Monday Evening, April 10, 2017, at 7:00
Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director presents
Green Valley High School Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Diane Koutsulis, Conductor
STEVEN BRYANT Ecstatic Fanfare
PHILIP SPARKE A Colour Symphony (Symphony No. 3) II.Yellow
JAMES CLIFTON WILLIAMS, JR The Sinfonians (Symphonic March)
JAMES M. STEPHENSON there are no words
Intermission Hershey Symphony Festival Strings Sandra Dackow, Conductor
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Divertimento No. 2 in D Major, K. 131 arr. Sandra Dackow VI. Finale: Allegro assai
TRADITIONAL ENGLISH The Sailor’s Hornpipe arr. Sandra Dackow
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Alice Tully Hall Please turn off your cell phones and other electronic devices. WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Serenade No. 9 in D Major, K. 320, “Posthorn” arr. Sandra Dackow VII. Finale: Presto Hershey Symphony Orchestra Sandra Dackow, Conductor
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Overture to Hansel and Gretel
PABLO DE SARASATE Zigeunerweisen (“Gypsy Airs”), Op. 20 ODIN RATHNAM , violin
SIR EDWARD ELGAR Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39
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embellished, and extended in the style of the Notes on the Program composer. Williams conducted the first per - Notes by Diane Koutsulis formance at the fraternity’s national conven - tion in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July 1960.
Ecstatic Fanfare there are no words STEVEN BRYANT (b. 1972) JAMES M. STEPHENSON (b. 1969) Duration: 4 minutes Duration: 15 minutes
Ecstatic Fanfare is based on music from This work is dedicated to the victims of the Movement I of Ecstatic Waters , a major June 17, 2015 Charleston, South Carolina work incorporating electronics. The com - mass shooting that took place at Emanuel poser writes, “One day in May 2012, I African Methodist Episcopal Church. The mentioned to my wife that it might be fun composer writes, “I tried to represent (my to take the soaring, heroic tutti music from understanding of/feelings about) stages of that earlier work and turn it into a short fan - grief/shock that must accompany this type fare. I created this work just three short of event. The terrible action itself – the weeks later.” opening nine chords, shock and confusion, and trying to come to grips with the reality A Colour Symphony (Symphony No. 3) that just happened, terrible sadness, anger II. Yellow and a bit of pacing/not knowing what to do PHILIP SPARKE (b. 1951) next, the beginnings of forgiveness; with Duration: 5 minutes one last anger-moment, and forgiveness.” A Colour Symphony was commissioned by “sinfonischen blasorchester wehdel.” The Notes by Sandra Dackow second movement, “Yellow”, focuses on the higher-pitched instruments of the band, Divertimento No. 2 in D Major, creating a feeling of brightness and sun - K. 131 – VI. Finale: Allegro assai shine, both in colour and mood. Melodic WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART motives are short and constantly push the (1756-1791) musical argument forward, frequently Duration: 2 minutes changing key centres and registers. A longer melody in minor mode emerges One of the few major key works of Mozart briefly, but the sunshine soon returns to scored using four horns, instead of the usual close the movement. two, the sonorities of this Divertimento ’s Finale call to mind the lilting rhythms of hunt - The Sinfonians (Symphonic March) ing horns. In this version for strings, the JAMES CLIFTON WILLIAMS, JR. Finale to the Finale (the original Finale was (1923-1976) written in several contrasting sections) offers Duration: 6 minutes a sense of good fellowship, food and drink after the hunt. It is rustic music, intentionally Clifton Williams was an active member of straightforward and uncomplicated, yet, as many musical organizations including Phi Mu this is Mozart, also elegant and perfectly Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America who proportioned. commissioned this work, The Sinfonians . The Sinfonians opens with an extended fan - The Sailors’ Hornpipe fare introduction before the horns state the Traditional English familiar Sinfonian theme: “Hail Sinfonia! Duration: 4 minutes Come, brothers, hail!” The words are by Charles Lutton set to the music of Arthur “With a Yo Heave Ho and a Slap Upon the Sullivan. The melody is then completed, Knee” is a familiar folk and fiddle tune, likely Lincoln Center from 18th Century England. The word Zigeunerweisen (“Gyspy Airs”) Op. 20 Hornpipe refers to several dance forms, orig - PABLO DE SARASATE (1844-1908) inating in Ireland and Britain, and are closely Duration: 8 minutes associated with sailors and ship culture. One can easily imagine foot stomps and slaps The 19th Century Spanish violin virtuoso upon the knees of sailors accompanying Pablo de Sarasate wrote a number of show - their singing and their work. pieces for his own performance, still greatly enjoyed by players and audiences alike Serenade No. 9 in D Major, today. Zigeunerweisen borrows both Roma K. 320 “Posthorn” – VII. Finale: Presto melodies (the Roma included many amazing WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART violinists) and czardas ideas from Hungary. Duration: 4 minutes Gypsy violinists could “talk” with their instruments and seem to make them (and Written during the composer’s Salzburg listeners) “cry”. Sarasate builds a long, slow years, the “Posthorn” Serenade falls into a introduction to join with a lively second half particular kind of occasional music called of the work, featuring all manner of violinis - “Final Musik”, referring to party pieces tic pyrotechnics, including rapid left-hand intended for the celebrations which fol - pizzicato passages. The work finishes in a lowed final examinations and the end of blaze of show-stopping glory. term at the university. This bright Final cap - tures the flee and exuberance of students Pomp and Circumstance March finally liberated from their studies. No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39 EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934) Overture to Hansel and Gretel Duration: 7 minutes ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (1854-1921) Duration: 8 minutes Is there a name more synonymous with “English” music than that of Sir Edward The Overture to Humperdinck’s Hansel and Elgar? Or, for that matter, a piece more Gretel is one of the most perfect preludes instantly recognized as embodying the dig - ever written, balancing simple folk-like musi - nity and pride of the British Empire? cal ideas within a marvel of counterpoint. It Performed at countless graduation cere - can rightly hold its place next to Wagner’s monies, Pomp and Circumstance March Meistersinger Vorspiel as a tightly con - No. 1 is the most famous of a set of structed compilation of engaging themes, marches which the composer wrote over layered one upon the other, yet always a several decades in the early 20th Century. pleasure for the listener, never sounding The famous trio uses the tune known as forced or pedantic. The beautiful opening, “Land of Hope and Glory” and English Evening Prayer, is followed by playful folk- audiences will join in singing this whenever like melodies, which will, in turn, be com - the march is performed. Written for large bined and recombined with the Prayer and orchestral forces, this march ranges from other material. Humperdinck and his sister, the fussy, chromatic rapidly changing har - Adelheid, who wrote the libretto, collabo - monic motion of its opening, to the inti - rated to bring a medieval German fairy tale to mate statement of the trio (with its famous the young listeners of their day, softening theme), stated again boldly, recapping the the story a bit and setting everything to opening and finishing with the “grand’ glorious music. tune” once again, with all the glory and grandeur of the British Empire. The work has become a sports anthem, as well as an academic processional, and is recognized as a cultural icon all over the world. Lincoln Center
the Southwest, and overseas in London, Meet the Artists Paris, Rome, Edinburgh, Madrid, and Shanghai. The Green Valley High School Marching Band performed in the 2010 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, as well as the 2009 and 1993 Presidential Inaugural Parades. The Green Valley High School Music Department was Diane Koutsulis named the National Grammy School in Conductor 2001, and has been subsequently named a Grammy Signature School. GREEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONIC WIND ORCHESTRA
Diane Koutsulis is the Director of Bands and Arts Department Chair at Green Valley High School. From Chicago, Diane has been teaching in Las Vegas for 35 years. She Sandra Dackow received a BA in Music from Western Illinois Conductor University. After teaching junior high band in Oswego, Illinois, for three years, she went HERSHEY SYMPHONY FESTIVAL on to complete the MMEd at Louisiana State STRINGS & HERHSEY SYMPHONY University, where she studied with Frank ORCHESTRA Wickes. During her tenure in Las Vegas, Diane has built fine band programs at both Sandra Dackow holds three degrees from Las Vegas High School (1982-91) and Green the Eastman School of Music and currently Valley High School (1991-present). Her serves as Music Director of the Hershey groups have consistently garnered recogni - Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, of the tion for fine performances and she has Hershey Symphony Festival Strings, and of served as guest clinician and conductor at the William Paterson University Symphony various conferences and honor bands Orchestra in New Jersey. An Aspen throughout the US. Diane was named the Conducting fellow, she was awarded the 1999 Nevada Teacher of the Year and Silver medal in the 2001 Vakhtang received the 1999 Milken Family Foundation Jordania/New Millennium Conducting National Educator Award. In 2004, the GVHS Competition in Ukraine. Dr. Dackow has Symphonic Band performed at the Midwest published over 115 works for student Clinic in Chicago, IL. Diane is honored to be orchestras and is an author of Alfred’s a member of the prestigious American Orchestra Expressions, Tempo Press’s Bandmasters Association (ABA). Expressive Techniques for Orchestra, and Expressive Sight-reading for Orchestra, and The Music Department has 7 full time staff a co-author of the MENC (NAfME) members and an enrollment of over 1000 Complete String Guide. She has appeared students. The band program includes 3 con - as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudica - cert bands, 3 jazz bands, jazz combos, tor throughout the US and abroad, including marching band, pep band, and countless summers at Interlochen, and other music chamber groups. The winds also participate camps. In 1994, she worked with the Hong in the Symphony Orchestra and musical the - Kong Youth Orchestra and in 1995, she was atre. The Symphonic Wind Orchestra has granted a Fulbright award to teach in performed in Carnegie Hall in 2006 and Australia. Sandra Dackow is a former 2010. Since the opening of the school, the President of the Conductor’ Guild, an inter - bands have excelled in all areas and have national organization serving conductors in performed at prestigious events throughout 31 countries. In 2009 she was elected a Lincoln Center
Lowell Mason Fellow by MENC: The people of the greater Central Pennsylvania Association for Music Education, (NAfME) region. It is one of the largest volunteer as well as awarded the Bruno Walter Best community based orchestras in the nation. Conductor Prize by the Master Academy The eighty-plus members area unique International Competition in Switzerland. group of people who range in age from teenagers to senior citizens, with equally The Hershey Symphony Festival Strings is diverse occupations that include doctors, an 80-member string orchestra comprised scientists, teachers, homemakers, stu - of middle school students living in the dents and college professors. Since 1991, greater Harrisburg/Hershey areas. The the Symphony has been under the direc - ensemble gathers for a few rehearsals, cul - tion of Dr. Sandra Dackow, an award win - minating with a concert performance. ning conductor and arranger. The Membership in the orchestra is open to all Symphony rehearses weekly, and per - area string players in grades six through forms a subscription series at the historic nine upon the recommendation of school Hershey Theatre, and a summer season or private music teachers. All students are that includes free outdoor pops music. The accepted without audition. All students over-riding theme that unites the musi - must be members of their school orches - cians is a love of music and a desire to tra, although Festival Strings also services share their musical gifts with others. The many students in home school, or schools Hershey Symphony repertoire includes without string programs. High school stu - music from all periods and styles, classical dents who are graduates of the program to jazz, Baroque to contemporary, big band may return to serve as rehearsal assis - to Broadway, exposing both musicians and tants, gaining valuable mentoring experi - audiences to a wide variety of musical lit - ence. During the past twenty-four years, erature. Local musicians and musical orga - Festival Strings has been selected through nizations are often featured as soloists. In audition to perform four times for the addition to the concert season, the Pennsylvania Music Educators Conference Symphony’s outreach includes the Young and four times for the Eastern Division Artists Competition, the Shall We Dance Music Educators National Conference. In benefit gala, The Hershey Symphony Big 2004, Festival Strings made their first Band, and two youth orchestras, Festival appearance at the MENC National Strings, for middle school strings, and Conference in Minneapolis, and performed Powerhouse Strings for elementary stu - again for them in April of 2006 in Salt Lake dents. Festival Strings is a nationally rec - City. Festival Strings performed for the ognized youth orchestra, having been prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago in invited to perform multiple times for the December of 2006. In the spring of 2008, National Association for Music Education, the orchestra was in Albuquerque for the at conferences in Minneapolis, Salt Lake American String Teachers Association City, and Pittsburg; for the American String national convention. The orchestra has also Teachers Association in Albuquerque, and performed for the MENC Eastern Division, for the prestigious Midwest Clinic in and for the state Pennsylvania Music Chicago, as well as the Pennsylvania Educators Association. Festival Strings is Music Educators Association. Festival recognized for setting a national standard Strings is recognized for setting a national for performance excellence and is unique standard for performance excellence and in its scope and offerings. is unique in its scope and offerings.
The Hershey Symphony, which will cele - brate its 50th season in 2019-20, is com - prised of musicians who voluntarily give of their time and talent for the purpose of creating a rich cultural experience for the Lincoln Center
by many for leading the outstanding artistic development of the Harrisburg Symphony, where he served as concertmaster with distinction for 21 years. In 1995, he also cre - ated the critically acclaimed chamber Odin Rathnam ensemble, Concertante, with whom he Violin performed and recorded for 7 years. Mr. Rathnam’s commitment to the broader HERSHEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA community’s success and health have led to countless benefits for cancer research, Since his critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Habitat for Humanity, Allied Arts , and other debut in 1993, violinist Odin Rathnam has charities. Equally passionate about educa - established an international career of tion and arts training, he has maintained a remarkable versatility and depth. As an busy schedule of master classes and resi - orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber dencies, from Chicago to Copenhagen, musician, he has received unanimous praise Silkeborg, Lagos, New York, Michigan, from audiences and critics for his “innate Maryland, and more. Many of his students musicianship”, “brilliant technique”, and have gone on to become members of “recalling the great violinists of past orchestras around the world, concertmas - generations”. In 2011, he was the recipient ters, chamber musicians, soloists, and of the DES Cultural Prize in Copenhagen, teachers. Recent and upcoming engage - and made his debut as conductor and soloist ments include the concerti of Korngold, with the Randers Chamber Orchestra, in Brahms, Beethoven, Bruch, Kreisler, Bach, three performances of Piazzolla’s and Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Piazzolla and Vivaldi. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons . Odin Rathnam’s artistry, charisma, and passion are credited Lincoln Center
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Green Valley High School Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Flute Bass Clarinet Horn String Bass Carter Terrano-Watson Zach Flowers M a y a S m a r t Mitchel Vereen Caitlyn Randall Melina Medina Timothy Leir Brenda Peralta Nolan Perns Percussion Marren Abernathy Alto Saxophone Vincent Landin C a r o l i ne Thomas Sydney Cox Iean Cuenca Chase Allen Ben Fellows Taylor Coronado Abraham Hernandez Samantha Matteson Julia Nee Joshua Ortega Trombone Jenna Maramaldi Brittany McPhee Erick Cordoba Bailey Stephens Nick Bechtel Jessie Ellison Gordon Cortney Piccolo Tenor Saxophone Cameron Kuschel Carter Terrano-Watson Matt McCarthy Joseph Ketcham Piano Chad Owens Samantha Matteson Oboe Baritone Saxophone Peter Ramsdale Mackienzy Kahl Chris Henkel Tyler Brunty Jessica Muney Noah Levrant Euphonium Bassoon Trumpet Colin Smith Marissa Mirsky Jonathan Young Ilai Macaggi Koko Takahashi- Jaren Smith Dominic Donini Brummer Carson Taylor Nicholas Bosnos Tuba Clarinet Daniel Cohen R y a n H e a t o n Adam Ikehara James Looney Miranda Lopez Aaron Chavez N i k k i V i l la v e r L e e y a n a P e n a- Samara Miller Brendan Daniels Dannebring Christy Piano Kate Rockey Jaylen Patterson
Hershey Symphony Festival Strings
Violin 1 Violin 2 Viola Olivia Towsen Victor Capozzi Anna Chamberlin Anna Callahan Eli Whitehead-Zimmers Grey Conta Anna Chappell Jordan Fletcher Aidan Ferguson Anna Crawford Grayson Matthews Bass Grace Good Luis DeGuzman Taegen McCoy Paul Metzger IV Sydney Grimm Samantha Farace Victoria Nazeeri Greyson Parks Reaghan Harvey Lauren Good Noah Sigel Vanessa Skidmore Keegan Krueger Lauren Hogan Kiersten Lane Stephanie Kim Cello Autumn Moore Graham Lewis Brittany Kennedy Alexander Nazeeri Reghan Little Rachael Kim Sara Varner Olivia Marsteller Janet Kim Andrew Waldman Adam Metzger Luke Lee Abijah Zimmerman James Redmond Wallis Matthews Esha Shah Katherine Shin Lincoln Center
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Violin 1 Brian Ressler Flute Trumpet John Gazsi Corrine Shearer Jessica Kistler Colin DeLong Sean Brown Lynn Sten Lydia Klinger Kathleen Butler Jaci Verghese Trombone Annie Dickinson Piccolo Paul Brettschneider Priscilla Howard Viola Kim Ferroni Bob Sproul Annette Kilpatrick Susan Hoffman Bob Warfield Beth McLean Jineen Boyle Oboe Cathy Schultz Evelyn Devonshire Scott Gilbert Tuba Tara Sheibley Mayelin Ebersole Beky Steinbrecher Nathaniel Miscannon Laurie Williamson Vlad Kellachow III Emily Wolfe Christina Lacey Percussion Tiffany Young Kate Lynagh Clarinet Kim Badman Barbara Owen Laurence Kilpatrick Cody Floyd Violin 2 Phil Smith Carl Sponenberg Paul Metzger III Ruthann Ressler Zach Sten Chris Bradley Cello Bassoon Ashley Butters Michael Rusli Ruth Barley Timpani Arlene Gibble Bonnie Calhoun Cynthia Reinecker Colin Williamson Solomon Heisey Gregory Flury Helen Johnstone Todd Rubey French Horn Janelle Kovacs John Grumbine Cindy McVey Double Bass Mindy Hofsass Elizabeth Nazeeri Matt Heinz Al Stokes Ann Ouyang Joe Schaefer Theresa Swenson Michal Peterson Jeremiah Swanger
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DCINY 2017 Concert Series
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Tuesday Evening, May 30, 2017 at 7:00 Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall Ian Gindes, Pianist
Sunday Afternoon, June 4, 2017 at 2:00 David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center Portraits of Healing Lincoln Center
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Sunday Afternoon, June 11, 2017 at 2:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall The Music of Vaughan Williams Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas Craig Jessop, Guest Conductor Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem Nina Nash-Robertson, Guest Conductor Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Saturday Evening, June 17, 2017 at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall Song/Play Alberto Grau: La Doncella Cristian Grases, Guest Conductor Alberto Grau: La Avispa Brava (WORLD PREMIERE) María Guinand, Guest Conductor Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra (NC) Ernest Pereira, Director
Monday Evening, June 26, 2017 at 7:00 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall Canta! Canta! Canta! The Music of Francisco Núñez Francisco Núñez, Composer/ Conductor Distinguished Concerts Singers International Cabrillo College (CA) John D. Anderson, Director Cheryl M. Anderson, Director
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