Department of Music800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh WI 54901Phone (920) 424-4224 uwosh.edu/music

usicaviva!Man evening with exceptional artistsSaturday, April 11, 2015

Proceeds to Benefit Music Scholarships

for attending

Musica Viva! Thank you for attending Musica Viva!

Tonight’s proceeds benefit University

of Wisconsin Oshkosh music scholarships.

hankyou!TMedia Sponsors:

Lane Earns and Franca Barricelli Nancy ElsberryKaren Gremminger and Mark Bullard Jim and Geri Grine Kenneth and Patricia Inch

Charles and Amanda Isaacson Thatcher and Joanne Peterson Ron and Jody Rupich Carleen and Daniel Vande Zande Mary Weddig

Event Sponsors:

Hors d’oeuvre Reception Sponsor: Afterglow Sponsor:

John L. and Susan T. VetteFAMILY FUND

––– Welcome from Dean Koker Good evening and welcome to the 5th annual Musica Viva! I have attended many extraordinary and moving student performances on the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh campus. In addition to being entertained, the performances give me a time to reflect and imagine. I am glad you are able to join me for this evening of music as you assist in providing the best education possible for our students. It is our goal that students become well-rounded individuals who are able to critically examine the human condition as a result of the study of cultures, science and art. Our extremely talented faculty and staff in the Department of Music prepare students to work through complicated and uncertain situations. Our music program is part of a comprehensive education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills, and a strong sense of values, ethics and civic engagement. It is one that is characterized by challenging encounters with important issues and leads to successful and remunerative careers in a wide array of professions with a strong likelihood of achieving long-term professional success both inside and outside the music profession. Enjoy Musica Viva! and know that your generosity will be rewarded with the knowledge that you are supporting our citizens and musicians of tomorrow. John Koker, Dean College of Letters and Science

Welcome––– Chris Kuborn is a long-time jazz lover, radio broadcaster and composer and has been involved with music and broadcasting for most of his life. Whether he was subjecting his family to recorded “broadcasts” from the bedroom as a kid or working through college at WRST, WBLV and WOUB or podcasting “Pan In Harmony” the only steel drum music podcast to date; Kuborn has always enjoyed “bringing the music to the masses.” Kuborn holds a MM from Ohio University in music composition and a BM in music from UW Oshkosh. He has been playing percussion and steel drum around the world for more than 20 years, including the 2015 Panorama Competition with “birdsong” – Andy Narell’s Trinidadian-based 100+ member steel band. He is currently a faculty-member in the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in the Digital Media Technology Program where he focuses on audio and video production and Internet broadcasting. He is also an adjunct instructor in music business at UW Oshkosh. In 2009, Kuborn won the prestigious PRX Zeitfunk Award – “Most Licensed Debut Producer” – for his show: Jazz Odyssey, and has placed in the top 10 most downloaded shows each year since. Kuborn is the host of the music program “Jazz Odyssey” which airs on WPNE-FM and WHND-FM on Wednesday evenings at 10 p.m. Learn more about “Jazz Odyssey” at jazzodc.com.

About the Master of Ceremonies

PIANOS BAND

ORCHESTRADRUMS

GUITARSKEYBOARDS

LESSONSLESSONSSHEET MUSIC

REPAIRS

Composed and performed by John Mayrose, Professor of Composition

usicaviva!Man evening with exceptional artists

Pre-Concert Music

Program––– Fire Dance Anthony Di Lorenzo Marty Robinson and Matt Onstad, trumpets; Bruce Atwell, horn; Dylan Chmura-Moore, trombone; Charlie Bloom, tuba

––– Welcome to Musica Viva! Musica Viva! Master of Ceremonies Chris Kuborn, faculty, UW Oshkosh Department of Music and Wisconsin Public Radio Jazz Odyssey, host

––– I go among the trees Giselle Wyers

UW Oshkosh Chamber Choir; Eric Barnum, director; Martin Vajgrt, accompanist

Special Dedication of Mark A. Chapman Steinway Piano Andrew Leavitt, Chancellor

––– Three Preludes, from 24 preludes, opus 41 Lera Auerbach

Eli Kalman, piano

Intermission

––– Saxophone Quartet Mason Lee

Christopher Walther, soprano saxophone; Benjamin Binner, alto saxophone; Adam Du Vall, tenor saxophone; Hope Larson, baritone saxophone

––– Impressions Liam Teague

Elizabeth Delamater, tenor steelpan

––– From Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98 No. 22. Mückentanz (Mosquito Dance) No. 36 Dudelsack (The Bagpipe) Caitlin Kirchner and Julio Noble, violins

––– “Agony” from Into the Woods Stephen Sondheim

Nathan Krueger and Sean Lynch, baritones; Martin Vajgrt, piano

Please enjoy a beverage during intermission and visit our silent auction. The silent auction will close at the end of intermission. Items for pick-up will be available after the final performance. All proceeds benefit UW Oshkosh music scholarships.

Alison Shaw, Chair, Department of Music

––– Allegro con brio from Trio for Flute, Oboe and Piano Madeline Dring

Linda Pereksta, flute; Ethan Wege, oboe; Eli Kalman, piano

–––“Senza Mamma” from Suor Angelica Giacomo Puccini

Sarah Flaschberger, soprano; Martin Vajgrt, piano

––– Guitar Etude No. 3 Dan Fogelberg

Joe Sullivan, guitar; Chris Kuborn, pan; Yaz Shehab, percussion; Randy Mueller, bass

––– Variations on a Theme of Paganini Witold Lutoslawski

Sarah Williams and Eli Kalman, piano

––– Cruisin’ for a Bluesin’ Andy Weiner

––– Prelude to a Kiss Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

––– Moanin’ Charles Mingus (arranged by Sy Johnson)

UW Oshkosh Jazz Ensemble; Andrew Leavitt, baritone saxophone

Marty Robinson, director

Please join us after the concert for live music and a dessert buffet, located in the lobby. Silent auction items can be picked up after the final performance.

––– Our Thanks to Wally Messner Wally Messner, M.S.T., B.M.E. is retiring at the end of the spring semester after an impressive 41-year career teaching and leading the UW Oshkosh Department of Music’s Recording Technology program. A UW Oshkosh alumnus, Wally joined the UW Oshkosh music faculty in 1974 and founded UWO’s Recording Technology program. That program was the only one like it in the state at the time. To this day it remains the state’s only comprehensive four-year recording technology program, in which music students can earn a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in recording technology and/or music business. The program continues to thrive and has seen great success under Messner’s direction. UW Oshkosh students won two Grammys from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, two alumni have won Grammys and one alumni has won an Emmy for sound. Graduates of this program continue to be competitive and in high demand in the studio, in the classroom and throughout the various sub-fields of recording and live sound. Wally Messner has toured throughout the U.S. with various recording celebrities and engineered in Nashville, Tenn., Mississippi, Alabama and throughout the Midwest. He has remained active as a session musician, engineer and producer. His legacy at UW Oshkosh will long be remembered and appreciated.

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UW Oshkosh Friends of MusicGifts of $100 or more received as of July 1, 2014

W. Sam and Betty Adams

Dennis and Naomi Bahcall

Klara Fenyo Bahcall and Michael Bahcall

Karen Boehning and Donald Tenor

Carl and Kathy Chapman

Stephen and Kathleen Diakoff

Lane Earns and Franca Barricelli

Nancy Elsberry

Karen Gremminger and Mark Bullard

Jim and Geri Grine

Frank Hoffmeister and Joyce Andrews

Kenneth and Marie Inch

Charles and Amanda Isaacson

Ed Karrels

Barbara Kuhn

Andrew and Karen Leavitt

Hope Linton

Cheryl Mellenthin

Wally and Lynn Messner

Henri and Pat Pensis

Thatcher and Joanne Peterson

Ron and Jody Rupich

Alice Toepel and Stephen Timmel

Joe Sullivan and Karen Law Sullivan

Carleen and Daniel Vande Zande

John and Susan Vette

Andrew Wagner

Mary Weddig

Anthony Weitenbeck

Special Thanks to our Production Team:

Emma Jensen, student volunteer coordinator

Barbara Beuscher

Carl Chapman

Ashley Elmer

Victoria Horstman, silent auction coordinator

Peggy Karls, event support

John Koker

Sara Mikoulinskii

Julie Nelson

Linda Pereksta, program chair

Mandy Potts

Art Rathjen, UW Oshkosh Foundation

Alison Shaw, department chair