UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday I November 10, 2018 I 7:30 pm Faye Spanos Concert Hall
DANIEL EBBERS tenor NICOLAS WALDVOGEL conductor
35th Performance I 2018-2019 Academic Year I Conservatory of Music I University of the Pacific
CONCERT PROGRAM I NOVEMBER 10 I 7:30 PM Symphony No. 39 in Eb Major Adagio — Allegro Andante con moto Menuetto Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Amor ti Vieta from Fedora
Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
Daniel Ebbers, tenor In fernem Land from Lohengrin
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Daniel Ebbers, tenor Questa o Quella from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Daniel Ebbers, tenor Intermission Symphonie, Mathis der Maler Engelkonzert (Concert of Angels) Grablegung (Entombment) Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The University Symphony Orchestra provides a full range of performance experiences. In addition to the standard repertoire, the orchestra performs literature from the Baroque through the twenty-first century. It collaborates with the Pacific Opera Theatre in fully-staged operas and musical theater, and performs major choral and orchestral works with the University choral ensembles. The orchestra also performs concertos with faculty and guest artists, and with students in the annual Concerto Competition Concert. Violin 1 Sabrina Boggs, principal Micah Vogel Anne Plescia Maya Balachandra Lotan Yeung Joanne Wu Ayocuan Pacheco Zackary Liel Aubrey Williams Emily Waters Violin 2 Emily Criss, principal Sydney Scott Manuel Manriquez Daniel Reilly Celeste Carranza Tabitha Machabie Jelani Brown Malaika Elahi Viola Zachary Zumstein, principal Krista Swenson Sean Kwon Marissa Staffero Samantha Tse
Cello John King Laura Robb Martin Jonathon Ivy Anna Jeffries Erik Urbina Danna Schilling Ethan Liu Daniel Unterholzner Bass Yuki Nagase William Peralta Antonio Sarzi Cameron Elmore Aaron Leonard Jasmine Melendez Bailey Bertao Trinitie Wood Flute Ellie Lundberg Carrie Asai Monica Mendoza Oboe Alelih Galvadores Dylan Meidinger Clarinet Scott Pastor Ben Siu
Bassoon Tristen Collinsworth Sam Berris Horn Caitlin Jane Buse Rory O’Regan Rachel Ticas Braydon Ross Jason Thompson Owen Bacchus Trumpet Kevin Swenson Kevin Hee Trombone and Tuba Rebecca Growcott Felix Diaz-Contreras Walter Stedman Robert Huntington Timpani and Percussion Vincent Lei Sean Mitchell Samantha Sanchez Tyler Golding Harp Lauren Sharkey
PROGRAM NOTES Nicolas Waldvogel conducts the University Symphony Orchestra and teaches conducting and music history at the Conservatory of Music. He joined the faculty of the Conservatory in 2001. Dr. Waldvogel has guest conducted the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande (Switzerland) and the State Philharmonic “Dinu Lipatti” (Romania). He was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Festival, where he studied with Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, and John Nelson. He also assisted Horst Stein in a production of Wagner’s Der Ring der Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper, in Berlin. Dr. Waldvogel has performed with YoYo Ma, Anonymous 4, and with Alan Gilbert. His recent credits include a performance of Ives’s immense Fourth Symphony, Verdi’s La traviata, Mozart’s Così fan Tutte, Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony and the complete symphonies by Jean Sibelius. He also contributed the “Symphony” article for Oxford Bibliographies Online. Dr. Waldvogel holds a B.A. in music from Harvard University, an M.A. in music from Harvard University, an M.M. in conducting and a Graduate Performance Diploma in conducting from Peabody Conservatory, and a Ph.D. in music history from Yale University. His primary conducting teacher was Frederik Prausnitz.
Daniel Ebbers, is a Professor of Voice, at University of the Pacific since 2004. He holds the B.M. in voice from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the M.M. in voice from the University of Southern California. At the Conservatory of Music, Professor Ebbers teaches vocal performance and has been the Managing Director and Instructor at the Pacific Opera Institute. Highlights of Daniel Ebbers’ performances include a critically acclaimed appearance as Sir Bedivere with baritone, Thomas Hampson at the Washington National Cathedral, in Elinor Remick Warren’s The Legend of King Arthur. As an artist in residence with the Los Angeles Opera, Ebbers has performed as Gastone in La Traviata, and in leading roles including Don Ottavio, Albert Herring, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ernesto, and Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri. An accomplished concert artist, he has appeared with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in Stravinsky’s Mass, and has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Ebbers has also performed at Chicago’s New Orchestra Hall and at the Chicago Lyric Opera in Handel’s Messiah. A distinguished Mozart interpreter, he has appeared as Don Ottavio with Opera Theater of Connecticut, Belmonte in San Diego Comic Opera’s production of Abduction from the Seraglio, as tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, at the Ruldophinum in Prague.
PROGRAM NOTES
Fedora – Amor ti vieta Count Ipanov, a Russian Nihilist, falls for Princess Fedora. At an official reception in Paris, in the lavish surroundings of her apartments, he declares his love. Love forbids you not to love Your slender hand, which rejects me, Seeks the clasp of my hand Your eyes express “I love you” Even though your lips say, “I will not love you” Synopsis and translation by Robert L. Larson
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Lohengrin – In Fernem Land Lohengrin, knight of the Holy Grail, has been sent to protect Elsa, a noblewoman wrongly accused of murdering her brother. Lohengrin marries Elsa under one condition: that she never asks his name or origin. Alas, she breaks her promise. Lohengrin reveals that his father is Parsifal. His identity being known, he must leave her and return to Montsalvat, realm of the Holy Grail. In a far-away land, unapproachable by your steps Lies a castle called Monsalvat. In the middle there is a luminous temple, As precious as nothing else known on Earth. Inside, a miraculous and blessed vessel Is guarded as a supreme sanctuary. It was brought down by a host of angels, And is to be cared for by only the purest of men Every year, a dove from heaven revisits To reinvigorate its miraculous power. Its name is the Sangrail, And it grants the most blissful And purest beliefs to its Knighthood He who is predestined to serve the Sangrail It prepares with supernal power: Every evil’s deception is lost to him, When he sees it, Death’s power is wiped away Even to him who is sent by it to foreign lands, Appointed as a warrior for virtue’s justice, His holy power will not be taken away, If he goes unrecognized there as its Knight May the Sangrail’s blessing be ever of so noble a cast It must flee the mortal’s eyes when it is unveiled Therefore you shall not doubt the knight, If you recognize him, he has to leave you. Now listen how I heed the forbidden question: By the Sangrail I was sent to you: My father, Parsifal wears its crown. I am his Knight, I am called Lohengrin
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Rigoletto – Questa o quella At a glittering ball the Duke sums up his cynical philosophy about women to Borsa, a courtier. This one or that one is the same for me As the many others I see around me. I don’t yield the supremacy of my heart More willingly to one beauty than to another. Their loveliness is like a gift With which fate adorns life for us. If today this one comes back to me pleased Perhaps another one will be so tomorrow Let’s detest constancy, tyrant of the heart, Like a cruel disease. Let only he who wishes remain faithful; There is no love if there is no freedom. I scoff at the jealous rage of husbandsThe ravings of lovers. I even defy the hundred eyes of Argus If some beauty arouses me. Synopsis and translation by Robert L. Larson
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