What’s coming up at the Young People’s Concerts?

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Support provided by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation. MetLife Foundation is the Lead Corporate Underwriter for the New York Philharmonic's Education Programs. Tune Up! is made possible by an endowment in the name of Lillian Butler Davey. 1 2 3 4 5 6 About the Composers About the Artists DUENDE ew York Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Case Scaglione was named the 2011 Georges Bizet (1838–75) THE SOUL OF MUSIC, (1901–99) NSolti Fellow by the Solti Foundation U.S. —an honor awarded only three times in the Joaquin Rodrigo foundation’s history. The 29-year-old recently finished his tenure as music director of the izet was a French composer and pianist of the TRIGGERING A PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL RESPONSE Spanish composer and a vir - Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles where he also founded 360˚ Music, an educational Romantic era who, like Mozart, was a child prodigy and tuoso pianist who was blind outreach program that brought the orchestra to inner-city schools. A student of David Zinman at the American created amazing works while still very young. He was THAT MAKES YOU WANT TO LAUGH, OR CRY from the age of three, Rodrigo Academy of Conducting at Aspen, Mr. Scaglione has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra and Los Angeles admitted into the Paris Conservatory of sensitively blended a variety of Philharmonic and assisted at the St. Louis Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Baltimore Opera. MBusic where he won every prize that was Amusic traditions to achieve deep A native of Texas, Mr. Scaglione studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Peabody Institute. offered. He became an outstanding pianist, but poetic beauty in his works. FLAMENCO heodore Wiprud, Vice President, Education, The Sue B. Mercy Chair, has directed the rarely performed in public and received mixed Inspired by Spanish music of the Education Department of the New York Philharmonic since 2004, overseeing programs reviews as a composer during his lifetime. But fol - A TYPE OF MUSIC, SONG, AND Baroque period (especially compositions T such as the historic Young People’s Concerts, the Very Young People’s Concerts, the School lowing his death, at age 36, several of his works DANCE FROM THE REGION OF for the guitar-like vihuela ), the folk became recognized as masterpieces that are beloved by audiences still ANDALUCIA, IN SOUTHERN SPAIN—BUT tradition of flamenco, and his classical Partnership Program (one of the largest in-school programs among U.S. orchestras), today—including the most popular opera ever composed. Credit Suisse Very Young Composers, adult education programs, and many special projects. AT THE SAME TIME, PERHAPS THE MOST training in Paris with French composer Paul Dukas, Rodrigo popularized the Mr. Wiprud has also created innovative programs as director of education and community engagement at Written by Bizet in 1874, the opera Carmen is set in Seville—in southern INTERNATIONAL MUSIC OF ALL TIME. INFLUENCED BY SONG Spain—and features Carmen, a Gypsy with a fiery temper, and the tragedy guitar in classical music and achieved the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the American Composers Orchestra. He has worked as a teaching artist and that comes from her spontaneous decisions about love. The “March of the STYLES AND DANCE RHYTHMS FROM INDIA, PERSIA, international fame. resident composer in a number of New York City schools. Mr. Wiprud is an active composer whose Violin Toreadors,” one of the recognizable melodies from Carmen, describes the THE ARAB WORLD, NORTH AFRICA AND WEST AFRICA (VIA Concerto ( Katrina ) was recently released on Champs Hill Records. His music is published by Allemar Music. brilliant parade of the toreadors (bullfighters) on their way to the bull ring. THE AMERICAS), AS WELL AS INDIGENOUS SPANISH FOLK Concierto de Aranjuez, a concerto for guitar and orchestra, is steeped in the ixteen-year-old violinist Simone Porter made her professional debut at age ten with Bizet’s bright orchestral colors and dynamic rhythms skillfully evoke the MUSIC, FLAMENCO HAS BEEN DEVELOPING FOR HUNDREDS the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and has since performed with the Royal pageantry and drama of Spain’s traditional celebrations. music and culture of Spain. Inspired by S OF YEARS. MANY FAMOUS FLAMENCO PERFORMERS ARE the palace and gardens of Aranjuez— Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, and City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, among other ensembles. During the 2012–13 season she made her debut with the Reno (1876–1946) GYPSIES WHO SETTLED IN SOUTHERN SPAIN. THE HARDSHIPS one of the homes of Spain’s royalty— Manuel de Falla THEY HAVE FACED MAKE THE DEEP, AND OFTEN Rodrigo aimed to capture “the fragrance Philharmonic and American Youth Symphony, and performed recitals in Salt Lake City, of magnolias, the singing of birds, and the Miami, and Central California. She has performed on NPR’s From the Top and the American Public Media orn in Cádiz, on the southern tip of Spain, Falla DARK, EMOTIONS OF FLAMENCO ALL gushing of fountains.” The melody of the radio program Performance Today. Ms. Porter studies in Los Angeles at the Colburn Young Artist Academy was one of Spain’s most celebrated composers. He THE MORE HEARTFELT AND second movement ( Adagio ) is based on a with Robert Lipsett, and she has attended the Aspen Music Festival and School. She plays a 1742 Camillus studied composition in Madrid and then in Paris where POWERFUL. saeta —a type of sad and sacred song sung by he was greatly inspired by Claude Debussy and other Camilli violin, generously loaned to her by The Mandell Collection of Southern California. women during the week leading up to Easter. In fla - BFrench composers, from whom learned a lot about color in music. lassical guitarist performs around the world as an ambassador menco, a saeta is a deeply emotional song filled with Pablo Sáinz Villegas When he returned to Spain, he became interested in his native longing and Rodrigo’s music is said to be inspired by of Spanish culture. A champion of new repertoire for guitar, he performed the world Spanish music. He combined his knowledge of musical color and C FANDANGO the composer’s happiest and saddest memories. premiere of Rounds, the first guitar piece to have been written by five-time Academy love of Spanish folk and flamenco melodies and rhythms in his bal - AND JOTA Listen for the dialogue between the guitar and the Award–winning composer John Williams. Mr. Sáinz Villegas’s 2012–13 season highlights lets and operas. SPIRITED, TRADITIONAL English horn and a virtuosic cadenza (a solo—free include appearances with the New York and Copenhagen philharmonic orchestras, Houston The Three-Cornered Hat, strongly influenced by Andalusian folk music from SPANISH FOLK DANCES of rhythm and orchestral accompaniment) that Symphony, Orchestra National de Lyon, and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, as well as tours in southern Spain, absorbs the energy, rhythms, and colors of traditional Spanish music. The great PERFORMED BY A COUPLE, leads the orchestra to a passionate episode and Germany, France, and Japan. He has performed as soloist with the Israel and Los Angeles philharmonic ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev saw the premiere of a pantomime-ballet with small chamber OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY quiet and reflective conclusion. orchestras and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared at Berlin’s Philharmonie, Moscow’s orchestra, Falla’s original version of the work. He commissioned him to rewrite it, resulting in a CASTANETS OR Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, St. Petersburg’s Philharmonic Hall, Milan’s Sala Verdi, and Vienna’s Musikverein. two-act ballet with large orchestra, selections of which you will hear today. In his memoirs, the HAND-CLAPPING choreographer and star dancer of the Ballets Russes, Léonide Massine, remembered dancing to Magnus Lindberg (b. 1958) he Roberto Castellon Trio is comprised of guitarist Roberto Castellon, singer Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat: “I began by stamping my feet repeatedly and twirling my hands TIsmael Fernandez, and dancer Omayra Amaya. Mr. Castellon was performing from over my head. As the music quickened I did a series of high jumps, ending with a turn in mid- FERIA ne of today’s leading composers, the age of six at the Chateau Madrid in New York City, where he sang and played guitar, air and a savage stamp of the foot as I landed. The mental image of an enraged bull going Lindberg has written works for accompanied by his father. By the age of 19 he was touring internationally with several A COLORFUL OUTDOOR into the attack unleashed some inner force which generated power within me.” orchestras and ensembles companies. He has composed and directed works for many flamenco productions, such as FESTIVAL, FAIR, OR MARKET across Europe and the Carlota Santana’s Flamenco Vivo Company and Bailaor, which was featured at The New OUnited States. As a student in Victory Theater and Joyce Theater in New York City. Mr. Fernandez became accustomed Ed` ouard Lalo (1823–92) IN SPAIN FAMOUS FOR DANCING, MUSIC, Finland, he wanted to open audi - to the stages of flamenco festivals worldwide at a young age, accompanying his family ence’s ears to modern music, and as part of the Family Fernandez. Having performed across Spain and in cities around the escending from an ancient Spanish line who moved to AND LIVELINESS northern France in the 16th century, Lalo trained at the today he teaches his craft to young world, he has won the National Competition of Córdoba, singing bulerías for Soraya Clavijo Paris Conservatory and made a living primarily as a string composers around the world. Lindberg and participated several times in the Flamenco Bienal of Sevilla. Ms. Amaya, daughter of player. He did not gain recognition as a composer until later in his was the New York Philharmonic’s Composer- flamenco dancers Olga and Curro Amaya and grandniece of the famous flamenco dancer liDfe when his works became noticed for their striking melodies and colorful in-Residence from 2009–2012. Carmen Amaya, first appeared on stage with her parent's company and by age fifteen orchestrations. Such intensity of expression became a hallmark of the Lindberg’s teacher encouraged him to embrace all modern European she was touring and performing internationally. In 1994 she founded the Omayra Amaya Romantic period in music—a quality that has thrilled performers and audiences music rather than that of his native Finland alone. In 1997, he composed Flamenco Dance Company, currently based in New York City. ever since. Feria, a work for orchestra inspired by the traditions of Spain as a way om Dulack is an award-winning playwright and director best known for his comedy Breaking Legs, and to connect with a place and culture he wanted to explore. The word Lalo’s claim to fame, the Symphonie espagnole, was written in 1874 for Spanish virtuoso violinist feria is Spanish for an outdoor festival, fair, or market. Lindberg begins Tthe tragic study of American poet Ezra Pound in captivity, Incommunicado. This is his eighth season writ - Pablo de Sarasate. The piece is based on traditional Spanish melodies and dances throughout, and the work with trumpets heralding an outdoor spectacle, like a Spanish ing and staging the Young People’s Concerts for the New York Philharmonic. His plays are presented on- and launched a period when Spanish-themed music became popular (it premiered a month before Bizet’s bullfight or parade. To illustrate the energy of the crowds and festivities, Off-Broadway in leading regional theaters around the country, and have been translated into Carmen ). While the title translates as Spanish Symphony, Lalo’s composition shares many characteristics he uses a lively bulería rhythm from flamenco and brings out the high foreign languages around the world. He is currently writing a new play, and recently pro - of a “concerto” for a solo violinist and orchestra. The famous finale ( Rondo ) is based on the quick pace of registers of the instruments to evoke the warm colors of Spain: yellow, vided the libretto of a one-act opera based on Robert Browning’s poem “My Last a Spanish dance called a saltarelo . orange, and red. Duchess.” A member of the Dramatists Guild and The Writers Guild of America, he also is professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he teaches Shakespeare and playwriting on the Waterbury Campus. What’s coming up at the Young People’s Concerts?

Saturday, May 25, 2:0 0pm estival music from around the globe stirs us MMuussiicc in different ways, just as travel to foreign lands WWiitthh Wo^rld’s F gives us new perspectives. How do sounds An Fair particular to a certain place, inspire people of all An times and places? Music of Copland, Bernstein, AAcccceenntt Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, and more.

Spanish music inspires us with its dramatic character —its ability to convey great joy and profound sadness. In the circle below, draw or write about something that makes you happy, or sad. Draw lines to make connections with the musical descriptions that match your picture or story.

Bizet: Lalo: “MARCH OF SYMPHONIE THE TOREADORS” ESPAGNOLE COLORFUL ORCHESTRATION VIRTUOSIC VIOLIN Falla: CONVEYS A CELEBRATORY DEPICTS A SPRIGHTLY THE THREE- PARADE WITH HEROIC FOLK DANCE WITH CORNERED HAT FIGURES JOYOUS JUMPS THE WHOLE ORCHESTRA JOINS IN A VIBRANT SPANISH DANCE PARTY Rodrigo: CONCIERTO DE Lindberg: ARANJUEZ FERIA A SOFT AND SENSITIVE BOISTEROUS TRUMPET SOLO GUITAR SINGS A FANFARES HERALD LONG, SORROWFUL A LIVELY MELODY FILLED WITH FESTIVAL NOSTALGIA FLAMENCO Falla: ASSERTIVE GUITAR, THE THREE- SONG, AND DANCE CORNERED HAT CREATE INTENSELY FANDANGO RHYTHMS SOULFUL ILLUSTRATE A FLASHY, EXPRESSIONS ATTENTION-GRABBING DANCE

Support provided by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation. MetLife Foundation is the Lead Corporate Underwriter for the New York Philharmonic's Education Programs. Tune Up! is made possible by an endowment in the name of Lillian Butler Davey.