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TABLE OF CONTENTS Greg Zelek Biography............................................................ 5 Concert Sponsors.................................................................... 6 Program....................................................................................... 7 Program Notes.......................................................................... 10 Adopt-a-Stop............................................................................. 20 Organ Specifications.............................................................. 23 Friends of the Overture Concert Organ......................... 25 Ticket Information................................................................... 35 Boards and Administration .................................................. 36

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GREG ZELEK | ORGAN

Praised as “extraordinary in the classical music world” (Jon Hornbacher, PBS Wisconsin Life), Greg Zelek is the Principal Organist of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Curator of the Overture Concert Organ, where he oversees all of the MSO’s organ programming. Since September 2017, Greg has proudly held the Elaine and Nicholas Mischler Curatorship. In addition to concertizing throughout the United States, Greg regularly performs with orchestras as both a soloist and professional ensemble member, including the Florida Orchestra, Ridgewood Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, MET Orchestra, and Miami Symphony

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Orchestra. In 2016, Greg was chosen by The Diapason magazine as one of the top “20 Under 30” organists, a feature which selects the most successful young artists in the field. He was the First Prize winner in the 2012 Rodgers North American Classical Organ Competition, the 2012 West Chester University Organ Competition, and the 2010 East Carolina University Organ Competition. A recipient of the inaugural Kovner Fellowship, Greg received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, as well as an Artist Diploma, from the Juilliard School as a student of Paul Jacobs.

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Gale Meyer Jane Hamblen and Robert Lemanske Gerald and Shirley Spade

The Overture Concert Organ is the gift of Pleasant T. Rowland. Support for all Overture Concert Organ Programs is provided by the Diane Endres Ballweg Fund. We wish to thank our other organ contributors, the Malmquist Family, two Anonymous Donors, and Friends of the Overture Concert Organ. Greg Zelek is the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Organist and the Elaine and Nicholas Mischler Curator of the Overture Concert Organ.

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Overture Concert Organ Series | Program No. 1

Greg Zelek, Organ EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934), arr. Jonathan Scott Nimrod, from Variations on an Original Theme (“Enigma”), Op. 36 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ERIK SATIE (1866-1925), arr. Greg Zelek Je te veux CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR (1844-1937) Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42, No. 2 I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Intermezzo: Allegro IV. Cantabile V. Finale: Vivace

Please Note: This program will be played without an intermission

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PROGRAM NOTES OCTOBER 19, 2021

Program Notes by J. Michael Allsen

Welcome to the opening program of the 2021-22 Overture Concert Organ Series! In this concert, the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s principal organist, Greg Zelek, performs four works, beginning with an arrangement of Elgar’s beautiful Nimrod, from the “Enigma” Variations. Next is one of the most familiar works of Bach, the powerful Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Zelek then presents his own arrangement of a waltz by Satie. The closing work is one of the organ symphonies of the great French organist Widor: virtuoso music designed to use all of the sonic resources of a large concert organ.

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Nimrod, from Variations on an Original Theme (“Enigma”), Op. 36 arranged for organ by Jonathan Scott

Writing to his friend August Jaeger in 1899, Elgar described a recently-completed composition: a set of variations that depicted thirteen of his musical and nonmusical friends. Elgar incorporates several “enigmas” into this work. The first is the theme itself, which he labels “enigma.” Each variation is titled according to the person represented, but their identities are hidden by his use of initials and nicknames. (Elgar himself soon gave away the secret identities, however.) He also states that there is another larger theme, 10

which is never actually played, that nevertheless runs “through and over” the entire work. Elgar’s biographers have expended reams of paper in pursuit of this mystery. Possible candidates proposed for the “larger theme” include: A Mighty Fortress is Our God, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia, Auld Lang Syne, a theme from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, and the major scale. It has also been suggested that this unplayed theme might be a non-musical concept such as friendship. The usually articulate Elgar was notably vague on this point. There is even the possibility that Elgar, whose sense of humor was well known to his friends and associates, was being deliberately obscure as a joke! The Enigma Variations was the first of Elgar’s works to be widely heard, and it remains his most popular orchestral work today. It consists of a brief theme and fourteen variations: with the final variation a self-portrait. The longest and most famous section of the piece is Variation 9, which Elgar titled Nimrod. The title is a labored pun on the name of August Jaeger, one of Elgar’s closest friends: “Jaeger” in German means “hunter,” and Nimrod was the “mighty hunter” of the Book of Genesis. This movement is not a portrait of Jaeger’s forceful character, but instead depicts a fondly-remembered conversation 2021 | 2022 SEASON

between Elgar and Jaeger on the grandeur of Beethoven’s music. Elgar provides some reminiscences of the slow movement of Beethoven’s “Pathetique” sonata in the opening bars. There is a long tradition of excerpting this gorgeous, slowly-developing variation as a separate piece, and of arranging it for different media. Here, it is played in a lush arrangement for organ.

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Johann Sebastian Bach was known in his day primarily as one of Germany’s great organists— as a keyboard composer and a powerful improviser. It is ironic then, that there is some doubt that the organ work by Bach that nearly everyone knows today—the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor heard here—is in fact by Bach. A little background... There is no original copy of the work in Bach’s handwriting, and the earliest surviving version was copied by another organist, probably after Bach’s death. This in itself is hardly unusual—most of Bach’s keyboard music survives only in copies by his sons or other musicians. Most biographers have assumed that this bravura work was one of the showy pieces a very young Bach wrote for his first important professional position, as church organist in Arnstadt, 1703-06. However, since the 1980s others have challenged the attribution of the work to madisonsymphony.org

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Bach, noting that there are some technical crudities and other details that are inconsistent with Bach’s undisputedly authentic works— even suggesting that this later copy was an organ arrangement of a violin work. Biographers such as Christoph Wolff have countered that some of the unusual features in the work may in fact have been ingenious adaptations to the limitations of the organ Bach used at Arnstadt. All musicology aside, however, this work is now inextricably tied to Bach! There is a long tradition of adapting it for soloists and ensembles, beginning with Leopold Stokowski’s famous orchestral transcription of 1927. It is heard it here in the original organ version. The work begins with a free-form toccata—an improvisatory-style piece used as prelude. After a grand conclusion, the fugue begins with a complex

and spiky subject. This is developed in intense counterpoint until the end, where there is a dramatic return to the texture of the toccata.

Erik Satie (1866-1925)

Je te veux

arranged for organ by Greg Zelek

The innovative and enigmatic Erik Satie was one of the most unorthodox composers of France’s “Belle Époque”—the period between the end of the FrancoPrussian War in 1871 and the beginning of World War I in 1914 that saw radical changes in music and all of the arts. Satie would spend his entire career in Paris. He would eventually become a success when he was in his mid40s, when his innovative works were championed by Ravel and other younger composers. But for

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much of his career, Satie worked in relative obscurity, producing music that was unconventional in style, and often satirical in tone: his works include Flabby Preludes for a Dog, Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear, and Sketches and Provocations of a Portly Wooden Mannequin! He cultivated an equally strange personal image: his quirks included eating only white food and dressing every day in one of several identical velvet suits. In 1887, the 21-year old Satie, who had dropped out of the Paris Conservatory, moved to Montmartre, the grubby Paris suburb that was the home of many of the musicians, artists, and poets who were leading the avant garde. Montmartre was also one of the centers of Parisian nightlife, and over the next several years, Satie scratched out a living playing piano in nightclubs, particularly in the cabaret shows of the Chat Noir (Black Cat). He also published a few popular songs in this period as a way to pay the bills. One of the singers Satie accompanied at the Chat Noir was Paulette Darty, known at the time as “the queen of the slow waltz”—a reference to songs that often had seduction as their theme. In 1897 Satie wrote the song Je te veux (I want you) for her, setting a steamy poem by his friend Henry Pacory. (It begins: “I understand your distress, dear lover, and I give in to your wishes. Make me your mistress. Wisdom is far away from us; no more sadness. I look forward to the beautiful moment when we will be happy. I want you.”) The song was

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published in 1902, and Satie later published it in various versions, including one for solo piano. This piano version is the source of Greg Zelek’s arrangement for organ. Je te veux was a song written for popular consumption, and there is nothing remotely avante garde about its music, aside from a few unexpected twists of harmony. The outer sections are based upon a simple, limpid waltz theme, and the middle section begins with slightly more agitated music that hints at the turbulent feelings expressed in the text.

Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42, No. 2

Charles-Marie Widor had a long career as one of France’s greatest organists, beginning with his appointment at age 25 as organist at the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, a position he would hold for some 64 years. In 1890, he also succeeded César Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conservatory, where he would be a powerful influence over the next generation of French organists and organ composers. As a composer, Widor wrote four operas and a host of works for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble, but it is his organ works that are known today. Particularly popular are his ten symphonies for solo organ. These are large multimovement works designed to exploit the vast range of timbres available on a new generation of large organs, pioneered in the 19th century by

organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. The organ Widor played at SaintSulpice, rebuilt by Cavaillé-Coll in 1862, is widely considered to be the builder’s masterpiece. Widor’s Symphony No.6 is one of four organ symphonies he published in 1879 as his Opus 42. The composer played its premiere on August 24, 1878, at the inauguration of a magnificent new Cavaillé-Coll instrument installed in the Palais de Trocadero, a Paris concert hall. Its opening Allegro is among his more frequentlyplayed works today. It opens with a thundering chorale theme that serves as the basis for a free set of variations. Widor’s dense, sometimes intensely chromatic counterpoint throughout testifies to his devoted study of J. S. Bach. After the stormy opening

movement, the Adagio, played on the organ’s string and flute stops, is a quiet moment of reflection. The Intermezzo (Allegro) serves as the symphony’s scherzo movement, with a fierce theme decorated by a wild countermelody. The central section is more lyrical, spinning out over a long-held pedal note, before the movement ends with a return to the opening idea. The Cantabile is built upon a gentle melody played on the oboe stop and varied above a quiet, chromatic accompaniment. The rousing finale (Allegro) is a rondo built upon a forceful theme heard at the beginning, which alternates with other more rhapsodic ideas. It ends with a grand echo of the first movement’s closing chord. program notes ©2021 by J. Michael Allsen

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In 2004, Pleasant T. Rowland gave the magnificent Overture Concert Organ as a gift to the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Lead gifts of $1 million from Diane Endres Ballweg and $500,000 from an anonymous donor established the Organ Endowment Fund, a permanent fund which helps support Overture Concert Organ programming and care of the instrument. To help ensure the instrument will continue to be heard by future generations, the MSO and Friends of the Overture Concert Organ are seeking an additional $500,000 for the organ endowment. Currently, just $180,000 is needed to reach this goal!

“Madison is so blessed to have the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Mighty Klais’ in Overture Hall. It is a complex, wonderful instrument, and we wish all future generations to experience the pure joy in sound that it can produce.” –Nicholas and Elaine Mischler Tutti Donors

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Friends of the Overture Concert Organ 2015-2016 Board of Directors in honor of Elaine Mischler Choir Clarinet 8’ – B-Flat¹

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ORGAN SPECIFICATION Johannes Klais Orgelbau — Bonn, Germany 2004 • 72 Ranks GREAT 4-1/2” wind Principal Principal Offenflote Salicional Gedeckt Principal Rohrflote Quinte Octave Cornett V Mixtura mayor V Trompete Trompete

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SWELL (enclosed) 4-1/2” wind 16 Bordun 8 Tibia 8 Bordun 8 Viola da Gamba 8 Voix Celeste 4 Fugara 4 Transversflote 2-2/3 Quintflote 2 Octavflote 1-3/5 Terzflote Plein jeu IV 16 Basson 8 Trompette harmonique 8 Basson-Hautbois 4 Clairon harmonique Tremulant CHOIR (enclosed) 4” wind Geigen Principal Suavial Rohrflote Gemshorn Unda maris Octave Viola Waldflote Quinte Terz Mixtura minor IV Clarinet Tremulant

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SOLO (enclosed) 11” wind Principal Harmonic Flute Stentor Gamba Gamba Celeste Tuba Tuba French Horn PEDAL 5” wind Vox Balinae (Resultant) Double Open Untersatz Open Wood Violon (Gt) Bourdon (Sw) Subbass Octavbass Harmonic Flute (Solo) Stentor Gamba (Solo) Gedackt Octave Contra Bombarde Posaune Tuba (Solo) Trompete Clairon ACCESSORIES 15 General Pistons 10 General Toe Studs 8 Divisional Pistons 5 Pedal Divisional Toe Studs 5 Divisional Cancel Pistons Sequencer Programmable Crescendo and Tutti

8 8 8 8 16 8 8

64 32 32 16 16 16 16 8 8 8 8 4 32 16 16 8 4

COUPLERS Gt to Ped Gt to Ped Sw to Ped Sw to Ped Ch to Ped Ch to Ped Solo to Ped Solo to Ped Sw to Sw Sw Unison Off Sw to Sw

8 4 8 4 8 4 8 4 16 4

Sw to Gt Sw to Gt Sw to Gt Ch to Gt Ch to Gt Ch to Gt Solo to Gt Solo to Gt Solo to Gt Gt to Gt Gt Unison Off Gt to Gt

16 8 4 16 8 4 16 8 4 16

Sw to Ch Sw to Ch Sw to Ch Solo to Sw Solo to Sw Solo to Ch Solo to Ch Ch to Ch Ch Unison Off Ch to Ch

16 8 4 8 4 8 4 16

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RAVISHING RHAPSODY — Olga Kern, Piano

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NOVEMBER 12, 13 & 14, 2021 GRAND PANORAMA — Thomas Mesa, Cello DECEMBER 3, 4 & 5, 2021 A MADISON SYMPHONY CHRISTMAS Elizabeth Caballero, Jared Esguerra Madison Symphony Chorus, Madison Youth Choirs, Mt. Zion Gospel Choir

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