Paducah Symphony Orchestra Feb/Mar 2014 Program Booklet by Paducah Symphony Orchestra

2013 - 2014 Season

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RACHMANINOFF’S 2ND SYMPHONY Also featuring side-by-side performance with PSYO 1 February 2014 | 7:30pm | Carson Center Page 9 YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTO COMPETITION ENCORE SERIES PERFORMANCE 2 February 2014 | 3:00pm | Murray State University Page 25

“MADE IN AMERICA” CHORUS CONCERT ENCORE SERIES PERFORMANCE 23 February 2014 | 3:00pm | Heartland Worship Center Page 39 RAVEL’S PIANO CONCERTO Fabio Bidini, piano 1 March 2014 | 7:30pm | Carson Center Page 47

MASTER CLASS WITH PIANIST FABIO BIDINI ENCORE SERIES PERFORMANCE 2 March 2014 | 3:00pm | Heartland Worship Center Page 55

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Governing Board Roger Truitt, President John Williams Jr., Past President Dick Holland, Secretary Clay Howerton, Vice President Lennis Thompson, Vice President Cathy Trampe, Vice President Edward Bach Molly Blythe R. Joe Burkhead Chuck Folsom Mary Grinnell James Gwinn, Jr. Juliette Grumley Karen Hammond Mary Hammond Anthony Hunter Keith Kelly Lisa Massey Phyllis Petcoff Michael Resnick Lowell Roberts Richard Roof Bonnie Schrock Patty Story

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Artisitic Director Raffaele Ponti February 1 PSO Concert Program PSYO Personnel February 1 Program Notes Young Artists Competition Program Orchestra Personnel Sponsors & Donors “Made In America” Program Chorus Personnel Chorus Directors March 1 PSO Concert Program Pianist Fabio Bidini March 1 Program Notes Fabio Bidini Master Class Program

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Robert Bonfiglio, Harmonica Virtuoso states, “I just performed the Villa-Lobos Harmonica Concerto with Maestro Raffaele Ponti and I was stunned by what an unbelievable conductor he is; wonderful, dazzling, exciting, I don’t know what to say other than “very musical.” Raffaele is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra (KY), Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (FL), Genesee Symphony Orchestra (NY), former Principal Conductor and Music Director, now Regular Guest Conductor of I.K.O. Italia Konzert Opera International, Founding Director of Festival di Musica da Camera in Ripatransone, Italy, and continues to appear with prominent orchestras around the United States and Europe. Michael Ludwig, Concert Violinist writes, “Raffaele brings extraordinary artistry and incredible excitement and passion to the podium, a musician of great sensitivity and high artistry. Raffaele had a wonderful rapport with the orchestra. He has tremendous skill in communicating his musical thoughts and expressions, and is extremely efficient in his rehearsing method. Most importantly, Raffaele approaches the music with a great artistic sensibility. His interpretations are passionate, exciting, and well thought out. He brings great excitement and enthusiasm that is palpable to the concert goers, as well as the orchestra.” Executive Director, Daniel Sene states, “Raffaele is an extremely skilled conductor who achieves great results with the musicians he works with. The orchestra respects his musical vision and responds with great performances. As a result of his leadership, our orchestra has seen phenomenal growth in season ticket sales. Additionally, Raffaele understands the role of a modern Artistic Director and thus relates extremely well with patrons and donors.” This season Raffaele led the Buffalo Philharmonic and Erie Philharmonic with immediate return engagements, and makes his debut as Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony (FL). Recent engagements include the Buffalo Philharmonic, Erie Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Paducah Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Genesee Symphony, Sofia Symphony, Varna State Opera, Orchestra di Pescara, Austin Symphony, Siena Sinfonia, Binghamton Philharmonic, Elgin Symphony, Teatro Lirico d’europe, Billings Symphony, Italia Konzert Opera, Utica Symphony, Schenectady Symphony, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and Syracuse Symphony. Remember the PSO in your Wills & Planned Giving.

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Paducah Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Symphony Raffaele Ponti, conductor Featuring a side-by-side performance with the PSYO PAUL CRESTON ROBERT SMITH

Dance Overture, op.62 Rites of Tamburo

12’ 4’

Intermission SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Symphony No. 2 Largo – Allegro Moderato 20’ Allegro Molto 11’ Adagio 14’ Allegro Vivace 15’

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Program Notes Dance Overture, op. 62

February 1 Concert Paul Creston (1906-1985)

Born Giuseppe Guttoveggio in 1906, Italian American composer Paul Creston began his music career early, taking piano lessons at the age of 8 and went on to train with G.A. Randegger and Gaston Diethier, and to become Pietro Yon’s organ apprentice. Creston was a completely self-taught in compositional techniques and harmony. Creston was an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. His compositional style was fairly conservative with a sturdy rhythmic component. Creston was one of the most performed American composers of the 40s and 50s. Many of his works have become staples of the wind band repertoire.

His Dance Overture was completed in December 1954. It was commissioned to be performed in Miami at the 1955 convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs. He uses one basic theme out of which he develops romanticisms of recognizable dance forms from the nations whose flags fly in the Florida sands. An original piece, composed for a purpose, this piece still has the Creston style to it. This piece morphs from a basic musical idea into a Spanish bolero then to an English country-dance followed by a French loure and finally ending in a climactic American square-dance.

Rites of Tamburo

Robert W. Smith (b. 1958)

Robert W. Smith (b. 1958) has over 600 publications in print. As a conductor and clinician, Mr. Smith has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Europe, South America and Australia. He has recently completed the production of Symphony No. 3 (Don Quixote), the fourth in a series of compact disc recordings of his best-known works for concert band. In addition, he is co-creator of the Expressions Music Curriculum. This comprehensive Pre-K through 12 music program includes Band Expressions, an innovative new approach to teaching music through the band. Rites of Tamburo, composed in 1999, is an exciting programmatic piece for a younger aged concert ensemble. The “mysterious” introduction features, bells, and chimes playing a repetitive flowing rhythm while the horn and flute play half and quarter note chant-like lines that weave in and out of each other. The band adds to the mystery by making hissing and breathing effects while this is all happening. After this introduction, Smith asks for “overwhelming energy” as the woodwinds establish the new tempo with a repetitive syncopated rhythm. Brass builds bell-tone chords, leading to a cluster-chord where Smith writes “pick-a-note” and then finally pushes into a “comfortable groove”.

Symphony No. 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Sergei Rachmaninoff is known as one of the last connections between 19th century romanticism and the modern era. He was born in Semyonovo, Russia to aristocratic parents. His mother gave him his first piano lessons and realized early that her son had extraordinary musical talent. So, Rachmaninoff’s parents hired Anna Ornatskaya, St. Petersburg musician to be his personal instructor. Rachmaninoff received a scholarship to the St. Petersburg conservatory when his family moved there after their wealth collapsed. However, he failed all of his exams and was moved to the conservatory in Moscow where Nikolai Zverev’s strict work ethic helped Rachmaninoff stabilize his career.

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Rachmaninoff began composing actively until March 1897 when his Symphony No. 1 received horrible reviews. This caused him to sink into a depression that left him unable to compose for three years. After hypnotic treatments, he recovered and composed actively again for 10 years. In 1917 his estate was taken by the Leninist regime and he moved with his wife and two children to New York. There he openly criticized the Soviet government to the New York Times and was banned from all concert halls and conservatories throughout the USSR. Written between 1906 and 1907, Symphony No. 2 was premiered in St. Petersburg on February 8, 1908 and was conducted by the composer himself. The score is dedicated to Sergei Taneyev, a Russian composer, theorist, teacher, author and student of Tchaikovsky. When this piece was composed, Rachmaninoff had just had two seasons as the conductor of the Imperial Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Although he was successful in the field, Rachmaninoff felt that he was a composer first and foremost and that the conducting schedule was taking away from the time he needed to spend composing. He moved his wife and daughter to Dresden, Germany to spend the majority of his time composing and because of the political unrest in Russia. He stayed there for three years with his family and spent summers at his in-lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate of Ivanovka. During this time he wrote his Second Symphony. Due to the ill welcome that his First Symphony received, Rachmaninoff was unconvinced of his writing ability, especially when it came to symphonies. It took him months of revisions before he finally premiered his Second Symphony which was accepted with thunderous applause. He received a Glinka award for this piece ten months later. This success returned Rachmaninoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of worth as a symphonist.

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The Paducah Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations for their financial contributions over the past 13 months as of January 15, 2014. Maestro’s Circle $5,000+ Anonymous (2) Anonymous in Honor of John & Kristin Williams Carson-Myre Foundation City of Paducah Community Foundation of West Kentucky Ingram Barge Company Kentucky Arts Council Lourdes Hospital Dr. & Mrs. Wally Montgomery National Endowment for the Arts Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Page Baptist Health Paducah The Ronald McDonald Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Roger Truitt United Propane Gas Mr. & Mrs. John Williams, Sr. President’s Club $2,500-$4,999 Anonymous Bill Ford Interiors, Inc. Clark Distributing CSI Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Davis Mr. & Mrs. Basil Drossos Ethan Allen Design Center Mr. & Mrs. Steven Grinnell Independence Bank Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm Jones Dr. & Mrs. James O’Rourke Paducah Bank Regions Bank Mr. & Mrs. John Shadle Dr. & Mrs. Richard Smith US Bank Wells Fargo Advisors Mrs. Belinda Weitlauf Mr. & Mrs. John Williams, Jr. Councilor $1,500-$2,499 Mr. & Mrs. Joe Burkhead Mr. & Mrs. Mike Cappock Ms. Nancy Duff Dr. & Mrs. Paul Grumley Dr. & Mrs. James Gwinn Dr. & Mrs. Keith Kelly Ms. Allison & Dr. Pamela Reed Guarantor $1000-$1499 Dr. & Mrs. Ted Borodofsky Falconite Development Mr. & Mrs. Charles Folsom Mr. & Mrs. Kenn Gray Mr. Richard Holland Mrs. Frances Hunt Jarrell Snipes Foundation Jim Smith Contracting Dr. & Mrs. Jeff Johnson Kiwanis Club of Paducah Mr. & Mrs. H. E. Katterjohn Mr. & Mrs. William Kellum Michelson’s Jewelers Ms. Peggy Paxton Mr. & Mrs. Richard Paxton

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Murray State University Concert Choir Dr. Amy Aucoin, conductor Brett Chittenden, accompanist LEONARD BERNSTEIN Sanctus From Mass LEONARD BERNSTEIN America From West Side Story LEONARD BERNSTEIN Somewhere From West Side Story LEONARD BERNSTEIN Make Our Garden Grow From Candide

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Paducah Symphony Children’s Chorus Dr. Bradley Almquist, conductor Mrs. Devonda Treece, collaborative piano LUCY SIMON & MARSHA NORMAN Round Shouldered Man From The Secret Garden CLARK GESNER Happiness From You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown RICHARD ADLER & JERRY ROSS Heart From Damn Yankees IRWIN KOSTAL A Spoon Full of Sugar Feed the Birds Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious From Mary Poppins

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Created in 1981, the Paducah Symphony Orchestra Chorus is comprised of volunteer singers rehearsing weekly under the direction of Dr. Bradley Almquist. For audition information, or to learn more, visit PaducahSymphony.org. Marilyn Alberts Jessica Alexander Christine Althoff Sondra Asa Gene Biggs Haydon Bloodworth Nancy Bloodworth Ann Boss David Bryant Susan Carr Brett Chittenden Donna Chu Pam Collins Ginny Coltharp Rick Coltharp Cynthia Cronin Mary Fran Davis Robert Day Carter Vicki Dowdy Nancy Duke

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Daniel Sene Jerry Severns Sherry Shadle Amy Smith Tommy Thompson Cadelia Turpin Michele Venable Jennifer Wann Bryan Warner Hayly Wiggins Kristin Williams John Williams, Jr. Brett Chittenden Accompanist Darby Griffin Chorus Liaison

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Under the direction of Dr. Bradley Almquist and Dr. Amy Aucoin, the Paducah Symphony Children’s & Youth Choruses is the only children’s chorus in our region to perform with a professional orchestra. Chorus members rehearse weekly in the Children’s Chorus (grades 3-8) and the Youth Chorus (grades 9-12). For audition information, or to learn more, visit PaducahSymphony.org.

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Children’s Chorus Isaac Abell Hannah Baker Marissa Brock Claire Colburn Elizabeth Corry Jessie Elliott Jameson Evers Zachary Farmer Maddison Fitzgerald Olivia Gammel Abigail Hall Valerie Hays Addalyn Hulen Chaney Johnson Kathryn Johnston Cecilia A. Kaler Samantha Luker Naavah Morrow

Cheyenne Nordstrom Leah Poat Gantry Rasche Dorian Record Jasmine Robinson Maya Romanak Josephine Sederstrand Owen Sederstrand Jonathan Strachan Laurel Swanz Mark Taylor Alec Wadley Shannon Wilkins Matthew Youngblood

Youth Chorus Andi Boyd Sydney Brooking Joy Cooksey Andrew Durham Katherine English Georgeann Ingram Jessica Jones Hannah Nordquist Molly Nordquist Talise Nordstrom Michaela Nutt Charlotte Sederstrand Lily Silverstein Sean Sieczka Anna Terry Savannah Treece Alec Wadley Elizabeth Wiggins

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Director of Choruses Dr. Bradley Almquist Dr. Bradley Almquist was appointed the Director of Choral Activities at Murray State University in 1992. He received a Bachelor and Master’s degree in music education from the University of North Dakota and was awarded the first Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting by Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Dr. Almquist is the recipient of the 2002 Murray State University Board of Regents Teaching Excellence award, the 2002 MSU College of Humanities and Fine Arts Award for Creative/ Scholarly Activity, and the 2005, 2009 MSU College of Humanities and Fine Arts Award for Outstanding Service. He was honored at the 2004 Summer KyACDA convention with the Robert K. Baar Award for choral excellence. In 2006 he received the first Charles and Marleen Johnson Outstanding Music Faculty Award at Murray State University. He was honored with the award again in 2011. In addition to his university responsibilities Dr. Almquist conducts the Paducah Symphony Chorus and the Paducah Symphony Children’s Chorus. He also teaches Gifted and Talented 4th grade music students for the McCracken County Public Schools, KY. He is a member of MENC, CMS, ACDA, Past President of the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association and President of the Kentucky Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.

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Dr. Amy L. Aucoin serves as Associate Professor of Music at Murray State University. She completed her DMA in choral conducting at Louisiana State University having received a MM in choral conducting at the University of Mississippi and bachelors degree at Nicholls State University. From 1998 to 2003, Dr. Aucoin taught choral music and humanities at the high school and junior high level in Terrebonne and Lafourche parish public schools in Louisiana. She has frequently served as clinician for choral festivals and adjudicator for both vocal solo and choral ensemble festivals in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois and Kentucky. At Murray State University, Dr. Aucoin conducts the University Chorale and the Murray Choral Society, teaches courses in choral music methods, voice methods, aural skills, music education, and serves as a University Coordinator for student teachers. She is also Assistant Director for the Paducah Symphony Children’s Chorus, Faculty Advisor to the Iota Beta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota at Murray State University.

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Fabio Bidini – Piano At the age of five, Fabio Bidini was given his first piano lessons and half year later he played his first public concert. In the following years he won eleven of the most important Italian piano competitions, including always the Audience Prize as well as all the special prizes. He made his final graduation with “Magna cum Laude” and was one of the youngest graduates ever of the prestigious “Conservatorio Santa Cecilia” in Rome. After winning top prizes in the most famous international piano competitions his sensational success at the Busoni and at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition opened him the door to a constantly growing international career. Fabio Bidini now is recognized as one of the foremost young pianists to have emerged from Italy since the days of Michelangeli. His outstanding piano playing that combines technical wizardry with poetic lyricism and his fascinating culture of the attack of the keyboard brought him to have a glowing London debut in the Barbican Center with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas in the presence of Sir Georg Solti, Barbara Hendricks and James Galway in 1992. Shortly after, he had his highly acclaimed North American debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Joel Levi. Fabio Bidini´s discography comprises thirteen CDs of leading recording companies like BMG, Classichord, Musikstrasse, EPR, True Sounds, among others. In 2005 Fabio Bidini accepted a professorship in the piano departement of the “Universität der Künste – Berlin”. In 2009 he got appointed one of the few highest chairs for piano in Germany at the world-renown “Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and teaches as a professor at this prestigious university since then. He is an official Steinway Artist.

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March 1 Concert George Gershwin (1898-1937)

An American composer and pianist, George Gershwin’s compositions bridged from popular to classical genres and his most popular melodies are known around the world. Among his best known works are Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and the opera Porgy and Bess. He studied under Charles Hambitzer and his composition teacher was Rubin Goldmark and Henry Cowell. His career began as a song plugger but quickly moved to Broadway theatre compositions. He moved to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger where he began to compose An American in Paris. Once he returned to New York City, he wrote Porgy and Bess with his brother Ira and the author DuBose Heyward. Gershwin passed away in 1937 from a brain tumor but not before moving to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores.

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Cuban Overture is a symphonic overture or “tone poem” for orchestra. Originally titled Rumba, it had its premiere in at New York’s now-demolished Leisohn Stadium in August 1932 as part of a New York Philharmonic All-Gershwin concert. Three months after the premiere, Gershwin retitled the piece Cuban Overture at the Metropolitan Opera to circumvent giving the audience the idea that it was just a novelty piece. According to Gershwin the new title provided “a more just idea of the character and intent of the music.” The overture is ruled by Caribbean rhythms and inherently Cuban percussion. It is an exciting work with just enough intricacy and sophistication. Heavily influenced by Cuban music and dance, its main theme was influenced by a then current hit by Ignacio Piñeiro, “Échale Salsita”.

Piano concerto in G Major

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Joseph-Maurice Ravel, a French composer most well-known for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental consistencies and effects, was one of the most renowned composers of Impressionist music. Born near the Spanish border of France, at the age of 14, when his father’s engineering work brought the family to Paris, Ravel began studying at the Paris Conservatory. There he studied composition under Gabriel Fauré and André Gedalge. Ravel was a rebellious composer and refused to be bound by the Conservatory’s rules of composition. Because of his compositional rebelliousness, Ravel did not receive any awards and was therefore not particularly liked by his teachers. Ravel was a private person, meticulous and precise in his work. He was considered feline in his mannerisms as was fellow Impressionist, Claude Debussy. He used conventional tonality in his works and rarely used the whole tone scale. In his orchestration, Ravel employed the full cast of instruments and placed each note with the loving care of a painter. He truly painted with musical colors and in his search for new and interesting colors he would set instruments in strange ranges and characters. Ravels piano compositions require of the performer substantial virtuosity. After a well-received piano tour Ravel composed his Piano Concerto in G Major, deeply infused with the jazz dialects and harmonies that were popular in Paris and the United States through which he had just traveled. He had wished to premiere this piece himself -continued on page 53Remember the PSO in your Wills & Planned Giving.

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Tchaikovsky was born May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia. Throughout his life he composed symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy. He was the first Russian composer whose music made an enduring international impression. He received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University, the 1891 Carnegie Hall Program Booklet proclaimed him, along with Brahms and Saint-Saëns, as one of the three greatest living musicians, and critics of his day call him a “modern music lord”. Composed in 1872, Symphony No. 2 in C minor was one of Tchaikovsky’s joyful compositions and was successful from its premiere. Nicknamed “The Little Russian” for its use of three Ukrainian folk songs, it gained favor from the group of nationalistic Russian composers known as “The Five” led by Mily Balakirev. Ukraine was known, at that time, as “Little Russia”. Tchaikovsky was not satisfied with this Symphony, despite its prompt success, and revised the work at length. He rewrote the opening movement substantially and shortened the finale. The final revision of this Symphony is usually performed by modern orchestras although there have been a few advocates of the original version.

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