THU ThU/// ThE iSRAEl 7:30PM APR 3, 2014 PhilhARMOniC 7:30PM ORChestra giAnAndREA nOSEdA, PRinCipal guest COnductor “fast, sleek, and dynamic.” – LA Times ZuBin MEhta, MuSiC director The music director’s position is endowed by the William Petschek Family Classical music performances are made possible by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. We thank the Trustees for their visionary generosity. 36 carolinaperformingarts.org THU 7:30PM APRil 3, 2014 PRogRAM Pelléas et Mélisande: Suite, Op. 80 ..................................................................................... Gabriel Fauré Prélude .........................................................................................................................(1845–1924) Entr'acte: Fileuse (The Spinner) Sicilienne La mort de Mélisande (The Death of Melisande) Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) ............................................................................................ Maurice Ravel Prélude .........................................................................................................................(1875–1937) Danse du rouet et scène (Dance of the Spinning Wheel and Scene) Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty) Les entretriens de la belle et de la bête (Conversations of Beauty and the Beast) Petit poucet (Tom Thumb) Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes (Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas) Le jardin féerique (The Enchanted Garden) Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2 ............................................................................................ Maurice Ravel INTERMISSION Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 .......................................................................................... Hector Berlioz .....................................................................................................................................(1803-1869) The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges Milton and Tamar Maltz for their generous underwriting of the Orchestra’s United States touring program, and American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as the principal underwriter of this tour. PRogRAM NoTes In 1898, Gabriel Fauré received a commission the Ballets Russes, asked him to collaborate The printed program that Hector Berlioz to compose the incidental music for the first with Michel Fokine on a ballet of the Greek distributed at the 1830 premiere of Symphonie staging in London of Maurice Maeterlinck’s legend of Daphnis and Chloé. The project fantastique tells a loosely autobiographical symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande. Fauré’s proved to be disillusioning for the composer. He tale inspired by Berlioz’s passion for the music, orchestrated by his student Charles had difficulty managing his creative differences Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson, Koechlin, depicted the shadowy world of with Fokine, and the scandal Mikael Nijinksy whom he first saw on stage in 1827. The Maeterlinck’s drama. In 1901 and 1909, created with his ballet of Debussy’s Prélude program follows a young musician as he Fauré revisited the work to re-orchestrate it à l’après-midi d’un faune overshadowed the pursues his love through a series of increasingly and construct a concert suite. premiere of Ravel’s work ten days later. The fantastic scenes: their first encounter in a Ballets Russes did not stage Daphnis et Chloé dream, an elegant ball, a pastoral setting, the Maurice Ravel wrote a four-hand children’s again for two years. Diaghilev later wrote that musician’s execution and a witches’ dance. piano piece for the children of his friend the music was better suited for a symphonic An idée fixe – a recurring melody – appears in Cyprien Godebski in 1908, drawing inspiration performance than it was to a ballet. Indeed, each movement as the object of the musician’s from well-known fairy tales by Charles Perrault, after the ballet’s premiere, Ravel constructed affections materializes in the tableau. Berlioz’s the Comtesse d’Aulnoy and Marie Leprince two orchestral suites from the music, the masterful orchestration paints sonic images de Beaumont. Jacques Rouché, director of second of which was completed in 1913. Ravel of each scene. Berlioz also includes an off- the Théâtre des Arts in Paris, recognized insisted that his intention was not to depict stage oboe to create a sense of space in the the music’s theatrical possibilities and ancient Greece, but rather the Greece that pastoral movement, a pizzicato depiction of the commissioned Ravel to rework the piece as French artists of the 18th century imagined. musician’s head bouncing down the steps of a ballet. The composer adapted his simple Likewise, the music indicates the influence the scaffold at the end of the fourth movement, pianistic style into a score for small orchestra. of Russian, French and German composers and integrates Dies Irae into the counterpoint Each movement of the ballet depicts a tableau whose music Ravel studied in preparation of the witches’ dance in the final movement. from a fairy tale, rather than narrating a plot. to compose his own work. The influence of the harmonic language in Rimsky-Korsakov’s – Catherine Hughes is a PhD candidate in Music At the same time that Ravel was working on Shéhérazade is particularly evident in the at UNC-Chapel Hill. Ma Mère l’Oye, Sergei Diaghilev, impresario of second suite. carolina performing arts 13/14 37 The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra // continued BiogRAPHies RosTeR FIRST VIOLIN The Israel Gianandrea Noseda, Ilya Konovalov, concertmaster• Philharmonic Orchestra principal guest conductor Lazar Shuster, concertmaster• The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is one Gianandrea Noseda is among the most sought- Yigal Tuneh, concertmaster• of Israel’s oldest and most influential cultural after conductors of our time. Since becoming Alexander Stark, asst. concertmaster institutions. Since its founding in 1936, the music director of the Teatro Regio Torino in Marilyn & Sigi z”l Ziering family endowed chair IPO has dedicated itself to presenting the 2007, he has propelled it into the ranks of Saida Bar-Lev world’s greatest music to audiences around leading opera houses. Maestro Noseda is chief Sharon Cohen the world. Founded by Polish violinist Bronislaw guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, Marina Dorman Huberman, the IPO represents the fulfillment Victor De Sabata guest conductor of the Adelina Grodsky of his dream “to unite the desire of the country Pittsburgh Symphony and conductor laureate Genadi Gurevich for an orchestra with the desire of the Jewish of the BBC Philharmonic. Rodica Iosub Rimma Kaminkovsky musicians for a country.” Its inaugural concert Polina Kozhevnikova was conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who felt His career took off in 1997 when he was Eleonora Lutsky his participation was a means to demonstrate appointed the first foreign principal guest Robert Mozes his opposition to fascism. Members traveled in conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2002, Yevgenia Pikovsky armored cars to play in a besieged Jerusalem he became principal conductor of the BBC Yelena Tishin during the War of Independence, and Philharmonic, a post he held for nearly 10 Drorit Valk among Israelis, the memory of IPO Laureate years. Maestro Noseda now visits many of Conductor Leonard Bernstein conducting the the world’s great orchestras, including regular SECOND VIOLIN engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra after the battle for Beersheba is an Elyakum Salzman* Orchestra (LSO). He made his debut at the historic moment. Semion Gavrikov* Aix-en-Provence Festival last summer with the Amnon Valk*** Under the esteemed leadership of Zubin LSO and opened its 2013/14 season at The Emanuel Aronovich Mehta, Music Director for Life, the IPO travels Barbican in September. Hadar Cohen extensively throughout the world as Israel’s Alexander Dobrinsky In 2012, he made his highly anticipated premiere cultural ambassador. The goodwill Shmuel Glaser debut at the Teatro alla Scala. He continued his created by these tours, including historic visits Kalman Levin work with young artists by leading a multi-city to Japan, Argentina, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Yoram Livne tour of the European Union Youth Orchestra China and India, is of enormous value to the Sivann Maayani Zelikoff with performances at the Stresa Festival in state of Israel. In 2005, the IPO traveled to Asaf Maoz Italy (Maestro Noseda is artistic director) and Berlin to commemorate 40 years of diplomatic Alexander Povolotzky relations between Israel and Germany. In at the Edinburgh International Festival – his Marianna Povolotzky 2013, Maestro Mehta led the IPO with violinist debut there. Avital Steiner Julian Rachlin in a tribute concert at Poland’s Olga Stern National Opera, commemorating the 70th Recent seasons have seen successful anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. debuts in Europe at the Vienna State Opera as VIOLA Joined by Zubin Mehta and Principal Guest well as in the US with the Cleveland Orchestra Miriam Hartman* Conductor Gianandrea Noseda, the IPO travels and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has Susan & Elihu Rose endowed chair to 14 cities across the US this season. made return visits to the Filarmonica della Roman Spitzer* Scala, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Claire & Albert Schussler endowed chair Through the efforts of the American Friends Pittsburgh Symphony. Amir Van Der Hal*** of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Dmitri Ratush*** generous support of donors worldwide, the An exclusive Chandos artist since 2002, Lotem Beider IPO