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2022-12-05 -- Concert Band and University Band

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ENSEMBLE CONCERT
Concert Band & University Band
Eric W. Bush, conductor
Kara Metzger, conductor
Myron Peterson, guest conductor
M. Cory Schmitt, guest conductor

Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7:30pm

Voxman Music Building Concert Hall
 UNIVERSITY BAND

Kara Metzger, conductor

Myron Peterson, guest conductor
M. Cory Schmitt, guest conductor

PROGRAM

Summer Dances (2000) Brian BALMAGES

(b. 1975)

Myron Peterson, guest conductor

Balladair (1958) Frank ERICKSON

(1923-1996)

Voodoo (1984) Daniel BUKVICH

(b. 1954)

M. Cory Schmitt, guest conductor

Terpsichorean Dances (2009) Jodie BLACKSHAW

(b. 1971)

Suncrest, Concert March (2007) Rick KIRBY

(b. 1945)

INTERMISSION
 CONCERT BAND

Eric W. Bush, conductor

Kara Metzger, guest conductor

PROGRAM

Drive! (2015) Patrick ROSZELL

(b. 1976)

Sòlas Ané (2006) Samuel HAZO

(b. 1966)

Second Suite in F, Op. 28 No. 2 (1911/1984) Gustav HOLST

I. March (1874-1934)
II. Song Without Words ed. Colin MATTHEWS
III. Song of the Blacksmith
IV. Fantasia on the “Dargason”

Crystals (1985) Thomas DUFFY

(b. 1955)

Kara Metzger, guest conductor

A Tribute to John Williams (2016/2019) John WILLIAMS

I. At the Movies with John Williams (b. 1932)
II. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (excerpts) arr. Justin WILLIAMS
& Jay BOCOOK

the requirements for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting. They are students of
Dr. Richard Mark Heidel.
 PERSONNEL
UNIVERSITY BAND

FLUTE ALTO SAXOPHONE TROMBONE

Eira Schaffhausen Miles Kramer Riley Crawford
Jess Hebior Olivia Tobin Alayna Armentrout
Anna Larson Gabi Michalski Jake Robin
Ashley Sheehan Sophia Ahlrichs Jane Jozefowicz
Emily Severino Evelyn Wethington Connor DeGroote
Madison Bockenstedt Nick Thedens Tim Schmadeke
Vanessa Zheng Bianca Hunt Jasper Rood
Anna Zboril Alec Bell
Amukta Gantalamohini Avery Forde BASS TROMBONE
Lucy Ha Mohit Kamat Robby Hoag
Natalie Gustin Jobin Terranova
Isabella Albright Kennedy Prickett EUPHONIUM
Promise Garcia Kyle Delaney
TENOR SAXOPHONE Sydney Smithgall
BASSOON Danielle Homrighausen Jose Salazar
Owen Haldemann Tony Wang Lucy Riebe
Eva Brooks Elaina DeWulf
Aidan Eubank TUBA
BARITONE SAXOPHONE Eli Schrader
Jacob Krysl Daniel Sebille
Andrew Heim
CLARINET PERCUSSION
Nicole Boodhoo TRUMPET Ben Fisher
Allison Nolin Colin Houts Jordan Flies
Lucas Beilby Elaina Dawley Zoe Friedline
Karima Mohammed Erin Dowd Anna Marine
Ashley Goll Madelyn Michel Kimmy Moore
Christian Stogdill Sarah Guilfoyle Thomas Pate
Sara Johnson Dayanara Vega-Lemus Daniel Peterson
Matt Koenig Lexie Johnson
Calli Cairo Eli Yonker
Bri Brands Luke Zaabel
Hannah Stuppi Chloe Hoag
Nichole Johnson Kathy Ford

BASS CLARINET HORN

Joseph Feingold Zoe Olson
Nick Feingold

Priya Larson
Iris Peimann
Lily Giddings
Leo Xiao
Alyssa Claxton
 CONCERT BAND

PICCOLO TRUMPET EUPHONIUM

Elizabeth Hertzberg *Sara Lyons *Jimmy Pelini
Joanna Leston Rochelle Lopez
FLUTE Henry Leaders Nick Kamp
**Elizabeth Hertzberg Cameron LaPage Hazel Alldredge
**Allie Stolte Ariya Davis
Ella Boesen Jace Barry TUBA
Anna Christopherson Pavin Esbaum *Dravin Martin
Isabella Anderson Mason O’Brien Tyson Baker
Elizabeth Wagner Matthew Freedlund Jeremiah Pruessner
Abigail Townsend
An-Chi Nguyen HORN PERCUSSION
Ava Chopskie
OBOE Kailyn Thompson Peyton Flynn
*Kate Caldwell Anna Boes Drew Hansen
Sam Hoying Miranda Miller Randall Kinner
Karena Jensen Nathan Ortiz
CLARINET Elizabeth Greene Charli Otto (personnel
*Mark Bischoff manager)
Nila Cooper TROMBONE
Kathleen McKeehan *Ty Waters
Amber Imming Larissa Myers
Tony Wang Robby Hoag
Megan Uden Jake Greenlee
Shemaiah Lara Brady McSperrin
Olivia Russell Megan Boskey
Killian Ritland
BASS CLARINET Ethan Baumli
*Alex Arellano
Christian Stogdill BASS TROMBONE
Mae Dolan Courtney Kelly

BASSOON
*Emily Roberts
Baylea Starkey

SAXOPHONES
Lauren Lettington alto I
Henry Chun Hang Chan, alto I
Justin Yem, alto II
Jenna Anderson, alto II

Cole Moorhead, tenor

Luke Wymore, baritone

*Principal Player
**Co-Principal Players
 PROGRAM NOTES
Summer Dances (Brian Balmages)
Brian Balmages (b. 1975) composed Summer Dances
around the same time he earned his master’s degree and starting work for FJH Music
Publishing Company. Interestingly, Frank J. Hackinson, founder of FJH, hired Balmages
at the beginning of his master’s degree program, and paid him an advance on his
future royalties to get him through the degree. Summer Dances was one of six band

Summer Dances is a light and lively piece worthy of its namesake. Structured in
contrasting sections, ABA’, the piece opens with the effervescence of sparkling
woodwinds followed immediately with the energetic main theme played by the
trumpets and horns. The theme returns frequently accompanied in a new manner
with each reprisal. The slow, lyrical B section contains its own miniature rounded
binary form (aba’), with frequent use of chamber-like scoring. After its return to
the “energetically” section, the piece ramps up again with an extended transition
of woodwind polyphony before the main theme returns in the trumpets and horns.
Whether it is actually summer or winter, Balmages’s Summer Dances strives to emulate
the many summer music festivals and civic celebrations around Columbia, Maryland.
(Myron Peterson)

Balladair (Frank Erickson)

Frank Erickson has been a well-known name in the band world for many years. He
began his compositional career in high school and continued this in addition to other
roles in music for his life. He performed trumpet and was a staff arranger with the
United States Air Force Bands from 1942-1946. Mr. Erickson then graduated in the
1950’s from the University of Southern California with both a bachelor’s and master’s
degree in music. In addition to wind band music, Mr. Erickson also worked within
Balladair, Mr. Erickson
combines traditionally beautiful melodic and harmonic elements to create his work
for wind band. This piece is written to emulate a modern dance style at the time. Its
form, A-A–B-C-A, adds one additional section to what would typically be heard in

Voodoo (Daniel Bukvich)

Voodoo is a compositional exploration of unconventional techniques employed through

the use of conventional wind band instruments. The listener will encounter several

from the players of the ensemble. Musicians will also use altered techniques such as
playing into mutes and slides of the instrument to create intriguing timbral qualities.

spent time doing missionary work in Guatemala, and she explained to him the sounds
she heard at night while trying to sleep reminded her of “those old voodoo movies.”
The piece was commissioned in 1984 by the Idaho All-State Band as an experiment in
having students memorize music and a rigorous listening exercise to catch aural cues
from other musicians. The composer encourages performers to perform this piece
with the lights totally off so that the memorization and listening skills can come to
the fore, but tonight’s performance will be performed with minimal lighting and with
sheet music.

Terpsichorean Dances (Jodie Blackshaw)

Terpsichorean Dances is a collection of three dances compiled by German Composer

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621). They originally stemmed from a set of dances from the
royal courts in France in the early 1600. Praetorius began setting these works in three
to six part voicing to keep the music in circulation. Jodie Blackshaw, now, has set these

instruments, Blackshaw has kept this spirit intact by having many featured sections
and contrasting colors of thematic statements. Blackshaw includes her own personal
upbringing in Australia to the piece by adding the less commonly known, Lagerphone,
into the percussion section. Blackshaw has devoted her life to the combination of
music education and composition. She has written award winning pieces for young
band and has championed the concept of writing exceptional pieces of music for
musicians at a beginning and intermediate level. (Kara Metzger)

Suncrest, Concert March (Rick Kirby)

Rick Kirby is originally from Massachsets and grew up in the New England area. In
spite of this, Mr. Kirby moved to Wisconsin for most of his professional career and
currently still resides in the Waukesha area. He was primarily a music educator until
his retirement in 2001 from the Waukesha School District. Upon retirement, Mr.
Kirby began composing fulltime and has written several works for band and arranges
for many award winning high school marching bands. Until 2017, Mr. Kirby was the

Suncrest
was working at Waukesha South High School and had limited instrumentation. The
piece focuses on many educational skills, rhythmic and harmonic, that he wanted the
ensemble to learn and provide. As for the musical elements of this march, it opens
with a fanfare-like statement followed by a very typical main thematic statement. The
trio of the work follows a more traditional approach to English marches by changing
color and timbres of the ensemble. The original thematic events recur throughout
Band Program. (Kara Metzger)

Drive! (Patrick Roszell)

A native of Oxford, Alabama, Patrick Roszell composes and arranges band, orchestra,
and choral literature, and his wind works have been performed extensively. His
professional background includes instrumental editorial work at Warner Bros.
Publications in Miami, FL—now Alfred Music–and the FJH Music Company of Fort
Lauderdale, FL. About Drive!, the composer writes:

there are two Yorkshire Terriers: Harley and Chloe. Harley, as you can imagine,
used to love to ride with my parents on their Harley Davidson. Chloe, on the other
hand, doesn’t like the motorcycle, but prefers to ride in the car, if a car door is
open in the yard or the garage, she hops in. Whatever you do, don’t mention the
words “Bye-Bye” or “Go” in the house, because the ears perk up, and it’s time to
Drive!

Sòlas Ané (Samuel Hazo)

“Sòlas” and “Ané” are two Gaelic words meaning Joy (Solas) and Yesterday/Yesteryear
(Ané). It was named for the absolute pleasure Margene Pappas, Director of Bands at
Oswego High School in Oswego, Illinois, had spending every day living the music

her teaching included Oswego High School’s performances at the Midwest Clinic,
Tournament of Roses Parade, and IMEA All-State Convention. And yes, her accolades
included the Sudler Legion of Honor, Phi Beta Mu Hall of Fame, Mr. Holland’s Opus
Award, and far too many more to list. But Margene is the epitome of the phrase,

lights every morning for 37 years was Margene Pappas’ passion.

Solas Ané was premiered on May 28th, 2006. That day was declared “Margene Pappas
Day” in Oswego and the concert featured her present band as well as an Oswego
High School alumni band comprised of some of the top professional musicians and
music professors in the world. Sadly, the title, Sòlas Ané, gained a deeper and most

her, Margene’s father passed away of pneumonia in Champaign, IL. (Samuel Hazo)
Second Suite in F, Op. 28 No. 2 (Gustav Holst)

First
of 1909, his Second Suite had more than a decade between its writing
and its premiere. The Second Suite in F did not receive a public performance until
June 20, 1922, when the band of the Royal Military School of Music played it at Royal
Albert Hall in London. The program note for the performance states that the piece
had been “put aside and forgotten” after 1911. The Second Suite in F is based entirely
on material from folk songs and English folk dances consisting of rhythmic stepping
called Morris dances. The opening march utilizes three tunes: a lively Morris dance,
the lyrical melody of “Swansea Town,” and the lilting style of “Claudy Banks.” The
second movement, Song without Words, is a slow tender setting of an English love
song, “I’ll Love My Love.” It is a story of two lovers separated by their parents and
the deep love they would always have for one another. Song of the Blacksmith, the
third movement, demonstrates Holst’s inventive scoring with a lively rhythm imitating
Fantasia on the ‘Dargason,’ is
based on an English country-dance and folk song dating from the sixteenth century.
(University of North Texas)
Crystals (Thomas Duffy)

Thomas Duffy received a Doctor of Musical Arts from Cornell University and learned
from notable teachers such as Karel Husa and Steve Stucky. Currently, he teaches at

in scholarship revolving under many wide categories. These categories include the

his work, Crystals

The piece, Crystals, brings non-tonal and chance music to the wind band medium
through the use of aleatoric moments. Many sections of the piece are left up for
performer interpretation and are notated in non-traditional styles. At its core, the

Ice, Underwater Rubies, Cyanide, and Monolith are the four distinct sections heard
throughout the piece that represent a type of crystal. Each section is heard to have a

A Tribute to John Williams (John Williams; arr. Justin Williams and Jay Bocook)

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, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Williams has received a variety of prestigious awards,
including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order,
and numerous Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe
Awards. He remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical
voices.

Mr. Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than

Schwartz Agency)

On this program, we honor John Williams’ legacy with a performance of two

arrangements that highlight music from Superman, Hook, Home Alone, and Star Wars:
The Rise of Skywalker.
 BIOGRAPHIES
Eric W. Bush
and Director of the Hawkeye Marching Band
in the School of Music at the University

band program, conducts the Iowa Concert

Band, and teaches various other courses,
including marching band techniques and

Director of Bands and Jazz Studies at The

involved with all operations of the Marching

Blue Band and volleyball, basketball, and

From 2012-15, Bush served as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Iowa where
he earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Band Conducting and published his thesis
The History of the Big Ten Band Directors Association (1971-2015)
included serving as guest conductor of the concert ensembles as well as being a staff member
for the Hawkeye Marching Band and the Iowa Pep Band. He performed regularly as a trumpet
player in the University of Iowa Symphony Band under the direction of Richard Mark Heidel,
holding the position of principal trumpet from 2013-14. He also worked extensively with the

Johnson County Landmark, under the direction of John Rapson. He also served as director

(CBDNA), National Band Association (NBA), Big Ten Band Directors Association (BTBDA), and

State and University of Iowa collegiate chapters of the national music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha

lives in Iowa City with his wife, Alex, and their son, Brecken.
Kara Metzger is originally from Waukesha, WI. She earned a bachelor’s in music education and

earned a master’s degree in music education from the University of Minnesota Duluth. While
at UMD, she was a teaching assistant within the band department, conducted the concert
band, and assisted with the athletic bands. Currently, Kara works as a teaching assistant at the
University of Iowa and primarily works with the Hawkeye Marching Band and Iowa Pep Band.

Since 2016, Kara has been Brass and Visual Caption Head for the Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle
Corps. She has also served as a Baritone Technician at the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps since
2020. Prior to pursuing her master’s degree, Kara was the director of bands at Whitman
Middle School and associate director of bands at West High School in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

with all high school ensembles. She has held additional staff positions for the Blue Stars Drum
and Bugle Corps as well as various high schools throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota. Kara
is currently the drill writer for Champlin Park, Wauwatosa East, and Waukesha South High
School.

bass trombone, euphonium, and tuba. She loves being a part of the University of Iowa’s band
program!

Myron Peterson, a teaching assistant at the University of Iowa, previously spent twenty-one
years as a director of bands at Urbandale High School in Urbandale, Iowa. During his tenure,
the Urbandale Wind Ensemble performed as the class 4A honor band at the Iowa Bandmasters
Association (IBA) Conference. The band also appeared three times at the IBA Conference as a
clinic session band. Peterson led performances with the Urbandale bands across the United
States, performing concerts and collaborating with bands in Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii, and Missouri. Prior to his arrival at Urbandale, Peterson
taught for two years in the Oskaloosa Community School District, also in Iowa.

Peterson is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in wind conducting at the University
of Iowa under the primary instruction of Dr. Mark Heidel. He holds an MM in wind conducting
(2021) from Colorado State University (CSU) studying with Dr. Rebecca Phillips. Peterson

As a leader, Peterson is a past president of the Iowa Bandmasters Association (IBA), past
president of the South Central Iowa Bandmasters Association (SCIBA), and was the founding

Band Directors National Association.

M. Cory Schmitt
the University of Iowa bands. Originally from Virginia, Cory earned his Bachelor of Music

the 450-member Marching Royal Dukes. In 2014, Cory earned his Masters Degree in Wind
Band Conducting and Trumpet Performance at the University of Northern Iowa, where he

winning UNI Jazz Band One, and traveled internationally on tour to Thailand.
In 2014, Cory began an 8-year career as the Director of Bands at Forest City High School and
Middle School. At Forest City schools, Cory taught grades 6-12, conducted 4 different bands,
and had over 200 students in his program. Under Cory’s direction, the FCHS Concert and
Marching Band grew from 58 to 120 members. His ensembles earned numerous Division I

at Waldorf University, where he assumed the role of Director of Wind Symphony as well as

Cory is happily married to his wife Teresa, and is the proud father of his son Edward, his
daughter Charlotte, and his dog Luna.
 IOWA BANDS STAFF
Richard Mark Heidel, Director of Bands
Eric W. Bush, Associate Director of Bands
Myron Welch, Director of Bands Emeritus
Kevin Kastens, Associate Director of Bands Emeritus
Kathy Ford, Administrative Coordinator, Bands
Drew Bonner, graduate assistant
Kara Metzger, graduate assistant
Nick Miller, graduate assistant
Myron Peterson, graduate assistant
M. Cory Schmitt, graduate assistant
Courtney Kelly, Band Manager
Jordan Flies, Head Librarian
Miranda Basart, Jake Greenlee, Nick Kamp, Work Crew

IOWA BANDS

bands include the Hawkeye Marching Band and Iowa Pep Band.

MYRON D. WELCH CONDUCTING FELLOWSHIP

In 2013, Dr. and Mrs. Myron Welch established the Myron D. Welch Conducting Fellowship to
support continued excellence in the graduate conducting program. Recipients of this award
include Steven Riley (2014), Joe Cernuto (2015-17), Joshua Neuenschwander (2018-21), and
Myron Peterson (2021-present).
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