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Department of Music and Theatre University at Albany presents:
UAlbany Symphony Orchestra Christopher David Neubert, conductor
Sunday, May 1, 2022 at 3pm
Main Theatre UAlbany Performing Arts Center
Program Jean Sibelius, Op. 42…………………………….Romance in C Peter Warlock …Transcribed and Edited …Six Italian Dances I. Zorzi II. La Gamba III. Paduana Del Re IV. La Manfrolina V. Le Forze D’Hercole VI. El Saltarello
Frank Bridge…………………………Suite for String Orchestra I. Prelude II. Intermezzo III. Nocturne
Howard Hanson......Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns Violins Bryan Fonder Concertmaster
Nicole Maher Barry Weinstein Logan Stone Monica Alexander Anthony Parillo Amanda Sue Principal
Sarah Cohen Elizabeth Petta Hope Savercool Marcella Reiter Evan Corwin Melissa Yusaitis Violas Kayla Somers Principal
Leah Magee
Violas (c’td.) Catherine Rafferty Robert Lombardo Cellos Joseph Regan Principal
Lucy Skidmore Alisa Bielert Jacob Koplik Maggie Henderson Maya Wilkerson Double Basses Erik Laurin Principal
Mary Lemak Clyde Welsh Molly Martellotta Orchestra Manager Logan Stone
Program Notes Jean Sibelius – ROMANZE in C In 1904, the same year that Mahler’s Fifth Symphony premiered and Coleridge-Taylor made his first tour of the United States, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) completed a little piece for string orchestra called the Romance in C. Like Mahler’s pivotal year between 1901 and 1902, 1904 most certainly marked a significant turning point in Sibelius’s life, though for quite different reasons. Sibelius, living with his wife Aino in Helsinki, had reached a dangerous state in which his excessive drinking and extravagant socializing had put the family into a precarious position. Aino and a family friend staged somewhat of an intervention, presenting a plan to leave the city for some place where Sibelius could compose without the temptations that had plagued him. The couple purchased land near Lake Tuusula on which they would build a cottage on an estate they named Ainola. Jean’s brother Christian, a doctor in Berlin, sent medicinal powders to help curb his brother’s alcoholic cravings. A series of concerts was arranged to help fund the construction of the new house. Among these was a concert in Turku, by the orchestra that premiered the Romance. Dedicated to artistic director José Eibenschütz, Sibelius himself conducted. The five-minute work conjures a whirlwind of emotions, ranging from tenderness and angst to longing and serenity, words that might also describe the lifelong journey of Jean and Aino. Peter Warlock – Six Italian Dances Philip Arnold Heseltine (1894 – 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle. As a schoolboy at Eton College, Heseltine met the British composer Frederick Delius, with whom he formed a close
friendship. After a failed student career in Oxford and London, Heseltine turned to musical journalism, while developing interests in folk-song and Elizabethan music. His first serious compositions date from around 1915. Following a period of inactivity, a positive and lasting influence on his work arose from his meeting in 1916 with the Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren; he also gained creative impetus from a year spent in Ireland, studying Celtic culture and language. On his return to England in 1918, Heseltine began composing songs in a distinctive, original style, while building a reputation as a combative and controversial music critic. During 1920–21 he edited the music magazine The Sackbut. His most prolific period as a composer came in the 1920s, when he was based first in Wales and later at Eynsford in Kent. Through his critical writings, published under his own name, Heseltine made a pioneering contribution to the scholarship of early music. In addition, he produced a full-length biography of Frederick Delius and wrote, edited, or otherwise assisted the production of several other books and pamphlets. Towards the end of his life, Heseltine became depressed by a loss of his creative inspiration. He died in his London flat of coal gas poisoning in 1930, probably by his own hand. The Six Italian Dances are transcribed from a set of part-books which was known to have been in the possession of an English family before 1580. It is now in the British Museum. The MS contains forty-four dance tunes. The original are unbarred and without any indications of tempo, phrasing or dynamics. These points of interpretation are best left to the taste of individual performers, conductors and teachers. Frank Bridge – Suite for String Orchestra Frank Bridge (1879-1941) was an English composer, viola player, and conductor, one of the most accomplished musicians of his day, known especially for his chamber music and songs. Bridge studied violin at the Royal College of Music, London, but changed to viola, becoming a virtuoso player. After a period in
the Joachim Quartet (1906) he played with the English String Quartet until 1915. He also held various positions as a conductor, both symphonic and operatic. His early works were Romantic in style; later, while he never abandoned Romanticism, he moved toward atonality. He was widely respected as a teacher, and his pupils included Benjamin Britten. He composed his Suite for String Orchestra in 1910. Howard Hanson Howard Hanson was born in the very heartland of the United States, Wahoo, Nebraska, on October 28th, 1896. His parents emigrated from Sweden to America when they were young and his Scandinavian roots played a very important role in Hanson's aesthetic and spiritual make-up. Taught music first by his mother, he determined on a career in music and began his formal musical education at Luther College in his hometown. He continued his studies at the Institute of Musical Art under Percy Goetschius and at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, under P. C. Lutkin and Arne Oldberg where he also served as an instructor in 1915-16. After graduation he taught theory and composition at the College of the Pacific in San Jose, California where he became Dean of the Conservatory of Fine Arts in 1919. His first major success as a composer came in 1921 when he was awarded the first American Prix de Rome in Music from his California Forest Play of 1920 for solo voices, chorus, dancers, and orchestra. In a far reaching move that was to have a decisive effect on music education in the United States, George Eastman chose the young Hanson to be director of the recently founded Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, in 1924. Hanson was to head the school for 40 years until his retirement in 1964, making Eastman one of the most influential music conservatories in the world, by broadening its curriculum and raising the standards of its orchestra, the Eastman Philharmonic, to a near professional level. Hanson Composed the Rhythmic Variations for the Music Educators National Conference in 1976.
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Created and produced by the University Art Museum, NYS Writers Institute and UAlbany Performing Arts Center in collaboration with WAMC Public Radio, this popular series features leading figures from a variety of artistic disciplines in conversation about their creative inspirations, their craft and their careers. “Roundtable” host Joe Donahue conducts live on-stage interviews followed by a Q&A with the audience.
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