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the Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

THE TH 100 SEASONCSO’S OF THE CONCERT SERIES FOR CHILDREN

CSO SCHOOL CSO FAMILY CONCERTS MATINEE SERIES November 30, 2018 December 1, 2018 10:15 & 12:00 11:00 & 12:45

312-294-3000 | CSO.ORG | 220 S. MICHIGAN AVE. | CHICAGO “Music can name “Laughter is the unnameable Laughter is a form of communication that all humans recognize and do in the same way. No the shortest and communicate matter where in the world we live, we all have the distance the unknowable.” ability to laugh. In fact, laughter is one of the first things you do as a newborn to communicate with between — your parents. Try getting through two people.” a day without — victor borge even chuckling— MUSIC AND THE GREAT it’s almost impossible! Music is also a LAUGHTER— COMMUNICATORS! THE YOUNG form of communication. It’s often performed at Leonard Bernstein was one of the greatest PERSON’S social events, it conveys meaning and emotion, American composers of all time. In 1960, GUIDE TO THE it brings people together, and is used to unify a he created the classic TV series The Young ORCHESTRA group’s mood. Think about how you feel after you Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, which hear your team’s fight song! Laughter and music introduced children to classical music and the instruments of the orchestra. PERFORMERS are full-on collaborations between mind and The Chicago body, which means the teamwork at this concert Listen to Leonard Bernstein’s fun and funny Symphony Orchestra between the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Overture from Candide and notice how the Edwin Outwater The Second City will be a full-on workout! wacky march quickly changes from one mood conductor to another, just like a comedy routine. What The Second City mood does this music make you feel? guest artists The Second City is on stage to make you laugh, Jen Ellison but did you know composers also like to make director their audiences laugh? As you listen to the piece by Bernstein, see if you can hear moments of PROGRAM musical humor conveyed through the music. INCLUDES SELECTIONS FROM Bernstein Overture to Candide Edvard Grieg was a great champion of music from his native country, D v o rˇ á k Norway. As such, when Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen asked Grieg Symphony No. 9 to write music for his play, Peer Gynt, he delighted in the opportunity. in E Minor (From the New World) Think about something you do every day, like Grieg brushing your teeth (hopefully!). Now think about Suite No. 1 doing that action to the four different movements from Peer Gynt from Peer Gynt. The first movement “Morning Britten Mood” is about the break of dawn. What would The Young brushing your teeth to this slow, sweet music Person’s Guide look like? Could you do it for very long before to the Orchestra cracking up? Each movement in Peer Gynt communicates a different mood. What do you think the mood CSO School Concerts CSO Family Matinee series of the movement called “Ase’s Death” will be THE YOUNG PERSON'S like? Will brushing your teeth to this sad music GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA now be the most miserable teeth-brushing- experience you’ve ever had? 2 3 Benjamin Britten was asked to write music for a children’s film that In 1945, explained all of the different instruments of the orchestra. Afterward, he took this movie music and turned it into a concert piece called The Young Person’s Guide to Following the string the Orchestra. His inspiration for this composition was a tune by his favorite composer, Henry instruments comes the brass Purcell. Britten then wrote a set of variations on that tune. Each variation changes the melody family. These instruments are a little bit and features a different instrument, or group of instruments, in the orchestra. a lot longer than they look What’s a variation? because they are made of metal tubes wound around Think about your laugh. Now think Find each and around into shapes that about how your laugh sounded family of are much easier to carry and when you were a baby. How do you play. One brass instrument, instruments think it would sound if you were a the , has a metal on the back giant? How would it sound if you tube that slides in and out. The were a grown adult? It’s still your page of this sliding trombone is often used laugh…but with variations! book. to sound like human laughter!

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra begins with the woodwinds. Like their name suggests, they are made of wood and have a mouthpiece in which you blow—that’s the wind! As you listen to the woodwinds, can you hear the humor in the music? Many of the variations on Purcell’s theme Britten then features the sound silly and fun when played on percussion section. Percussion these instruments. instruments make a sound when they are struck, shaken, scraped, Next up are the strings! plucked, or rubbed. Some percussion Made from hollow, wooden boxes instruments cannot play a melody, that have metal strings stretched but one that can is the drum. across them, these instruments Percussion instruments communicate are played using a bow. Like many different moods, and when they all instruments, the larger the play together in The Young Person’s size, the lower the sound. The Guide, it’s hard not to smile. instrument that is one size bigger than the is the , and Q. for some reason, there are How do you keep The celebratory ending to this music has lots of jokes about ! your violin from all of the instruments playing very fast, being stolen? with the Purcell tune being passed from instrument family to instrument family. A. Can you hear how the musicians are all Put it in a viola case. communicating together as they play? Notice how the music captures the joy of playing in a symphony orchestra!

Music and laughter can create moments of harmony and bring people together. It’s our hope that the music and laughter you experienced at today’s concert has shown you the pleasure of ORCHESTRA SEATING CHART working together and brings you closer to those around you.

4 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA 5 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | zell music director YO-YO MA Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant DUAIN WOLFE Chorus Director and Conductor MEeT MISSY MAZZOLI Mead Composer-in-Residence THE CONDUCTOR Sunghee Choi PICCOLO Robert Chen Wei-Ting Kuo Jennifer Gunn Jay Friedman Concertmaster Danny Lai Principal EDWIN OUTWATER The Louis C. Sudler Diane Mues The Lisa and Paul Wiggin William Welter Chair, endowed by an Lawrence Neuman Principal Trombone Chair Principal Edwin is the Director of Summer Concerts at the San anonymous benefactor Max Raimi Michael Mulcahy The Nancy and Larry = Stephanie Jeong Weijing Wang Charles Vernon Francisco Symphony. Fuller Principal Associate Concertmaster Chair TROMBONE He has conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cathy and Bill = John Sharp Michael Henoch Charles Vernon , San Francisco Symphony, Osborn Chair Principal Assistant Principal David Taylor TUBA Los Angeles Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, The Eloise W. Martin Chair The Gilchrist Yuan-Qing Yu Gene Pokorny among many others. Kenneth Olsen Foundation Chair Assistant Concertmasters* Principal Assistant Principal Lora Schaefer Edwin conducted the world premiere of “The So Young Bae The Arnold Jacobs = The Adele Gidwitz Chair Scott Hostetler Composer Is Dead” by Nathaniel Stookey and Lemony Cornelius Chiu Principal Tuba Chair, Karen Basrak Alison Dalton ENGLISH HORN endowed by Snicket while he was Resident Conductor of the San Loren Brown Gina DiBello Scott Hostetler Christine Querfeld Francisco Symphony from 2001–2006. Richard Hirschl Kozue Funakoshi Daniel Katz CLARINETS TIMPANI Edwin Outwater was born in Santa Monica, California. Russell Hershow = Katinka Kleijn§ Stephen Williamson David Herbert He loves to read and earned his undergraduate Qing Hou Jonathan Pegis Principal Principal Blair Milton degree from Harvard University in English literature. David Sanders John Bruce Yeh The Clinton Family Paul Phillips, Jr. Gary Stucka Assistant Principal Fund Chair About the intersection between orchestral music and humor, Edwin says, “Being funny is Sando Shia = Brant Taylor Gregory Smith Vadim Karpinos Susan Synnestvedt about timing! It’s not only what you say or do, it’s how you time it. Try saying something J. Lawrie Bloom Assistant Principal funny with different timing and see how your friends react. Some classical music is funny too, Rong-Yan Tang BASSES Alexander Hanna E-FLAT CLARINET PERCUSSION and once again, timing is everything. The funniest moments in music often involve silence, Baird Dodge Principal John Bruce Yeh Cynthia Yeh and how I pause can often make the audience smile and even laugh!” Principal The David and Principal Sylvia Kim Kilcullen BASS CLARINET Mary Winton Green Patricia Dash Assistant Principal J. Lawrie Bloom Principal Bass Chair Vadim Karpinos Lei Hou Daniel Armstrong BASSOONS James Ross Ni Mei Roger Cline† Keith Buncke Fox Fehling LIBRARIANS Joseph DiBello Principal Hermine Gagné Peter Conover ME T Michael Hovnanian William Buchman e Rachel Goldstein Principal Robert Kassinger Assistant Principal Mihaela Ionescu Carole Keller Mark Kraemer Dennis Michel Melanie Kupchynsky Mark Swanson Stephen Lester Miles Maner Wendy Koons Meir† Bradley Opland ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL THE GUEST ARTISTS Matous Michal CONTRABASSOON John Deverman Simon Michal HARPS Miles Maner THE SECOND CITY Director Aiko Noda Sarah Bullen HORNS Anne MacQuarrie Since opening its doors in 1959, The Second Joyce Principal Daniel Gingrich Manager, CSO Auditions City has grown to become the world’s premier Nancy Park Lynne Turner Acting Principal and Orchestra Personnel comedy club, theater, and school of improvisation, Ronald Satkiewicz FLUTES James Smelser Florence Schwartz STAGE TECHNICIANS entertaining one million theatergoers a year Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson David Griffin Kelly Kerins around the globe. Alumni of The Second City’s VIOLAS Principal Oto Carrillo Stage Manager resident stages, touring companies, and theatrical Li-Kuo Chang The Erika and Dietrich M. Susanna Gaunt Blair Carlson Acting Principal Gross Principal Flute Chair divisions include some of the biggest names in TRUMPETS Dave Hartge The Richard Graef entertainment, and in addition to the sold-out shows Mark Ridenour Peter Landry Principal Viola Chair, Assistant Principal playing nightly on resident stages in Chicago and Assistant Principal Christopher Lewis endowed by an Emma Gerstein John Hagstrom Todd Snick Toronto, the comedy empire has staged productions anonymous benefactor Jennifer Gunn Tage Larsen Joe Tucker with a wide range of illustrious creative partners John Bartholomew and theater companies, including the Lyric Catherine Brubaker of Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Youming Chen John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Goodman Theatre, Center Theater Group Los Angeles, Portland Center Stage, Toronto Symphony

Orchestra, La Jolla Playhouse, Woolly Mammoth *Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. †On sabbatical §On leave Theatre, and the Chicago Bulls. The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor, is currently unoccupied. The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Oboe Chair is currently unoccupied. The Adolph Herseth Principal Trumpet Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor, is currently unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the 6 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically. 7 INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA THE STRING FAMILY includes violin, viola, , bass and harp. These instruments are made of wood and strings and are played by vibrating the strings using a bow or plucking or striking the strings with the fingers.

Violin Viola Cello Bass Harp THE WOODWIND FAMILY includes flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and . These instruments THE BRASS FAMILY includes horn, trumpet, all have the same basic shape: a long tube with a trombone, euphonium and tuba. Brass instruments mouthpiece at one end. The flute is played by blowing make a sound when the players vibrate their lips inside across a mouthpiece to create a vibration. Oboe, a mouthpiece, which is fitted into the instrument. clarinet, bassoon and saxophone are all played by The players can change pitch on a trumpet, horn or blowing air into a single or double reed attached to the tuba by pressing on valves. Trombone players change mouthpiece, creating a vibration that results in sound. pitch by moving the slide back and forth.

Trumpet Flute Oboe Clarinet Trombone Saxophone Tuba Horn Bassoon

THE PERCUSSION FAMILY includes snare drum, bass drum, gong, triangle, xylophone, timpani and piano, among many others. Percussion instruments are struck, scraped or shaken.

Timpani Snare Drum Xylophone Cymbal Piano

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