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organizations,Music Sharing, based in Japan, Philharmonic,Copenhagen Philharmonic, and Partnersin Performance,based in the AdelaideSymphony, Queensland Symphony, UnitedStates, also bring music closer to the West Australian Symphony. Orchestre livesof peoplewho may not otherwisehave Nationaldu Capitolede Toulouse,Orchestre involvementwith the arts.Her commitment NationalBordeaux Aquitaine, BBC Scottish to communitycollaboration and outreach is Symphony and BBC National Orchestra further realizedin her OrchestraResidences of Wales.Future orchestral debuts include Program. In 2007 she was named a the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, San Messengerof Peace by U.N. Secretary- Diego Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver GeneralBan Ki-moon. Symphony,Essen Philharmonic and Japan Century SymphonyOrchestras. In summer Midori wasborn in ,Japan, in 1971and 2015Mr. Macdonaldtoured Chinawith beganstudying the violinwith her mother, the NationalYouth Orchestraof Scotland SetsuGoto, at an early age. with performancesat the ShanghaiGrand Theatre first heardMidori playin 1982and it washe andBeijing Concert Hall, amongst who invitedher to makeher now legendary others. , debut - at the age of 11 at the New York In December2013 Mr. Macdonaldstood in Philharmonic's IDOIXI is s one of the traditionalNew Year'sEve for MarissJansons for two concerts with concert, most legendary violinists of on which occasionshe receiveda the RoyalConcertgebouw Orchestra at the standing this generation. In addition ovationand the impetusto begin National Centre for the PerformingArts a to performing at the highest levels major career.Today Midori lives in Los in Beijingand at the SydneyOpera House, internationally,she has also been recognized Angeles where, ln addition to her many markingthe end of the orchestra'sAsia and commitments, by the United Nations and the World shecontinues her positionas Australiasection of itsworld tour celebrating Economic Forum for her exceptional DistinguishedProfessor of Violinand Jascha its 125thanniversary. He returnedto give commitmentto educationand community HeifetzChair at the Universityof Southern two family concerts with the orchestrain engagementthroughout the USA, Europe, California'sThornton School of Music. autumn2015. Asia and the developing world. More Midori's violin is tt'e 1734 Guarneriusdel recently, Midorihas been making a sustained Gesu"ex-Huberman." She uses three bows- commitment to the violinrepertoire of the two by DominiquePeccatte and one by Paul future,commissioning several new Siefried. and recitalworks. Formore informationvisit In the last few seasons,Midori has added www.GoToMidori.com.& several new recordingsto her extensive catalogueof discs:a recordingof Bach,s complete Solo Sonatas and Partitas and a forthcoming releaseof the violin ne of the brightest stars concerto DoReMiwritten for her by Peter of the younger generation Eotvos and recorded with the Orchestre of conductors, ROISY Philharmoniquede RadioFrance. ln 2014a MACD{):{A.l,i}'$ career was launched recording featuring Midori's performance following assistingroles with lv5n Fischer, of Hindemith's Violin Concerto with Mark Elder and Antonio Pappano.Equally NDR SymphonyOrchestra and Christoph at home on the concert platform and in Eschenbachwon a Grammy@Award for Best the opera house,he draws out distinctive ClassicalCompendium. interpretationsof classicaland romantic Mr. Macdonaldhas also built up an extensive repertoire, operatacrepertoire and is in demand in Midori is recognizedas an extraordinary and brings passion and intellectualinsight some of the world'sleading opera houses. performer,a devoted and gifted educator to contemporaryscores. Following his highly successful North and an innovativecommunity engagement Recent guest conducting engagements Americandebut with the CanadianOpera activist. ln 1992 she founded Midori & have included the London Philharmonic, Company,Mr. Macdonaldmade his United Friends,a non-profit organisationin New BBC Symphony,Royal Philharmonic, Ha116 Statesdebut that autumnat LyricOpera of Yorkwhich brings music education programs Orchestra,Royal Scottish National, Bergen Chicago,conducting a new productionofA to underservedNew York City schoolchildren Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, MidsummerNight's Dreom; he returnsto the in every borough each year. Two other Wiener KammerOrchester, Nagoya

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Opera's andJorma Panula at the AmericanAcademy housein 2016-17.Subsequent United States He also opened EnglishNational of Love. In of Conductingin Aspen' After graduation debuts have included new productionsof 2011-12season with The Elixir TheTurn from Cambridgehe wasappointed assistant TheRape of Lucretioat HoustonGrand Opera spring2014 he conductedBritten's conductorto Iv5n Fischerat the Budapest (wherehe returnedfor Cormenin 2014)and of theScrew for the ViennaKonzerthaus with in spring FestivalOrchestra (2001-03) and to SirMark Die Zouberfloteat San FranciscoOpera. In a castincluding Mark Padmore,and the Royal Elderand the Hall6 Orchestra(2006-08). 2014 he madehis debut at SantaF6 Opera 2015 he made his debut with Future He wasalso a memberof the YoungArtists conductingCarmen (where he will return in Danish Opera in Die Zouberflote. with Programme at the RoYal OPera House 2016-17). operatichighlights include Cosi fon tutte closelywith Oper Frankfurt,Die Zouberflotewith Opera QOOA-OOwhere he worked In Europe,Mr. Macdonaldhas conducted l/ projects (such Australia and Ariodne ouf Noxoswith the Antonio Pappanoon ma.ior borbieredi Siviglioand Hcinse/und Gretel al conducted OperaTheatre of SaintLouis' as the completeRing cycle) and the RoyalOpera Houseand Covent Garden performancesof severaloPeras' I (where he has also conductedFidelio, Dos RoryMacdonald studied music at Cambridge Rhetngold,Owen Wingrove,A Midsummer University,and playsviolin and piano'While Night's Dreom and Philip Glass' Orphde). at universityhe studiedunder David Zinman -i -i ,d\m {_:} i.,i ,,i MUSIC

who desperatelygrips the childas shefends MiddayWitch, Op. 108 SpinningWheel. Dvoi5k worked on all three first sketchingthem in off the witch.The tolling of the bellfor noon A"NT'ONIN D1/CIRAK at the same time, pianoscore and then orchestratingthem in drivesthe witch away,and the father returns BornSeptember 8, 1841, the February1896. The orchestraof the Prague to find his wife and son unconsciouson Nelahozeves,Bohemia but Conservatorygave the three piecesa private floor of the cottage.He reviveshis wife, DiedMay 1,1904, Prague reading in May (which offered Dvoi5k a the boy had beensmothered in his mother's After three years in New York, Dvoi5k chanceto revisethem), and the first public protectiveembrace. of 1895, in the fall of 1896. returnedto Praguein the summer performancesfollowed Dvoi5k may not have aimed for exact delightedto be home. He spent his first One of the unusual features of these pictorialism,but theseevents may be easily months relaxingat the family's summeT of symphonicpoems is that Dvoi6k took key followedacross the fourteen-minutespan home at Vysok5, and then he resumed lines f rom the original poems and used MiddoyWitch. The musicbegins innocently teaching at the Prague Conservatoryin these "speech-rhythms"as the basisfor his with a portrait of the cottage in the forest. November.He also resumed composing, themes. Unlikeyoung Strauss,who aimed The peepingoboe is the voice of the child, completinga string quartet he had begun for exactmusical pictorialism (and who once andeventually the orchestra'shuge outburst in Americaand writing another.But Dvoi6k braggedthat his highestaim was to write takesthe rhythm of the mother's lines"lf wasready for new directionsas a composer, fork musicthat could neverbe mistakenfor only you'd be quiet.you rascal!''The witch and those came early in 1896. Despitehis a spoon),DvoF5k aimed for realismby using arriveson a suddenchange to a slowtempo' nationalistleanings, Dvoi6k had always been the rhythmsof the Czechlanguage to help Over eerie muted strings,bass clarinet and a "classicist"as a composer,content to shapehis themes. two bassoonsintone her grim "Give me the forms as symphony, work in such abstract child!"There follows an Allegrothat depicts quartet,and so on. But Witchtells a particularlygrim tale. concerto,overture, Middoy the witch dancingwildly around the mother through music, a youngmother is fixing new winds were blowing In a forest cottage, and child. This section was Dvoi5k's own found himself attracted to for herabsent husband, and their small and Dvoi6k lunch contribution:it doesnot appearin the ballad, poem, a form more or less to act up.She cannot get the boy the symphonic childbegins but the composerfelt that - musically- the now enthusiastically finallyshe threatens that invented by Liszt and undercontrol. and pieceneeded this contrasthere. At the end young firebrand Richard behave,she'll call the Midday embracedby the if he doesn't of her dance,the orchestralbells ring 12 come get him. This witch, who is Strau ss. Witch to times (the stroke of noon), and the witch apparentlyout and about only between11 For his subjectmatter Dvoi6k turned to A vanishes.In the concludingAndonte, the and 12 in the morning (hencethe name), Bouquetof Flowers,a collection of Czech father returns,cheerfully at first, and then promptlyshows up. She is describedin the folk-legendsby Karel Jaromir Erben. He discoversthe grim scenein the cottage.The legendas "small, brown, wild of feature,with quickly sketched three of these legends musicgrows to a tragicclimax and concludes a sheet drawnover her head,"and now she the as what he called"orchestral ballads": fhe with one final shriek of laughterfrom triesto wrestthe childaway from hismother' WoterGoblin, Middoy Witch and TheGolden witch.I

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