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WELCOME TO OUR 42ND SEASON!

CONCERTS

Table of Contents.........................................................5

Symphonie fantastique................................................ 45

HHSO Board and Administrative Staff........................6

Meet the Artist: Narrator Steve Blanchard.................46

From the Board Chair/President and CEO.................7

Meet the Artist: HH Symphony Orchestra Chorus......46

From the Music Director............................................11

Meet the Acting Director: Suade Anderson................46

From the Director of the HHIPC.................................14

About the Music..................................................... 47-48

BravoPiano! Event Schedule.....................................15

Illia Ovcharenko Plays Liszt......................................... 49

League Board and Musicales Schedule...................18

Meet the Artist: Pianist Illia Ovcharenko....................50

From the President of the League............................19

About the Music..................................................... 51-52

Meet the Musicians...................................................22

Holiday Pops ............................................................ 53-54

Orchestra Personnel..................................................23

Meet the Artist: Vocalist Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield... 55

Enhance Your Orchestra Experience........................24

Meet the Artist: Baritone Michael Roemer.................55

Young Persons Concerts......................................28-29

Meet the Artist: Violinist Audrey Goodner...................56

Youth Concerto Competition/ Chamber Music Institute...........................................33

Meet the Artist: HH Symphony Orchestra Chorus......56

SoundWaves.........................................................34-35

Meet the Artist: Pianist Zhonghua Wei.......................58

Donors Supporting the Music.............................38-39 Business, Foundation and Public Support...............40 John Morris Russell Profile........................................44 Usher Appreciation.....................................................83 Art League of Hilton Head...................................84-86 League Fashion Show and Luncheon.......................87 HHSO Legacy Society.................................................88 List of Advertisers....................................................107 Chefs and Clefs....................................................... 108

Grieg and Brahms......................................................... 57 About the Music..................................................... 59-60 Bach, Mozart, and Brandon Leonard.......................... 61 Meet the Conductor: Vinay Parameswaran................62 Meet the Artist: Cellist Brandon Leonard...................62 About the Music..................................................... 63-64 John Williams Birthday Celebration........................... 65 About John Williams / From the Maestro............. 66-67 Symphonic Dances of Rachmaninoff ........................ 69 and Coleridge-Taylor Meet the Conductor: David Amado.............................70

INTERESTED IN UPDATES? The Symphony periodically emails its concertgoers with updates and reminders of upcoming events. If you are not on our list and wish to receive updates by email, please call the office at (843) 842-2055, or go online to www.hhso.org and send us a message with your email address. All email addresses are for the sole use of the orchestra and will not be shared.

Meet the Artist: Hornist Jennifer Montone.................70 About the Music..................................................... 71-72 Tessa Lark and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons.................. 73 of Buenos Aires Meet the Artist: Violinist Tessa Lark........................... 74 About the Music..................................................... 75-76 Ode to Joy....................................................................... 77 Meet the Artist: Claflin University Concert Choir........78 Meet the Director: Dr. Charlie J. Toomer, Jr................78 About the Music..................................................... 79-80

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Ode to Joy Text / Translation................................. 81-82

2023-2024

2023 – 2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS

WHO WE ARE

R. Michael Harter Chair

HHSO ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

OUR VISION

Alan Jordan President and CEO

Eric Magnin Vice-Chair, Strategic Planning

To inspire, enrich, and unite the Lowcountry through music

Kelley Finley Marketing Consultant

Bob Cherichella Vice-Chair, Resource Development

OUR MISSION INSPIRE

Carolyn Hack Secretary

…audiences through outstanding orchestral music

Donald Flora Treasurer

…young musicians through opportunities to perform and be recognized

Alan Jordan President and CEO

ENRICH THE COMMUNITY THROUGH

Rabbi Brad Bloom

…youth programs

Ingrid Boatright

…community performances

Joan Dattelbaum

UNITE THE LOWCOUNTRY THROUGH

Jay Elliot

…collaborating with other cultural organizations

Gloria Holmes Bret Jacobowitz Blaine Lotz Mary Princing Connie Rathman Charles Sampson Barbara Harris Sorkin

…celebrating our unique cultural heritage …promoting the Lowcountry as an arts and cultural destination

STRENGTHEN OUR RESOURCES TO SUPPORT FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND GROWTH

Alice Walton

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Ex Officio Terry Hicks Mario Incorvaia Steven Shaiman

HHSO ADVISORY BOARD

PROGRAM DESIGN

James T. Willard, Chair Darle Booher Mary Noonan Leslie Richardson Lorene Thornbury

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HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Ex Officio Alan Jordan Michael Harter

Judy Gimbel Director, Hilton Head Chamber Music Institute Susan Hartmann Patron Relations Manager Mario Incorvaia Chief Operating Officer Gayle Lang HHSO Chorus Manager Project Editor Steven Shaiman Director, International Piano Competition, and Education and Community Development (EdCE) Susan Strange Finance Manager Jim Way Administrative Manager Julie Williams Special Projects Manager

PAST BOARD CHAIRS Frank Pape.......................... 1982 - 1984 Gordon Gillette................... 1984 - 1988 Willis Shay.......................... 1988 - 1993 Charles Taylor..................... 1993 - 1997 Ross Rutherford.................. 1997 - 1998 Charles Taylor..................... 1998 - 1999 Robert Rada........................ 1999 - 2002 Walt Graver........................ 2002 - 2003 Charles Taylor..................... 2003 - 2005 Fred Caswell....................... 2005 - 2008 Margaret Arrington............ 2008 - 2010 Edward Parrish................... 2010 - 2013 Darle Booher...................... 2013 - 2015 James Willard..................... 2015 - 2017 Tim Ridge............................ 2017 - 2019 Bob Cherichella.................. 2019 - 2021

Welcome

MICHAEL HARTER

TO THE HHSO’S 42ND SEASON The Town of Hilton Head is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its incorporation this year. The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 42nd anniversary season. It is interesting to see how the two have grown and developed over the last two score (to quote President Lincoln using a musical term). In 1982, the full-time population of Hilton Head was 12,500, and there were 500,000 visitors each year. A four-lane bridge was built to cross Mackey and Skull Creeks. The Hilton Head Chamber Orchestra had fewer than 20 musicians and no budget. 1988 season tickets cost between $5 and $15 and total season attendance was 825. The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and its community have grown on relatively parallel tracks. Growth has been dramatic—even epic—to the point where both are “punching well above their weight.” We both have also adapted to changes in demographics and financial and social changes.

CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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People say that Hilton Head Island residents from the 1980s wouldn’t recognize the place. Would HHSO patrons of the same era recognize our orchestra? Certainly, we still perform the classics (albeit with many more players!). Just in recent years, we have expanded free performances, broadened the range of repertoire and genres, and increased our commitment to education and community engagement. This has all been possible thanks to the steadfast support of “scores” of patrons and donors. You represent the current generation (and future generations) who will ensure that the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra remains vibrant, relevant, and healthy for the next 42 years. On behalf of the Board of Directors, welcome to our 2023-2024 season, Espressivo, and enjoy a season of music of passion and joy.

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Michael Harter Chair, Board of Directors

Alan Jordan President and CEO

The real winners of the RBC Heritage are the thousands of people the tournament helps each year through The Heritage Classic Foundation. Since it was founded in 1987, the Foundation has distributed to a wide variety of charitable organizations. As one of the recipients of the Foundation’s charity, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra offers a heartfelt “Thank You”!

The Symphony wishes to thank the South Carolina Arts Commission for their continued financial aid. The Symphony supports the mission of the Arts Commission in their effort “to build a thriving arts environment for the benefit of all South Carolinians”. For over 40 years the agency has worked to make it possible for every citizen in the state to enjoy and benefit from the arts.

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This season is crafted with fresh takes on the classics as well as inspirational pieces you may have never heard before. It is highlighted by beloved symphonies by Berlioz, Brahms, and Mozart; dazzling concerti by Liszt, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, and Piazzolla; and an eclectic mix of works by Wagner, Márquez, Rachmaninoff, Bernard Herrmann, Coleridge-Taylor, Bach, Jessie Montgomery, and Borodin. The centerpiece of the season is Beethoven’s towering Ninth Symphony with its magnificent finale, the “Ode to Joy,” featuring the resplendent Claflin University Concert Choir, HHSO Chorus, and soloists from the Sherrill Milnes VOICExperience. Take a look through the program to see the remarkable variety of what we have in store for you. You’ll notice how we often program familiar works with complementary works that may be new to you—this brings a dynamic context to the listening experience—a new dimension to the classics and an easy entrée to new sound worlds. Two brilliant young pianists from the Hilton Head International Piano Competition are featured this season, as well as the eagerly awaited return of effervescent violinist Tessa Lark, Sphinx Competition winner Brandon Leonard, and the HHSO debut of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal French Horn, Jennifer Montone. We also welcome the exciting young conductor Vinay Parameswaren, and Delaware Symphony Conductor Laureate, David Amado.

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The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra has been a centerpiece of the Lowcountry’s vibrant musical scene for over four decades; we are all thrilled you’ve joined us. If you are new here, welcome to our family of music lovers who come from around the world, across the bridge, and down the street. You’ll find the intimate, engaging, and informal environment in which we perform, unique—making every concert a journey of shared discovery. Our musicians and soloists who gather here every few weeks take great pride in the passion and joy that springs from each moment with the HHSO, as we sustain our tradition of innovation and excellence.

MUSIC DIRECTOR “You’ll find the intimate, engaging, and informal environment in which we perform, unique—making every concert a journey of shared discovery.”

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STEVEN SHAIMAN

DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION AND DIRECTOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT “Our currently scheduled piano-centric events are listed on the opposite page. We hope you will plan to be with us to enjoy live music-making at its finest. I look forward to welcoming you personally and to sharing these unforgettable experiences together!”

Welcome to our 2023-2024 season! As I begin my ‘sophomore year’ as director of the HHIPC, I want to express my heartfelt appreciation to all of you in the HHIPC and HHSO families for your incredible support. I am proud that our standard of excellence was universally high across the board last season, and the outstanding performances we all enjoyed were the result of a total team effort. I am honored to work with you as your leader and gratified to be part of the vivid Lowcountry cultural landscape. Before previewing this season’s exciting events, let’s look back at our successful 2023 Young Artist Competition. We were treated to a thrilling week of inspiring performances by our 18 competitors—ages 13-17, representing six different countries—and our five internationally renowned judges had the daunting task of selecting the eventual prizewinners. First prize was awarded to 14-year-old Zhonghua Wei from China, who enjoyed further success participating in the 2023 Cleveland and Van Cliburn International Young Artist Piano Competitions. Bravo, Zhonghua! Turning attention to this season, our marquis event is HHIPC’s 3rd BravoPiano! festival, with the 2024 edition entitled “PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS…,” showcasing the piano’s countless collaborative capabilities. Like our prior festivals, we feature outstanding HHIPC alumni—both prize winners and judges—as well as prominent jazz pianists performing in a variety of ensemble settings. We open with two premier piano duos in classical music and in jazz, who also happen to be married couples: classical virtuosos Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee, followed by jazz greats Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes. Saturday night’s spotlight is on chamber music, with quintessential piano quintets performed by pianist Angela Cheng and the awardwinning Verona Quartet. Sunday afternoon’s program combines jazz and classical music in the masterful hands of pianist Aaron Diehl and bassist David Wong. Our finale is a three-concerto extravaganza with the HHSO and Maestro John Morris Russell entitled Rhapsody and Fantasy, featuring: Drew Petersen playing Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue; Wynona Yinuo Yang performing Busoni’s rarely heard Indian Fantasy for piano and orchestra; and culminating with Orli Shaham playing Rachmaninoff’s thrilling Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. The HHSO also welcomes back two popular recent winners for concerto engagements! First is Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko (2022 HHIPC Second Prize and 2022 Honens Grand Prize winner) playing both Liszt Piano Concerto 1 and 2 (November 12/13, 2023). Then, our 2023 First Prize winner, Zhonghua Wei, returns to kick off the new year by performing the ever-popular Grieg Piano Concerto (January 21/22, 2024). We are finalizing the 2023-2024 Piano Recital Series at SoundWaves, with hopes of selling out all three performances again! It helps to engage uber-talented alums who are audience favorites here, so I’m delighted to announce our opening and closing pianists: Chaeyoung Park (2019 First Prize) on October 27, 2023, and Zhu Wang (2011 First Prize) on April 18, 2024. I hope you will take the opportunity to experience world class artistry in this intimate setting. For more details about these performances and all our HHIPC events this season, please refer to the opposite page. We cordially invite you to join us to experience live music-making at its finest, and to share these memorable experiences together! Steve Shaiman

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FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 2023 – 7:30 PM Chaeyoung Park in Recital HHIPC 2019 First Prize Winner and a two-time HHSO concerto soloist (2020 & 2022), Chaeyoung presents a program of masterworks by Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird. SoundWaves at Coligny, 7 Lagoon Road THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2023 – 6:00–9:00 PM MUSICAL FEAST Gala Benefit for the HHIPC Special program featuring a solo recital by 2022 HHIPC Second Prize Winner Illia Ovcharenko. Sonesta Resort Ballroom – 130 Shipyard Drive NOVEMBER 12 – 13, 2023 Orchestra Series Concert Illia Ovcharenko 2022 HHIPC Second Prize Winner and Laureate of the 2022 Honens Piano Competition plays both Liszt Piano Concertos No. 1 and No. 2 with the HHSO! First Presbyterian Church – 540 William Hilton Pkway. JANUARY 21 – 22, 2024 Orchestra Series Concert Zhonghua Wei 14-year-old First Prize Winner of the 2023 HHIPC performs the Grieg Piano Concerto with the HHSO. First Presbyterian Church – 540 William Hilton Pkway. FEBRUARY 29 – MARCH 4, 2024 BravoPiano! 2024: “PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS…” (Feb. 29 – March 3 – St. Luke’s Anglican Church; Finale March 4 – First Presbyterian Church) Thur., Feb. 29: Ran Dank & Soyeon Kate Lee CLASSICAL PIANO PARTNERS – 7:30 PM Fri., March 1: Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes JAZZ PIANO PARTNERS – 7:30 PM Sat., March 2: Angela Cheng & The Verona Quartet QUINTESSENTIAL QUINTETS – 7:30 PM Sun., March 3: Aaron Diehl & David Wong PRELUDES & FUGUES – 4:00 PM Mon., March 4: RHAPSODY & FANTASY Drew Petersen (GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue) Wynona Yinuo Wang (BUSONI: Indian Fantasy) Orli Shaham (RACHMANINOFF: Paganini Rhapsody) All with the HHSO & John Morris Russell First Presbyterian Church – 540 William Hilton Pkway. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2024 – 7:30 PM Zhu Wang in Recital HHIPC’s inaugural Young Artist First Prize Winner (2011) returns with a program featuring music by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, and Brahms’ Handel Variations. SoundWaves at Coligny, 7 Lagoon Road FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CALL THE HHIPC OFFICE AT (843) 842-5880, AND CHECK HHHPC.ORG FOR FUTURE EVENTS. 2023-2024

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THE LEAGUE OF THE HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2023-2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Terry Hicks President Nancy Millette Administrative Vice President Joyce Prange Fundraising Vice President Jane Waltz Membership/Volunteers Vice President Jeffrie Natale Secretary Bill Zurilla Treasurer

COMMITTEE CHAIRS Swing Fore the Symphony Golf Tournament Bret Jacobowitz, Mike Kling Musicales Eileen Durkin, Carol McCarthy Spring Luncheon and Fashion Show Laura Kling, Ann Millhaem Past President and Nominating Chair Carol Gyllenhoff Newsletter/Community Outreach Dahlia Handman Post-Concert Receptions Carol Gyllenhoff Spring Fling Sheila Corbett Symphony Under the Stars Mike Caporal HHIPC Liaison Kathy Zurilla Concours Liaison Stan Cooke SOVA Liaison Carol Gyllenhoff Volunteer Record Keeping Jane Waltz

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HHSO LEAGUE MUSICALES 2023-2024 MUSICALE #1 * A MUSICAL OKTOBERFEST Sunday, October 29, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Stan Cooke hosts at the Port Royal Beach House Mary Ann Mumm, violin; Craig Mumm, viola; Daniel Mumm, cello HHSO principal cellist Daniel Mumm sits down with his parents, violinist Mary Ann and retired Metropolitan Opera Orchestra violist Craig, to present a rousing concert of hearty-European string duos and trios featuring music of Mozart, Beethoven, Dvořák, and the like. Lederhosen not required.

MUSICALE #2 * A JJF CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Sunday, December 3, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Mary and Mike Briggs (Hilton Head Plantation) Kenneth Mason, bass; Sean Cullen, drums; James Berry, piano; with special guest Emma Berry, cello Expanding on our wonderful collaborative partnership with Junior Jazz Foundation, we are pleased to present three up-and-coming young jazz musicians to present their rendition of Vince Guaraldi’s iconic album A Charlie Brown Christmas, along with other holiday favorites. Authentically following the original arrangements conceived for this album, this will be an evening to recall those special childhood memories!

MUSICALE #3 * MELODIOUS BRASS Sunday, January 28, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Pam Schofield (Hilton Head Plantation) Colleen Crafton, Don Crafton, Kate Jenkins, and Mark Spradley, trombones This beautiful program shows off several HHSO trombonists in a unique, intriguing instrumental ensemble: a trombone quartet. Members of our trombone section take us on a tour around the world. They will perform music from the Americas and Europe to demonstrate what may be a surprising depth of repertoire composed or arranged for this pleasantly blended low brass sound. Four trombones? Who would have guessed!

MUSICALE #4 * CLASSICAL CONNECTIONS Sunday, February 25, 5:00 – 7:00 pm John and Joyce Prange (Hilton Head Plantation) Sarah Land, violin; Ryan Knott, cello This wife and husband duo have become regular subs in our string section during the last couple of seasons. Get to know them with this pleasant program including music by Mozart, Bach, Handel/arr. Halvorson, Massenet’s well-loved Meditation from Thaïs, and some Beatles and other popular songs neatly arranged for two string instruments.

MUSICALE #5 * THE PIANO MEN Sunday, March 24, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Becky and Steve Schuckenbrock (Sea Pines) Kenny Munshaw, Sterlin Colvin Kenny and Sterlin borrow the best material from their popular Historic Savannah Theatre dueling pianists show to customize this special Musicale performance for us. Listen for some of your favorite songwriters arranged for two pianos as no others can do. They may even take requests!

MUSICALE #6 * HEAVENLY HARPSICHORD Sunday, April 21, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Sally Ann and Jon Wormley (Port Royal) Anne Acker, harpsichord Master harpsichord builder, early-music specialist, and harpsichordist Anne Acker will delight us with a stylistically satisfying array of music representing the long span of time of published music for harpsichord, exploring unique regional styles and famous composers, ending with a surprise razzle-dazzle piece by a woman composer you will absolutely love. Musicales are member-only events. If you are interested in learning more about the League, please contact Terry Hicks, President at thicks4@aol.com

Welcome

Because Music Feeds the Soul!

TERRY HICKS

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I am excited and thrilled to be taking the lead for this critically important organization. I came by my love of music very naturally at home and continued to follow that passion into the music conservatory at Ithaca College. It is because I came from a musical background and a family of musicians (teachers and performers), and the fact that I attended concerts at Lincoln Center while in high school and the Kennedy Center as an adult, that I recognize the outstanding quality of the HHSO. I wanted to be a part of the HHSO community! For over 20 years, the mission of the League has been to support HHSO’s endeavors through fundraising, community outreach, and volunteerism. Our goals for the League this year include continuing to support the Symphony financially through fundraising activities such as Swing Fore the Symphony (our annual golf tournament) and the Musicales; promoting community outreach; and supporting HHSO’s many endeavors throughout the season through volunteerism. To accomplish our mission, we encourage all HHSO lovers to become members of the League. We cannot do any of this without you! If you are not already a member of the League via our membership drive in the summer, please visit the HHSO website and follow the path to “League” and “Membership,” or send an email to terryhicks22@gmail.com.

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Please join us for this season’s fundraising events: Musicales: Six charming performances ranging from chamber music to jazz/pop programs held in beautiful homes and other venues throughout the year. Spring Luncheon, Fashion Show and Silent Auction: To be held at the Country Club of Hilton Head with fashions by Birdie James on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Other League activities include: Monday Night Post-Concert Receptions. Participation at events including Symphony Under the Stars, the Concours D’Elegance, Supper Club and other events at Soundwaves, the HHSO Youth Concerto Competition, BravoPiano! Festival, and Young Persons Concerts. The Spring Fling, a year-end celebration to recognize and thank League volunteers. The League is a dynamic, busy, hard-working organization of local men and women who love music and community. Please join us! Terry Hicks

POST-CONCERT RECEPTIONS— MEET THE GUEST ARTISTS AND CHAT WITH THE MAESTRO The League is sponsoring four post-concert receptions in The Gathering Space. Come join us!

Opening Night Monday, October 23, 2023

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Marina Volynets

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Lizhou Liu, Principal Reid Messich, Principal Savannah, GA Athens, GA Mary and Mike Briggs Patty and Dave Ekedahl Chair Chair VIOLIN I Scott Garrett Kelly Odell Micah Gangwer, Fort Mill, SC Augusta, GA Concertmaster Vasily Gorkovoy Charleston, SC CLARINET Charlotte, NC Aldine W. Schroeder Charles Messersmith, Yuri Kholodov ^ Memorial Chair Principal Savannah, GA Matthew Peebles Charleston, SC VIOLIN II Marge and Paul Coble Charleston, SC Brian Allen, Principal Chair in memory of Jeffrey Watson Charleston, SC Don E. Coble Columbia, SC Russell Floyd, Co-Principal SECTION VIOLIN CELLO Hilton Head Island, SC Jean S. Wolff Chair in Daniel Mumm, Principal Gretchen Roper memory of Alfred W. Charleston, SC Charleston, SC Wolff Ellen and Charles Taylor Jonathan Aceto * BASSOON Chair Statesboro, GA Katherine St. John, Barbara Altman Barbara Borg Principal Macon, GA Charleston, SC Charleston, SC Lee Richey Ann Cafferty Doris and Willis Shay Greensboro, NC Savannah, GA Chair Cynthia Sulko Jason Economides ** Sandra Nikolajevs Atlanta, GA Macon, GA Charleston, SC Mary Ann Watson Rafe Goldman Columbia, SC Charleston, SC HORN Catherine Klimhoff Hardy BASS Stephanie Mason, Hilton Head Island, SC Principal Maurice Belle, Principal Mario Incorvaia Atlanta, GA Statesboro, GA Savannah, GA Liz and Walt Schymik Ann and Michael Tomas Jakubek Chair in memory of Waters Chair in memory Charleston, SC Catherine B. Kaufmann of Ruth A. and Robert C. David Katz Brandon Nichols Waters Crossville, TN Charleston, SC Thomas Bresnick Angela Loizides Debra Sherrill-Ward Charleston, SC Charleston, SC Charleston, SC Joseph Farley C. Gerome Stewart Anne Holmi Winston-Salem, NC Charleston, SC Charleston, SC Vadim Volynets Marina Volynets Savannah, GA TRUMPET Savannah, GA Paul Wesley Lott, Principal FLUTE Jonathan Wright Savannah, GA Lorraine Jones, Principal Atlanta, GA Nancy and John Savannah, GA Diamond Chair Erna B. Graver Antonio Marti Memorial Chair Charleston, SC Tacy Edwards Todd Jenkins Charleston, SC North Augusta, GA John Morris Russell The Estate of Robert and Margaret Gallagher

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ENHANCE YOUR ORCHESTRA EXPERIENCE BY HOSTING A MUSICIAN The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra has the advantage of drawing excellent musicians from geographic areas well beyond Hilton Head including Savannah, Charleston, Greenville, Macon, Augusta, Statesboro, Columbia, and from as far away as Atlanta, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Charlotte and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. With Sunday and Monday concerts plus preceding rehearsals, musicians are in Hilton Head from Thursday or Friday to Tuesday. For several years we have offered them the choice of staying in hotels or in private homes. Increasingly, musicians are choosing the private home experience. Hosting responsibilities are minimal – a private bedroom and bath, a light breakfast, and perhaps a glass of wine or snack after a late-night rehearsal or concert. Musicians provide their own transportation and are given a per diem stipend to cover meals and expenses. Sometimes hosts invite their guests to join them for a meal or go out to dinner, but that is up to each host and the relationship they have developed. The benefits far outweigh the responsibilities: • Those who regularly host a musician find that great friendships result; they become like family. • Getting to know a musician personally provides deeper appreciation for their talent and how hard they work to provide the professional performances we all enjoy. • A practicing musician brings the “sound of music” to your home and provides a preview of the concert to come. • During the concert, hosts find that they have a vested interest in their musician’s performance and the good feeling of having supported, in a small way, that performance. • Hosting a musician provides an additional way, beyond direct financial support, of helping the HHSO. • Musicians report that they give priority to the HHSO when building their schedules because of the hospitality they receive here. This helps keep the most talented musicians available to us. If you are interested in hosting a musician during the 2023-2024 season, please call the HHSO office (843) 842-2055. It is not necessary to commit to the entire season. You can choose to be a host for the specific concerts which suit your schedule. Thank you! Bravo to our HHSO 2022-2023 host families – your gift is priceless!

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YOUNG PERSONS CONCERTS— THE HHSO ROCKS Link Up Program from Carnegie Hall April 2023 Cast Carlton Pitts, Narrator John Morris Russell, Conductor Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Vocal soloists: Tegan Miller, Michelle Meece, Matthew Meece

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It’s difficult to know who had the most fun at this year’s Young Persons Concerts. The kids? Maybe it was the dozens of “adult” volunteers who were there to wrangle the buses and keep order? A stage full of HHSO musicians? Or was it Maestro Russell? Yes, that’s it— JMR definitely had the most fun! The Young Persons Concerts have become a spring tradition on the HHSO’s calendar, and they seem to get better every year. The Orchestra Rocks played to almost 1,600 Beaufort County 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders plus their teachers and chaperones at First Presbyterian Church on April 25, 2023. Eight elementary schools participated from as far away as Beaufort. Preschoolers from First Presbyterian Day School rounded out the audience.

This year’s program, The Orchestra Rocks, was all about rhythm. Joining Russell and 60+ HHSO musicians were narrator Carlton Pitts and vocalists Michelle and Matthew Meece and Tegan Miller. Students raised their voices to sing “O Fortuna” (from Orff’s Carmina Burana), played recorders on several pieces played by the HHSO, and left their seats (literally) to clap their hands and stomp their feet to an earsplitting performance by the Battery Creek High School Drumline from Beaufort. Accompanying the HHSO on several pieces were 19

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Built around Carnegie Hall’s Link Up program, students are introduced to the orchestra in their own classrooms by way of an interactive curriculum. Carnegie Hall provides all study materials at no cost to participating schools. Over eight months during the school year, students learn to sing the music and to play an instrument before coming to the concert to perform with a professional orchestra. Maestro Russell is in his element with children. His energy sets the tone for the performances. Notably, he had a hand in the development of Link Up in the early 2000’s when working for the Education Department at Carnegie Hall.

violin students from Red Cedar Elementary in Bluffton, where we have been providing instruments and instruction for several years. The frosting on the cake was double bassist John Conyers playing a selection from Tan Dun’s concerto, Wolf Totem. We know from the hundreds of thank-you notes we received that the kids are geared up for next year when The Orchestra Moves—they’ll need their dancing shoes for this one! Please take a few minutes to enjoy a video of this special day posted on YouTube, courtesy of the Beaufort County School District. Type “Beaufort County Schools YouTube” into your browser. Select the videos tab at the top of the page, then scroll down until you see The Orchestra Rocks. It’s worth a look and we bet you won’t be able to stay in your seat!

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HHSO YOUTH CONCERTO COMPETITION Date: January 27, 2024 at SoundWaves

Says Steve Shaiman, HHSO’s Director of Education and Community Development (EdCE): “The YCC has made a significant impact in the lives of young musicians. Past finalists have gone on to win prizes at other important national competitions and study performance at major conservatories including Curtis, Juilliard, Colburn, NEC,

Oberlin, Peabody, Eastman and others. Several have embarked on significant professional careers. This is my personal invitation to join us on Saturday, January 27, 2024, at SoundWaves to show your support for this year’s group. You will be amazed at their talent.”

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The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Concerto Competition was conceived 15 years ago with the goal of inspiring a younger generation to pursue their goals in the world of classical music. Since its inception, the event has expanded to one of the largest regional competitions of its type in the Southeastern United States. Last year’s nine competitors, ages 13 – 18, were selected by a panel of professional musicians via video audition. The event took place in late January 2023 at SoundWaves. First Prize winner Audrey Goodner, age 17 from Reston, Virginia, will return to play with the HHSO at the Holiday Pops concerts November 26 and 27, 2023. To learn more about Audrey, please see her biography in the Holiday Pops Concert.

Top row (left to right): Ellie Dixon, Philip Jeong, Ian Bennett, Sam Villancourt, Brooklyn Thatcher Bottom row: Eugenie Lim, Audrey Goodner, Claire Cho, Leila Warren

HILTON HEAD CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE Dates: June 12 - 22, 2024 at SoundWaves

Directed by Judy Gimbel, the fifth annual Hilton Head Chamber Music Institute was held June 7– 17, 2023, at SoundWaves. HHCMI is an intensive 10-day training program focused on the art of small ensemble playing, designed for outstanding young musicians who possess a strong focus on chamber music performance. This year’s sixteen high school age musicians, selected via an audition process, came from eight states: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

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HHCMI is staffed with an outstanding faculty. Co-Artistic Directors Felix Wang, cello, and Carolyn Huebl, violin, are from Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.

Shannon Thomas, violin, Florida State University, and Caroline Coade, viola, Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the University of Michigan, round out the faculty. Students are hosted in private homes. Their needs are met on-site by dedicated volunteers who arrive at 8 am and do not depart until the day’s activities are complete, usually well into the evening. This year’s committee members were Judy Bluestone, Beth Corry, Sharon Duncan, Tena Graber, Sue Harter, Lois Wilson, Alan Jordan, and Steve Shaiman. The program includes lots of practice time, private lessons, daily quartet rehearsals and master classes. Students also had ample opportunity to perform via several outreach concerts on the Island and in Bluffton. CMI concluded with two concerts featuring four student quartets, capped off by a performance by The Chamber Music Orchestra composed of all 16 students and the faculty. HHCMI has a special focus on preparing students to be lifelong musicians who balance the highest level of performance with enjoyment of life. They have booked an annual slot on the HHSO’s summer calendar. We hope to see you in the audience next year! 2023-2024

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Exciting times abound at SoundWaves as we embark on the third season of our deliciously popular Coastal Home Supper Club, monthly live events featuring dinner provided by a local eatery and a wide-ranging musical selection of intimate cabaret performances. Upcoming shows this season feature artists representing music of the increasingly popular Rock the Yacht genre, endearing ballads of Broadway, a nod to Ol’ Blue Eyes (our own way), the return of entertainer and comedian Tony Starlight, a little flapping Great Gatsby style, a way-too-cool Disco night, and much more! Sure to be a sellout, American violinist and bluegrass fiddler Tessa Lark visits SoundWaves for her second solo show in conjunction with her return engagement with Maestro John Morris Russell and the HHSO in April. In partnership with Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park, The Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, and the Native Island Business and Community Affairs Association, we continue our Lowcountry inspired Gullah Cultural Series, riding its inaugural tidal wave of success into an expanded second season. Artistic Director, Lavon Stevens, will be joined by a variety of native-born islanders who through captivating stories and music and will bring us into Lowcountry life as it was before the bridge. This concert series also features delectable meals – authentic GullahGeechee cuisine prepared by Gullah-Geechee chefs. New this season is a partnership with Savannah’s American Traditions Vocal Collective. Our inaugural Broadway Icons dinner and concert series introduces three of ATC’s gold medalists to the Lowcountry for cabaret performances – the first show in September, the second in November and the third in December. This three-event series highlights some of the greatest in American vocal music, spanning Broadway and beyond, performed by superstar vocalists, and backed-up by a rhythm section comprised of the best musicians in the Lowcountry. Other 2023-2024 SoundWaves highlights include Lean Ensemble Theater’s education and outreach performances, and community organization meetings of the Board of Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island, the Sea Turtle Patrol, and the HHI Arts and Culture Council. Call to inquire about bringing your organization here for meetings, conferences, or private events. In a few short years, SoundWaves has become one of the most highly sought-after performing event spaces in the Lowcountry. Join the many people who have already been here and experience for yourself its unique niche in the fabric of evening entertainment options on Hilton Head.

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“I have really enjoyed working with Mario Incorvaia and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra at SoundWavesI have experienced many of the programs there performing as a Jazz and Blues artist. The HHSO has been extremely helpful in promoting Gullah-Geechee Culture. I am grateful for all they do to enhance our community as a leader in Arts & Culture.” Lavon C. Stevens Gullah Cultural Series Artistic Advisor Jazz, Blues, & Gospel Artist and Community Cultural Activist “Performing at SoundWaves is always such a pleasure. The intimacy of the room, the perfect balance of the acoustics, and the welcoming atmosphere of every audience makes SoundWaves a perfect place to create real musical magic.” Gretchen Kristine Stelzer Coastal Home Supper Club Vocalist and Programming Advisor

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SUPPORTING THE MUSIC Thank you to the following individual donors who have made commitments to our Annual Fund in the past year.

DIAMOND BATON CIRCLE $25,000+

Joseph and Suzanne Boelter Sally Brown John and Patricia Canzano Michael and Mary Briggs CONCERTMASTER’S Roger Coe Bob and Heather Cherichella CIRCLE $2,500+ John and Barbara Collins Kevin and Vicki Halloran Fay Dixon Chris and Mary Michael and Susan Harter Eileen and Jerry Durkin Catherine Albright Karen and Buck Edwards Stephen and Karen Ball PLATINUM BATON CIRCLE Wayne Effron and Gail Kaess Stephanie and John Beeder $20,000+ Sally Evans Harvey Beeferman and Frederick and Carol Hack Joseph and Pauline Gareau Eileen McHenry Connie Rathman Mary Ann and John Goodrich Ingrid and Craig Boatright Kathy Grote Nancy and David Borghesi GOLD BATON CIRCLE Larry and Ann Gunn Stewart and Judy Brown $15,000+ Lynn Gustafson Fred and Vivian Burt Charles and Ann Harrison Dan and Betsy Brown Theodore and Clair Craver Ted Haslam Ralph and Sandy Drayer Dennis and Carol Draeger Karin and George Haupstein Bret and Laura Jacobowitz Marilyn and Andy and Meg Heller Sharon Miller Stephen Gammarino Barbara Holmes Diane and John Myers Dr. Dahlia D. and Candi Hough Carol Tucker Arthur L. Handman Bill Hutchinson James and Florence Willard Dorothy Holmes, Ph.D. Mario and Jennifer Incorvaia Joe and Mona Huff Joan Israel SILVER BATON CIRCLE Alvin and Joanne Hutzler Robert Jacobs $10,000+ John and Marie James Alan and Karen Jordan Tom and Carol Jones Charles and Joan Dattelbaum Hart and Jane Joseph Robert and Joan Koenig Mary Princing and Bill Clark Ezzat and Shadia Khalifa Blaine and Lynne Lotz Ray and Doris Stickel Sam and Juliana Kim Jim and Dot Loughlin Paul Stillman Kathleen and Don Krahnke Robert and Eloise Mason Jake and Margie Kriney Paul and Mary McEvoy CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE Alice and Kennon Lattal David McClintock and $7,500+ Rosalyn Lester Mary Milligan Robert and Darle Booher Bruce Maguire Nancy Minor Todd and Liz Clist Margaret Marcotte Marty Neumeister, in memory John and Nancy Diamond Henry Martin of Jim Neumeister Dave and Patty Ekedahl Judy Matchett Roy Plekenpol Pete and Cary Fleming John McLaughlin and Constance Silvester Helen Heberton Judy McCraken Barbara Harris Sorkin, in Sarah Meyer Joann McElravy and Fred Wolf memory of Michael Sorkin William and Judy Thorpe Charles and Andrea McMakin Susan Suhr Jerry and Connie Voight Gordon Miller Alice W. Walton William and Anne Millhaem Julie Williams CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Peggi Moon $5,000+ Glenn and Linda Neff ARTIST’S CIRCLE Barbara and Harwood Nichols Ed and Aletta Bond $1,000+ Mary Noonan William and Linda DeArment Neal and Barbara Aaron Helene Norbut Jay and Patricia Elliot Peggy Ashworth Shirley Pearse Don Flora and John Austin and Susan Dale and Judy Peters Janet Stallmeyer Hartmann Austin Gleaves Rhodes Peggy Knowlton Sally Ayotte Sylvia Richards Ray and Linda Moloney Terry and Christine Baehr Timothy and Mona Ridge Janine Nelson, in memory of Winifred Baker and Janet Rivers David Nelson Constance Curnow Charles and Susan Parrish Barbara Bean Frances Sampson Tarrant and Mary Ann Putnam Karl and Barbara Becker Robert and Pamela Savage Diana Riggle Dede Bethke Van and Lauren Schwiebert Spence and Barbie Stouffer Malcolm and Jillian Binks Craig and Sue Sigler Lorene Thornbury Judy Bluestone Pat and Charlie Sinatra 38

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Hendrik and Mieke Smit Russell and Lois Southwick Sheila Standen Peter Takács Judith Tauscher James Titus John Tolford Judy Walker Hans and Festi Weitekamper Georgia and Henry West Richard and Barbara Wiles Lois Wilson Lee and Ruth Wilwerding Gerald and Nancy Witowski Barbara Wolf Paul and Phyllis Zaffaroni William and Kathleen Zurilla

PRINCIPAL $500+ James Edward Alexander David and Nancy Ames Frank Babel Rabbi Brad and Linda Bloom Donald Bogard Dom and Estie Bonanno Jason Breeden John and Elizabeth Brink Ginger and Mike Caporal Beverly Chell Wade Close Howard Coonley and Carol Clapp David and Romy Coquillette, in honor of Lorene Thornbury Patrick and Suzanne Crippen Alexander and Dedria Cruden Joan Deery and Paul Capron Barbara Walters Doehrmann, through the Eugene Walters Family Foundation Linda and Dave Dreisbach Pamela Dyer Charles and Linda Eberly Marc and Paula Feinberg Barbara Fleisher Laurie and Donald Gazzale Susan Giattino John and Lesley Gilbert Joe and Judy Gimbel Alice Brockmann Gohl George and Cynthia Gorski-Popiel Deborah Graves Ann and Kurt Grindstaff Kenneth and Louise Hagstrom Cynthia Heil HHSO Orchestra Musicians Terry Hicks

Constance Holbrook SUPPORTER $250+ Dr. Gloria Holmes Jonathan Aceto Nancy Hudak Marcia and Steve Adair Ford and Patricia Hutchinson Arthur and Debby Andersen Thomas and Sandra Jernigan Richard and Audrey Anderson Mary Ella Jones Trudy Backus Laura and Michael Kling James and Sheila Baden Myla Lerner and Larry Kramer William and Jill Bender Juan and Christine Lacerda James and Dukene Brady Joe and Nancy LoPresti Henry and Nancy Brown James and Clare Mackie John Burling Eric and Janice Magnin Colette Burrus Laura Marks Andrew Buzzelli Carolyn and Lloyd Martin Susanne Clark and Craig Martin Robert Diday Nancy Mead Joan and Peter Dallos Robert and Marcia Metzger Bill and Nancy Dix John Miller Caroline and James Dolbey Richard and Susan Mitchell Francis and Margaret Dunne Barry and Carole Moore Brett Dutton Nia Morgan Linda Ellis Mary Murray Jay and Bonnie Finch William and Jane Murray Linda Fischer Jeffrie and Louis Natale Barbara and Joe Fudjack Alan and Hannah Obstler John and Joan Geisler Emily and Wilson Oelkers Mary Harder Victoria and Robert Olson Jack and Lidian Hittle John and Kathryn Patterson Peter and Anne Holmi Ken Perkowski Meredith and Willis and Suzanne Post Jacquelyn James Andrea Purple Rick and Laurel Johnson Phillip Py Paul and Kathy Kaleta Blake and Marjorie Robinson Robert and Mary Kerdasha Stewart and Nina Rodman Kenneth and Kryl Kerr Betsy Roll Paul and Louise Lang Susan Ross John and Carol Lang Betsy and Gerry Schroeter Keith and Robin Larsen Edward and Joan Apple Lemoine Elizabeth Simmons Venessa Lott Dennis and Lauren Stuligross Ingrid Low James Hales and Sally Tarley Joan McHenry Donna Varner Ed and Nancy Millette Diane and Frank James Montague and Weitekamper Linda Stedman Marti Willets and Doug Terry and Kathy Orr Nabholz Linda Palmiero J. P. and Mary Parekh John and Sue Parsons Florence Portoghese

Neal and Shirlene Post Michael and Karen Rudy Polly and John Sten Gerald and Dorothy Swimmer William and Kathryn Taylor Thomas VanLandingham Doug and Ann West Jon and Sally Ann Wormley

FRIEND UP TO $249 Anonymous Diane Ambur Lynn Baglyos Sherman and Carol Barker Frederick and Kathleen Barrett Joel and Karen Bayer Janet England-Bender Gilbert Campbell Danilo and Virginia Castro Ilse Coger Kathy and Robert Condon Pam and Peter Cooper John Corica Judy Cote George Couch Jim Coughlin Rosalie Crispin Dawn Crunkleton Alison Deem J. Edward Diamond Lou Drucker Robert Duncan Raymond Duxbury Wendie Elovich Loring and Marilyn Ensign Gregg Feltrup Jacqueline Fesq Marilyn Finger Eileen Fitzgerald Michele Foote George and Susan Heberton Julie Hill Ann and Denny Hoag Daniel Hofmann Victoria Holdren Billy and Stacey Howe Dwight Hunting Lynne and Roger Irvine

Barbara Johnson Drs. Terri Thomas and Alex Kent Charles and Janet Kreitler William Kunkel Gilles Lessard John and Elizabeth Loda Klaus and Elizabeth Loehr Lee Lopez Max Loxley Mary Martha McNamara Andy Meers George and Stella Moyser Susan Murphy Nancy and Jim Nissley Christina and John Phelps Geraldine Pinkerton Ellen and Paul Pinnow Fred and Alice Pitts Prudence and Burton Preston Edith Gray Randall Frank and Sally Roach Louise Rose Jill Schiffman Carolyn and Jim Schoonover Richard and Nancy Schulman John and Linda Sheppard Harry and Regina Silletti Marie Sirio Patricia and Dennis Smith Neil and Barbara Snow Leonard and Mary Ann Snyder Richard and Kathleen Sonberg Richard and Marcy Spencer Peter Spreadbury Joanne and Donald Staffa Sally Steedman Michael and Elaine Stout Barbara Swift Karen Terlizzi and Rita Breen Mattson Uihlein Felicia Vairo Patrick Walsh Sam Watkins Karen West Lester and Millicent Willner

IN MEMORIAM DONATIONS Thank you to donors who made contributions in memory of the following HHSO friends: Jim Neumeister Charles and Joan Dattelbaum Gregg Feltrup, The Global Accounting Solutions, Inc. Christina and John Phelps Ellen and Paul Pinnow Patrick Walsh, Buckingham Strategic Wealth

Bill Standen Danilo and Virginia Castro Kathy and Robert Condon Brett Dutton Ford and Patricia Hutchinson National Society of the American Revolution Mattson Uihlein

These lists contain donors whose contributions were received between August 1, 2022 and September 15, 2023. Please contact Patron Relations Manager Susan Hartmann if you see an error in your listing. 2023-2024

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HILTON HEAD INTERNATION PIANO COMPETITION SPONSORS Correll Insurance Group Gulfstream Hargray Communications Herrin Piano Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce Rice Music House Savannah Hilton Head International Airport Steinway & Sons The Great Frame Up

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FOUNDATIONS Breedlove Foundation Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation Heritage Classic Foundation Howard Gilman Foundation Palmetto Dunes Cares R.J. Samulski Innovation Foundation The Beaufort Fund

PUBLIC SUPPORT Beaufort County Town of Bluffton Town of Hilton Head Island Hilton Head Island Office of Cultural Affairs South Carolina Arts Commission

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JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL

MUSIC DIRECTOR “Mr. Russell is in his twelfth year as Music Director of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. The HHSO has enjoyed unprecedented artistic growth under Maestro Russell’s leadership; concert attendance has blossomed, the orchestra has doubled its number of concerts, and performs regularly off-island, throughout the region.”

A master of American musical style, John Morris Russell has devoted himself to redefining the American orchestral experience. In his twelfth season as Music Director of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, he continues to invigorate the musical life of the Lowcountry as conductor, collaborator and educator, and leads the orchestra’s classical subscription series as well as the prestigious Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Mr. Russell concurrently serves as Conductor of the world-renowned Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, with which he earned a GRAMMY Nomination in 2019, and is also Principal Pops Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, following in the footsteps of Marvin Hamlisch and Doc Severinsen. The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra has enjoyed unprecedented artistic growth under Maestro Russell’s leadership; concert attendance has blossomed, the orchestra has doubled its number of concerts, and performs regularly off-island, throughout the region. Under his guidance the HHSO has sparked collaborations with regional ensembles and performers that continue to widen its reach, including Georgia Southern University, Claflin University, Charleston Southern University, Hilton Head Dance Theatre, Hilton Head Ballroom Dance Studio, Legacy Irish Dance Academy, Abeni Cultural Arts Performing Dance Studio, Savannah Children’s Choir, Historic Savannah Theater, American Traditions Vocal Collection, I Cantori, May River High School Schola Cantorum, Effingham County High School Chorus and members of the Parris Island Marine Band. Mr. Russell’s collaborations around the world have included Aretha Franklin, Emanuel Ax, Amy Grant and Vince Gill, Garrick Ohlsson, Rhiannon Giddens, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jon Kimura Parker, Ann Hampton Callaway, Cynthia Erivo, ChoLiang Lin, Sutton Foster, George Takei, Megan Hilty, Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, Katherine McPhee, Brian Wilson, Leslie Odom, Jr., Ranky Tanky, and Paul Shaffer. Widely considered one of North America’s leaders in orchestral educational programming, Mr. Russell helped develop and conducted the Link Up educational concert series at Carnegie Hall between 1997-2009 - the oldest and most celebrated series of its kind, originally created by Walter Damrosch in 1891 and made famous by Leonard Bernstein. Link Up programs have since been presented around the world, and made their debut in Beaufort County with the HHSO in 2022. Last season’s concert The Orchestra Rocks, welcomed more than 1600 elementary age students singing and playing recorders along with the HHSO. Mr. Russell also began the HHSO Music Bridges program in 2015, engaging thousands of school children from Bluffton to Hilton Head Island in ensemble visits and full orchestra concerts, while integrating the musical culture of Gullah and Lowcountry traditions into presentations and programming. As a guest conductor, Mr. Russell has worked with the The Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, New York Pops, and the National Symphony of Washington, D.C. He frequently conducts Canadian orchestras including Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, and has led the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Dallas, Milwaukee, the Minnesota Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Colorado Symphony, and the New York City Ballet. This season he makes debuts with The Florida Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Russell earned degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Williams College in Massachusetts, and studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors in Hancock, Maine.

HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE • OCTOBER 22 & 23, 2023

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, October 22, 2023 • 4:00 pm Monday, October 23, 2023 • 7:30 pm John Morris Russell, Conductor Steve Blanchard, Narrator Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus Suade Anderson, Acting Director

PROGRAM Suite from Psycho Prelude BERNARD HERRMANN

The Water The Stairs The Murder The City

MICHAEL ABELS Suite from Us Anthem – Immolation Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus JAMES STEPHENSON The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Steve Blanchard, Narrator

INTERMISSION HECTOR BERLIOZ

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Rêveries, Passions (Daydreams, Passions) Un bal (A Ball) Scène aux champs (Scene in the Fields) Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold) Songe d’une nuit du sabbat (Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath)

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STEVE BLANCHARD, NARRATOR Steve Blanchard was the longest running Beast in the history of Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, portraying the character for over eight years. He has also appeared on Broadway in The Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carol, and as Lancelot in Camelot, opposite Robert Goulet. On television, Steve can be seen in The Other Two, Tommy, New Amsterdam, Prodigal Son, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, The Good Fight, Law and Order, Third Watch, and Ed.

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE • OCTOBER 22 & 23, 2023

National tours include The Little Mermaid, Phantom of the Opera, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Mickey Rooney, Little House on the Prairie with Melissa Gilbert, and Newsies. On film, Steve has appeared in Newsies: The Broadway Musical, Those Who Wander, When The Moon Was Twice As Big, Cover Me, and Mr Sam. He can be heard on the original recordings of Johnny Guitar, Sundown, Frankenstein, and his own CD, Northbound Train.

HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus is an auditioned chorus of professional and professionallytrained vocalists from around the Lowcountry who are dedicated to performing classical, opera, and contemporary choral literature with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. These singers have a wealth of experience, having performed extensively as soloists in opera and oratorio and as singers with major symphony orchestra choruses and choral societies all across the United States and abroad. The chorus is skilled in a diverse range of repertoire from the opera and Broadway stages to classical works of the great masters and are highly praised for their rich and expressive sound. Formed in 2006 by the HHSO and Mary Woodmansee Green, the HHSOC debuted with Mahler’s Second Symphony with performances in Hilton Head and at the Lucas Theatre in Savannah. Since then, the HHSOC has performed a wide variety of works by Bach, Berlioz, Verdi, Copland, Handel and Mendelssohn. Under the baton of Maestro John Morris Russell since 2012, the HHSOC has performed Vivaldi’s Gloria; Poulenc’s Gloria; Mendelssohn’s Elijah; Holst’s The Planets; Silvestri’s The Polar Express; Porgy and Bess In Concert; and an all-Gilbert and Sullivan evening featuring selections from The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, and Trial by Jury–all to rave reviews. This highly acclaimed ensemble continues to expand their repertoire and their love of music, while striving to set the highest standard for performance and professionalism.

SUADE ANDERSON, ACTING DIRECTOR Christopher Suade Anderson has been the Music Director of All Saints Episcopal Church in Hilton Head since 2021. Before that, Suade served as Music Director of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Conway, South Carolina from 2012 to 2021. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Vocal Performance from Coastal Carolina University. Suade has also been a men’s tailored clothing professional for thirteen years and is currently with Dillards in Savannah, Georgia. In addition, he has served on the board of the Savannah chapter of the American Guild of Organists since 2021. 46

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About the Music

PROGRAM NOTES

by Jonathan Aceto

Suite from Psycho Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE • OCTOBER 22 & 23, 2023

One of the great film composers from the golden age of Hollywood, Bernard Herrmann was also one of the first to create a personally distinctive sound. Winning a composition prize at the age of 13, he went on to study with Percy Grainger at New York University. Later, Herrmann joined CBS Studios where he became chief conductor and composer, going on to write music for Orson Welles’ radio programs and early films, including Citizen Kane. Herrmann was especially known for his use of orchestral color, even using a theremin, a unique electronic instrument played by waving one’s hands, in his score for The Day the Earth Stood Still. Herrmann was especially known for his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, scoring Vertigo, North by Northwest, and The Birds among other films. For Psycho, he decided to feature only string instruments, wanting a “black and white” sound to reflect the black and white palette of the movie. Interestingly, Hitchcock originally wanted no music for the famous shower scene. Herrmann, however, believed otherwise and secretly wrote a cue using the iconic screeching violins. At the recording session for the film, Hitchcock listened with approval to the entire score, soon regretting not having asked for music for that scene. Only then did Herrmann reveal that he had written music for it, and Hitchcock, after watching the scene with the extra cue, immediately agreed the additional music was perfect.

Suite from Us Michael Abels (b. 1962)

Into the Woods | Lynne Hoos

Michael Abels, a popular African American composer, is especially adept at all things orchestral and often fuses classical traditions with contemporary idioms like hip-hop. Abels has received grants from the prestigious Sphinx Organization and his traditional concert pieces have been performed by major orchestras including the Chicago and Atlanta symphonies. One of his most celebrated pieces is Global Warming, a work that reflects both a specific event, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991, and the general commonalities in folk music from all cultures, which Abels believes can be powerful tools in bringing nations together. For many, Abels’ greatest success has come with film music including the score for Us, a psychological horror film by Jordan Peele, released in 2019. The film relates the discovery that everyone in town has been cloned and those doppelgängers are now seeking revenge. The score features nearly every creepy string effect a player can make, including ponticello, tremolo, random glissandos, and pizzicato. Also heard in the score is a choir singing nonsensical syllables which sound vaguely like a language but one only “they” can understand, adding to the suspense and menace. 2023-2024

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE • OCTOBER 22 & 23, 2023

James Stephenson (b. 1969) A degree in trumpet performance from New England Conservatory helped launch James Stephenson’s career as a professional orchestral player. Thus, it is no surprise that he has approached his composing with special attention to playability. His affinity for orchestral musicians has also led Stephenson to write concertos for almost every instrument found in a modern orchestra. He has received commissions from numerous organizations including the San Francisco Ballet, University of Minnesota, and the “President’s Own” Marine Band. A notable example of Stephenson’s chamber music output is The Devil’s Tale, a 2013 sequel to Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale, which is filled with palindromes and has been performed at prestigious venues such as Ravinia and the Kennedy Center. One of Stephenson’s earliest compositions, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, was commissioned by the Naples Philharmonic in 1996. This evocative tone poem, based on the grisly story by Washington Irving, tells the tale of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and the lovely Katrina van Tassell with whom he has fallen in love. Unfortunately, she declines his advances sending him on his terrifying journey through the forest. Included in the score are hymns and folk tunes popular in the Hudson River Valley, adding authenticity to the narration. Tonight’s performance will be the chamber orchestra version which was commissioned by the Cincinnati Pops.

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) First impressions are always fascinating to a writer of program notes and this work certainly has plenty of great examples. Mendelssohn heard Symphonie fantastique shortly after its premier in 1830 and found it “utterly loathsome” and “unspeakably dreadful . . . I have not been able to work for two days.” Rossini, after looking at the score, remarked “what a good thing it isn’t music.” Fortunately, orchestras continued to give it a go and the world has learned to appreciate Symphonie fantastique. The piece is revolutionary in significant ways and is considered one of the most important works for orchestra. To begin with, it is one of the earliest works to have a program or story associated with the music. In 1827 Berlioz had attended a performance of Hamlet and fell deeply in love with Harriet Smithson, the actress who played Ophelia. When several love letters failed to entice her, he began composing the symphony to express his growing obsession with her. Because the piece explores such a wide variety of emotions, Berlioz wrote a detailed explanation of each movement. Another innovative aspect is the use of a recurring melody in each movement, which Berlioz called his “idée fixe” and represented his lust for Harriet. The theme is transformed by the changing drama and emotions of each movement and helps the listener along the journey. The orchestration is also avant-garde, featuring instruments that were not part of the typical orchestra of the period: piccolo, English horn, cornets, two harps, and (most unusual) two ophicleides. Tubas will be used for these performances. Even some of the directions to the strings are unusual. For example, in the 5th movement they are asked to play “col legno” – with the wood of the bow instead of the horsehair. Finally, one must acknowledge this work’s psychedelic, dream-like aspects. Most notable are those found in the 4th movement, in which the artist dreams about being executed and then watches his head bounce down the steps of the guillotine; and in the 5th movement, which is a wild, bizarre dance of witches and magical creatures and features the plainchant Dies Irae “Day of Wrath.” All those striking, psychedelic sounds are not surprising considering Berlioz was using opium while he composed! 48

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ILLIA OVCHARENKO PLAYS LISZT ILLIA OVCHARENKO PLAYS LISZT • NOVEMBER 12 & 13, 2023

John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, November 12, 2023 • 4:00 pm Monday, November 13, 2023 • 7:30 pm John Morris Russell, Conductor Illia Ovcharenko, Piano

PROGRAM RICHARD WAGNER

Overture to The Flying Dutchman, WWV 63

FRANZ LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, S. 124 Allegro maestoso Quasi adagio – Allegretto vivace Allegro marziale animato Illia Ovcharenko, Piano

INTERMISSION FRANZ LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125 Adagio sostenuto assai – Allegro agitato assai Allegro moderato Allegro deciso – Marziale un poco meno allegro Allegro animato Illia Ovcharenko, Piano RICHARD WAGNER

Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96

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Photo by Monique de St. Croix

ILLIA OVCHARENKO PLAYS LISZT • NOVEMBER 12 & 13, 2023

ILLIA OVCHARENKO, PIANO Praised as “technically flawless and impeccably musical” (International Piano), winner of the lauded 2022 Honens International Piano Competition, 21-year-old Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko has taken the piano world by storm. The Honens International Piano Competition stands apart from all other competitions in their core of valuing and rewarding “The Complete Artist.” Ovcharenko embodies Honens’ ideal with his technical mastery, perseverance against adversity, and an understanding of musical text that is intellectual and emotional. Highlights of the 2022/2023 season include two Carnegie Hall performances and an international tour spanning Brussels, Paris, Liechtenstein, Portugal, Germany, and Canada. Ovcharenko is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Hannover Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien following his studies at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv under the tutelage of Arie Vardi. He has performed with leading orchestras including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, National Radio of Ukraine, Versailles Conservatory String Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. He has also collaborated with prestigious conductors such as Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Arie Vardi, Ian Hobson, Mykola Diadyura, Kai Bumann, Benoit Girault, Volodymyr Sirenko, Nicolo Giuliani, Jeffrey Kahane, and Vitaly Protasov. Ovcharenko is a frequent participant at music festivals worldwide in countries including France, Ukraine, Israel, the United States, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy. He has appeared at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Festival Auvers-sur-Oise and the Pontoise Piano Campus, and Bern Interlaken Classics, among others. As a recipient of the Polonsky Fellowship (2019, 2021), he studied at the Aspen Music Festival with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Hung Kuan Chen. Ovcharenko is a scholarship recipient from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein. Prior to winning the Honens International Piano Competition in 2022, Ovcharenko won the New York International Piano Competition in 2022, received Second Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 2022, became Laureate of the Busoni International Piano Competition (Italy) in 2021, won the Michelangeli Prize at the Eppan International Piano Academy in Italy, and claimed First Prize at the Horowitz International Piano Competition in Ukraine in 2019. Ovcharenko is a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship of Ukraine. He is represented by Kanzen Artists.

HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

About the Music

PROGRAM NOTES

by Jonathan Aceto

Overture to The Flying Dutchman Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

ILLIA OVCHARENKO PLAYS LISZT • NOVEMBER 12 & 13, 2023

Tonight’s concert features two 19th Century giants, Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, who were close friends and yet who disagreed on many topics including the future of music. They influenced and inspired each other, creating significant innovations in drama (Wagner’s area of expertise) and symphonic program music (Liszt’s). The background on Der fliegende Holländer, or The Flying Dutchman, is rather unique and one which the typical concertgoer would never guess. In 1839, Wagner was conductor at the Court Theater in Latvia and, unfortunately, was also raking up sizable debts. It finally got to the point where he felt his only option was to escape his creditors. Wagner and his wife secretly left Riga on a ship which soon encountered fierce storms off Norway. Surprisingly, Wagner found inspiration from the rough seas and from the sailors who regaled him with tales of the legendary Flying Dutchman. He decided to take that German folk tale and elevate it into an opera, writing both the libretto and the music. Wagner finished the opera by the end of 1841, but the premier did not occur until 1843 in Dresden. This overture is classic Wagner, complete with leitmotifs for all the important characters and ideas including the sea itself. It opens with the strings emulating the rolling, stormy ocean with the brass presenting the stentorian theme for the Dutchman, a man cursed to eternally sail the sea. Later, we hear the beautiful motif for Senta, the Captain’s daughter, presented by the English horn. Her love for the Dutchman, so deep and true that she throws herself into the sea, breaks the curse, and they are reunited in death. Wagner’s brilliant leitmotifs weave in and out of this striking overture, one that borders on a symphonic tone poem.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, S. 124 Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Franz Liszt may have ended up as a good, but unremarkable pianist if he had not attended a concert by Niccolò Paganini in Paris. The virtuoso violinist astounded Liszt, inspiring him to practice like he never had before. Because of this, Liszt became one of the greatest pianists of the 19th Century, and subsequently wrote some of the most difficult music for the instrument. He began composing his first piano concerto in 1830, but remarkably did not proclaim it finished until its publication in 1856. Liszt performed the premier in Weimar in 1855 with Hector Berlioz conducting. Of interesting note to the current HHSO season, one of the other pieces on that Weimar concert was Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique! Although the concerto is in one continuous sweep, it is thematically divided into four movements. The concerto opens with the orchestra playing one of the most famous chromatic phrases in Western music, a phrase onto which Liszt apocryphally and playfully added the words “das versteht Ihr alle nicht, ha ha!” (“none of you understand this, ha ha”). There is a glorious second theme played by the clarinet, but relatively soon the strings transition into the mesmerizing second movement. At one point, the pianist begins a seemingly endless high, magical trill as several instruments (including viola), in turn, play short solos. Then, out of the blue, we hear a solo triangle indicating the third movement. This daring use of a percussion instrument led to much criticism and many people began mockingly referring to the piece as the “Triangle Concerto.” Liszt, however, had his own counterattack, telling a student “I have now hit on the expedient of striking the triangle (which gave such offense) quite lightly with a tuning fork!” The last movement, a virtuous military march, rounds off this exciting concerto. 2023-2024

Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

ILLIA OVCHARENKO PLAYS LISZT • NOVEMBER 12 & 13, 2023

As he did with his first concerto, Liszt composed and revised his second piano concerto over a long period of time, starting in 1839 and completing the final revisions in 1861. His student, Hans von Bronsart, performed the premier in 1857 with Liszt conducting. This piece is much less of a traditional piano concerto and more of an extended rhapsody using thematic metamorphosis. Indeed, Liszt labeled it in the manuscript as a “concerto symphonique” and it points to his desire to move away from simply writing virtuoso piano music towards a more sophisticated manner of composing. Instead of typical solo passages in scales or octaves, Liszt often writes “chamber music” where the piano accompanies melodies found in the woodwinds or strings. The opening theme, introduced by clarinet, is continuously transformed into new variations of tempo, orchestral color, and character. Other themes are woven in as the piece progresses through its six continuous sections. At one moment, Liszt re-interprets the melody as a “bel canto” aria and another time it becomes a military-style march. He explores keys, and even time signatures, in his ever-evolving development of the initial phrase.

Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96 Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is quite unique among Wagner’s operas. It is his only comedy, the only one which takes place in a specific historical period, the only one with an entirely original story, the only one without any supernatural or magical elements, and it uses many traditional operatic devices (such as separate arias and choruses, rhyming, and ballet) which Wagner openly disdained. Yet it has always been one of his most popular, perhaps because it is an opera about a singing contest! In 1845, Wagner was enjoying a spa vacation in Czechoslovakia when he began reading about the history of German poetry and about the song contests in 16th Century Nuremburg. The “Master Singers” were a guild of poets and musicians who developed an extensive system of rules in creating and performing songs. At this time, Wagner became enamored with Schopenhauer and his philosophy on how art, especially music, since it is purely abstract, can help people escape suffering. Wagner began conceiving a story about one of the judges, who was particularly officious with his duties, and his comeuppance at the end by the noble Hans Sachs, a real-life Master Singer. He began composing the Prelude during a train ride in 1862 and the entire opera was premiered at the National Theater in Munich in 1868.

Colorful Umbrellas | Carol Iglesias

HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

HOLIDAY POPS John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, November 26, 2023 • 4:00 pm Monday, November 27, 2023 • 7:30 pm

HOLIDAY POPS • NOVEMBER 26 & 27, 2023

John Morris Russell, Conductor Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield, Vocalist Michael Roemer, Baritone Audrey Goodner, Violin HHSO Youth Concerto Competition Winner Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus Suade Anderson, Acting Director

PROGRAM

SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR

A Christmas Overture

TRADITIONAL/ Arr. RYAN JAMES BRANDAU

Wassail

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Behold, I Tell You a Mystery/ The Trumpet Shall Sound from Messiah

Michael Roemer

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus

TRADITIONAL/ Arr. BILL HOLCOMBE

Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah

Festive Sounds of Hanukah

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 Allegro assai vivace Audrey Goodner, Violin MARGARET BONDS FELIX MENDELSSOHN/ Arr. DARYL MCKENZIE

Alleluia from The Ballad of the Brown King Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Hark the Herald Angels Sing Tatiana Mayfield

INTERMISSION (continued on next page)

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HOLIDAY POPS John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, November 26, 2023 • 4:00 pm Monday, November 27, 2023 • 7:30 pm

HOLIDAY POPS • NOVEMBER 26 & 27, 2023

PROGRAM

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL/ Joy to the World Arr. MATT CATINGUB IRVING TAYLOR, DUDLEY BROOKS, HAL STANLEY/ Arr. DARYL MCKENZIE

The Man with the Bag Tatiana Mayfield

FRANZ XAVER GRUBER/ Silent Night Arr. MATT CATINGUB MEL TORME/ The Christmas Song Arr. DARYL MCKENZIE Tatiana Mayfield HUGH MARTIN, RALPH BLANE/ Arr. DARYL MCKENZIE

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Tatiana Mayfield

KATHERINE DAVIS, HENRY ONORATI, Little Drummer Boy HARRY SIMEON Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus TRADITIONAL/ Still Still Still Arr. TIM BERENS Michael Roemer TRADITIONAL/ Arr. MICHAEL BRAZ

A Suite of Carols: Sing-Along

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TATIANA “LADYMAY” MAYFIELD, VOCALIST Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield is a jazz/soul vocalist, musician, composer, and educator from Fort Worth, Texas. LadyMay has performed in various venues and festivals throughout the United States and abroad, which have earned her rave reviews from listeners and musicians in addition to numerous awards.

Other highlights of her career include performing with the legendary Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, having a number one song on the UK Soul Chart, performing and teaching in Zhuhai, China, and being the first woman and African American person to receive a M.M. in Jazz Composition from the University of Texas in Arlington. LadyMay has recorded three albums, From All Directions (2009), A Portrait Of LadyMay (2012), and The Next Chapter (2018). She has also provided vocals in various styles for several artists’ albums, television shows, and films. As an educator, Mayfield recently joined the faculty in the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver in Denver, CO as the Assistant Professor of Contemporary Popular Music in the fall of 2023.

MICHAEL ROEMER, BARITONE

Michael has performed with Chicago a cappella, Lyric Opera of Chicago Chorus, Canton Symphony Orchestra, South Shore Chorale/Fond du Lac Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Opera, Springfield Symphony Orchestra (OH), and Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. He has also participated in the Oxford Lieder Festival in London and the Art Song Festival in Berea, Ohio. In addiiton to his career as a soloist, Michael has also served as a music director and vocal coach for several organizations. He was the music director of St. Paul’s Catholic Church of North Canton, Ohio for five years. As a vocal coach, Michael has worked with students of all levels in opera, music theater, choral, and art song for the University of TennesseeKnoxville, Walsh University, Deerfield High School, North Park University, and Georgia Southern University, as well as the Cleveland Chamber Choir. Michael is currently the director of Statesboro Youth Chorale.

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Michael Roemer is a versatile musician with an extensive background in both vocal and instrumental performance. As a singer, pianist, organist, and choral director, he has showcased his talents across a variety of musical genres and settings.

Michael is originally from Wisconsin, where he received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and his Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He currently resides in Statesboro, GA with his wife, Dr. Jennifer D’Agostino, who is a lecturer in voice at Georgia Southern University, and his two sons, Henry and Charlie.

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HOLIDAY POPS • NOVEMBER 26 & 27, 2023

In 2023, LadyMay was named as an awardee for the “Next Jazz Legacy” grant program created by NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington, in partnership with the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and New Music USA, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. Through this program, she will be mentored by pianist/vocalist/composer Patrice Rushen and jazz/ soul harpist and composer Brandee Younger.

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AUDREY GOODNER, VIOLIN

HOLIDAY POPS • NOVEMBER 26 & 27, 2023

Violinist Audrey Goodner is a senior at Langley High School in McLean, Virginia. She has recently garnered numerous accolades as Second Prize Winner of the 38th Irving M. Klein International String Competition, Fourth Prize at the 2022 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Violin Competition, and Concerto Competition winner for both the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and The United States Army Band Young Artist Competitions. As concertmaster of the Langley High School Orchestra and the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, Audrey has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall and throughout the Washington D.C. area. Audrey’s participation as a member of the National Symphony’s Youth Fellowship Program has also provided numerous chamber music and solo performance opportunities at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Italian Embassy, and the District of Columbia Public Schools. Audrey studies violin with Ryan Meehan of the Calidore String Quartet and Jing Qiao of the National Symphony Orchestra. As a young student, she considers her attendance at Danielle Belen’s performance (2015) with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra a transformative experience, leading to six summers of instruction at the University of Michigan’s Center Stage Strings. Recent summer studies have included participation at The Colburn School’s Sounding Point Academy, a second summer in Music@Menlo’s Young Performers program, and studies with Sibbi Bernhardsson at the Harpa International Music Academy in Reykjavík, Iceland.

HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CHORUS

The HHSOC is always delighted to perform favorite traditional holiday pieces as well as more contemporary holiday arrangements by Maestro Russell, Michael Braz, and musicians from the Cincinnati Pops. The Holiday Pops concerts are particular favorites for the HHSOC, and this season the chorus is especially thrilled to be performing one of the greatest choral works in the Classical repertoire, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Now entering their 17th season, this highly acclaimed ensemble continues to expand their repertoire and their love of music, while striving to set the highest standard for performance and professionalism. 56

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GRIEG AND BRAHMS

John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

GRIEG AND BRAHMS • JANUARY 21 & 22, 2024

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, January 21, 2024 • 4:00 pm Monday, January 22, 2024 • 7:30 pm John Morris Russell, Conductor Zhonghua Wei, Piano 2023 Hilton Head International Piano Competition Winner

PROGRAM ALEXANDER BORODIN

In the Steppes of Central Asia

EDVARD GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Allegro molto moderato Adagio Allegro moderato molto e marcato Zhonghua Wei, Piano

INTERMISSION JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 Allegro non troppo Adagio non troppo Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino) Allegro con spirito

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ZHONGHUA WEI, PIANO Zhonghua Wei was born in Guangzhou, China, in 2008 and began his piano studies at the age of five with Taiwanese-American pianist Jay Sun, the piano department Chair at Xinghai Conservatory Middle School.

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He displayed an astonishing natural affinity for the instrument from the very beginning. He gave his solo recital debut at the age of ten, and by the age of twelve had studied the complete Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach, complete etudes of Chopin and Liszt, and complete Mozart Piano Sonatas. Most recently, at the age of fourteen, French music monthly Díapason praised Zhonghua for his semifinal recital in Fort Worth for the Cliburn International Junior Competition, highlighting his “superb performance of three Etudes by Unsuk Chin,” and his “sensitive” rendition of Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes (including the posthumous Etudes). Youthful competition successes include first prizes at the most prestigious Chinese national competitions; Pearl River Kayserburg and the Xinghai Cup, as well as being awarded Second Prize at the Steinway National Competition. In March 2023, Zhonghua made his first venture into international competitions and was awarded First Prize at the Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists, also garnering the Peter Takács Prize for Best Classical Sonata. Following that, he was selected as a semifinalist at the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition, and then received Third Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, along with a special prize for the best performance of Bach. In addition, he was accepted for the second consecutive year to the prestigious Morningside Music Bridge Festival in Boston, an elite full scholarship chamber music program for the top young musicians of the world. In his spare time, Zhonghua enjoys improvisation, drawing, reading, writing, running, and meditation.

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About the Music

PROGRAM NOTES

by Jonathan Aceto

In the Steppes of Central Asia Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

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Tonight’s concert features three works written around the same time, yet displaying significantly different sound worlds. The first, In the Steppes of Central Asia, was composed by Alexander Borodin, a prominent Russian chemist who dabbled in music. Even so, Borodin was a member of “The Mighty Five,” a group of composers dedicated to creating and promoting uniquely Russian classical music. Borodin’s situation at birth was rather unusual. His father, the Georgian nobleman Luka Gedevanishvili, had been amusing himself with a much-younger Russian woman. Thus, little Alexander was, by necessity, officially registered as the son of one of Gedevanishvili’s serfs! Still, Borodin had a good childhood and he went on to a successful career as a chemist and professor in St. Petersburg. After studying composition with Mily Balakirev, Borodin composed two symphonies and a string quartet before writing In the Steppes of Central Asia, a symphonic tone poem dedicated to Franz Liszt. Borodin intended the work to be part of the silver anniversary celebration of Russian Emperor Alexander II, but that concert never happened. Instead, it was premiered in April of 1880 by the Russian Opera Orchestra conducted by Rimsky-Korsakov. The piece depicts a caravan of Asians crossing the desert. The first melody heard represents the Russian troops escorting the caravan, followed by an ornamented Eastern melody on English horn representing the Asians. A “traveling” melody of pizzicato strings, depicting the clopping hooves of camels and horses, rounds out the programmatic elements.

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Edvard Grieg was proud of his Norwegian heritage and did for Norway what Smetana did for Czechoslovakia and Sibelius did for Finland. His mother taught him piano and eventually Grieg enrolled at the Leipzig Conservatory at the encouragement of Ole Bull, the famous Norwegian violinist. After graduating in 1862, Grieg launched his career as a pianist and composer. He enjoyed meeting other composers, spending time with Liszt in Rome, Tchaikovsky in Leipzig, and Percy Grainger in London. Grieg’s nationalism was brought forth in several works, including incidental music for Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, several miniature piano pieces, the Holberg Suite for both piano and string orchestra, and several art songs. The Piano Concerto in A minor is Grieg’s only concerto and is one of the most popular concertos in the piano repertoire. The concerto was premiered in 1869 by Edmund Neupert in Copenhagen. Grieg revised the work several times after the premier, usually with respect to orchestration, and the last changes occurred right before his death. It contains some subtle Norwegian attributes in the first movement, where the opening falling minor second followed by a major third is often found in folk music, and the last movement, which resembles the Halling dance done at weddings. The concerto is also often compared to Schumann’s Piano Concerto which is in the same key and has many stylistic similarities. Endless Dunes | Donna Belber 2023-2024

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73

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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Having overcome his significant trepidation in writing a symphony after Beethoven, Brahms began composing his second symphony in 1877, only a year after his first. The premier was performed by the Vienna Philharmonic under Hans Richter and was intended for December 9 of 1877. However, the Philharmonic was too preoccupied with practicing Wagner’s Das Rheingold so it was postponed until the 30th. The piece opens with a tranquil, almost pastoral tune divided among the cellos and French horns. The melody is spun out in seemingly endless measures, but it eventually wraps up and Brahms introduces the second theme which is very reminiscent of his Wiegenlied, the famous lullaby. The rest of the movement unfolds with Brahms’ characteristic imaginative development of motives. The 2nd movement carries the concept of motivic development into the realm of theme and variations, adding further contrast by alternating between sections in a warm major key with those in a despairing, agitated minor key. We return to the sunny countryside in the Allegretto movement with a beautiful melody played by the oboe in a Ländler dance style. As is traditional, there is a contrasting trio section, but Brahms decides to be innovative by presenting the new theme, first in a quick 2/4 and then, later, in a faster 3/8. The last movement features one of the most famous excerpts for string players: the first four measures are all played under one single bow! One reason is to keep the dynamic ultra-soft so that 23 bars later we can have an explosion of sound from the entire orchestra. Later, an ascending/descending series of pizzicatos from the strings usher in the second theme, a broad, lush, and majestic melody. The movement radiates joy, even during brief moments of darkness, and the entire piece was a big success for Brahms. In the words of one critic, “Seldom has there been such a cordial public expression of pleasure in a new composition!”

Serenity | Carol Iglesias

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BACH, MOZART, AND BRANDON LEONARD BACH, MOZART, AND BRANDON LEONARD • FEBRUARY 4 & 5, 2024

John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, February 4, 2024 • 4:00 pm Monday, February 5, 2024 • 7:30 pm Vinay Parameswaran, Conductor Brandon Leonard, Cello

PROGRAM JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 Allegro Adagio Allegro assai

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33, TH 57 Brandon Leonard, Cello

INTERMISSION JESSIE MONTGOMERY

Strum

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, “Prague” Adagio – Allegro Andante Presto

SEASON SPONSOR The League of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra 2023-2024

MEET THE ARTIST

VINAY PARAMESWARAN, CONDUCTOR

Photo by John Mastroianni

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Internationally recognized for his energetic presence, imaginative programming, and compelling musicianship, Vinay Parameswaran is one of the most exciting and versatile young conductors on the podium today. Recent and forthcoming highlights include his debut with the Houston and Charlotte symphonies, return appearances with the Nashville Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic orchestras, and education concerts with the Chicago Symphony. In the 2021/22 season, Parameswaran concluded five seasons with the Cleveland Orchestra, where he was Assistant Conductor from 2018/19, and promoted to Associate Conductor in 2021. During his three seasons as Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, Parameswaran led over 150 performances, which included his subscription debut with the orchestra in 2016/17. Other highlights have included debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, National Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and Milwaukee Symphony orchestras. Equally at home in both symphonic and operatic repertoire, Parameswaran has led performances of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love with the Curtis Opera Theater. In Cleveland, he has assisted Franz Welser-Möst on productions of Verdi’s Otello, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parameswaran graduated with honors from Brown University where he began his conducting studies with Paul Phillips. He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he was the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow, later a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and a recipient of a Career Assistance Award by the Solti Foundation U.S. in May 2021.

BRANDON LEONARD, CELLO Brandon Leonard, from Stone Mountain, Georgia, won First Prize at the 26th annual Sphinx Competition Junior Division in January 2023, exactly two years after winning First Prize in the HHSO Youth Concerto Competition. Now a member of the Sphinx Soloist program, Brandon is pleased to be returning for his second concerto appearance in Hilton Head and to perform with the orchestra. Brandon was a fellow in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Talent Development Program, studying with Karen Freer, and served as principal cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. He has also attended summer music camps at the Atlanta Chamber Music Festival, the Tanglewood Junior Strings Intensive program, the Center Stage Strings program, and the Morningside Music Bridge Festival. Other recent competition successes include First Prize in the Georgia Philharmonic Samuel Fordis Young Artists Competition, Third Prize in the Ronald Sachs International Music Competition, finalist in the Morningside Music Bridge Concerto Competition, and semifinalist in the 2022 Johansen International String Competition. In addition. as a member of the Sycamore Trio, he won First Prize at WDAV’s Young Chamber Musicians Competition and Second Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Brandon is currently at The Juilliard School of Music studying with Natasha Brofsky.

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About the Music

PROGRAM NOTES

by Jonathan Aceto

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

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Bach was flourishing as Kapellmeister for Prince Leopold in Köthen when, in 1719, he was sent to Berlin to retrieve a new harpsichord for the prince. It was during that trip that Bach first met the Margrave Christian Ludwig de Brandenburg, an important patron of music, and someone who enjoyed the latest Italian-style concertos. Two years later, Bach completed his set of 6 concertos dedicated to the Margrave, each one featuring different solo instruments. Interestingly, the specific solo instruments used are the ones played by the musicians at Leopold’s court. It is not clear whether the Margrave had similar musicians at his own court! The Brandenburg concertos are considered some of the best orchestral competitions of the Baroque era. Bach seemed to have cleverly composed this concerto to be the third of the set as it features three violins, three violas and three cellos. The concerto starts off with a bouncy, jubilant motif in three notes which is heard throughout the first movement. Near the end, listen for an especially difficult passage in unison in the cellos that builds in intensity like few other pieces from the era. The second movement famously consists of only two chords, and many scholars speculate Bach intended for the first violinist to improvise a passage which would lead into the last movement. The third movement has a strong triplet feel to it and, although it is firmly in binary form, it sounds subtly like a three-part form.

Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

In the late 1860s, Tchaikovsky was invited to join the newly created Moscow Conservatory and he became good friends with fellow professor Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, a German cellist. Tchaikovsky also began professionally reviewing concerts and thus heard a lot of music from around Europe, including works by Beethoven and Mozart. In fact, Mozart had long been a favorite of Tchaikovsky, who once called Mozart “a sunny genius.” This confluence of Classical music in Tchaikovsky’s life inspired him to compose a melody in the Rococo style and to create a set of variations for solo cello. Fitzenhagen premiered the solo work in 1877 in Moscow with Nikolai Rubinstein, another good friend, conducting. The piece opens with a short orchestral introduction then the solo cello presents the theme. The melody is repeated three times before the cello plays a connecting passage which gets used a few more times at various points in the piece. Tchaikovsky approaches the variations by keeping the essential melodic and harmonic contours while changing the character, tempo, meter, and other details. Fitzenhagen contributed quite a lot to the solo part, at times writing his own additions into Tchaikovsky’s manuscript. In the end, Fitzenhagen went so far as to reorder the variations, completely removing the 8th (last) one and composing new connecting passages. Surprisingly, Tchaikovsky, perhaps feeling insecure about his work, allowed all of this to stand. The altered version has been used by cellists to this day. However, in the 1940s the Russian cellist Victor Kubatsky had the manuscript X-rayed and he worked out Tchaikovsky’s older, original markings. The “rediscovered” original piece has since been published and recorded. Rococo | Nancy Walsh

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Strum Jessie Montgomery (b. 1980)

BACH, MOZART, AND BRANDON LEONARD • FEBRUARY 4 & 5, 2024

Growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the 1980s was an exciting time for Jessie Montgomery, especially with the unique combination of artistic experimentation and community activism that flourished in that area. As a violinist, she was a founding member of the PUBLIQuartet and currently performs with the Catalyst Quartet. Montgomery has been an active member of the Sphinx Organization and is the composer-in-residence for its top professional group, the Sphinx Virtuosi. Among her recent works is Banner, written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Star-Spangled Banner, and future works include a nonet inspired by the Great Migration as experienced by her great-grandfather. Montgomery was also selected as one of the female composers for the New York Philharmonic’s Project 19, a multi-season commissioning project commemorating the 1920 ratification of the 19th Amendment securing the right to vote for women. Strum was first conceived as a cello quintet in 2006, then revised in 2008 as a regular string quartet. It underwent a final revision in 2012 for her own Catalyst Quartet to be featured in a concert celebrating the 15th annual Sphinx Competition. In Montgomery’s own words: “Within Strum I utilized texture motives, layers of rhythmic or harmonic ostinato that string together to form a bed of sound for melodies to weave in and out. The strumming pizzicato serves as a texture motive and the primary driving rhythmic underpinning of the piece. Drawing on American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement, the piece has a kind of narrative that begins with fleeting nostalgia and transforms into ecstatic celebration.”

Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504, “Prague” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Although Mozart’s music was enjoyed in many areas of Europe, he had an especially strong and consistent following in Prague. His opera The Marriage of Figaro was receiving rave reviews from both the press and the public in December of 1786. Mozart had just finished writing a piano trio and his 25th piano concerto when he began work on a new symphony which would be completed by December 6. Around this same time, a group of orchestra musicians and patrons invited Mozart to come to Prague for the first time. Thus, the new symphony was premiered on January 19, 1787, at what is now known as the Estates Theater in Prague with Mozart conducting. Three days later, Mozart conducted Figaro at the same theater, making that visit to Prague one of the most successful of his career. This symphony is quite remarkable for many reasons. First, it features a new level of sophistication in wind instrument writing, not just for Mozart but for any 18th Century composer. Also, although it is true that the earliest examples of symphonies had only three movements (fast – slow – fast), by the mid-1700s the genre had acquired a standard additional movement of a Minuet and Trio. Thus, it would have been quite unusual in the 1780s to be presented with a three-movement symphony. Finally, all three movements feature sonata-Allegro form, again quite unlike most symphonies of the era which, at the least, use rondo form for the last movement. The piece opens with an expansive, slow introduction that dramatically shifts into a minor key before elegantly winding down into the Allegro. That Allegro, which starts with driving off-beats in the violins, bubbles forth with numerous motives that never really seem to coalesce into the usual two distinct themes in sonata form. The Andante movement is reminiscent of Mozart’s operas as the violins and woodwinds take turns singing through the melodies. The finale opens with an actual quote from Figaro and proceeds with boisterousness more reminiscent of Beethoven than Mozart. 64

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JOHN WILLIAMS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION JOHN WILLIAMS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION • FEBRUARY 18 & 19, 2024

John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, February 18, 2024 • 4:00 pm Monday, February 19, 2024 • 7:30 pm John Morris Russell, Conductor

PROGRAM JOHN WILLIAMS

The Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark The Shark Theme from Jaws Theme from Jurassic Park Theme from Schindler’s List Olympic Fanfare and Theme Air and Simple Gifts Selections from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone INTERMISSION

Star Wars

Main Theme and Flag Parade from The Phantom Menace Across the Stars from Attack of the Clones Battle of the Heroes from Revenge of the Sith Princess Leia’s Theme from A New Hope Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back Luke and Leia from Return of the Jedi The Jedi Steps and Finale from The Force Awakens

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Boys Arnold Wealth Management Group3 Design/Pyramids The Great Frame Up 2023-2024

JOHN WILLIAMS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION • FEBRUARY 18 & 19, 2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN WILLIAMS! Where does one begin to profile America’s most beloved and prolific living composer? There is so much to say. The output of John Williams’ sevendecade career is just staggering. The past two years saw the release of two Spielberg films scored by Williams (The Fabelmans and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny) and he was on the concert stage on both coasts—at age 90! Williams has composed scores for over a dozen television series and more than 100 feature films. His first, Daddy-0, was a black and white comedy from 1958 which you might catch on Turner Classic Movies. The most recent is the fifth film in the Indiana Jones series. A 50-year collaboration with Stephen Spielberg has brought us E.T., Jaws, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, and all the Indiana Jones movies, to name a handful. Add in nine Star Wars films (Spielberg introduced him to George Lucas), the first three Harry Potter movies and Superman, and you have many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful movies. Williams has received 53 Oscar nominations, making him the most-nominated living person by the Academy and the second most-nominated after Walt Disney. He has 5 Academy awards, 25 GRAMMYs, 4 Golden Globes, and 5 Emmys. He is an inducted member of the American Academy of Art and Sciences and has received many prestigious awards including the National Medal of Arts and a Kennedy Center Honor. Classically trained as a pianist, Williams is also a sought-after conductor. He makes regular appearances with the Boston Pops (Conductor Laurate since 1993) and at the Hollywood Bowl. His classical repertoire includes a symphony, 19 concertos, and numerous other orchestral and chamber music compositions, many written for important cultural and commemorative events. Making the rounds at his many 90th birthday celebrations last year, Williams announced his intention to retire from composing film scores. Happily, he now says that retirement is not on the immediate horizon. He shared this surprise with dear friend and collaborator Steven Spielberg during a live interview with Entertainment Weekly: “If they do Indiana Jones 6, I’m on board.” To which Stephen Spielberg enthusiastically responded, “Then I better get working on our next project!”

FROM THE MAESTRO “I first experienced the music of John Williams as a kid while watching my favorite sci-fi show on TV: Lost in Space. I was as thrilled with the fantastical stories each week as the downright grooviest theme that had ever come out of the speakers of our old Zenith. I was literally raised on Williams’ music, and thinking back, the alchemy of sound in the two (!) themes from Lost in Space represent much of his enduring genius. It was a full orchestra, mixed with a rock n’ roll rhythm section, that propelled a robust and brassy melody over a deep rhythmic groove. In Raiders March, Star Wars, the Olympic Theme—most everything he has composed—his bass line and accompanimental rhythms are imbued with jazzy syncopations that drive the piece forward and make it sparkle from within. Brass instruments, traditionally utilized to highlight orchestral climaxes by the great symphonic masters, are used by Williams as primary melodic voices, as they would in a jazz band. And although he often “borrows” from composers like Holst, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss and Korngold, Williams reshapes what he borrows to his uniquely “American” sound, with a jazzy swagger all his own. Like Ravel, Williams’ orchestrations are extraordinary. His choice and setting of solo instruments within the full orchestra is invariably perfection—think: the deeply emotional solo in Schindler’s List (performed on violin in the film, but set for cello on these concerts) and the rich variety of woodwind solos in the 66

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complete Star Wars Saga. It is no surprise that his most performed symphonic works, outside of his film work, are concertos. His pieces are beautifully crafted—often-times tricky but never impossible to play, like the melismatic celeste and violin passages in Harry Potter. Every part in a Williams score fits together with remarkable precision, and his impeccable scoring invariably reveals natural balances.

JOHN WILLIAMS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION • FEBRUARY 18 & 19, 2024

Finally, Williams is all about drama and storytelling. On the second half of the program, we perform the main themes from the entire Star Wars Saga in the chronological order of the story. What is striking here is the deep catalogue of musical themes (or as Wagner would say, “leitmotivs”) that tell the story in extraordinary detail. Every character, every dramatic element, every pivotal situation has a distinctive melody (upwards of 60 in all) that Williams manipulates from one scene to the next to create a nuanced sound world over 18 hours long. Not to worry, we’re only hitting the highlights, but we’ll hear themes for Darth Vader, Leia, Luke, Rey, “The Force”, Kylo Ren, Anakin and Padmè taken from each of the first seven films. Most remarkable of all is how ALL these themes are interwoven in the Finale from The Force Awakens— arguably the greatest musical achievement in the history of cinema.” — John Morris Russell

2023-2024

JOHN WILLIAMS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION • FEBRUARY 18 & 19, 2024

The Deathly Hallows | Alexandra Sharma

John Williams Classic | Lynn Schramm

Celebration | Virginia Cassidy

Sandshark | Joel Steelman

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Out on the Town | Donna Belber

SYMPHONIC DANCES OF RACHMANINOFF AND COLERIDGE-TAYLOR • MARCH 17 & 18, 2024

SYMPHONIC DANCES OF RACHMANINOFF AND COLERIDGE-TAYLOR

John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, March 17, 2024 • 4:00 pm Monday, March 18, 2024 • 7:30 pm David Amado, Conductor Jennifer Montone, Horn

PROGRAM SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR

Rhapsodic Dance No. 1, Op. 75, “The Bamboula”

RICHARD STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11, TrV 117 Allegro Andante Allegro Jennifer Montone, Horn

INTERMISSION SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 Non allegro Andante con moto Lento assai – Allegro vivace SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Men’s Dance from Aleko

SEASON SPONSOR The League of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra 2023-2024

DAVID AMADO, CONDUCTOR In 2023, David Amado finished a 20-year tenure with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, becoming its first Music Director Laureate. Additionally, he has been Music Director of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra (FL) since 2016.

Photo by Joe del Tufo, Moonloop Photography

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As a guest conductor, Amado has led many prominent orchestras. In addition to the St. Louis Symphony, where he served as Associate Conductor from 2001 to 2004, he has led the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, and the Chicago, Detroit, Houston, National, New World, and Toronto symphonies. Amado has been praised by the media, audiences, and fellow musicians for his musical insight and visceral energy. These qualities allowed him to reinvigorate the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, (DSO) establishing it as a premier regional orchestra. In 2010, the DSO released a critically acclaimed CD on the Telarc label, partnering with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet in concertos by Joaquín Rodrigo and Sergio Assad. That recording, as well as one made in 2018 with the Brasil Guitar Duo, earned Latin GRAMMY nominations. In Florida, Amado has broadened classical music’s reach and burnished the reputation of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra by capitalizing on the dynamism and virtuosity of its players, making the ACO the premier orchestra on Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Amado began his musical training as a pianist at The Juilliard School. He attended Indiana University as a graduate student, and finally returned to Juilliard to study conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller. He has held positions as staff conductor with the Oregon Symphony and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

JENNIFER MONTONE, HORN Jennifer Montone joined The Philadelphia Orchestra as principal horn in 2006, and is currently on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. She was formerly the principal horn of the Saint Louis Symphony, associate principal horn of the Dallas Symphony, third horn of the New Jersey Symphony. and performer/faculty at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Named the Paxman Young Horn Player of the Year in London in 1996, she has since won many solo competitions and awards, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2006 and a 2013 GRAMMY Award for her recording of Penderecki’s Horn Concerto entitled Winterreise. She has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, WDR Cologne, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She performs regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Classical Tahoe, La Jolla SummerFest, Strings Festival, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and is a regular visiting coach at the New World Symphony. A native of northern Virginia, Ms. Montone was in the National Symphony Fellowship Program, was a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, and attended the Marlboro Music Festival. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she studied with Julie Landsman, legendary pedagogue and former principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera. 70

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About the Music

PROGRAM NOTES

by Jonathan Aceto

Rhapsodic Dance, Op. 75, “The Bamboula” Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, named after the famous British poet, was the son of an African doctor and an English woman. His first instrument was the violin but later, at the Royal College of Music, he began focusing on composition. It was an auspicious change, for Coleridge-Taylor went on to a prominent career as a composer and soon became known as the “African Mahler.” His most famous works are the trilogy of cantatas based on the Song of Hiawatha, the poem by William Wadsworth Longfellow. Coleridge-Taylor, in his short lifetime of 37 years, achieved considerable respect and fame, both in Britain and the United States. The Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Society, a 200-voice AfricanAmerican chorus, was founded in Washington D.C. in 1901. The Society later brought the composer to the U.S. for three successful tours of America in the early 1900s, and he was invited to the White House by Theodore Roosevelt. After Coleridge-Taylor died, British musicians were concerned that his widow was not earning any royalties from his pieces, so they formed the Performing Rights Society, an organization dedicated to securing royalties for musicians. In many of his compositions, Coleridge-Taylor incorporated African music into Western classical traditions, much like Brahms did with Hungarian music and Dvořák with Czechoslovakian music. His set of piano pieces from 1905, titled 24 Negro Melodies, celebrated the musical traditions of Africa and the new traditions that were created by slaves in America. One of those pieces is “The Bamboula,” referring to both a style of dance in Haiti, and the specific drum used in that dance. The orchestra version dates from 1911 and was written for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel, the founders of the Norfolk Music Festival in Connecticut.

Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 11 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Franz Strauss, the father of Richard, was an accomplished horn virtuoso and was principal horn of the Bavarian State Opera. It is no surprise that Richard was inspired to write two horn concertos, the first while he was a philosophy major at the University of Munich. Strauss composed both a version with piano, premiered in 1883 by a student of his father, and a version with full orchestra, premiered in 1885 by Gustav Leinhos. Interestingly, the orchestra version has the title of “Waldhornkonzert,” suggesting that Strauss intended it to be performed on an E-flat natural horn. While that is technically possible, the performance would not be particularly pleasing, leading some scholars to think the title was an inside joke with his father. Unlike his grand tone poems from later in his career, Strauss wrote this first concerto for a Classical orchestra, with two of each woodwind, and only two trumpets and two horns. Also, while this piece does have three movements like all standard concertos, they are played without break. The concerto opens with a bravura, heroic passage for the solo horn in dotted rhythms which soon gives way to a much softer and tender second theme. The middle movement is darker in tone, with rising arpeggios in the violins over which the horn sings a melancholy tune. The last movement features a spritely triplet theme which sounds straight out of his tone poem “Ein Heldenleben,” as the concerto merrily swings to the finish.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Rachmaninoff first wrote down ideas for the Symphonic Dances as early as 1915 when he set out to compose a programmatic ballet. Rachmaninoff came back to those ideas in September of 1940, still with the plan that it would be a ballet. Scheduling difficulties with the choreographer, Mikhail Fokine, and Fokine’s sudden death eventually caused Rachmaninoff to abandon having dancers, reconceiving the work as a concert piece. It was dedicated to Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, who gave the premier in Philadelphia in January of 1941. This work is Rachmaninoff’s last composition and is, in many ways, a summation of his musical life. He had spent many years living outside of Russia (Germany, Switzerland, and the United States) so he often found inspiration through memories of his homeland. Thus, the Dances feature music reminiscent of Russian folk music and hymns. In the ending section of the third movement, Rachmaninoff displays his deep connection to the Orthodox church by pitting Death, represented by the famous plainchant “dies irae,” against Resurrection, represented by a significant quotation from his sacred choral masterpiece All-Night Vigil. Resurrection wins, as indicated by Rachmaninoff who wrote “Alliluya” in his score above that passage. There are other ways in which this piece is the capstone of his career. At the very end of the first movement, Rachmaninoff quotes the initial theme from his first symphony, a work which was so strongly panned that it plunged him into a serious depression. This time, however, that tune is sumptuously orchestrated and harmonized and one can picture Rachmaninoff thumbing his nose at all those early critics. Another aspect concerns the bowings for each orchestral piece, which Rachmaninoff would always check first with an accomplished violinist to make sure they were legitimate. For the Dances, he consulted no less than Fritz Kreisler, a violinist with whom he often performed. Finally, Rachmaninoff consulted with famed arranger Robert Russell Bennett as to the use of alto saxophone, featured beautifully in the slow section of the first movement.

Men’s Dance from Aleko Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Aleko, an early work for Rachmaninoff, is an opera written in 1892 as a graduation piece at the Moscow Conservatory, which was awarded the top prize from the faculty. It was premiered in Moscow in 1893 at the Bolshoi Theater. The story concerns Zemfira, a gypsy girl, and Aleko, a Russian who has abandoned city life for the gypsy settlement. Aleko is very possessive of Zemfira and their daughter, which Zemfira finds more and more annoying. She falls in love with one of the young gypsy men and taunts Aleko with this news. As Aleko stews over the failure of his relationship, he discovers Zemfira embracing her lover and in a sudden jealous rage he kills both. After introducing the main characters, Rachmaninoff shows us the life and customs of the gypsy camp with a couple of dances, one for the women and one for the men. This is clearly early Rachmaninoff, so the gorgeous harmonies and chromatic passages that permeate his most famous pieces are not to be found here. Yet, the music is very exciting, with a big, pompous theme for the cellos and basses that quickly expands, in typical gypsy fashion, into a wild flurry of notes for the violins.

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TESSA LARK AND PIAZZOLLA’S FOUR SEASONS OF BUENOS AIRES • APRIL 7 & 8, 2024

TESSA LARK AND PIAZZOLLA’S FOUR SEASONS OF BUENOS AIRES John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, April 7, 2024 • 4:00 pm Monday, April 8, 2024 • 7:30 pm John Morris Russell, Conductor Tessa Lark, Violin

PROGRAM RUPERTO CHAPÍ Y LORENTE JUAN CRISTÓSTOMO ARRIAGA

Preludio from La revoltosa Symphony in D

Adagio Andante Minuetto Allegro con moto

INTERMISSION ASTOR PIAZZOLLA/ The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires arr. LEONID DESYATNIKOV Otoño Porteño Invierno Porteño Primavera Porteña Verano Porteño Tessa Lark, Violin ARTURO MÁRQUEZ

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TESSA LARK, VIOLIN Violinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. In 2020 she was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category, and she is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky. Photo by Lauren Desberg

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Highlights of Lark’s 2023-24 season include the world premiere of Carlos Izcaray’s Violin Concerto—written for her—under the composer’s baton; and concerts with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker that mark her European orchestral debut. She reprises Michael Torke’s violin concerto, SKY—also written for her, and the 2020 recording of which earned her a GRAMMY nomination—with Oklahoma’s Signature Symphony and the Sarasota Orchestra; returns to South Carolina’s Greenville Symphony, the Virginia Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic and England’s City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; and performs as a chamber musician in duos with double bassist Michael Thurber and jazz guitarist Frank Vignola. Lark’s newest album, The Stradgrass Sessions, features a mix of original compositions by the violinist and her collaborators—double bassist Edgar Meyer, pianist Jon Batiste, mandolinist Sierra Hull and fiddler Michael Cleveland—with a sonata by Eugène Ysaÿe, Bartók violin duets arranged for violin and mandolin and the world premiere recording of John Corigliano’s STOMP. Her debut commercial recording was the GRAMMY-nominated SKY, and her discography also includes Fantasy on First Hand Records; Invention, marking the debut album for the violin-bass duo made up of Lark and her fiancé, Michael Thurber; and a live performance recording of Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with the Buffalo Philharmonic. The violinist has performed with orchestras, recital venues, and festivals around the world. She is a recipient of the Hunt Family Award, one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards, as well as a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. In addition to her performance schedule, Lark champions young aspiring artists and supports the next generation of musicians through her work as Co-host/Creative of NPR’s From the Top. She also serves as Mentor and board member of the Irving M. Klein International Strings Competition. Lark is a graduate of New England Conservatory and completed her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School. She plays a c. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

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by Jonathan Aceto

Preludio from La revoltosa Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (1851-1909) Tonight’s concert is a fascinating look at Spain through the eyes of both old-country composers and “New World” composers. Ruperto Chapí was born in Villena in the southeastern part of Spain. He took up the cornet, joined the Villena Municipal Band, and became its director at the age of 15. Showing such talent, he went off to the Madrid Conservatory and studied composition with Emilio Arrieta. After receiving further training in Rome and Paris, Chapí came back to Spain and became a well-known composer of zarzuelas, a form of musical theater. La revoltosa, (The Troublemaker), is a zarzuela in one act about a bickering couple who eventually reconcile thanks to the efforts of their friends. It is essentially a Spanish version of Much Ado About Nothing. It was premiered in November of 1897 at the Apollo Theater in Madrid. The prelude presents important tunes from the zarzuela and is charming and light-hearted, with a touch of conniving fun.

Symphony in D Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806-1826) Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga was a gifted Basque composer born in Bilbao, Spain. He is often referred to as the “Basque Mozart” and for good reason; they were both extremely talented pianists, both were prodigies at composition, and, unfortunately, both died at a young age. Arriaga entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1821 and studied violin with Pierre Baillot, counterpoint with Luigi Cherubini, and harmony with François-Joseph Fétis. It was not long before Arriaga was made an assistant to Fétis, largely from earning the praise of both faculty and students. Although Arriaga did not compose many works before his death, those that exist clearly show not only musical talent, but also originality. He allowed his Basque and Spanish heritage to emerge in his music, especially in stylistic rhythms. Arriaga’s three string quartets are regarded as the pinnacle of his music and were the only works published during his lifetime. His Symphony in D was completed in 1825 and has many formal and stylistic similarities with music of the late 18th Century, while occasionally displaying dramatic moments reminiscent of Beethoven. The first movement opens with a slow introduction that seems to point towards major, yet turns into a turbulent D minor Allegro. The sun comes out for the Andante in long, spun-out melodies and the Menuetto is almost an homage to Beethoven’s scherzos. The final movement features sonata form with a first theme in minor and the second in major, continuing the ambiguity of tonality from the first movement.

The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

The son of Italian immigrants, Astor Piazzolla was born in Mar del Plata along the coast of Argentina. Shortly after, the family moved to New York City where Piazzolla began playing the bandoneon at age eight. He also was exposed to a wide range of music – from his father’s recordings of traditional tango, to his music teacher’s lessons in Bach, to the cutting edge of New York jazz. Piazzolla returned to Argentina in 1936 and began playing in several tango orchestras including those of Elvino Vardaro and Anibal Troilo. Spring Joy | Alexandra Sharma 2023-2024

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In 1941, at the encouragement of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who was then living in Buenos Aires, Piazzolla began studying with Alberto Ginastera and learning about the music of Stravinsky, Bartók and Ravel. His focus on composing paid off when one of his works won a French grant to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Being ashamed of his tango background, he played only his classical pieces for Boulanger. She was unimpressed. Finally, he played for her his recent tango, Triunfal, and then she really took notice, telling him that the tango was where his real inspiration lay. For the rest of his career, Piazzolla championed his nuevo tango which uses elements of jazz, classical counterpoint, chromaticism, and unique harmonies. In 1965, Piazzolla composed incidental music for the play Melenita de Oro which he called “Verano Porteño,” – “porteño” referring to residents of a port city (in this case, Buenos Aires) and “verano” meaning summer. In 1969, he wrote a piece for each of the other seasons, focusing on the various moods from the perspective of one who lives in Buenos Aires. All these initial pieces were composed with Piazzolla’s quintet in mind; bandoneón, violin, piano, electric guitar, and double bass. In the late 1990s, the Russian violinist Gidon Kremer commissioned fellow countryman Leonid Desyatnikov to arrange the four pieces for solo violin and string orchestra, converting each piece into a quasi-three movement “concerto” and incorporating musical quotations from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Desyatnikov cleverly takes the different hemispheres into account, using Vivaldi’s Winter, for example, in Piazzolla’s Summer.

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Arturo Márquez (b. 1950) Although he was born in Sonora, Mexico, Arturo Márquez spent his teenage years in California where he began his musical training. He returned to Mexico to attend the National Conservatory of Music where he studied piano, theory, and composition. Márquez also studied composition with Morton Subotnick and James Newton at the California Institute of Arts. Márquez often uses Mexican forms and styles in his compositions, influenced no doubt by his father, a member of a mariachi band, and his grandfather, a folk musician. Danzón is a popular slow, partner dance from Cuba that features syncopation and structured pauses in the dancing, giving the musicians a chance to display their talent. The salon dance soon traveled to Mexico and specifically Oaxaca and the state of Veracruz. Márquez first wrote a danzón for electronic tape and saxophone in 1992 in one of his first forays into using traditional music. Danzón No. 2 was inspired by two friends who were experts in danzón, and by trips to Veracruz and Mexico City to experience the style in person. Danzón No. 2 was commissioned by the National Autonomous University of Mexico and premiered by the University Philharmonic in 1994 with Francisco Savín conducting. The piece has become one of the most often-played orchestral pieces by a modern Mexican composer. It received an extra surge of popularity by being included on the 2007 world tour of Gustav Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela. The work goes from slow, sensual melodies in the woodwinds to a rhythmically tight cascade of syncopations in the strings. 76

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John Morris Russell, Music Director

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Memorial Chair

2023-2024 42nd Season Sunday, April 28 2024 • 4:00 pm Monday, April 29, 2024 • 7:30 pm

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John Morris Russell, Conductor Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus Claflin University Concert Choir Dr. Charlie J. Toomer, Jr., Director

PROGRAM LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral” Allegro ma non troppo; un poco maestoso Molto vivace Adagio molto e cantabile Presto – Allegro assai – Allegro assai vivace Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Chorus Claflin University Concert Choir

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CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY CONCERT CHOIR Nestled in the sand hills of Central South Carolina, Claflin University continues its musical tradition of excellence through music of the Claflin University Concert Choir.

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The Concert Choir has traveled abroad to perform in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Australia. They performed during both inaugurations of former Governor Nikki Haley and in 2008, the choir traveled to Beijing, China, to join a Choral Tribute for the prelude of the Olympic Games. They have also performed with greats such as Stephanie Mills and Denyce Graves and have released a CD recording entitled “Hehlehlooyuh”. It was at a concert given by the choir in Lake City, South Carolina, that philanthropist Darla Moore heard the choir and was so moved that she gifted one million dollars to the music department for scholarships. Today, the Claflin University Concert Choir is composed of 28 members under the direction of Dr. Charlie Toomer, Jr., Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies. The Concert Choir is open to all students with a variety of majors, and they all serve as official ambassadors for the University. As ambassadors, the Concert Choir’s service to Claflin is unique. Choir members interact with prospective students, alumni, and friends as they represent the excellence of Claflin University through their musical gifts. They also assist the University in recruiting, public relations, and development. As viable and visible alumni, they will personify the best of Claflin University.

DR. CHARLIE J. TOOMER JR., DIRECTOR Dr. Toomer’s experience as a choral director spans over twenty years. He has worked in both the public and private sectors of schools, with most of his experience in the collegiate realm. He is currently the Director of Choral Studies at Claflin University in Orangeburg, SC. Dr. Toomer advocates for growth and exposure for the Claflin University Choir. Their most recent travels and achievements include performing for U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn in Washington, D.C., the honorable Phylicia Rashad in Chester, S.C., Moving Star Hall Praise House on Johns Island, the grand opening of the AfricanAmerican History and Culture Museum in Charleston and Porgy and Bess with the Charleston Symphyony Orchestra. Among his accomplishments, Dr. Toomer is proud to have served as the 2007 All-State Director for High School Men’s Chorus in Florida. While at FAMU, his Concert Choir performed at the Florida Music Educators National Conference, now the National Association for Music Education in Tampa, FL. His students were also invited to perform in Anchorage, Alaska for BP and Exxon Mobile, and in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the 65th Birthday Celebration of Bob Marley. Dr. Toomer holds a Ph.D. in Choral Conducting/Music Education and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting performance, both from Florida State University. His Bachelor of Science degree is in Music Education from Florida A&M University. Dr. Toomer is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, and Kappa, Kappa Psi, National Honorary Band Fraternity.

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About the Music

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by Jonathan Aceto

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral” Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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As often happened with Beethoven’s compositional process, the development of his Symphony No. 9 was complex and spanned many years. Friedrich Schiller first published his famous poem An die Freude (“Ode to Joy”) in 1786, but Beethoven was already considering using it in an art song in 1793. Schiller revised the poem in the early 1800s, clarifying sentiments that were already in the poem with more effective words. Meanwhile, Beethoven, having simultaneously composed the 5th and 6th symphonies and then later the 7th and 8th symphonies, began planning yet another pair of symphonies in 1817. He had worked out a fugue theme (which eventually became the Scherzo movement of the 9th) before turning his focus on the Missa Solemnis and his last three piano sonatas. The Philharmonic Society of London helped bring Beethoven’s creative mind back to symphonic music in November of 1822 by offering £50 for a new symphony. The 9th Symphony was premiered on May 7, 1824, in Vienna at the Kärntnertor Theater. The program included The Consecration of the House Overture and movements from the Missa Solemnis, and was performed by a large orchestra comprised of musicians from the Kärntnertor Theater and the Vienna Music Society, in addition to various amateurs. Beethoven officially led the performance, but in reality, it was conducted by Michael Umlauf, the theater’s Kapellmeister, standing off to one side. Many first-hand reports tell of how Caroline Unger, the alto soloist, had to turn Beethoven around so he could see the thunderous applause and handkerchief-waving from the audience. Strangely, the reports differ on whether the applause occurred after the second movement or the finale. The Philharmonic Society, which commissioned the symphony, did not get to hear it until March of 1825 when it was performed in London. This symphony is remarkable for a myriad of reasons. Its instrumentation, the largest for any Beethoven work, requires piccolo, contrabassoon, three trombones, triangle, cymbals, and bass drum. It is much longer than any previous symphony, by any composer, and it is the first to include a chorus and solo singers – elements only previously found in opera and oratorio. The 3rd and 4th movements each have several tempo changes, which is unusual for a symphony of the era. Indeed, the finale is a “symphony within a symphony,” the tempo changes essentially correlating to the four traditional movements (Fast, Scherzo, Slow and Fast). That Scherzo section features a “Turkish” aesthetic which explains the use of triangle, cymbals and bass drum – percussion instruments that Western Europeans associated with Turkey. Of course, another significant way in which this symphony is unique is the fact that Beethoven composed all of it while almost completely deaf. I say “almost” because, according to his various writings, Beethoven could hear certain sounds as low rumblings. One cannot help but speculate that the cello and double bass recitative passage near the beginning of the last movement is how Beethoven heard the same passage sung by the solo bass voice. Speaking of which, the words of the opening bass recitative “Oh Friends, not these sounds! Let us instead 79

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strike up more pleasing and more joyful ones!” do not come from Schiller’s poem, but rather are Beethoven’s own words. Another special aspect about this piece is its overwhelming popularity. Very few pieces of Western classical music have entered the general culture as deeply and as pervasively as the Symphony No. 9. It has been used to humorous effect in movies, such as Die Hard, in the scene when the villains finally break into the vault. Stanley Kubrick, however, decided to use it in a chilling, devastating manner in A Clockwork Orange as part of the rehabilitation of Alex, the main character. Richard Wagner conducted a performance of the work to inaugurate his newly built Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. Shortly after the Berlin Wall was torn down, Leonard Bernstein led a large force of musicians from East and West Germany in an emotional, triumphant performance in 1989. Finally, it is commonly accepted that the Sony and Phillips corporations, in jointly designing a new audio format known as the compact disc, decided the timing length should accommodate a complete performance of the Ninth Symphony (74 minutes).

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Ode to Joy Oh friends, not these sounds! Let us instead strike up more pleasing and more joyful ones!

Freude! Freude!

Joy! Joy!

Freude, schöner Götterfunken Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum! Deine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder, Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Joy, beautiful spark of Divinity, Daughter from Elysium, We enter, burning with fervor, heavenly being, your sanctuary! Your magic brings together what custom has sternly divided. All men shall become brothers, wherever your gentle wings hover.

Wem der große Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein; Wer ein holdes Weib errungen, Mische seinen Jubel ein! Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund! Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle Weinend sich aus diesem Bund!

Whoever has been lucky enough to become a friend to a friend, Whoever has found a beloved wife, let him join our songs of praise! Yes, and anyone who can call one soul his own on this earth! Any who cannot, let them slink away from this gathering in tears!

Freude trinken alle Wesen An den Brüsten der Natur; Alle Guten, alle Bösen Folgen ihrer Rosenspur. Küsse gab sie uns und Reben, Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod; Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben, Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.

Every creature drinks in joy at nature’s breast; Good and Evil alike follow her trail of roses. She gives us kisses and wine, a true friend, even in death; Even the worm was given desire, and the cherub stands before God.

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen Durch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan, Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn, Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen.

Gladly, just as His suns hurtle through the glorious universe, So you, brothers, should run your course, joyfully, like a conquering hero. 2023-2024

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O Freunde, nicht diese Töne! Sondern laßt uns angenehmere anstimmen, und freudenvollere.

Be embraced, you millions! This kiss is for the whole world! Brothers, above the canopy of stars must dwell a loving father.

Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen? Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt? Such’ ihn über’m Sternenzelt! Über Sternen muß er wohnen.

Do you bow down before Him, you millions? Do you sense your Creator, O world? Seek Him above the canopy of stars! He must dwell beyond the stars.

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Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! Brüder, über’m Sternenzelt Muß ein lieber Vater wohnen.

The Lonely Master (Beethoven on a walk near Vienna), 1908. Creator: Otto Robert Nowak (1874-1945). © Fine Art Images/Heritage Images

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HHSO USHER CORPS Do you see your name below? You could! The HHSO is assembling a group of ushers to assist patrons at its nine Orchestra Series concerts at First Presbyterian Church. Each concert is performed on Sunday at 4:00 pm and Monday at 7:30 pm. All of the dates are in this program. If you would like to volunteer to join the usher corps, please call the HHSO office at (843) 842-2055 to get the details. Please join us! Diane Anderson

Susan Johnson

Eadie Parody

Elizabeth Ballard

Rita Jones

Kay Sartorius

Ruth Barningham

Pat Killeen

Linda Schneider

Paul Basquin

Mike Kling

John Schwartz

MJ Bercaw

Cindy Kois

Alison Shenkus

Alan Biggs

Gayle Lang

Rob Shenkus

Laurie Biggs

Pauline Leland

Joel Spiegel

Amelia Black

Joe Lepis

Judith Smith

Marianne Blaine

Mary Lou Lepis

Lynne Tanis

Rhoda Bullock

Blaine Lotz

Kay Tippett

Nancy Calhoun-Sullivan

Lynne Lotz

Judith Vrooman

Iris Chester

Toney Mathews

Stacy Waller

Celeste Crago

Carol McCarthy

Jane Warren

Laurette Doscher

Laurel McMahon

Helena Williams

Karen Edwards

Bill Millhaem

Heather Witherspoon

Jan England-Bender

Peggi Moon

John Witherspoon

Sally Farrar

Ellen Newfield

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Art League of Hilton Head’s exhibiting artists have created the works of art featured in this 2023-2024 Program. This is their thirteenth year of collaboration with the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra. Art League of Hilton Head, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, offers year-round visual arts programming from two island locations with a mission of inspiring visual arts for our community and its visitors through exhibitions, education, and partnerships. Art League Academy welcomes artists and students in all media, at all skill levels, including true beginners. Taught by professional art educators, students can choose from many art classes and workshops that change monthly. Art League Gallery features local artwork in all media created by more than 200 member artists. All artwork on display is for sale, and exhibits change every month. Located mid-island inside the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, next to the box office, Art League Gallery is open every day Monday–Saturday 10am–4pm & Sunday 12–4pm, plus 90 minutes prior to all Arts Center performances. Artleaguehhi.org Colors | Karen Sarafini

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS Joan Ackerman

Joyce Nagel

Earline Allen

Karen Sarafini

Camille Avore

Lynn Schramm

Sharon Baker

Pete Schramm

Donna Belber

Alexandra Sharma

Virginia Cassidy

Andrea Smith

Ellen DiFazio

Joel Steelmon

Malloury Dragon

Joy Steelmon

Lynne Hoos

Marianne Stillwagon

Carol Inglesias

Judy Stone

Juliana Kim

Donald Taylor

Joan Moreau McKeever

Donna Varner

Don Nagel

Nancy Walsh Hopeful | Sharon Baker

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ART LEAGUE EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Monthly Featured Shows are listed below. Receptions are open and free to the public from 5-7 pm

2023 OCT 3-NOV 3 PATRICIA MCGREEVEY Reception 10/11 NOV 14-DEC 30 GALLERY OF GIFTS Reception 11/15

2024 Collision | Donna Varner

JAN 3-26 MEMBER SHOW Reception 1/10 JAN 30-MAR 1 GULLAH CELEBRATION EXHIBIT Reception 2/7 MAR 5-APRIL 5 ELLEN DIFAZIO Reception 3/5 APRIL 9-MAY 10 ALVIN B. GLEN Reception 4/10 MAY 14-JUNE 14 JO DYE Reception 5/15

Ocean Seascape | Joy Steelmon

JUNE 18-JULY 19 LYNDSI CAULDER Reception 6/26 JULY 23-SEPT 26 SAMANTHA CLAAR Reception 7/24 SEPT 9-12: Preview dates SEPT 12: 5:30-7:30 PM GOT ART? EVENT SEPT 17-OCT 18 L. BARRETT, S. EDELSTEIN, K. RICHARD Reception 9/18 OCT 22-NOV 22 CAROL INGLESIAS Reception 10/23

Celedon Garden | Earline Allen

NOV 26-JAN 3 GALLERY OF GIFTS Reception 12/4 2023-2024

Dress Up for the Symphony | Sharon Baker

I Love Color | Donna Belber

Singing in the Sun | Virginia Cassidy

Listen to the Calm | Lynn Schramm

HHI Sounds | Pete Schramm

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Palmetto | Joel Steelmon

Roof With A View | Juliana Kim

TWELFTH ANNUAL LEAGUE LUNCHEON/FASHION SHOW TO BENEFIT THE YOUTH PROGRAMS OF THE HHSO The League of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra invites you to attend the 12th annual Spring Luncheon, Fashion Show and Silent Auction. This signature event will be held on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in the Magnolia room at the Country Club of Hilton Head inside Hilton Head Plantation. Our presenting sponsor is Birdie James located at 28 Shelter Cove Lane. In their beautiful store, they feature fashions and accessories from Ellie Vail, Kut from the Kloth, Olivia James, Julie Vos, Cleobella, and many others. They feature online ordering as well as storefront personal service and consultation. Birdie James is pleased to announce their new location in Washington Square in Bluffton, scheduled to open in the Spring of 2024. They have quickly become a favorite destination for ladies shopping for island fashions that reflect their own personal stylish character.

THE LEAGUE OF THE HHSO PRESENTS

THE 12TH ANNUAL

FASHION SHOW & SILENT AUCTION

A BENEFIT FOR THE HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND ITS YOUTH PROGRAMS

Prior to a delicious luncheon, enjoy a social hour with friends while browsing dozens of unique silent auction items. You’ll find jewelry, spa services, restaurant certificates, get-away packages and more. Local businesses generously donate these items, and we offer them to you “below retail.” It’s fun to bid! Don’t forget to buy a ticket to the popular 50/50 raffle—the winner will go home with a tidy sum of cash! League members should look for their invitation in the mail in late January/early February. Put together a table of 10 or come with a friend and we’ll seat you with new friends. Fill out the RSVP and mail back in the enclosed envelope. Reservations will be accepted by mail only. So, get your best spring outfit ready and wear a hat if you have one—we can’t wait to see you!

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A SILENT AUCTION AND SOCIAL HOUR BEGIN AT 11AM This event typically sells out so make your reservations early to guarantee seating. Email Laura Kling at lkling916@gmail.com for more information 2023-2024

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BECOME A LEGACY SUPPORTER OF THE HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA “Concerts featuring both old and new classical music — Pops concerts for all ages — Jazz in the Park — Musicians and visiting artists going to the schools to teach our youngsters, culminating in an annual concert at First Presbyterian Church — Supporting the world-renowned Hilton Head International Piano Competition now live streaming to audiences all over the world — Intimate and varied musical programs at Soundwaves…. The HHSO’s programming gets more creative each year and offers music to appeal to everyone. That’s why Terry and I decided to join the Legacy Society. Come join us so this wonderful orchestra will continue to flourish long after we are gone.” — Mary Ann Putnam Imagine transforming your lifelong love of music into an enduring legacy that will help ensure your love for the HHSO passes on to future generations! Including the HHSO in your estate or as part of a charitable giving plan is a demonstration of your interest in and commitment to the future strength of HHSO programs and the expansion of our offerings over time. Over the past two years, the HHSO has been the beneficiary of three estate gifts totaling nearly $437,000. These gifts have been treated as endowments and designated as restricted funds. Under the stewardship of the Board of Directors, they are safely invested to maximize return and will provide nearly $22,000 of annual support in perpetuity. An earlier gift from a patron’s estate was utilized to create SoundWaves, the HHSO’s office and performance space. SoundWaves connects us to new audiences, provides additional income streams, and allows us to connect and partner with many other Lowcountry arts and cultural organizations. Such is the power of legacy giving. Will you consider including the HHSO in your planned giving? We recognize that one size does not fit all. There are multiple options available including gifts you can make today and gifts that you can make after your lifetime. Some options can be structured to pay you income. Others may reduce taxable income or minimize estate taxes. If you are interested in making a commitment or have already established the HHSO as part of your estate plan, please let us know by reaching out to Susan Hartmann, Patron Relations Manager, at shartmann@hhso.org, or by calling (843) 842-2055. The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra celebrates Legacy Society members: Darle and Robert Booher Mary and Michael Briggs Sandy and Ralph Drayer Cary and Peter Fleming

Robert and Margaret Gallagher Bradley Jacobs Beverly J. Lasher Mary Princing

Mary Ann and Tarrant Putnam Ellen Taylor Judy and Bill Thorpe

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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2024

A MERICA SINGS!

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TERPSICHORE May 11-12, 2024

TERPSICHORE, TOO & PETER RABBIT May 10-11, 2024

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SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS

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