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Saturday, April 18, 2015, 6 p.m. / 5 p.m. Pre-Concert Talk

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Don Juan, Op. 20

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

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Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 16 Edvard Grieg I. Allegro molto moderato (1843–1907) II. Adagio III. Allegro moderato molto e marcato

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La mer (The Sea) I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Midday on the Sea) II. Jeux de vagues (Games of Waves) III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea)

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

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Richard Strauss

Born 1864, Munich, Germany Died 1949, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Don Juan, Op. 20 (1888–1889)

While many renderings of the Don Juan legend exist, Richard Strauss took his inspiration from the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau. Lenau had written his verse-drama of the Don Juan saga in 1844, published posthumously in 1851. This kinder, gentler rendering of the tale paints Don Juan as simply a romantic searching for the ideal woman; he is flawed, but not malevolent. This is in striking contrast to the other famous musical rendering of the character, Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Don Juan) is really just a cad, bedding as many women as possible just for the sake of doing so. While Lenau’s Don Juan is no stranger to the “love ‘em and leave ‘em” aspect of the character, it is committed under the guise of merely trying to find one woman who can satisfy not just his physical needs, but a woman that encompasses the totality of all women. Lenau writes: “My Don Juan is no hot-blooded man, eternally pursuing women. It is the longing in him to find a woman who is to him incarnate womanhood, and to enjoy in the one all the women on earth whom he cannot as individuals possess.” It is hard to imagine that the masterful Don Juan was written when Strauss was only twenty-four years old, and it was only his second offering in the tone poem genre. He began composing the work in the summer of 1888 while in Italy. Italy had already provided inspiration for his first tone poem (which he technically labeled a “Symphonic Fantasy”), Aus Italien. Strauss also began work on another tone poem on the subject of

“One of the horn players sat there out of breath, sweat pouring from his brow, asking ‘Good God, in what way have we sinned that you should have sent us this scourge?’” —Richard Strauss

Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the same time as Don Juan, but it would not be completed for another few years. It would be Don Juan that would put Richard Strauss on the map and propel him to international fame. The work premiered in Weimar on November 11, 1889, with Strauss conducting the Weimar Opera Orchestra. Strauss excerpted three lines from Lenau’s poem which he included in the score; originally, he asked that these be printed in the program. He soon would realize that his music did not need the program printed because the music spoke for itself, and he quickly developed a distaste for the “blow-by-blow” accounts often found in program music. While working on the tale of Lenau’s everRomantic and idealistic Don Juan, Strauss fell madly and passionately in love with his future wife, soprano Pauline de Ahna. It is perhaps no coincidence that the subsequent work offers some of the lushest and most passionate melodies found in any of his compositions. As stated previously, Don Juan is an example of a tone poem or symphonic poem. Piano virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt was the first to coin this phrase, but Richard Strauss would go on to re-invent the genre. A tone poem differs from a symphony in a few ways: (1) it is played continuously, rarely broken down into movements; (2)

“These outwardly brilliant compositions are nothing if not successful. … Others have found the thing repulsive …” —Eduard Hanslick

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the music evokes some extra-musical source such as a poem or story; (3) symphonic form takes a backseat to the extra-musical inspiration. In short, Liszt, and later Strauss, wanted music to represent and evoke actions and ideas, and they strove to develop a musical “language” in which this was possible. There were of course detractors, most famously Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and the critic Eduard Hanslick. In a scathing diatribe of program music (music which contains an extra-musical source or element), Hanslick wrote: The tendency is … to use purely instrumental music merely as a means of describing certain things; in short, not to make music, but to write poetry and to paint. Virtuosity in orchestration has become a vampire sapping the creative power of our composers. These outwardly brilliant compositions are nothing if not successful. I have seen Wagner disciples talking about the Strauss Don Juan with such enthusiasm that it seemed as though shivers of delight were running up and down their spines. Others have found the thing repulsive, and this sensation seems to me more likely to be the right one. This is no “tone painting,” but rather a tumult of brilliant daubs, a faltering tonal orgy—half bacchanal, half witches’ Sabbath. The technical demands of Don Juan are great, and you are sure to find it in many musicians’ orchestral excerpt repertoire. When it first premiered, the demands were so astounding that there was almost a mutiny by the orchestra musicians. Strauss writes, “The orchestra huffed and puffed but did its job famously. One of the horn players sat there out of breath, sweat pouring from his brow, asking ‘Good God, in what way have we sinned that you should have sent us this scourge?’”

Program Notes . Don Juan opens with one of the most vigorous and exuberant themes that a listener is likely to hear at the symphony. This enthusiastic opening depicts the wild abandon of Don Juan and his search for the ideal woman. Following the opening are three musical vignettes which represent some of Don Juan’s varied and numerous lovers. While no specific correlations can be drawn from Lenau’s tale, the musical scenes run the gamut from casual relations to great love (portrayed by the stunning oboe solo), interspersed with statements from the opening. A new and heroic theme is given to Don Juan by the four horns, perhaps the most iconic theme of the piece. While musically our “hero” has been elevated to a new level with the horn theme, it is truly the beginning of the end for him. He is soon haunted by (or perhaps wistfully daydreaming of) the women he has wronged and loved; snippets of their themes creep into restatements of the heroic theme and the opening theme. Eventually, he encounters the father of one of his conquests who challenges him to a duel. Disheartened and convinced his ideal does not exist or cannot be obtained, and having made far too many enemies from which to escape, Don Juan allows himself to be killed. His death is chronicled in dramatic fashion by the orchestra: an exciting crescendo is aborted and followed by silence; a minor chord precedes his stabbing, depicted by the dissonant and accented trumpets, and the life slowly drains out of him with the trills in the strings. Don Juan ends softly and in a minor key, in stark contrast to the colorful nature of the rest of the work. ●

Edvard Grieg

Born 1843, Bergen, Norway Died 1907, Bergen, Norway

Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 16 (1868) Grieg once wittily remarked, “I am sure my music has a taste of codfish,” which was the composer’s way of articulating that his music and his heritage were inextricably linked. Grieg was only twenty-five years old when he wrote his Piano Concerto; he would go on to become Norway’s most famous nationalistic composer, but before that, he studied the European traditions at the Leipzig Conservatory. Leipzig was not the musical Valhalla that one would imagine for Grieg. He had problems with his piano

teacher and needed to switch to another one, he found the faculty in general complacent and apathetic, and he felt constricted by the traditional teachings of form and harmony taught at the Conservatory. This is indeed evidenced by his compositional output, as only a scant number of his works follow traditional forms: The Piano Concerto in a minor is one those works.

“Just stay your course. I tell you truly, you have the ability needed —let nothing frighten you!” —Franz Liszt

The Piano Concerto in a minor was written in the summer of 1868 while Grieg was on vacation in Søllerød with his wife and baby daughter. It premiered in Copenhagen on April 3 the following year with Edmund Neupert (the work’s dedicatee) as soloist. Grieg was unable to attend the premiere due to other obligations, but several other musical dignitaries were there, most notably: Russian conductor Anton Rubinstein, Danish composer Emil Hartmann, and Danish composer and conductor Niels Gade. The premiere was an unqualified success, with Rubinstein exclaiming that he was “astounded to have heard a composition of such genius.” The Piano Concerto catapulted Edvard Grieg into the international music scene. As the recipient of a government grant, Grieg spent 1869–70 in Italy. It was there that he met piano virtuoso Franz Liszt. Liszt had contacted him about one of his early violin sonatas that he considered adapting for the piano, and the two convened for an afternoon of music making. Grieg happened to bring along the score of his Piano Concerto which had premiered the previous year, and Liszt offered to play through it—at sight. It

was a meeting that was wholly significant to Grieg. He writes of the encounter: I really wondered if he would play my concerto unrehearsed from the score. I myself believed this was impossible. Liszt, however, obviously did not share my view. And so he began to play. After his accomplishment, I must add that further perfection is inconceivable; he played the Cadenza, which technically is exceedingly difficult, perfectly! Afterwards, he handed me the score and said: “Just stay your course. I tell you truly, you have the ability needed—let nothing frighten you!” I cannot express the importance of his words. It was as though he initiated me. Many times when disappointments or bitterness are about to overwhelm me, my thoughts return to what he told me then, and my remembrance of that moment enables me to keep up my courage. Liszt also offered some suggestions for the work, which may have led to it being revised five times, as Grieg added and later retracted some of Liszt’s suggestions. The last revision came the year of Grieg’s death, and it is that version which is heard in modern performances of the work. Grieg was a master of small musical forms and did not often breach the compositional threshold into large-scale works such as symphonies and concertos, save for one of each: a symphony written when he was a student and the Piano Concerto in a minor. Much is made of the similarities between Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Grieg’s work in the same key. While it is important to note that Grieg’s Piano Concerto is a completely autonomous and original work, there are reasons to believe that Grieg was greatly influenced by Schumann. Firstly, his second piano teacher at the Leipzig Conservatory, Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel, was a longtime friend of Schumann and introduced his works to Grieg who studied them enthusiastically. Secondly, Grieg would have heard Clara Schumann perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto in Leipzig in the late 1850s. The influence of Schumann is heard immediately, both concertos opening with similar dramatic gestures in the piano, and as the work progresses, Lisztian flourishes mix with Schumannesque romanticism and Grieg’s Norwegian heritage. While the Piano Concerto is not as overtly nationalistic as Grieg’s later works would become, there are certainly folk and dance elements related to his ancestry included. The first movement begins in dramatic fashion continued on 7

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Program Notes . continued from 5 with a timpani roll that crescendos into the orchestra’s opening a minor chord. The piano then plays one of the most recognizable introductory themes found in classical music. The winds follow with a simple theme, still reminiscent of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which the piano then echoes. The second theme, introduced by the cellos, is lush and warm, and the cadenza near the end is one of the lengthiest and most taxing in the piano repertoire. The second movement in D-flat major opens with muted strings and is lyrical and poignant. The soloist does not enter for quite some time, and when they do make an appearance, they initially do not take up any of the thematic material, but instead play decorative figurations. The third movement is the most owing to Grieg’s sense of nationalism in its use of the halling, a Norwegian folk dance, as its basis. The flute introduces the slow section with a rhapsodic melody which calls to mind Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The tranquility is shattered when the halling returns in all its energetic glory. ●

Claude Debussy

Born 1862, St. Germaine-en-Laye, France Died 1918, Paris, France

La mer (1903–1905)

If not for a bit of propitious timing and circumstance, one of the great French impressionist composers may have ended up a sea captain. It was his parents’ desire for Debussy to become a sailor, and he had a fondness for the sea from spending his childhood summers in Cannes. When he was only nine, he was “discovered” by an alleged former student of Chopin, Marie Mauté de Fleurville, who saw promise in the young boy. Chopin teaching bloodline or

not, she was correct: Debussy would enter the Paris Conservatory just a year later, at the age of ten. Soon after beginning La mer, he wrote, “I was destined for the fine career of a sailor … only the accidents of life put me on another path.” Debussy began work on La mer in 1903 and completed it in 1905. The work premiered on October 15, 1905, in Paris, and at first was not a success. This is in equal parts due to the fact that La mer was written less in the hazy, impressionistic style which Debussyists loved most, and the fact that the composer was in the midst of a messy personal scandal that saw him lose friends and musical supporters alike. (In 1904, Debussy left his wife for an older, married woman named Emma Bardac. She quickly became pregnant, and his wife attempted suicide a few months later.) Once the dust had settled, La mer would go on to be one of Debussy’s most successful and popular works. La mer is not the first piece of Debussy’s that pays homage to the sea; he had written several chamber pieces earlier in his career in which he tried to elicit the great blue expanse. He destroyed them all because “they never sounded wet enough.” La mer is not program music in the strictest sense, as there is no extra-musical narrative; it is merely a musical evocation of the sea. Debussy was not a fan of program music, specifically Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” of which he wrote a scathing review in 1903. So, La mer instead straddles the line between symphony and tone poem. It is not a symphony as it follows no large or small-scale symphonic structures, nor is it a tone poem as it only evokes the sea as an idea, it does not try to provide a narrative for any action or use another work (poem, story, painting) as inspiration.

“[I have] an endless store of memories of the sea and, to my mind, they are worth more than the reality, whose beauty weighs down thought too heavily.” —Claude Debussy

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“I was destined for the fine career of a sailor … only the accidents of life put me on another path.” —Claude Debussy

Debussy did not stare at the sea for hours for inspiration while composing; he stated that he had “an endless store of memories of the sea and, to my mind, they are worth more than the reality, whose beauty weighs down thought too heavily.” La mer (subtitled Three Symphonic Sketches) is written in three movements, with two grand outer movements and a second movement that is often referred to as a scherzo. The original title of the first movement (“Calm Sea around the Sanguinary Islands”) was that of a short story by Camille Mauclair, but Debussy scrapped that title as not to give the illusion that this was a musical representation of the story. Instead, he went with “From Dawn to Midday on the Sea.” The movement opens in mysterious darkness in the lowest depths of the orchestra. As light begins to move across the ocean, thematic fragments begin to emerge throughout the orchestra and offer the embodiment of both light and movement; these fragments are the thematic foundation for the rest of the movement. The second movement (“Games of Waves”) is light and playful; the waves roll and lap in musical renditions of games that one could imagine as tag, hide and seek, or show and tell. The third movement (“Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea”) depicts the savageness, power, and danger of the sea. The dialogue is so intense and impassioned, that one can almost imagine themselves caught up in the swirling vortex of a storm. The middle section offers a bit of repose from the drama in the outer sections, but the sense of foreboding is never quite eliminated; it is always there, just beneath the surface of the sea. ● Program Notes ® Lori Newman nmphil.org

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Sunday, April 26, 2015, 3 p.m.

Neighborhood Concert: Handel, Frahm, Respighi, Corelli

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David Felberg conductor Frederick Frahm composer & organ

Concerto Grosso in a minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322 George Frideric Handel I. Larghetto affettuoso (1685–1759) II. Allegro III. Largo e piano IV. Allegro

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Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 I. Italiana II. Arie di corte III. Siciliana IV. Passacaglia

Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 1 I. Largo—Allegro II. Largo—Allegro III. Largo IV. Allegro V. Allegro

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Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713)

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George Frideric Handel Born 1685, Halle, Germany Died 1759, London, England

Concerto Grosso in a minor, Op. 6, No. 4, HWV 322 (1739) The concerto grosso, or “big concerto,” is a form from the Baroque that involves two separate performing factions: the concertino—a small group of soloists, and the ripieno—the full orchestra. The concertino often introduces new melodic material to the group as well as providing virtuosic flair and elegance. Handel’s concertino consists of two violins and a cello, while the ripieno is comprised of a string section (violins I and II, viola, cello, bass) and a harpsichord continuo. Handel’s Op. 6 was written in 1739, although it is not known for what occasion. The first movement Larghetto affettuoso is an amiable number, albeit in the minor mode, and contains no appearances of the concertino group. The melodic material is relegated to the first violins who play their stately theme of descending appoggiaturas over an accompaniment of eighth notes. The movement ends on a half cadence, begging for the start of the second movement Allegro. Movement two is fugal and stately, with the concertino making its first appearance in short virtuosic bursts. The F Major third movement offers a lovely repose from the minor mode. Its simple melody filled with suspensions and imitation spins continually with the help of a walking quarter-note bassline. The driving fourth movement owes its material to a soprano aria from Handel’s opera Imeneo. The movement is flamboyant and showy, offering the concertino its most shining moments. ●

Frederick Frahm

Born 1964, Hemet, California

Concerto No. 1 for Organ and Strings (2011) The Concerto for Organ and Strings was inspired by the following passage which is found in a poem by St. John Perse: The other night it thundered, and over the tombal earth I heard echoing that answer to man, which was brief, and was no more than noise. My love, the downpour from that sky was with us, God’s night was our foul weather, and love, in all places, rose again toward its sources … O Earth, our Mother, heed not this brood: the age is swift, the age is legion, and life goes its way. A singing rises within us which has not known its source and will have no estuary in death: equinox of an hour between Earth and man. St. John Perse, 1971 Translated by Richard Howard © Princeton University Press, 1977 The music, essentially a dialog between the soloist and the orchestra, finds its forward motion in stark contrast between austerity and density, motion and stasis, consonance and dissonance, melancholy and exuberance, opacity and clarity, mystery and reason. The concerto was composed in memory of Katharine Peterson Gronen-Kaiser, a mentor and friend who died on April 23, 2011. ●

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Ottorino Respighi Born 1879, Bologna, Italy Died 1936, Rome, Italy

Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3 (1931) Italian music during Ottorino Respighi’s time consisted mainly of one thing: opera— scores and scores of Italian operas by Verdi and Puccini, and before them, Donizetti and Rossini. Respighi made his mark as primarily an orchestral composer; although he did compose several operas, they were never met with much critical success. It would be safe to say that Respighi was the only Italian composer since the Baroque period whose success relied on the body of his orchestral compositions. While studying at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, Respighi developed an interest in early music thanks to his studies in composition with Luigi Torchi, a renowned musicologist. It is from this interest that the Ancient Airs and Dances were born. Respighi would write three sets: Suite I for full orchestra in 1917, Suite II for full orchestra in 1923, and Suite III for string orchestra in 1931. Respighi’s interest in early music is expressed in many of his works: the Concerto in modo misolidio is a piano concerto written in the old church mode of mixolydian, the concerto for violin entitled Concerto gregoriano is based on Gregorian chant melodies, and The Birds is an orchestral suite that seeks to musically notate birdsongs by way of resetting previously existing Renaissance music. Throughout these works and the Ancient Airs and Dances, Respighi became a master at taking old melodies and harmonies, reworking them, and making them shiny and new with modern orchestration. In the third suite, Respighi uses 16th and 17th century lute music by J.B. Besard and Lodovico Roncalli as its source material, as well as anonymous Italian songs and dances. As with all of Respighi’s works, the orchestration is vibrant and brilliant; this is certainly thanks to the few lessons he had with the famed composer and orchestrator Rimsky-Korsakov in the early 1900s. ●

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Arcangelo Corelli

Born 1653, Fusignano, Italy Died 1713, Rome, Italy

Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 1 (1714) The concerto grosso form was first made famous by Arcangelo Corelli, and it is widely believed that Handel used Corelli’s Op. 6 as the inspiration for his own set of concerti grossi of the same opus number. Corelli’s Op. 6, published posthumously, contains twelve concerti grossi, including the famous “Christmas” Concerto (No. 8 in g minor). The first movement alternates between broad and slow sections featuring the ripieno (full orchestra) and fast and joyful sections featuring the concertino (small complement of two violins and cello). This constant changing of moods keeps the listener on their toes, as they are never sure what is coming next or how long each section will last. The second movement Largo opens with a lovely and simple theme stated by the concertino, which the ripieno then picks up. There is a constant call and response between the concertino and ripieno throughout the Largo. This is followed by a brisk Allegro which features quick chordal figurations as its melodic material. The central Largo is a pleading movement in the minor mode which features the concertino as the purveyor of musical ideas, while the ripieno serves as mere accompaniment. The fourth movement is fugal in nature and offers great imitative moments between the concertino and ripieno before all forces join together to drive the movement to its end. The finale features the concertino with technically challenging triplet figurations interspersed with a melody of slower harmonic rhythm played by the ripieno. ● Program Notes ® Lori Newman

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Frederick Frahm composer & organ

Frederick Frahm, resident of Placitas, New Mexico, was born in Hemet, California, in 1964. He has worked as a Director of Music and Organist for parishes across the U.S., contributed as a classical music critic to the Bellingham Herald in Bellingham, Washington, and served as an adjunct faculty member of Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois, where he taught counterpoint, music theory, and composition, as well as orchestration. He is a past Dean of the Albuquerque Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Frederick Frahm is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), where he earned degrees in Church Music and Organ Performance. He studied organ and counterpoint with David Dahl and Gregory Peterson, harpsichord with Randall McCarty, composition with Roger Briggs and Gregory Youtz, and conducting with Richard Sparks. As a composer, he is represented worldwide by a dozen publishers with more than a hundred works in print. In March of 2012, the Chatter Ensemble, conducted by David Felberg, presented the world premiere of his song cycle Spaces of Night (on texts by American poet Stephen Crane), and this music was subsequently broadcast on National Public Radio (PipeDreams, hosted by Michael Barone) in November of that year. In the spring of 2013, his Septem Verba for Organ and Violin received European premiere performances in Florence and London, and a new CD album of works for organ, featuring English organist Robin Walker and violinist David Felberg, was released in London by sfz, Ltd.

In 2014, world premiere performances took place in London and Pisa (organ and choral works), and Albuquerque (a string quartet), as well as two works for solo vocal quartet which were presented in multiple venues across the Southwest as part of the Santa Fe Opera Spring Tour. In the last few years, he has completed more than twenty commissions for new music including works for the Albuquerque Chapter AGO, the Santa Fe Opera Company, the Bosque School, Rio Rancho High Schools, the Hey Mozart! Project, and numerous parishes, performers, and patrons of the arts. For more information, visit the composer’s website at www.frederickfrahm.com where you can listen to music, peruse scores, and read libretti and program notes. ●

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Teddy Abrams conductor

An unusually versatile musician, Teddy Abrams is a widely acclaimed conductor, as well as an established pianist, clarinetist, and composer. This season marks the beginning of his tenure as Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra and Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Classical Festival. He also serves as Resident Conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, which he first conducted in 2011. Teddy recently concluded his appointment as Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony. Active as a guest conductor, the 2014/15 season includes Teddy’s debuts with the Louisiana and New Mexico Philharmonics, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, as well as returns to the Indianapolis Symphony and the New World Symphony, on subscription with Joshua Bell as soloist. Recent performances include a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and returns to The Florida Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony, where he conducted the orchestra’s summer classical series in July 2013. From 2008 to 2011, Abrams was the Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the New World Symphony (NWS) and conducted many performances, including subscription concerts and numerous other full and chamber orchestra events. Abrams has conducted the NWS in Miami Beach, Washington, D.C., and at Carnegie Hall and has worked with many other orchestras around the country. An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras—including playing and conducting the Ravel Piano Concerto

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with the Jacksonville Symphony in fall 2013—and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Time for Three, and John Adams, in addition to annual appearances at the Olympic Music Festival. Dedicated to exploring new and engaging ways to communicate with a diverse range of audiences, Abrams co-founded the Sixth Floor Trio in 2008. The Trio has performed around the country, establishing residencies in communities in North Carolina, Philadelphia, New York, and South Florida; Abrams and the Trio founded and direct GardenMusic, the music festival of the world-renowned Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami. Abrams collaborated (as an arranger and pianist) with Cleveland Orchestra principal trombonist, Massimo La Rosa, for La Rosa’s debut CD, released in October 2010. Abrams studied conducting with Michael Tilson Thomas, Otto-Werner Mueller, and Ford Lallerstedt at the Curtis Institute of Music and with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival; he was the youngest conducting student ever accepted at both institutions. Abrams is also an awardwinning composer and a passionate educator—he has taught at numerous schools throughout the United States. His 2009 Education Concerts with the New World Symphony (featuring the world premiere of one of Abrams’s own orchestral works) were webcast to hundreds of schools throughout South Florida. Abrams performed as a keyboardist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, won the 2007 Aspen Composition Contest, and was the Assistant Conductor of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 2009. He has held residencies at the La Mortella music festival in Ischia, Italy, and at the American Academy in Berlin. Teddy was a proud member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra for seven seasons and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music, having studied piano with Paul Hersh.

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David Felberg conductor

Praised by The Santa Fe New Mexican for his “fluid phrases; rich, focused tone; rhythmic precision; and spot-on intonation.” Albuquerque native, violinist and conductor David Felberg is Associate Concertmaster of the New Mexico Philharmonic. He also serves as Artistic Director and co-founder of Chatter Sunday, Chatter 20-21, and Chatter Cabaret. He is Concertmaster of the Santa Fe Symphony and Music Director of the Albuquerque Philharmonic. He also teaches contemporary music at the University of New Mexico. His robust conducting career has included conducting the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, Santa Fe Symphony, and many performances of contemporary music with Chatter. David performs throughout the southwest as concert soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He made his New York debut in Merkin Hall in 2005. He received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Arizona and a Master of Music in Conducting from the University of New Mexico. He has taken advanced string quartet studies at the University of Colorado with the Takacs Quartet and was awarded a fellowship to attend the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival. David plays an 1829 J.B. Vuillaume violin. ●

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Olga Kern piano

Now recognized as one of her generation’s great pianists, Olga Kern’s career began one decade ago with her award-winning goldmedal performance at the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2001. Her second catapulting triumph came in New York City on May 4, 2004, with a highly acclaimed New York City recital debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. In an unprecedented turn of events, Olga gave a second recital eight days later in Isaac Stern Auditorium at the invitation of Carnegie Hall. Ms. Kern was born into a family of musicians with direct links to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and began studying piano at the age of five. Winner of the first Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition when she was seventeen, she is a laureate of eleven international competitions and has toured throughout her native Russia, Europe, and the United States, as well as in Japan, South Africa, and South Korea. The recipient of an honorary scholarship from the President of Russia in 1996, she is a member of Russia’s International Academy of Arts. She began her formal training with acclaimed teacher Evgeny Timakin at the Moscow Central School and continued with Professor Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she was also a postgraduate student. She also studied with Professor Boris Petrushansky at the acclaimed Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, Italy. In addition to performing, Ms. Kern devotes her time to the support and education of developing musicians. In 2012, the artist and her brother, Vladimir Kern, co-founded the “Aspiration” Foundation

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whose objective is to provide financial and artistic assistance to musicians throughout the world. With her vivid stage presence, passionately confident musicianship, and extraordinary technique, the striking young Russian pianist continues to captivate fans and critics alike. In the 2012/13 season, Olga performed with the Symphonies of Nashville, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and San Diego, and presented recital programs in St. Louis, Dallas, and Scottsdale, Arizona, and at Lincoln Center in New York City as a part of the Cherry Orchard Festival. In 2013, in a celebration of Rachmaninoff’s 140th year, Olga Kern performed all four Piano Concerti and the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini in collaboration with Leonard Slatkin and the Orchestre National De Lyon. Ms. Kern has also performed this special program in South Africa, in Warsaw and in Arizona. Other upcoming European appearances include performances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, orchestras in Germany and Poland and recitals in Italy. Ms. Kern has an extensive worldwide reputation. Recent European appearances have included a tour of Austria and Switzerland with the Warsaw Philharmonic and Maestro Antoni Wit, a tour of Germany with the Czech Philharmonic and Maestro Zdenek Maçal, performances with the orchestras Academy of La Scala in Bad Kissingen and Copenhagen and Lyon, and recitals in Milan, Hamburg, and Luxembourg. Ms. Kern was the Artistic Director of the Cape Town Festival in South Africa from 2005 until 2010 and returns there annually. ●

Meet the Musicians Denise Reig Turner bassoon

Denise Reig Turner is 2nd Bassoon/ current Acting Assistant Principal of the New Mexico Philharmonic and a former member of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. She is Principal Bassoon of Opera Southwest and the San Juan Symphony of Durango, Colorado, and was Principal Bassoon and frequent soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque for 18 years. Ms. Turner is a member of the University of New Mexico artists-in residence faculty woodwind quintet, the New Mexico Winds, and has been on the faculty at UNM since 1995. Ms. Turner has performed orchestral, opera, and chamber music throughout Italy, Mexico, and the Southwest, including the Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Fe Pro Musica, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Santa Fe Festival Ballet, Musica de Camera Orchestra, Bergamo International Festival of Culture, Rome Festival Orchestra, Albuquerque Baroque Players, and the Baroque Orchestra of the Duke, and she also co-founded the New Mexico Woodwind Quintet and toured with the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players. In 2006, she performed the U.S. premiere of Kurt Weill’s Die Zaubernacht for chamber ensemble and dancers at the Animas Festival in Durango, CO and Santa Fe, NM. She has performed at the International Double Reed Society, the National Clarinet and National Flute Association conferences, the National College Music Society, and the International Festival of Electro Acoustic Music. ●

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Deborah L. Helitzer Rosalie & Leon Heller Rogene Henderson Holland Hendrix Sara Henning Mary Herring, in memory of Margaret Glasebrook Jonathan & Ellin Hewes, in memory of Robert D. Taichert Donna Hill Linda Hill & Peter Gordinier, in memory of Paula Basile Eileen Grevey Hillson & Dr. David Hillson, in memory of Joan Allen Kristin Hogge Barbara Holt Noelle Holzworth Lisa Hooper Tom Hopkins Helen & Stanley Hordes Cecilia & Mark Horner William Howe Rafael Howell Rick Hudson Linda Hummingbird Constance Hyde & James Houle Lois Jackson, in honor of Brynn & John Marchiando Nancy Jacobson Jerry Janicke Bette A. Johnson Eldon Johnson Eric R. Johnson Nancy M. Johnson Joyce D. Jolly Judy Jones Lawrence Jones Pamela Jones Robert Jones Robert & Mary Julyan Wilbur & Justin Kahn Summers & Norty Kalishman Julius & Robin Kaplan Clayton Karkosh Joyce Kaser Greta & Thomas Keleher, in memory of Jackie Maisel Channing & Ida Kelly James Kelly C.R. Kemble David & Leslie Kim, in memory of Joan Allen Judith Allen Kim, in memory of Joan Allen Evy Kimmell Barbara Kleinfeld Barbara Kleinfeld, in memory of Robert D. Taichert Michael & Malva Knoll Sushilla Knottenbelt Larry & Diana Koester Herb & Shelley Koffler, in memory of Joan Allen Rosemary Koffman Philip Kolehmainen Katherine Kraus Flora Kubiak, in memory of Joan Allen Hareendra & Sanjani Kulasinghe

Ethel & Edward Lane, in memory of Sylvester Baca David Lawrence Becky Lee Carla Lehmeier-Tatum Susan Lentz Greg Linde William J. Lock Ronald Loehman George Loehr Richard & Christine Loew, in memory of Joan Allen Nancy D. Loisel Rhonda Loos & Neal Piltch, in memory of Joan Allen Quinn Lopez Joel Lorimer Los Amapolas Garden, in memory of Richard Kavet Carol Lovato Betty Lovering Thomas Luley, in memory of Zach Tropp William Lynn Martha MacDonald Margaret Macy Stephen Maechtlen Robert & Linda Malseed Ronald P. & Monica M. Manginell Susan Margison, in memory of Paula Basile Jim Marquez Marita Marshall Walt & Ruth Marshall Carolyn Ross Martin, in memory of Joan Allen Carolyn Martinez, in memory of Joan Allen Brenda & Robert Maruca Joseph McCanna Stephen McCue Andrew McDowell James McElhane Thomas McEnnerney Carol & David McFarland, in memory of Paula Basile Jackie & C. Everett McGehee, in memory of Joan Allen Virginia McGiboney Donna McGill Eugene McGuire Jane & David McGuire David McKinney, in memory of Joan Allen Leroy C. McLaren Millie & John McMahon, in memory of Joan Allen Elizabeth McMaster Cynthia & Paul McNaull Bonita Melcher & Dale Ferguson, in memory of Zach Tropp Sterrett & Lynette Metheny Sandra Lee Meyer Celia Michael Thomas Miles Bruce A. Miller Carol Mills Nancy Mills

Marcia Miolano Beatriz Mitchell Elaine Monaghan Mary Kay Moore Carlos Garcia Moral, in memory of Zach Tropp Letitia Morris Dorothy Morse, in memory of Joe Zoeckler Ted & Mary Morse Paula A. Mortensen Karen Mosier John & Patsy Mosman Carolyn Muggenburg Deborah Muldawer Brian Mulrey Marilee Nason Jennie Negin & Harold Folley Bruce & Ruth Nelson Pauline & James Ney Betsy Nichols & Steve Holmes Anne E. Nokes Elizabeth Norden Jack Norris David & Audrey Northrop David & Marilyn Novat Richard & Marian Nygren Si Scott Obenshain Marilyn Jean Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara Rebecca Okun Judith Oliva, in memory of Paula Basile Gloria & Greg Olson Gloria & Greg Olson, in memory of Louise Coonce Estherella Olszowka Margaret Palumbo Margaret & Doyle Pargin Judyth Parker Diane & Mark Parshall Joan & L. Parsons, in memory of Robert Taichert Marjorie Patrick & Michael Van Laanen Howard Paul Larry Pearsall Margery Pearse Dr. Ole Peloso, in memory of Alan S. King, MD Sheila & Ole Peloso, in memory of Dr. Omar Legant Claire M. Peoples Anna Perea Maria Pereyra Timothy Peterson Barbara Pierce Barbara Pierce, in memory of Richard Kavet Barbara Pierce, in memory of Elise Schoenfeld Dr. Ed & Nancy Pierce, in memory of Joan Allen Dorothy Pierson Harvey J. Pommer Gladys & Glenn Powell Bettye Pressley

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Thank You . continued from 21 Charles & Theresa Pribyl, in memory of Joan Allen Carol & George Price Shirley Puariea Noel Pugach, in memory of Joan Allen Gerard & Ellen Quigley, in memory of Zach Tropp Therese Quinn Tari Radin, in memory of Louise Coonce Chris Rancier, in memory of Charlyn Anderson Mary Ellen Ratzer Marit Rawley David & Tracey Raymo Marjorie & Robert Reed Ray Reeder Carol Renfro, in memory of Pat Fairchild Patricia Renken Diane Reuler Glenda Richardson Herbert Richter Margaret Rickert Sandy Rierson, in memory of Zachary Tropp Ira J. Rimson Hilda Ripley, in memory of Zach Tropp Jacob H. Rittenhouse Barbara Rivers Margaret E. Roberts Matthew Robertson Norman Roderick Alice & Larry Rodgers Barbara & Joseph Roesch Lorraine Roff Lorraine Roff, in memory of Louise Coonce Ralph Rogers Beverly Rogoff, in memory of Joan Allen Rebecca Rose & Susan Matthew, in memory of Joan Allen Estelle H. Rosenblum Bryan L. & Lisa Wood Ruggles Nancy Ruggles Harvey & Laurie Ruskin Ellen Ann Ryan, in memory of Robert Taichert John Salathe Evelyn E. & Gerhard L. Salinger Scott & Margaret Sanders Daniel Savrin, in memory of Zachary Tropp Frederick & Annette Schaefer, in memory of Zach Tropp Elaine Schepps Roger Schluntz Donald L. Schmierbach & Nancy Huning Schmierbach David A. Schnitzer Luann Schuhler, in memory of Zach Tropp Frederick Schwab Ralph Schwab Judith Schwartz Joan Scott Betty Cobey Senescu

Margaret & Frank Seusy Richard Shagam Donea Shane Donea Shane, dedicated to William D. Shane Jr. Dan Shawver Arthur & Colleen M. Sheinberg Robert & Lelia Shepperson Leslie N. Shultis Catherine Siefert Janet Simon Marion Simon Marsha & Don Simonson Raymond & Carolyn Sinwell, in memory of Zach Tropp George & Vivian Skadron MaryDee Skinner Terrence Sloan Conrad & Shirley Sloop Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Sloves Eleanor Slutts Donald Smith Harry & Patricia Smith Kirk Smith Smith’s Community Rewards Frederick Snoy Linda Snyder Vera Snyder Enid Solin Jean & Allen Spalt Spectra Energy Gwyn & Tracy Sprouls David Srite Jack Stamm Charlie & Alexandra Steen Donald Stehr Geny Stein Andrea Sterling Daphne Stevens Sally Stevens Grace & Sigurd Stocking Roberta Stolpestad, in memory of Paula Basile Andrew & Katie Stone Donald & Jean Ann Swan George Ann & Tom Tabor, in memory of Paula Basile David & Jane Tallant Debra Taylor Phyllis Taylor & Bruce Thomson Richard & Carolyn Tecube Nina & Gary Thayer Elisabeth Thibault Patricia & George Thomas Alice Thompson Richard Thompson Michael Thuot Julie Tierney Jack Tischhauser Jack Tischhauser, in memory of Sylvester Baca Marilyn Toler John Tondl Dean & Bonita Tooley Marian Trainor & David Dixon Hy Tran Deborah & Richard Uhrich

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United Bank of Switzerland Arthur & Sandra VallSpinosa Nancy Vandevender & J. Pace Walter Vandevender Jean & Ross Van Dusen David Vaughan Barbara Vayda, in memory of Zach Tropp Jean Villamarin Adriana Villar John J. Vittal Arun Wahi Cheryl Walker Sherry & Michael Walls, in memory of Paula Basile David Walsh Joan Wang, in memory of Charlyn Anderson Marilyn Warrant Cynthia & Bill Warren Barbara Waserman Cynthia Weber Paul & Suzanne Weber Jean & Dale Webster Iris Weinstein Alan D. & Elaine Weisman Thomas Wellems Justin Welter Debbie Wesbrook Jeffrey West Nicolette Westphal Maryann & Eugene Wewerka Mary White Sandra J. White Wendy & Roland Wiele William & Vicky Wilhelm, in memory of Zach Tropp John L. Wilson James Wilterding & Craig Timm Rosemary & William Winkler Kathryn Wissel Margaret Wolak Helmut Wolf Beulah Woodfin Dot & Don Wortman Helen Wright Donna Yannias Anne Yegge Mary Young Janet Youngberg, in memory of Joan Allen Diana Zavitz, in honor of Lois Harwick Diana Zavitz, in honor of Pat & Ray Harwick Albert & Donna Zeman Willie & Lisa Zimberoff, in memory of Joan Allen Dr. Linda R. Zipp Andrew A. Zucker 3/27/2015

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Your continued support makes this possible. The Legacy Society represents people who have provided long lasting support to the New Mexico Philharmonic through wills, retirement plans, estates, and life income plans. If you included the NMPhil in your planned giving and your name is not listed, please contact (505) 323-4343 to let us know to include you. Maureen & Stephen Baca Nancy Berg Thomas C. Bird & Brooke E. Tully Edison & Ruth Bitsui

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Mayor Richard J. Berry & the City of Albuquerque Trudy Jones & the Albuquerque City Council Maggie Hart Stebbins & the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners Betty Rivera & the Albuquerque Cultural Services Department Mayling Armijo & the Bernalillo Economic Development & Cultural Services Amanda Colburn & the Bernalillo County Cultural Services Maryann Torrez & the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo

American Federation of Musicians, Local 618 Central United Methodist Church Classical 95.5 KHFM First United Methodist Church Natural Touch Photography, Guillermo Quijano-Duque Popejoy Hall Southwest Security St. John’s United Methodist Church St. Luke’s Lutheran Church

Lee Blaugrund & Tanager Properties Management Billy Brown Luis Delgado Robert Desiderio Rosemary Fessinger Jerrilyn Foster Ben Heyward Chris Kershner Rose Maniaci Jackie McGehee Robby Rothchild David Steinberg Brent Stevens Mike Swick Bob Tillotson Tom Tkach Gary van Zals

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Hollywood Heroes & Villains

Saturday, May 9, 2015, 8 p.m.

Celebrate Hollywood’s biggest, best and baddest! From Superman to The Godfather. Game of Thrones and Gladiator. Star Wars to Phantom of the Opera and many more! Stuart Chafetz conducts your NMPhil in a night of musical movie magic for the whole family.

Gershwin: Crazy for You Saturday, May 16, 2015, 8 p.m.

An American in Paris. Rhapsody in Blue. Crazy for You. Savor selections from these stand-out Gershwin gems, and more Big Band favorites under the cool cottonwoods at the Rio Grande Zoo! Conducted by Christopher Confessore. Featuring pianist Logan Skelton.

Stars & Stripes Forever Saturday, May 23, 2015, 8 p.m. Help us celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with a true salute to the red, white and blue, and all American Heroes. From the great Sousa marches to the renowned 1812 Overture, it’s time to let our ﬂags ﬂy high! Featuring winners of The Music Guild of New Mexico’s Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition for Piano and Strings.

Advance tickets from only $20

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