Festival City Symphony - London Bridges

Monte Perkins, Conductor presents

“LONDON BRIDGES”

October 6, 2013 3:00 PM Pabst Theater 144 E. Wells

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PROGR A M Symphony No. 104 in D Major (“London Symphony”)..................................... Franz Joseph Haydn

I. Adagio; Allegro.

II. Andante.

III. Minuet: Allegro.

IV. Finale: Spiritoso.

Intermission Symphony No. 2 in G Major (“A London Symphony”)................................Ralph Vaughan Williams

I. Lento; Allegro risoluto.

II. Lento.

III. Scherzo (Nocturne) Allegro vivace.

IV. Andante con moto; Maestoso alla marcia (quasi lento); Allegro; EPILOGUE: Andante sostenuto-Lento.

FCS SPECIAL GUESTS SUPER READERS---children who have earned free tickets for themselves and their families by participating in Milwaukee Public Library’s SUPER READERS program.

***Festival City Symphony is a member organization of Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the Creative Alliance, VISIT Milwaukee, an affiliate member of UPAF, and a program partner at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center.

FCS made the Business Journal’s “Book of Lists” 2002 – 2007, 2010, and 2012.***

T H A N K S TO O U R S P O N S O R S Festival City Symphony would like to take this opportunity to thank its sponsors, without whom these programs would not take place.

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Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Franklyn and Barbara Esenberg Fund

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F E S T I VA L C I T Y S Y M P H O N Y Chief Executive Officer................................................................................................Franklyn Esenberg Conductor/Artistic Director...............................................................................................Monte Perkins Executive Director................................................................................................................. Linda E. Jones Education Director..................................................................................................................Jayne Perkins Librarian.................................................................................................................................. Christine Treter Assistant Librarians.......................................................................................Robert and Martha Kriefall Board of Directors Franklyn Esenberg, Chairman of the Board Theodore Zimmer, Secretary/ Treasurer JoAnn Norris Charlane O’Rourke Robert W. Stack

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C O N D U C TO R ’ S N O T E S “ L O N D O N B R I D G E S ” Good afternoon and welcome to the first of our Symphony Sundays concerts for the new season.

Today we want to relocate you to an English country manor in the period just after World War I made popular recently by the brilliant television series “Downton Abbey.” Imagine you’ve just finished an elegant meal, impeccably served by Mr. Carson and his staff. The Earl and Countess of Grantham have asked you to join them in the conservatory as they listen to a concert broadcast all the way from London on the wireless. Two works are to be played at Queen’s Hall that evening that inspire the patriotism of any level of British subject: Haydn’s “Symphony No. 104 (London)”; and the recently composed “A London Symphony” by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) wrote his final twelve symphonies in two groups of six for visits to England in 1791 and 1794. He was finally free to travel and receive international accolades following his over thirty years of service to the Esterhazy family in Vienna.

These last works showed the culmination of a lifetime of experience and knowledge of the past, and a foreshadowing of what was to come from Mozart and Beethoven. The dramatic beauty of his Symphony No. 104, premiered in London in 1795, is all the more dynamic for its freshness and youthfulness, despite his advanced age. Haydn either knew or suspected this would be his final symphony as he wrote on the manuscript cover with a ring of conclusiveness “the 12th I have composed in England.”

The City of London also inspired a native composer, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958) to write his “Symphony No. 2”. Known as “A London Symphony” the work is better described (according to the composer) as “A Symphony by a Londoner .”

Vaughan Williams always denied his piece was programmatic in any way, but allowed conductors and critics to write long descriptive narratives about it. One of these emphasizes the first movement use of the Westminster chimes, calls the second movement “Bloomsbury Square on a November afternoon”, and the third “Westminster Embankment at night”. The last movement has been epically called that … “in which the old order is altogether dwarfed and swallowed up… England and the kingdom, Britain and the Empire, the old prides and the old devotions … slide abeam, astern, sink down on the horizon”.

Premiered in 1914, the score and parts were lost during shipment due to World War I. A reconstructed version was made for 1920 and Vaughan Williams revised the work extensively, lastly in 1933. We will play for you the 1920 version described by Ursula Vaughan Williams as “more meditative, dark-shaded and tragic”.

So, please light your cigars and cigarettes, have Mr. Carson refresh your wine, and join the Crawleys in a splendid broadcast.

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“HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR!” PAJAMA JAMBOREE

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 7 – 8:00 pm

FREE children’s classical pops concert Marcus Center for the Performing Arts in the Bradley Pavilion Use the 123 E. State Street entrance.

Photos by Joseph A. Haertle

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Dressed in costume, the orchestra will perform musical “treats” related to the season.

Students from the Shorewood High School orchestra program will guest perform in Haydn’s “Toy Symphony.” Attendees are encouraged to wear costumes.

These popular programs welcome children* and their parents and grandparents to attend in casual dress or pajamas and sit on the floor, up close to “meet” the orchestra.

Conventional seating is also available. *Most suitable for children grades K4 through 5.

festivalcitysymphony.org 414-365-8861 festivalcitysymphony@wi.rr.com

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M E E T F E S T I VA L C I T Y S Y M P H O N Y M U S I C I A N -TAT I A N A M I G L I AC C I O TATIANA MIGLIACCIO has played violin for Festival City Symphony for 7 years.

Birthplace: Ukraine Education: I have music degrees from Ternopil Musical College and Lviv Conservatory in the Ukraine.

What I enjoy most about playing the violin: I get a special feeling when I play the violin. The music it makes is so touching and seems to come from your soul.

What I find most challenging (or what I like least) about playing the violin: You have to work hard every day to play the violin because it takes so much discipline. You have to practice every day.

Other instruments I play: Piano and the Sopilka (which is a Ukrainian wooden flute) Other musical involvements: I teach violin and group lessons at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. I also play with several symphonies to include the Wisconsin Philharmonic, Kenosha and Festival City Symphony Orchestra’s. I’m also a member of a folk group that specializes in playing music from the Ukraine and Eastern Europe. I also play with Joe 2.0 that features violins and string instruments playing classic rock. Finally, I love to sing and am a member of my church choir.

Non-musical activities: I love to cook, read, travel with my husband and work with my parents in their garden.

Music I play on my iPod, CD player: Classical music plus great romantic violin works and masterpieces by Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski and Kreisler Favorite musical memory: My first tour to Poland and Germany in 1990 with the Lviv Symphony orchestra from the Ukraine performing at their beautiful concerts halls.

Advice to young musicians: Express your talent, work hard and have fun. Your rewards will follow.

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PERSONNEL FIRST VIOLIN Robin Petzold Concertmaster Catherine Bush Ass’t Concertmaster Marvin Suson Tatiana Migliaccio Mary Stryck Sharon Slattery Linda Binder Al Bartosik Katie Brooks Kris Hurlebaus Carol Christensen SECOND VIOLIN Ellen Scott Principal Ruth Bryskier Laurie Asch Melissa Mann Cheryl Ann Fuchs Hilary Mercer Eva Szoke Claudette Kolosowski Tassia Hughes VIOLA Christine Treter Principal Lynne Fields Jenna Dick Julie Roubik Korinthia Klein DC Palmer Mary Pat Michels

CELLO Tom Smith Principal Elizabeth Bender Martha Kriefall Sacia Jerome Melissa Honigman Carol Wittig Braden Flanagan-Zitoun BASS Kathryn Jursik Principal Barry Clark Michael Gudbaur Steve Rindt Larry Tresp FLUTE Kristen Fenske Principal Heidi Knudsen Carol Meves PICCOLO Carol Meves Heidi Knudsen OBOE Suzanne Geoffrey Principal Suzanne Swenson

BASSOON Andrew Jackson Principal Steven Whitney CONTRA BASSOON Carol Rosing HORN Mike Steele Principal Nancy Cline Anne Maliborski Erwin Lackner TRUMPET Gerry Keene Principal Joe Burzinski William Dick Dave Magoon TROMBONE Jacob Tomasicyk Principal Nick Castonguay BASS TROMBONE Mark Hoelscher TUBA Dan Neesley

ENGLISH HORN Meaghan Heinrich

TIMPANI Robert Koszewski

CLARINET Franklyn Esenberg Principal Linda E. Jones

PERCUSSION Robert Kriefall Principal Josh Sherman Randy Maio Bony Plog-Benavides

BASS CLARINET Christopher Zello

HARP Ann Lobotzke

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