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PERFORMANCE REPERTOIREProgramProgram NotesCircuits (1990)Cindy McTee (b. 1953)Caribbean Berceuse (2021)Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948)Guest Artists: Barcelona Clarinet PlayersRondo alla BCP (2022)Jack Stamp (b. 1954)Guest Artists: Barcelona Clarinet PlayersCatapult (2022)Jay Kennedy (b. 1951)Guest Conductor: Andrew TrachselDreamachine (2022)Michael Daugherty (b. 1954)Solo Percussionist: Dame Evelyn GlennieDa Vinci’s WingsRube Goldberg’s VariationsElectric EelVulcan’s ForgeCircuits (1990)Cindy McTee (b. 1953)Cindy McTee was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in thenearby town of Eatonville. The daughter of musical parents (her fatherplayed trumpet and her mother played clarinet), McTee often wentto rehearsals of their small dance band where she heard popularmusic and jazz from the 1940s and 1950s. McTee began piano studiesat the age of six with a teacher who encouraged improvisation (thebeginnings of her career as a composer), and she began studyingsaxophone with her mother a few years later. McTee studied with DavidRobbins and Thomas Clark at Pacific Lutheran University (BM 1975),Jacob Druckman and Bruce MacCombie at the Yale School of Music(MM 1978), and Richard Hervig at the University of Iowa (PhD 1981).McTee taught for three years at her alma mater in Tacoma, Washingtonand in 1984 joined the faculty of the University of North Texas, receivingpromotion to Full Professor in 1995 and Regents Professor in 2000. In2009, she was designated a Fellow in UNT’s Institute for the Advancementof the Arts. She also participated in leadership roles at UNT, most notablyas Chair of the Division of Composition Studies from 1995–2000. In May of2011, she retired from the University of North Texas as Regents ProfessorEmerita and in November that same year she married conductor LeonardSlatkin. Their principal place of residence is Saint Louis, Missouri.McTee has received numerous awards for her music, most significantlya Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a ComposersFellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two awards fromthe American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Music Alive Award fromMeet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras, the DetroitSymphony Orchestra’s Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, and a BMIStudent Composers Award. She was also winner of the 2001 LouisvilleOrchestra Composition Competition. She has been commissioned bythe Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra,the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, theCollege Band Directors National Association, and many others.McTee writes the following about Circuits (1990):Circuits was originally written for the Denton Chamber Orchestraof Denton, Texas. Shortly thereafter, I created a version for windensemble which was introduced to the larger band community in aperformance by Ray Cramer and the Indiana University SymphonicBand at the College Band Directors National Association “GoldenAnniversary” National Conference in Kansas City, MO in 1991.In 2011, I bought back the copyrights to Circuits and made a fewchanges to the instrumentation and articulation. I have dedicatedthis 2011 version to Ray Cramer for his many important contributionsto the field and for having supported me personally through thisearly performance of this, my first “mature” work for band.The title, Circuits, is meant to characterize several importantaspects of the work’s musical language: a strong reliance uponcircuitous structures such as ostinatos; the use of a formal designincorporating numerous, recurring short sections; and the presenceof an unrelenting, kinetic energy achieved through the use of 16thnotes at a constant tempo of 152 beats per minute.The inclusion of jazz elements and the playful manipulation ofmusical materials using syncopation, sudden transposition, andjuxtaposition are also characteristic of the work.6 TMEA 2023
UNT@TMEACaribbean Berceuse (2021)Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948)Guest Artists: Barcelona Clarinet PlayersPaquito D’Rivera is celebrated both for his artistry in Latin jazz andhis achievements as a classical composer. Born in Havana, Cuba,he performed with the National Theater Orchestra, studied at theHavana Conservatory of Music, and became a featured soloist withthe Cuban National Symphony, all before the age of 18. A foundingmember of the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna and Irakere,D’Rivera has toured extensively throughout America and Europeand won fourteen Grammys. In celebration of its 500-year history in1999, the Universidad de Alcala de Henares presented Paquito witha special award recognizing his contribution to the arts, his humanequalities, and his defense of rights and liberties of artists around theworld.In addition to his extraordinary performing career with more than30 solo albums, D’Rivera has rapidly gained a reputation as anaccomplished composer, bringing Latin repertoire to greaterprominence. D’Rivera has championed and promoted all types ofclassical compositions, including his three chamber compositionsrecorded live in concert with distinguished cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 2003.He received recognition of his compositional skills with the 2007John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition award,and the 2007–2008 appointment as Composer-in-Residence at theCaramoor Center for Music and the Arts with the Orchestra of St.Luke’s. The National Endowment for the Arts affirms that “he hasbecome the consummate multinational ambassador, creating andpromoting a cross-culture of music that moves effortlessly amongJazz, Latin, and Mozart.”D’Rivera shares the following description about CaribbeanBerceuse (2021):I was born in the largest of the more than 700 islands thatseem to float asleep on the very blue waters of the AntillesSea. A true melting pot of races and cultures, the Caribbeanspeaks Spanish, French, English, Dutch, some Creolelanguages and Papiamento, which is the main idiom in Arubaand Curaçao, whose grammar combines native Americanelements with European words as well as some languages ofAfrican origin.Inspired by the beauty of these lands and their soulful people,my Caribbean Berceuse pretends to be like a lullaby for aCreole child who dreams of palm trees that seem to dance tothe sweet rhythms of a melody that mixes with the voices of thethousands of birds that populate this wonderful region.Rondo alla BCP (2022)Jack Stamp (b. 1954)Guest Artists: Barcelona Clarinet PlayersJack Stamp is currently serving as International Composer inAssociation to the world-renowned Grimethorpe Colliery BrassBand. Dr. Stamp recently served as visiting professor of musicat Luther College (Fall 2018), where he was acting director ofbands and taught conducting and spent the prior three years asadjunct faculty at UW-River Falls. He recently retired from full-timeemployment as Professor of Music and Director of Band Studiesat Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) where he conductedthe Wind Ensemble and taught courses in graduate conducting.Stamp received his Bachelor of Science in Music Educationdegree from IUP, a Master’s in Percussion Performance fromEast Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree inConducting from Michigan State University where he studied withEugene Corporon.Stamp is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, andcomposer throughout North America and Great Britain. Hiscompositions have been commissioned and performed by leadingmilitary and university bands across the United States. He haswon the praise of American composers David Diamond, NormanDello Joio, Ron Nelson, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Robert Ward,Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, Nancy Galbraith, and Bruce Yurko forperformances of their works. He is also a contributing author to theTeaching Music Through Performance in Band series released byGIA Publications. Stamp has over sixty compositions available fromNeil A. Kjos Music Company.Stamp says the following about Rondo alla BCP (2022):I first met Eugene Corporon at a CBDNA National Conferencein 1983 and my musical life was changed forever. I had thegood fortune of being one of his doctoral students at both theUniversity of Northern Colorado and Michigan State University.When he decided to do his first recording project at [CincinnatiCollege-Conservatory] CCM, I was his recording producerand have served as such for probably 90% of his releases.Needless to say, my musical life and the opportunities I havebeen given have been enriched by my association with thisincredible teacher.It was a recording session at UNT where I first met theBarcelona Clarinet Players (BCP). They may be the finestchamber music ensemble that I have ever heard! I had theopportunity to write a work for the quartet, which premiered inDallas last April. Upon hearing of their acceptance to performat TMEA, Professor Corporon contacted me asking for ashort work for the BCP and Wind Symphony to be premieredat TMEA. The result was Rondo alla BCP. The title is takenfrom Rondo alla Turca and is actually a Sonata Rondo withVariations setup in a Concerto Grosso format, with the BCPbeing the ‘concertino group’ and the wind symphony servingas the ripieno ensemble.Catapult (2022)Jay Kennedy (b. 1951)Guest Conductor: Andrew TrachselJay Kennedy’s career encompasses varied and successfulexperiences as a composer, arranger, producer, educator,entrepreneur, and administrative leader. He is currently VicePresident for Academic Affairs/Vice Provost at Berklee College ofMusic in Boston, Massachusetts.Prior to joining Berklee, Kennedy was a freelance composer,arranger, and producer in Chicago and Los Angeles where hewrote and produced for television and radio commercials, episodictelevision, and feature films. His music has been heard in featurefilms, including Wayne’s World, Electric Horseman, Fast Break andLethal Weapon 2, and in a variety of television series, including OneTree Hill, Judging Amy, and Felicity.University of North Texas College of Music 7
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