PERSONNEL

The Berklee Orchestra

VIOLIN I  Bruce Mallette OBOE  Susan Macklin

Franklin Chang Robert Kroeger

Stephen Plotkin

David Gauthier CLARINET Michael Kenfield

James Friedman Dale Houck
VIOLIN II  Randel Sabien BASSOON  Karyn Reid

Art Levine Susan Gatwood

David Kellar

Andrew Fedley HORN  Eric Johnson

Robert Pearce Vince Nappa

» Binney Stone
VIOLA  Timothy Hormer

Ted Shapiro TRUMPET  Andrew Laidman
Greg Buckley
CELLO Ted Lasker William Olenick
Loren Parkins
< Martha Matlaw TROMBONE  Joseph Longshore
Ben Silver Richard Walsh

Dan Havelstock
BASS  Jan Ruiz
Lee Chase TUBA  Percy Scott
George Kozub
PIANO  Charles Hiestand
PICCOLO  Karen Ruggiero
TIMPANI  Kevin Washburn
FLUTE Comnie Kirschbaum
Frank VillaFranca Conductor, Allen B. Hovey

Assistants to Conductor - Robin Zawoiski, Levy-Alain Mechoulam, Ben Silver
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Concert Band Concert Notes

August Molzer was born in Prague and moved to the U.S. at age 6. After visiting a
Czech Folk Festival near Prague in the 1920's, he was inspired to write this work
based on the colorful folk music he heard.

Darius Milhaud was one of the composers making up "Les Sixz" or the French Six who
gathered around Eric Satie in Paris during the 1920's. These composers, one of whom

was a woman, tried to incorporate jazz, caberet, and dance hall musie into their
chamber and symphonic music. In thie suite some of those types of music can be heard.
Milhaud is also known for being one of the teachers of jazz composer/pianist Dave Brubeck.

Rocky Point is a wind-swept resort area of the Rhode Island coast.

Vincent Persichetti is well known both as a composer and as a teacher and author of
composition texts. This work is an exciting and sensitive setting of selected sections
of Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS. This performance marks the first joint effort of the
Berklee Concert Choir and Concert Band.