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Contents
March & April 2017 Performances
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6 Welcome
MARCH 4 | 7:30 PM
8 Utah Symphony
POKEMON SYMPHONIC EVOLUTIONS
10 Board of Trustees 15 Music Director 16 On the Brandenburg Concerto 18 Support USUO
MARCH 21 | 7:30 PM
20 Pre-concert Rituals
PINK MARTINI
22 A Look Ahead 26 A Post-Concert Talkback 29 Who We Are 30 Upcoming Concerts
MARCH 24–25 | 7:30 PM
33 Tagged & Hashtagged!
AN EVENING OF BACH
34 Season Sponsors 35–42 Today’s Concert(s) APRIL 7–8 | 7:30 PM
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
45 Legacy Giving 46 Tanner & Crescendo Societies 49 Season Honorees 54 Corporate & Foundation Donors 54 Individual Donors
APRIL 14–15 | 7:30 PM
58 Utah Symphony Guild
BRONFMAN PLAYS BEETHOVEN CONCERTO NOS. 3 & 4
62 Administration 67 House Rules 71 Education 72 Acknowledgments
APRIL 21–22 | 7:30 PM
74 Arts in Service to the Military
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
Program notes and artist bios for upcoming and past performances are available on utahsymphony.org.
APRIL 28–29 | 7:30 PM
BARBER’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
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Welcome
Photo Credit: Brandon Flint
Paul Meecham
Thierry Fischer
David Petersen
President & CEO
Symphony Music Director
Chair, Board of Trustees
Welcome to Abravanel Hall and today’s concert featuring the Utah Symphony. Since 1985, March has been designated Music in Our Schools month (MIOSM) across the nation. Sponsored by the National Association for Music Education, the purpose of MIOSM is to raise awareness of the importance of music education for all children—and to remind citizens that school is where all children should have access to music. Schools and community groups celebrate with creative activities and events. Here at USUO, our Education and Outreach initiatives provide the citizens of Utah with one of the most extensive arts education programs by a professional musical arts organization in the United States. Students enjoy the gift of live classical music and the inspiration to develop their own creative capabilities to enhance their lives. Genuine enthusiasm, confident determination, and artistry are vital skills demonstrated in our outreach programs, and we believe every student receives a unique experience by participating.
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The support we receive from the Utah State Legislature for our education programs is augmented by many individuals, corporations, and foundations, and we are very grateful to all those who believe in arts education. Nevertheless, especially at the district level, some public school music programs face budget cuts and are no longer considered essential, and we urge you as parents and residents to speak to your school education representatives as well as your legislators to emphasize the importance of supporting music in our schools. The arts in schools are one of the reasons Utah is such a wonderful place to live, and we want to keep it that way! Thank you for joining us today. When we see the excited faces of people entering and leaving Abravanel Hall, it is a wonderful reminder of the legacy of our education and outreach programs which have connected our community through great live music for several generations.
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Utah Symphony Thierry Fischer, Music Director / The Maurice Abravanel Chair, endowed by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Rei Hotoda Associate Conductor Barlow Bradford Symphony Chorus Director VIOLIN* Madeline Adkins 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 Ralph Matson Associate Concertmaster David Park Assistant Concertmaster Claude Halter Principal Second Wen Yuan Gu Associate Principal Second Karen Wyatt Acting Assistant Principal Second Leonard Braus• Associate Concertmaster Emeritus Jerry Chiu• Joseph Evans LoiAnne Eyring Lun Jiang Rebekah Johnson Tina Johnson†† Amanda Kofoed†† Hye Jin Koh†† Veronica Kulig David Langr Melissa Thorley Lewis Yuki MacQueen Alexander Martin Rebecca Moench Hugh Palmer• David Porter Lynn Maxine Rosen Barbara Ann Scowcroft• M. Judd Sheranian Lynnette Stewart Julie Wunderle VIOLA* Brant Bayless Principal The Sue & Walker Wallace Chair Roberta Zalkind Associate Principal
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Elizabeth Beilman Julie Edwards Joel Gibbs Carl Johansen Scott Lewis Christopher McKellar Whittney Thomas CELLO* Rainer Eudeikis Principal The J. Ryan Selberg Memorial Chair Matthew Johnson Associate Principal John Eckstein Walter Haman Andrew Larson Anne Lee Louis-Philippe Robillard Kevin Shumway Pegsoon Whang BASS* David Yavornitzky Principal
ENGLISH HORN Lissa Stolz
BASS TROMBONE Graeme Mutchler
CLARINET Tad Calcara Principal The Norman C. & Barbara Lindquist Tanner Chair, in memory of Jean Lindquist Pell
TUBA Gary Ofenloch Principal
Erin Svoboda Associate Principal
Eric Hopkins Associate Principal
Lee Livengood BASS CLARINET Lee Livengood E-FLAT CLARINET Erin Svoboda BASSOON Lori Wike Principal The Edward & Barbara Moreton Chair
Corbin Johnston Associate Principal
Leon Chodos Associate Principal
James Allyn Benjamin Henderson†† Edward Merritt Claudia Norton Jens Tenbroek Thomas Zera#
CONTRABASSOON Leon Chodos
HARP Louise Vickerman Principal FLUTE Mercedes Smith Principal The Val A. Browning Chair Lisa Byrnes Associate Principal Caitlyn Valovick Moore PICCOLO Caitlyn Valovick Moore OBOE Robert Stephenson Principal The Gerald B. & Barbara F. Stringfellow Chair James Hall Associate Principal
Jennifer Rhodes
HORN Edmund Rollett Acting Principal Alexander Love†† Acting Associate Principal Llewellyn B. Humphreys Brian Blanchard Stephen Proser TRUMPET Travis Peterson Principal Jeff Luke Associate Principal Peter Margulies Nick Norton
TIMPANI George Brown Principal
PERCUSSION Keith Carrick Principal Eric Hopkins Michael Pape KEYBOARD Jason Hardink Principal LIBRARIANS Clovis Lark Principal Maureen Conroy ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Nathan Lutz Interim Director of Orchestra Personnel STAGE MANAGEMENT Chip Dance Production & Stage Manager Jeff Herbig Properties Manager & Assistant Stage Manager • First Violin •• Second Violin * String Seating Rotates † Leave of Absence # Sabbatical †† Substitute Member
TROMBONE Mark Davidson Principal Sam Elliot†† Acting Associate Principal
Lissa Stolz
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Board of Trustees
ELECTED BOARD David A. Petersen* Chair
Naoma Tate Thomas Thatcher Craig C. Wagstaff Bob Wheaton Kim R. Wilson Thomas Wright
Jesselie B. Anderson Doyle L. Arnold* Dr. J. Richard Baringer Judith M. Billings Howard S. Clark Gary L. Crocker David Dee*
Alex J. Dunn Kristen Fletcher Kem C. Gardner* Lynnette Hansen Matthew S. Holland Thomas N. Jacobson Ronald W. Jibson* Tyler Kruzich Thomas M. Love R. David McMillan Brad W. Merrill Theodore F. Newlin III* Dee O’Donnell Dr. Dinesh C. Patel Frank R. Pignanelli Shari H. Quinney Brad Rencher Bert Roberts Joanne F. Shiebler* Diane Stewart
LIFETIME BOARD William C. Bailey Edwin B. Firmage Jon Huntsman, Sr. Jon Huntsman, Jr. G. Frank Joklik
Clark D. Jones Herbert C. Livsey, Esq. David T. Mortensen Scott S. Parker Patricia A. Richards
Harris Simmons Verl R. Topham M. Walker Wallace David B. Winder
TRUSTEES EMERITI Carolyn Abravanel Haven J. Barlow John Bates
Burton L. Gordon Richard G. Horne Warren K. McOmber
E. Jeffrey Smith Barbara Tanner
HONORARY BOARD Ariel Bybee Kathryn Carter R. Don Cash Bruce L. Christensen Raymond J. Dardano Geralyn Dreyfous Lisa Eccles
Spencer F. Eccles The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish Dr. Anthony W. Middleton, Jr. Edward Moreton Marilyn H. Neilson O. Don Ostler
Stanley B. Parrish Marcia Price David E. Salisbury Jeffrey W. Shields, Esq. Diana Ellis Smith Ardean Watts
NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL Joanne F. Shiebler Chair (Utah)
Susan H. Carlyle (Texas)
Harold W. Milner (Nevada)
David L. Brown (S. California)
Robert Dibblee (Virginia)
Marcia Price (Utah)
Anthon S. Cannon, Jr. (S. California)
Senator Orrin G. Hatch (Washington, D.C.)
William H. Nelson* Vice Chair Annette W. Jarvis* Secretary John D’Arcy* Treasurer Paul Meecham* President & CEO
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MUSICIAN REPRESENTATIVES
Mark Davidson* Lissa Stolz* EX OFFICIO
Carol Radinger Utah Symphony Guild Paul C. Kunz Ogden Symphony Ballet Association Judith Vander Heide Ogden Opera Guild *Executive Committee Member
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Music Director
Music Director of the Utah Symphony since 2009 and currently extended to 2019, Thierry Fischer has revitalized the orchestra with creative programming, critically acclaimed performances, and new recordings. Highlights of his tenure include a multi-season Haydn symphony cycle; Mahler, Beethoven and Nielsen cycles; and a tour of Utah’s five national parks. In celebration of its 75th anniversary season, the orchestra appeared at Carnegie Hall in April 2016 to critical acclaim and released an album of newly commissioned works by Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, and Augusta Read Thomas on Reference Recordings. Following a well-reviewed Mahler 1 CD, they recorded Mahler’s 8th Symphony in Utah with the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir, due for release later this season.
Thierry Fischer Music Director The Maurice Abravanel Chair, endowed by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation
In September 2016 Fischer was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, starting January 2017 and running concurrently with his Utah position for an initial three years. He will visit Seoul at least four times a season and will play an important role in the artistic planning. In Summer 2016 Fischer toured with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and debuted at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and at the Maggio Musicale Festival in Florence. Guesting in the past couple of years has also included the Boston, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Detroit Symphonies, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteumorchester, Munich Chamber, Swedish Chamber and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, as well as the BBC Symphony at the Barbican and the London Sinfonietta. In Autumn 2016 he conducted the Sao Paulo Philharmonic—his first visit to South America. Fischer started out as Principal Flute in Hamburg and at the Zurich Opera. His conducting career began in his 30s when he replaced an ailing colleague, subsequently directing his first few concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe where he was Principal Flute under Claudio Abbado. He spent his apprentice years in Holland, and became Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra 2001–06. He was Chief Conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic 2008–11, making his Suntory Hall debut in Tokyo in May 2010, and is now Honorary Guest Conductor.
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On the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 By Mercedes Smith, Principal Flute
A native of Texas, Mercedes Smith served as the Principal Flutist for Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestras for nearly a decade before joining the Utah Symphony as Principal Flute in 2012. She describes her instrument’s role in Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, performed during “An Evening of Bach” March 24 and 25 with guest conductor and pianist Richard Egarr and Utah Symphony Concertmaster Madeline Adkins.
Intimate Conversations The flute is one of three solo instruments featured in Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, along with the violin and harpsichord. The second movement is written very intimately for only the trio of solo instruments without string accompaniment. In this movement each voice is of equal importance and the music is very conversational in nature.
Love at First Sight I actually started out playing the recorder (the historical predecessor of our modern day flute) simply because my mother had one stowed away in the piano bench from her own childhood. I taught myself the recorder for a year or so before switching to the flute when I began playing in my public school band program. I can’t remember what exactly drew me to the flute, but it was certainly love at first sight!
Getting the Low Down The Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 was one of the first works to be specified for the transverse flute instead of recorder during the Baroque era. The transverse flute during Bach’s time, made of wood with seven finger holes and only one key, produced a very mellow and sweet tone. The range of the transverse Baroque flute was somewhat more limited than that of the modern flute we hear today, and thus, in this work, you will hear the flute played mostly in the lower and middle registers.
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GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky’s “Little Russian” & Prokofiev with Conrad Tao
A centennial birthday celebration of the great American conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein
U.S. Premiere, Utah Symphony Commission Reflections / Reflets III by Tristan Murail
Maestro Fischer and the Utah Symphony will become the first American orchestra to record all of the symphonies by the revered French master Saint-Saëns
Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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Students participate during an interactive portion of a 5th Grade Concert at Abravanel Hall
Thank you for joining Utah Symphony | Utah Opera for a concert this spring. We sincerely appreciate your support as a patron! We ask that you take that support a step further, with a donation to our Annual Fund. In addition to our mainstage performances, our education and outreach programs allow us to connect over 140,000 children across the state of Utah every single year. We visit each of Utah’s 41 school districts on a three- to five-year rotation. We also perform in the community for a variety of audiences, including those with autism, vision impairment, memory loss, and other special needs. In February and March, the orchestra played our annual 5th Grade Concerts, where thousands of students from across the Wasatch Front join us at Abravanel Hall for an outstanding concert. Not only do these concerts support the teaching of the fifth grade music curriculum, they draw upon cross-curricular ties to other content areas, and provide an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear the Utah Symphony perform a concert especially designed for the fifth grade age group. To offer our education and outreach programs free of charge and to keep our tickets affordable, we rely on donations from patrons like you. Please donate today by visiting usuo.org/give or by calling our Development staff at 801-869-9015.
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2017 Plays
June 29 – October 21
As You Like It Shakespeare in Love Romeo and Juliet Guys and Dolls A Midsummer Night’s Dream Treasure Island The Tavern William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) How To Fight Loneliness
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Pre-concert Rituals By Renée Huang, Public Relations Director
Professional musicians often spend much of their lives on the road performing in concert venues around the globe. Amid the hectic travel schedules, rehearsals, practice time and adjustments to a different time zone, culture and climate, regular routine is sacrificed. We asked three of our guest artists to share what pre-concert rituals help keep them grounded. “I don’t really do anything special but eating chocolate is always nice before the concert. And I just need to talk to somebody around me before going on stage. It makes me feel calm.” FUMIAKI MIURA, Violin
“My main focus before going on stage is always to get to the hall with plenty of time to warm up my fingers. Being quiet and calm helps my concentration so that I can give my best in the service of the music.” YEFIM BRONFMAN, Piano
“You’ll always find a banana and nuts in my dressing room before a concert, and fresh ginger tea, which I carry around in the thermos I travel with. It helps to keep my body warm when the backstage is cold, which is quite frequent. I’ve become more and more aware of the body-mind-soul connection, and am finding that strengthening my body, away from the violin, matters almost as much as the time I spend practicing and warming up before a concert. Generally I do the more vigorous workouts in the days leading up to the concerts, but on the day of the concert, I do a gentle and sweet version of yoga, and give myself a moment to meditate. Also, my phone tends to get neglected on concert days; I like to stay in my quiet, focused little bubble!” KAREN GOMYO, Violin
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A Look Ahead Memorable Moments at Abravanel Hall Pink Martini with singer China Forbes Portland’s favorite “little orchestra,” featuring singer China Forbes, returns to Abravanel Hall on March 21 for a colorful and classy evening. Experience their cosmopolitan blend of vintage pop, jazz, classical and global styles when they join the Utah Symphony for this special event concert.
Music from Bach with Richard Egarr British conductor Richard Egarr, Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music, is known for his “muscular and strong Bach performances” (Audiophile Audition). On March 24–25, Utah audiences experience his joyful sense of music-making first hand as he leads an evening of Bach’s music, including his Third and Fourth Orchestral Suites, Piano Concerto in D Minor, and Brandenburg Concerto No. 5.
Yefim Bronfman completes the Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle Witness the astonishing talent of pianist Yefim Bronfman, whose playing has been described as “a finely spun whirl of notes that verged on the unbelievable” (The Los Angeles Times), on April 14–15 as he performs Beethoven’s Third and Fourth piano concertos in a single evening.
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A Look Ahead Karen Gomyo performs Barber’s Violin Concerto Violinist Karen Gomyo has been hailed as “a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity” (Chicago Tribune). On April 28–29, she returns to perform Barber’s Violin Concerto—a piece so explosive, the composer had to prove to his commissioner that the finale was not, indeed, unplayable.
Family Concerts Return! Our Family Series returns with two Saturday morning performances that are perfect for young children. On March 18, a mischievous street musician finds herself thrust into the role of Mozart as Magic Circle Mime Company presents Mozart’s life as a musical, human adventure. Then, on April 22, Classical Kids LIVE! magically weaves music into the story of a chance meeting on the streets of New York City between a poor newspaper boy and the great American composer George Gershwin.
Save the Date – An Evening with Renée Fleming The Utah Symphony’s 2017–18 season was announced in February, and among the highlights is a September 13 gala performance with international opera sensation Renée Fleming. Save the date for this celebration in honor of Utah Opera’s 40th Anniversary Season. Tickets are on sale now to 2017–18 season subscribers. Single tickets are available starting June 20.
Read ahead about our upcoming performances. Program notes and artist biographies for upcoming concerts are available online at www.utahsymphony.org.
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A Post-Concert Talkback in Your Own Living Room
We hope you take this performance home with you. If not in the shape of something from the Utah Symphony Guild Gift Shop, then in continued conversation with your friends, family and those who shared in your experience. Keep the discussion going! Here are some topics we can suggest:
• March 24–25 | The music of J.S. Bach serves as a perfect vehicle for an analysis of social, cultural, intellectual, and religious changes in Europe from the 17th to the 18th centuries, and reveals fascinating elements of both European and world history. Is there a modern composer that you feel inspires the same analysis today? • April 7–8 | Modest Mussorgsky composed his Pictures at an Exhibition to perpetuate the memory of a friend. What pictures or pieces of art would you place in a gallery to represent your life or a friend’s? • April 14–15 | Playing until your fingers bleed isn’t just an expression. After Yefim Bronfman played Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, his piano was left with bloody fingerprints due to an earlier injury and a determination that the show must go on. Is there a piece of music that would inspire this dedication on your part? • April 28–29 | Critics and musicologists say that Samuel Barber transcended the stylistic trends of the mid-20th century. This soft-spoken, modest composer had the integrity and sheer will to write the best music he knew how to write, ignoring fads and fashions. What composers or artists do you see fighting fads and fashions today and what is your opinion of those swimming figuratively upstream? Visit “The Musicians Lounge” to read behind the scenes interviews with our artists and musicians which might inspire additional conversations. utahsymphony.org/blog/
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Who We Are
Founded during the Great Depression as a Works Progress Administration orchestra under Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Utah Symphony today is the premier provider of symphonic music in the Intermountain West and one of only 15 year-round professional orchestras in the nation. Recognized as a leading American ensemble largely because of the efforts of Maurice Abravanel (Music Director 1947–1979), the Utah Symphony released over 100 recordings during his tenure, including the first complete recording of all of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies by an American orchestra. Named the orchestra’s seventh music director in 2009, Thierry Fischer renewed the orchestra’s commitment to Abravanel’s legacy of artistic excellence and an active recording schedule, as evidenced by the recent, live recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 “Titan” (2015) and the release of three Utah Symphony commissions by American composers Andrew Norman, Nico Muhly, and Augusta Read Thomas (2016). Building on a history of seven international tours, Maestro Fischer and the Utah Symphony presented the nationally covered Mighty 5® Tour in 2014, visiting all five national parks
in Utah and, in 2016, impressed audiences at New York City’s esteemed Carnegie Hall. Under Maestro Fischer’s inspiring leadership, the Utah Symphony features leading musicians and internationally recognized soloists through refreshed and ambitious programming; as a result, the orchestra is attracting increased audiences and unprecedented community support. In addition to more than 65 subscription concerts in its home venue, Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, the Utah Symphony plays for Utah Opera’s four annual productions for 20 opera performances; presents the six-week Deer Valley® Music Festival each summer in Park City, Utah; and performs numerous outreach concerts throughout the state, drawing an audience of over 350,000 each year. The 40+ education outreach programs developed by Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (USUO), the orchestra’s parent organization, reach approximately 140,000 students annually from all Utah school districts in more than 240 educational outreach performances and activities. With its many subscription, education, and outreach concerts and tours, the Utah Symphony is one of the most engaged orchestras in the nation.
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/ UPCOMING UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA PERFORMANCES: Rhapsody in Blue May 5 & 6
7:30 PM / ABRAVANEL HALL
Kazuki Yamada, conductor COPLAND GERSHWIN RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Benyamin Nuss, piano
El Salón México Rhapsody in Blue Scheherazade
WE ALL LOVE THE FAMOUS OPENING GLISSANDO.
We all love the energy. Now, we can love the live experience as the Utah Symphony, featuring guest pianist and composer Benyamin Nuss, delivers a solid, sensitive, nuanced performance.
Mozart’s Don Giovanni May 13, 15, 17 & 19 7:30 PM May 21 2 PM - SUNDAY MATINÉE / JANET QUINNEY LAWSON CAPITOL THEATRE Christopher Larkin, conductor Kristine McIntyre, director / Joshua Hopkins, Don Giovanni Melinda Whittington, Donna Anna / Aaron Blake, Don Ottavio Matthew Burns, Leporello / Erica Brookhyser, Donna Elvira Sarah Coit, Zerlina / Markel Reed, Masetto Richard Wiegold, Commendatore Utah Opera Chorus HE TAKES WHAT HE WANTS. And gets what he deserves. Whether it’s an act of lust or an act of violence, Don Giovanni does whatever he wants, to whomever he pleases. You might be surprised by how much his angst and unrest resonate with you in this hypnotic tale of a man who refuses to change, damn the consequences.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles PHOTO: Cory Weaver for Lyric Opera of Kansas City
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All-Star Evening: Dvořák’s Violin Concerto May 23
7 PM / ABRAVANEL HALL
Rei Hotoda, conductor
Karen Ferry, violin
Musicians selected from Area Youth Orchestras DVOŘÁK
Violin Concerto
WITNESS THE TALENT OF UTAH’S YOUNG MUSICIANS!
Hear teen violinist Karen Ferry, chosen as the All-Star soloist at the annual Salute to Youth audition, perform Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. Then, talented high school instrumentalists perform side-by-side with the Utah Symphony in this annual tradition.
The Rite of Spring May 26 & 27
7:30 PM / ABRAVANEL HALL
Thierry Fischer, conductor TCHAIKOVSKY VARÈSE STRAVINSKY
Simone Porter, violin
Souvenir d’un lieu cher Amériques The Rite of Spring
GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR PRIMAL SIDE.
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring incited a riot during its premiere in Paris over a century ago. Now, when it’s performed by the Utah Symphony, its savage, propulsive sound will have you sitting on the edge of your seat.
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Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Jeanné Wagner Theatre The real fight begins when a soldier comes home. Opera becomes overwhelmingly personal in this contemporary story of an American soldier coping with blast-induced traumatic brain injury after he returns home from duty in Iraq. Based on the book The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows, Brian Castner’s best-selling memoir, this opera offers a visceral look at the realities of modern warfare and the unseen battles that rage inside our hearts. Commissioned by American Lyric Theater.
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Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
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Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions
Embark on an Epic Musical Journey!
March 4 / 2017 / 7:30PM / ABRAVANEL HALL PRODUCED BY PRINCETON ENTERTAINMENT CHAD SEITER, Conductor
The Program tonight includes selections from recent and classic Pokémon video games, including: Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue Pokémon Yellow Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver Pokémon Crystal Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire Pokémon Emerald Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl Pokémon Platinum Pokémon Black and Pokémon White Pokémon X and Pokémon Y
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Chad Seiter is an American composer living in Los Angeles, California. Seiter has worked on some of the largest scale projects to come out of video games, television and film in the past 10 years. He has provided compositions, arrangements and orchestrations to some of Hollywood’s biggest projects, including Lost and Alias (ABC), Star Trek and Mission: Impossible III (Paramount), and the Medal of Honor video game series. A frequent collaborator with J.J. Abram’s production company Bad Robot, he composed music for the first season of the hit show Fringe, and LucasArt’s Fracture. Earlier in 2013, Chad composed 120 minutes of music for Star Trek: The Video Game, which featured a 123-piece orchestra, one of the largest orchestras to record a video game to date. Chad’s music has long been inspired from a hybrid of hit Hollywood film music and classic Japanese video game scores. Chad Seiter Composer/Conductor
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After most recently completing the popular concert tour The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, to which he served as lead arranger and music director, he has moved on to be Associate Executive Producer at Princeton Entertainment. It is here that he was involved in the creation of their new concert tour, Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions, to which he continues to serve as lead arranger and music director.
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Jeron Moore is an American producer currently based in Portland, Oregon, and splits his time between the video game, film, and concert touring industries. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Jeron spent his college years in Los Angeles during film school, studying at both the University of Southern California and California State University, where he graduated in 2005 with a degree in film and television directing and producing. Since that time, he’s made a broad spectrum of contributions in the video game industry, ranging from video production to music direction, supervision and editing for companies including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Take Two Interactive, 2K Games, Human Head Studios, 3D Realms Entertainment, NC Soft, ArenaNet, Namco and Black Hole Games. Jeron also served as album producer on over 12 soundtrack albums for British Academy Awardwinning composer Jeremy Soule, including highly acclaimed Jeron Moore scores for the Guild Wars franchise, The Elder Scrolls III: Producer Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Dungeon Siege 2, Supreme Commander, Prey, Order of War, IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, and Gaia Interactive’s Monster Galaxy. In 2008, Jeron was brought on as producer for Play! A Video Game Symphony, a touring concert series featuring orchestral performances from video game titles including HALO, World of Warcraft, Dragon Age, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, The Elder Scrolls, Guild Wars, Chrono Trigger, and more. Following the success of Play!, Jeron served as producer and lead creative on The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Symphony in 2011, as well as album producer for the Special Audio CD that shipped with over 3.42 million copies of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. In 2012, Jeron and his team followed up the success of the 25th Anniversary Symphony events with The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses world tour, which continued for over 95 performances worldwide before concluding in San Jose with the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra in December 2013. In June 2014, Jeron’s latest project, Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions, was announced in partnership with The Pokémon Company and premiered to a sold out audience on August 15th during the 2014 Pokémon World Championships in Washington, DC. Jeron currently works with his team at Princeton Entertainment as an Associate Executive Producer.
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About Princeton Entertainment Princeton Entertainment has earned an international reputation as a premier producer of concerts combining orchestras with popular recording artists and other elements. Princeton’s productions have set the bar for exciting, new, and creative performances with stars as varied as James Taylor, Idina Menzel, Andrea Bocelli, Aretha Franklin, and Trey Anastasio; its orchestra partners include the New York Philharmonic, The Royal Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and its own American Festival Orchestra. Last year, after signing and completing a touring agreement for The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, two of its key creators, Jeron Moore and Chad Seiter, joined Princeton Entertainment. Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions is the first production from this exciting new creative team. Current touring plans call for the production to reach five continents. About Pokémon The Pokémon Company International, a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages the property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children’s entertainment properties in the world. For more information, visit www.pokemon.com. “Young or old, your Poké journey begins and it’s glorious…Go experience this once in a lifetime event.” – iDigital Times “Diehard fans will relish in seeing their beloved childhood memories played out in front of them.” – Game Music Online “It’s something purely magical that you just need to experience firsthand.” – Hardcore Gamer
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Pink Martini
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Pink Martini March 21 / 2017 / 7:30PM / ABRAVANEL HALL THOMAS M. LAUDERDALE, Piano CHINA FORBES, Vocals GAVIN BONDY, Trumpet ACHILLES LIARMAKOPOULOS, Trombone NICHOLAS CROSA, Violin PHIL BAKER, Upright bass DAN FAEHNLE, Guitar TIMOTHY NISHIMOTO, Vocals and Percussion BRIAN DAVIS, Congas and Percussion MIGUEL BERNAL, Congas and Percussion REINHARDT MELZ, Drums and Percussion
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In 1994 in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Thomas Lauderdale was working in politics, thinking that one day he would run for mayor. Like other eager politicians-intraining, he went to every political fundraiser under the sun…but was dismayed to find the music at these events underwhelming, lackluster, loud and un-neighborly. Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world—crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop—and hoping to appeal to conservatives and liberals alike, he founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994 to provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes such as civil rights, affordable housing, the environment, libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks. One year later, Lauderdale called China Forbes, a Harvard classmate who was living in New York City, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together. Their first song “Sympathique” became an overnight sensation in France, was nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards, and to this day remains a mantra (“Je ne veux pas travailler” or “I don’t want to work”) for striking French workers. Featuring a dozen musicians, Pink Martini performs its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras 40
throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Northern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America and North America. Pink Martini made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony in 1998 under the direction of Norman Leyden. Since then, the band has gone on to play with more than 50 orchestras around the world, including multiple engagements with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Frank Gehrydesigned Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year’s Eve; four sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Governor’s Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia; multiple sold-out appearances and a festival opening at the Montréal Jazz Festival; two sold-out concerts at Paris’ legendary L’Olympia Theatre in 2011; and Paris’ fashion house Lanvin’s 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012. In its 20th year, Pink Martini was inducted into both the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame and the Oregon Music Hall of Fame. SPECIAL EVENT
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Thomas Lauderdale was raised in rural Indiana and began piano lessons at age six. When his family moved to Portland in 1982, he began studying with Sylvia Killman, who remains his coach and mentor today. At the age of 14, he made his first appearance with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Norman Leyden.
Thomas Lauderdale Piano
Active in Oregon politics since he was student body president at Grant High School, Thomas served under Portland Mayor Bud Clark and Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt. In 1991, he worked under Portland City Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury on the drafting and passage of the city’s civil rights ordinance. He graduated with honors from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature in 1992. He spent most of his collegiate years, however, in cocktail dresses, taking on the role of “cruise director,” throwing waltzes with live orchestras and ice sculptures, disco masquerades, and operating a Tuesday night coffeehouse called Café Mardi. Instead of running for political office, Lauderdale founded Pink Martini in 1994 to play political fundraisers for progressive causes such as civil rights, the environment and affordable housing. Now in its 21st year, Pink Martini and Lauderdale are Oregon’s “musical ambassadors to the world,” performing a multilingual repertoire on concert stages from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to Royal Albert Hall, and with more than 50 symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the Americas. The band has released nine albums on its own label Heinz Records, most recently Dream a Little Dream, a collaboration with The von Trapps. Lauderdale currently serves on the boards of the Oregon Symphony and Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon.
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China Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she graduated cum laude from Harvard and was awarded the Jonathan Levy Prize for acting. She appeared in New York regional theatre and offoff Broadway productions, earning her Equity card alongside future stars of stage and screen such as Norm Lewis, Peter Jacobson and Rainn Wilson. In 1994 she put her first band together and played regularly at NYC clubs CBGB’s Gallery, Mercury Lounge and Brownies. Her first solo album Love Handle was released in 1995 and she was chosen to sing “Ordinary Girl,” the theme song to the TV show Clueless.
China Forbes Vocals
At that same time she was plucked from New York City by Harvard classmate Thomas Lauderdale to sing with Pink Martini, and has since written many of Pink Martini’s most beloved songs with Lauderdale, including “Sympathique,” “Lilly,” “Clementine,” “Let’s Never Stop Falling in Love,” “Over the Valley” and most recently “A Snowglobe Christmas,” which can be heard on Pink Martini’s holiday album Joy to the World. Her original song “Hey Eugene” is the title track of Pink Martini’s third album and many of her songs can also be heard on television and film. She sang “Que Sera Sera” over the opening and closing credits of Jane Campion’s film In the Cut and her original song “The Northern Line” appears at the end of sister Maya Forbes’ directorial debut Infinitely Polar Bear (Sony Pictures Classics 2015). With Pink Martini, China has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Later with Jools Holland. She has performed songs in over 12 languages and has sung duets with Michael Feinstein, Jimmy Scott, Georges Moustaki, Henri Salvador, Saori Yuki, Faith Prince, Carol Channing and Rufus Wainwright. She has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl to the Grand Rex in Paris. She released her second solo album ’78 on Heinz Records in 2008, a collection of autobiographical folk-rock songs. In the spring of 2011 China took a leave of absence from Pink Martini to undergo surgery on her vocal chords and to spend time with her son. Thankfully all went very well and she is thrilled to be back on stage singing every chance she gets.
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Administration ADMINISTRATION Paul Meecham President & CEO David Green Senior Vice President & COO Julie McBeth Executive Assistant to the CEO Jessica Chapman Executive Assistant to the COO & Office Manager
Melissa Klein Director of Individual Giving Alina Osika Manager of Corporate Partnerships Lisa Poppleton Grants Manager Kate Throneburg Manager of Individual Giving Heather Weinstock Manager of Special Events
SYMPHONY ARTISTIC Thierry Fischer Symphony Music Director Anthony Tolokan Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning Rei Hotoda Associate Conductor Barlow Bradford Symphony Chorus Director Nathan Lutz Interim Director of Orchestra Personnel Lance Jensen Executive Assistant to the Music Director and Symphony Chorus Manager
Steven Finkelstein Development Coordinator
SYMPHONY OPERATIONS Jeff Counts Vice President of Operations & General Manager Cassandra Dozet Director of Operations Chip Dance Production & Stage Manager Jeff Herbig Properties Manager & Assistant Stage Manager Melissa Robison Program Publication & Front of House Manager Erin Lunsford Artist Logistics Coordinator 0PERA ARTISTIC Christopher McBeth Opera Artistic Director Michael Spassov Opera Chorus Master Carol Anderson Principal Coach Michelle Peterson Opera Company Manager Mandi Titcomb Opera Production Coordinator DEVELOPMENT Leslie Peterson Vice President of Development Hillary Hahn Senior Director of Institutional Gifts Natalie Cope Director of Special Events & DVMF Community Relations
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Youth Guild members prepared for months in dedicated practice. Auditions in March selected a wonderful array of talents and repertoire for you to enjoy. Join us for the Youth Guild Recital, which is free and open to the public.
High schooler Karen Ferry from Brigham City, Utah, solos with the Utah Symphony playing Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. In the second half of the program students from eleven different youth orchestras sit sideby-side with the musicians of the Utah Symphony. Rei Hotoda conducts the concert. For tickets, visit utahsymphony.org or call 801-533-6683
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Our 2016–17 cultural festival shines a spotlight on veterans and current military, focusing on ways our arts community can appreciate and support them. As part of this festival, many local arts organizations will present events on military themes and will also provide access for active and separated military personnel to a variety of arts performances. We will also draw attention to veterans’ active art-making as a means of self-expression. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
The Western US Premiere of The Long Walk by Utah Opera Guest writer events with Brian Castner, author of the memoir The Long Walk Performances and events based on military experiences, produced by Salt Lake Acting Company, Art Access, Ballet West, U of U Creative Writing, and more Annual Veterans Creative Arts Festival at the VA SLC Medical Center Free/discounted tickets to performances and other events for veterans and current military FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT
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