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JUNE Resistance 1, 2019 | 7:30 PM RICHLAND HIGH AUDITORIUM

Shostakovich | Symphony No. 7 (“Leningrad”)

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2 CONCERT 5 • JUNE 1, 2019 • MID-COLUMBIA SYMPHONY WELCOME BACK TO OUR 74TH SEASON

he finale of MCS’s Landmarks 74th season consists of a single Tmonumental work, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, MID-COLUMBIA “Leningrad”. This work was composed during the siege of Leningrad SYMPHONY SOCIETY during WWII and was transmitted from Russia by microfilm to the PRESIDENT Boyce Burdick western allies and performed in New York, where VICE PRESIDENT Lynda True led a broadcast performance (July 19, 1942) and Time magazine TREASURER Phil Townsend placed Shostakovich on its cover. The book by author M.T. Anderson, SECRETARY open Symphony for the City of the Dead, tells the story of its creation and PRESIDENT Gavin Spurr dissemination. th BOARD MEMBERS Cathy Exarhos The 75 season of the Mid-Columbia Symphony coincides with the th Scott Ashby 75 anniversary of the Manhattan Project. The symphony’s theme Jo Brodzinski for the 2019–2020 season is Honoring Our Past. Celebrating Our Future—75 Years Young. Our patrons will be glad to learn that the 75th STAFF season will again take place in the Richland High School Auditorium, MUSIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR Nicholas Wallin as its remodeling will not begin until the summer of 2020. Please check ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR/ YOUTH SYMPHONY MUSIC DIR. Adrienne Fletcher Shields out next season’s brochure in the lobby and take advantage of the early BUSINESS MANAGER Katie Crenshaw season ticket discount. A Note from A calendar of all of the exciting events scheduled for the rest of 2019 the President OPENINGS FOR The Mid-Columbia can be found at www.Hanford75th.com. An Atomic Frontier Day will BOARD & COMMITTEE Symphony is looking be recreated with a parade featuring past Miss Richland contestants, MEMBERS for community members relatives of crewmen from Day's Pay, and construction of a replica to get involved with Mess Hall in Howard Amon Park which will be renamed for a day Symphony leadership. to its original "Riverside Park." Consider applying to And now is the perfect occasion to consider a chair sponsorship the Board of Directors for one of the symphony’s principals or its conductor. The Board’s today! goal for the 75th season is to secure sponsorships for all nineteen SYMPHONY OFFICE 1177 Jadwin Avenue of the Symphony’s principals. In addition to sponsorships Office Hours MacHunter Bldg, Ste 103 for these principal seats, seated musicians, soloists, ensemble Monday–Friday P.O. Box 606 members, and even chorus members may be sponsored. These 10am–3pm Richland, WA 99352 latter sponsorships may be for either the entire season or for an 509.943.6602 individual concert. Details are available in the concert program. Boyce Burdick, Board President E-mail: [email protected] www.midcolumbiasymphony.org

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2 CONCERT 5 • JUNE 1, 2019 • MID-COLUMBIA SYMPHONY A Note TONIGHT’S PROGRAM from the The Mid-Columbia Symphony Conductor presents Nicholas Wallin

elcome to the finale of our 2018–19 season! Tonight we celebrate the JUNE 1, 2019 • RICHLAND HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM W th closing of our 74 season with one of Landmark Resistance NICHOLAS WALLIN, MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR the most monumental and towering works in the symphonic repertoire, Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH | 1906–1975 “Leningrad”. "Dedicated to the City of Leningrad" The piece tells of the war, resistance, and ultimate triumph I. Allegretto [War] of the citizens of Leningrad during World War II. Shostakovich’s work INTERMISSION is formidable—nearly 80 minutes long, depending on the tempos. I have decided to put an intermission II. Moderato (poco allegretto) [Reminiscence] in the performance following the III. Adagio [Home Expanses] first movement. This is a little bit IV. Allegro non troppo [Victory] unusual, but I think that it makes the performance more enjoyable. The first movement is nearly 30 minutes Special thanks to the Fox Vance Family Foundation, to Boyce Burdick, of music by itself. The intermission and to the incredible support of our arts community family! allows all of us to get up and move We would also like to recognize the support of our around and to let the music settle in homestay hosts, our ushers, and our patrons. our hearts and minds. Following the intermission, we are refreshed as we turn to the remaining movements. For more information on the symphony, please read the program notes that I wrote for you. Thanks, as always, for your support tonight, and throughout this entire season. We have some very exciting concerts in store for you next year in our 75th season!

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Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60 CONCERT NOTES DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH | 1906–1975 NOTES BY NICHOLAS WALLIN

n June 22, 1941, the Nazi invasion The first performance of the work was in Right when a listener might expect a Oof Soviet Russia began. At the time, Kuibyshev on March 5, 1942 and the piece development section, Shostakovich begins Dmitri Shostakovich was already a world- immediately became a rallying point for the what he called the "invasion episode”—a famous composer and was working at the Russian people. The score was microfilmed banal march tune over a rhythmic ostinato Conservatory in Leningrad, his home town. and smuggled from Moscow through in the snare drum. The repetitions of this He attempted to enlist in the Red Army, but Teheran, Cairo, and Brazil before arriving in tune, over the course of nearly 15 minutes due to his stature as an artist and his poor the . On July 19, 1942, the first of unrelenting music, become increasingly eye sight, he was assigned to a fire-fighting US performance was led by Arturo Toscanini bombastic. Eventually, all of the members brigade at the Leningrad Conservatory. with the NBC Symphony Orchestra—a of the orchestra are playing, including 8 He began writing his Symphony No. 7 broadcast heard live by several million horns, 6 trumpets, 6 trombones, and 3 in July, 1941 and composed the first three people. snare drums. The power of the music is movements that summer while in Leningrad, Its premiere in Leningrad took place on in its architecture—its repetition and its before being evacuated against his wishes August 9, 1942 with the city still under siege. ceaselessness. Shostakovich wrote: “I am to Kuibyshev, where he finished the final Only the conductor and 14 members of the not aiming for the naturalistic depiction of movement in December. He composed the Leningrad Radio Orchestra had survived. war, the depiction of the clatter of arms, the entire symphony in less than six months, Posters were put up around the city ordering explosions of shells and so on. I am trying to writing, as he later described, “with an every musician to attend the rehearsals. convey the image of war emotionally.” inhuman intensity I had never before Soldiers who could play instruments Following the climax, the sounds clear for achieved.” The conditions in Leningrad were ordered back from the front lines to a long, sorrowful solo for and a re- were unthinkable. By September, 1941 the attend rehearsals. The performance was entry of the opening theme, now transformed Germans had surrounded the city, and a siege broadcast live on the radio and was blasted into gentle, yet hopeful, music for the strings. that was to last for nearly 900 days had begun. on loudspeakers at the German troops A brief, final reappearance of the invasion Shostakovich originally gave the four surrounding the city. Later, a German theme reminds the listener that the battle is movements brief titles, included on our General who had heard the symphony while not yet won. program page. After discarding those titles, stationed in the trenches wrote: “When it he later wrote the following outline of a finished I realized that never ever shall we be MOVEMENT II – MODERATO (POCO program: able to enter Leningrad. It is not a city that ALLEGRETTO) [REMINISCENCE] can be conquered.” The second movement offers some contrast I. War breaks suddenly into our peaceful and relief from the sounds of war. Written in a life. … The recapitulation is a funeral march, a MOVEMENT I – ALLEGRETTO three-part ABA form, the movement features deeply tragic episode, a mass . [WAR] relatively light-hearted writing after the II. A lyrical intermezzo … no program The first movement is written in a experience of the first movement. The first and fewer “concrete facts” than in the first modified Sonata form. It opens with a strong, section is a song for strings, and later, solo movement. confident theme in C major representing Oboe and English Horn. The middle section “people sure of themselves and their future.” is announced by the penetrating sound of III. A pathetic adagio with drama in the The secondary theme features a solo flute the E-flat Clarinet. In its mocking dance-like middle episode. in music meant to represent “the simple, style, this section conjures much of the irony IV. Victory, a beautiful life in the future. peaceful life lived before the war.” of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. The final

CONCERT 5 • JUNE 1, 2019 • MID-COLUMBIA SYMPHONY 5 section returns to the music for strings and solo simple tune above pizzicato strings. This line triumphant conclusion, the strong and confident woodwinds, this time featuring a long solo for Bass returns toward the end of the movement played theme from the opening of the first movement Clarinet. by the Viola section. If Shostakovich really was reappears. There is enough ambiguity in the painting a portrait of the Russian landscape, he harmony, however, to make the listener wonder if MOVEMENT III – ADAGIO succeeded in capturing the range and vastness of the victory is complete. Regarding the Symphony [HOME EXPANSES] his nation. No. 7, British conductor Mark Wigglesworth has The third movement features a three-part written: “Its timelessness and its greatness is its ABA form, and once again contains a much more MOVEMENT IV – ALLEGRO constant relevance. The tragedy of this piece is spirited middle section surrounded by music with NON TROPPO [VICTORY] that there will always be tyrants, there will always less vitality. The movement is a study in texture. A timpani roll connects the third movement be suffering. What the piece offers is the hope that The beautifully scored chorale of the woodwinds directly into the fourth. The movement unfolds despite that, the human spirit will never be broken. and harps is contrasted with the single line doubled as a string of episodes searching for resolution. Evil will always be present, but so will humanity’s by all 30 violin players. A solitary flute plays a As the movement gradually evolves towards its constant ability to be able to resist it.”

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