University Of Tennessee College of Music

New Frontiers

University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra

James Fellenbaum, Conductor

Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.

James R. Cox Auditorium
Alumni Memorial Building
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

PROGRAM

Suite from The Magnificent Seven
Elmer Bernstein
(1922-2004)

Billy the Kid, Suite
Aaron Copland
(1900-1990)

Introduction: The Open Prairie
Street Scene in a Frontier Town
Mexican Dance and Finale
Prairie Night (Card Game at Night, Billy and his Sweetheart)
Gun Battle
Celebration (After Billy's Capture)
Billy's Death
The Open Prairie Again

INTERMISSION

Fanfare on Amazing Grace
Adolphus Hailstork
(b. 1941)

Tuba Concerto 2
Todd Goodman
(b. 1977)

Part One: Movements I and II
Part Two: Movements III and IV

Alexander Lapins, Tuba

Orchestral World Premiere

BIOGRAPHIES

TODD GOODMAN has been described as “one of America’s promising young composers.” His works are performed all over the world by a wide variety of players, including principal members of many major symphony orchestras—Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Boston, Singapore, Iceland, and Seattle Symphonies. Dr. Goodman has served as the resident composer for The Microscopic Opera Company (2013), the Altoona Symphony Orchestra (2002-2006), the McKeesport Symphony Orchestra (2005-2006), and the Beaver Valley Philharmonic (2006-2007). As an advocate of arts education, Goodman serves as the Chief Academic Officer for the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, and he is the creative force behind the development of their arts-centric courseware. Goodman is in constant demand as an educator and was a nominee for the 2014 Grammy Award for Music Education.

Dr. Goodman’s awards and grants are numerous. He was awarded the 2014 American Prize for Theater Composition for his opera, Night of the Living Dead [2013]. It was also selected as one of the 2013 Center for Contemporary Opera’s New Works Showcase. In 2011, Goodman's Trombone Concerto [2011] won the British Trombone Society Composition Award and his Tuba Concerto [2012] the 2012 North American Tuba Repertoire Initiative Commission for his which was also a finalist for the 2012 International Harvey Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition. His Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra [2008] won third place in the 2011 American Prize for Orchestral Composition. Dr. Goodman has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work with the Altoona Symphony Orchestra, the American Music Center for his Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra, as well as grants from the University of Colorado Entrepreneurship Center for his work, Symphony No. 1 “Fields of Crimson” [2003]. Dr. Goodman has also won such notable prizes as the International Project Piccolo Rebirth 2007 Prize for his work Echos: prelude and dance [2007] for piccolo and piano, two prestigious Gold Farbe Awards from the University of Colorado film department for his scores to two short films Hypnotic Reverie and Light Autumn by writer/director Ryan McVeigh, and many ASCAPlus Awards.

Todd Goodman was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, in 1977. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a Master of Music degree in composition from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and dual Ph.D.s in theory and composition from Kent State University. He has also studied at l'ecole normale de musique in Paris, France, with the European American Musical Alliance and at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. His principal composition teachers have been Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Tsontakis as well as David Stock, Frank Wiley, and Richard Toensing.

Todd Goodman’s available recordings are numerous. In 2019, his work Wanderlust was the title track on Eastern Standard’s debut CD, and his piece Sonata for Solo Bass Trombone was released with bass trombonist Matt Hoormann on Push Records. His Trombone Concerto was included on the 2017 release United on the Hello Stage label, performed by trombonist Peter Steiner and pianist Hsiao Ling Lin. Also in 2017, Ars Laurete released the University of Delaware Wind Ensemble recording of Goodman’s Trombone Concerto No. 2 with soloist Bruce Tychinski. In 2014 Potenza Music Company included the University of South Florida Orchestra recording of his Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra with soloist Calvin Falwell and conductor William Weidrich on their release Fine Tune. Also on the Potenza Music Company is Goodman’s Tuba Concerto, recorded by Grammy-nominated tubist Aaron Tindall and pianist Margaret McDonald. His wind ensemble piece River of Sorrows was recorded by the Duquesnse University Wind Symphony and conducted by Robert Cameron and released in 2006 by Duquesne University Press on their release Winds of Summer. The world premiere of his Symphony No. 1 “Fields of Crimson,” recorded by the Altoona Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Palmer, was released through Wrong Note Media, Inc. in July 2003, marking the 140th anniversary of the subject of this work, the battle of Gettysburg. New releases scheduled for 2022 are the world-premiere recordings of the piano reduction to his Trombone Concerto No. 2 by the Portugal Symphony’s principal trombonist Hugo Assunção, Dear Tomorrow for euphonium and piano by Klemens Vetter, Departure for trombone, tuba, and piano quartet by members of the Portugal Symphony, and a feature disc of the piano reductions of his three woodwind concerti—alto saxophone, piccolo, and bass clarinet.

Goodman’s current projects include his Tuba Concerto No. 2 commissioned by a consortium of tubists, orchestras, and universities from around the world, and a new work for wind ensemble, both scheduled for premiere during the 2022-23 season.

Dr. Goodman now resides in Midland, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Katie, sons Emmerson and Foster, their St. Bernard “Einstein,” and their pug “Peep.”

ALEXANDER LAPINS is Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Tennessee School of Music and is tubist of the UT Faculty Brass Quintet and Quintasonic Brass. A diverse artist, he is the only tubist to have won fellowships at both the Tanglewood Music Center and the Henry Mancini Institute. He has been a featured soloist with a variety of bands and orchestras, and has performed with the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Disney Collegiate All-Star Band, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra, the New Sousa Band and Harvey Phillips’ Tubacompany. As a session musician Dr. Lapins can be heard on hundreds of recordings for a wide variety of productions and publications. He is the author of “Dueling Fundamentals for Two Tubas'' and “Dueling Fundamentals for Two Euphoniums”, published by Mountain Peak Music. He is author of both the “Tuba” Chapter of David Vining's innovative hybrid text “Teaching Brass” and the "Tuba Players Doubling on Euphonium'' chapter of Micah Everett's "Low Brass Player's Guide to Doubling", also from Mountain Peak Music. He studied at James Madison University, the University of Michigan and Indiana University. His principal teachers include Daniel Perantoni, Fritz Kaenzig, Kevin Stees, Tony Kniffen and Mike Bunn. Alexander Lapins is an Eastman Artist.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Violin

Salina Fang, co-concertmaster
Mike Perroud, co-concertmaster, Katherine D. Moore Endowed Concertmaster Chair

Lydia Anderson, associate concertmaster, principal second violin

Brooke Lafontant, associate concertmaster

Elizabeth Burch
Sarah Buzalewski
Mason Crowder
Ryan Dixon
Ethan Hess
Autumn Larmee
Diego Nunez
Jackson Presnell
Millie Runion
Soyeon Rachel Seo
Leah Tudor
Mei Lia White
Hunter Wilburn
Emma Woodward

Viola

Julian Riviere, principal
Jackson Guthrie
Wenlong Huang
Emma Kincaid
Emily Martinez-Perez
Jeremy Simmons
Ian Skelly
Emily Wankerl

Cello

Rebecca Hearn, principal
Stephen Arthur
Elijah Parsley
Hannah Paulus
Joel Rosen
Jackson Sharp
Julia Steed
Lane Thames

Bass

Daniel Bates, principal
Lauren Harnetty
Halinnah Muhammad
Jonathon Simpson

Flute

Whitney Applewhite, principal
Parrel Appolis
Alan Cook

Piccolo

Alan Cook

Oboe

Jessie Wilson, principal
Nathan Ebbs

Clarinet

Alberto Martinez, principal
Lillian Smith
Troy Weatherford

Bass Clarinet

Alberto Martinez

Bassoon

James Carnal, principal
Austin Hill

Horn

James Roddy, principal
Rose Capooth
Caleb DeLong
Nichole Hollenbeck
Aaron O’Donnell

Trumpet

Nathan Coffman, principal
Alexis Kilgore
Tom Mika
Carver Whitson

Trombone

Jarod Schafer, principal
Hugh Lindsay
Bryce McCracken, bass

Tuba

AJ Johnson

Percussion

Ethan Booher, principal
Chang Gao
Ian Alward
Siena Fulton
Tyler Delaney

Harp

Korenna Hodge

Piano

Tzu-Jung Peng

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC
ORCHESTRAL FACULTY

Maria Castillo, flute
Phylis Secrist, oboe
Victor Chavez, clarinet
Zach Millwood, bassoon
Katie Johnson, horn
Arthur Zanin, trumpet
Alexander van Duuren, trombone
Alexander Lapins, tuba
Andrew Bliss, percussion
Miroslav Hristov, violin
Evie Chen, violin
Hillary Herndon, viola
Wesley Baldwin, violoncello
Jon Hamar, contrabass

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