Center for the Arts

Boyer College of Music and Dance

conTemplum

Temple Composers Orchestra


Adam Vidiksis, conductor
Sun He, assistant conductor






Tuesday, April 22, 20147:30PM
Chapel of Four Chaplains, Temple Performing Arts Center
SE Corner of Broad Street and Polett Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122


Program

Peasant Dances Alexander Kruchoski


Classic Title Philip Miller


Unreturned Anthony Manfredonia
Sun He, conductor


Through an Intangible Forrest Benjamin Safran


Sonata for Orchestra in G Major Lucas Alexander


|Intermission|


Divertimento for Orchestra Kenneth Glendon


Adagio Daniel Fox


Une histoire illustre Alexander Goodhart
I. Le Monde [The World]
II. Une million dannes [A Million Years]
III. Dbris du temps [Debris of Time]
IV. Intermde [Interlude]
V. Leffect pappilon [The Butterfly Effect]
VI. Grande arrive [Grand Arrival]
VII. Danse de la pluie [Rain Dance]

Sun He, conductor


Gallant (Mis)adventures in Quixotism Sabrina Clarke

The use of photographic, audio, and video recording is not permitted.
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Four hundred thirty-ninth performance of the 2013-2014 season.
Musicians

Violin I
Ryan Kiple, concertmaster
Isaac Kim
Chris Smirnov

Violin II
Freddy Contreras
Rick Henry
Natalie Trach

Viola
Alexander Kruchoski
Kevin Sloan
Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel

Cello
Yeliza Aleman-Gaetn
Ajibola Rivers

Bass
Michael Chaffin

Flute
Christopher Schelb
Oboe
Katrina Kwantes

Clarinet
Joel Weszka

Bassoon
Dominic Panunto

Horn
Aidan Basile

Trumpet
Will Koehler

Trombone
Jeremy Cohen

Harp
Elizabeth Bawel

Percussion
Vctor Pablo



Program Notes

Peasant Dances Alexander Kruchoski

Peasant Dances depicts a dynamic competition between two rustic
dances. Influenced by the folk-inspired music of Bartk and
Stravinsky, the scene takes place in a remote eastern European
village. After the dances are introduced by soloists (clarinet and
trumpet) and mimicked by supporters, a competition develops as
each rival style attempts to out-do the other. When matters get out of
hand, the village leaders bring the townspeople to their senses (brass
chorale). Upon earnest reconciliation, the humbled town erupts into
a joyous celebration.

A self-taught composer, ALEXANDER KRUCHOSKI has been
writing music since he was ten. His works have been commissioned
and performed at school recitals, public concerts, and music festivals.
Following their premieres, a number of his pieces have been
requested to be played by professional ensembles. String Trio, his
compositional debut, will enjoy its second European performance
later this year. Now 22, Alex is completing a degree in Viola
Performance at Temple University.


Classic Title Philip Miller

PHILIP MILLER is a graduate student pursuing a Master's degree in
Music Composition, currently studying with Matthew Greenbaum.


Unreturned Anthony Manfredonia

Unreturned is piece that solely revolves around the concept of
unrequited love. On a whole, feeling such intense desire and love for
another, only to have it unfortunately denied is the epitome of
heartbreak. The conception of this piece came from someone who I
only talked to once, but the topic of their conversation involved this
rather saddening situation of unreturned love. It struck me as a
perfect idea behind a piece of music, and I tried to embody the
whole process of unrequited love; feeling the emotions, attempting to
give them to someone, only to be fruitless in the end.

ANTHONY (TONY) MANFREDONIA is a first semester junior
majoring in Music Composition. Currently, he is studying with
resident composer Erik Lundborg. Tony composed this piece whilst
over winter break during the early weeks of January. He works as a
composer for Ackk Studios, a video game production company. In
December of 2013, Ackk Studios first video game, Two Brothers, was
released to the public and possesses a four hour-long soundtrack.
Ackk Studios is currently working on the next video game project,
and Tony has already begun composing the soundtrack.


Through an Intangible Forest Benjamin Safran

Through an Intangible Forest is a sort of exploration of some imaginary
landscape with the richness of the orchestra itself. The intangible
aspect shows itself in two ways: several points of climax fall just short
of expectations or are interrupted in some way, and the recurring
duet first heard in the flute and glockenspiel fails to cadence in
almost every iteration.

The piece falls into three main sections. The third section is a
recapitulation of the first, with recurring material cycling back
repeatedly within each of these sections before slipping away. These
sections are characterized by a dreaminess or murkiness. The middle
section has a more playful, folk-like melody whose accompaniment is
gradually enriched as it repeats continuously between different
sections of the ensemble.

BENJAMIN SAFRAN is a first-year Masters student in Music
Composition who composed Through an Intangible Forest this semester
while studying with Alexander deVaron. He attended Haverford
College as an undergraduate where he studied with Ingrid Arauco
and Curt Cacioppo. Originally from Massachusetts, his work has
been performed by members of Network for New Music in the
Philadelphia area and by the ensemble Calliope and the
Commonwealth School Orchestra in Boston.


Sonata for Orchestra in G Major Lucas Alexander

Sonata for Orchestra in G Major is deeply set in the classical style. Its
conceptual and tonal material is largely pastoral, inspired by the
simplicity that can arise when human life is closely connected and
attuned to the earth. During the writing of this piece, I often
reminisced on a visit to a farm in Asheville, North Carolina, where
an old rusty hand plow leaned contentedly against a tree, and the
soft, hazy air was lit with the afternoon sun.

LUCAS ALEXANDER is a Theory major at Temple University, a
piano teacher, and a composer at heart. Every composition for him is
an opportunity to try something new, and his goal is to bring honest
music and a greater understanding of it into the world.


Divertimento Kenneth Glendon

Divertimento evokes the cheerful marching of the tiny wind-up
machines one might find strewn about the floor of a childs
bedroom, who exercise their secret agency in the wee hours of the
morning when their owner has long since succumbed to dreams of
impossible things.

Born in 1992, KENNETH GLENDON has been composing music
since childhood. In addition to his work for the concert hall,
Kenneth has composed in collaboration with dancers and stage
directors. In 2012 Kenneths string quartet Throw the Emptiness from
your Arms was described by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as a
strongly imagined new piece rich with dreamy textures. In 2012
Kenneth was commissioned by Temple University bassoonist
Mitchell Frizzell to compose a bassoon concerto, a project for which
Kenneth was awarded a grant from the Diamond Research Scholars
Program; Kenneth conducted the premiere of his two new bassoon
concerti with Emeline Chong as soloist in a concert sponsored by
LocalArtsLive. Kenneths piece Two Machines: Sonata for Two
Pianos was supported by a CARAS grant from Temple University
and will be performed by renowned pianists Charles Abramovic and
Clipper Erickson; he has also had works performed by the Momenta
Quartet and Philadelphias Network for New Music.

Kenneth will be completing undergraduate studies at Temple
University in the Honors Program and the Boyer College of Music
and Dance, where he has studied composition with Steven Stucky,
Jan Krzywicki, Richard Brodhead, and Matthew Greenbaum, and
piano with Clipper Erickson. Kenneth has also studied with Phillip
Lasser at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris and with
Eric Ewazen at the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, and has
presented works in master classes with Steven Mackey and William
Bolcom.


Adagio Daniel Fox

DANIEL FOX is a composer and a mathematician. His recent
compositions have begun to explore the role of the spatial locations
of sound sources. In 2013-2014, he received the Presser Music Award
and an American Composers Forum Subito grant to collaborate with
the visual artist Gabriela Vainsencher on The Franois Vase, for video
projection and string quartet. He has studied composition with
Maurice Wright, Jan Krzywicki, and Matthew Greenbaum in the
graduate program for Composition at Boyer College of Music and
Dance at Temple University. In 2005 he received a PhD in
Mathematics from Duke University and was a National Science
Foundation International Research Fellow at Oxford University. His
mathematical research focuses on calibrated geometry and integrable
systems. He is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department
at the Community College of Philadelphia. In Fall 2014 he will enter
the PhD program for Composition at CUNY Graduate Center. Fox
was born and raised outside of Philadelphia.


Une histoire illustre Alexander Goodhart
(vignettes pour lorchestra)

Une histoire illustre, or An Illustrated Story, is a set of continuous
musical vignettes composed for orchestra in 2014. The program
seeks to connect and juxtapose disparate natural forces: ones volatile
and chaotic, and those sublime and symmetrical. The story is one of
cosmic creation over the millenia, as told in seven movements.

ALEXANDER GOODHART is a pianist and composer, born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works include music for visual
media, chamber ensemble, soloists, vocalists, and the orchestra.

This program will be the last of Alexanders performances with the
Boyer College of Music and Dance. Following graduation this May,
he will be pursuing his Masters of Music at the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music. Hed like to recognize the inestimable
support and influence of his friends, family, colleagues, and mentors
in this achievement and those to come.


Gallant (Mis)adventures in Quixotism Sabrina Clarke

Gallant (Mis)adventures in Quixotism is a lighthearted and capricious
musical quest that highlights how spectacular and tumultuous the
ordinary ups and downs of everyday life often become. Our daily
misadventures are imbued with their own significance and relevance
to our work and personal lives, yet viewed in retrospect they often
seem humorous or even immaterial. Gallant (Mis)adventures in
Quixotism casts all of us as intrepid adventurers, navigating our
everyday obstacles with quixotic heroism.

SABRINA CLARKE is a composer, pianist, and music educator
whose creative interests include choral, chamber, and orchestral
music. Sabrina is currently completing her doctoral studies in
Composition at Boyer, where she studies with Matthew Greenbaum.
She is an alumna of the Hood College Music Preparatory, McDaniel
College, and the European American Musical Alliance composition
program in Paris, France. For more information, please visit
www.sabrinaclarkemusic.com.




Boyer College of Music and Dance

Temple Universitys Boyer College of Music and Dance offers a diverse
curriculum, wide array of degree programs and exemplary faculty, preparing
students for careers as educators, performers, choreographers, composers, music
therapists and scholars.

As part of the Center for the Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, the
Boyer College offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs are offered in
instrumental studies, keyboard, jazz studies, music theory, choral conducting,
music education and music therapy, composition, history, voice and opera, dance
performance, dance education, choreography and dance research. In addition to
on-campus performances, student ensembles perform at Lincoln Center,
Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and Jazz at Lincoln
Center.

The Center for the Arts and the Boyer College are part of a thriving arts
community that also includes the Tyler School of Art and the Division of
Theater, Film and Media Arts, providing myriad opportunities for
interdisciplinary collaboration among students, faculty and cultural partners.

The faculty at Boyer is recognized nationally and internationally as performers,
researchers, academic experts and scholars, garnering Grammy and Bessie
awards, major research grants and accolades from the media. In 2010, the college
launched its record label, BCM&D Records, which has since released three
Grammy-nominated recordings featuring the Temple University Symphony
Orchestra, a CD by the Temple University Jazz Band and several other recordings
featuring Boyer ensembles.

The Boyer College is located in close proximity to the Citys historic cultural
institutions, including the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, The
Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ballet,
Philadanco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation.

In 2012, the College celebrated 50 years of offering the highest quality of music
education. For more information, visit www.temple.edu/boyer.


Temple University

Since 1884 when founder Reverend Russell Conwell began teaching students,
Temple University has evolved into a comprehensive urban research and
academic institution. Temple has a world-class reputation and an international
presence with campuses in Philadelphia, Ambler and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania,
in Tokyo, Rome and educational centers in Seoul, Beijing, London, Paris and
Mumbai. Temples 17 schools and colleges, nine campuses, hundreds of degree
programs and 35,000 students combine to create one of the nation's most
comprehensive and diverse learning environments.






































Temple University 2013-2014 Season
Upcoming Events


Wednesday, April 23 at 3:00pm *
Master Class: Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Rock Hall Auditorium

Thursday, April 24 at 7:30pm
Temple University Symphony Orchestra
Luis Biava, conductor
Jeffrey Solow, violoncello
DVOK Cello Concert in B Minor, Op. 104
VERDI Overture to I Vespri Siciliani
RESPIGHI Pini di Roma
Temple Performing Arts Center

Friday, April 25 at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 27 at 3:00pm
Temple University Opera Theater presents
GLUCKs Orfeo ed Euridice
Sung in Italian with English subtitles
Valry Ryvkin, music director
David Carl Toulson, stage director
Jamie Johnson, producer
Tickets: $20 general admission | $15 students and senior citizens |
$5 with OWLcard
Tomlinson Theater

Saturday, April 26 at 4:00pm
Studio Recital: Voice Students of Randi Marrazzo and Sheryl Woods
Rock Hall Auditorium

Monday, April 28 at 1:00pm
Master Class: Clayton Brothers Quintet
Klein Recital Hall


Sponsored in part by the Temple University General Activities Fund.
* We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in the
presentation of these master classes.
All events are free unless otherwise noted. Programs are subject to change without notice.
For further information or to confirm events, please call 215.204.7609
or visit www.temple.edu/boyer. Unless otherwise indicated, ticket sales for opera and dance
performances are available at www.liacourascenter.com, at 1.800.298.4200 or in person,
cash-only at Liacouras Center Box Office, 1776 North Broad Street, open Monday-
Saturday, 10:00am-5:00pm.
Temple University 2013-2014 Season
Upcoming Events


Monday, April 28 at 7:30pm
Faculty and Guest Artist Recital: Clayton Brothers Quintet
Terell Stafford, trumpet
Klein Recital Hall

Tuesday, April 29 at 10:00am
Master Class: John Clayton, jazz bass
Rock Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, April 29 at 10:00am
Master Class: Jeff Clayton, jazz saxophone
Rock Hall, Room 126

Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30pm
Temple University Contemporary Ensemble
Jay Krush, conductor
Rock Hall Auditorium

Wednesday, April 30 at 7:30pm
Temple University Singers, Womens Chorus, and Temple Jazz Singers
Mitos Andaya and Christine Bass, conductors
Special Guest Artist: Darius Brubeck, piano
BRUBECK Pange Lingua Variations
MEALOR Wherever You Are
HALLEY Untraveled Worlds
Temple Performing Arts Center

Thursday, May 1 at 7:30pm
Temple University Wind Symphony
Emily Threinen, conductor
Phillip OBanion, marimba
AFFECT AND TRANSFORMATION
DOOLEY Point Blank
RODRIGO Adagio para Orquesta de Instrumentos de Viento
SILVERMAN Carbon Paper and Nitrogen Ink (Philadelphia premiere)
MASLANKA Symphony No. 4
Temple Performing Arts Center


Sponsored in part by the Temple University General Activities Fund.
All events are free unless otherwise noted. Programs are subject to change without notice.
For further information or to confirm events, please call 215.204.7609
or visit www.temple.edu/boyer.