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THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC at the Music Center at Strathmore Piotr Gajewski, Music Director & Conductor THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC at the Music Center at Strathmore Piotr Gajewski, Music Director & Conductor SPRING 2019 PROGRAM WHAT’S INSIDE Welcome | 2 2019 Season Calendar | 3 The Debut | 4 Sounds of New Orleans | 10 Verdi Requiem | 12 Bernstein & Beethoven: Part 1 | 22 Bernstein & Beethoven: Part 2 | 27 National Philharmonic Orchestra | 36 National Philharmonic Chorale | 37 Board of Directors | 38 Supporters | 38 NP Endowment | 42 Heritage Society | 42 National Philharmonic Staff | 42 ADVERTISING Onstage Publications 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com The National Philharmonic program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45409. The National Philharmonic 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. WELCOME... elcome to the National Philharmonic Wat the Music Center at Strathmore! With spring in the air, the Philharmonic continues its season of celebration of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial. As a student of Bernstein’s, I count myself among his disciples and a living link to the memory of this greatest musician ever to hail from the Western Hemisphere. Leonard Bernstein’s career was famously launched when, at age 25, he was asked to step in for the ailing conductor Bruno Walter and lead a performance of the New York Philharmonic that was broadcast on national radio. In February, I will lead the program which recreates that famous moment, and includes the music of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann and Miklós Rózsa. Joining me for this performance will be violist Roberto Díaz and Grammy winning cellist Zuill Bailey. Photo credit Jay Mallin credit Jay Photo “Jazz is the ultimate common denominator of the American musical style,” remarked Bernstein. The National Philharmonic’s March concert features the artistry of trumpeter Byron Stripling in the Sounds of New Orleans, a tribute to Louie Armstrong. In April, the National Philharmonic Chorale is featured in Verdi’s great Requiem. Soloists include soprano Danielle Talamantes, mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore, tenor Zach Borichevsky and bass Kevin Deas. Leonard Bernstein recorded the Requiem in 1970 joined then by the quite young Plácido Domingo! The symphonies of Beethoven were prominent in Bernstein’s repertoire and so the Philharmonic finishes the season with two of the greatest: the fifth and the ninth. The latter, Bernstein famously conducted to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, substituting the word “Freude” (joy) with “Freiheit” (freedom) in the final movement. The Philharmonic’s performance will follow this celebratory innovation. The programs will also include two of Bernstein’s own works: Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety), featuring pianist Michael Brown, and Chichester Psalms, Bernstein’s most famous choral work. I look forward to seeing you at the concerts! Piotr Gajewski Music Director & Conductor NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC 2019 CALENDAR THE DEBUT NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER PLAYERS SAT FEB 23, 2019 8pm AT POTTER VIOLINS* Member Encore Q&A SUN APRIL 28, 2019 3-5pm Zuill Bailey, cello Three-time Grammy Award winner Musical Atoms-A study of Intervals Roberto Díaz, viola Music of Britten and Brahms Piotr Gajewski, conductor Schumann Manfred Overture ANXIETY Miklós Rózsa Theme, Variations and Finale, op. 13 BERNSTEIN & BEETHOVEN, PART I Richard Strauss Don Quixote SAT MAY 11, 2019 8pm Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger Member Encore Q&A Meet the Musicians: 7-7:30pm SOUNDS OF NEW ORLEANS: A TRIBUTE TO Michael Brown, piano LOUIS ARMSTRONG Piotr Gajewski, conductor SAT MARCH 30, 2019 8pm Bernstein Symphony No. 2 (“The Age of Anxiety”) Color the Music exhibit NEW! Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor Byron Stripling, trumpet Piotr Gajewski, conductor FREEDOM Stripling’s electrifying and heartfelt tribute to Louis Armstrong BERNSTEIN & BEETHOVEN, PART II has become America’s most popular orchestral pops program. SAT JUNE 1, 2019 8pm Esther Heideman, soprano VERDI REQUIEM Shirin Eskandani, mezzo-soprano SAT APRIL 13, 2019 8pm Colin Eaton, tenor Kevin Short, baritone Danielle Talamantes, soprano National Philharmonic Chorale Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano Piotr Gajewski, conductor Zach Borichevsky, tenor Kevin Deas, bass Bernstein Chichester Psalms National Philharmonic Chorale Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor (“Choral”) Piotr Gajewski, conductor Fantastic student chamber Free pre-concert lectures are offered 75 minutes ensembles are featured before concerts throughout the season. Please check throughout the season in the nationalphilharmonic.org for up-to-date information. concert lobby 45 minutes The Pre-Concert Lecture Series is sponsored by before concerts. Student Jean & Paul Dudek. performances are sponsored by the Misbin Family. *Potter Violins John Kendall Recital Hall 7711 Eastern Ave | Takoma Park, MD NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC 3 THE DEBUT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019, 8PM The National Philharmonic Piotr Gajewski, Music Director and Conductor THE DEBUT Zuill Bailey, cello Roberto Díaz, viola Piotr Gajewski, conductor Overture to “Manfred,” Op. 115 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Theme, Variations and Finale, Op. 13 Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) Andante rubato Allegro scherzando Un poco meno allegro Moderato con gran espressione Vivo con spirit Andante quasi pastorale Allegro molto agitato e tumultuoso Moderato molto giusto Vivace INTERMISSION Don Quixote, Op. 35 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Introduction Theme: Don Quixote, the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance Sancho Panza Variation 1: The Adventure with the Windmills Variation 2: The Battle with the Sheep Variation 3: Dialogue of Knight and Squire Variation 4: The Adventure with the Penitents Variation 5: The Knight’s Vigil Variation 6: The False Dulcinea Variation 7: The Ride Through the Air Variation 8: The Adventure with the Enchanted Boat Variation 9: The Combat with the Two Magicians Variation 10: The Defeat of Don Quixote by the Knight of the White Moon Finale: The Death of Don Quixote Prelude to “Die Meistersinger Richard Wagner (1818-1883) von Nürnberg” All Kids, All Free, All the Time is sponsored in part by Mrs. Patricia Haywood Moore and Dr. Roscoe M. Moore, Jr. and Dieneke Johnson. The Music Center at Strathmore Marriott Concert Stage ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Piotr Gajewski, conductor as the creation of summer institutes for young string players and singers, “Immensely talented master classes with esteemed visiting and insightful conductor, artists, and a concerto competition for whose standards, taste high-school students. Working with and sensitivity are the local school system, Gajewski also impeccable,” raves established and conducts annual concerts Photo credit Jay Mallin credit Jay Photo The Washington Post. for all Montgomery County second grade Piotr Gajewski, a student students, some 12,000 each year! and disciple of the late Leonard Bernstein, continues to thrill audiences all over the In his native Poland, Gajewski has appeared world with inspiring performances of with the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Krakow great music. “His courtly, conservative Philharmonic and with most other major movements matched the music’s mood. orchestras. Since 2007, he also regularly A flick of the finger, and a fanfare sounded. serves as the only American on the jury He held up his palm, and the musicians of the prestigious Grzegorz Fitelberg quieted. It was like watching a race car in International Competition for Conductors. the hands of a good driver,” reports The Buffalo News. Gajewski began studying piano at age four. After immigrating to the United States, he With one foot in the United States, as the continued his studies at the Preparatory Music Director & Conductor of the National Division of the New England Conservatory, Philharmonic at the Music Center at at Carleton College in Minnesota, and Strathmore, and the other in Europe, as the at the University of Cincinnati, College- Principal Guest Conductor of the Silesian Conservatory of Music, where he earned Philharmonic (Katowice, Poland) and B.M. and M.M. degrees in orchestral frequent guest at other orchestras, the jet- conducting. His conducting mentors, in set maestro’s seemingly limitless repertoire, addition to Bernstein, with whom he studied most conducted without a score, amazes at the Tanglewood Music Center on a critics and audiences alike. Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship, include such luminaries as Seiji Ozawa, Maestro Gajewski is one of a select group André Previn, Gunther Schuller and of American conductors equally at home Maurice Abravanel. in nearly all musical genres. A sought after guest conductor, a recent season saw Maestro Gajewski’s many honors include him conduct Bach at the Northwest Bach Poland’s Knight’s Cross of the Order of Festival, Prokofiev with the South Florida Merit bestowed on him by the President of Symphony and Copland in Jelenia Gora, Poland, and a prize at New York’s Leopold Poland. While Gajewski freely admits that Stokowski Conducting Competition. Mozart is perhaps his favorite composer, he ventures as far as Barry Manilow and A true Renaissance man, when away beyond at Pops Concerts, and has led from music Gajewski continues to play several dozen world premieres, including a competitive soccer, holds a law degree and recent one of the opera Lost Childhood by a license to practice law in two states, and the American composer
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