2021 - 2022 SEASON
Welcome to the FSO! We are delighted to be together performing for you live in the newly renovated Harris Theatre. The past year has been challenging for all, and I want to thank each and every one of our subscribers, donors, and sponsors for your continued support, even when our venues were closed. We also express our sincerest appreciation to our newest patrons and supporters! Our music plays on only through your generosity to the FSO. Thank you for enabling us to bring the transformative power of classical music and arts education to our community. It is only with your support that the FSO continues to serve millions more in our community as an invaluable cultural resource for our Greater Washington DC region. We deepen our commitment to “One Fairfax” by growing our music and education programs serving people of all ages in diverse communities in Fairfax County and beyond. We continue to expand our partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools and to serve more Title 1 schools across our region through our innovative “Link Up” program in collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. As we celebrate our 64th Season this year, the FSO’s commitment is stronger than ever⏤to be a leading artistic voice on the concert stage and to take its knowledge, artistry, and commitment to the great art of classical music into our community and to the young people of Fairfax county. Under the inspired direction of music director Christopher Zimmerman, the FSO maintains its reputation as one of the finest regional orchestras in the country. On behalf of the Fairfax Symphony Board of Directors, orchestra members, and administrative team, we join you in celebrating the arts and the quality of life in Fairfax County!
Jonathan Kerr Executive Director
Christopher Zimmerman, music director and conductor Saturday, February 19 at 8pm George Mason University Harris Theatre
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE (1949-2019) “Ku-Ka-Ilimoku” for percussion ensemble ANTONIN DVORÁK (1841-1904) Serenade for Winds in D minor, Op. 44 Moderato, quasi Marcia Minuetto Andante con moto Finale: Allegro molto —Intermission— ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK (1941-) Essay for Strings ARVO PÄRT (1935-) Cantus “in memoriam Benjamin Britten” EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934) Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47
This performance is made possible with generous support from
Dr. Mark Head in memory of his mother, the musical Jane Gardner Head
PROGRAM NOTES ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Essay for Strings Composer: born April 17, 1941, Rochester, NY Work composed: 1986; arranged for string orchestra in 2000 World premiere: The Norfolk State University Orchestra premiered the Essay in the winter of 1986
By his own reckoning, Adolphus Hailstork has spent much of his life bridging two distinct musical cultures. Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Hailstork first heard European classical music as a child at home on the radio. In an interview, Hailstork talked about being drawn to the music’s exciting sound, and his childhood desire to write such music himself. Young Hailstork’s other primary musical influence came from the years he spent in the choir of the Anglican church he and his family attended in Rochester (Hailstork affectionately describes the ritual style of this church as “exceedingly High, with all the bells and smells.”) A prolific composer and passionate educator, Hailstork’s 300+ compositions cannot be neatly categorized. He has composed in virtually every genre; some of his works reflect his classical European training, others employ African-American idioms, and some compositions combine the two. Hailstork is currently working on his Fourth Symphony, as well as A Knee On the Neck, a cantata for George Floyd for chorus and orchestra, which will receive its premiere in March 2022. Hailstork is also an Eminent Scholar and Professor of Music (Emerita) at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. “The Essay for Strings was written in 1986 in memory of Glenn Hull, a colleague and the choir director at Norfolk State University during my early years there,” Hailstork writes. “His sudden passing was a shock, and I expressed my sadness in this work. It was premiered that year by the NSU orchestra at their Winter concert. In 2000, after conductorcomposer Coleridge Taylor Perkinson gave the work its second performance in Chicago with the ensemble of the Center For Black Music Research, I decided to add it to my catalog of orchestra works. The designation “Essay” refers to the fact that the piece is based on one idea, like a literary essay. In this case the musical idea, or motive, is made from the initials of my deceased friend, Glenn Hull. [The pitches G and B-natural are represented by the letters G and H in German notation]. These two notes sound throughout the work in tribute to him.”
PROGRAM NOTES ANTONIN DVORÁK Serenade for Wind Instruments in D minor, Op. 44 Composer: born September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, near Kralupy in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic); died May 1, 1904, Prague Work composed: January 4 – 18, 1878. Dedicated to German music critic Louis Ehlert, who championed Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances and helped build the young Czech composer’s international reputation. World premiere: Dvorák conducted the premiere on November 17, 1878, in Prague’s Provisional Theatre.
In the summer of 1874, 32-year-old Antonín Dvorák applied for a new scholarship offered by the Austrian Ministry of Education to young, poor, and talented artists living in the western portion of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Fortunately for Dvorák, the committee adjudicating the music applications included his mentor Johannes Brahms, along with the influential critic Eduard Hanslick. Upon awarding Dvorák the scholarship, the committee noted his “undoubted talent,” the fact that he could not afford a piano of his own, and stated that he deserved the scholarship in order to “free him from anxiety in his creative work.” Three years later, Dvorák won the prize a second time, along with an offer from Brahms and Hanslick to help promote Dvorák’s music to audiences and critics in influential musical centers, particularly Vienna. In the first days of January 1878, Dvorák heard the Vienna Philharmonic perform Mozart’s Serenade for Winds in B-flat. As soon as Dvorák returned to Prague, he began writing his own serenade, and completed it in two weeks. “Take a look at the Serenade for Wind Instruments by Dvorák,” Brahms wrote to violinist Joseph Joachim in May 1879. “I hope it gives you as much pleasure as it does to me... you can hardly gain a lovelier, more refreshing impression of a true, rich, and attractive creative talent. Have it played for you; I should think it would be a joy for the wind players!” Although the third movement of Op. 44 is clearly modeled on the famous Adagio of Mozart’s Serenade, Dvorák’s Op. 44 is an original Romantic 19th-century work full of Czech stylistic characteristics, Czech dances, and evocations of the lush Czech countryside. The first movement marches, the second dances, the third nods at Mozart’s Adagio, and the finale’s ebullience reprises the opening march.
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PROGRAM NOTES CHRISTOPHER ROUSE Serenade for Wind Instruments in D minor, Op. 44 Composer: born February 15, 1949, Baltimore, MD; died September 21, 2019 Work composed: 1978; completed on August 5 of that year and commissioned by the Syracuse Symphony Percussion Ensemble. Dedicated to Mary Voisin.
“His music is relevant, visceral, moving, and thrilling – music that can change people, music that makes time stop; it is, pure and simple, great art.” – Marin Alsop Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning American composer Christopher Rouse found musical inspiration in an eclectic range of sources from Hector Berlioz to Led Zeppelin. Rouse’s music has garnered praise from musicians, conductors, and critics around the world. The New York Times described Rouse’s work as “some of the most anguished and memorable music around,” and the Baltimore Sun opined, “When the music history of the late 20th century is written, I suspect the explosive and passionate music of Rouse will loom large.” KU-KA-ILIMOKU’s energetic, propulsive quality is characteristic of much of Rouse’s work, particularly his early compositions. “In Hawaiian mythology, KU is perhaps the most fundamental and important god, occupying a place similar to that of Zeus in Greek mythology or Odin in Norse legend,” Rouse explained in his own program note. “KU is manifested in several forms: as KU-KA-ILIMOKU he represents the god of war. Thus, this work for percussion ensemble is best viewed as a savage, propulsive war dance.” Writer and percussionist Michael Dooley adds, “Hawaiian chants are often based on as few as two pitches, and Hawaiian percussion emphasizes short, repetitive patterns. Underlying this surface simplicity is a wealth of subtle rhythmic inflection and variation. Although indigenous instruments are not employed, the timbre of their voices is evoked. The dynamic power of the Western instruments adds an intense level of ferocity to the proceedings.”
PROGRAM NOTES ARVO PÄRT Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten Composer: born September 11, 1935, Paide, Estonia Work composed: 1977 World premiere: Eri Klas conducted the Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Tallinn, Estonia, on May 1, 1977
The crystalline quality of Arvo Pärt’s music evokes the wintry climate of his native Estonia. Pärt achieves this shimmering transparency through single notes, a compositional style he named “tintinnabulation,” Latin for “little bells.” Pärt explains, “I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me. I work with very few elements - with one voice, two voices. I build with primitive materials – with the triad, with one specific tonality. The three notes of a triad are like bells, and that is why I call it tintinnabulation.” Pärt’s focus on individual notes also reflects his theological explorations of faith. Scholar Leonard Brauneiss writes, “In a more general sense, the idea of a search for general principles governing the treatment of musical material ties in seamlessly with the philosophical idea of a search for the single source from which all surface variety ultimately springs.” Pärt’s affinity for the choral music of Flemish Renaissance composers Johannes Ockeghem and Josquin des Prez is reflected in Cantus’ interwoven horizontal lines, which collectively form an intricately layered sound tapestry. For some years before Benjamin Britten’s death in 1976, Pärt had wanted to meet the British composer. When Britten died, Pärt was inspired to compose a cantus – song – to honor his life and music. “Why did the date of Benjamin Britten’s death – December 4, 1976 – touch such a chord in me?” Pärt wrote. During this time I was obviously at the point where I could recognize the magnitude of such a loss. Inexplicable feelings of guilt, more than that even, arose in me. I had just discovered Britten for myself. Just before his death I began to appreciate the unusual purity of his music … And besides, for a long time I had wanted to meet Britten personally, and now it would not come to that.” © Elizabeth Schwartz
CHRISTOPHER ZIMMERMAN, Music Director Named music Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra in 2009, Christopher Zimmerman celebrates his twelth season with the FSO. Under his leadership, the FSO has received consistent praise from the media. Former Washington Post arts critic, Anne Midgette, wrote: “the Bernstein was a note perfect end to a very refreshing evening that spoke well for the programming vision of Zimmerman.” Washington Post reporter, Stephen Brookes, commented: “Zimmerman has been injecting adrenalin into this determined ensemble… (and has) made the Fairfax players a serious force to be reckoned with.” In the summer of 2013, Zimmerman accepted two additional appointments: Music Director of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and Principal Conductor of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras. He has also been the Music Director of the Eleazar de Carvalho Festival in Brazil, and, closer to home, a regular guest conductor at the Summer Performing Arts Festival in Wintergreen, Virginia. He has also been engaged as a guest conductor all over the world, with the Royal Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony, the Slovak Philharmonic, the Turku Philharmonic, the Seoul
Philharmonic, the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Caracas Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro to name a few, and, more recently, he has been on two guest tours of orchestras in China. A recipient of numerous awards, the FSO under Zimmerman’s direction was honored as the 2013 winner of Washington Area Music Award (WAMMIE) for the best classical orchestra. In 2011, Zimmerman was selected as the first place winner in the professional orchestra category of “The American Prize in Conducting,” a new award for nationwide performances for conductors of all genres and categories. His U.S. operatic conducting debut, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, won first place in the National Opera Association competition. A champion of contemporary music, Zimmerman has conducted more than 25 premieres for orchestra by recognized composers such as William Bolcom, Susan Botti, Martin Bresnick, Avner Dorman, Bright Sheng, Christopher Rouse, Chris Theofanidis, Ellen Taafe Zwilich and Judith Weir. On July 4, 2012, Mr. Zimmerman gave the world premiere of “Lingua Angelorum” by Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova, a 50 minute song-cycle with the internationally renowned baritone Thomas Hampson and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, Maestro Zimmerman and the FSO also gave the U.S. premiere of her first symphony. Christopher Zimmerman graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Music, and received his Master’s from the University of Michigan. He also studied with Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood, and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine with Charles Bruck. Zimmerman served as an apprentice to Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony and in Prague, as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
REMEMBERING JIM MCKEEVER The FSO mourns the loss of its Chairman, James C. McKeever, Jr., who passed away Saturday, October 30, 2021. Mr. McKeever served as Chairman of the Fairfax Symphony Board of Directors since 2016 and had a long history of involvement with the organization. “We are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend,” said Jonathan Kerr, Executive Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. “We are forever grateful for Jim’s leadership and support of the FSO. His unwavering commitment and dedication helped the FSO expand its programs to better serve our community. His love of the FSO was resounding, and his legacy lives on through the music and service of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra to our region.”
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MEET OUR 2021/22 FELLOWS Fairfax Symphony Diversity Fellowship Program This season, we strengthen our commitment to serving students through high-quality education and mentorship programs, as we launch the FSO Diversity Fellowship program to help accelerate the careers of talented, student musicians from backgrounds that are underrepresented in orchestras today. The program is designed to enhance opportunities for pre-professional musicians, encourage greater diversity in the field, and increase diverse representation in orchestras across the United States.
Carlos Figueroa, cello “I can’t fathom the thought that I have been selected as one of the fellow musicians to join the wonderful Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. I can’t wait to be performing with such great musicians and keep fulfilling my professional career as a cellist. I know this program will benefit me in every way possible, and I am eager to share my passion with such an amazing orchestra. I am certainly looking forward to the performances, the master classes that this fellowship will be providing for my professional growth, and for the mentorship.”
Mr. Figueroa is an emerging cellist from the beautiful country Venezuela. Music has been a part of him since an early age. His passion for music never stopped and he was always striving to one day share the stage with famous musicians and to be a concert soloist. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree in cello performance at George Mason University under the guidance of Dr. Dorotea Racz after successfully earning his bachelor’s degree at Shenandoah University as summa cum laude. Over the years, Mr. Figueroa has collaborated with renowned conductors, musicians, and composers for classical and contemporary music alike. He played a symphony under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, worked tirelessly for the release of Winton Marsalis’ Symphony in Blue,
participated in a film festival with Marco Beltrami, and performed with composer Jenifer Higdon. Mr. Figueroa believes music is more than just notes. He feels music is about connection and that connection is what will bring people together. He plays with the purpose of sharing the gift of music with every person that listens to his music.
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Breonna Proctor, violin “I am very grateful to be selected for the Diversity Fellowship program with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Being able to learn from and perform with world-class musicians in a professional setting is something that I have always aspired to do. I look forward to finally performing my favorite symphony, Symphony No. 3 by Brahms, in March.”
Ms. Proctor graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Music degree concentrating in Music Industry. At the age of six, she began playing violin and has accumulated over 17 years of performance experience and nine years of teaching experience. She served as concertmaster and section leader of the James Madison University Symphony and Opera Orchestras during her college career. Locally, she has performed at various venues, including the Kennedy Center, the United States Capitol, Maryland Hall, and the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Her international performances have taken place in the cities of Montreal, Vienna, Salzburg, and Prague. Breonna is currently in pursuit of a law degree with an intellectual property concentration. With this degree, she hopes to become an advocate for the protection of artists and their creations. The FSO Diversity Fellowship is made possible in part by the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Fairfax County Government, and GEICO.
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FAIRFAX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christopher Zimmerman | Music Director VIOLIN 1 David Salness, Concertmaster Cristina Constantinescu, Assistant Concertmaster Chris Franke Sharon Like Natalie Trainer Madalyn Navis Tim Kidder Paul Bagley VIOLIN 2 Katelyn Lyons-Peaden, Principal The Timothy Evan Owens Memorial Chair Melanie Kuperstein, Associate Principal Andrew Juola, Assistant Principal Nancy Bovill Cynthia Crumb Susan Manus Elena Smirnova Breonna Proctor Timothy Wade VIOLA Gregory Rupert, Principal Andrew Eng, Associate Principal Michael Polonchak Helen Fall Patti Reid Shearom Chung CELLO Marion Baker, Principal Kristin Gilbert Rachel Sexton Carlos Figueroa Brent Davis Kathy Thompson Emily Doveala
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