KIDS�OOK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

CSO SCHOOL CONCERTS March 16, 2018, 10:15 & 12:00 CSO FAMILY MATINEE SERIES March 17, 2018, 11:00 & 12:45

Presented in collaboration with

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binoculars, field CURIOSITY COLLECTING INFORMATION pen and notebook and Let’s Explore

the fascinating Scientists have explored the natural connections VENEZUELA world for centuries. Today, there are still areas of our planet that are between music and largely unknown to researchers. In

CREDIT: THE BRAIN SCOOP-PERU / CORINE VRIESENDORP + NIGEL PITMAN NIGEL + VRIESENDORP CORINE / SCOOP-PERU BRAIN THE CREDIT: 2014, The Field Museum worked COLOMBIA the natural world! with local experts in the Peruvian Amazon to learn about its complex environment and ecosystems as well as to discover new species and ECUADOR habitats. These local experts led scientists through the forest and down rivers to help them collect fish and plants and record bird calls. LET'S EXPLORE When scientists study what’s in the air, trees and water, they can PERFORMERS paint a more complete picture of The Chicago an environment, understand how Symphony Orchestra PERU these systems work together and Edwin Outwater help keep them healthy for the conductor long term. BOLIVIA Emily Graslie co-host BRAZIL

PROGRAM INCLUDES SELECTIONS FROM Frank Composers sometimes work like

The Mestizo Waltz scientists. They gather information CHILE PARAGUAY from Three Latin- from the world around them and American Dances use their imaginations to turn it into music. Composer Gabriela Lena Beethoven Frank travels to unfamiliar places Symphony No. 5 for inspiration and to record Smetana native melodies that she can The Moldau use in her music. As you listen from Má vlast to The Mestizo Waltz, imagine Bates Gabi Frank leading musical field research in Peru to find sounds URUGUAY Desert Transport ARGENTINA to use in the orchestra.

When composers study what they hear in the cultural ecosystems CSO School Concerts of other places, they promote an CSO Family Matinee series appreciation of the world’s music LET'S EXPLORE and the people who make it. 2 3 KANKAKEE MALLOW CHICAGO CURIOUS

COMPOSERS INQUIRY AND SCIENTISTS

After being overrun by invasive weeds, Langham Island in the Kankakee River had lost one of its most special residents—the USING YOUR

DISCOV Kankakee mallow. Because the island is the ERY only place this flower is known to grow in the wild, nature-loving volunteers worked CURIOSITY to remove the invasive species and restore the ecosystem. In 2015, their work paid Nature is all around you: on your city streets off, as hundreds of new Kankakee mallow and in your alleyways and backyards. All you seedlings emerged from the ground, having have to do is look down at the sidewalk or up lain dormant as seeds underneath the soil and toward the skyscrapers to notice it. CELLS weeds. Despite the problems humans can Curiosity about nature led composer

EXPLORA cause for our wild spaces, we have the power to write Desert Transport. TION ARE THE to create solutions when we work together. This piece is about a journey he took through STARTING POINT the air to see the world in a different way. The music captures the dynamic Arizona SUE the T. rex is one of the most famous landscape from the high-flying viewpoint dinosaurs of all time. Scientists are of a helicopter. Through his window, Mason continually learning new things about this Bates could see the constantly changing dinosaur specimen—the largest, most desert colors, saguaro cacti and looming complete T. rex ever discovered and one red rocks, which seemed like giants among of the most extensively studied. the red-orange landscape. Like SUE the T. rex, Ludwig van LANGHAM ISLAND TO CHICAGO: 55 MILES Even if you don’t have a helicopter, take a Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 is one of moment to look inquisitively at the world the most famous pieces of orchestral around you. As you explore, ask questions, music and it is still studied by today’s and if someone responds with “I don’t music scholars. The very famous first know,” let that be the starting point for a four notes make up the cell that is the new and exciting discovery! building block of the entire piece. KANKAKEE MALLOW

Just as living Bedrˇich Smetana captured the likeness organisms are a and journey of a river in The Moldau collection of smaller from Má vlast. This music is meant to “Unique environments can parts, this piece of reflect all the ways the water ebbs and be found everywhere, music is made up of flows (calm, running and turbulent) and many cells, some of which are repeated all that appears along the shore. including places that may many, many times. When we examine As you listen to this piece, not seem very ‘natural’— that musical cell and the way it binds notice how the music sounds like the farm fields of .” the rest of the music together, we learn like a moving river, and wonder a lot about the meaning of the music. EMILY GRASLIE about the journey taken by the CHIEF CURIOSITY CORRESPONDENT Kankakee mallow. THE FIELD MUSEUM

4 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / LET'S EXPLORE 5 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | RICCARDO MUTI zell music director YO-YO MA Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant DUAIN WOLFE Chorus Director and Conductor MEeT SAMUEL ADAMS, ELIZABETH OGONEK Mead Composers-in-Residence THE CONDUCTOR VIOLINS Sunghee Choi PICCOLO Robert Chen Wei-Ting Kuo Jennifer Gunn Jay Friedman Concertmaster Danny Lai Principal EDWIN OUTWATER The Louis C. Sudler Diane Mues The Lisa and Paul Wiggin Michael Henoch Chair, endowed by an Lawrence Neuman Principal Chair Assistant Principal Edwin is the Director of Summer Concerts at the San anonymous benefactor Max Raimi Michael Mulcahy The Gilchrist = Stephanie Jeong Weijing Wang Charles Vernon Francisco Symphony. Foundation Chair Associate Concertmaster CELLOS Lora Schaefer BASS TROMBONE He has conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cathy and Bill = John Sharp Scott Hostetler Charles Vernon New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Osborn Chair Principal David Taylor ENGLISH HORN Los Angeles Philharmonic and Seattle Symphony, The Eloise W. Martin Chair Yuan-Qing Yu Scott Hostetler Gene Pokorny among many others. Kenneth Olsen Assistant Concertmasters* Principal Assistant Principal Edwin conducted the world premiere of “The So Young Bae The Arnold Jacobs = The Adele Gidwitz Chair Stephen Williamson Composer Is Dead” by Nathaniel Stookey and Lemony Cornelius Chiu Principal Tuba Chair, Karen Basrak Principal Alison Dalton endowed by Snicket while he was Resident Conductor of the San Loren Brown John Bruce Yeh Gina DiBello Christine Querfeld Francisco Symphony from 2001–2006. Richard Hirschl Assistant Principal Kozue Funakoshi Daniel Katz Gregory Smith TIMPANI Edwin Outwater was born in Santa Monica, . Russell Hershow = Katinka Kleijn§ J. Lawrie Bloom David Herbert He loves to read and earned his undergraduate Qing Hou Jonathan Pegis Principal Blair Milton E-FLAT degree from Harvard University in English literature. David Sanders The Clinton Family Paul Phillips, Jr. John Bruce Yeh Gary Stucka Fund Chair Sando Shia Brant Taylor BASS CLARINET Vadim Karpinos Susan Synnestvedt J. Lawrie Bloom Assistant Principal Rong-Yan Tang BASSES Alexander Hanna PERCUSSION Baird Dodge Principal Keith Buncke Cynthia Yeh Principal ME T The David and Principal Principal e Sylvia Kim Kilcullen Mary Winton Green William Buchman Patricia Dash Assistant Principal Principal Bass Chair Assistant Principal Vadim Karpinos Lei Hou Daniel Armstrong Dennis Michel James Ross Ni Mei THE GUEST ARTIST Roger Cline† Miles Maner Fox Fehling LIBRARIANS Joseph DiBello Hermine Gagné Peter Conover Michael Hovnanian EMILY GRASLIE Rachel Goldstein Miles Maner Principal Robert Kassinger Mihaela Ionescu Carole Keller Mark Kraemer HORNS Emily Graslie is Chief Curiosity Correspondent Melanie Kupchynsky Mark Swanson = Stephen Lester Daniel Gingrich for The Field Museum, and the creator, host Wendy Koons Meir Bradley Opland Acting Principal ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL and writer for its educational YouTube® series, Matous Michal James Smelser John Deverman Simon Michal HARPS The Brain Scoop. David Griffin Director Aiko Noda Sarah Bullen Oto Carrillo Anne MacQuarrie Launched in January 2013, The Brain Scoop aims Joyce Noh Principal = Susanna Gaunt Manager, CSO Auditions to share the research and collections work of Nancy Park† Lynne Turner and Orchestra Personnel natural history museums with a broad audience. Ronald Satkiewicz FLUTES Florence Schwartz Mark Ridenour STAGE TECHNICIANS To date, Emily and her team have created around Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson Assistant Principal Kelly Kerins 175 videos, which have been viewed more than VIOLAS Principal John Hagstrom Stage Manager Li-Kuo Chang The Erika and Dietrich M. 22 million times by passionate learners from all Tage Larsen Dave Hartge Assistant Principal Gross Principal Flute Chair over the world. James Hogan The Louise H. Benton Richard Graef Peter Landry Emily’s work has received numerous awards, and Wagner Chair Assistant Principal = Christopher Lewis she is a 2018 member of the Forbes "30 Under John Bartholomew Emma Gerstein Todd Snick Catherine Brubaker Jennifer Gunn 30" list in Education. Joe Tucker Youming Chen = In addition to her love for science, Emily is also involved in the arts and has been playing the

CREDIT: TOM MCNAMARA / THE BRAIN SCOOP / THE FIELD MUSEUM violin since she was eight. = Her favorite piece to perform has been "Mars" from The Planets by Holst with the Symphony

Orchestra at the University of Montana. *Assistant concertmasters are listed by seniority. †On sabbatical §On leave The Paul Hindemith Principal Viola Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor, is currently unoccupied. The Nancy and Larry Fuller Principal Chair is currently unoccupied. The Adolph Herseth Principal Chair, endowed by an anonymous benefactor, is currently unoccupied. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra string sections utilize revolving seating. Players behind the first desk (first two desks in the 6 CSO School Concerts / CSO Family Matinee series / LET'S EXPLORE violins) change seats systematically every two weeks and are listed alphabetically. Section percussionists also are listed alphabetically. 7 INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA THE STRING FAMILY includes violin, viola, cello, bass and harp. These instruments are made of wood and strings and are played by vibrating the strings using a bow or plucking or striking the strings with the fingers.

Violin Viola Cello Bass Harp THE WOODWIND FAMILY includes flute, oboe, clarinet, and saxophone. These instruments THE BRASS FAMILY includes horn, trumpet, all have the same basic shape: a long tube with a trombone, euphonium and tuba. Brass instruments mouthpiece at one end. The flute is played by blowing make a sound when the players vibrate their lips inside across a mouthpiece to create a vibration. Oboe, a mouthpiece, which is fitted into the instrument. clarinet, bassoon and saxophone are all played by The players can change pitch on a trumpet, horn or blowing air into a single or double reed attached to the tuba by pressing on valves. Trombone players change mouthpiece, creating a vibration that results in sound. pitch by moving the slide back and forth.

Trumpet Flute Oboe Clarinet Trombone Saxophone Tuba Horn Bassoon

THE PERCUSSION FAMILY includes snare drum, bass drum, gong, triangle, xylophone, timpani and , among many others. Percussion instruments are struck, scraped or shaken.

Timpani Snare Drum Xylophone Cymbal Piano

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