Fairfax Symphony with Zuill Bailey_May 2023

Christopher Zimmerman, music director and conductor

John Murton, assistant conductor

Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 8pm

Center for the Arts at George Mason University

JESSIE MONTGOMERY

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

I. Allegro

II. Adagio ma non troppo

III. Finale: Allegro moderato

Zuill Bailey, cello —Intermission—

CARL NIELSEN

Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, “The Inextinguishable”

I. Allegro

II. Poco allegretto

III. Poco adagio quasi andante

IV. Allegro

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FSO & Fairfax County Public Schools ARTS INTEGRATION SHOWCASE

The Fairfax Symphony has been proud to partner with FCPS for more than 40 years, with a variety of education programs designed to enhance learning through music.

Arts Integration inspires students to learn through FSO concert repertoire, supporting multidisciplinary subjects of Math, Science, English, History, and Social Studies, in addition to Music and Art.

Tonight’s Repertoire Inspires Learning & Creativity

The FSO is delighted to showcase artwork and poetry created by students from Woodburn School for the Fine and Communicative Arts and Westlawn Elementary inspired by Jessie Montgomery’s “Banner.”

Taking inspiration from The Star Spangled Banner and other world anthems, Montgomery’s original composition embraces the diversity of the various cultures and ethnic groups living in the U.S. of the 21st century. Westlawn Elementary students studied and explored Banner, reflecting on themes such as unity, freedom, belonging, and acceptance, while responding to the music through visual artwork and creative writing.

Montgomery “Banner” Inspires Hope

Before Jessie Montgomery composed Banner, she asked herself “What would an anthem for the 21st century sound like in today’s multicultural environment?”

Third Grade Woodburn Elementary students listened to “Banner” and reflected on its themes, responding through words and visual art in the form of metal etchings assembled into a quilt, with a border reflecting words the music inspired…. “Hope,” “Peace” and more.

Wire Sculptures Connect Students with the FSO

FCPS students recently had an opportunity to “perform” with the FSO for their culminating “Link Up” concert in partnership with Carnegie Hall on April 25 at GMU.

On display this evening is Woodburn & Westlawn students’ “Wire Sculpture Orchestra” created to represent their connection to the musicians of the FSO.

Tonight, we welcome and celebrate the students, teachers, and parents of Woodburn and Westlawn Elementary for their beautiful and thoughtful, music-inspired artwork. Bravo!

ZUILL BAILEY

Zuill Bailey, widely considered one of the premier cellists in the world, is a Grammy Award winning, internationally renowned soloist, recitalist, Artistic Director and teacher. His rare combination of celebrated artistry, technical wizardry and engaging personality has made him one of the most sought after and active cellists today.

Mr. Bailey has been featured with symphony orchestras and music festivals worldwide. He won the Best Solo Performance Grammy Award in 2017, for his recording of Michael Daugherty’s “Tales of Hemingway,” with the Nashville Symphony led by Giancarlo Guerrero. His extensive discography includes his newest release –his second recording of the Bach Cello Suites for PS Audio’s Octave Records label, recorded and mixed in stereo and multichannel sound.

He appeared in a recurring role on the HBO series “Oz,” and has been heard on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” “Tiny Desk Concert,” “Performance Today,” “Saint Paul Sunday,” BBC’s “In Tune,” XM Radio’s “Live from Studio II,” Sirius Satellite Radio’s “Virtuoso Voices,” and his latest disc of Bach Suites was the disc of the week on Sirius’ Symphony Hall.

Mr. Bailey received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Peabody Conservatory where he was named the 2014 Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumni, and received a Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School. He performs on the “rosette” 1693 Matteo Gofriller Cello formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest String Quartet.

He is the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro-Musica (Texas), the Sitka Summer Music Festival/Series and Cello Seminar, (Alaska), Juneau Jazz and Classics, (Alaska), the Northwest Bach Festival (Washington), Classical Inside Out Series- Mesa Arts Center (Arizona) and is Director of the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship and Professor of Cello at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Zuill Bailey is represented by Colbert Artists Management, Inc. 478 Washington Street, #302, Newark, NJ 07102. Tel: (212) 757-0782. www.colbertartists.com

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CHRISTOPHER ZIMMERMAN, Music Director

Named Music Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in 2009, Christopher Zimmerman celebrates his fourteenth season with the FSO. Under his leadership, the FSO has received consistent praise from the media. Former Washington Post arts critic, Anne Midgette, wrote: “the Bernstein was a note-perfect end to a very refreshing evening that spoke well for the programming vision of Zimmerman.” Washington Post reporter, Stephen Brookes, commented: “Zimmerman has been injecting adrenalin into this determined ensemble… (and has) made the Fairfax players a serious force to be reckoned with.”

Christopher Zimmerman graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Music and received his Master’s from the University of Michigan. He also studied with Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood, and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine with Charles Bruck. Zimmerman served as an apprentice to Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony and in Prague, as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

A champion of contemporary music and commissioning new work, during his leadership with the FSO, Zimmerman has commissioned three new works and presented nine premieres. In 2023, Zimmerman and the FSO will present the U.S. premiere of “Bruromano,” a concerto for guitar, double bass, and string orchestra by Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova featuring renowned guitarist, Jason Vieaux. In 2022, the FSO presented the regional premiere of composer Robert Carl’s “White Heron” and composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony No.4 “Heichalos.” The FSO brought “Dances of the Yogurt Maker” by Turkish composer, Erberk Eryilmaz to Virginia for the first time in 2019, along with the 2018 Virginia premiere of Philip Glass’ “Piano Concerto No. 3,” with pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who commissioned the work and for whom it was written. In 2017, the Fairfax Symphony in celebration of its 60th season commissioned “Resolutions” by composer Mark Camphouse in honor of the 275th Anniversary of Fairfax County. In 2016, the FSO presented the regional premiere of Martin Bresnick’s “The Way it Goes.” In 2013 premiered “Virtue” by composer Chris Theofanidis for soprano, actor, three voices and orchestra that it cocommissioned with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and in 2011, the FSO commissioned Concerto of “The Andes” for Guitar, Charango and orchestra by composer Javier Farias.

PROGRAM NOTES

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Banner

Composer: born December 8, 1981, New York City

Work composed: 2014, rev. 2017. Commissioned by the Joyce Foundation of Detroit and The Sphinx Organization

World premiere: The Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst String Quartet gave the world premiere on October 29, 2014, at Carnegie Hall in New York City

Jessie Montgomery’s music combines classical idioms with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, spoken language, and social justice. The result has earned Montgomery rave reviews for her “vibrantly inventive original works for strings” (ClassicsToday.com) and numerous awards, including the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award. In May 2021, Montgomery began her three-year appointment as the Mead Composer-inResidence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

“Banner is a tribute to the 200th Anniversary of Francis Scott Key’s ‘StarSpangled Banner,’ which was officially declared the American National Anthem in 1814,” Montgomery writes. “Scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, Banner is a rhapsody on the theme of the ‘Star-Spangled Banner.’ Drawing on musical and historical sources from various patriotic songs, I’ve made an attempt to answer the question: ‘What does an anthem for the 21st century sound like in today’s multicultural environment?’

“Banner expands on my 2009 composition Anthem: A tribute to the historical election of Barack Obama. In both works I’ve included several references to African American musical traditions, such as marching band styles that contain several strains, or contrasting sections. I have also drawn on the drum line chorus as a source for the rhythmic underpinning of the finale. A variety of other cultural anthems, American folk songs, and popular idioms interact to form different textures in the finale. The string quartet functions as an individual voice working both with and against the orchestra.

“The ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ is an ideal subject for exploring contradictions. For most Americans, the song represents a paradigm of liberty and solidarity against fierce odds, but for others it implies a contradiction between the ideals of freedom and the realities of injustice and oppression. As a culture, it is my opinion that we Americans are perpetually in search of ways to express and celebrate our ideals of freedom – a way to proclaim ‘We’ve made it!’ as if saying it aloud makes it so. Through work songs and spirituals, enslaved Africans sought a way out, enduring the most abominable treatment for the eventual promise of a free life. Immigrants from Europe, Central America, and the Pacific came to America in the hope of safe haven.

Though they met with the trials of building a multi-cultured democracy, they put down roots in our nation and continue to make significant contributions to our cultural landscape. In the 21st century, a tribute to the U.S. National Anthem means acknowledging the contradictions and milestones that allow us to celebrate and maintain the traditions of our ideals.”

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Composer: Born September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, near Kralupy (now the Czech Republic); died May 1, 1904, Prague

Work composed: 1894-5 and dedicated to Dvořák’s friend, cellist Hanuš Wihan

World premiere: Dvořák conducting the London Philharmonic Society in London with cellist Leo Stern on March 19, 1896

“I have … written a cello-concerto, but am sorry to this day I did so, and I never intend to write another,” said Antonín Dvořák to one of his composition students. “The cello is a beautiful instrument, but its place is in the orchestra and in chamber music. As a solo instrument it isn’t much good.” These comments are surprising, since Dvořák’s cello concerto is considered a masterpiece, and the standard by which all subsequent cello concertos have been measured.

It was composer and cellist Victor Herbert (Babes in Toyland) who challenged Dvořák’s low opinion of the cello as a solo instrument. After hearing Herbert perform his own cello concerto in March 1894, Dvořákk was inspired to write one of his own. Herbert, then principal cellist for the Metropolitan Opera, recalled, “After I had played my [2nd] Cello-Concerto in one of the [New York Philharmonic] Concerts – Dr. Dvořák…threw his arms around me, saying before many members of the orchestra: ‘famos! [splendid] famos! ganz famos!’”

Although the Cello Concerto, like Dvořák’s New World Symphony, was written while Dvořák lived in America, it contains no obvious American references. Instead of the New World’s extroverted American energy, the Cello Concerto is a deeply personal Slavic work, full of wistful, lyrical melodies.

Of particular interest is the Adagio ma non troppo, in which Dvořák quotes from a Czech song, “Kéž duch můj sám,” (Leave me alone) Years earlier, Dvořák fell in love with Josefina Čermáková; this song was among her

PROGRAM NOTES

favorites. Josefina did not return his feelings and Dvořák ultimately married her younger sister Anna. In time, Dvořák grew to love Anna deeply, but his youthful feelings for Josefina never completely dissipated. While Dvořák was writing the Cello Concerto in the fall and winter of 1894-95, he received word that Josefina had fallen gravely ill, and his concern for her took musical shape in the form of this personal quote. The Finale continues Dvořák’s tribute to Josefina, who died in May 1895. Having returned home to Prague by that time, Dvořák revised the ending to include the most famous part of this great work, the coda. Dvořák’s son Otakar, in his book of reminiscences Antonín Dvořák, My Father, wrote, “This impressive ending to the concerto was my father’s tribute to and final departure from his last love.”

Dvořák dedicated the Cello Concerto to his friend, cellist Hanuš Wihan, who provided technical expertise. Wihan, not content with his advisory role, suggested and apparently insisted on so many revisions that Dvořák finally rebelled. In a letter to his publisher, Simrock, Dvořák wrote: “… I will give you my work only if you promise not to allow anybody to make changes – friend Wihan not excepted.”

Critics and audiences received the Cello Concerto enthusiastically. The London Times wrote, “In wealth and beauty of thematic material, as well as in the unusual interest of the development of its first movement, the new Concerto yields to none of the composer’s recent works; all three movements are richly melodious.” Johannes Brahms was also a fan; from his deathbed, Brahms exclaimed rhetorically: “Why on earth didn’t I know one could write a cello concerto like this? If I’d only known, I’d have written one long ago!”

CARL NIELSEN Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 “The Inextinguishable”

Composer: born June 9, 1865, Sortelung, nr Nørre Lyndelse, Funen; died October 3, 1931, Copenhagen

Work composed: 1914-16

World premiere: The Fourth Symphony premiered in Copenhagen on February 1, 1916

“I have an idea for a new composition, which has no program but will express what we understand by the spirit of life or manifestations of life, that is: everything that moves, that wants to live … life and motion, though varied – very varied – yet connected, and as if constantly on the move, in one big

movement or stream. I must have a word or a short title to express this ... I cannot quite explain what I want, but what I want is good.” – Carl Nielsen writing to his wife Ann Marie, 1914

Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s music continues to gain new admirers more than 90 years after his death. Although Nielsen’s music was known in Europe during his lifetime, it was rarely heard elsewhere until after World War II; since then, thanks to the efforts of conductors like Leonard Bernstein and others, today Nielsen’s music is widely performed in concert halls around the world. Nielsen composed in a variety of genres, but it is his six symphonies that have made the biggest impact internationally.

The seventh of 12 children, Nielsen grew up in a small village on the island of Funen. His father, an amateur musician, gave young Carl, who showed strong musical aptitude at an early age, lessons on violin, piano, and cornet. Along with music, Nielsen also grew up with an abiding love of nature, which manifests in much of his own work, most particularly in his Symphony No. 4.

In May 1914, Nielsen described the initial ideas for what became his fourth symphony in the letter quoted above. Over the next two years, as World War I ravaged Europe and Denmark maintained a careful but fragile neutrality, Nielsen wrestled to combine these concepts with a newer, more musically innovative approach to symphonic writing.

Symphony No. 4 has one large movement with four distinct sections played without pause. Although the music is tonal, Nielsen strove to, as he put it, “once and for all see about getting away from keys but still remain diatonically convincing.” The addition of a second set of timpani provides dramatic power, particularly in the final section.

Nielsen’s writing is episodic but not aimless. The music encompasses a wide spectrum of moods, which Nielsen expresses through his masterful use of timbres in the winds, brasses, and strings. We hear phrases and moments that anticipate the sound of 1930s and 40s Hollywood films scored by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

As the music evolved, Nielsen found his “short title:” “The Inextinguishable.” It is tempting to hear this music as a commentary on Word War I, because of the timing of its composition, but Nielsen intended it to express something more eternal: “the elemental will to live” that animates all living things.

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JOHN MURTON, Assistant Conductor

Praised for his “musicality and gravitas” on the podium, John Murton is currently the Assistant Conductor of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, and a recent winner of the Sofia Sinfonietta International Conducting Competition in Bulgaria. Murton’s work draws upon his background as both a singer and instrumentalist with the goal of bringing the life-affirming, life-changing power of live classical music to as wide an audience as possible.

Murton has been a Conducting Fellow with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, and at the Eastern Music Festival. While studying at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati he served as the Assistant Conductor of the CCM Philharmonia, conducting numerous performances on and off campus, and in a program alongside Cincinnati Symphony Music Director Louis Langrée.

A strong proponent of the power of musical education to change lives, Murton leads the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s Link Up educational concerts, providing many students in Fairfax County Public Schools with their first taste of live orchestral music. He has also collaborated on the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s educational programming and worked with young musicians at the Youth Orchestras of Prince William County and Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Murton relocated to the United States from the UK, taking up a scholarship at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati where he studied with Mark Gibson. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he held a choral scholarship at Magdalen College, going on to build a career performing with professional choirs and consorts across the UK and Europe. Murton’s experience as a singer also makes him a particularly sensitive collaborator in opera, with credits including acclaimed productions at London’s Grimeborn Festival, Tête à Tête Opera Festival, and at the College-Conservatory of Music.

Fairfax Symphony Diversity Fellowship Program

This season, we strengthen our commitment to serving students through high-quality education and mentorship programs, as we launch the FSO Diversity Fellowship program to help accelerate the careers of talented, student musicians from backgrounds that are underrepresented in orchestras today. The program is designed to enhance opportunities for pre-professional musicians, encourage greater diversity in the field, and increase diverse representation in orchestras across the United States.

Carlos Figueroa, cello

Mr. Figueroa is an emerging cellist from Venezuela. His passion for music never stopped and he was always striving to one day share the stage with famous musicians and to be a concert soloist. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in cello performance at George Mason University under the guidance of Dr. Dorotea Racz after successfully earning his bachelor’s degree at Shenandoah University as summa cum laude.

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Carolina Pedroza, violin

She was a permanent member of the Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas (Venezuela) and has been concertmaster of the Catholic University Symphony Orchestra, Penn State Philharmonic, and Colour of Music Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. She has also been a section member of the West Virginia Symphony and Baton Rouge Symphony, among others. She has participated in festivals including FEMUSC (Brazil), A Tempo (Colombia), Sewanee Summer Music Festival (TN), Academia Internacional Teatro del Lago (Chile), Northern Lights Music Festival (MN), and Colour of Music Festival (SC and CA).

Joshua Rhodes is a double bassist from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is currently in his first year of pursuing a Master’s of Music degree in Double Bass Performance at the University of Maryland. Prior to his enrollment at UMD, he procured his Bachelor’s Degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Mr. Rhodes has a severe passion for understanding others and contributing positively to the environment around him. As a musician, this drives him to explore music and new ways of sharing art.

Cristian Contreras is an accomplished Violist from Los Angeles, CA. At the age of 19, he won a three-year tenure with the American Youth Symphony and also attended the National Orchestral Institute. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Viola Performance at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Cristian holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Viola Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach.

Ms. Proctor graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Music degree concentrating in Music Industry. Breonna is currently in pursuit of a law degree with an intellectual property concentration. With this degree, she hopes to become an advocate for the protection of artists and their creations.

Breonna Proctor, violin

The FSO Diversity Fellowship is made possible in part by the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Fairfax County Government, TD Bank, and GEICO.

Joshua Rhodes, double bass

Cristian Contreras, viola

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SYMPHONY SOCIETY CONCERTO CLUB

PLATINUM

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Brownell

Pepe Figueroa

Joyce L. Hanson

Dr. Mark Head

Martin Poretsky

Stephen and Mary Preston

Laura and Ervin Walter

GOLD

The Timothy Evan Owens Memorial Chair

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Mr. Sean Foohey

John Lockhart

Eric Moore

In memory of Richard Benedict

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Ms. Esther Beaumont

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Mary L. Burns

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Ms. Sandy Cromp

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Marilyn Dorn

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FAIRFAX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Christopher Zimmerman | Music Director

VIOLIN 1

David Salness, Concertmaster

Doris F. Dakin Chair

Allison Bailey, Associate Concertmaster

Cristina Constantinescu, Assistant Concertmaster

Chris Franke

Mia Lee

Sharon Like

Natalie Trainer

Carolina Pedroza, FSO Fellow

Celaya Kirchner

Amelia Bailey

Maribeth Frank

Sonia Garcia-Lee

VIOLIN 2

Andrew Juola, Associate Principal, Sue Bower Memorial Chair

Paul Bagley

Tim Wade

Sue Manus

Cindy Crumb

Elena Smirnova

Breonna Proctor, FSO Fellow

Erynn Hangen

Sarah Berger

Shu-ting Yao

Savannah Kari

VIOLA

Greg Rupert, Principal

Helen Fall

Patti Reid

Adelya Shagidullina

Cristian Contreras, FSO Fellow

Asli Osek

Kimberly Mitchell

Amelia Eckloff

Shearom Chung

CELLO

Natalia Vilchis, Principal

Rachel Sexton, Associate Principal

Anne Rupert

Syneva Colle

Barbara Van Patten

Kathy Thompson

Carlos Figueroa, FSO Fellow

Brent Davis

Nick Pascucci

DOUBLE BASS

Kyle Augustine, Associate Principal

John Barger

Joshua Rhodes, FSO Fellow

Mark Stephenson

Erik Cohen

Dale Houck

FLUTE

Lawrence Ink, Principal

Cheryl Hall

Sharon Lee, Piccolo

OBOE

Emily Foster, Acting Principal

Trevor Mowry

ENGLISH HORN

Meredith Rouse

CLARINET

Patrick Morgan, Principal

Giancarlo Bazzano

Barbara Haney

BASSOON

Dean Woods, Principal

Sandy Johnson

Tia Wortham, Contra Bassoon

FRENCH HORN

Eric Moore, Principal

Greta Richard

Neil Chidester

Nat Willson, Utility Horn

TRUMPET

Chris Larios, Principal

Chris Ferrari

Nathan Clark

TROMBONE

Dave Miller, Principal

David Sisk

Kaz Kruzsewksi, Bass

Trombone

TUBA

Joseph Guimaraes, Principal

PERCUSSION

Shari Clark Rak, Principal

TIMPANI

Jonathan Milke, Principal

Jeff Grant

FAIRFAX SYMPHONY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jose “Pepe” Figueroa, Chairman

Priority One Services

John Lockhart, Treasurer

PNC Bank

Thomas Murphy, General Counsel

Jackson Lewis P.C.

David Black

Holland & Knight LLP

Thomas Brownell, Secretary

Holland & Knight LLP

Eric Moore

American University

Susan Manus

Players Committee Member

Leland Schwartz Journalist

HONORARY BOARD

The Honorable Sharon Bulova

The Honorable Thomas M. Davis

Dr. Gerald L. Gordon

Julien Patterson

FSO ARTISTIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Christopher Zimmerman, Music Director

Jonathan Kerr, Executive Director

Lisa LaCamera, Chief Operating Officer

Susan Petroff, Director of Development

John Murton, Assistant Conductor and Fellowship Program Coordinator

Celeste Duplaa, Link Up Program Manager

Suzy Dawson, Accountant

Cynthia Crumb, Personnel Manager

Wendi Hatton, Librarian

Timothy Wade, Stage Manager

Heather Rhine, Graphic Designer