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23 Season 2019-2020 Thursday, October 10, at 7:30 The Philadelphia Orchestra Sunday, October 13, at 2:00 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Juliette Kang Violin Choong-Jin Chang Viola Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 (“Haffner”) I. Allegro con spirito II. Andante III. Menuetto IV. Presto Mozart Sinfonia concertante in E-flat major, K. 364, for violin, viola, and orchestra I. Allegro maestoso II. Andante III. Presto Intermission Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 I. Molto allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto (Allegretto)—Trio—Menuetto da capo IV. Allegro assai This program runs approximately 1 hour, 55 minutes. LiveNote® 2.0, the Orchestra’s interactive concert guide for mobile devices, will be enabled for these performances. The October 10 concert is sponsored by an anonymous donor. These concerts are part of The Philadelphia Orchestra’s WomenNOW celebration. Philadelphia Orchestra concerts are broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM on Sunday afternoons at 1 PM, and are repeated on Monday evenings at 7 PM on WRTI HD 2. Visit www.wrti.org to listen live or for more details. 24 ® Getting Started with LiveNote 2.0 » Please silence your phone ringer. » Make sure you are connected to the internet via a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. » Download the Philadelphia Orchestra app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. » Once downloaded open the Philadelphia Orchestra app. » Tap “OPEN” on the Philadelphia Orchestra concert you are attending. » Tap the “LIVE” red circle. The app will now automatically advance slides as the live concert progresses. Helpful Hints » You can follow different tracks of content in LiveNote. While you are in a LiveNote content slide you can change tracks by selecting the tabs in the upper left corner. Each track groups content by a theme. For example, “The Story” track provides historical information about the piece and composer. “The Roadmap” track gives the listener more in-depth information about the orchestration and music theory behind the piece. *Note: Some pieces only contain one track. » Tap in the middle of the screen to display player controls such as Glossary, Brightness, Text Size, and Share. » Tap a highlighted word in yellow or select the “Glossary” in the player controls to take you to an in-depth glossary of musical terms. » If during the concert the content slides are not advancing, or you have browsed to other slides, you can tap the “LIVE” button in the bottom right corner to get to the current live slide. LiveNote is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the William Penn Foundation. 25 The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin The Philadelphia Orchestra community centers, the Mann Through concerts, tours, is one of the world’s Center to Penn’s Landing, residencies, and recordings, preeminent orchestras. classrooms to hospitals, and the Orchestra is a global It strives to share the over the airwaves and online. ambassador. It performs transformative power of The Orchestra continues annually at Carnegie Hall, music with the widest to discover new and the Saratoga Performing possible audience, and to inventive ways to nurture its Arts Center, and the Bravo! create joy, connection, and relationship with loyal patrons. Vail Music Festival. The excitement through music The Philadelphia Orchestra Orchestra also has a rich in the Philadelphia region, continues the tradition of history of touring, having across the country, and educational and community first performed outside around the world. Through engagement for listeners Philadelphia in the earliest innovative programming, of all ages. It launched its days of its founding. It was robust educational initiatives, HEAR initiative in 2016 to the first American orchestra and an ongoing commitment become a major force for to perform in the People’s to the communities that it good in every community that Republic of China in 1973, serves, the ensemble is on a it serves. HEAR is a portfolio launching a now-five-decade path to create an expansive of integrated initiatives commitment of people-to- future for classical music, that promotes Health, people exchange. and to further the place champions music Education, The Orchestra also makes of the arts in an open and enables broad Access to live recordings available on democratic society. Orchestra performances, and popular digital music services Yannick Nézet-Séguin is now maximizes impact through and as part of the Orchestra in his eighth season as the Research. The Orchestra’s on Demand section of its eighth music director of The award-winning education and website. Under Yannick’s Philadelphia Orchestra. His community initiatives engage leadership, the Orchestra connection to the ensemble’s over 50,000 students, returned to recording, with musicians has been praised families, and community four celebrated CDs on by both concertgoers and members through programs the prestigious Deutsche critics, and he is embraced such as PlayINs, side-by- Grammophon label. The by the musicians of the sides, PopUP concerts, Free Orchestra also reaches Orchestra, audiences, and Neighborhood Concerts, thousands of radio listeners the community. School Concerts, sensory- with weekly broadcasts on Your Philadelphia Orchestra friendly concerts, the School WRTI-FM and SiriusXM. For takes great pride in its Partnership Program and more information, please visit hometown, performing for the School Ensemble Program, www.philorch.org. people of Philadelphia year- and All City Orchestra round, from Verizon Hall to Fellowships. 6 Music Director Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead The Philadelphia Orchestra through at least the 2025–26 season, an extraordinary and significant long-term commitment. Jessica Griffin Additionally, he became the third music director of New York’s Metropolitan Opera in August 2018. Yannick, who holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair, is an inspired leader of The Philadelphia Orchestra. His intensely collaborative style, deeply rooted musical curiosity, and boundless enthusiasm, paired with a fresh approach to programming, have been heralded by critics and audiences alike. The New York Times has called him “phenomenal,” adding that under his baton, “the ensemble, famous for its glowing strings and homogenous richness, has never sounded better.” Yannick has established himself as a musical leader of the highest caliber and one of the most thrilling talents of his generation. He has been artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain since 2000, and in summer 2017 he became an honorary member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He was music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 2008 to 2018 (he is now honorary conductor) and was principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic from 2008 to 2014. 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 signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon (DG) in 2018. Under his leadership The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to recording with four CDs on that label (a fifth will be released in October). His upcoming recordings will include projects with The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Orchestre Métropolitain, with which he will also continue to record for ATMA Classique. Additionally, he has recorded with the Rotterdam Philharmonic on DG, EMI Classics, and BIS Records, and the London Philharmonic for the LPO label. A native of Montreal, Yannick studied piano, conducting, composition, and chamber music at Montreal’s Conservatory of Music and continued his studies with renowned conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; he also studied choral conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt at Westminster Choir College. Among Yannick’s honors are an appointment as Companion of the Order of Canada; an Officer of the Order of Montreal; Musical America’s 2016 Artist of the Year; the Prix Denise-Pelletier; and honorary doctorates from the University of Quebec in Montreal, the Curtis Institute of Music, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, McGill University, the University of Montreal, and the University of Pennsylvania. To read Yannick’s full bio, please visit philorch.org/conductor. 26 Soloist Jessica Griffin Appointed first associate concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2005, Canadian violinist Juliette Kang, who holds the Joseph and Marie Field Chair, enjoys an active and varied career. Previously assistant concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, she has performed solo engagements with the San Francisco, Baltimore, Omaha, and Syracuse symphonies; l’Orchestre National de France; the Boston Pops; and every major orchestra in Canada, among others. Internationally she has appeared with the Czech and Hong Kong philharmonics, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the KBS and Singapore symphonies, and she has given recitals in Philadelphia, Paris, Tokyo, and Boston. In 1994 she won first prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and was presented at Carnegie Hall in a recital that was recorded live and released on CD. She has also recorded the Schumann and Wieniawski concertos with the Vancouver Symphony for CBC Records. In 2012 she was again a soloist at Carnegie Hall for a visit of her hometown orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, and that season she also made her Philadelphia Orchestra subscription debut with Gianandrea Noseda. Ms. Kang has been involved with chamber music since studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. Festivals she has participated in include Bravo! Vail, Bridgehampton, Kingston, Marlboro, Moab, Skaneateles, and Spoleto USA. In New York she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; at the Mostly Mozart Festival with her husband, cellist Thomas Kraines; and at the Bard Music Festival. With Philadelphia Orchestra colleague violist Che-Hung Chen, pianist Natalie Zhu, and cellist Clancy Newman she is a member of the Clarosa Quartet. After receiving a bachelor’s degree at age 15 from Curtis as a student of Jascha Brodsky, Ms.