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Contents
May 2017 Performances
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6 Welcome 8 Utah Symphony 10 Board of Trustees 15 Music Director 16 Access to Music 20 Professional Outreach Programs 26 A Post-Concert Talkback 29 Who We Are 30 Season Sponsors 31–38 Today’s Concert(s)
MAY 5–6 | 7:30 PM
RHAPSODY IN BLUE 39 Legacy Giving 41 Support USUO 42 Tanner & Crescendo Societies 44 Season Honorees 46 Corporate & Foundation Donors 47 Individual Donors 54 Administration 59 House Rules 63 Education 64 Acknowledgments MAY 23 | 7:30 PM
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Welcome
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On behalf of the musicians, board, and staff of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is our pleasure to welcome you to Abravanel Hall and tonight’s concert. It’s hard to believe we’re already approaching the close of our 2016–17 season and we hope you’ve enjoyed your great live music experiences with us as much as we’ve enjoyed bringing them to you. As the warm weather returns, please consider joining us at our summer home at the Deer Valley® Music Festival this July and August. Escape into the music with us to enjoy the world-class talent from our own Utah Symphony, paired with the best in classic rock, country, show tunes, pop, jazz, and of course, chamber and classical music in the mountain charm of Park City.
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And later this summer, the Utah Symphony with Music Director Thierry Fischer will embark on our Great American Road Trip! Similar to our 2014 tour of Utah’s Mighty 5™ National Parks, the tour will include a series of unforgettable free outdoor concerts August 28–September 2, performing in smaller, rural communities set against the backdrop of Utah’s great landscapes. You can learn more about the tour on page 28. Thank you again for joining us today and we hope to see you at this summer’s Deer Valley® Music Festival, on the Great American Road Trip tour, and all of next season as we return to the spectacular acoustics and setting of Abravanel Hall!
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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
TIMPANI George Brown Principal
PERCUSSION Keith Carrick Principal Eric Hopkins Michael Pape KEYBOARD Jason Hardink Principal LIBRARIANS Clovis Lark Principal
Corbin Johnston Associate Principal
Leon Chodos Associate Principal
James Allyn Benjamin Henderson†† Edward Merritt Claudia Norton Jens Tenbroek Thomas Zera#
CONTRABASSOON Leon Chodos
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Walt Zeschin Director of Orchestra Personnel
HORN Edmund Rollett Acting Principal
Andrew Williams Orchestra Personnel Manager
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
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Alexander Love†† Acting Associate Principal Llewellyn B. Humphreys Brian Blanchard Stephen Proser TRUMPET Travis Peterson Principal Jeff Luke Associate Principal Peter Margulies Nick Norton TROMBONE Mark Davidson Principal
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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
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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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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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Kathryn McDonald-Poelman highlights the Lyon family and the way the “Access to Music” concerts have impacted their lives. The Lyon family is being recognized for their years of service and participation in USUO education programs and concerts. In this remarkable family of six, the love for their children and their connection with music as a source of healing in their lives is apparent. Paula Fowler, USUO’s Director of Education and Community Outreach, has said, “They are an indispensable, joyful part of our Utah Opera extended family. They are a family where everyone is born with music in the veins.” The Lyon family is unlike most families you may ever meet. They are a very musical family and have two sons with autism. But what is most remarkable about them is their outlook on life and the perspective they carry with them in their unique family dynamic, including their 16-year-old son Jarrett, who is nonverbal and requires full-time care. Blair and Kara Lyon have four sons in total who have all been musically active, including Jarrett whom Blair describes as very “musically sensitive.” Their oldest son Allyn runs the music department at Beaver High School, teaching orchestra, choir, band, and guitar; Treyson is currently serving an LDS Continued on page 19.
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makes me think this box of normalcy that the rest of us are stuck in can be really constraining. Jarrett sees the world and hears music in a different way and I think that is really special,” Kara says. Kara was the one who first started the three oldest boys on the piano and is very musical and loves to sing. She uses what Blair calls her “music therapy skills” as she teaches young children to swim, including many with special needs. Blair, Kara’s husband, is music specialist in the Salt Lake City School District and has taught for over 25 years. He said, “Music has always been a part of my life and we wanted that for our children.”
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Kathryn McDonald-Poelman examines how USUO’s Education Department makes world-class music accessible to all children in Utah regardless of distance or demographics. Utah Symphony | Utah Opera’s outreach to K–12 schools across the state—a program which constitutes nearly a third of all programming for USUO—continues the tradition of sharing music that changes lives through live orchestra and opera performances for students. Julie Edwards, Utah Symphony violist, said, “you never know who you will touch in one of our performances. I was also once a student hearing a string quartet in a school concert for the first time.” What is a unique achievement on the part of USUO is the outreach not only to urban schools but to every school district across Utah, even in the most rural areas. Michael McDonald, District Arts Coordinator in Eureka, Utah, expressed great appreciation and need for the program: “We have a really small community with high poverty rates and minimal access to fine arts, and so it’s amazing that they can make it out here for a concert and have time with the kids.” In 2016, there were also free symphony and opera performances for community members in areas including Richfield, Ephraim, Randolph, Moab and Monticello. Former Music Director Maurice Abravanel inaugurated the first dedicated arts outreach programs to schools, performing as many school concerts as possible across the Intermountain Continued on page 22 20
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West. Abravanel later became the principal advocate for the Professional Outreach Programs in the Schools (POPS) funding from the Utah State Legislature, funds USUO outreach and other professional arts organizations. Musicians of the Utah Symphony and the Utah Opera Resident Artists are able to travel to all school districts in the state (on three year cycles) because of this program. Sarah Coit, a Utah Opera Resident Artist, said, “Last season we went to a school where there were only five kids, but they were so enthusiastic and fun! And knowing they may never have this experience otherwise is special for us too.” The USUO education program also provides many unique opportunities for students to learn more about music and to grow as artists themselves, including personal instruction before or after school concerts through “Musicians in the Classroom,” and masterclasses with visiting world-class guest artists. For budding musicians, opportunities to perform in Abravanel Hall with the Utah Symphony are also available through the Salute to Youth and All-Star Evening annual concerts. With more than 40 in-school concerts and ten 5th grade concerts at Abravanel Hall taking place every season, over 140,000 kids benefit from the USUO education programs each year.
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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 experienced this with you. Continue your pleasure for hours—even days—by exchanging ideas about it. Here are some topics we suggest: • May 5–6 | George Gershwin was without question one of the most beloved songwriters of all time. In their own way, many of his songs are the equal of those by Franz Schubert (1797–1828), a claim underscored by Robert Marsh’s observation that “his greatest songs blend a vocal line of extraordinary flexibility and beauty with words that accent, amplify, and illuminate the musical ideas in a manner one takes for granted in the German Lied, but is unaccustomed to find in a form regarded as popular art. In his music we hear the New York of the 1920s as clearly and forcefully as in Mozart we hear the Vienna of the 1780s. If it is the function of music to transform universal elements of human experience to art, one cannot slight his achievement.” What artist or composer would you say typifies the music of our time today? May 23 | Did you play an instrument as a child? Do you still play? What do you remember first sparking your own interest in music? •
May 26–27 | In 1913 the fully staged ballet of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring was met with hysteria, arguments, and fighting. In 1914 people greeted it as a work of sheer genius. That second time it was played as an orchestral work at the symphony. Has there ever been a piece of music or art that has created a visceral response in you? Can you imagine a different reaction if that work were presented in a different medium? Stravinsky was, like his great visual art contemporary Picasso, a restless, protean genius, incapable of treading water. Despite the occasional attempt, he never again attained the savage, cathartic energy of The Rite of Spring, nor the spectacular succès de scandale it created. What similar characteristics or circumstances shared by Picasso and Stravinsky might have led them to become such brilliant artists? Visit “The Musicians Lounge” to read behind-the-scenes interviews with our artists and musicians. utahsymphony.org/blog/
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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 5TM 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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The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring May 26–27 / 2017 / 7:30PM / ABRAVANEL HALL THIERRY FISCHER, Conductor SIMONE PORTER, Violin
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The Rite of Spring Part I: The Adoration of the Earth Introduction The Augurs of Spring Ritual of Abduction Spring Rounds Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes Procession of the Sage The Kiss of the Earth Dance of the Earth Part II: The Sacrifice Introduction Mystic Circles of the Young Girls Glorification of the Chosen One Evocation of the Ancestors Ritual Action of the Ancestors Sacrificial Dance
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See page 15 for Thierry Fischer’s profile. Violinist Simone Porter has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned energy, musical integrity, and vibrant sound, and at 19 years of age, Ms. Porter has already appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as with renowned conductors including Yannick NézetSéguin, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, and Donald Runnicles. Ms. Porter made her professional solo debut at age 10 with the Seattle Symphony and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at age 13. Ms. Porter made acclaimed debuts in recent years at the Aspen Music Festival with conductor Thomas Søndergård, the Grand Teton Music Festival with conductor Donald Runnicles and at the Hollywood Bowl, debuting with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Ludovic Morlot. Ms. Porter has also performed with the Nashville Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Albany, Corpus Christi, Simone Porter Pasadena, Pacific, and Costa Rica Youth Symphonies. Previous Violin engagements include an appearance with the New York Philharmonic on their Young People’s Concerts series, and performances with New West, Olympia and Utah Symphonies, the Reno Philharmonic, Orchestra Seattle, and the American Youth Symphony and Young Musician Foundation’s Debut Orchestra in California. She has also performed recitals on the South Bay Chamber Music Series and in Salt Lake City at Libby Gardner Hall, and had the honor of performing for the Dalai Lama at the opening ceremony of a five-day symposium on compassion in Seattle, Washington in 2008. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Ms. Porter is a 2011 Davidson Fellow Laureate, an award given by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, which carries a $50,000 scholarship to further her musical education. In 2009, she was presented as an Emerging Young Artist by the Seattle Chamber Music Society. Raised in Seattle, Washington, Ms. Porter studied with Margaret Pressley as a recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship, and was then admitted into the studio of the renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett, with whom she presently studies at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Summer studies have included the Aspen Music Festival for seven years, Indiana University’s Summer String Academy, and the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy. Simone Porter plays on a 1745 J.B. Guadagnini violin on generous loan from The Mandell Collection of Southern California. 32
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893), orch. Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936)
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42 INSTRUMENTATION: 2 flutes. 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 2 horns; strings; percussion PERFORMANCE TIME:
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Comprised of three lovely movements, Souvenir d’un lieu cher (Memory of a dear place) stands beautifully on its own. But it is actually an artifact of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto, which he was writing at the same time as this work. And the Souvenir’s original scoring for violin and piano, as well as its expansion into three parts, suggests that this work—originally conceived as the concerto’s second movement—got a bit out of hand for the concerto, which needed a central section that would allow the virtuosic outer movements to predominate. Souvenir was later orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, the Russian late-Romantic composer who lived well into the 20th century, surviving Tchaikovsky by more than forty years. As they say, “a miss is as good as a mile,” especially a miss that results in so lovely a suite. But the aborted second movement was hardly Tchaikovsky’s only miscalculation
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with respect to the concerto. The original manuscript was rejected by violinist Josif Kotek, a friend and composition student of Tchaikovsky’s, after the composer chose the great Leopold Auer as dedicatee and to play its premiere. Auer had misgivings about the work and was widely quoted as calling it “unplayable” and worse, forcing the concerto’s first public performance to be postponed until still another violinist, Adolph Brodsky, could be found. Brodsky introduced the concerto in Vienna on December 4, 1881. After more than three decades of the concerto’s popular success Auer changed his mind, explaining his early hostility in an interview with New York’s Musical Courier. It’s now seen as a bit of selfjustifying revisionist history, and hardly unique. To replace the music of the Souvenir d’un lieu cher in the concerto, Tchaikovsky inserted a serenely mournful andante cantabile. This second movement contrasts markedly with the first: The violin’s entry is melancholy, and it voices a singing lament that eventually gives way to a happier pastoral melody, like a song of spring. Both moods shadow each other for the duration of the movement, as we alternate between brighter and darker soundscapes. As for the “recycled” suite, it opens with a meditative first movement marked andante molto cantabile, which we can well imagine as a possible basis for a violin concerto’s central movement. But the Souvenir has the quality of a complete if intimate entertainment on its own. Its warm, entertaining quality is exemplified by the passages of strummed accompaniment in the strings. Even with the richness of Glazunov’s orchestration, we can well imagine the work as a fond memory recollected in quiet solitude.
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Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
Amériques INSTRUMENTATION: 5 flutes, 5 oboes, 5 clarinets, 5 bassoons; 8 horns, 6 trumpets, 5 trombones, 2 tubas; strings; percussion PERFORMANCE TIME:
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Every so often—cyclically, it seems—the press of social change and political catastrophe makes it seem as if civilization itself is ending…or, at least, morphing beyond recognition. The art of Edgard Varèse was shaped by such forces as these, which swept Europe during his lifetime as they never had before. As a composer, he was both the child and the father of change. Born in 1883 in Paris, Varèse bore witness to the industrialization and urbanization of European life, and lived it in his native city. Modernism was already under way there, and he was clearly absorbed by its ideas, describing traditionalist music listeners as having “stubbornly conditioned ears” and anticipating the potential of electronic instruments early on. He was already an adult when he attended the notorious premiere performance of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps in Paris.
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But that year, 1913, was the eve of the greatest social cataclysm of all: World War I, which began in 1914. “The war to end all wars” turned out to be the greatest disaster humanity had ever inflicted upon itself, revealing a capacity for violence that went far beyond what anyone had imagined. Could European civilization continue in its aftermath? A whole generation of young men was missing—dead, wounded, shellshocked beyond the era’s capacity to help them. Artists pondered whether art could even continue as a human pursuit after the Great War. America eventually entered the War, but was less deeply affected by it. Still, for much of the period between the two world wars, there was a kind of desperate gaiety here. It was typified by the “roaring twenties,” when the dream of prosperity seemed to go along with the sense that you’d better go get it while it was still there to be gotten. And then, suddenly—as of October 29, 1929—it wasn’t. Varèse, who was conscripted into the French army, was dogged by health problems and was unable to serve in World War I. But the storm over Europe stimulated his creativity, rather than paralyzing it. He knew that America was the homeland of change and the new, and felt he had to live here. When he emigrated immediately after the War, he wasn’t seeking refuge or a path to prosperity; he was looking for the grit, grime and noise that give rise to the new. Varèse was indisputably visionary and is acknowledged as a major musical influence. He was quickly recognized and praised by fellow-visionaries including composer John Cage and author Henry Miller. Yet his MASTERWORKS
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published scores amount to only about three hours’ worth of music that he described as “organized sound.” Of these, Amériques is probably the most often programmed, especially in the U.S., though it taxes any orchestra with its huge instrumental demands. Not many mainstream compositions require eight horns, two tubas, and at least nine percussionists to handle the gigantic percussion complement. The core “organized sound” in Amériques is not a traditional orchestral instrument, but a siren. During its 22 minutes or so of music it builds a momentum that eventually seems to capture the roiling energy of America’s burgeoning industrialization. How are we to listen to such a work? It’s not really so hard. In fact, it’s worth comparing Varèse’s quest to that of the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop, who came to New York a couple of decades later and made poetry from the filth and energy of the city. Bishop settled in an industrial section of the West Village—something almost no one chose to do, especially not a young woman on her own. It was Varèse’s kind of place, where printing factories ran all night and the streets ran with blood from the meatpacking plants, the odors mingling with ink and sweat. The sound of the printing presses invaded Bishop’s sleep, and she claimed that much of this poem—with the sound of the rolling presses captured in the italicized refrain— came to her in a dream. Like Varèse’s music, it seems to revel in the struggle and even the ugliness of the city’s commercialism; and like Bishop’s refrain, Varèse’s sirens and horns capture the urban pulse of the nation that overwhelmed his imagination. Here is the first stanza from Bishop’s poem “Varick Street” (published in 1947): MASTERWORKS
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At night the factories struggle awake, wretched uneasy buildings veined with pipes attempt their work. Trying to breathe, the elongated nostrils haired with spikes give off such stenches, too. And I shall sell you sell you sell you of course, my dear, and you’ll sell me.
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
The Rite of Spring For most of his life Igor Stravinsky was the most famous composer in the world, but he did not come to fame early. His reputation was made through his early ballet compositions when he was in his mid- and late twenties. The Rite of Spring (also known by its French title, Le sacre du printemps)—the shock heard round the world—premiered in 1913, when he was a young composer with a growing reputation in Europe and elsewhere. It instantly transformed him into an international celebrity: brilliant, visionary and notorious. The well-born Stravinsky had received much of his musical education through private 35
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instruction. In 1906 he was of an age when most ambitious young composers were years beyond conservatory, hoping to attract favorable attention from the music world and that was just what he wanted as well. Though he had published almost nothing of consequence, he was the private pupil and esteemed protégé of Nikolai RimskyKorsakov, who recognized his promise. Stravinsky’s association with Rimsky was a credential by itself, but the young composer had no major commissions on his docket. That made him especially receptive to a suggestion from his mentor for an opera based on an enchanting tale from Hans Christian Andersen, Le rossignol. But after a year’s work, an improbable series of coincidences brought Stravinsky the commission for The Firebird, his breakthrough ballet for Serge Diaghilev’s prestigious Ballets Russes, and he set Le rossignol aside. Suddenly, Stravinsky was in a hothouse of international talent; the Ballets Russes’ dancers included Vaslav Nijinsky and Bronislava Nijinska, its settings and costumes were designed by such artists as Pablo Picasso and Leon Bakst, and its productions embodied all the artistic richness and ferment of Paris in the Art Deco era preceding World War I. With characteristic boldness, Diaghilev had given Stravinsky this assignment based on a single hearing of a rather slender score; its success made the composer’s reputation overnight. This success launched the beginning a transformative musical journey that continued with Petrushka and the epoch-making Le sacre du printemps. In less than five years, this astounding collaboration caused sophisticated Parisians to riot at a new and 36
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revolutionary sound in music far beyond anything Rimsky imagined. Rite put the world on notice regarding the magnitude of Stravinsky’s genius. In one of the strangest sequences in all of cultural history, the Rite’s unfamiliar sound so enraged listeners at its Paris premiere in 1913 that the audience became a violent mob, endangering the musicians, the dancers, and Stravinsky himself. What could account for the intensity of this reaction? The ballet, created for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and danced by Nijinsky, did incorporate breathtakingly new musical elements: complex polytonalities that give rise to intentional dissonances, densely overlapping polyrhythms, and foregrounded percussion. But its esthetic unfamiliarity hardly seems to account for the crazed distress in the audience, where elegantly dressed strangers turned on each other with their fists. Perhaps even odder, it took just a year for the Sacre to earn cheers and bravos, making Stravinsky a hero of music. Today, that fateful premiere and the musical revolution that followed it are studied not only by music historians, but by psychologists. Nicholas Roerich, the designer of Le sacre du printemps, developed the ballet’s scenario from an outline by Stravinsky in which he envisioned the stage action based on Russian pre-Christian folk rituals. Though his two earlier ballets incorporated folk elements, they did not have the elemental urgency— and frankly, the violence—of Sacre, which takes as its story line a composite pagan ritual celebrating the advent of spring. At the core of the action is a ritual sacrifice: a young virgin chosen as a human sacrifice MASTERWORKS
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dances herself to death, goaded on by frenzied polyrhythms propitiating the renewal of life. After more than a century, the music of Sacre sounds thrillingly listenable now. But during rehearsals the music’s rhythmic complexity was the despair of the instrumentalists and dancers alike, who had to count aloud as they performed and would sometimes lose their place even so. For his first performance of the work with New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein—a meticulous preparer who always marked his scores with detailed notations—found the score insurmountable on his own. He had to call upon the musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky, a friend of Stravinsky’s (who, like the composer, emigrated to America), for help in deciphering the rhythms.
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Today the artful brutality of Le sacre du printemps shocks no one, and its innovations have even made their way into movie soundtracks. The musicologist Richard Taruskin has suggested that the initial upset at the premiere was caused by the choreography rather than the music, and it is true that the music was performed frequently in the ensuing years while the ballet was not remounted until 1920. But after studying primary documents of the era, other researchers—including neuropsychologists who specialize in the apprehension of sound and music—disagree. Either way, the aural and visual spectacle—a booming, tuneless pulsation in the orchestra accompanying a primitive pagan rite—must have provided quite a jolt…especially following the Romantic delicacy of what came earlier in the program. It was Les sylphides, based on the music of Chopin.
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Lauri Welch Bonnie White & Maryanne Hunter James & Lynette White Marilyn & Paul Whitehead Sheila Whitney Helen Wight James Wilcox Alex Wilding Brian Wilkin Bill Williams Mr. George A. Williams Jody Williams Karan Williams & Lawrence Mason Jean & E. Willis Barbara Wirostko Jeralie Wirthlin Carol & Carol Withrow Katherine Wonnacott Jay & Jean Wright Robert & Karen Young Tolford & Mary Young Whit & Rosemary Young James & Nataliya Ziter Lawrence Zubel IN HONOR OF Dr. J. R. Baringer & Dr. Jeannette J. Townsend George Brown Paula J. Fowler Pam Harris Abe & Arline Markosian David Park Mark & Dianne Prothro Clark T. Randt, Jr. Patricia A. Richards Bill & Joanne Shiebler Kevin Sohma *In-kind gift **In-kind & cash gift †Deceased Gifts as of March 1, 2017
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Jay T. Ball Mikhail Boguslavsky Ann Dick Ed Epstein Loraine L. Felton Neva Langley Fickling Herold L. “Huck” & Mary E. Gregory Judith Ann Harris Roger Hock Marian Holbrook Steve Horton Winona Simonsen Jensen Eric Johnson Joan McEvoy Maxine & Frank McIntyre Dr. Walter Needham
Bill Peters Russell Alan Peters Chase N. Peterson Mardean Peterson Kenneth Randall Dr. Clifford Reusch Alvin Richer Bert Schaap Ann O’Neill Shigeoka Ben Shippen Maestro Joseph Silverstein Barbara Singleton Tamie Speciale Marjorie Whitney John W. Williams Merrill L. Wilson, M.D
Administration ADMINISTRATION Paul Meecham President & CEO David Green Senior Vice President & COO Julie McBeth Executive Assistant to the CEO Ali Snow Executive Assistant to the COO & Office Manager SYMPHONY ARTISTIC Thierry Fischer Symphony Music Director Anthony Tolokan Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning Rei Hotoda Associate Conductor Barlow Bradford Symphony Chorus Director Walt Zeschin Director of Orchestra Personnel Andrew Williams Orchestra Personnel Manager Lance Jensen Executive Assistant to the Music Director and Symphony Chorus Manager 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
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— George Bernard Shaw
Science has come to prove what the poet always believed to be true—aging has very much to do with our state of mind. That is the philosophy behind Summit Vista, a Life Plan Community coming soon to the heart of Salt Lake Valley. Summit Vista is designed to help you stay sharper and live healthier. With a wealth of activities, experiences, and friendships readily available— along with medical services available from Intermountain Healthcare— Summit Vista is focused on helping you live a longer, more enriching life. Age well, close to the people and places you love. At a price that’s surprisingly affordable.
Special introductory offers and incentives are available now. To learn more, call us today at 801-386-9374 Or visit SummitVistaLife.com Health and wellness services available from
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