ORCHESTRA PROGRAM Arkansas’ Arts + Nature Festival Presented by Walton Arts Center
Festival Orchestra Corrado Rovaris, Music Director
BEYOND ARTS. INSPIRATION.
Walton Arts Center is thrilled to kick off another exciting season of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra—the centerpiece of Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts and Nature Festival—and to once again welcome back nearly 90 premier musicians from around the world under the direction of Corrado Rovaris. In his seventh season as Music Director, Rovaris continues to bring his musical expertise to Northwest Arkansas. Sit back and enjoy the magic of music as it transports you on a musical journey from Mendelssohn’s Scotland and Boccherini’s Spain, to prehistoric Africa and Asia, to the Americas. We are especially proud to once again present a live concert broadcast of the Mozart in the Museum program from the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. It is an honor to share this music with the Northwest Arkansas community and produce a one-ofa-kind live radio broadcast event on KUAF 91.3 Public Radio. Thank you for being a part of our Festival, and a special thanks to the tremendous generosity of our funders and partners. We are so glad to see you – enjoy!
Peter B. Lane | President/CEO, Walton Arts Center
CONTENTS
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About the 2017 Artosphere Festival Orchestra
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Chapel Music Series | Dover Quartet: An Evening of Beethoven May 9 | 7pm | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Fayetteville
Live from Crystal Bridges: Dover Quartet May 13 | 4pm | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
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Live from Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum Featuring Rick Basehore, Oboe; Andrea Levine, Clarinet; Alexander Chin, Horn; and Wade Coufal, Bassoon May 12 | 8pm | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
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Mendelssohn in Scotland May 17 | 7pm | Walton Arts Center's Baum Walker Hall
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Artosphere Festival Finale Featuring Mika Godbole, Percussion May 20 | 8pm | Walton Arts Center's Baum Walker Hall
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ARTOSPHERE SPONSORS AND FUNDERS
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ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
Support for Artosphere programs provided in part by Friends of Walton Arts Center. Additional support provided by Lee and Linda Scott. Support for AFO Music Director Corrado Rovaris provided by Mary Ann and Reed Greenwood.
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ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA
Now in its seventh year, the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, comprised of nearly 90 musicians from prestigious ensembles, orchestras and music programs around the world, has once again gathered in the Ozarks for a professional music-making experience unique to Artosphere. Spending two weeks under the baton of acclaimed Music Director Corrado Rovaris, these world-class musicians will perform three concerts, one in the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and two in Baum Walker Hall at Walton Arts Center.
Corrado Rovaris Music Director Corrado Rovaris holds the post of Music Director of both Opera Philadelphia and the Artosphere Festival Orchestra. He also serves as Principal Conductor of the Italian chamber orchestra I Virtuosi Italiani, based in Verona. In the 2016-17 season, Mr. Rovaris as Music Director of Opera Philadelphia conducted both Gioachino Rossini’s opera seria Tancredi in the fall and W.A. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro in the spring. He joined Opéra de MonteCarlo in March of 2017 to conduct Gioachino Rossini’s popular comic opera Il barbiere di Siviglia. Rovaris finishes his season conducting three orchestra programs with the Artosphere Festival Orchestra before travelling to Santa Fe to conduct Santa Fe Opera’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. Born in Bergamo, Italy, Maestro Rovaris graduated from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan with degrees in composition, organ and harpsichord. From 1992 to 1996 he was the assistant chorus master of the Teatro alla Scala and made his debut on the podium with Il filosofo di campagna by Galuppi in a production by Associazione Lirica
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e Concertistica Italiana. He was subsequently invited to conduct at the Teatro Comunale in Florence and at the Rossini Opera Festival, and soon began appearing as a regular guest in many of the major Italian houses such as La Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Internationally he has led productions for the Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre Municipal de Lausanne, Oper Köln, Oper Frankfurt and Japan Opera Foundation in Tokyo, among others. Making his U.S. debut in 1999 with the Opera Company of Philadelphia in Le nozze di Figaro, Mr. Rovaris quickly became a company regular, eventually leading to his appointment as its music director in 2005. He has also led a number of productions at the Santa Fe Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Glimmerglass Opera. He has established a close connection with the Curtis Institute of Music, and since 2009 has led several joint Curtis-Opera Philadelphia productions.
2017 Artosphere Festival Orchestra Music Director & Conductor Corrado Rovaris Violin Joel Link, Concertmaster Henry Flory, Concertmaster† Bryan Lee, Principal Second Molly Emerman, Principal Second† Rebecca Anderson Hannah Chung Andrea Daigle Brendon Elliot Piotr Filowchowski Brian Fox Seth Freeman Reina Inui Juan C. Jaramillo JiYun Jeong Shoshana Kay Minju Kim Ann SunHyung Kim Alexander Lee Zoë Martin-Doike Tara Mueller Miki Nagahara Avi Nagin Amanda Nix Miho Oda Sakon Rachel Shapiro Luther Warren Sissi Yuqing Zhang Viola Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Principal Madeline Sharp, Principal† Laurel Borden Arnaud Ghillebaert Helen Hess Charles Krenner Carl Larson Elizabeth Oka Kurt Tseng Yumi Oshima Cello Camden Shaw, Principal Grace An, Principal† Troy Chang Joanne Choi Arlen Hlusko Paul Miahky Sarah Rommel Branson Yeast
†Mozart program only
Bass Bert Witzel, Principal Taylor Brown Andrew Chilcote Emmet Hanick Paul Macres Karl Olsen
Percussion Garrett Arney, Principal Fernando Valencia Georgi Videnov
Flute/Piccolo Katherine Lee Althen, Principal Kathryn Flum Heather Johnson
Celeste Lyndon Meyer
Piano Kristine Mezines
Harp Alisa Coffey, Principal
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Andrea Levine, Principal Marianne Shifrin Ryan Leonard
General Manager Jason Howell Smith Personnel Manager & Music Librarian J Robert Loy
Saxophone Dylan Principi Jeffrey Siegfried Oboe/English Horn Rick Basehore, Principal Stanley Chyi, Assistant Principal† Alexandra von der Embse Bassoon/Contrabassoon Wade Coufal, Principal Matt Lano Galina Kiep Horn Alexander Chin, Principal Katy Ambrose, Principal† Melissa Danas Jessica Santiago
Music Librarian Colleen Hood Assistant Personnel Manager & Outreach Coordinator Carl Larson Production Coordinator Ben Harris Housing & Transportation Coordinator Eric Gramling Crystal Bridges Garden Party Music Director Steve Parker
Trumpet Mary Elizabeth Bowden, Principal Ryan Barwise Ryan Gardner Chelsea Orr
Festival Residency Staff Judd Burns Renwick Hudson Grady McCoy Ryan Key
Trombone/Bass Trombone Chris Wolf, Principal Steve Parker Skyler Johnson
Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan Student Guests Simone Broggini Giulia Scilla
Tuba Chuck Kerrigan, Principal Timpani Mari Yoshinaga, Principal Garrett Arney
Percussion equipment provided by SoNA, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas.
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Dover Quartet From its inception, members of the acclaimed Dover Quartet—Bryan Lee, violin; Joel Link, violin; Milena Pajarovan de Stadt, viola; and Camden Shaw, cello—have served as the principal strings of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra (AFO). The Dover Quartet’s rise from being an up-and-coming young ensemble to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric,” says Strings magazine. Catapulted to prominence after sweeping the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the group has become a major presence on the international scene. With its burnished warmth, incisive rhythms and natural phrasing, the Quartet’s distinctive sound has helped confirm its status as “the young American
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string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker). Named as Cleveland Quartet Award winner for the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons, the group was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant in March 2017. The Quartet recently released an album to great acclaim, featuring works by Mozart. Members of the Quartet have also appeared as soloists with some of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Tokyo Philharmonic. In addition to performing as part of the AFO, the Quartet will also perform two solo concerts as part of the Chapel Music Series: May 9, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fayetteville; and May 13, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. See next page for details.
CHAPEL MUSIC SERIES
Dover Quartet: An Evening of Beethoven
Live from Crystal Bridges: Dover Quartet
May 9 | 7pm
May 13 | 4pm
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Fayetteville
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
This concert presented with support provided
A world premiere concert, recorded
by St. Paul’s Friends of Music
live for delayed broadcast on
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Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, number 4 I. Allegro, ma non tanto II. Scherzo. Andante scherzoso quasi Allegretto III. Menuetto. Allegretto IV. Allegro
RECORDED LIVE
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in F Major, K. 590
I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Menuetto & Trio. Allegretto IV. Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, "Serioso"
Richard Danielpour Four Miniatures for String Quartet
I. Allegro con brio II. Allegretto ma non troppo III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso – Più Allegro IV. Larghetto espressivo – Allegretto agitato – Allegro
WORLD PREMIERE
I. Tango II. The Somnambulist’s Dance III. Mirror Dance IV. Lullaby
INTERMISSION INTERMISSION Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, number 2
I. Allegro II. Molto Adagio. III. Allegretto – Maggiore IV. Finale. Presto
Benjamin Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36
I. Allegro calmo II. Vivace III. Chacony
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Live from Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum Featuring Rick Basehore, Oboe; Andrea Levine, Clarinet; Alexander Chin, Horn; and Wade Coufal, Bassoon
May 12 | 8pm Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville Listen live on KUAF 91.3 FM Public Radio
BROADCAST LIVE
Support for AFO Music Director Corrado Rovaris provided by Mary Ann and Reed Greenwood.
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PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to Cosí fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E flat major I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Andantino con variazioni
INTERMISSION Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D major, “Haffner” I. Allegro con spirito II. Andante III. Menuetto & Trio IV. Finale. Presto
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Mozart died in Vienna in 1791 at the young age of 35.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to Cosí fan tutte
This is the third work to result from collaboration with the brilliant librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (the other Mozart was born in Salzburg, two being Don Giovanni and then capital of the The Marriage of Figaro). The independent title translates many ways, Archbishopric of but “All Women Act That Salzburg, part of the Way” is perhaps the Holy Roman Empire, most accurate. Così is an now a city in Austria on opera buffa (comedy) January 27, 1756. which was Portrait of commissioned by Mozart by Mozart started to play Dora Stock, Emperor Joseph II, known c. 1789 keyboard by age 3, as a great patron of the compose minuets by age 5 arts. The plot is convoluted and started playing in public and silly, but it gave Mozart the by age 6. He was a famous child opportunity to compose some of the prodigy playing piano, harpsichord, most dazzlingly beautiful music ever organ, violin and viola as part of many written by him. The overture opens tours across Europe arranged and led with a brief slow introduction leading by his father, composer and musician, into an effervescent presto. Unlike Leopold Mozart. many opera overtures, especially A prolific composer, Mozart completed later ones by Rossini and Wagner, the over 600 works overture to Così contains nearly no that profoundly melodic material from the opera. The shaped classical only exception to this are the chords music including: used to end the andante introduction. 21 stage and opera works, 15 Masses, over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 violin concertos, 27 concert arias, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets Anonymous portrait of the child Mozart, and many c. 1763 Playbill of the first performance of Così fan tutte other pieces.
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MOZART IN THE MUSEUM
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn and Orchestra, K. 297b
Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner”
The Haffner Symphony, as we While in Paris in 1777, now call it, is a Mozart accepted a transitional work commission to write a in Mozart’s career. Sinfonia concertante It was designed as for the Concert party music for Posthumous painting by Spirituel, a prestigious Salzburg and then Barbara Krafft, series that had been transformed into a c. 1819 presenting orchestra concerts symphony for Vienna, the since 1725. He wrote the concerto to great music center where Mozart feature four standout players he had had moved, a safe distance from his just worked with in Mannheim, forming meddling father and the “coarse, a solo group of flute, oboe, bassoon slovenly, dissolute court musicians” and horn, but apparently the of his hometown. From the very first performance never took place, and the measures, with their urgent call to score remained in Paris when Mozart attention, the symphony is serious returned home. That manuscript was business – far too ambitious and lost, but almost a century later a commanding to serve as background musicologist discovered a similar music for even the most important Sinfonia concertante in Germany, with society event. a solo group of oboe, clarinet, bassoon The debut on March 23, 1783, in and horn. The handwriting was not Vienna was a great success. Mozart Mozart’s own, and the replacement of wrote to his father: a solo clarinet for the flute was an obvious change, but scholars saw “The theatre could not have been enough of Mozart in the material that more crowded and . . . every box they declared this work a variant of the was full. But what pleased me most lost Sinfonia concertante. of all was that His Majesty the Emperor was present and, goodness! – how delighted he was and how he applauded me! It is his custom to send the money to the box office before going to the theatre; otherwise I should have been fully justified in counting on a larger sum, for really his delight was beyond all bounds. He sent 25 ducats.” The Mozart Family, c. 1780
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SOLOIST BIOS
Rick Basehore AFO Principal Oboe
Rick Basehore, a Rochester, NY native, is an active freelance oboist in the DC metro area. He is currently the Principal Oboist of the Sarasota (FL) Opera, Allentown (PA) Symphony and Fairfax (VA) Symphony orchestras; as well as Second Oboist and English Hornist of the Annapolis (MD) Symphony. Rick moved to DC in 2008 to assume the duties of Co-Principal Oboist with “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band. He spent his four-year enlistment playing for two Presidents, various visiting foreign dignitaries and tens of thousands of Americans on four separate tours across the country. Other previous positions include Principal Oboist of the Kentucky Symphony, Second Oboist with the Binghamton Philharmonic and Third Oboist with the Virginia Symphony. Over the last 15 years, Rick has travelled across the world, playing for music festivals in places such as Moscow, Jerusalem, Aspen and Stuttgart; in 2001 he spent two months playing with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra in Yekaterinburg, Russia as part of an international residency program. Between 1998 and 2002, he toured extensively and recorded with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Rick studied with Richard Killmer at the Eastman School of Music and Mark Ostoich at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He also
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spent three years in the New World Symphony, America’s only full-time training orchestra for professional musicians. Rick currently lives in Silver Spring, MD with his lovely wife, Shelley Mathews.
Alexander Chin AFO Principal Horn
Midwest-born hornist Alexander Chin moved to New York in 2007 and studied with Mr. Erik Ralske, Principal Horn of the Metropolitan Opera at Manhattan School of Music where he received his bachelor of music degree. He continued his studies at Mannes The New School for Music under the wing of the New York Philharmonic’s Principal Horn, Mr. Philip Myers, and went on to receive his master of music degree. Mr. Chin has played with members of the New York Philharmonic, Met and Philadelphia orchestras, as well as worldrenowned soloists Placido Domingo and Rachel Barton among others. Traveling the world, Mr. Chin has performed in spectacular venues such as China’s National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Czech Republic’s Dvorak Hall in Prague, Vienna’s Musikverein and Leipzig’s famed Gewandhaus, among famous American stages such as Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and regularly at Lincoln Center. He is a member of the Bridge Arts Ensemble, the Patriot Brass Ensemble, and is an active freelancer and teacher in the New York area.
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Wade Coufal
Andrea Levine
AFO Principal Bassoon
AFO Principal Clarinet
Wade Coufal began his lifelong journey as a musician in Pearland, Texas, at the age of 11. As a shy kid growing up, the bassoon and a newfound love of music gave him a confidence and passion for all things artistic. After studying at the Oberlin Conservatory with George Sakakeeny, Wade moved to Philadelphia to complete his studies with Daniel Matsukawa at the Curtis Institute of Music. He has been fortunate in his career to have the opportunity to perform in Asia, Europe and all across the United States.
A native Of Queens, New York, Levine was appointed Principal Clarinet of the Louisville Orchestra in 2003. Prior to coming to Louisville, she spent a year as a member of the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida. Before joining New World, she served as Interim Principal Clarinet of the Akron Symphony while completing graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Eastman School of Music. She served as interim assistant principal of the Colorado Symphony during the 2011-2012 season. She also won the position of interim second clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra during the 2007-2008 season and joined them on two European Tours.
A lover of opera, Wade has been overjoyed to perform with the Opera Philadelphia having just recently won a position with the group. Previously, Wade has performed with The Orchestra Now, Symphony in C, Princeton Symphony, Delaware Symphony and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He was also a founding fellow of ArtistYear, a service program that pushes music students to bring their art to a variety of venues in their community. For his year of service, Wade taught kids musical improvisation at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, in addition to performing with the BOK Trio in non-traditional settings. Aside from music, Wade enjoys reading, writing and playing video games with his brothers and boyfriend.
In addition to serving as Principal Clarinet of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra, she holds the same position at the Britt Festival. She has served as guest principal clarinet of the Cincinnati Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony and the Detroit Symphony. Teachers with whom she has studied include Daniel Gilbert, Kenneth Grant, Franklin Cohen and Yehuda Gilad. As always, she is thrilled to be returning to Northwest Arkansas!
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Mendelssohn in Scotland Part of the 10x10 Arts Series
May 17 | 7pm Walton Arts Center's Baum Walker Hall
Presented with support from Lee and Linda Scott. Support for AFO Music Director Corrado Rovaris provided by Mary Ann and Reed Greenwood.
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PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Johannes Brahms Variations on a theme by Haydn I. Theme II. Variation 1. Poco più animato III. Variation 2. Più vivace IV. Variation 3. Con moto V. Variation 4. Andante con moto VI. Variation 5. Vivace VII. Variation 6. Vivace VIII. Variation 7. Grazioso IX. Variation 8. Presto non troppo X. Finale. Andante
INTERMISSION Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3, Op. 56 “Scottish”
I. Andante con moto – Allegro un poco agitato - Assai animato II. Vivace non troppo III. Adagio IV. Allegro vivacissimo – Allegro maestoso assai
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series of strokes. Despite passing away at such a young age of 38, Mendelssohn managed to distinguish himself as one of the first significant Romantic composers of the 1800s.
Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn was born on February 3, 1809, in Hamburg, Germany.
Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 1833.
Portrait of Mendelssohn by James Warren Childe, c. 1839
Brahms,
He was a German composer, pianist, musical conductor and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn was an excellent sketch artist and watercolor painter in addition to his many other talents, often sketching as he travelled, then later painting the scenes. Felix Mendelssohn died on November 4, 1847, in Leipzig Germany after a
Durham Cathedral, watercolor by Felix Mendelssohn
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Johannes Brahms
He began c. 1853 studying music with his father at age 7. Between ages 14 and 16 Brahms earned money to help his family by playing in rough inns and brothels in the dock area of Hamburg. In 1850 he met Eduard Reményi, a Jewish Hungarian violinist, with whom he gave concerts and from whom he learned Roma (gypsy) music – an influence that remained with him always. Brahms gave his last performance in March 1897 in Vienna. He died a month later, on April 3, 1897, from complications due to cancer.
Durham Cathedral, drawing by Felix Mendelssohn
Brahms, c. 1885
Fingal’s Cave, Scotland
Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
That melody became the foundation of Variations on a theme by Haydn.
Hebrides Overture Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn once stated, “It is in pictures, ruins, and natural surroundings that I find the most music.” Perhaps no work and no surrounding were as equally matched for compositional success as Mendelssohn’s trip to Scotland and the writing of his Hebrides Overture. The Hebrides Overture, also known as Fingal’s Cave, was composed by Mendelssohn in 1830. The piece was inspired by Mendelssohn’s visit to Fingal’s Cave on the island of Staffa, located in the Hebrides archipelago off the west coast of Scotland.
Variations on a theme by Haydn Johannes Brahms
Variations on a theme by Haydn is a good example of Brahms’ interest in earlier styles. While studying the music of Haydn, he discovered a melody known as the “St. Anthony Chorale.”
This piece marked a career turning point for Brahms, who considered it a complete success that opened the door for subsequent work and the completion of his Symphony No. 1 in C. minor.
Symphony No. 3, “Scottish” Felix Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn was a great lover of Britain and travelled widely around the country in his lifetime. At age 20, as part of his Grand Tour, he embarked on a walking tour of Scotland that made an immediate and lasting impression. In the ruins at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh he found his initial inspiration for his “Scottish” Symphony. In a letter to his family, he enclosed a scrap of paper with the opening bars of what would become the symphony’s opening theme: “In the deep twilight we went today to the palace were Queen Mary lived and loved... Everything is ruined, decayed, and the clear heavens pour in. I think I have found there the beginning of my ‘Scottish’ Symphony.” Artosphere Festival Orchestra 2017
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Artosphere Festival Finale Featuring Mika Godbole, Percussion
May 20 | 8pm Walton Arts Center's Baum Walker Hall
Support for AFO Music Director Corrado Rovaris provided by Mary Ann and Reed Greenwood.
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PROGRAM
Luigi Boccherini/Luciano Berio Quattro versioni originali della “Ritirata notturna di Madrid” (Four Original Versions from Luigi Boccherini’s “Withdrawal by Night in Madrid," superimposed and transcribed for orchestra)
Avner Dorman Frozen in Time
I. Indoafrica II. Eurasia III. The Americas
INTERMISSION
̌ k Antonin Dvorá Symphony No. 7
I. Allegro maestoso II. Poco adagio in F major III. Scherzo: Vivace – Poco meno mosso IV. Finale: Allegro
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Luciano Berio
Italian composer Luciano Berio was born Oneglia, Luciano Liguria, Italy Berio on October 24, 1925. From the early 1950s Berio made a name for himself as a leading voice of the new generation of musical avantgarde. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. Luciano Berio died in Rome on May 27, 2003.
patrons included the royal families of Spain and Prussia, as well as Napoleon’s brother Lucien. He died in Madrid on May 28, 1805. One of his most popular of chamber works was Op. 30, No. 6, La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid. Boccherini arranged this for guitar and piano quintets, and—thanks to the manuscript collections his patrons assembled—it exists in various versions. It has also been popular with filmmakers, with the Passacalle movement appearing at the end of Master and Commander.
Four Original Versions from Luigi Boccherini's "Withdrawal by Night in Madrid," superimposed and transcribed for orchestra
Luigi Boccherini
Boccherini was born in Lucca, Italy on February 19, 1743. He was an Drawing of Luigi Italian Boccherini by Etienne Mazas classical era composer and one of the first virtuoso cellists. Although he composed much of his music in relative isolation in Spain, his
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Quattro versioni originali della "Ritirata notturna di Madrid" is an arrangement of a movement from Luigi Boccherini's Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid by Italian composer Luciano Berio. The full title of the composition is Four Original Versions from Luigi Boccherini's "Withdrawal by Night in Madrid," superimposed and transcribed for orchestra. This arrangement was composed in 1975. Luciano Berio received a commission by La Scala
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Theatre Orchestra in 1975, in which Berio was asked to write a short piece that would serve as an opening composition. Berio decided to arrange a movement from Boccherini's Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid, which is also called the Ritirata notturna di Madrid. At the time, up to four different versions of the same movement were known, as Boccherini originally arranged them for various musical forces. Berio decided to superimpose them while performing minor alterations to create a stratified sound structure.
Avner Dorman
Born on April 14, 1975, in Tel Aviv, Israel Composer Avner Dorman writes music Avner Dorman of intricate craftsmanship and rigorous technique, expressed with a soulful and singular voice. Now living in the United States, Dorman draws on a variety of cultural and historical influences in composing, resulting in music that creates an emotional impact while exploring new territories. His works utilize an exciting and complex rhythmic vocabulary, as well as unique timbres and colors in orchestral, chamber and solo settings.
Frozen in Time Percussion Concerto
The title Frozen in Time refers to imaginary snapshots of the Earth’s geological development from prehistoric times to the present day. Although we cannot be sure what the Earth looked like millions of years ago, most scientists agree that the separate continents used to be one megacontinent (as most agree that mankind descended from one prehistoric womb). Each movement imagines the music of a large prehistoric continent at a certain point in time: Indoafrica, Eurasia and The Americas.
Antonin Dvořák
Antonin Dvořák was born on September 8, 1841, in Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was the first Antonin Bohemian/Czech Dvořák composer to achieve worldwide recognition. He is noted for turning folk material into the language of 19th-century Romantic music. In particular he
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employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák's most well-known work is his Symphony No.9, “From the New World,” in which he featured and integrated Native American tunes and African American spirituals into this most European of art forms. In 1877, on recommendation by Brahms, the publisher Simrock commissioned Dvořák to write some Slavonic Dances for piano duet, aimed at the lucrative domestic market. Dvořák fast became an international celebrity, in some places almost overnight. In Berlin the sheet music sold out in one day. Dvořák sailed to New York in autumn 1892, and his time in America produced three of his most famous works, the String Quartet No.12, 'American', the Cello Concerto in B minor, and the New World Symphony. The last years of his life, Dvořák was content. He composed some short orchestral works and wrote his operatic masterpiece, Rusalka. When he died of a heart attack after a short illness in Prague on May 1, 1904, he was mourned as a Dvořák and family national hero, in the New World and his music has remained popular ever since.
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Symphony No. 7 in D minor
Dvořák began sketching this symphony in 1884, finished the score on March 17, 1885, and conducted the first performance on April 22 of that year in London. In a sense, this symphony was born the day Dvořák first heard Brahms’s new Third Symphony, and that was the music that still filled his head when he sat down that December to begin sketching. The work on the new symphony went quickly, three months from the first sketch to the finished product. Dvořák said that the main theme of the first movement came to him while he stood on the platform waiting for the train from Pest to arrive at the State Station, an unlikely inspiration made more likely by the knowledge that Dvořák spent hours of his adult life monitoring the progress of trains in rail yards wherever he lived. In 1935, the preeminent British musicologist, Sir Donald Francis Tovey, unequivocally stated, “I have no hesitation in setting Dvorák’s Seventh Symphony along with the C Major Symphony of Schubert and the four symphonies of Brahms as among the greatest and purest examples of this art-form since Beethoven.”
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Mika Godbole Featured Soloist
Born Malavika, or Mika, Godbole is known for her enthusiastic support of new music, emerging composers and her flair as a solo performer. She has premiered several works as a founding member of the groundbreaking quartet Mobius Percussion. Her freelance activities include performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, Bay Atlantic Symphony, Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony and Lancaster Symphony Orchestra among others.
Recent accolades include a Grammy nomination for Thomas Lloyd’s Bonhoeffer with The Crossing. She also won the 2016 Bessie Award with Dan Trueman, Mobius Percussion and So Percussion for Outstanding Musical Composition/Sound Design. Upcoming projects include the third year Princeton, NJ’s new music marathon, aptly titled Unruly Sounds and residences with Mobius Percussion. She has also been involved in summer music programs such as the Aspen Music Festival, So Percussion Summer Institute, the Artosphere Festival and the China International Summer Music Academy. She has collaborated with conductors and artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, Michael Tilson Thomas, Charles Dutoit, Martha Argerich, Yefim Bronfman, Christoph Eschenbach, James DePriest, David Robertson and James Conlon. As a teacher, she maintains an active studio of thirty students at various levels of ability at the Westminster Conservatory and at York College of PA (as Adjunct Faculty).
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Artosphere Festival Orchestra 2017
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2017 Artosphere Festival Orchestra EVENTS AT-A-GLANCE
Live from Crystal Bridges: Mozart in the Museum May 12 | 8pm | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art BROADCAST LIVE Tune in to KUAF 91.3 FM or kuaf.org for live broadcast Featuring Mozart's Overture to Cosí fan tutte, Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E flat major and Symphony No. 35 in D major “Haffner”
Mendelssohn in Scotland May 17 | 7pm | Walton Arts Center | Tickets: $10 Performing Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Symphony No. 3 “Scottish,” and Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a theme by Haydn
Artosphere Festival Finale May 20 | 8pm | Walton Arts Center | Tickets: $10 Performing Luciano Berio’s Quattro versioni originali della “Ritirata notturna di Madrid,” Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Avner Dorman’s Frozen in Time Percussion Concerto
OTHER EVENTS FEATURING AFO MUSICIANS:
May 9 | Chapel Music Series | Dover Quartet: An Evening of Beethoven 7pm | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church | Tickets: $10
May 13 | Chapel Music Series | Live from Crystal Bridges: Dover Quartet | 4pm Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Tickets: $25
May 18 | AFO: Off the Grid | 7pm | Downtown/Dickson Entertainment District FREE EVENT
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