Elgin Symphony Friday Favorites: Music You Know! Spring Edition Program

Friday Favorites: Music You Know! Spring Edition Friday, April 21, 2023, at 6:30 PM Second Baptist Church of Elgin Antoine T. Clark, conductor

ROSSINI

The Barber of Seville Overture

GRIEG

Selections from Peer Gynt Suite, op.46 Morning Mood Anitra’s Dance

COPLAND

Variations on a Shaker Melody (“Simple Gifts”)

DVOŘÁK

Largo from Symphony No.9 in E minor, “From the New World”

PRICE arr. Matthew Saunders

Adoration

DVOŘÁK

Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor

PRICE

Suite of Dances Allegretto Allegretto Allegro molto

BRAHMS

Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor

MOZART

Selections from Eine kleine Nachtmusik Allegro Rondo: Allegro Featuring the Funk Brothers Chad Blackshear, keyboard Jerome Cunningham, bass guitar Lamar Boyd, drums

HANDEL arr. Hamilton Harty

Selections from Water Music Air Alla deciso (Alla Hornpipe)

GRAINGER

Irish Tune from County Derry (Londonderry Air)

COPLAND

Hoe-Down from Rodeo

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Violin I Isabella Lippi Concertmaster Gerald Loughney Eric Pidluski Joseph Malmquist Susan Carlson Carol Dylan Wendy Evans Caroline Slack Violin II Steve Winkler Susan Thorne Elizabeth Huffman Kelvin Lin Meghan Lanfear Kathryn Siegel Viola Loretta Gillespie Principal Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff Susan Posner Becky Coffman Ryan Rump

Cello Nazar Dzhuryn Karena Fox Mark Kuntz Robert Weber Double Bass Timothy Shaffer Principal Greg Heintz Susan Sullivan Flute Jean Bishop Principal Scott Metlicka Oboe Emily Fagan Joseph Claude Clarinet Gene Collerd Principal Barbara Drapcho

Bassoon Vincent Disantis Principal Collin Anderson French Horn Sharon Jones Steven Replogle Renée Vogen Mary BuscanicsJones Trumpet Ross Beacraft Principal David Gauger Asst. Principal Trombone Adam Moen Rachel Castellanos David Becker Tuba Charles Schuchat Principal Timpani Bobby Everson Principal Percussion Michael Folker Brandon Podjasek Collin Boltz

A special thanks to the Second Baptist Church of Elgin for hosting this concert, and to Pastor Patrick Parks and LaTrisha Williams for helping coordinate this event.

This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency

GUEST CONDUCTOR Antoine T. Clark Compelling interpretations, inventive performances and an energetic stage presence are the hallmarks of American conductor Antoine T. Clark. The founding Artistic and Music Director of the Worthington Chamber Orchestra in Ohio (formerly McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra), now in its tenth season, Mr. Clark was named Assistant Conductor of West Virginia’s Wheeling Symphony Orchestra in fall 2021.

A passionate advocate of arts education, he served as Cincinnati Symphony’s 2022 MAC Music Innovator. 20222023 season highlights include a collaboration with Hixon Dance in a performance of Peter and the Wolf with the Worthington Chamber Orchestra and guest engagements in the fall with Dayton Philharmonic and Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, and in the spring with Spartanburg Philharmonic, Symphony Tacoma, and New Jersey Symphony. Guest appearances include engagements with Chicago Sinfonietta, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, Opera Columbus, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Colour of Music Festival Chamber Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, and at the Gateways Music Festival. Among the composers with which he has worked are Mark Lomax III, Jacob Reed, Matthew Saunders, Michael Rene Torres, Christopher Weait, and Tony Zilincik. A winner in the 2017 International Conductor's Workshop and Competition, he has participated in the Cabrillo Contemporary Festival of Music, the Monteux School and Music Festival, and as a Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion Conducting Freeman Fellow.