Teleportation

Timothy Loest (b. 1963)

Timothy Loest, composer of both Advanced Band pieces, has a wonderful talent of painting a picture with musical elements. Mr. Loest received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Illinois State University and his Master of Music degree from Northwestern University.

Teleportation uses interlocking repetitive patterns to represent futuristic travel to a time when matter is broken down and beamed across space only to be reassembled elsewhere.

Night Flight of the Gargoyles

Timothy Loest (b. 1963)

Night Flight of the Gargoyles begins with a vengeful introduction of the main melody before speeding through the night at a gripping tempo. Listen carefully for the surprise gargoyle effects in the clarinet section.

Russian Sailor's Dance

Reinhold Gliere (1875 - 1956)

Arr. Mark Williams

Russian Sailor's Dance is a theme and variation style piece based on the Russian folk tune called Yablochka. Originally written for Gliere's ballet The Red Poppy from 1927 it weaves the main melody through different sections of the ensemble with several stylistic and tempo changes increasing steadily in pace and power to the finish.

Beetlejuice

Danny Elfman (b. 1953)

Arr. Douglas Wagner

Danny Elfman is an American composer, singer, and songwriter. He came to prominence as the singer-songwriter for the new wave band Oingo Boingo in the early 1980s. Since the 1990s, Elfman has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 feature film scores, as well as compositions for television, stage productions, and the concert hall.

Danny Elfman's music for the 1988 Tim Burton movie Beetlejuice is a wonderful way for young musicians to experience his dark yet whimsical compositional style. Melodies float over a driving "oom-pah" style accompaniment interspersed with brief jolts into different time signatures. The piece comes to rest with a final chord in the low voices punctuated by a single chime note in the percussion section

Gallant Zouaves

Karl King (1891 - 1971)

Karl L. King was a United States march music bandmaster and composer. He is best known as the composer of "Barnum and Bailey's Favorite". King the composer published more than 300 works: galops, waltzes, overtures, serenades, rags, and 188 marches and screamers. It could be said that King did for the circus march what Sousa did for the patriotic march.

Karl King’s “Gallant Zouaves” is a classic military-styled march penned during his early days as a circus bandmaster. Bright, martial melodies are followed by a regimental “trumpet and drum” trio, subsequently embellished by a woodwind countermelody and then a ponderous bass line, before ending with a rousing final strain. Composed for the amateur, military precision zouave drill teams prevalent at the turn of the century, this march includes an excerpt from the famous military song, The Girl I Left Behind Me, in the woodwind parts at the trio.

Hymn for the Innocent

Julie Giroux (b. 1961)

Julie Giroux graduated from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA in 1984. She started playing piano at 3 years of age and began composing at the age of 8 and has been composing ever since. Her first published work for concert band was composed at the age of 13.

Julie began composing commercially in 1984. She was hired by Oscar winning composer Bill Conti as an orchestrator, her first project with Conti being “North & South” the mini-series. With over 100 film, television and video game credits, Giroux collaborated with dozens of film composers, producers, and celebrities. Projects she has worked on have been nominated for Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Golden Globe awards. She has won individual Emmy Awards in the field of “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction”. When she won her first Emmy Award, she was the first woman and the youngest person to ever win that award. She has won it three times.

Giroux has also published a large category of classical works with emphasis on original compositions for Wind Band. She is greatly sought after as a composer and recently completed her 5th Symphony“Sun, Rain & Wind” which premiered in June, 2018.

Giroux has been a true force in a male dominated field and has accrued many previously male only awards.

Hymn for the Innocent is a tribute to all the innocent lives that are lost whether by accident, disease or acts of violence. It also includes all those who serve, here and abroad, military and domestic who have sworn to protect the innocent and have lost their lives or lead a handicapped life as a result of this service. What has been lost by their passing is an infinite list of possibilities. What they could have been, could have accomplished or achieved and the holes left in all the lives they touched and would have affected surely is a sorrow above all sorrows.

Loss is never easy but when loved ones are taken before their time the loss and grief seem to be compounded. This hymn is for them. This hymn is for the survivors as well. My hope is that this music, this hymn can be a part of a healing process for some listener out there.

Grief never goes away but music can be an instrument that can help you live with it.

Highlights from Guardians of the Galaxy

Arr. Michael Brown

This arrangement includes songs from the soundtrack to this 2014 film based on the Marvel Comics series. Medley includes: Marvel Studio Fanfare; Hooked on a Feeling; Come and Get Your Love; Groot Cocoon; Cherry Bomb and Ain't No Mountain High Enough.

Shimmering Sunshine

Kevin Day (b. 1996)

Kevin Day has quickly emerged as one of the leading young voices in the world of music composition today. Day was born in Charleston, West Virginia and is a native of Arlington, Texas. His father was a prominent hip-hop producer in the late-1980s in Southern California, and his mother was a sought-after gospel singer from West Virginia. Kevin Day is a composer, conductor, producer, and multi-instrumentalist on tuba, euphonium, jazz piano and more, whose music often intersects between the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms.

Day, whose music often intersects between the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms, has composed over 200 works, and has had numerous performances throughout the United States, Russia, Austria, Australia, Taiwan, South Africa, and Japan.

His works have been programmed by the Boston Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and more.

Shimmering Sunshine is a composition that depicts the sun whenever it is positioned at high noon, at its brightest point during the day. Throughout the piece, there are different “shimmers” of bright light that bounce around from instrument to instrument, depicting moments of sunshine both beautiful and at the same time, powerful.

7th Grade Advanced Band

Flute - Alex Bae, Lise Concolato, Mathilde Huynh, Krish Khanna, Stella Liu, Rylie Reklis, Sofia Solorio Garrison

Oboe - Madeleine Kang, Vineet Petlur

Bassoon - Benjamin Kim

Clarinet - Ethan Chang, Victor Chen, Samuel Dinneny, Huga Gheorghe, Samarth Karnam, Yuri Ko, Sophia Kou, Hanting Liu, Sahana Mahadevan, Adrian Marquart, Benjamin Seestone, Grace Seo, Pavlo Tkach

Saxophone - Haridas Chowdhury, Siddharth Gupta, Max Liu, Anish Mathan, Agastya Parikh, Victor Peng, Om Rajan, Isaiahs Reyes Villa, Daanish Syed, Landon Zhang

Trumpet - William Chan, Henry Dominik, Owen Ellis, Jeronimo Garcia Gutierrez, Kai Hashimoto, Mari Kerman, Dani Massarweh, Oliver Reid, Melody Xu

Trombone - Kostya Antonov, Trevor Milne

Euphonium - Adrian Lee, Owen Reiss

Tuba - Sione Fusimalohi

Percussion - Billy Eberle, Leif Secor, Nyla Wang

8th Grade Symphonic Band

Flute - Ava Gu, Xiwen Liang, Finnleigh MacCannell, Maya K Mohan, Cailey Quita, Valerie Yang, Katherine Zaner

Oboe - Ya-An Xue, Sophia Zhang

Bassoon - Naila Ahmed, Omkar Perinkulam

Clarinet - Giselle Bouguet, Hannah Casale, Rahul Ghosh, Joshua Rene-Corail

Saxophone - Jianan Chen, Alisa S Sonehara, Ryan Zhang

Trumpet - Parker Ballew, Matilda Brodt, Parker Castro, Marvin Cruz-Farias, Jeffrey Fan, Alessandro Faraboschi, Sevin Kwon, Hayden Leung, Allison Novick, Paula Pongi, Julian Rabbitt-Tomita, Nathaniel Yoon

Horn - Julia Kirner, Aaron Shone

Trombone - Benjamin Wu

Euphonium - Hannah Vu

Tuba - Yul Sung, Hawk Ulfarsson

Percussion - Siddhartha Kollu, Rei Prior, Brandon Seow

Wind Ensemble

Flute - Silvia Arjona Garcia, Christina Ding, Lillian Ding, Sarah Jung, Ingrid Lee, Ananya Madabhushi, Ashley Medina, Kate Nam, Miranda Olbrich, Conrad Wong

Oboe - Erica Norton

Clarinet - Rafi Barbier, Nate Boxer, Daniel Chen, Ryan Choi, Koharu Masuda, Nate Rodden, Yaara Tzadikario, Eric Wang, Leo Yao, Amelia Yu

Bass Clarinet - Dave Chen, Matthew Lee

Bassoon - Alex Kirner, John Phillips, Rohan Rao

Alto Saxophone - Theo Fong, Mackenzie Green

Tenor Saxophone - Noah Milivojevic

Baritone Saxophone - Joseph Xu

French Horn - Maya Glazer, Simon Illouz, Elina Saab-Sunden, Issey Sone

Trumpet - Yu-Ting Chang, Hana Chang, Scott Hwang, Paul Kramer, Royce Lee, Galen Liu, Anika Smuts, Troy Woodley

Trombone - Felix Adams, Steve Cho, Wyatt Pedersen, Eric Wang, Zara Wang

Bass Trombone - Jonathan Yang

Euphonium - Aydan See

Tuba - Maxwell Chang, Jacob Liao

String Bass - Griffin Teller

Percussion - Eshan Gupta, Joseph Kim, Steven Li, Sawyer McKenna, Tyler Sheu, Maanasa Viswanath

Thank you!

As we conclude this evening's performance, we want to give our sincerest thanks to those who make music in the Palo Alto Unified School District possible.

Gunn Band and Orchestra Music Boosters

Booster Board Members

Greta Olbrich - President, Andrea Jelks – Treasurer, Catherine Phillips – Secretary, Claire Kirner – Membership, Elizabeth Lee – Publicity, Star Teachout - Volunteer Coordinator

TriM Music Honor Society (ushers and concert support) - Sandra Lewis, Advisor

Gunn Administration, Wendy Stratton - Principal

Kelly Martin, PAUSD VAPA Coordinator

Kari Johnson, PAUSD VAPA Administrative Assistant

Kyle Langdon, Supervisor of Theatre Facilities

Camille Kelly, Spangenberg Theatre Technician

Tonight's Parent Volunteers

Gunn Custodial Team