The Friday Morning Music Club Newsletter 1

128TH SEASON MARCH 2014 VOL. 48, NO. 3

ChoralChoral Workshop Workshop MarchMarch 88: Improve Your Skills and Review our Second Candidate for Chorale Director – There is still time to participate PETER BAUM ave the date March 8 for the second Be sure to indicate the voice part you Caracciolo himself. There will be a Sof four all-day choral workshops led want and whether or not you are a good mix of accompanied as well as a by outstanding conductors. These are FMMC member. Some of the music for cappella works that will prove to be of free to members of FMMC, whether this workshop is open-source and links interest to all. singer or instrumentalist. Sign up for to the music are available on the website. This workshop marks the half- a joyous day of music coaching. Bring For the works still under copyright, the way point in the Club’s review of the your non-FMMC guests as well for a club has purchased copies which may be Chorale Director candidates. The re- fee of $25 per person. borrowed for the day. Orchestra mem- maining two workshops will be held The second workshop will be held bers should either also contact Peter in May and July. The purpose of the in the Fellowship Hall of the First Baum or visit the web site and sign up workshops is to allow the singers, in- Baptist Church (1328 16th Street, NW, (please indicate your instrument). strumentalists, the search committee Washington, DC). Registration will start The director for this workshop and FMMC’s Board of Governors to at 9:00 am for the chorus. The chorus will be Dr. Stephen Caracciolo. evaluate the candidates chosen by the will rehearse at 9:30 am, break for lunch Dr. Caracciolo is Assistant Professor committee from over 15 people who at 12 noon. Bring your own lunch or of Choral Conducting and Voice at submitted applications in October and eat out at one of the many restaurants in the University of Maryland Baltimore November. Participants in the chorus the area. We will continue to rehearse at County and is actively composing works and orchestra will be offered the chance 1:00 pm. Orchestra members will begin for vocal ensembles. He also has had to complete a survey after each work- a separate rehearsal at 1:00 pm, the cho- experience as an adjudicator. His pro- shop to express how well they felt the rus joining them at 2:30 pm. The con- gram for this workshop includes music candidates did as teachers and leaders in cert will begin at 4:00 pm and should by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Poulenc, and this highly compressed event. last no more than one hour. Be sure to invite your friends and family to join Inside This Issue us for the concert. The committee will 2 President’s Message announce a final list of music so you can check your own library for parts and 3 Grammy Award for Maud Powell will have copies available for singers to 3 Avanti Concert borrow for the day if you don’t. 4 March and Early April Events Calendar People interested in singing in the 6 WIC Benefit Recital, Pianist Ching-Yun Hu chorus should email Peter Baum ([email protected]) or sign up 7 From the Foundation Director directly on the workshop web page 7 Workshop with Pianist Thomas Shumaker (www.fmmc-chorale-director.weebly.com). 2 March 2014 President’s Message CAROL WOLFE-RALPH t is hard to believe that our fiscal year end is fast Iapproaching. By the time this newsletter reaches you, An official publication of the we will be well into March and will have completed yet Friday Morning Music Club, Inc. another year in FMMC’s history. There is a lot going on Organized in 1886 at the moment. In addition to the weekly concerts in our various venues, we are gearing up for the international competition, which features pianists this year. We are also CAROL WOLFE-RALPH busy auditioning candidates for the FMMC’s Chorale director and have some exciting FMMC President possibilities. In addition to our musical activities, the FMMC website’s facelift is underway. [email protected] Not too far off is the general membership meeting and annual luncheon that will take

WINSTON DAVIS place at the Army Navy Country Club on Friday, May 9. Please put that on your calendars. Newsletter Editor Stay warm, healthy and happy. [email protected] Musically yours,

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Printing and Distribution by MT. ROYAL PRINTING & COMMUNICATIONS [email protected] 703-683-5600 The Friday Morning Music Club Newsletter 3 Grammy Award for Maud Powell GAIL MACCOLL iolinist Maud Powell (1867-1920) was awarded a studied with FMMC member Neva Greenwood. VSpecial Merit Award for Lifetime Achievement at Inspired by Powell’s playing as a child, Greenwood began the GRAMMY ceremonies on January 25, 2014. She collecting materials about her with the aim of writ- was one of the first virtuosos to be recorded, and her ing a biography. Karen became fascinated with Powell’s recordings of short classical works and condensed ver- story and continued her effort after Greenwood’s death. sions of longer works introduced people throughout the Enlisting Pine’s interest and artistic support, the two US to classical music and helped revolutionize music women worked together to restore this ground-breaking appreciation. Powell is the first woman instrumentalist female virtuoso and her recordings to their rightful place and only the fifth female classical artist to receive this in the history of American music. award. Unfortunately, the award went unmentioned in The Miss Powell’s nomination was put forward by violinist Washington Post. The Newsletter is pleased to bring the Rachel Barton Pine and Maud Powell Society founder award and Ms. Greenwood’s role in it to our readers’ Karen Shaffer, who as a freshman at American University attention.

Avanti Concert he Avanti Orchestra, in collaboration with the Church features a charming, infectious lyricism with a strong emo- Tof the Epiphany, will present an evening concert tional core. Brahms’ Hungarian Dances 11-16 open the pro- of music by Brahms and Finzi. FMMC solo clarinetist gram. His First Symphony brings the program to conclusion. Giancarlo Bazzano will join conductor Pablo Saelzer and The concert takes place Friday, April 4, 2014 at 8 pm at the orchestra to perform Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto, Op 31. the Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St NW, Washington, Possibly Finzi’s most famous instrumental work, the concerto DC. Admission is free; donations are welcome.

News from Members OBITUARY A CHINESE PROVERB r. James L. Boeringer, husband of Grace Boeringer, long time member of DFMMC, died January 12, 2014. He performed his last service as organist at FOR YOUR NEXT the Fifth Church of Christ Scientist in Georgetown two weeks before his death. REHEARSAL: He also served as organist at the Church of the Pilgrims in DC and Messiah Lutheran Church in Germantown, Maryland in the DC area. Before moving to DC, he was Director of the Moravian Music Foundation in Winston Salem, North Carolina and was a Professor of Organ and Church Music at Susquehanna “The wise man knows University, Oklahoma Baptist University and at the University of South Dakota. He wrote a three volume book on early English organs, published his own com- what to ignore.” positions (now on IMSLP), wrote fiction and even restored two log cabins. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, and three children. 4 March 2014 FMMC Concert Calendar MARCH AND EARLY APRIL 2014

THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 11:00 AM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 12:00 NOON The Mansion at Strathmore 12:00 NOON Dumbarton House Steinway Gallery • Tchaikovsky (arr. Rachmaninoff: • Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in C Fantasy on The Sleeping Beauty, op. 66a. Music for two pianos Minor, K. 388. Kenneth Latchis and Sophia Pallas and Julian Trail, piano • Tchaikovsky (arr. Rachmaninoff): Arnold Saslowsky (guest), ; four hands. Fantasy on The Sleeping Beauty, op. 66a. Jeff Kahan and Rachael Bredefeld, • Griffes: Three Poems of Fiona McLeod. Hsien-Ann Meng and Wei-Der ; John Hoven and Eric Hall Seyoung Jeong, soprano; piano TBA. Huang. (guest), ; Wendy Chinn and • Strauss: Sonata for Violin and Piano. • Pender: Theme and Variations. Lisa Motley, horns. Hidetaro Suzuki, violin; Zeyda Jeongseon Choi and Chen-Li • Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin (excerpts). Ruga Suzuki, piano. Tzeng. Sharon Ollison, harpsichord. • Valery Gavrilin: Selections from • Mozart: Quartet in B-flat Major, K. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 12:00 NOON Sketches. Laura Marchisotto Bogart 589. Connie Milner and Christian Calvary Baptist Church (guest) and Diane Winter Pyles. Simmelink (guest), violins; Marta Soderberg Howard, viola; Brigitta • Berg: Vier Stücke. Schikele: Elegie. Czernik Gruenther, violoncello. Albert Hunt, clarinet; Felicia Weiss, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 7:30 PM piano. Friendship Heights Community Center • Lehar, Rodrigo and Moore: FMMC Student members THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 11:00 AM Selected songs and arias. Lucy Chen, Fairfax Old Town Hall soprano; David Chapman, piano. • Schumann, Chausson, Chaminade, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 7:00 PM • Brahms: Trio in B Major, op. 8. Greenspring Franck: Selected songs. Ben Wallis, Cecilie Jones, violin; Jan Timbers, ; Ina Mirtcheva (guest), piano. cello; Barbara Wing, piano. • Danzi: Duo No. 1 in C Major. • Tchaikovsky (arr. Rachmaninoff): Caroline Brethauer, viola; Joanna Fantasy on The Sleeping Beauty, op. 66a. Taylor, cello. Sophia Pallas and Julian Trail, piano SATURDAY, MARCH 8, • Schubert: Selected Songs. Debora 9:00 AM TO 5:00 PM four hands. First Baptist Church (Fellowship Hall) Madsen, soprano; Gillian Cookson, piano. Choral workshop directed by • Pender: Suite for Woodwind Quintet. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 12:00 NOON Calvary Baptist Church Dr. Stephen Caracciolo. Gwyn Jones, flute;Alisha Coleman, • Selected choral works by Haydn, clarinet; Jeff Kahan, ; Wendy Helen May Memorial Concert Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Poulenc, and Chinn, horn; Eric Hall, . • Performers: Pianists Bonnie Caracciolo. Kellert and Frank Conlon; Melissa People interested in participating as FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 12:00 NOON Coombs, soprano. singers or as instrumentalists should Calvary Baptist Church contact Peter Baum (peterbaum@cox. • Saint-Saëns: Trio No. 1 in F Major, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 12:00 NOON net) or visit the Choral Workshop op. 18. Eleanor Woods, violin; Jan Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase website at www.fmmc-chorale-director. Timbers, cello; Barbara Wing, piano. • Howard Buss: Flute sonata Shaughn weebly.com. The Concert starting at • Selections TBA. Yulia Petrachuck, Dowd, flute; Frank Conlon, piano. 4:00 pm is open to the public. soprano; piano TBA. • Grieg, Sibelius: Selected songs. • Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Patricia Rogers, soprano, Adelaide Minor, op. 45. Jean Provine, violin; Edelson, piano. Nicholas Fobe, viola; Valerie • Amy Beach: Theme and Variations. Matthews, cello; Enoch Gordis, Pamela Broene, flute;Marion piano. Richter and Gail MacColl, violins; Jeanne Rosenthal, viola; Edwina Moldover, cello. The Friday Morning Music Club Newsletter 5

FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 12:00 NOON FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 8:00 PM SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 7:30 PM Calvary Baptist Church Church of the Epiphany Riderwood • Rebecca Clarke: Sonata. Hyejin Avanti - the orchestra of the Friday • Ravel: Mother Goose Suite. Hsien Kim, viola; Hsiang-Ling Hsiao, Morning Music Club, Pablo Saelzer, Ann Meng and Wei-Der Huang, piano. conductor, with Giancarlo Bazzano, piano four hands. • Lee Hoiby: Italian Lessons. Deborah clarinet soloist. • Brahms: Two songs. Pauline Viardot: Thurlow, soprano; Gillian Cookson, • Brahms: Hungarian Dances Die Sterne (The Stars) Viktoriya piano. • Finzi: Clarinet Concerto. Giancarlo Koreneva, mezzo-soprano; • Madeleine Dring: Tr io. Pamela Bazzano, clarinet. Igor Zubkovsky, cello; Irina Broene, flute;Karen Moses (guest), • Brahms: Symphony No. 1. Koulikova, piano. oboe; Adelaide Edelson, piano.

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 6:00 PM THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 11:00 AM Hillwood Museum The Mansion at Strathmore VENUES • Selections TBD. Igor Zubkovsky, CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH • Haydn: Trio No. 4 in E Major. Ruth cello; Susanna Kolker (guest), piano. 755 Eighth Street NW, Washington, DC (Metro: Gallery Place) Albright, violin; Brigitta Czernik • Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff: Gruenther, cello; Bonnie Kellert, CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY Selected songs. Viktoriya Koreneva, 1317 G Street NW, Washington, DC piano. mezzo-soprano; piano TBA. (Metro: Metro Center) • Selections TBA. Immanuela • Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 14 DUMBARTON HOUSE Gruenberg, piano. in F-sharp Major, op. 142. Ramona 2715 Q Street NW, Washington, DC • Herbert Howells: Sonata for Matthews and Michael Casassa, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Clarinet and Piano. Phyllis Crossen- 16th and O Streets NW, Washington, DC violins; Marta Soderberg Howard, (Metro: Dupont Circle) Richardson, clarinet; Janet Crossen, viola; Allan Malmberg, cello. piano. FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER 4433 S. Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD (Metro: Friendship Heights) SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 4:30 PM GREENSPRING FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 12:00 NOON The Lyceum Calvary Baptist Church 7410 Spring Village Drive, Springfield, VA • Gaspar Cassado: Suite for Solo Cello. HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM • Reger: String Trio No. 1 in D Major, John Kaboff, cello. 4155 Linnean Avenue NW, Washington, DC op. 77b. Joyce Rizzolo, violin; Grace • Elizabeth Mehl Greene: Excerpts THE LYCEUM Boeringer, viola; Jan Timbers, cello. from Reading in Teheran and 201 S Washington Street, Alexandria, VA • Schubert: Fantasy in F Minor, D.940. Row. Natalie Barrens, soprano; Ruth THE MANSION AT STRATHMORE Bonnie Kellert and Junko Takahashi 10701 Rockville Pike, N. Bethesda, MD Locker, piano. (Metro: Grosvenor) (guest), piano four hands. • Madeleine Dring: Tr io. Pamela • String Quartet No. OLD TOWN HALL, CITY OF FAIRFAX Shostakovich: Broene, flute;Karen Moses (guest), Corner of Main Street (Rt. 236) & 14 in F-sharp Major, op. 142. Ramona oboe; Adelaide Edelson, piano. University Drive, Fairfax, VA Matthews and Michael Casassa, RIDERWOOD VILLAGE CHAPEL violins; Marta Soderberg Howard, 3110 Gracefield Road, Silver Spring, MD viola; Allan Malmberg, cello. STEINWAY GALLERY 11611 Old Georgetown Road N. Bethesda, MD (Metro: White Flint) WOMAN’S CLUB OF CHEVY CHASE 7931 Connecticut Avenue Chevy Chase, MD 6 March 2014

Washington International Competition Sponsored by Friday Morning Music Club Foundation

BenefitFeaturing Recital CHING -Y UN HU

SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014 at 3:00 PM STEINWAY PIANO GALLERY 11611 OLD GEORGETOWN ROAD, NORTH BETHESDA, MD 20852

Program: PIANO WORKS BY SCRIABIN, CHOPIN, RAVEL, AND ALBÉNIZ MEET THE ARTIST AT A RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE CONCERT

Proceeds from the benefit recital will support the 2014 61st Washington International Competition for Piano which will take place on June 7-8, 2014 in Washington, DC

Piano students and teachers are welcome at no cost For reservations or additional information, please contact [email protected] Thank you very much for your support of the 2014 WIC for Piano

Suggested Donation: $50 per guest Donations will be accepted at the door or by mail Please make check payable to FMMC Foundation and mail to Barbara Teng, 7710 Woodmont Avenue #709, Bethesda, MD 20814

CONCERT PIANIST CHING -YUN HU Best Classical Album Award, 2012 Golden Melody Award Winner, 2009 Concert Artists Guild Competition Top Prize/Audience Prize, 2008 Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Israel Taiwanese pianist Ching-Yun Hu captured the top prize and the audience favorite prize at the 2008 Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, and won the 2009 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York. Her debut album, “Ching-Yun Hu Plays Chopin,” was named Best Classical Album of the Year at the 2012 Golden Melody Awards. The Jerusalem Post has hailed her performances as having “...superstar quality that everybody looks for... musical, energetic and full of flair.” Ms. Hu debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Concerti Sinfonietta, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras across Europe, Asia, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. She has appeared in recitals at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Herkulesaal and Gasteig in Munich, Salle Cortot in Paris, and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Ms. Hu has also performed at the Duszniki- Zdrój Chopin Piano Festival in Poland, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and the Aspen Music Festival. In addition to a career that has spanned five continents, Ms. Hu has presented the works of numerous award-winning contemporary composers including Jennifer Higdon and Carl Vine. She has also collaborated and performed with the Szymanowski Quartet in Germany, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra in the United States, and her mentor, Sergei Babayan, in Taiwan. Ms. Hu studied at Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Germany. She founded the Yun-Hsiang International Music Festival in Taipei. She is also the founder and serves as the artistic director of the Philadelphia Young Pianists Academy at the Curtis Institute of Music. Ms. Hu is on the faculty of the Esther Boyer College of Music at the Temple University in Philadelphia. The Friday Morning Music Club Newsletter 7 From the Foundation Director LESLIE LUXEMBURG ne major responsibility of the Friday Morning a good piano in your home we OMusic Club Foundation is to organize and run the strongly urge you to consider Washington International Competition (WIC) every hosting a young artist this year. In addition, we have the Johansen International year. Competition and the WIC for Composers in the works for It is extremely gratifying their next appearance in 2015! So each month brings its to hear our former winners own challenges and rewards. perform locally. On March Excitement is starting to build towards our March 7th 16th, our 2012 winning deadline for the 2014 WIC when we will begin to vet cellist Matthew Zalkind applications and select the approximately 18 semifinal- will give an unaccompanied ists invited to come to Washington for auditions on June recital of music by Ligeti, Bach and Kodaly at the Phillips 7th. Even now, we can clearly predict a robust number of Collection at 4:00 pm. On April 12th our 2013 vocal win- piano applicants and – judging from applications com- ner Soloman Howard will join our 1968 winner Jessye ing from New Zealand, Taiwan, Serbia, Germany, Sweden, Norman in “Of Thee We Sing,” a celebration of Marion India, the UK and Canada – many contestants from abroad. Anderson presented by the Washington Performing Arts Host families in previous years have always appreciated the Society at 7:00 pm at DAR Constitution Hall! What could interaction with such fascinating young artists. If you have possibly be more special than that?

The Exchange Pianist Thomas he FMMC has a new service for members called Schumaker to Present T“The Exchange.” This is where members (and members only) can place announcements for music and/ Master Class or instruments they want to buy, sell or give away, or for musicians they need for ensembles or specific per- MMC will present artist/teacher Thomas formances. Announcements must be as brief as possible. FSchumacher in a master class on Wednesday, May 7 Because space is limited, the Exchange will operate on a at the International Piano Archives of the Clarice Smith “first come, first served” basis. Send submissions to Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. For [email protected]. information, contact the Piano Master Class Committee (Mary K. Traver, Chairman). Details will appear in the April Newsletter.

“There are no THE SUGGESTION BOX The FMMC Newsletter is starting a new independent “Suggestion Box.” If you have suggestions about how to improve existing programs, expand the elements in music.” opportunities we now offer, or create new ones, we want to hear from you. Please send your – DANIEL BARENBOIM suggestions to [email protected]. Friday Morning Music Club FIRST CLASS U S Postage 801 K Street, NW P A I D Washington, DC 20001 Lutherville, MD Permit No 171

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