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COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS ADMINISTRATION Benjamin E. Juarez, Dean Boston University Robert K. Dodson, Director, School of Music Jim Petosa, Director, School of Theatre Arts Tanglewood Institute Lynne Allen, Director, School of Visual Arts John Amend, Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration presents Patricia Mitro, Senior Assistant Dean of Enrollment Stephanie Trodello, Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations Laurel Homer, Director of Communications BUTI ADMINISTRATION Phyllis Hoffman, Executive and Artistic Director Shirley Leiphon, Administrative Director Lisa Naas, Director of Operations and Student Life David Faleris, Program Administrator Young Artists Orchestra Emily Culler, Development, Alumni Relations, and Outreach Officer Grace Kennerly, Publications Coordinator Manda Shepherd, Office Coordinator Mandy Kelly, Office Intern Ben Fox, Private Lessons Coordinator RYAN MCADAMS, conductor Travis Dobson, Stage Crew Manager Matthew Lemmel, Greg Mitrokostas, Andres Trujillo, Matt Visconti, Stage Crew Shane McMahon, Recording Engineer Xiaodan Liu, Piano Technician YOUNG ARTISTS ORCHESTRA FACULTY AND STAFF Ryan McAdams, Conductor Paul Haas, Conductor Mark Berger, Viola Coach, String Chamber Music Ariana Falk, Cello Coach, String Chamber Music Michael Israelievitch, Percussion Coach David Krauss, Brass Coach, Brass Chamber Music Hyun Min Lee, Cello Coach, String Chamber Music Kai-yun Lu, Winds Coach, Wind Chamber Music Laura Manko, Viola Coach, String Chamber Music Saturday Miguel Perez-Espejo Cardenas, Violin Coach, String Chamber Music Coordinator Brian Perry, Double Bass Coach, String Chamber Music July 14, 2012 Caroline Pliszka, Violin Coach, String Chamber Music Clara Shin, Piano Chamber Music Coach Samuel Solomon, Percussion Coordinator and Coach 2:30pm Klaudia Szlachta, Violin Coach, String Chamber Music Hsin-Lin Tsai, Violin Coach, String Chamber Music Seiji Ozawa Hall Ronald Barron, Private Lessons Instructor, Trombone Dan Bauch, Private Lessons Instructor, Percussion Kevin Owen, Private Lessons Instructor, Horn Andrew Price, Private Lessons Instructor, Oboe Mike Roylance, Private Lessons Instructor, Tuba Linda Toote, Private Lessons Instructor, Flute Janet Underhill, Private Lessons Instructor, Bassoon Tiffany Chang, Orchestra and Chamber Music Manager Kory Major, Orchestra Librarian and Assistant Manager DESIGN TEAM FOR SEIJI OZAWA HALL William Rawn Associates, Architect Lawrence Kierkegaard & Associates, Acoustician Theatre Projects Consultants, Inc., Theatrical Consultant Florence Gould Auditorium SUPPORT FOR THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD Seiji Ozawa Hall INSTITUTE IS PROVIDED BY: Tanglewood Young Artists Orchestra Ryan McAdams, conductor CHAVEZ Sinfonia India ~Intermission~ BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique Rêveries – Passions Un bal Scène aux champs Marche au supplice Songe d’une nuit de sabbat This program is supported in part by awards from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Fund, Zildjian, and the Bose Foundation. Yamaha is the official piano of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, arranged in cooperation with Falcetti Music. Rehearsal space is provided In Kind by Lenox Commons. BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS RYAN MCADAMS, conductor The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is part of the educational and artistic pro- Ryan McAdams is quickly establishing himself as one of the most exciting and versatile grams of the Boston University School of Music. Founded in 1873, the School of Music conductors of his generation. A Fulbright scholar, he previously served as Appren- combines the intimacy and intensity of conservatory training with a broadly based, tice Conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, assisting then-Chief Conductor traditional liberal arts education at the undergraduate level and intense coursework at Alan Gilbert. Mr. McAdams is the first-ever recipient of the Sir Georg Solti Emerg- the graduate level. The school offers degrees in performance, composition and theory, ing Conductor Award, a $10,000 grant given by the Solti Foundation in Chicago. His musicology, music education, collaborative piano, historical performance, as well as a highly successful subscription debut with the Israel Philharmonic in May, replacing an certificate program in its Opera Institute, and artist and performance diplomas. indisposed Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos, was hailed as “extraordinary,” “masterful,” and “immense[ly] dramatic” by the Jerusalem Post. At twenty-nine, he is one of New Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized private research York’s most in-demand conductors, working regularly with New York City Opera, New university with more than 30,000 students participating in undergraduate, graduate, York City Ballet, and New York’s premiere new music ensembles. His work as the 15th and professional programs. BU consists of 17 colleges and schools along with a number Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony has been called “electrifying,” “excel- of multi-disciplinary centers and institutes which are central to the school’s research lent” and “essential” by the New York Times. and teaching mission. The Boston University College of Fine Arts was created in 1954 to bring together the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Mr. McAdams made his subscription European debut in February, 2010 with the or- Arts. The University’s vision was to create a community of artists in a conservatory- chestra of the Maggio Musicale in Florence, and was immediately reinvited for sub- style school offering professional training in the arts to both undergraduate and gradu- scription concerts in 2012. He made his Eastern European debut with the Academy of ate students, complemented by a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduate students. St. Martin in the Fields, Julian Rachlin, and Mischa Maisky in Dubrovnik in September, Since those early days, education at the College of Fine Arts has begun on the BU 2010. Recently, he was the conductor for Elliott Carter’s 103rd Birthday Celebration campus and extended into the city of Boston, a rich center of cultural, artistic and intel- at the 92Y with Fred Sherry and Nicholas Phan - a concert that was named one of the lectual activity. Best Classical Music Events of 2011 by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Times. His first commercial recording, a live performance of John Zorn’s Violin Concerto “Contes de Fees,” was released in 2010 on the composer’s label. His appearances in 2012-13 include return subscription engagements with the Orches- tra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, CityMusic Cleveland, Indianapolis Symphony, and debuts with Opera Theater of St. Louis, Louisville Orches- tra, the Meltdown Festival at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Recent highlights include appearances with the Israel Philharmonic, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Co- lumbus Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Indianapolis Symphony, CityMusic Cleveland, Tanglewood Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, the Wordless Music Series, New Jersey Symphony, Glimmerglass Opera, and the Juilliard FOCUS! Festival. In 2007, he was invited by Lorin Maazel to create the post of Apprentice Conductor for the Chateauville Foundation at the Maazel Estate in Virginia, assisting Maestro Maazel on a production of Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia.” In 2009, at the invitation of James Levine and the Tanglewood Festival, he served as one of Tanglewood’s Conducting Fellows. In 2008, he served as the Assistant Conduc- tor of the Aspen Music Festival. For more information, please visit http://www.ryan- mcadams.com PROGRAM NOTES BOSTON UNIVERSITY TANGLEWOOD INSTITUTE The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is a program within the School of Music in CARLOS CHAVEZ (1899–1978) the College of Fine Arts at Boston University. Sinfonía India In 1966, educational programs at Tanglewood were extended to younger students of Chavez composed this work while in New York City in the winter of 1935–36. He high-school age, when Erich Leinsdorf invited the Boston University College of Fine conducted the premiere in a radio broadcast concert of the CBS Orchestra, on Arts to become involved with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s activities in the Berk- January 23, 1936. shires. The Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chavez grew up during the tur- Today, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, in its unique association with the bulent years of the Mexican Revolution, and his entire career was characterized Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center, is recognized inter- nationally as an outstanding educational opportunity for young artists. Under the by a nationalistic consciousness. He began working as a journalist when he guidance of dedicated, established professionals, and in the constant presence of the was in his teens, writing passionately about Mexico’s own music, but also ex- Boston Symphony Orchestra, young people devote themselves each summer to an pressing interest in some of the new Modernist music of Europe and the United artistic experience without parallel. States. He and fellow composer Silvestre Revueltas began a series of concerts in 1924 that introduced Mexican audiences to avant garde styles. In 1928, he led in the creation of Mexico’s first