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SALISBURY SYMPHONYORCHESTRASALISBURY SYMPHONYORCHESTRAValentine’s Day ConcertSaturday, February 14, 2009
At Salisbury University
Tickets: $20 Adults • $15 Seniors 60+$5 SU Faculty and Children 12 and Under
SU Students Free with Valid IDBox Office: 410-548-5587 • www.salisbury.edu/sso
Sponsored by John Proctor
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
F E A T U R I N G P I A N I S TE R I C S T R E E T
8 p.m.Holloway Hall Auditorium
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SALISBURY, MARYLAND 21804
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Eric StreetEric Street is a professor of music and currently serves as the Graul Chair in Arts
and Languages at the University of Dayton. He has won acclaim as a pianist on six
continents and has performed in over 30 countries. He has been widely telecast abroad
and standing ovations followed his debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, Paris, Cairo, London,
St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague. During his
12-concert tour of Japan, Tokyo University News stated “the whole performance was
wonderful and captivated the audience.” He was recently telecast across Russia in
Rhapsody in Blue from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Street earned his doctorate in piano performance as a student of Menahem Pressler
at Indiana University, the University of California and Bethany College, where has was
the youngest faculty member in the history of the school to become a distinguished
professor. He is Professor of Music at the University of Dayton, where he has directed the
keyboard studies since 1992. An active ensemble artist, he also tours as part of Side by
Side piano duo, which recently completed a 24-performance world tour, with concerts in
Moscow, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and
Melbourne. Since then they have toured Morocco and South America, with concerts in
Chile, Ecuador and Argentina.
Street’s articles appear in over 30 periodicals. National Public Radio broadcast him
nationwide in a program of Ragtime by Women Composers. Heritage Music Press
publishes two of his ragtime duet suites and a solo suite. Wehr’s Music House has
released two of his vocal compositions, Chocolate Kisses and Tonight I Can Fly.
Platinum Partner($5,000 - $9,999)Clear Channel OutdoorPeter and Judy JacksonGarrett and Elizabeth Layton
Gold Partner($2,500 - $4,999)C. Richard AndersonExxon Mobil FoundationPennPAT—Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour
Conductor’s Circle($1,000 - $2,499)Michael and Joanna AbercrombieThomas and Mellinda BrandonJennifer Seidel DuheJanet Dudley-Eshbach and Joe EshbachRegina KotowskiMaryland State Arts CouncilJohn and Patricia ProctorSusan PurnellThomas and Theresa RiccioSalisbury Wicomico Arts CouncilPaul ScottMarilyn Cahall Seidel
Player’s Circle ($500 - $999)Charles and Cheryl BrennerDavid and Susanna BuchananJames M. Crouse, D.D.S., P.A.Brent and Amy MillerStephanie Willey
Benefactors ($250 - $499)Maarten Pereboom and Ruth BakerErvin and Donna BowdenGranger and Company, P.A.George and Kathy HayneTom Hehman and Elizabeth HamiltonRobert and Eleanor HoekstraWalter MaternMildred PalmerFrank and Emilie RobinsonGeorge and Nancy RubensonAlan and Margaret SelserHaroldine ShanerKathleen Shannon
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Friends ($100 - $249)Robert and Nancy AdkinsAtlantic Retina CenterCharles and Ellen BloodsworthMichael and Margaret BuchnessDonald and Lynn CathcartLinda CockeyRichard CulverAnne CuomoRon and Karen DavisGen DeggendorfDelmarva Power, John PetitoGamee ElliottLouise EssickEdwin and Norma FleischerMary Beth GollReba GosleeGrand Bay Properties,MLG Communities
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SSO Patrons: 2008-2009 Concert Season
This list reflects SSO Patrons as of February 5. If you have not yet become a Patron, butwould like to join those who support the SSO, please pick up a Patron MembershipBrochure in the lobby or contact the SSO office at 410-548-5587. The SSO extends itssincere appreciation to all of its Patrons and Sponsors for making these events possible!
SSO Advisory BoardDr. Peter Jackson, chair
Mellinda Brandon, vice chairKimberly Roemer-Granger, treasurer
Dr. Richard AndersonDr. Linda Cockey
Lee KnierElizabeth LaytonDr. Walter Matern
Amy MillerTom HehmanDr. Paul ScottPhyliss White
SU Partners
Dr. Janet Dudley-EshbachPresident, SU
Dr. Thomas JonesProvost and Vice President, Academic Affairs, SU
Dr. Rosemary M. ThomasVice President, SU Advancement,
and Executive Director, SU Foundation, Inc.
Dr. Maarten PereboomDean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts
SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASpring 2009 Concert
Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5Featuring Violinist Kia-Hui Tan
Saturday, May 9Holloway Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Tan performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219.
Tan has performed as concerto soloist, recitalistand chamber musician on five continents,including at London’s Barbican Hall
and New York’s Carnegie Weill Recital Hall.
PROGRAM
Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet (1838-1875)PréludeAragonaise
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin (1898-1937)Eric Street, pianist
I n t e r m i s s i o n
Raymonda, Suite from the ballet, op. 57a by Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)IntroductionHall in Raymonda’s CastleThe TraitoressA fanfare announces the arrival of a strangerEntrance of Raymonda, Evening-MoonlightDance of Arab boysEntrance of the SaracensEntr’acte: The triumph of love and marriage celebration
Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges BizetIntermezzoSéguedilleLes Dragons d’AlcalaLes Toreadors
SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAAt Salisbury University
Valentine’s Day ConcertSaturday, February 14, 2009
8 p.m.Holloway Hall Auditorium
SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAAt Salisbury University
Dr. Jeffrey Schoyen, Music Director
Flute*Lesley WeihsSusan Zimmer
Oboe*Amy SterlingGlenda Bates
Clarinet*Otello MeucciDebra Scott
Alto SaxophoneJocelyn Hensley
Bass ClarinetFrank Mahoney
Bassoon*Paul ScottKari Shea
Trumpet*Ron DavisBill Williams
Trombone*Lee KnierKurt LudwickLena Varuolo
French Horn*Charles DohertySeth FrieseNorm Smith
TubaJohn Scott
HarpMonika Vasey
Percussion*Charles F. Smith Jr.Jeanne FeltesJane Mahoney
ManagementDerek Bowden,ManagerMitchell Melton,Stage Manager/Librarian
Violin I*Sachiho Murasugi,concertmistressNathan AndersonAllyson ClarkLeticia HolyokeZeynep KaracalRichard LeavittPage Miller
Violin II*Bobbie ThamertKelly BarnesMary-Beth GollSusan ParkerJenel WatersJohn Yoon
Viola*Daniel McCarthyCassie Stephenson
Cello*Jeremy RiffleDan KotowskiMartha MancusoHyo Bin Sung
Bass*Thomas LongFred Geil
*Principal
Program Notes
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin, 1898-1937
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898 to Russian immigrant parents.
He and his siblings were immersed in music from an early age, and he wrote his
first published song at age 17. George and his brother Ira collaborated on several
musical comedies, among them Lady Be Good, Funny Face and Of Thee I Sing, which
won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931. In 1924 Gershwin composed his most popular
work, Rhapsody in Blue, which premiered in New York City with Paul Whiteman’s
band—Gershwin at the piano. This work defies classification because it contains
elements of pop, classical and jazz music. Gershwin’s strength was in melody, not
structure, which led Leonard Bernstein to say of Rhapsody that it was “not a
composition at all (but) … a string of … terrific tunes … stuck together with a
thin paste of flour and water.” However, it is an original, exciting piece that
reflects the confidence and energy of the “Roaring Twenties.” Gershwin died in
1937 of a brain tumor. He never lived to see the impact Rhapsody had on serious
classical music composers such as Ravel and Stravinsky, who explored jazz in
their works, or pop composers who experimented with classical forms.
The Raymonda Suite from the ballet Raymonda
Aleksandr Glazunov, 1865-1936
Glazunov, Russian composer, music teacher and conductor, was born in St.
Petersberg, the son of a wealthy publisher. He studied under Rimsky-Korsakov
and wrote his first compositions at an early age. For many years, he taught at the
St. Petersberg Conservatory and became its director. Glazunov had a
phenomenal memory and astounded fellow musicians because of his ability to
play whole symphonies after hearing them only one time. During his most
creative period, he composed the stately and melodic full-length ballet Raymonda,
which premiered in 1898. Glazunov eventually settled in Paris after touring the
United States and Europe. He died at age 70, having enjoyed international
acclaim for most of his career. Raymonda is a story of a young couple separated by
noble knight, Jean de Brienne’s commitment to King Andrei II. Would-be suitor
and Saraceb knight, Abderakhman, attempts to win the hand of Raymonda.
When she rejects him, he threatens to abduct her. When Jean returns,
the conflict is settled in a duel. Abderakhman is defeated, and
Raymonda and Jean are married at the court of King Andrei.
Carmen Suite No. 1
Georges Bizet, 1838-1875
As the young son of two French musicians, Bizet took all the prizes at the Paris
Conservatoire because of his prodigious musical gifts. Unfortunately, he did not
live long enough to bask in the acclaim generated by his opera Carmen. He died
of a heart attack at age 36, only a few months after its premiere at the Opera
Comique in Paris in 1875. Full of color and exciting, forceful rhythm, Carmen
has none of the stylized traditions of classical opera. Although it was not
immediately popular because of its passionate force which shocked the
conservative French audience, Carmen is now one of the world’s most performed
operas. The suite from Carmen, heard in tonight’s program, was extracted after
the composer’s death and contains orchestral settings of some of the opera’s most
famous passages.
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