of its construction, this bridge has had for me an almost human personality, and this personality is astonishingly varied, assuming different moods depending on the time of day or night, the weather, the traffic and, of course, my own mood as I pass by.

I have walked across it late at night when it was shrouded in fog, and during the brilliant sunshine hours of midday. I have driven over it countless times and passed under it on boats. Coming to New Your City by air, sometimes I have been lucky enough to fly right over it. It is difficult to imagine a more gracious welcome or dramatic entry to the great metropolis.

– William Schuman

Mysterious VillageMICHAEL COLGRASSBorn: April 22, 1932, Chicago, IllinoisDied: July 2, 2019, Toronto, CanadaInstrumentation: Concert BandComposed: 2007

Duration: 6 minutes

Mysterious Village is written for young bands. My goal was to write a piece that challenges young performers while also appealing to listeners of all ages. The village I envision is pure fantasy and could exist anywhere in the world. It’s a place I’ve never been and reflects a kind of life I’ve never experienced. Perhaps no one lives in this village and it is inhabited only by ghosts. This sense of the unknown is what inspired Mysterious Village.

Though listeners will hear sounds that may suggest ancient cultures, I hope they would also feel emotions that are common to us today. In spite of differing customs, values and beliefs, people everywhere and all through time seem to share the same feelings. So, it is not through the intellect that we connect with people far away and long ago, but through emotions that never change. I’m hoping that this piece evokes a sense of wonder in listeners and a curiosity about those whom we may never meet, but with whom we share a universal human experience.

– Michael Colgrass

Colonial SongPERCY GRAINGERBorn: July 8, 1882, Melbourne, AustraliaDied: February 20, 1961, White Plains, New YorkInstrumentation: Military BandComposed: 1911

Duration: 7 minutes

No traditional tunes of any kind are made use of in this piece, in which I have wished to express feelings aroused by thoughts of the scenery and people of my native land (Australia), and also to voice a certain kind of emotion that seems to me not untypical of native-born Colonials in general.

Perhaps it is not unnatural that people living more or less lonelily in vast virgin countries and struggling against natural and climatic hardships (rather than against the more actively and dramatically exciting counter wills of the fellow men, as in more thickly populated lands) should run largely to that patiently yearning, inactive sentimental wistfulness that we find so touchingly expressed in much American art; for instance in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and in Stephen C. Foster’s adorable songs My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home, etc.

I have also noticed curious, almost Italian-like musical tendencies in brass band performances and ways of singing in Australia (such as a preference for richness and intensity of tone and soulful breadth of phrasing over more subtly and sensitively varied delicacies of expression), which are also reflected here.

– Percy Grainger

Variations on a Theme of Robert SchumannROBERT JAGERBorn: August 25, 1939, Binghamtom, New YorkInstrumentation: Concert BandComposed: 1969

Duration: 10 minutes

The Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann was written on commission for the North Hills High School Band in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was premiered by this excellent ensemble and their fine director, Warren Mercer, at the 1969 Eastern Region Music Educators National Conference meeting in Washington, D.C.

The theme is “The Happy Farmer” and the variations evolve one from the other throughout the work using rhythmic, melodic and intervallic relationships for their basis of variance.

– Robert Jager

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Vanity FairPERCY FLETCHERBorn: December 12, 1879, Derby, United KingdomDied: December 10, 1932Instrumentation: BandComposed: 1924

Duration: 7 minutes

Percy Fletcher's Vanity Fair is a light overture, first published in London in 1924, based upon William Makepeace Thackeray's eponymous novel. Fletcher's musical version, a fast-slow-fast, single-movement form with three main thematic ideas, bases each section on an individual character from the popular novel. Originally written for band, Fletcher's Vanity Fair was eventually also scored for orchestra.

Thackeray's novel, and Fletcher’s inspiration, was first published as a nineteen-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. Describing the lives of two main characters, Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley, their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is a biting satire of early-Victorian society, and considered the “principal founder” of the Victorian domestic novel. The title comes from an allegory in John Bunyan’s 1678 Pilgrim’s Progress, a stop along the pilgrim’s route in a town named “Vanity,” where a never-ending fair represents man’s sinful attachment to worldly possessions. This point is alluded to several times in the design of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, setting much of the novel in the world of a puppet show at a fair.

– Brian Coffill

Sea Songs MarchRALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMSBorn: October 12, 1872, Down Ampney, EnglandDied: August 26, 1958, London, EnglandInstrumentation: BandComposed: 1923

Duration: 4 minutes

Sea Songs March was written in 1923 for the Wembley Exhibition of 1924 and was published simultaneously for brass and wind band. Written in typical ABCA march form, the composer’s own ideas are blended with three well-known folk songs: Princess Royal, Admiral Benbow and Portsmouth. Interestingly, Boosey & Company’s 1924 edition was titled Quick March-”Sea Songs;” Boosey & Hawkes’ reissue of 1951 was titled simply Sea Songs.

– Norman Smith

Serenade, Op. 22cDEREK BOURGEOISBorn: October 16, 1941, Kingston-on-Thames, EnglandDied: September 6, 2017, Poole, EnglandInstrumentation: Organ Arrangement: Concert Band by Derek Bourgeois, 1980Composed: 1965

Duration: 3 minutes

Serenade (Opus 22c), like Ravel’s Bolero, is based on an infectious tune which grows louder as more instruments are added. Bourgeois wrote the work for his own wedding postlude (1965) and arranged it for small orchestra (1968), brass band (1976) and concert band (1980). Not wishing to allow the wedding guests the luxury of exiting in an orderly two-step pace, he changed the meter to 11/8 in one section and to 13/8 near the middle of the work. Recordings of Serenade have been produced by Christopher Herrick (organ), city of London Wind Ensemble, Mid-West Parkway Wind Ensemble, Band of H.M. Royal Marines, Royal Artillery Band (Kneller Hall) and Black Dyke Mills Band.

– Derek Bourgeois

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Moorside MarchGUSTAV HOLSTBorn: September 21, 1874, Cheltenham, EnglandDied: May 25, 1934, London EnglandInstrumentation: Brass BandArrangement: Concert Band by Gordon Jacob, 1960Composed: 1928

Duration: 4 minutes

Moorside Suite, from which this march is taken, was commissioned as the test piece for the British National Brass Band Championship at the Crystal Palace, London, in 1928. Holst set the pattern for other composers of international repute who also wrote for the brass band in subsequent years. He left an incomplete version for military band, containing all of the first movement and 38 measures of the second, to be completed later. It is not known whether the brass of the military band score (now in the British Museum) was begun first. Gordon Jacob arranged the suite for orchestra in 1952 and for wind band in 1960. According to Imogen Holst, her father “liked writing for brass better than for military band: it was mellower and more flexible. His affection for the trombone was lasting, and he knew the texture of the band instinctively and could get the best out of every instrument.” At the Crystal Palace he listened to the piece 15 times and was deeply impressed by players who “combined the enthusiasm of amateurs with the skill of professionals. It was not only their technical proficiency that he admired so much: it was their sense of phrasing and their real musicianship.”

The march begins with a rising four-note motif which leads into a vigorous theme, noteworthy because of its six-bar phrases. A second theme, employing more normal eight-bar phrases, is introduced by the saxophone. The trio is reminiscent of the ceremonial marches of Elgar and Walton in its pomp and dignity. After a brief modulatory section based on the opening motif, the first two themes are restated, and the march concludes with a coda containing material from the trio.  

– Fred Heath, Imogen Holst and Jon C. Mitchell

The Symphonic BeatlesJOHN LENNON and PAUL McCARTNEYArrangement: Concert Band by John Cacavas, 1992Composed: 1964-1970

Duration: 8 minutes

Lennon and McCartney wrote some of the most popular songs in the history of rock music, as one of the most influential songwriting partnerships of the twentieth century. Their appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in February, 1964, launched them onto the American pop music scene and pushed their music to the top of the charts, with over 40 “number one” single recordings. The Symphonic Beatles includes A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Yesterday (1966), I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963), Michelle (1965) and Hey Jude (1970). 

– San Jose Wind Symphony Concert Program, March 9, 2014

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FLUTECamille PeckEliza WhiteSankara GaneshKat TaylorSamantha OgburnKaitlyn WatsonMaria MaoAndrea D’SouzaMadelaine LebetkinArianne AllegrezzaEmma KlepitchAllison HornerVanessa Ballesteros

OBOEAmanda SamesCalvin Crunkleton

BASSOONMary ChesseyIan Rolfes

CLARINETTom ZongKatie HaganAndrew GruppAbram HuangSamantha FalcoMorgan AdairScott NewmanKatie GavazziSanna SprandelErin McLamb

BASS CLARINETBrock Ryan

ALTO SAXAndrew HilgendorfOrlando RomeoAdithya ArunEmma SchaeferMichael GardinerJwoyal RanjitMatthew PolvinaleShah Islam

TENOR SAXJoseph FloranceJessica Zhang

BARITONE SAXJack Mills

FRENCH HORNAndrew SchuckCole MolloyJackson Emery

TRUMPETCharlotte SprySpencer BowdleEric WhitescarverNathan HoffmanCharleen AnaniPeter LaySamuel RobinsonSedric WhiteIsabella Lennon

TROMBONEYoav RotmanKyle RussoJordan FieldsJordyn TaylorCJ SnowRahat SharifBrian Macarell

EUPHONIUMDavid RicciutiAlexandra SimioneOrion Jenkins-Houk

TUBAAJ StairMatthew KillianThomas BelunisZach ClarkBailin Zhu

STRING BASSEmily Rolfes

PERCUSSIONJack BurkeMaggie ElliottAbby HorickLorraine MontanaAdam Rozen

Dr. Craig Potter, ConductorAlex Scott, Assistant Conductor

PICCOLOKathleen Wilson

FLUTEKim Compton CantVirginia ForstallElvira FreemanMary Kate GentileKelly PasciutoSara ShortJennifer SomerwitzLinda WagnerKathleen Wilson

CLARINETSusan AhmadEdgar ButtHelen ButtMelissa CarasLisa FetskoJan GoldbergJeri HollowayAlice LaRussoChad McCallStanley PotterAngela PullinLeslie RoperAmy SchneiderKaren TrebilcockBass ClarinetPhaedra McNairDavid Wagner

OBOESJulie PontingAndrea Schewe

BASSOONTom CherrixKathy Emery

ALTO SAXCynthia AlstonCaroline CherrixEirik CooperDaniel EppsSarah FlinspachJack FrankelStu SklammDeborah Weiner

TENOR SAXTim BrownKeith Hill

BARITONE SAXDan Purnell

FRENCH HORNDan LaRussoRonald OlexySandra RobertsAdam Watson

TRUMPETDale AllenMcNeal Anderson Ernest BennettLeAnn CabeCraig CarignanJoe DvorskyTim GirdlerTom GleasonLarry KentRichard LiskaBoris LloydDoug McElrathRichard PasciutoChase Shilling

EUPHONIUMTom JacksonEdward KirkDavid RabuckLin Wallberg

TROMBONEKevin CorbinPatrick GreavasDarrell GreenleeKaryn JourdeuilMarianne KassabianBob Schmertz

TUBAMike DrerupPatrick FitzGeraldDorothy LeeBilly Snow

PERCUSSIONDouglas IgelsrudDavid GalpernRachel HicksonAlan Sactor

Joseph Scott, ConductorMARYLAND COMMUNITY BAND

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FROM BJÖRK TO SCHMITTUMD WIND ORCHESTRASAT, DEC 7 • 8PM$25 PUBLIC / $10 STUDENT/YOUTH / UMD STUDENTS FREEFrom the Icelandic rockstar Björk’s Overture to Dancer in the Dark to Florent Schmitt’s joyful Dionysiaques, enjoy a dynamic evening of modern masterworks for wind orchestra.

HANDEL’S MESSIAHUMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND UMD CHAMBER SINGERSSUN, DEC 8 • 3PM$25 PUBLIC / $10 STUDENT/YOUTH / UMD STUDENTS FREEThis most beloved Baroque masterpiece returns to the University of Maryland for the first time in two decades! Experience Handel’s glorious and powerful music through the combined power of the UMD Chamber Singers, members of the UMD Symphony Orchestra and student and alumni soloists all led by Edward Maclary. Featuring the much-loved “Hallelujah Chorus,” this is a holiday favorite you won’t want to miss!

UMD SCHOOL OF MUSIC ADMINISTRATION & STAFF

JASON GEARYDirector

GREGORY MILLERAssociate Director for Academic Affairs & Director of Undergraduate Studies

PATRICK WARFIELDAssociate Director for Graduate Studies & Strategic Initiatives

LORI DeBOYAssociate Director for Engagement & Enrollment Management

AARON MULLERSenior Assistant Director for Productions & Operations

KELSEY EUSTACEMarketing Communications Coordinator

THEODORE GUERRANTAccompanist

TINA HOITTAthletic Bands Coordinator

LAURI JOHNSONChoral Administrator

SHARON KEYSERAssistant Director for Finance

MING LIPiano Technology

JEREMY MAYTUMAthletic Bands Inventory &

Communications Coordinator

LAUREN MCDONALDAssistant Director for Admissions &

Financial Aid

HEATHER MUNDWILERUndergraduate Student Services Coordinator

JEANNETTE OLIVERBusiness Manager

ASHLEY POLLARDOpera Manager

JOSH THOMPSONGraduate Student Services Coordinator

GERRI VINESAdministrative Coordinator &

Assistant to the Director

MARK WAKEFIELDEnsembles Manager

ANDREA BROWNDirector of Athletic Bands

ROBERT DILUTISDirector of Community Engagement

CRAIG KIERDirector of the Maryland Opera Studio

EDWARD MACLARYDirector of Choral Activities

DAVID NEELYDirector of Orchestral Activities

TIM POWELLInterim Director of Jazz Studies

DAVID SALNESSDirector of Chamber Music Activities

MICHAEL VOTTADirector of Bands

J. LAWRENCE WITZLEBENCoordinator of World Music Ensembles