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Season 2012-2013 23 Season 2012-2013 Thursday, April 11, at 7:00 The Philadelphia Orchestra Beyond the Score®: Pure Propaganda? Jaap van Zweden Conductor Michael Boudewyns Actor David Ingram Actor Benjamin Lloyd Actor Kimberly Schroeder Actor Alexandre Moutouzkine Piano A multi-media exploration of Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 Intermission ProkofievSymphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100 I. Andante II. Allegro marcato III. Adagio IV. Allegro giocoso This program runs approximately 2 hours. Beyond the Score® is made possible by support from the Hirschberg-Goodfriend Fund in memory of Adolf Hirschberg as established by Juliet J. Goodfriend and by the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation. Additional funding comes from the Annenberg Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Philadelphia Orchestra concerts are broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM on Sunday afternoons at 2 PM. Visit www.wrti.org to listen live or for more details. 24 Beyond the Score® is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Gerard McBurney, Creative Director, Beyond the Score Martha Gilmer, Executive Producer, Beyond the Score Cameron Arens, Production Stage Manager Acknowledgments Mary Evans Picture Library Lebrecht Music & Arts Rosenthal Archives 3 Story Title 25 The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin Renowned for its distinctive vivid world of opera and Orchestra boasts a new sound, beloved for its choral music. partnership with the keen ability to capture the National Centre for the Philadelphia is home and hearts and imaginations Performing Arts in Beijing. the Orchestra nurtures of audiences, and admired The Orchestra annually an important relationship for an unrivaled legacy of performs at Carnegie Hall not only with patrons who “firsts” in music-making, and the Kennedy Center support the main season The Philadelphia Orchestra while also enjoying a at the Kimmel Center for is one of the preeminent three-week residency in the Performing Arts but orchestras in the world. Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and also those who enjoy the a strong partnership with The Philadelphia Orchestra’s other area the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Orchestra has cultivated performances at the Mann Festival. an extraordinary history of Center, Penn’s Landing, artistic leaders in its 112 and other venues. The The ensemble maintains seasons, including music Philadelphia Orchestra an important Philadelphia directors Fritz Scheel, Carl Association also continues tradition of presenting Pohlig, Leopold Stokowski, to own the Academy of educational programs for Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Music—a National Historic students of all ages. Today Muti, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Landmark—as it has since the Orchestra executes a and Christoph Eschenbach, 1957. myriad of education and and Charles Dutoit, who community partnership Through concerts, served as chief conductor programs serving nearly tours, residencies, from 2008 to 2012. With 50,000 annually, including presentations, and the 2012-13 season, its Neighborhood Concert recordings, the Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin Series, Sound All Around is a global ambassador becomes the eighth music and Family Concerts, and for Philadelphia and for director of The Philadelphia eZseatU. the United States. Having Orchestra. Named music been the first American For more information on director designate in 2010, orchestra to perform in The Philadelphia Orchestra, Nézet-Séguin brings a China, in 1973 at the please visit www.philorch.org. vision that extends beyond request of President Nixon, symphonic music into the today The Philadelphia 4 Music Director Jessica Griffin Yannick Nézet-Séguin triumphantly opened his inaugural season as the eighth music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra in the fall of 2012. From the Orchestra’s home in Verizon Hall to the Carnegie Hall stage, his highly collaborative style, deeply-rooted musical curiosity, and boundless enthusiasm, paired with a fresh approach to orchestral programming, have been heralded by critics and audiences alike. The New York Times has called Yannick “phenomenal,” adding that under his baton, “the ensemble, famous for its glowing strings and homogenous richness, has never sounded better.” Over the past decade, Yannick has established himself as a musical leader of the highest caliber and one of the most exciting talents of his generation. Since 2008 he has been music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic, and since 2000 artistic director and principal conductor of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain. He has appeared with such revered ensembles as the Vienna and Berlin philharmonics; the Boston Symphony; the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; the Dresden Staatskapelle; the Chamber Orchestra of Europe; and the major Canadian orchestras. His talents extend beyond symphonic music into opera and choral music, leading acclaimed performances at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, London’s Royal Opera House, and the Salzburg Festival. In February 2013, following the July 2012 announcement of a major long-term collaboration between Yannick and Deutsch Grammophon, the Orchestra announced a recording project with the label, in which Yannick and the Orchestra will record Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. His discography with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for BIS Records and EMI/Virgin includes an Edison Award-winning album of Ravel’s orchestral works. He has also recorded several award-winning albums with the Orchestre Métropolitain for ATMA Classique. A native of Montreal, Yannick studied at that city’s Conservatory of Music and continued studies with renowned conductor Carlo Maria Giulini and with Joseph Flummerfelt at Westminster Choir College. In 2012 Yannick was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors. His other honors include Canada’s National Arts Centre Award; a Royal Philharmonic Society Award; the Prix Denise-Pelletier, the highest distinction for the arts in Quebec; and an honorary doctorate by the University of Quebec in Montreal. To read Yannick’s full bio, please visit www.philorch.org/conductor. 26 Conductor Bert Hulselmans Amsterdam-born Jaap van Zweden has risen rapidly in little more than a decade to become one of today’s most sought-after conductors. He has been music director of the Dallas Symphony since 2008, and in September 2012 he became music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Appointed at age 19 as the youngest concertmaster ever of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, he began his conducting career in 1995. He has held the positions of chief conductor of the Netherlands Symphony, the Residentie Orchestra of the Hague, and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, and chief conductor and artistic director of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra. He remains honorary chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and conductor emeritus of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra. Mr. van Zweden was recently named Musical America’s Conductor of the Year for 2012 in recognition of his critically-acclaimed work with the Dallas Symphony and as a guest conductor with the most prestigious U.S. orchestras, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, which he has conducted every season since making his debut in 2009. On the opera stage he has conducted Verdi’s La traviata and Beethoven’s Fidelio with the National Reisopera, and concert performances of Verdi’s Otello, Barber’s Vanessa, and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Parsifal, and Lohengrin at the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Highlights of the 2012-13 season and beyond include subscription debuts with the Orchestre de Paris, the San Francisco Symphony, the National Symphony, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and return visits to the Orchestre National de France, the Chicago and Saint Louis symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Rotterdam and London philharmonics. Mr. van Zweden’s numerous recordings include Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Petrushka, Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 with the London Philharmonic (LPO Live), and the complete Beethoven and Brahms symphonies. He is currently recording a cycle of Bruckner symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. 27 Actors Michael Boudewyns has appeared in numerous Beyond the Score presentations, including Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 with The Philadelphia Orchestra; Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition with the Des Moines Symphony; and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 4 with the National Symphony. Since 2004 he has been a frequent guest on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Family Concerts. Other family concert performances include the orchestras of Milwaukee, Charlotte, Princeton, Annapolis, Lincoln, New Haven, and Harrisburg. This season he appears with the Saint Louis, Illinois, Richmond, Winnipeg, and Texarkana symphonies; the Tulane University Orchestra; Camden’s Symphony in C; and with James Madison University’s Montpelier Wind Quintet and the University of Delaware’s Master Players Concert Series. Next season he debuts with the Kansas Symphony. Mr. Boudewyns is a graduate of the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Delaware and the co-founder of ReallyInventiveStuff.com. David Ingram has acted and directed in the Philadelphia area for over 20 years. He made his Philadelphia Orchestra debut in 2011 as Edward Elgar in the “Enigma” Variations Beyond the Score concert. He was last
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