TABLE OF CONTENTS “A Hero’s Journey: Fun & Games...... 6 Beethoven & Prometheus, Grades 4-8 . . . 2 Fan Mail...... 7 Civil Rights: Remembering Youth Orchestra...... 8 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Grades 6-12 . . . 3 Children’s Chorus...... 8 See the Sounds...... 4 Youth Chorus...... 8 Conductor of the Orchestra...... 5 Family Concerts...... 8

2017-18 Season Guide for Young Concert-goers

MUSIC DIRECTORS 100 Years of

NIKOLAI SOKOLOFF 1918-33 The Cleveland Orchestra!! 2017-2018 marks the 100th season of The Cleveland and dismissal pro­cess (where every bus and corresponding Orchestra! You may not realize that by coming to school group gets a number) was established in 2000 to a Cleveland Orchestra Education Concert you are man­age traffic and insure students’ safety. There are many part of a great Cleveland tradition! Students have more cars on the road today than there ARTUR RODZINSKI were in the 1930’s! 1933-43 been attending Cleveland Orchestra concerts since 1918! Ms. Lillian Bald­win, the Orchestra’s first Ed­u­ca­tion Director, pioneered the In the be­gin­ning, The Cleve­land Or­ches­tra performed format of ‘educational concerts’ we concerts in com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters and sev­er­al area schools, know today. She developed extensive including East Tech and West Tech High Schools in study ma­te­rials so students could be Cleveland, Shaw High School in East Cleveland, and knowl­edge­able about the music they Lakewood High School. By 1920 audienc­es be­came too would hear at the concerts. (Instead large to accommodate in school settings and teachers and of read­ing The Score as you are now, students be­gan to trav­el to hear The Cleve­land Orchestra, ERICH LEINSDORF students read Ms. Baldwin’s Little 1943-46 as they do now for Education Con­certs. The first “Children’s Folks Program, pic­tured right.) Ms. Concerts” were held at Masonic Auditorium (still stand­ing at Baldwin also planned con­cert programs for specific grade th East 40 and Chester Avenue in Cleveland) in 1921. And so levels, a con­cept that is still pre­served to­day. Ms. Baldwin’s the fi­eld­ trip ­tra­di­tion was born! “Cleveland Plan,”was emulated by orchestras and music In 1931 concerts moved to The Cleveland Orchestra’s educators na­tion­wide. Over the years, preparation new home, Severance Hall. Stu­dents have ac­tually seen materials evolved to in­clude tapes, CDs, and Spotify three dif­er­ent Sev­er­ance Hall interiors over the years: the Playlists of concert music for classrooms, resources for original Sev­er­ance Hall, from 1931-1957; the wood-paneled teach­ers, and a television program, “Get Ready for The Cleve­land Orchestra,” produced and broad­cast by lo­cal GEORGE SZELL “Szell shell,” named for music director George Szell, from 1946-70 1958-1998; and the Sev­er­ance Hall you see to­day, which PBS sta­tion WVIZ-TV. was restored to its orig­i­nal splendor in 2000. The ar­riv­al Stu­dents have had the opportunity to see many dif­er­ ent con­duc­tors lead Edu­ca­tion Concerts, in­clud­ing Ni­kolai Sokolof (the first mu­sic director of The Cleve­land Or­ches­ tra), Ru­dol­ph Ring­wall, Lou­is Lane, Robert Shaw, James Le­vine, Jah­ja Ling, Alan Gilbert, Brett Mitchell, Franz Welser-Möst, among others. In the 2017-2018 season, Education Concerts will be con­ducted by Cleveland PIERRE BOULEZ Orchestra Assistant Conductor Vinay Parameswaran (see Musical Advisor and Principal Guest Conductor 1970-72 biography on page 5). The mu­si­cians and staf at The Cleve­land Or­ches­tra are so pleased that you and your class­mates will soon become part of the great Ed­u­ca­tion Con­cert tra ­di­tion. We look forward to see­ing you soon!

LORIN MAAZEL Students arriving for Education Concerts at Severance Hall in 2016. 1972-82

CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI Music Director Designate 1982-84 1984-02

Education Concert, March 1927. Children and buses in front of Cleveland’s Masonic FRANZ WELSER-MÖST Auditorium (site of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2002-present early subscription and education concerts). Photo by: Mildred Ockert Waugh November 8-10, 2017 The Cleveland Orchestra Education Concerts for Grades 4-8 Vinay Parameswaran, conductor Severance Hall “Beethoven & Prometheus A Hero’s Journey”

VINAY PARAMESWARAN

Overture to Creatures of Prometheus Symphony No. 5, Movement 4, Allegro Symphony No. 1, Movement 2, Andante cantabile con moto Symphony No. 5, Movement 1, Allegro con brio Symphony No. 7, Movement 1, Poco sostenuto – vivace Symphony No. 1 in C major, Movement 2: This Cleveland Orchestra Education Concert, explores a unique Andante cantabile con moto intersection between mythology and music, examining the Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new connection between Prometheus, A Titan of Greek Mythology, century, 1799-1800. His orchestral legacy cast an imposing shadow and Beethoven, a titan of classical music. Bound in spirit by that composers had to deal with in various ways for the remainder their creativity, rebellious nature, and a deep love of humankind, of the century-and beyond. The second movement begins with the Beethoven and Prometheus both overcame great obstacles and second violins presenting a courtly theme that is taken up fugally by used their individual gifts to create a better world. This concert other instruments; this theme alternates with a more light-hearted will feature movements from some of Beethoven’s most important melody. symphonies accompanied by the creative output (visual art, dance, language arts and more) of students from the Cleveland School Symphony No. 5, Movement 1, Allegro con brio of the Arts (projected on a large screen behind the Orchestra) The beginning of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 may be the most who were deeply engaged with Orchestra musicians last spring famous orchestral music of all time. Beethoven once referred to the in an interdisciplinary “Prometheus Project” curriculum. first four notes – ta ta ta TUM – as Fate knocking at the door. Two main musical ideas are passed back and forth in this movement; a forceful, menacing theme (fate knocking at the door) and a calm, peaceful theme (usually played by the flute). Where have you heard Overture to Creatures of Prometheus this music before? What kinds of actions or images come to your Creatures of Prometheus marked Beethoven’s introduction to the mind when you hear this music? Viennese stage and is one of only two ballets that Beethoven wrote. It tells the story of Prometheus, a Greek Titan who stole fire from Symphony No. 7 in A major, Movement 1, Poco the gods for the benefit of humankind. How does the music reflect the story of Prometheus and his qualities: daring, rebellious, and sostenuto liberating? What do you imagine Prometheus is doing when the Symphony No. 7 is called by some Beethoven’s best symphony and music changes? When does he succeed in bringing fire to humans? his most cheerfully optimistic. The work as a whole is known for its use of rhythmic devices suggestive of a dance, such as dotted rhythm and repeated rhythmic figures. It begins with a long and profound Symphony No. 5, Movement 4, Allegro introduction, before kicking into kinetically energized music, which The Fifth Symphony of Beethoven is likely his most famous characterizes the entire work and has generated the many allusions composition, and contains one of the most familiar phrases in all of to dance that dominate commentaries on it. The introduction predicts classical music. Beethoven starts this movement with the dark and the harmonic journeys coming in the rest of the Symphony as the menacing tone heard at the beginning of the symphony, then ended main body of the movement foretells its rhythmic obsessions. Its it with an explosive and triumphant celebration. What do you think forceful energy led one critic to think that Beethoven wrote it while Beethoven wanted to share with the audience? What do you think he inebriated (drunk)! Another thought it was proof that Beethoven was wanted the audience to remember? “ripe for the madhouse.”

2 CIVIL RIGHTS: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

VORTEX (FROM THE RIVER SUITE) February 6-9, 2018 Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974) The Cleveland Orchestra African-American composer and bandleader Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was one of the most important Education Concerts for Grades 6-12 figures in the world of jazz. Composer of over 1,000 works, Vinay Parameswaran, conductor he revolutionized the concept of the jazz ensemble by introducing more instruments and expanding the size and Severance Hall scope of the “big band.” Ellington also composed symphonic music, including pieces like “The River” which brought the jazz and classical music genres closer together. Dupré Cortège The Suite from “The River” has seven sections and was originally written as Traditional There is a Balm in Gilead a ballet for the Alvin Ailey dance company. We will hear one section, Vortex, Beethoven Overture to Fidelío on this concert. Ellington combined elements from the European classical Ellington Vortex (from The River Suite) music tradition (form and orchestration) with elements associated with jazz (expanded chord structure, blues inflections, improvisatory-sounding “riffs”, Copland The Promise of Living swing rhythms, and call and response). Percussion and brass instruments are Mendelssohn Finale from Symphony No. 5 (“Reformation”) featured in the high energy, driving rhythms of Vortex. Traditional We Shall Overcome Dvořák Largo from Symphony No. 9, THE PROMISE OF LIVING (“From the New World”) Aaron Copland (1900-1990) Like the Overture to Fidelio, “The Promise of Living” is also Through music and dramatic vignettes, this concert traces the life journey music from an opera – The Tenderland. It tells the story of of Martin Luther King Jr., through major events of the Civil Rights Movement; a girl living on a farm in the American Midwest who falls celebrating his victories, emphasizing his philosophy of non-violence, reflecting in love with a hobo. This music is from the middle of the on his untimely death, and asking what we can do now to honor and fulfill his opera, when the farm family and the hobos come together legacy. The repertoire includes music directly related to the life of Dr. King, for a celebration of the harvest. With words like “peace in as well as music symbolic of peaceful revolution from other periods in history, our own hearts and peace with our neighbor,” the music is demonstrating the timeless nature of the need for social justice and unity. Most about setting aside our differences and looking at what we share in common. importantly, ALL of the music on this concert will allow you to think more deeply about the extraordinary work of an incredible man – how he changed the world, Aaron Copland’s musical style was inspired by the wide open spaces of the and how you can keep his legacy alive today American landscape, and a belief that the “common people” were equal to the wealthy and famous. In this piece, you’ll hear the rich sounds of the strings playing in harmony, building to an emotional climax. Like Martin Luther King, Copland had an “American dream,” and he expressed it through music. CORTÈGE Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) FINALE FROM ‘REFORMATION’ SYMPHONY A cortège is a solemn procession, often referring to a funeral. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) The word was used by many composers to describe music that would accompany such a procession – slow and sad, but moving In the 1500’s in Germany, a man named Martin Luther forward like footsteps. Marcel Dupré, a French organist, wrote protested against practices of the Catholic church that this cortège originally to be music for a play, and later arranged he thought were corrupt and unfair. By writing letters, it for organ and orchestra. publishing his work, and engaging in logical and peaceful conversations, he sparked new religious and political This piece was played on the organ as the prelude to Martin freedom for all of Europe and established the Lutheran Luther King’s funeral service at Ebenezer Baptist Church. It is a chorale tune, music church. His movement was known as the Reformation. that has a simple melody harmonized with moving chords, making it sound like a church hymn. In the concert, this music will create a fitting soundtrack to some of 300 years later, the composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote a symphony to King’s most famous words. celebrate this church revolution. The finale that you will hear uses another chorale tune composed by Martin Luther himself, “A Mighty Fortress is our THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD God.” The music is full of the triumph that comes from working toward a goal Traditional and achieving it, despite the obstacles in the way. In this concert, it represents the courage and determination of BOTH Martin Luthers. This famous African-American spiritual can be heard in a wide range of versions today, but its true origin remains unknown. It was Martin Luther King’s favorite hymn, and the words reflect his spirit: “Sometimes I feel discouraged and think my WE SHALL OVERCOME work’s in vain, but then the Holy Spirit revives my soul again.” Traditional A spiritual usually has a simple, singable melody with verses and a chorus. It can The song “We Shall Overcome” evolved from African-American gospel be sung call-and-response style, with a leader singing the verse and congregation hymns of the early 20th century. It became famous as a protest song in 1945 singing the chorus. The words are inspirational and often describe the promise of when striking tobacco workers in South Carolina sang it on a picket line, heaven, or better times. and soon after it became the unofficial anthem of the American Civil Rights movement. People sang this simple and memorable tune during marches and demonstrations, even when they were being attacked or thrown into prison. It OVERTURE TO FIDELIO gave them strength and solidarity. The song went on to become a symbol for Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) peaceful revolution all over the world. Beethoven’s opera Fidelio is a dramatic tale of rescue that takes place during the French Revolution. It tells the story of LARGO FROM SYMPHONY NO. 9, a political prisoner, Florestan, who is saved by his resourceful wife, Leonore. Leonore is a true hero, risking everything to free (“FROM THE NEW WORLD”) her husband from tyranny by disguising herself as a man and Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) getting a job in the prison. In the end, her bravery gets all of the Antonín Dvořák was a Czech composer who spent inmates released from cruel and illegal imprisonment. Though several years teaching in the United States. He was the story takes place nearly 200 years before Martin Luther King fascinated by the music he heard, particularly Native was alive, it carries the same universal message of standing up against injustice, American chants and African American spirituals. The even if it means going to jail. Largo (slow) movement from his “New World” Symphony The overture is the music played by the orchestra at the beginning of the opera, has a melody that sounds very much like a spiritual – full of and it tells a miniature version of the story. You’ll hear music that sounds fearful longing, with a touch of sadness. (Leonore taking her chances), stormy (the cruelty of the jailers), sad (Florestan Dvořák’s Largo was the final music played in Martin Luther King’s funeral missing his wife), and heroic (the rescue scene). It has all of the action and emotion service. While the music begins in darkness and despair, the beautiful of the whole opera in just 5 minutes! melody eventually takes over the entire orchestra and resonates with hope. 3 FRANZ WELSER-MÖST MUSIC DIRECTOR Kelvin Smith Family Chair

FIRST VIOLINS VIOLAS PICCOLO TROMBONES William Preucil Wesley Collins* Mary Kay Fink Massimo La Rosa* CONCERTMASTER Chaillé H. and Anne M. and Gilbert W. and Blossom-Lee Chair Richard B. Tullis Chair M. Roger Clapp Chair Louise I. Humphrey Chair Jung-Min Amy Lee Lynne Ramsey1 Richard Stout ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Charles M. and OBOES Alexander and Gretchen D. and Janet G. Kimball Chair Marianna C. McAfee Chair Ward Smith Chair Frank Rosenwein* Stanley Konopka 2 Edith S. Taplin Chair Shachar Israel2 Peter Otto FIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Mark Jackobs Corbin Stair Jessica Lee Jean Wall Bennett Chair Jeffrey Rathbun2 BASS TROMBONE ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Arthur Klima Everett D. and Thomas Klaber Clara G. and George P. Richard Waugh Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair Bickford Chair Lisa Boyko Robert Walters Takako Masame EUPHONIUM AND Paul and Lucille Jones Chair Lembi Veskimets BASS TRUMPET The Morgan Sisters Chair ENGLISH HORN Wei-Fang Gu Richard Stout Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Eliesha Nelson Robert Walters Duchesneau Chair Joanna Patterson Zakany Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair TUBA Kim Gomez Patrick Connolly Yasuhito Sugiyama* Elizabeth and Leslie CLARINETS Nathalie C. Spence and Kondorossy Chair CELLOS Nathalie S. Boswell Chair Chul-In Park Afendi Yusuf* Harriet T. and David L. Mark Kosower* Robert Marcellus Chair Simon Chair Louis D. Beaumont Chair TIMPANI 1 Robert Woolfrey Miho Hashizume Richard Weiss Victoire G. and Paul Yancich* Theodore Rautenberg Chair The GAR Foundation Chair Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Chair Otto G. and Charles Bernard2 2 Corinne T. Voss Chair Jeanne Preucil Rose Daniel McKelway 2 Helen Weil Ross Chair Robert R. and Tom Freer Dr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair Bryan Dumm Vilma L. Kohn Chair Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair Alicia Koelz Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair Yann Ghiro Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Tanya Ell PERCUSSION Gilroy Chair Thomas J. and E-FLAT CLARINET Yu Yuan Judith Fay Gruber Chair Marc Damoulakis * Patty and John Collinson Chair Ralph Curry Daniel McKelway Margaret Allen Ireland Chair Stanley L. and Isabel Trautwein Brian Thornton Eloise M. Morgan Chair Donald Miller Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair William P. Blair III Chair Tom Freer Mark Dumm David Alan Harrell BASS CLARINET Thomas Sherwood Gladys B. Goetz Chair Martha Baldwin Yann Ghiro Alexandra Preucil Dane Johansen KEYBOARD Katherine Bormann Paul Kushious BASSOONS INSTRUMENTS Analisé Denise Kukelhan John Clouser* Joela Jones* BASSES Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair Rudolf Serkin Chair Carolyn Gadiel Warner SECOND VIOLINS Maximilian Dimoff * Gareth Thomas Barrick Stees2 Marjory and Marc L. Stephen Rose* Clarence T. Reinberger Chair Swartzbaugh Chair Alfred M. and Kevin Switalski 2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair Clara T. Rankin Chair Scott Haigh1 Jonathan Sherwin Emilio Llinás 2 LIBRARIANS Mary E. and F. Joseph CONTRABASSOON James and Donna Reid Chair Callahan Chair Robert O’Brien 1 Eli Matthews Mark Atherton Jonathan Sherwin Joe and Marlene Toot Chair Patricia M. Kozerefski and Donald Miller Thomas Sperl Richard J. Bogomolny Chair HORNS Henry Peyrebrune Sonja Braaten Molloy Michael Mayhew§ ENDOWED CHAIRS Carolyn Gadiel Warner Charles Barr Memorial Chair CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED Charles Carleton Knight Foundation Chair Elayna Duitman Jesse McCormick Scott Dixon Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair Ioana Missits Robert B. Benyo Chair Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown Derek Zadinsky Jeffrey Zehngut Hans Clebsch and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair Vladimir Deninzon Richard King Sunshine Chair HARP Sae Shiragami Alan DeMattia George Szell Memorial Chair Trina Struble* Scott Weber Alice Chalifoux Chair * Principal TRUMPETS § Associate Principal Kathleen Collins 1 First Assistant Princi pal Beth Woodside FLUTES Michael Sachs* 2 Assistant Principal Robert and Eunice Podis Emma Shook Joshua Smith* Weiskopf Chair Yun-Ting Lee Elizabeth M. and Jack Sutte William C. Treuhaft Chair CONDUCTORS Jiah Chung Chapdelaine Lyle Steelman2 Saeran St. Christopher James P. and Dolores D. Christoph von Dohnányi 2 Marisela Sager Storer Chair MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE Austin B. and Michael Miller Ellen W. Chinn Chair Vinay Parameswaran ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Mary Kay Fink CORNETS Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Michael Sachs* Mather Chair Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair Robert Porco DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES Michael Miller Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

Woodwind Flutes Family 8 players Oboes 4 Instruments Clarinets Good Audience Member Bassoons for Live Orchestra Performance See the Brass Family 4 players DESCRIPTION Sounds 2 Instruments Horns Applauds when conductor crosses the stage and steps onto the podium. This is page 1 of the conductor’s Trumpets Watches for the conductor to signal the orchestra to begin. Listens quietly in seat while orchestra performs. music for Ludwig van Beethoven’s Claps when music stops and conductor turns to face the audience. Symphony No. 5. Since it shows Timpani Listens carefully to enjoy the music. all the musicians’ parts, it is called a “full score.” Percussion Family Violins I MUSICAL This printed page takes only 10 1 player ENJOYMENT seconds in performance and 1 Instrument shows the music for 11 different Violins II instruments! Most lines of music show the part for one or two Violas players, but some instruments— String such as the violins—have many Family Cellos musicians playing the same 35-60 players instrument. This page should be 4 Instruments Basses Check us out online! played by a minimum of around www.clevelandorchestra.com 40 players.

4 Conductor of Cleveland THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Enter Orchestra Education Concerts to Win! Vinay MEMORIES CONTEST Parameswaran, The Cleveland Orchestra is on the look-out Assistant Conductor, for stories from Cleve­land­ers who remember attend­ ing­ Cleveland­ Orchestra Education­ The Cleveland Orchestra Con­certs as chil­dren. If you have par­ents, Here are a few ques­tions you grandparents, aunts, un­cles, cousins, or might want to ask as part of BIRTHPLACE: your interview: Walnut Creek, CA neigh­bors who grew up in the Cleveland area, ask them if they re­mem­ber com­ing • What school did you  at­tend FAMILY: My parents and my to a Cleve­land Or­ches­tra con­cert with their at the time? older sister live in the San school when they were young. • What grade were you in? Francisco Bay Area. Compile your interview find­ings and submit • How did you get to  Sev­er­ance FAVORITE FOOD: My mom’s a short (1-2 pages), type­writ­ten re­port, Hall (school bus, walk­ing, Indian food, specifically her signed by the person you interviewed, to: street­car, RTA)? masala dosa! (seriously, it’s • What did the inside of  The Cleveland Orchestra the best dosa you’ll ever have). Sev­er­ance Hall look like? Edu­ ca­ tion­ Depart­ ment­ FAVORITE MOVIE: Too many choices! Just to name 11001 Euclid Avenue • Who was the conductor? a few: Finding Nemo, Home Alone, A Few Good Men, Cleveland, OH 44106 • Can you recall a particular Modern Times, Up, Forrest Gump. musical selection that you heard? Student authors of selected stories will • Were there any special  FAVORITE BOOK: Again, too many choices! Just to receive 4 tickets to a Cleveland Orchestra guest artists or soloists? name a few: Siddhartha, Being Mortal, 100 Years of Concert and recognition in the next year’s • What else do you re Solitude, Beloved, On The Road. SCORE student newspaper. We look ­mem­ber forward to hear­ing from you! about the ex ­pe­ri­ence? PERFORMERS I ADMIRE: Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, the wonderful musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra.

STUDIED MUSIC AT: I received my undergraduate degree music and political science at Brown EDUCATION CONCERT University, and an Artist Diploma in conducting at The Curtis Institute of Music.

ORCHESTRAS I’VE CONDUCTED: Nashville Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Milwaukee FACTOIDS Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Vermont Symphony. number of mosaic tile chips INSTRUMENTS I HAVE STUDIED: I started playing in the Grand Foyer floor piano when I was four and then began playing 13,239,792 percussion when I was six. number of students who attended MY HOBBIES ARE: Running, Cooking, Exploring new places with my dog Ozzie, being a rabid fan of my 4,300,000 Cleveland Orchestra Concerts since 1918 favorite (Bay Area) sports teams. number of students who attended Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 13,950 Education Concerts last year

number of seats in Severance Hall’s 2,030 Main Concert Hall

average number of school buses per 35 Education Concert

number of Education Concerts that have 1 been cancelled due to bad weather

The whole Cleveland Orchestra goes ‘back to school’ once each year. In recent years, in-school concerts have taken place at John Hay, James Ford Rhodes, John Adams, Cleveland School of the Arts, Memorial School, Mound and Patrick Henry School (all Cleveland public schools), and Saint Ignatius, Saint Joseph Academy, and Shaker Heights High School. 4 5 Unscramble the letters to name the four families of instruments, then unscramble each instrument in the family.

IGRSNTS______OVLIA______SBAS______NIIVLO______AHRP______EOLLC______

SIPCSUOREN______BLMCASY______RTBNEAIMOU______IIPTNAM______SCHMIE______EELASTC______NAPIO______IAEGLTNR______ACRAMSA______NPHLOOEXY______NGOG______ASNRE DRMU______SSTNATCAE______SBAS MURD______

SODDWWION______ANCLTRIE______LUTFE______GSNHEIL RHNO ______ABSOSON______OXOHNPAES______BOOE______NTCOSARBSONOA______COOCPIL______

SARBS______CNEHFR RONH______BTUA______ETTRMUP______MORBTOEN______

6 Send a letter to the editor about your concert experience. Mail your letter to: Education Department The Cleveland Orchestra Severance Hall 11001 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106 Include your name, school and grade 7 AMERICAN GREETINGS Acknowledgments The Score is prepared by the Education & FAMILY Community Department of The Cleveland CONCERT Orchestra. All rights reserved. Photos of The Cleveland Orchestra SERIES by Roger Mastroianni This popular three- concert series, designed The Musical Arts Association, for young people ages operating The Cleveland Orchestra 7 & up, is a perfect introduction André Gremillet, Executive Director to orchestral music. Joan Katz Napoli, Senior Director, Education and Community Programs Sandra A. Jones, Manager, Education and Family Concerts 2017-18 marks the 32nd season of the Cleveland Orchestra, and its first Lauren Generette, Manager, season with Vinay Parameswaran as music director. Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Sarah Lamb, Coordinator During the 2017-18 season, the 100 members of the Cleveland Orches- Education & Community Programs tra Youth Orchestra will present three concerts at Severance Hall on Mollibeth Cox, Manager, Learning Programs December 1, February 25 (with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus) HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! Austin Land, COYO Librarian and Assistant and May 5. OCT 29, 2017, SUNDAY at 3 p.m. The Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra The Cleveland Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra members come from 40 communities across Ohio. Carl Topilow, conductor It is very possible that someone from your area is in the Youth Eric Charnofsky, narrator 2017-18 Education and Community Orchestra. Most of these talented young musicians have been playing An afternoon of deliciously frightening Programs are made possible by: an instrument for at least three years, and some for many more. They musical fun! Delight in the musical magic became Youth Orchestra members by playing an audition for the of Paganini’s The Witches’ Dance, music ENDOWMENT FUNDERS music director and members of The Cleveland Orchestra. from Star Wars, and even more bewitching Hope and Stanley I. Adelstein music! Come dressed in your Halloween Kathleen L. Barber Mr. Roger G. Berk Members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and their best for a costume contest for audience In memory of Anna B. Body members (the orchestra and Severance Hall conductor practice together every weekend at Severance Hall. They Isabelle and Ronald Brown rehearse the same great music as The Cleveland Orchestra, and they will be dressed up, too). Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown get to meet and work with many members of The Cleveland Orchestra Free pre-concert activities begin one hour and Dr. Glenn R. Brown who serve as coaches for the Youth Orchestra. If you are in middle Roberta R. Calderwood before concert time. Alice H. Cull Memorial school or high school and play an orchestral instrument, please consider Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Emrick, Jr. auditioning. The Youth Orchestra holds auditions every spring – usually Charles and Marguerite C. Galanie in May. For Youth Orchestra information, please call (216) 231-7352 or Mr. David J. Golden visit www.clevelandorchestrayouthorchestra.com. The George Gund Foundation The Hershey Foundation Dorothy Humel Hovorka Mr. James J. Hummer Frank and Margaret Hyncik CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Junior Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation CHILDREN’S CHORUS Alfred M. Lerner In-School Performance Fund ANN USHER • DIRECTOR Linda and Saul Ludwig Machaskee Fund for Community Programming The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s (COCC) and Preparatory Choruses Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Meisel (COCPC) help students develop their leadership skills through music Christine Gitlin Miles, in honor of Jahja Ling which help strengthen their BEETHOVEN LIVES UPSTAIRS Mr. and Mrs. David T. Morganthaler Morley Fund for Pre-School Education future musical experiences. FEBRUARY 11, 2018, SUNDAY at 3 p.m. The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund Founded in 1967, the Cleve- The Cleveland Orchestra Pysht Fund land Orchestra Children’s Cho- Vinay Parameswaran, conductor The Max Ratner Education Fund, given by rus is composed of students With special guests Classical Kids Live! the Ratner, Miller, and Shafran Families in grades 6-9 and performs and Forest City Enterprises, Inc. An eccentric boarder arrives, and turns the The William N. Skirball Endowment regularly with The Cleveland life of ten-year-old Christoph upside down! Anonymous, in memory of Georg Solti Orchestra and Cleveland Or- But his feelings for this “Mr. Beethoven” Jules and Ruth Vinney Cleveland Orchestra chestra Chorus throughout change from anger to admiration as hecomes Youth Orchestra Touring Fund their subscription and holiday to understand the beauty of his music – and season. The Preparatory Cho- the torment of his deafness. The whole fam- PROGRAM FUNDERS rus, led by Suzanne Walters, ily will love this touching, fun concert – it’s The Abington Foundation American greetings Corporation comprises students in grades a perfect introduction to the Orchestra fea- turing more than 20 of this universally loved Blossom Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra 5-8 and collaborates with the Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation composer’s most famous works. Children’s Chorus in two concerts each season. Students are chosen Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Foundation through auditions held in the spring. For information please call the Conway Family Foundation SCHEHERAZADE! Cuyahoga County Residents through Cuyahoga Chorus Office at(216) 231-7374, email [email protected], Arts and Culture or visit cocc.cochorus.com. MARCH 11, 2018 Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation SUNDAY at 3 p.m. The Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation The Cleveland Orchestra Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra Vinay Parameswaran, (formerly Women’s Committee conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra) With special guests The Giant Eagle Foundation Enchantment Theatre KeyBank Company The Laub Foundation The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus (COYC) was founded in 1991 to Join Scheherazade, our Macy’s help raise awareness of choral music-making in the schools of north- Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation storyteller heroine, and Martha Holden Jennings Foundation east Ohio and to encourage her cast of fabulous The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation more students to continue characters as they sail on Sinbad’s ship to The Nord Family Foundation their choral activities through exotic lands, battle a giant dragon with the Nordson Corporation Foundation college and into adulthood. Kalandar Prince, and discover Aladdin’s Ohio Arts Council Ohio Savings Bank, A Division of New York Like their colleagues in the lamp and the surprises hidden inside. The concert also includes Glinka’s Ruslan and Community Bank Youth Orchestra, they are PNC Bank Lyudmila Overture and Rimsky-Korsakov’s in grades 9-12, from over 30 Harold C. Schott Foundation Flight of the Bumblebee! schools and communities, The Reinberger Foundation and are selected by com- Albert G. and Olive H. Schlink Foundation Free pre-concert activities begin The Sherwin-Williams Company petitive auditions. The COYC Thomas H. White Foundation has the opportunity to per- one hour before concert time. The Edward and Ruth Wilkof Foundation form concerts in the greater Order tickets online at Cleveland community as well clevelandorchestra.com, as on stage at Severance Hall alongside their colleagues in the Cleve- land Orchestra Youth Orchestra. For information please call the Chorus or call 216-231-1111, Office at(216) 231-7374, email [email protected], or or 800-686-1141. visit coyc.cochorus.com. Family Series Concerts are supported as of August 2017 by The Giant Eagle Foundation