27 Season 2013-2014 Thursday, October 24, at 8:00 The Philadelphia Orchestra Friday, October 25, at 2:00 Saturday, October 26, at Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Conductor 8:00 Augustin Hadelich Violin Lalo Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21, for violin and orchestra I. Allegro non troppo II. Scherzando: Allegro molto III. Intermezzo: Allegretto non troppo IV. Andante V. Rondo: Allegro Intermission Debussy La Mer I. From Dawn to Midday at Sea II. Play of the Waves III. Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea Ravel Suite No. 2 from Daphnis and Chloé I. Daybreak— II. Pantomime— III. General Dance This program runs approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes. Philadelphia Orchestra concerts are broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM on Sunday afternoons at 1 PM. Visit www.wrti.org to listen live or for more details. 3 Story Title 29 The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin The Philadelphia Orchestra community itself. His concerts to perform in China, in 1973 is one of the preeminent of diverse repertoire attract at the request of President orchestras in the world, sold-out houses, and he has Nixon, today The Philadelphia renowned for its distinctive established a regular forum Orchestra boasts a new sound, desired for its for connecting with concert- partnership with the National keen ability to capture the goers through Post-Concert Centre for the Performing hearts and imaginations of Conversations. Arts in Beijing. The Orchestra audiences, and admired for annually performs at Under Yannick’s leadership a legacy of innovation in Carnegie Hall while also the Orchestra returns to music-making. The Orchestra enjoying annual residencies in recording with a newly- is inspiring the future and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and at released CD on the Deutsche transforming its rich tradition the Bravo! Vail festival. Grammophon label of of achievement, sustaining Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring Musician-led initiatives, the highest level of artistic and Leopold Stokowski including highly-successful quality, but also challenging transcriptions. In Yannick’s Cello and Violin Play-Ins, and exceeding that level, by inaugural season the shine a spotlight on the creating powerful musical Orchestra has also returned Orchestra’s musicians, as experiences for audiences at to the radio airwaves, with they spread out from the home and around the world. weekly Sunday afternoon stage into the community. Music Director Yannick broadcasts on WRTI-FM. The Orchestra’s commitment Nézet-Séguin triumphantly to its education and Philadelphia is home and opened his inaugural community partnership the Orchestra nurtures an season as the eighth artistic initiatives manifests itself important relationship not leader of the Orchestra in numerous other ways, only with patrons who support in fall 2012. His highly including concerts for families the main season at the collaborative style, deeply- and students, and eZseatU, Kimmel Center but also those rooted musical curiosity, a program that allows full- who enjoy the Orchestra’s and boundless enthusiasm, time college students to other area performances paired with a fresh approach attend an unlimited number at the Mann Center, Penn’s to orchestral programming, of Orchestra concerts for Landing, and other venues. have been heralded by a $25 annual membership The Orchestra is also a global critics and audiences alike. fee. For more information on ambassador for Philadelphia Yannick has been embraced The Philadelphia Orchestra, and for the U.S. Having been by the musicians of the please visit www.philorch.org. the first American orchestra Orchestra, audiences, and the 30 Conductor Steve J. Sherman This season marks Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’s 150th appearance with The Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia. The 80-year-old conductor made his American debut with the Philadelphians on Valentine’s Day in 1969. A regular guest with all of North America’s top orchestras, he conducts the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics and the Boston, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco, Saint Louis, Houston, Seattle, New World, and National symphonies in the 2013-14 season. He also appears annually at the Tanglewood Music Festival. From 2004 to 2011 he was chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic. This is his second season as chief conductor of the Danish National Orchestra. Born in Burgos, Spain, Mr. Frühbeck studied violin, piano, music theory, and composition at the conservatories in Bilbao and Madrid; he studied conducting at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize. Named Conductor of the Year by Musical America in 2011, he has received numerous other honors and distinctions, including the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna; Germany’s Order of Merit; the Gold Medal from the Gustav Mahler International Society; and the Jacinto Guerrero Prize, Spain’s most important musical award, conferred in 1997 by the Queen of Spain. In 1998 Mr. Frühbeck was appointed emeritus conductor of the Spanish National Orchestra. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra in Spain and since 1975 has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. Mr. Frühbeck has made tours with ensembles including London’s Philharmonia, the London Symphony, the National Orchestra of Madrid, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, and The Philadelphia Orchestra, and he has toured North America with the Vienna Symphony, the Spanish National Orchestra, and the Dresden Philharmonic. Mr. Frühbeck has recorded extensively for EMI, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Spanish Columbia, and Orfeo. Several of his recordings are considered to be classics, including his interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St. Paul, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina burana, Bizet’s Carmen, and the complete works of Spanish composer Manuel de Falla. 31 Soloist Violinist Augustin Hadelich is making his Philadelphia Orchestra debut. This season he also debuts with the Atlanta, Detroit, and Oregon symphonies in the U.S.; the Bournemouth Symphony in England; the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto in Portugal; and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Other 2013-14 highlights include a recital at New York’s Frick Collection celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Museum’s concert series; a tour of China with the San Diego Symphony; and a week-long residency with the Cincinnati Symphony. In April 2014 Mr. Hadelich, along with guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas and pianist Joyce Yang, performs at the Kennedy Center for the premiere of an originally-conceived multimedia recital, Tango Song and Dance, based on, and named after, André Previn’s work for violin and piano. Last season Mr. Hadelich made his debut with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood; his subscription debut with the New York Philharmonic; and debuts with the San Francisco, Dallas, New Jersey, Saint Louis, Milwaukee, and Toronto symphonies, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, and the SWR Orchestra. In the summer of 2013 he performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the New York Philharmonic at the Bravo! Vail festival, the Britt Festival Orchestra in Oregon, and the Chautauqua Symphony in New York. Mr. Hadelich has made three recordings for AVIE: Flying Solo, a CD of masterworks for solo violin; Echoes of Paris, featuring French and Russian repertoire; and Histoire du Tango, a program of violin-guitar works in collaboration with Mr. Sáinz Villegas. For Naxos he has recorded Haydn’s complete violin concertos and Telemann’s Fantasies for solo violin. The son of German parents, Mr. Hadelich was born in Italy in 1984. He holds an Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School, where he was a student of Joel Smirnoff. The 2006 gold medalist of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Mr. Hadelich is also the recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award (2012), a Borletti- Buitoni Trust Fellowship in the U.K. (2011), and an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009). He plays the 1723 “Ex- Kiesewetter” Stradivarius violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society. 32 Framing the Program Édouard Lalo is the senior member of the trio of French Parallel Events masters featured on the program today, which opens with 1874 Music his best loved work, the exuberant Symphonie espagnole. Lalo Verdi The five-movement piece is in essence a dazzling violin Symphonie Requiem concerto, yet its name captures both the symphonic espagnole Literature ambitions of the score as well as the southern inspiration Hardy from Spain. Far from the Madding Crowd Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel were the most Art famous French composers of the next generation and Renoir figures whose innovations became associated with the La Loge Impressionist movement, a term initially used pejoratively History in connection with Claude Monet’s paintings. Many of Billroth discovers Debussy’s pieces were inspired by images and nature. streptococci As he remarked in 1908: “I am trying in some way to do ‘something different’—an effect of reality—what some 1905 Music imbeciles call ‘Impressionism,’ a term that is utterly Debussy Strauss La Mer La Mer Salome misapplied, especially by the critics.” In he offers Literature three meditations on the sea: “From Dawn to Midday at Wharton Sea,” “Play of the Waves,” and “Dialogue of the Wind and House of Mirth the Sea.” Art Many of the greatest early-20th-century composers Picasso produced music for Sergei Diaghilev’s legendary Ballets Two