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Edition 1 | 2019-2020 WHAT’S INSIDE 3...................WELCOME FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR 5............WELCOME FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 7....................... WELCOME FROM THE BOARD CHAIR 8-11 ......................ABOUT THE ALBANY SYMPHONY OCTOBER 19, 2019: 15...................................PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION NOVEMBER 9, 2019: 25.........................RACHMANINOFF SYMPHONY NO. 2 DECEMBER 7 & 8, 2019: 37.................................MOZART’S “LINZ” SYMPHONY 46........................................CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE 47.............................................. INDIVIDUAL GIVING 50..................IN HONOR, CELEBRATION, & MEMORY 51................................................ENCORE SOCIETY 53.......................................2019–2020 SPONSORS ALBANY SYMPHONY MUSICIAN 55 ............................................ HOUSING PROGRAM ADVERTISING Onstage Publications Advertising Department 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Onstage Publications is a division of Just Business, Inc. Contents ©2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 1 2 | ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA In November, we’ll celebrate one of the most unusual musical instruments ever created—the theremin. This very first electronic instrument was invented 100 years ago by the Russian scientist, Leon Theremin. The world’s leading theremin virtuoso, Carolina Eyck, will join us for a new concerto by Dalit Warshaw, the centerpiece of an evening that will also include Borodin’s Prince Igor Overture and Rachmaninoff’s gorgeous, deeply moving masterpiece, his Symphony No. 2. In December, we mark the beginning of the holiday season with Mozart’s festive “Linz” Symphony, Pachelbel’s Canon, and a thrilling work by Andre Myers in collaboration with Albany High School. We’re particularly excited to welcome back soprano Talise Trevigne to perform Barber’s luminous Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Please also stay tuned for more information about our January festival weekend, celebrating the life and works of Clara Schumann. Clara was one of the most remarkable women of the 19th century: a towering piano virtuoso and international superstar, WELCOME FROM THE composer, teacher, astute business person, devoted wife and mother (of eight children!). In addition to our MUSIC DIRECTOR subscription concerts, we’ll feature curated recitals covering the breadth of Clara’s chamber and vocal DEAR FRIENDS, music, and a wide variety of other community events. Welcome to our 2019-20 season! We’re so excited In addition to our beautiful subscription concerts, I to embark on this new musical journey with you. This hope you’ll bring your family and friends to the Palace year, we are featuring and celebrating phenomenal Theatre for our annual holiday spectacular, The Magic women in music—composers, performers, and of Christmas, on December 14. conductors who enrich our musical landscape, past and present. To all of you who attend our concerts and support us in so many ways, we want you to know how much we Our season opens with its namesake, Valerie cherish you and your participation with us. It is your Coleman’s Phenomenal Women, featuring the five support that makes our music possible, and we are dazzling musicians of the Imani Winds as guest immensely proud to serve you. We hope all of your soloists. Each of the five movements of Phenomenal concert experiences this season are PHENOMENAL! Women celebrates a significant woman in recent American history: Maya Angelou, Katherine Johnson, Warm Regards, Serena Williams, immigrant women from the southern border, Michelle Obama, and Claressa Shields. The program also includes Leonard Bernstein’s Suite from On the Waterfront, and Mussorgsky’s monumental Pictures at an Exhibition. Speaking of David Alan Miller pictures, you can take home some extraordinary, Music Director never-before-seen photographs of the orchestra by our principal trumpet, Eric Berlin, who is also a brilliant photographer. A catalogue of his art, Music for the Eyes: Albany Symphony Musicians at Work, is available for purchase at our CD sales table in the lobby. ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 3 4 | ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Bartók during his final years in New York City, mixes Bermel’s jazz colors with Bartók’s Balkan rhythms. Mar de Setembro is based on the work of Portuguese poet Eugénio de Andrade. The CDs are available for sale in the lobby or you can order them from Amazon; the Bermel CD is available also in streaming and mp3 formats. The Albany Symphony is busy in our schools and community: Symphony In Our Schools, where David Alan Miller and our musicians introduce instruments of the orchestra to students in the 20 elementary schools of the Albany, Troy, and Averill Park districts; Monday Music, a fun-filled education concert at the Palace for 1,500 young listeners; Literacy Through Songwriting, where our composer educator works with students on music composition, storytelling, and improvisation; and Tiny Tots, introducing wee ones to the wonders of orchestral music. This year, we also presented free concerts, © Gary Gold Photography mostly outdoors, in Albany, Schenectady, Schuylerville, WELCOME FROM THE Hudson, and Troy. We are in process of seeking funding to do more free community concerts in Spring/ EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Summer 2020, so stay tuned! Thank you for supporting and embracing the diversity DEAR FRIENDS, of Albany Symphony offerings and our commitment to “AND” not just “OR.” Familiar warhorses AND brand Thank you for joining us for the start of the Albany new works. Brilliant performances AND top-notch Symphony 2019–20 season! I’d like to use this space recordings. Phenomenal Women AND Phenomenal to let you know about some Albany Symphony activities Men. European AND Latin AND Jazz AND Bluegrass off the concert hall stage. AND Jazz AND Hip-Hop AND Classical AND Contemporary influences. Concert halls AND schools The Albany Symphony is busy in the recording AND outdoor venues. Longtime subscribers AND first- studio, committed to giving further voice to the time concertgoers. composers and music of our time. I am pleased to announce two new CD releases: When the world often seems divided, I hope that our concerts provide a time for you to experience new Sky (Albany Records), a disc of works by perspectives AND cherish the familiar, to escape to Michael Torke, takes its name from the bluegrass an inner world AND enjoy the fellowship of listening violin concerto you may remember from Tessa Lark’s to music together. joyful performance in January. The disc also includes West, South, and East, three concertinos featuring Thank you for Listening Adventurously with us. Peter Kolkay (bassoon), Ryan Roberts (oboe), and Albany Symphony’s principal clarinet, Weixiong All best wishes, Wang. Migrations (Naxos) is a disc of works by Derek Bermel. Migration Series, commissioned by Wynton Marsalis, takes its inspiration from Jacob Lawrence’s 60-painting series on the movement of African Americans from the South of the United Anna Kuwabara States to the North during the World Wars I and II. Executive Director A Shout, a Whisper, and a Trace, a tribute to Béla ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 5 6 | ALBANY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA As you might have already guessed, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is an essential component of the Albany Symphony’s strategic vision. It’s extremely important to us that our programs and events are open to everyone—listeners of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities—and just as vital that our concerts and educational programs represent a broad and diverse spectrum of artists. Because we are deeply committed to DEI, the Symphony has created a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. This group has initiated a thoughtful process with expert resources to help us determine how we can better serve our community and the orchestral world. I firmly believe that our work in this area will not only improve our connections throughout our local and orchestral communities, but will also serve as a model as to how an orchestra can remain relevant in our changing world. If you have your own suggestions as to how the Albany Symphony can be a more welcoming place, please feel free to contact us! All of this would not be possible without the support WELCOME FROM THE of patrons like you. Your ticket purchases and donations create a foundation for a future of exciting BOARD CHAIR and engaging programs on and off the stage. We are sincerely grateful for your continued participation. WELCOME TO OUR NEW SEASON! We believe that music is a gift that should be accessible to everyone—and we will continue to If this is your first time at the Albany Symphony, do our best to share that gift throughout our region. welcome! We hope you will enjoy our orchestra’s Whether the Albany Symphony has been part of your distinctive sound, and return many times to experience life for many years or you are only just beginning to our wide range of repertoire, programming, and learn about this wonderful organization, we hope our special events. Those of you who are subscribers concerts and programs will inspire you to think and or regular concert-goers will already recognize our feel deeply, and motivate you to introduce others to orchestra’s trademark combination of brand new the beauty of this art form. Thank you for being a part works and time-honored classics, which carries of our cultural journey! through to every program featured this year. Our theme this season, Phenomenal Women, celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage in the United States and the wide range of women musicians, composers, guest artists, and community leaders that make our art form great. At nearly every Jerry Golub concert, you’ll discover—or rediscover—one or more for the Albany Symphony Board of Directors featured artists, including powerful women of our past, great voices of our time, and the rising stars of our future.
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