10/24/2020 Emory University Symphony Orchestra digital program

2020–2021

MUSIC AT EMORY

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Event and Program Information Available online at schwartz.emory.edu Cover Photo

By Mark Teague Acknowledgment Eternal thanks to Donna and Marvin Schwartz for their many contributions.

2020–2021

MUSIC AT EMORY

Emory University Symphony Orchestra Jessica Shuang Wu, violin Paul Bhasin, conductor Saturday, October 24, 2020, 8:00 p.m.

A virtual concert compiled from previously recorded performances at Emerson Concert Hall Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

Program Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland (1900–1990)

Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat, BWV 1051

Alla Breve

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Ji Won Lee and Wilson Hsu, viola

Symphony No. 1 in F Minor II. Allegro

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

Josh MacLean (b. 1999)

Pulse

Chris Fenger (b. 1998)

Reflections in a Whirlpool

Matthew Chau (b. 1999)

The Rumble

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Program Concerto No. 4 in F Minor, op. 8, RV 297, Antonio Vivaldi “Winter” (L’inverno) (1678–1741) I. Allegro non molto II. Largo Jessica Shuang Wu, violin with guests Yinzi Kong and Guang Wang of the Vega String Quartet

Film Score Excerpts from Sister Carrie (9/23 Films, Daniel Nearing, director)

Paul Bhasin (b. 1977)

Amy Zhang and Kaito Mimura, violin Caleb Park, Molly Ball, and Sean Parker, cello Ross Engelmeyer, bass Sarah Morrissey, flute Jane Farrell, oboe Nathan Muz, bassoon Marshall McCall, piano (This piece was recorded in February 2020, prior to the COVID-19 outbreak.)

L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Farandole

Georges Bizet (1838–1875)

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Program Notes This evening’s performance represents a nineweek effort led by Emory music students, faculty, staff, and guest performers. These virtual orchestra projects were conceived, recorded, and produced with inspiring contributions by Emory University Symphony Orchestra (EUSO) students, whose dedication and talent is on full display here. Special thanks to the members of the Vega String Quartet, Emory’s string quartet in residence, for its performance and coaching contributions to this performance. Each of our virtual orchestra works was individually recorded by each student after a vigorous examination of each work through a mix of theoretical, historical, and interpretive lenses. In this way, EUSO’s academic mission has continued to succeed despite our members being thousands of miles apart.

Paul Bhasin, conductor Paul Bhasin serves on the faculty of Emory as director of orchestral studies. He conducts the Emory University Symphony Orchestra and the Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra, and he teaches conducting.

Praised for his crisp, clear conducting and highly expressive interpretations, Bhasin has led a variety of university, youth, and professional ensembles throughout North America and abroad, including performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and throughout the People’s Republic of China. Bhasin’s guest engagements include appearances with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, American Youth Philharmonic, Williamsburg Symphony, New Jersey Youth Symphony, and at Interlochen Arts Academy. He has also led performances as a guest conductor with members of the Richmond Symphony, National Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Ensembles under his direction have collaborated with soloists from the San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and Richmond Symphony. He has led honor orchestras and served as a guest orchestral clinician throughout the United States, and presented at national conferences, including the Midwest Orchestra Clinic and the National Music Teachers Association Conference.

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Bhasin is an accomplished orchestral trumpeter, having performed and recorded with the Virginia Symphony and Opera, Columbus (Ohio) Symphony, New World Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and at the music festivals of Aspen, Tanglewood, and Ravinia. With these institutions, he has performed under the batons of Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon, James DePriest, and Gustav Meier, among others, and participated in the conductor training program at Aspen under David Zinman and Murry Sidlin. Bhasin is also a committed trumpet teacher. His students have attended prestigious conservatories and music schools and have won first prize at major competitions, including the National Trumpet Competition.

He has been featured as a soloist on National Public Radio, Detroit PBS-TV, the International Computer Music Conference, at the Chautauqua Music Festival, and at the International Dvořák Festival (Prague). Bhasin has recorded as trumpeter and conductor for both the Centaur and Interscope record labels. His 2015 Centaur Records release features the music of Brian Hulse and is performed by principal soloists from the Richmond and Virginia symphonies. A forthcoming CD project with Centaur will feature Atlanta Symphony Orchestra principals as concert soloists with Emory ensembles.

Bhasin’s transcriptions and arrangements are published by Balquhidder Music and have been performed and commissioned in the United States and abroad by the St. Louis Opera Theater, Grand Tetons Festival Orchestra, La Unió Musical l’Horta de Sant Marcel·lí (Valencia, Spain), and the Washington Symphonic Brass (D.C.). In 2015, Bhasin composed and conducted the orchestral score to 9/23 Films’ motion picture HOGTOWN (award-winner at the Berlin, Los Angeles, and Nashville International Black film festivals). Michael Phillips of the Chicago Sun-Times writes that the film was “ . . . scored beautifully by composer Paul Bhasin . . . better than the entirety of the last few features I’ve seen, period.” In 2016, reviewer Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times named the film a Critic’s Pick and one of the Top 10 Films of 2016.

Bhasin’s previous appointments include positions at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Triton College, and the College of William & Mary. He received his musical education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan.

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Jessica Shuang Wu, violin As a founding member of the Vega String Quartet, quartet in residence at Emory University, Jessica Shuang Wu has performed extensively throughout North America, Asia, and Europe, and has been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today (USA), Radio France, the National Radio of China, the National Radio of the Czech Republic, and Shanghai TV. Her concert appearances include the Vega String Quartet’s critically acclaimed Lincoln Center debut and “a triumphant L.A. debut” (Los Angeles Times); performances at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw; Vienna’s Musikverein; the Weill and Zankel recital halls, and Issac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall; Harvard Club in New York; Museum d’Orsay of Paris; Highlands Festival in North Carolina; Aspen Music Festival; and La Jolla Concert Series, among many others.

Born in Shanghai, China, Wu began her violin studies at age 5 and made her solo debut with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra at age 12. At age 9, she joined the Shanghai Conservatory and started playing chamber music at age 13.

In 1998, Wu and the Vega String Quartet won the first prize at the Coleman International Chamber Ensemble Competition and first prize at the Carmel International Chamber Music Competition. The following year, the quartet was awarded four out of the top six prizes at the 1999 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France, including the International Music Critics’ prize. The quartet has released a CD under Naxos Records Inc., on Twentieth-Century American Music.

Wu appears regularly in chamber music concerts with many of today’s leading artists including Richard Stoltzman, David Coucheron, Sarah Chang, Robert McDuffie, Charles Wadsworth, Eliot Fisk, Christopher O’Riley, Sara Sant’Ambrogio, and William Ransom.

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Daniel Nearing, director​ Daniel Nearing is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and MacDowell, served as the inaugural filmmaker in residence for the city of Chicago, and was named Chicagoan of the Year for film by the Chicago Tribune in 2017. His most recently completed film, HOGTOWN (2016), looks at the emergence of a multicultural America through the prism of Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times called it “the most original film made in Chicago about Chicago to date” (Bill Stamets). Ben Kenigsberg of the New York Times named it to his list of the 10 Best Films of 2016: “Daniel Nearing has carved out an original and boldly unfashionable niche. HOGTOWN feels like a find from a forgotten archive.”

The Chicago Reader named HOGTOWN the best film set in Chicago, and the best film made in Chicago, “period,” for 2015 (J. R. Jones). HOGTOWN was named Best Feature Film at the 2015 International Black Film Festival (Nashville), Best Film in a Fine Arts Discipline at the 30th Black International Cinema Berlin, Best Picture at the 2015 Los Angeles Black Film Festival, and winner of the 2015 Independent Film Playoff, a consortium of seven Los Angeles festivals with more than 300 films in competition.

“Daniel Nearing Paul Bhasin composed the score to HOGTOWN. The first film in has carved out an the trilogy, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, original and boldly is an adaptation of Sherwood unfashionable niche.”

Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio.

The “period-less” observation —Ben Kenigsberg (New York Times) on exurban and small-town life played at festivals around the world. Roger Ebert called it “brilliant and beautiful” and named it to his list of the Best Art Films of 2010. Nearing is currently in post-production (2020) on a free-form adaptation of SISTER CARRIE, a period feature shot in black and white and “ecstatic color.” SISTER CARRIE is an epic period love story that takes place in Chicago, Montreal, and Paris. The film is a hybrid of three timeless literary sources, all of them proto-feminist novels from the United States and France: the landmark Chicago novel by Theodore Dreiser from which it takes its name (1900), Alexander Dumas’ (Fils) La Dame aux Camélias (1848), and Abbé Prévost’s Manon Lescaut (1731).

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Emory University Symphony Orchestra Flute and Piccolo Claudia Wahowski • Fayetteville, GA Miyuka Yoshida Tokyo, Japan Sara Ju u Long Island, NY

Music/Biology Music/Biology Chemistry

Oboe and English Horn Jane Farrell Worthington, OH Daniel Shin Holmdel, NJ Katie Liu Tainan, Taiwan

Linguistics/Music Business RSPH

Clarinet and Bass Clarinet Esther Ro • u Sugar Hill, GA Eli Parrish : Bremen, GA Chunjin Park : Duluth, GA Rodrigo Salinas : Lakeland, FL

Music/Psychology Music/Environmental Science Undecided Music/NBB

Bassoon Nathan Muz Cambridge, MA

Trisha Sengupta Saratoga, CA

Economics/ Industrial Engineering Undecided

Horn Pulkit Gupta Jose Moreno u Sophia West : Michael Bian Harry Li

Biology/Physics NBB Music/NBB Undecided Chemistry/QSS

Plano, TX Dallas, TX Palm City, FL Chicago, IL Beijing, China

Trumpet Nathaniel Lechtzin Towson, MD Sonya Carrillo s Miami, FL Joseph Rosenbaum Los Angeles, CA

Biophysics/Music Music/Arts Management Music/Political Science

Trombone Graham Crain u : Max Inman s Shiven Sinha :

Maryville, TN Cary, NC Redmond, WA

Undecided Music/Chemistry Music/Business

Bass Trombone Ethan Feldman u

Minneapolis, MN

Political Science

Tuba Kendall Hauerwas

North Attleboro, MA

Undecided

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Emory University Symphony Orchestra Timpani and Percussion Jason Goodman Los Angeles, CA Alexa Mohsenzadeh s Chicago, IL Susan Li Violin Lance Yang Bauer Pebble Beach, CA Kelvin Chirapornsuk Atlanta, GA Thomas Czick Atlanta, GA Will Duan Andover, MA Carl Dutton Seattle, WA Victoria Gendron : Naples, FL Rebecca Goodwin Marietta, GA Ruth Jao Clarksburg, MD Dan Kim Bettendorf, IA Doowon Kim • H Suwanee, GA Seyon Kim Cupertino, CA Kimberly Kurniawan Redmond, WA Ellen Kwon Boston, MA Mariana Lopez-Ruiz Columbus, GA Rizky Lubis Teaneck, NJ Kaito Mimura : Princeton, NJ Lesley Mun : Vernon Hills, IL Aritro Ray Dallas, TX Thomas Sarsfield Lawrenceville, NJ Yihoon Shin Emmetsberg, IA Caroline Sikuta s Naples, FL Christy Song Ringgold, GA Grace Song Seoul, South Korea Alyssa Stegall Salinas, CA Natali Vera Pimentel• Tyrone, GA Carol Xu Dallas, TX Amy Zhang : • Johns Creek, GA Eric Zhang Knoxville, TN

Joyce Zhao Edina, MN

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History/Economics NBB

Undecided GBS Undecided Mathematics/Music Mathematics Music/Business Music/Biochemistry NBB Biology/Music Business/Music NBB Pre-Health Undecided Undecided Undecided Music/Chemistry Music/Biology Undecided Music/Business Economics/Human Health Music/Economics Biology/Music Applied Mathematics Political Science/Music NBB Music/Biology Music/Human Health Engineering Sciences for Physics/Music Undecided

Emory University Symphony Orchestra Viola Michael Blankfein Layla Dhabaan Wilson Hsu Ji Won Lee : Oluwasijibomi Osunkoya Ayusha Shrestha Emory Wilson

Westport, CT Atlanta, GA Chestnut Hill, MA Princeton, NJ

Undecided Undecided Business Music/Chemistry

Lilburn, GA Salt Lake City, UT Winston-Salem, NC

NBB/Music NBB Chemistry

Cello Molly Ball Alex Banul Timothy Cho • : Andrew Choi Austin Chuang Harrison Helms Richard Jensen Brian Le Claire Lee Jordan Leslie Hannah Lu : Caleb Park s Sean Parker s Hwanwook Seong • Rachel Seong •

Virginia Beach, VA Dallas, TX Atlanta, GA Dallas, TX Charlotte, NC Greensboro, NC Pittsburgh, PA Richardson Texas Suwanee, GA Atlanta, GA Dallas, TX Columbia, MD Baton Rouge, LA Sugar Hill, GA Sugar Hill, GA

Music/Philosophy Biology Undecided Physics NBB History Business Music/Business Music/International Affairs Undecided Undecided Music/Chemistry Music/Biology Biology/Music Biology/Music

Bass Hannah Perron s Alex Petralia : •

Princeton Junction, NJ History Atlanta, GA Music/Undecided

Keyboard Vivian Zhao

Phoenix, AZ

Music/NBB

Video and Audio Production Alice Hong, DMA Yihoon Shin Eric Zhang NBB: Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology • Emory Youth Symphony Orchestra Alumni s Woodruff/Music Woodruff Scholar H Music Liberal Arts Award : Edward Goodwin Scruggs Lessons Scholarship holder u Elnora Ruth Smith Scholarship holder 12

Emory String, Wind, and Percussion Faculty Laura Ardan, clarinet • Marc Boehm, trombone Emily Brebach, oboe • Jay Christy, violin • David Coucheron, violin • Jason Eklund, horn s Karen Freer, cello • Adam Frey, euphonium Anthony Georgeson, bassoon • Marci Gurnow, clarinet • Roee Harran, cello Yinzi Kong, viola u Michael Kurth, bass • Michael Moore, tuba • Ed Nicholson, trombone s

Gary Paulo, saxophone Scott Pollard, percussion Jaclyn Rainey, horn • Elisabeth Remy-Johnson, harp • Sasha Shatalova Prior, oboe Jessica Sherer, flute Christina Smith, flute • Stuart Stephenson, trumpet • Amy Trotz, horn H Shelly Unger, bassoon Guang Wang, cello u Jessica Shuang Wu, violin u Mark Yancich, percussion • Jim Zellers, flute s • Atlanta Symphony Orchestra s Atlanta Opera Orchestra H Atlanta Ballet Orchestra u Vega String Quartet

Department of Music Administration Stephen Crist, Chair Kristin Wendland, Director of Undergraduate Studies Martha Shockey, Senior Secretary Kathy Summers, Academic Department Administrator Sasha Shatalova Prior, Program Coordinator Julia Hudgins, Academic Services Coordinator

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More events coming soon to the Schwartz Center Virtual Stage schwartz.emory.edu/virtual-stage ECMSA Beethoven String Quartets November 1, 2020 at 4 p.m.

The Vega String Quartet continues its exploration of the complete Beethoven String Quartets including ops. 18, No. 6; 74; and 132 with guest first violin David Coucheron. Award-winning classical music radio host Bill McGlaughlin gives an accompanying lecture.

Third Coast Percussion

November 13, 2020 at 8 p.m.

In this exclusive concert livestreamed from Chicago, the Grammy Award–winning Third Coast Percussion performs works from Perpetulum, a Philip Glass score the Chicago Tribune calls “rich in musical incident, its meters and textures constantly changing . . . immensely appealing to hear.”

ECMSA Noontime Series Beethoven Violin Sonata and String Trio, Beethoven 2020 Friday, December 4, 2020 at noon

ECMSA concludes its yearlong celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday with a performance of his Violin Sonata No. 10 featuring David Coucheron and William Ransom, and the String Trio in C Minor performed by members of the Vega Quartet.

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In a typical year, Music at Emory presents more than 150 events across multiple Emory venues; however, in this challenging season, we are committed to coming together virtually for a variety of musical offerings.

Spring 2021 concerts remain as scheduled, but are subject to change based on guidance from Emory University and public health officials.

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