The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

THU Thu/// The Israel 7:30PM Apr 3, 2014 Philharmonic 7:30PM Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, principal guest conductor

“fast, sleek, and dynamic.” – LA Times

Zubin Mehta, music director The music director’s position is endowed by the William Petschek Family

Classical music performances are made possible by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. We thank the Trustees for their visionary generosity.

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Pelléas et Mélisande: Suite, Op. 80...... Gabriel Fauré Prélude...... (1845–1924) Entr'acte: Fileuse (The Spinner) Sicilienne La mort de Mélisande (The Death of Melisande)

Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose)...... Maurice Ravel Prélude...... (1875–1937) Danse du rouet et scène (Dance of the Spinning Wheel and Scene) Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty) Les entretriens de la belle et de la bête (Conversations of Beauty and the Beast) Petit poucet (Tom Thumb) Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes (Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas) Le jardin féerique (The Enchanted Garden)

Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2...... Maurice Ravel

INTERMISSION

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14...... Hector Berlioz ...... (1803-1869)

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges Milton and Tamar Maltz for their generous underwriting of the Orchestra’s United States touring program, and American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as the principal underwriter of this tour. Program notes

In 1898, Gabriel Fauré received a commission the Ballets Russes, asked him to collaborate The printed program that Hector Berlioz to compose the incidental music for the first with Michel Fokine on a ballet of the Greek distributed at the 1830 premiere of Symphonie staging in London of Maurice Maeterlinck’s legend of Daphnis and Chloé. The project fantastique tells a loosely autobiographical symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. Fauré’s proved to be disillusioning for the composer. He tale inspired by Berlioz’s passion for the music, orchestrated by his student Charles had difficulty managing his creative differences Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, Koechlin, depicted the shadowy world of with Fokine, and the scandal Mikael Nijinksy whom he first saw on stage in 1827. The Maeterlinck’s drama. In 1901 and 1909, created with his ballet of Debussy’s Prélude program follows a young musician as he Fauré revisited the work to re-orchestrate it à l’après-midi d’un faune overshadowed the pursues his love through a series of increasingly and construct a concert suite. premiere of Ravel’s work ten days later. The fantastic scenes: their first encounter in a Ballets Russes did not stage Daphnis et Chloé dream, an elegant ball, a pastoral setting, the Maurice Ravel wrote a four-hand children’s again for two years. Diaghilev later wrote that musician’s execution and a witches’ dance. piano piece for the children of his friend the music was better suited for a symphonic An idée fixe – a recurring melody – appears in Cyprien Godebski in 1908, drawing inspiration performance than it was to a ballet. Indeed, each movement as the object of the musician’s from well-known fairy tales by Charles Perrault, after the ballet’s premiere, Ravel constructed affections materializes in the tableau. Berlioz’s the Comtesse d’Aulnoy and Marie Leprince two orchestral suites from the music, the masterful orchestration paints sonic images de Beaumont. Jacques Rouché, director of second of which was completed in 1913. Ravel of each scene. Berlioz also includes an off- the Théâtre des Arts in Paris, recognized insisted that his intention was not to depict stage oboe to create a sense of space in the the music’s theatrical possibilities and ancient Greece, but rather the Greece that pastoral movement, a pizzicato depiction of the commissioned Ravel to rework the piece as French artists of the 18th century imagined. musician’s head bouncing down the steps of a ballet. The composer adapted his simple Likewise, the music indicates the influence the scaffold at the end of the fourth movement, pianistic style into a score for small orchestra. of Russian, French and German composers and integrates Dies Irae into the counterpoint Each movement of the ballet depicts a tableau whose music Ravel studied in preparation of the witches’ dance in the final movement. from a fairy tale, rather than narrating a plot. to compose his own work. The influence of the harmonic language in Rimsky-Korsakov’s – Catherine Hughes is a PhD candidate in Music At the same time that Ravel was working on Shéhérazade is particularly evident in the at UNC-Chapel Hill. Ma Mère l’Oye, Sergei Diaghilev, impresario of second suite. carolina performing arts 13/14 37 The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra // continued Biographies Roster

First Violin The Israel Gianandrea Noseda, Ilya Konovalov, concertmaster• Philharmonic Orchestra principal guest conductor Lazar Shuster, concertmaster• The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is one Gianandrea Noseda is among the most sought- Yigal Tuneh, concertmaster• of Israel’s oldest and most influential cultural after conductors of our time. Since becoming Alexander Stark, asst. concertmaster institutions. Since its founding in 1936, the music director of the Teatro Regio Torino in Marilyn & Sigi z”l Ziering family endowed chair IPO has dedicated itself to presenting the 2007, he has propelled it into the ranks of Saida Bar-Lev world’s greatest music to audiences around leading opera houses. Maestro Noseda is chief Sharon Cohen the world. Founded by Polish violinist Bronislaw guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, Marina Dorman Huberman, the IPO represents the fulfillment Victor De Sabata guest conductor of the Adelina Grodsky of his dream “to unite the desire of the country Pittsburgh Symphony and conductor laureate Genadi Gurevich for an orchestra with the desire of the Jewish of the BBC Philharmonic. Rodica Iosub Rimma Kaminkovsky musicians for a country.” Its inaugural concert Polina Kozhevnikova was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who felt His career took off in 1997 when he was Eleonora Lutsky his participation was a means to demonstrate appointed the first foreign principal guest Robert Mozes his opposition to fascism. Members traveled in conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2002, Yevgenia Pikovsky armored cars to play in a besieged Jerusalem he became principal conductor of the BBC Yelena Tishin during the War of Independence, and Philharmonic, a post he held for nearly 10 Drorit Valk among Israelis, the memory of IPO Laureate years. Maestro Noseda now visits many of Conductor Leonard Bernstein conducting the the world’s great orchestras, including regular Second Violin engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra after the battle for Beersheba is an Elyakum Salzman* Orchestra (LSO). He made his debut at the historic moment. Semion Gavrikov* Aix-en-Provence Festival last summer with the Amnon Valk*** Under the esteemed leadership of Zubin LSO and opened its 2013/14 season at The Emanuel Aronovich Mehta, Music Director for Life, the IPO travels Barbican in September. Hadar Cohen extensively throughout the world as Israel’s Alexander Dobrinsky In 2012, he made his highly anticipated premiere cultural ambassador. The goodwill Shmuel Glaser debut at the Teatro alla Scala. He continued his created by these tours, including historic visits Kalman Levin work with young artists by leading a multi-city to Japan, Argentina, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Yoram Livne tour of the European Union Youth Orchestra China and India, is of enormous value to the Sivann Maayani Zelikoff with performances at the Stresa Festival in state of Israel. In 2005, the IPO traveled to Asaf Maoz Italy (Maestro Noseda is artistic director) and Berlin to commemorate 40 years of diplomatic Alexander Povolotzky relations between Israel and Germany. In at the Edinburgh International Festival – his Marianna Povolotzky 2013, Maestro Mehta led the IPO with violinist debut there. Avital Steiner Julian Rachlin in a tribute concert at Poland’s Olga Stern National Opera, commemorating the 70th Recent seasons have seen successful anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. debuts in Europe at the Vienna State Opera as Viola Joined by Zubin Mehta and Principal Guest well as in the US with the Cleveland Orchestra Miriam Hartman* Conductor Gianandrea Noseda, the IPO travels and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has Susan & Elihu Rose endowed chair to 14 cities across the US this season. made return visits to the Filarmonica della Roman Spitzer* Scala, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Claire & Albert Schussler endowed chair Through the efforts of the American Friends Pittsburgh Symphony. Amir Van Der Hal*** of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Dmitri Ratush*** generous support of donors worldwide, the An exclusive Chandos artist since 2002, Lotem Beider IPO returned to its home at Tel-Aviv’s Heichal Noseda’s numerous recordings include the Rachel Kam Hatarbut following extensive renovations. highly acclaimed series Musica Italiana, Shimon Koplansky The Mann Auditorium was renamed the championing known and lesser-known Italian Vladislav Krasnov Charles Bronfman Auditorium and hosted composers of the 20th century. For Deutsche Klara Nosovitsky its inaugural gala on May 25, 2013. The IPO Gramophone, he has recorded arias albums Matan Noussimovitch has released over 40 live recordings on the with Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko Eugenia Oren-Malkovsky Helicon, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, and Rolando Villazon. Aharon Yaron Philips and Teldec labels. The IPO gives more Born in Milan, Gianandrea Noseda is one of the than 100 performances each year in Israel to highest profile Italian cultural figures and holds their 26,000 subscribers in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem the honor of Cavaliere Ufficiale al Meritodella and Haifa. Repubblica Italiana.

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Cello Bass Clarinet Assistant Librarian Marcel Bergman* Jonathan Hadas Tal Rockman The Annenberg Foundation chair Emanuele Silvestri* Bassoon Operational & Stage Manager Shulamit Lorrain*** Daniel Mazaki* Uzi Seltzer Yoram Alperin Uzi Shalev*** Ruth Ziegler endowed chair Gad Lederman Technical Assistant Dmitri Golderman Carol Patterson Yaakov Kaufman Simon Hoffmann Yehoshua Pasternak (Chm n), Iakov Kashin Contrabassoon Yoel badi, Ayal Rafiah, IPO management Enrique Maltz Carol Patterson Avi Shoshani, secretary general Kirill Mihanovsky Peter Marck (Chm n), Yoel Abadi, Brad Annis, Felix Nemirovsky Horn James Madison Cox* Adelina Grodsky, Yehoshua Pasternak, Iris Regev Dalit Segal*** Marianna Povolotzky, Ayal Rafiah, Bass Michael Slatkin*** Uzi Shalev, Aharon Yaron, musicians council Teddy Kling* Yoel Abadi Stewart Taylor, personnel manager Peter Marck* Sally Meth Ben Moshe Enrique Maltz, inspector Nir Comforty*** Michal Mossek Merrill Greenberg, assembly chairman Brad Annis Shemuel Hershko & Eran Reemy, Uri Arbel Trumpet review committee Yigal Meltzer* Nimrod Kling Alex Ziv, finance manager Ram Oren** Eli Magen Yael Yardeni-Sela, marketing manager Eran Reemy Omry Weinberger Shosh Elad, asst. finance manager Hannah & Randy Polansky endowed chair Racheli Mizrachi, treasurer Harp Yuval Shapiro Irit Rub, keynote director Julia Rovinsky* Nira Oryan, mgr. subscription dept. Trombone Bagrat Chen, team mgr. Flute Stewart Taylor*+ Leon Franco, operation manager Yossi Arnheim* Nir Erez* Shlomi Mizrachi, IT mgr. Rochelle & David A. Hirsch endowed chair Yehoshua Pasternak*** Iris Abramovici Tevet, asst. sec. gen. Eyal Ein-Habar*** Micha Davis Galia Pesah, asst. marketing mgr. Boaz Meirovitch Niv Ofer Rachel Levy, public liaison Leor Eitan Michal Bach, asst. personnel manager Bass Trombone Dvorit Oren, artist coordinator Micha Davis Piccolo Orly Zabib, payroll manager Leor Eitan Tuba Liat Ohayon, payroll accountant Anat Eldar, chief accountant Shemuel Hershko* Oboe Orly Golan, bookkeeper Bruce Weinstein* Orly Tal, program editor Marilyn & Sigi z”l Ziering Family endowed chair Timpani Dan Moshayev* Tsilli Rudik, asst. program editor Dudu Carmel* Alexander Nemirovsky*** Shalom Tel Aviv, public relations Merrill Greenberg Jacob Katz & Co. Law Office, legal advisors Tamar Narkiss-Melzer Percussion Kost Forer & Gabbay, auditors English Horn Ayal Rafiah* (acting) Natalie & Murray S. Katz endowed chair For Opus 3 Artists Merrill Greenberg Gabi Hershkovich David V. Foster, president & CEO Alexander Nemirovsky Earl Blackburn, senior vice president, Clarinet manager, artists & attractions Ron Selka* Eitan Shapiro Leonard Stein, senior vice president, Yevgeny Yehudin* director, touring division Rashelly Davis Piano Israel Kastoriano• Tania Leong, associate Jonathan Hadas Judith & Burton Resnick endowed chair Irene Lönnblad, associate, touring division Piccolo Clarinet John Pendleton, tour manager Timothy Grassel, asst. tour manager  Ron Selka Principal Librarian Rachel Daliot Yevgeny Yehudin

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In 1936, the Polish-born Jewish As most of our audiences would agree, no recording can replace the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, magic of experiencing a live performance. Here at UNC, we are very anticipating the destruction of the lucky to play host to an ensemble as brilliant and full of character as the impending world war, persuaded Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. 75 Jewish musicians from around Europe to come to Palestine and The program that the orchestra has selected is of particular interest to me form The Palestine Orchestra. 78 because I am a huge fan of the 19th-century French orchestral repertoire. years later, the orchestra, now known When I was a freshman percussionist in the UNC Symphony Orchestra, as the Israel Philharmonic, is a major Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye Suite was the first piece that I performed, on the thriving music institution in Israel. very stage where I will now hear one of the world’s greatest orchestras From its founding, the musicians perform some of history’s greatest music. of the IPO have known that their orchestra was different. But the I cannot help but be inspired by a great orchestra playing great music and IPO of the 21st century consists of musicians from around the world can assure our audience that the performance of the Israel Philharmonic and has a sound that cannot be compared to its counterparts in Orchestra will not disappoint. Certainly Huberman foresaw the neighboring Europe. potential of the IPO at its founding in 1936. And here in 2014, we see that potential realized on the stage of our very own Memorial Hall. Tonight’s Growing up a music lover and now a young conductor myself, I am performance will be a memory that lasts for many, many years. captivated by recordings of the great orchestras: New York, Chicago, Cleveland, and Berlin; however, upon hearing my first Israel Philharmonic Vincent Povázsay is a senior music major at UNC-Chapel Hill. Orchestra recording, I knew that there was something special about this He studies conducting with Tonu Kalam and percussion with Dr. Juan orchestra. The rich and tumultuous history of the orchestra creates a Álamo. He is the founder and music director of the UNC Lab Orchestra, sound that is open and honest, fueled by the inspiration, imagination and an all-volunteer student orchestra. creativity of the diverse group of musicians that make up the orchestra.

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