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Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10, 2014 7:30 pm

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Welcome to an evening with the Russian guest soloist. We booked Josh almost a year Masters. I’m thrilled that we can present to you ago when we were planning the 2013-2014 music written by some of the greatest season and feel very lucky to have him soloing composers ever—all with us. He is a busy performing and recording from Russia. We feature artist. He is a fabulous pianist and musician and music tonight of a real joy to work with. Tchaikovsky, Rachmani- Also on tonight’s program is the winner of noff, Borodin, Prokofiev, our conducting competition. We held our first Glinka, and Ippolitov- young artist competition last year and plan to Ivanov. I hope you will hold the full-blown competition on a biannual enjoy it as much as I do. basis. But, we felt that we wanted to repeat the Our featured conducting part of the competition annually. So, number on this a few weeks ago we held our competition. The evening’s program is competition consisted of five young people, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2. This each conducting the orchestra for ten minutes. concerto is one of the most famous and After the competition the orchestra member recognizable pieces of classical music ever voted and chose Jacob Dame as the winner. It written. You might find it interesting to note is always a thrill to work with aspiring young that this Rachmaninoff concerto was featured musicians and I’m sure you’ll recognize Jacob as at the inaugural concert of the Timpanogos a talented conductor. Symphony Orchestra in April of 2011. This is I thank you for you attendance tonight and the first time we have re-performed a piece of your continued support of the Timpanogos music during our short history. Symphony Orchestra. Enjoy the concert! I am delighted to have Josh Wright as our

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Procession of the Sardar (1894) Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

March from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33 (1921) Sergei Prokofiev

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 (1912)

Ruslan and Ludmilla (1842) Mikhail Glinka

Act II Scene 10 from Swan Lake (1876) Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Polovtsian Dances (1890) Alexander Borodin

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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op 18 (1901) Sergei Rachmaninoff

Josh Wright, piano

2 Contributors

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4 Our Music Director

John Pew, music director and founder of the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra, is a deeply feeling musician blessed with an innate sensitivity for orchestral music and a warm rapport with musicians and audiences alike. His passion for the music is evident in his conducting style and his interactions with the orchestra and the audience. He began his study of the piano at age five. As a teenager, he performed piano concertos of Grieg and Mendelssohn and played the saxophone and bassoon in the high school band. A native of San Carlos, California, he found that the rich cultural life of the Bay Area fed his love of orchestral music. His high school choir director took him to Oakland to hear Vladimir Horowitz, and he also attended a live performance of Arthur Rubinstein. As a high school student he attended music classes at Cañada College, a local community college, through which he was able to purchase season tickets to the San Francisco Symphony, which Seiji Ozawa conducted. At home, he amassed a large collection of classical music, both records and scores, and spent hours studying the artistry of the masters. John studied piano with Reid Nibley at Brigham Young University, but pursued a career in software engineering. He now telecommutes from American Fork to Ariba, Inc., in Sunnyvale, CA. His conducting experience began as a church choir director, which eventually led to his appointment as assistant conductor of the Santa Clara Chorale and as Music Director of the Oakland Temple Pageant. After working with the orchestra of the Oakland Temple Pageant in 1998 and 2000, John was invited to assume the role of Music Director of the Temple Hill Symphony in Oakland, CA, a position he held for eight years. Conducting a symphony orchestra is “a dream come true,” John says. “I’m doing the music that I have dreamed about since I was a kid!” He adds, “I really love the musicians. They’re amazing. You know they’re participating for the pure love of the music because they are doing so without compensation. There’s a particular satisfaction that comes from that.” John and his wife, Renee, reside in American Fork, Utah, and are the parents of five children.

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5 Our Guest Artist

Billboard #1 artist Josh Wright has delighted Competition Preliminaries, the Gina Bachauer audiences across the and in International Artists Competition, the National Europe. His self-titled album “Josh Wright” Chopin Competition, the New York Piano topped the Billboard Classical Traditional chart Competition, the Louisiana International Piano just three weeks after its release in April 2011. Competition, the Julia Crane International He performed his Carnegie Hall debut at Piano Competition, and the Eastman Interna- Zankel Hall in January 2014. Josh currently tional Piano Competition. attends the University of Michigan, pursuing his Josh has appeared numerous times with Doctor of Musical Art degree as a pupil of Dr. symphony orchestras including: the Utah Logan Skelton. Josh received his undergradu- Symphony, the Temple Square Orchestra, the Salt Lake Symphony, the SummerArts Orchestra, and the University of Utah Student Chamber Orchestra. He has released five albums, including My Favorite Things (2013), Josh Wright (2011), Gaspard (2010), The Complete Chopin Etudes (2003), and Josh Wright Debut (2000). Josh has participated in master classes and lessons with numerous concert pianists, including Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Garrick Ohlsson, John Perry, Boris Slutsky, Nelita True, , Ian Hobson and ate and Masters degrees from the University Awadagin Pratt. of Utah, studying under Dr. Susan Duehlmeier. In addition to performing, Josh is passion- Josh is also a private student of concert pianist ate about teaching. He has appeared as a Sergei Babayan. guest lecturer and masterclass presenter at Josh won first prize at the 2013 Heida several festivals and colleges, including the Hermanns International Piano Competition, Amalfi Coast Music Festival, University of Utah first prize at the 2013 Rosamond P. Haeberle International Keyboard Institute, Utah Valley Piano Award competition, the gold medal at University Piano Festival, Snow College, and the 2010 Seattle International Piano Competi- Shoreline Community College. He has created tion, and first prize at the 2010 American a free online piano instructional series to assist Protége International Competition of piano students of all ages and abilities with Romantic Music. He was the second prize various aspects of technique and musicality. winner of the 2011 Music Teachers National This can be found on his YouTube Channel – Association National Competition. He has www.youtube.com/joshwrightpiano. competed in several other competitions, including the International Chopin Piano

6 Program Notes

Mikhail Glinka, 1804-1857. Overture He began composing the opera, Prince Igor, to Ruslan and Ludmila. Mikhail Glinka in 1869, working piecemeal over the next remembered well the Russian army’s triumph eighteen years and leaving it at his death to be over Napoleon, and burned with a nationalist lovingly completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov fervor. Born in 1804 to nobility, he was and Alexander Glazunov. The opera re-enacts educated in languages but spent most of his the twelfth-century invasion of Russia by the time writing music. In 1830, he toured Italy and savage Polovtsi, a tribe descended from the was profoundly inspired by the country’s art Turks. The Polovtsian dances evoke a wild clash and culture, music and musicians. It was here, pulsating with the life and color of the while shedding “torrents of tears—tears of half-barbaric Orient. emotion and enthusiasm” over the operas of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, 1859-1935. Bellini and Donizetti, that he conceived the idea Procession of the Sardar. Mikhail Ippolitov- of an art music with a distinctly Russian face. Ivanov, a student of Rimsky-Korsakov, belonged Now regarded as the father of Russian classical to a second generation of Russian nationalists music, he began experiments into a musical devoted to the ideals of the Mighty Five. While language which would be spoken by compos- serving as director of the School of Music at ers for the next century. Tiflis, in the Caucasus Mountains, he collected The overture to Ruslan and Ludmila opens sketches and folk songs of the local ethnic an opera based on Alexander Pushkin’s fanciful groups. His Caucasian Sketches, among which tale of Ludmila, the beautiful daughter of the the Procession of the Sardar is the best known, Prince of Kiev, who has three suitors. She use folk melodies and Eastern scales to depict chooses the knight Ruslan, but is thwarted by rugged mountain scenery, villages pitched on the dwarf Chernomor, a wicked sorcerer who steep hillsides, an abundance of Turkish spirits her away during the wedding ceremony. mosques, and the impressive entrance of the Modeled on a classical overture, the work Sardar, a Persian military commander. features distinctive Russian melodies set in a Sergei Prokofiev, 1891-1953. March German framework. Counterpoint and scales from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33. recall Mozart and Weber, but Chernomor’s Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution, Sergei theme, a descending bass whole-tone scale, Prokofiev, like many Russian intellectuals, applied suggests the dark, gnomish machinations of the for permission to leave the country. Granting evil dwarf, and anticipates Debussy by 50 years. his visa, the Soviet official said, “You are a Alexander Borodin, 1833-1887. revolutionary in music. We are revolutionaries Polovtsian Dances. Borodin considered in life.” himself a “Sunday composer” who plied his As a child, Prokofiev learned music at the craft only in his spare time. By day, he was one feet of his mother, who played the music of of Russia’s foremost experimental chemists, a Beethoven and Chopin on the piano. She later noted surgeon, and the founder of the first hired the best names in Russian music to Russian school of medicine for women. By become his teachers: Liadov, Tcherepnin, night, he belonged to the circle of nationalist Rimsky-Korsakov. From his training, he kept the composers known as the Mighty Five, whose classical influence of Beethoven, but aims were to create an authentically Russian art leap-frogged over the Romantic influences of music drawn from the native soil rather than his teachers in favor of the twelve-tone the classical academy.

7 Program Notes

theories of Schönberg, becoming known as Cesar Cui, who wrote, “If there were a the “enfant terrible” of Russian music. conservatory in hell, Rachmaninoff would Eventually, after composing in Chicago, New get first prize for his symphony, so devilish York, and Paris, Prokofiev returned to his are the discords he places before us.” homeland to take his chances with the Shocked nearly to the point of insanity, Soviets. Rachmaninoff sank into a depression that The Love for Three Oranges, a satirical would last for three years, during which he opera, tells the story of a mythical prince wrote almost no music. who, cursed by a witch, falls in love with His family persuaded him to consult three oranges and travels day and night to Nicolai Dahl, a Moscow physician and find them. Written in 1919, the opera practitioner of the newly emerging field of premiered to harsh critical reviews which psychiatry. Seeking to replicate Parisian characterized it as “Russian jazz with experiments in auto-suggestion and Bolshevik trimmings.” However, when the hypnotism, Dahl sat Rachmaninoff in a opera was revived in 1949, it was with darkened room every day for three months, astonishing success, becoming a box-office repeating the words, “You will write your sensation overnight. concerto. You will work with great facility. Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1873-1943. The concerto will be of excellent quality.” Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, The results were like magic. Rachmaninoff Op. 18. A gifted composer, pianist, and returned to work and within months was conductor, Sergei Rachmaninoff was able to complete the second and third considered one of the finest pianists of his movements of his second piano concerto, day and one of the last great representa- which would be performed in Moscow with tives of Russian Romanticism. Born in 1873 great success, and has been hailed as one of to an aristocratic family in tsarist Russia, he the most successful pieces in Russian died in 1943, an American citizen, at his literature. home in Beverly Hills, California. The concerto reflects Rachmaninoff’s To the public, Rachmaninoff exhibited a prodigious abilities as a pianist. Artists who massive reserve. Dubbed a “six-and-a-half- play it become conscious of the composer’s foot scowl” by fellow composer Igor immense hands, able to maneuver easily Stravinsky, he bore heavily chiseled features, through the most complex chordal closely cropped hair and coldly melancholy configurations, and of his dexterous fingers eyes suggesting a character of granite. Not of steel and velvet. It is a prime example of many guessed that the composer wore this Rachmaninoff’s compositional style, a style mask to conceal his uncertainties, as, characterized by mellow, long-flowing tortured by indecision, he could brood for themes, melancholy overtones, impassioned days over minute details of composition. climaxes and lush, melting harmonies. An The second piano concerto was written audience favorite, the work is a fitting after a particularly difficult time. tribute to Rachmaninoff’s friend and Rachmaninoff’s first symphony, the first one-time savior, Dr. Nicolai Dahl, to whom it extended work of his professional life, had was dedicated. been given a disastrous premiere in St. –Heidi Rodeback Petersburg, drawing a cruel review from

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9 Our Guest Conductor

Jacob Dame, 18, began piano studies at age nine and currently studies with Dr. Ralph Van der Beek and Dr. Yu-Jane Yang. A sophomore at Weber State University, his greatest passions in music are teaching and collaborating, either as an accompanist or in chamber music. He enjoys music history, music literature, and composers, among whom his favorites are Mozart, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and anyone Russian. He has also played the viola since age nine, and hopes ultimately to become a conductor and a film score composer. Jacob has been awarded first place in the UMTA Concerto Competition (high school division), first place in the Salt Lake Piano Competition, and was named an alternate in the MTNA Performance Competition. He recently performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor with the Weber State University Symphony Orchestra as a concerto competition winner. Outside interests include aviation and travel (he is also interested in becoming an airline pilot), politics, city planning, architecture, film, and history. He loves to snowboard.

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10 Members of the Orchestra

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Concert Etiquette

Thank you for joining us this evening. As a • If young children disrupt others' ability to member of the audience, you are an listen, please take them from the auditorium important part of tonight’s concert. As a until they are quiet. courtesy to all, please observe the following • Refrain from talking during the perfor- rules of concert etiquette: mance and be considerate of others by • Arrive on time. If you are late, an usher keeping programs, jewelry, and candy will seat you during a break in the perfor- wrappers silent. Electronic devices should be mance. kept silent and dark. • Remain seated while the performance is in • Watch the conductor when the music progress. If you must leave before the stops to decide whether or not to applaud. performance is over, please wait until a piece Some musical works have several move- is finished and the audience is applauding. ments and the audience applauds only after all movements have been performed.

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13 Behind the Scenes

Symphony Board TSO Promotional Timberline Staff Symphony of Directors Design Matthew King Logistics John Pew Keoki Williams Glen Vawdrey Renee Pew, hospitality Kathy Farnes www.keokidesign.com Korey Healey Mary Busath, hospitality Brent Fry [email protected] Pam Bodtcher, Randy Morris memberships Lance Pyper Penny Lee, tickets Heidi Rodeback Denise Angus, logistics John Wright

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