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From the President Welcome to the Symphonia’s 17th season, one for celebration! I want to thank our wonderful supporters and donors for sustaining us through this difficult pandemic. Our Symphonia family has continued to send donations, renew annual subscriptions and to attend concerts at the Marriott as we followed guidelines for safety, socially-distancing in this alternate location to provide concerts performed by our amazing musicians. Beginning with our first concert on December 4, we will once again be performing at Roberts Theatre at St. Andrews school. (For the safety of our guests and musicians, masks, social distancing and being vaccinated are required to attend all concerts at Roberts Theatre at St. Andrews School.) We will kick off this special season with Florida favorite, James Judd, on the podium along with Grammy Award-Winning Guitarist Jason Vieaux. This concert opens with Faure’s Masques et Bergamasques and closes with Bizet’s popular Symphony in C. Jason will perform Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. Titled “Love in the Afternoon” this concert will be a beautiful start to our season. Highlights of this spectacular season will include another celebrated Grammynominated violinist and conductor, Andres Cardenes, making his first appearance with the Symphonia in an all-strings program in January. In March we welcome the return of fabulous Conductor Laura Jackson with piano soloist Marika Bournaki with works by Adolphe, Britten and Beethoven. We end the season with our dynamic Maestro Alastair Willis who will be joined by flute soloist Les Roettges for a program described as mysterious and hauntingly beautiful. A determined group of “Building a String Orchestra and Self-Esteem” children with Boys and Girls Club of Delray Beach and the Symphonia’s musicians/teachers have continued to work through the pandemic using zoom classes and look forward to performing a full recital this Spring. We are so proud of them! Congratulations to former Board President and ongoing supporter Steve Pomeranz on his marriage to Carol Malzone in July and to the Symphonia’s marketing partner Andy Rose, who married Sandra Goldman in September. With so much to celebrate, this may be our best season yet!
Carole Boucard
Carole Boucard, Board President
UPCOMING CONCERTS Saturday, January 8 & 9, 2022 | 03:00 pm
Sizzling Strings Grammy-nominated violinist and conductor Andrés Cárdenes’ first appearance with the Symphonia is a dazzling, sensuous, all-strings program. Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 will open the concert, which will conclude with Mahler’s dark, brooding, and driven arrangement of Schubert’s Quartet in D Minor (“Death and the Maiden”).
Sunday, March 27, 2022 | 03:00 pm
Music in Bloom Spring is in the air, and Laura Jackson leads the orchestra in a thrilling concert of works by Adolphe, Britten, and Beethoven, featuring piano soloist Marika Bournaki.
Sunday, April 24, 2022 | 03:00 pm
Poetic Mysteries Maestro Alastair Willis will be back on the podium, and he is joined on stage by flute soloist Les Roettges for a program filled with mystery and haunting beauty. The concert also features a glorious flute concerto by the “the French Mozart,” Francois Devienne, Mendelssohn’s evocative Hebrides Overture (“Fingal’s Cave”), and Manuel de Falla’s suite from his sensuous ballet El Amor Brujo. What a way to cap the season!
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Carole Boucard – President Charles S. Stoll – Treasurer Susan Kaye – V.P. Administration & Marketing Sung Knowles – Secretary
DIRECTORS Bryan Drowos, Jeffrey Kaye, Edith Stein, Alastair Willis – Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor Marlene Forkas and June Gelb – Honorary Members Marshall Turkin – Founder Martin L Coyne* – Founding President Martin B. Stein* – Honorary Chairman Steven L. Pomeranz – President Emeritus
ADMINISTRATION Annabel Russell – Executive Director Susan Dirgins-Friend – Orchestra Librarian Patricia Anderson – Comptroller Robert Ulmer – Bookkeeper Linda Holtz – Grant Writer The Buzz Agency – PR & Social Media Marketing StoryWorkz Creative – Marketing & Website Rose Marcom LLC – Fundraising & Development *Deceased
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PROGRAM Saturday & Sunday, December 4-5, 2021, 3 pm
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON James Judd, Guest Conductor Jason Vieaux, Guitar Soloist Two Lyric Pieces for String Orchestra
The Sentimental One
The Quiet One
Concierto de Aranjuez
William Grant Still (1895-1978) (arr. by Alexander Platt)
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio Allegro
Jason Vieaux, Guitar Soloist Symphony in C major
Allegro vivo
Andante – Adagio
Allegro vivace
Finale: Allegro vivace
Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
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PROGRAM NOTES by Dr. Eve R. Meyer
William Grant Still: Two Lyric Pieces for String Orchestra William Grant Still was known as the dean of 20th-century African-American composers. He was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera, the first African-American composer to conduct a major American orchestra, and the first to have an opera performed on national television. He was a prolific composer who wrote five symphonies, nine operas, and more than thirty choral works, plus chamber music, art songs, and ballets. Many of you, no doubt, have heard his music. Excerpts from his Laredo Suite were used as background music for popular television shows such as Perry Mason, The Three Stooges, and Gunsmoke. In 1960, he wrote the Lyric Quartet, which he titled Musical Portraits of Three Friends. Each of the three movements is descriptive of one of his friends, but they are not named. The engaging first movement, “The Sentimental One,” maintains a generally calm but somewhat melancholy mood. The beautiful string writing creates a unified sound with occasional solo passages. The peaceful second movement is similar in mood and style and is titled “The Quiet One.” The theme is based on a wistful Inca melody; Still wrote that, in addition to his friend, he was inspired by the mountains of Peru. Both movements show some influence of the French impressionist style. Conductor Alexander Platt has arranged the first two movements of the quartet for string orchestra.
Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Joaquín Rodrigo was one of the leading Spanish composers of the 20th century, despite being blind from the age of three after contracting diphtheria; he wrote his compositions in braille. He had a very successful career as a composer, educator, pianist, and lecturer, and he was awarded Spain’s highest honors, including being elevated to the nobility. He popularized music for the classical guitar, and his Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra (1939) brought him instant fame. It is named after a city in central Spain known for its beautiful gardens.
The opening guitar solo sets up a series of strummed chords that shift between six and three beats per measure. The pattern recurs and provides a unifying element. The rhythm, melody, and guitar style show the influence of both the Spanish flamenco and the fandango. The second movement opens with the English horn playing a haunting Andalusian melody, which is then embellished by the guitar and developed by the orchestra. The melody is so beautiful and expressive that it became popular song and was arranged for different instruments. The work concludes with a spirited dance based on a 16th-century folksong with rhythms from the opening movement returning. The concerto has been recorded more than 100 times and has been called the most popular concerto of the 20th century.
Georges Bizet: Symphony in C major Georges Bizet was child prodigy, and, at the age of nine, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he won every prize that was offered. At age seventeen, he decided to write a symphony, and, for his model, he selected a symphony by his composition teacher, Charles Gounod. A comparison of the two works shows many similarities in orchestration, themes, and other stylistic features, but Bizet’s symphony is considered to be far superior to Gounod’s. Bizet never attempted to have it performed or published, and the manuscript was discovered in the conservatory’s archives in 1933. When it was first performed in 1935, it was an outstanding success, and it continues to be an orchestral favorite. The opening movement, in traditional classical form, is based on a vigorous principal theme and a lilting secondary theme played by the oboe. In the second movement, the oboe is given one of Bizet’s most attractive melodies, played over a light, pizzicato accompaniment. It has a taste of the exotic and anticipates the music from some of his later works. The third movement features a lively scherzo and a folklike mid-section, which includes an imitation of the bagpipe’s drone (a pipe producing a single tone). The finale begins in a whirlwind of continuous motion; engaging themes are soon introduced including one that is march-like and another that is lyrical and flowing. The symphony, the only one Bizet composed, is beautifully orchestrated and carefully constructed, and it is filled with memorable melodies. It is an amazing creation by a teenage genius.
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GUEST ARTISTS Grammy-winner Jason Vieaux, “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is described by NPR as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” He has performed as soloist with over 100 orchestras in the US, Asia, and Europe. He has a passion for contemporary music as well as earlier music, and this summer his Bach album was released by Azica. Vieaux’s multiple appearances over the years with chamber music groups and at festivals have forged his reputation as a top chamber musician.
British-born conductor James Judd is sought after for both his passionate musicianship and his charismatic presence on the podium. He is known for his extraordinarily communicative style and bold, imaginative programming. Repeat engagements in concert halls around the world attest to his rapport with audiences and musicians alike. Maestro Judd currently serves as Director of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea.
THE SYMPHONIA MUSICIANS Violin I
Cello
Bassoon
Mei Mei Luo CM
Christopher Glansdorp
Gabriel Beavers
Dina Kostic Asst CM
Aaron Merritt
Matt Corey
Orlando Forte
Angela Maleh
Michele Skinner
Georgiy Khoklov
Antonio Rincon
Horn
Hector Rodriguez
Bass
Eva Conti
Susan Dirgins-Friend
Stan Spinola
Hideki Sunaga
Sharon Janezic
Flute
Trumpet
Karen Fuller
Jeff Kaye
Elissa Lakofsky
Benedetto Salvia
Dale Sandvold
Oboe
Timpani
Ericmar Perez
Erika Yamada
Andrew Proctor
Victoria Stepanenko Violin II
Erika Venable Sha Zhang Marian Myszko Eddie Martinez
Viola
Jeffrey Apana
Michael O’Gieblyn
Clarinet
Srivishnu Ramankutty
Richard Hancock
Valerie Judd
Michael Forte
Karen Hebernehl
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BOCA BALLET THEATRE
Dance Artistic Directors: Dan Guin & Jane Tyree
Season of 2021-22
The Nutcracker
presented by Edith and Martin* Stein
November 26, 2021 at 7:30pm November 27, 2021 at 2:00pm November 27, 2021 at 7:30pm November 28, 2021 at 2:00pm Boca Ballet Theatre continues to captivate audiences with its beloved version of this holiday classic. Clara’s dream unfolds as the Nutcracker Prince, Mouse King and Sugar Plum Fairy all come to life in the sparkle of Co-Artistic Director Dan Guin’s artistic vision. * = In loving memory
Tickets & Information
bocaballet.org or 561.995.0709
Where the stars of tomorrow join the stars of today!
Spring Curation
The Sleeping Beauty
May 7, 2022 at 7:30pm May 8, 2022 at 2:00pm
July 30, 2022 at 7:30pm July 31, 2022 at 2:00pm
Enjoy Mother’s Day weekend with this concert, curated for your pleasure! A delightful blend of classical and contemporary pieces, Spring Curation offers something for everyone as we explore different genres of dance.
Come see the fairytale of fairytales where good triumphs over evil. Staged after the original choreography of Marius Petipa and set to the music of Peter Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty is acknowledged as the most extravagant ballet created by this renowned artistic partnership.
Photos by Silvia Pangaro
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Nestor Torres
Time for Three with The SYMPHONIA
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Authors & Ideas Series
An Evening of Ballet
Featuring Environmentalist Bill McKibbon, Astronaut Donald Pettit, Author Luis Alberto Urrea and more!
Film with Live Orchestra With special gratitude to The Boca Raton for their generous support.
Presented by The Schmidt Family Centre for the Arts, Mizner Park, Boca Raton – Constantine Kitsopoulos, Music Director. Sponsored in part by the Tourist Development Council and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.