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Welcome to the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra’s 2023-2024 Season! We have named this season Passage for several reasons. First, all music is a passage. A song begins, it moves forward, it might move backwards or off into other directions, and then it comes to an end. We experience music like any other passage: we wonder what it will be like, how it will affect us, and where or who will we be at the end of it. The season Yaniv has created for us is filled with concert programs that will move us and take us many places.
Another reason to call this season Passage is because the NBSO is on the move, from the Zeiterion Theatre to New Bedford High School’s Bronspiegel Auditorium, and then (next season) back to The Z. The $32 million renovation of The Z will be transformative for the NBSO and our community. This passage is exciting and important, both for the stronger relationships it allows us to build with the students and teachers of the New Bedford High School music program, and for its final destination of a dazzling, world-class performing arts center that we call home.
Finally, this year will be a passage for the NBSO because we are undertaking a new strategic planning process that will determine our course in the community for years to come. We have so many performance, educational, and community partnership opportunities before us that this process promises to be both incredibly inspiring and a bit daunting. We are committed to building on past accomplishments and embracing the strength of our community through collaboration. Our vision, as always, is to see just how important a symphony orchestra can be to its community. Thank you for being a part of it, and for helping us move ever forward.
David M. Prentiss NBSO President and CEO
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YANIV DINUR MUSIC
DIRECTOR
Yaniv Dinur is the winner of the 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Fellow Award and Music Director of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He is lauded for his insightful interpretations and unique ability to connect with concertgoers of all ages and backgrounds, from season subscribers to symphony newcomers.
In New Bedford, he has brought star soloists such as Yefim Bronfman, Pinchas Zukerman, Karen Gomyo, and Vadim Gluzman to play with the orchestra. Under his leadership, the New Bedford Symphony has been nationally recognized for its bold, engaging programming and artistic quality, leading to the League of American Orchestras selecting the orchestra to perform at the 2021 League Conference.
Dinur served as Resident Conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony from 2015-2023. During this period, he conducted 372 concerts, including 144 performances for youth and children. Recognizing his leadership and impact, the Milwaukee Business Journal selected him as a 40 Under 40 honoree, an award for young professionals making a difference in the community.
Dinur’s recent and upcoming guest conducting highlights include subscription debuts with the symphonies of San Diego, Edmonton, Tulsa, Sarasota, Fort Worth, Illinois, Present Music in Milwaukee, Orchestra Haydn in Italy, and Filarmonica de Madrid. He made his conducting debut at the age of 19 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, which led to multiple return engagements. Since then, he has conducted orchestras around the world, including the Israel Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Houston Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, New World Symphony,
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San Antonio Symphony, Portugal Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Festival Orchestra/Bulgaria, State Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Torino Philharmonic, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.
An accomplished pianist, Dinur established a chamber music series at the Villa Terrace Museum in Milwaukee, where he performed with musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony. Recent concerto performances include Brahms’ First Piano Concerto with the New Bedford Symphony and Mozart’s D Minor Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony, for which he received critical acclaim for his “fluid, beautifully executed piano passages” and “deeply musical playing” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
Dinur is the winner of numerous awards, among them the 2017 and 2016 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Awards, 2nd Prize at the 2009 Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico, and the Yuri Ahronovitch 1st Prize in the 2005 Aviv Conducting Competition in Israel. He is also a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Zubin Mehta Scholarship Endowment.
Born in Jerusalem, Dinur began studying the piano at the age of six with his aunt, Olga Shachar, and later with Prof. Alexander Tamir, Tatiana Alexanderov, Mark Dukelsky, and Edna Golandsky. He studied conducting in Israel with Dr. Evgeny Zirlin and Prof. Mendi Rodan, and holds a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he was a student of Prof. Kenneth Kiesler.
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Violin I
Jesse Holstein, Concertmaster
Ethan Wood, Assistant Concertmaster Dr. Clinton Levin Memorial Chair
Ealain McMullin
Jennifer Memoli
Kyra Davies
Travis Rapoza*
Melody Albanese Kelly
Linda Scenna
Theo Ramsey
Emma K. Powell
Violin II
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, Principal Geoff and Judy Swett Chair
David Rubin
Fariba Hunold
Raluca Dumitrache
Ryan Shannon*
Sophia Bernitz
Adam Jeffreys
Jiuri Yu
Yeonji Shim
Viola
Anna Griffis, Principal George Grimshaw Memorial Chair
Chris Nunn
Elisa Birdseye
Rebecca Hallowell
Maureen Heflinger
Sofia Nikas
Sachin Shukla
Open
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Yaniv Dinur, Music Director
Music Director Sponsors: Susan and Dexter Mead
Cello
Leo Eguchi, Principal Patricia Plum Wylde Chair
Shay Rudolph
Pamela M. Hoffer Memorial Chair, endowed in perpetuity
Peter Zay
Bonnie Harlow
Stefan Gabriel
Fabrizio Mazzetta
Jacob MacKay Open
Bass
Pete Walsh, Principal Irene Gudewicz Memorial Chair
Bebo Shiu
Nate Varga Open Open
Flute
Timothy Macri, Principal Josef N. Cobert Memorial Chair, endowed in perpetuity
Vanessa Holroyd
Heather Parsons and Andrew Kotsatos Chair, endowed in perpetuity
Oboe
Laura Shamu, Principal Nancy and Jack Braitmayer Chair, endowed in perpetuity
Laura Pardee Schaefer
Clarinet
Nicholas Brown, Principal
Charles Parsons Memorial Chair
Margo McGowan
Bassoon
Michael Mechanic, Principal
Rachel Juszczak
Horn
Michael Bellofatto, Principal
Dorothy Malone and Rhoda Gayle Memorial Chair
Paulina Aguirre
Cile and Bill Hicks Chair, endowed in perpetuity
Nick Auer Open
Trumpet
Andrew Sorg, Principal
Andrew Moreschi*
Geoff Shamu
Trombone
Seth Budahl, Principal
Albert J. Lamoureux Memorial Chair
Robert Hoveland
James Monaghan
Tuba
Jobey Wilson, Principal*
Timpani
Eric Huber, Principal Ann and Hans Ziegler Chair, endowed in perpetuity
Percussion
Evan Glickman†, Principal
Dylan Barber
Harp Open Keyboard
Pei-yeh Tsai, Principal * On leave
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The orchestra roster is subject to change. Individual concert rosters will be posted on the concert pages prior to each concert.
Learning in Concert 2023–2024
Adaptations in Motion: Animal and Musical
“Life is neither static nor unchanging.” —J. Auel
Adaptation in the field of biology is described as a change in the structure of an organism where it becomes better suited for survival in its environment. As environments change, so do organisms. This gradual, dynamic process can be traced back through time, as the 2023-2024 Learning in Concert program follows the transformation from ancient fish to modern-day tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrates), from life in the sea to life on land.
Over the course of this three-phase program, we will investigate the specific adaptation of locomotion by investigating the anatomy of various organisms to uncover the ways in which they moved, swam, crawled, jumped, and walked. We will begin with early aquatic creatures and move to transitional species like Tiktaalik, the revolutionary new scientific discovery marking the fish that first emerged from water to begin life on land.
Adaptation in music, often referred to as thematic development or transformation, is described as a gradual, structural change of a musical idea throughout a piece of music. Using vivid examples of classical music performed live by NBSO musicians, the Learning in Concert program will trace the evolution of a musical idea as it is transformed and adapted throughout a piece of music. By changing the motion of a melody from steps to skips to leaps, from low to high, or gradually accelerating or slowing the rhythmic motion, composers can gradually transform the form, structure, and motion of a musical idea as it unfolds throughout a piece of music.
In this year’s program, students will become composers as they take a musical idea that moves like an ancient fish swimming through water, and then adapt the melody to crawl, tree climb, jump, run, and fly. All classroom motion melodies will be collected and combined to create a new piece for orchestra to be performed at the Young People’s Concerts in March.
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Tiktaalik, illustration by Kalliopi Monoyios
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Learning in Concert is an in-school partnership program with the NBSO and over forty local elementary schools. It uses a concept-based arts integration model where a musical concept is explored alongside other art and academic areas that authentically share the same concept. The Learning in Concert program is designed as a unified, comprehensive, three-phase curriculum project spanning an entire school year. The curriculum for the 2023-24 school year explores the concept of motion in music and tetrapod locomotion.
The Pre-K Music and Literacy program is a new program based on the NBSO’s children’s book entitled, “A Concert at the Zoo” written by David MacKenzie, Dave Prentiss, and Terry Wolkowicz and illustrated by Olivia Coucci. Throughout the story, an animal name is linked to an instrument name that shares the same number of syllables and the same syllable stress patterns. Dr. MacKenzie composed a piece for Cello and Narrator that incorporates elements of word stress and intonation into the musical structure allowing the musical instrument to “speak” the text. During the classroom visits, the students practiced speaking and drumming the animal/instrument rhythmic word patterns.
The NBSO also launched a new music program with the New Bedford High School Parenting Teens program where students met each week with Education Director Terry Wolkowicz to learn how to play the piano.
The Southeastern Massachusetts Youth Orchestras (SEMAYO) provide orchestral training and performance opportunities for young musicians up to age 21 in an educational environment in which they learn from professional musicians and one another. Finally, the NBSO is continuing with its Pathway to Performance program where New Bedford Public School students receive scholarships to fund weekly, free, private music lessons.
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Terry Wolkowicz, Education Director
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The NBSO expresses its deep appreciation to all who support our concerts and educational programs. Donations of $100 or more received between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023 are listed below.
$100,000+
Anonymous
$10,000+
Baldwin Brothers
Jack and Nancy Braitmayer
Bristol County Savings Bank
Charitable Foundation
Bequest from Christina G. and Peter T. Gargas
Wendy and Ken Joblon
Sally Johnston
Andy Kotsatos and Heather Parsons
Dexter and Susan Mead
Sandria Parsons
Tom Barry and Nancy Shanik
Fredericka and Howard Stevenson
Geoff and Judy Swett
Ann and Hans Ziegler
A Friend of NBSO
$5,000+
Christina Bascom
Janet and Bill Coquillette
Allan and Priscilla Ditchfield
Ralph Eustis
Bill and Cile Hicks
Lilian Kemp and David Marks
Paul and Denise Lamoureux
Michael Malone and Debra Gayle
Wayne Matelski
John Newton and Janice Weber
Diana Nichols
Harry and Pam Norweb
Jane and Neil Pappalardo
Clifton and Margaret-Ann Rice
Barry and Meg Steinberg
Margot Stone
Richard and Patricia Wecker
A Friend of NBSO
$2,500+
Albert Fox Facial Plastic Surgery Center
Pat and John Baillieul
Jan and Chuck Bichsel
Sandra Bilodeau
Mary Jean and Bill Blasdale
Lizanne and Malcolm Campbell, in honor of Yaniv Dinur and all the musicians of the NBSO
Dr. Gail Davidson
Helen DeGroot
Jim and Carol Dildine
Feingold Bonnet-Hebert, P.C.
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Sharon and Richard Grahn
Profs. James T. Griffith and Susan J. Leclair
Hawthorn Medical Associates
Dorothy A. Hebden-Heath
Dr. Edward Hoffer and Madeleine Deschamps
Dr. Raina and Stephen Lamade
LandVest
Frances Levin
Karen and Jim Prieur
Don and Genie Rice
Shepard Turf Management, Inc.
Southcoast Health
Antra and Elliott Thrasher
Whaling City Sound
Laima and Bert Zarins
$1,000+
Milton and Marilyn Adams
Joel and Lisa Alvord
Hope Lincoln Baker
Toby Baker, in memory of Robert Freeman
Douglas Balder and Joan DeCollibus
Michael and Margie Baldwin
Bianca and Michael Bator
Ellen and Tom Bowler
Edward C. and Elizabeth H. Brainard
Irene and Norman Buck
Betty Ann and Jack Cannell
Kathleen and Gregory Clear
David Cole and Betty Slade
Sheila Powers Converse
Douglas and Cindy Crocker
Andrea and Emmanuel Daskalakis
Michael K. Davis
Patricia and Peter Dean
Diane Henry Realty
John and Zelinda Douhan
Breck and Jeanne Eagle
Michael Esposito and Cynthia Redel
Janet and Bob Feingold
Drs. Albert and Cynthia Fox
Elsie R. Fraga
John Paul Garber and Katri
Hyyppä-Garber
The Gladstone Family Fund
Gotta Have It!, Inc.
Marjorie and Nick Greville
Elissa and William Holmes
Dr. Jack and Leslie Howard
Howe Allen Realty
James S. and Maryellen Sullivan
Hughes
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Nan Johnson and Alan Minard
Gary P. Johnson and Luana Josvold
David and Jen Kaiser
Mr. and Mrs. John Kendall
Trudy Kingery
Stephen and Suzanne Kokkins
Tali and Mark Kwatcher
Diane and Peter Lafond
Scott and Monica Laurans
Ken Lipman
John and Doris Ludes
John and Katie Mannix
Drs. Alvin and Andrea Marcovici
Holly and Joe McDonough
Philip Guymont and Susan McLaren
Susan Eldredge Mead
Dorian Mintzer and David Feingold
Faith and Dick Morningstar
Joe Nauman
Robert and Carolyn Osteen
Ed Ottensmeyer and Anne Donnellon
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Reideler
Judy and Bob Rosbe
Kitt and Heather Sawitsky
Margot and Mark Schmid
Robert B. Smith
Southcoast Almanac
Alan Steinert, Jr.
In honor of Howard and Fredericka Stevenson
Thomas Stritter and Rachael Kolb
Sylvia Group of Insurance Agencies
Richard Tabors and Mary Ellen Lees
Joan Underwood and Geoffrey Taylor
Joan Underwood and Geoffrey Taylor, in memory of Doris Ann Whitehill
Henry and Marion Wainer, in honor of Terry Wolkowicz
Marge Waite and Neal Weiss
Walrus and Captain Bistro & Bar
John and Mallory Waterman
Kathy Wattles
Janet Whitla
Michael Tushman and Marjorie Williams, in honor of Bruce Hughes
Vincent Mor and Margaret S. Wool
$500+
Holly and Dana Barrows
Caroline Blais
Linda and John Bodenmann
Janne Hellgren and Jack Boesen
Heather and Garrett Bradley
Joel Brenner and Victoria Pope
Mimi and Earl Briggs
Rid Bullerjahn
Dr. Peter Campisano and Joyce Tower
Joyce and Joseph Ciffolillo
Ms. Janice Z. Clark
Anne T Converse
James and Edwina Cronin
Kathy Dinneen
Erica Driver
David and Kate Fentress
Clare Healy Foley and Paul Foley
Barbara and Brad Fouss, in honor of Ann and Hans Ziegler
Anne and John Gorczyca
Robert and Cynthia Hamburger
James von Arx Harrison
Elizabeth Isherwood-Moore
Nicholas and Susan Iwanisziw
Betsy and Rusty Kellogg
Edward and Nancy Kurtz
Sasha Lauterbach and Peter Sturges, in honor of Sally Johnston
Luzo Auto Center - J.C. Pinheiro
James Maffei and Trina Wanaga
Nancy McFadden
John Menzel
Colonel Joseph Napoli, USA, Ret.
Linda Orr
Anne Patterson and Christopher Finn
Geraldine Perry-Lopes
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan L. Rounds
Elizabeth and Jeff Roy
Jane Ross Stankiewicz and Mark Southworth
Robert and Judith Sterns
Judith and Kristian Stoltenberg
David and Patricia Straus
Elaine and Geoff Swaebe
Robert Trahan and Denyse Conrad
Rhonda and Roy Veugen
Greg Wallace, in honor of Janet and Vern Wallace
Rillis Watkins
Anna Whitcomb and Samuel Knight
Dr. Natalia Whitley and Raymond Whitley
Anne Whitney
Laura and Wistar Wood
Ali Woodruff and Barrett Levenson
Robin Worcester
Grace and David Wyss
Anonymous
$250+
Chris and Trish Arnold
Laurie and David Barrett
Alan Bates and Michele Mandrioli
Jack and Tessa Belkin
Virginia and Myles Boone
Keith Cabral and Luis Duffy
Evelyn T. Crocker
Mary Ann Hayes
Polly and Prentiss Higgins
Ellen Hocker
Luther Damon Howard III, in honor of Chuck and Jan Bichsel
Elizabeth Huidekoper
Frank Keefe and Jennifer Radden
Mark and Nancy Keighley
Mary Ellen Kennedy
Kilburn Mill
Audrey G. Knapp
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Lang
Joyce LeBlanc
Robert and Carolyn Lytle
Jean MacCormack
Demarest Macdonald
Robert and Magdalin MacGregor
Mary Mandeville
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Marilyn and Raymond Melanson
William and Beth Miller
Ed and Anne Motley
Robert L. Murphy
Norma Olivier Warburton
Margaret Palmer
Larry and Jackie Philla
Ruth Prentiss
David Prentiss and Lucy Iannotti
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Prescott, Jr.
Celeste and Cy Prothro, in honor of Mark and Margot Schmid’s 50th wedding anniversary
Kathy Reed
Michael Rocha, MD
Chris and Cecilia Ross
Tom and Kate Schmitt
Dr. Gilbert Shapiro
Bonnie and Louis Silverstein
Charlotte D. Smith
St. Anne’s Credit Union
Peter and Julie Veale
Alfred Walker
Diana M. Worley
$100+
Meg and Bob Ackerman
Levi and Jeanne Adams
Dana Anderson
Christopher and Veronique Bale
Ana and Dudley Bauerlein
Charlotte Berman
Donna M. Berry
Bobseine Family
John and Jennifer Brindisi
Monique Britto
Deborah Persons Brooke
Nancy F. Brown
Michael Budreski
Dan and Jennifer Bungert
APPLAUSE!
Patricia and Richard Burke
James and Shauna Chen, in memory of Pearl Ming-Chu Chen
Bob Clancy and Kathi Rogers
Gloria Clark
Richard and Dianne Clark
Bill Clements, in memory of Sandy Jones
Michael Couture and Diane Brown-Couture
Michael and Jennifer Coye
Teresa V. Cryan
Walter J. Czerny, Jr.
Judith Davis
Bob and Sue Daylor
Priscilla and Jennifer Demers
Carolyn DeMoranville
Mary Dermody and Lawrence Kupferschmidt
Tommie and Jack Desmond
Mary Ann Dillon
Judith Downey
Jeannette Doyle
Kenneth and Lisa Paquin Dunaway, in memory of Pierre A. Paquin
Ben Dunham and Wendy Rolfe-Dunham
Margaret Egan and Camilla Brooks
Barbara and Thomas H. Farquhar
Mary E. Farry
Jim and Mary Faughnan
Barbara and Robert L. Feinberg
Sharon Feingold and Skip Mueller, in honor of Robert Feingold
Marie L. Fontaine, in memory of Doris and Fred Basel
Angela and Dennis Fusco
Susan Gabert
David Gilbertson and Carolee
Matsumoto
Robert and Molly Giordano
Cathleen and Gordon Goodfellow
Charles and Cheryl Gorfinkle
Marjorie and Andy Greene, in memory of Jan Catron
Cecilia Halter and Michael Halter
Ann M. Harris
Helena and Ken Hartnett
Bill and Sandra Hewitt
Jongping and Bonnue Hsu
Eric Huber
Information Research Foundation
John D. Kelleher and Viki A. Fowler
The Kelly Family
Claire and Edward Kelly
Carol and Paul Kerrissey
Michael and Susan Kramer
Elizabeth and Robert Ladd
Arthur Lawton
Elizabeth and Douglas Leatham
Martin Lipman and Barbara Pearl
M. David Longval, in memory of Mark Simcock
Anne and Richard Lucas
Michael and Beth Luey
Mike Mahoney
Chris Makepeace
James Martin, in honor of Edith L. Martin
Hank Mastey
Damon F. May
Peggy McDonough
John and Nancy Mills
Anne Mozzone
In memory of Peter J. Muise
Regina M. Mullen
Betts and Wisner Murray
Liz Cole and Peter Newman, on behalf of David Cole
Theresa Nowell and Muriel R. Foster
Thomas and Alice Openshaw
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Teresa Ouellette
Phil and Celeste Paleologos
Jay Pasco-Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Pasquariello
Alice Rice Perkins and Mark Perkins
Susan and Daniel Perry
James Perry
Gilbert Perry and Donna Sachs
Linda and David Pierre
John and Emily Pinheiro
Susan Portnoy
Vinay Prabhakar
Jean Purrier
Karen Quigley and Russell Hensel
Ken and Jaqueline Rapoza-Cruz
Bill Reed
Paula Rego
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Rizy
Marion Salm
David Saluto
Joanne Seymour and Brian Ruh
Robin and Timothy Shields
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Shuster
Ann Silva
Michael and Paula Sitarz
Marlene and Chris Smith
Conee Sousa
Sally Spooner
Wendy and Jeremy Stern
Sylvia and Eiv Strand
June Strunk
June and William Swanson
David C. Thoen
R. James Tobin
Mary L. Tomlinson
Shahara and Will Tracy
Bob Unger and Barbara LeBlanc
Janet and LaVerne Wallace
Liam T.M. Walsh
Special Support
Louise Waugh, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Mcaulley, Sr.
Ken Weber
Philip and Bailey Whitbeck
Ronald and Sylvia White
John and Virginia Wilkens
Vanessa Williams
Corinne and Steve Woodworth
Anonymous
Business Partnerships
Albert Fox Facial Plastic Surgery Center
Baldwin Brothers
Bristol County Savings Bank
Diana Henry Realty
Foundations
Association for the Relief of Aged Women
Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Feingold Bonnet-Hebert, P.C.
Gotta Have it!, Inc.
Hawthorn Medical Associates
Howe Allen Realty
LandVest
Shepard Turf Management, Inc.
Southcoast Almanac
Spherion Staffing Services
Sylvia Group of Insurance
Agencies
Tonix Pharmaceuticals
Walrus and Captain Bistro & Bar
Whaling City Sound
Barr Foundation and The Klarman Family Foundation through the Barr-Klarman Massachusetts Arts Initiative
BayCoast Bank
The Howard Bayne Fund
The Carney Family Charitable Foundation
Enable Hope Foundation
First Citizens’ Federal Credit Union
Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation
Island Foundation, Inc.
The Markel Family Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Pittsburgh
Massachusetts Cultural Council
The Nelson Mead Foundation
New Bedford Arts Cultural and Tourism Fund (New Bedford Economic Development Council)
New Bedford Day Nursery Fund
SouthCoast Community Foundation - Acushnet Foundation Fund, The Allan and Priscilla Ditchfield Fund, Stasia Gorczyca Endowment Fund for the New Bedford Symphony, Jacobs Family Donor Advised Fund
The Wintrub and Barton Family Fund
Learning in Concert program support provided by Concerts at the Point for Fall River, Westport, and Tiverton elementary schools and by Up with School Arts for Little Compton and New Bedford elementary schools. Educational program support is provided in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council as well as grants from the following Local Cultural Councils, which are local agencies supported by the MCC, a state agency: New Bedford and Mattapoisett.
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Sandria R. Parsons, Chair
Geoff Swett, Treasurer
Prof. Susan J. Leclair, Clerk
Jan Bichsel
Janet Coquillette
Michael A. Esposito
Robert B. Feingold, Esq.
Albert J. Fox, MD
Dorothy A. Hebden-Heath
Raina V. Lamade
Paul A. Lamoureux
Frances Levin
Symphony Volunteers
Barbara Bell
Meg Brown
Maria Dickinson
Karen Gardner
Jeannie Gulbranson
Margaret Jones
Barbara Mitchell
Pal Moniz
Anne Mozzone
Susana Pacheco
Madeline Reid
Judy Robinson
Pat Stringer
Louise Travers
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Marge Waite
Joanna McQuillan Weeks
Anne Whitney
Alvin Marcovici, MD
Susan Mead
Jennifer Memoli
Christopher Nunn
Edward Ottensmeyer
Barry Steinberg
Margot Stone
Michael Sudofsky
Alexandra Woodruff
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Andrea Daskalakis
Priscilla Ditchfield
Richard & Sharon Grahn
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Sally Johnston
Andy Kotsatos
Michael P. Malone
John Mannix
Pamela Norweb
Margot Schmid
Joan Underwood
Marjorie Waite
Janet Whitla
Ann Ziegler
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Clare Healy Foley
Nan Johnson
Sally Johnston
Susan Mead
Pam Norweb
Sandria Parsons
Jane Stankiewicz
Margot Stone
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Ann Ziegler
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Mike Daniels, Youth Orchestra Coordinator
Matthew Gomes, Finance Director
Wesley Hopper, Personnel Manager
Roberta Kennedy, Production Coordinator
Tobias Monte, Youth Orchestra Senior Conductor
David M. Prentiss, President and CEO
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THANK YOU FOR SUSTAINING OUR FUTURE
The Endowment Funds of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, which include the Symphony 100 Fund and the David MacKenzie Fund for Music, provide the critical support we need today and in the years ahead to sustain the high quality of our concerts and educational programs. Thank you to the following individuals for their generous support.
$1,000,000
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Lucile and William Hicks
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To make an endowment gift or for information about endowment naming opportunities and giving options, including leaving a bequest to the NBSO in your will, please contact us at 508-999-6276 or development@nbsymphony.org.
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THE FURTADO FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP
For nearly sixty years, members of the Furtado family have made music with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. During that time, their talent and passion for music have made a major contribution to the growth and impact of the NBSO in the community. Moreover, as teachers they have shared that talent and passion with countless students throughout the South Coast, enriching the lives of those students and our community as a whole.
In recent years, four members of the family—Judith Stoltenberg, Teresa Ouellette, Susan Bouley, and Marilyn Melanson—played in the orchestra. Upon the completion of the 2017-18 season, they informed the NBSO that it was time to bring this amazing musical run to a close and retire from the orchestra.
But a musical legacy like that of the Furtado family can never really “retire.” To recognize this and to thank the Furtado family for all it has done for the NBSO and the music community of the South Coast, the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra is very pleased to announce that it has established the Furtado Family Scholarship. This scholarship, which will provide financial aid to students in the NBSO’s youth orchestra programs, will be just one of the many ways that the Furtado family’s legacy of making music and bringing the joy of music to others will always be a part of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and the South Coast community.
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To donate to the Furtado Family Scholarship Fund, contact the NBSO at 508-999-6276.
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SOUTH COAST CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
Welcome to another season of spectacular chamber music performed by artists of the NBSO. This year The Brass join us for a brilliant blowout and throughout the season, masterworks traversing three centuries are leavened with a selection of delectable duos. Our precious heritage of American chamber music – startling, majestic, and unique - features on each program. With special gratitude to Patty Plum Wylde for her sponsorship of our February concert, we look forward to seeing all of our steadfast supporters for another exciting journey together.
CORNUCOPIA
OCTOBER 28 & 29, 2023
A feast of virtuoso duos, a brave classic, and spectral Beethoven
TOP BRASS
DECEMBER 2 & 3, 2023
NBSO brass raises the roof!
VIVA VIOLA
FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2024
Ravishing viola quintets and a magical piano
TRIFECTA
MARCH 9 & 10, 2024
Three perfect winners
BANQUET
APRIL 27 & 28, 2024
Finn, Film, Fiery, Fabulous
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Saturday Concerts: 4:00 PM
St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church, 124 Front Street, Marion
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2023–2024 Concert Schedule:
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Sunday, March 3, 2024 | 3:00 PM
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The Southeastern Massachusetts Youth Orchestras bring together talented young musicians from across the Southeastern Massachusetts region to participate in an educational and artistic experience in a full orchestra setting. Membership in the Southeastern Massachusetts Youth Orchestras is open to students of grade school age through age 21.
Rehearsals take place at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, UMass Dartmouth.
Consider attending our third annual SEMAYO Summer Camp, July 2024! New members are always welcome and all students are accepted after a placement audition.
For information on scheduling your placement audition, rehearsal schedule, summer programs, and upcoming concerts please visit www.semayo.org or email youth@nbsymphony.org
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The NBSO partners with local organizations, agencies, and regional music organizations to create experiences that connect people of all ages and cultures. Examples include:
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New Bedford Public Schools
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Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Gardens Museum
Taunton River Watershed Alliance
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Community of Music
The NBSO is also committed to sharing information about upcoming concerts by our Musical South Coast colleagues. (All local music organizations are welcome to contact us to be included!)
Arts in the Village
Buzzards Bay Musicfest
Concerts at the Point
Delight Consort
Fall River Symphony
Greater New Bedford Choral Society
Music at St. Anthony’s
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New Bedford Festival Theatre
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Tri-County Symphonic Band
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
Don’t miss a beat! Visit nbsymphony.org to join the NBSO mailing list and receive our monthly e-newsletter with information on a variety of musical events in your community.
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3 Reasons to Support the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra
Since 1915, the New Beford Symphony Orchestra has been making powerful connections in our community. In addition to the magic we bring to the stage, the NBSO provides nationally recognized educational programs to thousands of children throughout the South Coast. Your support has a powerful impact in the concert hall and in the community.
1 Commitment to Community Part of the mission of NBSO is to share the experience of listening to orchestra musicians in various locations across Southeastern Massachusetts. These free concerts like, “Music in the Parks”, give individuals and families the chance to enjoy symphonic music of the highest caliber. It also helps to contribute to the artistic vibrancy of our communities, making the South Coast an inspiring place to live and visit.
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Educational Programs We all know the benefits of children learning music, and through innovative and exciting musical programs like Learning in Concert, Pre-K Music and Literacy, and the Southeastern Massachusetts Youth Orchestras, the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra continues to provide authentic and engaging musical experiences annually to over 8,000 students in the South Coast region. We believe educating young people is a central part of our mission.
Live Music Experience Live music is emotionally inspiring, and concertgoers of all ages benefit greatly when they experience a concert in person. From the quietest stroke of a triangle to the massive sound of the brass section, the symphony orchestra is one of the most varied and thrilling musical experiences you can imagine.
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“ Music provides us with excitement and joy, especially when attending a live performance of 75 musicians playing as one. In a concert hall, classroom, or bonding with family and friends at an outdoor event, we believe in the power of music to enrich and transform lives, deepening the bonds that unite us. Your support matters!”
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 7:30 PM
Bronspiegel Auditorium, New Bedford High School
Yaniv Dinur, conductor | Sydney Lee, cello
Dedicated to the memory of Shulamith Friedland
James Lee III: Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
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Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto
I. Adagio - Moderato
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SYDNEY LEE CELLO
Korean-American cellist Sydney Lee has established herself as an artist of refined elegance and profound sincerity. She garnered recognition when she claimed both 1st prize at the 2022 Washington International Competition and 2nd prize at the 2022 Classic Strings International Competition. Most recently, she was awarded the inaugural $50,000 Gurrena Fellowship from Meadowmount School of Music. Additional accolades include 1st prize at the International Antonio Janigro Cello Competition in Croatia, where she subsequently debuted with the Zagreb Soloists.
Since her solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at age 13, Sydney has continued to perform extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in many of the world’s leading venues, including the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, and Konzerthaus Berlin.
Renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber praised her performance with the Armenian Symphony State Orchestra, “Sydney Lee’s playing of Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante was mesmerizing. She surmounted all of its technical challenges with ease and gave us a joyous musical experience. It was a performance to treasure.”
An ardent devotee of chamber music, Sydney is the founder of the Galvin Cello Quartet, which has rapidly been building an international profile following their silver medal win at the 2021 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Furthermore, they have earned the distinction of joining the Concert Artists Guild roster as winners of the esteemed 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition. The quartet’s upcoming 2023-24 season includes performances at New York City’s Merkin Hall, Newport Classical, and Ravinia Music Festival.
Sydney’s dedication to fostering arts education is evident through her active role as a Board of Director, Social Media Manager and Back to Bach Soloist at The Back to Bach Project Charitable Foundation. This global initiative, with over 70 regions and 800 members, seeks to inspire young children through arts education and community
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engagement, imparting the values of commitment, dedication, and passion. She spearheaded the establishment of the Calgary, Canada, and Delaware County, PA regional chapters. Additionally, one of her notable collaborative achievements at Back to Bach involved a three-way collaboration between Play on Philly, The Curtis Institute of Music, and The Back to Bach Project under the guidance of violinist Midori. Furthermore, as a Back to Bach Soloist, she has led numerous virtual music education seminars for young audiences all across the United States. Sydney’s unwavering commitment to her philanthropic endeavors led to Back to Bach’s receipt of funding in 2020 from the esteemed U.S. Presidential Scholars Foundation and Alumni Association Seed Grant Program.
Born and raised in New York City, Sydney is an alumna of both The Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University, where she studied with Carter Brey, Peter Wiley, and Hans Jorgen Jensen. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Northwestern, continuing her studies under the tutelage of Hans Jorgen Jensen. Throughout her artistic journey, other past influential teachers include Richard Aaron, Jens Peter Maintz, Sophie Shao, Julie Albers, Minhye Clara Kim, and mentorship by acclaimed cellist Lynn Harrell.
In her spare time, Sydney served as a Content Assistant for The Violin Channel. Sydney finds joy in the art of crafting captivating lifestyle content through her vlogs, where she unveils the tapestry of her journeys, offering glimpses into her life as a musician, surviving the Chicago winters, and even her exhilarating escapade of maneuvering a dune buggy through the vast expanse of the Dubai desert.
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PROGRAM NOTES
Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula
James Lee III: American composer (b. 1975, St. Joseph, MI)
Estimated length: 10 minutes
Hailed as a “gifted young composer” (Cincinnati Enquirer) whose “bright, pure music” (Washington Post) is “tonal but highly complex” (South Florida Classical Review) and “vibrant [and] richly layered” (Baltimore Sun), James Lee III writes in virtually every medium. Today his music is much in demand, and has been performed by many ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony Orchestra.
Lee was raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, whose co-founder, Ellen G. White, wrote “Rightly employed … [music] is a precious gift of God, designed to uplift the thoughts to high and noble themes, to inspire and elevate the souls.” Lee’s faith continues to inform his music today; biblical teachings – especially from the books of Daniel and Revelation – feature prominently in his work.
Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula was commissioned by the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium in 2011. Since its premiere by the New World Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, it has become Lee’s most performed work.
Lee writes, “ … Sukkot is a Hebrew word for the ‘Feast of Tabernacles.’ In biblical days, this holiday was celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei (late September to late October). It was the most joyous of the fall festivals that God mandated the Hebrews to observe. It was also a thanksgiving celebration for the blessings of the fall harvest. Orion’s Nebula refers to the Orion constellation in space. The structure of this nebula forms a roughly spherical cloud that peaks in density near the core. The cloud displays a range of velocities and turbulence, particularly around the core region.
“This work is constructed in seven sections:
1. Reminiscences of the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) open the work with percussive, forceful sounds of the snare and bass drums. This is further enhanced by the horns, which imitate the calls of the shofar (a ram’s horn sounded on those holy days).
2. The full orchestra continues to a cadence foreshadowing the grand advent of God.
3. The woodwinds follow with joyful flourishes and dancelike celebrations, which imitate the people’s reception of the Messiah. As this music continues, the motives pass on to the percussion section, piano, harp, and eventually the strings.
4. Previous melodies and motives are developed and transformed among the orchestra. This section celebrates the Second Coming of God.
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5. Orion is the one constellation mentioned specifically in the Old Testament. The muted brass, singing violins, percussion instruments and woodwinds are intended to evoke celestial images of the Messiah coming down out of heaven through the Orion constellation, then the redeemed saints traveling through the constellation, and finally the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven …
6. The bass and snare drums reprise the “shofar theme, “ which continues with orchestral exclamations of joy.
7. Passages of call and response ripple within the ensemble in the final celebration, which continues until the work ends with an explosion of sound.”
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
Jean Sibelius: Finnish composer (1895–1957)
Estimated length: 22 minutes
“The VIIth symphony. Joy of life and vitality, with appassionato passages. In 3 movements – the last a ‘Hellenic rondo’,” wrote Jean Sibelius in 1918, referring to his Symphony No. 7. It is telling that Sibelius thought of this symphony as epitomizing joy, since by 1924 Sibelius could barely function without a bottle of liquor at his side, and his alcoholism exacerbated his tendency to depression. As the composer himself noted, in the winter of 1924, “Alcohol to calm my nerves and state of mind. How eternally tragic is the lot of an aging composer! It [work] doesn’t proceed with the same pace as it used to, and one’s self-criticism grows to impossible levels.” Sibelius also described alcohol as “my most faithful companion,” in his diary, adding, “Everything and everyone else has largely failed me.”
While the idea of a one-movement symphony is not unusual today, it was a pioneering innovation in 1924. In his earlier symphonies, Sibelius explored the consolidation of movements (the last two movements of the Second Symphony are linked with the tempo marking attacca, and all the movements of the Fourth Symphony are seamlessly joined by a unison note ending one movement and beginning the next). Sibelius also likened symphonies to rivers: “The movement of the river water is the flow of the musical ideas and the river-bed that they form is the symphonic structure.” There are a number of tempo changes throughout the single movement, as well as long gradual accelerandos, some of which serve as structural signposts.
The Seventh Symphony encapsulates Sibelius’ style of composition, in which all themes evolve out of one musical kernel, in this case a triumphal C major theme for trombone which opens and closes the work. Sibelius’ final symphony also established the concept of a one-movement symphony, which many 20th-century composers later adopted. It is both elegiac and heroic, and the trombone theme nods at the music of Richard Wagner in the opening and the finale.
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Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor, Op. 85
Edward Elgar: English composer (1857–1934)
Estimated length: 30 minutes
The Cello Concerto in E minor is the last original work Edward Elgar completed before the death of his wife, Lady Alice Elgar. Hailed by critics and audiences as Elgar’s “final masterpiece,” this haunting work, so different in mood and style from Elgar’s previous music, was written as a response to the devastation and loss caused by World War I.
Aside from Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Elgar’s is the best-known and one of the most popular orchestral concertos in the repertoire. It has been featured in several films, most recently in the Academy Award-nominated 2022 movie Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as a world-renowned orchestra conductor. The concerto becomes a plot point when Lydia Tár decides to program it alongside Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, to showcase a young cellist who has caught her eye. The solo cello’s first four chords, which open the concerto and reappear periodically throughout, precede the memorable opening theme, which had its genesis in pain (Elgar wrote it on March 23, 1919, while recovering from a tonsillectomy at home). He continued working on the rest of the concerto in July and finished it in August 1919. The concerto fared poorly at its premiere two months later, due to lack of adequate rehearsal time. Critics lost no opportunity to point out this fact: “… an important new work by our foremost living composer … was obviously underrehearsed.” “The orchestra made a lamentable public exhibition of itself.” Through subsequent better-prepared performances, the Cello Concerto soon became one of that instrument’s signature works, and critics likened it to Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor. The comparison pleased Elgar, who had played in orchestras Dvořák conducted when the Czech composer visited Worcester and Birmingham in the late 1880s.
The soloist opens the Adagio – moderato alone, sounding four dark chords establishing the key of E minor. The violas enter with the lilting, poignant main theme, followed by the cellos. This first theme is joined by a second, introduced by the woodwinds, which continues the graceful melancholy of the first. The cellist’s opening four chords are played pizzicato (plucked) at the beginning of the Scherzo, which takes off into the relative major key of G. This lighter companion to the first movement spotlights the cello’s technical capabilities, with runs of repeated sixteenth notes contrast with strong legato phrases. The orchestral accompaniment in this movement is almost sparse in places, unlike Elgar’s usual grand sweeping style; the restrained orchestration keeps the solo part from being lost in the full orchestral texture. In the Adagio, Elgar continues the quasi-chamber orchestration by eliminating the brasses. The solo cello weaves yet another expressive, reflective melody over supporting strings and a few woodwinds throughout this slow and relatively short (60 measures) movement. The final Allegro alternates solo cello passages with orchestral replies, and the concerto ends as it began, with the opening four chords from the first movement.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 7:30 PM
Bronspiegel Auditorium, New Bedford High School
Yaniv Dinur, conductor | Janice Weber, piano
Clarice Assad: Nhanderú
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegro
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Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60
I. Allegro non tanto II. Adagio
III. Scherzo (Furiant), Presto IV. Finale, Allegro con spirito
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JANICE WEBER PIANO
Janice Weber’s New York recital debut, performed under the pseudonym Lily von Ballmoos, was an early indication of the eclecticism and fluency for which she has become known.
A summa cum laude graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Miss Weber has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, National Gallery of Art, and Boston’s Symphony Hall. She has appeared with the Boston Pops, Chautauqua Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Hilton Head Orchestra, Sarajevo Philharmonic, and Syracuse Symphony in concertos of Hanson, Sowerby, Stenhammar, Bernstein, and Leroy Anderson as well as the standard repertoire. She has performed at the Bard, Newport, La Gesse, Husum, and Monadnock summer festivals and has returned frequently to China for concerts and master classes under the auspices of the American Liszt Society.
Her interest in the uncommon avenues of the piano literature led to a world premiere recording of Liszt’s 1838 Transcendental Etudes. Time Magazine noted, “Liszt later simplified these pieces into the still ferociously difficult Transcendental Etudes (1852 version) for fear that no one else could play them. There may now be several fire-eating piano virtuosos who can execute the original notes, but few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber does here.”
Her recordings include Rachmaninoff’s complete transcriptions; with the Lydian Quartet, Leo Ornstein’s vast Piano Quintet; flute and piano works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and waltz transcriptions of Godowsky, Rosenthal, and Friedman. Miss Weber recorded Liszt’s last Hungarian Rhapsody, one of only two living pianists to be included in a compendium of historic performances by nineteen legendary artists. This disc subsequently won the International Liszt Prize. Her Naxos recording of Leo Ornstein’s radical works introduced the charismatic composer to a worldwide audience. She is heard in Messiaen’s Quartet
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for the End of Time on Ongaku Records. Her Cascade of Roses recording for Sono Luminus, featuring works of twenty-one composers from Adolf Jensen to Billy Mayerl, was followed by Seascapes, a compendium of fourteen diverse works on sea themes. She was a member of the piano faculty at Boston Conservatory for twenty-seven years and has taught at MIT and New England Conservatory. Miss Weber produced three sets of tones for Ivory, the worldwide bestselling virtual piano software. A Steinway artist, she is Artistic Director of South Coast Chamber Music, an integral part of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. Double Digits, her duo-piano collaboration with Alex Poliykov, is a staple of the Boston keyboard scene.
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Nhanderú
Clarice Assad: Brazilian composer (b.1978, Campo Grande, Brazil)
Estimated length: 8 minutes
Brazilian-American composer, pianist, arranger, and singer Clarice Assad hails from an illustrious musical family. Daughter of guitarist Sergio Assad and niece of guitarist Odair Assad and singersongwriter Badi Assad, Clarice’s music infuses popular Brazilian culture, Romanticism, world music, and jazz into her unique sound palette.
“NHANDERÚ – pronounced (/nyuh.dey.roo/) – means ‘God’ in Tupi-Guarani, which is a subfamily of the Tupian languages spoken by a group of indigenous peoples living in areas of the Amazon basin,” Assad writes. “Natives from Tupi-Guarani tribes, like many other societies, often practiced a ritual called rainmaking, (or rain dance) which is intended to invoke rain through prayer.”
“During the ceremony, they summoned spirits of the land as well as their ancestors to bring in the rain so as to ensure soil fertility, abundant harvest, and to frighten away the spirits of the lost world. In most rituals, the ‘dancers’ embody one or more spirits (a higher power) that is expressed through rhythmic gestures and movements. In addition to chanting, some instruments – such as rattles of various sizes and types, flutes, and drums – are used. Legend has it that the rain provoked by the ritual holds the spirits of ancient chiefs. When the water droplets begin to fall, it sets off a great battle between our reality and the spirit world.”
“The composition NHANDERÚ bases itself on the connection between the material and the unseen worlds, with a focus on ritualistic practices of faith, prayer and gratitude. As with any musical work, it can be interpreted in many different ways. However, my work tends to be quite visual and I usually like to imagine vivid scenarios, which inspire me create a stronger sense of timing. Programmatic in nature, the piece develops narratively, and is a musical portrait of a rain dance ritual from beginning to end. It is divided in four main parts. The beginning, (awakening), the development section (summoning/rainfall/gratitude) and the coda, a return to the beginning in a cyclical form, creates a parody between the water cycle and the cycle of life. To create a vivid listening experience, the score calls for vocalizing, finger snapping, clapping, body tapping, and percussion instruments which imitate sounds of nature.”
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102
Dmitri Shostakovich: Russian composer (1906–1975)
Estimated length: 17 minutes
If you heard this concerto without knowing its composer, you would easily be excused for thinking it the work of anyone but Dmitri Shostakovich. In this work, a stark contrast to much of his other music, Shostakovich gives free rein to aspects of his personality he seldom expressed musically: merriment, a straightforward, pleasant melodic arc, and a notable lack of irony.
The light, playful aspects of this concerto are likely a reflection of Shostakovich’s feelings for his son Maxim, for whom it was written. Shostakovich had also written piano music for his daughter Galina when she was a girl, and had earlier gifted Maxim with a “concertino” for two pianos. As he approached his 19th birthday, Maxim was preparing for his entrance to the Moscow Conservatory; his performance of his father’s concerto earned him a place in the prestigious music school. Maxim was thrilled with the work. “My dream,” he remembered, “was for a big, serious piano concerto … I was especially proud of the fact that my father dedicated it to me. Learning the score when it was still fresh, I often rehearsed it on two pianos with him. We argued, and I defended heatedly my youthful ideas. I recall that in musical circles, when it became known that father had written this concerto especially for me, it was jokingly noted, ‘Have you heard that Shostakovich has composed a new concerto for Maxim and orchestra?’”
The style and structure of the concerto follow the outlines of a standard piano concerto: three movements featuring two lively outer sections bracketing a slower central movement. The first and third movements exude a twinkling-eyed mischievous humor; we can almost see Shostakovich playing with his children, or engaging in good-natured debate with Maxim over a particular section. The solo part features a number of phrases in octaves, which add to the concerto’s brilliance, intensity, and technical difficulty. In the contrasting Andante, Shostakovich gives voice to a lyrical, affecting melody of surprising intimacy and tenderness.
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Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60
Antonín Dvořák: Czech composer (1841–1904)
Estimated length: 41 minutes
Antonín Dvořák was almost 40 when he composed the Symphony No. 6. Although Dvořák had completed five previous symphonies, people outside his Czech homeland knew him only as the creator of the wildly successful Slavonic Dances and Slavonic Rhapsodies, works that functioned as musical calling cards, but did not establish Dvořák as a “serious” composer in the eyes of most musical cognoscenti, particularly in Vienna. Dvořák wanted to change that perception. In 1879, after hearing Hans Richter lead the Vienna Philharmonic in the third Slavonic Rhapsody, Dvořák promised Richter and the Philharmonic a symphony for the following season.
Dvořák did not begin composing Richter’s symphony until the summer of 1880, completing all four movements and the scoring in just six weeks. In November, Dvořák played the score in Vienna for Richter in a piano reduction. Dvořák reported to a friend that Richter kissed him after he finished playing each movement, so great was Richter’s enthusiasm for the new work. Richter told Dvořák he would program the symphony for the orchestra’s December 26 concert but later had to postpone, saying the orchestra could not learn a new symphony in so little time. The premiere was rescheduled for March 1881, but as the date drew closer, Richter wrote to Dvořák, asking for a further postponement, this time for personal reasons (Richter’s children were recovering from diphtheria, his wife was about to give birth, and his mother had just died). Dvořák was not unsympathetic, and he believed Richter was sincere in his desire to premiere the symphony, but he also suspected there was more to these delays than he was being told. Dvořák’s suspicions proved correct; several orchestra players, whose opinions carried great influence, were openly disdainful and felt that the orchestra was programming too much of Dvořák’s unimportant (in their opinion) music. Although Dvořák retained the dedication to Richter in the score, by this time he was anxious to hear his symphony played, so he asked his old friend and fellow violist Adolph Čech to lead the premiere with the Prague Philharmonic. (Richter did eventually conduct the Symphony No. 6 two years later in London).
This symphony blends the bold muscularity of Ludwig van Beethoven’s phrases with the lyrical melodies of Czech folk songs. The resemblance to Beethoven was intentional; even 50 years after Beethoven’s death his music was revered by the Viennese, and Dvořák, familiar with the audience’s love of the great composer, knew any musical nod to Beethoven would be well received. The Beethovenian references are particularly notable in the fiery scherzo, which features the furiant, an energetic Czech dance. The Allegro non tanto alternates strong, forceful themes with gentler passages and harmonies that suggest Brahms, while the Adagio is a long, graceful interlude featuring a tender violin melody accompanied by oboe. Dvořák opens the Finale with a nod to Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 2; Dvořák’s biographer Hans-Hubert Schönzeler called this movement “the most convincing finale Dvořák ever wrote.”
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Holiday Overture | James M. Stephenson
Christmas Song | Mel Tormé (arr. Lowden)
Swingin’ with Santa Claus (arr. Mac Huff) | Showstoppers
White Christmas | Irving Berlin (arr. Russel Bennett)
Merry Carol of the Bells (arr. Camp Kirkland and Jay Rouse) | Showstoppers
Neue Pizzicato Polka, Op. 449 | Johann Strauss II
On the Beautiful Blue Danube | Johann Strauss II*
Do You Hear What I Hear (arr. Camp Kirkland and Jay Rouse) | Showstoppers
Charleston Christmas | James M. Stephenson*
Fantasia on “Greensleeves” | Vaughan Williams
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Tobias Monte, Artistic Director and Senior Conductor
The Southeastern Massachusetts Youth Orchestras (SEMAYO), a program of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, was established in 2008 under the auspices of the NBSO. Today, there are more than 70 students in four ensembles under the SEMAYO umbrella— Symphony Orchestra, Repertory Orchestra, Debut Orchestra, and Preparatory String Ensemble.
In addition to conducting the SEMAYO Symphony Orchestra, a full orchestra made up of advanced middle school, high school, and college players, Tobias Monte maintains an active career as a performer, conductor, and educator. He holds positions in the trumpet sections of the Cape Symphony Orchestra and the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the musical director for New Bedford Festival Theatre from 1996 to 2003, overseeing the music for fifteen productions. Mr. Monte is a member of the music department faculty at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where he directs the Wind Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra, and runs the performance workshop class.
Showstoppers Performing Arts, Inc.
The Showstoppers is an inspiring group of local youth who make an impact on the community by providing quality musical entertainment to the elderly at nursing homes, assisted living programs, and senior centers throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. Under the direction of Kelly and Jillian Zucco, the troupe also performs for the community-at-large through a variety of public and private venues including fairs and festivals, charitable fundraisers, and other civic events. The troupe averages 40-50 shows per year, has won numerous talent and service awards, and has performed in Walt Disney World twice. We are ever so grateful to be performing with the esteemed NBSO once again this year!! For more information about the troupe, email showstoppersme@gmail.com or follow them on Facebook/ showstopppers.us.
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Experience illuminates the path to clarity, and nowhere is this more evident than in No Goodbyes by guitarist John Stein. On his 18th recording and 13th for the Whaling City Sound label, Stein, with Ed Lucie (bass) and Mike Connors (drums) deliver a truly transcendent musical experience Building upon their previous collaboration on 2021s Serendipity, the trio forges an enchanting collection of interactive, conversational and expressive melodies
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