The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra and Jacinda Bouton, Music Director present
Voila, the Viola!
March 4, 2022 7:30pm featuring guest soloist Basil Vendryes
Lone Tree Arts Center 10075 Commons St. LoneTreeSymphony.org
Welcome! From the Executive Director
Good Evening! We are thrilled to present Voila, the Viola with our Special Guest, Basil Vendryes. Basil is the Principal Violist for the Colorado Symphony; he will be performing Martinu’s Rhapsody Concerto! The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra had two amazing full house performances for its holiday concerts in December and could not have done it without you. Several patrons stopped by our table in the lobby during intermission to share their enthusiasm. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions. Thanks to those who help make our concerts a success, especially our volunteers, the Symphomaniacs. If you have interest in helping the LTSO, please stop by our table in the lobby for more information. Our final concert of the season, May 13th, Bravo, Beethoven! will bring you amazing musical selections such as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica. If you have not purchased your tickets, be sure to do so. Thank you to all of you who have donated to the LTSO! A BIG thank you as well to SCFD, the Lone Tree Cultural Arts Foundation, the Andrews Winslow Foundation, ColoradoGives.org, RidgeGate, the Lone Tree Arts Center and our music sponsors! Please support our advertisers in the program, as their support along with our graphic designer Haley Heer, who is also a member of the orchestra, helps bring you these beautiful programs. Enjoy tonight’s performance.
Jason Bean, LTSO Executive Director
LTSO Board of Directors Mary Barnes - President David Unkrich - Vice President Katie Smith - Secretary Gerald Meltzer - Treasurer Jacinda Bouton - Ex Officio Members at Large Amelia James Eric James Patty Kritz Jill Richardson Gabrielle Cardwell Abigail Nelson
Our Conductor Our Concertmaster
Our Conductor Jacinda M. Bouton, a Lone Tree resident, has been the Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra since its premier in 2000. She is also the Music Director of the Denver Concert Band, and is an active conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Jacinda feels fortunate to have conducted these ensembles in over forty guest artist concerts with members of the Colorado Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and many other nationally and internationally renowned soloists. Jacinda has served as Co-Director of the Breckenridge Music Institute’s Summer Music Camp, was director of the Denver Junior Police Band taking an active role in the rebirth of this Denver Institution, and for many years was Director of Instrumental Music at George Washington State High School in the Denver Public Schools. Jacinda is a cum laude graduate of Missouri State University with an emphasis in Music Education, receiving her certification in both instrumental and choral areas. Our Concertmaster Natalie Hill has been a freelance violinist in the Denver area since 1980. She plays regularly with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Evergreen Chamber Orchestra, Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, the Mercury Ensemble String Quartet, Colorado Ballet Orchestra and the Voice of the Wood Chamber Players. She has played in the Grand Teton Music Festival as well as the Peter Britt Festival in Oregon. Over the years, she has backed up fantastic soloists such as Joshua Bell, Luciano Pavarotti, YoYo Ma, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Tony Bennett, John Denver, Josh Groban, Sammy Davis Jr., Amanda Palmer, Sarah McLachlan, Earth Wind and Fire, and Led Zeppelin. Natalie has a home full of music; her husband is a timpanist, world musician, and composer, Bill Hill, from the CSO. Her daughter, Nadya, is also a professional violinist as well as an opera/jazz/world music singer and her son, Colin, is a jazz and rock drummer and electronic music composer. She is a fifth generation Colorado citizen, whose father was an opera singer, grandfather was a violinist, and greatgrandfather was a violinmaker! What would this world be without music? Natalie is thrilled to be playing with the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra!
Guest Artist Basil Vendryes Basil Vendryes has been Principal Violist of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since 1993. He is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the Rochester Philharmonic orchestras. Basil currently serves on the faculties of the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver, the Quartet Program at SUNY Fredonia, New York, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. Basil Vendryes was born in 1961 to West Indian parents, and began his musical training in the public schools at the age of eleven. He received scholarships to the Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Sally O’Reilly, Francis Tursi and Heidi Castleman. He has appeared as soloist with the Colorado, Aurora, Jefferson, Littleton, Lamont, Centennial, and Biola Symphonies, among others. Festival appearances include Spoleto, Heidelberg, Sunflower, Midsummer Mozart, Ouray, Lake Winnepesaukee, Las Vegas, Taconic and the Grand Tetons. Working with promising talent is one of Basil’s passions, he has given classes in viola and chamber music throughout the United States. For 18 years he was the founder/ director of the Colorado Young Sinfonia, comprised of some of the best young talent in the Denver area. Mr. Vendryes plays on a rare Italian viola made in 1887 by Carlo Cerruti.
Our Musicians 1st Violin
+ Natalie Hill ^ Amy Benson Ethan Coffey Lydia Baldridge Iris Chang David Cher Edward Goldson Miki Goldwire Jean Inaba Alicia Mitchell Barb Mendelsberg Joy Pearson
2nd Violin
+ Carrie Beeder ^ Erin Dalby Julie St. Croix Susan Day Sherri Epperson Debby Funk Claudia Herzog Judy Lichtin Lisa Schoch Jenny Von Stroh Lisa Zellinger Cohen
Viola
+ Loryn Gorsett ^ Suzie Tellefson Jennifer Campbell Jessica GalantSwafford
Campbell S. Harrison
Haley Heer David Montgomery Gail Sindelar
Cello
+ Anna M Leavitt ^ Abigail Nelson Tim Carbo Lisa Fugit Anne H. Hanson Eric James Andrea Meyers Cynthia Norman Barbara L. Risner Chris Siguenza Cherie Swisher Jake Thaler
Bass
+ Peter Huffaker Ben Greene David Shugert
Flute
+ Corrilee Kielmeyer Nancy Casper
Piccolo
Amy Prater Sue Duehr
Oboe/English Horn + Katie Smith Geoff Long
Clarinet
+ Mary Nichols Markus Botwinick
Bass Clarinet Mark Masters
Bassoon
+ Ken Weller Kai Monday
French Horn
+ David Unkrich Bill Hamaker Patty Kritz John Larson
Trumpet
+ Gary Wilhelm Karl Leppmann Valerie Showinsky Carey Wilkening
Trombone
+ Scott McDonald John House Rick Phelps
Tuba
+ Fred Selby
Percussion
Amelia Webster Duke Roberts Brian Kriss
Harp
Joan Fitzpatrik + Principal ^ Assistant Principal
Thanks to Our Donors & Sponsors! Composer $5,000 and above
Amy Benson The Benevity Community Impact Fund Patricia & Richard Braden Markus B. Botwinick Conductor $2,500 - $4,999 Tim & Mary Carbo - In Memory of Mervin Your Name Here! Medine Guest Soloist $1,000 - $2,499 Gabrielle & Jerry Cardwell The Andrews Winslow Foundation Nancy & Don Casper Art & Jacinda Bouton Cigna Network for Good Xain Chen Jack & Margie O’Boyle Community First Foundation Dr. Calvin Owens & Ms. Peggy Owens Michael Dabney Leland & Jean Smith Susan Day John & Barbara Spisak Marleen Diamond Roberta Dickinson Concertmaster $500 - $999 M. Beth Elland Lisa Bush Sells Homes, Inc. - In Honor of Miki Goldwire Mike & De Bush Loryn & Mike Gorsett Donald Dillard & Janeen Kendall Sabrina Green Joseph & Kathleen Ruys Reed Heitmann John and Barbara Spisak Natalie Hill Christina Von Stroh Yuan Hsieh Sarah & Brett Wolf Karen Hurst Schneider Electric North Mark & Cheryl James American Foundation William & Rebecca Kerr Principal Player $250 - $499 Cindy Kessinger Timothy Kuhlman Jon & Linda Larson Debbie Kullas Geoffrey M. Long Judy & Dan Lichtin Thaddeus & Ann McDonald Mark & Adrienne Loye Gerald Meltzer Meltzer Family Foundation - In Memory of Alicia K Mitchell Martin & Edith Meltzer Nate & Christine Miller Mike & Sharon Modiz Norman & Florence Miller Susan & Paul Squyer John & Mary Nichols Sue Swenson Carolyn Pastore Jonathan & Jennifer Von Stroh Marnie Pepper Musician $100 - $249 Prairie Plum Press Marcia & Dennis Reardon Anonymous (3) Jill Richardson Harold Anderson & Ada Anderson Linda Roller - In Memory of Lisa Selby Joseph & Kathleen Ruys We Love Our Donors! Fred & Lela Selby The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra is grateful Lisa Selby - In Memory of Judy Selby for the support of all of our donors! It is through Wynne Shaw your generosity that the LTSO continues to Katie Smith Lucinda Waldron & Paul Ward bring music to the Lone Tree Arts Center for the Ken Weller & Steffi Gratigny enjoyment of the community.
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Thank you volunteers! It takes more than just musicians to keep the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra running smoothly. There are many ways those community members - even those who have never picked up a musical instrument - can get involved with the orchestra. We would like to thank those who currently volunteer their time. Emergency Response - Amy Prater Photographer - Don Casper Graphic Design - Haley Heer Small Group Coordinator - Julie St. Music Committee - Geoffrey Long Croix Music Librarian - Debby Funk Social Media - Kai Monday Program Notes - Betsy Schwarm Website - Andy Agenbroad Personnel Director - Abby Nelson Grant Writing and Program Ad Historian - Carolyn Pastore Sales - Cindy Kessinger If you love the LTSO and want to help us pursue our mission to be a first class community orchestra bringing orchestral music to Lone Tree and the South Metro area, visit our website at lonetreesymphony.org/contact-us/. We are particularly in need of volunteers who have experience in marketing, public relations, fundraising, development, stage management, and financial management.
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In Memory of Lisa A. Selby 10/31/1960 - 1/1/2022 The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra was blessed to have the support and talent of Lisa Selby over the last 20 years. Sadly, Lisa passed away January 1, 2022 at her new home in Taos, New Mexico. Lisa had real passion for the cello, and she shared that passion generously with us. Lisa was not only a talented cellist, but also served the orchestra in several key roles, making great contributions to our growth and success. In Lisa’s own words from an interview years ago, “I always loved playing cello. My mom talked me into it... I have to say, it keeps me sane, just having something else to focus on.” After making the LTSO her musical home, Lisa, along with 3 other members of the LTSO - Alicia Mitchell, Judy Lichtin and Melinda Boyd - formed the Mountain Air String Quartet, becoming a vital part of the LTSO Small Ensemble Initiative now known as Mini-Symphony To Go. Lisa’s friendship and positive nature were quite apparent to all who knew her. Memories shared by her fellow quartet members are numerous and uplifting, giving insight into Lisa’s wit and character. “Lisa was a the driving force... She was good at organizing us, marketing, getting us gigs.” “She was often the first one to arrive at a venue and arrange where we set up. She made us laugh at every practice and would frequently tell jokes or funny stories.” “She would sneak our names into our playlists, with such creative titles as: ‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Lisa’, ‘All I Ask of Judy’ (All I Ask of You), ‘Marche Melinda’ (Marche Militaire), ‘Moon Lisa’ (Moon River), ‘Bach Air on Alicia’s G String’ (Bach Air on the G String).”“She was so generous and thoughtful... She drove all of us when we had distant performances, and considered if she could fit us all in potential cars she was buying.” Lisa joined the LTSO Board of Directors as the Personnel Director, serving in that role from 2010 - 2012 and handled that job with wisdom and great organizational skills. She was a natural salesperson, and continued to serve marketing the quartet and the orchestra promoting performances with beautifully designed websites, programs, posters, and business cards. Even after moving to Taos two years ago, she continued to serve the orchestra in this role. She also served on the music selection committee, helping to select music and shape the programming. She was the creative force behind the very successful endeavor to host Michael Martin Murphy as our guest artist in the Spring of 2012. Lisa’s contribution to the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra was enormous, and she will be missed. We were truly blessed to know Lisa and dedicate this concert to Lisa’s memory.
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Ways to Support the Symphony Music Sponsorship Consider sponsoring a musical selection at our next concert! Music sponsorship helps cover the orchestra’s sheet music costs so we can continue to bring you great music. Sponsoring a piece of music can be done in commemoration of a loved one or special event, or to promote your business or event. Your tribute will appear in the program for that concert. Pieces available for sponsorship in our May concert: • Tragic Overture, Op. 81 in D Minor by Johannes Brahms • Polovetsian Dances by Alexander Borodin For more information, visit LoneTreeSymphony.org/Support/MusicSponsorship
The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra and Jacinda Bouton, Music Director present
Bravo, Beethoven! May 13, 2022 7:30 PM
The LTSO honors Beethoven by performing Symphony No. 3, Eroica. The program will also include: • Brahms’ Tragic Overture, Op. 81 in D Minor • Borodin’s Polovetsian Dances • Elmer Bernstein’s Magnificent Seven Join us for this fantastic concert!
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Tonight’s Program Jacinda Bouton, Conductor Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture Mikhail Glinka
Elegy, Op. 15 for Solo Viola, String Quartet, and String Orchestra Herbert Howells featuring Basil Vendryes on Viola
Rhapsody Concerto
Bohuslav Martinu featuring Basil Vendryes on Viola
-----------Intermission---------Fiddler on the Roof Selections Jerry Bock / arr. Felton Rapley
Adagio from Spartacus Aram Khachaturian
Marche Slave
Peter Tchaikovsky
Voila, the Viola! March 4, 2022 7:30pm featuring guest soloist Basil Vendryes
Concert Decorum
Please do not applaud between movements. Wait until the end of the piece, and then applaud to your heart’s content! If you need to take a restless or crying child out during the performance, or are unable to suppress a cough or sneeze, there are monitors in the lobby for you to continue to enjoy the concert. Lastly, please silence all cell phones and pagers, and turn the brightness of your screen down as you peruse the program. Cameras and sound recorders are prohibited in the auditorium.
Program Notes Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture The opera Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842) by Russian master composer Mikhail Glinka (1804 – 1857) is today remembered largely for its first five minutes. No one has sung a word, and the curtain likely has not been raised: it’s only the overture. However, its balance of effervescence, lyrical beauty, and imaginatively crafted variations on the opening phrases reward listeners, and performers as well. The opera itself, based on a tale by the revered Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, didn’t hold together particularly well, but that overture is an ideally spirited concert opening. Martinů: Rhapsody Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Composer Bohuslav Martinů (1890 – 1959) was Czech-born; violist Jascha Veissi (1898 – 1983) was Ukrainian. In the troubled years between the world wars, both men made their way to the United States, where they relaunched their careers and renewed their professional acquaintance. Veissi commissioned a concerto from Martinů; the result of that request premiered February 15, 1952, Veissi as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra. The title ‘Rhapsody Concerto’ underscores the fact that the work is somewhat freer in form than showcase concertos tend to be. There are two movements, rather than three, though tempo changes still manage to suggest a three-movement structure. Furthermore, Martinů’s work is less obviously outspoken than one might expect. Violas, though not necessarily soft in dynamics, yet tend to be subtle in tone color. Therefore, a work providing opportunity for that more reserved – though no less lovely – character best suits the instrument. Moreover, both composer and soloist were of Eastern European origins, and the somewhat melancholy character of much of the region’s folk music is readily evoked by the viola. Being more often thoughtful than flashy, and both beginning and ending in peace, the Rhapsody Concerto is perfectly suited to the somewhat introspective voice of the viola.
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Howells: Elegy, op. 15 Unlike many of his contemporaries, English composer Herbert Howells (1892 – 1983) did not serve in World War I. Health problems prevented his enlistment, a fact that may have left him particularly sensitive to the fates suffered by friends and colleagues. His Royal College of Music classmate, violist Francis Purcell Warren (1895 – 1916), died early in the war at the Battle of Mons in Belgium. Warren had not yet established himself professionally. However, Howell recalled his friend’s musical gifts. His Elegy gives pride of place to solo viola, Warren’s own instrument. In Howell’s Elegy, op. 15, that solo viola is joined by a string quartet and also a string orchestra. The different sizes of those components have less to do with dynamics than with prominence of individual parts. With the string orchestra, one finds blended textures; by contrast, the quartet brings four solo lines to join the solo viola, sometimes suggesting a quintet of deepest sorrows. There are also utterly solitary passages for the soloist, particularly at the opening of the Elegy where one might imagine a lone figure in tender reflection. Although anguished themes appear at times, Howell’s Elegy closes with more peace than resignation, and ultimately fades to silence. The work premiered December 17, 1917, with the war and losses that inspired it still in progress.
Program Notes Jerry Bock: Fiddler on the Roof – selections arranged by Felton Rapley That one can write music evocative of a distant culture is proven by American musical theater composer Jerry Bock (1928 – 2010). He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, though one finds not even a hint of New England in Bock’s Fiddler on the Roof (1964). Famously set in a Jewish community in Tsarist Russia, Fiddler has few rivals when it comes to sheer quantity of familiar, beloved songs. Who would not recognize the poignant flow of Sunrise, Sunset, the smiling hopes of Matchmaker, the jauntiness of If I Were a Rich Man, or the spirit and confidence of To Life and Tradition. The titles alone have likely brought the music to many minds. Let this orchestral tapestry reacquaint you with Tevye, Tzeitel, their daughters and their neighbors. We ask you NOT to sing along, but dare you not to feel the music in your heart, whatever your own family roots. L’chaim! Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet Spartacus Premiering in 1956, then in revised form in 1968, the ballet Spartacus by Armenian-born Aram Khachaturian (1903 – 1978) was inspired by the slave revolt which began in Rome in 73 BC; its leader, Spartacus, was a Thracian warrior captured in battle and executed. If the actual Spartacus had a particular lady love, her name and personality have been lost to history. However, ballets require love scenes, so in Khachaturian’s ballet, the warrior has Phrygia. Their final parting is represented in this heartfelt scene from the last act. The Adagio opens with lush and utterly unhurried strings, joined by flute and oboe. Gradually, urgency builds, as perhaps the lovers realize that time is limited. Heroic brass seems to call Spartacus back to the rebellion, though the rapturous love theme of the opening pages will return, more passionate than ever. One last kiss – perhaps more than one – and they bid farewell. Even without choreography, it is music that speaks eloquently of romance, the shadow of pending loss lurking in the distance.
Program Notes
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slav, op. 31 In the late 19th century, Russian composers were often determined to make their music sound as Russian as possible, turning away from previously popular models from Western Europe. Peter Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893) was slow to adopt this notion, but once he did, it was with music that seized the spotlight for Russian spirit. There was, of course, the famed 1812 Overture (1880). Even earlier, however, there had been his Marche Slav, composed in October of 1876. Here, Tchaikovsky seems to prove his patriotism with a “Slavic march” of determined energy and drive. It was composed specifically for a benefit concert at the time of Russians joining with their fellow Slavs in a battle against the Turks, hence the fact that it is not a “Russian” march but rather one for all the Slavs. Bright, festive moods contrast with ominous ones, producing together a work that, though relatively brief, yet showcases the richness of Tchaikovsky’s musical imagination.