All Creatures Great and Small

EUGENE MIGLIARO CORPORON, conductor
KIMBERLY COLE LUEVANO, clarinet
DR. DENNIS KRATZ, narrator

Program

• Peter and the Wolf, Sergei Prokofiev
• Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite, Karl King
• Walking the Dog, George Gershwin
• Black Dog, Scott McAllister
• Scherzo: Cat and Mouse, Robert Spittal
• The Fly, Oscar Navarro
• Jungla, Ferrar Ferran

Concert Description

The Lone Star Wind Orchestra and Operation Kindness team up to bring you a concert about the animals we admire. From music inspired by dogs and cats to the magnificent creatures of the jungle, Music Director Eugene Migliaro Corporon and the Lone Star Wind Orchestra presents “All Creatures Great and Small” on Sunday, January 25th, 2:30 PM at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. Clarinetist Kimberly Cole Luevano solos with a set of variations based on the Led Zeppelin rock song “Black Dog” and UT-Dallas dean Dr. Dennis Kratz narrates the popular “Peter and the Wolf.”

Operation Kindness

Saving Lives – One Animal at a Time. Operation Kindness is the original and largest no-kill shelter in North Texas. Operation Kindness has saved more than 80,000 animals over almost 40 years. Operation Kindness cares for approximately 300 animals on a day-to-day basis, with another 100 animals in foster homes. More than 3,000 dogs and cats are assisted by Operation Kindness each year.

The mission of Operation Kindness is to care for homeless cats and dogs in a no-kill environment until each is adopted into responsible homes and to advocate humane values and behavior. Operation Kindness’ vision is a world where all cats and dogs have loving, responsible, forever homes.

Sample Music

Guest Bios

With reviews such as “breathtaking…” (The Clarinet), “virtuosic tone and technique” (Tampa Bay Times), “exceptionally sensitive and introspective rendition” (The Clarinet), and “a most skillful artist” (Fanfare Magazine), Kimberly Cole Luevano continually establishes herself as a formidable soloist and chamber musician.

Luevano joined the University of North Texas faculty in 2011 and served as a member of the clarinet faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp from 2003 to 2012. She was appointed as Pedagogy Chairperson for the International Clarinet Association in 2012 and has given acclaimed solo and chamber performances, adjudicated, and presented masterclasses throughout the United States and Canada and in Europe, Asia, and South America. She has performed at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest® on numerous occasions.

Dennis M. Kratz is dean of the School of Arts and Humanities and Ignacy and Celina Rockover Professor of Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas. As dean, Kratz has fostered the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum that connects the arts with the humanities, critical with creative thought, theory with practice, and the University with the community.

Kratz has greatly expanded international studies at UT Dallas. In November 2007, UT Dallas became the first university in Texas to house a Confucius Institute (part of a global network to promote the study of China’s language, history and culture). The Confucius Institute, along with the UT Dallas Center for Translation Studies and the new Global Communication and Leadership Institute (established in partnership with Hanyang University of the Republic of Korea), plays a key role in the development of a global humanities program designed to foster international understanding.

Program Notes

Written and compiled by Dominic Talanca

Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite (1913)
Karl L. King
Ed. by Schissel

Barnum and Bailey’s Favorite was written for Ned Brill, conductor of the Barnum and Bailey’s Circus Band. King was twenty-two at the time he composed this work for the thirty-two piece band. He had just been accepted as a new euphonium player for the Barnum and Bailey’s Circus Band and decided to write a circus march to honor the ensemble and conductor. This march along with The Big Cage, The Melody Shop, and The Trombone King takes its place among his most popular marches.

Scherzo: Cat and Mouse (2011)
Robert Spittal

The composer writes, “Scherzo: Cat and Mouse was composed over four months, and was completed on New Year’s Eve during a stay in Paris, France. The North Texas Wind Symphony premiered the piece on April 26, 2012 under the baton of Eugene Migliaro Corporon. The “cat and mouse chase” has been a part of folklore and popular culture since the age of pharaohs in ancient Egypt. Over the ages, the chase has served as a metaphor for the suspenseful and sometimes alternating relation between hunter and hunted. In the modern age, the story has been played out hundreds of times in popular animated cartoons, often accompanied by a musical score representing the energetic spirit of the chase with lively twists and turns, sudden surprises, and tongue-in-cheek music. It is that kind of spirit of the cat and mouse chase that I attempt to convey in this work.”

Black Dog (2003)
Scott McAllister

Black Dog is a rock-guitar inspired piece influenced in part by the 1971 Led Zepplin hit single of the same title. McAllister describes the work as an exploration of extremes. From the cadenza-like passages in the beginning to the “Coplandesque” middle section and virtuosic improvisatory final section, Black Dog is a study in musical combination, contrast and complexity. Along with its connection to rock, it also includes references to the hymn tune “Grace, Greater than our Sin” and Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major.

Walking the Dog (1937)
George Gershwin
Arr. by D. Bourgeois

Walking the Dog (1937) is one of many musical numbers written by George Gershwin for the film score to the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers film Shall We Dance. In the movie, the music accompanies a sequence of walking a dog on board a luxury liner. In 1960, the sequence was published as “Promenade.” Most of the score from the film (composed and orchestrated by Gershwin) remains unpublished and unavailable in modern stereo recordings.

The Fly (2014)
Oscar Navarro

The composer writes, “The Fly is a musical invention for symphonic wind band, conceived to emulate the sound produced when a fly travels across the different sections of the band. The music begins in the calmest manner, awakening the listener from a peaceful dream, and throughout the duration of the piece their mood will change into a state of wrath caused by the tediousness of this fly.”

Peter and the Wolf (1936)
Sergei Prokofiev
Trans. by Sam Daniels

Peter and the Wolf was composed for narrator and orchestra. Combining a strong storyline, distinctive instrumentation, and memorable melodies, the work soon became a children’s classic. The famed Disney animated short was made in 1946. It has subsequently received countless recordings, with narrators ranging from the composer’s son and grandson to showbiz celebrities including David Bowie, Sting, and Bono. This arrangement for winds was done by Sam Daniels.

Jungla (2006)
Ferrer Ferran

The composer writes, “Jungla is a symphonic poem set to dances of various African tribes. The work is meant to depict the belief in the power and greatness of nature and the tribal ancestors. Drumming is an integral part of these honorary and celebratory rituals. This is the third work in a trilogy of pieces that focuses on the African forests.”