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Live & Free at the MAC | 2008–2009 Season Philharmonic Orchestra LEONARD SLATKIN, conductor JOSHUA BELL, VIOLIN

Indiana University Auditorium Wednesday, September 17, 8:00 p.m.

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Upcoming Orchestral Events SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER Wed PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, 8pm IUA Wed CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, 8pm RH 17 Leonard Slatkin, Conductor 12 Uriel Segal, Conductor Joshua Bell, Violin Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major Beethoven: Overture to Egmont, Op. 84 W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 Hindemith: Metamorphosis on Themes in C Major, K.467 of Carl Maria von Weber Schubert: Symphony No. 5 Corigliano: Concerto in B-Flat Major, D.485

Wed CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, 8pm RH Sun SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC 24 Uriel Segal, Conductor 16 Scott Sandmeier, Conductor R. Strauss: Serenade in E-Flat Major, Op. 7 Paganini: No. 1 or No. 2 Shostakovich / Barshai: Chamber Symphony Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39 Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G Major Wed CONCERT ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC Sun UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC 19 David Effron, Conductor 28 Kevin Noe, Conductor Debussy: Iberia from Images W. A. Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod Pierre Jalbert: In aeternam (2000) from Tristan and Isolde Stravinsky: The Firebird: Suite (1919 version) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 OCTOBER DECEMBER Wed SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC Tue PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, 8 pm MAC 1 Arthur Fagen, Conductor 9 David Effron, Conductor Ting-Yi Ma: Song in the Wind von Weber: Overture to Euryanthe, J.291 Bizet: L’Arlésienne: Suite No. 2 Scriabin: Symphony No. 3, Op. 43 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, “The Divine Poem” Op. 74, “Pathétique”

Wed PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC 15 David Effron, Conductor Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra (1950-54) EVENT INFORMATION Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major Information about these and Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) the many other concerts in the Jacobs School of Music Wed CHAMBER ORCHESTRA/ is available at music.indiana.edu 22 CONTEMPORARY VOCAL ENSEMBLE, 8pm RH Carmen Helena Téllez, Conductor Ligeti: Ramifications Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles Looking for more information? Takemitsu: How Slow the Wind Our bi-weekly newsletter is available at: Lauridsen: Lux aeterna music.indiana.edu/fanfare Sun UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC 26 Student Conductors TBA Here are a few more quick links! music.indiana.edu/events Wed CONCERT ORCHESTRA, 8pm MAC music.indiana.edu/opera 29 Uriel Segal, Conductor Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Excerpts music.indiana.edu/ballet from Suites No. 1 and No. 2, Op. 64 music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive R. Schumann: Symphony No. 2, Op. 61 One Hundred Seventy-Sixth Program of the 2008-09 Season ______Philharmonic Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, Conductor Joshua Bell, Violin ______

Overture to Egmont, Op. 84...... (1770-1827)

Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber (1943) ...... Paul Hindemith Allegro (1895-1963) Turandot, Scherzo Andantino Marsch

Intermission

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (The Red Violin)...... Chaconne (born 1938) Pianissimo Scherzo Andante Flautando Accelerando Finale

______Indiana University Auditorium Wednesday Evening September Seventeenth Eight O’Clock

music.indiana.edu Philharmonic Orchestra Violin I Cello Horn Alexander Martin Edward Prevost Robert Fant Ann Fink Susan Millar Zachary Glavan Stass Pronin Yu-Young Chung Ericka Tyner Sharon Lee Miyoung Woo David Goldklang Chao Kai Lin Catherine Lukits Ryan O’Connell Alexander Zachary Mansell Boissonnault Maya Nojiri Trumpet Pyungwha Choi Maxwell Frank Wesley Miller Niccolo Muti Maxfield Richard Larkin Rieho Yu Wollam-Fisher Yordan Tenev Rebecca Bartelt Trombone Maile Tilden Stephanie Cascione John Grodrian Nathaniel Bartley Elizabeth Howse Nathan Stearns James Choi Jacob Carlisle, Yoona Kang Bass Bass Amy Schlicher Danielle Meier Sophie Bird Christopher Ewan Tuba Timothy Weddle Peder MacLellan Violin II Brian Loeb Dmitriy Melkumov Di Wang Timpani Jung Min Lee James Sullivan William Reno Hye Ryun Cha Michael Mendelson Paul Casey David Scholl Percussion Mallory Hamm Chia-hsin Dai Marie-Madeleine Flute Derek Dreier Orban Paul Gardner Nicholas Stone Shari Mason Sung-Eun Kim, Ross Erickson Steffen Zeichner Piccolo Kyle Acuncius Jason Chen Jessica Banks, Delyana Lazarova Piccolo/Alto Piano/Celesta Sarah Drake Johann Wiese David Leigh Oboe Colleen Wang Erica Overmyer Harp Angela Hsieh Hannah Kuipers Viola Andrew Ripley, Johannes Eva English Horn Orchestra Manager James Woomert Micah Fleming Lee Anderson Clarinet Susan Millar, Sylvia Choi Christopher Reardon Ass’t. Victoria Witmer Gideon Alon Nathan Schram Ashley Creighton, Orchestra Set-Up Emily Williams Bass Di Wang Eunje Kim Alexander Boissonnault Linsey Rogers Bassoon Forrest Wu Arianne Smrdel Librarian Janelle Ott Mariel Johnson Sarah Wildey, Contra John Corigliano is one of the finest and most widely recognized American composers. Among the dozens of citations, doctorates, and other honors he has received are included all of the most important music awards — several Grammys, the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, and an Academy Award for his score © Christian Steiner to Francois Girard’s 1998 film “The Red Violin.” One of the few living composers to have a string quartet named after him, Corigliano’s work has been performed by some of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world, and recorded on the Sony, RCA, BMG, Telarc, Erato, Ondine, New World, and CRI labels. In 2007, Sony released Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: The Red Violin with Joshua Bell and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by . New commercial recordings of Circus Maximus, Mr. Tambourine Man, Three Hallucinations, and A Dylan Thomas Trilogy are forthcoming in 2008. Perhaps the most important symphonist of his era, Corigliano has to date written three symphonies, each a wholly separate landscape unto itself. Symphony No. 1 (1991) channeled Corigliano’s personal grief over the loss of friends to the AIDS crisis. Symphony No. 2 (2001), a rethinking and expansion of the haunted, surreal, and virtuosic String Quartet (1995), earned him the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The third symphony may be his most ambitious and remarkable yet: scored simultaneously for wind orchestra and a multitude of wind ensembles, Corigliano’s excessive, crazed, and grandly barbarous Circus Maximus (2004), première, in 2005 at . Equally active as a creator of chamber music, Corigliano serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School of Music and holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music at Lehman College, City University of New York, which recently established a composition scholarship in his name. He lives in New York City and in Kent Cliffs, NY.

Internationally renowned American conductor Leonard Slatkin begins his appointment as the twelfth music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra commencing with the 2008-2009 season, and also serves as principal guest conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, another new association. He completed his twelfth and final season as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in 2007- 2008. Slatkin continues as principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and music advisor to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. His performances throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East have been distinguished by imaginative programming and highly praised interpretations of both the standard and contemporary symphonic repertoire. Additionally, he is well- known for his arts advocacy work on behalf of music education. Highlights of this coming season include a Far East tour with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and concerts with many leading American ensembles. He will also conduct several world premières with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. .Following a successful tenure as music director of the Saint Louis Symphony from 1979 until 1996, Slatkin was named conductor laureate. He has served as festival director of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Festival (1990-1999), principal guest conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra (1997-2000), chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (2000-2004), and principal guest conductor of the at the Hollywood Bowl (2004-2007). In addition to his conducting appearances, Slatkin is a frequent host of musical broadcasts, which include the BBC, lending his broad knowledge and expertise. .Slatkin has made regular appearances with virtually every major international orchestra and his more than 100 recordings have been recognized with 7 Grammy awards and more than 60 other Grammy nominations. He is the recipient of many additional honors and awards, including the 2003 National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government.

“Mr. Bell doesn’t stand in anyone’s shadow,” noted David Mermelstein of the New York Times. Born in Bloomington, IN, Joshua Bell began playing the violin at age four after his parents noticed him plucking tunes on rubber bands he had stretched around the handles of his dresser drawers. By age 14, he had appeared as a soloist with the . After graduating two years early from Bloomington North High School, Bell attended Indiana University to continue his violin studies with the legendary . This is Bell’s first performance as a Jacobs School of Music faculty menter. Having recently turned 40, Bell has already performed with the world’s top orchestras and conductors, as well as a diverse range of popular artists, including Josh Groban, Bobby McFerrin, James Taylor, and . .In addition to his Grammy Awards, Bell has earned a Mercury Music Prize and Germany’s Echo Klassik and has performed solos on two Oscar-winning movie scores. Last year, he received the esteemed Avery Fisher Prize, given every few years to a classical musician of outstanding caliber. .Bell plays the famed Gibson Stradivarius, a nearly 300-year-old violin known for its resemblance to the human voice. Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten described Bell’s mastery with the instrument: “In this musician’s masterly hands, it sobbed and laughed and sang – ecstatic, sorrowful, importuning, adoring, flirtatious, castigating, playful, romancing, merry, triumphal, sumptuous.” 2008-2009 IU OPERA theater SEASON