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UTAH SYMPHONY NOORDA 2023–24

Welcome

15 RACHMANINOFF’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 & LISZT WITH PIANIST JOYCE YANG

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OCTOBER 19, 2023 / 7:30 PM

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19 APPALACHIAN SPRING & BACH WITH PIANIST AWADAGIN PRATT

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023 / 7:30 PM

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23 BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 & MOZART’S VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3 JANUARY 4, 2024 / 7:30 PM

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Throughout this past summer USUO performed great live music in a variety of locations that celebrate Utah’s natural beauty—at USUO’s official summer home of the Deer Valley® Music Festival, in outdoor venues along the Wasatch front, and throughout the state during our Music Elevated: Forever Mighty® State Tour. As the season changed and a new school-year began, we were happy to return to our regular indoor venues, and to perform in schools throughout the state. Did you know that, in addition to the more than 100 subscription concerts and operas performed at USUO home venues, last year our artists presented more than 350 education performances designed specifically for students in schools and venues throughout the state? The people of our great state have long recognized the power of the arts to inspire the human spirit and to motivate the betterment of mankind. USUO reflects this value through a deep commitment to music education and strives to meaningfully impact every community in the state through our education and community engagement programs. Thank you for your attendance at tonight’s concert. We are proud to share these exceptional classical music concerts featuring the incomparable musicians of the Utah Symphony orchestra joined by world-class soloists. We hope to see you again at the Noorda and that you will join us in Salt Lake for operas, family concerts, films in concert, and more symphonic masterworks. We guarantee you will leave enriched and wanting to return for another shared experience of great live music! Sincerely,

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SYMPHONY NO. 2 & LISZT WITH PIANIST JOYCE YANG OCTOBER 19, 2023 / 7:30 PM The Noorda at UVU

RUNE BERGMANN, conductor JOYCE YANG, piano

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

RUNE BERGMANN Conductor

Norwegian conductor Rune Bergmann is currently Music Director of Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic, Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of Poland’s Szczecin Philharmonic, and Chief Conductor of Switzerland’s Argovia Philharmonic, positions he has held since the 2017/18, 2016/17, and 2020/21 seasons, respectively. Guest engagements in the 2023/24 season bring Bergmann once again to the podiums of the Baltimore, Colorado and

JOYCE YANG Piano

Born in 1986 in Seoul, South Korea, Joyce Yang received her first piano lesson from her aunt at the age of four. She quickly took to the instrument, which she received as a birthday present. Over the next few years, Yang won several national piano competitions in her native country. By the age of ten, she had entered the School of Music at the Korea National University of

Utah Symphony orchestras, and will see him debut with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Sarasota Orchestra. Earlier in his career, Rune Bergmann served as First Kapellmeister and deputy-Music Director of the Theater Augsburg, where he led performances of numerous operas, including such titles as La Traviata, Der fliegende Holländer, and Die Fledermaus. He has also served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Kaunas City Symphony, and has been Artistic Director of Norway’s innovative Fjord Cadenza Festival since its inception in 2010.

Arts, and went on to make a number of concerto and recital appearances in Seoul and Daejeon. In 1997, Yang moved to the United States to begin studies at the pre-college division of the Juilliard School with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky. After winning the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Student Competition, she performed Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with that orchestra at just twelve years old. She graduated from Juilliard with special honor as the recipient of the school’s 2010 Arthur Rubinstein Prize.

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Danse macabre Duration: 8 minutes. THE COMPOSER – CAMILLE SAINTSAËNS (1835-1921) – Saint-Saëns left France briefly in March of 1871 to escape the violence of the Paris Commune but returned home just two months later to find the city full of nationalist zeal. While engaging deeply with the Parisian arts intelligentsia over the next couple of years, Saint-Saëns did something many who

Totentanz Duration: 16 minutes in one movement. THE COMPOSER – FRANZ LISZT (18111886) – In the early 1860s, the crushing disappointments of Liszt’s personal life forced him to seriously consider the solace and rigor of monastic life. He had lost a son and a daughter (both in their 20s) and had his proposed marriage to Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein

Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27 Duration: 60 minutes in four movements. THE COMPOSER – SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943) – Russia was a place of considerable social and political unrest in the years immediately following 1905. Rachmaninoff found it difficult to work during his country’s nascent attempt at revolution and sought professional refuge first in Pisa, Italy and later in Dresden. But

knew him considered unthinkable – he got married. It was not a happy union and both children born to Marie Truffot died young (one fell from a window, and the other contracted pneumonia). But as is so often the case in music history, great work comes from great pain. Saint-Saëns produced two of his most enduring scores during the courtship and short matrimony with Marie, the opera Samson et Delila and the orchestral tone poem Danse macabre. Continued online…(See QR code.)

thwarted by the Pope and the Tsar. It was all too much for a man of passion in his early 50s, so he sought dispensation (yes, from the very same Pope, who said yes in this case) to give himself fully over to his God. Though he never actually became a priest, he did officially enter the clergy’s lower orders on April 25, 1865, and was known as “Abbot” Liszt for the rest of his days. Continued online…(See QR code.)

it wasn’t only civil strife he was running from. Rachmaninoff was under professional pressure as well, thanks in part to the conducting position he held with the Bolshoi Opera since 1904 and two new stage works he composed for the company. He needed a break from all of it, and in Dresden he found enough peace and quiet to complete his 2nd Symphony. Given his previous experience with the genre, this was no mean feat. Continued online…(See QR code.)

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

TEDDY ABRAMS Conductor

Teddy Abrams, Musical America’s 2022 Conductor of the Year, is in his tenth season as Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra (LO), where he has been the galvanizing force behind the orchestra’s artistic renewal since his appointment in September 2014. Abrams and the LO begin their 2023-24 season with the next leg of their multiseason “In Harmony” state tour. After a summer debut at the Hollywood Bowl

AWADAGIN PRATT Piano

Born in Pittsburgh, Awadagin Pratt began studying piano and violin at an early age. At the age of 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas—piano, violin and conducting.

with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a return to Ravinia with the Chicago Symphony, Abrams’s guest conducting highlights include Helsinki and Buffalo Philharmonic debuts and a return to the Utah Symphony. In April 2023 Abrams premiered his own composition Mammoth with the LO in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave. Other recent compositional highlights include a piano concerto for Yuja Wang, and Abrams is now at work on ALI, a musical about Muhammad Ali premiering in fall 2024 in Louisville, the boxer’s birthplace, before opening on Broadway in spring 2025.

In 1992, Pratt won the Naumburg International Piano Competition and two years later was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since then, he has played numerous recitals throughout the US including performances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. His many orchestral performances include appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra and the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Atlanta, St. Louis, National and Detroit symphonies among many others.

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Coriolan Overture Violin Concerto No. 3 FRANCESCA DEGO, violin

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

DAVID DANZMAYR Conductor

Danzmayr is in his second season as Music Director of the Oregon Symphony, having started his tenure there in the orchestra´s 125th anniversary season. He also stands at the helm of the versatile ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Columbus, an innovative orchestra comprised of musicians from all over the USA. In addition, he holds the title of Honorary Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he had served as

FRANCESCA DEGO Violin

Francesca Dego’s 23/24 season includes concerto debuts with Utah Symphony, Swedish Radio, Bergen Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, West Australian Symphony, Queensland Symphony Orchestras and re-invitations to the Hallé, CBSO, Royal Philharmonic, Orchestra Haydn and Brucknerhaus Linz. She is Artist in Focus at the Ulster Orchestra which includes concerto engagements across the season, including the Brahms Double Concerto with Daniel Müller-Schott and chamber and education projects. In recital, she will perform in Rome,

Chief Conductor—leading the Zagreb musicians on several European tours with concerts in the Salzburg Festival Hall, where they performed the prestigious New Year´s concert, and the Vienna Musikverein. Danzmayr received his musical training at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg where, after initially studying piano, he went on to study conducting in the class of Dennis Russell Davies. He has served as Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performing in all the major Scottish concert halls and in the prestigious, Orkney based, St Magnus Festival.

Perugia and Sacile with Alessandro Taverna and at Dubai Opera House with Francesca Leonardi. A keen chamber musician, Dego enjoys performing with artists such as Francesco Piemontesi, Daniel Müller-Schott, Timothy Ridout, Jan Lisiecki, Salvatore Accardo, Alessandro Carbonare, Mahan Esfahani, Bruno Giuranna, Shlomo Mintz, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Federico Colli, Mischa Maisky, Antonio Meneses, Martin Owen, Alessandro Taverna, Enrico Dindo, Alessio Bax, Roman Simovic and Francesca Leonardi. Francesca is based in London and plays on a rare Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona 1697).

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) OVERTURE TO CORIOLAN, OP. 62 Unlike Beethoven’s Overtures to Egmont, Prometheus, The Ruins of Athens or King Stephen, which are merely the first of a long series of musical numbers written to accompany a staged play, the Overture to Coriolan stands alone as an independent work. Although written ostensibly to open a performance of the play by his friend, the Viennese poet and playwright Heinrich Joseph von Collin (1771-1811), the more pressing reason was probably that the composer happened to need a new overture to open his own concerts, and indeed, the first performance of the Overture took place at a private concert at the palace of Prince Lobkowitz in March of 1807. Collin’s play had opened in 1802, and had been relatively successful, at least for a while. The incidental music used was drawn from Mozart’s opera Idomeneo, arranged by Abbe Stadler. Mozart’s brother-in-law Joseph Lange was much lauded for his portrayal of the title role. Coriolan closed after three years, but for a revival of a single performance in 1807, Beethoven provided the overture that seems to reflect his own character as keenly as it does that of the Roman general from whom it takes its name. The Coriolan of Collin’s play derives from Shakespeare’s last tragedy, Coriolanus, and ultimately from Plutarch’s account, all works Beethoven himself knew well. Coriolanus, born Gaius Marcius, acquired his popular name through an act of extraordinary bravery, by leading the Romans to victory over their traditional enemy, the Volscians, and capturing the city of Corioli. For this he received the honorary name Coriolanus. Nevertheless, back in Rome, he became embroiled in political issues and found himself exiled. To avenge this terrible injustice, Coriolanus, in bitterness and fury, switched his allegiance to the Volscians and led them against Rome. They laid siege to the city, with Coriolanus rejecting all ambassadors and emissaries until the Romans sent his wife, mother and young son. Coriolanus finally relented, but this so angered the Volscians that they murdered him. (In Collin, this becomes suicide.) Obviously a story like this probes the trials and tribulations UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG / (801) 533-NOTE

of a human soul, makes heroic attempts to resolve weighty issues, and involves the conflict of noble ideals (in this case, pride and love) - all themes close to Beethoven’s heart. In addition, Beethoven surely felt an affinity with Coriolanus’ qualities of individualism, daring, stubbornness and loneliness. The conflict raging in the hero’s soul is depicted in the contrast between the two principal themes of Beethoven’s Overture. Fourteen introductory bars set the mood by hurling forth stern unisons in the strings and defiant, slashing gestures from the full orchestra. The first main theme, in C minor, is full of restless, nervous energy, a theme of dark menace and angry expostulations. This eventually gives way to a soaring, lyrical idea in E-flat major that suggests to many listeners the desperate pleading of Coriolan’s mother and wife. Although Beethoven probably had no specific program in mind, the striking use of silences, the abrupt contrasts of agitation and lyricism, the rhythmic restlessness and inner turmoil of the music all coalesce in a magnificent character portrait.

HISTORY OF THE MUSIC

By Robert Markow

The Overture is in basic sonata form, though with a strange twist. The home tonality of C minor gives way to E-flat major for the contrasting second theme, a standard enough procedure. But the recapitulation arrives not in C minor but in a foreign key (F minor), an extremely rare occurrence. (Can Beethoven have been thinking of Mozart’s “easy” Piano Sonata in C, K. 545, where a parallel event occurs in F major?) The flowing second theme returns momentarily in C major, then reverts to minor. In the coda, which uses as its material the ideas of the fourteen-bar introduction, the real tragedy of Coriolanus receives graphic musical representation - there is no exit from his dilemma; he can select only from several wrong choices of action. “One can think of no other example in musical literature,” writes Klaus G. Roy, “where at the close the disintegration and collapse of a personality is more keenly captured; the main theme literally ‘comes apart at the seams,’ and all is lost.” Coriolanus’ overbearing pride has been his downfall; the former hero has been reduced to an object of scorn. The tragedy has run its course.

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By Jeff Counts

Concerto No. 3 in G Major for Violin and Orchestra, K. 216 Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings. Duration: 24 minutes in three movements (with pauses).

THE COMPOSER – WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791) – Mozart was 19 years old in 1775 when his 3rd violin concerto premiered in his native Salzburg where he was employed as a court musician. As prolific as he would become in the composition of piano concerti he wrote only five for the violin, all during the course of that single year (with the possible exception of the 1st which some scholars date in 1773).

THE MUSIC – History recalls Mozart so fondly as a pianist that we often forget he was also a suburb violinist. He began his string studies at the age of six and performed a concerto just one year later for the birthday celebration of the Archbishop of Salzburg. In an interesting bit of symmetry, it may well have been his violin playing that earned him employment in the court of a later Salzburg Archbishop, one Count Hieronymus Colloredo. Colloredo himself was a violinist of a sort but even with that point of mutual interest, theirs

was not to be a comfortable relationship. It is lucky that the violin concerti Mozart wrote during that tough period show none of the professional discomfort he endured, but we are left to assume that the end of his job in the Salzburg court and the end of his association with the violin as a performer are directly linked. Records of his possessions at the time of his death show that he no longer even owned one. Very little is known about the premiere of the lovely and perky 3rd Concerto but it is quite possible that the composer appeared as soloist. If Mozart did in fact perform the piece, his cadenzas from that concert are unfortunately lost to time but his affection for the instrument and intimate understanding of its virtuosic potential are not.

THE WORLD – 1775 was the year of Paul Revere’s ride and the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. James Watt completed and patented a successful prototype of his steam engine. Also in 1775, explorer James Cook would return from his historic voyage to the Antarctic.

THE CONNECTION – Utah Symphony has presented Mozart’s 3rd Violin Concerto no less than seven times since 1980, most recently in 2007 with Concertmaster Ralph Matson as soloist and fellow violinist Jaime Laredo on the podium.

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Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings Duration: 36 minutes in four movements.

THE COMPOSER – LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) – Beethoven’s impressive output is often divided by scholars into distinct periods – the Bonn years, the early years in Vienna, the “Heroic” middle period and of course the late period. It is no surprise that these categorizations correspond with big changes in the composer’s personal story and though he certainly never separated his work into such academic groupings, his stormy life made it possible for history to do so.

THE MUSIC – If the “Eroica” Symphony is the true centerpiece of the middle period of Beethoven, than the equally potent 7th Symphony must be remembered as its noble valediction. The premiere occurred in December of 1813 and the benefit concert for wounded soldiers was the most successful (and possibly oddest) of the composer’s life. On the program with the new symphony was the incredibly popular Wellington’s Victory, the most blatantly heroic piece Beethoven wrote during those middle years, and a pair of marches by Dussek and Pleyel performed by Johann Nepomuk Maelzel’s “mechanical trumpeter” invention. The

symphony was well-received but a bit lost among the technological gadgetry, the pre-existing enthusiasm for Wellington’s Victory and the general anti-Napoleon fervor of the occasion. It is interesting to consider how the 7th Symphony would be partly guilty of the same “shadowing” effect over the more slender 8th the following year, a clear indication that the 7th was much more than a “companion piece” to the Victory work and quickly destined for its own greatness. Another opportunity provided by history is the linking of Symphony No. 7 to the famous “Immortal Beloved” letters of 1812. The letters and symphony were written at the same time and it seems likely that the same depth of positive emotion informed them. For a man who already knew loss in a measure beyond what he deserved, it is thrilling to view Beethoven’s exuberant, celebratory A Major Symphony as the musical translation of a very real, if fleeting, happiness.

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THE WORLD – Aside from war, 1813 saw the formation of the Philharmonic Society in London, the publication of Pride and Prejudice and opera premieres of Rossini’s TANCREDI and L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI.

THE CONNECTION – Beethoven 7 is performed often by Utah Symphony on the Masterworks Series, most recently in 2011 as part of Maestro Thierry Fischer’s complete Beethoven Symphony Cycle.

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DON JUAN

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CONNER GRAY COVINGTON, conductor MARK DAVIDSON, trombone

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CONNER GRAY COVINGTON (ME) Symphony, and makes several Conductor appearances with the Utah Symphony including his return to their Masterworks Conner Gray Covington series. Covington makes his Utah Opera recently completed a debut conducting a production of Mozart’s four-year tenure with the Le nozze di Figaro and also collaborates Utah Symphony as Associate Conductor on a production of Gounod’s Roméo et and Principal Conductor of the Deer Juliette with Washington National Opera at Valley® Music Festival. During his tenure The Kennedy Center. Highlights of recent in Utah, he conducted nearly 300 seasons include appearances with the performances of classical subscription, symphonies of Kansas City, Nashville, education, film, pops, and family concerts Omaha, Rochester, San Diego, Sarasota, as well as tours throughout the state. In St. Louis, and Virginia as well as at the the 2023–2024 season, Covington debuts Bellingham Festival of Music, Grand Teton with the Tucson Symphony and returns to Music Festival, and New England the North Carolina Symphony, Portland Conservatory Opera.

MARK DAVIDSON Trombone

Mark Davidson, a native Texan, started playing the trombone at age 11. He began his studies under the guidance of James Wallace within the Plano, Texas school district music programs before attending the University of North Texas, where he received his Bachelor’s of Music Education in 2006. During his studies, Mark was a student of Jan Kagarice and Tony Baker, and received the Most Outstanding Undergraduate Award while studying at UNT. After graduation, he went on to attend The Juilliard School and studied with Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic. During this time, Mark also attended the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan and was the winner of the International Trombone

Association’s Lewis Van Haney Tenor Trombone Competition. In 2007, Mark was appointed Assistant Principal/Second Trombone of the San Antonio Symphony. In 2009, Mark was the Acting Second Trombonist of the Cincinnati Symphony and for the 2010 season, he was the Acting Principal Trombonist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In 2011, he returned to the San Antonio Symphony and also performed as a member of the San Antonio Brass Quintet. Most recently he joined the Utah Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2013 as Associate Principal/2nd Trombone and was appointed Principal Trombone during the 2015 season. He was elected by his musician colleagues to represent them on the USUO Board of Trustees and Executive Committee for a two-year term beginning September 2016 and served as Orchestra Committee chair during the 2017–18 Season.

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Richard Strauss (1864–1949): Don Juan Instrumentation: 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; strings; percussion Background Strauss’ most important compositions were tone poems such as Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel. In a sense, they were his symphonies; though he was Mahler’s best ally in that composer’s Promethean struggles with the post-Beethoven symphony, Strauss was more interested in dramatic narrative than in symphonic construction. And while his contemporaries Zemlinsky, Schoenberg and Berg suffered the fate of most pioneers and prophets, Strauss used his sheer virtuosity as a composer to earn a kind of honorary citizenship among the modernists. What to Listen For All of Strauss’ tone-poems are wordless, in contrast with many of Mahler’s epic compositions that were designated as symphonies but include sung texts. If the tone poems were not modern even in their day, we must still listen to them as if they were: their abundant motifs,

which range from deft touches to lush melodies, are embedded in dense chords whose slippery tonalities can change in mid-phrase. Don Juan was Strauss’ earliest major success, coming when he was only 24, and though it does not hew to any one specific version of the Don Juan tale, it demonstrates a knack that would serve Strauss well in all the narrative tone-poems that followed it: as we listen, colorful episodes seem to unfold in a colorful, visually suggestive detail. Somehow we can conceptualize the action without quite imagining who is behind the door. Strauss revered Mozart and loved opera—he would go on to become the 20th century’s most significant composer of German-language opera—and in the swooping, rollicking music of his Don Juan we hear the narrow escapes of Mozart’s Don. We also hear Strauss’ special way with the French horn, which expresses the Don’s romantic suavity. His flair for this instrument was no accident: Strauss’ father was Austria’s greatest hornist, and Strauss’ two great horn concertos are glories of the repertory.

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