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THE ORCHESTRA NOW THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT PURCHASE COLLEGE Concert Hall Saturday, April 1, 2017, at 8 PM Performance #50: Season 2, Concert 21 James Bagwell, conductor Bernard Herrmann (1911–75) North by Northwest Overture (1959) Roy Harris (1898–1979) Symphony No. 3 (1938) Intermission Philip Glass (b. 1937) Symphony No. 1, Low (1992) Subterraneans Some Are Warszawa The concert will run approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission. VIII CAMPFIRE TO CABARET THE ORCHESTRA NOW HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE IX ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR THE ORCHESTRA NOW Leon Botstein, Music Director JAMES BAGWELL conductor James Bagwell maintains an active international VIOLIN I BASS TROMBONE schedule as a conductor of choral, operatic, and Amos C. Fayette, Paul Nemeth, Principal Matt Walley orchestral music. He was most recently named Concertmaster Milad Daniari Principal (Herrmann, Glass) associate conductor of The Orchestra Now (TO¯ N) and Diego Gabete William McPeters Gabe Cruz in 2009 was appointed principal guest conductor of Clara Engen Michael Franz Principal (Harris) the American Symphony Orchestra. From 2009–15 Leonardo Pineda Zhenyuan Yao Federico Ramos, he served as music director of The Collegiate Chorale. Lili Sarayrah Julian Lampert Bass Trombone Since 2011 he has collaborated with singer and Jiyoung Moon composer Natalie Merchant, conducting a number Andrés Rivas FLUTE TUBA of major orchestras across the country, including the Grace Choi Thomas J. Wible, Principal Dan Honaker {Photo by Kristin Hoeberman} by Kristin {Photo San Francisco and Seattle Symphonies. Mr. Bagwell Fangxi Liu Sasha Haft has trained choruses for numerous American and international orchestras, including the Kurt Munstedt TIMPANI Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Drew Youmans OBOE Jonathan Wisner Los Angeles Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra. Hao Xing Aleh Remezau, Since 2003 he has been director of choruses for the Bard Music Festival. He is Professor of Principal (Herrmann) PERCUSSION Music at Bard College, and Director of Performance Studies and the Graduate Conducting VIOLIN II Kelly Mozeik, Tyson J. Voigt Program at the Bard College Conservatory. Youyang Qu, Principal Principal (Harris, Glass) Lara Baker-Finch Zachary Boeding, GUEST MUSICIANS THE ORCHESTRA NOW Coline Berland English Horn Founded in 2015, The Orchestra Now Holly Nelson FLUTE (TO¯ N) is an innovative pre-professional Akiko Kamigawara CLARINET Katherine Lee Althen orchestra and master’s degree program Erin David Micah Candiotti-Pacheco, st at Bard College that is preparing Michael Rau Principal (1 half) CLARINET a new generation of musicians to Adina Mu-Ying Tsai Sangwon Lee, Benjamin Baron nd break down barriers between modern Jiayu Sun Principal (2 half) audiences and great orchestral music Haemi Lee Elias Rodriguez, CONTRABASSOON of the past and present. Under the Bass Clarinet William Beecher leadership of Leon Botstein, TO¯ N VIOLA mines the wealth of underperformed Bonnie Heung, Principal BASSOON HORN repertoire, reimagines traditional Caleb Wong Dávid A. Nagy, Principal Daniel Salera {Photo by Matt Dine} by Matt {Photo concert formats, and strives to make Emmanuel Koh Adam Romey Cameron West the experience of the performers a part of the listeners’ experience. The musicians Omar Shelly Kyle Wilbert of TO¯ N hail from across the U.S. and eleven other countries: Australia, Canada, China, David Riker HORN France, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Spain, Taiwan, and Venezuela. They perform Scot Moore Philip Brindise, TUBA st regularly at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Carnegie Chi Lee Principal (1 half) Aidan Zimmermann Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center, and offer complimentary Marie-Elyse Badeau Shannon Hagan, nd concerts at venues across the boroughs of New York City in the Around Town series. Principal (2 half) PERCUSSION More info online at theorchestranow.org. CELLO Tim Skelly (on leave) Charles Kiger Lauren Peacock, Principal Benny Koonyevsky Jinn Shin TRUMPET Marielle Metivier Alana Shannon Szabolcs Koczur Zhilin Wang Chris Moran PIANO Eleanor Lee Zachary Silberschlag David Sytkowski Hui Zhang Andrew Borkowski HARP Kathryn Sloat X CAMPFIRE TO CABARET THE ORCHESTRA NOW HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE XI MEET THE TO¯N MUSICIANS MEET THE TO¯N MUSICIANS MILAD DANIARI JULIAN LAMPERT bass bass Milad will talk briefly about Herrmann’s North by Julian will talk briefly about Philip Glass’ Symphony Northwest Overture on stage before the performance No. 1, Low on stage before the performance Hometown: Dallas, Texas Hometown: Lawrenceville, New Jersey Alma mater: Manhattan School of Music Alma mater: Rutgers University Awards/Competitions: Finalist, Fort Worth Favorite obscure piece: Elgar’s Sea Pictures Symphony Young Artist Competition; MSM Ambrose Favorite composer fact: Charles Mingus trained Monell Foundation Scholarship; Lillian Fuchs Chamber his pet cat, Nightlife, to use the toilet, and authored Music Competition; soloist with the Maryland Youth the immensely informative Charles Mingus CAT-alog {Photo by Jito Lee} by Jito {Photo Symphony (Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer) Lee} by Jito {Photo for Toilet Training Your Cat. Take note: “The main Appearances: National Repertory Orchestra; Round Top Festival Institute; Chelsea Music thing to remember is not to rush or confuse him.” Festival; Alba Music Festival; Basses Loaded concert series, Victoria Summer Music Festival, Favorite non-classical musician or band: Grupo Folkorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino, alongside Gary Karr; Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, principal bass; Union a collective of New York-based Latin musicians who recorded two legendary records in City Philharmonic Orchestra; Gateway Classical Music Society; Chesapeake Orchestra; the ’70s Romanian State Orchestra Musical guilty pleasure: Playing percussion instruments Musical origins: I began playing bass at the age of 12 because I wanted to play the Jaws Last book read: Dune by Frank Herbert movie theme. Favorite painting: Any painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Most fun piece to play: Ein Heldenleben or any Strauss tone poem. The bass parts are Piece of advice for a young classical musician: Don’t stress complete rock and roll. Time travel destination: Cuba from 1920 to the 1950s to catch performances by Favorite composer fact: Arnold Schoenberg had a fear of the number 13 and then legends such as Arsenio Rodríguez, Beny Moré, Trío Matamoros, and La Sonora Matancera happened to die on a Friday the 13th. The thing most people don’t know about classical music is: Classical musicians are a wild group and party as hard as the next guys. Favorite non-classical musician: Frank Sinatra MICHAEL FRANZ bass Michael will talk briefly about Harris’ Symphony No. 3 on stage before the performance Hometown: Burlington, Vermont Alma mater: Eastman School of Music Awards/Competitions: Winner, 2015 Doublestop Foundation Competition Apperances: Opera Company of Middlebury, Binghamton Philharmonic, New York String {Photo by Jito Lee} by Jito {Photo Orchestra, Moritzburg Festival Musical origins: I began playing double bass in public school at the age of 14 after having played trumpet, euphonium, and electric bass. XII CAMPFIRE TO CABARET THE ORCHESTRA NOW HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE XIII NOTES FROM TO¯N MUSICIANS NOTES FROM TO¯N MUSICIANS BERNARD HERRMANN Harris was born in a log cabin to poor farmers, and at age 5 his family moved from Oklahoma North by Northwest Overture to southern California. He remained primarily self-taught until attending UC Berkeley in his Notes by Akiko Kamigawara, viola 20s, where he eventually made connections on the East Coast, and even studied in Paris under Nadia Boulanger from 1926–29. It was here that he first became interested in Renaissance Bernard Herrmann was a film composer whose composition style radically changed the music, which greatly influenced his compositional style throughout his life. role of music in films and expanded the language of filmmaking through collaborations with iconic directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese, and François Truffaut. Harris was something of a classical music activist. His compositions often contained controversial American themes such as slavery and the Civil War. He also founded the Until the late 1940s and 50s, music in Hollywood films was generally used to create a sense International String Congress and the American Composers Alliance (both of which are still of anticipation by accentuating the on-screen drama. For example, long-phrased romantic active today). He was very interested in indigenous music, and his musical style is heavily and sentimental tunes played with strings and a heavy use of vibrato were typical. This style based in American folksong and jazz traditions. These styles are intertwined with pre-classical of music, known as the “Hollywood Sound,” was characteristic of movies in the 30s and European traditions, such as fugues and baroque dances. 40s. But after the Second World War filmmaking changed dramatically; directors started to focus on human emotion after the public’s burgeoning interest in psychoanalysis. Films His Symphony No. 3 is a perfect example of this kind of fusion. The symphony is one single emphasized the inner world of the characters, while new discoveries and novel techniques movement, divided into five connecting sections. The first section, Tragic, opens with a in cinematography added