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MAGAZINE OF THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY<br />

Anne-Sophie<br />

Mutter<br />

SEPTEMBER 25–NOVEMBER 9, 2010–VOLUME 16–ISSUE 1<br />

Opening Night with<br />

Bramwell Tovey<br />

and Avan Yu<br />

The Music of<br />

Gilbert & Sullivan!<br />

Han-Na Chang<br />

Extraordinary cellist plays Elgar<br />

Chantal Kreviazuk<br />

Pop superstar performs<br />

with the VSO


a traditionaL<br />

christmas<br />

TICKETS ALWAYS SELL OUT EARLY, GET YOURS TODAY!<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Christopher Gaze host<br />

UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

EnChor<br />

The Lower Mainland’s most beloved<br />

Holiday music tradition! This season,<br />

Music Director Bramwell Tovey<br />

leads the orchestra in a celebration<br />

of the Holiday spirit, with carols,<br />

heartwarming Christmas music, and<br />

plenty of audience sing-a-longs!<br />

Christopher Gaze narrates.<br />

St. Andrew’s Wesley CHURCH, <strong>Vancouver</strong><br />

Thursday, December 9, 7:30pm<br />

Friday, December 10, 7:30pm<br />

Saturday, December 11, 4pm & 7:30pm<br />

Bell Performing Arts Centre, Surrey<br />

Sunday, December 12, 4pm & 7:30pm<br />

South Delta Baptist Church, DELTA<br />

Wednesday, December 15, 4pm & 7:30pm<br />

Michael J. Fox Theatre, BURNABY<br />

Thursday, December 16, 7:30pm<br />

Centennial Theatre, North <strong>Vancouver</strong><br />

Friday, December 17, 4pm & 7:30pm<br />

Kay Meek Theatre, West <strong>Vancouver</strong><br />

Saturday, December 18, 4pm & 7:30pm<br />

Bramwell Tovey<br />

Christopher Gaze<br />

Tickets online at vancouversymphony.ca<br />

or call VSO Customer Service at<br />

604.876.3434<br />

The VSO’s Traditional Christmas<br />

Concerts have been endowed bY<br />

a generous gift from Sheahan and<br />

Gerald McGavin, C.M., O.B.C.<br />

PRESENTING SPONSOR<br />

MEDIA PARTNER


vancouver symphony orchestra<br />

BRAMWELL TOVEY MUSIC DIRECTOR<br />

KAZUYOSHI AKIYAMA CONDUCTOR LAUREATE<br />

JEFF TYZIK PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR<br />

* Pierre Simard ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR<br />

Marsha & George Taylor Chair<br />

* SCOTT GOOD COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE<br />

first violins<br />

Dale Barltrop,<br />

Concertmaster<br />

Joan Blackman,<br />

Associate Concertmaster<br />

Jennie Press, Second<br />

Assistant Concertmaster<br />

Robin Braun<br />

Mary Sokol Brown<br />

Mrs. Cheng Koon Lee Chair<br />

Jenny Essers<br />

Jason Ho<br />

Akira Nagai, Associate<br />

Concertmaster Emeritus<br />

Xue Feng Wei<br />

Rebecca Whitling<br />

Yi Zhou<br />

Nancy DiNovo ◊<br />

Kimi Hamaguchi ◊<br />

Paul Luchkow ◊<br />

Ruth Schipizky ◊<br />

second violins<br />

Brent Akins, Principal<br />

Karen Gerbrecht,<br />

Associate Principal<br />

Jim and Edith le Nobel Chair<br />

Jeanette Bernal-Singh,<br />

Assistant Principal<br />

Adrian Shu-On Chui<br />

Daniel Norton<br />

Ann Okagaito<br />

Ashley Plaut<br />

Alana Chang ◊<br />

Maya De Forest ◊<br />

DeAnne Eisch ◊<br />

Angela Goddard ◊<br />

Pamela Marks ◊<br />

§ Leave of Absence<br />

∆ One-year Position<br />

◊ Extra Musician<br />

violas<br />

Neil Miskey, Principal<br />

Andrew Brown,<br />

Associate Principal<br />

Stephen Wilkes,<br />

Assistant Principal<br />

Lawrence Blackman<br />

Estelle & Michael Jacobson Chair<br />

Angela Schneider<br />

Professors Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Ngou Kang Chair<br />

Ian Wenham<br />

Chi Ng ◊<br />

Reginald Quiring ◊<br />

Marcus Takizawa ◊<br />

cellos<br />

Lee Duckles, Principal<br />

Nezhat and Hassan<br />

Khosrowshahi Chair<br />

Janet Steinberg,<br />

Associate Principal<br />

Zoltan Rozsnyai,<br />

Assistant Principal<br />

Olivia Blander<br />

Natasha Boyko<br />

Mary & Gordon<br />

Christopher Chair<br />

Joseph Elworthy<br />

Charles Inkman<br />

Cristian Markos<br />

Ariel Barnes ◊<br />

basses<br />

Dylan Palmer,<br />

Principal<br />

Chang-Min Lee,<br />

Associate Principal<br />

David Brown<br />

Patricia Hutter<br />

J. Warren Long<br />

Frederick Schipizky<br />

Christopher Light ◊<br />

Leanna Wong ◊<br />

flutes<br />

Christie Reside,<br />

Principal<br />

Rosanne Wieringa,<br />

Acting Assistant Principal<br />

Michael & Estelle Jacobson Chair<br />

Ahilya Ramharry ◊<br />

piccolo<br />

Ahilya Ramharry ◊<br />

Hermann & Erika Stölting Chair<br />

oboes<br />

Roger Cole, Principal<br />

Wayne and Leslie Ann Ingram Chair<br />

Beth Orson,<br />

Assistant Principal<br />

Karin Walsh<br />

english horn<br />

Beth Orson<br />

Chair in Memory of<br />

John S. Hodge<br />

clarinets<br />

Jeanette Jonquil,<br />

Principal §<br />

Cris Inguanti,<br />

Acting Principal<br />

Marie-Julie Chagnon,<br />

Acting Assistant Principal ∆<br />

Michelle Goddard ◊<br />

e-flat clarinet<br />

Michelle Goddard ◊<br />

bass clarinet<br />

Marie-Julie Chagnon ∆<br />

bassoons<br />

Julia Lockhart,<br />

Principal<br />

Sophie Dansereau,<br />

Assistant Principal §<br />

Gwen Seaton<br />

Ingrid Chiang ◊<br />

contrabassoon<br />

Sophie Dansereau §<br />

french horns<br />

Oliver de Clercq,<br />

Principal<br />

Joy Branagan<br />

Werner & Helga Höing Chair<br />

David Haskins,<br />

Associate Principal<br />

Benjamin Kinsman<br />

Winslow & Betsy Bennett Chair<br />

Richard Mingus,<br />

Assistant Principal<br />

trumpets<br />

Larry Knopp, Principal<br />

Marcus Goddard,<br />

Associate Principal<br />

Christopher Mitchell ◊<br />

W. Neil Harcourt in memory of<br />

Frank N. Harcourt Chair<br />

tromb<strong>one</strong>s<br />

Nathan Zgonc, Principal<br />

Gregory A. Cox<br />

bass tromb<strong>one</strong><br />

Douglas Sparkes<br />

Arthur H. Willms Family Chair<br />

tuba<br />

Ellis Wean, Principal<br />

timpani<br />

Aaron McDonald, Principal<br />

percussion<br />

Vern Griffiths, Principal<br />

Martha Lou Henley Chair<br />

Tony Phillipps<br />

harp<br />

Elizabeth Volpé, Principal<br />

Heidi Krutzen ◊<br />

piano, celeste<br />

Linda Lee Thomas,<br />

Principal<br />

Carter (Family) Deux Mille<br />

Foundation Chair<br />

personnel manager<br />

Lawrence Blackman<br />

music librarian<br />

Minella F. Lacson<br />

Ron & Ardelle Cliff Chair<br />

master carpenter<br />

Pierre Boyard<br />

master electrician<br />

Leonard Lummis<br />

piano technician<br />

Thomas Clarke<br />

*Supported by The Canada<br />

Council for the Arts<br />

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MAGAZINE OF THE VANCOUVER SYMPHONY<br />

allegroSEPTEMBER 25–NOVEMBER 9, 2010–VOLUME 16–ISSUE 1<br />

A SERIES FOR EVERY TASTE<br />

C L ASSICS M A S T E R W O R K S G O L D / M A S T E R W O R K S D I A M O N D / M A S T E R W O R K S S I L V E R ON A<br />

L IGHTER NOT E M U S I C A L L Y S P E A K I N G / B A C H & B E Y O N D V SO POPS MATINEES TEA &<br />

TRUMPETS / SYMPHONY SUNDAYS R OA D T R I P S V S O A T T H E R O U N D H O U S E / N O R T H<br />

S H O R E C L A S S I C S / S U R R E Y N I G H T S K I D S RULE! TINY TOTS / KIDS’ KONCERTS SPECIALS<br />

C O N C E R T S<br />

8 SEPTEMBER 25, 26, 27<br />

goldcorp Masterworks Gold<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> Sundays<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Avan Yu piano<br />

14 OCTOBER 2, 4<br />

Masterworks Diamond<br />

Jesús López-Cobos conductor<br />

han-Na Chang cello<br />

18 OCTOBER 7<br />

Pacific Arbour Tea & Trumpets<br />

Gilbert & Sullivan<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Christopher Gaze host<br />

Jill Pert mezzo-soprano<br />

Richard Suart barit<strong>one</strong><br />

22 OCTOBER 8, 9<br />

london Drugs VSO Pops<br />

An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Tracy Dahl soprano<br />

Jill Pert mezzo-soprano<br />

Philippe Castagner tenor<br />

Richard Suart barit<strong>one</strong><br />

UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

26 OCTOBER 10<br />

Spectra Energy Kids’ Koncerts<br />

Inspector Tovey Investigates Composing<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

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8 AVAN YU 30 MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN 14 HAN-NA CHANG<br />

30 OCTOBER 15, 16, 18<br />

bach & Beyond<br />

Surrey Nights<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Marc-André Hamelin piano<br />

34 OCTOBER 23, 25<br />

PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver<br />

Günther Herbig conductor<br />

Dale Barltrop violin<br />

40 OCTOBER 27<br />

Specials<br />

Chantal Kreviazuk with the VSO<br />

Pierre Simard conductor<br />

46 OCTOBER 30*, NOVEMBER 1<br />

Musically Speaking<br />

North Shore Classics<br />

bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Martin Chalifour violin<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Youth <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>*<br />

52 November 6, 7, 8<br />

PricewaterhouseCoopers Masterworks Silver<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> Sundays<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Stephen Hough piano<br />

62 NOVEMBER 9<br />

Specials<br />

The Mutter, Bashmet, Harrell Trio<br />

Anne-Sophie Mutter violin<br />

Yuri Bashmet viola<br />

Lynn Harrell cello


I N T H I S I S S U E<br />

3 the orchestra<br />

4 vso lottery<br />

5 allegro staff list<br />

7 message from the Chairman<br />

and the President & CEO<br />

29 vancouver symphony foundation<br />

32 advertise in allegro<br />

38 patrons’ circle<br />

42 upcoming concerts<br />

50 vso group sales<br />

57 friends campaign<br />

66 corporate partners<br />

68 at the concert / vso staff list<br />

71 board of directors / thanks /<br />

volunteer council<br />

40 CHANTAL KREVIAZUK<br />

62 YURI BASHMET<br />

62 LYNN HARRELL<br />

8 BRAMWELL TOVEY<br />

We welcome your comments on this magazine. Please forward them to: <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong>, 601 Smithe Street,<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong>, BC V6B 5G1 Allegro contact and advertising enquiries: vsoallegro@yahoo.com / customer service:<br />

604.876.3434 / VSO office: 604.684.9100 / website: www.vancouversymphony.ca Allegro staff: published by The <strong>Vancouver</strong><br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> Society / editor / publisher: Anna Gove / contributors: Don Anderson, Sophia Vincent / art direction, design &<br />

production: basic elements design Pass it on: It’s the right thing to do! Please feel free to bring your Allegro Magazine<br />

home at the end of the concert. If you do not wish to keep it, please return it to an usher. Printed in Canada by Web<br />

Impressions. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written consent is prohibited.<br />

Contents copyrighted by the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong>, with the exception of material written by contributors.<br />

Allegro Magazine has been endowed by a generous gift from Adera Development Corporation.<br />

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The <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> Society<br />

is grateful to Premier Gordon Campbell and<br />

the Province of British Columbia, Minister<br />

of Canadian Heritage James Moore<br />

and the Government of Canada,<br />

Mayor Gregor Robertson<br />

and the City of <strong>Vancouver</strong>.<br />

Gordon Campbell James Moore Gregor Robertson<br />

The combined investment in<br />

the VSO by the three levels of<br />

government annually funds over<br />

28% of the cost of the orchestra’s<br />

extensive programs and activities.<br />

This vital investment enables the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> to present over 150 life-enriching<br />

concerts in 12 diverse venues throughout the Lower Mainland, attract some of the world’s best<br />

musicians to live and work in our community, produce Grammy ® and Juno ® award-winning recordings,<br />

participate in numerous CBC Radio broadcasts – bringing the sounds of the VSO to listeners across the<br />

country and, through our renowned educational programs, touch the lives of over 50,000 children.<br />

Thank you!


M E S S A G E F R O M<br />

vso chairman and vso president & CEO<br />

Dear Friends,<br />

Welcome to the opening concerts of the<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>’s exciting<br />

2010-2011 season. The VSO is proud to<br />

have been serving the people of British<br />

Columbia since 1919, and we are delighted<br />

you are with us for today’s concert.<br />

The 2009-2010 season was <strong>one</strong> of the<br />

most successful for the VSO in recent<br />

history. In addition to Maestro Tovey and the<br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> performing at a very high level to<br />

packed houses and our educational programs<br />

continuing to flourish, reaching over 50,000<br />

children, significant increases in ticket sales<br />

volume and donations from individuals,<br />

along with prudent management of expenses<br />

resulted in a surplus on annual operations<br />

for the seventh consecutive fiscal year.<br />

During the 2010-2011 season the<br />

orchestra will perform over 150 concerts<br />

in 12 different venues throughout the<br />

Lower Mainland. In addition to the Orpheum<br />

Theatre, St. Andrew’s Wesley Church, the<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Playhouse and Roundhouse<br />

Community Centre in downtown <strong>Vancouver</strong>,<br />

VSO presentations can be experienced at the<br />

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC,<br />

Centennial Theatre in North <strong>Vancouver</strong>, Bell<br />

Centre in Surrey, Michael J. Fox Theatre and<br />

Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, Kay Meek Theatre<br />

in West <strong>Vancouver</strong>, South Delta Baptist<br />

Church, and the Terry Fox Theatre in<br />

Port Coquitlam.<br />

This season will also see the continuation<br />

of our extraordinary education programs,<br />

as well as the February 2011 opening of<br />

the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> Centre and<br />

VSO School of Music directly next to the<br />

Orpheum Theatre.<br />

The mission of the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> is to enrich the quality of life in,<br />

and bring prestige to our city, province and<br />

country through the presentation of highquality<br />

performances of classical and<br />

popular music, and the delivery of excellent<br />

education and community programs.<br />

Because of you, our audience, donors,<br />

sponsors and government funders, we<br />

are able to achieve these goals.<br />

On behalf of the Board of Directors, Maestro<br />

Tovey, our musicians, staff and volunteers,<br />

we thank you for your commitment to the<br />

VSO, and wish you a most delightful<br />

2010-2011 season.<br />

Please enjoy today’s concert.<br />

Sincerely yours,<br />

Arthur H. Willms<br />

Chair, Board of Directors<br />

Jeff Alexander<br />

President & Chief Executive Officer<br />

ARTHUR WILLMS<br />

JEFF ALEXANDER<br />

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BRAMWELL TOVEY<br />

AVAN YU<br />

CONCERT PROGRAM<br />

GOLDCORP MASTERWORKS GOLD / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM<br />

saturday & monday, september 25, 27<br />

SYMPHONY SUNDAYS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 2PM<br />

sunday, september 26<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

◆ Avan Yu piano<br />

Saint-Saëns Coronation March, Op. 117<br />

◆ Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103 Egyptian<br />

I. Allegro animato<br />

II. Andante<br />

III. Molto allegro<br />

INTERMISSION<br />

Ravel Daphnis et Chloé: Suites Nos. 1 & 2<br />

I. Nocturne<br />

II. Interlude<br />

III. War-Like Dance<br />

IV. Sunrise<br />

V. Pantomime<br />

VI. General Dance<br />

PRE-CONCERT TALKS free to ticketholders at 7:05pm, featuring VSO Musicians.<br />

Visit the <strong>Symphony</strong> Gift Shop for CD selections<br />

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Masterworks GOLD<br />

SERIES SPONSOR<br />

September 27<br />

Concert Sponsor<br />

This concert is being<br />

recorded for broadcast Nov. 28<br />

on In Concert and at a later<br />

date on Tempo on CBC Radio 2,<br />

105.7 in <strong>Vancouver</strong>.


Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

A musician of striking versatility, Bramwell<br />

Tovey is acknowledged around the world<br />

for his artistic depth and warm, charismatic<br />

personality on the podium. Tovey’s career as<br />

a conductor is uniquely enhanced by his work<br />

as a composer and pianist, lending him a<br />

remarkable musical perspective. He has been<br />

Music Director of the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> since September 2000.<br />

Tovey garnered a 2008 Grammy ® Award and<br />

a 2008 Juno ® Award for his recording with<br />

violinist James Ehnes and the <strong>Vancouver</strong><br />

<strong>Symphony</strong>. Recently named Principal Guest<br />

Conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at<br />

the Hollywood Bowl, he works frequently with<br />

the Toronto <strong>Symphony</strong>, Montreal <strong>Symphony</strong>,<br />

Royal Philharmonic and the Bournemouth<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>s, among many others.<br />

He has presided as host and conductor of<br />

the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime<br />

Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall since<br />

its founding in 2004.<br />

As a composer, he was honoured with<br />

the Best Canadian Classical Composition<br />

Juno ® Award in 2003 for his Requiem for a<br />

Charred Skull. New works include a cocommission<br />

for the New York and Los Angeles<br />

Philharmonics’ 2008 summer seasons as well<br />

as a full-length opera for the Calgary Opera,<br />

The Inventor, to première in January of 2011.<br />

Tovey has been awarded honorary degrees,<br />

including a Fellowship from the Royal<br />

Academy of Music in London, honorary<br />

Doctorates of Law from the universities<br />

of Winnipeg and Manitoba, and Kwantlen<br />

University College, as well as a Royal<br />

Conservatory of Music Fellowship in Toronto.<br />

In 1999, he received the M. Joan Chalmers<br />

National Award for Artistic Direction,<br />

a Canadian prize awarded to artists<br />

for outstanding contributions in the<br />

performing arts.<br />

Avan Yu piano<br />

At twenty-three years of age, Canadian<br />

pianist Avan Yu has performed in recital and<br />

as soloist with orchestras on four continents,<br />

consistently captivating audiences with his<br />

extraordinary musicianship. Avan made<br />

his New York debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill<br />

Recital Hall in the fall of 2008 after winning<br />

Silver Medal at the 16th Paloma O’Shea<br />

Santander International Piano Competition<br />

in the same year. He first came to national<br />

attention by winning first prize at the<br />

Canadian Chopin Competition at the age of<br />

seventeen, and is the only pianist to win<br />

First Prize in both the Junior and Senior<br />

Divisions of the Missouri Southern<br />

International Piano Competition.<br />

Born in Hong Kong and raised in <strong>Vancouver</strong>,<br />

he currently studies at the University of Fine<br />

Arts in Berlin with Klaus Hellwig. In <strong>Vancouver</strong>,<br />

he began his studies with Kut Kau Sum,<br />

and since 2003 has been working with the<br />

Canadian Duo Ralph Markham and Kenneth<br />

Broadway.<br />

Camille Saint-Saëns<br />

b. Paris, France / October 9, 1835<br />

d. Algiers, Algeria / December 16, 1921<br />

Coronation March, Op. 117<br />

Music was only the foremost of Saint-Saëns’<br />

many interests. This nineteenth-century<br />

Renaissance man also developed a working<br />

knowledge of several sciences, published<br />

volumes of poetry, saw his plays produced<br />

on the stage, and wrote reams of newspaper<br />

articles on many different topics, while<br />

somehow finding time to travel extensively.<br />

He led a full musical life, as well. During a<br />

period when French composers’ reputations<br />

rested first of all with their degree of success<br />

in the emotional world of the theater,<br />

Saint-Saëns proved himself a maverick by<br />

preferring the cooler, more abstract realm of<br />

instrumental music.<br />

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Like many Frenchmen of his era, Saint-<br />

Saëns was an ardent Anglophile, a lover of<br />

all things British. British audiences returned<br />

the interest. As a result, he visited England<br />

on a regular basis to revel in the popularity<br />

his music enjoyed there. He was received<br />

several times by Queen Victoria, and it<br />

was the London Philharmonic Society who<br />

commissi<strong>one</strong>d and premièred his most<br />

celebrated orchestral work, the spectacular<br />

“Organ” <strong>Symphony</strong> (1886).<br />

One of his most popular operas was based<br />

on the life of King Henry VIII. In it he quoted a<br />

centuries-old English melody which he had<br />

uncovered in the music library at Buckingham<br />

Palace. In 1902, he composed a march in<br />

honour of the upcoming coronation of King<br />

Edward VII, and in it he quoted the same<br />

melody. The future king’s bout of appendicitis<br />

postp<strong>one</strong>d the event, making it impossible<br />

for Saint-Saëns to attend. The march was<br />

performed in Westminster Abbey during a<br />

morning concert on the day of the coronation<br />

ceremonies. The composer received a royal<br />

citation, Commander of the Order of Victoria,<br />

a short time later.<br />

Camille Saint-Saëns<br />

Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major,<br />

Op. 103 Egyptian<br />

Saint-Saëns had made his public debut<br />

as a pianist in 1846, age eleven. To honor<br />

the fiftieth anniversary of that event, a gala<br />

concert was to be staged at the Salle Pleyel<br />

in Paris. For the occasion, he composed a<br />

new piano concerto, his fifth, and played the<br />

solo part himself at the premiere on June 3,<br />

1896. He had written it during the previous<br />

winter, while on vacation in North Africa. He<br />

had often visited that locale since his first trip<br />

there in 1873. The concerto contains several<br />

impressions of his journeys: the blinding<br />

brightness of an Egyptian morning (first<br />

movement), the twilight croaking of frogs in<br />

the Nile valley (second movement), and in the<br />

finale, the sound of a ship’s propellers. The<br />

second movement is particularly evocative,<br />

including as it does a Nubian love song that<br />

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Saint-Saëns heard sung by boatmen, then<br />

jotted down on his shirt cuff. Together, these<br />

reminiscences have earned the concerto its<br />

nickname, Egyptian.<br />

The first movement’s simple, gentle opening<br />

offers the key to its basic nature. To be<br />

sure, it contains moments of drama, and the<br />

orchestral colouring is fairly exotic, but on<br />

the whole this is a restrained creation. The<br />

rhapsodic reverie of the second movement<br />

opens with bold flourishes, after which the<br />

solo piano introduces the languorous, highly<br />

ornamented principal theme. Virtuosity and<br />

animation, having so far played relatively<br />

minor parts in the concerto, at last make their<br />

presences felt in the finale. This is a playful,<br />

charming movement that concludes with a<br />

burst of bravura from the soloist.<br />

Maurice Ravel<br />

b. Ciboure, France / March 7, 1875<br />

d. Paris, France / December 28, 1937<br />

Daphnis and Chloé: Suites Nos. 1 and 2<br />

Ravel’s lengthiest composition, the ballet<br />

Daphnis et Chloé is widely considered his<br />

masterpiece. It epitomized his impeccable<br />

craftsmanship and superlative sense<br />

of atmosphere. In 1909, he accepted<br />

a commission from the noted Russian<br />

impresario, Sergei Diaghilev. Mikhail Fokine,<br />

Diaghilev’s principal choreographer, chose<br />

for a subject a story by Longus, a Greek poet<br />

of the third or fourth century, B. C., about the<br />

love between a shepherd, Daphnis, and a<br />

maiden, Chloé. The ballet premiered in Paris<br />

in June 1912. It won only a modest success.<br />

Many observers praised the music, but found<br />

the scenario, choreography and décor of<br />

lesser value. The music makes its greatest<br />

effect in the concert hall, where listeners<br />

can conjure up their own imagery to match<br />

the glorious colours and sensuous moods of<br />

Ravel’s music.<br />

He arranged two concert suites from it,<br />

consisting of the second and third of its three<br />

scenes. The events depicted in the first suite<br />

take place in a meadow on the edge of a<br />

forest which is sacred to the god Pan. Among<br />

the young people present are the lovers<br />

Daphnis and Chloé. Daphnis fends off the<br />

unwanted attention that the oafish cowherd<br />

Dorcon has been paying to Chloé by defeating<br />

him in a dance contest. Chloé and her friends<br />

enter running, pursued by a band of pirates.<br />

The ruffians abduct the girls, leaving Daphnis<br />

behind, unconscious.<br />

Suite No. 2 opens with a glittering, ecstatic<br />

depiction of sunrise over a meadow. Daphnis<br />

and Chloé are joyfully reunited. They dance a<br />

pantomime retelling the amorous encounter<br />

between the god Pan and a maiden, Syrinx.<br />

The score concludes with the delirious strains<br />

of a bacchanalian General Dance. ■<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Don Anderson<br />

MUSIC LESSONS FROM<br />

MEMBERS OF THE VSO<br />

Musicians of the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

make up the core faculties of music in many of<br />

the region’s universities, colleges, academies<br />

and studios.<br />

If you are interested in arranging lessons<br />

for yourself, a child, friend or family member,<br />

and would like a referral, please contact<br />

Larry Blackman at 604.684.9100 ext. 231<br />

or larry@vancouversymphony.ca<br />

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HAN-NA CHANG<br />

JESÚS LÓPEZ-COBOS<br />

CONCERT PROGRAM<br />

MASTERWORKS DIAMOND / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM<br />

saturday & monday, october 2, 4<br />

Jesús López-Cobos conductor<br />

◆ Han-Na Chang cello<br />

Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture<br />

◆ Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85<br />

I. Adagio – Moderato<br />

II. Lento – Allegro molto<br />

III. Adagio<br />

IV. Allegro<br />

INTERMISSION<br />

DVOŘ ÁK <strong>Symphony</strong> No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70<br />

I. Allegro maestoso<br />

II. Poco adagio<br />

III. Scherzo: Vivace<br />

IV. Finale: Allegro<br />

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Jesús López-Cobos conductor<br />

Spanish-born Jesús López-Cobos recently<br />

completed his tenure as Music Director of<br />

the Teatro Real in Madrid. He is Conductor<br />

Emeritus of the Cincinnati <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong>, having served as the orchestra’s<br />

Music Director from 1986-2001. Under his<br />

leadership for fifteen seasons, the orchestra<br />

earned international acclaim for its tour<br />

performances and its extensive catalogue of<br />

recordings for Telarc. Mr. López-Cobos has<br />

previously served as General Music Director<br />

of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music<br />

Director of the famed Lausanne Chamber<br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> in Switzerland.<br />

Mr. Lopez-Cobos’ recent guest conducting<br />

appearances in North America have included<br />

ten performances of Massenet’s Thais at<br />

the Metropolitan Opera as well as concerts<br />

with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the<br />

symphony orchestras of Montreal, Atlanta,<br />

Seattle, St. Louis, Dallas, New Jersey and<br />

Cincinnati. Other recent highlights have<br />

included a production of Manon with the<br />

Metropolitan Opera and a production of<br />

Rigoletto with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.<br />

Among the many awards bestowed upon<br />

him, most recently, in 2001 he was presented<br />

with the Medal of Bellas Artes (“Gold Medal<br />

of the Fine Arts”) by Spain’s King Juan Carlos<br />

and Queen Sophia in 2001. Mr. López-Cobos<br />

also holds an Honorary Doctorate from the<br />

University of Cincinnati.<br />

Han-Na Chang cello<br />

Cellist Han-Na Chang has established an<br />

extraordinary international career, performing<br />

regularly on the most prestigious concert<br />

stages of Europe, North America and Asia.<br />

She first won recognition for her exceptional<br />

musical gifts in 1994 when at the age of<br />

eleven she won both the First Prize and<br />

the Contemporary Music Prize at the Fifth<br />

Rostropovich International Cello Competition<br />

in Paris. Since that time, her superb artistry<br />

and virtuosity coupled with the astonishing<br />

depth of her interpretations have placed<br />

Han-Na Chang at the forefront of the world’s<br />

new generation of artists.<br />

Her recording Romance presents rarely<br />

performed works for cello and orchestra by<br />

much loved late-Romantic composers such<br />

as Lalo, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Saint-Saens<br />

and Dvořák. In 2008, her much anticipated<br />

recording of seven Vivaldi Cello Concertos<br />

was released to critical acclaim.<br />

Han-Na Chang has studied privately<br />

with both Mischa Maisky and Mstislav<br />

Rostropovich. She has studied philosophy at<br />

Harvard University, and is currently studying<br />

conducting with Lorin Maazel.<br />

Richard Wagner<br />

b. Leipzig, Germany / May 22, 1813<br />

d. Venice, Italy / February 13, 1883<br />

Tannhäuser: Overture<br />

Wagner conducted the premiere of his fifth<br />

opera, Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg<br />

auf Wartburg (Tannhäuser and the Singers’<br />

Contest on the Wartburg), in Dresden on<br />

October 19, 1845. After an uncertain debut,<br />

it quickly found success in all of Europe’s<br />

major musical centres. The title character is<br />

a thirteenth-century German minstrel knight.<br />

His affections are divided between Elisabeth,<br />

the saintly niece of a local nobleman, and<br />

Venus, the ancient goddess of love, who since<br />

the fall of classical antiquity has withdrawn<br />

to the interior of a nearby mountain. Despite<br />

Tannhäuser’s many transgressions, he<br />

is eventually redeemed by the purity of<br />

Elizabeth’s love.<br />

Wagner introduces the opera with what is<br />

virtually a symphonic poem. Constructed<br />

from the score’s principal musical themes,<br />

the overture also summarizes the plot. In it<br />

are heard the uplifting hymn sung by pilgrims<br />

on their way to Rome to be blessed by the<br />

Pope; Tannhäuser’s passionate ode in praise<br />

of Venus; and the bacchanalian revels danced<br />

by the love goddess’s followers. The return<br />

of the pilgrims’ exalted music brings the<br />

overture to a glorious conclusion, predicting<br />

the redemption that the title character will<br />

achieve after his death.<br />

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Sir Edward Elgar<br />

b. Broadheath, England / June 2, 1857<br />

d. Worcester, England / February 23, 1934<br />

Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85<br />

Several musical movements sprang up<br />

or came to full flood in the wake of the<br />

First World War. Elgar represented those<br />

composers who longed for the comfortable<br />

optimism of the past, but sensed that the<br />

horrific conflict which had engulfed Europe<br />

for the preceding four years had banished<br />

it forever. He gave voice to his world’s<br />

saddening, to its growing inwardness and<br />

pessimism. In the warm, noble voice of<br />

the cello, he found the perfect medium to<br />

express his brooding, nostalgic emotions.<br />

He composed the Cello Concerto, his final<br />

instrumental masterwork, at his home in the<br />

rural county of Sussex. The premiere took<br />

place in London on October 27, 1919. Elgar<br />

himself conducted, and Felix Salmond – the<br />

performer who had given him technical<br />

advice on it, and to whom it is dedicated –<br />

played the solo part.<br />

It is a restrained piece, at least in comparison<br />

with the more outgoing virtuoso concertos<br />

of the nineteenth century. After a brief<br />

introduction, the first movement is founded<br />

on two themes, both melancholy in character.<br />

The scherzo-like second movement follows<br />

without a pause. For all its brilliance, it is<br />

far from carefree. The succeeding section<br />

is an interlude of searching meditation. The<br />

concerto then concludes with an energetic, if<br />

hardly exuberant, final rondo. A heartfelt coda<br />

recalls earlier material, before the concerto<br />

ends with a final statement of the rondo’s<br />

main subject.<br />

Antonín Dvořák<br />

b. Nelahozeves, Bohemia / September 8, 1841<br />

d. Prague, Bohemia / May 1, 1904<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70<br />

For Dvořák, music’s primary function was to<br />

praise the many aspects of life which gave<br />

him joy. As he put it in a letter he wrote to a<br />

friend during the composition of his Seventh<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong>, “Today I have just finished the<br />

second movement of my new symphony, and<br />

am again as happy and contented in my work<br />

as I always have been and, God grant, may<br />

always be, for my slogan is and always shall<br />

be: God, love and country! And that al<strong>one</strong> can<br />

lead to a happy goal.”<br />

By the mid-1880s, the Slavonic Dances and<br />

other works inspired by the folk music of<br />

his native country had won him a following<br />

throughout Europe. A token of this renown<br />

came in June 1884, when the Philharmonic<br />

Society of London bestowed an honorary<br />

membership upon him. In return, he agreed to<br />

write them a new symphony.<br />

He decided to take the opportunity to satisfy a<br />

goal which had been occupying his thoughts<br />

for some time: a desire to expand his creative<br />

range. This wish sprang from his realization<br />

that the folkbased style he had been<br />

cultivating had its limitations. In order to win<br />

recognition as a great composer, regardless<br />

of origin, he knew he would have to write<br />

music which, like the works of his friend and<br />

mentor, Brahms, communicated universal<br />

sentiments through international musical<br />

language.<br />

He completed <strong>Symphony</strong> No. 7 on March<br />

17, 1885. He traveled to London to conduct<br />

the first performance, and to accept his<br />

Philharmonic membership. Emotionally<br />

powerful and richly scored, the symphony is a<br />

work of which any composer might be proud.<br />

The folk-like elements which play such an<br />

important role in much of his output are here<br />

displayed less prominently.<br />

After the emotional tempests of the opening<br />

movement, the second begins in a mood<br />

of tranquil reverie. Solace proves elusive,<br />

however. Troubling emotions intrude upon<br />

this idyll at regular intervals. The scherzo is<br />

driven by bracing dance rhythms, but here it<br />

wears what is for Dvořák an unusually stern<br />

expression. The dark mood in which the finale<br />

opens recalls the first movement. After much<br />

dramatic energy is expended, it eventually<br />

ends on a note of triumph, <strong>one</strong> snatched at<br />

the last possible moment from the jaws of<br />

defeat. ■<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Don Anderson<br />

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CONCERT PROGRAM<br />

PACIFIC ARBOUR TEA & TRUMPETS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 2PM<br />

thursday, october 7<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Christopher Gaze host<br />

Jill Pert mezzo-soprano<br />

Richard Suart barit<strong>one</strong><br />

UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

Gilbert & Sullivan<br />

HMS PINAFORE<br />

We Sail The Ocean Blue<br />

I’m Called Little Buttercup<br />

Now Give Three Cheers<br />

When I Was A Lad<br />

PIRATES OF PENZANCE<br />

When Frederic Was A Little Lad<br />

Climbing Over Rocky Mountains<br />

I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General<br />

PATIENCE<br />

Am I Al<strong>one</strong> – If You’re Anxious So To Shine<br />

Sad Is That Woman’s Lot<br />

So Go To Him<br />

MIKADO<br />

Behold The Lord High Executi<strong>one</strong>r<br />

As Some Day It May Happen<br />

Comes a Train Of Little Ladies<br />

Al<strong>one</strong>, And Yet Alive<br />

Willow, Tit Willow<br />

There is Beauty In The Bellow of The Blast<br />

Tea & Cookies Don’t miss tea and cookies served in the lobby <strong>one</strong> hour<br />

before each concert. Compliments of Tetley Tea and Peek Freans.<br />

Visit the <strong>Symphony</strong> Gift Shop for CD selections<br />

TEA & TRUMPETS SERIES SPONSOR<br />

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BRAMWELL TOVEY<br />

CHRISTOPHER GAZE<br />

JILL PERT<br />

RICHARD SUART<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

For a biography of Maestro Tovey please<br />

refer to page 9.<br />

Christopher Gaze host<br />

Host of our Tea & Trumpets series and the<br />

Christmas concerts, Christopher Gaze is<br />

best known as Artistic Director of Bard on<br />

the Beach Shakespeare Festival, which<br />

has just celebrated its 21st season. Born in<br />

England and trained at the Bristol Old Vic<br />

Theatre School, Christopher has performed<br />

in England, the USA and across Canada,<br />

including Shaw Festival. He came to Canada<br />

in 1975 and moved to <strong>Vancouver</strong> in 1983. In<br />

1990 he founded Bard on the Beach, which<br />

he has nurtured to <strong>one</strong> of the most successful<br />

not-for-profit arts organizations in North<br />

America.<br />

His honours include induction into the<br />

BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, Canada’s<br />

Meritorious Service Medal, Honorary<br />

Doctorates from UBC and SFU, the BC<br />

Community Achievement Award, the<br />

Children’s Theatre Foundation of America’s<br />

Gold Medallion, and a Jessie Award for Best<br />

Supporting Actor for Equus at The Playhouse.<br />

A gifted public speaker, Christopher frequently<br />

shares his insights on Shakespeare and<br />

theatre with students, service organizations<br />

and businesses. This fall he will play Henry in<br />

The Fantasticks for The Playhouse.<br />

Jill Pert mezzo-soprano<br />

Jill’s early training and experience was<br />

in Canada, where she appeared in opera,<br />

concerts and oratorio. She returned to<br />

England in 1979 and as a member of the<br />

D’Oyly Carte Opera Company she played<br />

many principal roles throughout the U.K. and<br />

on tours of Australia and New Zealand.<br />

She has appeared at English National Opera<br />

(Street Scene, Clarissa, Princess Ida), on tour<br />

throughout the UK as the Mother Abbess<br />

in The Sound Of Music, at the Chichester<br />

Festival in Robert And Elizabeth, and played<br />

leading roles in regional theatres all over the<br />

country in My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Candide,<br />

Alice In Wonderland, Nunsense and Carousel,<br />

among many others. Above all, however, she<br />

is known for her interpretation of the G & S<br />

major contralto roles, originally for the D’Oyly<br />

Carte company, with whom she has also<br />

recorded them, and subsequently elsewhere.<br />

In 2009 she appeared for Holland Park Opera<br />

as Juno in a new production of Orpheus<br />

In The Underworld, and also appeared for<br />

Raymond Gubbay Ltd in a star-studded<br />

concert performance.<br />

Richard Suart barit<strong>one</strong><br />

Richard Suart was born in Lancashire<br />

and has worked for all the major British<br />

opera houses – for English National Opera;<br />

The Pirates of Penzance (Major-General),<br />

The Mikado (Ko-Ko), The Merry Widow<br />

(Baron Zeta), Agrippina (Lesbo) and Die<br />

Fledermaus (Frank): for Welsh National Opera;<br />

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UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE<br />

The Yeomen of the Guard (Jack Point), also<br />

at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden:<br />

for Opera North; Playing Away (Stan Stock),<br />

Of Thee I sing (French Ambassador), Let ‘em<br />

eat cake (General Snookfield) and Paradise<br />

Moscow (Barabashkin).<br />

Work abroad includes The Mikado (City<br />

Opera, New York, Venice, <strong>Vancouver</strong>), Iolanthe<br />

(San Francisco <strong>Symphony</strong>), After Life (Der<br />

Nederlands Oper and L’Opera Nationale de<br />

Lyon), Playing Away and Paradise Moscow<br />

(Bregenz), Le Grand Macabre (Salzburg<br />

Festival ), Candide at The Hollywood Bowl .<br />

He has recorded several Savoy Operas<br />

with WNO under Sir Charles Mackerras;<br />

other recordings include Greek, The Geisha,<br />

Candide, The Maid of the Mountains, The<br />

Fairy Queen, and The Little Prince.<br />

He is a regular visitor to the International G&S<br />

Festival in Buxton and is a Fellow of the Royal<br />

Academy of Music.<br />

UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

The University of British Columbia Opera<br />

Ensemble was founded by Canadian lyric<br />

coloratura Nancy Hermiston in 1995.<br />

Beginning with a core of seven performers,<br />

Ms. Hermiston has built the program to a<br />

70-member company, now performing three<br />

main-stage productions at UBC every season,<br />

seven Opera Tea Concerts, and several<br />

engagements with local community partners.<br />

The Ensemble’s mission is to educate<br />

young gifted opera singers preparing them<br />

for international careers. Past main-stage<br />

productions have included Le Nozze di<br />

Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Gärtnerin aus<br />

Liebe, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Robert<br />

Ward’s The Crucible based on the Pulitzer<br />

Prize winning play by Arthur Miller, Gianni<br />

Schicchi, Suor Angelica, La Bohème, Dido<br />

and Aeneas, The Merry Widow, The Bartered<br />

Bride, Manon, Eugene Onegin, Florence Lady<br />

with the Lamp, Dreamhealer, Falstaff and the<br />

Western Canadian Premiere of Harry Somer’s<br />

Louis Riel. In the 2010-2011 Season, the<br />

Ensemble presents Mozart’s Don Giovanni,<br />

and Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, in the<br />

renewed Old Auditorium and Massenet’s<br />

Cendrillon in the Chan Centre. ■


CONCERT PROGRAM<br />

LONDON DRUGS SYMPHONY POPS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM<br />

friday & saturday, october 8, 9<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Tracy Dahl soprano<br />

Jill Pert mezzo-soprano<br />

Philippe Castagner tenor<br />

Richard Suart barit<strong>one</strong><br />

UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan<br />

HMS PINAFORE<br />

We Sail The Ocean Blue<br />

I’m Called Little Buttercup<br />

Now Give Three Cheers<br />

When I Was A Lad<br />

PIRATES OF PENZANCE<br />

When Frederic Was A Little Lad<br />

Climbing Over Rocky Mountains<br />

Stop Ladies Pray<br />

Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast<br />

Poor Wandering One<br />

I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General<br />

PATIENCE<br />

Am I Al<strong>one</strong> – If You’re Anxious So To Shine<br />

Sad Is That Woman’s Lot<br />

So Go To Him<br />

Intermission<br />

MIKADO<br />

If You Want To Know Who We Are<br />

A Wandering Minstrel I<br />

Behold The Lord High Executi<strong>one</strong>r<br />

As Some Day It May Happen<br />

Comes a Train Of Little Ladies<br />

Three Little Maids From School<br />

The Sun Whose Rays<br />

Mi-Ya Sa-Ma<br />

Al<strong>one</strong>, And Yet Alive<br />

Willow, Tit Willow<br />

There is Beauty In The Bellow of The Blast<br />

Finale<br />

Visit the <strong>Symphony</strong> Gift Shop for CD selections<br />

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RADIO SPONSOR<br />

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BRAMWELL TOVEY<br />

TRACY DAHL<br />

JILL PERT<br />

PHILIPPE CASTAGNER<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

For a biography of Maestro Tovey please<br />

refer to page 9.<br />

Tracy Dahl soprano<br />

With her 2006 debut at La Scala as Zerbinetta<br />

in Ariadne auf Naxos, Canada’s premier<br />

coloratura soprano Tracy Dahl has taken<br />

another milest<strong>one</strong> in a career that has<br />

brought her together with such opera houses<br />

as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco<br />

Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera,<br />

Canadian Opera Company, and the Chatelet<br />

in Paris, to name a few. Her “superlative<br />

coloratura” (Globe and Mail), “deliciously<br />

accurate, stratospheric” (Opera), is regularly<br />

singled out by critics. “Her extreme high<br />

notes, and she threw in a lot of them, are<br />

easy and spectacular.” (Boston Globe). In<br />

2009 she was awarded the prestigious Opera<br />

Canada Award.<br />

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the Philharmonic in both Avery Fisher and<br />

Carnegie Halls.<br />

RICHARD SUART<br />

UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE<br />

Richard Suart barit<strong>one</strong><br />

For a biography of Richard Suart please<br />

refer to page 19.<br />

UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

For a biography of UBC Opera Ensemble<br />

please refer to page 21. ■<br />

Her discography includes A Disney<br />

Spectacular with the Cincinnati Pops<br />

(Telarc), Glitter and Be Gay with the Calgary<br />

Philharmonic (CBC), A Gilbert and Sullivan<br />

Gala with the Winnipeg <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

(CBC), and Love Walked In, a Gershwin<br />

collection with the Bramwell Tovey Trio (Red<br />

Ph<strong>one</strong> Box Company).<br />

Jill Pert mezzo-soprano<br />

For a biography of Jill Pert please<br />

refer to page 19.<br />

Philippe Castagner tenor<br />

Canadian-American tenor Philippe Castagner<br />

is recognized for his beautiful and natural<br />

sound, as well as a fresh and appealing<br />

presence on symphonic, operatic and recital<br />

stages. Born in Canada and raised in New<br />

Jersey, Mr. Castagner joined The Metropolitan<br />

Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development<br />

Program in 2002 and made his Metropolitan<br />

Opera debut that season as the First Pris<strong>one</strong>r<br />

in Fidelio and, later, as Beppe in I Pagliacci.<br />

Though only in his fourth professional<br />

season, Mr. Castagner has already made a<br />

number of auspicious debuts with a wide<br />

variety of operatic and symphonic repertoire.<br />

He has bowed as both Iopas and Hylas in<br />

Les Troyens, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore,<br />

Ferrando in Così fan Tutte, and Tamino in<br />

Die Zauberflöte, to name a few. He sang<br />

Freddy in the New York Philharmonic’s<br />

production of My Fair Lady with Kelli O’Hara<br />

and Kelsey Grammar and the tenor roles<br />

in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges with


BRAMWELL TOVEY WITH THE VSO<br />

CONCERT PROGRAM<br />

SPECTRA ENERGY KIDS’ KONCERTS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 2PM<br />

sunday, october 10<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor / piano<br />

Scott Good narrator / tromb<strong>one</strong><br />

Inspector Tovey Investigates Composing<br />

Scott Good/Dwight SChenk An Ocean Called Owen (World Premiere)<br />

Inspector Tovey returns to investigate how music gets from the page to your ears!<br />

VSO Instrument Fair The Kids’ Koncerts series continues with the popular VSO Instrument<br />

Fair, which allows music lovers of all ages (but especially kids!) to touch and play real<br />

orchestra instruments in the Orpheum lobby <strong>one</strong> hour before concert start time. And don’t miss<br />

the special Composition Table, where kids can “write” their own music—and have it played by<br />

a member of the VSO! All instruments are generously provided by Tom Lee Music.<br />

Visit the <strong>Symphony</strong> Gift Shop for CD selections<br />

KIDS’ KONCERTS SERIES Co-Sponsor<br />

PREMIER EDUCATION PARTNER<br />

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The VSO’s Kids’ Koncerts have been endowed by a<br />

generous gift from the William & Irene McEwen Fund.


SCOTT GOOD<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

For a biography of Maestro Tovey please<br />

refer to page 9.<br />

Scott Good<br />

Dwight Schenk<br />

An Ocena Called Owen (World Premiere)<br />

Several years ago, songwriter Dwight Schenk<br />

and composer Scott Good got together to<br />

make some music. A few “jams” and a typo<br />

led to their first collaboration – a tribute<br />

concert to the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.<br />

An Ocean Called Owen is their second<br />

collaboration.<br />

Owen lives deep down in the dirt, where the<br />

roots don’t reach and the sun don’t shine.<br />

This work, made for enjoyment for all ages,<br />

tells the tale of Owen searching for that<br />

something that keeps calling, taking him out<br />

of the ground, into the wide world. Through<br />

several encounters, Owen learns the valuable<br />

lesson that “You can’t move on without a<br />

push from the lessons of the past”.<br />

Scored for full symphony orchestra, it<br />

features narrator Scott Good (with some help<br />

from his tromb<strong>one</strong>), and Bramwell Tovey<br />

playing the 88’s. ■<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Scott Good<br />

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Marc-André Hamelin’s unique blend of<br />

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Franz Schubert<br />

b. Vienna, Austria / January 31, 1797<br />

d. Vienna, Austria / November 19, 1828<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 8 in B minor, Unfinished<br />

Franz Schubert was the ultimate tragic poet<br />

of music. With his death at the very young<br />

age of thirty-<strong>one</strong> passed possibly the greatest<br />

writer of melody the world has known before<br />

or since – only surpassed by Mozart and<br />

Beethoven, if at all.<br />

By the time of his death, Schubert had written<br />

a staggering total of nearly <strong>one</strong> thousand<br />

works, including some of the most beloved<br />

works in the Classical repertoire. His was not<br />

always an appreciated genius, not even to<br />

himself: it was not until after his death that<br />

his music was rediscovered, collected and<br />

published.<br />

Mostly self-taught (<strong>one</strong> of his only teachers<br />

was the famous Antonio Salieri, and another<br />

famously stated about the ten-year old<br />

Schubert, “…I merely conversed with him<br />

and watched him with silent astonishment.”),<br />

the preternaturally-gifted Schubert produced<br />

many masterpieces for full orchestra,<br />

chamber ensembles, extraordinary vocal<br />

works, and piano.<br />

In an unfinished life, stands the “Unfinished”<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 8. It is unclear why the work<br />

remained unfinished, especially given that the<br />

two completed movements represent some<br />

of the finest writing of Schubert’s career.<br />

It is, however, most likely that composition<br />

stopped when the composer contracted<br />

syphilis in November of 1822 (the two<br />

completed movements of the work were<br />

composed in October and November of that<br />

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year). Indeed, perhaps the music itself is the<br />

greatest clue, as it is suffused with agitation,<br />

stark tonal contrast, and a somber underlying<br />

mood. Though a short major key interlude<br />

shines through the thunderclouds of the first<br />

movement, it is dominated by contrasting<br />

ideas and a mood of uneasiness that can’t be<br />

shaken.<br />

The second movement starts off peacefully<br />

enough, and ends this way as well – but<br />

in between, the music is agitated and<br />

the somber mood prevails. A brilliant and<br />

complex, yet unfinished work, perhaps this<br />

symphony is tragic foreboding of a brilliant,<br />

complex and unfinished life.<br />

Wolfgang<br />

Amadeus Mozart<br />

b. Salzburg, Austria / January 27, 1756<br />

d. Vienna, Austria / December 5, 1791<br />

Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543<br />

It is intriguing to theorize that the<br />

compositional form of piano concerto can be<br />

used to trace the development of Mozart’s<br />

musical style – and, indeed, the Classical<br />

style itself, as the twenty-seven concerti for<br />

piano and orchestra that Mozart wrote span<br />

his entire career.<br />

The very first concerti are adaptations of<br />

Baroque sonatas, while the last handful<br />

foreshadow the passion of the Romantic<br />

movement about to appear. His Piano<br />

Concerto No. 24 in C minor is <strong>one</strong> of only<br />

two of his twenty-seven concerti written in<br />

a minor key (the other being the D minor No.<br />

20) and is <strong>one</strong> of Mozart’s most important<br />

works. Considered by some to be his greatest<br />

and most complete concerto, the work<br />

dramatically foreshadows the Romantic era<br />

about to be ushered in by Beethoven – and<br />

indeed, Beethoven himself was strongly<br />

influenced by this concerto.<br />

An aspect of Mozart’s music that is not often<br />

shown creeps into this work early and often:<br />

a passionate, brooding, almost tragic feeling<br />

permeates the concerto, an underlying<br />

presence from beginning to end. The work<br />

opens ominously, the principal theme<br />

announced stridently (this theme strongly<br />

inspired Beethoven’s C minor Concerto No.<br />

3) by the orchestra, before the piano enters<br />

singing a different tune; the soloist soon<br />

comes around to the principal theme setting<br />

the t<strong>one</strong> for the movement, a t<strong>one</strong> that<br />

marches forward without distraction.<br />

The second movement is dreamy, yet sad and<br />

nostalgic, the principal theme weaving itself<br />

throughout the fabric of the movement in <strong>one</strong><br />

form or another.<br />

A set of eight variations carried by different<br />

sections of the orchestra and the soloist,<br />

the finale is <strong>one</strong> of sparkling brilliance that,<br />

again, never loses its patina of sadness;<br />

especially as the piano introduces the last of<br />

the variations and the minor key takes us to a<br />

dramatic yet ambiguous ending.<br />

“Mozart’s symphonies<br />

shine with their own particular<br />

brilliance...”<br />

Though all of Mozart’s symphonies shine<br />

with their own particular brilliance, the final<br />

great trio of symphonies, 39 to 41, truly rise<br />

above. <strong>Symphony</strong> No. 39 in E-flat is the least<br />

known of this last trio; it is a work that is<br />

not as dramatic as the 40th, and <strong>one</strong> that<br />

doesn’t have the shining brilliance the Jupiter<br />

symphony. But it was created on an heroic<br />

scale, in a climate of nobility foreshadowing<br />

The Magic Flute. Though this symphony is<br />

the <strong>one</strong> most obviously indebted to Joseph<br />

Haydn, the end result of the combination of<br />

forms and devices is completely Mozart.<br />

The nobility is restrained, the humour<br />

refined, the orchestration and melodies<br />

crisp and efficient, yet flush with brilliance<br />

and innovation – all typical characteristics<br />

of Mozart’s music. The piece does stray<br />

somewhat from Mozart’s normal modus<br />

operandi, though, in its unusual ending:<br />

a compact, open-ended idea dominates<br />

the finale, posing a question rather than a<br />

resolution – leaving<br />

the audience anticipating more. ■<br />

Program notes ©2010 Sophia Vincent<br />

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Günther Herbig conductor<br />

Günther Herbig left behind the challenging<br />

political environment of East Germany<br />

and moved to the United States in 1984,<br />

where he has since conducted all of the<br />

top-tier orchestras, including the New York<br />

Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the<br />

Cleveland <strong>Orchestra</strong>, Philadelphia <strong>Orchestra</strong>,<br />

and the Chicago, Boston, and San Francisco<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>s.<br />

Posts Herbig has held include music director<br />

of the Detroit <strong>Symphony</strong> and the Toronto<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong>, Principal Guest Conductor of<br />

both the Dallas <strong>Symphony</strong> and the BBC<br />

Philharmonic <strong>Orchestra</strong>, and general music<br />

director of both the Dresden Philharmonic<br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> and Berlin <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>.<br />

Currently he is Artistic Advisor of the National<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> of Taiwan and Principal<br />

Guest Conductor of Las Palmas in the Grand<br />

Canaries, Spain.<br />

Key figures in his musical training include<br />

Hermann Abendroth, Hermann Scherchen,<br />

and Herbert von Karajan. He has recorded<br />

over 100 works with a variety of East German<br />

orchestras, Toronto <strong>Symphony</strong>, Orchestre de<br />

Paris, BBC Philharmonic <strong>Orchestra</strong>, Royal<br />

Philharmonic <strong>Orchestra</strong>, and others.<br />

Dale Barltrop violin<br />

Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Dale Barltrop<br />

has performed across North America, Europe<br />

and Australia. He served as Principal Second<br />

Violin in the Saint Paul Chamber <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

for six years prior to being appointed<br />

Concertmaster of the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong>.<br />

As a soloist, Barltrop has performed with the<br />

Bloomington <strong>Symphony</strong>, Maryland Chamber<br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong>, University of Maryland <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

and back home with the Queensland<br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> and Queensland Pops <strong>Orchestra</strong>.<br />

He served as Associate Concertmaster of the<br />

Akron <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> and 1st violinist<br />

of the Verklärte Quartet, which won the grand<br />

prize at the 2003 Fischoff National Chamber<br />

Music Competition.<br />

Barltrop moved to the United States in<br />

1998 to attend the University of Maryland<br />

as a student of Gerald Fischbach and the<br />

Guarneri Quartet. He continued his studies<br />

at the Cleveland Institute of Music with<br />

William Preucil. Barltrop has a keen interest<br />

in teaching and has served on the faculty of<br />

the National <strong>Orchestra</strong>l Institute and worked<br />

regularly with the Greater Twin Cities Youth<br />

Symphonies.<br />

Ludwig van Beethoven<br />

b. Bonn, Germany / December 15, 1770<br />

d. Vienna, Austria / March 26, 1827<br />

Coriolan Overture, Op. 62<br />

According to Plutarch, an historian of ancient<br />

Rome, Coriolanus was a general whose<br />

troops defeated a neighbouring tribe, the<br />

Volscians. Coriolanus’ hatred of the uncouth<br />

citizens who ruled his native city led him to<br />

insult them, resulting in his exile. Driven by<br />

his need for revenge, he joined the Volscians<br />

to attack Rome. The city lay at his mercy, until<br />

his foes sent his wife, mother and young son<br />

to plead with him for clemency. Coriolanus<br />

relented, and the Volscians, feeling betrayed,<br />

slew him.<br />

William Shakespeare used Plutarch’s writings<br />

as the basis for a play, Coriolanus. Coriolan,<br />

Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s stage version<br />

of the story, opened in Vienna in 1802.<br />

Beethoven composed his stirring Coriolan<br />

Overture in 1807. By that time, Collin’s<br />

play had vanished from the stage. It was<br />

remounted the next month, however, largely<br />

in order to profit from Beethoven’s superbly<br />

dramatic musical evocation.<br />

Robert Schumann<br />

b. Zwickau, Germany / June 8, 1810<br />

d. Endenich, Germany / July 29, 1856<br />

Violin Concerto in D minor<br />

Schumann composed this concerto in<br />

September and October 1853. It took him<br />

just 13 days, a typical result of his profoundly<br />

manic-depressive condition. Four months<br />

later, he attempted suicide by jumping into<br />

the Rhine. He spent the remaining years of his<br />

life confined to an asylum.<br />

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He had composed the concerto for the<br />

celebrated soloist, Joseph Joachim, for whom<br />

Johannes Brahms would create his concerto<br />

twenty-five years later. He sent the autograph<br />

manuscript to Joachim, who did nothing with<br />

it at first. Following a rehearsal two years<br />

after the composer’s death, Joachim, Brahms<br />

and Schumann’s widow, Clara, decided<br />

that releasing a piece which they held to be<br />

inferior would damage Robert’s reputation.<br />

Joachim deposited the manuscript in the<br />

Prussian State Library in Berlin, with the<br />

stipulation that the concerto not be performed<br />

until 100 years after Schumann’s death.<br />

During the 1930s, Joachim’s great-niece,<br />

the violinist Jelly d’Aranyi, became aware<br />

of the concerto’s existence, allegedly<br />

through contact with Schumann through<br />

the spirit world. She pressed to be granted<br />

the premiere. So did Yehudi Menuhin, who<br />

received permission to do so after the work<br />

was published in 1937. Both artists were<br />

over-ridden by Nazi officials, who claimed<br />

copyright on the concerto and insisted that a<br />

German violinist give the first performance.<br />

Georg Kulenkampf was the soloist at the<br />

premiere, in Berlin in November 1937.<br />

The concerto is more concerned with<br />

expressiveness and poetic fantasy than<br />

virtuosity and simple excitement. An<br />

orchestral introduction presents the main<br />

themes of the opening movement. The<br />

first is forceful, and the second, lyrical. The<br />

second movement is a sweet, gentle reverie<br />

in the manner of Schumann’s songs. The<br />

cheerful finale, featuring delightful writing for<br />

woodwinds, follows on without a break.<br />

Dmitry Shostakovich<br />

b. St. Petersburg, Russia / September 25, 1906<br />

d. Moscow, Russia / August 9, 1975<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93<br />

Shostakovich spent many of his most<br />

productive years under the oppressive regime<br />

of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Following<br />

Stalin’s death in 1953, Shostakovich quickly<br />

set to work on a new symphony, his first in<br />

eight years. He completed <strong>Symphony</strong> No. 10<br />

on October 25. Yevgeny Mravinsky conducted<br />

the premiere in Leningrad on December<br />

17. The debate over its merits, which was<br />

eventually resolved in his favour, played a<br />

role in the reinstatement of increased artistic<br />

expression in the USSR.<br />

When he was asked if the new symphony<br />

had a program, Shostakovich replied, “No,<br />

let them listen and guess for themselves,”<br />

adding that he wanted simply “to portray<br />

human emotions and passions.” Testimony,<br />

the controversial book of memoirs published<br />

in 1979, gives quite a different account,<br />

stating “It’s about Stalin and the Stalin<br />

years. The second part, the scherzo, is a<br />

musical portrait of him, roughly speaking.<br />

Of course, there are other things in it, but<br />

that’s the basis.” Whatever its inspirations,<br />

this dramatic and forceful work, sparked<br />

by slashes of dark wit, is <strong>one</strong> of his finest<br />

achievements.<br />

The first movement is the longest of the four.<br />

Opening with sober, desolate ruminations,<br />

it rises to a prolonged climax of searing<br />

intensity. The music winds down slowly, to<br />

end as bleakly as it began. In the final pages,<br />

two piccolos warble forlornly as dusk falls<br />

over a battle-scarred landscape.<br />

Harshly scored and driven by relentless,<br />

maniacal energy, the brief second movement<br />

delivers <strong>one</strong> of the most concentrated<br />

outbursts of fury in all music.<br />

Enigmatic and unsettling, the third movement<br />

refuses to offer consolation for what has<br />

preceded it. It features a series of expressive<br />

solos for wind instruments and a bitter, ironic<br />

climax that borders on hysteria.<br />

The finale opens with a mournful introduction<br />

in slow tempo, once again featuring wind<br />

solos. But then clarinet and strings announce<br />

a merry dance tune, at last allowing a ray<br />

of sunlight to brighten the scene. There can<br />

be no possibility of unclouded optimism;<br />

shadowed moments crop up, and at times the<br />

rejoicing takes on an almost frenzied edge.<br />

This music does not so much celebrate the<br />

present as it expresses a wish for freer, less<br />

troubled days ahead. ■<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Don Anderson<br />

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Bramwell Tovey, the Bach Choir and members of the vso<br />

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Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

Joni Henson soprano<br />

Emilia Boteva mezzo-soprano<br />

Roger H<strong>one</strong>ywell tenor<br />

Alain Coulombe bass<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Bach Choir<br />

Verdi’s epic Requiem is a magnificent choral<br />

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Lord of the rings <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

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Beethoven<br />

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Lord of the<br />

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Markus Huber conductor<br />

Ann De Renais soprano<br />

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Alessandro Juliani narrator<br />

CORELLI<br />

Concerto Grosso in D Major<br />

TELEMANN<br />

Don Quixote Suite<br />

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CHANTAL KREVIAZUK<br />

PIERRE SIMARD<br />

Chantal Kreviazuk<br />

Chantal Kreviazuk has been awake for hours,<br />

making sure that her three boys have been<br />

fed and dressed. She is also well into her<br />

day job, which today finds her writing songs<br />

for Faith Hill’s upcoming album. Somewhere<br />

along the way she’s begun working on live<br />

arrangements for her first tour in years and is<br />

looking ahead at a full schedule of interviews<br />

to promote her own new album, Plain Jane.<br />

It’s not even 9am.<br />

This is all normal for Kreviazuk, who finds<br />

herself in the middle of being a mommy, a<br />

performer and a sought-after songwriter.<br />

She is oblivious to the fact that she’s the<br />

antithesis of her album title, a woman who<br />

has quietly built <strong>one</strong> of the most envious<br />

careers in music. She shrugs off any<br />

suggestion that she’s a Player. “It’s very hard<br />

for me to put on. I think I’m incredibly boring.”<br />

It’s been anything but a traditional ride<br />

through the music business for Chantal. Her<br />

first album was shot out of the Canadian<br />

Music Cannon, snagging a Juno ® nomination<br />

for Best New Artist. Her three following<br />

albums would cement Kreviazuk as <strong>one</strong> of the<br />

premiere artists in Canada.<br />

Pierre Simard conductor<br />

In his first season as Assistant Conductor of<br />

the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>, Pierre<br />

Simard is also Artistic Director with both the<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Island <strong>Symphony</strong> (BC) and the<br />

Orchestre Symphonique de Drummondville<br />

(QC). Having served as Associate Conductor<br />

with the Calgary Philharmonic <strong>Orchestra</strong>, he<br />

also performs as guest conductor with major<br />

orchestras in Milwaukee, Toronto, Ottawa<br />

(National Arts Centre), Victoria, Hamilton,<br />

Okanagan, Hot Springs (AR), Trois-Rivières,<br />

Québec’s Les Violons du Roy and Montreal’s<br />

Orchestre Métropolitain.<br />

A passionate supporter of orchestral<br />

repertoire, Pierre devotes himself to<br />

reinventing the concert form, combining his<br />

fresh ideas, fantasy and humour with music.<br />

His outstanding creativity and engagement<br />

with youth audiences inspire him to write and<br />

perform original symphonic shows, featured<br />

all across Canada. Holder of a Master’s<br />

Degree in Conducting from the Peabody<br />

Institute and five Conservatory Prizes from<br />

the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal,<br />

Pierre studied with Raffi Armenian, Frederik<br />

Prausnitz, JoAnn Falletta and Marin Alsop. ■<br />

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Elgar Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40<br />

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♦ Elgar/arr. Tovey Three Miniatures for Violin and <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

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BRAMWELL TOVEY<br />

MARTIN CHALIFOUR<br />

Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

For a biography of Maestro Tovey please<br />

refer to page 9.<br />

Martin Chalifour violin<br />

Martin Chalifour has held the prestigious post<br />

of Principal Concertmaster of the Los Angeles<br />

Philharmonic since 1985. In addition to his<br />

orchestral schedule, Mr. Chalifour maintains<br />

an active career as a guest soloist and<br />

chamber musician, traveling across Canada<br />

and the U.S. as well as Europe, Australia,<br />

Mexico and the Orient.<br />

Born in Montreal, Canada, Martin Chalifour<br />

began playing violin at the age of four with<br />

the Suzuki Method. At the age of eighteen,<br />

he was awarded three distinct top national<br />

awards in a single year including the<br />

International Stepping St<strong>one</strong>, subsequently<br />

graduating from the Montreal Conservatory<br />

with the highest honors. He then studied at<br />

the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.<br />

His teachers have included Jascha Brodsky,<br />

David Cer<strong>one</strong>, Taras Gabora and Ivan<br />

Galamian.<br />

Chalifour teaches at the University of<br />

Southern California’s Thornton School of<br />

Music in Los Angeles, and is a founding<br />

member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic<br />

Piano Trio. He records for Yarlung Records.<br />

His next release will feature live performances<br />

in Disney Hall – including Mozart’s Concerto<br />

No. 5 conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Youth<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

The <strong>Vancouver</strong> Youth <strong>Symphony</strong> has a long,<br />

proud history in <strong>Vancouver</strong>, dating back to<br />

1930. An amateur flautist named R. Cyril<br />

Haworth was the prime mover in forming the<br />

“<strong>Vancouver</strong> Little <strong>Symphony</strong>,” first under the<br />

direction of the students themselves and later,<br />

under the baton of its first Music Director, Mr.<br />

George Coutts. Mr. Coutts was known to be<br />

“<strong>one</strong> of the very best,” “a fun kind of chap”<br />

and a Scottish-trained, all-round musician<br />

with talent and generosity as a community<br />

leader.<br />

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The orchestra thrived and in 1938, the<br />

ensemble became an “educational<br />

project” of the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> and the name was changed to<br />

“<strong>Vancouver</strong> Junior <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>”.<br />

In 1945 the group was reorganized as an<br />

independent and became the “<strong>Vancouver</strong><br />

Youth <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>.” Today, the<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Youth <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> is a<br />

dynamic, independent organization that is<br />

recognized throughout Greater <strong>Vancouver</strong> for<br />

its very fine, multi level orchestral training<br />

programme. VYSO musicians continue to<br />

proudly represent <strong>Vancouver</strong> locally, nationally<br />

and internationally. Many former VYSO<br />

musicians have g<strong>one</strong> on to acclaimed musical<br />

careers and there is never a shortage of<br />

current young VYSO musicians following in<br />

their paths. The <strong>Vancouver</strong> Youth <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> continues to offer the highest level<br />

of musical training, to nurture and develop<br />

young musicians for decades to come. VSO<br />

Principal Oboe Roger Cole is the current<br />

Artistic Director & Senior <strong>Orchestra</strong> Conductor<br />

of the VYSO.<br />

Eric Coates<br />

b. Hucknall, England / August 27, 1886<br />

d. Chichester, England / December 21, 1957<br />

London Suite: Knightsbridge March<br />

Unlike composers such as Elgar and Vaughan<br />

Williams, for whom “light” music represented<br />

only the occasional diversion from their<br />

“serious” pursuits, Coates was a “light” man<br />

to the fingertips – and proud of it. The London<br />

Suite (1932) marked his breakthrough to<br />

international fame. The Knightsbridge district<br />

is home to Harrod’s and other renowned<br />

retailers. The suite’s cheerful concluding<br />

march (theme music for a long-running BBC<br />

Radio programme, In Town Tonight) captures<br />

its energy and elegance.<br />

Sir Edward Elgar<br />

b. Broadheath, England / June 2, 1857<br />

d. Worcester, England / February 23, 1934<br />

Cockaigne Overture, Op. 40<br />

Elgar preferred country living to the city.<br />

He clearly kept a warm spot in his heart<br />

for London, however, as this robust concert<br />

overture clearly demonstrates. He composed<br />

it over the winter of 1900/1901, and<br />

conducted the highly successful première<br />

himself on June 20.<br />

The title originated in the medieval legend<br />

of Cockaigne, a mythical land of plenty.<br />

The name later came to be associated in a<br />

humorous way with London. Although Elgar’s<br />

overture bears no official program, he told<br />

friends that it portrays the sights and sounds<br />

of the English capital. In it may be heard the<br />

cries of street urchins, the parading by of<br />

brass bands, and music for the contrasting<br />

areas of quiet, reflection and romance which<br />

dot the face of London.<br />

Ralph Vaughan Williams<br />

b. Down Ampney, England / October 12, 1872<br />

d. London, England / August 26, 1958<br />

The Lark Ascending<br />

It would be difficult to imagine a stronger<br />

contrast than that between this peaceful<br />

idyll and the state of world affairs when it<br />

was written. It dates from 1914, as Europe<br />

teetered on the brink of the most horrific<br />

conflict humanity had yet witnessed.<br />

The solo violin sings the lark’s achingly<br />

beautiful songs. At first the orchestral strings<br />

envelope it in a soft halo of sound, as it soars<br />

gracefully above a sun-dappled summer<br />

countryside. A gentle dance-like rhythm<br />

animates the central section, where the<br />

lark trills in contented rapture. Tranquility<br />

is restored in the concluding panel, which<br />

evokes sunset, in both the physical and<br />

spiritual senses. Beauty will endure, it seems,<br />

despite the changes wrought by time and<br />

circumstance.<br />

Sir Edward Elgar<br />

Arranged by Bramwell Tovey<br />

Three Miniatures for Violin and <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

Elgar was equally adept at composing short,<br />

charming works as he did longer, more<br />

ambitious <strong>one</strong>s. Two of these three pieces<br />

began as works for violin and piano: La<br />

capricieuse (The Capricious One, 1891), and<br />

Chanson de Nuit (Night Song, 1897).<br />

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The Mazurka was an orchestral work from<br />

the start. It first appeared in 1888 as part of<br />

a suite. Elgar revised it eleven years later as<br />

the first of the Three Characteristic Pieces.<br />

La capricieuse is suitably light and teasing.<br />

Chanson de Nuit shows Elgar in a warm,<br />

thoughtful mood. The Mazurka is a hearty<br />

exercise in folk-flavoured dance music, in this<br />

case with a Polish accent.<br />

Sir Arnold Bax<br />

b. London, England / November 8, 1883<br />

d. Cork, Ireland / October 3, 1953<br />

Tintagel<br />

A self-proclaimed “brazen Romantic,” Bax<br />

developed a majestic style which reached<br />

its peak in seven symphonies and a group of<br />

atmospheric symphonic poems inspired by<br />

Celtic mythology and the British landscape.<br />

Tintagel (1917) takes its name from a village<br />

in Cornwall on England’s southwest coast.<br />

Over the rugged, wind-swept landscape brood<br />

the ruins of an ancient castle associated with<br />

the legends of King Arthur and Tristan.<br />

The printed introduction states, “The<br />

composer’s intention is simply to offer a<br />

tonal impression of the castle-crowned cliff<br />

of Tintagel, and more especially of the long<br />

distances of the Atlantic as seen from the<br />

hills of Cornwall on a sunny but not windless<br />

summer day.”<br />

“(Grainger)...produced<br />

a long series of unique and<br />

treasurable arrangements...”<br />

Gustav Holst<br />

b. Cheltenham, England / September 21, 1874<br />

d. London, England / May 25, 1934<br />

The Perfect Fool, Op. 39: Ballet Music<br />

Holst is known internationally solely by his<br />

spectacular orchestral suite The Planets, but<br />

the best of him will be found in his mystical<br />

choral works and expert folk-song settings.<br />

The comic opera The Perfect Fool debuted in<br />

London in 1923. Its oddball libretto, written<br />

by Holst himself, ensured its lack of success<br />

in the theatre, but the ballet music which<br />

opens the first scene has taken on a life of its<br />

own as a concert piece. Tromb<strong>one</strong>s sound a<br />

commanding invocation; a wizard summons<br />

three sets of spirits, representing earth, water<br />

and fire; each dances to brilliantly scored,<br />

richly characterized music. ■<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Don Anderson<br />

Percy Grainger<br />

b. Melbourne, Australia / July 8, 1882<br />

d. White Plains, New York, USA / February 20, 1961<br />

Londonderry Air<br />

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg instilled<br />

in Grainger a love of folk music, regardless<br />

of its origin. Grainger took to the British<br />

countryside, a primitive recording machine<br />

strapped to his back. He recorded numerous<br />

folk songs on location, then produced<br />

a long series of unique and treasurable<br />

arrangements of them. He created his rich<br />

setting of Londonderry Air (a melody also<br />

known as Irish Tune from County Derry, and<br />

Danny Boy) in 1909.<br />

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Bramwell Tovey conductor<br />

For a biography of Maestro Tovey please<br />

refer to page 9.<br />

Stephen Hough piano<br />

With a singular vision that transcends musical<br />

fashions and trends, Stephen Hough is widely<br />

regarded as <strong>one</strong> of the most important and<br />

distinctive pianists of his generation. In<br />

recognition of his achievements, he was<br />

awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship<br />

in 2001, joining prominent scientists,<br />

writers and others who have made unique<br />

contributions to contemporary life. He<br />

received the 2008 Northwestern University<br />

School of Music’s Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in<br />

Piano Performance and was recently named<br />

winner of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic<br />

Society Instrumentalist Award.<br />

Mr. Hough has appeared with most of the<br />

major American and European orchestras<br />

and plays recitals regularly in the important<br />

halls and concert series around the world.<br />

A resident of London, Mr. Hough is a visiting<br />

professor at the Royal Academy of Music in<br />

London and holds the International Chair of<br />

Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal<br />

Northern College in Manchester.<br />

Scott Good<br />

b. Toronto, Ontario / April 8, 1972<br />

Prelude for <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

In 1996, I was fortunate to receive 1 st prize in<br />

the Winnipeg <strong>Symphony</strong>’s annual composer’s<br />

competition. The prize included a commission<br />

for a new work, and the Prelude was that<br />

commission. The premiere in 1998 was<br />

conducted by n<strong>one</strong> other than Maestro Tovey!<br />

So this performance is like a reunion of sorts.<br />

The version of this work for the performances<br />

with the VSO will be of a newly revised<br />

version of the piece...and a new title. The<br />

original title, Fantasie Symphonique, has been<br />

endlessly confused with the work by Berlioz<br />

of similar sound (can you guess!). It had<br />

to go! The new title Prelude refers not only<br />

to the quality of the music, as an opening<br />

work, but also to its place in my career as a<br />

composer. Prelude was my first commission<br />

for a professional orchestra, and is symbolic<br />

of the beginning of my life as a professional<br />

musician. The mood is dark, but vibrant –<br />

youthful in energy, but serious in t<strong>one</strong>.<br />

“the mood is dark, but vibrant<br />

– youthful in energy...”<br />

It is a great privilege to have this work<br />

re-mounted! It has always had a special place<br />

in my heart, and I’m thrilled to be sharing<br />

it with you.<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Scott Good<br />

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky<br />

b. Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia / May 7, 1840<br />

d. St. Petersburg, Russia / November 6, 1893<br />

Piano Concerto No. 3<br />

in E-flat Major, Op. 75<br />

The immense and enduring popularity of<br />

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 has cast<br />

his other two piano concertos completely into<br />

the shade. They may not be as immediately<br />

attractive as No. 1, but they do not deserve<br />

the obscurity into which they have fallen. The<br />

foremost difficulty with No. 3 is that it has<br />

just <strong>one</strong> movement. This makes it necessary<br />

for soloists to play a second work of roughly<br />

equal length – something they are often<br />

reluctant to do. Thank goodness for generous<br />

and adventurous artists like Stephen Hough!<br />

Tchaikovsky began a symphony (it would<br />

have been the sixth) in 1892. The sketches<br />

didn’t fit the symphonic mould, so in the<br />

summer of 1893 he began transforming<br />

them into a three-movement piano concerto.<br />

He completed only the first section before<br />

he died in November. It was published as<br />

Piano Concerto No. 3. Later his pupil, Sergei<br />

Taneyev, edited and orchestrated the second<br />

and third movements and published them as<br />

the Andante and Finale, Op. 79. He appeared<br />

as soloist in the premieres of all these pieces.<br />

Concerto No. 3 is constructed on three<br />

themes. The first is bold and commanding;<br />

the second mines Tchaikovsky’s deep vein<br />

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of lyrical yearning; the third is a cheeky tune<br />

with the flavour of a Russian folk dance. An<br />

expansive and thunderous solo cadenza lies<br />

at the core of the concerto.<br />

Franz Liszt<br />

b. Raiding, Hungary / October 22, 1811<br />

d. Bayreuth, Germany / July 31, 1886<br />

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major<br />

Liszt was not only the foremost virtuoso<br />

pianist of his era, but also a prime mover<br />

behind many important innovations in<br />

the field of composition. One of his most<br />

influential creative achievements was the<br />

development of the symphonic poem, a<br />

free-form type of orchestral piece inspired<br />

by such extramusical concepts as literature,<br />

artwork and natural phenomena. To bind<br />

the various and continuous sections of such<br />

works together, he developed a compositional<br />

method through which he based the entire<br />

piece on the evolution and transformation<br />

of a few short, simple themes. Liszt’s piano<br />

concertos also make use of this technique.<br />

They are, in effect, symphonic poems with the<br />

piano soloist as the central character.<br />

“One of his most influential<br />

creative achievements was<br />

the development of the<br />

symphonic poem...”<br />

Concertos 1 and 2 evolved over lengthy<br />

periods, perhaps as much as 30 years. At<br />

the premiere of the final version of No. 1<br />

(Weimar, 1855), Liszt played the solo part,<br />

with his friend and musical soul-mate, Hector<br />

Berlioz, conducting. Much fuss was made<br />

over his use of a triangle in the scherzo of the<br />

concerto. Critics thought its silvery frivolity<br />

out of place in a serious composition. Actually,<br />

it sounds right at home in this brilliant music.<br />

In addition to humour, the concerto contains<br />

ample amounts of drama, tenderness, and<br />

commanding energy. The heroic demands<br />

of the solo part reflect the composer’s own<br />

sovereign gifts.<br />

Camille Saint-Saëns<br />

b. Paris, France / October 9, 1835<br />

d. Algiers, Algeria / December 16, 1921<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 2<br />

Although this is the second in order of<br />

composition among the five Saint-Saëns<br />

symphonies, it was published as No. 1.<br />

He composed it in 1853. He sent the<br />

manuscript anonymously to a Parisian concert<br />

organization, the Société Saint-Cécile of Paris,<br />

which had been founded by an acclaimed<br />

Belgian violinist, François Seghers. Wishing to<br />

assist Saint-Saëns in his budding career, and<br />

recognizing the artistic prejudices of the day<br />

(Frenchmen didn’t compose symphonies, and<br />

German instrumental music was superior to<br />

French), Seghers led the society’s screening<br />

committee to believe that the symphony was<br />

the work of a mature German composer.<br />

The ruse worked, and it was accepted for<br />

performance.<br />

The veteran composers Berlioz and Gounod<br />

heard it during rehearsal and praised it<br />

highly. They were astonished to find that the<br />

creator of so skillful a work was just eighteen.<br />

Gounod, who had met Saint-Saëns briefly ten<br />

years before, said to him in a letter “You are<br />

far in advance of your years.” Saint-Saëns<br />

proudly held onto that letter for the remainder<br />

of his life.<br />

<strong>Symphony</strong> No. 1 is a delightful work, filled<br />

with youthful high spirits, ample charm, and<br />

skillful use of a large orchestra. Naturally<br />

such an early piece shows the influence of<br />

Saint-Saëns’ preferred masters – Schumann,<br />

Berlioz and Mendelssohn, for example – but<br />

there is much confident individuality on<br />

display, as well. The first movement consists<br />

of a brief, solemn introduction and a vivacious<br />

Allegro. The second movement is a tuneful,<br />

almost balletic creation for which Saint-Saëns<br />

coined a new title: Marche-Scherzo.<br />

A languid, coolly romantic Adagio follows.<br />

It segues without a break into a stirring<br />

finale, in which Saint-Saëns paid homage<br />

to the baroque period by including a<br />

vigorous fugue. ■<br />

Programme Notes © 2010 Don Anderson<br />

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The Sing-Along Messiah<br />

The 30th Anniversary performance<br />

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Mrs. Maya Begg<br />

Alan and Elizabeth Bell<br />

Miss Isabel D. Benedict<br />

Florence Beytin<br />

Karen and Mark Bichin<br />

Shirley Bidewell<br />

P. Birch and F. J<strong>one</strong>s<br />

Ms. Dianne Bishop<br />

David and Georgia Black<br />

Mrs. Anna Blaszczyk<br />

Maria C. Bojadziev<br />

M. A. Boltezar<br />

Janine Bond<br />

Helen Boultbee<br />

Michael and Flora Bovis<br />

Mrs. Viola Bowdish<br />

Cathleen Boyle<br />

Dr. and Mrs. David G. Brabyn<br />

Mrs. Marion L. Bradley<br />

In Loving Memory of our Dear<br />

Aunt Mrs. Shirley Bradner<br />

C.O. and Isabella Brawner<br />

Gloria E. Breault<br />

Mr. Robert J. Brebner<br />

Mrs. Sheila Brew<br />

Mr. Rodney Briggs<br />

Mr. David G. Brown<br />

Donald Brown*<br />

Rowan Brown<br />

Mrs. Marie-Luise Brunnhofer<br />

Peter and Mary Brunold<br />

Rosemarie and Alan Bruyneel<br />

Ms. Linda Bryan<br />

Dr. and Mrs. William T. Bryson<br />

M. Bullock<br />

Dr. and Mrs.<br />

Lawrence H. Burr<br />

Lloyd Burritt<br />

Ms. Maureen Cafferata<br />

Miss Eleanor D. Caldwell<br />

Beverly J. Campbell<br />

Brooke and Janet Campbell<br />

Mrs. Doris E. Campbell<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Odis L. Campbell<br />

Mr. Richard D. Campbell<br />

Ruth E. Campbell<br />

Carol S. Canfield<br />

Ralph and Gill Carder<br />

Dr. Nancy Carlman<br />

Rudy Carlson<br />

Mr. Brian and<br />

Mrs. Katherine Casidy<br />

Lorelei Cavanaugh<br />

Ms. Diana Challenor<br />

Charlens and<br />

Dhorea Challmie<br />

Pam Chambers<br />

Jason and Nina Chan<br />

John and Penny<br />

Charlesworth<br />

Don and Reka Charlton<br />

JoAnne Chase<br />

Ms. Charity Man-Ling Chen<br />

Marie Cheong<br />

Ben and Beth Cherniavsky<br />

Gillian Chetty<br />

Mauro Chiesa<br />

Caroline Chou<br />

Charles Clapham<br />

Mr. David and<br />

Mrs. Truus Clark<br />

Ms. Catherine Clarke<br />

Anne Clemens<br />

Willard and Doreen Coates<br />

David and Judy Coblin<br />

Stephen Cochrane<br />

Peter and Hilde Colenbrander<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Confrey<br />

Thalia, Sophie and Amanda<br />

Conway and their parents<br />

Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Cooper<br />

Deborah Cooper*<br />

Mrs. K. M. Copeland<br />

Hanneke and Burke Corbet<br />

Karin Cordiner<br />

C. Cornwell<br />

Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Couling<br />

In Memory of<br />

Doug and Julie Cowan<br />

K.M. Cowtan<br />

Mrs. Beverly Craig<br />

Mr. Edward G. Crommelin<br />

Ms. Helen Cunningham<br />

Dr. Dianne Cyr<br />

Hallvard Dahlie<br />

Mrs. Gunnel Dahlquist<br />

Mr. J. Kenneth Dakin<br />

Ms. Denyse Dallaire<br />

Ms. A. Danserau<br />

Ms. Anita Daude-Lagrave<br />

Judy Daughney<br />

Janet and Don Davidson<br />

Gloria Davies*<br />

Ms. Jane Davis<br />

John Dayton<br />

Eva and Ralph De Coste<br />

Katy De Geus<br />

Ms. Beatrix Degroot<br />

Mr. Giuseppe Del Vicario<br />

Samuel Dezell<br />

Isadore and Valerie Diamond<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Diamond<br />

Helene and Paul Dillman<br />

Dr. and Mrs.<br />

F. George Ditchburn<br />

Peter Dodek and Hella Lee<br />

Paul T. Draper<br />

Belisha Duan<br />

Ms. Helen P. Duffy<br />

Marilyn A. Dumoret<br />

Alain and Nancy Duncan<br />

David and Cathie Duncan<br />

Ms. Susan Duncan<br />

Mrs. Pat Dunnett<br />

Tatiana Easton<br />

Dr. and Dr. Allen C. Eaves<br />

Barbara Ebelt<br />

Bryan Edwards<br />

Jim and Johan Elgood<br />

Ms. Erin Ellis<br />

Remembering Ellis<br />

Rob and Margaret Elvidge<br />

Elizabeth Esson<br />

Etches, Duncan and Nora<br />

Dr. Virginia Evans<br />

Susan and Brent Ewing<br />

Frederick L.T. Fairey<br />

Mrs. Zelma Fairley<br />

Ms. Patricia A. Fallmann<br />

In Memory of<br />

Dr. James Farmer<br />

In Memory of Dr. Jim Farmer<br />

Rochelle Farquhar<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

David and Pamela Fay<br />

Douglas Fearman In Honour<br />

of George Taylor<br />

Mrs. Shirley Featherst<strong>one</strong><br />

H.D. Feller<br />

Michael and Edith Fenner<br />

Peter and Eva Ferguson<br />

Agnes Fessler<br />

Fred and Beverly Field<br />

J.D. and Nancy Forbes<br />

Ms. Marguerite Ford<br />

Miss Gwynneth Foulds<br />

Bertha Foyle<br />

Alastair and Linda Fraser<br />

Mrs. Mary H. Fraser<br />

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friends of the vancouver symphony continued . . .<br />

Ruth Freeman<br />

Pamela and Bernd Friedrich<br />

Ms. Mei Ling Fu<br />

C. Fung<br />

Ruth Freeman<br />

Pamela and Bernd Friedrich<br />

Ms. Mei Ling Fu<br />

C. Fung<br />

Miss Anne E. Funk<br />

Ms. Susie Funk<br />

Jean and Hubert Gabrielse<br />

Ms. Annette Gardiner<br />

J.A. Gardiner<br />

Jocelyn Gardner<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Ivan Gasoi<br />

Mr. Richard L. George<br />

Dorothy G’froerer<br />

Mr. Terence Gilbraith<br />

Marion and Jack Gillingham<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Gillis<br />

Ann and Barrie Gillmore<br />

Patricia Gillott<br />

Maryke Gilmore<br />

Allan and Sherry Gjernes<br />

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Anne Gregory<br />

Mr. and Mrs. George Gregr<br />

Ms. Nancy Greig<br />

B. E. Griffiths<br />

Mr. Denis Grohol<br />

Pam Grover and<br />

Christopher Clutchey<br />

Mr. Bernard Guichon and<br />

Mrs. Faye Bremner<br />

Ms. Joan Guistini<br />

Mr. Walter D. Gumprich<br />

Don and Patti Gunning<br />

Mrs. Gloria M. Guntner<br />

Pauline Hall<br />

Kenneth D. Halliday<br />

Mr. Robert Hamill<br />

In Loving Memory of<br />

April Hamilton<br />

In Memory of April Hamilton<br />

Mr. Ian Hampton<br />

Mr. John C.S. Hansen<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Harris<br />

Lynda and Fred Harris<br />

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Mrs. Constance M. Hatherton<br />

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W.M. Hay<br />

Cheryl and Brian Hebb<br />

Joyce Hendriks<br />

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Lauren, Rina and<br />

Byron Henze<br />

Marc Herrmann and<br />

Mary Lee Burns<br />

Mrs. Eileen Hertzman<br />

Audrey Hetherington<br />

Mrs. Gloria J. High Wo<br />

R. Hildred<br />

Anja-Britta Hintelmann<br />

John and Audrey Hobbs<br />

Debby and Richard Hodgson<br />

T.P. Hodgson<br />

Patricia M. Hoebig<br />

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Mr. Carl Hofbauer<br />

Sandy Hollenberg and<br />

Art Cooke<br />

Clive and Carol Holloway<br />

John Hooge<br />

Douglas Horan<br />

Don Hoskins<br />

Jason Hou<br />

Betty Hough<br />

Arthur Hughes<br />

C. Hughes<br />

A.F. Hyndman<br />

Mrs. Audrey Ann Ilott<br />

Ms. Camille Inkman<br />

Ms. Louise Irwin<br />

Rosemary Jackson<br />

Ms. Joan A. James<br />

Wesley Jay<br />

Ms. Galina Jitlina<br />

Mr. Carlos Johansen<br />

Brenda Johnston<br />

Dr. and Mrs. David Johnston<br />

Ms. Fae E. Johnst<strong>one</strong><br />

Gwynneth C. D. J<strong>one</strong>s<br />

The Joseph Family<br />

Mrs. Barbara Kaiser<br />

Evalyn Kantor<br />

Damir Karaturovic<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Roy J. Karjala<br />

D.F. Keevil<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Robert M. Kellogg<br />

Mrs. Doreen Kemick<br />

Robert and<br />

Raymonde Kendrick<br />

Louise and Gary Kenwood<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Kerklaan<br />

Elizabeth Kerr<br />

Mrs. Lyda Kerr<br />

Mr. Malcolm and<br />

Mrs. Evelyn Kerr<br />

Alex and Erika Kertesz-Green<br />

D.M. Kika<br />

Mr. and Mrs. T. Kikuchi<br />

Harvey and Johana King<br />

Joan E. Kirkwood<br />

Mrs. Dorothea Kisby<br />

Mr. Peter Kitching<br />

Terry and Carol Kline<br />

Dr. Harry and Mary Klonoff<br />

Achim and Kim Klor<br />

John Knechtel<br />

Mrs. Girlie Koo<br />

Dr. Thais Kornder<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Stanford Korsch<br />

Jean and Mike Kovich<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Krell<br />

Robert and Marie Kuhn<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Robin Kuritzky<br />

Mr. Matthew F. Kurnicki<br />

Peter Kwok<br />

Ms. Virginia Kwong<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Alwin Lacson<br />

Dan Lahey<br />

Gina Lai / MPM<br />

Math Learning<br />

Rick and Mary Lam<br />

Mrs. Betty E. Lamble<br />

Jerry and Susan Lampert<br />

Mr. Bruce H. Lang<br />

Mrs. Gillian Lang<br />

William Larsen<br />

Mr. Richard A. Larson<br />

Trevor Lautens<br />

Mrs. Kathy Lauwers<br />

Ms. Genevieve Lauzon<br />

Jayne Le Vierge<br />

Jim Leader<br />

Ms. Katherine Lecy<br />

Ms. Augusta Lee<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Jin Woo Lee<br />

Dr. Mary Lee<br />

Carol Lenard<br />

Neil and Karen Lerner<br />

Paul Leroy<br />

Mr. Wing Bill and<br />

Mrs. Georgia Leung<br />

L. A. Levang<br />

Mrs. Ann Ligertwood<br />

Harald and Erika Lincke<br />

E and M Lindstrom<br />

Ms. Caroline Linney<br />

Mrs. Beverley M. Linton<br />

H. and U. Litzcke<br />

Llewellynn’s Harp Studio<br />

Sunya Lloyd<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Gillen Lo<br />

Eva Lock<br />

Natalie E. Logan<br />

Mrs. Irene Lomax<br />

Herbert and Evelynne Loomer<br />

G. Lopez<br />

Michael and Lynda Lord<br />

Gisela Love<br />

Ms. Leslie Love<br />

Cynthia A. Loveman<br />

In Memory of Norman Lowe<br />

Ms. Rena Lyon<br />

Don and Carol Lyster<br />

Mrs. Deborah C. Lytle<br />

Mrs. Jean R. Lytwyn<br />

In Memory of<br />

Mr. Derek MacDermot<br />

Jo Macdonald<br />

Carolyn and Norbert<br />

MacDonald<br />

J. M. MacIntyre<br />

Dr. Cortlandt J.G. Mackenzie<br />

Mrs. Kathleen D. MacKinlay<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Gordon MacLachlan<br />

Mrs. Margaret MacLean<br />

Mr. Douglas MacMillan<br />

K. L. Madore<br />

Mrs. Pauline F. Main<br />

Elaine J. Makortoff<br />

Rev. Alexander Manson<br />

Ms. Diane Manuel<br />

In Memory of Mary Mar<br />

Bob Markin<br />

Larry and Linda Marshik<br />

Valentine Marten<br />

Harold R. Martin<br />

Miss Joyce Martin<br />

Paul and Pauline Martin<br />

S.R. Mason<br />

Mr. Wallace D. Mason<br />

Anne Mathisen<br />

Miss Hilda Matthies<br />

M. Maxwell<br />

Mr. Robert Maxwell<br />

M. McArthur<br />

John G. McBain*<br />

Sheila McCallum<br />

Pat and Al McCrady<br />

Marlene McDonald<br />

Mr. Ross McDonald<br />

Mrs. Inge McGarry<br />

Don McIntosh<br />

S. M. McIntyre<br />

Eilish McKendy<br />

Shirley and Steve McKinney<br />

Ray L. McNabb<br />

Beth McNairn<br />

Mr. Douglas and<br />

Mrs. Elizabeth McRae<br />

Ralph and Margaret McRae<br />

Mr. Bruce McTavish<br />

Eleanor M. McWhannel<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Denison D. Mears<br />

Joe M. Mendes<br />

Colin Miles<br />

Mrs. Irene Miller<br />

Marcia and Dave Miller<br />

Ms. Mary Elizabeth Miller<br />

Mrs. Ruth Minchington<br />

John Minichiello<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Angus Mitchell<br />

Hugh and Elonna Mitchell<br />

Ms. Doreen M’Lot<br />

Ms. Sandra Moe<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Alan and<br />

Mary-Ann Moir<br />

Mrs. M.E. Monck<br />

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Morgan<br />

Dr. Ronald J. Morgan<br />

Ms. Vera Morgan<br />

Pat and Jane Moriarty<br />

Barbara Morris<br />

Don Morrison<br />

N.F. Morrison<br />

Ms. Norah K. Morrow<br />

Charmian Moul<br />

Jean Cockburn and<br />

Jack Mounce<br />

Dr. and Mrs. G. V. Mude<br />

K.L. Murphy<br />

Keray and Cathleen Murphy<br />

Dr. M.A. Murphy<br />

Myron Kuzych Architect<br />

L. Nakashima<br />

Rayleen Nash


Mr. Roberto Neagu<br />

Mr. Philip Neame<br />

Ms. Gerry Negraeff<br />

Elizabeth Neufeld<br />

Mrs. Diane Noble<br />

V. Noble<br />

Lynne Northfield<br />

Ms. Agnes Notte<br />

Roy and Takako Nukina<br />

Mrs. Beverley Oldham<br />

Irene Olljum<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin O’Malley<br />

Neil and Donna Ornstein<br />

Mrs. Thérèse Ozanic<br />

Dr. Martin Hosking and<br />

Mrs. Jacqueline Page<br />

Sunny and Nini Pal<br />

Dr. Chris Palmer<br />

Jim and Diane Palmer<br />

Ms. Wendy Parfitt<br />

Walter S. Parker<br />

Keiko Parker<br />

Dr. Hawa Patel<br />

D. H. Paterson<br />

Mr. John and<br />

Mrs. Betty Paterson<br />

Nancy and George Patrick<br />

Frank and Wendy Patton<br />

Susan P. Pedersen<br />

Mel and Anita Penner<br />

Mrs. Virginia C. Perkins<br />

B. Perowne<br />

Tremayne Perry<br />

Mr. Jaime Peschiera<br />

John and Eleanor Phillips<br />

Matt and Mary Phillips<br />

Ms. Patricia Phillips<br />

Mrs. Marjorie Picard<br />

Mr. George Pick<br />

Ms. Sybil Plommer<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Tony and<br />

Margaret Plomp<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Arthur D. Poisson<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Pokrandt<br />

Jennifer Polci<br />

Marion S. Poliakoff<br />

Marilyn and Jack Pomfret<br />

Marilyn Poole<br />

Mr. Gordon Porteous<br />

Dr. Allan Posthuma<br />

Ms. Deborah Pound<br />

Colin and Diana Price<br />

Tim and Pat Quan<br />

M. A. Quinlan<br />

Karl and Eveline Raab<br />

Mrs. Doreen Rainer<br />

Mr. Alan R. Rampton<br />

Mrs. A. Rashed<br />

Margaret Ray<br />

Dorothy Redlinger<br />

L. Diane Reelie<br />

Eleanor Reemeyer<br />

Dr. Shelley Reid<br />

Ms. Esther M. Reimer<br />

Mrs. Louise Rempel<br />

William and Oksana Richards<br />

Sharon Riches<br />

W. G. Risk<br />

Edie Rittinger<br />

W.A. Rivers<br />

Mrs. Cc Roa<br />

Tim Roark*<br />

S.M. Robertson<br />

Bill and Dorothy Robertson<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Howard M. Robinson<br />

Prof. John Roeder<br />

C. J. Rogers<br />

Patricia K. Rogers<br />

Mr. John Donald Rose<br />

Lon and Marilyn Rosen<br />

Marilyn and John Ross<br />

Steven Rudy<br />

Hans Ruger<br />

Ms. Winona Russell<br />

Lindsay Salt<br />

Helen Samuel<br />

L.S. Sawatsky<br />

Jeff Sawers and Camy Ng<br />

Ms. Brenda Sawyer<br />

Richard and Jilian Scarth<br />

Miss Agnes Schapansky<br />

Dianne and Nick Sharfe<br />

Mr. Rolf and Mrs. Ilse Schiller<br />

Mrs. Rosario P. Scholte<br />

John and Marlene Schreiner<br />

Ms. Kathie Schwaia<br />

Semi Weightlifting Club<br />

Robert and Audrey Service<br />

Miss Shirley Sexsmith<br />

Anne and David Seymour<br />

Ms. Shirley M. Sharf<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Robin Shier<br />

Ann and Robert Shinkle<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

James W. Shrimpton<br />

Mr. Hoshang and<br />

Mrs. Rani Shroff<br />

Karen Shuster<br />

Ms. Rebecca Siah<br />

Barb and Roman Siedlaczek<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Sigal<br />

Donia Sims<br />

Ms. Marie Singh<br />

A. Sloat<br />

Bob and Doris Smit<br />

Ms. Carol Smith<br />

Carol Smith<br />

Douglas Gwynn Smith<br />

Erwen and Patricia Smith<br />

Margaret Smith<br />

John and Constance<br />

Southcott<br />

Pam Spouge<br />

Paul Stagg<br />

Ms. Mary Stark<br />

Ms. Julia Stashuk<br />

Peter M. Steele*<br />

Ms. Anita Steinberg<br />

T. W. Stevens<br />

Penni Stock<br />

Hermann and Erika Stölting*<br />

M. St<strong>one</strong>*<br />

Bob and Lorraine St<strong>one</strong><br />

Elizabeth Stout<br />

Mr. James W. Stout<br />

Beverley Straight<br />

Bill and Margo Strain and the<br />

Staff at Villa Electric In<br />

Memory of Shirley Bradner<br />

Ms. Rhoda Stromberg<br />

Irene and Irv Strong<br />

Mr. Stephen Stuckey<br />

Ms. Elizabeth Surowiec<br />

Wendy K. Sutton<br />

Elke Swantje<br />

Paul Swartz<br />

Mr. and Mrs. C. Roy Sworder<br />

Mrs. Xenia M. Syz<br />

S.A. Szabo<br />

Mr. Peter Sziklai<br />

Valerie Manning Taggart<br />

Mrs. Sueko Takeda<br />

Ms. Taka Tanaka<br />

Ms. Anne Taylor<br />

Robert and Ida Taylor<br />

Norman and Margaret Taylor<br />

Tom and Margaret Taylor<br />

Mr. Howard and<br />

Mrs. Barbara Teasley<br />

Paddy Tennant<br />

Mollie Thackeray<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Thaler<br />

Mary I. Thomas<br />

Ms. Jean K. Thompson<br />

Ms. Judy Thomsen<br />

Anona Thorne<br />

Marilyn Thorsteinsson<br />

Dr. and Mrs. David Tobias<br />

Ms. Lorraine Toljanich<br />

Ms. Jennifer R. To<strong>one</strong> and<br />

Mr. Derek A. Applegarth<br />

Mrs. Cate Tootill<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Townsend<br />

Mr. Rémi Tremblay<br />

Trinity and Felicity<br />

Dr. and Mrs. Ian K. Y. Tsang<br />

Tseng Family<br />

Cyril and Patsy Tsou<br />

Mrs. Chizuko Tsurumaru<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Tutsch<br />

Mr. Takaya Ueda<br />

Beverley Unsworth<br />

John and Angela Van Luven<br />

Bernard Van Snellenberg<br />

Jill and Hans Vander Slagt<br />

Mariana Ve’csey<br />

G. J. Vonder Muhll<br />

Barbara Wadman<br />

Julie E. Walchli<br />

Rev. and Mrs.<br />

Gordon W. Walker<br />

Ms. Lois I. Walker<br />

Dr. and Mrs. J.V. Wall<br />

Robert Walters<br />

Mrs. May Mei Fang Wang<br />

Ann Warrender<br />

Mr. and Mrs.<br />

Jack Wassermann<br />

Syoko Watanabe<br />

Vivien and Nigel Watkinson<br />

Helen M. Watson<br />

In Memory of<br />

Margaret Watson<br />

Trevor and Mary Alice Watts<br />

Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Webster<br />

James J. Weinkam<br />

Dr. and Mrs.<br />

Marvin Weintraub<br />

In Memory of Don C. Weir<br />

Mrs. June I. Wells<br />

Monica J. Wheatley<br />

Mrs. Morag Whitfield<br />

Mary Widdows<br />

Harvey Wiebe<br />

Mrs. Norma Wieland<br />

Gordon Wilkinson<br />

Carol and Doug Williams<br />

Dr. Marilyn D. Willman<br />

Miss Beryl Wilson<br />

Mr. Don Wilson<br />

Ms. Loma Wing<br />

Michael and Patricia Witzke<br />

Mr. John W.K. Wong<br />

Lesley Wood and Barry Hill<br />

Mr. Thomas W. Wood<br />

In Memory of<br />

Shirley Annette Woodward<br />

Olga and Leon Woolf<br />

Mrs. Margaret Wright<br />

Nancy Wu<br />

Laura Yates<br />

Bock and Kathleen Yip<br />

Ms. Anna Yoo<br />

The Yurkovich Family<br />

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Zawadzki<br />

Karen and Allan Zeller<br />

Carol Pomeroy Zhong<br />

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CONCERT PROGRAM<br />

SPECIALS / ORPHEUM THEATRE, 8PM<br />

tuesday, november 9<br />

Anne-Sophie Mutter violin<br />

Yuri Bashmet viola<br />

Lynn Harrell cello<br />

The VSO presents in Recital<br />

The<br />

Mutter<br />

Bashmet<br />

Harrell<br />

Trio<br />

Beethoven Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 9<br />

I. Allegro con spirito<br />

II. Adagio con espressi<strong>one</strong><br />

III. Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace<br />

IV. Finale: Presto<br />

Beethoven Serenade in D Major, Op. 8<br />

I. Marcia: Allegro<br />

II. Adagio<br />

III. Menuetto – Trio<br />

IV. Adagio – Scherzo: Allegro Molto<br />

V. Allegretto all polacca<br />

VI. Andante quasi allegretto con variationi – Marcia<br />

INTERMISSION<br />

Beethoven Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 3<br />

I. Allegro con brio<br />

II. Andante<br />

III. Menuetto – Trio<br />

IV. Adagio<br />

V. Menuetto – Minore<br />

VI. Finale: Allegro<br />

Visit the <strong>Symphony</strong> Gift Shop for CD selections<br />

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ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER YURI BASHMET LYNN HARRELL<br />

Anne-Sophie Mutter violin<br />

For three decades Anne-Sophie Mutter<br />

has been <strong>one</strong> of the most acclaimed violin<br />

virtuosos of our time. Born in Rheinfelden in<br />

the state of Baden, the violinist launched her<br />

international career at the Lucerne Festival in<br />

1976. A year later she performed as a soloist<br />

at the Salzburg Whitsun Concerts under the<br />

direction of Herbert von Karajan. Since then<br />

Anne-Sophie Mutter has performed concerts<br />

in every major music center of Europe, North<br />

and South America and Asia. In addition<br />

to performing major traditional works she<br />

continually treats her audiences to new<br />

and innovative repertoire, both in chamber<br />

music and orchestral works. She also uses<br />

her popularity and renown for the benefit of<br />

numerous charity projects and supports the<br />

development of young, exceptionally talented<br />

musicians.<br />

The honors afforded Anne-Sophie Mutter for<br />

her many recordings include the German<br />

Record Prize, the Record Academy Prize, the<br />

Grand Prix du Disque, the International Record<br />

Prize and several Grammies.<br />

In 2008 Ms. Mutter established the “Anne-<br />

Sophie Mutter Foundation,” with the objective<br />

to further increase worldwide support for<br />

promising young musicians – a task that<br />

the violinist took on when she founded the<br />

“The Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends<br />

Foundation” in 1997.<br />

Yuri Bashmet viola<br />

Through his virtuosity, strength of personality<br />

and high intelligence, Yuri Bashmet has given<br />

the viola a new prominence in musical life.<br />

The pre-eminent viola player of the modern<br />

age, he has motivated the leading composers<br />

of our time to expand the repertoire with<br />

significant new music. He is Artistic Director<br />

of the December Evenings festival in Moscow,<br />

Principal Conductor of the <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

<strong>Orchestra</strong> of New Russia, and is the founder /<br />

director of Moscow Soloists. He also appears<br />

throughout the world in the dual role of<br />

conductor / soloist.<br />

Born in 1953 in Rostov-on-Don in Russia, he<br />

spent his childhood in Lvov in Ukraine before<br />

studying at the Moscow Conservatoire with<br />

Vadim Borisovsky (of the Beethoven Quartet)<br />

and Feodor Druzhinin. His international<br />

career was launched in 1976 when he<br />

won the International Viola Competition in<br />

Munich. Since then he has appeared with<br />

all the world’s great orchestras, including<br />

the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, Royal<br />

Concertgebouw <strong>Orchestra</strong>, Boston, Chicago<br />

and Montreal <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>s, New<br />

York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic<br />

and the London <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>, which<br />

presented its own Yuri Bashmet Festival.<br />

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Lynn Harrell cello<br />

Lynn Harrell’s presence is felt throughout<br />

the musical world. A consummate soloist,<br />

chamber musician, recitalist, conductor and<br />

teacher, his work throughout the Americas,<br />

Europe and Asia has placed him in the highest<br />

echelon of today’s performing artists.<br />

Mr. Harrell is a frequent guest of many<br />

leading orchestras. In the summer of 1999<br />

Mr. Harrell was featured in a three-week<br />

“Lynn Harrell Cello Festival” with the Hong<br />

Kong Philharmonic. He regularly collaborates<br />

with such noted conductors as James Levine,<br />

Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta,<br />

André Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard<br />

Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson<br />

Thomas and David Zinman.<br />

Lynn Harrell was born in New York to<br />

musician parents. He began his musical<br />

studies in Dallas and proceeded to the<br />

Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute<br />

of Music. He is the recipient of numerous<br />

awards, including the first Avery Fisher Award.<br />

Mr. Harrell plays a 1720 Montagnana. He<br />

makes his home in Santa Monica, CA.<br />

Ludwig van Beethoven<br />

b. Bonn, Austria / baptized December 17, 1770<br />

d. Vienna, Austria / March 26, 1827<br />

Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 3<br />

Serenade in D Major, Op. 8<br />

Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 9<br />

Through the progression of Ludwig van<br />

Beethoven’s five string trios, all composed<br />

early in his career, <strong>one</strong> sees a glimpse of<br />

the burgeoning genius developing. Never<br />

<strong>one</strong> to do things terribly simply, Beethoven’s<br />

first trio is the Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 3,<br />

an ambitious work based in many ways<br />

on Mozart’s only string trio, the K. 563<br />

Divertimento. It is written in the same key<br />

and with the same number of movements<br />

as Mozart’s late string trio, which he wrote<br />

in Vienna in 1788. Beethoven’s trio, written<br />

sometime between 1792 and 1794 (it is<br />

unclear exactly when) starts with a sonataform<br />

first movement, featuring a repeated<br />

exposition, its second subject entrusted to<br />

the violin. After a recapitulation, a beautiful<br />

Andante appears, with rapturous and welldeveloped<br />

melodies. The third movement<br />

Minuet - Trio is notable for the violin melody<br />

accompanied by a plucked bass from the<br />

cello. The fourth movement is an uplifting<br />

A-flat major Adagio leading to the second<br />

E-flat major Minuet, with a C minor Trio,<br />

containing an underlying dr<strong>one</strong> effect,<br />

countered and juxtaposed by the violin<br />

melody in a high register. The work ends with<br />

a lively Rondo.<br />

The Opus 8 Serenade in D Major published<br />

in Vienna in 1797 is the most famous of<br />

Beethoven’s Trios. The lyrical, cheerful<br />

episodes and wonderful, uplifting melodies<br />

throughout mix and contrast with the beautiful<br />

but mournful t<strong>one</strong>s of the D minor Adagio.<br />

Beginning with a spry March, the work<br />

ends with a fascinating theme and series of<br />

variations, that in fact brilliantly returns the<br />

piece to the March where it all started.<br />

The String Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 9,<br />

is perhaps the most striking of the trios<br />

performed here tonight.<br />

The sparkling first movement proclaims its<br />

subjects through the violin, echoed by the<br />

viola and then by the cello, presenting and<br />

developing each of the first two themes in<br />

the same manner.<br />

Recapitulation of the main subject brings<br />

the first movement to an end, transitioning<br />

to a C major second movement. This Adagio<br />

movement is expressive, as its title suggests,<br />

starting softly with separated chords, but<br />

soon leading to a dynamic contrast and a<br />

repetition of the theme by the viola, after<br />

it is first brought forth by the violin. The<br />

movement features more dialogue between<br />

the instruments and with a remarkably full<br />

texture for a string trio. The original key of C<br />

minor is restored in the Scherzo, framing a C<br />

major Trio. The work ends with a fast sonataform<br />

movement. The movement provides a<br />

beautifully original ending to a set of works<br />

that not only hints a little at what greatness<br />

is to come from Beethoven, but is in itself a<br />

remarkable compositional achievement. ■<br />

Program notes ©2010 Sophia Vincent<br />

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vancouver symphony partners<br />

The <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following<br />

Corporations, Foundations, and Government Agencies that have made a financial contribution<br />

through sponsorship and/or a charitable donation for the 2010/2011 season.<br />

SERIES SPONSORS<br />

Concert and Special Event SPonsors<br />

IMPORTANT:<br />

For Usage below 1-1/2” wide<br />

Platinum Baton Club Sponsors of the <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM SPONSORS AND PARTNERS<br />

PREMIER EDUCATION PARTNER<br />

JEMINI<br />

FOUNDATION<br />

MEDIA PARTNERS<br />

$150,000+<br />

TELUS<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> Sun<br />

$50,000+<br />

City of Burnaby Parks,<br />

Recreation and Cultural<br />

Services<br />

Goldcorp Inc.<br />

Jemini Foundation<br />

$30,000+<br />

BMO Harris Private Banking<br />

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP<br />

Holland America Line Inc.<br />

HSBC Bank Canada<br />

Industrial Alliance Pacific<br />

London Drugs<br />

Pacific Arbour Retirement<br />

Communities<br />

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP<br />

$20,000+<br />

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP<br />

Canaccord Financial Inc.<br />

The Chan Endowment<br />

Fund of UBC<br />

Chan Foundation of Canada<br />

Concord Pacific Group Inc.<br />

Deloitte & Touche LLP<br />

The djavad mowafaghian<br />

foundation<br />

Ernst & Young LLP<br />

The Keg Steakhouse & Bar<br />

RBC Foundation<br />

Spectra Energy<br />

TD Canada Trust<br />

Wesbild Holdings Ltd.<br />

YVR - <strong>Vancouver</strong> Airport<br />

Authority<br />

$10,000+<br />

BA Blacktop Ltd.<br />

Corus Entertainment<br />

Craftsman Collision Ltd.<br />

Gateway Casinos<br />

Keir Surgical<br />

KPMG<br />

Larco Investments Ltd.<br />

Odlum Brown Limited<br />

Peter Kiewit Sons Co.<br />

Polygon Homes Ltd.<br />

Raymond James Ltd.<br />

Scotiabank<br />

Stikeman Elliott LLP<br />

Surespan General Contractors<br />

Corp.<br />

Tiffany & Co.<br />

Tom Lee Music<br />

University Canada West<br />

Vincor International Inc.<br />

$5,000+<br />

Allied Holdings Ltd.<br />

Anthem Properties Group Ltd.<br />

CIBC World Markets<br />

Commonwealth Insurance<br />

Company<br />

Fraser River Pile & Dredge<br />

(GP) Inc.<br />

Genus Capital Management<br />

The Globe and Mail<br />

Hatch Mott MacDonald<br />

Lazy Gourmet Inc.<br />

Marin Investments Limited<br />

Milan and Maureen Ilich<br />

Foundation<br />

Dr. Tom Mo<strong>one</strong>n Inc.<br />

PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc.<br />

Phillips Hager & North<br />

The Portables<br />

PresiNET Systems Corp.<br />

Prospero International Realty Inc.<br />

ScotiaMcLeod<br />

Terus Construction Ltd.<br />

The William Tell Restaurant<br />

The James and Kathleen Winton<br />

Foundation<br />

$2,500+<br />

Bing Thom Architects Foundation<br />

Concord National Inc.<br />

Kraft Canada<br />

Larkspur Foundation<br />

McCarthy Tétrault Foundation<br />

MMM Group Limited<br />

Norburn Lighting & Bath Centre<br />

SOCAN Foundation<br />

$1,000+<br />

ABC Recycling Ltd.<br />

Charton Hobbs Inc.<br />

Encore Software Inc.<br />

The Hamber Foundation<br />

Lantic Inc.<br />

Yamaha Canada<br />

For more information about vso corporate partners programs please contact:<br />

Jennifer Polci at 604.684.9100 extension 239 or email jennifer@vancouversymphony.ca<br />

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at the concert<br />

Concert COURTESIES<br />

For your enjoyment, and the enjoyment of<br />

others, please remember concert etiquette.<br />

Talking, coughing, leaning over the balcony<br />

railings, unwrapping cellophane-wrapped<br />

candies, and the wearing of strong perfume<br />

may disturb the performers as well as other<br />

audience members.<br />

Latecomers<br />

Ushers will escort latecomers into the<br />

auditorium at a suitable break in the<br />

performance chosen by the conductor.<br />

Patrons who leave the auditorium during the<br />

performance will not be re-admitted until a<br />

suitable break in the performance.<br />

Hearing-assist systems<br />

Hearing-impaired patrons may borrow<br />

complimentary Sennheiser Infrared Hearing<br />

System headsets, available at the coat-check<br />

in the Orpheum Theatre only, after leaving<br />

a driver’s licence or credit card.<br />

Cell ph<strong>one</strong>s, pagers, digital watches<br />

Please turn off cell ph<strong>one</strong>s and ensure<br />

that digital watches do not sound during<br />

performances. Doctors and other professionals<br />

expecting calls are asked to please leave<br />

personal pagers, teleph<strong>one</strong>s and seat locations<br />

at the coat-check.<br />

Cameras, recording equipment<br />

Cameras and audio/video recording<br />

equipment of any kind are strictly prohibited<br />

in all venues and must be left at the coat-check<br />

in the main lobby. Under no circumstances<br />

may photographs, video recordings or audio<br />

recordings be taken during a performance.<br />

Smoking<br />

All venues are non-smoking.<br />

Program, Guest Artists and/or<br />

Program Order are subject to change.<br />

vancouver symphony administration 604.684.9100<br />

Jeff Alexander, President & Chief Executive Officer<br />

Finance & Administration:<br />

Mary-Ann Moir, Vice-President, Finance and<br />

Administration<br />

Debra Marcus, Office Manager & Payroll Administrator<br />

Ann Surachatchaikul, Accountant<br />

Ray Wang, Payroll Clerk & IT Assistant<br />

Marketing, Sales & Customer Service:<br />

Alan Gove, Vice-President, Marketing and Sales<br />

Shirley Bidewell, Manager of Gift Shop and Volunteers<br />

Estelle and Michael Jacobson Chair<br />

Anna Gove, Editor & Publisher, Allegro Magazine<br />

Kenneth Livingst<strong>one</strong>, Database Manager<br />

Caroline Price, Associate Director, Marketing and Sales<br />

Cameron Rowe, Audience Services Manager<br />

Laura-Anne Scherer, Marketing Assistant and<br />

Assistant to the President and CEO<br />

Customer Service Representatives:<br />

Jason Lau, Customer Service Supervisor<br />

& Patrons’ Circle Concierge<br />

Katherine Houang Jason Ho<br />

Shawn Lau<br />

Kimberly Smith<br />

Anthony Soon<br />

The Stage Crew of the Orpheum Theatre are members of Local<br />

118 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.<br />

Development:<br />

Leanne Davis, Vice-President, Chief Development Officer<br />

Rebekah Bull, Development Officer, Individual Giving<br />

Ann Byczko, Development Officer, Annual Giving<br />

Sandy Ewart, Development Assistant<br />

Jennifer Polci, Manager, Corporate and Donor Relations<br />

Norma Romann, Lotteries Assistant<br />

William Wong, Development Coordinator<br />

Artistic Operations:<br />

Joanne Harada, Vice-President, Artistic Operations<br />

and Education<br />

Larry Blackman, <strong>Orchestra</strong> Personnel Manager<br />

Christine Han, Intern<br />

Aaron Hawn, Digital Projects Coordinator<br />

& Library Assistant<br />

Susan Hudson, Education Manager<br />

Ken & Patricia Shields Chair<br />

David Humphrey, Operations Manager<br />

Minella F. Lacson, Librarian<br />

Ron & Ardelle Cliff Chair<br />

Fleur Sweetman, Artistic Operations Assistant<br />

& Assistant to Maestro Tovey<br />

The <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong> is a proud member of<br />

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vancouver symphony society board of directors<br />

Executive Committee<br />

Arthur H. Willms, Chair<br />

President (Ret.), Westcoast Energy<br />

Hein Poulus, Q.C., Vice Chair<br />

Incorporated Partner, Stikeman Elliott<br />

Colin Erb, Treasurer<br />

Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP<br />

George Taylor, Secretary<br />

President and Owner (Ret.), Atlas Travel<br />

Patricia Shields, Member-at-Large<br />

Educational Consultant<br />

Board Members<br />

Larry Berg<br />

President & CEO<br />

<strong>Vancouver</strong> International Airport Authority<br />

Joan Chambers<br />

Partner, Blakes<br />

Dr. Peter Chung<br />

Executive Chairman, Eminata Group<br />

Dave Cunningham<br />

VP Government Relations, TELUS<br />

Charles Filewych<br />

Co-Chief Executive Officer<br />

Corinex Communications Corp.<br />

Michael Fish<br />

President, Keir Surgical<br />

Lindsay Hall<br />

Executive Vice-President and CFO<br />

Goldcorp, Inc.<br />

Diane Hodgins<br />

Director, Century Group Lands Corporation<br />

David T. Howard<br />

Chair, Angiotech Pharmaceuticals<br />

Olga Ilich<br />

President, Suncor Development Corporation<br />

Gordon R. Johnson<br />

Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais<br />

Alan Pyatt<br />

Chairman, President and CEO (Ret.)<br />

Sandwell International Inc.<br />

Michael E. Riley, CA<br />

Partner (Ret.), Ernst & Young<br />

Robert Sunter<br />

Regional Director of Radio for BC (Ret.)<br />

CBC<br />

Denise Turner<br />

Executive Vice President<br />

TitanStar Group of Companies<br />

Fred Withers<br />

Managing Partner for Western Canada<br />

Ernst & Young<br />

Musician Representatives<br />

David Brown, Bass<br />

Vern Griffiths,<br />

Principal Percussion<br />

Martha Lou Henley Chair<br />

Honorary Life President<br />

Mrs. H.R. Malkin, C.M., O.B.C.<br />

Honorary Life Vice-Presidents<br />

Ronald Laird Cliff, C.M.<br />

Nezhat Khosrowshahi<br />

Gerald A.B. McGavin, C.M., O.B.C.<br />

Ronald N. Stern<br />

vancouver symphony foundation board of trustees<br />

Ronald Laird Cliff, C.M.<br />

Chair<br />

Marnie Carter<br />

John Icke<br />

Judi Korbin<br />

Hein Poulus, Q.C.<br />

Robert T. Stewart<br />

Arthur H. Willms<br />

Tim Wyman<br />

vso school of music society<br />

Jeff Alexander<br />

President & CEO<br />

Shaun Taylor<br />

Executive Director <strong>Vancouver</strong> <strong>Symphony</strong><br />

Centre & VSO School of Music<br />

vancouver symphony volunteer council 2010/2011<br />

Chair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Janmohamed<br />

Vice-Chair/Treasurer . . . Sheila Foley<br />

Secretary. . . . . . . . . . . . Nancy Wu<br />

Immediate Past Chair. . . Estelle Jacobson<br />

Scheduling<br />

Concerts (Orpheum). . . . Bertha Foyle<br />

Shirley Bidewell<br />

Gift Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . Barbara Morris<br />

helen Dubas<br />

Lotteries in Malls . . . . . . Gloria Davies<br />

Reception Shifts. . . . . . . Gloria Davies<br />

Tea & Trumpets . . . . . . . Shirley Featherst<strong>one</strong><br />

Suzanne Kunzli<br />

Marlene Strain<br />

Special Events<br />

Fashion Show Convener. . . . Nancy Wu<br />

Fashion Show Co-Convener . Anne Janmohamed<br />

Holland America<br />

Luncheon 2011 . . . . . . . . . . Sheila Foley<br />

Education & Community<br />

Musical Encounters . . . . . . . Barbara Kaiser<br />

gisele Schloegl<br />

Maria Estrope<br />

Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pat Hoebig<br />

Membership<br />

Volunteer Hours . . . . . . . . . Angelina Bao<br />

Concert Services . . . . . . . . . Bertha Foyle<br />

Manager, Gift Shop<br />

and Volunteer Resources<br />

Shirley Bidewell<br />

Tel 604.684.9100 ext 240<br />

shirley@vancouversymphony.ca<br />

Assistant<br />

Gift Shop Manager<br />

Michelle Beldi<br />

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