FluteLisa d’AngeloKay FachkoHaley Hoffenberg Helen NewhouseStuart TaftCristina Thompson

ClarinetGeoff GilliandAbby GoldsteinDaniel GoughDaryush MehtaDeanna RooseKathryn SheltonKim SmithErick StallingsErin Willette

OboePaul BurtonJuliet ClarkEriko GroverRachel Moore

BassoonBobby ChastainNicholas CohenMatt CrundenShannon Lowe

Alto SaxophoneMichelle MossmanMatthew Shabowsky

Tenor SaxophoneSherri Brady

Baritone SaxophoneMichael Bovenzi

TrumpetKristin HaynesRandall HaynesChris HeffnerJessica LakeErin WeldonLes Zobel

HornLaura ArringtonJacquie DanielsHana LahrMatt MarshallTom PanepintoPatrick Smith

TromboneStephanie Mair (Bass)Susan MarshnerMoises PaiewonskyStanley Walker

EuphoniumChris BartlettMatt Fail

TubaHank CarterBrandon Jarvis

PercussionScott BaldwinChip BirknerJohn HuffakerAdam LeskoJon LorimerRuss McCutcheonMike SammonsJustin Stolarik

String BassGabriel Monticello

PianoAngela Lozano

OrganJon Swett

HarpDawn Edwards

Jonathan Helton

Jonathan Helton is an Assistant Professor of Music at the School

of Music at the University of Florida. Dr. Helton received his

Bachelor of Music degree from the North Carolina School of the

Arts under the tutelage of the renowned tenor saxophonist

James Houlik. As a two-time recipient of the prestigious Harriet

Hale Woolley Scholarship, he spent two years in France where

he studied with Daniel Deffayet, professor at the Conservatoire National

Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and with Jean-Marie Londeix, professor at the

Conservatoire National de Région de Bordeaux. After returning to this country,

Helton earned Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from Northwestern

University where he studied with distinguished performer and pedagogue

Frederick Hemke.

His performance credits include solo appearances with the Winston-Salem (NC)

Symphony, the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the North

Carolina School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, the Harper Symphony

Orchestra, the United States Air Force Tactical Air Command Band, the Twelfth

World Saxophone Congress Wind Orchestra and the New Philharmonia of

Riverside in New York City. He has performed many solo and chamber recitals

in several Eastern and Midwestern states, including concerts in Chicago,

Washington, D.C., and New York City’s Lincoln Center. He has also appeared on

established concert series in Europe, including solo recitals at Eglise Saint

Christophe and the Conservatoire de Huy in Belgium, and at Eglise Saint Merry

and the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris. Dr. Helton recently performed a

nine-concert tour of Taiwan as a member of the Chicago Saxophone Quartet.

Dr. Helton completed a two-year residency with the North Carolina Arts

Council’s Visiting Artist Program where he developed and presented over 300

performances, demonstrations, master classes and lectures to diverse audiences.

Kevin Robert Orr

Pianist Kevin Robert Orr, Assistant Professor of Piano/Piano

Pedagogy at the University of Florida, USA, studied at the

Cleveland Institute of Music and at The Dana School of Music at

Youngstown State University. His principal teachers include Paul

Schenly, Robert E. Hopkins and Caroline Oltmanns.

An active performance schedule features Dr. Orr as both a

soloist and collaborative performer throughout the United States and abroad. He

has been a soloist with the Dana Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and

Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the University of Florida Wind Symphony, and also

with the New Music String Ensemble. An avid supporter of new music, Dr. Orr

has premiered works by John Weinsweig, Robert Rollin, Dana Wilson, and Paul

Richards. Awards garnered for his performance endeavors include the William

Kurzban Prize in Piano from the Cleveland Institute, and the Aurora Ragiani

Martin Piano Award from The Dana School.

Although maintaining principal focus in classical piano performance and

teaching, Dr. Orr is accomplished in other musical styles, improvisation, and

music technology, all of which are incorporated into his teaching. In 2001, Dr. Orr

instituted the University of Florida Young Pianists Festival, a five-day event for

pre-college pianists held in early June of each year at the School of Music.

Outside of the university, Dr. Orr is active as an adjudicator for piano contests

throughout the state of Florida.

David A. Waybright

Dr. David A. Waybright received his Bachelor of Arts and Master

of Arts degrees at Marshall University and the Doctor of Musical

Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the Cincinnati College-

Conservatory of Music. He taught initially at Wahama High

School in Mason, West Virginia and since that time has served as

Director of Bands at Ferrum College, Plymouth State College, and

Director of Bands and Orchestra at McNeese State University. Dr. Waybright is

currently Director of Bands at the University of Florida, where he holds the rank of

professor and is the head of the conducting area. He directs the wind symphony

and supervises the band program and the graduate and undergraduate conducting

curricula.

Dr. Waybright is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician with wind bands,

orchestras, and choirs, and has appeared in that capacity in more than 30 states,

throughout Europe and Australia. He has held residencies at many of the nation’s

leading music schools. In addition, he is active in the commissioning and

performance of new music and has won the praise of composers such as Dana

Wilson, Michael Torke, Donald Grantham, and Leslie Bassett for his interpretation

of their works. There are many recordings available featuring the University of

Florida Wind Symphony under his direction.

Dr. Waybright is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and

a lifetime member of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.

He is also a member of the College Band Director’s National Association, Music

Educators National Convention and Florida Music Educators Association.

Ensembles under his direction have performed invited concerts at conferences

sponsored by all of those organizations. Dr. Waybright is also a member of Pi

Kappa Lambda and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha, Tau Beta Sigma and

Kappa Kappa Psi. He is a National Arts Associate honorary of Sigma Alpha Iota.

ommissioned for the celebration of Tennessee’s “Homecoming ’86,”

Jug Blues and Fat Pickin’ was inspired by recordings of the Memphis

Jug Band (Beale Street, late 1920’s), and bluegrass banjo pickin’, which

becomes “fattened out” by the sound of winds. The composer comments that

the “Blues” should howl, whine, and wail like a harmonica solo, with the

same freedom and indulgence one might hear in an unaccompanied Blues

improvisation. The “Pickin’” has the easy-going, self-gratifying, clear-headed

virtuosity that characterizes great pickers. Professor of Composition at

Indiana University, Don Freund has composed over 100 performed works

ranging from solo, chamber, and orchestral music to pieces involving live

performance with electronic instruments, music for dance, and large

theatrical works. He is also active as a pianist, conductor, and lecturer.

Joseph Schwantner was born in Chicago and received his musical and

academic training at the Chicago Conservatory and Northwestern University,

completing a doctorate in 1968. He previously served on the faculties of the

School of Music at Yale University, the Eastman School of Music and the

Juilliard School. In May 2002 he was elected as a member of the American

Academy of Arts and Letters. Schwantner was composer-in-residence with the

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of the MEET THE COMPOSER/

Orchestra Residencies Program funded by the Exxon Corporation, the

Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been

the subject of a television documentary entitled, SOUNDINGS, produced by

WGBH in Boston for national broadcast. ...and the mountains rising

nowhere came out of the composer’s experience of writing for professional

chamber groups. The work was dedicated to Carol Adler and to the performers

of the premiere, the Eastman Wind Ensemble conducted by Donald

Hunsburger. Although not specifically programmatic, the evocative

imagery of the following poem by Carol Adler provided inspiration for

the composition:

arioso bells

sepia

moon - beams

an afternoon sun blanked by rain

and the mountains rising nowhere

the sound returns

the sound and the silence chimes

In addition to winds, the score calls for solo piano as well as 46

different percussion instruments. Tuned water goblets, whistling, and singing

help to create a unique sonic tapestry.

Ingolf Dahl was a versatile and proficient pianist, conductor, composer

and teacher of music subjects. Long identified with the promotion and

performance of contemporary music, Dahl’s works for wind band have had a

wide appeal for audiences, conductors, and performers. Born in Hamburg of

Swedish parents, he studied composition throughout his lifetime with several

teachers, including Nadia Boulanger. Early in his career he was known as an

expressionist who had a heavily dissonant and polyphonic style. Later he

started to move back toward tonality with his Concerto for Saxophone and

Wind Orchestra. The concerto was written in 1949 (revised in 1953) for

Sigard Rascher. The work is in three movements: Recitative, Adagio, and

Rondo alla marcia. Rondo alla marcia is comic and capricious in nature, but

is preceded by a Recitative with dotted orchestral entries punctuated by the

saxophone recitative and a short passacaglia-like aria.

David Maslanka’s music encourages performers and listeners toexplore their own inner worlds. He believes that many composers considerthemselves channels through which the music must flow; that musicalimpulse is beyond our conscious awareness, at least in ordinary daily life;and that it appears to be from someplace beyond ourselves.

“The roots of Symphony No. 4 are many. The central driving force is the

spontaneous rise of the impulse to shout for the joy of life. I feel it is the powerful

voice of the Earth that comes to me from my adopted western Montana, and the

high plains and mountains of central Idaho. My personal experience is the voice is

one of feeling helpless and torn open by the power of the thing that wants to be

expressed - the welling-up shout that cannot be denied. I am set aquiver and am

forced to shout and sing. The response in the voice of the Earth is the answering

shout of thanksgiving, and the shout of praise. Out of this, the hymn tune “Old

Hundred,” several other hymn tunes (Bach chorales “Only trust in God to Guide

You” and “Christ Who Makes Us Holy”), and original melodies which are hymn-

like in nature, form the backbone of Symphony No. 4.”-David Maslanka

Some program notes courtesy of Program Notes for Band by Norman E. Smith (GIA Publications, Chicago: 2000).

Cover photo courtesy of “...and the Leasebreakers” (www.Leasebreakers.com) Photo by David Yapkowitz, Photo Illustration by Kristi Ortiz

University of Florida Bands are funded in part by UF Student Government. www.ufbands.ufl.edu

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CreditsExecutive Producer: David WaybrightProduced by: John Laverty, Mark J. MoretteRecorded: May 5 - 6, 2002 by Mark J. MoretteDigitally edited and Mastered by: Dave St. OngeEdits compiled by: David Waybright

Technical InformationMicrophones: AKG C- 414 TLII, Sennheiser MD-421UDigital Mixer: Yamaha O1vDigital Machine: Sony PCM-2400 20 bitMicrophone Preamps: TC Electronics Finalizer PlusEdited on Sadie Artimus

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1. Jug Blues and Fat Pickin’ - Don Freund

2. ...and the mountains rising nowhere - Joseph Schwantner

Kevin Orr, Piano

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Orchestra - Ingolf DahlJonathan Helton, Saxophone

3. I. Recitative

4. II. Adagio

5. III. Rondo alla Marcia: allegro brioso

6. Symphony No. 4 - David Maslanka

Mountain Musicthe University of florida wind symphony

David A. Waybright, Conductor