Musical Notes Preview - Symphony League of Santa Cruz County

Musical Notes
Newsletter of the Santa Cruz Symphony League
SCSL - 2014-15 Season
Number 2
League Info: www.slscc.org
October, 2014
The 2014-15
Season begins!
Preview
Friday, October 3,
4:00 p.m.
Civic Auditorium,
Santa Cruz
Our soloist, Nicolas Hodges, was born
in London and now is a professor at the
Conservatory in Stuttgart, Germany. The
London Guardian commented: “Hodges’
recitals always boldly go where few other
pianists dare ... with an energy that sometimes
defies belief.”
Maestro Danny Stewart has chosen to
begin his second season with the
theme of Creation!
The first concert will include:
Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide”
Adés’ “In Seven Days”
(a Northern California Premiere)
Mozart’s Symphony #41 in C major,
“Jupiter”
His repertoire encompasses composers from
Beethoven and Brahms to Stravinsky. Tempo
magazine wrote: “Hodges is a refreshing artist;
he plays the classics as if they were written
yesterday, and what was written yesterday as if
it were already a classic.”
Sign up now to attend this wonderful
educational afternoon!
Join us so that we will have the unique opportunity
to learn more about the music and the people
involved! Reservations must be made in advance.
Checks for $15 may be made out to SLSCC and
sent to Cheryl Hammond, 1505 - 42nd Ave. #30,
Capitola, CA 95010, or you may register online,
using PayPal or your credit card at www.slscc.
Roger’s
Column
Welcome to the first
concert.
This
year
promises to be super;
check out the symphony
schedule!
New this
year will be an outdoor
reception to celebrate the new season, just before the
first concert on October 4, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., on the street
outside the Civic Center. It will be fun to meet new and
old friends and catch up on the summer.
The first concert is a good time to remember one of the
nicest benefits of League membership – the Symphony
Previews. If you haven’t been to one, or not been in
a long time, I invite you to come out. A guest artist
and Maestro Danny Stewart preview the music for us,
play excerpts, and tell us about the music’s origins,
significance, structure, and meaning. Sometimes the
artists will also describe their instruments. Following this
we have a social hour with wine and hors d’oeuvres, and
a chance to meet the artists and the music director. You’ll
also meet League members and hear about upcoming
League activities. Check it out in this issue.
We had our second Auto d’Elegance at Canepa in Scotts
Valley on September 13. It was a great time. Look at Bill
Mowatt’s article in this issue of Musical Notes, and don’t
miss the pictures and the list of sponsors and donations.
I want to thank everyone who worked on this big event
- the Auto d’Elegance committee and all those who, on
the committee or not, saw that something needed doing,
and did it. Thanks to you all!
This is a good time to suggest that we take note of the
businesses and organizations that sponsor the League,
and support Symphony activities. We can repay their
support by giving them our business when we can, and
a nice, “Thank you for supporting the Symphony.” That
can go a long way to building relationships and friends
within the community.
We’d like to grow the League membership this year. The
best way to attract new people is for current members
to tell their friends about the League and ask them to
give membership a try. The League raises funds for the
Symphony, but it is also very much about making good
friends who share a love of great music. - Roger
UPCOMING
EVENTS
FOR OUR
SYMPHONY
FAMILY!
October
3
Concert Preview
4 & 5 Symphony Concerts
18
Bocce Ball BBQ @ Sharon & Bob Bailey’s, 2:00 – 5:00
December
6 & 7, Home Tour
15,
Wassail Party, 7:00 - 9:00 @ Marjorie Albright’s
January
15
Afternoon Tea at Francine Thomas’ home,
2:00 - 4:00
23
Preview
24 & 25 Symphony Concerts
February
24
The Symphony at Shadowbrook
March
1
Family Concert
20
Preview
21 & 22 Symphony Concerts
Contributions to
Musical Notes?
Please send articles, pictures
or (?) to:
cvfaad@comcast.net
29th Annual
Home Tour
Saturday
& Sunday
December 6 & 7
Noon - 5:00
We will have
• Five unique homes
• A gift boutique
• Refreshments
• Entertainment
Tell your family and friends
to save the date!
How can I participate?
Do you have items that can be
used for gift baskets?
Our baskets may have themes such as:
• Coffee
• Chocolate
• Italian
• Christmas
• Hannukah
• New Year’s Celebration
• Martini
• Or ????
Thanks to Mary Ann Hobbs
and Millie Rossiter!
To donate call 466-9524
Make a gift in honor
of, or in memory of
someone
precious to you.
Auto d’Elegance Sponsors & Donations
Peggy & Tom Ard
Barbara Canfield
Dr. Arthur Cooley
Robert Davidson, Canyon View Capital
De Laveaga Motors
John & Nancy Dickinson
Linda & Dwayne Downing
Electric Auto Association
Sally & Ralph Griffin
Cynthia Killion
Margaret Knacke
Virginia & Howard Law
Julie & Bob Mazurek
Gail & Bill Mowatt
Maria & Kelly Nesheim
Ocean Honda
Pat & Roland Rebele
Eileen Sambrailo
Santa Cruz Nissan, Dodge, Volkswagen
Vintage Electric Bikes
Bill Winterhalder, North Bay Ford
Jerald O’Brien of Silver Mountain Vineyards
Eliyxir Distributing, LLC
Santa Cruz Ale Works
Bruce Canepa and the Canepa Team!
Are you looking for a
way to honor a friend, or
to give a memorial gift?
Please send the following
information to: Santa Cruz Symphony League, Sheila
Vaughn, Treasurer, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA
95060.
A donation of $ _________
___ In Honor of ____________________________
___ In Memory of __________________________
From: Name: ______________________________
Address: ____________________________
____________________________________
Please notify:
Name: ______________________________
Address: ____________________________
____________________________________
Bocce Ball BBQ
October 18, 2:00 - 5:00
At the home of
Robert & Sharon Bailey
Music
for your entertainment
You don’t need to be an
expert bocce ball player, some have never
played before. Come, learn, play, enjoy the fun!
Meal includes BBQ,
beans & garlic bread
Please bring salad or
dessert to share and the
beverage(s) you would
like to drink
$30 donation for our
Symphony League
Our Amazing chef, Bill Mowatt
To register send a check to:
SLSCC c/o Clyde Vaughn, 1435 Dolphin Drive, Aptos, CA 95003.
Or you can reserve by Pay Pal by checking the link at:
http://www.slscc.org/special-events/20-x-20-events/
What the 2014-15 Symphony Season has in Store for Us. . .
-Ann Haley
This forthcoming season our conductor Daniel Stewart has prepared a truly
exciting and varied program of five concerts filled with selections predating
the early classical, contemporary, and romantic periods of music, which will
stimulate all of our senses, particularly when rendered by the most talented
young soloists on the international stage and our own outstanding symphony orchestra.
The first concert entitled “Creation” will begin with Leonard Bernstein’s sparkling Overture from “Candide,”
which most will recall introduced Dick Cavett’s popular TV interview programs. That excellent stimulant
will be followed by a contemporary work by Thomas Adés, “In Seven Days,” combining audio with video
images and starring its most important piano soloist and original interpreter, Nicholas Hodges, who has
performed extensively throughout the world. This piece spotlights our skilled wind section and truly
tests the pianist’s virtuosity with passages that are difficult as well as richly musical. The program will
conclude with Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, which later romantic composers sometimes referenced in
their own music.
The second concert, “Dreams and Vision,” starts off with Bach’s secular “Wedding Cantata,” a cheerful
work that precedes the later religious cantatas he wrote for St.Thomas Church in Leipzig. The brilliant
young Chinese soprano Ying Fang will sing this cantata as well as the modern Villa-Llobos “Bachiana
Brasileira No. 5”, which was structured very much as Bach structured his own music. See if you can
find the connections. The soloist will sing with eight cellos for this unusual work. This concert concludes
with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, which Stewart finds changed the course of classical music.
Our third concert, “The Muse,” opens with Samuel Barber’s familiar and melodic “Adagio for Strings,”
followed by Stravinsky’s mythological “Apollon Musagete” and closes with Tschaikovsky’s very sensual
“Serenade for Strings,” another familiar and loved work.
The fourth concert, “Pacific Perspective” is a program we have all been waiting for: compositions by our
own Daniel Stewart, “Sinfonia,” and Lou Harrison, “Pacifika Rondo,” that are filled with rhythm, beautiful
harmonies, and in the second instance, themes that combine Latin and Pacific musical ideas. This
exciting program concludes with Beethoven’s highly controversial (at his time) violin concerto, most
difficult to perform, but more than finely executed by the young Klein Competition winner, South Korean
violinist Youjin Lee. Surely, no one wants to miss this program of new music and new musicians.
Our fifth and final concert, which never fails to be the piece de resistance (but with the above performances
it must follow, how can that be the case?), is called “Sacred and Profane,” and features our Cabrillo
Symphonic Chorus with Cheryl Anderson performing Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. The cliff hanger
is that the soloists are not yet announced! Works by early composers Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tomas
Luis de Victoria precede Orff’s ribald display, which just might save us from l’enfer, after all. As ever, buy
early and join all of us in this happy musical experience.
Pictures from the Merilyn Neher Concert at the
gracious home of Helen Jones
Michelle Miracle assisted
Merilyn by turning pages
Thanks to Helen Jones
for taking pictures!
Second Auto D’Elegance a Success
-Bill Mowatt
On Saturday afternoon, September 13th, League
members and other interested folks, enjoyed our second
Auto D’Elegance. New vintage and racing cars had been
added, and there was an electric automobile contingent,
which included hybrids, completely electric powered
cars, and three Teslas, the new electric sensation
assembled in Fremont, California. Our gracious host,
Bruce Canepa, had on display an amazing collection of
elegant and exciting vintage and racing cars including
Porsches, Ferraris, Maseratis, and Cobras. Canepa, a local from Scotts Valley, has raced Porsches and restored
many vintage cars. Besides marveling at these gorgeous and exciting cars, attendees enjoyed a beautiful day,
delicious grilled tri-tip and salmon, live music by the Brian Quinn Quartet, and the conviviality of a happy
group.
The League would like to thank the generous major sponsors, Roland and Pat Rebele, Eileen Sambrailo, and
Kelly and Maria Nesheim. We would also like to thank many other sponsors, Peggy and Tom Ard, Barbara
Canfield, Bill Winterhalder, Bill and Gail Mowatt, Margarete Knacke, Ocean Honda, DeLaveaga Service Center,
Cynthia Kilian, John and Nancy Dickinson, Kelsi Williamson, Julie and Bob Mazurek, Santa Cruz Nissan, Dodge,
Volkswagen, and other contributors. Jerold O’Brien generously donated his Silver Mountain wines, and
Santa Cruz Ale Works and Elyxir Distributing donated the beer. Linda Downing and Robert Davidson donated
major auction items. Also, thanks to Mary Ann and Peter Orr and their volunteer helpers for organizing and
providing a wonderful meal and all those unsung heroes who did the set-up and clean-up. Thanks to all who
attended, helped make this event a success, and supported our wonderful symphony.
(see pictures on page 8)
Santa Cruz
Symphony
League
Membership
Guide
ROUND ROBIN BRIDGE
Chairperson
Jan Davis-Hadley
438-4494
Captains
Debussy
Joyce Sawaya.............................475-5574
Schubert
2014 - 2015
The Membership Guide is in
production right now, and will be
available at the first Preview, Oct. 3. It
will also be available at the concerts,
October 4 & 5. Please be sure to pick
up your personal copy, it will save us
the work and expense of mailing it.
If you have had any changes in your
address, phone # or email, OR if
the listing in our last directory was
not accurate, please contact Sheila
Vaughn, 831-662-8908, or send her
an email at sgvaughn@comcast.net
When you receive an email from
“Symphony League Communications”
please open it. At the bottom of the email
it will give you an option to “Add us to
your address book.” Please click on that
link so you will not miss any important
information from your League. If you have
any changes in your email please notify
Clyde at
cvfaad@comcast.net.
Joyce Sawaya.............................475-5574
Tchaikovsky
Sue Robinson ............................ 429-1597
Mozart
Jan Davis-Hadley........................438-4494
Brahms
Sterling Frost...............................458-2314
Each couple plays with another couple in the section once a
month from September through May. A no-host award party is
held in the Spring. Prizes are presented to the winners of each
section with the highest cumulative scores.
CALL JAN DAVIS-HADLEY IF YOU WOULD
LIKE TO PARTICIPATE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2014-15 Season
Directors and Officers
VP Educational Programs
and Previews
Cheryl Hammond
VP Membership,
Recruitment and Directory
Dan Rutan
VP Public Relations
Bill Mowatt
VP Communications
Clyde Vaughn
Corresponding Secretary
Kate Miller
Treasurer
Sheila Vaughn
Board Members at Large
Fred Dunn-Ruiz
Helen Jones
Donna Large
Patty Lockett
Jeanne Shada
Eileen Sambreilo
Rehearsal Refreshments
Dan & Vickie Rutan
Housing Musicians
Connie Adams
Volunteers
Danene Forman
Historian
Marie Tomasi
Home Tour
Kate Sutherland
Round Robin Bridge
Jan Davis Hadley
20-20 Chair
Clyde Vaughn
Santa Cruz Symphony League
Past President,
Parliamentarian
Clyde Vaughn
Recording Secretary
Ola Monaghan
307 Church Street
Santa Cruz, California 95060
President
Roger Knacke
Standing Committee Chairs