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OCTOBER 30, 2009Degas QuartetDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinStephanie Ezerman, violinMaureen Michels, violaAlexander Ezerman, celloKelly Burke, clarinet

JANUARY 22, 2010Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violinNick Kendall, violinZach DePue, violinJohn Fadial, violinScott Rawls, violaEric Koontz, violaBeth Vanderborgh, celloRanaan Meyer, bass

MARCH 26, 2010Inara Zandmane, pianoVincent van Gelder, pianoDebra Pivetta, fl ute, Kelly Burke, clarinetWiley Sykes, percussionDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinStefani Collins, violinDiane Phoenix-Neal, violaJulian Schwarz, celloJohn Spuller, bass

MAY 21, 2010John Fadial, violinAndrew Emmett, violinNoah Hock, violaBeth Vanderborgh, cello Katherine Ciesinski, mezzoDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinJohn Fadial, violinNoah Hock, violaBeth Vanderborgh, celloInara Zandmane, pianoScott Rawls, violaBrooks Whitehouse, celloEmily Rupp, double bass

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OCTOBER 29 & 31, 2009 Tchaikovsky SpectacularDmitry Sitkovetsky, violinFouad Fakhouri, conductor

JANUARY 21 & 23, 2010 Time for Three ReturnsZachary DePue, violinNicholas Kendall, violinRanaan Meyer, bass

FEBRUARY 18, 19 & 20, 2010Mozart & MoreSpecial Chamber ConcertBella Davidovich, piano

MARCH 25 & 27, 2010 French Fare with Stars of TomorrowJulian Schwarz, celloStefani Collins, violin

MAY 20 & 22, 2010 Italian MasterpiecesJennifer Check, sopranoKatherine Ciesinski, mezzoRene Barbera, tenorLeonard Rowe, bass-baritone Choral Society of Greensboro

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GSO RESOURCES, PROGRAMS, AND CONTRIBUTORS

Advertiser Index 87

Board of Directors 11

Chairman of the Board 11

Corporate Contributors 50

Contributors 51

Endowment Fund 54

GSO Guild 56

Music at Midday Series 59

Music Director 15

Orchestra Personnel 23

Preludes 59

President & CEO 13

Principal Guest Conductor 19

Concertmaster 21

Restaurant Specials 86

Youth Orchestra 59

ARTISTIC STAFF

Dmitry Sitkovetsky ............................... Music DirectorFouad Fakhouri ....................................... Principal Guest ConductorKaren Collins ........................................... Youth Philharmonic ConductorEve Hubbard ............................................ Youth Strings ConductorStephanie Ezerman ............................... Allegro Strings ConductorLinda Cykert ............................................ Flute Choir Conductor

FULL TIME STAFF

Lisa Crawford .......................................... President & CEOSheila Cauthen ....................................... Director of Marketing & SalesConnie Parrish ........................................ Box Offi ce Manager/Grant AssociatePeter Zlotnick ......................................... Education Manager

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PRODUCTION STAFF

Vito Ciccone ............................................ Production ManagerCharles Adams ....................................... ControllerWendy Rawls .......................................... Orchestra PersonnelJohn Spuller ............................................ Orchestra LibrarianCynthia Small .......................................... Administrative AssistantNancy J. R. Wells ................................... Development & Marketing Assistant

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TICKETS: To purchase tickets in advance, call the Greensboro Symphony Box Offi ce, 336.335.5456, Ext. 224 (all major credit cards accepted), 10:00 – 4:30, Monday – Friday, or visit the Greensboro Coliseum Box Of-fi ce, 1921 West Lee Street or www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also avail-able 45 minutes prior to the performance at War Memorial Auditorium Box Offi ce.

“NO SHOWS” ARE NO FUN: If you cannot attend, please return your ticket for re-sale. If you are unable to attend on your regular night, you may exchange your ticket for a seat of equal value on the alternate night (based on availability). To receive a tax-deductible contribution acknowledgment after returning your concert tickets or to exchange your ticket, please call the Symphony Box Offi ce, 336.335.5456, Ext. 224 by 3:00 p.m. no later than the Wednesday prior to the concert.

HANDICAPPED RESTROOMS & PARKING: Restrooms equipped for handi-capped persons are accessible from the auditorium main lobby area. Handi-capped parking is located in the lot in front of the auditorium.

SPECIAL THANKS: The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra graciously thanks all our volunteers. Your commitment makes a difference.

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Congratulations to the Greensboro Symphony for 50 years of providing our community with the musical creativity that has been become a Triad tradition for generations. The Well•Spring residents and staff salute you for fi ve decades of artistic excellence.

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Dear Symphony Supporter,WOW! It is so exciting to be able to celebrate the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary. The Symphony has always offered a wonderful musical experience to the area. The quality of music as well as the overall contribution to the economic well being of the community continues to grow. This 50th Anniversary Season will bring the beauty, variety and talent to the Triad to make us want to sing, dance, clap or just escape from the ordinary and restore your musical soul.

The longer I am fortunate to be involved with the Symphony, the more I am impressed with the objectives, activities and accomplishments of this fi ne organization. It offers more than the fantastic Masterworks, POPS and Chamber concerts we enjoy during the Season. Many are not aware of how the Symphony brings enjoyment, involvement and growth to the very young, the school-aged children, the homebound AND special groups. You can play a meaningful role in continuing and expanding these meaningful programs. To continue these meaningful programs, your involvement is necessary, welcomed and appreciated. I guarantee your satisfaction from participation will be “priceless.”

How can you participate?• Invite others to attend a Concert and profi t from the

many benefi ts that beautiful live music, performed by top musicians, offers.

• Join or volunteer to help the Greensboro Symphony Guild. The Guild has been a vital part of our ability to continue to offer world class musical experiences to you despite very challenging economic times.

• Contribute to our endowment and become a member of our Heritage Society. Many of our patrons have contributed during their life and also provided for future generations by leaving the Greensboro Symphony Endowment a meaningful amount through their estate plan.

You can play an important role in continuing and expanding these programs. Your involvement is necessary, welcomed and appreciated. It’s simple, call Lisa Crawford at 336-335-5456 ext. 222 for more information. THANK YOU.

Sincerely,

Dennis G. StearnsChairman of the Board

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEChairman Dennis Stearns

Chairman-Elect Robert HarrisPast Chair & Vice Chair Management Committee Bob Braswell

Vice Chair-Development Ken TutterowVice Chair-Legal Robert Klepfer

Vice Chair-Community Relations Howard ChubbsVice Chair-Artistic Advisory Sam LeBauer

Vice Chair-Marketing Susan SchwartzChair of GSO Endowment Fund Trustees Ann Kroupa

Secretary Joretta KlepferTreasurer Philippe Dorier

Asst. Treasurer Jessica B. GoodGuild President Connie Saul

Guild President-Elect Mary Klappa**President & CEO Lisa Crawford

**Music Director Dmitry Sitkovetsky

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Douglas M. Orr 1967-72

L.L. Weltner 1972-74

Charles L. Weill 1974-75

Miles H. Wolff 1975-76

Samuel G. Wilson 1976-80

Joy Morrison 1980-83

Bernard Mann 1983-85

Albert S. Lineberry, Sr. 1985-87

Anne Daniel 1987-89

Lewis R. Ritchie 1989-91

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Joyce Kiser 1997-98

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David Routh 2000-02

Ann E. Kroupa 2002-04

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Myrna CarlockVanessa CarrollHoward ChubbsJeff ChowningBonnie Cordes

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Bert Davis, Jr.Philippe Dorier

Debbie Faircloth*Bill Fraser

Jessica GoodPeggy Hamilton

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Cristina JacomeDK Jeong

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Amelia ParkerDavid F. ParkerJames PegramLillian RauchBob RhodesGarson RiceEd Riley***

Connie Saul*Susan Schwartz

Dmitry Sitkovetsky**Anne K. Smith

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Dear GSO Friend, It is an honor to be associated with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and assist in celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Our longevity would not be possible without the support of our patrons, which include subscribers, donors, corporate sponsors, the North Carolina and United Arts Councils, local foundations, the GSO Endowment, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the incredible Greensboro Symphony

Guild of more than 400 members. We want to thank each of you for your continued support of the Symphony’s work.

We have another exciting season for you provided by the outstanding musicians of the Greensboro Symphony and by our gifted conductor, Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Maestro Sitkovetsky has created a powerful season showcasing the symphonies of Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, and Haydn, highlighted by our superb guest artists for this special season, Emanuel Ax, Time for Three and Bella Davidovich. We will be showcasing two rising stars, Julian Schwarz and Stefani Collins and our season ends with Rossini’s Stabat Mater, featuring the Choral Society of Greensboro and four very special vocalists. This is a blockbuster season you will not want to miss.

We welcome our new Principal Guest Conductor, Fouad Fakhouri. Please join us in October when he conducts the orchestra and Maestro Sitkovetsky picks up his violin to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. We are fortunate and pleased to announce Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s contract as the GSO Music Director has been renewed, keeping him in our community until 2012.

The Symphony is proud to serve our surrounding communities by performing education concerts in Asheboro, Burlington and Reidsville. Our Education Concerts will reach more than 50,000 students. The Youth Orchestra programs continue to thrive and in April 2010, the most advanced group will travel to Germany and Austria and perform two concerts in Salzburg and Vienna.

The GSO continues to expand its programming and this season we offer a variety of concerts: A Tribute to John Denver, a night of Latin Salsa with West End Mambo, our Annual Holiday Concert, Annual Community Gospel Concert celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Sit-in Movement, and the Annual Broadway Valentine’s concert. In May, we again welcome the Malina Brothers and Hilary Kole when they present a show of Great American Music, truly something for everyone.

Invite your friends and neighbors to a concert and take part in our 50th

Anniversary Celebration.

Sincerely

Lisa CrawfordPresident & CEO

Lisa CrawfordPRESIDENT & CEO

REVENUE BREAKDOWNPlease donate to the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra! Did you know that ticket sales only account for 26 percent of our revenue? Your contribution is an investment in the Orchestra as well as in the artistic life of the community. Our sincere appreciation is extended to those who recognize the enrich-ing qualities of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and pledge their gifts of support. For more information, contact Lisa Crawford at 335-5456 x 222.

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DMITRY SITKOVETSKY IS AN ARTIST WHOSE CREATIVITY DEFIES CATEGORIZING. He has built up an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician and festival director. Sitkovetsky has performed as soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Philharmonia, London Symphony, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profi le festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh and Verbier.

Sitkovetsky has built a fl ourishing career as a conductor. He was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra (1996-2001) and subsequently made Conductor Laureate, and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian State Orchestra (2002-2005). In 2003, Sitkovetsky was appointed Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and, in 2006, named Artist-in-Residence of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain), positions he still holds. As a guest conductor, he has worked with the London & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Santa Cecilia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris & St Petersburg Philharmonic.

Sitkovetsky is also the founding director of the New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES CO) which is comprised of distinguished string players from Eastern and Western Europe. Since his successful transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string trio, he has transcribed more than 30 works and his transcriptions are published by Doblinger, Sikorski and Schirmer.

Between 1983 and 2002 Sitkovetsky was the Artistic Director of a number of music festivals including the Korsholm Music Festival, Finland,

Seattle International Music Festival, ¨The Silk Route of Music¨ Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan, and in May 2007, was the Artist-in-Residence at the Bodensee Festival in Germany. He has an active and varied recording career with an extensive discography which includes all the major violin concerti, numerous chamber music works as well as orchestral recordings that he’s conducted. His most recent release is of Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des Songes (Violin Concerto) with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Mariss Janssons. Sitkovetsky’s increasing involvement in contemporary music shows a keen interest in performing new 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, Pärt and Shchedrin.

Recent/future engagements include conducting the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National de Lille, Tonkünstler Orchestra, New Zealand, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Macau Symphony as well as the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra in Italy and on tour in South America. Concerto engagements included the Concertgebouw, Vienna Symphony, Cincinnati Orchestra, NHK Symphony, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Hamburg Philharmonic, Tenerife Symphony and recitals in Seattle (with Bella Davidovich), Brussels, Seville, Cape Town (with Konstantin Lifschitz), London (Wigmore Hall: Rostropovich tribute Play/directing engagements included the Komische Oper Berlin orchestra, return invitations to the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris and Orchestre National de Lille as well as the St Petersburg Philharmonic. Since 1987 he has resided in London with his wife, Susan, and their daughter, Julia.

Dmitry SitkovetskyMUSIC DIRECTOR

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Fouad Fakhouri has been lauded for his ability to elicit the best of his

musicians and to elevate the artistic performance level of orchestras he conducts. In May 2004 he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra of North Carolina. He is the fi fth music director in the symphony’s fi fty-two year history. Since assuming his post he has signifi cantly raised the orchestra’s artistic standard, created novel educational and outreach programs, and dramatically increased the symphony’s audience.

Fakhouri has worked with several ensembles and orchestras in the United States and abroad. In early 1995, at age 22, his conducting debut was made at the International Jerash Festival with the National Music Conservatory Orchestra of Jordan (NMCO). Between 1996-1998 he served as assistant conductor to the Penn State Philharmonic. In the summer of 1997 he was appointed conducting assistant to Pu-Qi Jiang at the Penn’s Woods Music Festival in Pennsylvania. In August 1999 he was one of only three conductors selected to participate in Daniel Barenboim’s master class at the West-Eastern Divan Workshop in Weimar, Germany. In 2001 he conducted the closing concert of the Baltimore International Cello Festival in a program that included two of his own compositions.

Since 2004, Fakhouri has been in demand as a guest conductor both in the USA and abroad. In January 2008 he conducted the

Cairo Symphony Orchestra in multiple performances in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, and in the summer of 2008, at the invitation of the National Music Conservatory of Jordan, he traveled with twenty members of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra and conducted a joint concert with the Amman Symphony Orchestra. In January 2009, Fakhouri conducted the English Chamber Orchestra (UK) in a premiere of his latest composition written specifi cally for that orchestra.

Fakhouri’s compositional output is diverse and his music has been heard in various countries such as the United States, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Israel, Jordan and Egypt. He has written many orchestral pieces, in addition to chamber, choral, and solo music. His orchestral works have been premiered and performed by such orchestras as the English Chamber Orchestra, Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, Mediterranean Orchestra, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, the National Music Conservatory Orchestra of Jordan and the Penn State Philharmonic.

Fakhouri holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from West Texas A&M, a M.M. in conducting and another in composition from Pennsylvania State University, and a D.M.A. in composition from the University of North Texas. He is married to Diane Lavelle, an advertising executive and their daughter is Isabella Margaux.

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Violinist John Fadial has garnered critical acclaim for performances around the globe (“Wow!” The Washington Post, “sparkling technique”

L’Est Republicain, Nancy, France) maintaining a vigorous schedule as soloist, concertmaster, chamber music performer, recording artist and teacher. He has performed on four continents as a United States Information Service Artistic Ambassador and has appeared at such notable venues as the Smithsonian Museum, the Philips Collection, and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, with numerous engagements at such summer festivals as Aspen, Banff (Canada), Brevard, Eastern, Heidelberg (Germany), Mirecourt (France), Costa Rica and Salvador (Brazil). He has shared the stage in chamber music collaborations with pianist Jon Nakamatsu, harpsichordist Anthony Newman, cellists Tillman Wick and Paul Katz, violist John Graham, and bandoneon virtuoso David Alsina of the New York Tango Trio, among others, and has performed widely in the U.S. and Europe since 1997 as violinist of the critically acclaimed Chesapeake Piano Trio.

Recent seasons have featured concerts throughout the U.S., Brazil and France. Highlights included: performances of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra; the French premiere, with cellist Beth Vanderborgh, of William Bolcom’s

Suite for Violin and Cello, performed in the historic Salle Poirel in Nancy (site of the world premier of the Poeme of Ernest Chausson, by the great Belgian virtuoso Eugene Ysaye); and chamber music performances with Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Konstantin Lifschitz, Lynn Harrell, Bella Davidovich and the Quatuor Stanislas. Fadial’s recent recording of the chamber music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for the Centaur label was deemed “not to be missed” by American Record Guide. In October of 2005 he gave the world premier of Arthur Gottschalk’s Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Wind Ensemble, as part of the Society of Composers International Conference for contemporary music. Upcoming projects include a recording with pianist Andrew Harley of the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano of Johannes Brahms, also for Centaur.

Fadial’s teachers have included Elaine Richey, Charles Castleman, Zoltan Szekely and Arnold Steinhardt. His mentors also include Alexander Schneider, Joseph Silverstein, Jan DeGaetani and members of the Cleveland, Juilliard and Guarneri quartets.

This year John Fadial celebrates his second year as associate professor of violin at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He served as violin professor for ten years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and established a national reputation as an inspiring and successful pedagogue.

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ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)Manfred Overture , Op. 115

Composition of tonight’s overture began the day after Schumann completed his opera “Genoveva.” Whereas the opera would struggle for acceptance and recognition, the incidental score for a theatrical production of “Manfred” (especially its overture) would achieve success, and would become a staple of the repertoire.

Although Schumann often is criticized for his thick orchestrations and lack of theatricality, tonight’s season opener answers those critics with aplomb. Full of excitement from the opening chords, the overture is beautifully constructed to stand on its own, yet makes the listener anticipate what is to follow.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

During his more productive periods, Beethoven is known to have worked on several compositions at the same time. While preparing tonight’s fourth piano concerto, the master was also assembling his fourth and fi fth symphonies, his opera Fidelio, and other works.

The composer also had some trouble fi nding a soloist to premiere the work. For his previous three concertos, he chose to premiere the work with himself as soloist. But this time around, Beethoven thought it best to have another pianist present the work. Two soloists balked at the technical demands of the work, however, and Beethoven ended up playing the premiere

himself in March 1807. Unusually, the work opens

with a quiet piano statement of the main theme before the orchestra enters. The melodic material is volleyed between soloist and ensemble throughout a wide range of colors before the opening material is restated in grand fashion at the conclusion of the movement.

The second and third movements are designed to be performed without break. The slow movement has the piano lulling the anxious string statements with insistent but calming passages. The movement closes as the restless strings are subdued to join the piano’s warmth. The fi nale is as charming as any work in Beethoven’s output. The main theme is repeated again and again; at times it is hushed and effervescent, but it closes thrilling and bold.

FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, “Scottish”

Widely regarded as a prodigy equal to Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn was born to a wealthy banker and began studying the piano at the age of four. Privately tutored, he was schooled in piano, violin, composition, painting, and all academics by the very best teachers.

By the age of nine, he gave his fi rst piano recital and by age seventeen, he had composed his fi rst large scale symphony and the overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Mendelssohn was well known as a conductor and along with his friend Robert Schumann helped to develop the standard repertoire through the performance of great

works and the rediscovery of musical treasures of previous generations, especially the choral andorchestral works of J.S. Bach.

The fi nal symphony Mendelssohn would compose, the “Scottish” may have been inspired by his frequent visits to Britain, where he became good friends with Queen Victoria. There is surprisingly little that is “Scotch” about the work; there are no bagpipe imitations, no Scottish snaps, no folk songs.

Even Schumann was once fooled. He wrote of a performance of Mendelssohn’s famed “Italian” symphony as “beautiful Italian pictures, so beautiful as to compensate a hearer who had never been to Italy.” One can imagine his embarrassment upon discovering he had actually heard tonight’s “Scottish” Symphony.

The opening tune is one that Mendelssohn created on his fi rst trip to Scotland in 1829. He liked the melody so much, in fact, that he mailed a letter to himself with the melody notated on it, so that he would have it upon returning home. The usual scherzo is structured not as a typical minuet, but instead in sonata-allegro form: a true rarity in symphonic construction.

The fi nale is a wonderful burst of energy with two thematic areas that seem to dart this way and that. The fi nal coda theme refers not just to this movement’s opening material, but all the way back to the opening of the symphony, in a move further unifying the entire work.

26 GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES BY BRUCE KIESLING


GUEST ARTIST

■ Emanuel AxBorn in Poland, Emanuel Ax and his family moved to Canada when he was a young boy. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America. He also attended Columbia University, where he ma-jored in French. Mr. Ax captured public attention when he won the fi rst Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv followed by the Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award and the coveted Av-ery Fisher Prize.

Mr. Ax has performed with every major orchestra in the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Phil-harmonic and many more. Special projects include duo recital tours with Yefi m Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Edgar Meyer, and long-standing colleague and partner Yo-Yo Ma. In the 2005–06 season, he served as Pia-nist-in-Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic, per-forming with the orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin and New York.

Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. He has received Grammy awards for his cycle of Haydn’s piano sona-tas and made a series of Grammy-winning record-ings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. Mr. Ax contrib-uted to a BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which was awarded a 2005 International Emmy.

Mr. Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki and two children, Joseph and Sar-ah. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities.

■ Concert Program

ROBERT SCHUMANNManfred Overture , Op. 115

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Emanuel Ax, piano

I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto III. Rondo: Vivace

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FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDYSymphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, “Scottish”

I. Andante con moto; Allegro un poco agitato.

II. Vivace no troppo III. Adagio IV. Allegro vivacissimo

Preludes Learn more about the evening’s

music with Dr. Gregory Carroll, Associate

Professor of Music Theory and Composition at

the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

The Prelude on Friday, September 25th begins

at 7:15 p.m., and the Prelude on Saturday, Sep-

tember 26th begins at 7:00 p.m. Both Preludes

will take place on the Mezzanine level of the

War Memorial Auditorium.

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evening concert for a brief question and answer

session held at the front of the stage with our

guest artist and Dima.

Radio Broadcast WFDD will broadcast this

concert on October 25, 2009, at 8:00 p.m.

The Distinguished Guest Artist Piano Chair in Honor of Linda M. Jones.

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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)Waltz from Eugene Onegin Op. 24

Tchaikovsky’s best-known opera gives us what is probably his most beloved short work, the elegant “Waltz.” In the opera, this waltz appears at the deceptively festive atmosphere of the name-day party of Tatyana, at the opening of Act II. The composer’s gift for melody is in evidence throughout, however, and an atmosphere of festival gaiety survives throughout the piece. Note especially the use of greatly contrasting orchestral forces, intimate moments followed by tutti statements of the entire ensemble.

PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35

“Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto brings us face to face with a revolting thought: musical compositions that we can hear stink.” Such was the reaction of Hanslick (a famous music critic) to the world premier of Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto. Of course, he was proven to be very wrong, indeed.

The work had a diffi cult gestation. The work proceeded gleefully as Tchaikovsky wrote that he could not “resist the pleasure” of making headway. Before the work could be premiered, however, two soloists attempted to master its challenges before giving it up as unplayable. Three years later, however, Adolf Brodsky agreed to premier it with the Vienna Philhamonic. This led to the aforementioned condemnation by Hanslick and other critics.

Brodksy believed in the work,

though, and repeated it in London where it began its journey to become one of the most beloved concertos in the repertoire. Interesting, Auer, for whom the concerto was fi rst written and dismissed it as too diffi cult, later championed it and taught it to many of his students, including Jascha Heifetz.

PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

Like many of the great romantic composers, Tchaikovsky’s parents encouraged him to choose a career other than that of music. Tchaikovsky went so far as to complete legal training and begin a career at the Ministry of Justice. His passion for music soon won out, however, and he turned to composing full time.

Tchaikovsky composed three early symphonies of moderate quality and interest. These works were primarily infl uenced by the “Mighty Five,” Russia’s group of nationalistic composers led by Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin. After these early efforts, however, he broke away from this groups infl uence and chose to follow a more western formula for symphonic construction. “I worship Mozart, “ he said, signaling his embrace of the classical model of the symphony. His next three efforts in the form (#4-6) would become some of the most loved in the repertoire.

Dedicated to his patron Nadezhda von Meck, he specifi cally described his program of this symphony in a letter to her. I. The Introduction is Fate, the

somber power that prevents the desire for happiness from reaching its goal. This force

is inescapable and invincible. The feeling of depression and hopelessness grows stronger and stronger. Would it not be better to lull one’s self in dreams? No these are but dreams. Thus we see that life is but an alternation of somber reality and fugitive dreams of happiness.

II. The second movement shows melancholy when sitting alone at home, exhausted by work. One is rather tired of life. It is sad, yet sweet, to lose one’s self in the past.

III. Here are vague fi gures that slip into the imagination when one has taken wine and is slightly intoxicated. The mood is now gay, now mournful. There are disconnected pictures in the brain; there are unintelligible, bizarre.

IV. If you fi nd no pleasure in yourself, look about you. Go to the people. How merry and glad they all are. Rejoice in the happiness of other—and you can still live.




■ Concert Program

PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKYWaltz from Eugene Onegin Op. 24

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35 Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin

I. Allegro moderato II. Canzonetta: Andante III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo

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Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 I. Andante sostenuto;

Moderato con anima II. Andantino in modo

di canzona III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato IV. Allegro con fuoco

Preludes Learn more about the evening’s music

with Dr. Joan Titus, Assistant Professor of

Musicology at the University of North Carolina at

Greensboro. The Prelude on Thursday, October

29th begins at 6:45 p.m. on the Mezzanine level

of the War Memorial Auditorium. The Prelude on

Saturday, October 31st begins at 7:00 p.m. in the

Moon Room at Dana Auditorium.




guest conductor and Dima.


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FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)Symphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944 “The Great”

Schubert’s life is one of the most tragic of the great composers. Although he earned small sums of money from his song settings, only a handful of his instrumental music was published during his lifetime. Raised in the Imperial Kapelle (now the Vienna Boys Choir), he was trained to become a teacher like his father. However, in 1818, he moved to Vienna to make his music his full time occupation.

Success proved diffi cult for Schubert to fi nd. His setting of “The Earl-King” became one of the most successful songs of the day, but he had sold the publishing rights for a paltry fl at fee. Schubert composed in nearly every genre, especially symphonies, operas, and chamber music.

Schubert’s “Great” symphony No. 9, was never played during his lifetime. It was thought too diffi cult by several orchestras, and ridiculed by both the Paris Conservatory Symphony and the London Philharmonic. Finally Robert Schumann “rediscovered” the work from Schubert’s brother and sent it to his friend Felix Mendelssohn.

After the successful premiere, conduced by Mendelssohn, no less, Robert Schumann wrote about the work, “In Schubert’s symphony…I see Vienna more clearly mirrored than ever. More than merely lovely melody, something above and beyond sorry and joy lies concealed in this symphony—nay, more, that we are by the music transported to a region where we can never remember to have been before—to experience all this we must listen

to symphonies such as this. Here we have, besides masterly power over the musical technicalities of composition, life in all its phases, color in exquisite gradations, the minutest accuracy and fi tness of expression, and permeating the whole work, a spirit of romance such as we recognize in other works of Franz Schubert. And this heavenly, long-drawn-out symphony is like some thick romance which can never end.”

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)Concerto for Three Violins, strings and continuo in F major, RV 551

Although a rare treat to hear the music of Vivaldi on a full symphony masterworks program, the composer is perhaps the most prolifi c of any composer in history. Vivaldi wrote at least 45 operas, 35 oratorios, 90 orchestral works and more than 400 concertos.

Trained as a priest, Vivaldi spent the bulk of his career teaching music at a conservatory and home for orphaned girls. The composer wrote many works for the school’s orchestra, which became well known and highly regarded throughout Europe for its outstanding musical accomplishments.

As an excellent violinist himself, it is no surprise that Vivaldi’s writing in this concerto for three violins is some of his most complex and effecting. In the fi rst movement, two of the violins share the same material, while the third attempts to lure the others to its contrasting theme. Clever and beautiful harmonies often result between the soloists. Entrances often happen at usual and unexpected places, which fi lls the piece with a sense of surprise and whimsy.

The middle movement is reserved for the soloists by themselves and creates a stunning and beautiful contrast between the three violins, each used in distinctly different ways. The fi nale is furious at times and seems destined to close in a minor sonority before Vivaldi cleverly saves the day with a conclusion in the major mode. This is a highly inventive work that is too rarely performed.

TIME FOR THREE

Zach is a 2002 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. Prior to Curtis, Zach attended the Cleveland Institute of Music. His solo debut was with the Toledo Symphony followed by a solo performance with the World Youth Symphony. In 2007, he was appointed Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.Nick studied at the Curtis Institute. He launched his solo career with the Jerusalem Symphony the National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra followed by many more engagements Nick is also a member of both the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) and the Dryden String Quartet.Ranaan attended the Manhattan School of Music and is a 2003 Curtis Graduate. Ranaan Meyer is increasingly in demand as a composer, creating unique new works for Tf3 as well as for other ensembles and for solo bass. His most recent commission was “My Zayda” for the Kingston Chamber Music Festival in Rhode Island.




■ Concert Program

FRANZ SCHUBERTSymphony No. 9 in C major, D. 944 “The Great”

I. Andante; Allegro ma non troppo

II. Andante con moto III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace IV. Finale: Allegro vivace

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ANTONIO VIVALDIConcerto for Three Violins, strings and continuo in F major, RV 551 Zachary DePue, violinNicholas Kendall, violinRanaan Meyer, bassDmitry Sitkovetsky, violin

I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegro

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RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883)Siegfried Idyll , for small orchestra in E major, WWV 103

Although themes from the “Siegfried Idyll” are heard in Wagner’s third opera of the Ring cycle “Seigfried,” the Idyll was written seven years earlier. This hushed and beautiful work was written as a birthday present to Wagner’s wife Cosima. A complete surprise to her, Wagner conducted a small ensemble on the stairs of his villa to awaken Cosima on the morning of her birthday.

Of the short and lovely tone poem, Cosima wrote in her diary, “As I awoke, my ear caught a sound, which swelled fuller and fuller; no longer could I imagine myself to be dreaming, music was sounding, and such music! When it died away, Richard came into my room, and offered me the score of the symphonic birthday poem.”

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K. 488

Although much is written about Mozart’s trouble to achieve success and acceptance as an adult composer, he actually presented a successful subscription series of concerts at Vienna’s Burg Theater. These concerts were usually presented during Lent, as the cities theaters would be closed in honor of the penitential season. For his series in 1786, Mozart wrote three new piano concertos, the second of which is featured tonight.

The opening movement is

tinged with a darkness in spite of brief touches of liveliness and levity. This mood continues in the lovely second movement, but perhaps even intensifi es. Although based on an Italian dance rhythm, the mood remains restrained and even cheerless.

In a striking contrast to the opening movements, the fi nale is a big and shamelessly bright closing. In this single movement, the quieter and more contemplative quality of the fi rst two movements are balanced across the entire work.

FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN (1732-1809)Symphony No. 45 in F Sharp Minor, H. I:45, “Farewell”

Haydn spent the major part of this career in the employ of Prince Ezterhazy. Each year, the Prince transported his court to his country house in Hungary. There, Haydn and the musicians would present a series of concerts for the Prince, his court, and his esteemed guests. In 1772, the Prince extended the season in the country to include part of a holiday. The musicians in Hadyn’s orchestra asked if they might be released to return to Vienna for their vacation time. After the Prince refused, the composer fi nished work on his new symphony for an upcoming performance.

At the end of the piece, the musicians fi nished playing and promptly left the stage. Haydn constructed the coda of the work in such as way as to allow one or two musicians to leave at various places in the music, until two violins are left on stage alone. The effect of this was only heightened as each musician extinguished the candles providing light to their

music stands. It was reported that the Prince was so taken with the display of solidarity that he relocated the court back to Vienna the following day.

The fi rst movement is quite traditional in its construction. Two themes are introduced, the fi rst strong and powerful and a contrasting second theme. Well known for his clever orchestrations, Haydn writes the second movement for muted strings, which achieves a lovely and warm effect.

A minuet functions as the third movement before a vigorous and lively movement closes the bulk of the fi nale. In place of a traditional coda, however, Haydn inserts an adagio that closes the work with the above described musician exits.




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■ Bella DavidovichA testimonial to Bella Davidovich’s extraordinary ca-reer is the list of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors that have welcomed her over the years as soloist. International recital stages have welcomed Mme. Davidovich’s solo concerts, and she has collab-orated with the Borodin, Guarneri and Tokyo String Quartets. Bella is a frequent guest artist at music fes-tivals around the globe.

In December, 1988, Bella Davidovich’s native Rus-sia reclaimed her in the spirit of perestroika: She be-came the fi rst Soviet émigré musician to receive an offi cial invitation from Goskoncert to return for sold-out concerts.

Born into a family of musicians in Baku in the for-mer Soviet Union, Bella Davidovich displayed rich mu-sical talent by the age of three and began formal train-ing at the age of six. She was 18 years old when she entered the Moscow Conservatory. As winner of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, she earned the title “Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union” and emerged as one of the Soviet Union’s preeminent artists and one of the few women admitted to the inner circle of Rus-sian cultural life, in part as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory. She immigrated to the United States in 1978 and her October, 1979 Carnegie Hall debut be-fore a standing room only audience heralded a new chapter in a career of major importance.

Bella Davidovich recordings can be heard on the Philips, Orfeo, Novalis, Delos, Gutingi, and Supraphon labels. Her son is Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony.

■ Concert Program

RICHARD WAGNERSiegfried Idyll , for small orchestra in E major, WWV 103

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZARTConcerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 in A Major, K. 488Bella Davidovich, piano

I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro assai

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FRANZ JOSEF HAYDNSymphony No. 45 in F Sharp Minor, H. I:45, “Farewell”

I. Allegro assai II. Adagio III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Finale: Presto; Adagio


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guest artist and Dima.


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MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)Mother Goose Suite , Op. 115

Although originally written for four-hand piano, Ravel later rescored The Mother Goose Suite for a small orchestra. One of the greatest orchestrators of all time, Ravel brings all his brilliance to bear in this charming suite of miniatures. The composer combines instruments in unusual and highly effective groupings. With a few additional movements, the work was later fashioned into a short ballet.

The fi rst movement depicts the sleeping beauty as she walks, still asleep, through the woods. Tom Thumb is the basis of the second movement. Birds eat the breadcrumbs he hoped to use to fi nd his way home.

Particularly striking is the third movement with its evocation of a wicked witch, who curses a youngster into an ugly little girl. Searching for help, the girl travels the world and meets a serpent who transforms himself into a Prince and the girl into a Princess. Pitched percussion and other orchestral effects illustrate the Oriental setting of the Serpent’s land.

The Fourth Movement shows the beauty and the beast in a delicate conversation. With his marriage proposal, the beast is transformed. The work closes with a slow crescendo throughout a beautiful illustration of an enchanted and magical garden.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)Dances for Harp and Strings L. 103

Although the design of the modern orchestral harp has changed very little in the last two hundred years, there have been experiments to improve the functionality of the instrument. One of the best known of these so-called “innovations” was produced by the Pleyel company, who developed

a new type of harp that had a full set of strings (much like a piano). This made possible playing in any key. To demonstrate the possibilities of this harp, Pleyel commissioned a work from Claude Debussy.

The composer responded with a set of two interconnected dances, one sacred and one secular (or profane). Both are infl uenced by Debussy’s love of Spanish music. The fi rst movement is thought to be inspired by a piano composition by a friend of Debussy’s. The second movement is essentially a French waltz, but with passages of greater chromatic interest designed to illustrate the new harp’s chromatic possibilities in performance. CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33

Saint-Saëns was at the forefront of an effort to breath seriousness into French music, which had a reputation of being comprised only of light operas and short salon pieces. In this vain, he composed his cello concerto for his friend Auguste Tolbecque, principal cellist of the Paris Conversatory Orchesta.

Although this short concerto is played as one continuous movement, it is cleanly divided into contrasting sections of tempo and style that fi t into the traditional concerto form. All the melodic material for the concerto is derived from the opening theme, which is stated in the solo cello at the beginning of the fi rst movement. Also included here is a beautiful contrasting second theme, before the movement crashes to a loud tutti statement of the main theme.

Muted strings accompany the lyric melody in the solo instrument in the middle section before the fi nale returns to the opening material. The soloist however introduces yet another theme here. He then displays considerable

technical virtuosity in the showy ending.

MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)Pavane for a Princess in a Faraway Time

A student-aged Ravel wrote this miniature while he studied with Gabriel Faure at the Paris Conservatory. The work is not a reference to a specifi c Princess, but rather an ode to some of Ravel’s favorite music and customs in neighboring Spain. Often translated literally as Pavane for a Dead Princess, Ravel’s writings suggest he did not intend this as song of mourning. Instead, he may have sought to evoke wistful and nostalgic memories of a bright-eyed young child dancing to a simple and elegant tune.

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835-1921)“Havanaise” in E major for violin and orchestra, Op.l83Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, for violin and orchestra in A Minor, Op. 28

Short pieces that showcase a player’s technical brilliance were very popular in France during the second part of the 19th Century. Two of the best known are these two works by Saint-Saëns. Both are based on the composer’s interest in Spanish music. The fi rst is based on the habanera rhythm. The second work is an even more impressive work that was originally written for the virtuoso Sarasate. It begins with a melancholy section ending in a mini-cadenza, although the work becomes more joyous at several points throughout. Concluding the work is a most impressive display of the soloist virtuosic talents.




GUEST ARTIST

■ Julian SchwarzMr. Schwarz made his orchestral debut at the age of 11 playing Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Seattle Symphony. Since then he has appeared as soloist with many of the Seattle area orchestras.

Recent and upcoming engagements include performances with the Lake Union Civic Orchestra, San Diego’s Tifereth Israel Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and Port Angeles Symphony. Mr. Schwarz just completed his 2010 US tour as a soloist with the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra in Atlanta, New York City, Connecticut, Virginia and California among many other venues. He was recently profi led in the cover story of the March-May issue of Teen Strings and has been featured on the acclaimed NPR radio program “From the Top.” He recorded “In Memoriam” by Gerard Schwarz, his father and Music Director of the Eastern Music Festival, for the Music of Remembrance series on the Naxos label.

■ Concert Program

MAURICE RAVELMother Goose Suite , Op. 115

I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty

II. Hop-‘o-my-thumb III. Laideronette, Empress

of the Pagodas IV. Beauty and the Beast

Converse V. The Fairy Garden

CLAUDE DEBUSSYDances for Harp and Strings L. 103

I. Danse Sacrée: Tres modere II. Danse Profane: Modere

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNSConcerto for Cello and Orchestra No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33Julian Schwarz, cello

I. Allegro non troppo II. Allegretto con moto III. Allegro non troppo

INTERMISSION

MAURICE RAVELPavane for a Princess in a Faraway Time

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS “Havanaise” in E major for violin and orchestra, Op.l83

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, for violin and orchestra in A Minor, Op. 28Stefani Collins, violin






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GUEST ARTIST

■ Stefani CollinsStefani Collins, a native of Greensboro and graduate of the NC School of the Arts, is currently studying violin as a Starling Foundation Scholarship recipient at the Cleveland Institute of Music

and as a fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival. Stefani recently made her Aspen Music Festival debut as the 2009 DeLay Fellow. She received the Joseph and Elsie Scharff Prize in violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and was the winner of the CIM concerto competition followed by a solo performance in Severance Hall. Stefani is a two-time national winner of the MTNA strings competition, and has been selected as a Young Artist for the Starling-DeLay Symposium at Juilliard. She has appeared on NPR’s “From the Top” with Christopher O’Reilly, the All-Girl Vivaldi Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Wilmington’s NPR broadcast series featuring young artists, and as a soloist with the 2003 Eastern Music Festival. In 2005 and 2007, Stefani was a member of Jaime Laredo’s NY String Orchestra Seminar. Stefani has performed numerous times with the North Carolina, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Western Piedmont, and Blue Ridge Symphonies and toured as a soloist with both the North Carolina and Mid-Atlantic Symphonies.

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GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)String Quartet in E Minor

When speaking of Italian masterpieces, the great opera’s of La Scala immediately come to mind. Instead, we fi nd here a String Quartet. But tonight’s work bears the distinction of being Verdi’s only instrumental work. Its creation was perhaps a fl uke of fate. While in Naples preparing a production of Aida, the lead soprano became ill, leading to the delay of the production by three weeks. To fi ll his time, Verdi composed this string quartet, which would become one of his best-loved works, and is sometimes heard in its string orchestral version.

The fi rst movement introduces a sense of hushed insistence, with a contrasting second subject that is less agitated. A somewhat abbreviated development follows before the recapitulation ends the movement.

The charming second movement and the beautiful third movement both owe a great debt to Verdi’s skill at operatic composition. The elegant fi rst movement is divided into a fi ve-part rondo form with returning material at every corner. For the slow third movement, one cannot help but hear the stunning cello theme as a heart retching tenor aria from one of Verdi’s powerful operas.

Closing the work is a scherzo-fugue hybrid that seems to use the best of both genres. Bright and gay melodic material is passed from instrument to instrument with charm and wit. The overall feeling is unfettered joy in the stirring fi nale.

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868)Stabat Mater

The other great Italian opera composer of the 19th Century is undoubtedly Rossini. He was only twenty-two years old when he composed his fi rst opera and wrote thirty-nine operas in the next nineteen years. By the time of the premiere of William Tell, he was the most famous opera composer in Italy. Inexplicably, he retired from composing although only thirty-seven years old at the time. He would live for almost 40 more years but wrote only two major works, the Petite mess solennelle and the monumental Stabat Mater. The Stabat Mater was written by request of the Spanish prelate, Frenàndez Aguado.

Rossini completed only six of the ten movements before becoming quite ill. In order to go ahead with a planned performance in Spain, he asked a friend to complete the missing movements. However, Rossini completed the missing four movements before allowing the work to be published. Its immediate success with a dozen performances presented that season alone.

The work is generally melodic and cheerful with the most beautiful writing reserved for the four vocal soloists. Verdi once wrote that he felt that musical settings of sacred texts should be “moral atmosphere” of the text and not necessarily bound to the specifi c meaning of the words at any given moment.

A few highlights of this stunning and moving work are the tenor aria “Cujus animam” and the chorus’ singing of “Eja mater.” The work’s closing is also a true thrill with a stunning “Amen” written as a dazzling and confi dent fugue.



GUEST ARTIST

■ René BarberaRené Barbera is a recent Grad-uate from the Florida Grand Opera’s Young Artist Program where he performed the roles of Gastone in Traviata, Hadji in Lakme and covered the fi nal dress performance of Don

Ramiro in Cenerentola. He is now a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center and re-cently won 1st prize in the Men’s Division of the Union League Civic Arts Foundation Vocal Competition. He will be returning to the Lyric Opera of Chicago in a future season to perform a leading role. He was one of fi ve equal winners of the Metropolitan National Coun-cil Audition Grand Finals in 2008. Mr. Barbera par-ticipated in the Merola Opera Program in the summer of 2008 where he performed in the Schwabacher Sumer Concert as well as the Merola Grand Finale. Mr. Barbera is from San Antonio, Texas and began singing at the age of 10 as a boy soprano in the San Antonio Boys’ Choir.

GUEST ARTIST

■ Jennifer CheckMs. Check completed the Metropolitan Opera Linde-mann Young Artist Develop-ment Program and made her Met debut during the 2001-2002 season and regularly appears at the MET in a vari-

ety of roles under the baton of James Levine. She has performed with the Charlotte Symphony, Tokyo Op-era, Opera Orchestra of New York, Verbier Festival, Spoleto Festival and Salzburg Festival. Her acco-lades include fi rst place awards from the Loren L. Zachary Competition, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, The Liederkranz Foundation and the Mario Lanza Scholarship Auditions. She was award-ed a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tuck-er Foundation and the Leonie Rysanek memorial prize from the George London Foundation. Her most recent triumph was being awarded the Zarzuela Prize in Placido Domingo’s 2003 Operalia Competi-tion. Ms. Check received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice Performance from Westminster Choir Col-lege followed by a graduate degree from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.


■ Concert Program

GIUSEPPE VERDIString Quartet in E Minor

I. Allegro II. Andantino III. Prestissimo IV. Allegro assai mosso

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Jennifer Check, sopranoKatherine Ciesinski, mezzo-sopranoRene Barbera, tenorLeonard Rowe, bass-baritoneChoral Society of Greensboro

I. Stabat Mater Dolorosa II. Cujus Animam Gementem III. Quis Est Homo Qui Non

Fleret IV. Pro Peccatis Suae Gentis V. Eja Mater Fons Amoris VI. Sancta Mater Istud Agas VII. Fac Ut Portem Christi

Mortem VIII. Infl ammatus Et Accensus IX. Quando Corpus Morietur X. Amen


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GUEST ARTIST

■ Katherine CiesinskiThe New York Times has called Katherine Ciesinski “a singer of rare communicative pres-ence, and a musician of discrimination and intelli-gence.” Major operatic credits include the Metropolitan Op-

era, Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera and many of the major opera houses in Eu-rope. Ms. Ciesinski has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia Orchestras, the Sym-phonies of Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Houston and Toronto; and in Europe, with the Berlin and Vi-enna Philharmonics, L’Orchestre de Paris, the Lon-don Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatska-pelle, and L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. She has been heard in recital across the United States and in Paris, Cologne, Zurich, Milan and at the Aix-en-Provence, Geneva, Spoleto and Salzburg Festi-

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■ Leonard RoweLeonard Rowe is a native of Fredericksburg, Virginia and a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. He recently performed with the New York City Opera, the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra in Tel Aviv and the

Omaha Symphony. He has performed the title role in Porgy and Bess all over the world including Amsterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Zurich, Baden-Baden, Cape Town, Michigan, and Tel Aviv. He recorded the role on the Decca Label release of Porgy and Bess in 2006. Symphonic solos to his credit include performances with Buffalo Philharmonic, Atlanta, Harrisburg, Charleston, Detroit, Louisville, Nashville Symphonies, as well as Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. A winner of two competitions, Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation and the Bellini International Voice Competition, he performed in the winner’s recitals of both competitions at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

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MAESTRO’S GOLD CIRCLE $2,000-$4,999

Barbara and Herman Cone

Kathy Manning and Randall Kaplan

Ches Kennedyand John Overfi eld

Carole and Sam Moore

Lillian H. Rauch

AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2009


Jane M. AdairLena and Lacy BaynesWilliam F. BlackThe Bodford Family FoundationRobert T. and Barbara C. BraswellLisa and Willie BullockVanessa and Roy CarrollDr. and Mrs. John E. ChandlerClem and Hayes ClementMr. Albert C. CohenDorothy and Clyde CollinsMs. Gayle CoxMr. and Mrs. J. Patrick DanahyMrs. George W. DickiesonDr. and Mrs. John H. DilworthMarie FaulknerMrs. Dorothy G. FrankHughlene and Bill FrankSusan and Bill FraserMr. and Mrs. Haynes Griffi n

Holt GwynPeggy and David HamiltonDr. and Mrs. Charles M. HassellIn Memory of Marilyn E. HaxtonLarry and Julia HippRobert and Donna R. HodgmanGinger HornigMr. and Mrs. Robert E. JessupPeggy and Phil JohnsonRon and Linda JonesMr. and Mrs. Orton B. JonesDoris and Mose Kiser, Jr.Bob and Joretta KlepferE. Joseph LeBauerDr. and Mrs. Sam LeBauerEllen and Lee LloydMimi LevinMrs. John R. ManessMr. and Mrs. W. H. Morrison, Jr.David F. Parker

Alice and Woody PearceDoris R. PreyerSuzanne & Bob RhodesConnie and Robin SaulDr. and Mrs. Robert SevierDavid and Ann ShermanNorman B. SmithBarbara P. SmithFlo and Bill SniderJanet and Jim StenersenMrs. Sidney J. Stern, Jr.Gary and Ellen TaftMs. Jeanne TannenbaumMr. and Mrs. John O. ToledanoKaye and Ken TutterowMary Ann VinsonK. Travis WalshMr. and Mrs. William R. WebberDr. and Mrs. Eugene WeisbergerMrs. Robert P. Williams

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Allen IIIJudy BreeceMyrna CarlockLaura Chesak and Gary SteeleyHoward and Louise ChubbsDr. Bryan and Renea CobbMr. and Mrs. Irving CohenBob and Sally ConeBonnie and Bill CordesDarren CossaartWilliam J. and Elizabeth A. CraftLisa CrawfordBert Davis, Jr.Philippe and Brigitte DorierCarol DouglasClara and Jim DugginsMr. and Mrs. Eric Eley

Walter and Margaret FaisonBrenda and Jack GlennJessica and Mark GoodNancy and Bernard GuttermanTrish GwynMary and David HaganDr. William B. HerringJoe and Cindy HughesMr. and Mrs. Charles W. Irvin, Jr.Judy JollyJo and Jerry KennedyMichael E. KellyMrs. Thelma KirkMr. and Mrs. Bruce KlappaLouise and Bill LattureGeorge and Donna LawsonGary and Susan Liebel

Donna and Richard MannDorothy C. McGeheeGail McGroartyShirley and Gary NixonE. Kemp and Janie C. ReeceRoy E. and Christine P. RizzoEffi e and William RowanDabney and Walker SandersJonathan and Anne SmithBetty Ann and Kenneth SmithShirley SpearsPam and David SprinkleSue and Fred StarrDr. and Mrs. Michael TookeMr. and Mrs. Charles L. Weill, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. John WhiteTom & Elaine Wright

Michael Barringer and Jeff EveretteNancy and Tom BeardRay BerryDr. Veita J. Bland-SpencerMr. and Mrs. Arthur BluethenthalNancy and David BrayJim BrooksDr. and Mrs. Smitty BryantKathy and H.T. BusbyHenry L. and Ruth CobleSally and Alan ConeBetty and Benjamin Cone, Jr.Jerry CornsMr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. DoyleJack and Mary ElamMarion and Peggy Follin

Thurman and Peg FreezeDr. and Mrs. Robert M. GayNancy L. GlenzJay Gwatkin and Marlene NielsenMarianne and Xaver HertleDonna Moran and Garnett HughesRep. Maggie Jeffus and Ted ThompsonClaire KelleherVickie and John KilimanjaroBill and Diana KnoxMargery LaneSeymour and Carol LevinJim and Fray MetcalfeIrene M. MooreRod and Linda MortensonKarol Murks

Watty and Marvin PinsonWilliam and Beverley RogersJim and Cindi SchrumMr. and Mrs. John H. SniderBarbara and Arthur SohnDr. Peter Sojka and Dr. Elisabeth StambaughSybil G. SullivanKen and Suzy WalkerMr. and Mrs. Charles C. WallaceSarah and Jack WarmathW. Fred WilliamsArthur B. and Pansy H.WilliamsDr. and Mrs. Robert W. WoodwardEarl and Lynette WrennDr. and Mrs. Patrick Wright, Jr.

MAESTRO’S SILVER CIRCLE $1,000-$1,999

FRIENDS BENEFACTOR $500- $999

FRIENDS PATRON $250-$499


Susan and Dan AckerRose and Victor AckermannLynne and John AlexanderHelen and John AlfordDr. and Mrs. William O. Ameen, Jr.Gary and Linda AndersonAnonymousEdwin ArmstrongKay and R.B. ArthurMs. Adrienne BaileyMrs. Charlotte P. BarneyJoan and Eddie BassBauman Family FoundationWilliam L. Beerman, Jr.Marilyn and Edward BensonMary P. BestBarbara and Dave BlackmanSion A. BoneyPhyllis C. and R. Marshall BowdenSuejette and David BrownNancy and Trip BrownDr. and Mrs. William BrownSkip and Carol BryanNancy and Jim BryanPhilip and Kathe BurgerAlex and Maureen BurnsHodges and Joe CarrollSheila CauthenKent John ChabotarPatricia A. ChamingsLynn and Tom ChandlerMr. & Mrs. Fred ChappellDr.and Mrs. B. Joseph ChristianLouann Arnold ClarkeCongressman Howard CobleDr. Michael L. and Faye C. CollinsDiane Conrad

Doris CovingtonRobert F. DabbsBill and Leslie DaisyClifford and Dorothea DavisH. A. den BoerThomas and Sandra DuezJames A. and Rachel DunnSue B. and Jorman W. FieldsDr. and Mrs. Edward FortJud and Carol FranklinIn Honor of Dr. Peter Paul FuchsRobert W. FullerVirginia GaskinMr. Lawrence GasperDouglass and Patti GilbertDr. and Mrs. Sigmund GouldRobert Green, MD and Jaquelyn ReillyNorman GreyCarl and Anne GrubeNancy & Fred GuttmanMr. and Mrs. Richard D. Hall, Jr.Winfred C. HarperRobert and Judith HerronRalph and Eda HoltMrs. C.B. Hooton ( Dottie )Gail and Ken HugginsKay and Clyde HuntDaniel E. JamesDr. and Mrs. D.K. JeongAlfred E. Jones and Dr. Tony G. LeTrent-

JonesAlice and Howard KaiserDr. and Mrs. Donald R. KernodleMr. and Mrs. David K. KinserAndrea and Ralph KnuppPearl and Bob KraayCharles W. Langdon DDS, Sandra Fuller

DDSCurtis and Terry LashleyMr. and Mrs. William J. LawCathy and Henry LevinsonJohn and Nancy LewisSandra H. LoNanoIn honor of Mr. Robert B. Lloyd’s retire-

ment Dr. and Mrs. Paul Mabe, Jr.Jonathan and Sarah MalinoDonald Martin and Elizabeth HaileBrian and Joyce MartinDan and Bonnie McAlisterGordon McLambDene MeadPatricia H. MendenhallMr. and Mrs. Patrick MillerDr. and Mrs. Terry G. MitchellTracy NashBob and Donna NewtonTalmage and Jana NowellBetsy and Mitchell OakleyDavid and Heather OdahowskiRay and Geraldine O’NealChap and Mrs R E OsmanMs. Gail PayneLarry and Susan PearmanCameron PeckNancy and Peter PeifferMr. and Mrs. Roy M. Phipps Jr.Dr. and Mrs. George H. Pierson, Jr.Hallly Lee RankinDebby ReynoldsLane and Karen RidenhourKitty and George RobisonMr. Joseph RosenblumDr. Rebecca B. Saunders

Beatrice and Stewart SchallMary SchellMary Fran SchickedantzMr. and Mrs. Fernand SchlaeppiIn Memory of Russell Peck-Guilford

County Schools Elementary Music Educators

Susan and Jerry SchwartzJack and Nancy ScismBarbara and Jim ScottCorinne Segal and Fred WarmanMr. and Mrs. W. David SellersPhyllis ShavitzDr. and Mrs. Walter B. ShepherdMr. Philip SilverMarian K. SollederRalph and Nancy StevensDonald B. Stilwell, Jr.Amelia C. StoutDr. and Mrs. Ronald F. SuralPeggy R. TagerStuart and Barbara TeichmanJoe TrogdonMr. and Mrs. VanDornAnne Kirkman WadeBob and Dot WalkerDiane and James WatkinsB. J. Weatherby and Verne NielsenDr. and Mrs. William J. WeatherlyPat WhiteRuss Williams and Ann LynchLynda D. WilliamsRon and Linda WilsonVan and Margaret WoltzHomer WrightPeter and Darlene Young

Jim and Betty Allen

Carol and Fred Andresen

Neal and Jo Andrews

Betty Angel

Anonymous

Mrs. Nancy S. Balderacchi

Sion Bell

Cindy Booth

Dorothy Bourgeois

Ouida B. Brown

Jean R. Buchert

Fred Carlson

Harold O. Carpenter, Jr.

Stacey Carson

Emily C. Carter

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coble

Richard and Kathleen Coe

Bob and Sophie Connolley

Keith Cushman

Mrs. Alberta W. Cuthbertson

Mrs. Burke Davis

Mr. Kearns Davis

Jean and Ralph Davison

Marie and Robert Dow

Harry and Ruth Edgren

Leon Eisen

Linda and Kenneth Ellington

Mrs. Winfred S. Elliott

Ms. Ina Fishbeyn

Al and Cookie Fogleman

Sherri R. Forrester

Ildar Gabitov

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gentry

Bill and Jeanette Giddings

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Gilbert

Mrs. Janet C. Gill

Linda and Clyde Gordon

Carolyn Gribnau

Jim and Judy Guidone

Carolyn Hampton

Kim and Ash Harrison

Juliana Hauser

Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Hertzfeld

Chip and Cathy Hicks

Boots L. Hinkle

Lori Holt

Anne and Mike Honer

William E. and Susan B. Hunt

Claude and Bobbie Hutcheson

Judith Hyman

Jeff Ishee and Jean Ishee

Sam and Tomasita Jacubowitz

Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson

Ms. Dolores J. Joseph

John, Barbara and Betsy Key

Jim and Joan King

Edward and Joanne Koehler

Ms. Lisa Lloyd

Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Lloyd, Jr.

Andrew Long, Jr.

Leon and Patricia D.

Dr. and Mrs. DT Lucey

Ralph and Mary Macy

Nancy Y. Madden

Mrs. Aileen S. McCraw

Rosemary McGee

Dr. and Mrs. Alan Medoff

Peter and Karen Meyers

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Mooney

Charles J. Morazan

Floyd Nesbitt

Tom and Louise O’Shea

Add Penfi eld

Janet Plummer

Joan N. Poole

Roger Poplin

Mr. and Mrs. Philip T. Porter

Mr. and Mrs. David E. Purpel

Hilary and Jane Rauch

Richard and Stacy Ridenour

Josh and Melody Rose

Glenn and Fran Ross

Marnie and Jerry Ruskin

Dr. and Mrs. William Sasser

Rose F. and Robert H.

Bruce A. and Alice G.

Linda Schneider

Donald and Carolyn Shaw

Ann Shelton

Helen Shore

Mr. and Mrs. Frank V. Smith, Jr.

John P. or Ouida H. Spillman Jr.

Georgia M. Sprinkle

Elizabeth Stephens

Linda and Arthur Taft

In honor of John C. Tate, Jr.’s Birthday

Rosemary Reed Troxler

Mr. & Mrs. William D. Troxler

Ms. Virginia M. Vaughn

Andrew and Susan Walcott

Robert and Virginia Waldron

Margaret J. Watson

F. Sue Weston

Merrilou Williams

Jeaneane Williams

FRIENDS SUPPORTER $100-$249

FRIENDS UP TO $99


$30,000Greensboro Symphony Guild

$25,000Mike and Lynn Haley

$5,000Anonymous FundDr. Jean B. BrooksBarbara and Herman ConeJoan and Bill HemphillLinda and Maurice JenningsHelen and Al LineberryCarolyn and John ManessCarole and Ed MonroePat Austin NussbaumLynn R. Prickett Fund through Betty

and Charles Cheek

$1,500–$2,500Kay Bryan EdwardsMarie and Ed Faulkner, Jr.Susan and Bill Fraser

Kenneth and Ronda KornfeldAnn and Bob KroupaFred L. Proctor, Sr.Carl W. and Lina Z. Treleaven

$1,000Beverly and Ray BerryNancy and Alex BrownMartha and John ChandlerDorothy and Clyde CollinsSally and Alan ConeSally B. and Robert C. ConeMary Carol and Pat DanahyMartha and Reed DevaneGeorge and Anna DickiesonJack C. DixonMargaret and Walter FaisonDorothy and Stanley FrankCharles T. Hagan, Jr.Charles and Jeanne HassellGinger and Walter HornigRachel S. HullBonnie and Bynum Hunter

J.T. and Johnnye Greer HunterLenora W. JacksonKaren and Eugene JohnstonJudy and Allen JollyJohn and Ellen KavanaghMose and Doris Egerton KiserGlorine and Tom LuperDale and Susan MillerJoy and Moon MorrisonDoris R. PreyerRoyce and Jane ReynoldsPeggy and Lewis RitchieShirley SpearsKay SternJohn C. Tate, Jr.Boppy and John O. ToledanoDorothy and Charles WeillB.J. and Bob WilliamsDoug and Julia WilsonElaine and Tom Wright

CAROLINE M. LEE ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR Caroline Lee tirelessly led the Greensboro Symphony Endowment Fund for more then twenty years. To honor her years of service and the remarkable growth of the Fund, the Guild and Symphony friends honored Caroline by endowing the Associate Concertmaster’s Chair in 2001.

TRUSTEESAnn E. Kroupa, Chairman

Lisa BullockSally B. Cone

K. William Fraser Robert Harris

A. Robinson Hassell Linda Jones

Lewis R. RitchieWilliam R. Rogers, Ph.D.

In 1985, the seeds of the Greensboro Symphony Endowment Fund (GSEF) were planted by Symphony

Guild President, Rachel Hull Galyon. Under her leadership, the Guild raised an additional $50,000 during

the 1985-1986 season to contribute toward endowing the $250,000 Concertmaster’s Chair, completed in

1995, marking the offi cial launch of the GSEF. The leadership torch was passed to Guild member, Caroline

M. Lee, who devoted more than twenty years to the development and growth of the fund. In 1995, Guild

member Kay Edwards and GSO Board Member, Maurice Jennings, launched a successful campaign to

surpass the GSEF’s $1 million milestone. During the 2001-2002 season, the fund surpassed $2.5 million with

a special initiative spearheaded by Caroline Lee. In 2001, Barbara Cone led a secret campaign undertaken

by Endowment donors to establish the Associate Concertmaster’s Chair in honor of Caroline M. Lee. Since

2006, Cathy and Garson Rice have served as co-chairs of the Endowment Committee which surpassed $3.8

million in 2008. Each year, a gift is made to the Symphony for its annual operating budget. The most recent

gift of $117,000 was received in February 2009.

ENDOWMENT FUND

NAMED FUNDS $10,000- $39,999AnonymousMr. and Mrs. Thaddeus A. Adams, IIIMarion Stedman CovingtonAmelia Tatum Daniel Memorial by Samuel Cameron TatumWarren Moore and Anne Moore Diaz

Memorial by Jean Paul MooreGeorge W. and Anna B. DickiesonKay Bryan Edwards by KPB CorporationRonda Ellen and Kenneth KornfeldMrs. E. Pierpoint GillHerbert and Mary Frances HazelmanMichel Family FoundationDr. E. Phillip Morgan Memorial

by Inga Borgstorm Morgan, Kent and Carolyn Morgan

Carolyn and Harold O’TuelDoris R. Preyer, Trustee William Y. Preyer, Jr. CLULynn R. and Karl E. Prickett FundMr. And Mrs. J. W. Werner, Jr.

HERITAGE SOCIETY The Heritage Society is composed of those who provided bequests in their wills to the Greensboro Symphony Endowment Fund. Gifts may be in honor or as a memorial.

Anonymous BequestsNan and John BayersdorferDr. Jean B. BrooksAnne Rendleman DanielMr. and Mrs. Robert E. GuirlingerPearl E. and Robert A. KraayE. Joseph LeBauerCaroline M. and N. Clayton LeeSusan and Dale MillerSally and Steve MillikinRoy E. and Christine P. RizzoMrs. Beverly C. MooreKitty and George RobisonConnie and Robin Saul Florence G. Young


Patrons of chairs receive permanent listing in the playbill, recognition on column in auditorium

lobby, and preferential parking. The Greensboro Symphony is grateful for your generous support in building the Endowment Fund. For more information on how you may play a part in the continuation of the Symphony’s great music and education programs, please call co-chairs Cathy and Garson Rice at 336-273-1426.

MAESTRO’S PODIUM $500,000Endowed by bequest

MAESTRO’S PODIUMEMERITUS CHAIR$300,000Endowed by bequest

YOUTH ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR’S CHAIR$275,0001 CHAIR AVAILABLE

CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR $250,000Greensboro Symphony Guild

THE DISTINGUISHED GUEST ARTIST PIANO CHAIR$250,000 In honor of Linda M. Jones

THE YOUTH STRINGS CHAIR$150,000In honor of Dr. Jean B. Brooks.

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR $150,000In Honor of Caroline M. Lee

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER’S CHAIR · $100,000Chair Avaiable

PRINCIPAL CHAIRS · $80,000 11 CHAIRS AVAILABLEKathleen Price Bryan Memorial Chair by Kay Bryan Edwards and Family

Peter B. Bush Memorial Chair by Mary Ann Bush and ChildrenIrene Mitchell Moore andBeverly Cooper Moore Chair

Fraser Family Chair by Susan and Bill Fraser

Eleanor Downes Mewborn Chair In Memory of Carolyn Riddle Downes

ASSOCIATE AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CHAIRS · $60,000Kay Bryan Edwards Chair by Joseph M. Bryan, Jr.

Jeanne Maxwell Hassell Chair by Charles M. Hassell

Milton J. Jackson Memorial Chairby Lenora W. Jackson

Carolyn J. Maness Chair by John R. Maness

Garson L. Rice, Jr. Chair by Catherine G. Rice and Children

SECTION CHAIRS · $40,00010 CHAIRS AVAILABLEAustin Family Chair by Patricia Austin Sevier

Richard Kelly Bowles, Jr. Memorial Chair by Louise H. and R. Kelly Bowles Family Foundation

Brough-Webber Chair by Elizabeth Brough Webber and William R. Webber

Lillian Daley Brown Memorial Chair by the Massey Trust through Nancy C. and Alex S. Brown, Jr.

Mr. Lenoir Chambers Memorial Chairby Mr. Lenoir Chambers Wright

John E. and Martha S. Chandler Chair

Barbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr. Chair by Donna M. and Herman Cone III

Elaine Wolf Cone Memorial Chair by Barbara S. and Herman Cone, Jr.

Richard and Danahy Family Chair by Mary C. Richard Danahy iand Patrick Danahy

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

Lucy and Clark Dixon Memorial Chair by Jack C. Dixon

Marie C. and Ed Faulkner Chair by Marie C. and Ed Faulkner

Dorothy G. Frank Chair by Stanley M. Frank

Hughlene Bostian Frank and William Allen Frank Chair

James Autha Freeze Memorial Chair by J. Thurman and Peg Freeze

Greensboro Opera Company Chairby Peggy and Phil Johnson

Lynn Carroll Haley Chair by Michael W. Haley

Joan T. and William L. Hemphill Chair

Sally London Hobbs Memorial Chairby Johnnye and J. T. Hunter

Rachel Smothers Hull and Worth Brantley Hull Chair

Linda B. and Maurice Jennings Chair

Jimmie Irene Johnson Memorial Chair by Dr. Harry W. Johnson and Family

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

Preston Wylie Keith and Martha Elizabeth Allred Keith Chair by Dr. Preston Keith and Marty Keith

Janie C. and E. Kemp Reece Chair

Walter W. King, Jr. Memorial Chairby Elizabeth Yates King

Joyce C. Kiser Memorial Chair by Mose Kiser, Jr. and Family

Kroupa Family Chair by Bob and Ann Kroupa

Barbara B. andRobert E. Lavietes Chair

C. Scott Lee Chair by Caroline M. and N. Clayton Lee

Alice Mae and William M. Lineberry Memorial Chair by Helen H. and Albert S. Lineberry, Sr.

R. Bradford Lloyd Chairby Mary Ruth and Robert B. Lloyd, Jr.

The Michael and Anna Lodico Chairby Flo and Bill Snider

Joy C. Morrison Chair by William H. Morrison, Jr.

Carole Swope Monroe Chair by Edwin Brent Monroe

Alice Wilson Pearce Chair by Woody Pearce

Ethel Clay Price Memorial Chair by Kathleen Price Bryan Family Fund

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

Royce O. Reynolds Chair by Jane W. Reynolds

Dr. William R. and Beverley C. Rogers Chair

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

Ellen and Gary Taft Chair

Richard W. and Carlotta M. Treleaven Memorial Chair by Carl W. and Lina Z. Treleaven

Frederick Kent Wilkins Memorial Chair by Kaye Andrews Wilkins and Children

Betty F. and Robert P. Williams Chair

Thomas E. and Elaine R. Wright Chair


On behalf of the Greensboro Symphony Guild (GSG), I am delighted to welcome you to the 2009-2010 50th Season of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra. We are looking forward to a wonderful Masterworks celebration conducted by our extremely talented Music Director Maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky and to the popular Sitkovetsky and Friends Chamber Series. We look forward to an exciting year with the Carolina POPS Series, directed by talented guest conductors.

The Guild has been a volunteer support organization for the Orchestra for 46 years. With a strong membership exceeding 400 women (plus our Guild Gents), we serve as an advocate for music education and appreciation throughout the community by supporting the GSO through fi nancial, educational and promotional events. Due to the efforts and dedication of previous and current members, the GSG was honored to be awarded the President’s Volunteer Action Award in 1985 and we have received numerous awards and recognitions throughout the years.

I strongly believe music is a universal language and feeds the soul of humanity. Through music we are able to communicate with others, express the diffi cult thoughts, lift our spirits, and many times are reminded there is a bright spot of life for which to aim. Throughout time there have been many research programs substantiating the importance music plays in social and cognitive learning and human development. As such, the Guild and the GSO work together with organizing and funding school concerts in Guilford and surrounding counties, reaching more than 50,000 children from pre-school to high school, providing support for the Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra through scholarships and coaching programs and sponsoring programs for senior citizens. We help support the GSG Women’s Chorus, which performs throughout our area as ambassadors for the Guild and GSO.

The fund-raising events sponsored by the GSG are what guarantee the support of these various education programs and the Symphony. This year is the 25th Anniversary of our Homes Tour, featuring six lovely homes in Greensboro. The 19th Anniversary of our Golf Tournament will be held at Starmount Country Club and will feature a Tennis/Fitness event. This is the 31st Celebration of the Presentation Ball, when on December 28, we will present 20 lovely and outstanding young ladies to the community as ambassadors of the Guild. In March 2010, we are planning an encore performance of the GSG’s Super Sale open to the community.

We are looking forward to making the 50th Anniversary a successful year by promoting our Orchestra and various education programs in the Guilford community and surrounding areas. To help us accomplish our goals, your support is greatly appreciated. “Celebrate the Music”is the Guild theme for the year and we invite you to visit our website, www.gsoguild.org or call 336-274-2741 on how you can help with your time, talents or resources.

Warmest regards,

Connie SaulGreensboro Symphony Guild President

EENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Connie SaulGreensboro

Symphony Guild President

Greensboro Symphony GuildCelebrate the MusicGreensboro Symphony GuildCelebrate the Music


SYMPHONY OF HOMES TOURNOVEMBER 7 & 8, 2009Chair: Ann Warrick Vice-Chair: Peggy Hamilton

Platinum Sponsor: AKR BuildersSilver Sponsor: Guilford Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Center, Kitchen Studio, Inc.Bronze Sponsor: Guilford Pools, Distinctive Designs, Smart’n Up Wallcoverings, Buff Natural Nail Bar, SSI Design Group, Inc., Dolce Dimora, Piedmont Wholesale Engineered Products, Glenn B. Lavinder, The Pink Door Interior Design Studio, A Breath of Spring, Anonymous

19TH ANNUAL GSG GOLF/TENNIS CLASSICMAY 10, 2010Starmount Country ClubChair: Elizabeth StevensVice-Chair: Sherri HillHonorary Chairs: Kim and Mark Littrell

Thanks to the following for making our 2009 Golf Classic a successHost: Sedgefi eld Country ClubTournament Co-Chairs: Ellen Sanders & Cotten MoringHonorary Chairs: Lin & Steve Bostian

18th Annual GSG Golf Classic Sponsors:SILVER SPONSORS: Environmental Air Sys-tems; Carolina Bank; Smart Choice; Spectrum Laboratory Network; Southfi eld Furniture

BRONZE SPONSORS: Bank of America; DDC Properties, LLC; Hales & Associates; Lorillard To-bacco Company; Mother Murphy Laboratories; Shamrock Corporation; Source RM; Stearns Fi-nancial; Tarheel Paper & Supply Company; Well Springs Retirement Center; Cross Company; Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC; Hales & Associates; TCDI; WYNDHAM Championship

Hole-in-one Sponsor: Parkwood Ford

2009-2010 ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

October 29, 2009

Sponsorship of Masterworks

concert at War Memorial

Auditorium

November 7 & 8 2009

Symphony of Homes Tour

Six lovely homes

“A Silver Celebration”

December 28, 2009

Symphony Guild

Presentation Ball

Twenty young women

will be presented this year

March 20, 2010

Super Sale

Offering a variety of quality

merchandise at a reasonable price

May 10, 2010

19th Annual Tennis/ Golf Classic

will be hosted at Starmount

Country Club

May 2010

Name that Tune Partnership

with the GSO

Recipes of Note

A cookbook offering favorite

recipes from the Guild.

Visit www.gsoguild.org for

more information on how

to purchase.

The community’s support of Guild projects is vital to their success. All income raised is returned to the Orchestra and its education

programs. We thank each of you for your continuing generosity in supporting these Guild projects.

GREENSBORO SYMPHONY GUILD BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEPresident Connie SaulPresident Elect Mary KlappaVP Education Andrea KnuppVP Fund Raising Lex KulmanVP Guild Operations Nancy BogardVP Marketing/Publications Debbie FairclothSecretary Dorry TookeTreasurer Pam StearnsPast President Suzy Walker Admin. Assistant* Margaret Faison

DIRECTORS EDUCATION COUNCILAdult Outreach Rosemary ReedMusic in the Middle Sandy Weston Vice-chair: Cindy BoothElementary Concerts Olivia Gillespie Vice-chair: Linda WilsonYouth Orchestra/In-School Kathy Dunn Vice-chair: Kathleen SelphEndowment & Contributions Pat Sevier

FUND-RAISING COUNCILFund-raising Coordinator Kim LittrellHomes Tour: Ann Warrick Vice-Chair: Peggy HamiltonGolf Tournament Elizabeth Stephens Vice-chair: Sheri Hill Super Sale: Co-chairs Leigh Ann Safrit Lindsey Nail Presentation Ball Jo Kennedy Vice-chair: Valerie SuttonGSG/GSO Joint Kaye Tutterow

OPERATIONS COUNCILCorresponding Secretary Karen Claypool Historian* Elizabeth CraftHospitality: Luncheons Cam Current Vice-chairs: Kim Jones Christine MarshallHospitality: Meetings Josie Gibboney Vice-chairs: Barbara Braswell Susan BohnMembership Frances Vinoski Vice-chair: Peggy LowePrograms Peggy Johnson Vice-chair: Barbara SandersParliamentarian Melissa TankersleyNominations/Awards Suzy WalkerOrchestra Support Brenda MacFadden Vice-chairs: Annette Mundy Karen JacobsMARKETINGNewsletter Fray Metcalfe Newsletter Assistant Editor: Mary RushPublications/Website Sher CoromilasCookbook Marketing Ellen Sanders* Ad Hoc

OrKIDStraNew for 2009-2010, the OrKIDStra program is moving into the schools! Eight Guilford County schools with pre-K programs will receive a visit from musicians of the GSO.

In-School EnsemblesIn the winter and spring, all third and fourth grade students in Guilford County hear live performances right in their schools. Musicians from the Greensboro Symphony travel to schools and perform chamber music, demonstrate their instruments, and help students prepare for the Elementary School Concerts. The program includes a string quintet, brass quintet, woodwind quintet, and percussion trio. Ensembles visit different schools each year so that students hear as many different instruments as possible.

Elementary School ConcertsEvery year, all third and fourth grade students in the Piedmont region hear a dynamic program by the full GSO. The Elementary School Concerts present exciting works of orchestral music. The Elementary School Concerts serve students from the Guilford, Alamance-Burlington, Asheboro, Randolph, Rockingham, and Caswell County school systems.

These concerts frequently include multimedia presentations and collaborations with the Greensboro Ballet. In addition to the concert experience, students and teachers receive educational resources and curricular materials that support the concert theme. These materials help introduce new music to students as well as connect the concert theme to topics across the curriculum. Guilford County Schools: April 20, 21, 22Randolph County Schools: April 23Alamance County Schools: April 26Rockingham County Schools: April 29

Music in the MiddleMusic in the Middle is an annual concert series for all seventh grade students in Guilford County. The concerts present both traditional and contemporary repertoire, and aim to expand students’ ideas of orchestral music. Resources for students and teachers are provided at the beginning of the school year to enhance the listening and learning experience.October 6 and 7

Student Tickets Students of any age can get $5 tickets to any Masterworks concert and $10 tickets to Pops series concerts. Tickets may be obtained with a valid student ID at Will Call on the night of the concert, or at the GSO Box Offi ce during regular hours.

High School Night — March 25, 2010High School students can sign up for free tickets and parking for this special concert by sending their full name and school name to [email protected].

College Night January 21, 2010College students can sign up for free tickets and parking for this special concert by sending their full name and college name to [email protected].

Beginning Strings at Peck Elementary Support by Lillian RauchThe GSO’s Beginning Strings Program began in 1998, and was established at Peck Elementary during the 2007-2008 school year. In the Beginning Strings Program, the GSO provides Guilford County elementary schools with string instruments and small group music lessons free of charge.

Key objectives of the program are to serve a segment of the community that needs greater access to instrumental music education, to nurture and develop students’ creative talents, and to prepare students for challenging opportunities in music and life.

Instruments are supplied and maintained by the GSO. Instructors for the program have been drawn from GSO musicians with signifi cant group teaching experience, string music education faculty from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music (UNCG), and UNCG graduate students in string music education. Graduate students teach in the program with the guidance of their faculty advisor.


college name

Education Sponsor

Elementary School Concerts College Night

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PreludesCome early and catch the Prelude! These pre-concert presentations are designed to give context to the listening experience. Speakers are music faculty members at local colleges and universities. Presenters come from a range of musical backgrounds and have specialties in the musical style of the following concert. Thursday evening Preludes start at 6:45 p.m. Saturday evening Preludes begin at 7:00 p.m., and are joined by our maestro and guest artists.

September: Dr. Gregory Carroll, UNCGOctober: Dr. Joan Titus, UNCGJanuary: Dr. Wendy Looker, Guilford CollegeFebruary: Dr. David Nelson, UNCGMarch: Dr. Sonia Archer-Capuzzo, Music for a Great SpaceMay: Dr. Welborn Young, UNCG

Music at Midday SeriesThe Music at Midday series includes eight performances by Greensboro Symphony chamber ensembles. The performances, which are hosted by retirement communities and other local venues, are free and open to the public.

Twin LakesThursday, January 14, 11:00 a.m.Woodwind EnsembleThe Village at BrookwoodThursday, January 14, 12:45 p.m.Woodwind EnsembleAbbotswoodThursday, January 14, 1:00 p.m.Percussion EnsembleWellspringThursday, January 14, 2:15 p.m.Percussion EnsembleAdult Center for EnrichmentFriday, January 15, 10:30 a.m.String EnsembleMoses ConeFriday, January 15, 12:15 p.m.String EnsembleFriends Home WestFriday, January 15, 11:00 a.m.Brass EnsembleRiver LandingFriday, January 15, 12:45 p.m.Brass Ensemble

High School Partnership Sponsored by the Greensboro Symphony Guild, this exciting new program continues to grow. Over the course of each partnership, high school music students receive up-close performances by GSO musicians, specialized coaching sessions on orchestral music, and visits from Maestro Sitkovetsky and guest artists.

Following the in-school presentations and coaching sessions, the high school ensemble performs on stage prior to a GSO Masterworks concert. The high school musicians are invited to stay for the concert to hear their mentors perform.

The GSG and GSO have partnered with Ragsdale High School in 2008 and Grimsley High School in 2009. The Symphony will work with Weaver Academy and Northern High School during the 2009-2010 school year.

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The GSYO program now includes fi ve ensembles: Youth Orchestra• comprised of approximately 80 highly advanced young musicians. This full orchestra is conducted by Fouad Fakhouri.Youth Philharmonic,• a select strings-only ensemble, led by GSO violinist and music educator Karen Collins.Youth Strings,• an intermediate string ensemble, led by Eve Hubbard.Allegro Strings,• an ensemble for string players in the fi rst years of instruction, led by GSO violinist Stephanie EzermanFlute Choir,• a new ensemble, conducted by GSO fl utist Linda Cykert.

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■ Program NotesPETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893)String Quartet No. 1 in D Major. Op. 11, “Accordion”Tchaikovsky’s “Accordion” String Quartet was written in 1871 for a concert of chamber music that the composer sponsored to raise funds. In spite of a growing list of students at the Moscow Conservatory, the composer’s fi nances were in need of help and a friend suggested a public concert of his own music.

The nickname “Accordion” comes from the volume changes that occur during the opening chords of the work. Wonderfully, the second theme begins in the viola. The second movement is based on a Ukrainian folk song with the words, “Vanya sat on a sofa and smoked his pipe.”

The scherzo is inspired by an energetic Russian peasant’s dance. Similarly, the fi nale is also based on a dance until a sudden change in tempo interrupts the proceedings before a brief but thrilling coda ends the work.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581, “Stadler’s Quintet”Anton Stadler, clarinetist of the Vienna Court Orchestra, was a friend of Mozart’s who reportedly freeloaded off the composer in more ways than one: staying rent-free in Mozart’s home, borrowing money and not repaying, and perhaps even stealing from him. In spite of this, Stadler inspired some beautiful music from the master’s pen, including tonight’s quintet.

The opening includes not the usual two, but three different themes for the fi rst movement. Although technically a closing theme, Mozart includes references to it in the development section. The touching slow movement is lead by the clarinetist who sings a beautiful line over muted string accompaniment.

Of particular interest is the third movement, which includes two different trios between occurrences of the Minuets. The fi rst is reserved for the strings alone and the second is a folk-inspired dance behind the clarinet melody. The fi nale is a bright and joyous theme and variations.

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZARTClarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581, “Stadler’s Quintet”

I. Allegro II. Larghetto III. Menuetto IV. Allegretto con Variazioni

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■ Program NotesFELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20

This annotator has long made it a priority to point out the brilliance of the young Mendelssohn. Too often lost behind the fame of Mozart, Mendelssohn’s own genius and prodigious gifts were every bit the equal of the young Mozart’s achievements. A case in point is tonight’s octet. Written when he was just sixteen years old, it is diffi cult to imagine a more mature and artistically satisfying work from any composer of his age in western musical history.

The full color of the use of eight instruments is apparent right at the start with a rich and warm opening sound. The violin then enters with the fi rst theme. The second theme is tightly unifi ed to the fi rst and a blazing coda ends the movement.

The slow movement further explores the combinations possible from the unusual ensemble, creating a series of stunning orchestral colors. Following this is a bright but quiet scherzo that seems inspired by fairies and wood-nymphs as they fl it about.

The closing movement is full of jocularity and charm, with a few references to the scherzo’s theme heard here and there. This is a fully developed and mature work from a very young mind. Perhaps even Mendelssohn recognized its strength when he wrote that it was his “favorite of all my compositions...I had a most wonderful time in the writing of it.”

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■ Program NotesCLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 135Sonata for Violin and Piano, L. 140Debussy spent most of his compositional life avoiding formal names to his pieces. By and large, his output instead includes names of works that suggest the overall quality of inspiration for a specifi c work. Late in his life, however, he began to gravitate toward more traditional names of works that included formal connotations, such as etudes and sonatas. Tonight’s two sonatas come from a set of six that Debussy planned to compose. His untimely death in 1918 meant that only the fi rst three would be completed. The cello sonata, written fi rst, was inspired by the French pantomime, Pierrot, who despite his clown costume, had a depressed soul fi lled with unrequited love. One certainly can sense a deep vein of sadness, particularly in the second movement and the interlude in the fi nale. Debussy also wrote that in this work the “piano must not fi ght the cello, but accompany it.” In a complete contrast, the violin sonata is light and bright and even humorous at times. This is quite a shock from a composer lost in the fi nal throws of cancer, and greatly burdened by the harsh reality of World War One. The fi nale begins with an iteration of the opening theme from the fi rst movement before embarking on a modifi ed rondo form.

CAMILLE SAINT-SAÊNS (1835-1921)Carnival of the AnimalsOriginally written in 1886, The Carnival of the Animals was not meant to be heard in public. It was simply composed on a lark for a group of the composer’s friends around carnival time. The reaction was so fantastic, however, that Saint-Saëns was asked to perform it again by his friend Franz Lizst. Other than the popular “Swan” movement, however, Saint-Saëns refused to allow the work to be published until after his death. It ultimately became one of the composer’s most popular works. It is often performed with narration between the movements. Famous such narrations were penned by Odgen Nash and Peter Schikele (aka P.D.Q. Bach).

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Sonata for Violin and Piano, L. 140 I. Allegro vivo II. Intermède: Fantastique et léger III. Finale

Inara Zandmane, pianoStefani Collins, violin

CAMILLE SAINT-SAÊNSCarnival of the Animals

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■ Program NotesGIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924)Chrisantemi (for string quartet)Often performed by full string orchestra, hearing Puccini’s Chrisantemi with string quartet is a rare treat. Melodic bits of the two main themes also appear in the composer’s opera Manon Lescaut (1890), which was composed just after the completion of this short and melancholy piece.

OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936)Il Tramonto (for mezzo-soprano and string quartet)The text for this work is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Sunset.” The text speaks of a pair of lovers. One dies unexpectedly in his youth. The woman, however, passes away only after many cheerless years of resignation of her loss of her beloved.

FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)Quintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, Op. 114, D. 667, “Trout”The “Trout” Quintet was a friendly commission from Sylvester Paumgartner, a music lover and accomplished amateur cellist. Paumgartner wanted a work to complement Hummel’s quintet and requested that Schubert use his well-known song Die Forelle (“The Trout”) as the basis for a theme and variations somewhere in the quintet. Following his instructions, Schubert kept the instrumentation of the Hummel. The work has since become known simply as “The Trout Quintet.” Written in the scale of intimate chamber music, the work is quite modest and intimate, but remains charming and attractive throughout. The fi rst movement is a strict sonata form. The graceful second movement presents three distinct themes. Unusually, however, they are not subjected to development, but simply restates each a minor third higher. A happy scherzo follows. It features a contrasting trio that seems surprisingly tame and mannered with the exception of a single outburst. The fourth movement features the variations on Schubert’s “Trout” theme. Six variations are presented, again, with surprisingly little development. The listener can simply enjoy the breathtaking tuneful gifts of one of western music’s most exceptional melodists.


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FRANZ SCHUBERTDie ForelleKatherine Ciesinski, mezzoInara Zandmane, piano

FRANZ SCHUBERTQuintet for Piano and Strings in A Major, Op. 114, D. 667, “Trout”

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The untimely death of John Denver’s in 1997 was a tragedy felt over the entire world. Such a void in the musical world left John’s ardent fans demanding that his music survive. CBS television responded by producing a made for TV movie, “Take Me Home, the John Denver Story” in which Jim landed an off-camera role singing as the voice of John Denver. This experience inspired Jim to produce full–length John Denver tribute concerts.

On October 2007, the 10th anniversary of John’s passing, Jim brought a landmark concert to the stage in Aspen Colorado. It included many of John Denver’s former band members, some of them for the fi rst time in a tribute show. Bass player Dick Kniss (who also tours with Peter Paul and Mary); Songwriter, guitar and dobro player Steve Weisberg (who penned many John Denver’s recordings); Banjo player Jim Connor (a former member of the New Kingston Trio and author of the hit song “ Grandma’s Feather Bed”); Legendary guitarist James Burton (Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson and John Denver); and, in what would be one of his last major performances before his passing, singer/songwriter John Stewart of the famed Kingston Trio. The bold and dynamic thinking of Curry continues to produce historical concert engagements and bring icons of the music industry together into powerful shows.

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■ Stuart MalinaStuart Malina is Music Director and Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Malina’s other appointments have included Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2003 and Associate Conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He has guest-conducted the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Easter Music Festival, Nashville Symphony Pops, Opera Delaware, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Opera Delaware and Greensboro Opera.Mr. Malina helped create “Movin’ Out” with director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, for which he won a Tony Award for Orchestration with Billy Joel in June 2003. He has also served as Associate Conductor of the national touring company of West Side Story and as conductor of an international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1995, Mr. Malina made his acting debut, sharing the stage with Broadway legends Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony Award–winning drama Master Class for its run at the Kennedy Center. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in February 2007, conducting The New York Pops in an all-Gershwin tribute including Rhapsody in Blue, conducting from the keyboard.


■ Hilary KoleHilary Kole began her professional career at the legendary Rainbow Room as the youngest singer ever to grace the stage. From there, she appeared in a sold-out run at the famed Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, made her concert hall debut at Lincoln Center as part of the “American Songbook Series” with Jonathan Schwartz, and in June of 2007, appeared at Carnegie Hall during a Tribute to Oscar Peterson as well as in January, 2008, at the Canadian Tribute to Dr. Peterson at Roy Thompson Hall. Additional major concert appearances include headlining in New York City at Town Hall, Birdland, Iridium, Jazz Standard, The Blue Note, and Carnegie

Hall with Michael Feinstein, as well as being featured at the 92nd Street Y’s concert series “Lyrics and Lyricists” and “Jazz in July.” In 2005, Hilary debuted at the Umbria Jazz Festival, as well as the Nairn Jazz Festival in Scotland, and has appeared throughout Spain.

In the past year, Hilary has had the honor of recording with Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Michel LeGrand, Mulgrew Miller, David Frishberg, Monty Alexander, Benny Green, Freddy Cole, and concertized alongside Roger Kellaway, Alan Broadbent, Lee Musiker, Houston Person, Harry Allen, Joel Frahm, Russell Malone, and John Pizzarelli, among others.


■ Joel MalinaJoel Malina is thrilled to be performing once again with the Greensboro Symphony. After graduating cum laude from Yale University in 1986, Joel spent seven years as a musical theater actor, starring in numerous productions around the country, including: the title roles in Candide at Atlanta’s Alliance Theater and George M! at the Fireside Playhouse in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; the original cast of Fame: The Musical at Miami’s Coconut Grove Playhouse, Baltimore’s Morris Mechanic Theater, and Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater; and the New York productions of The Rothschilds, Philemon, and Forever Plaid. Joel continues to perform as a member of “The Tone Rangers” (an award-winning a cappella septet - www.tonerangers.com); as a featured soloist in pops concerts with the Harrisburg, Greensboro and Charleston (SC) Symphony Orchestras, and in numerous benefi t performances (with his brother, Stuart Malina) for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra Guild and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra Society. Joel lives in Annandale, Virginia with his wife, Nancy, and their two children, Benjamin and Hallie.

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Community Gospel ConcertHenry Panion, conductor

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■ Henry PanionDr. Henry Panion III is most known for his work as conductor and arranger for superstar Stevie Wonder. Together, they performed throughout the world, England, France Japan, Germany, Australia, England, Brazil, USA and many more. Dr. Panion conducts his arrangements of many of Stevie Wonder’s award-winning, chart-topping sings on the CD “Natural Wonder” with the Tokyo Philharmonic.

He is the creative force behind Gospel Goes Classical (GGC) featuring Juanita Bynum, Jonathan Butler, the GGC Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Dr. Panion made history topping the Billboard charts on both the Gospel and Classical Crossover Charts simultaneously. Other artists Dr. Panion has worked with include The Winans, Chet Atkins, Eugenia Zuckerman, Aretha Franklin, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Chaka Khan, the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and American Idol winners Carrie Underwood and Ruben Studdard. Two Grammy Awards, two Dove Awards, and a host of other national music awards and nominations have been bestowed on Dr. Panion as a producer, composer, arranger, and orchestrator

Dr. Panion’s own works are programmed throughout the United States by many of this country’s major orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, Cleveland Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the National Symphony. A select list of other orchestras performing Dr. Panion’s works includes San Antonio, Nova Scotia, Columbus, Charlotte, San Diego, Louisville, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Arkansas, Jacksonville, Alabama, and the former Birmingham Metropolitan Orchestra, for which he served as Music Director from 1995-1997.

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ABOUT THE CHORUS MASTER

■ Kent BrooksKent Brooks, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, is a BMI-affi liated composer who was twice the recipient of the Waljo Gospel Music Award. In 1999, he performed the theme for the Special Olympics World Games (Let Your Dreams Take Flight). His Fanfare for Celina opened the inaugural International Igor Stravinsky Festival at UNC-Chapel Hill. For the past three seasons, Kent has prepared and conducted the GSO’s Community Gospel Choir. Kent has worked with many music notables in various genres including: gospel artists Kurt Carr, Blanche McAllister Eddie Robinson, Charisse Nelson-McIntosh, Grammy winners Richard Smallwood, Albertina Walker, Wintley Phipps and Yolanda Adams. Kent’s work as a producer, composer and instrumentalist can be heard on numerous local, regional and national recordings.

Participating Organizations American Express Gospel Choir, Bennett College, Bethel AME Church, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Faithzone Outreach Ministries, Friendship Baptist Church, Genesis Baptist Church, U.C.C., Grace Community Church, Greater Ambassadors for Christ, Laughlin Memorial Church, Mount Pleasant Church, Mount Zion Baptist Church, New Light Refugee Church, New Zion Mission-ary Baptist Church, Providence Baptist Church, Rescue Temple # 2 COGIC, Rock Hill Baptist Church, Saint James Church, Saint Paul Church,Saint Pius Catholic Church, Total Deliverance, Westover Church, Williams Memorial Church

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■ Education ConcertsMonday, April 26, 20109:00 am and 11:00 amWilliams High SchoolFor every Second and Third Grader in Alamance County

■ Russian Music2010 Elementary School Concerts showcasing Music of the Russian MastersEvery year, the Greensboro Symphony performs for every second and third grade student in Alamance County. Russian music - the tradition of composers including Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Shostakovich, Prokofi ev, and Stravinsky - will be the focus of the 2010 program. The concert will include the “Pas de Deux” from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker as well as Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This multidisciplinary performance will include guest artists from the Greensboro Ballet. As all those who saw 2009’s Carnival of the Animals production can attest, this guarantees to be a spectacular program!

■ Fox Holiday Concertat Elon UniversityDecember 20, 2009 at 3:00 pmAlumni Gym in Koury CenterHaggard Avenue at Elon UniversityAdmission to the concert is FREE with a donation of a non-perishable food item to benefi t the Salvation Army. For only the cost of a can of food, members of the community enjoy a holiday celebration.Fouad Fakhouri, conductorSee bio on page 19.Hosted by FOX8 News Anchors and featuring Anthony Dean Griffey, Nicholas Kent Relos, Choral Society of Greensboro

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■ Anthony Dean GriffeyGrammy Award Winning American tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has captured critical and popular acclaim on opera, concert and recital stages worldwide. The combination of his beautiful and powerful lyric tenor voice, along with his gift for exceptional communication and excellent musicianship have earned him the highest praise. He has been hailed for possessing both “presence and a tenor that is pure, sweet and clarion” (The Los Angeles Times), and for having a voice that is “both full-bodied and sweet-toned” (The New York Times). In February of 2009, Griffey’s critically acclaimed tenor won him two Grammy Awards, Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording, for his performance as the leading role of Jimmy McIntyre in Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

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COMMUNITY HOLIDAY CONCERT

■ Sealy/Fox8Holiday ConcertFriday, December 18, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.Doors Open at 6 p.m. for SeatingGREENSBORO COLISEUM ARENAMore than 650,000 food items collected last year to benefi t the Salvation Army in eight counties. Help support your community. Admission and Parking are FREE with a donation of non-perishable food items for the Salvation Army.

Fouad Fakhouri, conductorSee bio on page 19.

Appearances by:Anthony Dean GriffeySummit Figure Skating Club of GreensboroBill Flynn WMAG 99.5 FMChoral Society of GreensboroNeill McNeill and Julie LuckNicholas Kent RelosSir Robert Bell of Clan MacMillan, Bagpiper

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