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Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor

PROGRAM MAGAZINE 1

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Contents September – November 2019 23 Violinist Bella Hristova

CONCERTS 17 Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

September 26

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35 Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony

October 17

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43 Star Wars:

The Empire Strikes Back

November 2 FEATURES 13 On That Note 26 Key of E[ducation] 33 Donor Spotlight

41 On October 17, duo pianists

and twin sisters Christina and Michelle Naughton perform Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

ON STAGE AND OFF 9 Welcome 11 Conductor 12 Orchestra Roster 14 Calendar 45 Scenes from Offstage 47 Support the Symphony 48 Founders Society 49 54th Season Partners 50 Thank You to Our Supporters 53 Endowment Fund 54 Board of Directors

and Administrative Staff

43 Luke Skywalker battles Darth Vader in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Live in Concert on November 2.

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Welcome September – November 2019 Greetings all!

Welcome and thank you for joining us in the Eugene Symphony’s 2019/20 season! This is a season that celebrates masterpieces of the past through the lens of composers working today. Together, we will take this journey by exploring creativity. Whether in technology, philosophy, or music, it is our ability to imagine and create that both identifies and connects us. In particular, this season invites you to not only experience the brilliant creativity of a composer like Beethoven, not only the creative force of the musicians performing on stage, but your own creativity as an audience member. The intersection of these creative forces is the sweet spot where the magic happens in a concert.

We start off this season with two of the most beloved symphonies in the repertoire—Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Mahler’s First Symphony. Both symphonies are deeply personal works closely tied to each composer’s personal and professional struggles that also conclude with thrilling, triumphant statements. Our guest artists for these programs, Bella Hristova and the Naughton Sisters, are some of the most exciting young performers in classical music today. They are also colleagues I met while studying at the Curtis Institute of Music and with whom I am excited to professionally collaborate for the first time. I know they will thrill us all with their artistry and virtuosity.

Lastly, these programs bring us two delightful new works by Kenji Bunch and our Composer-in-Residence, Matt Browne, full of fun references to popular American music from ragtime to today’s dance clubs.

Oh, and did I mention the return of Star Wars!? Following up on last year’s sold-out performance of Episode IV: A New Hope, we can’t wait to welcome back the wildly enthusiastic fans (of which I am one) for The Empire Strikes Back! Unfortunately, I won’t be here to conduct it, but I’ll be here in spirit.

May the Force be with you,

Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor Dear Friends, As we kick off Eugene Symphony’s 54th season, I visited our website (eugenesymphony.org) to refresh my memory of upcoming programs. I was blown away by the selections of Music Director & Conductor Francesco LecceChong. The fall brings us Tchaikovsky, Mahler, and Mozart. The winter months are filled with Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Sibelius, and Beethoven. Spring wraps up the subscription season with Rachmaninov, Beethoven, and Ravel.

With this well-planned programming combined with our fine orchestra and standout soloists, concert-goers could not wish for a better season. Plus, the subscription series is interspersed throughout the year with wonderful Special Concerts, starting with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in November, Leslie Odom, Jr. in February, Peter and the Wolf in April, and Ben Folds + SymFest in May. In parallel with the presentation of these Hult Center productions, the Symphony’s work outside the concert hall continues. Our Education & Community Engagement initiatives include: Youth Concerts, Link Up, Encouraging Young Musicians to Achieve (EYMA), Laura Avery Visiting Masters, Eugene Symphony Guild Young Artist Competition, Guild Concert Preview, Symphony Connect, and Instrument Petting Zoos. Details related to each of these programs can be found on our website and pages 26–27.

Both inside and outside the concert hall, Eugene Symphony’s programs have a tremendous positive impact on the Eugene/Springfield community and beyond. The ESA is currently enriching the lives of more than 40,000 Oregonians annually. I ask you to include the Eugene Symphony in your philanthropic plans and to consider joining a broad cross-section of donors who give to the Eugene Symphony Association. Your membership comes with exclusive benefits, which you can see on page 47.

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MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

Francesco Lecce-Chong American conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong has garnered acclaim for his dynamic performances combined with a deep commitment to nurturing the art form. Described by critics as a “fast rising talent in the music world” with “the real gift,” he has appeared with orchestras around the world including the National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic while collaborating with renowned soloists such as Renée Fleming and Itzhak Perlman.

Following successful tenures as Associate Conductor with the Milwaukee Symphony under Edo de Waart and the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck, he serves as Music Director for two North American orchestras, the Eugene Symphony and Santa Rosa Symphony, where he has been dedicated to innovative programming, commissioning new music and engaging in community outreach.

In the 2018/19 season, Lecce-Chong debuted in subscription concerts with the San Francisco Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic and Xi’An Symphony in China among others, while returning to conduct the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Milwaukee and San Diego Symphonies. The 2019/20 season marks his debut with the New York Philharmonic. He is equally at home with opera repertoire, having built his opera credentials as staff conductor with the Santa Fe Opera and conducted Madama Butterfly at the Florentine Opera with the Milwaukee Symphony.

Following in the footsteps of renowned predecessors Marin Alsop, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Jeffrey Kahane, Lecce-Chong has swiftly made his mark in Eugene and Santa Rosa with a series of new music and community initiatives. Most recently, both orchestras announced Lecce-Chong’s “First Symphony Project” commissioning four major American orchestral works to be performed over the next four years accompanied by multiple composer residences and community events.

In addition, the Santa Rosa Symphony will present its first ever opera in concert during the 2020/21 season under Lecce-Chong’s leadership. Lecce-Chong is also committed to the training and championing of young orchestral musicians, having served as Music Director

EUGENE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTORS Lawrence Maves, Founding Conductor (1966–1981) William McGlaughlin (1981–1985) Adrian Gnam (1985–1989) Marin Alsop, Conductor Laureate (1989–1996) Miguel Harth-Bedoya (1996–2002) Giancarlo Guerrero (2002–2009) Danail Rachev (2009–2017) Francesco Lecce-Chong (2017– )

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of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra for three years and working with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the New World Symphony.

Lecce-Chong is the recipient of several distinctions, including the prestigious Solti Foundation Award. Trained also as a pianist and composer, he completed his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Otto-Werner Mueller after attending the Mannes College of Music and Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy. He has had the privilege of being mentored and supported by celebrated conductors including Bernard Haitink, David Zinman, Edo de Waart, Manfred Honeck, Donald Runnicles, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Eugene Symphony MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR Francesco Lecce-Chong Betty Soreng

VIOLIN I Jenny Estrin, Concertmaster Lisa McWhorter, Assistant Concertmaster Ray & Cathie Staton Jamie Chimchirian Stephen Chong Della Davies Sandra Weingarten & Ryan Darwish Anthony Dyer Rosemary Erb John & Emilie York Clara Fuhrman* Yvonne Hsueh Debra & Dunny Sorensen Nathan Lowman Sophie Therrell Alwyn Wright

VIOLIN II Matthew Fuller, Principal Ray & Libby Englander Julia Frantz, Assistant Principal Anonymous Claudia Miller Dan Athearn Bob Gray Memorial Chair Alice Blankenship Theodore W. & Laramie Palmer David Burham Virginia Kaiser Marilyn Tyler Herb Merker & Marcy Hammock Jannie Wei Vacant

VIOLA Holland Phillips, Principal Don & Lin Hirst Miriam English Ward, Assistant Principal∞ Pamela Burovac Devin Burgess* Lauren Elledge Anamaria Ghitea Shauna Keyes Kim Uwate Steve & Cyndy Lane Vacant

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CELLO

HORN

Anne Ridlington, Principal Diana G. Learner & Carolyn J. Simms Eric Alterman, Assistant Principal Dr. Matthew Shapiro & Maylian Pak James Pelley Dale Bradley Kathryn Brunhaver David Chinburg Marion Sweeney, Kate Laue & Cama Evans Ann Grabe Christine Sears* Vacant

David Kruse, Principal David & Paula Pottinger Jonathan Kuhns-Obana** Lydia Van Dreel Duncan & Jane Eyre McDonald Scott King Vacant

BASS Keith Wymer, Principal Forrest Moyer, Assistant Principal Tyler Abbott Rick Carter Richard Meyn Ellis Sprick Greg Nathan∞ Nathan Waddell

TRUMPET Sarah Viens, Principal Jeff & Julie Collins Joseph Klause** David Bender G. Burnette Dillon & Louise Di Tullio Dillon

TROMBONE Henry Henniger, Principal Carson Keeble Vacant

TUBA Michael Grose, Principal

FLUTE

TIMPANI

Kristen Halay, Principal Wendy Bamonte Jill Pauls (Piccolo)

Ian Kerr, Principal

PERCUSSION

Kelly Gronli, Principal Anonymous Cheryl Denice Annalisa Morton (English Horn)

Tim Cogswell, Principal Susan Gilmore & Phyllis Brown Brian Scott Charles & Georgiann Beaudet Sean Wagoner Vacant

CLARINET

KEYBOARD

OBOE

Michael Anderson, Principal Hugh & Janet Johnston Vacant Carol Robe (Bass Clarinet) Anonymous

BASSOON Vacant, Principal Anne Kosanovic-Brown** Daniel Yim** (Contrabassoon) Steve Vacchi (Contrabassoon)∞ Ted & Marie Baker David Hattenhauer

Christine Mirabella, Principal

HARP Jane Allen, Principal Laura Maverick Graves Avery Harp Chair

CHORUS DIRECTOR Sharon J. Paul∞ Melissa Brunkan, Acting Chorus Director

CONDUCTING FELLOW Daniel Cho * denotes University of Oregon Graduate Employee ** denotes one-year appointment ∞ denotes leave of absence

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ON THAT NOTE

Jennifer Estrin On That Note introduces a member of the orchestra. This issue features Jennifer ‘Jenny’ Estrin, a member of the Violin I section since 2014. Following a comprehensive search process, Jenny was appointed Concertmaster in June.

Hometown? Bloomington, Indiana, home of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where my dad went to school for piano performance, and I subsequently attended for graduate school for violin performance.

What year did you join the orchestra, and how long have you been playing music? I joined the first violin section of Eugene Symphony in 2014, and I have been playing the violin for almost 30 years.

What made you decide to play your instrument? When I was three years old I heard my older cousin Evan play the violin, and I’m told that I curled up in the fetal position, then marched over to my parents and proclaimed I was going to be a violinist. Two years later we came home from another visit with my cousin’s former violin in tow, and I’ve been playing ever since. (And he is still playing too!)

What is the Concertmaster’s role in an orchestra, and what are you most looking forward to in this new position with the Eugene Symphony? The Concertmaster has many roles, some more obvious than others. It is my job to tune the orchestra, play prominent solos in the orchestral part, lead the string section (the first violin section in particular), and decide on bowings and articulations for the strings.

Another part of my job is to carry out the ideas and interpretations of the conductor, and act as a conduit between Francesco and the orchestra. And finally, it’s my job to be a public face for the orchestra, hence answering these questions! Ta-da!

When not playing your instrument(s), what would we most likely find you doing? Hiking, eating and drinking well, reading on a patio, playing music around a fire, cooking with friends, or watching a movie.

If you weren’t a musician what would you be? I’ve always struggled with this question.

I will always be a musician—it’s part of me—but if I couldn’t play music for a living anymore, I imagine I would continue to be an educator in some capacity. Or I would love to have a job that involved learning about wine and sharing it with people. It’s sort of impossible to say without facing the reality of not being a musician.

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What’s your favorite piece of all time to play and why? This question is difficult to answer because it’s a constantly shifting landscape. Playing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler (particularly the Second, Third, and Ninth, particularly at the moment) have been some of the more meaningful experiences I’ve had on stage, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony feels special every time I play it. I also have a soft spot for Symphonie fantastique by Berlioz, and enjoy listening to the other players as much as playing my own part (especially the E-flat clarinet solo in the Witches’ Sabbath movement!)

If you could meet one composer/musician, who would it be and why? Alma Mahler (previously Alma Schindler). Alma was a composer, writer, and socialite from Vienna who was married briefly to Alexander von Zemlinsky, and then married composer Gustav Mahler. She later married architect Walter Gropius, and then writer Franz Werfel. Alma had to flee Austria when it became unsafe for Jews, and settled in Los Angeles, where her salons became an integral part of the artistic scene. I imagine she would be fun at a dinner party, and that she would have more than a few stories.

Where is your favorite place in Oregon and why? My friends’ house in Deer Island, Oregon, affectionately dubbed the Honeysuckle Art Ranch and Spa, where we have many a “hootenanny” with music, food, dancing, walks in the woods, soaks in the hot tub, and hands-down my favorite New Year’s party that goes for days on end. It always has a fantastic group of musicians playing until the wee hours of the morning.

Red, white, stout, hoppy or other? All of the above! Currently I’ve been into German pilsners, but I have an adventuresome palate, and will try anything once.

Favorite book/movie you’ve read/seen recently? I saw Little Shop of Horrors again recently in a theater, and am currently reading H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, and Charles Bukowski’s The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hill.

What would some audience members find surprising about you? I play in a folk band and love a good bluegrass jam.

Any interesting pre-performance rituals?

Practice, practice, practice! (OK, not very interesting, but true!)

Tell us a fun fact about yourself. I played flute and piccolo in my high school wind ensemble, and marimba in the drumline.

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Calendar

NOV 2 STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK LIVE IN CONCERT

Norman Huynh, conductor 7:00 pm Special concert, Silva Concert Hall

NOV 11

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

NOV 12

Elementary School Youth Concerts:

10:30 am World Beats & 12:30 pm Sponsored by Marie Jones & Suzanne Penegor and Chvatal Orthodontics

NOV 13

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

NOV 14 MOZART’S REQUIEM

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH September 26

Anne Ridlington and Eric Alterman, cellos Eugene Symphony Chorus

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Zachary Blalack–Ameriprise Financial

DEC 9

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

SEPT 23

DEC 10

SEPT 24

DEC 11

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

Master class with violinist Bella Hristova 4:00 pm The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

Master class with pianist Aristo Sham 4:00 pm The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

SEPT 26 TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH

DEC 12 THE “ORGAN” SYMPHONY

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Bella Hristova, violin

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview Silva Concert Hall

Jessica Cottis, conductor Aristo Sham, piano

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Oregon Eye Consultants

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Roaring Rapids Pizza Company

OCT 14–17 OCT 14

JAN 20

Residency with Matt Browne First Symphony Project composer

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

OCT 15

Piano Recital and Q&A with pianists 4:00 pm Christina & Michelle Naughton Beall Hall, UO School of Music and Dance

OCT 16

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

OCT 17 MAHLER’S “TITAN”

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Christina & Michelle Maughton, pianos

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by The Haugland Family Foundation

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Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

JAN 21

Master class with violinist Elina Vähälä 4:00 pm The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

JAN 22

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

JAN 23 BRAHMS AND SIBELIUS

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

Elina Vähälä, violin

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Summit Funding

FEB 10

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

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October 17

APR 20

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

APR 21

Master class with violist Roberto Díaz 4:00 pm The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

APR 22

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

APR 23 C3: CONNECTION / BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

Roberto Díaz, viola #instaballet in partnership with Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

FEB 11

Master class with pianist Jeffrey Kahane 4:00 pm Beall Hall, UO School of Music and Dance

FEB 12

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

FEB 13 KAHANE PLAYS BEETHOVEN

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Summit Bank

FEB 29 LESLIE ODOM, JR.

5:00 pm Special concert with Broadway star Leslie Odom, Jr., Silva Concert Hall

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Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

MAR 16–19 MAR 17

Residency with Matt Browne First Symphony Project composer

Elementary School Youth Concerts:

10:30 am The Orchestra Sings & 12:30 pm Sponsored by Marie Jones & Suzanne Penegor

4:00 pm Master class with pianist Daniel Hsu

The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

MAR 18

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

MAR 19 C3: CREATIVITY / RACHMANINOV’S SECOND Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

Daniel Hsu, piano

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Comfort Flow Heating

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6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall

APR 26 FAMILY CONCERT: PETER AND THE WOLF

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

1:30 pm Soreng Theater & 3:30 pm Instrument Petting Zoo and other family friendly activities precede each performance Sponsored by Delta Sand & Gravel

MAY 11–14 MAY 11

Residency with Joshua Roman Residency activities with cellist Joshua Roman

Happy Hour with Francesco 5:00 pm Details at eugenesymphony.org/events

MAY 12

Master class with cellist Joshua Roman 4:00 pm The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

MAY 13

Symphony Yoga 8:00 am Wild Light Yoga Center

MAY 14 C3: COMMUNITY / BOLERO Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

Joshua Roman, cello

6:30 pm Guild Concert Preview The Studio, lower level of the Hult Center

7:30 pm Symphonic series concert, Silva Concert Hall Sponsored by Oregon Neurosurgery

MAY 30 BEN FOLDS + SYMFEST

Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Ben Folds, piano and vocals

4:45 pm Pre-concert festivities including beer and wine tastings, food carts, and live music (additional entrance fee required) Sponsored by Bigfoot Beverages

7:30 pm Special concert with singer-songwriter Ben Folds

9:30 pm Post-concert dance party in the Lobby and jazz lounge by The Jazz Station in Soreng Theater All Master Classes, Residency Activities, and Guild Concert Previews are free and open to the public.

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SYMPHONIC I — SEPT 26

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Eugene Symphony Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor | Bella Hristova, violin Thursday, September 26, 2019 7:30 PM | Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center Eugene Symphony Guild Concert Preview 6:30 PM | Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center

Kenji Bunch (b. 1973)

Groovebox Fantasy

Max Bruch (1838–1920)

Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 Prelude: Grave – I. Adagio cantabile II. Allegro III. Andante sostenuto IV. Finale: Allegro guerriero Bella Hristova, violin

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 I. Andante – Allegro con anima II. Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza III. Valse: Allegro moderato IV. Finale: Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace

This concert is dedicated to Mary Ann Hanson, named Director Emerita by the Eugene Symphony Association Board of Directors on September 11, 2019 in honor of her 16 years of service to the organization, including six years as President, championing the creation of the organization’s first long-range plan, and leading the charge to grow the Eugene Symphony Endowment Fund from $2 million to $5 million.

Music Educator Appreciation Night Tonight we recognize the valuable work of passionate music educators across Lane County. Thank you!

Concert Sponsor

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This concert will be broadcast on KWAX-FM 91.1 on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 10 a.m.

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Tchaikovsky’s Fifth KENJI BUNCH (b. 1973) Groovebox Fantasy for Orchestra (2016) Portland-based Kenji Bunch is a superb violist, orchestra player and chamber musician, in addition to being prolific and highly skilled composer.

Originally written for piano trio, the orchestra version was premiered by the Seattle Symphony in 2016. This infectious, raucous mash-up of boogie, swing, and heavy metal is a brilliant tribute to one of the musical legends of 20th century popular music, Quincy Jones. For Music Director & Conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong, Groovebox Fantasy is just an introduction to a season full of new music that will surprise you with its exuberance, humor, and delightful fusion of diverse musical styles.

Groovebox Fantasy is a blast. Do not be self-conscious about movin’ and groovin’ in your seat during this piece. That’s the whole point. For nine minutes, the concert hall will be transformed into a wild rave at a nightclub.

SCORED: For two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings.

HISTORY: First performed by the Eugene Symphony at SymFest in June 2019 under the direction of Francesco Lecce-Chong.

DURATION: Approximately nine minutes.

MAX BRUCH (1838–1920) Scottish Fantasy, for Violin and Orchestra (1880) Max Bruch came close, but never set foot in Scotland.

Bruch composed the Scottish Fantasy in Liverpool, a mere 150 miles from the Scottish border, where he was unhappily ensconced as music director of the Liverpool Symphony Orchestra. Edinburgh music patrons knew he wanted out, and they approached him about heading a start-up conservatory and conducting the local orchestra. Bruch was eager, but the Scots’ plans fell through.

No matter. Bruch, like many German Romantics, imagined Scotland as a raw, misty, Romantic place free of the existential

angst and social etiquette of the capitals of Europe. He didn’t need the real Scotland to write this piece. Bruch had the novels of Sir Walter Scott to fire his imagination and he had a copy of The Scots Musical Museum, published in six volumes between 1787 and 1803, as source material.

James Johnson, an Edinburgh printer and music seller, loved old Scottish songs and launched the anthology as a labor of love to collect and preserve them. The project took off after Robert Burns, already famous as a Scottish nationalist poet, took an interest as an editor and contributor.

LOOK for violin soloist Bella Hristova playing a series of increasingly fiendish double-stops (two notes at once) toward the end of Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy.

Various Scot poets sometimes wrote new lyrics to old songs, and some songwriters contributed new material to the anthology over the years. (Burns wrote about 200 of the 600 songs in the Museum.) Despite the modern amendments and additions, German Romantics regarded the songs as primal and authentic. Haydn loved them and arranged hundreds.

Beethoven, among others, arranged some. Bruch arranged 12 as art songs, published in 1864. So he knew these songs well long before he started work on the violin fantasy.

Each movement of the free wheeling Scottish Fantasy focuses on a particular song: The opener features the tear-jerking “Thro’ the Wood, Laddie,” first heard in the solo violin in double stops after nearly five minutes of atmospheric introduction. “The Dusty Miller,” a rustic fiddle dance, occupies the antic second. A reprise of “Thro’ the Wood” connects the second movement to the third, built around the lament “I’m a Doun for Lack o’ Johnnie.” The solo violin, heretofore busy with virtuoso flights around the folk tunes, plays it straight, at least in the first statement of the tune.

The variations grow more elaborate.

The finale’s tender moments rise from recurrences of “Thro’ the Wood.” But they’re the exceptions. Mendelssohn suggested

”We start off with a celebratory orchestral ‘jam session’ by Portland composer Kenji Bunch. An ode to Quincy Jones, its pulsing dance rhythms fly madly around the orchestra. It’s okay to tap your toes

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along with the music! Our program continues with the beautiful folk melodies of Scotland presented in the form of the breathtakingly virtuosic violin concerto, Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy. We finish our

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the tempo marking Allegro guerriero—fast and warlike, and Bruch took him up on that. The main source tune is “Scots Wha He,” which Robert the Bruce allegedly sang to rally Scot troops to victory over the invading English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314.

SCORED: In addition to the solo violin, this work is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings.

HISTORY: First performed by the Eugene Symphony in December 2012 under the direction of Robert Moody and with Jennifer Koh as soloist.

DURATION: Approximately 30 minutes.

PIOTR TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Opus 64 Years ago, the composer David Lang, contemplating what various composers broadly had to say to the world through their music, said this about Tchaikovsky: “I love to cry, and I want you to cry, too.”

Tchaikovsky was not a happy man. Self-doubt about his talent and accomplishment, about his place in music and in Russian society, about his sexuality, and a morbid fascination with mortality all tortured him. He lived in a sustained state of existential crisis.

Perhaps that is why he so loved composing for ballet, where the dance prescribed the music and he could get out of his own head. When left to his own devices in “pure” music, thoughts of fate and mortality permeate his scores, especially in his Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, and 6. In these three works, he wrestles himself and his demons to exhaustion.

The Fifth Symphony is an astonishing, deeply moving document that builds on the emotional, moral, and musical complexity of his Fourth Symphony.

Like the Fourth and Sixth symphonies, the Fifth turns on a recurring “motto” theme widely understood to stand for Fate.

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program with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony—a deeply moving journey into the composer’s own struggles and triumphs.”

— Francesco Lecce-Chong

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Quincy Jones (at top), for whom Portland-based composer Kenji Bunch wrote his Groovebox Fantasy as a tribute; a depiction of Robert the Bruce rallying Scottish troops at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 (at middle); a rare photograph of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, c.1890 (at bottom).

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Tchaikovsky’s Fifth (Continued from page 19) It growls low in the clarinet and strings at the outset and, like a villain waiting in the wings for his cues, re-emerges at critical junctures throughout the four movements to counter the abundant joy, serenity, nobility, and beauty in this symphony.

LISTEN for two stunningly blunt, almost brutal interruptions by the ‘Fate’ theme in the otherwise rhapsodic second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

A principal theme, in two parts, arises after the motto drifts away like a dark cloud. The first part, march-like though in 6/8 time, advances with a determined tread toward a more lyrical second phrase. Next comes a dreamy, gliding second theme that could serve as a ballet waltz. The waltz transitions into a bounding dance that bursts with youthful energy. In the development, Tchaikovsky dwells on the first part of the first theme, but weaves in all his ideas. The recapitulation peaks in a brilliant climax, but exhaustion follows, and the music slides inevitably to the depths from whence it came. The body of the motto does not return here, but its spirit welcomes us back into the gloom.

The gloom persists, in the form of low, B-minor chords to open the second movement. But dawn breaks in the form of one of the most beautiful horn solos in all of music, a highminded love song in D Major. A hotter, more carnal love song blossoms from it. A still more sensual tune, in a snake-charmer scale, builds the passion in the middle section. At the crowning moment, the motto barges in with brassy, brutal authority to disrupt the reverie.

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In the third movement, the motto slithers in among a series of three waltzes, as a chilling presence in an otherwise delightful and rhythmically playful ballroom scene.

The motto theme opens the finale in kingly grandeur, as if transformed, smiling nobly and waving to the crowd. Has fate turned? Is it on our side, suddenly?

No. At least, not yet.

After that promising start, Tchaikovsky hits us with a savage, slashing, brutal dance—perhaps Tchaikovsky’s most violent stretch of music. The woodwinds open an urgent chase.

The timpani pound the breakneck pace to—where? Oblivion?

Salvation? Life is up for grabs as Tchaikovsky traverses a bewildering number of battling themes and keys.

After an avalanche of a climax and clarion calls from the brasses, the composer hands down judgment: Courage has prevailed, and fate has, indeed, turned. The motto theme has broken our hearts so often that Tchaikovsky must devote the last three-and-a-half minutes to driving home its shining nobility in no uncertain terms.

How desperately did Tchaikovsky want to believe in triumph at the end of the battle? How desperately do we?

Please judge for yourself.

SCORED: For three flutes, piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings.

HISTORY: First performed by the Eugene Symphony in February 1972 under the direction of Lawrence Maves, and last performed in September 2007 under the direction of Giancarlo Guerrero. Additionally, the Baltimore Symphony performed the work at Silva Concert Hall while on tour in April 2012 under the direction of Marin Alsop.

DURATION: Approximately 45 minutes.

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Kenji Bunch Kenji Bunch represents his hometown of Portland, OR, as “one of the leading American composers of his generation, best known for amalgamating traditional American musical forms” (Oregon ArtsWatch). While conservatory trained at The Juilliard School, Bunch infuses his music with folk and roots influences achieving an authentic and seamless blend of classical and vernacular styles. “Clearly modern but deeply respectful of tradition and instantly enjoyable” (The Washington Post), his music has inspired a new genre classification. “Call it neo-American: casual on the outside, complex underneath, immediate and accessible to first-time listeners Bunch’s music is shiningly original” (The Oregonian).

Kenji Bunch is Artistic Director of Fear No Music in Portland, and teaches at Portland State University and Reed College.

create an intriguing mixture of sonic colors” (NW Reverb).

Recent works include commissions and premieres from Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Lark Quartet, Britt Festival, Music From Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Eugene Ballet, and Grant Park Music Festival.

His extensive discography includes recordings on Sony/ BMG, EMI Classics, Koch, RCA, and Naxos labels among others. Also an outstanding violist, Bunch received both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in viola and composition from the Juilliard School and was a founding member of the highly acclaimed ensembles Flux Quartet (1996–2002) and Ne(x)tworks (2003–2011).

Bunch currently serves as Artistic Director of Fear No Music, and teaches viola, composition, and music theory at Portland State University, Reed College, and for the Portland Youth Philharmonic.

Deeply sensitive to history, philosophy, and the ways in which the arts are shared intergenerationally and crossculturally, Bunch incorporates a variety of world music style references which aptly mirror the diversity of international influence on modern American society. Sly, irresistible grooves pepper his work, revealing a deft ability to integrate bluegrass, hip hop, jazz, and funk idioms. His rich, tonal harmonies and drawn-out, satisfying builds have wide emotive appeal that easily lend themselves to dance and film.

More than 60 American orchestras have performed Bunch’s music, which “reaches into every section of the orchestra to

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Bella Hristova Internationally acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova is known for her passionate and powerful performances, beautiful sound, and compelling command of her instrument. Her numerous prizes include an Avery Fisher Career Grant, First Prize in the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and First Prize in the Michael Hill International Violin Competition.

During the 2019/20 season, Hristova’s schedule includes no fewer than 12 different pieces, including Bartók with the Peninsula Music Festival (WI), Beethoven’s Romances No. 1 and 2 with the Hilton Head Symphony, Brahms with the Williamsburg Symphony, David Ludwig with the Hawaii Symphony and Symphony Tacoma, Mendelssohn with the Pensacola Symphony, Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Florence Price’s music with the Knoxville Symphony, Sibelius with the Stockton Symphony and Orchesra Iowa, and Ilja Zeljenka’s Musica Solvaka and Beethoven with the Reno Chamber Orchestra.

During the 2019/20 season, Bella Hristova’s schedule includes no fewer than 12 solo pieces, including music by Beethoven, Mozart, and Bartók.

In past seasons, Hristova has performed extensively as a soloist with orchestras including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and the Kansas City, Hawaii, Milwaukee, and Winnipeg Symphonies.

She has performed recitals at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and Boston’s Isabella Gardner Museum, and regularly appears with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has toured New Zealand performing the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin with renowned pianist Michael Houstoun.

Bella Unaccompanied, Hristova’s recording on A.W. Tonegold Records, features works by Corigliano, Kevin Puts, Piazzolla, Milstein, and Bach. A committed proponent of new music, she commissioned iconic American composer Joan Tower to write a work entitled

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Second String Force, which she premiered and performed in recitals throughout the United States and abroad. She further collaborated with her husband David Ludwig on a violin concerto written for her through a consortium of eight major orchestras across the country.

Hristova began violin studies at the age of six in her native Bulgaria. She then studied with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and received her Artist Diploma with Jaime Laredo at Indiana University. Hristova plays a 1655 Nicolò Amati violin, which was once owned by the violinist Louis Krasner.

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Throughout the year, our musicians are hard at work, mentoring student musicians in classrooms, performing for clients of local human service agencies, and inspiring thousands of young people at our popular Youth Concerts at the Hult

EUGENE SYMPHONY IN THE PARK The annual free outdoor summer concert—Eugene Symphony in the Park—is presented at The Cuthbert Amphitheater in July, with additional performances in outdoor venues in Cottage Grove and Roseburg.

SYMPHONY CONNECT Symphony Connect brings the power of music to the community for inspiration, healing, and connection. A string quartet of Eugene Symphony musicians presents interactive, client-centered musical performances to human service agencies throughout the region.

Programs are designed with guidance from a music therapist to build community and promote wellness through music.

INSTRUMENT PETTING ZOO Instrument Petting Zoos provide youth and the young at heart with a hands-on opportunity to try a variety of orchestral instruments. Visit our website for a list of upcoming events.

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Center, to name a few. This year, we have much to look forward to, including hosting 12 guest artists for master classes and performances, curating three weeks of artist residencies with First Symphony Project composer Matt Browne and cellist Joshua Roman, and we’re expanding our Encouraging Young Musicians to Achieve “musicians in schools” program to have a deeper impact on the students we serve, and more!

Eugene Symphony is passionate about bringing high quality musical experiences to people of all ages and experiences in the Eugene/Springfield area and beyond. Check out what we have planned for the 2019/20 season, and we hope to see you at an Education & Community Engagement program soon!

EUGENE SYMPHONY GUILD CONCERT PREVIEW 6:30-7:00 pm | Prior to most Symphonic series concerts Free and open to the public Engaging discussions with Maestro Francesco Lecce-Chong or guest conductor and each concert’s featured guest artist.

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ARTIST RESIDENCIES Visit our website to learn more about these opportunities to connect with visiting guest artists during their time in Eugene.

MATT BROWNE First Symphony Project composer-in-residence October 14–17, 2019 March 16–19, 2020

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LAURA AVERY VISITING MASTERS Master Classes | Eugene Symphony guest artists provide public coaching sessions for local student musicians. Free and open to the public. See Calendar on pages 14–15 for times and locations.

March 17, 2020 Piano Master Class | Daniel Hsu, piano

September 24, 2019 Violin Master Class | Bella Hristova, violin

May 12, 2020 Cello Master Class | Joshua Roman, cello

October 15, 2019 Piano Recital and Q&A | Christina & Michelle Naughton, pianos November 12, 2019 Cello Master Class | Anne Ridlington & Eric Alterman, cellos December 10, 2019 Piano Master Class | Aristo Sham, piano January 21, 2020 Violin Master Class | Elina Vähälä, violin February. 12, 2020 Piano Master Class | Jeffrey Kahane, piano

ELEMENTARY YOUTH CONCERTS Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts WORLD BEATS! November 12, 2019 | 10:30–11:20 am and 12:30–1:20 pm Let’s travel together and learn about music from around the world!

April 21, 2020 Viola Master Class | Roberto Diaz, viola

EUGENE SYMPHONY GUILD YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION Friday, March 20, 2020 | Deadline to Register Sunday, April 19, 2020 | Young Artist Competition University of Oregon School of Music and Dance $40 registration fee Senior Division (ages 19–25) and Junior Division (ages 14–18) winners may be offered the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Eugene Symphony. Prizes up to $1,000 available.

and play an instrument in the classroom, and perform with an orchestra from their seats at a culminating Youth Concert at the Hult Center.

LINK UP: THE ORCHESTRA SINGS March 17, 2020 | 10:30–11:20 am and 12:30–1:20 pm Sing with us at this culminating concert for Link Up!

EYMA Encouraging Young Musicians to Achieve Designed to meet the unique needs of each classroom, EYMA brings the talent of Eugene Symphony musicians to middleand high-school music programs. Sessions may include group lessons, master classes, career lectures, and more!

LINK UP: THE ORCHESTRA SINGS A national program of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute Students in grades 3–5 have the opportunity to join the orchestra in this highly participatory program, in which they learn to sing

The 2019/20 EYMA program is supported by Oregon Community Foundation’s Improving Arts Education in Schools funding.

Participating schools include Cascade Middle School, Elmira High School, Fern Ridge Middle School, Siuslaw Middle School, Siuslaw High School, and Willamette High School.

To register for a program or for more information, visit eugenesymphony.org/education or contact Education & Community Engagement Director Katy Vizdal | 541-687-9487 x1116 | katy.vizdal@eugenesymphony.org

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Why do you value music in your life? Music is ever-present in my life, through some of the most difficult times as well as some of the best. I believe that life is better with a melody in your head!

I love that I can listen to a piece of music in my car, and then hear it live, and they are uniquely different.

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What do you believe music provides to a community? I believe it is vital for our community to convene in one place, united in our purpose to listen and experience something as amazing as live music. It is so rewarding to see the diverse group of people that come to experience the Eugene Symphony. Music provides solace to people who need it, fellowship to so many that seek it, and a creative outlet for all of us.

Why do you choose to support the Eugene Symphony, personally and professionally? I enjoy all types of music, but I have always particularly been drawn to classical music. I love that music written 200 years ago, performed hundreds of thousands of times around the world, still has the ability to make me feel like I am hearing it as if it is the first time it has ever been played.

I love that I connect with the melodies I hear at the Symphony and spend the next month singing them in my head. I also love that I get to experience the power of live classical music with my wife and children.

Professionally, I revel in the connection I have with my patients about the Symphony. Barely a day goes by without a patient thanking me for supporting the Symphony, or asking me about an upcoming event. From the first time I sponsored a guest artist 11 years ago, it has given me a certain legitimacy as a professional—I was 27 when I opened my practice! When my

wife and I moved our family to Eugene, at first I only knew my staff members. Since then, I have created so many meaningful relationships with patrons, musicians, and fellow Board members because of my interactions with them at the Eugene Symphony.

What benefits have you experienced through supporting the Eugene Symphony? I have benefitted from having the opportunity to meet and experience performances by some of the greatest musicians of our time. I have had so many opportunities to meet these amazing people and to learn from them. Plus, every month, my wife and I press the pause button on our busy family life, go to dinner, and go to the Symphony. Regardless of the program, we enjoy just being together and listening. No planning, no organizing, no problem-solving—just enjoying the craft of our amazing musicians.

My children see me as a supporter of something much bigger than just our family, school, or business. As a Board member, they see that I am part of the leadership that, through music, brings beauty and grace to our entire community. They see that giving your time and money matters—that it means something to so many.

Can you share a specific story and/or memory of the power of music in your life? Music has been present in almost every moment of my life, as both a focus, and also as a distraction.

In the past two years, I have battled cancer, surgery, and all of the pain and heartache that comes with it. When my treatment first began, Executive Director Scott Freck made me a playlist of music from the upcoming season that I listened to, over and over, as I recovered in the hospital. The music helped dim the pain during my recovery. I was wary to listen to the music live when the season started for fear that it would bring back those memories. However, it had the opposite effect. Hearing the music, while healthy and feeling well again, gave me the most amazing sense of closure. I want to personally thank Francesco Lecce-Chong for programming one of the most dynamic, interesting, and visceral season programs I have ever heard.

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Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony Eugene Symphony Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor | Christina & Michelle Naughton, pianos Thursday, October 17, 2019 7:30 PM | Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center Eugene Symphony Guild Concert Preview 6:30 PM | The Studio, Hult Center

Matt Browne (b. 1988)

Barnstorming Season

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E Major I. Allegro vivace II. Adagio non troppo – Più mosso III. Allegro Christina & Michelle Naughton, pianos

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Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)

Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan” I. Langsam schleppend (Slowly dragging) II. Kräftig bewegt (Moving strongly) III. Feierlich und gemessen (Solemnly and measured) IV. Stürmisch bewegt (Stormily agitated)

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Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony MATT BROWNE (b. 1988) Barnstorming Season (2015) Some fighter pilots returning to the States after World War I weren’t ready to give up flying or adventure. They became barnstormers, flying stunts over (mostly) rural communities and collecting money in exchange for their daredevilry.

Barnstorming was dangerous—often fatal—work, carried out mostly in rickety, aging surplus Curtiss “Jenny” trainers.

Matt Browne, the Eugene Symphony’s 2019/20 Composerin-Residence, found the juxtaposition of tragic death and giddy aerial stunts fascinating. He sought to capture it in musical gestures as dizzying as the barrel rolls, loop-de-loops and screaming power dives of the fliers. He wove in bits of Euday Bowman’s “12th Street Rag” (1915), as crazed a piece of popular music as ever existed, for period authenticity and to underscore the circus atmosphere.

Browne’s music recalls the neck-jerking, illustrative cartoon music of Carl Stallings (Warner Bros. Looney Tunes) and Scott Bradley (MGM, Tom & Jerry). It’s all great fun, until a plane goes down in flames. Barnstormers couldn’t spring back to life and order a fresh one from ACME Corp.

SCORED: For two flutes, piccolo, two oboes, three clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, and strings.

HISTORY: This is the first Eugene Symphony performance.

DURATION: Approximately seven minutes.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) Concerto in E Major for Two Pianos (1823) Felix Mendelssohn, one of the most gifted prodigies in the history of music, wrote tonight’s Concerto for Two Pianos at age 14.

Never mind. This 32-minute, three-movement work represents a mature musical mind and astonishing craftsmanship in its mastery of orchestration; virtuoso piano writing (in an age when piano technique and design advanced

almost daily); subtle emotional shadings, especially in a tender second movement that foreshadows Chopin; and brilliant outbursts of counterpoint. The harmonies are advanced for the time, and even at 14, Mendelssohn was bending Classical forms to his budding Romantic will.

Mendelssohn wrote the piece as a birthday gift for his vastly talented and adored older sister, Fanny. She surely played a role in the development of the concerto, as the siblings routinely sought each other’s advice and criticism on matters musical.

Fanny joined her brother in the first performance, at one of the elaborate musicales presented at the Mendelssohn family home, on her birthday, Nov. 14, 1824.

LOOK FOR a great deal of eye contact between piano soloists (and twin sisters) Christina and Michelle Naughton as they coordinate their parts in Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.

Legendary pianist Ignaz Moscheles joined Felix in the public premiere in London, in 1829. Moscheles, who still had his old score 13 years after Mendelssohn’s death, oversaw an informal performance by his students at the Leipzig Conservatory in 1860.

After that, the concerto disappeared for almost 100 years.

Like many of Mendelssohn’s juvenile works, it was not published in his lifetime, and manuscripts in Leipzig had a way of getting buried in library stacks behind the East German Iron Curtain.

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra unearthed and revived it in 1959. In doing so, the orchestra restored a half-hour of wit, charm, and sparkle to the world.

SCORED: In addition to the two solo pianos, scored for one flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings.

HISTORY: This is the first Eugene Symphony performance.

DURATION: Approximately 28 minutes.

”This program kicks off our four-year long First Symphony Project that will culminate in the creation of four new major symphonic works. Matt Browne is our Composer-in-Residence this season and as part of his first introductory visit, we are performing one of my favorite pieces of Matt’s— 36

Barnstorming Season, which is a wild and joyful throwback to the air shows of the 1920s. More fun awaits in Mendelssohn’s Two Piano Concerto written by the teenage composer for him and his sister to perform—and performed this evening by another pair of siblings, Christina and Michelle EUGENE SYMPHONY

PROGRAM NOTES — OCT 17 Program Notes

by Tom Strini ©2019

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860–1911) Symphony No. 1 (“The Titan”) (1889–1898) The Romantic novel, with its ability to probe both the fevered inner lives of its characters and their encounters with a rapidly changing Europe, was the perfect vehicle for expressing the age.

Novels could sprawl. Characters could grow and take up the vital philosophical, moral, political, and theological issues of the day. Heroes could come of age, face challenges, suffer doubts, fail, and finally find the right path.

The Romantic symphony, in many ways, reflects novelistic thinking. An introduction sets the stage: Here is the world, how things are. We meet our passionate hero—that is, the principal theme, likely to be cheerfully naïve, at first. The hero meets the second theme, perhaps a sidekick, perhaps the beloved ideal. A third theme launches the hero on his quest through distant lands.

Recollections of home might haunt him, as themes recur, evolve, combine, or conflict. After extensive adventures, our hero and his companions return home, but transformed by experience.

The narrative can stretch beyond the opening movement, to overarch the passionate love songs of slow movements, dance movements rich with dramatic implications, and finales haunted by previous themes.

Mahler checked off all the novelistic boxes in his Symphony No. 1. As his composition progressed, he told friends that Jean Paul Richter’s 1862 novel, The Titan, would be the basis of his first symphony. It was, very much so, in the original, 1889 version, “A Symphonic Poem in Two Sections.” Mahler mined his own songs and works by Liszt and Wagner for thematic material. He also drew on the familiar children’s tune, “Bruder Martin” (“Are You Sleeping, Brother John?” or in French “Frère Jacques”), which remained in the final version.

We never hear the 1889 version these days, but surely Mahler attempted to represent characters in the novel, all of who in turn represent philosophical ideas of great urgency among the German intelligentsia c.1800. Lofty in ambition as that version might have been, the audience and critics hated it at the premiere, in Budapest.

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Naughton. And we finish with Mahler’s mighty First Symphony—a brilliant and daring work from a young composer who was just on the cusp of taking the music world by storm.”

— Francesco Lecce-Chong

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A World War I-era Curtiss “Jenny” training airplane (at top), some of which were later used in barnstorming shows in the 1920s; Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, inseparable siblings and remarkable musicians (at middle); a 32-year-old Gustav Mahler poses for a photograph by Adolph Kohut in 1892 (at bottom).

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Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony (Continued from page 37) Mahler shelved it for three years, then started performing major surgery. By 1896, he had eliminated overt reference to the novel (though the nickname stuck), re-organized the piece into four movements, and changed the title to Symphony No. 1 in D. It became more like “pure” music and less like a sonic illustration of a literary source. At about 55 minutes, it’s long for a symphony, but short for Mahler.

LISTEN FOR a haunting solo played by new Principal Bass Keith Wymer, based on the familiar song “Frère Jacques,” which begins the third movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

In the first movement, we meet our cheerfully naïve hero as he hikes through a forest full of chirping birds. (This tune comes from Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer.) In the second, he visits a rustic pub, where the locals engage in roughshod dancing.

(Good cheer, yes, but also ominous drunkenness.)

In the third movement, that cheery forest takes a dark turn, as animals hold a mock funeral procession for a dead hunter.

The tunes? A minor-key treatment of “Are You Sleeping, Brother John?” and a wild, celebratory klezmer interlude. A sentimental love song—Mahler’s own “The Two Blue Eyes of My Beloved”— comes out of nowhere before the funeral march returns, now blended with the klezmer material.

An earthquake shakes the world as the finale begins.

Aftershocks continue for nearly 20 minutes, as Mahler wheels around the major and minor circles of fifths on his way from the inferno to paradise. Mahler put it this way: “The last movement, which follows the preceding one without a break, begins with a horrible outcry. Our hero is

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completely abandoned, engaged in a most dreadful battle with all the sorrow of this world. Time and again he and the victorious motif with him are dealt a blow by fate whenever he rises above it and seems to get hold of it, and only in death, when he has become victorious over himself, does he gain victory. Then the wonderful allusion to his youth rings out once again with the theme of the first movement.”

For Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong, the hero in a performance of this symphony is the orchestra itself: “At the time of the First Symphony, Mahler was taking the music world by force—through both immense talent as a conductor and crafty politics, he was working his way up the opera houses eventually to land the most prestigious position in the world, in Vienna. Stubborn to a fault and an absolute dictator on the podium, Mahler singlehandedly did battle with what he perceived as lacking artistic standards around him.

Even his harshest critics could only marvel at the spellbinding performances he inspired from orchestras.

“On every page of his first symphony, Mahler hurls directions at the conductor and musicians: ‘Don’t rush!’ ‘Don’t slow down!’ ‘Faster, but quiet!’ He implores us to heroically rise to his daunting expectations. It’s no wonder that performing Mahler is one of the most challenging, but gratifying experiences for any musician!”

SCORED: For four flutes, three piccolos, four oboes, English horn, four clarinets including bass clarinet and two E-flat clarinets, three bassoons, contra bassoon, seven horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, two sets of timpani, percussion, harp, and strings.

HISTORY: First performed by the Eugene Symphony in April 1973 under the direction of Lawrence Maves, and last performed in May 2010 under the direction of Danail Rachev.

DURATION: Approximately 55 minutes.

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GUEST COMPOSER — OCT 17

Matt Browne New York-based composer Matt Browne strives to create music that meets Sergei Diaghilev’s famous challenge to Jean Cocteau: “Astonish me!” through incorporating such eclectic influences as the timbral imagination and playfulness of György Ligeti, the shocking and humorous eclecticism of Alfred Schnittke, and the relentless rhythmic energy of Igor Stravinsky.

His music has been praised for its “unbridled humor” (New Music Box) and described as “witty” (The Strad) and “beautifully crafted and considered” (What’s On London).

Composer-in-Residence Matt Browne’s music has been called “witty” and “beautifully crafted and considered.”

Browne has had the privilege to collaborate with such ensembles as the Minnesota Orchestra, Alarm Will Sound, Albany Symphony, Harold Rosenbaum and the New York Virtuoso Singers, New Jersey Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, the New England Philharmonic, the Villiers Quartet, the Donald Sinta Quartet, the Tesla Quartet, the PUBLIQuartet, and SEVEN)SUNS. Recently, Browne’s music has received honors such as winner of the ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize (2017), an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers award (2014), a BMI Student Composer award (2015), a residency at the Mizzou International Composers Festival, winner of the New

England Philharmonic Call for Scores (2014), a residency at the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute (2016), winner of the American Viola Society’s Maurice Gardner Composition award (2014), and a residency at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s First Annual Composers Institute (2013).

In March 2020, Eugene Symphony Association (ESA) will present the world premiere of Browne’s Symphony No. 1. Cocommissioned by ESA and Santa Rosa Symphony, the project represents the first installment in the two orchestras’ joint four-year “First Symphony” initiative, which will provide four rising young composers with the rare opportunity to create and premiere their first large-scale orchestral works.

In conjunction with the 2020 world premiere, ESA and Browne will also conduct a number of free programs designed to extend the project’s community impact and provide regional audiences with unique opportunities to interact with a living composer, gain insights into the creative process, and build appreciation of current trends in contemporary symphonic music.

Activities will include: • A weeklong composer residency offering discussions and other events for the general public; artistic development activities for composition students at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance; and outreach to public schools, community centers, and human service agencies.

• A season-long social media campaign posting regular audio/ video updates with Browne as he creates his new work.

• A public exhibition of sketches, videos, and other materials produced during Browne’s creative process.

Browne holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Music Composition from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Previous teachers include Michael Daugherty, Kristin Kuster, Carter Pann, and Daniel Kellogg.

(Above) The title page of Matt Browne’s Symphony No. 1, “The Course of Empire,” which was co-commissioned by the Eugene Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony as part of the First Symphony Project.

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GUEST ARTISTS — OCT 17

Christina & Michelle Naughton “Indeed, I’m ready to put them on a level with some of the greatest piano duos of our time...They have to be heard to be believed,” said the Washington Post of Christina and Michelle Naughton. They have captivated audiences throughout the globe with the unity created by their mystical communication, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, in Christina’s own words, “There are times I forget we are two people playing together.” The Naughtons work as a duo was recently recognized in 2019 as they became the first piano duo to receive the Avery Fisher Career Grant presented by Lincoln Center.

“There are times I forget we are two people playing together.”

— Christina Naughton Christina and Michelle Naughton’s career was launched in 2009 with a recital debut at the Kennedy Center; and an orchestral debut at the Mann Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which led the Philadelphia Inquirer to characterize their playing as “paired to perfection.”

Especially passionate about American 20th-century music, Christina and Michelle have immersed themselves in several projects devoted to this theme. This year’s American Postcard, the second album of their exclusive signing with Warner Classics, showcases a variety of 20th-century American compositions and commissions by composers such as John Adams, Aaron

Copland, Conlon Nancarrow, and Paul Schoenfield. Additionally, they have done several premieres of works in capacities such as commissions by the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, a world premiere of John Adams’s Roll Over Beethoven at NYC’s WQXR Greenespace, and a European premiere of Paul Lansky’s Shapeshifters with Solistees Europeans Luxembourg.

The Naughtons discography features a wide variety of musical styles. Their first album, released on the German label ORFEO in 2012 and recorded in Bremen’s Sendesaal; focuses heavily on traditional Classic and Romantic selections. It was praised by Der Spiegel for “stand(ing) out with unique harmony, and sing(ing) out with stylistic confidence, and described by ClassicsToday as a “Dynamic Duo Debut.” In February of 2016 they released their debut record on the Warner Classics label titled Visions. The album is comprised of the music of Messiaen, Bach, and Adams and was chosen as “Editor’s Choice” by Gramophone shortly after its release.

Christina and Michelle have played as soloists with orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Nashville; as well as The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Hong Kong Philharmonic, and more. Past and future seasons feature collaborations under the batons of conductors such as Edo de Waart, Giancarlo Guerrero, and Leonard Slatkin.

Frequent guests at festivals around the world, the Naughtons have appeared at American venues such as the La Jolla Music Society, Ravinia Festival, Fortas Chamber Music Festival, Gilmore Festival, Portland Piano International, Grand Tetons Music Festival, and the Virginia Arts Festival. They perform regularly at international festivals, including Germany’s renowned Klavierfestival Ruhr. The Naughtons have also undertaken several international tours.

Born in Princeton, New Jersey to parents of European and Chinese descent, Christina and Michelle are graduates of the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, where they were each awarded the Festorazzi Prize. They are Steinway Artists and currently reside in New York City.

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SPECIAL CONCERT — NOV 2

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Live In Concert Eugene Symphony Norman Hyunh, conductor Saturday, November 2, 2019 7:00 PM | Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center John Williams Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Starring Mark Hamill Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher Billy Dee Williams Anthony Daniels

Co-Starring David Prowse as Darth Vader Kenny Baker as R2-D2 Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca Franz Oz as Yoda

Directed by Irvin Kershner Produced by Gary Kurtz Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan Story by George Lucas Executive Producer George Lucas Music by John Williams Panavision | Prints by Deluxe | Technicolor MPAA PG Rating

Original Motion Picture Disneymusicemporium.com Star Wars Film Concert Series Production Credits President, Disney Music Group Ken Bunt SVP/GM, Disney Concerts Chip McLean Supervising Technical Director Alex Levy – Epilogue Media Film Preparation Ramiro Belgardt Business Affairs, Lucasfilm Rhonda Hjort, Chris Holm Music Preparation Mark Graham, Matthew Voogt, Joann Kane Music Service

Disney Music Library Business Affairs, Disney Concerts Darryl Franklin, Meg Ross Operations, Disney Concerts Royd Haston Non-Theatrical Sales, Twentieth Century Fox Julian Levin Business Affairs, Warner-Chappell Scott McDowell

This performance will include one intermission Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts in association with 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm Ltd., and Warner/Chappell Music. © All rights reserved.

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GUEST CONDUCTOR — NOV 2

Norman Huynh Norman Huynh has established himself as a conductor with an ability to captivate an audience through a multitude of musical genres. This season, Huynh continues to showcase his versatility in concerts featuring Itzhak Perlman, Hip-Hop artists Nas and Wyclef Jean, and vocal superstar Storm Large.

During the 2019/20 season, Norman Huynh will collaborate with Itzhak Perlman, Wyclef Jean, and Storm Large.

Born in 1988, Huynh is a first generation Asian American and the first in his family to pursue classical music as a career.

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international guest conducting schedule. Upcoming and recent engagements include the Saint Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfònica del Vallès, Eugene Symphony, Grant Park Music Festival, and the Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra of Bangkok. He has served as a cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic with John Williams.

Huynh has been at the forefront of moving orchestral music out of the traditional concert hall into venues where an orchestra is not conventionally found. In 2011, he co-founded the Occasional Symphony in Baltimore to celebrate holidays by performing innovative concerts in distinct venues throughout the inner city. The orchestra performed on Dr. Seuss’s birthday at Port Discovery Children’s Museum, Halloween in a burntout church-turned concert venue, and Cinco de Mayo in the basement bar of a Mexican restaurant. As Music Director, Huynh commissioned new works by multiple composers to give concert goers the rare experience of being present for a piece of music’s world premiere.

Huynh is a recipient of the 2015 Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award for his work with the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra’s Musical Explorer’s Program. As the Assistant Conductor of the PSO from 2013–2016, Huynh visited more than 60 schools across the state of Maine and co-founded Symphony & Spirits, a series of events for young professionals, between the ages of 21–39, to make the orchestra more accessible and engaging for a younger audience.

The late Kurt Masur selected Huynh to study with him privately in Leipzig through the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Scholarship. Huynh is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival’s Conducting Academy, studying with Robert Spano. In the summer of 2014, he spent two weeks honing his craft at the Tanglewood Music Center. Huynh currently resides in Portland, OR, and enjoys skiing, board games, and riding his motorcycle.

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Scenes from Offstage

(Top, left to right) After throwing the first pitch at a Eugene Emeralds game in August, Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong stands with Em’s pitcher Tanner Dalton. Two young Family Concert attendees pose with local actor William Hulings, who performed as Beethoven during the concert. Francesco and Principal Trombone Henry Henniger ham around backstage at the Cuthbert Amphitheater before Eugene Symphony in the Park in July.

(Above, left to right) At an Instrument Petting Zoo, Executive Director Scott Freck shows an aspiring cellist how to play his favorite instrument.

An audience of more than 3,000 hears the Eugene Symphony perform at Bohemia Park in Cottage Grove.

(At left) Galina Groza, who has sponsored the Instrument Petting Zoo for the past seven seasons, enjoys trying out a violin at Eugene Symphony in the Park.

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BENEFITS

BECOME A SYMPHONY MEMBER

SYMPHONY MEMBER: $100–250 Season program magazine recognition Invitation to Annual Meeting Celebration

SUSTAINING MEMBER: $250–499 All of the above, plus: Access to Brunch with the Maestro Invitation to attend two open dress rehearsals

BENEFACTOR: $500–999 All of the above, plus: Invitation to one Meet Francesco & Musicians post-concert private reception Invitation to attend one pre-concert and intermission Founders Club donor reception Voucher redeemable for two Symphonic series concert tickets

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE: $1,000–2,499 Music Director Francesco Lecce-Chong visits with Founders Society members Elaine Twigg-Cornett and Zane Cornett at a post-concert donor reception.

OUR PROGRAMS AND PERFORMANCES ARE NOT ONLY FOR YOU, THEY ARE POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF YOU. Ticket sales cover less than 50% of the costs required to support Eugene Symphony. As a member, your gift is an investment in the Symphony’s onstage, community engagement, and music education programs that bring live music to more than 40,000 people in our region each year.

MEMBERS Contact Tegan DeBolt, Development & Fundraising Manager 541.687.9487 x1110 | tegan.debolt@eugenesymphony.org

All of the above, plus: Invitation to attend all open dress rehearsals Invitation to attend three pre-concert and intermission Founders Club donor receptions Access to Conductor’s Circle premier subscription seating Opportunity to be acknowledged as musician sponsor for season ($1,500 and above)

FOUNDERS SOCIETY: $2,500+ All of the above, plus: Exclusive benefits, such as an invitation to all Meet Francesco & Musicians post-concert receptions, special recitals

by Symphony musicians, and access to Founders Club receptions at all performances.

or visit eugenesymphony.org/support-us

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F ou n d e rs S ociety of the Eugene Symphony

The Eugene Symphony Founders Society is a group of donors who have made an extraordinary and profound commitment to the Symphony with an annual contribution of $2,500 or more. We are proud to acknowledge our Founders Society members whose gifts have strengthened our onstage, community engagement, and music education programs.

For more information on the Founders Society, its benefits, and how to join, please contact Associate Executive Director Lindsey McCarthy at lindsey.mccarthy@eugenesymphony.org or 541-687-9487, x1104, or visit our website at eugenesymphony.org.

PLATINUM PATRONS | $25,000 + Anonymous Eugene Symphony Guild

Niles & Mary Ann Hanson Marie Jones & Suzanne Penegor

Terry West & Jack Viscardi

GOLD PATRONS | $10,000 – $24,999 Keyhan & Lauren Aryah Natalie & Zack Blalack David & Patricia Giuliani Family Foundation Dave & Sherrie Kammerer Trieber & Michelle Meador

Meg Mitchell David & Paula Pottinger Jane Ratzlaff Paul Roth Dr. Matthew Shapiro & Maylian Pak

Betty L. Soreng Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Dunny & Debbie Sorensen Ray & Cathie Staton

SILVER PATRONS | $5,000 – $9,999 Gil & Roberta Achterhof Warren & Kathy Barnes Deb Carver & John Pegg William & Karla Chambers Elaine Twigg Cornett & Zane J Cornett Marci Daneman Bill & Judy Freck Verda M. Giustina Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

Pam Graves in memory of Glendora Burbank Herb Merker & Marcy Hammock Mike Fox & Rebekah Lambert Matthew & Hollan McLaughlin Philip & Sandra Piele Murphy Plywood Otto & Joanna Radke Arden Olson & Sharon Rudnick

Martha B. Russell Subfund of the Arts Foundation of Western Oregon Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Andrew& Julia Stiltner Andy Storment & Jaini Van Scholten Barbara & James Walker Ashlee Crib & Walt Woliver Jack & Florence Vollstedt

BRONZE PATRONS | $2,500 – $4,999 Anonymous (2) Friedl Bell Brad Chvatal & Erin Dickinson Shawn & Melva Boles Jack & Dondeana Brinkman Susan K. Gilmore & Phyllis J. Brown Anne & Terry Carter Harriet Cherry & John Leavens Jeff & Julie Collins Nancy Coons G. Burnette Dillon & Louise Di Tullio Dillon Ray & Libby Englander Ginger Fifield Susan & Greg Fitz-Gerald Scott & Leslie Anderson Freck Peter Gregg Galina Groza

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Janet Harbour Erwin & Vicki Haussler Lin & Don Hirst Starly Hodges Hugh Johnston Phillip Kimmel & Stephanie Pearl-Kimmel Steve & Cyndy Lane Diana G. Learner & Carolyn Simms Michael Lewis & Martha MacRitchie Sarah G Maggio Duncan & Jane Eyre McDonald Ann Marie Mehlum Johan & Emel Mehlum James & Marilyn Murdock Laura Parrish & Richard Matteri in memory of Britta Putjenter John F. Quilter

Mike & Casey Roscoe Doneka R. Scott & Cedric Skillon Heinz & Susan Selig Sheppard Family Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Ellis Sprick Inge Tarantola Kevin Forsythe & Elizabeth Tippett Sharon Ungerleider Michael Vergamini & Nicole Commissiong Alicia Voorhees Dr. James & Jan Ward Sandra Weingarten & Ryan Darwish Jim & Sally Weston Bruce & Carol Whitaker Harry & ConnieWonham John & Emilie York

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Season Partners The Eugene Symphony extends a special thanks to the individual, corporate, and foundation partners whose generosity and commitment to the arts in our community keep the music playing throughout our season.

CONCERT SPONSORS

The Haugland Family Foundation

Marie Jones & Suzanne Penegor

GUEST ARTIST SPONSORS Chvatal Orthodontics Eugene Symphony Guild Jonak Law Group

Oakmont Family Dental Nathan & Robin Philips, on behalf of Square One Villages

Roseburg Forest Products Wildish Companies

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT SPONSORS Eugene Airport Bigfoot Beverages Ferguson Wellman

Galina Groza & Family in recognition of the Eugene-Irkutsk Sister City Committee

The Gilmore Agency Kernutt Stokes

IN-KIND SEASON SPONSORS Graduate Hotel

COMMUNITY SUPPORT SPONSORS Comfort Flow Heating Eugene Emeralds

Marché Rhythm & Blooms

Silvan Ridge Winery

SPECIAL THANKS TO...

City of Eugene/Hult Center for the Performing Arts Euphoria Chocolate Company Framin’ Artworks Kesey Enterprises

JLN Design National Business Solutions Amanda Smith Photography Technaprint

FOUNDATION PARTNERS

The Silva Endowment

The Hult Endowment

Herbert A.Templeton Foundation

The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation

Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2019

Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation

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Season Supporters The Eugene Symphony extends our heartfelt thanks to the individuals, corporations, and foundations that have made generous contributions this season. Your support and generosity help keep the arts flourishing in our community.

Conductor’s Circle ($1,000–$2,499) Anonymous (3) Joseph & Margaret Adelsberger The Alsop Family Foundation Virginia P. Anderson Ted & Marie Baker Carl Bjerre & Andrea Coles-Bjerre Mary Breiter & Scott Pratt Ruby Brockett John & Christa Brombaugh Beverly Buckley Delpha Camp Patrick & Holly Campbell Robert & Kathleen Carolan Polly & Brian Caughey Roger Cox Jana & Mark Cox John & Linda Cummens Marilyn Deaton Tom Stevens & Flo Delaney Juanita & Dieter Engel

Rory & Jeslyn Everitt John & Jo Fisher Violet Fraser Lynn Frohnmayer Liz & Greg Gill Elizabeth & Roger Hall Scott & Mary Halpert Brent & Monica Hample Dr. Stephanie Harris Monica Careaga Houck Ellen Hyman John & Robin Jaqua Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Emmy Jenson Jay & Cathrine Johns Ms. Chris K. Johnson Allan & Dorothy Kays Marilyn & Michael Kelley Jim & Janet Kissman Eunice Kjaer

Gary J. LeClair & Janice R. Friend Melinda Lewis Lee & Mary Jean Michels Lois Long in memory of Dr. George M. Long Eileen Loritsch J Anthony & Mary Mohr Mary Ann Moore John & Barbara Mundall Nancy Oft & Mike Rose Donald Gudehus & Gloria Page Theodore & Laramie Palmer Judson Parsons & Diana Gardener Nathan & Robin Philips Gretchen Pierce John & Joanne Porter David & Jane Pubols Michelle Quinney Reed Family Foundation Dr. John & Angie Rhee

Dr. Candice Rohr Jim & Paula Salerno Roger Saydack & Elaine Bernat Suzanne & Marc Shapiro John & Betty Siebs Ken & Kenda Singer Bill Starbuck & Joan Dunbar Designated Fund Marion Sweeney, Kate Laue, & Cama Evans Jason Tavakolian & Jennifer Lamberg Anice Thigpen & Andrea Halliday Cathye Tritten Ellen Tykeson Gayle Umenhofer Linda & John Van Peenen John & Sandy Watkinson Steve & Kim Wildish Marguerite Zolman

Wendy Dame & Don Doerr Nena Lovinger & Robert Emmons Howard & Kathleen Epstein John Etter Jane & Latham Flanagan, MD Robert & Jill Foster Mary Gent Sylvia Giustina A.J. & Adriana Giustina Karen Artiaco & Jack Hart Lisa A. Hawley Ronald & Cecilia Head Bob & Debbie Heaton Lucille P. Heitz Jim & Judith Hendrickson Sara Hodges Brandon Julio & Haydn Zhang Toshiro & Irene Katsura

Doreen Kilen Linda Ague & Kirk Kneeland Doris Kuehn Lynda Lanker David & Kathy Lees Andrew Lewinter Richard & Jacquie Litchfield Mark & Denise Lyon Bob & Brenda Macherione Robert & Colleen McKee Mary Mercier Bonita Merten Michael & Jaylynn Milstein Jack & Barbara Miner Boyd & Natalie Morgan Alexander Murphy & Susan Gary Andrew Nelson & Ann Carney Nelson

Christian & Betsy Nielsen Sarah & David Nutter Carol Nylander Harold & Joyce Owen Libby Wadsworth & Paul Peppis Karen Seidel Kim & Tim Sheehan Roberta Singer Betty Lou Snyder Craig Starr & Sandra Scheetz Wendy Stefanie Gerry & Heidi Stolp Joe Terry Carol Thibeau Phyllis Villec Hilda H. Whipple Forrest & Anna Williams

Sue Burkholder Bill & Lynn Buskirk Leonard & Janet Calvert John Chalmers & Michele Gladieux Ernest Chizinski

Suzanne Clark Scott Coltrane Hiett & Caron Cooper Roger Coulter Kevin Cronin

Benefactors ($500–$999) Carolyn Abbott Raychel Kolen & Paul Allen Laura Avery Roanne Bank Lauren Bird-Wiser & David E. Wiser John Blackburn Greg Brokaw Jack & Toni Brown Michael Burkhardt Melvin Carlson Jr. George & Fanny Carroll Edwin & June Cone Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation Erin Cunning Erin Cunningham Paul & Vivian Day James & Hannah Dean

Sustaining Members ($250–$499) Anonymous Lucille Allsen Howard Anderson & Susan Rutherford Don Baldwin

Joan Bayliss & Irwin Noparstak Laird & Ronnie Black Gerald & Patricia Bradley Jonathan & Sara Brandt Jim & Joanna Branvold

This listing is current as of June 30, 2019. Every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy. If your name has been inadvertently omitted or incorrectly listed, please accept our apologies and contact the Eugene Symphony Development Department at 541-687-9487 ext. 1110.

Thank you for your generosity.

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Season Supporters Sustaining Members ($250–$499) Nancy Cummings Edna P. DeHaven Dale Derby & Ingrid Horvath Mary Louise Douda Michael Drennan Louise Bishop & James Earl Peter Edberg & Bryna Goodman Brian Erickson Gary Ferrington Jim & Darlene Fisher Mary Forestieri David Foulkes & Nancy Kerr Clayton Gautier & Gail Baker Julie Gemmell Pat Candeaux Gilberts Carole Gillett Scott Ricker & Mary Gleason-Ricker Roger Guthrie & Nancy Golden James Grimm & Jocelyn Bonner

Ruth Obadal & Charles Hammonds John & Claudia Hardwick Robert & Sandra Harty Gale & Rosemary Hatleberg Christopher & Deborah Hiatt Dr. Richard & Judith Hicks Margaret Holmes & Kenny Tibbets Robert H. Horner & Polly Ashworth Virginia Hurwitz in memory of Robert Hurwitz Judith Johnson Dave & Sherrie Kammerer Sue Keene Phillip Kimmel & Stephanie Pearl-Kimmel Tim & Linda King Anita Klock & William Looney John & Muriel Kurtz

Hope Lewis Jeffrey Librett Doug & Diane Livermore Robert & Barbara Maurer Pamela McClure-Johnston Lucille McKenzie in memory of Dean McKenzie Melvin & Carol Mead Fund Lawrence Miller Dr. Jeffrey Morey & Gail Harris Gerald Morgan Judith Mortimore Kathy Moulton Lindsay Pearson & David Van Pelt James Pelley & Susan McConnell Dave & Linda Pompel Michael & Judy Ponichtera Amanda Powell & Dianne Dugaw Norm Purdy Michael Racine

Marjory Ramey Dr. R Charles & Karen Ray Joe & Marian Richards Robert S. Russell Christine Santoro Richard & Karen Scheeland Catherine Siegmund Laura Littlejohn & Paul Leighton Rebecca Sprinson Bob & Dayna Steringer Tim & Ann Straub David Stuck & Janis Sellers-Stuck Susan Tate Susan & Bahram Tavakolian Jean Tuesday Gerald & Veronika Walton Craig & Amy Wanichek Robert & Patricia Wilson V. Gerald & Ann Woeste

Blaine & Nancy Hoskins John & Lorna Hudson Robert Huffman & Mary Miller Tom Ing James & Helen Jackson Kraig & Mary Beth Jacobson Carol A. James Skip & Mari Jones Bob Keefer & Lisa Strycker Virginia G. Kelly Robert Kendall Charles & Reida Kimmel Margaret Knudsen Donald Landstrom & Zachary Ruhl Edward Lawry & Sandra Wu Joyce Leader Frederick & Cornelia Leser The Lillegard Family HJ Lindley Jan Lintz Dr. Mark & Marie Litchman Lisa Livoni & Robert Wilson Windermere Jean Tate Real Estate Shaun Londahl Susan Macomson Winston Maxwell & Llew Wells Randall McGowen Gary & Jill McKenney Micheal & Tamara McLaughlin William P. & Maxine McWhorter Stephen & Marjorie Mealey Sara Brownmiller & Milo Mecham Sarah & Josh McCoy Ruth Miller Steen V. Mitchell & Sue Dockstader Rose Moffitt John & Cheryl Moore

John Moriarty Phyllis Helland & Raymond Morse Ken Murdoff Karen Murphy Beverly A. Murrow Diane Vandehey-Neale Bill & Lynn Neel Chris & Elise Noonan Dr. Susan K. Palmer Dorothy Parrott Jeffrey Pierce Dave & Mary Lynn Pierce Gene & Karen Pierson Jim Pilling Mary Jo Pitts Helmut Plant in memory of Carol Hamrick Plant Guntis & Mara Plesums Joyce Pytkowicz Brittany & Erik Quick-Warner Richard & Patricia Rankin Lloyd & Marilyn Rawlings Blandon Ray & Kim Niles David Reinhard Hannah Riddle Jim & Sandy Ridlington Leah Riordan Edith C. Roberts Daniel & Kay Robinhold Gerald & Marcia Romick Michael Rudolph Michael & Wendy Russo Eva Safar Courtney Sams Eric Schabtach & Bonnie Murdock Michael Schaefer Douglas & Stephanie Sears Carol Shininger

Symphony Members ($100–$249) Anonymous Mardi Abbott Sonja Abbott Florence Alvergue Dr. Don & Marianne Anderson Jim Angsten & Lynn Joseph Susan Archbald Vernon Arne Julie Aspinwall-Lamberts Gerry Aster Sandra & Fred Austin Roger & Lela Aydelott Scott E. Barkhurst David Baslaw George Bateman Lawrence & Linda Ann Beach Joyce Benjamin Richard & Betsy Berg Paul & Barbara Berger John & Lucy Bigelow David & Sheila Bong Pamela Brills Stephen Bryan Susan Burke & Clive Thomas Helen Callison June Hopkins & Don Campbell Frank & Nancy Carlton Daniel Chandler Dennis Chapman Elizabeth Charley Gary & Carole Chenkin Nikki Chery Jamie & Carrie Christopher Anthony J. Meyer & Joan Claffey Victor Congleton Lawrence Crumb Cassandra & Darryl Dare Brian & Nancy Davies

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Frank & Jennifer Diaz Cynthia Dickinson Alex Dracobly & Julie Hessler Dr. John & Virginia Dunphy Steve & Daryl Eccles Jennifer & Wayne Espinola Shira Fadeley Ben Farber & Adam Are John Faville Frank Feuille Martin Fitzpatrick & Hilary Egna Charles Fletcher Lamar & Jane Forvilly Jennifer & Dino Francois Dorothy Frear Gail Galbreath-Sheredy Charles & Barbara Ganzel John Garrett & Ruth Kaminski Eric Geyer Bentley Gilbert Jill Gillett & Timothy Johns Tim Gleason & Jenny Ulum Michelle Glenn Thomas Kreider & Paula Gordinier Don & MJ Gordon George & Susan Greenwald Michael & Grace Grose Sally Grosscup Bryce & Sandy Halonen Barbara Hamilton Roger & Karen Hamilton Sandy Harland Andrew & Marilyn Hays Holly Helton & Peter Gallagher Harold & Martha Hockman Nancy Holloman Judith Horstmann & Howard Bonnett

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Season Supporters Symphony Members ($100–$249) George & Dionne Sjolund Sarah Smaw Hope Smith Marty & Mary Lou Smith Joanne & John Soper Dave & Dorothy Soper John & Julie Stacy Roz Stein

Walt & Barbara Stoeffler Maria & Delmar Storment Joan Stuart Patrick & Marjorie Sullivan John & Carol Sullivan Wayne, Leslie & Ari Taubenfeld Betty Taylor

Edward Teague Mary Jo Templeman Gary Tepfer & Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Peter van de Graaff Addie Vandehey Lawrence & Marilyn Von Seeger

Mary Ellen West Barbara Wheatley Miriam Whiteley William & Pat Wiswall Robin Yim JoAnn Zinniker Alex Zunterstein

Memorial Funds

Foundation Support

The Eugene Symphony would like to express our appreciation to those who have given, in the spirit of remembrance, to the following memorial funds.

The Eugene Symphony is grateful to the following foundations for their generous support in helping us to craft a community and culture that celebrates the arts.

Laura Avery Gilbert Stiles Avery III Carolyn Chambers Marcia Baldwin Chandler Barkelew Phyllis Barkhurst Constance Mae Beckley Norma Jean Bennett Donald Bick Valentina Bilan Caroline Boekelheide Carol Rhodes Brummett Norma Bryan Glendora Burbank Hanya Etter Bert Evans Laurel Fisher Diane Foley Dave Frohnmayer Jean Glausi Kay Hanson Ilene Hershner Gorgie Hofma Cory Hultenberg Marilyn Kays Bruce Kilen Alfie Kunz Melvin Lindley

American Federation of Musicians, Local 689 The Chambers Family Foundation Cow Creek Umpqua Indian Foundation The Haugland Family Foundation Herbert A. Templeton Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Nils & Jewel Hult Endowment – Arts Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation Oregon Arts Commission Oregon Cultural Trust Oregon Community Foundation The Silva Endowment Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation Support Hult Operations (S.H.O.) US Bank Woodard Family Foundation

George Long Donald Lytle Milton Madden Dean McKenzie Ardice Mick Billie Newman Yun Kol ‘Jin’ Pak Reverend William Pfeffer Carol Hamrick Plant Revera Poticha Britta Putjenter Jack Pyle Ellen B. Rice Richard Rintoul Peter W. Roberts Cece Romania John A. Schellman Jane Schmidt Helen R. Shapiro Dr. John A. Siebs John Sihler Benson Snyder Jan Stafl, MD Leonard Tarantola Mary Tibbetts Richard (Dick) G. Williams Barbara Wolfe

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The Eugene Symphony is profoundly grateful to our endowment donors for their vision and commitment to ensuring audiences will continue to enjoy the Symphony for generations to come.

Crescendo Society The Crescendo Society is composed of donors who have made gifts of cash, stocks, other cash equivalent gifts, or Charitable Trusts.

Anonymous Gil & Laura Avery Laura Maverick Graves Avery Harp Chair Laura Avery Visiting Masters Program Dr. John Bascom Joanne Berry Anne Boekelheide Caroline & Virgil Boekelheide Bill & Barbara Bowerman Nathan & Marilyn Cammack Carter & Carter Financial, Inc. Estate of Adeline Cassettari Carolyn S. Chambers The Phil Cass Memorial Fund Bruce Harlan Clark Crow Farm Foundation Dimmer Family Foundation Clyde & Mardell Quam Family Chair Anna Mae Esslinger The Eugene Symphony Guild The Bob Gray Family Bob Gray Chair Bob Gray Recognition Fund Estate of Lois J. Greenwood Peter Gregg Estate of Marguerite Grundig Niles & Mary Ann Hanson Miguel Harth-Bedoya Fund Rosaria P. Haugland Foundation James L. Hershner Memorial Fund Dr. & Mrs. George Hughes

Gina Ing Spirit Fund Gina Ing David & Sherrie Kammerer Edward W. Kammerer Memorial Fund Marilyn Kays James & Janet Kissman Estate of Hervey E. Klusmire Esther Klusmire Estate of Amelia Krieg Estate of Clarice Krieg Liberty Bank Estate of Helen Elizabeth Lilja Lorry I. Lokey Donor Fund Silicon Valley Community Foundation Trish & Keith McGillivary Dory Lea McGillivary Memorial Fund Mel & Carol Mead Fund of The Oregon Community Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Estate of Dan Pavillard Stuart & Joan Rich Roger Saydack & Elaine Bernat The Phil Cass Memorial Fund Georgianne & Ken Singer Mrs. Ray Siegenthaler Dunny & Debbie Sorensen Ray & Cathie Staton Gordon & Zdenka Tripp James & Sally Weston Wildish Family Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Walwyn

Estate of Margaret Willard Tom & Carol Williams Lolette Willis Memorial Fund Harry Wolcott Dena Gregg Memorial Fund Christine Barreto Bob & Frield Bell Gunhild Bertheau Caitriona Bolster Robert E. Christiansen Mike Curtis & Annalisa Morton Carol & John Dinges Annalisa Hiler Margaret Knudsen Josephine Markland Mary McCarty Geraldine Ota & Hal Finkelstein Gary Purpura John & Ruth Talbot Paul Winberg & Bruce Czuchna Alan Yordy Marin Alsop Fund for Artistic and Administrative Excellence Anonymous Jerry & Mary Blakely Helen & Kenneth Ghent Helmuth & Marguerite Grundig Dan Pavillard Wally Prawicki Betty & John Soreng

Encore Society The Encore Society is composed of donors who have created their legacy of music and the arts by including the Eugene Symphony and/or the Eugene Symphony Endowment Fund in their wills, trusts, or other estate plans.

Anonymous (3) Barbara Aster Gilbert S. Avery, III Robert Baechtold John & Ruth Bascom Marjorie Beck Trust

Joanne Berry The Brockett Family Ann & Terry Carter Dr. & Mrs. John Cockrell (Irrevocable Trust) Julie Collis

Ray Englander Starly Kathryn Friar (Irrevocable Trust) Jo-Anne Flanders Ed & Ann Gordon Ms. Chris K. Johnson

Dan & Gloria Lagalo Theodore & Monica Nicholas David & Paula Pottinger Wally Prawicki Sandra Weingarten Harry Wolcott Estate

Steinway Maintenance Society The Eugene Symphony extends sincere thanks to those who have joined the Steinway Maintenance Society to create an endowed fund to ensure that the “Pavillard” Steinway D Concert Grand is properly insured, stored, and maintained.

Leave a legacy that provides the joy of music for future generations.

Please remember the Eugene Symphony in your will or trust.

For information about planned gifts or gifts to the Endowment Fund, contact Lindsey McCarthy at lindsey.mccarthy@eugenesymphony.org or 541-687-9487, x1104 or visit our website at eugenesymphony.org.

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eugenesymphony.org Tel 541-687-9487, Fax 541-687-0527 115 West 8th Avenue, Suite 115, Eugene, OR 97401

EUGENE SYMPHONY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EUGENE SYMPHONY STAFF

David Pottinger, President Deborah Carver, Vice President

Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor Scott Freck, Executive Director Lindsey McCarthy, Associate Executive Director Sarah Smaw, Executive & Administrative Manager

Dr. Matthew McLaughlin, Secretary Zachary Blalack, Treasurer

DIRECTORS Warren Barnes Juliet Bender Marc Carlson Harriet Cherry Ashlee Cribb Erin Dickinson Judy England Dr. Raymond N. Englander John Holmes David Kammerer Sarah Maggio Jane Eyre McDonald Trieber Meador Arden Olson

Thomas Pettus-Czar Mike Roscoe Paul Roth Dr. Doneka Scott Dr. Matthew Shapiro Suzanne Shapiro Dunny Sorenson Andrew Stiltner Elizabeth Tippett Michael Vergamini Jack Viscardi Alicia Voorhees Sean Wagoner Connie Wonham

DIRECTORS EMERITUS Phil Cass, Jr. † Carolyn S. Chambers† David Ogden Stiers†

Betty Soreng Mary Ann Hanson

EUGENE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION PAST BOARD PRESIDENTS

1965–1972 Orval Etter 1972–1973 Charles Williams 1973–1975 Thad Elvigion 1975–1977 Nancy Coons 1977–1978 Oscar S. Strauss 1978–1980 Nancy Coons 1980–1981 Janet Johnston 1981–1982 Judy Hicks 1982–1984 Janet Johnston 1984–1986 George “Duffy” Hughes 1986–1988 Ruby Brockett

1988–1991 James Forbes 1991–1993 John Watkinson 1993–1995 Georgiann Beaudet 1995–1997 Clark Compton 1997–1999 Gary Grinage 1999–2002 John Watkinson 2002–2003 Gil Achterhof 2003–2006 David Kammerer 2006–2012 Mary Ann Hanson 2012–2015 Dunny Sorensen 2015–2017 Dr. Matthew Shapiro

ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE EUGENE SYMPHONY TRUSTEES

Silva Chambers David Hawkins Varner J. Johns III, Chair

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ARTISTIC Lindsay Pearson, General Manager Kristen Halay, Librarian Dr. Sharon Paul, Chorus Director Bill Barnett, Recording Engineer Rick Carter, Piano Technician DEVELOPMENT Tegan DeBolt, Development & Fundraising Manager EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Katy Vizdal, Education & Community Engagement Director FINANCE Mary Scarpinato, Finance & Administrative Director Nancy Holloman & Caroline Manewal, Volunteer Coordinators MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Alexis Koran, Marketing & Communications Manager Vacant, Patron Engagement Coordinator

Season Design: Cricket Design Works Program Magazine Design/Production: JLN Design, Jerril Nilson † in memoriam

The Eugene Symphony is a resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Support provided by the City of Eugene.

Ann Marie Mehlum John Watkinson

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2019/20 Season | Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor

M O N DA Y

Join us during each Symphonic Series concert week to learn more about the upcoming concert and experience the music in interactive ways.

Symphony Happy Hour Join Francesco and fellow Symphony fans to discuss upcoming concert highlights through listening parties and a game of musical bingo.

Food and drink available for purchase.

5-6:30pm | FIRST NATIONAL TAPHOUSE, downtown Eugene OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | FREE

WEDNES DA Y

4-5:30pm | THE STUDIO, HULT CENTER unless otherwise noted OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | FREE

T U E S DA Y

Master Classes The Laura Avery Visiting Masters program provides student musicians with opportunities to develop their skills through master classes taught by distinguished guest artists.

Symphony Yoga Join Eugene Symphony horn player and certified yoga instructor Lydia Van Dreel for a classical music-themed yoga class, featuring music selected from upcoming concerts. Slow, gentle yoga suitable for all body types and all levels of experience.

8-9am | WILD LIGHT YOGA CENTER $8 FOR SUBSCRIBERS | $10 FOR PUBLIC

6:30-7pm | THE STUDIO, HULT CENTER unless otherwise noted OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | FREE

THURS DAY

Guild Concert Preview Enjoy engaging discussions with Francesco or guest conductor and the week’s featured guest artist.

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