CENTRAL VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY Saturday I February 9, 2019 I 7:30 pm Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Thomas Derthick I Music Director Shane Kalbach I Preparatory Orchestra Conductor
71st Performance I 2018-2019 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
CONCERT PROGRAM I FEBRUARY 9 I 7:30 PM Central Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra: Waltz from the Ballet The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Furiant from the Opera The Bartered Bride
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325
Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899)
Intermission
Central Valley Youth Symphony Preparatory Orchestra: Finale from Symphony No. 5, Op. 67
Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2 Minnie the Moocher
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Arr. Richard Meyer
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Arr. Merle Isaac
Cab Calloway and Irving Mills Arr. Ralph Ford
Central Valley Youth Symphony and Preparatory Orchestras: Hungarian Dance #5
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
CENTRAL VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Thomas Derthick I Music Director
1st Violin Clare Deng, Concertmaster AJ Delgado, Assistant Kimberly Bongo Jenny Chang Joyce Lu Grace Lu Luke Valdez Leilani Vargas 2nd Violin Caroline Schwarzenberg, Principal Amelia Morrison, Assistant Sohyun Ahn Ian Clark Arriana Duarte Remalyn Flores Izellah Korth Zachary Liel, Coach Joshua Narvaez Elizabeth Narvaez Gillian VerSteeg Viola Juan Barragan, Principal Saanvi Rajeev, Assistant Andy Benner Rubie Dhillon Thomas Park Cello Connor Huang, Principal Sadie Fisher, Assistant Caleb Dingle Donovin Rutland
Bass Amaan Sidhu, Principal Noah Gonzales, Assistant Makayla Sousa Flute/Piccolo Albert Chern, Principal Oboe Valeria Nunez, Principal Clarinet Jordan Wells, Principal Bassoon Ronin Tsang, Principal French Horn Jason Thompson, Coach Trombone Benjamin Migliori Timpani/Percussion Craig Robinson, Coach Harp Aden Eva Barbuta Ayocuan Pacheco Orchestra Manager/Librarian
CENTRAL VALLEY PREPARATORY ORCHESTRA Shane Kalbach I Conductor
1st Violin Jason Jiang Andrea Larsen Zack Lew Kian Manshadi Sammy Morrison Ella Reyes
Bass Makayla Sousa
2nd Violin Hana Alhamadsheh Maya Alhamadsheh Callia Chau Kaevan Manshadi Clara Plath Isabella Rios
Bassoon Paul Barron
Viola Zachary Liel, Coach Cello Rachel Lim Justice Lu Oona Wong
Oboe Sarah Rios Clarinet Arsh Muhib
French Horn Philip Barron Trombone Zac Shi Percussion/Piano John Matthews Craig Robinson, Coach
Now under the leadership of the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music, the Central Valley Youth Symphony and Preparatory Orchestra have provided young people in San Joaquin and surrounding counties with the opportunity to play great symphonic music since 1965. The Youth Symphony features two orchestras where students receive expert coaching from Music Director Thomas Derthick and Preparatory Orchestra Conductor Shane Kalbach. Faculty and students from Pacific Conservatory of Music also assist throughout the season.
PROGRAM NOTES
The spirit of ballet is implicit in all of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s works, even if he only composed three ballet scores. But what scores! Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker are the three giants of classical ballet. Much ballet prior to Tchaikovsky was of very poor quality. Leo Delibes was the first quality composer to bring skill to ballet composition, and Tchaikovsky followed in his footsteps. His ballet scores, worked out very carefully with his choreographer Marcus Petipa, are operas with the arias, duos, trios and ensembles written for dancers instead of singers. The waltz from The Sleeping Beauty captures the romantic, glamorous, fairy tale world of ballet while more than holding its own to any tune from Vienna. Bedrich Smetana was one of many composers of the 19th century to incorporate native folk idiom in their music. His Czech folk opera The Bartered Bride is infectious in its native feel, but make no mistake—Smetana’s tunes are his, only their inspiration is Czech. We will perform all three dances (Polka, Furiant, and the famous Dance of the Comedians) in our spring concert on May 5, but today we feature the two-against-three feel of the Furiant. The waltz became the rage of Europe (not just Vienna) in the 1780’s, and remained the favorite dance of the young and sociable set until World War I. Johann Strauss Sr. had the most popular orchestra in Europe for much of the first half of the 1800’s, but he did all he could to dissuade his eldest son (Johann Strauss Jr.) from the life of a musician. When Strauss Sr. left his wife for another woman (an enormous scandal in Vienna at the time), he could no longer stop his son from following in his footsteps. Junior ended up competing with, surpassing and, eventually, taking over his father’s orchestra (with his father’s blessing). He would eventually have six (!) orchestras working all over Europe simultaneously, freeing him to stay home and become one of the most prolific composers ever (over 500 published works). The 1868 premiere of Tales from the Vienna Woods reiterated the ascendancy that the dance had made from its humble village origins to one of the pleasures of fashionable Viennese society.
PROGRAM NOTES
Ludwig van Beethoven began work on his fifth symphony in 1804, immediately after completion of the Eroica (third) symphony, setting it aside for three years while completing the fourth symphony, his violin concerto, the fourth piano concerto and the Razumovsky string quartets, among other works. Its premiere in Vienna in December 1808 also featured the Pastoral (sixth) symphony, The Choral Fantasy, the fourth piano concerto, and several movements from the Mass in C. Imagine a modern audience sitting through a program of that length! (Richard Meyer is a nationally recognized, best-selling composer and arranger with over 130 compositions and arrangements in print.) Georges Bizet lived an all-too-brief life but left us many musical treasures. He died shortly after the apparent failure of his opera Carmen, which now ranks as the most popular French opera ever produced. Bizet wrote incidental music for Daudet’s play L’Arlesienne in 1872, just prior to starting Carmen. Two suites have been extracted from this music: the first by the composer himself, the second (including music from another Bizet opera) by his friend Guiraud after his death. (Merle Issac was a prolific arranger who focused on arranging famous pieces for performers of lesser experience, especially school orchestras.) Minnie the Moocher was composed by Cab Calloway and Irving Mills, and first recorded by Calloway in 1931. The original record sold over a million copies, and later was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Calloway (1907-94) was an American jazz singer, dancer, and band leader. Mills (1894-1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. Johannes Brahms completed his 21 Hungarian Dances in 1869, and they remain among his most popular works. Originally for piano four hands, he later arranged the first ten for piano solo, and three of the dances (1, 3 and 10) for orchestra. Other composers set the remainder of the dances for orchestra, including a set of three (5, 6 and 7) by Martin Schmeling. Today we perform the most famous of this set, inspired by what Brahms thought was a Hungarian folk tune. It turned out that the melody was written by Bela Keler, a czardas titled Memories of Bartfa.
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UPCOMING CONSERVATORY EVENTS Feb. 10 I 2:30 pm The Ying Quartet Concert and Master Class Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Feb. 27 I 7:30 pm feat. Conservatory students Pacific Jazz Ensemble Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Feb. 12 I 7:30 pm University Concert Band Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Feb. 28 I 7:30 pm Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet Recital Recital Hall
Feb. 14 I 7:30 pm Resident Artist Series: Vicky Wang, cello Inna Falik, piano Recital Hall Feb. 26 I 7:30 pm feat. Conservatory students Honors Recital Recital Hall
Mar. 2 I 7:30 pm University Symphony Orchestra Faye Spanos Concert Hall Mar. 5 I 7:30 pm Symphonic Wind Ensemble Concert Faye Spanos Concert Hall
Find out about our upcoming concerts, recitals, and master classes at www.go.Pacific.edu/MusicEvents
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