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CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2019 16
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about us LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT 11 CONDUCTORS 13 ORCHESTRA, STAFF & BOARD 14 RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS 31 OUR SUPPORTERS 32
Oregon Symphony Artists-in-Residence
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in Concert
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featured OREGON SYMPHONY ARTISTS - IN - RESIDENCE 16 FASCINATING FACTOIDS: STAR WARS TRILOGY 41 ON A HIGH NOTE: MICHAEL ROBERTS 42 ASK URSULA THE USHER 45 #ARTSLANDIAWASHERE 46
Guster with the Oregon Symphony
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Wyclef Jean Feature
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STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK IN CONCERT 18 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 7:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 7:30 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2 PM GUSTER WITH THE OREGON SYMPHONY 22 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 7:30 PM
Fascinating Factoids: Star Wars Trilogy
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Boyz II Men Michael Roberts
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A NIGHT OF SYMPHONIC HIP HOP FEATURING WYCLEF JEAN 24 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 7:30 PM BRAHMS’ SECOND 26 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 7:30 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2 PM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 7:30 PM Oregon Symphony programs are supported in part by the Oregon Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts – a federal agency – and by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, which includes support from the Arts Education and Access Fund; Arts Investment Fund; the City of Portland; Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington Counties; and Metro.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Friends, Every year, your Oregon Symphony is dedicated to bringing the power of music to more people in new ways, in unexpected settings, and through surprising collaborations. As ceo, I am passionate about the breadth of programming we produce to serve our entire community. We kicked off the 2019/20 Season earlier this month with classical favorites during an open-air concert at Oregon Zoo. In the hall, we battle the dark side along with John Williams’ Grammy-winning score with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in Concert (September 13–15). Mid-month brings eclectic pairings of contemporary artists with symphonic sound: altrock band Guster joins your Oregon Symphony September 21 with a career-spanning set, and the multi-talented Wyclef Jean blends his passion for history and social justice into an entirely new musical experience, A Night of Symphonic Hip Hop with Wyclef Jean (September 22). Our commitment to artistic excellence, and to our audience, involves the creation of new music. At the opening of this year’s Classical Series, Music Director Carlos Kalmar conducts the world premiere of British-American composer Oscar Bettison’s Remaking a Forest, a piece inspired in part by the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral that touches on renewal, resilience, and transformation. The breathtaking program also features Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 and the incomparable Garrick Ohlsson on piano (September 27–30).
Your Oregon Symphony also seeks to strengthen our community through shared cultural experiences.” Each year, we partner with dozens of arts associations, civic service organizations, schools, libraries, and public institutions. For example, this month alone we team up with Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare for a pop-up concert for clients and staff, with Willamette University for the opening of our Salem series, and with Metropolitan Youth Symphony for a child-friendly instrument “petting zoo.” Throughout the season, we embrace the challenge of moving music forward. We look forward to sharing this journey with you. Scott Showalter president & ceo orsymphony.org | 503-228-1353 11
OCTOBER CONCERTS Batman in Concert
Beethoven v. Coldplay
OCTOBER 4–6
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Erik Ochsner, conductor Oregon Chorale Batman in Concert
Colin Currie
Tim Burton’s enduring superhero film pits Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson against each other as Batman and his nemesis, the Joker. Composer Danny Elfman, whose score was nominated for multiple awards, snagged a Grammy for his Batman Theme in 1990. Batsuits encouraged!
Stravinsky’s Firebird OCTOBER 12–14 David Danzmayr, conductor • Colin Currie, percussion
Steve Hackman
Dancing in the Streets
Johannes Moser
Carlos Kalmar
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Ives: Three Places in New England • Andy Akiho: Percussion Concerto (World premiere commission) Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite (1945 version) A magical and mysterious showpiece, Stravinksy’s Firebird contains some of his best-loved music, from the primeval Infernal Dance to its spectacular, breathtaking finale. Percussionist Colin Currie returns to premiere a concerto written expressly for him by composer Andy Akiho, lauded by The New York Times as “mold-breaking,” “dramatic,” and “vital.”
Steve Hackman, conductor Malia Civetz, Ben Jones, and Will Post, vocals Experience a new frontier in music as Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony combines with the melodies and lyrics of Coldplay to produce a perfect modern pairing. Three vocalists join the Oregon Symphony in a genre-bending performance that features some of Coldplay’s best-known songs, including “Fix You,” “Paradise,” and “The Scientist.” Note: Neither Beethoven nor Coldplay will perform on this concert.
Dancing in the Streets OCTOBER 19 & 20 Jeff Tyzik, conductor Experience the magic of Motown! This program features smash hits made famous by artists like Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Temptations, and the one-and-only Stevie Wonder.
Beethoven’s Fifth OCTOBER 26–28 Carlos Kalmar, conductor • Johannes Moser, cello Gabriela Lena Frank: Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra • Lutosławski: Cello Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 More than 200 years after its completion, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony remains the most revered masterpiece in the repertoire – from the unsurpassed drama of its four opening notes to the still-shocking power of its finale. Artist-in-Residence Johannes Moser brings his astonishing virtuosity to Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto, once described as “the story of a twentieth-century Don Quixote.”
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CONDUCTORS Carlos Kalmar Jean Vollum music director chair
Carlos Kalmar is in his 17th season as music director of the Oregon Symphony. He is also the artistic director and principal conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. In May 2011, he made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall with the Oregon Symphony as part of the inaugural Spring for Music festival. Both his imaginative program, Music for a Time of War, and the performance itself were hailed by critics in The New York Times, New Yorker magazine, and Musical America, and the concert was recorded and released on the Pentatone label, subsequently earning two Grammy nominations (Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered). Under Kalmar’s guidance the orchestra has recorded subsequent cds on the PentaTone label – This England, featuring works by Britten, Vaughan Williams, and Elgar; The Spirit of the American Range, with works by Copland, Piston, and Antheil, which received another Best Orchestral Performance Grammy nomination; Haydn Symphonies; and Aspects of America. New Yorker magazine critic Alex Ross called the Oregon Symphony’s Carnegie Hall performance under Kalmar “the highlight of the festival and one of the most gripping events of the current season.” That verdict was echoed by Sedgwick Clark, writing for Musical America, who described the performance of Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony as “positively searing… with fearless edge-of-seat tempos… breathtakingly negotiated by all…” A regular guest conductor with major orchestras in America, Europe, and Asia, Kalmar recently made his subscription series debuts with three of America’s most prestigious orchestras: those of Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco. Past engagements have seen him on the podium with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the New World Symphony, as well as the orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Nashville, Seattle, and St. Louis. Kalmar, born in Uruguay to Austrian parents, showed an early interest in music and began violin studies at the age of 6. By the time he was 15, his musical promise was such that his family moved back to Austria in order for him to study conducting with Karl Osterreicher at the Vienna Academy of Music. He has previously served as the chief conductor and artistic director of the Spanish Radio/Television Orchestra and Choir in Madrid as well as the music director for the Hamburg Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Vienna’s Tonnkunsterorchester, and the Anhaltisches Theater in Dessau, Germany. He lives in Portland with his wife, Raffaela, and sons, Luca and Claudio.
Norman Huynh Harold and Arlene Schnitzer associate conductor chair
Norman Huynh has established himself as a conductor with an ability to captivate an audience through a multitude of musical genres. This season, Huynh continues to showcase his versatility in concerts featuring Itzhak Perlman, hip hop artists Nas and Wyclef Jean, and vocal superstar Storm Large. Born in 1988, Huynh is a first generation Asian American and the first in his family to pursue classical music as a career. Upcoming and recent engagements include the St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Grant Park Music Festival. He has served as a cover conductor for the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic with John Williams. Huynh has been at the forefront of moving orchestral music out of the traditional concert hall. In 2011, he co-founded the Occasional Symphony in Baltimore to celebrate holidays by performing innovative concerts in distinct venues throughout the inner-city. The orchestra performed on Dr. Seuss’ birthday at Port Discovery Children’s Museum, Halloween in a burnt church turned concert venue, and Cinco de Mayo in the basement bar of a Mexican restaurant. Huynh currently resides in Portland, or, and enjoys skiing, board games, and riding his motorcycle. You can follow him on Instagram @normanconductor. Jeff Tyzik principal pops conductor
Jeff Tyzik has earned a reputation as one of America’s foremost pops conductors and is recognized for his brilliant arrangements, original programming, and rapport with audiences. Now in his 26th season as principal pops conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic, Tyzik is also in his 13th season as the Oregon Symphony’s principal pops conductor and continues to serve in the same role with the Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Canada’s Vancouver Symphony. Tyzik is also highly sought after as a guest conductor across North America. He holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, Jill. orsymphony.org | 503-228-1353 13
O R C H E S T R A , S TA F F & B O A R D Orchestra MU S I C D IR E C TO R
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Nancy Ives, Mr. & Mrs. Edmund Hayes, Jr. principal cello chair Marilyn de Oliveira, assistant principal Seth Biagini Kenneth Finch Trevor Fitzpatrick Antoinette Gan Kevin Kunkel
John Cox, principal Joseph Berger, associate principal Graham Kingsbury, assistant principal Matthew Berliner* Mary Grant** Alicia Michele Waite
A S S O CIATE COND U C TO R Norman Huynh Harold and Arlene Schnitzer associate conductor chair PR IN CIPAL P O P S COND U C TO R Jeff Tyzik VI O LIN
BASS Colin Corner, principal Braizahn Jones, assistant principal Nina DeCesare Donald Hermanns Jeffrey Johnson Jason Schooler
Sarah Kwak, Janet & Richard Geary concertmaster chair Peter Frajola, Del M. Smith & Maria Stanley Smith associate concertmaster chair FLU TE Erin Furbee, Harold & Jane Pollin Martha Long, Bruce & Judy Thesenga assistant concertmaster chair principal flute chair Chien Tan, Truman Collins, Sr. principal Alicia DiDonato Paulsen, second violin chair Inés Voglar Belgique, assistant principal assistant principal Zachariah Galatis second violin Fumino Ando PI CCO LO Keiko Araki Zachariah Galatis Clarisse Atcherson Ron Blessinger OBOE Lisbeth Carreno Martin Hébert, Harold J. Schnitzer Ruby Chen principal oboe chair Emily Cole Karen Wagner, assistant principal Julie Coleman Kyle Mustain** Eileen Deiss Jonathan Dubay ENGLI S H H O RN Gregory Ewer Kyle Mustain** Daniel Ge Feng Lynne Finch CL AR INE T Shin-young Kwon James Shields, principal Ryan Lee Todd Kuhns, assistant principal Yuqi Li Mark Dubac Samuel Park Searmi Park B A S S CL AR INE T Vali Phillips Todd Kuhns Shanshan Zeng B A S S O ON VIOLA Joël Belgique, Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund principal viola chair Charles Noble, assistant principal Jennifer Arnold** Kenji Bunch* Silu Fei Leah Ilem Ningning Jin Brian Quincey Viorel Russo Martha Warrington
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Carin Miller Packwood, principal Evan Kuhlmann, assistant principal** Nicole Haywood, assistant principal* Adam Trussell ** Steve Vacchi* CONTR AB A S S O ON
Evan Kuhlmann** Steve Vacchi*
TR UMPE T Jeffrey Work, principal David Bamonte, assistant principal, Musicians of the Oregon Symphony Richard Thornburg trumpet chair Doug Reneau TR OMB ONE Casey Jones, principal Robert Taylor, assistant principal Charles Reneau B A S S TR OMB ONE Charles Reneau TUBA JáTtik Clark, principal TIMPANI Jonathan Greeney, principal Sergio Carreno, assistant principal PE R CU S S I ON Niel DePonte, principal Michael Roberts, assistant principal Sergio Carreno HAR P Jennifer Craig, principal LIB R ARY Joy Fabos, principal Kathryn Thompson, associate Sara Pyne, assistant O R CHE S TR A PE R S ONNE L MANAGE R Leah Ilem * Acting position ** Leave of absence
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ON & OFFSTAGE
Symphony Artist-in-Residence program forges powerful connections, on and offstage by Elizabeth Schwartz
I n O c tober 2012, the Oregon Symphony launched its Artist-inResidence (AiR) program with cellist Alban Gerhardt. The residency spans three years; in each of those years, the AiR spends a full week in Oregon with the orchestra. During that week, the AiR appears in concerts with the orchestra as part of the Classical Series, performs in a number of places around the city and state, and participates in a whirlwind of activities: master classes and rehearsals with young musicians; outreach to senior centers, correctional facilities, and homeless shelters; and pop-up performances in unexpected places, such as on top of a coffee table in the lobby of the Ace Hotel in downtown Portland. As the AiR program begins its eighth year, we checked in with our current Artist-in-Residence, cellist Johannes Moser (2018–21), and our previous Artist-in-Residence, percussionist Colin Currie (2015–18), to hear about their experiences on and offstage. “The association with the Oregon Symphony was quite different [from other AiR programs],” Currie explains, “as it was for three consecutive seasons, which resulted in an intensification of my work with an orchestra I was already very fond of visiting regularly. It allowed for careful planning of concerts with the orchestra over that time (including the West Coast premiere of [composer] Andrew Norman’s Switch) – as well as dozens of informal events around town and educational outreach. Other orchestras occasionally organize school visits, but the Oregon Symphony residency allotted more time to that kind of work during
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my stay. I also would say that the performance opportunities around town, to spread the word and work of the orchestra via solo appearances by myself, is unique; I am not used to this kind of involvement with any other institution.” Johannes Moser has been involved in educational outreach since he was a teen with Live Music Now, a program founded by the late violinist Yehudi Menuhin in 1976, that interacts with various populations that have few, if any, opportunities to hear live performances, including the incarcerated and residents of hospices and special needs care facilities. Moser likes to help plan his residencies and tailor their activities to fit the region or city where the resident ensemble is based. “For example, it was a no-brainer to plan something with a homeless shelter in Oregon, because Portland has so many people without access to housing,” he says.
Both men talk with great affection about their ability to grow and deepen relationships with the orchestra’s musicians. Currie focused on his time with the Symphony’s percussion section and a string quartet comprised of Symphony players.
We put together substantial and ambitious chamber music programs, and these all worked out superbly. This was the main thrust of what I wanted to achieve during my residency.” As he looks towards the second year of his own residency, Moser wants to strengthen his commitment to the orchestra’s musicians and fans. “This residency is unique in that it lasts three years; all my others are just one season,” he explains. “Three years allows
Colin Currie returns October 12–14 to premiere Andy Akiho’s Percussion Concerto.
and he said, ‘Can you play that piece by J. S. Bach that Yo-Yo Ma always plays?’ That combination of things really blew my mind. It showed me how humble you have to be when you go into these situations, because you never know what anybody’s background is, and you never know how anybody found themselves in the situation they’re in when you meet them at these outreach events… that was a really meaningful experience.”
Johannes Moser’s residency this season includes a Classical Series performance October 26–28. Photo by Chris Kim.
for continuous work, to really build a relationship, and the most important relationship that I form is, of course, with the orchestra itself – with the musicians and Carlos Kalmar – and with the audience. That’s a point I want to emphasize: to not only focus on the people who don’t usually get to hear live music but also on the people who are already really enthusiastic about music... Why shouldn’t they get a little extra attention from the Artist-in-Residence?” When AiRs work with young people, particularly aspiring musicians, the encounters are a combination of music making, teaching, and informal guidance on how to embark on a performing career. As a percussionist, Currie’s solo repertoire centers on contemporary works. “I use my solo repertoire as a guide to what I do as an artist,” Currie explains. “I also share what the life of a soloist entails. I gave a lot of more-or-less ‘motivational’ talks and took many rounds of questions based on my life and travels.” “It’s a really meaningful exchange of ideas, philosophy, activities, and also just bringing music to the people,” says Moser about AiR programs. “As an AiR, I’m both a guest of the orchestra and its spokesperson… I think to have international soloists hook into the orchestra’s ongoing activities is very important, because it means the efforts of the orchestra are not just recognized regionally but have an international significance that further elevates their
efforts.” Currie adds, “There are issues with the accessibility and perceptions of ‘mystique’ in classical music. I think this is a nothing-less-than tragic state of affairs… the AiR scheme dispels the myths of our profession very effectively. The concert stage is rightly sacred, but it can be an intimidating forum for the general public. Proximity to performers and the chance to chat and ask questions is a great way forward.” During the residency week, Oregon Symphony AiRs often visit St. Mary’s Home for Boys in Beaverton, a facility that provides residential treatment and services to at-risk boys between the ages of 10 and 17. “My visits to St. Mary’s have become a very important part of my trips to Oregon, and I have insisted they continue now that my residency has concluded,” says Currie. “The young men there have gone through pure mayhem. The music I can share with them and the thoughts on mentality, psychology, and one’s own personal strength building has been a very rewarding interaction, one that has also benefitted me. The informal lunches after my sessions have also proved most memorable and engaging. Other institutions should take note.” Moser had a similar experience when he played at Bud Clark Commons, which provides studio apartment housing for people experiencing homelessness. “This gentleman came up to us – he had a blanket around his shoulders –
“In the Western world, we’re so good at compartmentalizing life,” Moser continues. “Old people go to facility A, and people with disabilities go to facility B, and people that don’t have shelter go to facility C… However, if you are a person who has a nine-to-five job and just go about your life, you don’t see or necessarily interact with these people, and I think that can put you on a very different track. That’s another motivation for me to be more active in the residency program, because it means that I get to interact with people from all walks of life and share with them what is most meaningful to me, which is music… Music [can be] a door opener, a means of communication…
The interactions I have in any facility we visit translate to my interactions with the public in a concert hall, because I suddenly understand the more humane aspects of music and what music offers people.” To hear them describe it, the AiR experience may benefit Currie and Moser even more than the people they meet during their jam-packed, one-weekper-year visits with us. “It was a dream to have proximity to a part of the world that I never ever would have expected to visit, let alone build ties to the artistic and broader community,” says Currie.
Johannes Moser returns for the second year of his residency the week of October 21. In addition to appearances throughout the community, he will perform Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto with the Symphony October 26–28. orsymphony.org | 503-228-1353 17
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK IN CONCERT FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2019, 7:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2019, 7:30 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2019, 2 PM SPONSORED BY WENDY AND PAUL GREENEY AND FAMILY
Norman Huynh, conductor Directed by Irvin Kershner Produced by Gary Kurtz Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan Story by George Lucas Executive Producer, George Lucas Music by John Williams Starring: Mark Hamill Harrison Ford Carrie Fisher Billy Dee Williams Anthony Daniels
Co-Starring: David Prowse as Darth Vader Kenny Baker as R2-D2 Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca Frank Oz as Yoda
There will be one intermission.
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STAR WARS FILM CONCERT SERIES PRODUCTION CREDITS President, Disney Music Group Ken Bunt SVP/GM, Disney Concerts Chip McLean Supervising Technical Director Alex Levy – Epilogue Media Film Preparation Ramiro Belgardt
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Business Affairs, Lucasfilm Rhonda Hjort Chris Holm Music Preparation Mark Graham Matthew Voogt Joann Kane Music Service
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In a career spanning more than five decades, John Williams has become one of the United States’ most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage, and he remains one of our nation’s most distinguished and contributive musical voices. He has composed the music and served as music director for more than 100 films, including all eight Star Wars films, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, jfk, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone, and The Book Thief. His 45-year artistic partnership with director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, The bfg, and The Post. His contributions to television music include scores for more than 200 television films for the groundbreaking early anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, Chrysler Theatre, and Playhouse 90, as well as themes for nbc Nightly News (“The Mission”), nbc’s Meet the Press, and the pbs arts showcase Great Performances. He also composed themes for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic Games, as well as the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has received five Academy Awards®
and 51 Oscar® nominations, making him the Academy’s most-nominated living person and the second-most nominated person in the history of the Oscars. He has received seven British Academy Awards (bafta), 24 Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Emmys, and numerous gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received the Olympic Order (the ioc’s highest honor) for his contributions to the Olympic movement. He received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in December of 2004. In 2009, Williams was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and he received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the U.S. Government. In 2016, he received the 44th Life Achievement Award from the American Film Institute – the first time in their history that this honor was bestowed upon a composer. In January 1980, Williams was named 19th music director of the Boston Pops Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor, which he assumed following his retirement in December 1993 after 14 highly successful seasons. He also holds the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies and concertos commissioned by several of the world’s leading orchestras, including a cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, Williams composed and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” especially for the first inaugural ceremony of President Barack Obama, and in September 2009 the Boston Symphony premiered a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled “On Willows and Birches.”
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Norman Huynh, conductor Adam Gardner, vocals and guitars Ryan Miller, vocals, guitars, and keys Brian Rosenworcel, drums and percussion Luke Reynolds, vocals, guitars, and keys Program will be announced from the stage. ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL
Biography
Guster Look Alive is our eighth album. The bulk of it was recorded in a vintage keyboard museum in Calgary, Alberta, during a January stretch when the temperature reached 30 degrees below zero. We ended up in Canada because our British producer, Leo Abrahams, couldn’t turn around an American work visa fast enough, and we feel lucky to have discovered Studio Bell at the last minute. Despite having access to room after room of well-maintained analog keys, Leo gravitated to a cheap Ensoniq Mirage synth from the 1980s that made Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation-era sounds from floppy disks. Leo spent countless hours poring over these floppy disks while the band gawked at the mellotrons, harpsichords, and other vintage equipment housed at Studio Bell. It was the beginnings of a stylistic clash that 22 artslandia.com
would ultimately play out beautifully. Our band had always gravitated to “warm” sounds. Leo would introduce us to “cold” sounds and the way they challenge us as listeners. He was the perfect complementary piece for Guster. After working with the late Richard Swift four years ago and discovering a more raw and vintage sound on Evermotion, we fully embraced studio production with Leo this time around. The sheer amount of production on Look Alive grew into its own statement. There is a lot to unpack. One day in Calgary, we arrived at the studio to discover that Leo had put in a few extra hours on our song “Summertime.” He’d built an entire new intro using the Ensoniq Mirage overnight and played it for us. The band’s reaction wasn’t too kind. Our beautiful song now had a jarring, harsh, disruptive introduction, instead of the soft mellotron flutes we’d known. After some days of light bickering about it, Leo finally shed his proper British diplomatic side and belted out that “the world doesn’t need another fucking Beatles pastiche!” This would eventually become a rallying cry for the album as we strove to make something new and powerful together.
The title track “Look Alive” is an ominous, processed sonic collage with haunting words about waking up and becoming active in the midst of hollow words and fake heroes. “Hard Times,” written in the studio, came out more like the dark pop of Peter Gabriel / Depeche Mode / Tears for Fears than what people might think of Guster. “Overexcited” felt like classic Brit-pop, and so Ryan sang it with a British accent over an Ensoniq marimba. Some of Guster’s critics will say “but you can’t do that” – and that’s something we’ve heard our entire career. We don’t subscribe to the same musical ideology they do and never have. Writing songs for the second straight record with multi-instrumentalist Luke Reynolds (who joined the band in 2010) has been a key to our evolution. Working with artists like Leo Abrahams, John Congleton, and Collin DuPuis proved to be inspiring and adds to a “brain trust” that bolsters the songs. With Look Alive the plan is simple. Grow our musical community. Write better and better songs. Keep our minds open. Never repeat ourselves, and create a legacy of music that is undeniable. – Guster drummer Brian Rosenworcel
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A NIGHT OF SYMPHONIC HIP HOP FEATURING WYCLEF JEAN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2019, 7:30 PM Norman Huynh, conductor
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Biography
Wyclef Jean The music that Wyclef Jean has written, performed, and produced – both as a solo superstar and as founder and guiding member of the Fugees – has been a consistently powerful pop cultural force for over two decades. In 1996, the Fugees released their monumental album The Score, which inspired notoriously prickly rock critic Robert Christgau to write, “so beautiful and funny, its courage could make you weep.” The album, created in Jean’s studio in his uncle’s basement in New Jersey, hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned a trio of smash singles (including their indelible reinvention of Roberta Flack’s 1973 ballad “Killing Me Softly”), and is now certified six times platinum. But Jean, a child prodigy with a wealth of musical influences from jazz to classic rock to reggae, resisted the pressure to duplicate the sound and style of that masterwork. Instead, he launched himself as a producer and solo artist whose work drew from an innovative and 24 artslandia.com
eclectic palette that included elements of pop, country, folk, disco, Latin, and electronic music. “I just keep moving,” he says today. “If I didn’t keep moving after The Score, y’all wouldn’t have had the biggest pop song of all time.” Jean is referring to Shakira’s chart-topping single “Hips Don’t Lie,” which he co-wrote and is featured on. That 2006 blockbuster climbed to No. 1 in 20 countries including the U.S. – a crowning achievement atop a nearly unprecedented run of hits that include Jean’s own “Gone Till November,” “Ghetto Superstar”(Pras feat. Jean), Carlos Santana’s No. 1 single “Maria, Maria” (feat. Jean and Product G&B), and the late Whitney Houston’s “My Love is Your Love.” “The only record that captures Whitney, her daughter [Bobbi Kristina], and Bobby Brown all on one song,” Jean says of it. Jean has been rewarded for his creativity and adventurousness with three Grammy Awards, a spot on the cover of Rolling Stone’s special Top 50 Hip Hop Players, and the opportunity to make music with such legends as Michael Jackson, Queen, Mick Jagger, Paul Simon, Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, and Tom Jones. As a solo artist, he has released six albums that have sold nearly nine million copies worldwide, including his 1997 debut The Carnival and 2000’s aptly titled The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, which even turned wrestling superstar/
action hero The Rock into a pop star with the international hit single “It Doesn’t Matter.” Through it all, Jean kept an ear cocked for new talent. He helped launch Beyoncé’s career with Destiny’s Child’s early hit “No, No, No.” Jean’s new album, The Carnival III: Road to Clefication, features contributions from Afrojack, Emeli Sandé, and multiplatinum dj/recording artist Avicii. In fact, Avicii is responsible for Jean’s new album’s title. “It’s a nickname he gave to me,” he explains. “We were in Stockholm recording, and he said, ‘We need some ‘Clefication.’ Now when I’m in the studio with other producers from his generation, they’ll say, ‘Yo we need some ‘Clefication’ on the vocal before I swag it up.’ It’s the human application of music.” How long can Jean keep it up now that he’s back at his old velocity? “The 40s are the new youth of hip hop,” he says with a laugh. And while he hints that the Fugees crew are all on good terms, and he doesn’t rule out a future reunion with Lauryn Hill and Pras, right now Jean is trying to reckon with his past and write a new chapter. “The music I’m making, it’s sounding like the ’90s meets 2017,” he says. “It’s very authentic and all about the vocality, making people feel and reminisce off of that sound they love but combining it with new sonics.”
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CONCERT CONVERSATION Conducted one hour before each performance, the Concert Conversation will feature Music Director Carlos Kalmar, composer Oscar Bettison, and Brandi Parisi, host of All Classical Portland. You can also enjoy the Concert Conversation in the comfort of your own home. Visit orsymphony.org/conversations to watch the video on demand.
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Garrick Ohlsson Garrick Ohlsson last appeared with the Oregon Symphony on October 30, 2017, when he performed Barber’s Piano Concerto with conductor Carlos Kalmar. ince his triumph as winner of the 1970 S Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the
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world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for him.
In the 2018/19 Season, he launched an ambitious project spread over two seasons exploring the complete solo piano works of Brahms in four different programs. The cycle will be heard in New York, San Francisco, Montreal, Los Angeles, London, and a number of cities across North America, culminating in Tanglewood, in summer 2020. Internationally he can be heard with orchestras in Seoul, Helsinki, Zagreb, Tallinn, Manchester, and London. Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, rca Victor Red Seal, Angel, bmg, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion, and Virgin Classics labels. His 10-disc set of the complete Beethoven sonatas for Bridge Records has garnered critical acclaim, including a Grammy for Vol. 3. Most recently, both Brahms concertos and Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto were released on live performance recordings with the Melbourne and Sydney symphonies on their own recording labels, and Ohlsson was featured on Dvořák’s Piano Concerto in the Czech Philharmonic’s recordings of the composer’s complete symphonies and concertos, released July 2014 on the Decca label. native of White Plains, ny, Ohlsson A began his piano studies at age eight at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School. His musical development has been influenced by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhévinne, and Irma Wolpe. Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montréal Piano Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal (and remains the single American to have done so), that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994, and in August 2018 the Polish Deputy Culture Minister awarded him with the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for cultural merit. He is a Steinway Artist and makes his home in San Francisco.
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BR AHMS’ SECOND Program Notes OSCAR BETTISON b. 1975
Remaking a Forest (World premiere commissioned by the Oregon Symphony) composed: 2019 first oregon symphony performance instrumentation: 3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo, 1 doubling alto flute), 3 oboes (1 doubling English horn), 3 clarinets (1 doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (1 doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, tuba, timpani, almglocken, bass drum, crotales, 5 flower pots, marimba, 2 metal bars, 2 mounted sandpaper blocks, tam-tam, tubular bells, vibraphone, xylophone, harp, and strings estimated duration: 12 minutes
British-American composer Oscar Bettison has garnered praise for his music’s “unconventional lyricism” and “menacing beauty… pulsating with an irrepressible energy and vitality.” Now chair of the composition department at the Peabody Institute, Bettison has earned a number of awards, including a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship and the first bbc Young Composer of the Year prize. Bettison’s music has been commissioned by internationally renowned ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Slagwerk Den Haag, So Percussion, and the Bang on a Can AllStars, among others. Remaking a Forest gets its title in part from the metaphysical thought experiment known as the Ship of Theseus. “Theseus brings his ship home from war and puts it in dry dock,” Bettison explains. “Eventually one wooden plank is replaced, and then another, as the ship ages. At which point is it not the original ship?”
Bettison is fascinated with how the idea of replication, or copying, changes the original. “When the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral happened, I was well embarked on the writing,” says Bettison. “A lot of people were impacted by that fire, including me. Notre Dame is the birthplace of European polyphony, [which evolved into] Western Classical music, so that means something to me.” “The Forest” is also the nickname for Notre Dame’s attic. Built from 1,000-plus-year-old, massive oak beams, the attic was completely destroyed in the fire. “I was thinking about how they were going to rebuild it,” Bettison continues. The original trees used to construct Notre Dame were harvested around 1160–70 and are believed to have been 300–400 years old when they were cut down, which means some of the wood was almost 1,300 years old. Those original oaks have vanished from Europe, so there is no possibility of finding oaks of comparable age.
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BR AHMS’ SECOND The question of how Notre Dame will be restored, and how the use of nonoriginal materials might affect our concept of the cathedral’s identity, are what preoccupied Bettison as he wrote. “The Notre Dame idea is strong, but I don’t want people to think the piece is programmatic,” Bettison cautions. “I don’t want people to think that when it gets really loud, that’s the spire burning. It’s not a narrative journey; it’s more abstract than that.” Remaking a Forest builds slowly, beginning with a short solo violin melody then taken up by the rest of the strings. “Everything is sparse for awhile; then there’s a buildup of instruments, textures, and dynamics. More players get involved as more things happen, and then everything drops back to the sparseness of the beginning,” says Bettison. About four minutes in, the high winds begin playing a strong pulse, which continues through the rest of the piece. The first full orchestral passage happens around seven minutes and then gradually falls apart. “It’s a deliberate removal of one sound after another, like in Haydn’s Farewell Symphony.” Bettison is purposely vague about Remaking a Forest’s conclusion. “I don’t want to give the ending away… if I’ve done my job well, the music will show a clear trajectory, gaining mass and momentum and volume that then dissipates.”
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Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 composed: 1786 most recent oregon symphony performance: February 19, 2012; Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Jeffrey Kahane, piano instrumentation: solo piano, flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings estimated duration: 30 minutes
For many years, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart supported himself primarily as a performer, hoping to earn enough money to allow time for composition. To that end, Mozart conceived most of his piano concertos as solo vehicles to perform in subscription concerts. When Mozart first arrived in Vienna in 1782, he wowed the Viennese public with his technical and musical facility. From 1783–86, Mozart wrote a number of new concertos, and gave subscription concerts several times a year. Surviving documentation suggests Mozart wrote K. 503 for a series of four concerts coinciding with the Advent season in 1786. These concerts were to be presented at a casino owned by Vienna’s leading music publisher, Johann Trattner. As was typical for Mozart, who put off committing his music to manuscript until the last possible moment, K. 503 did not get finished until the night before its scheduled premiere, on December 5, 1786. It is unclear whether or not this concert in fact took place; the other three concerts in the series appear to have been canceled, possibly for lack of adequate ticket sales.
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K. 503 is considered one of Mozart’s most aristocratic, expansive concertos. This characterization stems in part from its overall length – the opening Allegro maestoso is 432 measures, the lengthiest first movement in all of Mozart’s 27 concertos – and K. 503 overall is the longest piano concerto Mozart wrote. The timpani and trumpets, instruments associated with royalty, reinforce the maestoso (majestic) nature of the music. Listeners may notice a recurring fragment of melody in the first movement, which bears a strong resemblance to the opening notes of “La Marseillaise.” Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the French officer who composed this famously bloodthirsty song in 1792, may have been inspired by K. 503 when he wrote “La Marseillaise,” which became the French national anthem in 1795. However, since Mozart finished this concerto a full five years before Rouget de Lisle penned his revolutionary tune, the similarities between the two are presumably coincidental. orsymphony.org | 503-228-1353 29
BR AHMS’ SECOND JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833–97
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 composed: 1877 most recent oregon symphony performance: April 27, 2015; Gilbert Varga, conductor instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings estimated duration: 39 minutes
“This symphony is as happy as Brahms gets.” – Carlos Kalmar Less than a year after the successful premiere of Johannes Brahms’ First Symphony on November 4, 1876, the composer left Vienna to spend the summer at the lakeside town of
Pörtschach on Lake Wörth in southern Austria. There, in the beauty and quiet of the countryside, Brahms completed his Second Symphony. Pörtschach was to be a productive place for Brahms; over the course of three summers there, he wrote several important works, including his Violin Concerto. In a letter to critic Eduard Hanslick, a lifelong Brahms supporter, Brahms wrote, “The melodies fly so thick here that you have to be careful not to step on one.” Unlike the First Symphony, which took Brahms over 20 years to complete, work on the Second Symphony went smoothly, and Brahms finished it in just four months. Brahms felt so good about his progress that he joked with his publisher, “The new symphony is so melancholy that you won’t stand it. I have never written anything so sad… the score must appear with a black border.” In a different letter, Brahms self-mockingly observed, “Whether I have a pretty symphony I don’t know; I must ask clever people sometime.”
As Brahms composed, he shared his work-in-progress with lifelong friend Clara Schumann. “Johannes came this evening and played me the first movement of his Second Symphony in D major, which greatly delighted me,” Schumann noted in her diary in October 1877. “I find it in invention more significant than the first movement of the First Symphony… I also heard a part of the last movement and am quite overjoyed with it. With this symphony, he will have a more telling success with the public as well than he did with the First, much as musicians are captivated by the latter through its inspiration and wonderful working-out.” The Symphony No. 2 is often described as the cheerful alter ego to Brahms’ solemn First Symphony. No. 2 unfolds seamlessly, almost inevitably, without calling obvious attention to the elegant complexity of Brahms’ compositional style. Brahms uses the lilting notes of
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BR AHMS’ SECOND the Allegro non troppo as a common link throughout all four movements, where they are repeated, reversed, and otherwise, in Schumann’s words, “wonderfully worked-out.” In the extended coda, Brahms introduces the trombones and tuba, casting a tiny shadow over the sunny mood. The Adagio non troppo’s lyrical cello melody also hints at the wistful melancholy that inhabits so much of Brahms’ music. The Allegretto grazioso is remarkably gentle, with little of the joking quality for which scherzos are named, and the infectious joy of the Allegro con spirito expands on the first movement’s amiable mood, so much so that at the Vienna premiere on December 30, 1877, the audience demanded an encore. © 2019 Elizabeth Schwartz
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Patricia A. Spence Mike Sprager Charles & Karen Springer Emily Standish Jonathan Starr & Susan Schneider Richard Stein Drs. Robert & Nancy Stepsis Ginny Stern Kimberly Stevens Daniel Steves Sandy Stewart Richard Stiggins Julane Stites Dale Stitt & Esther Elizabeth Michael & Mary Stock Edmund Stone & Cindy Scheel Robert C Stone, D.O. Michael Stricklin Henry Stromquist Fred Strong & Sandra Brown Christina Strong Ruth & Rodney Struck Toni N Strutz John Swan & Martha Dover Peter & Joyce Swan John & Janet Switzer Patricia Tangeman Emanuel & Amy Tanne Leif & Marjorie Terdal Tammy Teske Marianna Thielen & Reece Marshburn Christopher & Emily Thomas Frederick & Jean Thompson Kathleen Julia Thompson Romona & Patrick Thornburgh Ms. Elizabeth Thorpe Linda & W. Tittle Thomas & Katherine Tomaszek Sally Townend Kimmy Tran Wayne D. Trantow & Toni Parque Susan Auerbach Triplett Patricia & Peter Truax Leslie & Scott Tuomi Thomas & Priscilla Turner Marybeth Tyler Nick Tzannetakis Julia Unangst Catherine Unis Ann Uphoff Roberta & Ward Upson Susan Van Lente Barbara Van Ness Richard & Kendra Van Patten Tom Van Raalte D.T. Van Wart Fund Lewis & Susan Van Winkle Jerry & Thuy Vanderlinde David & Janice VanDyke James E. Vannice Randall Vemer & Mary Frances Byrne Linda Vemuganti Stanley Vernon & Thomas Fischer The Vickers Family Jorge Villavicencio & Elizabeth Schell Dan Volkmer & Frank Dixon Dorothy & James Waddell Karen Wagner William & Leslie Waldman George & Marilou Waldmann Michael Walker, Esq Kenneth James Walkky
In Honor of Reneé Holzman’s Lifetime Achievement Award Toinette & Victor Menashe Oregon Jewish Community Foundation In Memory of India Jobelmann Kathy & Tom Withycombe In Honor of Ruth Johnson Miller Family Trust In Honor of Sarah Kwak and the Oregon Symphony Kay Bristow
Charles Wallace, Jr. Sandy Wang Richard Wasserman John & Susan Watson Marjan Wazeka Donald Weber Vivian Weber Michael Weiner & Kathy Davis-Weiner Dana & Steve Weiner Michelle Weisenbach & Michael Penfield Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Wentworth Ken & Debby Wenzel Michael & Lisa Wenzlick Christa Wessel Jeff West Andrew & Julie Wheeler Pat Wheeler Diana & James M. White Jarvis & Cleo White Linda White Ann C. Whitehouse Valerie Whittlesey Lee Ann Wichman Frank B. Wiggins Elaine Wilderman Beau & Rosalie Williams Shelley Williams Suzy Williams John & Kathy Willis Drs. Arthur & Carol Wilson Mary Ann & James Wilson Jennifer Wilson Julie Wilson Margaret Wilson Harriet N Wingard Fendall G. Winston, IV Anne & Kevin Winthrop Prudence Wise Mary Ann Wish Lynn & Paulette Wittwer Lawrence Woelfer Derek Wolcott Dr. & Mrs. James T. Wolfe III Peter Wong Dennis & Valerie Wood Robert & Suzanne Wood Anne Woodbury Linda Wooden Anita Woodside & Lee Kilbourne Jon & Jill Woodworth Patricia Woolsey David & Carol Wright Barbara Wyse John & Ruth Wyse Deborah Yaeger & John Emshwiller Audra Yancheck Philip & Barbara Yasson Kristine T Yates Esther & Jerry Yoon Brian Young Gary A Zacny Susan Zall Janet Zell Jeff Zerba & Linda Jeo Zerba Chuck & Darlene Zickefoose Jim & Claudia Zinser Joe Zody Ian Zook Arleen & Bob Zucker Agnes Zueger *current board ‡current musician §current staff
In Honor of Jerry McClelland Nancy Huppertz & June Tremain In Memory of Douglas G Michael and In Honor of John Nettleton John Scott In Honor of Charles Putney Owen & Lynn Blank In Memory of Alise Rubin Wolfgang Dempke In Honor of Scott Showalter Tom Burke & Axel Brunger
Encore Society The Oregon Symphony Encore Society was established to thank and recognize those generous individuals who have remembered the Oregon Symphony in their estate plans. For more information, please contact the Development Office at 503-416-6325. Anonymous (13) Markus Albert Kirby & Amy Allen Margaret A. Apel The John S. Ettelson Fund of ocf Margaret & Scott Arighi Laurel Bardelson+ Lynda R. Bell Steve & Patt Bilow Leola J. Bowerman+ Dean Boyd & Susan Wickizer John & Yvonne Branchflower Steve & Kristine Brey Ellen E. Bussing§ Craig & Karen Butler Elaine Calder & William J. Bennett Carl & Connie Clark Debi Coleman Terry & Peggy Crawford Dr. Jim Darke Niel B. DePonte‡ Ginette DePreist Jess Dishman Allen L. Dobbins William Dolan & Suzanne Bromschwig Clarke Donelson Gerard & Sandra Drummond Bill* & Karen Early Herman Taylor & Leslye Epstein Judith M. Erickson Stephanie McDougal+ George Fabel Louise P. Feldman Harry & Gladys Flesher Mark Gardiner & Mary Nolan Robyn Gastineau* Jim & Karen Halliday Susan Halton Betsy & Gregory Hatton Diane M. Herrmann Henry M. Hieronimus Rick* & Veronica Hinkes Renée* & Irwin Holzman Donna Howard Beth & Jerry* Hulsman Judy & Hank Hummelt Anne & Charles Jochim Dennis Johnson & Steven Smith Karen & Keith Johnson Richard & Ruth Keller Georgia A Koehler Sally & Tom Kuhns Kyle & Marcia Lambert Wayne & Carolyn Landsverk Barbara A. Lee Cary & Dorothy Lewis Ardath E. Lilleland A. G. Lindstrand Lynn & Jack Loacker Michele Mass & Jim Edwards Dr. Louis & Judy McCraw
Roger & Pearl McDonald Stephanie McDougal+ Duane & Barbara McDougall Edward+ & June McLean Sheila McMahon Karen McNamee Ruben J. & Elizabeth Menashe Robert+ & Violet Metzler Geri & Bruce F.+ Miller Mia Hall Miller Richard Patrick Mitchell Carol N. Morgan Christi R. Newton Ann H. Nicholas Roger N.+ & Joyce M. Olson Marianne Ott Jane S. Partridge Janice E. Phillips Arnold S. Polk Harold & Jane Pollin David Rabin Tom & Norma Rankin Richard & Mary Raub Barbara Perron Reader Ed Reeves & Bill Fish Mary & Mike Riley Peter Rodda & Vincenza Scarpaci Betty Roren Walt Rose Janet Plummer§ & Don Rushmer Betsy Russell William C. Scott Sherry Robinson & Steve Shanklin Richard Kaiser & Virginia Shipman Scott Showalter§ V. L. Smith & J. E. Harman George & Molly Spencer Anne Stevenson Hank Swigert Diane Syrcle & Susan Leo Bruce & Judy Thesenga Mike & Diana Thomas Leslie & Scott Tuomi Linda & Stephen VanHaverbeke Randall Vemer John & Frances von Schlegell Les Vuylsteke Joella B. Werlin Jack* & Ginny Wilborn Gary Nelson Wilkins Roger & Kathleen Wolcott Nancy Wolff & E. David Booth + in memorium
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THE OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE FEATURED IN STAR WARS TOOK WELL OVER THREE HOURS TO SHOOT AND RESHOOT. The famous text crawl, created in 1977, was inspired by 1930s comic strip Flash Gordon. Today, the process used to produce the sequence is a default option in filmmaking software.
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IN 2012, DISNEY BOUGHT LUCASFILM FOR 4 BILLION IN CASH AND STOCK. It was six years before Disney received a return on the investment, earning over $4.8 billion at the box office from their own five Star Wars films.
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YODA WAS ORIGINALLY TO BE PLAYED BY A MONKEY. During the filming of The Empire Strikes Back, fears that a monkey would hold up production pushed the team to employ Muppets creator Jim Henson’s company.
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WHILE THE IDEA OF “MAY THE FOURTH” DID NOT START WITH LUCASFILM, THE FILM COMPANY HAS FULLY EMBRACED IT. The phrase was introduced into popular culture in 1979. When Margaret Thatcher won her post as England’s Prime Minister, her political party ran an advertisement in a London newspaper that read: “May the fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations.”
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DUE TO THE PUPPET’S LARGE SIZE, SEVEN PUPPETEERS WERE NEEDED TO OPERATE JABBA THE HUTT. Costing around $500,000 and weighing about 200 pounds, the creature required three people inside to move just the arms, jaw, and tail.
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THE SOUND OF LIGHTSABERS IN ACTION WAS MADE BY COMBINING A HUM AND A BUZZ. It was a combination of idle interlock motors in a 35 mm film projector and tv interference recorded by a partially broken microphone in a tape recorder.
THE COMPLETE 17-PIECE DARTH VADER COSTUME USED IN STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK WAS TO GO ON AUCTION IN MAY 2019. It was expected to sell for between $500,000 to $1 million, but was pulled at the last minute.
DISNEYLAND AND DISNEY WORLD HAVE WELCOMED THEIR NEWEST ATTRACTION, STAR WARS: GALAXY’S EDGE, TO THEIR PARKS. Opened in May and August of 2019, respectively, the parks have plans to expand and add another Star Wars land. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is an immersive world set in Batuu, featuring attractions, shops, and dining specific to the planet.
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GEORGE LUCAS DIDN’T ALWAYS WANT TO MAKE FILMS. During high school, he planned to become a professional racecar driver. However, a near-fatal car accident just after graduation stopped those plans.
ONLY CREATOR GEORGE LUCAS, DIRECTOR IRVIN KERSHNER, AND PRODUCER GARY KURTZ KNEW THAT DARTH VADER WAS LUKE SKYWALKER’S FATHER. Mark Hamill was told moments before the first take, while everyone else on set heard a fake line by David Prowse who played on-screen Darth Vader: “Obi-Wan killed your father!” .
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ON A HIGH NOTE
Michael Roberts at Cheese Bar, one of his favorite places to go on a night out. Photo by Christine Dong.
Michael Roberts Oregon Symphony assistant principal percussion
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After an appear ance at the famed western Massachusetts venue Tanglewood, The Boston Globe hailed Michael Roberts as a “fearlessly accomplished performer.” A walk through his performance history proves the characterization to be spot on. Roberts, assistant principal percussionist of the Oregon Symphony, joined the orchestra during the 2012/13 Season. He’s logged performances with the National Symphony, New World Symphony, Boston Pops, Hyogo pac Orchestra, and the symphonies of San Diego, Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, and the other Portland (in Maine). With festival fellowships that include Verbier and Spoleto and performances with the local ensembles of 45th Parallel and Fear No Music, one wonders where he finds the time to pet his cat, Hiro the Himalayan.
When and why did you start playing drums? Entering the fifth grade, my school band instructor set out a bunch of instruments for us to try. I went right to the snare drum, wanting to be like my brother Eric, a percussionist three years older and cooler than me. I didn’t realize this would be to my advantage for the following 10plus years as he kept passing instruments and advice down to me. It certainly paid off, considering where I am now. Recently, playing in Eric’s memory makes the experience even more special.
When did you first know you wanted to be a professional musician?
How do you handle mistakes during a performance?
In high school, I auditioned to be a part of the National Symphony’s Young Associates Program. I got to attend sessions with the nso musicians and their dress rehearsals at the Kennedy Center. I remember looking down on the orchestra and thinking, “I want to do that!”
The next day, I’ll try to think about what went wrong technically or mentally to change next time, because it’s likely just a matter of which gear to shift a little bit. But it is fun to stare at my sticks awkwardly like it was their fault or shrug my shoulders at the instrument like something was wrong with it!
What, for you, is the most fulfilling aspect of your life as a musician? I love the cultural aspect of it. The music I play spans several centuries and is composed by musicians from numerous countries. Whether the music is new or from another generation, there’s always more to hear and learn! I also love how our audience can gather for the common love of music’s artistry, yet the same piece can yield a different experience for each person listening; this shows the relevance of my profession. What advice do you have for someone wanting to follow in your footsteps? Advice that was helpful to me was to learn from as many players and teachers as you can. Our hands are all different, so there isn’t just one way to play something. Also, one should be able to accept constructive criticism and implement it into their practice.
Who has been one of the most influential people in your life?
Are there performances or moments that stand out in your memory? Could you tell us what made these performances particularly special for you?
My grandfather was a gifted pianist and composer who got me started on piano lessons and passed on a lot of excellent advice throughout my education and early professional percussion career. He shared many inspiring stories with me, like describing the beginnings of [what became] the Israel Philharmonic and his time as an intelligence officer during World War II. There were many instances where he “happened” to interact with various conductors, singers, soloists, and orchestras in and around Germany, each of these remarkable episodes impressing upon me the power and significance of music, further enhancing my love of it.
The first orchestra piece I ever played was Elgar’s Enigma Variations with my youth orchestra, so getting to play this with the Oregon Symphony a couple of years ago was a full-circle moment. Going back further, as a student in Boston, one always waits for that first opportunity to get to play in the amazing Symphony Hall. When I finally got the chance, I was assigned an off-stage percussion part (whomp…). I never went onstage! A couple of years later, I got to play Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 on the actual stage (finally) with my school orchestra. The experience, memorable in itself, is that much more so because of the story behind it.
What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given about anything? When one of my college professors met my wife, who was at that time my girlfriend, he turned to me and said, “You don’t realize how lucky you are; don’t screw it up.” A close second is advice from my dad that has helped me more times in life than I can remember: First, try unplugging it and plugging it back in. Tell me about your favorite performance venues. A music festival in Germany was my first trip to Europe, and I remember a couple of concert halls in Berlin and Dresden where every square inch was a work of art. I did another festival years later in Verbier, a ski resort town in Switzerland, where most nights following a full day of music, you could make the hike up to a church that had nightly 11 pm chamber music concerts. Though I played just one, I was always happy to see a few hundred people in attendance that late at night, especially in a remarkably resonant church surrounded by the Alps. Artslandia’s theme for the 2019/20 Season is A Night Out. Describe for our readers your perfect night out. On a typical night out, I gravitate to one of Portland’s food cart pods. They always seem to have what I’m craving, like local beers or strangers’ dogs to hang out with, and it’s a great way to see different parts of the city. My favorite pod is on se Belmont across from the Movie Madness, which I typically visit as well. I also love to stop by Sapphire Hotel for one of their amazing cocktails. . orsymphony.org | 503-228-1353 43
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ASK URSULA THE USHER She’s not the sweetest usher in town (for which competition is fierce), but she knows her stuff.
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Send me your questions on the computer or on the Facebook. URSULA@ARTSLANDIA.COM
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I’m so sick of the “turn off your cell phone” announcement at every show I attend. I mean, they can’t be serious. I negotiate high-level contracts and must be reachable at all times. Have these people ever heard of turning off a ringer? What about people who have children? Or dogs? What if there’s an emergency? It seems excessive to completely turn off our phones. – My Cell’s My Life A
DEAR MY CELL’S MY LIFE,
Clearly this is a touchy subject given your dramatic overreaction. Alas, I guess this is the theater. If it were up to me, I would make every patron check their cell phone at the door. Imagine you are in a very contentious, intense contract negotiation, and I decided that I would join you and sit quietly at the back of the room. I have brought my luggagesized purse that holds my tissues, glasses, Tums, coupons, TriMet map, cardigan, nail clippers, checkbook, and my cell phone. Right at the climax of your big negotiation, just moments from pen meeting paper, my cell rings. I become visibly shaken by the sound and leap to my feet to snatch my purse and begin the furious search for that betraying phone, the one I am certain I muted. But my purse has pulled a Mary Poppins, and all I am finding are lamps and antique water pitchers. The phone continues blaring, bringing all of the attention in the room to me and my purse. The mood has changed, and your contract has not been signed.
I’m Portland’s foremost and awardwinning expert in propriety, crowd management, security, and patron services administration. I’m Ursula the Usher. Yes, that’s right. What’d you think? That ushers just stand around handing out the playbills and pointing to seats? You don’t even know the things we do to keep you safe and comfortable. Ushers are the unsung heroes of the performing arts. .
But none of it matters to me, because when I do get to my phone way down in the bottom of my purse, I see a voicemail from my salon confirming my appointment on Monday. Thank goodness, I am confirmed. All is right in the world. As for your contract... Get my point? These actors are professionals whose job it is to focus on the moment. Your phone blowing up also blows up their concentration. It’s just wrong. At that moment, the world does not revolve around you, but it does revolve around the actor who has the spotlight on them. The point is to give yourself permission to be unreachable for an hour or two. You might even find you like it. But, your recognition of the plight of parents makes me think of my five children, 14 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Of course, some people have situations in their lives and need to be reachable in case of an emergency. Here’s my advice for them. Most, if not all, of these places with the shows will have a telephone number for emergencies outside the four walls. The number for The Armory is (503) 445-3727. For all of the Portland’5 venues (Newmark, Keller, Schnitzer, Brunish, and Winningstad), it’s (503) 248-4335. People with real emergencies (not you), can call the box office or check the computer to get this information for any place with the shows. The caller needs the seat number of the person to be notified, so people on whom lives depend should be sure to share that info. – Ursula the Usher orsymphony.org | 503-228-1353 45
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