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Contem Porary M Usic fe stival of contempo rary mu sic MUSIC CENTER AUGUST 9 –13 • 2 012 TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER an activity of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Mark Volpe, Eunice and Julian Cohen Managing Director, endowed in perpetuity Ellen Highstein, Edward H. Linde Tanglewood Music Center Director, endowed by Alan S. Bressler and Edward I. Rudman Tanglewood Music Center Staff Library Audio Department John Perkel Timothy Martyn Andrew Leeson Melissa Steinberg Technical Director/Chief Budget and Office Manager Orchestra Librarians Engineer Karen Leopardi Stephen Jean Douglas McKinnie Associate Director for Faculty and Head Librarian, Copland Library Audio Engineer, Head of Live Guest Artists Sound Emily Sapa Michael Nock Assistant Librarian, Copland Library Charlie Post Associate Director for Student Affairs Senior Audio Engineer Gary Wallen Production Nicholas Squire Associate Director for Scheduling John Morin Audio Engineer and assistant and Production Stage Manager, Seiji Ozawa Hall Radio Engineer Ryland Bennett Matthew Baltrucki Associate Audio Engineer 2012 SUMMER STAFF Assistant Stage Manager, Seiji Ozawa Hall Piano Administrative Ryan P. Collins Steve Carver Catelyn Cohen Michael Hawes Chief Piano Technician Personnel Manager Peter Lillpopp Barbara Renner Eric Dluzniewski Leonardo Perez Chief Piano Technician Scheduling Assistant Adam Wing Erik Diehl Alisa Forman Stage Assistants, Seiji Ozawa Hall Assistant Piano Technician Front Desk Assistant Katherine Ludington Dormitory Artist Assistant/Driver Michelle Keem Dormitory Supervisor Erin Svoboda Assistant Dormitory Supervisor 2012 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FACULTY Members of the Boston Steven Ansell Sato Knudsen Richard Sebring*§ Symphony Orchestra partici- Martha Babcock Stephen Lange Todd Seeber* pate in the daily activities Edwin Barker Julianne Lee Robert Sheena§ of the Tanglewood Music Cathy Basrak Ronan Lefkowitz* Thomas Siders Center, giving master classes Daniel Bauch Ben Levy Tamara Smirnova Bonnie Bewick Malcolm Lowe Jason Snider and repertoire classes, per- Marshall Burlingame* Michael Martin James Sommerville forming with our orchestra, Glen Cherry Thomas Martin* John Stovall leading sectional rehearsals, Rachel Childers Mark McEwen* Richard Svoboda* and coaching chamber Blaise Déjardin Jonathan Menkis Alexander Velinzon music. The following players Jules Eskin Cynthia Meyers Michael Wayne will be working with the TMC John Ferrillo Suzanne Nelsen Lawrence Wolfe during the 2012 season (fac- Catherine French Toby Oft* Benjamin Wright ulty confirmed as of 6/4/12). Edward Gazouleas* James Orleans Douglas Yeo Gregg Henegar Richard Ranti Owen Young The Instrumental and J. William Hudgins* Thomas Rolfs*§ Michael Zaretsky Orchestral Studies Program William R. Hudgins Victor Romanul Jessica Zhou* Edwin Barker,§ program Mihail Jojatu* Elizabeth Rowe* chairman Elita Kang Dennis Roy * indicates section representative Mickey Katz Mike Roylance* § indicates Kitte Sporn Mentor 2012 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Thursday, August 9, through Monday, August 13, 2012 Oliver Knussen, Festival Director Sponsored by the TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER Works presented at this year’s Festival of Contemporary Music were prepared under the guidance of the following Tanglewood Music Center Faculty and guests: Stefan Asbury Linda Hall Ronan Lefkowitz Virgil Blackwell Andrew Jennings Gunther Schuller Stephen Drury Oliver Knussen Howard Watkins Norman Fischer Tanglewood Music Center Opening Exercises in the late 1940s: among those pictured are Lukas Foss, TMC Dean Ralph Berkowitz, Aaron Copland, Serge Koussevitzky, and Sarah Caldwell at far right The 2012 Festival of Contemporary Music has been made possible by grants from the Amphion Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Fromm Music Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and in part has been endowed in perpetuity by the generosity of Dr. Raymond and Hannah H. Schneider, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. With the friendly support of Bank of America is proud to sponsor the 2012 Tanglewood season. , selected exclusively for Tanglewood The Tanglewood Music Center gratefully acknowledges The Studley Press, Inc., Dalton, MA, for printing this program. 2012 FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Festival Overview 4 Festival Director Oliver Knussen 5 Thursday, August 9, at 8, Ozawa Hall 9 TMC Fellows Music of Bedford, Birtwistle, Carter, Castiglioni, and Shepherd Friday, August 10, at 2:30, Ozawa Hall 17 FCM Piano Recital: Guest artist Gloria Cheng, piano Music of Benjamin, Birtwistle, Harbison, Knussen, Rands, and Salonen Saturday, August 11, at 6, Ozawa Hall 22 Prelude Concert, TMC Fellows All-Charles Ives concert curated by Gunther Schuller Sunday, August 12, at 10am, Ozawa Hall 26 The Fromm Concert at Tanglewood TMC Fellows and New Fromm Players Music of Benjamin, Birtwistle, Castiglioni, Del Tredici, Epstein, Grime, and Shepherd Sunday, August 12, at 8, Ozawa Hall 37 TMC Fellows Stefan Asbury and Oliver Knussen conducting Niccolò Castiglioni’s ensemble work Inverno In-ver and a concert performance of Oliver Knussen and Maurice Sendak’s opera Higglety Pigglety Pop! Monday, August 13, at 8, Ozawa Hall 44 TMC Orchestra Concert The Margaret Lee Crofts Concert Stefan Asbury, Oliver Knussen, and TMC Fellow conducting Music of Bedford, Benjamin, Birtwistle, Del Tredici, Grime, and Schuller For the BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Mark Volpe, Eunice and Julian Cohen Managing Director, endowed in perpetuity Anthony Fogg, Artistic Administrator Ellen Highstein, Edward H. Linde Tanglewood Music Center Director, endowed by Alan S. Bressler and Edward I. Rudman Marc Mandel, Director of Program Publications Robert Kirzinger, Assistant Director of Program Publications—Editorial Andrew Leeson, Budget and Office Manager Annotators: Christian Carey, Claudia Carrera, Robert Kirzinger, Jan Swafford, Jean-Pascal Vachon Program copyright ©2012 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Program notes are copyright ©2012 to the individual authors. All rights reserved. 3 The 2012 Festival of Contemporary Music In this 75th Anniversary year of the Tanglewood Festival, British composer and conductor Oliver Knussen, a major figure in the annals of the Festival of Contemporary Music (itself closing in on fifty years!), returns to curate and con- duct this “festival within a festival.” Knussen was a TMC Composition Fellow himself (1970, 1971, and 1973), studying with Gunther Schuller, and succeeded Schuller as the FCM’s regular director (1986–93) and chair of the composition program. (John Harbison filled in for him in 1992.) He was significantly involved as conductor and Festival Advisor for the Elliott Carter Centennial FCM in 2008, and with John Harbison and Gunther Schuller co-directed the FCM in 2010. We are also celebrating Oliver Knussen’s 60th birthday this year. Historically, FCM directors are interested in covering as much ground as possible, introducing the music of as many composers as can reasonably fit in the programs of five days. This year, Oliver Knussen’s philosophy was to give listen- ers a chance to hear more than one work by the same composer (with a very few exceptions), the better to display their respective voices. In this he was aided and abetted by Gunther Schuller, who put together an eclectic, one-hour festival within a festival within a festival: an all-Charles Ives chamber music prelude taking place Saturday evening, August 11, at 6pm in Ozawa Hall. Knussen and Schuller are themselves represented by single works. Knussen’s opera Higglety Pigglety Pop!, written in collaboration with Maurice Sendak based on the author/illustrator’s children’s book, will be performed in a concert staging on Sunday evening, August 12, at 8pm. (The performance is dedicated to Sendak’s memory.) Gunther Schuller’s new orchestra piece Dreamscape, commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center for Tanglewood’s 75th anniversary season, was given its premiere by the TMCO under the composer’s direction earlier this summer, and will be reprised Monday, August 13, at 8pm during the TMC Orchestra concert, this time led by Oliver Knussen. In addition to Knussen and Schuller, many of these musical voices will be familiar from past FCMs. Multiple works by composers George Benjamin (a former FCM director), Harrison Birtwistle, David Del Tredici (TMC Fellow in 1963), and Helen Grime (TMC Fellow in 2008) will be performed, as well as a recent work by Elliott Carter—his Double Trio, completed just before his 103rd birthday last year. New to the FCM are British composer Luke Bedford and American Sean Shepherd (TMC Fellow in 2005) and a remarkable Italian composer from an earlier generation, Niccolò Castiglioni, whose music has figured prominently in Oliver Knussen’s programming in recent years. Also new to the FCM is music of Marti Epstein (TMC Fellow in 1986 & 1988), whose string quartet Hidden Flowers, commissioned by the TMC, receives its world premiere performance in the Sunday morning chamber music concert (August 12 at 10am). (Several other 75th anniversary commissions from past Fellows receive their premieres throughout this summer, including works for the BSO by current composition faculty Michael Gandolfi and John Harbison.) Yet more com- posers are featured in highly esteemed pianist Gloria Cheng’s recital of Friday, August 10, which includes works by George Benjamin, Harrison Birtwistle, John Harbison, Oliver Knussen, Bernard Rands, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, all of whom have had works performed in previous FCMs. For a list of FCM concerts and this program book’s
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