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Edition 1 | 2019-2020 2019–2020 Season Welcome elcome to the 2019–2020 season! Our 37th season breaks new ground on many fronts, with captivating artists whose rising reputations are the talk of the music world, new music you haven’t heard before, a fresh collaboration with the world of dance, and a tribute to some very old ground, namely, our planet Earth. In October we welcome conductor Eric Jacobsen, co-founder of the ground-breaking ensemble The Knights, along with violinist Simone Porter, whose past few seasons were highlighted by performances with the LA Phil, Philadelphia Orchestra, and NY Phil…and she’s 23. On that same program we will perform the work of Brooklyn-based composer Caroline Shaw, the youngest-ever recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. So much for crusty old classical music. Through her visionary and boundary-busting programs conductor Rachael Worby has been re-defining the power of a symphony orchestra for many years. In December she is joined by the exquisite pianist HyeJin Kim and members of Ballet Hispanico, with a world premiere by composer Jed Feuer. In February she will lead the Phil and wunderkind violinist Ray Ushikubo. Our April concert coincides with the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and our program is equal to the moment. Conductor Jayce Ogren will lead two works composed as love letters to our planet, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Copland’s Appalachian Spring. But 2020 also happens to be the 250th birthday of a fellow named Beethoven, so his 4th Piano Concerto will be performed by the Phil with Israeli pianist Ran Dank. Breaking new ground is what the Westchester Philharmonic does every day of every season, with new music, new musicians, and new ideas. Welcome to today’s concert. And welcome to the “Phil Family”. Board of Directors Neil Aaron – Tony Aiello – Millicent Kaufman, Chair Emerita Christina Maurillo, Treasurer – Numa Rousseve, Chairman Hannah Shmerler – Murray Stahl, Vice Chair – Lisa A. Tibbitts Joshua Worby, Executive & Artistic Director WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 3 2019–2020 Season Meet the ORCHESTRA Musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic VIOLIN CELLO FRENCH HORN Robert Chausow, Eugene Moye, Principal Peter Reit, Principal Concertmaster Roberta Cooper Will De Vos Michael Roth, Lanny Paykin Lawrence DiBello Principal Second Violin Sarah Carter Nancy Billmann Robin Bushman, Eliana Mendoza Associate Concertmaster Maureen Hynes TRUMPET Martin Agee Maxine Neuman Lowell Hershey, Principal Diane Bruce Lorraine Cohen Victor Heifets BASS Wayne duMaine Elizabeth Kleinman Jordan Frazier, Principal Barbara Long Jack Wenger TROMBONE Wende Namkung Gregg August Hugh Eddy, Principal Elizabeth Nielsen Jered Egan Michael Seltzer Laura Oatts Dorothy Strahl FLUTE TUBA Sander Strenger Laura Conwesser, Principal Marcus Rojas, Principal Moira Tobey Rie Schmidt Carlos Villa Sheryl Henze PERCUSSION Carolyn Wenk-Goodman Ben Herman, Timpani Deborah Wong OBOE James Saporito, Principal D. Paul Woodiel Melanie Feld, Principal Kathy Halvorson HARP VIOLA Sara Cutler, Principal Kyle Armbrust, Principal CLARINET Sandra Robbins John Moses, Principal KEYBOARD Liuh Wen Ting Stephen Hart Christopher Oldfather, Leslie Tomkins Principal Jessica Troy BASSOON Frank Morelli, Principal LIBRARIAN Harry Searing Kristen Butcher PERSONNEL MANAGERS Jonathan Hass & Neil Balm WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 5 Joshua Worby, Executive & Artistic Director ppointed as Executive for which he and his partners were accorded Director in 2006, Joshua numerous industry honors and awards, Worby oversees the including Forbes Magazine’s “Best of the Best.” Westchester Philharmonic’s A former clarinetist, Mr. Worby received programming, administration, operations, his Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory and educational programs, and fundraising. Since Composition from the Crane School of Music 2008 he has also been chief architect of the at SUNY Potsdam with interdisciplinary studies Philharmonic’s concert seasons, programming in theater and dance. As a graduate theater repertoire and engaging and collaborating with student at Columbia University he studied conductors and soloists including Raymond directing and acting with Jose Quintero and Leppard, Jeremy Denk, Nadja Salerno- Bernard Beckerman, while also composing and Sonnenberg, Kazem Abdullah, Edgar Meyer, performing live sound scores Off- Broadway Andrew Litton, Jahja Ling, Marvin Hamlisch, for Richard III, Slaveship, and the U.S. debut Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Ted Sperling, of Cao Yu’s Peking Man, a collaboration with George Manahan, Jorge Mester, Tomomi Arthur Miller. At the Roundabout Theatre Nishimoto, and Itzhak Perlman. he composed and performed as an onstage Prior to the Phil, Mr. Worby was the musician-actor in Enrico IV and Rosencrantz Executive Director of the Princeton Symphony and Guildenstern Are Dead. Orchestra from 2001-2006, where he effected Mr. Worby serves on the New York State nearly double overall growth in attendance, Council for the Arts special diversity task force, contributions, and musicians’ wages. and, in 2016 was recognized as a “Diversity Before entering the orchestra field, Mr. Worby Champion” by the Westchester & Fairfield worked in the for-profit business arena. At the County Business Journals for his unique National Basketball Association he managed accomplishments, community involvement and licensing and sponsorships, including the roll- diversity advocacy. He serves as a panelist on outs of the inaugural 1992 “Dream Team,” the NYSCA’s Regional Economic Development WNBA, and the NBA Store on Fifth Ave. He Council and has served on the boards of the later co-founded one of the earliest e-commerce League of American Orchestras, the New businesses, Justballs! a sporting goods website School for Music Study, New Jersey Tap Ensemble, and New Jersey Opera. WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 7 8 WESTCHESTER PHILHARMONIC | 2019–2020 SEASON CONCERT I Sunday, October 27, 2019, at 3 pm Breaking New Ground The Eugene and Emily Grant Opening Concert Eric Jacobsen, conducting Simone Porter, violin CAROLINE SHAW (B. 1982) Entr’Act for strings SAMUEL BARBER (1910–1981) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.14 I. Allegro moderato II. Andante III. Presto in molto perpetuo Ms. Porter Intermission JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897) Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 73 I. Allegro non troppo II. Adagio non troppo III. Allegretto grazioso IV. Allegro con spirito This season is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. This season is made possible by ArtsWestchester with support from Westchester County Government. WESTCHESTERPHIL.ORG | 914-682-3707 9 Program Notes - CONCERT I Entr’acte (2011) for strings Entr’acte was written after hearing CAROLINE SHAW the Brentano Quartet play Haydn’s Born 1 August 1982 in Greenville, Quartet Op.77 No.2 — with their North Carolina spare and soulful shift to the D-flat Currently residing in New York City major trio in the minuet. It is structured like a minuet and trio, • Entr’acte originated as a movement riffing on that classical form but taking for string quartet it a little further. I love the way some • Shaw’s concept was a new take on the music (like the minuets of Opus 77) Haydn-esque minuet/trio combination suddenly takes you to the other side • She describes it as “a kind of absurd, of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of subtle, technicolor transition” absurd, subtle, technicolor transition. Caroline Shaw broke through to the We hear it in Ms. Shaw’s arrangement for forefront of the international new music string orchestra. world in 2013 when her Partita for 8 voices won the Pulitzer Prize in music. She was the youngest composer ever to Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op.14 receive that prestigious award. She studied SAMUEL BARBER at Rice, Yale, and Princeton, and currently Born 9 March, 1910 in serves on the faculty at NYU and as a West Chester, Pennsylvania Creative Associate at Juilliard. Died 23 January, 1981 in New York City Though she is not yet 40, Shaw’s career • Barber’s roots were in vocal music; has soared. She has fulfilled commissions this concerto sings throughout from soprano Renée Fleming, pianist • Departing from traditional concerto Inon Barnatan, the Dover and Calidore technique, the first movement Quartets, So− Percussion, and the explores lyrical, rhapsodic realms Baltimore Symphony, among others. • The finale makes up for it in a Last season Jonathan Biss was soloist perpetual motion whirlwind of in Watermark, Shaw’s new piano violin fireworks concerto for the Seattle Symphony; the LA Philharmonic commissioned An unabashed romantic in an era and introduced her The Observatory of dizzying musical change and for orchestra. She remains active as a experimentation, Samuel Barber performer, both as a violinist and as a acknowledged modernism without singer with A Roomful of Teeth. Caroline ever turning his back on the rich tonal loves the color yellow, otters, Beethoven’s tradition that gave rise to so many other Quartet Opus 74, Mozart’s operas, “isms” of 20th-century music. Nowhere Kinhaven, the smell of rosemary, and the is his gift more evident or immediately sound of a janky mandolin. accessible than in his Violin Concerto, completed in 1939. Entr’acte originated as a single movement for string quartet. Shaw has written: This Janus-faced piece embraces the old guard of diatonicism and ventures forth into less well-charted rhythmic and atonal waters. Its oddly duplicitous musical 10 WESTCHESTER PHILHARMONIC | 2019–2020 SEASON Program Notes - CONCERT I personality is the more arresting because Alpine paradise of the coincidence of its composition in the very early days of the Second World “So many melodies fly about that one War. Forced to leave Europe as war must be careful not to tread on them.” loomed, Barber composed the first two So wrote Johannes Brahms to friends movements in Europe, completing the in Vienna during the summer of 1877. concerto back in the USA. His rapturous observation was prompted by the beautiful mountain village of Long, expressive melodic lines dominate Pörtschach am Wörthersee in the province the first two movements, a celebration of of Carinthia.
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