METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK 25th Anniversary Sunday, March 4 and 11, 2018 THE METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 3 PM NASSAU TREBLE CHOIR Craig B. Knapp, Music Director | Naomi Aomori, Pianist Four White Horses ............................................................................................Caribbean Folk Song arr. Cristi Cary Miller Alexander Appel and Michelle Quigg, Percussion Old Joe Clark ......................................................................................................American Folk Song arr. Mary Goetze Éamonn an Chnoic (Ned of the Hill) ........................................................Traditional Irish Folk Song No. 1 from “Planxty Kelly” arr. Lori-Anne Dolloff Small Group 1: Norah Davison, Keeley Fitzpatrick, Madeleine Fryling, Maria Gaztanaga, Caroline Winchester Small Group 2: Colleen Barcelona, Nicole Gallagher, Hannah Islas, Isabella Shulman, Emery Viscovich Nana Aomori, Flute J’entend le Moulin ...............................................................................Traditional French Folk Song arr. Ruth E. Dwyer and Martin L. Ellis Pete, Pete! ......................................................................................................... Ghanaian Folk Song arr. Victor C. Johnson Alexander Appel and Michelle Quigg, Percussion NASSAU CONCERT CHOIR Doreen Fryling, Music Director | Jeong-Hwa Park, Pianist The Nightingale...................................................................................Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623) Away from the Roll of the Sea ........................................................... Allister MacGillivray (b. 1948) arr. Stuart Calvert Hotaru Koi (Ho, Firefly) ............................................................................ Japanese Children’s Song arr. Ro- Ogura Swingin’ with the Saints ...................................................... Traditional African-American Spiritual arr. Mark Hayes The cover art features a design from the 2017-2018 MYO T-Shirt Design Contest, created by Nassau Symphony Orchestra member Elizabeth Son. 3 4 THE METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 7 PM NASSAU SYMPHONIC CHOIR Louise O’Hanlon, Music Director Naomi Aomori, Pianist Ave verum corpus ..........................................................................Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Gartan Mother’s Lullaby ..........................................................................Traditional Irish Folk Song arr. Neil Ginsberg Molly Madigan, Soprano Sierra Hall, Alto Enzo Cupani, Tenor Ubi Caritas ...........................................................................................................Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) Featuring Nassau Symphonic Choir Pianist Naomi Aomori All Too Soon ............................................................................................. Stephen Hatfield (b. 1956) Sean Quinn, Fiddle Alexander Appel, Bodhrán Bridge Over Troubled Water ..............................................................................Paul Simon (b. 1941) arr. Kirby Shaw Combined Nassau Symphonic Choir and Nassau Chamber Chorale NASSAU CHAMBER CHORALE Edward P. Norris III, Music Director Cara Brown, Pianist There Will Be Rest .......................................................................................... Frank Ticheli (b. 1958) - Stars ........................................................................................................... Eriks Ešenvalds (b. 1977) Frè O (O Brother)................................................................................. Traditional Haitian Folk Song arr. Sten Källman Where Your Bare Foot Walks .....................................................................David N. Childs (b. 1969) All My Trials ........................................................................................................ Bohemian Spiritual arr. Stacey V. Gibbs 5 THE METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 3 PM NASSAU FLUTE CHOIR Nana Aomori, Music Director Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 .................................. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) I. Molto allegro arr. Shaul Ben-Meir III. Minuetto. Allegretto-Trio IV. Finale. Allegro assai Tomoya Aomori, Cello Radetzky March, Op. 228 ....................................................................Johann Strauss I (1804–1849) arr. Shaul Ben-Meir Tomoya Aomori, Cello NASSAU STRING ORCHESTRA Michelina Sobolewski, Music Director Rhythm Dances ..........................................................................................Brian Balmages (b. 1975) Shenandoah .......................................................................................................American Folk Song arr. Bob Krogstad Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major, RV 537 ..................................... Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Allegro arr. Michel Rondeau Largo Allegro Thomas Pang, Piccolo Trumpet I • Aaron Langenauer, Piccolo Trumpet II NASSAU CONCERT ORCHESTRA Peggy Ho, Music Director Dubinushka, Op. 62 ................................................................Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) arr. Victor López Song Without Words ..................................................................................Gustav Holst (1874–1934) arr. Roy Phillippe Overture to The Barber of Seville ..................................................Gioacchino Rossini (1792–1868) arr. Merle J. Isaac 6 THE METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF NEW YORK ADELPHI UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 7 PM NASSAU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Patricia Koppeis, Music Director Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream .......................Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) In the Steppes of Central Asia ........................................................Alexander Borodin (1833–1887) Funeral March of a Marionette ............................................................Charles Gounod (1818–1893) Academic Festival Overture ............................................................. Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Raiders March from Raiders of the Lost Ark ...............................................John Williams (b. 1932) NASSAU PRINCIPAL ORCHESTRA Scott Stickley, Music Director Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 .............................................................Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun ..................................................... Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Pictures at an Exhibition .............................................................. Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) Promenade arr. Maurice Ravel The Gnome Promenade The Old Castle Promenade Tuileries Cattle Promenade Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle Promenade Limoges. The Market Catacombs The Hut on Hen’s Legs The Great Gate of Kiev 7 About the Nassau String Orchestra Soloists Aaron Langenauer is a proud MYO alumnus and was a member of the Nassau Principal Orchestra from 2007- 2009. He now works in the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District as a middle school band teacher and instructional technology coach. Aaron continues to perform as a trumpet player throughout the Long Island area and in recent years has performed with such groups as the New Inlet Chamber Orchestra, South Shore Symphony Orchestra, and North Shore Symphony Orchestra, and is an occasional freelance church musician. He has additionally been a guest brass coach with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestras and serves on the Board of Directors for the New Inlet Chamber Orchestra. Aaron holds a Master of Science degree in Curriculum Development & Instructional Technology from SUNY Albany and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Trumpet Performance with a Minor in Jazz Studies from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. Thomas Pang was born in Ronkonkoma, New York, and currently serves as a substitute teacher in Suffolk County. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Ithaca College where he was a member and founder of the Ithaca College Trumpet Ensemble, which placed fourth in the National Trumpet Competition in 2013. He earned his Master of Music degree from Stony Brook University, while maintaining an active teaching and performing schedule. He has advanced to the final and semi-final rounds of auditions for premier service bands such as the United States Air Force Band. Pang has been selected for the Aspen Music Festival, the Bar Harbor Brass Week, and the Colorado College Summer Music Festival in the last several years. His brass quintet, Anima Brass, was selected as the sole recipient of the American Brass Quintet Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and worked closely with the American Brass Quintet during their residency. He has studied with Kevin Cobb, Peter Bond, Dennis Edelbrock, Kim Dunnick, Michael Blutman, and Frank Campos. 8 About the March 4th Music Directors Doreen Fryling, Ed.D. (Nassau Concert Choir) is in her twenty-second year as a public school music educator. She currently teaches IB Music and chorus classes at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY, and has previously taught K-5 general music and middle school chorus. Doreen has presented on topics including differentiation, the boy’s changing voice, vocal health, curriculum, and politics in education. She is an outspoken critic of high-stakes testing and its negative effect on music education