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A Better Kind of Bank Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919 2016|2017 INTERNATIONAL SERIES AT THE GRANADA THEATRE American Riviera Bank is your community bank; owned by our employees, customers and local shareholders — people just like you. We know our customers and they know us. It’s a different kind of relationship. Daniil Rabovsky It’s better. Come visit a branch, you’ll feel the difference when you walk in the door. ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA NIKOLAY ALEXEEV Conductor Santa Barbara Montecito Goleta Online Mobile App GARRICK OHLSSON Piano TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017, 8PM The Granada Theatre AmericanRivieraBank.com | 805.965.5942 (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts) COMMUNITY ARTS MUSIC ASSOCIATION OF SANTA BARBARA, INC “Cottage’s iMRI technology offered me a different path to treat my brain tumor.” Shortly after her procedure, Corby was back to hiking her favorite trail. 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Learn more at cottagehealth.org/imri SANTA BARBARA European art, as well as a selection of fine antiques and antique furniture 805-845-0255 DIANESTEWARTFINEART.COM Open from 11 to 5:30, closed Thursday and Sunday, PARKING IN BACK available by appointment Directors Emeriti Russell S. Bock * Dr. Robert M. Failing Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919 Presenting the world’s finest classical artists since 1919 Mrs. Maurice E. Faulkner * Léni Fé Bland * Arthur R. Gaudi BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Melville H. Haskell, Jr. * {as of March 2, 2017) Mrs. Richard Hellmann * Dr. Dolores M. Hsu Robert K. Montgomery, president Herbert J. Kendall Philharmonia Orchestra St. Petersburg Deborah Bertling, first vice-president Mrs. Frank R. Miller, Jr. * THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016, 8PM Craig A. Parton, second vice-president Sara Miller McCune Philharmonic SPONSORS: TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017, 8PM William Meeker, treasurer Mary Lloyd Mills Mrs. Ernest J. 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(Mike) director of development Danish National Jill Felber Morris SPONSOR: Linda Proud Ellen & Peter Johnson Symphony Orchestra office manager/subscriber services TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 2017, 8PM CO-SPONSORS: Please send programming queries to: [email protected], SPONSORS: Dan & Meg Burnham Justin Rizzo-Weaver Bob & Val Montgomery attn: CAMA Program Committee Jan & Alison Bowlus concert & publicity manager Michele & Andre Saltoun Hollis Norris Fund 2060 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 201 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Tel (805) 966-4324 Fax (805) 962-2014 [email protected] George & Judy Writer CO-SPONSORS: Bruckner Lynn P. Kirst Orchestra Linz Barbara & Sam Toumayan TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017, 8PM Los Angeles Philharmonic PRINCIPAL SPONSOR: Herbert & Elaine Kendall SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2017, 4PM SPONSORS: Bitsy & Denny Bacon and PRINCIPAL SPONSOR: The Becton Family Foundation The Samuel B. & Margaret C. Mosher Foundation The Andrew H. Burnett Foundation CO-SPONSORS: CO-SPONSORS: Bitsy & Denny Bacon Louise & Michael Caccese and The Becton Family Foundation Jocelyne & William Meeker Robert & Christine Emmons Judith F. Smith Jocelyne & Bill Meeker Stephen Cloud Bob & Val Montgomery Anonymous in Honor of Robert McDuffie Ellen & Jock Pillsbury Johnathan Biss Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Brentano Quartet WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017, 8PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016, 8PM CO-SPONSOR: Craig & Ellen Parton CONCERT PARTNER: CONCERT PARTNERS: Robert & Christine Emmons Elizabeth Karlsberg & Jeff Young • Lynn P. Kirst Bob & Val Montgomery Susan Graham mezzo-soprano Augustin Hadelich violin THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 2017, 8PM CO-SPONSOR: Stephen J.M. & Anne Morris Joyce Yang piano TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2016, 8PM CONCERT PARTNERS: SPONSOR: Bitsy & Denny Bacon Laurel Abbott, Berkshire Hathaway Luxury Properties and The Becton Family Foundation Bridget Colleary CONCERT PARTNER: Bob & Val Montgomery Raye Haskell Melville Ted Plute & Larry Falxa 2 INTERNATIONAL SERIES AT THE GRANADA THEATRE TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN WEALTH ADVISORS Opus 3 Artists Presents ST. PETERSBURG I welcome the opportunity to learn about your unique goals and needs. Together we can create a PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA strategy designed to help guide you along the path toward financial well-being. NIKOLAY ALEXEEV CONDUCTOR GARRICK OHLSSON PIANO Call to schedule a consultation today. TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2017, 8PM The Granada Theatre (Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts) JOHANNES Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15 BRAHMS (1833-1897) I. Maestoso II. Adagio III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo Garrick Ohlsson, Piano INTERMISSION DMITRI Symphony No.10 in E minor, Op. 93 SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) I. Moderato II. Allegro III. Allegretto IV. Andante; Allegro Programs and artists subject to change CAMA gratefully acknowledges our sponsors for this evening’s performance… International Series Season Sponsor: SAGE Publications Primary Sponsor: The Elaine F. Stepanek Concert Fund Co-Sponsors: Elizabeth & Andrew Butcher Jocelyne & Bill Meeker Frank & Sheila McGinity Michele & Andre Saltoun Jorge Morales Nancy Schlosser Wealth Advisor CA Insurance #0D70984 www.philharmonia.spb.ru Rosneft - Title Partner of the D.D. Shostakovich Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonia 1000 State Street Steinway Piano Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Office Mr. Ohlsson appears courtesy of Opus 3 Artists. (805) 564-7305 US Tour Management: [email protected] Opus 3 Artists, 470 Park Avenue South, 9th Floor North, New York, NY 10016 • www.opus3artists.com Not FDIC Insured Not Bank Guaranteed May Lose Value We request that you switch off cellular phones, watch alarms and pager signals during the performance. Not Insured by Any Federal Government Agency Not a Bank Deposit The photographing or sound recording of this concert or possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording is prohibited. Program magazines printed on Endeavour® Paper: 50% Recycled, 25% Post-Consumer Waste Jorge Morales is a registered representative with, and securities offered through LPL Financial, Member Paper sponsored by Jano Graphics FINRA/SIPC. Insurance products offered through LPL Financial or its licensed affiliates. Montecito Bank & Trust Located at Montecito Bank & Trust • montecito.bank and MB&T Advisors are not registered brokers/dealers nor affiliates of LPL Financial. AD_WealthCAMA_Advisors_020217.indd 1 2/14/17 11:43 AM ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ccording to foreign critics, the history In 1921, the orchestra, given the hall of the of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic former Noble Assembly at its disposal, opened the AOrchestra - “part of the world elite and, country’s first Philharmonic. The unprecedented no doubt, historically the most important of the in scale activities of the orchestra drew a new Russian orchestras” - began with the decree of and sometimes far removed from classical Alexander III dated 16 July 1882, which initiated music audience to its Grand Hall. Outstanding the creation of the Court Choir. Transformed into Russian musicians underwent a rigorous test the Court Orchestra at the beginning of the XX of their conducting skills with the orchestra. century, for the first time in Russia, the orchestra Such legendary Western conductors as B.Walter, performed the symphonic poems “The Life of a F.Weingartner, G.Abendroth, O.Fried, E.Kleiber, Hero” and “Thus Spake Zarathustra” by Richard P.Monteux and O.Klemperer; soloists V.Horowitz Strauss, Mahler’s First Symphony and Bruckner’s and S.Prokofiev, performed with the orchestra. Ninth Symphony, Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy” The orchestra mastered a vast contemporary and Stravinsky’s First Symphony. A.Nikish and repertoire. In 1918, it presented the premiere of R.Strauss conducted the orchestra as well Prokofiev’s “Classical Symphony”, and in