BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC MUSIC DIRECTOR 49th Season 2002-2003

Craig G. Matthews President, Board of Directors

Catherine M. Cahill Chief Executive Officer

Present AMERICAN LOLLAPALOOZA

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House Friday Evening, February 21, 2003, 8PM Saturday Evening, February 22, 2003, 8PM

Kristjan J rvi , Conductor

Michael Daugherty Route 66 Steve Reich Three Movements Daniel Schnyder Hymn for a New Generation (New York Premiere) Aaron Jay Kernis Musica Celestis John Adams Lollapalooza John Mackey Redline Tango (World Premiere Philharmonic Commission) Daniel Schnyder Purple Haze Variations

Please join us immediately following the performance for Talkapalooza: a talkback with the composers.

This concert will be performed without an intermission. This concert celebrating American music is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fund. The commission of John Mackey's Redline Tango has been generously underwritten by Tile Greenwall Foundation.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges Mr. & Mrs. Stanley H. Kaplan, whose generous support made possible the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center Accoustical Shell

Pianos generously provided by Yamaha 2002-2003 Radio Sponsor, WNYC Season Sponsor HSBC Bank USA BROOKlYN PHilHARMONIC ROBERT SPANO MUSIC DIRECTOR American Lollapalooza New Generation, a New York premiere, and Kernis' Musica Ce/estis. Both using classical American slang for something "Large and techniques, each creates different sound Outrageous." That is what John Adams said scapes, one of beautiful minimal mysticism about the name of his composition and the other of a raucous ride of counter­ Lollapalooza. No wonder that this piece and point, fugues and canons. the famed rock festival share the same name. "The fusion of all that is music," is what the Adams creates an asymmetric groove-orient­ festival, the piece, and this concert are all ed piece that is essentially an awesome funk about. Composers and performers from John fusion jam for large . He really did Adams' generation to the present grew up mean "Large and Outrageous." Hope you feel and continue to grow up with American popu­ the same way! Written for this concert, John lar music, better defined as Rock! By embrac­ Mackey leads us to the end with the Redline ing this truest of American cultural forms, the Tango, a furious and fun industrial piece of compositions on this concert redefine , or bet­ music that will have you sitting at the edge of ter yet, define what new American concert your seat. The rhythms will drive you crazy!! If music is. This concert will be presented and after all of this you're still wondering what performed in a non-traditional way, like a rock Lollapalooza is, hold on to your seats for concert or a jazz set, so feel and act free. Get Daniel Schnyder's Purple Haze Variations. ready to have fun! This is Purple Haze as you've never heard it before. Jimi Hendrix couldn't have even imag­ From the propulsive beat of the brake drum in ined. the beginning of Michael Daugherty's swanky Kristjan Route 66 we are off on a ride into the endless spectrum of musical styles, a melting pot of a musical world with no limits or boundaries. ...~.\. These compositions draw on our "pop" cul­ ;' .-~.-~i" ture to create their own personal world of - .- music that is truly unique to America. We hear . everything from African and Latin beats, to New Tangos, to written out Funk. It is music I .. . :;; .,j, that is charged with the beat of our multi-cul­ tural metropolises and fueled with the con ­ & . :~ • stant flux of new cultures and ideas. It is the ~ J old and the new all wrapped up in one. . By phasing beats in subtly mutating rhythms , layered in waves, Steve Reich gets a hypnot­ ic groove effect that is very much like minimal trance music in clubs. It seems that the OJ's have finally caught up to Reich s composition­ al style after all. It is one of the most exhila­ rating and beautiful works of music. It uses the largest orchestral set up of this concert, About The Artists with four pianists playing two pianos, two KRIST JAN J RVI (Conductor) marimbas and two vibraphones as the core of Kristjan J rvi was born in Tallinn , Estonia, and the "rhythm section." The strings are divided moved with his family to New York when he into four violin sections, and two viola, cello was a small boy. Drawing from his inherited and bass sections. Listen for the antiphonal and adopted cultures, his musical tastes are effect! extremely eclectic. He is a keen advocate of Blending all that is different in the world of contemporary music and has already con­ music to make something we can truly call ducted numerous premi res by emerging American, we hear from two completely dif­ international composers including Erkki-Sven ferent perspectives in Schnyder's Hymn for a T r, Charles Coleman, Ezequiel Vi ao, .l ~ BROOKlYN PHilHARMONIC ROBERT SPANO MUSIC DIRECTOR Daniel Schnyder and Peeter V hi , whose THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC Supreme Silence he recorded in 1997 and The Brooklyn Philharmonic, under the artistic conducted in Hanover at EXPO 2000. vision of Music Director Robert Spano, has emerged as one of the nation s premier music Kristjan J rvi is the founder and Music ensembles and continues to be a vital pres­ Director of Absolute Ensemble, formed in ence in the cultural life of the New York met­ 1993 and based in New York. Described by ropolitan area. For over four decades, the The New York Times as compelling persua­ Brooklyn Philharmonic has played a leading sive one was left wanting to hear more , the role in the presentation of innovative and the­ group s repertoire ranges from pre-renais­ matic programming, receiving nineteen sance to rock. Their recording of Chamber ASCAP Awards out of the last 21 years for Symphonies by Adams and Schoenberg was Adventurous Programming in Contemporary reviewed in Classic CO : ...their together­ Music. Since its inception in 1954, audi­ ness [is] as tight as a drum. From the first ences have embraced the Brooklyn percussive taps they re vibrantly on the case, Philharmonic s commitment to the concept of alert and virtuosic , and in April 2000 their disc the orchestra as a contemporary performance Absolute Mix was awarded the German ensemble, emphasizing, as in the decades of Record Critics Award. The ensemble Beethoven and Brahms, important present­ received its first Grammy Nomination in the day music. The Philharmonic has premiered 2001 Grammy Awards in the "Best Small over 150 works, including 60 commissions. Ensemble Performance" category, for their The 2002-2003 season, Transformations: the CD Absolution. Healing Power of Music, explores music and its power by invoking faith, magic, invention From 1998-2000 Kristjan J rvi held the posi­ and literature in five innovative programs. tion of Assistant Conductor with the Los The season opened with the New York pre­ Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Of his miere of oOsvaldo Golijov s La Pasion Seg n Hollywood Bowl debut with the orchestra in San Marcos, a co-production with BAM . August 1999, The Los Angeles Times wrote Additional season highlights include The Hard ... a vigorous, brightly lit performance. Nut, in collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group, co-presented with BAM in The 2000101 season saw the start of his new December; this performance of American position as Principal Conductor of the Lollapalooza featuring the Brooklyn Norrlands Opera and Symphony Orchestra in Philharmonic debut of Kristjan J rvi , and Ume , Sweden. Previous guest conducting world premiere by John Mackey (commis­ engagements have included appearances sioned by the Brooklyn Philharmonic); and with the Adelaide Symphony, Bamberg Mozart s Cosi fan tutte directed by Sir Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony, National Jonathan Miller and , co-presented by BAM Bordeaux Aquitaine, Frankfurt Radio (April 2003). The season concludes with an Symphony, Hall, Japan Philharmonic, homage to Shakespeare including works by Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Residentie, George Benjamin, Henze, and Verdi. The RAI National Symphony, Royal Stockholm Brooklyn Philharmonic and Robert Spano Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de have been featured twice on CBS sLate Lausanne, Swedish Radio Symphony, Show with David Letterman as well as on Trondheim Symphony,Tallinn Chamber, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS s City Arts, NBC Stavanger Symphony and WDR Symphony News, and A&E s Breakfast with the Arts. . Additionally, the Brooklyn Philharmonic pres­ ents an ambitious series of Community Future engagements include appearances Collaborations and Educational Partnerships with the Bern Symphony, Budapest Festival, comprising nearly 200 events in schools, from Dresden Philharmonic, Mannheim Opera, elementary through college, museums, public San Diego Symphony, Stuttgart Philharmonic parks, houses of worship and other sites and Tonkuenstler orchestras and reinvitations across the borough. HSBC Bank USA is the to the Adelaide Symphony and RAI National major sponsor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic s Symphony orchestras. 2002-2003 season. WNYC Radio is the Brooklyn Philharmonic s season radio spon- sor. :t; BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC ROBERT SPANO MUSIC DIRECTOR AMERICAN LOLLAPALOOZA

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