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ASOleadership atlanta Symphony Orchestra League 2008-2009 Board of Directors Officers Ben F. Johnson, III Chairman Clayton F. Jackson
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Chilton Davis Varner Allison Vulgamore*
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Directors Robert M. Balentine Joseph R. Bankoff * Jan Bennett Jason A. Bernstein Paul Blackney C. Merrell Calhoun Donald P. Carson Philip Cave Ann W. Cramer Christopher Crommett Cari K. Dawson Carla Fackler Gary P. Fayard Dr. Robert Franklin Willem-Jan O. Hattink
Board of counselors Howell E. Adams, Jr. Mrs. John Aderhold Milton Brannon Elinor Breman Dr. John W. Cooledge Bradley Currey, Jr. John Donnell Jere Drummond
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oming home to the Woodruff Arts Center and to our loyal audience has your Atlanta Symphony Orchestra soaring! It is a sheer joy to reunite with you, the
longtime champions of the ASO. Your dare-to-be-great support is this Orchestra’s raison d’être. As a result, we reach for the stars in our repertoire and artists each season; we create bold breakthroughs in the concert format including our “theatre of a concert” experience you will next see in John Adams’s spectacular opera Doctor Atomic in November; and we collaborate and partner with other innovators from composers and visual artists to record companies. Robert Spano, Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, and celebrated friend Emanuel Ax open the 2008-09 season with a program of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. “What better way to start off the season,” Robert says, “than with the music of these three giants whose names virtually define symphonic music. Hearing their music side by side will illuminate the greatness they have in common and the uniqueness that distinguishes each of their musical personalities. A grand portal into a season full of tremendous music!” We welcome new Board leadership in Chairman Ben F. Johnson III, a longstanding passionate advocate of the ASO and one of Atlanta’s most esteemed community leaders. Ben’s acumen and vision will be invaluable in helping shape the Orchestra’s next milestones. We just celebrated with many of you one of the greatest summers in ASO history, our inaugural orchestral season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta. A highlight was the encore performance and CD-release of last season’s live recording of Puccini’s landmark opera La Bohème. Thousands of new ASO enthusiasts joined us at our new summer home night after night co-creating new traditions together. We thank them for their intense goodwill. These are momentous times for the ASO and its audience. We could not be more motivated to live every experience with you.
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tlanta Symphony Orchestra Music Director Robert Spano is recognized internationally as one of the most imaginative conductors of his generation. Since 2001, he has invigorated and expanded the ASO’s repertoire through a creative programming mix, recordings, and visual enhancements, such as the “Theatre of a Concert,” a continuing exploration of different formats, settings, and enhancements for the musical performance experience. Mr. Spano also champions the Atlanta School of Composers, his commitment to nurturing and championing music through multi-year partnerships defining a new generation of American composers. Mr. Spano has conducted the great orchestras of North America, including those in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Overseas, he has led the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Czech Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Sinfonie Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic and Tonhalle Orchester. He has conducted the Chicago, Houston, Santa Fe, Royal Opera at Covent Garden, and Welsh National Operas. In August 2005, he conducted Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at Seattle Opera, and returns for the cycle in 2009. With a discography of nine critically acclaimed recordings for Telarc and Deutsche Grammophon made over six years, Robert Spano has garnered six Grammy awards. Musical America’s 2008 Conductor of the Year, Mr. Spano was Artistic Director of the Ojai Festival in 2006, Director of the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Center in 2003 and 2004, and from 1996 to 2004 was Music Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Head of the Conducting Fellowship Program at Tanglewood Music Center from 1998-2002, he has served on the faculties of Bowling Green State University, Curtis Institute and Oberlin Conservatory. Mr. Spano lives in Atlanta.
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A NEW HORIZON On May 10 the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra opened its new summer home at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta. The ASO performed nine concerts between May and August in its inaugural season. 1
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3 1 T he cutting of the ribbon officially opens Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park on May 10. Doing the honors are (left to right) Allison Vulgamore, Verizon Wireless Director Greg Heenan, Alpharetta Mayor Arthur Letchas, President & CEO of the Greater North Fulton County Chamber of Commerce Brandon Beach, and Fulton County Arts Council Director Veronica Njuko.
3 A llison Vulgamore (on left), Fulton County Commissioner Lynne Riley and Alpharetta City Councilman Jim Paine greeted concertgoers at the first Starbucks Free Parks Concert held at the new venue on August 14, which drew over 5000 people.
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2 S ome of the Grand Marshals:(left to right) ASO Board members Jim Kelley, Clay Jackson, Charlie Moseley, John and Kyle Rogers, and Dee Nixon, wife of Encore Park Board member Mike Nixon.
atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano, Music Director, The Robert Reid Topping Chair * Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor, The Neil and Sue Williams Chair *
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’s advocacy of modern U.S. composers has given rise to the “Atlanta School of Composers,” a group of innovative artists whose works have been commissioned, engaged, recorded and presented by the ASO. Mr. Spano’s growing school is gaining traction as a showcase for rising American talent: In June 2007, ASCAP honored the Orchestra with the prestigious John S. Edwards Award for “Strongest Commitment to New American Music.” From Oct. 30 to Nov. 23, the ASO Music Director celebrates the music of four notable American composers and masterpieces written in America that have inspired the Atlanta School’s modern marvels.
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Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Gershwin — their names have become iconic. These are the composers who chronicled the American psyche in the 20th century, who gave us the music we return to when we wish to celebrate our nation or to try to understand ourselves. They dealt with the contrasts and contradictions of our culture, each in his own way. They paved the way for today’s crop of musical creators, whose senior statesmen include John Corigliano and John Adams. These are leaders of a generation less selfconscious about writing music that reflects the American experience, liberated by Copland’s observation that simply by being American, they would compose music that was “American” in its essence.
Bernstein, Barber, and Rachmaninov — October 30/31/November 1. Maestro Slatkin makes his first ASO appearance since 1975 with the “Jeremiah” Symphony, the first composition that brought Leonard Bernstein to national attention. It draws inspiration from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah for a searching examination of the spirit of Judaism. The finale incorporates a mezzosoprano soloist (the deep-hued voice of Kelley O’Connor for our performances) to sing the prophet’s words, as explained by Bernstein: “It is the cry of Jeremiah as he mourns his
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he aesthetic of the ‘American Originals’ composers shares an artistic kinship with the members of our own ‘Atlanta School.’ Their music reflects their individual heritages, backgrounds and personalities, and while they all speak with a unique voice, their music shares the power to communicate with a wide range of audiences in a compelling way. — Robert Spano We are no less fascinated by immigrant musicians such as Dvo˘rák, Rachmaninov, and Bartók. Those composers came from abroad to experience the United States and then found their own music, retaining the national characteristics of their homelands while incorporating some of the expansive qualities of America. Robert Spano and the ASO programming team have drawn from these composers’ catalogs to create “American Originals,” an engrossing series of four concerts extending from Halloween weekend to just before Thanksgiving, all part of the larger Delta Classical Series. Both Spano and Donald Runnicles will conduct, along
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beloved Jerusalem, ruined, pillaged, and dishonored after his desperate effort to save it.”
Copland, Barber, and Bartók — November 6/7. Robert Spano conducts our second American weekend, with soloist Joshua Bell playing Samuel Barber’s beloved Violin Concerto. Created more than 20 years before the Piano Concerto, the one for violin was composed while Barber was still a student at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Two movements of idyllic lyricism are rounded by a finale of nervous perpetual motion, reflecting the world’s anxiety at the time it was written in 1940.
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ASOprogram Atlanta Symphony Orchestra A founding member of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center Robert Spano, Music Director Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor
Delta classical Series Concerts Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 2, 3 and 4 at 8 p.m.
Robert Spano, Conductor peter serkin, Pianist JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) Ricercare (1747) (orch. Webern) JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Opus 15 (1858) I. Maestoso II. Adagio III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo Peter Serkin, Pianist INTERMISSION Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67 (1808) I. Allegro con brio II. Andante con moto III. Allegro IV. Allegro
“Inside the Music” preview of the concert, Thursday at 7 p.m., presented by Ken Meltzer, ASO Insider and Program Annotator. The use of cameras or recording devices during the concert is strictly prohibited.
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ASOprogram Notes on the Program By Ken Meltzer Ricercare (1747) (orch. Webern) Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany, on March 21, 1685, and died in Leipzig, Germany, on July 28, 1750. Anton Webern’s orchestration of the Ricercare is scored for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, timpani, harp and strings. Approximate performance time is eleven minutes. These are the first ASO Classical Subscription performances of the Webern orchestration of the Bach Ricercare.
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n May of 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach accepted the invitation of the Prussian King Frederick the Great (1712-1768) to travel to the Potsdam Court. Upon Bach’s arrival, King Frederick II, an accomplished flutist and composer, presented his honored guest with a theme of the monarch’s own design. In response to the King’s request, Bach stunned the assembled by immediately playing a fugue in three parts based upon King Frederick’s theme. Bach also improvised a fugue in six parts, derived from a theme of his own composition. Bach was so impressed with the beauty of King Frederick’s theme that when the composer returned to Leipzig, he fashioned a series of works based upon the melody (or “thema regium,” as Bach called it). On July 7, 1747, Bach presented his Musical Offering to King Frederick, accompanied by the following dedication: Most gracious King, I offer to your Majesty…a Musical Offering of which the noblest part is from your Majesty’s own hand…I still remember today, the very special grace which your Majesty deigned to grant me some time ago…by playing for me the theme of a fugue and graciously asking me to improvise upon it…I therefore decided to compose upon this truly royal theme in a more serious manner, and thereby make it known to the world. Among the several compositions that form Bach’s Musical Offering, BWV 1079, is a magnificent six-voice fugue, or Ricercare. Bach’s synthesis of this theme in the six voices, and the sublime music that results, is one of his great achievements in the art of contrapuntal writing. This concert features a beautiful arrangement for chamber orchestra of the Ricercare, completed in 1935 by the 20th-century Viennese composer, Anton Webern (1883-1945).
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Opus 15 (1858) Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 1833, and died in Vienna, Austria, on April 3, 1897. The first performance of the D-minor Piano Concerto Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 29
took place in Hanover, Germany, on January 22, 1859, with the composer as soloist and Joseph Joachim conducting. In addition to the solo piano, the D-minor Concerto is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings. Approximate performance time is forty-two minutes. First ASO Classical Subscription Performance: October 28, 1952, Rudolf Firkusny, Piano, Henry Sopkin, Conductor. Most Recent ASO Classical Subscription Performances: November 4, 5 and 6, 2004, Horacio Gutiérrez, Piano, Jun Maerkl, Conductor.
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n September 30, 1853, a shy, 20-year-old Johannes Brahms appeared at the Düsseldorf home of Robert and Clara Schumann. (It’s interesting in light of the typical pictures we see of the mature, bearded, and somber Brahms that the Schumann’s eldest daughter, Marie, recalled meeting on that occasion “a very young man, handsome as a picture, with long blonde hair.”) Brahms, who greatly admired Robert Schumann, hoped that the senior and influential composer would assist his own budding musical career. Brahms played some of his piano compositions for Robert and Clara, both of whom were immediately impressed by the young man’s extraordinary talent. During the following month, Brahms visited the Schumanns on an almost daily basis. Then, on October 28, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik published an article by Schumann, entitled “Neue Bahnen” (“New Paths”), in which the author wrote: I thought....someone would and must appear, fated to give us the ideal expression of the times, one who would not gain his mastery by gradual stages, but rather would spring fully armed like Minerva from the head of Kronion. And he has come, a young blood at whose cradle graces and heroes mounted guard. His name is Johannes Brahms, from Hamburg, where he has been creating in obscure silence...He carries all the marks of one who has received a call. Seated at the piano, he began to disclose wonderful regions...There were sonatas, or rather veiled symphonies; songs whose poetry would be clear even if one were ignorant of the words, although a profound singing melody runs through them all; individual piano pieces of almost demonic nature and charming form; then sonatas for violin and piano, quartets for strings—all so different from one another that each seemed to flow from a fresh spring... When he waves his magic wand and the power of great orchestral and choral forces will aid him, then we shall be shown still more the wonderful glimpses into the secrets of the spirit-world. May the highest genius strengthen him for
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ASOprogram this...His contemporaries salute him on his first journey through the world where wounds may await him, but also palms and laurels; we welcome him as a powerful fighter...(emphasis added) The suggestion that Brahms should focus his talents upon the symphonic repertoire became even more emphatic a few months later, when Schumann wrote to the eminent violinist, Joseph Joachim: “Is he flying high—or only amongst flowers? Is he putting drums and trumpets to work yet? He must remember the beginnings of the Beethoven symphonies; he must try to do something of the kind. The point is to make a beginning, then the end comes of itself.” On February 27, 1854, Schumann, plagued by hallucinations, plunged into the Rhine. After this suicide attempt, Schumann was admitted to an asylum in Endenich, where he remained until his death at the age of 46, on July 29, 1856. Brahms, fearful of the inevitable comparisons with Beethoven, did not complete his First Symphony until 1876, almost a quarter-century after the “New Paths” article. However, shortly after the suicide attempt by Schumann, Brahms endeavored to fulfill his mentor’s grand expectations. In March of 1854, Brahms began to compose a large-scale sonata for two pianos. Brahms then attempted to convert this work into a symphony, orchestrating (with the aid of Joachim and composer Julius Grimm) the sonata’s opening movement. However, Brahms was dissatisfied with the results. Finally, after Schumann’s death, Brahms decided to convert the first movement of his proposed symphony into a piano concerto (other music from the uncompleted symphony later became part of the 1868 German Requiem). Brahms reworked the symphony’s Maestoso opening movement and composed a new Adagio and Rondo finale. Brahms completed the score of his First Piano Concerto in March of 1858, although he continued to revise the work almost until the moment of its first performance.
“A brilliant and decisive—failure” Brahms was the soloist, and Joachim the conductor, in the January 22, 1859, Hanover premiere. The audience reception was rather cool, but that proved to be far preferable to the reaction five days later at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Julius Rietz conducted and Brahms was again the soloist. The audience, confused by the Concerto’s epic length and implacable, stormy character, voiced its disapproval. Edward Bernsdorf, critic for the Signale, characterized the work as “a composition dragged to its grave...for more than three quarters of an hour one must endure this rooting and rummaging, this straining and tugging, this tearing and patching of phrases and flourishes!” The following day, Brahms wrote to Joachim: My Concerto has had here a brilliant and decisive—failure...At the conclusion three pairs of hands were brought together very slowly, whereupon a perfectly Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 31
distinct hissing from all sides forbade any such demonstration...In spite of everything, the Concerto will meet with approval when I have improved its form and the next one will be quite different. I believe this is the best thing that can happen to one; it forces one to concentrate one’s thoughts and increases one’s courage. After all, I am only experimenting and feeling my way as yet. But the hissing was too much of a good thing, wasn’t it? Brahms did, in fact, revise his First Piano Concerto, and the score was published in 1861. The composer received his vindication four years later, when he played the Concerto at a triumphant Mannheim concert, led by Hermann Levi. Since that time, the eminence of this challenging, magnificent work has remained secure.
Musical Analysis I. Maestoso—The Concerto opens with an orchestral introduction. The stormy principal theme, initially played by the first violins and cellos over thundering timpani, reflects, according to Joachim, Brahms’s despair upon learning of Schumann’s attempted suicide. The soloist enters, quietly at first, but soon reprises the storm with which the Concerto began. The piano offers an unaccompanied presentation of a noble, espressivo melody. A series of fortissimo octaves by the soloist initiates the development section. It is the soloist who launches the recapitulation of the movement’s tempestuous opening. The coda, again initiated by the soloist, begins softly, but soon reaches its furious climax. II. Adagio—When Brahms first composed the opening melody of the Adagio, he wrote over it the words, “Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini” (“Blessed is he who has come in the name of the master”), in all likelihood a reference to Schumann, whom the younger composer often called “Mynheer Domini.” But it should also be noted that on December 30, 1856, Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann, “I am painting a lovely portrait of you. It is to be the Adagio.” The Adagio is cast in A—B—A form. The violins and violas play the serene, principal melody, to which the soloist soon responds. The central episode is slightly more agitated, but the opening section returns, and, after a fully-composed cadenza for the soloist, the Adagio ends in hushed reverence. III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo—The soloist immediately presents the vigorous principal theme of the Rondo finale. All of the various contrasting sections are ingeniously derived from that main theme. The closing pages feature two fully-transcribed cadenzas. A solo horn heralds the thrilling conclusion of the Brahms D-minor Piano Concerto.
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67 (1808) Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized in Bonn, Germany, on December 17, 1770, and died in Vienna, Austria, on March 26, 1827. The first performance of the Fifth Symphony took place in Vienna on December 22, 1808, at the Theater an der Wien, with the composer
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“A bloody record of a tremendous inner battle”
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eethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony is a work that continues to astonish listeners with its elemental power, taut drama, and, above all else, a sense of absolute inevitability. And yet, there was nothing inevitable about the process of the Symphony’s creation. Beethoven composed the Fifth over a span of approximately four years (18041808). During that time, Beethoven wrote and rewrote passages, filling sketchbook upon sketchbook with ideas for the Symphony. As Leonard Bernstein commented in his superb 1956 lecture on Beethoven’s Fifth: “The man rejected, rewrote, scratched out, tore up, and sometimes altered a passage as many as twenty times. Beethoven’s manuscript looks like a bloody record of a tremendous inner battle.”
“Too much of a good thing” Beethoven finally completed his Fifth Symphony in the spring of 1808. The work received its premiere at a December 22, 1808 concert, sponsored by the composer, and held at the Theater an der Wien. In addition to the first performance of the Fifth Symphony, the Vienna concert featured the premieres of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (“Pastorale”) and the Choral Fantasy, the first public performance of his Fourth Piano Concerto, four movements from the composer’s Mass in C, and the soprano aria, Ah! Perfido. All told, the concert included four hours of music. Beethoven served as both conductor and piano soloist. Perhaps a music lover who had access to a time machine might choose this concert as his first destination. Imagine the opportunity to witness Beethoven performing several of his greatest masterworks! By all accounts, however, the event was far from a triumph. A lack of sufficient rehearsal time, coupled with Beethoven’s failings as a conductor, led to performances that were haphazard at best, and disasters at worst (during the premiere of the Choral Fantasy, the orchestra was forced to stop in the middle of the piece and begin a section over again). The audience endured this marathon concert—held in the dead of winter—in an unheated theater. As German musician, Johann Reichardt, recalled: “There we continued, in the bitterest cold, too, from half past six to half past ten, and experienced the truth that one can easily have too much of a good thing—and still more of the loud.” Atlanta’s Performing Arts Publication 33
Early Reactions to the Fifth Today, of course, the Beethoven Fifth maintains its status as one of the greatest and most popular Symphonies. However, the extraordinary power and revolutionary nature of the work at first inspired confusion, awe, and even fear on the part of some music lovers. Composer Ludwig Spohr, who heard Beethoven conduct the Fifth several times in Vienna, felt that “with all its individual beauties (the C-minor Symphony) does not form a classical whole.” Spohr described the triumphant finale of the Fifth Symphony as “empty noise.” In 1814, the London Philharmonic rehearsed the work for the first time, and the musicians burst into laughter at the famous opening measures. In 1830, Felix Mendelssohn visited Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at the great author’s Weimar home. There, Mendelssohn played excerpts on the piano of the opening movement of the Beethoven Fifth. The composer described Goethe’s reaction: At first he said, “But it does not move one at all; it merely astounds; it is grandiose”, and then went on growling to himself, until after a long time he began again: “That is very great, quite mad, one is almost afraid the house will fall down; and only imagine when they are all playing together!” In his Memoirs, Hector Berlioz recalled an 1828 performance of the Beethoven Fifth in Paris, attended by one of the young composer’s teachers at the Conservatoire, Jean-François Lesueur. After the concert, Berlioz rushed to Lesueur, anxious to learn his professor’s opinion: I went striding up and down the passage with flushed cheeks. “Well, dear master?”...”Hush! I want air; I must go outside. It is incredible, wonderful! It stirred and affected and disturbed me to such a degree that when I came out of the box and tried to put on my hat I could not find my own head! Do not speak to me until tomorrow.”... The next day I rushed off to his house, and we at once fell to talking about the masterpiece which had stirred us so deeply...It was easy to see that I was talking to a quite different being from the man of the day before, and that the subject was painful to him. But I persisted until Lesueur, after again admitting how deeply the symphony had affected him, shook his head with a curious smile, and said, “All the same, such music ought not to be written.” To which I replied, “Don’t be afraid, dear master, there will never be too much of it.”
Musical Analysis I. Allegro con brio—The Symphony opens with the clarinets and strings proclaiming the famous “short-short-short-long” motif—the seed from which the entire work will grow. (Anton Schindler quoted the composer as describing the opening of the Fifth Symphony in the following manner: “Thus fate knocks at the door!” However, the authenticity of this quote has long been a subject of dispute.) A terse sequence, based almost exclusively upon this motif, leads to the introduction of the flowing, second subject by the first violins
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ecognized as an artist of passion and integrity, the distinguished American pianist Peter Serkin is one of the most thoughtful and individualistic musicians appearing before the public today. Throughout his career he has successfully conveyed the essence of five centuries of repertoire and his performances with symphony orchestras, recital appearances, chamber music collaborations and recordings are respected worldwide. Peter Serkin’s rich musical heritage extends back several generations: his grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin. In 1958, at age 11, he entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he was a student of Lee Luvisi, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. He later continued his studies with Ernst Oster, Marcel Moyse and Karl Ulrich Schnabel. In 1959, Mr. Serkin made his Marlboro Music Festival and New York City debuts with conductor Alexander Schneider and invitations to perform with the Cleveland Orchestra and George Szell in Cleveland and Carnegie Hall and with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia and Carnegie Hall soon followed. He has since performed with the world’s major symphony orchestras with such eminent conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle, James Levine, Herbert Blomstedt and Christoph Eschenbach. Also a dedicated chamber musician, Mr. Serkin has collaborated with Alexander Schneider, Pamela Frank, Yo-Yo Ma, and the Budapest, Guarneri and Orion string quartets and TASHI, of which he was a founding member. An avid proponent of the music of many of the 20th and 21st century’s most important composers, Mr. Serkin has been instrumental in bringing the music of Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Stravinsky, Wolpe, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Henze, Berio, Wuorinen, Goehr, Knussen and Lieberson, among others, to audiences around the world. He has performed many important world premieres, in particular, works by Toru Takemitsu, Peter Lieberson, Oliver Knussen and Alexander Goehr, all of which were written for him. Most recently, Mr. Serkin played the world premieres of Charles Wuorinen’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Boston Symphony under the baton of James Levine in Boston, at Carnegie Hall and at Tanglewood; a solo work by Elliot Carter commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival; and another work by Charles Wuorinen for piano and orchestra with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, also commissioned by Carnegie Hall. During the 08/09 season, he premiers a fifth piano concerto by Mr. Wuorinen with the Met Opera Orchestra/Levine at Carnegie Hall as well as Mr. Wuorinen’s new piano quintet (commissioned by the Rockport, MA Music Festival) with the Brentano String Quartet. Mr. Serkin has recorded for Arcana, BMG Classics/RCA Red Seal, Boston Records, Bridge, CBS Masterworks, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, ECM, Koch Classics, New World Records, Pro Arte, Telarc and Vanguard Classics.
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‘ENCORE’ ENCORE! BY NICK JONES
Robert McDuffie looks forward to reprising Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto — a triumph at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in July. He’ll “play his heart out,” October 9-11.
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t’s easy to keep a familiar concerto like the Tchaikovsky fresh, says Robert McDuffie, even though he’s played it so many times before: “It’s never the same on stage. Each time there’s a different audience, a difference air. And it helps to have a sympathetic partner. I enjoy working with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony very much.” Noting that he often plays more modern works when he visits Atlanta, he laughs and says, “My mother [who will be leading a contingent of family and friends from Macon to hear the performance] is very happy that I’m doing Tchaikovsky this time!”
McDuffie and his family lived in Italy for a while, and he so loved the city that he started the Rome Chamber Music Festival in order to have a reason to come back often. “We perform in a 16th-century Catholic oratory, a mini-chapel that’s been turned into a 200-seat concert hall.” He talks animatedly about mixing crossover works in with the core repertory: Vivaldi and klezmer with clarinetist David Krakauer, Beethoven followed by contemporary bassist Edgar Meyer, blue-
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McDuffie played the same concerto with the ASO outdoors this past July 12 at the Orchestra’s new summer home, the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park in Alpharetta. He clearly enjoyed the experience. “It’s a wonderful new venue for the Orchestra and its audience,” he says. “I just played my heart out — and I’ll be doing the same in Symphony Hall.”
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grass with mandolin player Mike Marshall, or programs with Ennio Morricone and his son Andrea, also a film composer. In 2005, the mayor of Rome presented McDuffie with the Premio Simpatia Award in recognition of his contribution to the city’s cultural life. The festival’s budget of about $300,000 a year is raised through the combined efforts of an American board of directors and an Italian foundation. “We have a major corporate sponsor — the Italian lottery!” McDuffie says. “They also own the professional basketball team; we are their culture project. And Delta Air Lines has been a great friend over the years.”
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The violinist joined the faculty of Mercer University in his hometown of Macon as a Distinguished Professor in 2004, and last fall, the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings officially opened its doors as part of Mercer’s Townsend School of Music. “This is really meaningful to me, because I’ve always loved Macon,” he says. Despite residing in New York for 35 years, he reveals, “My heart is in Rome; but my soul is in Macon.” McDuffie points out the Center for Strings is the only one of its kind between Houston and Baltimore. “The institute prepares the complete musician for success in a constantly shifting industry. The kids have to take a degree in something other than music — they have to get into Mercer before they can apply to the McDuffie Center. They concentrate on business, finance, English and new media, while getting conservatory training that’s equal to or better than anything in the country. Mercer’s President Bill Underwood strongly
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Woodruff Arts Center Box Office Mon. – Fri., 10 am – 8 pm; Sat. – Sun., Noon – 8 pm. The box office is open through intermission on concert dates. No service charge if tickets are purchased in person. Please note: All singleticket sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. All artists and programs subject to change. GROUP DISCOUNTS Groups of 10 or more save up to 15% on most ASO concerts, subject to ticket availability. Call 404.733.4848. GIFT CERTIFICATES Available in any amount for any series, through the box office. Call 404.733.5000.
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General info LATE SEATING Latecomers are seated at the discretion of house management. Reserved seats are not guaranteed after the performance starts. Latecomers may be initially seated in the back out of courtesy to the musicians and other patrons. SPECIAL ASSISTANCE All programs of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra are accessible to people with disabilities. Please call the box office (404.733.5000) to make advance arrangements. SYMPHONY STORE The ASOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift shop is located in the galleria and offers a wide variety of items, ranging from ASO recordings and music-related merchandise to t-shirts and mugs. Proceeds benefit the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
THE ROBERT SHAW ROOM The ASO invites donors who contribute at least $1,750 annually to become members of this private salon for cocktails and dining on concert evenings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; private rentals available. Call 404.733.4860. IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS Concert Hotline 404.733.4949 (Recorded information) Symphony Hall Box Office 404.733.5000 Ticket Donations/Exchanges 404.733.5000 Subscription Information/Sales 404.733.4800 Group Sales 404.733.4848 Atlanta Symphony Associates 404.733.4865 (Volunteers) Educational Programs 404.733.5038 Youth Orchestra 404.733.4870 Box Office TTD Number 404.733.4303 Services for People 404.733-5000 with Special Needs 404.733.4800 Lost and Found 404.733.4225 Symphony Store 404.733.4345
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October Bach/Webern: Robert 2/3/4 Ricercar Spano, 8pm Brahms: conductor delta Classical Piano Concerto No. 1 Peter Serkin, Beethoven: piano Symphony No. 5
B-loved music of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms! The Fifth is the most famous of all Beethoven’s symphonies. Brahms’s epic Piano Concerto No. 1, inspired in part by the death of Robert Schumann, his friend and mentor, will glow in the hands of Mr. Serkin. Webern’s loving rendering of Bach’s “A Musical Offering” is nothing short of magical.
October Tchaikovsky:
A Tchaikovsky tour de force! Macon-born violinist extraordinaire Robert McDuffie makes a welcome return with the composer’s adored and brilliant Violin Concerto. The blazing “Francesca” and great, soul-baring “Winter” Symphony complete an evening of Russian passion.
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9/10/11 Francesca da Rimini Spano, 8pm Tchaikovsky: conductor delta Classical
Violin Concerto Tchaikovsky: “Winter Dreams” Symphony
October Handel:
16/18 Zadok The Priest 8pm Handel: delta Classical
Water Music Mendelssohn: Verleih’ uns Frieden & Symphony No. 1
October Andrew Lloyd
24/25 Webber’s 8pm Broadway nsoro superpops!
October A Haunted 26 Halloween
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October Bernstein:
30/31 “Jeremiah”
NOVEMBER Symphony 1 Barber: 8pm Piano Concerto delta Classical Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Robert McDuffie, violin
Nicholas McGegan, conductor ASO Chamber Chorus
ASO guest Mr. McGegan, a master of Baroque sound, leads signature works from two great masters. Handel’s Water Music is one of the most beloved of all Baroque works, and Mendelssohn’s First Symphony, composed at the age of 15, is a dramatic and compelling revelation of a young genius.
Michael Krajewski, conductor Debbie Gravitte/ Doug LaBrecque, vocalists
A show-stopping salute to the World of Webber! Broadway musical stars Debbie Gravitte and Doug LaBrecque, both favorites of ASO pops audiences, sing the praises of the internationally celebrated composer, featuring the most beloved selections from Webber’s Broadway blockbusters.
Jere Flint, conductor Lee Harper & Dancers, guest artists
A must-see ASO tradition! Mr. Flint’s colorful personas (Count Jere, Wizard Jere) and devilish sense of humor, bewitching music, inspired interpretative dances, and the annual vote for the most frightful fashion statement are a howl.
Maestro Slatkin launches the ASO’s four-week Leonard Slatkin, American Originals Festival, celebrating music and conductor masterpieces written in the USA. Rachmaninov’s Garrick crowning symphonic achievement anchors an evening Ohlsson, that also features giants Bernstein and Barber. piano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano
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My Fair Lady Julie Andrews thrilled the audience with “The Gift of Music” at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park. 1 Belting out Bohème The vaunted ASO Chorus was at its best in an encore performance of La Bohème, led by Robert Spano, and featuring the original cast from the ASO’s new CD of the Puccini opera — recorded live last season in Symphony Hall — that was released just days earlier. 2 Park Yourself Here Assistant Conductor Mei-Ann Chen led the first Starbucks Free Parks Concert on the piazza at the Woodruff Arts Center. 3 More photos on pg. 14; go to atlantasymphony.org to view complete ASO photo albums and video.
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