WEBVTT 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Applause 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:52.000 music 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:64.000 music 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:16.000 music 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:28.000 music 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:40.000 music 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:52.000 music 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:64.000 music 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:16.000 music 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:28.000 music 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:80.000 music 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:28.000 Applause 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:34.000 Keller Coker: Thank You, thank you all for coming out and hanging out with us tonight. 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:41.000 We've got a dozen tunes to play for you and it really is a "grab bag" tonight. We're all over the map. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:52.000 We're playing a couple tunes we've played this year, a couple of tunes we've toured with, a couple new ones, and them some...old ones 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:57.000 With some stories behind them...like this next one. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:63.000 So, six short years ago 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:10.000 We had a fresh group of students arriving 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.000 And it was a big term for this band 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:23.000 Because the first great country crossover artist, Lynn Anderson, was going to come and we were going to back her up 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:31.000 And so on audition day, you know, I was thinking about the show and thinking about the seats that needed to be filled into the band. 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:38.000 And this guy comes in and he's playing saxophone and he auditions and he sounds good 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.000 And I breath a sigh of relief, it's like, 'yea good, gonna get that seat filled. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:48.000 So he leaves, and then he comes back in only he's carrying a trumpet this time 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:61.000 And he sounds pretty good, and now I'm wondering 'where I'm going to put him...In the saxophone section or in the trumpet section?' 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:08.000 On their very first concert, this goes back to the first concert of their freshman year 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Ordell Watson and Louis Watson, this is called 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.000 applause 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:18.000 Music 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:21.000 Music 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:30.000 Applause 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:39.000 This next tune also goes quite a ways back 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:48.000 We did a tribute to Herbie Hancock '" great jazz piano player, great musician '" several years ago 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.000 You know Herbie has done so many different kinds of music 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:57.000 But we wanted to celebrate when he won the Grammy for best album 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:68.000 When his album River: The Joni Letters came out a few years back, and it was the first time that a jazz musician had won the award for "best album" since 1963 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:13.000 And, you know it was 40 years plus in the making 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:20.000 And, you know, it comes around, the wheel comes around every now and again. This is one of my all time favorite Herbie Hancock tunes 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:30.000 And it is a beautiful arrangement written by, Bud Bear, Adam "Bud Bear" Bates, this is called "Tell Me A Bed Time Story" 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:43.000 Featuring Louis Watson on the flugelhorn 00:08:56.000 --> 00:12:83.000 Music 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:35.000 Applause 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:52.000 This next tune, yea I wasn't actually about this when I programmed these two next to one another 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.000 But this next tune is an arrangement by Louis Watson 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:60.000 His first arrangement for the Western Hemisphere Orchestra 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:10.000 And he wrote it last term when I was away on sabbatical and the group did an absolutely fantastic Radiohead tribute show 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:15.000 So this is the one tune from that show we will revisit tonight 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:24.000 It will feature Rachel Ammons singing once again and it's called, "Life in a Glass House", Rachel Ammons 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:32.000 Applause 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:53.000 Music 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:12.000 Music 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:32.000 Applause 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:48.000 This next tune got its debut back when Joe Lovano was here performing with the American Metropole Orchestra 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:58.000 He, you know Lovano has got Italian roots and he has this record that was a tribute to one of the first great recording artists 00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:65.000 Over a hundred years ago, and one of the great opera singers of all time, Caruso, the album is called Viva Caruso 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:13.000 When I got on the phone with him and started talking about what to do on the show, it's all he could talk about, like "We gotta do something from Viva Caruso, we gotta do it" 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:22.000 And so this is the result of that, we have the privilege tonight 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:29.000 While Joe Lovano is elsewhere, actually we didn't even ask him, because we don't need him 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:38.000 With Ordell Watson featured on this tune, "The Streets of Naples" 00:20:52.000 --> 00:26:88.000 Music 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:44.000 Applause 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:52.000 Thank you, than you so much, it's fun, it's fun to play that one 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:58.000 Thanks also to my colleague and friend Dan Gainer 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:64.000 For being here tonight and joining us and playing that beautiful solo, we will hear from him a little bit later tonight too, Dan Gainer 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:18.000 We're going to finish up this half with a tune we played this fall, when Allen Touissaint was here 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:26.000 And, this was one of my favorite tunes from that show. I mean how can you pick, there's so many great tunes from that show 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:35.000 But Eli Schenk will be up here to tell us if we can or not....Eli Schenk 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:73.000 Music 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:14.000 Music 00:30:56.000 --> 00:37:###.000 Music 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:12.000 Applause 00:40:20.000 --> 00:46:56.000 Music 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:69.000 Applause 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:18.000 Thanks, thanks for coming back, thats a piece called " *unintelligible* a gata" 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:22.000 Which in Portuguese means "Maggie the Cat" 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:28.000 I had this great cat named Maggie, and you know she was very independent as many cats are 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:36.000 But, she did, she like to hang out with me when I was writing and on that particular piece I was I started writing it and she was just 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:44.000 glued to the room for the whole two days or so that it took to write the piece, and she just never left, so I named it after her 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:52.000 So, that was for Maggie, and thanks to Ordell for reminding me about it, I had completely forgotten about that tune 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:59.000 And he said, 'Why don't we play that on this show, and so we did. 00:47:59.000 --> 00:47:66.000 welcome back again, this tune is a great Burt Bacharach tune 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:14.000 Teaching songwriting this term and the very last song that all the people in ths ongwiritng class have to write, or get to write depending on your point of view 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:20.000 Usually its after the due date that it's 'got to write' and after the due date that it's 'have to write. 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:24.000 is a Burt Bacharach style tune, and so 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:32.000 This....here's one of his many great tunes, "Any Day Now" sung by Rachel Ammons 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:63.000 Music 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:53.000 Applause) 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:57.000 I want to thank Rachel 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:64.000 She's graduating, and she's great. So that always makes me sad because I'm a very selfish person 00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:12.000 And, so thank you, thank you for working with me and doing such great work 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.000 Thank you, Rachel Ammons 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:20.000 Applause 00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:32.000 So this next tune 00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:44.000 This next tune is written by one of my closest friends 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:48.000 Sorry 00:54:48.000 --> 00:54:54.000 We've been working together for several years, and I asked him to write this tune 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:58.000 When he graduated with his masters degree Count Basie 00:54:58.000 --> 00:54:64.000 And I said..I knew, I knew he'd kill me for this 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:12.000 So we have a Count Basie show, Buggy, write a tune for Basie in the style of Basie, you know man, I could see it 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:17.000 AN he came back with this amazingly beautiful tune 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:22.000 We've been working together, as I said, for...is it 12, 13 years? 00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:27.000 And so I'm very sorry to see him go 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:32.000 But he's heading off to great things 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:40.000 As you can tell this is...I'm an emotional guy, and this is an emotional time for me 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:51.000 Something new for a bit, and them I'm going to steal him back as soon as I can 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:56.000 This tune is called emergence 00:56:00.000 --> 00:59:52.000 Music 00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:68.000 Applause 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:19.000 This next tune is also a Bug Bear arrangement, but it's not going to make me cry 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:24.000 It's unlikely that it will make you cry as well. This is a Frank Zappa tune 01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:30.000 One of the great composers of the 20th century and I'd like to welcome Chauncey Jepson 01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:36.000 Here to sing this one for you 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:44.000 The title will be evident as soon as he begins singing 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:51.000 Laughter 01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:40.000 Music 01:02:28.000 --> 01:02:84.000 Music 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:20.000 Applause 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:32.000 Alright, so we've got just two more for you 01:04:32.000 --> 01:04:36.000 An instrumental and a vocal, this next one is another Brazilian tune 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:40.000 It's a Choro of sorts 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:44.000 And this one will feature Dave Floratos and Ordell Watson 01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:49.000 I do want to once again 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:53.000 thank the Watson's for all this time together 01:04:53.000 --> 01:04:57.000 We've spent a lot of time in rehearsal together 01:04:57.000 --> 01:04:60.000 An we've spent a lot of time in my office 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.000 With me looking at them disapprovingly hours on end 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:08.000 So it's been a great joy for me 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:11.000 And I hope for you too 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:16.000 So, I will miss you guys more than I can say 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:18.000 And thank you, thank you for all the work you have done 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:24.000 This tune is called "Secret of the Golden Flower" 01:05:49.000 --> 01:09:54.000 Music 01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:67.000 Applause 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:17.000 We got one one more for you, thanks again for coming 01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:25.000 This last one's a vocal number and she's a vocalist and close friend I'd like to thank, because tonight is also 01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:34.000 Her last time here on this stage, she's not singing this last tune but she's been influential in so many people's lives here 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:38.000 In teaching voice and in performing 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:46.000 The writing that she's done, the Western Hemisphere Voices was essentially created by her 01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:52.000 And she's had an amazing run with it, and she's headed to the same place that 01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:57.000 Buggy is and Ordell and Louis and Rachel, they're all going to Colorado 01:10:57.000 --> 01:10:60.000 Which makes me mad, I used to like Colorado, you know 01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:05.000 There's all kinds of things to like about it, and now, I'm not so sure 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:13.000 But I would like you all to give a round of applause for the work she's done with this group 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:21.000 And in the Department for really, again, like 13 years she's been here 01:11:21.000 --> 01:11:24.000 And we won't have her here in the fall, Sherry Alves 01:11:24.000 --> 01:11:37.000 Applause 01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:44.000 So one of Sherry's current prized students will be coming out here to sing this last one 01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:50.000 The American Metropole Orchestra debut this arrangement with Jose James earlier in April 01:11:50.000 --> 01:11:54.000 And this was the one fast song in that show 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:60.000 And please welcome back Eli Schenk, for whom...well we're all going to perform for you 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:12.000 Applause 01:12:22.000 --> 01:13:28.000 Music 01:14:17.000 --> 01:16:58.000 Music 01:17:48.000 --> 01:17:54.000 Music 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:05.000 When you have kissed her is, 'ooh, what a little moonlight can do!'" 01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:32.000 Music 01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:70.000 Applause 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:17.000 Thanks again on behalf of the WOU Music Department and the Western Hemisphere Orchestra, Thank you all for coming here and being here 01:19:17.000 --> 01:19:23.000 We're going to kick off next fall with a Duke Ellington show 01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:30.000 The Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra record and Duke Ellington's Far East Suite, a bunch of music that just became available 01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:35.000 So please come come back, that concert, just put it in your calendar 01:19:35.000 --> 01:19:39.000 Sometime early in December, just block the whole week out 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:43.000 Alright great, thanks again for coming and we'll see you next year 01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:47.000 Applause