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Celebrating Our 63rd Season of Music for All!<br />
Young Artist Concert<br />
Slavic Celebration<br />
Richard Owen Conductor<br />
Nathan Meltzer Violin<br />
First Place Winners of Adelphi Orchestra 2015-2016 Competition<br />
Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/ Department of<br />
State,through grant funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division<br />
of Cultural and Historic Affairs.<br />
October 23 2016 at 3PM<br />
Riverdell Regional High School Auditorium<br />
ACONJ.org<br />
PO Box 262 River Edge, NJ 07661
Young Artist Concert<br />
October 23 2016 at 3:00 p.m.<br />
River Dell Regional High School Oradell, NJ<br />
Richard Owen Principal Conductor<br />
The Moldau<br />
Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47<br />
Nathan Meltzer - Violin<br />
B. Smetana<br />
1824 - 1884<br />
J. Sibelius<br />
1865- 1957<br />
Intermission<br />
Symphony no 8 in G major, Op. 88/B 163<br />
A. Dvorak<br />
1841 - 1905<br />
Partial funding is provided by the New Jersey State Council for the Arts<br />
through Grant Funds administered by the Bergen County Department of<br />
Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs<br />
Please turn off all cell telephones, pagers or other audible electronic devices before the concert<br />
begins. Audio or video recording of any kind, or photography are not allowed during the performance<br />
without express permission from the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra.
Orchestra Members<br />
Violin-1<br />
Kathleen<br />
Butler-Hopkins<br />
Concertmaster<br />
Judy Kang<br />
Sylvia Rubin<br />
Claire Kapilow<br />
Alexandra Bernstein<br />
Rachel Matthews<br />
Diane Lang<br />
Violin-2<br />
Amelia Muccia<br />
Michael Peng<br />
Heather Kaplin<br />
Elizabeth Smith<br />
Mary Kay Binder<br />
Lauren Halloran<br />
Viola<br />
Heather Wallace<br />
Marianne Annechino<br />
Paula Washington<br />
Piotr Kargul<br />
Andrea Maire<br />
Geraldine Marson<br />
Cello<br />
Robert Deutsch<br />
Janis Kaplan<br />
David Moore<br />
Alice Kayzerman<br />
Erika Tesi<br />
Bass<br />
Jay VandeKopple<br />
Marvin Topolsky<br />
Charles Nolet<br />
Flute<br />
Carron Moroney<br />
Natasha Loomis<br />
Lisandra Hernandez<br />
Oboe<br />
Mark Sophia<br />
Jacob Slattery<br />
English Horn<br />
Mark Sophia<br />
Clarinet<br />
Alexander Knox<br />
Ashley Grutta<br />
Bassoon<br />
Robert Gray<br />
Michael Tatoris<br />
French Horn<br />
Kyle Anderson<br />
Alex Mastrando<br />
Barbara Zacheis<br />
John Harley<br />
Trumpet<br />
Alex Rensink<br />
George Sabel<br />
Trombones<br />
Noreen Baer<br />
Nathaniel Rensink<br />
Keith Marson<br />
Tuba<br />
Robert Sacchi<br />
Timpani<br />
Mark Zettler<br />
Percussion<br />
Gary Fink<br />
Harp<br />
Irene Bressler
Principal Conductor Richard Owen is<br />
celebrating his fifth season as conductor of the<br />
Adelphi Orchestra. Mo. Owen is known<br />
internationally as a gifted and visionary<br />
conductor for his innovative programming<br />
style and audience rapport. Combining a<br />
successful career as a conductor, entrepreneur,<br />
pianist and organist, Maestro Owen is also<br />
music director of Camerata NY Orchestra<br />
and St. Jean Baptiste Church (NYC). He was formerly on the<br />
conducting staff of the NY Philharmonic (cover conductor) as<br />
well as the Deutsche Oper am Rhein<br />
(Duessledorf). This season, Mr. Owen has a busy schedule<br />
which includes the Nutcracker with the Donetsk State Ballet,<br />
Scheherazade with the Adelphi Orchestra and Carmina Burana<br />
with Camerata New York and the NYC Masterchorale.Mo.<br />
Owen recently made several conducting debuts including with<br />
the Little Opera Theater of New York (Gluck’s The Reformed<br />
Drunkard), with Rioult Dance (M. Torke’s Iphigenia) the<br />
Center for Contemporary Opera (Night of the Living Dead) and<br />
Carmina Burana with the Montreal Symphony,<br />
conducting alongside Mo. Kent Nagano. He has conducted<br />
symphony orchestras in Duisburg, Duesseldorf, Rzeszow,<br />
Jacksonville, Monterrey, Belgrade as well as the Staatskapelle<br />
Weimar, the Europa Symphony, the Silesian Philharmonic,<br />
the Baltic Opera and the Pacific Symphony. Mr. Owen<br />
graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was a recipient of<br />
a piano scholarship. He studied piano, accompanying and<br />
conducting at the Manhattan School of Music and at the<br />
University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna,<br />
Austria. A native New Yorker, Mr. Owen is committed to the<br />
cultural growth of the New York Metro/Northern New Jersey<br />
by presenting diverse repertoire to all generations.
Sixteen-year-old Nathan Meltzer studies<br />
with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at Juilliard<br />
Pre-College, where he is a Starling Delay<br />
scholar. Nathan has performed in Argentina,<br />
Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Germany,<br />
Israel, and across the U.S., playing solo violin<br />
with the Berliner Symphoniker, the<br />
Bloomington Symphony, the Charlotte Civic Orchestra, the<br />
Evansville Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony<br />
Orchestra, the Muncie Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica<br />
Concepción, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. This<br />
season, Nathan joins the Omega Ensemble, solos with the<br />
Adelphi Orchestra and Ensemble 212, and returns to the<br />
Charlotte Civic Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica<br />
Concepción. Nathan began his music education in a secondgrade<br />
orchestra class in Vienna, joined the “Violin Virtuosi” at<br />
Indiana University in 2011, and entered the Perlman Music<br />
Program in 2013. Nathan has played on NPR’s From the Top,<br />
most recently with Mark O’Connor, appeared with The Piano<br />
Guys at Carnegie Hall, performed with Gilles Apap, David<br />
Chan, and Augustine Hadelich, and taken lessons and<br />
masterclasses with Joshua Bell, Pamela Frank, and Jaime<br />
Laredo, among others. Nathan plays an 1844 Italian violin by<br />
Johannes Pressenda on generous loan from Juilliard.
Dvořák : Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88<br />
After the crisis of the mid-1880s, represented above all by the sombre Seventh<br />
Symphony and the Piano Trio in F minor, the period during which<br />
Dvorak produced his Eighth Symphony was now a time of equilibrium,<br />
when the composer sought the answers to fundamental issues of human existence.<br />
The work was written during the summer and early autumn of 1889,<br />
mainly at his summer residence in Vysoka. This environment, in which<br />
Dvorak was most at ease, seemed to be reflected in the overall atmosphere<br />
of his new symphony. Here he created a work filled with the joys of life and<br />
his admiration for natural beauty and, once again, the piece reveals the composer’s<br />
fondness for Czech and Slavonic folk music. Dvorak’s Symphony<br />
No. 8 is characteristic for its variable moods, which follow one another in a<br />
colourful sequence of pastoral images, then dance and march temperaments,<br />
and finally passages of heightened drama. In terms of its thematic material,<br />
the work is marked by a cantabile style whose clear-cut contours and largely<br />
diatonic progressions are more typical of a vocal, rather than instrumental,<br />
type of melody.<br />
Sibelius: Violin Concerto In D Minor, Opus 47<br />
The Sibelius Violin Concerto’s composition and premiere was a turbulent<br />
path filled with delays, disasters, and ill-will. In 1903, Sibelius was in one<br />
of his more compositionally prolific periods, but he was troubled. Tales of<br />
alcoholism, or at least drinking far too much, are rampant, and there is an<br />
anecdote that his wife had to go searching for him at a local pub to prompt<br />
him to finish writing the third movement for the Violin Concerto’s premiere.<br />
Sibelius originally had planned to dedicate the work to the esteemed<br />
German violinist, Willy Burmester, who had agreed to premiere it in Berlin.<br />
Sibelius then decided he wanted the premiere to be in Helsinki, which<br />
is understandable, as it was financially beneficial for him and he was Finland’s<br />
preeminent nationalist composer. What is not understandable is why<br />
Sibelius chose to schedule the premiere when Burmester was unavailable.<br />
The premiere was held in November of 1904 with Sibelius conducting<br />
and a new soloist, Victor Novacek, a violinist with far less performance<br />
experience than that of Burmester. The premiere was nothing short of a<br />
disaster, with a trifecta of issues: an inexperienced soloist, his inability to<br />
prepare properly because the Concerto was not finished in a timely manner,<br />
and the resultant work was one of the most virtuosic concertos ever to be<br />
written. The failed outcome is not surprising. Sibelius withdrew the work<br />
and spent the next year revising it. The new version premiered in Berlin in<br />
October 1905, again at a time when its intended dedicatee, Burmester, was<br />
unavailable. Sibelius then asked Karel Halíř to be the soloist for his revamped<br />
Violin Concerto while Richard Strauss was the conductor. Burmester<br />
was so incensed by this slight that he vowed to never play Sibelius’s<br />
Violin Concerto, making him no longer a suitable candidate for the work’s<br />
dedication. Sibelius settled on a young prodigy by the name of Ferenc von<br />
Vecsey, age twelve, to dedicate his new work. Sibelius does not rely on the<br />
traditional orchestra and soloist prototypes in his Violin Concerto. There is<br />
hardly any musical conversation between the two forces, unlike most Romantic<br />
works for violin and orchestra. The orchestra and soloist rarely<br />
share melodic material, and while there are some splendid moments for the<br />
orchestra.
Smetana: The Moldau<br />
Smetana came to his patriotic pinnacle only through a circuitous route and a<br />
devastating personal crisis. After passing through a half-dozen schools, he<br />
dropped out at age 16 to join a quartet. Like his idol Liszt, he first struggled to<br />
establish and sustain careers as a traveling piano virtuoso and revered teacher.<br />
Although born and raised in Bohemia, he felt unappreciated in his native Prague<br />
and in his early thirties he left for a teaching and performing position in<br />
Göteborg, Sweden. It was during his five-years there that he became transformed<br />
and inspired by powerful feelings toward the country he had left behind.<br />
He sublimated his intense homesickness to learn to write in Czech<br />
(having been taught in German, as was customary among the educated classes<br />
in Prague), produced several orchestral pieces based on historical legend<br />
(encouraged by and modeled after Liszt) and became an ardent proselytizer<br />
for his country's culture. a sterling example of this is his composition entitled<br />
Ma Vlast (My country). The most popular of the six movements, often heard<br />
on its own, is "Vlavta" ("The Moldau"), a vivid portrait of Bohemia's mighty<br />
river from source to end. Smetana conceived the seminal idea for the opening<br />
during an 1867 picnic at the conjunction of the two mountain brooks, which<br />
he depicts with flutes and clarinets, each gurgling in constant motion, as pizzicato<br />
strings highlight glints of sunlight on the rippling surface trickling over<br />
the rocks. The brooks coalesce into a swift stream whose lovely melody may<br />
sound familiar, as it's derived from the same folk source as "Hatikva," the<br />
Zionist, and now Israeli, national anthem. As the river swells and courses<br />
through the countryside, we hear hunting horns, a wedding dance, nocturnal<br />
nymphs, foaming rapids and a majestic flow past Prague before disappearing
Upcoming Concerts 2016‐17 Season<br />
HANDEL & FRIENDS<br />
Nov 13 2016 - 3:00 PM<br />
First Presbyterian Church of Englewood<br />
JULIEDANCE’S NUTCRACKER BALLET<br />
Dec 9 - Dec 11 2016<br />
Paramus Catholic High School<br />
With the Donetsk Ballet<br />
Students of Miss Pattis School of Dance<br />
MYSTICAL SONGS & DANCES<br />
OFSCHEHERAZADE<br />
March 26, 2017 – 3:00 PM<br />
Riverdell Middle School Auditorium<br />
Ballet Neo | Sara Pearson - Soprano<br />
AT THE BALLET<br />
Sunday, April 2, 2017|<br />
Wyckoff Family YMCA<br />
Joffrey Ballet | Studio 691 Dance Company<br />
LA TRAVIATA<br />
May 7, 2017 - 3:00 PM<br />
Riverdell High School Auditorium<br />
ADELPHI CHAMBER ENSEMBLE<br />
Dec 3, 2016 - 8:00 p.m.<br />
Five Star Premier Residences Teaneck<br />
Feb 19, 2017 - 2:00 p.m.<br />
Mahwah Public Library<br />
Mar 5, 2017 - 3:00 p.m.<br />
Teaneck Public Library
Patrons of the Adelphi Orchestra<br />
Foundations<br />
Amazon Smiles<br />
Holy Name Hospital<br />
Price Waterhouse Cooper<br />
Puffin Foundation<br />
TD Bank Affinit y Program<br />
Sponsors<br />
David Rubin, MD<br />
Pathline Laboratories<br />
Tributes<br />
IN HONOR OF:<br />
Marilyn Bernstein<br />
Sylvia Rubin<br />
Lillian & Gerald Levin<br />
Thomas Tantillo<br />
Mary Tantillo<br />
IN MEMORY OF:<br />
Concertmaster Member<br />
Michael & Farrah Peng<br />
Sylvia & David Rubin<br />
Principal Member<br />
Esther Kashkin<br />
Joan Kuhns<br />
Jason Tramm<br />
Rev Louis Springsteen<br />
Margaret Cook Levy<br />
Judith Clarke<br />
Sylvia Rubin<br />
Virtuoso Member<br />
Felicia & Stan Davis<br />
Edward & Kathryn Friedland<br />
Claire & Robert Kapilow<br />
Rachel Matthews<br />
Sigrid Snell<br />
Anne Taylor, MD<br />
Sinfonia Members<br />
Betty Heald<br />
Daniel & Theresa Muccia<br />
Dr. William & Leanore Rosenzweig<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Schott<br />
George & Barbara Sabel<br />
Margaret Falahee Watkins<br />
Concerto Member<br />
Hagop and Sirapi Aram<br />
Barbara Cohen<br />
Cynthia Bernstein<br />
Glenn Danks<br />
Constance Schnoll<br />
Lorraine Spivak<br />
Lorraine & Orlando Valcarel
The Adelphi Orchestra<br />
Wishes to express its gratitude to all of its volunteers,<br />
friends, individuals, corporate and foundation donors,<br />
advertisers<br />
RIVERDELL BOARD OF EDUCATION<br />
The Staff at Riverdell High School<br />
Michael OReilly, Claudia Cutri<br />
Esther Kashkin, Jay VandeKopple, Sylvia Rubin, Michael<br />
Peng, Alexandra Bernstein, David Rubin<br />
For helping make all our programs possible we are<br />
looking forward to sharing more music with you this
Congratulates the<br />
Adelphi Orchestra on its<br />
63rd season!<br />
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offering symphony, chamber and educational concert<br />
programs in Northern New Jersey and the New York metropolitan<br />
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