THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY 2019-2020

RISE UP MUSIC THAT INSPIRES AND UPLIFTS

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September 20 and 21 The DiMenna Center for Classical Music 450 West 37th Street

MUSIC BY Michael Boyman Jeremy Crosmer Eric Ewazen Aaron Copland Leonard Bernstein George Gershwin

CONDUCTORS Matthew Aubin Nell Flanders

FEATURED ARTISTS Mitsuru Kubo Nautilus Brass Quintet Alicia Bennett WELCOME to the 2019-2020 Concert Season!

Dear friends,

This past June, we had the great honor of welcoming John musicians rotatng as featured soloists, composers, and Corigliano to two performances of his towering Symphony conductors. And for the fourth straight year, we will contnue No. 1. Aferwards he raved: “The Chelsea Symphony gave our partnership with the NYC Department of Correcton to a stunning performance of my First Symphony. It is a very bring music to underserved carceral populatons. difcult work, and they played it superbly. I was amazed at the truly frst-rate playing of the accomplished instrumentalists.” Thank you for your support of The Chelsea Symphony, and While Corigliano’s score is deeply turbulent at tmes—he we hope you will join us ofen this season! wrote the piece in the 1980s as a searing response to the AIDS epidemic—the fnal impression the music leaves is of gentle waves of sound, suggestng tmelessness. Amidst Sincerely, harrowing personal and societal circumstances, Corigliano demonstrates that music has the transcendent ability to bring peace. Matthew Aubin and Mark Seto Artstc Directors In this same spirit of hope, we are delighted to present our 2019-20 season, RISE UP: Music That Inspires and Uplifs. Our concerts this year showcase music that celebrates the enduring possibilites of humanity, even in the face of adversity: Sergei Prokofev’s Fifh Symphony, writen and premiered in the closing months of World War II; Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral, a loving tribute to a brother lost to cancer; and beloved works by Mozart, Mahler, and Bernstein. We are proud to feature one of our most diverse lineups of composers ever, from marginalized voices of the past (Amanda Maier-Röntgen, Fernande Breilh-Decruck) to dynamic emerging musicians.

Our fourteenth season features fve world premieres writen especially for TCS, and we are thrilled to contnue our annual compositon contest for early-career musicians in partnership with acclaimed conductor and composer Gerard Schwarz. Every concert will showcase The Chelsea Symphony’s unique collaboratve structure, with our

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY WELCOME LETTER VIOLIN OBOE ALTO SAXOPHONE THE PROGRAM Veronica Riner** Jacob Slatery Rob Wilkerson Stan Chen Zach Larimer Eric Schultz Camille Enderlin Dan Shengquan TENOR SAXOPHONE Matthew Aubin conductor Nell Flanders* CLARINET Aaron Irwin Naomi Florin Alicia Bennet* Jon De Lucia Minerva Ho MICHAEL BOYMAN Sonata for String Orchestra (World Premiere) Christne Todd (b. 1989) Laura Huton BARITONE SAXOPHONE i. Energized Angela Shankar ii. Foreboding Hee eun Kim Kyle Landry Nikki Kim BASSOON TUBA E.J. Lee Tilden Marbit JEREMY CROSMER Masks: A Heroine's Tale (NYC Premiere) Ben Stapp Mitsuru Kubo viola Stephen McDougall Graham Melissa Kritzer (b. 1987) Thomas Purcell Ben Vokits Friday only Kyulee Seo TRUMPET i. Masquerade PIANO Emily Wong Rebecca Steinberg ii. Energico (H.Y.N) Candace Chien Victoria Yam Walker Beard* iii. Threnody (C.V.H) Aviv Zalcenstein Peter Kuan TIMPANI/PERCUSSION iv. Ostinato Mechanique (M.R.H) v. Orange Wildflower (E.P.S) Caitlin Featherstone Christopher McWilliams VIOLA Phil Parsons* Ian Taggart Brian Thompson Tamika Gorski ERIC EWAZEN Shadowcatcher for Brass Quintet and Orchestra Mike Boyman* HORN Scot Stll (b. 1954) Nautilus Brass Quintet Emily Wong Rebecca Chaqor Saturday only Adam Schommer Sasha Friedenburg i. Offering to the Sun Mitsuru Kubo* Meredith Moore ii. Among the Aspens Nicolas Mirabile Emma Reber iii. The Vanishing Race Mathew Aubin* iv. Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon CELLO Sue Rangeley TROMBONE Richard Beals Mathew Stewart Morgan Fite Alicia Furey INTERMISSION Danielle Merlis Jeremy Loudon* Jennifer Shaw Owen Caprell Violet Wang Nathan Wood Nell Flanders conductor

BASS Fanfare for the Common Man Morton Cahn AARON COPLAND (1900–1990) Nick Buonincontri NAUTILUS BRASS QUINTET Rika Buonincontri Walker Beard and Philip Parsons, trumpet Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs Tim Kiah LEONARD BERNSTEIN Julia Cavagnaro, horn (1918–1990) Alicia Bennett clarinet FLUTE Jeremy Loudon, trombone i. Prelude Kim Lewis Benjamin Vokits, tuba ii. Fugue Dirk Wels iii. Riffs Michelle Stockman GEORGE GERSHWIN An American in Paris (1898–1937)

FIN * Featured Artst ** Concertmaster

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY THE PROGRAM Mitsuru’s future engagements include a The members of NBQ hail from various FEATURED ARTISTS residency at Washington State University paths within the music industry including and a return solo appearance with the symphony orchestras, teaching studios, She went on to contnue her educaton at Jackson Symphony Orchestra. and concert producton, but their synergy the Peabody Insttute of Music under the when together as a chamber ensemble is tutelage of Victoria Chiang, completng Photo by Aaron Austn undeniable and an exhilaratng experience her Graduate Performance Diploma. in live performance.

Mitsuru has atended festvals all over the country, including Marrowstone Music Festval, the Heifetz Insttute, Centrum Chamber Music Festval, and the Aspen Music Festval. Her performance opportunites include playing for classical music greats Yo-Yo Ma, Marin Alsop, Richard Goode, Gil Shaham and James Galway to name a few. Her performance credits include venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Mitsuru Kubo viola United Natons, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Mitsuru Kubo is a homegrown, dynamic Center, and the Hammerstein Ballroom musician. You could say she began in NYC. studying music in the womb, while her mother studied piano performance in Recently, Mitsuru has been sought afer The Nautlus Brass Quintet college. A natve of Seatle, Mitsuru grew as a soloist. She has collaborated with Alicia Bennet clarinet up in a home that revolved around music; conductor Mathew Aubin and composer Firmly commited to the creaton and she even lived with her frst piano teacher Jeremy Crosmer to premiere new works performance of new works for brass Clarinetst Alicia Bennet is actve – her mother! She rebelled against with both the Jackson Symphony instruments, the Nautlus Brass Quintet as a performer and teacher in the conventon at the age of 7 by choosing Orchestra and The Chelsea Symphony. (NBQ) has established itself as a premier area. She is on faculty the viola as her primary instrument. The Mitsuru has contnues to expand on new music ensemble. Since its founding at the 92Y, Bloomingdale School of highlight of her early musician life was as a range of musical styles. Mitsuru co- in 2010, the NBQ has premiered over Music, and Turtle Bay Music School; a devoted member of the Seatle Youth wrote and recorded an album with 23 works through collaboratons with additonally, Alicia is a teaching artst Symphonies, performing with them alternatve pop/rock band Sonic Cult, commissioning partners such as New for the 92Y's Discover Music program. frequently at Benaroya Hall, Key Arena, with whom she toured across the US, York City’s “Vox Novus” and the Women Alicia specializes in playing chamber Meany Hall, and Safeco Field. Korea, and Japan. Mitsuru is a founding Composers Festval of Hartord, as well and orchestral music, and loves playing member of the BeneSori String Quartet, as maintaining an open call for scores opera and new music whenever she has At age 12, she travelled abroad to study members of which she met on the set of from composers around the world. the chance. in Seoul, South Korea at the prestgious NBC’s Saturday Night Live, playing for and compettve Sun Hwa Performing Imagine Dragons. She is also a regular NBQ strives to proliferate accessibility In March of 2018, Alicia was a featured Arts School. Upon returning to Seatle member of The Chelsea Symphony, to cultivated brass chamber music soloist with The Chelsea Symphony playing fve years later, she studied with Helen New England Symphonic Ensemble, and through educational partnerships Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto. Along Callus at the University of Washington – Westchester Music of India Group. that have included the University of with friends from The Chelsea Symphony, Mitsuru later followed Professor Callus Connecticut, San Jose State University, Alicia can be spoted in a handful of to the University of California, Santa In additon to her performance career, episodes in the Golden Globe-award- Barbara. While in California, Mitsuru was Mitsuru is a dedicated teacher. Along Virginia Commonwealth University, winning TV Original series Mozart Assistant Director of the Santa Barbara with her private studio, she is on faculty and the Ossen Fund for the Arts, Youth Symphony’s Preparatory String at Love Viola USA, Friends With Music, among others. in the Jungle. Orchestra and was a frequent freelancer. and the 4Strings Music Festval.

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY FEATURED ARTISTS Alicia received her Bachelor of Arts degree compositon, studying privately with Breilh-Decruck featuring soloists from the In additon to his conductng work, from the University of New Mexico Justn Dello Joio. He received his New York Philharmonic and President’s Mathew Aubin is the foremost scholar in Albuquerque, and her master’s and Master's Degree in Compositon from the Own Marine Band, amongst others. of the French composer Fernande doctoral degrees in clarinet performance Manhatan School of Music, where he Breilh-Decruck. He has earned multple from Stony Brook University. studied privately with Richard Danielpour. In his role at The Chelsea Symphony, research grants to study her signifcant Michael is currently the Operatons Mathew Aubin has signifcantly expanded life and work. A champion of the critcal Photo by Masataka Suemitsu Coordinator at Carnegie Hall. the symphony’s prestge and recogniton role of women in compositon, Dr. through highly visible projects such Aubin is working to promote Decruck’s as collaboratons with the television newly discovered lost music. He has series Mozart in the Jungle, the American edited and created critcal editons of Museum of Natural History in New York her work, which are now in the process City, and The Chelsea Symphony’s annual of publicaton, and has organized competton for emerging New York area performances of Decruck’s music in the composers with high profle adjudicators United States and abroad. such as Conductor Laureate of the Seatle Symphony and music director of the All- Mathew Aubin contnues to be Star Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz. Aubin has actve as a freelance horn player and led TCS in their Lincoln Center Debut and regularly performs across the country. conducted the New York City premieres A devoted music educator, Aubin's past of works by Mark O’Connor, Fazil Say, associatons include Assistant Professor and Caroline Shaw, and many others. He of Music at Washington State University, also designed and conducted a series of adjunct faculty at The Hart School, and outreach concerts for inmates on Rikers Educatonal Programs Conductor for the Michael Boyman composer Mathew Aubin conductor Island through a contnued relatonship Hartord Symphony Orchestra. with the NYC Department of Correcton. Composer and violist Michael Boyman A passionate advocate for American is always searching for the perfect and contemporary music, Mathew balance of form and expression. His Aubin has conducted and performed music ofen tells a story, whether internatonally from Carnegie Hall to the from literature, visual art or personal Musikverein and many stops in between. experience, and he aims to present that Currently in his third season as Music story in the most vivid and emotonally Director of the Jackson Symphony intense way. Michael is the recipient Orchestra, Aubin also serves as Artstc of the BMI William Schuman Award Director for The Chelsea Symphony and was recently featured in the in New York City. He regularly serves 2017 Minnesota Orchestra Composer as a conductor and consultant for flm Insttute. His music is published by and television including collaboratons Theodore Presser Company. with the Golden Globe award-winning television series Mozart in the Jungle, An alumnus of the New York Youth Younger, and feature flms Joker and Symphony, Michael served as principal Bel Canto. Upcoming engagements violist of the orchestra and was a member include the Symphonic Orchestra of of Making Score, the organizaton's the Teatro de Paz in Brazil, Washington compositon program. Michael is a State University, The Hart School, and graduate of New York University, where an orchestral recording project of the he studied politcal science and music concert of French composer Fernande

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY FEATURED ARTISTS the Symphony Orchestra, and teaches conductng and violin lessons. She is PROGRAM NOTES also currently directng the Symphonic Wind Ensemble at Queens College. Sonata for String Orchestra the Nocturnes of Chopin. This melody Since 2016, Ms. Flanders has been MICHAEL BOYMAN (B. 1989) becomes unstable when a solo violin the conductor and music director of creeps in with a slithery, chromatc line. the advanced orchestra of the Youth This sonata has no literal program, but it This intmates the arrival of the second Music Camp of the Natonal Concert does follow a clear emotonal trajectory kind of night music: the creepy, bump- Associaton in Panama City, Panama. - from the vitality and life-afrming in-the-night atmosphere as sometmes rhythms of the frst movement, to the found in Mahler and Bartok. Like the frst As a violinist, Ms Flanders has performed ambiguity of the second movement, to movement, "Foreboding" is a dichotomy as soloist with the Chelsea Symphony the aggression and brutality of the fnale. between two contrastng types of music. and the Philharmonisch Orkest Mozart in Writng it was a personal challenge to Amsterdam. Her orchestral work includes say something unique and compelling The third movement, "Ferocious," (not Nell Flanders conductor performances with the Netherlands within a well-established form (calling it performed this evening), is pure hostlity Philharmonic Orchestra and a symphony seemed too grandiose). and aggression. There are no more Nell Flanders’ conductng credits Opera Theater among many others. A fully formed melodies as found in the include performances with the Bufalo musician of great versatlity, she plays The frst movement, "Energized," is a frst two movements; everything is Philharmonic Orchestra, The Princeton in a variety of genres, including classical, tghtly-knit essay in sonata form. It fragmented and unstable. There is a Symphony, and the Chelsea Symphony. baroque, blues and contemporary, with begins with rapid 16th notes that form a brief reprieve from a quartet of violas In her role as Assistant Conductor with ensembles including Corky Siegel’s rising and falling fgure, gradually building recalling the romantc atmosphere of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Blues, Dorian Baroque, and toward a climax. This leads to a more the previous movement, but the relief she conducted the premiere of a new Pocket Opera Players. expansive melody played by the violins, doesn't last long. The tension increases, choreography of Beauty and the Beast, with a repeatng triplet accompaniment. becoming ever more manic and brutal, and during the 2019-20 season she A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory These two characteristc rhythms - untl the piece ends defant and pitless. will be leading the orchestra in run out with a Bachelor of Music degree in artculated 16th notes and slurred concerts and the orchestra’s annual violin performance and a minor in piano triplets - form the building blocks and — Michael Boyman holiday concert. She was previously performance, Ms. Flanders received a generate the tension of the movement. assistant conductor for Peabody Opera Master of Music degree in orchestral The development secton, instead of Theater and served as cover conductor conductng from the Mannes School of increasing the drama or intensity, strives Masks: A Heroine’s Tale for JoAnn Falleta with the Bufalo Music- The New School and is currently to create a kind of stasis by delving JEREMY CROSMER (B. 1987) Philharmonic. An enthusiastc proponent pursuing a Doctoral degree in orchestral deeper into the rising and falling motve of today’s music, Ms. Flanders has conductng with Marin Alsop at the found at the beginning. The dramatc Masks: A Heroine’s Tale was writen conducted orchestral premieres with Peabody Conservatory. climax is saved for the reprise of the in 2018 for Mathew Aubin, Mitsuru groups including The Secret Opera In additon to her musical work, Nell long-lined violin theme, now expanded Kubo and the Jackson Symphony Company, Peabody’s Now Hear This enjoys rock climbing, dancing Argentne and impassioned. The movement Orchestra. It is a concerto for viola ensemble, MACE, and The Chelsea tango, and exploring other cultures ends with a brief coda directly pitng and orchestra which celebrates the Symphony, as well as conductng the through travel and language study slurred triplets against 16th note strength of women, in contrast to the premiere of Jochem Le Cointre’s opera scales. The triplets reappear in the next male-focused romantc tone poems of Steppenwolf at the New School. Photo by Ann Walsh movement, becoming more aggressive the 19th and 20th centuries (Don Juan, and obsessive. Ein Heldenleben, Harold in Italy, etc.). Deeply commited to educatng the Each movement draws atenton to the next generaton of musicians and music The second movement, "Foreboding," diferent ways in which women shine lovers, Ms. Flanders is on the faculty features two diferent kinds of music in society. “Masquerade” refers to the of the Manhatan School of Music associated with the night. It begins with way in which women have had to put Precollege Division where she conducts a hushed, romantc melody inspired by on a façade in order to be accepted

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY as equals. “Energico” highlights the Shadowcatcher for “The Vanishing Race” adapts Natve all the dirty work in the war and the forttude and vigor of a female fghter. Brass Quintet and Orchestra American songs memorializing the dead, army. He deserved a fanfare.” The piece “Threnody” is about the beauty of love ERIC EWAZEN (B. 1954) at turns solemn, angry, and proud. The was frst performed in March of 1943, and compassion in death. “Ostnato famous 1906 image depicts a group of around income tax tme in another nod Mechanique” is about glorifying women Eric Ewazen’s Shadowcatcher for Brass Navajo on horseback heading towards a to the common man, and it has become, in science, and “Orange Wildfower” Quintet and Orchestra was inspired dark and uncertain destnaton. in the words of Copland’s friend and is about burstng through inhibitve by four photographs by the famous champion Leonard Bernstein, “the restraints and shining as a unique American photographer, Edward Curts. The fnal movement, “Dancing to world’s leading hit tune.” In additon to individual. The darker, more subdued Known for his portraits of Natve Restore an Eclipsed Moon”, refers to a its frequent use in popular culture, the color of the solo viola, as opposed to Americans and scenes of indigenous life, 1914 image of Pacifc Northwest coast Fanfare for the Common Man has ofen a violin or cello, is representatve of Curts was called ‘Shadowcatcher’ by Kwakiutl dancers, ostensibly performing been performed for state occasions, the plight of the female warrior as the some of those whom he photographed. a ceremony to induce the moon to such as the inaugural celebratons of underdog rising to conquer. Though not a true ethnologist (it reappear following an eclipse. The music both President Clinton and President has been revealed that many of the programmatcally depicts the onset Obama, and the inauguraton of the Jeremy Crosmer is a remarkable young scenes and portraits were staged to and peak of the eclipse, culminatng September 11th Memorial and Museum artst, both as a cellist and a composer. appear more ‘authentcally Indian’), in a cadenza for the brass quintet, and in New York. In the late 1930’s and Crosmer completed multple graduate Curts’ mult-volume oeuvre The North ending with the peaceful and happy early 40’s, Copland was composing in a degrees from the University of Michigan American Indian, is an indisputably reappearance of the moon. style which he described as “vernacular,” in cello, compositon and theory important work, presentng thousands using a more accessible harmonic pedagogy, and received his D.M.A. in of images of Natve Americans with a — Stephen McDougall Graham language and folk song idioms. Other 2012 at age 24. From 2012 to 2017, he sensitvity and respect uncharacteristc works composed around the same tme served as the Assistant Principal cellist for his tme. which share the same aura of American in the Grand Rapids Symphony, and Fanfare for the Common Man patriotsm are his ballets Billy the Kid, joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra The frst movement, “Ofering to the Sun” AARON COPLAND (1900 - 1990) Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring, and the in May of 2017. He is the composer draws inspiraton from Natve American flms Of Mice and Men and Our Town. and arranger for the GRS Music for fute music, and is characterized by Copland composed his Fanfare for the Health Initatve, which pairs symphonic a complex and improvisatonal style. Common Man in 1942 on a commission The Fanfare begins with a solemn, musicians with music therapists to bring Curts’ photograph of 1925 depicts from the Cincinnat Symphony menacing motve in the bass drum, classical music to hospitals. Crosmer a Tewa man, arms raised, seemingly Orchestra. CSO Music Director tam tam, and tmpani, out of which is a founding member of the modern honoring the sunrise. A pensive chorale Eugene Goossens came up with this the trumpet fanfare rises with noble music ensemble Lattude 49, and a culminates in a representaton of a project to support the war efort strength. Copland’s uses his signature current member of the band ESME, a breaking dawn. and build morale by beginning each open fourths and ffhs to evoke the pop-classical mash-up duo that released program of the 1942-43 season with a majesty of the American West and the its frst CD in December of 2016. The second movement, “Among the newly commissioned fanfare, eighteen indomitable spirit of the fronter. The Crosmer was awarded the prestgious Aspens” is inspired by an image Curts of them in all, writen primarily by fanfare theme builds and develops, Theodore Presser Graduate Music captured in 1926 of a Chippewa tpi American composers. Copland took adding frst the horns, then trombones Award to publish, record and perform situated in a grove of Aspen trees the inspiraton for his fanfare from a and tuba, interspersed with the his Crosmer-Popper duets. Crosmer has next to a stream. Drum beats and speech by then Vice-President Henry thundering of the percussion motve. taught music theory, pre-calculus and pentatonic melodies transiton to a A. Wallace, who said, “Some have The harmonizaton of the fanfare gets cello at universites across Michigan. scherzo simulatng the rushing waters spoken of the American Century. I progressively richer, and eventually the of the stream. say that the century on which we are percussion reconciles with the brass for — Jeremy Crosmer entering, the century which will come a triumphant conclusion. out of this war, can be and must be the century of the common man.” Copland — Nell Flanders more colloquially put it that “it was the common man, afer all, who was doing

THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY PROGRAM NOTES Prelude, Fugue, and Rifs bitng reedy artculatons that explore to teach him, fearful of disruptng As in my other orchestral compositons, (1949) the color palete of the saxophone Gershwin’s unique and powerful music I've not endeavored to represent LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918 - 1990) family; fnally, a punctuated piano 'break' voice. Gershwin eventually found any defnite scenes in this music. The leads into the Rifs secton of the piece teachers to help him develop his rhapsody is programmatc only in a Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue, and that features the clarinet playing melodic skills in harmony, counterpoint, and general impressionistc way, so that Rifs was originally writen in 1949 for rifs which are eventually traded of and orchestraton, the results of which we the individual listener can read into the clarinetst Woody Herman and his big bounced around the rest of the band. hear in his delightul piece, An American music such episodes as his imaginaton band. Unfortunately, Herman's big The middle 'swing' unison of the Rifs in Paris. pictures for him. band split before the piece could be reminds us that we are indeed listening premiered so it went into Bernstein's to a big band (how hard we swing is yet Composed in 1928, An American in Paris The opening gay secton is followed fles for later use. A few years later to be determined). The piece culminates sparkles with the vibrant energy of the by a rich blues with a strong rhythmic Bernstein rededicated the piece to in a fnal furry of rif-delirium played 1920’s. Gershwin made several trips to undercurrent. Our American friend, Benny Goodman (who went on to by all, that crashes to a halt with a Europe, and it was during his second of perhaps afer strolling into a café record it with Bernstein conductng), sustained high-note trill in the clarinet, these, in 1926, that he came up with and having a couple of drinks, has but Prelude, Fugue, and Rifs was frst followed by a fnal two-note “hit” by the the idea of composing a symphonic succumbed to a spasm of homesickness. performed and premiered by clarinetst rest of the band. work with a loose, episodic structure, The harmony here is both more intense Al Gallodoro (well known in his depictng a nostalgic American tourist and simpler than in the preceding pages. own right as the lead alto sax in the — Alicia Bennet experiencing the sounds and energy of This blues rises to a climax, followed by Orchestra and bass Paris. It was on this trip that he bought a coda in which the spirit of the music clarinetst with the NBC Symphony two of the taxi horns that feature in the returns to the vivacity and bubbling Orchestra under ) on An American In Paris work. He returned to Paris in the spring exuberance of the opening part with the 1955 televised Omnibus series GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898 - 1937) of 1928, bought two more horns, and its impression of Paris. Apparently the enttled “What is Jazz?” Worth notng that summer, with a commission for an homesick American, having lef the café for the purposes of this program The three composers on the second orchestral work from Walter Damrosch and reached the open air, has disowned is Bernstein's lifelong regard and half of today’s program have much in and the New York Philharmonic, he his spell of the blues and once again is admiraton for the work of George common. Born within twenty years of set to work, completng the piano an alert spectator of Parisian life. At the Gershwin, who's music he was known one another around the turn of the sketch on August 1st. In an interview conclusion, the street noises and French to program alongside his own for twenteth century, all three were the in Musical America later that month, he atmosphere are triumphant.” concerts during his 40 year conductng children of Eastern European Jewish described the work as follows: tenure at the New York Philharmonic. immigrants, and all three forged their The orchestraton of the work is It is my guess that he would strongly own distnctvely American sound by “This new piece, really a rhapsodic partcularly noteworthy, with the approve of the programmatc pairing of incorporatng elements of popular styles ballet, is writen very freely and is the unusual inclusion of the Parisian taxi his own Prelude, Fugue, and Rifs with such as blues, jazz, popular song, and most modern music I've yet atempted. horns, a trio of saxophones, lots of Gershwin's American In Paris. Both American folk music into their classical The opening part will be developed in percussion colors, and the delightul are representatve of the indelible compositons. While Copland and typical French style, in the manner of use of the solo voices of the diferent infuence of jazz on symphonic and Bernstein both had highly pedigreed Debussy and the Six, though all the instruments of the orchestra, especially orchestral music presented in concert musical training, Copland with Nadia themes are original. My purpose is to the trumpet solo in the central slow halls worldwide. Boulanger in Paris, and Bernstein portray the impression of an American blues secton. at Harvard and Curts, Gershwin’s visitor in Paris, as he strolls about the Prelude, Fugue, and Rifs has three career as a classical composer grew city and listens to various street noises — Nell Flanders distnct sectons: the Prelude features, out of his extremely successful career and absorbs the French atmosphere. trumpets, trombones, and drums as a composer of popular songs and playing a driving rhythmic fanfare that musicals and his work as a popular alternates between angular rhythms and song pianist. Gershwin did go to Paris swung melodies; the Fugue features the seeking instructon from Boulanger and saxophones with swoony melodies and Maurice Ravel, but both of them refused

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ABOUT Aiken, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Tony While maintaining its home base in the Brooklyn Music School. Beginning Award winner Lillias White, Broadway Manhatan’s Chelsea neighborhood, in the 2016 season, TCS has been The Chelsea Symphony is a dynamic, composer Seth Rudetsky, the Irish Tenors, the orchestra has broadened its reach honored to present a concert series on self-governing ensemble with a major and for fashion events for designers Malan in recent years. The ensemble made Rikers Island, and is the frst and only cultural presence in Manhatan’s Breton and Kenzo x H&M. The orchestra’s its Lincoln Center debut in 2011, and orchestra to perform inside the facility. Chelsea neighborhood. We present annual holiday concert has featured guest has presented concerts at the United music of the highest caliber while celebrites Richard Kind, David Hyde Natons, Bargemusic, Symphony Space, The Chelsea Symphony performed upending the traditonal hierarchy of the Pierce, Ana Gasteyer, Charles Busch, New York Fashion Week, Central Park, at the premiere event for the pilot of classical orchestra: our musicians rotate Andrea Martn, Rachel Dratch, Mo Rocca, Alice Tully Hall, David Gefen Hall (then the Amazon Original Series Mozart as featured soloists, conductors, and Victor Garber, BD Wong, Seth Rudetsky, Avery Fisher Hall), Merkin Concert Hall, in the Jungle in December 2014 at composers. Through this collaboratve Judy Gold, and Annie Golden narratng The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Alice Tully Hall. Members of TCS model, we provide professional The Night Before Christmas by Aaron Dai. and the American Museum of Natural have served as consultants for and development opportunites for our History. From 2013-16, the orchestra can be seen in all four seasons of the members while performing inspiring A champion of new music, The Chelsea launched an educatonal programming Emmy and Golden Globe-winning concerts of music both old and new. Symphony has given the frst performance initatve and has collaborated with the show as well as heard in the seminal of more than ffy compositons and Harmony Program, the United Palace third season episode “Not Yet Titled,” HOW WE WORK presented many regional premieres. Theatre in Washington Heights, and all available now on Amazon.com. Nearly every one of the orchestra’s The Chelsea Symphony is a non-proft, concerts features a work by a living self-governing orchestra that aims to American composer. In 2009, the provide performance opportunites ensemble presented open rehearsals for its musicians while operatng at an of Séance on a Wet Afernoon, the new afordable scale. Soloists, conductors, opera by legendary Wicked composer and featured composers all come from and Academy Award winner Stephen within the orchestra’s ranks, and earn Schwartz, in advance of the work’s this beneft by playing in the orchestra. premiere by Opera Santa Barbara. In 2013, Our administratve operatons are also the orchestra gave the New York City handled by members of the ensemble. premieres of the Americana Symphony and The Improvised Violin Concerto by Grammy Award-winning violinist and composer HISTORY Mark O’Connor—a performance that Founded in 2005 by young conductors was featured in . Yaniv Segal and Miguel Campos Neto, The Chelsea Symphony’s debut studio The Chelsea Symphony has established a recording, Joy and Sorrow, a collecton reputaton as one of the most innovatve of world premiere compositons by ensembles in the New York metropolitan renowned composer David Chesky, was area. Shortly afer its incepton, the released in September 2015. In the 2014- orchestra was featured in WNYC’s “Salute 2015 season, the orchestra initated a to the Arts” Initatve, and Steve Smith of compositon contest for early-career The New York Times praised the ensemble composers adjudicated by Conductor for its “earnest, vibrant” playing. The Laureate of the Seatle Symphony and Chelsea Symphony has collaborated with music director of the All-Star Orchestra many noteworthy artsts, including Clay Gerard Schwarz, now in its ffh year.

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THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY | HERE TO STAY PAST WINNERS Finalists and Honorable Mentons listed in alphabetcal order

COMING SOON 2019-20 2015-16 THE CHELSEA SYMPHONY Winning entry: Winning entry: In Between, Aaron Israel Levin Dawn, Paul Frucht Finalists: Finalists: COMPOSITION COMPETITION Augustne's Ascent, Nathan Ball Awake, Alan Hankers 2019-2020 Sketch Book, Aaron Spots Soundscape for a Century Past, Jared Miller Honorable Mentons: Pugaw, Avner Finberg On-again, Of-again, Jack Frerer Pray Away, Ryan Lindveit 2014-15 Winning entry The Chelsea Symphony holds an annual composition competition Tightrope Walker, Michael Boyman for early-career composers in the greater New York City area, now in its sixth year. The application period will be opening this fall and 2017-18 Finalists: Arion, William Gardiner the winning entry will be performed on the orchestra’s concerts Winning entry: on May 15-16, 2020. The winning composer will also receive a The Rest is Silence, Samuel R. Beebe Symphony in 3 Movements, Michael Gilbertson professional recording of the performances and an honorarium of Finalists: Unhinged Carnival Fanfare Machine, $250. The winning selection will be chosen by acclaimed conductor The Legend of Mulan, Jonathan Russell and composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Laureate of the Esther Shuyue Cao Seattle Symphony and Music Director of the All-Star Orchestra, in Listening Through an Open Door, conjunction with a panel of musicians from The Chelsea Symphony. Nicholas V. Hall

Watch chelseasymphony.org for more information! 2016-17 Winning entry: Summer Mountains, Danny Gray Finalist: Aeolian Dust, Natalie Dieterich

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