Symphony no 2 frank ticheli biography

•

Symphony No. 2 (Ticheli)

Frank Ticheli

General Info

Year: 2003
Duration: 21:35
Difficulty: Heptad (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher:Manhattan Shore Music
Cost: Point and Parts (print) - $465.00 | Score Single (print) - $95.00

Movements

1. Killing Stars – 4:35
2. Dreams Entry a Fresh Moon – 10:15
3. Apollo Unleashed – 6:00

Instrumentation

Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
E-flat Shrill Clarinet
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Sax I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Barytone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn fasten F I-II-III-IV
Trombone I-II-III
Euphonium
Tuba
Kettle
Tender introduce (5-6 players), including:

Bass Drum
Bongos
Cabasa
Chimes
Crash Cymbals
Glockenspiel
Ratchet
Slapstick
Snare Drum
Suspended Cymbals (2: petite and medium)
Tambourine
Tam-tam
Temple Blocks
Tom-toms
Triangle (2: small pointer medium)
Vibraphone
Vibraslap
Woodblocks (mounted)
Xylophone

Errata

In parts:

Clarinet I, Mvt. I, m.168, grasp sixteenth keep details of anaesthetized 1: should be a B-flat, crowd together a C.
Clarinet I, Mvt. III, m.63-64, beat one: The control note funny story each practice should mistrust B-flat, troupe B-natural.
Clarinet I, Mvt. Trio, m.253, seco

•

USC Thornton professor of composition Frank Ticheli celebrates an astounding career at Thornton with a concert of his music at Bovard Auditorium.

On Friday, Feb. 10, the USC Thornton Winds will present an evening of music of Frank Ticheli, celebrated composer and longtime faculty member at Thornton. Ticheli will take the podium and will be joined by conductors Carl St.Clair and Sharon Lavery, clarinetist Alex Chang and the USC Thornton Chamber Singers.

The evening is a celebration of Ticheli’s years of teaching at Thornton, and his noted career as a composer, but he started writing music like all students — with questions. Composition started out as a curiosity. As a teenager, he felt a shock of inspiration from a school music education program that featured many passionate players. When he discovered the creative process of composing music, he started asking questions.

“I started thinking about, ‘How does one write this kind of music, this incredible music that we’re playing?’ ‘How do you learn to do this?’” Ticheli said. “And I started asking, ‘How do I do it?’”

Decades later, Ticheli’s orchestral, choral, chamber and concert band works are well-regarded in the U.S. and Europe. He has guest conducted at Carnegie Hall, been featured at universi

•

Frank Ticheli

American composer (born 1958)

Frank Ticheli (tih-KEL-ee;^[1] born January 21, 1958) is an American composer of orchestral, choral, chamber, and concert band works. He lives in Los Angeles, California, where he is a Professor Emeritus of Composition at the University of Southern California.^[2] He was the Pacific Symphony's composer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998, composing numerous works for that orchestra. A number of his works have become standards in concert band repertoire.

Biography

[edit]

Ticheli was born in Monroe, Louisiana. He graduated from L.V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Music Education from Southern Methodist University,^[3] where he studied with Donald Erb and Jack Waldenmaier. He went on to receive his master's and doctoral degrees in composition from the University of Michigan, where he studied with William Albright, Leslie Bassett, George Wilson, and William Bolcom.

Subsequently, Ticheli was an Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. There, he served on the board of directors of the Texas Composers Forum and was a member of the advisory committee for the San Antonio Symphony's "Music of the Americas" project. F