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November 9, 2014Scarlatti Piano SonatasBethoven "Ghost" TrioProkofiev Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano

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GSO RESOURCES, PROGRAMS, AND CONTRIBUTORS

Board of Directors 11Chairman of the Board 11Music Director 15Resident Conductor 19Concertmaster 21Orchestra Personnel 23Corporate Contributors 50Contributors 51

Endowment Fund 54GSO Guild 56Preludes 58Music at Midday Series 58Youth Orchestra 59Restaurant Specials 84Advertiser Index 87

ARTISTIC STAFFDmitry Sitkovetsky ...........................................................Music DirectorNathaniel Beversluis ........................................................Resident Conductor/ Music Director of GSYOKaren Collins.........................................................................Youth Philharmonic ConductorStephanie Ezerman ..........................................................Opus One ConductorLinda Cykert ..........................................................................Flute Ensemble Conductor

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ADMINISTRATIVE AND PRODUCTION STAFFKathy Homiller ..................................................................ControllerVito Ciccone ..........................................................................Production ManagerWendy Rawls ........................................................................Orchestra Personnel ManagerCynthia Small .......................................................................Administrative AssistantJohn Spuller .........................................................................Orchestra LibrarianNancy J. R. Wells ...............................................................Development & Marketing Assistant

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Dear Symphony Supporter,On behalf of the Greensboro Symphony Board

of Directors, our President, Lisa Crawford, and the entire Symphony staff, I welcome you to the 2014-2015 Greensboro Symphony Masterworks, POPS and Chamber Music Concert Series.

The Tanger Outlets Masterworks Series explores themes related to Breaking Bad, examining the connections between masterpieces such as Beethovens Eroica Symphony & Stravinksys The Rite of Spring, all while featuring fabulous guest artists including Dmitrys daughter, soprano Julia

Sitkovetsky, pianist Igor Kamenz, the winner of the 2014 Indianapolis Violin Competition, and of course, our own Dmitry Sitkovetsky. A phenomenal season to behold!

The Tanger Outlets POPS Series rolls in from the Plains of Texas in October featuring The Texas Tenors, who will delight you with a Stetson-sized lineup of country to contemporary. New Years Eve takes us on a trip to Broadway, Valentines Day through a 50th anniversary tribute to The Beatles, and in our finale with Cirque de la Symphonie, you will be spellbound by musical masterpieces and high-flying aerialists.

A thrilling season with the Rice Toyota Chamber Series awaits, beginning with an extraordinary evening: Dimas 60th Birthday Extravaganza, featuring the return of special guests Julia Zilberquit, Mayuko Kamio, Sergey Antonov and world-renowned pianist, Bella Davidovich, plus many other fantastic musicians from Greensboro & abroad.

This is truly a special year as the Greensboro Symphony Guild celebrates their 50th Anniversary with a Gala at the historic Carolina Theatre on November 1st, an event you will not want to miss! The Guild is such an integral part of our organization through their sponsorship of eight comprehensive music programs for over 50,000 students in four counties, including our stellar Youth Orchestra.

Wow! A season of outstanding music lies ahead, supported by an outstanding organization. We have so many to thank for making the 2014-2015 season a grand success, from the musicians to the staff. However, our "Crown Jewel" of the arts community would not exist if it were not for our annual donors, corporate sponsors, Playbill advertisers and of course, our season ticket subscribers. We graciously thank everyone! Now enjoy an exceptional season of music, a gift that never ends!

Sincerely,

Robert M. Green, Jr.Chairman of the Board

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Robert Green

Chairman-Elect Garson RicePast Chair & Vice Chair Management Committee Susan Schwartz

Vice Chair Scott DugganVice Chair- Development Peggy Hamilton

Vice Chair-Artistic Advisory Tim SmythAssistant Vice Chair- Artistic Advisory Sam LeBauer

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itkovetsky has performed as a soloist with a num-ber of the worlds leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Concertgebouw Orchestra, all of the major London orchestras, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Verbier,

Enescu (Bucharest), Ravinia, Hollywood Bowl, Mostly Mozart and Festival del Sole (Napa Valley). In 2003, he was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, a posi-tion he currently holds with great success.

In the 2014-15 season and beyond, Sitkovetskys guest en-gagements represent his extremely diverse range of activities including concerto performances in Lucerne with the Sdwest-deutsche Philharmonie (Tchaikovsky) and the Symphony of Napa Valley under the baton of Sir Neville Marriner (Mozart); play/conduct programs with the SPHINX orchestra at the Festi-val del Sole (Napa Valley) as well as with the Bangkok Symphony (Mozart); return engagements with the Japan Century Orchestra - (Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven), Moscow Virtuosi (Mozart, Tchaikovsky), Tallin Chamber Orchestra (Dohnanyi, Britten), Slovakian Philarmonic of Bratislava (Beethoven, Rachmaninov), Slovenian Philarmonic of Ljubljana (Adams, Corigliano, Rach-maninov) and will have Peter Coyote as a narrator in Copland Lincoln Portrait & Brittens Young Persons Guide to the orches-tra in Napa Valley as well.

Last seasons highlights included a return appearance at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Enescu Caprice Romaine), at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Beethoven); chamber music concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall (Bach); play/direct engagements with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Soloists with Yuri Bashmet in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (Bach & Part)

Sitkovetsky has built a flourishing career as a conductor. From 19962001, he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra and then appointed Conductor Laureate, and from 20022005 held the position of Principal Guest Con-ductor of the Russian State Orchestra. From 20062009, he was the Artist-in-Residence at the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain). Sitkovetsky is the founding director of the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES CO) established in 1990 which is comprised of distinguished string players from Eastern & Western Europe. Since his successful transcription of Bachs Goldberg Variations for string trio and string orchestra, he has transcribed more than 50 works mostly for strings by Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Dohnanyi, Bartk, Tchaikovsky, Shostakov-ich, Stravinsky and Schnittke. He has been a member of ASCAP since 1985 and his transcriptions are published by Doblinger, Sikorski and Schirmer.

Sitkovetsky was the Artistic Director of a number of festivals

including the Korsholm Music Festival in Finland (1983-1993 and 2002), Seattle International Music Festival (1992-1997) and The Silk Route of Music Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan (1999). From 2003-2006 Sitkovetsky was a co-music director of the Festival del Sole in Cortona where his NES CO was an orchestra-in-residence and performed with such artists as Dmitri Hvoros-tovsky, Marcelo Alvarez, Bobby McFerrin, Evelyn Glennie, Denis Matsuev, Sir Antonio Pappano & many others.

He has an active and varied recording career with an extensive discog-raphy which includes all the major violin concerti, numerous chamber music works as well as orchestral recordings that hes con-ducted. In 2010, Hnssler Classic released a boxed set of the complete Mo-zart Violin Sonatas with Antonio Pappano and Kon-stantin Lifschitz. On the Concertgebouw Live label, there was a release of Du-tilleuxs LArbre des Songes with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Jansons. Recently, Nimbus Alliance released a newly recorded version of the Bachs Goldberg Variations and 15 Sinfo-nias for string trio to great critical acclaim.

Sitkovetsky shows a keen interest in performing contempo-rary repertoire - he premiered the violin concerti written for him by John Casken (1995) and Krzystof Meyer (2000) and often performs works by Dutilleux, Penderecki, Schnittke, Prt and Rodion Shchedrin, who has written several works for Sitkovetsky both as violinist and conductor. In September 2012 he conducted the premiere of Jakov Jakoulovs Concerto for clarinet & harp in Greensboro, NC as part of the UNCG New Music Festival & GSO Chamber Music series Sitkovetsky & friends. In May 2014 Sit-kovetsky gave the world premiere of the violin concerto written for him by Nimrod Borenstein.

In the last 18 months Sitkovetsky added another string of ar-tistic accomplishments to his bow he became a TV presenter in the program called Visiting with Dmitry Sitkovetsky commis-sioned by the Russian Kultura Channel. The first four programs went on the air in June 2014 with great public & critical acclaim: Evgeny Kissin, Barbara Hendrichs, Mischa Maisky, Bella Davi-dovich. The further programs will include Sir Neville Marriner, Leonidas Kavakos, Yefim Bronfman, Gary Graffman, Alexander Antonenko & Sir Antonio Pappano.

Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Dmitry Sitkovetsky grew up in Moscow studying at the Moscow Conservatory and after his emi-gration in 1977, at the Juilliard School in New York. Since 1987 he has resided in London with his wife, Susan, and their daugh-ter, Julia. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter: dimasitko.

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Prior to Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, Nate was a professor at Elon University and the University of Central Florida, Associate Artistic Director at Tri-Cities Opera, and worked as a pianist throughout Central Florida. He holds degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (Jazz Studies) and Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Orchestral Conducting).

Nate is also active as a pianist and composer in multiple genres. His interests involve combining jazz elements with chamber and symphonic instrumentations. His compositions have won awards from ASCAP and BMI, and his arrangements have been performed recently by the Colorado Symphony and Orlando Philharmonic.

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VIOLIN IJohn Fadial, Concertmaster Greensboro Symphony Guild Chair

Fabrice Dharamraj, Associate Concertmaster Chair in Honor of Caroline Lee

Fabian Lopez, Associate ConcertmasterWendy Rawls, Assistant Concertmaster Beverly Cooper Moore and Irene Mitchell Moore Chair

Colleen Chenail Rachel Smothers Hull and Worth Brantley Hull Chair

Karen Collins Mary Ellen and Elizabeth Anne Kavanagh Chair by Ellen C. and B. John Kavanagh

Ewa Dharamraj George W. Dickieson Chair GSO Conductor 1951-1963 by Anna Dickieson

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VIOLIN IIFabrice Dharamraj, Principal Stephanie Ezerman, Associate PrincipalAlison Lawson, Assistant PrincipalKay Hensley Alice Mae and William M. Lineberry Memorial Chair by Helen and Albert S. Lineberry, Sr.

Brandon Ironside Lynn R. Prickett Memorial Chair by the Lynn R. and Karl E. Prickett Fund

Betty Kelley Sidney J. Stern, Jr. Memorial Chair by Katherine G. Stern

David Mullikin Ellen and Gary Taft Chair

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Ken Wilmot, Trumpet II Barbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr. Chair by Donna M. and Herman Cone III

Karl J. Kassner, Trumpet III The Austin Family Chair by Patricia Austin Sevier

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TIMPANIPeter Zlotnick, Principal

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HARPHelen Rifas, Principal Eleanor Downes Mewborn Chair In Memory of Carolyn Riddle Downes

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Family Comes FirstIf we know one thing from AMCs award-winning Breaking Bad, it is that Walter White will go to any length necessary to protect family. Tonight, we see a reunion of grand proportions as Julia Sitkovetsky joins her father in honor of his 60th birthday. In this case, family truly does come firstand the Sitkovetsky family is one to be reckoned with!

CONCERT PROGRAMGioachino Rossini Overture to The Barber of Seville

Giuseppe Verdi Caro nome from Rigoletto

Gaetano DonizettiRegnava nel Silenzio from Lucia di Lammermoor

I N T E R M I S S I O N

Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4 in G major

I. Bedchtig, nicht eilen (Moderately, not rushed)

II. In gemchlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast (Leisurely moving, without haste)

III. Ruhevoll, poco adagio (Peacefully, somewhat slowly)

IV. Sehr behaglich (Very comfortably)

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Julia Sitkovetsky, SopranoJulia Sitkovetsky made her professional operatic debut at

Glyndebourne and English National Opera, covering Flora in Brittens The Turn of the Screw. Other operatic roles include: Eurydice in Orphee aux Enfers, Elisa in Il Re Pastore, Betty in Salieris Falstaff, Galatea in Acis and Galatea, and Damon in Acis and Galatea with New Chamber Opera, and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw with Oxford Opera.

Recent successes include: Bathilde (Cover) in Offenbachs Vert Vert with Garsington Opera and understudying Diana Damrau in the world premiere of A Harlots Progress by Iain Bell at Theater an der Wien. Julia recently won First Prize in the 2014 Dean and Chadlington Competition, was a finalist in the 2014 Royal Overseas League Competition and was a 2014 YCAT finalist at Wigmore Hall.

Julia trained with Susan McCulloch at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and recently began studying with Den-nis ONeill and Marie McLaughlin at the Wales International Academy of Voice.

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PRELUDESLearn more about this evening's music with Dr. Gregory Carroll. Preludes begin at 6:45PM Thursday and 7:00PM Saturday in the Moon Room

MEET THE ARTISTSJoin us after Thursdays concert for a brief Q&A at the front of the stage with our guest artists and Dima

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PROGRAM NOTES

Overture to The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)Rossinis The Barber of Seville is one of the most beloved operas performed today. It is a

comedic opera - opera buffa - with a delightful story, amusing characters, and catchy melodies. Based on a play by Pierre Beaumarchais, this was the first part of the French playwrights Figaro trilogy. These stories were a great source of inspiration for composers as evidenced by Mozart setting the second of these plays as The Marriage of Figaro. The third of Beaumarchaiss plays is rarely performed today.

The premiere of The Barber of Seville was on February 20, 1816 in the Teatro Argentina in Rome. Its overture is perhaps the most frequently performed single movement in all orchestral music.

Caro nome from Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Regnava nel Silenzio from Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Caro nome, from the first act of Rigoletto (1851), is a meditation by Rigolettos daughter, Gilda, as she contemplates her love for Duke. In the famous Regnava nel Silenzio, from the first act of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), Lucia tells of seeing the ghost of a girl who was killed by a jealous ancestor. She interprets this as a warning that she must give up her love for Edgardo.

Symphony No. 4 in G major by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Mahlers Fourth Symphony is usually considered the composers most popular

symphonic work, partly because of how it differs from his other symphonies. The rest are all large, dramatic works, lasting considerably more than an hour, and featuring a huge orchestra that is often supplemented by an equally large chorus. In comparison, the Fourth is shorter, requires a smaller orchestra, and has only a few moments of overt power. While much of Mahlers orchestral writing is emotionally extroverted, this symphony verges on the delicate.

The differences between this work and his previous symphonies shocked early audiences. At the premiere in Munich on November 25, 1901, with Mahler conducting, many were disappointed to hear a gentle opening of flutes and sleigh bells followed by a string melody that could have been written by the Viennese melodic master, Schubert, himself. This was such a contrast from what they were expecting that many in the auditorium did not think the work was serious. One early reviewer even described it as a musical monstrosity the most painful torture to which he has been compelled to submit. The composer only laughed, commenting they didnt know how to swallow it, forwards or backwards.

This history of the work is a bit unusual. Mahlers original plan for his Third Symphony, one of the largest and most powerful compositions to date, was to end the work with a vocal setting of Wir genieen die himmlischen Freuden (We Enjoy Heavens Delights). But this gentle song was so incongruous with the rest of the work that the composer temporarily put it aside with the intention of building a new symphony around it. It is this lovely vocal setting that became the spiritual centerand final movementof the Fourth Symphony.

After the first three movements, in which the composer gives us music ranges from the delightful to slightly demonic to serene, Mahler shares his own beliefs in the joys that await in the spiritual realm of heaven. And, to make sure the message is just right, he adds the human voice. Only one line of text to is needed to understand the composers intention: Kein Musik ist ja nicht auf Erden, die unsrer verglichen kann werden (No music anywhere on earth can be compared to ours [in heaven]).

In the Fourth Symphony, Mahler did not need hundreds of performers on stage to communicate his message. All he needed was a single voice.

DID YOU KNOW?The strings of a violin can be tuned in unusual ways, which is called scordatura, to create different effects. Mahler does this in the second movement of his Fourth Symphony to give the music a ghostly character.

WHOS ON STAGE?The first half of the concert is entirely early- to mid-19th century Italian opera, and uses a typical orchestra for this genre: 2 of each woodwind, 2-4 of each brass, percussion, and strings.

Mahler used larger forces, including 3 of each woodwind, and more variety of percussion instruments. Be sure to notice the sleigh bells that occur throughout the symphony.

Give me a laundry list and I will set it to music.Gioachino Rossini

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Rarely have television audiences witnessed a devolution from hero to villain quite like that of Walter White. From Peter Grimess slow descent into madness in Brittens classic opera to the disillusionment with Napoleon reflected in Beethovens Eroica Symphony, we follow characters with similarly tragic trajectories.

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Igor Kamenz, PianoIgor Kamenz has been described as a giant of the keyboard,

conquering concert halls with finest nuances and most in-comprehensible virtuosity. Axel Brggemann wrote in Cre-scendo: If music gives rise to spatial structure, then Kamenz is an architect of this world. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: He is an Atlas at the piano who, with his innermost be-ing, expresses the entire spectrum of the sounds of anguish.

Russian-born Kamenz has studied with Vitaly Margulis and Sergiu Celibidache for many years and has been awarded 18 first prizes in international piano competitions. Kamenz has an extensive repertoire, ranging from Bach to Cage, but is especially fond of piano compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and the late Romantic Russian period.

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Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op.23

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II. Andantino semplice Prestissimo

III. Allegro con fuoco

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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op.55, Eroica

I. Allegro con brio

II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai

III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

IV. Finale: Allegro molto

Distinguished Guest Artist Piano Chair in honor of Linda M. Jones

PRELUDESLearn more about this evening's music with Dr. Wendy Looker. Preludes begin at 6:45PM Thursday and 7:00PM Saturday in the Moon Room

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Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)Brittens Peter Grimes was the first of his operas to receive critical success. First

performed in London on June 7, 1945, it is based on a long poem by George Crabbe which tells the story of Peters role in the death of his apprentice and the reaction of the citizens of his seaside town. The British composer summarized the work by saying this was a subject very close to my heartthe struggle of the individual against the masses. The more vicious the society, the more vicious the individual. The Four Sea Interludes are frequently performed as an orchestral suite as they are tonight. They set the mood for different parts of the conflict of this human drama.

Piano Concerto No. 1 in b-flat minor, op.23 by Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)"I am again beginning to think about a new large-scale composition whichhas

taken over all my thoughts." These were Tchaikovskys words in September 1874 as he was embarking on his first piano concerto. By December, he wrote that the concerto should be finished this week. Shortly afterwards, the Russian composer played a private performance of his new work for the formidable pianist, Nikolai Rubenstein.

That the young Tchaikovsky was taken aback by Rubensteins comments is an understatement. He later recalled that Rubenstein said my concerto was worthless and unplayable; passages were so fragmented, so clumsy, so badly written that they were beyond rescue; the work itself was bad [and] vulgar. Tchaikovsky did not let this discourage him, though, and next showed the work to the conductor Hans von Blow, whose response was that the work displays such brilliance, and is such a remarkable achievement among your musical works.

Fortunately for the music-listening public, von Blows assessment of the concerto reaffirmed the composers belief in his piece, and Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No.1 has been a staple in the repertoire ever since.

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op.55 Eroica by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)It is impossible to talk about the Eroica without mentioning Napoleon. Beethoven

saw the French leaderat least early in his careeras being genuinely concerned with the welfare of the common man. Napoleon espoused the ideals of the French Revolution: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Beethoven admired this and decided to name his third symphony after Bonaparte.

This title, Sinfonia Bonaparte, stood until June, 1804, when Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens student and friend, came to visit. In a very famous quote, Ries tells what happened next:

I was the first to bring him the news that Bonaparte had proclaimed himself emperor, whereupon he flew into a rage and cried out: Is he then, too, nothing more than an ordinary human being? Now he, too, will trample on all the rights of man and indulge only his ambition. He will exalt himself above all others, become a tyrant! Beethoven went to the table, took hold of the title page by the top, tore it in two, and threw it to the floor.

When the symphony was published, it was neither named for, nor dedicated to, Napoleon. Beethovens strong feelings of disappointment over losing the Napoleon he admired came out in his title.

Sinfonia Eroica per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grand UomoHeroic Symphonyto celebrate the memory of a great man

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.Ludwig van Beethoven

CHEMISTRY IN MUSICBeethoven, like many proponents of the French Revolution, believed Napoleon to be a man of noble ideals who would lead the people of France to a new age of justice & democracy. His assumption of the French throne & systematic invasion of Europe instead caused widespread disillusionment among his advocates.

Walter White began with similarly good intentions to provide for his family after a terminal cancer diagnosis. But this swiftly devolved into a mad scramble for power, putting them at greater risk than ever.

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Like Walter Whites transformation from lovable protagonist to coldhearted criminal mastermind, tonights concert explores the evolution of music over time. Elements such as nationality, instrumentation and historical era force malleability in repertoire as each composer seeks to express his unique voice.

Transformation

GUEST ARTIST

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Violin and ConductorNOTES FROM DIMA

The Shostakovich Violin Concerto was written in 1948 but not premiered until after Stalins death, in 1955, with violinist David Oistrakh with performances in Leningrad and Moscow. Soon after, Ois-trakh left for his first tour of the United States and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic playing this concerto. The first recording of it was made with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Dmitry Mitropolous. In my opinion it is the most im-portant violin concerto in the 20th century. Its cadenza be-tween the 3rd and 4th move-ments is the most difficult and the most dramatic cadenza of all violin repertoire.

My father, Julian Sitk-ovetsky, was one of the first violinists after Oistrakh to play the concerto in 1956. It was his last performance in Moscow. Soon after, he was

CONCERT PROGRAMMaurice Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess

Dmitri Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor, op. 77

I. Nocturne: Moderato II. Scherzo: Allegro III. Passacaglia: Andante Cadenza IV. Burlesque: Allegro con brio Presto

Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Violin Nathaniel Beversluis, Conductor

I N T E R M I S S I O N

Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Orchestrated by Maurice RavelThe Gnome Promenade Gnomus The Old Castle Tuileries Cattle The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks Samuel Goldenberg and Schmule The Market at Limoges The Catacombs The Hut on Fowls Legs The Great Gate of Kiev

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PRELUDESLearn more about this evening's music with Dr. David Nelson. Preludes begin at 6:45PM Thursday and 7:00PM Saturday in the Moon Room

MEET THE ARTISTSJoin us after Thursdays concert for a brief Q&A at the front of the stage with our guest artists and Dima

RADIO BROADCASTWFDD will broadcast this concert on Friday, February, 20, 2015 at 8:00pm

admitted to the hospital and died in February, 1958 from lung cancer.

He played this concerto for Shostakovich, and now I have the hand-written piano reduc-tion of the piece with some changes and markings made by the composer himself.

I learned it in 1983 and played one of the most memo-rable and successful debuts of my life with the Chicago Symphony. Maksim Shosta-kovich, the composers son, conducted. I also made my New York Philharmonic de-but, with Sir Andrew Davis, playing this concerto in 1988. My very first concert back in Russia in 1988 was with this concerto and the Moscow Philharmonic orchestra in the same Tchaikovsky Concert Hall where my father played it in 1956.

I made a recording of both Shostakovich Violin Concerti with the BBC Symphony and Conductor, Andrew Davis, in 1989 on the Virgin Classical label, which received won-derful critical acclaim. I have performed this concerto with some of the best orchestras in the world: the Berlin Phil-harmonic, St. Petersburg Phil-harmonic, NHK Symphony of Japan, the LA Philharmonic and many others.

In 2006, to commemorate Shostakovich 100th anni-versary, I performed both of his concerti in one evening.

His widow, Irina Shostakov-ich, and I have a very nice friendship, and she has often attended my concerts in Mos-cow, Paris, Bologna, and other cities. The last time we met was at my concert in Moscow in December, 2013.

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PROGRAM NOTES

Pavane for a Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)Ravels Pavane pour une infante dfunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a well-known

piece for piano that has been arranged for many different instrumental and vocal combinations. Pavanes are slow dances from 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Ravel wrote that his is "an evocation of a pavane that a little princess [infanta] might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court." The piano version was completed in 1899, and Ravels orchestral version was published in 1910.

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op.77 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)The compositional years of Shostakovichs Violin Concerto No. 1 (1947-48)

coincide with an important period of the Soviet Union in the middle of the 20th century. When Shostakovich was in the middle of its composition, Andrei Zhdanov, Secretary of the Soviet Central Committee, created a doctrine that divided Soviet culture into good and bad, or pro- and anti- government. Stalins death in 1953 saw an end to this doctrine. A further decree was announced in early 1948 which was directly aimed at music. Shostakovich was among the Soviet composers who was criticized and persecuted because of it, and this policy was kept in effect until 1958.

During these years, Shostakovich composed some music that he knew would please the Soviet censors, but he also created works that he knew would not stand the scrutiny of the judges because of what was considered proper Soviet culture. These latter works are sometimes considered to have been written for the drawer. The first Violin Concerto is one of these pieces.

As in several of his other pieces, Shostakovich represented himself in the music by using his DSCH motive, which represents his first initial and the first three letters of the Russian spelling of his last name. These pitches are literally D, E-flat, C, and B-natural (In German, S and H are E-flat and B-natural, respectively).

The Violin Concerto was dedicated to violinist David Oistrakh and first performed on October 29, 1955 with Oistrakh as soloist.

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), orchestrated by Maurice RavelSimilar to the Pavane, Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition was originally for piano.

What is interesting in tonights program is that we have two pieces that Maurice Ravel arranged for orchestra: his own composition and Mussorgskys.

After Mussorgskys friend and artist, Viktor Hartmann, died in 1873, a large exhibition of his work was held in the Academy of Fine Arts in (todays) St. Petersburg. Mussorgsky owned several pieces by Hartmann, and loaned these to the exhibit. Of course, the composer viewed the entire collection, and was inspired to create a new piece of music.

The Russian composers intent for Pictures at an Exhibition was to represent himself roving through the exhibition, now leisurely, now briskly, in order to come closer to a picture that had attracted his attention, and at times sadly, thinking of his departed friend.

The eleven movements of this orchestral suite are quite contrasting, and reflect a great variety of moods. The music ranges from the stately to the playful to the somber, and finally, in The Great Gate of Kiev, to the majestic.

The piano suite was completed in 1874, and Ravels orchestration was done in 1922. Over the years, the music has been arranged for everything from classical guitar to jazz groups to heavy metal bands. Michael Jackson even used parts of The Great Gate of Kiev in the song HIStory.

CHEMISTRY IN MUSICTime changes everything, music included. Though originally written for piano, both Pavane and Pictures were orchestrated years later by Ravel. Ravel, a master colorist, uses the orchestra to its maximum potential, augmenting to such a degree that some movements are almost unrecognizable from the original.

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In his transformation from teacher to dealer, Walter White sought to synthesize the most pure and perfect product in the world. In tonights concert, we experience another act of perfect synthesis: the original act of Divine Chemistry through Haydns famous oratorio, The Creation.

Divine Chemistry

PRELUDESLearn more about this evening's music with Dr. David Nelson. Preludes begin at 6:45PM Thursday and 7:00PM Saturday in the Moon Room

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RADIO BROADCASTWFDD will broadcast this concert on Friday, April, 3, 2015 at 8:00pm

GUEST ARTISTS

Andrew Bidlack Brittany Robinson Eric Downs

Tenor Andrew Bidlack, a graduate of San Francisco Operas prestigious Adler Fel-lowship, returns to SFO this season, covering Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola and Emilio in Handels Partenope. Fol-lowing this, Bidlack will create the role of Rob Hall in Joby Talbots new opera Everest with Dallas Opera. Recent successes include joining the roster of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, singing Tonio in La fille du rgiment with POR-Topera, and making his Asian debut in Acis and Galatea with the Macau International Mu-sic Festival.

Other operatic highlights include Graf Albert in Die tote Stadt with Dallas Opera; Don Ramiro with Omaha Opera; Anatol in Vanessa with Utah Festival Opera, Baron Lum-mer in Strauss Intermezzo with New York City Opera, Count Almaviva & Don Otta-vio with Florida Grand Opera and singing the Young Col-lector in the Chicago Lyrics A Streetcar Named Desire star-ring Rene Fleming.

Hailed by the South Flori-da Classical for her luminous tones and lush voice, sopra-no Brittany Robinson made her Florida Grand Opera main stage debut as Musetta in La bohme in 2012. This season, she debuts the title role in Lakm with Opera Theatre of the Rockies, and Tytania in Brittens A Midsummer Nights Dream with Opera on the Avalon.

Ms. Robinson has per-formed with Chautauqua Op-era, Crested Butte Music Festi-val, Light Opera of New York, Sounds of South Dakota, Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute (BASOTI), and The American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS), among others. Career highlights include the Queen of the Night and Pa-mina in Die Zauberflte, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Blondchen in Die Entfhrung aus dem Serail, Lucia in Lucia di Lam-mermoor, Sr. Constance in Dialogues des Carmelites, Cleopatra in Guilio Cesare, and Olympia & Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann.

Possessing a voice which matches beauty with size, bass-baritone Eric Downs is rising to the forefront of young professional artists with impressive alacrity. Downs recently appeared as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Shreveport Opera, Col-line in La bohme with Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre and Amarillo Opera, Mustapha in The Italian Girl in Algiers with Boston Midsummer Opera, and Bottom in A Mid-summer Nights Dream with Opera on the Avalon. He has performed as the baritone soloist in Handels Messiah with the Washington National Cathedral, and Haydns Pauke-nmesse at Carnegie Hall.

Recent season highlights include joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera, sing-ing Leporello and Figaro with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra; Don Alfonso with Boston Midsummer Opera and Boston Youth Orchestra; and appearing in four produc-tions with the Orchestra Verdi Milano in Italy.

CONCERT PROGRAM

Franz Joseph Haydn The Creation

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The Creation by Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)When Johann Peter Solomon invited Haydn to London, the established composer had no

idea of the wonders that lay in store for him. These two visits, in 1791-1792 and 1795-1804, gave Haydn a freedom and level of respect that he had not seen in his many years working for the Esterhazys. After just a few days into the first trip, he wrote, My arrival caused a great sensation throughout the whole city and I was mentioned in all the newspapers for three successive days. Everyone wants to know me.

The Austrian composer was the toast of the town. His compositions stirred the Londoners beyond what they could have imagined. A review in the Morning Chronicle said:

The First Concert under the auspices of Haydn was last night, and never, perhaps, was there a richer musical treatHaydn should be an object of homage and even idolatry; for like our own Shakspeare [sic], he moves and governs the passions at his will.

In May 1791, Haydn experienced a musical event unexpectedly moving to him. Westminster Abbey was the site of a huge Handel festival where Haydn heard the Messiah, Israel in Egypt and excerpts from other oratorios by Handel. More than one thousand singers and instrumentalists performed. The composer was moved not only by the sheer mass of sound, but also by the audiences solemn respect for the music of the great Handel. After hearing the Hallelujah Chorus, Haydn said of Handel, He is the master of us all.

These performances gave Haydn the idea to compose an oratorio himself. He mentioned this to Solomon, who gave him a text of the Creation story that had originally been intended for Handel. He brought it back to Vienna and asked Baron Gottfried van Swieten, the Director of the Imperial Court Library, to translate it. He then began his composition.

Haydn took two long years to finish the oratorio. Despite his advancing years, he found the act of composing more satisfying and less tiring than anything he had ever written. He wrote:

Only when I had reached the halfway mark in my composition did I perceive that it was succeeding, and I was never so devout as during the time that I was working on The Creation. Every day I fell to my knees and prayed to God to grant me the strength for a happy completion of this work.

An early biographer of Haydn, Giuseppe Carpani, described the first of these performances:

I never saw anything like it in my life. The flower of cultivated society, both national and foreign, was gathered there, The best possible orchestra; Haydn at their head; the most perfect silence; the most scrupulous attention; a favorable hall; the greatest precision on the part of the performers; an atmosphere of devotion and respect on the part of the entire assembly . . . for two consecutive hours, the audience experienced something they had never experienced before.

The Creation is written in three parts. Part I celebrates the creation of the primal light, the Earth, the heavenly bodies, bodies of water, weather, and plant life. Part II celebrates the creation of sea creatures, birds, animals, and lastly, man. Part III takes place in the Garden of Eden and narrates the happy first hours of Adam and Eve.

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Artistic performance is not unlike one of Breaking Bads chemical reactions. By introducing elements at specific times in specific quantities, the finished product is entirely distinct from its original components. And like chemistry, one variation in the artistic recipe can dramatically alter the end result. Tonight, witness the addition of dance & acrobatics in a mixture unlike anything you have seen before!

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