27 Season 2013-2014
Thursday, December 19, at 7:00 The Philadelphia Orchestra Friday, December 20, at 7:00 Saturday, December 21, at 7:00 The Glorious Sound of Christmas
Sarah Hicks Conductor Jennifer Check Soprano Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia Alan Harler Artistic Director
Mendelssohn/arr. Harris “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing”
Traditional/arr. Harris “Angels We Have Heard on High”
Mozart “Alleluia,” from Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165
Rimsky-Korsakov Polonaise, from Christmas Eve
Various/arr. Bennett & Shaw The Many Moods of Christmas, Suite IV
Tchaikovsky “Waltz of the Flowers,” from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Wade/arr. Harris “O Come, All Ye Faithful”
Intermission 28
Faith Brazilian Sleigh Bells
Anderson Song of the Bells
Leontovich/arr. Dragon “Carol of the Bells”
Traditional/arr. Dragon “What Child Is This?”
Traditional/arr. Dragon “The Twelve Days of Christmas”
Pierpont/arr. Dragon “Jingle Bells” Fantasy
Bach—Gounod “Ave Maria”
Mason/arr. Harris “Joy to the World”
Handel “Hallelujah,” from Messiah
This program runs approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra community itself. His concerts to perform in China, in 1973 is one of the preeminent of diverse repertoire attract at the request of President orchestras in the world, sold-out houses, and he has Nixon, today The Philadelphia renowned for its distinctive established a regular forum Orchestra boasts a new sound, desired for its for connecting with concert- partnership with the National keen ability to capture the goers through Post-Concert Centre for the Performing hearts and imaginations of Conversations. Arts in Beijing. The Orchestra audiences, and admired for annually performs at Under Yannick’s leadership a legacy of innovation in Carnegie Hall while also the Orchestra returns to music-making. The Orchestra enjoying annual residencies in recording with a newly- is inspiring the future and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and at released CD on the Deutsche transforming its rich tradition the Bravo! Vail festival. Grammophon label of of achievement, sustaining Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Musician-led initiatives, the highest level of artistic and Leopold Stokowski including highly-successful quality, but also challenging transcriptions. In Yannick’s Cello and Violin Play-Ins, and exceeding that level, by inaugural season the shine a spotlight on the creating powerful musical Orchestra has also returned Orchestra’s musicians, as experiences for audiences at to the radio airwaves, with they spread out from the home and around the world. weekly Sunday afternoon stage into the community. Music Director Yannick broadcasts on WRTI-FM. The Orchestra’s commitment Nézet-Séguin triumphantly to its education and Philadelphia is home and opened his inaugural community partnership the Orchestra nurtures an season as the eighth artistic initiatives manifests itself important relationship not leader of the Orchestra in numerous other ways, only with patrons who support in fall 2012. His highly including concerts for families the main season at the collaborative style, deeply- and students, and eZseatU, Kimmel Center but also those rooted musical curiosity, a program that allows full- who enjoy the Orchestra’s and boundless enthusiasm, time college students to other area performances paired with a fresh approach attend an unlimited number at the Mann Center, Penn’s to orchestral programming, of Orchestra concerts for Landing, and other venues. have been heralded by a $25 annual membership The Orchestra is also a global critics and audiences alike. fee. For more information on ambassador for Philadelphia Yannick has been embraced The Philadelphia Orchestra, and for the U.S. Having been by the musicians of the please visit www.philorch.org. the first American orchestra Orchestra, audiences, and the 8 Music Director
Nigel Parry/CPi Yannick Nézet-Séguin triumphantly opened his inaugural season as the eighth music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra in the fall of 2012. His highly collaborative style, deeply-rooted musical curiosity, and boundless enthusiasm, paired with a fresh approach to orchestral programming, have been heralded by critics and audiences alike. The New York Times has called Yannick “phenomenal,” adding that under his baton “the ensemble … has never sounded better.” In his first season he took the Orchestra to new musical heights. His second builds on that momentum with highlights that include a Philadelphia Commissions Micro-Festival, for which three leading composers have been commissioned to write solo works for three of the Orchestra’s principal players; the next installment in his multi-season focus on requiems with Fauré’s Requiem; and a unique, theatrically-staged presentation of Strauss’s revolutionary opera Salome, a first-ever co-production with Opera Philadelphia.
Yannick has established himself as a musical leader of the highest caliber and one of the most exciting talents of his generation. Since 2008 he has been music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic, and since 2000 artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. In addition he becomes the first ever mentor conductor of the Curtis Institute of Music’s conducting fellows program in the fall of 2013. He has made wildly successful appearances with the world’s most revered ensembles, and has conducted critically acclaimed performances at many of the leading opera houses.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Deutsche Grammophon (DG) enjoy a long-term collaboration. Under his leadership the Orchestra returns to recording with a newly-released CD on that label of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Leopold Stokowski transcriptions. Yannick continues a fruitful recording relationship with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for DG, BIS, and EMI/Virgin; the London Philharmonic for the LPO label; and the Orchestre Métropolitain for ATMA Classique.
A native of Montreal, Yannick Nézet-Séguin studied at that city’s Conservatory of Music and continued lessons with renowned conductor Carlo Maria Giulini and with Joseph Flummerfelt at Westminster Choir College. Among Yannick’s honors are an appointment as Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors; a Royal Philharmonic Society Award; Canada’s National Arts Centre Award; the Prix Denise- Pelletier, the highest distinction for the arts in Quebec, awarded by the Quebec government; and an honorary doctorate by the University of Quebec in Montreal.
To read Yannick’s full bio, please visit www.philorch.org/conductor. 30 Conductor
Conductor Sarah Hicks is making her third appearance leading The Philadelphia Orchestra. She debuted on New Year’s Eve in 2011 and last summer led the Philadelphians in a performance at Longwood Gardens. In October 2009 she was named principal conductor for pops and special presentations at the Minnesota Orchestra. She also holds the position of staff conductor at the Curtis Institute of Music. Throughout her career Ms. Hicks has collaborated with a range of soloists, including violinists Jamie Laredo and Hilary Hahn; singers Smokey Robinson, Ben Folds, Dianne Reeves, Idina Menzel, Natalie Merchant, and John Mayer; trumpeter Chris Botti; and the Cuban band Tiempo Libre, which she led in the world premiere of Rumba Sinfonica. Ms. Hicks toured with Sting in 2011, conducting his Symphonicity Tour in Europe. In 2012 she led the San Francisco Symphony in the world premiere of Pixar in Concert, a production she also premieres in Europe next spring. She appeared at the 2012 World Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in concert. This past summer she performed with singer Josh Groban and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a July Fourth fireworks spectacular at the Hollywood Bowl. Ms. Hicks has guest conducted extensively both in the U.S. and abroad, including with the Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Oregon, Atlanta, National, Detroit, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Columbus, Vermont, Charleston, Delaware, and Des Moines symphonies; the Los Angeles, Fort Wayne, Reno, and South Carolina philharmonics; and the Florida Orchestra. This season she debuts with the Boston and Cincinnati pops; the Pittsburgh, Pacific, Victoria, Alabama, and Grand Rapids symphonies; and the Las Vegas Philharmonic. Ms. Hicks’s past positions include associate conductor of the North Carolina Symphony; associate conductor of the Richmond Symphony; resident conductor of the Florida Philharmonic; and assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Singers, which she has led in radio broadcasts heard nationwide. She has also been music director of the Hawaii Summer Symphony, an ensemble she founded in 1991 in her hometown of Honolulu and which she led for five seasons. 31 Soloist
Soprano Jennifer Check made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut as the Fifth Maid in the May 2012 performances of Strauss’s Elektra. In the 2013-14 season she sings her first performances of the title role of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos with Opéra de Toulon; makes her debut with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, also as the Fifth Maid in Elektra; returns to Palm Beach Opera to reprise the role of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth; and returns to the Metropolitan Opera to sing Marianne in Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and Falke in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten. On the concert stage, Ms. Check sings Strauss’s Four Last Songs in her debut with the Shanghai Symphony and Verdi’s Requiem in a performance with the Cathedral Choral Society at the Washington National Cathedral. Last season Ms. Check debuted a quartet of Verdi heroines: Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine, Elisabeth in Don Carlos at the Caramoor International Music Festival, Leonora in Il trovatore with Utah Opera, and the title role of Aida in concert with Berks Opera in Pennsylvania. She also returned to the Metropolitan Opera, as the High Priestess in Aida and joined the company for its production of Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. In concert she returned to the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. for Verdi’s Requiem. Other recent performances include the title role in Bellini’s Norma with Palm Beach Opera and Opera Philadelphia, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites with Austin Lyric Opera, and Lady Billows in Britten’s Albert Herring at the Castleton Festival. Ms. Check is an alumnus of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia and received a Bachelor of Music degree in voice performance from Westminster Choir College. Her accolades include first place awards from the Loren L. Zachary Competition, the Licia Albanese- Puccini Foundation, the Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition, the Liederkranz Foundation, and the Mario Lanza Scholarship Auditions. She was also awarded a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation and the Zarzuela Prize in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. 32 Chorus
John L. Shipman For the past 140 years Mendelssohn Club has been devoted to sharing great choral music as a way to connect artists, audiences, and communities. One of America’s oldest choruses, Mendelssohn Club continues to expand its repertoire in the 21st century by collaborating with a wide range of musical organizations, each of which is devoted to representing or reaching out to new audiences in innovative ways. Earlier this year, Mendelssohn Club received the prestigious Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, which recognizes choruses that demonstrate a commitment to fostering and promoting new music. Founded in 1874 the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia made its Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 1904 with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 led by Music Director Fritz Scheel. A decade later the ensemble was part of the monumental “Symphony of a Thousand” at the Academy of Music, providing more than 300 singers when the Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski gave the U.S. premiere of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8. Other historical milestones include the 1929 American premiere of Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov in concert version, and the first performance outside the Soviet Union of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 under the direction of Eugene Ormandy. The RCA recording of that performance won the Prix Mondiale de Montreux. Mendelssohn Club also appeared in a nationally broadcast performance of Verdi’s Requiem with Riccardo Muti and the Orchestra as part of PBS’ Great Performances series. Artistic Director Alan Harler, who received the Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Professional Choral Art, is known for pairing new works with the masterworks. During his 25-year tenure with Mendelssohn Club, he has commissioned over 55 new compositions, including Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields (2014), David Lang’s battle hymns (2009), Jennifer Higdon’s On the Death of the Righteous, and Pauline Oliveros’s Urban Echo: Circle Told (2008). Mr. Harler conducted Mendelssohn Club in a critically acclaimed recording of the Moran Requiem for Argo/London Records in 1994. 33 The Music “Alleluia,” from Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart’s lifelong bent, late in life a conscious desire, was to write for the theater. The theater, he said, was the composer’s ultimate place of expression, in which character and melody met and created a world. When he reached the age of 30, the amount of time he spent writing operas began to increase over that spent on chamber music or symphonies. In the last six months of his life, Mozart composed two full-scale operas of contrasting types: the serious, La clemenza di Tito, and the mystic-comic, The Magic Flute. Wolfgang Amadè Mozart Born in Salzburg, This love for dramatic music colored all the scores Mozart January 27, 1756 penned, especially sacred vocal works. Exsultate, jubilate Died in Vienna, was composed just days before Mozart’s 16th birthday, December 5, 1791 and already contains the seeds of deepening maturity. It was written for one of the last great castratos, Venanzio Rauzzini, for whom he had just composed the title role in his opera Lucio Silla. Because it is a Latin hymn to the Virgin Mary, Exsultate, jubilate is a motet. But in spirit and even in form, it resembles Mozart’s operas. —Kenneth LaFave 34 The Music Polonaise, from Christmas Eve
Though Rimsky-Korsakov is known in the West primarily for a handful of concert works (Sheherazade chief among them), for his fabled orchestration skills, and for the inspiration he provided Igor Stravinsky, he is regarded in his native Russia not only for all that, but also for his operas. He wrote 15, 10 of them crowded in during the final decade of his life. It was as if he was saying to the musical world, “Thank you very much for noticing my orchestral works, but this—sung drama—is my true métier.”
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russia agrees, and regularly produces at least a few Born in Tikhvin, Russia, of them. But the West ignores his stage scores—one March 18, 1844 recent review in the International Herald Tribune of a Died in Lyubensk (near St. Rimsky-Korsakov opera complained of “slow moving Petersburg), June 21, 1908 dramaturgy”—except as orchestral excerpts. Christmas Eve, Rimsky-Korsakov’s fifth opera, is known here only as a suite of pieces taken largely from the colorful third act. The story is from Gogol, the Ukrainian-born writer of Russian literature. Gogol’s retelling of Ukrainian folk tales was immensely popular in the 19th century, and in fact these stories continue to be so popular in Russia that there is even a video game based on them. They mix everyday concerns of love and survival with fantastical elements. Christmas Eve is typical, involving as it does a witch, a wizard, the Devil—and some magic dumplings. Christmas has nothing to do with the story, except that the action takes place on that day. The time is the 18th century, and the lovely Oksana is the object of adoration from many in the village. Even the Devil admires her. The village blacksmith, Vakula, is her most ardent suitor. His desire for her is thwarted by Oksana’s insistence that he bring her the boots of the Tsarina. Rather than be rebuffed, Vakula goes to the local wizard to get the help of the Devil. The wizard pulls magic dumplings from his mouth and produces the Devil himself. Vakula then flies to St. Petersburg on the Devil’s back (though not before his mother, who happens to be a witch, tries to stop him on her broom), and once there manages to gain an audience with the Tsarina. She of course immediately accedes to his request for her boots. He flies back to the village and is greeted by church bells and a surprised Oksana. —Kenneth LaFave 35 The Music “Waltz of the Flowers,” from The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky’s last years were marked by melancholy and joy—by growing emotional depression and by great artistic successes. With five of the numbered symphonies under his belt, and with splendid operas and ballets such as Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty bringing him growing public acceptance, he could only feel satisfaction at the progress of his life as an artist—despite the turmoil and frustrations of his inner life. Indeed, one can’t help hearing a certain exhilaration in the music of The Nutcracker, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky which Tchaikovsky composed between February 1891 Born in Kamsko-Vodkinsk, and April 1892. The miracle of these last years, in fact, is Russia, May 7, 1840 that the same person who expressed such joyousness in Died in St. Petersburg, this ballet score could soon compose the tragic strains of November 6, 1893 the Sixth Symphony (“Pathétique”), full of the most painful premonitions of death. The composer would die in late 1893, less than a year after The Nutcracker first appeared on the stage, and just a few months after completing the Symphony. The Nutcracker is based on the story Nussknacker und Mausekönig by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the great Romantic writer whose work inspired composers as diverse as Jacques Offenbach and Robert Schumann—and such ballet classics as Coppélia. The scenario tells the tale of the young girl Clara and the nutcracker she receives for Christmas, which comes to life as a handsome prince and spirits her away to a place she quickly realizes is every child’s dream—a Kingdom of Sweets. —Paul J. Horsley 36 The Music Brazilian Sleigh Bells
Only three artists in the history of American popular music have produced a best-selling single-of-the-year twice: Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Percy Faith and his orchestra. (Faith’s pair were “The Song from Moulin Rouge” in 1952, and 1960’s Theme from A Summer Place.) Faith’s genre was the “easy listening” or “middle of the road” music that dominated much of the recording industry in the 1950s and ’60s. Though in hindsight we think of that time as the era of Percy Faith rock ’n’ roll, that was not the only music to top the charts. Born in Toronto, April 7, Easy listening was a major market force. Rather than 1908 innovate a new sound, easy listening absorbed other Died in Encino, California, genres into an orchestral pops framework. Faith was February 9, 1976 especially skilled at adapting everything from lounge songs to rock tunes to country ballads for his pops performances. Most of Faith’s recordings were what we would today call “covers” of songs from other sources. But Faith was also a composer, scoring the films Tammy Tell Me True and The Oscar, and supplying the theme music for the long- running TV series The Virginian. He composed the samba- inflected novelty Brazilian Sleigh Bells in 1957, not for his own orchestra, but for Frederick Fennell’s Eastman- Rochester Pops on an album called Hi-Fi a la Española. It seesaws back and forth between two chords, swaying to a lightly syncopated beat. The melody alternates between repeated notes (such as the five that begin it), rapid runs of eighth notes, and angular leaps of an octave. The sleigh bells are featured in all but a few measures. Faith endured many changes of style over the decades of his popularity. But hard rock and disco proved musically too distant for translation to orchestral pops, and Faith’s popularity waned considerably in the years leading up to his death in 1976. —Kenneth LaFave 37 The Music Song of the Bells
Leroy Anderson’s novelty tunes were a staple of American musical culture in the 1940s and ’50s. The Typewriter, Bugler’s Holiday, Sleigh Ride, and The Syncopated Clock are among the best-known of the many dozens of short pieces penned by the man John Williams has called “one of the great American masters of light orchestral music.” Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Swedish-born parents, Anderson attended Harvard University, where he earned bachelor and master’s degrees in music Leroy Anderson composition, studying with Walter Piston. In 1936 he Born in Cambridge, was on a path to earning a doctorate in German and Massachusetts, June 29, Scandinavian languages with the intention of a career 1908 as a translator, when arrangements he had made for Died in Woodbury, the Harvard Band came to the attention of Boston Pops Connecticut, May 18, 1975 conductor Arthur Fiedler, who persuaded Anderson to devote his full energies to music. It was wise advice. Within two years, an Anderson tune, Jazz Pizzicato, hit big in the pops repertory. Except for a stint in the U.S. Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps in World War II—where his mastery of languages came in handy—Anderson went on to enjoy an uninterrupted stream of successes. Only when he moved beyond his specialty of short novelties in the musical Goldilocks did he fall short of wide popular esteem. He composed Song of the Bells in 1953. It’s a waltz in almost Viennese fashion. Except for one syncopated passage in which the beat takes off in a couple of different directions at once, the emphasis is unfailingly on the first count of each measure. The effect is of a swirling, fast waltz of the traditional, 19th-century sort. The “bells” of the title are chimes, or tubular bells, in the outer sections, and orchestral bells, a.k.a. the glockenspiel, in the middle. —Kenneth LaFave 38 The Music “Ave Maria”
One hundred and thirty-one years separate the vocal and instrumental parts of this “Ave Maria.” The instrumental half came first. As any piano student will tell you, it is the Prelude in C major from Book One of J.S. Bach’s Well- Tempered Clavier, an exercise in arpeggios, or broken chords, penned in 1722. Only in 1853 was the vocal half created, and even then, it began its life as a second instrumental part. The story goes that the French composer Charles Gounod Johann Sebastian Bach (whose opera Faust remains in the repertoire to this Born in Eisenach, day) was at the piano idly improvising a melody over March 21, 1685 the broken-chord frame of the famous Bach Prelude. Died in Leipzig, July 28, 1750 Apparently unimpressed with his own tune, Gounod neglected to write it down. But upon overhearing this, the composer’s father-in-law rushed to find manuscript paper and a pen. Fortunately for Gounod, Pierre- Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman was himself a pianist and composer, and recognized the innate charm of his son-in- law’s improvisation. In fact, Gounod himself never literally “wrote” the “Ave Maria”; that fell to Zimmerman. Zimmerman’s initial idea was to publish the Bach-Gounod hybrid as a piece for violin (the melody) and piano (the Bach Prelude). Titled Consideration on Bach’s Prelude, it was quite a successful salon piece of the day. Gounod must have had a change of heart about his melody-on-a- Charles Gounod progression by Bach, because when the composer fell in Born in Paris, June 18, 1818 love with a certain young lady, he set the words of a then- Died in St. Cloud, France, famous love poem to his tune. Alphonse de Lamartine’s October 18, 1893 Le Livre de la vie (The Book of Life) sat neatly on the music, and so the accidental melody was yet again a success in the music stores. At last, in 1859, a version for voice and piano was published using the sacred Latin prayer to the Virgin Mary, “Ave Maria.” Thus, Gounod became the first and perhaps only composer to have made a killing out of three versions of a melody he never actually wrote down. —Kenneth LaFave 39
Ave Maria, gratia plena Hail Maria, full of grace, Dominus tecum. the Lord is with thee. Benedictatus in Blessed art thou among mulieribus women et benedictus fructus and blessed is the fruit of ventris tui Jesus. thy womb, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Sancta Maria, Holy Maria, Holy Maria, Maria ora pro nobis, nobis Maria, pray for us, us pecatoribus sinners nunc et in ora, in ora now and in the hour of mortis nostrae. our death. Amen. Amen. 40 The Music “Halleluja,” from Messiah
Messiah, the most famous oratorio ever written, is quite unlike Handel’s other ones, let alone those by most earlier and later composers. A German who initially made his fame writing Italian operas for English audiences, Handel found in the 1730s that the public wanted something new and more understandable. After composing some three dozen Italian operas, works of great musical brilliance, he shifted his energies to creating what are in essence sacred operas in English. Handel quickly enjoyed considerable success with oratorios such as Esther, George Frideric Handel Deborah, Saul, and Israel in Egypt. But by the early 1740s, Born in Halle, Germany, he was in some financial difficulty and suffering from poor February 23, 1685 health. At this low point in his career he composed what Died in London, April 14, would become his most beloved piece. 1759 Various legends, registering differing degrees of reality, inevitably surround such a famous and long-lived composition. It is known that Handel wrote most of the work in some three weeks time, secluding himself beginning on August 22, 1741. Another legend attached to the work relates to his inspiration, which casts the frenzied composition as a sort of divine dictation. Handel is said to have emerged at some point (usually, it is noted, after finishing the “Hallelujah” chorus,) and proclaimed: “I did think I did see all Heaven before me, and the great God himself!” The first performance of Messiah took place not in London, but rather in Dublin, on April 13, 1742. Handel gave the London premiere less than a year later at Covent Garden. It was not well received, in part because of objections to presenting a sacred work in that most profane of buildings—a theater! It was only in 1750, when Messiah began to be presented in annual performances for a London charity at the local Foundling Hospital, that the public embraced the work. Messiah is divided into three sections. The first is Program notes © 2013. concerned with the prophesy of the coming of a Messiah All rights reserved. Program and then with Christ’s Nativity. Part II deals with Christ’s notes may not be reprinted suffering and death and ends with the “Hallelujah” Chorus. without written permission from The concluding section offers an affirmation of Christian The Philadelphia Orchestra faith and glimpses of Revelation. Association and/or Kenneth LaFave. —Christopher H. Gibbs 41 January The Philadelphia Orchestra
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