Adam Stern, Music Director and Conductor

Sunday, June 12, 2016 2:00 p.m.Eastlake Performing Arts Center

The Spring Blossoms of the Earth:

B R A H M S ’ S E C O N D S Y M P H O N Y

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) The Tender Land (suite from the opera) Introduction and Love Music Party Scene Finale: The Promise of Living Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Violin Concerto in d, Op. 47 I. Allegro moderato Featuring Adrian Steele, 2016 Youth Concerto Competition Winner

Intermission

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 Allegro non troppo Adagio non troppo Allegrettograzioso(quasiandantino) Allegro con spirito

Please turn off all cell phones and pagers.No audio/video recording or flash photography is allowed during the performance.

R.JosephScottpossessedagreatgiftforgrowingandmaturingsmallcommunityorchestras.Hesucceededwithhis“baby,”theBellevuePhilharmonic,andthenagainwiththeSammamishSymphony,whichbeganlifeinarecreationroomatProvidencePoint.Joseph’spassionformusicbroughtoutthebestinhismusicians.Hisendlessdrive,visionandhardworkcreatedanensemblethatthecityofSammamishisproudtocallitsown.WemoveintothefuturewithloyalpersonnelandasolidfoundationwhichincludesthefinemusiclibrarythatJosephgenerouslybequeathedtotheSymphony.UnderthedirectionofconsummatelyskilledAdamStern,wehavetheopportunitytotrulyblossom.

ThankyouJoseph!Youwillalwaysbeinourhearts.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of R. Joseph Scott

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WhenIwasgiventheprivilegeofbecomingtheSammamishSymphony’sMusicDirector,Idecidedthatitwouldbeagoodthingforone

concert out of our yearly six to feature the orchestra itself. TheSymphonyismarvelousataccompanying,ofcourse,andwelovepresentingconcertosandotherliteraturethatfeaturessoloists,butitisalsobeneficialfortheorchestratooccasionallytakeonthechallengeofbeingin the forefront for the entirety of a concert; the added pressure,whileslightlydaunting,isalsoexhilaratingandperhapsaddssomethingtotheensemble’swell-deservedself-confidence.

Theonusonme,then,istodeviseprogramsthatcontainsufficientdiversitysothatasolovehicleisn’tmissed,andthatcompriseenoughvariegationinstyle,moodand

useoftheorchestrasothattheexperienceiswhollyrewardingtotheorchestraandouraudience.IamhopefulthatthepresentcombinationofElgar’svividrealizationofBach,Schumann’ssymphony-in-miniature,andNielsen’sgrand,life-assertingSymphonyNo.3haveachievedmygoal.

Forthoseofyouwhocannotwaituntilnextyeartofindoutwhatthenextorchestra-onlyeventwillbe,I’llofferthis,hopefully,tantalizingtidbit:Greatorchestralmomentsfromtheworldofopera!

Bestregards,andthanks,

Adam SternMusicDirectorandConductor,SammamishSymphonyOrchestra

Orchestra Management

Board of Directors

Founding DirectorJoyceCunningham

Music Director & ConductorAdam Stern

PresidentMyrl Venter

Vice-PresidentAndy Hill

TreasurerTitanRodick

SecretaryTimothyCorrie,Jr.

Directors-at-LargeArmandBinkhuysenDennisHelppieCindyJorgensen

Hans KleinLibbyLandyPaulaLibes

ShannonNelsonCraigSaddler

Tim Strait

Honorary Board MembersDonGerend

Former Mayor, City of Sammamish

SkipRowleyChairman, Rowley Properties

NancyWhittenSammamish City Council Member

Personnel

Ensemble coordinatorKathrynBoudreau

LibrarianElaineCox

GrantsArmandBinkhuysen

Concert ProgramAdam Stern

EmaugoCreative

WebmasterTimothyCorrie,Jr.

Youth Concerto CompetitionAndy Hill

Lobby ManagersKathie JorgensenCindyJorgensen

Concessions ManagerGFWCCascadeWoman’sClub

Sound RecordingPhillipChance

ADAM STERN, Conductor and Music Director oftheSammamishSymphony,isoneoftheregion’sbusiestmusicians.SincearrivinginSeattlein1992,hehasbeenactiveasaconductor,composer,pianist,educatorandlecturer.HehasbeenleadingtheSeattlePhilharmonicOrchestrasince2003,duringwhichtenurehehasbroughtnumerousworld,U.S.,WestCoastandNorthwestpremierestothePugetSoundcommunity.Stern’suniqueprogrammingcombinesbelovedmasterworkswithmust-hearrarities;hisprogramsarenotmerelyconcerts,buttruemusicalevents.

SternwasborninHollywoodin1955.Hebeganhismusicalstudiesatagefiveasapianostudent,andbeganflutelessonstwoyearslater.At15,SternwasacceptedatCaliforniaInstituteoftheArts,whereheinitiallymajoredinfluteperformance,butchangedhismajortoconductinginhissecondyearattheurgingofthelateGerhardSamuel,anotedconductorandeducator.Sternwasgraduatedin1977withanMFAinconductingat21,theyoungestMastersdegreerecipientinCalArts’history.

From1996until2001,SternwastheAssociateConductoroftheSeattleSymphony(afterhavingservedasAssistantConductorfrom1992-96).Helednumerousconcertsinalloftheorchestra’sseries,includingtheorchestra’sfirstperformancesofVaughanWilliams’SymphonyNo.3andElgar’sSymphonyNo.2.Inaddition,heledmany“pops”concertsandwasthehappycollaboratorofsuchartistsasJamesTaylor,ArtGarfunkel,JudyCollinsandFrankSinatra,Jr.

SternresidesinSeattlewithhiswife,sopranoKamilaStern,andhischildrenEllaandOscar.

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Guest Artist

Orchestra MembersFIRST VIOLINDennisHelppie ConcertmasterTim Strait Associate ConcertmasterIan BackmanKristin EdlundMichael KingSarah LinkatoonLynne MartinelHeather RaschkoHaley SchaeningKolleen Uppinghouse

SECOND VIOLINShelby Eaton*Elizabeth HeitkampBarbara EthingtonMatthew GuentherNancy JohnsonJillian Kent-DobiasShravani KulkarniPaula LibesFran PopeMcKenna Roberts

VIOLALibby Landy*Hans Klein**Armand BinkhuysenErik Binkhuysen Kathryn BoudreauDan Pope

Sariya RashidAmanda SalmickLoraine Terpening

CELLOShiang-Yin Lee*Juha Niemisto**Loryn BortinsMichelle MillerGail RatleyJoyce SanfordJoan SelvigSandra Sultan

BASSJarod Tanneberg*Timothy Corrie, Jr.Natalie Schlichtmann

FLUTEElana Sabovic-Matt*Tori Berntsen

PICCOLOMelissa Underhill

OBOESusan Jaboby*Jim Kobe

ENGLISH HORNDennis Calvin

CLARINETJayne Marquess*Kathy Carr

BASS CLARINETGreg Rasa

BASSOONJulia KingreyTitan Rodick

CONTRA-BASSOONTitan Rodick

FRENCH HORNEvelyn Zeller*Dan Chernin Sha’ari Garfinkel

TRUMPETJim Sailors*Shaun PetitLawrence Morris

TROMBONEJohn Ochsenreiter*Rob Birkner

BASS TROMBONEMichael Wennerstrom

TUBAMark Wiseman

TIMPANIEric Daane

PERCUSSIONCraig WendeDaniel Pooley

PIANO/KEYBOARDCatherine Lowell

HARPBethany Man

*Principal**Assistant Principal

Section members are listed in alphabetical order.

We wish to thank Barbara Ethington for the creation and distribution of beautiful posters. Also, many thanks to Barbara and to Dan Pope for staying after long rehearsals to reset the practice room.

VIOLA CONTINUED

AdrianSteele,aged16,hasstudiedviolinwithRonPattersonsince2010,havingpreviouslystudiedwithMihokoHirataandTracyHelming.AsophomoreatGarfieldHighSchoolinSeattle,heisamemberofGarfield’sSymphonicOrchestraandalsopursuesmusicacademicsattheSeattleConservatoryofMusic.ThisApril,AdrianwasawardedtheGrandPrizeandnamed“NationalYoungArtistof2016”atthePepsico-CharlestonSymphonyOrchestraNationalYoungArtistCompetitioninCharleston,SouthCarolina.OtherrecentawardsincludewinningtheSeattleYoungArtistsMusicFestivalAssociation’s2016ConcertoCompetitionandFestivalMedal,the2016WashingtonMusicEducatorsAssociationStateSoloContest,the2015-2016OrchestraofSeattleConcertoCompetition,the2015Coeurd’AleneNationalYoungArtists’HighSchoolcompetitionandtheSeattleYoungArtistsMusicFestivalAssociation’s2014ConcertoCompetition.Asasoloist,Adrianhasperformedwithnumerousorchestras,includingtheCharlestonSymphonyOrchestra,theOrchestraofSeattle,theCoeurd’AleneSymphonyOrchestra,thePhilharmoniaNorthwestandtheEastsideSymphony.

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Program NotesAaron Copland (1900-1990)The Tender Land (suite from

the opera)

Introduction and Love MusicParty Scene

Finale: The Promise of Living

The Tender Land, Aaron Copland’s only full-length opera, was composed between 1952-54. The libretto is credited to Horace Everett, the pen name of Erik Johns. The story centers on a teenage girl, Laurie Moss, who is torn between her family’s generations-long tradition of farming and the lure of “the world out there”. Further temptation arrives in the form of two itinerants, one of whom falls in love with Laurie and tries to persuade her to join them on the open road. The struggle of duty vs. love and the thrill of adventure plays out over the opera’s three acts.

Copland extracted this three-movement orchestral suite from the opera in 1958. The music in the suite does not correspond to the order in which it is heard in the opera; Copland instead structures it in a fashion (a slow-fast-slow arch) that makes this instrumental version perfectly satisfying on its own. For those interested in plot specifics, the “Love Music” is based on Laurie’s extended duet with her newfound inamorato, Top; “Party Scene” is a dance sequence from the festivities celebrating Laurie’s high school graduation; “The Promise of Living” is the finale of the opera’s

first act, in which the five principals sing a paean to the joys of work, tradition and community.

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)Violin Concerto in d, Op. 47

I. Allegro moderato

Sibelius’ only concerto dates from his thirty-ninth year, although it went through several revisions before arriving at the form in which we know it today. At the time he began it (1904), Sibelius already had much fine orchestral music to his credit including his first two symphonies (No. 2 remains the most popular of the seven) and a handful of symphonic poems and incidental music for the theater, as well as an ample amount of chamber music featuring his own instrument, the violin. The fusion of his distinctive orchestral voice with that of the instrument he knew most intimately resulted in a work regarded as one of the ten or so greatest of its kind.

In every way possible, this is a personal and unique concerto. The first movement unravels more like a rhapsody than a symphonic allegro, and the development section is in the form of an unaccompanied cadenza rather than a meeting of soloist and orchestra. Sibelius pays much attention to the orchestra’s deepest voices – low winds and brass; violas, cellos and basses; timpani – with the result that the violin’s voice is invariably

prominent and present. Of the three main ideas presented at the outset – the violin’s painfully beautiful opening theme, a romantic episode of great expression, and a defiant orchestral tutti – it is the defiant spirit that prevails at the end of the concerto’s first movement.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73

Allegro non troppoAdagio non troppo

Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)

Allegro con spirito

One of Johannes Brahms’ characteristics as a composer was to produce works in pairs, and as often as not the musical siblings were of contrasting natures. Cases in point: the Academic Festival and Tragic Overtures; the two clarinet sonatas; the two cello sonatas. In each of these instances, one work is predominantly light and the other dark (and, it must be added, all are beautiful and flawless – don’t be a ninny and avoid the dark ones!). Similarly, his four symphonies can be thought of as two sets of pairs, and they too exemplify this light/dark pattern. The Symphony No. 1 is a vast and imposing edifice that eventually sweeps aside its conflicts and storms in a blaze of hard-won C major, whereas its successor is its composer’s most jovial and emotionally “open” symphony. Some listeners have dubbed it Brahms’ “Pastoral” symphony,

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both for its overall mood and for the similarities to the composer’s beloved Beethoven’s sixth (“Pastoral”) symphony.

Brahms, who could be a pretty prickly and thin-skinned character,

was also possessed of a whimsical sense of humor. When preparing his publisher for the arrival of the second symphony’s manuscript, he cautioned him, “[it] is so melancholy that you will not be able to bear it. I have never written

anything so sad, and the score must be bound in black mourning crepe.” One can just imagine the publisher shaking his head after going through the manuscript and saying, “Oh, that Johannes...!”© 2016 Sammamish Symphony Association

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Acknowledgements

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Featured GuestsThe Sammamish Symphony welcomes

Beaver Lake Middle School ChoirTina Worthington, Choir Director

The Beaver Lake Middle School (BLMS) Choir is a combined choir of 7th and 8th grade girls and 6th, 7th and 8th grade boys. The Beaver Lake Middle School Choir has already performed a Fall Concert this school year and will also be performing at Seattle Center’s “Winterfest” before the end of the holiday season. In addition, the BLMS choirs will perform at several concerts and assemblies throughout the remainder of the school year and take Disney Music Tour May 17-20. This is the second time that the choir has performed with the Sammamish Symphony and we are super excited to be part of this special holiday event. We will do our best to share our gift of music as we do when we sing for our audiences throughout the year!

This year we also feature “The Rhythmics” Handbell Choir of the Fall City United Methodist Church. Marion Querro, Director

Cascade Woman’s Club Living the Volunteer Spirit

The GFWC Cascade Woman's Club is a non-profit charitable organization bringing together women from surrounding areas to promote community service and welfare locally, regionally and internationally. Anyone interested in learning more and contacting us visit our website at: gfwccascadeclub.weebly.com