September 17, 2019
BARRY GREEN, double bass
8 p.m. • Tuesday, Sept. 17
Hughes Hall Auditorium
1899 College Rd • Columbus, OH
PROGRAM
I. Ohio State Bass Ensemble
With special guests
Paul Robinson and Andrew Mehraban
and
Dallas Carpenter, April Whyte, Drew Postel, Casey Bauchmoyer, James Perera
Barry Green, director
A Night in Compostela
Simon Garcia (b. 1977)
"Nessun dorma" from Turandot
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
—BRIEF INTERVAL—
II. Anna’s Gift: the Way of Passion (2014)
Music composed by Andrés Martín (b. 1981)
Story by Alan Scofield
Mary Tarbell-Green, narrator
Concept, production, background visuals and double bass soloist,
Barry Green
Opening Overture — Travel to Switzerland to see Tai Chi Master Chen
Museum Scene — Pablo Casals Exhibit
(love of people, beauty in nature, artistic masterpieces)
Romantic Duets
Travel to Caribbean, Brazil, Argentina
Piazzolla Tango
Buenos Aires, Argentina Club — Seduction Scene
Trip to the Rain Forest and Iguazu Water Falls
Confrontation — Rodrigo's Father's Big Band Años Dorados
Lesson with Alejandro Mateo, Rodrigo's Father
Television Concert with Big Band and Anna
Anna's Return to Switzerland — Anna's Gift from Master Chen
Miriam Burns, conductor
Dianne Frazer, piano
Susan Powell, vibes and marimba
Joseph Krygier, drum set
Shawn Wallace, flute, clarinet, saxophone
Alyssa Powell, clarinet and bass clarinet
Austin Suarez, contrabass clarinet
Amelia DuPlain, timpani
Ben Shaheen, percussion
Joseph Spearman, percussion
Dallas Carpenter, double bass
Drew Postel, computer
Audience participation and spontaneous reactions are appropriate any time!
Notes
Anna’s Gift: The Way of Passion (2014) follows Anna’s Way: From Inspiration to Artistry as the second episode of the emotional journey of a gifted concert bassist who is longing for love and fire in her music and her life. The fifty-eight minute story written for solo bass, concert band (also a small combo version), narrator and background visuals takes place ten years after Anna was inspired to become an artist from her studies with retired Tai Chi instructor Master Chen. • This independent story follows Anna’s journey to find passion after Master Chen takes her to see a museum exhibit by the legendary cellist Pablo Casals. The great cellist said, “You cannot find passion in music by itself. You find passion from three kinds of LOVE...love of People, Love of Nature, and Love of Artistic Masterpieces.”
Anna embarks on a concert tour of South America in pursuit of her dreams. Alan Scofield’s second story of Anna’s journey is brought to life through the brilliant musical score of Argentine bassist-composer Andrés Martín. Anna’s Gift: The Way of Passion received its world premiere on December 2, 2014 at the Lescher Performing Arts Center after a commission by Harvey Benstein and the Walnut Creek Concert Band. Barry Green has since performed Anna's Gift with Maestro Eugene Corporon at the University of North Texas, and with ensembles from San Diego State University, University of Santa Cruz (California), Messiah College (Pennsylvania), U.S. Marine Band (Hawaii), University of Texas–El Paso, Ft. Collins (Colorado) as well as in Tijuana, Mexico; the Netherlands; Canberra and Perth, Australia. Green has also presented Anna’s episodes at the European Bass Conventions in the Netherlands, Prague, and the International Society of Bassist Conventions in Colorado and New York.
Biographies
Andrés Martín (b. 1981) is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. As a bassist, arranger and composer he has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Argentina, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, England, Germany, Denmark 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 five recordings. He also organizes and directs “Contrabajos de Baja California A.C. ”, a double bass academy that celebrates a yearly international double bass festival and chamber music course held in Tijuana. On the side of his work as a soloist and chamber musician, Andrés has a full time schedule as a composer, writing hours of new works every year, performed and commissioned by renowned soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras around the world. His Concerto No. 1 for Double Bass (2012) became a standard work in the double bass repertoire, performed in more than 15 countries around the world and recently chosen as a required work for the final round of the Bradetich Foundation International Double Bass Competition (2017). In 2016 Martín was commissioned to write the music for Anna´s Promise, a 53-minute multimedia work that was premiered in Washington, DC by Barry Green and the U.S. Army orchestra; and performed by other world class soloists in 20 other countries in 2017. • 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.
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 done many workshops for Harvey Benstein’s Campolindo Music Department in addition to participating in conducting workshops with Mr. Benstein. Read more at www.thestoryhome.com
Dianne Frazer is recognized globally as a premiere collaborative pianist. Known for her wit and style on and off stage, she “exudes an energy and an excitement that is both irresistible and endearing.” She has performed with a “who’s who” of international artists, and has performed at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Merkin Hall. Dianne is on the faculty at Louisiana State University, is pianist for the National Flute Association, International Society of Bassists, World Bass Festival (Poland), the MTNA Southern Division, and has performed at the Oberstdorf Music Festival (Germany), ISI Florence (Italy), Bradetich International Double Bass Competition, International Hornists Society, International Trumpet Guild, North American Saxophone Alliance and the International Clarinet Association conventions. Dianne holds two performance degrees, was a two-time Fischoff finalist, and was an adjudicator for the prestigious Dranoff International Two Piano Competition.
With a specialty in the fusing of multiple styles and cultures, percussionist and composer Joseph Krygier wields his background in classical, world, commercial and electronic music to forge a sound that is uniquely his own. Krygier received his undergraduate degree in percussion performance from the Eastman School of Music and his master's degree from Northwestern University.
Andrew Mehraban is a DMA student at The Ohio State University. He performs with Opera Project Columbus as well as other chamber groups around the city. He has performed classical, jazz, rock, pop, theatre and bluegrass genres and continues to expand into other genres.
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OUTREACH EVENTS FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS
Practice Audition Day • Thursday, Oct. 3
Bass Day • Sunday, Oct. 6
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