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Meadow Center Lines Wolf Trap Meadow Center Lines. One greatgreat performanceper CONTENTS deserves another. Welcome Messages 2 The Wolf Trap Foundation Board of Directors 4 Notes on the Program 13 Everyone Gets Into the Act! 32 1982 Season Schedule 36 Facilities and Services 42 Published by. Sales: Wendy Andrews Prince Fisher Publishing, Ltd. Editor: Janet Mihalick Bergeron 8900 Lee Highway Art Director: Elizabeth Dugdale Old Fairfax, Virginia 22031 Graphic Artist: Jan Greene (703) 573-0745 Wolf Trap Intern: Nancy Otis Cover Drawing: Miriam Kashani Cover Photograph: Joan Marcus We touch your life so many ways We're like neighbors, sharing in working hard or out on the town, BUSCH the times good with you. Part of we're the clothes you wear to what's cooking in the kitchen, express your specialness. We're ? Bom of Natural Ingredients what's playing in the den. We're this and more. .for today, for treasured mementos on the years to come. The many good 5moth,Tbfres\\\n$ftc< mantelpiece, a new video game things from Woodies for the way going full tilt. We're part of the you love to live. We're Woodies, way the world sees you. .whether proud to be a part of it all. you're playing hard, I2FL.OZ "^^^ < < M fiQl NG • NAT1J WOODWARD & LOTH ROP 1 Welcome to We all wish that our Board, our While the ruins of the Filene Welcome to a very special Wolf staff and many friends had not had Center still smoldered the Trap season. from to their Wolf show stamina, their ability fire which had levelled it the night Trap The Filene Center tragedy to look ahead and to make the before, Wolf Trap threatened to bring the curtain was on every huge effort to rebuild the Filene tongue in Washington. The down on this year's performances. Center. Eleven years of conversation of two workmen was Wolf Trap lives not only as Instead, it sparked a remarkable programming for our theatre, our overheard that morning. One said America's showplace for the re-dedication to the purposes for Opera Company of young talented "I am afraid this fire will take five performing arts, but as America's which this performing arts park singers and all phases of our years off Kay Shouse's life." The showcase for private/public was established. Private groups and educational programs have other who knew our indomitable partnership. individuals by the hundreds developed loyal ties that foretell a Kay better than the first to the disaster with answered, I am proud to be Honorary responded solid future for Wolf Trap, a Park "Hell, it will add five years." Chairman of the Wolf Trap commitments of time, money and for All People. Kay Shouse's spirit is a good part Foundation and look forward know-how. Working in close The love that comes from all of Wolf Trap which is the eagerly to an early dedication of cooperation with the Wolf Trap quarters of the world and our own realization of her dream to build a the new Filene Center. With each Foundation and the National Park country has given strength to us all center for the performing arts in of us working for Wolf Trap, we Service, they made it possible for during these terribly difficult the rolling Virginia countryside. can raise that curtain again. the show to go on. weeks. This and the loyalty of all In the last This outpouring of affection for ten years Wolf Trap who work for the Foundation Wolf Trap has been transformed as has become more than Kay well as that of our many supporters Shouse's into what promises to be an dream turned reality, the will insure Wolf Trap's future, I outstanding 12th season. A pride of art lovers everywhere, the know. favorite spot for entertainers and Mrs. Ronald W. Reagan tradition has been sustained, and My thanks to all who are helping the pride of the nation grateful for for that we must all be grateful. in so many ways. a really great idea come true. Catherine Filene Shouse Robert Keith Gray / Chairman, Wolf Trap Foundation WOLF TRAP presents National Symphony Orchestra MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Music Director FIFTY-FIRST SEASON, 1981-1982 June25 at8:30p.m. June27 at8:00p.m. MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Conductor DIMITRISSGOUROS, Pianist ALL-TCHAIKOVSKY PROGRAM "The Battle of Poltava/' from the Opera "Mazeppa" Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso Andantino semplice Allegro con fuoco Dimitris Sgouros Intermission Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a Miniature Overture March Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Trepak (Russian Dance) Arab Dance Chinese Dance (Chinoise) Dance of the Flutes Waltz of the Flowers Festival Overture, "1812/' Op. 49 Cannons by South Bend Replicas The Ellsworth C. and Katharyn W. Alvord Keyboard Soloist's Fund (By the Alvord Foundation) Steinway Piano CBS Masterworks, Deutsche Grammophon and London Records WOLF TRAP THANKS THE VIENNA ROTARY CLUB FOR THEIR GENER- OUS DONATION OF THE MEADOW CENTER ORCHESTRA SHELL. Baldwin is the official piano and organ of Wolf Trap. The management reserves the right to make changes in the program. The use of cameras or recording equipment in the Meadow Center is forbidden. THE MEADOW CENTER PROGRAM orchestral interlude preceding the last of the opera's three acts. The general NOTES descriptive style of this "symphonic We did it again! tableau," and one of its actual themes, well remind us that the 1812 Overture "The Battle of Poltava/' from "Mazeppa" may only a year before Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky was composed Tchaikovsky began work on Mazeppa, and Born May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia the Overture's premiere took place while Died November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg the opera was in progress. Quoted early in the piece is the "5/ava," the old Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky's sixth opera (or Russian chorus most familiar to us from seventh, if we count the unfinished Moussorgsky's use of it in the Coronation Undine), was composed during a two-year Scene of Boris Godunov (Rimsky- period which ended May 11, 1883, and Korsakov used it with his Overture on was first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre Russian Themes, and Beethoven varied it in Moscow on February 15, 1884. Victor slightly for use as the trio in the scherzo of Petrovich Burenin provided a libretto THREE based on Pushkin's narrative poem the second of his three "Razumovsky" YEARS IN A ROW, quartets). Following this we hear the Poltava, which Tchaikovsky himself AMERICA'S FAVORITE WAY TO FLY. revised extensively with generous helpings Russian hymn Cod Preserve Thy People, of the original Pushkin text. the tune with which the 1812 opens. If the of The portrait of Mazeppa drawn in this remainder the piece also sounds familiar, that simply work is a strikingly different one from the may be because the heroic image painted by Liszt in his material seems to "pre-echo" portions of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, symphonic poem with its depiction of the The which fiery young Pole's wild ride and his Tchaikovsky would take up at the end of triumph as a Cossack chieftain. In the 1888. opera, set in the Ukraine, a middle-aged Editor's Note: This music has been loaned Mazeppa persuades his godchild, Maria, to the National Symphony Orchestra through the courtesy of The Edwin A. to marry him, against the wishes of her There are dozens and dozens of won't come back unless you're Fleisher Music Collection, The Free Library father, Kochubey; he then supervises the airlines in this country and around treated right. of Philadelphia, Logan Square, murders of both Kochubey and Maria's the world who want you to fly So, we have one very clear former suitor, and mounts a revolt against Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 with them. goal: We're going to take care of Peter the Great with the intent of setting That's a lot of competition. Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor for Piano you better than any other airline, himself up as ruler of a separate Cossack and Orchestra, Op. 23 Even so, tor the third year in a anywhere. empire in the Ukraine. When the Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky row, more passengers have flown If you've helped make us insurrection is quashed Mazeppa manages Eastern than any other airline in the America's favorite way to fly, we to escape with his life, but abandons his This Concerto, which is quite possibly the free world. thank you. If you haven't flown wife to end her days in madness. best-loved work in its category ever set be- That's right, Eastern. Eastern recently, give us a try. The dramatic turning point, Mazeppa's fore the public, had a sensationally suc- Why? We'll that really defeat at Poltava, is represented by the cessful premiere, at which the enthusiastic show you we It's us, the people of Eastern. do earn our wings, every day. We know you may fly an airline once hecause you have to. But you ©1982 Eastern Air Lines, Inc. 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