Who: |
Cal State Fullerton Department of Music |
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What: |
Jazz Ensembles I & II, Chuck Tumlinson, director |
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When: |
8 p.m. Friday, Mar. 19, 2004 |
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Where: |
Little Theatre, California State University,
Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd. (Nutwood and State College Blvd.)
Fullerton |
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Program: |
Jazz Ensemble II
Where are the Changes ................. Chuck Tumlinson (premiere)
Invitation .................................... arr. Frank
Mantooth
Blues It Horace Silver, ................. arr. Rich Matteson
Take the "A" Train ...................... arr. Sammy
Nestico
Boplicity ..................................... Miles Davis
Jazz Ensemble I
Nixon ........................................... Ken Walicki
(world premiere)
My One and Only Love ................. arr. Chuck Tumlinson
Mean What You Say ...................... Thad Jones
Serengeti Mark Levine ................... arr. Bob Washut
Empty Ballroom Blues ................... Oliver Nelson
Sing, Sing, Sing ............................. arr. Jim McNeely
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Backround: |
CSUF’s Jazz Ensembles have consistently
received high scores and acclaim at major jazz festivals.
Jazz Ensemble *I has been featured on a live radio broadcast
across North America as part of the Playboy Jazz Festival,
and in 1991 and 1992 won the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz
Festival competing against groups from 50 colleges and universities
in seven western states. They have also performed, by invitation,
at many leading Southern California festivals, have produced
four award-winning recordings and are currently at work on
a fifth.
Under direction the director of Chuck Tumlinson the Jazz
program continues to grow and flourish. As a performer Tumlinson
was trumpet soloist with University of North Texas’
One O'clock Lab Band, and appeared at the Wichita, Reno and
Kool jazz festivals. He has performed with the Count Basie
Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Terence Blanchard and Ray Charles.
His compositions and arrangements have been recorded by leading
bands and performers throughout the country and Jazz Ensemble
II will present a new premiere on this concert.
The concert also offers the world premiere of composers Ken
Walicki’s “Nixon.” Walicki’s received
grants and commissions by The Kronos Quartet (“nada
Brahma”), the American Composers Forum, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Mary Flagler
Cary Trust and Meet the Composer among others.
He was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany where he studied with
Karlheinz Stockhausen and Helmut Lachenmann, and earned his
Ph.D. from Michigan State University where he studied with
Jere Hutcheson. Aesthetically, Walicki has been influenced
by a combination of growing up in Detroit as a funk and rock
guitarist, his involvement with Hindustani, Turkish and Arabic
music and a traditional art music education. He has studied
both the sitar and the Turkish saz, and has traveled extensively
throughout the Middle East and the South Asian subcontinent.
He divided his time the last two years between New York and
Istanbul, Turkey where he taught composition at Istanbul Technical
University. He is currently on faculty with Cal State Fullerton’s
Department of Music, and his music is available on Knitting
Factory Works, C.R.I., Channel Records and, in Japan, on Riot
Records |
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Admission: |
Advance sales $15 ($10 with advance Titan discount
& $6 with advance CSUF student discount) At the door all
tickets $15 |
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Box Office: |
Tickets available at the Performing Arts Center
box office 657-278-3371. Hours: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Mondays-Fridays
and one hour prior to performance. Or online at: www.tickets.com |
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Website: |
http://www.fullerton.edu/arts/events/ |
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Media Contact: |
Elizabeth Champion, College of the Arts at 657-278-2434 |