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BARNETT & COMPANY MASTERWORKS SERIES MIRACULOUS MANDARIN chattanooga symphony & opera symphony chattanooga MUSICIANS VIOLIN I DOUBLE BASS TUBA Joshua Holritz, Jonathan McWilliams Chris Combest Associate Concertmaster Dexter Bell Mark Reneau Daniel Shifflett TIMPANI Calvin Lewis Adam Bernstein Nathan Tingler Jeanne Johnson Maurice Belle Kyra Davies Given Arnold PERCUSSION Serena Scibelli Chad Crummel, Principal Nathan Banks FLUTE David Pedigo Nicholas Pappone Kristen Holritz, Principal Keith Lloyd Mary Margaret Neel Lisa Meyerhofer Nathan Shew J.P. Brien-Slack Amelia Dicks, Andy Harnsberger Josue Loyola Roncal Principal Piccolo/Utility Flute John L. & Norma B. Anderson Chair HARP VIOLIN II Caroline Brown Hudson, Sheri Peck, Principal OBOE Principal Rachael McFarlane Carey Shinbaum Jennifer Whittle Rebecca VandeVen KEYBOARD Rebecca James Erica Howard Alan Nichols, Principal Kim Hain Jason Duroy Heidi Barker CLARINET Bryony Stroud Watson Robert West, Principal Lee Smith Steven Tonkinson Jessica Peck Emily Bowland Mary Benno BASSOON VIOLA Eric Anderson, Principal Megan Chisom, Acting Principal Shelby Jones Tamara Hobbs G. Eddie McCrary, Jr. Casie Runkle Metiney Moore FRENCH HORN Gabriel Schlaffer Gordon James, Principal Susan Kemp Kelsey Bentley Rene Reder Richard Williams Nichole Pitts Joseph Demko Kathleen Ray CELLO Eric Reed, Principal TRUMPET Suzanne Sims Clayton Chastain Annie Camp Aaron Norlund Daniel Holloway Preston Bailey Spencer Brewer Sharon Reed TROMBONE Lindsey Smith-Trostle Douglas Warner, Principal Kaitlyn Vest Prentiss Hobbs Jeff Koonce GUEST ARTIST - THOMAS LANDSCHOOT Praised for his expressive, virtuoso and poetic music making, Belgian cellist Tom Landschoot enjoys an international career as a concert and recording artist and pedagogue. He has toured North America, Europe, South America and Asia and has appeared on national radio and television worldwide. His solo career started after taking a top prize at the International Cello Competition ‘Jeunesse Musicales’ in 1995 in Bucharest, Romania. He has performed with the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, Tempe Symphony, Prima la Musica, the Symphony of the Southwest, Shieh Chien Symphony Orchestra, Scottsdale Philharmonic, Flemish Symphony Orchestra, Kaohsiung City Symphony, Loja Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador and the Orchestra of the United States Army Band and has appeared at Barge Music, Park City, Santa Barbara, Mammoth Lakes, Eureka, Utah, Red Rock, Park City, Manchester, Fresno, Madeline Island, Waterloo, Killington and Texas Music Festivals. His recordings are available on Summit, Organic, Kokopelli, ArchiMusic and Centaur Records. He has performed with the Takacs, Dover, Indianapolis and Arianna Quartets, members of Cleveland, Vermeer, Tokyo, Orion, and has toured for 5 years as a member of the Rossetti Quartet. Past collaborations include Lynn Harrell, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalich, Cho-Liang Lin, Martin Beaver and Martin Katz. An avid promoter of music of our time, he has commissioned and premiered over 20 new works for cello, including a concerto by Dirk Brosse. Recent engagements included several concerts with the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders with a new concerto of Belgian composer Frank Nuyts. Tom Landschoot has been involved in interdisciplinary public service projects through his music, such as raising funds and awareness for the need of building an orphanage and hospital in Tamil Nadu, India. As part of this humanitarian project, Landschoot was featured in a documentary film of a cellist performing across India, integrating photography, culinary, journalism and original music compositions. He has served as a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Castleman Quartet Program in New York, Killington Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Foulger International Music Festival, High Peaks, Madeline Island, Manchester, Montecito and Texas Music Festival. Landschoot has given master classes at conservatories and universities throughout Asia, the U.S. and Europe and South America. His students can be found among the ranks of national and international competition winners, occupy principal positions in major orchestras and teach at Universities around the US and abroad. Tom Landschoot is currently Professor of Cello at Arizona State University, one of the top schools of music in the United States. Prior to joining the music faculty at Arizona State University, Landschoot taught at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of ASU’s prestigious Herberger College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award. Landschoot has served on the faculty of the Shieh Chien University in Taipei since 2008. chattanooga symphony & opera symphony chattanooga Tom Landschoot is the founder and the Artistic Director of the Sonoran Chamber Music Festival (www.sonoranchambermusic.com), as well as the President of the Arizona Cello Society. He performs on a cello by Tomaso Balestrieri (1776) and a Dominique Pecatte bow. THOMAS LANDSCHOOT BARNETT & COMPANY MASTERWORKS SERIES & opera symphony chattanooga MIRACULOUS MANDARIN Concert sponsored by Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Kayoko Dan, conductor Thursday, October 24, 2019 Thomas Landschoot, cello 7:30PM Guest artist sponsored by Peace Communications Tivoli Theatre GABRIELA LENA FRANK Three Latin American Dances HAYDN Concerto in C major for Violoncello, Hob.VIIb:1 I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Allegretto vivace Thomas Landschoot, cello Intermission BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, op.19 Photography and video/audio recording are prohibited. Please remember to turn cell phones off. This performance will be re-broadcast on Classical 90.5 WSMC on November 10 at 4:00 pm. Flowers by Gil & Curt. Join us immediately after the concert for Postlude, our post-concert Meet and Greet with Music Director Kayoko Dan, guest artist, and select musicians. CSO is an ArtsBuild community arts partner. Additional funding is provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission. IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BURKS Robert Burks, known to many as “Oboe Bob,” served as principal oboist with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera for 38 seasons. He died unexpectedly on June 1, 2019. Born in Oklahoma, Bob was an exceptional baseball player in his youth. He traded in the life of an athlete to follow his passion for music, eventually switching his focus from the piano to the oboe, and he would go on to study at the St. Louis Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music before taking up teaching himself. Over the years, Bob would inspire area students as both a private instructor and a staff member at local institutions such as Lee University and Southern Adventist University. The Bob Burks Scholarship was established following his passing to cover the full tuition costs for a young oboe player in the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Youth Orchestras. The 2019/20 recipient is Elise Hayen, one of Bob’s own students. Bob also played and recorded with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and was an active member of Tri-State Musician’s Union, AFM Local 80, where he served as both Vice President and President. The CSO will pay tribute to Robert Burks this evening with a performance of Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet. chattanooga symphony & opera symphony chattanooga To donate to the Bob Burks Scholarship Fund, contact Rebekah Cheney at [email protected] or by calling 423.267.8583 ext. 2103. PROGRAM NOTES Gabriela Lena Frank The music of the Hungarian composer, Béla (b. September 26, 1972 in Berkeley, California) Bartók, is alluded to. & opera symphony chattanooga Three Latin American Dances III. The Mestizo Waltz: As if in relief to the gravity Born of a father descended from Lithuanian Jews of the previous movement, this final movement is and a mother part Chinese and part Peruvian, a lighthearted tribute to the “mestizo”, or mixed- Gabriela Lena Frank had a rightful claim from race, music of the South American Pacific coast. the beginning to delve deeply into cultural and In particular, it evokes the “romancero” tradition ethnic diversity and has drawn on her own roots of popular songs and dances that mix influences in creating multicultural music that fits into a from indigenous Indian cultures, African slave classical framework all her own. She cites Alberto cultures, and western brass bands. It exists in its Ginastera and Béla Bartók as influential in her original version as the final movement of my string work. No doubt Bartók’s extensive study of folk quartet, Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout (2001). music around his home country encouraged her travels in South America where she gathered music, mythology, and poetry that found their way Franz Joseph Haydn into her music. (b. March 31, 1732 in Rohrau, Austria; d. May 31, 1809 in Vienna) New Music USA and the ASCAP Foundation Cello Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1 supported Frank in creating Three Latin American With his tercentenary now on the horizon, Haydn Dances. Keith Lockhart and the Utah Symphony may be receiving new attention that he richly de- premiered the work April 23, 2004. Says Frank, serves. His long life conferred advantages. When “There’s usually a story line behind my music; a he was born, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, and many scenario or character” and we meet the first char- other Baroque composers were still active. Mozart acter, Keith Lockhart’s first son, at the top of the lived and died within Haydn’s span and he lived to score. Frank’s own notes in the score are detailed. see Beethoven whom he had taught, reach exalted The