CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES
THEATRE STAFF
Executive Director ..................... Jason Goedken
Artistic Director ....................... Whitney Morse
Associate Artistic Director ............ Angel Creeks
Director of Operations .................... Jon Cronin
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President .................................................................................................. Elliot Sussman, MD, MBA
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The Sharon®L. Morse
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Dear Patron of the Arts,
Welcome to The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center!
Much like the building’s namesake, my grandmother, Sharon L. Morse, we love all varieties of the performing arts here. It is in her memory that I, along with my amazing team of artists and arts administrators, strive to bring many different types of the highest quality entertainment here to The Sharon.
Since opening in 2015, we have strived to establish your trust, that a show at The Sharon is a show worth seeing. Perhaps you find yourself here today to see a concert of one of your favorite musicians, or to take in the national tour of a Broadway show. Either way, we encourage you to consider trying out a new show that perhaps you haven’t heard of before, knowing that it has been intentionally curated by our team.
We welcome you to The Sharon: a place for you to see an old favorite, but also a place to discover your new favorite. I sincerely hope you enjoy the show today, and I look forward to seeing you here again soon!
See You at The Sharon, Whitney Morse
Artistic Director
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SEP 1-MAY 10
JUST TWO SHOWS LEFT!
Tuesday, April 8.......................................... Classical Concert Series
Tuesday, May 10 ... Opera Gala: Magical Moments of Opera Scenes
MESSAGE FROM THE MAESTRO
Dear friends and supporters of The Villages Philharmonic,
It is with great joy that we welcome Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Emanuela Friscioni, two pianists of extraordinary talent and international level who will perform the concertato for 4-hands by Leopold Kozeluch.
In addition, we will follow music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Felix Mendelssohn and the extraordinary symphony number two by Ludwig van Beethoven. A truly special concert, where the classical language is exalted and Beethoven’s symphony number 2 in D major touches our hearts.
Beethoven has always been considered the music soul, in fact it is the hypothesis of three researchers a musicologist, a cardiologist and a historian of medicine from the University of Michigan and the University of Washington who have asserted that it was really music that came from the heart that of Beethoven: the compositions of the musician would be influenced by the progress of his heart.
The rhythms of some of his most famous and viscerally touching compositions are said to be influenced by cardiac arrhythmias from which the composer probably suffered.
Thank you for being in this magnificent theater to listen to our performance and for your support. In a few days you will receive a special edition of our newsletter, where there will be all the information regarding the finalization of the 88 Steinway Keys project.
Maestro Pasquale Valerio Founder, Director, and Chair of The Villages Philharmonic Orchestra
PASQUALE VALERIO, MAESTRO
Pasquale Valerio is an internationally acclaimed Orchestral Conductor. In 2004 he founded The Villages Philharmonic Orchestra, became its musical director, and is still engaged in concerts and tours throughout Florida and worldwide. Maestro Valerio was also the founder of the Lake Sumter Chamber Orchestra as well as co-founder and conductor of the Florida Lakes Symphony from 2005 to 2006. He collaborates with various European orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestra ‘900 of the Teatro Regio Opera in Turin, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, the Virtuosi of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, the Virtuosi of the Philharmonic of Bacau, the “A. Scarlatti” Symphony Orchestra of Naples, Orchestra Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In 2006 had the opportunity to assist Sir Antonio Pappano, current Music Director of the Royal Opera House in London This collaboration represented a great point of reference for maestro Valerio and indelibly marked his experience of conducting growth. From 2007 to 2009 he collaborated with the internationally known Viotti music festival in Vercelli, Italy and in May 2018 he began an ongoing cooperation with the North California Music Festival as guest conductor. Pasquale Valerio was born in Naples to a family linked to cultural traditions and founding religious values. The great passion for music was evident from the first years of his life, but, only towards the tenth year of age did he begin his musical studies, first with the piano, and subsequently, at the age of thirteen years, when he began studying trumpet. It is in this period that Pasquale met Maestro Filippo Veniero, an important musical guide for subsequent studies. He studied trumpet at the school of Maestro Francesco Lentini, Bari Conservatory, with whom he obtained the middle completion and, subsequently under the guidance of Maestro Diego Benedusi, he obtained the superior completion of trumpet.
After completing his trumpet studies, he collaborated as an instrumentalist with orchestras of major opera and symphonic institutions including the Opera House “Teatro di San Carlo in Naples “and with other major opera orchestras and symphonic institutions. Simultaneously he studied Composition and Score Reading at the School of Maestro Filippo Veniero.
The meeting with two conductors, J Withney and Gunther Smidth (United States) conditioned the musical journey and made it possible that in 1998 Pasquale resumed his studies started in Naples with F. Veniero. Also important was the meeting with the famous conductor Anton Coppola in 1999, who became Pasquale’s mentor and guide.
Pasquale is a guest collaborator at festivals and international competitions, including:
International Piano Competition “F. Schubert” in San Cristoforo Virtuosi of the Bacau Philharmonic, Romania, Viotti Music Festival, Camerata Ducale, Italy, Piano Festival of Carrara/Arezzo Orchestra 900’ of the Teatro Regio of Turin, Oída Symphony Orchestra (Arezzo) Philharmonic Orchestra of Benevento, New Orchestra Scarlatti and Florida Philharmonia
In the academic year 2023 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Conducting Studies at the “London Performing Arts Academy” and at the end of 2023, appointed Honor Roll of “ALTAMURA MERCADANTE FEST”.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 36
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Overture to Idomeneo, rè di Creta, K. 366
Leopold Kozeluch
4 hand Piano Concerto P:IV.8 é
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 2 in D major Op. 36, was composed between 1800 and 1802. It is situated on the extreme edge of Beethoven’s experience, which still feels the influence of tradition, especially Haydn and Mozart. We are still in the sphere of youthful works where one can already sense one of the fundamental characteristics of this master’s style: conciseness. With Beethoven, the art of composing reaches a crucial point like never before. The sound material is now subjected to rigorous control, to an impartial verification on the basis of which the superfluous is inexorably discarded, everything that does not fit perfectly with the author’s thought. This selective process is clearly manifested in the innumerable drafts left by Beethoven and which served to prepare and form the future work. If the idea did not possess a precise imprint, it was eliminated or elaborated until its definitive identification. Such a way of working, if on the one hand it slowed down by far the time necessary for the production of a composition, on the other hand it offered the advantage of being able to have a work made up of carefully selected and very high quality material. Naturally, all the structural elements of the work are subjected to such a treatment, merging in a perfect balance of essentiality and formal completeness.
Symphony No. 2 was performed for the first time in 1803 in Vienna under the direction of the author in a concert that also included the “Third Concerto for Piano and Orchestra” and the oratorio “Christ on the Mount of Olives”. The work opens with an introduction in slow tempo, with wide, shadowy and collected arches. The “Allegro molto” that follows transports us into a sonorous climate of ringing tones and energetically delineated rhythms. The two themes and the developments follow one another with an intense intoxication of sound. The second movement is dispensed with the deep, calculated expressive measure already all Beethovenian. The melodic profile bends to an incisive and sometimes rough cantability in a wonderful arrangement of parts and in an unmistakable interchange between light and shadow. The «Scherzo» is an agile piece with a light and delicately outlined tone. Its «trio» echoes some movements deriving from tradition. It should be noted that the «Scherzo» replaces the «minuet» that was customary in the symphonic works of the 18th century.
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The rhythmic impulse that animates the last movement, reminds us of one of those sunny and open visions that in Beethoven’s mature works full of dramatic contrasts will have the task of untying the knots of tension and at least in part shedding light on the enigmas of anxious questions.
Mendelssohn Symphony
Schumann had already said of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy that “chance had endowed him with a fitting name since birth”. Serene in his short life, rich, an artist of immediate success, of easy and brilliant vein, Mendelssohn is without doubt a creature of Romanticism, even though he did not experience and did not suffer the famous romantic sadness and unhappiness. A very skilled pianist, a highly capable conductor, deserving among other things of a courageous reevaluation of Bach at the time, Mendelssohn the composer is, in fact, happily imaginative on the one hand, and on the other sometimes somewhat academically tied to classicism. It was precisely to Schumann, who was the first to recognize his exceptional gifts, that he appeared as “the Mozart of the 19th century, the most limpid musician, who was the first to clearly see and reconcile the contradictions of the era”. And if Mendelssohn does not share the pains of Romanticism, real and aesthetic, he nevertheless represents its fairy-tale climate to the highest degree. Even for Mendelssohn, as for Mozart’s greatest miracle, one cannot strictly speak of “precocity”. The fact is, however, that at fourteen Mendelssohn had already composed four comic operas (which remained unpublished; by the fourth of which, Der Onkel aus Boston, his teacher Zelter had declared him no longer a pupil, but “independent, in the name of Mozart, Haydn and the great father Bach”); various Preludes and Fugues for organ (in the Fugues, “he plays with the chains as if they were garlands of flowers”: it is still Schumann); and twelve Symphonies for strings. None of these, composed between 1820 and 1824, has an opus number; and, officially recognized and well known, Mendelssohn’s five major Symphonies, from op. 11 (the one usually called the First) to op. 107 «Della Riforma», written between 1824 and 1840, these first ones are gradually being discovered in very recent times: intended by the author, at the time, only for private and family performances. The Symphony No. 10 in B minor is very simple: condensed - unlike the others - in a single movement in sonata form, preceded by an Adagio of purely introductory character. Very expressive, and slightly like «stage music» this Adagio, the Allegro arrives immediately spontaneous and lively, while fully respecting the thematic developments and contrasts, and closes with a «coda» in which the theme is treated in a more lively and brilliant final «stretta».
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Overture to Idomeneo, rè di Creta, K. 366
Mozart composed Idomeneo in 1780-81 on a commission from the Bavarian court in Munich. It was his first great opportunity to stage a full-scale music drama in the reformed tradition of Christoph Willibald Gluck that included a substantial role for chorus and ballet. The plot was based on a tragédie lyrique, as French opera of the period was called, by librettist Antoine Danchet with music by André Campra.
Idomeneo, the King of Crete, was one of Agamemnon’s generals and trusted advisors in The Iliad. In a late Roman extension of the aftermath of the Trojan War, Idomeneo leaves his kingdom in the care of his young son Idamante to join the siege of Troy. The essence of the plot is a little like the biblical story of Jephtha, who in return for a military victory vowed to sacrifice the first living thing to greet him when he returned home – as it turned out, his daughter. Idomeneo, beset by a storm at sea on his homeward journey from the Trojan War, has made a similar vow to Neptune. The rest of the plot concerns his vain attempts to avoid sacrificing Idamante. Naturally, there’s a love interest as well, a triangle among Idamante, the Trojan princess Ilia and – of all people – Agamemnon’s daughter Electra, who has sought refuge in Crete after her mother Clytemnestra has murdered her father. Ultimately, after Idamante has slain a sea monster sent by Neptune to devour the Cretan people, an oracle emerges as a deus ex machina, ordering Idomeneo to abdicate in favor of his son.
Unfortunately the opera was not a great success and never gained popularity in the composer’s lifetime, although Mozart himself thought highly of it. He made numerous changes to gain its acceptance in Vienna, but to no avail. It has experienced a limited renaissance in large opera houses, where innovative productions outside the standard repertory have elicited audience support.
As was customary of overtures at the time, the Overture to Idomeneo is in sonata form, although without any significant development section. There is the obligatory slow introduction, a series of pompous blasts of the full orchestra, followed by a threatening theme, recalling what Mozart would later put into his overture for Don Giovanni. The Allegro runs out an array of themes, the most important of which are the first and second. The recapitulation simply recasts the themes into their proper keys for a proper resolution in the tonic.
Leopold Kozeluch
4 hand Piano Concerto P:IV.8 é
Leopold Koželuch (1747 – 1818) was a Czech composer and music teacher. He was born in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, where he started his musical education, before moving to Prague to further his studies. In 1778, he took up residence in Vienna, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. There, he achieved fame as a composer, pianist and teacher, and from 1792 until his death in 1818 he succeeded W.A.Mozart as Music Director and Composer at the court of Emperor Franz II.
Koželuch’s catalogue of compositions includes over 400 works. Prominent among them are Sonatas and Concertos for keyboard. He also composed chamber music, symphonies, choral works, and operas. By focusing mainly on keyboard music, though, he contributed greatly to the establishment of the fortepiano as the leading keyboard instrument over the harpsichord.
The Concerto for piano four-hands is a brilliant work, and one of the finest in this genre. To use musicologist Richard Wigmore’s words, this is music that “beguiles with its limpid grace, its sparkling keyboard writing, and its sense of proportion.”
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ANTONIO POMPA BALDI
Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a multifaceted career that continues to extend across five continents.
A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio PompaBaldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
With a concerto repertoire including more than 60 works, Mr. Pompa-Baldi regularly performs cycles of all the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos, the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, both Brahms Concertos and many other established masterpieces of the piano literature, while also championing neglected or lesserknown repertoire, with leading orchestras around the world.
Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears at major concert venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Milan’s Sala Verdi, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Shanghai’s Grand Theatre, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel, to name a few. He has collaborated with conductors including Hans Graf, Krzysztof Urbánski, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Theodore Kuchar, Benjamin Zander, Louis Lane, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed with ensembles and colleagues such as Takacs String Quartet, trumpeter Alison Balsom, cellist Sharon Robinson, violinists Ivan Zenaty and Ilya Kaler, and principals of the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Juilliard Quartet.
Among the many stops on his tours, he performed in Vienna (Austria), London (UK), Paris (France), New York (USA), Auckland (New Zealand), Jerusalem (Israel), Kiev (Ukraine), Cape Town (South Africa), Poland, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Spain, and many other places around the globe.
In China alone, Pompa-Baldi has toured extensively in the most prestigious venues of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and all the other major cities, and is a regular returning guest at the Lang Lang piano festivals of Shenzhen and Hangzhou.
Mr. Pompa-Baldi has recorded 35 CDs to date, for various labels including Centaur Records, Harmonia Mundi, Steinway, TwoPianists, Azica, and Brilliant Classics. Among them, the complete piano and chamber music works of Grieg, the Josef Rheinberger Piano Sonatas, the complete Hummel Piano Sonatas, and CDs dedicated to Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff.
For the Steinway label, Pompa-Baldi recorded songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf, arranged for solo piano, as well as a CD titled “Napoli”, which features new piano versions of famous Neapolitan songs, elaborated by Roberto Piana.
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Among his latest releases are his transcription for solo piano of the Respighi B minor Violin Sonata, and Suites by Debussy, Luca Moscardi and Barber for piano duo. Recorded with his wife, pianist Emanuela Friscioni, this latest album was published with the title “Suite Nothings” by the Steinway label.
Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist. He is also a Steinway Recording Artist, as well as one of the most prominently featured artists in the Spirio recording catalogue. He is often invited to judge international piano competitions such as the Cleveland, Hilton Head, E-Competition (Minneapolis), BNDES Rio de Janeiro, Chopin USA (Miami) and Edward Grieg (Bergen), among many others. He serves as president of the jury and artistic advisor for the San Jose International Piano Competition since 2005.
Pompa-Baldi is on the Piano Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he is also Head of the Piano Department. His students have been prizewinners in important competitions such as Marguerite Long, Hilton Head, Isang Yun, and Gina Bachauer. He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses in countless Universities, Music Schools, and Festivals in the US and all over the world, and is honorary professor at various institutions including the Beijing China Conservatory, and the Shenyang Conservatory of Music.
Pompa-Baldi is Founder and Artistic Director of Todi International Music Masters. This summer festival takes place every August in the beautiful Italian town of Todi. It features 15 concerts in 15 evenings, with internationally renown guest artists as faculty members, and students from all over the world.
EMANUELA FRISCIONI
Italian pianist, Emanuela Friscioni, received a diploma in piano performance from the”Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, with full marks, and went on to study with Annamaria Pennella. Other teachers have included Paul BaduraSkoda, Aldo Ciccolini and Bruno Canino. Ms. Friscioni has won many national and international first prizes, including those at the Tortona, Moneglia, Camaiore, Chieti, and Kawai Piano Competitions. She has performed throughout Italy, in Switzerland, France and other European countries. She made her U.S. debut in July 2000 with Cleveland Orchestra violinist Gino Raffaelli. Since then, she has enjoyed a career that has seen her perform solo recitals, orchestral engagements and chamber music appearances. Among her collaborations, she played Schubert’s Quintet Op.114”The Trout” with members of The Cleveland Orchestra and was again invited by Orchestra members in 2004 to play an all Brahms program. Ms. Friscioni’s recent performances have included Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the National Repertory Orchestra; Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Canton Symphony; chamber
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music and solo performances at the Music in the Mountains festival; and Franck’s Symphonic Variations with the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed recitals in California, New Mexico, New York and Ohio. Her piano duets with her husband, pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi, have earned them many prizes and wonderful reviews. Ms. Friscioni is an accomplished professor of piano, first in Italy, where many of her pupils have won prizes and scholarships, and now in the U.S. As a teacher and artistic director, she founded and manages the Classical Piano Performance Academy at Cuyahoga Community College. She was appointed to the CIM faculty in 2004.
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This spring, we will host our inaugural fundraising gala, an evening that promises dazzling entertainment, fine dining, and a celebration of 10 years of artistry, community, and impact. It’s a moment to reflect on our journey, honor our supporters, and look ahead to the future of arts in our community.
Inaugural Fundraising Gala 04.26.25 • 5:30pm $150
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*Introductory offers valid for first-time visit only and not valid towards gift cards. Sessions include time for consultation and dressing. Limited time offer. Rates and services may vary by location. Independently Owned & Operated. ©2024 Hand & Stone Corp. Franchises Available. MM39256/ CE10017237, MM43233/CE10034642
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Increase your visibility by marketing your message to The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center’s local, engaged audience, as well as advertise in The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol’s Programs and our monthly Digital Newsletter, The Scoop!
For information on prices, ad sizes, and availability, please email us at marketing@significantproductions.org.
