Program Book / October 10, 2022 / CAMA Presents the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla and Sheku Kanneh‑Mason
The Board of Directors of Community Arts Music Association dedicate this concert to the memory of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II and of Her Majesty's 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms, and the Commonwealth. MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla, Music Director Sheku Kanneh‑Mason, cello The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10. PROGRAM: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85 MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: “Jewish Rhapsody,” from Festive Scenes, Op.36 CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer PRE-CONCERT LECTURE: Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor, Cello and Head of Strings, UCSB Department of Music Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara Doors open 5:45PM ⫽ Lecture 6:00–6:40PM Presented by the CAMA Women’s Board •
The Board of Directors of Community Arts Music Association dedicate this concert to the memory of
Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II and of Her Majesty's 70 years of service to the people of the
United Kingdom, the Realms, and the Commonwealth.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla, Music Director
Sheku Kanneh‑Mason, cello
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10.
PROGRAM:
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: “Jewish Rhapsody,” from Festive Scenes, Op.36
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE:
Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor, Cello and Head of Strings, UCSB Department of Music
Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara
Doors open 5:45PM ⫽ Lecture 6:00–6:40PM
Presented by the CAMA Women’s Board
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NOTES
ON THE PROGRAM
By Howard Posner
Ralph Vaughan Williams was in his early
30s and gradually acquiring a reputation
as a composer when the Oxford University
Press hired him to be music editor of
The English Hymnal, an updated, upgraded
and definitive volume of Church of England
congregational hymns.
The book, published in 1906, was
hailed as a triumph largely because of
Vaughan Williams’ work, but it concerns us,
a century or so later and a continent or so
away, because in the course of that work
he became enamored of a hymn by the Tudor
composer Thomas Tallis (1505–1585)
that he found in the 1567 Psalter of Matthew
Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. It
is a setting of the first part of Psalm 2, beginning,
“Why fumeth in fight the Gentiles'
spite, in fury raging stout? Why taketh in
hand the people fond, vain things to bring
about?” (Two centuries later, Handel would
set a newer translation in Messiah: “Why do
the nations so furiously rage together, and
why do the people imagine a vain thing?”)
Ralph Vaugham Williams
CAMA AT THE GRANADA THEATRE • CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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