Program Notes

School' when we werc notified of the

september 11,2001, I was teaching my music theory class at The Juilliard
in the school's library' rve heard the
a
radio
around
catashophe that was occurring seveml miles south of us in Manhattan. Gathering
sfieet was full of silent people' all
the
day,
sun-fitled
eyents unfold in shock and disbelief. Afterwalds, walking up Broadway on the
of empty streets and implomptu'
a
landscape
quickly heading to their homes. During the next seveml diys, our.great ciry became
later' the city seemed to haYe
days
ferv
a
Friday,
then on
heartbreaking memorials mouming our tlost citizens, friends and family. But
singing songs' and gathering
candles,
people
holding
been transformed. On this eyening, walking up Brozrdway, I saw muititudes of
of this country and of this
city,
this
of
citizens
in front of those memorials, paying tribudto'the lost, becoming a community of
painful days following
qnl
portrays
those
the
Livi,l8
world, leaning on each other for stiength and support. A Hymn for the lnst
this life' but who are
gone
from
souls,
lost
those
september l1th, days of supreme sadness. It is intended to be a memolial fol

on

foreyer treasued in our

memodes.

Eric Ewozen

and was commissioned by and is

In its original form, A Hymn for the l/,st andthc Living was composed for wind band,
l-arry H' Lang' Director' The
Major
Virginia,
Base,
dedicated to the US Air no*" ff"it g" oi America Band, tanglej eir Force

arangement for trumpet and piano was made by Chris Gekker'

About the ComPoser and Arranger

Babbitt' waren
1954 in Cleveland, ohio. He studied composition rvith Samuel Adtel, Mitton
where he
School'
Tanglewood and The Juilliard
Benson, Gunther schutler, and Joseph schwantner at the Eastrnan School of Music,
Chamber
the
St'
Luke's
with
1980, composer-in-residence
received his DMA. He has been a member of the faculty at Juiltiard since
of
the
kague
of
Encounter series and vice-president
Ensemble of New york city, lecturq for the New York Philharmonic's Musical
Eric Ewazen was born

in

Composers-ISCM.
and performed by many chamber
A rccipient of numerous composition awards and prizes, his \yorks have been commissioned
music include members of the New York Philharmonic'
ensembles and orchestras around the world. Soloists in performance of his
Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera
the philadelphia Orchestra, the tsoston Symphony, thi Clevetand Orchestra, the Chicago
such as Woodstock, Tanglewood' Aspen' Caramoor'
Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic. iis muslc has been heard at fesiivals
and the Music Academy of the West.
of the repertory' Southem
His chamber music and his sonatas for wind and brass instruments have quickly become staples
for trumpet' hom and trombone; the
Music company has published a number of compositions by Dr. Ewazen, including his sonatas
Roaring Fork Quintet (woodwind q)ifiel)i Ballade for
Concerto for Tuba (or Bass Trombone); Conrerto for Trumpet and Strings:
p1,fie,
Hom and Piano; Downa River of Time' a corrcerto
Trombone (or Bass Tromboru) and Piano; Balhde, bastoralc and Do ce for
fot oboei alnd Trio for TrumPet, Violin and Pianohe has been featured at Camegie Hall'
Chris Gekker is Prot-essor of Trumpet at the UniYersity of Maryland. As a soloist,
as soloist on more than 20 recordings' and on
Lincoln Center, and tbroughout the United S'tates, Asia, and Euope. He can be heard

more than 100 chamber music, orchestral and jazz recordings'

of the Orchestra of St Luke's
For 18 yeam Chds was a member Jf the American Brass Quintet. He was Pdncipal trumpet
in
demand with these and other
Orchestra He remains
and frequently performed and t"*rd"d u, principal of the Orpheus Chamber
school' the Manhattan
Juiltiard
of the
group. ,u"t ur'qr" chamber Music Society or iincotn Centir. He is a former faculty membr
(Charles
colin Publications)
atd Endurance Drirls
School of Music, and Columbia university. His Articulation Studies, 44 Duos,
his teachers include
and
Marytand'
and the University of
are sold worldwide. He holds degrees from the Eastman Schoot of Music
Emerson Head, Sidney Mear, Adel Sanchez and Gerard Schwartz'
as freshmen in 1972 We became friends
Chris Gekker has written: "Eric Ewazen and I entered the Eastman School of Music
yearc. In the more than 30 years since then' mrely
quickly, and I frequently prepared anJperrormeo etcs music.during those student
yea$ there have been Yery many performances' when I
has a year gone by that I have not been involved in his music, and in some
to the grcup' works that
joined the Amedcan Brass Quintet in 1981, it was with great pleasule that I introduoed pieces by Eric
gone, well, some things
has
As far as our friendship
immediately became standards on the Quintei's recitat programs and recordings.
Eric writes music that
years
colleagues'
as
that I look back upon all our
do get better with age, and it is with a d;ep sense of gratitude
-away
me to strive for
to
challenge
flom my instrument, music that continues
to me, music that I heal when I am

is important

improvement as a musician and trumpet player,"

chris Gekker

has recorded

Ted Guerant
his arrangement of Edc Ewazen's A Hymn for the lnst and the Living wlth pianist

on Albany compact disc TROY670.

*******
The score and parts to A Hymn for the Lost and the Living were engraved using
Finale @ music software.

ll, 2001
AHYMN FOR THE, LOSTAND THE LIVING
In Memoriam, September

Eric Ewazen

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arranged for Trumpet and Piano by Chris Gekker

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Copyright 2002, 2004 by Southern Music Company, San Antonio, Texas 78292
international copyright secured. Printed in U.S.A. All Rights Reserved.

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