Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. CIM Opera Theater Mixon Hall FACULTY RECITAL presents a S ERGEI B ABAYAN, piano D O This concert is dedicated to the beloved memory of Luiza Markaryan. U Program B L VLADIMIR RYABOV Fantasy in C minor, Op. 21, E (b.1950) (In memory of Maria Yudina) ~ Cleveland premiere B I SCHUBERT - LISZT(transcriptions)Der Müller und der Bach (1797 - 1828) (1811 - 1886) L Gretchen am Spinnrade L Auf dem Wasser zu singen WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 - SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 8:00 P.M ~ I N T E R M I S S I O N ~ Join CIM Opera Theater students with director, David Bamberger and the CIM Orchestra, with music director Harry Davidson, in fully-staged JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU Suite No. 2 in A minor, from productions of Haydn’s The Apothecary and Puccini’s Suor Angelica. All (1683 - 1764) "Nouvelles suites de pièces opera productions feature projected English translations, so you won’t de clavecin" (ca. 1728) miss a word! * Allemande The Apothecary Haydn's delightful comedy goes beyond Courante the "eternal triangle" to the "eternal rectangle." Sarabande No less than three suitors vie for the hand of the lovely Grilletta. Les trois mains See how she finds her way to true love when faced with the old apothecary who is her guardian, a rich young dandy, Fanfarinette and an apprentice who is too shy to "pop the question!” La triomphante Gavotte et 6 doubles + Suor Angelica The quiet life of a convent is shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. Puccini's irresistible music leads us into the extraordinary (more) emotional life of one of the nuns, Angelica, as she makes the journey from despair and tragedy to the miracle of divine grace. T ICKETS: $15 ADULTS, $10 STUDENTS/ SENIORS/ GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE. The Cleveland Institute of Music is generously funded by C ALL 216.791.5000, EXT. 411, OR PURCHASE ONLINE AT CIM. EDU. Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. J.S. BACH from the Klavierbüchlein for CASE SYMPHONIC WINDS & (1685 - 1750) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach * UNIVERSITY CIRCLE WIND ENSEMBLE GARY M. CIEPLUCH, music director Prelude in C Major, BWV 939 (ca. 1703-7) CLEVELAND YOUTH WIND SYMPHONY I GARY M. CIEPLUCH, music director Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 (ca. 1720) MELISSA LICHTLER, associate director Severance Hall Menuet-Trio in G minor, BWV 929 (ca. 1720) CAMILLE ST. - SAËNS Occident and Orient JOHAN DE MEIJ Metamorphoses on a Theme by Tchaikovsky Prelude in E Major, BWV 937 (ca. 1720) PHILLIP SPARKE Celebration VACLAV NELHYBEL Symphonic Movement (ca. 1720) Sinfonia in E-flat Major, BWV 791 GUSTAV HOLST Second Suite in F EDWARD GREGSON The Sword and the Crown Prelude in D minor, BWV 926 (ca. 1720) Tickets: $15 general, $25 box, $5 CIM/CWRU students with ID. Prelude in C-sharp Major, BWV 872 Please call Severance Hall Box Office at 216.231.1111. (ca. 1738-42) Saturday, February 28 at 1:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. Prelude in F Major, BWV 901 (ca. 1720) NEW MUSIC SERIES SYMPOSIUM Studio 113 Prelude in C Major, BWV 933 (ca. 1720) CLAUDE BAKER, guest composer Fugue in C Major, BWV 953 (ca. 1720) DAVID RAKOWSKI, guest composer Guest composers Baker and Rakowski discuss their music and approach Fugue in C Major, BWV 952 (ca. 1720) to composition at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., respectively. * These pieces are the first works of Bach that Sunday, March 1 at 4:00 p.m. I learned with my teacher, Luiza Markaryan. NEW MUSIC SERIES Mixon Hall NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE KEITH FITCH, director CLAUDE BAKER, guest composer DAVID RAKOWSKI, guest composer DAVID RAKOWSKI Take Jazz Chords, Make Strange Gli Uccelli di Bogliasco KEITH FITCH This Rough Magicke CLAUDE BAKER Three Phantasy Pieces Tableaux funebrès A pre-concert discussion with the guest composers will take place at 3:15 p.m. Those wishing to greet the artist afterwards may do so in Pogue Lobby. CIM applauds KEY FOUNDATION for being a top corporate donor to the Annual Fund 2007- 08. Bravo! acclaim, as have his many subsequent recital and concerto performances Dedication throughout all the major cities in the U.S. His concert schedule has This concert is dedicated to the beloved memory of Luiza Markaryan, my included performances and broadcasts throughout major European cities and extensive tours of Japan. He has appeared in recital in such important first piano teacher, who passed away recently. She was like a mother to me, venues as Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall and was the first to instill in me dedication, integrity and patience in my in New York, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Severance Hall in Cleveland, practicing. She showed me how to work at the instrument with uncompro- Bolshoy Zal of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Mariinsky mising intensity, unceasing to the end and without regard to the limitless Theatre in St. Petersburg, Herkulessaal in Munich, Liederhalle in hours of work required. She taught me my first Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Stuttgart, Meistersingerhalle in Nürnberg, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Schubert, Rameau, Chopin and Debussy; repertoire which has remained Brahmsallee in Karlsruhe, Beethovenhalle in Bonn and many others. Mr. closest to my life. Thank you, my dearest teacher. God bless you, and the Babayan has appeared at numerous major music festivals in France, ever-vivid memory of your spirit and humanity. ~ Sergei Babayan Germany, the UK, Poland, Spain, China and the U.S. His concerts have been broadcast by WQXR, WCLV, Radio France, Polish Radio and Program Notes Television, BBC-TV and NHK Satellite Television. He has made several highly praised recordings for the EMC, Connoisseur Society and Pro Vladimir Ryabov's Fantasy in C minor (1983) was written in memory of Piano labels. Deep interest and love for the music of Bach has led him to Maria Yudina (1899-1970), a legendary artist in Russia who is becoming study more recently with German Bach specialist, Helmuth Rilling. increasingly better known internationally thanks to a recent release of her Always in search of the new, Mr. Babayan studied conducting in order to extensive recorded legacy on CD, spanning almost the entire piano liter- deepen his understanding of the orchestra. In this role, he has already per- ature from Bach to Stravinsky (although she was also the first to perform formed music of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schnittke, Pärt, Vasks, Schedrin Boulez and Stockhausen in Russia). and Prokofiev. Last season, Mr. Babayan was invited by Valery Gergiev to perform Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto at the International "Stars of the In her own lifetime, Yudina was not allowed to travel to the West, and was White Nights" Festival in St. Petersburg with the orchestra of the fired from both the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin School Mariinsky Theatre. The performance was received with huge enthusiasm because of her deep religiosity. A true intellectual institution in Russia, by the audience and was highly acclaimed in the major Russian press. she was close friends with some of the greatest literary luminaries of her time; Pasternak first read his novel Dr. Zhivago at her house. Never afraid to speak up against the Communists and to openly affirm her faith, she was a black sheep under the regime; yet she miraculously escaped harm, Upcoming Events in one of those strange, and in this case, fortunate-quirks which was rare in the history of Stalinism. When she received the Stalin Prize, she donat- Free seating passes are required for some concerts. ed the money to the Orthodox Church for "perpetual prayers for Stalin's They may be reserved one week prior to a given concert by calling the sins." Yet this devout Christian woman happened to be the former semi- CIM Box Office at 216.791.5000, ext. 411, Monday through Friday. nary student's favorite pianist. According to an oft-repeated story, Stalin Reserved passes must be picked up at the Ticket Office no later than 15 was so taken with her performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto in A minutes prior to start time, or they will be distributed to other patrons. Major that he demanded a copy of the recording. No one dared tell him For more information, please visit cim.edu. that it had been a live broadcast and there was no recording; so they had to summon Yudina to the studio in the middle of the night where, with a eerie and ominous perpetual-motion figure is punctuated by a series of hastily assembled orchestra, they recorded the concerto. The next morn- individual pitches above and below. The musical material seems to dis- ing, the Great Leader and Teacher was presented with a unique copy. integrate completely, leaving us with feelings of hopelessness and despair After Stalin's death, this record was found next to his bed, it was appar- as the music fades into silence. ently the last thing he had ever listened to. Peter Laki, Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College In his twenty-minute Fantasy, Ryabov (b. 1950), a pianist-composer who About the Performer had studied with Aram Khachaturyan, managed to say something new and personal, even though his idiom that is strongly indebted to 19th-cen- SERGEI BABAYAN is a member of the piano faculty and the Mr. and Mrs. tury Romanticism. Ryabov accomplished this by devising an approach to John D. Gilliam Artist-in-Residence at CIM. Acclaimed for the immedi- harmony in which he added upper and lower neighbors to the ton es of acy, sensitivity and depth of his interpretations, Mr.