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Tenthing Thursday, April 11 at 11 Am Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, She Takes Peer to Her Father’S Palace SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL 30TH FESTIVAL SEASON MARCH 28–APRIL 13, 2019 PROGRAM NOTES BY KEN MELTZER tenTHING Thursday, April 11 at 11 am Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, She takes Peer to her father’s palace. Peer is Trinity United Methodist Church from Lyric Pieces, Opus 65, No. 6 (1896) surrounded by the Troll King’s subjects, who Approximate performance time is 7 minutes. threaten the young man. SMF performance history: SMF premiere EDVARD GRIEG (1843–1907) Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Excerpts from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Between 1867 and 1901, Edvard Grieg composed from Lyric Pieces, Opus 65, No. 6 (1896) (1670) ten volumes of solo piano works entitled Lyric In the Hall of the Mountain King, Pieces, comprising 66 pieces. The eighth volume Approximate performance time is 10 minutes. from Incidental Music to Peer Gynt (1875) of Lyric Pieces, a set of six works, was composed SMF performance history: SMF premiere JEAN-BAPTISTE LULLY (1632–1687) in 1896, and published the following year as Excerpts from Le Bourgeois gentilhomme Grieg’s Opus 65. Edvard Grieg married his first Molière’s play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670) cousin, soprano Nina Hagerup, on June 11, 1867. (The Bourgeois Gentleman) concerns the BIAGIO MARINI (1594–1663) In 1892, the couple celebrated their 25th wedding misadventures of Monsieur Jourdain, a member Passacalio a 3 & a 4 (1655) anniversary with dear friends. To memorialize of the nouveau-riche who aspires to the GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL the occasion, Grieg composed a piano work he aristocracy. To that end, Jourdain hires a host of (1685–1759) originally titled The Well-Wishers are Coming. teachers and other artisans in order to assist him “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” Grieg later changed the title to Wedding Day at with his attempts at social climbing. In the end, from Solomon (1749) Troldhaugen, a reference to the composer’s home Jourdain’s aspirations cause him to be duped into JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957) (the translation of the Norwegian name is “The allowing a middle-class young man to marry his Valse Triste (1903) Hill of the Trolls”) located in the city of his birth, daughter. The first performance of Le Bourgeois BÉLA BARTÓK (1881–1945) Bergen. gentilhomme was presented on November 23, Romanian Folk Dances (1915) 1670 for the Court of Louis XIV. Molière himself Wedding Day at Troldhaugen is in A–B–A form, performed the role of M. Jourdain. Jean-Baptiste ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) Invierno Porteño (Winter) with two lively and cheerful episodes (Tempo di Lully, one of France’s most prominent composers, from Cuatro Estacíones Porteñas Marcia un poco vivace) framing a more lyrical provided the music for the five-act comédie- (Four Seasons in Buenos Aires) section (Poco tranquillo). ballet. This concert features excerpts from Lully’s (ca. 1968) rich and delightful score. JOHN KANDER (b. 1927) In the Hall of the Mountain King, “Hot Honey Rag” and “Cell Block Tango” Passacalio a 3 & a 4 (1655) from Chicago (1975) from Incidental Music to Peer Gynt (1875) AARON COPLAND (1900-1990) Approximate performance time is 4 minutes. Approximate performance time is 6 minutes. Hoe-Down, from Rodeo (1942) SMF performance history: SMF premiere SMF performance history: SMF premiere In January of 1874, Norwegian author Henrik Italian composer Biagio Marini began his musical Ibsen asked his compatriot Grieg to compose career as a violinist at St. Mark’s Cathedral Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet incidental music for the premiere of his dramatic in Venice, under the direction of Claudio Guro Bjørnstad Kraft, trumpet poem, Peer Gynt. On February 24, 1876, Ibsen’s Monteverdi. After serving the Parma court from Elin Holmen Kurverud, trumpet Peer Gynt, accompanied by Grieg’s score, 1621–3, Marini traveled throughout Europe. In Maren Ingeborg Tjernsli, trumpet premiered in Oslo. The production was a triumph, 1649, Marini returned to Italy, working in Brescia Lena Wik, horn and soon, Ibsen’s text and Grieg’s music were and Venice. Marini composed both vocal and Ingebjørg Klovholt, trombone considered inseparable. instrumental music, although he is best known Tone Christin Lium Røssland, trombone for the latter. Frøydis Aslesen, trombone Peer Gynt is a young Norwegian peasant who Astri Karoline Ellann, bass trombone leaves his village, and Solveig—the one woman The Passacalio (Passacaglia) for three and Karin Nordli, tuba who truly loves him—in search of adventure. four instrument voices, opens with a brief Peer’s travels, which span the globe and many Introduction, in 4/4 time. The meter then shifts decades, fail to provide him with true happiness. to 3/2, for the introduction of the repeated As an old man, Peer finally returns to his village. Passacaglia figure that serves as the basis for There, he is met by Solveig, who cradles Peer in three episodes. The work closes with a short her arms. Finale that returns to 4/4. “In the Hall of the Mountain King”—Peer meets the daughter of the Troll King of the Mountains. SAVANNAHMUSICFESTIVAL.ORG | BOX OFFICE 912.525.5050 1 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL 30TH FESTIVAL SEASON MARCH 28–APRIL 13, 2019 “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,” from Solomon (1749) Bartók’s use of folk music in his own classical artists as Gidon Kremer, Yo-Yo Ma, and compositions encompassed other nationalities as the Kronos String Quartet. Approximate performance time is 4 minutes. well. In 1915, Bartók composed the Romanian Folk SMF performance history: SMF premiere Dances, a brief work for solo piano. Two years Astor Piazzolla’s Cuatro Estacíones Porteñas later, Bartók arranged the Romanian Folk Dances (Four Seasons in Buenos Aires) are a superb Solomon, one of Handel’s finest oratorios, for small orchestra. There have been several example of the composer’s blending of tango, premiered at London’s Covent Garden Theatre other arrangements for various ensembles. The jazz, and classical elements. The work is in four on March 17, 1749. Solomon, depicting episodes dances, played without pause, are: movements, Verano Porteño (Summer) Otono in the life of the biblical king, is in three acts. The Porteño (Autumn) Invierno Porteño (Winter), first is set around the consecration of the Temple I. Joc cu bâta (Stick Dance); Allegro moderato and Primavera Porteño (Spring). This concert in Jerusalem. The second depicts the famous features the Winter movement. episode in which two women claim a child as II. Brâul (Sash Dance); Allegro their own, with Solomon displaying the wisdom “Hot Honey Rag” and “Cell Block Tango” that solves the mystery. The final act concerns III. Pe loc (In One Spot); Andante from Chicago (1975) a visit to Solomon’s kingdom by the Queen of Sheba. The act begins with a lively orchestral IV. Buciumeana (Horn Dance); Moderato Approximate performance time is 10 minutes. piece, “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.” SMF performance history: SMF premiere V. Poargâ româneascâ (Rumanian Polka); Allegro The iconic Broadway musical Chicago opened Valse Triste (1903) VI. Mâruntel (Fast Dance); Allegro at the 46th Street Theatre in New York on June Approximate performance time is 6 minutes. 3, 1975, and ran for a total of 936 performances. SMF performance history: SMF premiere Other major productions, and a movie version Invierno Porteño (Winter) in 2002, followed. Chicago, one of the longest- from Cuatro Estacíones Porteñas Jean Sibelius’s Valse Triste was originally part of running musicals in the history of Broadway, (Four Seasons in Buenos Aires) (ca. 1968) incidental music the Finnish composer wrote for features music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred a play by his brother-in-law, Arvid Järnefelt. That Approximate performance time is 7 minutes. Ebb, and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in play, Kuolema (Death) premiered in 1903. The SMF performance history: SMF premiere the Roaring Twenties, Chicago tells the story of music accompanied a scene in which the hero’s two song and dance performers, Roxie Hart and gravely-ill mother dances with Death. As a youth, Astor Piazzolla spent time both in Velma Kelly (Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera, in his native Argentina and New York City’s Little the original Broadway production), both charged Sibelius’s haunting and beautiful music quickly Italy. During that period, Piazzolla was exposed with murder. At the close of the show, Roxie and established itself as an independent concert to classical and popular music, including the Velma team for a two-woman show, performing piece. It remains one of the composer’s most tango. In 1954, Piazzolla moved to Paris, where he the “Hot Honey Rag.” “Cell Block Tango” popular compositions. studied with Nadia Boulanger. Piazzolla’s classical takes place in Act I. Roxie, arrested and jailed, works failed to impress Boulanger. “This music encounters other inmates who relate the stories is well written,” Boulanger observed, “but it lacks of their crimes. Romanian Folk Dances (1915) feeling.” But when Piazzolla performed one of his Approximate performance time is 4 minutes. tangos, Boulanger exclaimed: “This is Piazzolla! Hoe-Down, from Rodeo (1942) SMF performance history: 4/08/18 Don’t ever leave it!” This marked a turning point for Piazzolla. As he later recalled, Boulanger Approximate performance time is 3 minutes. Béla Bartók maintained a lifelong affection for “helped me find myself.” SMF performance history: 3/22/13 the folk music of his native Hungary. As a young man, Bartók made the first of many journeys Piazzolla “threw away all the other music and, After studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in to the Hungarian countryside. On several of in 1954, started working on my New Tango.” the 1920s, Aaron Copland returned to his native these trips, Bartók was joined by his friend, This “New Tango” infused the seductive Latin United States.
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