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FIRST MONDAY AT JORDAN HALL “French Music – 100 th Anniversaries” Program includes Debussy Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp; Dutilleux String New England Conservatory Quartet; and works by Rameau and Poulenc Opera Studies Department Performers include Tre Voci (Maria Piccinini, flute; Sivan Magen, harp; presents Kim Kashkashian, viola) and the Parker Quartet (Daniel Chong, Ying Xue, violin; Jessica Bodner, viola; Kee-Hyun Kim, cello); Amanda Hardy, oboe; Rose Vrbsky, bassoon; Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, piano e Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall La Vida Br ve An opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla

Conductor Douglas Kinney Frost

Stage Director Joshua Major

Musical Preparation Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek This organization is supported in part Daniel Wyneken by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events.

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CAST OF CHARACTERS Other Upcoming Concerts at NEC –continued SALUD Erica Petrocelli LA ABUELA Brindley McWhorter NEC SYMPHONIC WINDS AND NEC CHAMBER SINGERS , William Drury and CARMELA Morgan Middleton Erica Washburn, conductors; PACO David Rivera Messiaen La ville d’en-haut, Yukiko Takagi, piano; Schubert Deutsche Messe, MANUEL Nicholas Tocci D. 872; Tarver Ragnarök: The Fate of the Gods and Fanfare for Brass; EL TÍO SARVAOR Christopher Carbin Sviridov Lyubov’ Svyataya and Round Dance TENOR VOICE Rafael Delsid Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall EL CANTAOR Josh Quinn TUESDAY NIGHT NEW MUSIC New music by NEC student composers, performed by their peers CHORUS Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall

Natalie Bernstein-Park - Grant Braider - Christon Carney NEC PHILHARMONIA , Ken-David Masur, guest conductor Wei En Chan - Rush Dorsett - Julia Dwyer - Corey Gaudreau Finnis Flicker; Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, op. 132; Michael González - Jordan Harrington - Jeongmin Kim - Kaitlin Loeb Franck Symphony in D Minor, op. 48 Catherine Psarakis - Jordan Reynolds - Whitney Robinson Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Austin Vitaliano - Gretchen Werda - Yoonjeong Yoo - Shang Zhang

NEC Philharmonia NEC CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE , John Heiss, director Douglas Kinney Frost, guest conductor Ligeti Der Sommer (Hoelderlin) and Viola Sonata (excerpts) ; Heiss Mosaics and Fanfare; Harbison Mirabai Songs; Ives String Quartet No. 2 First Violin Austin Hansen, Jay-ook Lee, Danny Koo, Alyssa Wang, Brian Choi, Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Yi-Ting Joy Kuo, Maura Shawn Scanlin, Inga M. Liu, Carmen Johnson-Pájaro, Yuval Herz, Adam Wu FACULTY RECITAL : NICHOLAS KITCHEN , violin and YEESUN KIM , cello Second Violin Luther Warren, Heewon Koo, Harriet Langley, Maya Ramchandran, Monday, October 31, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Sarah-Hadley Yakir, Lily Honigberg, Su Yeon Park, Weilu Zhang, Amelia Sie, David Bernat FACULTY RECITAL : THE MUSIC OF COGAN , ESCOT , TRÜNIGER , AND MCMULLIN Guitar Bradley Stone Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Viola Jesse Morrison, Sarah Hill, Aria Cheregosha, Saerok Park,

Rayna Yun Chou, Rae Gallimore, Lena Ho, Zhuqing Zhang Cello Ye Young Yoo, Aihao Zheng, Jakob Taylor, Mina Kim, Jieun Kim, NEC PHILHARMONIA , David Loebel, conductor Magali Toy McTee Circuits; Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D Major (“The Miracle”); Bass Kathryn Nottage, Joseph Newton, Ross Wightman, Elam Richter, Nielsen Symphony No. 4. Op 29 (“The Inextinguishable”) Kathryn Evans Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Flute Hye Won Suh, Wooyeon Milk Yoo Piccolo Mona Sangesland NEC CONCERT CHOIR , YOUTH CHORALE , AND CAMBRIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA , Oboe Andrew Port, Mark Debski Cynthia Woods, conductor English horn Nicole Caligiuri Tippett A Child of Our Time Clarinet Stefan Van Sant, Yiqiao Chen Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Kresge Hall at MIT; tickets required Bass Clarinet Matthew Griffith

Other Upcoming Concerts at NEC Bassoon Micah Gharavi, Nicholas Hooks –continued French horn Hajime Goto, Nicholas A. Miller, Andrew Bass, Matt Pennington Trumpet Elmer Churampi Mucha, Nathan Stoerzinger Trombone Michael Shayte, Andrew Huynh NEC WIND ENSEMBLE , Charles Peltz, conductor; John Heiss, guest conductor, Bass Trombone Chet Stüssy Holly Hyun Choe, graduate conductor Tuba Ray Liu Salfelder Prospect Hill: Flourish for Brass; Heiss Mosaics and Fanfare; Mozart Gran Timpani Luis Herrera Albertazzi Partita; Brookmeyer Me, Her and You; Chavez Xochipilli (An Imaginary Aztec Percussion Rainice Lai, Julian Loida, Sean Van Winkle, Harrison Honor, Music); Antígona, apuntes para la sinfonía; Husa Music for Prague Seth Burkhart Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Harp Dana Schneider, Qianqian Chen

NEC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA , coached by Donald Palma Froom Down to a Sunless Sea; Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C Minor, SYNOPSIS op. 110a; Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48 Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall In turn-of-the-century Granada, a young gypsy girl, Salud, has fallen passionately in love with Paco, the city’s most eligible bachelor. The two begin NEC COMPOSERS ’ SERIES , Malcolm Peyton, director a love affair, but Salud is unaware that Paco is already engaged to Carmela, a Works by Ives, Copland, Carter, and Sessions young woman from a wealthy family. Salud discovers the truth about Paco’s Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall betrothal and imminent wedding, and her uncle, Tío Sarvaor, and grandmother attempt to stop her from confronting Paco on his wedding day. Her family is NEC SYMPHONY , David Loebel, conductor unsuccessful, however, and Salud attends Paco’s nuptials in order to confront Smetana Overture to “The Bartered Bride” ; Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C Major, him for his profound deception and rejection. With the wedding guests (and K. 425; Previn Principals ; Gershwin Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture his soon-to-be bride) agog at Salud’s display, Paco pretends as though he Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall doesn’t recognize Salud, and the gypsy girl collapses and dies at his feet.

NEC JAZZ ORCHESTRA , Ken Schaphorst, conductor NOTES Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Although rarely performed as a complete work, Manuel de Falla’s second opera MUSIC FOR FOOD : FROM BACH TO BERIO : Bach’s organ sonatas (BWV 529 in G La Vida Breve is as powerful as it is concise: in just around an hour of music, this Major and 530 in C Major) arranged for string trio by Kim Kashkashian (Ian work offers the listener text (in the Andalusian dialect of Spanish) that Swenson, violin , Kim Kashkashian, viola , Jonah Ellsworth, cello); Brahms Two summons forth intense dramatic action, multiple lush orchestral interludes Songs for Soprano, Viola, and Piano, (Lucy Shelton, mezzo-soprano , Kim (which are often excerpted by symphonies for concert performances), and the Kashkashian, viola , Michael Bukhman, piano); Berio Sequenza iii, (Lucy Shelton, bright and colorful sonic landscape unique to Falla’s compositional style. While mezzo-soprano); Mozart Serenade for Winds No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388, (Tom the zarzuela , a form of Spanish musical theatre that features both spoken and Novak, bassoon , Rob Sheena, oboe , Jason Snider, French horn , Michael Wayne, sung dialogue, was popular in Spain around the turn of the century, La Vida clarinet , & friends); concert proceeds benefit The Women’s Lunch Place; Breve (written in 1905) is definitively a lyric drama that resists the zarzuela suggested donation: general admission $25; students $10. tradition of the time. Falla wrote La Vida Breve as a submission for a composi- Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall tion competition in Spain, the first prize of which was a performance in Madrid of the winning work; although Falla won this competition, the performance did not materialize until 1914 after successful productions of the opera in Nice and Paris, respectively, in 1913. The version of the score utilized today in recordings and performances is not, however, the version of the score used for the Upcoming NEC Opera Performances premiere in Nice; the standard and accepted score of La Vida Breve is a re- Visit necmusic.edu for complete and updated concert information orchestration of the version premiered in Nice, and was completed in 1913 by the composer with guidance from Claude Debussy. “O PENING OUR DOORS DAY ” Truly, this work is a vehicle for the vocal and, especially, dramatic gifts of Graduate students from the NEC Opera Department perform various scenes the soprano singing Salud: she is, arguably, the only well-defined character in and arias the work, and her passion and desperation are the very lifeblood of the opera. Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:00 p.m., Jordan Hall Salud is not a woman who dies, rejected and humiliated, at the feet of a former lover; rather, she is a woman who profoundly and courageously explores the REV 23: NEC OPERA & PHILHARMONIA complicated relationship between love and death. Listeners familiar with the Graduate students from NEC Opera Department present a workshop of Julian operas of Richard Strauss may draw a connection between Falla’s Salud and Wachner’s new opera REV. 23 , the hitherto unpublished last chapter of the Strauss’s Salome, and this is certainly appropriate: the protagonists of both Book of Revelation; created by Cerise Lim Jacobs. works, spurned by the objects of their affection, discover in different ways that, Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall in Salome’s words, “the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.” Monday, October 31, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall To consider Falla’s heroine through the lens of the more accessible Salome affords the listener a unique insight into the meaning of Salud’s death at the UNDERGRADUATE OPERA STUDIO – OPERA SCENES , Michael Meraw, director end of the opera. Salud is the “Everywoman” who attempts to understand Friday, November 18, 2016, 8:30 p.m., Williams Hall exactly what it means when a love that seemed infinite and boundless is, Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Williams Hall suddenly and without explanation, over. She tries to parse out the difference between the end of a life and the end of love and finds that one is inextricable NIGHT AT THE OPERA from the other. Thus, even though Paco has very obviously moved past their Opera scenes performed by second-year graduate opera majors relationship, Salud would rather end her life and protect the memory of their Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall love than continue living and accept that their relationship has ended, as Monday, November 21, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall indicated by one of her final lines: “¡Debe haber entodavía en mi casa algún eco que guarde sus dulces palabras de amor...!” (“There must still be some sort of THE HANDEL -ER echo in my home that has preserved his sweet words of love…!”) Salud’s Performances by first-year graduate opera majors memory of passionate and infinite love is arrested by her death, and this Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall preserves love both as an ideal and as a mysterious, universal theme of the Monday, December 5, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall human experience. – Jacquelyn Stucker, September 2016

Other Upcoming Concerts at NEC

FACULTY RECITAL : VICTOR ROSENBAUM , piano A celebration of his fifty years on the NEC faculty Beethoven Variations, op. 34; Brahms Six Pieces, op. 118; Schubert Sonata in B- flat Major, D. 960 Monday, October 10, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall

OPERA STUDIES ARTISTIC TEAM BIOGRAPHIES Chair of Opera Studies Joshua Major Acting Stephen Goldstein DOUGLAS KINNEY FROST, Conductor Diction Jean Anderson Collier Douglas Kinney Frost has led orchestras and opera companies on four Movement Peter DiMuro, Andrew Moss continents, consistently thrilling audiences and inspiring the musicians with Opera Production & Richard Frost whom he works. “Under the baton of music director Douglas Kinney Frost the Administrative Director orchestra consistently presents concerts that are interesting, stimulating and Vocal Coaching & Musical Preparation Jean Anderson Collier, thought-provoking,” says the Deseret News . Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, Labelled a Britten specialist by Maestro James Conlon, Frost was invited to Timothy Steele, Michael Strauss, serve as associate conductor for his work on Benjamin Britten operas numerous Daniel Wyneken times, including: The Turn of the Screw , Albert Herring , and Billy Budd with Los Senior Staff Assistants Helen Huang, Andrea Wozniak Angeles Opera and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Curlew River and The Prodigal Nicholas Tocci Son with the Fondazione Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, and The Burning Fiery Graduate Work-Study Staff Christon Carney, Julia Dwyer Furnace with the Ravinia Festival. Last season, he returned to Los Angeles Opera for John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles and Il barbiere di Siviglia. ORCHESTRA In 2015 he led important projects in Los Angeles and New York City. About Stanford and Norma Jean Calderwood Hugh Wolff his performances of Figaro 90210, the LA Times commented, “…orchestra and Director of Orchestras chorus conducted by Douglas Kinney Frost were excellent, and at times it was Administrative Director of Orchestras Marjorie Apfelbaum fun watching Frost with his colorful style of conducting,. This 21st century Associate Director of Orchestras David Loebel update of Mozart’s classic played to sold-out houses and added performances Artistic Director of Chamber Orchestra Donald Palma at LA Opera. He also served as Music Director and conductor for a co-produc- Performance Librarian Ashton Bush tion of David Lang’s Difficulty of Crossing a Field for Beth Morrison Projects Instrument Librarian John Stanton which received a concert performance in New York and was recorded and Student Orchestra Manager Holly Hyun Choe released in June 2015 on Cantaloupe Records. The recording is receiving rave Student Librarian Micah Gharavi mentions including The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , and Philadelphia Examiner . VOICE FACULTY A Music Director, and later Artistic Director, of Syracuse Opera for eight Jane Eaglen Carole Haber years, Douglas Kinney Frost refocused the company’s artistic vision and Karen Holvik–Chair MaryAnn McCormick redefined its commitment to the community. He broadened main-stage Michael Meraw Patricia Misslin programming by conducting the company’s first new production of an Lorraine Nubar Lisa Saffer American work, Mark Adamo’s Little Women , while maintaining a commitment Bradley Williams–Assistant Chair to producing the standard repertoire with distinction. He inaugurated a Resident Artist Program whose members appear throughout upstate New York Special thanks to: in Kinney Frost's many creative audience development initiatives. He also The NEC Performance Services Staff created the country’s first professional opera conducting training program with NEC Information Technology Services Ithaca College. Kris Holmes As an advocate for arts education, Mr. Kinney Frost has created numerous Peter Lanza education and outreach programs for orchestras and opera companies. One of Sally Millar his opera education programs, OPERAMANIA! , was broadcast for two seasons on PBS. He is frequently asked to lecture about music and the training of young vocalists and conductors. He has been a panelist at conferences for the Louis, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and soprano Elizabeth Futral, National Endowment for the Arts, American Symphony Orchestra League, under the baton of Michael Christie. Conductor’s Guild, Utah Arts Council, Opera America and Virginia Commission Recent faculty concerts at New England Conservatory include for the Arts. collaborations with baritone Michael Meraw, mezzo-soprano Erica Washburn, violinist Nicholas Kitchen, cellist Yeesun Kim, violist Kim Kashkashian and JOSHUA MAJOR, Director saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky. In February 2015, Francoeur-Krzyzek and Toronto-born Joshua Major began his opera stage directing career at the age Radnofsky performed the world premiere of David Amram’s Greenwich Village of twenty-three with La Cenerentola for Opera Omaha. Soon after, Mr. Major Portraits in New York City. He premiered Andrew List's Journey Toward the worked as an assistant at the Welsh National Opera, to Rhoda Levine at Eternal Flame for piano, oboe and bassoon, with BSO members John Ferrillo Juilliard, and to Cynthia Auerbach at both Chautauqua Opera and the New and Richard Svoboda, as part of the Boston Woodwind Society’s Double Reed York City Opera. Mr. Major has worked as a stage director for almost thirty years Day at NEC. throughout the United States and Canada, developing an impressive diverse repertoire of productions. Recent productions include Un giorno di Regno DANIEL WYNEKEN, Musical Preparation (Verdi), Die Fledermaus (Strauss) the North American premiere of Rossini's La Daniel Wyneken is in his twenty-sixth year as a vocal coach in the NEC Opera Gazzetta, The Consul (Menotti), The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček), Lucia di Department, is music director of the department's outreach efforts into the Lammermoor (Donizetti), The Turn of the Screw (Britten) Les mamelles de Tirésias Boston schools, and is music director of NEC's summer session Opera Studio. (Poulenc), L'Impressions de Pelléas (Brook/Debussy), L’enfant et les sortilèges He has worked at several regional opera companies, including Central City (Ravel) , and La tragédie de Carmen (Brook/Bizet) Mr. Major has worked for Opera, Opera Omaha, Syracuse Opera, and Opera on the James. He has taught numerous companies, including Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of St. diction at both The Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory. Louis, Central City Opera, Opera Omaha, Odyssey Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Fort Worth Opera. In August 2012 Mr. Major became Chair of Opera Studies at New England Conservatory after completing twenty years on the faculty of the University of Michigan where he oversaw the Opera Program, both teaching and directing. Productions at the University of Michigan included Falstaff , Armide , A Midsummer Night’s Dream , and Eugene Onegin . From 2003-2014 Joshua Major was the Artistic Director of the Pine Mountain Music Festival, FOR NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior, Interim President, Provost, & Tom Novak where he produced over 300 concerts of opera, symphony and chamber music. Dean of the College He continues to be a stage director for the International Vocal Arts Institute in Assistant Dean for Administration & Alison Garner both Montreal and Tel Aviv, where he has directed annually since 1993. Academic Affairs College Artistic Manager Hank Mou DAMIEN FRANCOEUR-KRZYZEK, Musical Preparation Senior VP of Finance & Operations Ed Lesser Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek has served on the faculty of New England Vice President of Marketing & Carol Phelan Conservatory since 2007. His performing and teaching career incorporates his Communications unique and diverse background as a pianist, classical singer, opera coach and Finance Administrative Director Shaula Jauk avid linguist. Accounts Payable Accountant Rachinda Gutierrez As a rehearsal pianist and opera coach, Mr. Francoeur-Krzyzek has played Audience Services Manager Natalie Wheeler for more than thirty productions for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Boston Lyric Director of Performance Services Brian Yankee Opera, and Opera Colorado. During the summer of 2014 he played the world Production Manager Bob Winters premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek’s 27 at Opera Theatre of Saint