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SFCM B AROQUE ENSEMBLE Corey Jamason and Elisabeth Reed directors Baroque Opera Handel: Atalanta Handel’s charming, pastoral opera Atalanta will be presented in a concert version by the Baroque Ensemble. March 11 and 12 Baroque Concerto Competition Winners Baroque Ensemble Concerto Competition Winners are presented as well as Telemann’s joyful celebration of folk music in his Ouverture des nations anciens et modernes, known as Les Nations. April 15 Historical Performance & Opera Program Collaboration Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (fully-staged production) April 28 and 30
FACULTY RECITAL Baroque Chamber Music Elizabeth Blumenstock baroque violin Elisabeth Reed baroque cello Corey Jamason harpsichord with Tekla Cunningham ’01 baroque violin March 2
MASTER CLASSES Sponsored by American Bach Soloists Tekla Cunningham ’01 baroque violin February 6 Steven Lehning violone March 13 Jeffrey Thomas conductor April 10
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This program is presented with gracious leadership support from David Low & Dominique Lahaussois, Mark Perry & Melanie Peña, and The Waverley Fund as well as...
WHAT’S INSIDE
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Message from the Board President and Interim Executive Director
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Board of Directors and Staff
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About the Music Director
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About the Orchestra
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About the Chorale
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HAYDN & MOZART Pre-concert Talk Preview
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Haydn & Mozart Program
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About Elizabeth Blumenstock
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Nic’s Picks
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The Players and Their Instruments
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Haydn & Mozart Program Notes
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Donor Acknowledgements 26 In Conversation with
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Gifts to the Annual Fund
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FROM the PRESIDENT and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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elcome back to everyone for a New Year of concerts here at Philharmonia. We are proud to be presenting three more concerts this season, and we’re happy to have you join us. At the same time we’re busy putting together another exciting season for 2017-18. We look forward to sharing details of that season with you later this spring. We are glad to have been able to provide newly printed concert tickets to our subscribers to the two Berkeley concert series. These new tickets will make it much easier for patrons to locate their seats at our new venues at Berkeley’s First Presbyterian Church and the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church. We thank those subscribers for their patience this past fall while we made arrangements for these new concert locations. I want to remind everyone that our final concert this season in April 2017 will be held in collaboration with Cal Performances at another location, Zellerbach Hall, on the campus of UC Berkeley. We are excited to be presenting the modern premiere of the original version of Rameau’s Le temple de la gloire. We’ll have further information about those concerts in April. This month we are delighted to showcase one of our musicians, Elizabeth Blumenstock, performing one of Mozart’s early violin concertos in concerts led by our Music Director, Nicholas McGegan. Elizabeth has been familiar to our audiences for many years, and we are looking forward to featuring her as a soloist this month. Mozart wrote this concerto while still living with his parents and older sister at their home in Salzburg, before his move to Vienna. Listen for the “Turkish” episode in the final movement. The concert will be rounded out by one of Haydn’s later symphonies along with another symphony by a lesser-known composer, Adalbert Gyrowetz. Gyrowetz, a contemporary of Mozart’s, and acquainted with both Mozart and Haydn, lived long into the 19th century, but continued to write music in the style of Haydn. We hope you’ll enjoy comparing the symphonies by these two composers, similar in many ways but different in so many others. As always we welcome your comments and feedback. Please feel free to introduce yourself to any of our Board members or staff and let us know what you have liked. I look forward to seeing you at upcoming events.
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elcome to this evening’s performance. I hope your holidays were both happy and restful. Here at Philharmonia, we have begun serious preparations for April’s performances of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s late opera Le temple de la gloire, to be performed in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque Versailles and presented by Cal Performances at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. Maestro McGegan began rehearsals with the vocal soloists earlier this month in Paris; Costume Designer Marie Anne Chiment is working with tailors and seamstresses preparing costumes; the New York Baroque Dance Company is getting ready for its trip to the Bay Area; the Stage Director and Choreographer Director Catherine Turocy and Production Manager have been meeting with Philharmonia staff and Set Designer Scott Blake and Lighting Designer Pierre Dupouey, as well as the stage and technical crews at Zellerbach; a special project videographer, Christina Kellogg, has been hired; and Audio Engineer David Bowles is making preparations for the audio recordings, which will be released internationally as Philharmonia Baroque Productions tenth compact disc later in 2017. In short: it’s an exciting time at PBO. If you have not done so, please plan to join with friends and attend one of the performances. Although Nic and the members of the Orchestra have performed operas in the past, this will be the first fully-staged production in our history. The production will be supported by generous donors including The Waverley Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bernard Osher Foundation, and Philharmonia Vice President and Board member David Low and his wife Dominique Lahaussois, who issued a major challenge grant to the Board of Directors that was in turn very generously answered. With a budget over $1 million, Le temple de la gloire will be the largest single project in our history, and your support is most welcome.
Parker E. Monroe
Ross Armstrong
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS and STAFF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STAFF
Officers Ross Armstrong, President Kay Sprinkel Grace, Vice President David Low, Vice President Mark Perry, Vice President David Gross, Secretary Donna Williams, Treasurer
Artistic Nicholas McGegan, Music Director The Waverley Fund Conductor’s Podium Bruce Lamott, Chorale Director Robert and Laura Cory Chorale Director
Members Adam Arthur Bier Parker E. Monroe, ex-officio Martin Cohn Marie Bertillion Collins Nicolas Elsishans Al Garren* Charlotte Gaylord Peter Hibbard Steven John Brian Kincaid Martine Kraus Carlene Laughlin William Lokke Michael Marmor Fred Matteson Nicholas McGegan, ex-officio Rebecca Moyle Sondra Schlesinger Jason Snyder Paul Sugarman Douglas Tanner
Administrative Parker E. Monroe, Interim Executive Director David Challinor, Subscription & Patron Services Manager Myles K. Glancy, Director of Concert Production Lisa Grodin, Director of Education Naren Larson, Box Office Analyst & IT Manager Noelle R. Moss, Director of Development Murrey E. Nelson, Director of Leadership Gifts Jeffrey D. Phillips, Artistic Administrator Dianne Provenzano, Director of Marketing & Public Relations Arturo Rodriguez, Patron Services and Education Coordinator Heli Roiha, Bookkeeper Andrea Sáenz, Development & Events Manager William Skeen, Orchestra Librarian Paul Swatek, Director of Finance
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Concert Production David v.R. Bowles (Swineshead Productions), Audio Engineer Paolo Brooks, Stage Manager E. J. Chavez, Stage Equipment Coordinator Gabrielle Lochard, House Manager Thomas Malone, Keyboard Technician Phaedra Strecher, Program Book Designer Frank Wing, Concert Photographer
Past Board Presidents Paul Sugarman (2008-2012) Martin Cohn (2005-2008) Nancy Kivelson (2002-2005) Fred Matteson (2000-2002) Christine Pallatto (1999-2000) Sherry Bartolucci (1997-1999) Grace Hoagland (1995-1997) Richard D. Maltzman (1993-1995) Dexter B. Dawes (1991-1993) Ann W. Vander Ende (1989-1991) Marie Bertillion Collins (1988-1989) Henry Mayer (1984-1988) Peter Strykers, MD (1982-1984)
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Nicholas McGegan Waverley Fund Music Director
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s he embarks on his fourth decade on the podium, Nicholas McGegan — long hailed as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (The Independent) and “an expert in 18th-century style” (The New Yorker) — is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. Last season marked his 30th year as music director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, and he is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Pasadena Symphony. Best known as a baroque and classical specialist, McGegan’s approach — intelligent, infused with joy and never dogmatic — has led to appearances with many of the world’s major orchestras. At home in opera houses, McGegan shone new light on close to twenty Handel operas as the Artistic Director and conductor at the Göttingen Handel Festival for 20 years (1991-2001) and the Mozart canon as Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. His 2016/17 appearances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic (his 20th anniversary at the Hollywood Bowl); two programs with Pasadena Symphony; Baltimore, St. Louis, and Toronto Symphonies; Calgary Philharmonic; Handel and Haydn Society; Aspen Music Festival; and the Cleveland Orchestra/Blossom Music Festival. Highlights of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale’s season under McGegan include a fully-staged production of Rameau’s Le temple de la gloire, Handel’s oratorio Joshua, and programs with guest soloists Robert Levin (fortepiano) and Isabelle Faust (violin). In addition, McGegan and PBO revive Scarlatti’s La Gloria di Primavera at Tanglewood and appear at Yale’s Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. This fall at Harvard, McGegan will
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serve a residency as the Christoph Wolff Distinguished Visiting Scholar. He also conducts the all-Mozart semi-final round of the 2017 Van Cliburn Piano Competition. Overseas, McGegan appears with Cappella Savaria at the Esterhazay Palace in Fertod, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. McGegan’s prodigious discography features nine releases on Philharmonia Baroque’s label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions (PBP) including the 2011 GRAMMY® Awardnominated recording of Haydn Symphonies nos. 88, 101, and 104. Their latest release features the first-ever recording of the newly rediscovered 300-year-old work La Gloria di Primavera by Alessandro Scarlatti, recorded live at the U.S. premiere. McGegan has also recorded extensively with Capella Savaria, most recently releasing albums of Haydn and Joseph Martin Kraus. English-born Nicholas McGegan was educated at Cambridge and Oxford. He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to music overseas.” Most recently, McGegan was invited to join the board of Early Music America. Other awards include the Halle Handel Prize; the Order of Merit of the State of Lower Saxony (Germany); the Medal of Honour of the City of Göttingen, and a declaration of Nicholas McGegan Day, by the Mayor of San Francisco, in recognition of his work with Philharmonia Baroque. In 2013, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Visit Nicholas McGegan on the web at www.nicholasmcgegan.com.
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“Music Director Nicholas McGegan carried it all off splendidly, with rhythmic command and plenty of high-contrast effects. The orchestra, chorus, and vocalists all seemed keenly attuned to the task…” —Steven Winn, San Francisco Classical Voice
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nder the musical direction of Nicholas McGegan for over 30 years, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) is recognized as America’s leading historicallyinformed ensemble. Using authentic instruments and stylistic conventions of the Baroque to early-Romantic periods, the Orchestra engages audiences through performance, tours, recordings, commissions, and education of the highest standard. Founded in the Bay Area 35 years ago, the ensemble is the largest of its kind in the United States. PBO’s musicians are among the best in the country and serve on the faculties of Juilliard and Harvard, among others. The Orchestra performs an annual subscription season in four venues throughout the Bay Area and has its own professional chorus, the Philharmonia Chorale. It welcomes eminent guest artists such as mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, countertenor David Daniels, mezzo-soprano Anne-Sofie von Otter, fortepianist Emanuel Ax, and maestro Richard Egarr. The Orchestra enjoys numerous collaborations, including a regular partnership with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and appears regularly at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Tanglewood, Weill Hall at the Green Music Center, and Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University. Among the most recorded orchestras in the world, PBO boasts a discography of 40 recordings and launched its own label on which it has released nine recordings, including a coveted archival performance of mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson singing Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, and received a GRAMMY® nomination for a recording of Haydn
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symphonies. The Orchestra recently released its modern North American premiere of Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Gloria di Primavera to coincide with its May 2016 tour. PBO commissioned its first work, a one-act opera, To Hell and Back, by acclaimed composer Jake Heggie, in 2006. A second commissioned work, Red, Red Rose by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, had its world premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall in May 2016. In 2014, the Orchestra launched a new alternative concert series – SESSIONS – aimed at new audiences that has become a regular sell-out in the Bay Area and will now become part of PBO’s touring schedule. Philharmonia’s upcoming 2016-17 season includes a range of programs that showcase the Orchestra’s versatility, including the return of renowned keyboardist Robert Levin and violinist Rachel Podger; Handel’s epic masterpiece, Joshua; and PBO’s first-ever fullystaged opera, Rameau’s The Temple of Glory, in collaboration with Cal Performances, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the New York Baroque Dance Company. The Orchestra can also be heard regularly on the Bay Area’s Classical KDFC. PBO maintains a suite of highly-regarded education programs, including its In-School Programs and Student Concerts. These are complemented by the well-received Mobile Mentors program that focuses on ensemble coaching, and Master Classes at universities, and our new partnership with the Juilliard School focused on training emerging talent. Nearly 4,000 children and adults each year benefit from PBO’s education programs.
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ABOUT BRUCE LAMOTT and the CHORALE
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hilharmonia Chorale has been an integral part of the organization since 1995 and is now recognized by our new name — Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. This welcome change will be seen throughout the season and into the future. Bruce Lamott has been Director of the Philharmonia Chorale since 1997 and also serves as Philharmonia’s Scholar-in-Residence. He first performed with the Orchestra in 1989 as continuo harpsichordist for Handel’s Giustino. In his 30-year tenure with the Carmel Bach Festival, he served as a harpsichordist, lecturer, choral director, and conductor of the Mission Candlelight Concerts. As the founding director of the Sacramento Symphony Chorus, he conducted annual choral concerts of major symphonic choral works and prepared the Symphony Chorus for their subscription season. Lamott received a bachelor’s degree from Lewis and Clark College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford. His teaching career began on the musicology faculty at UC Davis, where he directed the Early Music Ensemble. He recently retired from San Francisco University High School, where he has directed the choir and orchestra and taught Western Civilization for 36 years. As a professor of music history at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music since 2001, Dr. Lamott specializes in the vocal and instrumental repertoire of the 18th century. He teaches continuo-playing for the coach-accompanists in the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program and lectures for the Opera and Opera Guild’s education programs.
Critically acclaimed for its brilliant sound, robust energy and sensitive delivery of the text, the Philharmonia Chorale was formed to provide a vocal complement whose fluency in the stylistic language of the Baroque period matched that of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Bruce Lamott Founded in 1991 by John Butt, a Baroque keyboardist and one of the world’s leading Bach scholars, the 24 members of the Chorale are professional singers with distinguished solo and ensemble experience. Chorale members appear regularly with organizations such as the San Francisco Symphony, Carmel Bach Festival, and American Bach Soloists, and are guest soloists with most of the area’s symphonic and choral organizations. They appear in roles with regional opera companies and have been members and founders of some of the country’s premiere vocal ensembles, including Chanticleer, the Dale Warland Singers, and Theatre of Voices. In its first decade, the Chorale’s repertoire included nine Handel oratorios, Bach’s St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio, and Mozart’s C Minor Mass. The Chorale has appeared with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, at New York City’s Lincoln Center, and at Segerstrom Concert Hall in Orange Country. The Chorale appears on the Orchestra’s recordings of Arne’s Alfred, Scarlatti’s Cecilian Vespers, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
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The New Esterházy Quartet Lisa Weiss & Kati Kyme, violins; Anthony Martin, viola; William Skeen, cello
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Haydn & Mozart with Elizabeth Blumenstock GYROWETZ Symphony Op. 6, No. 3 MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 “Turkish” HAYDN Symphony No. 91
PRELUDES
PRE-CONCERT TALKS Join us forty-five minutes prior to your concert for a lively and informative discussion about the concert.
HAYDN & MOZART JOHN PRESCOTT John Prescott holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from U.C. Berkeley. Dr. Prescott has written extensively on the music of Handel and has taught music courses at U.C. Berkeley and music theory at Crowden School in Berkeley. He was the musicologist for the San Francisco Elderhostel Arts and Humanities Program. He is a regularly featured scholar at Philharmonia.
THE TALK:
Engaging lecturer John Prescott examines the often interweaving styles of Mozart, Haydn, and their littleknown contemporary Adalbert Gyrowetz. Learn how each artist borrowed stylistic elements from one another, and how Haydn’s symphonic form became the exemplar of the Classical period.
Wednesday, January 25, 6:45 pm Bing Concert Hall, Stanford Friday, January 27, 7:15 pm Herbst Theatre, San Francisco Saturday, January 28, 7:15 pm First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley Sunday, January 29, 3:15 pm Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, Lafayette
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HAYDN & MOZART Nicholas McGegan, conductor Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
PROGRAM Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763-1850) Symphony in F major, Op. 6, No. 3 Allegro Andante Minuetto: Allegretto Finale [Rondo]: Allegro vivace Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 “Turkish” Allegro aperto Adagio Rondeau – Tempo di minuetto Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin INTERMISSION Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Symphony No. 91 in E-flat major Largo – Allegro assai Andante Minuet Vivace
Wednesday, January 25, 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 28, 8:00 PM
Friday, January 27, 8:00 PM
Sunday, January 29, 4:00 PM
Bing Concert Hall, Stanford
Herbst Theatre, San Francisco
First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley
Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, Lafayette
These performances are made possible in part by generous support from:
Mrs. Jonathan B. Gifford – January 25 The Grace and Laurance Hoagland Fund – January 25 Nicolas Elsishans & Christopher Hayes – January 27 Norman T. Larson – January 27 Paul & Susan Sugarman – January 29 Length of performance is approximately one hour and forty-five minutes. Latecomers will be seated during suitable intervals in the program. The use of cameras or recording devices of any kind is strictly prohibited. Please turn off your digital alarm, cellular telephone or pager before the performance begins.
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FEATURED ARTIST ELIZABETH BLUMENSTOCK VIOLIN
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lizabeth Blumenstock is widely admired as a performer of interpretive eloquence and technical sparkle. A frequent soloist, concertmaster, and leader with American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, and the Italian ensemble Il Complesso Barocco, she is also a member of several of California’s finest period instrument ensembles, including Musica Pacifica, Ensemble Mirable, the Arcadian Academy, and Trio Galanterie. She has appeared with period orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and abroad, and has performed for the Boston and Berkeley Early Music Festivals, Germany’s Goettingen Handelfestspiel, Los Angeles Opera, the Carmel Bach Festival, the Oulunsalo Soi festival in Finland, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, among many others. Ms. Blumenstock has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin Classics, Dorian, BMG, Reference Recordings, Koch International, and Sono Luminus. She is instructor of baroque violin at the University of Southern California, teaches regularly at the International Baroque
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Institute at Longy, has taught at the Austrian Baroque Academy, and has coached university Baroque ensembles at USC, Roosevelt University, the University of Virginia, and California Institute of the Arts.
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NIC’S PICKS CDS/RECORDINGS Contemporaries of Mozart Series — Gyrowetz: Symphonies* Matthias Bamhert, conductor London Mozart Players One of the very few collections of Gyrowetz symphonies that exist. This CD just happens to include the very symphony we’re performing for you today.
In the Haydn Catalogue, compiled by Anthony van Hoboken, there are four original violin concertos, but only three of them have survived. These were composed by Haydn in his early years, during the first decade of his employment by the Esterházy family. Mozart: 3 Violin Concertos (includes “Turkish”) Andrew Manze, violin The English Concert “Conspiratorial rapport between soloist and orchestra have never been bettered.” — Gramophone
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra — Haydn Symphonies*
DVDS In Search of Mozart* In Search of Haydn*
Nicholas McGegan, conductor Philharmonia has recorded two fabulous discs of Haydn Symphonies, one of which was awarded a GRAMMY nomination for Best Orchestral Performance. Each include three of Haydn’s many symphonies, of which there are over 100. We may have more Haydn recordings to offer in the near future, so treat your ears with these Philharmonia Baroque Production favorites in the meantime! Joseph Haydn: Violin Concertos* Nicholas McGegan, conductor Zsolt Kallo, violin Capella Savaria
Directed by Phil Grabsky Part of an excellent series of films by Phil Grabsky, the great British documentary film-maker. A delightful and intelligent introduction to these composers in every way. (2 DVDs) * Available for purchase in the lobby at the PBO Boutique
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THE PLAYERS and THEIR INSTRUMENTS JANUARY 2017 Philharmonia’s musicians perform on historically accurate instruments. Below each player’s name is information about his or her instrument’s maker and origin.
VIOLIN
VIOLA
Katherine Kyme, concertmaster Johann Gottlob Pfretzschner, Mittenwald, Germany, 1791 Egon & Joan von Kaschnitz Concertmaster Chair
Lisa Grodin *
Elizabeth Blumenstock
Andrea Guarneri, Cremona, 1660; on loan from Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Period Instrument Trust Susan B. Levy Chair
Jolianne von Einem
Rowland Ross, Guilford, England, 1979; after A. Stradivari
Tyler Lewis
Anonymous, Italy, c. 1800
Carla Moore
Johann Georg Thir, Vienna, Austria, 1754
Maxine Nemerovski
David Tecchler, Italy, 1733
Linda Quan
Jacob Stainer, Absam, Tyrol, 1655
Sandra Schwarz
Johannes Cuypers, The Hague, 1789
David Sego
Colin Nicholls, London, 1980; after Amati
Mathias Eberl (attrib.), Salzburg, Austria, 1680
David Daniel Bowes
Richard Duke, London, England, c. 1780
Maria Ionia Caswell
Anonymous, Mittenwald, Germany, c. 1800
Ellie Nishi
Aegidius Klotz, Mittenwald, Germany, 1790
VIOLONCELLO Tanya Tomkins *
Joseph Panormo, London, England, 1811
Paul Hale
Joseph Grubaugh & Sigrun Seifert, Petaluma, California, 1988; after A. Stradivari Osher Cello Chair Endowment
Robert Howard
Anonymous, Venice, Italy, 1750 Zheng Cao Memorial Chair
William Skeen
Giovanni Grancino, Milan, Italy, 1725
Noah Strick † Celia Bridges, Cologne, Germany, 1988
DOUBLE BASS
Lisa Weiss
Kristin Zoernig *
Gabrielle Wunsch
Tim Spears
Anonymous, London, England; after Testore Lorenzo Carcassi, Florence, Italy; 1765
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Joseph Wrent, Rotterdam, Holland, 1648
Anonymous, Germany
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THE PLAYERS and THEIR INSTRUMENTS JANUARY 2017
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BASSOON
Janet See
Andrew Schwartz * Guntram Wolf, Kronach, Germany, 2007; after Grenser
R. Tutz, Innsbruck, Austria, 1989; after H. Grenser, c. 1790
Stephanie Corwin
Guntram Wolf, Kronach, Germany, 2009; after Grenser
OBOE Gonzalo Ruiz * H. A. Vas Dias, Decatur, Georgia, 1988; after C. A. Grenser, Dresden, Germany, c. 1780 Principal Oboe Chair In Memory of Clare Frieman Kivelson and Irene Valente Angstadt Marc Schachman
Sand Dalton, Lopez Island, Washington, 1993; after Floth, c. 1800
HORN R. J. Kelley * M. A. Raoux, Paris, France, 1850 Paul Avril
Richard Seraphinoff, Bloomington, Indiana, 1998; after A. Halari, Paris, 1825
* Principal †Principal 2nd Violin
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GYROWETZ, MOZART, HAYDN BRUCE LAMOTT
fluency in German, Czech, Italian, French, and English coupled with a congenial and modest personality won him friendships with a “Who’s Who?” of noted musicians. Mozart performed one of his symphonies in a subscription concert in Vienna; nine-year-old Chopin made his debut playing one of his piano concertos in Warsaw. The longest tenure of Gyrowetz’s career was as Second Kapellmeister of the Court Theatre in Vienna from 1804 to 1831, where his contract required him to create one opera and one ballet annually.
Adalbert Gyrowetz
Gyrowetz: Symphony in F major, Op. 6 No. 3
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dalbert Gyrowetz (or in his native Czech, Vojtěch Jírovec) was born in the year when seven-year-old Mozart was entertaining the courts of Europe (1763), and died in the year when Wagner’s Lohengrin premiered (1850). Protégé of Mozart, promoter of Haydn, pallbearer for Beethoven, acquaintance of Chopin, and chosen orator of the Mozart commemoration of 1841, he was a veritable Zelig of music history. His misfortune was outliving his musical style: his prolific oeuvre of 40 symphonies, 50 string quartets, 30 operas, 40 ballets, and 19 masses drifted into obscurity even in his own lifetime. Born in Budweis, Bohemia, Gyrowetz gravitated to Vienna when he was eighteen years old and there entered the circle of Mozart, Haydn, Dittersdorf, and Beethoven’s teacher Albrechtsberger. He made musical connections with leading composers and nobility in Naples, Rome, Paris, and London, and his
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His F Major Symphony was one of six modeled on Joseph Haydn, written in 1783 when he was twenty. The symphonies were commissioned by Count Franz von Fünfkirchen who, in addition to promoting his musical career, employed him as his secretary in Brno, Moravia. The young composer’s assimilation of the elder composer’s style was so convincing that an English publisher later passed off one of his symphonies under the name of Haydn. And, having settled in London after fleeing the French Revolution, Gyrowetz introduced Haydn to English society, who in turn introduced him to English audiences by including one of his symphonies in the famous Salomon Concerts in Hanover Square. Scored for two oboes, bassoon, two horns, and strings, tonight’s symphony opens with a breezy waltz. The distribution of orchestral forces is typical of the early Classical Era, with the melody concentrated in the first violins, the violas doubling the cello and bass an octave higher, and the sustained winds filling out the harmonies. The development section of this sonata form has a few Haydn-esque surprises: startling key changes, a few descents into minor Sturm und Drang (storm and stress), and Haydn’s signature grand pauses. The cadence theme includes a chirpy Lombard rhythm (short-long, aka “Scottish snap”), and the serene ending jolts to attention with the final two chords. The Andante second movement, in D minor, is bolder and more profound. An emphatic unison statement alternates with a harmonically unstable subsequent phrase. Interspersed with a cantabile [singing] melody, staccato triplets and turbulence create a rising scene of almost
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PROGRAM NOTES operatic intensity. The jaunty Minuet indulges in some rhythmically disrupting hemiolas [the displacement of accents from 1 2 3 | 1 2 3 to 1 2 1 | 2 1 2] reinforced by the woodwinds and basses. A grand pause follows after eight measures, as if to recalibrate the meter and put the accents back in order. The Trio features the oboe doubling the first violins in a tune so simple that we could sing along on the repeat. This guileless quality continues into the Rondo finale, where paired horns and a sustained drone in the bass add a bucolic element with the sounds of the hunt and the drone of the shepherd’s bagpipe. The comic timing of Haydn is invoked once more with dead-end pauses articulating the sections of the rondo form. As late as 1846, Gyrowetz wore a wig to hear Jenny Lind in concert. His musical fashion was similarly out of date as the tempests of Romanticism swept away his elegant Classical style. He would outlive Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Forgotten and no longer performed, he wrote his autobiography saying, “What a peculiar feeling it is to remain alive and yet realize that one is already spiritually dead.”
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 (“Turkish”)
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lthough Mozart wrote twenty piano concertos throughout his life, his five concertos for solo violin and orchestra were all written in his early career in his birthplace of Salzburg, a prince-bishopric of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by prince-archbishops who employed Wolfgang’s father Leopold as a violinist in their court orchestra. The “Turkish” concerto was written in 1777, with the 21-yearold composer’s clever wit evident throughout. The opening theme begins quite unremarkably with a “Mannheim rocket” arpeggio rising out of shimmering strings. Convention then dictates that the solo violin should either announce itself with a flourish or by restating the opening theme. But in this concerto the soloist enters with a plaintive adagio riff only vaguely reminiscent of the theme to the accompaniment of undulating violins in the style of Mozart’s operatic breezes. It sounds as if they are playing the wrong movement! However, order is soon restored, the soloist capitulates
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a soloistic version of the orchestra’s original rocket theme, and the movement proceeds appropriately. Murmuring undulations similar to those heard in the opening Adagio accompany the cantabile melody of the second movement. The accompaniment also underscores the melodic line with the rhetorical figure called suspirans [breathing] in which the melody is broken into gentle two-note offbeat sighs alternating with the steady pulse of the bass line. [Ms. Blumenstock has chosen to play cadenzas in these performances that were composed by Maestro McGegan.] The courtly minuet had been the signature dance of European nobility since the reign of the French King Louis XIV (1647-1715), but although it is standard issue as the penultimate movement in a four-movement Classical symphony, it is unusual in a concerto finale. Mozart is setting us up with this archetypical minuet, with its sighing “feminine cadences” [a term from less gendersensitive times for phrases ending on weak beats], and delicate grace-notes. The wispy A major ending in 3/4 time is jolted into an “exotic” Allegro in A minor, first with an episode in the improvisatory style of Gypsy violinists, then with
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PROGRAM NOTES a harmonically static, percussive march (in 2/4) with strongly accented downbeats. Absent the Turkish percussion instruments of bass drum, cymbals, and triangle, the cellos and basses play col legno [with the wood], beating out the accents with the wood of their bows. This Turkish-Hungarian episode [D] is framed by the minuet [A] in the overall form of the rondo: A-BA-C-A |D |A-B-A, but it is so disproportionately long and discrete that the return to the minuet gives the overall impression of hearing a minuetand-trio rather than a mere episode in a rondo. The nickname “Turkish” for this concerto comes from this brash interruption of an otherwise genteel minuet. By the time Mozart composed this concerto, nearly a century had passed since Ottoman Turks besieged the city of Vienna in 1683, and “turkism” had become a fashion statement, not a mortal threat. Recent scholarship suggests that this alla turca concerto might just as well be described as alla ongarese [Hungarian-Gypsy], as the two styles are often indistinguishable. Bence Szabolcsi identifies the source of the Viennese alla turca style in a wedding dance, the törkörös, danced by Hungarian villagers dressed in pseudo-Turkish costumes to musical parodies of Turkish melodies. Rather than imitating the elite Janissary bands of the Ottoman military as previously thought, Mozart may likely have been writing a parody of a parody.
Haydn: Symphony No. 91 in E-flat Major
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t is hard to imagine that Haydn’s congenial Symphony No. 91 was first performed in the Salle des Gardes of the Tuileries Palace just months before the Revolution forced King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children to leave Versailles and take up residence there under house arrest in October 1789. Though Haydn was still in service to the noble Esterházy family in Vienna, his reputation had become international. A handsome young military officer, ClaudeFrançois-Marie Rigolet, comte d’Ogny, had previously commissioned seven symphonies from Haydn (Nos. 82-89) on behalf of the Concerts de la Loge Olympique in Paris, and asked for three more (Nos. 90-92) in 1788-89. The 65-piece orchestra of this elite Masonic society was larger than Haydn’s own orchestra at Esterháza (and Philharmonia, for that matter), and included some
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of France’s best musicians as well as talented amateurs. As an almanac from 1786 notes, “The meetings [of the Loge] strike one by their éclat and brilliance. They are remarkable above all for the tone of grandeur, decency, and politeness that reigns there.” While decency and politeness certainly characterize Symphony No. 91, it runs a little short on grandeur, for although they were available to him in the Loge’s orchestra, it is the last of Haydn’s 104 symphonies without trumpets and timpani. The symphony germinates from the simplest of musical materials: the interval of a third (do-mi, or any three adjacent white notes on the piano, for example). These thirds can be stacked atop one another, as heard in the introductory Largo, or filled in with the two or three chromatic notes in between them, creating the smooth rising or falling chromatic lines which follow after the brief prelude. The opening of the Allegro assai is a demonstration of “contrary motion” in two parts: the violins rise by half-steps while the violas, cellos, and basses descend, widening the gap between them. Then the parts switch places (called “invertible counterpoint”) drawing the two lines back together again in
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PROGRAM NOTES two concise, symmetrical phrases. This Jacob’s ladder of rising and falling chromatic lines continues throughout the movement, relieved at times by a staccato clockwork of unison lines and the flurry of triplets that end each section. French court dances went international during the eighteenth century, and Haydn’s Parisian audience would have recognized a gavotte, with its two short upbeats, in the theme of the second movement, Andante. The cleanly divided symmetrical phrases further enhance the dancelike quality of the melody, which becomes the theme for a brief set of variations. A sudden momentary disruption of the key adds irony to the theme, which ends with Haydn’s penchant for juxtaposing the softest phrase (pianissimo) with the loudest (fortissimo). A bassoon solo carries the first variation, accompanied by a filigree of violins and a hint of imitation in the bass line. Though the second variation is in minor, it lacks pathos and ends with a delicate trio for flute and the two violin sections. The blustering final variation pits the simple theme against vigorous activity in the cellos and basses. Most surprising is the whimsical
skipping passage in the violins (reminiscent of Dvorak’s “Humoresque”) before the movement evaporates. The Minuet is a sturdy affair, with violins leaping in chords (triple stops) alternating with cascading triplets. The trio is an Austrian Ländler, a rustic precursor to the waltz, with plucked strings (pizzicato) providing the “oom-pahs” while the bassoon doubles the naïve violin melody. The vivacious Finale is “decency and politeness” itself, a memorable tune with a minimum of interference or complexity. Haydn gets a lot of mileage out of the six notes of the first phrase, crafting a whole development section out of the interplay of the two-note idea that ends it. Though he gives the opening phrase some imitative (contrapuntal) treatment, he never loses the ebullience of the movement in contrapuntal complexity. The ominous rumblings of the French Revolution and the imminent disgrace of Haydn’s onetime Austrian princess now become Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, are nowhere to be found in this charming work, written for a threatened elite society.
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WinterGala
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new music for old instruments
with Dominique Labelle Friday, March 10, 2017 6:30pm – midnight St. Regis Hotel 125 Third Street, San Francisco, CA This year’s gala will showcase PBO’s latest initiative “New Music for Old Instruments” and honor acclaimed soprano Dominique Labelle for her extraordinary artistic contributions. PBO Music Director Nic McGegan will lead members of the Orchestra and Ms. Labelle who will perform the world premiere of a piece by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw.
the evening also includes:
• Silent auction showcasing one-of-a-kind items • •
and cocktail reception An exquisite three-course dinner and student musician performance A premium Scotch tasting following dinner
All funds raised help bring PBO’s unique brand of music to concert halls and classrooms in San Francisco, Berkeley, Stanford and points beyond.
to purchase tickets or for more information:
Please visit www.philharmonia.org/annual-gala or contact Andrea Sáenz at asaenz@philharmonia.org or (415) 252-1288 ext 300
Philharmonia is proud to raise a glass in honor of
Official Wine Sponsor for the 2016-17 season
CAMPAIGN for the 21st CENTURY DONORS
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale gratefully acknowledges the lead contributors listed below whose extraordinary and generous commitments will pave the way for a strong and innovative future.
$1,000,000+ The Waverley Fund Nicholas McGegan Conductor’s Podium $500,000—$999,999 Anonymous (1) Ross Armstrong, Ross E. Armstrong Baroque Vocal Works Fund $250,000—$499,999 Zheng Cao Memorial Cello Chair Dr. Al Garren, Dr. Al Garren Violin Chair $100,000—$249,999 Kay Sprinkel Grace, Education & Innovation Circle David Low & Dominique Lahaussois, Touring Circle Drs. Jane & Michael Marmor, Michael F. and Jane B. Marmor Principal Clarinet Chair Elizabeth Anderson Mayer Chris McCrum & Elizabeth Velarde, Chorale Circle Mark Perry & Melanie Peña/Bill & Lee Perry, Education & Innovation Circle Susan & Paul Sugarman Family Philanthropic Fund, Guest Artists Circle Egon & Joan von Kaschnitz, Egon and Joan von Kaschnitz Concertmaster Chair $50,000—$99,999 Linda Brewer Kathleen & Martin Cohn, Touring Circle Nicolas Elsishans & Christopher Hayes Kate & David Gross Mrs. Jonathan B. Gifford Norman T. Larson Roy Levin & Jan Thomson Carol & Doug Tanner, Touring Circle $25,000—$49,999 Quincy Bragg & Sarah Fitzgerald The Estate of Donald E. Casey The Estate of Philip J. Eisenberg Susan LeRoy & Michael Stewart Fred Matteson & Anne Davidson Barr Sondra & Milton Schlesinger Linda & Paul Swatek Donna M. Williams, Touring Circle
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$10,000—$24,999 Bonnie & Jim Bell Carol & Peter Berkenkotter Elizabeth, Kay & Mike Buckley Marie Bertillion Collins & Leonard Collins The Gray Family Foundation Nancy & Richard Heath The Grace and Laurance Hoagland Fund Margaret & Edmond Kavounas, Recording & Media Circle Kit & Hayne Leland William Lokke Betty & Jack Schafer William Quackenbush The Estate of Shirley Sarvis $5,000—$9,999 The Rev’d Richard Fabian Charlotte Gaylord & Barrie Cowan Lynn Gotchall Brian M. Kincaid & Elizabeth C. Theil Carlene Laughlin Ellen & Barry Levine Katherine & Bridger Mitchell Janet & Bill Nicholls Judith & Stuart Offer Mary & David Phillips Ellen & Mike Turbow Chris Mele-Wagner Wendy and Mason Willrich Gifts recognized above represent commitments in excess of $5,000 to the Campaign for the 21st Century from August 1, 2010 through September 30, 2015.
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BUILDING PHILHARMONIA’S FUTURE ENDOWED FUNDS AND NAMED CHAIRS
Contributing to the Endowment Fund or naming a chair creates a legacy that will preserve the unique sound of Philharmonia for generations to come. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale gratefully recognizes the following named chairs and donors to the endowment.
NAMED CHAIRS The Waverley Fund Conductor’s Podium* Egon & Joan von Kaschnitz Concertmaster Chair*
Michael F. and Jane B. Marmor Principal Clarinet Chair*
Zheng Cao Memorial Cello Chair
Clare Frieman Kivelson and Irene Valente Angstadt Memorial Principal Oboe Chair Susan B. Levy Violin Chair
Osher Cello Chair Endowment*
THE PHILHARMONIA CHORALE ENDOWMENT FUND* Anonymous ENDOWMENT SUPPORTERS Susan & Paul Sugarman* Donna Williams* * Denotes endowed chairs or funds, or donors to the general endowment, with commitments through the Campaign for the 21st Century.
LIFETIME BENEFACTORS Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale thanks the following visionary supporters whose cumulative giving to the Orchestra totals $100,000 or more. Anonymous (2)
Christine & Kenneth Hecht
Elizabeth Anderson Mayer
Ross Armstrong
The Grace & Laurence Hoagland Fund
Chris McCrumb & Elizabeth Velarde
Marie & Palmer Hotz
Gladyne K. Mitchell
The Kivelstadt Family Trust
Holbrook T. Mitchell
Norman T. Larson
Mary Perry & Melanie Peña
Kit & Hayne Leland
Maxine Rosston
Laura & Robert Cory
John B. Levy
Sondra & Milton Schlesinger
Al Garren
The Estate of Susan B. Levy, in honor of Fred Sondheimer
Jane & Jack Stuppin
Nicholas Bez Kathleen & Martin Cohn Richard Colburn Marie Bertillion Collins & Leonard Collins
Mona Geller Mrs. Jonathan B. Gifford Joan & John Goddard, The Goddard Foundation Kay Sprinkel Grace Kate & David Gross
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David Low & Dominique Lahaussois The Marmor Foundation, Drs. Michael and Jane Marmor Frederick Matteson & Anne Davidson Barr
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Susan & Paul Sugarman Linda & Paul Swatek Carol & Douglas Tanner Egon & Joan von Kaschnitz The Waverley Fund
BUILDING PHILHARMONIA’S FUTURE LAURETTE GOLDBERG SOCIETY
The Laurette Goldberg Society, named after the founder of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, honors those individuals who have named the Orchestra in their estate plans. Anonymous (3) Ross Armstrong Corey & Tim Benjamin The Robert A. Birman Executive Director Chair Norman Bookstein & Gillian Kuehner Don Buhman Linda Brewer William Bush David Challinor Kathleen & Martin Cohn
Marie Bertillion Collins & Leonard Collins Steven A. R. Edwards Nicolas Elsishans & Christopher Hayes Kay Sprinkel Grace Margaret Hegg Steve John & Jason Snyder Kathy & Bill Korbholz George Kovatch & Robert Wiskozil Norman T. Larson
Clifford Leventhal William Lokke Barbara & Nigel Renton Maxine & James Risley Adrienne & Ted Savetnick Sondra & Milton Schlesinger Barbara Silverberg Frances C. Strauss Linda & Paul Swatek Ann W. Vander Ende Claudine Torfs Theodore Weber
Philharmonia would also like to recognize the following estate gifts that have supported our work: The Estate of Donald E. Casey
The Estate of Mrs. A. P. Morse
The Estate of Marie Mendenhall Cleasby
The Estate of Maxine Rosston
The Phillip M. Eisenberg Trust
The Estate of Shirley Sarvis
The Estate of Eva & James Goodwin
The Estate of Carol Seitz
The Estate of Marie Kieraldo
The Estate of Michael J. Weller
The Estate of Susan B. Levy
Leave a Legacy to PBO Planning for the future is vital, not only for individuals but for organizations like PBO as well. Turn your passion for the Orchestra into a lasting legacy and help us make the future as bright as the present by naming PBO in your estate plans. Estate gifts make it possible for PBO to: • enhance our regular season programming • introduce PBO to new audiences nationally and internationally, and • take necessary artistic risks. Legacy giving is easy to set up and can even benefit you during your lifetime. Help us today to ensure that the art of historically informed performance is available for many, many years to come. For more information on making a legacy gift to PBO, please visit www.philharmonia.org/ legacy-giving. To be included in the Laurette Goldberg Society if you’ve already named Philharmonia in your estate plan or for help doing so, please contact Noelle R. Moss, Director of Development, at (415) 252-1288 ext 314 or nmoss@philharmonia.org. PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA & CHORALE
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ALL BEETHOVEN
FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIA RECEPTION
Keyboard Virtuosity and Arts Partnership Marks Beginning of PBO’s Season
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hilharmonia launched its 2016-17 season with an incredible concert featuring keyboard virtuoso Robert Levin in an All Beethoven program. October 2016 also marked the second year of PBO’s partnership with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism. It was wonderful to hear Washington Post critic Anne Midgette’s pre-concert talk about the Streicher family of piano makers on October 21. Immediately following the October 21 concert, a post-concert reception for Friends of Philharmonia members at the Arcangeli level and above, as well as special guests from the Rubin Institute and KDFC, was held in the Thomas E. Horn Bar & Lounge downstairs. Lavish charcuterie and dessert nibbles greeted hungry patrons when they arrived. Attendees were joined by guest artist Robert Levin, Nic McGegan, and members of the Orchestra. Together, the group lifted a glass of celebration in honor of an incredible arts partnership and the beginning of PBO’s 2016-17 season.
Guest Artist Robert Levin, KDFC President Bill Lueth and guests
Nic McGegan and Gladyne Mitchell
Fred Sondheimer and Richard & Paula Kulp
PBO Cellist Phoebe Carrai and Hiram Simon
Michael Sack and Kathy Cohn
Philharmonia donor events are designed to enhance the concert-going experience and bring the audience closer to the music. From exclusive access to rehearsals to intimate private concerts, membership in Friends of Philharmonia definitely has its benefits. For more information, contact Noelle R. Moss, Director of Development, at 415-252-1288 ext 314 or nmoss@philharmonia.org. Philharmonia gratefully acknowledges the event’s co-sponsors: Classical KDFC and The Rubin Institute for Musical Criticism
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GIFTS TO THE ANNUAL FUND Philharmonia expresses its warmest thanks to those individuals, foundations, corporations and government agencies whose loyal support of the Annual Fund makes possible our extensive artistic and educational programs. Thank you for providing the Orchestra with the resources to bring its music to concert halls, classrooms and communities throughout the Bay Area and beyond. We are very grateful to the following donors whose gifts were received between September 1, 2015 and November 30, 2016.
up to $4,999
CORPORATE, FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT GRANTS
$100,000 & above
California Community Foundation Jewish Communal Fund Morgan Stanley GIFT Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$75,000 - $99,999
CORPORATE PARTNERS
Bloomberg Philanthropies Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation The Wallis Foundation
Bailard, Inc. Bell Investment Advisors
$25,000 - $74,999
Bailard, Inc. Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation The Bernard Osher Foundation
$10,000 - $24,999
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund Bell Investment Advisors Gaia Fund National Endowment for the Arts Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
$5,000 - $9,999
The Bob Ross Foundation E. Nakamichi Foundation Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay The San Francisco Foundation The Wells Fargo Foundation
MATCHING GIFTS
Adobe Systems Incorporated Chevron Humankind Matching Gift Program IBM Corporation Oracle Corporation
GIFTS IN KIND
Norman Bookstein Classic Malts DLA Piper Ebby St. Pierre Graphic Design Goodby, Silverstein & Partners KDFC Nancy Mims, Deliberate Whispers Panoramic Interests RJ Muna Photography St. Regis Hotel WineWise, Hiram Simon & Brian Greenwood
We gratefully acknowledge the support we receive from:
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WITH GRATITUDE CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($50,000+)
ARCANGELI ($5,500 - $9,999)
Anonymous (1)
Anonymous (1)
Ross E. Armstrong
Carol & Peter Berkenkotter▲
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Gladyne K. Mitchell✢
The Estate of Maxine Rosston♦ The Waverley Fund✢
Martin & Kathleen Cohn✢
Dominique Lahaussois & David Low
Kay Sprinkel Grace✢ Martine Kraus
Mark Perry & Melanie Peña
The Marmor Foundation; Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor♦ Frederick Matteson & Anne Davidson Barr♦
The Grace & Laurance Hoagland Fund✢
The Estate of Marie Kieraldo✢ Norman T. Larson▲
David Morandi✢
Claudine Torfs♦
Donna Williams
Kate & David Gross
Brian M. Kincaid & Elizabeth C. Theil✢
Charles Crane♦
Elizabeth, Kay & Mike Buckley▲ Annelle Clute✢
Sondra & Milton Schlesinger
♦
Corinne Cooley Derringer♦ The Rev’d Richard Fabian▲
Marta Falicov✢
♦ - 10+ YEARS
Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Chretien Catherine & D. Michael Enfield♦
Olga Conrad♦
Maxine Risley▲
Don & Joan Beerline♦
Kyra & Ken Carson♦
Corey & Tim Benjamin♦
Nicholas McGegan & David Bowles♦
Nancy & Clayton Bavor♦
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Mary & Roger Ashley✢
Elizabeth Anderson Mayer▲
Darla & Richard Bastoni♦
William Bush✢
Anonymous (3)
Eric Leve
Troy Barbee
Donald Buhman & Wray Humphrey
AMATI ($3,000 - $5,499)
Marie & Palmer Hotz▲
Paul Wilson▲
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The TL Trust✢
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Linda & Paul Swatek▲
Ari & Kristin Baron♦
Carol & Douglas Tanner♦
John & Joan Goddard, The Goddard Foundation▲
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Anonymous (1)
Paul and Susan Sugarman Family Philanthropic Fund♦
Nicolas Elsishans & Christopher Hayes
Howard Schachman♦
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Bonnie & Jim Bell
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COGNOSCENTI ($1,500 - $2,999)
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GUARNERI ($10,000 - $14,999)
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Kathryn & Donley Parmentier✢
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William Lokke✢
Nancy & Richard Heath♦
Charlotte Gaylord & Barrie Cowan♦
Didier LeGall
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Mrs. Jonathan B. Gifford✢
Al Garren✢
Margaret & Edmond Kavounas♦
Paola & Richard Kulp✢
CHRISTOFORI ($15,000 - $24,999)
Jean-Marc Frailong & Richard Halton♦ Lynn Gotchall♦
Marie Bertillion Collins & Leonard Collins▲
The Goodman Family Supporting Foundation of The Jewish Community Foundation of the East Bay♦
STRADIVARI ($25,000 - $44,999)
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Sarah FitzGerald & Quincy Bragg♦
The Estate of James Goodwin✢ Joyce & Douglas Hamilton✢
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WITH GRATITUDE Margaret Hegg♦
Susanne Hering & John Phillips♦
CAMERATA ($650 - $1,499)
Maureen & David Kennedy♦
Ian Hinchliffe & Marjorie Shapiro✢
Anonymous (2)
Steve John & Jason Snyder
Marguerite & Marc Kaufman♦
Robert & Elaine Allen Family Foundation
Alice & Richard Kulka
Kendall & Claire Allphin
Adair & William Langston▲
R. Tyler Andersen & Diane Green✢
Ellen & Barry Levine♦
Barbara Barkovich✢
Walter Augusta & Robert Levy Memorial Fund♦
Janet & Chris Bensick▲
C.R. Gus Manning & Rena Kirkpatrick✢
Patricia Bradley▲
Sheila & Michael Lagios▲ Laura Leff
Christine & Jerry Baker✢
Angela Little▲
Mrs. Mary Baxter✢
Harvey Lynch
Joan Mansour
Rod McChesney
Willinda & Peter McCrea✢
Barbara & Thomas Metcalf♦ Mary Anne Miller & James Suekama✢ Tom Lee✢
Grace M. Parr
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Phillip Phythian & Ann Hardham✢ Adrienne & Theodore Savetnick♦
Reed & Barbara Schmidt✢ Ross Smith♦
Sylvia J. Spengler✢
Jonathan Stebbins & Jessica Donovan✢
Barbara & Gregory Tanaka✢ Muriel Waller♦
Mr. Theodore Weber, Jr.✢ Melanie & Ron Wilensky
Wendy & Mason Willrich✢ Elinor & Bruce Wilner✢
Jane & Warren Zuckert♦
Stephen Bischoff✢
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Barbara Koepsell♦ Bob Larson♦
Maribelle & Stephen Leavitt♦ Kit & Hayne Leland✢ Hollis Lenderking♦
Claire & Herbert Lindenberger✢ Carol Lokke✢
Martha & Arthur Luehrmann♦ Josephine Maxon♦ Hugh McLean✢
Richard Meiss & Peter Rudy✢ Theo & Lisa Melas-Kyriazi Helen & John Meyer
Neanna & Allan Miles✢
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John Drago♦
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William Quackenbush♦
Janet & Joseph Grodin✢
William & Ray Riess✢
Georgia Heid & Mary Belle O’Brien✢
Michael Sack✢
The Ruth Crosby Fund♦
Ellie Nishi♦
Paul Feder & Freye Anderson✢
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WITH GRATITUDE Jo Ann Stewart & Judy Nelson✢
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Ms. Mary H. Hardy
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Alan Harper & Carol Baird
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Joseph & Donna Terdiman✢
Lava Thomas & Peter Danzig♦ Robert Thompson
Ellen & Mike Turbow
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Jake Heggie
Jane Coulter♦
Margaret Heineman
L. William Countryman♦
Joan & David Hollinger
Peter Crabtree & Barbara Ann Beno✢
Dr. David L. White & Martha Truett✢
Robert Cronin▲
Cathe & Gavin Wright✢
Dorothy Dayton
Arlene & David Holloway✢ Leila & David Javitch
Peter & Jayne Davis
Andrea Julian✢
Lloyd Day
John & Marilyn Whitcher
Chrystal & James Kafka✢
Emily Kenyon & David Lipsky
Diane de Forest♦
Beverly Zellick▲
Sheila Keppel✢
Jacqueline Desoer
($350 - $649)
Robert Kidd & Joan Story
Jeanette & Peter Dunckel✢
Anonymous (2)
Li-Hsia Wang & Henry Abrons Household Frank Adams & Susan Bryan▲
Carol Cosman & Robert Alter♦ Paul Anderson
Gina Earle & Thomas Schmidt♦ Steven A.R. Edwards✢
Phyllis Koch
Bette & Bob Epstein
Iris and Hal Korol
Mary & Jurgen Exner♦
Barbara Kosnar & Tom Goldman
Danine & James Langdell✢
Jonathan Arons & Claire Max♦
David Favrot & Kathi Brown-Favrot
Zachary Baker♦
Jennifer Finger & Scott Bucey
Mary Austin
Marcia & Richard Baugh✢
Janice & William Belmont✢ Lise Perlman & Peter J. Benvenutti
Connie & John Buchanan✢
Patricia & Richard Campbell✢ Dorothy & William Clemens✢
Sheri & George Clyde✢
Suzanne & Stanley Mantell✢ Beverly & Fritz Maytag✢ Bruce McCoy♦
The Stephen and Margaret Gill Family Foundation
Kathleen McGreevy✢ Richard McKee
Jeanne & Tom Gnuse
Margaret McKinnon✢
Bernice Greene✢
Steven Menzel✢
Andrew Griffin
Julius Moshinsky & Suzanne Renne▲
Dr. Anna Gonosova♦
Mr. John McKnight✢
Ms. Dorothy D. Gregor
Robert Mison
BK Moran & Charles Haas
Dorothy & Rolf Muller♦
Forrest Hainline ♦ - 10+ YEARS
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Joan & Roger Mann Sally Marshall
Douglas Giancoli♦
Sheila Botein & David Oakes, M.D.♦
Carol & Hal Louchheim✢ Francis Lundy♦
Betty Gerard✢
Fraser Bonnell
Adelheid & Mark Levi✢
Carolyn & David Lougee✢
Dr. Harvey and Deana Freedman✢
Shirley & William George✢
Linda Blum
Patricia Clemo & Robert Cooley✢
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Foote✢
Jici Gao
Christel Bieri♦
Dr. Bruce & Susan Carter✢
Clifford Leventhal
Mary Ellen Fine✢
Jeanne & Frederick Gabali✢
Helen Berggruen♦
Dr. & Mrs. Kiraly♦
Susan Klee & David Stoloff✢
Sylvia & Paul Emery✢
Janet Farbstein♦
Shirley Armitano
Nancy Hunt Kiesling♦
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✢ - 20+ YEARS
Alice Nadler♦
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▲ - 30+ YEARS
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WITH GRATITUDE Laurie Nash
Pam & Jim Robson♦
Jennifer Trainor♦
Joan Norton✢
Paul J. Schmidt
Loekie & Johan Van Proosdij♦
Victor Ninov
James Rytuba
Mark Schoenrock & Claudia Fenelon
Peter Pastreich & Jamie Whittington Marion Peleo Robin Perry
Sandra and George Petty
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Bernard Peuto
Naomi & David Pockell♦ Nelson & Linda Polsby
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Helen & Dan Quinn✢
Nancy Chappell Roberts✢ Kenneth Robin
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Scott Robinson✢
Anne Warner & Charlotte Centeno
Allene Sieling
Ann & Thomas Watrous✢
Louise Shalit✢
Donna & Gerald Silverberg Laurie Sizemore
Linda & Fred Sondheimer
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Rosemary & Claude Stoller✢ Sarah & Stephen Taber✢
John Tibbetts & Barbara Bernstein♦ Ruth and Alan Tobey, Tobey Fund♦
Dr. Alan Bradley
Ida Jean Newton
Harold Dorell
Ethel L. Schachman
Robert Fink, M.D. William Forkin Ann Kadyk
Katharine McLean Barbara Morgan
Maura FitzGerald & Tom Walsh▲
Michael & Susan Schwartz✢
Philharmonia is honored to recognize those gifts made in memory of the following individuals:
Caroline Cox
Elizabeth Waller
Sara & John Schram✢
Kirk Patterson♦
Barbara Rauhala
Carl Van Os✢
Marian and Shunji Nishi Jay Stern
Peter Strykers
Egon von Kaschnitz
Bill & Judy Botsford Warren✢ Ben & Beth Wegbreit♦ Evelyn Wegienka♦ Randy White Mary Wilson
Sarah Young♦
Suzanne & Michael Ziegler♦ John Zimmermann & Diana Graham✢
Philharmonia is pleased to recognize those gifts made in honor of the following individuals: David Challinor Lisa Grodin
Nicholas McGegan Fred Sondheimer
Don Watson
Mary E. Wilson
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BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP The benefits of becoming a supporting member of the PBO community are many. Besides the satisfaction of knowing you are supporting a great organization, your donation entitles you to a host of perks including recognition, gifts, special invitations, discounts and more. See the list below for donor levels and associated benefits.
CAMERATA $75 to $149
AMATI $3,000 to $5,499 (all of the above, plus)
• Advanced single ticket purchases to PBO’s regular concert season
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• Invitation for two to attend an Open Rehearsal
$150 to $349 (all of the above, plus)
Invitation to Philharmonia’s exclusive Amati Concert (formerly known as the Conductor’s Concert) including supper, private concert, dessert & mingling with guest artists at a unique venue
• Exclusive “Season Highlights” CD
• Acknowledgment in the March 2017 program book*
$350 to $649 (all of the above, plus)
• Recognition in Philharmonia’s program book for one full-year season • 15% discount on Philharmonia merchandise and CDs
$650 to $1,499 (all of the above, plus)
• Invitation for two to attend the Premium Open Rehearsal. which includes a wine & hors d’oeuvres reception preceding the rehearsal
ARCANGELI $5,500 to $9,999 (all of the above, plus) • Invitation to a private post-concert party with guest artists
GUARNERI $10,000 to $24,999 (all of the above, plus) • Sponsorship or dedication of a single concert or artist during the season • Invitation to a backstage meet-and-greet with guest artists & conductor • Signed CDs by guest artists & conductor
COGNOSCENTI $1,500 to $2,999 (all of the above, plus) • Invitation for two to attend Philharmonia’s exclusive annual Cognoscenti Luncheon featuring a private concert and season sneak preview led by Nicholas McGegan
STRADIVARI $25,000 and above (all of the above, plus) • Formal salon dinner at the home of Music Director Nicholas McGegan For more information about benefits, please contact the Development Department at (415) 252-1288.
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EDUCATION NEWS PBO Education Team Inspires Students with Two Meet-Ups this Fall
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n Friday, November 4, students, teachers, and chaperones streamed into San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre for an extraordinary Student Concert: Musical Meet-Ups: Baroque Favorites With Rachel Podger. No ordinary concert, the “meet-up” inspired a true dialogue between performers and the audience, mirroring the musical rapport between the PBO musicians onstage. The Student Concert underscored the idea that conversation (whether musical or spoken) enriches our lives. Podger and the Orchestra lit into Vivaldi’s “L’Inquietudine” solo violin concerto, and then performed concertos (musical conversations) for multiple soloists: movements from Violin the Double Concerto for violin and oboe by J.S. Bach, the Chamber Concerto in G Minor for recorder, violin, bassoon, and continuo by Vivaldi, and a jam session for the entire band in the form of Bach’s Suite No. 1 in C Major. Each piece explored a different type of musical exchange between the players, and each was punctuated by conversations between audience members and musicians about the instruments and the music.
Robert Levin’s Masterclass
Musical Meet-Up: Baroque Favorites with Rachel Podger Prior to the Rachel Podger event, an entirely different meet-up took place during Guest Artist Robert Levin’s free, public masterclass hosted by the San Franscisco Conservatory of Music on October 20. Working with fortepiano students in front of a live audience, Levin drew the audience into the process of interpreting and communicating a composer’s musical ideas. PBO is proud to have presented these educational events and hope that the students involved were able to glean useful information about the music, its structure and interpretation, as well as insightful performance tips from these two acclaimed performers.
Robert Levin’s Masterclass
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Win a One Week Stay in Kauai Enter the Raffle and Support PBO’s Artistic & Education Programs Enter to win a one week stay in beautiful Kauai in a 2 bed/ 2 bath condo with sunset views. Situated in Princeville in Kauai’s scenic north shore, the condo offers westward views of Bali Hai and is near beaches, outstanding snorkeling, biking and other activities. Subject to availability.
Tickets are $75. Winner to be announced at the 2017 Winter Gala on March 10, 2017. Enter at philharmonia.org/support-us/annual-gala/ or purchase raffle tickets at the PBO Boutique in the lobby.
A Weekend in Paris JEFFREY THOMAS MUSIC DIRECTOR
FEBRUARY 10–13 BELVEDERE BERKELEY SAN FRANCISCO DAVIS
Rameau: Suite from Dardanus Rebel: Les caractères de la danse Corrette: Laudate Dominum de coelis Mondonville: In Exitu Israel Marais: Suite from Sémélé
americanbach.org (415) 621-7900
Call Noelle R. Moss to learn more at 415.252.1288 x 314 or visit philharmonia.careasy.org
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