Program Note:   

Bearing the motto, “Let the trumpets sound the sonance and the note to mount” (Henry V IV, ii) and completed on 29 July 1989 at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the piece is in three parts—an opening set of “sennets” (or horn calls), a teasing out of long, sustained tones for the middle section (“cortege”), and a final, wild quodlibet of musical ideas associated by the composer with his Wisconsin childhood, including fragments of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag,” the University of Wisconsin Fight Song (“On, Wisconsin”), and the theme of the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Participating Conductors and Schools in the 1989-1990 CBDNA Commissioning Project

• Larry Harper - Carroll College, Waukesha

• Lewis Schmidt - Lakeland College, Sheboygan

• Mark Eichner - Parkside Colelge, Kenosha

• Donald George - University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

• Kevin Collins - University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

• Thomas Dvorak - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

• Kay Gainacopulos - University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

• Dennis Glocke - Unoversity of Wisconsin - Stevens Point

• Patricia Wellman - University of Wisconsin - Waukesha

• Glenn Hayes - University of Wisconsin - Whitewater