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| | liner notes | This music is for Julia. It's for all of our children. By the time they share it with their children, music like this may seem as quaint as a warbling gramophone. But to us, to professional musicians today, it’s vibrant and alive.
Why? Because no logarithms or motherboards are keeping the tempo here or generating waveforms that plagiarize the sounds of real instruments. This isn’t a studio fabrication. This music actually sounded in the air, was blown from human lungs, plucked and thumped and tapped out by human hands, by men and women who have, since they were children themselves, spent their days sculpting sound, listening to their imaginations and, more importantly, to each other.
That’s what makes acoustic music so wonderful: interdependence. Musicians must depend on each other, trust each other, for everything, from timing and pitch to phrasing and dynamics. So it’s fitting that the Julia Fund, created by New York’s musicians to help care for the child of two of its own, be represented by a CD which is truly an aural portrait of human interdependence—trust, rendered in sound.
The Gotham Wind Symphony was born out of interdependence. In 2003, when Broadway’s producers were campaigning to banish live music from live theater, the musicians’ union asked Mike Christianson to put together a group for a free performance in Times Square. Mike formed the GWS, forty-five musicians (now sixty) who donated their talent and energy to something they believed in.
With this CD, they have done it again. Everything connected with this music was donated: performances, arrangements, rehearsal space, part-copying, cover art, and, most importantly to musicians, time. The result proves how generous those gifts were. It also reminds us how much humanity gains from its interdependence, because now there exists beautiful, charming, poignant, hilarious, fascinating, moving, powerful music—almost an hour of it—that didn’t exist before. We can lose ourselves in it. We can drop the mirror-gazing that absorbs so much of our time and instead feel and hear and know the strength of our connection to each other, a connection we hope Julia and her parents, Joe and Anita, will always feel.
—Steve Armour |
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| | Mother Hubbard March |  | | The Wheels On The Bus | | | Lullaby | | | Mother Goose March | | | Frere Jacques | | | Jeremy | | | Children's March | | | Twinkle, Twinkle | | | Children's Prayer | | | This Old Man | | | All The Pretty Little Horses | |
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| | personnel | Piccolo/Flute
Brian Miller
Flute
Janet Axelrod-Bailey
Les Scott
Oboe
Tuck Lee
Oboe/English Horn
Marnie Ingman
Bassoon
Maureen Strenge
Don McGeen
Jackie Henderson
Eb Clarinet
Scott Shachter
Clarinet
KeriAnn K. DiBari-Oberle
Ralph Olsen
Martha Hyde
Karen Fisher
Jeff Nichols
Ben Kono
Scott Gerhardt
Bass Clarinet
Michel Gohler
Contra Alto Clarinet/Alto Clarinet
Barry Nudelman
Soprano/Alto Saxophone
Allen Won
Alto Saxophone
Steve Kenyon
Dave Pietro
Tenor Saxophone
Dan Willis
Tom Christensen
Ken Hitchcock
Baritone Saxophone
Richard Kriska
BassSaxophone/Alto Clarinet/ContraBass Sarrusophone
Scott Robinson
Trumpet/Cornet/Flugelhorn
Neil Balm
David Spier
Cameron Schroeder
Bud Burridge
Dave Ballou
Horn
Theresa MacDonnell
Leise Anschuetz
Michael Ishii
Kathy Canfield Shepard
Trombone
Mark Patterson
Ray Fitzgerald
Bass Trombone
Jeff Nelson
Euphonium/Trombone
Bruce Eidem
Tenor Horn
Joe Alessi
Ray Fitzgerald
Tuba/Contrabass Trombone
Matt Ingman
Tuba
Marcus Rojas
Dan Levine
Percussion
Lou Oddo
Bill Hayes
John Meyers
John Hollenbeck
Tom Christianson
Tom Mulvaney
Drum Kit
John Hollenbeck
Acoustic Bass
Leo Huppert
Piano
Mike Holober
Colette Valentine
Auxilliary Trumpets
John Bailey
James De La Garza
Jon Owens
John Sheppard
Auxilliary Horns
Nancy Billmann
Christopher Costanzi
Katie Dennis
Larry DiBello
Kathleen Ditmer
Francisco Donaruma
Chris Komer
Lee Ann Newland
Stephen Pickering
Peter Schoettler
Chad Yarbrough
Conductor
Mike Christianson |
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