BELL INVESTMENT ADVISORS PRESENTS STRAVINSKY AND SILVERMAN IGOR STRAVINSKY FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016, 8 PM Symphony of Psalms PARAMOUNT THEATRE, OAKLAND I. (Psalm 38, verses 13 and 14) II. (Psalm 39, verses 2, 3, and 4) III. (Psalm 150) Oakland Symphony Chorus Lynne Morrow, Director SAMUEL BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Nicole Joseph, soprano James Toland Vocal Arts Competition – 2014 Winner INTERMISSION JOHN ADAMS The Dharma at Big Sur (Generously supported by The Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation) I. A New Day II. Sri Moonshine Tracy Silverman, electric violin MAURICE RAVEL La Valse TRACY SILVERMAN, electric violin Season Media Sponsors: Oakland Magazine, KDFC, East Bay Express NICOLE JOSEPH, Season Guest Artist Accommodations provided by: Oakland Marriott City Center The 2015/16 season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded by the William and Flora Hewlett soprano Foundation; the California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the City Council and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. MICHAEL MORGAN, music director and conductor OAKLAND SYMPHONY 3 OAKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS Michael Morgan, Music Director & Conductor Bryan Nies, Assistant Conductor FIRST VIOLIN CELLO CLARINET BASS TROMBONE Basma Edrees, Daniel Reiter, Bill Kalinkos, Steven Trapani Concertmaster Principal Principal Vivian Warkentin, Joseph Hébert, Diane Maltester TUBA Asst. Concertmaster Asst. Principal Ginger Kroft Scott Choate Patrice May Michelle Kwon Carla Picchi Rebecca Roudman BASS CLARINET PIANO Deborah Spangler Elizabeth Vandervennet Bill Kalinkos Ellen Wassermann, Emanuela Nikiforova Jeff Parish Ginger Kroft Principal Natasha Makhijani Paul Rhodes Kymry Esainko Hee-guen Song Elizabeth Struble BASSOON Stephanie Bibbo Deborah Kramer, KEYBOARDS Dagenais Smiley STRING BASS Principal Kymry Esainko Darren Sagawa Patrick McCarthy, David Granger Keisuke Nakagoshi Oakland Symphony Chorus Tess Varley Principal Jarratt Rossini Carl Stanley, HARP Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director SECOND VIOLIN Asst. Principal CONTRA BASSOON Meredith Clark, he Oakland Symphony Chorus enriches our Bay’s finest choirs, and a premier resource for continuing Liana Bérubé, Randall Keith Erin Irvine Principal Tcommunity through high quality musical performances education in the choral arts. The Chorus performs Principal Andy Butler Michael Steadman and educational workshops that raise appreciation regularly with its partners, Oakland Symphony and David Cheng, Andy McCorkle HORN and understanding of choral music, while providing Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, as well as with a Asst. Principal Timothy Spears Meredith Brown, TIMPANI opportunities for people who love to sing. Established variety of other Bay Area orchestras. Candace Sanderson Principal Tyler Mack, Principal in 1958, Oakland Symphony Chorus is one of the East Adrienne Duckworth FLUTE Eric Achen, Sergi Goldman-Hull Alice Lenaghan, Asst. Principal PERCUSSION SOPRANO Nanci Schneidinger* Nancy Lowenthal BASS Britt Schumann Helen Mehoudar Cecilia Huang Alicia Telford Ward Spangler, Barbara Berry Charlie Crane^* Principal Susan Chan Chung Taylor Katie Moore Adam Fishman Robert Donehew Amy Likar Alex Camphouse Principal Jooeun Choi Michelle Tremblay Mary Oram Sheldon Greene Alison Miller Stacey Pelinka Ross Gershenson Allen Biggs Nancy Cotteral Cynthia Webb- Sylvia Parker^ Don Howe Jory Fankuchen Laurie Campbouse Kumiko Ito Margaret Daly Beckford^ Melanie Reeves Bill Leong Matthew Oshida TRUMPET Kevin Neuhoff Jane English Gia White Annie Shun Kent Lewandowski Patricia Drury PICCOLO William Harvey, Jim Kassis Dolores Gilchrist Monique Stevenson David Lichtenstein Leslie Chin Principal Ellie Hahn ALTOS Loni Williams^* Shakir Mackey VIOLA Leonard Ott PERSONNEL MANAGER Carol Henri Eva Arce Karl Malamud-Roam Tiantian Lan, OBOE John Freeman Carl Stanley Susan Hernandez Judith Berlowitz TENORS Bill Manley Becky Bob-Waksberg LaVora Copley Principal Robin May, Kale Cumings Barbara Howard- John Manzeck Johnson* Karenlynne Bradley Jim Hasler Michael Nathanson* Margaret Titchener, Principal Ari Micich LIBRARIAN Carol Hudson Rena David Stanley Hudson Jim Nelson Asst. Principal Jesse Barrett Paul Rhodes Mary-Jo Knight Lisa Friedman Bertie Jackson Joe Orr Betsy London Laura Reynolds TROMBONE Susan Lambert Renee Gistand Bernie Juat Harry Reppert David Gilbert Sarah Rathke Thomas Hornig, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Linda Manzeck Jane Goldman Curtis Lawler Ken Saltzstine^ Darcy Rindt Principal Seth Ducey Alice McCain Susanna Halliday Miller Arnold Lee+ Mark Slagle Patricia Whaley ENGLISH HORN Craig McAmis Laura Miller Margaret Hegg Robert McCree Calvin Wall Stephanie Railsback Denis Harper Kelly Morrison Natasha Hull-Richter Barbara Miller Bob Wehrman Katy Juneau Jewelz Moyer Karen Ivy Jan Myhre Linda Mrnak Amy Kessler Jerry Reynolds Donna Oliver Jeanne Korn Steve Schultz * Leaders Erica Peck Shirley Lindley Jim Stenson* + Coach Abbie Rockwell Linda Lipner Daniella Urban^* ^ Chorus Advisory Sarah Rozenwajn Theresa Lo Ted Vorster Committee Members 4 OAKLAND SYMPHONY OAKLAND SYMPHONY 5 GUEST ARTISTS PRE-CONCERT PERFORMER SARAH CARRICO, HORN arah Carrico has been playing French horn for six Syears. She studies with Kevin Rivard, Principal Horn of the San Francisco Opera and Ballet Orchestras. Sarah is currently a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and has also played with the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra and Young People’s Symphony Orchestra. In her recent summers she has attended the Kinhaven Music School, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the Horn Institute at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Sarah is a senior honors student at Clayton Valley Charter High School, where she is a member of the Wind Ensemble, runs cross country, and plays lacrosse. She has participated in the All State Honor Band and has twice been honored with Command Performance TRACY SILVERMAN, ELECTRIC VIOLIN NICOLE JOSEPH, SOPRANO ratings at the State California Music Education Association Solo and Ensemble Festival. Sarah’s goal is auded by the BBC as “the greatest living exponent of oprano Nicole Joseph received her Master’s and to study French Horn Performance in college and to Lthe electric violin,” Tracy Silverman’s groundbreaking SSpecialist Degrees in Voice from the University of build a career in the music industry. work with the 6-string electric violin defies musical Michigan, and her Bachelor’s Degree in Voice from Pacific boundaries. The world’s foremost concert electric Lutheran University. Opera credits include Gretel (Hansel violinist, Silverman was named one of 100 distinguished & Gretel ), Papagena (Magic Flute), Lauretta (Gianni PRE-CONCERT LOBBY PERFORMERS alumni by the Juilliard School. Schicchi), Susanna (Figaro), and Musetta (La Bohème). Formerly first violinist with the innovative Turtle Island In the 2015-2016 season, Ms. Joseph is pleased to be String Quartet, Silverman has contributed significantly making her debut with Kentucky Opera as Beatrice to the repertoire and development of what he calls “21st in Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers. As a concert soloist century violin playing.” His work has inspired several in the Detroit area, Nicole has performed with Motor major concertos composed specifically for him, including City Lyric Opera, Flint Symphony, Oakland University, Pulitzer winner John Adams’ The Dharma At Big Sur, Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings, and Southern premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Great Lakes Symphony. Nicole has also performed with gala opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003 the McCall SummerFest, Siletz Bay Music Festival, and recorded with the BBC Symphony on Nonesuch Walla Walla Symphony, Portland Chamber Orchestra, Records with Adams conducting. Legendary “Father Victoria Bach Festival and the Rye Chamber Music of Minimalism” Terry Riley’s electric violin concerto, Series in New York. As a member of the Austin-based The Palmian Chord Ryddle, was premiered by Silverman choral group Conspirare, Nicole was a featured soloist with the Nashville Symphony in Carnegie Hall in on their 2015 Grammy award-winning recording 2012, and recorded by Naxos Records. Kenji Bunch’s Sacred Spirit of Russia, and was also heard singing to Embrace concerto was co-commissioned by 9 orchestras critical acclaim the role of Mary/Carrie Kipling in John and premiered by Silverman in 2014. Silverman’s 2014 Muehleisen’s Pietà. recording for Delos/Naxos Records, Between the Kiss with kindness and music. Oakland Spirit Orchestra’s and the Chaos, features the Calder Quartet collaborating In 2014, Ms. Joseph was the First Place Winner of the OAKLAND SPIRIT ORCHESTRA repertoire is its own unique mix of popular tunes, on Silverman’s 2nd electric violin concerto of the same world music, classical favorites, and jazz. The young inaugural James Toland Vocal Arts Competition and akland Spirit Orchestra is an ensemble that features title, and he is currently performing premieres of the full winner of a scholarship grant from the Career Bridges musicians of the Orchestra are not only playing music, Otalented kids from Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary, they are creating it, too. The kids construct their own orchestra version of Nico Muhly’s Seeing Is Believing, Foundation. She was also the Second Place Winner in Lafayette Elementary, West Oakland Middle School, commissioned by a consortium of five orchestras. the National Bel Canto Vocal Foundation Competition arrangements, write their own music, and improvise. Westlake