in memoriam: Adolph Bud Herseth for Solo Trumpet and String Orchestra (with offstage trumpet) James M. Stephenson

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1 Th e S t o r y t e l l e r in memoriam: Adolh ud Herseth or Trumet and String Orhestra (ith ostage trumet) C O M O SE R JI M C O M James M Stehenson stehensonmusiom

2 The Storyteller - y James M Stehenson or solo trumet and string orhestra originally or Trumet, Violin, iano, and ostage trumet There is also a version or rass quintet stehensonmusiom Duration: 9' rogram notes I irst heard Adolh ud Herseth live at roughly the age o 9 or 10 My arents ought ox seats (ith hairs that siveled) or a onert at Orhestra Hall, Chiago I'm almost ositive that the CSO as laying itures at an Exhiition, ut it might have een ines, or something else ith a huge trumet art I'd love to tell you - in Hollyood ashion - that I looked u at my arents at onert's end, ith tears in my eyes, and exlaimed That's my instrument I need a trumet no That ouldn't e entirely true, ut oviously the onert let an indelile imression, eause trumet did eome my instrument shortly thereater I do rememer distintly, erhas hen I as 12, one day, hen I as ratiing out o the amed Aran's ook, getting really ored, and looking or something else to ratie I thought to mysel: ell, i I'm to e rinial trumet o the Chiago Symhony some day, I etter learn ho HE does it So I ut the Aran ook don and ound all o the reordings o itures that e had in the house (I think e had three: erhas a Reiner, a Solti, and a relatively osure one in my mind at the time (Kuelik) here ud aented the notes more than other versions - anyay, I digress) The oint is: that is the moment I onsiously deided that he ould e my role model A e years later, hile at the Interlohen Arts Aademy - I egan digesting every reording I ould get my hands on: the rih rukner reordings ith arenoim, the Reiner Conerto or Orhestra (I still an't hear that exert ithout exeting a slightly missed near the end o the solo), the Mahler 5's, the Kie here he aarently ran u the stairs or the ostage solo ust eore the red light ent on, et ut it as one iee in artiular - and roaly not the one you'd exet - that rought me literally to tears nearly every time I layed it - over and over - in my dorm room u at Interlohen That as Stravinsky's Song o the Nightingale ith Reiner I you don't kno it, go get it The lyrial solo (it haens tie) is some o the most eautiul laying you ill ever hear I as all o aout 15 years old, and I as erasing all o my rok n' roll taes (yes, taes) to reord everything o ud's I ould get my hands on Ah, the oer o musi Later, in 199, I had the ortunate oortunity to lay a round o gol ith ud He ame don to my avorite ourse (an hour aay), and e layed O ourse, his trumet advie to me as to ratie We ere there to lay gol, and I didn't ant to ore him to talk trumet too muh At the end o the round, he oered to give me a trumet lesson I never took him u on it; I as having ho issues (roaly the eginning o my ath to eoming a omoser) and didn't ant to aste his time Truth e told, I think he had already given me all the lessons I ould ever need, in all o those reordings, hen he made me ry, telling his stories through his trumet ud Herseth died on Aril 1, 201 I don't lay trumet anymore, ut I had a hane to do something or ud, to omose a iee in his memory I as already ommissioned to rite a ne ork or that year's ITG (International Trumet Guild) onerene, ut I hadn't started yet, hen the nes o ud's assing ame Through many hone alls, texts, s, et, Rih Stoelzel and I inally arrived at a oint here e ould announe that Chris Martin - the urrent rinial trumet o the Chiago Symhony - ould remiere a ne ork ritten, dediated to ud, and ould oen u arara utler's reital (ar as one o Chris's teahers hen he ent to Eastman) Chris as antasti Everyone as antasti and so giving Chris immediately as on oard ith this, agreeing to drive over to Grand Raids right ater a CSO onert to resent the iee, and to drive home immediately aterard to lay yet another CSO onert urthermore, e deided to turn the iee into a undraiser in ud s name, here all monies raised ould go toard a sholarshi in ud s name ith the Chiago Civi Orhestra, a avorite teahing outlet o his As o this riting, nearly $2500 as raised, all rom trumet layers and other musiians ho had een touhed y ud The Storyteller omes rom an artile ritten aout ud - an artile I reall reading hile a teenager It desried ho ud didn t ust lay the trumet, he told a story ith every note he layed I endeavored, through the ourse o this iee, to tell the story o ud the est I ould There are sutle reerenes to many o the amous orhestral trumet exerts that I listened to him lay the most O ourse, the aorementioned tear-erker is saved or the end, ith a solo ostage trumet hearkening - as i ud himsel - one last time I eseially ish to thank Rih and Val Stoelzel along ith GVS, Chris Martin, arara utler, and all else ho layed a ivotal role in making this iee a ossiility, all in an eort to ay triute to erhas the est orhestral trumet layer the orld has ever knon Jim Stehenson -- June 1, 201 Additionally: the string ensemle version as ommissioned y Grand Valley State niversity, or Rihard Stoelzel COMOSERJIMCOM 201 a nd 2015, y Stehenson Musi, In All rights reserved

3 Sore Commissioned y Rihard and Valerie Stoelzel and Grand Valley State niversity or the 201 ITG onerene, Grand Raids, MI remiered y Chris Martin, June 15, 201 The Storyteller in memoriam: Adolh ud Herseth String ensemle version ommissioned or Rihard Stoelzel y Grand Valley State niversity James M Stehenson Trumet in C Violin I Violin II Viola Cello Contraass C Tt Vln I Vln II Vla V C Adagio q = 0 div - 2 desks Ȯ # n Ȯ # # # Ó nis desks n div a aro gently A /2 izz Ȯ Ȯ Div # n div a n iu mosso, almost in one (e = q) izz others Ó u (a temo) COMOSERJIMCOM 201 and 2015, y Stehenson Musi, In All rights reserved Duliation ithout roer onsent is stritly rohiited

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