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CONTENTS

UTAH SYMPHONY MARCH/APRIL 2024

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Welcome

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Season Sponsors

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TCHAIKOVSKY’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 & A CONCERTO WITH THE WORLD’S TOP VIOLIST FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2024 / 7:30 PM

Board of Trustees

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Utah Symphony

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Donors

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DANNY ELFMAN’S PERCUSSION CONCERTO WITH COLIN CURRIE MARCH 22, 2024 / 10:00 AM MARCH 22 & 23, 2024 / 07:30 PM

Acknowledgments

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Administration

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@UtahSymphony

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GUITAR CELEBRATIONS: JIJI PLAYS RODRIGO’S GUITAR CONCERTO APRIL 19, 2024 / 7:30 PM APRIL 20, 2024 / 5:30 PM

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WELCOME

On behalf of the board, musicians, and staff of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is our pleasure to welcome you to Abravanel Hall and today’s concert featuring the incredible musicians of the Utah Symphony.

STEVEN BROSVIK President & CEO

BRIAN GREEFF Board of Trustees Chairman

Did you know that USUO’s Education programs offer to the citizens of Utah one of the most extensive arts education initiatives by a professional musical arts organization in the United States? Our professional musicians provide students with the gift of live classical music and the inspiration to develop their own creative capabilities to enhance their lives throughout the school year. March is an appropriate time to reflect on the importance of this work, as it has been celebrated around the nation for nearly 40 years as Music in Our Schools Month®. Sponsored by the National Association for Music Education, the initiative focuses the nation’s attention on the need for and benefits of quality music education programs in our schools. We say “bravo” to the teachers, schools, and parents who make sure that music is part of the education of our youth! These programs are vital for creating well-rounded students, impart important lessons in discipline, creativity, and teamwork, and encourage higher graduation rates.

In Maurice Abravanel Hall in the coming weeks, the Utah Symphony performs four dynamic Masterworks programs with richly sonorous compositions by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Brahms, Dvořák, Sibelius, Smetana, and Rodrigo often paired with contemporary works by living composers which engage and challenge our professional musicians while expanding our concepts of sound possibilities in the concert hall. We hope you return with the children in your lives for two family-focused Saturday morning concerts, Peter and the Wolf and An Outer-space Adventure! The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket and that you join us for our Pops Series tribute to Louis Armstrong with Jazz trumpeter Byron Stripling at the beginning of March.

Thank you for joining us today. Your attendance at concerts and support of USUO ensures that the superbly creative people of this organization serve and inspire our community as deeply and broadly as possible.

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George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Board of Directors (l to r): Robert M. Graham , Spencer F. Eccles, Lisa Eccles

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ELECTED BOARD Brian Greeff* Chair Annette W. Jarvis* Vice Chair and Secretary Joanne F. Shiebler* Vice Chair Steven Brosvik* President & CEO Austin Bankhead Dr. Stewart E. Barlow Judith M. Billings George Cardon-Bystry Gary L. Crocker John D’Arcy* David L. Dee

Barry L. Eden* Jason Englund Senator Luz Escamilla Theresa A. Foxley Brandon Fugal Dr. Julie Aiken Hansen Daniel Hemmert* Dennis H. Hranitzky Stephen Tanner Irish Thomas N. Jacobson Abigail E. Magrane Judy Moreton Dr. Dinesh C. Patel Frank R. Pignanelli Gary B. Porter Shari H. Quinney Miguel R. Rovira Stan Sorensen

Dr. Shane D. Stowell Thomas Thatcher W. James Tozer David Utrilla Kelly Ward Don Willie Kim R. Wilson Thomas Wright* Henry C. Wurts*

Clark D. Jones Thomas M. Love* David T. Mortensen Scott S. Parker

David A. Petersen Patricia A. Richards* Harris Simmons David B. Winder

Kristen Fletcher Richard G. Horne Ronald W. Jibson

E. Jeffery Smith

Lisa Eccles Spencer F. Eccles Dr. Anthony W. Middleton, Jr. Edward Moreton Marilyn H. Neilson

Stanley B. Parrish Marcia Price Jeffrey W. Shields, Esq. Diana Ellis Smith

MUSICIAN REPRESENTATIVES Claudia Restrepo* Barbara Ann Scowcroft* EX-OFFICIO Jean Vaniman Onstage Ogden

LIFETIME BOARD William C. Bailey Kem C. Gardner* Jon Huntsman, Jr. G. Frank Joklik

TRUSTEES EMERITI Carolyn Abravanel Dr. J. Richard Baringer Howard S. Clark

HONORARY BOARD Jesselie B. Anderson Kathryn Carter R. Don Cash Raymond J. Dardano Geralyn Dreyfous

* Executive Committee Member

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OBOE Zachary Hammond Principal The Gerald B. & Barbara F. Stringfellow Chair

David Robertson Creative Partner

Yuan Qi Associate Principal

James Hall Associate Principal

Sharon Bjorndal Lavery Chorus Director & Opera Assistant Conductor

Emily Brown~ Julie Edwards Joel Gibbs Carl Johansen Scott Lewis# John Posadas Leslie Richards~ Whittney Sjogren

Lissa Stolz

VIOLIN* Madeline Adkins Concertmaster The Jon M. & Karen Huntsman Chair, in honor of Wendell J. & Belva B. Ashton Kathryn Eberle Associate Concertmaster The Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Chair Laura Ha 2nd Associate Concertmaster Claude Halter Principal Second Wen Yuan Gu Associate Principal Second Evgenia Zharzhavskaya Assistant Principal Second Karen Wyatt 2nd Assistant Principal Second Sara Bauman~ Erin David Joseph Evans Lun Jiang Rebekah Johnson Tina Johnson~ Alison Kim Amanda Kofoed~ Jennifer Kozbial Posadas~ Veronica Kulig David Langr Hannah Linz Yuki MacQueen Alexander Martin Rebecca Moench Hugh Palmer David Porter Lynn Maxine Rosen Barbara Ann Scowcroft Ju Hyung Shin Bonnie Terry Julie Wunderle

CELLO* Matthew Johnson Acting Principal The J. Ryan Selberg Memorial Chair Andrew Larson Acting Associate Principal John Eckstein Walter Haman Anne Lee Louis-Philippe Robillard Kevin Shumway Hannah Thomas-Hollands~ Pegsoon Whang BASS* David Yavornitzky Principal Corbin Johnston Associate Principal Andrew Keller Edward Merritt James Stroup~ Jens Tenbroek Thomas Zera HARP Louise Vickerman Principal FLUTE Mercedes Smith Principal The Val A. Browning Chair Lisa Byrnes Associate Principal Caitlyn Valovick Moore PICCOLO Caitlyn Valovick Moore

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ENGLISH HORN Lissa Stolz CLARINET Tad Calcara Principal The Norman C. & Barbara Lindquist Tanner Chair, in memory of Jean Lindquist Pell Erin Svoboda-Scott Associate Principal Lee Livengood# Chris Bosco~ BASS CLARINET Lee Livengood# Chris Bosco~ E-FLAT CLARINET Erin Svoboda-Scott BASSOON Lori Wike Principal The Edward & Barbara Moreton Chair Leon Chodos Associate Principal Jennifer Rhodes CONTRABASSOON Leon Chodos HORN Jessica Danz Principal Edmund Rollett Associate Principal Jonathan Chiou Julia Pilant~ Stephen Proser

TRUMPET Travis Peterson Principal Jeff Luke Associate Principal Seretta Hart~ Peter Margulies# Paul Torrisi TROMBONE Mark Davidson** Principal Sam Elliot Acting Principal

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Matthew Straw Assistant Conductor

VIOLA* Brant Bayless Principal The Sue & Walker Wallace Chair

Thierry Fischer Music Director Emeritus

Andrew Zaharis~ Acting Second Trombone BASS TROMBONE Graeme Mutchler TUBA Alexander Purdy Principal TIMPANI George Brown Principal Eric Hopkins Associate Principal PERCUSSION Keith Carrick Principal Eric Hopkins Michael Pape KEYBOARD Jason Hardink Principal LIBRARIANS Clovis Lark Principal Claudia Restrepo ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Walt Zeschin Director of Orchestra Personnel Hannah Thomas-Hollands Orchestra Personnel Manager * String Seating Rotates ** On Leave # Sabbatical ~ Substitute Member

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SYMPHONY NO. 2 & A CONCERTO WITH THE WORLD’S TOP VIOLIST FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2024 / 7:30 PM Maurice Abravanel Hall

LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA, conductor TABEA ZIMMERMANN, viola

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Suite from The Invisible City of Kitezh

MICHAEL JARRELL

Émergences-Résurgences (U.S. Premiere; Utah Symphony co-commission)

MASTERWORKS SERIES

TCHAIKOVSKY’S

TABEA ZIMMERMANN, viola

INTERMISSION

WEBER

Andante & Hungarian Rondo I. Andante II. Allegretto

TABEA ZIMMERMANN, viola

TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony No. 2 I. Andante II. Andantino III. Scherzo IV. Finale

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

LIDIYA YANKOVSKAYA Conductor

Lidiya Yankovskaya is a fiercely committed advocate for Slavic masterpieces, operatic rarities, and contemporary works on the leading edge of classical music. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas. Following her debut at Santa Fe Opera in a new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka in summer 2023, Yankovskaya conducts orchestras across the United States, including Atlanta Symphony

TABEA ZIMMERMANN Viola

Tabea Zimmermann, a versatile musician, renowned as a violist, performs globally as a soloist and chamber artist. Alongside her extensive concert career, she’s committed to nurturing young talent, collaborating on new works, and serving as president of several foundations. At 21, she became Germany’s youngest professor and has held teaching positions in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Saarland. Advocating for contemporary music, she’s premiered

Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Symphony San Jose. Yankovskaya deepens her ongoing relationship with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, leading MusicNOW world premieres by Jessie Montgomery and Curtis Stewart, and designing a series of educational concerts. As Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, she leads a new Francesca Zambello production of The Nose and David T. Little’s Soldier Songs in the company’s 50th anniversary season.

compositions by Ligeti, Holliger, and Rihm, enriching the viola’s repertoire.

Zimmermann values quality over quantity, restricting her performances to around 50 annually. Her passion for chamber music shines through collaborations with eminent artists, demonstrating her belief in egalitarian ensembles. She’s affiliated with prestigious orchestras and festivals, recognized for her leadership in the music community. Zimmermann’s multifaceted influence extends to societal engagement, promoting intercultural projects and strengthening musicians’ roles. This dedication has earned her numerous awards, including Germany’s Order of Merit.

Go beyond the stage and gain insights into the music with our Pre-Concert Talks featuring expert commentary as well as informal conversations with staff and artists.

45 minutes before each performance in the First Tier Room.

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Suite from The Invisible City of Kitezh Duration: 24 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – NIKOLAI RIMSKYKORSAKOV (b. 1844-1908) – In the last years of his impressive artistic life, Rimsky-Korsakov was a man pulled in two directions by time. He had sided with his university students in the 1905 Revolution and his progressive sympathy for their outrage cost him his job. Glazunov

Émergences-Résurgences Duration: 23 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – MICHAEL JARRELL (b. 1958) – During a career marked by awards and international successes in every genre, Swiss composer Michael Jarrell is perhaps known best for his extensive focus on music for solo instruments and orchestra. In fact, the majority of his orchestral catalogue is

Andante & Hungarian Rondo Duration: 8 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – CARL MARIA VON WEBER (b. 1786-1826) – Weber’s relatively short life (he died at the age of 39) was filled with discord. Opportunity came early for him, like with the appointment as Director at the Breslau Opera at the age of 17, but so did disappointment.

The intensity of Weber’s ambition, for

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would reinstate him in due course, but Rimsky-Korsakov knew he would never again escape the gaze of the censors.

Coincident with this hard lean into the social future, Rimsky-Korsakov had the opportunity in 1907 to hear new operas

by Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy, both of which confirmed his status, by comparison, as a thing of the past. This path, his students would walk alone.

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given over to feature pieces for specific virtuosic artists. From 1988 to today, Jarrell has composed concertos (or concerto-like works) for harp, viola, percussion, cello, flute, string quartet and many for piano and violin. His Aquateinte for Oboe and Orchestra was co-commissioned by Utah Symphony in 2016 and given its U.S. premiere in Abravanel Hall.

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example, alienated members of the Breslau company and he didn’t last there beyond his initial 2-year contract. While continuing to stay busy as a composer on the side, Weber later served as private secretary to King Frederick of Württemberg’s brother Ludwig from 1807-1810. That didn’t end well either, as Weber was arrested for embezzlement, briefly jailed and banned from the region.

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HISTORY OF THE MUSIC

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, op. 17 Duration: 32 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – PIOTR ILYCH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) – Tchaikovsky was on summer “vacation” in Ukraine when he began work on his 2nd Symphony in 1872. He had recently completed his third opera, The Oprichnik, based on a tragic historical novel from the time of Ivan the Terrible, and had also

been moonlighting of late as a music critic for Moscow’s Russian Register.

Peace and quiet was very much in order, but he continued to work. Tchaikovsky’s letters from later that year show that he was excited about the piece but that it required his undivided attention. To his father in December he wrote, “My new symphony…thank God, is finished” and later added “…I am now resting.” Finally.

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COMING UP AT THE SYMPHONY...

JIJI PLAYS RODRIGO’S GUITAR CONCERTO

APRIL 19 / 7:30 PM APRIL 20 / 5:30 PM PART OF THE GUITAR CELEBRATIONS FESTIVAL

RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTO IN G WITH INGRID FLITER

APRIL 26 & 27 / 7:30 PM A FUN, THEMED EVENT—EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF MUSIC AND MOTION

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MAY 17 / 7:30 PM MAY 18 / 5:30 PM ARABIAN TALES INSPIRED RIMSKY-KORSAKOV’S BELOVED ORCHESTRAL SUITE

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PERCUSSION CONCERTO WITH COLIN CURRIE MARCH 22, 2024 / 10:00 AM MARCH 22 & 23, 2024 / 07:30 PM Maurice Abravanel Hall

DAVID DANZMAYR, conductor COLIN CURRIE, percussion

BRYCE DESSNER

MASTERWORKS SERIES

DANNY ELFMAN’S

Tromp Miniature COLIN CURRIE, percussion

DANNY ELFMAN

Percussion Concerto COLIN CURRIE, percussion

INTERMISSION

BRAHMS

Symphony No. 1

I. Un poco sostenuto — Allegro II. Andante sostenuto III. Un poco allegretto e grazioso IV. Adagio

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G U EST A R TIST S PO N SOR

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HEALTHCARE NIGHT

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

DAVID DANZMAYR Conductor

Danzmayr is in his second season as Music Director of the Oregon Symphony, having started his tenure there in the orchestra´s 125th anniversary season. He also stands at the helm of the versatile ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Columbus, an innovative orchestra comprised of musicians from all over the USA. In addition, he holds the title of Honorary Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he had served as

COLIN CURRIE Percussion

Colin Currie is a solo and chamber artist who champions new music at the highest level, hailed as being “at the summit of percussion performance today” (Gramophone). Currie is the soloist of choice for many of today’s foremost composers and conductors and performs with the world’s leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,

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Chief Conductor—leading the Zagreb musicians on several European tours with concerts in the Salzburg Festival Hall, where they performed the prestigious New Year´s concert, and the Vienna Musikverein.

Danzmayr received his musical training at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg where, after initially studying piano, he went on to study conducting in the class of Dennis Russell Davies. He has served as Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performing in all the major Scottish concert halls and in the prestigious, Orkney based, St Magnus Festival.

Philharmonia Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestras.

Currie is co-Artistic Curator of the Grafenegg Academy alongside Håkan Hardenberger, where in summer 2022 he performed the Austrian premiere of Helen Grime’s Percussion Concerto as well as coaching, conducting and performing chamber music with Academy musicians; he is Artist in Association at London’s Southbank Centre, where he continues to perform every season, Ambassador of Chamber Music Scotland and Artist in Residence at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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Tromp Miniature Duration: 7 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – BRYCE DESSNER (b. 1976) – As a member of The National, a band he helped his brother Aaron and others form in 1999, Bryce Dessner has enjoyed a lot of critical success.

The Grammy nominations, the fans, the tours—it would be enough for most people. But Bryce Dessner happens to also have an incredibly dense catalogue

Percussion Concerto Duration: 31 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – DANNY ELFMAN (b. 1953) – Danny Elfman’s reputation precedes him everywhere he goes, and it has for a while. For decades he has scored iconic films with music that was as much a character as any of the people on screen. Elfman’s Oscar nominations are few, only four to date, but his impact

Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, op. 68 Duration: 45 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) – Composers are not typically people who take their time with things, at least not by choice. Theirs is a history full of urgent prodigy lore and headlong rushes into the future, which is why we make such a fuss over how long Brahms waited to compose his first symphony.

of “classical” music and film scores in his portfolio. In addition to creating original music for The Revenant (in collaboration with Alva Noto and the recently departed Ryuichi Sakamoto), The Two Popes and C’mon C’mon (with his brother), Dessner has received commissions from wide ranging institutions like the New York Guitar Festival, the Kronos Quartet, eighth blackbird, Carnegie Hall and top orchestras from around the world.

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on the art form is undeniable and should be measured in public opinion. By that metric of devoted adoration, it is impossible to argue that there are very few like him. Elfman has also composed for live performance with orchestral works for the American Composer’s Orchestra, the American Ballet Theatre, the Library of Congress and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

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Mozart was 8 and Mendelssohn was 15.

Haydn and Schumann were in their 20s.

Not Brahms. No way. He was a robust and mature 43 in 1876 when his Symphony No. 1 finally had its premiere. The fact that he had been quietly pondering the symphony genre since as far back as 1854 speaks to how seriously he considered this step, and perhaps also confirms how uneasy he was about it.

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VIOLIN CONCERTO MARCH 29 & 30, 2024 / 7:30 PM Maurice Abravanel Hall

ANNA RAKITINA, conductor WILLIAM HAGEN, violin

SMETANA

Šárka from Má Vlast

DVOŘÁK

Violin Concerto

MASTERWORKS SERIES

DVOŘÁK’S

I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Finale: Allegro giocoso ma non troppo WILLIAM HAGEN, violin

INTERMISSION

SIBELIUS

Symphony No. 1

I. Allegro II. Andante III. Scherzo IV. Finale (quasi una fantasia)

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

ANNA RAKITINA Conductor

Anna Rakitina was the assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2023, where she was only the second woman in the orchestra’s history to hold the position.

She concluded her tenure with a highly acclaimed performance at the Tanglewood Music Festival with Joshua Bell in August 2023. Previously, she was a Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 2019–20 season. She

WILLIAM HAGEN Violin

The riveting 30-year-old American violinist William Hagen has appeared as a soloist with many of the world's great orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, San Francisco Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and many more. Already a seasoned international performer who has won friends around the world, William has been hailed as a “brilliant virtuoso…a standout” (The Dallas Morning News) whose playing is “… captivating, floating delicately above the orchestra” (Chicago Classical Review). He was the third-prize winner of the 2015 Queen Elisabeth

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won the second prize at the Malko Competition 2018, and further prizes at the ‘Deutscher Dirigentenpreis’ 2017 as well as TCO International Conducting Competition Taipei 2015.

Born in Moscow to a Ukrainian father and a Russian mother, Rakitina grew up in a musical family and began her education as a violinist before she studied conducting at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of Stanislav Diachenko. From 2016 to 2018 she studied conducting in Hamburg, Germany with Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr and graduated with a diploma.

International Music Competition, one of the highest-ranking Americans ever in the prestigious competition. William performs on the 1732 ‘Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan’ Stradivarius, on generous loan from the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation.

Since his debut with the Utah Symphony at age nine, William has performed with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Christian Arming, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Michel Tabachnik, and Hugh Wolff. A native of Salt Lake City, William first heard the violin when he was 3 and began taking lessons at age 4 with Natalie Reed, followed by Deborah Moench. At age 10, he began studying with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he studied until the age of 17.

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“Šárka” from Má Vlast Duration: 10 minutes.

THE COMPOSER – BEDRICH SMETANA (1824-1884) – If Dvorak is rightly credited with bringing Czech classical music to the wider world, Bedrich Smetana must be acknowledged as the man who fully established it at home. These two musicians, the King and Crown Prince of the Czech orchestral and operatic

Concerto for Violin in A Minor, op. 53 Duration: 32 minutes in three movements.

THE COMPOSER – ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) – Dvořák was beginning to experience the successes and pressures of international celebrity in the late 1870s.

Requests for new works were pouring in from abroad and this heightened profile did not escape notice back home in Bohemia. Dvořák soon became the go-to

Symphony No. 1 in E minor, op. 39 Duration: 38 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957) – Since long before Sibelius’ birth, Finland was a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire. By the end of the century, Finn’s were regularly whispering amongst themselves about autonomy and the Imperial Governor felt compelled to issue a manifesto that proposed a strengthened alliance with

ethos, were not the first to write music that centered Czech language and folk tradition, but Smetana was the first to wholly embrace the distinctly national voice of his people. It wasn’t always so. Born into a German-speaking household, his early professional life reflected an obsession with a Hungarian giant (Liszt) and a job in Sweden, but Smetana returned “home” to Prague for good in 1862.

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composer for important events in Prague and he eventually followed the footsteps of Smetana as musician chairman of the Artistic Society there. Whenever the political niceties of Czech notoriety weren’t taking too much of his time, he focused on opera and produced beloved works like The Peasant and the Rogue and Dmitry that would be performed dozens of times during his lifetime.

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Russia. It had the opposite effect, and half a million citizens signed a petition against it.

Sibelius, composer of Kullervo, a large-scale symphonic cantata from 1892 based on the Finnish national epic Kalevala, was expected to once again say something patriotic through his music. He obliged with Finlandia, a work he considered “relatively insignificant” but one that made permanent his status as a hero among his people.

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Join us for evenings of WONDER.

KING LEAR

THE SWEET REMAINS

Thu, March 7, 6:00 p.m.

Fri, March 8, 7:30 p.m.

TRAILBLAZING WOMEN OF COUNTRY

SMITH THEATRE

BB JONES THEATRE

Thu, March 21, 7:30 p.m.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE:

CONCERT HALL

CONTEMPORARY DANCE ENSEMBLE

ODE TO OURSELVES

MIXTAPE LIVE

INTO THE WOODS

Fri, April 5, 7:00 p.m.

April 5–13, 7:30 p.m.

CONCERT HALL

SMITH THEATRE

March 28–30, 7:30 p.m.

2:00 p.m. (Sat, March 30) SMITH THEATRE

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JIJI PLAYS RODRIGO’S GUITAR CONCERTO APRIL 19, 2024 / 7:30 PM APRIL 20, 2024 / 5:30 PM Maurice Abravanel Hall

DAVID ROBERTSON, conductor ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH, guitar ensemble JIJI, guitar JOE GORE, guitar DANIELE GOTTARDO, guitar STEVEN MACKEY, guitar

MASTERWORKS SERIES

GUITAR CELEBRATIONS:

GRETCHEN MENN, guitar JAMES MOORE, guitar HEIKO OSSIG, guitar

STEVEN MACKEY

Turn the Key STEVEN MACKEY, guitar

ARR. JOE GORE & DAVID ROBERTSON

Falling Through Time: Music from the 1300s JOE GORE, guitar

(APRIL 19) JAMES MOORE

Sleep is Shattered for Electric Guitar and Orchestra

(APRIL 20) STEVE MACKEY

Aluminum Flowers INTERMISSION

ARR. LEO BROUWER

Beatlerianas (From Yesterday to Penny Lane) HEIKO OSSIG, guitar

GOTTARDO

Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra DANIELE GOTTARDO, guitar

RODRIGO

Concierto de Aranjuez JIJI, guitar

ZAPPA

G-Spot Tornado

CO N CER T S PO N SOR

G U EST A R TIST S PO N SOR

DIANE & SAM STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION

JOHN & MARCIA PRICE FAMILY FOUNDATION

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

DAVID ROBERTSON Conductor

David Robertson – conductor, artist, composer, thinker, American musical visionary—occupies the most prominent podiums in opera, orchestral, and new music. He is a champion of contemporary composers, and an ingenious and adventurous programmer. Robertson has served in numerous artistic leadership positions, such as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, a transformative 13-year tenure as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with the Orchestre National de Lyon, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and, as protégé of Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble InterContemporain.

He appears with the world’s great orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic,

ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH Guest Ensemble

Another Night on Earth is an international guitar ensemble. Each of its eight members has a unique style and sound, but all share an unusual distinction: They’re electric guitarists performing traditional and contemporary classical music. Formed during the COVID crisis, the group collaborates remotely, developing an ever-expanding repertoire stretching from the Middle Ages to the present day.

ANOE is the brainchild of Heiko Ossig, a renowned concert guitarist who teaches of the University of Music and Theater

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and many major ensembles and festivals on five continents.

In 2023, he made his first return to Sydney, and will begin a three-year tenure as the inaugural Creative Partner of the Utah Symphony and Opera.

He serves on the Tianjin Juilliard Advisory Council, complementing his role as Director of Conducting Studies, Distinguished Visiting Faculty of The Juilliard School, New York. In the 2023-24 season, he will conduct the Seattle Symphony, Royal Danish Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie OrchesterBerlin, the Minnesota Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among others.

in Hamburg, Germany. There he created the innovative Guitar Lab, where students meld traditional classical guitar approaches with modern technology. Ossig invited American guitarist and Princeton University music professor Steven Mackey as a guest lecturer. (Mackey is probably the world’s leading exponent of employing electric guitar in modern classical composition.)

When the pandemic made that visit impossible, Ossig launched this project as an alternative.

In addition to Ossig and Mackey, the group includes six distinguished musicians: David Robertson, Gretchen Menn, Daniele Gottardo, JIJI, James Moore, and Joe Gore.

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Gently Weeps…?

There’s nothing quite like a guitar. For portability – between cities, between social classes, between the blurry stratifications of genre – the guitar has no equal. It fits into the overhead space of virtually every situation (except, of course, some actual overhead spaces), and some iteration of it has been a part of our collective musical psyche since ancient times. The leap from acoustic to electric began about 100 years ago and was ultimately facilitated and perfected by important innovators like Beauchamp, Rickenbacker, Paul and Fender. Their work made it possible for the guitar to achieve a new kind of ubiquity, a cultural saturation not even our beloved piano enjoys. From blues wizards to rock gods, professional guitarists became heroes to us and, with the price of entry so much lower than a Steinway, amateurs everywhere could attempt to match them.

So, why don’t we hear more of them in Abravanel Hall? The potential for virtuosity with the guitar is limited only by human physiology, which is of course true of any physically manipulated machine, but the best in the world reach staggering levels of mastery. Put more directly, the true guitar geniuses are as impressive as any violinist or keyboard artist, but composers of “classical” music have never fully embraced the opportunity they offer. Concertos for guitarists do exist, thanks to a handful of Spanish composers and those they inspired, but the number of these works that remain in the regular

performance rotation these days is… well…one!

Joaquín Rodrigo’s very famous Concierto de Aranjuez was written in 1939 for the guitarist Regino Sainz de la Maza. He composed the piece in Paris and brought it home with him after the civil war ended there. Though Rodrigo was not a guitarist, he was Spanish, so his understanding of the role the instrument played in his country’s musical history was innate and genuine. The Concierto is a stunning mix of courtly 18th-century elegance and contemporary drama. Aranjuez was the site of a royal retreat between Madrid and Toledo that Rodrigo briefly visited with his wife in 1933 after they were married.

Almost six years later, the composer (blind from the age of three) was eager to depict a place where “the perfume of the magnolia lingers,” and the “singing of birds and the gushing of fountains” could be heard. It might be unfair, but this concerto is the main reason the world outside of Spain knows Rodrigo today.

Concierto de Aranjuez is among the 20th century’s most popular works for a soloist on any instrument.

HISTORY OF THE MUSIC

By Jeff Counts

The remainder of the program highlights the full range of guitar expression by welcoming members of Another Night on Earth, an international electric guitar ensemble made up of musicians who regularly “crossover” into traditional and contemporary classical music.

Tonight, they will take the stage with Utah Symphony for arrangements of music that ranges from the Renaissance to...

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