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Seattle Symphony Gerard Schwarz First Violin Viola Flute Horn Gerard Schwarz has a vast repertoire that includes major RIMSKY- Maria Larionoff, Susan Gulkis Assadi Scott Goff John Cerminaro commitments to Germanic, Russian and American music. Concertmaster Arie Schachter Judy Kriewall Mark Robbins He has been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since Emma McGrath Mara Gearman Zartouhi Dombourian- Jeffrey Fair 1985, and also serves as Music Director of the Eastern KORSAKOV John Weller Timothy Hale Eby Adam Iascone Music Festival. Previously, he has served as Music Director Simon James Vincent Comer Susan Carroll of New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Royal Jennifer Bai Penelope Crane Piccolo Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Mariel Bailey Wesley Anderson Dyring Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Trumpet Orchestra and New York Chamber Symphony, as well as Sheherazade Cecilia Poellein Buss Sayaka Kokubo David Gordon Artistic Advisor to Tokyu Bunkamura with the Tokyo Jun Liang Du Rachel Swerdlow Oboe Richard Pressley Philharmonic. His considerable discography of some 260 Ayako Gamo Ben Hausmann Geoffrey Bergler releases showcases his collaborations with some of the The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Suite) Timothy Garland Cello Stefan Farkas world’s greatest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Leonid Keylin Eric Gaenslen Trombone Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the London Symphony, Maria Larionoff, Violin Mikhail Shmidt Susan Williams English Horn Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Berlin Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Clark Story Theresa Benshoof Stefan Farkas David Lawrence Ritt Tokyo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Bruce Bailey Stephen Fissel New York Chamber Symphony and Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz Arthur Zadinsky Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Clarinet among others. Born to Viennese parents, Schwarz has Roberta Hansen Downey Christopher Sereque Bass Trombone served on the National Council on the Arts. He has received Second Violin Walter Gray Laura DeLuca Stephen Fissel two Emmy Awards, thirteen GRAMMY® nominations, six Elisa Barston Vivian Gu Larey McDaniel ASCAP Awards, and numerous Stereo Review and Ovation Michael Miropolsky David Sabee Tuba Awards. In addition, he holds the Ditson Conductor’s Kathleen Stern E-Flat Clarinet Christopher Olka Award from Columbia University, was the first American Gennady Filimonov Bass Laura DeLuca named Conductor of the Year by Musical America, and has Evan Anderson Jordan Anderson Timpani received numerous honorary doctorates, including one from Stephen Bryant Joseph Kaufman Bass Clarinet Michael Crusoe his alma mater, The Juilliard School. In 2002, the American Linda Cole Jonathan Burnstein Larey McDaniel Photo: Yuen Lui Studio Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored Xiao-po Fei Jennifer Godfrey Percussion Schwarz with its Concert Music Award, and, in 2003, the Pacific Northwest branch of the National Academy of Sande Gillette Travis Gore Bassoon Michael A. Werner Recording Arts & Sciences gave Schwarz its first “IMPACT” lifetime achievement award. Artur Girsky Jonathan Green Seth Krimsky Michael Clark Mae Lin Nancy Page Griffin Paul Rafanelli Ron Johnson Virginia Hunt Luce Ronald Simon Mike Gamburg Eric Scott Harp Andrew Yeung Contrabassoon Valerie Muzzolini Gordon Mike Gamburg Keyboard Kimberly Russ, Piano Joseph Adam, Organ
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Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) material, whatever its narrative significance, is, in any manhood, saves a swan from attack by a kite, breaking Maria Larionoff Sheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 • The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Musical Pictures, Op. 57 case, worked out symphonically. His original intention the power of a sorcerer. As the Tsarina and Guidon had been to give the movements the uninformative titles sleep, the city of Ledenets appears on the island, and Seattle Symphony Concertmaster Maria Larionoff has appeared with the Los Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov originally of Mussorgsky and for Borodin, both of whom had left Prelude, Ballade, Adagio and Finale. He was later Guidon is welcomed by the people, released from Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfónica intended a naval career, following the example of his much undone at the time of their deaths. Relations with persuaded to add programmatic titles, which he later enchantment, as their prince. The city has three Carlos Chavez in Mexico City, the University of Washington Orchestra, the elder brother. He showed some musical ability even as a Balakirev were not always easy and he was to become regretted and withdrew. wonders, a magic squirrel that eats nuts of gold and Yakima Symphony, the Port Angeles Symphony and the San Francisco very small child, but at the age of 14 he entered the associated with Belyayev and his schemes for the Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his opera The Tale of Tsar sings, thirty-three magic knights, who emerge Chamber Orchestra. A Loomis Scholarship Award winner at the prestigious Naval Cadet College in St. Petersburg in pursuit of a publication of new Russian music, a connection that Saltan largely during the summer of 1899, the libretto sometimes from the sea, and the Swan-Princess, whom Juilliard School, she was a student of Dorothy DeLay, and, upon graduating, more immediately attractive ambition. The city, in any Balakirev could only see as disloyalty. There were other based by Vladimir Ivanovich Byelsky on the poem by Guidon had rescued and who eventually reveals herself was invited by Carlo Maria Giulini to join the violin section of the Los case, offered musical opportunities. He continued piano influences on his composition, particularly with his first Pushkin, the centenary of whose birth it celebrates. The to him in human form. Saltan, hearing of these wonders, Angeles Philharmonic. She has collaborated in chamber music concerts with lessons, but, more important than this, he was able to hearing of Wagner’s Ring in 1889 and consequent work was first performed in Moscow by a private opera sails to the island and is amazed to find there his many distinguished artists, including Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn enjoy the opera and attend his first concerts. renewed attention to opera, after a brief period of company, a successor to the company established by beloved wife and a prince who greets him as father. The Harrell, Steven Staryk, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Glenn Dicterow and William It was in 1861, the year before he completed his depression and silence, the result of illness and death in Mamontov, who had been imprisoned for debts incurred famous Flight of the Bumblebee is heard in Act III of the Preucil, and worked with some of the world’s leading conductors, among course at the Naval College, that Rimsky-Korsakov met his family. in the construction of railways. It was well received, opera, when Guidon, transformed with the help of the them Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Andre Previn, Kurt Balakirev, a musician who was to become an important Rimsky-Korsakov was involved in the disturbances although a later private production in St. Petersburg Swan-Princess into a bee, stings his wicked aunts and Sanderling, Erich Leinsdorf and Gerard Schwarz. In 2001 Maria Larionoff influence on him, as he himself was on the young army of 1905, when he sided with the Conservatory students, proved unsatisfactory. the old witch who has helped them. The Musical and her husband, bassist Barry Lieberman, founded the critically acclaimed officers Mussorgsky and Cui, who already formed part joining with some colleagues in a public demand for The Tale of Tsar Saltan, a stylised fairy-tale, tells Pictures from the opera, which were performed before American String Project, a conductorless string orchestra made up of of his circle. The meeting had a far-reaching effect on political reform, an action that brought his dismissal the story of the marriage of Tsar Saltan to the youngest the first performance of the opera itself, include the Concertmasters and soloists from around the world which performs annually Rimsky-Korsakov’s career, although in 1862 he set sail from the institution, to which he was able to return when of three sisters, who bears him a son, Prince Guidon. music for the departure of Tsar Saltan, an introduction at Benaroya Hall. She currently plays on a 1775 Guadagnini violin, the “ex- as a midshipman on a cruise that was to keep him away his pupil and friend Glazunov became director the Saltan, absent at the wars, is told by the Tsarina’s to Act I, music from later in the Act, as the Tsarina and Lorand”, lent to her by the family of Dr. Benum W. Fox of Chicago. from Russia for the next two and a half years. following year. He died in 1908. jealous sisters, that she has borne him a monster, and her baby are sent out to sea in a barrel, and the musical On his return in 1865 Rimsky-Korsakov fell again The symphonic suite Sheherazade was composed commands that she and the child be put in a barrel and picture of the three wonder of Ledenets. under the influence of Balakirev. On shore there was by Rimsky-Korsakov in the winter of 1887-1888, taking sent out to sea. Mother and son are eventually stranded Seattle Symphony more time for music and the encouragement he needed as its literary inspiration excerpts from Tales of the on a desert island, where Guidon, now coming to Keith Anderson for a serious application to music that resulted in Arabian Nights, the fascinating series of stories told by Seattle Symphony, founded in 1903, has been under the compositions in which he showed his early ability as an the beautiful Sheherazade in an effort to postpone her artistic leadership of Music Director Gerard Schwarz orchestrator and his deftness in the use of Russian execution at the orders of her royal master. The choice since 1985. He has led Seattle Symphony to international themes, a gift that Balakirev did much to encourage as of subject exemplifies the attraction that the prominence, with more than 125 recordings, twelve part of his campaign to create a truly Russian form of neighbouring cultures of Islam has had over Russian GRAMMY® nominations, two Emmys and numerous music. In 1871 he took a position as professor of composers in search of exotic material. In his own awards. Gerard Schwarz celebrates his farewell season as instrumentation and composition at St Petersburg description of Sheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov rebuts the Music Director in 2010–11, after which he will become Conservatory and the following year he resigned his notion that his themes are, in general, connected solely Conductor Laureate. The orchestra performs in the commission in the navy, to become a civilian Inspector to particular events in the Arabian Nights, although the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle of Naval Bands, a position created for him through sinuous oriental solo violin melody is associated with and is internationally recognized for its adventurous personal and family influence. the story-teller herself. The thematic material, however, programming of contemporary works, its devotion to the Rimsky-Korsakov’s subsequent career was a appears in different forms to convey differing moods classics, and its extensive recording history. From distinguished one. At the same time he accepted the and pictures. Other ideas had been suggested by the sea, September through July, the Symphony is heard live by duty of completing and often orchestrating works left Sinbad’s ship, Prince Kalender, the Prince and Princess, more than 315,000 people. For more information on unfinished by other composers of the new Russian the Festival in Baghdad and the ship dashed against the Seattle Symphony, visit www.seattlesymphony.org. school. As early as 1869 Dargomizhsky had left him the rock with the bronze rider on it. The composer himself task of completing the opera The Stone Guest. Twenty described the suite as a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale years later he was to perform similar tasks for the music images and designs of Oriental character. The musical
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Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) material, whatever its narrative significance, is, in any manhood, saves a swan from attack by a kite, breaking Maria Larionoff Sheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 • The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Musical Pictures, Op. 57 case, worked out symphonically. His original intention the power of a sorcerer. As the Tsarina and Guidon had been to give the movements the uninformative titles sleep, the city of Ledenets appears on the island, and Seattle Symphony Concertmaster Maria Larionoff has appeared with the Los Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov originally of Mussorgsky and for Borodin, both of whom had left Prelude, Ballade, Adagio and Finale. He was later Guidon is welcomed by the people, released from Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfónica intended a naval career, following the example of his much undone at the time of their deaths. Relations with persuaded to add programmatic titles, which he later enchantment, as their prince. The city has three Carlos Chavez in Mexico City, the University of Washington Orchestra, the elder brother. He showed some musical ability even as a Balakirev were not always easy and he was to become regretted and withdrew. wonders, a magic squirrel that eats nuts of gold and Yakima Symphony, the Port Angeles Symphony and the San Francisco very small child, but at the age of 14 he entered the associated with Belyayev and his schemes for the Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his opera The Tale of Tsar sings, thirty-three magic knights, who emerge Chamber Orchestra. A Loomis Scholarship Award winner at the prestigious Naval Cadet College in St. Petersburg in pursuit of a publication of new Russian music, a connection that Saltan largely during the summer of 1899, the libretto sometimes from the sea, and the Swan-Princess, whom Juilliard School, she was a student of Dorothy DeLay, and, upon graduating, more immediately attractive ambition. The city, in any Balakirev could only see as disloyalty. There were other based by Vladimir Ivanovich Byelsky on the poem by Guidon had rescued and who eventually reveals herself was invited by Carlo Maria Giulini to join the violin section of the Los case, offered musical opportunities. He continued piano influences on his composition, particularly with his first Pushkin, the centenary of whose birth it celebrates. The to him in human form. Saltan, hearing of these wonders, Angeles Philharmonic. She has collaborated in chamber music concerts with lessons, but, more important than this, he was able to hearing of Wagner’s Ring in 1889 and consequent work was first performed in Moscow by a private opera sails to the island and is amazed to find there his many distinguished artists, including Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn enjoy the opera and attend his first concerts. renewed attention to opera, after a brief period of company, a successor to the company established by beloved wife and a prince who greets him as father. The Harrell, Steven Staryk, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Glenn Dicterow and William It was in 1861, the year before he completed his depression and silence, the result of illness and death in Mamontov, who had been imprisoned for debts incurred famous Flight of the Bumblebee is heard in Act III of the Preucil, and worked with some of the world’s leading conductors, among course at the Naval College, that Rimsky-Korsakov met his family. in the construction of railways. It was well received, opera, when Guidon, transformed with the help of the them Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Andre Previn, Kurt Balakirev, a musician who was to become an important Rimsky-Korsakov was involved in the disturbances although a later private production in St. Petersburg Swan-Princess into a bee, stings his wicked aunts and Sanderling, Erich Leinsdorf and Gerard Schwarz. In 2001 Maria Larionoff influence on him, as he himself was on the young army of 1905, when he sided with the Conservatory students, proved unsatisfactory. the old witch who has helped them. The Musical and her husband, bassist Barry Lieberman, founded the critically acclaimed officers Mussorgsky and Cui, who already formed part joining with some colleagues in a public demand for The Tale of Tsar Saltan, a stylised fairy-tale, tells Pictures from the opera, which were performed before American String Project, a conductorless string orchestra made up of of his circle. The meeting had a far-reaching effect on political reform, an action that brought his dismissal the story of the marriage of Tsar Saltan to the youngest the first performance of the opera itself, include the Concertmasters and soloists from around the world which performs annually Rimsky-Korsakov’s career, although in 1862 he set sail from the institution, to which he was able to return when of three sisters, who bears him a son, Prince Guidon. music for the departure of Tsar Saltan, an introduction at Benaroya Hall. She currently plays on a 1775 Guadagnini violin, the “ex- as a midshipman on a cruise that was to keep him away his pupil and friend Glazunov became director the Saltan, absent at the wars, is told by the Tsarina’s to Act I, music from later in the Act, as the Tsarina and Lorand”, lent to her by the family of Dr. Benum W. Fox of Chicago. from Russia for the next two and a half years. following year. He died in 1908. jealous sisters, that she has borne him a monster, and her baby are sent out to sea in a barrel, and the musical On his return in 1865 Rimsky-Korsakov fell again The symphonic suite Sheherazade was composed commands that she and the child be put in a barrel and picture of the three wonder of Ledenets. under the influence of Balakirev. On shore there was by Rimsky-Korsakov in the winter of 1887-1888, taking sent out to sea. Mother and son are eventually stranded Seattle Symphony more time for music and the encouragement he needed as its literary inspiration excerpts from Tales of the on a desert island, where Guidon, now coming to Keith Anderson for a serious application to music that resulted in Arabian Nights, the fascinating series of stories told by Seattle Symphony, founded in 1903, has been under the compositions in which he showed his early ability as an the beautiful Sheherazade in an effort to postpone her artistic leadership of Music Director Gerard Schwarz orchestrator and his deftness in the use of Russian execution at the orders of her royal master. The choice since 1985. He has led Seattle Symphony to international themes, a gift that Balakirev did much to encourage as of subject exemplifies the attraction that the prominence, with more than 125 recordings, twelve part of his campaign to create a truly Russian form of neighbouring cultures of Islam has had over Russian GRAMMY® nominations, two Emmys and numerous music. In 1871 he took a position as professor of composers in search of exotic material. In his own awards. Gerard Schwarz celebrates his farewell season as instrumentation and composition at St Petersburg description of Sheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov rebuts the Music Director in 2010–11, after which he will become Conservatory and the following year he resigned his notion that his themes are, in general, connected solely Conductor Laureate. The orchestra performs in the commission in the navy, to become a civilian Inspector to particular events in the Arabian Nights, although the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle of Naval Bands, a position created for him through sinuous oriental solo violin melody is associated with and is internationally recognized for its adventurous personal and family influence. the story-teller herself. The thematic material, however, programming of contemporary works, its devotion to the Rimsky-Korsakov’s subsequent career was a appears in different forms to convey differing moods classics, and its extensive recording history. From distinguished one. At the same time he accepted the and pictures. Other ideas had been suggested by the sea, September through July, the Symphony is heard live by duty of completing and often orchestrating works left Sinbad’s ship, Prince Kalender, the Prince and Princess, more than 315,000 people. For more information on unfinished by other composers of the new Russian the Festival in Baghdad and the ship dashed against the Seattle Symphony, visit www.seattlesymphony.org. school. As early as 1869 Dargomizhsky had left him the rock with the bronze rider on it. The composer himself task of completing the opera The Stone Guest. Twenty described the suite as a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale years later he was to perform similar tasks for the music images and designs of Oriental character. The musical
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Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) material, whatever its narrative significance, is, in any manhood, saves a swan from attack by a kite, breaking Maria Larionoff Sheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 • The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Musical Pictures, Op. 57 case, worked out symphonically. His original intention the power of a sorcerer. As the Tsarina and Guidon had been to give the movements the uninformative titles sleep, the city of Ledenets appears on the island, and Seattle Symphony Concertmaster Maria Larionoff has appeared with the Los Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov originally of Mussorgsky and for Borodin, both of whom had left Prelude, Ballade, Adagio and Finale. He was later Guidon is welcomed by the people, released from Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfónica intended a naval career, following the example of his much undone at the time of their deaths. Relations with persuaded to add programmatic titles, which he later enchantment, as their prince. The city has three Carlos Chavez in Mexico City, the University of Washington Orchestra, the elder brother. He showed some musical ability even as a Balakirev were not always easy and he was to become regretted and withdrew. wonders, a magic squirrel that eats nuts of gold and Yakima Symphony, the Port Angeles Symphony and the San Francisco very small child, but at the age of 14 he entered the associated with Belyayev and his schemes for the Rimsky-Korsakov wrote his opera The Tale of Tsar sings, thirty-three magic knights, who emerge Chamber Orchestra. A Loomis Scholarship Award winner at the prestigious Naval Cadet College in St. Petersburg in pursuit of a publication of new Russian music, a connection that Saltan largely during the summer of 1899, the libretto sometimes from the sea, and the Swan-Princess, whom Juilliard School, she was a student of Dorothy DeLay, and, upon graduating, more immediately attractive ambition. The city, in any Balakirev could only see as disloyalty. There were other based by Vladimir Ivanovich Byelsky on the poem by Guidon had rescued and who eventually reveals herself was invited by Carlo Maria Giulini to join the violin section of the Los case, offered musical opportunities. He continued piano influences on his composition, particularly with his first Pushkin, the centenary of whose birth it celebrates. The to him in human form. Saltan, hearing of these wonders, Angeles Philharmonic. She has collaborated in chamber music concerts with lessons, but, more important than this, he was able to hearing of Wagner’s Ring in 1889 and consequent work was first performed in Moscow by a private opera sails to the island and is amazed to find there his many distinguished artists, including Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn enjoy the opera and attend his first concerts. renewed attention to opera, after a brief period of company, a successor to the company established by beloved wife and a prince who greets him as father. The Harrell, Steven Staryk, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Glenn Dicterow and William It was in 1861, the year before he completed his depression and silence, the result of illness and death in Mamontov, who had been imprisoned for debts incurred famous Flight of the Bumblebee is heard in Act III of the Preucil, and worked with some of the world’s leading conductors, among course at the Naval College, that Rimsky-Korsakov met his family. in the construction of railways. It was well received, opera, when Guidon, transformed with the help of the them Sir Simon Rattle, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, Andre Previn, Kurt Balakirev, a musician who was to become an important Rimsky-Korsakov was involved in the disturbances although a later private production in St. Petersburg Swan-Princess into a bee, stings his wicked aunts and Sanderling, Erich Leinsdorf and Gerard Schwarz. In 2001 Maria Larionoff influence on him, as he himself was on the young army of 1905, when he sided with the Conservatory students, proved unsatisfactory. the old witch who has helped them. The Musical and her husband, bassist Barry Lieberman, founded the critically acclaimed officers Mussorgsky and Cui, who already formed part joining with some colleagues in a public demand for The Tale of Tsar Saltan, a stylised fairy-tale, tells Pictures from the opera, which were performed before American String Project, a conductorless string orchestra made up of of his circle. The meeting had a far-reaching effect on political reform, an action that brought his dismissal the story of the marriage of Tsar Saltan to the youngest the first performance of the opera itself, include the Concertmasters and soloists from around the world which performs annually Rimsky-Korsakov’s career, although in 1862 he set sail from the institution, to which he was able to return when of three sisters, who bears him a son, Prince Guidon. music for the departure of Tsar Saltan, an introduction at Benaroya Hall. She currently plays on a 1775 Guadagnini violin, the “ex- as a midshipman on a cruise that was to keep him away his pupil and friend Glazunov became director the Saltan, absent at the wars, is told by the Tsarina’s to Act I, music from later in the Act, as the Tsarina and Lorand”, lent to her by the family of Dr. Benum W. Fox of Chicago. from Russia for the next two and a half years. following year. He died in 1908. jealous sisters, that she has borne him a monster, and her baby are sent out to sea in a barrel, and the musical On his return in 1865 Rimsky-Korsakov fell again The symphonic suite Sheherazade was composed commands that she and the child be put in a barrel and picture of the three wonder of Ledenets. under the influence of Balakirev. On shore there was by Rimsky-Korsakov in the winter of 1887-1888, taking sent out to sea. Mother and son are eventually stranded Seattle Symphony more time for music and the encouragement he needed as its literary inspiration excerpts from Tales of the on a desert island, where Guidon, now coming to Keith Anderson for a serious application to music that resulted in Arabian Nights, the fascinating series of stories told by Seattle Symphony, founded in 1903, has been under the compositions in which he showed his early ability as an the beautiful Sheherazade in an effort to postpone her artistic leadership of Music Director Gerard Schwarz orchestrator and his deftness in the use of Russian execution at the orders of her royal master. The choice since 1985. He has led Seattle Symphony to international themes, a gift that Balakirev did much to encourage as of subject exemplifies the attraction that the prominence, with more than 125 recordings, twelve part of his campaign to create a truly Russian form of neighbouring cultures of Islam has had over Russian GRAMMY® nominations, two Emmys and numerous music. In 1871 he took a position as professor of composers in search of exotic material. In his own awards. Gerard Schwarz celebrates his farewell season as instrumentation and composition at St Petersburg description of Sheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov rebuts the Music Director in 2010–11, after which he will become Conservatory and the following year he resigned his notion that his themes are, in general, connected solely Conductor Laureate. The orchestra performs in the commission in the navy, to become a civilian Inspector to particular events in the Arabian Nights, although the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle of Naval Bands, a position created for him through sinuous oriental solo violin melody is associated with and is internationally recognized for its adventurous personal and family influence. the story-teller herself. The thematic material, however, programming of contemporary works, its devotion to the Rimsky-Korsakov’s subsequent career was a appears in different forms to convey differing moods classics, and its extensive recording history. From distinguished one. At the same time he accepted the and pictures. Other ideas had been suggested by the sea, September through July, the Symphony is heard live by duty of completing and often orchestrating works left Sinbad’s ship, Prince Kalender, the Prince and Princess, more than 315,000 people. For more information on unfinished by other composers of the new Russian the Festival in Baghdad and the ship dashed against the Seattle Symphony, visit www.seattlesymphony.org. school. As early as 1869 Dargomizhsky had left him the rock with the bronze rider on it. The composer himself task of completing the opera The Stone Guest. Twenty described the suite as a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale years later he was to perform similar tasks for the music images and designs of Oriental character. The musical
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Seattle Symphony Gerard Schwarz First Violin Viola Flute Horn Gerard Schwarz has a vast repertoire that includes major RIMSKY- Maria Larionoff, Susan Gulkis Assadi Scott Goff John Cerminaro commitments to Germanic, Russian and American music. Concertmaster Arie Schachter Judy Kriewall Mark Robbins He has been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since Emma McGrath Mara Gearman Zartouhi Dombourian- Jeffrey Fair 1985, and also serves as Music Director of the Eastern KORSAKOV John Weller Timothy Hale Eby Adam Iascone Music Festival. Previously, he has served as Music Director Simon James Vincent Comer Susan Carroll of New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Royal Jennifer Bai Penelope Crane Piccolo Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Mariel Bailey Wesley Anderson Dyring Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Trumpet Orchestra and New York Chamber Symphony, as well as Sheherazade Cecilia Poellein Buss Sayaka Kokubo David Gordon Artistic Advisor to Tokyu Bunkamura with the Tokyo Jun Liang Du Rachel Swerdlow Oboe Richard Pressley Philharmonic. His considerable discography of some 260 Ayako Gamo Ben Hausmann Geoffrey Bergler releases showcases his collaborations with some of the The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Suite) Timothy Garland Cello Stefan Farkas world’s greatest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Leonid Keylin Eric Gaenslen Trombone Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the London Symphony, Maria Larionoff, Violin Mikhail Shmidt Susan Williams English Horn Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Berlin Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Clark Story Theresa Benshoof Stefan Farkas David Lawrence Ritt Tokyo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Bruce Bailey Stephen Fissel New York Chamber Symphony and Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz Arthur Zadinsky Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Clarinet among others. Born to Viennese parents, Schwarz has Roberta Hansen Downey Christopher Sereque Bass Trombone served on the National Council on the Arts. He has received Second Violin Walter Gray Laura DeLuca Stephen Fissel two Emmy Awards, thirteen GRAMMY® nominations, six Elisa Barston Vivian Gu Larey McDaniel ASCAP Awards, and numerous Stereo Review and Ovation Michael Miropolsky David Sabee Tuba Awards. In addition, he holds the Ditson Conductor’s Kathleen Stern E-Flat Clarinet Christopher Olka Award from Columbia University, was the first American Gennady Filimonov Bass Laura DeLuca named Conductor of the Year by Musical America, and has Evan Anderson Jordan Anderson Timpani received numerous honorary doctorates, including one from Stephen Bryant Joseph Kaufman Bass Clarinet Michael Crusoe his alma mater, The Juilliard School. In 2002, the American Linda Cole Jonathan Burnstein Larey McDaniel Photo: Yuen Lui Studio Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored Xiao-po Fei Jennifer Godfrey Percussion Schwarz with its Concert Music Award, and, in 2003, the Pacific Northwest branch of the National Academy of Sande Gillette Travis Gore Bassoon Michael A. Werner Recording Arts & Sciences gave Schwarz its first “IMPACT” lifetime achievement award. Artur Girsky Jonathan Green Seth Krimsky Michael Clark Mae Lin Nancy Page Griffin Paul Rafanelli Ron Johnson Virginia Hunt Luce Ronald Simon Mike Gamburg Eric Scott Harp Andrew Yeung Contrabassoon Valerie Muzzolini Gordon Mike Gamburg Keyboard Kimberly Russ, Piano Joseph Adam, Organ
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Seattle Symphony Gerard Schwarz First Violin Viola Flute Horn Gerard Schwarz has a vast repertoire that includes major RIMSKY- Maria Larionoff, Susan Gulkis Assadi Scott Goff John Cerminaro commitments to Germanic, Russian and American music. Concertmaster Arie Schachter Judy Kriewall Mark Robbins He has been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since Emma McGrath Mara Gearman Zartouhi Dombourian- Jeffrey Fair 1985, and also serves as Music Director of the Eastern KORSAKOV John Weller Timothy Hale Eby Adam Iascone Music Festival. Previously, he has served as Music Director Simon James Vincent Comer Susan Carroll of New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Royal Jennifer Bai Penelope Crane Piccolo Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Mariel Bailey Wesley Anderson Dyring Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby Trumpet Orchestra and New York Chamber Symphony, as well as Sheherazade Cecilia Poellein Buss Sayaka Kokubo David Gordon Artistic Advisor to Tokyu Bunkamura with the Tokyo Jun Liang Du Rachel Swerdlow Oboe Richard Pressley Philharmonic. His considerable discography of some 260 Ayako Gamo Ben Hausmann Geoffrey Bergler releases showcases his collaborations with some of the The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Suite) Timothy Garland Cello Stefan Farkas world’s greatest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Leonid Keylin Eric Gaenslen Trombone Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the London Symphony, Maria Larionoff, Violin Mikhail Shmidt Susan Williams English Horn Ko-ichiro Yamamoto Berlin Radio Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Clark Story Theresa Benshoof Stefan Farkas David Lawrence Ritt Tokyo Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeannie Wells Yablonsky Bruce Bailey Stephen Fissel New York Chamber Symphony and Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz Arthur Zadinsky Meeka Quan DiLorenzo Clarinet among others. Born to Viennese parents, Schwarz has Roberta Hansen Downey Christopher Sereque Bass Trombone served on the National Council on the Arts. He has received Second Violin Walter Gray Laura DeLuca Stephen Fissel two Emmy Awards, thirteen GRAMMY® nominations, six Elisa Barston Vivian Gu Larey McDaniel ASCAP Awards, and numerous Stereo Review and Ovation Michael Miropolsky David Sabee Tuba Awards. In addition, he holds the Ditson Conductor’s Kathleen Stern E-Flat Clarinet Christopher Olka Award from Columbia University, was the first American Gennady Filimonov Bass Laura DeLuca named Conductor of the Year by Musical America, and has Evan Anderson Jordan Anderson Timpani received numerous honorary doctorates, including one from Stephen Bryant Joseph Kaufman Bass Clarinet Michael Crusoe his alma mater, The Juilliard School. In 2002, the American Linda Cole Jonathan Burnstein Larey McDaniel Photo: Yuen Lui Studio Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honored Xiao-po Fei Jennifer Godfrey Percussion Schwarz with its Concert Music Award, and, in 2003, the Pacific Northwest branch of the National Academy of Sande Gillette Travis Gore Bassoon Michael A. Werner Recording Arts & Sciences gave Schwarz its first “IMPACT” lifetime achievement award. Artur Girsky Jonathan Green Seth Krimsky Michael Clark Mae Lin Nancy Page Griffin Paul Rafanelli Ron Johnson Virginia Hunt Luce Ronald Simon Mike Gamburg Eric Scott Harp Andrew Yeung Contrabassoon Valerie Muzzolini Gordon Mike Gamburg Keyboard Kimberly Russ, Piano Joseph Adam, Organ
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8.559378 8.559610 NAXOS NAXOS Described by the composer as a kaleidoscope of fairy-tale images and designs of oriental character, Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Sheherazade has delighted listeners for generations. The rapturous solo violin plays the part of the slave who narrates the wonderful tales of the Arabian Nights, including the adventures of Sinbad, Prince Kalender and the Festival of Baghdad. The suite, or ‘musical pictures’, from The Tale of Tsar Saltan depicts 8.572693 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: episodes from this magical opera, from which the mischievous Flight of the Bumblebee is also RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: drawn. The Seattle Symphony is one of the world’s most recorded orchestras, with 12 DDD GRAMMY® nominations and two Emmy Awards. Nikolay Andreyevich Playing Time RIMSKY-KORSAKOV 66:38 (1844-1908) Sheherazade, Op. 35* 45:52 1 The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship 10:46 2 The Kalender Prince 11:34 3 The Young Prince and the Princess 10:43 4 Festival at Baghdad – The Sea 12:48 Sheherazade The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Suite), Op. 57 20:46 Sheherazade
5 The Tsar’s Farewell and Departure 4:41 www.naxos.com Disc made in Canada. Printed and assembled USA. Booklet notes in English
6 The Tsarina in a Barrel at Sea 7:20 & 7 The Three Wonders 7:14 8 The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumblebee 1:31 2011 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Maria Larionoff, Violin* Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz
Recorded in Benaroya Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA, on 7th May, 2010 (tracks 1-4), on 4th June, 2010 (tracks 5-7), and on 16th June, 2010 (track 8) Produced, engineered and edited by Dmitriy Lipay 8.572693 Executive producers: Seattle Symphony and Paul Schwendener 8.572693 Editions: Kalmus • Booklet notes: Keith Anderson Cover: Set design for ‘Sheherazade’ by Rimsky-Korsakov by Leon Bakst (1866-1924) (Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library)