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“Viva Italia!” with Respighi, Puccini, and Verdi May 5, 2013

Aidan Perreault, Sofiya Kyrylyuk, Cynthia Arden and Ron Arden - Violin Andrea Hanchey Pokrefke – Soprano Carol Carpenter - Mezzo-Soprano

Cole Seaton - Lyric Tenor Nikolas David Arden - Baritone

 

Concerto No 10 for Four Violins, Opus 3 Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741)

Sancta Mater Quartet from Stabat Mater Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)

Offertorio from Requiem Giuseppe Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)

 Intermission

Duetto From Cosi Fan Tutti

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)

Bella Figlia Dell’Amore from Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)

 

Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 1 Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 – April 18, 1936)

     

 

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Dear friends of North Suburban Symphony,

Welcome to our final concert of 2012-2013. We’ve had a marvelous season on our musical

tour that began with American music last October, German masters in November, Russian treasures in March, and now finishing up with our sampling of Italian classical music ranging from Vivaldi to Respighi.

Please take home one of our bookmarks, which include next season’s schedule. It will be the orchestra’s 25th season and we have many special events scheduled as part of that celebration. Season tickets are now available for next year. Our first concert will be a reprise of the repertoire of the orchestra’s first concert and our second concert will include a 25th anniversary party. Not on the bookmark is our just-added Holiday Concert on Sunday, December 22, which will include many holiday favorites. In the second half of the season, we will be partnering with Lake Forest High School for our March concert and back in Gorton for our May performance.

If you are interested and able, the North Suburban Symphony is looking for financial partners. In your program is a Contributor Form, which contains the details of how you can become involved with the orchestra. If you’re a musician and interested in playing, we often have openings; especially for string players. Please contact Maestro Arden (ardenmusic@sbcglobal.net) or me (schappe@lakeforest.edu) for more information.

Please join us after the concert in the atrium just outside the auditorium to celebrate another successful season with wine and cheese. Thank you for coming and enjoy the concert. R. Scott Schappe NSS Board President

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North Suburban Symphony Orchestra Personnel

Violin Cynthia Arden, Concertmaster‡ Nancy Borchers*‡ Clare Carlson* Sandra Cretu‡ RoseMarie Domeny*‡ Alison Flores*‡ Donald Heard‡ Nataliya Nikonova‡ Andrew Miller‡ Geisela Oberheim*, Principal‡ Nancy Otto*‡ Kristen Robinson*‡ Meghan Sullivan Walsh*‡ Viola Sofiya Kyrylyuk, Principal‡ Clare Carlson*‡ Andrea Gertz*‡ Kayla Michaels‡ Cello Julia Fiore,* Principal‡ Barb Cannon Ingrid Reid Jeff Schaefer*‡ Nancy Thorner*‡ String Bass Howard Martino,* Principal‡ Paul Martinez* Alex Trevino* Harp Claudine Cappelle-Harig Keyboard Steve Greene‡ * member of the North Suburban Symphony

Oboe Charles Emmons,* Principal Suzanne Ingold* Flute Melinda Vajdic* Principal Sally Bowers* Marc Needlman* Clarinet Scott Schappe,* Principal Gail Schechter Bassoon LoriLee Bielski,* Principal Bernie Ebstein* Horn Adam Whiteman,* Principal Eric Grenier Trumpet Amy Nelson, Principal Steven Del Ross Trombone David Paff Anders Kullander* Tuba Grant Steskal Percussion Bonnie Kuss* ‡Vivaldi Ensemble

Ron Arden received his musical training at Butler University in Indianapolis, a Masters from the University of Nebraska in viola performance, and did doctoral work at the University of Houston in voice and viola. A “renaissance man” in the truest sense, for over 30 years he has performed, taught, and conducted as an artist of the first rank.

Orchestral viola experience includes the Omaha Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, Lincoln Symphony, Houston Bach Society, Houston Grand Opera, The Florida Philharmonic, and Symphony of the Americas in Fort Lauderdale. Vocal/acting experience includes performance as a free-lance artist in Omaha, with Houston Grand Opera, and Class Act Broadway touring company of South Florida.

Ron has taught private voice and viola in each of the cities mentioned above as well as being a featured teacher for Road Scholar Continuing Education programs annually since 1985. He is the owner and director of the Allegro String Quartet, presently teaches voice at Barrington High School, and has an active music studio at home.

He and his wife toured the country for over 25 years and have three professional recordings from their concert ministry A Cross Between. They have two children, Nikolas and Ivan and reside in Zion, Illinois where Ron spent five years as Minister of Music, Worship, and Drama at Christ Community Church. Besides orchestrating worship there, he was the artistic director of the Zion Passion Play, Dean of the Zion Conservatory, and music director of the Zion Chamber Orchestra – twice awarded by the Illinois Council of Orchestras.

In 2003 Ron helped found and became artistic director of FullScore Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble of professional singers and instrumentalists on Chicago’s North Shore. FullScore was the first orchestra invited to the renovated Genesee Theater in Waukegan to accompany national artists there.

Ron is widely sought as a music director and works also as consultant on the arts in worship. Enjoying a diversity of performing and conducting experience, his reputation for instilling excellence and artistry into musicians is his deepest passion. From classical to Broadway, barbershop to gospel, Ron comfortably communicates the beauty in great music.

Maestro Arden is music director/conductor of the North Suburban Symphony in Lake Forest/Lake Bluff, Illinois. This is his 6th season with the NSS where audiences have grown, orchestra members have increased, and the overall life of the orchestra has been seriously rejuvenated. With both FullScore and the NSS, Ron has celebrated the gifts of local artists and partnerships with local student ensembles and churches. In these celebrations he has been and continues to be an ambassador for music making that enlivens and educates the lives of others. Andrea Hanchey Pokrefke, Soprano, is native to Richmond, Virginia and graduated from James Madison University with a degree in Vocal Performance with a concentration in both classical and jazz music. Since coming to the Chicago area, she has performed as a soloist and choir member of The Apollo Chorus of Chicago, and currently as a soloist and choir member of The Morning Choir of Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Andrea is a featured soloist on the Apollo Chorus’s album Flights of Faith and also Fourth Presbyterian Church’s albums titled Light as well as the album Songs of Comfort and Hope.

In addition to her classical performances, Andrea displays an entirely different style of music by performing with several other contemporary musical groups in the Chicago area. Andrea is the featured vocalist with the Kevin Cline Jazz Ensemble and is the lead singer for Chicago’s Standing Room Only Orchestra, one of the city’s premier Wedding Orchestras. In addition, she also sings and plays acoustic guitar in a group called Pettycash, a Tom Petty and Johnny Cash tribute group. She has also been featured in several radio spots, such as Clear Channel Radio, and has recorded with national artists such as the award winning songwriter Greg Adams.

Carol Carpenter, Mezzo-Soprano, is from Ann Arbor Michigan and studied voice performance at the University of Michigan. Following her studies there, Carol spent two seasons singing at the Chautauqua Institute where her operatic repertoire included the role of the Sorceress in Dido and Aeneas (which she also has performed in Milwaukee, WI) and a favorite role, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte. In Chicago, Carol is a professional chorister with the Morning Choir of Fourth Presbyterian Church and has presented numerous recitals in venues around the city. Having earned a master’s degree in theology at McCormick Seminary, Carol has used that experience together with her musical training in voice and flute to explore how spirituality and music together can be used in various contexts. In 2010, Carol was invited to Manipur, India, to be a visiting music teacher at the Lee Faith School in Imphal. There she taught singing classes and learned from the students some of the music native to this region of India. Reflecting her varied musical background, Ms. Carpenter’s philosophy of music is that it should be freely expressive of one’s personality, which Carol strives to bring to every performance. Cole Seaton, Lyric Tenor, is an Idaho native and sought after tenor both here in the Chicago area and across the United States. Mr. Seaton received his formal training in opera and vocal performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM), where he sang with nearly every acclaimed music and arts institution.

Mr. Seaton currently resides in Chicago where he performs regularly in numerous venues, singing both as a soloist and professional chorister in opera, choral, symphonic, jazz and musical theater productions. He is a professional member of the American Guild of Musical Artists and sings regularly with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus where he has been the tenor section leader.

Mr. Seaton was an inaugural member of the Chicago Symphony Singers, an ensemble of 24 singers who toured the United States performing in venues from California to New Hampshire. They also appeared in Chicago’s own Symphony Center with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Navy Pier’s Shakespeare Theater and Pick-Stieger Hall. Equally at home on the jazz state, Mr. Seaton was asked to perform as tenor soloist with jazz legend Dave Brubeck and his quartet and members of the Milwaukee Symphony in Mr. Brubeck’s “To Hope – A Celebration” in `Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nikolas David Arden, Baritone, resides on the north shore of Chicago in Zion, Illinois. By personal invitation, he has worked with Stephen O'Mara at the New York Vocal Institute, Richard Lombardi at Scuola Italia for master scene study, and with Vernon Hartman making his professional Italian opera debut as Ford in Verdi's Falstaff in 2009 at the world famous Professional Advantage.

Nikolas is a featured soloist with FullScore Chamber Orchestra (Illinois Council of Orchestra's Chamber Ensemble 2009) and sang Rossini's "Largo alfactotum" from Il Barbiere di Siviglia with that ensemble the spring of 2010. Shortly following that performance Nikolas was contracted for a Young Artist Program with Opera Santa Barbara. During the summer he performed the role of Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Maryland Opera Society’s Opera In The Woods and the role of the Marquis de la Force, as well as the other three baritone roles, in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites with RESONANZ in Albany, NY. In the fall Nikolas sang Tonio in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with the Greater Chicago Opera Guild and during the holidays he performed Melchior in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors with FullScore Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Arden’s scenes performances include Figaro, Ford, Capulet, Don Giovanni, Curio,Masetto, Danilo, Tonio, and the Pirate King. In concert Mr. Arden has performed the bass/baritone soloist in Messiah, Dubois’ The Seven Last Words of Christ, Mozart’s Requiem, and CPE Bach Magnificat.

He studies with Karen Brunssen at Northwestern, coaches with Jeffrey Peterson and has sung in master classes for Mark Delavan, Evelyn Lear, William Matteuzzi, Sherrill Milnes, Samuel Ramey, and John Wustman. Aidan Perreault, violin, is a freshman at Niles North High School in Skokie. He has been studying the violin for ten years and is currently a student of David Yonan. In 2011 he won the Walgreens Concerto Competition, MYA Junior division. He also won the Carrie Dennis Merit Scholarship, presented by the Midwest Young Artists. In 2012 he was the co-winner of the University of Illinois at Chicago 2012 Concerto Competition.

Aidan won first place in the North Suburban Symphony’s Young Musician’s Competition.

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Program Notes Concerto No 10 for Four Violins, Opus 3 Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741)

Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi took the concerto and made it his own, energizing that musical form through the use of fresh rhythmic structures and innovative melodies. His use of ritornello (little return) during fast movements, in which a theme is always played tutti, then returns in different keys throughout the movement, became a model for other composers, as did his three-movement plan (fast-slow-fast). An uncompromising playfulness appears in many of his compositions.

Prolific composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, Vivaldi spent much of his career as “maestro” at a Venetian girls’ orphanage, the Pieta. Much of his composing occurred during his time there, and his ties to the institution remained strong even during absences from Venice, when he continued to supply concertos and returned to direct performances on special occasions.

His Concerto for Four Violins illustrates Vivaldi’s love of innovation. The concerto features four violin parts with string orchestra, and is considered one of Vivaldi’s masterpieces as well as a unique teaching tool. Each of the four violin solo parts is of varying difficulty.

Vivaldi was the son of a professional violinist and was known as the “red priest” for his red hair. His composing skills were appreciated across Europe during his lifetime, and his violin concertos are a hallmark of his exquisite talent.

This afternoon’s performance will feature The Young Musician’s Competition Winner, Aidan Perreault, as well as Sofiya Kyrylyuk, Cynthia Arden and Ron Arden.

Sancta Mater Quartet from Stabat Mater Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)

Sancta Mater is one of ten movements of Gioachino Rossini’s Stabat Mater. The Stabat Mater is based on an early Catholic hymn that explores the sorrows of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Rossini composed the piece late in his career.

First performed in Paris in 1842, the piece enthralled its audience. However, it was not without critics who claimed that the piece was far too playful for the religious context.

Offertorio from Requiem Giuseppe Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)

An “opera in disguise” is how famed Conductor Marin Alsop describes Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem. The piece, in her words, is a conductor’s dream, offering “the drama of opera and the thrill of wonderful symphonic writing combined with stellar, virtuosic solo moments.”

The work evokes the Last Judgment in awe-inspiring terms, driven by pleas for deliverance. Our four vocalists today bring to life text from the Offertorio, one of the piece’s slower movements: “Lord Jesus Christ, king of glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of hell and from the deep pit. Deliver them from the lion’s mouth, lest hell swallow them up, lest they fall into darkness; and let the standard bearer, St. Michael, bring them into the holy light.”

In 1943 and 1944, prisoners at the Theresienstadt concentration camp performed Verdi’s Requiem for their Nazi captors in an attempt to send the message that the Nazi state would one day face judgment. In April, PBS aired a documentary about these events, Voices of Defiance. The work was also sung in 1997 at the funeral of Diana, princess of Wales.

Though listening to the magnificent Requiem is without doubt a religious experience for many, Verdi actually wrote the piece in memory of a close friend. Too grief-stricken to attend the funeral of poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni, Verdi instead composed this memorial. The Requiem was performed on the first anniversary of Manzoni’s death.

This October will mark the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth.

Duetto From Cosi Fan Tutti Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)

Both comedic and unsettling, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte is an Italian language opera buffa in two acts. First performed in 1790, the libretto was written by Mozart’s sometime collaborator Lorenzo Da Pointe.

The title literally means “Thus do all (women),” and suggests that true love isn’t to be trusted. A cynical old bachelor argues this case to two young officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo. He tells them he can prove that their sweethearts, Dorabella and Fiordiligi, respectively, are fickle, just like all other women.

The young men take the bet, and pretend to go off to war. But they return in disguise to test the faithfulness of their lovers, each officer making the other’s girlfriend a target. Is the old bachelor right? In the end, a lesson in tempting fate is learned by all. Bella Figlia Dell’Amore from Rigoletto Giuseppe Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)

The quartet Bella Figlia Dell’Amore is sung in Act III of Verdi’s Rigoletto, when the womanizing Duke of Mantua expresses his appreciation of a prostitute. The Duke also sings the grand aria “La donna e mobile” during this act.

Unbeknownst to the Duke, his jester, the hunchback Rigoletto, has plotted revenge against the Duke for seducing his daughter Gilda. But the plan goes wildly amiss, as Rigoletto’s murder-for-hire results in the death of his beloved daughter.

Bella Figlia is performed just before the ultimate tragedy strikes. Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1 Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 – April 18, 1936)

Though born in the late 19th century in Bologna, Italy, Ottorino Respighi looked deep into the past for his musical inspiration.

Respighi studied violin, viola and piano in his youth, and composition specifically around the age of 13. His first composition, Symphonic Variations, was written for his exams at the Liceo Musicale, and in the same year he was engaged by the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, to play viola.

Although Respighi ultimately returned to Rome, where he served as professor of composition at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, while in Russia he learned to speak Russian and spent time under the mentorship of Russian master Rimsky-Korsakov.

Respighi threw himself into the study of Italian music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. He composed a number of works based on early music, including his three suites of Ancient Airs and Dances. Today’s performance is of the first suite. In similar such compositions, he incorporated medieval Gregorian chants.

Listen for the enchanting result as Respighi combines pre-classical melodies with 19th century Romantic harmonies.

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