AMERICAN MAESTRO
with BERNSTEIN WEST SIDE STORY
Saturday, January 18, 2025 · 7:30pm ·
Cannon Center for the Performing Arts
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Sunday, January 19, 2025 · 2:30pm ·
Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
(1918 - 1990)
Slava!, A Political Overture
MICHAEL GANDOLFI
(b. 1956)
Piano Concerto
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
INTERMISSION
JOHN WINEGLASS
(b. 1973)
Alone Together for Percussion, Harp and Strings
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
(1918 - 1990)
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
I. Prologue (Allegro moderato)
II. Somewhere (Adagio)
III. Scherzo (Vivace e leggiero)
IV. Mambo (Meno Presto)
V. Cha-Cha (Andantino con grazia)
VI. Meeting Scene (Meno mosso)
VII. Cool Fugue (Allegretto)
VIII. Rumble (Molto allegro)
IX. Finale (Adagio)
Program Notes
by Michelle Pellay-Walker
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Slava!, A Political Overture
First Performance: National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor: Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, October 1977
American classical music, with the exception of Charles Ives (whose serious works date from at least 1891), is mostly a 20th and 21st century phenomenon, and of the many composers who have made notable contributions to this art form, perhaps none is more iconic than Leonard Bernstein, whose works open and close this concert set. Slava!, A Political Overture, is a short work that was written at the request of the great cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, in celebration of his initial concerts as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra. It is scored for a large orchestra, including triple woodwinds (plus an extra clarinet and a soprano saxophone), full brass, timpani, a huge percussion section, electric guitar, piano, pre-recorded performance tape, and strings. The two primary themes were first used in the failed musical, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; there is also a brief reference to the “Slava Chorus” from the Coronation Scene of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera, Boris Godunov near the Overture’s end. Rostropovich was usually referred to as Slava by his close friends, hence, the work’s title, as well as the Mussorgsky quotation (“slava” meaning “glory” in Russian).
Michael Gandolfi (1956- ): Piano Concerto (2021)
First Performance: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor, Marc-André Hamelin, soloist: Atlanta Symphony Hall, November 2021
The following Notes, as provided by Michael Gandolfi in the Conductor’s Score, are paraphrased here:
Piano Concerto is dedicated to Paul and Linnea Bert, in recognition of Robert Spano’s 20 years as Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra…My goal was to allow the piano to achieve moments of great resonance, as found in most romantic-period piano concertos. To that end, the piano is almost always the leader in introducing new material in the discourse of the piece.
The first movement, Introduction and Allegro, is a hybrid sonata form with an overall energetic profile, following the slow introduction. The first theme group is characterised by triadic/tonal harmonies. The second theme group is characterised by quartal/modal harmonies, along with a jazz-inflected expressive quality. The two theme groups are merged in the extended piano cadenza.
The second movement, Neo-chaconne (a chaconne is a variation form based on a repeating chord progression), begins with the principal chord progression, stated by the strings, and proceeds through several variations, adorned and enhanced by the piano, some of which extend the chord progression itself. The form is interrupted in the middle of the movement by new material, unrelated to the chaconne chord progression. The chaconne then reappears by merging with this new material, before breaking free and guiding the movement to its quiet conclusion.
The brief finale, Double Take, is energetic, and built on figures, phrases, and larger formal divisions that repeat, but with slight variations or developments that expand upon the initial materials. The result is a large-scale form that resembles an expanding spiral, rather than a square block-like repetitive formal design, which would have been the case if the repeated materials and formal divisions were not expanded upon.”
This concerto is scored for woodwinds in pairs (plus piccolo), full brass, timpani, percussion, piano, harp, and strings.
NOTE: Marc-André Hamelin, who gave this work its premiere performance, is the featured soloist for this concert set.
John Wineglass (1973- ): Alone Together for Percussion, Harp, and Strings
First Performance: Pacific Symphony, Carl St. Clair, conductor: a live-streamed virtual concert on May 25, 2021, taking place in Costa Mesa, California
The following Notes, as provided by John Wineglass in the Conductor’s Score, are paraphrased here:
The Pacific Symphony, in partnership with the Fresno Philharmonic, Monterey Symphony, and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, commissioned the Emmy Award-winning composer John Wineglass to write Alone Together, a piece that addresses social issues and systemic racial disparities. This two-movement work is scored for timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. Both movements are slow in their tempi, but feature very different emotional contexts: Strange Pandemic Times shifts in tonal centers “without tonality…without centeredness…swelling major-minor chords in the strings without any sense of stability or normality” (to me, it has the feeling of a dirge, gravitating towards the key of A-Minor). A Ray of Hope, on the other hand, is primarily in C, then A Major, and almost hymn-like in its quality: “…a hope deferred at the moment, but a hope nonetheless—a hope that in this struggle together, we will come out TOGETHER somehow, and in some way stronger, wiser, and more vigilant.”
NOTE: Carl St. Clair, the guest conductor for this concert set, conducted the Pacific Symphony in the world premiere online on 25 May 2021, the first anniversary of George Floyd’s tragic death.
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
First Performance: New York Philharmonic, Lukas Foss, conductor: New York City, Carnegie Hall, February 1961
Much of Leonard Bernstein’s writing centers around the musical stage, and of these works, far and away the best known is West Side Story, the American version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim with the choreography provided by Jerome Robbins. The setting is the Upper West Side of New York City; the feuding Montagues and Capulets are replaced by two gangs: the Jets (American) and the Sharks (Puerto Rican); Tony (a friend and former member of the Jets) falls in love with Maria (the sister of the leader of the Sharks); you get the picture!! The original production premiered on Broadway in 1957, winning Tony Awards for Best Choreography and Best Scenic Design. The musical film version, released in 1961, garnered ten of the eleven Academy Awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture. The Symphonic Dances extract nine instrumental sequences from the musical, allowing them to be performed in a concert setting. The orchestral scoring is almost identical to that described in the earlier Overture, and happily includes violas which were omitted in the original Broadway production. The music is vivid and powerful, bringing up strong imagery even without words. Those last three Zarathustra-like chords, though,…hmmm. Lots and LOTS of food for thought there,…
On Stage
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The 2024-25 season marks Music Director Carl St. Clair’s 35th year leading Pacific Symphony. He is the longest-tenured American-born conductor of a major American orchestra. During St. Clair’s lengthy history, Pacific Symphony has become the largest budgeted orchestra formed in the last 50 years. Pacific Symphony was invited by the League of American Orchestra to become the newest and youngest orchestra among America’s Tier 1 Orchestras. Few orchestras can claim such rapid artistic development.
During his tenure, St. Clair has become widely recognized for his musically distinguished performances and his innovative approaches to programming. In April 2018, St. Clair led Pacific Symphony in its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut, celebrating Philip Glass’s 80th birthday at the final concert of Carnegie’s yearlong celebration of the preeminent composer. The concert ended with a standing ovation and with The New York Times calling the Symphony “a major ensemble!” St. Clair led Pacific Symphony on its first tour to China in May 2018, the orchestra’s first international tour since touring Europe in 2006. The orchestra’s European tour included playing concerts in nine cities (including Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne, Lucerne, and Vienna) in three countries appearing before capacity houses and receiving standing ovations and critical acclaim. The Hannoversche Allgemeine raved, “ St. Clair and his fabulous orchestra completely won over Hanover…with spirit, a sense of sound, and utterly breathtaking precision” and Cologne’s General Anzeiger exclaimed, “Electrifying…captivating!”
Internationally, St.Clair has appeared with orchestras throughout the world. He has led orchestras in Asia, Centraland South America, and Europe. In January 2024, following a 27- year relationship with Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal (Germany), St.Clair was named Honorary Guest Conductor for Life. In 2023, he concluded a highly acclaimed 10-year tenure as Music Director with the National Symphony of Costa Rica. From 2008-10, St.Clair was General Music Director for the Komische Oper in Berlin. He also served as General Music Director and Chie Conductor of the German National Theater and Staatskapelle (GNTS) in Weimar, Germany, where he led Wagner’s Ring Cycle to critical acclaim. He was the first non-European to hold this position at the GNTS; the role also gave him the distinction of simultaneously leading one of the newest orchestras in America and one of the oldest in Europe.
St. Clair has led the Boston Symphony Orchestra (where he served as Assistant Conductor for several years 1985-90), New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Indianapolis, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver symphonies, among many.
Carl St. Clair is a strong advocate of music education for all ages and is internationally recognized for his distinguished career as a master teacher. In addition to his professional conducting career, St. Clair has worked with most major music schools across the country. He received an Honorary Doctorate from Chapman University and have served as a Presidential Fellow, working closely with the students of the College of the Performing Arts. St. Clair has been named “Distinguished Alumni ” at the University of Texas Butler School of Music beginning 2019. And, for over 30 years, he has had a continuing relationship with the USC Thornton School of Music where he is Artistic Leader and Principal Conductor of the orchestral and large ensemble program.
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Pianist Marc-André Hamelin, a “performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” (The New York Times), is known worldwide for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship. He continues to amass praise for his brilliant technique in the great works of the repertoire, and for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. He regularly performs around the globe with the leading orchestras and conductors of our time, and gives recitals at major concert venues and festivals worldwide.
Mr. Hamelin’s 2024-2025 season begins with recitals in Asia at the Beijing Concert Hall, Xi’an Concert Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and in duo recitals with Charles Richard-Hamelin in Tokyo, Yokohama and Fukuoka, with later solo recitals in Gulangyu, Chengdu and the Shanghai Symphony Hall. European highlights include recitals in Warsaw, Ascona, Copenhagen, Toulouse, Cremona, Florence, Budapest, Detmold, Nijmegen, Herrenhausen, Ruhr, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and London’s Wigmore Hall. Orchestral appearances include the RTVE Madrid, Bruckner Orchester Linz, and Prague Radio Symphony. He will return to São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra for a recital and concerti touring with the orchestra later to the Bogotá International Classical Music Festival.
In North America he returns to Carnegie Hall for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Bernard Labadie. Further orchestral appearances include the Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa and the orchestra of Quebec, Toledo, Amarillo and a complete Beethoven concerto cycle with the Edmonton Symphony. Recital highlights include San Francisco Performances, Music Toronto, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Music Room at Caramoor, and the University of Georgia Presents. He also tours with the Dover Quartet in a program that features his own Piano Quintet.
Summer 2024 included recitals at the Schubertiade, Deutschlandsberg, Banff Center, Vivace Festival, a duo recital with Charles Richard-Hamelin at Ottawa Chamberfest, and Liszt’s Piano Concertos 1 and 2 with Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Orchestre Metropolitain at the Festival de Lanaudiere and Domaine Forget.
An exclusive recording artist for Hyperion Records, Hamelin has released 89 albums to date, with notable recordings of a broad range of solo, orchestral, and chamber repertoire. In October 2024, Hamelin releases his recording of Beethoven’s imposing Piano Sonata in B flat major, “Hammerklavier,” Op. 106, coupled with the earlier Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 2, No. 3.
Featuring nine original pieces, Hamelin’s 2024 album New Piano Works is a survey of some of his own recent works, exhibiting his formidable skill as a composer-pianist whose music imaginatively and virtuosically taps into his musical forebears. “His previous offerings of his own music were rich, but his latest self-portrait album is on another level,” wrote The New York Times, one of many outlets that wrote glowing reviews. It was Hamelin’s first album of all original compositions since Études (2010). In 2023, Hyperion released Hamelin’s recording of Fauré’s Nocturnes & Barcarolles, with the four-hand Dolly suite, played with his wife, Cathy Fuller. A double album of C.P.E. Bach’s Sonatas & Rondos was released in 2022, and another of William Bolcom’s complete rags. Both received wide critical acclaim and chart success.
Hamelin has composed music throughout his career, most of which is published by Edition Peters, including his Études and Toccata on L’homme armé, the latter commissioned by the Van Cliburn Foundation. Hamelin performed the Toccata along with music by C.P.E. Bach and Bolcom in an NPR Tiny Desk concert in 2023. His latest compositions include a piano quintet, which he premiered in 2022 with the Dover Quartet, and the solo piano works Hexensabbat and Mazurka, the latter commissioned by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where the composer presented the first performance in spring 2024.
Hamelin makes his home in the Boston area with his wife, Cathy Fuller, a producer and host at Classical WCRB. Born in Montreal, he is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the German Record Critics’ Association, and over 20 of its quarterly awards. He has also received seven Juno Awards, 12 Grammy nominations, and the 2018 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. In December 2020, he was awarded the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry from the Ontario Arts Foundation. Hamelin is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Matt Blake
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Marion McClure
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Charles and Janie McCrary
Richard and Lori McFalls
Don and Sunshine McKinnon
John and Michelle McKissack
Alexander and Margaret McLean
Anita and Don McLean
Gretchen and Kojo McLennon
Bill McManus
Norann McManus
Major and Linda McNeil
Jean and Michael McSwain
M. Catherine Meadows
Dan and Amy Meadows
Logan and Simone Meeks
Diane Meess
Melissa Eudaly
Memphis Symphony Chorus
Lynn Menendez
Silvia Alicia Merediz
James Mertzlufft
Thomas Miles
Mindy Huddleston
Hubert and Elizabeth Minton
Mio Donley
Vance Montgomery
Kent and Laurie Monypeny
Warren and Ruth Morrison
William and Jane Morse
Elbert & Tamara Mosby
R. J. and Susan Moskop
Nancy Mobley
Robert and Sara Nardo
Monika L Natarajan
Nathan Prosser
Nathaniel Warren
Neely James
Denise Nelson
Thomas and Monika Nenon
A. Newberry
Sindhia Nichols
Henry Nicholson
Nicole Jalandoni
Nikki Rhoda
William and Barbara Nixon
Deborah Northcross
Ken Nuckolls
John and Barbara Ogles
Leo Old
Eileen and Michael Olewinski
Oneka Richardson
Ron and Stephanie Osher
Shelley Ost
Max B. Ostner, Jr.
Outhone Sonesana
Cindy Pace
Paige Dumas
John Palmer
Marvin Palmer
Pam Golding
Elena and Helena Parfenova
Mr. and Mrs. Parker
Patrice Curry
Patrick Drummond
Rushton Patterson
Trinette Patterson
Paula Joyner
Amanda Paule
Eugene Pearlman
Atanas and Katyusha Pehlivanov
Jim Pentecost
Alan and Sally Perry
Peter Wiley
Valdas Petrouskas
Phil Goossens
Virginia Pilcher
G. Dan and Chloee Poag
Albert Pope
Porshure Richardson
Reginald and Sonya Porter
Peter Pranica
Howard and Margaret Pritchard
Rosemary Purdy
Jessica Reed
Kerry Regen
Reginald Richard
Ulrike Reiss
Joanne Rhodes
Richard Sutch
Curtis and Patricia Ringold
Rita Smith
Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf
Kari Robbins
Beverly Robertson
Carol Robertson
Betty Robinson
Jessica & James A Robinson
Ellen Rolfes
Ronna Martin
Monica Rose
Meryl Rosen
Victoria Ross
Ruben Caballero Pineda
Fedoria Rugless
Russell Savory
Ruthie Pride
Ryan Quinlivan
Diane Sachs
Sally Helms
Tracey and Peter Sanders
Sanjar Umarov
Aimee Santucci and John Jolly
Sara Alvarez
Savanna Eggenberger
Sayra Medina
Beth and Sandy Schaeffer
Chrisann Schiro-Geist
Karl and Gail Schledwitz
Jean Schmidt
Jutta Schneider
Connie and Eric Scott
Valerie Scott
Art and Janet Seessel
Elizabeth Senhausen
Patricia Seubert
Douglas Seymour
Frank and Marian Shaffer
Shannon Bryant
Fran and Phil Shannon
Anne Shaw
Lucy Shaw
Karen Shea
Paul Shifflet
Shirley Turner
William Short
Susan & Matt Shorter
Martina Sigal
Liz and Rouben Simonian
Elizabeth and David Simpson
Gregory Skinner
Jerald and Louise Sklar
Dr. William Skoog
Harriet Skupin
Stephen & Chelsea B Slabaugh
Peter Slavish
John Sligh
Corey Smith
Joel Smith
Pamela K. Smith
Sonya Walton
Sophia Woods
Katharine Sorenson
David and Jackie Spear
Diane Spears
Raymond and Gayle Spence
Michael and Aimee Spikes
Susan Springfield
Stacey Bowers
Barbara Stafford
Tracey Stallings
Rebecca Stanfield
Lindsey Stanfill
Dianne Stanford
Terry Starr
Julian Steelmen
Jeremiah Steinbrink
Stephanie Johnson
Edith Stern
John Stewart
Lauran Stimac
John and Anne Stokes
Donna Stroup
Karen Stuart
David and Mary Anne K. Sullivan
Suzanne Drewry
Tabitha Arrington
Owen and Margaret Tabor
Tabrina Davis
Taylor Wilmott
Terri Williams
Robin Thoda
Sally Thomason
Kimberly Thompson
Sarah Tillman
Timothy Todd
David Tipton
Mark Tittle
Tom Ebers
Tom Timimak
Benjamin Trainor
Tuesday Study Club
Michael Ulm
Jennilynn Utkov
Jo Vail
Alan Valentine
Bill and Peggy Veeser
Carmel Verrier and Walter Heger
Vicki Carayiannis
Virginia Terrell
Charles Walker
Russell Walker
Philip Walkley
Julie Wallace
Erin Walter
Paula Walter
Gavin Ward
Kathleen and Tim Waters
Samantha Watts
Alonzo and Suzane Weaver
Gina and Jeffrey Webb
Debra West
Benny and Gayle Westmoreland
A C and Ruby Wharton
Lain Whitaker
Willard & Catherine Whitaker
Justin White
Alvin and Myra Whitney
Reggie Whitney
Ogden Whyte
Marilyn Wiener
William Koenig
William Page
William Scott
William Ufferman
Suzanne Williamson
Linda Willis
Willow Blythe
Wilson Hubbard
Teresa Wilson
Dean and Lauran Wingo
Dorothy Work
Yavette Gray
Linda Yoakum
Jason and Susan Young
David and Nelie Zanca
Carolyn & Robert Meza
Jennifer Diprizio & Patrick Krolik
Mary Van Dyke
Ann Marie Person
Mary Stuart David
Sharon Devine Harris
Victoria N Crozier
Angel David Martinez Nieto
This list recognizes philanthropic contributors to the MSO made between July 1, 2023 - August 28, 2024 . While compiling this list every effort has been made to reflect the accuracy of our donors. If your name has been misspelled, omitted, or misrepresented please contact us at 901-537-2500 and will correct our records. We appreciate your generosity and understanding.
