2016-2017 season program
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OrchestraNovaMusica
Concert Season
2016~2017
President’sMessage
Bob AltizerPresident,
Board of Directors
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MusicaNova is building on our successful performing and education programs to give you even more great music in this 2016-2017 Season, including three exceptional orchestra concert productions. In January we’re pleased to present “America’s Indigenous Music,” with Native American flutist and Grammy Award winner R. Carlos Nakai playing a new version of the classic, ”Spirit Horses.” This special production will be performed at both Central United Methodist Church in Phoenix and Scottsdale Presbyterian Church. Our Artists-In-Residence in the Tempe High School Auditorium this season, along with student musicians, will sit side-by-side with MusicaNova orchestra members for our October and April concerts, with each performance repeated in a free evening community concert at Tempe High School Auditorium.
Our Composi t ion Fellows Program is also growing this season, with new works premiering at every orchestra concert. We’re proud to announce the addition of the ASU Herberger Institute School of Music as a partner in the program, and will work with the faculty of their Composition Program to name one MNO-ASU Composition Fellow each season.
The Young Artists Concert Series is back for its third season, featuring the finest soloists under 18 in the Valley of the Sun in a formal recital setting. MNO gives the young virtuosos the opportunity – and the challenge – to prepare and present an entire program of works.
This season’s free Collaborative Concerts Series brings a richer mix of musical styles than ever, including an amazing Sonoran Marimba Band, a fantastic chamber orchestra concert featuring magical soloists, and a special appearance by an ensemble from Harmony Project-Phoenix. The series concludes with the stunning “Traditional China,” featuring music performed on authentic instruments which date back over 8,000 years.
In December, we’ll join the Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular, on stage at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in downtown Phoenix, with thrilling acrobats, flyers, and singers in a wonderful family show.
All this means an even greater need for your ongoing support, both by your attendance and your donations. See our entire season schedule in this season program and on our website, and plan now to come to several MusicaNova events.
We guarantee you’ve never heard classical music like this before – you won’t be disappointed!
Mission
Vision
MusicaNova is the premier independent, professional symphony in the Valley of the Sun. We believe in the future of
great music and do our best to bring you new works, neglected works you’ll hear nowhere else, new interpretations of
the classics, and new collaborations with artistic and cultural partners. We don’t play the same classical “greatest hits”
you can hear anywhere; we do tell the stories behind the music to entertain and inform everyone
from long-time classical music lovers to those attending their first concert.
Our educational activities include outreach and collaboration with our partner schools and organizations, bringing
the joy of playing and hearing great music to many who might not otherwise have the opportunity. Our unique
Composition Fellows Program gives fine young composers hands-on mentoring through the process of preparing, rehearsing, and performing one of their works as a world premiere at an orchestra concert.
&Our mission is to play great new, neglected, and traditional music, introduce the finest new musicians,
and give you the greatest musical experience you’ve never had – yet!
Our vision is to become known as the source for new and exciting classical music in Arizona.
Warren Cohen has been Music Director of
the MusicaNova Orchestra since it’s founding in
2003. In that time, the group has developed an
international reputation for its performances and
recordings of unjustly neglected music. As music
critic Alan Kruek said, “Nowhere outside of London
and NewYork can music lovers enjoy an orchestra
of such high quality that is consistently committed
to the performance of great neglected music.”
In addition to his work with MusicaNova,
Warren is Artistic Director of the New Jersey
Intergenerational Orchestras. For the 2012-2013
season he was Concert Artist in Conducting at
Kean University, the only person ever appointed
to this position. Over the past fifteen years he
has conducted almost a thousand orchestral,
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Music Director
operatic and choral works. He has studied
conducting with Gustav Meier and Paul Vermel,
and did a year of study at English National Opera
during the last year of the adminstration of the
“power trio” years where the company was led
by Sir Mark Elder, David Poutney and Peter Jonas.
He now divides his time between
New Jersey and Arizona with his wife, soprano
Carolyn Whitaker, and his 17-year-old son
Graham, an award winning composer and violist.
“Known as one of the most innovative orchestras in the world, MusicaNova is proud of the great work we have done over the last 14 seasons! “
Musica Nova, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity, incorporated in Arizona in 2003.
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MusicaNova is growing, producing more concerts and
educational collaborations every season than the last, with
more opportunities for both our long-time fans and first-time
listeners to hear more great music than ever before. We
have twice the number of orchestra concerts than in recent
seasons, and outstanding musicians in our Young Artists
and Collaborative Concerts series. Many alumni of our
Young Artists series, featuring the Valley’s best under-18
virtuosos, are now studying at the finest conservatories
including Juilliard, Colby, Oberlin, and Peabody. And,
the range of music in our Collaborative series
is greater than ever, from the amazing and
versatile Sonoran Marimba Band (you won’t
believe what you’l l hear!), to a chamber
orchestra concert featuring an ensemble from
our education partner Harmony Project-Phoenix,
to the astounding “Traditional China,” a musical
and cultural experience spanning 8,000 years
of history. Outside the concert hall, we’ll be
joining Cirque Musica for their Holiday Spectacular
show in December in the Talking Sick Resort
Arena, right on stage with their performers
in an edge-of-your-seat circus experience.
Join us for a busy season and a
thril l ing MusicaNova experience!
Welcome to our
14thSeason2016-2017
ConcertSeasonSunday, October 30, 2016 - 4:00 pm
Central United Methodist Church
Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a MarionetteFiona Ryan: Re:Play (American Premiere)
MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Dalhousie University
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5
Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 3:00 pmScottsdale Presbyterian Church
Sunday, January 29, 2017 - 4:00 pmCentral United Methodist Church
Featured Artist: R. Carlos NakaiSamuel Coleridge-Taylor: Four Novelleten, Op. 52Graham Cohen: Concerto Grosso for Eclectic Trio
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2Dale Sakamoto: Perennial (World Premiere)
MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Arizona State University
James DeMars: Spirit Horses (World Premiere)
Sunday, April 23, 2017 - 4:00 pmCentral United Methodist Church
Louis Gottschak: Night in the Tropics/MontivedeoJulie Hill, How to Restart (World Premiere)
MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Manhattan School of Music
José Pablo Moncayo, HupangoHeitor Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4
Alberto Ginastera, Estancia Suite
“The Seven Nation Riff ”
“America’s Indigenous Music”
“The Intangible Heritage”
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October 30thSunday 4:00 pm
Charles Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette(Theme of Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
CONCERT PROGRAM
MusicaNova Composition Fellows Our unique Composition Fellows Program gives fine young composers a hands-on mentoring through the process of preparing, rehearsing, and performing one of their works as a world premiere at an orchestra concert.
Composition Fellow
Fiona Ryan
“The Seven Nation Riff ”
Fiona Ryan was a founder of the Toy Piano
Composers while obtaining her DMA from
the University of Toronto. She’s now on the
faculty of the Fountain School of Performing
Arts at Dalhousie University in her native
Halifax, Nova Scotia. MusicaNova’s Warren
Cohen calls her music “extremely skillful but
it doesn’t take itself too seriously.” Her piece
“Re:Play” features a 37-key Schoenhut
Traditional Deluxe Spinet Piano.
Bruckner himself never heard the work performed. The only performance during his lifetime occurred in 1895 which he was too sick at the time to attend. The version that was performed at this concert was extensively reorchestrated by Franz Schalk, a close friend of the composer who conducted the premiere, and who arranged for the publication of the score shortly afterward. How much of this rescoring was the work of Bruckner, or was approved by the composer, is impossible to know, but it is generally thought that he had little to do with it – although we know that he did approve the most striking alteration, the use of additional brass at the end. There are also two cuts in the Finale, which it seems unlikely the composer would have approved. The orchestration does bear some resemblance to the scoring Bruckner used in his own rescoring of the 1st Symphony, but much of it is quite obviously the work of another mind. Until the publication of the Haas Edition in 1936, which closely follows Bruckner’s manuscript, this version was the only one played. Once the Haas version became available, the Schalk version quickly became obsolete, and it has virtually never been played in the last fifty years. But it is a fine example of the beauty that can be created from the tension between different voices, and the changes in scoring make this already exciting work a truly overwhelming experience.
Aton Bruckner: Symphony No. 5(Insiration for the White Stripes hit Seven Nation Army)
Fiona Ryan: Re:Play (American Premiere) MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Dalhousie UniversityFeaturing student musicians from Tempe High School and the Arizona School for the Arts
Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette The Gounod Funeral March is an ironic, humorous little work that Gounod originally composed for Piano and later arranged for orchestra. In the 19th century the convention of a serious funeral march was sometimes mocked by the creation of funeral marches for pets, toys and other inanimate objects. This little work achieved new fame when it was used as the theme music for the television show “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”
Ryan: Re:Play (American Premiere) The piece is a contrast between serious and playful characters – played by groups of instruments – which interact throughout the piece, with both somber and playful themes. The playful theme keeps teasing the somber theme and the dialog between them grows together, emerging as a single sound.
Bruckner: Symphony No.5 (Schalk version) Bruckner’s 5th Symphony is one of the pinnacles of his orchestral repertoire, a work that even in the rarefied world of Bruckner Symphonies has a special place. The work combines the melodic beauty of his earlier Symphonies with a rigorous use of contrapuntal devices, especially in the Finale, that makes it appeal equally to the mind and to the heart.
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CONCERT PROGRAM
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Dale Sakamoto
“America’s Indigenous Music”Coleridge-Taylor: Four Novelleten, Op. 52 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s life story is remarkable. He was the son of a medical student from Sierra Leone and a working class English girl. His father left the country before his birth and was probably unaware of the existence of his son. The composer grew up in relative poverty in Croydon (a suburb of London) where his musical gifts got him into the Royal College of Music. He encountered the leading lights of English music of the day, who recognizing his talent, helped to open doors for him. By the time he was 23, he had written an Oratorio, Hiawatha, that was destined to make him world famous. He died of overwork, like Mendelssohn, at the age of 37, and his music gradually disappeared only to reappear recently when the rediscovery of his extraordinary melodic gift and brilliant orchestration caused a revival of his music. These Novelleten display his gifts in abundance and anticipate the popularity of British Light Music some thirty years later.
Cohen: Concerto Grosso for Eclectic Trio The Rogue Trio commissioned Graham Cohen to write a work for this combination and string orchestra in 2015, to create a signature piece for the new group. This is probably the only Concerto ever written for this combination, and in the work the composer exploits the individual qualities of the instruments and the suggestion of both a salon orchestra and a jazz band that the combination implies.
Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, named for the great British composer, was born in Brooklyn in 1930. He had a varied life as a composer, arranger and teacher. His Sinfonietta No. 2 is based on the tune “Shortenin’ Bread” but only as an inspiration; It is reharmonized, rethought, and distorted, using devices from serious and popular music in a unique way. Perkinson, who died in 2005, is one of the finest American composers of the twentieth century, and we hope that our performance of this masterpiece inspires others to learn his music.
Sakamoto: Perennial (World Premiere) Dale Sakamoto recently became a graduate student in composition at Arizona State University. He hails from California and has written in a wide variety of media and styles. This lovely work was originally conceived for dance, and the lyricism and subtle quality of the music is beautifully suited to a scoring for string orchestra.
DeMars: Spirit Horses (World Premiere) James DeMars has collaborated with R Carlos Nakai on numerous projects over the years; the Concerto for Native Flute and Strings “Spirit Horses” was a unique work at the time it was written, and inspired further works in the genre by other composers. For this performance, the composer has made some changes to the scoring and we are proud to present the world premiere of the revised version of this well loved score!
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:Four Novelleten, Op. 52 Graham Cohen:Concerto Grosso for Eclectic TrioFeaturing the Rogue Trio Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson:Sinfonietta No. 2Dale Sakamoto:Perennial (World Premiere) MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Arizona State University
James DeMars:Spirit Horses (World Premiere)Featuring Native American FlutistR. Carlos Nakai
Guest Artist
R. Carlos NakaiMusicaNova Orchestra is delighted to welcome Native American flutist and Grammy Award Winner R. Carlos Nakai, who joins the orchestra to play a new version of ASU composer James DeMars’ Spirit Horses.
Guest Artists
The Rogue Trio
Challenging the standard small ensemble, this unusual and dynamic mix~violin (Kathleen Strahm), saxophone (Justin Rollefson), and piano (Mary Cota) explores luscious timbres, andbrilliant tones.
is a graduate student in composition in the Herberger
Institute School of Music at Arizona State University. His music has been performed in
venues across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
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Louis Gottschak:Night in the Tropics/MontivedeoJulie Hill:How to Restart (World Premiere) MusicaNova Composition Fellow, Manhattan School of Music
José Pablo Moncayo:HupangoHeitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4Alberto Ginastera:Estancia Suite
CONCERT PROGRAM
“The Intangible Heritage”
Hill: How to Restart (World Premiere)Julie Hill recently graduated from the Manahattan School of Music where she wrote a number of pieces that show her ability to break down barriers not only between musicians but between styles and genres of music. “How to Restart” is a perfect metaphor for a recently graduated student who is trying to find her way in the music world! Her music is whimsical, deeply personal and strikingly original.
Moncayo: HupangoMoncayo’s Huapango is a work that uses the conventions of mariachi music and adapts them to the modern Symphony Orchestra – but its popularity is such that he has become a staple of the mariachi repertoire as well. We will uniquely present both versions at the same time, reinforcing the joyful and exciting nature of the music.
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4 Heitor Villa-Lobos composed nine works with the title “Bachianas Brasillerias”and they are among his best known works. Scored for a variety of ensembles from a solo piano to a full orchestra, they all invoke – simultaneously – the spirit of the music of Bach and of modern Brazil. That he was able to do this so vividly and suc-cessfully is a testament to his skill as a composer and to his originality as a musical thinker. The 4th of the set uses the largest orchestra of any of them and begins with a melancholy movement that sounds like a Bach Prelude if Bach had been from Rio de Janeiro. It ends with a crazy contrapuntal celebration-Bach at Carnaval!
Ginastera: Estancia SuiteAlberto Ginastera made his reputation with this early work, which established him as the voice of classical music in Argentina. The Dances come from a ballet of the same name and have extraordinary energy and drive, with a distinctly Argentinian character.
MusicaNova Orchestra concludes this concert season by celebrating our year as artist-in-residence at Tempe High School with a selection of symphonic works inspired by the Mexican Mariachi tradition, named an “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
New York Public Radio (WQXR) calls MusicaNova Composition Fellow Julie Hill “truly magical.”
A singer, composer, and teacher who graduated from the Manhattan School of Music
(B.M. Classical Composition), she has taught at the Global Music Institute in New Delhi and is
working with Gabriel Kahane on his record “The Ambassador.” Her compositions have been
widely performed, including by the Philadelphia Ballet and at Yale University.
Composition Fellow
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is currently in the graduate program in Composition and Theory at the Arizona State
University Herberger Institute School of Music. Dale is the first MNO-ASU Composition Fellow, as we welcome ASU to the program.
His piece ‘Perennial’ blurs the lines of tonality and atonality, an eclectic blend of textural
and motivic ideas.
is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and is an
independent composer, teacher, and performer in New York
working in many styles including pop, rock, choral, and symphonic music. ‘How to Restart’ is her first work not using strict mechanical or structural rules, incorporating
a wide variety of techniquesin a single piece.
is currently on the music faculty at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. MNO Conductor Warren Cohen says
her piece ‘Re:Play’ “is extremely skillful without taking itself too
seriously.” It’s a dialog between competing groups of serious and playful instruments—including a 37-key “toy” piano — as they grow to understand each other.
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CompositionFellows
PROGRAM
This season MusicaNova is delighted to welcome three Composition Fellows to participate in the third year of this unique program. Composition Fellows
receive intensive, hands-on mentoring in the completed preparation, rehearsal, and performance of one of their works, played as a
world or American premiere at an MNO concert.
This season’s MusicaNova Composition Fellows and their pieces are:
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SalonConcert SERIES
Salon Concerts help to raise funding for MusicaNova and are held at prvate homes in
the Valley. You’ll be entertained by MusicaNova musicians, enjoy hors d’oeuvres, wine, and
soft drinks, as well as meet the artists.The 2016-2017 Salon Concert season schedule
is currently under development. For more information, check the MusicaNova website at www.musicanovaaz.com/salon-concert-series/
Young Artists Concert
SERIES
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the performers at www.MusicaNovaAz.com
LOCATION
Recital HallArizona Piano Company
4134 E. Wood Street, Phoenix AZ
CONCERT DATES
MusicaNova is proud to present the Young Artists Series in collaboration with the Arizona Piano Company. Through this partnership, we are presenting exceptional young
musicians in solo and ensemble performances. This series allows us to showcase talented young artists and their teachers, giving them the joy of playing and bringing the gift of
great music to the community. Please join us for these special performances.
Saturday, September 24, 2016 – 4:00pmFeaturing 17--year-old T. J .Torrence, guitar, and 17-year-old Viveca Lawrie, trumpet
Saturday, October 29, 2016 – 4:00pmFeaturing 17-year-old Ryan Grieser, viola, and 14-year-old Jessica Zhang, piano
Saturday, January 21, 2017 – 4:00pmFeaturing 14-year-old Marina Tiffany and 15-year-old Hannah Guan, harps,
and 10-year-old Lawrence Wen and 12-year-old Asuka Firdaus, pianos
Saturday, March 25, 2017 – 4:00pmFeaturing 15-year-old Barrett Yueh, flute and 14-year-old Vivian Zhao, piano
Saturday, May 20, 2017 – 4:00pmFeaturing 14-year-old Allen Pan, violin and 15-year-old Alex Tam, piano
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Under the direction of MusicaNova Orchestra violist Jill Osborne, the orchestra program at Tempe High School has grown nearly 400% in five
years. MusicaNova is proud to support that success by acting as Artists-In-Residence there during the 2016-2017 school year.
We will continue our longstanding program of outreach visits to the entire student body at assemblies in the THS auditorium and classrooms. Outreach
visits are insightful, entertaining, and engaging introductions to upcoming MNO concerts. Frequently, MNO Peer Teaching Artists (talented musicians
under 18) interact with the entire student body in discussions of their inspirations and aspirations as musicians.
As artists-in-residence, MNO Teaching Artists (orchestra members) will give hands-on mentoring to selected student musicians as they sit side-by-side
during complete orchestra concert rehearsal and performance cycles in October and April, and in master classes open to all orchestra program students throughout the school year. Each orchestra cycle culminates in two performances: One before a paying audience in Phoenix, and the
other at a free community concert in the THS Auditorium.
Tempe High will provide in-kind contribution of space resources in its classrooms, orchestra spaces, and Auditorium for MNO Teaching Artists
and Peer Teaching Artists to conduct outreach visits with the student body, masterclasses for orchestra students, and rehearsal and preparation of two
side-by-side concert programs with selected student musicians.
The Collaborative Concerts Series features members of the MusicaNova family in styles from classical and chamber, to pops, jazz and Broadway,
to experimental and interactive with audience participation.MusicaNova Collaborative Concerts are always free admission, donations accepted.
Sundays at 3:00 PM – Scottsdale Presbyterian ChurchAugust 24, 2016
Alex Dergal, on clarinet – a MNO Young Artist now at the Oberlin Conservatory – plays music from Bernstein, Brahms, and Messiaen, with collaborative pianist, Jeremy Peterman
October 9, 2016The Sonoran Marimba Band plays chamber music, jazz, ragtime, African,
and traditional Meso-American music, with audience participation and dancing
November 20, 2016The Dry River Yacht Club is an all-acoustic, symphonic indie band, mixing many musical styles to create an eclectic and high-energy sound that’s all their own
February 21, 2017The MusicaNova Chamber Orchestra, plays concertos featuring duo violinists Joy Pan and Lan Qiu on Bach and pianist Jessica Zhang with Mozart’s “Jeunehomme,” with special guests the Harmony Project-PHX ensemble
March 5, 2017The MusicaNova Flute Ensemble takes the audience on a rich journey through
America’s musical traditions, with collaborative pianist Jeremy Peterman
April 2, 2017“Traditional China” is a fascinating cultural and musical experience featuring music
on traditional Chinese instruments, some dating back over 8,000 years
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MusicaNovaBoard of Directors
OFFICERSBob Altizer, President
Warren Cohen, Music DirectorPeter Carlston, SecretaryLee Chivers, Treasurer
Elizabeth McKinnon, Personnel Manager
DIRECTORSBob Altizer
Peter Carlston
John Cleveland
Warren Cohen
Ethel Harris
Elizabeth McKinnon
Dominique van de Stadt
HONORARY DIRECTORSIsola Jones
Donna Reiner
Hannah Selznick
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Is it to be touched by the music? To support the arts in the Valley of the Sun? Or is it because there’s always something new and great to hear for the first time at a
MusicaNova concert? MNO musicians and composers do what they do to bring you great new music for one simple reason: their passion for doing so. Here’s one story.
Our principal timpanist, Sonja Branch, not only plays dozens of percussion instruments with MNO and other orchestras, she accompanies dance programs at ASU and Grand Canyon University, teaches West African drumming, is a self-taught
Mariachi ensemble member, and founded a group dedicated to traditional Senegalese drumming. When asked why she does all that, Sonja simply says,
“Because there’s always something new to learn.” Sonja is just one of the scores of MusicaNova musicians compelled continually to learn about both the art and the craft
of their profession, and the possibilities of new music they can create for you.
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