This is the program from my Senior Composition Recital, July 29,
1966. (Duh. That's what it says at the top.). I notice the
performance was at 8:30 PM. These days I'm starting to think
about bedtime around then.
Roger Shields played the Sonata for Piano well once
again, though not as well as the premiere, which was not
recorded.
The String Quartet was canceled because my violist
couldn't make it. He has taught viola at ASU here in Tempe for
decades. Dorothy Hayes, listed as second violinist, and who was
my classmate, became the second Mrs. Martirano.
The performance of Branches of Wistaria, which I
conducted myself, went fairly well. Fortunately, it was only two
months after the premiere, and I was able to get all the
original players, which was fortunate considering it was summer
school. It wouldn't have been possible otherwise, because we
were able to have no more than two rehearsals to refresh the
piece.
I was disgusted to have to use my woodwind quartet, originally
titled Introduction and March, on this program,
because it was the first thing I wrote at U of I, and was more
conservative than anything I wrote even in high school. I'd
outgrown the style before I wrote the music. So I renamed it
Comic Relief.
On When in Eternal Lines to Time Thou Grow'st I had
four original players (Joe Dechario, Wally Rave, who also now
teaches at ASU, John Garvey, and my roommate for the summer Mike
Ranta), and three new players. It was ragged, but we got through
it.