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Welcome Dear friends, Your Boulder Phil can’t wait to reconnect with you!

With your help, we kept the music playing during our Reimagined season and took you inside the music with unique camera angles, in-depth interviews, and behind-the-scenes video footage. For our 2021-22 Season, we’re excited to welcome you back inside the concert hall to reignite and reawaken your senses with the energy of in-person, live performances of great music that we know you’ll love.

Our six-concert subscription series kicks off at Macky Auditorium in January 2022 with a Gershwin Celebration featuring the renowned Marcus Roberts Trio and their spellbinding, toe-tapping take on his Concerto in F. The season is packed with audience favorites by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Stravinsky, along with fresh discoveries from Mason Bates, Anna Clyne, Cindy McTee, and a world premiere violin concerto from jazz legend Billy Childs.

We’re thrilled to be joined by a roster of world-class guests like violinist Rachel Barton Pine, pianist Terrence Wilson and Boulder’s own GRAMMY®-winning violist, Richard O’Neill. And we close our season with the return of ukulele sensation, Jake Shimabukuro! “Boulder touches” also abound, including concertmaster Charles Wetherbee playing the evocative Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto along with spectacular aerial choreography from Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance, and the premiere of two fascinating works of video art commissioned by the Phil to deepen and enhance the experience of Circuits and Mysterious Mountain.

We also invite you to join us for musical hikes in 2022, led by interpretive naturalist Dave Sutherland in collaboration with Boulder County Audubon Society.

So, welcome back, and thank you for being part of our Boulder Phil family!

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About the Phil

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As one of Colorado’s premier ensembles, the Boulder Phil is a critically acclaimed professional orchestra serving Boulder and the greater metro-Denver region.

Known for innovative concert programming presented at the highest artistic level and a growing commitment to authentic community engagement, the Boulder Phil continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be Boulder’s orchestra.

We are defined by the artistry of our talented musicians, the support of our extraordinary patrons, and ongoing creative collaborations with partner organizations encompassing the arts, sciences, nature, youth, and social services.

We strive to present once-in-a-lifetime performances, inspire the next generation with school-age education programs, and pioneer community-focused projects that bring music to all.

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To Our Supporters Welcome to the Boulder Philharmonic’s 64th subscription season at Macky Auditorium! For almost two years we at the Boulder Phil, along with everyone else, have felt the effects of this pandemic. We are so happy to be back!

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During the summer of 2020, our Board of Directors started a campaign to create a COVID-19 Contingency Fund.

Over the following months we were able to complete this fundraising task which gave us a reserve fund of $200,000 for contingencies caused by the COVID pandemic. We, like so many arts organizations in the United States, are very fortunate that we have been able to benefit from the various federal funding ventures for supplemental funding for arts’ organizations during this pandemic.

In September 2020, Michael Butterman and our orchestra recorded concerts at Brungard Aviation in Boulder for our first-ever digital season. These were, although only available on our television screens or computers, delightful concerts, with multiple cameras showing many different angles of our performers, up close and personal. This is a perspective which we actually don’t have when we sit in our seats in the Macky Auditorium. I personally want to thank Michael and all of our musicians for their tremendous efforts to give us a digital season during this pandemic.

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Today, under her guidance and in conjunction with our talented Music Director Michael Butterman, we are poised to enter a new and vigorous era of musical performance for the Boulder community and beyond. I would be remiss to fail ADVISORY COUNCIL to tell you that our marvelous education program interacting with the schools Barbara Brenton Susan Olenwine in our community continued to operate quite successfully throughout the PamelaPERFORMANCE Dennis Dick Van Pelt TARGETED MARKETING WITH EVERY Ruth Kahn Brenda Zellner pandemic and will be broadening its focus as we go forward.

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Music Director Michael Butterman Celebrating 15 Years!

Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. Now in his 15th season as Music Director, he has led the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra to national prominence, resulting in an invitation to open the Kennedy Center’s inaugural SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras in 2017.

He is also the Music Director of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra and the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, an orchestra uniquely focused on music education. He has recently completed a 19year association with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as their Principal Conductor for Education and Community Engagement, and a 15year tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony, first as Associate, and then as Resident Conductor.

As a guest conductor, Mr. Butterman has led many of the country’s preeminent ensembles, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony and Houston Symphony. Other recent appearances Photo: Lauren Click include performances with the Fort Worth Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, California Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, El Paso Symphony, Mobile Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Pensacola Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera and Victoria Symphony (British Columbia). Summer appearances include Tanglewood, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia. Guest appearances this season include the Lancaster and Williamsburg symphonies, and a residency at the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Mr. Butterman gained international attention as a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev International Conducting Competition and as a finalist in the prestigious Besançon International Conducting Competition. As the recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa, with whom he shared the podium to lead the season’s opening concert. Earlier, Mr. Butterman was sponsored by UNESCO to lead the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova in a concert of music by great American masters.

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Gershwin Celebration

Rachmaninoff 3 and Mysterious Mountain Michael Butterman, Conductor Saturday, March 19, 2022 Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder 7:30 pm Performance Terrence Wilson, piano

Cynthia McTee Circuits (b. 1953) with visuals by Aleksi Moriarty Alan Hovhaness Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain (1911-2000) with visuals by Stephen Lias I. Andante con moto II. Double Fugue: Moderato maestoso — Allegro vivo III. Andante espressivo: Con moto — INTERMISSION — Serge Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30 (1873-1943) I. Allegro ma non tanto II. Intermezzo: Adagio— III. Finale: Alla breve

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Rachmaninoff 3 and Mysterious Mountain BIOGRAPHIES Terrence Wilson Acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with the many symphony orchestras including Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, and with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Jesús López-Cobos, Lawrence Renes, Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Gunther Herbig.

Abroad, Terrence Wilson has played concerti with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He Wilson has toured with orchestras in the US and abroad, including a tour of the US with the Sofia Festival Orchestra (Bulgaria) and in Europe with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted

by Yuri Temirkanov.

An active recitalist, Terrence Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Lourvre in Paris, and countless other major venues. In the US he has given recitals at Lincoln Center in New York City (both Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall), the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society among others. An avid chamber musician, he

performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players. Festival appearances include the Blossom Festival, Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, with the San Francisco Symphony at Stern Grove Park, and an appearance with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra on July 4, 2015 before an audience of over fifteen thousand.

The 2021-2022 season will bring Wilson back as soloist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. He will also make his debuts with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic, and the Roanoke Symphony. In the fall, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present Wilson with the Escher Quartet performing Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor. In the spring of 2021, he was appointed to the piano faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music in Annandaleon-Hudson, NY. Terrence Wilson is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. He has also enjoyed the invaluable mentorship of the Romanian pianist and teacher Zitta Zohar. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey.

Cindy McTee Hailed by the Houston Chronicle as a composer whose music reflects a charging, churning celebration of the musical and cultural energy of modern-day America, Cindy McTee (b. 1953 in Tacoma, WA) brings to the world of concert music a fresh and imaginative voice.

The Washington Post likewise characterized her work as unmistakably American-sounding, composed with craftsmanship and a catholic array of influences across several centuries. There’s also a polished gleam about her colors, according to the Detroit Free Press, as well as an inventive approach to form and a respect for tradition.

Rachmaninoff 3 and Mysterious Mountain Cindy McTee has received numerous awards for her music, most significantly: a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Composers Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Music Alive Award from Meet The Composer and the League of American Orchestras, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s third annual Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, and a BMI Student Composers Award. She was also winner of the 2001 Louisville Orchestra Composition Competition.

The works of Cindy McTee have received performances by leading ensembles in important venues throughout the world, including Carnegie Hall on five separate occasions. Among the many ensembles to have performed her music are: the Aspen Festival Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Maryland Symphony, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the North Texas and Dallas Wind Symphonies, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orquestra Simfonica Illes Balears, the Pacific Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the President’s Own U.S. Marine Band, the Showa Wind Symphony, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, the United States Army Field Band, Voices of Change, the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Bern, Billings, Boston, Chicago, Colorado, Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Flagstaff, Ft. Worth, Hartford, Hawaii, Houston, Indianapolis, Nashville, Novosibirsk, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico, Rochester, San Antonio, Seattle, Shanghai, St. Louis, and Sydney.

Cindy McTee enjoyed a 30-year teaching career alongside her activities as a composer – 3 years at Pacific Lutheran University and 27 years at the University of North Texas where she retired as Regents Professor Emerita in 2011.

Later that year, she married conductor, Leonard Slatkin.

Their principal place of residence is in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Stephen Lias The music of adventurer-composer Stephen Lias (b. 1966) is regularly performed in concert and recital throughout the United States and abroad by soloists and ensembles including the Arianna Quartet, the Anchorage Symphony, the Oasis Quartet, the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Orchestra, the Ensamble de Trompetas Simón Bolívar, the Boulder Philharmonic, and the Russian String Orchestra.

Stephen’s passion for wilderness and outdoor pursuits has led to a sizable series of works about the national parks of the US. He has served as Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Mountain, Glacier, Denali, Glacier Bay, Bering Land Bridge, and Gates of the Arctic National Parks, and has written over a dozen park-related pieces that have been performed in such far-flung places as Colorado, New Hampshire, Texas, Alaska, Sydney, and Taiwan. In 2017, his All the Songs that Nature Sings was commissioned by the Boulder Philharmonic with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and performed at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Stephen is the creator of The Composers Site (now operated by Vox Novus) and the founder and leader of the annual Composing in the Wilderness program offered by the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and Alaska Geographic.

Stephen Lias received degrees from Messiah College, Stephen F. Austin State University, and Louisiana State University. He currently resides in Nacogdoches, Texas where he is Professor of Composition at Stephen F. Austin State University. When not composing and teaching, Stephen enjoys reading, backpacking, kayaking, skiing, travel, and photography.

Rachmaninoff 3 and Mysterious Mountain Aleksi Moriarty Aleksi Moriarty is an award winning computer artist and photographer.

A lifelong synaesthete who sees music as patterns, he learned programming to manifest his vision. He studied computer art and animation at Hampshire College and CalArts. His procedural animations have been shown at international animation festivals and live in the concert hall.

He’s also worked as a senior FX Artist and Technical Director on many blockbuster films and TV shows including The Matrix and, recently, Paw Patrol. His fine art photography can be found in collections in North America and Europe.

PROGRAM NOTES McTee: Circuits Circuits: the title might lead some listeners to think of electronic circuits, or of runners’ training routes. As it happens, American composer Cindy McTee (b. 1953) has a different idea. She says the title “is meant to characterize several important aspects of the work’s musical language.”

These include frequent repetition of short rhythmic fragments, as well as the recurrence of ostinatos, in which the pitch remains constant as the rhythm powers along obsessively. Thus, one might imagine the music looping through circuits, covering previous ground anew, though now with altered colors. McTee also points out “an unrelenting, kinetic energy,” adding that she has specified quite a rapid tempo of 152 beats per minute.

Indeed, Circuits has a restless, sometimes quirky energy, with sudden outbursts and much shifting of the spotlight from one set of instruments to another. At times, flowing string passages appear, seeming rather less nervous than other lines, though underscored with tension, so that the energy level remains high. Expect bright splashes of color,

especially from the winds, and a startlingly abrupt closing.

As a concert opener, McTee’s Circuits knocks listeners back into their seats and commands their attention on the performance. Rhythms and phrases may repeat, but there is an abundance of varied energy to be found.

Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain “Mountains are symbols, like pyramids, of man’s attempt to know God.” So wrote Alan Hovhaness (1911 – 2000), who continued the thought with these words: “Mountains are symbolic meeting places between the mundane and spiritual worlds.” Although there is much about his Symphony no. 2 that is evocative of the ethereal spirit of mountains, on the occasion of its premiere, there were no mountains in sight.

The symphony was commissioned by Leopold Stokowski for his first appearance with the Houston Symphony, which occurred in October 1955. Whether for the sake of the music or the conductor or both, the concert was judged to be sufficiently historic that it was broadcast nationwide by NBC, allowing millions of music-lovers to participate in this first hearing of a work that must have seemed at the time exotic and evocative. Such interest in the piece was generated that it was soon performed in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, and Boston, and Stokowski included it on concert programs offered during his Soviet tour in 1958.

Mysterious Mountain is structured in three movements; most of the nimble action is confined to the central movement, while the outer movements weave tapestries of awe-inspiring splendor. The opening Andante con moto movement offers much serenity and flowing string lines, with distant timpani rumbles less ominous than hinting at pending grandeur.

Central pages bring delicate woodwind and celesta shades, more delicate than that which had come before. The last several pages give emphasis to spacious passages for solo trumpet, sounding as if from across the valley.

The middle movement, Double Fugue, begins with a gracious introduction before launching into pages of counterpoint:

Rachmaninoff 3 and Mysterious Mountain not just one fugue, but two. The first features scurrying string lines, intricately interwoven. Before long, this restless material is joined by an additional theme introduced by chorale-like brass, as if a hymn were ringing out over a scene of agitation. The conjunction of these two contrasting, though equally detailed melodic ideas is what makes it a double fugue. Ultimately, the chorale theme triumphs; the scurrying fades away and the chorale provides material for a stately conclusion.

With the closing Andante espressivo, the serene rapture of the first movement returns, now in the care of brass, rather than strings. However, strings and timpani soon rejoin with restless lines that seem to contradict the reserved pace suggested by Hovhaness’ tempo marking. Never fear: the expressive reserve returns, perhaps suggesting a renewed glimpse of that solitary peak rising over the landscape.

Woodwinds and crystalline celesta bring delicacy to the scene. Gradually, an almost timeless, ethereal awe develops, leading with bated breath to the final chord. For Hovhaness, mountains were “symbolic meeting places between the mundane and spiritual worlds.” His Mysterious Mountain Symphony seems to bridge that divide.

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30 In 1909, Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943) launched his first concert tour of the United States. Thus, it was in New York City, not Moscow, that his Piano Concerto no. 3 premiered; he’d been practicing the solo part while steaming across the Atlantic. The premiere took place November 28, 1909, with the New York Symphony Orchestra and then a few weeks later was heard again with the New York Philharmonic. Those two ensembles contested directly with one another for place as the city’s finest orchestra until, in 1928, they finally merged under the Philharmonic’s name.

Of the new piece, New York’s music critics had much to say, some of it favorable. The music writer for the Herald declared it to be one of “the most interesting piano

concertos of recent years,” whereas the Tribune writer praised the work for its “essential dignity and beauty.” Both critics, however, decried the work’s length and suggested that Rachmaninoff shorten it. Rachmaninoff did not comply.

Perhaps he felt, as Mozart once remarked about his own music, that it had exactly as many notes as were required.

Rachmaninoff begins the opening Allegro ma non tanto with gentle melancholy and a theme for the soloist that rises and falls in soft waves. That theme becomes a unifying idea here and there in the first movement, juxtaposed with other contrasting melodies. Rachmaninoff was rarely at a loss for a good tune, and here he lives up to that standard, with themes ranging from reflective moods to rolling thunder.

Distinctly different moods also fill the second movement Intermezzo, which, despite its generally languid tempo yet manages to offer shifting shades of expression. At first, oboe has the spotlight; when the soloist joins, it is first with intricate passagework, then with a lyrical, song-like theme related to the oboe’s earlier theme. Despite stormier passages, especially when busy piano passagework is set against restful woodwind lines, most of the movement is thoughtful of mood.

Rachmaninoff specified that he did not want a complete break between the Intermezzo and the Finale: Alla breve, instead requiring performers to move directly onward in an attacca fashion. Here, one finds a swath of restless energy with soloist and orchestra alike ever on the move, driving determinedly into the final pages.

Program notes © Betsy Schwarm, author of the Classical Music Insights series

THE FIREBIRD AND FREQUENT FLYERS Michael Butterman, Conductor Saturday, April 30, 2022 Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder 7:30 pm Performance Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance Choreography: Nancy Smith with the Dancers Claude Sim, violin Mason Bates (b. 1977)

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He Zhanhao and Chen Gang Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (b. 1933) & (b. 1935) I. Adagio Cantabile II. Allegro III. Adagio assai doloroso IV. Pesante—Piu Mosso—Duramente V. Lagrimoso VI. Presto resoluto VII. Adagio cantabile Claude Sim, violin Dancers: Lisa Caldwell, Alexander Class, Valerie Morris, Annie Piatt, Sofia Rodriguez, Anastasia Timina Rigging by Jeff Rusnak

— INTERMISSION — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 –1908)

Russian Easter Overture, op. 36

Igor Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird (1919 version) (1882 –1971) I. Introduction—The Firebird and its Dance—Variations II. The Princesses’ Round Dance III. Infernal Dance of King Kastcheï IV. Lullaby (Berceuse)— V. Finale Thank you to our concert sponsors

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The Firebird and Frequent Flyers BIOGRAPHIES

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Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance, founded by Artistic Director, Nancy Smith, is a Boulder-based non-profit celebrating its 34th year.

They have taught over 21,900 students the joy of dancing in the air. The Professional Performing Company has won many awards and accolades.

The Company has performed for Cirque du Soleil, around the U.S. including the Kennedy Center with The Phil, and in the Bahamas. Over 205,600 audience members have experienced the beauty and strength of their performances.

Frequent Flyers® also created the first international Aerial Dance Festival, celebrating its 24th year in 2022. Frequent Flyers is considered the flagship aerial dance organization in the world. www.frequentflyers.org The “Butterfly” steel structure was designed & built by Jeff Rusnak.

Claude Sim Claude Sim enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, orchestral leader, soloist, and multi-genre performing artist. He studied violin performance at the Oberlin Conservatory (BM ‘99) with Greg Fulkerson, Almita Vamos, and viola with Roland Vamos. At age 21, he was appointed Associate Concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony under music director Marin Alsop. As frequent soloist with the orchestra, he has earned praise for his ‘lustrous tone and poise’ by the Rocky Mountain News, and dubbed ‘Denver’s Musical Adventurer’ by the Denver Post. He was formerly Associate Principal Second of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and

has served in guest capacities as Concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Principal Second of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Ottawa, and first violin with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Sim has served as first violinist and viola on concert tours with the critically acclaimed Miró and Pacifica Quartets, and has collaborated in performance with acclaimed pianists Christopher O’Riley, Jeffrey Kahane, and members of the Vermeer and Tokyo String Quartets.

Known for his multi-genre interests, Sim’s jazz album Time With You presents a collection of standards from the American Songbook. Trumpeter Greg Gisbert (Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry sideman) is a featured artist on the recording. Sim performed with Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. and Odom’s jazz quintet as guest soloist, and has shared the stage with Irish American fiddler Eileen Ivers, Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule), rock band Guster, and with iconic Denver rock band Devotchka, both live and on the album 100 Lovers. He performed as a duo with GRAMMY award-winning artist and banjo master Béla Fleck on a 2014 Colorado tour, culminating at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

Claude Sim’s teaching appointments have included University of Colorado Denver, Colorado State University and CU Boulder College of Music.

Mason Bates Composer of the Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Mason Bates is imaginatively transforming the way classical music is created and experienced as a composer, DJ, and curator. During his term as the first composer-inresidence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he presented a diverse array of

The Firebird and Frequent Flyers artists on his KC Jukebox using immersive production and stagecraft. Championed by legendary conductors from Riccardo Muti to Michael Tilson Thomas, his symphonic music is the first to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds, and he was named the most-performed composer of his generation in a recent survey of American music. Bates has also composed for films, including Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees starring Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts. A diverse artist exploring the ways classical music integrates into contemporary culture, he serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto Composers He Zhan Hao He Zhan Hao was born in 1933 in the town of Zhuji, which is in Zhejiang province of China. He played in the orchestra of the Zhejiang Yueju Opera Troupe, later entering the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as a violin student. Together with several classmates, he formed a violin experimental group. The Butterfly Lovers emerged as a creative product of the group’s musical experiments. After graduation, he transferred to the Composition Department to study under Ding Shan De. His other major works include the string quartet Martyr’s Diary and the symphonic poem Longhua Pagoda.

He Zhanhao now teaches at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and calls himself a “pioneer ”. He says, “To a pioneer…, successes and failures always come hand in hand, and either one of them offers the younger generation a valuable lesson and an opportunity to gain experience.” Mr. He suggests that

exploration is always his main theme, and he will continue what he has been doing as long as the public supports and likes his works.

Chen Gang Born in 1935, Chen Gang is a Chinese composer who is notable for composing the Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto.[1] He is the son of Chen Gexin, a songwriter active in the 1930s and 1940s in Shanghai.

Chen Gang started to learn piano and composition from his father and music teachers from a young age. From 1955 to 1959, Chen Gang was a student at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studying composition. In 1959, Chen Gang, together with another student, He Zhanhao, composed the violin concerto Butterfly Lovers. In his composition career, he composed and recomposed many classics in China, including Butterfly Lovers, Miaolin’s Morning, and The Golden Steel Smelting Furnace. He also composed one of the most difficult violin solo pieces: Sun Shines in Tushkurgan.

PROGRAM NOTES Bates: Undistant Here’s a composition with a title reflecting the time in which it was written. Undistant by American composer Mason Bates (b. 1977) premiered June 2021 in a digital broadcast by the Philadelphia Orchestra, amidst pandemic-driven social distancing. Given that time frame, surely ‘undistant’ can be read as the converse of social distancing? After months apart, one might long to be ‘undistant,’ most significantly

The Firebird and Frequent Flyers from family and friends, but also from the shared experience of live music. Bates himself has said that it is “an affirmation of human connection’’ now, there’s a positive vision emerging from a dark time!

Amongst the usual orchestral suspects, Bates’s Undistant includes a laptop computer, making possible not only sound effects and ambient sounds, but also manipulation of musical elements in ways beyond what acoustic instruments can readily achieve. So, as the composer puts it, “crackling digital white noise… cold string harmonics and percussion, muted brass chords, and plaintive woodwinds,” all swirl together.

Some listeners may perceive hints of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, just the first three notes of that famed theme. Bates admits that these are “barely recognizable fragments,” to which he has given “a muffled perspective akin to deafness.” If any great composer could identify with being cut off from the people and the music he loves, it would be Beethoven, and the irony of this global crisis having eclipsed his 250th birth anniversary would not have been lost on the man.

Gradually, the aural tapestry blends, both digital and acoustic worlds having found a way to co-exist. What might have seemed like disorder comes together, surely reflecting the challenging times during which Undistant was composed, in which society needed to work toward one goal, even if from distant spaces. “This,” says Bates, “is envisioned as an affirmation of human connection.” All builds to bold statements, then relaxes into peace. Most persons emerging from – or still immersed in – troubled times can find comfort in that music journey.

He and Chen: The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto was written jointly in 1959 by two Shanghai Conservatory students: He Zhan Hao (b. 1933) and Chen Gang (b. 1935). The score abounds with

open, airy harmonies, like those found in much of China’s folk music. Moreover, the solo violinist often uses techniques borrowed from the erh-hu, a two-stringed bowed lute common both to Chinese folk music and to the Beijing Opera.

Through that eclecticism that comes from combining Asian styles with a European genre, it is a work that speaks eloquently to people of many nations.

The Butterfly Lovers has a tale to tell: not of those who love butterflies, but rather one of lovers who become butterflies.

Taken from Chinese folklore, the story concerns a young woman who masquerades as a young man to obtain an education. She falls in love with a classmate, yet cannot confess her feelings without revealing her true gender.

Sadly, she returns to her family home, where an arranged marriage awaits her. Thinking only of catching up with an old companion, the classmate visits her home and learns from a servant the facts of the situation. Too late, he realizes the opportunity he has missed, and dies in despair. On her wedding day, the woman visits his grave. She begs entry into the tomb, which opens with a clap of thunder, and both are turned into butterflies. They fly away together, united at last in love.

Butterfly Lovers opens tranquilly, the spotlight occupied by woodwinds well before the violin soloist joins. Fuller textures develop, then spirited energy driven along by the rhythms of Chinese folk dance. Bold, brassy grandeur appears at times, as well as Asian percussion details in the more dance-like passages. The earlier tenderness is reprised, though the richer colors have a last appearance.

The last few lines are the violin soloist nearly alone, a bit of flute, and then a single high violin tone following those butterflies into the sky. Whether or not the details of the tale fit each passage in sequence throughout the concerto, Butterfly Lovers is certainly replete with regional colors and a satisfying contrast of moods, both joyous and sorrowful.

The Firebird and Frequent Flyers Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture, op. 36 In the summers of 1887 and ’88, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1908) produced three vivid orchestral pieces, works so masterful that any composer would have gladly claimed even one as his own. None of these are strictly structured symphonies, but rather freely-flowing flights of fancy, pictorial images painted in orchestral color. The works in question are among the most beloved in the orchestral repertoire: Scheherazade, op. 34; Capriccio Espagnol, op.

35; and the Russian Easter Overture, op. 36. The last of these is on today’s program.

The Russian Easter Overture has a foundation in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Rimsky-Korsakov selected several favorite church canticles and wove them into a descriptive overture evoking the jubilant traditions of the Russian Easter. With the first two of these, Let God Arise and An Angel Wailed, the composer offsets an otherwise solemn mood with glittering harp scales and a rising clarinet solo.

What follows is a triumphant allegro strongly seasoned with brass, using the melody, Let Them That Also Hate Him Flee Before Him, made vibrant by the joyous pealing of bells, so central to the Russian religious tradition. The resulting scene is not merely a religious celebration, but also a more earthy springtime festival, and for the composer, both were equally critical. As he asserted in his memoirs, “this transition from the gloomy and mysterious evening of Passion Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious merry-making on the morn of Easter Sunday, is what I was eager to reproduce in my Overture.”

Stravinsky: The Suite from The Firebird (1919 Version) Premiering at the Paris Opéra June 25, 1910, The Firebird ballet was the first of many international triumphs for Igor Stravinsky (1881 – 1971). Based on a Russian folk tale, the

ballet had been commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev (1872 – 1929), impresario of the Ballets Russes. The assignment had initially been given to another composer, but when that gentleman missed the deadline, Stravinsky was recruited to play catch up and have something ready for the scheduled premiere. Everyone involved, from Diaghilev to the dancers, and ultimately the audience and critics, was thrilled with the results.

In the years after the premiere, Stravinsky prepared several orchestral suites from the ballet, so orchestras could perform the music without dancers. It was a practical plan to widen the audience, and thus increase his income; generations earlier, Wagner had done much the same thing with his operas. The first orchestral suite came in 1911, one year after the ballet itself. The second was in 1919; a third followed in 1945. Those latter two versions were for smaller orchestral forces than the original. The 1919 suite focuses upon select moments from the full ballet, both light scenes and high drama, proving the diversity of the original vision.

From an introduction of building anticipation, Stravinsky moves to the Firebird’s dance, set to shimmering strings and flowing woodwind phrases. The subsequent variation is more playful, suggestive in places of birdsong. “The Princesses’ Round Dance,” borrowed from a scene of a group of princesses enchanted by the evil sorcerer Kastcheï, is all grace and elegance; one might note that this movement’s opening phrases for flute and clarinet will reappear in much grander form in the finale.

Kastcheï’s own dance, which follows that of the princesses, has nothing to do with elegance; instead, it brings violence and high drama. Less demonic interludes appear, though these do little to soothe the turbulent waters that evoke the sorcerer. Ease comes only with the lullaby, featuring solo lines for bassoon and oboe accompanied by calmly

The Firebird and Frequent Flyers flowing strings. With the finale, Stravinsky begins in serene mood, the horns recalling that theme from the opening of the princesses’ dance, though it soon builds to a grand celebration. The Firebird is a ballet with a happy ending, as

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Boulder Phil Orchestra Roster VIOLIN 1 Charles Wetherbee, Concertmaster Rebecca Roser & Ron Stewart Annamaria Karacson, Assistant Concertmaster Christine & Wayne Itano Virginia Newton Susie Peek Gyongyver Petheo Heidi & Jerry Lynch Veronica Sawarynski Leslie Sawyer Takanori Sugishita Joan & Harold Leinbach Luana Rubin Malva Tarasewicz Pamela Walker Yenlik Bodaubay Weiss VIOLIN 2 Leah Mohling, principal Marilyn & Robert Mohling Sharon Park, assistant principal Sarah Delevoryas* Regan Kane Miriam Linschoten Robyn Sosa Azaduhi A. Vieira* Lori Wolf Walker* Stephanie Bork Ryan Jacobsen Nina Fronjian Evan DeLong VIOLA Mary Harrison, principal Patricia Butler Michael Brook, assistant principal Aniel Cabán Matthew Diekman Nancy Clairmont & Bob Braudes

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