<![CDATA[VENTO Winds - Blog]]>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:55:12 -0600Weebly<![CDATA[Concert Works Series --]]>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.ventowinds.org/blog/old-wine-in-new-bottles

Old Wine in New Bottles

Composer: Gordon Jacob
A new brand of wine?  Nope – just one of the great pieces being performed at our Fall Concert. With movements named “The Raggle Taggle Gypsies,” “The Three Ravens,” and “Begone Dull Care”, how can you NOT want to come hear this piece performed? Come join us Sunday, October 23 at 4pm, Perry Hall at UW-Fox Valley. Click to read more about the interesting history of this piece...

Gordon Jacob composed Old Wine in New Bottles when he was sixty-four years old for the St. Bees Festival of Music. The festival was hosted by the St. Bees School, a coeducational grammar school, located in St. Bees Village on the coast of Cumbria near the English and Scottish border.

Old Wine in New Bottles premiered at the Symphony Concert at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 4, 1959.  According to a local newspaper clipping appearing shortly after the concert:

“It is not often to-day that a new work is the most popular in any concert programme. But Gordon Jacob’s “Old Wine in New Bottles” written specially for the festival amply deserved its success. This is a suite of four folk-song settings for woodwind and brass in which the composer displays all the dexterity of instrumental writing and harmonic ingenuity for which his music is well known. “The Raggle Taggle Gypsies,” “The Three Ravens,” and “Begone Dull Care” formed the basis of three well-contrasted movements. The final “Early One Morning” blended discreet sentiment, wit, and high spirit with a felicitous craftsmanship in a manner which recalled that of a Haydn finale.”

Source of the above, excerpted information:
Decker, Marc David. "An analysis of and conductor's guide to Gordon Jacob's "Old wine in new bottles" and "More old wine in new bottles"." DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4960 http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4960&context=etd

Photo obtained from www.gordonjacob.org
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Theresa Martin

Theresa is a member of the VENTO Winds clarinet section, and is an avid composer and musician in the Fox Valley.
www.theresamartin.net
3 Quick Q's

Q: What's Your Favorite Restaurant in Appleton?
     A; My Favorite Restaurant in Appleton is SAP (I just ate there this morning!)

Q: If you could be an animal, what animal would you be?
     A: If I could be an animal...I would be a cat.

Q: Packers or Badgers?
     A: I love the Packers!! I like the Badgers, too, but I went to the University of Michigan for my doctorate, so we are kind of rivals. :) Being from Wisconsin, though, I can easily say I root for them both and am happy if they both do well.

Bio
             Theresa Martin teaches clarinet, piano and composition in her private music studio at Heid Music in Appleton, WI.  She also occasionally teaches adjunct clarinet at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley and composition at Lawrence University. 

              As a clarinetist, she performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and as a member of various ensembles, including the Vento Winds, the UW Fox Valley Concert Band, the Wisconsin Symphonic Winds, and the Waupaca Area Orchestra (2012-2014).  She plays piano at her church in her spare time. 

              In addition to performing as a clarinetist and pianist, she is an internationally recognized composer of energetic, melodious, and rhythmically driven music.  She often draws her inspiration from literature, images, nature, and personal experiences.  She enjoys writing music for chamber groups and large ensembles, and given her expertise in clarinet performance, is frequently commissioned to write for the instrument.  Dr. Martin has been commissioned by ensembles and organizations such as the Arizona Wind Symphony, The University of Wisconsin Fox Valley Concert Band, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Barnett Foundation of Chicago, the Eufonix Tuba-Euphonium Quartet, the 10th and Broadway Clarinet Quartet, clarinet virtuoso Robert Spring, and various university faculty. 

             She has been awarded recognition by the American Composer’s Forum, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer's Competition, and NACUSA Young Composer’s Competition, and she has received ASCAPlus awards for the past eight years for frequent performances of her works throughout the U.S.  In addition, her music has been performed in Canada, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, Spain, China, Taiwan, and Tanzania.  Her pieces are performed at international conferences such as the International Double Reed Society Conference, International Alliance for Women Congress, European Clarinet Association Festival, Xi’an International Clarinet Festival, and multiple International Clarinet Association Clarinetfests, as well as national conferences such as the Society of Composers, Inc. National Conferences, College Music Society Regional Conferences, Aspen Summer Music Festival, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, American Composer’s Alliance Summer Music Festival, and several woodwind festivals. 

​          Studying both composition and clarinet performance, she received her DMA in composition at the University of Michigan and Masters’ degrees in composition and clarinet performance at Arizona State University.  She currently resides in Appleton, WI with her husband, Josh, and two children, Aidan and Alaina.  All of her music for winds is published by Potenza Music and is available online through Just for Winds. More information on Theresa Martin’s music is available on her website: www.theresamartin.net.
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