the rosemary a. c. gottlieb 2019-20 season september 2019 Great Ladies of Swing and Bolero! GILBERT ORCHARDS POPS SERIES Dear Friends and Supporters of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra: Great Ladies of Swing Welcome to the Rosemary A.C. Gottlieb 2019-20 Season of the Yakima Saturday, Symphony Orchestra—my tenth year with this wonderful organization! We September 14, 2019 have a varied and exciting season lined up for you, throughout which we 7:30pm will be highlighting outstanding female composers and performers. It all The Capitol Theatre starts on September 14th with the first concert of the Gilbert Orchards Pops Lawrence Golan, Series, Great Ladies of Swing. The orchestra will be joined by the terrific conductor vocalist Dee Daniels who will perform some of the greatest hits of the swing era, specifically hits made famous by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Dee Daniels, Holiday and Peggy Lee. Perhaps you’ve heard of some of these: Mack the vocalist Knife, Summertime, Sweet Georgia Brown, Send in the Clowns and Bill Bailey, Cass Devon Photo: Won’t You Please Come Home? In addition, the orchestra will perform some selections on their own including a special orchestration by Chris Brubeck of Concert Sponsor: Tree Top his father Dave Brubeck’s classic Blue Rondo à la Turk. I have had the pleasure of performing this piece with Chris and it is a real gem! THE YAKIMA VALLEY CLASSICAL SERIES The Yakima Valley Classical Series kicks off on September 28th with Bolero! This is an all-French concert featuring impressionist masters Claude Debussy Bolero and Maurice Ravel—the musical equivalent to a Monet art exhibition. You Saturday, September 28, 2019 7:30pm will be treated to the most iconic and beloved pieces by these two great The Capitol Theatre masters, namely Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and La mer by Debussy and the Piano Concerto in G Major and Bolero by Ravel. To perform the Lawrence Golan, conductor virtuoso solo piano part of the concerto, we will once again be bringing in the most recent Gold Medal Winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Yekwon Sunwoo, Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo. The personal highlight of the evening for me piano; will be our performance of D’un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning) Gold Medal by Lili Boulanger. The younger sister of the famous composition pedagogue Laureate Nadia Boulanger, Lili was an incredibly gifted composer. She was on track to of the become internationally renowned when she tragically died at the age of 24. Fifteenth This is the last piece that she wrote in her very short life. It will be an honor for Van Cliburn all of us to resurrect this unknown gem by a composer lost to fate. International Piano We look forward to seeing you on September 14th and September 28th at Competition the Capitol Theatre for Great Ladies of Swing and Bolero! Photo: Jeremy Enlow Sincerely, Lawrence Golan The Helen N. Jewett Music Director Yakima Symphony Orchestra TICKETS: (509) 853-ARTS (2787) For online purchases, link via www.ysomusic.org Prelude is a publication of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, 32 N. 3rd Street, Suite 333, Yakima, WA 98901. Prelude is published during concert season. Issue date: October 18, 1997. Issue #140; September 2019 From the Executive Director Lunch With Lawrence Friday, September 27 Welcome to the Yakima Symphony Orchestra’s 2019-20 season, One 11:30am – 1:00pm Thousand and One Nights! We are grateful as always for the continued Zesta Cucina Restaurant, $25 season sponsorship of Rosemary A. C. Gottlieb, as this generous investment supports the artists and artistry on stage in addition to community Join Maestro Lawrence Golan for a light collaborations and special projects as we explore the many threads and lunch and convivial conversation about the story lines that weave through the music on this season’s programs— pieces and composers featured in the YSO’s some will be stories told within the music itself, others will connect the Bolero concert on September 28. Please ‘back stories’ and context for the music to be presented on stage. We look contact the YSO office (509-248-1414) or forward to sharing these with you in the coming months. [email protected] to place your ticket order. We also look forward to welcoming the newest member of our orchestra roster: you may recognize Greg Smith from a couple of performances last spring as a substitute musician, but as of this September Open Rehearsal he joins YSO as our new principal trumpet. Having recently relocated Saturday, September 28 • 10:30am–1:00pm to Oregon, Greg previously was an active performer and teacher in the The Capitol Theatre San Francisco and Boston areas, performing with ensembles such as the Monterey, Modesto, Vermont and Cape Cod Symphonies in addition to See the final touches being put on the orchestras of the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals and the Tanglewood, evening’s program! Our dress rehearsals Spoleto and Pacific music festivals. He has performed with Boston Lyric for The Yakima Valley Classical Series Opera and Opera San Jose and has played for music theater productions concerts at the Capitol Theatre are open to including the American Repertory Theater’s Tony award-winning Porgy and the public, and FREE to those who bring a Bess. A graduate of the New England Conservatory and Bard College, Greg canned food donation to benefit Northwest has appeared as soloist with the Bard College Orchestra and American Harvest. Cash donations to the YSO are also Symphony Orchestra. We are delighted to have him on board. welcome. Ideal for families and for other Finally, you may notice two new things about purchasing single patrons unable to attend evening concerts. tickets this year: first, there has been a price increase of one dollar for each YSO adult ticket category (our first since 2015), so that adult tickets now range from $10 to $60 for YSO performances, with senior and active ConcerTalk military discounts available. Tickets for students and children remain at $5. Second, beginning July 1st the Capitol Theatre began adding a $1 Saturday, September 28 • 6:25pm Patron User Fee to each ticket sold for performances in their facility, for In the Capitol Theatre the purpose of supporting maintenance of the building as it approaches Main Performance Hall 100 years in service to our community. This means that purchasing our Join YSO Principal Horn Jeff Snedeker $10 ticket will actually require $11 including the theater’s fee; but this is before the YSO’s Bolero concert for an still the best deal in town for some of the greatest music you’ll hear all year. inside look at the evening’s program. Dr. Snedeker’s extensive knowledge See you at the Symphony! of music and entertaining style of presentation bring the music and the David Rogers, Executive Director circumstances of its creation to life. Yakima Symphony Orchestra Ag Night at the Symphony– Celebrating Call to Artists Harvest and Crush in the Yakima Valley! Nature’s Storytellers is a collaboration of the Saturday, September 14th, 7:30pm at The Capitol Theatre Yakima Symphony @ Great Ladies of Swing Orchestra, Cowiche Canyon Ag Industry Concertgoers (ALL crops & products: Conservancy and friends growers, packers, shippers, processors, suppliers, celebrating nature as a etc.)—wear your working cap (with your company storyteller, through which we learn about the science logo) and exchange it for a brand new YSO cap and myths of the natural world and our connections in “concert black;” beautifully embroidered with within it. We are soliciting images for a three-month our YSO logo. We’ll put your hard-working caps art exhibit at Essencia Artisan Bakery. Entries are on display at our office. (Caps to the first 30 due November 15, 2019. For information and a participants; we’ll deliver/mail caps to participants prospectus, visit www.ysomusic.org and click on the after the first 30.) COLLABORATIONS tab. Affiliate & Partnership Updates Yakima Youth Symphony Orchestra (YYSO) & Meet The Orchestra! Yakima Ensemble for Strings (YES!) YYSO.ORG Bruce Walker, YYSO Conductor Christy Baisinger, YES! Conductor Join the youth symphony ensembles in our 54th season! Open rehearsals for both ensembles will be held on August 26 and September 9 at 6:30pm Children learn what they live… at Englewood Christian Church. Sit in on a rehearsal; try out the music and The YSO joins the Yakima Valley Museum meet great student musicians! on the first Wednesday of each month at • October 6, Sunday, 3:00pm at Englewood Christian Church: 10:00am at their children’s story hour. KinderKoncert – FREE! September 4: • December 15, Sunday, 3:00pm at the Capitol Theatre: Kathy Dyblie, viola Winter Concert – FREE! October 2: • April 19, Sunday, 3:00pm at the Capitol Theatre: Kelly Iverson, violin Spring Concert – FREE! Beethoven Bear and Berlioz Visit www.ysomusic.org/connecting/youth-symphony/ for updates on Bear preparing to journey auditions, rehearsals, performances and fundraisers. to “Meet the Orchestra.” Yakima Symphony Chorus (YSC) Justin Raffa, Chorusmaster The Yakima Symphony Chorus will begin rehearsals for the 2019–20 season on Monday, September 9th. Rehearsals take place at St. Paul Cathedral in Yakima on Mondays from 7:00–9:15pm. Anyone interested to Music Educators’ Night join the symphony chorus is welcome; no audition is required, but some Saturday, September 28 | Bolero music-reading skills are helpful. The chorus operates on a project-by-project Contact us at (509) 248-1414 or basis, so that members may choose when to participate based on their [email protected] by schedules around each project. Thursday, September 26 at 5:00pm. The chorus’s first program will be one without the full orchestra, centered around music from an opera by Washington composer Sarah Mattox.