Springfield Symphony Orchestra 2021-2022
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It’s going to have us all tapping our toes and itching to dance along. We’ll be playing familiar selections like Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet and Strauss’s Voices of Spring Waltz, as well as less familiar but just as danceable pieces like Dances in the Canebrakes by Florence Price and the show-stopping Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez. You will experience Flamenco romances and elegant court minuets in addition to Cuban, Russian, African, and Italian dances. We’ll hear dance styles from across many cultures and see them emerge in many symphonic forms. We look forward to seeing you at our season of dance! Kyle Wiley Pickett, Music Director A Letter from the Executive Director I am overjoyed that we are able to present to you our newest season. We are excited for you to come along with us as live music returns in its fullest expression at Hammons Hall. As the Springfield Symphony opens its 2021-22 season and launches its 87th season of bringing music to our community, we find ourselves emerging into a new world— ourselves and our surroundings undeniably changed after an unusual and isolating pandemic year. If ever there were a time for new beginnings and celebrating the many music connections that held us together this past season, it is now. Your Springfield Symphony Orchestra was one of only 23% of American orchestras that played live concerts in 2020-21. You should be extremely proud of our extraordinarily brave and forward-thinking team consisting of the staff, board members, orchestra musicians, and music director—they are quite special. This past season was unlike any other, however, I hope we were able to provide you with musical joy during the many months of uncertainty, bring light to the darkest of times, and fill your heart with hope. We cannot wait to see you at the Symphony. Jennifer Cotner-Jones, Executive Director Thank you to All Subscription Concerts are held Creekside at Elfindale, at Juanita K. Hammons Hall for our 2021-2022 the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. Brochure Sponsor. ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 3 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Rachel Lee Priday, Violin Homecoming Dance | SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Don’t miss the Homecoming Dance! Our opening performance will be a Arturo Márquez – Danzón No. 2 joyful celebration of thrilling dance rhythms to usher in our new season. Pablo Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy There will be orchestral fireworks with Stravinsky’sFirebird ballet score With Rachel Lee Priday, Violin and you’ll have a hard time not dancing along to Márquez’s Danzón Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen No. 2. We will also feature a true star soloist — virtuoso violinist Rachel With Rachel Lee Priday, Violin Lee Priday will thrill you with sultry, ecstatic, and spectacular dances for Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird violin and orchestra. THIS GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR CONCERT SPONSORED William T. White BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 4 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON 2021 Hellam Competition Winner, Simon Karakulidi, Piano Fancy Footwork | OCTOBER 9, 2021 Don’t look at your feet! Enjoy an eclectic concert of orchestral PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM and piano show-stoppers, including Dvořák’s high-spirited Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Petite Suite de Slavonic Dances and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lively concert Petite Suite de concert. We welcome to our stage 2021 Dvořák – Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 Hellam Competition Winner Simon Karakulidi for Prokofiev’s Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 2 astonishingly technical and enchanting Piano Concerto No. 2. With 2021 Hellam Competition Winner, Simon Karakulidi, Piano THIS CONCERT SPONSORED BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 5 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Highland – Broadway in Concert | NOVEMBER 6, 2021 LERNER AND LOEWE’S BRIGADOON; Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; Music by FREDERICK LOEWE; Original dances created by AGNES DE MILLE PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Come away, ye lads and lassies, for a concert of Scottish song and POPS! Lerner and Loewe – highland dance from the Broadway classic, Brigadoon. You will Brigadoon in Concert be transported to the mystical hills of Scotland by the talented With Missouri State University students of the Missouri State University BFA Musical Theatre and BFA Musical Theatre and Dance Programs under the direction of Broadway legend Robert Dance Programs Is presented through special arrangement Westenberg, featuring enchanting songs like Almost Like Being in with Musical Theatre International (MTI). All Love, Waiting for My Dearie, and Heather on the Hill. authorized materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com THIS GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR CONCERT SPONSORED BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 6 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON En Pointe | DECEMBER 11, 2021 POPS! We will be en pointe for a classic holiday with music from The PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Nutcracker. This beloved ballet is as much a part of the holiday Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker season as Santa and Christmas carols. It is thrilling to hear this Selections music played by a full symphony orchestra. Our holiday concert And more holiday favorites! is always one of our biggest hits all season long, and this year will be no exception. Get your tickets early! You won’t want to miss our wonderful holiday music, annual visit from Santa, and a return to our audience carol sing-a-long. THIS CONCERT SPONSORED BY PRESENTING HOLIDAY SPONSOR ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 7 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Sentimental Sarabande | JANUARY 15, 2022 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM We’ll start off 2022 with an intimate concert of romantic and soulful Gabriella Lena Frank – Coqueteos – dances, including Gabriella Lena Frank’s flirtatious Conqueteos from from Leyendas Leyendas and William Grant Still’s transcendent and enchanting William Grant Still – Summerland Summerland. The Springfield Symphony’s wind section will get a chance in the spotlight with Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds, and Britten – Simple Symphony the string section is featured in Benjamin Britten’s playful Simple Dvořák – Serenade for Winds Symphony, full of dance motifs and charm. THIS CONCERT SPONSORED BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 8 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Pas de Deux | FEBRUARY 5, 2022 The Pas de Deux is a grand duet — a love story in ballet form PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM — and at this concert we present the epic love story of Ravel’s Amy Beach – Bal Masque Daphnis and Chloe. Gorgeous and lush, this orchestral Brahms – Gesang der Parzen masterpiece also features our local university choirs. With the combined choirs of Drury, Evangel, and Missouri State Universities Additionally, we are delighted to present American composer Amy Beach’s courtly and elegant Bal Masque for the first time Ravel – Daphnis and Chloe With the combined choirs of Drury, in Springfield, Missouri. Evangel, and Missouri State Universities GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR THIS CONCERT SPONSORED BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 9 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Symphonic Dances | MARCH 5, 2022 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM Hear the orchestra dance in this night of catchy rhythms and toe-tapping Florence Price – Dances melodies. We open with the evocative, jazzy, and nostalgic Dances in in the Canebrakes the Canebrakes by Florence Price, the first African-American woman Sergei Rachmaninoff – composer to have her work performed by major orchestras. We will also Symphonic Dances play Rachmaninoff’s fascinating Symphonic Dances, which was originally intended to be a ballet score, but eventually became a meditation on ecclesiastical chant motifs. THIS CONCERT SPONSORED BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 10 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON 2019 Hellam Competition Winner, Bryan Cheng, Cello Dance Around, Around | APRIL 2, 2022 At our final Classical masterworks concert of the season, we bring Europe’s PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM many dance traditions together. You will hear a traditional, elegant, and Strauss – Voices of Spring Waltz swirling Viennese waltz by Johann Strauss, Jr., the “Waltz King.” You will Tchaikovsky – Variations on a enjoy the stately and classical Rococo Variations with Hellam Competition Rococo Theme Winner Bryan Cheng on the cello. We conclude our concert with Mahler’s With Hellam Competition epic Symphony No. 1, which includes foot-stomping dances and yodeling Winner, Bryan Cheng, Cello from one of Mahler’s early songs, Hans und Grete. “Dance around, around!” Mahler – Symphony No. 1 – the song goes. “Let whoever is happy weave in and out! Let whoever has The Titan cares find his way home.” THIS CONCERT SPONSORED BY ALL DATES, TIMES, AND PROGRAMMING ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. 11 SPRINGFIELDMOSYMPHONY.ORG | 2021-2022 SEASON Alfonso Cid Beau Bledsoe Melinda Hedgecorth John Currey Flamenco! | MAY 7, 2022 PERFORMANCE: 7:30 PM POPS! We will finish our season of dance music with a Spanish flourish! Join An Evening of Flamenco us for a thrilling performance of Flamenco music with Kansas City’s own With Ensemble Iberica Flamenco group — Ensemble Iberica.