Other Upcoming Concerts at NEC –continued FIRST MONDAY AT JORDAN HALL “French Music – 100 th Anniversaries” Program includes Debussy Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp; Dutilleux String New England Conservatory Quartet; and works by Rameau and Poulenc Opera Studies Department Performers include Tre Voci (Maria Piccinini, flute; Sivan Magen, harp; presents Kim Kashkashian, viola) and the Parker Quartet (Daniel Chong, Ying Xue, violin; Jessica Bodner, viola; Kee-Hyun Kim, cello); Amanda Hardy, oboe; Rose Vrbsky, bassoon; Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, piano e Monday, November 7, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall La Vida Br ve An opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla Conductor Douglas Kinney Frost Stage Director Joshua Major Musical Preparation Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek This organization is supported in part Daniel Wyneken by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, and by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, a local agency funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and administrated by the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events. 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Wednesday, October 5, 2016 7:30 p.m. NEC’s Jordan Hall necmusic.edu/concerts CAST OF CHARACTERS Other Upcoming Concerts at NEC –continued SALUD Erica Petrocelli LA ABUELA Brindley McWhorter NEC SYMPHONIC WINDS AND NEC CHAMBER SINGERS , William Drury and CARMELA Morgan Middleton Erica Washburn, conductors; PACO David Rivera Messiaen La ville d’en-haut, Yukiko Takagi, piano; Schubert Deutsche Messe, MANUEL Nicholas Tocci D. 872; Tarver Ragnarök: The Fate of the Gods and Fanfare for Brass; EL TÍO SARVAOR Christopher Carbin Sviridov Lyubov’ Svyataya and Round Dance TENOR VOICE Rafael Delsid Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall EL CANTAOR Josh Quinn TUESDAY NIGHT NEW MUSIC New music by NEC student composers, performed by their peers CHORUS Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Brown Hall Natalie Bernstein-Park - Grant Braider - Christon Carney NEC PHILHARMONIA , Ken-David Masur, guest conductor Wei En Chan - Rush Dorsett - Julia Dwyer - Corey Gaudreau Finnis Flicker; Reger Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart, op. 132; Michael González - Jordan Harrington - Jeongmin Kim - Kaitlin Loeb Franck Symphony in D Minor, op. 48 Catherine Psarakis - Jordan Reynolds - Whitney Robinson Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Austin Vitaliano - Gretchen Werda - Yoonjeong Yoo - Shang Zhang NEC Philharmonia NEC CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE , John Heiss, director Douglas Kinney Frost, guest conductor Ligeti Der Sommer (Hoelderlin) and Viola Sonata (excerpts) ; Heiss Mosaics and Fanfare; Harbison Mirabai Songs; Ives String Quartet No. 2 First Violin Austin Hansen, Jay-ook Lee, Danny Koo, Alyssa Wang, Brian Choi, Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Yi-Ting Joy Kuo, Maura Shawn Scanlin, Inga M. Liu, Carmen Johnson-Pájaro, Yuval Herz, Adam Wu FACULTY RECITAL : NICHOLAS KITCHEN , violin and YEESUN KIM , cello Second Violin Luther Warren, Heewon Koo, Harriet Langley, Maya Ramchandran, Monday, October 31, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Sarah-Hadley Yakir, Lily Honigberg, Su Yeon Park, Weilu Zhang, Amelia Sie, David Bernat FACULTY RECITAL : THE MUSIC OF COGAN , ESCOT , TRÜNIGER , AND MCMULLIN Guitar Bradley Stone Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Viola Jesse Morrison, Sarah Hill, Aria Cheregosha, Saerok Park, Rayna Yun Chou, Rae Gallimore, Lena Ho, Zhuqing Zhang Cello Ye Young Yoo, Aihao Zheng, Jakob Taylor, Mina Kim, Jieun Kim, NEC PHILHARMONIA , David Loebel, conductor Magali Toy McTee Circuits; Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D Major (“The Miracle”); Bass Kathryn Nottage, Joseph Newton, Ross Wightman, Elam Richter, Nielsen Symphony No. 4. Op 29 (“The Inextinguishable”) Kathryn Evans Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Flute Hye Won Suh, Wooyeon Milk Yoo Piccolo Mona Sangesland NEC CONCERT CHOIR , YOUTH CHORALE , AND CAMBRIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA , Oboe Andrew Port, Mark Debski Cynthia Woods, conductor English horn Nicole Caligiuri Tippett A Child of Our Time Clarinet Stefan Van Sant, Yiqiao Chen Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 8:00 p.m., Kresge Hall at MIT ; tickets required Bass Clarinet Matthew Griffith Other Upcoming Concerts at NEC Bassoon Micah Gharavi, Nicholas Hooks –continued French horn Hajime Goto, Nicholas A. Miller, Andrew Bass, Matt Pennington Trumpet Elmer Churampi Mucha, Nathan Stoerzinger Trombone Michael Shayte, Andrew Huynh NEC WIND ENSEMBLE , Charles Peltz, conductor; John Heiss, guest conductor, Bass Trombone Chet Stüssy Holly Hyun Choe, graduate conductor Tuba Ray Liu Salfelder Prospect Hill: Flourish for Brass; Heiss Mosaics and Fanfare; Mozart Gran Timpani Luis Herrera Albertazzi Partita; Brookmeyer Me, Her and You; Chavez Xochipilli (An Imaginary Aztec Percussion Rainice Lai, Julian Loida, Sean Van Winkle, Harrison Honor, Music); Antígona, apuntes para la sinfonía; Husa Music for Prague Seth Burkhart Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Harp Dana Schneider, Qianqian Chen NEC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA , coached by Donald Palma Froom Down to a Sunless Sea; Shostakovich Chamber Symphony in C Minor, SYNOPSIS op. 110a; Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C Major, op. 48 Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall In turn-of-the-century Granada, a young gypsy girl, Salud, has fallen passionately in love with Paco, the city’s most eligible bachelor. The two begin NEC COMPOSERS ’ SERIES , Malcolm Peyton, director a love affair, but Salud is unaware that Paco is already engaged to Carmela, a Works by Ives, Copland, Carter, and Sessions young woman from a wealthy family. Salud discovers the truth about Paco’s Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall betrothal and imminent wedding, and her uncle, Tío Sarvaor, and grandmother attempt to stop her from confronting Paco on his wedding day. Her family is NEC SYMPHONY , David Loebel, conductor unsuccessful, however, and Salud attends Paco’s nuptials in order to confront Smetana Overture to “The Bartered Bride” ; Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C Major, him for his profound deception and rejection. With the wedding guests (and K. 425; Previn Principals ; Gershwin Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture his soon-to-be bride) agog at Salud’s display, Paco pretends as though he Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall doesn’t recognize Salud, and the gypsy girl collapses and dies at his feet. NEC JAZZ ORCHESTRA , Ken Schaphorst, conductor NOTES Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Jordan Hall Although rarely performed as a complete work, Manuel de Falla’s second opera MUSIC FOR FOOD : FROM BACH TO BERIO : Bach’s organ sonatas (BWV 529 in G La Vida Breve is as powerful as it is concise: in just around an hour of music, this Major and 530 in C Major) arranged for string trio by Kim Kashkashian (Ian work offers the listener text (in the Andalusian dialect of Spanish) that Swenson, violin , Kim Kashkashian, viola , Jonah Ellsworth, cello); Brahms Two summons forth intense dramatic action, multiple lush orchestral interludes Songs for Soprano, Viola, and Piano, (Lucy Shelton, mezzo-soprano , Kim (which are often excerpted by symphonies for concert performances), and the Kashkashian, viola , Michael Bukhman, piano); Berio Sequenza iii, (Lucy Shelton, bright and colorful sonic landscape unique to Falla’s compositional style. While mezzo-soprano); Mozart Serenade for Winds No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388, (Tom the zarzuela , a form of Spanish musical theatre that features both spoken and Novak, bassoon , Rob Sheena, oboe , Jason Snider, French horn , Michael Wayne, sung dialogue, was popular in Spain around the turn of the century, La Vida clarinet , & friends); concert proceeds benefit The Women’s Lunch Place; Breve (written in 1905) is definitively a lyric drama that resists the zarzuela suggested donation: general admission $25; students $10. tradition of the time. Falla wrote La Vida Breve as a submission for a composi- Sunday, October 23, 2016 at 7:30 p.m., Brown Hall tion competition in Spain, the first prize of which was a performance in Madrid of the winning work; although Falla won this competition, the performance did not materialize until 1914 after successful productions of the opera in Nice and Paris, respectively, in 1913. The version of the score utilized today in recordings and performances is not, however, the version of the score used for the Upcoming NEC Opera Performances premiere in Nice; the standard and accepted score of La Vida Breve is a re- Visit necmusic.edu for complete and updated concert information orchestration of the version premiered in Nice, and was completed in 1913 by the composer with guidance from Claude Debussy. “O PENING OUR DOORS DAY ” Truly, this work is a vehicle for the vocal and, especially, dramatic gifts of Graduate students from the NEC Opera Department perform various scenes the soprano singing Salud: she is, arguably, the only well-defined character in and arias the work, and her passion and desperation are the very lifeblood of the opera. Monday, October 10, 2016 at 1:00 p.m., Jordan Hall Salud is not a woman who dies, rejected and humiliated, at the feet of a former lover; rather, she is a woman who profoundly and courageously explores the REV 23 : NEC OPERA & PHILHARMONIA complicated relationship between love and death. Listeners familiar with the Graduate students from NEC Opera Department present a workshop of Julian operas of Richard Strauss may draw a connection between Falla’s Salud and Wachner’s new opera REV. 23 , the hitherto unpublished last chapter of the Strauss’s Salome, and this is certainly appropriate: the protagonists of both Book of Revelation; created by Cerise Lim Jacobs.