CARILLON FESTIVAL - Bok Tower Gardens

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Featuring daily carillon concerts by carillonneurs from Belgium, Poland, The Netherlands and

the United States of America.

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TWENTY FOURTH

INTERNATIONALCARILLON FESTIVAL

MARCH 20-24, 2019

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FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY

GEERT D’HOLLANDER

JOEY BRINK

AMY JOHANSEN

MICHAEL SOLOTKE

KOEN VAN ASSCHE

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WHAT IS A CARILLON?A carillon is a musical instrument consisting of at least 23 cast bronze bells that are precisely tuned and arranged in chromatic progression so that music in any key can be played. Unlike other types of bells, carillon bells are fixed in a frame—the bells do not move. Instead, the clappers inside strike the bells to produce a considerable range of sounds up to five or six octaves. Because of its weight and size, the carillon is the largest bell instrument. A carillon is played from a keyboard on which the keys are depressed by the player’s closed hands and feet. The keys are connected to the clappers by vertical and horizontal wires.

ABOUT OUR CARILLONThe carillon at Bok Tower Gardens has 60 bells ranging in weight from 16 pounds to nearly 12 tons. The instrument was designed and built in 1928 by John Taylor Bellfoundry, Ltd. of Loughborough, England which still makes bells today. There are three carillons in Florida, approximately 200 in North America and 600 throughout the world.

HOW IS CARILLON MUSIC WRITTEN AND PLAYED?Although carillon music looks like piano music, the treble clef is usually played by the hands and the bass clef by the feet. The carillon’s action is mechanical, which allows the performer to control the dynamics (loud and soft) by the force of the strike. There is no mechanism to dampen the sound after a bell is struck. Because carillon bells are rich in overtones, the consonant and dissonant combinations are sometimes reversed in carillon music to account for the presence of a minor-third overtone in each bell.

HOW ARE THE BELLS TUNED?Carillon bells are tuned just after they are cast and before they are installed. A bell is placed on a lathe and metal is carefully removed from the various heights of the inside wall of the bell. Bells only have to be re-tuned approximately once every 300 years.

WELCOME TO THETWENTY FOURTH

INTERNATIONALCARILLON FESTIVAL

Thank you for joining us in celebrating one of the world’s greatest carillons, Bok Tower Gardens’ Singing Tower. With performances by world-renowned carillonneurs, enjoy a renaissance of this unique musical instrument through debut performances of new compositions and music performed throughout the 500-year history of the carillon.

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MEET

GEERT D’HOLLANDER RESIDENT CARILLONNEUR AT BOK TOWER GARDENS

Belgian-American composer and carillonneur Geert D’hollander was named Bok Tower Gardens’ fourth full-time carillonneur in October 2012. He has studied, performed, taught, arranged and

composed carillon music for more than 35 years.

He has held permanent and guest teaching positions of carillon performance and composition at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, the Dutch Carillon School in Amersfoort and at the University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, both in The Netherlands. From 1997-1999, Geert was the Carillonneur and Professor of Carillon at the University of California at Berkeley, succeeding Ronald Barnes.

He has made numerous carillon arrangements and composed more than 50 works for carillon, published world-wide. He was first prize winner in more than 30 international competitions for carillon or composition; was awarded the University of California Berkeley Medal for “Distinguished Service to the Carillon”, and the prestigious Dutch “ANV-Visser Neerlandia Prize” with his carillon composition “Ciacona”. He frequently gives Master Classes in Europe and the USA and performs all over the world.

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ABOUT THE

CARILLONNEURS

JOEY BRINK – USAJoey Brink is the sixth University Carillonneur at the University of Chicago, where he performs twice daily on the 72-bell Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and directs the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonneurs. He serves on the board of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, co-chairing the Johan Franco composition committee. Brink began his carillon studies with Ellen Dickinson in 2007, as an undergraduate at Yale University; graduated from the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, Belgium in 2012; and studied further with Geert D'hollander at Bok Tower Gardens in 2015. In 2014, he became the first American to receive first prize at the International Queen Fabiola Carillon Competition, in Mechelen, Belgium.

AMY JOHANSEN – AUSTRALIAAmy Johansen is University Organist and Carillonist at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her duties include performing on the von Beckerath organ in the Great Hall and on the War Memorial Carillon for graduation ceremonies, recitals, and special events. She also leads a team of 8 honorary carillonists, as well as overseeing and performing in the organ and carillon recital series.

Born and educated in the United States, Amy Johansen completed degrees in Organ Performance at the University of Florida and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Postgraduate studies followed with Thomas Trotter in London, and Naji Hakim in Paris.

In 1997, Amy began carillon studies at the University of Sydney with Dr Jill Forrest, and passed her Advancement Recital for the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA) in 2006 at Yale. She has been a recitalist at congresses of the GCNA, the World Carillon Federation (WCF) and the Springfield Carillon Festival, and has played recital tours across the USA, Canada, England, Belgium and France.

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ABOUT THE

CARILLONNEURS

KOEN VAN ASSCHE – BELGIUMKoen Van Assche is carillonist of the Belgian cities of Antwerp, Lier, Turnhout and Herentals. He first studied music and flute in Antwerp, and at the age of 14 he started his carillon studies at the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, where he graduated in 1986. He won performance prizes at several international carillon competitions, and has given recitals in Europe, the USA, and Australia.

He is president of the Flemish Carillon Guild and of the World Carillon Federation. He authored a book on playing method for the carillon and he teaches carillon at the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen and at the Academies of Music in Puurs and Lier. He is also known for his performances combining carillon with other instruments, especially with the mobile carillon “Bronzen Piano” (www.bronzenpiano.com), which is a collaboration with Anna Maria Reverté. They have played several concerts together in Barcelona, with symphonic band in The Auditori at the famous Sagrada Familia.

MICHAEL SOLOTKE – USAMichael Solotke is a Connecticut-based carillonneur who has performed across North America and Europe. He began playing carillon as a member of the Yale Guild of Carillonneurs in 2010, where his instructor was Ellen Dickinson. In 2012, he participated in an intensive summer study program at the Royal Carillon School ‘Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, Belgium, where he studied with Geert D’hollander, Eddy Marien, and Koen Cosaert. At the June 2013 congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America, Michael passed his carillonneur exam advancement recital and became a Carillonneur Member of the GCNA. In 2016, Michael completed a one-month carillon residency at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida.

Michael holds a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry from Yale, and is currently a medical student at the Yale School of Medicine. His interests outside of carillon and medicine include the outdoors, playing the piano and trombone, distance running, and Belgian beer.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MARCH 20 | 1 P.M.GEERT D’HOLLANDER OPENING CONCERT

MARCH 20 | 3 P.M.JOEY BRINK

TWO SONGS

What a Wonderful World

Bob Thiele (1922-1996)

Variations on an Appalachian Folk Song*

Geert D’hollander (b. 1965)Theme

CantabileAdagio

AndanteAnimato

HONORING MILFORD MYHRE

Three Designs

Milford Myhre

Stars & Stripes Forever*

John Philip Sousaarr. Milford Myrhe

* Performed as duet with Alex Johnson

Alex Johnson, Bok Tower Garden’s “2019 Blanchard Carillon Fellow” grew up in a suburb of Dallas, Texas where he began his musical training with piano at the age of eight. Orchestral and marching percussion became his primary musical interest by age 10, with which he flourished in his high school band and percussion program.While studying physics at the University of Rochester, New York, Alex was introduced to the carillon and almost instantly became attached to the instrument. After exploring a variety of career options with physics and linguistics research, he’s now passionate about pursuing professionally what he has always loved: musical performance, teaching, and composition.

FOLK SETTING

Let All Things Now Living(Ash Grove, 2010, for carillon)

Geert D’hollander (b. 1965)

CLOUD WATCHING

Reverie (2015, for carillon)

Joey Brink (b. 1988)

Colors of the Wind (from Pocahontas)

Alan Menken (b. 1949)

Le Brouillard (The Fog, 2016, for carillon)

Stefano Colletti (b. 1973)

TRANSCRIPTION

Chaconne in F

Johann Fischer (1646–1716)arr. Bernard Winsemius

FROM THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Every Time We Say Goodbye

Cole Porter (1891–1964)

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the carillon at Kirk in the Hills, Michigan in 2010, Kirk carillonneur Dennis Curry commissioned Geert D’hollander to write Hymn Preludes for the Kirk, a set of six works for carillon. D’hollander’s setting of Let All Things Now Living (The Ash Grove) is an absolute favorite of mine.Reverie gives the feeling of drifting off into a peaceful dream while sitting in a meadow of wildflowers as the sound of birds and rustling leaves play out in the wind. The piece is commissioned and published by Yale University.I confess that Disney songs are my favorite songs to play on the carillon, and I can’t resist working one into each concert with an ambiguous section title like “Cloud Watching”. Alan Menken wrote Colors of the Wind for the 1995 film Pocahontas, and won the Grammy that year for best original song.Brouillard (Fog) is a beautiful piece of imagery. The composition is one of 50 pieces commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Yale Memorial Carillon. I had the honor to premiere the piece at the 2016 GCNA congress at Yale University.Johann Fischer was a German violinist, keyboardist, and composer of the baroque era. Bernard Winsemius, considered the master of baroque music on the carillon, has arranged and transcribed an uncountable number of works from this time period.Every Time We Say Goodbye is one of my absolute favorite standards. The lyrics of the song match the harmonic progression: “…how strange the change, from major to minor…“ The song has been recorded countless times since it was first introduced in the 1944 musical Seven Lively Arts.

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MARCH 20 | 7:30 P.M.AMY JOHANSENBOK AFTER DARK

ZEN SUNSET

Gymnopédie I

Erik Satie (1866-1925)arr. Karel Borghuis

Lake Music

Terry Vaughan (1915-1996)

Laura

David Raksin (1912-2004)arr. Sally Slade Warner

Stargazing (from Music for Twilight)

Frank DellaPenna (b. 1951)

As Time Goes By (from Casablanca)

Herman Hupfeld (1894-1951)arr. Joey Brink

Invocation


La fille aux cheveux de lin

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)arr. Jef Rottiers

Fanfares for Amy (world premiere)

Willis Bodine (b. 1935)

Misty

Erroll Garner (1923-1977)arr. Jos Lerinck

Evening Meditation (from Southern Triptych)


Nocturne, Op 9 No 2

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)arr. Joey Brink

Moon River (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s)Henry Mancini (1924-1994)

arr. Richard Giszczak

Music to soothe your soul as the daylight fades, including well-known favorites and modern carillon originals. What better setting could there be for this than Bok’s beautiful gardens?Terry Vaughan, a New Zealander by birth, spent most of his life in Australia as a composer, professor, and entertainer. Although he did not play the carillon, his three pieces for the instrument are exquisite in their simplicity and beauty. They were written for the dedication of the Canberra carillon, and evoke the peacefulness of its location on Aspen Island in Lake Burley Griffin, in Australia’s national capital.Frank DellaPenna has created a set of hypnotic, Zen-state-inducing variations over a calmly pulsating recurring bass pattern to capture the magic of twilight.Joey Brink’s Invocation opens with a dreamy introduction followed by a romantic, gently rocking first theme. The rhythmic “invocation” section then begins quietly and gradually grows to a peak of intensity, until it gently fades to finish as peacefully as it began.FANFARES FOR AMY receives its world premiere this evening. Composed especially for this recital by Willis Bodine (Amy’s former organ professor at the University of Florida), it is a musical souvenir of her student days.EVENING MEDITATION is based on an early American hymn tune Restoration from The Southern Harmony, 1835. Geert D’hollander’s title perfectly describes the music.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MARCH 21 | 11 A.M.KOEN VAN ASSCHE

MARCH 21 | 1 P.M.MICHAEL SOLOTKE

MARCH 21 | 3 P.M.AMY JOHANSEN

MOZART IN BRONZE

Romanza(from Piano Concerto no. 20,

KV 466, 1785)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

arr. Gideon Bodden

Adagio (from Clarinet Concerto,

KV 622, 1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Bernard Winsemius

Introitus: Requiem aeternam & Kyrie Eleison

Sequentia: Lacrimosa

(from Requiem, KV 626, 1791)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arr. Koen Van Assche

In the course of music history, many well-known composers have made arrangements of compositions that were originally written for other instruments, both from their own work and from that of other composers. This is certainly the case for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He, for example, arranged several compositions by Georg Friedrich Händel as well as his own oboe concerto.Mozart was familiar with the automatically playing chimes, and although he visited the carillon of Ghent (Belgium), he did not write for the carillon.It goes without saying that classical music sounds great on the instrument for which it is written, but carillon bells can give a special color to this very famous music.The high and powerful voice of a soprano voice, as in Mozarts’ Requiem, is of course not comparable to a small bell. However, the warm sounds of Bok Tower’s carillon will try to sing along.

A BRIEF TOUR ACROSS THE GLOBE

THE LOW COUNTRIES

Menuet (from the de Gruijtters 1746

Carillon Book)

Johannes de Gruijtters (1709-1772)

Sonatina I (1975, for carillon)

Flor Peeters (1903-1986)

Allegro

Tempo di Minuetto

Rondo Giocoso

JAPAN

Ancient Japanese Melody

arr. Adrian Tien

ESTONIA

Meil Aia-aarne Tanavas

Estonian Folk Songarr. Astrid Bowler

NORTH AMERICA

Chartres

(from Carillon Book for the Liturgical Year)

Roy Hamlin Johnson (b. 1929)

How The Light Gets In*


Stars & Stripes Forever*(1896, National March

of the US)

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

arr. Milford Myrhe

*Performed as duet with Joey Brink

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BACH AND BOK

Minuets I and II(from Partita in B-flat,

BWV 825)

Johann Sebastian Bach (b. 21 March 1685 -1750)

arr. Ira Schroeder

Bist du bei mir (BWV 508)

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Ronald Barnes

Prelude (from Cello Suite 1, BWV 1007)

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. John Knox

Air in D(from Orchestral Suite 3, BWV 1068)

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Frances Newell

Remembrances of Johann Sebastian Bach

Willem Créman (1895-1970)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (BWV 147)

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Albert Gerken

Homage to Bach: Toccata(from Hemony Suite)

Albert de Klerk (1917-1998)

Today we celebrate the (northern) Spring Equinox, Australia’s Harmony Day (celebrating cultural diversity and equality), and the 334th birthday of one of the greatest composers in history, Johann Sebastian Bach. And of course, we continue our celebrations of Bok Tower Gardens’ 90th anniversary!

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MARCH 22 | 11 A.M.JOEY BRINK

HONORING MILFORD MYHRE

Prelude on “The King’s Majesty”(1968, for carillon)

Milford Myhre (b. 1931)

Poor Wayfaring Stranger(American Folk Song)

arr. Milford Myhre

JAZZ

The Girl From Ipanema

Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994)

Georgia on my Mind

Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

POETRY

Faro(Lighthouse, 2018, for carillon)

Maria Kaoutzani (b. 1993)

Pluie(Rain, 2018, for carillon)

Alison Yun-Fei Jiang (b. 1992)

FROM THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Desperado

The Eagles (1971–present)

Honoring Milford Myhre When I was performing as the carillon fellow at Bok Tower Gardens in 2015, Milford would take detailed notes on every performance I gave, and share his notes with me after the concert over ice cream at the cafe. An honest and critical listener, Milford would leave nothing out, and I thank him dearly for his unfiltered opinions that improved my playing, and his enduring friendship. Milford’s Prelude on “The King’s Majesty” begins with a dreamy motif that sets the mood for a broad and majestic melody in the bass bells.Speaking of bass bells, Milford also places the melody of Poor Wayfaring Stranger in the bass bells. Milford loves the bass bells. All carillonneurs do, but Milford does especially. This arrangement was the third song I ever learned to play on the carillon, back in 2008. And it’s the only song from my early years of playing that I still play – it’s my favorite Milford arrangement.Jazz Milford isn’t too fond of jazz on the carillon, so of course I thought it fitting to follow with two jazz selections. When Milford first heard me play The Girl from Ipanema in Minnesota in 2013, he told me after that we needed to have a discussion about what kind of music is suitable on bells, in his friendly but serious way. I’ve learned a thing or two from Milford though, and he might like my arrangement of Georgia on my Mind a bit better. (I put the melody in the bass bells).Poetry Kaoutzani and Jiang are both composition Ph.D. students at the University of Chicago. Their pieces were each written for the New Music Festival in Chicago in May of last year, and each is inspired by a poem:

FaroThe sky a black sphere,the sea a black disk.The lighthouse opensits solar fan on the coast.Spinning endlessly at night,who is it searching for,when the mortal heartlooks for me in the chest?Look at the black rockwhere it is nailed down.A crow digs endlesslybut no longer bleeds. Faro en la noche (Lighthouse in the night), by Alfonsina Storni

Pluie…Mothers continue to peel peas under gravestonesI will hear the bells in the center of the worldWhile the native houses collapse in the rain…Pan de Ayer (Yesterday’s Bread), by Juan Carlos Mestre

From the American Songbook My good friend Dave Johnson, carillonneur at House of Hope in St. Paul, MN asked me to arrange Desperado for him last year, in exchange for a few beers. Dave hasn’t bought me a beer yet (to be fair we haven’t seen each other yet), but I’ve always loved this song and would have arranged it for free anyway

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MARCH 22 | 1 P.M.AMY JOHANSEN

MARCH 22 | 3 P.M.KOEN VAN ASSCHE

4 HANDS, 4 FEET: AMY AND GEERT

Summer Serenade (2012, for carillon)

Geert D’hollander (b. 1965)Promenade

Siciliana (for Julianne Vanden Wyngaard) Burlesque (for Tom) Melancholic Waltz

Pizzicato

(written in fond remembrance of

John Courter, 1941-2010)

ROMANTIC BELLS

TOWER MUSIC IN VARIOUS ROMANTIC STYLES

Adagio (Nimrod) (from the Enigma Variations)

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)arr. Jo Coenen

Le Brouillard(The Fog, 2016, for carillon)

Stefano Colletti (b. 1973)

Mazurka, Op 17 No. 4

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)arr. Jaap van der Ende

Fascination (Valse tzigane)

Fidenco D. Marchetti (1876-1940)arr. Arie Abbenes

Libertango

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)arr. Koen Van Assche

Canzona (2018, for carillon)


This program provides a variety of musical styles where the melodic lines carry the music. It opens in the late-romantic period with the most famous orchestral work by Edward Elgar. The program also contains the soul’s profound empathy with the music of Chopin.With a romantic waltz and an intriguing tango, two different ways of expression in the carillon are showcased. The tenuto in the waltz, tends to extend the first note of the measure, perfectly suited for the long-ringing bells. But the carillon can also produce tango’s accentuated rhythmic patterns.The two carillon compositions in this concert are from carillonneurs Colletti and D’hollander. Colletti’s Le Brouillard is a musical portrait of the mist over the fields. D’hollander’s Canzona for carillon has an extremely spicy casing for the middle section, where the origin of the Canzona is heard, a slow song of the troubadours from the middle ages; “Very fast, but singing” – that is the composer’s indication on this score.

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MARCH 23 | 11 A.M.AMY JOHANSEN

MARCH 23 | 1 P.M.KOEN VAN ASSCHE

MEMORIES OF FLORIDA AND AUSTRALIA

Way down upon the Swanee River

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)arr. Milford Myhre

A TRIBUTE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Florida, our Alma Mater

Milton Yeats (1898-1977)arr. Willis Bodine

Toccatina Festiva(on Florida, our Alma Mater, from “Jubilee!)

Geert D ‘hollander (b. 1965)

AUSTRALIA!

Australiana (1980, for carillon)


Anzac Echoes (2015, for carillon)


I still call Australia home

Peter Allen (1944-1992)arr. Joan Chia

A Little Fantasy and Fugue (for the University of Sydney carillon)

Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)

I’ve chosen music from places that have been special in my life, having spent much of my youth in Florida and later making my home in Australia. Both the University of Florida and the University of Sydney are significant places for me, as reflected in some of the pieces.Florida carillonists’ arrangements are featured: Milford Myhre’s setting of Florida’s official song (Swanee River) and his Australiana, based on folk songs: Andy’s Gone with Cattle, The Wild Colonial Boy and of course, Waltzing Matilda.Two settings of the University of Florida’s Alma Mater; the first by Emeritus University Organist and Carillonist Willis Bodine, who was responsible for the installation of the Century Tower Carillon in 1979, and the second by Geert D’hollander for the carillon’s 30th anniversary in 2009.Anzac Echoes (dedicated to Amy Johansen) was commissioned by the University of Sydney in 2015, commemorating both the centenary of ANZAC Day and the War Memorial Carillon’s 87th anniversary on 25th April. It honors the fallen soldiers from the University who served in World War I. The piece is built around the subtle themes of The Last Post, Advance Australia Fair and Waltzing Matilda. A Little Fantasy and Fugue for Carillon was written for the University of Sydney War Memorial Carillon in 1934 by Sir Hamilton Harty (conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra), after visiting the carillon during his tour to Australia.

“FANTASY FOR BELLS”HONORING

EMERITUS CARILLONNEUR MILFORD MYHRE

Fantasy on “King’s Weston”(1964, for carillon)


Sorrowing & Dreaming

(from Ludus Modalis, 2012, for carillon)


Fandango(1993, for carillon)

Ronald Barnes (1927-1997)

Coppélia-Fantasy*

(2005, for carillon duet)

D’hollander (b. 1965)

*Performed as duet with a special guest

Although the Fandango of Ronald Barnes is a free interpretation of the original dance, as performed and played in Spain from the 18th century, his composition balances the spirit of the dance and the dynamic range of the carillon with the accents like castanets of the Fandango. The Ludus Modalis was commissioned by the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” in Mechelen, Belgium. It contains several pieces of different styles: Sorrowing has a very specific 5/8 measure, while Dreaming evokes the compositional style of Ravel. In the finale of this program, a carillon composition for four hands by Geert D’hollander will be performed (the first one in his oeuvre), a fantasy based on the famous waltzes of Delibes, and dedicated to the carillon duo Anna Maria Reverté (carillonneur of Barcelona) and Koen Van Assche.

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MARCH 23 | 3 P.M.MICHAEL SOLOTKE

MARCH 23 | 7:30 P.M.JOEY BRINK

BOK AFTER DARK

AN EVENING AT THE CONCERT HALL AND

AT THE MOVIES

AT THE CONCERT HALL

Memorial Chimes Op.86(1923, for carillon)

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Flower Song(1875, from the Opera Carmen)

Georges Bizet (b.1955)arr. Wendell Westcott

Adagio Op.11(1936, for string quartet)

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Prelude on “Joyful, Joyful”(from Beethoven’s

Symphony No. 9, 1824)

Laura Hewitt Whipple (1920-2005)

AT THE MOVIES

Married Life * (2009, from Pixar’s Up)

Michael Giacchino (b.1967)

The Rainbow Connection(1979, from The Muppet Movie)

Jerry Bock (1928-2010)arr. Sally Slade Warner

Phantom of the Opera *(1986, from the musical)

Andrew Lloyd Webber (b.1948)

* Performed as duet with Joey Brink

NIGHT MUSIC

Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 2 (1830, for piano)

Frederic Chopin (1810–49)

DAYDREAMS & NIGHTMARES

Dreaming (2012, for carillon)


In Dreams (2001, from “The Lord of the Rings”)

Howard Shore (b. 1946)

Fantasy (1962, for carillon)

Roy Hamlin Johnson (b. 1929)

YOU & ME

Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You (1967, pop song)

Frankie Vallie (b. 1934)

Les chemins de l’amour (1940, from “Léocadia“)

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)arr. Julie Zhu

I Won’t Say I’m in Love (1997, from “Hercules”)


MOON & STARS

Moonflower Faeries (2016, for carillon)


City of Stars (2016, from “La La Land”)

Justin Hurwitz (b. 1985)

NIGHT MUSIC

Notturno (1903, for piano)

Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)arr. Brian Tang

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MARCH 24 | 11A.M.MICHAEL SOLOTKE

MARCH 24 | 1 P.M.JOEY BRINK

MUSICAL ASTRONOMY

MOON

Prelude Romantique(1991, for carillon)

Frank Steijns (b.1970)

Daniel’s Lullaby(2011, for carillon)

Marcel Siebers (b.1955)

Asteroids (1991, for carillon)

Gary White (b.1937)

Fairytale(1998, for carillon)

Kristiaan Van Ingelgem (b.1944)

SUN

Blow Away the Morning Dew

British Traditional (18th Century)arr. Ronal Barnes

Sunrise, Sunset (1964, from Fiddler on the Roof )

Jerry Bock (1928-2010)arr. Astrid Bowler

Preludium Quasi Una Fantasia(1927, for carillon)

Jef Van Hoof (1886-1959)

DANCES *

Ripple Effects (2018, for carillon)

Augusta Read Thomas (b. 1964)

We’d Better Not Boogie (2015, for carillon)


FROGS & BEASTS & BUTTERFLIES

The Frog Galliard (for Harpsichord)

John Dowland (1563-1626)arr. Jeff Davis

Prelude & Belle (from “Beauty and the Beast”)


Butterfly Chaos (2018, for carillon)

Paul K. Takahashi (b. 1967)

CLOCKTOWERS

If Stones Fell Like Leaves (2018, for carillon)


Clocks (2003, rock song)

Coldplay (1996-present)

* Performed as duet with Michael Solotke

Dances Commissioned for the New Music Festival at the University of Chicago last May, Grammy-award winning composer Augusta Read Thomas composed Ripple Effects for twelve carillonneurs. Gathering all twelve players around the keyboard was as much a musical challenge for musicians that normally play solo, as it was a feat of choreography. The version you hear today is edited for two players. We’d Better Not Boogie is a mix of funk jazz, blues, and boogie, beginning with a straight syncopated feel and transitioning into a fast swing. The piece is commissioned by Yale University.Frogs & Beasts & Butterflies English Renaissance composer John Dowland’s music has undergone a major revival in recent decades, and serves as a continuing source of repertoire for lutenists, classical guitarists, and carillonneurs. Alan Menken’s music for Beauty and the Beast is heavily influenced by French, classical and traditional Broadway music. Menken was initially skeptical of the opening number Belle, worried that the song had the potential to end his career at Disney if not received well. To his surprise, the creative team loved the song.Butterfly Chaos is probably my favorite title to any piece I’ve ever played. Takashi wrote the piece to be improvisational and modular, with patterns and sections that are meant to be combined in different ways. Clocktowers If Stones Fell Like Leaves is a short piece of imagery. I imagine the stones of the tower falling down, but rather than crash to the ground, the stones float down like leaves. Both this piece and Ripple Effects, at the beginning of the program, are written for Elizabeth Davenport, who stepped down as Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago last December.Coldplay’s Clocks appears on their second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, which received the Grammy for “Record of the Year” in 2004. The title reflects on the world’s obsession with time, and encourages us to “make the best of it when we’re here, present and alive.”

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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MARCH 24 | 3 P.M.GEERT D’HOLLANDER

A CARILLON COMPOSITION BY THE PERFORMER

A Jazzy Triptych for Harkness *

(2018, commissioned by Yale University)

Playful Prelude

Wistful Waltz

And a Tuneful Two-Step

THREE ARRANGEMENTS BY MILFORD MYHRE

Listen to the Mocking Bird(1855, popular African-American song)

Richard Milburn (ca. 1814-?)

To a Wild Rose (1896, from “Ten Woodland Sketches”, Op.51, for piano)

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908)

Stars & Stripes Forever*(1896, National March of the US)

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

The Yeehaw Junction “Jam” Session **(2012, for carillon)

Geert D’hollander * Performed as duet with Alex Johnson

** For three to play! Performed with Joey Brink and Michael Solotke

A Jazzy Triptych for Harkness was written for the carillon of the Harkness Tower at Yale University. It is based on 3 popular Yale Songs: the Whiffenpoof Song, Bright College Years and Yale Boola, all arranged in a light, jazzy way.Milford Myhre arranged dozens of scores for the carillon. Almost all of his transcriptions are transparent, one could say “less is more”: not too many notes, straight to the point, often with the melody in the lower register of the instrument.

Although I’ve known Milford since I was eight years old, as he is good friends with my parents, I didn’t hear him perform until I came to Bok Tower Gardens when I was just 17 years old. That’s when playing the carillon changed for me. Listening to Milford, I heard something that I had never heard before: colors, layers, and a truly singing bell timbre. I was always focused on the technique and energy of my music. He told me to listen to the music, forget about the score in front of me, listen to what I was doing. Listening to my music allows me to make what is intricate and complex, sound seamless and beautiful. I transformed my performances. Since that time, Milford has been my lifelong mentor and carillon inspiration. Still today, he is an inspiration to me and many other carillonneurs.

MILFORD MYHRE DAY MARCH 24

This year, the festival is a tribute to the living legacy of the Gardens’ second carillonneur, Milford Myhre who retired in 2004 after 36 years of service. March 24 is “Milford Myhre

Day” with a special appreciation ceremony, concerts featuring his music and a question and answer session with

Myhre at 2pm.

Image is an oil portrait of Milford Myhre by Bok Tower

Gardens’ Blanchard Carillon Fellow, Julie Zhu.

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