MUELLER NICHOLLS BUILDERS & THE GRUbb, CO PRESENT Notes from MEXICO SILVESTRE REVUELTAS FRidAY, MARCH 27, 8:00 PM Sensemayá Paramount Theatre, Oakland CARLOS CHÁVEZ Piano Concerto I. Largo non troppo Allegro agitato II. Molto Lento III. Allegro non troppo Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano (Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner’s appearance is supported by a grant from The Ross McKee Foundation) INTERMISSION RUBÉN FUENTES Hay Unos Ojos Diana Gameros, guitar & vocals Medley of Traditional Mexican Songs: FELIPE VALDÉZ LEAL Mi Ranchito JOSÉ LÓPEZ ALAVEZ Canción Mixteca AGUSTÍN LARA Farolito Diana Gameros, guitar & vocals DIANA GAMEROS En Juárez Diana Gameros, guitar & vocals Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Carlos Moreno Diana Gameros JOSÉ PABLO MONCAYO Huapango Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Carlos Moreno Season Media Sponsors: Oakland Magazine, KDFC, East Bay Express Season Guest Artist Accommodations provided by: Oakland Marriott City Center The 2014-2015 season is supported by grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. Michael Morgan, Conductor II OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY III OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUEST ARTISTS Michael Morgan, Music Director & Conductor He has had hundreds of solo recitals and over Bryan Nies, Assistant Conductor fifty performances as soloist with orchestras on four continents, including at Smetana Hall, Prague, Czech FIRST VIOLIN CELLO CLARINET TROMBONE Republic; Louvre Museum, Paris, France; Gijon Dawn Harms, Daniel Reiter, Principal Diane Maltester, Bruce Chrisp, Principal International Piano Festival, Spain; Ashford Castle, Concertmaster Michelle Kwon, Principal Thomas Hornig Ireland; Banff Summer Arts Festival, Canada; the Vivian Warkentin, Asst. Principal Clark Fobes Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; and Lincoln Asst. Concertmaster Rebecca Roudman Ann Lavin BASS TROMBONE Center, New York. Jeremy Preston, Elizabeth Vandervennet Steven Trapani Assoc.Concertmaster Michael Graham E FLAT CLARINET For a WDR-Arte Documentary, Hilan Warshaw’s Kristina Anderson Jeff Parish Diane Maltester TUBA “Wagner’s Jews” (which explores the ongoing controversy Patrice May Paul Rhodes Scott Choate, Principal over performing Wagner’s music in Israel), Llewellyn Ellen Gronningen Jan Volkert BASS CLARINET was filmed in New York performing works of Tausig, Deborah Spangler Karen Wells HARP Wagner, and Liszt. Llewellyn has also collaborated with Emanuela Nikiforova STRING BASS Meredith Clark the Gershwin Family on a concert and biographical Natasha Makhijani Patrick McCarthy, BASSOON tribute to the Gershwin brothers. Hee-guen Song Principal Deborah Kramer, CELESTA & Piano Michelle Maruyama Carl Stanley, Principal Ellen Wassermann As part of Beyond the Machine, he performed modern Antoine van Dongen Asst. Principal David Granger multimedia works in collaboration with Juilliard’s Randall Keith Jarratt Rossini TIMPANI Technology Center, Dance, and Drama Divisions. SECOND VIOLIN Andy Butler Tyler Mack, Principal Featured in the Miami International Piano Festival’s David Cheng, Principal David Arend CONTRA BASSOON LLEWELLYN SANCHEZ-WERNER, PIANO “Prodigies and Masters of Tomorrow” at age 7, he was Sharon Calonico, Abe Gumroyan Carolyn Lockart PERCUSSION selected the youngest-ever Discovery Artist of the Asst. Principal Ward Spangler, Principal t just 18 years old, Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner was New West Symphony, and at 12, he was the Artist- Candace Sanderson FLUTE HORN Allen Biggs Anamed the 2014 Gilmore Young Artist, an honor in-Residence at the Canandaigua Lake Music Festival Baker Peeples Alice Lenaghan, Principal Meredith Brown, Jim Kassis awarded every two years singling out the most promising in New York. Sergi Goldman-Hull Rena Urso-Trapani Principal Kevin Neuhoff American pianists of the new generation. He received Cecilia Huang Leslie Chin Alex Camphouse, the Atlantic Council’s 2014 Young Global Citizen Juilliard is Llewellyn’s second college experience. He Robert Donehew Asst. Principal PERSONNEL MANAGER Award, along with fellow recipients Robert De Niro, became a full-time student at Ventura College at age Alison Miller PICCOLO Alicia Telford Carl Stanley Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Lee Kuan Yew, and 5, where he completed 170 college credits toward Tess Varley Amy Likar Eric Achen Presidents Enrique Pena Nieto and Petro Poroshenko. degrees in Music and International Relations. Born in Sue-mi Shin Ross Gershenson LIBRARIAN California, Llewellyn studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky OBOE Paul Rhodes Llewellyn made Juilliard history at age 14 as the and Ilya Itin in New York. VIOLA Andrea Plesnarski, TRUMPET youngest student ever admitted to the College Division. Tian Tian Lan, Principal Principal William Harvey, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR In 2009, he performed solo at the White House for Margaret Titchener, Robin May Principal Seth Ducey President Obama; and in 2013, for the Presidential DIANA GAMEROS, GUITAR & VOCALS Asst. Principal Leonard Ott Inauguration concert at the Kennedy Center. iana Gameros is a singer, songwriter, music instructor Janice Negherbon ENGLISH HORN John Freeman RECORDING ENGINEER and social activist. Originally from Ciudad Juarez, Betsy London Denis Harper Carole Klein Tom Johnson, In 2010, he was the first American soloist to perform in D Mexico, Gameros arrived in the Bay Area six years ago David Gilbert Johnson Digital Iraq with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra for Darcy Rindt an international audience of diplomats, US soldiers, and Patricia Whaley Iraqis of all ages (Gershwin and Grieg Concerti). The Stephanie Railsback concert raised funds to support the Children’s Cancer James Hurley Hospital and celebrated World Day for Cultural Diversity. In Rwanda, Llewellyn performed for President Kagame and for humanitarian and economic leaders, hosted by US Ambassador Symington, to help Rwandans continue rebuilding from the 1994 genocide. CNN International featured him on “Connect the World ” as the Connector of the Day on May 31, 2010. General David Petraeus recognized Llewellyn “for his courageous humanitarian contributions through the arts” and for “strengthening the ties that unite our nations,” in a Pentagon performance. To excite more youth about classical music, Llewellyn performed 16 concerts for 20,000 North American students; for an anti-bullying campaign, he performed “Beethoven and the Bully” for 6,000 students. IV OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY OAKLAND EAST BAY SYMPHONY V GUEST ARTISTS PROGRAM NOTES and has since been creating music that reflects the 21st The work is in three sections, each main tune separated century experiences of a young indie artist at the by huge climaxes. The considerable percussion section borderlands between cultures, languages, and genres. includes timpani, piano, xylophone, claves, maracas, raspador, gourd, small Indian drum, bass drum, tom- Gameros was born to a musical family where she was toms, cymbals, gongs, glockenspiel and celesta. surrounded by traditional Mexican songs of love and revolution. The first of her family to receive formal Piano Concerto music lessons, Gameros left Mexico as a teenager to study piano and recording technology in Michigan. During CARLOS CHÁVEZ (1899-1978) those formative years, Gameros not only soaked up the sounds of classical music, the avant-garde, world music, orn near Mexico City on June 13, 1899, Chávez and jazz, but also collected stories of other immigrants, Bwas composing at the age of nine, producing his forever influencing her own diverse musical style and the first symphony at twenty. Though he would later profound themes of her compositions and lyrics. study harmony with Manuel Ponce, he was entirely self-taught in composition. After several tours of After just a few years in the Bay Area, Gameros’ talent the United States, he returned to Mexico in 1928 to and versatility have brought her a steady stream of found the Orquesta Sinfónica de México, which he high profile gigs at such notable venues as Herbst conducted for twenty years. Theater, Brava Theater, The Independent, Fox Theater, REVUELTAS SFJAZZ Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and The Piano Concerto was commissioned by the dozens of other venues small and large. Gameros has Guggenheim Foundation in 1938. The work was opened concerts for Bebel Gilberto, Torreblanca, Latin BALLET FOLKLORICO MEXICANO DE Sensemayá introduced on January 4, 1942, at Carnegie Hall. Grammy-nominee Ximena Sariñana, and Latin Grammy- Eugene List was the pianist, with Dimitri Mitropoulos winners La Santa Cecilia. She was one of the artists CARLOS MORENO SILVESTRE REVUELTAS (1899-1940) conducting the New York Philharmonic. featured in the MEX-I-AM Festival, which included orn on New Year’s Eve, 1899, in Santiago Papasquiaro the participation of renowned mexican artists such as ounded in 1967 by Carlos Moreno Samaniego, the In his liner notes to Jorge Federico Osorio’s recording, in the northern state of Durango in Mexico, Natalia Lafourcade, Murcof and Tambuco. Ballet Folklorico Mexicano has achieved recognition B Elbio Barilari writes: “The concerto’s monumental first F Revueltas studied violin as a youth. He came to the both in the United States and in Mexico. In 1980, movement is an exhaustive sample of Chávez’s mature United States three times, for study in Chicago and Even as she continues her musical journey, Gameros the Mexican consulate in San Francisco named the musical language: sharp angles; strong rhythms; abrupt Austin, Texas