HARTFORDTable SYMPHONY of Contents ORCHESTRA About the Hartford Symphony Orchestra | 5 Carolyn Kuan, Music Director | 6 Adam Boyles, Assistant Conductor | 7 The Orchestra | 8 Administrative Staff | 9 Board of Directors | 10 Letter from the Chairman and Executive Director | 11 Music For Grand Organ and Orchestra | 12 Rhapsody in Blue | 22 Raiders of the Lost Ark in Concert | 30 Color & Texture: Beethoven & Ives | 33 HSO Contributors | 38 Patron Information | 51 HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 166 Capitol Ave. Hartford, CT 06106 Phone: 860-246-8742 | Fax: 860-247-1720 Ticket Services: 860-244-2999 | Fax: 860-249-5430 www.hartfordsymphony.org Bright Lights Design, Cover Art The programs of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra are funded in part by donors to the Greater Hartford Arts Council’s United Arts Campaign, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. 3 HARTFORDAbout theSYMPHONY Symphony ORCHESTRA he mission of the The Hartford Symphony Hartford Symphony Orchestra was founded in Orchestra is to enrich 1934 and formally established Tlives and community through as the Symphony Society of great music. Marking its Greater Hartford in 1936. 76th season in 2019-2020, the Angelo Coniglione, Jacques HSO is Connecticut’s premier Gordon, Leon Barzin, Moshe musical organization, the Paranov, and George Heck second largest orchestra in New were the Orchestra’s first England, and widely recognized music directors. With the as one of America’s leading appointment of Fritz Mahler regional orchestras. in 1953, the HSO began its HSO captivates and Young People’s Concerts and inspires audiences of all made several highly acclaimed ages by presenting more recordings for Vanguard. than 100 concerts annually, In 1964, Arthur Winograd including the Masterworks became music director and Series, POPS! Series, HSO: the Orchestra grew in artistic Intermix, Sunday Serenades, Discovery stature, performing at Carnegie Hall and other Concerts, Symphony in Schools, Musical New York locations to highly favorable Dialogues, the Talcott Mountain Music Festival reviews. Under the artistic leadership of at the Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Michael Lankester from 1985–2000, the Center, and more. The HSO aims to deliver HSO received national recognition for its uniquely powerful and emotional experiences programming innovations, including the popular that lift and transform the spirit, and to give Classical Conversations and Family Matinees, back and help create vibrant communities in as well as a series of landmark theatrical the Greater Hartford area. productions. From 2001–2011, Edward The Hartford Symphony Orchestra named Cumming led the HSO to new levels of artistic Carolyn Kuan as its tenth music director excellence and innovative programming. in January 2011; she is the first woman and Each season, the HSO plays to audiences youngest person to hold this title. Since numbering approximately 75,000 statewide. The beginning her tenure in 2011, she has led the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s extensive array HSO to new artistic heights with community- of Education and Community Activities serves minded concerts and innovative programming. more than 15,000 individuals in Hartford and In 2015, Kuan signed a new, six-year contract, surrounding communities annually. extending her commitment to the orchestra until May, 2022. 5 HARTFORDMusic SYMPHONY Director ORCHESTRA ecognized as a conductor death, and rebirth as symbolized of extraordinary versatility, by the ancient Greek icon of CAROLYN KUAN has a serpent eating its own tail. Renjoyed successful associations Working with composer Scott with top tier orchestras, opera Wheeler, she directed Naga, one companies, ballet companies, of the three operas commissioned and festivals worldwide. Her for the trilogy. For her debut commitment to contemporary with the Santa Fe Opera, she music has defined her approach conducted the premiere of Huang to programming and established Ro’s Dr. Sun Yet-Sen with director her as an international resource James Robinson, and a mixed for new music and world premieres. cast of east and west singers and Appointed Music Director of the instrumentalists, which garnered Hartford Symphony Orchestra great critical acclaim. Her debut in 2011, she has signed a six- with the Washington National year contract extending their Opera at the Kennedy Center creative collaboration through was a production of Daniel May 2022. Catan’s Florencia en el Amazonas, Highlights of Ms. Kuan’s directed by Francesca Zambello. 2018/2019 season included debuts with the Singapore During Ms. Kuan’s long tenure with the Cabrillo Symphony; Santa Barbara Symphony, featuring Festival of Contemporary Music, some of her John Corigliano’s Red Violin; and the Portland finest successes bridged the gap between cultural Opera, conducting a production of Rossini’s and social issues, as in her work raising awareness La Cenerentola; as well as engagements with two of conservation and the environment through her of the top conservatory orchestras in the U.S., the performances around the globe of the multimedia Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, and Yale project Life: A Journey Through Time. Developed by Philharmonia. She ended her season with a world the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and premiere of Iain Bell’s Stonewall with the New music director Marin Alsop, the project featured York City Opera at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose music by Philip Glass and images by famed National Theater. Upcoming engagements in her 2019/2020 Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. season include the world premiere of Augusta Read Carolyn Kuan’s previous positions include Thomas’s Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun with the Santa Associate Conductor of the Seattle Symphony Fe Opera; her debut with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra; Artist-in-Residence at the New York Orchestra; and a return engagement with the City Ballet; and Assistant Conductor for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Baltimore Opera Company. In her 2012 debut Ms. Kuan’s North American engagements have album for the Naxos label, Ms. Kuan conducted included performances with the symphonies of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in various Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, Omaha, San works by Chinese composers. Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto; the Florida and Recipient of numerous awards, Ms. Kuan holds the Louisville orchestras; the New York City Ballet; distinction of being the first woman to be awarded the Colorado Music Festival and Glimmerglass the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship by Festival; the New York City Opera, Santa Fe the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Opera, and Washington National Opera. Recent Austrian Foundation in 2003, resulting in her international engagements have included concerts residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival. Winner of with the Bournemouth Symphony, Hong Kong the first Taki Concordia Fellowship, she has received Philharmonic, National Symphony of Taiwan, additional awards from the Women’s Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Residentie Orkest, Conductors Guild, and Susan W. Rose Fund for Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan, Royal Danish Music. Ms. Kuan graduated cum laude from Smith Ballet, and the West Australian Symphony. College, received a Master of Music degree from the Other career highlights include a project University of Illinois, and a Performance Diploma sponsored by Beth Morrison Projects called from the Peabody Conservatory. Ouroboros Trilogy, a three-part exploration of life, www.carolynkuan.com HARTFORDAssistant SYMPHONY Conductor ORCHESTRA dynamic and versatile Recent guest engagements conductor, A DAM include concerts with the Tucson K ERRY BOY LES is a Symphony Orchestra, Ocean City Anotable figure in the musical Pops Orchestra, Charlottesville life of New England. Boyles is Symphony Orchestra, and honors currently Director of Orchestras orchestras in Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Institute Nevada, Tennessee, Oregon, of Technology, and Assistant and Rhode Island. Boyles was a Conductor of the Hartford guest clinician with Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. In the Concert Productions for the past 2019/2020 season, he will be three seasons. Visiting Assistant Professor/ An accomplished vocalist, Co-Director of Orchestras at Boyles performed in numerous the University of Kansas City- operas with the Indiana Missouri Conservatory of University Opera Theater, and Music. Previous Music Director in Arizona Opera’s first complete positions include six seasons presentation of Wagner’s Der with the Brookline Symphony Ring des Nibelungen. He has Orchestra, three seasons with sung with many professional the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, five choral ensembles across the country such as seasons with Opera in the Ozarks, and five seasons Conspirare, True Concord, Apollo’s Voice, Mon with MetroWest Opera. Boyles served on the Choeur, Cantique, and the Tucson Chamber Artists. faculty at The University of Texas at Austin and In 2010, Boyles was featured as a guest soloist with The University of Arizona. the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. With the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Boyles Boyles received his Doctor of Music in Orchestral conducts a wide variety of Masterworks, Pops, Conducting degree from The University of Texas Talcott Mountain Music Festival, and Educational at Austin, his Master of Music in Orchestral concerts. He conducted