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10-15 Orchestra Now_Jazz @ Lincoln Center (ROSE) 10/5/17 9:58 AM Page 1 Sunday Afternoon, October 15, 2017, at 3:00 Neemi Järvi , Conductor Performance #68: Season 3, Concert 5 JEAN SIBELIUS (1865–1957) Andante Festivo (1922; Rev. 1938) ANTON RUBINSTEIN (1829–94) Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 (1864; Rev. 1872) Moderato assai Andante Allegro ANNA SHELEST, Piano ANTON RUBINSTEIN Caprice Russe, Op. 102 (1878) ANNA SHELEST, Piano Intermission MICHAEL DAUGHERTY (b. 1954) Tales of Hemingway for cello and orchestra (2015) Big Two-Hearted River For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea The Sun Also Rises ZUILL BAILEY, Cello Today’s concert will run approximately two hours and five minutes including one 20-minute intermission. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Please make certain your cellular phone, Rose Theater pager, or watch alarm is switched off. Frederick P. Rose Hall jazz.org 10-15 Orchestra Now_Jazz @ Lincoln Center (ROSE) 10/5/17 9:58 AM Page 2 Jazz at Lincoln Center Notes on the Music - TON’s Diego Gabete First Piano Concerto bears a striking on Sibelius’ Andante resemblance to this piece, which has Festivo indeed inspired many composers. R E D A M Sibelius was commis - Caprice Russe, Op. 102 N U A sioned to write this ANTON RUBINSTEIN H S piece to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Säynätsalo sawmills The first of several pieces Rubinstein com - in Finland. Sibelius was known as Finland’s posed in a Russian style, the Caprice Russe composer, and is credited with developing is one of many underperformed works by Finland’s national identity through his the composer. The Caprice features dance- music. To me, Andante Festivo is the kind like themes that somewhat resemble of piece where you know it’s Sibelius’ Russian folk music, and is dedicated to music when you first hear it. He has such Anna Yesipova. She would later go on to a unique way of composing that it only become a teacher at the St. Petersburg takes a phrase to recognize him as a com - Conservatory, where her students included poser. The piece really transports you to composer Sergei Prokofiev. Though it gained Finland, to a snowy and mystic landscape, some popularity at first, even from fellow and the music is so pure. It takes your composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the piece imagination anywhere—just like when you remains obscure and relatively unknown. open a book and you’re completely hooked from the first page. Tales of Hemingway for cello and orchestra MICHAEL DAUGHERTY Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 This cello concerto is inspired by the writ - ANTON RUBINSTEIN ings of Ernest Hemingway. Each of the four movements is named after a short Rubinstein, a pianist himself, composed story or novel by Hemingway. The piece numerous works for piano. This piece in won three Grammy Awards in 2017 for particular earned international acclaim Best Classical Compendium, Best Classical and was popular even after the com - Instrumental Solo (as performed by today’s poser’s death. He performed the con - soloist, Zuill Bailey), and Best Contemporary certo during its premiere. Tchaikovsky’s Classical Composition. 10-15 Orchestra Now_Jazz @ Lincoln Center (ROSE) 10/5/17 9:58 AM Page 3 Jazz at Lincoln Center Meet the Artists his extensive discography include critically acclaimed complete orchestral cycles of L E T X works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Richard O B Strauss, Mahler, Dvo rˇák, Glazunov, Grieg, N A V Sibelius, Nielsen, and Brahms. Throughout N O Neemi Järvi , M his career he also has recorded with such I S Conductor labels as Deutsche Grammophon, BIS Over his long and highly successful career, Records, and EMI. Neeme Järvi has worked with the most prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, O C Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Czech Philhar - C U Z Z monic, and the Vienna Symphonny, in addi - A M Anna Shelest , A tion to the major U.S. orchestras, including S I L Piano the New York and Los Angeles Philhar - monics. He also continues regular relation - Appearances: Montreal Symphony Or - ships with the NHK-Tokyo, Shanghai, and chestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Singapore symphony orchestras as well St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, as the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Janá cˇek Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). Performances: at Carnegie Hall, Stern Mr. Järvi has held positions with orches - Auditorium; the Kennedy Center, Wash - tras across the world. He is currently artis - ington, D.C.; Vienna’s Konzerthaus; the tic director of the Estonian National Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory; Palacio Symphony Orchestra and music director de Bellas Artes, Mexico City emeritus of both the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague) and the Detroit Symphony Recordings: Rachmaninoff’s Études- Orchestra. He also is principal conductor Tableaux , Op. 39 and Moments Musicaux , emeritus of the Gothenburg Symphony Op. 16; Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Ex - and conductor laureate of the RSNO. He hibition as well as works by Tchaikovsky was artistic and music director of the and Glinka; Spirit and Romance , featuring Orchestre de la Suisse Romande until the the music of German Romantic composers; summer of 2015, and ended his tenure Tutti: Orchestral Arrangements for Piano with a European tour. Four Hands , piano duo release with Dmitri Shelest; Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 Mr. Järvi has recorded with Chandos Records and 2, Janá cˇek Philharmonic Orchestra for more than 30 years, and recent releases include Tchaikovsky’s complete ballets with Education: Northern Kentucky University the Bergen Philharmonic; symphonies and (B.A.); The Juilliard School (M.M.); Kharkiv other orchestral works by Swiss composer Special Music School, Ukraine Joachim Raff; and music by Massenet, Chabrier, Saint-Saëns, Atterberg, Suchon, Ibert, Xaver, and Scharwenka. Highlights of 10-15 Orchestra Now_Jazz @ Lincoln Center (ROSE) 10/5/17 9:58 AM Page 4 Jazz at Lincoln Center Education: Peabody Conservatory (B.M.), The Juilliard School (M.M.) O C C Positions: artistic director, El Paso Pro- U Z Z A Musica (Texas), Sitka Summer Music M A S Festival/Series and Cello Seminar (Alaska), I L Zuill Bailey , Cello Northwest Bach Festival (Washington), Appearances: featured with the Los Classical Music Inside Out series at the Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Mesa Arts Center (Arizona); director, Center Indianapolis, Dallas, Louisville, Milwaukee, for Arts Entre preneurship, University of Nashville, Toronto, Colorado, Minnesota, Texas at El Paso Utah, Israel, and Cape Town symphony orchestras; collaborated with conductors The Orchestra Now - Itzhak Perlman, Alan Gilbert, Andrew The Orchestra Now (T ON) is a group of Litton, Neeme Järvi, Carlos Kalmar, Andrey vibrant young musicians from across the Boreyko, and Jacques Lacombe; featured globe who are making orchestral music rele - with Leon Fleisher, Jaime Laredo, the vant to 21st-century audiences. They are lift - Juilliard String Quartet, Lynn Harrell, and ing the curtain on the musicians’ experience Janos Starker and sharing their unique personal insights in a welcoming environment. Hand-picked Performances: Disney Hall; the Kennedy from the world’s leading conservatories— Center; the United Nations; Alice Tully including The Juilliard School, Shanghai Hall; 92nd St. Y; concerto debut, Miklos Conservatory of Music, Royal Conservatory Theodorakis’ Rhapsody for Cello and of Brussels, and the Curtis Institute of - Orchestra, U.S. premiere, Carnegie Hall; Music—the members of T ON are not only New York recital debut, the complete thrilling audiences with their critically Beethoven Cello Sonatas, The Metropolitan acclaimed performances, but also enlight - Museum of Art ening curious minds by giving on-stage introductions and demonstrations, writing Awards: Best Solo Performance Grammy concert notes from the musicians’ per - Award, 2017, live recording of Michael spective, and having one-on-one discus - Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway ; 2014 sions with patrons during intermissions. Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Alumni; Classical Recording Foundation Conductor, educator, and music historian - Award, 2006 and 2007, Beethoven’s com - Leon Botstein founded T ON in 2015 as a plete works for cello and piano master’s degree program at Bard College, where he also serves as president. The Recordings: Tales of Hemingway , Nashville orchestra is in residence at Bard’s Richard B. Symphony, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Grammy Award for Best Composition and performing multiple concerts there each Best Compendium; Bach Cello Suites and season as well as taking part in the annual Britten Cello Symphony/Sonata CD, with Bard Music Festival. They also perform pianist Natasha Paremski, number one spot regularly at the finest venues in New on the Classical Billboard Charts; Dvo rˇák Cello York, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Concerto CD, one the Top 1,000 Classical Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Recordings of all time, Penguin’s Guide and others across New York City and 10-15 Orchestra Now_Jazz @ Lincoln Center (ROSE) 10/5/17 9:58 AM Page 5 Jazz at Lincoln Center - beyond. The orchestra has performed with We invite you to get to know T ON and dis - many distinguished conductors, including cover music in the making! Explore upcom - Fabio Luisi, Neeme Järvi, Gerard Schwarz, ing concerts, see what our musicians have and JoAnn Falletta.