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Publication Date

4-29-2008

Year of Release

2008

Note(s)

This concert is presented in honor of Dr. Sarah Denman, retiring Provost

Şőlen Dikener, conductor

Andrew Tilley, marimba

John Galloway, trombone

Personnel

Abby Holmes, concertmaster, Korey Jividen, concertmaster, Susan Cook, Melody Cook, violin 1

Joel Hatfield, Sercan Anaer, Lauren Keller, Megan Hunt, Emiko Hori, violin 2

Dilek Engin, Jame McCumbee, Lauren McDaniel, viola

Caitlin Zirkle, Jamie Dzierzak, Joshua Wassum, Melinda Littlejohn, cello

Rebecca Murphy, Rachel Isod, bass

Callie Huff, Lauren Manor, Jason Cook, flute

Laura Johnson, oboe

Ann Marie Bingham, English horn

Robert Heath, Rebecca Adkins, Hannah Bird, clarinet

Hannah Bird, bass clarinet

Ed Bingham, Lauren Kemp, bassoon

Nick Amis, Mindy Kelle, Billy Holderby, Brittany Balcom, horn

Mary Heath, Natasha Beverly, John Daniels, trumpet

Jeff Blair, Alex Conn, Tyler Mullins, trombone

Scott Lowry, tuba

Andrew Pinnick, Robert Kelley, Chris Scarberry, Lucas Selan, percussion

Yuri McCoy, piano

The Marshall University Orchestra would like to thank faculty members Ed and Ann Marie Bingham for their kind support for this performance

Short Symphony (2007)

I began writing Short Symphony in October of 2007 just after my wife and I had returned from an artists residency in Costa Rica; my initial strategy being that after a month of solid work I would be ready to tackle such a large project. After our return however we were both a bit tired, the details of daily life began to creep in, and Short Symphony began to emerge slowly even arduously from jottings of the previous month. I worked continuously through October to complete it by the middle of November spending many days reconciling mental images of the work and their translation to the page.

My primary aim in composing this work was to create a continuously developmental form shaped by gradual changes in its underlying material so that its "sound" quality changes slowly as the work shapes and, reshapes events of the musical surface. You might imagine this work as a journey where sweeping vistas exhibit the same general shape and the road underfoot is always distinctly different.

I would like to take a moment to acknowledge those who offered the assistance necessary to complete this work. First of all to Şőlen Dikener who encouraged me to write it and who has always been a supporter of my work, to the WV Commission on the Arts, and Marshall University without whose support I would not have had the time or resources to undertake a piece of this scale, to faculty colleagues for preparing parts and performing with the orchestra, and to the orchestra for approaching a new and challenging work with integrity.

mz

28 April 2008

Production of this work supported in part by funds from: National Endowment for the Arts

Note

Smith Recital Hall

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Fine Arts | Music | Music Performance

Marshall University Music Department presents the MU Symphony Orchestra, 2008 Competition Winners, Concert, Şőlen Dikener, conductor, Andrew Tilley, marimba, John Galloway, trombone

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