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Program Notes November 9, 2019 Wagnerian Music Dramas Program Notes November 9, 2019 Wagnerian music dramas. Sibelius soured on Wagner’s The Swan of Tuonela from Four Legends compositional methods soon thereafter, and The Swan from the Kalevala, Op. 22 of Tuonela was published with three other short symphonic poems as the suite Four Legends from JEAN SIBELIUS (1965 - 1957) the Kalevala, Op. 22. Each of the four works depicts an adventure from the life of the mythic Finnish hero As Jean Sibelius came to maturity as man and Lemminkäinen, the central figure of the Kalevala, musician, his country lived under the growing A the national epic of Finland. threat of absorption into the Russian Empire. Finland Sibelius inscribed the following words on the score: had been a Grand Duchy of Russia since 1809, but “Tuonela, the land of death, the hell of it enjoyed a great degree of autonomous freedom, Finnish mythology, is surrounded by a with its own parliament and court system. Starting large river of black waters and a rapid during the reign of Czar Alexander III and continuing current, in which The Swan of Tuonela with Nicolas II, Russia began to limit the rights of glides majestically, singing.“ Finns, curtailing the authority of parliament, mandating Sibelius scores the work for solo English horn, military service and eventually dissolving the oboe, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, three Finnish army. trombones, timpani, bass drum, harp and muted Rather than taking up arms, the Finns fought back strings – an ensemble of dark orchestral colors suitable with their culture against the encroachment on their for depicting the desolation of Tuonela. The English rights from the Russian Bear. Like Verdi in Italy horn is the voice of the swan, singing her dark lament during the rise of the risorgimenti, Sibelius and his over a lush string texture, divided into as many as music served as the spearhead of Finnish resistance. thirteen separate parts. While a brief shaft of sunlight Premiering less than two months after the Czarist pierces the gloom (harp arpeggios over a rich string decree dissolving the Finnish parliament, Sibelius’ chord in C major), the horrors of Tuonela soon return, tone poem Finlandia served as the rallying cry for and the swan swims off into the fog, her final utterance the Finnish patriotism. heard over ominous timpani strokes and the eerie Yet Sibelius was not a political composer, but one sonority of tremolo col legno strings (playing with steeped in the history and folklore of his native land. the wood of the bow).▪ His great dramatic symphony Kullervo, and works like the Four Legends from the Kalevala, Pohjola’s Daughter, En Saga and Luonnotar gave musical voice Fantasia para un Gentilhombre to the mythical past and to the national pride of the (Fantasia for a Nobleman) Finns in a way that no political statement could JOAQUÍN RODRIGO (1901 - 1999) possibly match. Yet beyond any political or social considerations, Sibelius distilled the late-Romantic t would be next to impossible to overestimate the style into his own musical language that would Iinfluence of Andrés Segovia on the history of the become more organic, more concentrated and classical guitar. To say that he nearly single-handedly more concise throughout his compositional career. returned the guitar to respectability on the concert The Swan of Tuonela began life as the stage would not be an exaggeration. As a performer, prelude to The Building of the Boat, a grand opera teacher, commissioner of new works and a composer, that Sibelius intended to rival the scale and scope of theFSO.org | 2019 – 20 13 Program Notes November 9, 2019 his influence on guitar playing and repertoire has suite, much in the manner of Respighi’s suites of encompassed the globe. The list of composers who Ancient Airs and Dances or Peter Warlock’s Capriol wrote and dedicated works to Segovia reads like Suite. While neither a direct transcription nor an entirely a Who’s Who of the twentieth century: Manuel new work, it pays homage to a bygone musical age in Ponce, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alexandre Tansman, contemporary musical language. Rodrigo himself said Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and many others. of the Fantasia, “My aim was that, if Gaspar Sanz Likewise, he taught many of the greatest guitarists were to hear my work, he would exclaim, ‘That is of the following generation, including Julian Bream, not exactly me, but I can find myself in it.’” Christopher Parkening, John Williams and The work is in four movements and scored for a Sharon Isbin. string orchestra with the addition of only piccolo, flute, From the start of his career, Segovia was eager oboe, clarinet, bassoon and trumpet. The Villano e to find new repertoire for the guitar, but his tastes Ricercare opens with a dignified and stately melody were largely conservative. He was most comfortable passed back and forth between guitar and orchestra. collaborating with Spanish composers who had tapped Solemn and elegant counterpoint characterizes the into the roots of Spain’s folk and popular music in their ricercare that follows, with the guitar weaving its lines music. In 1951, Segovia approached Joaquín Rodrigo, around the orchestral textures. La españoleta is in the asking for a new concerto to build upon the success manner of a slow minuet, with the guitar creating of the composer’s popular Concierto de Aranjuez, more elaborate counterpoint with each repetition of the a work Segovia had helped to popularize. melody. The central section of the movement, Fanfare While Rodrigo initially refused the commission, De La Caballeria De Napoles (Fanfare for the Cavalry he changed his mind after examining a collection of of Naples), dances its bewitching fandango over a works by the 17th-century Spanish priest and composer, dissonant ostinato punctuated by strummed guitar Gaspar Sanz. In Sanz, Rodrigo felt he had found the chords before returning to the wistful La españoleta. perfect musical counterpart to the beauty and elegance The brief Danza de las haches (Axe Dance) struts of Segovia’s playing. He later wrote: proudly, with lusty strings answered by guitar, woodwinds and trumpet. The concluding Canario “I thought that the only thing worthy of dances ecstatically, dispelling the solemnity of the first Segovia would be to place him together two movements, and fully exploring the shifting with another great guitarist and composer, rhythmic possibilities of this dance from the Canary born in the 17th century, a gentleman Islands. After a brief cadenza, the work cavorts happily in the court of Philip IV, Gaspar Sanz. to the final chord, ending with a joyous flourish.▪ I consulted Segovia himself, who approved the plan, but not without first warning me Carnival of the Animals of the difficulties of its realization, saying CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS (1835 - 1921) that I would have to work with themes that were very short.” Rodrigo solved the difficulty of working with short ne wonders what the great 20th-century poet themes by crafting them into a suite of movements, OT. S. Eliot would have thought if he had lived rather than trying to shape them into the extended long enough to see his lighthearted gift to his god- symphonic discourse of a concerto. The result is a children, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, twentieth century reflection upon the Baroque dance transformed and revamped by Andrew Lloyd-Webber 14 theFSO.org | 2019 – 20 Program Notes November 9, 2019 into the international hit musical Cats. While I’m sure by the pianists’ low chromatic scales, depicting the Eliot would have been more than happy to collect roar of lions. whatever royalties were due to him, he might have II. Hens and Roosters repeats a “clucking” figure sadly mused that for all of his groundbreaking poetry (possibly taken from one of Rameau’s harpsichord – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Wasteland, suites) that is brought to a halt by the “crowing” of Four Quartets – it was this innocuous and charming the pianos. trifle that would become his best-known work, albeit in a form that would have provoked a headshake and III. Wild Donkeys (swift animals) features the pianos a melancholy smirk from Prufrock. stampeding up and down the keyboard in imitation If Camille Saint-Saëns had also survived to our of Tibetan wild donkeys. own time, he would have been Eliot’s sympathetic commiserator. Despite his successes in the opera IV. Tortoises includes one of the work’s slyest bits of house (Samson et Delilah) and in the concert hall musical parody: the stately string theme is really a (his Organ Symphony, his concertos for cello, violin, glacially slow version of the famous “Can-Can” from piano, his symphonic poems), for most of the listening Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. public his name remains a household word based on V. L’Élephant is given voice by the double bass. a mere shaving from his musical workbench known Here, too, there are musical “Easter eggs” to discover: as Carnival of the Animals. Saint-Saëns includes small fragments from both As with Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream music Cats, Saint-Saëns wrote the Carnival as a gift, in his and Berlioz’s “Dance of the Sylphs” from The case for the cellist Charles Lebouc, a friend from Damnation of Faust – unlikely dance music for Saint-Saëns’ days of teaching at the Ecole Niedermeyer. a lumbering elephant. Lebouc hosted a musical soirée every year on the night of Mardi Gras, and in 1886 Saint-Saëns contributed VI. Saint-Saëns’s Kangaroos amuse themselves by Carnival of the Animals to the party. While his hopping on the two keyboards – their leaps are “Grande Fantasie Zoölogique” was a big hit that heard in the arpeggios that bound up and down the evening, Saint-Saëns restricted the performances to two instruments.
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