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Introducing Friday's Entertainment
at Reunions 2003!

The Why and How of the Jazz and Handbell Concert

Ed Polcer, world-reknowned jazz musician and Member of the Great Class of 1958 agreed to have his jazz band play on Thursday evening of our 45th Reunion. Ed came up with the brilliant thought: "You manage Schulmerich Bells, America's oldest manufacturer of handbells, wouldn't it be great if we got together for a jazz and handbell concert."

We wanted a special arrangement for the occasion. Schulmerich turned to Hart Morris, prolific handbell composer/arranger, conductor, and clinician, and commissioned him to arrange the Princeton Jazz Classics Medley for Handbells and Jazz Ensemble.

Ed Polcer formed the Nassau Jazz Band (reminiscent of his undergraduate days). All members have a close association with Princeton. Dr. Larry Smith and the Carillon Handbell Choir of the University of Southern Mississippi were planning an east coast concert tour. The pieces need to make the dream a reality fell into place. Carillon is a college handbell choir which playes almost 7 octaves of Schulmerich bells, and 5 octaves of Schulmerich MelodyChime® Instruments.

I am delighted that the Great Class of 1958 and Schulmerich Bells are able to present this concert to you today.

Bern E. Deichmann '58
45th Reunion Chairman
President & CEO, Schulmerich Bells
Sellersville, PA 18960
www.Schulmerichbells.com

 

Ed Polcer


Ed Polcer has taken his music from the streets of New York to the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Royal Palace in Thailand, the national Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the White House.

Along the way, he's owned, managed, and played at New York's premier jazz club, Eddie Condon's; played for five U.S. Presidents; played return engagements at the Newport/JVC Jazz Festival; produced/directed hundreds of concerts; and served for nearly ten years as President of the International Art of Jazz.

Nassau Jazz Band

Ed recalls with great fondness his undergraduate years at Princeton in the mid-fifties as leader of the Nassau Jazz Band. He also recalls being welcomed into the Greater Princeton Community of alumni jazz musicians at jam sessions in their homes in Princeton. Among those alumni is Sandy Maxwell, '39. Today's concert is a continuation of that tradition as Ed, Sandy and Tom Artin, '60 welcome Audrey Wright, Dan Ryan, and Jon Marks, '05 into the Nassau Jazz Band.

Carillion


Founded in 1985 by Dr. Larry D. Smith, The Carillon HandbellChoir performs for local, regional, national and international audiences. Noteworthy appearances include the AGEHR Director's Seminar in 1991 and 1994; a featured concert at MENC National Convention in New Orleans, 1992; a performance at EPCOT Center at Walt Disney Wolrd in Orlando, 1993; and tours of England, Germany, Japan, France, Switzerland, Austria, Bermuda and the United States.

Carillon's members are Jason Barfield, Amy Cross, Elizabeth Dennis, J.D. Frizzell, Trey Goff, Bobby Griffin, Lauren Hatty, Geoffrey Philabaum, Katie Robyn, Jennifer Rowe, Michael Sneed, Amy Stagg, Lauri Starek, Mary Thrash.

Larry Smith

Larry D. Smith, lyric baritone and professor of music, is voice professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and is Director of Music at the First Presbytrian Church of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. An active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Smith serves as a conductor, clinician, and adjudicator regionally, nationally, and internationally, and also performs as vocal soloist in recital and oratorio.

Hart Morris

Hart Morris has been Minister of Music at Asbury United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma, since August 1992. He has served as clinician for AGEHR national Seminars and Festivals, and has led numerous AGEHR conferences and workshops; he was an AGEHR conductor at the 2002 Internationsl Handbell Symposium in Pusan, South Korea. Morris is a published composer/arranger of handbell and choral music, a member of the faculty of Handbell Exploration International, Inc. and a cofounder of Red River Music.

Program
Welcome


Nassau Jazz Band
One O'Clock Jump
Basie, Mundy
East of the Sun
Bowman


Carillon
Russian Salior's Dance
arr. William Griffin
Aria
Donald Allured
Midnight Blessings
J.D. Frizzell


Nassau Jazz Band
Stardust
Carmichael, Parish
Princeton Canon Song
Hewitt, Osborn
Tiger Rag
La Rocca, De Costa


Carillon
By the Lakeside
Michael Helman
Pine Apple Rag
arr. Arnold Sherman

 

World Premiere

 
Princeton Jazz
Classics Medley
Arr. Hart Morris
For Handbells and Jazz Ensemble
(Commisioned by Schulmerich Bells, Sellersville, PA, 2003)