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572458 bk Rachmaninov 3/11/09 11:34 Page 5 Photo: Donald Dietz Detroit Symphony Orchestra Photo: Donald Dietz The internationally acclaimed Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO), the fourth-oldest symphony orchestra in the United RACHMANINOV States, is known for trailblazing performances, visionary conductors and collaborations with the world’s foremost musical artists. The orchestra has earned awards and Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 accolades for nearly 150 recordings since 1918. Past touring and residency destinations include Europe, the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Japan, the Hollywood Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 Bowl, Florida, the Bravo! Colorado Festival and the State of Michigan. The DSO makes its home in historic Orchestra Hall, one of America’s most acoustically perfect concert halls. In 2003, the hall reopened as part of the Max Detroit Symphony Orchestra • Leonard Slatkin M. Fisher Music Center, an eighty-million-dollar performing arts facility encompassing two recital halls and the Jacob Bernard Pincus Music Education Center. With an extensive music education program, the DSO trains over 700 young classical and jazz musicians weekly and serves as an educational partner to the adjacent Detroit French Horns Percussion School of Arts. In the 2008-09 season, conductor Leonard Slatkin became the twelfth Music Director of the DSO. Karl Pituch† Ian Ding# Legend Working in collaboration with Slatkin, Toronto Symphony Music Director Peter Oundjian serves as DSO Principal Bryan Kennedy Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Guest Conductor. For more information visit the DSO website at www.detroitsymphony.com Corbin Wagner Glancy III Chair † Principal Denise Tryon Daniel Bauch ##^ †† Assistant Principal Leonard Slatkin Mark Abbott Robert Pangborn †† # Acting Principal David Everson William Cody Knicely Chair ## Acting Assistant Principal Keith Claeys** Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin began his tenure as Music Trumpets ^ Extended Leave Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the 2008-2009 season. Additionally, Ramón Parcells† Librarians * These members may voluntarily revolve seating he became Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2008- Lee and Floy Barthel Chair Robert Stiles† within the section on a regular basis. 2009. He completed his twelfth and final season as Music Director of the National Kevin Good Ethan Allen **Substitute Musicians Stephen Anderson†† Symphony Orchestra in June 2008, and finished his three-year commitment as Music § Interim position Advisor to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in June 2009. Slatkin continues as William Lucas Personnel Manager §§ African-American Orchestra Fellow. Stephen Molina Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Born in Los Trombones Orchestra Personnel Made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts Angeles, where his parents, conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Kenneth Thompkins† Manager and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Aller, were founding members of the Hollywood String Quartet, he began his musical Nathaniel Gurin†† Alice Sauro Randall Hawes Assistant Orchestra studies on the violin and studied conducting with his father, followed by training with Personnel Manager Activities of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at the Juilliard School. After a successful Bass Trombone are made possible in part with the support of tenure as Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony from 1979 to 1996, he became Randall Hawes Conducting Assistant the National Endowment for the Arts. Conductor Laureate. He served as Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Charles Greenwell from 2000-2004 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Tuba This recording was made possible in part by † the Hollywood Bowl from 2004 to 2007. His over a hundred recordings have brought Dennis Nulty Chairman of the Board The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Photo: Donald Dietz James B. Nicholson seven Grammy Awards and more than sixty Grammy Award nominations. He has Timpani Detroit Symphony Orchestra is an affirmative action, received many other honours, including the 2003 National Medal of Arts, France’s Chevalier of the Legion of Brian Jones† President and CEO equal opportunity institution. Honour and the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton for service to American music. Daniel Bauch††^ Anne Parsons 8.572458 5 6 8.572458 572458 bk Rachmaninov 3/11/09 11:34 Page 2 Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Photo: Donald Dietz DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 • Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 Leonard Slatkin, Music Director The Russian composer and pianist Sergey Rachmaninov publishing enterprise in Paris, where he lived for some was born in 1873, the son of aristocratic parents. His time, before having a house built for himself and his Music Directorship endowed by The Kresge Foundation father’s improvidence, however, led to a change in the family at Hertenstein, near Lucerne. In 1939 he left Peter Oundjian, Principal Guest Conductor fortunes of the family when increasing debts Europe, finally settling in Beverly Hills, California, Principal Guest Conductorship supported by the Mardigian Foundation necessitated the sale of one estate after another, where he died in 1943. Michel Camilo, 2009-2010 Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair followed by removal to an apartment in St. Petersburg. Among the most popular of Rachmaninov’s shorter It was there that Rachmaninov, at the age of nine, works is the Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, its final version Neeme Järvi, Music Director Emeritus entered the Conservatory on a scholarship. The dated 21st September 1915. Originally, as its title subsequent separation of his parents and his own failure suggests, a wordless song, the last of a set of fourteen First Violins Robert Murphy* Carole Gatwood* Shelley Heron in general subject examinations brought about his move songs, the piece has appeared in various guises, Emmanuelle Boisvert Lenore Sjoberg* Barbara Hall Hassan* Maggie Miller Chair Concertmaster Bruce Smith* Haden McKay* Brian Ventura†† to Moscow, where he was accepted as a pupil of including, as here, in the arrangement for orchestra Katherine Tuck Chair Joseph Striplin* Una O’Riordan* Treva Womble^ Nikolay Zverev, a pupil of John Field’s pupil Dubucque made by the composer. Kimberly A. Kaloyanides Marian Tanau* Paul Wingert* Geoffrey Johnson§§ and of Adolf von Henselt. Rachmaninov lodged in Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 Kennedy Kyoko Kashiwagi** Sarah Cleveland** Zverev’s house, where the necessary discipline was (1895), his second attempt at the form, had proved a Associate Concertmaster Velda Kelly** Andrew McIntosh** English Horn instilled, providing him with the basis of a subsequently great disappointment. At its first performance two years Alan and Marianne Schwartz Cristina Muresan** Treva Womble^ and Jean Shapero (Shapero Kristin Van Ausdal** Basses Shelley Heron§ formidable technique. In 1888, he entered the later in St. Petersburg, with the encouragement of the Foundation) Chair Melody Wootton** Alexander Hanna† Conservatory as a pupil of his cousin Alexander Ziloti, a publisher and now most effective patron of Russian Hai-Xin Wu Van Dusen Family Chair Clarinets former pupil of Zverev and later of Liszt. music, Belyayev, the work was conducted badly by Assistant Concertmaster Violas Stephen Molina†† Theodore Oien† Rachmaninov’s other teachers at the Conservatory were Glazunov, allegedly drunk at the time, and was savagely he set to work on the orchestration. The work went expanded in the central development, leads to a more Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Alexander Mishnaevski† Maxim Janowsky Robert B. Semple Chair Sergey Taneyev, a former pupil of Nikolay Rubinstein reviewed by César Cui, who described it as a student slowly and the symphony was only completed in lyrical G major second subject, which, in turn, forms the Edison Foundation Chair Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair Linton Bodwin Douglas Cornelsen Laura Rowe James VanValkenburg†† Stephen Edwards PVS Chemicals, Inc./ Jim and and Tchaikovsky, with whom he studied counterpoint, attempt to depict in music the seven plagues of Egypt. January 1908, to be performed successfully in St. substance of the recapitulation. The C major second Assistant Concertmaster Caroline Coade Craig Rifel Ann Nicholson Chair and Rimsky-Korsakov’s former pupil Anton Arensky, This public failure, after earlier success with his First Petersburg under the composer’s direction towards the movement Scherzo, skilfully orchestrated, has a molto Beatriz Budinszky* Glenn Mellow Marshall Hutchinson Laurence Liberson†† Rachmaninov’s teacher for fugue, harmony and free Piano Concerto (1892) and Morceaux de Fantaisie end of the same month, as part of a concert season under cantabile secondary theme and a central fugato Marguerite Deslippe-Dene* Shanda Lowery-Sachs Richard Robinson Shannon Orme composition. In Moscow, as time went on, he won (1892), which includes the famous Prelude in C sharp Ziloti. Its American première was given in January 1909 introduced by the second violins, followed by the first Elayna Duitman* Hart Hollman considerable success, both as a performer and as a minor, diverted Rachmaninov from composition and he by Leonard Slatkin’s great-uncle, Modeste Altschuler, and then the violas, developed before the recapitulation. Elias Friedenzohn* Han Zheng Harp E-Flat Clarinet Joseph Goldman* Hang Su Patricia Masri-Fletcher† Laurence