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Composer Kevin McKee is a native of Yreka, CA where he began playing the trumpet in fifth grade at the urging of his father, the high school band director. Following high school, Kevin earned a BM from California State University, Sacramento and a MM in trumpet performance from the University of Maryland, College Park, graduating in 2006. Kevin has attended the Aspen Music Festival, the National Orchestral Institute, the Music Masters Course in Kazusa, Japan, and recently won the second trumpet chair in the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, OR for the summer of 2009. His primary teachers have been Chris Gekker, Steve Hendrickson, Gary Dilworth, and Kevin Cobb. Kevin is a member of the Wammie-award winning Great Noise Ensemble, which is currently in residence at Catholic University of America. Kevin is also a member of the Continuum Brass Quintet and the Brass Band of the Potomac. He has also performed with the soul group, The O’Jays. Compositionally Kevin has published three pieces: Escape (Brass Quintet), Vuelta del Fuego (Ride of Fire), and most recently on a commission from Troy University, Dürrenhorn Passage (Trumpet Sextet). In addition to performing and writing, Kevin enjoys teaching and maintains a studio of trumpet students in the DC area. g

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Jennifer Van Petten, Conductor

Grand March from Tannhäuser…............…......... Richard Wagner

1813-1883 Arr. Vernon Leidig

“España Cani”….......................................…….. Spanish Folk Song Arr. Merle Isaac

Violin Sonata in d minor, Op. 5, No. 12 ................ Arcangelo Corelli “La Folia”

1653-1713 Arr. Henry Sopkin

Prelude from Carmen...........................................…..Georges Bizet

1838-1875 Arr. Casey Kriechbaum

SYMPHONY

Scott Herman, Conductor

Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21.............Ludwig van Beethoven First Movement

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Variations on a Korean Folk Song .................. John Barnes Chance

1932-1972 Arr. Robert Longfield

Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 4 ...................................... Antonín Dvorák

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b. 1932 Arr. James Ployhar

PHILHARMONIC David Levin, Conductor

Radetzky March, Op. 228 .................................................Johann Strauss

1804-1849

Symphony No. 2 in c minor, Op. 17...........Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro vivo II. Andantino marziale, quasi moderato III. Scherzo: Allegro molto vivace IV. Finale: Moderato assai - Allegro vivo

Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin..................................... Richard Wagner

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“España Cani”

Young Artists Notes

Spanish Folk Song Arr. Merle Isaac

Grand March from Tannhäuser

Richard Wagner, 1813-1883 Arr. Vernon Leidig

By the early 1840s, with the success of the early and more conventional operas Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman, Richard Wagner had become a force in German music. His next—and more doctrinaire—opera, Tannhäuser, is based on medieval legends about an actual Minnesinger, or poetmusician, who died c. 1265. The opera premiered in Dresden in 1845 and quickly became enormously popular throughout Germany. Its protagonist, who has been living it up for a year with Venus and is, incidentally, also a singer-composer, wins a contest with a song extolling profane love. Condemned to clean up his act before he can claim the hand of his pure betrothed, Elisabeth, he makes a pilgrimage to Rome where the pope refuses to grant him absolution. Tannhäuser returns to Germany carrying his withered staff, symbol of his continued state of sin, in time to witness Elisabeth’s funeral. He collapses and dies in remorse as his staff blooms, symbolizing his redemption through love. The Grand March is from Act II, as the noblemen in their fine attire enter the hall to witness or participate in the singing contest. In 1861 Wagner had planned a production for the Opera in Paris but refused to add the “obligatory” ballet in the second act. As a result the opera was a failure, disrupted by organized catcalls, not to return to the Paris stage for 34 years. Nevertheless, he retained other revisions for Paris into what is now the standard version. In 1859 it became the first Wagner opera to be performed in America. Vernon Leidig (b. 1919) is Professor Emeritus of Music at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught from 1950-1985. One of the most prolific music education arrangers in the country, he has over 250 music publications. He is probably best known for his Classics For Orchestra, which presently include 40 movements of symphonies and classical compositions that are used for secondary schools, honor orchestras, and community orchestras throughout the country.

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Violin Sonata in d minor, Op. 5, No. 12, “La Folia” Arcangelo Corelli, 1653-1713 Arr. Henry Sopkin

Mystery and controversy surround much of the life of Arcangelo Corelli. Born of a wealthy landowning family, he studied music at the cathedral of San Petronio in Bologna, a site with an illustrious pedigree of musicians and composers. Corelli is thought to have traveled extensively in Europe during his youth but exactly where and when is by no means clear. In 1687, when, famous as violinist and composer, he settled in Rome as the protégé of Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili, and later of the 22-year-old Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, in whose palace he spent the rest of his life. Corelli became teacher and mentor to an entire generation of violinists and composers, and the Monday night musical soirées he led in the cardinal’s palace became known throughout Europe. He was a great friend of the most famous painters of the day and accumulated a large art collection, mostly gifts. Handel, during his sojourn in Italy, befriended him and admired him greatly but commented that Corelli liked nothing better than to save money and look at his pictures

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he had not paid for. He died rich and famous, beloved by all for his mild disposition and friendly attitude despite his wealth and position. Except for a few works, most of them spurious, Corelli published all his compositions in six volumes of 12 works each. The first five sets were violin or trio sonatas, and Opus 6 a set of twelve concerti grossi, in which he set two violins and a viola or cello against the larger string ensemble. In large part because of the boom in music publishing, Corelli’s music was disseminated throughout Europe and his works served as models for the following generation of famous composers, including Bach, Vivaldi, Handel and Telemann. The Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 12, known as La Folia, is an unusual work, consisting of a theme and variations. The theme, called La folia, is a chord sequence that can be traced back to Portugal and Spain of the sixteenth century. Originally it was a wild Spanish dance—“folia” means insanity in Spanish. In the course of time and its migration to Italy, it became tamer and found its way into art music. Themes and variation have been around since the Middle Ages, and variations on the “folia” theme became fashionable as early as 1680. There are innumerable sets of them, and in the 1970s, WGBH Boston’s classical disc jockey, the late Robert J. Lurtsema, held marathon broadcasts encompassing hours of music based on the theme into contemporary times. Henry Sopkin, (1903-1988) was a gifted conductor and educator from Chicago, who came to Atlanta in 1945 as Conductor of the Atlanta Youth Symphony on a one-year contract. He helped establish the Atlanta Symphony and became its first Music Director, remaining with the organization for more than two decades. He built it from a youth ensemble into a respected orchestra.

Prelude from Carmen Georges Bizet, 1838-1875 Arr. Casey Kriechbaum

Georges Bizet was yet another of those composers who showed precocious brilliance as a child but never lived long enough to completely fulfill the promise. The difference, however, between Bizet and Mozart, who died at about the same age, is that Mozart left over 600 completed compositions, many of them masterpieces, while Bizet is known primarily for a single work, the opera Carmen. Although he did not come from a family of professional musicians, Bizet’s parents recognized his talent and supported his ambition to become a musician and composer. Encouraged by his father, he entered the Paris Conservatory at the extremely young age of ten. He excelled in his studies and, on his second try, won the coveted Prix de Rome at 19, a composition prize that allowed the winner to study abroad for three years. The Prix de Rome was almost an obligatory first step on the career ladder for aspiring French composers—although it certainly didn’t guaranteed lasting fame. After his return to Paris, Bizet hoped to specialize in opera. He had all the right connections in the Paris music establishment, but had a difficult time pleasing audiences and himself. His first three operas, including Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers,) received only lukewarm receptions and Bizet himself destroyed many incomplete operas and large-scale orchestral works. Although hardly a comic opera, Carmen was premiered at the Opéra Comique, where the operas used spoken dialogue rather than recitative as in grand opera. Based on a contemporary novella by Prosper Merimée, it is the story of a fickle and promiscuous seductress who ensnares an innocent young soldier into a passion that leads inexorably to his desertion, degradation and finally a jealous murder on stage. While other French composers—such as Daniel François Auber and Ambroise Thomas—routinely presented such characters on stage, they were handled discreetly and in accordance with prevailing morality in which the guy with the black hat mended his ways, the hero resisted temptation and the poor but virtuous girl remained virtuous (although seldom poor). By contrast, Bizet retained Merimée’s realism, giving the characters darker emotions and poor self-control. Audiences and critics alike considered Carmen scandalous and immoral (although that didn’t stop it from enjoying the longest run of any of Bizet’s stage works). But when the critics panned it for its “filth” and suggested that the police courts intervene, Bizet was crushed, went into a depression and succumbed to a chronic throat ailment followed by a heart attack. Within three months of the premiere, he was dead. After a short run following the composer’s death in 1875, Carmen did not make it again to the Paris stage until 1883; it was a production in Vienna in October of 1875 that led to its worldwide triumph, relegating it to the standard repertory for nearly every opera company. The opera was much admired by the young Giacomo Puccini, whose own operas adhered to the Italian verismo (“slice of real life”) literary movement and were among Carmen’s direct aesthetic descendents. g 22

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Symphony Notes Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21, First Movement Ludwig van Beethoven,

1770-1827

Born and educated in Bonn, Germany, Beethoven settled in Vienna in 1792, hoping to take the city by storm; but it took him several years to establish his credentials in this musically sophisticated city whose idol was the aging Franz Josef Haydn. Beethoven studied with Haydn, soaking up many of his compositional techniques and innovations. By the time the now not-so-young composer premiered the First Symphony on April 2, 1800 at the Burgtheater, his reputation was secure. He was well known as a pianist and in great demand as a soloist; his chamber and piano compositions had begun to attract serious attention and he had acquired numerous sponsors among the aristocracy and the well-to-do. He dedicated the First Symphony to one of them, Baron Gottfried van Swieten, a supporter and friend of Mozart, who had established a large library of music and promoted the music of Bach and Handel to Viennese audiences. The period of the First Symphony is also that of the Op. 18 String Quartets, and both represented important milestones for Beethoven as he sought to assimilate and surpass the achievements of Haydn in these two genres. The concert was a benefit for Beethoven where he was featured both as performer and composer. The hefty program—by no means unusual for the time—included a Mozart symphony, two movements from Haydn’s Creation, an improvisation on the piano by Beethoven, the Septet, Op. 20, Symphony No. 1, and probably the First Piano Concerto in C major. Yet, despite Beethoven’s growing reputation, the critics’ initial reception of the Symphony was lukewarm at best, “...a caricature of Haydn pushed to absurdity.” That absurdity was already apparent in the opening chords that trick the listener as to the true key of the piece. In a short time, however, the Symphony became a great favorite, “...a glorious production, showing extraordinary wealth of lovely ideas...” A measure of its popularity was the appearance only two years later of an anonymous pirated arrangement for piano quintet that elicited a nasty letter from Beethoven to the Wiener Zeitung of October 30, 1802, disclaiming authorship and complaining of

publishers’ actions and the insecurity of a composer’s rights. Copyright laws were still in the distant future, but two of Beethoven’s younger contemporaries, the enterprising composers Carl Maria von Weber and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, made significant contributions to copyrights for composers.

Variations on a Korean Folk Song

John Barnes Chance, 1932-1972 Arr. Robert Longfield

Variations on a Korean Folk Song was originally composed for concert band in 1966. It consists of a set of variations on the Korean folk song Arirang, which John Barnes Chance heard while serving in Seoul as a member of the Eighth U.S. Army Band. Chance writes: “The tune is not as simple as it sounds, and my fascination with it during the intervening years led to its eventual use as the theme for this set of variations.” The theme is based on a pentatonic scale. At the opening, the first part of the theme is introduced quietly in the clarinets, with the other instruments joining in to play the second part. The piece won the 1966 American Bandmasters Association’s Ostwald Award. Born in Beaumont, Texas, Chance studied composition and received a Masters degree at the University of Texas, Austin. He is best known for his concert band works, many of which were written for young musicians, particularly those written between 1960 and 1962, when he was composerin-residence in the Greensboro, North Carolina public school system as part of the Ford Foundation Young Composers Project. Chance played timpani with the Austin Symphony and later was an arranger for the Fourth and Eighth U.S. Army bands. He taught at the University of Kentucky from 1966 until his accidental death by electrocution in his back yard in 1972. In addition to the concert band works, Chance composed two symphonies and a number of choral works. His music is tonal and romantic, with rhythmic inventiveness and striking instrumentation. Composer, arranger, and educator Robert Longfield was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan and also earned a degree from the University of Miami. For fifteen years, Mr. Longfield was the band and orchestra director at Davison High School in Davison, Michigan. Since 1987, he has held a similar position at Miami Palmetto Senior High School

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Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 4

Antonín Dvorák,

1841-1904

Given his place as one of the foremost composers of the nineteenth century, Antonín Dvorák was something of a late bloomer, but not for want of musical talent and promise. Dvorák’s father was a butcher and had expected his son to go into the family trade. Only after his uncle had agreed to finance the boy’s musical education was he able to follow his passion for music. Trained as a church organist, Dvorák’s first job was as a performer, playing principal viola in Prague’s new Provincial Theatre Orchestra. During this time, he practiced composition, producing songs, symphonies and entire operas although he achieved no recognition until he was in his thirties. After winning national prizes for several years in the 1870s, however, his work came to the attention of Johannes Brahms, who gave him his first real break. The older composer, whose reputation was at its height, promoted Dvorák to his own publisher, Simrock, who offered him his first commission, the Opus 46 set of Slavonic Dances. Dvorák was a devoted Czech nationalist. Like his older compatriot Bedrich Smetana, he freely incorporated folk elements into his music, utilizing characteristic peasant rhythms and melodic motives but never actually quoting entire folk melodies. The Slavonic Dances were first composed for piano duet and then immediately orchestrated by the composer. This dual approach proved to be a win/win arrangement for both publisher and composer. The dances could both be played in the concert hall, where they were recognized as the heir to Brahms’s Hungarian Dances, as well as purchased for home music making. They were so successful that Simrock commissioned another set (Op. 72) in 1880, which Dvorák finally got around to completing in 1885. The dances all follow the roughly similar form with two or more sections containing themes in contrasting moods and tempi. The first section—sometimes also fairly complex in structure —serves as a refrain for the dance as a whole. The dances comprise a wide range of Spring Concert 2009

moods all displaying the composer’s dazzling melodic gift. No.4 is a mixture of styles, including the Polish mazur and polka, as well as a Czech sousedská.

Theme from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial John T. Williams, b. 1932 Arr. James Ployhar

Composer, conductor and arranger John Williams is probably the most successful and bestknown film composer of all time, with such blockbuster scores as Star Wars, Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler’s List and dozens of others. E.T., released in 1982, is considered by many as Steven Spielberg’s best movie. It has been described as: “Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, [it] is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by grown-ups.” John Williams, with his ability to invoke mystery and drama in music, was a natural choice to composer the score, in which he conveyed the film’s child-like sense of innocence. The film’s final chase and farewell sequence is one of the few instance in film history in which the on-screen action was re-edited to conform to the composer’s musical interpretation (Sergey Prokofiev’s score to Alexander Nevsky is another one). The score garnered Williams his fourth Academy Award. What many people do not know is that in addition to his film scores, Williams has also composed extensively for the concert hall. His symphonies, the Violin Concerto, Flute Concerto, Bassoon Concerto and numerous chamber works, have been performed around the world, especially by the Boston Pops, which he conducted between 1980 and 1993. One of the most prolific writes in the field of music education, James D. Ployhar (1926-2007) was also a composer and film producer. He has over 800 credited music publications. Polyhar taught for over 19 years in public schools and participated in many clinics and workshops. His book Contemporary Band Course is widely used around the world. g

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Philharmonic Notes Radetzky March, Op. 228

Johann Strauss,

1804-1849

The Austro-Hungarian Empire never really recovered from the devastation of the Napoleonic wars. Throughout the nineteenth century it fought a rearguard action to maintain its integrity against nationalist movements from within and encroachment by its neighbors, the Russians, the Prussians and the Ottoman Turks, from without. It was a case of the victor going bankrupt. But in Vienna, the capital, little of that instability was manifest on the surface. For those at the Hapsburg court, the well-to-do and the upper class of civil service, it was a time of glitter and joie de vivre, the most brilliant and flamboyant period of the monarchy. Famous in his day as composer, band director and violinist, Johann Strauss’ name has been overshadowed by his far more famous son, Johann Strauss II. Of the former’s many waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, galops and marches, the Radetzky March, composed in 1848, became the signature piece of the Austro-Hungarian army until its collapse at the end of World War I. It has retained its popularity, long after the demise of the Empire, as closing work of Vienna’s New Year Eve ball, now broadcast around the world. Strauss’ march immortalized Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz (1766-1858), a Bohemian nobleman and Austrian general, who served in the military for over 70 years.

Symphony No. 2 in c minor, Op. 17, “Little Russian”

Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky,

1840-1893

Throughout his creative career, Tchaikovsky’s inspiration went through extreme cycles, tied to his frequent bouts of deep depression and self-doubt. His ambivalent feelings about his homosexuality and the clandestine relationships it engendered clashed with his religious and moral beliefs, exacerbating his mood swings. It was in his symphonies where he most overtly expressed his emotions.

Tchaikovsky was an ardent nationalist, whose great melodic gift enabled him to develop his own ethnic-sounding themes. Despite the many clearly Russian elements in most of his symphonies, he only occasionally used borrowed melodies. Although he did not openly espouse the nationalist movement in music, symbolized by such composers as Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, his symphonies are nevertheless replete with themes recalling the prevailing folk idioms of the sprawling empire. Symphony No. 2 is an exception. Composed in 1872 at a time that his social life was flourishing and his optimism was at its peak. He rubbed shoulders with the élite of Moscow’s literature and theatre. A friend recalled Tchaikovsky as a prankster, lavishly greeting total strangers on the street, improvising jesting verses in a monastery, or dancing and singing the mazurka from Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar in a railway carriage, to the shock of some lady passengers. The Symphony incorporates three authentic folksongs originating in what the Russians called Little Russia but called by the local inhabitants (and everyone else) The Ukraine (now, of course, a separate nation which drops the article). Tchaikovsky spent the summer of 1872 at his sister’s estate near Kiev where he heard the local songs in the streets of the small town. The title “Little Russian” was not coined by the composer but by a friend, although Tchaikovsky approved of it. The Symphony premiered in January 1873 to tremendous success. As with many of his works, Tchaikovsky revised it extensively some years later, premiering the new version in 1881. The first movement opens and closes with the melancholy notes derived from the song “Down by the Mother Volga,” played on a solo French horn. The main theme of the movement is the composer’s own, but retains the modes and spirit of Russian folk music. The second movement is a slow march that Tchaikovsky took from his discarded 1869 opera Undine, which had been rejected by the Imperial Opera Company of St. Petersburg and which the composer eventually consigned to the flames. The central part of the movement is another folk tune, “Spin, O My Spinner.” The Scherzo is highly chromatic and has tremendous rhythmic drive, contrasting with a charming Trio for the woodwinds. It is in the fourth movement that Tchaikovsky showed his true nationalistic colors. It is an exuberant orchestral display, based on the Ukrainian folk song “The Crane.” This was the movement that

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the composer liked best and garnered accolades from his Russian nationalist colleagues.

Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin Richard Wagner,

1813-1883

By the late 1840s, with the successes of Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman and Tannhäuser, Richard Wagner had become a major force in German opera. But the premiere of his next venture, Lohengrin, completed in 1848, had to wait because in May 1849 he had participated in a left-wing uprising in Dresden and was forced to flee to Switzerland to avoid arrest. Lohengrin was finally premiered successfully in Weimar August 1850, conducted by Franz Liszt. Wagner based his libretto of the three-act opera on the medieval Germanic legend of Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail, who, like the Dutchman and Tannhaüser, seeks spiritual completion through love and marriage. The paramount condition—isn’t there always one—is that his name and origin remain secret, even to his wife. But his chosen bride, Elsa, goaded by the wicked Telramund and his wife Ortrud, is unable to live with the mystery. No sooner is the couple in the bridal chamber, than Elsa asks the forbidden question and Lohengrin is forced to reveal his identity, leaving his hopes—and hers, one presumes—unfulfilled as he glides off on his trusty swan. Humorists have been relentlessly hard on this iconic moment; Leo Slezak, a noted Lohengrin of the early twentieth century, titled his autobiography What Time’s the Next Swan? Oddly, for Wagner, the prelude to Act III suggests nothing of the tragedy to come, only the festivities of the wedding. The Prelude has two principal themes, a grand opening quasi fanfare, followed by a celebratory melody for the brass and, finally a subdued melody, perhaps befitting the more feminine aspect of the marriage. It comes just before the famous “Bridal Chorus” which, to Wagner’s amusement—he was definitely not a religious man—found its way immediately into churches around the world. g

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nnouncing a new ensemble in the grand A European Chamber Orchestra tradition...

The MCYO Chamber Orchestra

And the Beat Goes On...

m Premiering Fall 2009 m Unique high-school level ensemble

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under the baton of Maestro Pablo Saelzer

for selected students, who will be working closely with members of the BSO, including a special side-by-side with world-renowned guest artists m Performing full symphonies by the great classical masters Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, as well as Romantic and twentieth-century masterpieces of the repertoire m Approximately 60 members, including strings, some winds and timpani m Performances with special guest artist appearances m Possible South American trip 32

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Harp Ensemble Astrid Walschot-Stapp, Conductor Carl Chaney Hanna Marks

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Ensemble

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Jason Cooper Sophie Hoyt Nora Kelsal Marenka Ralowicz Daren Small-Moyers

Each spring the Sinfonia, Chamber Strings, and Harp become MCYO’s musical ambassadors in the community. Congratulations to Chamber Strings and Sinfonia on their wonderful performances at the Kennedy Center’s Haydn Festival in May. And a special commendation to the Harp Ensemble and MCYO Brass Quintet for their stellar performances in April at St. John’s Episcopal Church Norwood Parish in Chevy Chase.

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Conductor of MCYO Chamber Strings, grades 4-6

And Conductors... Conductor of MCYO Sinfonia, grades 10-12

Pablo Saelzer

was appointed conductor of the Sinfonia of the Maryland Classical Youth Orchestras at the beginning of the 2007-08 concert season. His involvement with MCYO started in 2006 as violin and viola coach. In March 2007, as guest conductor, he led the Sinfonia for the first time in concert at Strathmore Hall. Saelzer made his conducting debut with the Symphony Orchestra of Concepción, Chile, in 1992. After receiving his Masters Degree in the U.S. in 1995, Saelzer was selected as the Conductor of the Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra in Jackson, Mississippi. He appeared as guest conductor with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, the Southern Opera and Music Theatre, and the orchestra at the summer festival of the Southeastern Music Center in Columbus, Georgia. Saelzer made his first Washington, DC conducting appearance as guest conductor of the Friday Morning Music Club Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in April of 2005, and was appointed the Orchestra’s Music Director and Conductor at the beginning of the 2005-06 concert season. In January 2008 Saelzer appeared as guest conductor and taught conducting at the Music on the Mountains Festival in Brazil. In February he conducted the All-City Orchestra in Jackson, Mississippi, and the All-State Orchestra in March. In August he conducted the Orquesta Clásica in Santiago, Chile. Throughout his career, Saelzer has been active in music education as well as in orchestral and chamber music performance. In Chile he served on the faculty of the Music Conservatory of the Universidad Austral. In the U.S. he was appointed Artistic Director and Conductor of the Mississippi Youth Symphony Orchestra program and taught chamber music and conducting at USM. Currently he is a faculty member at the Levine School of Music and recently was engaged as Music Director of the Mississippi Symphony’s Premier Orchestra Institute. Saelzer performs with diverse professional ensembles in the DC/Baltimore area including the Concert Artists of Baltimore and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Saelzer studied at the Music Conservatory in his native Valdivia, Chile and later at the Kantorei St. Martini in Bremen, Germany. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Universidad Austral de Chile (1989) and received a Master of Music degree from Columbus State University in Georgia (1995). g

Jorge Orozco discovered a true passion in encouraging young students to find and develop their potential as musicians, following his first job as a coach for the Havana Children Orchestra in 1993. That enthusiasm for teaching has guided him first in Cuba, and then in Venezuela, where he taught within the “National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras.” In the United States he has enjoyed a rewarding career as a teacher, conductor, composer, and violin player. Jorge Orozco is a faculty member at the Levine School of Music and the Georgetown Visitation School, as well as an active performer with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Vox Amadeus Ensemble in Philadelphia. Mr. Orozco was a violin coach for MCYO last season. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Orozco was a faculty member and conductor for the Gulfport Strings Program in Mississippi. Mr. Orozco spent nine years in Venezuela as orchestra, chamber music player and teacher at the Valencia Conservatory of Music, developing a large violin and viola studio and conducting the EMSEL Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Orozco holds a Masters Degree in Music Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Bachelor Degree in music performance from the Instituto Superior de Artes, Havana, Cuba. g

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Select #8013 in the United Way of the National Capital Area Campaign, or MCC #9503 in the Maryland Charity Campaign, or code 48893 in the Combined Federal Campaign. g g Conductor of MCYO Harp Ensemble, grades 4-12 Born in Maastricht Holland, Astrid WalschotStapp began studying the harp at age nine. After studying at the Maastricht Conservatory on the advice of Phia Berghout, she received her Docerend Musicus (teaching degree) and later the Uitvoerend Musicus (soloist diploma) summa cum laude. Following her studies in Holland, Astrid received the VSB Bank Scholarship and the Prince Bernhard Fund prize. She was invited to study with Susan McDonald at Indiana University where she received her Performer Diploma. Astrid has been active in popularizing pieces by contemporary composers. The pieces Astre for harp (1988) and Sagitaure for flute and harp (1989), by Jean Sevriens, are published by Donemus in Amsterdam. Astrid is looking forward to the Harp Concerto Tanghetto by J. Sevriens, which is being written for her. Currently she is recording a CD featuring selected works by composer, Meg Robinson. As a chamber musician, Astrid has played numerous recitals in Europe and North America with such groups as the Orlando String Quartet, Kennedy Center Theater Chamber Players, The Left Bank Concert Society, Skya, and Duo Liutaio. In addition to radio and television performances, Astrid has been active as a soloist and as an orchestral musician. She has performed with such groups as the Limburg Symphony (The Netherlands), National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, National Gallery Orchestra, Washington Opera, Opera Royal de Wallonie and the Baltimore Opera. She was featured in the Baltimore Symphony’s Summerfest chamber music program and in their newly established ‘concertlab’ at MICA. In March 2003 she was selected by Maestro Yuri Temirkanov to be the acting principal harpist of the Baltimore Symphony during his tenure. She is principal harpist of the National Philharmonic and the conductor of the Montgomery County Classic Youth Orchestras Harp Ensemble. Mrs. Walschot-Stapp was on the faculty of the Washington Conservatory from 1997 to 2004. She has a thriving private studio at Catoctin Studio. g

The 2009 winners will be announced at today’s MCYO concert. Chester J. Petranek Scholarship Established in 1996, the Chester J. Petranek College Scholarship is awarded annually to a senior with outstanding talent on an orchestral instrument, with the exception of piano. The awardees must have participated in MCYO at least two consecutive years and must be intending to pursue a career in music. Winners are selected based on a variety of criteria including academic performance, financial need, an audition before a committee and an interview. Past winners are: 1997 Luke Rowher, Jessica Kendall 1998 Patrick Fitzgerald, Caitlin Parsons, Bobbe Mosher 1999 Stephanie Park, James Kent 2000 Meredith Gangler, Carl Jensen 2001 Ji-Hea Choi, Megan Glowacki, Christina Newburgh 2002 Jessica Kuo, Reinaldo Moya 2003 Chris Barrick, Vincent Karamanov 2004 Rosalie Gilbert, Reinaldo Moya 2005 Adedeji Ogunfolu, Carol Ann Cheung, Jessica Zweig 2006 Luke Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Hughson, Madeleine Jansen 2007 Youn Lee 2008 Whitney Chou, Chao Xue, Amanda Lyon, Corey Sansolo

Ruth R. Albright Scholarship Established in 2006, the Ruth R. Albright Scholarship is awarded annually to a senior with outstanding talent on a string instrument. The awardee must have participated in MCYO at least two consecutive years and must be intending to pursue a career in music. Winners are selected based on a variety of criteria including academic performance, financial need, an audition before a committee and an interview. The past winners are: 2007 Ron Shalom 2008 Yoshiaki Horiguchi, Melissa Foge

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Margaret Makris Scholarship

Established in the 2006-2007 MCYO season, the Andreas and Margaret Makris Scholarship shall be presented annually to a senior who has displayed loyalty and dedication through their participation in MCYO, who has also excelled in music, and desires to pursue music in college. This senior will have been nurtured by MCYO from an early age and will have had his or her talents developed and advanced through the MCYO program. The past winners are: 2007 Laura London 2008 Max Li

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MCYO welcomes our new friends from the

White Oak Middle School, Jackson Road Elementary School, and Stonegate Elementary School,

with whom MCYO has initiated a mentoring program. Special thanks to White Oak Instrumental Music Director, Kurt Lucas and to MCYO’s Maestro Saelzer and his Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra for their successful efforts!

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Past Winners of the Chester J. Petranek Award

Chester J. Petranek Award Established in 1986, the Chester J. Petranek Award was initiated by the Board of Directors as a tribute to the MCYO founder and in celebration of 40 years of talented young people creating music. This award is presented each year to an individual or group for: “OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY SERVICE IN ENRICHING THE MUSICAL LIFE OF THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA”

2009 Winner: Cathy Dobos

MCYO is pleased to present this year’s award to The Washingtonian’s Cathy Dobos. While her community service and volunteerism in local youth activities have made a real difference in the lives of students throughout our region, her impact on the MCYO organization has been behind the scenes, yet visible for many years. Cathy has enthusiastically and voluntarily provided graphics and design expertise to MCYO in order to fulfill the strategic goal of enhancing MCYO’s image upon its move five years ago to The Music Center at Strathmore. The result is the high quality, professional look of all MCYO materials—from office stationery to concert programs and marquee posters, fliers, magazine and newspaper advertisements, pamphlets, and brochures. For a small, non-profit organization, the nearly incalculable value of her important, skilled contribution to date has been vital to MCYO’s success and its ability to focus on providing an exceptional orchestral training program for area students. By dedicating her time and effort to presenting MCYO so beautifully, Cathy has promoted not only our orchestral program and our talented and deserving young musicians, but the world-class arts residence and music hall that the Music Center at Strathmore has become for our community. In this way, she has indeed helped to enrich the musical life of our area. In addition to her MCYO involvement, Cathy has been a 4-H volunteer in Montgomery County for sixteen years. As the leader of the Lucky Clovers 4-H Club, she oversees her club members’ pursuit of projects in leadership, citizenship, public speaking, foods and nutrition, entrepreneurship, sewing, photography, pets, and aerospace. Cathy’s club has been recognized for its monthly literacy program at the Aspen Hill Library, as well as interactive nutrition displays at the fair, Chesapeake Bay education project, and fundraising for breast cancer research. Her club members regularly are selected for county, state, and national 4-H honors. She has assisted with developing the county 4-H Healthy Lifestyles program. In 2006 Cathy and her family were chosen as the Montgomery County and Maryland State “4-H Family of the Year.” She is a two-time nominee for the Governor’s Volunteer Service Award, a Montgomery County 4-H Honor Roll recipient, and a member of the 4-H All-Stars. Additionally as a parishioner of The Shrine of Saint Jude, Cathy has volunteered for the Cub Scout and Boy Scout programs for nine years. Cathy has been Production Manager for The Washingtonian magazine for 31 years, with responsibilities for the advertising production and printing aspects of the publication. A native of Torrington, CT, Cathy is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she participated in choral tours to South America and Europe as a member of “Coro.” She has also spent many years singing in church choirs under the baton of her husband, Andrew, a choirmaster and organist. They reside in Rockville and have two children; a daughter, Lauren, 25, and a son, Andrew, 18, who is a graduating MCYO senior percussionist. They are all looking forward to traveling with MCYO to Europe this summer. 40

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Tom Gaugher—WMAL Paul Traver—Choral Director, University of Maryland Friday Morning Music Club Olivia W. Gutoff—MCYO Junior Symphony Conductor Paul Eberly—Private Clarinet Teacher Carole Wysocki—National Symphony Orchestra Education Program Judy Silverman—Private String Instructor Ruth Albright—Music Educator, Violin Performer and Instructor Doris Gazda—Music Educator, Composer and String Specialist Chester J. Petranek—Conductor, Educator and MCYO Founder Connie Noguchi—MCYO President (1993-1996) Dr. J. Reilly Lewis—Founder/Music Director, Washington Bach Consort Marshall and Barbara Harris—Founders, Harris Music Company Chuck Levin—Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center Duck Hee O’Donnell—Private Cello Instructor David Phillips and the Lockheed Martin Corporation Morton A. Gutoff—Music Educator, Trumpet Teacher Dalton Potter—Potter’s Violins Teresa Cameron and Fran Abrams—Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County Eliot Pfanstiehl—Visionary and CEO, Strathmore Music Center Douglas and Barbara Duncan—Montgomery County Executive and wife Dale Music Company, Inc. David Lashof—Lashof Violins

Congratulations to Cathy Dobos, the winner of the Chester J. Petranek Award for her commitment to community service and our county’s youth. The Lucky Clovers 4-H Club is honored that Mrs. Dobos is our club’s leader. She provides each member the support and opportunity to reach his or her fullest potential. She is passionate about 4-H’s motto—”To Make the Best Better.” Mrs. Dobos’ dedication makes a positive difference in our lives. To us she is the BEST!

Lucky Clovers 4-H Club Aspen Hill

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History of MCYO The Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, formerly the Montgomery County Youth Orchestras (MCYO), has a long and eventful history. Founded in 1946, MCYO has continued a vibrant orchestral program for talented youth. The mission of the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras is to nurture and develop talented young musicians and enrich the community with a quality orchestral experience. MCYO is now the resident youth orchestra at The Music Center at Strathmore. Over the years, the MCYO has added several ensembles to expand its outreach to an ever-increasing number of high-caliber musicians seeking to play in an MCYO ensemble. The Symphony was formed in 1964, the Young Artists in 1972, the Chamber Strings in 1995, the Harp Ensemble in 2001, and the Sinfonia in 2004. Currently there are over 400 young musicians involved in MCYO, having been selected from over 1000 aspiring musicians after auditions. Many honors have been bestowed upon the MCYO. In 1964 in Philadelphia, the Philharmonic performed at the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) Bicentennial Conference. In 1969 the Philharmonic was the first American orchestra to perform at the International Festival of Youth in Switzerland. In 1981 the Philharmonic was the first youth orchestra to be showcased at the Kennedy Center. Thousands of listeners heard the Philharmonic on the WMAL Christmas Eve day concert, “Live from the Kennedy Center,” live and on the radio. This was a longstanding tradition through 2003. In 1987 the Symphony was selected to perform at the MENC Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore. In 1995 the Philharmonic and Symphony toured England and Wales. Later that year, the Philharmonic was invited to perform at the prestigious MidWest International

Congratulations to my talented students. Young Artists—

Tanya Shi, principal, 8th grade, Kingsview Middle School Meredith Tracy, 7th grade, Connolly School of the Holy Child Amy Wang, 8th grade, Kingsview Middle School

Philharmonic—

Woori Bong,

piccolo, Junior, Clarksburg Senior High

301-340-8484 studio 301-922-6742 cell donnadymond@hotmail.com 11525 Pleasant Meadows Drive North Potomac, MD 20878

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Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. Two years later, the Philharmonic again performed at the MENC Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore. In 1999 the Philharmonic traveled to Austria, touring four cities as part of the Johann Strauss Centennial Celebration. In 2000 the Philharmonic was one of twenty music ensembles from across the USA selected from over two hundred applicants to perform at the MENC National Conference in Washington, DC. In June 2002 the Philharmonic made its Carnegie Hall debut in New York City. Also in 2002, MCYO changed its name from Montgomery County Youth Orchestras to Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, keeping the acronym MCYO. In 2005 MCYO became a resident partner at The Music Center at Strathmore. Travel abroad returns in June 2009 when the Philharmonic performs in Austria and the Czech Republic. Philharmonic members annually perform with the National Symphony on the NSO Youth Orchestra Day. Select MCYO musicians participate in the NSO Fellow-ship program, and participate in master classes with renowned soloists and teachers. From 1993 various MCYO musicians have performed with the National Symphony Summer Music Institute. From 1997 to 2007, select MCYO musicians augmented the National Festival Orchestra in New York City, performing with college, conservatory, and high school musicians from across the United States and Canada at Carnegie Hall. In the fall of 2006, MCYO and the Baltimore Symphony began a collaboration whereby BSO musicians present Mas-ter Class experiences and coaching services to MCYO musicians. More recently, MCYO proudly announced the appointment of BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney to the position of MCYO Artistic Adviser. Many MCYO alumni have continued their music studies at preeminent institutions. Some have performed with prestigious American and European orchestras and some have become music teachers. MCYO has made its musical mark on the world and will continue to do so. g

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The Performing Arts Camp

of Shenandoah Conservatory provides middle and high school students with the opportunity to hone their artistic skills through participation in a variety of small and large ensembles. Campers receive instruction from world-class faculty and concert performers.

Additional opportunities in chamber music, solo performance and technology classes

www.su.edu/pac Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University Laurence Kaptain, dean

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Friends of MCYO, 2008-2009

Become

Friend

MCYO

YES! You can count on my support for MCYO! I would like to participate at the following level of support: ____$1000+ Patron*

____$ 100+ Haydn

____$ 500+ Brahms*

____$ 50+ Bach

____$ 300+ Beethoven ____$ 25+ Schubert ____$ 200+ Mozart * Donors at these levels will receive a Strathmore Passport containing opportunities and invitations to attend special events presented by Strathmore, BSO at Strathmore, National Philharmonic, Washington Performing Arts Society, Levine School of Music and CityDance. MCYO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Please make checks payable to MCYO and mail your donation to: Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras The Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane North Bethesda, MD 20852 Name Contact Person Phone: E-Mail: Address: City, State, Zip Amount Enclosed

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Staff and Board of Directors Maryland Classic Olivia W. Gutoff, Artistic Director Emerita

Youth Orchestras Ruth R. Albright, Conductor Emerita

Artistic Adviser Director of Music Education Conductors

Jonathan Carney David Levin David Levin Pablo Saelzer Scott Herman Jennifer Van Petten Jorge Orozco Astrid Walschot-Stapp

Philharmonic Sinfonia Symphony Young Artists Chamber Strings Harp Ensemble

Managers Linda Kuhn Janet Wolfe Kristofer Sanz Tim Beadle Holley Wallace

Philharmonic Sinfonia Symphony Young Artists Chamber Strings

Board of Directors Officers Chair Vice Chair Treasurer Secretary Directors at Large Dr. Jon Liu Suzanne Rosetti Bill Ford Dr. Anthony Ni Stephanie Lilley Linda Ferrara

David Phillips Sunny Kapoor Eric Anderson Bette Eberly-Hill Rosemary Webster Kevin Beverly Dave Johnston Dr. Pamela Thompson Nan Cooper Anita Segreti

Staff Executive Director Associate Executive Director Bookkeeper Arts Management Associate Intern

Cheryl Jukes Christine Cox Julie Hamre John Park Steven Hill

Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras

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Acknowledgments MCYO gratefully acknowledges the following for their contributions:

$10 Scholar Tickets Student Tickets Available for WPAS Performances

Save the date to tee up for the Second Annual

MCYO GOLF CLASSIC Friday, October 16, 2009 Needwood Golf Course Rockville

Weilerstein

JNL Recordings Jerry Nidelsky

Tempo Newsletter Philip Larkin Gergiev

Word Pros

Photography Services Francisco Hoyos

London Elizabeth and Joseph Kahn Philharmonic Orchestra Jurowski A special debt of gratitude is in order for our wonderful Vladimir Jurowski, conductor Orchestra Managers, who enthusiastically devote Leon Fleisher, piano

hundreds February 26, 8:00ofpmvolunteer hours to manage our musicians and the orchestras. do it without you! Pittsburgh The Music Center at StrathmoreWe couldn’t

Symphony MCYO wholeheartedly thanksOrchestra London Symphony Orchestra Manfred conductor Honeck, Janet Wolfe, Sinfonia Linda Kuhn, Philharmonic conductor ValeryKristofer Gergiev,Sanz, Symphony Young Artists Tim Beadle, Alisa Weilerstein, cello Strings Holley Wallace, Chamber Alexei Volodin, piano May 4, 8:00 pm

Kennedy Center Concert Hall March 28, 4:00 pm Kennedy Center Concert Hall My instruMent is on the Cover!

The Philadelphia Orchestra Churchill senior Ethan Marks plays trumpet in the Charles Dutoit, Tokyo String Quartet conductor Philharmonic and Brass Quintet. Although he enjoys chops, his passion is jazz. piano Most Lynn Harrell, cello honing his “legit”Jean-Yves Thibaudet, recently he performed in the MD State Jazz Ensemble

April 17, 8:00 pm June 3, 8:00 pm and MCPS Honors Jazz Band. He’ll attend U of The Music Center at Strathmore Center Concert Texas at Austin asKennedy a jazz performance major.Hall Ethan

has played his Bach Stradivarius (cover) since 8th grade, but is most excited about his recent acquisitions: a Conn Vintage One trumpet and flugelhorn.

**Student Ticket: $10

- Available only at the Kennedy Center or Music Center at Strathmore box office (respectively) with a Instrument valid student ID. of Ethan Marks Cover Photograph by B. Vartan Boyajian; courtesy Program Design by Cathy Dobos Search for us on FACEBOOK and Become a Fan of WPAS! MCYO Photography by B. Vartan Boyajian Receive Special Announcements, Exclusive Offers and much more! Program Printed by Dan Daniels—Pioneer Press, Rockville

Season Listing at WPAS.org

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Come out and show your support for the arts and the young musicians in the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras. This year’s exciting Golf Classic includes: •18 holes of golf, including cart • Breakfast and buffet lunch • Participant gift bag • Free practice range and putting green use • 20% off Pro Shop purchases • Various competitions with prizes • World-class performances by members of the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras • Many MUSICAL surprises along the way! • An awards presentation and delicious buffet lunch, catered by the award-winning Damon’s Restaurant.

For more information, pick up a flier today at the MCYO display table.