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312-294-3000 | CSO.ORG | 220 S. MICHIGAN AVE. | In 1919, Frederick Stock, the Chicago Symphony 888888889 Orchestra’s second music director, created a concert series just for children. For 100 seasons, the CSO has performed for our city’s youngest 6 FLASH BACK, audience members, introducing them to great ...Now we're in pieces of orchestral music and the incredible FLASH FORWARD sound of the CSO. At this concert, we will compare 6 FREDERICK the year 1919. PERFORMERS Reflectchildhood in 1919 to 2019 and understand that STOCK Members of the even though many circumstances are different 6 Chicago Symphony today, children still discover joy and Orchestra meaning in music in the The concert hall looks much the same as it Scott Speck very same way. does in 2019. That’s because Orchestra Hall conductor Respond has been around for a very long time, since 6 Yerin Yang 1904. The Orchestra is onstage, ready to play piano the very first piece of music from the very Winner of the 2018 Remix first Children’s Concert in 1919. Tambourin, Crain-Maling by Andr -Ernest-Modeste Gr try, is from Foundation CSO the opera, C phale et Procris. Gr try was Young Artists the leading Parisian stage composer during Competition the last quarter of the 18th century. PROGRAM INCLUDES The100 first piece ofyears music, by Antonín SELECTIONS FROM Dvorˇák, is a popular overture for What do you D v o rˇ á k think children orchestras to play, and it was Chicago was going Carnival Overture imagined when they already famous a hundred years through some difficult Grétry ago. As you listen to the piece, heard the CSO play times in 1919, and Tambourin from this music 100 years Céphale et Procris think about the words Dvorˇák the happy music of ago? What do YOU Berlioz used to describe the music: Gr try’s Tambourin Hungarian March imagine when you probably made the from The Damnation hear it in 2019? audiences feel better. of Faust D v o rˇ á k “A wanderer reaches the city at nightfall, Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) where a carnival of pleasure reigns supreme. Price Chicago truly is a city of immigrants. Symphony No. 1 On every side is heard the clangor of From Mexico, to Asia, to Europe—especially Price instruments, mingled with shouts of joy and Eastern Europe, including places like Symphony No. 3 the unrestrained hilarity of people giving Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Gershwin In fact, the next piece of music was written Rhapsody in Blue vent to their feelings in the songs by a French composer, Berlioz, influenced Mazzoli by rhythms of the Hungarian march. Violent, Violent Sea and dance tunes.” Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 This concert is called Flash Back, CSO School Concerts CSO Family Matinee series Flash Forward, FLASH BACK, so let’s pretend that we FLASH FORWARD can travel back in time... 2 3 888888888889 you will 6 Another immigrant to America was composer Anton n today,Rhapsody in Blue Dvo k. He came here, to the New World, to teach and hear also to learn about the great variety of music in America. the winner of the 2018 Crain-Maling 6 He heard some spirituals sung in an African American performed by YerinFoundation Yang, CSO Young Artists Competition. church and he was inspired to recreate this sound in his music. See if you can hear how he made this music fit into his New World Symphony. 6 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra now has a composer-in-residence named Missy Mazzoli, who is writing new music for the orchestra to play, Florence Price was a composer who also Florence Price wrote three incorporated the traditional sounds of symphonies. Her Third giving us a glimpse of the future of symphonic music. She can make the 6 African American music into her work. Symphony is also based orchestra play things that you would never have expected a century ago. She and her family, who were African on traditional African American, came to Chicago from Little American music, but What do you imagine as you listen to 6 Rock, Arkansas, around 1927, looking this movement feels her piece called Violent, Violent Sea? for a better life—one that was free completely different from the racism of the South. Notice from the last. Instead Missy Mazzoli was recently nominated for a how the orchestra sounds like it's singing of a song, it’s based on Grammy as it plays Price’s Symphony No. 1. a dance, called the Juba. Classical Composition® Award in category the Best Funfor Contemporary her Fact:Vespers for Violin on Olivia de Prato's album

What music would you like to hear played by the orchestra? Pretend you are a composer, and think about the sound you would want to hear. In 1933, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was the first Streya. ensemble to play Price’s First Symphony. In the audience for that performance was the great American composer, George Gershwin. In fact, just the night before, Gershwin had played Rhapsody in Blue with the CSO! Gershwin was influenced by The final piece of music on the concert is Pyotr Ilyich African American jazz of the day, and put elements of it into Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, demonstrating the eternal his own music. He also improvised much of the piano part, meaning that he made up the music as he was playing it! power of great music! This symphony has become a much-loved piece of orchestral music, and remains Regardless of where or when one of the most performed symphonies we live, this concert has helped us discover the power of listening to of the late 19th century. live orchestra music together. We have also learned that concerts provide a way for us to connect to other Get ready to places and times and with each other. Though our lives may be different, Flash Forward, we know the joy and meaning of it’s time to return to experiencing orchestral music performed the year 2019! by some of the best musicians in the world.

4 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / FLASH BACK, FLASH FORWARD 5 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | RICCARDO MUTI zell music director YO-YO MA Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant DUAIN WOLFE Chorus Director and Conductor MEeTTHE CONDUCTOR MISSY MAZZOLI Mead Composer-in-Residence VIOLINS John Bartholomew PICCOLO TROMBONES Robert Chen Catherine Brubaker Jennifer Gunn Jay Friedman Concertmaster Youming Chen Principal Scott Speck was born in Boston, Massachusetts OBOES = The Louis C. Sudler Sunghee Choi The Lisa and Paul Wiggin and graduated from Yale University. William Welter Chair, endowed by an Wei-Ting Kuo Principal Trombone Chair Principal He is the music director of the anonymous benefactor Danny Lai Michael Mulcahy = The Nancy and Larry Fuller and is the artistic director and principal conductor Stephanie Jeong Diane Mues Charles Vernon Principal Oboe Chair Associate Concertmaster Lawrence Neuman of the Chicago Philharmonic. Michael Henoch BASS TROMBONE The Cathy and Bill Max Raimi Assistant Principal Charles Vernon Scott has made many appearances at the White House Osborn Chair Weijing Wang = The Gilchrist as music director of the Washington Ballet. David Taylor TUBA CELLOS Foundation Chair Yuan-Qing Yu Gene Pokorny In addition to being fluent in English, German, John Sharp Lora Schaefer Assistant Concertmasters* Principal = Principal Scott Hostetler and French, Scott has a diploma in Italian, speaks So Young Bae The Arnold Jacobs The Eloise W. Martin Chair Spanish, and can read Russian. Cornelius Chiu ENGLISH HORN Principal Tuba Kenneth Olsen Alison Dalton Scott Hostetler Chair, endowed by Scott is the co-author of three of the world’s Assistant Principal = Gina DiBello Christine Querfeld best-selling books on classical music for a popular The Adele Gidwitz Chair CLARINETS Kozue Funakoshi Karen Basrak Stephen Williamson TIMPANI audience, Classical Music for Dummies, Opera Russell Hershow Loren Brown Principal David Herbert for Dummies and Ballet for Dummies. Qing Hou Richard Hirschl John Bruce Yeh Principal Blair Milton Daniel Katz Assistant Principal The Clinton Family Paul Phillips, Jr. ‡ Katinka Kleijn Gregory Smith Fund Chair Sando Shia David Sanders J. Lawrie Bloom Vadim Karpinos Susan Synnestvedt Gary Stucka Assistant Principal Rong-Yan Tang E-FLAT CLARINET Brant Taylor John Bruce Yeh PERCUSSION Baird Dodge BASSES Cynthia Yeh Principal BASS CLARINET Alexander Hanna Principal ME T J. Lawrie Bloom e Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Principal Patricia Dash Assistant Principal The David and BASSOONS Vadim Karpinos Lei Hou Mary Winton Green Keith Buncke James Ross Ni Mei Principal Bass Chair Principal THE GUEST ARTIST Fox Fehling LIBRARIANS Daniel Armstrong William Buchman Hermine Gagné Peter Conover YERIN YANG Joseph DiBello Assistant Principal Rachel Goldstein Principal Michael Hovnanian Dennis Michel ‡ Yerin Yang started studying music at age 5 after Mihaela Ionescu Carole Keller Robert Kassinger Miles Maner becoming fascinated by the piano. An avid fan of Melanie Kupchynsky Mark Swanson Mark Kraemer Liszt, Ravel and Chopin, Yerin hopes to become a Wendy Koons Meir ‡ CONTRABASSOON Stephen Lester ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Matous Michal Miles Maner concert pianist like idols Daniil Trifonov and Evgeny Bradley Opland John Deverman Simon Michal Kissin. She made her debut on HORNS Director Aiko Noda HARPS March 3, 2018, winning the Crain-Maling CSO Daniel Gingrich Anne MacQuarrie Joyce Noh Sarah Bullen Acting Principal Manager, CSO Auditions Young Artists Competition with her performance Nancy Park Principal James Smelser and Orchestra Personnel of the Grieg Piano Concerto. In her free time she Lynne Turner Ronald Satkiewicz David Griffin enjoys swimming, playing volleyball, reading and Florence Schwartz STAGE TECHNICIANS FLUTES Oto Carrillo Christopher Lewis watching TV. Yerin would like to travel to Europe VIOLAS Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Susanna Gaunt Stage Manager to visit the great sites of history, music, elegance, Li-Kuo Chang Principal TRUMPETS Blair Carlson Acting Principal The Erika and Dietrich M. and—of course—pineapple gelato. Mark Ridenour Dave Hartge The Paul Hindemith Gross Principal Flute Chair Acting Principal Peter Landry "The Rhapsody in Blue combines classical music with Principal Viola Chair, Richard Graef§ The Adolph Herseth Todd Snick jazz—while I've been playing classical music since I endowed by an Assistant Principal Principal Trumpet Joe Tucker picked up the piano, I've never really encountered Emma Gerstein anonymous benefactor Chair, endowed by an Jennifer Gunn jazz! The jazz elements change the way I would anonymous benefactor normally perform a piece of classical music; I love John Hagstrom the free, improvisatory feel of the Rhapsody! It feels Tage Larsen like I'm almost the one creating the music as I play."

* Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. ‡ On sabbatical § On leave The Louise H. Benton Wagner Chair currently is unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change 6 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / FLASH BACK, FLASH FORWARD seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically. 7 INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA THE STRING FAMILY includes violin, viola, cello, bass and harp. These instruments are made of wood and strings and are played by vibrating the strings using a bow, or plucking or striking the strings with the fngers.

Violin Viola Cello Bass Harp THE WOODWIND FAMILY includes flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone. These instruments THE BRASS FAMILY includes horn, trumpet, all have the same basic shape: a long tube with a trombone, euphonium and tuba. Brass instruments mouthpiece at one end. The flute is played by blowing make a sound when the players vibrate their lips inside across a mouthpiece to create a vibration. Oboe, a mouthpiece, which is ftted into the instrument. clarinet, bassoon and saxophone are all played by The players can change pitch on a trumpet, horn or blowing air into a single or double reed attached to the tuba by pressing on valves. Trombone players change mouthpiece, creating a vibration that results in sound. pitch by moving the slide back and forth.

Trumpet Flute Oboe Clarinet Trombone Saxophone Tuba Horn Bassoon

THE PERCUSSION FAMILY includes snare drum, bass drum, gong, triangle, xylophone, timpani, and piano, among many others. Percussion instruments are struck, scraped, or shaken.

Timpani Snare Drum Xylophone Cymbal Piano

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