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Russkaya Dusha! (The Russian Soul) Adam Stern, Music Director and Conductor Friday, April 6, 2018 7:30 p.m. MEYDENBAUER THEATRE Russkaya Dusha! (The Russian Soul) Adam Stern, conductor Shiang-Yin Lee, cello MIKHAIL GLINKA (1804-1857) Kamarinskaya ALEXANDER BORODIN (1833-1887) Prince Igor: Polovtsian March VASILY KALINNIKOV (1866-1901) Chanson triste ANATOL LIADOV (1855-1914) Eight Russian Folksongs, Op. 58 Religious Chant Christmas Carol Plaintive Song Humorous Song (“I Danced With a Gnat”) Legend of the Birds Cradle Song Round Dance Village Dance-Song INTERMISSION ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV (1865-1936) Chant du ménestrel (Song of the Minstrel), Op. 71 Shiang-Yin Lee, cello ALEXANDER BORODIN In the Steppes of Central Asia NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908) Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34 Alborada (Morning Song) Variazioni (Variations) Alborada Scena e canto gitano (Scene and Gypsy Song) Fandango asturiano Please turn off all cell phones and pagers. No audio/video recording or flash photography is allowed during the performance. Orchestra CONDUCTOR’S NOTE Management I know this goes counter to some modes of BOARD OF DIRECTORS thinking, but it always rubs me the wrong way when I hear music being touted as a FOUNDING DIRECTOR Joyce Cunningham means of escape, a haven from the cares and stresses of daily life, a refuge from MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR Adam Stern childcare worries, household expenses and personal or professional spats. Great music PRESIDENT Shelby Eaton is a reflection of a composer’s take on the world expressed in sound; it merits one’s full VICE PRESIDENT openness and attention, and should not be Mark Wiseman used as an anesthetic or a soporific. We hope TREASURER that the ca. two hours you’re spending with Michael Wennerstrom us will provide stimulating insights into the SECRETARY personalities of six supreme creators, as performed by a marvelous soloist and Fran Pope fine orchestra, and a conductor who’s grateful to be collaborating with them all. CONCERTMASTER Allion Salvador With all best wishes, DIRECTORS-AT-LARGE Adam Stern Kathy Boudreau Music Director and Conductor, Sammamish Symphony Orchestra Susan Jacoby Nels Magelssen Heather Raschko Linda Thomas Miranda Thorpe ADAM STERN Melissa Underhill HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS ADAM STERN, Music Director and Conductor of the Sammamish Symphony, Don Gerend is one of the region’s busiest musicians. Since arriving in Seattle in 1992, he Council Member, City of Sammamish has been active as a conductor, composer, pianist, educator and lecturer. Skip Rowley He has been leading the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra since 2003, Chairman, Rowley Properties during which tenure he has brought numerous world, U.S., West Coast Nancy Whitten and Northwest premieres to the Puget Sound community. Stern’s unique Former Council Member, City of Sammamish programming combines beloved masterworks with must-hear rarities; his programs are not merely concerts, but true musical events. PERSONNEL Stern was born in Hollywood in 1955. He began his musical studies at age Kathryn Boudreau, five as a piano student, and began flute lessons two years later. At 15, Stern Ensemble Coordinator Armand Binkhuysen, Grants was accepted at California Institute of the Arts, where he initially majored in Adam Stern and Marla Zylstra, flute performance, but changed his major to conducting in his second year Concert Program at the urging of the late Gerhard Samuel, a noted conductor and educator. Andy Hill, Youth Concerto Competition Stern was graduated in 1977 with an MFA in conducting at 21, the youngest Haley Schaening, Librarian Masters degree recipient in CalArts’ history. Barbara Ethington, Logistics Loryn Bortins, Personnel GFCW Cascade and Cindy Hamilton, From 1996 until 2001, Stern was the Associate Conductor of the Seattle Lobby Management Symphony (after having served as Assistant Conductor from 1992-96). He led Renee Kuehn, Ticket Sales numerous concerts in all of the orchestra’s series, including the orchestra’s Jayne Marquess, Logistics first performances of Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 3 and Elgar’s Lynne Martinell, Symphony No. 2. In addition, he led many “pops” concerts and was the happy Member Communications Liaison collaborator of such artists as James Taylor, Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins and Barbara Ethington, PR & Marketing Mark Wiseman, Webmaster Frank Sinatra, Jr. Phillip Chance, Sound Recording 2 Orchestra Members FIRST VIOLIN VIOLA CONTINUED OBOE TROMBONE Judith Kim Dan Pope Susan Jacoby John Ochsenreiter Acting Concermaster Loraine Terpening Principal Principal (Temporary Musician) Barb Thorne Dennis Calvin Rob Birkner Allion Salvador Zann Tipyasothi Jim Kobe Concertmaster BASS TROMBONE (On Leave) CELLO ENGLISH HORN Michael Wennerstrom Tim Strait Shiang-Yin Lee Dennis Calvin Associate Concertmaster Principal TUBA Kristin Edlund Juha Niemisto CLARINET Mark Wiseman Sarah Lintakoon Assistant Principal Jayne Marquess Principal Lynne Martinell Nicholas Bening Principal (On Leave) Heather Raschko (On Leave) Julie Werth TIMPANI Haley Schaening Loryn Bortins Acting Principal Eric Daane Kolleen Uppinghouse Hannah Chernin (Temporary Musician) Principal Andy Hill Kathy Carr SECOND VIOLIN (On Leave) PERCUSSION Shelby Eaton Brendan Kellogg BASSOON Shane Benting Principal Joyce Sanford Abigail Heyrich Trent DeVerter MeMe Birchfield Joan Selvig Principal Garrett Dunn (On Leave) Kathleen Spitzer Sarah Peniston Andrew Motz Alan Bleisch Sandra Sultan (Temporary Musician) Barbara Ethington PIANO/KEYBOARD Matthew Guenther BASS FRENCH HORN Kaitlyn Ronstadt Elizabeth Heitkamp Jarod Tanneberg Evelyn Zeller Paula Libes Principal Principal HARP Fran Pope Manhattan Lowell Dan Chernin Bethany Man Miranda Thorpe Natalie Schlichtmann Craig Kowald Principal (On Leave) Nels Magelssen FLUTE Section members are listed in VIOLA Melissa Underhill TRUMPET alphabetical order. Camber Charlot Principal Abram Sanderson Principal Tori Berntsen Principal Kathryn Boudreau Elana Sabovic-Matt Andy Loats Dennis Helppie PICCOLO Elana Sabovic-Matt Shiang-Yin Lee, cello Shiang-Yin Lee received her Doctoral of Musical Arts from the University of Washington and Master of Music from the University of Texas at Austin. She has studied with Toby Saks, Ray Davis, Cordelia Miedel and Phyllis Young. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and did early music scholarship at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Lee performs with chamber groups around the Puget Sound and is a dedicated full-time educator. She teaches young people at the University of Puget Sound, Music Works Northwest (a non-profit community school), Pacific Northwest School of Music and Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has lived in Sammamish since 2001. 3 Third Generation Violin Maker “Voted Evening Magazine’s Best of Western WA!” www.hkbviolins.com 425 822-0717 Sales Appraisals Repairs Rentals The Sammamish Symphony Cascade Woman’s Club would like to thank Living the Volunteer Spirit Gordon Brown and the Gordon Brown Foundation The GFWC Cascade Woman's Club is a non-profit charitable organization bringing together women from surrounding areas for the generous contribution for music to build to promote community service and welfare locally, regionally and internationally. Anyone interested in learning more and the Symphony’s library. Gordon has been an contacting us visit our website at: gfwccascadeclub.weebly.com active member and contrabassoon player with the symphony for many years. Are you interested in playing with us? The Sammamish Symphony Orchestra is composed Start with a smile at of adult volunteer musicians dedicated to smile.amazon.com/ch/91-1643025 when you buy performing concerts and maintaining outreach programs serving Eastside communities. through Amazon, and Amazon donates 0.5% of Rehearsals: Thursdays 7:15-9:45 p.m. at Eastlake High School the purchase price of your eligible purchases to the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra. [email protected] 4 Program Notes THE RISE OF A MUSICAL TRADITION: AN OVERVIEW by Adam Stern One of the more interesting artistic coincidences in history Mussorgsky he wrote, “...his nature is narrow-minded, devoid occurred in Russia in the early part of the nineteenth century. At of any urge towards self-perfection, blindly believing in the just about the same time that Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) was ridiculous theories of his circle and in his own genius”). Another establishing once-and-for-all a wholly Russian school of literature, talented composer, Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901), veered more composer Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) was doing the same for towards the Tchaikovsky camp of musical thought; based on the music. He founded a style of composition that led directly to the quality of the relatively few works we have of his (including two group known as “The Five”: Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Alexander fine symphonies), his premature death deprived the world of a Borodin (1833-1887), César Cui (1835-1918), Modest Mussorgsky considerable talent. (1839-1881), and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) all carried forth the ideals espoused by Glinka and produced a body Today, even though Tchaikovsky would have to be named the of music redolent of their native land. A largely self-taught group, most popular composer of the Romantic era, there is no lack of “The Five” formed a sort of commune in which their compositions representation in concerts and on recordings of the work of “The were played, evaluated, dissected, reworked, and molded into Five”; somewherein the world, an orchestra is always performing their final shapes. Too, they spent a lot of time
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