CONCERT QUICK GUIDE Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage Leon Botstein, conductor FRI 12/9/2016 at 7:30 PM Performance #39: Season 2, Concert 10

DENOUNCED! All of the works on this program are by composers whose work was officially denounced by the Russian government in the 1948 Zhdanov decree.

Brief remarks by Jiyoung Moon, violin Nikolai Myaskovsky Born: 4/20/1881 in Novogeorgievsk, Poland Died: 8/8/1950 at age 68 in Moscow

Symphony No. 25 | 32 min Movements Adagio slow 14 min Moderato at a moderate pace 5 min Allegro impetuoso fast and vehement 13 min

Written 1945-46, in Myaskovsky’s mid-60s

Premiered 3/6/1947 at the Great Hall of the by the State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR; Aleksandr V. Gauk, conductor Denounced! Myaskovsky’s music was denounced as having “anti-democratic tendencies” two years after this symphony was completed.

On Stage 22 violins 1 piccolo 2 bassoons 1 tuba 8 violas 2 oboes 5 French horns timpani 7 cellos 1 English horn 3 trumpets 1 bass drum 6 double basses 2 clarinets 2 trombones crash cymbals 2 flutes 1 bass clarinet 1 bass trombone

Brief remarks by Adina Mu-Ying Tsai, violin Born: 9/25/1906 in St. Petersburg, Died: 8/9/1975 at age 68 in Moscow

From Jewish Folk Poetry | 26 min Movements Lament Over the Death of a Small Child 3 min The Loving Mother 2 min Cradle Song 4 min Before a Long Separation 3 min Warning 1 min The Forsaken Father 2 min Song of Misery 1 min Winter 3 min The Good Life 2 min Song of the Girl 3 min Happiness 2 min

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Written For piano and voices in 1948, at age 41; orchestrated in 1963

Premiered Piano version: 1/15/1955 in Leningrad; Shostakovich, piano; Nina Dorliak, soprano; Zara Dolukhanova, mezzo-soprano; Alexei Maslennikov, tenor Orchestral version: 2/19/1964 at the Second Contemporary Music Festival in Gorky, USSR by the Gorky Philharmonic Orchestra; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Galina Pisarenko, soprano; Larisa Avdeyeva, mezzo-soprano; Alexei Maslennikov, tenor Denounced! Following the Zhdanov decree in February 1948, Shostakovich completed this piece that August. Due to the political climate, it could only be per- formed privately, and did not receive a public premiere for over six years.

On Stage 22 violins 1 piccolo 2 bassoons crash cymbals 8 violas 2 oboes 1 contrabassoon 1 tam-tam 7 cellos 1 English horn 5 French horns 1 tambourine 6 double basses 2 clarinets timpani 1 xylophone 2 flutes 1 bass clarinet 1 bass drum 1 harp

Ilana Davidson, soprano soloist Sergey Polyakov, tenor soloist Katharine Goeldner, mezzo-soprano soloist

20-Minute Intermission at approx. 8:35 PM Share a selfie! @TheOrchNow #TheOrchNow

Refreshments available in the Citi Cafe on the Parquet level. Restrooms located on the Parquet, Second Tier, and Dress Circle levels.

Brief remarks by Caleb Wong, viola

Born: 4/23/1891 in Sontsovka, Ukraine Died: 4/5/1953 at age 61 in Moscow

Symphony No. 6 | 42 min Movements Allegro moderato moderately fast 15 min Largo slow and dignified 15 min Vivace very lively 12 min

Written 1944–47, in Prokofiev’s mid-50s

Premiered 10/11/1947 at the Leningrad Great Hall in Leningrad by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Yevgeny Mravinsky, conductor Denounced! In writing about this symphony, Zhdanov said, “Here the melodious, harmonious Prokofiev is often attacked, without provocation, by the other, storming Prokofiev.”

On Stage 22 violins 2 oboes 5 French horns 1 bass drum 1 tambourine 8 violas 1 English horn 3 trumpets crash cymbals 1 triangle 7 cellos 2 clarinets 2 trombones 1 snare drum 1 wood block 6 double basses 1 E-flat clarinet 1 bass trombone 1 suspended 1 piano 2 flutes 2 bassoons 1 tuba cymbal 1 celeste 1 piccolo 1 contrabassoon timpani 1 tam-tam 1 harp

All timings are approximate.

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