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TONIGHT’S CONCERT
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Utah Symphony
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Administration
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Planned Giving
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WELCOME
In my short time in Utah, one thing has been remarkably clear: this state is filled with people who love and prioritize the arts. As your new President and CEO of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, I couldn’t be more honored and excited to serve our community as we work together to uphold and build upon the legacy of this unique organization.
Steven Brosvik President & CEO
While many industries have taken a massive hit because of COVID-19, the arts in particular came to a complete stand-still last spring. All of us had to face the tough question: How do we preserve the magic of live performance when we cannot congregate as a community in person? I am so proud of the tireless efforts of USUO’s Board, staff, musicians, and community for coming together to find a path which has returned live performances for distanced audiences back to our stages. I hope that you enjoy the creative programs we’re offering. They are designed not only to inspire, transport, and entertain you, but to do so with the safety of the public, our artists, and our staff as our foremost concern. We still have discoveries, decisions, and milestones ahead of us, but let us relish this moment together. Thank you for joining us in this communal experience of great live music. You play a leading role in fulfilling our mission, and the entire USUO family extends to you our heartfelt thanks. It is great to have you with us for this performance and we look forward to seeing you again and again this season.
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UTAH SYMPHONY Thierry Fischer, Music Director
The Maurice Abravanel Chair, endowed by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Conner Gray Covington Associate Conductor
VIOLA* Brant Bayless
Principal The Sue & Walker Wallace Chair
Barlow Bradford Symphony Chorus Director
Yuan Qi
VIOLIN* Madeline Adkins
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Elizabeth Beilman† Julie Edwards Joel Gibbs Carl Johansen Scott Lewis John Posadas Whittney Thomas
Concertmaster The Jon M. & Karen Huntsman Chair, in honor of Wendell J. & Belva B. Ashton
Kathryn Eberle
Associate Concertmaster The Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Chair
CELLO* Matthew Johnson
Ralph Matson†
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Acting Principal The J. Ryan Selberg Memorial Chair
Laura Ha
Andrew Larson
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Acting Associate Principal
John Eckstein Walter Haman Anne Lee Louis-Philippe Robillard Kevin Shumway Pegsoon Whang
David Park
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Claude Halter
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Wen Yuan Gu
BASS* David Yavornitzky
Associate Principal Second
Evgenia Zharzhavskaya
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PICCOLO Caitlyn Valovick Moore
TRUMPET Travis Peterson
OBOE James Hall
Jeff Luke
Principal The Gerald B. & Barbara F. Stringfellow Chair
Robert Stephenson Associate Principal
Lissa Stolz ENGLISH HORN Lissa Stolz CLARINET Tad Calcara
Lee Livengood BASS CLARINET Lee Livengood E-FLAT CLARINET Erin Svoboda-Scott BASSOON Lori Wike
Caitlyn Valovick Moore
Llewellyn B. Humphreys Brian Blanchard Stephen Proser
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* String Seating Rotates † On Leave
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Lisa Byrnes
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Sam Elliot
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PERCUSSION Keith Carrick
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James Allyn Andrew Keller Edward Merritt Jens Tenbroek Thomas Zera
FLUTE Mercedes Smith
TROMBONE Mark Davidson
Erin Svoboda-Scott
Karen Wyatt•• Joseph Evans LoiAnne Eyring Lun Jiang Rebekah Johnson Veronica Kulig David Langr Melissa Thorley Lewis Hannah Linz•• Yuki MacQueen Alexander Martin Rebecca Moench Hugh Palmer• David Porter Lynn Maxine Rosen Barbara Ann Scowcroft• Ju Hyung Shin• Bonnie Terry• Julie Wunderle
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TIMPANI George Brown
Corbin Johnston
HARP Louise Vickerman
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTED BOARD Thomas M. Love* Chair
David L. Dee* Alex J. Dunn Dr. Julie Aiken Hansen Senator Daniel Hemmert Stephen Tanner Irish Thomas N. Jacobson Abigail E. Magrane Brad W. Merrill Robin J. Milne Judy Moreton Dr. Dinesh C. Patel Frank R. Pignanelli Gary B. Porter Jason Price Shari H. Quinney Miguel R. Rovira Dr. Shane D. Stowell Naoma Tate Thomas Thatcher W. James Tozer Jr.
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David L. Brown (S. California)
Robert Dibblee (Virginia)
Marcia Price (Utah)
Anthon S. Cannon, Jr. (S. California)
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (Washington D.C.)
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USUO 2020 PANDEMIC ACTIVITIES
The Utah Symphony is thrilled to be back on the stage of Abravanel Hall! We express gratitude and thanks for the heartwarming support received from our community and colleagues during a time of uncertainty. While we haven’t been able to offer typical performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve still been busy finding ways to connect the community—from a distance—through great live music. Below, discover how Utah Symphony has brightened social media feeds, curated online educational resources, contributed to pandemic relief efforts, and even given world premieres of new pieces from home during quarantine. Within a week of Utah’s schools closing in March, our Education Department organized existing digital content, converted other items to be shared digitally, and developed new ideas to help support teachers, parents and students in our suddenly digital-only learning environment. Utah Symphony’s School from Home page now offers Virtual Assemblies, education videos featuring the Musicians of the Utah Symphony, symphony bingo, listening music scavenger hunts, and “Ask a Musician” boxes. In addition, the new Virtual Listening Room on utahsymphony.org includes links to streaming, curated playlists, past performance clips, and Ghost Light Podcast episodes. The latter series includes a special edition talking about the ways that music has connected humanity in times of crisis throughout history, as well as “Music Knows Exactly How You Feel” and “Live Music After Corona.”
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In April, our orchestra musicians, staff, opera chorus members, and our volunteer network teamed up to express thanks to all of our supporters who have donated tickets to cancelled performances and stepped up their donations to make sure this organization continues well into the future. The Utah Opera costume shop team also completed several hundred masks in just two weeks to donate to Salt Lake Regional Medical Center. KSL TV included our very own Tad Calcara (whose Good Mornin’ video on has 16,000+ shares and over 1 million views on Facebook) in a feature about the creative ways that people are finding to use music as salve during isolation. Tad’s other popular videos include arrangements of George Gershwin’s Somebody Loves Me and Irving Berlin’s Puttin’ on the Ritz. Four Utah Symphony trumpet players also
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Fanfare of Hope and Solidarity
recorded the theme song for ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ from their homes. Other creative musical endeavors shared by Utah Symphony musicians include Associate Principal Trombone Sam Elliot playing a Bach two-part invention with a ‘Sam Elliot from the past’; Violin Lynn Rosen playing Jean-Marie Leclair’s Sonata for Two Violins with herself; Associate Principal Clarinet Erin SvobodaScott playing all three parts of a klezmer folk tune; and Principal Trumpet Travis Peterson, with the aid of recent guest conductor Jerry Steichen (all the way from his living room in Manhattan), performing “The Lord’s Prayer” for Easter. Violin Yuki MacQueen took social distancing seriously by performing a duet from a distance of 2000 miles with a student of hers from Haiti, Alexandre Santya. Concertmaster Madeline Adkins also joined seven of her concertmaster
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colleagues from around the country to perform the slow movement of Bach’s Double Concerto in D Minor, all from their respective homes. In May, Utah Symphony shared a musical thank you to essential workers featuring Utah Symphony musicians playing Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. Governor Gary Herbert, Congressional Representative Ben McAdams, and Senator Luz Escamilla joined Utah Symphony Musical Director Thierry Fischer and Interim President & CEO Pat Richards in a special introduction to the glorious music by our musicians set to photos of the valiant healthcare workers, essential staff, and first responders risking their lives to help us through this stressful time. On May 8th, Utah Symphony celebrated our 80th anniversary! Our online birthday
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community. Humanity has and will always work together to further music’s flexible, diverse capacity and innate power. The magnificence and energy of massed musical resources, such as an orchestra, are humbling, inspiring, and exemplify hope, solidarity and teamwork.”
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party included interviews with Music Director Thierry Fischer, former orchestra members, and recent guest artist Augustin Hadelich; performances by Utah Symphony musicians; birthday wishes from previous guest artists; a special message from Interim President & CEO Pat Richards; and even cake! We hope that you were able to join the celebration. May also brought the two world premieres of pieces commissioned by Utah Symphony. First was Fanfare of Hope and Solidarity by Augusta Read Thomas. This piece was composed in late April and early May and recorded by the musicians of the orchestra in their homes, then audio engineered by Stoker White and Funk Studios and video produced and edited by Andrea Peterson. We believe this was the first world premiere by an American orchestra during the time of COVID-19. Thomas shared her thoughts on the project: “I believe music feeds our souls. Unbreakable is the power of art to build
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The second premiere was Longing from Afar by Dai Fujikura. This piece is about being together even when we’re physically apart, and was recorded live via a video conference. Fujikura drew inspiration for this piece by “considering how all musicians make sound together even when we are all physically far apart.” Both premieres are still available on the Utah Symphony Facebook and YouTube pages.
One of the most exciting announcements of the summer was of the 2021 Deer Valley Music Festival, a year in advance! If you bought tickets for the 2020 festival performances or the Temptations at Abravanel Hall, you will be sent new tickets for the corresponding 2021 concerts. For all of you who are dreaming of escaping into great live music in the mountains again, tickets for the 2021 festival are on sale now at deervalleymusicfestival.org. Another exciting announcement came in June, with the appointment of Steven Brosvik as the next President and CEO of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. Steve has many years’ experience in leadership roles with Baltimore Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Houston Symphony and Nashville Symphony. He loves “Being one of the people who helps support
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USUO 2020 PANDEMIC ACTIVITIES getting the music on the stage and supporting incredible musicians to be able to make that music for the audience.” Another wonderful opportunity to support USUO came thanks to the Alternative Visions Fund, an anonymous donor advised fund of the Chicago Community Foundation, which has awarded USUO a matching challenge grant in support of the Alternative Visions COVID-19 Relief Fund Challenge at USUO. All contributions received before October 1 will be matched on a 1:1 basis up to a total maximum match of $500,000. If you have been considering a contribution to USUO or increasing your annual gift, doing so before October 1 will make your investment go twice as far. In August, a new 5,000 square foot public art piece was unveiled in downtown Salt Lake City that celebrates the impact
of Utah women—past and present— in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The mural was commissioned by Zions Bank and is located on the east-facing wall of the Dinwoody Building located at 37 West 100 South. It includes current Utah Symphony musicians Concertmaster Madeline Adkins and Principal Flute Mercedes Smith, as well as long-time volunteer Lona Mae Lauritzen, and is a beautiful contribution to our community. At another small, outdoor Park City event this summer, one guest remarked, “It was a thrill to just hear a live performance. I had to wipe a tear away to hear such beautiful music.” We feel the same way, and hope you do tonight as well. Thank you for helping Utah Symphony to once again connect the community through great live music. Please enjoy our reimagined 2020–21 season!
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NOVEMBER 19–21 / 2020 / 7:30PM / ABRAVANEL HALL NOVEMBER 21 / 2020 / 1PM / ABRAVANEL HALL
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ARTIST’S PROFILE With a celebrated career encompassing five decades, Pinchas Zukerman reigns as one of today’s most sought after and versatile musicians - violin and viola soloist, conductor, and chamber musician. He is renowned as a virtuoso, admired for the expressive lyricism of his playing, singular beauty of tone, and impeccable musicianship, which can be heard throughout his discography of over 100 albums for which he gained two Grammy® awards and 21 nominations.
Pinchas Zukerman Conductor/Violin
Highlights of the 2019-2020 season included tours with the Vienna Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as guest appearances with the Boston, Dallas and Prague Symphonies, Berlin Staatskapelle, and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In his fifth season as Artistin-Residence of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, he toured with the ensemble to China and Korea, and recently premiered Avner Dorman’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, written for Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth. Subsequent performances of the important new work took place at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony, Ottawa with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, where Zukerman serves as Conductor Emeritus, and with the Israel Philharmonic. In chamber music, he traveled with the Zukerman Trio for performances throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia, and joined longtime friend and collaborator Daniel Barenboim for a cycle of the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano, presented in a three-concert series in Berlin. A devoted teacher and champion of young musicians, he has served as chair of the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music for over 25 years, and has taught at prominent institutions throughout the United Kingdom, Israel, China and Canada, among others. As a mentor he has inspired generations of young musicians who have achieved prominence in performing, teaching, and leading roles with music festivals around the globe. Mr. Zukerman has received honorary doctorates from Brown University, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Calgary, as well as the National Medal of Arts from President Ronald Reagan. He is a recipient of the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic Excellence in Classical Music. Mr. Zukerman has recorded for CBS Masterworks, Philips, Angle, Deutsche Grammophon, CBC Records, Altara, Biddulph Recordings, Sony, and BMG Classics/RCA Victor Red Seal.
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NOTES ON THE PROGRAM HEADER by Michael Clive Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)
Starburst Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award from the ASCAP Foundation, and her works are performed frequently around the world by leading musicians and ensembles. Her music interweaves classical music with elements of vernacular music, improvisation, language, and social justice, placing her squarely as one of the most relevant interpreters of 21st-century American sound and experience. Her profoundly felt works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life” (The Washington Post).
Jessie was born and raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1980s, when the neighborhood was at a turning point in its history, attracting artists interested in experimentation and community development. Her parents—her father a musician, her mother a theater artist and storyteller—were engaged in the activities of the neighborhood and regularly brought Jessie to rallies, performances, and parties where neighbors, activists, and artists gathered to celebrate and support the movements of the time. It is from this unique experience that Jessie has created a life that merges composing, performance, education, and advocacy. Since 1999, Jessie has been affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports young African-American and
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Latinx string players. She currently serves as composer-in-residence for the Sphinx Virtuosi, the Organization’s flagship professional touring ensemble. She was a two-time laureate of the annual Sphinx Competition and was awarded an MPower grant to assist in the development of her debut album, Strum: Music for Strings (Azica Records). She has received additional grants and awards from the ASCAP Foundation, Chamber Music America, American Composers Orchestra, the Joyce Foundation, and the Sorel Organization. Her growing body of work includes solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral works. Some recent highlights include Five Slave Songs (2018) commissioned for soprano Julia Bullock by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Records from a Vanishing City (2016) for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Caught by the Wind (2016) for the Albany Symphony and the American Music Festival, and Banner (2014)—written to mark the 200th anniversary of The Star-Spangled Banner—for The Sphinx Organization and the Joyce Foundation. In Starburst, a composition inspired by the idea of an exploding star, we might expect to encounter violent flashes and musical evocations of blinding light; instead, Jessie Montgomery gives us unstoppable, radiant energy that suggests the generative power of creativity and a universe shimmering with power and positivity. On her website, she notes: This brief one-movement work originally
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for string orchestra, and arranged for chamber ensemble by Jannina Norpoth, is a play on imagery of rapidly changing musical colors. Exploding gestures are juxtaposed with gentle fleeting melodies in an attempt to create a multidimensional soundscape. A common definition of a starburst: “the rapid formation of large numbers of new stars in a galaxy at a rate high enough to alter the structure of the galaxy significantly” lends itself almost literally to the nature of the performing ensemble who premieres the work, The Sphinx Virtuosi, and I wrote the piece with their dynamic in mind. Like Jessie Montgomery, Jannina Norpoth is a violinist. They are close friends and frequent collaborators. Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20 Only 21 miles of the English Channel separate the English town of Dover from the French town of Calais, but Great Britain’s musical traditions can seem far more distant from the European mainland. Who are the great British composers? Of course there are Purcell and the Germanborn Handel, an adopted favorite son, and the 20th-century giant Benjamin Britten, to name three. Many critics would include Sir Edward Elgar in this group. But Elgar felt that his own compositional style was more aligned with European
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influences; born in 1857, he was largely self-taught and kept his distance from British musical circles, which were dominated by academics and were suspicious of his Roman Catholic faith. But in the most famous photographic portrait of Elgar he appears every inch the English country squire—impeccably groomed, spectacularly mustachioed and posed as if to take his place as the lord of a stately home. In the graceful, lyrical strains of the E-Minor Serenade we hear Elgar’s special affinity for stringed instruments. He was an accomplished violinist, and among professional musicians and fans of classical music, his concertos for violin and cello are highly valued. But the Serenade gives us something that the more formal architecture of the concertos does not: a relaxed quality of wistful reflection that is quintessentially English. Elgar composed it in 1892, when he was about 35, and described it as “stringy”—a descriptor that’s accurate as far as it goes, yet also betrays a touch of false modesty, belying the lush smoothness of the sound-spell that the Serenade casts over us. More than one listener has described it as a wistful work that evokes a quality of lost memories somehow recaptured. Listen carefully and you’ll surely envision the preindustrial rolling hills of “England’s green and pleasant land.” It’s worth noting that Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian-born American violinist and composer, was among Elgar’s
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greatest admirers. In 1907, Kreisler told an interviewer: If you want to know whom I consider to be the greatest living composer, I say without hesitation Elgar... I say this to please no one; it is my own conviction... I place him on an equal footing with my idols, Beethoven and Brahms. He is of the same aristocratic family. His invention, his orchestration, his harmony, his grandeur, it is wonderful. And it is all pure, unaffected music. I wish Elgar would write something for the violin. Two years later, Elgar composed his superb violin concerto. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Bach’s instruments were the organ and clavichord, but he also composed works that showcase the sound of string and wind instruments, including two violin concertos. In his compositions for the modern (post-17th-century) violin and cello we hear not only his appreciation for their sound, but also his modern outlook: Advances in the technology of instruments were pointing the way toward more expressive playing that Bach seems to relish along with us. The stalwarts of our modern orchestra’s string section, the violin, viola and cello, were just developing their now-standard forms in
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Bach’s day. More familiar were the gamba instruments: fiddles of various sizes that rested upright on the floor like the modern cello or double-bass, or were held against the thigh (“gamba” means leg). The Baroque bow was convex rather than straight, and was strung more loosely than a modern bow—good for energetic bowings, not so good for subtle shadings. An affluent household might have a cabinet full of such instruments and bows—enough to comprise a “consort” to play a wide variety of music—just as we might have a piano today. While the convex bow and the early keyboard lend themselves to the characteristic Baroque spray of fast, virtuosic notes, Bach’s string compositions combine virtuosic display with more opportunities for individual expressiveness. And, of course, the versatility of Bach’s instrumental writing was such that it can be endlessly transcribed for other instruments. The happy result is a legacy of string suites and concertos that are the cornerstone of the modern string repertory as well as a fund of endless adaptation on other instruments. By the time Bach was writing music, a concerto could be almost any piece of music played by more than one instrument; among more than two hundred cantatas that he composed mostly for church performance, a number bear title pages that specify an introductory “concerto.” The word was employed by Ludovico Viadana in 1602 to denote “concerti eccliesiastici” for
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performance in sacred settings; they were also called “concerti da chiesa,” or church concertos, and were often written solely for organ; eventually, these works were expanded to include church singers, other instruments, or both. The musical innovator who carried this concept from the church to the concert salon may well have been Giuseppe Torelli, who published a “concerto da camera,” or chamber orchestra, in 1686, the year before Bach was born. It was scored for two violins and a bass. This was the foundation for work by Corelli, Geminiani, and Vivaldi—music’s beloved “Red Priest”—in developing the form. Baroque concertos are missing some of the compositional elements we take for granted in Classical and Romantic concertos, but that does not mean they are less sophisticated or less beautiful than those that came later; in fact, the more monumental concertos of the 19th century are lacking in some of the elements that Bach and Vivaldi put into theirs. Since the advent of the great Romantic concertos, we have come to expect the concerto to showcase the skill of a single soloist with virtuosic playing that conveys a sense of monumentality as it works its way through strenuous musical ideas. A sense of struggle is not out of place in many such concertos, conveying as they do the Romantic ideals of the soloist as an individual heroically countering the massed forces of the orchestra. Baroque concertos, by contrast, are more focused on the idea of contrasting a large group with a smaller
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group. The musical discourse is more balanced: Baroque composers knew that depending on how the musical materials are presented, either a large or a small group of players could be foregrounded in a composition or provide the foil for another group of players.
symphonies and concertos written before he turned 18, though they demonstrate incredible precocity in their mastery of form, are simply not on the level of the masterpieces to come. Today we might say that in 1774 he took it to the next level. What happened?
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Bach, in his concertos, deeply flattered Vivaldi. The German master’s unquenchable thirst for musical knowledge extended to Vivaldi’s concertos, which were written in an Italian style he learned through emulation— sometimes by literally copying Vivaldi’s scores. His A minor concerto holds a special place in the violin repertory: No composition in all of music offers more sheer enjoyment for an accomplished violinist to play. And don’t let the minor key signature mislead your ear: This music is positively buoyant in mood. It’s not just the concerto’s undeniable Italianate gorgeousness, but its sheer effervescence. Both listener and player revel in the flow of energy and the feel of the instrument when the music comes from so masterful a composer.
There’s no shortage of speculation on this subject. For one thing, a 1773 trip to Vienna exposed the adolescent Mozart to the stimulation of life in Europe’s cultural capital, and to many compositions by his friend Haydn, whose innovations in string quartets and symphonies challenged him. Then, too, the longtime child prodigy was simply maturing. And some opera fans—your intrepid annotator among them—point to the liberating effect of Mozart’s first major opera assignment, the madcap romantic farce La finta giardiniera, a major commission that came midway through 1774. Though Mozart had already composed some precocious early operas, they were relatively trivial, and he had been pestering his father for the chance to have his way with a juicy libretto libretto for years. The deficiencies he heard in other composers’ operas, he told father Leopold, drove him mad with eagerness to do something different and better, and the success of La finta giardiniera proved this wasn’t just idle talk: Finta surprised and delighted listeners with ideas that went beyond the usual operatic fare in their musical inventiveness and dramatic insight.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 We all know that Mozart’s early compositions show great facility. But are they great music? The consensus among musicologists is that his
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we hear the craft of a young but confident composer whose deference to the acknowledged masters in his field is giving way to his own thematic ideas and ways of developing them. In the monumental, indispensable The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, editor Stanley Sadie gives us a work-bywork account of this maturation, in which the symphonies of 1774 were especially important. Here is what he says about the Symphony No. 29: …No less of a landmark is the Symphony in A K201/186a, of April 1774—also personal in tone, perhaps indeed more individual in its combination of an intimate, chamber music style with a still fiery and impulsive manner. The gentle appoggiatura phrase and dipping octave of the opening is dramatized and intensified by its forte repetition with the bass instruments in imitation. The Andante, calling for muted strings, is no different its melodic style from several earlier ones, though it is more eloquent; here again the elaborated repetition intensifies the music. The finale has an unusually long development section, urgent in tone, with much use of string tremolando and imitation between basses and first violins. What we hear as we listen to this music is Mozart feeling free to follow his own stylistic impulses, applying his mastery of craft to do more with less. This symphony is a work of great restraint,
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but also considerable power. Consider: The orchestration is relatively modest, even for its day, and the introduction that Sadie calls “gentle” was daring at a time when grander, louder Sturm und Drang symphonies were in favor. Yet somehow the symphony creates intensity in its opening and then sustains it through craft. It is an amalgam of compositional mastery, Mozartean sunniness, and a hint of sweet melancholy—dispelled, in the end, by a triumphantly rising scale and brilliant horn calls.
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THANK YOU! During the time when concerts in Abravanel Hall, Capitol Theater, and the Deer Valley Music Festival were cancelled, the Excellence Concert Series featured Utah Symphony and Utah Opera musicians in live streamed concerts from the Gallivan Center. Thank you for featuring our musicians and giving us quality performance opportunities during this difficult time.
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