Monte Perkins, Conductor presents
“TELL ME A STORY”
October 9, 2011 3:00 PM Pabst Theater 144 E. Wells Festival City Symphony 1
PROGR A M Overture to La Cenerentola (Cinderella)...................................................Gioacchino Rossini “Divertimento” from The Fairy’s Kiss................................................................ Igor Stravinsky I. Sinfonia II. Danses suisses III. Scherzo IV. Pas de deux Intermission Mother Goose Suite..................................................................................................Maurice Ravel I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty II. Tom Thumb III. Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas IV. The Conversations of Beauty and the Beast V. The Fairy Garden FCS SPECIAL GUESTS SUPER READERS---children who have earned free tickets for themselves and their families by participating in Milwaukee Public Library’s SUPER READERS program. PAJAMA JAMBOREE FANS---families who attend our children’s pops concerts and earn an opportunity to sample one of our “Symphony Sundays” programs.
Festival City Symphony is dedicating this concert to the memory of Thomas R. DuBuque, House Manager of the Pabst Theater and friend of the Arts April 18, 1947 – August 15, 2011
***Festival City Symphony is a member organization of Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the Creative Alliance Milwaukee, VISIT Milwaukee, an affiliate member of UPAF, and a program partner at the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. FCS made the Business Journal’s “Book of Lists” 2002 – 2007 and 2010*** 2 Festival City Symphony
T H A N K S TO O U R S P O N S O R S
Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Franklyn and Barbara Esenberg Fund
United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) for operational expenses CAMPAC – recipient of “Matching Grant” funds for operational expenses
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, through in-kind contribution
“Holiday Pajama Jamboree” Wednesday, November 30, 2011
7:00 PM
FREE ADMISSION Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Bradley Pavilion (Use the 123 E. State St. entrance)
Make attending this concert a family tradition and join us for the annual Holiday Pajama Jamboree, a program of holiday favorites culminating in an audience sing along. FCS welcomes as guest performers Vocal Arts Academy of Milwaukee’s Apprentice Level Choir. This group of third to sixth grade singers is conducted by Charyl Granatella. Dress is casual for these one-hour children’s classical ‘pops’ concerts, with pajamas welcome for the very young. Most seating is on the floor up close to the orchestra; conventional seating is also available. Those who wish may bring a nonperishable food donation for Milwaukee’s Hunger Task Force. Festival City Symphony 3
C O N D U C TO R ’ S N O T E S - “ T E L L M E A S TO R Y ” Good afternoon and welcome to the new season of Symphony Sunday concerts. We hope to see you at many of our performances this year. Our opening concert is called “Tell Me A Story” and will include musical narrations of some of your favorite fairy tales. We begin with the Overture to La Cenerentola (Cinderella) by Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868). The opera premiered in Rome in 1817 to a libretto that is a bit different from the Disney version that we all know. The heroine, her evil stepsisters and the Prince are the same, but in place of the conniving stepmother you have Don Magnifico, a bumbling comic character. There is no fairy godmother (the Prince’s tutor provides a gown and transportation) and the Prince eventually identifies Cinderella not by a glass slipper, but by a bracelet. Still a popular opera, its Overture remains a fixture in the concert hall. On November 28, 1928, Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) conducted the premiere of his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss in Paris for the Ida Rubinstein Ballet Company. The “allegorical ballet in four scenes” was, according to the composer’s manuscript,“Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky”. In his book Expositions, Stravinsky himself identifies eleven piano pieces and five songs by Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) that he used in the score, adding connective music and a few melodies of his own. By using more piquant harmonies and altering the phrasings from the rather square originals, Stravinsky devised a score in his own style, while retaining an atmosphere of nostalgia. Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen titled The Ice Maiden, the ballet was not a success due mostly to the uninspired choreography of Bronislava Nijinska. In 1934, Stravinsky excerpted the music for the “Divertimento” we will play today. The four sections are Sinfonia, Danses suisses, Scherzo, and Pas de deux. Our final work for this concert has seen three lives. Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) originally wrote his Mother Goose Suite in 1908 for two pianos. He expanded the music when he orchestrated it for a ballet first presented in Paris in 1912, and that same year extracted the concert suite we will play today. The beauty of the music and his skill in creating an exotic aura perfuming the well known fairy tales have made the Mother Goose Suite a perennial concert favorite. The tales he chose are “Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty”,“Tom Thumb”,“Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas”,“The Conversations of Beauty and the Beast”, and “The Fairy Garden”. We hope you enjoy our musical story-telling and will join us again in January for a quite different type of program we call “And All That Jazz”.
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MORE SYMPHONY SUNDAYS!
“AND ALL THAT JAZZ” January 29, 2012 3:00 PM Pabst Theater 144 E. Wells Jazz and classical music combine for this concert, which begins with Darius Milhaud’s The Creation of the World, one of the first jazz pieces introduced to the concert hall. Warren Wiegratz from the Milwaukee Buck’s house-band “Street Life” will solo on his composition, Three Scenes for Contemporary Jazz Saxophone and Orchestra. Two works of George Gershwin round out the afternoon, Lullaby for String Orchestra and audience favorite, An American In Paris. ADMISSION $14, Adult $8 child, student, senior Family Subscriber Pack still available: $85 admits entire family to all three remaining concert 414-963-9067 • festivalcitysymphony.org
M E E T F E S T I VA L C I T Y S Y M P H O N Y M U S I C I A N – J E N N A D I C K Jenna Dick has played viola with Festival City Symphony for 11 years Birthplace: Lake Forest, IL Education: DePaul University What I enjoy most about playing the viola: I enjoy having a “middle” voice within the stringed instrument family. I think it can be a very beautiful register. Other instruments I play: I played piano - years ago. Other musical involvements: I’ve taught and performed back home in Illinois and continue to do so in southeastern Wisconsin. Non-musical activities: I’m involved with our church, and love to read, cook, and spend time in the U.P. Music I play on my iPOD, CD player: I love chamber music, and really enjoy the Chicago Chamber Musicians. I also loved the Chicago String Quartet when Stefan Hersh and Chris Costanza were part of the group. I also regularly listen to the Emerson String Quartet, Jascha Heifitz and William Primrose. Favorite musical memory: It is difficult to narrow it down to one favorite. I would have to say touring Europe and playing overseas, and then staying with host families in each city. The music was fantastic and challenging, and we stayed with wonderful, gracious people. Advice to young musicians: Spend quality time on the fundamentals every day, and practice intelligently by using a metronome and tuner. After a private lesson, write down tips and instructions from your teacher to help you remember important things between lessons.
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M E E T F E S T I VA L C I T Y S Y M P H O N Y M U S I C I A N – W I L L I A M D I C K William Dick has played trumpet with Festival City Symphony for 21 years Birthplace: Milwaukee, WI Education: BFA in Music Education from UW-Milwaukee MM in Trumpet Performance from DePaul University What I enjoy most about playing the trumpet: The sound of the trumpet and brass soaring out over the orchestra at the climax of a piece. What I find most challenging about playing the trumpet: Playing the light, quiet part after that big climax. Other musical involvements: I love educating people of all ages about music Non-musical activities: I’m an avid Indy Car fan, I love to cook, bicycle and look for agates on the Lake Superior shoreline. I am involved in my church. Music I play on my iPOD, CD player: Brass Ensembles and the Chicago Symphony. My iPod ranges from Classical to Country to Da Yoopers. Favorite musical memory: Playing with the Millar Brass Ensemble in Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago. How Jenna and I met: Jenna and I met at DePaul University in Chicago. The first time we met, I was talking on my cell phone outside the music building and as she walked by, she jokingly asked me to order her a pizza. Given that she clearly had exquisite taste in fine cuisine, I decided to ask her to see the Chicago Symphony with me on the spur of the moment. I walked all over the music building in a suit looking for her before I finally found her and asked her to the concert. She agreed and we headed off to the concert. In what was to become the norm for our relationship, she was looking forward to hearing the calmer, quieter Chopin Piano Concerto, while I was looking forward to hearing the bombastic Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5. Advice to young musicians: Find a teacher you trust, listen to good musicians and emulate them both.
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F E S T I VA L C I T Y S Y M P H O N Y Conductor/Artistic Director.....................................................................................Monte Perkins Executive Director....................................................................................................... Linda E. Jones Education Director....................................................................................................... Jayne Perkins Artist and Development Coordinator.....................................................Lesley Conger-Hatch Librarian...............................................................................................................................Carol Wittig Assistant Librarian.......................................................................................................Robert Kriefall Board of Directors............................................... Franklyn Esenberg, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Theodore Zimmer, Secretary/ Treasurer JoAnn Norris, Charlane O’Rourke, Robert Stack
PERSONNEL FIRST VIOLIN Robin Petzold Concertmaster Pamela Simmons Ass’t Concertmaster Catherine Bush Marvin Suson Tatiana Migliaccio Heather Broadbent Sharon Slattery Mary Stryck Katherine Brooks Liz Teal Erin Dupree Jakubowski SECOND VIOLIN Juanita Groff Principal Ruth Bryskier Laurie Asch Melissa Mann Cheryl Ann Fuchs Eva Szoke Al Bartosik Tassia Hughes Shannon O’Leary VIOLA Christine Treter Principal Olga Tuzhilkov Lynne Fields Jenna Dick Korinthia Klein Julie Roubik Sarah Christie CELLO Tom Smith Principal Ingrid Tihtcheva Elizabeth Bender Beth Alvarez Martha Kriefall Carol Wittig Fang-Yi Shen 8 Festival City Symphony
BASS Charles Grosz Principal Kathryn Jursik Barry Clark Michael Gudbaur Steven Rindt FLUTE Lesley Conger-Hatch Principal Heidi Knudsen FLUTE/PICCOLO Kristen Fenske OBOE Bonnie Cohen Principal Suzanne Swenson ENGLISH HORN Suzanne Geoffrey CLARINET Franklyn Esenberg Principal Linda E. Jones Christopher Zello BASS CLARINET Christopher Zello BASSOON Lori Babinec Principal Steve Whitney Robb Seftar CONTRA BASSOON Robb Seftar
HORN Wes Hatch Principal Nancy Cline Anne Maliborski Erwin Lackner TRUMPET Gerry Keene Principal Joe Burzinski William Dick TROMBONE Mark Hoelscher Principal Jonathan Winkle Keith Hertig TUBA Dan Neesley HARP Nancy Lescher Drabot TIMPANI Robert Koszewski PERCUSSION Robert Kriefall Principal Randy Maio Terry Smirl CELESTE Ruben Piirainen