The Greenville Concert Bandand the Greenville County Schools

present:

Tea and TrumpetsMarch 28, 2018

McAlister Auditorium7:00 PM

Conducted by:Dr. Dan Turner, Music DirectorJim Kilgus, Associate Director

The Greenville Concert Band has operated continuously in Greenville,SC, since 1972, serving the community with an all-volunteer roster oftalented professional and amateur musicians. The GCB continues a legacyof local community bands that started with the Greenville Municipal Band(chartered in 1933), and the textile mill village bands that organizedduring the early 20th century while the textile industry flourished in theSouth. The GCB promotes the quality performance and appreciation ofband music of classical and popular genres, balancing audience appealwith challenging literature for its members, providing an opportunity forskilled musicians of all ages and walks of life to pursue their art in arelaxed yet purposeful environment. The GCB is committed to advancingthe American Musical Experience, giving our best for our audiences in thecommunities of Upstate South Carolina. Help us spread the word about theGreenville Concert Band and the performance you heard today!

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TEA ANDTRUMPETS

PROGRAM:

Greenville Concert Band

* Fanfare for St. Cecilia ...............................................Philip Sparke

* “Dundonnell” from Hymn of the Highlands .................Philip Sparke

Featuring: Kevin Brode, pipes, and Dan Evans, drum

* Mannin Veen ............................................................Haydn Wood

* British Eighth ..................................................................Zo Elliot

- Intermission -

Combined Bands

ǂ English Folk Song Suite ...........................Ralph Vaughan Williams

March - "Seventeen Come Sunday"

ǂ Irish Tune from County Derry ................................Percy Grainger

ǂ You’ll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) ......Jess Langston Turner

ǂ Gaelforce ...............................................................Peter Graham

* Flourish for Wind Band .............................Ralph Vaughan Williams

* Conducted by Dr. Dan Turner, Music Director, GCBǂ Conducted by Mr. James Kilgus

The Musicians

FLUTERenee BlackwelderBess Bridwell 2Carri BurgessAnita CollinsTerry DavidsonBonnie ForrestVeronica GlantonGuthrie GullionCharan LeeCarla Pry

CLARINETMichael BarronRobert ChestDan EvansHeinrich Gottberg 4Marge HaferElyse Hartzog 7Freddie JonesConnie LacquementMichelle RockafellowCorey Schumacher 2Marlee Smith 3Stan Widener

BASS CLARINETRichard EatonMikala Ferguson 1

BASSOONNathan Bond 2Nancy CrissMaggie Giglio

OBOELinda Dupont

SAXOPHONEAndy BalentXia Bowens 8

Christel CornetMike CrissDevin Lane 1Gregory LawrenceStan MorrisLeigha Turner 2

TRUMPET/CORNETBen Cagle 3Savannah Colliver 6Ed FlowerNina Freytag 4Kimberly LabineBobby Mattaliano 2Jim MitchellDon ScottMichael D. SimpsonMark TilleyDavid VanDenBergChandler Waldrop 7

FRENCH HORNQuinn Berzins 7Lance HaferLeigh KosinRegina LoehrNancy LohrJoy O'ConnorWarren Stuber

BARITONE/ EUPHONIUMLaureen CopelandStephanie HumbyTitus McCutchen 3Marty WatsonDavid Zitzman

TROMBONELewis FosterJoshua Guy 6Alan LohrJohn McClimonGordon MuldrowMark Robinson

TUBAColeman AlexanderMatt DillGeorge DuckerScott Elliott 5Chase Harvey 7 PERCUSSIONNaomi BakerLaura DayAdam Finkelstein 2Gio Garcia 9Jamie HarmonRichard NelsonJake Thompson 2Harper Uhlemann 7Charlotte Wood

Musicians from the Greenville All-County Senior Wind Ensemble:1. Blue Ridge High School2. Fine Arts Center3. Greer High School4. Hillcrest High School5. J. L. Mann High School6. Mauldin High School7. Riverside High School8. Southside High School9. Wade Hampton High School

PROGRAM NOTES

Fanfare for St. Cecilia ............................................Philip Sparke (b. 1951)London-born Philip Sparke studied composition, trumpet and piano at theRoyal College of Music and began actively pursuing composition as a resultof playing in the RCM wind band and brass band. Following severalsuccessful commission, his music gained attention and he is now one ofthe most productive of the new British composers. He has composedworks for every major American military band and the most renownedwind ensembles and brass bands in the world and his music has been wonnumerous prestigious competitions. This fanfare was commissioned tocelebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Harmonieverein Cäcilia ofHerzogenrath, Germany. It opens with a majestic brass themeaccompanied by florid woodwind lines that flow into a gentle lyrical middlesection and is the perfect entrance into the world of music found in theBritish Isles.

“Dundonnell” from Hymn of the Highlands .............................Philip SparkeSparke’s monumental seven-movement suite for brass band, Hymn of theHighlands, closes with this fine setting reminiscent of the regal Scottishpiping tune Highland Cathedral. Composed by two German musicians in1982 for a European Highlands Games, the lyrics speak eloquently of thelove of the Scots for their land:

“There is a land far from this distant shore,Where heather grows and Highland Eagles soar.

There is a land that will live ever moreDeep in my heart, my Bonnie Scotland.”

Mannin Veen ....................................................Haydn Wood (1882-1959)Mannin Veen is Gaelic for “Dear Isle of Man” and was originally written fororchestra in 1933. The work embodies Wood’s unique ability to meldfolksong material into a cohesive, single-movement work. This tone poemis based on four Manx folk songs that include a traditional air, “The GoodOld Way;” “The Manx Fiddler,” a Scottish or Gaelic reel much like anAmerican hoedown; a summoning song, “Sweet Water in Common,” set asa ballad; and an old Methodist hymn, “The Harvest of the Sea,” sung byfishermen after their safe return to port. This work beautifully representsthe picturesque Isle of Man, located in the Irish sea between England andIreland, where Wood lived as a youth. James R. O’Dell

British Eighth ...........................................................Zo Elliot (1882-1959)Perhaps the exemplar of the British march, British Eighth was written as atribute to General Bernard Montgomery and the Eighth Army after their

triumphant sweep across Northern Africa in 1942 in the middle of WorldWar II. British Eighth is widely performed on both sides of the Atlantic.Interestingly, Alonso [Zo] Elliot was born in Manchester, New Hampshireand educated in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and in Cambridge, England.

English Folk Song Suite .....................Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)Ralph Vaughan Williams is perhaps THE eminent British composer of the20th Century. His 1923 English Folk Song Suite, a masterwork compositionof wind band literature and the composer’s first work for band, was writtento provide “an agreeable and salutary experience for Bandsmen.” Withinthree short movements, Vaughan Williams wove eight British folk tunesinto the musical fabric and provided the performers with opportunities forexpressive solo playing as well as connecting British bands to their folksong heritage. This wonderful work has been performed by ensemblesranging from middle school bands to “The President’s Own” United StatesMarine Band! Tonight, the combined bands will open their section of theprogram with the first movement, featuring the songs “Seventeen ComeSunday” and “Pretty Caroline”.

Irish Tune from County Derry .........................Percy Grainger (1882-1961)Called by some “the most beautiful melody ever written,” this 1909 settingby Australian-born Grainger was based on a tune collected in 1885 by MissJ. Ross of New Town, Limavaday, County Derry, Ireland, and published inThe Petrie Collection of Ancient Music of Ireland. Known to many as"Danny Boy," it is a parent’s message sung to a son gone from the belovedhomeland. Grainger’s individuality as a composer is easily recognized bythe unique harmonies and counter melodies which set off this simple tune,dedicated to the memory of the great Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg.

You’ll Come Matilda (Endlessly Waltzing) ....Jess Langston Turner (b. 1983)The unofficial anthem of Australia, “Waltzing Matilda,” is like manyfolksongs—the lyrics are based on actual events, the Australian sheepshearer strike of 1891. They tell the story of a starving drifter who stolesheep from his former master. The owner hunted the man down withthree members of the constabulary and rather than allow himself to becaptured and hanged, the thief jumped into the billabong—a small pond—beside which he had camped. The weight of his “matilda”—his knapsack—sent him struggling to the bottom where he drowned. It is rumored thathis ghost still “waltzes”—roams or wanders—that billabong to this veryday. If one listens carefully, one may hear the “nice” melody turnominous, the drifter sink in the waters, and his voice whispering to thosewho pass by. Jess Turner, a Greenville native now living and composing inVermont, is one of today’s most recognized young composers.

Gaelforce..............................................................Peter Graham (b. 1958)Building on the resurgence of interest in Irish music, this energetic worksets three traditional tunes in the rich colors of the wind band. The jigtune “The Rocky Road to Dublin” appears first and features thewoodwinds. The second tune is the well-known ballad “The Minstrel Boy,”followed by the reel “Tossing the Feathers.”

Flourish for Wind Band .........................................Ralph Vaughan WilliamsOf three Vaughan Williams flourishes, this 1939 work is his first for windband and is a rather obscure composition. Flourish was intended as anoverture for a pageant, but because of the war, was lost in the decadefollowing its premiere. In 1971 the score resurfaced and was finallypublished. Flourish opens with a theme based on a four-note motive.Marked “maestoso,” the music bursts out in brassy colors but then settlesinto a serene, stately melody related to the opening motif and the openingintervals. In the end, Flourish cannot be considered a major rediscovery,but neither should the piece be judged a failure. One reviewer wrote, “It isa delicious morsel, thematically and instrumentally recognizable in aninstant as the work of Vaughan Williams” and a delightful delicacy withwhich to close the concert.

Dr. Dan Turner is Professor of Music, Director of Bands and Director ofInstrumental Activities at Bob Jones University where he has spent hisentire 45-plus year career working in the band programs. He holds degreesfrom Bob Jones University (B.S.) and the University of Illinois (M.S. andEdD) where he studied under eminent musician-educators CharlesLeonhard, Richard Colwell, and band conductor Harry Begian. His bandshave performed at state-wide and regional music and educationconferences. Under his direction, the University Wind Band has appearedon tour in more than 20 states. Dr. Turner has been active incommissioning or premiering new works for band and has conducted thenational premiere of more than 15 works, including works by Dan Forrest,Jess Langston Turner, Seth Custer, Josh Hummel, Daniel Musselman andothers. He has conducted such renowned performers as trumpet artistsBarbara Butler and Charles Geyer, flutist Tadeu Coelho, saxophonevirtuoso Kenneth Tse, and Philadelphia Orchestra trombonist MatthewVaughn. He has served as an officer and committee member in the SouthCarolina chapter of the College Band Directors National Association[CBDNA]. He has appeared as conductor in band festivals in fifteen states,and continues to be a strong advocate for school music and bands. He ishas authored three books, including Standing Without Apology: TheHistory of Bob Jones University. He has been listed in Who’s Who since2005 and was honored in 2016 by being voted into the AmericanBandmasters Association, the world's premiere professional band

organization. He is also the President of the Gingery-Mack MusicScholarship Fund for BJU music students. He is married to author JamieLangston Turner, and they have one son, composer Dr. Jess Turner, andtwo grandchildren, Svana and Kjell. This is Dan's first year conducting theGreenville Concert Band.

Mr. Jim Kilgus is widely recognized for his work at Mauldin School wherehe has developed a model band program that has gained nationalrecognition. James Kilgus currently serves as Co-Director of Bands atMauldin Middle School, one of the largest band programs in the state ofSouth Carolina with 275 individual students currently enrolled in class. Theprogram is comprised of four individual bands, a drumline, and variouschamber ensembles. In 2012, the Mauldin Middle School Wind Ensembleappeared at the South Carolina Music Educators Association Conference inCharleston, South Carolina. The Mauldin Middle Bands consistently receiveSuperior ratings at festival performances and place a large number ofstudents in honor bands

Mr. Kilgus also leads the Concert Orchestra of the Carolina YouthSymphony, where he has worked since 1991. A sought-after adjudicator,clinician, and speaker, Mr. Kilgus has garnered a highly respectedreputation for exceptional teaching and advocacy of music education. Hisprofessional affiliations include Phi Beta Mu, the National Bandmaster’sFraternity, the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and theSouth Carolina Band Directors Association (SCBDA).

A graduate of Furman University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Mr. Kilgus holds a Bachelor’s of Science in MusicEducation and a Masters in Conducting and Music Education. An activemember of Eastlan Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, Mr. Kilgus served foreight years as Minister of Music, and since 2009 has been a director of theMedia Ministry. Jim resides in Mauldin, SC with his wife Tammie anddaughter Rebekah, a college freshman. His son, Dr. Taylor Massey, isprincipal clarinet of the Augusta Symphony.

Upcoming GCB Concert Series

Memorials: Lest We Forget

Sunday, April 29, 3:00 PMThe Cascades at Verdae10 Fountainview Terrace

Greenville, SC 29607

Sunday, May 20, 3:00 p.m.Mauldin Cultural Center

101 E Butler Rd. Mauldin, SC 29662