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
DVOŘÁK
Variations on a Shaker Melody (“Simple Gifts”)
Largo from Symphony No.9 in E minor, “From the New World”
PRICE Adoration arr. Matthew Saunders
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 Selections from Water Music
arr. Hamilton Harty 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.
