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Orchestra Warm-Up Check-List SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015 t 1:30PM, the Orchestra musicians will come onto STRINGS = red or pink A the stage, one by one, to warm-up and get ready for WOODWINDS = green their concert. You can identify which “family,” or group BRASS = blue of instruments, they are in by the color of their shirt. PERCUSSION = orange HARP AND KEYBOARDS = light blue Check the box when you see… The New York Philharmonic is dressed by UNIQLO. A woodwind player setting their reeds (oboes, clarinets, bassoons). The reed is a strip of cane that vibrates and makes a reed instrument sound. Musicians soak their reeds in water, or with the saliva in their mouths, before putting them on their instruments. Welcome to the Young People’s Concerts ®! A percussionist laying out their mallets and equipment. There can be many percussion instruments in a concert — sometimes a single percussionist plays several instruments in a single piece! Mallets and hand percussion must be arranged and organized carefully. Ever since different kinds of instruments began playing together, the orchestra has been A librarian putting folders of music on players’ music stands. The librarian is responsible for marking all the music, keeping it absorbing influences from all over the world. Composers have adapted exotic music from safe, and making sure everyone has the parts and scores they need to prepare for and play concerts. At the Philharmonic, the librarian also gives faraway lands to spice up classic forms, and those fresh ideas have become part of the the Music Director his baton backstage just before the concert begins. orchestral sound. Today, we find out what happens when authentic instruments from other The concertmaster coming onto stage. The concertmaster leads the first violin section, plays solos when the music requires it, and cultures join with the symphony orchestra. The versatile musicians of the Silk Road Ensemble extend the leads the orchestra in tuning. tradition of cross-fertilization among cultures, inspired by ancient trading routes across Europe and Asia. The oboe giving the “A” for the orchestra to tune. The orchestra tunes to an “A” because every string instrument has an “A” string. Orchestra Transformed! It’s thought that the oboe gives the pitch because it has a pure sound making it easy to hear. Get ready for where we combine different sound worlds, different instruments, and different traditions to create a whole new orchestral sound! Orchestra Transformed! THE PROGRAM WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Make your way down, transforming the word in each line using the clues and hints to guide you. Overture from The Abduction from the Seraglio COURTNEY LEWIS conductor CRISTINA PATO / WU TONG Fanfare for Gaita, Suona, and Brass SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE What Silk Road Ensemble instrument do you get in the end? TABLA KOJIRO UMEZAKI at ease, fairly, eclipse THEODORE WIPRUD host ALEXANDER BORODIN Selections from Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor KINAN AZMEH clarinet DRUM SAPO PERAPASKERO ( arr. Golijov/Ljova ) Turceasca JOSEPH GRAMLEY percussion 1. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (What you do to the strings of a guitar. Hint: replace first letter with 2 consonants ) SUONA OSVALDO GOLIJOV Selections from Rose of the Winds WU MAN pipa 2. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (A small, narrow river. Hint: replace the vowel with 2 vowels. ) 3. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (Something created when water boils . Hint: delete a consonant.) 4. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (To rob. Hint: change a consonant. ) he ancient Silk Road is a series of trade routes that people began traveling over 2,500 years ago. The route served 5. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (Bread that’s a week old is _____. Hint: change around the last 3 letters. ) as a bridge between many different cultures: from Japan and China in the East, to the Mediterranean in the West, PIPA T 6. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (Where horses live. Hint: add a consonant. ) with stops in Persia, India, and Arabia. Along the route, people exchanged goods, ideas, innovations, languages, and music 7. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (Goes with chairs. Hint: delete a consonant. ) SHENG traditions. Even though the Silk Road is thousands of years old, we can still learn valuable lessons from it today about 8 ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ DRUM TRANSFORMED! (Hint: change a vowel. ) exploration, sharing, and working together to create new innovations. HORN CELLO 1. ____ ____ ____ ____ (Another word for ‘ripped.’ 1. ____ ____ ____ ____ (A type of phone. Hint: delete a vowel.) Hint: replace a consonant. ) 2. ____ ____ ____ ____ (Something you do with a phone. Hint: change a vowel.) 2. ____ ____ ____ (2,000 pounds. Hint: delete a consonant. ) 3. ____ ____ ____ (A type of pet. Hint: delete the last letter and change a 3. ____ ____ ____ (A boy in relation to his parents. consonant. ) Hint: replace a consonant. ) 4. ____ ____ ____ (Something you do to a pet. Hint: change a consonant .) 4. ____ ____ ____ (A star at the center of the 5. ____ ____ ____ (Something you find inside a piece of fruit. Hint: change solar system. Hint: replace a vowel. ) a vowel.) 5. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (A bathhouse with steam. Hint: add two a’s. ) 6. ____ ____ ____ ____ (A type of bread you eat with hummus. Hint: add a letter .) 6. ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ HORN TRANSFORMED! (Hint: 7. ____ ____ ____ ____ CELLO TRANSFORMED! (Hint: change a consonant. ) change the two middle vowels. ) MetLife Foundation is the Lead Corporate Underwriter for the New York Philharmonic's Education Programs. Additional support by The Theodore H. Barth Foundation. About The Artists Courtney Lewis, 29, is the New York Philharmonic’s Mozart Silk Road new Assistant Conductor. In this capacity, he assists Music Director Alan Gilbert and all guest conductors, and leads Ensemble Young People’s Concerts and the Young People’s Concerts for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) composed such delightful music, filled with Schools. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Courtney has conducted graceful melodies and profound emotion, that he has remained one of the most popular Cellist Yo-Yo Ma established the Silk Road Ensemble to explore the richness his way across the United States over the past six years: he was associate composers for over two hundred years. A rare musical genius, he developed whole pieces in his and diversity of our world's musical cultures, and the nonprofit organization conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles mind and wrote them down in a single draft. He studied composition, violin, piano, and organ with Silkroad to encourage cross-cultural understanding and promote deep learning Philharmonic, and has appeared with the St. Louis Symphony and Atlanta and his father from the age of 3 and spent much of his youth touring Europe, amazing nobles and and innovation through the arts. Under Mr. Ma's artistic direction, Ensemble National symphony orchestras, among others. He studied composition and clarinet at the University of Cambridge and conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. ambassadors with his accomplished violin playing and compositions. Everywhere Mozart traveled, performers and composers come from more than 20 countries and play a variety he learned about new styles that he could incorporate into his own music. Mozart died at the of instruments from around the world. Through performances and educational Theodore Wiprud leads educational activities at the New York Philharmonic as Vice President, Education, The Sue tragically early age of 35, but he left us over 600 works in every form. programs, these storytelling musicians co-create art, performances, and ideas that celebrate the meeting of the foreign and the familiar. B. Mercy Chair. The Philharmonic’s education programs Mozart’s opera The Abduction from the Seraglio takes place at the seaside palace of the include the historic Young People’s Concerts, Very Young Sultan, or ruler of Turkey. While Mozart was composing this work in Austria in 1781, the empires Fanfare for Gaita, Suona, and Brass , by Cristina Pato and Wu Tong, is a People’s Concerts, Very Young Composers, and many other programs for school children, aspiring orchestral performers, and adults. of Austria and Turkey (known as the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires) had already been entangled musical handshake across cultures and traditions. Western brass instruments join in a piece originally written as an open call between gaita (Galician bagpipes) Ted has also created innovative education programs for other ensembles, such as in battles and wars for hundreds of years. Austrians became familiar with bands from the Turkish the Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and Orchestra of St. military, or Janissaries, and found their flashy sounds and pageantry exotic, unique, and and suona (Chinese horn), launching a conversation among instruments that share a powerful sound, even though they come from opposite sides of the Luke’s. He has worked as a teaching artist and resident composer in a number of appealing. Mozart adopted the foreign sounds of the cymbals, bass drum, triangle, New York City schools. Ted’s Violin Concerto ( Katrina ) was recently released on world. By contrast, at ease, fairly, eclipse , by Kojiro Umezaki, features and piccolo: all instruments found in the Janissary ORAL TRADITION Champs Hill Records. the soft, meditative sounds of the pipa (Chinese lute) and shakuhachi bands that were hardly ever heard in an Many Silk Road cultures Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh trained in his native Damascus (Japanese bamboo flute). Turceasca , by Sapo Perapaskero, orchestra in Mozart’s day. The Overture JANISSARIES passed down their music and is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the City offers an interpretation of the music of the Roma people, who from The Abduction from the Seraglio The elite military corps traditions from generation to University of New York.