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The values we share. We are filled with gratitude to bring back Concerts on the Square for you this summer on the tail-end of the largest global pandemic in over 100 years. Your steady encouragement and support over the last 15 months fueled our resolve to keep music alive in our community. Maestro Andrew Sewell and the musicians cannot wait to play for you again.
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This year’s Concerts on the Square will be unlike any other. While we can’t play for you on the Capitol steps – our home for 37 years – we are thrilled to play in front of a live audience of 5,000 people at Breese Stevens Field and over the internet through our free live stream for thousands more. While the venue and the crowd size are different this summer, what hasn’t changed is how this iconic summer Madison tradition continues to bring our community and families together year after year. It has become integral to the fabric and lifestyle of our city. Our return to live concerts this summer would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors, table patrons, and the collaboration with our concert partners. We thank them for their unwavering commitment to our success this summer. Last, we thank you – our patrons – for making Concerts on the Square in 2021 one to remember. We hope you enjoy the concerts. With immense gratitude,
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WELCOME BACK! I am thrilled to present this year’s Concerts on the Square at Breese Stevens Field as we enjoy live music once again. Our five programs feature works, both contemporary and traditional, with exciting guest artists, as well as celebrating our homegrown talent. Two winners from our statewide 2020 and 2021 Young Artist Concerto Competitions will perform – pianists Antonia Wu and Marianna Malinkine. I am very excited to introduce nationally recognized performers, bassist, Xavier Foley ( July 21) and pianist, Maxim Lando (August 4). Local arranger and performer, Leotha Stanley brings his talent to the stage on July 14 with his own brand of funk and gospel. This concert also features composer Bill Banfield’s Symphony No. 6 inspired by American icon, Leonard Bernstein. Works by Valerie Coleman and William Grant Still are also featured. Shakespeare inspires the July 21 program of familiar works by Mendelssohn from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. On July 28, we welcome back Jeans ‘n Classics for a night of disco with Disco Inferno. For our grand finale on August 4, Tchaikovsky Rocks, guest soloist Maxim Lando performs Piano Concerto No.1. The season is bookended by Tchaikovsky with his 1812 Overture on July 7 and Capriccio Italien on August 4. We look forward to sharing our summer and stage with you all. Warmly,
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34 CONCERTS ON THE SQUARE 2022
10 ANDREW SEWELL BIOGRAPHY
36 CORNERSTONE SOCIETY
11 MUSICIAN ROSTER
39 YOUNG ARTIST CONCERTO COMPETITION
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40 SPONSORS
28 MASTERWORKS
42 CONTRIBUTORS
29 SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
50 WCO STAFF & BOARD
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VENUE Concerts on the Square 2021 are performed at Breese Stevens Field, at the corner of E. Washington Avenue and N. Paterson Street in Madison.
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7:00 PM Concert begins. Run time: 1 hour + 30 min
SEATING Seating on the field in Blanket Pods and Tables is reserved. Seating in the Rooftop and Sky Line barstool areas is also reserved. General Admission seating is in the bleachers. Blanket Pods are allowed one lawn chair per person and are limited to 6 people and are 8’x8’. All seating and belongings must stay within the pod space.
MASKING Masking is strongly encouraged, especially for those not fully vaccinated. Masks should be worn until patrons get to their seats. Socially-distanced blanket pod seating and patron tables on the field will remain 6’ apart to offer audience members a safe-distancing options.
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Andrew Sewell MUSIC DIRECTOR,
WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Maestro Sewell enters his 22nd season as music director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and fifth season with the San Luis Obispo Symphony having had long tenures with the Wichita, Toledo, and Mansfield, Ohio, Symphonies. Known for his innovative programming and discovery of new talent, Sewell is a highly skilled orchestra builder with a wide knowledge and range of repertoire. As a guest conductor, he has led the Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee, Columbus, Syracuse, Illinois, Monterey, Gulf Coast, and Eugene Symphony Orchestras, as well as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, Christchurch Symphony, National Symphony of Mexico, Kyushu Symphony ( Japan), City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, OK Mozart Festival, WI Peninsula Music Festival, and Masterworks Festivals in the US and London. A native of New Zealand, Maestro Sewell received his music training on the violin, piano and cornet and began conducting at age 16. Six years later, he made his professional opera debut with the Mercury Opera and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. Winning the Australian Guarantee Corporation’s Young Achiever’s Award allowed him to further his studies abroad. Sewell holds a Master of Music degree with Honors in Conducting from the University of Michigan. Andrew has been credited with numerous awards for services to music, including the 2017 Service to Music Award from the Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the 2013 Rabin Arts Youth Award for Individual Achievement by the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras, the 2005 Best Individual Artist Award by Wichita Arts Council, and 2005 Musician of the Year by the Wisconsin State Journal, for services to music and the greater arts community. While not conducting, Andrew enjoys cycling the backroads of Wisconsin and San Luis Obispo and visiting family in New Zealand. He and his wife, Mary, have three grown children and reside in Madison.
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VIOLIN I Suzanne Beia, Concertmaster Leanne League, Assistant Concertmaster Cindy Whip Hillary Hempel* VIOLIN II Gerald Loughney, Principal Mary Theodore* Timothy Kamps Anna Carlson Wes Luke VIOLA Nora Frisk, Principal Diedre Buckley Janse Vincent Christopher Dozoryst CELLO Karl Lavine, Principal Robin Hasenpflug Timothy Archbold BASS Charles Block, Principal Alex Goodin
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Grace Notes: Summon the Heroes BY NORMAN GILLILAND
In the beginning, John Stafford Smith’s genteel English drinking song “To Anacreon in Heaven” had a tune that was fairly easy to sing, but by 1814, when lawyer Francis Scott Key coupled it with his poem “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the tune was a little more demanding. By 1931, when it became our National Anthem, singing it required a capable singer or an inspired patriot. Film score giant John Williams wrote “Summon the Heroes” for the centennial celebration of the modern Olympic Games that took place in Atlanta in 1996. The official theme of the 2002 Winter Games in the Salt Lake City area was Williams’ “Call of the Champions.” Lady in the Dark opened on Broadway in 1941 with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book and direction by Moss Hart. The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy editor of a fictional fashion magazine. Prolific stage and screen arranger Robert Russell Bennett created a Symphonic Nocturne based on themes from the show. Felix Mendelssohn wrote his Capriccio Brillant in 1832, the year he met Frederic Chopin for the first time. The 23-year-old admired Chopin but said that their musical styles had as much in common as a Cherokee and a Bantu. On the other hand, the work does show the influence of a composer from a generation earlier, Carl Maria von Weber. During a career that lasted barely twenty years George Gershwin made a lasting impact on American music. One of his most exciting songs, “I Got Rhythm,” comes from the Broadway show Girl Crazy of 1930. The overture hints at that and other hit tunes from the musical. Austrian composer Carl Michael Ziehrer wanted to supersede Johann Strauss II as the waltz king of the world, or of Vienna anyway, but never quite managed to pull it off. For a time, his fame was such that he was invited to perform at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. A visit to the United States prompted several composers to write souvenir pieces based on popular American tunes. Coming from that tradition is Ziehrer’s Star Spangled Banner March. Although New Jersey composer Robert Lowden wrote more than 400 advertising jingles, orchestras and bands know him for his many arrangements of popular songs and show tunes. He served as the lead arranger for the Philadelphia Pops and often took a bow at the Music Pier after the Ocean City Pops performed pieces such as his Armed Forces Salute, which highlights the theme songs of each branch of the military.
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Reluctantly, Peter Tchaikovsky accepted a commission to write a symphonic work celebrating the defeat of Napoleon by Russian forces at the Battle of Borodino. Although the 1812 Overture seems not to have been performed for the intended occasion, and despite Tchaikovsky’s lack of enthusiasm for it, he conducted it several times during the 1880s and ‘90s, suggesting that it quickly became one of the world’s most popular pieces of outdoor music, in part, no doubt, because of the 16—count ‘em—16 volleys of cannon fire. WI SCON SI N C HA M B ER ORC HEST RA
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Summon the Heroes AN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION
We kick off our 2021 season with the WCO’s annual Independence Day celebration, featuring John Williams and the 1812 Overture. Guest soloist, Antonio Wu, pianist, our Young Artist Concerto Competition 2020 Winner, will be performing Capriccio Brillant by Mendelssohn, who was himself barely a teenager when he wrote this movement work for piano and orchestra. John Williams’ Summon the Heroes is a tribute to triumph over adversity. This year marks its 25th anniversary as the theme music to the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta. A celebration of Broadway with the music of George Gershwin and Kurt Weill, this concert also honors our veterans with the Armed Forces Salute. To end the evening, the first of an extraordinary summer together, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture will resound around Breese Stevens Field.
PROGRAM SMITH Star Spangled Banner WILLIAMS Summon the Heroes WEILL ARR. RUSSELL BENNETT Lady in the Dark – Symphonic Nocturne MENDELSSOHN Capriccio Brillant Op. 22 B minor Intermission GERSHWIN Girl Crazy Overture CARL MICHAEL ZIEHRER The Star Spangled Banner March op.460 ARR. LOWDEN Armed Forces Salute TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture RUN TIME: 1 hour + 30 min *Program subject to change
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Grace Notes: Bringing Us Together BY NORMAN GILLILAND
William Grant Still had an unlikely musical education. He was born on a plantation near Woodville, Mississippi, in 1895 and showed musical talent early on. Around 1912, the works of the Afro-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor inspired Still to begin writing. But he spent most of his time playing in vaudeville bands and theater orchestras before entering the New England Conservatory in 1923. He studied in Paris with avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse, but he was too deeply rooted in melody and musical nationalism to develop into an avant-garde composer. Within a few years, William Grant Still become famous for a work that celebrated American folk music and jazz in a classical setting–his Afro-American Symphony. At the turn of the 20th century, the valse lente or slow waltz became popular, and many composers, including Debussy and Sibelius, wrote them. Czech composer Oskar Nedbal’s haunting Valse Triste comes from his 1902 ballet The Tale of Simple Johnny. Valerie Coleman is an American composer and flutist as well as the creator of the wind quintet, Imani Winds. Coleman was named Performance Today’s 2020 Classical Woman of the year and was listed as “one of the Top 35 Women Composers” by the Washington Post. In 2019, Coleman composed a piece titled Umoja, Anthem for Unity which was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Umoja takes its name from the Swahili word for “unity.” In 2002, it was listed as one of the “Top 101 Great American Works” by Chamber Music America. Detroit native William C. Banfield has written music for a variety of genres, including opera, chamber work, and song cycle. His style shows the influence of jazz and popular music. He has cited both Leonard Bernstein and William Grant Still as composers whose music has had an impact on his composing. Banfield’s Symphony No. 6, “Four Songs for Five American Voices,” is not actually a symphony, but rather portraits of five major American musicians: Leonard Bernstein, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Sarah Vaughan. Its first movement is called “If Bernstein Wrote It…...” Michael Daugherty’s Strut of 1989 is reminiscent of the “visionary optimism” of the Harlem Renaissance. In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance brought a flowering of Afro-American art in which singer and activist Paul Robeson was a prominent figure. Daugherty says of Strut: “Imagining a youthful and optimistic Robeson strutting down 125th street in Harlem in the 1920s, I have created various rhythmic themes and vibrant syncopations that are woven into a lively and complex rhythmic tapestry.” “Put a Little Love in Your Heart’’ was originally performed in 1969 by Jackie DeShannon, who composed it with her brother Randy Myers and Jimmy Holiday. In the U.S., it was DeShannon’s highest-charting hit, reaching number 4 on the Hot 100 in August 1969 and number 2 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
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“Let There Be Peace on Earth” was written by Jill Jackson-Miller and Sy Miller in 1955. They wrote it for the International Children’s Choir of the Granger Dance Academy in Long Beach, California. Gospel great O’Landa Draper’s “Praise the Lord Everybody” became a signature song for his group The Associates. WI SCON SI N C HA M B ER ORC HEST RA
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Bringing Us Together FEATURING LEOTHA STANLEY AND FRIENDS GOSPEL CHOIR
Bringing Us Together - Put a Little Love in Your Heart features local singer-songwriter, composer, and arranger Leotha Stanley and Friends gospel choir. Guest soloist, Marianna Malinkine, pianist, is our Young Artist Concerto Competition 2021 Winner. She will be performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. Our program celebrates diversity with music by African American composers, women composers and contemporary composers. Featured on tonight’s program will be the Symphony No. 6 by William Banfield, an award-winning composer whose symphonies, operas, and chamber works have been performed and recorded by symphonies across the country. William Grant Still’s Scherzo from his Afro American Symphony from 1931 is the first symphony written by an African American and performed for an audience by a leading American orchestra. Valerie Coleman’s Umoja, Anthem for Unity from 2018 and Michael Daugherty’s Strut for strings inspired by Paul Robeson are also featured in tonight’s program, Bringing Us Together.
PROGRAM WILLIAM GRANT STILL Afro American Symphony III. Scherzo NEDBAL Valse Triste from the Tale of Honza VALERIE COLEMAN Umoja, Anthem for Unity MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 Intermission WILLIAM BANFIELD Symphony No. 6 I. If Bernstein Wrote It…... MICHAEL DAUGHERTY Strut DE SHANNON ARR. STANLEY Put A Little Love In Your Heart JILL JACKSON MILLER Let There Be Peace DRAPER ARR. STANLEY Praise the Lord Everybody RUN TIME: 1 hour + 30 min *Program subject to change CONCERT SPONSOR
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Grace Notes: Shakespeare in Love BY NORMAN GILLILAND
Josef Suk was a favorite student of Antonín Dvořák and married Dvořák’s daughter Otilie. So it’s not surprising that his early works show the influence of Dvorák. Detecting a melancholy strain in much of Suk’s music, Dvořák suggested that he try writing something brighter and more cheerful. In 1892 the 18-yearold Suk obliged with a serenade for strings that remains his most popular work. Although the lugubrious streak continued in much of Suk’s writing, his buoyant, boisterous Towards a New Life of 1919 is a notable exception. He wrote it under a pseudonym for a war-related competition and withdrew it for revision. The final version was first performed at a Czech Philharmonic concert in 1931. A year later, it won a silver medal in the artistic competition at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco fled his native Italy in 1939 after the Fascist government banned his music, along with the works of other Jewish artists. Like many European refugees, he went to Hollywood, where he excelled at writing film scores. He continued to produce classical music, though, including eleven overtures to Shakespeare plays. Among them is his 1935 Overture to the Shakespeare Theater--A Winter’s Tale. Russian-born bassist Serge Koussevitsky became music director of the Boston Symphony in 1924 and presided over a “golden age” of the orchestra for the next 25 years. He commissioned many now-famous works, including Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. In 1902, Koussevitsky composed his Concerto in F Sharp Minor, which he dedicated to Natalie Ouchkoff, whom he married in 1905, the year in which he first performed the concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic. The concerto is one movement divided into three sections. The opening and recurring theme of the concerto is reminiscent of Dvorak New World Symphony. Koussevitsky’s second wife Olga (the niece of his late first wife) stated that in the concerto “he was not merely playing on a string instrument, he was singing through the voice of the double bass.” Shyness and a sense of loss and foreboding color much of the music of English composer Gerald Finzi. He was born in 1901 into a family that had no great interest in his artistic inclinations. He was particularly drawn to the brooding poetry of Thomas Hardy and to the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Edward Elgar. He had a flair for establishing a warm, contemplative tone that sounds singularly English. One of his last works, his four-movement Love’s Labour’s Lost Suite, finished in 1955, highlights several solo instruments, including the trumpet in the opening fanfare, woodwinds in “Moth,” and the horns in the “hunt” scherzo. In the 1930s Sergei Prokofiev wrote three ballet suites inspired by Shakespeare’s most famous star-crossed lovers. In the second suite of his Romeo and Juliet ballet Montagues and Capulets contrasts the arrogant Montague noblemen with Juliet dancing with her kinsman Paris at a masked ball. The Young Juliet evokes a lively, puckish, and wistful ingenue. From the first suite, Folk Dance sets a tone of youthful exuberance. 18
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Shakespeare in Love FEATURING XAVIER FOLEY, BASS SOLOIST
A tour of classical repertoire inspired by the works of William Shakespeare, tonight’s concert features special guest Xavier Foley, an award-winning young double bassist representing the next generation of great classical performers. Foley performs Koussevitsky’s Concerto for Double Bass. Composers and literary authors alike have found inspiration through the written word for ballet, incidental music and the concert overture, ranging from Mendelssohn to Finzi to Prokofiev. The Czech composer, Josef Suk’s work Towards a New Life from 1931 opens with a trumpet fanfare.
PROGRAM JOSEF SUK Towards a New Life, Op. 35c CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Overture to the Shakespeare Theater - A Winter’s Tale KOUSSEVITZKY Concerto for Double Bass I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegro Intermission FINZI Suite from “Love’s Labour’s Lost” Suite Op. 28b 1. Introduction Allegro vigoroso 5. Dance: Allegretto grazioso 6. Quodlibet (Clowns): Vivo 10. Finale: Allegro maestoso MENDELSSOHN Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring dancers from Madison Ballet PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet Suite 1 & 2 selections: Suite 2, No.1, Montagues and Capulets Suite 2, No.2, The Young Juliet Suite 1, No.1, Folk Dance RUN TIME: 1 hour + 30 min *Program subject to change CONCERT SPONSOR
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Grace Notes: Disco Inferno BY NORMAN GILLILAND
Disco music emerged in Philadelphia and New York in the 1970s. It’s a blend of African American and Latin American sounds. Its hallmarks are four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. Its popularity blossomed thanks to films such as the 1977 John Travolta vehicle Saturday Night Fever. In 1966, Eddie Floyd wrote an R&B song “Knock on Wood” for Otis Redding but his own recording of it launched Floyd’s solo career. It’s been covered by artists ranging from David Bowie to Count Basie. “Shaft” comes from Isaac Hayes’ soundtrack for the 1971 film of the same name. “If I Can’t Have You” is a disco song written by the Bee Gees in 1977. It first appeared on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in a version by Yvonne Elliman. Clifton Davis intended “Never Can Say Goodbye” for the Supremes, but the Jackson 5 recorded it instead. Allee Willis and Jon Lind wrote “Boogie Wonderland,” of which one critic wrote, “It is more than just an average pop song. The song is an exploration of times spent at house parties and at discos, when you wanted to be disco queen or king and the spotlight just wouldn’t focus on you.” “TSOP” (The Sound of Philadelphia) is a 1974 hit by MFSB written by Gamble and Huff as the theme for the TV show Soul Train, which specialized in African American musical performers. It was the first television theme song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish” of 1976 is a recollection of a 1950s childhood. Shuggie Otis’ 1971 song “Strawberry Letter 23” includes the chorus “Strawberry Letter 22” instead of the actual title of the song, which takes the form of musical love letters. “Boogie Oogie Oogie” is from the debut album of the American band A Taste of Honey. It became the first certified platinum single in the history of Capitol Records and one of the most recognizable songs from the disco era. “Could It Be I’m Falling in Love” is a 1972 song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners. Written by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony, “The Hustle” topped the Billboard charts during the summer of 1975. The Swedish group ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” is a Europop version of the disco sound. It alternates between seductive verses and a boisterous chorus. Barry White’s 1974 song “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe” has become one of his signature tunes. It became a gold record in the US. The Earth, Wind & Fire song “September” centers on the 21st of the month, possibly because the date sounds good when sung. The Bee Gees song “Stayin’ Alive” comes from Saturday Night Fever. It’s used to train medical professionals to provide the correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing CPR. The song has close to 104 beats per minute, and 100–120 chest compressions per minute are recommended by the British Heart Foundation. “Lady Marmalade” was written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan. Its chorus sent listeners rushing to French dictionaries to translate the sexually suggestive question “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?” The song became a big hit when it was recorded in 1974 by the American girl group Labelle. 20
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JULY 28, 2021
Disco Inferno
FEATURING JEANS ‘N CLASSICS
Canadian collaborators Jeans ‘n Classics join us for their 8th Concert on the Square. Featuring disco and funk favorites, such as Disco Inferno, Boogie Wonderland, and The Hustle, their chart-topping arrangements of over 50 different popular programs never disappoint. In this ode to the disco days, popular songs by ABBA, The Brothers Johnson, Bee Gees, and Earth, Wind & Fire may make this the best dance party of the summer.
PROGRAM Disco Inferno Knock On Wood Shaft If I Can’t Have You Never Can Say Goodbye Boogie Wonderland You’re Gonna Miss My Lovin’ TSOP I Wish Intermission Strawberry Letter 23 Boogie Oogie Oogie Could It be I’m Falling In Love The Hustle Dancing Queen Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love Babe September Stayin’ Alive Lady Marmalade RUN TIME: 1 hour + 30 min *Program subject to change CONCERT SPONSOR
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Grace Notes: Tchaikovsky Rocks BY NORMAN GILLILAND
Peter Tchaikovsky was beset with self-doubts when he asked pianist and conductor Nikolai Rubinstein for an assessment of his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor. After listening in silence as Tchaikovsky played a draft of the concerto, Rubinstein let loose with a torrent of condemnation, concluding that the passages were so fragmented, so awkward, and so poorly written that they were beyond rescue. He finished with the judgement that the thing was unplayable. Shaken but determined, Tchaikovsky went ahead with the orchestration, which he finished on February 21, 1875. He found an ally in Hans von Bulow, one of the most influential conductors in Europe, who liked the concerto so much that he gave it its first performance in Boston later that year. Tchaikovsky, in the meantime, had dedicated the work to him. Tchaikovsky was just as scornful of the Russian premiere that took place later that same year in Saint Petersburg, with the Russian pianist Gustav Kross and Czech conductor Eduard Nápravník. He summarized the performance as “a monstrous cacophony.” The Moscow premiere took place a month later, with Sergei Taneyev as soloist. The conductor was a more sympathetic Nikolai Rubinstein. Tchaikovzky was so taken with Taneyev’s performance that he considered rededicating the work to him. Tchaikovsky revised the concerto three times, the last of them in 1888, which is the version usually performed today. The most conspicuous difference between the versions is in the opening section. The octave chords played by the pianist, with an orchestral overlay, were originally written as arpeggios. Nikolai Rubinstein eventually became a staunch supporter of the work, which is one of the most popular of Tchaikovsky’s compositions and among the best known of all piano concertos. By 1891, when he was 16, Anglo-African musician Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a published composer. He became quite popular in America, in 1899 with his three cantatas based on Henry Wadsworth’s Longfellow’s narrative poem The Song of Hiawatha. Coleridge-Taylor’s career took a turn when he met African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who encouraged the young composer to celebrate his African heritage. Among the results was Taylor’s African Suite for piano of 1898. The composer orchestrated the work shortly thereafter. The four movements depict different elements of the African experience, but the finale, “Danse Negre,” is the most familiar. Despite the scorn Nikolai Rubinstein had at first for Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, five years later, in 1880, he conducted the Moscow debut of Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien. The capriccio is the product of the composer’s trip to Italy, during which he absorbed a few local folk songs and found others in various publications. The capriccio begins with the rousing bugle call sounded each morning at the barracks of the Royal Cuirassiers. Two Italian melodies follow, and the caprice ends with a boisterous tarantella.
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Tchaikovsky Rocks FEATURING MAXIM LANDO, PIANO
Our finale program features Maxim Lando, winner of the 2020 Young Gilmore Artist Award. This award is presented every two years to single-out the most promising of the new generation of US-based pianists. Maxim is a stunning 18-year old virtuoso who’s performed with the likes of Lang Lang in the Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue. His mother grew up in Madison, and Maxim was raised in New York. Maxim opens the evening with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. It’s a war horse with the most recognizable opening of beautiful grand chords, while accompanying a soulful D flat major melody in the strings and orchestra. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s overture, Danse Negre, opens the second half, with great energy and flair. Tchaikovsky captures the Mardi Gras festival of Italy in this musical postcard - Capriccio Italien - with its swirling melodies and intoxicating rhythms.
PROGRAM TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat minor I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con Spirito II. Andantino semplice - Prestissimo - Tempo I III. Allegro con fuoco - molto memo mosso - Allegro vivo Intermission COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Danse Negre TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italien ENCORE: TCHAIKOVSKY Waltz from Sleeping Beauty RUN TIME: 1 hour + 30 min *Program subject to change
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A RETURN TO THE OVERTURE CENTER We are very excited to announce the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s Masterworks 21/22 Season at Madison’s Overture Center, Capitol Theater, beginning on January 28. Please save the dates for the upcoming season. Subscriptions will be available later this summer.
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I: January 28, 2022 Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with UW + WCO Soloists PIANO, VIOLIN, CELLO II: February 25, 2022 Yolanda Kondonassis HARP III: March 25, 2022 Eric Silberger VIOLIN IV: April 22, 2022 John O’Conor PIANO
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September 2021 A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Madison Ballet Capitol Theater Fall/Winter 2021-22 WCO Winter Concert Series Recording Venue TBD December 8, 2021 Handel’s Messiah First Congregational Church December 15-26, 2021 The Nutcracker with the Madison Ballet Overture Hall April 2, 2022 Family Series May 21, 2022 Mozart Requiem Hamel Music Center
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Annual Fund Contributors Concerts on the Square would not be possible this summer without the monumental support of hundreds of individuals, businesses, and foundations who in the last year have made generous contributions in support of the WCO. Because of you, the music of the WCO uplifts and enriches the lives of thousands in our community. INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS 13 Anonymous Donors Elton & Carrie Aberle Sandra Adams Tamara Albrecht Sally Anderson & Mike Potter Jacqueline Anderson Bruce & Margaret Anderson Deborah & Anthony Ankowicz George Austin & Martha Vukelich-Austin Paul Baker Julie & Mark Banghart Andrea Barnes Alan Barnes Charles & Elizabeth Barnhill Nina & Thomas Bartell Jeffrey & Angela Bartell David & Inez Baskerville Lopamudra Basu Kelsey Baubie Chuck Bauer & Chuck Beckwith Keith Baumgartner David & Connie Beam Wendy Beck George & Donna Beestman Patsy Behling & Virginia Anderle D.H. Bell & M.H. Bell Mary & O. L. Bell Susan M. Benjamin Susan & George Benton Mary Benzine Ted Berei Oliver Berge Niles & Linda Berman Barry & Debra Berman
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INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS CONTINUED Nancy & James Dast Gary Davis Jonathan Davis Joe Day Marty Deignan Larissa Delain John Delikat Kathleen DeMets Joan Deming & Don Schultz Diane and Robert Dempsey Dr. Laura Buyan Dent Cathy DeShano Ann & Phil Dettwiler Paul Deutsch Walter & Londa Dewey Gene & Bea Dewey Jackie and Frank DiNatale Dennis & Maribeth Dorn Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Dorn Alison Dorner Rosemary M. Dorney Dr. & Mrs. Richard K. Dortzbach Trish Doyle & Dennis Durow Jeannie Druckenmiller Dave & Joy Drummond Deb Duckart Thompson John Duffe Deidre & John Dunn Phil & Mary Lou Dzick Patrick & Lloyd Eagan Paul & Barbara Easton Natalie Eberle Susan E. & Henry C. Eichhorn Jane Eisner Fund, a component fund at Madison Community Foundation Louise Elbaum Read D. Eldred Connie & Leo Ellefson David & Marty Ellestad Mary Ellis Joyce & Leo Endres Katherine England The Estervigs Tom & Roberta Evans Terry & Marty Evanson
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Marti Sebree Jay & Katie Sekelsky Andrew & Mary Sewell George & Dee Seyfarth Michael Shank & Carol Troyer-Shank
Brett* & Susan Topham Tom Totten Mimi Troutman Molly Tull Anthony Ugo Wendy & John Ullsvik
Eric Peterson Jennifer Peterson Leslie & David Petty Tad & Hannah Pinkerton Denise Pinnow & Robert Labarre Peter & Mary Plane Julie Plotkin Jerald & Dian Polly Tom Popp Sonia Porter Mark Porter & Alex Cheong Michael Potter Geoffrey & Christine Priest Paula L. Primm Ann Puser Charles Quirt James & Agnes Radek Bob & Betty Ragotzkie Michael Ray & Kimmy Ray W. Charles & Helen Read Richard & Mary Ann Reale Sherry Reames Diane Recob Kerry Rees Richard Reichardt Timothy Reilley & Janet Nelson Sheri Rein Jane & Robert Reinke Janet Renschler Family
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Susan Ulschmid Margaret & William Unger Laura Ursin Rosemary Valentine Amy & Andy Valentine Florence Van Arnam Alka Van Haren Jim & Sharon Vandenberg Dick & Virgene Vatthauer Leslie Vaughn Bonnie Verhalen Francis & Lucille Vickerman Paula Volpiansky & Larry Chapman Gail & Lan Waddell Anne & Peter Wadsack Ted & Maria Wadzinski Paul & Sherrill Wagner Charles & Betsy Wallman Lorette Wambach Dr. Ronald & Janet Wanek Linda Warren Scott Weber Susan & Stephen Webster Kathy & Craig Wehrle Steve & Pat Wehrley Arthur & Mona Wehrman Richard & Lois Weiland Urban Wemmerlöv & Mary Beth Schmalz
Chad Resner Michael Rewey & Rose Messina Liz Reynolds James Rhem Matt & Patty Richards Susan & Gordon Ridley Dr. Lindsay M. Riesch Donna & Marty Rifken Mr. & Mrs. David J. Ringdahl Jeanette Roberts Susan Robey-Bond Sue Rogers Alan Ronemus Sarah Rose Chris & Katie Schiemann Carla & Mark Schmidt Michael & Brenda Schmidt Andrea L. Schmitt-Bucknam Joni & Bill Schott Sarellen Schuh Jess & Kat Schuknecht Anita Schulz & Ronald Hahm Sara Schumann Betty Scott
David & Suad Stratton Barbara Strauss JoAnne & Ken Streit Edith Sullivan David Sulman & Anne Altshuler Ulrika Swanson Mary Jane Swanson David & Sandy Tabachnick Howard Talcott Tania and Aman Tandias Mindy Taranto & Ken Mericle Johanna Taylor Kathleen Tessmer Anthony Theodore & Trudy Peterick Chris & Margaret Theodore Jeff Thering Anne Thoma Bonnie Thomas Mark & Nanette Thompson Kim Thoresen Shari Thousand Wayne & Christa Tollefson Bob & Jeanne Topel
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INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS CONTINUED Terri Witak Suzanne Wolf James Wolf Lorna Wong Charlotte Woods Kathryn Woodson & David Jurgensen Stephen J. Wright Haocheng Yang Nancy & Ed Young Martha Young Catherine Young Larry Zanoni & Cathy Cram Tom Zaremba Vivian & Greg Zelinka Merle & Dee Zimmerman Helene Zinberg Dave & Sandy Zweifel Marjorie Zwickel Steve & Ardis Zwicky
MEMORIAL & HONORARY Lisa Dye in Memory of Jeff Dye In Memory of Ron Melitsoff Ed & Julie Murphy in memory of Chris Decker Trevor Passmore in memory of Bob and Ida Wren Judith Sullivan in Memory of James P. Sullivan In memory of Kathryn Trudell Carolyn White in memory of Ron White Kathryn in memory of her parents, Irma and David
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