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Julia Tai Music Director Finalist Praised by the Seattle Times as poised yet passionate, Julia Tai is quickly becoming one of today’s most dynamic young conductors on the international stage. She has conducted orchestras around the world, including the American Youth Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Czech Republic), Brandenburger Symphoniker (Germany), Estonian National Youth Symphony (Estonia), New Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria), Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (Mexico), Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil Charlos Chávez (Mexico), and the Seattle Symphony.

As the Music Director of Philharmonia Northwest, Julia Tai has established a reputation for her creative programming and community partnerships. Under her direction, the orchestra has developed a robust outreach program, working with students from elementary to high school, as well as collaborating with dancers and visual artists. Tai is also the conductor and Co-Artistic Director of the Seattle Modern Orchestra, which champions the music of today, commissioning and premiering new works from an international lineup of composers. The orchestra operates at that exciting cusp between old and new, between tradition and innovation, (Vanguard Seattle) and is where the future is more likely to be found (Alex Ross, The New Yorker).

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Tai received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she was awarded “Outstanding Graduate.” She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the University of Washington.

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Jeffrey Biegel Piano Since 1999, Jeffrey Biegel has commissioned ten composers to bring new music for piano and orchestra to the repertoire. Considered the most prolific artist of his generation, Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters upon Mr. Biegel, for his achievements in performance, recordings, chamber music, champion of new music, composer, arranger and educator. Among his recent recordings and performances, Mr. Biegel performed the World Premiere of Giovanni Allevi’s ‘Concerto for Piano and Orchestra’ with Orchestra Kentucky and in Milan’s Teatro dal Vermes, recording with Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana. In 2019, Grammy winning composer, Dick Tunney unveils the new “Peanuts Concerto” for piano and orchestra based on music by Vince Guaraldi for its World Premiere with Orchestra Kentucky and Mr. Biegel. Equally championing pop music icons, Mr. Biegel has brought Jimmy Webb’s ‘Nocturne for Piano and Orchestra’ to the public and, PDQ Bach’s ‘Concerto for Simply Grand Piano and Orchestra’ by Peter Schickele with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

The first solo digital recording on Mr. Biegel’s Naturally Sharp label will be released in 2019, and, in 2020, he will premiere Jim Stephenson’s first piano concerto, tentatively titled, “Water” - in both its life-sustaining and destructive forces.

A leading pioneer of concerto projects joining multiple orchestras as a model for commissioning new music in the 21st century, Mr. Biegel created the first largest consortium of orchestras in 1998. Additionally, Mr. Biegel is an avid composer and his choral music is published by the Hal Leonard Corporation, Carl Fischer, Porfiri & Horvath and The LeDor Group.

Leonard Bernstein said of pianist Jeffrey Biegel: “He played fantastic Liszt. He is a splendid musician and a brilliant performer.” These comments launched Mr. Biegel’s 1986 New York recital debut, as the third recipient of the Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Award in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. He studied at The Juilliard School with Adele Marcus, herself a pupil of Josef Lhevinne and Artur Schnabel, and is currently on faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, a City University of New York (CUNY).

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president’s message Jim Valeo Welcome to the opening concert of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale’s 2019-2020 season, the orchestra’s 65th.

This is a history making season, one that will shape the future of the MSA for perhaps years to come. Tonight you will meet Julia Tai, the first of five candidates from whom one will be chosen the Music Director of the MSO. Your search committee has worked diligently, sorting through well over 100 applicants and has chosen these five candidates considering a myriad of criteria including experience, talent, personality, knowledge, compatibility, and, perhaps most important, fit with the Missoula community.

Now it is up to you—our audience, community, and musicians--to assess the committee’s work and to help determine our next leader. As you will see starting with this concert, everyone will have a part in this process and please be aware that I am available to discuss your thoughts at any time.

Enjoy the season.

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Executive Director Jo May Salonen Welcome to our season opener concert, featuring our first Music Director finalist, Julia Tai. We have spent the past two weeks with Julia and are thrilled you now get to meet and experience her leading the Missoula Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Tai has selected an intriguing and diverse program – under her direction our orchestra will perform selections from two “giant” composers of the 20th century, Bernstein and Gershwin, along with the Gaelic Symphony written by the first, successful American female composer, Amy Beach. I think you’ll be quite pleased!

As our Board President Jim Valeo said, we want your feedback about each of our Music Director finalists and strongly encourage you to fill out the survey form. You really do have a say in selecting the next conductor for YOUR Missoula Symphony.

Enjoy and thank you for joining us for this concert season.

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Julia tai, Music Director Finalist Music Director’s Chair sponsored by Rick & Diana Nash FIRST VIOLIN Margaret Nichols Baldridge, concertmaster Chair sponsored by Janet & Harry Haines.

Loy Koch, associate concertmaster Chair sponsored in honor of M. Stephen Rasch and Lonye Rasch Janet Allison Camas Allison-Bunnell Sally Daer Wes Douglas Peter Dayton Tasha Fain Suzanne Hartzell Linda Lacey Nancy Lofgren Kohler Madeleine McKelvey Edwin Mellander SECOND VIOLIN Kira Lee, acting principal Chair sponsored by Laura Patterson Pam Hillygus, associate principal Natalie Grieco, assistant principal Ken Ballinger Anneliese Broman Patricia Forsberg Jeanne Hargett Will Hunt Julie Lacey Maddi Ogle Emily Rogers+ Patrick Shannon VIOLA Colleen Hunter, principal Chair sponsored by Mary Ann & Robert Moseley Martha Ballard Thayer, assistant principal Chair sponsored by Robert & Carol Seim Jodi Allison-Bunnell Leslie Collins Rose Bayley Ginnaty+ Kathryn Mellander Lea Tonnerre+ Christine Wallace Richard Wells Ryan Zoani+ CELLO Adam Collins, principal Chair sponsored by

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Dan & Sophia Lambros Christine Sopko, assistant principal Chair sponsored by Louisa & Paul Axelrod Susan Anderson Melissa Armstrong Joan Chesebro Dawn Douglass David Harmsworth+ DOUBLE BASS Ryan Davis, acting principal Chair sponsored by Richard & Alice Dailey Martha Ilgenfritz William James Dillon Johns Michael Johns Nicholas Timmerhoff FLUTE Jennifer Cooper, principal Chair sponsored by Laura & Mark Haythornthwaite Julia Vasquez Hugo Romero OBOE Susi Stipich, principal Chair sponsored by Jennifer & Ben Yonce Olivia Adams ENGLISH HORN Jennifer Gookin Cavanaugh, principal Chair sponsored by Jo May & Brian Salonen CLARINET Christopher Kirkpatrick, principal Chair sponsored by Sue & John Talbot Polly Huppert Daniel Sullivan BASSOON Alicia L. McLean, principal Logan Beskoon

TRUMPET Brendan McGlynn, principal Chair sponsored by Ann & Tom Boone Jens Jacobsen James Smart TROMBONE Rob Tapper, principal Chair sponsored by Frank & Maggie Allen Tomi Kent Chris Porter TUBA Benedict Kirby, principal Chair sponsored by Pam Gardiner & Lyle Geurts TIMPANI Robert LedBetter, principal Chair sponsored by Michael and Traci Punke PERCUSSION Samuel McKenzie, assistant principal Rosie Cerquone Jonathan Woods HARP Peggy Young, principal Chair sponsored by Maria & Peter van Loben Sels PIANO Christopher Hahn, principal Chair sponsored by Twila Wolfe Librarian Suzanne Hartzell Personnel Manager Susi Stipich Stage Manager Olivia Adams

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Program Notes

By Joe Nickell Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) — Three Dance Episodes from On the Town For many Americans growing up in the 1950s, Leonard Bernstein was classical music. This young, vivacious musician—the first American-born maestro to ever hold a major conducting post in this country—took orchestra concerts out of the concert hall and put them on radio and television, bringing the glories of classical music into the living rooms of millions of Americans. Through his keen insight and contagious love of music, Bernstein schooled a generation in the subtleties and range of classical music.

Bernstein was a particular advocate for American music, and particularly musical theatre. He once wrote that, “the whole development of musical comedy in this country is based on its ever-increasing alliance with American elements, American subject matter, American themes and American musical vernacular...”

So it only made sense that he would eventually compose music for Broadway.

In 1943, a young choreographer by the name of Jerome Robbins approached Bernstein with the idea of collaborating on a ballet about 24 hours in the life of three sailors on shore leave in New York. Bernstein soon produced the score for the ballet, Fancy Free, which premiered in April of 1944. The set designer for the ballet, Oliver Smith, suggested it would make an excellent musical as well.

Within months, Bernstein and Robbins, along with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, produced On the Town. It was an instant hit; but more importantly, it introduced Broadway to the composer and choreographer, both of whom would soon become central figures in the world of musical theatre.

Bernstein himself called the musical “a happy and moving show about wartime, in the lightest possible vein, but with a most serious esthetic means.” That summation shines through in the music that Bernstein later culled out for the suite of three dance episodes that we will hear in this concert. By turns jazzy, sentimental, frenetic, and pictorial, Bernstein’s music perfectly captures the spirit of its time and place. The first dance episode depicts Gabey, one of the musical’s central characters, as he excitedly searches the city for the poster-girl he has fallen in love with. In the wistful second dance, Gabey laments that, despite its constant hubbub, New York is a lonely town. In the third dance, the three sailors celebrate their exploits in Times Square.

George Gershwin (1898-1937) —Piano Concerto in F In 1924, George Gershwin had his first major breakthrough into the world of ‘serious’ music with the now-classic Rhapsody in Blue for piano and jazz orchestra.

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conductor Ferde Grofé to orchestrate the Rhapsody. Word had it that Gershwin didn’t know how to score his own works.

But he did have his fans in the establishment, among them Walter Damrosch, then-musical director of the New York Symphony Society. On April 17 of the following year, Damrosch engaged Gershwin for the production and seven performances of a piano concerto. After signing the contract, Gershwin laughed that he would have to read up on what, exactly, a concerto was.

Underneath the music’s surface, it’s clear that the composer had more than a small chip on his shoulder. “Many persons had thought that the Rhapsody was only a happy accident,” he later told his biographer, Isaac Goldberg. “Well, I went out...to show them that there was plenty more where that had come from. I made up my mind to do a piece of absolute music.”

For this last reason Gershwin soon abandoned the work’s original working title, New York Concerto; and for the other reasons, he chose this time to complete all of the orchestration of the Concerto in F himself.

In the end, this is surely the more wide-ranging and ambitious work when compared to the Rhapsody. While it may come up a dime short of those soaring, can’t-get-it-outta-your-head melodies, its three-movement structure builds more variant moods, from the sublime Charleston that opens the work, to the captivating entry of the piano, the restless quietude of the second movement’s opening theme, the aggressive rondo of the third movement—this is a concerto

Clef Notes Bernstein — Three Dance Episodes from On the Town Culled from the American composer’s first musical, these exuberant miniatures capture the dazzling excitement of New York in the 1940s, as experienced by a trio of sailors on shore leave.

Gershwin — Piano Concerto in F A follow-up to Gershwin’s immensely popular Rhapsody in Blue, this work more closely follows the typical structure of a concerto while still exhibiting the composer’s incomparable gifts as a jazz melodist.

Beach — “Gaelic” Symphony The first major symphony by a woman composer, this four-movement work draws on the spirit of Gaelic music to create a symphony that is at once weighty and dramatic, while still rooted in innocent, simple melodies.

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proper, by any measure; and a concerto that has justifiably become a fixture of the American repertoire.

Amy Beach (1867-1944) — Symphony in E Minor, “Gaelic” Born in 1867, Amy Beach developed precocious talents that today seem inconceivable or, at best, exaggerated: before her second birthday she is said to have been able to sing 40 tunes, always in the same key; a year later she was improvising vocal harmonies to her mother’s singing; and she gave her first public piano recital at age seven, playing works by Handel, Beethoven, and Chopin.

It’s thus hardly surprising that she was to later become the first great woman composer and one of the most influential figures in American music history.

Her music was performed across America and Europe during her lifetime, and her “Gaelic” Symphony was the first symphony composed by a woman to be performed by a major American orchestra.

At the time that she considered taking up the challenge of a full-scale symphony, Beach was unaware of any American or European woman who had successfully written and received performances of a symphony. The reasons seemed painfully obvious enough: symphonies required the services of a sympathetic conductor and orchestra to pull off — and all the leading conductors and musicians of the time were men.

It was another outsider — a composer of foreign descent living in America — who cemented Beach’s resolve and inspired the symphony’s character. In May of 1893, Czech composer Antonín Dvorák made a widely publicized proclamation that Americans needed a true native music of their own, and that such music should be “founded upon what are called negro melodies.” A number of leading American composers responded to Dvorák’s call in a series of responses published in the Boston Herald, including Beach — who argued that African Americans were no more “native” than Italians, Swedes, or Russians. She ended her response by asserting: “we of the North should be far more likely to be influenced by the old English, Scotch, or Irish songs, inherited with our literature from our ancestors.”

Dvorak’s declaration set the stage for the premiere of what would become his signature work, and the most important early “American” symphony in history: the “New World” Symphony. Within a month of the premiere of Dvorak’s masterpiece, Beach began composing her own symphony in earnest. She took her subject matter seriously, studying Irish history and transcriptions of folk tunes; some of those melodies ultimately appeared in the symphony, which she completed in 1896. The new work was premiered by the Boston Symphony and was instrumental in elevating Beach’s reputation.

The symphony is structured in the traditional four movements, with hefty outer movements framing lighter middle movements. The first movement begins with a stormy rumble before introducing the first and second themes, both of them borrowed from Beach’s own folksong, “Dark is the Night.” The movement plays out in traditional sonata form, and features a third theme presented by the woodwinds in imitation of a bagpipe.

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The second movement is, by contrast, lilting and light, built again on a borrowed melody — in this case the tune, “The Little Field of Barley.” Beach’s skills as an orchestrator are here highlighted, with colorful textures and motoric rhythms carrying the movement forward.

The third movement is intended to evoke, in Beach’s words, “the laments of a primitive people [the Irish], their romance and their dreams.” The music is built on two traditional melodies, “Cushlamachree” and “Which way did she go?,” which Beach stretches to encompass moods that range from quiet lyricism to passionate heroism.

The finale, according to Beach, “tries to express the rough, primitive character of the Celtic people, their sturdy daily life, their passions and battles, and the elemental nature of their processes of thought and its resulting action.”

Constructed entirely on original melodies, the movement richly evokes the spirit of traditional Irish music and the stark, open vistas of the north country before ultimately arriving at the music’s final coda — a rush of exuberance that comes in wave after wave, leading to a rousing ending.

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This concert will be broadcast over Montana Public Radio on Sunday evening, October 13, at 8 p.m.

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MONTANA SUZUKI INSTITUTE PRESENTED BY THE MISSOULA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION

The Suzuki Method is based on the principle that all children possess ability that can be developed and enhanced through a nurturing environment. Though the Suzuki method enables children to play music to a high standard, and many Suzuki-trained students have become highly acclaimed professional musicians, the training of professionals is not the aim: the emphasis throughout is on the development of the whole child. The goal is to develop a supportive community around our children – one in which parents and teachers work together to ensure that the full potential of every child is developed.

Mr. Suzuki’s vision was “education that inculcates, brings out, develops the human potential... that all children on this globe may become fine human beings, happy people of superior ability, for I am convinced that all children are born with this potential.”

We are proud and honored to present the Montana Suzuki Institute; offering musical instruction of the highest quality to children of all ages in a nurturing environment that brings families together. Your support in any amount will make a meaningful impact on the Montana Suzuki Institute. Thank you!

MONTANA SUZUKI INSTITUTE SUPPORTERS The MSA is grateful to the following patrons for their generous gifts. Listed below are contributions of $25 or more within 12 months of September 7, 2019. We apologize for any omissions or errors.

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TWINKLE – ($25 - $49) Jon-Claud Nix Jo May & Brian Salonen

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An interview with Julia Tai

By Joe Nickell, MSO percussionist & program notes author Joe: Talk to me about your programming philosophy. What inspired the program for this concert, and then how would you see yourself approaching a whole season with the orchestra?

Julia: I always look for ways to mix things up, the new and the old, and create a season or concert that has diversity. So, for example, with this concert I set out to do all American music. Of course Bernstein, Gershwin we know really well. These giants who we admire for their amazing, beautiful music. But then who else is out there that we’ve never heard of, who would add a different element?

That’s how I came to Amy Beach. I have played her chamber music in the past, and she wrote beautiful songs as well. She also wrote a couple of symphonies, and her most famous one is the “Gaelic” Symphony. It was premiered by the Boston Symphony in 1896, and she was the first female composer that gained public attention. She was a child prodigy, a pianist, and she wrote this beautiful, luscious music. You could hear those Wagnerian chords, and really bold and luscious harmonies. The beautiful melody, she was answering a call from Dvořák saying, that Americans have to find the music that is distinctly their own, and so she went back to her Celtic roots and found a lot of great material that she incorporated into her symphony. It’s just a host of beautiful melodies that she was able to transform and connect from one to the other.

It’s a beautiful piece, and I don’t know why it’s not in the mainstream of famous symphonies. Even the Seattle Symphony — I was talking to one of the players the other day and he said they’ve never done this symphony that he knows of. And yet this was such a formative part of American music.

It’s part of a generation of Americans writing in this Romantic language that kind of was dominating Europe at the time.

So that’s something I love to do is just make new discoveries and bring them to audiences. When you mix new things with familiar things, you can hear the familiar things with fresh ears. So, that’s always been a part of my philosophy. I don’t like concerts where the music is all from the same era, or all from the same family of musical language.

In terms of a whole season, I have always thought about how much diversity I could put in a season. Diversity from different periods. From Baroque, Classical, Romantic to Contemporary; women and men composers; composers of different backgrounds and ethnicity. How can I create a season that is interesting?

I often think of music the way you think of food. You can love Italian food, but you may not want pasta every day for the rest of your life. So you have Italian food one night, and you have Chinese food the other night, you have French food or Mexican food. So for a whole season of concerts, what flavors can you offer that is fresh to the audience while also making sure you give them a taste of their favorite things. People who love living 28

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composers and love talking to them, they find something in the season. People who are Romantic music fans or Baroque music fans, they have something in the season for them. That is always what I’m thinking of when I program. How do I mix all these different things up and create a wonderful dish that everybody will like.

Let’s talk a little bit about your role off of the podium in the community and with your organization. How do you view that in a small community like this?

What a conductor does off the podium is, in some ways, much more important than what the conductor does on the podium. The rehearsals and the concerts are only really 20 percent of the job. The other 80 percent is going out in the community to develop relationships — personal, organizational — and to really listen to the people about what they like, what they want, what they need. When we were going to start an outreach program at my chamber orchestra here in Seattle, I went to a lot of schools and talked to the music teacher. I asked them questions about what kind of programs are already offered and what can we do that they don’t have and wish you had. That kind of information and relationship is so important. As a conductor, I gain programming ideas by talking to people, and what kind of concerts they fancy.

Every community is different, and the most important job for the conductor is really to go out there and talk to people to understand the community and how the symphony can be a part of it.

What is your favorite music and/or composers of all time?

Oh, it’s so hard to pick a favorite! But I’ve always loved Gustav Mahler because his music is so large in scale. Those masterpieces that when you listen to them, you’re listening to a piece that is bigger than life, bigger than time. And Mahler’s Sixth Symphony for sure. I think there was some difficult times in my life, and to hear Mahler’s Sixth it’s like: This is why we’re doing this. It’s so powerful. Every time, if I feel like I’m not quite sure why I do what I do, I’ll go back to that piece and be reminded: This is why.

Of course I love many different composers and genres as well, but that piece has a very special place.

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scholarship fund Continuing the grand tradition of the Missoula Symphony Guild, the Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund is dedicated to providing scholarships for outstanding University of Montana music students who play in the Missoula Symphony Orchestra or sing in the Missoula Symphony Chorale.

This year, the Missoula Symphony Association will award a total of $6,500 in scholarships to five talented young musicians. This commitment is possible thanks to the generosity of the individuals listed below. Every penny of their donations goes directly to scholarships. Our 2019-2020 scholarship recipients are noted on the Orchestra Roster with a “+” sign.

scholarship fund supporTers The MSA is grateful to the following patrons for their generous gifts. Listed below are contributions of $25 or more within 12 months of September 7, 2019. We apologize for any omissions or errors.

PRESTISSIMO ($500+) Janet Boyer Betty Thisted PRESTO ($250 - $499) Tom & Ann Boone Doug & Caryl Klein Anita Kurtz Magee Carol Word Mary & David Wesley VIVACE ($100 – $249) Anonymous Phil & Dorleen Bakke Hope Campbell Patti Canaris Cathy Capps & Tom Rickard Tom & Pam Copley Jane Dennison Donald & Shirley Hyndman Corinne Kirscher Dan & Sophia Lambros Susan Lockner Karen & Jerry McConnell Donald & Charla Murray Karen A. Orzech Peggy Peschel – Mountainwood Estates Robert & Carol Seim

Sara Alice Steubs Linda Stoudt John & Sue Talbot Jim & Marci Valeo Dr. & Mrs. F. L. Whitsell Betsy & Warren Wilcox Twila Wolfe ALLEGRO ($50 - $99) Brenda Bolton Betty Christian Evelyn Henry Marlene Koch Lynn Metcalf Sharon Phillips William & Sarah Towle Kathy Turner William & Jean Woessner ANDANTE ($25 - $49) Anonymous Tim & Kathe Calcagno Betsy Doty Jim & Kay Driscoll Jo May & Brian Salonen Carol Stovall

To be a part of the Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund, contact the Symphony Office at 721-3194, or mail a check payable to Missoula Symphony Scholarship Fund to PO Box 8301, Missoula 59807. Donations are 100% tax-deductible.

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