THE 2018–19 CONCERT SEASON AT PEABODY Peabody Studio Orchestra Saturday, November 17, 2018 Peabody Conductors' Orchestra Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Peabody Symphony Orchestra Saturday, December 1, 2018 STEINWAY. YAMAHA. [ YOUR NAME HERE ] With your gi to the Piano Excellence Fund at Peabody, you can add your name to the quality instruments our outstanding faculty and students use for practice and performance every day. The Piano Department at Peabody has a long tradition of excellence dating back to the days of Arthur Friedheim, a student of Franz Liszt, and continuing to this day, with a faculty of world-renowned artists including the eminent Leon Fleisher, who can trace his pedagogical lineage back to Beethoven. Peabody piano students have won major prizes in such international competitions as the Busoni, Van Cliburn, Naumburg, Queen Elisabeth, and Tchaikovsky, and enjoy global careers as performers and teachers. The Piano Excellence Fund was created to support this legacy of excellence by funding the needed replacement of more than 65 pianos and the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of nearly 200 pianos on stages and in classrooms and practice rooms across campus. To learn more about naming a piano and other creative ways to support the Peabody Institute, contact: Jessica Preiss Lunken, Associate Dean for External Affairs [email protected] • 667-208-6550 Welcome back to Peabody and the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. This month’s programs show o a remarkable array of musical styles and genres especially as related to Peabody’s newly imagined ensembles curriculum, which has evolved as part of creating the Conservatory’s groundbreaking Breakthrough Curriculum. First, the newly formed Peabody Studio Orchestra under the leadership of Nicholas Hersh brings the movies to Friedberg Hall with a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s A Dog’s Life with live accompaniment by the orchestra, just as Chaplin would have envisioned. The Studio Orchestra is a new ensemble in our reimagined ensembles program that provides students with an opportunity to perform in dierent genres, much as they will be called to do in the professional world. Also included here is the Peabody Conductors’ Orchestra program that features outstanding graduate conducting class students taking center stage for an all-Brahms concert. Peabody is proud to have one of top graduate conducting programs in the world, under the leadership of Marin Alsop. Then, the Peabody Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Joseph Young presents a program of Elgar and Borodin in Peabody’s annual concert in memory of Dr. Steven Muller, former President of Johns Hopkins University who is responsible for Peabody becoming part of Johns STEINWAY. Hopkins forty years ago. Jill McGovern, Dr. Muller’s spouse and a member of the Peabody Institute Advisory Board, generously sponsors this concert. YAMAHA. But there is more. Other concerts on the Peabody Campus and osite include performances from Jazz at Peabody which is enjoying a renaissance under the [ YOUR NAME HERE ] direction of Sean Jones, as well as performances of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas as part of an ongoing collaboration with Theatre Project. And coming up in early December, we’ll have our 2nd Dean’s Symposium of the year With your gi to the Piano Excellence Fund at Peabody, you can add your in what I expect will be an enlightening conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning name to the quality instruments our outstanding faculty and students use writer and critic Tim Page. for practice and performance every day. As always, there are many more concerts and events to come in the second half The Piano Department at Peabody has a long tradition of excellence dating of our season. I invite you to check the calendar and reserve your free tickets. back to the days of Arthur Friedheim, a student of Franz Liszt, and continuing to this day, with a faculty of world-renowned artists including the eminent Leon Fleisher, who can trace his pedagogical lineage back to Beethoven. Fred Bronstein Peabody piano students have won major prizes in such international competitions as the Busoni, Van Cliburn, Naumburg, Queen Elisabeth, and Tchaikovsky, and enjoy global careers as performers and teachers. Dean The Piano Excellence Fund was created to support this legacy of excellence by funding the needed replacement of more than 65 pianos and the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of nearly 200 pianos on stages and in classrooms and practice rooms across campus. To learn more about naming a piano and other creative ways to support the Peabody Institute, contact: Jessica Preiss Lunken, Associate Dean for External Affairs [email protected] • 667-208-6550 NICHOLAS HERSH GUEST CONDUCTOR Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Suite from Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60 I. The Birth of Kijé II. Romance III. Kijé’s Wedding IV. Troika V. The Burial of Kijé INTERMISSION Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) A Dog’s Life Dog's Life Theme Labour Exchange Dog's Life Theme / Dog Chase Green Lantern Rag Co­ee and Cakes Green Lantern Snag Flat Feet / The Shimmy Song Triste Coda / 3 rags / Co­ee and Cakes / Jazz Kicked out (Co­ee and Cakes) Robbers / Robber Buries Money Jazz / Dog Digging / Charlie Finds Money Rag Romance March Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall Concert A. Friedberg Miriam | D Minor Theme Robbers / Tete a tete Bar (Robbers) / Galop When Dreams Come True (Co­ee and Cakes / Dog's Life Theme) 7:30 pm | ORCHESTRA STUDIO Please disable all electronic devices including phones and tablets during performances. The use of cameras and sound recorders during performances without the express prior written permission of Peabody is strictly prohibited. For your own safety, look for your nearest exit. PEABODY 2018 17, November Saturday, In case of emergency, walk, do not run to that exit. 2 PROGRAM NOTES Suite from Lieutenant Kijé, Op. 60 Prokofiev’s attraction next turned to Sergei Prokofiev Neoclassicism, which combined certain Born April 23, 1891, in Ekaterinoslav, Russia. 18th century elements with newer Died March 4, 1953, in Moscow, Russia. techniques. The music of Haydn and Mozart, upon close examination, has This work was premiered on December 21, 1934, several features in common with that of on a Moscow radio broadcast. It is scored Prokofiev and other composers of his for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two generation. A sense of compactness, clarinets, tenor saxophone (or baritone balance, and a genteel flavor permeate voice), two bassoons, four horns, two the clearly defined textures of both trumpets, cornet, three trombones, tuba, eras. It was probably this built-in percussion, harp, piano, and strings. sense of structure that attracted many composers to Neoclassicism during Sergei Prokofiev was a privileged World War I. youth. His father managed an estate, earning enough to provide well for his Having been exiled from his homeland family. His parents were involved in his after the Russian Revolution of 1917, education and served as his earliest Prokofiev took up residence in Paris. teachers in general subjects, as well as As the Mecca for artistic types in the music. However, his almost aristocratic 1920s, Paris allowed for the composer’s background provided him with French modernistic experimentation, but and German governesses to help with somehow did not feel like home to foreign language instruction. It is perhaps him. Prokofiev always considered surprising that the young composer would himself to be a Soviet citizen and adopt Bolshevik attitudes to government registered as such in Paris after the in his 20s, as stated in his memoirs French government gave the U.S.S.R. two decades later that he enthusiastically diplomatic recognition in 1924. The backed the 1917 Russian Revolution. There composer returned to the Soviet is evidence that this support might not Union for two o¡cial visits during his have been completely wholehearted, as Paris residency — a 12 concert tour of the composer most certainly penned his Moscow and Leningrad in January of 1927, recollections with Soviet censors in mind. and another visit in November of 1929 To further fuel doubts, Prokofiev left the where he supervised a production of Soviet Union in 1918 and would not return his opera, The Love for Three Oranges. for 20 years. In 1932, while Prokofiev was in Paris, In Sergei Prokofiev’s earliest works, he the Russian film director Alexander struggled to balance the traditional Feinzimmer approached the composer with the innovative. On one hand, his about providing music for a new film. This works needed to be accessible enough dark comedy of errors would be entitled to draw an audience. But, on the other Poruchik Kijé (Lieutenant Kijé). Prokofiev hand, he had to establish himself as a accepted the commission — his first unique voice in modern music. Clearly a from the Soviet Union — and rented an child of his time, Prokofiev sometimes apartment in Moscow by the end of the experimented with the latest musical year, but still spent most of his time in trends in search of his individual Paris. However, his gravitation back to musical style. Russia was now inevitable. In 1936 he would move back permanently. 3 After completing the film score, A Dog’s Life Prokofiev extracted a suite to allow his Charlie Chaplin music to be heard in the concert hall. Born April 16, 1889, in London, United Kingdom. The Suite from Lieutenant Kijé follows Died December 25, 1977, in Corsier-sur-Vevey, the film’s story of an error by the Czar, Switzerland. as told in five short movements. They are as follows: Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in The Birth of Kijé — While reading London, England, on April 16, 1889. a military report, the Czar sees His father was a versatile vocalist and the Russian words “poruchiki actor; his mother, known under the je” (“the lieutenants, however …”) stage name of Lily Harley, was an as “Poruchik Kijé” (“Lieutenant attractive actress and singer, who Kijé”).