EASTMAN • THE ATRE 2018-2019 SEASON EXPERIENCE EASTMAN EXCELLENCE KILBOURN EASTMAN FERNANDO BARBARA B. SMITH CONCERT RANLET LAIRES PIANO WORLD MUSIC SERIES SERIES SERIES SERIES MARCH 2019 – APRIL 2019 insidewhat’s Welcome From the Director | 5 Ying Quartet with PUSH Physical Theatre | 28 The Historian’s Corner | 8 Roby Lakatos Ensemble | 32 Beatrice Rana | 10 Ying Quartet | 36 Joshua Roman | 13 Joshua Bell & David Zinman | 39 Disney in Concert: Afro-Cuban All Stars | 44 A Silly Symphony Celebration | 17 Gamelan Lila Muni & Elias String Quartet | 25 Gamelan Sanjiwani | 48 CONTACT US: Location: Eastman School of Music – ESM 101 EASTMAN THEATRE BOX OFFICE Phone: (585) 274-1109 Mailing Address E-mail: [email protected] Eastman School of Music Concert Office 26 Gibbs Street Mike Stefiuk, Director of Concert Operations Rochester, NY 14604 Julia Ng, Assistant Director of Concert Operations Eastman Theatre Box Office Greg Machin, Ticketing and Box Office Manager 433 East Main Street Joseph Broadus, Box Office Supervisor Rochester, NY 14604 Christine Benincasa, Secretary Ron Stackman, Director of Stage Operations, Phone Eastman Theatre Eastman Theatre Box Office: (585) 274-3000 Jules Corcimiglia, Assistant Director of Stage Lost & Found: (585) 274-3000 Operations (Kodak Hall) Eastman Concert Office: (585) 274-1109 Daniel Mason, Assistant Director of Stage Hall Rentals: (585) 274-1109 Operations (Kilbourn Hall) Michael Dziakonas, Assistant Director of Stage Operations (Hatch Recital Hall) ADVERTISING This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, Onstage Publications 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of Onstage Publications, Inc. e-mail: [email protected] Contents © 2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. www.onstagepublications.com EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 3 Did You Know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are: • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance • 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 4 welcome from the director he phrase Something for everyone may be a Tcliché, but it’s an accurate description of our concert offerings at Eastman this winter and spring. It’s a list of amazing breadth, starting with our Eastman Presents series and continuing through our chamber music, world music, and piano performance series. Some of our guests have appeared in Rochester many times, such as the esteemed conductor, David Zinman, whom many of you will remember as the longtime Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In April, Maestro Zinman will lead our Philharmonia in a not-to-be-missed concert of German Romantic music with superstar violinist Joshua Bell. Our other concert series offer such outstanding musicians as pianist Beatrice Rana, who had a spectacular Rochester debut last fall, now appearing in a solo recital; and the “dream team” of the Afro-Cuban All-Stars, made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club documentary and album, who bring together all the different styles of Cuban music in a grand mix. We have also added a joint appearance that will combine the music of Eastman’s Ying Quartet with the amazing stage pictures of PUSH Physical Theatre – two performances of this “creative collision” are not to be missed! The next few months truly offer something for every musical taste, as well as plenty of opportunities to expand your musical horizons, with the help of some of the world’s great musicians. Please join us! Mike Stefiuk Director of Concert Activities PS – Details of the 2019/2020 Eastman Performance Series will soon be announced! If you haven’t done so already, please consider joining our mailing list to receive the exciting full-season line up! Sign up by visiting the Hospitality Table at any performance. EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 5 the historian’s corner Kilbourn Hall By Vincent Lenti ilbourn Hall was named in honor of George KEastman’s mother, Maria Kilbourn Eastman. It is the principal recital hall for the Eastman School of Music. Designed in an Italian Renaissance style, it is widely regarded as being one of the most beautiful and most acoustically perfect recital halls to be found anywhere in the world. It is not an infrequent occurrence when a guest artist will comment on the hall’s exquisite beauty. Although renovated twice, the first time in the mid-1970s and more recently in 2016, the hall retains much of its original look. Improved house lighting, new seats, and additional handrails may be the most noticeable changes within the hall itself. The change that perhaps most altered the visual appearance of Kilbourn Hall occurred at the time of the first renovation. Tapestries that covered the stone facing on graduating class in 1922, there being only two either side of the stage were removed and found graduating seniors that year. Many years later to be in such poor condition that they could she made a most generous gift to her alma not be cleaned and reinstalled. The stone walls mater, and the second floor corridor of the school are now bare. is now named in her honor and in recognition of her generosity. Ruth Northrop Tibbs, Florence Kilbourn has been the location of many thousands Alexander Schoenegge, and George MacNabb of recitals, concerts, and other events since all subsequently joined the school's faculty. it was formally dedicated on March 4, 1922. Tibbs taught as a member of the theory Performers have included students, members department from 1924 to 1952. Schoenegge and of the faculty, and visiting artists. Operas have MacNabb both taught piano, the former from been performed on the stage. Symposia and 1924 to 1938 and the latter from 1922 to 1960. lectures have been given there as well. The three programs given here as illustrations of the The second program is from a faculty recital hall’s rich and varied history include a student during the summer of 1928. The performer was recital from March 14, 1922, only ten days organist Harold Gleason. Gleason had served after the dedication of the hall. There were five as George Eastman’s personal organist prior performers on the recital, all piano students to the opening of the Eastman School of Music of Raymond Wilson. Roslyn Weisberg Cominsky in 1921. He then was the founder of the organ was a member of the Eastman School’s first department at the school and was additionally EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 8 the historian’s corner responsible for the selection and design of the history have been such diverse musicians as concert organs installed in the Eastman Theatre guitarist Andres Segovia, pianist Alfred Cortot, and in Kilbourn Hall, as well as the teaching organist Louis Vierne, the Budapest String organs and practice organs installed on the Quartet, jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, and the school’s fourth floor. sitarist Ravi Shankar. During the current 2018- 19 season, Kilbourn serves as the location for The third program is from a recital given by many student recitals, faculty recitals, and other Walter Gieseking in 1937. At the time of his school presentations, in addition to an exciting Rochester recital Gieseking was widely regarded Kilbourn Concert Series, the Fernando Laires as one of the greatest living pianists. Among Piano Series, the Eastman-Ranlet Series, and others appearing in Kilbourn Hall during its long the Barbara B. Smith World Music Series. EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 9 Fernando Laires Piano Series Friday, March 1, 2019 Kilbourn Hall 7:30 pm Beatrice Rana Études, Op. 25 Frédéric Chopin Aeolian Harp (1810-1849) The Bees The Horseman Paganini Wrong Note Thirds Cello Sixths Butterfly Octave Winter Wind Ocean INTERMISSION Miroirs Maurice Ravel Noctuelles (Moths) (1875-1937) Oiseaux tristes (Sad Birds) Une barque sur l’océan (A Boat on the Ocean) Alborada del gracioso (The Jester’s Aubade) La valleé des cloches (The Valley of Bells) L’oiseau de feu (The Firebird) (trans. 1928) Igor Stravinsky Danse infernale du roi Kastcheï (1882-1971) (Infernal Dance of the King of Katscheï) trans. Guido Agosti Berceuse (Lullaby) Finale Management for Beatrice Rana: Primo Artists, New York, NY EASTMAN PERFORMANCE SERIES 10 guest artist Ms. Rana performs at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals including Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Lucerne’s KKL, Cologne Philharmonie, Munich’s Philharmonie, Prinzregententheater and Herkulessaal, Frankfurt’s Alte Oper, Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Ferrara Musica, Verbier Festival, Klavier Festival Ruhr, Lugano’s LAC, La Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Montpellier Radio-France Festival, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Bucharest Enescu Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, San Francisco Performances, Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall and Hollywood Bowl, and Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center. BEATRICE RANA She collaborates with conductors of the t only 25 years old, Gramophone’s 2017 highest level such as Riccardo Chailly, Antonio A“Young Artist of the Year” Beatrice Rana Pappano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Fabio Luisi, has shaken the international classical music Yuri Temirkanov, Gianandrea Noseda, Emmanuel world already and aroused admiration and Krivine, James Conlon, Jun Märkl, Trevor Pinnock, interest from concert presenters, conductors, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Lahav Shani, Andrés critics and audiences in many countries.