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Welcome to our concert. Now, goodbye! Even though it doesn’t matter, much, who serves as AFCM president, two constants are essential to I’m not shooing you away, just letting you know maintain: the quality of our programming—superb that this is my final letter to you as president of the music, superbly performed—and you, coming to Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. If all goes our concerts, sharing your opinions with us and with according to plan, barring Russian interference or your friends, slipping us the occasional contribution, voter suppression, at our board meeting at the end and keeping your ears and your hearts open to this of this month we’ll elect an excellent new president. colorful, compelling thing that is chamber music. I know who it’s supposed to be, because the vote is After this month, I’ll be one of you. rigged, but I’ll let him introduce himself to you at the next concert.

I joined the AFCM board about 20 years ago, and had attended its concerts for about two decades before JAMES REEL that—sometimes as a music critic, sometimes as a President radio producer, and sometimes just as an enthusiastic audience member. I’m still enthusiastic, but like the human body, or the Venetian lagoon, AFCM needs regular circulation to keep the environment fresh and to flush out the stale crud (that would be me).

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NAREK ARUTYUNIAN

Clarinetist Narek Arutyunian is an artist who “reaches passionate depths with seemingly effortless technical prowess and beguiling sensitivity” (The Washington Post). As soloist with orchestra, his performances include Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall, Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet with The Boston Pops, Mozart’s Concerto with Oregon’s Newport Symphony and New York’s St. Thomas Orchestra, appearances with Prague Radio Symphony, the Kaliningrad Philharmonic, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and a recording of Weber’s Concertino with the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra. Born in Armenia, Mr. Arutyunian’s family moved to Moscow when he was three. As a teenager, he won First Prizes in the International Young Musicians Competition in Prague and the Musical Youth of the Planet Competition in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory as a student of Evgeny Petrov, received a Bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he worked with Charles Neidich, and continued his studies with Mr. Neidich at the Manhattan School of Music on a Leon Russianoff Memorial Scholarship, where he received Narek Arutyunian, clarinet a Master’s Degree in 2018. Steven Beck, piano Mr. Arutyunian has performed extensively in Australia, Asia, and in Europe, including at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Palazzo del Principe in Genoa. Young Concert Artists, Inc. 250 West 57th Street Festival appearances include return engagements at Suite 1222 the Marlboro Music Festival and at Juilliard’s New York, NY 10107 ChamberFest, where he performed Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayer, the New York Festival of Song, Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival in Washington, Krzyzowa Music Festival in Poland, Germany’s Usedomer Musikfestival, Musica Viva’s Huntington Estate and Sydney festivals in Australia, and Young Concert Artists Festivals in Tokyo and Beijing. In addition to solo recitals, he consistently receives acclaim for his educational outreach programs in New York City public schools and around the country.

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STEVEN BECK THIS AFTERNOON’S PROGRAM American pianist Steven Beck is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) Lipkin, Peter Serkin, and Bruce Brubaker. He made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano and has toured Japan as soloist with the New York Grazioso—Un poco più mosso Symphonic Ensemble. Other orchestras with which Andantino—Vivace e leggiero he has appeared include the New Juilliard Ensemble (under David Robertson), Sequitur, the Jupiter ELLIOTT CARTER (1908–2012) Symphony Chamber Players, and the Virginia Symphony. Gra Mr. Beck has performed as soloist and chamber musician at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, AARON COPLAND (1900–1990) Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Miller Theater, and Steinway Hall, as well as on the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano New York Philharmonic Ensembles Series and Andante semplice—Allegro WNYC. Summer appearances have been at the Aspen Lento Music Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Allegretto giusto Greenwich Music Festival, the Woodstock Mozart Festival, and the Wellesley Composers’ Conference. He is an Artist Presenter and regular performer at Bargemusic (where he recently performed all of the INTERMISSION Beethoven piano sonatas), performs frequently as a musician with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and has performed with the New York City Ballet. BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945) Composers Mr. Beck has worked with include Elliott Romanian Folk Dances Carter, Henri Dutilleux, George Perle, and Charles Jocul cu bâtă (Stick Dance) Wuorinen, and he has appeared with ensembles such Brâul (Sash Dance) as Speculum Musicae, the Da Capo Chamber Players, Pe loc (In One Spot) the Manhattan String Quartet, the Pacifica String Buciumeana (Dance from Buscum) Quartet, The Metropolis Ensemble, New York Poarga Românească (Romanian Polka) Philomusica, the New York New Music Ensemble, Mărunțel (Fast Dance) Mosaic, the Lyric Chamber Music Society, the Omega Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Counterinduction, the MANUEL DE FALLA (1876–1946) American Contemporary Music Ensemble, the East “Nana” from Suite Populaire Espagnole Coast Composers’ Ensemble, the Fountain Ensemble, Friends and Enemies of New Music, Lost Dog, and Antisocial Music. He is a member of the new music PAUL SCHOENFIELD (b. 1947) ensemble Future In Reverse (FIRE) as well as the Klezmer Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano notorious Knights of the Many-Sided Table. His recordings are on the Albany, Bridge, Monument, I. q = 104 Mulatta, and Annemarie Classics labels. II. Allegretto

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as well as distinctive tone colors. His intricate “The Clarinet Sonata was my creations are sonorous constructs that have been first published piece (1942). praised critically for their wit and lyricism. The recipient of a National Medal of Arts Award and a I’m still proud of it, despite Pulitzer Prize, Carter has been labeled “America’s a certain student element great musical poet.” Carter writes about his 1993 work (which he rescored in the music.” the following year for solo trombone): “Gra (‘Play’ in Polish) for solo clarinet, was written as a tribute to my LEONARD BERNSTEIN dear friend Witold Lutosławski to commemorate his 80th birthday. During the twenty-five or so years that AMERICAN ICON Leonard Bernstein has been I have known Witold, I have never ceased to admire described as a Renaissance man. Renowned as a his impressive works and his gracious personality. much-recorded composer, conductor, and pianist, This clarinet piece combines frequently changing, he also wrote influential books and essays that playful characters together (all based on the same promoted music as a vital, living art. An inspiring material) and recalls to me my many delighted visits teacher, Bernstein brought his messages into with the composer in America and Poland.” American life through televised lectures and Young OFTEN CALLED “the Dean of American Composers,” People’s Concerts. Despite a schedule of astounding Aaron Copland also enjoyed a long career as teacher, complexity, he remained dedicated to numerous conductor, writer, and critic. During the 1920s, humanitarian causes throughout his life. His Copland studied composition in Paris with Nadia impressive list of awards includes 21 honorary degrees, Boulanger, who encouraged him to create a 13 Grammy Awards, 11 Emmy Awards, 25 television specifically American neoclassical idiom. After awards, 23 civic awards, and honorary titles in 20 exploring avant-garde chromatic and serial societies and orchestras, including Laureate techniques in the 1930s, Copland in the 1940s found Conductor of the New York Philharmonic and his national voice with a series of American-themed the Israel Philharmonic. ballet scores, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian While still a student at the Curtis Institute, Bernstein Spring (which won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize). began his clarinet sonata during a 1941 visit to Key Copland’s style, which balances modernist and folk West. He recalled in an interview that he had bought elements and most often develops with expansive a clarinet in a pawnshop two years earlier. “I fooled and slow-moving harmonies, has been heard as an around with it, so I was inclined towards the evocation of the vast American landscape. instrument. The Clarinet Sonata was my first Originally scored for violin and piano, the sonata published piece (1942). I’m still proud of it, despite (1942–3) was dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant a certain student element in the music.” Harry H. Dunham, a friend who was killed in action The songful Grazioso combines the neoclassical in the South Pacific; Copland rescored the work idiom of Paul Hindemith, his summer teacher at the for clarinet in 1980. Copland discussed his sonata in Tanglewood Institute, with an element of boogie- an interview: “I would say that the sonata is one of my woogie. The second movement, influenced by both most accessible works. There are no complexities— Aaron Copland and Key West jazz clubs, is cast it’s an uncomplicated and direct musical statement in four sections with alternating slow-fast tempos. of rather uncomplicated and direct musical ideas that I enjoyed developing. Above all the work is lyrical TRAINED BY WALTER PISTON at Harvard and and there is little pretense to virtuosity. Throughout Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Elliott Carter began his the piece the piano writing is deliberately spare remarkably long career as a neoclassicist but after and its linearity complements the melodic nature of World War II found a new identity as an experimenter the clarinet part. devoted to novel formal and rhythmic organizations

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“There are three movements—moderate tempo, BORN IN CÁDIZ, Spanish composer Manuel de Falla slow, and fast, the last two played without pause. became immersed in Andalusian music, especially The first movement alternates in mood between flamenco’scante hondo (deep song), during his early a tender lyricism and a more rapid-paced section. student days. After moving to Paris in 1907, he The slow movement is bare in outline and poetic in became influenced by Debussy, and he began to fuse nature. Harmonically it is very plain—‘white-notey,’ the impressionist style with strongly nationalistic you might say. The last movement is not unlike the Spanish material. Appalled by Franco’s victory in the Duo for Flute and Piano. It’s snappy and rather Spanish Civil War, Falla relocated to Argentina, rhythmically intricate, combining light and bouncy where he remained in exile despite governmental material with sections that are more serious in tone. efforts to lure him back to Spain. However, his A short coda ends the sonata with a reference to the remains were returned to his homeland and interred theme of the opening movement.” at the Cathedral of Cádiz.

HOPING TO REVITALIZE Western art music by Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas (1922), here creating an accessible archive of folk material, Bartók transcribed from the original voice and piano, are tirelessly sought themes from his native Hungary, as arrangements of seven Spanish folk songs. “Nana,” well as neighboring areas, and incorporated many the fifth of the set, is a slow lullaby. into his own compositions. Before the outbreak of PAUL SCHOENFIELD RECEIVED his Doctor of World War I he collected over 800 instrumental Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona, melodies from Romania’s Transylvania region, and where his principal teachers were Ozan Marsh and in 1915, his “Romanian year,” he created several Robert Muczynski. After living in Israel during compositions from this trove. His Romanian Folk the 1990s, he returned to the United States, where Dances, arranged as a six-movement suite for piano, he has pursued an active career as a touring pianist were transcribed for clarinet and piano by Zoltán and composer. He has been awarded numerous Székely and Kálmán Berkes. commissions and grants from organizations such Bartók admired the pungent instrumental as the National Endowment for the Arts, the combinations of Romanian music—peasant flute Rockefeller Fund, and Chamber Music America. and bagpipes, often paired with violin and guitar— Often compared to Gershwin, Schoenfield takes which created colors richer than his native Hungarian inspiration from a wide range of musical experience— music offered. In this arrangement Bartók chose American and foreign popular styles, folk traditions, registers and articulations that would best evoke the and established classical practice, often treated with original timbres. Although the complex rhythms a sly twist. He delights in combining these diverse and decorations of the native dances were lost, he elements within a single work. The result, he states, compensated by increasing the harmonic complexity “is not the kind of music for relaxation, but the kind of these sparely modal works. that makes people sweat; not only the performer, but the audience.” Two gypsy violinists introduced Bartók to the moderately-paced “Stick Dance” (Dorian mode/ Klezmer, a genre of the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, A minor). The faster second movement, “Sash Dance” originally implied spirited dance tunes played for (Dorian mode/F-sharp minor), is a traditional dance celebrations; in recent decades it has incorporated that requires a scarf. The slower third movement, the American jazz elements. The two movements of mysterious “In One Spot” (Aeolian mode/D minor), Schoenfield’s playful and virtuosicKlezmer Sonatina is followed by a moderate “Dance from Buscum” proceed without pause. The composer indicates that (Mixolydian mode/C major). Two connected rapid the first should be performed “always very marked, movements, the “Romanian Polka” (Lydian mode/ exaggerated and grotesque,” and the second “drunken D major) and the two-part “Fast Dance” (Mixolydian and lively.” to Dorian/D major to A major) create a lively finale. Notes by Nancy Monsman

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