Wind Ensemble Spring Concert

Sunday, April 30, 2023
4 p.m.

JLC Mainstage

Passion.  Innovation.  Exploration. Connection.  Excellence.

These are some of the hallmarks of the artistic enterprise -- they are also central to the mission of the College of Lake County in providing "equitable, high-quality education, cultural enrichment and partnerships to advance the diverse communities [we] serve." Indeed, the Communication Arts division is committed to providing transformative learning experiences all Lake County residents. We believe the arts are fundamental to this transformation.

We're proud to offer a diverse range of artistic, intellectual and cultural experiences -- including music, dance, theatre, gallery exhibitions, film series, literary readings and a host of scholarly and cultural presentation.

We also invite you to explore our many outstanding courses in literature, creative writing, film studies, digital media and design and the visual and performing arts that enable students to experience personal exploration and growth. Please visit www.clcillinois.edu/campus-life/arts for information on these educational offerings and the exciting events planned for the 2022-23 season.

Again, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the college ... and we hope you enjoy the show!

Dr. Sheldon Walcher
Dean

Michael Flack - Director

RAIDER’S MARCH
Composed by John Williams
Transcribed by Paul Lavender

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Composed by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown
Arranged by Michael Brown

STAR WARS TRILOGY
Composed by John Williams
Arranged by Donald Hunsberger
     I. The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)
     II. Princess Leia’s Theme
     III. The Battle In The Forest
     IV. Yoda’s Theme
     V. Star Wars (Main Theme)

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Arranged by Roy Phillippe

HARRY POTTER SYMPHONIC SUITE
Composed by John Williams
Arranged by Robert W. Smith

SYMPHONIC HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE KING AND I
Composed by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers
Arranged by Stephen Bulla

THE WIZARD OF OZ
Composed by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
Arranged by James Barnes

RAIDER’S MARCH
Composed by John Williams
Transcribed by Paul Lavender

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) is an American action/adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by Lawrence Kasdan, from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. Starring Harrison Ford, it was the first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise to be released, though it is the second in internal chronological order. The film originated from Lucas' desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s.

In 1999, the film was included in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry as having been deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." It is often ranked as one of the greatest films of all time, both in the action/adventure genre, and in general. The film also ranks #2 on Empire's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.

In a career that spans five decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as music director and laureate conductor of one of the country’s treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains thriving artistic relationships with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Williams has received various prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order, and many Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, and Golden Globe Awards. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices.

Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than one hundred films. His 40-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, Empire of the Sun, The Adventures of Tintin, and War Horse. Williams composed the scores for all seven Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone, Nixon, The Patriot and Presumed Innocent, among many others.

John Williams has received five Academy Awards and 53 Oscar nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He also has received seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), 25 Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records.

(Source: Wikipedia)

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
Composed by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown
Arranged by Michael Brown

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds, and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell and Cyd Charisse. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies."

The film was only a modest hit when it was first released. O'Connor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green won the Writers Guild of America Award for their screenplay, while Jean Hagen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. However, it has since been accorded legendary status by contemporary critics and is often regarded as the greatest musical film ever made and one of the greatest films ever made, as well as the greatest film made in the "Freed Unit" at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It topped the AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals list and is ranked as the fifth-greatest American motion picture of all time in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007.

(Source: Wikipedia)

STAR WARS TRILOGY
Composed by John Williams
Arranged by Donald Hunsberger

In 1977, George Lucas's highly imaginative entertainment experience first transported an audience to an unknown galaxy thousands of light years from Earth. The Star Wars experience was a blending of contemporary science fiction with the romantic fantasies of sword and sorcery. The story follows a young man, Luke Skywalker, on a journey through exotic worlds in a perpetual struggle of good against evil and the eventual success of love conquering all. Star Wars and its two companion films, Return of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back, form the center of a planned nine-part historical series. 

The five movements of the Trilogy were selected by arranger Donald Hunsberger to display the excitement, beauty, and contrast in John Williams’s soundtrack for these first three films. The Imperial March, subtitled Darth Vader's Theme, represents the evil might of the Galactic Empire and the supreme villainy of its leader. Princess Leia's Theme is much gentler and pays tribute to the romantic music of the early film heroes. Musical themes are scattered and rapidly shifting in the Battle in the Forest, reflecting the cuts in the movie as the ground battle begins. The almost comedic theme of the teddy bear-like Ewoks contrasts against the huge, but mechanical, armament of the Empire's forces. The old Jedi Master of Dagobah is honored in Yoda's Theme. The gentleness and understanding of the Master are conveyed in the ethereal setting of the swamp where Yoda harnesses the power of the Force to raise Luke's crashed X-Wing fighter. The transition into the heroic Star Wars (Main Theme) seems natural as the power of good, embodied in the Force, is triumphant. 

(Source: Program Note by Foothill Symphonic Winds concert program, 8 March 2015)

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

Composed by Elmer Bernstein
Arranged by Roy Phillippe

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Horst Buchholz, James Coburn, Brad Dexter, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, and Charles Bronson. The film is an Old West-style remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. Brynner, McQueen, Buchholz, Bronson, Vaughn, Coburn, and Dexter portray the title characters, a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits and their leader (Wallach). 

The film's score is by Elmer Bernstein. Along with the iconic main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shootout. The original soundtrack was not released at the time until it was reused and rerecorded by Bernstein for the soundtrack of Return of the Seven.

In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

(Source: Wikipedia)

HARRY POTTER SYMPHONIC SUITE

Composed by John Williams
Arranged by Robert W. Smith

Robert W. Smith’s setting of the score to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone features six of the film’s most memorable themes. The work opens with the introduction of Hedwig, the beautiful owl who magically and mysteriously delivers mail to Harry at Hogwarts School. Hedwig is musically portrayed by the celeste, a luminous little instrument capable of producing crystalline, pearly tones at dazzling speeds. In Hedwig’s Theme, the celeste begins alone but soon is joined by the flutes and clarinets at the dizzying pace needed to defy gravity and achieve flight.

Nimbus. The dictionary tells us that this wonderful word was used in classical mythology to describe a shining cloud or halo-effect created by a heavenly light. What a perfectly appropriate word for naming the Nimbus 2000, Harry Potter’s own personal broomstick. To musically portray this ingenious mode of transportation, we have flutes, oboe, clarinets, saxophones, and bassoons of the band, all of which with their extraordinary leaps and astonishing agility are a perfect match for the nimble Nimbus 2000.

Stately is a word that is perfectly suited to describe Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, that august institution that has trained and taught young wizards for centuries. Hogwarts is, of course, to be Harry Potter’s own alma mater. Aptly entitled Hogwarts Forever, the noble and stately French horn section presents the musical anthem with support by the remainder of the brass.

Author J. K. Rowling in the first of her Harry Potter books has created the game Quidditch. This, you may remember, is a form of intramural competition that is played on flying broomsticks, and it is a little like playing a game of hockey in the air. The games are conducted every year at the Hogwarts School with great pageantry, featuring colorful flags and cheering crowds. The pomp and ceremony of these Quidditch games can best be described by the brass section of the band with its tubas, euphonium, trombones, French horns and heraldic trumpets.

Following the simple and beautiful theme entitled Leaving Hogwarts, Mr. Williams concluded his score with Harry’s Wondrous World, capturing the youthful imagination and exuberance in all of us. Perhaps best stated in chapter seven of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Professor Dumbledore says, “Ah music…a magic beyond all we do here!”

(Source: Conductor’s score)

SYMPHONIC HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE KING AND I

Composed by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers
Arranged by Stephen Bulla

The King and I is a musical, the fifth by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon, which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, caretaker to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. The musical premiered on March 29, 1951, at Broadway's St. James Theatre. It ran three years, then the fourth longest-running Broadway musical in history, and has had many tours and revivals. The musical's plot relates the experiences of Anna, a British schoolteacher hired as part of the King's drive to modernize his country. The relationship between the King and Anna is marked by conflict through much of the piece, as well as by a love that neither can admit.

Few musicals can boast as many lasting and memorable songs as this Rodgers and Hammerstein masterpiece. Drawing on the classic orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, here is a fabulous medley for the symphonic stage that includes: Something Wonderful; I Whistle a Happy Tune; I Have Dreamed; The March of the Siamese Children; Getting to Know You and Shall We Dance?

(Source: Program note from publisher)

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Composed by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg
Arranged by James Barnes

The Wizard of Oz (1939) is an American musical fantasy adventure film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and the most well-known and commercial adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Notable for its use of Technicolor filming technology, fantasy storytelling, musical score, and unusual characters, over the years it has become one of the best known of all films and part of American popular culture. It also featured what may be the most elaborate use of special effects in a film up to that time.

The musical numbers and songs of The Wizard of Oz remain among the most notable and memorable songs of all time in American musical film/theater. This compilation includes In the Merry Old Land of Oz, Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, Follow the Yellow Brick Road, We're Off to See the Wizard, If I Only Had a Brain, and the Academy Award winning Somewhere over the Rainbow.

(Source: Program Note by Gold Coast Wind Ensemble)

Michael Flack - Conductor

PICCOLO  

Elizabeth Rehm 

FLUTE 

Laura Houston 
Tracey Letten   
Karla Boucek 
Natalie Gahgan

OBOE

Debra Lofty

CLARINET  

Debbie Durham 
Angelo Anello  
Steve Schmidt 
Steve Loerch  

BASS CLARINET  

Jay Seifried

BASSOON  

Alexander Blessing 

ALTO SAXOPHONE 

Tami Pilot-Matias 
Chris Markgraf 

TENOR SAXOPHONE 

Alan Schramm

BARITONE SAXOPHONE 

Marty Sviatko

TRUMPET  

Tom Forkenbrock  
Jeff Bronstein 
Larry McWilliams
Bryan Grabowski
Nathan Stalter 
Adam Keno
Michael Purcell

HORN

Dawn Crowther
Peter Marshall
Alejandro Guzman 
Samantha Rose
Steve Chamberlin
Rebecca Little

TROMBONE 

Brian Mabus 
Emma Little
Jeff Gahgan 

 EUPHONIUM 

Joe Kuzmanoff  

TUBA 

Barb Gangware  
Paul Schmidt  

PIANO & CELESTE

David Flippo

BASS

Richard Zeiger

PERCUSSION 

Evan Hill  
Peter Meyer
Bob Miller 
Dan Prowse  
Mallory Rasky 
Jon Steeber  

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