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1 John. Js * Hopkins : Peabody News lifts I The Award Winning wamm Newspaper of the Baltimore/ Washington Cultural Corridor Published by the Peabody Richard Goode awarded Conservatory of Music, George Peabody Medal Baltimore. First he played a magical recital. Then at the end of his October 29 program, Richard Goode was presented with the Circulation: 27,000 George Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music in America. The citation affirmed that this artist Editor: > has "exemplified the highest level of per­ Anne Garside formance and teaching and thus inspired and guided a new generation of gifted musicians." Some members of that new Left to right: Eric Zuber, Inna Faliks, Douglas Goodwin, Hilda Goodwin, Vitaly Briskin and Bob Sirota Assistant Editor and Designer: generation were able to experience the Kirsten Lavin inspiration first hand when Richard Goode gave a master class at Peabody the following morning. This New York native can claim a spe­ Publishers cial connection to Peabody. In his Representative: remarks following the presentation, he Network Publications, Inc. told the audience how pleased he was to Crest Ridge Corporate Center be performing in the Miriam Friedberg 10155 York Road, Suite 205 Concert Hall. It was Miriam Friedberg, Hunt Valley, MD 21030 and her husband Sidney, who had spon­ Tel. 410/628-0390 sored Goode as a young teenager in the Fax 41(^628-0398 New Town Concert Series inaugurated by the Friedbergs in Hagerstown. It was Portfolio Manager: " one of his first professional engagements. Since then, Goode has occupied a Carrie Hartin special niche in American musical life. 410/628-5758 His recording of the complete Beethoven cycle in 1995, the firsteve r by an Ameri- Printed by: Goodwin Hall. Homestead Publishing Co. can pianist, won a Grammy nomination. enabled the renovation of the hall which, As Co-Artistic Director with Mitsuko as Peabody Director Robert Sirota noted Uchida of the Marlboro Music School and in his remarks, "once borrowed its name Peabody News is published bi­ Festival in Vermont, he is also a revered from the building in which it is tucked monthly for September/October; teacher. away, waiting to be re-discovered" and November/December; January/Feb­ has now been transformed, "a small The Dedication of Goodwin jewel restored to its original luster." The ruary; March/April; and May/June. ,h Each issue mails out at least 10 days Recital Hall smaller of Peabody's two l6 -century Flemish tapestries has been hung on one before the first month of the issue On Sunday, November 17, a dedica­ wall, to give an accent of glowing color date. tion event took place at Peabody that had more the feel of a family affair as and Renaissance opulence. more than a hundred family members Three Peabody students with whom Edited for Peabody/Hopkins faculty, the Goodwins have had a special rela­ executive staff, alumni, donors and and friends gathered to honor Hilda and Douglas Goodwin on the occasion of the tionship over the years - pianists Inna friends and Baltimore/Washington dedication of the Hilda and Douglas Faliks and Eric Zuber, who study at the concertgoers. Goodwin Recital Hall. Conservatory; and violinist Vitaly Briskin, Richard Goode receives the Medal from who studies at the Preparatory - per­ Peabody director Robert Sirota. A generous gift from the Goodwins Articles, news items and display ads formed a program of works by Rach- are accepted at the Editor's discre­ maninov, Ysaye, Chopin and Shchedrin. tion. For editorial information con­ After the program, guests joined the Goodwins for a reception in Bank of tact: America Lounge. Anne Garside Director of Public Information The Peabody Conservatory of Music One East Mount Vernon Place Baltimore, Maryland 21202 TeL 410/659-8100, ext 1190 Fax 410/783-8576 E-mail: [email protected]

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TOP: Goncharova's "Peasant Woman" from Russian Avant-Garde exhibit at the Wal­ ters.

BOTTOM: Leon Bakst's costume design for The Prince. Photo courtesy of Evergreen Former concert pianist Edith Hall Friedheim, wife of Peabody donor Eric Friedheim who At a post-concert reception, Goode had a House from their upcoming exhibit on endowed the Arthur Friedheim Music Library at Peabody, traveled down from New York for chance to chat with Laura Friedberg Bur­ Bakst's winter in Baltimore. the Goode recital. rows Jackson. Peabody News January/February 2003 A Roaring Ovation for composer Nicholas Maw at world premiere of Sophie's Choice at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, on December 7, 2002 A deluge of advance publicity from major media on both sides of the Atlantic made the world premiere of Nicholas Maw's opera Sophie's Choice one of the most eagerly anticipated musi­ cal events of the decade. Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director of the Berlin Philharmonic, who con­ ducted the premiere, was quoted as saying this was "the most important opera written in the last fifty years..." Over 230 affiliates of the Johns Hopkins Uni­ versity showed up to support one of our own. Nicholas Maw is a member of the composition faculty at Peabody. The Hopkins contingent joined the cast for a euphoric post-premiere party that lasted until close to 2 a.m. the next morning. The demand for press seats for the premiere was unprecedented. The Royal Opera House man­ aged to accommodate about fifty press on open­ Top: Nicholas and Maija ing night and another forty at the second night's Maw performance which was due to be broadcast live over BBC radio. The BBC will do a television Right: William Styron broadcast of the opera at a later date. Reviews that appeared immediately after the premiere ranged from absolutely glowing to viciously vitu­ perative (the latter almost inevitable given the controversial subject matter.) A few brief sample Angelika Kirchschlager as Sophie. quotes are given here. Reviews will continue to come in for weeks and months to come and "Mr Maw's opera is an utterly admirable, affectingly ".... The opera has magnificent music, fervently deliv­ conceived and beautifully realized work. The Covent Peabody News will follow the evolving coverage. ered by the Royal Opera House Orchestra under Simon Garden audience awarded him and the cast with a pro­ Rattle's white-hot direction.. ..Maw conjures beguilingly longed standing ovation... .From the opening moments sensuous or exuberantly high-spirited ensembles.. ..But it of the score, as the strings played subdued, luminous, is the searing orchestral interludes towards the end that tenderly tonal sustained chords, like some angelic bitter­ really hit the spot... .Maw's opera has a bigness of sonori­ sweet chorale, Mr. Maw's reverence for this material was ty, passion, ambition and spirituality that sends it soaring palpable....In many scenes Mr. Maw's music is haunting- above the work of his contemporaries." ly beautiful and dramatically apt. When a chorus of hud­ dled prisoners, including Sophie and her two children, Richard Morrison, The Times (of London), are crammed into the boxcars of a train en route to Monday, December 9, 2002 Auschwitz, they sing, soft, moaning utterances, as the strings play shimmering, parallel modal harmonies...." "... .the book.. .has now been transformed.. .into an uncompromising, involving, disturbing, often achingly Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, beautiful opera Ovations were loud and long when Monday, December 9, 2002 the final curtain fell.. .Maw's setting of that Dickinson poem (Ample make this bed/Make this bed with ".. .an absorbing work by one of the world's most awe).. .are among the opera's most inspired and indeli­ esteemed classical composers... .Last night's opening ble moments. Another is the scene on the train bound demonstrated that this is a grand opera in every sense- for Auschwitz—the chorus sings a haunting, wordless in the ambition of its theme in the lushness of its post- refrain, punctuated by the ominous taps of a snare romantic idiom and in its sheer dimensions: four acts drum.... Throughout, Maw's orchestration is a marvel of and 17 scenes totaling four hours. Sophie's Choice is transparency and color.. .Maw avoids the obvious in his masterful and simply one of the most compelling operas music, just as his own libretto avoids caricature, stereo­ I have ever seen... .Maw's sense of dramatic pacing is felt type and blatancy; it is clear that he appreciates the com­ at every moment and he outstrips every other composer plex layers of good, evil, innocence and guilt in each of working today. His dialogue is easily understood, yet Styron's characters. This helps to give the opera its remains profound. Nunn's production..is astonish­ remarkable depth.. ..Maw's sincerity comes through so ing. . ..The audience, which included Chelsea Clinton and strongly in every note... With its uncommon integrity Madonna, gave a tremendous ovation at the curtain, with and imagination, Sophie's Choice enriches the field of the most applause going to Maw." contemporary opera considerably."

Paul Driver, The Sunday Times Wendy Brody and Ingrid Brody Tim Smith, The Sun (of Baltimore), (of London, late edition), December 8, 2002 Photos: Rob Moore, Courtesy of Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Monday, December 9, 2002 January/February 2003 Peabody News 5

ft«:ft.. buildings, and not a bulb is missing." BALTIMORE OPERA COMPANY While he was in China, Fleisher was Michael Harrison GENERAL DIRECTOR able to fit in a visit to the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Chinese American Presents Studies in Nanjing. At the Center's winners request, he gave an evening recital in 2002-2003 SEASON Nanjing University's performing arts hall on October 31 and a daytime master OF GRAND OPERA class for its music department on Leon Fleisher Honored in China November 1. Lady Macbeth of Mt.sen.sfc is a gritty tale of a bored Leon Fleisher has concertized all over "There was standing room only at the the globe, but never until now in the class," Fleisher recounts, "and the room Russian housewife who would kill for a more excitin" People's Republic of China. was filled with all these bright, eager life. And she does. Several times. At the Beijing Music Festival at the young faces, all open-eyed and open- end of October 2002, Fleisher both per­ eared young musicians. The faces were LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK formed as soloist with the China Philhar­ very serious, so I tried to make them monic Orchestra and conducted the laugh to show them that music is also a By Dmitri Shostakovich orchestra from the piano. Violinist joyful business." FEBRUARY 22, 26, 28 & MARCH 2, 2003. Joseph Silverstein was also a guest at the The dates of his visit meant that he Festival, so the two artist^decided to was able to spend Hallowe'en with the present an unexpected gift to the Peo­ students at the Nanjing Center, where ple's Republic: a performance of the the music was of a different kind—"rock, Schubert Sonatina in a minor. During hip-hop, and flashing lights," Leon says his visit, Fleisher also gave a Master Class with a smile. "I was so impressed with at the Beijing Conservatory. these students, both American and Chi­ Traveling on to Shanghai, Peabody's nese, and especially with the Center's Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Piano director Robert Daly. He is the kind of received very special recognition when person who has knowledge and wis­ the Shanghai Conservatory awarded him dom." an Honorary Professorship. That honor When he traveled on to Taiwan, the has only been given twice before — to Peabody faculty member was struck by a Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman. "If the novel method of ensuring appropriate three of us are ever together in Shanghai, audience behavior. "In Taiwan," he tells we will have a tremendous trio," us, "there is this protocol that half an Starring: Karen Huffstodt, Svetlana Furdui, Leonid Zakhozhaev, observes Fleisher. hour before the concert begins, they Garry Grice, Pierre Lefebvre, Vladimir Vaneev, Nikita Storojev, The Peabody faculty member particu­ play a tape of background music, and Tomas Tomasson. larly enjoyed a delightful visit to the then a voice comes on over the tape and Shanghai Conservatory's Middle School. enunciates the eleven rules of concert Conducted by Christian Badea. fill, "I was serenaded by three young Chi­ behavior." Directed by Uwe Eric Laufenberg. MT nese musicians aged 9, 11 and 12, who Leon Fleisher keeps on gathering hon­ were very highly gifted," he recounts. ors but there is one recent honor that "One of them played the erhu, a tradi­ has a particular significance for Balti­ tional Chinese instrument. The erhu is a more. Fleisher is one of Baltimore's three two-stringed stick, something like a cello Hall of Famers. This internationally cele­ or viola da gamba. Another young musi­ brated artist was inducted into the Classi­ cian played apipa, which is a kind of cal Music Hall of Fame last year. The mandolin." other two Hall of Famers are Pam Shriver The city made a vivid impact on this for tennis and the late Johnny Unitas for visitor, who relates: "Shanghai in the last football. It is also assumed that Cal Rip­ ten to fifteen years has created a skyline ken will become a baseball Hall of Famer that is a virtuoso display of high rises, when the statutory five years after his around 50-60 storys high, with every pos­ retirement has elapsed. The city should sible architectural style. Each building take great pride in that. Mayor O'Malley, has a distinct individuality. The city is take note the next time you are listing just a blaze of architecture, quite mind Baltimore's unique accomplishments! boggling. And the high rises are only half Leon Fleisher guest conducts the filled. They are thinking in terms of giv­ Peabody Symphony Orchestra in an all- ing a ten-year-old suit to a three-year-old Russian program on March 1, that is child, that the population will grow into Peabody's celebration of the Vivat! St. the available space. At night everything is Petersburg Festival. (Seepage 19). outlined in bright lights, festooning the

Starring: Liping Zhang/Antonia Cifrone* Mark Heller/Jose Luis Duval* Jeffrey Kneebone, Ning Liang. Conducted by Andrea Licata. Directed by Vivien Alexandra Hewitt. Set Designer Kan Yasuda, Costume Designer Regina Schrecker.

\ Co-pcixkerion by Pomlaeione Festival Pucciniano of Torre Jel Lago and the Saafcei Group, japan.

Tickets From $3/, Performed at the Lyric Opera House with English Surtitles. Call 410-727-6000 After his recital at Nanjing University, Leon Fleisher posed for a photo with faculty and stu­ dents. or visit www.baltimoreopera.com Peabody News January/February 2003

From there he went on to the Jimmy ing with his father and playing for local COLLEGE McGriff Band, made eight solo albums, square dancing. He also recalled his years and did many US tours. When flutist Her- of service in the army during World War bie Mann invited him to perform with II, where he was first posted to Italy and NIGHT him, Levy found himself doing several France, then saw active combat in the Bat­ world tours and then became Mann's tle of the Bulge. 1 music director. Herbie Mann's album During the stress of combat, the young "Keep the Spirits Singing" on the Atlantic Charlie Byrd arrived at a momentous deci­ the BSO Records label display much of O.D.'s sion: "I remember saying to myself," he musical capabilities. recalled in the interview, "that my friends In 1990, Levy was offered an executive and neighbors have drafted me and sent audio engineering position in Singapore me into this mess. The rest of the big deci­ FRIDAY, and has lived there ever since. In Singa­ sions in life are mine. I'm going to be a pore, he is now known as "the Quincy musician." And he became an incompara­ FEBRUARY 7 Jones of South East Asia" because of his ble one. many musical productions at ILM World at 8 pm productions. Meyerhoff Symphony Halt In addition to managing two of Singa­ pore's finest recording studios, O.D. per­ forms nightly at the famous Saxophone RITUAL Restaurant and Bar, which also hosts visit­ ing artists from Wynton Marsalis to Chuck FIRE DANCE Redd. O'Donel Levy also travels to interna­ YURI TEMIRKANOV, conductor tional festivals such as Montreux, Finland, BORIS BELKIN, violin Jakarta, Malaysia, Indonesia and others. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, "Classical" This is the third concert at Peabody in Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 O'Donel Levy memory of Charlie Byrd, the world Debussy: Images No. 2, Iberia famous guitarist, whose styles ranged Falla: "Ritual Fire Dance" Guitarist O'Donel Levy featured from jazz to bossa nova to classical. Byrd from El amor brujo in Tribute to Charlie Byrd died in Annapolis on December 2, 2000, What's your forte? "In Tribute to Charlie Byrd," on Janu­ at the age of 74. Before he passed away, Planning a date or need a night out ary 16, brings together Joe Byrd, bass, Mr. Byrd made a gift to Peabody of a sub­ with your friends? Make a night of it stantial portion of his personal collection and experience the world-renowned Chuck Redd, drums, and O'Donel Levy, guitar, in a benefit concert for the of original manuscripts, scores, and BSO performing Prokofiev's infamous recordings. Thus Peabody is able to make Symphony No. 1, Falla's Gypsy- Peabody Jazz Program. This Evening of Edward Palanker inspired "Ritual Fire Dance" and more. Jazz will warm up with many of the his legacy available to students and the favorites played by the Charlie Byrd Trio. public through the Friedheim Music Library and the Peabody Archives. The featured guest artist is O'Donel A Celebration of Clarinet Plus... ("O.D.") Levy, who was born and raised Peabody Archivist Elizabeth Schaaf Music with Edward Palanker in Baltimore, but is now popularly known conducted a long interview with Mr. Byrd and Friends A FREE POST- in May, 1997, for the Peabody Archives as "the Quincy Jones of South East Asia." This current season, Edward Palanker Levy attended Douglass High School and Oral Histories project. In that interview, CONCERT PARTY the jazz legend reflected on his childhood will be celebrating his fortieth anniver­ studied classical guitar at Peabody, then sary as bass clarinet with the Baltimore Just for got his start playing in Baltimore bars growing up in "peanut country" in Chuck­ atuck, Virginia, where he did a lot of fish- Symphony Orchestra. On Wednesday, Students! before joining the Jack McDuff Band. January 22, this Peabody faculty member will be joined by some stellar colleagues MIX & MINGLE both from the BSO and Peabody. They with BSO Musicians are Richard Field, viola, Clinton Adams, ENJOY FREE FOOD piano, Ivan Stefanovic and Ellen Pendle­ from Phillips and Hard Rock Cafe ;i!s::!.if:S ?§£i ton Troyer, violins, Karen Brown, viola, and Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello. $1 CAPITOL CITY MICRO-BREWS for students w/ photo ID (21 or older) Palanker is well known to local audi­ ences as a chamber musician. He is a co- ENTER TO WIN director of the Candlelight Concerts Tickets and more great Prizes! series which features Baltimore Sympho­ ny Orchestra players and guests at Sec­ ond Presbyterian Church. "One of the TICKETS: advantages in playing bass clarinet with the Baltimore Symphony," he points out, Just $10 "is that the bass clarinet is not called w/ valid student ID upon so much in many standard orches­ tral piece, so 4 have a little more freedom Don't forget Left to right: Peabody Advisory Council member Se Ung Kim and his wife Hee Soon, than the average BSO player. I also retired Valentine's Day is just around Peabody Director Robert Sirota, Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Rela­ three years ago from the faculty of Tow­ the corner and you can tions Joyce Ritchie, Preparatory Violin Choir Director Rebecca Henry, and Julie and Jai son University (where he taught for forty Sung Lee were among those attending the musicale. crescendo right up to that years) so I have had time to devote special day starting on Preparatory Violin Choir Musicale myself to other things." Like thinking up an exceptionally var­ February 7th at the The home of Dr. and Mrs. Wonpyo Hong was filled with the soaring sounds of ied and delightful program for his January Meyerhoff. talented young string players on the occasion of a musicale and buffet to benefit 22 recital. The program begins, as the Preparatory Violin Choir Palanker points out, with "the first major Enrichment Fund. The musi­ work by a major classical composer. The cale, co-hosted by Dr. and Mrs. Trio in E-flat is the earliest of Mozart's Hong and Dr. and Mrs.Yeong clarinet works." Oh, drew nearly 30 guests who The Night Sounds for Solo Clarinet enjoyed the Violin Choir perfor­ which follows is somewhat of a favorite mance, led by director Rebecca with Palanker. "Lutz Mayer wrote this Henry. work in 1990 for his wife Pamela Poulin who is a clarinet player (and a Peabody 410. The Violin Choir ensemble enchanted the audience with a faculty member) and I have played the program of works both solemn piece a few times before, including and sparkling. recentiy at the International Clarinet Con­ 783.8000 vention in Ohio. It's a short work but it's baltimoresymphony.com January/February 2003 Peabody News 7 very colorful." certainly the two most popular pieces on th th Palanker was actually introduced to my program." January 10 -February 16 the next work on the program, Edward The last work, Stephen Prutsman's Yadzinski's Bartok Dances (based on the Dramatis Personae for clarinet and Rumanian Dances), by one of his stu­ string quartet, will be of great interest to dents, who had studied with Yadzinski. the Peabody community, which knows The composer used to be a bass clarinet Prutsman, a Peabody alumnus as a spec­ player in the Buffalo Symphony. "Yadzins­ tacular pianist. "I fell in love with ki has written several interesting works Stephen's Dramatis Personae when I for clarinet," says Palanker. "In this work first heard it on a CD," Palanker tells us. for clarinet and piano he uses some of "It is twenty-three minutes long, in four Bartok's material but it is an original com­ movements, and it employs all kinds of position, not a transcription. The first few compositional techniques and atmos­ dances are the very popular ones that pheric effects. We are also going to be you always hear and the last two dances performing this work in the Candlelight are very quick and lively. The composi­ Concerts so that it will be well rehearsed tion is a very nice addition to the (clar­ by the time we do it at Peabody." inet) repertoire." Dramatis Personae was written in The Martinu Sonatina, Palanker con­ 1998 and was premiered in El Paso, tinues, "has become a standard repertoire Texas. According to the composer, "With piece in the last ten years and is based on the exception of a brief, atmospheric Pre­ The Fats Waller Musical Show traditional Rumanian, or at least East lude, the three movements that follow Conceived and Originally Directed by European melodies. There is a beautiful are inspired by real and fictitious individ­ slow section that reminds me of uals known for having lived dramatic per­ Richard Maltby, Jr. Shostakovich, who also wrote long, slow sonal and artistic lives." The melodies." composer/performer/innovator Charles Directed'by Ken Roberson When we get to the Debussy work on Mingus, with his theatrics on stage and the program, the Premiere Rhapsodie, off, is one of the real life individuals. The Palanker simply observes that "it's a fictional Don Quixote inspires one move­ gorgeous piece. Debussy actually wrote it ment, and the final movement is a musi­ for the Paris Conservatoire Competition cal portrait of five tap dancers. "Each of and I believe it is still used for that Com­ the five,"write s Prutsman, "has an oppor­ See the 25th Anniversary petition. The Mozart and the Debussy are tunity to display his craft and perhaps 'out-do' the previous dancer with dis­ plays of fancy-footed rhythmic bravado." revival of the Tony Award-winning Fats Waller Musical Show.

You'll jump, jive, swing, and boogie woogie—

Stephen Prutsman and 't ain't nobody's A former student of Leon Fleisher at Peabody, Stephen Prutsman first biz-ness if you do! gained fame as a top prizewinner in international piano competitions like the Tchaikovsky in Moscow and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. His com­ Lori Hultgren Buy tickets online: positions and arrangements have been recorded and performed Lori Hultgren solos with the www.centerstage.org throughout the world by such famous Peabody Symphony Orchestra artists as the Kronos Quartet, the St. Peabody News was able to catch up Lawrence Quartet, Dawn Upshaw, or call 410/332-0033 with Lori Hultgren when she was back in and Yo-Yo Ma. Mr. Ma has performed Baltimore for one week at the end of and recorded Prutsman's arrange­ October. As winner of the Sylvia L. ments for The Silk Road Project, Sony Green Competition at Peabody, she will Records, and Japanese television. be singing the Four Last Songs of Prutsman's Dramatis Personae will 3- and 4-Play Richard Strauss with the Peabody Sym­ be performed by Edward Palanker at phony Orchestra on February 1 under Peabody on January 22. Prutsman's Subscriptions Still Available the baton of Hajime Teri Murai. other credits include compositions See the rest of the season for as little as for the sports station ESPN, and Lori, who spent a year studying with arrangements for the films The Man Stanley Cornett at Peabody over 2001- $45 for four plays! Who Cried and Big Bad love. Mr. 2002, had spent the months of Septem­ Call the Box Office for details. Prutsman's latest CD release, the Mac- ber and October at the Britten-Pears Dowell Piano concerti with the Irish School in Aldeburgh, England. She made National Orchestra, won a five star such an impression there that she was rating from the BBC Music invited to return for the month of Magazine. This season will see the November to prepare for her debut CD release of Barber's Piano Concer­ recital in London's famed Wigmore Hall to with the Royal Scottish National on November 22, performing pieces by Orchestra. Prutsman is the founder of Schubert and Britten. the International Chamber Music Fes­ "I am going to do a Schubert course CenterStage tival in El Paso, Texas, where he at Aldeburgh with Graham Johnson served as Director for ten years. A •% 1963-2003O Continued on Page 9 "Anniversary 8 Peabody News January/February 2003 ISA Bl More than a Cabaret: The Peabody Chamber Opera THE MUNICIPAL OPERA COMPANY OF BALTIMORE, INC. presents a Berlin/Munich Double Bill at Theatre Project

~ 2002-2003 SEASON ~ By Roger Brunyate the poet to write a concluding poem and a linking scenario. Their meeting "Life is a cabaret, old chum!" The Peabody Chamber Opera C^Gansel &C Q^retelby Humperdinck also laid the ground for an eventual col­ opening song of Cabaret, the 1965 Fri., Jan., 10 - Sat., Jan., 11, 2003 7:30 p.m laboration on a full-length opera, The musical by John Kander and Fred The Peabody Chamber Opera, conducted by Sun., Jan., 12, 2003 4:00 p.m Rise and Fall of the City of Ebb, immediately evokes the sleazy JoAnn Kulesza with Roger Brunyate, Stage Direc­ Mahagonny, which was completed but heady atmosphere of Berlin tor, presents Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel /\ (ftoncert of Music by late in 1929. Meanwhile, Weill intend­ between the wars, in the last years of and Udo Zimmerman's Weisse Rose at Theatre ed the Songspiel as a study for the new African y\merican (_omposers the Weimar Republic before the rise Project, 45 Wes t Preston Street. Performances style he had envisioned — a style fur­ Sun., Feb. 16, 2003 4:00 p.m. of Hitler. The musical opens in the are Friday, Jam try 24 and Saturday, January 25 ther developed in the headlong fecun­ fictional Kit Kat Club, where the at 8 p.m.; Sunt sy January 26 at 3 p.m.; Thurs­ dity of his collaboration with Brecht Tie OUTAaid&i Tde Tfriefby Gian C. Menotti entertainment is simultaneously satiri­ day, January 30 and Friday, January 31 at 8 p.m. over the next two years, in such works Fri., Apr. 4 - Sat., Apr. 5, 2003 730 p.m. cal and permissive, but one of its and Sunday, Ft sruary 2 at 3 p.m. Tickets are as The Threepenny Opera, The Berlin Sun. Apr. 6, 2003 4:00 p.m. most chilling moments comes in the $16, $8 Senior Citizens, $5 Students with I.D. Requiem, and Happy End. second half, when a folksong sung in from Theatre roject Box Office only. Call The Mahagonny style involved a Jfigk Tea with Municipal Opera an outdoor Biergarten is gradually 410/752-8558 >t visit www.theatreproject.org return to the popular style of separate Sun., June 15, 2003 4:00 p.m. converted into a Nazi marching song. These two Ge /man operas kick off an Interna­ numbers, as in Mozart's Turkish opera, The nightclub decadence of Berlin is tional Festival 11 Theater Project. The Festival •Performances to be held The Abduction from the Seraglio. But apparently cleansed by this vigorous includes Hungarian performance artist Eva Mag­ Brown Memorial Woodbrook Weill used the musical vernacular of new movement spreading north­ yar of The Shan ans in her haunting movement Presbyterian Church the new century, an Americanized jazz wards out of Munich; but watching theater piece Thi House of Deer (Feb 7-9); Joan Fellowship Hall and pop. Even before Weill set them, with the helpless hindsight of history, Schirle of California's Commedia Dell'Arte The­ 6200 N. Charles Street Brecht himself would often perform we see only the genocide and horror atre Company in Second Skin, a work incorporat­ Baltimore, MD 21212 his poems in cabarets, singing them to that will follow. ing a stunning variety of masks (March 14-16); tunes of his own composition. In the Berlin/Munich, the double-bill to and for Vivat! St. Petersburg, The Ten ("Shad­ AT THE DOOR $22 words of Lotte Lenya (the first Jessie in be presented by the Peabody Cham­ ow") Puppet Theatre of Moscow (Feb. 18 and Mahagonny and later Weill's wife), Gen.Adm. $20 SeniorsSc Students $17 ber Opera at Theatre Project, traces a 19) with their original, avantgarde interpretation Brecht believed that "a kind of pidgin Children (12 & under) $14 similar historical and emotional trajec­ of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. English would become the first world tory, but through historical docu­ language." Indeed, parts of the *Special Rates for Groups of 10 or more* ments rather than an invented fiction. 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photo of their unprententious graves, marked by a simple slate tombstone.) During the summer months, Aldeburgh fills up with visitors to the Festival, which features concerts in the Makings, damme an old grain storage facility turned into a concert hall. The School is housed in a three-story building adjoining the Mak­ when I go back in November," she tells ings with its own smaU recital hall seat­ us. "Graham Johnson is the famous Schu­ ing 120. Snape is surrounded by low bert scholar and piano coach, who has lying marshlands with tall grasses, "the written all the books on Schubert over Fens," that provided Benjamin Britten the past twenty years. He will be accom­ with the atmospheric background for his Thur/Fri, Jan 9/10,8 pm • Sun, Jan 12,3 pm panying me at Wigmore Hall and I'll be opera Peter Grimes. Lori has captured VASSILY SINAISKY, conductor • ALEXANDER KNIAZEV, cello doing a Schubert recital at the Makings the mood of the Fens in snapshots of to prepare for it." Named Russia's 1999 "Musician of the Year," cellist Alexander Kniazev pebbly beaches and dark, lowering skies. performs one of the finest of all cello concertos, Dvofak's magnificent For those not familiar with the geog­ This native of Lake Minetonka, Minneso­ salute to this instrument's grandeur. The program also features R. Strauss' raphy of East Anglia, the Britten-Pears ta, would naturally be drawn to northern Death and Transfiguration and Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks. School is located at Snape, approximate­ landscapes. TICKETS: $26-$72 ly six miles from the little town of Alde­ Her return for another month at Alde­ Presented by MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST COMPANY Media Partner; MPT burgh, which is about 90 miles to the burgh followed on her "fantastic experi­ north-east of London on the North Sea. A ence" there in September/October. "It small town of some 6,000 people, Alde­ was outstanding," she exclaims." The HUMMEL TRUMPET CONCERTO burgh is the place where Benjamin Brit­ highest level of talent I have ever worked Fri/Sat, Jan 17/18,8 pm • Sun, Jan 19,3 pm ten lived and worked and where he and with anywhere. I was working with Peter Pears are buried side by side in the GIINTHER HERBIG, conductor • ANDREW BALI0, trumpet town churchyard. (Lori shows us a Continued on Page 10 Giinther Herbig returns to lead a worldwide audience favorite, Mozart's Symphony No. 40, along with Schubert's Symphony No. 6 and Hummel's brilliant Trumpet Concerto. TICKETS: $26-$72 Underwritten by a grant from the ALLFIRST FOUNDATION Media Partner: WYPR

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TEMIRKANOV CONDUCTS PROKOFIEV Fri/Sat, Feb 7/8,8 pm • Sun, Feb 9,3 pm YURI TEMIRKANOV, conductor • BORIS BELK1N, violin Lori Hultgren and friends in a beach scene reminiscent of Peter Grimes. A journey between Russia and Spain, beginning with two Prokofiev works: the charming Symphony No. 1, "Classical," and the stirring Violin Concerto out all the supporting characters, and No. 2 with violinist Boris Belkin. Debussy's Iberia and Falla's Gypsy-inspired Chamber Opera "Ritual Fire Dance" cap the program. TICKETS: $25-$72 concentrated only on the thoughts of Underwritten by a grant from the ALLFIRST FOUNDATION Media Partner: WYPR Continued from Page 8 Hans and Sophie Scholl in the moments sister was 21; both were medical students before their death. The text is taken from and devout Christians. Together with their letters and diaries, from the pam­ TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH SYMPHONY some friends and one professor, they phlets of the White Rose, from the writ­ Thur/Fri, Feb 13/14,8 pm • Sun, Feb 16,3 pm formed the movement Die Weisse Rose ings of the theologian Dietrich Bonhoef- (the White Rose) to awaken others to the fer (also executed by the Nazis), and from YURI TEMIRKANOV, conductor • VADIM REPIN, violin truth of what was really going on. Over the Bible. The disparate numbers com­ The Vtvat! St Petersburg celebration begins with Shostakovich's heartfelt the course of the next several months, bine in a psychological map of the First Violin Concerto with phenomenal Russian violinist Vadim Repin. Always an audience favorite, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony doses the they printed and distributed leaflets in Scholls' spiritual journey. program. TICKETS: $29-$78 Munich and several other German cities, The opera proceeds in a series of Presented by MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT ft TRUST COMPANY attacking Nazi repression, the conduct of images, at once metaphorical and dis­ This concert is part of "Vivat! St. Petersburg," a city-wide what they saw as a murderous and unjust turbingly concrete. There are evocations 'ftplVAi celebration of the 300th anniversary of St, Petersburg, Russia. war, and the treatment of the Jews. of the Bavarian mountains where Hans Although they knew they would surely and Sophie loved to hike. There is the be arrested, they did what they did in sound of children playing to the music of ROMEO & JULIET order to affirm for their contemporaries a hurdy-gurdy. There are starker images Thur/Fri, Feb 20/21,8 pm • Sat Feb 22,11 am* (Casual Concert) that the spirit of freedom could not be also: a Jewish prisoner to whom Hans YURI TEMIRKANOV, conductor • VADIM REPIN, violin silenced, and to show later generations gave some tobacco on his way to the Famous for his use of urban street songs in classical works, Russian that not all Germans turned a blind eye to eastern front; a refugee mother dragging composer Rodion Shchedrin's Not Love Alone kicks off the second the evil that rampaged around them. the body of her dead child; the frozen weekend of the BSO's Vivat! St. Petersburg concerts. The program also Early in 1943, they were arrested by the corpse of a soldier, "another death features Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini* and Gestapo, summarily tried, and guillotined; recorded on a routine list." Towards the selections from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet*. the other members of their circle were end, the images are combined: the moun­ TICKETS - Thur/Fri: $29-$78 Sat $20-$45 executed soon after. tain climb becomes a kind of transfigura­ Celebrity Series presented by MERCANTILE-SAFE DEPOSIT & TRUST COMPANY The composer Udo Zimmermann tion in death; the frozen child returns to Casual Series Media Partner: 101.9 LITE FM j| This concert is part of "Vivat! St. Petersburg," a city-wide (who had recently retired from the post life. But the opera ends with the only : celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, Russia. of Intendant of the Berlin Opera) wrote overt reference to the Scholls' political his first Weisse Rose opera in 1967, using activities, as brother and sister shout their a conventional narrative style. The work's desperate challenge to humanity against international success, however, dates the insistent march of a gathering army from the revision of 1986, when Zimmer­ and the cries of a vast mob coming from 410-783-8000 |=r mann removed the linear narrative, cut loudspeakers all around the theater. Croups of IS or more call 410-7^3-8170. j PRESTON STREETS, Order on-line at www.baitimoresyinphony.com ' BALTIMORE RUSH TICKETS: Students sio/Public $20 subject to availability. Call for information. 10 Peabody News January/February 2003

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Dame Ann Murray and Malcolm Mar- tineau." Those are both big names in the music world, but even more of a thrill was work­ ing with opera director Colin Graham, who coached Hultgren for her perfor­ mance in the title role in Ariadne auf ROLAND PARK Naxos. That Richard Strauss opera was given a public performance at Aldeburgh Studio, One and Two Bedroom that drew a great deal of press attention Apartments because, as Lori explains: "Colin Graham is famous because, as a young man in his The Peabody Trio Rooms are spacious with large windows with blinds, individually controlled heat and air 20s, he was a protege of Benjamin Britten. there for a year, but, like many young very nervous about changing but in 20011 conditioning, ceramic tiled baths, plentiful He was so devastated when Britten died artists, she has to juggle such moves with entered the Annapolis Opera's Vocal Com­ storage and frost-free refrigerators. You'll also that he moved to America and is now with marriage. At Indiana University, where she petition as a soprano and won second find on the premises a 4-star restaurant, unisex the St. Louis Opera Company. When Brit­ completed her undergraduate and Master's prize. I then sang Maddalena in the hair salon, convenience store and deli, gym, ten died, Peter Pears had told him 'We're recreation room, 24-hour switchboard and front degrees and started on a doctorate, Lori Annapolis Opera's production of Rigoletto not going to do any more opera premieres desk. Microwaves and carpeting available. met a young choral director/composer, and Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte. JoAnn at Aldeburgh, so you might just as well go The Broadview also offers, Overnight Guest Dr. Mark Hardy. They got married three Kulesza (the Peabody Opera's musical Rooms, Fully Furnished Studio, One and Two to the States.' This was his first time back years ago and moved to Baltimore. Dr. at Aldeburgh in twenty years. It was very director) coached me for that role and she Bedroom Suites with fully equipped kitchen, Hardy soon found a job. He leads the also encouraged me to make the change. phone and color TV. Ask about our low daily and emotional for him to come back. There choral program at the Baltimore School for (Peabody voice faculty member) Stanley monthly rate on furnished suites. were many times when Colin and I were the Arts and the choirs at the Johns Hop­ having tea together when he would tell Cornett came to her me and I knew that 410-243-1216 kins University. "We have both fallen in he had helped Allison Charney (another FAX 410-889-1267 me that there were so many ghosts pre­ love with the city and the musical commu­ sent for him in the Makings. He had so Peabody alumna) make the transition Furnished models and leasing center open nity here," Lori says happily. from soprano to mezzo and he said he Mon. thru Fri. 9 to 5 and Sat 10 to 4. many memories and some of them were bitter-sweet." Coming to study at Peabody for a year would take me as a student." 105 West 39th Street at University Parkway in was in itself a major shift of gears for this Roland Park. Lori Hultgren will be singing in a Pucci- The Makings always seems to cast a young singer, who had already launched a nWerdi concert for the Annapolis Opera spell on those who work there. "It's just a professional career as a mezzo-soprano, on February 21 and 23 at the Radisson magical place," says Lori. "You feel the singing lead roles with regional opera com­ Hotel in Annapolis and also does a recital presence of so many geniuses, all these panies like the Baltimore Opera, Opera for the College of Notre Dame in March, people who established the English opera. Theatre of St. Louis, and Nashville Opera, so local audiences have a few opportuni­ The local people are also very supportive. and as a soloist with the Baltimore Choral ties to hear her in the next few months. Every performance we gave was sold out, Arts Society and Nashvtile, Indianapolis, They had better make the most of them, and every master class was fully attended." Cincinnati, and Detroit symphony orches­ because it seems certain that this young Jiearing In terms of a career move, going to the tras. artist will be finding engagements over a Britten-Pears School not only looks good "It was Warren Jones, who is Marilyn very far flunggeographi c area very soon. on a resume but leads to work. The Home's principal accompanist, who She had originally been chosen as part of School's Director, Andrew Comben, is advised me that I should change from a the group Vera Danchenko-Stern took to Relieving talking about Hultgren.going to study mezzo to a soprano," explains Lori. "I was St. Peterburg in October to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the St. Petersburg Con­ Hajime Teri Murai programs Mahler Fifth servatory but the pressure of additional CLASSIC CONCERT 3 Continuing the tradition of programming a Mahler Symphony each season, the engagements at Aldeburgh necessitated February 1 concert also presents Mahler's Symphony No. 5, comprising a two-part dropping out of the Russian trip. When JANUARY 24-25, 2003 8 PM Funeral March, scherzo, adagietto and finale. she goes back to Aldeburgh, she expects In contradictory fashion, the Funeral March contains a middle section where the to audition for the Castlewold Opera Com­ HOVHANESS: Overture for Trombone tempo accelerates from the slow funeral procession pany which runs a Wok Trap type sum­ and Strings to, as Mahler indicates, to "Suddenly faster. Passion­ mer festival in Ireland. The company David Perkel, trombone ately. Wildly." When the funeral procession wants her to try out for the role of Tosca. MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 3 resumes, the movement ends with "the slowly and She will also be auditioning for the Wash­ Steven Barzal, horn softly descending figure...as if a coffin were being ington Opera in December. lowered into the ground amid dead silence and Lori has in ^sense akeady prepared for immobility," as the program notes describe. her Peabody program. While at Aldeburgh, The Fifth Symphony then progresses through vari­ she performed The Four last Songs in a SCHUM WN; Symphony No. 1 ous moods ranging from "stormily agitated, with the master class. However, the February 1 con­ utmost vehemence," to a festive, jolly part punctuat­ cert at Peabody wik be the first time she ed by glockenspiels and cymbals and including a has sung them on the concert stage. libidinous Viennese waltz. Mahler famously described to his wife Alma his The Peabody Trio symphonv.urg reactions after the firstrehearsa l of the Fifth in 1904: Hajime Teri Murai On Tuesday, February 4, in Griswold The Scherzo is the very devil of a movement; I see it is in for a peck of trou­ Hall, the Peabody Trio (Violaine bles!. .. The public, oh heavens, what are they to make of this chaos, of which new Melancon,violin, Natasha Brofsky, cello, worlds are forever being engendered, only to crumble in ruin the moment after? and Seth Knopp, piano) performs the pre­ What are they to say to this primeval music, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of miere of a new work Altars, composed by sound? O that I might give my symphony its first performance fifty years after my Stephen Burke especially for them. They death! begin the program with Beethoven's Trio hi AVE YOU HEARD This was prophetic because it wasn't until I960 (the Mahler Centennial Year) in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 "The Ghost," ANNAPOLIS that Leonard Bernstein and others began moving Mahler symphonies into the main­ and conclude with Ravel's Trio in A SYMPHONY stream orchestral repertoire. The symphony has since become especially beloved because Burke's Altars quotes from both ORCHESTRA? for its Adagietto, a meditation for strings and harp (the only part of the symphony in the Ghost Trio and from the Ravel. "That which the composer makes use of the harp), which Mahler characterized as a ten­ will make for a thematically cohesive der expression of love for his young bride. January/February 2003 Peabody News 11 evening," says Knopp. The Peabody Trio will be performing the Beethoven piece at Peabody not long after playing it in a recital at London's Wigmore Hall on December 29, 2002, the ENGINEERS CLUB second time this Peabody ensemble has had a date at this prestigious venue. The at me r^atwe/t-tjjacow Q^vundio^t Trio will also be recording the Ghost in March so it is very much part of their musical consciousness at the moment. Stephen Burke has written that the first movement of Altars "is rhapsodic, like the Beethoven. It is serious and dra­ matic in mood and is obsessed with small elements from the Ghost trio. There are moments when I openly quote from the trio. The quotes then launch episodes that culminate in a nervous crisis." The second Katherine Jacobson appears as soloist with movement, by contrast, "is lighter, crisp orchestras in the U.S. and abroad and at the Aspen Music Festival each summer. and more playful in nature." Burke has She has performed in chamber ensembles had works performed by the National with Beverly Sills, Gunther Schuller and Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and with members of the Amsterdam Royal other major orchestras and has released Concertgebuow Orchestra. CDs of his chamber music. The Peabody Trio has been gaining much attention over the past year. Injury 2002, New World Records released a CD featuring their performances of works by Shulamit Ran. The CD was a featured on the cover of that month's Fanfare maga­ zine. In January 2003, the Peabody Trio will perform in honor of Chamber Music America's 25th anniversary in New York's Symphony Space and over the current season the Trio is also serving as ensem- ble-in-residence for the Friends of Cham­ ber Music in Denver. Among the composers who have been commissioned to write new works for the Peabody Trio are Harold Meltzer (2003), Ann Teresa Kang, a second place winner of the Yale Gordon Competition at Peabody, Steve Mackey (2004), Osvaldo Goljov and is a student of Julian Martin. She received playwright David Hwang (2005, new a Bachelor's degree in English from the work for trio, voice and actors), and Shu­ University of California at Berkeley and lamit Ran (2006, new work for trio and studied for a year in Paris. orchestra). As the Peabody Trio's celkst Camerata that night: Katherine Jacobson, Natasha Brotsky is married to violist Roger a Peabody alumna and Conservatory fac­ Tapping of the Takacs Quartet, Tapping ulty member, performing Leo Janacek's sometimes appears as a guest with the Concertino and Peabody student Ann Trio, as he did at their recent recital at Teresa Kang for Olivier Messiaen's Wigmore Hall. Oiseaux exotiques. icmce The program opens with Lou Harri­ Peabody Concert Orchestra son's Praise for the Beauty of Hum­ A BALTIMORE TRADITION gives Beethoven/Stravinsky mingbirds, which is written for a mixed Program quintet. Virgil Thomson once described QfcYice /90S Harrison in a few sentences that have The Peabody Concert Orchestra, con­ been often quoted. Harrison, said Thom­ Where Membership is designed ducted by Hajime Teri Murai, gives an all- son, "is not making plastic roses for orchestral program on Friday, February for all professional men and women .... funeral parlors. He is simply speaking in 7, including Beethoven's Symphony No. not just Engineers many personae and many languages. The 4 in B-flat, Op. 60 and Stravinsky's message itsek is pure Harrison. And that Petrouchka Ballet. Written for message is of joy, dazzling and serene, Diaghilev's Ballets russes, and first per­ Escape the ordinary and even at its most intensely serious, formed in Paris in 1911, the ballet tells not without laughter." That quote could Retreat to the extraordinary the story of a puppet that comes to Ike at be applied to Praise for the Beauty of a Shrovetide Fair in St. Petersburg. at the Engineers Club Hummingbirds, which was written when Harrison was in a particularly The Peabody Camerata happy and prolific period of his life. • Elegant Ambiance in a very unique setting programs music inspired by The Camerata will also perform Gene Hummingbirds, Whales, Young's own new work Butterfly Whis­ • Baltimore's most exclusive meeting facility Hedgehogs, Owls and other pers, but the conductor has not given us • Captivating cuisine and catering Creatures any notes on this work. One just assumes • Affordable dues with great value The Peabody Cam- that any work dealing with butterflies erata's conductor will be light and delicate. Gene Young has built George Crumb's Voice of the Whale, his February 15 pro­ composed in 1971, and scored for flute, gram, which begins cello and piano, was inspired by the at 7:30 p.m. in Gris­ singing of the humpback whale. Original­ wold Hall, around the ly, the composer asked that the perform­ Call or visit us on the web to join today theme of music ers wear a black hak mask to efface the inspired by the natur- Gene Youn2 sense of human projection and that the www.esb.org al world. Two Peabody pianists join the work be performed under deep blue Continued on Page 12 410.539.6914 12 Peabody News January/February 2003

ensemble (piano, two violins, viola, horn, not actually performed this piece in pub­ M FOUKR C0H/0CT clarinet and bassoon), is more lightheart- lic before but "it is such a beautiful piece," ed in mood, but also has its profound she notes. "It is also a very virtuosic and moments. striking piece and at the end the orchestra /orraoF/ofw "In the first movement," Jacobson and piano together bang out very low JANUARY 17 & 18. 2003 explains, "Janacek gives the horn the part chords in unison that is supposed to be At Washington National Cathedral of the hedgehog. Then in the next move­ (the sound of) a crow." With vocalists Johana Amoid^Mam Sharp, ment the clarinet plays the squirrel. The All Camerata concerts are free but David Vanderml, Milagro Vargas, and third movement depicts owls and, as come early. Seats are allocated on a first- instrumentalists Je* ;; Boenatj. stage lighting (not possible in Griswold Robert Bsenstein Janacek puts it, other critical night birds. come-first-served basis and fillu p fast. Webb Wiggins, TomZajac Hall, so the audience will have to use its The fourth movement is an enigma to imagination). In his program notes, 1 everyone because he gave no program­ The ravishing ig of Crumb explains that the flutist "simultane­ Peabody Percussion Songs has insprcti marvelous io< ipf-sitons by matic description other than to say it was ously plays his instrument and sings into it Ensemble gives Multimedia John Dunstable F « inspired by a fairy tale." Jewish compos- ity " which "produces an eerie, surreal tim­ Extravaganza Katherine Jacobson has been enjoying other masters Four voices and an ensemble of bre, not unlike the sounds of the hump­ The Peabody Percussion Ensemble ..'fiddles, harp u>e and Ainds settings of; her own out-of-doors environment during back whale." The cello presents the Sea- i jtoems from this mos' hie, summers at Aspen for the past several takes the stage of Friedberg Hall on Feb­ Theme, accompanied by dark, fateful Friday & Saturday at 8 pm \ pre-concert years. She is a frequent performer at the ruary 17 in multime­ discus: n with WET :-y Davis ft chords of strummed piano strings. In the Aspen Music Festival, being featured last dia extravaganza. Friday at 6:30 pm in th ;-ium last movement, the Sea-Nocturne, Crumb Director Jonathan at the West Entrance Tickets S20 - S38 summer with Antoinette Perry in Ravel's says that he wanted to suggest a larger Le Valse for two pianos; their perfor­ Haas has programmed rhythm of nature and a sense of suspen­ mance was broadcast on NPR's "Perfor­ Stravinsky's Great sion in time. NKDlSWL TdK/ mance Today." Chorale from "L'His­ FEBRUARY 14 FEBRUARY 16^ This is not the first time Katherine "Antoinette and I rehearsed every day toire du Soldat;" Jacobson has performed the Janacek Con­ Degrees of Separa- £' inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron and to the point where we each knew when Chaucr rs CW / Tales, the Consort certino under the baton of Gene Young. the other was going to breathe," she Hon "Grandchildren Jonathan Haas celebrates St. Valen- sne medieval "We did it together about fifteen years jokes. The two pianists forged such a of Tree" by Paul Rudy, composer, Rich vocal trio Trefoil, led by Drew Mirrtet m a pro­ ago," she tells us. "The inspiration for the gram of virtuoso songs and instrumental works close partnership that they are scheduled Jaime, videographer; Edgard Varese's from the 14th century. A recreation of the Concertino came out of the youthful to perform the Brahms-Haydn Variations Ionization; Emmanuel Sejourn's Mart­ nociamal amusements of Boccaccio's young mood of the composer's Wind Sextet. together at the Aspen Music Festival next ian Tribe; The Alchemist by Javier Diaz, tale-tellers with bailati and 1st. it as Janacek had a profound fascination with the full harmonies and rustic textures of iunes summer. composer, Debra Flug, sculptor; and that might have been heard or the animal world and the parallelism It was less easy to find rehearsal time Piano Etudes No. 8 and 12 by Philip Canterbury. between animals and humans." for another work requiring two pianists. Glass. I I Friday at 8 pm • Saturday at 5 & 8pm - Peabody audiences may remember the Schubert's Fantasy for Four Hands, one Sundav at 2om»pre-concert discussion with Peabody Opera Theatre's production of WETA's y Davis Friday at 7pm of the highlights of "An Evening with Peabody Wind Ensemble Tickets: $27 The Cunning Little Vixen a couple of sea­ Leon Fleisher," broadcast live over NPR Conductor Harlan Parker takes the sons ago, which is Janacek's profoundest 202.544.7077 www.folger.edu on July 25 from Aspen's 2002 Festival. In Peabody Wind Ensem­ take on the cycles of nature, both their this case the other pianist was Fleisher ble through its paces Folger Shakespeare Library joyous and tragic elements. The Concerti­ 201 East Capitol Street SE himself. on February 17 in Washington, DC 20003 no, a four-movement work for chamber "With Leon, you grab him when you repertoire that shows can," laughs Kathy, who in spite of being off the virtuosity and married to Fleisher, still finds it difficult to versatility of the schedule practice time together given his ensemble. The con­ global trajectory. The Schubert Fantasy cert begins with kc|Leid©fc©p« requires intricate physical coordination as Shostakovich Festive Harlan Parker well as musical empathy between the two Overture, Op. 96 in performers. "During rehearsals, our hands an arrangement for wind band by Donald Lifelong Learning at Roland Park Country School were often bumping into each other," Hunsberger. A lively curtain raiser, the says Jacobson, "and there are actually Festive Overture shows off "one of Spring programs of interest to places where each pianist has the same Shostakovich's greatest attributes—the women, men ana kids, too notes. You have to decide who is going to ability to write a long sustained melodic play them." line combined with a pulsating rhythmic Music Appreciation Creative Pursuits Talk of this four-handed playing drive," according to Hunsberger. Fitness Classes Day Trips prompts the interviewer to pose the ques­ The Edward Gregson Metamorphosis, Wine Tasting Book Talks tion: How do Leon Fleisher and Katherine premiered in 1979 in London, calls for Jacobson manage to practice several large wind and percussion sections, six Culinary Arts -M Films hours a day in their Roland Park house double basses, piano and electronics Art Appreciation Travel Abroad without the sound disturbing each other? building to an enormous climax. It's really quite simple. "Leon has a third The James Barnes Fantasy Variations Expand your horizons! For information, please call 410-323-5500, ext. floor music studio," Kathy explains, "and on a Theme by Paganini was commis­ my studio is on the first floor, so we can­ sioned by the U.S. Marine Band in 1988 Roland Park Country School • 5204 Roland Avenue • Baltimore, MD 21210 not hear each other." and has proved so popular that the Band The soloist for Messiaen's Oiseaux has played it^over 150 times since that exotiques that follows on the Camerata date. The variations, based on Paganini's program will be Ann Teresa Kang, who is Caprice in a minor, No. 24, showcase Celebrate the beauty of the instrument a second year Master's student of Julian every soloist and major section of the Martin at Peabody. She has an affinity for modern symphonic band. the music of French composers, having As the Peabody Opera Theatre will be you love... spent a year in Paris as an Artist in Resi­ performing Leonard Bernstein's opera dence at the American Foundation, which Candide in March, the version of the enabled her to work with people from the overture to that opera, arranged by Paris Conservatory on chamber and piano Grundman for winds, will provide a pre­ music. view of what's in store. The Messiaen work is a dialogue The opportunity to hear a live perfor­ J between the piano and an orchestra com­ mance of Michael Colgrass' Winds of posed of winds and percussion. The title Nagual is not to be missed. Colgrass, "exotic birds" explains the inspiration for whose many successes as a composer the music. The score indicates which were crowned with a Pulitzer Prize in birds are being evoked, mainly Asian 1978, is, according to New York Times birds, but they include the Baltimore Ori­ music critic Harold Shonberg, "some­ Find the perfect gifts online at ole, "that was an exotic for a Frenchman," thing of a maverick. He will use serial Ann explains. The Peabody student has textures, but will mix them with jazz or www.ViolinGift s.co m January/February 2003 Peabody News 13 outright romanticism, or dissonance a la him. The late John Cage, for instance, It's very intense and very extreme at just Ives." wrote a piece tided Composed Improvisa­ about every level you can think of. On a Winds ofNagual premiered in 1985. tion and then liked how Black played it so technical level, you make use of every It is based on the writings of Carlos Cas- much that he was moved to pen. these possible part of the instrument. In terms taneda who spent a fourteen-year words of praise: "Every time I hear him of how it sounds, it's very delicate and soft apprenticeship with Don Juan Matis, a playing it, I'm glad I was able to write it as in places and then harsh and brutal in Yaqui Indian sorcerer from Mexico. The I did." other places. It goes back and forth. Play­ sorcerer instructed Castaneda in pre- Although Robert Black is probably too ing it is demanding and exhausting. I like Colombian techniques to find the busy to even count exactly how many its visceral quality, where it's shrieking nagual, or creative self. Castaneda met pieces have been composed for him, he and screaming." Don Juan while researching hallucino­ laughingly observes that "fifty plus" is the Black says that the 'Wolff piece is dif­ genic plants for his thesis in anthropolo­ safest way to put it. "Playing contempo­ ferent. It's very gentle and traditional, gy at UCLA. rary music was something I always liked melodic and tuneful." The Wolff piece According to the program and always did," Black says fromhi s home also has a vocal section in which the notes, "each character is delineated in the in Hartford, Connecticut, where he teach­ bassist sings variations on the piece's title. music by a theme: Juan's is dark and omi­ es at the Hartt School of Music. "In gener­ Some performers might be thrown by nous, yet gentle and kind; Carlos' is al, I am really in tune with that music. Peo­ such instructions in the score, but they're open, direct and naive. The£arlos theme ple have affinities for certain things." par for the course for Robert Black. "I is heard throughout the piece from con­ As often as he has received new think in my case you work on these things stantly changing perspectives as Juan scores, there is always that sense of dis­ and you learn them and it's all a part of subjects him to long desert marches, covery. "It's very exciting to see a score playing the piece. As with bowing, it's just encounters with terrifying powers, and no one has played or heard, and at first something else you do. It doesn't separate altered states of reality." you look at it and you don't know what out into parts." it's going to sound like." By way of analogy, he mentions that Marbury Violin Recital The audience for his Peabody concert chamber musicians learn their parts sepa­ will be able to hear this performer in con­ rately, but then perform a composition in The Prize Recital by the Winner of the Robert Black 2003 William Marbury Violin Competition temporary action. Black says his program such a way that it's a unified whole. Also, it even existing. He has commissioned takes place in Goodwin Hall (formerly will include such solo bass pieces as Ian­ he points out, it's not exactly unprece­ more than fifty pieces. That kind of com­ dented for performers to also be vocalists: Leakin Hall) on February 25 at 7:30 p.m. nis Xenakis's 1976 Theraps and Christian mitment to the music of our own time Wolffs 1991 Look, She Said. Though not "There's really nothing revolutionary promises \o receive a full hearing when written for Black, the Xenakis qualifies as about it when you consider that people The Computer Music Consort Black gives a solo recital on Thursday, a signature piece. The Wolff composition have been singing and playing an instru­ presents Robert Black, from February 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Griswold Hall. counts as one of those fifty-plus commis­ ment for years." the Bang on a Can All-Stars This free concert is presented by the Com­ sions. As with most of his commissions, he has By Mike Giuliano puter Music Consort; electronic music is "The Xenakis piece I've played proba­ enough personal acquaintance with Wolff one of Black's many interests. that the performer and composer have Not only does Robert Black perform a bly a hundred to a hundred-and-fifty times. Black is so plugged into contemporary some sense of the creative qualities of each lot of contemporary music, but this dou- It's something I've obviously done often music that some of its most famous com­ blebass player is responsible for much of since I first did it around twenty years ago. posers have taken the time to write for Continued on Page 14

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Riley, Meredith Monk and Brian Eno. This York City. \^Q^M\\AAAUXAJL y^o^ceAAA. is clearly a bass player who wants to cover Whether bowing a doublebass or all the bases. banging on a can, Robert Black just keeps "What I find kind of interesting about playing. oX o)ecotvc the work I do is that people get known for certain things, but there are other '002-2003 things you can also do. I play a lot of con­ THE PEABODY PREPARATORY temporary music, since that's where my Preparatory Honors Recital other. Black certainly knows Wolffs com­ interests are, and I feel this is one area Sunday, January 12,3:30 pm This recital on January 19 at 3 p.m. in positional output. Currently, Black is work­ where I can make a contribution. But I'm Janice Chandler, Soprano Griswold Hall presents the Preparatory's ing on a recording of the complete solo also happy as a classical musician playing Eric Conway, Piano Most Outstanding Performers selected bass music of this composer. Because com­ in an orchestra." from the Winter Honors Competition. mission fees usually are small, Robert Black Sunday, February 9,3:30 In addition to teaching at Hartt, Black feels the best way to compensate a compos­ also teaches at the Festival Eleazar de Car- Annual Youth Festival Prepatory Ensembles er for bringing a new piece of music into valho in Brazil; plays with the Hartford Featuring: the world is to perform it so often that it Symphony; participates in festivals in take the stage * Friends School Chamber Chorus truly becomes a part of the contemporary Japan, the Netherlands and Finland; been Looking to chase away those January •Greater Baltimore Youth repertory. Til play it as many times as I can. blues? You can enjoy back to back free Concert Strings an artist in residence at the American Cen­ That's the only kind of fee I can offer them performances by the Preparatory's top *Brittany Newsome, Pianist ter in Paris and Banff Center in Canada; (composers)," he says. constitutes one half of Basso Bongo, an ensembles on Saturday, January 25. The Besides the sort of solo bass composi­ electronic duo he formed with percus­ Preparatory String Ensemble, Daniel Levi- tions that will be showcased in the sionist Amy Knoles; works with the post­ tov, conductor, goes first in Griswold Hall at 3 pm, followedfjy the Preparato­ Chamber Mus'c by Peabody concert, Black has quite a few modern dance company The School of other ways in which his instrument is Hard Knocks; participated in film projects ry Chamber Orchestra, Phyllis Freeman, (Candlelight heard. He's received considerable recogni­ with the late Rudy Burckhardt; done conductor. recordings including a solo CD called Stay on for an evening concert by the planned and perfonned by members of the tion as a founding member of the New Baltimore Symphony Orchestra York-based new music ensemble known "State of the Bass"; and collaborates with Preparatory Sinfonietta, under the baton as Bang on a Can All-Stars. Its concerts and theater companies including Perseverence of its conductor Gene Young. This Sunday, January 19,7:30pm recordings have presented chamber Theater in Alaska, Company One in Hart­ begins in Friedberg Hall at 7 p.m. Works by Mozart, Reger & Brahms music by the likes of Philip Glass, Terry ford, and Music Theater Group in New

Sunday, February 23,7:30pm Works by Stravinsky, Borodin & Shostakovich Bill Nerenberg heads "Peabody Presents," a professional Concert Booking Agency All concerts take place at Getting a good idea is one thing. Tchaikovsky in Moscow to the Queen Second Presbyterian Church Getting the person with the drive and 4200 St. Paul Street Elisabeth of Belgium. We will careful­ Baltimore, MD 21218 initiative to see it off the ground is ly select artists whom Peabody deems All Concerts are FREE another. Fortunately, Peabody has ready for professional engagements." For more information, call (410) 744-4034 been able to find exactly the right In addition to featuring individual man to launch a professional Concert Peabody faculty, student and JjJSifflrj-" Booking Agency at Peabody. "Peabody i;!iats, '^Peabody Presents" will work Presents" will be headed by Bill toward securing professional out-of- Nerenberg. town engagements for Peabody 1CJI USIC at -ft> --..5 :; ix-si known as the ensembles, ranging from the Peabody former managing director of the Shriv­ Symphony Orchestra to jazz ensem­ M er Hall Concert Series in Baltimore. bles, by approaching promoters of Charles Street at Saratoga During his highly successful four-year classical and jazz concerts, festivals, 410-685-3404 tenure, revenues and subscriptions for orchestral, opera and choral organiza­ www.oldstpauls.ang-md.org that series grew by 250%. While man­ tions, and educational institutions to EVENSONG aging director, Nerenberg also initiat­ secure bookings for Peabody artists. First Sundays at 4 pm ed a unique collaboration among the Such professional bookings will have October to May Shriver Series, the Peabody Institute great educational value for students in Sung either by the Choir of Men & and Evergreen House to create the giving them experience of the "real Boys or the Choir of Men & Girls New Chamber Festival Baltimore; the Bill Nerenberg world." first festival took place in June 2002 Which naturally delighted the "Peabody Presents" will also seek VESPERS to great critical acclaim. Ties with Peabody director. "Peabody is fortu­ to arrange for the television, radio and Every Sunday at 5:30 pm Peabody have been particularly close. nate to have someone of the proven satellite broadcasts of selected perfor­ September 8 to May 25 Bill serves on- the Peabody Advisory effectiveness of Bill Nerenberg to mances in Peabody's own concert Enter a world of ancient chant, Council, and is a member of that head this new venture," says Bob Siro­ halls. illuminating candlelight, and sacred Council's subcommittee on market­ ta. "We are lucky that he has chosen Bill Nerenberg comments: "The mystery. A schola sings plainsong ing. His wife Dotty (Dr. Dorothy plan is to start modestly. In the first and early polyphony in this short, to be involved with Peabody. I believe candlelit, choral service. Rosenthal, a cancer specialist at the that, with his trademark enthusiasm year or so of operation, bookings will Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) is and energy, he will provide an invalu­ be sought for Peabody artists and -ODDSAINT PAULS equally enthusiastic about music. The able new dimension to the school." ensembles mainly in East Coast loca­ TJBESDAY couple regularly host musicians in Although many Peabody musicians tions. By the third year, the intention tusic their home. already appear in prestigious concert is to secure national engagements ~ SE>ERIEF S For most of his professional career, series throughout the United States and, hopefully, some international Half-hour recitals each week at 12:15 Nerenberg has worked in the non­ and round the globe, this new agency ones as well. I am very excited at the October 1 to May 27 profit management field, performing will offer increased outreach and sup­ potential for this new venture market development and consulting port for their performing activities. because I know the exceptional quali­ for a wide variety of organizations. "We expect this support to be par­ ty of the product we are offering." When he stepped down from his posi­ ticularly valuable to young Peabody The setting up of "Peabody Pre­ tion with the Shriver Hall Concert musicians just launching their sents" is yet another innovative step Series at the end of June 2002, he careers," says Dr. Sirota. "Our stu­ toward making the Peabody Institute decided that he wished to place his dents and young alumni regularly win a world leader in the field of profes­ expertise at the service of Peabody on top prizes in all the most famous inter­ sional music training. a volunteer basis. national music competitions from the January/February 2003 Peabody News 15 Marcia Dale Weary and Matthew Olwell give Dance Master Classes The Preparatory Dance Department is Artistic Advisor, Barbara Weisberger. sponsoring a day of Master Classes on Jan­ This Day of Master Classes is open to uary 19 as a special offering to the Balti­ Advanced students ages 12 and up, Inter­ more and neighboring dance communi­ mediate students ages 10 and up, and all ties. Four classes will be held from 10 teachers. The Advanced Ballet level a.m. to 3 p.m.: a two-hour Advanced Bal­ requires four or more years of ballet train­ let in the morning and a two-hour Inter­ ing and the Intermediate Ballet at least mediate Ballet in the afternoon taught by three years. Required years of study does Marcia Dale Weary; and two one-and-a- not apply to students taking only Percus­ half-hour Percussive Dance classes, con­ sive Dance classes. The tuition fee for ducted by Matthew Olwell in the same individual students is $20 for any single time slots. class and $30 for two classes. The fee for Marcia Dale Weary, Artistic groups of five or more students enrolling Director/founder of the Central Pennsyl­ together is $ 10 per class per student. All vania Youth Ballet (CPYB), is a revered fig­ teachers and adult group leaders accom­ ure in the ballet world, whose pedagogi­ panying students are invited to participate cal vision has transformed a small town or observe free of charge. dance school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, The registration/ fee payment deadline into an internationally respected training is January 13. Class size will be limited. ground and performing company. Advance reservations are strongly recom­ Matthew Olwell is a rising choreogra­ mended. For further information, call the pher and versatile performer with Foot­ Peabody Dance Office 410/ 659-8100 ext works, a trendsetting percussive dance 1125 or e-mail [email protected]. company based in Crownsville, Maryland, that has its roots in southern Appalachian, Celtic, Canadian, African, and AfroAmeri- can traditional dance and music forms. Footworks brings live music and the power and joy of percussive dance to stu­ ALL CONCERTS 8PM dents and audiences everywhere. Mr. Orwell's two scheduled classes will focus THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART on Irish Step dancing, Tap and other relat­ Info: (410) 247-5320 or www.bcgs.org ed dance forms that arise from the uniquely American melding of cultures. Peabody Dance's efforts to reach out and serve colleagues and serious students in dance by sponsoring exceptional events is one of several defined goals set in Spring 2001 with the appointment of Matthew Olwell

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Aaron Sherber conducts the Martha Graham Dance Jennifer Blades—Mezzosoprar Company's New York Season Conductor Aaron Sherber, a Peabody alumnus, wields several batons. As Music •pHOTOGfc/W FOR THE EMERGING ftRTlS" Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, he will be conducting the Compa­ ny's season at the Joyce Theatre (January 21-February 2), which features Preparatory dance alumna Jennifer Conley (profiled in the November/December issue of Peabody News) as both a solo and ensemble dancer. Closer to home, Aaron Sherber is the Music Director of Opera Vivente, Baltimore's chamber opera company. Previous positions have included assistant conductor for the Baltimore Opera Compa­ Jpera Company ny, the Washington Symphony Orchestra, Washington Summer Aaron Sherber Opera Theatre, and the Orlando Opera. Mr. Sherber holds degrees in philosophy from Yale College and in conducting from the Peabody Conservatory, tor inquiries [email protected]*>N. where he studied with Frederik Prausnitz. qiomSi 16 Peabody News January/February 2003 Laying the Foundations & Sparking Creativity BROBST for Young Dancers at the Preparatory

Violin Shop In a dance class at the Preparatory, by Melissa Stafford, we watch students Fine Instruments & Bows four-to-five-year-olds are learning con­ go through a fast-paced lesson that Prep Dance Classes centration, coordination, and balance, begins with simple exercises at the 1966 Our 37th Year 2003 but they think they are simply having barre: plies to a slow, haunting tune on Parents interested in enrolling fun. the piano; flexing and pointing; grace­ their children for the Spring See Spectacular photos of Dance Instructor Delia Cowall first ful port de bras; all touching on the semester should call the Peabody gets all the children into a circle and fundamentals of Classical Ballet. When Preparatory Dance Office at 410/ our collection at: asks them to do a skipping movement. the students move away from the barre 659-8100 ext. 1125 for detailed www. brobstviolins. com They skip happily round for a moment after this warm-up, it is clear that they pre-registration information con­ or so, then she asks them to freeze and have already progressed towards mas­ cerning the artistic program, VIOLINS hold a position with an interesting tering some of the basics. Ms. Stafford class schedules, and placement. Nicolo Gagliano, Naples 1780 • Ferdinando shape high up. Arms and legs contort spent four years as a student teacher at Official registration through the Gagliano, Naples 1781 • Ferdinando Gagliano, every which way. It's hard to hold the Peabody Preparatory Office Naples c.1760 • Ferdinando Gagliano, Naples the renowned Central Pennsylvania position for these kindergarten-age stu­ Youth Ballet School where her particu­ begins December 2. The follow­ c.1750 (7/8 size) • Carlo Antonio Testore, Milan ing classes are open to new stu­ dents. There are distinct wobbles. lar focus was on beginner ballet and 1742 • Lorenzo Ventapane, Naples c.1800 • J.B. dents beginning January 27: Vuillaume, Paris 1853 • J.B. Vuillaume, Paris Off they go again, this time hopping pre-ballet classes for young children. 1823 • Enrico Rocca, Genoa 1911 • Annibale round the circle and Ms. Delia now asks She moves around the class correcting Creative Dance for 4-year- Fagnola, Turin 1929 • Stefano Scarampella, them to hold an interesting position positions and body placement, prod­ olds with Delia Cowall Mantua 1919 • Vincenzo Postiglione, Naples lying on the floor. Various parts of ding here, pushing there, attempting to Wed. 4:30-5:30 p.m. (Main Cam­ 1902 • Giuseppe Ornati, Milan 1927 • Pierre & anatomy stick up in all kinds of shapes. Hippolyte Silvestre, Lyon 1845 • Giorgio Gatti, set them on the path to the ideal image. pus Downtown) Turin 1929 • Gaetano Poliastri, Bologna 1936 • Not so much wobble this time. The In dance, as in music, getting the Sat. 10-11 a.m. (Towson Branch) Giulio Degani. Venice 1904 • Vincenzo Sannino, support of the floor helps. best professional instruction at an early Introduction to Ballet for 5- Naples c.1900 • Romeo Antoniazzi, Milan c. 1910 After about thirty minutes of exercis­ age to provide a strong foundation, is and 6-year-olds • Oreste Candi, Genoa 1930 • Erminio Farina, es like these, an observer in the studio essential. Specific classes are designed Thurs. 4:15-5:15 p.m. with Melis­ Milan 1909 • Gustave Bernardel, Paris 1892 • can see an obvious improvement. Con­ to ensure the Peabody Preparatory sa Stafford (Towson Branch) Giuseppe Pedrazzini, Milan 1924 • Charles centration, coordination, and balance Francois Gand, Paris 1842 • Pierre Hel, Lille 1926 Dance Department's artistic entrench­ Sat. 11:00-12:00 with Delia Cow­ • Jean Baptist LeFebvre, Amsterdam c.1760 • are all getting better, but you can also ment at these beginning stages. We all (Towson Branch) Amedeo Simonazzi, Santa Vittoria 1920 • Carlo watch these youngsters develop in have been watching a class in the Beginner Ballet for 7-13-year- Ravizza, Milan 1932 • Pietro Gallinotti. Solero another way. They are using their imag­ Young Children's Program, which olds with Melissa Stafford 1931 • Gand & Bernardel, Paris 1891 • Paolo de inations to create these original poses. New Open Class: Saturday 1-2 Barbieri, Genoa 1930 • Alfredo Contino, Naples includes Creative Dance for four-year- Muscles may be getting stronger, but so olds, and the Introduction to Ballet p.m. (Main Campus) 1905 • Benjamin Banks, Salisbury 1777 • is their sense of creativity. Pre-Professional 1A & IB (2 class­ Benjamin Banks, Salisbury 1787 • Nestor for five- and six-year-olds, the next Audinot, Paris 1879 • Giuseppe Castagnino, The youngsters are also assimilating stage up the ladder. Starting about age es per week) with Melissa Chiavari 1940 • Paul Bailly, London 1891 • the vocabulary of dance. "What is the seven, students can enroll in the Begin­ Stafford Nicolas Vuillaume, Paris c.1855 • Maurice opposite of pointed?" Cowall asks. ner Ballet classes, either in the two (A placement class is required Mermillot, Paris 1897 * Jules Gaillard, Paris "Flex," the class choruses back. classes per week 1A*& IB levels of the for this ongoing schedule) c.1855 • J.B. Vuillaume "Stentor", Mirecourt Delia Cowall is no novice at laying Level 1A: Thurs. 5:15-6:15 p.m. c.1860 • Victor Audlnot-Mourot, Paris c.1915 • Pre-Professional Program, or the Alfredo Gianotti, Milan 1968 • Renato the foundations and sparking creativity. once a week Open Program. (Towsen-firanrri) """ Scroliavezza, Parma 1972 • Azzo Royescaili, She has been performing and teaching Creative Dance-starts to build a foun­ Sat. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Milan 1927 • Luigi Mozzani, Cento 1927 • George dance to young children, teens and dation in movement and locomotive (Main Campus) Craske, Loudon c.1850 • W.E. Hill &Sons, London adults for over twenty-five years. skills, imagery and rhythmic awareness. Level IB: Mon. 4:30-5:30 p.m. 1895 • Dante Guastalla, Reggiolo Emiliano 1931 Recently, she developed the children's Introduction to Ballet provides basic (Main Campus) • George A. Cbanot, Manchester 1897 • Raf f aele program "Opposites Attract," which is Wed. 5:30-6:30 p.m. placement, port de bras, footwork and Calace, Naples 1919 • Michelangelo Puglisi. designed for Kindergarten through Sec­ (Main Campus) Catania 1919 • Claudio Gamberini, Bologna 1965 simple vocabulary in preparation for ond Grade and tours in the three state • Gesualdo Averna, Caltanissetta 1920 • Camillo regular Beginner Ballet classes designed region. uary 2003, in response to a gratifying Colombo, Milan 1947 • Sabino Preti, Cremona for seven-through-thirteen-year-olds 1987 • Charles J.B. Collln-Mezin, Paris 1892 • surge of interest in the entry level pro­ When we take a look at a Beginner with little or no previous experience. Umberto Lanaro, Padua 1969 • Otettb Radighieri, Ballet class in an adjacent studio, taught grams, two new classes are being added Modena 1995 • Dante Baldoni, Buenos Aires 1934 For the second semester starting in Jan- for the Young Children's Program and Virgilio Capellini, Cremona 1982 • Romedio one new class is opening for Beginner Muncner, Cremona 1924 • Assunto Carloni, Forli Ballet. Some students may be accepted 1994 • Mario Daoglio, Bologna 1988 • Luiz Bellini, New York 1990 • Francesco Toto, into ongoing 1A and IB levels of the Cremona 2002 • Maurizio Tadioli, Cremona 2002 Pre-Professional Program after taking a Alexandre Lefrancois, Mirecourt 2002. required placement class. CELLOS In announcing the added new class­ Vincenzo Postiglione, Naples 1885 • Salvatore es in the Young Children's Program and Dambra, Messina c.1807 • Marco Dobretsovich, Beginner Ballet levels, opening in Janu­ Alexandria (Egypt) 1928 • Caressa & Francais, Paris 1909 • Carlo de March, Venice 1956 ary 2003, Peabody Dance Artistic Direc­ Scarampella workshop, Mantua c. 1920 • Joseph tor Carol Bartlett says: "The emphasis Hill (attrib.), London c. 1760 • Ch. J.B. Collin- is on recognizing individual qualities in Mezin, Paris 1885 • Arturo Fracassl, Cesena 1958 each and every child and nurturing that • Matthew Furber, London c. 1820 • Joseph individuality while molding the grow­ Aubry, LeHavre 1935 • C.G. Stewart, Los Angeles ing anatomy for sound and useful tech­ 1920 • Dieudonne workshop, Mirecourt c.1950 • nical training." In regard to Ms. Stafford Ladislav Kaplan, Norwaik CT1948 • Franz Albin Schmidt, Markneukirchen 1908 • Heinrich Th. and Ms. Cowall, she notes: "In addition Heberlein, Markneukirchen 1902 • Neuner & to being outstanding teachers with Hornsteiner, Mittenwald c.1890 • Raymond unique experience in teaching young Melanson, Boston 1999 • Jonathan Cooper, children, both women are prize-win­ Maine 2000 • Timothy Bradsbaw, Cremona 1985 ning choreographers. This is a special • Gunter Lobe, Bubenreuth 2002 gift that often extends itself to imagina­ Located at exit 2a off 1-395 Inside the Capital Beltway tive and innovative approaches in the Delia Cowall, shown here with a class in the Young Children's Dance Program, began her classroom." formal dance training at the Detroit Music Conservatory and attended dance programs with 5584 General Washington Dr. the Bill Evans Dance Company, Long Beach Institute, and the American Dance Festival in Established in 1911, the Peabody Alexandria, Virginia 22312 Durham NC. She received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a MFA from Preparatory Dance Department upholds Connecticut College, and has completed extensive doctoral work at New York University's a time-honored tradition of exceptional Phone (703) 256-0566 Performance Studies Program and Temple University. In 1994 Ms. Cowall founded the Nee dance training. At the heart of its phi­ Toll-Free (800) 886-3554 Danse Company, a Harrisburg-based modem repertory company which continues to perform throughout the region. losophy is the expectation that all stu- Fax (703) 354-3954 January/February 2003 Peabody News 17

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The Marian Anderson String Quartet & Raymond Jackson, piano i January 11,2003 Face the Music - 6:30 pm - Meet the musicians and their music Concert - 8:00 pm

Red Priest February 1,2003 A "Baroque Fantasy" will include works byJ.S. Bach, Purcell, Vivaldi, Tartini, and Corelli Face the Music - 6:30 pm - Meet the musicians and their musk Concert - 8:00 pm

The Ying Quartet February 22,2003 Works by Barber, Rorem, Chen Yi, and Beethoven Face the Music - 6:30 pm - Meet the musicians and their music Concert - 8:00 pm

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Melissa Stafford, who joined the Peabody Dance faculty at the beginning of the 2001-2002 season, was trained and performed with the internationally celebrated Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB) school and company in Carlisle, PA, under the direction of the leg­ endary Marcia Dale Weary. The New York Times stated in 1989 that Ms. Weary is "consid­ ered one of the country's foremost ballet teachers," and Melissa Stafford is one of her many remarkably successful progeny. Ms. Stafford also studied at the Boston Ballet and Juilliard School. She has danced a great range of leading and corps de ballet roles in clas­ sics, from those of Petipa to Balanchine, as well as in works of rising contemporary ballet choreographers. dents, whether or not a dance career is most revered names in the dance planned, will make every effort to world, Weisberger has worked together reach their own highest level of with Carol Bartlett to re-structure the achievement. The Department encom­ dance program. "We believe we have a passes three main areas of training: the vital and inventive teaching environ­ Pre-Professional, the Open, and the ment," says Bartlett, who has shaped •Kindergarten through 8th Grade Young Children's Programs and developed the dance department at •Dynamic, dedicated teaching staff The Peabody Preparatory's regular Peabody for the past fourteen years. academic year is comprised of two six­ Since late Spring 2001, efforts were •Classes limited to 16 students for enhanced teen-week semesters, and a summer largely concentrated on the central Pre- learning program that offers multi-week inten­ Professional Program, an intensive, sive programs for four-year-olds and graded course of study in Ballet and •Enrichment programs for Gifted and upwards to young adults as well as a Contemporary Dance for highly moti­ six-week open program for teens and vated students ages seven to young Talented student adults. Detailed information about adults. Particular emphasis has been 2003 summer programs is now avail­ placed on a refocused ballet curriculum able by contacting the Dance Office. and a training approach that typifies Over the past two years, the the vibrant physicality of American clas­ Peabody Preparatory's Dance Depart­ sicism, a revision that was guided by Open House ment, headed by its Artistic Director Barbara Weisberger. Carol Bartlett, has been undergoing an For those students who seek a less exciting transition. The world of pro­ intensive schedule, the Open Program, Thursday Jan 9th 9-11 am (ryjTrn fessional dance training has been which offers Ballet and Contemporary changing, and Bartlett and other dance Dance, Spanish Dance and other move­ #** faculty members are making sure that ment forms, continues its schedule of For more information call Karie Falck Peabody is keeping up with the times. classes for students of all ages and abili­ 410-764-1867 ext 313 In July 2001, Barbara Weisberger, ties who have a love of dance and wish founder of the Pennsylvania Ballet Com­ to explore the challenges of quality pany and the Carlisle Project, was technical training. 7401 Park Heights Ave • Balrtmore, MD 21208 « www.bhcds.oig engaged as Artistic Adviser. One of the Member of the Association of Independent Maryland Schools {AIMS) 18 Peabody News January/February 2003

BOWDOIN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL Lewis Kaplan, Director Extraordinary performance opportunities Intensive instrumental study program — solo and chamber New music and composition program Fellowship programs in woodwinds and vocal arts Baltimore will celebrate the melody. June 21-August 2, 2003 300'" anniversary of the found­ At the Baltimore Museum of ing of St. Petersburg with Vivat! Art, the exhibition "Art of the Ballets 2003 Faculty St. Petersburg, a citywide arts Russes" displays more than seventy Ying Quartet (Eastman) in residence, festival that has been gathering set and costume designs and over June21-July 12 momentum over the past year thirty lavish costumes created by mas­ Cassatt Quartet in residence, to unleash an avalanche of cul­ July 12-August 2 SBURG ters of modern art Henri Matisse, tural offerings. The brainchild of Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Violin Yehonatan Berick (U. Michigan) the Baltimore Symphony and Russian artist Leon Bakst in a the­ Zakhar Bron (Hochschule fur Musik, Cologne, Ger­ Orchestra's Music Director Yuri Temirkanov, the Festival officially atrical installation that evokes the spectacular performances of many) runs from February 13 until March 2. Temirkanov is, of course, Lewis Kaplan (Juilliard, Mannes) Diaghilev's company. Evergreen House, with its exquisite the­ YairKless (Rubin Music Academy, Tel Aviv) also Music Director of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Participat­ ater decorated by Leon Bakst himself with Russian folk art designs, Wen Zhou Li (Royal Northern College, Manchester) ing institutions include just about every visual and performing arts will mount an exhibition, "A Russian's Winter in Baltimore: Leon Petru Munteanu (Hochschule fur MusA, Rostock, Germany) organization in the city. Bakst at Evergreen, 1922-1923" The Smithsonian Associates will Irina Muresanu (New England Conservatory) The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will be featuring Russ­ hold a seminar on "The World of the Ballets Russes" at the BMA, Muneko Otani (Columbia, Mannes) Itzhak Rashkovsky (Royal College, London) ian violinist Vadim Repin in Shostakovich's Violin Concetto No. 1; organized by Peabody alumna Carol Bogash. Paul Roczek (Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria) pianist Dmitri Alexeev in Rachrnaninov's mmjM Carol Bartlett, who heads the Peabody Preparatory Dance Kazuki Sawa (Geidai University) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Deartment will be guest choreographer for Ballet Theater of Maria Schleuning (Dallas Symphony) Ani Schnarch (Royal College, London) which received its world premiere in Maryland for their performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art Chikashi Tanaka (Geidai University) Baltimore; guest conductor Nikolai Alex­ on March 1 and 2. Together with Peter Anastas who is a founding Nobu Wakabayashi (Geidai University) Chan Ho Yun (Colbum School of Performing Arts) eev; and pianist Anna Kravtchenko in director of Pilobolus and choreogapher for Baryshnikov's White Viola Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. Oak Project, the Company is presenting new works in honor of Martha Strongin Katz (New England Conservatory) The Peabody Symphony Orches­ the museum's exhibit. Bartlett will choreograph a work to the Claude LeLong (Geidai University) tra is offering an ail-Russian concert, music of Prokofiev's Quintet. Peabody's new Sidney Friedberg Graham Oppenheimer (Royal Welsh College, Wales) Scott Rawls (University of North Carolina) guest conducted by Leon Fleisher and Chair in Chamber Music Michael Kannen is providing an ensemble Jurgen Weber (Principal, Bavarian Radio Orchestra) featuring Russian pianist Alexander of Conservatory students to perform the music live. One or two Yuri Temirkanov Ira Weller (Mannes College of Music) Shtarkman (see article page 19) and, Peabody Preparatory Dance students will participate. This work Cello Steven Doane (Eastman) although it comes a little later than the official time frame of the will be repeated on the Preparatory's Spring Dance concert at Rosemary Elliot (Eastman) Festival, an all-Russian Chamber Music program on March 5, direct­ Peabody on April 5 and 6. Andre Emelianoff (Juilliard) ed by Michael Kannen, will feature Russian Violinist Victor th Peter Howard (St Paul Chamber Orchestra) The Baltimore Museum of Art also marks the 100 anniversary Marc]ohnson(Vermeer Quartet) Danchenko. There has always been a coterie of stellar Russian of Gregor Piatigorsky's birth with an exhibit entitled "Gregor Nicholas Jones (Royal Northern College, Manchester) artists on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, so ties with the Piatigorsky: Virtuoso as Collector," which displays items from the Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (Indiana U.) rich artistic life of St. Petersburg arc close. legendary cellist's personal art collection, including paintings by Double Bass Jeremy McCoy (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Baltimore Opera's daring decision to stage the likes of Picasso and Klee, and even artist's Stradivarius cello. Columbia University) Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth ofMtsensk, famously excori­ The American Visionary Art Museum will have "Russian Guitar ated by Stalin, is one of the most exciting happenings of the Festi­ Outsiders: Voices of Dissent/Champions of Liberty" as their show Ricardo Iznaola (Lamont Sclwol of Music, val. Those who thought Baltimoreans were not ready for the vis­ featuring visionary artists who disregarded both the Soviet ideolog­ University of Denver) ceral realism of this opera (see McCloskey article page 26) have ical canons and established art tradition. Piano Peter Basquin (Hunter College, CUNY) been proved wrong. Advance ticket sales are brisk. Theatre Project hosts The Ten ("Shadow") Puppet Theatre of Martin Canin (Juilliard) Among other musical offerings: Shriver Hall Concert Series Moscow with their original, avantgarde interpretation of Fiorella Canin (Manhattan) is presenting Russian violinist Vadim Repin, with Boris Beresovsky, Yoheved Kaplinsky {JuU.lia.rd) Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The Fells Point Corner Theater is Juilian Martin (Juilliard.) piano, pianist Arkadi Volodos and the St. Petersburg String Quartet. offering a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters. Everyman The­ Yong Hi Moon (Peabody) Baltimore Choral Arts Society performs Rachrnaninov's Ail- Constance Moore (Juilliard, Mannes) atre will screen Eisenstein's 1927 film October. There are scores John Root (Performing Artist) Night Vigil at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen Concert Artists of other events being presented all over the city. Many restaurants Emma Tahmizian (Performing Artist) of Baltimore are doing a Russian chamber music program at the will be serving Russian menus during the Festival.. .and expect Arie Vardi (Hochschule fur Music, Hanover; Rubin Academy, Tel Aviv) Garrett-Jacobs Mansion on Mount Vernon. Chamber Music by some street theatre, too. If you have one, pull out your Russian fur Candlelight pays homage with music by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Harp hat or babushka headscarf so that you are ready for any odd flurry June Han (Performing Artist) and Borodin. Opera Vivente stages Stravinsky's short opera of February snow that may add to the atmosphere. Woodwind Program Mavra, based on a Pushkin short story (with many Peabody singers The Vivat! St. Peterburg Festival is expected to draw thousands Igor Begelman, Director, Clarinet in the cast) in the highly appropriate setting of the Bakst Theatre at (Performing Artist) of visitors to the city, as it is being vigorously marketed by Mayor Dale Clevenger, Guest Artist, Horn Evergreen House. The Handel Choir are programming sacred and Martin O'Malley and his Baltimore boosters. The scope and diver­ (Chicago Symphony) secular music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov and there is much sity of this Festival is truly astounding and it is totally beyond the Steve Dibner, Guest Artist, Bassoon more. (San Francisco Symphony) Alex Klein, Guest Artist, Oboe The Walters Art Museum is mounting two exhibits. "Origins (Chicago Symphony) Joseph Robinson, Guest Artist, Oboe of the Russian Avant-Garde" features about 90 paintings by such (NY Philharmonic) celebrated artists as Kandinsky, Malevich, Tatlin, Goncharova and Guest Artist, Flute TBA other lesser known who were working from approximately 1908 Vocal Arts J.J. Penna, Director (Yale, Westminster College) to 1925. The paintings in the Walters show all come from the Lindsay Christiansen, Guest Artist State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Most have not been seen (Westminster College) in the West before. These avant-garde painters, although strongly Kenneth Griffiths, Guest Artist (Cincinnati Con­ servatory) influenced by the West, had their roots in the preceding school of Martin Katz, Guest Artist (Michigan) "Itinerant" painters, who were anxious to develop a "Russian" Brian Zeger, Guest Artist (Juilliard, Mannes) school of art and who drew much of their inspiration from scenes Composition of Russian life and histoiy. Samuel Adler (Juilliard) Richard Danielpour (Curtis, Manhattan) "The Faberge Menagerie," is the first exhibition ever to focus Aaron Jay Kernis (Pulitzer Prize) on the Faberge animals, carved from amethyst, jade, and lapis Elliott Schwartz (Bmudoin College) lazuli. Among the more than 100 objects arc pink-quartz piglets, a Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music Simone Fontanelli (University of Mozarteum, rock crystal polar bear, a petrified wood chimpanzee, turtles, lady- Salzburg, Austria) bugs and other fanciful creatures. The exhibition will include other fabulous works from the House of Faberge, including a selec­ For a brochure and application, write or call: tion of the opulent jewel-encrusted Easter Eggs fabricated for the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival Russian Imperial Court and "fantasy objects." Among the latter is a Bowdoin College, 6300 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011-8463 gold tree with a surprise; when one of the fruits is pushed, a 1-207-373-1400 FAX 1-207-373-1441 nightingale emerges, moving its head and wings and singing a Evergreen Theatre Lobby by Leon Bakst (Russian, 1866-1924). E-mail: [email protected] www.summermusic.org January/February 2003 Peabody News 19 Peabody's "Vivat! St. Petersburg" celebration presents Alexander Shtarkman as soloist with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, guest conducted by Leon Fleisher, in an all-Russian Program

By Stephen Wigler to their teachers and their teachers' The 1917 Revolution in Russia Sent Vivat! at Peabody teachers." some of the past century's most celebrat­ Even in an atmosphere so historically ed musicians scurrying to safety in the As part of Baltimore's Vivat! self-conscious, Shtarkman stood out West, many of them eventually settling in St. Petersburg Festival, the among the other students. His father, the U.S. The 20th-century reputation of Peabody Symphony Orches­ Naum, was among Russia's most admired American schools of music such as Juil­ tra, conducted by Leon pianists. Perhaps because he never was liard and Curtis was built in significant permitted to tour outside the Soviet orbit measure upon the pedagogical success Fleisher will perform on Sat­ during the Cold War, Naum Shtarkman of Russian-born and-trained teachers. urday, March 1 at 8 p.m. in never became well known in the West. The death of communism and the Friedberg Concert Hall. Fac­ But in the 1950s, he was one of his coun­ end of the Soviet Union has freed Russ­ ulty artist Alexander Shtark­ try's top prizewinners in prestigious ian musicians to travel and ^ork outside man will be soloist for international contests-including War­ of their homeland for the first time in saw's Chopin Competition, Lisbon's Prokofiev's Piano Concerto more than seventy years. This has meant Vianna da Motta and Moscow's a bonanza for American music education No. 2 in g, Op. 16. The pro­ Tchaikovsky. that may prove as big as the one the fol­ gram also includes Mus­ He is one of the last living students of lowed the Bolshevik Revolution and that sorgsky's Night on Bald Konstantin Igumnov (1873-1948), a brought teachers such as Rosina Mountain and Rachrnaninov's member of the troika of legendary teach- Lhevinne and Isabelle Vengerova to our Symphony No. 2 in e, Op. 27. ers-the others were Alexander Golden- shores. The difference in Alexander weiser (1875-1961) and Heinrich Shtarkman's situation from those of his Tickets are $16, $8 Senior Neuhaus (1888-1964)-that created mod­ illustrious predecessors is, however, sig- Citizens, $5 Students with ern Russian playing. Igumnov, who was a 'nificantly positive: I.D. Call 410-659-8100, ext. Russian pianist Alexander Shtarkman, who student of Alexander Siloti (himself a stu­ joined the Peabody faculty in September "They were emigres who had to give 2 2002, is a top prize-winner in some of the dent of both Liszt and Nikolai Rubin­ up Russia forever, but I remain a Russian world's most famous competitions from stein), was the most old-fashioned of the citizen, who can return or visit whenev­ guest conducted by Leon Fleisher, in the Tchaikovsky in Moscow to the Busoni three and was celebrated as the last great er I choose," says Shtarkman, who joined Friedberg Hall on March 1. in Italy and the Van Cliburn in Texas. representative of what was known as the_ Peabody's piano faculty this past fall. Like his Russian countrymen on from generation to generation. We His appointment promises to be Peabody's faculty, violinist Victor walked around with a-sense^af^twp^jjijr playing demonstrates many of its tradi- among the most important the conserva­ Danchenko and pianist Boris Slutsky^^ DUlty-uor only to our teachers, but also Continued on page 20 tory has made in recent years. The 35- JS^naB^g^fe^^-tfacJS as he is to performing. This is characteristic pianist was a top-prize winner in several of musicians from Russia, where-even in important piano competitions, including Imperial days-most musicians, no matter Fort Worth's Cliburn and Moscow's how famous, were expected to teach. Tchaikovsky. He also has the distinction While musicians may be taken out of of being one of only two pianists ever Russia, it seems that Russia cannot be awarded first prize by unanimous con­ taken out of a musician. sent of the jury in the contentious 53- "What I believe-and what I believe I year history of Italy's Busoni Competi­ have to teach my students-is that, if they tion. Shtarkman will make his official want to play music, they must know that Peabody debut in Prokofiev's Second it's about more than just about how to Piano Concerto, which is among the move their fingers,"Shtarkma n says. The most difficult technical challenges in the latter, he adds, "is important, but it's only standard repertory and which he will a skill. Music, as an art, rises above that perform with»the Peabody Symphony, level-it's something that is sacred. It's about what is really precious in human existence." Shtarkman speaks fluent English; his remarks are more than inflated rhetoric. To most Russian artists, and this includes that country's composers, painters, nov­ elists, poets, filmmakers and choreogra­ phers as well as its performing musi­ cians, the purpose of art is nothing less than the salvation of the world. It is part­ ly because of this traditional attitude that Russia, ever since music education made a belated appearance with the creation of the St. Petersburg and Moscow conser­ vatories in the 1860s, has enjoyed suc­ cess that surpasses the rest of the world in framingmusicians . At the Moscow Conservatory, where Shtarkman studied between 1985 and 1993, students imbibed traditions with the air they breathed. "It was inescapable," Shtarkman says. "The ghosts of people, dating all the way back to the Rubinstein brothers, were presences that made you feel you were Leon Fleisher describes the March 1 all- growing up beside them. There was also Russian program 35 embodying "some of a real sense of tradition being carried the most beloved music of our time." 20 Peabody News January/February 2003

tional strengths at their best: rich, (1904-1961), perhaps the most thought­ singing tone; vivid, poetic passagework; ful and spiritual of the Soviet virtuosos of and a dreamy, almost reminiscent, imagi­ his time. Ginzburg's playing was primari­ nation. He is peerless in much of the ly classical in orientation, with a clarity Join us in J200J2~200<> for Chopin oeuvre - particularly in the most of texture that was Mozartian in its puri­ lyrical of the Etudes and Mazurkas. When ty and a technique that stressed direct­ he plays the E-flat Minor Etude (Opus ness of communication rather than the 10, No. 6) or A Minor Mazurka (Opus hazy pastel colors favored by the Igum­ 17, No. 4), he can almost make a listener nov School. believe that Chopin has come back to The different influences to which life. Last October, the Moscow Conserva­ tory celebrated his 75 birthday by Shtarkman was exposed combined with showcasing him in several solo concerts. his own gifts to create playing that is dif­ ficult to characterize and impossible to iscover)? Like his father, Alexander Shtarkman <*3>t pigeonhole. Last summer in New York at was a child prodigy, who began lessons the International Keyboard Festival Insti­ at four and was playing some of the most The Washington Bach Consort invites you to join us tute, sponsored by the Mannes College difficult of Liszt's "Transcendental of Music, an event, called "Who's the for a concert of the music of G.W Handel. Etudes" at 13. But, while his playing con­ Pianist," assembled a panel of experts to tains many of the virtues that his father's attempt to identify each pianist in a possesses, he developed into a rather dif­ series of recorded performances. The ferent, and certainly a more versatile, one performance that completely pianist. This was a result not only of hav­ ing been exposed to a wider range of stumped the panel was a recording of a influences than his father had been, but Brahms Ballade. Opinions were evenly also because he chose to follow a differ­ divided between Emil Gilels and Arturo ent path. Benedetti Michelangeli - whose interpre­ One of his earliest memories is of tations of this particular piece are, in going with his father to hear Emil Gilels fact, markedly different. Half the panel give a recital at the Moscow Conservato­ argued for Gilels on the basis of the ry and being taken backstage to meet the pianist's beautiful sound and romantic great pianist. temperament; the other half insisted that "I was only four, but I remember the interpretation's extraordinarily slow every piece on his program and the way tempos and the almost mad-scientist he played them - especially quality of its ideas pointed to Michelan­ [Stravinsky's] Petrouchka," Shtarkman geli. says. "I remember just as clearly what "Nobody guessed that it was me," happened when I met him. My father Shtarkman says. "Nobody knew me," he HANDEES ISRAEL IN EGi:i ~^g^~gvfhmf^d-sjigke hands with him, adds, with mock horror. and I timidly extended my hand," he- ^StorEnaftr^e^ nouiearfy as well- SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2003 7:00 PM says. known as he deserves to u£, j§ dCVOteu "But Gilels fixed me with his eyes," to teaching. But he seems equally inter­ KRAUSHAAR AUDITORIUM AT GOUCHER COI Shtarkman continues the story, and fix­ ested in expanding his career as a BALTIMORE, MD ing his listener with a penetrating stare soloist-and not only because of a desire of his own. for fame and fortune. He believes it "'Let me teach you how to shake would make him a more effective hands,'" Gilels told him, thereupon seiz­ teacher. ...trie Consort enjoys a reputation tor superior ing the child's hand in his own powerful one. "'A man has to shake the hand-a "Every opportunity to hear an artist musicianship and scholarship, bringing man just doesn't take it," Gilels said. who performs all over the world is Shtarkman admired Gilels for the important for students," he says, citing baroque music to life with renewed power and beauty of his sound and for the excitement that Richard Goode's the poetic depth of his playing. He recital at Peabody had created a few appreciation tor, but not faceless adherence to, admired Sviatoslav Richter for his all- weeks earlier. encompassing intellect, his understand­ "Listening to him [Goode) was the authentic performance practice. What the audience at ing of musical form, and for his imagina­ highlight of the season so far," he tion, which threw off dazzling ideas as if observes. "There was never any doubt Goucher heard was a sterling example of this it was an exploding supernova. that you were in the presence of a sin­ "My father took me backstage and cere artist and a great master of the devotion and artistry. J. Reilly Lewis' introduced me to Richter when I was piano. He was able to touch an audience older - perhaps 13," he says. "When he and my students were happy to be near conducting had a strong inner rhythmic asked me what I was learning, I barely an important artist who was still alive. got out the words, Wilde fagd-becmse pulse and was always alert to the subtleties of "One of the things that was special that was one of the pieces that Richter about the Moscow Conservatory was probably played better than anyone in both vocal and instrumental coloring." that you were practically assaulted with the history of the instrument. choices of concerts you wanted to "But he gave a sympathetic sigh, said, attend," Shtarkman adds. "I encourage - Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun Music Critic. 'a really difficult piece, right?' and then my students to listen to old recordings of proceeded to talk to me about it as if I great artists. But hearing them live-that's were his colleague. I was thrilled." March 4, 2002. a priceless experience for any young The teacher that Naum Shtarkman musician." Review of performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion chose for his son when he was enrolled at Moscow's Gnessin School for Musical­ The March 1 concert will begin with ly Gifted Children was Ada Traub, who Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain represented "old school" pianistic values and conclude with the Rachmaninov 2,002-200% Our 2,6th Year as Washington's like his own. But his major teachers dur­ Symphony No. 2 in e, Op. 27. Guest ing his years at the Moscow Conservato­ conductor Leon Fleisher observes that Premier Baroque Chorus and Orchestra ry were Boris Shatskes and Sergei Doren- the program represents "some of the ski, who represented somewhat different most beloved music of our time." Please phone 800.955.5566 or visit online musical ideas. A note to our concert patrons: Tick­ Dorenski had been the most devoted ets are already selling fast for this concert at tickets.com for ticket information. of the students of Gregory Ginzburg so we advise early reservations. January/February 2003 Peabody News 21

VIVAT! St. Petersburg Festival Yuri Temirkanov conducts: dim Feb.7, 8, 8 p.m., Feb. 9, 3 p.m.~ Prokoflev's Symphony No. 1, Op. 25, Shirley Mathews, Artistic Director "Classical" Prokofiev's Violin Concer­ to No. 2 in g minor, Op. 63, with Chamber Music on Original Instruments Boris Belkin; Albeniz's Iberia; Falla's Baltimore Chamber Orchestra "Ritual Fire Dance" from El amor brujo. Feb.19, 8 p.m.— Mozart's Overture January 26 to the "Magic Flute;" Stravinsky's Pul- Feb. 13, 14, 8 p.m., Feb. 16, 3 cinella; Ravel's Le Tombeau de p.m.—Shostakovich's Violin Concer­ Couperin; Tchaikovsky's Mozartiana to No. 1 with Vadim Repin; 3:30 p.m. Suite (Vivat! event), Kraushaar Auditori­ Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 um Goucher College. Feb. 20, 21,8 p.m., Feb. 22, 11 Call 410/308-0402 or visit a.m.—Shchedrin's Not Love Alone; SUPERBACH www.baltchamberorch.org Rachrnaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Dmitri Alex- eev; Prokofiev's Selections from Baltimore Choral Arts "Romeo andfuliet" Suites. & HANDEL Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.—Tom Hall con­ Feb. 28, March 1, 8 p.m., March 2, ducts the Full Chorus in Rachrnaninov's 3 p.m.—Nikolai Alexeev conducts Ail-Night Vigil. (Vivat! event) Cathedral Glinka's Overture to "Russian and SUNDAY! of Mary Our Queen. Ludmilla;" Tchaikovsky's Piano Con­ with Call 410/523-7070 or 800/750-0875 certo No. 1 with Anna Kravtchenko; or visit www.baltimorechoralarts.org Judith Pannill, soprano Baltimore Classical Guitar Broadway at the Lyric Society Through Jan. 5—Miss Saigon, written Feb. 22—Ronald Pearl (MM'85) in by Alain Boublil, (book, lyrics and origi­ solo performance. nal French lyrics), Claude-Michel Schon- Call 410/247-5320 or visit berg (book and music), and Richard Malt- at The Baltimore Museum of Art www.bcgs.org by Jr. (lyrics). on Art Museum Drive at North Charles Jan. 28-Feb. 2—Stomp. and 31st Streets Baltimore Opera Company Lyric Opera House. February 22, 26, 28, March 2-Lady Call 410/494-2712 Tickets: Singles, $27; Seniors/BMA Macbeth of Mtsensk by Dmitri Members, $25; Students with I.D., $10 Shostakovich. American soprano Karen Center Stage Telephone (410) 728-2820 • www.promusicarara.org Huffstodt stars in the title role, with Jan. 10-Feb.l6—Ain't Misbehavin' Vladimir Vaneev as her father-in-law with music by Thomas "Fats" Waller, Boris, Garry Grice as her husband based on an idea by Murray Horwitz and Zinovy, and Leonid Zakhozhaev as her Richard Maltby, Jr., directed by Ken The Johns Hopkins University Office of Special Events lover Sergei. Nikita Storojev appears as Roberson. Fats Waller was, in his own and The Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust the Old Convict, with Pierre Lefebvre as words, "two hundred and eighty-five the Drunken Peasant. Christian Badea pounds of jam, jive, and everything." in memory of Peggy F. Gordon conducts and Uwe Laufenberg directs. Ain't Misbehavin' celebrates the sounds present Lyric Opera House. (See article page 26.) of his music—jazz, swing, stride, boogie Call 410/ 727-6000 or visit www.balti- woogie, and everything in between. moreopera.com Pearlstone Theater. Tr^e Baltimore Opera Studio Feb. 21-March 30—Intimate Apparel, with piano accompanist and commentator James Harp Baltimore Symphony world premiere of a play by Lynn Not- Orchestra tage. Opportunities for African American Jan. 3, 4, 8 p.m.—"Broadway Sensa­ women are scarce in turn-of-the-century tion," featuring Linda Eder. Manhattan, but Esther has a gift for creat­ Jan. 4, 11 a.m.—Lara Webber con­ ing exquisite lingerie. Her lovingly craft­ ducts Classically Kids concert "Picasso: A ed garments cross class lines, winding up Musical Portrait," with Rheda Becker, in Park Avenue boudoirs and ragtime narrator. bordellos alike. Independent but lonely, Jan. 9, 10, 8 p.m., Jan. 12, 3 pm.- Esther falls in love through the mails Yevgeny Svetlanov conducts Dvorak's with George, a laborer helping to finish Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 102, the Panama Canal. Co-commissioned with Alexander Knizev; Liadov's The with South Coast Repertory. Head The­ Enchanted Lake, Op. 62; Scriabin's The ater. Poem of Ecstasy (Symphony No. 4). Call 410/332-0033 or visit www.cen- Jan. 17, 18, 8 p.m., Jan. 19, 3 p.m.- terstage.org. Hear four rising opera stars of tomorrow as they perform operetta Gunther Herbig conducts Mozart's Sym­ and opera arias and ensembles. The singers are teamed with phony No. 40 in g minor, K. 550; Hum- Chamber Jazz Society of Baltimore Opera Company Artistic Administrator and mel's Trumpet Concerto with Andrew Baltimore Chorus Master James Harp. Keep an eye on these young artists Balio; Schubert's Symphony No. 6 in C Feb. 2, 5 p.m.-Bill Charlap Trio, fea­ and you will be able to say that you heard them first! Major, D. 589- turing Bill Charlap, piano, Peter Washing­ Jan. 25- Thomas Wilkins conducts ton, bass, and Kenny Washington, jazz-inspired classical works, featuring drums. Baltimore Museum of Art. Sunday, March 30, 2003, 4 p.m. saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Call 410/385-5888. Shriver Hall Auditorium, Homewood Campus Jan. 30, 2 p.m., Jan 31, 8 p.m. Feb 1, Group Discounts and Single Tickets Available 8 p.m., Feb. 2, 3 p.m.- Erich Kunzel con­ Chamber Music by Candlelight ducts "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." VISA and MasterCard Accepted. Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m.— Featuring mem­ Meyerhoff Symphony Hall For ticket and other information, call 410-516-7157. bers of the Baltimore Symphony Orches­ Call 410/783-8000 or visit www.balti- tra and guests in Mozart's Divertimento moresymphony.org Continued on Page 22 JOHNS HOPKINS 22 Peabody News January/February 2003

Ghetto, a ship called Exodus, to the Menotti's Amahl and the Night Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m.—Arcadi Volodos, boardwalks of Atlantic City and Miami Visitors. With the exception of Mel- piano. Beach. (Vivat! event). chior, the entire cast from last year's March 2, 7:30 p.m.—St. Petersburg Call 410-752-2208, or visit production returns with boy soprano String Quartet. www.everymantheatre.org Joshua Cooper as Amahl, mezzo-sopra­ Shriver Hall. no Jennifer Blades (MM'97, GPD'98) as Call 410/ 516-7164. datekne Fells Point Corner Theatre the Mother, and Robert Cantrell (MM'90, GPD '92) and John Weber Jan. 17-Feb. 16—Three Sisters, by Theatre Hopkins singing Balthazar and Kaspar respective­ Chekhov, directed by Barry Feinstein. Feb. 14-Mar. 9—Scott McPherson's ly. The page will be sung by Ryan Ghol- for String Trio; Reger's Serenade for (Vivat! event). Marvin's Room. Merrick Barn, Home- son. The Nave, Emmanuel Episcopal flute, violin & viola in D Major, Op wood Campus. Call 410/276-7837 or visit Church. 77a; Brahms' Trio for violin, horn & www.fpct.org Call 410/516-7159 or visit piano. Feb. 15, 16—Stravinsky's Mavra, www.jhu.edu/~theatre Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.—Vivat! St. Peters­ Gettysburg Symphony based on a Pushkin short story. The burg program. Stravinsky's L'Histoire lovers, Parasha Theatre Project du Soldat; Shostakovich's Sonata for Orchestra and Vasily, will viola & piano, Op. 147; Borodin's Feb. 23, 3 p.m.—Music Director be sung by Jan. 23, 24, 26, 30, 31, Feb.2-The String Quartet No. 2. (Vivat! event). Ronald Gretz conducts Weber's Freis- soprano Amy Peabody Chamber Opera presents Second Presbyterian Church. chutz Overture; Bruch's Violin Concer­ Bonn (BM'OO, "Berlin and Munich" double bill: Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Udo Call 410/744-4034. to No. 1 in g minor; Prokofiev's Cin­ MM'02) and derella Suite No. 1. tenor Vijay Zimmermann's Weisse Rose to kick off Loch Raven Sr. High School. Joshua Ghosh an International theatre Festival (see Community Concerts at page 8). Other events are: Second ( B M ' 9 8 , Handel Choir of Baltimore GPD'01);The Feb. 7-9-Hungarian performance Jan. 12, 3:30 p.m.—Two Baltimore artist Eva Magyar of The Shamans in her Feb. 21, 8 p.m.—Music Director Her­ Mother by natives, Janice Chandler, soprano, Eric haunting movement theater piece The bert Dimmock conducts Sacred and Sec­ Stephanie Conway (BM'85, Fenlon Lamb House ofDeer.Yeb. 18 and 19-The Ten ular music of Tchaikovsky and Rach- Bramble-But­ MM'87, ler; and the Neighbor by mezzo-sopra­ ("Shadow") Puppet Theatre of Moscow DMA'95), piano, maninov (Vivat! event). Old St. Paul's Church, Charles and Saratoga Sts. no Fenlon Lamb (MM'98). Also on the with their original, avantgarde interpre­ in a program of program will be baritone Thorn King tation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Call 410/3666544. spirituals and and pianist Jonathan Moyer (MM'OO, (Vivat! event). other works. GPD'02). Bakst Theatre, Evergreen Call 410-752-8558. Feb. 9, 3:30 Hopkins Special Events House, 4545 North Charles Street. p.m.—Annual All events take place in Shriver Hall Call 410-547-7997 or visit www.oper- Towson University Youth Festival, on the Homewood campus of Johns avivente.org Events are held in the Harold J. with the Friends Hopkins University unless stated other­ Kaplan Concert Hall unless stated other­ School Chamber wise: wise: Chorus, Greater Call 410/516-7157 or visit Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m.-Homecoming Con­ Baltimore Youth www.jhu.edu/special/. Orchestra's Concert Strings; Brittany cert. University Chorale, Paul Rardin, Newsome, pianist-composer, emceed Hopkins Symphony Orchestra director, in music by Orlandus Lassus, by Don Scott. Hugo Distler, Olivier Messiaen and Eric Feb. 16, 3 p.m.—Janacek's Sokol Whitacre as well as selections from Han­ Second Presbyterian Church. Fanfare; Mahler's Wayfarer. Levering del's Messiah. Call 410-744-4034 or visit www.com- Hall. Feb. 9, 3 p.m.-Hiromitsu Agatsuma, munityconcertsatsecond.org Call 410/5166542. takes center stage accompanied by two electrical guitarists and a drummer in an Concert Artists of Baltimore Morgan State University eclectic concert fusing traditional Japan­ Feb. 8, 8 p.m.—Music Director Choir ese music and rock'n roll. Agatsuma Edward Polochick conducts Bach's Dr. Nathan Carter will lead the Choir blends classical Japanese styles into Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Bach's in various celebrations for Dr. Martin rock ballads. Motet "fesu Meine Freude;" Badings' Luther King. For information call 443- Feb. 11,8 p.m.-America's longest Chansons Bretonnes; Martin's Petite 885-4336. running classical touring company, The Symphonie Concertante. Gordon Cen­ National Players, presents William ter. Municipal Opera Company Shakespeare's As You Like It. Stephens Feb. 23, 2:30 p.m.—Russian cham­ Hall Theatre. Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m., Jan. 12, 4 p.m.— ber music featuring Vladimir Lande, Feb. 18, 8:15 p.m.-Joshua David, Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel Judith Pannill oboe, Peter Sirotin (GPD'97, GPD'99), bass, in music by Joshua Davis, Brahms Feb. 16, 4 p.m.— A concert of music violin, and vocal soloists. Garrett-Jacobs and Tchaikovsky plus Bossa and Samba. by African American composers. Mansion. (Vivat! event). Pro Musica Rara Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.—Baltimore Trio Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presby­ Call 410 625-3525 or visit Jan. 26, 3:30 p.m.— "SuperBach & with Reynaldo Reyes, piano, Zolton terian Church. www.cabalto.org Handel" featuring guest soprano Judith Szabo, violin, and Cecylia Barczyk, cello. Call 410/329-6874 or 410/44^0745. Pannill (BM'81), a native Baltimorean. Schubert's Trio in B Flat major, Op. 79 Evergreen House Handel's Trio Sonata in g minor, with and Brahms' Trio in B major Op. 8. Feb. 15, 16-The Bakst Theatre at Music in the Great Hall Greg Mulligan, and Julie Parcells; Bach's Feb. 26, March 1, 7:30 p.m.—"Mosa­ Evergreen House will host Opera Jan. 10, 8 p.m., Jan 12, 3 p.m.— Violin Sonata in G Major with Made­ ic" showcases students ensembles and Vivente in a performance of Stravinsky's Peabody's Yale Gordon Competition line Adkins, continuo players Doug soloists including Paul Rardin, Dana opera Mavra. See under Opera Vivente. Winner, HouFei Yang, will give a piano McNames, cello, and Shirley Mathews, Rothlisberger, Phillip Collister, David (Vivat! event). recital. Program includes Fame's First harpsichord. Pannill is soloist for Bach's Stambler. Stephens Hall Theatre. Call 410/516-0341 or visit Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 13, Cantata No. 209, Non sa che sia dolore Call 410-704-2787 or visit www.cen- www.jhu.edu/historichouses with violinist Tao-Chang Yu; Schubert's and Handel's aria, Sweet bird that shun- terforthearts.towson.edu. Sonata in B flat Major, D 960. st the noise of Folly, with strings, con­ Everyman Theatre Call 410/813-4255 or visit tinuo and obligato flute, played by Sara Walters Art Museum www.migh.org Nichols. Baltimore Museum of Art. Jan. 16—Feb. 16: Light Up the Sky, Call 410/728-2820 or visit www.pro- In addition to its Russian Avantgarde by Moss Hart, directed by Vincent Lan- musicarara.org and Faberge exhibits, the Walters fea­ cisi, offers a comic look at the horrors Notre Dame tures "Ringside:The Boxing Paintings All events take place in LeClerc Audi­ and Sculptures of Joseph Sheppard," of mounting a Broadway show. Shriver Hall Feb. 9-25—Vivienne Shub gives torium unless noted otherwise: running through March 9. Some of this staged readings of Rose, Martin Sher­ Call 410-532-5386 or visit (Vivat! events) Maryland's artist's work is also on dis­ man's one-woman play which chroni­ www.ndm.edu Jan. 19, 5:30 p.m.—Russian violinist play in a stunning exhibit at Evergreen cles the life of a Jewish woman whose Vadim Repin, with Boris Beresovsky, House. odyssey begins in a tiny Russian village Opera Vivente piano. (Sidney and Charlton Friedberg Call the Walters Art Museum at 410- and continues through the Warsaw Jan. 3, 8 p.m., Jan. 4, 5, 2 p.m.— Memorial Concert) 547-9000 or visit www.thewalters.org. January/February 2003 Peabody News 23 Gorgeous New Display Windows at Enoch Pratt are a Hint of Things to Come By Lisa Keir and books. Some of the oldest pieces of the collections are theater programs Did you know? Have your heard the and campaign literature from the 1790s. latest? If not, you haven't walked past Even older though are the original cor­ the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Cathe­ respondence between the Lords Calvert dral Street. A precursor to their ongo­ Peabody and William Penn over the boundary ing $60 million construction/renovation between Pennsylvania and Maryland. project, the Pratt's windows feature a These letters date back to the late 1600s new display system and artist-designed and early 1700s. displays. The Mencken collection will be Thanks to an anonymous benefac­ housed here also. Mencken was a volu­ pera tor's generous donation, all twelve of minous writer who saved everything, 1 Outreach the towering windows on the Cathedral with an awareness of his future fame. As The Peabody Opera Department oners performances tor social and educational groups, Street side of the 1933 bnjjding are he lived in the same house most of his in schools and in private homes, irom early November through the end or April. Prices undergoing renovation. Each window life, when he willed his papers to the are set to cover expenses ana any profits go to opera scholarship bunds. Possibilities will be lined with panels, creating a Pratt, there was an enormous quantity include, but are not limited to; more intimate display space. New light­ of material. One of the treasures is a ing frames a top grid that will allow Papageno! Nothing but George copy of The Great Gatsby inscribed to greater flexibilityfo r displays with mate­ We bring the magic of trie stage to your school We honor one or our nation's greatest com­ Mencken by its author F. Scott Fitzger­ rials that can hang from the top. in a hilly staged ana costumed version of posers, George Gershwin, and highlight an ald. Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute, narrated hy important part of our musical heritage. The new window displays showcase The African American Collection will Papageno. 1 hour version for schools.. the latest in Pratt events and Baltimore's 1 hour version for scnools.. Other venues be housed in the West Wing, too. First Vivat! St. Petersburg festival. The Pratt editions of Benjamin Banneker's Opera Chez Vous Opera Cornucopia kicks off Black History Month with two Almanac and of Phyliss Wheatley's Looking for a special event for a house concert, We can also arrange programs or scenes, infor­ signature events, the Martin Luther King rund-raiser, or social gathering? Peabody would mational programs about how opera works, pre­ Poems on Various Subjects (first pub­ Day celebration on January 11 and the he pleased to arrange solo or group recitals fea­ views of major productions or a glimpse of how lished in 1773) are two of the rare Booklovers' Breakfast on January 18. turing the most advanced students, many or new operas are created. books in this collection. whom are on the brink of stardom. Prices from $300 depending on type of program The Booklovers' Breakfast is Baltimore's Prices from $400 depending on the and duration largest book club. More than 500 peo­ The Pratt's extensive photo collec­ number of performers and duration ple are expected to attend a breakfast at tion will finally have proper housing, the Marriott Waterfront Hotel to discuss moving from the dusty, poorly lighted the book Freedom in the Family: A back room filing cabinets into appropri­ For further information, contact Catrin Davies, Outreach Coordinator, Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight ately climate controlled spaces. Creat­ at 410/659-8100 ext. 1343 for Civil Rights with coauthors Tana­ ing a better environment for the collec­ narive Due and Patricia Stephens Due. tions will preserve it for the future and Check out the windows for more infor­ make it more useable by researchers. mation or visit the Pratt's website at The annex will also house a state of www.epfl.net. the art computer lab, providing comput­ ers for public use. Six special displays highlight Balti­ But there is even more going on at more's winter festival of the Arts, Vivat! the Pratt. A complete renovation of the St. Petersburg, from February 13 to Gettysburg 1933 building is planned, both to March 2. Vivat! celebrates 300 years of restore the building's original character Russian art, music and culture. Pratt's and to replace its antiquated heating windows will highlight events. Visit Symphony Orchestra and ventilation systems, according to www.vivatfest.com or call 1-877-Balti- Sondheim. This $50 million project will BALTIMORE CONCERT more for more information. begin in 2005, and will feature a new The Pratt's gorgeous new display cafe and gift shop and refurbished inte­ Loch Raven Sr. High School windows provide a hint of what is hap­ riors with replaced and updated light­ 1212 Cowpens Avenue, Towson, Maryland pening inside the library also. A $10 ing, new signage and new windows. (Near Beltway Exit 29 & Cromwell Bridge Rd) million annex, called the West Wing, is When completed, all public service Sunday, FEBRUARY 23, 2003 now under construction, to be complet­ departments will be housed on the first ed by fall 2003- John Sondheim, Plan­ two floors. at 3:00 P.M. ning Manager at the Pratt, says, "This new annex will provide the best envi­ Lead architect for the renovations is Ronald J. Gretz, Conducting ronmental conditions for the most sensi­ Beyer Blinder Belle of New York. The Favorites Concert tive part of our collections—old books local architect is Ayers Saint Gross. and new machines." The old books part includes most of Freischutz Overture Carl Maria von Weber the Pratt's special collections. This Lisa Keir is Executive Director of embraces the Maryland Collection's let­ the Mount Vernon Cultural District. ters, maps, photographs, newspapers, Violin Concert No. 1 in G minor Max Bruch Kenneth Goldstein, violin

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The architect's rendering of the renovated Enoch Pratt. 24 Peabody News January/February 2003 P. William Filby Sounds and Stories: Peabody Archives Dies mounts Oral History Project One of the most colorful charac­ ters ever associated with Peabody, That was my heart. I was like Alice Murphy recalled her childhood adven­ P. William Filby, died at the age of in Wonderland - if they ever had a tures on summer days in Baltimore and 90 on November 2 last year. black Alice, I was! It was fascinating memories of her family: Aunt Blanche, a Peabody owes him many debts of to see people coming and going and remarkable jazz singer and one of the gratitude. As assistant director of the dress was awesome. first women band leaders, her father the George Peabody Library from My mother would always be going Cab Calloway and her grandmother, 1957-65, he made the Library a cen­ to the Royal Theatre and you would organist Julia Calloway. "My father had ter for lively exhibitions that drew see beautiful entertainment. People all of these stories that you'd have to national attention and laid the foun­ would be standing in line holding take with a grain of salt," she recounts, dations for the present-day Library their children's hands. We went early. "but he always said that he got his music and Archives. He and his wife Vera Then they always had a midnight into his head because he was kind of endowed scholarships at Peabody show on Friday. People would be hyperactive, and his mother used to put and also the P. William and Vera standing at 10:30. For New Year's eve him on the floor under the organ. Ruth Filby Rare Book Room in the they would have a big show for Duke When she would pedal the organ, she Arthur Friedheim Music Library. Ellington or one of the other bands might take her foot off the pedal and During the wartime years, Bill with a lot of real good finesse and put it on him to hold him in place." Filby worked a Bletchley Park north swing. I'm telling you, I'd get excited The interviews reflect the depth and of London, where he was part of and want to just like click my heels so richness of the African-American musi­ the cryptography team that cracked I could go. So when I got up there I'd cal community: jazz musicians like the German enigma machine, lead­ be smiling for days. It was always Tracey McCleary and Montel Poulson ing to the supply of intelligence such a wonderful feeling - like noth­ who played on Pennsylvania Avenue in code-named "Ultra" that was a deci­ ing else I can remember. its golden years, Wilmer Wise, the sym­ sive factor in Britain winning the phony musician who broke the color Fannie Newton Moragne war. — Singer Ruby Glover recalling the barrier at the Baltimore Symphony His accomplishments were so glory days of Pennsylvania Avenue. before going on to New York to per­ Llewellyn Walker, the daughter of one many and varied that Peabody form with Leonard Bernstein and Philip of Baltimore's most respected and News will carry a feature on this Sparked by the success of the Glass; divas Ethel Ennis and Ruby important music teachers, Lovey Hus- fascinating man in the March/April Peabody Archives' traveling exhibit, The Glover; Gwen Nichols, the oldest active keth, opens with a tale of an attempted issue. Storm is Passing Over, oral history music teacher in Baltimore City who is infanticide and Ms. Husketh's dramatic interviewers from Peabody and Hopkins looking forward to establishing her own rescue. Years later, young Ethel Ennis have recorded the reminiscences of private studio after her retirement; and would take the streetcar to Mrs. Hus­ musicians in Baltimore's African-Ameri­ Lucille Brooks, successor to Eubie keth's house on Caroline Street for can communities. Twenty-four students Blake's teacher at Waters A.M.E. piano lessons. from the departments of History at The Church, (she recently celebrated her Many of the musicians who have Johns Hopkins University and Musicolo- 90th birthday and is still active as an been recorded have in turn become gy at the Peabody Conservatory tfjOk organist). actively involved in the project, helping Jiearinq part in the project under the guidance The interviews, which range well Lis to contact other musicians, supplying of John Spitzer, Ph.D., musicology facul­ beyond the realm of music, have more leads and providing background infor­ is ty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music than their fair share of high drama. On mation, and two of the project's advi­ and the Johns Hopkins University; Ron her first professional tour, soprano Fan­ sors, Camay Calloway Murphy and Relieving Walters, Ph.D., from the history depart­ nie Newton Moragne traveled across pianist and educator Reppard Stone, ment of The Johns Hopkins University; hundreds of miles of Texas desert agreed to participate as interviewees. and Elizabeth Schaaf, archivist and cura­ CLASSIC CONCERT 4 strewn with tumbleweeds. She vividly All of our interviewers have been tor of the Archives of the Peabody Insti­ recalls the harrowing experience of deeply moved by the warmth of their FEBRUARY 14-15, 2003 8PM tute. The project is supported by grants being caught in heavy sand and rain welcome. This has been especially true Kishna Davis, soprano from the Maryland Historic Trust and storms with hghtning flashing all around of some of the oldest of the intervie­ Kevin Deas, baritone the Maryland Humanities Council. them and the devastating sound of thun­ wees who had come to believe that A preview exhibition celebrating der. "We would come into places with they had been almost forgotten. Mr. COPLAND: Party Scene and Finale the debut of the website will be held at nowhere to go to get meals," she Alfred Prettyman, who played banjo in a fro; Land the Eubie Blake Cultural Center in Balti­ explained. "They didn't know whether I vaudeville group called Icy Hot, COPLAND: Excerpts from Old more at 4 p.m. on February 2. Visitors was Spanish or Mexican, so I would go quipped on the phone, "I'm just delight­ American Songs attending the opening will have the get food for us. If they realized I was ed to know that there's someone out opportunity of meeting the musicians with other "colored" people, then they there who knows I'm still alive!" PREVIN: uc interviewed and hearing their stories didn't want to give us food. I remember In the coming months we will be i iw IN: Excerpts from Porgy first-hand. two days eating nothing but Lifesavers publishing excerpts in Peabody News and 8 s.< John Spitzer recorded the first inter­ while we were traveling through and the interviews will be available view at the Eubie Blake Jazz Institute Texas." soon on the Sounds and Stories website. Call for t; with Camay Calloway Murphy. Mrs. Megan Coe's interview with Mrs.

Peabody receives $230,000 Grant to digitize Audio Collection The Johns Hopkins Libraries have not only make it possible for us to pre­ solo and ensemble repertoire ranging received a grant from the Institute of serve a treasure trove of recorded per­ from the Renaissance to the avant Museum and Library Services to digi­ formances by some of the greatest garde. Peabody first began making tize the Peabody Conservatory of artists of our time, many of whom audio tapes of performances in 1958 Music's audio tape archive. The have served as members of Peabody's when it recorded Ralph Vaughn HAVE YOU HEARD THE- "Peabody Digital Audio Archives Pro­ artist faculty, but it will also make it William's opera Sirfohn in Love. ANNAPOLIS ject" will enable the digitization of an possible for us to provide access to a The Institute of Museum and SYMPHONY estimated 10,000 audio tapes, in col­ digital audio collection of classical Library Services is a federal grant-mak­ ORCHESTRA? laboration with technology specialists music that spans nearly half a centu­ at the Johns Hopkins Eisenhower ry," remarked Robert Sirota, director ing agency located in Washington, Library. A web-based digital audio of the Peabody Institute. D.C. that fosters leadership, innova­ library will also be created. The Peabody Archives' audio col­ tion and a lifetime of learning by sup­ "This ground-breaking project will lection is rich with rarely recorded porting museums and libraries. January/February 2003 Peabody News 25

Choral Arts Society of iAKYi Washington Jan. 12, 7:30 p.m.—Music Director Norman Scribner conducts Choral Trib­ ute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with find my classes invaluable in The Howard University Choir, J. Weldon nr.nKlm f ff Norris, music director, Arphelius Paul gaining a larger perspective Gatling and Barbara Baker, co-music directors. Program includes commis­ on the historical issues I have sioned work by Dr. Ysaye BarnweU. Annapolis Chorale Jan 30, 7 p.m.—William Walton's been trying to get my students Jan. 14, 7 p.m.—Washington Sym­ Henry Ffilm score and other film music phonic Brass, Milton Stevens, conductor. by Saint-Saens, Honegger and to explore. Hoist's The Planets and other works. St. Shostakovich with the National Sympho­ Anne's Church. ny Orchestra, conducted by Leonard —Brenda Petersen, Social Studies Teacher Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m.—Music Director J. Slatkin. Baltimore City College High School Ernest Green conducts Die Fledermaus Kennedy Center Concert HaU. Master of Liberal Arts Alumna as a New Year's Gala while Prince Orlof- Call 202/244-3669 or visit sky's ball occurs around gourmet fare. www.choralarts.org Loew's Annapolis Hotel. Master of Liberal Arts Feb. 7, 8, 8 p.m.—Carousel by Clarice Smith Performing Arts Rogers & Hammerstein. Maryland Hall. Center Advanced Graduate Study in Liberal Arts Certificate Call 410/263-1906 or visit Jan. 24, 8 p.m.-Baltimore Symphony www.annapohschorale.org Orchestra, guest conducted by Thomas Other Master's Degrees: Wilkins, with Branford Marsalis, saxo­ Applied Economics, Biotechnology, Communication in Contemporaiy Annapolis Opera phone. Dekelboum HaU. Jan. 27, 28, 8 p.m.—Rick Miller in Society, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Government, and Writing Feb. 2, 3 p.m.—Annapolis Opera Annual Vocal Competition Finals Con­ MacHomer. Kay Theatre. cert. Maaryland Hall. Jan. 29, 8 p.m.—Rick MiUer in Slight­ ly Bent. Kay Theatre. Zanvyl Krieger School Feb. 21, 8 p.m., Feb. 23, 3 p.m.— "Pasta, Puccini, Verdi, and Friends," a Jan. 31, Feb.l, 8 p.m.-Jane Comfort JOHNS HOPKINS of Arts and Sciences and Company in Asphalt, an urban UNIVERSITY repast of finefoo d and arias by an ensem­ Advanced Academic P ble of the Company's young singers. dance/opera work. Kay Theatre. Radisson Hotel. Feb. 1, 2 p.m.-Opera Lafayette pre­ All programs are not available at all locations. Formerly the Part-time Graduate Programs sents Hippolyte et Aricie, by Jean- Call 410/267-8135 or visit www.annapoUsopera.org PhiUppe Rameau, with Ryan Brown, con­ ductor & artistic director, Jean-Paul Fonchecourt, tenor, Jennifer Lane, sopra­ -800-847-3330 • www.jhu.edu/advanced Annapolis Symphony no, and The Violins of Lafayette Orches­ Orchestra tra and Chorus. Dekelboum HaU. Music Director Leslie Dunner con­ Feb. 1, 8 p.m., Feb. 2, 3 p.m.— ducts: "Happy Birthday, Mozart." Dekelboum Jan, 24, 25, 8 p.m.-Featuring Princi­ HaU. pals of the ASO: Principal Trombone Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.-Ars Nova conduct­ David Perkel in Overture for Trombone ed by Paul Hillier.The a cappella, and Strings by Alan Hovhaness; Princi­ 12-voice choir presents early and con­ pal Horn Steven Barzal in Mozart's Horn temporary Scandinavian music, including Concerto No. 3; Schumann's Symphony works by Obrecht, Byrd, Nielsen, Per No. 2 in C Major. N0rgard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Feb. 14, 15, 8 p.m. -Copland's Old ArvoPart. Dekelboum HaU. American Songs with baritone Kevin Feb. 3, 8 p.m.—Jazz trombonist Deas. Joining Mr. Deas for Copland's Wycliffe Gordon and Ensemble. Kay The­ Celebrate 20 Years of Great QasskalMwk Party Scene and Finale from The Tender atre. Land wiU be soprano Kishna Davis, who Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.-Yungchen Lhamo. Wednesday, February 19,2003,8 pm« Kraushaar Auditorium, Goucher College also sings Andre Previn's Honey and Known as the "Voice of Tibet." Gilden- Rue. The two will then perform arias horn Recital HaU. from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Feb. 14-22-B/we Window, by Craig HOMAGE TO THE MASTERS Maryland HaU for the Creative Arts. Lucas, directed by Scot Reese.Kogod The Baltimore Chamber Orchestra CaU 410/263-0907. Theatre. Feb. 22, 8 p.m.-Ensemble joins in a city-wide celebration in Candlelight Concerts Wien-Berlin. Wind quintet comprising honor of the great cultural offerings former members of the Vienna Philhar­ FA*T of St. Petersburg. Our favorite Jan. 11,8 p.m.—The Marian Ander­ monic Orchestra. GUdenhorn HaU. us composers paid homage to their son String Quartet. Works include Feb. 28, March 1, 8 p.m.-SpUt Britch­ inspirations as well Brahms' Piano Quintet with Raymond es Company presents two works: It's a Hear Stravinsky paraphrase die baroque composer Peigoksi. Ravel Jackson. Small House and We Lived in it Always. pays tribute to WW! France through die figure of 3 7th Century Feb. 1, 8 p.m.—Red Priest Baroque Kogod Theatre. French Composer Couperin. Tchaikovsky emulates Moaux Ensemble. Works by J. S. Bach, PurceU, Anne Hanrigan, conductor Call 301/405-ARTS or visit through an iiMptred ft>ur-part suite. And Mozart, of course, Vivaldi, Tartini, and CoreUi. www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu. Feb. 22, 8 p.m.—The Ying Quartet. emulates himself by being... Mozart. Works by Barber, Chen Yi, and Columbia Orchestra Mozart -Overture to The Magic Flute Beethoven. Smith Theatre, Howard Community Feb.15, 8 p.m.—Music Director Jason Stravinsky-Pulcinella Love conducts Brahms' Academic Festi­ College. Ravel—Le Tombeau de Couperin CaU 410/ 715-0034 or 301/5966203. val Overture, Op. 37; Bruch's Romance in F, Op. 85; Weber's Andante and Tchaikovsky—Mozartiana Suite Chamber Music on the Hill Rondo ongarese, Op. 35, guest conduct­ ed byYong Ku Ahn, with Anne Marie Concert sponsored by: VENUiiiC BCO Feb. 23, 3 p.m.—20th Century Russ­ Ahn, viola; Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 BALT1MC ian Chamber Music. Scott Center, CarroU in Eb Major "Eroica," Op. 55. Rouse (comcast CHAMBER Community CoUege. «.#«««**• m*#Ttm © ORCHESTRA CaU 410/857-2599. Continued on Page 27 Subscriptions and single tickets available. 410-426-0157 or www.baltcliambenircb.oig 26 Peabody News January/February 2003 Lady Macbeth of MtsenkrWicked Exuberance at the Opera

By William McCloskey notions since after all "A rat croaks but a man passes on." He decides that perhaps Shostakovich, in Lady Macbeth of he should "celebrate a little requiem" for Mtsensk, dares extremes. When I first the occasion. saw it performed, under its alternate title At this turning point in the drama Katerina Ismailova in a 1970 produc­ tion at New York City Opera, it seemed Shostakovich provides his major inter­ so extreme that I shuddered for my lude: an emotional orchestral commen­ beloved art form. Rat poison at the tary that rises to full symphonic climax. opera? The victim groaning on stage? In the next scene the lovers are in bed, More acceptable were the gentle name­ with Katerina now all tenderness and less poisons than enabled heroines like passion despite Sergei's greater interest the Trovatore's Leonora to expire with in sleep. The returning husband suprises melodious farewell. My ears and sensibili­ the two. They murder him when he tries ties have stretched since then, as have to call for help. On the heels of this tense those for many in an audience. When the scene, a bouncy oboe-horn march Met first staged the work in 1994 it had depicts their trip to the cellar to hide the me on the edge of my seat and wonder­ body and get on with the good times. ing what had seemed so awful a quarter Act Three: The wedding of Katerina century before. This is strong, expressive and Sergei, with lusty Russian choral music, with plenty of melody and intri­ singing from the well-liquored guests. A cately imaginative orchestration. The drunken peasant, alone, provides comic composer, a natural genius, young at this relief in a brilliant solo as he goes time and full of beans, just isn't afraid to through all the reasons why he should follow his instincts. Stalin banned the Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Opera Company. enter the Ismailov cellar to steal some work: recognition enough these days. booze. (He's recently seen Katerina trol. Into gritty Slavic realism he induces Scene 3: Katerina in her bedroom, to brooding by the cellar door, which must Binding the action is varied orchestral satire and caricature, often to telling folk oboe followed by a winding cello theme, mean she's guarding the good stuff.) He writing that sings, roars, insinuates, ago­ rhythms. He sandwiches in a bumptious thinks again of her entrapment though breaks the lock and goes down, but soon nizes, dances, and sometimes explodes scene out of all tone with the rest, it's more lyrcally that in the opening. Her rushes back, overwhelmed by a stench. as appropriate. The composer connects music close to pratfall, with cops who thoughts trail but the orchestra carries Scene shifts to the lumpish comic-opera scenes with intermezzos that have the might be Keystone except that they are their suggestion further. Sergei knocks, concert substance to stand alone. He also thugs. And then he ends the opera and to hypocritically jaunty music police scene mentioned above, as the pulls frequent surprises as he employs with a lyric commentary on human suf­ explains that he wants to borrow some cops chafe over not being invited to the the full palette of instruments, boldly and fering, as convicts being marched to books to improve himself. Katerina wedding. The drunk comes in to sometimes wickedly, to point up phrases Siberia describe their hardships in music tensely resists his real purpose, but when announce his discovery and the cops and situations. An appreciation of the of the classic Russian choral tradition. he grabs her, the explosion of timpani in troop out, delighted for the excuse to crash the party. They spitefully arrest the score grows with repeated hearings. A few highlights of this' remarkable the orchestra announces that only the lovers. Unlike a host of other contemporary score: words of her resistance remain. The final act shifts musical gears operas, where the composer seems Scene 1: To predominant woodwinds, In the first scene of Act Two, things entirely to drama without caricature. embarassed (or unable) to produce Katerina laments her crushing boredom. move fast. Boris stands outside his daugh­ Katerina and Sergei are part of a convict strong melody-and compensates by find­ Even the ant has more to do than she, ter-in-law's window. He rationalizes that group being marched to Siberia in ing an excuse for the characters to do childless and virtually locked into the his weak son is wasting the attractions of something tuneful like recalling a dance house of her rich merchant husband and such a woman and maybe he ought to chains, and there is no question of the or bringing in field hands to do a folk father-in-law. The bassoon ushers in Boris have a try with her. In a concerted pas­ general suffering from cold and priva­ song-this score has melodies that rise the father-in-law with a theme that sug­ sage Katerina and Sergei at the window tion. A moving choral opening with an naturally in both the vocal and orchestral gests his threat. As he berates Katerina say a lyric goodnight while Boris curses Old Convict, which sets the tone of sur­ lines. the music takes on the thump of a folk that he's tried too late. He catches the vival in misery, could come from the great crowd utterances in Boris Shostakovich based his 1934 opera on dance but one with feet in the mud. intruder, and with the help of workers Gudunov.Men and women are kept sep an 1860s story by Nickolai Leskov. Both When Zinovy the husband learns that he flogs him, making sure diat Katerina wit­ arate when they rest by a river. Katerina present a nasty picture of Russian rural must leave on business for a few days, nesses it. Such exercise gives Boris an bribes a guard with a few of her remain­ life, but the composer has humanized his the servants snicker until Boris confronts appetite, and he demands of the shaken heroine from Leskov's original. The them. At once they burst into a whining Katerina some leftovers from supper. She ing kopeks to visit Sergei. Her passion for opera makes her less a cold butcher and dirge over how bereft they'll be without brings him mushrooms, but now laced him remains obsessive - "The pain in my more a frustrated woman who, driven by the master. Before Zinovy leaves, the with rat poison. (We're told earlier that feet has gone... once I'm with you" - but passion, kills to protect her love. (It brutish father commands Katerina to one of her jobs is getting rid of rats in the he throws her off as the cause of his mis­ omits from Leskov, eg, Katerina's pillow- kneel with a formal vow that she'll be grain. Now might have been the place fortune. From now on Shostakovich smothering of a child who stands in her true. The composer wryly accompanies for a big Katerina aria on yes or no, but depicts Katerina's love as so committed way.) Her music contains increasingly each repetition of "Klyatvo" ("a vow!") in the rapid-fire scene she just does it.) that it is possible to care for her. In a beautiful solo passages that have sub­ with a trombone bray. Boris eats the food to the heavy strokes heartfelt lyric passage she muses that even the lashes and forced march for tleties and introspection, free of the dev­ Scene 2: All hell is loose in the of a bass fiddle, then compliments the hundreds of miles could be bearable astating musical commentary Ismailov courtyard (where the house cook with one of opera's big understate­ Shostakovich showers on the others. faces the family warehouses). To con­ ments -"Katerina, you really know how without Sergei's rejection. Sergei, to win to prepare mushrooms" - to a wandering favor from a pretty young convict Sonyet- In both versions the people around certed yells and rough laughter the work­ violin melody underscored by soft kettle­ ka, pretends reconciliation with Katerina Katerina are mean, and Shostakovich pre­ ers are tormenting the earthy Aksinya. drum beats. When the poison hits Boris to wheedle away her precious woolen sents them in bold strokes that are often 'You're hurting me, damn you!" she crys, he begs for water, and a flute plays exhilarating for their exact, scornful not entirely desperate but angry that her stockings, supposedly to save his own around Katerina's cool refusal as she characterization. The lady's father-in-law, skirt is torn. The chief tormentor is feet. He immediately gives the stockings notes that eating mushrooms at night Boris Timofeyevich, is a bully and-added Sergei, a newly-hired hunk of a work­ to Sonyetka. The two mock the devastat­ could be fatal. The flute also flutters over by the composer to strengthen his case man. When Katerina the boss's wife ed Katerina as do the other convicts. It Katerina's feigned grief, after Boris dies for Katerina-a sadist and lecher. Her hus­ comes from the house to break it up, leaves Katerina brooding over the dark­ while the workers and a priest look on band Zinovy is weak (and doesn't last Sergei confronts her with cool male arro­ ness of the river's water. Suddenly she dispassionatly. The priest muses on the long). Her lover Sergei is robust but cal­ gance. Katerina replies that women are grabs Sonyetka, pushes her in, and jumps strangeness of it all: whatever did the low and devious. Katerina's rival Sonyet- more important than he thinks and quiet­ after. They both drown. The convicts departed mean when he announced that ka is a chilling opportunist. Only the Old ly threatens to best him in a show of march on. Led by the Old Convict, their he was dying like a rat, and then pointed Convict in the final act has any nobility. strength. (She's a sturdy former farm chorus closes the opera with a tone of to Katerina who's so clearly mourning? The assorted onlookers-peasants and girl.)Their subsequent arm wrestle, that tragic resignation. Suddenly the priest figures it out, and his later convicts-go out of their way to be Sergei turns into a mocking embrace, is Ugly stuff, but it's been transformed music erupts into rollicing banality - aha, cruel. accompanied in the lower strings by into art by a young twentieth-century music at once sinewy and ominous. It's mushrooms bad for you at night just as in master reveling in his genius. And inci­ The musical style leaps around, Gogol, and don't the dying get funny although the composer is always in con- clear that the two have connected. dentally it's a stunning night at the opera. January/February 2003 Peabody News 27

Jan. 12—Gary Grafiman, piano. Washington Performing Arts Society Jan. 19—Verdehr Trio, violin, clar­ inet, and piano. Jan. 26—Zehetmair Trio, violin, viola, PERFORMING IN D.C. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TEN YEARS! and cello. Feb. 2—Navah Perlman, piano. Feb. 9—Jubilant Sykes and Christo­ VIENNA PHILHARMONIC pher Parkening, baritone and guitar. Feb. 16—Ani and Ida Kavafian, violin NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT, Conductor Theatre in Columbia. duo. Feb. 23—Julia Anne Wolfe, mezzo- Monday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m. Call 410/381-2004 or visit Tuesday, March i at 8:00 p.m. www.columbiaorchestra.org soprano. Call 202/842-6941 or visit Monday program: www.nga.gov Strauss — Overture to MmNmhtm WeneSg Folger Consort hn Km^mealM, PbUta francaise, Op. 336 Jan. 17,18, 8 p.m.—Music by Dunsta­ DaJMsmibm aus (ktemiek, Water, Op. 164 National Symphony Orchestra Ekktm-wmgie&dtf'PiMm, Op. 110 ble, Palestrina, and Monteverdi inspired EkdmJir-R&a, Mka schneli, Op. 297 by the Bible's "Song of Songs." Washing­ All concerts are conducted by Music fls&iaj, Waker, Op. 212 ton National Cathedral. « Director Leonard Slatkin and begin at 8 Beethoven - Symphony No. 8 in F major, Balemk Feb. 14, 8 p.m., Feb. 15, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall Twstbsp fimgrait: p.m., Feb.l6, 2 p.m.—"Medieval Tales" unless stated otherwise: Schubert — Symphony No. 4 Jan. 9, 7 p.m., Jan.10, 11, 8 p.m.— in G minor, "Iragk featuring medieval vocal trio Trefoil, led Ovorafc — SyEt^hony No. 9 Roberto Abbado conducts Stravinsky's in E minor, Rm the Mw ffMd by Drew Miner in 14 -century music. Apollo (1947); Mozart's Violin Concerto Folger Library. No. 3 in G Major, K. 216; Strauss' Also KBMHBBY CENTER Call 202/544-7077 or visit www.fol- CONCERT HALL sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30. TICKETS $1O0-$15O. ger.edu Jan.l6, 7 p.m., Jan. 17, 18, 8 p.m.— Roberto Abbado conducts Debussy's Le Maryland Symphony Martyre de Saint Sebastien, Symphonic Orchestra Fragments; Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 Music Director Elizabeth Schulze con­ in A Major, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet; ducts: Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande, Jan.18, 8 p.m. Jan. 19, 3 p.m.- Op. 5. Khachaturian's Concerto for Violin with Jan. 23—Feb. 1—Soundtracks, concertmaster Leonid Sushansky as Leonard Slatkin and John Williams, Co- soloist; fandcek's Sinfonietta; and Glin­ Artistic Directors. Program will include: ka's Overture from "Russian and Lud- A Portrait of John Williams; Music in YO-YO MA, cello milla." Film, An American History; Music in KATHRYN STOTT, piano Film, A European History; In Synch, How Feb.15, 8 p.m. Feb. 16, 3 p.m.-Cop- Monday, January 27 at 8:00 p.m. Do They Do It?; and Metropolis. land's Suite from "Appalachian Spring" Program indurJes worki by Debussy, Faure, Messiaen, and Fsrantek, (original instrumentation); Stravinsky's Feb. 27. 7 p.m., Feb. 28, 8 p.m., March 1, 8 p.m.—Mstislav Rostropovich KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL Divertimento from "The Fairy's Kiss;" ALL TICKETS $90-$ 105. Tchaikovsky's Suite from "Swan Lake." conducts Prokofiev's Classical Sympho­ Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown: ny No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25; Symphony- Concerto in e minor for Cello and "GERGIEV MAKES EVEN THE LESS-INTERESTING MUSIC SEEM GREAT AND Call 301/797-4000 or visit THE UNDENIABLY GREAT PASSAGES STUPEFYING." -USA Today www.mdsymphony.com Orchestra, Op. 125 with Xavier Phillips ; Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. KIROV ORCHESTRA Master Chorale of Washington 100. VALERY GERGIEV, CaU 202/467-4600 or 1-800/444-1324. Feb. 23, 8 p.m.— Music Director Music Director and Conductor OLGA BORODINA, mezzo-soprano Donald McCullough presents Rachrnani­ Prince George's Philharmonic nov's Vespers. Washington National Tuesday, March 18 at 8:00 p.m. Feb. 8, 8 p.m.—Anthony EUiot con­ Cathedral. Berlioz - Mtrt de Cteefiatre CaU 202/337-SING, or visit www.mas- ducts Creston's Dance Overture; Mahler - Symphony No. 9 terchorale.org Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, with KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL Tahirah Whittington, cello; and ALL TICKETS $55-$95. Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, "The Pas­ toral. " Prince George's Community Col­ "GRAVES IS ALMOST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE" lege, Largo. —The Washington Post CaU 301/454-1462. DENYCE GRAVES, mezzo-soprano Saturday, Mardb 29 at 4:30 p.m. Shakespeare Theatre Washington D.C. native Denyee Graves made her recital debut with Jan. 21—March 9-The Silent Woman, WPAS and has since become one of the finest meam-sopranos in the world, performing on stages as diverse as The White House, byBenJonson. The Metropolitan Opera, and The National Cathedral. Call 202-547-1122, or visit KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HAU www.shakespearetheatre.org ALL TICKETS $25-$7S.

Smithsonian "LANG LANG IS THE BIGGEST, MOST EXCITING KEYBOARD TALENT AROUND." Feb. 8 -20th Century Consort, led by -The New York Times Director Christopher KendaU, presents LANG LANG, piano "Popcycle," focusing on works from the Saturday, April 12 at 4:30 p.m. Gary Graffman Hirschhorn Museum's collection that Manchuriao pianist Lang Lang made a remarkable impression or* the musk highlight the play between popular and world before reaching the age of 20 and was uecendy named one of the "Tip 1 National Gallery Concerts "high" culture: Mark Kuss Three Hard­ Twenty Teens Who Are Going To Change The World" by "Km Rojik Magnate. core Transcriptions; James Primosch's Program includes: Music Director George Manos (BM Chamber Concerto; work by Judith Haydn — Piano Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI/50 '52) presents the William Nelson Rachmaninoff - Rano Sonata. No. 2, Op. 36 in B-flat minor Weir. Hirshhorn Museum. Tin Dan — Eight Hems in Hunan Accent Op. 1 Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin Concerts CaU 202/357-3030. at 7 p.m. in the West Garden Court at Momrt/Liszt — Heminiacences of Dm Jtum. (Dm Gkwnm) the National Gallery of Art KENNEDY CENTER CONCERT HALL Jan. 5—National Gallery Orchestra, Strathmore Hall Music in the ALL TICKETS $20-$55. conducted by George Manos. Mansion Continued on Page 28 28 Peabody News January/February 2003

i: v Feb. 15, 16—Featuring Peabody alum­ Il ftlft' '' na Patricia Green, voice, the Left Bank ;j;KO:P^;II II 111 : I Quartet, William Anderson, guitar, William Montgomery, flute, Albert Merz and Douglas Wallace, percussion. Schae­ fer's Aria of the Dawn; Nancarrow's String Quartet; a new work by Martin; Sierra's Invocaciones; and Boccherini,'s Guitar Quintet in D, G. 448. Jan. 12, 3 p.m.—Garth Newel Piano Call 202/363-6700. Quartet. Jan. 19, 3p.m. and 7:30 p.m.—Nation­ United States Naval Academy al Chamber Orchestra, Music Director Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m.—Baltimore Sym­ Piotr Gajewski, in works by Purcell, Puc­ phony Orchestra, conducted by Gunther cini, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Herbig. Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in g Jan. 24, 8 p.m.—Musica Pacifica, an minor; Hummel's Trumpet Concerto in Early Music, ensemble. E-flat Major with Andrew Balio; Schu­ Feb. 6, 8 p.m.—Janice Chandler, bert's Symphony No. 6 in C Major. Bob soprano, and Eric Conway (BM '85, MM Hope Performing Arts Center. '87), piano. Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m.—London City Feb. 16, 3 p.m.—Paul Bodura-Skoda, Opera presents Puccini's Madame But­ Broadwood piano. terfly. Bob Hope Performing Arts Center. Feb. 23, 3 p.m.—American Popular Feb. 14-16, 21-23-Glee Club Winter Song Artists, Carolyn Black-Sotir, vocalist, Musical. Mahan Hall. Annapolis Branch celebrates R. Timothy McReynolds, piano, Thomas Call 410/293-8497 (TTXS). Twenty Years C. Williams, bass, in music of Stephen Sondheim. Washington Ballet The celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Peabody Preparatory's Annapolis Branch at Maryland Hall drew many current and former students, friends and family Strathmore Hall, Bethesda. Jan. 31—Feb. 2-Peter Pan, based on Call 301/530-0540 back for a concert and reception on October 11 last year. Also attending were J.M. Barrie's play with music by Carmon Peabody Director Dr. Robert Sirota, former Dean of the Preparatory Lynn Taylor DeLeone, produced by Septime Webre. Hebden who founded the Branch, and current Dean Dr. Carolee Stewart. Theater Chamber Players Warner Theatre. The photo above was taken in the mid-80s and shows (back row left to right Artistic Co-Directors Leon Fleisher Visit www.washmgtonballet.org. back) Cara Lane, Chelsea Lane, Kia Scipio and (front row) sisters Stephanie and and Dina Koston present this series that Christine Basili-Zonak. Some of the students pictured are now sending their own features many Peabody faculty and alum­ Washington Opera kids for lessons at the Annapolis Prep. It was fun to catch up on the successful ni on Saturday evenings at the Kennedy careers of former students. Although a few have opted to continue their musical Center's Terrace Theater, and Sunday Jan. 22, 26, Feb. lm, 3, 6, 8—Verdi's Aida. Maria Guleghina sings the title role, studies, the professions represented at the October 11 celebration ranged from an afternoons at Bradley Hills Presbyterian astrophysicist and biochemist, to a with Franco Farina as Radames and Mari- Church, Bethesda. lawyer and pediatrician. At left is a group of current stu­ THE ANNAPOLIS dents from the Cruz family (left to CHORALE right: Rosemary, Catherine and Ange- line) are shown with the Director of the Prep's Annapolis Branch, Mary Tamplin (far right). When the Annapolis Branch was founded in 1982, that first year there were 9 Peabody teachers and only 30 students. This Branch now has 9 teachers with approximately 150 stu­ dents and also runs outreach pro­ grams at nursing homes, Ginger Cove Retirement Community, and local churches in Anne Arundel County.

CELEBRATE SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY! anne Cornetti as Amneris. Mark Delavan Mass Choir. is Amonasro; Hao Jiang Tian is Ramfis; Jan. 24, 25, 8 p.m.—Robert Massey, Washington Symphonic Brass at St. Anne's and John Marcus Bindel is the King of composer, David Wilson, filmmaker. The Planets and Beyond January 14 Egypt. Directed by Paolo Micciche. Con­ "The Nitrate Hymnal,"an experimental ducted by Heinz Fricke. In Italian with opera on an American couple, who Heroic Brass March 23 English Surtitles. DAR Constitution Hall. attempt to preserve their youth by obses­ Die Fledermaus Gala Dinner Call 202/ 295-2400 or toll-free at 1- sively filming their lives on a home 800-87-OPERA (1-800-876-7372) or visit movie recorder. The musical score for Loews Annapolis Hotel January 18 www.dc-opera.org the opera fuses chamber music with Broadway in Concert underground, "post-punk" rock music. Washington Performing Arts Co-commissioned by WPAS. George Maryland Hall February7&8 Society Washington Masonic National Memorial Auditorium. Music and Poetry All in Kennedy center Concert hall unless stated otherwise: Jan. 27, 8 p.m.—Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Kathryn Stott, piano. St, Anne's March 14 & 15 Jan. 7, 8 p.m.-Boys Choir of Harlem. Jan. 18, 4:30 p.m.—Budapest Festival Jan. 30, 8 p.m.-"Jazz en Clave" featur­ Evocation of the Spirit ing Chucho Valdes and his Havana quar­ Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, music director. tet with Roy Hargrove, trumpet, and Maryland Hall April 26 Wagner's Overture to "Die Meistersinger guest artists. Lisner Auditorium. von Niirenberg"; Liszt's Totentanzfor Feb. 2, 4 p.m.-Trumpeter Wynton Annapolis Youth Chorus Spring Concert Piano and Orchestra with Denis Mat- Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz suev; Liszt's A Faust Symphony. St. Anne's May 4 Orchestra. Jan. 18, 6 p.m.-Sweet Honey in the Feb. 8, 2 p.m.-Alexander Ghindin, Rock's annual children's concert. Peo­ FOR TICKETS, CALL 410-263-1906 piano. Terrace Theater. ple's Congregational Church. Call 202/785-9727 or visit WWW.ANNAPOLISCHORALE.ORG Jan. 19, 3 p.m. WPAS Men, Women www.wpas.org. and Children's Chorus of the Gospel 29 Peabody News January/February 2003

Mark your calendars NOW for the 2003 Annual Alumni Meeting! On Saturday, March 29, 2003, we will join together for dinner and conversation at the elegant btwe Mount Vernon Club, followed by the Peabody Opera-Theatre pro­ duction of Candide. More infor­ JUDAH ADASHI (MM '02), currently a mation will be mailed. Please Peabody Preparatory Composition Theory fac­ contact the Alumni Office if you ulty member, has won the Cantate Chamber have questions or are interested Singers 2002-03 Young Composers' Contest. in staying the night at the As a result, his Elegiac Madrigals for unac­ Peabody Inn. companied mixed voices will be performed by the CCS on April 12 in Bethesda, Maryland. Also, Mr. Adashi's Suite: Eight Haiku by gogical works by Dr. Edwards in its catalogue Richard Wright for marimba and violin will be by publishing his Concerto for Young heard on the Music at Trinity Concert Series in Pianists. The work has been selected for the New York City on February 10. competition repertoire list of the National Fed­ eration of Music Clubs. The Los Angeles Piano Quartet with XAK (Left) President of The Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Idy Iglehart and BJERKEN (MM '91, DMA '01) piano, gave a XIAO PO FEI (BM '00) has been named to the President of the Peabody Alumni Association Jason Love "climb" aboard the new stair- recital in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library Second Violin section of the Seattle Symphony masters while (right) Peabody Director Bob Sirota prepares to "tread." Orchestra in Seattle, Washington. of Congress in Washington, D.C. in October. New Fitness Room opens at Peabody ROBERT BRIDGES (BM 79) recently per­ Organist RALPH THOMAS GRIFFIN, Jr. (TC formed the world premiere of the reconstruct­ '61, BM '62, MM '63) retired on January 1, Alumni, administration and staff have long wanted to provide a space and athletic ed J.S. Bach double concerto for violin, viola 2003 as organist-choirmaster of Grace and equipment at Peabody. Now, thanks to their combined efforts, a fitness room, and strings. The premiere took place in Hous­ Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Richmond, opened on October 7, is available. The Peabody Alumni Association and The Johns Virginia after a tenure of twenty-eight years. ton, under the auspices of the Ars Lyrica Hopkins University Alumni Association provided funds to purchase top-of-the-line Baroque Ensemble. Soloists were Bridges on This church has had only three choirmasters stairmasters, treadmills and stationary bikes; the administration made its creation a viola, and Jonathan Godfrey of the Mercury in one hundred and ten years. Ensemble on violin. The work was recon­ priority even with all the other renovations going on; the Peabody facilities staff "The success of this concert was, in my opin­ structed by Bridges from various historical remodeled the space; and student affairs staff provide for maintenance of the ion, due to the performance of the Strauss fragments and sources. It is published by RBP Burleske by JEAN-FRANCOIS LATOUR (GPD machines and oversee the room. The room is open 24-hours a day, and although Music Publishers. The concerto has garnered '00, AD '02). The talent of this young pianist alumni may wish the facility had been available in their time at Peabody, they can be international attention, prompting feature arti­ from Montreal is already well known. At the proud of their involvement in improving the lives of today's students. cles in both Strings Magazine and The Strad. age of 26, having studied in Baltimore with Pianist SHIH-YU CHENG (BM '93, MM '96) Leon Fleisher for four years, he seems to be on in Lincoln Center's What Makes It Great? al Classics KIC-CD-7533. performed Bach's Goldberg Variations in New the verge of an important career... This scher­ series in New York City. Albuquerque Journal DANAIL RATCHEV (MM '00) has been select­ York in October. zo where the piano is almost present demands wrote of his performance: "His tonal palette a complete technique, enormous physical defied logic as he matched colors with the ed for the first year-long Conducting Fellow­ VERONIQUE CHEVALLIER (BM '02, GPD '02) power, trills of absolute clarity and a lot of woodwinds or molded dynamics with the ship offered by the New World Symphony. will be a chorus member when the Orchestra imagination. Latour has all of these qualities. flexibility of a string player." The fellowship is an intensive one-year men­ and Chorus of Les Arts Florissants under the His playing is scintillating, evoking Fleisher, toring opportunity with Michael Tilson direction of William Christie, tours Spain in and [Latour's] sense of humor, his tenderness, Clarinetist JEANNA NARDI (BM '98), student Thomas and other distinguished conductors. December performing Handel's Messiah. and poetry make him a real musician..." trans­ of Edward Palanker, presented a recital spon­ Modeled after There will also be a tour to Singapore and lation of a review by Claude Gingras, La sored by the U.S. Army Field Band, of which Hong Kong in February when Messiah will Presse. Montreal she is a second-year member. The recital took alternate with a program of music by Henry place in Columbia, Maryland and included Purcell and Jean-Philippe Rameau, and the Peabody violin faculty member Herbert Green­ music by Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Peter ensemble will appear next June in New York berg performed the Bruch Violin Concerto Schickele and Victor Babin. City. with the Columbia Orchestra under Music Director JASON LOVE (BM '92, MM '94) in Trumpeter HTRO NOGUCHI (BM '94) has just Now living in Paris, soprano MIRIAM October. In a review entitled "Columbia finished recording a CD for Metalofonico! DUBROW (BM '98, MM '98), has been work­ Orchestra Soars in Season's First Concert," the with colleagues from the Atlantic and Manhat­ ing with Stephen Srubbs in Bremen, Germany, Baltimore Sun noted, "Conductor Jason Love tan Brass Quintets, meridian Arts Ensemble, most recently staging the role of Bellezza in led the players fearlessly and nearly flawlessly Los Angeles Philharmonic, Buffalo Philhar­ Stadella's Academia d'Amore. In the U.S. she into several difficult pieces." In December, monic, and some of the top free lancers from has been singing frequently with the Four KYLE ENGLER (BM '92, MM '94) will perform New York City. The CD is due out next sum­ Nations Ensemble, based in New York City, Elgar's Sea Pictures with the Columbia mer. Also recently in Japan, Mr. Noguchi was and has traveled often to present artist resi­ Orchestra on a program with Tobias Picker's a guest artist and presented a number of mas­ dencies in Minnesota, Illinois, New Jersey, The Encantadas. Picker, who is currently ter classes, including at the Japan Amateur Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York. On Jan­ working on a commission from the Metropoli­ Brass Ensemble Organization conference in uary 18, she will perform with Opera tan Opera, will appear as a special guest to Kumamoto. He directed his second "Hiro Lafayette at the Embassy of Austria in Wash­ narrate his work. Moguchi Trumpet Seminar" in Nagano with ington, D.C. guest faculty from the Tokyo Metropolitan Spartanburg, S.C. - Dr. SUSAN LYLE (MM 78), Symphony Orchestra. Back in the U.S., he T. MATTHEW EDWARDS (DMA '99) was assistant professor of voice and director of taught last summer in the 2002 Atlantic Brass hired last summer as full-time Assistant Profes­ Choral Activities at Converse College, was the Quintet Seminar and the quintet, with Mr. sor of Music at Anne Arundel Community Col­ mezzo soprano soloist in a performance of Noguchi as First Trumpet, toured in Septem­ lege in Arnold, Maryland. There he teaches Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Long ber to Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida. piano, group piano, music history, fundamen­ Bay Symphony in Myrtle Beach, S.C. in Sep­ The concert at Clemson University in South tals and appreciation. Also, next March, Hal tember. She also taught a masterclass for the Carolina was recorded for broadcast on ycur estate. Leonard Publishers, Inc. will add to the peda- voice students at Coastal Carolina University. National Public Radio. A new CD from the quintet tided Fanfares and Passages has been It's easy to include Peabody in your will After soprano TRINA RENAE MILLER (MM released by Mark Classics. and also help decrease estate taxes for Band wins tournment with '00) recently sang the role of Despina in your heirs. We'd be glad to send you sug­ Mozart's Cosi fan tutte with the Tri-Cities RICHARD PITTMAN (BM '57) has received gested language, whether you wish to help of Peabody alumni Opera in Binghamton, New York, a critic rave reviews following his guest-conducting make an unrestricted bequest or to desig­ In a first for a band from Maryland, wrote, "Trina Renae Miller just about stole the engagements with the Seattle Symphony, nate your bequest for a specific school, the Westminster High School Band show as.. .Despina.. .her low notes were sub­ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and lime and she has great comic timing." the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, in department, or program. To find out won the Tournament of Bands addition to glowing reviews in the Boston more, please contact Atlantic Coast Championships on PEDJA MUZIJEVIC (MM, AD, no degree '87) Globe and the Boston Herald regarding the November 9 in Scranton, Pennsylva­ recently perfonned Beethoven's Concerto #2 Boston Musica Viva, the New England Philhar­ Joyce Ritchie with the Richmond Symphony and Gabriel nia. The Westminster High program is monic, and the Concord Orchestra, of which Office of Development Chmura, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with he is music director. staffed by Peabody grads: LEIGH BEN­ the Santa Fe Pro Musica and Kenneth Slowik, The Peabody Institute DER (BM 02), BRIAN DRAKE (PC Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song with FRANCO PLATTNO's (GPD '97, AD '01) new One East Mount Vernon Place '98, BM '98), PETER LANDER (PC '99, the Napa Valley Symphony and Asher Raboy, CD came out in November where he collabo­ Baltimore, MD 21202 BM '99), MARK LORTZ (BM '92) and as well as the complete Granados Goyescas in rates with flutist Susan Glaser in the Mountain 410-659-8100, ext. 3040 EU WIRTH (BM '99, MM 02). Tucson and works of Bach's sons in Detroit. Songs by Robert Beaser. The CD is called He also played Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin "Mountain Songs" and is on Koch Internation­ [email protected] 30 Peabody News January/February 2003

New World's Orchestral Fellowships, the Con­ ^^eW^jQ^^ £$W&> ducting Fellow will learn his craft as a full par­ Current Peabody students need your help! ticipant in weekly rehearsals and perfor­ Please take a moment to let us know what you have done since you left Peabody, mances, and will work with guest conductors what advice you would give to current students, and if you would be willing to be and guest artists. Mr. Ratchev is conductor of the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony. His past contacted by students for one-on-one advice. positions include assistant conductor of the Several initiatives designed to assist students with career development are under­ PRESENTS Columbia Orchestra in Columbia, Maryland, way at Peabody. A Career Day will be held on April 2, 2003, which will provide stu­ and associate orchestra director at the Balti­ dents with a wide range of information through lectures, discussions and written more School for the Arts. resources. The Peabody Alumni Association, with the help of the Alumni Office, is assem­ RANDALL SCARLATA, Guitarist DAVID REYNOLDS (BM >86) joined the Dutch group, Blokfluitensemble Praeto- bling a book of short biographies describing the career paths of our alumni. We BARITONE rius, on their North American Tour. David would like to compile stories from alumni of every musical discipline to reflect a vari­ played electric bass in a multimedia program ety of career paths, both inside and outside of musical fields. Please consider the fol­ featuring the work Suzko Erroberak (meaning lowing questions, and then send us your story! Thursday, January 16, 2003 "Fireworks" in Catalan). The concert was held What did you do after graduation? What do you do now? What did you do in- @ 7:3<> p.m. on Capitol Hill. Last May, David was sent to Cuba by Guitar Review magazine. Three arti­ between? cles written during that week pertaining to How well do you think Peabody prepared you for the outside world? "this baritone has in the Cuban School of guitar and the Havana Who helped you get started? International Guitar Festival will appear in Who has helped you develop your career? his keeping the vocal Guitar Review this winter. David has main­ Was there a class you realize now you should have taken? A skill you wished you wherewithal to do just tained his studio in Columbia, Maryland had learned before you left? where he teaches eighty private students Would you be willing for students to contact you about your career? about anything he wants." weekly. Additionally, he is on the faculty of Washington Bible College. Please send your story to the Alumni Office by email to [email protected] or by mail to Peabody Alumni Office, One East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Mary­ Boston Globe After trombonist HOLLY SCHAFF (BM '97) land 21202. We are looking for approximately one page in length, and if you have a graduated with her Bachelor's degree in 1997, picture of yourself we would like to include that too! she worked for a year toward a graduate diplo­ If you are willing to talk to students we will indicate this on your biography. Stu­ ma at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, where her dissertation dents will call or email the Alumni Office for your contact information - it will not be DINA KUZNETSOVA, was on the trombone used symbolically. She published. Please include your preferred method of contact: your phone number SOPRANO returned to Manchester in the spring of 1999 and/or email address. to play a final recital and graduate, and the Thank you for sharing your experience and advice! next fall she began a yearlong project in music Presented in collaboration and worship with a church in Brighton, Eng­ tra and Conductor of the Repertory Orchestra Please become an ACTIVE land. Since Fall 2000 she has been teaching with the Marilyn Home of the Chesapeake Youth Symphony, has and playing in the Washington, D.C. area. received a return engagement as Assistant and member of the Alumni Associ­ Foundation This past September MAGGIE SNYDER (MM Cover Conductor with the Minnesota Orches­ ation TODAY! '99, GPD '01) became the new Assistant Pro­ tra. Thus, he will cover two programs for a All alumni of Peabody belong to the Alumni week in a state-wide Minnesota Orchestra tour Thursday, January 23, 2003 fessor of Viola at the University of Alabama in Association, but without active members - Tuscaloosa, Alabama. in April, 2003. those who pay alumni dues - the Alumni @ 7:30 p.m. Association would not have funds to support A Faculty Composers' Concert in.November at Last summer at the Academy of the West in the Manhattan School of Music in New York Santa Barbara, California, pianist JEROME TAN alumni and student activities. Becoming a member of the JHU Alumni Association helps "... absolutely perfect... City included the premiere performance of (BM '98) won the Marilyn Home Foundation October for small chamber ensemble by J. award for vocal accompanying. Thus, the both you and Peabody. When you pay your her gorgeous MARK STAMBAUGH (MM'86, DMA'92) Foundation presented him in recitals in New alumni dues, you receive membership bene­ instrument sparkled York in October and November. He was also fits and Peabody receives funds to support our SHAWN EUGENE STORER (MM '99) Assistant the pianist in a Marilyn Home master class on alumni and students. Please become an active like a crystal spire." Conductor of the Baltimore Chamber Orches- Long Island in September. member today!

II II A I . • From tuba to test tubes Composer JASON TAYLOR (MM '01) is work­ In 2002 the money raised from membership Tubaist JOSEPH TERWILLIGER ing on a solo violin piece for Madoka Sato, a dues has helped support: violinist who specializes in new music and (BM '87) was in Baltimore in October that of Jean Sibelius. The piece will be a col­ Peabody Alumni Activities including: the for a conference on human genetics. lection of short movements inspired by the Peabody Homecoming Weekend; the new He had just returned from Seoul, Both performances will be Japanese concept of wabisabi. He has just Peabody Alumni Newsletter; the presentation Korea, and Vladivostok, Russia, in his completed a solo piano work titled of the Peabody Alumni Achievement Award held at the John F. Kennedy role as coordinator of a major study of Dreaming, which will be performed by Recognizing Outstanding Contributions to Center for the Performing the health of Koreans living overseas. Naoko Hashimoto in New York City. Echoes: Music in Maryland to Mildred Reiner and Don­ He continues in his appointments as ald Regier; and presentation of the Peabody Arts, Terrace Theater a fantasy for violin and guitar, will be pub­ Associate Professor of Neuroscience lished this year by mnemes music. Distinguished Alumni Award to James Morris. at the Columbia Genome Center at In October, pianist SHAUN TIRRELL (MM '90) Peabody Student Activities including: A stu­ Columbia University in New York presented a dedication recital at First Lutheran dent pizza party for new students; a reception City and he will begin additional Church in Ellicott City, Maryland. Mr. Tirrell following the first PSO concert of the year; a duties at the University of Helsinki in has recently returned from his solo debut with Tickets are $30 and may student holiday party; an ice cream social for Finland in January. He continues to the Irish National Symphony in Dublin, Ire­ the students during spring finals; and has be purchased by calling play in a brass quintet and to free­ land. In 1997 he shared first prize in the Pro helped purchase athletic center quality exer­ lance in New York. Joe says, " I cer­ Piano International Competition in New York cise equipment for the students. (202) 467-4600 tainly would never have ended up City. here without the opportunities I got How to become a member: KARL WIEDERWOHL (BM '00) has won the from Peabody, that is for sure. People Bass Trombone audition for the Colorado Membership is on a yearly basis, and operates look at me like I am nuts when I tell Springs Symphony in Colorado. on the calendar year. Watch your mail for them that if I had not gone to music information about 2003 membership! The school, I never would have ended up HEIDI LOUISE WILLIAMS (BM 93, MM '95, cost of membership varies depending on your in science, but the opportunities to DMA '00) performed Beethoven's Piano Con­ year of graduation. The Class of 2003 has certo No. 4 with the Chicago Chamber take those courses at Hopkins with­ FREE membership for the first 6 months fol­ Orchestra, directed by Maestro Edward M. out the pressure to do well in them, lowing graduation (applies to first degree). Benyas in October. which was provided by cross-registra­ Classes of 1998 to 2002 are offered member­ tion, made all that possible for a guy Peabody Alumni: If you have professional ship at a discount rate of $20 and Classes of like me who hated science in high news to report, please submit it to the Alum­ 1997 and earlier can become a member for school!" To stay in shape while travel­ ni Office . via e-mail at: $40. You can pay dues online at ing, Dr. Terwilliger takes along his or by U. S. mail www.peabody.jhu.edu or send a check nun limn nun contrabass trombone, it is easier to to: Debbie Kennison, Assistant Director of payable to the JHU Alumni Association to: The Kennedy Center convince the airlines to store it in an Alumni Relations, Peabody Alumni Office, ,1 Alumni Association Membership, 3211 North overhead bin than a tuba. E. Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21202. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. To pay You may also fax your news to: 410-659- by credit card, call 410-516-0363 or 1-800-548- 8110, Attn: Debbie Kennison. 5481. January/February 2003 Peabody News 31

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 7:30 P.M. BOX OFFICE INFORMATION Marbury Violin Recital 410/6594100, ext. 2 Pft- Prize Recital by the Winner of the William Marbury Violin Competition www.peabody.jhu.edu ftftft Leakin Hall The Peabody Box FREE ADMISSION Office is now locat­ ed in the lobby of wr nixusnUDOT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27,7:30 P.M. the Friedberg Concert Hall and is open Computer Music Consort presents Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 January TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 8:00 P.M. Robert Black, Double Bass, Member p.m. and one hour prior to all ticketed Peabody Trio of the Bang on a Can All-Stars events, while school is in session. Enter THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 8:00 P.M. Violaine Melancon,Violin Griswold Hall at 21 East Mount Vernon Place where a Tribute to Charlie Byrd: Natasha Brofsky, Cello FREE ADMISSION Campus Officer will direct you. 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