Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Spring Concert

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2021–22 Season Spring Concert May 8, 2022

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Farewell and Best Wishes to Vinay Parameswaran Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Music Director Vinay Parameswaran has served as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra since the 2017–18 season, and this evening’s concert will be his last with COYO. During his tenure, he has led performances at Severance, Blossom, and the Ohio Statehouse, including programs featuring Beethoven, Prokofiev, Haydn, Sibelius, Adams, Walker, and Stravinsky. He also led this youth ensemble in a four-concert European tour across Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary in June 2019 marking the third international tour in COYO’s 36-year history.

Current COYO members and alumni wrote tributes to Parameswaran as a token of their appreciation for his efforts over the years. Below is a selection of those remembrances.

“It’s been four years since I was in COYO but my memory of you being an incredible conductor and person hasn’t diminished! You are truly one of the most kind and competent leaders I have met, and I wish you the best of luck in all of your endeavors. I am so excited to see where your love of people, music, and conducting takes you.” – Alice Wu ‘17, violin “You have undoubtedly been the most influential conductor and leader I have ever had the pleasure to work with. Your unwavering dedication to your students and musicians shines through in everything you do, on and off the podium. Thank you for putting your trust in me, and for giving me the courage I needed to pursue a dream professionally.”

– Brett Nickolette ’20, trumpet “You modeled what it means to truly ‘show up’ for the music every Saturday at Severance. Working with you instilled the belief and standard that a robust palette of color, timbre, texture, etc., can and should be applicable to large ensembles! (And also that I shouldn’t have taken for granted my time with a conductor who so strongly emphasized it!) Warmest wishes for life’s next chapters.” – Julia Schilz ’19, violin “The past three years in COYO hold a special place in my heart. I can’t imagine having to spend my next three without you here with us. I remember the kind words you told me before seating auditions, and the surprise I felt when you addressed me by name. It’s amazing how you know everyone’s full name, face, and where they sit. Do you spend your weekends memorizing? We will all miss you so much.”

– Carol Huang ’22, violin

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About the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is a full symphonic ensemble composed of approximately 85 young musicians drawn from 35 communities in seven counties across Northern Ohio. Founded in 1986 by Jahja Ling (then resident conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra), the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) provides serious young music students of middle and high school age with a unique pre-professional orchestral training experience.

The 2021–22 season marks the fifth under the direction of Vinay Parameswaran.

Among the acclaimed artists to work with COYO are Marin Alsop, Pierre Boulez, Stéphane Denève, Christoph von Dohnányi, Giancarlo Guerrero, Witold Lutosławski, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Michael Tilson Thomas, Antoni Wit, and Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The ensemble has been featured on three international tours.

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is part of a suite of Cleveland Orchestra programs designed to nurture aspiring young musicians, which also includes the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus, the Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus and Preparatory Chorus, and the Crescendo and Music Mentors pathways initiatives for students in Cleveland schools. In addition, with the support of many generous individual, foundation, corporate, and governmental funding partners, the Orchestra’s full range of education and community programs reach more than 100,000 young people and adults annually, helping to foster a lifelong relationship with music by removing barriers to participation, advocating for and helping to facilitate equitable access to comprehensive music education in schools, and harnessing the life-changing power in service to the community.

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About the Youth Orchestra

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About the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus The 2021–22 season marks the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus’s 31st as an ensemble. The ensemble was founded in spring 1991 to help raise awareness of choral music-making in the schools of Northeast Ohio and to encourage students to continue their choral singing activities through college and into adulthood. The Youth Chorus provides a unique opportunity for talented singers in grades nine through twelve to work together under professional guidance beyond their high school experience and to perform works from the standard choral-orchestral repertoire in collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.

The members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus are selected through competitive auditions held each spring. This season, the members represent 28 schools and communities from five counties across Northeast Ohio. The Chorus participates in a half-dozen performances each season, including a joint concert at Severance Music Center with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. The Youth Chorus made its debut at a Severance concert in February 1992 singing Dvořák’s Te Deum with the Youth Orchestra.

In addition to performances at Severance Music Center, the Youth Chorus’s activities include concerts and community engagement programs in the greater Cleveland area. The Youth Chorus has frequent performance opportunities with The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, and the Blossom Festival Chorus, and ensemble singers participate in workshops and masterclasses with noted choral directors and clinicians.

Auditions for their 2022–23 season will be held on May 23 and June 5.

The coming season will include two movie concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra, a performance with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and the return of the Youth Chorus Honor Choir. More information is available at coyc.cochorus.com.

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Prelude Concert About About the the Youth Youth Orchestra Orchestra

Cleveland Orchestra COYO & COYC Youth Orchestra

Youth Chorus

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Sunday evening, May 8, 2022, at 7:00 p.m.

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center Vinay Parameswaran, conductor

REENA ESMAIL (b. 1983)

She Will Transform You

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847)

Verleih’ uns Frieden (Dona nobis pacem)

SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891–1953)

Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Opus 19 1. Andantino 2. Scherzo: Vivacissimo 3. Moderato

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS

MOONHEE KIM , violin

INTERMISSION SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873–1943)

Symphonic Dances, Opus 45 1. Non allegro 2. Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) 3. Lento assai — Allegro vivace

This performance is about 1 hour and 40 minutes in length.

This performance will be broadcast on ideastream/WCLV Classical 90.3 FM on Saturday, June 11, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, July 24, at 4:00 p.m.

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FIRST VIOLINS Moshi Tang CONCERTMASTER Hawken School

Hansen Song ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Chagrin Falls High School

Neige DeAngelis Westlake High School

Aidan Scheuer Westlake High School

Hana Mazak Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School

Christina Bencin Hathaway Brown School

Alanna Zhang Solon High School

Sophie Ng Avon High School

Kate Goldberg Laurel School

Zachary Rinas Strongsville High School

Luke Rozmajzl Homeschooled

Edward Huang Hawken School

Avaneesh Polaconda Strongsville High School

Moonhee Kim Beachwood High School

SECOND VIOLINS Marina Ziegler PRINCIPAL Copley High School

Sherry Du ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Hudson High School

Andrew Hu Hudson High School

Carol Huang Hathaway Brown School

Ella Cole Chardon High School

Jacob Andreini University School

Ehren Collins University School

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Brian Hong Solon High School

Anika Westerbeke Hawken Mastery School

Lauren Dunlap Strongsville High School

Emily Boron Shaker Heights High School

Kailani Farivar Solon High School

Cavin Xue Western Reserve Academy

VIOLAS Gunnar Brennecke PRINCIPAL Homeschooled

Talia Proweller ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Shaker Heights High School

Ashley Cvetichan Mentor High School

Julia Peyrebrune The Lyceum

Catherine Bachovchin Shaker Heights High School

Jason Wei Solon High School

Milo Page Homeschooled

Roy Morcos Hudson High School

Ethan Lee Mentor High School

Ben Wong Mentor High School

CELLOS Jacqueline Kaminski PRINCIPAL Elyria High School

Kobby Owusu ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Solon High School

Indya Reed Cleveland School of the Arts

Eleanor Pompa Laurel School

Aiden Tian Hawken School

Elena Ziegler Copley High School

Ada Ortan Avon High School

Louis X. Wang Solon High School

Jill King Lakewood High School

BASSES Jonathan Jacques PRINCIPAL Shaker Heights High School

Travis Phillips ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL University School

Rowan Toth-Cseplo Firestone CLC

Bettie McGurr Hudson High School

Sachin Singh University School

Sullivan Wiggins Shaker Heights Middle School

Hollie Greenwood ** Gisel Dominguez ** HARP Lina Tian

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Hathaway Brown School

FLUTES Amy Deng

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Avon Lake High School

Olivia Fritz R Homeschooled

Adriana Krauss P Oberlin High School

Avery Maytin Shaker Heights High School

Abigail Bontrager Malone University

Nathaniel Tyler

PICCOLO Amy Deng R Olivia Fritz P Adriana Krauss E

Cleveland Heights High School

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OBOES Sophie Craciun R Lakewood High School

Matthew Dawson P Mentor High School

Robert Schrembeck E Lake High School

ENGLISH HORNS Matthew Dawson R CLARINETS Chloe Fuller E M Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School

Owen Ganor

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Rocky River High School

Ava Haehn Riverside High School

Megan Zhao

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Hudson High School

BASS CLARINET Owen Ganor R ALTO SAXOPHONE Nalin Gupta R Solon High School

BASSOONS Teo Kim E M Stow-Munroe Falls High School

Luis Torres

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Fairview High School

Madeline Wilks **

HORNS Jack Berendt E

Kenston High School

Aurora High School

William Lowe

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North Olmsted High School

Josslyn Rossos Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School

Taylor Sobol P Hawken School

Alyssa Webb Olmsted Falls High School

Michael Rising** R

Rocky River High School

Jamie Hammarlund P Rocky River High School

Olivia Passerini E Jackson High School

TROMBONES Isabel Newby R Hudson High School

Rafael Noriega ** Ryan Whitson E ** TUBA Will Bowers TIMPANI Tim Barron

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PERCUSSION Tim Barron Adam Quinn John Tatara Jonathan Fischer ** Brian Randall ** Rowan Sherwood ** PIANO Isabel Mearini E R MANAGER/LIBRARIAN Kennedy McKain DIRECTOR, INSTRUMENTAL PATHWAYS Lauren Generette V.P. EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Joan Katz Napoli Performers are listed alphabetically within each woodwind, brass, and percussion sections. Superscripts indicate principal player according to the following key: E M

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Solon High School

Adam Quinn

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Wadsworth High School

In addition to the endowed musicians chairs, The George Gund Foundation has made a generous gift to the Orchestra’s endowment in support of the Youth Orchestra, and the estate of Jules and Ruth Vinney has generously endowed a Touring Fund to support the Youth Orchestra’s performances beyond Northeast Ohio.

COYO is generously supported by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation.

Brian Randall **

Shaker Heights High School

TRUMPETS Dasara Beta

The future of classical music shines brightly through the talented young musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. A gift to The Cleveland Orchestra’s endowment in support of the Youth Orchestra is a wonderful way to show your commitment to the future of this important program while providing vital funding for The Cleveland Orchestra.

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Esmail Mendelssohn Prokofiev Rachmaninoff Extra/substitute musician

The following eight endowed Youth Orchestra chairs have been created in recognition of generous gifts to The Cleveland Orchestra’s endowment: Concertmaster, Daniel Majeske Memorial Chair Principal Cello, Barbara P. and Alan S. Geismer Chair Principal Viola, Anthony T. and Patricia A. Lauria Chair Principal Bass, Anthony F. Knight Memorial Chair Principal Flute, Virginia S. Jones Memorial Chair Piccolo, Patience Cameron Hoskins Chair Principal Harp, Norma Battes Chair Principal Keyboard, Victor C. Laughlin M.D. Memorial Chair For more information about how you can support the Youth Orchestra, please contact The Cleveland Orchestra’s Donor Services at 216-456-8400 or donate@clevelandorchestra.com.

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Vinay Parameswaran Music Director, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Associate Conductor, The Cleveland Orchestra Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair Vinay Parameswaran joined The Cleveland Orchestra as assistant conductor with the 2017–18 season, and was promoted to associate conductor in 2021. In this role, he leads the Orchestra in several dozen concerts each season at Severance, Blossom Music Festival, and on tour. He also serves as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.

Mr. Parameswaran came to Cleveland following three seasons as associate conductor of the Nashville Symphony (2014–2017), where he led over 150 performances. In the summer of 2017, he was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Recent seasons have included Mr. Parameswaran making his guest conducting debuts with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Tucson Symphony, along with his subscription debut with the Nashville Symphony conducting works by Gabriella Smith, Grieg, and Prokofiev. Other recent engagements have included debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Eugene Symphony, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his concert work, Mr. Parameswaran has led performances of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love with Curtis Opera Theater. He also assisted with Opera Philadelphia’s presentation of Verdi’s Nabucco.

Mr. Parameswaran has participated in conducting masterclasses with David Zinman at the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as well as with Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. He is the conductor on the album Two x Four featuring the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble alongside violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh, including works by Bach, David Ludwig, Philip Glass, and Anna Clyne.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Parameswaran played percussion for six years in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in music and political science from Brown University.

At Brown, he began his conducting studies with Paul Phillips. He received a diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Otto-Werner Mueller as the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow.

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About the Director

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Moonhee Kim Violin, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Moonhee Kim started playing the violin when she was 4 years old. Now 17, she currently studies under Sibbi Bernhardsson at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

At 15, she made her solo debut with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra under Vinay Parameswaran at Severance. Since then, she has received awards from YoungArts’ 2022 National Arts Competition, the 2021– 2022 COYO Concerto Competition, and the 2019 Ohio Music Teachers Association. She has also won other competitions including the Sigma Alpha Iota Cleveland Alumnae Chapter’s String Competition and the American Protégé International Concerto Competition, for which she performed at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Over the summers, Kim has attended Cleveland’s ENCORE Chamber Music Institute, Iceland’s Harpa International Music Academy, Maine’s Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Oberlin’s Credo Festival. In the summer of 2019, Kim served as assistant principal second violin on COYO’s European Tour. Kim, a sixth-year member, regularly serves as Concertmaster of COYO. As a dedicated chamber musician, Kim has performed in many ensembles throughout her career. Since 2019, she has studied chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Young Artist Program. In 2020, she and her colleagues formed the Lumière Quartet. In 2021, they won the Silver Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and first prize at the Chicago National Chamber Music Competition and Rembrandt High School Chamber Music Competition. With her ensembles, Kim works with Jessica Lee, Kathryn Brown, Si-Yan Li, and members of the Dover, Emerson, and Orion Quartets. She has also participated in COYO’s Advanced Performance Seminar and Oberlin Conservatory’s Pre-College Chamber Music Program.

Kim has performed in masterclasses for numerous artists including Almita Vamos, Ayano Ninomiya, Jinjoo Cho, Paul Kantor, Rachel Barton Pine, and Renée Jolles.

In her free time, she enjoys running and reading. She is an avid café-goer and writer. Kim plays a Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza, Milan c. 1780 violin on generous loan from New York City’s Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.

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Youth Chorus

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Autumn Airey West Geauga High School

Serin Arikan

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Bella George Fairview High School

Jade Gladue

Hawken School

Maria Avila

Laurel School

Kiersten Grantz

Aurora High School

Evie Bennett Mentor High School

Aiste Berzinskas West Geauga High School

Adam Bonnet Aurora High School

Natalya Bricker Orange High School

Sal Buldum

Mentor High School

Maria Hisey Jackson Local High School

Audrianna Imka Hathaway Brown

Vishwum Kapadia University School

Megan Kim Westlake High School

Kelly Kirchner

Solon High School

Zelie Cerda-Malicdem Aurora High School

William Christian Shaker Heights High School

Natasha Dudick Padua Franciscan High School

Alex Dutton

Laurel School

Alexander Kondratov University School

David Kovitch Mentor High School

Kingsten Lin University School

Raven Morse

Riverside High School

Nigel Ellis

Lakeland Community College

Lila Nagy

University School

Persephone Enders-Naeem Cleveland Heights High School

Evgenia Evdokimenko Solon High School

Eleanor Fleming Orange High School

Andrew Fordyce Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin School

North Olmsted High School

Adelyn Nicholson Mayfield High School

Laura Obergefell Lake Catholic High School

Max Outcalt University School

Maggie Panichi Independence High School

Eli Posa Beachwood High School

Grace Prentice Mentor High School

Graham Richard iSTEM Geauga Early College High School

Oliver Richard iSTEM Geauga Early College High School

Emma Smith Kenston High School

Sasha Turner Hawken School

Aurora Villanueva Ohio Connections Academy

Nora von der Heydt Shaker Heights High School

Sophie Watkins Shaker Heights High School

Sydney Wilson Independence High School

Sophia Young Berkshire Jr/Sr High School

Ishani Zimmerman Mentor High School

DIRECTOR Daniel Singer ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Adam Landry COLLABORATIVE PIANIST Dan Overly MANAGER OF YOUTH CHORUSES Maya Curtis

The Cleveland Orchestra is grateful to these organizations for their ongoing generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra: National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council, and to the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

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Daniel Singer Director, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus Assistant Director, Cleveland Orchestra Choruses Daniel Singer joined the choral conducting staff of the Cleveland Orchestra in 2012 as assistant director ofthe Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. He was promoted to director of the Youth Chorus with the 2017–18 season. Since 2011, Mr. Singer has served as director of music at University School in Hunting Valley, Ohio, where he conducts orchestra and chorus.

Mr. Singer is also active as a guest conductor and clinician, and has worked with honor choirs and top student ensembles in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and North Carolina. Mr. Singer performs professionally with Quire Cleveland and has sung as baritone soloist with ensembles throughout the region, including the Wooster Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Choral Arts Cleveland, and the Suburban Symphony of Cleveland. He is also an arranger and composer, having written for choral and instrumental groups throughout the United States.

Before coming to Ohio, Daniel Singer worked as a performer, music director, and teacher in the Chicago area. He taught high school choral music in the cities of Lincolnshire and Cary and participated in music engagement in the Chicago Public Schools. Mr. Singer holds a bachelor of music degree in choral and instrumental music education from Northwestern University and a master of music degree in choral conducting from Michigan State University.

Adam Landry Assistant Director, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus Adam Landry became assistant director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus with the 2017–18 season. He currently teaches music theory in the Mentor Public School District and directs six high school choirs as well as an extracurricular show choir.

Mr. Landry is also a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. He has served in many roles with the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA), most recently as District VII secretary/treasurer and allstate choir coordinator. Mr. Landry studied music education at Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan.

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She Will Transform You Composed: 2019

BY Reena Esmail BORN February 11, 1983 Chicago, Illinois

Since Lully’s exoticized portrait of eighteenth-century colonized peoples in Les Indes Galantes, classical music has had a complex, and sometimes fraught, relationship with non-Western sounds, and composer Reena Esmail is trying to combat that. Having studied both Western classical and Indian classical traditions, and being an Indian-American herself, Esmail is wellsuited to access both spheres — and the spaces between them — and compose works that are unique, inspired, and have a holistic understanding of their source materials. She earned degrees in composition from The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, and studied Hindustani music in India. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the relationship between Hindustani and Western music.

The text for her orchestral and choral piece, She Will Transform You, comes from a poem by Indian-American author Neelanjana Banerjee, while the musical basis comes from a Hindustani raga (traditional melodic patterns or modes within Indian classical music) called Rageshree. The work was commissioned by the Richmond Symphony, and it was written from the perspective of an immigrant mother who has a complicated relationship balancing her connection to her native country with her new chosen home. She expresses hope that her child has an easier time navigating this dynamic. The piece not only explores feelings of belonging and the push and pull of two different homes, but also the ways in which one can transform his or her surroundings and mold cultures in his or her own vision.

It celebrates both the generations of immigrants who are struggling with multiple identities in a new place, as well as the generations who are synthesizing these differences. The piece seeks to find appreciation for moments of tension and confusion, knowing that a source of serenity will always follow — just as in classical harmony, the most dissonant chords often precede a calming consonance.

Reena Esmail thinks a lot about resonance, and in this piece both instrumental and cultural resonance are relevant. “As a child of immigrants, I have felt both that distance — of being the ‘other’ in both America and India — and also the resonance of being at home wherever I am,” Esmail says. Of course, resonance is present in the sonic sense through the vibrations of the instruments — such as the woodwind section with its yearning sounds and the hopeful strings — but the piece also explores what it means to experience or lack emotional resonance with a particular culture or place.

Duration: 14 minutes

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Verleih’ uns Frieden (Dona nobis pacem) Composed: 1831 Though Felix Mendelssohn was descended from a prominent Jewish-German family, he and his sister Fanny (who was also a celebrated composer) were both baptized as Protestants during a period that saw a rise of anti-Semitism in Germany. While Mendelssohn didn’t hide his Jewish ancestry, he also remained a devout Christian throughout his life and contributed a great amount of music to the church as both a composer and an advocate for the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

BY Felix Mendelssohn BORN February 3, 1809 Hamburg, Germany DIED November 4, 1847 Leipzig, Germany

In fact, Mendelssohn was a central figure in restoring the music of Bach to prominence during the first half of the nineteenth century after decades of neglect.

In his early teens and already a renowned musical prodigy, Mendelssohn received a score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion from his maternal grandmother, Bella Salomon. Like an obsessed teen listening to a favorite album on repeat, Mendelssohn was gripped by this work. He mounted a performance of the work five years later that brought renewed interest in Bach throughout Germany and later in Europe.

Bach’s sacred writings, in turn, profoundly influenced Mendelssohn and his own settings of religious texts — in cantatas, oratorios, and a cappella works for chorus. The short cantata (Mendelssohn referred to it as his “little song”), Verleih’ uns Frieden (Grant Us Peace) was written two years after the performance of St. Matthew Passion. It sets the words of Martin Luther, whose texts Bach also used, to a simple, serene melody. This is sung three times, building in complexity with each repetition. The bass section is first to sing, followed by the altos and basses in counterpoint, and lastly the full chorus joins, revealing the full splendor of Mendelssohn’s vision.

None other than composer Robert Schumann wrote about Verleih’ uns Freiden: “The little piece is worthy of being world-famous and will become just that in the future; Madonnas by Raphael and Murillo cannot remain hidden very long.”

Duration: 6 minutes

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Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Opus 19 Composed: 1916–17 Sergei Prokofiev composed two violin concertos and two cello concertos during his career. Both of his violin concertos have attracted great virtuosos of the past half century, for their complex music, combining a passionate attachment to romantic expression, a faith in classical concepts of order, and a love of virtuosity for its own sake.

BY Sergei Prokofiev BORN April 23, 1891 Sontsivka, Ukraine

Prokofiev quickly earned a reputation for his boldly dissonant and percussive piano works while still a student at the conservatory in St. Petersburg. Within a few years he had produced his first symphony, surprisingly an exercise in elegant eighteenth-century classicism for a small orchestra. His second symphony, in contrast, was a mercilessly ear-splitting piece of music.

He enjoyed showing these different sides of his personality, so when the idea of a violin concerto first DIED came to him, in 1913, he wrote in his diary that he wanted March 5, 1953 it to be a “light” and “delicate” work. In 1917, when the Moscow sketches of the concerto were finally complete, he found himself orchestrating it at the same time as that First Symphony, nicknamed “Classical,” with which the concerto has much in common.

From the beginning of the first movement of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, there is abundant lyricism, with a long melody that reappears at the end of the movement on the flute and again at the end of the work. The movement changes tempo for a rhythmic section and even some extraordinary strumming for the soloist, before returning to the relaxed tempo of the beginning. The Scherzo second movement is full of soloist virtuosity, with a march section in the middle. Most interesting is the attempt by the tuba to insert its own tune.

The tick-tock accompaniment that opens the finale third movement is a reminder that Prokofiev almost always liked a steady pulse somewhere in the orchestra. A second theme is introduced by the violas, and the musical dialogue in the middle is centered on a short phrase played by two bassoons.

The concerto’s final arrival at the key of D major is extraordinarily satisfying, a goal that must have been in Prokofiev’s mind from the beginning.

Duration: 23 minutes

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Symphonic Dances, Opus 45 Composed: 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff grew up at the height of Russian imperial power, and following the 1917 Revolution, he spent years in exile in the United States and Europe, never returning to his homeland. During this time, Rachmaninoff fought a constant battle with arbiters of taste, who decided that modern music had to be unconventional. His imagination was unceasing, but his style had little in common with the spirit of the Jazz Age or the types of neoclassicism coming to life in the twentieth century.

BY Sergei Rachmaninoff BORN April 1, 1873 Semyonov, Russia

His traditionally structured Third Symphony was panned by critics in 1936, so he returned to the variations format that was successful with Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for his Symphonic Dances, premiered in 1941. This turned out to be Rachmaninoff’s last major composition.

Perhaps Rachmaninoff viewed these variations as dance music, with the stamping rhythm of the first movement echoing ballets by Stravinsky and Prokofiev and with the fleet waltz rhythm of the second movement suggesting Ravel. The finale is more intricate and elusive, with its restless flow of sounds influenced by Russian and Western religious chant.

DIED March 28, 1943 Beverly Hills, California

The first movement is a superb example of how to build the elements of structure from simple materials. A dialogue between oboe and clarinet puts on the brakes for the second section, which is slower, cast in a remote key, and richly melodic.

The middle movement is a masterpiece of elegance in a waltz rhythm full of shifts and turns, its main tune being a plaintive melody first presented by english horn and oboe. The orchestration is dazzling, and a muted brass fanfare punctuates the movement.

The third-movement finale combines wistfulness with rhythmic exhilaration and virtuosity in the fast sections. The movement is a quest for its theme, with contributions from the piccolo and trumpet that help to form a melodic core.

But this is not reached until after a return to the slower tempo. With much of the finale devoted to gloomy Russian introspection, not suggestive of dance, the whole work is practically the Fourth Symphony he never wrote, slow movement and finale being combined.

Duration: 35 minutes

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Sung Texts She Will Transform You

By Neelanjana Banerjee Homeland: why do you elude me, tease me?

There, my ancestors don’t know me.

Here my neighbors say ‘go back home’ to me.

When will you let me name you, claim you?

But now, it is no longer about me — for this newborn child, I have a plea: Homeland, let this sweet child be, never torture her like you’ve done [to] me.

Let her always find her way — surface streets and highways, underpasses and bikepaths, and she will transform you from concept to community, from skid row to safe haven.

With each milestone, let her dismantle your distance, until one day, she arrives here — palm tree shadow, desert dust in her eyes — and smiles, and knows, she’s home.

Verleih’ uns Frieden (Dona nobis pacem)

By Martin Luther Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich, Herr Gott, zu unsern Zeiten.

Es ist doch ja kein andrer nicht, der für uns könnte streiten, denn du, unser Gott, alleine.

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In these our days so perilous, Lord, peace in mercy send us; No God but thee can fight for us, No God but thee defend us; Thou our only God and Saviour.

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Catherine Bachovchin (viola 2021–2022) plans to pursue degrees in economics and international studies at the University Tim Barron (percussion of Kansas 2019–2022) will be pursuing a degree in neuroscience at Columbia University Dasara Beta (trumpet 2019–2022) will be pursuing a degree in performance at Abigail the Curtis Institute of Music Bontrager (cello 2020–2022) will continue Gunnar studies at Malone University Brennecke (viola 2018–2022) will be pursuing a degree in biology at Bob Jones University Ella Cole (violin 2019–2022) plans to take a gap year to travel and prepare for college auditions before pursuing a degree in violin Ashley Cvetichan performance (viola 2019–2022) Neige DeAngelis Lauren Dunlap (violin 2018–2022) (violin 2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in neuroscience with a minor in philosophy at Case Western Reserve Kate Goldberg (violin University 2019–2022) plans to attend Colby College Jamie Hammarlund (trumpet 2020–2022) will be pursuing a degree in trumpet performance at the Oberlin Andrew Hu Conservatory of Music (violin 2018–2022) will be pursuing a degree in biomedical engineering at Duke Edward Huang (violin University 2021–2022) plans to pursue a degree in biological sciences as a pre-med student Jacqueline Kaminski (cello 2020– 2022) will be pursuing a degree in cello performance at Baldwin Wallace University Moonhee Kim (violin 2016–2022) plans to pursue a degree in either English or economics at Brown University Teo Kim (bassoon 2021–2022) Will Lowe (horn 2019–2022) will

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be pursuing a degree in music education at Baldwin Wallace University Avery Maytin (cello 2019–2022) will be pursuing a degree in biological sciences at Brown University as a pre-med student Isabel Newby (trombone 2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in forensic science and criminology at Penn State Olivia Passerini (trumpet University 2021–2022) will be pursuing degrees in music education and performance at the University of Cincinnati CollegeAdam Quinn Conservatory of Music (percussion 2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in music education at The Ohio Indya Reed (cello State University 2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in music performance at the University of Zachary Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rinas (violin 2020–2022) will be pursuing a degree in biochemistry at Hillsdale College Luke Rozmajzl (violin 2021–2022) will attend Christendom College and tentatively plans to pursue degrees in math and philosophy with a minor in Robert Schrembeck (oboe music 2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in music production and audio engineering with a minor in oboe performance at Taylor Sobol (horn Ohio University Hansen Song (violin 2019–2022) 2018–2022) will be pursuing a degree in economics at Columbia University John Tatara (percussion 2020–2022) Luis Torres (bassoon 2019–2022) will be pursuing degrees in bassoon performance and data analytics at The Nathaniel Tyler Ohio State University (cello 2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in architecture at The Ohio State University Alanna Zhang (violin 2020–2022) will be pursuing a degree in computer science at the University of North Carolina Megan Zhao (clarinet at Chapel Hill 2019–2022) will be pursuing a degree in statistics at The Ohio State University as a pre-med student

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Autumn Airey (2017–2022) will be moving to Florida and is planning to Maria Avila major in musical theatre (2018–2022) will be pursuing a degree in international relations and international development with a minor in French at Tulane University Natalya Bricker (2019–2022) will be pursuing a degree in animation at The Cleveland Alex Dutton (2018– Institute of Art Nigel Ellis (2021–2022) 2022) Evgenia Evdokimenko (2018–2022) Bella George (2020–2022) will be attending Youngstown State University Maria Hisey (2018–2022) Audrianna Imka (2021–2022) will be pursuing a degree in psychology at Megan Kim (2018– Ohio University 2022) plans to pursue a degree in areas of humanities and social sciences at Case Western Reserve University Alexander Kondratov (2021–2022) Laura Obergefell (2018–2022) Max Outcalt (2020–2022) will be pursuing degrees in environmental science and theatre at Northwestern University and studying writing and Shakespeare at the University of Oxford in England over the summer Grace Prentice (2019–2022) Emma Smith (2018–2022) will be pursuing a degree in biology at St. Olaf College or the College of Wooster and plans to continue singing

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Youth Orchestra Coaching Staff The following members of The Cleveland Orchestra have served as section coaches for the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra in preparation for this concert:

VIOLINS Peter Otto

BASSOON Gareth Thomas

First Associate Concertmaster

Kathleen Collins Jiah Chapdelaine

BASS CLARINET Amy Zoloto

VIOLAS Stanley Konopka

BRASS Hans Clebsch Horn

Assistant Principal

Lembi Veskimets

Lyle Steelman

CELLOS David Alan Harrell Brian Thornton

Shachar Israel

Assistant Principal Trumpet Assistant Principal Trombone

PERCUSSION Thomas Sherwood

BASSES Mark Atherton

HARP Trina Struble

Scott Dixon

Principal Harp

WOODWINDS Jessica Sindell

EMERITUS COACHES Joela Jones

Assistant Principal Flute

Frank Rosenwein

Emeritus Keyboard

Principal Oboe

Robert Woolfrey

WITH SPECIAL THANKS Michael Ferraguto

Clarinet

Jonathan Sherwin

Head Librarian

Bassoon

Saeran St. Christopher Flute

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School Music Teachers The members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra express gratitude to their school music directors for the role they play on a daily basis in developing musical skills:

Sarah Dixon Aurora High School

Jesse Martin Avon High School

Joshua Brunger Avon Lake High School

Lisa Goldman Beachwood High School

Steven Cocohiola Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School

Vincent Ciulla Breckville-Broadview Heights High School

Kendra Karriker Chagrin Falls High School

Daniel Heim Cleveland Heights High School

Dianna Richardson Cleveland School of the Arts

Basil Kochan Copley High School

Gregory Smith Elyria High School

Peter Cibulskas Fairview High School

Christine Karliak Fairview Park High School

Kacy Albright Firestone CLC

Linda Simon-Mietus Hathaway Brown School

Laura Webster Hathaway Brown School

Kyra Mihalski Hawken School

Jodie Ricci Hawken School

Roberto Iriarte Hudson High School

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Beverly O’Connor

Michael Komperda

Hudson High School

Rocky River High School

Gretchen Obravac

Mario Clopton-Zymler

Independence High School

Scott Eversdyke Jackson Local High School

Michele Monigold Jackson High School

Julia Green

Shaker Heights High School

Bill Hughes Shaker Heights High School

Donna Jelen Shaker Heights High School

Nicole Clouser

Kenston High School

Jeff Link

Shaker Heights Middle School

Gary Lewis

Kenston High School

R. Scott Posey Lake Catholic High School

Jared Cooey Lake High School

Elizabeth Hankins Lakewood High School

Clinton Steinbrunner Lakewood High School

Brian Fancher Mayfield High School

Adam Landry Mentor High School

Steve Poremba Mentor High School

Matthew Yoke Mentor High School

Erik Kalish

Solon High School

Gerald MacDougall Solon High School

Mark Mauldin Solon High School

Greg Newman Stow-Munroe Falls High School

Andrew Hire Strongsville High School

Mark Langley The Lyceum

Daniel Singer University School

Erin Stevens University School

Dana Hire Wadsworth High School

Margaret Karam

North Olmsted High School

Len Gnizak

Western Reserve Academy

Edward Leonard

Oberlin High School

Julie Budd

Western Reserve Academy

Jennifer Butler

Olmsted Falls High School

Brandon DuVall Orange High School

Westlake High School

Hilary Patriok Westlake High School

Brad Allen Riverside High School

Glenn Obergefell Riverside High School

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Private Music Teachers The members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus express gratitude to their private teachers for their patience, insight, and expertise:

VOICE TEACHERS Jennifer Call Nancy Cline Vicki Mccrone Noriko Paukert Amanda Powell Angelina Seeman Kimberly States Leslie Varnick VIOLIN TEACHERS Masha Andreini Sibbi Bernhardsson David Bowlin Jeanelle Brierley Wei-Shu Co Wei-Fang Gu* Liesl Hook-Langmack Jung-Min Amy Lee* Yun-Ting Lee* Joan Kwuon Abigail McLaughlin Ioana Missits * Sonja Braaten Molloy* Yoko Moore Elona Pappas Eugenia Poustyreva Amber Rogers Carol Ruzicka Stephen Sims Jessica Stearns Byrd Yu Yuan*

VIOLA TEACHERS Marcia Ferrito Laura Keunen-Poper Nancy McConnell James Rhodes Laura Shuster Lembi Veskimets* Ann Yu CELLO TEACHERS Martha Baldwin* Paul Bergeron David Alan Harrell* Elizabeth Howse Pamela Kelly Richard Weiss* Jerry Yarovich Elizabeth Zadinsky BASS TEACHERS Stephanie Price Tracy Rowell Bryan Thomas Susan Yelanjian FLUTE TEACHERS Kyra Kester Julie Sarver Kathy Stuart OBOE TEACHERS Sue Helfrich Mary Kausek Cynthia Warren

CLARINET TEACHERS Meghan Colbert Jennifer Magistrelli Craig Wohlschlager Robert Woolfrey* BASSOON TEACHERS Mark DeMio Marisa Esposito HORN TEACHERS Rose DiGeronimo Meghan Guegold Van Parker Jason Riberdy TRUMPET TEACHERS Jeff Huston Michael Miller* Rich Pokrywka TROMBONE TEACHER BJ Bishop PERCUSSION TEACHERS Ben Kipp Tyler Niemeyer HARP TEACHER Jody Guinn KEYBOARD TEACHER Madeline Levitz * Member of The

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