CONCERT QUICK GUIDE Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8 PM | Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 2 PM Performances #30 & #31: Season 2, Concerts 1 & 2

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College Sosno Theater

Leon Botstein, Conductor

Brief remarks by TŌN clarinetist Sangwon Lee Aaron Copland Born: 11/14/1900 in Brooklyn Died: 12/2/1990 at age 90 in North Tarrytown, NY, now Sleepy Hollow

Clarinet Concerto | 17 min

Movements Slowly and expressively—Cadenza (freely) 9 min -no pause- Rather fast 8 min

Written Premiered 1st Public Performance 1947–48, in Copland’s late 40s; 11/6/1950 in a radio broadcast 11/28/1950 in Philadelphia commissioned by by the NBC Symphony of the by the Philadelphia Orchestra; Air; Fritz Reiner, conductor Eugene Ormandy, conductor Benny Goodman, Ralph McLane, clarinet

Copland accepted this commission from Benny Goodman in 1947. He had been impressed by the clarinetist’s 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, which featured an integrated jazz sextet.

Copland wrote the first movement while in Rio de Janeiro, writing to a friend, “The pas de deux will make them weep.”

Goodman said, “I made no demands on what Copland should write . . . except that I should have a two year exclusivity on playing the work.”

On Stage 22 violins 8 violas 7 cellos 5 double basses 1 piano 1 harp Viktor Toth ’16, clarinet soloist Intermission 20 minutes

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–over– Brief remarks by TŌN trumpet player Zachary Silberschlag Anton Bruckner Born: 9/4/1824 in Ansfelden, Austria Died: 10/11/1896 at age 72 in Vienna

Symphony No. 5 | 1 hr, 17 min

Movements Introduction: Adagio—Allegro (slow, then fast) 21 min Adagio: Sehr langsam (very slow) 18 min Scherzo: Molto vivace (Schnell)—Trio: Im gleichen Tempo (very lively and fast)13 min Finale: Adagio—Allegro moderato (slow, then moderately fast) 25 min

Written Premiered 1875–76, in Bruckner’s early 50s; revised in 1878 4/8/1894 in Graz, Austria; Franz Schalk, conductor

This symphony was only performed once in Bruckner’s lifetime, and he was not able to attend. He died having never heard it.

It was first published in 1896 with the help of the original conductor, Franz Schalk. Large sections were reorchestrated and the last movement was cut extensively. It is now rarely performed. Leon Botstein is the most recent of only three conductors to record the Schalk version.

This concert features the now more standard 1878 version, which was first published in 1935 and again in 1951.

On Stage 2 utes 1 tuba 2 oboes timpani 2 22 violins 2 bassoons 8 violas 5 French horns 7 cellos 3 trumpets 5 double basses 3 trombones (1 bass)

All timings are approximate.

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