KLEIN COMPETITION WINNERS

MAY 12 & 13, 2023

San Mateo Performing Arts Center Heritage Theatre, Campbell

WELCOME FROM PSO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM

PROGRAM NOTES

MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

FEATURED ARTISTS

PENINSULA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - MAY 2023

ADOPT-A-MUSICIAN

SUPPORTERS

BOARD, STAFF & VOLUNTEERS

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PENINSULA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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Dear Friends,

Welcome to the season finale performance of Peninsula Symphony’s 74th Season! It’s been an exciting year with terrific guest artists from across the nation, but we are especially glad to have YOU with us as we’ve resumed in person concerts for a second full season. The end of a season is always cause for a bit of reflection, and thankfully, I’m happy to report that the ‘back in the concert hall’ goose bumps accompanied by concert-night butterflies are still present for me and if I can speak for all of us at PSO, I believe the same is true for everyone who makes a concert happen – whether that be our musicians, board, staff, or volunteers. I hope the thrill of returning to a live symphonic experience is still exciting for you, too, as a member of our cherished audience.

The best part? That feeling doesn’t have to end tonight! We hope you will join us for our monumental 75th Season; sign-ups are already under way. The capstone performers in October 2023 and May 2024 will both be pianists – Lara Downes and Jon Kimura Parker. Ms. Downes presents a program bringing to light hallmarks of under-represented composer Florence Price and also Scott Joplin; Mr. Parker returns to the PSO stage with Grieg in a season finale presentation including the very first piece Peninsula Symphony ever performed, Sibelius’ Finlandia. Mid-season, family members of all ages will enjoy film music in January and music of the Americas along with the latest Klein competition winner next March. Keeping with Peninsula Symphony’s motto “Neighborhood Musicians. Extraordinary Music.”, our hearts and halls will be full of exuberant, memorable, and thrilling experiences next year, and we sincerely hope you will join in on the celebration with us.

For more information on this exciting lineup and to order season tickets, please visit https://peninsulasymphony.org or sign up with a member of staff tonight.

Lastly, I’d like to extend gratitude to all of those who support us in every way – whether you buy tickets, donate your time or resources to further our mission, or bring friends and family to an upcoming event. Your involvement is critical to sustaining who we are and what we do right here on the Peninsula, so that we may look forward to another 75 years of goose bumps.

Warmly,

Chelsea Chambers

PSO Executive Director

Klein Competition Winners

May 12, 2023 / San Mateo Performing Arts Center

May 13, 2023 / Heritage Theatre, Campbell

Mitchell Sardou Klein, Music Director & Conductor

Nathaniel Berman, Resident Conductor

Gabrielle Després, Violin

James Baik, Cello

Ethel Smyth, The Wreckers Overture

Nathaniel Berman, conducting

Johannes Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Vivace non troppo

Gabrielle Després, Violin

James Baik, Cello

- Intermission -

Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Promenade

The Gnome

Promenade

The Old Castle

Promenade

Tuileries

Bydlo

Promenade

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle

Limoges: The Market Place

Catacombs

With the Dead in a Dead Language

The Hut on Hen’s Legs (Baba Yaga)

The Great Gate of Kyiv

THESE CONCERTS ARE GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY Mary Gundelach in memory of Charles M. Gundelach