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Fall 2010 Season « 132nd Annual Season ^•'•'^^^^'•f-----^'-^^'^^^^^^^^^^!^^^'^ General Information Event Program Book Wednesday, October 27 through Saturday, November 6, 2010 On-site ticket offices at performance venues open 90 minutes before each performance. Venice Baroque Orchestra 5 Children of all ages are welcome at Robert McDuffie, violin UMS Family and Youth Performances. Wednesday, October 27, 8:00 pm Children under the age of 3 will not be Hill Auditorium admitted to regular, full length UMS performances. All children must be able to sit quietly in their own seats Django Reinhardt's 100th Birthday Celebratioh 11 without disturbing other patrons. The Hot Club of San Francisco ; Children unable to do so, along with The Hot Club of Detroit be the adult accompanying them, will • asked by an usher to leave the audito Friday, October 29, 8:00 pm • ' rium. Please use discretion in choosing Michigan Theater , .-...-. to bring a child. The Tallis Scholars - 13 Remember, everyone must have a ;- " ticket, regardless of age. Thursday, November 4, 8:00 pm St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church While in the Auditorium Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan 17 Friday, November 5, 8:00 pm Starting Time Every attempt is made to begin concerts on time. Latecomers Hill Auditorium are asked to wait in the lobby until seated by ushers at a predetermined Assi El Helani ; 19 time in the program. Doris Farhat and Leilena Cameras and recording equipment Saturday, November 6, 8:00 pm are prohibited in the auditorium. Hill Auditorium If you have a question, ask your usher. They are here to help. Please turn off your cellular phones and other digital devices so that everyone may enjoy this UMS event disturbance- free. In the interests of saving both dollars and the environment, please either retain this program book and return with it when you attend other UMS performances included in this edition or return it to your usher when leaving the venue. 30 I Baby Loves Salsa Family Performance Fall 2010 30 ; NT Live: FELA! \ February September 9- 1 i The Cleveland Orchestra with i Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Oct3 Susurrus 2 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with 25 Rosanne Cash I Wynton Marsalis La Capella Reial 30 de Catalunya with 4 i New Century Chamber Orchestra with Hesperion XXI and : Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin Tembembe Ensamble Continue 10 i Blues at the Crossroads: The Robert i Johnson Centennial Concert i October 11 ; Rafat Blechacz, piano 7-9 ! Paul Taylor Dance Company 12 ; Vijay lyer Trio and Rudresh Mahanthappa's 9 i Paul Taylor Dance Company ; Apex ! Family Performance 13 i Concertante with Rafat Blechacz, piano 10 | Mariinsky Orchestra with 18-19 ; Merce Cunningham Dance Company: i Denis Matsuev, piano : The Legacy Tour 14 I Takacs Quartet: Schubert Concert 1 20 i Takacs Quartet: Schubert Concert 2 21 \ Jerusalem Quartet 20 ; NT Live: King Lear 23-24; Sankai Juku: Hibiki: Resonance from 23 \ Kodo i Far Away 27 \ Venice Baroque Orchestra with i March i Robert McDuffie, violin 9 ! Scharoun Ensemble Berlin 29 i Django Reinhardt's 100th Birthday 10-13 i Druid and Atlantic Theater Company: i Celebration: The Hot Club of San ; Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of ! Francisco and The Hot Club of Detroit I Inishmaan 31 i NT Live: A Disappearing Number 19 i Detroit Symphony Orchestra with the i UMS Choral Union: \ November ! Mahler's Symphony No. 8 2 i ONCE. MORE.: ONCE THEN 24 i Bach Collegium Japan: 4 ; ONCE. MORE.: ONCE NOW i Bach's Mass in b minor 4 | The Tallis Scholars 30- ; 5 I Mariachi Vargas deTecalitlan Apr3 Propeller: Shakespeare's Richard III and 6 ; Assi El Helani The Comedy of Errors 10 i Murray Perahia, piano 18-20 i Stew & The Negro Problem ; April 2 ! St. Petersburg Philharmonic with i December ; Nikolai Lugansky, piano 3 i Carolina Chocolate Drops 6 i NT Live: Frankenstein 4-5 ; Handel's Messiah 7 i Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Pineiro : de Cuba 8 i Takacs Quartet: Schubert Concert 3 9 i Tetzlaff Quartet inter 2011 16 i Tony Alien's Afrobeat Tour 23 ; Liebeslieder Waltzes (Songs and \ January | Waltzes of Love) 2 : NT Live: Hamlet 14-15 ; Laurie Andersen's Delusion i May 16 : Renee Fleming, soprano 14 ! Breakin' Curfew 21-22; Grupo Corpo 23 : Joanne Shenandoah July 27 i Sequentia 17 : NT Live: The Cherry Orchard .' Educational and Community Events Through Saturday, November 6, 2010 All UMS educational activities are free, open to the public, and take place in Ann Arbor unless otherwise noted. For complete details and updates, please visit www.ums.org or contact the UMS Education Department at 734.615.4077 or [email protected]. ^ Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan Neutral Zone Performance Exchange Wednesday, Novembers, 7:00pm Neutral Zone, 310 E. Washington Street Two award-winning youth Mariachi vocalists and a member of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan will work with and play for a group of teens from the Neutral Zone. In addition to sharing their musical traditions with local youth and exposing them to new cultural intersections, select area teens will perform their own works for those in attendance. visit www.ums.org for more information 0 UMS would like to thank the following donors for their support of tonight's performance: Jane and Edward Schulak Sesi Lincoln Mercury Volvo Mazda & Ami ROSenthal'S dream is to ensure that live arts performances for K-12 students will continue at UMS for generations to come. Prue and Ami Rosenthal believe it is vital for You can make a gift to preserve for future children to have the opportunity to experience generations the part of UMS that is most live performances. To back up that belief, they important to you. created an endowment fund to support the annual UMS Youth Performance Series, where Contact Marnie Reid at 734-647-1178 or more than 25,000 area children see live perfor [email protected] to start a conversation mances by great artists from around the world. about a planned or endowed gift to UMS. Many of their friends and family members also University of Michigan investment professionals made donations to establish the Fund. They now are available to work with you and have a provision in their will to ensure their your attorney on the charitable legacy, that live performances will always be giving plan that is right for you. available to schoolchildren into the future. urns presents Venice Baroque Orchestra Robert McDuffie, Violin and Leader Program Wednesday Evening, October 27, 2010 at 8:00 Hill Auditorium • Ann Arbor Antonio Vivaldi Le quattro stagioni "The Four Seasons": Four Violin Concertos, Op. 8, Nos. 1-4 Concerto in E Major, RV 269, La primavera (Spring) Allegro Largo Allegro Concerto in g minor, RV 315, /.'estate (Summer) Allegro non molto—Allegro Adagio alternating with Presto Presto Concerto in F Major, RV 293, L'autunno (Autumn) Allegro—piano e larghetto—Allegro assai Adagio molto Allegro Concerto in f minor, RV 297, L'inverno (Winter) Allegro non molto Largo Allegro—Lento INTERMISSION UMS Venice Baroque Orchestra Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 2 "The American Four Seasons" Prologue Movement I Song No. 1 Movement II Song No. 2 Movement III Song No. 3 Movement IV 13th Performance of the This evening's performance is hosted by Jane and Edward Schulak and Sesi Lincoln 132nd Annual Season Mercury Volvo Mazda. Media partnership is provided by WGTE 91.3 EM. 132nd Annual Special thanks to Andrew Jennings, Professor of Violin and Chamber Music, Choral Union Series U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, for speaking at tonight's Prelude Dinner. The photographing Special thanks to Tom Thompson of Tom Thompson Flowers, Ann Arbor, for his or sound and video generous contribution of lobby floral art for this evening's performance. recording of this concert The Venice Baroque Orchestra appears by arrangement with Columbia Artists or possession of any Management, LLC, New York, NY. device for such recording is prohibited. Large print programs are available upon request. UMS 10/11 Venice Baroque Orchestra Now that you're in your seat... fter Astor Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Philip Glass puts another Western- Hemisphere spin on the beloved Vivaldi classic. (By the way, do you know what Piazzolla Aand Glass have in common? At different times, they both studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.) One thing masterpieces often do is inspire new masterpieces, while they also remain present in their original form for subsequent generations of listeners to enjoy. Here, then, is a symbolic handshake across continents and centuries, featuring an Italian orchestra and an American soloist, and string instruments both Baroque and modern—a true meeting of hands and minds! Le quattro stagioni "The Four Seasons" Vivaldi's // cimento dell'armonia e del (1723) invenzione, Op. 8 ("The Contest Between Antonio Vivaldi Harmony and Invention") was first published in Born March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy Amsterdam in 1725; this Opus is a collection of 12 Died July 28, 1741 in Vienna concert!, the first four of which are known as "The Four Seasons." These "seasonal" concert! are Snapshot of History... "programmatic" as each one describes the events In 1723: in an anonymous sonnet, these poems suspected of having been written by the composer himself. • J.S. Bach is appointed Thomaskantor in Leipzig Vivaldi, while not the first to employ such a device, • Architect Andrea Tirali installs the pavement was unique in his care to make the music agree of St. Mark's Square in Venice with the subject matter of the poetry, within the • Antonio Stradivari makes one of his celebrated stylistic parameters of the day. The murmuring violins, known as the "Jules Falk" stream, the approaching storm indicated by • The Upper Belvedere Palace is completed in lightning and thunder, the oppressive atmosphere Vienna of the summer heat, the melody depicting the • The 17-year-old Ben Franklin runs away from hunter's call, or the snow propelled by freezing Boston to Philadelphia, and the same year winds—all this is made a living experience by sails for London Vivaldi's music.