The Essence of Mahler Programme (Salmon Arm Performance)

F E AT U R I N G

Nadège Foofat Conductor

Kimy Mc Laren Soprano

The Essence of Mahler Be charmed by Mahler’s heavenly

Symphony No. 4

as we make our marvelous return to Salmon Arm with this enlightening concert.

The Nexus at First

MARCH 13 SUNDAY 2:30PM

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Words from the Executive Director This afternoon marks two separate milestones.

Firstly, we get to hear Yoon Jae Lee’s arrangement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, a piece originally programmed by our Music Director Dina Gilbert before I had even started in this role, almost three years ago.

We had grand intentions of finishing our original 2019-20 Season with a concert featuring this delightful work, but for various reasons… it just took us a little bit longer to get to it than planned.

The second milestone, perhaps a much greater one is that after a more than two-year unplanned hiatus, this performance marks the return of our orchestra to Salmon Arm, and we are so glad to be back. After having our previous plans to return unfortunately gone awry, it means so much for us to be back here at the Nexus and performing for all of our tremendous supporters in the Shuswap.

We continue to be so grateful for the community who has been so understanding, as we have dealt with unexpected circumstance after the other. So from all of us, thank you for continuing to celebrate and support live classical music, and I hope you enjoy this afternoon’s performance as much as I surely will.

With sincere appreciation,

GOVERNMENT GRANTS

Daniel Mills

Executive Director Kamloops Symphony

BC Interior Community Foundation Kamloops Symphony Foundation TELUS Community Foundation Hamber Foundation SOCAN Foundation

FOUNDATIONS

The Kamloops Symphony wishes to acknowledge that this concert is taking place on Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory within the traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation.

Kamloops Symphony Society BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John McDonald | President Helen Newmarch | Secretary Tyler Klymchuk | Treasurer Kathy Collier Lucille Gnanasihamany Gabriele Klein Rod Michell Steve Powrie Simon Walter

HONOURARY LIFE MEMBERS Bonnie Jetsen Art Hooper

ADMINISTRATION Executive Director

Daniel Mills

Music Director

Dina Gilbert

Office Administrator

Sue Adams

Marketing Coordinator

Ryan Noakes

Operations Coordinator

Sam Bregoliss Librarian

Sally Arai

Orchestra Personnel Manager

Olivia Martin

Production Assistant

Adrien Fillion

Chorus Master

Tomas Bijok Proud Member of Orchestras Canada, the national association for Canadian orchestras

Collaborative Pianist

Daniela O’Fee

Music Director Emeritus

Bruce Dunn

MUSIC DIRECTOR Regularly invited to conduct in Canada and overseas, Dina Gilbert attracts critical acclaim for her energy, precision and versatility. Currently Music Director of the Kamloops Symphony and of the Orchestre symphonique de l’Estuaire (Québec), she is known for her contagious dynamism and her audacious programming.

Dina Gilbert is regularly invited by leading Canadian orchestras including the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre métropolitain, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec.

Passionate about expanding classical audiences and with an innate curiosity towards non-classical musical genres, Dina has conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Orchestre national de Lyon in several Hip-Hop Symphonic programmes collaborating with renowned Hip hop artists. She has also conducted the world premiere of the film The Red Violin with orchestra at the Festival de Lanaudière and has conducted the North American premiere of the film The Artist with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.

As the founder and artistic director of the Ensemble Arkea, a Montreal-based chamber orchestra, Dina premiered over thirty works from emerging young Canadian composers. Committed to music education, she has reached thousands of children’s in Canada with her interactive and participative Conducting 101 workshop.

From 2013 to 2016, Dina Gilbert was assistant conductor of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Maestro Kent Nagano, also assisting guest conductors including Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Norrington, Lawrence Foster and Giancarlo Guerrero. In April 2016, she received great acclaim for stepping in to replace Maestro Alain Altinoglu with the OSM in a program showcasing Gustav Holst’s The Planets.

Dina Gilbert earned her doctorate from the Université de Montréal, where she studied with Jean-François Rivest and Paolo Bellomia. Awarded the Opus Prize of “Découverte de l’année” in 2017, Dina Gilbert was also named as one of the 50 personalities creating the extraordinary in Québec in 2018 by the Urbania Magazine.

Dina Gilbert

PROGRAMME

Guest Conductor: Soprano:

Nadège Foofat

Kimy Mc Laren

Gustav Mahler............... (arr. Yoon Jae Lee)

Symphony No. 4 I.

Bedächtig, nicht eilen

II. In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast III. Ruhevoll, poco adagio IV. Sehr behaglich

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GUEST CONDUCTOR

Nadège Foofat Nadège Foofat is a conductor, violinist, violist, and advocate for innovation in thought, action, music, and culture.

In 2018, Nadège was one of six conductors selected for the Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview for her “experience, talent, leadership potential, and commitment to a career in service to American orchestras” by the League of American Orchestras.

During the 2019-2020 season, Nadège made her debuts with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus in the United States, and Symphony New Brunswick in Canada in a series of distanced concerts. Other recent performances include appearances with Symphony Nova Scotia, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

Nadège will be a guest conductor in the 2022-2023 season with the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra as part of their Music Director search.

A champion of equal representation for women in orchestral programming, Nadège’s concerts have included works

by Amy Beach, Jennifer Higdon, Mary Howe, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Missy

Mazzoli, Leslie Opatril, Florence Price, Joan Tower, and Gwyneth Walker. She is a leading expert of the orchestral works of the early romantic French composer, Louise Farrenc. Nadège is also a member of the Executive Council of the Institute for Composer Diversity.

From 2009-2014, Nadège was the Founder and Music Director of the Esopus Chamber Orchestra, a twenty-five-member award-winning professional chamber orchestra based in the Hudson Valley, New York.

She holds a Doctor of Music degree in orchestral conducting from the Université de Montréal, a Diplôme de perfectionnement in contemporary orchestral conducting from the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, (Switzerland) a Master of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music, and Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School in viola performance.

Born in Canada, Nadège is also a citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. She is based out of Virginia, where she resides with her husband, composer Jonathan Newman, and their two children.

GUEST ARTIST

Kimy Mc Laren Shortly after making her professional debut at the Opéra National du Rhin, Montreal’s Kimy Mc Laren performed throughout the world and amassed a formidable and diverse repertoire that spans opera, concert, recital and musical theatre.

Philharmony, Wiener Kammer Orchester and many more throughout Europe and across Canada—having collaborated with such internationally acclaimed conductors as Charles Dutoit, Kent Nagano and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

She has performed more than thirty operatic roles—Marguerite (Faust), Leïla (Les pêcheurs de perles), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Marie (Wozzeck), Governess (The Turn of the Screw) to name a few—not only in France (Lille, Strasbourg, Marseille, Toulon, Metz, Bordeaux, Reims, etc.) but also in Latin America, Asia and Canada.

Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris cast her as Julie for an widely successful run of the musical Carousel and immediately invited her to return in the role of Cinderella in Sondheim’s Into the Woods. Additionally, she has appeared as a soloist with many symphony orchestras, including Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre Métropolitain, Malaysian

Prize winner in the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and Mario Lanza Competition in Italy, Kimy is charismatic and very much at home on the operatic stage— nevertheless, she also enjoys performing in chamber works and recital. Her vast repertoire reflects a true affinity and genuine passion for all aspects of the vocal art.

Most recently, Kimy appeared in the musical Marry Me a Little (Elle) at the Théâtre Marigny in Paris and the opera Flight (Stewardess) at Pacific Opera Victoria. She also performed as a soloist in Les Grands Ballets Canadiens’ Stabat Mater and in the Mass in B minor with the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal).

PROGRAMME NOTES

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)

In his lifetime, Mahler’s reputation was built to a great extent upon his career as a conductor, of both orchestral works and opera. He had appointments with several major European orchestras culminating in Vienna for ten years and, when the increasing anti-Semitism of the early 1900s became oppressive, with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the New York Philharmonic. Given this demanding performance schedule it has always seemed astounding that he ever found time to compose, let alone the colossal symphonic works that form a substantial part of his musical output. Unlike Chausson, who completed one symphony (but started a second), Mahler’s musical output was focused chiefly on the symphonic form as bequeathed to him by Brahms and Bruckner. In his hands, the symphony grew even greater in length and complexity of musical utterance, and in richness of orchestral and vocal resources. But not much of his own work was performed in his lifetime. Then, after his death, his work remained relatively unknown, only to a few champions, composers and music specialists until the 1960s, when recording technology helped build a wider familiarity with his work. Now Mahler is rightfully seen as one of the most significant composers of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.

The frequently epic and often dramatic quality of Mahler in his symphonies is, however, only half of the picture of his work. There is, also, an intimate and delicate element in his music, most often expressed through his works for the human voice. Mahler recognized that this inner and more personal quality is an essential complement to the epic, and that it is through the medium of music these two aspects of human experience can be expressed and reconciled. From this his artistic goal seems to have emerged: to explore though music the nature of the human condition in all its contradictory forms—the tragic, the joyful, the turbulent, the serene, the tormented and the beatific. Almost all Mahler’s musical output is either symphony (numbers 1 through 9 and an incomplete 10th), or song and song-cycle (sometimes with orchestra as in Das Lied von der Erde).

Four of his symphonies contain a vocal element including the one we hear today, works that bring together the two chief modes of Mahler’s musical expression.

PROGRAMME NOTES

Symphony No. 4 Mahler composed his Symphony No.4 soon after his appointment to the Vienna Court Opera in 1897, and presented it in Munich in November of 1901. Audiences might have been wondering what they were in for, considering Symphony No.2 was huge and Symphony No.3 was larger still. There was no doubt some relief at what they heard: a different, more accessible Mahler was on display. Indeed, this Symphony No.4 became the most popular of his symphonies in his lifetime, and likely has remained so since. Like Chausson, Mahler was a keen reader of poetry, and one poetry anthology in particular had obsessed him over the years: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn), a collection of German folk poetry from the early 1800s. He set many of the poems with orchestral accompaniment in a song cycle of the same name, and instrumental movements inspired by poems from this collection appear in other works, such as his second and third symphonies.

In the fourth symphony, the fourth and final movement is a setting of a poem from this Wunderhorn anthology. In the anthology the poem is titled Der Himmel hängt voller Geigen (Heaven Hangs Full of Fiddles). Mahler, however, renamed it Das himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life). This renaming helps clarify his focus for the symphony. The poem is a child’s vision of heaven (much of it imagined as an abundance of food!). The whole symphony is the search of a childlike mind through experience to regain lost innocence, once heaven is finally revealed.

Several of Mahler’s symphonies have “programmes” of this kind although he progressively discouraged audiences from experiencing his music in that way.

In this fourth symphony there are some “programmatic” annotations in the composer’s manuscript, but other of his programme details were explained privately in a letter to his wife.

This focus on the innocent experience may help explain aspects of the character of the first three movements. There is a simplicity in the feel of the first movement (Bedächtig “placidly”), although the various themes are developed with considerable subtlety. The second movement (In gemächlicher Bewegung “with a leisurely motion”) is like “a dance of Death”: showcasing the serio-comical character of Death as in a morality play one might have seen in the streets of a medieval town. Mahler’s instructions to the solo violinist to tune the instrument a whole tone higher than normal helps create a suitably sinister effect. The slow third movement (Ruhevoll “restful”) is a set of variations: at times profoundly calm and, at others, deeply intense. Towards the third movement’s end the orchestra unleashes an astounding outburst of joy which, if one is following Mahler’s programme of the search for lost innocence, might be construed as the child’s longed-for glimpse of the Heavenly City. The form of the final movement is shaped by the text, the verses separated by orchestral passages whose material recalls elements from the first movement. Towards the end, the child sings to us: “No music on earth Can ever compare with ours,” and the skillful simplicity of Mahler’s music captures perfectly the authenticity of that heavenly vision, as the music fades gently away—nothing remaining except the gentle and softly repeated notes of the harp.

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T E X T & T R A N S L AT I O N

Das himmlische Leben

Heavenly Life

Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden, D’rum tun wir das Irdische meiden, Kein weltlich Getümmel Hört man nicht im Himmel, Lebt alles in sanftester Ruh;

We revel in heavenly pleasures, So we shun all that is earthly, No worldly turmoil is heard in Heaven, Everyone lives in sweetest peace;

Wir führen ein englisches Leben, Sind dennoch ganz lustig daneben, Wir tanzen und springen, Wir hüpfen und singen, Sankt Peter im Himmel sieht zu.

We lead an angelic existence, And yet we are perfectly happy, We dance and leap, We skip and sing, Saint Peter in Heaven looks on.

Johannes das Lämmlein auslasset, Der Metzger Herodes drauf passet, Wir führen ein geduldigs, Unschuldigs, geduldigs, Ein liebliches Lämmlein zu Tod.

Saint John has lost his little lamb, And Herod the butcher is lurking, We lead a patient, innocent, patient, Darling little lamb to death.

Sankt Lukas den Ochsen tät schlachten Ohn einigs Bedenken und Achten, Der Wein kost’t kein Heller Im himmlischen Keller, Die Englein, die backen das Brot.

Saint Luke would slay the oxen Without the slightest hesitation, The wine doesn’t cost a penny in the cellars of Heaven, The angels, they bake the bread.

Gut Kräuter von allerhand Arten, Die wachsen im himmlischen Garten, Gut Spargel, Fisolen, Und was wir nur wollen, Ganze Schüsseln voll sind uns bereit.

Fine herbs of every description Are growing in heaven’s garden, Fine asparagus, green beans and everything we desire Platefuls of food all ready for us,

Gut Äpfel, gut Birn und gut Trauben, Die Gärtner, die alles erlauben!

Willst Rehbock, willst Hasen?

Auf offener Straßen, Sie laufen herbei.

Fine apples, fine pears and fine grapes, The gardeners let us pick everything.

If you want venison and hare— In the open streets They come running up.

Sollt’ ein Festtag etwa kommen, Alle Fische gleich mit Freuden angeschwommen!

Dort läuft schon Sankt Peter Mit Netz und mit Köder, Zum himmlischen Weiher hinein.

Sankt Martha die Köchin muß sein.

And when there’s a holiday, All the fish swim gleefully up, And off runs Saint Peter With net and with bait, Into the pond of Heaven; Saint Martha will have to be cook.

Kein’ Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden, Die unsrer verglichen kann werden.

Elftausend Jungfrauen Zu tanzen sich trauen, Sankt Ursula selbst dazu lacht,

No music on earth Can ever compare with ours, Eleven thousand virgins Venture to dance, Saint Ursula herself laughs to see it,

Cäcilie mit ihren Verwandten Sind treffliche Hofmusikanten, Die englischen Stimmen Ermuntern die Sinnen, Daß Alles für Freuden erwacht!

Saint Cecilia with her companions Are splendid court musicians.

The angelic voices So delight the senses, That all creatures awake with joy!

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Thank You For Your Patience!

We are thrilled to be back in Salmon Arm once again after an unplanned two-year hiatus. All of us are grateful for the understanding of the community here in the Shuswap as we’ve dealt with unexpected circumstances preventing us from presenting our Salmon Arm concerts.

Thank you for your continued support.

We look forward to our visits here as part of our 2022–23 Season.

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We’ll see you again in October.