University Orchestra
Robert Gutter, music director
David Allen, clarinet
Grace Anderson, cello
LaTannia Ellerbe, conductor
Ted Federle, baritone
Andrew Hays, alto saxophone
Daniel C. Pappas, conductor
Yong Im Lee, piano
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
7:30 pm
Aycock Auditorium
Program
Finlandia, Op. 27 no. 7 Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957)
LaTannia Ellerbe, conductor
Concerto for Clarinet in A Paul Hindemith
Rather Fast (1895-1963)
Gay
David Allen, clarinet
Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104 Antonin Dvořák
Allegro (1841-1904)
Grace Anderson, cello
Intermission
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Op. 26 Paul Creston
Meditative (1906-1985)
Rhythmic
Andrew Hays, alto saxophone
The Silence about heaven Daniel C. Pappas
(b, 1981)
Daniel C. Pappas, conductor
World Premiere
Don Quichotte a Dulcinee Maurice Ravel
Chanson Romanesque (1875-1937)
Chanson epique
Chanson a boire
Ted Federle, baritone
Concerto for Piano in G Major Maurice Ravel
Allegramente
Yong Im Lee, piano
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Patrons needing such assistance should contact an usher in the lobby.
Program Notes
The Silence about Heaven was written in response to reading the following:
‘There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself
wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else. You may have
noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well
what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but
most of your friends do not see it at all, and often wonder why, liking this, you should also like
that. Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are
curiously ignorant of – something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking
through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat’s side?
Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being
who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were
born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other louder passions, night and day, year by year,
from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.
All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it – tantalizing
glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if
it should really become manifest – if there ever came and echo that did not die away but swelled
into the sound itself – you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say ‘Here at
last is the thing I was made for.’
This signature on each soul may be a product of heredity and environment, but that only means
that heredity and environment are among the instruments whereby God creates a soul. I am
considering not how, but why, He makes each soul unique. If He had no use for all these
differences, I do not see why He should have created more souls than one. Be sure that the ins
and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery
to you. The mould in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key:
and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. You heart has a curious shape
because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the Divine
substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. For it is not
humanity in the abstract that is to be saved, but you – you, the individual reader, John Stubbs or
Jane Smith. Blessed and fortunate creature, your eyes shall behold Him and not another’s. All
that you are, sins apart, is destined, if you will let God have His good way, to utter satisfaction.
The Brocken specter ‘looked to every man like his first love’, because she was a cheat. But God
will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Your place in heaven will seem
to be made for you alone, because you were made for it – made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is
made for a hand.’
- C.S. Lewis
Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Text by Paul Morand (1888-1976)
Chanson Romanesque
Si vous me disiez que la terre
À tant tourner vous offensa,
Je lui dépêcherais Pança:
Vous la verriez fixe et se taire.
Si vous me disiez que l’ennui
Vous vient du ciel trop fleuri d’astres,
Déchirant les divins cadastres,
Je faucherais d’un coup la nuit.
Si vous me disiez que l’espace
Ainsi vidé ne vous plaît point,
Chevalier dieu, la lance au poing,
J’étoilerais le vent qui passe.
Don Quichotte to Dulcinea
Romantic song
Were you to tell me that the earth
Offended you with so much turning,
I would dispatch Panza to deal with it:
You would see it still and silenced.
Were you to tell me that you are wearied
By a sky too studded with stars –
Tearing the divine order asunder,
I’d scythe the night with a single blow.
Were you to tell me that space itself,
Thus made empty was not to your taste –
As a god-like knight, with lance in hand,
I’d sow the fleeting wind with stars.
Mais si vous disiez que mon sang
Est plus à moi qu’à vous ma Dame,
Je blêmirais dessous le blâme
Et je mourrais, vous bénissant.
Ô Dulcinée
Chanson épique
Bon Saint Michel qui me donnez loisir
De voir ma Dame et de l’entendre,
Bon Saint Michel qui me daignez choisir
Pour lui complaire et la défendre,
Bon Saint Michel, veuillez descendre
Avec Saint Georges sur l’autel
De la Madone au bleu mantel.
D’un rayon du ciel bénissez ma lame
Et son égale en pureté
Et son égale en piété
Comme en pudeur et chasteté: Ma Dame.
Ô grands Saint Georges et Saint Michel
L’ange qui vielle sur ma veille,
Ma douce Dame si pareille
À vous, Madone au bleu mantel!
Amen.
Chanson à boire
Foin du bâtard, illustre Dame,
Qui pour me perdre à vos doux yeux
Dit que l’amour et le vin vieux
Mettent en deuil mon coeur, mon âme!
Je bois à la joie!
La joie est le seul but où je vais drois…
Lorsque j’ai…bu!
Foin du jaloux, brune maîtresse,
Qui geind, qui pleure et fait serment
D’être toujours ce pâle amant
Qui met de l’eau dans son ivresse!
Je bois à la joie!
La joie est le seul but où je vais drois…
Lorsque j’ai…bu!
But were you to tell me that my blood
Is more mine, my Lady, than your own,
I’d pale at the admonishment
And, blessing you, would die.
O Dulcinea.
Epic song
Good Saint Michael who gives me leave
To behold and hear my Lady,
Good Saint Michael who deigns to elect me
To please her and defend her,
Good Saint Michael, descend, I pray
With Saint George onto the altar
Of the Madonna robed in blue.
With a heavenly beam bless my blade
And its equal in purity
And its equal in piety
As in modesty and chastity: My Lady.
O great Saint George and great Saint Michael
Bless the angel watching over my vigil,
My sweet Lady, so like unto Thee,
O Madonna robed in blue!
Amen.
Drinking song
A pox on the bastard, illustrious Lady,
Who to discredit me in your sweet eyes,
Says that love and old wine
Are saddening my heart and soul!
I drink to joy!
Joy is the only goal to which I go straight…
When I am…drunk!
A pox on the jealous wretch, O dusky mistress,
Who whines and weeps and vows
Always to be this lily-livered lover
Who dilutes his drunkenness!
I drink to joy!
Joy is the only goal to which I go straight…
When I am…drunk!
Performers
David R. Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Master
of Music from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts
Degree at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In the spring of 1998, Mr. Allen studied
chamber music at the European Mozart Academy in Poland. He has performed with the
Greensboro Symphony, Charlotte Civic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra and has
participated in recordings with the Keystone Winds. He has performed in chamber music concerts
and recitals in Europe and the Middle East including a performance the Usedomer Musikfestival
in Germany with the Pan Wind Quintet. In July 2005, he performed at ClarinetFest in Japan as a
member of the Una Voce Quartet. His primary teachers have been Kelly Burke and Thomas
Thompson. David Allen is currently Instructor of clarinet at Radford University in Virginia and has
served on the faculties of Queens University of Charlotte and The University of North Carolina at
Asheville.
Winner of the Artist International Competition and the National Federation of Music Clubs, cellist
Grace Anderson (former/maiden name Grace Lin) has been presented as a recitalist and a
chamber musician in leading concert venues throughout North America and Europe. She gave
her New York debut recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 1999, on which the New York
Concert Review wrote “(Lin) played with “rapier definition and boundless energy.” Mrs. Anderson
has also given recitals in Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and the
Cararmoor festival.
As an active chamber musician, Mrs. Anderson is the founder of the Tedesca Chamber Players,
an all-strings group based in New York City whose performance of the Schubert string quintet
was broadcast by BBC television. Mrs. Anderson has also performed as a member of Proteaus
Five, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at the Aspen Music Festival, and as a
member of the Scott Johnson Ensemble in concert tours to Holland, Germany, and France. Mrs.
Anderson has form chamber music collaborations with renown artists such as members of the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – violinist Cho-Liang Lin, Mark Peskanov, violist Paul
Neubauer, and cellist Fred Sherry.
Mrs. Anderson began studying the cello at the age of ten at her native Taiwan. She earned at
Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and master’s degree from the Juilliard School. This is
her second year in the doctoral program at UNCG. Last year, she was the cellist of the Liberace
Trio, the graduate chamber ensemble in residence at UNCG, and the pricipal cellist of the
Winston-Salem Symphony. She has studied with Fred Sherry, Bernard Greenhouse, and Brooks
Whitehouse. In addition, she has performed in master classes for Lluis Claret and Janos Starker.
She and her husband Joseph are proud to announce the recent birth of their first child, Georgia
Camille Anderson, born on February 20th, 2006.
LaTannia Ellerbe will earn her Masters degree in violin performance this May. She currently
studies violin with John Fadial and conducting with Robert Gutter. She has previously studied
violin with Christian Teal, Ernest Pereira, Anne Setzer, and Connie Heard; and conducting with
Robin Fountain. She attended the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University as a Chancellor’s
Scholar and graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude. Ms. Ellerbe has
attended numerous summer programs including Brevard Music Center, Eastern Music Festival,
the Meadowmout School, and the Henry Mancini Institute. In the summer of 2005, LaTannia
attended the Medomak Conductors Retreat to study with Kenneth Keissler. While at Medomak,
she had the privilege of collaborating with legendary concert pianist Lorin Hollander. A fan of New
Music, Ms. Ellerbe has premiered many works by young composers. In 2004 she performed with
the award-winning composer Daniel Roumain for the MLK Lecture Series at Vanderbilt. She
enjoys teaching violin and currently does so for the Music Academy of North Carolina, Our Lady
of Grace Catholic School, and the Thomasville Public School System.
Ted Federle is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and is in his first year of graduate study at UNCG in
Voice-Performance. He received his BM in Voice-Performance from Bowling Green State
University in Ohio. Recent performances include the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with
the UNCG Opera Theatre and Greensboro Opera Company, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore,
Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro and Dr. Faulke in Die Fledermaus with BGSU.
Mr. Federle’s concert experience includes the Brahms Requiem with the Washington and Lee
University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra and Chorus as well as commencement soloist with
the BGSU Symphonic Band and he has worked with conductors such as Xian Zhang, Edoardo
Müller, and James Conlon. A winner of the North Carolina National Association of teachers of
Singing and the UNCG Concerto competition, Mr. Federle’s future engagements include
performances with the Cincinnati Opera Company Chorus for their upcoming summer festival.
Saxophonist Andrew Hays was born in the heartland of Ohio, but now lives in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina. Andrew has performed with noted artists such as Lou Rawls, Bernadette Peters,
Al Martino, Larry Elgart, The Winston-Salem Symphony, The Roger Humphries Big Band, and
The Balcony Big Band. As a chamber musician, he has performed with the Red Clay Saxophone
Quartet and the New Century Saxophone Quartet, and was a founding member of the Affinity
Saxophone Quartet. While with the Affinity Quartet, the ensemble was selected as a winner of
the Pittsburgh Concert Society competition and a semi-finalist of the Fischoff International
Chamber Music Competition. As a soloist, Andrew won the Duquesne University concerto
competition and earned honorable mention in the Duquesne University Women’s Advisory Board
competition. Currently, he teaches saxophone at the Community Music School of the North
Carolina School of the Arts and the Community Music School of the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro. Previously, he held the position of Adjunct Professor of Saxophone at Duquesne
University in Pittsburgh, PA. Andrew is completing a DMA in saxophone performance at UNCG
where he serves as a Graduate Assistant for the theory, saxophone, and jazz departments.
Andrew also holds MM and BM degrees from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA where he
studied with renowned concert saxophonist James Houlik. Andrew can be heard on saxophonist
Stephen Pollock’s solo recording, “So Near, So Far,” produced by Branford Marsalis and released
by Alana Records in 2005.
Daniel C Pappas is currently a graduate composition student at the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro where he studies with Dr. Mark Engebretson. Daniel received his undergraduate
degree from Grace College, Indiana in violin performance. There he studied violin with Olga
Yurkova and theory with Verna May Feltz. Having grown up in Southern Germany he received
training in violin, piano, the recorder and theory/composition from an early age at the Musikschule
Aalen. His teachers include Stefan Kueling and the composer Henning Brauel. Daniel’s first
notable performance took place in Heubach, Germany with the Rosenstein Kammerorcherster in
2004, which has recently commissioned an orchestral suite to be performed in the fall of 2006.
Upon completion of his Master’s degree at UNCG he will enter into a doctoral program for
composition.
Yong Im Lee is a DMA student in Piano Performance at UNCG and a student of Andrew Willis.
She has performed numerous recitals throughout South America and the United States, including
performances in Chile at the Music Festival of Frutillar, in the National Library of Santiago, and for
the Young Pianists Cycle. Ms. Lee has appeared as a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica de
Concepción and the Orquesta Santa Cecilia de Chillán in Chile, and Indiana University South
Bend Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, she has performed in Rio Cuarto (Argentina), Porto
Alegre (Brazil), and Ciudad de Treinta y Tres (Uruguay). In the United States she has performed
many solo and chamber recitals in South Bend, Indiana and Boston, Massachusetts. She has
also participated in several international competitions and masterclasses such as Tel-Hai
International Piano Masterclass in Israel. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Lee has resided in
Santiago, Chile, since 1987. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with High Distinction from Indiana
University South Bend, and a Master’s Degree with Distinction and a Graduate Performance
Diploma from Longy School of Music in Boston. In addition to Dr. Willis, her teachers include
Alexander Toradze, Alexander Korsantia, Eileen Hutchins, and Sally Pinkas.
The Orchestra
Violin I
LaTannia Ellerbe, concertmaster
Seung Hee Kwon, assn’t concertmaster
Michael Cummings
Gretchen Heller
William Selle
Jared Matthews
Annalisa Chang
Elisabeth Cansler
Kimberly Jennings
Violin II
Laura Doyle, principal
Andrew Liggit, assn’t principal
Daniel Pappas
Elizabeth Larson
Holley Ross
Amy Johnson
Shelley Blalock
Brittany Ellis
Kristen Walton
Viola
Lindsey Parsons, principal
John Ward, assn’t principal
Susannah Plaster
Joseph Driggars
Laura Anderson
Morgan Caffey
Caitlin Leming
Amber Autry
Anna Wittmann
Christina Fuchs
Alex Beard
Cello
Brian Hodges, principal
Gina Pezzoli, assn’t principal
Jesse McAdoo
Michael Way
Kevin Lowery
Kendall Ramseur
Rebecca Wade
Jonathan Benson
Krista Britt
Double Bass
Paul Quast, principal
Patrick Byrd, assn’t principal
Michael Ditrilio
Di Wang
Christopher Polen
Ryan Mack
Stella Heine
Stephen Jackson
Stuart McLemore
Jason Peppers
Flute and Piccolo
Tika Douthit +
Allison Flores
Laura Pritchett +
Oboe and English horn
Cheshire Moon
Thomas Pappas
Katherine Woolsey, principal
Clarinet and *Bass Clarinet
Sarah Lloyd, co-principal
Kelly Smith, co-principal
Bassoon
Rebecca Hammontree, principal
Justin Thompson
Horn
Kendal Alley
Kate Hopper, co-principal
Philip Kassel, co-principal
Julie Price, co-principal
Shannon Witt
Trumpet
James Dickens, co-principal
Matt Boggs
Jeff Kindschuh, co-principal
Trombone and *Bass Trombone
Frank Beaty
Nicholas Goehring*
Paul Pietrowski, principal
Tuba
Brad Slusarczyk
Percussion
Dave Fox
Tim Heath
Thad Lowder
Braxton Sherouse, principal
Matt Watlington
Harp
Clarke Carriker
Librarian
Lindsey Parsons
Personnel Manager
Daniel Pappas
