Annual Holiday Pops
Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Come join the Waltham Symphony Orchestra for an 
afternoon of festive orchestral fun! Saxaphonist Melanie Howell Brooks joins Conductor Patrick Botti and the WSO in Paule Maurice's sax repertoire staple, "Les Tableaux de Provence" and hear a hot new holiday overture, "Rocket Sleigh" by composer Delvyn Case along with many more holiday favorites.
Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Suite
Anderson, Christmas Festival
Custer, A Salute to the Big Bands
Paule Maurice, Les Tableaux de Provence featuring Melanie Howell Brooks, Saxophone
Devlyn Case, Rocket Sleigh
Celebrate the joy and excitement of the season with us. Bring your smile and your voice and join the orchestra in our traditional sing-along!
Kennedy Middle School Auditorium -- 655 Lexington Street, Waltham, MA 02452-4638
Program Notes
Paule Maurice - Tableaux de Provence pour saxophone et orchestre
Paule Maurice was a French composer born in Paris September 29, 1910 and died August 18, 1967 in Paris. Her most famous composition is Tableaux de Provence pour saxophone et orchestre written between 1948 and 1955 dedicated to saxophone virtuoso, Marcel Mule. It is most often heard as a piano reduction. It was premiered on December 9, 
1958 by Jean-Marie Londeix with the Orchestre Symphonique Brestois directed by Maurice’s husband, and fellow composer, Pierre Lantier. Pierre Lantier, now deceased, was a good friend of Maestro Botti.
Maurice’s other compositions include Suite pour quatour de flutes, Volio, Cosmorama, Concerto pour piano et orchestre, Memoires de un chat, Trois pieces pour violon, and many more. Paule Maurice’s teachers included Jean Gallon (Harmony), Noël Gallon (Counterpoint and Fugue) and Henri Büsser (Composition). From 1933 to 1947 Maurice was Jean Gallon’s teaching assistant. She received first prize of harmony in 1933, second prize of fugue in 1934, and in 1939 received first prize in composition. In 1942, Maurice was appointed Professor of Déchiffrage (sight-reading), and in 1965 became Professor of Harmonic Analysis at l’Ecole Normale de Musique. Maurice taught many students who became professors to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with some winning the Prix de Rome. Paule Maurice and Pierre Lantier wrote a treatise on harmony entitled Complement du Traite d’Harmonie de Reber, intended to be used in conjunction with the 1862 treatise of Napolean Henri Reber entitled Traite d’Harmonie and became an important reference work in France and abroad.
Devlyn Case - Rocket Sleigh
Delvyn Case (b. 1974) is a Boston-based musician who is active as a composer, orchestral and choral conductor, and college educator. He also maintains an active career as a writer and lecturer on a variety of musical topics, from sacred music to hip-hop, and pursues numerous musical outreach projects in his home city of Quincy, Massachusetts, and beyond.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, where he serves as Music Director of the Great Woods Chamber Orchestra. Formerly he served as Visiting Professor of Theory/Composition at the Longy School of Music and as an adjunct faculty member at Boston College and Northeastern University. He currently serves as Music Director of the Eastern Nazarene College Choral Union, the Quincy Bay Chamber Orchestra (a professional orchestra he founded in order to provide outreach and educational concerts), the Quincy Summer Singers (a community choir he founded in 2009), as pianist in the avant-garde improvisation ensemble the meltdown incentive, and as composer-in-residence for Cambridge’s Dance Currents, Inc.