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BRONFMAN PLAYS BRAHMS PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1
Thursday, June 19 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
SCHUBERT/WEBERN Six German Dances
HAYDN Symphony No. 44, Trauersinfonie
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
Who is Johannes Brahms?
Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 1833. His father was a double-bass player in a local symphony orchestra. His mother was a seamstress and cook. Johannes was one of three children. At the age of seven he began taking piano lessons. When he was 13 he was already learning music theory. Brahms was only 15 when he gave his first formal recital. *
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, violin, voice, and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works.**
Brahms became a wealthy man through his composing although he didn’t show it. He lived in a small apartment and happily gave money to friends and aspiring musicians.***
Source:
*kids.britannica.com
**kids.kiddle.co
***cmuse.org
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Johannes Brahms, composer (1833-1897)
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Photo:
Felix
Broede
Photo:
Dario
Acosta
BRAHMS DOUBLE CONCERTO
Saturday, June 21 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Blake Pouliot, violin
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello SCHUBERT Symphony No. 4, Tragic
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes, or sounds the strings in varying manners.
In most string instruments, the vibrations are transmitted to the body of the instrument, which often incorporates some sort of hollow or enclosed area. The body of the instrument also vibrates, along with the air inside it. The vibration of the body of the instrument and the enclosed hollow or chamber make the vibration of the string more audible to the performer and audience. The body of most string instruments is hollow, in order to have better sound projection.
Matthias Pintscher, conductor
Inside view of a violin
Blake Pouliot, violin
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo: Felix Broede Photo: Lauren Hurt
ELGAR ENIGMA VARIATIONS
Saturday, June 28 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
AMY BEACH Piano Concerto
ELGAR Enigma Variations
Who is Amy Beach?
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was born in Henniker, New Hampshire on September 5, 1867 to Charles Abbott Cheney and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney. (Amy Marcy Cheney married Dr. Henry Beach in 1885.) Artistic ability appears to have run in the family: Clara was reputedly an “excellent pianist and singer,” while Beach showed every sign of being a child prodigy. She was able to sing forty songs accurately by age one, she was capable of improvising counter-melody by age two, and she taught herself to read at age three. At four, she composed three waltzes for piano during one summer at her grandfather’s farm in West Henniker, NH, despite the absence of a piano; instead, she composed the pieces mentally and played them when she returned home. She could also play music by ear, including four-part hymns.
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Amy Beach,composer (1867-1944)
Peter Oundjian, conductor
Photo:
Sophie Zhai
Read more about Amy Beach in the book Pitch Perfect and Persistent by Caitlin DeLems.
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 7
Tuesday, July 1 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Charles Yang, violin
SOPHIA JANI I Wish You Daisies and Roses (Co-commission by Bravo! Vail and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra) Symphonic Commissioning Project
KRIS BOWERS Violin Concerto, For a Younger Self
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
How do you become a composer?
• Listen to lots of different music.
• Learn to play one or more musical instruments.
• Study music theory and composition.
• Experiment with writing your own music.
• Use technology and music software.
• Keep a journal of your own music
• Go to college for music composition.
• Meet other composers and musicians.
Charles Yang, violin
Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor
Sophia Jani, composer (b. 1986)
Photo: Jingyu Lin
Photo: Benjamin Ealovega
MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO
Sunday, July 6 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Marin Alsop, conductor
Randall Goosby, violin
GABRIELA LENA FRANK Picaflor: A Future Myth (Co-commission by Bravo! Vail, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Oregon Symphony) Symphonic Commissioning Project
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme by Haydn
What colors do you hear?
What emotions do you feel?
How many different instruments do you see? Use the image of the orchestra in the back of the book to circle the instruments you see or hear.
Gabriela Lena Frank, composer (b. 1972)
Randall Goosby, violin
Marin Alsop, conductor
Photo:
Ollie Ali Photo: Platon
ALSOP CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH
Monday, July 7 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Marin Alsop, conductor
Wu Man, pipa
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
ZHAO JIPING Pipa Concerto No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
What is a pipa?
The pipa, pípá, or p’i-p’a (Chinese: ) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the “Chinese lute,” the instrument has a pearshaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 31. Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty, and although historically the term pipa was once used to refer to a variety of plucked chordophones, its usage since the Song dynasty refers exclusively to the pear-shaped instrument.
The pipa is one of the most popular Chinese instruments and has been played for almost two thousand years in China. Several related instruments are derived from the pipa, including the Japanese biwa and Korean bipa in East Asia, and the Vietnamese đàn tỳ bà in Southeast Asia. The Korean instrument is the only one of the three that is no longer widely used.*
* en.wikipedia.org
Zhao Jiping, composer (b. 1945)
Marin Alsop, conductor
Wu Man, pipa
Photo:
Platon
Photo:
Sebastian Schutyser
VIVALDI
THE FOUR SEASONS
Thursday, July 10 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Gil Shaham, violin/leader
BACH Violin Concerto No. 1
MOZART Adagio and Rondo
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
Listen for elements of nature that are written in the music and resemble part of each season.
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy, which is where he spent most of his life. His father taught him to play the violin, and the two would often perform together.
Vivaldi continued to study and practice the violin, even after he became a priest. He was called the “Red Priest” because of his flaming red hair. However, after a while, his bad asthma kept Vivaldi from saying Mass.
After that, Vivaldi spent all his time writing music and teaching. He taught at an orphanage for girls, and wrote a lot of music for the girls to play. People came from miles around to hear Vivaldi’s talented students perform the beautiful music he had written.
Many people think Vivaldi was the best Italian composer of his time. He wrote concertos, operas, church music and many other compositions. In all, Vivaldi wrote over 500 concertos. His most famous set of concertos is The Four Seasons.*
* classicsforkids.com
Gil Shaham, violin/leader
Antonio Vivaldi, composer (1678 - 1741)
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Photo:
Chris Lee
STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO
Wednesday, July 16 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
JESSIE MONTGOMERY CHEMILUMINESCENCE
(Co-commission by Bravo! Vail, the New York Philharmonic, and the Sphinx Organization) Symphonic Commissioning Project
STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
Who is Jessie Montgomery?
Jessie Montgomery was raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side by playwright and performer Robbie McCauley and composer Ed Montgomery. She began her violin studies at the Third Street Music School Settlement. She holds a bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the The Juilliard School, and completed a master’s degree in composition for film and multimedia at New York University in 2012.
Starting in 1999, Montgomery became involved with the Sphinx Organization, a Detroit-based nonprofit that supports young African American and Latino string players. After receiving multiple Sphinx awards and grants as a young performer and composer, she now serves as composer-in-residence for the Sphinx Virtuosi, the organization’s professional touring ensemble*
*kids.kiddle.co
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Jessie Montgomery, composer (b. 1981)
Jakub Hrůša, conductor
Photo: Ian Ehm
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Photo:
Jiyang Chen
TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 6 PATHÉTIQUE
Tuesday, July 22 6 PM
GERALD R. FORD AMPHITHEATER
Rafael Payare, conductor Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
STILL Darker America
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique
Tchaikovsky was only five when he started taking piano lessons. He was soon better than his teacher.
Tchaikovsky’s family had an orchestrion (a kind of musical box) which played some tunes from classical music by Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini.
Orchestrion is a generic name for a machine that plays music and is designed to sound like an orchestra or band. Orchestrions may be operated by means of a large pinned cylinder or by a music roll and less commonly book music. The sound is usually produced by pipes, though they will be voiced differently from those found in a pipe organ, as well as percussion instruments. Many orchestrions contain a piano as well.* *kids.kiddle.co
Yekwon Sunwoo, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (1840 - 1893)
Rafael Payare, conductor
Photo: Gerard Collett
Photo:
Carolyn Cruz
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