PROGRAM

Till You Find Your Dream!

I Dream a World  |   André J. Thomas

The Little Sandman  |   Johannes Brahms / arr. Marie Stultz

Mister Sandman*  |   Pat Ballard / arr. Ed Lojeski

Prayer from “Hänsel and Gretel”  |   Engelbert Humperdinck / arr. Bryceson Treharne

The Music of the Night  |   Andrew Lloyd Webber / arr. Ed Lojeski

Darn that Dream (INSTRUMENTAL)* |  Jimmy Van Heusen / arr. Ed Lojeski

Dream*  |   Johnny Mercer / arr. Jay Althouse

Dream a Little Dream of Me*  |   Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt / arr. Jay Althouse

Climb Every Mountain  |   Richard Rodgers / arr. Charles Smith

*Dr. Paul Hooker, Electric Guitar

Michael Dell, Director

Upon cue, please join us in singing:

Climb every mountain.  Ford every stream. Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.

A dream that will need all the love you can give every day of your life for as long as you live.

Climb every mountain.  Ford every stream. Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream.

Friday Musicale Chorus

Kate Agnew, Nancy Agnew, May Beattie, Helen Benjamin, Doris Boone,

Judy Davidson, Julia De Pauw, Jennie Dunnington, Ginger Haller,

Gwen Hernandez, Mike McDowell, Peggy Power, Barbara Sapp, Nell Stahl

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Presentation of the Carolyn Day Pfohl Music Educators Award

To be announced from the stage

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Friday Musicale College Scholarship Laureates

Concerto No.1 in F minor mvt. 3 (Rondo)  |   Weber

Kensley Behel, clarinet

2009 Recipient of the

Marian Armington Waterman Poitevent Instrumental Scholarship

Peter Wright, piano

Partita No. 1 in B minor (Allemande)  |  J. S. Bach 

Violin Sonata No. 5 "Spring Sonata" in F Major Op. 24 (Allegro)  |  Beethoven

       

Gabriela Peña Kim, violin

2012 Recipient of the Friday Musicale Performance Award

Edith Hubert-Moore, piano

Violin Concerto # 5, K. 219 (Allegro aperto) |  W.A. Mozart

Samuel Casseday, double bass

2012 Recipient of the Friday Musicale Philanthropic Scholarship

Dr. Scott Watkins, piano

ABOUT THE SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

Kensley Behel is a rising senior at The Florida State University majoring in Woodwind Performance. She is also the current recipient of the Marian Armington Waterman Poitevent Instrumental Scholarship through Friday Musicale. She had her solo debut with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra at the age of 18. She has been a featured soloist with University Symphonic Band and is an active member of the University Philharmonia Orchestra. She has been selected for the both the CBDNA Southern Division Intercollegiate Band and the Florida All-State Intercollegiate band during her time at FSU. She is a member of both the FSU Marching Chiefs and the Seminole Sound Pep Band. Last summer, she had full palate reconstruction surgery in order to be able to continue playing clarinet professionally. The extensive recovery required months of not playing and then relearning her instrument from the beginning. Her case and recovery were unique and she is now co-authoring two papers with the Communication Sciences and Disorders department at FSU in addition to completing her honors thesis on Velopharyngeal Insufficiency. Kensley spends her summers as a counselor for the FSU Summer Music Camps and as a marching band tech across the state of Florida. She is currently studying with Dr. Frank Kowalsky and her past teachers have included Dr. Deborah Bish and Mr. Peter Wright. She is very thankful to Chris Heacox and Friday Musicale for their generosity and commitment to young musicians. Lastly, she would like to thank her parents for their love and support; without them she would not be the person or musician she is today. 

Gabriela Peña Kim, age 17 was born in Baltimore, Maryland and currently lives in Jacksonville Florida. Previously part of the rigorous IB (International Baccalaureate) program at Stanton College Preparatory, she is finishing her senior year and is home-schooled in order to fulfill her plans to pursue music. She has been studying violin for 7 years, with Jorge A Pena and Aurica Duca. Gabriela was a winner of the Sarasota Young Artists Series String Competition as well as a winner of the 2012 Performers Award at the Friday Musicale Competition. This past summer she attended the Interlochen Arts Camp, as an Emerson Scholar, receiving a full scholarship. She was also awarded a full scholarship to attend the Kennedy Center Summer Music Program, and Tanglewood Summer Music Festival, and plans to attend The Kennedy Center NSO Summer Institute this summer. Gabriela was Concertmistress while at Interlochen in the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, as well as in the Prelude Music Camp and the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra (JSYO) which she has been a part of for 7 years, also with which she was a two time finalist in the Young Artist Concerto Competition. She has been a part of chamber performances with the St. Augustine Music Festival, as well as the Amelia Chamber Music Festival. Gabriela has participated in masterclasses with Paul Kantor, Joel Smirnoff, Philip Setzer, Jennifer Frautschi, Chee Yun, Augustin Hadelich, Jorja Fleezanis, and Margaret Batjer. She plans to attend the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in the fall.

Starting on a half-sized cello tuned in fourths instead of fifths, Sam Casseday played his first notes on a makeshift double bass at the age of five.  A few years later he began taking lessons regularly with his father, Kevin, and began his work with the JSYO under the tutelage of Scott Gregg.  Sam’s past 6 summers have been spent at the Brevard Music Center under the baton of Keith Lockhart, and this summer he looks forward attending Boston University Tanglewood Institute.  Sam is a two-time winner of the JSYO Young Artist Competition, and was also selected as a finalist in the first YouTube/ Carnegie Hall Big Break Competition, Brevard Music Center solo competition, and the American String Teachers’ Association Solo Competition. He has appeared on NPR’s national radio show From the Top. Sam is a senior and will be attending the Curtis Institute of Music in the fall.