Wunder- Kids November 18, 2019 Symphony SerieS 2 - Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra with Jacques Forestier | violin
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
GLENN KLASSEN
music director
LETHBRIDGE
S YMPHONY
Sponsored by
November 18, 2019
S ymphony S eries 2
W under -K ids
Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra
with Jacques Forestier | violin
2018 Young Artist Competition Winner
LethbridgeSymphony.orgGLENN KLASSEN
music director
LETHBRIDGE
SYMPHONY
series 3
the meSSiah
Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra
Marvin Dueck, guest conductor
with Chinook Chamber Singers
Janet Youngdahl, soprano
Erinn Evdokimoff-Roberts, mezzo
Jason Ragan, tenor
Adam Brousseau, bass
ticketS Start at $25
George Frideric Handel's Messiah
Sunday, December 15, 2019 - 3pm
Monday, December 16, 2019 - 7:30pm
SouthminSter united ChurCh
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 403.328.6808 | 11th Street doorS to SouthminSter hall
2 | LethbridgeSymphony.orgProgramme Order
Entr’acte No 3 from Rosamunde, D 797 Franz Schubert
(1797 - 1828)
Concerto No 5 for Violin in A Major, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
K 219 (Turkish) (1756 - 1791)
i. Allegro aperto
ii. Adagio
iii. Tempo di Menuetto
Jacques Forestier | violin
2018 Young Artist Competition Winner
Intermission - 15 minutes
Symphony No 3 in E-flat Major (Eroica), Op 55 Ludwig van Beethoven
i. Allegro con brio (1770 - 1827)
ii. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
iii. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
iv. Finale: Allegro molto
For Everyone’s Enjoyment
Please Remove all Hats to Preserve Sightlines.
Please Set All Electronics to Silent and Lower the Screen Brightness.
Please Do Not Photograph During the Performance.
Absolutely NO Audio or Video Recording Without Prior Permission.
Latecomers Are Seated at a Suitable Break.
Fire Regulations Require that Every Person Has a Ticket.
No Outside Food or Drinks - Bottled Water is Available in the Lobby
(generously supplied by Subaru of Lethbridge - $2 suggested donation)
The land on which we gather is traditional Blackfoot Confederacy territory. We honour their
traditional ways of knowing, and all Aboriginal peoples who have helped shape our community.
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 3ALL Notes
Programme IS CALM
by Dr Brian Black
THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 19 1 4
By Peter Rothstein
with musical arrangements by
Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach
November 22, 23 & 24, 2019
Director: Fran Rude
Music Director: Ken Rogers
Yates Memorial Centre
November 22 & 23
7:30 pm
Sunday Matinee
November 24 ~ 2:00 pm
Tickets available at the Ticket Centre
329-SEAT (7328)
All is Calm is presented through special agreement
with Theatre Latté Da. Latteda.org Lsco
4 | LethbridgeSymphony.orgAbout our Guest Artist
Born into a family of 11. He has also been
musicians, fifteen-year- a featured soloist with
old Jacques Forestier the Alberta Baroque
began playing the violin Ensemble, Edmonton
at the age of two under Youth Orchestra,
the instruction of his and the Edmonton
mother. Presently, Philharmonic.
Jacques studies with In 2018, Jacques was the
Bill Van der Sloot at only Canadian to qualify
Mount Royal University for, and compete in the
in Calgary and with prestigious Menuhin
Catherine Cho, Li Lin, Violin Competition in
and Itzhak Perlman at the Geneva, Switzerland.
Perlman Music Program. He also won the
Jacques has won many awards and Lethbridge Symphony’s biennial Young
scholarships, including winning the Alberta Artist Competition that September.
Provincial Music Festival Finals and the Jacques toured Southeast Asia with the
Canadian Music Competition National LGT Young Soloists in May 2019, and
Finals in Gatineau, Quebec. In March 2015, was also featured as one of the student
Jacques performed at New York’s famed artists at the Julliard School’s biennial
Carnegie Hall as part of the American Starling-Delay Symposium. He spent his
Protégé International Competition’s summer studying with Pinchas Zukerman
Winner’s Recital. In 2016, he was a semi- and Patinka Kopen as part of the National
finalist on Season Two of the CBC Radio Arts Centre’s Young Artists Program in
Canada television show, Virtuose. Ottawa, Ontario.
Jacques made his orchestral debut with Jacques is thrilled to be performing with
the Edmonton Symphony at the age of the Lethbridge Symphony.
19th Biennial Young Artist Competition
Calling all classical musicians Win a chance to perform
playing at a Grade 10 level as a guest soloist during
(min.; RCM or equivalent), our 2021-2022 Season!
living or studying in Alberta!
Are YOU an
Apply by June 1, 2020 Emerging Virtuoso?
Finalists are selected by blind adjudication by August 1. Live Audition Finals will be held in September.
Full Details at LethbridgeSymphony.org/young-artist-competition
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 5Our Community Partners
Reaching their Someday
is music to everyone’s ears.
The hard work, perseverance and vision of emerging
artists demonstrate the power of having – and the joy
of realizing – a Someday™. Together with Lethbridge
Symphony, we support a diverse range of Canadian
talent in communities across the country through the
RBC Emerging Artists Project.
TM
® / ™ Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada. VPS93777 39782A (05/2015)
6 | LethbridgeSymphony.orgViolin I Viola Flute
Norbert Boehm ‡ Gabriel Kastelic * Jodi Groenheide *
Airdrie Robinson † Mark Kadijk ^ Megan Sheedy
Peter Visentin § Marja Mijsbergh Oboe
Valeria Lazzaretto Shee Ling + Jace Eagle Bear *
Wai Nieuwenhuis Osmond Chiu + Joelle Strang
Alayna McNeil Cello
Isabelle Robinson Clarinet
Mark Rodgers * Joan Rogers *
Daryna Friesen Sarabeth Baldry ^
Deanna Belanger Meagan Thorlakson
Lynn Gilliat
Maria Geppert ¤ George Fowler Bassoon
Violin II Julie Amundsen Robert George *
Lise Boutin * Bonnie Wilde Timothy Janzen
John Gilliat ^ Takumi Rodgers Horn
Alyssa Dobek Seth Harasem-Mitchell Sarah Viejou *
Jessica Groeneveld Bass Thomas Staples
Bethany Robinson Catherine McLaughlin * Karly Lewis
Jacqueline Friesen Casey Ling ^
Lisa Gallup Trumpet
Yukari Sasada Josh Davies *
Sophie Strong Keely Evanoff
Allison Metzler Rex Mulder
Timpani
Matt Groenheide *
¤ principal second violin emeritus
‡ concertmaster ∞ principal viola emeritus
† associate concertmaster * principal
§ assistant concertmaster ^ assistant principal + non-resident musician
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 7Festival Society ad
Bringing
Musi c
To Life
• CHOIRS FOR ALL AGES
• PRIVATE MUSIC LESSONS
• DRUMMING
• STRINGS
• AND MORE!
Gift Certificates Available!
403-329-2304
music.conservatory@uleth.ca
www.uleth.ca/music-conservatory
LOCATED AT Casa (230 8 St S)
[Conservatory of Music Front Desk]
8 | LethbridgeSymphony.orgProgramme Notes by Dr Brian Black
Schubert - Entr’acte No 3 from Rosamunde on violin playing in the latter half
Schubert’s incidental music to the of the eighteenth century. It is not
poetess Helmina von Chezy’s play surprising, then, that the first position
Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus contains of consequence the young composer
some of his most popular orchestral occupied was that of principal violinist
music. The commission to write music or Konzertmeister at the court of
for the play came to him in the autumn the Archbishop of Salzburg, where
of 1823 at a time when his reputation his father worked. He was appointed
as a composer was beginning to spread in August of 1772 and remained
through his native Vienna, helped by Konzertmeister for three years. It is
the publication of some of his Lieder probably due to the duties arising from
and the performance of Erlkönig to this position that he produced five
an enthusiastic audience at a semi- violin concertos between April and
private concert in December of 1820. December of 1775.
Unfortunately, like a number of his These concertos, designed apparently
preceding dramatic works for the for his personal use, trace his growing
stage, the play failed due to the poor mastery of the genre. They also share
quality of the libretto. The orchestral certain features of the serenades he
music then sank into oblivion until was writing for the Salzburg court at
it was rediscovered in 1867, four that time - in particular their bright
decades after Schubert’s death. tuneful character and the inclusion of
One of the pieces, though - the movements with sudden unexpected
Entr’acte No 3 - enjoyed a different interpolations of popular tunes, as often
fate. Schubert liked it so much occurs in the serenade finales. (These
that he wrote another version of interpolated tunes may be a private joke
it as the second movement to his Mozart shared with his audience, who
String Quartet in A Minor, D804 would have known the songs’ texts).
“Rosamunde”, which was performed The fifth and last of the Mozart violin
publicly then published in 1823. It is concertos is already marked by the
easy to see why Schubert reused this melodic richness and breadth of his
piece in the Quartet, for it is music of later piano concertos. Its opening
great lyricism and poignancy. Allegro aperto is a spirited and ingenious
Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 5 piece of music filled with sudden
Today Mozart’s genius is closely contrasts and surprises, not the least
associated with the piano. In fact, the of which is the first appearance of
popular image of him as a child prodigy the solo violin, which enters with a
is that of a little boy improvising at the new theme in a slow tempo against a
keyboard as naturally as other children murmuring accompaniment. The slow
would play hide-and-seek. However, movement is a spacious, lyrical Adagio.
Mozart was also a fine violinist, A bright Minuet then brings the work
whose teacher, his father Leopold, to a pleasant conclusion. As in the
had written the most influential book other concertos, this last movement
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 9Programme Notes by Dr Brian Black 10 | LethbridgeSymphony.org
Programme Notes - continued
features an unexpected interruption Ferdinand Ries, brought him news that
- here a central episode of “Turkish Napoleon had made himself Emperor
music” (music imitating Turkish of France. Beethoven strode over to
Janissary military bands) in A minor. the manuscript, tore out the dedication
Beethoven - Symphony No 3 “Eroica” page in disgust and exclaimed, “Is he
Beethoven’s third symphony, the then, too, nothing more than an ordinary
“Eroica”, is one of those imposing human being? Now he too will trample
masterpieces that initiated a major on the rights of man and indulge only
change in music, for it elevated the his ambition. He will exalt himself above
genre of the symphony to the level of all others and become a tyrant.” The
a monumental art form equal to great symphony was subsequently renamed
literature in its power to communicate “Eroica” and dedicated to “the memory
profound and deeply moving ideas. of a great man.”
The work was inspired by the figure The “Eroica” is as revolutionary as
of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose the political figure it was meant to
career was marked by a seemingly celebrate. It begins with an expansive
irresistible energy. In his first major Allegro con brio, whose two opening
military campaign in 1796, he led a half- hammer strokes for the full orchestra
starved and ragged French army into seem to unleash an overwhelming
northern Italy and proceeded to smash energy that sweeps everything
the combined forces of Austria and before it. The second movement is
Piedmont in battle after battle. Also a profoundly affecting funeral march,
a master of propaganda, he managed inspired by the imposing public
to paint himself as the revolutionary funeral commemorations of the fallen
torch bearer of Liberty, Equality heroes of the French Revolution.
and Fraternity. To paraphrase the The following Scherzo is music of
French writer and Napoleonic veteran bright, almost cosmic power. For
Stendahl, the statues of the despots the finale, Beethoven created a set
were overturned and the feudal of highly original variations on one
darkness inundated with a bright light. of the dances from his ballet, The
According to Beethoven’s biographer Creatures of Prometheus. Here we have
Anton Schindler, the new French another personification of heroism,
ambassador to Vienna, General Jean- for Prometheus was the Titan who
Baptiste Bernadotte, greatly admired gave humanity the gift of fire in Greek
Beethoven and in 1798 suggested to the mythology and was forever tortured
composer that he write a symphony by Zeus for his act of kindness.
on Napoleon. It was not until five Beethoven begins this movement
years later, though, that Beethoven with an exciting flourish for the full
took up this suggestion. A clean orchestra and then plays a joke on the
copy of the work was ready by May audience: he presents the bass of the
1804, complete with a dedication to dance and two variations of it before
Napoleon; but then, Beethoven’s friend the melody finally arrives. []
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 11LSCO ad
LDKMSAF
Follow Us for
Updates!
Mar 23-Apr 4, 2020
SAVE THE
DATE!
www.lethmsf.org
info@lethmsf.org 403-381-6512
Over 144 cash awards, scholarships and
trophies available to be won!
12 | LethbridgeSymphony.orgOur Community Partners
Conductor’s Circle - annual individual benefactors who help ensure our ongoing success.
from $5,000 - Dr George Evelyn & Family - in memory of Lottie M Austin |
Jim Fisher | Roelof & Fern Heinen
from $2,500 - Melinda & Hugh Arthur | Brenda & Robert Brander |
Rosemarie S Gattiker | Dr Jennifer Little & Daniel Shapiro | Glen & Lois Mumey
from $1,000 - Mark & Bev Bellamy | Harald Bettger | Bob & Sandy Brunelle |
Art & Mary Jane Crooks | Doug & Bev Emek | Drs Clair & Elaine Forestell |
Ron & Beverly Garnett | Melanie Gattiker | Dr Blaine Hendsbee & David Shefsiek |
Neil & Lorraine Johnson | Glenn & Sandra Klassen | Ken & Kathy Lewis |
Colin & Dr Sharon Moreland | Richard & Judy O’Brien | Mary Oordt |
Phyllis Pylypow | Frank Russell
Symphony Friends - annual individual donors who contribute to our ongoing success.
from $500 - Anonymous | Art & Eleanor Doerksen | Lillian Evanoff | Olive Green |
Cindy Ignas | Alice Kooy | Harley & Freda Middel | Frances McHardy |
Douglas & Naomi Mitchell | Peter Mueller | Ted & Iris Richardson |
Tim Rempel & Jennifer Schmidt-Rempel | Don & Sheila Rodgers | Karen Zanewich
Play On - endowment funds providing ongoing grants and one-time bequests that
resonate throughout our community well into the future.
from $25,000 - Estate of Nancy Margaret Elaine King
from $10,000 - Estate of Hope M Ferguson | Estate of Margaret Joyce MacKay |
Paul & Nancy Walker Percussion Endowment
from $2,500 - Endowment in Memory of Beth Conrad Fisher
from $1,000 - Helen Johnson Memorial Endowment Fund
Corporate, Foundation & Event Supporters - investors in our many programs.
from $10,000 - Community Foundation of Lethbridge + SW AB | RBC Foundation
from $5,000 - 94.1 Juice FM - 98.1 2Day FM | LA Chefs |
Moreland Prefessional Projects | Rogers Sugar | Subaru of Lethbridge
from $2,500 - ATB Financial | B’nai Brith | Stantec
from $1,000 - 1st Choice Savings & Credit Union | AE Cross Studio |
Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge | Avail CPA | Business for the Arts’ artsVest |
Foster & Sons Jewellers | Gord Laurie Foundation | Huckvale Law |
Lethbridge Herald | Parkside Dental Clinic - Dr B J Low, Dr H Penner, Dr C Barnett |
Dr Harry & Irene Penner | Rotary Club of Lethbridge Urban Spirits | Warwick Printing
Gifts received from June 1, 2018. Thanks also to those who contributed after the print deadline.
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 13About Us
Our Mission
To create and promote a first class orchestra producing
memorable musical experiences for audiences of all ages.
Our Vision and Values
To be an integral part of our community’s identity, through:
- Artistically diverse performances by orchestra members and guest
artists that evoke joy, stimulate growth, and promote learning.
- A welcoming and inclusive environment for musicians, board
members, staff, patrons, and the broader community.
- Collaborative partnerships with educational institutions, designed
to support and promote music appreciation and education.
- Financial stewardship and sound business management practices.
Visit us inside the 11th Street doors to Southminster Hall
E. hello@lethbridgesymphony.org P. 403.328.6808
Labour - Victoria Day: Mon - Fri, 1 - 5pm Summer Hours: Tue - Thur, 1 - 5pm
Honorary Life Members Artistic Staff
Norah Hawn ~ Graham Tagg Glenn Klassen, Music Director
Operations Staff Mark Rodgers, Orchestra Personnel Mgr
Melanie Gattiker, Executive Director Sandra Klassen, Orchestra Librarian
Sheri Becker, Operations Coordinator Nancy Graham, Stage Manager
Mary Opyr, Finance Manager Gregg Samuel, Equipment Manager
Board of Directors
Doug Emek, President Cindy Ignas, Director
Colin Moreland, Vice-President Jeff MacCormack, Director
Mary McIntyre, Treasurer Muriel Mellow, Director
Jennifer Little, Secretary Timothy Janzen, Orchestra Rep
Our directors are collaborative people with a passion for the Symphony, strong
ties in the greater Lethbridge area, and a capacity for giving. Their valuable skills and
knowledge allow us to implement the strategic plan and maintain good governance.
Their commitment includes monthly board meetings, serving on a committee,
assisting with fund development, and attending certain Symphony events.
Interested? Contact us to learn more!
14 | LethbridgeSymphony.orgAbout Us
403-380-6860 | SubaruOfLethbridge.ca
3333 1ST Ave S Lethbridge, AB T1J 4H1
LethbridgeSymphony.org | 15GLENN KLASSEN
music director
LETHBRIDGE
S YM P HO NY
Love noteS
DiamonDs & Denim
in supporT of VibraTions
education & outreach programS
featuring Country artist
trevor panczak
with members of the
Lethbridge Symphony orcheStra
gourmet meal at 7pm
reCeption & great prizes
live & silent auCtions
Country & ClassiCal Come together
TickeTs $150 | sponsorships from $1,000
Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 6pm
Sandman Signature Lethbridge Lodge
LeThbridgesymphony.org | 403.328.6808 | 11th Street doorS to SouthminSter hallYou can also read
