2009 MusiciansHeather Armstrong - oboe

Jeff Brich - voice

Julia Bullard - viola

Ute Brandenburg -viola

Hunter Capoccioni - double bass

Jonathan Chenoweth - cello

Nathan Cook - cello

Frederick Halgedahl - violin

John Hines - voice

Jean McDonald - voice

Lee Schmitz -piano

Kathleen Sihler - viola

Jennifer Stevenson- clarinet

Emily Vardanyan - violin

Tigran Vardanyan - violin

2009

The Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. For information on how you can support CVCMF visit our website www.cvcmf.com

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Ticket Information An Evening of Musical Fairy Tales and Dreams of Jacob and Isaac: $15

Lincoln, Whitman: $20 (includes a post concert tour of the museum exhibits)

18 years of age and younger $5.

Season tickets are $40 for all three concerts.

To order: go to www.cvcmf.com or call 319-233-3630 and leave your name, address, phone number and number of tickets you’d like and someone will call you back to verify the information.

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Books that open with the phrase “Once Upon a Time” evoke our childhood imagination of far off places and

dazzling tales. Similarly, communicating stories is a fundamental attribute of music and art. Sometimes it is clear what story is being described by a beautiful or haunting melody, other times composers ask us to fill in our personal story line. I have always felt that when composers write works of chamber music they are asking us to pull up a chair and sit next to them as they whisper “Once Upon a Time” in our ear. The concept of the CVCMF 2009 season is to present musical programs that tell our stories, both universal to humankind and unique to our local history. Whether it is literature, visual art, or music the essence of a community is held together by stories that are passed down and embraced from generation to generation.This season we give to you three programs with stories of humor, faith, love, war, and pride. Collaborating with the Grout Museum we share stories that speak to us as members of the Cedar Valley, America, and the human race. If you love music, if you are curious about our history, or if you just like a great story, I hope to see you at First Presbyterian Church, the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, and The Grout Museum this season to hear Iowa musicians telling stories that go beyond words and description.

Hunter CapoccioniCVCMF Artistic Director

An Evening of Musical Fairy Tales August 9, 2009 at 7 pm First Presbyterian Church 902 Main St. Cedar Falls

Georg Phillip Telemann—Gulliver Suite for Two Violins from Der Getreue Musik-Meister, TWV 40:108

Robert Schumann—Marchenerzahlungen “Fairy Tales” for clarinet, viola, and piano Op. 132

William Bolcom—Fairy Tales for Violin, Viola, and Double Bass

Serge Prokofiev—Suite from the ballet “Cinderella”

Maurice Ravel—Ma Mère l’Oie “Mother Goose Suite”

The Dreams of Isaac and Jacob: A Historical Narrative of Waterloo Jewish History August 12, 2009 at 7 pm Sons of Jacob Synagogue Waterloo

Darius Milhaud—Les rêves de Jacob “The Dreams of Jacob”

Osvaldo Golijov—The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind

Lincoln, Whitman, and Iowans in the Civil War August 15, 2009 at 7 pm Grout Museum Veteran’s Museum

Roy Harris—“Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” for mezzo soprano, violin, cello, and piano

Kurt Weill—Four Whitman Songs

Paul Creston—Three poems from Walt Whitman op. 4 for cello and piano

Ned Rorem—Five Songs to Poems of Walt Whitman

Igor Stravinsky—L’Histoire du Soldat “The Soldier’s Tale “