Dances of Panama

DANCES OF PANAMA MUSIC FOR STRINGS 18 & 19 NOV 2021 VICTORIA CONCERT HALL

Thursday & Friday, 16 & 17 December 2021 7.30pm, Esplanade Concert Hall

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D ANCES OF PAN AM A MUS I C F O R S TR I N G S 18 & 19 Nov 2021 Victoria Concert Hall Strings of the SSO Carlos Kalmar conductor

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Dances of Panama SSO PREMIERE

15 mins

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Suite for Strings

16 mins

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Entr’acte SSO PREMIERE

11 mins

BRIDGE

Suite for String Orchestra SSO PREMIERE

20 mins Concert Duration: approximately 1 hr 20 mins (with no intermission)

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C A R L O S K AL M AR conductor

as “one of the most gripping events of the current season”. He is a regular guest conductor of the Baltimore and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras and has recently conducted subscription concerts with the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic and many more. Further afield he has conducted both the NHK and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras in Japan as well as the Singapore Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic, Queensland and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras. Kalmar has also conducted extensively in Europe with various notable orchestras.

His recordings for Pentatone with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra include two Grammy Award nominations, one for their 2012 release of “Music for a Time of War” and another for “Spirit of the American Range” featuring works by Walter Piston, George Antheil and Copland Symphony No. 3.

Carlos Kalmar is a conductor with a passion for introducing audiences and orchestras to less well-known repertoire and is regularly praised for his innovative programmes.

He recently completed 18 years as Music Director of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra and continues as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival.

Born in Uruguay to Austrian parents, Carlos Kalmar studied conducting with Karl Österreicher in Vienna and won First Prize at the Hans Swarowsky Conducting Competition. He has previously served as Music Director with the RTVE Madrid, Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Niederösterreichisches Tonkünstlerorchester in Vienna.

In May 2011 Kalmar made his highly acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. The concert was titled “Music for a Time of War”, and it was noted by New York critic Alex Ross 4

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FIRST VIOLIN Chan Yoong-Han Acting Concertmaster/Fixed Chair Cao Can Chen Da Wei Duan Yu Ling Foo Say Ming Jin Li Cindy Lee Karen Tan William Tan Wei Zhe Ye Lin SECOND VIOLIN Zhao Tian Nikolai Koval Hai-Won Kwok Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Wu Man Yun Xu Jueyi Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan

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T HE ORC HE S T R A HANS GRAF Chief Conductor ANDREW LITTON Principal Guest Conductor CHOO HOEY Conductor Emeritus LAN SHUI Conductor Laureate EUDENICE PALARUAN Choral Director WONG LAI FOON Choirmaster

Michael Loh Associate Principal Nikolai Koval* Hai-Won Kwok Chikako Sasaki* Margit Saur Shao Tao Tao Wu Man Yun* Xu Jueyi* Yeo Teow Meng Yin Shu Zhan* Zhao Tian* VIO L A Manchin Zhang Principal Guan Qi Associate Principal Gu Bing Jie* Fixed Chair Marietta Ku Luo Biao Julia Park Shui Bing Janice Tsai Dandan Wang Yang Shi Li

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(Position vacant) Concertmaster, GK Goh Chair Kong Zhao Hui1 Associate Concertmaster Chan Yoong-Han2 Fixed Chair Cao Can* Chen Da Wei Duan Yu Ling Foo Say Ming Jin Li Kong Xianlong Cindy Lee Karen Tan William Tan Wei Zhe Ye Lin* Zhang Si Jing*

Ng Pei-Sian Principal, The HEAD Foundation Chair Yu Jing Associate Principal Guo Hao Fixed Chair Chan Wei Shing Jamshid Saydikarimov* Song Woon Teng Wang Yan Wu Dai Dai Zhao Yu Er D O U B LE BAS S Yang Zheng Yi Associate Principal Karen Yeo Fixed Chair Olga Alexandrova Jacek Mirucki Guennadi Mouzyka Wang Xu

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Jin Ta Principal Evgueni Brokmiller Associate Principal Roberto Alvarez Miao Shanshan

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OBOE Rachel Walker Principal Pan Yun Associate Principal Carolyn Hollier Elaine Yeo COR ANGL AI S Elaine Yeo Associate Principal CLARINET Ma Yue Principal Li Xin Associate Principal Liu Yoko Tang Xiao Ping BAS S CL AR I NE T Tang Xiao Ping Assistant Principal BAS S OON

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* With deep appreciation to the Rin Collection for their generous loan of string instruments.

1 Kong Zhao Hui performs on a J.B. Guadagnini of Milan, c. 1750, donated by the National Arts Council, Singapore, with the support of Far East Organization and Lee Foundation.

2 Chan Yoong-Han performs on a David Tecchler, Fecit Roma An. D. 1700 donated by Mr Goh Yew Lin. Musicians listed alphabetically by family name rotate their seats on a per programme basis.

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WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895–1978) Dances of Panama (1948) SSO PREMIERE I II III IV

Tamborito Mejorana y Socavón Punto Cumbia y Congo

William Grant Still, Black American pioneer, was an incredibly accomplished musician by all standards, having a ravenous appetite for discovery of music as well as being a very fine cellist himself in both the classical and jazz realms. He was involved in the Harlem Renaissance alongside figures like Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen, and was the first African-American composer to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra (the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra). In recent years his music has finally started getting the worldwide attention it deserves, being richly written and wonderfully crafted, as tonight’s selection will show.

These dances were originally written for string quartet, and were later rearranged for string orchestra. His exposure to the originating music was due to Elisabeth Waldo, a friend, who in turn knew the first transcriber of Panamanian folk dance music.

The Caribbean nation had its own music built up from a confluence of African slaves, Spanish colonisers, and native inhabitants, and that proved fruitful material for Still, who produced four varied movements imitating various folk instruments and rhythms.

Red Inside and in the Open Air (1916)

by Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Instrumentation Strings World Premiere 1948 16

I II III

Prelude Intermezzo Finale

Nielsen had a strange and varied life, and remained very much an outsider to composer circles throughout. Even though he played in orchestras and bands and was even honoured by the Danish government at his 60th birthday, he was ultimately at odds with his own career as a musician and wrote that he would rather have been apprenticed to a merchant or pursued some “useful trade”.

A glowing review from the performance proclaimed that Nielsen “obviously has a great deal on his musical mind that he wants to say”, probably referring to the Finale, where dramatic ebb and flow of the music is sustained as if in an operatic scene. The composer, humbly playing violin in the orchestra at the first performance, was called upon to take many curtain calls — his first taste of real success!

“Steeped in Scandinavian Romanticism, there are obvious debts to Grieg” Regardless of his own misgivings, he remains Denmark’s most famous composer, and his early Suite for Strings demonstrates him in the full flush of youth. Steeped in Scandinavian Romanticism, there are obvious debts to Grieg, and his position on avoiding what he saw as German delight in “complications” was already firm. The pulsing accompaniment of the Prelude gives way to a soaring climax, and at the premiere, the Intermezzo was so popular with the audience that it had to be played again. That waltz, light-hearted and full of humour, is still sometimes performed separately.

Instrumentation Strings World Premiere 8 Sep 1888, Copenhagen First performed by SSO 19 Mar 2006 17

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CARL NIELSEN (1865–1931) Suite for Strings (1888)

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CAROLINE SHAW (b. 1982) Entr’acte (2011) SSO PREMIERE The music of Haydn is refracted and turned in upon itself in this ingenious piece by Shaw, who sprang to international fame by becoming the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2013. Her music is firmly in the mould of American post-modernism, but the usual cadences and repetitions of that tradition are coloured by her exposure to various world-music traditions and by her own work as instrumentalist, composer, conductor, and singer.

Originally written for string quartet, the unpredictability of harmony and use of extended techniques demonstrate a composer completely at home with her medium. Simple harmonic progressions are given a sense of unreality in long pizzicato passages and are further smeared with chromatic lines and glissandi. Major and minor chords seem to lose and gain meaning as time passes. When the opening figure comes back, gaps have opened up in the music, and the upper strings dissipate into the ether, leaving the cello to strum mournfully by itself.

Instrumentation Strings World Premiere Apr 2011 (Brentano Quartet at Princeton University) 18

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FRANK BRIDGE (1879–1941) Suite for String Orchestra (1909) SSO PREMIERE I II III IV

Prelude Intermezzo Nocturne Finale

There are many English works for string orchestra that are good, but only a few enter into the pantheon of the great, and Bridge’s Suite makes a very strong case at its inclusion. By 1909, Bridge had begun to explore richer harmonies and take on the musical developments coming from the Continent, and although it would be another decade before his music took a real turn towards his advanced late style, the richer harmonies and thematic variations drawing a thread through this work foreshadow the explorations of the Fantasy-Quartet and The Sea. The first hint of real modernity comes at the very end of the Prelude and is brushed aside by the jollity of the Intermezzo, a jolly dance in full English country manner. The Nocturne that follows is a truly profound movement, combining Debussy and Wagner, and especially revelling in the warmth of the viola, which was enjoying a renaissance in Britain thanks to Lionel Tertis. The Finale springs out of the quiet depths, but it does feel like the music has been changed by the preceding movement, and Bridge cannot resist indulging himself with some lushly chromatic lyrical moments before surging to an exciting finish.

Frank Bridge (1922) photographed by Herbert Lambert © National Portrait Gallery, London

Programme notes by Thomas Ang

Instrumentation Strings World Premiere Unknown 19

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