Encore!

Encore!

The Magazine of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

IT’S BEGINNING TO SOUND A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Come celebrate the Season In music

MEET THE MUSICIANS

Holiday | New Year Edition DECEMBER 2014 – JANUARY 2015

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Encore!

The Magazine of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

2014 - 2015 SEASON

volume 21 – EDITION 2

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the orchestra Meet the Musicians

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor

Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

This season in Encore!, you’ll get to know many of the musicians. Beginning on page 53, several profile pages offer a unique look into the lifestyles and stories of the wonderful artists who make up the Jacksonville Symphony. Downtown’s historic Marble Bank Building provided the setting for this enchanting series by photographer Tiffany Manning.

New Faces on Stage We welcome Debra Fialek as a member of the horn section for the 2014-15 season.

Former principal horn of the Santa Fe Symphony, Debra comes to us from Richmond, Va., where she held positions with the Richmond Symphony and Williamsburg Symphonia. She fills the chair left by Chris Dwyer, who recently won a position with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

The season, the principal bassoon position will be held by a series of musicians. Rose Vrbsky (pictured) began the season and will stay through our December holiday concerts. Anthony Anurca and Brooke Allen will share duties until March 1, followed by Joseph Grimmer who will play principal until the end of the season.

Bass

Tuba

John Wieland, Principal* Patrick Bilanchone* Kevin Casseday* Todd Lockwood* Jason Lindsay+ Paul Strasshofer+

James Jenkins, Principal*

Fabio Mechetti, Conductor Laureate

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Dr. Hugh A. Carithers Endowed Chair*

Philip Pan, Concertmaster* Isabelle Davis Endowed Chair

Melissa Barrett, Associate Concertmaster* Christopher Chappell, Acting Principal Second* Aurelia Duca, Acting Assistant Principal Second* Andrew Bruck* Clinton Dewing* Patrice Evans* Anna Genest* Lois Elfenbein Gosa* Max Huls* Ilana Kimel* Jeanne Majors* Annie Morris

The George V. Grune Endowed Chair*

Glynda Newton* Piotr Szewczyk* Bernie Vaughn*^ Naira Cola+^ Lela LaBarbera+ Stephanie Lindsay +^ Karen Pommerich+# Marguerite Richardson+ Jenny Lee Vaughn+^ Carol Whitman+

Viola Merryn Ledbetter Corsat, Principal* Karen Bair Boling* Cynthia Kempf* Colin Kiely* Susan Pardue* Jorge A. Peña Portillo* Ellen Caruso Olson+

Cello Alexei Romanenko, Principal* Hovhannes Alanakyan*^ Laurie Casseday* Betsy Federman* Vernon Humbert* Kathy Dennis+ Shannon Lockwood+^

Les Roettges, Principal* Rhonda Cassano

Deborah Heller+

Timpani Kenneth Every, Principal*

Percussion Steve Merrill, Principal* Kevin Garry* Joel Panian+ Charlotte Mabrey+

Harp Kayo Ishimaru, Principal*

Piccolo Deborah Heller+

Keyboard Ileana Fernandez, Principal*

Oboe Eric Olson, Principal* Claudia Minch*

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Donald McCullough, Director

English Horn Claudia Minch* Clarinet Peter Wright, Principal* Marci Gurnow*

Bass Clarinet Marci Gurnow*

Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Ileana Fernandez, Rehearsal Pianist The Musicians of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra are proudly represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 444.

Bassoon Anthony Anurca*

Contrabassoon Anthony Anurca*

Horn Kevin Reid, Principal* Debra Fialek*^ Aaron Brask* Mark Knowles*

Trumpet Julian Kaplan, Principal* Brian Osborne*^ Jonathan Stites+^

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Keyboard Technicians Skip Becker, RPT, Concert Piano Technician Vernon Humbert, Harpsichord Technician

Trombone Jeffrey Peterson, Principal* Jason Stein*^

Bass Trombone Louis Bremer*^

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THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC

Featuring Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Pinchas Zukerman Conductor and Violinist

Sun, Jan 18 at 3 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Pinchas Zukerman – one of the world’s most acclaimed violinists – joins The Royal Philharmonic – one of the world’s most esteemed orchestras! Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute, Beethoven’s virtuosic Violin Concerto, and Dvor`´ák’s thrilling Eighth Symphony.

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about the jacksonville symphony orchestra

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ranks among the nation’s top regional orchestras and is vital to the City of Jacksonville’s continued growth. From September through May, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts and in community venues throughout the First Coast and statewide.

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 season features the debut of Courtney Lewis as music director designate. Courtney begins his first full season as music director in 2015-16. Highlights in 2014-15 include featured artists Audra McDonald and Paul Williams and productions of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess and Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet.

As a not-for-profit cultural and educational organization, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to create experiences that enrich the human spirit and inspire a lifelong love of music.

Its programming reflects the diversity of the community and is relevant to today’s audience, offering live symphonic variety – from classic masterpieces and new works, to ballet, opera, theater and popular styles. Each season nearly 70,000 young people and adults benefit from the Orchestra’s diverse educational and community engagement opportunities including Young People’s Concerts,

Classroom Concerts by visiting ensembles, the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Jump Start Strings, Cover the Town With Sound, and Symphony 101.

Founded in 1949, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has hosted some of the most renowned artists of the past century, including Isaac Stern, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Kathleen Battle and Mstislav Rostropovich. Acclaimed for its “superior quality” by the Toronto Star, the Jacksonville Symphony has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and has been broadcast nationally on “Performance Today.”

An American orchestra with its own dedicated concert hall, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s home is the acoustically superb Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall. As reported by the Palm Beach Daily News, “… we surely deserve and need to have a full time orchestra [in south Florida]. We can only hope that it would be as good as the Jacksonville Symphony.”

Beyond the stage, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra serves four county school districts and collaborates with a wide range of organizations. And close to 2,000 music lovers in the community are members of Symphony volunteer groups.

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the conductors Courtney Lewis Music Director Designate Haskell Endowed Chair

With clear artistic vision, subtle musicality, and innovative programming, Courtney Lewis has established himself as one of his generation’s most talented conductors. Mr. Lewis is also the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Previous appointments have included associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 2008 to 2014, Courtney Lewis was the music director of Boston’s acclaimed Discovery Ensemble, a chamber orchestra dedicated not only to giving concerts of contemporary and established repertoire at the highest level of excellence, but also bringing live music into the least privileged parts of Boston with workshops in local schools.

Mr. Lewis made his major American orchestral debut in 2008 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and has since appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Alabama Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and Ulster Orchestra. Recent and upcoming engagements include debuts with the Vancouver Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and Edmonton Symphony, as well as returns to the Minnesota Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

Born in the United Kingdom, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Mr. Lewis graduated from the University of Cambridge where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and clarinet with Dame Thea King. The British conductor completed his degree with a focus on the late music of György Ligeti and attended the Royal Northern College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Mark Elder and Clark Rundell.

Michael Butterman Resident Conductor Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. In addition to his conducting tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony since 2000, he serves as music director for both the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and is the new music director of the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, celebrating its inaugural season in 2014-2015. He is also in his 15th season as principal conductor for education and outreach for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Mr. Butterman made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2012, and was immediately reengaged for two concerts the following season. Other recent engagements include appearances with the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, California Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Pensacola Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera, among others. Summer appearances include the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia.

In 2014-15, he makes his debut with the Victoria Symphony in Canada and returns to the podium of the Santa Fe Symphony.

He was a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev International Conducting Competition and a finalist in the Besançon International Conducting Competition. As the 1999 recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa.

For six seasons, Mr. Butterman served as music director of Opera Southwest in Albuquerque.

At Louisiana State University, he was director of orchestral studies and principal conductor of opera. He conducted opera at the Indiana University School of Music and was associate music director of Ohio Light Opera. While at Indiana University, he conducted a highly acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the Kennedy Center.

He has conducted recordings for Newport Classics and with the Rochester Philharmonic featuring actor John Lithgow. For more information, log on to michaelbutterman.com.

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the conductors Michael Krajewski Principal Pops Conductor

Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

Known for his entertaining programs and clever humor, Michael Krajewski is a much sought after conductor of symphonic pops. In addition to his role with the Jacksonville Symphony, which spans 19 seasons, Michael is also music director of The Philly Pops and principal pops conductor of the Houston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony.

As a guest conductor Mr. Krajewski has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Phoenix and National Symphonies, among numerous others.

In Canada he has led Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, and the Toronto, Edmonton, and Winnipeg Symphonies. Other international appearances include the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonics, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and this season’s debut with Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Krajewski is the conductor of the video Silver Screen Serenade with violinist Jenny Oaks Baker that aired worldwide on BYU Broadcasting and on recording he led the Houston Symphony on two holiday albums. This season, he is conducting his original “Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel” program all over North America. His other collaborative programs have included James Galway, Marilyn Horne, Alicia de Larrocha, Roberta Flack, Art Garfunkel, Kenny Loggins, Wynonna Judd, Ben Folds, Doc Severinsen, Pink Martini, and Cirque de la Symphonie, among many others.

With degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, Mr. Krajewski furthered his training at the Pierre Monteux Domaine School for Conductors. He was a Dorati Fellowship Conductor with the Detroit Symphony and later served as that orchestra’s assistant conductor. He was resident conductor of the Florida Symphony and served as music director of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra.

Michael lives in Orlando with his wife Darcy. For more information, log on to MichaelKrajewski.com.

Scott C. Gregg Youth Orchestra Music Director and Principal Conductor

Winston Family Endowed Chair

In addition to his role with the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra (JSYO), Scott Gregg is music director of the Saint Augustine Chamber Orchestra (SACHO), artistic & executive director of the First Coast Community Music School, and a respected educator and clinician throughout Northeast Florida.

In 2014-15, Mr. Gregg celebrates his 20th year holding the Winston Family Endowed Chair with the JSYO. Mr. Gregg has served as music director for education of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, music director for the Youth at the Beaches Arts Guild and music director for FSCJ’s Summer Musical Theater Experience. In 2006, Mr. Gregg helped found the First Coast Community Music and in 2014 he became the school’s artistic & executive director.

Mr. Gregg was associate conductor of the Goucher Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and staff conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, as well as music director of the Bach Society Orchestra in Cambridge, Mass. He has conducted the Alabama All-State Orchestra, Brevard Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Birmingham Symphony, Richmond Philharmonic, the Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse, France, and the Kielce Philharmonic in Poland.

Mr. Gregg was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Institute, Aspen Music Festival and Conductor’s Institute in South Carolina. He was a semi-finalist in the International Conductors’ Competition in Besançon, France and the Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York.

As a student, Mr. Gregg served as concertmaster of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and made his solo debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in music theory and composition with a minor concentration in astrophysics. At Peabody Conservatory of Music he earned a master’s degree in conducting and was awarded the Christopher Percy Prize.

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the chorus Donald McCullough Director, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Hailed by the Washington Post for his “dazzling expertise” on the podium, Donald McCullough is considered one of America’s pre-eminent choral conductors. After leading the Master Chorale of Washington in the John F. Kennedy Center Concert Hall for more than a decade, he developed a reputation for creating choruses that sang “with an innate sense of lyricism and musical poise” (Washington Post).

During his tenure with the Master Chorale, the 120-member symphonic chorus performed 16 world premieres, produced three nationally distributed CDs, and toured twice throughout Central Europe. The Chorale earned The Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence in North America, performed in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, and became the chorus of choice for the National Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. McCullough is also a composer whose works have been critically acclaimed throughout North America and Europe. Routinely sought after for commissions, his works have been described as “powerful and heart-wrenching,” “mystically beautiful” and “remarkably inspirational.”

In response to an invitation from German and Polish consulates, Mr. McCullough led the Master Chorale in the European premiere of one of his most moving compositions, Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps. The work was performed in Krakow, Dresden, Berlin and at the AuschwitzBirkenau Memorial during the European commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. In November 2014, 70 singers from the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus will travel to New York to form the core of a 120-member chorus under Mr. McCullough’s direction in the Lincoln Center premiere of his Holocaust Cantata, presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY).

A native of Jacksonville, he recently moved to Atlantic Beach, Fla., to focus on his expanding composing career and in 2012 became the director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus.

His music can be found at donaldmccullough.com.

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Celebrating 30th Season with a Lincoln Center Performance With some of the First Coast area’s finest voices, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus members come from all walks of life who share the spirit of singing great choral music. With a three-decade tradition of making great music with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the roster also includes many professional musicians, skilled amateur performers and students. Since 2012, the Chorus had been led by esteemed choral director and composer Donald McCullough.

Founded in 1985 by past Music Director Roger Nierenberg, 2014-15 marks the Chorus’ 30th season. In November, 70 singers from the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus traveled to New York to form the core of a 130-member chorus under Mr. McCullough’s direction in the Lincoln Center premiere of his cantata In the Shadow of the Holocaust, presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY).

The all-volunteer Jacksonville Symphony Chorus has sung for many landmark Symphony events.

Performance highlights include Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony for the tenth anniversary of Jacoby Symphony Hall and Orff’s “Carmina Burana” for the Jacksonville Symphony’s first-ever commercial recording. The Chorus has also sung in each of the Jacksonville Symphony’s annual grand opera productions.

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus auditions are scheduled in September and January. To join voice with the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, call 904.354.5479, ext. 221 and ask about audition and membership information. Next audition is January 10.

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SPECIAL EVENT Notes on the Program by Lynne Radcliffe J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Friday, DECEMBER 5 l 8 PM Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

MESSIAH Michael butterman, conductor twyla robinson, soprano elise quagliata, mezzo-soprano jason slayden, tenor

George Frideric Handel German-English composer, organist and impresario born: 1685, Halle, Germany; died: 1759, London.

Messiah, An Oratorio (106 min.)

Composed in 1741.

Premiered on April 13, 1742, in Dublin.

“I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the Great God Himself!”

Handel’s utterance upon completion of the “Hallelujah Chorus.”

evan boyer, bass

An Oratorio in Three Parts by George Frideric Handel Part I The Advent of the Messiah

INTERMISSION Part II The Passion of Christ Part III His Resurrection Michael Butterman’s biography appears on page 10.

Text appears on page 20.

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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This famous quote, along with the fact that Handel composed the entire three-part score of Messiah in only 24 days, has often prompted speculation that the Almighty intervened to bring about what seemed miraculous. Handel’s further comment underscores the sincerity of his religious fervor and the impact Messiah had on him: “Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it (Hallelujah Chorus), I know not. God knows.”

Whether or not Messiah received Divine aid is a matter best considered by the individual.

However, it is fact that this prolific composer churned out massive works at break-neck speed on a fairly regular basis. For instance, his opera Rinaldo (1711) was completed in 14 days. Handel wrote 40 operas, 26 oratorios, cantatas, orchestral music, chamber music, and a host of keyboard music. He also performed regularly on the organ, wrote, directed, and produced his operas for the Royal Academy of Music, while tending to operational, administrative, and marketing aspects of his endeavors. He was a cosmopolitan, international figure.

Having spent three years in Italy, Handel wowed the British public with his Italian opera Rinaldo shortly after arriving in London in 1710. The genre became very popular, due HANDEL (Continued on page 18) Encore! 15

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus

Donald McCullough, Director Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair Ileana Fernandez, Rehearsal Accompanist • Jill Weisblatt, Manager Soprano Kumasi Aaron Rebecca Andrews Jerrye Baker Susan Baker Alla Bartosh May Beattie Celeste Bicknell Marisa Bovenzi Louise Brooks Sandy Clarke Melanie Cost Margaret Crawford Katherine Crowell Julie Davis Tracy Davis Alyce Decker Stephanie Doerr Janet Elsila Kate Flint Amber Forster Pat Gavaletz Maggie Graichen-Herrera Rachel Hanauer Brittany Harmon Kathy Hunt Kiki karpen Lili Lauer Ginger Lindberg Masha Malinovskaya Kristin Markham Elan Mastin Kate Medill

Barbara Miller Sevella Mostella Christina Ng Hayley Pflug Laura Jane Pittman Kelsey Potratz Nancy Purcell AJ Ruvane Dianne Smith Janet Snell Shelby Spalter Heather Wakefield Eileen Ward Jill Weisblatt Erika Winter Glynis Wood ALTO Deborah Baker Elizabeth Bricknell Kathy Brown Dorothy Jean Bush Rita Cannon Megan Chan Libby Claggett Libby Conner Susan Connors Nancy Crookshank Carolyn Dickson Kathryn Eaton Penny Floyd Katerina Foppiano-Pierson Karin Fulton

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Twyla Robinson Twyla Robinson’s incisive musicianship, ravishing vocal beauty, and dramatic delivery have taken her to the leading concert halls and opera stages of Europe and North America. She has been heard in performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Staatskapelle, The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others. She has worked with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Franz Welser-Möst and Donald Runnicles.

This season Ms. Robinson’s concert engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Atlanta Symphony and a concert of Strauss lieder with Indianapolis Symphony. On the operatic stage, she will perform the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro with New Orleans Opera, and create the role of Becky in the premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s Morning Star with Cincinnati Opera. Last season included Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with Houston Symphony, Strauss’ Four Last Songs with Columbus Symphony, as well as her debut in Dvorak’s Te Deum with Dallas Symphony.

Elise Quagliata Mezzo-soprano Elise Quagliata was cited by Opera News for her “passionate interpretation” and “exceptional technical finesse” as Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking with Des Moines Metro Opera. She received outstanding critical notice in the title role of Carmen, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Jo in Little Women. She has performed Olga in Eugene Onegin, Emilia in Verdi’s Otello, Joan Clarke in American Lyric Theater’s The Turing Project, Carmen in La Tragedie de Carmen, Cornelia in Handel’s Guilio Cesare, Nicklause/The Muse in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rosina and Bertha Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre.

Equally at home with orchestra, Ms. Quagliata recently sang Mahler’s Third Symphony with the Jacksonville Symphony, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Verdi’s Requiem with the Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Other engagements include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Santa Barbara Symphony, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Savannah Philharmonic, Henry Cowell’s Atlantis with the American Symphony Orchestra and Mahler’s Rückertlieder with the Reno Philharmonic.

Jason Slayden Winner of a 2012-13 Sullivan Career Grant, rising tenor Jason Slayden was most recently seen as the Duke in Rigoletto with Opera Memphis, Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra with Kentucky Opera, Cassio in Otello for Nashville Opera and Roldofo for Arizona Opera’s La bohème. Engagements for the 2014-15 season include the Duke in Rigoletto with Arizona Opera, his debut with Gotham Chamber Opera in Comedy on the Bridge and Alexandre bis, Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Florida Grand Opera, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Austin Lyric Opera. Other highlights include his debut with Minnesota Opera in Thomas’s Hamlet as Laerte, and a return to Des Moines Metro Opera for his role debut as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette. Mr. Slayden was last heard with the Jacksonville Symphony in Verdi’s Requiem.

Evan Boyer A recent graduate of the Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Evan Boyer sings the role of Masetto in Don Giovanni this season with Seattle Opera. Recent and upcoming engagements also include Colline in La bohème with Palm Beach Opera, the Armchair/Tree in L’enfant et les Sortilèges with Seiji Ozawa’s Music Academy in Japan, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Dallas Symphony and the Houston Symphony.

Last season, Mr. Boyer was heard in a concert with the Lyric Opera of Chicago at Millennium Park, and also sang the role of Lodovico in Otello at the Lyric. Additionally, he performed Sarastro in The Magic Flute in a new production with Los Angeles Opera, and returned to the Canadian Opera Company, singing Samuel in Un ballo in maschera. Mr. Boyer made his debut with the Canadian Opera Company as the First Soldier in Salome, followed by performances as the Second Commisaire in Dialogues des Carmelites.

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HANDEL (Continued from page 15) chiefly to Handel’s influence. However, the larger-than-life themes of Baroque Opera in a foreign language began to lose their relevance and appeal. The success of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), a musical comedy satirizing Italian opera, and the appearance of a competing opera company heralded the beginning of the end.

Handel began including oratorios in his subscription series in the early 1730s.

He had composed in the genre in Italy, and immediately realized the economic advantages to oratorio versus opera: no sets, costumes, or imported singers. The Biblical texts of oratorio appealed greatly to the public, especially as they were in English. Handel’s decision to premiere Messiah in Ireland resulted from an invitation from the Duke of Devonshire to give a season of concerts there in 17411742. Although Messiah was not in either of two series he performed there, he made arrangements to present it at a charity concert using the choirs of two cathedrals.

Messiah may well be the best-known of Handel’s works; it has certainly been widely performed over the past 270 years, often with large orchestras and choruses. How fascinating to imagine the premiere with a chorus of 32 singers, 16 men and 16 boys, and a request for men to remove their swords and ladies to refrain from wearing hoops so that more people could be crowded in for the performance!

The two performances in Dublin received great acclaim. London’s reception was cooler. Some felt that Messiah’s presentation in a theatre (Covent Garden) with secular singers was sacrilege. Handel, suspecting as much, had even changed the title to “New Sacred Oratorio.” Eventually opposition abated, and by 1749 Messiah was again presented at Covent Garden, this time with its proper name. Thereafter it was an annual event as a fundraiser for Foundling Hospital for years after Handel’s death. The last performance Handel attended was at Covent Garden eight days before he died.

Messiah’s libretto, created from Biblical text by Charles Jennens, differs from Handel’s other oratorios in that it does not have characters and a specific story line. Jennens compiled texts appropriate to the three sections: I. The prophecies of

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Isaiah II. Christ’s Passion III. The promise of eternal life ( titles from the original manuscript.) The soloists assume a narrator’s role in the arias and recitatives.

Consummate and pragmatic artist that he was, Handel made many revisions to Messiah, usually to suit specific circumstances and/or soloists. He borrowed some of his own pre-composed music and adapted it for the oratorio. As was the fashion in his day, Handel used word painting to great effect. A few examples follow: notice in the chorus “All we like sheep have gone astray,” the melodic lines go in contrary motion.

Swirling figurations musically describe the word “turned” as it is sung. Having absorbed the Lutheran chorale from his native Germany as well as the rich choral tradition of England, Handel’s elevation of the chorus to a type of Greek chorus utter mastery is a stunning aspect of his oratorios.

Handel was greatly revered in his adopted country of England. He was known for his great size and hot temper, softened by a sense of humor and generosity. His burial with honors in Westminster Abbey was recounted in the London press: “Last night about eight o’clock the remains of the late great Mr. Handel were deposited in Westminster Abbey…There was almost the greatest concourse of people of all ranks ever seen upon such, or indeed upon any other occasion.” Messiah is a shining example of Handel’s genius, yet at the bottom of the original manuscript he inscribed “S.D.G.,” for “Soli Deo Gloria” – to God alone be the glory.

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Sleeping Beauty Ballet

Sat, May 2 at 8 pm Sun, May 3 at 3 pm Jim and Jan Moran Theater, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Chelsea Tipton II, conductor Rhonda Stampalia, choreographer Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Sleeping Beauty has captivated audiences for more than a century.

Experience the age-old tale in a full ballet production.

Featuring guest artists Yumelia Garcia and Mauro Villanueva

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MESSIAH

An Oratorio by George Frideric Handel PART I 1. SINFONIA (Overture) 2. RECITATIVE (Tenor) Comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish’d, that her iniquity is pardon’d. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. (Isaiah 40:1-3) 3. ARIA (Tenor) Ev’ry valley shall be exalted, and ev’ry mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight, and the rough places plain.

(Isaiah 40:4) 4. CHORUS And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

(Isaiah 40:5) 5. RECITATIVE (Bass) Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts: Yet once, a little while, and I will shake the heav’ns and the earth, the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come.

(Haggai 2:6-7) The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple; ev’n the messenger of the Covenant, whom ye delight in, behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

(Malachi 3:1) 6. ARIA (Bass) But who may abide the day of His coming, and who shall stand when He appeareth? For He is like a refiner’s fire.

(Malachi 3:2) 7. CHORUS And He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

(Malachi 3:3) 8. RECITATIVE (Alto) Behold! a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name Emmanuel; God with us.

(Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23)

9. ARIA (Alto) and CHORUS O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain. O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength, lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah: Behold your God! (Isaiah 40:9) O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

(Isaiah 60:1) 10. RECITATIVE (Bass) For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and the kings to the brightness of thy rising.

(Isaiah 60:2-3) 11. ARIA (Bass) The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

(Isaiah 9:2) 12. CHORUS For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

(Isaiah 9:6) 13. PIFA (Pastoral Symphony) 14. RECITATIVE (Soprano) There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And lo! the angel of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were sore afraid.

(Luke 2:8-9) 15. RECITATIVE (Soprano) And the angel said unto them: Fear not; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

(Luke 2:10-11)

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16. RECITATIVE (Soprano) And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heav’nly Host praising God, and saying: (Luke 2:13) 17. CHORUS Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, good will towards men.

(Luke 2:14) 18. ARIA (Soprano) Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, thy King cometh unto thee. He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peace unto the heathen.

(Zachariah 9:9-10) 19. RECITATIVE (Alto) Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

(Isaiah 35:5-6) 20. ARIA (Alto and Soprano) He shall feed His flock like a shepherd, and He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

(Isaiah 40:11) Come unto Him all ye that labor, ye that are heavy laden, and He will give you rest. Take His yoke upon you, and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

(Matthew 11:28-29) 21. CHORUS His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.

(Matthew 11:30)

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PART II 22. CHORUS Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world.

(John 1:29) 23. ARIA (Alto) He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

(Isaiah 53:3) He gave His back to the smiters, and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. He hid not His face from shame and spitting.

(Isaiah 50:6) 24. CHORUS Surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows! He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him. (Isaiah 53:4-5) 25. CHORUS And with His stripes we are healed.

(Isaiah 53:5) 26. CHORUS All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

(Isaiah 53:6) 27. RECITATIVE (Tenor) All they that see Him, laugh Him to scorn; they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying: (Psalm 22:7)

42. RECITATIVE (Tenor) He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn, the Lord shall have them in derision.

(Psalm 2:4) 43. ARIA (Tenor) Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

(Psalm 2:9) 44. CHORUS Hallelujah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.

(Revelation 19:6) The Kingdom of this world is become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.

(Revelation 11:15) King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

(Revelation 19:16)

PART III 45. ARIA (Soprano) I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, and though worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. (Job 19:25-26) For now is Christ risen from the dead, the firstfruits of them that sleep.

(1 Corinthians 15:20)

47. RECITATIVE (Bass) Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

(1 Corinthians 15:51-52) 48. ARIA (Bass) The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality.

(1 Corinthians 15:52-53) 49. RECITATIVE (Alto) Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory!

(1 Corinthians 15:54) 50. DUET (Alto and Tenor) O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

(1 Corinthians 15:55-56) 51. CHORUS But thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(1 Corinthians 15:57) 53. CHORUS Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemed us to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing. Blessing and honor, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever. Amen.

(Revelation 5:9, 12-13)

28. CHORUS He trusted in God that He would deliver Him, let Him deliver Him, if He delight in Him! (Psalm 22:8)

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40. ARIA (Bass) Why do the nations so furiously rage together, why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed.

(Psalms 2:1-2)

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41. CHORUS Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their yokes from us.

(Psalm 2:3)

BEETHOVEN’S MISSA SOLEMNIS

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Courtney’s NY Phil Debut A big round of applause goes to Music Director Courtney Lewis, who made his debut in November at the New York Philharmonic. It was the first performance of his two-year tenure as the NY Phil’s assistant conductor.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 l 8 PM Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

jim brickman “On a winter’s night” Michael butterman, conductor JIM BRICKMAN, SPECIAL GUEST with Anne Cochran, vocalist tracy silverman, electric violin

Selections will be announced from the stage.

There will be one intermission.

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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Michael Butterman Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. In addition to his conducting tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony since 2000, he serves as music director for both the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and is the new music director of the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, celebrating its inaugural season in 2014-2015.

He is also in his 15th season as principal conductor for education and outreach for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Mr. Butterman made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2012, and was immediately reengaged for two concerts the following season.

Other recent engagements include appearances with the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, California Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Pensacola Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera, among others.

Jim Brickman has revolutionized the sound of solo piano with his pop-style instrumentals and star-studded vocal collaborations.

Since the release of his debut album No Words in 1994, Jim Brickman’s romantic piano sound has made him the best-selling solo piano artist of our time. His signature style has also brought him two Grammys, four Gold albums, 30 charted hits, and a tie for most numberone CDs on Billboard’s New Age chart. Jim Brickman also received two SESAC Songwriter of the Year awards, a Canadian Country Music Award and a Dove Award.

Jim Brickman’s newest CD On A Winter’s Night celebrates the wonder of the holidays with new originals and traditional favorites.

Featured performers include Kenny Rogers and John Oates. His best-known chart-toppers include “Valentine,” “The Gift,” “Love of My Life,” “Simple Things,” and “Peace.” He has collaborated with artists including Martina McBride, Gerald Levert, Lady Antebellum, Michael W. Smith, Kenny Loggins, Carly Simon, Michael Bolton, and many more.

A native of Cleveland, Jim Brickman studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. His acclaimed concerts have been enjoyed internationally and throughout the United States, including shows at Carnegie Hall and the White House.

In October, 2015, he will perform on his eighth Jim Brickman Cruise.

Jim Brickman’s radio show “Your Weekend” is heard in over 100 cities across North America. He has authored two best-sellers, Simple Things and Love Notes. His upcoming book Soothe – How To Find Calm Amidst Everyday Chaos will be released in Spring, 2015. A strong supporter of PBS, he has presented five concert specials on the network.

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Chorale Women

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2014 l 3 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

THE POLAR EXPRESS MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, CONDUCTOR KRZYSZTOF BIERNACKI, VOCALIST/NARRATOR DOUGLAS ANDERSON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS CHORALE WOMEN JEFFREY CLAYTON, DIRECTOR

A Christmas Festival

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Winter Wonderland

BERNARD/Herman

Sleigh Ride

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Chris van Allsburg’s The Polar Express

KAPILOW

Krzysztof Biernacki, vocalist/narrator Douglas Anderson Chorale Women Christmas Sing-Along Medley (See page 26.)

FINNEGAN

Special thanks to the Symphony Guild’s Instrument Zoo volunteers for participating in the Family Series pre-concert activities.

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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Krzysztof Biernacki Baritone Krzysztof Biernacki has established a strong reputation as a powerful performer, versatile stage director, and talented pedagogue. Born and raised in Poland, his professional credits include opera, oratorio, concert, and recital performances throughout North America and Europe. Recent engagements include solo concerts in Italy, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, Norway, Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Canada and the United States. He has appeared in principal roles with Vancouver Opera, Manitoba Opera, Calgary Opera, Orchestra London (Canada) and The Banff Centre. Concert appearances include the orchestras of Vancouver, Winnipeg, Okanagan and Calgary.

Dr. Biernacki holds the position of Associate Professor / Head of Voice and Opera at University of North Florida. In 2008 he made his Carnegie Hall debut with the UNF Wind Ensemble. The same year he was engaged for a recital of opera arias and duets at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall.

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The Chorale Women from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts are an audition group representing the school’s best female singers ranging from sophomore to seniors. The ensemble has received critical acclaim throughout its competition travels and has been honored by performances for the Florida American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) conventions in 2004 and 2008, ACDA in Memphis 2010, and in numerous command performances throughout the Southeast. In 2011 the Chorale Women were invited to perform at the ACDA National Conference in Chicago. One of only two women’s high school groups in the United States chosen to perform for the top musicians and choral conductors in the world, the ensemble won standing ovations in Chicago’s famed Orchestra Hall and Roosevelt Theatre.

The Chorale Women sang The Polar Express with the Jacksonville Symphony in 2012 and are excited to be reengaged for this performance.

The ensemble is directed by Jeffrey Clayton, now in his 15th year as vocal department chair at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. In 2008 he was awarded the prestigious Gladys Prior Award for Career Excellence in Teaching.

Douglas Anderson School of the Arts is a two-time winner of the National Grammy® Signature School Award - the best high school music program in America. Douglas Anderson partners in a variety of ways with the Jacksonville Symphony, including performance collaborations, sponsorship of the JSYO Festival of Strings, providing rehearsal space for First Coast Nutcracker, and hosting master classes with visiting artists.

Michael Butterman’s biography appears on page 10.

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Chorale Women Jeffrey Clayton, Director

Soprano I Eliza Anderson Christiana Berenguer Olivia Crespo Sydney Ellis Lexie Fortner Taylor Gebert Keanna Gutierrez Allison Hagan Mikayla Laws India McGovern Janai McKissick Alexis Moore Kameron Murphy Hannah Newton Beatriz Rodrigues Samantha Vidal Rivera Neaje Washington-Smiley

Soprano II Katherine Bevis Elizabeth Brown Julia Comeau Elizabeth Davenport Amber Douglas Jenny Gordon Laura Granados Kathleen Halsell Madeleine Harold Kirstin Horn Mary Kreis Carlye Lazeau Morgan McGovern Jennifer Rose Sarah Stansel Dejah Washington India White

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Christmas Sing-a-long Medley Jingle, Bells

Joy to the World

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

(Refrain)

Joy to the world! The Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let ev’ry heart prepare Him room, And heav’n and nature sing, And heav’n and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

Hark! The herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King!

Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!

Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies; With the angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Hark! The herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King.

Jingle, bells! Jingle, bells!

Jingle all the way!

Oh! What fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh!

Jingle, bells! Jingle, bells!

Jingle all the way!

Oh! What fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh!

(Verse) Dashing thro’ the snow, In a one-horse open sleigh; O’re the fields we go, Laughing all the way; Bells on bobtail ring, Making spirits bright; What fun it is to ride and sing A sleighing song tonight! (Oh,)

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: “Peace on earth, good will to men, From heav’n’s all gracious King;” The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.

Deck the Hall Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa la la la la la la la la ‘Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la la la la la la la la.

Don we now our gay apparel, Fa la la la la la la la la.

Troll the ancient Yuletide carol, Fa la la la la la la la la.

(Repeat Refrain)

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COFFEE series J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor, Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

Friday, DECEMBER 12, 2014 l 11 aM Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

HOLIDAY POPS MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, CONDUCTOR SARAH JANE MCMAHON / DOUG LABRECQUE, SOLOISTS It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

arr. Kessler

Pops Medley

TORMé, WELLS,

MARTIN & BLANE, arr. Pippin

O Hanukkah

arr. Kessler

Sleigh Ride, K. 605

MOZART

Let It Snow

STYNE & KAHN, arr. Barker

White Christmas

BERLIN/Bennett

Do You Hear What I Hear?

REGNEY & SHANE, arr. Barker

Rocket Sleigh

CASE

Bugler’s Holiday

ANDERSON

Winter Wonderland

BERNARD, arr. Barker

The Prayer

FOSTER & BAYER, arr. Ross

Stille Nacht

GRUBER, arr. Davis

O Holy Night

ADAM, arr. Clydesdale

Thank you, Symphony Guild The Coffee Concert is hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Guild.

Coffee and tea are provided by Martin Coffee Company, Inc.

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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Sarah Jane McMahon Hailed by Opera News as having “a golden sound,” Sarah Jane McMahon is recognized for her “beautiful vocal sophistication” and “sparkling stage presence.” she sang a Gala concert opposite Placido Domingo and made her debut with The San Francisco Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Wiener Konzert Haus and Santo Domingo Festival. Selected by Placido Domingo to join the Los Angeles Opera, she sang with the celebrated tenor as the Fifth Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos and The Milliner in Der Rosenkavalier. Sarah Jane also has performed with Bard Summer Scape Festival as Xanthe in Richard Strauss’ Die Liebe der Danae, with Washington Concert Opera as Dorinda in Handel’s Orlando, and with Michigan Opera Theatre as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, among many others, including several roles with New Orleans Opera.

A graduate of Loyola University, New Orleans, and Yale University, concert appearances have included Christmas Concerts with The San Francisco Symphony and Shreveport Symphony, Carmina Burana at Avery Fisher Hall and with the Tulsa Opera and Ballet, the Rutter Requiem at Carnegie Hall, and Messiah with the Jacksonville Symphony.

Michael Butterman Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Resident Conductor Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. He also serves as music director of the orchestras of Boulder and Shreveport, as well as the Pennsylvania Philharmonic. (see page 10 for full bio.)

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MATINEE series J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor, Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

Friday, DECEMBER 12, 2014 l 8 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2014 l 3 pm & 8 pm SUNDAY, DEC 14, 2014 l 3 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

HOLIDAY POPS Michael Butterman, conductor Sarah Jane McMahon and Doug LaBrecque, soloists Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, Donald McCullough, director

with Cirque de la Symphonie performers O Come, All Ye Faithful

RUTTER

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

arr. Kessler

Pops Medley

TORMé, WELLS, MARTIN & BLANE, arr. Pippin

O Hanukkah

arr. Kessler

Gloria

BASS

Sleigh Ride, K. 605

MOZART

Let It Snow

STYNE & KAHN, arr. Barker

White Christmas

BERLIN/Bennett

Do You Hear What I Hear?

REGNEY & SHANE, arr. Barker

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Doug LaBrecque One of the most prolific concert singers of his generation, Doug LaBrecque has been a soloist with some of the world’s finest orchestras. He has appeared with more than 125 orchestras worldwide including the Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, as well as America’s major Pops orchestras including the Philly Pops, Boston Pops and NY Pops at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. LaBrecque thrilled theater audiences as The Phantom and Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera. He starred in the original cast of the Harold Prince Broadway revival of Showboat, and toured nationally with Les Misérables.

International engagements have included the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, and numerous engagements with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv and at the Festival Cesky-Krumlov, Czech Republic.

He also performed with international piano sensation Lang Lang in Beijing and was a frequent soloist with the legendary Marvin Hamlisch. For more information, log on to DougLaBrecque.com.

INTERMISSION Magic Toy Box with Cirque de la Symphonie Performers Winter Wonderland

BERNARD, arr. Barker

The Prayer

FOSTER & BAYER, arr. Ross

Stille Nacht

GRUBER, arr. Davis

O Holy Night

ADAM, arr. Clydesdale

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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Jacksonville Symphony Chorus With some of the First Coast area’s finest voices, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus members come from all walks of life who share the spirit of singing great choral music. (see page 13 for more.)

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Cirque de la Symphonie Cirque de la Symphonie is an exciting production designed to bring the magic of cirque to the concert hall. Each performance is choreographed to classical masterpieces, raising cirque artistry to a fine arts level and adding a stunning visual element to the concert experience.Cirque de la Symphonie is the world’s only cirque company that performs exclusively with symphony orchestras, with more than 100 orchestra stages worldwide to their credit.

Vova Tsarkov comes from a famous circus family rich in the traditions of Russian circus artistry, trained by masters in the circus arts. His “mystery guest” juggling act is a fascinating blend of illusion and juggling skills. Vova is a worldwide star, having performed in the major productions from Las Vegas to Korea. Vova’s performances include juggling, the spinning cube and frame, Diablos, and other uniquely entertaining acts.

Alina Sergeeva is a third generation circus performer from Russia who began performing at age three with her family. Branching out into acts such as aerial silks, lira, and hoops, Alina’s professional performances have taken her to South America, Europe, and Asia.

Along the way, she won the “most talented” award for youth performers in Brazil. Alina has starred in numerous Cirque de la Symphonie productions with hula hoops, hand balancing, acrobatic and contortion skills. Her mastery of illusion includes the amazing quick change and magic jacket acts.

Aydar Rakhmatullin is one of the most original and exciting acts to ever work with Cirque de la Symphonie. Since his early work with the Moscow Circus, he had beeneen featured in Disney on Ice and other major cirque programs. He has performed for major events such as the Major League Soccer Cup televison audiences on programs such as David Letterman.

Winner of the Best Performance Award in France and an accomplished skater, he has created original acts involving juggling, acrobatics, spinning cube and baton.

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Symphony Cruisers Music in the Key of “Sea”

Jacksonville Symphony patrons (above) pose for a post-concert photo aboard the Celebrity Reflection cruise ship. While at sea, host musicians principal harpist Kayo Ishimarum, principal flutist Les Roettges and Lorraine Roettges performed three private concerts for their very special symphony guests. This Jacksonville Symphony exclusive experience, presented by AAA, included “Songs of Flutes and Harp,” accompanied by the flowing rhythm of the Caribbean. Patrons enjoyed the comfort, cuisine and amenities of Celebrity’s newest ship as they sailed to Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Jamaica and the private beach resort of Labadee, Haiti.

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JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY

SPECIAL EVENT J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA

Rich Ridenour

Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2014 l 9 PM Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

TOAST! TO THE NEW YEAR! Michael butterman, conductor RICH RIDENOUR, PIANO Candide Overture

BERNSTEIN

Brasil

arr. Ridenour

Take the A Train

arr. Ridenour

Rachmaninoff – Paganini Variation #18

arr. Ridenour

Not Fur Elise

arr. Ridenour

America

arr. Ridenour

Pianist Rich Ridenour has been a favourite guest with many orchestras in the United States. Recent engagements include the Indianapolis, Kansas City, Atlanta, Harrisburg, Grand Rapids, Tucson, Charleston, Elgin, and Owensboro symphonies. Rich is in his tenth season as pops director of the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra.

Rich Ridenour, piano Hungarian Dances No. 1, 3, 10

BRAHMS

Hungarian Dance No. 5

BRAHMS/Schmelling

INTERMISSION Fanfare for the Vienna Philharmonic

STRAUSS/Nance

Radetsky March

STRAUSS, SR.

Trisch Trasch Polka

STRAUSS, JR.

Polka from The Bartered Bride

SMETANA

Rootbeer Rag

arr. Ridenour

Chariots of Fire

arr. Ridenour

Clair de Lune

arr. Ridenour

Orange Blossom Special

arr. Ridenour

Rhapsody in Blue

arr. Ridenour

Rich Ridenour, piano Flight to Neverland from Hook

WILLIAMS

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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In 2011 Rich, along with Melody and Bill Bishop, introduced the City Keys project in Jacksonville. Several of the six upright pianos painted by area professional artists continue to energize the community for everyone to explore. In 2013 Rich worked with the Sarasota Arts Alliance to create a similar project, Sarasota Keys.

Sarasota is home for Rich and his wife Stacy, who serves as development director for the Sarasota Opera. Stacy and Rich cherish the many wonderful friendships they made living in Jacksonville prior to moving to Sarasota.

For more information visit richridenour.com.

Michael Butterman Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Resident Conductor Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. He also serves as music director of the orchestras of Boulder and Shreveport, as well as the Pennsylvania Philharmonic. (see page 10 for full bio.)

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J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 l 7:30PM Friday, JANUARY 9 l SATURDay, january 10, 2015 l 8 PM

“Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

beethoven’s “emperor” STEVEN SMITH, CONDUCTOR GABRIELA MARTINEZ, PIANO Ludwig van Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73, Emperor BEETHOVEN Allegro Adagio un poco mosso Rondo: Allegro Gabriela Martinez, piano

INTERMISSION Felix

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21

MENDELSSOHN Hector

King Lear Overture, Op. 4

BERLIOZ Johann STRAUSS, JR.

Emperor Waltz, Op. 437

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony.

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From the Podium Musical Royalty

By Steven Smith, Guest Conductor

on the program by

Siegwart Reichwald

Ludwig van Beethoven German composer born: 1770, Bonn; died: 1827, Vienna.

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat, Op. 73, Emperor “We have passed through a great deal of misery. I tell you that I have brought into the world little that is connected—only here and there a fragment.

The whole course of events has affected both my body and soul ... what a destructive and desolate life surrounds me! Nothing but drums, cannons, and human suffering in every form!”

That is Beethoven’s report to his publisher Gottfried Christoph Härtel, written on July 26, 1809, recounting the terrifying and sustained French assault on Vienna. At one point during the invasion Beethoven sought shelter in a friend’s cellar, covering his head with pillows in the hope of protecting the remaining shreds of hearing. It is hard to imagine the Emperor Concerto as the outcome of this horrific experience. But of course nobody would have expected the Eroica Symphony in response to the composer’s oncoming deafness either. It must have pained Beethoven not to be able to premiere the work. His deafness had progressed to the point that public performances were no longer possible. Instead, after the Leipzig premiere, Beethoven’s student Carl Czerny gave the first Vienna performance three months later.

BEETHOVEN (Continued on page 36)

The idea of royal personages, real or imagined, is the connecting thread of this program. The first half is devoted to Beethoven’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor,” a title not Beethoven’s himself, but bestowed by his publisher because of the work’s grand scale and display of virtuosity. The contrasting rhythmic playfulness of the third movement and the hushed beauty of second come as brilliantly imaginative contrasts to the majesty of the first, in which Beethoven tricks us into thinking that the piano soloist will begin, interrupting the strong chords of the orchestra with cadenza-like flourishes.

After intermission comes the Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” composed

by Mendelssohn when he was only 17 years of age as a concert overture based on

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Steven Smith Steven Smith begins his fifth season as music director of the Richmond Symphony and has served as music director of Santa Fe Symphony & Chorus from1999 to 2013. He also serves as music director of the Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Since arriving in Richmond Mr. Smith has collaborated with the Virginia Opera in its recent production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and the Richmond Ballet for its 30th anniversary gala. From 1997 to 2003, Steven Smith served as the assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and also served as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra for five years.

While also serving on the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory, he led both orchestral and operatic performances.

Mr. Smith’s recent guest conducting activities include appearances with the San Francisco, Richmond, Puerto Rico, Kalamazoo, Milwaukee, and Akron symphonies and a return to Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa. In addition, he has conducted the Carnegie-Mellon Philharmonic and several programs at Indiana University, including a production of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah.

Other recent opera productions include The Magic Flute and Carmen at the Brevard Music Festival, and Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio with Lyric Opera Cleveland. Orchestral guest conducting has included several seasons with New Zealand’s Auckland Philharmonia, the Detroit, Houston, New Mexico and Taiwan symphonies, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic among many others.

Gabriela Martinez

Masterworks guest artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

With a reputation as a versatile, daring and insightful artist, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Martinez’s career continues to expand. An international musician, she has appeared as soloist with such distinguished orchestras as San Francisco, Chicago, Houston, and Fort Worth, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, MDR Rundfunkorchester, Nurnberger Philharmoniker, and with Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Festival credits include Italy’s Festival dei Due Mondi, Switzerland’s Verbier Festival, the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, and Rockport festivals in the United States, France’s Festival de Radio France et Montpellier and Japan’s Tokyo International Music Festival. Highlights of Ms. Martinez’s 2014-15 season include debuts not only with the Jacksonville Symphony, but with the Boulder and Buffalo philharmonics, and the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. Later this season, she will release her first solo recording.

Equally at home with both established and contemporary repertoire, Ms. Martinez has given world premieres of works by composers including Mason Bates, Stephen Wood, Samuel Zyman, and Liduino Pitombeira. American composer Dan Visconti is currently writing a piece for her.

She was a first prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Dresden and a semi-finalist at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where she also received the Jury Discretionary Award. Ms. Martinez began her piano studies in Caracas with her mother Alicia Gaggioni, making her orchestral debut at age seven. She came to the United States to attend The Juilliard School, where she earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees as a full scholarship student of Yoheved Kaplinsky. She then worked on her doctoral studies with Marco Antonio de Almeida in Halle, Germany. For more information, visit www.gabrielamartinezpiano.com.

Shakespeare’s play. It remains a gem of the repertoire with its capturing of the stillness of evening giving way to the quietly flitting music depicting the fairy realm.

The royalty in this case is not of the real world, but that of Titania and Oberon, with musical portraits including the sly Puck and Bottom the ass, whose braying is clearly heard.

Shakespeare also held a great fascination for Hector Berlioz, who composed his concert overture “King Lear” around the time of his journey to Italy as a winner of the Prix de Rome.

Coincidentally, during that time in Italy Berlioz and Mendelssohn met each other for the first time. While enjoying each other’s company personally, neither understood nor appreciated the other’s music.

The greatest waltzes of Johann Strauss Jr. are like miniature orchestral tone poems, with a wide variety of instrumental solos, infectious dance rhythms and the atmosphere of imperial Vienna.

What a royal way to conclude!

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BEETHOVEN (Continued from page 34)

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Beethoven’s last piano concerto is his most innovative and expansive. Instead of opening with the usual orchestral exposition, he begins the concerto with a pianistic flourish, indicating its intense nature and preparing the listener for the martial opening theme. But it is the second, lyrical theme that actually takes center stage over long stretches of the movement. Beethoven explores a wide range of interactive textures between the piano and orchestra, as he carefully controls the musical narrative of this movement of epic proportions. For the remaining two movements, Beethoven uses the chorale (Protestant hymn) and the dance as reference points to focus the audience’s attention. The chorale in the slow movement creates a sense of beautiful serenity, before the last movement bursts forth with an exuberant rondo.

About “Emperor” Concerto Composed in 1809.

Premiered on November 28, 1811 in Leipzig; performed by the Gewandhaus orchestra, Friedrich Schneider, piano.

Last Jsym performance: June 2012, Coffee Series and Special Event in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Michael Butterman, conductor, with Alon Goldstein as soloist. ca. 40 minutes (21’ 8’ 11’).

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Felix Mendelssohn

German composer.

Born: 1809, Hamburg; died: 1847, Leipzig, Germany.

Overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream Composed in 1826.

Premiered on February 20, 1827, in Stettin.

Last Jsym performance: January 2001, Discovery Series in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. ca. minutes. 12 minutes.

In 1803, the English music lexicographer Sir George Grove called this overture “the greatest marvel of early maturity that the world has ever seen.” Considering the innovative and inventive quality of this work, composed by a 17-year old, Sir Grove might have a pretty strong case.

Of course, the young Felix did not set out to influence the path of music history with this work. In fact, as typical for most teenagers, Felix wanted to have a fun, relaxing summer, just hanging out with his friends in the backyard. But that is where the normal teenage stuff ends. Felix and friends were enthralled by the new German translations of some of Shakespeare’s plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

As the friends channeled their creativity through writing verses, staging scenes with props, and playing games, Mendelssohn wanted to capture the essence of the play in music. Since he had no intention of writing an opera, Mendelssohn decided to remake the overture as an independent, single-movement orchestral composition with definite lyrical content, thus creating in the process the concert overture genre, which became the model for the Romantic symphonic poem. At the same time, Mendelssohn solved various compositional issues regarding the musical representation of narrative by creating a musical language and expression unlike any that came before.

Not bad for a summer spent in the backyard with friends and family!

Hector Berlioz

French composer.

Born: 1803, La Côte-Saint-André, Isère; died: 1869, Paris.

King Lear Overture, Op. 4 Composed in 1831.

Premiered on December 22, 1833, at Paris Conservatoire.

Last Jsym performance: November 1992, Masterworks Series in Civic Auditorium, Roger Nierenberg, conductor. ca. 15 minutes.

The circumstances of this overture are unusual to say the least. On his way back from Rome to assassinate his fiancée and her mother for breaking off their engagement in order to marry the piano manufacturer Pleyel, Berlioz stopped in Nice, where his hot temper had cooled enough to abort his murderous plan. He ended up staying there for what he called the happiest period in his life. Having

followed the advice for a mind in turmoil by the director of the French Academy in Rome, Horace Vernet, Berlioz decided to busy himself with music for Shakespeare’s King Lear, about which George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear.” Apparently, that did the trick!

Berlioz’s Opus 4 is the perfect companion piece to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as both concert overtures attempt to capture elements of a Shakespeare play. As it turns out, the two composers had spent a few weeks in Rome together before and after Berlioz’s stay in Nice. Meeting almost daily to explore Rome and discuss musical trends, they surely played through Mendelssohn’s overture.

As is the case with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Berlioz adapted traditional sonata form to introduce the main characters of the play, whom the composer identified in his memoirs as Lear and Cordelia. Unlike Mendelssohn, however, Berlioz focuses on the emotional outbursts of the protagonists, expressing presumably also his own rage along the way.

BERLIOZ (Continued on next page)

Upon request from his publisher, Mendelssohn explained the basic concept of the work: I believe it will suffice to remember how the rulers of the elves, Oberon and Titania, constantly appear throughout the play with all their train, now here and now there; then comes Prince Theseus of Athens and joins a hunting party in the forest…then the two pairs of tender lovers, who lose and find themselves; finally the troop of clumsy, coarse tradesmen, who ply their ponderous amusements; then again the elves, who entice all - and on this the piece is constructed. When at the end all is happily resolved… the elves return and bless the house, and disappear as morning arrives.

So ends the play, and also my overture.

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Historically Speaking In 1889, when Johann Strauss Jr. composed his Emperor Waltzes: Chautauqua was a nationwide adult education movement popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was named for the small town in western New York where the concept originated. Orators, musicians, actors, and other performers traveled around the country in circuits, putting on shows in large cities and small towns alike. They stayed from a few days to a few weeks depending on the gate receipts and the enthusiasm of the crowd.

BERLIOZ (Continued from previous page) The overture opens eerily similar to the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the low strings expressing distress in a recitative-like manner. The entrance of the king is then announced with timpani, based on the tradition of French courts.

Cordelia’s pure character is then expressed first by the oboe and then by the rest of the woodwinds. Apparently, the King of Hanover understood the ensuing narrative of the overture especially well, as Berlioz has quoted the King’s reading approvingly: Magnificent, M. Berlioz, magnificent! Your orchestra speaks, and you do not need any words. I followed all the scenes: the king’s entry to the council chamber, the storm on the heath, the terrible prison scene, and the lament of Cordelia! Oh this Cordelia! How you have portrayed her – her humility and tenderness! It is heartrending, and so beautiful!

The Florida Chautauqua Chorus in Mt. Dora in 1889, “a winter assembly in the land of summer.”

– Lynne Radcliffe

Photo courtesy of the Florida Archives.

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Johann Strauss, Jr

Austrian composer.

Born 1825, Vienna; died 1899, Vienna.

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Emperor Waltz, Op. 437

rehabilitation with the latest

Composed in 1889.

Premiered on October 21, 1889, Strauss, Jr., conductor.Last Jsym performance: March 1997, Coffee Series at Prime F. Osborn Convention Center and Connoisseur Series at Terry Concert Hall, Jacksonville University, Karen Gordon, conductor. ca. 10 minutes.

Ever since the 1830s the name Strauss has been synonymous with waltzes, and of this family of musicians, Johann Strauss, Sr. and Jr. were the “Waltz Kings” of their respective generation.

Their waltzes dominated not only the popular ball scene but they became part of general culture far beyond Vienna. For the historic 1889 visit by Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany in Berlin, Johann Strauss, Jr. composed the Emperor Waltz. Strauss initially offered the title Hand in Hand as a toast of friendship to the to Austrian and German emperors. Eventually his publisher Fritz Simrock came up with the much catchier title of Kaiser-Walzer.

Written for the concert hall to commemorate this momentous occasion musically, Strauss presents four waltzes in symphonic fashion. After all four tunes have been introduced and developed, Strauss not only recapitulates them briefly, but he creates a brilliant coda featuring a cello solo that leads toward a ceremonial ending. © 2014 Siegwart Reichwald Siegwart Reichwald is the author of The Genesis of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Paulus.” He also edited Mendelssohn in Performance, a collection of essays that, according to Choice, “does a superb job explaining the 19th-century sound environment of Felix Mendelssohn.” Reichwald has published articles on the music of Brumel, Mendelssohn, and Poulenc. He is Professor of Music History at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and serves on the faculty of Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.

technologies, allowing our patients to experience the highest level of recovery and participation in life

Barbara Henrique Barbara’s stroke came quickly. She tried to get up off the couch but fell to the floor. She laid there unable to move for what seemed like an eternity, then lost consciousness.

She was limited to a wheelchair, her right side paralyzed, and unable to speak. As a former Chief Financial Officer, Barbara could no longer even differentiate between a nickel and a quarter. “It was extremely frightening.”

After five days of intensive care Barbara was transferred to Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital. She spent three weeks receiving intensive inpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy followed immediately by outpatient therapy.

She was able to get back to her life. She had regained the ability to walk, drive, and take care of herself. She continues to improve by participating in many Brooks community programs such as Adaptive Sports and Recreation and Stoke Wellness.

She even walks the Brooks Challenge Mile at the Gate River Run each year.

“Through all these activities, I not only was able to regain my confidence and ability to express my thoughts, but I have had the rewarding opportunity to meet even more stroke survivors.”

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2014-2015

Holiday

CONCERTS

olidays With The Jacks H r u o Y d onville Symphony!

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DEC 5 Friday at 8 pm i

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HANDEL’S MESSIAH Sponsored by St. Vincent’s HealthCare

DEC 6 Saturday at 8 pm i

JIM BRICKMAN On a Winter’s Night Sponsored by Harbinger Sign

DEC 7 Sunday at 3 pm i

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THE POLAR EXPRESS Sponsored by Scott-McRae Group

DEC 8 Monday at 7 pm i

JSYO HOLIDAY CONCERT Publix Super Markets Charities JSYO Series Sponsored by Sawcross, Inc.

DEC 12-14 Friday at 11 am & 8 pm i Saturday at 3 pm & 8 pm i • Sunday at 3 pm i

HOLIDAY POPS! Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Fidelity National Financial Pops Series CertusBank Matinee Series Coffee series concert sponsored by Westminster Woods Pops concerts sponsored by Stein Mart Sunday concert sponsored by the Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation

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DEC 31 Wednesday at 9 pm

i Salvation Army

Toy Drive

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Bring a new, unwrapped toy to any of these performances for a local child in need!

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TOAST! TO THE NEW YEAR! Concert • Dancing • Fireworks!

JAN UARY

U PCOM I NG EVE NTS

PERFORMANCES

2015

COMMUNITY EVENTS JAN 8-10 Thursday at 7:30 pm Friday & Saturday at 8 pm

COVER THE TOWN WITH SOUND

BEETHOVEN’S “EMPEROR”

Florida Blue Masterworks Series Sponsored by Brooks Rehabilitation

JAN 16-17 Friday & Saturday at 8 pm Jan 8-10

THE COCKTAIL HOUR

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series Sponsored Anonymously by a Special Gift in Honor of the City Rescue Mission Staff

Sat, Jan 3 at 2 pm Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens Sun, Jan 4 at 6:30 pm San Juan De Rio Catholic Church

MUSICAL STORYBOOKS Sponsored by ACOSTA

JAN 18 Friday & Saturday at 8 pm

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC

The Jacksonville Symphony does not perform.

JAN 24 Saturday at 8 pm

THE MUSIC OF Jan 24

WHITNEY HOUSTON

Sponsored by Bank of America / Merrill Lynch

JAN 29-31 Thursday at 7:30 pm Friday at 11 am & 8 pm Saturday at 8 pm

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOZART Jan 29-31

Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Florida Blue Masterworks Series Coffee concert sponsored by BRASS Thursday concert sponsored by David and Ann Hicks

Sat, Jan 3 at 11 am Jacksonville Public Library, Main Branch

JSYO CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL Thu, Jan 22 at 7 pm Featuring JSYO Chamber Music Students UNF Fine Arts Center Recital Hall

CHAMBER CONCERT

Fri, Jan 23 at 8 pm Featuring Jsym Woodwinds & Strings Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

JSYO YOUNG ARTISTS COMPETITION FINALS Publix Super Markets Charities JSYO Series Mon, Jan 26 at 6 pm Times-Union Center

SYMPHONY 101

REFLECTIONS ON MOZART Wed, Jan 28 at 12:30 pm Times-Union Center

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Concert sponsored Anonymously by a Special Gift in Honor of the

FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL

POPS series

City Rescue Mission Staff

J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor, Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

friday & saturday, january 16 & 17 l 8 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

THE COCKTAIL HOUR: MUSIC OF THE MAD MEN ERA STEVEN REINEKE, CONDUCTOR RYAN SILVERMAN & janet dacal GUEST SOLOISTS Mini Skirt

ESQUIVEL, arr. Whitfield

Americano

SALERNO, SETZER, HIMELSTEIN,

CARUSONE, arr. Shoup

Bésame Mucho

It’s Not Unusual

Fly Me to the Moon

Mad Men Suite

Sway

VELÁZQUEZ, arr. Barton

Bacharach Back-To-Back

You Know I’m No Good

WINEHOUSE, arr. Bartz

Luck Be a Lady

LOESSER, arr. May

Somethin’ Stupid

PARKS, arr. Berens

These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ HAZLEWOOD,

arr. Berens

arr. Shoup

HOWARD, arr. Shoup

Moondance

MORRISON, arr. Shoup

Charade

MANCINI, arr. Berens

NEWLEY, BRICUSSE, arr. Whitfield

arr. Stradling RUIZ, GIMBEL, arr. Shoup

Feeling Good

What’ll I do

BERLIN

Crime Show Classics

VARIOUS, arr. Barton

I (Who Have Nothing) DONIDA, RAPETTI, LEIBER, STOLLER,

arr. Barton

arr. Barker

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall.

Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such.

Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony.

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INTERMISSION

Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Fidelity National Financial Pops Series The CertusBank Matinee Series

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series

POPS IN LOVE

PAUL WILLIAMS

Fri, Feb 13 at 11 am & 8 pm Sat, Feb 14 & 8 pm Sun, Feb 15 at 3 pm Stuart Chafetz, conductor Dee Donasco and John Cudia, guest vocalists Saturday concert sponsored by BRASS Sunday concert dedicated to “Seniors on a Mission” 42 jaxsymphony.org l DECEMBER 2014 I JANUARY 2015

An Evening of Songs and Stories with Fri, Mar 6 at 8 pm Chris Caswell, conductor Paul Williams, special guest An evening of songs and stories with Oscar, Grammy & Golden Globe, Hall of Fame Songwriter Paul Williams.

Sponsored by the DuBow Family Foundation

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Steven Reineke Steven Reineke is the music director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, principal pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and principal pops conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. In addition to Jacksonville, his extensive North American conducting appearances include Houston, San Francisco, Edmonton and Pittsburgh.

As the creator of more than one hundred orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Mr. Reineke’s work has been performed worldwide, and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world. A native of Ohio, Mr. Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition.

Ryan Silverman With an impressive vocal range has allowed him to move smoothly across musical genres, Ryan Silverman recently received a Drama Desk nomination for his starring role in The Classic Stage Company’s production of “Passion. ” Mr. Silverman was personally selected by Stephen Sondheim and Tony-winning John Doyle for this production which has received rave reviews. The New York Times says “The production rises and falls on its Giorgio, and Mr. Silverman gives us one to stand in memory... this is a performance of risk-taking, unconditional emotional commitment.”

Mr. Silverman also recently performed with the NY Pops at Carnegie Hall opposite “Smash” star, Megan Hilty, singing classic songs from the Sinatra era. In addition to tonight’s performance, Ryan will be featured with orchestras across North America, including Pittsburgh, Houston, Detroit and his hometown, Edmonton. Be sure to check out his latest music video, “If Only In My Mind.”

Janet Dacal Janet Dacal created the role of Alice in Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland and played the lead, Nina Rosario, in the Tony Award-winning Musical In the Heights which finished its 1,184-performance run in 2011. She originated the role of Carla in the original Off-Broadway and Broadway productions of In the Heights for which she received a Drama Desk Award. She also performed on Broadway in Good Vibrations, Off-Broadway in Byzantium, and regional theater in Senor Discretion Himself (Arena Stage), The Last 5 Years (Carbonell nomination), Five Course Love (Carbonell nomination), Four Guys Named Jose, Annie and others (Actors Playhouse).

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Born of Cuban parents in Los Angeles, Ms. Dacal now calls Miami home. Her music career began under the wing of Emilio and Gloria Estefan and was soon singing backup vocals for Estefan, Jon Secada, and Luis Enrique, on tour as well as at home in Miami. She currently serves as a founding member of the District Stage Company, a theatrical force based in Miami.

Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Fidelity National Financial Pops Series The CertusBank Matinee Series

A Tribute to

MARVIN HAMLISCH Fri, Apr 10 at 11 am & 8 pm Sat, Apr 11 & 8 pm Sun, Apr 12 at 3 pm Michael Berkowitz, conductor Cady Huffman and Karen Mason, guest vocalists

Fidelity National Financial Pops Series

Classic Soul

MOTOWN AND MORE Fri & Sat, May 8 & 9 at 8 pm Michael Krajewski, conductor Capathia Jenkins & Darius de Haas, guest vocalists Celebrate the kings and queens of classic soul. Hit after chart-topping hit from Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and James Brown.

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Visiting Artists Share Their Expertise

“Expect the Best”

Winter Season 2015

The Jacksonville Symphony’s diverse array of educational opportunities includes masterclasses by guest artists.

Masterclasses offer an invaluable learning experience for local music students to receive guidance from world class artists performing with the Jacksonville Symphony.

Expect the Best when the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival presents a dazzling array of internationally acclaimed stars during its January-March Winter Season

Joshua Bell - March 1

Thrill to the soaring virtuosity of Joshua Bell, celebrated as one of today’s greatest violinists.

The Boston Herald raves, “Joshua Bell is the greatest American violinist active today.”

And Don’t Miss Anne Akiko Meyers on January 29 One of the world’s most sought-after violinists, Anne Akiko Meyers is renowned for her technical skills and stylish elegance.

Buy Tickets Today for our 14th Season!

Plus: the Amernet String Quartet (February 10), the Christiania www.aicmf.com Trio (February 12), countertenor Terry Barber (February 17), or 904-261-1779 and The Kruger Brothers Band (February 24)

Joseph Henderson (left), with James Ehnes.

During the October Masterworks weekend, violin virtuoso James Ehnes shared his time with students at the UNF Fine Arts Center. Two of our Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra violinists, Grace Remmer and Liam Harrington, were selected as performing participants, along with Joseph Henderson and Chih Cheng from the UNF Music Flagship Program. Pianist Bonita Wyke served as accompanist. More than 75 students and parents in attendance observed the one-on one interaction.

Visit our campus. Prepare for a Life of Purpose.

Liam Harrington (left), with James Ehnes.

Visit www.esj.org for Open House dates.

To schedule a personal tour, call 904.396.7104 or email admissions@esj.org.

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Students gathered for a group photo with James Ehnes.

In November, Adriana Zabala, mezzo soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, gave a masterclass at JU. The event was sponsored by North Florida National Association of Teachers of Singing. To find out how to participate in future masterclasses, call 904.354.5657.

Ring in the New Year with your Jacksonville Symphony!

Toast! ear!

New Y To the

Wednesday Dec 31 at 9 pm Michael Butterman, conductor

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. – Community and Business Leader Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF) is a leading provider of title insurance, technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries, headquartered in Jacksonville, FL. Recognized as an industry leader and ranked #316 on the 2014 Fortune 500, FNF has remained a viable employer and contributor within our local community and in all 50 states for over 30 years.

Guided by the highest ethical standards of conduct and a long legacy of service, the FNF family of companies and its thousands of employees nationwide provide a wealth of time, talent and financial support to hundreds of charitable, community, educational and civic causes, including the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.

About Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Rich Ridenour, piano

FNF provides industry-leading mortgage technology solutions and transaction services, including MSP®, the leading residential mortgage servicing technology platform in the U.S., through its majority-owned subsidiaries, Black Knight Financial Services, LLC and ServiceLink Holdings, LLC. In addition, FNF owns majority and minority equity investment stakes in a number of entities, including American Blue Ribbon Holdings, LLC, J.Alexander’s, LLC, Remy International, Inc., Ceridian HCM, Inc., Comdata Inc. and Digital Insurance, Inc. Fidelity National Title Group is the nation’s largest group of title companies and title insurance underwriters - Chicago Title Insurance Company, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Fidelity National Title Insurance Company,Alamo Title Insurance, Lawyers Title, and Ticor Title - that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States.

Concert!

Dancing!

Fireworks!

Black Knight Financial Services, LLC is comprised of technology offerings from the union of LPS and ServiceLink, FNF’s national lender platform. Black Knight offers leading software systems, data and analytics offerings, and information solutions that facilitate and automate many of the business processes across the mortgage life cycle.

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In addition,ABRH also owns and operates Legendary Baking, comprised of three bakery facilities that supply our restaurants and other food service and retail customers with a variety of high quality backed food and “The Best Pie in America”.

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Ceridian Corporation, an FNF minority-owned subsidiary, is an information services leader in the human resource, retail and transportation markets.

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Concert co-sponsored by

Concert co-sponsored by

JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY

SPECIAL EVENT J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

saturday, january 24, 2015 l 8 PM Jim and Jan Moran Theater, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

WINDBORNE’S MUSIC OF

whitney houston 14th Annual Edward Waters College Fine Arts Scholarship Benefit Concert brent havens, conductor and arranger Rashidra scott, special guest

Rashidra Scott Broadway sensation Rashidra Scott joins Windborne Music to celebrate Whitney Houston, an artist whose remarkable singing ability, powerful voice and unique delivery touched our hearts and souls.

From an early age Rashidra was known as the little girl with the big voice. From community theatre to church ministry, she was constantly in demand for performances at local and national events.

WITH KELLI REISEN, BACKGROUND VOCALS FELICIA BARTON, BACKGROUND VOCALS DAN CLEMENS, BASS POWELL RANDOLPH, DRUMS/PERCUSSION GEORGE CINTRON, GUITAR BART KUEBLER, KEYBOARDS EDDIE WILLIAMS, SAXOPHONE

Selections will be announced from the stage.

There will be one intermission.

Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony.

Omni Jacksonville Hotel is the official hotel of the Jacksonville Symphony.

After earning her Bachelor’s Degree from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, Rashidra sang for Walt Disney Entertainment as a featured vocalist on Disney Cruise Line and Tarzan Rocks! at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

She was a proud member of the opening team of Hong Kong Disneyland as Nala in The Festival of The Lion King.

Rashidra has been on Broadway in lead and ensemble roles in Avenue Q, Finian’s Rainbow, Hair, and most recently Sister Act. She toured as a background vocalist for Patti Austin’s BeboperElla! in conjunction with the release of Austin’s Ella Fitzgerald tribute album, For Ella. Rashidra’s television appearances include Violet (the singing nurse) on Sony/ FOX’s “Rescue Me,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” “Dancing With The Stars,” “2011 Tony Awards,” “The View,” “Good Morning America,” and “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.”

Brent Havens Berklee-trained arranger/conductor Brent Havens has written music for orchestras, feature films and television. His TV work includes movies for ABC, CBS and ABC Family, commercials, music for sports networks and cartoons.

He worked with the Doobie Brothers and the Milwaukee Symphony, arranging and conducting the combined group for Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary and has led orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and countless others.

Mr. Havens recently completed the score for Quo Vadis, a remake of the 1956 gladiator film. In 2013 he worked with the Baltimore Symphony and the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens for the Thanksgiving Day halftime show, adapting both classical music and rock songs. In addition to The Music of Whitney Houston, Mr. Havens is arranger/guest conductor for 10 symphonic rock programs – the Music of Led Zeppelin, the Music of the Doors, the Music of Pink Floyd, the Music of the Eagles, the Music of Queen, the Music of Michael Jackson, the Music of The Who, the Music of The Rolling Stones, the Music of U2, and a full orchestral show for Lou Gramm, the voice of Foreigner, with Lou singing out front.

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EWC14th Annual Fine Arts Benefit Concert

J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA

Tonight’s event marks a long-standing cultural and educational partnership Celebrating nearly 150 years of excellence Edward Waters College (EWC) has partnered with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in presenting a repertoire of incredible music to the city of Jacksonville.

Established in 1866, EWC is a small private institution of higher learning in Jacksonville with an enrollment of over 900 students.

This is the 14th Annual Edward Waters College Fine Arts Scholarship Benefit Concert, featuring the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performing “The Music of Whitney Houston” with Broadway sensation Rashidra Scott. Over the past 13 years, the Fine Arts Benefit Concert has featured such music greats as Ray Charles, Dionne Warwick, Jennifer Holliday, Isaac Hayes, Al Jarreau, Nancy Wilson, Melba Moore, Stephanie Mills, The Spinners, and Dennis Edwards & the Temptation Review.

For more information about Edward Waters College, contact the EWC Office of Institutional Advancement at 904.470.8251 or email wanda.willis@ewc.edu.

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Sat, Feb 7 at 8 pm James Meena, conductor Featuring the combined choirs from

Edward Waters College and Bethune Cookman College George Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” immortalized the culture of “Catfish Row.” Join the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and all-star cast in a rare concert performance of Gershwin’s timeless American masterpiece in Jacoby Symphony Hall.

Sponsored by The Julius N. Frankel Foundation

“River Garden has made [my rehab] as pleasant as it could be for me and I am very thankful to all of you for that.”

-Edward Wirick

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Concert sponsored by

Mayo Clinic

COFFEE series FLORIDA BLUE

MASTERWORKS series J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29 l 7:30PM Friday, JANUARY 30 l SATURDay, january 31, 2015 l 8 PM

“Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

happy birthday, mozart christopher warren-green, conductor fumiaki miura, violin 2014-15 yvonne charvot barnett young artist

Wolfgang Amadeus Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219, Turkish Mozart INTERMISSION Wolfgang Amadeus Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 Mozart Molto allegro Andante Minuet: Allegretto

Finale: Allegro assai Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony.

Omni Jacksonville Hotel is the official hotel of the Jacksonville Symphony.

Notes on the program by Siegwart Reichwald

Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 Entered in catalog on 10 August 1787, Vienna.

Premiered on [NOT KNOWN] Last Jsym performance: January 2005, Discovery Series, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. ca. 20 minutes (6’ 6’ 3’ 5’) Leonardo da Vinci’s dictum, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” is a truism for Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

From the first note to the last, Mozart never breaks any rules or challenges any conventions. That is the reason why this work is often used to explain sonata form and sonata plan (the fourmovement design of symphonies, string quartets, etc). Eine kleine Nachtmusik is the perfect classical model in every regard. One might therefore question the composer’s inventiveness or maybe even assume this to be the work of an inexperienced composer “coloring inside the lines.” Yet nothing could be further MOZART (Continued on page 50)

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Thursday concert sponsored by

David and Ann Hicks

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian composer born: 1756, Salzburg; died: 1791, Vienna.

There is no composer in the history of music before modern travel and the age of technology who had more exposure to the various styles of the day than Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As the son of court musician and violin pedagogue Leopold Mozart, his immense talent became apparent very quickly. For better or for worse, Leopold was eager to take his son’s talents as far and wide as possible, visiting important courts and cities all over Europe. In the process, Wolfgang met every important composer and performer of his time. In England, for example, young Mozart sat in J.C. Bach’s lap playing four-hand piano music and, at the same time, learning the concepts of sonata form from one of its first architects. As a result, he not only studied but internalized the stylistic trends of the day, giving his works unprecedented levels of depth, popular appeal, and richness of expression.

In general, Mozart’s career can be divided into three periods. Until his employment at the Salzburg court at age 17, Mozart enjoyed unparalleled fame as the traveling child prodigy (together with his equally talented older sister Nannerl). Not surprisingly, settling into his father’s place of employment was a harsh reality and caused much friction within his family and with his employer.

In 1781 Mozart moved to Vienna (he was actually let go in Salzburg) to find fame and fortune, which he did, to some extent.

While lasting success and stable financial gains eluded him, Mozart helped shape the music of his day like no other composer besides Franz Joseph Haydn. Had Mozart not died so young, he surely would have eventually been able to enjoy his success--as Haydn did. Tonight’s program features three very different compositional approaches, showcasing his Salzburg and Vienna years.

Christopher Warren-Green Working extensively in the United States, Christopher Warren-Green is currently music director of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and a frequent guest of orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra and Houston Symphony, both of which he conducts this season. Other key North American engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Saint Louis, Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras.

As music director and principal conductor of the London Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Warren-Green is dedicated to the promotion of new works and the established chamber orchestra repertoire.

Passionate about music education, he plays a key role in Music Junction, a ground-breaking project where young people from very different backgrounds work together to create mutual empathy and connection through music-making.

Mr. Warren-Green works regularly with the Orchestre National de Belgique and this season he joins the orchestra on tour. He also returns to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and makes his debut with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra. He has previously worked with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Iceland Symphony, KBS Symphony, Sapporo Symphony, RTÉ National Symphony, Zürcher Kammerorchester and Beethoven Orchester Bonn.

Warren-Green has also conducted concerts at the Three Choirs and Lichfield festivals with the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Over the last 30 years Mr. Warren-Green has been personally invited to conduct for the Royal Family on many occasions. In April 2011 he conducted the London Chamber Orchestra during the marriage ceremony of HRH The Duke of Cambridge and HRH The Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey. Other notable occasions have included Her Majesty The Queen’s 80th birthday celebrations at Kew Palace and HRH The Prince of Wales’ 60th birthday concert.

Fumiaki Miura

Masterworks guest artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

Fumiaki Miura comes from a musical family. Born of violinist parents in Tokyo in 1993, Fumiaki began studying violin with Hiromu Yasuda at age three, and with Tsugio Tokunaga since he was six years old. In 2008 he was admitted to the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo as one of the most promising future talents. In 2009, in addition to winning first prize at the International Violin Competition in Hannover, Fumiaki also won the Music Critics’ Prize and the Audience Prize of the competition. He was not only the youngest winner in the competition’s history; he also took home the most prizes. Since 2009, he has studied at the Vienna Conservatory with Pavel Vernikov.

Fumiaki Miura is the 2014-15 Yvonne Charvot Barnett Young Artist, designated annually to a Jacksonville Symphony guest artist on the verge of a promising career.

Fumiaki has performed with many orchestras including the NDR Radiophilharmonie, Polish Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Ensemble Kanazawa, Osaka Philharmonic, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra.

Recent performances include the Mozartfest Würzburg, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, SchleswigHolstein Musikfestival, Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the Julian Rachlin and Friends festival. In 2012 he was soloist on a tour of Japan with the Prague Philharmonia under Jakub Hrusa.

Fumiaki recently debuted with NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, at Konzerthaus Vienna with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and made his first United States appearance with the Utah Symphony. A particular highlight included the Polish premiere of Penderecki’s Concerto for Viola and Violin with Julian Rachlin and the Poznan Philharmonic.

In both 2003 and 2004 – as an elementary student – Fumiaki won Second Prizes in the All Japan Students’ Music Competition. In 2006, he was awarded the Second Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition for Young Violinists. Fumiaki’s first recording of both Prokofiev Sonatas with Itamar Golan was released by Sony Japan.

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MOZART (Continued from page 48) from the truth. Composed while working on the second act of his greatest operatic work Don Giovanni, this “little serenade” (literal meaning of the title) is the work of a genius at the height of his compositional powers. It seems then, that Mozart decided to simply delight in classical forms and convention, creating a masterwork with the simplest means possible and thereby reaching ultimate sophistication.

Sadly, the work was probably never performed during Mozart’s lifetime, since it was not published until long after his death in 1827. Perhaps its curious title hints at the personal delight Mozart took in composing this simple piece. Instead of cataloging it as “Serenade No. 13 in G Major,” Mozart just called it “a little serenade.” Little did he know that its simple opening would become one of the most recognizable classical tunes of all time.

Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish” Completed on 20 December 1775 in Salzburg.

Premiered on [not known] Last Jsym performance: February 2010, Masterworks Series, JoAnn Falletta, conductor, with Chee-Yun as soloist. ca. 29 minutes (10’ 10’ 9’).

Composed before his 20th birthday, this work displays a level of assuredness far beyond the reach of most any teenager.

As the last of five violin concertos composed for the Salzburg court orchestra, it is also his most mature work in this genre. While we think of Mozart mostly as a keyboardist, until his move to Vienna he performed just as frequently on the violin.

Yet he probably did not premiere this concerto. Either the concertmaster of the Salzburg orchestra, Antonio Brunetti, or Johann Anton Kolb would have been the soloist for the premiere.

No matter who the soloist was, the piece has the swagger of a teenager. Unlike the sophisticated ”little serenade” of his later years, this violin concerto wants attention, beginning with the soaring initial entrance of the soloist marked Adagio, forcing the movement to a complete halt. Only after the soloist has gotten the audience’s full attention does the movement resume in proper fashion. As the movement progresses, the soloistic lines become more virtuosic, leading to an extended cadenza at the end. The ensuing Adagio, shockingly for the time, seems to refer back to the soloist’s initial Adagio entrance of the first movement, as mood, tempo, and register are the same. The lyricism and expressiveness of the solo line make for a stunningly beautiful central movement.

The third movement is the reason for the nickname “Turkish.” What would appear at its opening like an old-fashioned minuet, turns actually into head-turning, all-out Turkish March--with the cellos imitating the Turkish drums. Obviously, the teenager was well aware of the craze that had swept through the fashionable Western courts.

Mozart, once again, puts the spotlight squarely on the soloist with a cadenza, Turkish style. After the return of the minuet, the last movement closes as elegantly and refined as it began.

Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 Completed on July 25, 1788, Vienna.

Premiered [not during Mozart’s lifetime].

Last Jsym performance: January 2005, Discovery Series, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. ca. 35 minutes (7’ 13’ 4’ 10’).

Mozart’s penultimate symphony, written only one year after his “little serenade” seems to be the other side of the coin, as he composes one of his most complex multimovement works--yet again well within the framework of sonata form and sonata plan.

Most striking is the choice of the minor key.

Minor keys were unpopular during Mozart’s time except for a brief Sturm und Drang period in the early 1770s, during which time he composed his only other minor key symphony, K. 183. Choosing the particular key of G Minor is even more curious, since he chose the only key not playable on the trumpets of his day. By keeping

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his orchestral forces homogeneous and minimal, Mozart seems to challenge himself to find other means for expressivity.

His answer is found in the seamless integration of operatic elements and contrapuntal textures--coupled with, at times, extreme chromaticism.

The opening movement establishes the dramatic character of this work by using material of Cherubino’s aria “Non so più” from his Marriage of Figaro. Mozart underscores his approach as dramaturg by emphasizing the developmental aspects of sonata form in the first and last movements. Especially effective in this regard are the beginnings of the development or “fantasy” sections, as the primary themes in both cases are seemingly derailed, spilling their content in all directions. His use of counterpoint and chromaticism is remarkable here. The most hair-raising moment happens at the beginning of the “fantasy” section of the last movement, where Mozart uses all chromatic pitches except for g, the tonal center. There are times, however, where counterpoint and chromaticism are used in other ways. The theme of the second movement, for example, is contrapuntally conceived, and chromatic progressions are found throughout the movement. Mozart’s emotional and dramatic language of his operas dominates the whole symphony.

The melancholic Andante captures well Mozart’s emphasis on emotional content, and the uncharacteristically fast, almost crude minuet keeps the intensity level at a high pitch.

The only other symphonies composed at this level of synthesis of styles are his nos. 39 and 41, which were all composed within the same span of six weeks, creating a trilogy that is unparalleled in the symphonic oeuvre and is Mozart’s last word on the symphony.

From the Podium A Conversation with Guest Conductor Christopher Warren-Green Q: Did you have a hand in choosing the program? If so, what draws you to the Mozart selections that will be performed?

A: Yes, I was involved in selecting the program in consultation with the Symphony. Eine Kleine was the first piece I ever played. I also played the Fifth Violin Concerto myself many times as a violinist on tour and recorded it for EMI. Q: What can you can share about your relationship with Mozart’s music; have you been personally touched by his music?

A: Even at the end of a long rehearsal day, when you begin to play Mozart everyone’s spirits soar. Mozart wrote everything except brutality, he left that for Beethoven.

Q: We are curious to hear about your experience conducting the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011.

What was the experience like and how did you get involved?

A: The Prince of Wales asked me to help as Prince William was on active duty and Catherine, now Duchess of Cambridge, had many opinions. It was a great honour and I was delighted that everyone loved the music, much of which was suggested by HRH The Prince of Wales. It was a great day for all and good to see the flag flown proudly.

Music at the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was conducted by Christopher Warren-Green.

Historically Speaking In 1775, when Mozart composed his Violin Concerto No. 5: The American Revolution began on April 18th with the “shot heard round the world” on Lexington Common. The following day, Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Charleston to Lexington, warning “the regulars are coming!”

In 1787, when Mozart composed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: German-born British astronomer and composer William Herschel discovered Oberon and Titania, the moons of Uranus.

In 1788, when Mozart composed Symphony No. 40: Herschel discovered the spiral galaxy NGC 2683, later nicknamed the “UFO Galaxy.”

© 2014 Siegwart Reichwald Siegwart Reichwald is the author of The Genesis of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Paulus.”

He also edited Mendelssohn in Performance, a collection of essays that, according to Choice, “does a superb job explaining the 19th-century sound environment of Felix Mendelssohn.”

Reichwald has published articles on the music of Brumel, Mendelssohn, and Poulenc. He is Professor of Music History at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., and serves on the faculty of Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.

NGC 2683 the “UFO Galaxy.”

– Lynne Radcliffe

Replica of the telescope invented by astronomer and composer William Herschel.

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

Philip Pan concertmaster

Isabelle Davis Endowed Chair

It’s hard to believe that Philip Pan has been cuing the tuning note for 30 years as the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster. He began making music in Jacksonville after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. With so many musical interests outside of the concert hall, this virtuoso fiddler’s musical journey sees no signs of slowing down. He performs and records many styles of music including classical, folk, country, jazz and rock. He plays on a variety of acoustic and electric violins, like the one pictured, a five-string fiddle made from exotic African shedua wood by Barry Dudley.

He and his wife, Rhonda Cassano, are curators of classical music at the Cummer Museum and give frequent recitals there and at other local venues. Philip says: “The more I bring from one genre to the next, the better each one gets... they are mutually beneficial in terms of freedom of expression.”

Philip’s band, Canary in the Coalmine, performs at many clubs, festivals and events including Freebird Live, the Cummer Gardens, One Spark, Magfest and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.

He’s involved in many local organizations including the Cultural Council, Art Ventures, Youth Leadership Jax and We Are Straight Allies. Philip enjoys many sports, particularly skiing, hiking and running.

By Rachel Hanauer Photo by Tiffany Manning

ABOUT THE LOCATION - Local developer SouthEast Group is set to renovate the historic Marble Bank Building and transform it into Jacksonville’s newest choice for dinner before a performance. Acclaimed chef Scotty Schwartz presents sophisticated Southern cuisine in an elegant setting fit for night on the town.

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Symphony Chorus Shines at Lincoln Center

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The Jacksonville Symphony Chorus traveled to New York to form the core of a 130-voice combined chorus for a performance in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Under the leadership of director/composer Donald McCullough, the concert featured his cantata In the Shadow of the Holocaust.

Presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY), a soldout audience attended the dramatic event, which was dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust and took place on the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht (“The Night of Broken Glass”).

Jeffrey Williams for NYConcertReview.com wrote: “After the end of the last movement, the silence hung in the air for what seemed an eternity. Mr. McCullough silently closed the score, set his baton down on the podium and turned to face the audience. It almost seemed that to applaud would have been inappropriate after this emotionally draining journey, but at last the silence was broken, and a justly deserved ovation was given to the performers.”

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A portion of the ticket sales went to benefit the Holocaust Resource Center of Temple Judea, in Manhasset, New York.

Photos courtesy of DCINY ProductionsNan Melville Photographer

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

JORGE PEñA VIOLA By the time Jorge Peña finished high school, he had already completed a Bachelor’s degree in music. It was around then that he discovered a piece of family history about his grandfather.

“He was the town musician at the turn of the century in little Santa Rosa de Copan,” said Jorge. “He composed and arranged pieces for schools, national holidays and other occasions.”

Jorge has some original copies of his grandfather’s manuscripts, and he himself has written arrangements for his own performances.

Jorge’s involvement in many projects has earned him the “Renaissance man” title. He founded the St. Augustine Music Festival with his cellist wife Jin, now the nation’s largest free classical music festival. Celebrating its ninth year, the festival will be part of St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary.

He is also the general manager of the Coastal Symphony of Georgia and the conductor and music director of the Golden Isles Youth Orchestra in Brunswick.

Early in his career, after a year of playing in the Kennedy Center orchestra, the Honduras native needed to win another job to obtain a green card to stay in the States. When he came to audition for the Jacksonville Symphony, Jorge was taken by the beauty of the bridges, water and Spanish moss. The auditions started at 9 a.m., and by 1 a.m. the next morning he won the position. Fast forward about 20 years, and Jacksonville has proven to be a great home for Jorge and Jin – now both U.S. citizens – and their three wonderful daughters.

By Rachel Hanauer Photo by Tiffany Manning

ABOUT THE LOCATION - Local developer SouthEast Group is set to renovate the historic Marble Bank Building and transform it into Jacksonville’s newest hot spot for lunch and dinner, featuring sophisticated Southern cuisine by acclaimed chef Scotty Schwartz.

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NAIRA COLA VIOLIN A violinist who has been featured on NPR, Naira Cola has been playing with the Jacksonville Symphony for two years now. Naira moved here from New York in 2012 and enjoys living in Jacksonville Beach with her husband Anthony. She loves to cook all different kinds of food and her favorite shows on Food Network are “Barefoot Contessa” and “Chopped.”

Born and raised in Pensacola, Naira grew up on jazz, gospel and soul music. Her father is a pastor and organist, both parents are vocalists, and her four brothers and sister are musicians as well, the youngest an oboist for the Utah Symphony. She is an advocate of arts education and a pedagogue herself, and has instructed hundreds of students throughout Brooklyn and the Metropolitan New York area. Each summer Naira teaches and serves as artistic director at the Four Strings Academy in Boston, a four-week intensive program for young musicians enrolling more than 50 students every year.

By Rachel Hanauer Photo by Tiffany Manning

ABOUT THE LOCATION - Local developer SouthEast Group is set to transform the majestic Marble Bank Building into Jacksonville’s newest restaurant featuring chef Scotty Schwartz and his sophisticated Southern cuisine and artisan cocktails in a relaxed and elegant setting.

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VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES Symphony Guild

As a not-for-profit organization, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is a member-supported, community asset.

Those who care about our mission offer philanthropic support, community advocacy, volunteer governance, and gifts of time and talent. Get involved by giving a gift, joining an auxiliary group, serving as an usher or singing in the chorus. A variety of rewarding opportunities are available.

Following the opening weekend, Courtney Lewis visited groups throughout the Jacksonville area. The new music director was the guest of honor at the Guild’s annual Membership Coffee held recently at Tamaya, an ICI Homes Community.

Approximately ninety members and guests enjoyed the event.

The holiday festivities began as the Guild hosted its Holiday Luncheon at the beautifully decorated Timuquana Country Club. Special entertainment was provided

by The Women’s Chorale.

(from left) David Pierson, Allene Groote and Courtney Lewis at the Guild’s annual Membership Coffee. The Guild appreciates Martin Coffee Company, who sponsored and served the coffee.

BRASS Join BRASS members and their guests on Sunday, January 25th at Marsh Landing Country Club for Wines for Music. Sample premier wines paired with delicious hors d’oeuvres and enjoy live music performed by some of our Jacksonville Symphony musicians. The event will also feature a silent wine auction. For more information, please go to our website, www.brassonline.org.

ARIAS - (Amelia Residents In Action for the Symphony) ARIAS’ primary goals are to bring the Jacksonville Symphony to Amelia Island, to encourage Nassau residents to attend symphony concerts, and to provide music education to children in Nassau County Schools through Jacksonville Symphony performances and Instrument Zoo. ARIAS also sponsors a scholarship program and more. For information, please call 904.261.0105.

BRASS (Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony) The members of BRASS support the Jacksonville Symphony by fostering orchestral music appreciation, promoting concert attendance, providing financial support and facilitating music education. For information, log on to BRASSonline.org or call Michael Imbriani, BRASS President, at 610.322.7766.

BRASS welcomed Courtney Lewis at the annual BRASS Bonanza to kick off the new season.

Pictured (from left) are Lynne Radcliffe, Nadine Sabatier, Courtney Lewis and Michael Imbriani.

ARIAS On October 7, it was ARIAS turn to welcome Courtney to Amelia Island.

The reception was held at the Ocean Club, as Symphony President David Pierson introduced the new music director, who answered questions and chatted with members.

ARIAS sponsors 180 youth to attend the Symphony

GET INVOLVED

Bob Quinby, ARIAS’ director of music education, with Yulee Primary teaches Danielle McKendree (left) and Gaye Foote.

Thousands of elementary shcoolers attended the Jacksonville Symphony Prelude Concerts in October. Thanks to ARIAS sponsorship, 180 students from Yulee Primary School attended the concert, which was the first-ever symphonic experience for most of the children.

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The Guild – The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony strives to further awareness of music and music education and to create strong community support of the Symphony. Fundraising activities include the Holiday Shoppe and the Painted Violins.

Outreach and special events include the Instrument Zoo, Harmony Grants, scholarships for qualified music students, Coffee Concerts, Musicians’ Appreciation luncheon and more. For information, please call 904.358.1479 or log on to JaxSymphony. org or JaxSymGuild.com.

Volunteer Ushers – At each concert, our Jacksonville Symphony Volunteer Ushers make everyone feel welcome and contribute toward making performances run smoothly for patrons. To find out how to join this great team, call 904.354.5479.

Symphony Chorus – The Jacksonville Symphony Chorus is in its 30th season of making great music with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. The all-volunteer chorus includes some of our area’s finest voices who share the spirit of singing choral music. For audition dates and information, call 904.354.5479.

volunteer events

What’s Cooking at Aprons?

Be our guest on Saturday, January 17, 2015, as the talented chefs of Aprons prepare a delicious four course meal accompanied by the perfect wine for your dining pleasure! Cost per person is $65, and the event begins at 6:30 p.m. Please contact the Guild Office at 904.358.1479 to make your reservations.

BRASS Sponsored Concerts On Sunday, December 14 at Sea Walk Pavilion, BRASS is sponsoring a Jacksonville Symphony String Quintet at the annual Deck the Chairs festival in Jacksonville Beach. BRASS is also sponsoring the Coffee Concert on Friday, January 30, Happy Birthday Mozart.

BRASS is partnering with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of North Florida to present an educational series titled “Master the Masters: The Adventures of a Symphonic Detective.”

Each Monday prior to a Masterworks concert, learn about the time, place and people surrounding the composers and the music. Cameo appearances by Jacksonville Symphony musicians bring the music alive.

Register now for the Winter 2015 semester at olliunf.org.

Music for Your Eyes The 2014-15 Music for Your Eyes painted violins are on display at concerts throughout the season. Purchase your drawing tickets for a chance to win one of these beautiful works donated by local artists. Music for Your Eyes is a fund raising project for the Guild’s Harmony Grant program.

ARIAS Goes to the Symphony Upcoming ARIAS outings include: • Sun., Dec. 14 Holiday Pops Matinee (bus & concert) • Sun., Jan. 18 Royal Philharmonic with Pinchas Zukerman (bus & concert) • Fri., Jan. 30 “Happy Birthday Mozart” (dinner, bus & concert) • Sat., Feb. 7 “Porgy & Bess” (dinner, bus & concert) • Fri., Feb. 13 Coffee Concert “Pops In Love” (bus & concert) • Fri., Mar. 6 “An Evening with Paul Williams” (bus & concert) • Sun., May 3 Bus & Concert “Sleeping Beauty” (bus & concert).

Call Pat Murray at 904.321.4174 for ticket and bus reservations. You can also ride to Friday Masterworks concerts from Amelia Island. Call 904.354.5547 for details.

Let Freedom Ring ARIAS invites you to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend and our country with an evening of patriotic favorites. The annual event takes place on May 21 at First Baptist Church – Fernandina Beach.

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EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra

Did You Know – Last season, Jacksonville Symphony musicians traveled to 77 schools - performing 132 in-school concerts - and provided 256 professional hours of instructions to our Jump Start Strings students.

The JSYO is one of the best and most comprehensive youth orchestra programs in the Southeast, enrolling more than 270 students.

Children & Families

20 Years as JSYO Music Director

Congratulations, Maestro Gregg!

Family Series Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra VyStar First Coast Nutcracker “Sleeping Beauty” Ballet

Adults Symphony101 Words on Music Talkback Ensemble Performances for Seniors Cover the Town With Sound If you’d like to support these efforts to bring music to children in Northeast Florida, please contact the Jacksonville Symphony’s membership offices at 904.354.1473.

2014 Fall Concert Sunday, November 9, 2014, at 5:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall Free Holiday Concert Monday, December 8, 2014, at 7:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall Sponsored by Sawcross, Inc.

Schools & Teachers Prelude Concerts (Grades 2 & 3) Young People’s Concerts (Grades 4 & 5) Classroom Concerts (Grades 1 through 8) Musical Storybooks (Preschool & Kindergarten) Instrument Zoo & Harmony Grants Teacher Ticket Discounts Jump Start Strings (Grades 3, 4 & 5) Master Classes Pizza With the Players Opera with “Porgy and Bess”

2014-2015 Publix Super Markets Charities JSYO Series

Free Chamber Music Recital Thursday, January 22, 2015, at 7:00 pm UNF Recital Hall

For the past 20 years, Scott Gregg has led thousands of Jacksonville youth on their journey of discovering and playing great symphonic music. Said Scott, “The biggest thrill comes from helping young players realize how they can be part of what makes it ‘great’ in the first place.”

2014 Young Artists Competition Concerto Finals Monday, January 26, 2015, at 6:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall Festival of Strings Sunday, March 1 2015, at 5:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall Major/Minor Concert with the Jsym Saturday, March 7, 2015, at 8:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall 2015 Spring Concert Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 5:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall

Scott C. Gregg, Music Director and Principal Conductor Winston Family Endowed Chair

Visit the JSYO website for more details. www.jaxyouthorchestra.com

Thank You, Education Sponsors and Partners, for Bringing Harmony to the First Coast!

ACOSTA Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation and The League of American Orchestras Arias Bank of America Foundation BBVA Compass Bank Carl S. Swisher Foundation CertusBank Cummer Family Foundation Donald C. McGraw Foundation Douglas Anderson School of the Arts DuBow Family Foundation Duval County Public School Board

Edna Sproull Williams Foundation Enterprise Holdings Foundation EverBank Fanny Landwirth Foundation Florida State College at Jacksonville The Henry & Lucy Gooding Endowment The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony In memory of Ann F. Skinner J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Mr. James Winston Jessie Ball duPont Fund The Main Street America Group

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The Masucci Family THE PLAYERS Championship Publix Super Markets Charities Rayonier Foundation Robert and Thelma Neid Herb and Ann Rowe Charitable Foundation Mrs. Ruthwood C. Samek Sawcross, Inc. Scott-McRae Group University of North Florida Wells Fargo Foundation Mr. William L. Ritchie Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

Find out more and get involved!

Call 904.354.5657, or log on to JaxSymphony.org.

J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Music Education Series

Introducing Children to the Thrill of Classical Music In October more than 7,200 second and third graders from Duval County Schools, and schools from surrounding areas, attended the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s Prelude Concerts. A total of six concerts were presented in Jacoby Symphony Hall.

Scott Gregg, who serves as JSYO music director, conducted the concerts. The featured work, Mr. Smith’s Composition, took the children on an educational journey into the mind of Mr. Smith as he composed an original piece of music.

View the full album online. Log on to JaxSymphony.org and Click “photos” on the left.

Coming in February, the next set of educational concerts for fourth and fifth graders features The Orchestra Sings, a program of the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall.

SOUND CHECK CARD

A Great Value for Students and Families For $25, the Sound Check Card offers students (up to age 25) admission to all Masterworks, Coffee and other select concerts for an entire season.

The Sound Check Card can be purchased online at JaxSymphony.org or by calling 904.354.5547.

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The Jacksonville Symphony gratefully acknowledges some of our most important music makers.

Ruth Conley

The Julius N. Frankel Foundation

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

The Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC

Robert D. and Isabelle T. Davis Endowment Fund

J. Wayne & Delores Barr Weaver

The DuBow Family Foundation

Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

ACOSTA Sales & Marketing • Yvonne Charvot Barnett Young Artist Fund • Bob & Lynn Alligood • Biscottis Brooks Rehabilitation • Buffet Group Wind Instruments • Cummer Family Foundation • Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation FIS • Hartley Press • David and Ann Hicks • Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation • The Kirbo Charitable Trust Fanny Landwirth Foundation • Martin Coffee Co. • Donald C. McGraw Foundation • Publix Super Markets Charities Raymond James & Associates, Inc. • David and Linda Stein • Carl S. Swisher Foundation • Edna Sproull Williams Foundation Dana’s Limousine and Transportation Services • U.S. Trust • Vanguard Charitable-Kessler Fund Agility Press • BBVA Compass Bank • Claude Nolan Cadillac • George M. Cohen Foundation • Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Enterprise Holdings Foundation • Harbinger Sign • JAX Chamber • Lloyd A. Fry Foundation • The Main Street America Group Parsley’s Piano • Performance Security, Inc. • Rayonier • Regions Bank • Riverside Liquors & Village Wine Shop The Rowe Charitable Foundation • Sawcross, Inc. • Scott-McRae Group, Inc. • The Stellar Group • The Stupski Foundation St. Vincent’s HealthCare • US Assure • Westminster Woods on Julington Creek • Wilson’s Limited, Inc. • Wells Fargo Foundation A-B Distributors, Inc. • American Electrical • AmeriCare Home Health Comcast • Deutsche Bank • Jacksonville University • Sawcross, Inc. Media Partners: Clear Channel Outdoor • FOLIO Weekly • WEJZ Lite 96.1 WJCT Public Broadcasting • WOKV AM 690 Community Partners: 62 jaxsymphony.org l DECEMBER 2014 I JANUARY 2015

MEET THE MUSICIANS ANTHONY ANURCA BASSOON Anthony is the epitome of the hometown guy who made good. He always loved music and danced along to MTV as a child growing up in Jacksonville Beach.

He took piano lessons to follow one musical sister and then went on to the violin. He also loved to sing. But life changed in seventh grade when he saw a video about the bassoon and thought it was cool.

He describes his love for the bassoon as combining a lot of different talents – you use both your thumbs so being a video gamer helps, being physically fit is key because you have to blow a lot of air, and the sound covers the range of the human voice so it’s almost like singing.

A graduate of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Anthony received his degree from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is very involved in the community supporting the We Are Straight Allies program and he recently joined the faculty at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Anthony has collaborated with local talent on Rivers and Lakes, an upcoming album release on Dora Doravitch Records. You’ll be able to hear it on vinyl.

By Amy Rankin Photo by Tiffany Manning

ABOUT THE LOCATION - Local developer SouthEast Group is set to renovate the historic Marble Bank Building and transform it into Jacksonville’s newest hot spot for lunch and dinner, featuring sophisticated Southern cuisine by acclaimed chef Scotty Schwartz.

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THANK YOU FOR WELCOMING COURTNEY! Seen at membership events kicking off the arrival of our new Music Director.

Platinum Club Diamond - $50,000 Ruby - $25,000 Emerald - $12,500

Conductor’s Club $5,000 Gold $3,500 Silver $2,500 Bronze $1,500 Prelude

Harmony Club $750 Concerto $550 Sonata $300 Overture $150 Intermezzo $75 Minuet

JUST FOR MEMBERS Open Rehearsal – January 15 Meet the NEW Symphony President

For more information about giving to the Jacksonville Symphony and for a full listing of donor benefits, please visit www.jaxsymphony.org/donate.

Doors open at 1 pm Rehearsal at 2 pm Join Steven Reineke and friends with your Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra as they mix a Mad Men musical cocktail with music of Paul Anka, Brenda Lee, Ben E. King and more!

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Rehearsals are open by invitation to donors of $150+.

The Jacksonville Symphony Association gratefully acknowledges these members for including the symphony in their estate planning.

Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Terry Reid

Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins

Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton

The Jacksonville Symphony thanks the Davis Family for their extraordinary generosity in recognition of Isabelle Davis The 2014-2015 season began with an extraordinary announcement. The Davis Family gave the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra a $500,000 gift to endow the Isabelle Davis Concertmaster Chair, currently held by Philip Pan, a violinist with the Orchestra since 1984.

A major supporter of the symphony, Isabelle Davis played a key role in the creation of Jacoby Symphony Hall as a member of the building committee for the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts. She founded BRASS (Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony), and also chaired the largest event in the orchestra’s history – a sold-out performance by renowned Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti in 1989.

On behalf of the Davis Family, Andy and Kim Sears (center) accepted the recognition of the Isabelle Davis Endowed Chair.

Andy is the son of Isabelle Davis. They are pictured with Courtney Lewis (left) and Philip Pan. The announcement was made at the season opening concert.

On October 2, Concertmaster Philip Pan and flutist Rhonda Cassano played a small house concert to honor and thank Isabelle and the Davis Family.

They were joined by Music Director Courtney Lewis and close friends.

Isabelle Davis, with Courtney Lewis, at a special musical gathering in her home.

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The Jacksonville Symphony Association gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following individuals, businesses and foundations: Gifts to the Annual Fund between July 1, 2013, and November 18, 2014 ∆ Designates a gift in-kind * Designates deceased

CENTURY CLUB – $100,000+ Ted Burfein Dawn Gill Kelly Dixon Ada Bowers Annette Stevenson William Tate Terri Horton Lindsey Wells

PLATINUM CLUB: DIAMOND – $50,000 - $99,000 Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims

PLATINUM CLUB: RUBY – $25,000 - $49,999 Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims

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PLATINUM CLUB: EMERALD $10,000 - $24,999

Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims Bridget Morton Terry Reid Jeanne Bridges Elijah Weber Lester Matthews Allen Watkins Andrea Blair Kristopher James Neil Hudson Velma Franklin Caroline May Lorenzo Robbins Louise Sims

CONDUCTOR’S CLUB GOLD $5,000 - $9,999

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MEET THE MUSICIANS STEVE MERRILL PERCUSSION It’s a long way from Texas to Indonesia but Steve Merrill has traveled that distance and then some.

With parents who served as a piano teacher and a band director, Steve was able to have fun and hit stuff by playing the drums. He attended Southern Methodist and then received a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Somewhere in Boston he discovered gamelan music from Indonesia and was able to spend time in Bali learning about it. He calls the rhythmic tradition of gamelan exciting describing it for the novices as like playing a big metal xylophone.

Steve has performed with the Boston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Ft. Worth Symphony, and Detroit Symphony. Summer fun has included the Lyrique-en-mer Opera festival in Belle-Ile, France and Tanglewood.

Besides gamelan Steve is a big fan of jazz. For fun he likes to run, hike and pretend not be terrible at golf and tennis.

By Amy Rankin Photo by Tiffany Manning

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

Ellen Olson Viola Although she’s not really sure why she chose viola, once Ellen Olson began playing it in the fourth grade, she knew it was the right instrument for her. The public schools she attended had an excellent string music program, and as a student she always knew that she didn’t want to major in anything but music. Fortunately for her, she’s been able to pursue her passion.

Ellen works alongside her husband, Jacksonville Symphony principal oboist Eric Olson. “I enjoy going to work with Eric. Sometimes I ask him if the violas are loud enough and sometimes he asks me how his solos sound.”

Beyond the Jacksonville Symphony stage, Eric and Ellen perform with the San Marco Chamber Music Society, which they founded in 2008. It presents free concerts at St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in the San Marco area.

In Ellen’s free time, mostly during the summers, she enjoys pursuing many creative crafts. She went through a “Barbie phase” which involved repairing and customizing vintage Barbie dolls.

She also attempted to collect and dress French antique reproduction dolls. She refinished some Mid-Century Modern furniture and painted and decorated the couple’s small Zuckerman harpsichord.

She also loves making oboe reed cases out of old cigarette cases.

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Administration David L. Pierson, President Sally Pettegrew, Vice President of Administration & Assistant Board Secretary Laurie Saisselin, Office Manager

Martin F. Connor, III, Chair and CEO Matthew McAfee, Vice Chair Rick Moyer, Treasurer Frederick W. Schantz, Secretary Richard H. Pierpont, Immediate Past Chair

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lynn Alligood

Brad King

Don Baldwin

Ross T. Krueger, M.D.

Martha E. Barrett

Anne Lufrano, Ph.D.

Candice Bobeck

John Malone

J.F. Bryan, IV Elizabeth Lovett Colledge, Ph.D. Barbara Darby, Ed.D. R. Chris Doerr Margaret Gomez H. W. “Buzz” Goodall Allene Groote Andrew Harold Anne Hopkins, Ph.D. Michael Imbriani Randolph Johnson Kristin “Kiki” Karpen Gurmeet Keaveny

Claudia Minch Kay Nichols Thomas Pippin Mary Ellen Smith Mark Spatola, M.D. David Strickland Randall Tinnin Clay B. “Chip” Tousey, Jr. Lowell Weiner Terry R. West Peter B. Wright Gwen Yates Wayne Young

Allison Keller

HONORARY DIRECTORS Carl N. Cannon Ruth Conley Isabelle T. Davis

Frances Bartlett Kinne, Ph.D. Arthur W. Milam Mary Carr Patton

David W. Foerster

Jay Stein

Preston H. Haskell

James Van Vleck

Robert E. Jacoby

James H. Winston

Artistic Operations Richard Naylor, Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations Kevin Roberts, Director of Orchestral Operations Robert Chambers, Orchestra Personnel Manager Kenneth Every, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Carol Whitman, Librarian Deborah Heller, Assistant Librarian Annie Morris, Assistant Librarian Ray Klaase, Stage Manager Shamus McConney, Technical Director James Pitts, Stage Associate Jill Weisblatt, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Manager Education Tony Kamnikar, Vice President of Education Scott C. Gregg, Music Director, JSYO Winston Family Endowed Chair Peggy Toussant, Jump Start Strings Coordinator Development Toni S. Paz, CFRE, Vice President of Development Lorraine Roettges, Director of Institutional Giving Jennifer Barton, Individual Giving Manager Catherine Grossholz, Individual Giving Coordinator Iris Simmons, Institutional Giving Coordinator Lorie Harlow, Volunteer Coordinator Marketing Peter Gladstone, Vice President of Marketing Paul Witkowski, Director of Communications Christie Helton, Marketing Manager Kenneth Shade, Graphic Designer Linda W. Chaney, Account Executive Eric Barreto-Maymi, House Manager Box Office Scott Hawkins, Patron Services Manager Betty Byrne, Patron Services Agent Nadia Della Penta, Patron Services Agent Tara Paige, Patron Services Agent Pam Smith, Patron Services Agent Finance Holly Bryan, Vice President of Finance Nancy Ferdman, Staff Accountant Cindy Weaver, Payroll & Accounts Payable Specialist

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