SOGO - May 2013 Newsletter

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SOGO

Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia 1629 22nd Ave SE, Olympia WA 98501 May 2013 Vol. 13 no. 5

From the Podium

Issue

2 Have Trumpet, Will Travel 3 Healing Power of Music 3 Seniors Look Ahead, Look Back

Concert

Sunday, May 19, 4pm Tickets (WCPA) olytix.org | 360.753.8586 Get your tickets today!

Reminders

May 22, 26 - Auditions June 2 - New Member Auditions August 31 - Harbor Days May 19 Dress Rehearsal Schedule: • • • • •

SOGO musicians become the teachers at our Instrument Petting Zoo! Thanks to R. L. Ray Violin Shop and Westside Music for providing zoo instruments.

Brass Choir load-in 11:00 am Brass Choir 11:20 - 11:55 am Debut 12:00 - 12:45 pm Academy 12:50 - 1:35 pm Conservatory 1:40 - 3:10 pm

• CONCERT CALL TIME 3:30 pm Sugar Plums and Sonatas by Mary Armstrong At age four, I started two activities that have influenced me my whole life: ballet and music. From twirling around in tutus and dreaming of sugar plums, to humming movements of sonatas, these two art forms have very much become a part of who I am. Both have given me experiences and skills I could not have gained any other (continued on page 2) way.

I am so proud of how well our musicians have matured during the 2012-2013 season. They have been challenged throughout the season and have proven themselves. I invite you to join us for an afternoon of springtime music and hear their progress for yourself! Our final concert will be Sunday, May 19 at 4:00 pm at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts. Also joining us on stage will be my good friend, flutist David Johnson. The Conservatory Orchestra will begin with Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Completed in 1894, it was inspired by his friend Stephane Mallarmé’s poem of the same name. In the poem, a faun has just woken from his afternoon sleep and is daydreaming of nymphs. Debussy said that his loose interpretation did not “by any means pretend to be a synthesis of the poem; but rather a series of successive scenes across which the dreams and desires of the faun pass in the afternoon heat.” For his part, Mallarmé said of Debussy’s work, “It is music that brings out the feeling of my poem, providing it with a warmer background than color.” Upon its debut in Paris, the audience demanded an immediate encore. Faun remains one of Debussy’s best known and most popular works.

David Johnson will join us in performing British composer Gordon Jacob’s Concerto for Flute (1951). Mr. Johnson currently resides in Manila, Philippines where he is the founder, Artistic Director, and flutist of the Clarion Chamber Ensemble, a chamber group specializing in Baroque music. Concerto for Flute is a very lyrical work that highlights the flute’s pastoral quality. Its light dancing sound is reminiscent of the British pastoral school of composers, which includes Jacob’s own mentor Ralph Vaughan Williams. Jacob wrote concertos for virtually all of the common orchestral instruments, including a second one for flute in 1981 and one for timpani in 1984. We will conclude with Franz Liszt’s Les Préludes (Symphonic Poem No. 3). Liszt believed that “All art flows from the same source.” This belief inspired him to create a new musical form: the symphonic poem, in which a poem, story, painting, or other non-musical source is illustrated in a single orchestral movement. Liszt drew on poetry by Joseph Autran and Alphonse de Lamartine in the creation of Les Préludes, revising the work several times between 1848 and 1853. Les Préludes is a colorful, dramatic work that expresses Romantic musical themes of nature, emotion, and imagination, and is the most popular of Liszt’s symphonic poems. Get your tickets today at olytix.org and bring a friend!

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