COABooklet091914-ps_Layout 1 9/19/14 1:17 PM Page 2 CINCINNATI POPS ORCHESTRA JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL CINCINNATI POPS ORCHESTRA JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL 1.-1 6 . CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals 22. JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. Nightingale Polka [3:08] orch. John Morris Russell 1. Tuning Up [0:20] 23. ANATOLI LIADOV The Mosquito from 2. Introduction and Royal March of the Lion [1:59] Eight Russian Folk Song s [1:08] 3. Clucks and Cock-a-Doodles [0:20] 4. Hens and Roosters [0:48] 24. MODEST MUSSORGSKY Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 5. Kangaroos [0:59] orch. Maurice Ravel from Pictures at an Exhibition [1:15] 6. A Trumpeting Trunk [0:06] Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. (ASCAP) 7. Elephants [1:35] 8. Aquarium [2:19] 25. Off the Clock [0:12] 9. Hee-Haw [0:09] 10. Donkeys [0:43] 26. OTTORINO RESPIGHI The Cuckoo from The Birds [4:37] 11. A Feathered Philharmonic [0:22] Ricordi (ASCAP) 12. Aviary Randy Bowman, flute [1:17] 13. Fossils David Fishlock, xylophone [1:18] 27. NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Flight of the Bumblebee [1:27] 14. The Swan Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello [2:55] from The Tale of Tsar Saltan 15. Roar! [0:08] Randy Bowman, flute 16. Grand Finale [2:07] 28. Growl! [0:08] 17. Baah-Baah Bacchanale [0:15] 29. EDWARD ELGAR The Wild Bears 18. PERCY GRAINGER Shepherd’s Hey [2:19] from The Wand of Ludwigmasters Publications (ASCAP) Youth Suite No. 2 [2:20] 19. LEONARD BERNSTEIN Turkey Trot from 30. GEORGE GERSHWIN Walking the Dog (Promenade) The Leonard Bernstein Divertimento for Orchestra [1:51] arr. Sol Berkowitz from Shall We Dance? [2:49] Music Publishing Company, LLC (ASCAP) George Gershwin Music (ASCAP) Jonathan Gunn, clarinet WB Music (ASCAP) 20. GEORGIA STITT & Waiting for Wings Overture [7:06] (Inspired by and based on the JASON ROBERT BROWN 31. AARON COPLAND Happy Ending from children’s book by Lois Ehlert) o r c h . J a s o n a n d N o l a n L i v e s a y Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. (ASCAP) The Red Pony [3:13] 21. A Little Night Music [0:20] Total Run Time: [49:32] FC-004 COABooklet091914-ps_Layout 1 9/19/14 1:17 PM Page 4 The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to The George and Anne P. Heldman Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation for their generous support of this project. The Cincinnati Pops Series Sponsor is PNC and the Pops Series Artist Sponsor is the Otto M. Budig Family Foundation.. Recorded in Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 16, 2013 CINCINNATI POPS ORCHESTRA Recording Producer: Elaine Martone for Sonarc Music JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL Co-Producer on Track 20 ( Waiting for Wings Overture): Georgia Stitt Associate Producer: Robert Treviño Recording, Mix, and Mastering Engineer: Michael Bishop, Five/Four Productions, Ltd. Assistant Engineers: Ian Dobie, Five/Four Productions, Ltd. One of my greatest joys is sharing the orchestral experience with young listeners, which I have merrily pursued Recording Editor: Thomas C. Moore, Five/Four Productions, Ltd. for nearly thirty years in concerts across North America. At the confluence of discovery and imagination, the Special Thanks To: Lois Ehlert, Jason and Nolan Livesay, Don Oliver, miraculous happens. Of all the pieces I conduct for kids, Carnival of the Animals has always been a favorite. and the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Although the original is a virtuosic showpiece for two pianos, Saint-Saëns never meant the suite to be presented in a concert setting—it was composed as a party piece for friends at home. Over the years I have arranged it, Art Direction, Illustration and Booklet Design: Trish Carmichael movement by movement, to feature the entire orchestra in all its splendor. Microphones: Sanken CO-100K, Neumann KU-100, AEA A-840; Royer SF-24 Microphone Preamplifiers: UpState Audio Sonic Lens 20/20, AEA RPQ, Millennia Media HV3D From the roar of the lion to the gentle chirping of birds, animal sounds are some of the most recognizable hallmarks of orchestral expression, yet many composers go one step further by describing, in sound, how a Recording Console: Studer 962, Custom Modified particular animal might move, look or feel. Take, for instance, Percy Grainger’s Shepherd’s Hey, a masterful set Recorded and Mastered using Five/Four REVEAL-SDM Technology. of variations on a folk melody that might be whistled to an accompaniment of gently bleating sheep in the REVEAL-Superior Dimension Music Technology is employed exclusively by Five/Four Productions English countryside; or the quirky, syncopated swagger of Bernstein’s Turkey Trot. Then again, what sort of to raise the standard of excellence in both music recording and the music listening experience. feelings might a butterfly have when munching on leaves as a caterpillar, dancing in air among brightly colored Recording and Editing System: Sonoma DSD Workstation from Gus Skinas, Super Audio Center, LLC flowers, or flying across the continent in one of nature’s most remarkable migrations? with EMM Labs DSD Converters I believe Georgia Stitt and her husband Jason Robert Brown have captured these Monitored through: ATC SCM-150 Professional Monitors feelings in Waiting for Wings, an overture created from the narrated work for and EMM Labs Switchman Monitor Controller orchestra, inspired by the brilliantly illustrated book by Lois Ehlert. Interconnects: MIT Oracle MA-X and MIT Proline with Terminators from Music Interface Technologies CD mastered on the SADiE 6 PCM Workstation from Prism Sound © 2014 Fanfare Cincinnati 2 7 COABooklet091914-ps_Layout 1 9/19/14 1:17 PM Page 6 JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL, Conductor Robert Treviño, Associate Conductor Louise Dieterle Nippert & Louis Nippert Chair David G. Hakes & Kevin D. Brady Chair Erich Kunzel, Founder and Conductor Emeritus William White, Assistant Conductor Birds and insects are the most imitated sounds of wildlife in symphonic music, be they the mellifluous chirping in Strauss’s Nightingale Polka, the incessant crescendos and diminuendos of Liadov’s Mosquito or the delightful FIRST VIOLINS Hye-Sun Park Boris Astafiev BASSOONS TIMPANI Timothy Lees Paul Patterson Ronald Bozicevich William Winstead Patrick Schleker chatter of Mussorgsky’s Unhatched Chicks, from Pictures at an Exhibition. Respighi’s Cuckoo artfully blends the Concertmaster Stacey Woolley Rick Vizachero Principal Principal ethereal sound of a bird we most commonly associate with Black Forest clocks with the music of Italian Baroque Anna Sinton Taft Chair Amy Kiradjieff § Emalee Schavel Chair Matthew & Peg Woodside Chair Rebecca Culnan HARP Martin Garcia * Richard Jensen * composer Bernardo Pasquini, while Rimski-Korsakov takes us barnstorming through a field of fragrant blossoms Associate Concertmaster VIOLAS Gillian Benet Sella Hugh Michie Eric Bates PERCUSSION in Flight of the Bumblebee. Christian Colberg Principal Acting First Assistant Concertmaster Cynthia & Frank Stewart Chair CONTRABASSOON Serge Shababian Chair Principal David Fishlock Louise D. & Louis Nippert Chair Jennifer Monroe Principal Elgar must have had fun crafting the riotous Wild Bears (which I believe is not really Kathryn Woolley FLUTES Susan S. & William A. Acting Second Assistant Paul Frankenfeld* Friedlander Chair Concertmaster Grace M. Allen Chair Randolph Bowman FRENCH HORNS about bears), while Gershwin’s Walking the Dog evokes the Richard Jensen * Anna Reider Julian Wilkison** Principal Elizabeth Freimuth Charles Frederic Goss Chair Acting Associate Principal animated strut of man’s best friend. This recording Dianne & J. David Marna Street Principal Morleen & Jack Rouse Chair Rosenberg Chair Leah Arsenault *+ Principal Emeritus Mary M. & Charles F. Yeiser Chair Marc Wolfley †† concludes with Copland’s Happy Ending Sylvia Samis Jane & David Ellis Chair Rebecca Barnes +† Thomas Sherwood * Scott Lang § Assistant Concertmaster Emeritus Amy Taylor Ellen A. & Richard C. Belinda Burge + from the film The Red Pony, and Mauricio Aguiar † Berghamer Chair Stephen Fryxell KEYBOARDS Minyoung Baik PICCOLO Elizabeth Porter ** + captures the rapturous feeling Gi Yeon Koh + Julie Spangler †† Eric Bates Joan Voorhees Lisa Conway Denisse Rodriguez-Rivera James P. Thornton Chair we all have when immersed in James Braid Duane Dugger Steven Rosen Michael Chertock § Janet Carpenter + OBOES Charles Bell great music. Joanne Wojtowicz Michelle Edgar Dugan Dwight Parry ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Principal Rebecca Kruger Fryxell TRUMPETS CELLOS Josephine I. & David J. Walter Zeschin, Director Kudos to our featured Cincinnati Pops soloists as well as the Gerald Itzkoff Douglas Lindsay Ilya Finkelshteyn Joseph, Jr. Chair Acting Principal Scott Mozlin, Assistant Lois Reid Johnson Principal Lon Bussell * Rawson Chair recording debuts of some of my favorite creatures, big and small. Sylvia Mitchell Irene & John J. Emery Chair Richard Johnson Christopher Kiradjieff LIBRARIANS Jo Ann & Paul Ward Chair We hope you will enjoy and share this recording with kids of all Daniel Culnan * Acting Associate Principal Mary Judge Luo-Jia Wu Ona Hixson Dater Chair ENGLISH HORN Steven Pride Principal ages to spark a lifelong love of music! Norman Johns ** Lois Klein Jolson Chair SECOND VIOLINS Karl & Roberta Christopher Philpotts Principal TROMBONES Christina Eaton * Gabriel Pegis Schlachter Family Chair Christina Coletta + † Cristian Ganicenco Principal CLARINETS Principal STAGE MANAGERS Al Levinson Chair Matthew Lad Jonathan Gunn Dorothy & John Hermanies Chair Joseph D. Hopper Catherine Lange-Jensen * Susan Marshall-Petersen Acting Principal Richard Harris § Ralph LaRocco, Jr. Harold B. & Betty Justice Chair Theodore Nelson Emma Margaret & John D. Murphy Scott Mozlin** Alan Rafferty Irving D. Goldman Chair BASS TROMBONE Conductor, Kun Dong Charles Snavely Benjamin Freimuth *+ Peter Norton † Begins the alphabetical listing Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Cheryl Benedict Ixi Chen of players who participate in a Drake Crittenden Ash † James Bunte § system of rotated seating within BASSES TUBA the string section. Harold Byers Owen Lee Carson McTeer+ * Associate Principal Ida Ringling North Chair Principal BASS CLARINET ** Assistant Principal Chiun-Teng Cheng James Lambert * Ronald Aufmann + One-Year Appointment Chika Kinderman § Additional Musician Matthew Zory, Jr.