Music 2A, 6A, and 16A must be taken concurrently for a total of 7
units. This set of courses comprises first-year theory
requirements for music majors and begins once a year, in the
fall quarter.
One of the most important priorities of the music department
today is establishing a fund to cover the otherwise out-of-pocket
expenses for individual music lesson instruction for UC Davis
students. These students gain necessary one-on-one instruction
from a career professional in their field and use those skills in
individual and group performances—including the UC Davis Symphony
Orchestra, Choruses, Percussion Ensemble, Baroque, Early Music,
and more. We seek everyone’s support in this endeavor.
One of UC Davis’s highest priorities is the safety of its
students and all members of its community. UC Davis
prohibits all forms of sexual harassment and sexual violence,
including sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and
stalking. Such conduct violates University policy and may
violate California law.
Undergraduate music major (focusing on vocal performance)
Tiara Abraham has won second place in
the Sacramento Master Singers Youth Scholarship competition. For
it she sang one of only a few Vincenzo Bellini art
songs, ”Per pietà, bell’idol mio,” in the collegiate
category, age 20–22.
Professor Pierpaolo Polzonetti is the author of the recently
published book Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From
Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet. Published by
the University of Chicago Press, the book is filled with
engaging insights drawn from Polzonetti’s research about opera —
from its origins as entertainment during 16th-century banquets to
20th-century opera star Maria Callas’s diet.
Andrew “Andy” Frank, who joined the faculty at UC Davis in 1972,
passed away in April, 2022. A consummate artist, Andy was in his
beloved music studio until the very end, composing, revising, and
revisiting cherished musical and literary masters of the present
and past.
Lecturer in music and alum Christopher Castro (Ph.D., composition
and theory, ‘18) has accepted the position of assistant professor
of composition at Chapman University’s College of Performing
Arts, Hall-Musco
Conservatory of Music. He joins the faculty in August
2022 and will teach composition and theory.
UC Davis Concert Band Pete Nowlen, director
and UC Davis lecturer in music
Campus Band
Dr. Garrett Rigsby, conductor
USAF Band of the Golden West
Major Joseph Hansen, commander and conductor
This concert program is being presented free to the public in
memory of the longtime clarinetist and dedicated alumnus Bill
Hollingshead, who passed away in 2021.
Written as a powerful sequel to Moscow, 1941, this
work changes the narrative, where the theme
from Moscow now represents the aggressor, and the
heroic people of Ukraine are represented by the Ukrainian
National Anthem and the powerful song Prayer for Ukraine.
UC Davis Concert Band
Pete Nowlen, conductor
William Grant
Still:Africa, Land of Superstition from the
Africa Suite
FIRST PERFORMANCE of this work transcribed for Concert Band
William Grant Still (who never went to Africa) said the
Africa Suite was “designed as an American Negro’s wholly fanciful
concept of the cradle of his Race, formed on the folklore of
generations.” The work is the first of a trilogy focused on
the subject of the African American experience.
Julie
Giroux:Evening Snow at Kambara from Symphony
No. 4 (“Bookmarks from Japan”)
Based on the bookmark “Evening Snow at Kambara” by Hiroshige Ando
which is from the series The 53 Stations of the Tokaido
Highway.
David
Maslanka:Give Us This Day (Short Symphony for
Wind Ensemble)
The words “Give us this day” are, of course, from the Lord’s
Prayer, but the inspiration for this music is Buddhist. I have
recently read a book by the Vietnamese Bhuddist monk Thich Nhat
Hahn (pronounced “Tick Nat Hahn”) entitled For a Future to
be Possible. His premise is that a future for the planet is only
possible if individuals become deeply mindful of themselves,
deeply connected to who they really are. While this is not a new
idea, and something that is an ongoing struggle for everyone, in
my estimation it is the issue for world peace. For me, writing
music, and working with people to perform music, are two of those
points of deep mindfulness.
Lei X. Ouyang, she/her, (Ph.D. and M.A. in
Ethnomusicology, University of Pittsburgh; B.A. in East Asian
Studies, Macalester College) is Associate Professor and
Chair of Music at Swarthmore College. Her scholarly interests are
in music, culture, and performance in East Asia (primarily China,
Japan, and Taiwan) and Asian America. Her research examines
issues of music and memory, identity, politics, race and
ethnicity, and social justice. Research projects include music
and memory in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Race and
Performance in Asian American musical theatre, and social justice
and taiko drumming in the American Midwest. Lei previously
taught at Skidmore College (2006–17) as Associate Professor of
Music, at Macalester College (2004–06) as a Consortium for
Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, and at National Taiwan
University’s Graduate Institute of Musicology (Spring 2021)
as a Visiting Associate Professor. You can find her CV and
published work at academia.edu.
Noda Lobby and Front Courtyard, Ann E. Pitzer Center
Note: This concert takes place in the Noda Family Lobby
and also the front outdoor courtyard at the Ann E. Pitzer Center.
It will not be available to view via livestream or on the web.
Faculty Coordinator:Kurt
Rohde, viola and UC Davis Professor of Music
This concert is a collaboration of graduate students in music
composition and creative writing, with
artist-in-residence Zachary
James Watkins. Watkins has been working with the
creative students in a series of workshops, with additional
guidance by music department faculty Kurt Rohde
and Sam Nichols.
The work has been developing organically using words and
electronic media in addition to the musicians.
“See / Hear / Say” is sponsored by the UC Davis Humanities
Institute’s “HumArts” Research Clusters, which provides a space
for research and collaboration which is not easily accomplished
in a single department or program.
Participants
Graduate Student Ensemble Musicians
Orkun Akyol
Dean Kervin Boursiquot
Paul Engle
Trey Makler
Joseph D. Peterson
Adam Strawbridge
Colin Minigan
Leanny Muñoz
Devin Christopher Romines
Joseph Vasinda
Emily Joy Sullivan
Graduate Writers from the Creative Writing
Program
Amanda Hawkins
Claudia Ross
Undergraduate Participant from Theatre & Dance
Tessa Fray
Free
Campus community (students, staff, or faculty) must show
a cleared Daily Symptom
Survey at the door.
Others [age 12 and older] must show proof of COVID
vaccination or a negative COVID test result at the door.
