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2019/20 SEASON Saturday, December 21, 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Holiday Pops!
Sunday, January 12, 2020, 3:00 p.m.
Brass, Winds, & Bach’s Air
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Mozart & Beyond
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Elgar & Mahler 7
Saturday, February 22, 2020, 3:00 p.m.
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Alice in Wonderland Ballet
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Sunday, January 26, 2020 4:00 p.m. Jason Vieaux guitar
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Song Plays Shostakovich Saturday, April 4, 2020, 8:00 p.m.
Star Wars to Superman: A Salute to John Williams
Sunday, February 16, 2020 4:00 p.m. Andrei Ioniţă cello
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
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A Christmas Portrait
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The Very Best Time of Year
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Star Carol
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“Farandole” from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Christmas at the Movies March of the Toys
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Stille Nacht
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Adeste Fidelis
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Sleigh Ride
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The Grinch Song
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“Believe” from The Polar Express
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Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
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White Christmas
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Christmas Day “Hallelujah” Chorus from Messiah Christmas Sing-Along
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AFTERNOON CLASSICS
Brass, Winds, & Bach’s Air
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Serenade in d minor for Winds, Op. 44 I. Moderato, quasi Marcia II. Minuetto. Tempo di minuetto III. Andante con moto IV. Finale. Allegro molto Octet in E-flat Major for Winds, Op. 103 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto IV. Presto Spirit of Brass—Concert Fanfare
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
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“Air on the G String” Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) (arr. Allen) Symphony for Brass, Op. 80 I. Allegro II. Larghetto III. Rondo Canzon in echo duodecimi toni à 10, Ch. 180 Canzon septimi toni No. 2
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Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1553/1556–1612) Gabrieli
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Saturday, January 25, 2020, 6:00 p.m. Roberto Minczuk Music Director Jason Vieaux guitar
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Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Guitar Concerto I. Maestoso. Allegro II. Adagio III. Finale. Lively
Jonathan Leshnoff (b. 1973)
Concerto in D Major, RV 93 I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
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Cello Concerto in e minor, Op. 85 I. Adagio—Moderato II. Lento—Allegro molto III. Adagio IV. Allegro—Moderato—Allegro, ma non troppo—Poco più lento—Adagio
Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
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Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
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Program Notes Charles Greenwell
Antonín Dvořák
Born September 8, 1841, in Nelahozeves, Czech Republic Died May 1, 1904, in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Serenade in d minor for Winds, Op. 44
Scored for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon (optional), 3 horns, cello, and double bass. Approximately 25 minutes.
In 1874, Dvořák applied for and won the Austrian State Stipend for young composers, and in the process his music came to the attention of the famous and influential critic Eduard Hanslick. Dvořák applied again---and won again---in each of the following four years, along the way earning the respect and support of Brahms in getting some of his works published. These grants allowed Dvořák to leave his post as a church organist and concentrate on composing, and as his popularity increased both in his homeland and Austria, so did the number of works he produced. During this period, he composed two serenades, one for strings and the present one primarily for winds. In early 1878 during a trip to Vienna, he attended a concert given by members of the Vienna Philharmonic that included Mozart’s great Wind Serenade in B-flat. He was so taken with the work that upon returning to Prague, he began to write a work in the same general vein and completed it in just two weeks. It is a testament to Dvořák’s genius that the serenade he produced was quite different from the Mozart, but a remarkable work in
“Only a master writes like this; only a poet by God’s grace has such inspiration.” —Critic
“Beethoven will in time become one of the great musical artists in Europe, and I shall be proud to call myself his teacher.” —Franz Joseph Haydn
its own right. It is clearly based on Classical models but is wholly Czech in its character, filled with Slavonic rhythms and harmonies, and seems to be looking back to an agesold tradition of music making in castles and palaces, as well as to the wind music of Reicha and Krommer and other early Bohemians. Despite the lack of the higher register that flutes would have produced, there is a wonderful lightness about the Serenade due to Dvořák’s graceful and endearing melodic lines and his remarkable ensemble writing. Dvořák himself conducted the first performance of the Serenade in a concert in Prague in November 1878 that was devoted entirely to his compositions. It made a splendid impression on all who attended, garnering particular praise from Brahms, who wrote, “… a more lovely, refreshing impression of real, rich, and charming creative talent you can’t easily have … I think it must also be a great pleasure for the wind players.” Another critic said, “Only a master writes like this; only a poet by God’s grace has such inspiration.” Dvořák dedicated the work to Berlin composer and music critic Louis Ehlert because his promotion of Dvořák’s first set of Slavonic Dances greatly helped advance his music in Germany. Ehlert predicted that the Serenade and other works of Dvořák would “make their way around the world [because] a heavenly naturalness flows through the music.” This was a remarkably prescient statement, as within just a few months Dvořák’s music began to gain great fame both in Europe and here in America. This Serenade was part of a revival of interest in forms and genres of the Classical era that took place in the late 19th century, Brahms and Tchaikovsky being just two composers who wrote serenades and other works inspired by the 18th century. It was a custom in Mozart’s time, when serenades were often played outdoors in the summertime, to begin and end such works with a march as the players went to and from
the performance area. So it is that the first movement of Dvořák’s Serenade pays homage to earlier central European wind band music by being a vigorous yet stately march with a trio. (It may be in d minor, but it is certainly more positive and cheerful than somber.) The second movement, called a Menuetto, is really a combination of two Czech folk dances, once again with a vigorous trio (called a Furiant) in the middle. The beautiful Andante con moto is the emotional heart of the work and definitely pays homage to the equally beautiful slow movement of Mozart’s great Wind Serenade. The last movement is very much in the character of a polka, and is an ingenious kind of formal hybrid in which, just as in a traditional rondo form, the successive returns of the main music are separated by new and contrasting material. Just when the final statement of the main music seems inevitable, Dvořák instead brings back the march theme of the first movement, after which the Serenade ends with a rousing final section, bringing together the main themes of the finale. ●
Ludwig van Beethoven
Born December 17, 1770, in Bonn, Germany Died March 26, 1827, in Vienna, Austria
Octet in E-flat Major for Winds, Op. 103
Scored for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, and 2 horns. Approximately 23 minutes.
In 1784, Maximilian Franz, the new elector of Cologne, moved to Bonn, where in the roster of court musicians there was a remarkable young virtuoso named Ludwig van Beethoven. Maximilian was the youngest brother of a remarkable group of 18th-century aristocrats that included Joseph II and Marie Antoinette, and he quickly filled his grandiose palace with members of his own Harmonie, or wind ensemble. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the young virtuoso, and later continued on 14
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PROGRAM NOTES . continued from 13 granted him leave to visit Vienna, where at the age of 16 had likely met and had a few lessons with Mozart. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study with Franz Joseph Haydn, then Germany’s greatest living composer. After a year and a half, Beethoven grew impatient with Haydn’s conservative teaching style, and the two men parted company. For Beethoven this was not a setback, as he had quite a number of friends and opportunities for play, and was already becoming known as one of the greatest piano virtuosos of the day as well as an excellent composer. Nevertheless, about his new pupil, Haydn wrote, “… expert and amateur alike cannot but admit that Beethoven will in time become one of the great musical artists in Europe, and I shall be proud to call myself his teacher.” The Octet was substantially revised in Vienna and completed in 1793, then underwent further revision in 1795 and was published the following year as the String Quintet in E-flat Major. In its original form, it was not published until after Beethoven’s death, and thereby acquired a misleadingly late opus number. The Octet is notable for its high-flying, virtuoso writing for the horns, an instrument for which he had established an early understanding. In the work, the oboe takes the lead in the first three movements, and partners with the bassoon in an operatic duet in the third movement. The ensemble color changes abruptly when in the Finale a virtuoso clarinet is unleashed as the leader of the ensemble. ●
Enrique Crespo
Born October 17, 1941, in Montevideo, Uruguay
Spirit of Brass— Concert Fanfare
Scored for a 10-part brass ensemble. Approximately 2 minutes.
Crespo is a trombonist and arranger and a founding member of the German Brass Quintet in 1974. He studied music and architecture in Montevideo and Buenos Aires, and was principal trombone in the symphony orchestra there, as well as a jazz soloist, arranger, and bandleader. He was awarded a grant to the Berlin College of Music in 1967, graduating with a degree in 1969. In that same year, he became principal trombone with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, then in 1980 became principal trombone with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. At that time, he was mainly occupied with his own compositions, cooperating with the Bavarian 14
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Radio, and setting up a private recording and film studio. In 1985, he doubled the size of the German Brass Quintet and gave it the new name of German Brass. For the new ensemble, Crespo has arranged many works in a variety of styles, including Baroque, Classical, jazz, folk, and popular music from Latin and South America. ●
Johann Sebastian Bach
Born March 21, 1685, in Eisenach, Germany Died July 28, 1750, in Leipzig, Germany
“Air on the G String” This beautiful and familiar work is the second movement of Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3, and in its original form it was scored for strings alone and takes approximately 5 minutes in performance. ●
Jan Koetsier
Born August 14, 1911, in Amsterdam, Netherlands Died April 28, 2006, in Munich, Germany
Symphony for Brass, Op. 80
Scored for 10 brass instruments: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, and tuba. Approximately 5 minutes.
Koetsier studied at the Berlin Music School. From 1942 to 1948, he was director of the famed Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam; from 1949 to 1950, he led the Hague Residentie Orchestra; from 1950 to 1966, he was director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich; and from 1966 to 1976, he led the band conducting course at the Music High School in Munich. He has composed chamber music, as well as orchestral and choral music. In 1992, he endowed the Jan Koetsier Foundation at the High School, whose main responsibility is the organization of the biennial International Jan Koetsier Competition. The Symphony for Brass was commissioned by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, and it was premiered by that group in Regenhsburg, Germany, in February 1980. Since then, it has become a masterpiece of the international brass ensemble repertoire. ●
Giovanni Gabrieli
Born c. 1553/1556 in Venice, Italy Died August of 1612 in Venice
Canzon in echo duodecimi toni à 10, Ch. 180 Canzon septimi toni No. 2 Scored for brass ensemble; each work is approximately 3 minutes.
Gabrieli was an Italian composer and organist, and was one of the most influential musicians of his time, representing the culmination of the Venetian school of composing, at the time of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque idioms. While not much is known about his early life, he probably studied with his uncle, composer Andrea Gabrieli, who was employed at St. Mark’s Basilica from the 1560s until his death in 1585. We know that he went to Munich to study with the renowned Orlando di Lasso until about 1579 and di Lasso was to be one of the principal influences on the development of his musical style. By 1584, he had returned to Venice, where he became principal organist at St. Mark’s, and following his uncle’s death he began editing the older man’s music that would otherwise have been lost. Gabrieli’s career rose higher when he took the additional post of organist at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, another post he retained for the rest of his life. San Rocco was the most prestigious and wealthy of all of the Venetian confraternities (a brotherhood devoted to a specific religious or charitable cause), and was second only to St. Mark’s in the splendor of its musical establishment. St. Mark’s had a long tradition of musical excellence, and Gabrieli’s work there made him one of the most famous composers in all of Europe. Though Gabrieli composed in many of the forms then current, he preferred sacred vocal and instrumental music, and in the latter part of his life concentrated on music that exploited sonority for maximum effect. Among the innovations credited to him were
“… a sublime mixture of wit and melancholy which has no equal.” —Stendahl
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dynamics (loud and soft), specifically notated instrumentation, and massive forces arrayed in multiple, spatially separated groups—an idea that had a great influence on Baroque music and that quickly spread to northern Europe. Like composers before and after him, he would use the unusual layout of St. Mark’s, with its two choir lofts facing each other, to create striking spatial effects. Most of his works were written so that a choir or instrumental ensemble would first be heard on one side, followed by a response from the musicians on the other side. Often there was a third group situated on a stage near the main altar in the center of the church, and the acoustics are such that instruments, properly positioned, could be heard with perfect clarity at distant points. So it was that instrumentation that looked strange on paper—for example, a single string player set against a large group of brass instruments— could be made to sound in perfect balance. The two works on the concert today are but a small portion of the works Gabrieli composed that created a true surroundsound experience, as St. Mark’s was so large that the resonance and reverberation became a part of the composition. ●
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791, in Vienna, Austria
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. Approximately 4 minutes.
We have very little information about the composition of this opera, as none of Mozart’s letters have survived from the months preceding the premiere in Vienna in May 1786. Though seven years older than Mozart, Lorenzo da Ponte had written only three librettos compared with Mozart’s 12 operas. Certainly Mozart played a leading role in their collaboration, and da Ponte was able to understand and satisfy his requirements to a very high degree. We do know that the idea of setting Figaro came from Mozart, and the Beaumarchais play had everything to commend it, not the least being the fact that it had been banned. Figaro stands out, even in Mozart’s output, for having the greatest human warmth and the most natural characters: instead of operatic conventions
and uninspired repetitions, we have something like a stream of consciousness. The writer Stendahl summed up his feelings by writing, “Mozart’s opera is a sublime mixture of wit and melancholy which has no equal.” Although there are no quotes in the sparkling overture from the opera itself, Mozart succeeded in distilling the essence of the opera in just four minutes, and the overture has become one of the most beloved of all operatic curtain raisers. ●
Jonathan Leshnoff
Born September 8, 1973, in New Brunswick, New Jersey
Guitar Concerto
Scored for solo guitar and orchestra. Approximately 20 minutes.
Leshnoff attended Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory concurrently, earning Bachelor’s degrees in music and anthropology. He then went on to receive a Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Music degree from Peabody and the University of Maryland, respectively. His works have been performed by major orchestras worldwide, and while a large percentage of his output is orchestral, he has also composed for many small ensembles and concert band. Leshnoff is currently a professor of music at Towson University in Maryland, where he has been teaching music theory and music history for almost 20 years. The Washington Post has called him “one of the gifted young composers” of this generation, and The New York Times has deemed him “a leader of contemporary American lyricism.” His Guitar Concerto was commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and co-commisioned by the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and the Reno Philharmonic. The composer has called this work “an exploration of worlds, from its mysterious beginnings to its fiery, dance-inspired finale.” He continues, “It’s notoriously difficult to write for the instrument unless you play it.” Nevertheless, he immersed himself in studying the literature, crafting a work that Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero calls “one of the greatest additions to the guitar repertoire.” In addition, he has embarked on a 10-work, multiyear project that parallels the fundamental building blocks of Jewish spiritual thought, outlining the architecture
of the universe and its relationship with God and mankind. Leshnoff composed the Guitar Concerto as a star vehicle for Cuban-born Manuel Barrueco, one of world’s most celebrated classical guitarists, and a long-time faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory. The concerto begins with an arresting idea that appears later in the movement, as well as at the end of the second and third movements. For the beautiful and meditative second movement, the orchestra is reduced to violins, harp, and percussion. The finale, once again with full orchestra, is imbued with a Spanish flavor, playing off one of the guitar’s many cultural associations.
Antonio Vivaldi
Born March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy Died July 28, 1741 in Vienna, Austria
Concerto in D Major, RV 93
Scored for solo guitar and strings. Approximately 9 minutes.
Vivaldi was the most original and influential composer of his generation, and laid the foundation for the mature Baroque concerto. He made great contributions to style, violin technique, and orchestration, and was pioneer in the area of program music. He lived in Venice when it was a major cultural center and when the city featured a number of outstanding musicians and painters who set trends for the rest of Europe. Vivaldi was no exception in this regard, and one of his major contributions was to establish a concerto form that continued into the 19th century. Moreover, his brilliant, innovative, and virtuosic writing for the violin was a product not only of a golden age of violin playing but also his own extraordinary capabilities as a performer. In the first half of the 18th century, three main types of concerto arose, one of which featured a solo violin being given a very predominant part. It was from this form, with influences from the realm of opera, that Vivaldi developed the solo concerto that ultimately led to the concerto as we know it today. Vivaldi was amazingly facile and prolific and wrote no less than 500-plus instrumental concertos, which created an exciting new musical language replete with simple but strong effects, powerful driving rhythms, bold melodic contours, unusual colors, a unique kind of tone-painting, and in the fast movements set new standards for solo virtuosity. His innovations not only influenced the continued on 16
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“… the Emperor was present and goodness!—how delighted he was and how he applauded me!” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
in his greatest works one is clearly in the presence of genius. Vivaldi’s career at the Ospedale in Venice and his strong links with northern Europe seem to have produced a body of instrumental music unique for an Italian composer of his time. No one else in Italy wrote for the chalumeau, the clarinet, the bassoon, the horn, and the viola d’amore, along with more conventional instruments such as the trumpet, the oboe, the lute, and the mandolin. His concertos and trios for plucked instruments such as the lute and mandolin are somewhat problematic as we know very little about why or when they were written. In the case of the lute works we don’t know for sure what type of instrument he intended, as there is no body of comparable Italian music to help us make an educated guess. Vivaldi’s four works for the lute are all written with a mostly single-line part notated in the treble clef. This has much more in common with mandolin music and violin writing than the full textures characteristic of northern European Baroque lute music, and so the parts are commonly played in our time as they were written on either a Renaissance lute or a modern guitar. ●
Mozart
Symphony No. 25 in g minor, K. 183
Scored for 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, and strings. Approximately 24 minutes.
In the 18th century, there was clearly no need to distinguish between different symphonies by the same person to the degree that is common today. The concept that all symphonies should have unique personalities of their own did not become widespread until Beethoven’s time. Until then, most symphonies were enough alike in scope and intent as to be almost interchangeable to their audiences. This situation began to change in the 1770s when Mozart and Haydn, among others, began to write symphonies that were noticeably individualized and different from one
another. The symphony as we know it today had its origin in Italy where it was first used as a three-part opera overture. When Mozart began writing symphonies, he followed this arrangement, and in fact many of his early symphonies bear the subtitle of “Overture.” He wrote more symphonies than anything else in the purely instrumental realm, more than 50 in all, the first being produced when he was just eight. During his time, the symphony broke away from its original use in opera and gained a new and independent life. Mozart wrote most of his symphonies for a specific purpose, and his early efforts in the genre were a fascinating mixture of various styles of the day, written in a way that would please local audiences. The majority of his symphonies were written prior to 1774, with the greatest concentration occurring between 1770 and 1775, when he wrote no less than 36 symphonies, what one scholar referred to as “an attack of symphony fever!” He did not stop writing symphonies after this, however; rather, the demands of his career along with social and musical realities of the day pointed him mainly in the direction of opera and the piano concerto. Mozart’s stylistic development closely paralleled the development of the Classical style as a whole, the main characteristics of which are clarity, balance, and transparency. From his earliest years, he had a remarkable sponge-like gift for imitating music he had heard, all of which was transformed and funneled into his unique and special musical language. In addition, during the last 10 or so years of his life, he also was exploring chromatic harmony to a degree that was almost unparalleled at the time. This early symphony in g minor was written when Mozart was 17 years old and stands out among his works as a good example of how symphonies were becoming individualized. It is moreover one of his first works to show complete artistic maturity and one of only two symphonies he composed in a minor key, the other being the sublime Symphony No. 40, also in g minor. The use of minor keys in symphonies was quite rare in
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the 18th century, but instead of being looked on as a forerunner of the Romantic spirit, this work can better be regarded as part of a sudden outburst of minor-key symphonies that took place in the late 1760s and early 1770s. The great Haydn and other lesser lights produced at this time a number of minor-key symphonies characterized by stormy and even nervous drama, restlessness of spirit, and melodies that tended to jump around rather than follow a normal, smooth path. These were part of the so-called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement, and much has been made of the similarity between Haydn’s Symphony No. 39 in g minor and this Mozart work: They are in the same key and same style, and most unusually, include not the usual two but four horns in the instrumentation, thus extending the harmonic range. There are, however, two unusual features in the Mozart work: first, where he carries over from the first movement into the second movement with a decidedly somber atmosphere by using bassoons instead of the usual flutes; and second, unlike most minor-key symphonies of that time in which the last movement is in a major key, here the last movement is in the minor and carries the Sturm und Drang feeling right to the end. ●
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Symphony No. 35 in D Major, “Haffner,” K. 385 Scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings. Approximately 20 minutes.
When Mozart relocated from Salzburg to Vienna in 1781, he entered into a brandnew phase of his career with a sense of fresh possibilities. The first years of adjusting to life in the imperial capitol were exhausting and somewhat risky, but offered the opportunity to achieve the kind of artistic and personal independence that had been impossible in his native Salzburg. This symphony is a kind of bridge work dating
from his first years in Vienna, while at the same time having ties to his past in Salzburg. The “Haffner” Symphony did not begin its life as a symphony, but rather as a serenade used as background music for the ennoblement of Sigmund Haffner. The Mozarts knew the Haffners through Sigmund’s father, Sigmund Haffner the Elder, who had been mayor of Salzburg. The elder Haffner died in 1772, but the families remained in contact for some years. In 1776, the younger Haffner commissioned a serenade for the wedding of Marie Elizabeth Haffner. This became the famous “Haffner” Serenade---in effect an extended violin concerto---that was so successful that when the younger Sigmund was to be ennobled, it was only natural that Mozart was called on to write the music for the occasion. The request came through Mozart’s father, Leopold, in July of 1782, at a time when Mozart, in his own words, was “up to his eyeballs in work,” but in this instance he had no choice but to compose an entirely new serenade. Nevertheless, Mozart worked on the music, and sent it section by section to his father. This turned out to be a new serenade---a completely different work from the serenade of four years earlier---with an introductory march and two minuets. He later reworked this music into what we now know as the Symphony No. 35. At the end of 1782, Mozart decided to present music from the new serenade at a concert, and after asking his father to send the score of the serenade back again, was astonished at its high quality, given the short time in which it had been composed. So, he set to work making a number of alterations to the score in order to convert the new “Haffner” Serenade into the “Haffner” Symphony. He did this by dropping the introductory march and one of the minuets and in addition, he took out the repeat signs in the first movement’s exposition. He then gave the new symphony a fuller sound by adding two flutes and two clarinets to the first and last movements---an addition that did not include any new melodic material, but was simply a doubling of octaves within the woodwind
“My new ‘Haffner’ Symphony has positively amazed me, for I had forgotten every single note of it.” —Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
section. When it was finished, Mozart wrote to his father, “My new ‘Haffner’ Symphony has positively amazed me, for I had forgotten every single note of it.” The new work received its first performance under Mozart’s direction in March 1783 at Vienna’s famous Burgtheater. Modern audiences will no doubt be amazed at the whole program for that concert: It consisted of the first three movements of this symphony, an aria from Idomeneo, a piano concerto, a concert aria, the concertante movements of another of his recent serenades, the Piano Concerto K. 175 with a new finale, another concert aria, an improvisation by Mozart “because the Emperor was present,” two sets of piano variations, an aria by Paisiello, an aria by Gluck, a new rondo that was sung by the soprano, and then to finish the concert, the last movement of the new symphony! Again writing to his father, Mozart summed up the concert’s success by saying, “… the theater could not have been more crowded: every box was full. But what pleased me the most of all was that the Emperor was present and goodness!—how delighted he was and how he applauded me!”
Edward Elgar
Born June 2, 1857, in Broadheath, England Died February 23, 1934, in Worcester, England
Cello Concerto in e minor, Op. 85
Scored for solo cello, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. Approximately 30 minutes.
For people here in the U.S. with no direct experience of the First World War, it is virtually impossible to comprehend what that “War to End All Wars” was about. Many historians are of the opinion that World War I was the most traumatic event in the history of Western civilization. Certainly, there had been wars, religious conflicts, plagues, earthquakes, and disasters of every kind that regularly tore Europe apart, many of them changing political and geographical boundaries, changing ruling houses, or even significantly altering basic philosophies. However, nothing that had occurred prior to The Great War had so drastically altered the fundamental assumptions about how our civilization functioned. In just the four years between 1914 and 1918, the fearful destructiveness of modern instruments of war became frighteningly apparent, the fragile nature of human life and our continued on 18
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was famous for the sense of dignity, order, and pride in his music, and that in turn was a reflection of the English aristocracy and the whole concept of an orderly and stable civilization. This, however, is a concerto of sadness and disillusionment, that owes a great deal to Dvořák’s great concerto for the instrument, particularly in regard to technical matters. Elgar wanted the cello to dominate the proceedings, and while the orchestra here is sizable, the writing is almost always economical and transparent and never overpowers the soloist. In addition to the psychological and emotional traumas that Elgar was dealing with in the aftermath of the war, his health was also becoming unstable, and so, realizing that her husband needed some place to recapture a sense of solitude and peace, Lady Elgar--who was also having health issues---found a lovely cottage in rural Sussex with a studio in the garden and a surrounding area perfect for taking long walks. In March 1918, Elgar had a septic tonsil removed (a dicey operation for a 61-year-old man), and on the day he left the nursing home he asked for pencil and paper and immediately wrote down the opening theme of the Cello Concerto. The following summer, in the house that was named Brinkwells, Elgar began work in earnest on the concerto. It was sadly to be the last summer that he and his wife spent together. As he recalled, she “… grew mysteriously smaller and more fragile, and seemed to be fading away before one’s very eyes.” The work was finished and delivered to the publisher in early August, and the premiere was scheduled for the opening concert of the London Symphony Orchestra’s 1919/20 season in October 1919 with Elgar conducting. Elgar asked the distinguished English cellist Felix Salmond to be the soloist, and worked with him closely at Brinkwells during that summer. Unfortunately, the premiere was a disaster because the performers were denied adequate rehearsal time. The performance was scheduled so that Elgar would conduct the concerto and the rest of the program
would be led by the orchestra’s Russian-born chief conductor, Albert Coates, noted for being something of an egotistical tyrant. In the rehearsal, Coates went well over his scheduled time, leaving Elgar with very little time to do anything other than simply read through the new work. By the time Coates was finished rehearsing, Elgar--who had been waiting patiently offstage--uncharacteristically lost his temper at this breach of manners. In her diary, Lady Elgar referred to Coates as “… that brutal, selfish, ill-mannered bounder … who went on and on rehearsing.” As might be imagined, the premiere was a shamble and received mostly scathing reviews. The celebrated critic Ernest Newman observed, “The orchestra was often virtually inaudible, and when just audible was merely a muddle. No one seemed to have any idea of what the composer wanted. The sad fact remains that never, in all probability, has so great an orchestra made so lamentable an exhibition of itself.” For the record, Elgar was actually a very fine conductor, particularly of his own music. Elgar put no blame whatsoever on Salmond, and later said that if it had not been for the cellist’s diligent and excellent work in preparing the concerto, he would have removed the work from the concert. In a traditional concerto, the orchestra introduces the work with statements of the first movement’s principal themes, after which the soloist enters and takes it from there. In this concerto, the cello plays right at the outset, placing the listener in the middle of the musical argument from the very beginning. Moreover, the work is cast in four movements instead of the usual three. The first movement is bold and powerful, with two contrasting themes. The whimsical scherzo is like a lovely and fleeting dance, holding three separate themes and with the orchestral accompaniment of the utmost delicacy. The third movement is the heart and soul of the concerto, probing with remarkable intimacy the darker emotions of grief, introspection, and nostalgia. Its construction is quite simple, like a song for the cello accompanied by the string section with just a
“… this requiem is not a cosmic utterance on behalf of mankind, it is wholly personal …” —Michael Kennedy
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few gentle interjections by the winds, but the effect of the movement is deeply touching and even heartbreaking. The finale tries very hard to put a positive conclusion to the work, but once it gets underway there is an intense outpouring of pain and sorrow and regret. The opening music of the concerto is brought back briefly at the end, but there is no reconciliation or relief from the underlying somber mood of the work. It concludes with a powerful outburst from both soloist and orchestra, but one has the feeling that there was a lot left unsaid in Elgar’s heart. In his program note for the premiere of the First Symphony, Elgar described the work (which was popular right from the start and played frequently) as “… a composer’s outlook on life.” In his final years, when asked about the “meaning” of the Cello Concerto, he called it “A man’s attitude to life.” Elgar’s beloved wife passed away in April 1920, and in August of that year the composer wrote, “I am lonely now and do not see music in the old way and cannot believe that I shall complete any new work … sketches I still make but there is no inducement to finish anything … of ambition, I have none …” In his definitive biography of Elgar, the English writer Michael Kennedy summed up this extraordinary concerto in these words: Here is the elegy for an age. The slaughter of war … had grieved Elgar, but this requiem is not a cosmic utterance on behalf of mankind, it is wholly personal … There is no massive hope for the future in this music, only the voice of an aging, embittered man, a valediction to an era and to the powers of music that he knew were dying with him. This is music which our own unsettled age might do well to experience with a receptive heart. ●
Gustav Mahler
Born July 7, 1860, in Kalischt, Bohemia Died May 18, 1911, in Vienna, Austria
Symphony No. 7
Scored for 5 flutes, piccolo, 4 oboes, English horn, 4 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, tenor horn, timpani, percussion, 2 harps, guitar, mandolin, and strings. Approximately 78 minutes.
In 1904, Mahler was enjoying great international success as a conductor, and beginning to enjoy international success as a composer. His second daughter was born that June, and during his customary summer break away from Vienna at Maiernigg in the Carinthian Mountains, he finished his
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“[The first movement depicts] the power of darkness … and night as a stubborn, brutal, and tyrannical force.” —Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6, and sketched the second and fourth movements (the two Night Music movements) for the Symphony No. 7, while mapping out much of the rest of the work. The score was completed in August 1905, and the orchestration was finished the following year. He then laid the score aside in order to make small changes to the orchestration of the Sixth Symphony. The Seventh finally had its premiere in Prague in September 1908 with the Czech Philharmonic at a festival marking the Diamond Jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph. (Actually, as he thought about the premiere, he first considered the New York Symphony, but soon realized this would be crazy in a city and a country that knew so little of his music.) Prague at the time offered a less-than first-rate orchestra, but on the other hand he would have ample rehearsal time and would be surrounded by some of his most worshipful young conductors such as Otto Klemperer and Bruno Walter, all of whom helped him to revise the orchestration and copy parts. The three years that elapsed between the completion of the score and the symphony’s premiere saw dramatic changes in Mahler’s life and career. In March 1907, he resigned as conductor of the Vienna Court Opera, as the Viennese musical community had gradually turned against him, and this was why he chose Prague for the premiere. On July 12, his first daughter had died of scarlet fever, and even as she lay dying, Mahler learned he was suffering from an incurable heart disease. As a composer who made his living as a conductor, Mahler maintained an exhausting concert schedule for nine months of the year. This relentless schedule of performances, plus travel to other cities and countries eventually took a serious toll on his health and creative energies. So it was that, in the summer months, freed from all performing engagements, he retreated to the Austrian countryside where he could devote himself to composition. The five
movements of the Seventh Symphony were conceived separately: the two Night Music movements in the summer of 1904, and the other three in 1905. That summer of 1905 began with the most serious case of writer’s block he had ever known. As Mahler later wrote to his wife Alma: [In that summer] I had intended to complete the Seventh, for which both of the slow movements were done. For two weeks I tortured myself to the point of melancholy, then finally gave up and decided to go home, convinced that the summer would be wasted. I stepped into the boat to take me across the lake, and at the first stroke of the oars, I hit upon the rhythm and style of the introduction to the first movement, and within four weeks the first, third, and fifth movements were done! It was another three years before the premiere took place, and during that time he continually tinkered with the orchestration and other revisions. Even after he began rehearsing the work in Prague, he was still making changes, which caused a lot of stress for both Mahler and the orchestra musicians. When it finally came time to give the work its premiere in September 1908, it was politely but not passionately received, and even among the people who recognized the Seventh as a major orchestral achievement, very few knew what to make of it. The Seventh to this day is the least known and one of the least performed of all of Mahler’s symphonies. Mahler claimed to be wary of providing programs for his symphonies, but he left a lot of hints about this one. The massive first movement, which depicts what he called “the power of darkness … and night as a stubborn, brutal, and tyrannical force,” is followed by three shorter movements, the two entitled Night Music and a central scherzo, which offer different responses to night. The finale, which Mahler himself nicknamed Day, escapes the darkness and pulls into bright C Major. ●
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Jason Altieri conductor Dr. Jason Altieri is the current Music Director of the Atlanta Pops Orchestra and Associate Conductor for the Reno Philharmonic. Dr. Altieri is also a strong advocate for young musicians through his position as Director of Orchestras at the University of Nevada and with guest conducting engagements with youth orchestras all over the United States. In addition, Jason enjoys regular conducting engagements with the Hollywood Concert Orchestra, an ensemble that he has led on several tours throughout the United States, China, and Japan since 2006. His extensive touring has seen him conducting in most of the major performance venues in the United States and Asia, including The People’s Hall in Beijing, China, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan. In addition to his extensive touring, and as a result of his tireless work with young musicians, Dr. Altieri was invited as a guest conductor for the Los Angeles Orchestra Festival held in Walt Disney Hall on June 24, 2011. He also served as the orchestra director for the International Double Reed Society Conference in July 2012. In addition to his orchestral work, Jason is also an accomplished conductor of opera. He was engaged by London’s Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company to lead them on three North American tours. He was also the Associate Music Director for the Ohio Light Opera Company in summer 2006, where he conducted six productions and more than 40 performances during their 29th season. As a result of his work with the OLO, Jason Altieri has released two recordings on Albany Records. In 2002, Dr. Altieri was chosen to study with Valery Vatchev of the National Bulgarian Opera, which led to guest conducting engagements of La traviata, Il trovatore, and Rigoletto in the Czech Republic. 20
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He has also worked on the faculties of the Interlochen Center for the Arts and the Sewanee Summer Music Center. A native of Georgia, Jason Altieri grew up in a musical family with both parents being members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. High school was completed at the Dekalb Center for the Performing Arts and his education continued at the University of Georgia, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in music education. While pursuing advanced degrees in conducting from Michigan State University, Jason not only served as assistant conductor for the orchestra program but was also the conductor of the opera theatre program and was fortunate to have additional studies with Neeme Jarvi of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Gustav Meier of the Peabody Conservatory. Dr. Altieri currently resides in Reno, Nevada. ●
Manzano Day School Chorus/ Jamie Jones director The Manzano Day School Chorus is a nonauditioned group comprised of the entire fourth and fifth grades of the school. Chorus rehearsals are built into the six-day rotation as part of the music curriculum. In addition to chorus, students also have general music classes focused on singing, playing, moving, creating, and reading music. Music has long been valued as an integral part of education at this historic school, which is now in its 72nd year. The chorus performs one concert mid-year and a full musical play each spring. They were the New Mexico Music Education Association’s Honor Choir in 2001. The chorus was privileged to sing for many Holiday Pops concerts with the New Mexico
Symphony Orchestra. As service projects, they have sung for hospitals, senior centers, and Noonday Ministries. Accompanist Amy Woolley teaches music classes for preschool through second grade students at Manzano Day School. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Baylor University, Kindermusic certification, and has studied Orff-Schulwerk at UNLV, the University of St. Thomas, and the Orff Institute. Manzano Day School is an independent prekindergarten through fifth grade elementary school near Old Town in Albuquerque. Manzano moved to its present location in 1942, having previously held classes in the historic Huning Castle. Our La Glorieta, an adobe hacienda, was originally the home of early Spanish settler Don Diego Trujillo. Generations of families have cherished the history and warm atmosphere of Manzano Day School. Students learn core curriculum in innovative ways in small classes. In addition, all students receive instruction in music, art, physical education, Spanish, and technology. Jamie Jones is in her sixth year of teaching at Manzano Day School. Jamie has a diverse background as a classroom and private studio educator, having taught children from preschool through young adults in general music, band, and theatre. With training in Kodály, Orff-Shulwerk, and Gordon pedagogy methods, Jamie strives to stimulate young children’s proficiency in music literacy. An Eastman School of Music graduate, Jones has performed in the Eastman Wind Ensemble and the Eastman Philharmonia Orchestra as an oboist, as well as in the Eastman Women’s Chorus. As early as high school, she was invited as a substitute with the Dallas Wind Symphony. Jamie has additionally performed as a soloist with the Texas Music Educators Association Honor Band, Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, Texas Tech Faculty Orchestra, and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the many years as both a performing artist and an educator of all ages, Jamie has prided herself on helping children embrace music through play-based curriculum, movement, drama, and creativity.
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Eldorado High School Concert Choir/ Colton Hardy director The Eldorado High School Concert Choir is the premier vocal ensemble at Eldorado High School. Comprised of mostly upperclassmen, Concert Choir is an auditioned ensemble that performs choral works in various musical styles and genres. Colton Hardy is a native New Mexican from Carlsbad, NM. He earned his undergraduate degree in music education from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, NM. Colton began his teaching career in Dumas, Texas, before moving to Albuquerque, where he currently serves as the choir director for Eldorado High School. ●
Albuquerque Youth Symphony/ Sayra Siverson director The Albuquerque Youth Symphony provides students with a high-quality music education, instills an emotional connection with
and lifelong passion for music, fosters a diverse community of musicians, and offers outstanding symphonic performance opportunities for students to share their musical gifts with the community. Sayra Siverson is a nationally known conductor and music educator who has spent more than 25 years dedicated to the pursuit of her craft and sharing the joy of musical excellence with young musicians. Ms. Siverson has served as guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for many local and national music festivals and camps, including Northern Arizona University’s Curry Summer Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, ISAS Arts Festival, Grand Opera Theater, Minnesota SEC Honor Orchestra, Albuquerque Philharmonic, and multiple All-State orchestras throughout the United States. Former conductor of the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program’s Youth Orchestra, Junior Orchestra, and Junior Band, Ms. Siverson has been conducting with AYSP since 1998 and currently serves as Artistic Director and conductor of the Youth Symphony. She actively promotes the education and performance of new music by successfully partnering with living composers on commissions and performances of new works, including composers such as Jeremy Hegg, Tim Janis, Mark O’Connor, Miho Sasaki, Michael Schelle, and Dana Wilson. Additionally, Ms. Siverson taught public and private school music for 16 successful years. Ms. Siverson’s youth orchestras have performed at events in concert halls across the United States, including the New Mexico All-State Music Festival, the American String Teachers Association national conference, and the League of American Orchestras “Meet the Composer” program. An advocate of volunteering and collaborating with local organizations, her students have performed alongside the New Mexico Philharmonic, New Mexico Symphonic Chorus, Opera Southwest, and with Hey Mozart! New Mexico. Recently, Augustana University (SD) honored her with the Horizon Award that recognizes alumni who have demonstrated outstanding vocational achievement and have provided faithful service to their community. ●
Roberto Minczuk Music Director In 2017, GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Roberto Minczuk was appointed Music Director of the New Mexico Philharmonic and of the Theatro Municipal Orchestra of São Paulo. He is also Music Director Laureate of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (Canada) and Conductor Emeritus of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro). In Calgary, he recently completed a 10-year tenure as Music Director, becoming the longest-running Music Director in the orchestra’s history. Highlights of Minczuk’s recent seasons include the complete Mahler Symphony Cycle with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Bach’s St. John Passion, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Verdi’s La traviata, Bernstein’s Mass, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier with the Theatro Municipal Orchestra of São Paulo; debuts with the Cincinnati Opera (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and Daejeon Philharmonic in South Korea; and return engagements with the Orchestra National de Lille and the New York City Ballet. In the 2016/17 season, he made return visits to the Israel Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Teatro Colón Philharmonic and Orchestra Estable of Buenos Aires. A protégé and close colleague of the late Kurt Masur, Minczuk debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1998, and by 2002 was Associate Conductor, having worked closely with both Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel. He has since conducted more than 100 orchestras worldwide, including the New York, Los Angeles, Israel, London, Tokyo, Oslo, and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras; continued on 22
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ARTISTS . continued from 21 the London, San Francisco, Dallas, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras; and the National Radio (France), Philadelphia, and Cleveland Orchestras, among many others. In March 2006, he led the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s U.S. tour, winning accolades for his leadership of the orchestra in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Until 2010, Minczuk held the post of Music Director and Artistic Director of the Opera and Orchestra of the Theatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro, and, until 2005, he served as Principal Guest Conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, where he previously held the position of Co-Artistic Director. Other previous posts include Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Ribeirão Preto Symphony, Principal Conductor of the Brasília University Symphony, and a six-year tenure as Artistic Director of the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival. Minczuk’s recording of the complete Bachianas Brasileiras of Hector VillaLobos with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (BIS label) won the Gramophone Award of Excellence in 2012 for best recording of this repertoire. His other recordings include Danzas Brasileiras, which features rare works by Brazilian composers of the 20th century, and the Complete Symphonic Works of Antonio Carlos Jobim, which won a Latin Grammy in 2004 and was nominated for an American Grammy in 2006. His three recordings with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra include Rhapsody in Blue: The Best of George Gershwin and Beethoven Symphonies 1, 3, 5, and 8. Other recordings include works by Ravel, Piazzolla, Martin, and Tomasi with the London Philharmonic (released by Naxos), and four recordings with the Academic Orchestra of the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival, including works by Dvořák, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. Other projects include a 2010 DVD recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, featuring the premiere of Hope: An Oratorio, composed by Jonathan Leshnoff; a 2011 recording with the Odense Symphony of Poul Ruders’s Symphony No. 4, which was featured as a Gramophone Choice in March 2012; and a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Italian Capriccio with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, which accompanied the June 2010 edition of BBC Music Magazine. The Academic Orchestra of the Campos do Jordão Festival was the Carlos Gomes prizewinner for its recording from the
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2005 Festival, which also garnered the TIM Award for best classical album. Roberto Minczuk has received numerous awards, including a 2004 Emmy for the program New York City Ballet—Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100; a 2001 Martin E. Segal Award that recognizes Lincoln Center’s most promising young artists; and several honors in his native country of Brazil, including two best conductor awards from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics and the coveted title of Cultural Personality of the Year. In 2009, he was awarded the Medal Pedro Ernesto, the highest commendation of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and in 2010, he received the Order of the Ipiranga State Government of São Paulo. In 2017, Minczuk received the Medal of Commander of Arts and Culture from the Brazilian government. A child prodigy, Minczuk was a professional musician by the age of 13. He was admitted into the prestigious Juilliard School at 14 and by the age of 16, he had joined the Orchestra Municipal de São Paulo as solo horn. During his Juilliard years, he appeared as soloist with the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts series. Upon his graduation in 1987, he became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at the invitation of Kurt Masur. Returning to Brazil in 1989, he studied conducting with Eleazar de Carvalho and John Neschling. He won several awards as a young horn player, including the Mill Santista Youth Award in 1991 and I Eldorado Music. ●
Jason Vieaux guitar Grammy winner Jason Vieaux, “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is the guitarist that goes
beyond the classical. NPR describes Vieaux as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” Among his extensive discography is the 2015 Grammy Award-winning album for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Play. Vieaux has earned a reputation for putting his expressiveness and virtuosity at the service of a remarkably wide range of music, and his schedule of performing and studio recording commitments is distinguished throughout the U.S. and abroad. His solo recitals have been a feature at every major guitar series in North America and at many of the important guitar festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, and Mexico. Jason Vieaux has performed as concerto soloist with more than 100 orchestras, including Cleveland, Toronto, Houston, Nashville, San Diego, Buffalo, Auckland Philharmonia, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Recent performance highlights include debuts at the Domaine Forget International Festival and the Carmel Bach Festival, as well as performances at the Caramoor Festival as artist-in-residence, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the National Gallery of Art, Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s 92Y, Ravinia Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Curtis Presents, and performances at the Phillips Collection, Buenos Aires’s Teatro Colón, Seoul Arts Center, and Shanghai Concert Hall. In the 2019/2020 season, Vieaux returns to San Francisco Performances for a solo recital in the Herbst Theatre and to the ELLNORA Guitar Festival. He will perform at Wolf Trap with the Escher Quartet, and give concerto performances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, New Mexico Philharmonic, New West Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony, and Kentucky Symphony. He has forged his reputation as a firstrate chamber musician and programmer through performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bard Music Festival, Music@Menlo, San Francisco Performances, Cleveland Chamber Music Society, Strings Music Festival, Grand Teton, and many others. Chamber music collaborators include the Escher Quartet; Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke; violinists Nigel Armstrong, Anne Akiko Meyers, Kristin Lee, and Tessa Lark; acclaimed harpist Yolanda Kondonassis; and accordion/bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro. Vieaux’s passion for new music has fostered premieres of works by Jonathan Leshnoff, Avner Dorman, Dan Visconti,
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which he made a rare repeat performance in 2015 with Yolanda Kondonassis. In 2012, the Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar was launched with ArtistWorks Inc., an unprecedented technological interface that provides oneon-one online study with Vieaux for guitar students around the world. In 2011, he cofounded the guitar department at the Curtis Institute of Music, and in 2015 was invited to inaugurate the guitar program at the Eastern Music Festival. Vieaux has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1997, heading the guitar department since 2001. Vieaux is affiliated with Philadelphia’s Astral Artists. In 1992, he was awarded the prestigious GFA International Guitar Competition First Prize, the event’s youngest winner ever. He is also honored with a Naumburg Foundation top prize, a Cleveland Institute of Music Distinguished Alumni Award, and a Salon di Virtuosi Career Grant. In 1995, Vieaux was an Artistic Ambassador of the U.S. to Southeast Asia. His primary teachers were Jeremy Sparks and John Holmquist. Jason Vieaux is represented by Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd., and plays a 2013 Gernot Wagner guitar with Augustine strings. For more information, visit jasonvieaux.com. ●
Andrei Ioniță cello The Gold Medal winner at the 2015 XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, the phenomenal young cellist Andrei Ioniță was called “one of the most exciting cellists to have emerged for a decade” by the prestigious Times of London. He was a BBC
New Generation Artist from 2016–2018 and is the Symphoniker Hamburg’s artist-inresidence for the 2019/20 season. A versatile musician focused on giving gripping, deeply felt performances, Andrei has been recognized for his passionate musicianship and technical finesse. Andrei made his U.S debut in 2017 with recitals in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and gave his New York debut recital in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Highlights of the previous two seasons have included concertos with the Münchner Philharmoniker (Valeriy Gergiev), Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Kent Nagano), BBC Philharmonic (Omer Meir Wellber and John Storgårds), Danish National Symphony (Christian Kluxen), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Karl-Heinz Steffens), San Diego Symphony (Case Scaglione), Yomiuri Nippon Symphony (Sylvain Cambreling), and BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Ainars Rubikis); he has given recitals at Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie, Zürich Tonhalle, LAC Lugano, and L’Auditori in Barcelona, as well as at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein, Verbier, and Martha Argerich festivals. Forthcoming chamber dates include collaborations with Stephen Hough, Cédric Tiberghien, and Kian Soltani at the Wigmore Hall and Pierre Boulez Saal. Andrei’s debut album on Orchid Classics combined a Brett Dean world premiere with Bach and Kodály, prompting Gramophone to declare him “a cellist of superb skill, musical imagination, and a commitment to music of our time.” Before winning the Tchaikovsky Competition, Andrei won First Prize at the Khachaturian International Competition in June 2013; in September 2014, he won Second Prize and the Special Prize for his interpretation of a commissioned composition at the International ARD Music Competition; and in 2014, he received Second Prize at the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin. Andrei was born in 1994 in Bucharest and began taking piano lessons at the age of five before receiving his first cello lesson three years later. He studied under Ani-Marie Paladi in Bucharest and under Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste Berlin. A scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Andrei performs on a cello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri from Brescia in 1671, generously on loan from the foundation. ●
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Ana María Quintero
Matthew Tutsky
Ana María Quintero was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1993 and began her studies at the age of six with her mother, Clara Muñoz. Ms. Quintero graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree from Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas School of Music, where she studied violin performance and chamber music under the tutelage Maestro Fabio Santana. She holds a Master of Music degree in violin performance from New Mexico State University, where she studied with Professor Simón Gollo. Ms. Quintero was concertmaster and member of the Orquesta Filarmónica Juvenil de Cámara de Bogotá (Philharmonic Youth Chamber Orchestra of Bogotá) between 2013 and 2017. In 2019, she was the winner of the NMSU Philharmonic Concerto Competition and was awarded a full scholarship to the Aruba Symphony Festival, where she studied with Olivier Piguet. Ms. Quintero has been a guest performer with several chamber music ensembles, including Camerata del Sol, La Catrina String Quartet, and the Dallas Chamber Symphony. She is currently a violinist in the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and the New Mexico Philharmonic. In 2018, Ms. Quintero became the Artistic Director for Vox Vallis Women’s Ensemble, a professional chamber music ensemble she cofounded with New Mexican violinist Jessie O’Hara. Ms. Quintero plays on a violin built by French luthier Ghaleb Hassan. ●
Matthew is currently Principal Harpist with New Mexico Philharmonic, Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, and Boise Philharmonic, while also serving first call 2nd Harpist with Oregon Symphony. His performances have been acclaimed at premier concert venues such as Carnegie Hall in NYC and Harpa in Iceland. He has served as Acting Principal Harpist with the Utah Symphony/Utah Opera and permanent guest artist and substitute harpist with Iceland Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony/Utah Opera, Oregon Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Anchorage Symphony. He regularly performs at prestigious summer music festivals including Grand Teton Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, Lakes Area Music Festival, Deer Valley Music Festival, and McCall Summer Musicfest. He has performed with James Taylor, Kristin Chenoweth, Ben Folds, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Johnny Mathis, Emmanuel Pahud, and other leading musical icons. Matthew participated in a premier of John Luther Adams’ “Become Desert” with Seattle Symphony and joined them on tour with this work. He has recorded with Seattle Symphony and Utah Symphony. Matthew holds teaching posts as Adjunct Professor of Harp with The University of Portland and Reed College. As a member of the American Harp Society and Vice-President of the Boise Chapter, he gave honorarium recitals
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with Connecticut Chapter of the American Harp Society and Lyon & Healy West. Matthew has performed concertos with Utah Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Boise Baroque Orchestra, Chamber Music of the Springs, Washington Idaho Symphony, and Nova Chamber Music Series. He received a perfect score for a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts in 2012. Matthew is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard’s Pre College and is tremendously grateful for his mentors, especially Deborah Hoffman, former Principal Harpist of the Metropolitan Opera, and Emily Oppenheimer, former Juilliard Pre College Harp Professor. Matthew is based in Portland, Oregon. ●
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FIRST VIOLIN Krzysztof Zimowski Concertmaster David Felberg Associate Concertmaster Sarah Tasker Assistant Concertmaster Joan Wang Jonathan Armerding Steve Ognacevic Kerri Lay Barbara Rivers Nicolle Maniaci Barbara Scalf Morris SECOND VIOLIN Gabriela Da Silvo Fogo • Carol Swift •• Julanie Lee Anthony Templeton Michael Shu Donna Bacon Lidija Peno Kelly Sheila McLay + Ana María Quintero ++ Heather MacArthur Brad Richards Eric Sewell VIOLA Laura Chang • Kimberly Fredenburgh •• Allegra Askew Christine Rancier Laura Steiner Virginia Lawrence Willy Sucre Joan Hinterbichler Lisa DiCarlo
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Vicki Aamodt David & Elizabeth Adams Wanda Adlesperger Natalie Adolphi & Andrew McDowell Kelly Aldridge Jeffrey Allen Arthur Alpert Jo Anne Altrichter & Robin Tawney Elizabeth Anderson Judith Anderson Oliver Anderson Judy Andrews Anonymous John Arango Shanon Arellano, in memory of Ralph Cover Audio Excellence Austin-Healey Roadrunner Club, in memory of William N. Sullivan Barbara Baca Jackie Baca & Ken Genco Thomas J. & Helen K. Baca Joyce Barefoot Elizabeth Bayne David & Judith Bennahum Debra & Kirk Benton Barry Berkson Dorothy & Melbourne Bernstein Ursula Biggers Denise Bissell Jeff Bjarke Christine Blaser & Constantine Stewart Cliff & Nancy Blaugrund, in memory of Sid Skaar Thomas & Suzanne Blazier Dusty & Gay Blech Blue Sky Properties, Inc Dennis Boesen Henry Botts J.M. Bowers & B.J. Fisher Marilyn Bowman Lydia Boye Sue Bradigan-Trujillo & Theodoro Trujillo Charles Brandt Carolyn Brown James & Elizabeth Brown Allan & Barbara Brumer Elaine Burgess Elizabeth Burki James Carroll Camille Carstens Joseph Cella Thomas Chacon Robert Chamberlin Barbara & Roscoe Champion Kyle Champion, in honor of Barbara & Roscoe Champion J & J Chavez Douglas Cheney Kathy & Lance Chilton
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Barry Clark Dr. Donald Clark James & Joan Cole Randall & Valerie Cole Lloyd Colson III Patrick Conroy Alexis & Hovey Corbin Sierra Corrin John & Mary Covan Henry Daise III Ashlee Dauenhauer Kurt & Yvonne Deshayes Ronald Detry Carol Diggelman Carl & Joanne Donsbach Paula Dorris-Osborn & Larry Osborn Sheila Doucette Martin J. Doviak Matt Doxtator Jana Druxman Jeff & Karen Duray Edward Dzienis Jr. Linda Eaton Reverend Suzanne & Bill Ebel Helene Eckrich Roger C. Entringer Philippa M. Falkner-Schwendimann Darlene Fattorusso Peggy Favour John Fielder Mary Filosi Rona Fisher Rabbi Arthur Flicker Martin & Ursula Frick Neal Gerstein Lawrence Jay Gibel, MD Lois Gonzales Timothy Gonzales Janice K. Goodman Alfred & Patricia Green Erna Sue Greening Charles Gregory Friends of Marian & Larry Greher David Griffith Ginger Grossetete Kirk & Jan Gulledge Charles & Betsy Gunter Fletcher Hahn Karen Halderson Bhanu Joy Harrison Gloria B. Hawk John & Diane Hawley Patricia Henning Robert & Sara Henning Donna Hill Nancy Hill Diane Holdridge Larisa Holiday Kiernan Holliday Bernhard E. Holzapfel, in memory of Barbara Holzapfel Michael Hyde Claudia Isaac, in the name of Teresa Marquez Sandra & Michael Jerome John P. Johnson Nancy Johnson, in memory of Betty Vortman Peggy Jones Robert & Mary Julyan Margaret Keller Kim Kiesow Kate Killebrew William Kirtley Karen Knoll Philip Kolehmainen Katherine Kraus Holly Kraynik Phil Krehbiel Deborah Krichels
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Hareendra & Sanjani Kulasinghe Janice Langdale Michael Langner Daniel Lee Robert Lindeman & Judith Brown Carl & Sheila Litsinger Betty Logan Daniel Lopez & Linda Vigil Lopez Jessica Lopez Betty Louise Lovering Frank Maher Bruce F. Malott Joan March Jim & Helen Marquez Walton & Ruth Marshall Carolyn Martinez Janet Matwiyoff David & Jennifer Mayschak Barb McBee, in memory of William N. Sullivan Peter & Lois McCatharn Fred & Karin McDowell David McGuire David & Barbara Menicucci Kathleen Miller Dr. William Moffatt Robert & Phyllis Moore Claude Morelli & Sharon Nepstad Shirley Morrison & Cornelis Klein Baker H. Morrow & Joann Strathman John Morrow & Harriette Monroe Ted & Mary Morse Karen E. Mosier John & Patsy Mosman Brian Mulrey Don & Evelyn Neil Dick & Sharon Neuman New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League Candace & Frank Norris Richard & Marian Nygren Wendy & Ray Orley Ricardo Ortega Daniel O'Shea Mark Parshall Howard Paul Brian Pendley Oswaldo Pereira & Victoria Hatch Elizabeth Perkett Phil & Maggie Peterson Leslie Porter Helen Priest Shirley Puariea Regina & Daniel Puccetti Therese Quinn Jane Rael Russell & Elizabeth Raskob Robert & Marj Reed Ray Reeder Lilith Ren Carol Renfro Patricia Renken Judith Ribble & Clark Bussey George & Sheila Richmond Matthew Roberts Rochelle Robertson Gwenn Robinson, MD & Dwight Burney III, MD Dawn Rodriguez Lisa D. Romero Kletus & Lois Rood Christopher Rosol Tom Ruddell Nancy Ruggles, in memory of Jean Bridgers Robert & Mary Sabatini Evelyn E. & Gerhard L. Salinger Mary Ann Sampson Scott & Carol Schaffer Roger Schluntz
Travis Scholten Claude M. Senninger Arthur & Colleen M. Sheinberg Ronald & Claudia Short, in memory of Susie Kubie Beverly Simmons Katharine Sisk Norbert F. Siska Carl & Marilyn Smith Maryellen Smith Smith's Community Rewards Karen Smoot Snow-Blossom Gift Fund Lillian Snyder David & Laurel Srite Bill Stanton Jennifer Starr & Eugene Lesser Patricia Steffes Geny Stein Elizabeth C. Stevens Rea & Val Stover, in memory of Jean Bridgers Herb Strasberg Peter & Mary Tannen Herbert & Ingeborg Farny Taylor, in honor of Julie Kavet Nina & Gary Thayer Ruth M. Thelander David Ther Corinne Thevenet, in memory of Dick Kavet Julie Tierney John Tischhauser Thomas Tomczyk Dean Tooley Karen & John Trever J.T. Vaughn John Vittal & Deborah Ham David Wade Marmion Walsh Robert Walston Cynthia & William Warren Dale A. & Jean M. Webster Wendy Weygandt, in memory of John Emerson Dixon Wendy Weygandt, in memory of Joe Zoeckler Carol Whiddon Leslie White Katherine Whitman Robert & Maegaret Whittaker Brahna Wilczynski David Winter & Abagail Stewart Walter Wolf Maria Wood Kari Young Kenneth & Barbara Zaslow Diana Zavitz, in honor of Pat & Ray Harwick Rebecca Zerger Linda R. Zipp Vita Zodin Michael & Anne Zwolinski 11/25/2019
NEW MEXICO PHILHARMONIC FOUNDATION Donors & Trustees Maureen & Stephen Baca, Trustee Edie Beck Mark & Beth Berger Sue Bradigan-Trujillo & Theodore Trujillo Camille Carstens Dennis Chavez Development Corp., Jorge Tristani, President Judith & Thomas Christopher Kathleen & Hugh Church Henry & Ettajane Conant Winnie Devore Tomas & Elizabeth Dodson Eugenia & Charles Eberle, Trustee Rosario Fiallos Lorraine B. Gordon Herman Haase Dal Jensen Robert H. & Mary D. Julyan Thomas & Greta Keleher Marlin E. Kipp Gerald Knorovsky Mary E. Lebeck Douglas Madison Robert A. Malseed Thomas Martin, Trustee, & Cynthia Phillips Donald McQuarie Claude Morelli Mary Ann & James B. Moreno Daniel T. O’Shea Eric P. Parker Jerald Parker Bonnie Renfro Margaret E. Roberts Warren & Rosemary Saur Janet & Michael Sjulin Marian & Jennifer Tanau Ronald T. Taylor Robert Tillotson Dean Tooley Ann & Thomas Wood Mae S. Yee & Eric R. Brock Peter & Ann Ziegler 9/3/2019
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Thank You for Your Generous Support Volunteers, Expertise, Services, & Equipment
WISE GIVING
CITY & COUNTY APPRECIATION
There are many ways to support the New Mexico Philharmonic. We thank our members, donors, volunteers, sponsors, and advertisers for their loyalty and enthusiasm and their help in ensuring the future of symphonic music in New Mexico for years to come.
BUSINESS & ORGANIZATION APPRECIATION
LOOKING TO MAKE SMART DONATIONS? Based on presentations by professional financial advisors, here are some strategies for giving wisely, following recent changes in the tax law. The advisors identified five strategies that make great sense. Here they are in brief:
The New Mexico Philharmonic would like to thank the following people for their support and in-kind donations of volunteer time, expertise, services, product, and equipment. Mayor Tim Keller & the City of Albuquerque Trudy Jones & the Albuquerque City Council Maggie Hart Stebbins & the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners Dr. Shelle Sanchez & the Albuquerque Cultural Services Department Hakim Bellamy & the Albuquerque Cultural Services Department Mayling Armijo & the Bernalillo Economic Development & Cultural Services Amanda Colburn & the Bernalillo County Special Projects The Cognitive Behavioral Institute of Albuquerque St. John’s United Methodist Church
INDIVIDUAL APPRECIATION Lee Blaugrund & Tanager Properties Management Billy Brown Anne Eisfeller Chris Kershner
Jim Key Jackie McGehee Brad Richards Emily Steinbach Brent Stevens
NMPHIL GUILD VOLUNTEERS Thank you for all your help and dedication. Bill Albert Ona Albert Stephen Baca Sue Baker Lucia Bartovic Michael Beerman Cassandra Campanozzi Chad Chappelle Mackie Cox Stephanie Coxe Dianne Cress Jackie Ericksen Joe Fasanella Helen Feinberg Maricel Fiegler Paul Fornell Yolanda Garcia Louise Gibson Debbie Hammack Janet Heindel Lisa Jackson June Jefford Juliet Jones Sybil Keyser Patricia Lake Juliana Martinez Mercedes Martinez Joe McDonnel
Susan McGuire Anne McKinney, NMPhil Guild Chair, guild@nmphil.org Edward Naimark Geri Newton Christine Paul Sheryl Peak Chris Polansky Nancy PressleyNaimark Sonja Pulvino Billie Pyzel Elizabeth Robertson Amber Duginske Rohl Beverly Russell Flora Sanchez Cynthia Seyb Sharon Sharp Jan Strand Valari Taylor Eva Venczel Sherri Wells Diane Werner Bronwyn Willis 12/2/2019
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GIVE CASH Whether you itemize deductions or not, it still works well. GIVE APPRECIATED ASSETS This helps you avoid capital gains taxes, will give you a potentially more significant deduction if you itemize, and can reduce concentrated positions in a single company. BUNCH GIVING Give double your normal amount every other year to maximize deductions. QUALIFIED CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTION/ REQUIRED MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION If you are required to take an IRA distribution, don’t need the cash, and don’t want the increased taxes, have the distribution sent directly to a qualified charity. HIGH-INCOME YEARS If you are going to have high-income years (for any number of reasons), accelerate your deductions, avoid capital gains, and spread out gifts through a Donor-Advised Fund. BE PROACTIVE! Consult your own financial advisor to help you implement any of these. Please consider applying one or more of these strategies for your extra giving to the NMPhil. PLAN A WISE GIVING STRATEGY
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The concerts of the New Mexico Philharmonic are supported in part by the City of Albuquerque Department of Cultural Services, the Bernalillo County, and the Albuquerque Community Foundation.
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