NEC Symphonic Winds: The Art of Transcriptions
NEC Symphonic Winds, directed by William Drury, performs woodwind, brass, and percussion repertoire from the Renaissance through the present day for octet to full wind ensemble. Important works that are sometimes neglected because of unusual instrumentation form an integral part of four annual Jordan Hall concerts. Symphonic Winds also reads standard orchestral repertoire that serves to improve members’ ensemble skills.
This performance is open to in-person audiences, and can also be viewed below via livestream.
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- NEC Symphonic Winds
- Nicolás Ayala-Cerón '21 DMA
Alberto Ginastera (arr. for winds and percussion by Phil Snedecor) | Four Dances from "Estancia" (1943)
The Land Workers
Wheat Dance
The Cattle Men
Final Dance (Malambo)Artists- William Drury, conductor
John Heiss | Mosaics No. 1 (1986) with Fanfare (1989) for "a vast array of flutists"
Mosaics #1 (for a vast array of flutists) was written in 1986. The format of the piece is controlled aleatory music, in which the players are given the freedom to play independent lines while following a predetermined roadmap and a conductor. The result is a canonic cluster of sound masses, resulting in a piece Heiss suggests is made up of “well-defined randomness with a kind of intention.” The piece was inspired by listening to the random sounds coming from space through radio-telescopes. When confronted by total randomness in sound, Heiss imagined patterns emerging from the chaos. Likewise, in Mosaics, the listener is surrounded by random-like gestures which may come to suggest structure or organization in one’s mind. At the behest of fellow flutist and friend Fenwick Smith during the Boston Flute Convention in 1989, Heiss wrote an additional section of music that breaks with the aleatoric form. The new ending, known as Fanfare, is exclamatory music where the flutes play in rhythm moving from unison passages to sonorous chords; a pensive, quiet ending approaches as pitches slowly fade one by one.
– Nicolás Ayala Cerón
Artists- Nicolás Ayala-Cerón '22 DMA, conductor
Thomas Oboe Lee | Requiem Octet....In Memoriam Gunther Schuller (2015)
Requiem aeternam:Moderato
Die irae: Allegro
Tuba mirum: Moderato
Recordare: Largo
Confutatis maledictis: Maestoso
Lacrimosa: Moderato
Libera me: Allegro
In paradisum: Adagio
NEC Symphonic Winds would like to thank Harris "Teddy" Malaskyfor his help in preparing the ensemble for tonight's performance
Artists- William Drury, conductor
Johannes Brahms (transcr. Mark Popkin) | Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56a
Theme (Chorale St. Antoni): Andante
Variation I: Poco più animato
Variation II: Più vivace
Variation III: Con moto
Variation IV: Andante con moto
Variation V: Vivace
Variation VI: Vivace
Variation VII: Grazioso
Variation VIII: Presto non troppo
Finale: Andante
Personnel
Flute (Wind Ens, Sym W)
Anne Chao
Jeong Won Choe
Isabel Evernham
Honor Hickman
Anna Kevelson
Subee Kim
Elizabeth Kleiber
Yang Liu
Yechan Min
Yeyoung Moon
Subin Oh
Joon Park
Anna Ridenour
Mara Riley
Erika Rohrberg
Junhyung Park
Dianne Seo
Megan Trach
Oboe
Yuhsi Chang
Corinne Foley
Coleton Morgan
Helen Skilbred
Clarinet
Sarah Cho
Xianyi Ji
Xiang Tao Ke
Kevin Lin
Cole Turkel
Bassoon
Zoe Beck
Adam Chen
Garrett Comrie
Andrew Flurer
Seth Goldman
Evan Judson
Kangwei Lu
Carson Meritt
Andrew Salaru
Jialu Wang
Saxophone
Yingjie Hong
Jordan Roach
Ethan Shen
Daihua Song
French horn
Mattias Bengtsson
Alex Daiker
Huimin Mandy Liu
Graham Lovely
Mauricio Martinez
Jenna Stokes
Xiaoran Xu
Trumpet
Matthew Mihalko
Justin Park
Alexandra Richmond
Caitlin Tay
Jon-Michael Taylor
Cody York
Trombone
Elias Canales
Lukas Helsel
Jaehan Kim
Noah Korenfield
Noah Nichilo
Alexander Russell
Kevin Smith
Bass Trombone
Roger Dahlin
Ki Yoon Park
Tuba
James Curto
Jordan Jenifor
Hayden Silvester
Percussion
Isabella Butler
Nga leng Lai
Mark Larrivee
Eli Reisz
Rohan Zakharia
Wind Ensemble Graduate
AssistantsNicolás Ayala-Cerón
Minchao Cai
Iverson Eliopoulos
Michael Lewis
Artists- Nicolás Ayala-Cerón '22 DMA, conductor