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Shumsky has taught at the Karlsruhe Hochschule in Gennany and at Les The School of Music Arcs in the French Alps. He has broadcast for the BBC, Radio France, Sudwest presents the 13th program of the 1989-90 season Deutsche Rundfink, Salzburg Radio, and Spanish and Korean television. He is presently professor of viola at the University of Washington in Seattle. Lisa Bergman is a native of Seattle and a graduate of both the and the University of Washington. She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut in 1983 and has perfonned with such artists a , Mami Nixon, Steven Staryk, Ranson Wilson, and saxophonist Fred Hemke. Her festival appearances Faculty Artist Recital include Banff, Aspen, Shawnigan and the newly founded Augustine's Artists in Anchorage, Alaska. She is much in demand as a lecturer on the arlofaccompanying. Her first recording, with violinist Linda Rosenthal, was recently released on the Topaz label. Ss) 11 Be, Upcoming Coneerts 0- 2.8 Eric Shumsky University Wind Eosemble &- Sympbonic Band; November 29,8:00 PM, Violist Meany'lbeater University Jazz Combo; November 30,8:00 PM, Brechemin Auditorium witli University Sympbony; December 1,8:00 PM, Meany Thearer University Madrigal Singers &- Collegium Musieum; December 2, 8:00 PM; December 3. 3:00 PM; Brechemin Auditorium Lisa Bergman Studio Jazz Ensemble; December 4, 8:00 PM, M~yThearer Pianist New Music by Young Composers; December 5.8:00 PM, Brechemin Auditorium [- . Fri;d~~M:si~~ -~;---.- . :;trultiuuts un:TJMEFRIENDS HtI!fY and Helen Balisky 101m IIld Gail Mensher Carl and Conine Berg Howald and Audrey Morrill The Boein Company Karea GGatieb Bleaken IQII fl Nelsoo Brec:hc:mm'Famifv FOundalicln KeDy IIld Margaret Booham Rose Marie NdllCll Wdlimland RlIlIiGetbenting lames and DcJma Brudvik lames 1.. Odlin -+.- Hans and 'I1H:Ima Ldunam ~and Mary IoCariseo Alan and Muy-l.aUse Perenon Edmund and Carolyn Linldield Robett and Muy Cleland Iuanita Richards Aura &mil MorrillCll Kathleen Conger Martm and Bernice rund Padter and Mildred Cook Mrs. Iohn S. Robinsoo SPONSORS lobo and Eleanor Cowell Randallllld Willa lane Roct.bill BUlb Foondati.oo MarY V. Cunis-Vema Frederick W. Root work§6y David IIlCi lane Davis HeJ.cio G. F.isenbcra Ruth 1.. SeuermID Seaule Foondati.tm KeiIh and Karat ni"senbn:y Felix Skow:ronek Rubinstein SUPPORTERS Meade and Deborah Emory Karl E. SpeIlmlll Leooanl and Enid Esham I~ and Evelyn Sterne lames and lane Bea1e Frederick Fenster Mrs: Emmell Sullivlll Glinka KemIeIh Benshoof Melvin and Margaret Figley lean P. Swansoo CCNAAO in Seat. CorucliusGaddum-Rosse Ronald O. 'I'hompsoo lames and Mary Cadsea Ramesh and Shanta Gangolli Christie WatllCll Tchaikovsky Digital Hq . l~OO lobo and Dorothy Givens RaJph and Virginia Wedawood Morris anJC. Gorelidc William O. Goodrich Raymond and Eleanor WilIICIl Milton and VirgfDia Katims Mary Ann Haglll Steven and Muy 10 Wright Ka&bleen O. Looa: Dorihea C. Hawley Theodore 1.. MalI::s Rando1J)h IIld Dofcthy Hotansoo McCaw Foondati.oo Robert P. Iooes Daniel and Anmdhlti Neuman Ladies Musical Club Andrew and Marianna Price StIll and Iudy Lennard Melville and Muy Price lobo and BarbIn Long Novernber28,1989 William E. MsbBc 8:00 PM. Meany Theater CONTItIBUI'ORS Edwald F. McCabe

c~;:,.s l\SLt3 DA-T (' ( Y 2. I Program Notes My original idea of an all Russian program is certainly not new, however the Program three composers featured this evening chronologically fonn a "backbone of Russian classical and romantic music. It is also a celebration of Rubinsteins birthday exactly 160 years ago on November 28th and marks the approximately l IOOth aniversary of Tschaikowsky's Souvenir of Florence. Viola Sonata in d minor ...... C, .~.'') ...... M. GUNKA Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka was born near Smolensk, on June I, 1804 Allegro moderato and died in Berlin on February 15, 1857. He was the father of the Russian Nationalist school. The sonata for viola and piano was written between 1825 Mr. Shumsky, viola and 1828 and was unfinished by the composer. I omit the 2nd movement which Ms. Bergman, piano was finished by someone else and is not on a par with the first movement. It is fascinating to note that Glinka was a pianist and a violist.

( Anton Rubinstein celebrated his birthday some 160 years ago on November ( ,0) 28th. Born in Russia, he died on November 20, 1894. Rubinstein was one of Sonata, op. 49 ...... ANTON RUBINSTEIN the greatest pianists of the 19th century. Tschaikowsky studied composition Moderato with him at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The Sonata, op. 49 is composed in Andante four movements and while it is important to know that this work is in a classic Moderato con moto fonn the writing is at times very free and certainly very operatic, espc.:cially in Allegro assai the second movement. The third movement has a trio section remmiscent of Smetana's Moldau, while the fourth movement culminates in a funeral march as in Chopin's b minor piano sonata. I1--7" ~ ?~""t'~\ ~ \\.M-l..0o~ F l ~) Pyott Il'yich Tchaikowsky was born in Russia's Vyatka province on May 7, GC~S)A 1840 and died in SL Petersberg on November 6, 1893. He was the second son Intermission ~l d.R- .B of a mining engineer and studied composition with Anton Rubinstein and others. He is the most famous of the Russian composers and certainly one ofthe greatest. The Andante Cantabile heard this evening was originally from the String Quartet in D Major, op. 11. Tonight's version is from a rarely perfonned edition transcribed by the composer himself. Andante Cantabile, op. posth ...... l ~ ~ .) ...... P. TSCHAIKOWSKY In 1890 Tchaikowsky left for Florence where he set out to write his new opera arranged by the composer The Queen of Spades, commissioned by the great tenor of his time, Nikolay Figner. Directly after its completion, Souvenir of Florence, a sketch from 1887, for quartet and solo instrument was finished. It was revised in the winter of 1892. It is Tschaikowsky's only string sextet and certainly is very orchestral in scope. -Eric Shumsky Mr. Shumsky, solo viola Artist Profiles Sunny Kim and Michelle Curtis, Leslie Johnson, viola Born in 1953, Eric Shumsky received his frrst lessons at age six from Brian Schulz, cello his celebrated father, the violinist Oscar Shumsky. At age 17, he switched to the viola and received a full scholarship to study with violist Lillian Fuchs at the Julliard School of Music. Shumsky has been a member of the American Piano Quartet and the En­ Souvenir de Florence, op. 70 ...... {3. 1. :) ..... P. TSCHAIKOWSKY semble AIpeggione. He has appeared with the Cherubini, the Manhattan and String Sextet in D Major Viotti String Quartets. Based in Paris for the past eight years, he has soloed with orchestras in over 75 cities in Europe, America and the Far East, including the Allegro con spirito Salzburg Sinfonietta, the City of London Symphonia, the Scottish Chamber Allegro cantabile e con motto Orchestra and the International Chamber Soloists of Paris of which he is the Allegro moderato director. Allegro vivace With his father, Shumsky has recorded the major repertoire for the violin and Sunny Kim and Michelle Curtis, violins viola, including the duos by Mozart, Haydn, Spohr, Kalliwoda, R. Fuchs, Folla, Eric Shumsky and Leslie Johnson, Martinu, and Halvorsen He has been recorded on the Jecklin, Spectrum, Pan, Adda and EMI labels.

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