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74TH SEASON of CONCERTS April 24, 2016 • National Gallery of Art PROGRAM
74TH SEASON OF CONCERTS april 24, 2016 • national gallery of art PROGRAM 3:30 • West Building, West Garden Court Inscape Richard Scerbo, conductor Toru Takemitsu (1930 – 1996) Rain Spell Asha Srinivasan (b. 1980) Svara-Lila John Harbison (b. 1938) Mirabai Songs It’s True, I Went to the Market All I Was Doing Was Breathing Why Mira Can’t Go Back to Her Old House Where Did You Go? The Clouds Don’t Go, Don’t Go Monica Soto-Gil, mezzo soprano Intermission Chen Yi (b. 1953) Wu Yu Praying for Rain Shifan Gong-and-Drum Toru Takemitsu Archipelago S. 2 • National Gallery of Art The Musicians Founded in 2004 by artistic director Richard Scerbo, Inscape Chamber Orchestra is pushing the boundaries of classical music in riveting performances that reach across genres and generations and transcend the confines of the traditional concert experience. With its flexible roster and unique brand of programming, this Grammy-nominated group of high-energy master musicians has quickly established itself as one of the premier performing ensembles in the Washington, DC, region and beyond. Inscape has worked with emerging American composers and has a commitment to presenting concerts featuring the music of our time. Since its inception, the group has commissioned and premiered over twenty new works. Its members regularly perform with the National, Baltimore, Philadel- phia, Virginia, Richmond, and Delaware symphonies and the Washington Opera Orchestra; they are members of the Washington service bands. Inscape’s roots can be traced to the University of Maryland School of Music, when Scerbo and other music students collaborated at the Clarice Smith Center as the Philharmonia Ensemble. -
PROGRAM NOTES Wolfgang Mozart Clarinet Concerto in a Major, K
PROGRAM NOTES by Phillip Huscher Wolfgang Mozart Born January 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria. Died December 5, 1791, Vienna, Austria. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622 Mozart composed this concerto between the end of September and mid-November 1791, and it apparently was performed in Vienna shortly afterwards. The orchestra consists of two flutes, two bassoons, two horns, and strings. Performance time is approximately twenty-nine minutes. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s first performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto was given at the Ravinia Festival on July 25, 1957, with Reginald Kell as soloist and Georg Solti conducting. The Orchestra’s first subscription concert performance was given at Orchestra Hall on May 2, 1963, with Clark Brody as soloist and Walter Hendl conducting. Our most recent subscription concert performances were given on October 11 and 12, 1991, with Larry Combs as soloist and Sir Georg Solti conducting. The Orchestra most recently performed this concerto at the Ravinia Festival on July 15, 2001, with Larry Combs as soloist and Sir Andrew Davis conducting. This concerto is the last important work Mozart finished before his death. He recorded it in his personal catalog without a date, right after The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito. The only later entry is the little Masonic Cantata, dated November 15, 1791. The Requiem, as we know, didn’t make it into the list. For decades the history of the Requiem was full of ambiguity, while that of the Clarinet Concerto seemed quite clear. But in recent years, as we learned more about the unfinished Requiem, questions about the concerto began to emerge. -
The Timeliness of Duruflé's Requiem Book Title
University of California Press Chapter Title: The Timeliness of Duruflé’s Requiem Book Title: Musical Legacy of Wartime France Book Author(s): LESLIE A. SPROUT Published by: University of California Press. (2013) Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt3fh2q4.8 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms University of California Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Musical Legacy of Wartime France This content downloaded from 129.74.250.206 on Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:20:01 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 4 The Timeliness of Duruflé’s Requiem Plain-chant and polyphony, dominant ninths and the orchestra of Debussy—without the evidence of an actual performance, Duruflé’s Requiem might appear to be a hotch-potch. But it is the absolute unification in a very personal manner of these seemingly disparate elements that constitutes Duruflé’s chief claim to be taken seriously as a composer. felix aprahamian, “Maurice Duruflé and His Requiem” vichy’s symphonic commissions and the music of the catholic church In May 1941 Maurice Duruflé received a commission from Vichy’s Administration of Fine Arts to write a symphonic poem, for which he was offered ten thousand francs, payable upon completion of the work.1 Reversing the program’s steady decline each year since its inception in 1938, the administration provided ample funds—270,000 francs—to grant a total of seventeen commissions between May and August 1941, the first year of commissions granted under the new regime. -
The Inaugural Season 27 Season 2012-2013
YANNICK October 2012 The Inaugural Season 27 Season 2012-2013 Friday, October 19, at 8:00 Saturday, October 20, at The Philadelphia Orchestra 8:00 Sunday, October 21, at 2:00 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Conductor Marina Poplavskaya Soprano Christine Rice Mezzo-soprano Rolando Villazón Tenor Mikhail Petrenko Bass Westminster Symphonic Choir Joe Miller Director Verdi Requiem I. Requiem (Solo Quartet and Chorus) II. Dies irae: Dies irae (Chorus) Tuba mirum (Bass and Chorus) Liber scriptus (Mezzo-soprano and Chorus) Quid sum miser (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, and Tenor) Rex tremendae (Solo Quartet and Chorus) Recordare (Soprano and Mezzo-soprano) Ingemisco (Tenor) Confutatis (Bass and Chorus) Lacrymosa (Solo Quartet and Chorus) III. Offertorio (Solo Quartet) IV. Sanctus (Chorus I and II) V. Agnus Dei (Soprano, Mezzo-soprano, and Chorus) VI. Lux aeterna (Mezzo-soprano, Tenor, and Bass) VII. Libera me (Soprano and Chorus) This program runs approximately 1 hour, 30 minutes, and will be performed without an intermission. 228 Story Title The Philadelphia Orchestra Jessica Griffin Renowned for its distinctive vivid world of opera and Orchestra boasts a new sound, beloved for its choral music. partnership with the keen ability to capture the National Centre for the Philadelphia is home and hearts and imaginations Performing Arts in Beijing. the Orchestra nurtures of audiences, and admired The Orchestra annually an important relationship for an unrivaled legacy of performs at Carnegie Hall not only with patrons who “firsts” in music-making, and the Kennedy Center support the main season The Philadelphia Orchestra while also enjoying a at the Kimmel Center for is one of the preeminent three-week residency in the Performing Arts but orchestras in the world. -
Johannes Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Opus 45." Doctoral Dissertation
JOHANNES BRAHMS’S EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM: A COMPARISON OF THE REDUCED ORCHESTRATION TECHNIQUES IN JOACHIM LINCKELMANN’S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE VERSION TO BRAHMS’S FOUR HAND PIANO VERSION Michael Aaron Hawley, B.M.E., M.M. Dissertation Prepared for the Degree of DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS December 2016 APPROVED: Richard Sparks, Major Professor and Chair of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles Stephen F. Austin, Minor Professor Gregory Hobbs, Committee Member Benjamin Brand, Director of Graduate Studies in the College of Music John Richmond, Dean of the College of Music Victor Prybutok, Vice Provost of the Toulouse Graduate School Hawley, Michael Aaron. Johannes Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem: A Comparison of the Reduced Orchestration Techniques in Joachim Linckelmann’s Chamber Ensemble Version to Brahms’s Four-Hand Piano Version. Doctor of Musical Arts (Performance), December 2016, 265 pp., 29 musical examples, bibliography, 30 titles. Recognizing the challenges small groups have to program a major work, in 2010, Joachim Linckelmann created a chamber ensemble arrangement of Johannes Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem. In 1869, J.M. Reiter-Biedermann published Brahms’s four-hand piano arrangement of Ein deutsches Requiem. Brahms’s arrangement serves as an excellent comparison to the chamber ensemble version by Linckelmann, since it can be assumed that Brahms chose to highlight and focus on the parts he deemed the most important. This study was a comparative analysis of the two arrangements and was completed in three stages. The first stage documented every significant change in Joachim Linckelmann’s recent chamber arrangement. The second stage classified each change as either a reduction, reorganization, or elimination. -
Shakespeare Requiem' Receives Its First Performance, by PATRIC STANDFORD, YORKSHIRE POST
Judith Bingham's 'Shakespeare Requiem' receives its first performance, by PATRIC STANDFORD, YORKSHIRE POST The long awaited première of Judith Bingham's Shakespeare Requiem took place in Leeds Town Hall, UK, on 29 November 2008. The opening of the newly built town hall in 1858 was celebrated with the formation of a grand choral society -- the Leeds Festival Chorus -- and its first musical director, William Sterndale Bennett, initiated a tradition of first performances in the autumn of that year by directing the first performance of his own cantata The May Queen. The tradition of bringing new works to Leeds has remained with the Festival Chorus throughout its century and a half lifetime. A succession of distinguished directors maintained the tradition by commissioning new choral works, and the chorus have brought to life a fine inventory of great choral premiers including Sullivan's Golden Legend and Dvorák's St Ludmilla in 1886 and Elgar's Caractacus in 1898 through to Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, the memorable commission of 1931, and Michael Berkeley's The Red Macula of 1989. For this year's 150th Anniversary celebration, Judith Bingham could hardly be a more ideal choice. A student of both composition and singing in her time at London's Royal Academy of Music, she joined the BBC Singers in 1983 and spent twelve years as a full time member, becoming closely involved from the inside in the many challenges of both new and old music that such a renowned professional group of singers would undertake on a weekly basis. As may be expected, there is a large amount of choral music in her considerable output -- her catalogue has recently been taken up by Peters Edition, London -- and yet the new work for Leeds is her largest choral and orchestral undertaking to date. -
“Ein Deutsches Requiem” De Brahms : Una Aproximación Hermeneútica
Scarabino, Guillermo Religiosidad en “Ein deutsches requiem” de Brahms : una aproximación hermeneútica Revista del Instituto de Investigación Musicológica “Carlos Vega” Año XXVI, Nº 26, 2012 Este documento está disponible en la Biblioteca Digital de la Universidad Católica Argentina, repositorio institucional desarrollado por la Biblioteca Central “San Benito Abad”. Su objetivo es difundir y preservar la producción intelectual de la institución. La Biblioteca posee la autorización del autor para su divulgación en línea. Cómo citar el documento: Scarabino, Guillermo. “Religiosidad en Ein deutsches requiem de Brahms : una aproximación hermeneútica” [en línea]. Revista del Instituto de Investigación Musicológica “Carlos Vega” 26,26 (2012). Disponible en: http://bibliotecadigital.uca.edu.ar/repositorio/revistas/religiosidad-ein-deutsches-requiem-brahms.pdf [Fecha de consulta:..........] (Se recomienda indicar fecha de consulta al final de la cita. Ej: [Fecha de consulta: 19 de agosto de 2010]). Revista del Instituto de Investigación Musicológica “Carlos Vega” Año XXVI, Nº 26, Buenos Aires, 2012, pág. 657 RELIGIOSIDAD EN EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM DE BRAHMS. UNA APROXIMACIÓN HERMENÉUTICA GUILLERMO SCARABINO Resumen El Requiem Alemán de Brahms ha sido objeto de numerosos análisis teológico- musicológicos, debido principalmente a dos características peculiares: 1. es una obra del género requiem que no utiliza el texto de la Missa pro defunctis, sino que emplea una selección de textos bíblicos elegidos por su autor, y 2. su contenido motívico deriva de manipulaciones sobre la melodía del coral Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten, que aparecen a lo largo de los 7 números de la obra. Este trabajo pone de relieve la existencia de un motivo autónomo, independiente del contenido del coral, que aparece en cinco de los siete números y al que el autor asigna la representación simbólica de la Redención. -
An Analysis and Performance Considerations for John
AN ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR JOHN HARBISON’S CONCERTO FOR OBOE, CLARINET, AND STRINGS by KATHERINE BELVIN (Under the Direction of D. RAY MCCLELLAN) ABSTRACT John Harbison is an award-winning and prolific American composer. He has written for almost every conceivable genre of concert performance with styles ranging from jazz to pre-classical forms. The focus of this study, his Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet, and Strings, was premiered in 1985 as a product of a Consortium Commission awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts. The initial discussions for the composition were with oboist Sara Bloom and clarinetist David Shifrin. Harbison’s Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet, and Strings allows the clarinet to finally be introduced to the concerto grosso texture of the Baroque period, for which it was born too late. This document includes biographical information on John Harbison including his life and career, compositional style, and compositional output. It also contains a brief history of the Baroque concerto grosso and how it relates to the Harbison concerto. There is a detailed set-class analysis of each movement and information on performance considerations. The two performers as well as the composer were interviewed to discuss the commission, premieres, and theoretical/performance considerations for the concerto. INDEX WORDS: John Harbison, Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet, and Strings, clarinet concerto, oboe concerto, Baroque concerto grosso, analysis and performance AN ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR JOHN HARBISON’S CONCERTO FOR OBOE, CLARINET, AND STRINGS by KATHERINE BELVIN B.M., Tennessee Technological University, 2004 M.M., University of Cincinnati, 2006 A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of The University of Georgia in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS ATHENS, GEORGIA 2009 © 2009 Katherine Belvin All Rights Reserved AN ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONS FOR JOHN HARBISON’S CONCERTO FOR OBOE, CLARINET, AND STRINGS by KATHERINE BELVIN Major Professor: D. -
Mozart Requiem September 2018
Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra Jane Glover, Music Director Soprano Violin 1 Oboe Laura Amend Gina DiBello, Anne Bach, principal Alyssa Bennett Elliott Golub Honorary Erica Anderson Bethany Clearfield Concertmaster Chair Rosalind Lee Kathleen Brauer, Hannah Dixon co-assistant Basset Horn McConnell concertmaster Susan Warner, principal Susan Nelson Teresa Fream Daniel Won Bahareh Poureslami Martin Davids Emily Yiannias Michael Shelton Jeri-Lou Zike Bassoon William Buchman, Alto principal Ilana Goldstein Violin 2 Lewis Kirk Julia Hardin Sharon Polifrone, Amanda Koopman principal Maggie Mascal Ann Palen Trumpet Quinn Middleman Rika Seko Barbara Butler, co- Anna VanDeKerchove Paul Vanderwerf principal Helen Kim Charles Geyer, co- principal Tenor Channing Philbrick Sam Grosby Viola Patrick Muehleise Elizabeth Hagen, Josh R. Pritchett principal Trombone Ryan Townsend Strand Claudia Lasareff- Reed Capshaw, principal Zachary Vanderburg Mironoff David Binder Christopher Windle Benton Wedge Jared Rodin Amy Hess Bass Timpani Cornelius Bouknight Cello Douglas Waddell Cody Michael Bradley Barbara Haffner, Corey Grigg principal Jan Jarvis Judy Stone Organ Nicholas Lin Mark Brandfonbrener Stephen Alltop Dylan Martin Bass Collins Trier, principal Michael Hovnanian The Mozart Requiem Jane Glover, conductor William Jon Gray, chorus director Saturday, September 15, 2018, 7:30 PM Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago Sunday, September 16, 2018, 3:00 PM North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie Coronation Anthem No. 1, “Zadok the Priest” -
Maurice Duruflé Requiem Joseph Jongen Mass
Joseph Jongen Mass Maurice Duruflé Requiem San Francisco Lyric Chorus Robert Gurney, Music Director Jonathan Dimmock, Organ Saturday, August 23 & Sunday, August 24, 2014 Mission Dolores Basilica San Francisco, California San Francisco Lyric Chorus Robert Gurney, Music Director Board of Directors Helene Whitson, President Julia Bergman, Director Karen Stella, Secretary Jim Bishop, Director Bill Whitson, Treasurer Nora Klebow, Director Welcome to the Summer 2014 Concert of the San Francisco Lyric Chorus. Since its formation in 1995, the Chorus has offered diverse and innovative music to the community through a gathering of singers who believe in a commonality of spirit and sharing. The début concert featured music by Gabriel Fauré and Louis Vierne. The Chorus has been involved in several premieres, including Bay Area composer Brad Osness’ Lamentations, Ohio composer Robert Witt’s Four Motets to the Blessed Virgin Mary (West Coast premiere), New York composer William Hawley’s The Snow That Never Drifts (San Francisco premiere), San Francisco composer Kirke Mechem’s Christmas the Morn, Blessed Are They, To Music (San Francisco premieres), and selections from his operas, John Brown and The Newport Rivals, our 10th Anniversary Commission work, the World Premiere of Illinois composer Lee R. Kesselman’s This Grand Show Is Eternal, Robert Train Adams’ It Will Be Summer—Eventually and Music Expresses (West Coast premieres), as well as the Fall 2009 World Premiere of Dr. Adams’ Christmas Fantasy. Please sign our mailing list, located in the foyer. The San Francisco Lyric Chorus is a member of Chorus America. We are recording this concert for archival purposes Please turn off all cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices before the concert Please, no photography or audio/video taping during the performance Please, no children under 5 Please help us to maintain a distraction-free environment. -
The Grande Messe Des Morts (Requiem), Op. 5 by Hector Berlioz
THE GRANDE MESSE DES MORTS (REQUIEM), OP. 5 BY HECTOR BERLIOZ: A CONDUCTOR’S GUIDE TO THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, ORCHESTRATION, RHETORICAL/DRAMA-LITURGICAL PROJECTION AND FORMAL/STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS BY KRISTOFER J. SANCHACK Submitted to the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree, Doctor of Music Indiana University December 2015 Accepted by the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Music Doctoral Committee ______________________________________ Jan Harrington, Research Director ______________________________________ Jan Harrington, Chair ______________________________________ Betsy Burleigh ______________________________________ Dominick DiOrio ______________________________________ Frank Samarotto 30 November 2015 ii Copyright © 2015 Kristofer J. Sanchack iii Dedicated to my parents and grandparents who have supported me through a very long process iv Acknowledgements There are so many people to whom I am extremely grateful. First I would like to thank my family. My parents, grandparents, sister and niece have continued each and every day to encourage me to finish this paper. Without their support, I doubt this project would have been completed. I also want to thank my partner, who throughout the process was supportive, helpful, understanding and caring. I would like to thank Dr. Carmen-Helena Téllez who began with me on this odyssey, and my mentor, friend and research chair Dr. Jan Harrington, who believed and continued to be a pillar of strength to me throughout this endeavor. I am also indebted to Dr. Betsy Burleigh, Dr. Dominick DiOrio and Dr. Frank Samarotto, who graciously agreed to serve on the committee for this paper. -
Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Directed by Rob Ruggiero
2018–2019 SEASON EVITA LYRICS BY TIM RICE MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER DIRECTED BY ROB RUGGIERO CONTENTS 2 The 411 3 A/S/L, HTH 4 FYI 6 B4U 7 IRL 8 RBTL At The Rep, we know HOW TO BE THE BEST AUDIENCE EVER! that life moves fast— TAKE YOUR SEAT okay, really fast. But An usher will seat your class as a group, and often we have we also know that a full house with no seats to spare, so be sure to stick with some things are your school until you have been shown your section in the worth slowing down theatre. for. We believe that live theatre is one of those pit stops worth making and are excited that you are going to stop SILENCE IS GOLDEN by for a show. To help you get the most bang for your buck, Before the performance begins, be sure to turn off your cell we have put together WU? @ THE REP—an IM guide that will phone and watch alarms. If you need to talk or text during give you everything you need to know to get at the top of your intermission, don’t forget to click off before the show theatergoing game—fast. You’ll find character descriptions resumes. (A/S/L), a plot summary (FYI), biographical information (F2F), BREAK TIME historical context (B4U), and other bits and pieces (HTH). Most This performance includes an intermission, at which time importantly, we’ll have some ideas about what this all means you can visit the restrooms in the lobby.