Dvorák CELLO CONCERTO Friday and TIMPANOGOS SYMPHONY Saturday ORCHESTRA September 16-17, 2016 7:30 pm Timberline Middle School 500 W Canyon Crest, Alpine Elizabeth W. Marsh Cello Season Sponsor Member FDIC A Message from the Music Director Dear Friends, concert together. We will once again invite you to Welcome to the 2016-2017 Timpanogos come in costume and participate in our costume Symphony Orchestra concert season. This is our parade and trick-or-treating. Last year we sold out sixth full year and we are thrilled to have you join both performances, so get your tickets early for us. Since our last concert earlier this year in May, this year’s Halloween event. Please note that the we brought the members of the TSO on tour to Halloween concert will be at Willowcreek Middle Tooele, Brigham City, and Nephi. It was a School in Lehi. tremendously successful trip. We performed a We also have planned a special Christmas community concert in each of the three cities, concert with the Highland Choral Arts under the presented an education concert at four school direction of Cathy Jolley. We will be presenting assemblies, participated in a service project at the Rutter’s Gloria, selections from Handel’s Messiah, Box Elder Food Pantry, and had some fun at the and other Christmas favorites. In February we will movie and the bowling alley. We thank you for the bring you music inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo support you have provided that made this tour and Juliet, and in May our bi-annual Aspiring possible! Musicians Competition. Mark your calendar for Now we are back to another season, and I each of these concerts—you won’t want to miss think you’re going to enjoy this year. We start any of them. tonight with the Dvořák Cello Concerto Once again, we acknowledge our season performed by our wonderful cello soloist, sponsor, the Bank of American Fork. The bank has Elizabeth W. Marsh. Elizabeth is a fabulous soloist generously agreed to provide a dollar for dollar and so great to work with. I’m betting that many match, up to $15,000. For every dollar donated to of you have never heard a cello concerto before the TSO, the Bank of American Fork will match and may not fully appreciate the beauty of this that donation. Please consider a contribution to instrument. What better introduction to the cello the TSO and make your dollar have double the can there be than one presented by such a gifted impact. We couldn’t run this organization and put cellist? I hope you leave tonight’s performance with on these types of concerts without the substantial a greater appreciation of this beautiful instrument contributions that our faithful followers make to and this marvelous music. In addition to the cello our organization. concerto, tonight we also present some other magnificent music by Debussy, Ravel, and Enescu. Thank you for your As for the rest of the season, we have put support and enjoy the together some terrific music. We are doing concert! another Halloween concert this year. Three performances are scheduled: one for Friday, October 28 at 7pm and two for Saturday, October 29: at 3pm and 7pm. We chose the John Pew earlier start time for October because we are Director encouraging families with children of all ages to Timpanogos Symphony attend this concert. We have lifted our regular age Orchestra restriction and hope families will attend this fun The Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra is funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, the Utah Arts & Museums Council, and the Rocky Mountain Power Foundation. Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Concert Program Cello Concerto in B Minor, op. 104 (1895) Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Elizabeth W. Marsh, cello I. Allegro II. Adagio, ma non troppo III. Allegro moderato—Andante—Allegro vivo INTERMISSION Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Alborada del gracioso (1905) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Major, op. 11 (1901) George Enescu (1881-1955) 2 John Pew – Music Director John Pew is Music Director of the Timpanogos classics and movie music, and an evening of Symphony Orchestra. He is an energetic classic rock. champion of live symphonic music known for Past soloists with the TSO have included his warm rapport with audiences and Richard Elliott, Principal Tabernacle Organist; musicians alike and his genius for innovation violinists Jenny Oaks Baker, Monte Belnap, and and education. Rosalie Macmillan; guitarist Lawrence Green; He has led the TSO since founding it in vocalists Nathan Osmond and Melissa Heath; 2010. Now in its sixth season, the orchestra pianists Jeffrey Shumway, Scott Holden, Robin has grown to include 75 musicians, an actively Hancock, Vedrana Subotic, David Glen Hatch, engaged board of directors, and many other volunteers who together donate more than 10,000 hours each year to bring symphonic music to north Utah County. Like John himself, the musicians in the orchestra are unpaid. Selected by audition, they nonetheless represent different skill levels, from amateur to professional. John is a master at keeping all of them inspired and engaged, forging personal connections and leading rehearsals with a sense of energy and and Josh Wright; and narrators Bruce Seely abandon. and Lloyd Newell. Past concerts have included He is a tireless, enthusiastic teacher in performances with the Deseret Chamber many settings. He educates audiences through Singers and the Wasatch Chorale. his choice of repertoire and program notes John’s passion can be traced to early and by taking the TSO and its music to childhood; he began piano lessons at age five. elementary schools and underserved In high school he held season tickets to the communities from Tooele to Nephi. He San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and began reaches out to youth through the TSO’s to amass a large collection of classical scores Aspiring Musicians Competition and by inviting and recordings, spending countless hours young musicians to play side-by-sides in the studying the masters. He studied piano with orchestra. He stretches the orchestra by Reid Nibley at Brigham Young University, but programming a balance of challenging and pursued a career in software engineering. John accessible music, by inviting professional now works for SAP in Newtown Square, musicians to coach sections and to critique the Pennsylvania and telecommutes from his orchestra as a whole, and by featuring superb home office in American Fork. guest soloists. His prior posts include Assistant Conduc- The TSO has gained a reputation among tor of the Santa Clara Chorale, Music Director community orchestras for excellent perfor- of the Oakland Temple Pageant, and Music mance and innovative programming. Innova- Director of the Temple Hill Symphony tions have included new commissions, Orchestra in Oakland, California, a position he performance premieres, and outside-the-box held for eight years. programming such as an organ symphony, John and his wife, Renee, reside in music from the Baroque and classical periods, American Fork, Utah, and are the parents of family-friendly Halloween concerts, Broadway five children. 3 Our Guest Performer Elizabeth Marsh began cello study at American Youth Symphony, USC Symphony the age of two with her mother, Denise and Chamber Orchestra, YMF Debut Willey. She also had the pleasure of studying Orchestra, and currently the Orchestra at Suzuki cello with Richard Hoyt, Carey and Temple Square. Elliott Cheney, Monica Call, and Shauna Mrs. Marsh has taught private music Bowman. She earned her Bachelor of Music lessons for nearly 20 years. She served as degree in Cello Performance from the conductor for American Heritage School’s University of Southern California where she Lyceum Chamber Ensemble and studied with Eleonore Schoenfeld and Peter Crescendo Orchestra, and she occasionally Stumpf. guest conducts and coaches youth Elizabeth has been a featured soloist with orchestras and cello choirs. She recently several orchestras including the Utah published a cello scale book, The Scale Trail Challenge for the Young Cellist, and will soon publish books in the same series for violin and viola. Elizabeth and her husband Gregory love bringing their growing family to concerts and singing together with their four beautiful children. They spend their date nights rehearsing and performing with the Mormon abernacle Choir and Orchestra at Symphony, Young Musicians Foundation Temple Square. They recently had the Debut Orchestra, University of Southern opportunity to tour with the Choir and California Symphony, Utah Valley Symphony, Orchestra in New York, Boston, Washington American Fork Symphony, Grand Junction D.C., and Europe. Symphony Orchestra, and Witness Music. She has also served as principal cellist of the 4 Contributors Gold Conductor’s Ralph & Edy Howes Peter & Barbara Dill Penny Nelson Circle ($5,000 - Up) Dee & Kay Jacobs David & Pat Dixon Robert E. Ogden Anonymous (1) Wesley & Wendy Jacobs Cindy Dupaix Chuck & Carolyn Cherokee & Walker Shirley Lu Sandra Ellexon Owen Conductor’s Circle Jay & Mili McQuivey Curtis & Phyllis Fillmore Richard & Janice ($1,000 - $4,999) Cathie B. 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