Rhapsodies

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A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Dear Symphony Friends, Good evening and welcome to the first Masterworks concert of the 77th season! Our series begins tonight with Rhapsodies, featuring one of Gershwin’s most beloved and recognizable works Rhapsody in Blue. It will be paired with Peter Boyer’s Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue, written to celebrate the centennial of Rhapsody in Blue. Our evening concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies.

We are pleased to welcome renowned pianist Jeffrey Biegel as our guest artist. Considered one of the most prolific artists of his generation, Mr. Biegel has commissioned many composers to create new music for piano and orchestra. To pay tribute to Gershwin and the 100th birthday of Rhapsody in Blue, Mr. Boyer, at Mr. Biegel’s request, composed Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue. The world premiere was performed by Mr. Biegel and the Utah Symphony this past June. The piece is currently scheduled to be performed by orchestras in all fifty states in the next two seasons.

I want to express my appreciation to tonight’s sponsor City Bank who has been a generous supporter of the Lubbock Symphony for many years. We are indebted to them for their continued funding. Our gratitude also to the Lubbock Symphony Guild, this year’s Debutantes, and their parents.

This evening would not have been possible without the musical brilliance of Maestro David Cho and our extraordinary Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

Thank you for sharing your musical gifts with us! My appreciation to President and CEO Galen Wixson and his dedicated staff for their work on tonight’s program.

Finally, I want to thank all of you, our patrons, for your attendance tonight and continuing interest in and support of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

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A LETTER FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends of the Lubbock Symphony, Thank you for joining us for our first Masterworks concert of the 2023-2024 Season!

With our season revolving around the “Best Of” symphonic works, tonight features “Rhapsodies” while exploring the known and unknown.

Before the intermission, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

Pianist Jeffrey Biegel performs the historic and perennial favorite after introducing us to the new work he commissioned and collaborated on with composer Peter Boyer. “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue” reflects Gershwin’s form and melodic ideas while celebrating diversity and unity through music. After the intermission, we conclude with Beethoven’s mighty “Symphony No. 5,” also exuding the same enthusiasm and energy as a rhapsody. This daringly virtuosic work is also a great way to help the orchestra get to know each other quickly as we begin the season.

I would also like to extend my gratitude to City Bank for their tremendous support and for sponsoring tonight’s concert.

David Cho Music Director Lubbock Symphony Orchestra

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David In-Jae Cho Winner, 2007 Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition Born in Seoul, Korea, David immigrated to the United States in 1985. David received a variety of music lessons during his childhood in Palos Verdes, California, before focusing his energy exclusively on the piano. He later attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, where he received his Bachelor of Music in piano performance. In 1996, David won the E. Nakamichi Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and was awarded the Arthur Dann Prize at the Oberlin Conservatory.

In 1999, while acquiring his Master of Music in piano performance at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, David was invited by Robert Spano and Seiji Ozawa to attend the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center as a Merrill Lynch Conducting Fellow. David was then invited by Larry Rachleff to study at Rice University, where he served as guest conductor for the Shepherd School Orchestras while acquiring his Master of Music in instrumental conducting.

David was subsequently invited by the Vienna Philharmonic to serve as an assistant conductor. As the recipient of the Karajan Fellowship, David has enjoyed residencies at the annual Salzburg Festival in Austria. In 2003, David was invited by Leonard Slatkin to participate in the National Conducting Institute, during which time he made his début with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

During the 2003-2004 season, David was selected to spend a year as the conducting fellow of the New World Symphony under the mentorship of Michael Tilson Thomas. While on tour with the New World Symphony in New York City, David made his Carnegie Hall début conducting works by Copland and Tchaikovsky. During the orchestra’s Rome tour, David made his début at the Academy of Santa Cecilia, conducting works by Luciano Berio and John Adams. David was then invited by his mentor, Larry Rachleff, to serve as the resident conductor of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra from 2004-2006.

During the 2006-2007 season, David held the Bruno Walter resident conductor chair with the ensemble.

During his tenure as the associate conductor of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (2006-2011), David won first prize at the Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico City, which resulted in numerous conducting engagements in Europe, Asia, and South America. He has conducted the symphonies of Seattle, Houston, Austin, Memphis, Fort Wayne, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport. He has collaborated with such guests artist as Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, Joshua Bell, Frederica von Stade, Sarah Chang, Daniel Müller-Schott, Jennifer Koh, Leila Josefowicz, Jennifer Frautschi and Alexander Kobrin. During previous summers, David made appearances at the Aspen Music Festival and the Grand Teton Music Festival.

After heralded guest appearances with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in 2007 and 2009, David was appointed as the orchestra’s seventh music director in 2011. He began his tenure with the LSO in the 2012-2013 season and is now actively involved in community engagements.

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Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Principal Oboe, 1994-2023 Amy Anderson served as an artistperformer and Associate Professor of oboe at Texas Tech University, where she enjoyed a diverse career as a teacher, recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician.

She was an active clinician and performer at conventions of the International Double Reed Society, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, Texas Music Educators Association, and performed as principal oboe of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

Anderson has appeared in recitals at the Musica no Museu Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, served on the prestigious Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute faculty, and as principal oboe of the Quartz Mountain Music Festival and the Breckenridge Music Festival orchestras. She has also performed with orchestras in Canada, Florida, Minnesota, and New York, and the Amarillo, Midland-Odessa, San Antonio, and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras in Texas, as well as professional wind quintets in Florida, Colorado, and New York.

Anderson has recorded for Albany Records and Living Artist Recordings.

Her recording of Incantations by Mary Jeanne van Appledorn with TTU pianist William Westney has been featured on Canadian Broadcasting’s Wired for Sound as well as on Texas Public Radio. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas Tech, Anderson was a resident artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and held faculty positions at the University of Florida, Luther College, and the Hochstein Music School.

Anderson was awarded the Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Performance from the University of North Texas. Her primary teachers include Charles Veazey and Richard Killmer.

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Jeffrey Biegel, Pianist The life and legacy of Jeffrey Biegel reflects an unprecedented journey as a pianist having created the most diverse commissioning projects, premieres and recordings of his generation, building bridges to break divides through music.

His life takes its roots from age three, barely able to hear nor speak, until corrected by surgery. The ‘reverse Beethoven’ phenomenon explains his lifelong commitment to music, having heard only vibrations in his formative years. The pandemic year of 2020 focused on composing original “Waltzes of Hope”, “Sonatina”, and “Three Reflections: JFK, RBG and MLK” for solo piano, and for piano and orchestra, orchestrations

by Harrison Sheckler. 2021 saw the world premieres of his “Reflection of Justice: An Ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg” with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg” for mezzo-soprano, piano and orchestra in tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. Also, the world premiere of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Shadows” newly arranged for piano and seven players with the Idaho State Civic Symphony. In 2022, he premiered Jim Stephenson’s ‘Piano Concerto’, Daniel Perttu’s ‘A Planets Odyssey’ for piano and orchestra, Farhad Poupel’s “The Legend of Bijan and Manijeh” for piano, orchestra and chorus, his own concerto, ‘Three Reflections: Freedom (JFK), Justice (RBG) Equality (MLK)’, and Christopher Marshall’s ‘Thanksgiving Variations on “We Gather Together”’. For 2023, world premieres of Peter Boyer’s “Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue” and Grammy winning singer/songwriter, Melissa Manchester’s ‘AWAKE’ for piano and orchestra will take the stages across America.

The 2024-25 season foresees a new work for piano and orchestra by Adolphus Hailstork with the Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair conducting.

Considered the most prolific artist of his generation, Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Mr. Biegel in 2015, for his achievements in performance, recordings, chamber music, champion of new music, composer, arranger and educator. In 2019, Kenneth Fuchs’s “Piano Concerto: ‘Spiritualist’” with the London Symphony Orchestra led by JoAnn Falletta received a Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium, featuring Mr. Biegel as its soloist. In 2019, the first digital recordings were released on Mr. Biegel’s Naturally Sharp label: “Cyberecital: An Historic Recording”, “A Pianist’s Journey”, and the September 2021 release of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” 1924 version with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra, Bruce Kiesling conducting.

Mr. Biegel created the first largest consortium of orchestras in 1998 for Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s ‘Millennium Fantasy’ premiered with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2000, followed with Charles Strouse’s ‘Concerto America’ with the Boston Pops, Lowell Liebermann’s ‘Concerto no. 3’ with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, William Bolcom’s ‘Prometheus’ for piano, orchestra and chorus, with the Pacific Symphony and Pacific Chorale, Richard Danielpour’s ‘Mirrors’ with the Pacific Symphony, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s ‘Shadows’ with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Jake Runestad’s ‘Dreams of the Fallen’ with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphony Chorus of New Orleans, Lucas Richman’s ‘Piano Concerto: In Truth’ with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, recorded with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Kenneth Fuchs’s “Piano Concerto: ‘Spiritualist’” with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA). He also premiered and recorded Giovanni Allevi’s ‘Concerto for Piano and Orchestra’ and commissioned Christopher Theofanidis’s “Concerto no. 2 for Piano and Orchestra” with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, the “Peanuts Concerto” by Dick Tunney, based on music by Vince Guaraldi, Jimmy Webb’s ‘Nocturne for Piano and Orchestra’ and, PDQ Bach’s ‘Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra’ by Peter Schickele with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Bringing new music to youth orchestras saw the world premiere of Daniel Dorff’s ‘Piano Concerto’ with the Etowah Youth Orchestra, conducted by Michael Gagliardo.

He studied at The Juilliard School with Adele Marcus, herself a pupil of Josef Lhevinne and Artur Schnabel, and is currently on faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College.

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LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR David Cho

The CH Foundation Endowed Conductor’s Podium

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Annie Chalex Boyle

Concertmaster

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Linda Lin

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Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue | Peter Boyer A work written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Commissioned by tonight’s pianist, Jeffrey Biegel.

Composer Peter Boyer has written numerous patriotic works, including the oratorio Ellis Island: A Dream of America.

Serves a tribute and a reflection of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with echoes of both the form and the melodic ideas of Gershwin’s music.

Rhapsody in Blue | George Gershwin Gershwin found out he was writing the piece by reading about it in the New York Tribune only one month before the premiere.

Gershwin wrote it while traveling back and forth to Boston for a production of his musical Sweet Little Devil. He said the rhythms of the train inspired the shape of the piece.

Symphony No. 5 | Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was used as an intergalactic greeting card, with recordings sent onboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft.

An entire symphony based on only four notes – three short, one long.

The four-note rhythm is heard relentlessly in the first movement, but appears in all four movements The symphony includes many unique features: the first use of piccolo, contrabassoon, and trombones in a symphony orchestra (all in the last movement).

Part of the symphony’s enduring popularity is its journey from darkness and tragedy to light and triumph, making it one of the first symphonies of the Romantic era.

We hope you were able to participate in ClefNotes with John Clare prior to the concert this evening!

The f irst Native American to lead an all-classical radio station, John Nasukaluk Clare is comfortable behind a microphone, streaming video or playing violin. He is currently the Classical Music Director at WGUC in Cincinnati, and is the weekday morning drive host on SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall. In 2005, he earned the Deems Taylor Award f rom ASCAP for radio broadcasting, citing his work on 20/20 Hearing. An avid chamber music lover, Clare founded the Las Vegas Chamber Music Society in 2004.

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RHAPSODIES David Cho | Music Director

The CH Foundation Endowed Conductor’s Podium 18 minutes

Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue Jeffrey Biegel, piano 19 minutes

Peter Boyer

(1970 - )

George Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

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Jeffrey Biegel, piano

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Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67

Ludwig van Beethoven

I. Allegro con brio II. Andante con moto III. Scherzo: Allegro IV. Allegro - Presto

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Peter Boyer: Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue In 2017, pianist Jeffrey Biegel wanted to find a way to commemorate the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, which was first performed in March of 1924 at Carnegie Hall. He wanted to do more than repeatedly perform Gershwin’s iconic work for piano and orchestra, so he came up with the idea of commissioning a composer to write a companion piece for Rhapsody in Blue, with the commission encompassing as many orchestras around the country as possible. With that, Biegel began the Rhapsody Initiative to jump start a nationwide celebration of a work that forever changed the way Americans and American orchestras thought about both jazz and classical music.

Biegel himself had this to say about the creation of the piece: I had been thinking about how to celebrate the centennial since 2017, and a couple of years later I started thinking about getting out a new piece, and I came up with this title, Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue. I felt the country needed to join hands through music, despite all the divisions and differences. So I thought, why not celebrate being an American, and celebrate ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ with a new ’Rhapsody.’

After contacting several composers, Biegel eventually decided upon Peter Boyer, a composer of numerous patriotic works, including the oratorio Ellis Island: The Dream of America. After extending the commission to Boyer, Biegel began the arduous task of raising money for the project and bringing other orchestras on board from around the country, with the goal of having orchestras participate from all fifty states. Though his efforts were slowed by COVID-19, he continued to work even as orchestras shut their doors for the duration of the pandemic.

Biegel described his goals in recruiting orchestras for this new work: Many had suffered loss of money and other setbacks, so I though the idea would be a generous incentive for orchestras to join hands together and celebrate our diversity through our unity. And little by little other orchestras began to join…We have a youth orchestra on board, and a number of community orchestras as well. I’m also working with some universities as well…I’d love to get all 50 states on board by June 30 (the date of the world premiere).

The first performance of Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue was given on June 30, 2023 at the Deer Valley Music Festival in Park City, Utah, by the Utah Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Manis with Jeffrey Biegel as the soloist. The work is both an homage and a reflection of Gershwin’s Rhapsody, with echoes of that work and the seductive Afro-Cuban rhythms that Gershwin absorbed in works like his Cuban Overture.

Jeffrey Biegel’s commission now includes 46 different orchestras and it appears that the Rhapsody Initiative will soon reach its goal of including orchestras in all fifty states. Conceived and created during a national pandemic, Biegel believes that the work will inspire composers and listeners for years to come:

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This is something much greater than ourselves. I tell composers that this isn’t about me, and it’s not about them. This is about working together to help bring new music to the repertoire for future generations.

Material for notes on Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue courtesy of propulsivemusic. com, jeffreybiegel.com and parkrecord.com George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Motivation and inspiration are different for every composer. For George Gershwin, the stimulus for writing his famous Rhapsody in Blue was very simple but startling: he found out that he was writing it by reading about it in the newspaper.

In early January 1924, Gershwin and his brother Ira were whiling away a few hours shooting pool, when Ira came across an article in the New York Tribune announcing an upcoming concert by bandleader Paul Whiteman. The two brothers were astonished to read that, according to Whiteman, “George Gershwin is at work on a jazz concerto, Irving Berlin is writing a syncopated tone poem, and Victor Herbert is working on an American suite.” What was of far greater concern to Gershwin was the date of the concert: February 12, slightly more than one month hence.

Anxious that Whiteman had never discussed such a project with him, Gershwin phoned the bandleader the following morning to try to clarify the situation. While Whiteman admitted that he had been forced to move the concert up several months because of a similar project being developed by a rival, he tactfully reminded Gershwin that they had discussed the possibility of a jazz concerto two years previously when they collaborated on the Broadway review George White’s Scandals of 1922.

Rather than hurl recriminations, Gershwin decided that a gig was a gig and sat down with Whiteman to create a piece suitable for both their purposes. Gershwin insisted that the looming concert date necessitated a shorter work than a traditional concerto, so they agreed on a loosely structured fantasia featuring Gershwin as the piano soloist. In the interests of time, Whiteman proposed turning the task of orchestrating the Rhapsody over to Ferde Grofé, chief orchestrator for the Whiteman band. Grofé was an excellent composer in his own right, best known to concert audiences for his Grand Canyon Suite. Gershwin agreed, and Grofé was “on call” to Gershwin for the next month, orchestrating the Rhapsody as he received new pages from the composer’s hands.

Gershwin had the added stress of working around several other pending musical projects while rushing to compose the Rhapsody. Evidently all his multitasking paid off, for it was during a train trip to Boston for rehearsals for his new musical Sweet Little Devil that Gershwin received an epiphany about the musical form of the Rhapsody. He later wrote: It was on the train, with its steely rhythms, its rattlety-bang that is often so stimulating to a composer. . . And there I suddenly heard—and even saw on

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paper—the complete construction of the rhapsody, from beginning to end. . . I heard it as a sort of musical kaleidoscope of America—of our vast melting pot, of our unduplicated national pep, of our metropolitan madness. By the time I reached Boston I had a definite plot of the piece, as distinguished from its actual substance.

Originally the famous clarinet glissando that opens the Rhapsody wasn’t a glissando at all. Gershwin had notated a trill, followed by an upward chromatic scale. In the usual manner of musicians fooling around in rehearsal when playing new music, Ross Gorman, Whiteman’s clarinetist, took the scale and turned it into the “shmear” we know today, part of the piece’s unique performance tradition.

The work is loosely structured, stringing together contrasting jazzy episodes with improvisatory piano cadenzas. After the central cadenza, Gershwin introduces a beautifully lyrical theme that would be equally at home on Broadway or in a Romantic piano concerto. At the Rhapsody’s conclusion, Gershwin brings us full circle, with piano and orchestra proudly strutting their way to the brash, bluesy conclusion.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 Just four notes: three short, one long.

Four notes in unison, without harmony, stated with unquestionable authority, the brief silence that follows them crackling with tension. So incredibly simple, and yet arguably the most famous four notes in the history of music on our planet, recognizable by everyone from kindergarten students to octogenarians. Four notes that the composer himself purportedly described as “Thus Fate knocks at the door.” Four notes that, over a century later, rallied the world’s democracies against the impending peril of fascism, in Winston Churchill’s famous “V for Victory” symbol (so called not just for the Prime Minister’s two-fingered gesture, but because that rhythm – three shorts and a long – represents the letter ‘V’ in Morse code), given an audio equivalent by the BBC in those four notes. Four notes so indestructible in their commanding proclamation that they survived the assault of the disco age (in the guise of Walter Murphy’s 1976 chart topper A Fifth of Beethoven) and have retained their power and brilliance even when gang-impressed to hawk products ranging from computer processors to frozen pan pizza.

As a civilization, we hold Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in such high regard that we made it part of our calling card to other worlds. The Golden Record, the goldplated disc of the music of our planet included on both the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, includes a recording of the first movement of the Beethoven Symphony No. 5, cheek-by-jowl with recordings of Peruvian panpipes, Javanese gamelan, Indian ragas, Louis Armstrong, and Mississippi blues, as well as music

by Bach, Mozart, and Stravinsky. That recording (by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the baton of Otto Klemperer) is currently streaking through interstellar space at about 10 miles per second at a distance of roughly 13 billion miles from Earth, sent with the fervent hope that another civilization will be able to hear

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Beethoven’s first two symphonies follow the model of the Viennese Classicism of Haydn and Mozart – four-movement works where most of the “serious” musical ideas occur in the first and second movements, and the last two movements are lighter in tone, with a dance movement (a minuet or a scherzo) followed by a cheerful finale, often in rondo form. The four movements are self-contained, with a Classical balance achieved through the contrasts of tempo, meter and mood from movement to movement. While Classical symphonies might have programmatic implications (Haydn’s “Clock” and “Military” Symphonies, Mozart’s “Prague” and “Jupiter”), these are not symphonies powered by personal emotion, but by logic and craft. Beethoven’s first two symphonies follow this Classical model, but with some of the distinctive musical fingerprints that point to his later works.

With the “Eroica” Symphony (No. 3, Op. 55, 1803-1804), Beethoven seeks a new direction. As long as his first two symphonies combined, the “Eroica” breaks new ground in Beethoven’s approach to symphonic form and content, with the bounds of symphonic form bursting at the seams with the inventiveness of Beethoven’s imagination. Among its many innovations, the most significant development is a new emphasis on the finale as both the musical and aesthetic culmination of the symphony. Instead of a light rondo, the “Eroica” finale is a large and dramatic set of variations, of a length and complexity worthy to counterbalance the massive opening movement and the emotional depths of the slow movement funeral march.

The Fifth Symphony takes this thinking to the next level. Where the four movements of the “Eroica” are still the four autonomous pieces of the Classical style, following the same Classical forms as Haydn and Mozart, in the Fifth, Beethoven takes the revolutionary step of bridging the final two movements into a single piece of music, so that the musical weight of the composition is at the end and not the beginning of the work. He emphasizes this effect by saving five instruments to be employed only in the final movement: piccolo, contrabassoon, and three trombones (two tenors and a bass trombone), used not just for the first time in this symphony, but for the first time in any symphony. The Fifth still bears the hallmarks of a four-movement Classical symphony, but both musically and emotionally we have left the Classical era behind, even if parts of the work cast backward glances to that period.

Most importantly, Beethoven provides an essential musical link between all the movements of the work by means of those four initial notes. While the first movement is completely obsessed with the three-shorts-and-a-long pattern, each of the other movements use it as well. Beethoven modifies and transforms this rhythmic kernel to suit the musical structure and emotional content of the work, creating a unifying microstructure underneath the conventional Classical and unconventional Romantic structures found throughout.

For a work beloved all over the world, Beethoven’s Fifth did not receive a promising

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start, and it would not be entirely unkind to say it was probably Beethoven’s own fault. He advertised a concert to be given on the evening of December 22, 1808 premiering several new works – so many new works that the concert lasted nearly four hours. Add to this a bitterly cold winter evening and the occupation of Vienna by Napoleon’s troops (which kept most of Beethoven’s wealthy patrons as far away from the city as they could manage), and you have the makings of a potential musical and financial disaster. The concert was done on one rehearsal, with several pieces woefully under-rehearsed. The Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra came to grief in the middle of the performance and had to be started again from the beginning. While Beethoven failed to reap financial rewards from the concert, and critical reviews were scathing, the few hardy souls who braved the weather and the poor performances agreed that this symphony broke new ground.

The opening Allegro con brio still astonishes in its invention, and in its relentless obsession with the four-note idea. Even the more lyrical second theme heard in the violins cannot escape an ominous reply of the four notes in the cellos and basses. The drama of the movement is heightened in the development section where the music fragments, eventually devolving to single chords volleyed back and forth between sections, occasionally interrupted by outbursts of the fournote figure. Even more unusual is the oboe solo that appears shortly into the recapitulation, and the extended coda, ending the movement with brutal finality.

The second movement Andante seems worlds away from the tension and strife of the first. It is a set of variations, with the theme first heard in violas and cellos, and presented in more and more elaborate variations. These variations are interrupted with fanfares in the key of C major, a foreshadowing of the final key of the symphony. Yet even in the opening theme we hear those four notes, in this instance sounding a gentle benediction at the end of the phrase, but linking this largely serene movement with the tempestuous Allegro con brio which preceded it.

The scherzo begins with ominous rising arpeggios in the cellos and basses, followed by a grim march. This theme, led by the horns, is – yes, you guessed it – three short notes and a longer one. The trio section is a rambunctious fugato, led by the cellos and basses. The scherzo returns, and its eerie character is enhanced by the strings playing pizzicato, with punctuations from the bassoons.

Where normally there would be a coda to end the movement loudly, Beethoven instead conjures one of the most magical passages in any symphony. Over a pianissimo timpani beat, the violins begin a melody that starts as a sigh but gradually grows in length and in confidence, like a newly-sprouted vine tentatively straining towards sunlight. The music grows in volume and strength, finally exploding into joyous C major to begin the finale. All emotional doubts are swept away, and the four-note motive chortles triumphantly in the triplet figures that abound throughout the orchestra. In another revolutionary masterstroke, Beethoven brings back a brief glimpse of the gloomy scherzo, but it is C major that wins the day, sprinting triumphantly to the final chords.

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ANNUAL FUND The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra appreciates the generosity of the following individuals who have given to the Annual Fund between February 28, 2022 and August 30, 2023.

MAESTRO’S GOLD CIRCLE ($15,000+) Herb and Evan Armstrong Neil and Sandra Kurtzman Craig and Ann McDonald Sam and Jana Scheef Lola and Thomas Windisch

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MAESTRO’S CIRCLE ($5,000 – $7,499) Jane Baker Joan Baker Dr. Mounir and Mrs. Leen Borno Eugene and Covar Dabezies Michael Epps Jo Anne M. Smith

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MEMORIALS & HONORARIUMS The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges donations received from February 8, 2022 and August 8, 2023 in honor of the following: Memorials: Norton Baker Dr. Eugene Dabezies Lou Dunn Diekemper Mary Epps David and Beebe Fields Lynnita Hufstedler H.E. Prince Bira Kasemsri Don Wade Ledbetter Shelley Furr Nelson Ricky Rasco

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LSO ENDOWMENTS The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Endowment Trust The CH Foundation Conductor’s Podium Endowment Helen DeVitt Jones Endowment for Education LSO Endowment for Musician Fees and Education Shelley Hall Nelson Endowment for Musicians’ Salaries Lubbock Symphony Opera Fund Texas Tech University J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Music Performer Endowment Jones-Saathoff Family Concertmaster Endowment Diekemper Family Foundation Associate Concertmaster Endowment Justice Phil and Carla Johnson Principal Second Violin Endowment Mary M. Epps and Ralph E. Wallingford Principal Viola Endowment Mary Francis Carter Principal Cello Endowment Eugene and Covar Dabezies Principal Bass Endowment Drs. Audrey and Barry McCool Principal Flute Endowment, in memory of the Crew of Columbia, STS-107 Lubbock Symphony Guild Principal Oboe Endowment Janeen Drew Holmes English Horn Endowment Christine Polvado and John Stockdale Principal Clarinet Endowment Nancy and Tom Neal Principal Bassoon Endowment Anthony and Helen Brittin Principal Horn Endowment Stacey and Robert Kollman Family Principal Trumpet Endowment Larry and Lucy Landusky Principal Trombone Endowment Tim and Mary Jane Sampson Bass Trombone Endowment Diekemper Family Foundation Principal Tuba Endowment Lubbock Symphony Guild Timpani Endowment Lisa Rogers/Alan Shinn Principal Percussion Endowment Rachel Jean Armstrong Thomas Principal Harp Endowment Edward R. and Jo Anne M. Smith Principal Piano Endowment

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ADVISORY COUNCIL, PAST CHAIRS Jack M. Lewis

1946

Roger Key

1986

W.P. Clement

1947

Edwin E. Merriman

1987

Charles E. Maedgen, Jr.

1948

Owen McWhorter, Jr.

1988

Roy Bass

1949

Frank Newton

1989

Rex Webster

1950

Frank Anderson

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Marion Key

1951

Kay Sanford

1991

W.R. Sewell

1952

Paul Meyer

1991-92

J.C. Reynold

1953

Robert L. Stripling

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James L. Quicksall, Jr.

1954

Jim Ratliff

1993-94

Asher Thompson

1955-56

Coffee Conner

1995-96

Richard G. Richards

1957

Alan Henry

1996-97

Jack Kastman

1958

William D. Armstrong

1997-98

Joe J. Moise

1959

Susan Boling

1998-99

J. Harmon Jenkins

1960

Curtis Griff ith

1999-00

George C. Miller

1961

DeWayne Pierce

2000-01

Lonnie Langston

1962

Mike Cunningham

2001-02

John Witcomb

1963

Margaret Lutherer

2002-03

O.W. English

1964

Chris Barnette

2003-05

Asher Thompson

1965-68

Catherine S. Porter

2005-06

Troy Myers

1969

Ray Fargason

2006-08

Arthur E. Gamble

1970

Emily Ratcliff

2008-09

Charley Pope

1975-77

Brad Green

2009-11

C.B. Carter

1978

Peter G. Daia

2011-13

Robert E. Norris

1979

Kirk McLaughlin

2013-15

Dean James Allen

1980-81

Harry Zimmerman

2015-17

Robert L. Stripling

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Shannon Taliaferro

2017-19

Charley Pope

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Heather Hocker

2019-21

John R. Kreiger

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Brian Willcutt

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Toni Wallingford

Chair

Jill Stangl

Chair Elect

Melissa Lewis

Treasurer

Terri Byrne

Secretary

Phil Sizer Andrew Stetson Robin Talbert Davor Vugrin Darya White Joyce White Lola Windisch Galen Wixson

Brian Willcutt

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DIRECTORS

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President & CEO David Cho

Music Director Eric Allen

Lubbock Chamber Orchestra Conductor Kea Beasley

Director of Education Courtney Jordan

Director of Development Corey Dolter

Operations Manager Emily Gavaghan

Director of Marketing Vaughan Hennen

Librarian

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Personnel Manager Amelia Jamieson

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Director of Accounting Jamie Shipp

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A WORD FROM THE LUBBOCK SYMPHONY GUILD PRESIDENT Dear Patrons, Thank you for attending tonight’s performance. We appreciate your support of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

The 2023-2024 “Best Of” season promises to be an outstanding year of symphonic music presented by Maestro David Cho and your Lubbock Symphony Orchestra.

Tonight’s performance, and every performance since 1952, has been made possible in part because of the support provided by the Lubbock Symphony Guild. For 71 years, Guild members have donated their time, talent, and resources to keep symphonic music thriving in our community.

If you appreciate the talent of our Orchestra and value the educational and cultural contributions provided to Lubbock and West Texas, I invite you to consider becoming a member of our Guild. For more information, please visit our website at www.LubbockSymphonyGuild.com.

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Lubbock Symphony Guild Senior Debutantes

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