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. Advancing the Art and Profession THE 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR CONDUCTORS JANUARY 5 - 8, 2006 Great Conductor Retrospective: Frederick Fennell The Roosevelt Hotel Madison Ave and East 45th Street New York, NY 10017 . Advancing the Art and Profession 2006 ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOR CONDUCTORS JANUARY 5-8 THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL, NEW YORK THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 9:00 - 9:30am Registration at Avery Fisher Hall 9:45 - 12:30pm New York Philharmonic - Open Rehearsal Lorin Maazel, Conductor; James Ehnes, Violin Wagner: The Flying Dutchman Overture; Walton: Violin Concerto; Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 10:30am Ongoing Registration at the Roosevelt Hotel 1:30pm Tours: New York Philharmonic Archives, Met Opera Orchestra Library. 3:30 - 4:30pm Session 1: “Leonard Bernstein: The Anti-Interpretational, Hyper-Rational and Conceptual in Mahler 9, Beethoven 5 and Sibelius 1” Charles Bornstein New York Philharmonic Board Room, 132 W. 65th Street, 6th Floor 5:00 - 5:10pm Opening Remarks: Tonu Kalam, President 5:10 - 6:40pm Session 2: “Historical Performance and Bowing Practice with Modern Instruments” Nancy Wilson 6:50 - 7:50pm New Music Project I - David Bowden, NMP Coordinator 8:00 - 10:00pm Session 3: “The Education of Conductors” Kristian Alexander, Moderator; Judith Clurman, Harold Farberman, Michael Jinbo, Jonathan Sternberg, Kate Tamarkin FRIDAY, JANUARY 6 8:30am Registration/Visit the Exhibits 8:45am Announcements 8:50 - 9:50am New Music Project II: Crossover Repertoire - 2 - 10:00 - 11:30am Session 4: “Conducting the Inner World of Mahler” Gilbert Kaplan 11:30am Lunch on your own/Visit the Exhibits 12:45 - 2:00pm Session 5: “Jascha Horenstein’s Recorded Legacy” Joel Lazar 2:10 - 3:20pm Session 6: “Choral Masterworks: Mozart Requiem” David Hayes 3:30 - 4:50pm Session 7: “Making Connections with Your Community” Bruce Adolphe 5:00 - 6:00pm Session 8: “New York Orchestral Musicians” Per Brevig, Jerry Grossman, Craig Mumm 6:00 - 6:45pm Annual General Membership Meeting 6:45 - 8:00pm Reception/Silent Auction - sponsored by TBA SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 8:30am Registration/Visit the Exhibits 8:45am Announcements 9:00 - 10:30am Breakfast, Guest Speaker: Lukas Foss sponsored by TBA 10:30 - 11:30am New Music Project III 11:40 - 12:40pm Session 9: “Orchestra Librarian Perspective” Lawrence Tarlow 12:40pm Lunch on your own/Visit the Exhibits 1:30 - 3:00pm Session 10: Open Forum with David Zinman Tonu Kalam, Moderator 3:10 - 5:00pm Session 11: “The Plight of the Orchestra” Robert Sherman, Moderator; Per Brevig, Jonathan Sternberg, Anthony Tommasini 5:10 - 6:00pm Round Table Discussions 6:00pm Dinner on your own 8:00pm Performance: University of North Carolina Wind Ensemble Michael Votta, Jr., Conductor; Donald Hunsberger, Guest Conductor - 3 - The UNC Wind Ensemble Michael Votta, Jr., conductor Donald Hunsberger, guest conductor; Thomas Otten, piano Program Pacific Fanfare (1994) Frank Ticheli Elegy for a Young American (1967) Ronald Lo Presti Donald Hunsberger, conductor Music for Prague 1968 (1968) Karel Husa I Introduction and Fanfare II Aria III Interlude IV Toccata and Chorale - Intermission - First Suite in Eb for Military Band, Op. 28, No. 1 (1909) Gustav Holst I Chaconne Ed. Matthews II Intermezzo III March Donald Hunsberger, conductor Rhapsody in Blue (1924) George Gershwin Arr. Grofé/Hunsberger “Apollo Unleashed” from Symphony No. 2 (2003) Frank Ticheli SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 8:30am Registration/Visit the Exhibits 8:45am Announcements 9:00–10:15am Session 12: “John Corigliano Presents His Symphony No. 3” Michael Shapiro, Moderator 10:25–10:40am Awards Presentation Theodore Thomas Award Winner: David Zinman 10:45–12:45pm Great Conductor Retrospective: Frederick Fennell Donald Hunsberger, Moderator; Sandra Dackow, Coordinator John Beck, Kanamori Keiji, Toru Miura, Robert Simon, Thomas Slattery University of North Carolina Wind Ensemble - Michael Votta, Jr., Cond. 12:45 - 1:00pm Closing Remarks: President Kalam 1:15 - 3:30pm Board of Directors Meeting - 4 - EVENING ACTIVITIES IN NEW YORK Thursday, January 5, 2006 New York Philharmonic - Lorin Maazel, conductor www.newyorkphilharmonic.com - (212) 875-5656 Metropolitan Opera - Lucia di Lammermoor www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/ - (212) 362-6000 New York City Ballet www.nycballet.com - (212) 870-5570 Friday, January 6, 2006 New York Philharmonic - Lorin Maazel, conductor www.newyorkphilharmonic.com - (212) 875-5656 Metropolitan Opera - Wozzeck www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/ - (212) 362-6000 New York City Ballet - Swan Lake www.nycballet.com - (212) 870-5570 New York Knicks vs. Washington Wizards - Madison Square Garden www.nba.com/knicks/ - (212) 465-JUMP Saturday, January 7, 2006 New York Philharmonic - Lorin Maazel, conductor www.newyorkphilharmonic.com - (212) 875-5656 Metropolitan Opera - L'elisir d'amore, afternoon; Die Fledermaus, evening www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/ - (212) 362-6000 New York City Ballet - Swan Lake www.nycballet.com - (212) 870-5570 ***** SESSION LOCATIONS All on-site sessions will be held in the The Grand Ballroom, unless otherwise indicated. THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. - 5 - Welcome to the Conductors Guild Annual Conference! We are pleased to return to New York every three years as part of our rotation of conference sites. The vast artistic resources of this great city are always a natural draw for our constituency and I know that every one of you will find something to excite and inspire you during your stay here. It is a special privilege to devote our annual Great Conductor Retrospective this year to the late Frederick Fennell, who was not only a superb conductor, educator and wonderful human being, but also a great friend and supporter of the Guild and frequent attendee of past conferences. Dr. Fennell’s memory is being honored this weekend by live performances by the University of North Carolina Wind Ensemble, under the direction of CG Board member Michael Votta, Jr. I want to express my sincere thanks to Earl Groner, Vice-President of the Guild and Conference Committee Chair; Stephen Czarkowski, Conference Coordinator; Sandra Dackow, Coordinator of the Fennell Retrospective; and David Bowden, New Music Project Coordinator, for their tireless efforts to assemble the best possible lineup of events for you. The artistic richness of our profession is well represented by the sessions, pre- senters and panelists you see profiled in this program book. Special thanks are extended to our Executive Director, R. Kevin Paul, for his devotion and expertise in handling the everyday logistics of Guild business. Kevin will be leaving his position at the end of June and we will miss him greatly. I also want to thank our exhibitors for their interest in our work and urge you all to visit their displays and get to know some of the wonderful people in the business side of our profession. I am happy to announce that plans are developing well for the 2007 Annual Conference to be held in Toronto next January. This major North American city has a wealth of musi- cal opportunities and will provide new prospects to expand our organizational base. I hope to meet as many of you as possible this weekend. Please feel free to approach me with any questions or concerns you might have regarding the Conference or the Guild in general. Our organization exists to serve you and our profession, and I will be happy to do my best to fulfill that mission. Enjoy the weekend! Tonu Kalam President - 6 - A composer, author, educator and performer, BRUCE ADOLPHE is the Artistic and Education Advisor for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founding creative director of PollyRhythm Productions, and the comic keyboard quiz-master of NPR’s weekly radio pro- gram Piano Puzzlers. As a composer, Adolphe has been written works for many of the world’s most renowned artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Sylvia McNair, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Caramoor Festival, St. Luke’s Orchestra, the New York Chamber Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Brentano String Quartet, the Miami Quartet, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and many others. His many compositions include four operas and several theater pieces, all of which have been produced throughout the United States. He has been composer-in-residence at many festivals and institutions, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel Fire, Bravo! Colorado, the Grand Canyon Festival, the Moab Festival, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., the Perlman Music Program, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Virginia, the O.K. Mozart Festival and SummerFest La Jolla. Adolphe served as the Distinguished Composer- in-Residence at the Mannes College of Music for the 2003-04 term. Co-hosted with Fred Child, NPR’s weekly Piano Puzzlers show features Adolphe at the piano, playing folk tunes and popular songs in the styles of famous Classical com- posers for call-in contestants. In a style that is a cross between Car Talk and Wil Shortz’s Puzzles, Bruce Adolphe and Fred Child informally talk about the musical issues raised by Adolphe’s comic compositions. The show’s popularity during the last year has led to its inclusion in the listening options for Delta Airlines. Now in its third year, Piano Puzzlers is heard in over 200 cities. Formerly on the faculties of the Juilliard School and New York University and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale, Adolphe has been the lecturer of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1992, and has been featured in nationally broadcast Live from Lincoln Center television programs. In December, 2003, Adolphe discussed and illustrated aspects of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos from the harpsichord in a live national television broad- cast of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s 35th anniversary concert from Tully Hall.