Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto with Jenny Oaks
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BEETHOVENBeethoven,’S Symphony No. 7 and Triple Concerto ST with Jenny Oaks Baker and her daughters, Hannah and Sarah 251 Timberline Middle School, Alpine May 7 & 8, 2021 7:30 PM CELEBRATING 10 YEARS Concert Program Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C major, Op. 56 (1803) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) I. Allegro II. Largo (attacca) III. Rondo alla (polacca) Sarah Baker, cello Jenny Oaks Baker, violin Hannah Baker, piano Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (1812) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) I. Poco sostenuto – Vivace II. Allegretto III. Presto – Assai meno presto IV. Allegro con brio BEETHOVE1 N Thanks We’d like to thank the Kenneth and LaRae Savage Family Foundation for their generous support of the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra - 2020-2021 Season. We would also like to thank the following sources of support: Member FDIC Rocky Mountain Power Foundation We’d like to thank the Utah County Cares Non-Profit Grant Program for its generous COVID relief funding. BEETHOVE2 N Our Guest Artists America’s choirs throughout the country including Violinist, Jenny The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra on Oaks Baker is a Temple Square, The Millennial Choirs and Grammy Orchestras, The Timpanogos Symphony, nominated, and The Utah Symphony. A favorite with Billboard No. 1 audiences around the United States, they performer and have performed in Abravanel Hall in SLC, recording artist. Stevens Performing Arts Center and the She received BYUI Center in Idaho, on the Hour of her Master of Power TV Show broadcast worldwide Music degree from California, for Ambassador's Wives from the at the Congressional Club in Washington Juilliard School DC, for the Washington DC Temple and her Bachelor’s Degree from the Festival of Lights, for the World Congress Curtis Institute of Music. Jenny has of Families IX and at First Night On performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Temple Square. They have also performed Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress the National Anthem for Vice President and as a guest soloist with The National Mike Pence as well as at the Days of Symphony, Jerusalem Symphony, Forty-Seven Rodeo, the Utah Jazz Pittsburgh Symphony, Utah Symphony Basketball Games at the Vivint Smart and the Tabernacle Choir on Temple Home Arena and for BYU Women’s Square. Jenny has released eighteen studio Conference at the Marriott Center. Jenny albums which have sold nearly a million Oaks Baker & Family Four have copies and consistently chart on Billboard. performed in England, Austria, Germany, Music from her Grammy nominated Switzerland, Greece, Albania, Kosovo, album, Wish Upon a Star is featured at North Macedonia, Israel, Japan, and Disney World and Disneyland to throughout Taiwan. Family Four are also introduce the nightly Fireworks Show. featured on many popular music videos. Jenny’s popular music videos can be Their debut album, “Jenny Oaks Baker & viewed on her YouTube channel. Jenny, her Family Four” hit #4 on the Billboard husband Matthew, and their four children Classical Crossover and Classical Charts (musical group Family Four) reside near and their most recent album, “Joy to the SLC, UT. World” hit #7 on the Billboard Classical Jenny, Hannah and Sarah have Crossover Chart. For more information performed in musical group “Jenny Oaks visit jennyoaksbaker.com Baker & Family Four" with orchestras and BEETHOVE3 N Our Guest Artists Hannah Baker, age 18 began playing the piano when she was four years old. She studies with Dr. Irene Fox. Hannah has won the Utah Philharmonic Concerto Competition in 2021, the Utah Symphony Youth Guild Competitions in 2020 & 2018, 1st place in the Encore Keyboard Competi- tion, 2nd Place in the Great Performers Competi- tion Best Liszt Performance in 2019, 1st place in the Best Ravel Performance and 2nd Place in the Utah Music Teachers Association Concerto Competition in 2018. In 2015 Hannah won Salute to Youth thereby winning an opportunity to solo with The Utah Symphony. Hannah will be attending the Royal Academy of Music in London, England starting this Fall. Sarah Baker, age 16, began playing cello at age three and studies with Dr. Alison Wells from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland through FaceTime lessons. In 2017, Sarah won Salute to Youth thereby winning an opportunity to perform with The Utah Symphony. She has also won the Utah Philharmonic Concerto Competi- tion in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 and has soloed with that orchestra three times. Sarah has won the Utah Symphony Youth Guild Competi- tion Ensemble Division in 2020 and the Elemen- tary Strings Division in 2016. She also won the Elementary Division of the Washington Perform- ing Arts Society Feder Competition in 2015. Sarah enjoys playing soccer, weight lifting, sprinting and politics. 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Official Florist of the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra BEETHOVE7 N Program Notes Concerto for Violin, 'Cello, and allow each of the soloists to develop and Piano in C Major, op. 56 expand on their material and share ideas Ludwig van Beethoven with each other—not to speak of giving The concerto in its various guises has the orchestra a significant part--would have long been an important part of the made for compositions that were just too symphonic literature, going back to the long and unwieldy, among other things. middle of the seventeenth century. But by But great artists meet difficulties that Beethoven’s time, some 150 years on, deter lesser folks, and Beethoven was more concertos were most often written for than up to the job. Just why he wrote his one instrument—usually piano, violin, or “triple concerto” is subject to some ‘cello--with orchestral accompaniment. The conjecture, but there is some evidence that concerto that he composed in 1803 for he had in mind as his pianist his well-known three solo instruments and orchestra pupil and patron, Archduke Rudolf of stands apart for several reasons. It's the Austria—the Emperor’s son. The Archduke only concerto that he wrote for more than studied both piano and composition with one solo instrument, and in the rest of the Beethoven for almost two decades, and nineteenth century not very many of them became a very creditable pianist—his were written at all. patronage was significant financial support Now the idea of a group of soloists for Beethoven, and the two were close accompanied by an orchestra was not a friends to boot. Some speculate that the new one by that time, for an important somewhat easier piano part, compared genre of the Baroque era was the concerto with the two string soloists, is evidence that grosso. And during the time of Haydn, the archduke was the pianist in mind, but Mozart, and frères, the so-called sinfonia that’s not established. In any case, at the concertante, along with the concerto première in 1808, the archduke was grosso, exploited the idea of a group of neither the pianist, nor the dedicatee in the soloists accompanied by an orchestra. But, earlier publication. there was a rub.