presents
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
WIND ENSEMBLE
Matthew M. Marsit director
THE LAST FULL MEASURE
OF DEVOTION:
COMMEMORATING GETTYSBURG
This performance is made possible in part by the Hopkins Center Performance Fund No. 3 and
Friends of the Dartmouth Marching Band.
Friday, November 1, 2013 | 8 pm
Spaulding Auditorium | Dartmouth College
PROGRAM
Toccata Marziale (1924)
The Last Full Measure of Devotion (2013)
New England Premiere
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Matthew Herman (b. 1973)
Lincoln Portrait (1942)
James Goodwin Rice narrator
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
• INTERMISSION •
Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, Op. 15 (1840)
I. Marche funèbre
II. Oraison funèbre
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Jacob Weiss ‘14 trombone soloist
III. Apothéose
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Matthew Herman composer holds a Doctorate
of Musical Arts in composition from Temple
University. Previous degrees were earned at
Bowling Green State University and the College
of Wooster. His teachers have included Samuel
Adler, Jack Gallagher, Matthew Greenbaum,
Marilyn Shrude and Maurice Wright. Dr.
Herman’s first orchestral composition, The War
Prayer, was featured on a 1998 concert of
“Young and Emerging Composers” by the
Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Since then, his
compositions have been performed throughout
the United States and in Europe.
Dr. Herman has served on the faculties of
Temple University, West Chester University, and
Shenandoah Conservatory, earning numerous
awards and accolades for his music theory
courses. As a researcher, Dr. Herman has publicly
presented his work on Dmitri Shostakovich and
Vincent D’Indy, and served as editor-in-chief of
the New Elson’s Pocket Music Dictionary in 2009.
James Goodwin Rice narrator has been an
actor and teacher for nearly forty years. A
veteran of New York and regional stages, he
appeared in episodic television, movies of the
week and in daytime television roles. A teacher
of acting and voice, Rice is currently a Senior
Lecturer of Theater and has taught at Dartmouth
College since 1997. In 2008 he was named Senior
Lecturer at the Tuck School of Business where
he teaches a theater/communication course to
second-year MBA candidates. Rice is a graduate
of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York,
was a student of Sanford Meisner, William Esper,
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
and, subsequently, Uta Hagen, at the
Hagen-Berghof Studio. A Designated Linklater
Voice Teacher, Rice’s teaching background
includes Skidmore College, SUNY Albany
and New Paltz, Vassar/Powerhouse Theater
Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Emerson
College, and as a Visiting Guest Artist Master
Teacher for the University of Pittsburgh MFA
program. He is a founder of the Capital
Repertory Theater in Albany, NY, where he
appeared in more than 20 roles. He is a member
of Shakespeare and Company of Lenox, MA,
where he teaches, coaches voice, and acts.
Other regional appearances include the
Wharton Salon, O’Neill Theater Center,
Pittsburgh Public Theater, Virginia Stage, The
Empty Space, A Contemporary Theater, and
Tony award-winning Intiman Theater, where he
was a founding player. He appeared in Ibsen’s
Ghosts with Joanne Woodward, directed by
Michael Cristofer; played Vershinin in the New
York premiere of Lanford Wilson’s translation of
Three Sisters; and was directed by Susan
Sarandon in Steven Rotblatt’s Rubber Chicken at
Ensemble Studio Theater. Rice also attended the
University of Washington, Skidmore College (BS)
and New York University (MA). Most recently,
he has been an associate director of Youth
Bridge Global, a not-for-profit that produced
productions of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, in
Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012) and Romeo
and Juliet in Kigali, Rwanda (2013) with high
school and university students in particularly
under-resourced areas of recent genocide.
Matthew M. Marsit conductor has led
ensembles and performed as a solo, chamber,
and orchestral musician throughout the United
States. Currently on the artistic staff of the
Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts at
Dartmouth College as director of bands,
Marsit has previously held conducting positions
with Cornell University, Drexel University, the
Chestnut Hill Orchestra, the Bucks County Youth
Ensembles and the Performing Arts Institute
of Wyoming Seminary. Marsit has served as
a guest conductor, clinician and consultant for a
great number of schools, institutions and
festivals throughout the United States and has
produced a recording project for the United
States Military Academy West Point Band. In
addition to his work as an academic conductor,
Marsit serves as artistic director of the Charles
River Wind Ensemble, based in Boston, MA, and
as clarinet faculty at Plymouth State University in
Plymouth, NH.
An advocate for the use of music as a vehicle for
service, Marsit has led ensembles on service
missions in the US and in Costa Rica, collecting
instruments for donation, performing charity
benefit concerts and offering workshops to
benefits arts programs. In March 2014, he will
lead the DCWE on its first international
service and performance tour to San Jose, Costa
Rica.
A native of Hazleton, PA, Marsit moved first to
Philadelphia to complete his studies in music at
Temple University, where he studied clarinet with
Anthony Gigliotti and Ronald Reuben and
conducting with Luis Biava and Arthur
Chodoroff, and graduated Summa Cum Laude
in 2003. Additionally, Marsit has studied
conducting with some of the world’s most
prominent instructors including Mark Davis
Scatterday of the Eastman School of the Music,
Timothy Reynish of the Royal Northern College
of Music in Manchester, UK, and Gianluigi
Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in
Siena, Italy. In 2012, he completed a graduate
degree in Orchestral Conducting with Bruce
Hangen at The Boston Conservatory.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE
Matthew M. Marsit director
Flute
Ling Jing '15
Jessica Fan '17
Mallory Rutigliano '17 (+piccolo)
Soonsoo Park '17
Seo Kyung Kim 'GR
Oboe
Jonathan Kramer '17
Irene Feng '17
Clarinet
Angela Jin '15
Joshua Warzecha '17
Alex Przeslawski '17
Shannon Carman '17
Anne Reed-Weston '16
Ethan Blackwood '17
Joy Shen '17
Michael Geilich, community
Marjorie Tassey, community
Crystal Lantrip, community
Bass Clarinet
James Lenz, community
Bassoon
Brandon Apoo '16
Christopher Bustard 'GR
Dan Jackson '17
Glenn Griffin, community
Stephen Langley, community
Alto Saxophone
Aadam Barclay '16
Juliana Baratta '17
Kameko Winborn '14
Tenor Trombone
A. Barrett Clark '17
Stylianos Tegas '17
Bass Trombone
Jacob Weiss '16
Tenor Saxophone
Natalia Drozdoff '17
Euphonium
Jonathan Vandermause '16
Baritone Saxophone
Erin Huffer '17
Horn
Mitchell Jacobs '14
Britta Carroll '15
David Mannes '17
Janet Proctor, community
Barbara O'Mara, community
Trumpet
Ben Meyer '15
Steven Povich '16
Jeremy Baskin 'ENG
Tuba
Nathanael Friday '15
Andreas Tzavelis '17
Harry Critchley, community
Percussion
Simone Wien '16
Joshua Perez '17
Cynthia Tan '17
Matthew Sharrock, community
HOPKINS CENTER MANAGEMENT STAFF
Jeffrey H. James Howard Gilman Director
Marga Rahmann Associate Director/General Manager Joseph Clifford Director of Audience Engagement
Jay Cary Business and Administrative Officer Bill Pence Director of Hopkins Center Film
Margaret Lawrence Director of Programming Joshua Price Kol Director of Student Performance Programs
HOPKINS CENTER BOARD OF OVERSEERS
Austin M. Beutner ’82
Kenneth L. Burns H’93
Barbara J. Couch
James W. Giddens ’59
Allan H. Glick ’60, T’61, P’88
Barry F. Grove, II ’73
Caroline Diamond Harrison ’86, P’16
Kelly Fowler Hunter ’83, T’88, P’13, P’15
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Assistive Listening Devices
available in the lobby.
Richard P. Kiphart ’63
Robert H. Manegold ’75, P’02, P’06
Nini Meyer
Hans C. Morris ’80, P’11, P’14 Chair of the Board
Robert S. Weil ’40, P’73 Honorary
Frederick B. Whittemore ’53, T’54, P’88, P’90, H’03
Jennifer A. Williams ’85
Diana L. Taylor ’77 Trustee Representative
D A RT M O UTH
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