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FALL CONCERT: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 7:30Pm ELCOME______In the BJ Haan Auditorium on the Campus Ofw Dordt College Dear NISO Friends NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS 2017-2018 CONCERT SERIES FALL CONCERT: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 7:30pm ELCOME________________________ in the BJ Haan Auditorium on the campus ofW Dordt College Dear NISO friends, “B is for Bravo!” Welcome to the opening concert of our 2017-2018 season, “Symphonic Treasures." Tonight we hear music with the theme “B is for Bravo!” which features well-known music by Beethoven, Brahms, Bartók, Guest Artist: Douglas Yeo, bass trombone Bernstein, and Borodin. We look forward to hearing segments by guest artist Douglas Yeo, bass Also featuring Dordt College Choirs trombone, and the Dordt College choirs. This is just the beginning of our outstanding season with wonderful treasures from the orchestra and guest artists. Beethoven: Overture to Egmont We are excited to once again have the Celebrity Conductor Contest during our Winter Pops Concert on January 27. Each contestant will be asking for your support (one dollar = one vote) as a way to raise Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story money for NISO. The person with the most votes will be named the 2018 NISO Celebrity Conductor and Eric Ewazen: Concerto for Bass Trombone will have the honor of conducting a musical piece after intermission. The Winter Pops Concert will center on “Romancing the Violin,” featuring Jessica Mathaes on violin. It will be an evening of inspiration and Brahms: Academic Festival Overture romance. Bartók: Rumanian Folk Dances Please enjoy coffee and truffles at intermission and consider purchasing the NISO 30th Anniversary Borodin: Polovetsian Dances CD. Thank you for your support of NISO. We appreciate your generosity. BestDouglas Regards, Yeo, bass trombone Rhonda Pennings NISO Board Chairperson NISO 30th Anniversary CD NISO is excited to present our very first CD produced as part of last year’s celebration of our 30th Anniversary. The CD is a sampler of performance highlights from past years. It includes twelve pieces by twelve different composers from eleven different concerts conducted by Henry Duitman, Tim Christopher McGarvey,Stanichar, Henry Charles Smith, Jungho Kim, and Christopher Stanichar. The Principal Conductorcompositions include the lovely Pavane by Fauré, the “Triumphal March” from Aida by Verdi, the dramatic Pines of Rome by Respighi, and nine other concert favorites. The CD will be for sale at all NISO concerts this season. It is also available in the NISO office; requests for mail orders can be submitted by e-mail. The CD costs $15.00, with proceeds going toward 2017-2018 season expenses. Further information, including a complete listing of the titles and ordering information, is available at niso.dordt.edu. Concert Sponsor WELCOME PROGRAM Dear NISO friends, PROGRAM__________________ THE NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Welcome to the opening concert of ChristopherROGRAM Stanichar, Principal Conductor our 2017-2018 season, “Symphonic PDouglas Yeo, Bass Trombone__________________ Treasures.” Tonight we hear music with THEDordt NORTHWESTCollege Choirs IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christopher Stanichar, Principal Conductor the theme “B is for Bravo!” which features Douglas Yeo, Bass Trombone well-known music by Beethoven, Dordt14 November College Choirs 2017 Brahms, Bartók, Bernstein, and Borodin. We look forward to hearing segments by 14 NovemberBEETHOVEN 2017 Overture to “Egmont” guest artist Douglas Yeo, bass trombone, and the Dordt College choirs. This is ROGRAM BERP NSTEINBEETHOVEN (arr. Mason)__________________ OvertureSelections to from “Egmont” “West Side Story” just the beginning of our outstanding THE NORTHWEST IOWA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA season with wonderful treasures from Christopher Stanichar, Principal Conductor the orchestra and guest artists. BERDouglasNSTEIN YeoERIC (arr., Bass EWAZEN Mason) Trombone SelectionsConcerto for from Bass “West Trombone Side Story & Orchestra” Dordt College Choirs We are excited to once again have the 14 NovemberERIC EWAZEN 2017 ConcertoIntermissio for Bassn Trombone & Orchestra Celebrity Conductor Contest during our Winter Pops Concert on January 27. Each contestant will be asking for your BEETHOVENBRAHMS AcademicOvertureIntermissio Festivalto “Egmont”n Overture support (one dollar = one vote) as a way to raise money for NISO. The person BERNSTEIN (arr.BRAHMSBARTÓK Mason) AcademicRumanianSelections Festival Dances from “ WestOverture Side Story” with the most votes will be named the 2018 NISO Celebrity Conductor and I. Jocul cu bâtă (Stick Dance) ERICBARTÓK EWAZENII. BrâulRumanianConcerto (Sash Dance) Dancesfor Bass Trombone & Orchestra will have the honor of conducting a III. Pe loc (In One Spot) musical piece after intermission. The IV.I. JoculBuciumeana cu bâtă (Dance(Stick Dance) from Bucsum) II. Brâul (Sash Dance) Winter Pops Concert will center on V. Poarga RomâneascIntermissioăn (Romanian Polka) “Romancing the Violin,” featuring III.VI. PeM ălocrun (Ințel One(Fast Spot) Dance) IV. Buciumeana (Dance from Bucsum) Jessica Mathaes on violin. It will be an V. Poarga Românească (Romanian Polka) evening of inspiration and romance. BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture BORODINVI. MăPolovetsianrunțel (Fast DancesDance) from “Prince Igor” Please enjoy coffee and truffles at BARTÓK Rumanian Dances intermission and consider purchasing BORODIN Polovetsian Dances from “Prince Igor” I. PleaseJocul N cuote: bât ă (Stick Dance) the NISO 30th Anniversary CD. Thank Flash photographyII. Brâul and the(Sash use ofDance) recording devices is prohibited during NISO concerts. you for your support of NISO. We Please disableIII. allPe cell loc phones (In One and Spot)pagers. IV. PleaseBuciumeana Note: (Dance from Bucsum) appreciate your generosity. Flash photography and the use of recording devices is prohibiteV. Poargad durin Româneascg NISO concerts.ă (Romanian Polka) VI. Mărunțel (Fast Dance) Best Regards, Please disable all cell phones and pagers. Rhonda Pennings NISO Board Chairperson BORODIN Polovetsian Dances from “Prince Igor” Please Note: Flash photography and the use of recording devices is prohibited during NISO concerts. Please disable all cell phones and pagers. PROGRAMPROGRAM NOTES NOTES___________________________________ Overture to “Egmont” - Ludwig van Beethoven Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522-1568), was a Flemish nobleman and cousin to the Spanish king who ruled the Netherlands. His position gave him high rank in society and he served the crown faithfully, winning decisive military victories against the French. The reformation, however, brought society crashing down around him, leaving him torn between allegiance to his homeland and his catholic faith. Amid violent iconoclasm by Protestants and the heavy hand of the Inquisition, Egmont traveled to Spain in 1565 to appeal directly to King Phillip II for peace. In response, the king sent Don Fernando de Toledo, Duke of Alva to the Netherlands with an army of 12,000 men and carte blanche to root out heretics. Nicknamed "The Iron Duke" for his brutal repression of Protestants, Don Fernando had Egmont arrested. Despite the intercessions of his wife, Sabina of Bavaria, he was summarily decapitated for treason. Goethe dramatized Egmont's life in a neo-Shakespearean tragedy in 1788. Notwithstanding a liberal reworking of the story (Egmont's wife is replaced by a mistress, Klärchen, who commits suicide when she cannot convince Alva to spare her lover) the play makes a clear political statement, with strong overtones of justice and national liberty evident in the hero's refusal to submit to tyranny. Egmont accepts his fatal destiny and his death as a martyr stands as an ultimate victory against oppression. Beethoven, a great admirer of Goethe, composed incidental music for a Vienna revival of the play in 1809. Of the nine works he composed for the play, the overture remains as a beloved staple of the orchestral canon. Academic Festival Overture - Johannes Brahms "Gaudeamus igitur juvenes dum sumus. Post jucundam juventutem post molestam senectutem Nos habebit humus" (Let us rejoice therefore while we are young. After a pleasant youth, after the troubles of old age, the earth will have us.) - De Brevitate Vitae ("On the shortness of life"), Bologna, 1287 - In 1853, Robert Schumann opined that the young Johannes Brahms was "destined to give ideal expression to the times." By the 1870s, this had clearly come to pass. Starting with the successful premiere of his Deutsches Requiem in 1868 and continuing in a string of successful compositions, Brahms was an acknowledged master in Europe. Small wonder then that the University of Breslau awarded Johannes Brahms an honorary doctorate in 1879. In appreciation (and with tongue firmly planted in cheek) Brahms marked the occasion with an ideal composition. His Akademisches Festouvertüre includes a masterful demonstration of that most "academic" of musical disciplines: counterpoint. Blending multiple horizontal lines of music was, by this time, a rite of passage inflicted on young music students. Brahms, however, brings this thoroughly professorial technique to bear on a medley of student drinking songs, including the celebrated Gaudeamus igitur. Still sung in some European schools today, Gaudeamus is a rollicking hymn to ribaldry that includes a generous mix of dog latin and an ode to "easy and shapely virgins...and mature women, too." Concerto for Bass Trombone & Orchestra - Eric Ewazen “His music is unabashedly tonal, yet sprinkled with touches and glimpses of many other styles.” Bruce Duffie, interview with Eric Ewazen (1998) Cleveland native Eric Ewazen teaches composition
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