MONDAY, OCT. 3, 2022 • 8 P.M.
The Ohio State University School of Music
Weigel Auditorium
Barry Green, double bass
Malik Khalfani, conductor
This performance is in partial fulfillment of Mr. Khalfani's DMA degree program requirements.
PROGRAM
This program opens with two Commissioned World Premieres honoring the autumn 2022 opening of the Timashev Family Music Building at The Ohio State University
Hustle and Bustle for Bass Quartet (Premiere)
Cooper Wood (b. 1999)
Jimmy Perera, Dallas Carpenter,
Jacqueline Marshall, Cameron Lucas
Fanfare Festivo (Premiere)
David Heyes (b. 1946)
Sempre Avante ("Always forward")
Andrés Martín
Ohio State Buckeye Basses
Malik Khalfani, conductor
Dallas Carpenter
Grace Cooper
Jimmy Perera
Cameron Lucas
Dirui Jiang
Jane Haberle
Braedon Salisbury
Samantha Marcrum
Jacqueline Marshall
Carson Wolf
Anna's Promise: Episode Three
Story by Alan Scofield (copyright PBM)
Music by Andrés Martín
Original concept, double bass soloist, background visuals
Barry Green
Narrator
Mary Tarbell-Green
Conductor
Malik Khalfani
Anna's Promise: Episode 3 (performed without pause)
Overture
Rose Bowl Flea Market
Bernstein Academy of Music
Anna’s Love Song
Latin Medley
Lament
Jazz
Funk
Frustration
Alesi Duo
Grand Canyon
THE BACK STORIES
Anna’s Way and Anna’s Gift
Please read before the performance of Anna’s Promise.
Anna’s Promise is the third episode of stories about the journey and pursuit of artistry that is experienced by musicians, dancers and actors in three stages of their lives. While these stories stand as independent musical dramas, the first episode, Anna’s Way — From Inspiration to Artistry, is about a young, impatient 15-year old Anna’s frustration and lack of joy for playing the bass. She wanted to quit studying music until she agreed to meet a special Tai-Chi teacher at a mountain stream. Master Chen was the teacher of her celebrated but ailing grandfather who also played the bass. Grandfather Carl convinced Master Chen to come out of retirement and teach his daughter as he had inspired him. This tender and emotional story transforms Anna’s impatience to love and joy in playing the bass.
Anna’s Gift — The Way of Passion, episode two, is the story of discovering and love in music. Anna, who is now 25 years old, has become a successful concert bassist, touring the world and performing her signature solo piece: Astor PIazzolla’s Libertango. She is not only getting bored with her music, but she is tired of the travels, the lonely hotel rooms and laments her ability to sustain friendships.
She returns to Switzerland for more lessons with her teacher Master Chen. She sadly complains that she has a “Full suitcase but an empty heart”. Master Chen takes her to a museum exhibit of the celebrated cellist, Pablo Casals. The great teacher is shown in videos teaching his students how to find love and passion in their music. But they must learn this from bringing love into their personal lives, not their fingers, bowings or rhythms. He sends Anna back on her next tour of South America to find three things — the love of people, the love nature and the love of artistic masterpieces.
Anna finds love in South America and returns to thank her aging and ailing Master Chen for this gift of passion and love. Master Chen tells Anna that this gift he gave her was a gift from his teachers and their teachers from many past generations. It is now up to Anna to pass this gift on to the next generation. Anna said to Master Chen, "I promise I will pass along the gift you have given me."
Anna’s Promise, episode three, is the story of Anna fulfilling the commitment she made to her late Tai Chi Master Chen. Now musicians, actors and dancers are clamoring to study with Anna as she shares the lessons she learned from her great teacher and their teachers. She begins a guest residency at the Leonard Bernstein Academy of Music. Here Anna will visit the orchestra, the jazz band, and mentor the faculty passing on the lessons from her teachers to the future generations. She will share lessons of musical expression, of how to bring personal feelings into performances, and how to play by listening to others.
Her residency includes meeting a special clarinet colleague who invites her to join him on a concert tour in the Grand Canyon. It is in these canyon walls and on the banks of the Colorado River where Anna is engulfed by millions of years of evolution. As Anna plays her bass in this special valley, she feels the spirit of Master Chen and his teachers.
The Grand Canyon represents the beauties in nature that exist in all corners of the world — in a flower, a stream, a lake or valley. While we are only on earth for a short time, we must accept the responsibility of preserving and sharing music, art, culture and nature for future generations. It’s a sacred trust. It’s a sacred promise.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Barry Green, a native Californian, served as principal bassist of the Cincinnati Symphony for 28 years, and more recently principal bassist of the California Symphony and Sun Valley, Idaho Summer Symphony. A former executive director of the International Society of Bassists, he has also directed the Young Bassist program for the San Francisco Symphony Education Department and is currently teaching double bass at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Green recently moved to San Diego.
Green is author of three books dealing with the philosophy of music, the mind, body and spirit — The Inner Game of Music (Doubleday, 1986), The Mastery of Music: Ten Pathways to True Artistry (Broadway/Doubleday 2003) and Bringing Music to Life (GIA, 2009). Green has also written three bass method books and released many solo recordings.
Barry is directing an innovative concert series on themes of musical inspiration called “Bridging Gaps: One Music, One World” including three new productions called Anna’s Way: From Inspiration to Artistry for bass, piano, percussion and narrator-actor; Anna’s Gift: The Way of Passion for bass, symphonic band and narrator; and Anna’s Promise: Sharing Joy, Inspiration and Compassion for bass and chamber orchestra. All three episodes are inspired by principles in Green’s three mind/body/spirit books. The stories are written by Alan Scofield. The music for the second and third episode is composed by Argentine composer/bassist Andrés Martín. This TUSAB performance is the World Premiere of the Orchestra version and will be followed by 34 International performances in 34 countries with national soloists and ensembles from 2016 to the present.
Mary Tarbell-Green is an Interfaith Minister and hospice chaplain. In her years as a hospice spiritual counselor, she has had the opportunity to officiate at services and some weddings, but primarily funerals and memorial services — Celebrations of Life. These services are many and varied from assisting in military ceremonies to holding a paper for a six-year-old nephew to read aloud his sentiments of love to his auntie. As well, these ceremonies and rituals are song, and a variety of other ways in which people express their thoughts and feelings. As an officiate, Mary encourages and welcomes these creative and tender expressions of love.
So, it comes as no surprise that she should step into the arena of narrating a series of stories (Anna’s Way, Anna’s Gift and Anna’s Promise), that are also the journey of filled with poetry, heartfelt letters of gratitude, filled with hope, inspiration, longing, and finding our voice.\
Andrés Martín (b. 1981) is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a bassist, arranger and composer, Martín has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Argentina, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, England, Germany, and the United States. Since his arrival in Tijuana, Mexico, Andrés has been immersed in teaching as well as performing as a soloist and chamber musician. He is a member of the Orquesta de Baja California and Cuatro para Tango, a chamber ensemble with whom he has released four recordings. He also organizes and directs Contrabajos de Baja California A.C., a double bass academy that celebrates an international double bass festival and chamber music course held in Tijuana every summer. His work has been performed and recorded by very successful orchestras, ensembles and soloists in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Denmark, The Netherlands, Japan, and the United States.
Since Barry Green moved to San Diego in summer 2011, he has collaborated with Andrés Martín as a bassist, arranger and composer for Green’s Bridging Gaps Series and the second and third episodes entitled Anna’s Gift and Anna’s Promise. They have performed duo recitals together in Copenhagen and at a recent International Society of Bassists Convention in Rochester (New York), Bloomington (Indiana) and at Andrés’ bass academy (Tijuana). Visit Andrés Martín's website.
Alan Scofield, president and co-founder of Purple Button Media, LLC and The Story Home, wears many hats in his work. He has been called the “Danny Kaye of the North Bay” because of his magical connection with children through music, stories and dance. As an educator for thirty years, he has touched the lives of a generation of public school children in Northern California and across the nation; he is now passing down his techniques of teaching to today’s arts educators and classroom teachers — five years ago, he co-founded Young Imaginations, Northern California’s acclaimed Twenty-arts-education agency and joined the College of Marin’s Dance faculty as a master teacher and choreographer. He has led the way for Bay Area arts educators and classroom teachers to impart the California State Educational Standards using skills and strategies from the performing arts.
Alan and Barry have worked together in the Bay Area for over eighteen years in music workshops, in efforts to develop Barry’s concepts of education with inspiration and creative integrated movement. Alan also has held many workshops for Harvey Benstein’s Campolindo Music Department in addition to participating in conducting workshops with Benstein. Read more about Alan Scofield at www.storyhome.com.
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ROSTER
Malik Khalfani, conductor
Brandon Landry, flute
Claire Rottman, oboe
Kaleigh McGee Simmons, Bb clarinet I
Tito Leoung, alto sax
Louie Maligaya, Bb clarinet II
Joel Caniff, tenor sax
Dylan Tharp, bassoon
Cheng Peng, horn in F
Ben Guegold, Bb trumpet I
Matt Pileski, Bb trumpet II
Lewis Parker, trombone
Auden Stevenson, drum set
Trace Perkins, percussion I
Auden Stevenson, percussion II
Chenyu Wang, piano
Barry Green, contrabass solo
Matt Kinnear and Danielle Miller, violin I
Nathan Jeoung and Anastasia Anikina, violin II
Zee Perry and Isaiah Davidson, viola
James McDermott and Aidan Sullivan, cello
Dallas Carpenter, bass
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