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Mountain View Cemetery Association, a historic Olmsted designed cemetery located in the foothills of Oakland and Piedmont, is pleased to announce the opening of Piedmont Funeral Services. We are now able to provide all funeral, cremation and celebratory services for our families and our community at our 223 acre historic location. For our families and friends, the single site combination of services makes the difficult process of making funeral arrangements a little easier. We’re able to provide every facet of service at our single location. We are also pleased to announce plans to open our new chapel and reception facility – the Water Pavilion in 2018. Situated between a landscaped garden and an expansive reflection pond, the Water Pavilion will be perfect for all celebrations and ceremonies. Features will include beautiful kitchen services, private and semi-private scalable rooms, garden and water views, sunlit spaces and artful details. The Water Pavilion is designed for you to create and fulfill your memorial service, wedding ceremony, lecture or other gatherings of friends and family. Soon, we will be accepting pre-planning arrangements. For more information, please telephone us at 510-658-2588 or visit us at mountainviewcemetery.org. Berkeley Symphony 2016/17 Season 5 Message from the Music Director 7 Message from the Board President 9 Message from the Executive Director 11 Board of Directors & Advisory Council 12 Orchestra 14 Season Sponsors 18 Berkeley Symphony Legacy Society 21 Program 25 Program Notes 39 Music Director: Joana Carneiro 43 Artists’ Biographies 51 Berkeley Symphony 55 Music in the Schools 57 2016/17 Membership Benefits 59 Annual Membership Support 66 Broadcast Dates Mountain View Cemetery Association, a historic Olmsted designed cemetery located in the foothills of 69 Contact Oakland and Piedmont, is pleased to announce the opening of Piedmont Funeral Services. We are now 70 Advertiser Index able to provide all funeral, cremation and celebratory services for our families and our community at our 223 acre historic location. For our families and friends, the single site combination of services makes the Media Sponsor difficult process of making funeral arrangements a little easier. We’re able to provide every facet of service at our single location. We are also pleased to announce plans to open our new chapel and reception facility – the Water Pavilion in 2018. Situated between a landscaped garden and an expansive reflection pond, the Water Pavilion will be perfect for all celebrations and ceremonies. Features will include beautiful kitchen Official Wine Sponsor services, private and semi-private scalable rooms, garden and water views, sunlit spaces and artful details. Gertrude Allen | Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes The Water Pavilion is designed for you to create and fulfill your memorial service, wedding ceremony, Brian James & Shariq Yosufzai | Ed Osborn & Marcia Muggli Thomas Richardson & Edith Jackson | Tricia Swift lecture or other gatherings of friends and family. Soon, we will be accepting pre-planning arrangements. For more information, please telephone us at 510-658-2588 or visit us at mountainviewcemetery.org. Presentation bouquets are graciously provided by Jutta’s Flowers, the official florist of Berkeley Symphony. Berkeley Symphony is a member of the League of American Orchestras and the Association of California Symphony Orchestras. No photographs or recordings of any part of tonight’s performance may be made without the written consent of the management of Berkeley Symphony. Program subject to change. October 13, 2016 3 4 October 13, 2016 Message from the Music Director Dear Friends, I am delighted to welcome you to our 2016/17 season. We begin tonight with one of our own favorite composers, Paul Dresher, an iconic figure in our community and of our musical world. He has been photo by Rodrigo de Souza a long-time friend of Berkeley Symphony not only as a composer, but as a mentor to young composers and frequent host of our pre-concert lectures. It will be the third time we collaborate in my 8 years as Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony. You may remember the beautiful Cornucopia and the Concerto for Quadrachord and Orchestra Paul wrote and performed with us. Tonight’s performance of his newest composition, Crazy Eights & Fractured Symmetries, is one we have been waiting for with excitement. Tonight’s concert includes music by two composers also associated with the United States of America: Korngold and Stravinsky. Before writing the violin concerto, Korngold was very well known as a film composer, but after the second world war he decided to concentrate more on music for the concert hall. In 1945, he wrote his violin concerto which has become his most famous composition, particularly as it was often performed as a repertoire piece by Jascha Heifetz, considered by many to be one of the most famous violinists of all time. Joining the Berkeley Symphony for the first time to perform this piece with us is the wonderful Philippe Quint. It will be a performance not soon forgotten! The oldest piece in our program is Petrushka, a wonderful ballet about a complicated love story between three puppets. It was composed by Stravinsky in 1910 and includes the famous “Petrushka chord.” It is considered by Richard Taruskin, Berkeley’s famous musicologist of Russian music, to be where “Stravinsky at last became Stravinsky.” The piece was later revised in 1947, which is the version we will perform for you. Thank you for being with us for another exciting season. We’re forever grateful for your continued support and generosity. Berkeley Symphony belongs to you. You are the central reason our work continues to happen. Much love, Joana Carneiro October 13, 2016 5 6 October 13, 2016 Message from the Board President A warm welcome to the 2016-2017 season and our Opening Night Concert, Romance. True to the Berkeley Symphony tradition, the program opens tonight with a newly-commissioned work by Paul photo © Margaretta K. Mitchell Dresher, internationally-active Bay Area composer! This is followed by the Korngold Violin Concerto, and concluding with Stravinsky’s Petrushka. Other new works and familiar pieces will follow in the next two concerts, and we will be ending the season with the blockbuster Shostakovich Babi Yar, complete with men’s chorus. There are such exciting things to share with you as we embark on another season. Berkeley Symphony is working in partnership with Berkeley Public Schools to enhance and expand our reach with middle school students to bring more relevant and engaging learning experiences to those students who’ve begun their journey in music study! Stay tuned for exciting news as our Music in the Schools (MITS) program undergoes even more exciting evolution! I look forward to meeting you in the lobby before and after tonight’s concert. “Curating an experience” is a part of the discussion right now among performing arts organizations. That experience can and often does extend beyond the concert hall. We are searching for ways to curate YOUR experience with Berkeley Symphony. You can help us! In the coming months, we will be talking with you, our patrons, subscribers, and donors to learn more about what the Berkeley Symphony experience is for YOU and what more you might like to see. In the meantime, enjoy your Berkeley Symphony. Let the music begin! Tricia Swift October 13, 2016 7 8 October 13, 2016 Message from the Executive Director While so much seems to be changing in our world, Berkeley Symphony’s commitment to our mission to “engage the spirit, spark the curiosity, and delight the spirit” remains as true today as ever. Berkeley exhibits a reputation for reinvention, bold photo by Marshall Berman action, generosity, and sincerity. We reflect that spirit in our programming by providing selections new and adventurous, with a look back at our classical roots and a feast for the senses now and well into the future. We are grateful that you are a part of this truly wonderful and supportive community of artists, supporters, and friends. It may be of interest to some to know that California, and more specifically, Los Angeles, has played a significant role in shaping the lives of each composer featured in our concert this evening. We open our season with a world commission premiere, Crazy Eights & Fractured Symmetries by Paul Dresher. Born in Los Angeles, Paul exempli- fies the spirit of the West Coast. Tonight’s piece, commissioned by Berkeley Symphony with major support from Margaret Dorfman, is the latest orchestra soundscape from this internationally active composer and friend of Berkeley Symphony. We are very excited to present the Korngold Violin Concerto. Erich Korngold wasn’t born in Los Angeles, but did spend the latter part of his life there. While his career reached the zenith of this fame in his early 20s, it was his Violin Concerto, written in 1945 that was most notable during his life in Los Angeles. We are delighted to have Philippe Quint join us to perform his Grammy© Award-nominated interpretation of the Korngold Violin Concerto. It was also around 1945 when Igor Stravinsky settled in West Hollywood and became a US citizen. Stravinsky was drawn to the growing cultural life of Los Angeles, espe- cially during World War II, when so many writers, musicians, composers, and con- ductors settled in the area. His revised version of Petrushka we present this evening, (originally composed in 1911) was written for slightly different instrumentation in Los Angeles, where he spent more of his life than in any other city in the world. It is with sincerest gratitude that I welcome you all to this evening’s opening concert of the season. With warmest regards, René Mandel October 13, 2016 9 10 October 13, 2016 Board of Directors & Advisory Council Board of Directors Executive Committee Tricia Swift, President Kathleen G.