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Carl St.Clair, conductor Beethoven “EGMONT” OVERTURE Benjamin Pasternack, Celena Shafer, Beethoven “CHORAL” FANTASY Christopher Pfund, Benjamin Pasternack Hugh Russell, Chelsea Chaves Chelsea Chaves, soprano I-Chin “Betty” Lee I-Chin “Betty” Lee, soprano Jane Hyun-Jung Shim Jane Hyun-Jung Shim, mezzo soprano Nicholas Preston Nicholas Preston, tenor Matthew Kellaway Ryan Thomas Antal Matthew Kellaway, baritone Pacific Chorale Ryan Thomas Antal, Pacific Chorale—Robert Istad, artistic director Southern California Children’s Chorus— Orff “” Lori Loftus, founding director Celena Shafer Pacific Symphony Christopher Pfund Hugh Russell Pacific Chorale Southern California Children’s Chorus

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“EGMONT” OVERTURE Carl St.Clair, conductor Orff “CARMINA BURANA” Benjamin Pasternack, piano Celena Shafer Celena Shafer, soprano Christopher Pfund Hugh Russell “CHORAL” FANTASY Christopher Pfund, tenor Benjamin Pasternack Pacific Chorale Chelsea Chaves Hugh Russell, baritone Southern California Children’s Chorus I-Chin “Betty” Lee Pacific Chorale—Robert Istad, artistic director Jane Hyun-Jung Shim Southern California Children’s Chorus— Nicholas Preston Lori Loftus, founding director Matthew Kellaway Pacific Symphony Ryan Thomas Antal Pacific Chorale

“CARMINA BURANA” Celena Shafer Christopher Pfund Hugh Russell Pacific Chorale Southern California Children’s Chorus

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PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 5 far too much in the court atmosphere,” PROGRAM NOTES he wrote—“far more than is becoming in a Ludwig van Beethoven: poet.” It should be noted that Beethoven himself was not above the occasional Fantasia in C Minor Ludwig van Beethoven: attempt to ingratiate himself in the for Piano, Chorus and “court atmosphere,” and even considered Orchestra, Op. 80 Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 rededicating the Eroica to Napoleon when In 1809, when he received inquiries regarding its possible (“Choral Fantasy”) Beethoven performance in Paris. Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy” sounded received the Composed for a style of dramatic new and strange to the first listeners commission to presentation that is no longer familiar to who heard it. That conclusion is based compose a us, the original Egmont suite is comprised on more than just its novel form and complete suite of of nine dramatic soprano arias, spoken unconventional scoring; we know it from incidental music verses for male narrator, and the orchestral the documented reactions of critics and for historical overture that has remained popular, known others at the premiere concert, which also play Egmont, he as the Egmont Overture—the most admired introduced his fifth and sixth symphonies. was drawn into a movement of the full suite, on a par with the The symphonies were enthusiastically correspondence Coriolan Overture. The full suite is suited to received. Listeners’ reaction to the with the play’s author, Johann Wolfgang performance alongside the original play or Fantasy is typically described as von Goethe, who had written it in 1787. The alone, with or without the male narrator. But “lukewarm.” subject was a natural for Beethoven: set in the modern repertory, we usually hear the Even those of us who have never in 16th-century Brussels, it depicts the overture performed on its own. heard the “Choral Fantasy” before cannot heroic deaths of the Dutch Count Egmont The Egmont Overture is often cited experience how bizarre it must have and his wife while the Netherlands lay as the final work of Beethoven’s “middle” seemed to those early listeners. That’s under repressive Belgian rule. Egmont’s period, and it has much in common with the because the melodic ideas and the textual wife’s death, a suicide, inspired him to Coriolan Overture: the heroic themes, the subjects are so closely related to those in die as a symbol in the Dutch struggle for dramatic contrasts, the ratcheting tension. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the “Choral,” freedom. But in contrast with Coriolan, it opens with which has become a touchstone of world The correspondence went well: Goethe a slow, dark sound, funereal rather than culture. To us, everything about the Choral was by far the dominant German-language martial. This overture is to some degree a Fantasy sounds familiar yet fascinatingly literary figure of his day, and the mutual compressed version of the entire drama, different from music that is second nature admiration he shared with Beethoven was and in it, Beethoven faced the challenge of to us. Yet the Ninth we all know came 16 congenial from afar. But what happens conflating the sadness of Count Egmont’s years later than the “Choral Fantasy.” when towering geniuses actually meet? It’s death with its glory as an inspiration to his By 1808, Beethoven had already been not always pretty. Goethe’s descriptions of people. Opening in F Minor, the overture incubating these ideas for years. In the his encounters with Beethoven describe moves to F Major as it closes, introducing a Fantasy we hear abundant, spontaneous an artist resembling a cross between two dramatic new theme to convey the victory and highly emotional outpouring of Charles Schulz characters, Schroeder and embodied in Egmont’s defiant march to musical inspiration that he would continue Pig Pen, and the humor is mixed with real the scaffold. Rather than death, we hear to develop as he pondered the ideas of annoyance. “Beethoven’s talent amazed the promise of renewal and of the people freedom, brotherhood and peace that me,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, he is an prevailing over tyranny, in accordance with preoccupied him for his entire adult life. utterly untamed personality; he is not Goethe’s express wishes that Egmont’s final The text, probably by the poet Christopher altogether wrong in holding the world moments be heard as triumphant rather Kuffner, is strikingly similar to the verses detestable, but surely does not make it than elegiac. that Beethoven would later adapt from more enjoyable for himself or others by his Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” attitude.” Beethoven, for his part, seemed The Fantasy is loosely structured, to hold Goethe’s very worldliness and beginning with a showy piano solo social skills against him: “Goethe delights that serves to introduce and to exalt

Ludwig van Beethoven Fantasia in C Minor for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 80 Born: 1770. Bonn, Germany (“Choral Fantasy”) Died: 1827. Vienna, Austria Composed: 1808 Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 World premiere: Dec. 22, 1808 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Composed: 1809-10 with Beethoven conducting World premiere: June 15, 1810 Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: Feb. 9, 2014, with Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: Oct. 21, 2017, with Carl St.Clair conducting Roger Kalia conducting Instrumentation: 2 , 2 , 2 , 2 ; 2 horns, Instrumentation: 2 flutes including piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons; 2 ; ; strings; 2 solo , solo alto, 2 solo , 4 horns, 2 trumpets; timpani; strings solo bass; solo piano; chorus Estimated duration: 9 minutes Estimated duration: 19 minutes

6 SEPT 2019 PacificSymphony.org the themes to come. (The published later achieve popularity throughout the was about as far from academic dryness performing edition probably embodies world—he suffered the misfortune of being as you can get: these were lusty verses Beethoven’s after-the-fact version of his popular with Nazi bureaucrats, a fact that that celebrate the pleasures of loving and improvised performance.) What follows— cast a shadow over his reputation here drinking, and that comment with ribald the choral-and-instrumental part of the until American investigators found no frankness on the vicissitudes of everyday Fantasy—is structured as a grand theme reason to believe he held Nazi sympathies. life. Orff selected 24 of them for Carmina with 16-bar variations. There is a sense of Born in Munich to a distinguished Burana. Their humor can seem startlingly grandeur here, yet also a feeling of wonder, Bavarian military family in 1895, Orff modern today. discovery and sheer delight. The effect has grew up steeped in German cultural Often startlingly explicit, the lyrics of been described as a resembling a series of traditions and demonstrated his musical Carmina Burana have at various times been encores. talent early; at a young age he learned strategically condensed and expurgated. After its formidable piano introduction, to play the piano, organ and and Sexy descriptions, such as one lover’s the Fantasy cycles through variations composed songs. He graduated from the removal of another’s underwear, share time for solo ; oboes in two parts; and Munich Academy of Music when he was with raunchy double entendres, such as clarinets and in three parts. 18 with a portfolio of early compositions the description of a knight’s lance rising at Finally, a string quartet variation gives that showed the influence of Debussy’s the sight of his lady. As is so often the case, rise to a full orchestral variation. As in the innovations. He then turned to the more censorship has accomplished less than Ninth Symphony, the entry of vocal forces Viennese experiments of Schoenberg, nothing to desensitize these passages, only marks the consummation of the Fantasy, Strauss and Pfitzner. But the year of adding to their fascination. The music, for summarizing everything we have heard his graduation was 1914, and Orff was its part, is not just brazen in shoving the before: a hymn in praise of piece, love and coming of age in the shadow of World poetry’s sensuality in our faces; it does so the joy of music. War I. Jobs as Kapellmeister at the with glee, making everything it touches Munich Kammerspiele and at theaters in seem innocent. Nowhere is this more Darmstadt and Mannheim honed his gifts apparent than in the “In taberna” chorale (In : in performance practice and music drama. the Tavern), a drinking song that describes In 1917 and 1918, as the war drew to a close, the raucous behavior in a local tavern where Carmina Burana Orff was in his early 20s and was engaged everyone is present, accounted for, and Composed in in military service. drinking lustily—the bumpkin, the sage, the 1935 and 1936, The development of Carmina Burana pauper, the sick man, the bishop and the with Germany wove together all the main threads deacon, the old woman and the mother descending into of Orff’s early creative life: his gift for among them. The music proceeds with a the horrors of the theatrical spectacle, his scholarly interest naive, bouncy double-rhythm that acquires Third Reich and in medieval forms and the return to the momentum of an avalanche.. war looming in musical innocence that keynoted his Proceeding through sections on Europe, the joyous work in music education with Dorothee springtime, drinking and love, Carmina energy of Carmina Günther (whom he eventually married). Burana forms a perfect arch, ending where it Burana struck The oratorio’s texts are the result of began—addressing “Fortune, Empress of the contemporary sympathetic work by an earlier scholar: a World” and complaining melodramatically listeners and critics like a thunderbolt. collection lyrics dating from the 12th and about her fickleness. The overstatement is But for German composers of the 20th 13th centuries discovered at a monastery intentional, and rarely have grandeur and century including Orff, the matter of in Upper Bavaria by the musicologist J.A. humor coexisted with such comfortable public reputation is complicated by an Schmeller in 1847. It was Schmeller who irony. Then again, compare the words to a inescapable question: What did you do applied title Carmina Burana, referencing modern-day counterpart by Rod Stewart: during World War II? Though Orff was both the monastic order and the region of an elemental musical talent who wrote upper Bavaria where they were found. The Some guys have all the luck and was an influential music obscure verses were mostly in Latin with Some guys have all the pain educator—and though the amazing, some in early forms of German and even Some guys get all the breaks tradition-busting Carmina Burana would a bit of early French, but their content Some guys do nothing but complain

If fortune is indifferent to merit, at least Carl Orff it has vouchsafed a cherished spot for 1895. Munich, Germany Born: Carl Orff’s most celebrated composition. Died: 1982. Munich, Germany Carmina Burana is a work that has become, Carmina Burana with Handel’s Messiah, one of the most Composed: 135-36 widely performed oratorios ever written. World premiere: June 8, 1937 by the Oper Frankfurt Most recent Pacific Symphony performance: June 8, 2014 with Michael Clive is a cultural reporter living Carl St.Clair conducting in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut. Instrumentation: 3 flutes including piccolo, 3 oboes including English He is program annotator for Pacific horn, 3 clarinets including bass and e-flat clarinet, 3 bassoons Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic, and including contrabasoon; 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 , ; timpani; percussion; ; 2 ; strings; solo soprano, solo tenor, solo editor‑in‑chief for The Santa Fe . baritone; chorus, children’s Estimated duration: 67 minutes

PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 7 cities in three countries playing before capacity houses and receiving extraordinary responses and reviews. From 2008-10, St.Clair was general music director for the Komische Oper in Berlin. He also served as general music director and chief conductor of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle (GNTS) in Weimar, Germany, where he led Wagner’s Ring Cycle to critical acclaim. He was the first non-European to hold his position at the GNTS; the role also gave him the distinction of simultaneously leading one of the newest orchestras in America and one of the oldest in Europe. In 2014, St.Clair became the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Costa Rica. His international career also has him conducting abroad several months a year, and he has appeared Carl St.Clair with orchestras throughout the world. He was the principal guest conductor of the Radio Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart from The 2019-20 season marks Music Director opera initiative, “Symphonic Voices,” which 1998-2004, where he completed a three- Carl St.Clair’s 30th year leading Pacific continues for the ninth season in 2019-20 with year recording project of the Villa–Lobos Symphony. He is one of the longest- Verdi’s Othello, following the concert-opera symphonies. He has also appeared with tenured conductors of the major American productions of Madame Butterfly, The Magic orchestras in Israel, Hong Kong, Japan, orchestras. St.Clair’s lengthy history Flute, Aida, Turandot, Carmen, La Traviata, Australia, New Zealand and South America, solidifies the strong relationship he has Tosca and La Bohème in previous seasons. China, Thailand, Malaysia, and summer forged with the musicians and the St.Clair’s commitment to the development festivals worldwide. In North America, community. His continuing role also lends and performance of new works by composers St.Clair has led the Boston Symphony stability to the organization and continuity is evident in the wealth of commissions and Orchestra (where he served as assistant to his vision for the Symphony’s future. Few recordings by the Symphony. The 2016-17 conductor for several years), New York orchestras can claim such rapid artistic season featured commissions by pianist/ Philharmonic, , development as Pacific Symphony—the composer Conrad Tao and composer-in- Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San largest-budgeted orchestra formed in the residence Narong Prangcharoen, a follow-up Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, United States in the last 50 years, which to the recent slate of recordings of works Houston, Indianapolis, Montreal, Toronto was recently elevated to the status of a commissioned and performed by the and Vancouver symphonies, among many. Tier 1 orchestra by the League of American Symphony in recent years. These include Carl St.Clair is a strong advocate Orchestras—due in large part to St.Clair’s William Bolcom’s Songs of Lorca and of music education for all ages, and leadership. (2015-16), Elliot Goldenthal’s is internationally recognized for his During his tenure, St.Clair has become Symphony in G-sharp Minor (2014-15), Richard distinguished career as a master teacher. widely recognized for his musically Danielpour’s Toward a Season of Peace (2013- He has been essential to the creation distinguished performances, his 14), ’ The Passion of Ramakrishna and implementation of the Symphony’s commitment to building outstanding (2012-13), and Michael Daugherty’s Mount education and community engagement educational programs and his innovative Rushmore and The Gospel According to programs including Pacific Symphony Youth approaches to programming. In April 2018, Sister Aimee (2012-13). St.Clair has led the Ensembles, Heartstrings, Sunday Matinées St.Clair led Pacific Symphony in its sold- orchestra in other critically acclaimed , OC Can You Play With Us?, arts-X-press out Carnegie Hall debut, as the finale to albums including two piano concertos and Class Act. In addition to his professional the Carnegie’s yearlong celebration of of Lukas Foss; Danielpour’s An American conducting career, St.Clair has worked pre-eminent composer Philip Glass’ 80th Requiem and Goldenthal’s Fire Water Paper: with most major music schools across birthday, ending in a standing ovation, with A Vietnam Oratorio with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. the country. In 2018, Chapman University The New York Times calling the Symphony Other commissioned composers include President Danielle Struppa appointed “a major ensemble!” He led Pacific James Newton Howard, Zhou Long, Tobias St.Clair as a Presidential Fellow, working Symphony on its first tour to China in May Picker, Frank Ticheli, Chen Yi, Curt Cacioppo, closely with the students of the College of 2018, the orchestra’s first international Stephen Scott, Jim Self (Pacific Symphony’s the Performing Arts at Chapman University. tour since touring Europe in 2006. The principal tubist) and Christopher Theofanidis. St.Clair has been named “Distinguished orchestra made its national PBS debut In 2006-07, St.Clair led the orchestra’s Alumni in Residence” at the University of in June 2018 on Great Performances with historic move into its home in the Renée Texas Butler School of Music beginning Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at 2019. And, for over over 25 years, he has America,” conducted by St.Clair. Among Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The move had a continuing relationship with the USC St.Clair’s many creative endeavors are the came on the heels of the landmark 2005-06 Thornton School where is artistic leader and highly acclaimed American Composers season that included St.Clair leading the principal conductor of the USC Thornton Festival, which began in 2000; and the Symphony on its first European tour—nine orchestral program.

PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 9 Benjamin Pasternack CELENA SHAFER Piano Soprano Among the most After two summers Concert repertoire with the USUO has experienced and as an apprentice at included the Brahms’ German Requiem, versatile musicians the Santa Fe Opera, the Bach Magnificat, Vivaldi’s Gloria, today, the American the career of Soprano Poulenc’s Gloria and several concerts of pianist Benjamin Celena Shafer was chamber music with conductors such as Pasternack has launched to critical Bernard Labadie, Raymond Leppard and performed as soloist, raves as Ismene in former music director Keith Lockhart. She recitalist and chamber Mozart’s Mitridate, Re was the USUO 2014-15 season Artist-in- musician on four di Ponto. Since that Residence and recently has sung a New continents. His orchestral engagements breakthrough debut, Shafer has garnered Year’s Eve Gala, Beethoven Symphony No. have included appearances as soloist acclaim for her silvery voice, fearlessly 9, Mahler Symphonies Nos. 2, 4 and 8, and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, committed acting and phenomenal the Mighty Five tour through Utah’s state the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre technique. She spends much of her time parks, all led by music director Thierry Symphonique de Québec, the Tonhalle on the concert stage and has appeared Fischer. Orchestra of Zurich, the New Japan with the orchestras in New York, Chicago, Elsewhere, Shafer’s operatic highlights Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, the Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los have included Johanna in Sweeney New Jersey Symphony, the Orchestre Angeles with leading conductors such Todd for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and National de France, the SWR Orchestra of as Christoph von Dohnanyi, Alan Gilbert, Nanetta in Falstaff with the Los Angeles Stuttgart, the Bamberg Symphony and the Bernard Labadie, Robert Spano, Nicholas Opera, both with Bryn Terfel; Blonde Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestras. McGegan, Kent Nagano, , in Abduction from the Seraglio with the Among the many illustrious conductors , David Robertson Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Aithra in Die with whom he has collaborated are Seiji and Sir Andrew Davis. ägyptische Helena with the American Ozawa, Erich Leinsdorf, David Zinman, Shafer’s 2018-19 season included Symphony Orchestra recorded for Telarc; Gunther Schuller, Leon Fleisher and Carl performances of all-Bernstein programs Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos at the St.Clair. He has performed as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Concertgebouw; and Gilda in Rigoletto with the Boston Symphony on more Costa Rica, Pacific Symphony and the with the Welsh National Opera. She than a score of occasions, at concerts Grand Rapids Symphony all led by Carl has returned to the Santa Fe Opera in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, St.Clair; the Britten War Requiem with for productions of Mozart’s Lucio Silla, in Athens, Salzburg and Paris on their the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, and Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict and European tour of 1991, and in São Paulo, Handel’s Messiah with the Indianapolis Britten’s Albert Herring. Buenos Aires and Caracas on their South Chamber Orchestra. She recently made American tour of 1992. He has been guest two exciting operatic appearances: her artist at the Tanglewood Music Center, first performances as Queen of the Night the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, in The Magic Flute with the Utah Symphony Italy, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, | Utah Opera, and a return to the Cincinnati the Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest, Opera for her first staged performances of the Festival de Capuchos in Portugal, Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos the Festival de Menton in France and has with the Cincinnati Opera. been featured as soloist twice on National Since first appearing with the Utah Public Radio’s nationally syndicated show Symphony | Utah Opera as a high school “SymphonyCast”. A native of Philadelphia, student, Shafer has performed operatic Pasternack entered the Curtis Institute roles there including Constanze in The of Music at the age of 13, studying with Abduction from the Seraglio, Rosina in Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin. Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gilda in Rigoletto, He was the Grand Prize winner of the Norina in Don Pasquale, Lisette in La Inaugural World Music Masters Piano Rondine, Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Competition held in Paris and Nice in July Dream and Adele in Die Fledermaus. 1989. Bestowed by the unanimous vote of a distinguished panel of judges, the honor carried with it a $30,000 award and engagements in Portugal, France, Canada, Switzerland and the United States. An earlier competition victory came in August 1988 when he won the highest prize awarded at the Fortieth Busoni International Piano Competition. After fourteen years on the piano faculty of Boston University, he joined the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music in September 1997.

10 SEPT 2019 PacificSymphony.org Christopher Pfund HUGH RUSSELL Tenor Baritone Highly lauded for his Pfund’s opera engagements include Canadian baritone Hugh irreverent portrayals of Sempronio in Haydn’s Lo Speziale with Russell continues to the Roasting Swan in the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Pong in receive high praise for Carmina Burana, tenor Turandot with El Paso Opera, New Jersey his charisma, dramatic Christopher Pfund State Opera and the Florentine Opera; energy and vocal beauty. has made the role a Tonik in Smetana’s The Two Widows He is widely acclaimed pillar of his career, with the Chautauqua Opera; the New for his performances performing it with York City premiere of Ernst Krenek’s in the operas of countless orchestras Vertrauenssache with the organization Mozart and Rossini, across North America. In recent seasons Elysium Between Two Continents; and and is regularly invited to perform with he has performed Carmina Burana with performances with Glimmerglass Opera, symphony orchestras throughout North the symphony orchestras of Alabama, New York City Opera and Florentine Opera. America. At the center of his orchestral Des Moines, Cleveland, Colorado, Fort Pfund’s recordings include the title role repertoire is Orff’s popular Carmina Wayne, Hartford, Houston, Indianapolis, in Britten’s Albert Herring on the Vox label Burana, which Russell has performed with Jacksonville, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Distant Playing Fields: Vocal Music of The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Pittsburgh, Reading and San Diego. Amy Beach and William Maye on Newport Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Most recently he was soloist with Classics. Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, A Colorado native, Pfund holds degrees Pittsburgh Symphony, Seattle Symphony, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, from both the University of Northern Toronto Symphony and Vancouver the Tucson Symphony, Fort Wayne Colorado and Manhattan School of Music. Symphony, among others. The New Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony and He was an opera apprentice with the Orleans Times-Picayune said, “Baritone Duluth Superior Symphony. He has also Santa Fe, Glimmerglass and Chautauqua Hugh Russell also grasped the theatrical recently sung the role in a return to the operas, and was a 20th Century Song nature of Orff’s work, nearly stealing the , as well as with the Recitalist at the Banff Centre. show with a voice that ranged from organ- symphonies of Phoenix, West Michigan deep rumbles to flute-like —and and Thunder Bay (Ontario). an acting style that drew roars of laughter In addition to his signature concert as he captured the bullishness of an role, Pfund has appeared in concert intoxicated medieval abbot.” performing Beethoven’s Symphony In the past season, Russell performed No. 9 with the Charlotte and Stamford Carmina Burana with the Kansas City symphonies; Handel’s Messiah with the Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony Buffalo Philharmonic, National Arts Centre Orchestra. Additionally, he sings Pangloss Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, in in Salt Lake City and Seoul, Syracuse Symphony and Virginia South Korea, Abimelech in Samson et Symphony; and Haydn’s Creation with the Dalila with North Carolina Opera and Louisiana Philharmonic. He also appeared reprises the role of Noah Joad in Grapes of at Carnegie Hall with the Rochester Wrath with Michigan Opera Theater. Last Philharmonic as a part of the Spring for season’s performances of Carmina Burana Music Festival as Sir Gower Lackland in a included the New Mexico Philharmonic concert performance of Howard Hanson’s and in Mexico City under the baton of Merry Mount. He created the role of Rev. Carlos Miguel Prieto, as well as with the Eugene Hendrix in a world-premiere Chicago Philharmonic, the Las Vegas concert performance of Gregory Vajda’s Philharmonic, the Louisiana Philharmonic, opera Georgia Bottoms with the Huntsville the Orquesta Nacional de Costa Rica and Symphony Orchestra. the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias in Oviedo, Spain. He also sang Rachmaninoff’s The with the Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal and Yannick Nezet-Seguin, joined Palm Beach Opera in the role of Major General Stanley in Pirates of Penzance and performed the role of Noah Joad in Grapes of Wrath with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 11 CHELSEA CHAVES I-Chin “Betty” Lee Jane Hyun-Jung Shim Soprano Soprano Mezzo-soprano Since graduating I-Chin “Betty” Lee Mezzo-soprano Jane with her master’s currently sings Hyun-Jung Shim, degree from the USC professionally with a native of Korea, Thornton School of Pacific Chorale and is known as a rich, Music, Chelsea Chaves was the cantor at clear and sensitive has sung with Pacific St. Paul’s Cathedral singer. Shim studied Chorale, soloed with Center in Echo Park at Cal State University, Pacific Symphony and near Downtown Los Fullerton. While in performed at various Angeles from 2012-17. school, she was private events around Los Angeles and Lee has performed coached as a soprano and has performed Orange County. Chelsea is currently as a chorister and soloist with Pacific many soprano roles. She also won several performing in Pacific Symphony’s Class Chorale on numerous occasions, competitions while in school. Shim is now Act program and Long Beach Opera appearing as an alto soloist in Bach’s a familiar face to Orange County choral outreach. Last year, she was a recipient in B Minor, Handel’s Messiah, music audiences as a mezzo-soprano. of a prestigious vocal scholarship from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bach’s Since joining Pacific Chorale in 1999, the Profant Foundation in Santa Barbara. St. John Passion, Mozart’s Requiem, she has appeared as a soloist in many Roles performed include Pamina (Die The Passion of Ramakrishna by Phillip works, including Bach’s B Minor Mass, Zauberflöte) with the Astoria Music Glass, Rachmaninov’s Vespers, Durufle’s Vivaldi’s Gloria, Duruflé’s Requiem, Verdi’s Festival, Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe) Requiem, Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus and La Traviata, Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s with Chapman University and Lay Sister Mendelssohn’s Elijah, which was praised Messiah, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Bach’s (Suor Angelica) with Opera Santa Barbara. by Timothy Mangan of The Orange County Magnificat, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, She has also covered the roles of Violetta Register as “delicate and aristocratic Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Puccini’s (La Traviata) and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) singing in her solos.” Among her Southland Madame Butterfly. for Pacific Symphony. Previous Young solo performances are Mozart’s Requiem She has been a featured soloist Artist Programs include OperaWorks, and Handel’s Messiah with the Camerata with Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles SongFest, the Astoria Music Festival and Singers of Long Beach and The National Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony, Musiktheater Bavaria. She was a finalist Children’s Choir at The Broad Stage of Pasadena Symphony, Musica Angelica, for the Loren L. Zachary Competition in Santa Monica. Lee’s most recent solo work Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Les 2015 and has sung the National Anthem at includes The Passion of Ramakrishna in Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, two Lakers games. April 2018 with Pacific Symphony, with Pacific Chorale, John Alexander Singers, performances both in Costa Mesa and at Chorus America Conducting Academy, Carnegie Hall in celebration of Philip Glass’ Berkshire Choral International, Long 80th birthday, and Mozart’s Requiem with Beach Camerata Singers, Dallas Korean Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony in Master Chorale, Angeles Chorale, Southern March 2017. Lee’s international debuts California Korean Christian Choir, Hour of include Denmark in July 2012 and El Power, CSU Fullerton University Singers Salvador in February 2012. and Azusa Pacific University. Shim’s international performances include the European premiere of Jake Heggie’s “He Will Gather Us Around” (from Dead Man Walking) at St. Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest and Franziskanerkirche (Franciscan Church of St. Jerome) in Vienna. She has also performed at Matthias Church in Budapest; Stephansdom (St. Stephen’s Cathedral) in Vienna; and St-Sulpice, St-Étienne-du- Mont, St-Louis-en-l’Île and La Madeleine in Paris. Her beautiful solo work in Duruflé’s Requiem with Pacific Chorale’s Choral Festival 2011 led to a performance at Église St-Étienne-du-Mont, where Duruflé had been the titular organist. Shim is currently the alto section leader of Pacific Chorale, a staff singer at Hour of Power Choir and a conductor and music director of Il-Shin Presbyterian Church in Buena Park.

12 SEPT 2019 PacificSymphony.org Nicholas Preston Matthew Kellaway Ryan Thomas Antal Tenor Baritone Bass Praised by the Orange Matthew Kellaway Ryan Thomas Antal County Register as being is excited and proud currently resides in “resonant and warm” and to be entering his Long Beach, where he by the site seventh season with received a Bachelor Bachtrack as “a ringing Pacific Chorale. He of Arts in voice stentorian tenor,” Hawai’i continues to perform performance and choral native Nicholas Preston solos with the Chorale, education from the is in demand as a soloist and has sung with Bob Cole Conservatory in Southern California many other prestigious of Music at CSU and beyond, having performed throughout vocal ensembles including Disney’s Long Beach. While there, he regularly California, and touring as a soloist in France, Voices of Liberty, the internationally performed with the Opera Institute Italy and Spain. He has been a member broadcast Hour of Power Choir, and the and Chamber Singers. Antal served as of Pacific Chorale since 2002, and has Los Angeles Master Chorale. Kellaway the Minister of Music at Garden Grove frequently appeared as a soloist with the is currently director of men’s chorus Presbyterian Church and bass section ensemble. Preston has also performed as a at Biola University, where he has also leader/soloist at both Geneva Presbyterian soloist with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, provided individual voice instruction, Church and Lakewood Village Community Pacific Symphony, Claremont Chorale, taught conducting classes and served Church before arriving in his current post Santa Maria Philharmonic Society, Cypress as assistant director for the Biola as bass section leader/soloist for St. Masterworks Chorale and The Boston Pops Conservatory of Music opera program. Andrew’s in Newport Beach. He has a long- Esplanade Orchestra. He has worked under As a baritone known for his versatility of standing history with Arrowbear Music the batons of John Alexander, Carl St.Clair, style, Kellaway has sung many operatic Camp as a student counselor, coach, and Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Nicholas and musical theater roles including Count conductor. Antal was a member of the McGegan, Kent Nagano, John Mauceri, Esa- Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Marquis inaugural Golden Bridge project with Suzi Pekka Salonen, Grant Gershon and Gustavo de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Digby and has performed regularly with Dudamel. Preston’s solo appearances Betto in Gianni Schicchi, Rapunzel’s Prince the Orange County Choral Society and the include Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Horatio in Into the Woods, Friedrich Bhaer in Little DeAngelis Vocal Ensemble. As an Orange Parker’s Hora Novissima, Beethoven’s Missa Women, Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore County native, Antal is thrilled to be Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, Bach’s B and Germont in La Traviata. enjoying his seventh season with Pacific Minor Mass and St. Matthew Passion, Mozart’s Chorale. Coronation Mass and Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Judas Maccabeus and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. In December 2014 he appeared as a soloist with Pacific Symphony in their production of Handel’s Messiah, and in May 2015, he performed as the soloist in Herbert Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi with Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony. More recent performances include the role of Messenger in Pacific Symphony’s production of Aida, tenor soloist in the Vespers of 1610 by with Long Beach Camerata Singers and tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Long Beach Symphony, both in April 2017. Preston was featured in the world premiere Philip Glass’ The Passion of Ramakrishna, which was commissioned for the grand opening of the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall and premiered by the Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony under the direction of Carl St.Clair in 2006. In April 2018, he reprised the same role at his debut in Carnegie Hall. Preston is also involved with Pacific Symphony’s award-winning education programs, being a presenter with the Class Act program as well as a featured soloist in the Youth Concerts. He received his Bachelor of Arts in music from Loyola Marymount University, and currently resides in Orange County with his wife, Dr. Kathleen Preston, and their daughter, Zelda.

PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 13 Pacific Chorale

Founded in 1968, the Pacific Chorale Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony American Voices, a collection of American is internationally recognized for Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Los choral works; Songs of Eternity by its exceptional artistic expression; Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia James Hopkins and Voices by Stephen stimulating, American-focused Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica Paulus, featuring Pacific Symphony; programming; and influential education Baroque Orchestra. Other collaborations Christmas Time Is Here; a live recording programs. The chorale presents a season within the Southern California community of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers; the world at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and include performances with the Hollywood premiere recording of Frank Ticheli’s The performs regularly with the nation’s Bowl Orchestra and the Long Beach, Shore for chorus and orchestra; and the leading symphonies. It has infused an Old- Pasadena and Riverside symphonies. world premiere recording of Jake Heggie’s World art form with California’s innovation The Chorale has toured extensively in choral opera The Radio Hour. The chorale and cultural independence, developing Europe, South America and Asia, and has also appears on six recordings released by innovative new concepts in programming, collaborated with the London Symphony the Pacific Symphony: Elliot Goldenthal’s and expanding the traditional concepts Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio, of choral repertoire and performance. Orchestre Lamoureux, Orchestre de Richard Danielpour’s An American Requiem The Pacific Chorale comprises 140 Saint-Louis-enl’Île, National Orchestra and Toward a Season of Peace, Philip Glass’ professional and volunteer singers. of Belgium, China National Symphony The Passion of Ramakrishna, Michael In addition to its longstanding Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore and William partnership with Pacific Symphony, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Bolcom’s Prometheus with pianist Jeffrey the Chorale has performed with such and Argentine National Symphony Biegel—all conducted by Carl St.Clair. renowned American ensembles as Orchestra. The Pacific Chorale can be the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston heard on numerous recordings, including

Robert Istad SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Artistic Director & Rebecca Hasquet, Jane Hyunjung Shim, Nicholas Preston, Jason Pano, Conductor Section Leader Section Leader Section Leader & Acting Section Leader Barbara Kingsbury, Judith Bertolino Personnel Manager Karl Forsstrom, Rita Major Memorial Chair Rebecca Bishop Carl W. Porter, Singers Memorial Chair Singers Memorial Chair John Alexander Rachel Blair Tina Chen Ryan Thomas Antal Jephte Acosta Artistic Director Hannah Jeanette Briggs Mindy Ella Chu Mac Bright Daniel W. Agee Emeritus Chelsea Chaves Mary Clark James Brown Daniel Alvarez Emilie Doering Kathryn Cobb-Woll Jake Burnett Michael Ben-Yehuda Anastasia Gastelum Denean R. Dyson John F. Carpenter Nate Brown Nate Widelitz Anastasia Glasheen Harriet Edwards Louis Ferland Kendall Harb Chris Buttars Assistant Conductor Jacline Evered Larry Gates James Cahill & Chorusmaster Hannah Kim Marilyn Forsstrom Randall Gremillion Samuel A. Capella Susan Hsia Lew Mary Galloway Tom Henley Craig Davis Kathryn Lillich Kathleen Gremillion Matthew Kellaway Matthew Davis Susan M. Lindley Sandy Grim Jordan L. Kirby Andrew Brown James C. Edwards Corinne Linza Anne Henley Jonathan Krauss President & CEO Marius Evangelista Jenny Mancini Genie Hossain Tom Mena David Evered Katie Martini Nancy Lanpher Martin J. Minnich Vincent Hans Lenora Meister I-Chin Lee Emmanuel Miranda Thomas A. Steven M. Hoffman Maria Cristina Navarro Kaii Lee Kenneth M. Moore Craig S. Kistler Pridonoff Hien Nguyen Sabina Lucke Lawrence Ki-Hong Park Board Chair Jin Ming Liao Kris Oca Laura Miller Seth Peelle Christopher Lindley Sophia Park Jeanette Moon Raphael Meng Kian Poon David López Alemán Deborah Pasarow Michele M. Mulidor John Prothero Gerald McMillan Melanie Pedro Pat Newton Ryan Ratcliff Michael Morales Kathryn Pitts Kyrstin Ohta George Reiss Jesse Newby Amelia H. Thompson Rachel One Robert Rife Daniel Ramon Sarah Thompson Kathleen Preston Thomas B. Ringland Gabriel Ratinoff Rachel Van Skike Carolyn Clark Rugh William Shelly Zachary Singerman Ruthanne Walker Kaleigh Schiro Eric R. Soholt Joshua Tan Tessler Linda Wells Sholik Grace Khang-Minhae Josh Stansfield Kenneth Tom Alie Westphal Shen Brandon Wilks W. Faulkner White Anne Williams Emily Weinberg Tanner Wilson Nate Widelitz Sarah Widder

14 SEPT 2019 PacificSymphony.org ROBERT ISTAD

Robert Istad is artistic director of Pacific Orchestra, Andrea Bocelli, leading arts organizations of the Long Chorale and director of choral studies at and recorded albums with Yarlung Records Beach Performing Arts Center, created a California State University, Fullerton. and with composer John Williams and performing partnership with Long Beach Istad regularly conducts and collaborates Sony Classical. Symphony and Musica Angelica Baroque with Pacific Chorale, Pacific Symphony He and his singers performed a concert Orchestra, as well as performed with Orchestra, Musica Angelica Baroque of Tarik O’Regan’s music for Distinguished Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and Long Orchestra, Sony Classical Records, Yarlung Concerts International New York at Beach Opera. Records, Berkshire Choral International Carnegie Hall in November 2015. They Istad received his Bachelor of Arts in and Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. He have performed at numerous regional and music from Augustana College in Rock is also Dean of Chorus America’s national national ACDA conferences including the Island, Illi., his Master of Music in choral Academy for Conductors. 2018 ACDA Western Division Conference conducting from California State Istad has prepared choruses for a and 2018 ACDA Western Division University, Fullerton and his Doctor of number of America’s finest conductors conference and 2013 ACDA national Musical Arts in choral music at the and orchestras, including: Gustavo conference in Dallas, Texas. They also University of Southern California. He Dudamel and the Los Angeles performed for the 2013 National Collegiate studied conducting with Dr. William Philharmonic, Carl St.Clair and Pacific Choral Organization National Conference Dehning, John Alexander and Dr. Jon Symphony, as well as conductors Esa– in Charleston, S.C. Istad and the CSUF Hurty. Pekka Salonen, Keith Lockhart, Nicholas University Singers have performed all over Istad is President of the California McGegan, Vasilly Sinaisky, Sir Andrew the world, including a 2017 performance Choral Director’s Association and is in Davis, Bramwell Tovey, John Williams, in Russia’s famous Glinka Cappella, a 2015 demand as an adjudicator, guest Eugene Kohn, Eric Whitacre, Giancarlo residency and performances in Paris, conductor, speaker and clinician Guerrero, Marin Alsop, George Fenton and engagements at the 2012 Ottobeuren throughout the nation. Robert Moody. Festival of Music in Germany, the 2012 Istad was recognized as CSUF’s Eingen Festival of music in Germany, a 2016 Outstanding Professor of the 2010 performance for UNESCO in Pisa, Year. At CSU Fullerton, Istad conducts Italy, and in 2008 at the Liszt Academy of the University Singers and Women’s Music in Budapest, Hungary. Choir in addition to teaching courses Istad is former artistic director of in conducting, performance practice Long Beach Camerata Singers and and literature. Recently, he and the Long Beach Bach Festival. Under his University Singers performed with the Los leadership, Long Beach Camerata Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony Singers became recognized as one of the

PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 15 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Lori Loftus FOUNDING DIRECTOR

Carol Aspling CO-DIRECTOR

SCCC Choristers Eshika Abbaraju Hannah Kim Elianna Alaniz Evelyn Kuei Jessica Asay Nishtha Kumar Katie Baker Kaila Kupihea Joshua Barco Kevin Lai Jacob Beddome Jun Lee Ashmita Bhowmik Grace Lee Mallika Cadin Caitlyn Liao Aviela Chang Cailey Lockitch Jaxon Chavez Elissa Matthew The Southern California Children’s Chorus Choristers perform locally throughout Vritti Chopra Emma McDowell (SCCC), Orange County’s only chorus the year at private and public concerts as Cerys Cooper Joseph Meinstein dedicated exclusively to meeting the well as participating in choral invitationals. Isabella Cope Samuel Meinstein educational and performance needs of SCCC also presents spring and holiday children, seeks to do more than introduce concerts. The SCCC has provided singers Sophia Devling Logan Nangin youth to music and singing. It strives to for Touchstone films, MGM films, music Katie Di Peppino Callie Pearson enrich the lives of its members through videos, commercials, symphony concerts, Maggie Di Peppino Emma Pinza programs stressing musical aptitude, operas, television specials, exclusive Anishka Durvasula Annie Qu teamwork, discipline, self-confidence and Disney performances, the Academy Anja Erickson Joy Saati personal growth. Awards and many musical productions. Edvard Erickson Joshua Shen Currently there are more than 250 The SCCC has received many awards Bena Feng Colin Sprik young singers affiliated with SCCC, including their third Emmy for their Gracie Finley Sucheta Sundaram ranging from 5 to 18 years of age, and work in the television program “E:60” Ella Fleming-Byrne Ruth Thibault encompassing seven levels of sequential with Steven Tyler honoring the Boston vocal and choral instruction. The children Marathon victims. They have also been Kaitlyn Hamer Arianna Torres come from a wide geographic area of privileged to present concerts at world Melody Hancock Emma Turner Southern California, sometimes traveling renowned venues, including Carnegie Hall, Laura Harney Shayna Vinikoor over an hour to attend weekly rehearsals. Westminster Abbey, the White House, Finn Juge Quintessa Wedell The SCCC has an outstanding faculty the Washington National Cathedral, the Ishika Kanakath Ysabel Wilhoit of choral directors who are highly skilled Lincoln Center in New York, the Basilica Aarya Kanwale Ella Wrate in their chosen field of children’s choral San Marco in Venice, Italy and Australia’s Yusrah Khan Maddie Wrate music. They provide the young singers Sydney Opera House. Zafirah Khan with a caring, nurturing environment The Southern California Children’s in which a full range of music can be Chorus is honored once again to be learned. The choristers are immersed in working with Pacific Symphony and Pacific compositions in multiple languages from Chorale. many cultures, with themes ranging from the classics to folk and contemporary music.

16 SEPT 2019 PacificSymphony.org Pacific Symphony

Pacific Symphony, led by Music Director Carl Founded in 1978 as a collaboration and The Gospel According to Sister Aimee St.Clair for the last 30 years, has been the between California State University, in 2012-13. In 2014-15, Elliot Goldenthal resident orchestra of the Renée and Henry Fullerton (CSUF), and North Orange County released a recording of his Symphony in Segerstrom Concert Hall for over a decade. community leaders led by Marcy Mulville, G-sharp Minor, written for and performed Currently in its 41st season, the Symphony the Symphony performed its first concerts by the Symphony. The Symphony has is the largest orchestra formed in the U.S. at Fullerton’s Plummer Auditorium as the also commissioned and recorded An in the last 50 years and is recognized as an Pacific Chamber Orchestra, under the American Requiem by Danielpour and outstanding ensemble making strides on baton of then-CSUF orchestra conductor Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio by both the national and international scene, Keith Clark. Two seasons later, the Goldenthal featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Other as well as in its own community of Orange Symphony expanded its size and changed recordings have included collaborations County. In April 2018, Pacific Symphony its name to Pacific Symphony Orchestra. with such composers as Lukas Foss and made its debut at Carnegie Hall as one of Then in 1981-82, the orchestra moved Toru Takemitsu. Other leading composers two orchestras invited to perform during to Knott’s Berry Farm for one year. The commissioned by the Symphony include a yearlong celebration of composer Philip subsequent four seasons, led by Clark, Paul Chihara, Daniel Catán, James Newton Glass’ 80th birthday, and the following took place at Santa Ana High School Howard, William Kraft, Ana Lara, Tobias month the orchestra toured China. The auditorium where the Symphony also Picker, Christopher Theofanidis, Frank orchestra made its national PBS debut in made its first six acclaimed recordings. In Ticheli and Chen Yi. June 2018 on Great Performances with Peter September 1986, the Symphony moved to In both 2005 and 2010, the Symphony Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” the new Orange County Performing Arts received the prestigious ASCAP Award conducted by St.Clair. Presenting more Center, and from 1987-2016, the orchestra for Adventurous Programming. Also in than 100 concerts and events a year and additionally presented a Summer Festival 2010, a study by the League of American a rich array of education and community at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre. In Orchestras, “Fearless Journeys,” included engagement programs, the Symphony 2006, the Symphony moved into the the Symphony as one of the country’s reaches more than 300,000 residents— Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert five most innovative orchestras. The from school children to senior citizens. Hall, with striking architecture by Cesar Symphony’s award-winning education The Symphony offers repertoire ranging Pelli and acoustics by Russell Johnson— and community engagement programs from the great orchestral masterworks and in 2008, inaugurated the Hall’s benefit from the vision of St.Clair and to music from today’s most prominent critically acclaimed 4,322-pipe William J. are designed to integrate the orchestra composers. Nine seasons ago, the Gillespie Concert Organ. The orchestra and its music into the community in ways Symphony launched the highly successful embarked on its first European tour in that stimulate all ages. The Symphony’s opera initiative, “Symphonic Voices,” 2006, performing in nine cities in three Class Act program has been honored which continues in April 2020 with Verdi’s countries. as one of nine exemplary orchestra Otello. It also offers a popular Pops season, The 2016-17 season continued education programs by the National enhanced by state-of-the-art video and St.Clair’s commitment to new music with Endowment for the Arts and the League sound, led by Principal Pops Conductor commissions by pianist/composer Conrad of American Orchestras. The list of Richard Kaufman. Each Symphony season Tao and former composer-in-residence instrumental training initiatives includes also includes Café Ludwig, a chamber Narong Prangcharoen. Recordings Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra, music series; an educational Family Musical commissioned and performed by the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble Mornings series; and Sunday Matinées, Symphony include the release of William and Pacific Symphony Santiago Strings. an orchestral matinée series offering Bolcom’s Songs of Lorca and Prometheus The Symphony also spreads the joy of rich explorations of selected works led by in 2015-16, Richard Danielpour’s Toward music through arts-X-press, Class Act, St.Clair. a Season of Peace and Philip Glass’ The Heartstrings, OC Can You Play With Us?, Passion of Ramakrishna in 2013-14; and Santa Ana Strings, Strings for Generations Michael Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore and Symphony in the Cities.

PacificSymphony.org SEPT 2019 17 PACIFIC SYMPHONY Carl St.Clair • Music Director William J. Gillespie Music Director Chair Richard Kaufman • Principal Pops Conductor Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair Roger Kalia • Associate Conductor Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor Chair

FIRST PICCOLO BASS Dennis Kim Meredith Crawford* Cynthia Ellis Kyle Mendiguchia Concertmaster; Eleanor and Catherine and James Emmi Michael Gordon Chair Chair TUBA Paul Manaster Joshua Newburger** James Self* Associate Concertmaster Carolyn Riley Jessica Pearlman Fields* Suzanne R. Chonette Chair Jeanne Skrocki John Acevedo Ted Sugata TIMPANI Assistant Concertmaster; Arlene Adam Neeley and Seymour Grubman Chair Todd Miller* Julia Staudhammer Nancy Coade Eldridge ENGLISH HORN Joseph Wen‑Xiang Zhang Christine Frank Lelie Resnick PERCUSSION Cheryl Gates Kimiyo Takeya Robert A. Slack* Margaret Henken Ayako Sugaya CLARINET Ann Shiau Tenney Joseph Morris* HARP CELLO Robert Schumitzky The Hanson Family Foundation Mindy Ball* Kevin Plunkett** Chair Agnes Gottschewski Michelle Temple Dana Freeman John Acosta David Chang Robert Vos Angel Liu LIBRARIAN László Mezö Brent Anderson SECOND VIOLIN Ian McKinnell Joshua Ranz M. Andrew Honea Bridget Dolkas* DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION Jennifer Goss BASSOON Elizabeth and John Stahr Chair Will Hunter Jennise Hwang** Rudolph Stein Rose Corrigan* Yen Ping Lai Elliott Moreau DIRECTOR OF MULTIMEDIA Yu‑Tong Sharp BASS Andrew Klein OPERATIONS Ako Kojian Douglas Basye** Allen Savedoff William Pruett Ovsep Ketendjian Christian Kollgaard Linda Owen David Parmeter† Sooah Kim Paul Zibits Allen Savedoff MarlaJoy Weisshaar David Black Alice Miller‑Wrate Andrew Bumatay Shelly Shi Constance Deeter Keith Popejoy* Adedeji Ogunfolu FLUTE Kaylet Torrez** Benjamin Smolen* Elyse Lauzon Valerie and Hans Imhof Chair Sharon O’Connor Cynthia Ellis Barry Perkins* Susie and Steve Perry Chair Tony Ellis * Principal David Wailes ** Assistant Principal † On Leave TROMBONE The musicians of Pacific Symphony Michael Hoffman* are members of the American David Stetson Federation of Musicians, Local 7.

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