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Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor SEASON Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor 2020 2021 SEASON Concert recordings, radio broadcasts, and more! 2 EUGENE SYMPHONY Contents Symphony Soundwaves VI 4 Orchestra Roster 5 Conductor 7 Soundwaves VI 8 Program Notes 11 About the Composers 9 Images of Eugene’s outdoor murals will 14 Key of E[ducation] be featured during Terry Riley’s In C. 18 Season Partners 19 Founders Society 20 Thank You to Our Supporters 23 Endowment Fund 24 Board of Directors and Administrative Staff 11 Learn more about Chinese-American composer, Chen Yi. 14 Meet the 2021 Eugene Symphony Guild Young Artist Competition Winners. JUNE 2021 3 Eugene Symphony ORCHESTRA ROSTER & PRODUCTION TEAM MUSIC DIRECTOR BASS MUSIC LIBRARIAN & CONDUCTOR Tyler Abbott Kristen Halay Francesco Lecce-Chong Forrest Moyer* Rick Carter CONDUCTING FELLOW & SCORE READER VIOLIN I Richard Meyn Daniel Cho Jenny Estrin Lisa McWhorter FLUTE AUDIO ENGINEERING Nathan Lowman Kristen Halay Bill Barnett, Gung Ho Studios Yvonne Hsueh Sophie Therrell OBOE HULT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Della Davies Annalisa Morton Theresa Sizemore, General Manager Anthony Dyer* Jeff Weinkauf, Technical Director Alwyn Wright* CLARINET Nathan Cox, Assistant Technical Director Michael Anderson Kim Weiland, Event Manager VIOLIN II Ruth Atcherson, Head Carpenter Matt Fuller BASSOON Dan Charter, Electrician Julia Frantz Ben Greanya Bruce Hartnell, Sound Technician Claudia Miller Caroline Barnes, Camera Operator David Burham HORN Virginia Sands, Camera Operator Mitchell Drury Jonathan Kuhns-Obana Kris Maenz, Camera Operator Marilyn Tyler Rocky Haffner, Shader and Robotic Camera Operator TRUMPET Stephen Chong* Allen Adams, Video Lead and Switcher Sarah Viens Clara Fuhrman* Eli Hollingsworth, Grip TROMBONE VIOLA VIDEO PRODUCTION Henry Henniger Shauna Keyes Attic Media, Inc. Lauren Elledge Ryan Postma TUBA Pamela Burovac Jessica Mitchell Michael Grose Anamaria Ghitea McKenzie Baldwin Dana Rokosny* PERCUSSION Arnaud Ghillebaert* EDITED BY Tim Cogswell Jessica Mitchell Ian Kerr CELLO Gordon Rencher Anne Ridlington GRAPHIC DESIGN Will Reno Kathryn Brunhaver Cricket Design Works James Pelley JLN Design HARP Ann Grabe Jane Allen Dale Bradley* VIDEO PERFORMANCE DIRECTED BY Nathan Cox Noah Seitz* PIANO Christine Mirabella PRODUCED BY Francesco Lecce-Chong Scott Freck *Orchestra 2 on Vaughan Williams 4 EUGENE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR Francesco Lecce-Chong Conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong is the Music Director of During his successful tenures as Associate Conductor the Eugene Symphony in Oregon, and the Santa Rosa Symphony, with the Milwaukee Symphony under Edo de Waart and the performing at the Green Music Center in Northern California. The Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck, Lecce-Chong press has described him as a “fast rising talent in the music world” also dedicated his time to opera, building his credentials with “the real gift” and recognized his dynamic performances, fresh as staff conductor with the Santa Fe Opera and conducted programming, deep commitment to commissioning and performing Madama Butterfly at the Florentine Opera with the new music as well as to community outreach. Lecce-Chong has Milwaukee Symphony. appeared with orchestras around the world including the San Lecce-Chong is the recipient of several distinctions, Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, including the prestigious Solti Foundation Award. Trained Atlanta Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, St. Louis also as a pianist and composer, he completed his studies Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic and collaborated with top at the Curtis Institute of Music with Otto-Werner Mueller soloists including Renée Fleming and Itzhak Perlman. after attending the Mannes College of Music and Accademia In spring 2019, Lecce-Chong debuted in subscription concerts Musicale Chigiana in Italy. He has had the privilege of being with the San Francisco Symphony. The San Francisco Chronicle mentored and supported by celebrated conductors including called his conducting “first rate” praising the “vitality and brilliance Bernard Haitink, David Zinman, Edo de Waart, Manfred of the music-making he drew from members of the San Francisco Honeck, Donald Runnicles and Michael Tilson Thomas. Symphony.” Other recent subscription debuts included the Colorado Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic and Xi’An Symphony Orchestra. Lecce-Chong has also returned to conduct the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Milwaukee and San Diego Symphony. The 19/20 season marked his debut with the New York Philharmonic as part of the legendary Young People’s Concert Series. In the 20/21 season, an unprecedented one for live orchestral music, Lecce-Chong will conduct virtual concerts with both the Santa Rosa and the Eugene Symphony, specifically created for online audiences. The performances will be streamed worldwide and will take a unique form of a cohesive musical journey complete with interviews with musicians. The programs will include music by living composers Jessie Montgomery, Gabriella Lena Frank and Chen Yi. Following the paths of renowned Music Directors of the Eugene and the Santa Rosa Symphonies including Marin Alsop, Giancarlo Guerrero and Jeffrey Kahane, Lecce-Chong has made his mark with the two orchestras introducing a series of new music and community initiatives. In 2019, the orchestras announced Lecce-Chong’s “First Symphony Project” commissioning four major orchestral works by young composers—Matt Browne, Gabriella Smith, Angélica Negrón and Michael Djupstrom—to be performed over several seasons accompanied by multiple composer residencies and community events. In Eugene, he has reinitiated family concerts and presented a number of innovative projects such as an original multimedia performance of Scriabin’s compositions engaging light and color. EUGENE SYMPHONY MUSIC DIRECTORS Lawrence Maves, Founding Conductor (1966–1981) William McGlaughlin (1981–1985) Adrian Gnam (1985–1989) Marin Alsop, Conductor Laureate (1989–1996) Miguel Harth-Bedoya (1996–2002) Giancarlo Guerrero (2002–2009) Danail Rachev (2009–2017) Francesco Lecce-Chong (2017– ) JUNE 2021 WE’VE GOT THE SPACES YOU’LL LOVE With gorgeous apartment homes up to 2,700 square feet and stunning community spaces, Cascade Manor offers abundant space to do the things you love while enjoying a maintenance-free lifestyle. Enjoy high-end finishes and amenities every day. We also bring UO Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes directly from the university campus to ours. Enjoy lifelong learning and healthcare peace of mind, in spaces you will love. Call today to learn about our special incentives and promotions. 541-434-5411 retirement.org/cascade Cascade Manor is a not-for-profit, resident-centered community. Cascade Manor is a Pacific Retirement Services community and an equal housing opportunity. 6 EUGENE SYMPHONY SOUNDWAVES VI Symphony Soundwaves VI Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor Recorded live on Thursday, May 20, 2021 Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts | Eugene, Oregon Zhou Tian Nocturne (b. 1981) John Cage Second Construction (1912–1992) Chen Yi Shuo (b. 1953) Daniel Cho, Conducting Fellow Terry Riley In C (b. 1935) Featuring imagery of Eugene’s outdoor murals Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1872–1958) This concert will be broadcast on KWAX-FM 91.1 on June 4, 2021 at 10 a.m. Broadcasts underwritten in part by Kernutt Stokes. JUNE 2021 7 Program Notes by Francesco Lecce-Chong We finish out our Soundwaves Just as adventurous and groundbreaking as Cage, Terry Riley series with three hallmarks of the was a pioneer in the minimalist movement of the 1950s and Eugene Symphony—supporting the 60s and he continues to be an active performer today. His In C talent of young artists at the start is the most famous work of minimalism and can be performed of their careers, collaborating with by any number of performers for nearly any length of time. community partners, and embracing Using a collection of 53 short musical fragments, performers are the intersection of music and other directed to repeat a fragment for however long they would like, art forms. Daniel Cho, currently a before moving on to the next fragment. On top of a repeated graduate conducting student at the “C”, a performer can move on or drop out at any point, but they University of Oregon, has been a are encouraged to stay within two fragments of each other so vital part of the Eugene Symphony the music gradually, sometimes imperceptibly, changes over for the past two seasons and we are time. Much like From the Other Place which we included in delighted to feature his debut with us on this final program. He our Soundwaves V program, the randomness described in the will be conducting Chen Yi’s Shuo. Also, on this program, you directions ultimately leads to an incredibly cohesive work of art have a chance to see imagery of some of the incredible murals that plays all sorts of games with a keen listener’s ear. around our city paired with Terry Riley’s In C. And last, through If Terry Riley’s In C is a piece constantly in motion, Vaughan the wonders of modern technology, we'll finally have a chance Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis could be to safely bring in our colleagues from the woodwind and brass considered glacial in sections to join us on this program! comparison. But what a Chen Yi and Zhou Tian are two widely performed Chinese- breathtakingly beautiful American composers who also just happen to be two of my glacier at that! Using favorite musical creators working today. I first came across Zhou a melody by the 16th- Tian through his Grammy nomination for his Concerto for century English composer Orchestra, written in 2016. I was instantly taken with the rich, of the title, Williams bold sounds of his orchestral writing and the unabashed intense creates an enchanting lyricism. Even in his Nocturne, written for just the string section, sound by dividing the there’s a beautiful directness and openness to his writing that section into three groups: brings the listener immediately into his sound world. a string quartet and two John Cage wrote his three Constructions between 1939 and separate string orchestras.
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