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PHOTO PAGE On May 10, the ASO opened its new summer home at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park.

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ASO Music Director Robert Spano celebrates the music of four notable American composers.

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Robert McDuffie looks forward to reprising Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

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ASOleadership atlanta Symphony Orchestra League 2008-2009 Board of Directors Officers Ben F. Johnson, III Chairman Clayton F. Jackson

Jeff Mango John D. Rogers Treasurer

Chilton Davis Varner Allison Vulgamore*

Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman ASA President* Joni Winston Secretary

Jim Henry Edward S. Heys, Jr. Tycho Howle Tad Hutcheson Mrs. Roya Irvani Clayton F. Jackson Ben F. Johnson, III Marsha Sampson Johnson Mark Kistulinec Michael Lang Patricia Leake Lucy Lee Jeff Mango Darrell J. Mays

JoAnn McClinton Penelope McPhee Giorgio Medici Charles Moseley Galen Oelkers Victoria Palefsky Leslie Z. Petter Patricia Reid Margaret Conant Reiser Martin Richenhagen John D. Rogers Dennis Sadlowski William Schultz Tom Sherwood John Sibley

Hamilton Smith Thurmond Smithgall Gail R. Starr Mary Rose Taylor Liz Troy Ray Uttenhove Chilton Davis Varner Allison Vulgamore* Rick Walker Mark Wasserman Kathleen (Suzy) Wasserman* John B. White, Jr. Richard S. (Dick) White, Jr. Joni Winston Camille Yow

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Directors Robert M. Balentine Joseph R. Bankoff * Jan Bennett Jason A. Bernstein Paul Blackney C. Merrell Calhoun Donald P. Carson Philip Cave Ann W. Cramer Christopher Crommett Cari K. Dawson Carla Fackler Gary P. Fayard Dr. Robert Franklin Willem-Jan O. Hattink

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oming home to the Woodruff Arts Center and to our loyal audience has your Atlanta Symphony Orchestra soaring! It is a sheer joy to reunite with you, the

longtime champions of the ASO. Your dare-to-be-great support is this Orchestra’s raison d’être. As a result, we reach for the stars in our repertoire and artists each season; we create bold breakthroughs in the concert format including our “theatre of a concert” experience you will next see in John Adams’s spectacular opera Doctor Atomic in November; and we collaborate and partner with other innovators from composers and visual artists to record companies.

Robert Spano, Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, and celebrated friend Emanuel Ax open the 2008-09 season with a program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. “What better way to start off the season,” Robert says, “than with the music of these three giants whose names virtually define symphonic music. Hearing their music side by side will illuminate the greatness they have in common and the uniqueness that distinguishes each of their musical personalities.

A grand portal into a season full of tremendous music!”

We welcome new Board leadership in Chairman Ben F. Johnson III, a longstanding passionate advocate of the ASO and one of Atlanta’s most esteemed community leaders. Ben’s acumen and vision will be invaluable in helping shape the Orchestra’s next milestones.

We just celebrated with many of you one of the greatest summers in ASO history, our inaugural orchestral season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta. A highlight was the encore performance and CD-release of last season’s live recording of Puccini’s landmark opera La Bohème. Thousands of new ASO enthusiasts joined us at our new summer home night after night co-creating new traditions together. We thank them for their intense goodwill.

These are momentous times for the ASO and its audience.

We could not be more motivated to live every experience with you.

Allison Vulgamore President and Chief Executive Officer Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

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tlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano is recognized internationally as one of the most imaginative conductors of his generation. Since 2001 he has invigorated and expanded the ASO’s repertoire through a creative programming mix, recordings, and visual enhancements, such as the “Theatre of a Concert,” a continuing exploration of different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience. Mr. Spano also champions the Atlanta School of Composers, his commitment to nurturing and championing music through multi-year partnerships defining a new generation of American composers.

Mr. Spano has conducted the great orchestras of North America, including those in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Overseas, he has led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Czech Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Sinfonie Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic and Tonhalle Orchester. He has conducted the Chicago, Houston, Santa Fe, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, and Welsh National Operas. In August 2005, he conducted Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera, and returns for the cycle in 2009. With a discography of nine critically acclaimed recordings for Telarc and Deutsche Grammophon made over six years, Robert Spano has garnered six Grammy Awards.

Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, Mr. Spano was Artistic Director of the Ojai Festival in 2006, Director of the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2003 and 2004 and from 1996 to 2004 was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Head of the Conducting Fellowship Program at Tanglewood Music Center from 1998-2002, he has served on the faculties of Bowling Green State University, Curtis Institute and Oberlin Conservatory.

Mr. Spano lives in Atlanta.

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Norman Mackenzie, Director of Choruses, The Frannie and Bill Graves Chair Mei-Ann Chen, Assistant Conductor, League of American Orchestras Conducting Fellow

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† Regularly engaged musician Players in string sections are listed alphabetically.

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Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Gershwin — their names have become iconic. These are the composers who chronicled the American psyche in the 20th century, who gave us the music we return to when we wish to celebrate our nation or to try to understand ourselves. They dealt with the contrasts and contradictions of our culture, each in his own way.

They paved the way for today’s crop of musical creators, whose senior statesmen include John Corigliano and John Adams.

These are leaders of a generation less self-

Robert Spano and the ASO programming team have drawn from these composers’ catalogs to create “American Originals,” an engrossing series of four concerts extending from Halloween weekend to just before Thanksgiving, all part of the larger Delta Classical Series. Both Spano and Donald Runnicles will conduct, along with renowned American conductor Leonard Slatkin. Assisting artists include top-ranked instrumental and vocal soloists, and the ASO Chorus.

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am looking forward to joining Donald Runnicles, Leonard Slatkin and our distinguished soloists for an exciting series of concerts. The four “American Originals” programs span more than 100 years of music history and include works by six American-born composers. The concerts also feature music written by Russian, Hungarian and Czech composers while in the United States.

The aesthetic of the ‘American Originals’ composers shares an artistic kinship with the members of our own ‘Atlanta School.’ Their music reflects their individual heritages, backgrounds and personalities, and while they all speak with a unique voice, their music shares the power to communicate with a wide range of audiences in a compelling way.

— Robert Spano

conscious about writing music that reflects the American experience, liberated by Copland’s observation that simply by being American, they would compose music that was “American” in its essence.

We are no less fascinated by immigrant musicians such as Dvo˘rák, Rachmaninov, and Bartók. Those composers came from abroad to experience the United States and then found their own music, retaining the national characteristics of their homelands

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Bernstein, Barber, and Rachmaninov — October 30/31/November 1. Maestro Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, leads off the series, making his first ASO appearance since 1975, with the “Jeremiah” Symphony, the first composition that brought Leonard Bernstein to national attention. It draws inspiration from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah for a searching examination of the spirit of Judaism. The finale incorporates a mezzocontinues on page 38

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ASOprogram Atlanta Symphony Orchestra A founding member of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center Robert Spano, Music Director Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor

Delta classical Series Concerts Thursday and Saturday, September 25 and 27 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, September 28 at 3 p.m.

Robert Spano, Conductor emanuel Ax, Pianist

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

(orch. Leopold Stokowski)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Opus 37 (1803) I. Allegro con brio II. Largo III. Rondo: Allegro emanuel Ax, Pianist INTERMISSION

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 68 (1876) I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso IV. Adagio; Più andante; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio

“Inside the Music” preview of the concert, Thursday at 7 p.m., presented by Ken Meltzer, ASO Insider and Program Annotator.

The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited.

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After almost 80 years, Delta’s community spirit worldwide continues to be a cornerstone of our organization. As a force for global good, our mission is to continuously create value through an inclusive culture by leveraging partnerships and serving communities where we live and work. It includes not only valuing individual differences of race, religion, gender, nationality and lifestyle, but also managing and valuing the diversity of work teams, intracompany teams and business partnerships.

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Major funding for the AtlantaSymphony Orchestra is provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council.

This performance is being recorded for broadcast at a later time.

ASO concert broadcasts are heard each week on Atlanta’s WABE FM-90.1 and Georgia Public Broaccasting’s statewide network.

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ASOprogram Notes on the Program

By Ken Meltzer Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor for Solo Organ, BWV 582 (orch. Leopold Stokowski) Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, on March 21, 1685, and died in Leipzig, Germany, on July 28, 1750. The Stokowski orchestration of the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor is scored for piccolo, four flutes, alto flute, three oboes, English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, contrabassoon, eight horns, four trumpets, four trombones, tenor tuba, bass tuba, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is thirteen minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performances: April 6, 7 and 8, 2000, Markus Stenz, Conductor.

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n addition to his incomparable talents as a composer, Johann Sebastian Bach was one of the finest keyboard virtuosos of his day. Bach’s mastery extended to both the harpsichord and organ. Bach’s superb technique allowed him to execute the most difficult passages with a minimum of visible effort.

As Bach’s first biographer, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, described: Bach is said to have played with so easy and so small a motion of the fingers that it was hardly perceptible…Still less did the other parts of his body take any share in his playing, as happens with many whose hand is not light enough. He rendered all of his fingers, of both hands, equally strong and serviceable, so that he was able to execute not only chords and all running passages, but also single and double trills with equal ease and delicacy.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s employment as an organist occurred during his early years in Arnstadt, Mülhausen and Weimar. It was during the Weimar years (1708-1717) that Bach composed the majority of his music for organ. The great Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582, probably dates from Bach’s time in Weimar.

In the early 20th century, a young British musician by the name of Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) earned great acclaim for his performances of Bach’s organ works. Stokowski soon began to pursue a career in conducting, and he decided to make Bach’s works available to a wider public by transcribing them for symphony orchestra.

In a 1962 radio interview, Stokowski explained: Those who love (Bach’s) music should be able to hear that music, and of course they do hear it in churches sometimes, but the thousands of people that go to symphony concerts should also hear it. So, I have orchestrated it, trying to give the same impression of the music and carry the same message that the music has, the same inspiration that is in the music, through the modern orchestra.

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When the interviewer suggested that Bach would be thrilled with Stokowski’s orchestrations of his works, the legendary maestro responded: “Bach was a very red hot-blooded man, he might kill me you know, or he might be pleased…we shall never know until I meet him in Heaven, or wherever it is conductors go afterwards!”

Indeed, Stokowski’s grand orchestrations of Bach’s works have long been the subject of lively debate and controversy. Nevertheless, their popularity continues to this day, both in concerts and on recordings. This program features Stokowski’s brilliant orchestration of Bach’s Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 582, a work the conductor praised as “one of the most divinely inspired creations ever conceived.” In Stokowski’s orchestration, the cellos and basses introduce the repeated figure that serves as the basis for a series of twenty variations, followed by an extended fugue, leading to the work’s majestic closing bars.

Concerto No. 3 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 37 (1803) Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized in Bonn, Germany, on December 17, 1770, and died in Vienna, Austria, on March 26, 1827. The first performance of the C-minor Piano Concerto took place in Vienna on April 5, 1803, at the Theater-an-der-Wien, with the composer as soloist. In addition to the solo piano, the C-minor Concerto is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is thirty-four minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: January 18, 1951, Hugh Hodgson, Piano, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: November 17, 18 and 20, 2005, Jonathan Biss, Piano, Robert Spano, Conductor.

Beethoven, Schikaneder and the Theater-an-der-Wien

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ienna’s magnificent Theater-an-der-Wien was the creation of actor Emanuel Schikaneder, the librettist for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 1791 opera The Magic Flute.

Schikaneder also sang the role of the bird-catcher Papageno at the opera’s premiere.

While Schikaneder obtained his building permit in 1786, the Theater-an-der-Wien did not finally open until June 13, 1801.

Schikaneder, an astute businessman, sought methods to compete with the established Burgtheater and Kärntnertor theaters in Vienna. In 1803, Schikaneder scored a massive coup when he convinced Ludwig van Beethoven to present concerts at his Theater-an-der-Wien. Schikaneder also provided Beethoven and his brother Carl with lodgings in the Theater building, commencing in the spring of 1803.

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ASOprogram An announcement in the Wiener Zeitung on March 23, 1803, heralded Beethoven’s inaugural Theater-an-der-Wien concert:

NOTICE On the 4th of April Herr Ludwig van Beethoven will produce a new Oratorio set to music by him Christus am Oelberge in the I.R. Privil. Theater-an-der-Wien.

The other pieces to be performed will be announced on the large billboard.

The “other pieces” included Beethoven’s First Symphony, as well as the world premieres of his Second Symphony and Third Piano Concerto. The length of this program pales in comparison to the legendary epic December 22, 1808 concert that featured the world premieres of Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, his Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy, as well as four movements from his Mass in C, and the soprano aria “Ah! Perfido.” Still, the program, delayed until April 5, featured two and one half hours of music.

“A terrible rehearsal” It’s not surprising that the energies and patience of the musicians were strained to their limits.

Ferdinand Ries described the final rehearsal, which began at 8:00 in the morning on the day of the concert: It was a terrible rehearsal, and at half past two everybody was exhausted and more or less dissatisfied. Prince Karl Lichnowsky, who had attended the rehearsal from the beginning, sent out for large baskets of buttered bread, cold meat and wine. He warmly invited everyone to help himself, which was done with both hands, with the result that the warm atmosphere was restored.

After tempers had calmed, Lichnowsky convinced the musicians to continue with a rehearsal that lasted almost to the beginning of the concert itself.

Beethoven served as conductor for the entire program. He was also the piano soloist in his C-minor Piano Concerto. A reviewer in the Zeitung für die Elegante Welt opined that Beethoven “did not perform (the Concerto) to the complete satisfaction of the public.”

If the critic’s view was accurate, the explanation may well be found in this account of the performance by Beethoven’s pupil Ignaz von Seyfried: Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 25

In the playing of the concerto movements he asked me to turn the pages for him; but—heaven help me!—that was easier said then done. I saw almost nothing but empty leaves; at the most on one page or the other a few Egyptian hieroglyphs wholly unintelligible to me scribbled down to serve as clues for him; for he played nearly all the solo part from memory, since, as was so often the case, he had not had time to put it all down on paper. He gave me a secret glance whenever he was at the end of one of the invisible pages and my scarcely concealable anxiety not to miss the decisive moment amused him greatly and he laughed heartily at the jovial supper that we ate afterwards.

Sketches for the C-minor Concerto indicate that Beethoven may have begun the composition of the work as early as 1797. The manuscript bears the following notation: “Concerto 1800 da L. v.

Beethoven.” Nevertheless, as previously noted, the solo part was not fully transcribed even by the time of the 1803 premiere.

The C-minor Concerto is a work that reflects the transition from the Haydn and Mozart-influenced works of Beethoven’s early period to the more heroic output of the middle portion of his career. The stormy opening movement looks forward to another work in the key of C minor, the immortal Fifth Symphony (1808) (ASO Concerts of October 2, 3 and 4, 2008). The Largo recalls first-hand accounts describing Beethoven’s ability to move audiences to tears through the sheer beauty of his playing. The finale, on the other hand, reveals a humorous side of the composer that is too often forgotten.

Musical Analysis I. Allegro con brio—The strings, answered by the winds, softly introduce the ascending and descending opening theme. Soon the orchestra presents a vigorous statement of the theme (this is one of several times in this movement that Beethoven employs sharply contrasting dynamics to great effect). The strings present a more genial second theme. Echoes of the opening theme return to conclude the orchestral exposition. The soloist’s exposition begins with a series of ascending flourishes and a bold statement of the opening theme, again quickly juxtaposed with softer dynamics. Once the soloist enters, he is clearly the focus of the proceedings, but the orchestra hardly serves as mere accompanist, frequently engaging in lively exchanges with the pianist.

The mysterious development section—sotto voce for the most part—is based upon the opening theme. A vigorous cascade of notes by the soloist introduces a varied recapitulation of the principal themes. The soloist’s cadenza is followed by a brief but highly dramatic coda.

II. Largo—The opening of the stunningly beautiful Largo—indeed virtually the entire movement—is a tender dialogue for piano and orchestra. The soloist enters with a hushed and expansive statement, to which the orchestra, featuring muted strings, responds. The central section presents the soloist’s flowing arpeggios as counterpoint to statements by the woodwinds. A descending passage by the pianist leads to a reprise of the opening section. The soloist is prominent in the Largo’s closing pages, offering a series of scales and a brief cadenza. The concluding fortissimo chord disturbs the reverie and prepares the audience for the high spirits of the ensuing Rondo.

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ASOprogram III. Rondo: Allegro—The finale, a delightful combination of rondo and sonata forms, opens with the soloist’s introduction of the angular principal theme. A series of orchestral fanfares, in tandem with ascending flourishes by the pianist, seems to portend a grand, dramatic passage. What follows instead is the playful, descending, subsidiary theme. This is just one of many surprises in a remarkably inventive movement—another is the sudden appearance of a rather pastoral interlude. A fugato section leads to a brief passage for the soloist, and finally, a reprise of the principal and subsidiary themes. Beethoven saves his most delicious surprise for the conclusion. A grand orchestral statement and cadenza by the soloist are followed by a skipping Presto transformation in 6/8 time of the principal theme, leading to a joyous race to the finish.

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 68 (1876) Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 1833, and died in Vienna, Austria, on April 3, 1897. The premiere of the First Symphony took place in Karlsruhe, Germany, on November 4, 1876, with Otto Dessoff conducting. The Symphony No. 1 is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is forty-five minutes.

First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: April 30, 1949, Henry Sopkin, Conductor.

Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: September 29, 30 and October 1, 2005, Marin Alsop, Conductor.

Brahms and the Schumanns

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n September 30, 1853, a shy, twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms appeared at the Düsseldorf home of Robert and Clara Schumann. (It’s interesting in light of the typical pictures we see of the mature, bearded and somber Brahms that the Schumanns’ eldest daughter, Marie, recalled meeting on that occasion “a very young man, handsome as a picture, with long blonde hair.”) Brahms, who greatly admired Robert Schumann, hoped that the senior, influential composer could assist his own budding musical career.

Brahms played some of his piano compositions for Robert and Clara, both of whom were immediately impressed by the young man’s extraordinary talent. During the following month, Brahms visited the Schumanns on an almost daily basis. Then, on October 28, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik published an article by Schumann, entitled “Neue Bahnen” (“New Paths”), in which the author wrote of Brahms: “When he waves his magic wand and the power of great orchestral and choral forces will aid him, then we shall be shown still more the wonderful glimpses into the secrets of the spirit-world.”

The suggestion that Brahms should focus his talents upon the symphonic repertoire became even more emphatic a few months later, when Schumann wrote to violinist Joseph Joachim: “Is he flying high—or only amongst flowers? Is he putting drums and trumpets to work yet? He must remember the beginnings of the Beethoven symphonies; he must try to do something of the kind. The point is to make a beginning, then the end comes of itself.”

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“I shall never write a symphony.”

It was precisely the comparison to Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies that Brahms feared most.

As late as 1870, Brahms wrote to conductor Hermann Levi: “I shall never write a symphony. You have no idea the likes of us feel when we hear the tramp of a giant like him beside us.” Indeed, twenty-three years elapsed from the appearance of the “New Paths” article to the time that Brahms finally gathered sufficient confidence to fulfill Schumann’s prophecy and complete his First Symphony.

Actually, it was not long after Schumann’s article that Brahms first attempted the composition of a symphony. In early 1854, Brahms sketched a sonata for two pianos. Brahms soon began to convert that work (in D minor, the same key as Beethoven’s Ninth) into a symphony. Brahms was dissatisfied with the results and finally abandoned the project. Still, his efforts were not totally in vain. Brahms ultimately reworked the opening movement of the proposed D-minor Symphony for his First Piano Concerto (1861) (ASO Concerts of October 2, 3 and 4, 2008). Another theme from the unfinished symphony became part of A German Requiem (1868).

“I send you a thousand greetings.”

Some biographers theorize that Brahms may have begun as early as 1855 to compose the work that would become his First Symphony. We do know that in 1862, Brahms shared a draft of the proposed opening movement both with Clara Schumann and composer and conductor, Albert Hermann Dietrich. On September 12, 1868, Brahms sent Clara a letter, containing an alphorn melody to which he set the following words: “Thus blew the shepherd’s horn to-day. High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I send you a thousand greetings.” That melody appears as the great horn call in the slow introduction to the finale of the C-minor Symphony.

It should be noted that during the period Brahms wrestled with the creation of his First Symphony, he did successfully compose for orchestra. Perhaps the two Serenades for Orchestra (1858 and 1859) and the sublime Haydn Variations (1873) helped to steel Brahms’s courage and resolve.

Three years after the Haydn Variations, Brahms finally completed the C-minor Symphony. The November 4, 1876, premiere took place in Karlsruhe, under the direction of Otto Dessoff.

“Beethoven’s Tenth” Although Beethoven had been dead nearly half a century when the C-minor Symphony premiered, comparisons with the man Brahms called a “giant” were perhaps inevitable. The work presents a dramatic journey from C minor to C Major, as does Beethoven’s Fifth. A friend of Brahms also noted the similarity of the finale’s principal theme to the ode “To Joy” in Beethoven’s Ninth. To this observation, Brahms responded, “any ass can see that!” The eminent conductor, Hans von Bülow, dubbed the work “Beethoven’s Tenth.” Although Bülow certainly meant that as a compliment, it provided Brahms no great satisfaction.

For Brahms’s part, it seems that the completion of his First Symphony liberated him from the paralyzing specter of Beethoven’s incomparable legacy. Three more Brahms Symphonies

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ASOprogram followed over the ensuing decade—each, like the first, a monument of the late 19th-century orchestral repertoire. In time, it became abundantly clear that in his Four Symphonies, Brahms, a musical descendent of Beethoven, spoke very much in his own voice—a voice of Romantic lyricism, passion and grandeur.

Musical Analysis I. Un poco sostenuto; Allegro—The movement begins with a dramatic, slow introduction, featuring the timpani’s relentless hammer-blows and hints of the ensuing Allegro’s thematic material. Another brusque chord launches the Allegro proper and the strings’ forte presentation of the ascending and descending theme that forms the nucleus for all that follows. After a lovely horn solo, the strings play a lyrical variant of the principal theme.

The agitated descending passage that concludes the exposition is once again related to the opening theme. The development opens in mysterious fashion, but the storm and stress of the exposition soon return, leading to a powerful recapitulation of the main theme and its transformations. The movement concludes with a coda that imparts a melancholy air of resignation.

II. Andante sostenuto—The violins and bassoons play a tranquil ascending and descending theme. This theme is once again related to the principal melody of the opening movement, as is the plaintive solo for oboe. After an agitated central episode, the concluding section features an extended, shimmering violin solo.

III. Un poco Allegretto e grazioso—Instead of the traditional robust scherzo, Brahms substitutes a graceful intermezzo for the Symphony’s third movement. A solo clarinet sings the main theme of a movement that prominently features the winds throughout. A stately episode leads to a reprise of the principal melody. The peaceful closing measures set the stage for the high drama that follows.

IV. Adagio; Più andante; Allegro non troppo, ma con brio—As with the opening movement, the finale begins with an extended, slow introduction (Adagio). After a brief descending passage by the lower strings, the horns and violins play a motif that will ultimately emerge as the finale’s majestic principal melody. Pizzicato strings lead to a reprise of the motif. The tension builds to a climax, capped by a massive timpani outburst, over which the horns play the alphorn melody Brahms first shared with Clara Schumann in 1862 (Più Andante). The flute imparts a different character to the melody, after which the bassoons, contrabassoon and trombones intone a stately chorale that will return toward the close of the Symphony. After a brief pause, the principal section of the finale begins (Allegro non troppo, ma con brio), as the strings play the broad and majestic principal theme. After a repetition by the winds and brass over pizzicato accompaniment, the full orchestra offers a blazing version of the theme.

A series of subsidiary themes follows. Instead of the expected development section, Brahms offers a restatement of the principal themes, as well as music from the introduction. The tension mounts a final time, and a glorious restatement of the chorale leads to the triumphant closing measures.

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ASOprogram emanuel Ax, pianist

B

orn in Lvov, Poland, Emanuel Ax moved to Winnipeg, Canada, with his family when he was a young boy. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the sponsorship of the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America, and he subsequently won the Young Concert Artists Award. Additionally, he attended Columbia University, where he majored in French. Mr. Ax captured public attention in 1974, when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. In 1975, he won the Michaels Award of Young Concert Artists, followed four years later by the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.

In the 2008-09 season, Mr. Ax returns to several orchestras with which he has had relationships for many years, including the Atlanta Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Kansas City Symphony, where he will perform the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's Piano Concerto. Special projects include a duo recital tour with Yefim Bronfman, including performances at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall; a performance with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall; and a solo recital tour in both North America and Europe. Other European engagements include a tour of the Far East with the Dresden Staatskapelle and Fabio Luisi, with whom he will record the Strauss Burleske for Sony BMG; and performances with the Tonhalle Orchester, Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra in Munich and Carnegie Hall, the London Philharmonia and Orchestre National de France.

Highlights of the 2007-08 season included performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Chicago, Houston, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Detroit and National symphonies. In Europe, he appeared with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra, the London Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic, and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin. A solo recital tour in Europe and North America included performances at London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. Recent releases include Strauss's Enoch Arden narrated by Patrick Stewart; discs of two-piano music by Brahms and Rachmaninoff with Yefim Bronfman; and period-instrument performances of Chopin's complete works for piano and orchestra. Mr. Ax has received Grammy awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn's piano sonatas. He also has made a series of Grammy Award-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano.

In recent years, Mr. Ax has turned his attention toward the music of 20th-century composers, premiering works by John Adams, Christopher Rouse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bright Sheng and Melinda Wagner. Mr. Ax also is devoted to chamber music, and he has worked regularly with such artists as Young Uck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Mr. Ma, Edgar Meyer, Peter Serkin, Jaime Laredo and the late Isaac Stern.

Mr. Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki.

They have two children together, Joseph and Sarah. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia universities.

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— Aaron Copland

Copland, Barber, and Bartók —

continued from page 18 soprano soloist (the deep-hued voice of Kelley O’Connor for our performances) to sing the prophet’s words, as explained by Bernstein: “It is the cry of Jeremiah as he mourns his beloved Jerusalem, ruined, pillaged, and dishonored after his desperate effort to save it.”

A more optimistic work is the Piano Concerto by Samuel Barber, a composer who was often described as “neo-Romantic” because his music continued to be tonal and melodic throughout his career. We will hear the brilliant American pianist Garrick Ohlsson play this work, which had its premiere at the inaugural concert of Lincoln Center and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1963.

November 6/7. Robert Spano conducts our second American weekend, with soloist Joshua Bell playing Samuel Barber’s beloved Violin Concerto. Created more than 20 years before the Piano Concerto, the one for violin was composed while Barber was still a student at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Two movements of idyllic lyricism are rounded by a finale of nervous perpetual motion, reflecting the world’s anxiety at the time it was written in 1940.

A new commissioned work by Wynton Marsalis, with which we had planned to open this concert, will not be ready in time, which allows us an opportunity to hear instead Copland’s seminal ballet score, Appalachian Spring. In this and his other “cowboy” ballets of the 1930s and ’40s, the Brooklynborn Copland created a musical language suggestive of open spaces and clear-eyed aspiration, a vocabulary that helped define American music for listeners here and around the world.

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Maestro Slatkin’s concert closes with the exultantly balletic Symphonic Dances by Sergei Rachmaninov, a longtime resident of the United States who had fled Russia during the 1917 revolution. This was his only work written in America, composed on rue music must New York’s Long Island. repeat the thought The Dances have unmisand inspirations of takably Russian moments, the people and the time. My but the numerous syncopeople are Americans and my pations and the extensive time is today. use of percussion instruments speak more plainly — George Gershwin of his adopted country.

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Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville famously ell, American last completed work by toured the United States composers are the Béla Bartók, driven to this and published his impresbest composers. At sions in a book called country by the Nazi occupathis time in the world, we are Democracy in America tion of his native Hungary. where the energy is. We are (1835). Sixty years later, the most diverse, the most Gershwin, Corigliano, Antonín Dvo˘rák visited iconoclastic, the most and Dvo˘rák – November New York and Iowa and maverick, and the most skillful.

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Donald proclaimed his musical impressions in a symphoRunnicles, our much-in— David Del Tredici demand Principal Guest ny entitled From the New Conductor, makes his World. Although the composition is as much Czech in character as any ASO season debut with these concerts. of Dvo˘rák’s other symphonies, he was trying George Gershwin visited Havana during the wide-open days of the 1930s, becoming to suggest to budding American composers fascinated with the rhythms of Latin music. how they might draw on African American and His Cuban Overture makes use of Latin perNative American songs to create an American cussion instruments in infectious music that music style. The “New World” Symphony makes it hard to sit still. remains his best-loved composition, performed around the globe.

A Pulitzer Prize winner and Oscar winner (for his score to The Red Violin), John Corigliano John Adams – November 21/23. Robert was praised early in his career by Copland Spano returns to conduct the final concerts as “one of the most talented composers of “American Originals,” two complete performances of the John Adams opera Doctor on the scene today.” His 1991 opera The Ghosts of Versailles was the first new work Atomic. It was the appearance of Adams’s commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in opera Nixon in China in 1987 that brought his name to widespread recognition. Putting 25 years. He has written concertos for flutist James Galway and violinist Joshua Bell, living or recent political figures on stage was among others, and his Conjurer is a concerto all but unprecedented, especially such famous designed especially for Scottish percussionones as Richard Nixon and Mao Tse-tung.

Adams has not shied away from such fearless ist Evelyn Glennie, who premiered it last originality as his career has progressed, and in year and will be soloist in this ASO debut of the piece.

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‘ve never set out consciously to write American music. I don’t know what that would be, unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.”

In our performances, concert staging will be employed by Stage Director James Alexander who directed last season’s presentation of La Bohème. Bassbaritone Gerald Finley sings the role he created at the San Francisco Opera premiere in 2005, that of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Faust-like leader of the topsecret Manhattan Project. Mrs. Oppenheimer will be portrayed by soprano Jessica Rivera, and other cast members include Meredith Arwady, Thomas Glenn, James Maddalena and Eric Owens, all veterans of previous produc-

tions of the opera. The cast will be supported by the stellar ASO Chorus.

The opera’s action concentrates on the final hours before the bomb’s first test explosion. The libretto, in examining the doubts — Carlisle Floyd and fears of the scientists about the power they were unleashing, not only contains accounts and correspondence from that time but also quotes from such sources as John Donne, Baudelaire and the Bhagavad Gita. These ASO concerts will be the defining event of the Atlanta season!

Nick Jones retired in 2006 after a distinguished career as the Orchestra’s Program Annotator.

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Robert McDuffie looks forward to reprising Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto — a triumph at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in July. He’ll “play his heart out,” October 9-11.

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t’s easy to keep a familiar concerto like the Tchaikovsky fresh, says Robert McDuffie, even though he’s played it so many times before: “It’s never the same on stage. Each time there’s a different audience, a difference air. And it helps to have a sympathetic partner. I enjoy working with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony very much.” Noting that he often plays more modern works when he visits Atlanta, he laughs and says, “My mother [who will be leading a contingent of family and friends from Macon to hear the performance] is very happy that I’m doing Tchaikovsky this time!”

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McDuffie played the same concerto with the ASO outdoors this past July 12 at the Orchestra’s new summer home, the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta. He clearly enjoyed the experience. “It’s a wonderful new venue for the Orchestra and its audience,” he says. “I just played my heart out — and I’ll be doing the same in Symphony Hall.”

Also this summer, McDuffie played at music festivals in Aspen, Colorado and Amelia Island, Florida, and he celebrated the fifth anniversary of his own festival in Rome, Italy. He calls the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, founded and directed by the ASO’s principal cellist, Christopher Rex, a wonderful festival with great atmosphere.

He loves working with Chris, being back in the South, and savoring the whole atmosphere of playing in the summer. But he says that performing at festivals is not about kicking back and taking it easy: “Aspen — this was my 32nd visit since my first at age 18 — is definitely not relaxing. There are 800 to 1,000 kids [listening to you play], and they know all the notes! I was a cocky student myself, so I know the pressure, but it’s fun.”

McDuffie and his family lived in Italy for a while, and he so loved the city that he started the Rome Chamber Music Festival in order to have a reason to come back often. “We perform in a 16th-century Catholic oratory, a mini-chapel that’s been turned into a 200-seat concert hall.” He talks animatedly about mixing crossover works in with the core repertory: Vivaldi and klezmer with clarinetist David Krakauer, Beethoven followed

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by contemporary bassist Edgar Meyer, bluegrass with mandolin player Mike Marshall, or programs with Ennio Morricone and his son Andrea, also a film composer. In 2005, the mayor of Rome presented McDuffie with the Premio Simpatia Award in recognition of his contribution to the city’s cultural life.

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love playing the fiddle, first and foremost.

That’s what I am; I’m a violin player. When I feel like I’m just phoning it in, I’ll stop playing.

The festival’s budget of about $300,000 a year is raised through the combined efforts of an American board of directors and an Italian foundation. “We have a major corporate sponsor — the Italian lottery!” McDuffie says. “They also own the professional basketball team; we are their culture project.

And Delta Air Lines has been a great friend over the years.”

renowned cellist Andrés Díaz, the ASO’s Christopher Rex and Paul Murphy, and others. Almost all are or have been section leaders of major orchestras, and they’re also keenly entrepreneurial, many with their own festivals. McDuffie calls them “working stars,” feeling that students will benefit from their combination of musical excellence and industry experience.

The violinist joined the faculty of Mercer University in his home town of Macon as a Distinguished Professor in 2004, and last fall, the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings officially opened its doors as part of Mercer’s Townsend School of Music. “This is really meaningful to me, because I’ve always loved Macon,” he says. Despite residing in New York for 35 years, he reveals, “My heart is in Rome; but my soul is in Macon.”

Add to these endeavors the instrument he plays, a 1735 Guarneri del Gesù violin purchased by a consortium of investors and leased to him for 25 years, and it becomes obvious that he has a talent for attracting supporters for the projects he initiates.

“Well, I think people respond to a real, honest message,” he muses. “I love to talk about [these projects] and I speak from the heart, and people want to be a part of it. These are all something new: Rome has never had a chamber-music festival. The South has never had a great high-level conservatory. No one has ever formed a limited partnership to buy a great Italian violin.

McDuffie points out the Center for Strings os the only one of its kind between Houston and Baltimore. “The institute prepares the complete musician for success in a constantly shifting industry. The kids have to take a degree in something other than music — they have to get into Mercer before they can apply to the McDuffie Center. They concentrate on business, finance, English and new media, while getting conservatory training that’s equal to or better than anything in the country.

Mercer’s President Bill Underwood strongly believes in what we’re doing, and the faculty really bought into the concept.”

The Center’s faculty includes violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti as director, along with

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“I love playing the fiddle, first and foremost,” McDuffie declares. “That’s what I am; I’m a violin player. When I feel like I’m just phoning it in, I’ll stop playing.” It sounds as though there’s no danger that will happen anytime soon.

Nick Jones has written liner notes for many recordings by the ASO, as well as CDs by Arleen Auger and the Vienna Philharmonic, André Previn and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and several musicians from the ASO.

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ASOCalendar upcoming concerts

October Bach/Webern: Robert 2/3/4 Ricercar Spano, 8pm Brahms: conductor delta Classical Piano Concerto No. 1 Peter Serkin, Beethoven: piano Symphony No. 5

B-loved music of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms!

The Fifth is the most famous of all Beethoven’s symphonies. Brahms’s epic Piano Concerto No. 1, inspired in part by the death of Robert Schumann, his friend and mentor, will glow in the hands of Mr. Serkin. Webern’s loving rendering of Bach’s “A Musical Offering” is nothing short of magical.

October Tchaikovsky:

A Tchaikovsky tour de force! Macon-born violinist extraordinaire Robert McDuffie makes a welcome return with the composer’s adored and brilliant Violin Concerto. The blazing “Francesca” and great, soul-baring “Winter” Symphony complete an evening of Russian passion.

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9/10/11 Francesca da Rimini Spano, 8pm Tchaikovsky: conductor delta Classical

Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky: “Winter Dreams” Symphony

October Handel:

16/18 Zadok The Priest 8pm Handel: delta Classical

Water Music Mendelssohn: Verleih’ uns Frieden & Symphony No. 1

October Andrew Lloyd

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October Bernstein:

30/31 “Jeremiah”

NOVEMBER Symphony 1 Barber: 8pm Piano Concerto delta Classical Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

Robert McDuffie, violin

Nicholas McGegan, conductor ASO Chamber Chorus

ASO guest Mr. McGegan, a master of Baroque sound, leads signature works from two great masters. Handel’s Water Music is one of the most beloved of all Baroque works, and Mendelssohn’s First Symphony, composed at the age of 15, is a dramatic and compelling revelation of a young genius.

Michael Krajewski, conductor Debbie Gravitte/ Doug LaBrecque, vocalists

A show-stopping salute to the World of Webber!

Broadway musical stars Debbie Gravitte and Doug LaBrecque, both favorites of ASO pops audiences, sing the praises of the internationally celebrated composer, featuring the most beloved selections from Webber’s Broadway blockbusters.

Jere Flint, conductor Lee Harper & Dancers, guest artists

A must-see ASO tradition! Mr. Flint’s colorful personas (Count Jere, Wizard Jere) and devilish sense of humor, bewitching music, inspired interpretative dances, and the annual vote for the most frightful fashion statement are a howl.

Maestro Slatkin launches the ASO’s four-week Leonard Slatkin, American Originals Festival, celebrating music and conductor masterpieces written in the USA. Rachmaninov’s Garrick crowning symphonic achievement anchors an evening Ohlsson, that also features giants Bernstein and Barber. piano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano

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FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Donald F. Fox Vice President for Business Development & Chief Financial Officer Aysha Siddique Administrative Assistant to the CFO Susan Ambo Controller April Satterfield Senior Accountant Kim Hielsberg Director of Financial Planning & Analysis Ebony Woods Staff Accountant Guy Wallace Staff Accountant Rachel Parton Reception/ Administration Support Stephen Jones Symphony Store Manager

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October Andrew Lloyd

24/25 Webber’s Broadway 8pm A show-stopping salute to the World of Webber!

Michael Krajewski, conductor Debbie Gravitte, soprano Doug Labrecque, baritone November Cirque

28/29 de la Symphonie 8pm

Imagine the dazzling feats of cirque artists combined with the incredible musical experience of the ASO! Michael Krajewski, conductor February Righteous Brother

13/14 Bill Medley 8pm

Make a Valentine’s date with Righteous Brothers bedrock Bill Medley.

Jere Flint, conductor March Classical

20/21 Mystery Tour 8pm Stars of Beatlemania lead a 40th-anniversary celebration of the Fab Four’s pioneering album.

Michael Krajewski, conductor April Big Bad

17/18 voodoo Daddy 8pm Put on your dancing shoes for this one.

Michael Krajewski, conductor May Chris

22/23 Botti 8pm

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