ARIZONA HIGH SCHOOL

Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble

Jeffrey Malone, Conductor

Wednesday, September 9, 2016

Concert Hall
7:30 p.m.
 Arizona High School
Symphonic Band & Wind Ensemble

Jeffrey Malone, Conductor

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Concert Hall
7:30 p.m.

Symphonic Band

Crown Imperial March ........................................... Sir William Walton

(1902-1983)

Loch Lomond ....................................................................... Frank Ticheli

(b. 1958)

Overture for Winds .......................................................... Charles Carter

(b. 1926)

INTERMISSION

Wind Ensemble

Toccata for Band ............................................................. Frank Erickson

(1923-1996)

Aurora Awakes ................................................................... John Mackey

(b. 1973)

Ride ..................................................................................... Samuel Hazo

(b. 1966)
 Biography

JEFFREY MALONE was raised in

Prescott, Arizona and has been
playing the saxophone for eleven
years. Presently, he is student
teaching at Cienega High School
under the tutelage of Jim
Matsushino where he works with
a diverse array of musicians.
During his time at the University
of Arizona, Malone has been an
active member of the award
winning Catalina Saxophone
Quartet, the University of Arizona
Wind Ensemble, and the
University of Arizona Concert
Jazz Band. Additionally, he is a member of the Pride of Arizona
Pep Band and currently serves as drum major of the esteemed
Pride of Arizona Marching Band. Malone spends his summers
giving private saxophone lessons, volunteering with elementary
school aged musicians, and working with local high school
marching bands. As a senior at the University of Arizona, Malone
has studied saxophone under the guidance of Dr. Michael Keepe
and Dr. Edward Goodman while he pursues a Bachelor of Music
degree in Music Education.
 About the Music
Crown Imperial March (10:00)

Born in Oldham, Lancashire, Sir William Walton was a British

composer and conductor who drew influence from the likes of
Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Walton composed music for a variety of
musical entities including, but not limited to, film scores, ceremonial
pieces, chamber music and choral works.
Crown Imperial March was written by Walton on commission
by the BBC for the coronation of King Edward VIII. However, before
the piece could be completed, Edward abdicated and was
subsequently replaced by his brother, George VI. Thus, Crown Imperial
was premiered at the coronation of King George VI on May 12, 1937.
Cast in the form of a traditional English march, this piece was also
performed at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and was
again performed as a recessional piece to the 2011 wedding of Prince
William and Catherine Middleton.

Loch Lomond

Frank Ticheli is an American composer of orchestral, choral,

chamber and concert band works. He attended Southern Methodist
University and received both his Master’s and Doctorate from the
University of Michigan. Presently, he is the Professor of Composition
at the University of Southern California. Ticheli’s numerous works for
band have become staples of the wind band repertoire.
Loch Lomond is a Scottish folk song that tells the story of two
Scottish soldiers who were imprisoned after the famous Battle of
Culloden Moor, in which 7,000 Highlanders were defeated by the
British army of King George II. One of these soldiers was to be
executed, while the other was to be set free. Loch Lomond is told from
the point of view of the soldier who was to be executed. In his
arrangement of Loch Lomond, Ticheli hopes to “preserve the folksong’s
simple charm, while also suggesting a sense of hope, and the
resilience of the human spirit”.

Overture for Winds

Charles Carter grew up in Worthington, Ohio and attended The

Ohio State University and the Eastman School of Music. After
graduating from Eastman, Carter returned to Ohio where he arranged
for the Ohio State University Marching Band and served as a part time
instructor. Later, he served as an arranger and Professor of Music
Theory and Composition at Florida State University. Now retired,
Carter is well known for his numerous compositions for concert band.
His trend-setting compositions have become the model for school
band music.
Overture for Winds is a contemporary, three-part overture that
has remained Carter’s most popular composition for wind band. The
opening section is characterized by a robust and rhythmic theme. This
opening theme transitions into a slower and more expressive
reinterpretation of the original idea. The final section is a repetition of
the opening theme that builds to a final, triumphant climax.

Toccata for Band

Frank Erickson was born in Spokane, Washington in 1923. He

wrote his first concert piece while still in high school. He entered the
University of Southern California in 1948, studied composition and
arranged for the USC Band while working towards his Bachelor’s and
Master’s Degrees. He later taught at UCLA and San Jose State College,
served as musical editor for Bourne, Belwin and G. Schirmer
Publications and organized the firm of Summit Publications.
Toccata for Band is a staple of the concert band literature and is
extremely popular among high school and college bands. The melodic
material presented throughout this Toccata is thoughtfully recycled
throughout the entirety of the work. This work is largely
characterized by the numerous time signature changes, which
consequently contributes to the work’s characteristically sharp and
angular feel. The formal elements of Toccata for Band are highly
regular and easy to follow as fast and slow sections seamlessly
transition between one another.

Aurora Awakes

John Mackey is a composer for orchestra and symphonic winds.

He attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
He has served as composer-in-residence for over twenty prominent
American universities, and in 2005, was the youngest composer to
receive the American Bandmasters Association/ Ostwald Award for
his wind version of Redline Tango.
Aurora Awakes was commissioned by the J.E.B. Stuart High
School Wind Ensemble of Falls Church, Virginia and premiered on
May 8, 2009. The piece portrays the coming of light through Aurora,
the Roman goddess of the dawn, referencing Virgil’s Aeneid:

Aurora now had left her saffron bed,

And beams of early light the heav'ns o'erspread,
When, from a tow'r, the queen, with wakeful eyes,
Saw day point upward from the rosy skies.

In this composition, Mackey uses well-known musical material from

pop culture, namely the opening ostinato guitar riff from U2’s Where
the Streets Have No Name. This guitar riff ostinato relentlessly persists
throughout the duration of the piece as it is passed throughout the
ensemble. Additionally, Mackey borrows from a masterpiece of wind
band literature – the final chord of the piece is identical to the closing
chord of the Chaconne of Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E-flat, written
exactly one century prior. He “brightens” up the chord by
supplementing it with instrumentation not present in Holst’s First
Suite, alluding to the coming of Aurora’s light. Aurora Awakes is a
masterful work that has become extremely popular throughout the
wind band community.
Ride

Samuel Hazo is an American composer of wind band music. He

received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Duquesne
University where he served on the Board of Governors and was
recognized as Duquesne’s Outstanding Graduate in Music Education.
Hazo has served as a music teacher at every educational grade level
(from kindergarten through college) and currently serves on the music
faculty in the Upper St. Clair School District and as a music clinician.
He presently resides in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania with his wife and two
children.
Samuel Hazo says of his work: “Ride is a is a high-velocity piece
inspired by a landscape-blurring car ride down a country road in
Pennsylvania. Beginning and ending in the same key to symbolize
going from one ‘home’ to another, Ride zooms through harmonic and
metric changes in between to take listeners and musicians for a ‘ride’
before building to a furious climax.” Ride is a thrilling piece of
literature sure to please both audiences and musicians alike.
 Arizona High School
Symphonic Band

Flute Trumpet
Naomi Worob* Laura Hockenberger*
Julia Gundacker Andrew Davidson
Jenni Thornton Bradley King
Ashley Mains Sharna Beahm
Angel Agayo, piccolo Josh Lawson
Kenny Saufley
Oboe
Michaela Gautier* French Horn
Ian Ramsey*
Bassoon Katherine Hammer
Ezekial Pogue Reilly Ruckman
Haley Fauland
Clarinet
Abby Hill* Trombone
Jeffery White Katie Trent*
Bethany Waldvogel Nathan Ksiazek
Trisha Bacalso Ireneo Flores
Rose Aguilar Dan Phillips, bass
Katie Bradstreet
Erin Pelley Euphonium
Kasey Siebert*
Bass Clarinet David Dayoub
Clifton Weston*
Tuba
Saxophone Jack Lewis*
Christine Yi*, alto Jesse Factor
George Rosas, alto
Jacob Lopez, tenor Percussion
Chris Herald, baritone Zach White*
Eric Sorenson
Sean Rees
Claire Thorpe
Daniel Vega

*Principal
 Arizona High School
Wind Ensemble

Flute Trumpet
Andres Nuncio* Max Gaxiola*
Victor Salcedo Bryan Malone
Skyla Robinson Will Willcoxson
Tatiana Couchee Isaac Roundseville
Ali Angelo, piccolo Manny Castillo
Chris Brown
Oboe
Joey Howdeshell* French Horn
Virgil Armstrong*
Bassoon Edgar Ortega
Kyle Edwards* Joseph Gautier
Sydney Warner
Clarinet
Sabrina Bachelier* Trombone
Gina Chung Julia Snook*
Christian Baker Tristan Meyerhofer
William Li Brittnee Lacasse
Arnie Ventura Aly Cruz, bass
Maya Kraft
Meghan Kennedy Euphonium
Rachel Sibbles*
Bass Clarinet Seth Kuhns
Jesus Jaquez*
Tuba
Saxophone Ramiro Bravo*
Andrew Morton*, alto Michael Cook
Robbie Highfield, alto
Leiah Sulsberger, tenor Percussion
Maddie Poage, baritone Jacob Serr*
Lani Villanueva
Ali Stockdell
Kevin Mueller
Chris Edwards

*Principal
 Upcoming Events

September 16 Football vs. RUHS

September 30 Football vs. THS
October 7 Football vs. CDOHS
October 8 Sabino Canyon Marching Invitational
October 14 Football vs. CFHS (Senior Night)
October 22 U of A Band Day
November 4 State Marching Festival
November 11 Veteran’s Day Parade
December 8 Winter Concert
December 12 Winter Jazz Concert
December 17 Christmas Parade

Special Thanks

Arizona High School Administration

Arizona High School Custodial Staff
Arizona High School Stage Managers
Instrumental Music Center
Band Booster Parents and Executive Board
All of our Amazing Band Students

“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind

and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole,
flows from heaven to the soul.” -Anonymous

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind,

flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness,
and life to everything.” -Plato