Bramwell Tovey - Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

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MAGAZINE OF THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY
SEPTEMBER 26–NOVEMBER 2, 2009–VOLUME 15–ISSUE 1
Bramwell Tovey
VSO Music Director opens
the new Season with the
legendary Shlomo Mintz
Garrick Ohlsson
performs Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto
Distant Worlds: Music
from FINAL FANTASY
The Music of the Night
A Trip to Broadway featuring the music
of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Sinatra Project
with Michael Feinstein
Rachel Barton PIne
with the VSO
vancouver symphony orchestra
BRAMWELL TOVEY MUSIC DIRECTOR
KAZUYOSHI AKIYAMA CONDUCTOR LAUREATE
JEFF TYZIK PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR
EVAN MITCHELL ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Marsha & George Taylor Chair
SCOTT GOOD COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
first violins
Dale Barltrop,
Concertmaster
Joan Blackman,
Associate Concertmaster
Akira Nagai, Associate
Concertmaster Emeritus
Jennie Press, Second
Assistant Concertmaster
Robin Braun
Mary Sokol Brown
Mrs. Cheng Koon Lee Chair
Anne Cramer
Jenny Essers
Karen Haley Foster §
Jason Ho
Xue Feng Wei
Rebecca Whitling
Yi Zhou
Nancy DiNovo ◊
Ruth Schipizky ◊
second violins
Brent Akins, Principal
Karen Gerbrecht,
Associate Principal
Jim and Edith le Nobel Chair
Jeanette Bernal-Singh,
Assistant Principal
Adrian Shu-On Chui
Daniel Norton
Ann Okagaito
Ashley Plaut
Maya De Forest ◊
DeAnne Eisch ◊
Angela Goddard ◊
Larisa Lebeda ◊
Pamela Marks ◊
Marian Turner ◊
§ Leave of Absence
∆One-year Position
◊Extra Musician
violas
Neil Miskey, Principal
Andrew Brown,
Associate Principal
Stephen Wilkes,
Assistant Principal
Lawrence Blackman
Angela Schneider
Professors Mr. and Mrs.
Ngou Kang Chair
piccolo
Ahilya Ramharry
Hermann & Erika Stölting Chair
oboes
Roger Cole, Principal
Wayne and Leslie Ann
Ingram Chair
Beth Orson,
Assistant Principal
Karin Walsh
Ian Wenham
Chi Ng ◊
Reginald Quiring ◊
Marcus Takizawa ◊
english horn
cellos
Jeanette Jonquil,
Principal
Cris Inguanti,
Acting Principal §
Marie-Julie Chagnon,
Acting Assistant Principal ∆
Michelle Goddard ∆
Lee Duckles, Principal
Nezhat and Hassan
Khosrowshahi Chair
Janet Steinberg,
Associate Principal
Zoltan Rozsnyai,
Assistant Principal
Olivia Blander
Natasha Boyko
Mary & Gordon
Christopher Chair
Joseph Elworthy
Charles Inkman
Cristian Markos
Ari Barnes ◊
basses
Chang-Min Lee,
Associate Principal
David Brown
Patricia Hutter
J. Warren Long
Frederick Schipizky
Christopher Light ◊
flutes
Christie Reside,
Principal
Ahilya Ramharry,
Assistant Principal
Rosanne Wieringa
Beth Orson
Chair in Memory of
John S. Hodge
clarinets
e-flat clarinet
Michelle Goddard ∆
trumpets
Larry Knopp, Principal
Marcus Goddard,
Associate Principal
Raymond Kirkham
W. Neil Harcourt in memory of
Frank N. Harcourt Chair
trombones
Andrew Poirier,
Acting Principal ∆
Gregory A. Cox
bass trombone
Douglas Sparkes
Arthur H. Willms Family Chair
tuba
Ellis Wean, Principal
timpani
Aaron McDonald, Principal
percussion
Vern Griffiths, Principal
Martha Lou Henley Chair
Tony Phillipps
harp
bass clarinet
Marie-Julie Chagnon ∆
Elizabeth Volpé, Principal
Heidi Krutzen ◊
bassoons
piano, celeste
Julia Lockhart,
Principal
Sophie Dansereau,
Assistant Principal
Gwen Seaton
contrabassoon
Linda Lee Thomas,
Principal
Carter (Family) Deux Mille
Foundation Chair
personnel manager
Lawrence Blackman
Sophie Dansereau
music librarian
french horns
Ron & Ardelle Cliff Chair
Minella F. Lacson
Oliver de Clercq,
Principal
Joy Branagan
master carpenter
David Haskins,
Associate Principal
Benjamin Kinsman
Leonard Lummis
Werner & Helga Höing Chair
Winslow & Betsy Bennett Chair
Pierre Boyard
master electrician
piano technician
Thomas Clarke
Richard Mingus,
Assistant Principal
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SEPTEMBER 26–NOVEMBER 2, 2009–VOLUME 15–ISSUE 1
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CONCERTS
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SEPTEMBER 26, 27, 28
Goldcorp Masterworks Gold
Beltone Symphony Sundays
Bramwell Tovey conductor
Shlomo Mintz violin
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OCTOBER 1
Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets
Mendelssohn and Friends
Christopher Gaze host
Mary Sokol Brown violin
Andrew Brown viola
OCTOBER 21
Specials
The Sinatra Project with Michael Feinstein
Michael Fenstein singer/piano
Bill Elliott conductor
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OCTOBER 24, 26
PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Rachel Barton Pine violin
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OCTOBER 19
Vancouver Sun Symphony at the Roundhouse
Maximal Minimalism
Evan Mitchell conductor
OCTOBER 31
Specials
Nosferatu! A Special Hallowe’en Presentation
Gillian Anderson conductor
OCTOBER 9, 10
London Drugs VSO Pops
The Music of the NIght
Betsy Wolfe vocalist
Eric Kunze vocalist
UBC Opera Ensemble
GARRICK OHLSSON
OCTOBER 16, 17, 19
Bach & Beyond
North Shore Classics
Martin Haselböck conductor/organ
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OCTOBER 8
Specials
Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY
Arnie Roth conductor
Nobuo Uematsu composer
UBC Opera Ensemble
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OCTOBER 3, 5
Masterworks Diamond
Garrick Ohlsson piano
OCTOBER 11
Spectra Energy Kids’ Koncerts
Rhythm in Your Rubbish
Platypus Theatre entertainers
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24
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NOSFERATU
NOVEMBER 2
Surrey Nights
Andrew Brown viola
28
ERIC KUNZE
24
SCENE FROM
FINAL FANTASY
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BRAMWELL TOVEY
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MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
IN THIS ISSUE
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vso car lottery
the orchestra
allegro staff list
patrons’ circle
message from the Chairman
and the President & CEO
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endowment campaign
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corporate partners
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SHLOMO MINTZ
friends of the VSO
vso 2009/2010
season highlights
at the concert / vso staff list
board of directors / thanks /
volunteer council
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RACHEL BARTON PINE
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MESSAGE FROM
vso chairman & vso president & CEO
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the opening concerts of the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s exciting
2009/2010 season. The VSO is proud to
have been serving the people of British
Columbia since 1919, and we are delighted
you are with us for today’s concert.
The 2008/2009 season was one of the
most successful for the VSO in recent
history. In addition to Maestro Tovey and
the Orchestra performing to packed houses
in South Korea, Macau and China, Ottawa,
Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, our
concerts and educational programs at home
were extremely well attended, and overall
net revenue targets surpassed, culminating
in a small surplus on annual operations
for the sixth consecutive fiscal year.
During the 2009/2010 season the
orchestra will perform over 150 concerts
in 13 different venues throughout the
Lower Mainland. In addition to the Orpheum
Theatre, St. Andrew’s Wesley Church,
Vancouver Playhouse and Roundhouse
Community Centre in downtown Vancouver,
VSO presentations can be experienced at the
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC,
Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver, Bell
Centre in Surrey, Michael J. Fox Theatre and
Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, Kay Meek Theatre
in West Vancouver, South Delta Baptist
Church, Massey Theatre in New Westminster
and the Terry Fox Theatre in Port Coquitlam.
This season will also see the continuation
of our extraordinary education programs
that touch the lives of over 50,000 children
annually.
The mission of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra is to enrich the quality of life
and bring prestige to our city, province and
country through the presentation of highquality performances of classical and popular
music, and the delivery of excellent education
and community programs. Because of
you, our audience, donors, sponsors
and government funders, we are able
to achieve these goals.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, Maestro
Tovey, our musicians, staff and volunteers,
we thank you for your commitment to
the VSO, and wish you a most delightful
2009/2010 season.
Please enjoy the concert!
Sincerely yours,
Arthur H. Willms
Chair, Board of Directors
Jeff Alexander
President & Chief Executive Officer
ARTHUR WILLMS
JEFF ALEXANDER
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SHLOMO MINTZ
CONCERT PROGRAM
GOLDCORP MASTERWORKS GOLD / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM
saturday & monday, september 26, 28
BELTONE SYMPHONY SUNDAYS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 2PM
sunday, september 27
◆ Shlomo Mintz violin
Scott Good Blues ‘n Riff—The Spectacular Tale of Katy Caboose
(World Premiere)
◆ Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
I.
II.
III.
Prelude: Allegro moderato
Adagio
Finale: Allegro energico
intermission
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Andante sostenuto—Moderato con anima
Andantino in modo di canzone
Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato, Allegro
Allegro con fuoco
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SYMPHONY SUNDAYS
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SEPTEMBER 28
CONCERT SPONSOR
of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and Kwantlen
University College, as well as a Royal
Conservatory of Music Fellowship in Toronto.
In 1999, he received the M. Joan Chalmers
National Award for Artistic Direction,
a Canadian prize awarded to artists
for outstanding contributions in the
performing arts.
bramwell tovey
Shlomo Mintz violin
Critics, colleagues and audiences regard
Shlomo Mintz as one of the foremost violinists
of our time, esteemed for his impeccable
musicianship, stylistic versatility and
commanding technique alike.
A musician of striking versatility, Bramwell
Tovey is acknowledged around the world
for his artistic depth and warm, charismatic
personality on the podium. Tovey’s career as
a conductor is uniquely enhanced by his work
as a composer and pianist, lending him a
remarkable musical perspective. He has been
Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra since September 2000.
Born in Moscow in 1957, he emigrated with
his family two years later to Israel, where he
studied with the renowned Ilona Feher. At age
eleven, he made his concerto debut with the
Israel Philharmonic. He made his Carnegie
Hall debut at age sixteen in a concert with
the Pittsburgh Symphony, and subsequently
began his studies with Dorothy DeLay at the
Juilliard School of Music.
Tovey garnered a 2008 Grammy® Award and
a 2008 Juno® Award for his recording with
violinist James Ehnes and the Vancouver
Symphony. Recently named Principal Guest
Conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at
the Hollywood Bowl, he works frequently with
the Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony,
Royal Philharmonic and the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestras, among many others.
He has presided as host and conductor of
the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime
Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall since
its founding in 2004.
At age eighteen, Shlomo Mintz added the role
of conductor to his artistic endeavours; since
then he has conducted acclaimed orchestras
worldwide, and became Music Advisor of
the Israel Chamber Orchestra and Artistic
Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor of the
Maastricht Symphony.
Shlomo Mintz has been appointed as Principal
Guest Conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic
Orchestra. Shlomo Mintz is patron and one of
the founders of the Keshet Eilon International
Violin Mastercourse in Israel, and gives
master classes worldwide.
As a composer, he was honoured with
the Best Canadian Classical Composition
Juno® Award in 2003 for his Requiem for a
Charred Skull. New works include a cocommission for the New York and Los Angeles
Philharmonics’ 2008 summer seasons as well
as a full-length opera for the Calgary Opera,
The Inventor, to premiere in January of 2011.
Scott Good vso composer-in-residence
Tovey has been awarded honorary degrees,
including a Fellowship from the Royal
Academy of Music in London, honorary
Doctorates of Law from the universities
Blues’n Riff— The Spectacular Tale
of Katy Caboose
b. Toronto, Ontario / April 8, 1972
Poor, poor Katy Caboose! Rambling down the
tracks in dark clouds of despair—rumbling
under boulders, breathtaking cliffs, and
creeping down scary tunnels where hungry
caboose eating monsters are lurking about,
ready to gobble her up. Yet, glimpses of a
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ramshackle barn, quaint tree-shaded houses,
and a sleepy cabin in the forest tease her
with hopeful serenity. Author and animator
Bill Peet’s delightful children’s story
The Caboose Who Got Loose provides a
backdrop for this new composition.
A post modern hodge podge, the score,
rooted in the Romantic Classical tradition,
uses elements of Jazz, Blues, Modernism,
Latin percussion, and Greek rhythms.
But don’t worry about Katy, everything works
out in the end. Oh, indeed it does!
Blues’n Riff is dedicated to Jennifer.
Program Notes ©2009 Scott Good
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
b. Cologne, Rhine Province / January 6, 1838
d. house in Berlin Friedenau / October 2, 1920
Although this concerto sounds effortless,
it followed a difficult course to its final form.
It won a favourable reception at its premiere
in Coblenz, Germany in 1866, but Bruch still
felt unsatisfied. Seeking advice on how to
improve it, he consulted by correspondence
with the widely-respected Hungarian violinist,
Joseph Joachim. Joachim gave him a long,
detailed evaluation. Relieved by this expert
counsel, Bruch dedicated the concerto to
Joachim. He took up some of Joachim’s
suggested changes, to which he added
second thoughts of his own. Joachim gave
the highly successful second premiere in
Bremen, Germany in 1868.
Bruch entitled the concerto’s opening section
Prelude, implying that it serves primarily as
an introduction to the more important Adagio.
The Prelude opens in an air of quiet, brooding
melancholy before breaking out into a fullblown and impassioned Allegro. Bruch segues
without pause into the heartfelt central
Adagio. It features some of the most beautiful
writing in the entire literature for violin. Bruch
concluded the concerto with a propulsive,
gypsy-flavoured Finale. It anticipates the last
movement of the concerto that Johannes
Brahms wrote ten years later, a work also
dedicated to, and premiered by, Joseph
Joachim.
Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
b. Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840
d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893
Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony reflected
the turmoil he was undergoing during its
creation. He began it in May 1877, as he
entered into relationships with two women.
The first was Nadezhda von Meck, a wealthy
patron of music. She gave him a monthly
allowance, designed to grant him the freedom
to compose freely.
The second was Antonina Milyukova, a
former student in his composition class at
the Moscow Conservatory. Her declarations
of love left him deeply confused. His lack of
experience in personal matters, his desire to
conceal his homosexuality, and Milyukova’s
persistence, led him to marry her. Their
union lasted just a few months. Tchaikovsky
became so distraught that he attempted
suicide and fled the country. He completed
the symphony in Venice during January 1878.
In a letter to his Madame von Meck,
Tchaikovsky disclosed a program for it—
although no one need feel bound to follow
it with any sort of precision. A harsh brass
fanfare opens the symphony and recurs
throughout the first movement. “This is Fate,”
Tchaikovsky wrote, “the power which hinders
one in the pursuit of happiness from gaining
the goal, which jealously provides that peace
and comfort do not prevail, that the sky is not
free from clouds—a might that swings, like
the sword of Damocles, constantly over the
head, that poisons continually the soul.
“The second movement shows another phase
of sadness. Here is that melancholy feeling
that enwraps one when he sits alone at night
in the house exhausted by work; a swarm of
reminiscences arises. It is sad, yet sweet, to
lose one’s self in the past.” A playful scherzo
follows, where the strings play pizzicato
from first bar to last. “Here are capricious
arabesques, vague figures which slip into the
imagination when one has taken wine and is
slightly intoxicated,” Tchaikovsky wrote.
A brilliant flourish for full orchestra launches
the boisterous finale at top speed. Woodwinds
introduce the main theme, a Russian folk
song called In the Meadow There Stands
a Birch Tree. Eventually the Fate theme
makes a catastrophic reappearance, bringing
the celebrations to a grinding halt. But as
Tchaikovsky confided to his patroness,
“If you find no pleasure in yourself, look
about you. Go to the people. See how they
can enjoy life and give themselves up entirely
to festivity. There still is happiness, simple,
naïve happiness. Rejoice in the happiness
of others—and you can still live.” ■
Program Notes ©2009 Don Anderson
MUSIC LESSONS FROM
MEMBERS OF THE VSO
Musicians of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra make up the core faculties
of music in many of the region’s universities, colleges,
academies and studios.
If you are interested in arranging lessons
for yourself, a child, friend or family member,
and would like a referral, please contact
Larry Blackman at 604.684.9100 ext. 231 or email
Larry at larry@vancouversymphony.ca
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Ensuring the VSO’s Future For decades the VSO has provided an experience that enriches our minds, our souls
& our community. To build on its long history of excellence, the VSO embarked on an endowment campaign to
attract and retain the best talent possible, maintain excellence in performance, expand its education and
community programs, and bring world-class guest artists to our city.
“Thanks to this campaign, we have a unique and wonderful opportunity to ensure the VSO remains a strong and
vital force in our community. I invite you to join me and take the organization to the next level of excellence.” —Arthur H. (Art) Willms
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Campaign Donors: Supporting the Power of Music
On behalf of the musicians, board and staff of the VSO, we extend our sincere thanks to these donors, whose
gifts will ensure the orchestra remains a strong and vital force in our community long into the future:
$1,000,000 or more
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Government of Canada
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Endowment Incentives
Program
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CONCERT PROGRAM
PACIFIC ARBOUR TEA & TRUMPETS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 2PM
thursday, october 1
◆ Mary Sokol Brown violin
◆ Andrew Brown viola
Mendelssohn and Friends:
An Anniversary Celebration
Fanny Mendelssohn Overture in C Major
◆ Bruch Concerto for Violin and Viola
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, IV Saltarello: Presto
Mendelssohn The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave)
Berlioz Roman Carnival
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn.
Tea & Cookies Don’t miss tea and cookies served in the lobby one hour before
each concert. Compliments of Tetley Tea and Peek Freans.
TEA & TRUMPETS SERIES SPONSOR
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CHRISTOPHER GAZE
MARY SOKOL BROWN
ANDREW BROWN
For a biography of Maestro Tovey please
refer to page 9.
Host of our Tea & Trumpets series and the
Christmas concerts, Christopher Gaze is
best known as Artistic Director of Bard on
the Beach Shakespeare Festival, which has
just celebrated its 20th season. Born in
England and trained at the Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School, Christopher has performed
in England, the USA and across Canada,
including the Shaw Festival. He came to
Canada in 1975 and moved to Vancouver in
1983. In 1990 he founded Bard on the Beach,
which he has nurtured to one of the most
successful not-for-profit arts organizations
in North America. His honours include
induction into the BC Entertainment Hall of
Fame, Canada’s Meritorious Service Medal,
Honorary Doctorates from UBC and SFU,
the BC Community Achievement Award, the
Children’s Theatre Foundation of America’s
Gold Medallion, and a Jessie Award for Best
Supporting Actor for Equus at The Playhouse.
A gifted public speaker, Christopher frequently
shares his insights on Shakespeare and
theatre with students, service organizations
and businesses.
Let our group
Entertain your group!
The VSO offers discounts on Groups
of ten or more, and benefits in the
‘More Applause’ Program.
Call VSO Group Sales 604.684.9100
ext 252 for more information. Or email
barry@vancouversymphony.ca
www.vancouversymphony.ca
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Mary Sokol Brown is active as both a
performer and teacher. She has been a
member of the first violins of the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra since 1979 and has
been featured as a soloist with the orchestra
several times.
As a chamber musician, she performs
extensively with many of Vancouver’s wellknown ensembles including the Vetta Recital
Series, Music in the Morning and the Turning
Point Ensemble.
A musical highpoint for Mary has been her
involvement as a founding member of Trio
Accord. This dynamic string trio has served
both as performers and clinicians throughout
BC, and has been featured on CBC radio
many times. In addition, Mary enjoys creating
exquisite evenings of chamber music in
private homes. These concerts are highly
acclaimed for their intimacy and beauty.
During the summer months, Mary performs
and teaches at music festivals. Typically, at
these festivals and as part of her teaching,
Mary performs in faculty concerts for
the education of the attendees and the
entertainment of the general public.
Accord (www.trioaccord.ca). Their debut
recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations,
released by Skylark Music, has been
nominated for the Western Canadian Music
Awards Classical Recording of the Year and is
available in the VSO gift shop!!
Andrew has performed throughout North
America, Korea, China and Japan, and
spent three months with the Malaysian
Philharmonic Orchestra. He enjoys the
eclectic musical environment in Vancouver
where his engagements have ranged from
intimate chamber music performances to
rock and roll at the Coliseum with members
of Led Zeppelin.
A former member of the Cincinnati Chamber
Orchestra, Andrew earned his Bachelor and
Master of Music degrees at The College
Conservatory of Music, University of
Cincinnati—studying with Donald McInnes,
Paul Coletti, Gerald Stanick and Masao
Kawasaki. ■
In Memoriam
It is through these initiatives that Mary
continues to realize her musical ambitions,
and share with her audiences her passionate
commitment to the violin.
The VSO mourns the passing of three
distinguished members of our family
Orchestralist, chamber musician, soloist,
educator, clinician and house concert artist:
all describe Mary Sokol Brown.
1924–2009
Long-time Subscriber and Volunteer
Andrew Brown viola
Winslow Wood Bennett
Andrew James Brown is the AssociatePrincipal violist of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra and was a member of the CBC
Radio Orchestra for over eighteen years.
An enthusiastic chamber musician, he has
worked extensively with Vancouver’s leading
musical organizations, including the Vetta
Quartet, Curio, the Vancouver New Music
Ensemble and Masterpiece Players. Andrew
performs with violinist Mary Sokol Brown
and cellist Ariel Barnes in the ensemble Trio
Patricia Young
Harry Edward Ansley
1925–2009
Dedicated Subscriber and Patron
for over 40 years
Trustee, Vancouver Symphony Foundation
1943–2009
Devoted Symphony Lovers’ Ball
Committee Member since 1999
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“Garrick Ohlsson is
the most versatile of
America’s important
pianists, and that has
obscured recognition
that he is the best
of them.”
—The Boston Globe
GARRICK OHLSSON
CONCERT PROGRAM
MASTERWORKS DIAMOND / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM
saturday & monday, october 3, 5
◆ Garrick Ohlsson piano
Balakirev In Bohemia
◆ Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, Emperor
I. Allegro
II. Adagio un poco mosso
III. Rondo: Allegro
intermission
Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Allegretto
Tempo Andante, ma rubato
Vivacissimo
Finale: Allegro moderato
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In February 2008, he won a Grammy® Award
for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance
(without Orchestra) for his Beethoven
Sonatas, Vol. 3 (Bridge Records, Inc.). He
makes his home in San Francisco.
Mily Balakirev
In Bohemia
bramwell tovey
refer to page 9.
Garrick Ohlsson piano
Since his triumph as winner of the 1970
Chopin International Piano Competition,
pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established
himself worldwide as a musician of
magisterial interpretive and technical
prowess.
His concerto repertoire alone is unusually
wide and eclectic—ranging from Haydn and
Mozart to works of the 21st century—and
to date he has at his command some 80
concertos.
Mr. Ohlsson is an avid chamber musician and
has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson,
Takács and Tokyo string quartets, among
other ensembles. Together with violinist Jorja
Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he
is a founding member of the San Franciscobased FOG Trio.
A native of White Plains, N.Y., Mr. Ohlsson
began his piano studies at the age of eight.
He attended the Westchester Conservatory
of Music and at thirteen entered The
Juilliard School in New York City. His
musical development has been influenced in
completely different ways by a succession of
distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio
Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha
Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lhévinne and Irma Wolpe.
b. Nizhiy Novgorod, Russia / January 2, 1837
d. St. Petersburg, Russia / May 29, 1910
The story of Russian music is the tale of
a culture breaking away from western
influences and looking inward to discover
its own identity. The trail was blazed by
Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857), the first Russian
composer to incorporate his country’s folk
tunes into music for the theatre and the
concert hall. He passed the nationalist
baton to five young friends based in St.
Petersburg: Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin,
César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolay
Rimsky‑Korsakov.
Balakirev did his most significant work
as a mentor and teacher. He advised and
sometimes bullied not only his folklorist
colleagues but also the more cosmopolitan
Tchaikovsky. He supervised Tchaikovsky
closely on the creation of several pieces,
including Romeo and Juliet. Balakirev used
his positions as conductor and administrator
to further the cause of like-minded
composers.
His own music earned only secondary
importance, as attractive and colourful as
much of it is. He composed piano pieces
(including Islamey, a terrifyingly difficult
set of variations on a Kabardian folk tune),
songs, choral works, two each of piano
concertos and symphonies, and a handful of
shorter overtures and symphonic poems for
orchestra.
His turbulent personal life meant that many
years passed between the beginning and the
completion of certain pieces. He composed
the first version of the piece you will hear at
this concert in 1867, and called it Overture
on Czech Themes. He revised it in 1905, and
gave it a new title: In Bohemia.
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He based it on three Czech folk tunes that he
had come across in a published collection
while visiting Prague. The first, introduced
right at the start by solo woodwinds, is gently
melancholy. The second, a lively dance tune,
appears first on the strings. Brass instruments
introduce the third melody, which sheds its
initial restraint as the music unfolds. Balakirev
develops the themes in ingenious and
brightly coloured ways, en route to a rousing
conclusion.
passage connects it to the third movement.
Its magic remains undimmed, no matter how
many times you hear it. The piano quietly
anticipates the theme of the rondo finale,
before that exuberant, dancing melody bursts
in with full vigour.
Ludwig van Beethoven
This glorious symphony makes an excellent
introduction to Sibelius’s unique world.
It looks back to the Romantic tradition of
Tchaikovsky, at the same time as it points
ahead to the leaner, more concentrated style
of the mature Sibelius.
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major,
Op. 73, Emperor
b. Bonn, Germany / December 15, 1770
d. Vienna, Austria / March 26, 1827
Beethoven composed this monumental
concerto between 1808 and 1809, against
the backdrop of French dictator Napoleon
Bonaparte’s rise to the zenith of his power.
Beethoven had once admired the “Little
Corporal” for his early devotion to the
humanitarian ideals of the French Revolution.
Once Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor
of France in 1804, however, Beethoven’s
attitude changed instantly to scorn. He struck
Napoleon’s name from the title page of his
Third Symphony, a work he had planned to
dedicate to him.
In May 1809, French troops besieged and
captured Vienna. During the period when
Beethoven was at work on this concerto, their
regular artillery bombardments were chipping
away at the last shreds of his hearing. He
fled to the basement of his brother’s house
and covered his head with pillows. Part of his
thinking in making this concerto so heroic in
nature may have been to thumb his nose at
Bonaparte, to take a musical stand against
the tyranny that the dictator represented.
“ . . . a confident statement of
power and celebration . . .”
The opening movement is bold and sweeping,
a confident statement of power and
celebration. In its own, serene and lyrical
way, the slow second movement is every
bit as assured as the first. A simple bridge
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
b. Hämeenlinna, Finland / December 8, 1865
d. Järvenpää, Finland / September 20, 1957
He began to sketch it in the early months
of 1901. Initially, he felt that the ideas
that came to him might be suitable for a
set of tone poems or a four-movement
symphonic fantasy, inspired by either the
Don Juan legend or Dante’s Divine Comedy.
He eventually decided that a full, nonprogrammatic symphony would suit them
best. He conducted the first performance
himself, in Helsinki on March 8, 1902.
The opening movement is ingeniously cast
in the form of an arch, the virtually identical
pastoral opening and closing sections bookending a dramatic, highly eventful middle.
A restless slow movement follows, the main
materials based on sketches for the Don
Juan project. The few moments of genuine
calm are repeatedly interrupted by forceful
outbursts.
The scherzo opens with scurrying energy,
then relaxes for the solo oboe to sing one
of Sibelius’s most fetching lyrical melodies.
Scherzo and trio are both repeated, the
latter gradually forming a bridge to the bold,
uplifting finale. The second subject of this
concluding section is a prayerful lament
that rises to heights of tragic eloquence.
Optimism regains the upper hand, leading
to a triumphant coda. ■
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CONCERT PROGRAM
© 2002-2009 SQUARE ENIX CO.LTD. All Rights Reserved
SPECIAL / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM
thursday, october 8
UBC Opera Ensemble
Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY
Presenting the Canadian Premiere of a unique and thrilling performance of
Nobuo Uematsu’s award-winning music from FINAL FANTASY! This extraordinary concert features state-of-the-art video projected on screens to showcase
the game’s most memorable and thrilling sequences, with music performed
live by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and GRAMMY® award-winner
Arnie Roth conducting. This concert will also feature the North American premiere
performance of the FINAL FANTASY VII Main Theme.
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ARNIE ROTH (conducting)
ARNIE ROTH
formed SMILE PLEASE Co., LTD. and continues
to compose for Square Enix along with several
other works.
A classically trained violinist, conductor,
composer, producer and Grammy® awardwinning artist, Arnie Roth performs across
a wide array of musical genres. Mr. Roth has
performed with a host of artists, including
Il Divo, Diana Ross, Jewel, and Josh Groban.
He is also a long-time member of the
Grammy® award-winning group Mannheim
Steamroller. Orchestras which Mr. Roth has
conducted include the London Symphony
Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC
Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and
Tokyo Philharmonic. Mr. Roth was the music
director and conductor of the Dear Friends:
music from FINAL FANTASY and VOICES:
music from FINAL FANTASY concerts. He then
became the principal conductor and music
director of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony
featuring music from blockbuster video
games such as FINAL FANTASY®, World of
Warcraft®, Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind™
and Battlefield 1942™.
Nobuo Uematsu was born on March 21, 1959 in
Kochi, Japan. After graduating from Kanagawa
University, he composed music for commercials
before joining Square Enix Co., Ltd. in 1986.
He went on to compose music for over thirty
game titles, including the award-winning FINAL
FANTASY series. The FINAL FANTASY franchise
has developed into one of the best-selling video
game series across all platforms, selling over 60
million units worldwide. Uematsu’s soundtracks
were a key element in the success of the series,
carrying the deep storylines with sweeping
emotional scores. In October 2004, Uematsu
NOBUO UEMATSU
The music from the game series has grown
to such notoriety, Nobuo Uematsu was named
as one of the “Innovators” in Time Magazine’s
Time 100: The Next Wave—Music feature.
Uematsu’s approach to FINAL FANTASY music
is diverse, encompassing many styles. This
diversity along with the popularity of the
music has resulted in a variety of musical
performances including classical symphonies,
rock and acoustic.
UBC Opera Ensemble
The UBC Opera Ensemble, under the direction
of UBC Voice and Opera Division Head
Nancy Hermiston, draws its performers from
advanced students and young professionals.
The ensemble tours regularly throughout
Canada and Europe, produces two fully
staged and costumed productions at the
beautiful Chan Centre, as well as the lively
and informative Opera Tea Series and the
David Spencer Endowment Encouragement
Fund Concert. Students participate in
all aspects of the productions alongside
professional singers, conductors, musicians,
designers and technicians.
This year’s productions include Gilbert
and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, Puccini’s
La Bohème, and Bach’s Johannes Passion
(St. John’s Passion). In addition to its regular
productions, the Ensemble is a frequent
collaborator with such organizations as Bard
on the Beach, Vancouver Opera, and the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. ■
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CONCERT PROGRAM
LONDON DRUGS VSO POPS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM
friday & saturday, october 9, 10
◆ Betsy Wolfe vocalist
▲
Eric Kunze vocalist
◗ UBC Opera Ensemble
The Music of the Night
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Overture to Candide
intermission
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (Arr. Jack Mason)
Selections from West Side Story
◆ I Feel Pretty
▲ Maria
▲ Something’s Coming
▲
◆ Tonight
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
(Arr. Steven Reineke)
America from West Side Story
CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG
▲ Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
from Les Miserables
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
(Arr. Crafton Beck) Selections from Phantom of the Opera
Overture: Phantom of the Opera
▲ Music of the Night
◗ Masquerade
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
(Arr. Robert Lowden)
◆ Don’t Cry For Me Argentina from Evita
▲◗
Selections from Les Miserables
◗ At the End of the Day
◆ ◗ I Dreamed A Dream
◗ Master of the House
▲ Bring Him Home
◆ ▲ ◗ Do You Hear The People Sing?
Selections from Miss Saigon
◗ The Heat Is On In Saigon
▲ Why God, Why?
◆ ▲ The Last Night of the World
◗ Bui Doi
◆ ▲ ◗ This Is The Hour
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
(Arr. Henry Mancini)
Selections from Jesus Christ Superstar
◆ Everything’s All Right
▲ Gethsemane
King Herod’s Song
◆ I Don’t Know How To Love Him
◆ ▲ ◗ Jesus Christ Superstar
VSO POPS SERIES SPONSOR
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Any Dream Will Do from Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
RADIO SPONSOR
In Memoriam
Erich Kunzel 1935-2009
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
dedicates these concerts to the legendary
Erich Kunzel, who was originally scheduled
to conduct them. Maestro Bramwell Tovey
will conduct these opening concerts in the
VSO’s London Drugs Pops Series in memory
of a dear friend and colleague.
Erich Kunzel, the “Prince of Pops,” who
conducted the world renowned Cincinnati
Pops Orchestra for more than three decades,
and was a popular guest conductor of the
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, passed
away on September 1 at the age of 74 after a
courageous battle with cancer. Maestro Kunzel
came to international fame by breaking down
barriers to orchestral music through over ten
million album sales of more than 80 recordings,
and in concerts from Carnegie Hall to the Grand
Ole Opry to the Great Hall of the People in
Beijing.
Maestro Kunzel was involved in music in the US
and Canada for more than 40 years. He joined
the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 1965 as
an associate conductor and quickly earned local
local popularity, becoming the founding
conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
when the Symphony’s board of trustees
created it in 1977. Over the years, he was guest
conductor for the Boston Symphony, the Boston
Pops, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia
Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the
Toronto Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony,
the Winnipeg Symphony, the London Symphony
and many others. He conducted in numerous
television broadcasts for PBS, and in 2006
was awarded the National Medal of Arts by
President George W. Bush.
We will forever be grateful for his iconic and
unequalled contribution to North American
symphony orchestras.
bramwell tovey
ERIC KUNZE
BETSY WOLFE
Broadway: 110 in the Shade at Studio 54,
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee, and Wonderful Life. She can also be
refer to page 9.
heard on the 110 in the Shade Original
Broadway Cast recording. Ms. Wolfe starred
in the San Francisco and Boston companies
vocalist
of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Betsy recently finished the critically acclaimed Bee. Regional Theatre: Tommy (Mrs. Walker)
Everyday Rapture at Second Stage in NYC,
at Dallas Theatre Center, Ragtime (Evelyn
Betsy Wolfe
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the leading roles in the national touring
companies of Whistle Down the Wind
(the Man), Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus),
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat (Joseph), and Evita (Che). In
regional theatre he has performed in Evita
(LA Ovation Nomination), Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (for which
he received an IRNE Award), West Side Story,
Into the Woods, the title role in Pippin (LA
Robbie Award), South Pacific and the title
She has shared the stage with legendary
role in the Who’s Tommy. Last December
performers such as Patti Lupone, Ray Charles, he performed in The Music of Andrew Lloyd
Quincy Jones, Bob Newhart, and Brian Stokes Webber at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
Mitchell. She can also be seen on PBS in
DC. Eric has his own production company
the Lincoln Center production of Camelot.
with Gina DeLuca called Broadway’s Best,
in conjunction with a youth theatre training
She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from
company called Big City Broadway, based
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
in San Diego. For more information, see
www.BetsyWolfe.com
www.erickunze.com
Nesbitt) at Paper Mill Playhouse, Ace (Louise)
at the Old Globe Theatre. She has been a
prominent guest artist for symphony, pops
and philharmonic orchestras across the US
and made her NY concert debut at Carnegie
Hall as a headliner with the Cincinnati Pops
under Maestro Erich Kunzel. Ms. Wolfe has
also been a guest soloist for the New York City
Ballet where she performed at Lincoln Center
and at Coliseum in London.
Eric Kunze vocalist
A musical theatre veteran, Eric Kunze
has starred on Broadway in Miss Saigon
(Chris), Les Miserables (Marius) and Damn
Yankees (Joe Hardy). He has also performed
UBC Opera Ensemble
Please refer to page 25 for a biography of
the UBC Opera Ensemble. ■
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friends of the vancouver symphony
The VSO is extremely grateful for the support it receives from Friends of the Vancouver
Symphony. And, thanks to the generous matching gift from the Höing Family this past season,
we received a record number of new gifts and are pleased to welcome many new friends to
the symphony family.
Due to space limitations, donations of $100 and more are listed, but every gift is sincerely
appreciated.
Thank you to all of our donors for playing your part in the VSO’s ongoing success.
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CONCERT PROGRAM
SPECTRA ENERGY KIDS KONCERTS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 2PM
sunday, october 11
Platypus Theatre entertainers
Platypus Theatre: Rhythm in Your Rubbish
Created by Peter Duschenes with
Danielle Desormeaux, D’Arcy Gray and Brian Smith
A PRODUCTION OF
Original Music: Patrick Cardy
Musical Direction: Mario Duschenes
Performers: Danielle Desormeaux and Peter Duschenes
AND
Set and Costume Design: Brian Smith
Percussion Consultant: D’Arcy Gray
Choreography: Robert Bergner and Pamela Newell
Stage Manager: Shainna Laviolette
Program includes excerpts from the following:
Cardy Rhythm in Your Rubbish Suite
Copland Buckaroo Holiday
Duschenes She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round The Mountain
Fucik Entrance of the Gladiators
Strauss Vienna Blood
Anderson Sandpaper Ballet
Ponchielli Dance of the Hours
Freedman Samba 2 from “Oiseaux Exotiques”
Arr. Wagler Turkey in the Straw
Brahms Lullaby
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite (“Scene” and “Masks”)
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite
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danielle desormeaux and peter duschenes of PLATYPUS THEATRE
EVAN MITCHELL
VSO Instrument Fair The Kids’ Koncerts series continues with the popular VSO Instrument
Fair—which allows music lovers of all ages (but especially the kids!) to touch and play real
orchestra instruments in the Orpheum lobby, one hour before concert start time. And don’t
miss the special Composition Table, where kids can “write” their own music—and have it
played by a member of the VSO! All instruments are generously provided by Tom Lee Music.
Evan Mitchell is the Assistant Conductor of
the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and is
proving to be one of Canada’s most promising
young conductors. Equally at home with
chamber music, opera and full symphonic
masterpieces, Evan has enjoyed critical
acclaim with recent operatic performances
including Britten’s Albert Herring, Ward’s The
Crucible, Hindemith’s Hin und Zurück and
the world premiere of Glenn James’ opera
To Daniel. Evan also won positions with the
National Academy Orchestra of Canada for
four consecutive years as both conductor
and percussionist and now holds the title of
Associate Mentor with the orchestra. Evan is
a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University where
he completed a Bachelor of Music degree as
a percussion major; he is also a graduate
of the University of Toronto, where he studied
on a full scholarship sponsored by Elmer
Iseler and Victor Feldbrill, earning a Masters
degree in conducting. Evan has collaborated
with such artists as Colin James, Judy Collins
and Pink Martini.
Platypus Theatre
Since 1989 Canada’s Platypus Theatre has
been a trailblazer in creating programs for
children that bring classical music to life in
an intelligent, entertaining and interactive
way. Critics, educators, musicians, parents
and children have lauded the company’s
performances for their creativity, originality
and high standards of execution. Platypus’
seven original programs have been seen
by over half a million spectators in Canada,
the United States and on six tours to
Southeast Asia. After nearly 400 concerts
with more than 50 orchestras worldwide
Platypus Theatre has gained an unparalleled
reputation for excellence in music education.
In 2006, in collaboration with TV Ontario,
Trace Pictures and the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra, Platypus Theatre created a
television adaptation of their ever-popular,
How the Gimquat Found Her Song. The film
was broadcast five times on TVO and won an
Award of Excellence at the 2008 Accolade
Television Awards and Best Children’s
Program at the prestigious Banff World
Television Festival. The film is now on DVD
and available at www.platypustheatre.com.
In addition to Gimquat the company’s
programs include: Emily Saves the
Orchestra, Rhythm in Your Rubbish, Bach
to the Future, Song of the Forest, Charlotte
and the Music-Maker and A Flicker of Light
on a Christmas Night.
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Peter Duschenes
artistic director, writer and actor
Co-founder and Artistic Director of Platypus
Theatre, Peter Duschenes has been widely praised
for his innovation in presenting symphonic music
to young audiences. His ability to bring the concert
stage to life by combining theatre and music has
led to commissions with orchestras from coast to
coast. An award winning playwright, Peter’s writing
credits include all seven of Platypus’ symphony
plays, the television adaptation of How the Gimquat
Found Her Song and the one-act play, Lost River,
which was the 1991 winner of the Theatre BC’s
Canadian National Playwriting competition. As an
actor Peter has performed with companies across
Canada and the United States appearing most
recently as Richard in Shakespeare’s Richard II
at Quantum Theatre in Pittsburgh and as Louis
Ironson in Angels In America at the Centaur Theatre
in Montreal. Peter received his MFA in theatre from
the California Institute of the Arts in 1988 and now
lives in Ottawa with his wife, Sarah and their two
children; Magda and Theo.
Danielle Desormeaux actor
Danielle is a bilingual Montreal actor whose
most recent appearances on stage include:
Harry Standjofski’s Two/Three for Le Nouveau
théâtre anglais, her bilingual adaptation
of The Anger In Ernest and Ernestine for
Hudson Village Theatre and as Madame at
the famous Kiss My Cabaret. Other favourite
theatre credits include: Housekeeping and
Homewrecking for the Montreal Fringe
Festival, God’s Troubadour: A Sermon to
the Birds and Radio Gals for Theatre Lac
Brome, Here On the Flight Path for Hudson
Village Theatre and Möcshplat and Ümlout
for Clowns Gone Bad. The rest of her time
is usually devoted to some voice work (Bell
Flower Bunnies, Kids from Room 402),
some film work (René Lévesque, Big Sugar),
shooting and editing short films, and playing
the ukulele. Danielle is tickled to be back for
another season with Platypus Theatre.
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Patrick Cardy
composer (1953-2005)
Born in Toronto and raised in Kitchener,
Patrick Cardy earned three music degrees:
a Bachelor degree from the University of
Western Ontario and a Masters degree and
Doctorate from McGill University. He was
a Full Professor at Carleton University in
Ottawa where he had been teaching since
1977. Patrick received over 40 commissions
from numerous performers and institutions,
including the National Arts Centre Orchestra,
the Edmonton Symphony, the St. Lawrence
String Quartet, the Newfoundland Symphony
and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. His
works have been performed and broadcast
frequently in Canada, in the United States, in
Europe and in the Middle East. Rhythm in Your
Rubbish was not the first time Patrick had
written music for a dramatic story.
He composed music for performances of
The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen
both done with a narrator and string
instruments. His music is characterized by
colorful, evocative sounds, a strong dramatic
sense, an elegant lyricism and an accessible
directness of expression, traits that have
captivated both listeners and performers.
Patrick died suddenly in 2005. He is sorely
missed.
Shainna Laviolette
stage manager (Britt Festivals)
Shainna is a graduate of the University of
Ottawa’s Theatre and Arts Administration
programs. After graduation, Shainna worked
for 3 years as the Executive Assistant at the
Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC).
Shainna has stage managed numerous
productions at GCTC and also worked
for The Banff Centre, Centaur Theatre
Company, Platypus Theatre, the National
Capital Commission, Canada Dance Festival,
Collective (gulp) dance projects and Opera
Lyra Ottawa. Shainna is currently the
production coordinator for Dramamuse, the
Canadian Museum of Civilization’s resident
theatre company. ■
in concert with
MARVIN HAMLISCH
Shimon
Farkas
Sydney, Australia
alex
stein
Toronto, Canada
Yaakov
Motzen
Miami. USA
Wednesday June 23, 2010
7:30 pm
The Orpheum Theatre
A special musical evening
and entertainment with
MARVIN HAMLISCH
& The 3 Cantors
accompanied by
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Proudly presented by the
North Shore Jewish Community Centre/
Congregation Har El
Tickets go on sale November 2nd, 2009
through Ticketmaster.
For more information please go to
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North Shore Hebrew School
“(Haselböck gave) a superbly accomplished presentation of
immensely satisfying music...This is music of the very highest
order played by a virtuoso.”
—Organists’ Review
CONCERT PROGRAM
BACH & BEYOND / CHAN CENTRE, UBC, 8PM
friday & saturday, october 16 & 17
NORTH SHORE CLASSICS / CENTENNIAL THEATRE, NORTH VANCOUVER, 8PM
monday, october 19
Martin Haselböck conductor/organ
Telemann Concerto in D Major
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Intrada—Grave
Allegro
Largo
Vivace
Handel Organ Concerto in F Major, Op. 4, No. 4, HWV 292
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Allegro
Andante
Adagio
Allegro
intermission
JS Bach Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Ouverture
Air
Gavotte I & II
Bourrée
Gigue
Haydn Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major, Drum Roll
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Adagio—Allegro con spirito
Andante, più tosto allegretto
Menuetto e Trio
Finale: Allegro con spirito
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Series is made possible, in part, through
the generous assistance of the Chan Centre
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British Columbia.
The VSO’s Bach & Beyond
series has been endowed by
a generous gift from the
Chan Foundation of Canada.
have won numerous awards, including the
Liszt Award, the Diapason d’Or and the
Deutscher Schallplattenpreis. He is a recipient
of the Austrian Cultural Award and an
honorary Doctor of Music degree.
Georg Philipp Telemann
b. Magdeburg, Germany / March 14, 1681
d. Hamburg, Germany / June 25, 1767
MARTIN HASELBÖCK
Martin Haselböck
conductor/organ
Martin Haselböck is a musician of diverse
interests who has earned an outstanding
reputation as an organist, conductor and
composer. He is the founding conductor of
the Wiener Akademie, a resident orchestra
of Vienna’s famed Musikverein, which he
has brought to the major concert halls of
Europe, Japan, and North America. As a guest
conductor, he has appeared with orchestras
and opera companies throughout the world
including the symphony orchestras of Berlin,
Zürich, Prague, Brussels, Vienna, Toronto,
Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
He is Music Director of the Baroque orchestra
Musica Angelica in Los Angeles.
Martin Haselböck is an internationally
renowned recording artist with over sixty
recordings ranging from Bach to Liszt to
contemporary composers. His recordings
Concerto in D Major
Even in an era known for its composers’
productivity, Telemann stood out. A rough
estimate of his output numbers some four
thousand pieces. He created examples
of virtually every musical form that was
current in his day, from compact solo
works and chamber pieces, to substantial
orchestral suites (some 200 in all), and
full-length operas, oratorios and passions.
His best music is stirring, colourful and richly
inventive. It earned him a reputation as the
finest composer in Germany, superior to his
good friend, Johann Sebastian Bach, while
his international popularity rivaled that of
his regular correspondent, George Frideric
Handel.
Outstanding among his vast output of
concertos are those with multiple soloists.
This concerto for three trumpets also features
a pair of oboes. The first movement sets a
tone of restrained majesty, setting up the
lively fugal Allegro of the second movement.
The trumpets remain silent in the third
section, where Telemann gives one of the
oboes a lovely, expressive melody to sing.
The trumpets return to lead the festivities in
the energetic finale.
George Frideric Handel
b. Halle, Germany / February 23, 1685
d. London, England / April 14, 1759
Organ Concerto in F Major,
Op. 4, No. 4, HWV 292
Handel launched his series of organ concertos
—the earliest pieces of their kind–in 1735.
He intended them to be played as interludes
between the acts of his oratorios, during
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their performances in London. An organ
was already in the pit with the orchestra for
those performances, so combining the two
came about quite naturally. His concertos
served as an additional “draw” for his London
audiences, who were well acquainted with his
fabled skill at keyboard improvisation.
The six organ concertos that make up his Op.
4 were published in 1738. No. 4 had been
premiered three and a half years earlier,
during a revival of the oratorio Athalia. It
opens with a lively, cheerful Allegro. The heart
of the piece lies in the following Andante,
whose gently flowing nobility brings both
beauty and restfulness. A brief, majestic
Adagio serves as a bridge to the merry dance
rhythms that underpin the finale.
Johann Sebastian Bach
b. Eisenach, Germany / March 21, 1685
d. Leipzig, Germany / July 28, 1750
Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
The Baroque orchestral suite developed
along parallel lines in several countries. Its
principal origins lay in France. The first great
figure in its history was Jean-Baptiste Lully,
who developed the one-movement overture
(a name derived from the French verb ouvrir,
to open) to introduce performances of other,
longer works such as operas and ballets.
The combination of the overture and brief
instrumental pieces extracted from the larger
work, mainly dances, made up another form,
the suite (from the verb suivre, to follow).
By Bach’s time, virtually every important
German composer had written independent
overture-suites for large instrumental
ensembles. Some of his four surviving
orchestral suites (it’s likely he composed
more) probably date from his years in
service to Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen
(1717-1723), others from the later period
in Leipzig. Suite No. 3 is a festive piece, a
quality accentuated by Bach’s inclusion of
trumpets and timpani in the scoring. For all
its brilliance, the most memorable segment
is the second movement, the celestial
Air for strings alone (nicknamed “Air on
the G String”).
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Joseph Haydn
b. Rohrau, Lower Austria / March 31, 1732
d. Vienna, Austria / May 31, 1809
Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major
Drum Roll
When considering Haydn, it’s easy to get
bogged down in statistics: more than 100
symphonies, 70-plus string quartets, etc. It is
much more productive to consider the quality
of his music, rather than the quantity. In
creating so much, he could easily have lapsed
into routine. But practically every work has
some, or many touches of individuality and
imagination, something that lift it above the
routine. And he never failed to provide firstclass entertainment.
He composed Symphony No. 103 in London
over the winter of 1794/95. Many Haydn
symphonies have acquired nicknames, but
hardly any of them originated with him. The
very opening bars of No. 103 are the source
of its nickname. After the timpani roll has
captured your attention, Haydn continues
with a slow, almost sinister introduction, like
the prelude to the executions by guillotine
that had recently been taking place in postrevolutionary France. It turns out to be a setup, one of Haydn’s many musical jokes, since
the shadows it casts are abruptly banished
by the start of the bright and energetic
movement proper. Its themes include a
delightful waltz, a dance just then coming into
favour. The introduction reappears towards
the end, just to remind you that rain clouds
can blow in suddenly even on the sunniest
of days.
The next movement is an ingenious and
charming set of variations. Based on a pair
of alternating themes which may be folk
melodies from eastern Europe, it continues
the opening movement’s close alteration of
light and dark emotions. A stately minuet
follows, then a swift, witty finale. ■
EVAN MITCHELL
ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE
CONCERT PROGRAM
VANCOUVER SUN SYMPHONY AT THE ROUNDHOUSE / ROUNDHOUSE THEATRE, YALETOWN 8PM
monday, october 19
Maximal Minimalism
Steve Reich Clapping Music
Richard Mascall Grunge
Henryk Gorecki Kleines Requiem für eine Polka
intermission
INGRAM MARSALL Fog Tropes
Steve Reich 8 Lines
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Steve Reich
b. New York, New York / October 6, 1936
Clapping Music
8 Lines
Clapping Music is a minimalist piece written
by Steve Reich in 1972. It is written for two
performers and is performed entirely by
clapping.
A development of the phasing technique from
Reich’s earlier works such as Piano Phase,
it was written when Reich wanted to (in his
own words) “create a piece of music that
needed no instruments beyond the human
body”. However, he quickly found that the
mechanism of phasing slowly in and out of
tempo with each other was inappropriate for
the simple clapping involved in producing the
actual sounds that made the music.
Instead of phasing, one performer claps a
basic rhythm, a variation of the fundamental
African bell pattern in 12/8 time, for the
entirety of the piece. The other claps the
same pattern, but after every 8 or 12 bars
he/she shifts by one eighth note to the left.
The two performers continue this until the
second performer has shifted 12 eighth notes
and is hence playing the pattern in unison
with the first performer again (as at the
beginning), some 144 bars later.
Eight Lines is structured in five sections,
of which the first and third resemble each
other in their moving piano, cello, viola and
bass clarinet figures, while the second and
fourth sections resemble each other in their
longer held tones in the cello. The fifth and
final section combines these materials. The
transitions between sections is as smooth as
possible with some overlapping in the parts
so that it is sometimes hard to tell exactly
when one section ends and the next begins.
In the first, third and fifth sections there
are somewhat longer melodic lines in the
flute and/or piccolo. This interest in longer
melodic lines composed of shorter patterns
strung together has its roots in my earlier
music as well as my studies in 1976-77
of the cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew
Scriptures.
Richard Mascall
b. Rochford, Essex, England / June 24, 1972
(emigrated to Canada in 1978)
Grunge
I have described Grunge as my ‘postminimalist Bolero for orchestra in the
language of Prokofiev!’ It is a funky up-tempo
showpiece for orchestra with prominent roles
for the percussion section. It was originally
conceived as an elegy for David Luginbuhl,
a percussionist friend of mine who passed
away far too prematurely (at age 22) in a
highway traffic accident in Toronto. Unlike
the typical ‘funereal’ elegy, Grunge tries
to capture the energy of the life lived by
this promising young talent. The piece was
premiered in May of 1998 by Chosei Komatsu
and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony at
their inaugural Open Ears New Music Festival.
I have subsequently created five different
arrangements of this piece for varying
different instrumentations. I am delighted
that another composer, my long time friend
Scott Good who has already conducted
several performances of the piece, is taking
up the challenge of setting it for tonight’s
performance.
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Henryk Gorecki
Ingram Marsall
b. Czernica, Poland / December 6, 1933
b. Mount Vernon, New York / May 10, 1942
Kleines Requiem für eine Polka
Kleines Requiem für eine Polka (Little
Requiem for a Polka) was composed for
the 1993 Holland Festival. The work’s title,
which abuts in a single phrase from the
Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead and one
of Eastern Europe’s most vivacious dances,
seems oxymoronic. The composer offered no
explanation for the name, though the music
suggests that the work is a sad, perhaps
even tragic commentary upon the modern
world’s loss of innocence from the simpler,
retrospectively happier time of the polka’s
efflorescence during the decades surrounding
the turn of the twentieth century.
Fog Tropes
The tape part existed independently as
a composition created in 1981 as an
accompaniment to a performance art event.
The collage of sounds from the maritime
areas of San Francisco—they are mostly
foghorns, but sea birds and other ambient
sounds are heard as well—were wedded
with vocal laments and sounds of the gambuh
(Balinese flute.) In that form the tape piece,
known simply as Fog, served me well as an
adjuct to a live electronic work called Gradula
Requiem. When I added the brass parts in
1982, I troped the music in the medieval
sense with a new layer. ■
The sorrowful, introspective quality of
the outer movements fixes the dominant
expressive sphere of the Kleines Requiem,
for which shorter, faster central movements
provide a stylistic and emotional foil.
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MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
CONCERT PROGRAM
SPECIALS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM
wednesday, october 21
Michael Feinstein vocalist / piano
Bill Elliott conductor
The Sinatra Project with Michael Feinstein
Singer, pianist and passionate protector of the Great American Songbook,
Michael Feinstein created The Sinatra Project as a tribute to arguably the
greatest interpreter of that song book, Ol’ Blue Eyes himself. Not only a tribute to
the Chairman of the Board, Feinstein pays homage to other greats of the post-war/
pre-rock era such as Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Nat “King” Cole and
others. You’ll hear classic tunes such as Begin the Beguine, Under My Skin, I’ve Got
a Crush on You, Fools Rush In, and so many more great songs performed in Frank’s
own unmistakable style. Visit Michael Feinstein at: www.michaelfeinstein.com
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“Simply put, nobody knows more about these great songs
and the people who wrote them, and nobody is better
at sharing his love for this music than Mr. Feinstein.”
— The New York Sun
Michael Feinstein
vocalist /piano
Don’t let the boyish good looks and boundless
energy fool you; Michael Feinstein is rapidly
approaching two silver milestones. Next year
will mark the 25th anniversary of the four
time Grammy nominee’s professional debut;
and Feinstein’s forthcoming album, The
Sinatra Project, released September 2 from
Concord Records, was his 24th release.
Arguably the world’s foremost, and certainly
the most passionate and indefatigable,
anthropologist and archivist of the Great
American Songbook, Feinstein has dedicated
his career to preserving, protecting and
promoting the work of the great tunesmiths,
ranging from household names like Gershwin,
Porter and Berlin to such lesser-known
craftsmen as Hugh Martin and Burton Lane.
It’s no wonder that the Library of Congress
invited him to serve on its elite National
Sound Recording Advisory Board.
Bill Elliot conductor
Bill Elliott is a composer and arranger whose
songs have been prominently featured in
many feature films and TV shows.
Elliott began his career as a rock n’roll piano
player, touring and recording with such
artists as Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Nicks, and
many others, before finding his calling as a
swingmeister while writing and arranging
songs for the 1989 film Dick Tracey. He has
assembled many of L.A.’s hottest musicians
for his mission of recreating the authentic
fire and style of big bands at their peak in
the late ‘30s. The band also features Bill’s
Lucky Stars, a vocal quartet who sing in the
close-harmony style of the Pied Pipers and
the Modernaires, and glamorous lead singer
Cassie Miller in featured solos as well.
Playing a dominant role in southern
California’s current swing revival, Elliott’s
band is a favorite among the young jitterbug
and Lindy Hop dancers whose vibrant new
The Sinatra Project, Feinstein’s first recorded counterculture has been growing rapidly.
Elliott’s music is in the style of the great
tribute to another performer, takes his
swing bands of the late ‘30s and early
dynamic career in an exciting new direction.
As for his choice of subject, Feinstein explains ‘40s—as hard-swinging as they come,
with an emphasis on colorful arrangements,
that, “Sinatra considered himself, first and
sophisticated and light-hearted lyrics, and
foremost, an interpreter of song, and his
influence on other entertainers is incalculable. danceability. ■
He has become so thoroughly entrenched in
the history of American popular song that it
is impossible to open your mouth and sing
without his influence being part of that.”
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giancarlo guerrero
CONCERT PROGRAM
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS MASTERWORKS SILVER / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM
saturday & monday, october 24, 26
◆ Rachel Barton Pine violin
Respighi Trittico Botticelliano (Botticelli Triptych)
I.
II.
III.
Spring
The Adoration of the Magi
The Birth of Venus
◆ Saint-SaËns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
I.
II.
III.
Allegro non troppo
Andantino quasi allegretto
Molto moderato e maestoso
intermission
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
Promenade
The Gnome
Promenade
The Old Castle
Promenade
Tuileries
Bydlo
Promenade
Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle
Limoges—The Market Place
Catacombs (Roman Sepulchre)—with the Dead in a Dead Language
The Hut on Fowl’s Legs
The Great Gate of Kiev
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which recognizes outstanding achievement
among young conductors nationwide. Mr.
Guerrero holds degrees from Baylor and
Northwestern Universities. Prior to his tenure
with the Minnesota Orchestra, he served
as music director of the Tachira Symphony
Orchestra in Venezuela.
Rachel Barton Pine violin
Costa Rican conductor Giancarlo Guerrero
was recently appointed Music Director of the
Nashville Symphony Orchestra. He began his
duties in Nashville in the 2008/09 season as
Music Director Designate while concurrently
finishing his seven-year tenure as Music
Director of Oregon’s Eugene Symphony.
A champion of new music, Mr. Guerrero
initiated a guest-composer series in Eugene,
where under his leadership the ensemble
hosted several of America’s most respected
composers, including John Adams, John
Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis,
Michael Daugherty, and Roberto Sierra.
Previously, he served as Associate Conductor
of the Minnesota Orchestra, with which he
returned on subscription every season during
his tenure.
Mr. Guerrero conducts regularly in Venezuela
with the Orquesta Sinfonica Simon Bolivar,
with which he has had a special relationship
for many years. In June 2004, Mr. Guerrero
was awarded the Helen M. Thompson Award
American violinist Rachel Barton Pine has
appeared as soloist with many of the world’s
most prestigious orchestras, including the
Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas, Baltimore,
Montreal, Vienna, New Zealand and Iceland
Symphonies, and the Philadelphia Orchestra,
working with conductors including Charles
Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Marin
Alsop, Neeme Järvi, and Placido Domingo.
Acclaimed collaborations include Daniel
Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, William
Warfield, Christopher O’Riley and Mark
O’Connor.
Her festival appearances include Ravinia,
Marlboro, and Salzburg. She has been
featured on St. Paul Sunday, Performance
Today, From the Top, CBS Sunday Morning,
and NBC’s Today.
Her 13 critically acclaimed albums for the
Cedille, Dorian, and Cacophony labels include
Brahms and Joachim Violin Concertos with
Carlos Kalmar and the Chicago Symphony,
and “Scottish Fantasies” with the Scottish
Chamber Orchestra. She holds top prizes
from the J.S. Bach (gold medal), Queen
Elisabeth, Paganini, Kreisler, Szigeti, and
Montreal international competitions, and has
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twice been honored as a Chicagoan of the
Year. Her charitable activities include serving
as a trustee of the Music Institute of Chicago
and president of the Rachel Elizabeth Barton
Foundation. She plays the Joseph Guarnerius
del Gesu (Cremona 1742), known as the “exSoldat,” on generous loan from her patron.
Ottorino Respighi
the inspiration for his Violin Concerto No. 1
and the Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.
He wasn’t alone in drawing inspiration
from the sovereign skills of this Spanishborn, Paris-resident virtuoso: Edouard
Lalo (Symphonie espagnole), Max Bruch
(Concerto No. 2 and Scottish Fantasy), and
Antonín Dvořák (Mazurek) also created works
especially for him.
Regarding Concerto No. 3, Saint-Saëns wrote,
“During the composition of this concerto,
Sarasate gave me invaluable advice, to which
Trittico Botticelliano (Botticelli Triptych)
is certainly due the considerable degree of
Within a tradition of composers obsessed
favour it has met with on the part of violinists
with opera, Respighi made his mark as
themselves.” Sarasate gave the premiere in
a concert composer, more successfully
Paris on January 2, 1881. He was not initially
than any of his fellow Italians. Studies with
pleased with it, feeling it was insufficiently
Russian master Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
virtuosic to fully satisfy the public. It was
assisted in the development of a colourful and only after Belgian soloist Eugene Ysaÿe
atmospheric style, one mingling Romanticism won great success with it that Sarasate’s
and Impressionism. He regularly dipped
enthusiasm revived and he took it into his
into volumes of old works and produced
repertoire. Its dramatic content is confined to
charming arrangements of what he found
the outer movements. They also offer frequent
there. In the Trittico Botticelliano (1927)
opportunities for violinists to show off their
he adopted a similarly “antique” style, but
technical prowess. The sweet, melodious
here the themes are Respighi originals. It
second movement provides an interlude of
offers vivid reactions to paintings by Sandro
graceful repose.
Botticelli (1445-1510), one of the finest Italian
artists of the Renaissance. Spring, the first
piece, is a joyous, dancing celebration of the
b. Karevo, Russia / March 21, 1839
season. During the serene meditation of The
d. St. Petersburg, Russia / March 28, 1881
Adoration of the Magi, Respighi quoted the
Pictures at an Exhibition
medieval Christmas hymn, O Come, O Come
Emmanuel. The Birth of Venus portrays the
Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel
(1875-1937)
goddess of love, standing on a shell as she
rises daintily yet majestically from the sea.
Mussorgsky met Victor Hartmann, a brilliant
young artist and architect, in 1862. They
quickly became close friends. The 39-year-old
Hartmann’s death from a heart attack in 1873
b. Paris, France / October 9, 1835
plunged Mussorgsky into a deep depression.
d. Algiers, Algeria / December 16, 1921
The following year, a memorial exhibition was
Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
held in St. Petersburg, displaying Hartmann’s
During a period in French music when
paintings, costumes, architectural designs
composers’ reputations rested first of all
and sketches for ornamental household
with their degree of success in the emotional objects. It was Mussorgsky’s visit to that
world of opera, Saint-Saëns proved himself
display, combined with his desire to compose
a maverick by preferring the cooler, more
a piece in his friend’s memory, that led to
abstract realm of instrumental music.
the creation of the piano suite Pictures at an
He composed the last of his three violin
Exhibition. Although it is without doubt his
concertos for Pablo de Sarasate, previously
finest piano work, its colourful nature cries
b. Bologna, Italy / July 9, 1879
d. Rome, Italy / April 18, 1936
Modest Mussorgsky
Camille Saint-Saëns
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out for the rich palette of instrumental effects
that only an orchestra can provide. The most
popular orchestral setting is the one that
Maurice Ravel prepared in 1922.
It opens with a majestic theme called
Promenade, depicting visitors to the gallery
strolling through the exhibit until a picture
strikes their fancy. It recurs at several early
points in the music. The first picture, The
Gnome, describes a grotesque nutcracker
which Hartmann designed as a children’s
Christmas present. Hartmann’s watercolour
painting The Old Castle portrays a troubadour
serenading his beloved by moonlight.
Tuileries is a miniature scherzo, depicting
children and their nurses strolling gracefully
through a Parisian garden. The sombre
voice of the solo tuba takes centre stage in
Bydlo, which follows the lumbering approach
and retreat of a heavy Polish oxcart. This is
followed by another light scherzo, The Ballet
of the Chicks in Their Shells. Mussorgsky’s
inspiration was Hartmann’s costume sketch
for a ballet.
Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle portrays
two Polish Jews: one is rich and pompous
(low strings), the second poor and excitable
(muted trumpet). After a bustling portrait
of the marketplace in the French city of
Limoges, the scene switches abruptly to
Catacombs (A Roman Sepulchre), a stark,
menacing portrait of an ancient tomb. In the
second half of this section, With the Dead in a
Dead Language, the music drops to a ghostly
whisper for an eerie vision of skulls glowing
in the dark.
Next is a dynamic picture of Baba-Yaga,
an evil witch from Russian folklore. The
suite concludes with a stirring evocation of
Hartmann’s plan for an immense stone gate,
in the massive old Russian style with a crown
in the shape of a Slavonic helmet. It was
intended for the Ukrainian city of Kiev but
was never built. Mussorgsky’s music evokes
the chants of a Russian Orthodox Church
ceremony, alternately hushed and ecstatic. ■
CHRISTMAS with
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Saturday December 5, 2009
Orpheum Theatre
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Sunday December 13, 2009
Orpheum Theatre
TORONTO
MENDELSSOHN CHOIR
Wednesday February 3, 2010
Christ Church Cathedral
Bach’s ST. JOHN PASSION
Saturday March 27, 2010
Orpheum Theatre
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Gillian Anderson is a conductor and musicologist. She specializes
in the relation between music and moving images and has
conducted throughout the United States as well as in Europe,
South America, and Canada. Her performances have been
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(Edward Rothstein, The New York Times) and
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Philadelphia Daily News).
She graduated Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College, and is a
member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honorary. Her book,
Freedom’s Voice in Poetry and Song, was chosen as the best
reference book of the year by Choice Magazine, and her article
“Putting the Experience of the World at the Nation’s Command:
Music at the Library of Congress 1800-1917” was awarded the
Music Library Association’s Richard Hill Award for best article in
1989.
She was born November 28, 1943 in Brookline, Mass. She
married physicist Gordon Wood Anderson August 23, 1969.
They have no children. Ms. Anderson’s leisure interests are
camping, cooking, cycling, drawing and equal rights. ■
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CONCERT PROGRAM
bramwell tovey & THE VSO
SURREY NIGHTS / BELL PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, 8PM
monday, november 2
◆ Mary Sokol Brown violin
◆ Andrew Brown viola
Mendelssohn and Friends:
An Anniversary Celebration
Mendelssohn The Hebrides, Op. 26
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture, Op. 21
and Incidental Music, Op. 61
I. Overture
II. Nocturne
III.Scherzo
IV. Wedding March
◆ Bruch Concerto for Violin and Viola
I. Andante con moto
II. Allegro moderato
III. Allegro molto
intermission
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, Italian
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Allegro vivace
Andante con moto
Con moto moderato
Saltarello: Presto
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn.
The VSO’s Surrey Nights Series has been endowed by
a generous gift from Werner and Helga Höing.
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the title Hebrides Overture on the orchestral
parts) it is more appropriately considered a
musical picture of the Hebrides as a whole, as
the composer did not actually visit the large,
impressive cave until after writing the music.
MARY SOKOL BROWN
ANDREW BROWN
refer to page 9.
For a biography of Ms. Brown please
refer to page 19.
Andrew Brown viola
For a biography of Mr. Brown please
refer to page 19.
Felix Mendelssohn
b. Hamburg, Germany / February 3, 1809
d. Leipzig, Germany / November 4, 1847
The Hebrides, Op. 26
Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, Italian
Felix Mendelssohn was one of history’s greatest composers, a champion of the Classical
style. Much of what he wrote remains to this
day some of the most beloved music in the
entire repertoire.
Completed in December of 1830, the concert
Overture The Hebrides describes in music
the archipelago that affected Mendelssohn
so profoundly on his tour of Scotland. After
spending time marveling at the extremes of
nature found in these wild islands, Felix wrote
to his sister, along with the opening phrase of
the work on the letter: “In order to make you
understand how extraordinarily the Hebrides
affected me, I send you the following, which
came into my head there.” Though often
called Fingal’s Cave (Mendelssohn actually
titled it as such on the score, though he used
Very nearly the earliest of Impressionist
works, The Hebrides depicts a mood or
“impression” in music, rather than specifically
attempting to depict physical scenes or a
story of some kind. The two main themes one
hears in the overture describe Mendelssohn’s
feelings about his experience in the Hebrides.
The first theme is one of awe, power and
beauty, though casting a feeling of isolation—
or perhaps a feeling of weakness and humility
in the face of such rugged natural power. The
second main theme gives one a feeling of the
rolling of the sea, and the power and grace of
the sea’s mighty waves.
Mendelssohn’s five symphonies represent an
underrated body of work. The third and fourth
of these symphonies were inspired by the
twenty-year old composer’s travels through
Europe. In 1830, after traveling through
Scotland and hearing the muse for his
Scottish Symphony, Mendelssohn sojourned
in Italy, where the muse struck again—thus
the Symphony No. 4 in A Major ‘Italian’
was born. The piece was premiered by the
London Philharmonic on March 13, 1833,
with Mendelssohn conducting.
“Mendelssohn’s Mozart-like
gift for creating sublime
melodies is obvious
throughout the piece...”
As seems to be the case with many
composers and their works, Mendelssohn
was not completely satisfied with the
piece—though it received public and critical
acclaim—so he planned revisions; revisions
which never actually occurred with his early
death at the age of thirty-eight.
Mendelssohn’s Mozart-like gift for creating
sublime melodies is obvious throughout
the piece, no more so than in the first
movement. The Italian Symphony sparkles
with Mediterranean exuberance, and
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beautiful, memorable melodies. The opening
movement starts the proceedings with a
joyful melody for violins, quickly transitioning
to a dashing tune for clarinets and bassoons.
The opening theme eventually returns after a
few deceptive feints, closing the movement
and paving the way for a processionalstyle second movement of exceeding
beauty, dominated by a Czech hymn and its
variations, highlighted by an extraordinary
passage for flutes. A minuet highlighted by a
horn-bassoon central section follows, leading
into a finale in the style of Italian Saltarello
dance music.
The first theme is for strings, the second for
winds, yielding to a perpetuo tarantella that
moves inexorably to a strong climax, where
the opening theme reappears, evolved and
stately. This climax gives way to a quiet,
melancholy re-examination of the opening
movement, before the first Saltarello theme
reappears in a powerful and final reiteration
to conclude the symphony.
Program Notes ©2009 Sofia Vincent
Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture,
Op. 21 & Incidental Music, Op. 61
Mendelssohn reached his musical maturity in
1826, when, just seventeen, he composed his
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overture to Shakespeare’s romantic comedy
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Everyone
expressed astonishment that so young a man
had been able to capture the essence and the
diversity of the play so skillfully. In it may be
heard the magical atmosphere of fairy-land,
the hustle and bustle of the play’s comic
characters (including a graphic “hee-haw”
representing the pompous tradesman Bottom
after his head has been transformed into that
of an ass!), and sweet yearning inspired by
the young lovers.
“In it may be heard
the magical atmosphere
of fairy-land...”
Sixteen years later, King Friedrich Wilhelm
IV of Prussia commissioned Mendelssohn
to compose a full set of incidental music for
the play, to be used at an elaborate Germanlanguage production in Potsdam. Retaining
the overture, the composer added twelve new
items, some of which make use of themes
from the overture. Some are sizeable preludes
and intermezzi, others little more than
snippets of atmosphere setting, designed to
be heard under dialogue.
The play takes place in classical Greece, a
time when humans and such legendary
creatures as fairies lived side-by-side. After
numerous complications, two pairs of lovers
at last find happiness with their respective
partners. They, along with Theseus, Duke
of Athens, and Hippolyta, Queen of the
Amazons, are joined in marriage at the play’s
conclusion.
Among the larger and more familiar portions
of the score are the Scherzo, which serves
as an entr’acte between Acts One and
Two. Highlighted by darting, gossamer
writing for winds and strings, it precedes
the entry of the most mischievous of the
fairies, Puck. The opening of the Intermezzo
portrays the distress of the maiden Hermia
upon discovering the absence of her lover,
Lysander; the music then relaxes into rustic
humour with the arrival of Bottom and the
other workers. The tranquil Nocturne, with
its lovely opening solo for horn, accompanies
the lovers as they lie sleeping, under the
influence of the fairies’ magic. The grand and
very familiar Wedding March introduces the
fifth and final act.
Max Bruch
b. Cologne, Prussia / January 6, 1838
d. Friedenau, Germany / October 2, 1920
Concerto for Violin and Viola
Max Bruch, the German Romantic composer
was a phenom in his youth, and already
famous by the age of twenty. Unfortunately
burdened with comparisons to Mozart, Bruch
never did fulfill the lofty expectations of his
contemporaries.
The Concerto for Violin and Viola was
originally written as a Concerto for Viola
and Clarinet (written for Bruch’s son, Max
Felix Bruch)—Bruch later arranged the
clarinet parts for violin, and the “Double
Concerto” performed here was born. The
work never really gained critical acceptance,
possibly because it is written very much in
the “Classically Romantic” style of Brahms
(and is even more reminiscent of a Sinfonia
Concertante from a bygone age rather than a
Romantic concerto), while set in the context
of a time when music was undergoing a
radical evolution, mostly ushered in by
the works of Stravinsky and the early
Impressionists. Whatever the reason, at times
this piece provides clear glimpses into the
personality of the composer, and stands as a
good example of his own personal style.
The first notes belong to the viola in the
expressive and lyrical first movement, though
the principal theme is first announced by the
violin. In the Allegro moderato movement,
the two solo instruments spend much more
time together in duet, and create some truly
nostalgic moods throughout. An energetic
final movement is rung in by bold brass
fanfares, and the strings are set off in a
vigorous direction that the solo instruments
follow in earnest. More demands are made
on the soloists in this Allegro molto finale,
as they re-visit and re-interpret themes and
figures from the opening movement on the
road to a bright and satisfying conclusion. ■
Program Notes ©2009 Sofia Vincent
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