Concert Program

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2015
N a t i o n a l
O rc h e s t ra
F e s t i v a l ®
March 19-21, 2015
Salt Lake City, Utah
Abravanel Hall
Center for the Arts
123 West South Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Sponsored by:
American String
Teachers Association
2015 National Orchestra Festival®
Clark High School Orchestra - Las Vegas, Nev.
Charles Cushinery, Jeremy Paredes, Directors
Explorer Middle School Advanced Orchestra - Everett, Wash.
Robin Enders, Director
Grandview High School Orchestra - Aurora, Colo.
Alison Reifschneider, Director
Hebron High School Silver Orchestra - Carrollton, Texas
Dawn Oyedipe, Director
Hyde Park Middle School Orchestra - Las Vegas, Nev.
Jeremy Woolstenhulme, Director
Interlake High School Chamber Orchestra - Bellevue, Wash.
Shira Katsman, Director
Klein High School Chamber Orchestra - Klein, Texas
Keith Markuson, Creston Herron, Directors
Liberty High School Chamber Orchestra - Liberty, Mo.
Mary Lou Jones, Director
Lincoln Middle School Chamber Ensemble - Santa Monica, Calif.
Jim Wang, Director
Hilary Klee, Instructional Assistant
McQueen High School Orchestra - Reno, Nev.
Kenny Baker, Director
Newport High School Chamber Orchestra - Bellevue, Wash.
Christine Gero, Director
North Coast Strings Adult Orchestra - Carlsbad, Calif.
Paula Simmons, Director
Olympus High School Symphony Orchestra - Holladay, Utah
Micah Fleming, Director
Roosevelt Junior High School 8th Grade Orchestra - Roosevelt, Utah
Rachel Wheeler, Director
Scripps Ranch High School String Orchestra - San Diego, Calif.
Russell Shedd, Director
University High School Symphony - Irvine, Calif.
Grace Lee, Director
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Welcome!
Dear Festival Enthusiasts,
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the annual Na-
tional Orchestra Festival, (NOF) sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld/
Connolly Music. The 2015 NOF showcases 16 spectacular ensem-
bles representing 16 schools from across the United States. Before
this event even begins, we want to offer our sincere congratula-
tions on all your hard work and accomplishment on being accept-
ed into ASTA’s premier festival.
The NOF is proud to present some of the nation’s finest music ed-
ucators as our adjudicators, performance clinicians, and master class clinicians. Each
festival group receives taped and written comments, as well as ratings by each of
the three concert adjudicators.
At the end of each concert performance, one of our highly-qualified clinicians will
provide each group a personal clinic focused on enhancing their music-making. Ad-
ditionally, all orchestras will have the opportunity during the conference to work with
master class clinicians. These clinicians have national and international reputations
as musicians and teachers. ASTA is committed to delivering the highest artistic and
educational experience to its members and their students. We are confident that the
2015 NOF will meet this goal.
For the vast majority of students, teachers, and educators who are part of NOF, Ray
Charles’ statement about music and its profound impact on his life is perhaps, rele-
vant to us all.
“I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my
kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when
I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.”
The students and teachers involved in performing at the NOF are blessed to have
such on opportunity to discover and present the beauty and excitement of music.
Thank you for your devotion to this art and for your preparation and dedication to
each other. And, lastly . . . we thank you for your performance today in Salt Lake
City. We wish you all the best of success!
Sincerely,
Valerie M. Palmieri
Organizing Chair
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2015 National Orchestra Festival®
Adjudicators
John Fetter
John Fetter, Ph.D., is assistant professor of music education at the Eastman
School of Music. He also serves as collegiate instructor in violin for the
Eastman Community Music School and as director of the philharmonia
and sinfonia youth orchestras for the Hochstein School of Music and
Dance. His research interests include identity development, alternative
styles in string music education, music in urban schools, and string peda-
gogy. An active guest speaker and clinician, he has presented at the
ASTA national conference and other music associations and societies, as
well as state and local music education associations across the United
States and in Ireland.
As a conductor, Fetter has worked with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rich-
mond Symphony Orchestra, and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Equally com-
fortable with orchestras in educational settings, he is known for his engaging teaching style.
He is passionate about young orchestras and is a frequent guest conductor with festival and
regional orchestras of all ages.
He received the University of Rochester’s Presidential Diversity Award in 2012 and the
Rochester Education Foundation’s “Making a Difference” Award in 2013 for his efforts to
forge partnerships and opportunities in music teaching and learning for urban students.
William LaRue Jones
William LaRue Jones is an active and versatile symphonic conductor. He
has the ability to work effectively with musicians at all levels and ex-
perience, which has made him a sought after teacher of conducting. His
conducts more than 100 concerts annually and includes an array of
professional, festival, collegiate, and student ensembles nationally and
internationally.
As a professional performer, he is noted for his outstanding tech-
nique and musicality. Jones was principle bassoon of the Minnesota Op-
era and Minnesota Ballet and was first-call associate with the Minnesota
Orchestra and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for more than 15 seasons.
Since 1997, Jones has been professor of music and director of orchestral studies and
conductor of orchestras and opera at the University of Iowa (Iowa City). He was selected as
the Jones for the Regents Award for faculty excellence. In 2011, he received the designation
of Collegiate Fellow in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
For his work on behalf of music education, he has been honored with 2013 Medal of
Honor presented by the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has received
the ASTA Exceptional Leadership and Merit Award, the Sigma Alpha Iota Musician of the
Year Award, the David W. Preuss Leadership Award, and the State of Minnesota Governors’
Proclamation of “Dr. William LaRue Jones Day.”
Rebecca MacLeod
Dr. Rebecca MacLeod, a frequent guest conductor and clinician through-
out the United States, is associate professor of music education at the
University of North Carolina (UNCG) at Greensboro, where she directs
the string education program and conducts the UNCG Sinfonia. Previous-
ly, she was the assistant artistic director and conductor of the Tallahassee
Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra in Tal-
lahassee, Florida. A native of Pennsylvania, she taught elementary, mid-
dle, and high school orchestra in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania and was
orchestra director and chair of music activities in Beaver, Pennsylvania.
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MacLeod is published in many scholarly journals including the Journal of Research in
Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education,
ASTA String Research Journal, and the Florida Music Educators Journal. She currently serves on
the editorial boards for the Journal of Research in Music Education and the ASTA String Re-
search Journal. She gives a lot of time to ASTA and recently served on its board of directors
as secretary. In 2014, she won the prestigious ASTA String Research Award. Her research on
working with underserved populations, vibrato technique, music teacher education, and mu-
sic perception has been presented at the International Conference of Music Perception and
Cognition, Music Educators National Conference, National Association for Music Education
National Conference, ASTA National Conference, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Soci-
ety for Music Teacher Education, and several music educators’ state conferences.
MacLeod received her undergraduate degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Penn-
sylvania and her M.M.E. and Ph.D. from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.
Clinicians
Louis Bergonzi
Louis Bergonzi holds the Daniel J. Perrino Chair in Music Education, and is
professor of orchestral conducting at the University of Illinois, where he
specializes in conducting and string education and is music director/con-
ductor of the University of Illinois Philharmonia. Prior to his appointment
at Illinois in 2005, for 17 years he was on the music education faculty at
the Eastman School of Music. While at Eastman, he was director of the
Rochester-Eastman Urban String Project, a multifaceted program for
preparing studio and group string teachers for work in urban settings.
He was string specialist and orchestra conductor for the Lexington (Mas-
sachusetts) Public Schools and is a past president of ASTA.
In addition to his teaching, conducting, and research responsibilities, Bergonzi is active
as a string clinician. He has served as a guest conductor for all-state and regional honors
youth orchestras and as a clinician both nationally and internationally. Bergonzi is a clinician
for Scherl & Roth String Instruments. He was co-director of Establishing Identity: LGBT Studies
and Music Education I and II (2010/2012), symposia designed to provide energy to the
discussion of how LGBT issues operate within music education in terms of research, curriculum,
teacher preparation, and the musical lives and careers of LGBT music students and teachers.
Douglas Droste
Conductor Douglas Droste is the artistic director of the Muncie Symphony
Orchestra and director of orchestras at Ball State University. He is rec-
ognized as possessing “obvious joy” for making music and a “sure sense
of timing” when on the podium.
Droste has served as director of orchestral studies at Oklahoma
State University (OSU) and principal guest conductor of the Oklahoma
City Philharmonic. During his tenure at OSU, Droste was lauded for his
performances. He also helped establish the opera studies program. With
the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Droste conducted a variety of concerts,
as well as productions with the Oklahoma City Ballet.
A dedicated advocate of youth orchestras and music education, Droste conducts all-state
and region orchestras, as well as other youth orchestras throughout the country. Droste is an
active clinician and adjudicator. Believing that outreach is an important tool for the promo-
tion of music education, Droste established a Young People’s Concert series with the OSU
Orchestra.
A talented violinist, Droste has performed with the orchestras of Oklahoma City, Tulsa,
Nashville, Memphis, Lubbock, and the Lancaster Festival in Ohio.
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2015 National Orchestra Festival®
C/MSO – Competition Middle School Orchestra
C/HSSO – Competition High School String Orchestra
RC/HSSO – Ratings and Comments, High School String Orchestra
C/AYO – Comments, Adult Youth Orchestra
Thursday, March 19
9 a.m. Roosevelt Junior High School 8th Grade Orchestra
Roosevelt, Utah
C/MSO
Rachel Wheeler, Director
Hopak (from The Fair at Sorochinsk) Modest Moussorgsky
Highland /Etling Arr. Merle J. Isaac
Conquistador! Deborah Baker Monday
Highland /Etling
Fantasia on an Original Theme Joseph J. Phillips
Highland /Etling
America’s Cup Alan Lee Silva
Carl Fischer, LLC
10 a.m. McQueen High School Orchestra
Reno, Nev. RC/
Kenny Baker, Director HSSO
Toccata Johann Pachelbel
Hal Leonard Corporation Arr. Llyod Conley
Fugue in F George Frideric Handel
Neil A. Kjos Music Company Arr. Robert Frost
Allegro (from Sonata in E Minor K. 304) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dorabet Music Co.
Transcribed for String Orchestra by Herman Clebanoff
The Lord Forgets Not His Own (from Paulus, an Oratorio)
Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Unpublished Arr. Clark Potter
Tibetan Dance (Xiyi Ge) Traditional Tibetan Folk Song
Kendor Music, Inc. Arr. Albert Wang
Mock Morris, No. 1 of “Room Music Tid-bits” Percy Aldridge Grainger
Tempo Press Arr. Sandra Dackow
A Childhood Hymn David R. Holsinger
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Winger-Jones Publications
Transcribed for String Orchestra by the Composer
Dance of Joy Beth Korinn Bultman
Synkros
11 a.m. Olympus High School Symphony Orchestra
Holladay, Utah
RC/HSS
Micah Fleming, Director
Le Déluge , op. 45 Camille Saint-Saëns
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Simple Symphony , op. 4 Benjamin Britten
Boisterous Bourrée
Playful Pizzicato
Sentimental Sarabande
Frolicsome Finale
Oxford University Press
2 p.m. Hyde Park Middle School Orchestra
Las Vegas, Nev.
C/MSO
Jeremy Woolstenhulme, Director
Cripple Creek Traditional
Grand Mesa Music Publishers Arr. Michael Hopkins
Such Sweet Sorrow Jeremy Woolstenhulme
Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Symphony No. 13 in D Major, Mvt. 1 Franz Joseph Haydn
Neil A. Kjos Music Company Arr. Thomas LaJoie
Adagio for Strings Samuel Barber
G. Schirmer, Inc. Arr. Jamin Hoffman
Russian Gypsy Song Traditional
Kendor Music Inc. Arr. Betty Dardess
Jupiter from The Planets, op. 32 Gustav Holst
Neil A. Kjos Music Company Arr. Deborah Baker Monday
Durango Tango Doris Gazda
Neil A Kjos Music Company
The Creation of Stonehenge Jeremy Woolstenhulme
Neil A Kjos Music Company
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2015 National Orchestra Festival®
C/MSO – Competition Middle School Orchestra
C/HSSO – Competition High School String Orchestra
RC/HSSO – Ratings and Comments, High School String Orchestra
C/AYO – Comments, Adult Youth Orchestra
3 p.m. Interlake High School Chamber Orchestra
Bellevue, Wash.
C/HSSO
Shira Katsman, Director
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Johann Sebastian Bach
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro
Bärenreiter
Adagio for Strings, op. 11 Samuel Barber
G. Schirmer, Inc.
Serenade No. 3 in E minor for String Orchestra, opus 21
Robert Fuchs
Romanze–Andante sostenuto
Menuetto
Allegretto grazioso
Finale alla Zingarese – Allegro con fuoco
Fr. Kistner
Serenade No. 3, op. 21 by Robert Fuchs was provided by the
Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music at the Free
Library of Philadelphia.
4 p.m. University High School Symphony
Irvine, Calif.
C/HSSO
Grace Lee, Director
Adagio Cantabile from String Quartet op. 76, “Emperor”
Franz Joseph Haydn
Tempo Press Arr. Robert Sieving
Introduction and Allegro, op. 47 Edward Elgar
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
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5 p.m. Lincoln Middle School Chamber Ensemble
Santa Monica, Calif.
Jim Wang, Director C/MSO
Hilary Klee, Instructional Assistant
Heyr, himna smiður Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson
Íslensk tónverkamiðstöð Arr. Jim Wang
Unpublished
Sinfonia X in B Minor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc. Ed. Hellmuth Christian Wolff
Serenade for Strings in E Major, op. 22 Antonín Dvořák
Larghetto
Edwin F. Kalmus & Co., Inc.
Hoe Down from “Rodeo” Aaron Copland
Boosey & Hawkes
Friday, March 20
8 a.m. Explorer Middle School Advanced Orchestra
Everett, Wash.
C/MSO
Robin Enders, Director
Overture to Lucio Silla Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tempo Press Arr. Sandra Dackow
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88 Antonin Dvorák
Finale Arr. Sandra Dackow
Tempo Press
Serenade, op. 11 Dag Wirén
Preludium
Luck’s Music Library
Enigma Variations: Nimrod Edward Elgar
Kendor Music, Inc. Arr. Mitchell Bender
Escape the Lost City Alan Lee Silva
Carl Fischer, LLC
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2015 National Orchestra Festival®
C/MSO – Competition Middle School Orchestra
C/HSSO – Competition High School String Orchestra
RC/HSSO – Ratings and Comments, High School String Orchestra
C/AYO – Comments, Adult Youth Orchestra
9 a.m. Grandview High School Orchestra
Aurora, Colo. RC/
Alison Reifschneider, Director HSSO
Sinapu J. Cameron Law
Copyright J. Cameron Law
Commissioned by the Grandview High School Orchestra for
their 2015 National ASTA Conference Performance
Don Quixote Suite G. P. Telemann
Overture (Largo – Allegro – Largo)
The Awakening of Don Quixote (Andantino)
His Attack on the Windmills (Moderato)
Luck’s Music Library
Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 Alexander Borodin
Highland/Etling Arr. Andrew H. Dabczynski
Sinfonia for String Orchestra (String Quartet No. 8, op. 110)
Dimitri Shostakovich
Arr. and Edited by Lucas Drew
Allegretto
Largo
Edwin F. Kalmus and Co., Inc.

Reflexions Carold Nunez
Neil A. Kjos Music Company
10 a.m. North Coast Strings Adult Orchestra
Carlsbad, CA
C/AYO
Paula Simmons, Director
Carnival of the Animals Camille Saint-Saëns
Arr. Frank J. Halferty
Royal March of the Lion
The Elephant
Fossils
Almitra Music Company

Cordoba Isaac Albéniz
The FJH Music Company Arr. Bob Lipton
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