Program: Walker, Strauss + Sibelius

Walker, Strauss + Sibelius 25 + 26 March 2022 / 7:30PM Jack Singer Concert Hall

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program George Walker

Lyric for Strings

Richard Strauss

Oboe Concerto in D Major, TrV 292, AV 144

6’ 28’

I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Vivace – Allegro

Intermission

20’

Jean Sibelius

30’

Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 8 I. Tempo molto moderato – Allegro moderato – Presto II. Andante mosso; quasi allegretto III. Allegro molto – Misterioso

Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto used with permission of the publisher, Hugo Bouma.

Rune Bergmann Music Director

Alex Klein Oboe

Norwegian conductor Rune Bergmann is Music Director of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Szczecin Philharmonic in Poland, and Music Director of Switzerland’s Argovia Philharmonic.

Highlights of Bergmann’s 2021/2022 Season include the opening of a new concert hall for the Argovia Philharmonic, returning to the Baltimore Symphony and Odense Symphony, and debuting with the Colorado Symphony and Utah Symphony. Bergmann also regularly conducts distinguished orchestras and opera houses, including the Oslo Philharmonic, Norwegian National Opera, Bergen Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Orquesta de Valencia, and the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, as well as the Symphony Orchestras of Malmö, Helsingborg, Bergen, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim, and Karlskrona, and Lisbon’s Orquestra Sinfonica Portuguesa. In North America, he has appeared with the Alabama, Baltimore, Detroit, Edmonton, Grand Rapids, Pacific, Houston, and Toledo Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Brevard Music Festival. Bergmann has been Artistic Director of Norway’s innovative Fjord Cadenza Festival since its inception in 2010, and his former posts include Deputy-General Musik Direktor with the Augsburger Philharmoniker and Theater Augsburg in Germany.

Alex Klein is a Brazilian-born Grammy-Award winning oboist hailed as one of his instruments’ top performers in the world.

Winner of top prizes in international competitions in Geneva, New York, Prague, and Tokyo, Klein served as Principal Oboe with the Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim, departing due to Musician’s Focal Dystonia, and later returning with Riccardo Muti and receiving Emeritus status. Klein studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is the founder and Artistic Director of the FEMUSC Festival in Brazil. His dozens of recording titles have received wide critical acclaim. Klein is currently Principal Oboe with the Calgary Philharmonic in Canada and maintains an international career as performer and pedagogue.

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Janina Fialkowska Piano

Janina Fialkowska performs Chopin 29 + 30 April 2022 / 7:30PM Jack Singer Concert Hall Acclaimed pianist and ‘born Chopin interpreter’ Janina Fialkowska takes centre stage for an enchanting evening of music.

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about the pieces Lyric for Strings George Walker 1922 to 2018 Walker was a trailblazing American composer who has enjoyed a significant surge in attention in recent years. In a lengthy career, he published more than 90 pieces, including piano and chamber works, songs and choral music. He received commissions from major American orchestras and in 1996 became the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his work Lilacs. The deeply expressive Lyric for Strings originated as the second movement of the string quartet that he composed in 1946 while a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He transcribed it for string orchestra in 1990. It is his most frequently performed orchestral composition.

Oboe Concerto in D Major Richard Strauss 1864 to 1949 During the final days of the Second World War, American forces reached Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Alpine German town where Strauss and his wife Pauline had come to live a short time before. One of the soldiers stationed there was John de Lancie, a Paris-trained professional musician who would soon afterwards become Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

“During one of my visits with Strauss,” de Lancie recalled, “I asked him if, in view of the numerous beautiful lyric solos for oboe in almost all his works, he had ever considered writing a concerto for oboe. He answered ‘No!’ And there was no more conversation on the subject. He later told a fellow musician friend of mine that the idea had taken hold of him as a result of that remark.” The Strauss Oboe Concerto unfolds in one, continuous movement. In its warmth, charm, and beauty, Strauss pays homage to Mozart, his favourite composer.

Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 82 Jean Sibelius 1865 to 1957 Sibelius’s heroic fifth symphony underwent the longest, most difficult gestation of all his works. He began composing it during the summer of 1914, with the goal of having it premiered as the centrepiece of a concert to be given in Helsinki in honour of his 50th birthday. He made slow progress, writing in his diary, “It is as if God the Father had thrown down mosaic pieces from heaven’s floor and asked me to put them back as they were.”

Nevertheless, the premiere took place as planned on 8 December 1915. What the audience members heard was much different from the work as it is known today.

They reacted favourably, but the composer, who had completed it in some haste in order to meet the deadline, did not. The following year, he produced a revised version. Still not satisfied, he produced the definitive edition in the autumn of 1919.

An entry in his diary for 21 April 1915 revealed an inspiration for the finale. The second theme is a noble melody introduced on the horns. He wrote that it represents a specific image: “Today at 10 to 11 I saw 16 swans. One of my greatest experiences! Lord God, what beauty! They circled over me for a long time.

Disappeared into the solar haze like a gleaming silver ribbon. Their call the same woodwind type as that of cranes, but without tremolo…. A low-pitched refrain reminiscent of a small child crying. Nature mysticism and life’s angst! The fifth symphony’s finale-theme: legato in the trumpets!”

Program Notes by Don Anderson © 2022

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Orchestra First Violins Diana Cohen Concertmaster

John Lowry

Associate Concertmaster

Donovan Seidle

Assistant Concertmaster

Edmund Chung Hangyul Kim Olga Kotova Bonnie Louie Genevieve Micheletti Maria van der Sloot Hojean Yoo TBD TBD

Second Violins

Celli

Horns

Arnold Choi Josue Valdepenas Kathleen de Caen Thomas Megee David Morrissey Daniel Poceta TBD TBD

Robert McCosh Jennifer Frank-Umana TBD Maxwell Stein Heather Wootton

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Lorna Tsai Stephanie Soltice-Johnson Erin Burkholder Jeremy Gabbert Hyewon Grillet-Kim Craig Hutchenreuther Minnie Min Kyung Kwon Theresa Lane Adriana Lebedovich Steven J. Lubiarz

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Violas

David Sussman

Laurent Grillet-Kim Marcin Swoboda Arthur Bachmann Jeremy Bauman Peter Blake Michael Bursey Alisa Klebanov Jesse Morrison

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Piccolo Gwen Klassen

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