THE RED VIOLIN A renowned violin virtuoso and a legendary violin
Elizabeth Pitcairn, violin
Cynthia Elise Tobey, piano
November 15 at 8 pm The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York fishercenter.bard.edu 1
About The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, an environment for world-class artistic presentation in the Hudson Valley, was designed by Frank Gehry and opened in 2003. Risktaking performances and provocative programs take place in the 800-seat Sosnoff Theater, a proscenium-arch space, and in the 220-seat LUMA Theater, which features a flexible seating configuration. The Center is home to Bard College’s Theater & Performance and Dance Programs, and host to two annual summer festivals: SummerScape, which offers opera, dance, theater, operetta, film, and cabaret; and the Bard Music Festival, which celebrated its 25th year in August with “Schubert and His World.” The 2015 festival will be devoted to Carlos Chávez and the music of Mexico and Latin America. The Center bears the name of the late Richard B. Fisher, the former chair of Bard College’s Board of Trustees. This magnificent building is a tribute to his vision and leadership. The outstanding arts events that take place here would not be possible without the contributions made by the Friends of the Fisher Center. We are grateful for their support and welcome all donations.
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The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher President Leon Botstein presents
The Red Violin Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Rondo in B Minor, Op. 70 (D. 895), “Rondeau Brillant” (1826) Andante Allegro–Più mosso
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano in A Major, Op. 13 (1875–76) Allegro molto Andante Scherzo: Allegro vivo Intermission Sara Carina Graef (b. 1971) Blue Vishuddha (world premiere) (2014) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Sonata No. 9 for violin and piano, Op. 47, “Kreutzer” (1802–03) Adagio sostenuto–Presto–Adagio Andante con variazioni Presto
Sosnoff Theater Saturday, November 15 at 8 pm This evening’s concert will run approximately one hour and 50 minutes, including one intermission.
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History of the “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius Celebrated violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn performs in partnership with the legendary 1720 “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius, the 1990 Christie’s auction of which is said to have inspired the 1999 Academy Award–winning film, The Red Violin. The historic violin was crafted by Antonio Stradivari, who lovingly made his instruments centuries ago in his small shop in Cremona, Italy, and remains the most famous violin maker of all time. Not long after its creation, the instrument vanished from the radar screen; no one knows where it was or to whom the violin belonged for more than 200 years, spawning any number of historians, writers, journalists, critics—as well as Canadian filmmaker François Girard—to speculate on the violin’s mysterious history. Girard’s imaginative speculations became the narrative for his beloved film, The Red Violin. The 1720 “Red Mendelssohn” would eventually surface in 1930s Berlin, having been purchased by an heir to the great composer Felix Mendelssohn. In 1956, it was acquired by a New York industrialist, who kept the instrument in impeccable performance condition; much of its original burnish has survived, and it is thought to be one of the best sounding and most beautiful of Stradivari’s remaining violins. On Thanksgiving Day in 1990, the industrialist opted to put the Red Violin on the auction block anonymously at Christie’s of London. While some of the world’s most powerful people sought to win the coveted instrument, it landed in the hands of then 16-year-old American solo violinist Elizabeth Pitcairn. Pitcairn would remain silent about owning the violin until her burgeoning career brought her into the public eye on international concert stages, after nearly three decades of rigorous training by the world’s most esteemed violin teachers. Pitcairn would come to view the violin as her life’s most inspiring mentor and friend. Many have said that the violin has finally found its true soul mate in the gifted hands of the young violinist. She is the first known solo artist to bring it to the great concert halls of the world and has made it her goal to share the violin’s magical beauty of sound with people of all ages, professions, and cultures. Today, Pitcairn and the “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius violin continue to foster one of classical music’s most compelling partnerships. —Suzanne Marcus Fletcher
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Program Notes Sara Carina Graef (b. 1971) Blue Vishuddha (2014) For Elizabeth Pitcairn Vishuddha is the Sanskrit name for the fifth chakra, also known as the “throat chakra.” Vishuddha controls the principle of sound and the sense of hearing. It is thought to govern our speech and our creative expression, and its balance defines our honesty and how well we express ourselves. Vishuddha’s color is sky blue and its element is ether. It is represented by a circle surrounded by 16 purple or smoke-colored petals containing a downward-pointing triangle. Within the triangle sits a circular white region, representing the full moon. We express our choices and our internal truths by speaking them through this fifth chakra. The secret of immortality is said to reside in the fifth chakra. When it is open, the negative experience is transformed into wisdom and learning. When Vishuddha is closed, we undergo decay and death. In mythology, after a battle between the gods and the demons, the god Vishnu attempted to resolve the conflict between good and evil by churning up the ocean. This released many things from the ocean, including both poison and the nectar of immortality. The gods drank the nectar, but only Shiva would drink the poison, which became lodged in his throat. When the throat chakra is blocked, it is believed that self-expression is difficult. When the throat chakra is in balance and awakened, the poisonous aspects of existence become powerless, internal and external negatives are neutralized, and the nectar of immortality is restored and the body stays young. Singing is believed to stimulate the throat chakra. Blue Vishuddha explores the interplay between being open (acceptance, tolerance, receptiveness) and being closed (disagreement, dissent, friction), with pervasive exchanges between major seconds and minor seconds, between smooth consonances and gritty dissonances, and between flowing lyricism and harsh, percussive rhythms. The opening motive, with its falling and rising shape, mirrors that of the downward-pointing triangle inside Vishuddha, within which sits the moon. The repetition of that rising and falling motion throughout the piece recalls the petals around the outside of Vishuddha. Blue is the color of Vishuddha and it is also the musical term for a minor interval being used when a major one is expected. The fifth chakra is associated with trusting one’s intuition and expressing one’s needs so that the universe may provide for them; this piece was written with a great deal of trust placed on intuition. I did a lot of singing throughout the process of writing this piece—both a physical and a metaphysical element in the creation of the work. The piece was commissioned by Elizabeth Pitcairn in the summer of 2014, and is dedicated both to her and to Vishuddha. —Sara Carina Graef
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About the Artists Elizabeth Pitcairn Violin Violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn has earned a stunning reputation as one of America’s most beloved soloists. Pitcairn appeared as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music and gave her New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in 2000 with the New York String Orchestra. She has made debuts at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Verizon Hall, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. She has given performances of the Mendelssohn and Bruch Violin Concerti with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in China. This season Pitcairn gives recitals in New York and Pennsylvania with pianist Barbara Podgurski, in Hungary with Anikó Szokody, and in Mexico with Louise Thomas, and makes her Fisher Center recital debut in Sosnoff Theater with Cynthia Elise Tobey. She also performs in Bulgaria with the Classic FM Radio Orchestra, and records the Bruch and Beethoven Violin Concerti, conducted by Maxim Eshkenazy. Pitcairn performs with one of the world’s most legendary instruments, the “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius of 1720, said to have inspired the Academy Award–winning film The Red Violin. The 10th Anniversary Meridian Collection DVD (2008) of The Red Violin features Pitcairn in a special feature called “The Auction Block.” Born in 1973, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn comes from a close-knit musical family (her mother is a Juilliard-trained cellist). She began playing the violin at age three and made her debut with orchestra at 14. She studied with preeminent violin professor Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California (USC). Pitcairn is a member of the faculty at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, California; an alumna of the Marlboro Music Festival; and former faculty at USC. She has performed with the Vaasa City Orchestra in Finland, and the Helsingborg and Jönköping Symphony Orchestras in Sweden under the baton of Hannu Koivula. She has also appeared in Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Brazil, and has performed at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with pianist André Michel Schub. Pitcairn is the CEO and artistic director of the Luzerne Music Center (LMC) Festival in upstate New York. LMC provides training for gifted music students ages nine to 18. Pitcairn commissioned renowned Swedish composer Tommie Haglund’s Hymns to the Night, which she premiered in 2005 and later recorded with the Helsingborg Symphony for Phono Suecia, receiving a Swedish Grammi nomination. She also commissioned a sonata for violin and piano by Russian composer David Finko. Her discography includes the Tchaikovsky and Mozart No. 5 Concerti with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, and the Bruch Scottish Fantasy and Sarasate Carmen Fantasy with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra of Bulgaria. Pitcairn is represented in Italy, France, and Russia by the Premiere Artists Agency. Her gowns are provided courtesy of LaFemme Fashion. The “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius is fitted with Wittner Finetune-Pegs and travels in a titanium case provided by GEWA. She also performs on a replica of the “Red Mendelssohn,” made for her by luthier Christophe Landon. For Pitcairn’s tour schedule, interviews, and a history of the “Red Mendelssohn” Stradivarius, please visit www.redviolin.com. 6 The Red Violin
Cynthia Elise Tobey Piano Cynthia Elise Tobey was accepted at the age of 10 to The Juilliard School of Music, where she studied piano with Herbert Stessin for six years. She made her orchestral debut at 14 with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Tobey is a native of Rhinebeck, New York, where she grew up and attended Dutchess Day School (2000) in Millbrook and Rhinebeck High School. Her piano studies began locally with Margaret Shafer of Annandale-on-Hudson and Blanca Uribe of Vassar College. Tobey earned her B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music (2007), studying with Seymour Lipkin; her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University; and an artist studies diploma from the Konservatorium Wien in Austria. A doctoral candidate at Columbia University, she currently studies with Evelyne Crochet, protégé and principal teaching assistant of Rudolf Serkin. Tobey is an instructor of piano and chamber music at Columbia University. She is also on the piano faculty at The Bard College Conservatory of Music, Preparatory Division. A top prizewinner of numerous competitions including the New York Gifted Pianists Competition, Leschetizky Association Piano Concerto Competition, Jacob Flier International Piano Competition, and Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition, she is also an NFAA Scholar in the Arts and recipient of the U.S. Academy Achievement Award, Bard College Humanities Award, Michael and Cecilia Iacovella Capuzzi Fellowship, and Festorazzi Prize. A dedicated piano teacher and music educator, Tobey has been on the piano faculty at the Luzerne Music Center since 2008, where she is the chair of piano studies, chamber ensemble instructor, and frequent performer on both the Faculty Concert Series and the Chamber Music Festival. Sara Carina Graef Composer Sara Carina Graef’s works have been performed throughout the United States as well as in Canada, Turkey, and the Czech Republic. She won the inaugural Northridge Prize for Composition for her orchestral piece night shows to my eyes the stars, and the Premio Citta’ di Pescara Composition Competition in Italy for her piano solo Nottanosti. Graef recently served as composer in residence at the Luzerne Music Center in New York, and has been an artist in residence at the Wurlitzer, Ucross, and Ragdale Foundations; Oregon Bach Festival; Ernest Bloch Festival; and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She received her B.M. in composition and flute performance from Southern Methodist University and her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition from the University of Southern California. She is a professor of music at California State University, Los Angeles, where she teaches composition and theory and directs the Composer/ Performer Collective.
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Boards and Administration The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Advisory Board Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Chair Carolyn Marks Blackwood Leon Botstein+ Stefano Ferrari Harvey Lichtenstein Robert Martin+ Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+ Martin T. Sosnoff Toni Sosnoff Felicitas S. Thorne Administration and Programming Debra Pemstein, Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Bob Bursey, Senior Producer Gideon Lester, Director of Theater Programs Caleb Hammons, Associate Producer Jeannie Schneider, Business Manager Zia Affronti Morter ’12, Executive Assistant Production Vincent Roca, Production Manager Stephen Dean, Production Coordinator, Concerts and Lectures Matthew Waldron ’07, Production Coordinator, Dance and Theater Steven Michalek, Technical Director Josh Foreman, Lighting Supervisor Moe Schell, Costume Shop Supervisor Seth Chrisman, Audio/Video Supervisor Communications Mark Primoff, Director of Communications Eleanor Davis, Media and Marketing Manager Joanna Szu, Associate Marketing Manager Publications Mary Smith, Director of Publications Audience Services David Steffen, Audience Services Manager and Communications Coordinator Nicholas Reilingh, Box Office Manager Hellena Schiavo, House Manager Alec Newell ’15, Assistant House Manager Anne Phelps ’15, Assistant House Manager Seth Sobottka ’15, Assistant House Manager Hannah Cantor ’15, Box Office Teller Adrienne Chau ’17, Box Office Teller Natalie Kerby ’15, Box Office Teller Avery Lamb ’15, Box Office Teller Nicholas Levine ’16, Box Office Teller Daniel Meyer-O’Keeffe ’16, Box Office Teller Audrey Rosenblith ’16, Box Office Teller Ani Schroeter ’17, Box Office Teller Yasemin Akturk ’15, Usher Mythili Ananthasayan ’15, Usher Hannah Berger ’16, Usher Eliza Cornwell ’17, Usher Jessica Dagg ’18, Usher Benjamin Dranoff ’16, Usher 10 The Red Violin
Martha Fearnley ’15, Usher Abigail Finer ’15, Usher Oliver Gabrielson ’15, Usher Sophie Green ’17, Usher Hasani Gunn ’17, Usher Claire Harvey ’17, Usher Jonas Kempf ’16, Usher Kedian Keohan ’15, Usher Marika Krupitsky ’18, Usher Austin Lehn ’17, Usher Bella Mazzetti ’15, Usher Jackson McKinnon ’16, Usher Kai Mote ’16, Usher Sophia Orlow ’16, Usher Rachel Parker ’16, Usher Emma Patsey, Usher Samuel Robotham ’15, Usher Katherine Sopko ’16, Usher Alexandra Steer ’17, Usher Matt Strieder, Usher Ariana Stultz ’15, Usher Mariamawit Tadesse ETP ’16, Usher Laura Thompson ’16, Usher Julia Vunderink ’15, Usher Sage Warner ’17, Usher Bethany Zulick ’16, Usher Kevin Barbosa ’18, Parking Attendant Gideon Berger ’18, Parking Attendant Oliver Bruce ’15, Parking Attendant Madison Emond ’18, Parking Attendant Anina Ivry-Block ’14, Parking Attendant Abrahim Mahallati ’15, Parking Attendant Sean Murphy ’18, Parking Attendant Elizabeth Osborne-Schwartz ’17, Parking Attendant Preston Ossman ’15, Parking Attendant Nigel Washington ’15, Parking Attendant Facilities Mark Crittenden, Facilities Manager Ray Stegner, Building Operations Manager Doug Pitcher, Building Operations Coordinator Daniel DeFrancis, Building Assistant Robyn Charter, Fire Panel Monitor Katie O’Hanlon, Environmental Specialist Patricia O’Hanlon, Environmental Specialist Anna Simmons, Environmental Specialist
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FISHER CENTER AT BARD COLLEGE FALL EVENTS The Bard College Conservatory of Music Conservatory Sundays Sunday, December 7 at 3 pm Winter Songfest, a festive holiday celebration with soprano Dawn Upshaw and students of the Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program Sunday, December 14 at 3 pm The Conservatory Orchestra, with guest conductor Cristian Ma˘celaru
LIVE ARTS BARD AND CCS BARD The House Is Open
Thursday–Sunday, November 20–23 A pop-up exhibition of installation and performance
A SPECIAL HOLIDAY EVENT Nut/Cracked
Saturday, December 20 and Sunday, December 21 David Parker and The Bang Group
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Friday, February 6 and Saturday, February 7, 2015 Works by Carl Reinecke, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25, 2015 Works by Hermann Goetz, Alberto Ginastera, and Leosˇ Janácˇek All concerts begin at 8 pm, and feature a preconcert talk at 7 pm.
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The Fall 2014 season is made possible in part through the generous support of the Board of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Photo: Joy Strotz