The University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble

John Zastoupil, Conductor

Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

James R. Cox Auditorium
Alumni Memorial Building

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WIND ENSEMBLE

Hymn to the Sun with
the Beat of Mother Earth (2006)
Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 1975)

Dance of the Jesters (1873/1997)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
arr. Cramer

Alex Boone, graduate assistant conductor

Danze Fantásticas, mvt III (1919/1984)
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)

Matthew Waymon, graduate assistant conductor

Four Scottish Dances (1957/1998)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Arr. Paynter

1. Peasante
2. Vivace
3. Allegretto
4. Con Brio

Minor Alterations (2007)
David Lovrien (b. 1963)

Hymn to the Sun – with the Beat of Mother Earth

Commissioned by Tokai City Wind Music Band for their 40th anniversary celebration. They gave the composer a difficult theme, that is: For 40 years we did our activity as if we were a family. We had new experiences, welcoming new members, supporting and helping one another, sometimes having troubles. Through these experiences, the band became our Sun. With the piece, we would like to express our enthusiasm for progress, taking over the early members’ will. The composer used to join in a school band, so he strongly agreed with the theme, but composing is another hard thing to do. He decided to drop in on the band almost every time he went to Nagoya, and promoted friendship with them, which led him to compose this piece.

Dance of the Jesters

Dance of the Jesters is a prime example of Tchaikovsky’s keen sense of musical nationalism. Originally composed as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maidens, the dance forever captures the color and zest of Russian folk dance music. The ballet about the Snow Maiden, the daughter of Father Frost, tells of her forbidden love with a human, Misgir, who is already betrothed to Coupava. The Snow Maiden follows him southward with plans to interrupt his wedding, but tragically melts under the rays of the southern sun.

Upon meeting Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1868, Tchaikovsky renewed his keen sense of musical nationalism. Inspired by the master composer, Tchaikovsky's compositional style would forever capture the color and zest of Russian folk dance and music. The flurry, energetic drive and playful melodies associated with his ballet scores are all heard in this rare and invigorating music. This edition comes from an arrangement from the ballet The Snow Maidens that was originally transcribed for a Russian military band.

Danza Fantásticas

Danzas fantásticas (Fantastical Dances) is one of Turina’s best-known works. He composed the music for piano, but an orchestrated version was premiered in February 1920 by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Madrid; Turina himself premiered the piano version four months later.

Each movement is set in a different area in Spain and includes a descriptive quotation by José Mas (1885–1941) from his novel La orgía. The first takes place in the northern region of Aragon, with the quote describing figures dancing a jota inside of a flower. The second is a zortziko — a dance from the Basque region — that depicts guitar strings performing “the lament of a soul help-less under the weight of bitterness.” The last is an Andalusian farruca, which is traditionally danced by men. This final movement includes a description of the mixed scents of flowers and manzanilla — a Spanish sherry. “And from the bottom of raised glasses, full of the incomparable wine, like an incense, rose joy.”

Four Scottish Dances

These dances were composed early in 1957, and are dedicated to the BBC Light Music Festival. They are all based on original melodies but one, the melody of which is composed by Robert Burns.

The first dance is in the style of a slow strathspey -- a slow Scottish dance in 4/4 meter -- with many dotted notes, frequently in the inverted arrangement of the "Scottish snap." The name was derived from the strath valley of Spey. The second, a lively reel, begins in the key of E-flat and rises a semi-tone each time it is played until the bassoon plays it, at a greatly reduced speed, in the key of G. The final statement of the dance is at the original speed in the home key of E-flat.

The third dance is in the style of a Hebridean song and attempts to give an impression of the sea and mountain scenery on a calm summer's day in the Hebrides. The last dance is a lively fling, which makes a great deal of use of the open string pitches of the violin (saxophones in the band edition).

John Zastoupil
Conductor, University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble

Dr. Zastoupil assumed the role of Director of Bands and tenured associate professor of music at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2022. His primary responsibilities at UT include conducting the University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble; teaching graduate courses in  conducting, band literature; guiding the wind conducting program, and providing the administrative leadership for all aspects of the University of Tennessee’s diverse and historic band program.

Read Dr. Zastoupil's full bio here.

* = principal

Flute

Whitney Applewhite*
Allan Cook
Rebecca Deal
Sophia Dobbie

Oboe

Matthew Barrett
Samuel Willard
Jessie Wilson

Bassoon

Ava Kroepler

Clarinet

Landen Blankenship
Anna Hutchinson
Ashley Melvin
Bryce Neely
Rafael Puga*
Lillian Smith
Troy Weatherford
Joshua Zhou

Bass Clarinet

Meredith Williams

Saxophone

Sean Keenan (tenor)
Tyler Hamilton (alto)
Brianna Mailhot (tenor)
Matthew Rhoten* (alto)
Benjamin Strobel (bari)

Horn

Rose Capooth
Caleb DeLong
Nichole Hollenbeck*
Margret Kinzer
Ben Makins
Aaron O’Donnell
Maya Siddiqui

Trumpet

Christian Carroll
Lauren Dodd
Lexy Kilgore*
Jaydon Robins
Philip Troutman
Eric Xie

Tenor Trombone

Alex Boone
Jaydon Headrick
Thomas Long
Jacob Noel*
Matthew Walker

Bass Trombone

Elijah Hoffmann

Euphonium

Brett Rodgers*
Sam Vance

Tuba

Anderson Johnson*
Cameron McKenzie
Harrison Jeffers

Percussion

Ian Alward
Ethan Booher
Ryan Comley
Lydia Dodd
Trik Gass*
Eli Garcia
Christopher Rosas

Piano

TBD

Double Bass

Jase Conley

Dr. Maria Fernanda Castillo, flute
Dr. Victor Chavez, clarinet
Prof. Jaren Atherholt, oboe
Prof. Ben Atherholt, bassoon
Dr. Allison Adams, saxophone
Dr. Arthur Zanin, trumpet
Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb, horn
Dr. Alex van Duuren, trombone
Dr. Alex Lapins, euphonium/tuba
Dr. Andrew Bliss, percussion
Dr. Michael Stewart, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands
Dr. Fuller Lyon, Assistant Director of Bands, Assoc. Director of Athletic Bands

January 27, 2024
UT Conducting Workshop

February 22, 2024
Volunteer Concert Clinic/Wind Ensemble Concert

February 27, 2024
Symphonic and Concert Band Concert

March 1, 2024
CBDNA Wind Ensemble Performance in Memphis, TN

April 2, 2024
Wind Ensemble concert w/Farragut HS

April 10-13, 2024
TMEA Wind Ensemble performance in Nashville

April 25, 2024
Symphonic and Concert Band Concert

 

Want to know more about the bands at UT? Please visit: utbands.utk.edu

We hope you enjoyed this performance. Private support from music enthusiasts enables us to improve educational opportunities and develop our student artists’ skills to their full potential. To learn more about how you can support the College of Music, contact Chris Cox, Director of Advancement, 865-974-3331 or ccox@utfi.org.

 

Want to know more about the bands at the University of Tennessee? Please visit utbands.utk.edu.

The University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble

John Zastoupil, Conductor

Monday, December 4, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

James R. Cox Auditorium
Alumni Memorial Building

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WIND ENSEMBLE

Hymn to the Sun with
the Beat of Mother Earth (2006)
Satoshi Yagisawa (b. 1975)

Dance of the Jesters (1873/1997)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
arr. Cramer

Alex Boone, graduate assistant conductor

Danze Fantásticas, mvt III (1919/1984)
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)

Matthew Waymon, graduate assistant conductor

Four Scottish Dances (1957/1998)
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Arr. Paynter

1. Peasante
2. Vivace
3. Allegretto
4. Con Brio

Minor Alterations (2007)
David Lovrien (b. 1963)

Hymn to the Sun – with the Beat of Mother Earth

Commissioned by Tokai City Wind Music Band for their 40th anniversary celebration. They gave the composer a difficult theme, that is: For 40 years we did our activity as if we were a family. We had new experiences, welcoming new members, supporting and helping one another, sometimes having troubles. Through these experiences, the band became our Sun. With the piece, we would like to express our enthusiasm for progress, taking over the early members’ will. The composer used to join in a school band, so he strongly agreed with the theme, but composing is another hard thing to do. He decided to drop in on the band almost every time he went to Nagoya, and promoted friendship with them, which led him to compose this piece.

Dance of the Jesters

Dance of the Jesters is a prime example of Tchaikovsky’s keen sense of musical nationalism. Originally composed as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maidens, the dance forever captures the color and zest of Russian folk dance music. The ballet about the Snow Maiden, the daughter of Father Frost, tells of her forbidden love with a human, Misgir, who is already betrothed to Coupava. The Snow Maiden follows him southward with plans to interrupt his wedding, but tragically melts under the rays of the southern sun.

Upon meeting Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1868, Tchaikovsky renewed his keen sense of musical nationalism. Inspired by the master composer, Tchaikovsky's compositional style would forever capture the color and zest of Russian folk dance and music. The flurry, energetic drive and playful melodies associated with his ballet scores are all heard in this rare and invigorating music. This edition comes from an arrangement from the ballet The Snow Maidens that was originally transcribed for a Russian military band.

Danza Fantásticas

Danzas fantásticas (Fantastical Dances) is one of Turina’s best-known works. He composed the music for piano, but an orchestrated version was premiered in February 1920 by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Madrid; Turina himself premiered the piano version four months later.

Each movement is set in a different area in Spain and includes a descriptive quotation by José Mas (1885–1941) from his novel La orgía. The first takes place in the northern region of Aragon, with the quote describing figures dancing a jota inside of a flower. The second is a zortziko — a dance from the Basque region — that depicts guitar strings performing “the lament of a soul help-less under the weight of bitterness.” The last is an Andalusian farruca, which is traditionally danced by men. This final movement includes a description of the mixed scents of flowers and manzanilla — a Spanish sherry. “And from the bottom of raised glasses, full of the incomparable wine, like an incense, rose joy.”

Four Scottish Dances

These dances were composed early in 1957, and are dedicated to the BBC Light Music Festival. They are all based on original melodies but one, the melody of which is composed by Robert Burns.

The first dance is in the style of a slow strathspey -- a slow Scottish dance in 4/4 meter -- with many dotted notes, frequently in the inverted arrangement of the "Scottish snap." The name was derived from the strath valley of Spey. The second, a lively reel, begins in the key of E-flat and rises a semi-tone each time it is played until the bassoon plays it, at a greatly reduced speed, in the key of G. The final statement of the dance is at the original speed in the home key of E-flat.

The third dance is in the style of a Hebridean song and attempts to give an impression of the sea and mountain scenery on a calm summer's day in the Hebrides. The last dance is a lively fling, which makes a great deal of use of the open string pitches of the violin (saxophones in the band edition).

John Zastoupil
Conductor, University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble

Dr. Zastoupil assumed the role of Director of Bands and tenured associate professor of music at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2022. His primary responsibilities at UT include conducting the University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble; teaching graduate courses in  conducting, band literature; guiding the wind conducting program, and providing the administrative leadership for all aspects of the University of Tennessee’s diverse and historic band program.

Read Dr. Zastoupil's full bio here.

* = principal

Flute

Whitney Applewhite*
Allan Cook
Rebecca Deal
Sophia Dobbie

Oboe

Matthew Barrett
Samuel Willard
Jessie Wilson

Bassoon

Ava Kroepler

Clarinet

Landen Blankenship
Anna Hutchinson
Ashley Melvin
Bryce Neely
Rafael Puga*
Lillian Smith
Troy Weatherford
Joshua Zhou

Bass Clarinet

Meredith Williams

Saxophone

Sean Keenan (tenor)
Tyler Hamilton (alto)
Brianna Mailhot (tenor)
Matthew Rhoten* (alto)
Benjamin Strobel (bari)

Horn

Rose Capooth
Caleb DeLong
Nichole Hollenbeck*
Margret Kinzer
Ben Makins
Aaron O’Donnell
Maya Siddiqui

Trumpet

Christian Carroll
Lauren Dodd
Lexy Kilgore*
Jaydon Robins
Philip Troutman
Eric Xie

Tenor Trombone

Alex Boone
Jaydon Headrick
Thomas Long
Jacob Noel*
Matthew Walker

Bass Trombone

Elijah Hoffmann

Euphonium

Brett Rodgers*
Sam Vance

Tuba

Anderson Johnson*
Cameron McKenzie
Harrison Jeffers

Percussion

Ian Alward
Ethan Booher
Ryan Comley
Lydia Dodd
Trik Gass*
Eli Garcia
Christopher Rosas

Piano

TBD

Double Bass

Jase Conley

Dr. Maria Fernanda Castillo, flute
Dr. Victor Chavez, clarinet
Prof. Jaren Atherholt, oboe
Prof. Ben Atherholt, bassoon
Dr. Allison Adams, saxophone
Dr. Arthur Zanin, trumpet
Dr. Katie Johnson-Webb, horn
Dr. Alex van Duuren, trombone
Dr. Alex Lapins, euphonium/tuba
Dr. Andrew Bliss, percussion
Dr. Michael Stewart, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands
Dr. Fuller Lyon, Assistant Director of Bands, Assoc. Director of Athletic Bands

January 27, 2024
UT Conducting Workshop

February 22, 2024
Volunteer Concert Clinic/Wind Ensemble Concert

February 27, 2024
Symphonic and Concert Band Concert

March 1, 2024
CBDNA Wind Ensemble Performance in Memphis, TN

April 2, 2024
Wind Ensemble concert w/Farragut HS

April 10-13, 2024
TMEA Wind Ensemble performance in Nashville

April 25, 2024
Symphonic and Concert Band Concert

 

Want to know more about the bands at UT? Please visit: utbands.utk.edu

We hope you enjoyed this performance. Private support from music enthusiasts enables us to improve educational opportunities and develop our student artists’ skills to their full potential. To learn more about how you can support the College of Music, contact Chris Cox, Director of Advancement, 865-974-3331 or ccox@utfi.org.

 

Want to know more about the bands at the University of Tennessee? Please visit utbands.utk.edu.