STETSON UNIVERSITY UPCOMING CONCERTS

April

12 Saturday University Symphonic Band Douglas Phillips, conductor 7:30 p.m. Lee Chapel

13 Sunday Senior Recital Jeremiah Riddle, violin 1:00 Lee Chapel

13 Sunday Brass Ensembles 3:00 Lee Chapel

13 Sunday Senior Recital Caroline Brazelton 6:45 p.m. Lee Chapel STETSON UNIVERSITY 13 Sunday Senior Recital Jeremy Vigil, piano 8:00 p.m. Lee Chapel SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

23 Wednesday Stetson Jazz Don Waldrop, director Anthony Hose, conductor 7:30 p.m. Stetson Room, Carlton Union Building James Bishop, saxophone 24 Thursday Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra Frostiana by Randall Thompson Andrew Larson, conductor Friday, April I 1, 2014 | 7:30 p.m. Chora! Union, Stetson Men and Concert Choir with Symphony Orchestra Lee Chapel, Elizabeth Hall Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein Anthony Hose, conductor 6:30 p.m. pre-concert talk by Timothy Peter 7:30 p.m. concert | First Baptist Church, DeLand

School of Music STETSON 421 N. Woodland Blvd., Unit 8399 | DeLand, FL 32723 UNIVERSITY stetson.edu/music | concert line 386-822-8947 April I I, 2014 | Lee Chapel STETSON UNIVERSITY PROGRAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Lohengrin Richard Wagner (1813-1883) FLUTE TROMBONE VIOLIN 2 Dylan King Stephanie Rasch-Chaves Mary Renfroe Prelude to Act III Amy Umlah Jason Terry principal Nathalie Maldonado Jacqueline Byl Kathryn Wolfe BASS TROMBONE co-principal Meghan Dempster Christopher Haines Kara Swanson A Village Romeo and Juliet Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Emily Miller The Walk to the Paradise Garden PICCOLO TUBA David Peralta Amy Umlah Jeremy Rumsey VIOLA OBOE TIMPANI Brett Chinander Scenes from Porgy and Bess George Gershwin (1898-1937) Ashleigh Stuart Joshua Albert co-principal arr. Jonah Blum Clay Whedbee Daniela Restrepo Alexa Grohowski co-principal James Bishop, saxophone ENGLISH HORN PERCUSSION Tatjana Muroski Nikki Holtzer Joshua Albert co-principal Ashleigh Stuart Daniela Restrepo Nicole Sastre Jacob Cruz Kristin Collins Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) CLARINET Ari Kravatsky Daniel Cortes Alborada Spencer Jones Ben Rolfe Douglas King Variazioni Cole Binkley Jaclyn Viadero Alborada Victoria Buffkin CELLO Ashley Yony HARP Ariel Arthur Scena e Canto Gitano Kelly Wells principal Fandango Asturiano BASSOON Joseph Rubano Alexa Carr VIOLIN 1 co-principal Ian Morin Austin Burket Marcus Jones Ari Kravatsky concertmaster Elise Derrico Rebeca Baquerizo Bridget Johnston HORN co-concertmaster Sarah Overton Ryan Morrison Jeremiah Riddle Lohengrin Velasquez Amy Di Marco Ashton Knowles Kyle Halpin Caitlin Brown BASS Aviel Tomar Chelsea Probus Timothy Huckaby Emily Lilavois principal TRUMPET Sean Strott Trey Moore co-principal Steven Vought Michael Clay Griffin Weber Cameron Michael Samantha Olek Kevin Deiter PROGRAM NOTES

PRELUDE TO ACT 111 FROM "LOHENGRIN" Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig on 22 March 1813. His mother remarried after Wagner's father died, and his new father- figure played an integral role in introducing Wagner to the world of theatre. Today, Wagner is known as one of the leading figures in Romantic German opera during the 19th century. His musical contributions are too many to list, but some of the most profound include the concept of Gesamkunstwerk or Unified Artwork, in which the text, music, and visual aspects of opera were all equally important, and his opera Tristan and Isolde, which is referred to by musicologists as the turning point of modern music. Another of Wagner's famous operas, Lohengrin, was premiered in August of 1850 under the direction of Franz Liszt, whose daughter Wagner would later marry. Unfortunately, Wagner was not present at the premiere; he was in political exile in Switzerland due to his involvement in an uprising in Dresden the previous year. Lohengrin is imbued with mythology, romance, betrayal, and tragedy, all elements that Wagner valued greatly in the production of a truly German opera. "Prelude to Act III" is often performed by itself, as it is musically independent and considered one of Wagner's flashiest works. An alternative ending by Toscanini is included in order to finalize the piece as a stand­ alone work, as the original ending would have carried on into the beginning of the act. This act is the final act of the opera, in which Elsa is to marry her mysterious knight but breaks her vow to never question his name or background. This reveals him as Lohengrin, the son of Parsifal and a Knight of the Holy Grail, and forces him to leave because his identity was compromised. Elsa dies of a broken heart. Despite the tragic ending of the act, the Prelude immediately follows their marriage at the end of Act II and has a triumphant, animated character. THE WALK TO THE PARADISE GARDEN a folk opera based on a novel by DuBose Heyward, and it crossed Frederick Theodore Alfred Delius was born in Yorkshire, England between traditional operatic forms and the showpiece style of on 29 January 1862 into the middle of what would become an Broadway musicals. The composer realized the piece's importance enormous and musical family - he had three brothers and ten even though its premiere was a flop. History has sided with sisters. His father wanted him to enter into the family wool Gershwin, as the opera is now considered one of the most business, but Delius showed no talent at the trade and tended to important pieces of American music. The opera takes place in an neglect his college studies to attend concerts and other musical all-black community in Charleston called "Catfish Row," and it events. Delius went on to study composition with Thomas Ward follows the love story between Porgy, a crippled beggar, and Bess, in Florida and returned to study formally in Germany when he a woman involved with criminals and drug dealers. The finally received his father's approval. By the beginning of the 20th arrangement by Jonah Blum, Scenes from Porgy and Bess, is a tone century, Delius had become a successful figure with the support poem written for the saxophonist Frederick Hemke, and features of many well-known people in the musical community, such as the songs "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" "I Got Plenty 0' Nuttin," Grieg and Beecham. In this time, he wrote what many consider his "Gone, Gone, Gone," "I Loves You Porgy," and "Summertime" first masterpiece, the opera A Village Romeo and Juliet The opera is based on the novel by Gottfried Keller in which the tragic love CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL story is reset into a peasant community. Delius wrote his own Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born on 18 March 1844 in Tikhvin, libretto for the opera and divided it into six sections. 'The Walk Russia. When he was twelve and enrolled in a naval academy in St. to the Paradise Garden" was not in the original score; Delius Petersburg, he was introduced to the concept of the orchestra added the piece to accommodate a long scene change in the during an opera performance. Rimsky-Korsakov became obsessed Berlin production. The Paradise Garden was a significant location with the sounds of individual instruments, and this budding for the lovers, Sali and Vretchen, as it represented their only interest in music developed gradually into a full-fledged musical escape from the suffering caused by a feud between their families. career that overlapped with his naval career. At the zenith of his Delius' tone poem captures the serenity of the garden and the musical fame, Rimsky-Korsakov had written a treatise on calm momentum of the lovers' gait as they shed their sorrows and orchestration, published a phenomenal repertoire of orchestral walk towards their personal paradise. literature, and heavily promoted Russian music by becoming an integral member of the "Russian Five." Rimsky-Korsakov wrote SCENES FROM PORGY AND BESS Capriccio Espagnol for the orchestra of the Saint Petersburg George Gershwin was born on 26 September 1898 in Brooklyn, Imperial Opera in the summer of 1887. The piece features many New York, the second child of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, solo parts across the five movements; the violin is the most and died tragically of a brain tumor. He and his elder brother, Ira, prominent and recurring soloist, as the early conception of the became interested in music at a young age through their exposure piece planned to feature a concerto-style violin soloist with to local theatres. Gershwin studied piano and started his career orchestra. The opening movement, Alborada, presents a theme by writing songs for a publishing firm. He became heavily involved that appears again in the third movement and at the very end of with popular music in New York, including jazz, vaudeville, and the fifth and final movement. The second movement presents a Broadway shows. His first classical success was Rhapsody in Blue, calmer variant of the theme, and the fourth movement opens with and his time in France inspired another hit, the well-known piece a series of solo parts and a rousing gypsy dance. An American in Paris. Gershwin's Porgy and Bess was what he called Program notes by Alexa Grohowski