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Musical experiences you won’t find anywhere else Tuesday Musical creates musical experiences you won’t find anywhere else in NE Ohio. Throughout this season we’ll greet superstars, find new favorites, and delight in the thrill of discovery. Plus, every program will personally connect you with our featured artists – offering insights into what excites and energizes them. Thank you for joining us now and throughout our 134th season.
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uesday Musical Association appreciates your continued support of The Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert Endowment Fund. This fund gives •a lasting voice to Margaret’s objective of presenting the world’s greatest pianists in Akron. It also helps maintain the legacy that this extraordinary woman left for us to remember. Barbara Ainsworth-Porter Ronald & Ann Allan Moshe Amitay & Judy Levin Tom & Nancy Anderson Anonymous Marion Goetz Aron Eleanor & Richard Aron Mark Auburn Sue & Christopher Bancroft Lee and Floy Barthel Earl & Judy Baxtresser Jeanne Baxtresser & David Carroll Robert Baxtresser Suzanne Baxtresser & Steven Wangh George Bellassai Jeanette & John Bertsch Jan Bird Ginny Black Sue & Pete Birgeles Mary & Dave Brown Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment/ Akron Community Foundation Alan & Sara Burky Elizabeth Butler Alfred S. Cavaretta Sarah Church Joyce Clark Cynthia Maglione Coleman Lydia Colopy Mr. & Mrs. Nicolas Constantinidis Carole Cordray-Syracuse George Curley Rita Czarnecki Jane Davenport Mary Davenport Jerry Davidson David & Katharine DeBolt David & Judith DeShon Mary Di Donato Marjorie Donahue & Robert Roach Dave & Susan Dudas Dennis & Karen Dunn Carolyn & Jerry Durway Hope Everhart David & Roberta Ewbank Denis & Barbara Feld Lois & Harvey Flanders Richard & Eleanor Freeman Thomas Friedman Marlene Mancini Frost Laura Lee Garfinkel Candace Gatewood Diana F. Gayer Stephen T. & Mary Ann Griebling 4
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EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall—The University of Akron Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
at EJ Thomas Hall
Naughton Piano Duo
Christina and Michelle Naughton Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert Leonard Bernstein........................................................................... Candide for Four Hands 1918-1990 Ballad of Eldorado; Bon Voyage; I am Easily Assimilated; It Must be Me; Make our Garden Grow; Oh, Happy We; Overture; Paris Waltz; The Best of all Possible Worlds; We are Women
Aaron Copland......................................................................................................Simple Gifts 1900-1990 INTERMISSION John Adams........................................................................................... Roll Over Beethoven b. 1947.................................................................................................. Allegro molto, Andantino Paul Schoenfield.............................................. Five Days in the Life of a Manic Depressive b. 1947 Metamorphoses on “I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby,” Labyrinth, Elegy, From a Bintel Brief, Boogie
An engaging conversation with the Naughton sisters, led by concert pianist and NE Ohio resident Zsolt Bognár, opens this evening’s concert. In addition to being the artistic director and general manager of Hudson-based Music from The Western Reserve, Zsolt is the is the host of “Living the Classical Life,” an award-winning film series of conversations with musicians around the world. Support for the conversation comes from The Laura R. & Lucian Q. Moffitt Foundation. Christina and Michelle perform this evening on Tuesday Musical’s Three Graces Steinway D Piano, made possible by the generosity of Lucinda Weiss and kept carefully tuned throughout the year by the generosity of James and Maureen Kovach. Generous support for this performance and related education/community engagement activities comes from donors to The Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert Endowment Fund as well as from other foundations, individuals, and businesses. Among Tuesday Musical’s generous season supporters: Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation, Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank Trustee, Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust, Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation, Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation, Welty Family Foundation
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Works in progress: See the finished paintings during our November concert by the Naughton Piano Duo. Photos by Patrick Dougherty
Art meets music at our November concert
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f you’re in the audience for our November concert by the Naughton Piano Duo, you’ll see an exciting example of how Tuesday Musical collaborates with teachers and students throughout NE Ohio. Inspired by pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton and guided by art teacher Patrick Dougherty, 11th graders Evelyn Brooks, Aniushka Muniz Lugo, and Jenny Wei from The Akron School for the Arts at Firestone Community Learning Center have worked since the start of the school year to create a series of paintings being unveiled during the concert. Student videographer Mikaia Ross has been documenting the project. This is the latest in a multi-year collaboration with Patrick Dougherty that’s resulted in a beautiful and thought-provoking collection of student artworks inspired by Tuesday Musical’s world-acclaimed musicians.
Inspiring generations of music lovers Tuesday Musical provides children and adults with opportunities to experience excellent live music — thus engaging and inspiring generations of music lovers. In schools and throughout our community, vibrant programs like these serve people of all ages and backgrounds: teaching residencies, master classes, open rehearsals, Q&As, small public performances, free tickets for all students, bus underwriting to school districts and student organizations, Decompression Chamber performances in high-stress settings, an annual scholarship competition for college and university students pursuing careers in music performance and/or music education, Brahms Allegro Junior Music Club for students in grades 1-12, and much more. Learn more about Tuesday Musical’s robust Education and Community Engagement Programs at tuesdaymusical.org, 330-761-3460, and info@tuesdaymusical.org. 6
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The Artists
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Christina and Michelle Naughton
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ndeed, 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 with the unity created by their 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 were recently recognized in 2019 as they became the first piano duo to receive the Avery Fisher Career Grant presented by Lincoln Center. Christina and Michelle Naughton’s career was launched in 2009 with a recital debut at Kennedy Center; and an orchestral debut at the Mann 8
Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra, which led the Philadelphia Inquirer to characterize their playing as “paired to perfection.” Subsequently, they began their careers in Europe and Asia: at Munich’s Herkulesaal and with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, respectively. These appearances were met with much critical acclaim, with the Suddeutsche Zeitung proclaiming the Naughtons an “outstanding piano duo” and the Sing Tao Daily responding by the description “Joining two hearts and four hands at two grand pianos, the Naughton sisters created an electrifying and moving musical performance.” Especially passionate about American 20th-century music, Christina and Michelle have immersed themselves in several projects devoted to this theme. 2019’s American Postcard, their second album of their exclusive signing with Warner Classics, showcases a variety of 20th century American compositions tuesdaymusical.org ■ 330.761.3460
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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 LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, a world premiere of John Adams’ Roll Over Beethoven at NYC’s WQXR Greenespace, a European premiere of Paul Lansky’s Shapeshifters with Solistees Europeans Luxembourg, a weeklong American chamber music residency with musicians of the New World Symphony, and several concerts devoted to 20th century American music at Germany’s Klavierfestival Ruhr. 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 magazine 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 Magazine shortly after its release. Christina and Michelle have played as soloists with orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Hawaii, Houston, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Nashville, New Jersey, North Carolina, San Diego, St. Louis, Virginia Symphonies; the Buffalo and Naples Philharmonics, as well as The Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Royal Flemish Philharmonic (Belgium), l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Frankfurter Opern-and Museumsorchester, Hamburg Chorus, Kiel Philharmonic, Norddeutsche Philharmonic Rostock, the Netherlands Philharmonic at the Royal Concertgebouw, The Hong Kong Philharmonic, and New Zealand Symphony. Past and future seasons feature collaborations under the batons of conductors such as Stéphane
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The Artists Denève, Edo de Waart, Charles Dutoit, JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Emmanuel Krivine, Cristian Măcelaru, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and Leonard Slatkin. Christina and Michelle Naughton are avid recitalists, performing for such notable organizations as Lincoln Center’s Great Performers, New York City’s Naumburg Orchestral Concert Series (Naumburg Bandshell at Central Park), Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Rockefeller Evening Concerts, le Poisson Rouge, Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater (Washington Performing Arts), the National Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, St Paul’s Schubert Club, Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Hall, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Chamber Music San Francisco, Houston’s Cullen Theater, Fort Worth Texas’s Cliburn Series, Cornell Concert Series, Boston’s Gardner Museum, Kansas City’s Harriman Jewell Series, the Kravis Center and the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach; and in Europe at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Dusseldorf’s Robert Schumann Saal, and Frankfurter Hof.
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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 Germany’s renowned Klavierfestival Ruhr, as well as the Rheingau Musik Festival, Dresden’s Musikfestpiele, Kissinger Sommer, Bremen Music Festival, France’s La Roque d’Antheron Festival (Parc Du Chateau de Florans), Annecy Classic Festival (Bonlieu Scene Nationale), Nohant Festival Chopin, Festival Berlioz La Cote de Saint Andre, Zurich’s Tonhalle, and Prague’s Strings of Autumn Festival. The Naughtons have undertaken several international tours. Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal, Munich’s Herkulesaal, Dusseldorf’s Tonhalle, Hannover’s Kleiner Sendesaal, Ingoldstadt’s Konzertverein, Reutlingen’s Freidrich-ListHalle, Pullach’s Burgerhaus, Concert Series in Ludwigshafen, and Homburg-Saar Series are among the venues where their prolific German concertizing has taken place. Recitals throughout China include Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, and Wuhan’s Qintai Concert Hall. Highlights of their extensive work in Latin America include Brazil’s Orquesta Sinfonica do Estado Sao Paulo; Colombia’s Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota, Biblioteca de Luis Angel, Medellin’s Teatro Metropolitano; Chile’s Fundacion Beethoven; Mexico City’s Palacio de las Bellas Artes, Puerto Rico’s Orquesta de Sinfonica Pablo Casal’s Festival, Portugal’s Casa da Musica Porto; and Spain’s Conciertos de Valencia, Foundation de Juan March (Madrid), Foundation Botin (Santander), Auditoria Teulada Moraira, and Enclave de Camera (Ourense). 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 reside in Philadelphia. Follow them on facebook.com/ naughtonpiano and twitter.com/Naughtonpiano
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Program Notes Candide for four hands Leonard Bernstein
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ne of the greatest American musicians of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein was a prolific composer and conductor. The music director of the New York Philharmonic, he wrote three symphonies and diverse concert works and made extensive contributions to musical theater, one of his great loves. The first of his Broadway musicals was On the Town, which was a hit of the 1944 season, when he was only twenty-six years old. Candide followed after Wonderful Town of 1953 and preceded West Side Story, which was performed for the first time in 1957. Bernstein’s Candide was launched as a work for the Broadway theater on December l, 1956, but he and his collaborators, the dramatist Lillian Hellman and the poet Richard Wilbur, did not allow it to be presented with the usual billing of “a new musical.” They called it “a comic operetta based on Voltaire’s satire,” which
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immediately claimed a place for it alongside the works of Offenbach, Johann Strauss, and Gilbert and Sullivan, rather than among conventional Broadway musical comedies. The first stage production was not a commercial success, but the music instantly took on a life of its own. A recording by the original Broadway cast was popular for many years, and the overture became part of the symphony orchestra repertoire. A Broadway revival in the 1970s, with libretto and staging significantly revised but the music almost unchanged, enjoyed a very long run and stimulated many new productions. In the 1980s Candide entered the repertoire of the New York City Opera. In 1997, Candide again made its way to Broadway. Candide is the hero of the novel by Voltaire (1694-1778) that bears his name. He is a young man who, with his beloved, Cunégonde, experiences countless adventures and misadventures, yet fails to see until the very end that they belie the dictum of his tutor, Dr. Pangloss, that this is “the best of all possible worlds.”
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Program Notes In this compendium by Charlie Harmon for Piano Four Hands, 10 of the most well-known selections are featured, but interestingly, not in the order in which they appear in Bernstein’s original work. Harmon has arranged them in the following order: Ballad of Eldorado; Bon Voyage, I am Easily Assimilated, It Must be Me, Make our Garden Grow, Oh, Happy We, the Overture, Paris Waltz, The Best of all Possible Worlds, and We are Women.
Simple Gifts
Aaron Copland
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he 20th century composer Aaron Copland, often referred to as “the Dean of American Composers,” is famous for music that many people consider to be the emblematic sound of American music, evoking the vast American landscape and pioneer spirit. The 1940s were perhaps Copland’s most productive years, as his works from this period became famous worldwide. One of those works, Appalachian Spring, has an iconic stature. Copland chose to include “Simple Gifts” in Appalachian Spring in 1944. It inspired more admiration by critics and listeners than most of his other music. Some of its fame probably can be attributed to its intertwined history with the work of the famous 20th century modern dancer, Martha Graham. When the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress commissioned a dance work from Graham in 1942, she turned to Aaron Copland for the music. In 1944, he delivered a score to her entitled Ballet for Martha, which subsequently became the work’s subtitle. Graham suggested Appalachian Spring. Appalachian Spring became one of her most durable works as well as one of the best loved of all-American compositions. “Appalachian Spring would never have existed without her special personality,” Aaron Copland said in 1974. The story of the ballet was originally summarized as “A pioneer celebration in spring around a newly built farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hills in the early part of the last century. The bride-to-be and the young farmer-husband enact the emotions, joyful and apprehensive, their new domestic partnership invites. An older neighbor suggests now and 12
then the rocky confidence of experience. A revivalist and his followers remind the new householders of the strange and terrible aspects of human fate. At the end, the couple are left quiet and strong in their new house.” In an interview published in 1975, Graham added, “It is essentially the coming of a new life. It has to do with growing things. Spring is the loveliest and saddest time of year.” Appalachian Spring is generally thought to be folk-inspired,” Copland said, “but the Shaker tune ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple’ is the only folk material actually quoted in the piece. Rhythms and melodies that suggest a certain ambiance, and the use of specific folk themes, are after all not the same thing. It took me about a year to finish and I remember thinking how crazy it was to spend all that time because I knew how shortlived most ballet scores are, but [it] took on a life of its own.” The score displays an absorption in the vernacular, as Pollock, Copland’s biographer says, “suitable to a script so steeped in a wide range of American myth and folklore. It often gives the impression of folk music.” As performed in this concert, Copland’s Simple Gifts is an arrangement of a very popular and familiar work, which originated as a Shaker hymn tune in 1848. He used it eloquently in the climactic variations, aiming for it to project the peaceful attitude that the text imparts. He did not write the melody associated with the words, but if any tune seems to belong especially to Copland, Simple Gifts qualifies. (He also arranged the melody for voice.) Copland desired it to be simple, with an almost recitative-like quality, and set the chords on the unaccented beat to be sure the song would not have a regular rhythmic feeling.
Roll over Beethoven John Adams
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ontemporary American composer John Adams spent his formative years in his native New England, where he was much influenced by the performers and composers at the artistic and intellectual institutions there. His clarinet teacher and the conductor of the orchestra in which he played as a young musician were both members of the Boston tuesdaymusical.org ■ 330.761.3460
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Symphony Orchestra. Adams became proficient enough on his instrument to appear as soloist in the concerto by his neighbor, Walter Piston, and he studied composition at Harvard with the successor to Piston’s faculty chair, Leon Kirchner. After his graduation, Adams settled in San Francisco, where he taught at the conservatory for 10 years, and was an adviser and composerin-residence with the Boston Symphony. In the music of his early maturity, Adams showed his discovery of a freer kind of advanced musical thought than he had learned at the university, and he took up many of the techniques and much of the aesthetics of the “minimalist” composers. It was not long, however, before he admitted himself to be “a minimalist who is bored with minimalism” and developed the balanced mixture of sustained repetition with either subtle or bold variation that distinguishes his work, calling his work “post-minimalist.” Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, Adams is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. Adams has also composed much orchestral music as well as chamber music for string quartet and other small ensembles. His work stands out among those of contemporary classical composers for its depth of expression, brilliance of sound, and the profoundly humanist nature of its themes. In 2003 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a large choral and orchestral piece commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s Great Performers, written in commemoration of the first anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks. In 2019 he received the Netherlands’ prestigious Erasmus Prize “for contributions to European culture,” the only American composer ever chosen for this award. Adams has also received honorary doctorates from Harvard, Yale, Northwestern University, Cambridge University, and the Juilliard School and the California Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and the Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts.
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Program Notes Since 2009 he has held the position of Creative Chair with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Roll over Beethoven is a version for two pianos of Adams’ Second Quartet, written in 2014. In it, he uses a few short phrases from two late Beethoven works, Piano Sonata Op. 110 and the Diabelli Variations, to create a musical journey which Adams says takes “these tiny musical fractals through a grand tour of a harmonic and rhythmic hall of mirrors.” The work made its premiere on March 23, 2016 by Christina and Michelle Naughton in the Greene Space in New York. The title of the work playfully evokes Chuck Berry’s 1956 rock-and-roll challenge to the musical establishment. Berry’s “heartbeatin’ rhythm” was key to the success of rock-and-roll, and for Adams, the rhythm Beethoven used was equally riveting. Adams has taken the vitality he feels in Beethoven’s expressive structures to construct his own unpredictable musical forms that articulate moments of delicate lyricism and hard driven, virtuosic vigor. In the opening section, Adams takes a thematic fragment, or “fractal,” from the scherzo of Beethoven’s late piano sonata Op. 110 and uses it to create the structure of a fast, pulsing movement; with each new use of the fragment, Adams generates changes in harmony and texture. The second movement, Andantino, treats a lyrical melody from the opening of the Beethoven sonata; following it, in the energico section, based on a fragment from the “Diabelli” Variations, Adams uses Beethoven’s chromatic harmonies and strong accents to build momentum. About Beethoven’s influence, Adams has said, “We have music that we love so much that we kind of want to get under the skin of that composer. For me, taking not so much melodies but just little harmonic fragments, like fractals, from Beethoven and putting them through the black box of my own musical personality was a real stimulation to my invention.”
Five Days in the Life of a Manic Depressive, for piano duet (one piano-4 hands) Paul Schoenfield
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merican composer Paul Schoenfield has written diverse work inspired by popular styles both American and foreign,
vernacular and folk traditions, and traditional Classical music to which he has often given, in his words, “a sly twist.” His compositions combine exuberance and seriousness, familiarity and originality, lightness and depth. Like Gershwin’s music, to which it has been compared, Schoenfield’s work projects wit and energy and often draws deeply on his Jewish roots. Schoenfield began playing piano when he was six and was composing music by the age of seven. As he matured, he studied piano with Rudolf Serkin and toured the U.S., Europe, and South America as a soloist and with groups from Music from Marlboro and elsewhere. He received his education at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Arizona. Among his honors are awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio State Arts Commission, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the Schubert Foundation. Currently, he is a Professor of Composition at the University of Michigan. Although he has composed for virtually all media, he has shown a special affinity for solo piano works and chamber music with piano. Anthony Philip Pattin, in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, says that Schoenfield’s “works often evoke a frenzied state through climaxes, rapid harmonic motion and breakneck speed.” The composer has said of his own music, “It is not the kind of music to relax to, but the kind that makes people sweat; not only performer, but the audience.” Five Days in the Life of a Manic Depressive was composed in the summer of 1984 and was commissioned by the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Minnesota. Schoenfeld says he wrote Five Days during “a sullen time of life,” in which he endured a home burglary, an IRS audit, and an episode of “intense cynicism” about the value and legitimacy of 20th century concert music. This edgy, colorful, and challenging piece takes Schoenfield’s imaginary protagonist through the heights and depths of a disorder that has often been associated with artistic and musical creativity. Robert Schumann was one of the most famous composers to suffer from manic depression. tuesdaymusical.org ■ 330.761.3460
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The work has five movements: 1. Metamorphoses on “I’m Crazy ’Bout My Baby,” 2. Labyrinth, 3. Elegy, 4. From a Bintel Brief, and 5. Boogie. The first movement riffs on the 1931 hit song “Crazy ’Bout my Baby” by Fats Waller. Schoenfield wrote it just after his daughter Miriam was born, “but there was no conscious attempt to imitate the howling of a hungry baby.” Instead, he utilizes barely recognizable snippets from the original Fats Waller, accompanied by a volcanic rush of notes. In the second movement, Labyrinth, there is a movement from classic jazz to the frenetic atonal style of be-bop, and then, in the central movement, Schoenfield provides an Elegy based on a theme from a Brahms intermezzo. Bintel Brief was a popular advice column featured in The Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddishlanguage paper printed in New York City. In the beginning of the 20th century, newly arrived immigrants, baffled by life in a new country with confusing customs, would seek guidance from the column. The fourth movement, From a
Bintel Brief, depicts a mother’s anxiety when she realizes that her son is courting a girl who is not Jewish. The final movement, Boogie, pays homage to both Beethoven and klezmer music and to the famous “cutting contests” of 1930s Harlem stride piano players such as Willie “The Lion” Smith, Art Tatum, and James P. Johnson. The music contains beauty and yet it was indeed often manic sounding, with a felt sense of disorder, including what sounds like frenetic activity and cacophony; it also sounds sometimes depressive with chordal passages creating the effect of an intended slog. These passages do not, however, exclude music that sounds peaceful and not evocative of either end of the mental/emotional extremes, but there are times of grace, too. It is incredibly demanding music, and deliberately seems to invite confusion or puzzlement, as the title can be interpreted either literally or, possibly, sardonically. Program notes are © copyright Susan Halpern.
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Akron Civic Theatre
Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at 7:30 p.m.
Akron Concert Series
at EJ Thomas Hall
The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass Holiday Concert Trumpets: Rodney Marsalis, Terry Everson, Courtney Jones, Peter Everson, Kate Amrine French Horn: Natalie Higgins, Trombone: Greg Freeman, Robyn Smith Bass Trombone: Martin McCaine / Tuba: Joe Ready / Drums: Brian Cannady / Narrator: JaQuinley Kerr
Closer Walk................................................................................................................. arr. Don Gillis Contrapunctus IX..................................................................................... Johann Sebastian Bach Concerto....................................................................................................................... Harry James Rodney Marsalis, solo trumpet West Side Story: Tonight – Maria – America................................................... Leonard Bernstein God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen....................................................................................arr. JD Shaw Angels We Have Heard on High..................................................................................arr. JD Shaw Good King Wenceslas..................................................................................................arr. JD Shaw Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah.............................................................. George Frideric Handel When the Saints Go Marching In...................................................................................Traditional INTERMISSION Nutcracker Suite.......................................................................................Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Twas the Night Before Christmas.............................................................. arr. Anthony Dilorenzo JaQuinley Kerr, narration Can’t Help Falling in Love...................Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George Weiss, arr. Tim Olt Rodney Marsalis, solo flugelhorn Silent Night....................................................................................................... Franz Xaver Gruber Sleigh Ride....................................................................................................................arr. JD Shaw Holiday Sing-a-long Earth Wind and Fire Medley.......................................................................................... arr. Tim Olt
Among Tuesday Musical’s generous season supporters: Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation, Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank Trustee, Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust, Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation, Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation, Welty Family Foundation
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The Artists
The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass
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he Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass is America’s premier large brass ensemble. A group that always reflects the diverse makeup of men and women in the American culture, RMPBB is dedicated to the notion that music is a gift to be enjoyed by everyone. The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass is a family-owned and operated business that had its beginnings on the streets of New Orleans. On the advice of family patriarch Ellis Marsalis, the group created a concert format that breaks the usual barriers between genres and strives to create a connection between the audience and performers. The ensemble is especially dedicated to reaching out to the world’s youth and inspiring them to reach for their dreams. A veritable “dream team” of virtuoso brass players, the 18
group burst onto the music scene with a debut performance in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center in Verizon Hall, a residency for the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, and a special feature on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Performances by The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass range from solo trumpet, to brass quintet, to the full 11-piece ensemble with percussion. Programs include holiday concerts, mini-concerts for schools, and traditional brass concerts with optional organ or choir. Brothers on the Battlefield: The Power of Love covers music from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement. In recent years the group has been invited to perform in performing arts centers around the world including China’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Guangzhou Opera House, Tangelwood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall, and prominent performing arts centers throughout the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe. tuesdaymusical.org ■ 330.761.3460
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Rodney Marsalis, trumpet
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he sound of Rodney’s trumpet has reverberated throughout the world. Whether playing baroque piccolo trumpet or interpreting works commissioned especially for him, his artistry has been enthusiastically enjoyed inside of the United States and in such countries as France, Spain, Germany, England, Greece, Rumania, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. He has been praised by music critics from Fanfare Magazine, American Record Guide, Records International Catalog, and other international publications for his evocative interpretation, impeccable virtuosity, and beauty of sound. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Rodney Marsalis has worked under the guidance of world-renowned conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gerard Schwarz, James DePreist, John Williams, Jesús López Cobos, and Christopher Hogwood. He was awarded a fellowship at the Tanglewood Music Center where he was invited to return for a second summer, during which he was awarded the Seiji Ozawa Award for Outstanding Musicianship. Mr. Marsalis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he began his musical studies at age 6. When he was 11, he began taking classical trumpet lessons with his cousin Wynton Marsalis. Referred to as a “trumpet prodigy,” his solo debut was at age 15 with the New Orleans Symphony. After having won various solo competitions, he received national attention when he was 19, performing as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He has also performed as soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the Tenerife Symphony, the Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and many orchestras throughout the United States and Europe. Mr. Marsalis has made several world-premiere recordings, including “Sonata for Trumpet and Piano” (Albany Records) by Adolphus Hailstork
and “In Our Own House” (Albany Records) by composer Alvin Singleton with saxophonist Branford Marsalis. In 1998 he made the premiere and critically acclaimed recording of Franz Waxman’s “Carmen Fantasy for Trumpet and Orchestra” with conductor Lawrence Foster on the Koch International record label. His debut solo trumpet CD “Spirit of the Trumpeter” (Albany Records) is a compilation of some of the most popular recital works for trumpet and piano. Regarding “Spirit of the Trumpeter,” former cornet virtuoso and renown conductor Gerard Schwarz said: “Rodney is a superb trumpet player and musician. I have no doubt that this CD will make an important addition to the catalogue of sublime trumpet performances.” In the course of his more than 20 years as an orchestral musician, Mr. Marsalis has won several national and international competitions for titled orchestral chairs. These include positions with the New Orleans Symphony, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica de Tenerife, Barcelona Symphony, and Richmond Symphony. After completing a one-year trial period, he was awarded the Principal Trumpet position with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. During his tenure as principal trumpet with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Marsalis was appointed head of the trumpet department at the Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) — Spain’s leading music conservatory. He has recently been invited to give master classes at the Julliard School, The North Carolina School for the Arts, the National Trumpet Competition and the International Trumpet Guild Conference. He has also been invited to teach at the Eastern Music Festival and the Interlochen Music Academy. Rodney Marsalis can be heard as soloist and principal trumpet on more than 30 different recordings with labels such as Decca, Naxos, Koch International Classics, and Albany Records. 19
Support: Individuals
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e gratefully acknowledge all donors this season. Thank you for helping Tuesday Musical continue to inspire current and future generations of music lovers. This list includes this season’s donors who have given at least $200 as of November 1, 2021. Director $5,000+ Hope Everhart Cynthia Knight Paul and Linda Liesem Michael and Lori Mucha Corrine and Donald Rohrbacher Tim and Jenny Smucker Fred and Elizabeth Specht Darwin Steele Kenneth and Martha Taylor Linda and Jim Venner Lucinda Weiss — “Three Graces Piano” Benefactor $1,500 to $4,999 Earl and Judy Baxtresser Sally Childs Judith Dimengo Bruce Hagelin DuWayne and Dottie Hansen Linda Hohenfeld David and Margaret Hunter James and Maureen Kovach Peter and Dorothy Lepp Natalie Miahky Marianne Miller Charles and Elizabeth Nelson Patrick Reilly Richard and Alita Rogers Patricia Sargent Kenneth Shafer Larry and Cynthia Snider Mike and Betty Taipale John Vander Kooi Sustainer $700 to $1,499 Ann Amer Brennan Eleanor and Richard Aron Lee and Floy Barthel Rob and Alyssa Briggs Alfred Cavaretta Kittie B. Clarke Frank C. Comunale Thomas and Mary Lynn Crowley Barbara Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Paul Filon Robert and Beverley Fischer Sue Gillman Teresa and Ted Good Lawrence B. Levey Anita Meeker 20
Mark and Barbara MacGregor Dianne and Herb Newman George Pope Mark and Claire Purdy Dr. Pamela Rupert Peter and Nanette Ryerson Thomas and Meg Stanton Carol Vandenberg Patron $400 to $699 Mark and Sandy Auburn John Bertsch William P. Blair III Joann Collier Harloe and Harriet Cutler Terry and Mary Kay Finn Lois and Harvey Flanders Sharon Gandee Elaine Guregian Louise and Jim Harvey Loren Hoch Landon Nyako and Dallas Moore Stanley and Roberta Marks Earla Patterson Alan and Marjorie Poorman Paula Rabinowitz Roger and Sally Read Elizabeth Rusnak Donald Schmid and Rosemary Reyman Jean Schooley Richard Shirey and Jim Helmuth Sandra and Richey Smith Jennifer and Jeff Stenroos Donor $200 to $399 Beth Amer John and Kathleen Arther Carmen and David Beasley Cheryl Boigegrain Guy and Debra Bordo Sara and Alan Burky Amielie and Phil Cajka Frank Communale Robert and Susan Conrad William and Rebecca Considine Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Croft Roberta DePompei Roger and Ann Edwards Rosemarie George Barbara and John Gillette
Stanislav Golovin Mark Greer Jarrod Hartzler Michael T. Hayes Walt and Gwen Heeney Patti Hester John and Suzanne Hetrick Mike and Betty Howell Moneeb Iqbal John Isham Mary Ann Jackson Mark and Karla Jenkins Greer Kabb-Langkamp George and Mary Leuca III Tom and Cheryl Lyon Bill and Sally Manby JoAnn Marcinkoski John and Margaret McBride James and Mary Messerly Jim and Patty Milan Georgia and Gary Miller Richard Morrow Paul and Alicia Mucha Alfred and Judy Nicely Annette Nicoloff and Kristine Mikolajczyk Sue Rasor-Greenhalgh Sandra and Ben Rexroad Kathy Rose Beverly Rose Ed and Maureen Russell John Schambach Anne Marie Schellin Rachel Schneider Richard and Susan Schrop Betty and Joel Siegfried Sam and Sandy Smith Margo Snider Doris and James St. Clair Mary Jane Stanchina James Switzer and Gretchen Laatsch Jorene Whitney Jamie Wilding and Caroline Oltmanns Christopher Wilkins Shirley Workman Terry and Susan Yingling Douglas D. Zook Jr.
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Support: Memorials & Tributes
Tuesday Musical’s 2021-22 Akron Concert Series
These generous donors have chosen to honor special people in meaningful ways. List as of November 1, 2021. In memory of Anne Alexander Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Beverley Fischer Jarrod Hartzler Shirley Workman In memory of Margaret Baxtresser Lee and Floy Barthel Judy and Eral Baxtresser Toshie Haga Linda Hohenfeld In memory of Leonora Bee Mark and Sandy Auburn In honor of Judi and Jerry Brenner Anita Meeker In memory of Marian Caddick Harold and Pat Anderson Mark and Sandy Auburn Roberta DePompei Terry and Sue Rasor Greenhalgh Jarrod Hartzler In memory of Kathryn Carcione Joel and Betty Siegfried In memory of Jerry Davidson Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce and Joy Hagelin Jarrod Hartzler Peter and Dorothy Lepp Mark and Barbara MacGregor Natalie Miahky George Pope In memory of Bill Eaton Doris St. Clair In honor of Bobbie Eaton Judi and Jerry Brenner In memory of Hope Everhart Peter and Dorothy Lepp In memory of Wanda L. Fair Kittie B. Clarke
In memory of David Fisher Barbara and Denis Feld Ted and Teresa Good Bruce and Joy Hagelin Cynthia Knight Martha Kaltenbach Mark and Barbara MacGregor In memory of Laura Lee Garfinkle Mark and Sandy Auburn Barbara and Denis Feld In memory of Stephen Griebling James and Linda Beck Bruce and Joy Hagelin Shirley Workman In memory of Joy Hagelin Judi and Jerry Brenner Jane Delcamp Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Bev Fischer Rosemarie George Judith and Charles Gerdes Sue Gillman Mary Ann Griebling Toshie Haga The Hagelin and Wolff families DuWayne and Dorothy Hansen Jarrod Hartzler Margaret Hunter The Hupsters (Andrea, BJ, Louise, Sheila, Jackie, Pixie, Cathy) Monica Jahn Mark and Karla Jenkins Cynthia Knight Peter and Dorothy Lepp Linda and Paul Liesem Barbara and Mark MacGregor Rebecca McLean Anita Meeker and Family Natalie Miahky James Newgent Newgent Families Elizabeth Sandwick Bob and Katy Shroder Cynthia Snider James Tormey Bill and Penny Wolff Shirley Workman
In honor of Joy and Bruce Hagelin Judi and Jerry Brenner Anita Meeker Elizabeth Sandwick In memory of Ellen Herberich Barbara Herberich In memory of Marcianne Herr Bruce Hagelin Geraldine Kiefer Virginia Wojno In honor of Moneeb Iqbal Barbara and Denis Feld In memory of Jon Kelly Audio-Technica Dr. Jeff and Mary Kase In memory of William Kingsbury Anonymous Doris and James St. Clair Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce and Joy Hagelin Natalie Miahky In memory of George Lyon Ann and Roger Edwards Vickie Pitrof Lydia A. Schlosser Lavonne Voelz James and Mary Waltermire In memory of Eugene Mancini Toshie Haga In honor of Anita Meeker Elizabeth Sandwick In memory of Rusty Miller Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Jarrod Hartzler In memory of Bob Neidert Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce and Joy Hagelin Jarrod Hartzler Patricia Jones-Neal Natalie Miahky Shirley Workman 21
Support: Memorials & Tributes In memory of Donald Reid Bruce and Joy Hagelin In memory of Patrick Reilly Mark and Sandy Auburn Jane Berkner and Stewart Freedman Judi and Jerry Brenner Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Beverly Fischer Bruce and Joy Hagelin Jarrod Hartzler Cynthia Knight Barbara and Mark MacGregor Anita Meeker Natalie Miahky Shirley Workman In memory of Sue Reitz Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Beverley Fischer Jarrod Hartzler Peter and Dorothy Lepp Natalie Miahky
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In memory of Lola Rothmann Akron-Canton Stage Employees – Local 48 Mark and Sandy Auburn Ann Amer Brennan Soloman Cokes and Pamela Rothmann Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Beverley Fischer Teresa and Ted Good Jarrod Hartzler Rose Heintz Ruth Hunt Cynthia Knight Richard Morrow Alfred and Judy Nicely Elizabeth Rusnak Tom and Sue Stewart Lily Wallach Abe and Nancy Zaidan
In honor of Cynthia Snider Mark and Sandy Auburn Cynthia Knight In memory of Roy and Marian Tunnell Bruce and Joy Hagelin In honor of Madeline Whittum Dr. Lawrence and Harriet Richmond In memory of Doyle Wingard Natalie Miahky
In honor of Lola Rothmann’s birthday Becky Ryba
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Support: Foundations, Businesses, Government Through their vital support, these organizations help to sustain Tuesday Musical and the arts throughout our region. List as of November 1, 2021. $25,000+ CARES Act GAR Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Ohio Arts Council $10,000 to $24,999 Community Fund—Arts & Culture of the Akron Community Foundation Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust C. Colmery Gibson Polsky Fund of Akron Community Foundation Kulas Foundation John A. McAlonan Fund of Akron Community Foundation Gertrude F. Orr Trust Advised Fund of Akron Community Foundation Peg’s Foundation Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation $5,000 to $9,999 The Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank, Trustee Helen S. Robertson Fund of Akron Community Foundation Sisler McFawn Foundation Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation Welty Family Foundation
Business Partners Tuesday Musical thanks these businesses for their financial support. As our partners, they are investing in the community where their customers, employees, and families live, learn and work.
The McCarron Group
Thank you, Akron Children’s Hospital! We are delighted to welcome Akron Children’s Hospital as Tuesday Musical’s newest Business Partner. Is your business interested in connecting with well-educated and sophisticated arts supporters and community leaders throughout Greater Akron and Northeast Ohio? To discuss options and opportunities, please contact Cynthia Snider, executive director of Tuesday Musical, at 330-761-3460 or csnider@tuesdaymusical.org.
$1,000 to $4,999 Howard Atwood Family Fund of Akron Community Foundation KeyBank Foundation Lehner Family Foundation Beatrice K. McDowell Family Fund W. Paul Mills and Thora J. Mills Memorial Foundation Laura R. and Lucian Q. Moffitt Foundation R. C. Musson and Katharine M. Musson Charitable Foundation Synthomer Foundation $200 to $999 KeyBank Foundation Community Leadership Fund
Be outstanding.
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COMING SOON:
Joshua Bell & Larisa Martinez FEBRUARY 8
Tuesday at 7:30 PM EJ THOMAS HALL
A union of voice and violin Married in 2019, this extraordinary couple tours together for the first time – a can’t-miss event.
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Tuesday Musical’s Donations enable Tuesday Musical to share the world’s best music and musicians throughout our community. Are you — and perhaps a few of your friends — interested in funding a specific budget item? Perhaps in honor of a friend or family member? (Unrestricted gifts for our general operating fund are always welcome, too!) Wish List: ● Fuel for performers (concert snacks!): $55 per concert ● Street banners in downtown Akron: $125 each ● Paper stock for concert tickets: $225 for a case ● Facebook advertising: $250 per concert ● Underwrite the cost of one bus for a school group to attend a concert: $300 ● Concert promo postcard, printing and mailing: $400 per concert ● Concert Conversation in EJ’s Flying Balcony: $400 per concert ● Sponsor a post-concert reception with the guest artist(s): $1,500 ● Sponsor a concert: starting at $10,000 ● Endow and name a scholarship: starting at $13,000 Generous Wish Granters (thank you!): ● Judith Dimengo: Underwriting the cost of five buses ($300 each) for school groups to attend concerts. ● Jim
and Maureen Kovach: One season of tuning and maintenance for our Three Graces Steinway D Grand Piano: $2,000
● Anonymous:
One street banner in downtown Akron: $125
For more information, please contact Cynthia Snider at 330-761-3460 or csnider@tuesdaymusical.org. Or write to Tuesday Musical at 1041 W. Market St., Ste. 200, Akron, OH 44313 Tuesday Musical is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are fully deductible as provided by law.
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2021-2022 Board of Directors
Executive Committee
President Linda Liesem
Vice President/President Elect George Pope
Treasurer Paul Mucha
Secretary Marianne Miller
Governance Committee Chair Bryan Meek
Committee Chairs Artistic Planning Cynthia Snider Brahms Allegro Jennifer Stenroos Development Louise Harvey
Finance Paul Mucha
Hospitality Bobbie Eaton
Membership Fred Specht
Member Programs Stanislav Golovin
Scholarship James Wilding Student Ticket Program Teresa Good
At-large Members Mark Greer, Cheryl Lyon, Landon Nyako, Claire Purdy, Shirley Workman
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Staff Executive Director Cynthia Snider Director of Finance and Audience Services Karla Jenkins Director of Artistic Operations and Educational Engagement Austin Ferguson Marketing Consultants Brett Della Santina, Jim Sector Program art direction by Live Publishing Co.
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Harlem Quartet with Aldo López-Gavilán MARCH 1
Tuesday at 7:30 PM
134th Season 2021-2022
Don’t miss the rest of the season.
Los Hermanos reunited, finally Long-separated Afro-Cuban virtuoso brothers, together again. Schumann + Cuban jazz.
Nu Deco Ensemble MAY 4
Wednesday at 7:30 PM
Miami’s sizzling orchestra for the 21st century
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Nu Deco’s innovative, genrebending performances are fun, unforgettable concerts.
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY
Congratulations to the
2021
TUESDAY MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS