12/18/16 Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland 7:00 pm BOYER COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DANCE TABLE x CONTENTS TRYPO Board & Staf — 2 Tales of Faraway Places Program — 5 Tales of Faraway Places Program Notes — 6 Artist Biographies — 12 Symphonette Roster —17 Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance offers a diverse Andrew Wickesberg Biography — 19 curriculum, wide array of degree programs and exemplary faculty, preparing students for careers as educators, performers, composers and scholars. Young Peoples Orchestra Roster — 20 John Wilcox Biography — 23 > Degree programs in instrumental studies, jazz studies, education, theory, therapy, choral conducting, keyboard, composition, history, Acknowledgments — 26 voice and opera. > Annual orchestra and jazz band performances at Lincoln Center, TRYPO provides well-rounded music education programs Carnegie Hall and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. and performance opportunities for young people to foster lifelong passion, appreciation and support of > Distinguished faculty includes members of The Philadelphia Orchestra music. Performances are brought to the community in as well as many other noted recording and performing artists. part by generous support from the Allegheny Regional Asset District and corporations, foundations and > Additional ensemble performance opportunities in early music, jazz, individuals throughout our community. TRYPO receives fully-staged opera productions, wind symphony, contemporary music, state arts funding support through a grant from the collegiate and marching bands. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. > Alumni hold positions with major orchestras, have successful recording and touring careers and are educators in music classrooms around the country. CONTACT ADVERTISE trypo.org To advertise in For more information, please contact: 412.391.0526 the program, 215.204.6810 or [email protected] [email protected] contact Ana Díaz: temple.edu/boyer 212 9th St, Ste. 601 [email protected] Pittsburgh, PA 15222 412-391-0526. facebook.com/boyercollege @boyercollege TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 1 BOARD & STAFF Paul Evans board of directors administrative YPO PERCUSSION COACH Rebecca Stephan staff Marylène Gingras-Roy PRESIDENT Lindsey Nova YPO VIOLA COACH Dr. Paul F. Doerksen EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Rhian Kenny VICE PRESIDENT Ana María Díaz YC2 COACH Erika Deiseroth PROGRAM MANAGER Michael Lipman TREASURER Laurie Cunningham YC2 COACH 2 Melissa StephenS YC AND SPECIAL PROJECTS Kathleen Melucci SECRETARY MANAGER YC2 COACH Traci Davis James Nova Dr. Kimberly Cruz OFFICE COORDINATOR YPO BRASS COACH Andy Whitt Bernard Z. Goldberg Dennis O’Boyle PASSION PROGRAM ASSISTANT AND Stephen Kostyniak YPO VIOLIN COACH, LIBRARIAN YC2 COACH Beth Ober Jennifer Orchard Dr. Natalie Ozeas YC2 COACH EMERITUS artistic staff John Wilcox David Premo Ted Ruscitti MUSIC DIRECTOR AND YPO YPO CELLO COACH Thomas Walters CONDUCTOR Amanda Rice-Johnston Dr. Cyril H. Wecht Andrew Wickesberg SYMPHONETTE BASS COACH Jodi Weisield SYMPHONETTE James Rodgers CONDUCTOR, Christopher J. Wiker YPO WOODWIND COACH, SYMPHONETTE VIOLA YC2 COACH Ashley Woods COACH, YC2 COACH Jennifer Steele Jeremy Black YC2 COACH YPO VIOLIN COACH, co-founding YC2 COACH Aaron White YPO BASS COACH directors Kate M. Black Bernard Z. Goldberg YC2 COACH Rachel White Phyllis B. Susen * SYMPHONETTE VIOLIN Irene Cheng COACH *DECEASED SYMPHONETTE VIOLIN COACH, YC2 COACH Katie Wickesberg YC2 COACH WHERE ARTISTRY + Michael DeBruyn YC2 COACH INNOVATION SHARE Laura Evans CENTER STAGE SYMPHONETTE CELLO COACH music.cmu.edu Application Deadline: December 1 PAGE 2 | 2016-2017 SEASON TALES x FARAWAY PLACES Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 7:00 pm Carnegie Music Hall of Oakland Symphonette X| Edward Leonard, Guest Conductor Edvard Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 (1843-1907) Le Coeur blessé [Heart’s wound] Dernier printemps [Last Spring] Johann Strauss Pizzicato Polka (1825-1899) A competitive edge John Rutter Suite for Strings (b. 1945) A’Roving I have a bonnet trimmed with blue for a competitive field. O waly waly Dashing away INTERMISSION As a student of the UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS • Bachelor of Music in Performance Young Peoples Orchestra | John Wilcox, Conductor/Music Director Mary Pappert School • Bachelor of Music in Music Technology • Bachelor of Music with Elective Studies in Business Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 of Music, you’ll earn • Bachelor of Science in Music Education (1844-1908) The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship • Bachelor of Science in Music Therapy The Kalendar Prince a degree backed by • Bachelor of Arts in Music The Young Prince and the Young Princess Festival at Baghdad skills and experiences GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS Jeremy Black, Guest Concertmaster • Master of Music in Performance Original Narration text by John Wilcox Student Narrators: Justin Dreyer, that will help you • Master of Music in Sacred Music Edgar O’Connell, Roshie Xing, build a successful • Master of Music in Music Technology Maighread Southard-Wray • Master of Music in Music Education career in a highly Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Suite from The Nutcracker, Op. 71a MINOR, CERTIFICATE, AND DIPLOMA PROGRAMS (1840-1893) Ouverture miniature competitive field. • Artist Diploma in Music Performance Marche • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Education Danse de fée-dragée • Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Music Therapy Danse russe trepak Proud home of TRYPO • Minor in Music Danse arabe Danse chinoise Danse des mirlitons Valse des leurs For more information, visit Student Narrators: Kristen Appleman, duq.edu/music Lillian Arnold Mages, Wesley Madge, Josephine Arnold Mages, Emily Bedeck, Katherine Elizabeth Stanton, Sarah Voigt, Julien Strandberg-Houzé TALES OF FARAWAY PLACES | PAGE 5 is this the last one? All that the spring presented to me Let it be so: much that was waited and even the lowers I plucked, in life I have enjoyed; And I thought it was the ancestral spirits PROGRAM I have received more than I deserved that danced and sighed, and all may fade. And so between birch and ir tree I found N NOTES N Once I was myself, in the full low of spring a mystery in the spring; that ills my sight, And so the sound of the lute that I cut Two Elegiac Melodies by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Once I wanted to ind myself a home seemed full of tears. and convivial company. nce upon a time (in 1880), Edvard sat in his favorite window seat in his house. The music would not come today… again. He It occurred to Edvard that these poems in themselves were a melody! He read through was reading a book of his favorite poems them again and started to hear a soaring string line. He leaned back and closed his eyes to by Aasmund Olafsson Vinje. There was something listen to this new melody… special about these poems! Edvard felt like he …And as he listened, the melody got louder and louder. Eventually, it almost seemed and Aasmund were cut from the same cloth, that like Edvard could hear actual violins and cellos, it was so real! He opened his eyes and looked Aasmund could see what he saw. Edvard suddenly around, surprised to ind himself sitting in the balcony of a beautiful theater. On the stage, exploded with a gut-wrenching cough. This last he saw a group of about 50 children clad in black and white… playing the very melody he round of illness seemed to last for months and he had just heard in his head! Perplexed, but entranced, he sat back to listen to a heartfelt had felt like he hadn’t been able to write a thing. It performance by such talented young musicians… inally seemed like it was tapering of and Edvard felt like a cloud was starting to lift. Aasmund’s poems certainly helped! There were two of the Pizzicato Polka by Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899) poems in particular that were speaking to him today. nce upon a time (in 1869), Johann sat across from his brother Josef. The Wounded Heart The Last Spring Johann was absent-mindedly By A.O. Vinje By A.O. Vinje (tr. by William Jewson) (tr. by Roy Helge Rasmussen) plucking a few notes. Josef picked up his violin and started plucking along. Once again I have seen the winter Before the brothers knew it, they were My heart has been in the strife of life, give way to spring; plucking out a new little melody and started and many wounds it has sufered The wild cherry trees in full bloom, to go faster and faster. Their improvisation it lay sick and wounded I saw once again. session ended with them exploding into in so many struggles Once again I saw the ice laughter. Suddenly Johann turned to his but yet it has, until this very time break free from the land, brother and said, “Josef, this would be a away from it all, alive escaped. Saw the snow melt perfect little piece for our upcoming tour and the foam of the river to Russia!” Josef smiled and the brothers But scars upon scar, swirl and rage. went into the back room to start writing. The after wounds upon wounds And the plants and lowers once again candle had gone out so they stumbled into there are on every page I saw them bloom; the dark looking for the desk… and up they break every spring, And again I heard …And suddenly the brothers realized they when trees are leaing the spring song of the birds were walking down a dark hallway and not and the ice is breaking expectant of sun and summer. in their home at all! They walked into a grand and the cuckoo sings in the hills. And I was privileged to see lobby with gold and green accents. There were dancing on the spring hillsides, strangely dressed individuals everywhere But lowers bloom in these scars, Butterlies luttering and litting they looked. Josef and Johann shrugged and and blooming lower is tearful among the garlands of lowers.