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MUSIC 75 INTERMEZZI John Kennedy, Director All concerts in Grace Episcopal Church SPONSORED BY THE HENRY AND SYLVIA YASCHIK FOUNDATION INTERMEZZO I May 27 at 5:00pm Sinfonietta, op. 1 (1932) Benjamin Britten (1913-76) I. Poco presto ed agitato II. Variations: Andante lento III. Tarantella: Presto vivace Concerto da camera, H 196 (1948) Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) I. Allegretto amabile II. Andante III. Vivace Concerto grosso (1992) Philip Glass (b 1937) I. = 144 II. ů = 88 III. ů = 144 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra Aik Khai Pung, conductor INTERMEZZO II May 29 at 5:00pm The Morning Inside Us (1998) John Kennedy (b 1959) Grace An, cello Rocking Mirror Daybreak (1983) Toru Takemitsu (1930-96) I. Autumn II. Passing Bird III. In the Shadow IV. Rocking Mirror Kayla Moffett and Jennise Hwang, violins Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio (1993) Krzystof Penderecki (b 1933) I. Notturno II. Scherzo III. Serenade IV. Abschied (Farewell) Eric Anderson, clarinet Lisa Goddard, violin; Caterina Longhi, viola; Aaron Ludwig, cello Trio Phantasie, op. 63 (1926) Ernst Krenek (1900-91) Anna Czerniak, violin; Kevin Kunkel, cello; Renate Rohlfing, piano Color Reels II (2013) Sidney Hopson (b 1989) Sidney Hopson, percussion Soul Garden (2000) Derek Bermel (b 1967) Jocelin Pan, viola Tammy Wang and Anna Czerniak, violins; Ji Young Nam, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova and Jennifer Choi, cello 76 INTERMEZZI INTERMEZZO III June 2 at 5:00pm Enoch Arden, op. 38 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) A Melodrama for piano and speaker on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Part One 1. Prelude. Andante. “Long lines of cliff breaking” 2. “So these were wed” Langsam. 3. Allegro appassionato. “So when the day, that Enoch mentioned” 4. Tranquillo. “And so ten years, since Enoch left” 5. Annie’s dream. Langsam. “When lo! Her Enoch sitting on a height” Part Two 6. Prelude, Allegro moderato. “And where was Enoch?” 7. “Thus over Enoch’s early-silvering head” 8. Allegro agitato. “When the dead man comes to life” 9. Langsam. “Women, disturb me not at the last” Stephen Brennan, speaker Lydia Brown, piano INTERMEZZO IV June 3 at 5:00pm PASSIONS MATERNAL “So like your father’s” (1880) “He never misses” (1880) “A Working Woman” (1882-93) “All I have” (1902) from Songs from Letters Libby Larsen (b 1950) LIFE & DEATH “25 Years“ Joseph Rubinstein (b 1986) “When You Read These” “The Real War will Never Get in The Book” from War Scenes Ned Rorem (b 1923) SINS: PRIDE LUST, ANGER “Amor” William Bolcom (b 1938) “The Pocketbook” Tom Cipullo (b 1956) “Another Reason I dont’ Keep a Gun in the House” HOUSE & HOME “Opera Scene” from Craigslistlieder Gabriel Kahane (b 1981) “Kale Chips” Gity Razaz (b 1986) ROMANTIC “I’ll Know” from Guys & Dolls Frank Loesser (1910-69) “Marriage Tango” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Joe DiPiertro (b 1961) and Jimmy Roberts (b 1955) “They Were You” from The Fantasticks Tom Jones (b 1928) & Harvey Schmidt (b 1929) Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano Matthew Burns, bass-baritone Keun-A Lee, piano Piano generously provided by Steinway & Sons. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. INTERMEZZI 77 ARTISTS STEPHEN BRENNAN’S (speaker) theater credits include Pride and Prejudice, The Threepenny Opera, Bedroom Farce, A GRACE AN (cello) is currently in the New Woman of No Importance, The Speckled World Symphony in Miami Beach under People, Hay Fever (transferred to Spoleto the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. She Festival USA 2012), Jane Eyre, Death of a has appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall, Salesman, Present Laughter (transferred Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, Sydney to Spoleto Festival USA 2010), The Real Opera House, and Tokyo’s Suntory Thing, Private Lives, Waiting for Godot Hall. An has collaborated as a chamber (national tour and worldwide), Old Times, musician with distinguished artists Landscape, (Lincoln Center Festival, New York), Pygmalion, including Emanuel Ax, eighth blackbird, Jane Eyre, Art, Tartuffe, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Gate Theatre). and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. He appeared in several musicals before becoming a member Festival appearances include the Verbier Festival, Tanglewood of the Abbey Theatre in 1975, playing a wide variety of roles in Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and The Banff Centre. An has participated in master classes with productions such as She Stoops To Conquer, Philadelphia, Here Yo-Yo Ma, Aldo Parisot, George Neikrug, Gary Hoffman, and I Come!, A Life, Da, and Hamlet. Brennan’s film and television the Juilliard and Takacs quartets. A passionate advocate for arts credits include The Tudors, Eat the Peach, The General, The education and community engagement, An was a teaching artist Boys from Clare, A Piece of Monologue, and Waiting for Godot at the Harlem Children’s Zone and performed in schools across for Beckett on Film. New York. She is actively involved in New World Symphony’s community and global outreach programs, serving as a mentor LYDIA BROWN (piano) was praised and coach in their partnership with Academia Filarmónica by The New York Times as “intensely de Medellín, Colombia. An began her musical training at The expressive” and has performed Colburn School in Los Angeles, and completed degrees at extensively throughout the world. A Stanford University, Eastman School of Music, and Manhattan graduate of the Metropolitan Opera School of Music. This is her fifth season with the Spoleto Lindemann Young Artist Development Festival USA Orchestra. Program, she currently serves as assistant conductor at the Met and San ERIC ANDERSON (clarinet) is currently Francisco Opera. Recital appearances pursuing a master of music degree at the include the Salle Cortot, the Théâtre des Yale School of Music; he also holds music Champs-Élysées, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The and English literature degrees from Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Oberlin College and Conservatory. His Y, the Caramoor Center for Music and The Arts, The Phillips primary teachers include David Shifrin, Collection, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Miller Theatre lunchtime Richard Hawkins, and Bonnie Campbell. concerts, and Steinway Hall, among others. She completed As an orchestral musician, Anderson has concert tours with vocalists and instrumentalists sponsored by performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Young Concert Artists, Concert Artists Guild, Joy in Singing, the New World Symphony, and Canton Marilyn Horne Foundation, Sing for Hope, and the Pro Musicis Symphony Orchestra. In past summers, he has also performed Foundation. Brown won second prize in the 1996 New Orleans at the Aspen Music Festival and School as a New Horizons International Piano Competition and holds degrees from The Fellow, and at the International Festival at Round Top. An active Juilliard School, Yale University, and the Eastman School of chamber musician, Anderson has performed at New York City’s Music. Symphony Space and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 2013, his performance of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Clarinet Quartet MATTHEW BURNS (bass-baritone) is was broadcast by WQXR New York. As a member of the new a singer known for his multi-faceted music sextet Amusia, he was a Young Artist in Residence for portrayals of opera’s most acclaimed the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings during the 2011-2012 bass baritone roles and was described season. This is his second season with the Spoleto Festival USA as “having a beautiful bass-baritone Orchestra. voice” by The New York Times. This season, Burns performs Bartolo in Il ANNE-CAROLYN BIRD (soprano) returns Barbiere di Siviglia with the Orlando to Spoleto Festival USA this season after Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as previous engagements including Camille Basilio in the same opera with Sarasota in Louise in 2009, and Soprano 1 in Kepler Opera, and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with Green in 2012. Also in the 2013-14 season, she Mountain Opera Festival, and Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto reprised the role of Giannetta in the with the Crested Butte Music Festival; Messiah with the Rhode Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Island Philharmonic Orchestra; and Mozart’s Requiem with L’elisir d’amore, as well as appeared in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He will also be featured productions of The Nose, Die Frau ohne in American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice series Schatten, and The Enchanted Island. Bird throughout the season as well as make his Austin Lyric Opera is universally renowned for her interpretation of Susanna in Le debut in 2015. Burns is featured on the commercial recordings nozze di Figaro, a role she has sung with Virginia Opera, Opera of Die Gezeichneten from LA Opera as well as the American Carolina, Nashville Opera, Opera Columbus, and Opera Grand Symphony Orchestra’s Haggadah shel Pesach. Burns is a two- Rapids. A well-established contemporary musician, she recently time recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant. performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at Spoleto Festival USA, Beatrice in John Musto’s The Inspector at Wolf Trap Opera; Cunegonde in Candide with the National Symphony Orchestra, Evan Chamber’s oratorio The Old Burying Ground at Carnegie Hall, and performed on the Grammy-winning recording of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. 78 INTERMEZZI ANNA CZERNIAK (violin) is currently a master’s student KEVIN KÜNKEL (cello) is a native of the at the New England Conservatory in Boston studying with Chicago area and started his musical Malcolm Lowe. Czerniak is from Houston, Texas and grew up studies at the age of 10. Künkel received studying with renowned violinist Fredell Lack. She completed a bachelor’s degree and performance her undergraduate degree at the Colburn School with Robert diploma from Indiana University studying Lipsett.