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CSO SCHOOL CONCERTS CSO FAMILY MATINEE SERIES February 10, 2017 • 10:15 & 12:00 February 11, 2017 • 11:00 & 12:45

312-294-3000 | CSO.ORG | 220 S. MICHIGAN AVE. | CHICAGO DON QUIXOTE “One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to SCHOOL CONCERTS February 10 reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.” 10:15 & 12:00 CSO FAMILY MATINEE SERIES ABOUT THE PROGRAM CONCERTS Strauss introduces us to Don Quixote with a When wrote the music for February 11 tune featuring the flute, and . 11:00 & 12:45 Don Quixote, he used the instruments of the The plays the gentle melody depicting orchestra to tell a very specific story. We call PERFORMERS Don Quixote’s imagined ladylove, Dulcinea. this “programmatic music.” The sounds and Chicago Symphony sound when Don Quixote imagines textures that Strauss composed dramatically depict Orchestra he is defending Dulcinea, but the music the characters and scenes from the Edwin Outwater quickly turns confusing as Don Quixote loses novel by Miguel de Cervantes. conductor himself in his wild dreams. Erika Gray Oliver Herbert Our hero is now portrayed by a solo cello Sandra Delgado actor FRANCE and his chattering sidekick Wesley Daniel is portrayed by a solo viola. Sancho Panza visual artist La MAnCha understands that Don Quixote’s mind is David Kersnar director racing with fantasies, but he’s devoted to PROGRAM INCLUDES his friend because he’s been promised an SELECTIONS FROM island at the end of their journey! R. STRAUSS PORTUGAL SPAIN Don Quixote HIS FIRST ADVENTURE In the distance, Don Quixote spies giants and gallops toward them with his sword drawn! ALGERIA What’s actually there is a giant windmill. One of WELCOME MOROCCO the blades hits Don Quixote when he attacks How far would you go the mill, causing him to slide off his horse and for the sake of honor land with a thud on the ground! Listen as the and valor? Richard instruments tell the story of this battle: the brass Strauss’ symphonic WHO IS DON QUIXOTE? instruments snort, the harp plays a downward tone poem uses the full glissando and the thumps. Finally, we Don Quixote is a middle-aged force of the orchestra hear the cello solo again as Don Quixote heads gentleman from the region of to tell the hilarious down the road in search of more adventures, La Mancha in central Spain. story of a knight errant continuing to believe that Obsessed with the idea of with the unshakable his dreams are real. chivalry, which he’s read about courage to pursue his in his books, Don Quixote dreams. Listen as the takes up his lance and sword amazing musicians of to defend the helpless and the Chicago Symphony destroy the wicked. Orchestra depict the courageous acts of Don Quixote.

2 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / DON QUIXOTE 3 AN ARMY OF SHEEP? ADVENTURES IN THE AIR AND ON THE WATER Although our heroes typically ride real horses into their exploits, they now In the next adventure, Strauss uses brass find themselves on a toy wooden horse, and they believe they are flying instruments to sound like bleating sheep, which through the air. (Notice the sound of the powerful .) Following Don Quixote believes are an approaching army. this adventure, they get into a boat near the edge of a dangerous river. Listen The fast and frantic music played by the basses as the dynamics get louder, portraying the increasing danger. When the boat portrays Don Quixote defeating the “army” in battle. capsizes, they are spit out onto the shore, drenched and dripping. Frustrated with their silly escapades, Sancho Panza (solo viola) begins to chatter away about the pointlessness of their quest. Sancho Panza tries to restore reason, but alas, Don Quixote gets carried away by another dream of chivalry. THE FINAL BATTLE In his final adventure, Don Quixote fights one last battle with the Knight of the White Moon, who is really a townsman in disguise. Next, he mistakes two monks for evil musicians. The monks can be heard in the duet for two . Can you hear the conversation the instruments are having as they play together? TO RESCUE... A STATUE Don Quixote comes upon a NIGHT FALLS group of chanting pilgrims, as Sancho Panza sleeps while THE QUEST IS OVER portrayed by the woodwinds, Don Quixote gets lost in Sad that his quest is over, Don Quixote bids farewell holding a statue of the Madonna. his ideas of knighthood and to his adventures and heads home. The bittersweet Unfortunately, our hero thinks the fair maiden Dulcinea. melody of the cello perfectly captures his sorrow. the statue is a girl needing to be His dreams get interrupted Don Quixote climbs into rescued. While trying to save her, when a common girl bed and ponders his he gets knocked to the ground from the village foolishness. Hear him by the pilgrims who continue on appears, playing wave goodbye in the final their procession. Can you hear the her . two chords of the piece. moment in the music when Don Don Quixote Quixote falls to the ground? is outraged, believing wizards have turned his love into this other girl!

4 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / DON QUIXOTE 5 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA / RICCARDO MUTI zell music director YO-YO MA Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant DUAIN WOLFE Chorus Director and Conductor MEeT SAMUEL ADAMS, ELIZABETH OGONEK Mead Composers-in-Residence THE CONDUCTOR VIOLINS Catherine Brubaker Robert Chen Youming Chen Alex Klein Jay Friedman EDWIN OUTWATER Concertmaster Sunghee Choi Principal Principal The Louis C. Sudler Wei-Ting Kuo The Nancy and Larry The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Chair, endowed by an Danny Lai Fuller Chair Principal Chair = anonymous benefactor Diane Mues Michael Henoch Michael Mulcahy in Ontario, Canada. Stephanie Jeong Lawrence Neuman Assistant Principal Charles Vernon Associate Concertmaster Daniel Orbach† The Gilchrist Director of summer concerts at the BASS TROMBONE = The Cathy and Bill Max Raimi Foundation Chair San Francisco Symphony. Charles Vernon Osborn Chair Weijing Wang Lora Schaefer Conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, David Taylor Scott Hostetler = , San Francisco Symphony, Yuan-Qing Yu Gene Pokorny John Sharp ENGLISH HORN Assistant Concertmasters* Principal Los Angeles Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, Principal Scott Hostetler So Young Bae The Arnold Jacobs among many others. The Eloise W. Martin Chair Cornelius Chiu Principal Tuba Chair, Kenneth Olsen Conducted the world premiere of The Composer Alison Dalton Stephen Williamson endowed by = Assistant Principal is Dead by Nathaniel Stookey and Lemony Snicket Gina DiBello Principal Christine Querfeld The Adele Gidwitz Chair Kozue Funakoshi John Bruce Yeh while he was resident conductor of the San Francisco Karen Basrak TIMPANI Russell Hershow Assistant Principal Symphony from 2001–2006. Loren Brown David Herbert Qing Hou Gregory Smith Richard Hirschl Principal Born in Santa Monica, California. Nisanne Howell J. Lawrie Bloom Daniel Katz The Clinton Family = Blair Milton Loves to read and earned his undergraduate degree Katinka Kleijn E-FLAT CLARINET Fund Chair Paul Phillips, Jr. = Jonathan Pegis† John Bruce Yeh Vadim Karpinos from Harvard University in English literature. Sando Shia† David Sanders Assistant Principal Susan Synnestvedt Gary Stucka Rong-Yan Tang J. Lawrie Bloom PERCUSSION Brant Taylor Cynthia Yeh Baird Dodge BASSOONS BASSES Principal Principal Keith Buncke Alexander Hanna Patricia Dash Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Principal Principal Vadim Karpinos Assistant Principal William Buchman The David and James Ross Lei Hou Assistant Principal Mary Winton Green ME T Ni Mei Dennis Michel LIBRARIANS e Principal Bass Chair Fox Fehling Miles Maner Peter Conover THE ARTISTS Daniel Armstrong Hermine Gagné Principal Roger Cline Rachel Goldstein Carole Keller Joseph DiBello Miles Maner DAVID KERSNAR, DIRECTOR Mihaela Ionescu Mark Swanson Michael Hovnanian Melanie Kupchynsky HORNS David is Interim Chairman of the Theatre Arts Department at Robert Kassinger ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Wendy Koons Meir Daniel Gingrich Monterey Peninsula College and an ensemble member with Mark Kraemer John Deverman Matous Michal Acting Principal Stephen Lester Director Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. He collaborated with the Simon Michal James Smelser Bradley Opland Anne MacQuarrie CSO most recently on Adventures with Aladdin in 2014. Aiko Noda David Griffin Manager, CSO Auditions Joyce Noh HARPS Oto Carrillo What will the audience see to accompany the orchestra’s and Orchestra Personnel Nancy Park Sarah Bullen Susanna Gaunt performance? As Richard Strauss’ musical score is played, Principal STAGE TECHNICIANS Ronald Satkiewicz TRUMPETS you will witness a daring experiment combining the CSO’s Lynne Turner Kelly Kerins Florence Schwartz Christopher Martin§ performance with live storytelling and projected visual art Stage Manager FLUTES Principal Dave Hartge being created right in front of the audience. It is a mixture Charles Pikler Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson The Adolph Herseth James Hogan of drawing, mixed material such as sand and paper and two Principal Principal Principal Chair, Peter Landry dimensional shadow puppets. The Paul Hindemith The Erika and Dietrich M. endowed by an Christopher Lewis Principal Viola Chair, Gross Principal Flute Chair anonymous benefactor Todd Snick What inspired this approach? In live theatre, we create visual endowed by an Richard Graef Mark Ridenour Joe Tucker images to tell a story. In music, sound inspires us to imagine pictures in our mind. I wanted to allow anonymous benefactor Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Strauss’ music to work its magic on the audience’s ears but also provide some theatrical imagery to Li-Kuo Chang Jennifer Gunn John Hagstrom Assistant Principal Tage Larsen help ignite imagination. By having a visual artist and storyteller create a musical journey along with the PICCOLO The Louise H. Benton audience, I hope to inspire future young artists hearing this music at the CSO today. My hope is that Jennifer Gunn the audience will have a deeper love of live music by the end of today as they see how each one of Wagner Chair John Bartholomew the artists is inspired by melodies in Strauss’ music. Hear more from David at cso.org/familyfare.

*Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. †On sabbatical §On leave The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the violins) change seats 6 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / DON QUIXOTE systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically. 7 INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA THE STRING FAMILY includes , viola, cello, bass and harp. These instruments are made of wood and strings, and are played by vibrating the strings using a bow or plucking or striking the strings with a fnger.

Violin Viola Cello Bass Harp THE WOODWIND FAMILY includes flute, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone. These instruments THE BRASS FAMILY includes horn, trumpet, all have the same basic shape: a long tube with a trombone, and tuba. Brass instruments mouthpiece at one end. The flute is played by blowing make a sound when the players vibrate their lips inside across a mouthpiece to create a vibration. Oboe, a mouthpiece, which is ftted into the instrument. The clarinet, bassoon and saxophone are all played by players can change pitch on a trumpet, horn or tuba by blowing air into a single or double reed attached to the pressing on valves. Trombone players change pitch by mouthpiece, creating a vibration that results in sound. moving the slide back and forth.

Trumpet Flute Clarinet Trombone Saxophone Tuba Horn Oboe Bassoon

THE PERCUSSION FAMILY includes , , gong, triangle, xylophone, timpani and piano, among many others. Percussion instruments are struck, scraped or shaken.

Timpani Snare Drum Xylophone Piano

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