Season Guide for Young Concert-goers

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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Romeo and Juliet Grades Meet the Awesome Orchestra! Grades See the Sounds Conductor of the Orchestra...5 Fun & Games...6 Fan Mail...7 Youth Orchestra...8 Children s Chorus...8 Youth Chorus Family Concerts Season Guide for Young Concert-goers On December 11, 2018, will be 100 years old! We ve come a long way since those early days when the orchestra was founded by Adella Prentiss Hughes yes, was founded by a woman in 1918! Today, The Cleveland Orchestra is considered one of the top orchestras in the world. Our Orchestra is made up of approximately 100 musicians each of whom triumphed in very competitive auditions to win a position in The Cleveland Orchestra. They have mastered their instruments over many years (some starting as early as age 3!) through private lessons, group lessons, school ensembles, summer-long music programs, college level/conservatory study, and especially through countless hours of daily, individual practice. All of our musicians are passionate about music, and about their instruments. Do you have a passion for music? Do you play an instrument or are you curious to try one? Check out the families of instruments below, learn how different instruments make sound, and think about the ways you would like to make music! Sensational Strings! Historians think the first string instrument was developed from the caveman s hunting bow and developed over time into early members of the string family including the zither, lyre, dulcimer, and lute. Stringed instruments used today have changed little since the 1600s; (in fact, some violinists play instruments that were made way back then!). Members of the orchestral string family include (from highest to lowest) violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The harp is also a member of the string family. How string instruments work: Vibration of the strings is the key to making sound. Plucking a string with your finger or pulling a bow across the string will start the string vibrating. The bow is made of wood and horse hair. You change pitch by playing a different string or by placing your finger on a string to make it shorter (shorter=higher in pitch). Wondrous Woodwinds! The first woodwind instruments may have been made by blowing through an old animal bone! Flutes made of bone and decorated wood are found in the history of many cultures. At first the holes were open and needed to be covered by fingers to change pitch. Later, inventors put metal keys on woodwind instruments that could cover more than one hole at a time, making it possible to play higher, lower, and faster. There are three groups of woodwind instruments: (1) those where you blow across an open hole (flute and piccolo); (2) those with a single wooden reed on the mouthpiece (clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone); and (3) those that use two small wooden reeds tied together in a specific way (oboe, English horn, bassoon, and contrabassoon). How woodwind instruments work: The air inside hollow woodwind instruments must vibrate to make musical sounds. For a flute and piccolo, you blow across (not into!) the hole in the mouthpiece, like blowing across the top of a Coke bottle (glass bottles makes better sounds than plastic ones). For woodwinds with wooden reeds, the reeds begin to vibrate when you put them in your mouth, set your mouth just right, and blow. You change pitch by tightening or loosening your lips and by pressing down different combinations of keys. Brilliant Brass! Brass instruments have been around since ancient times. Horns have been pictured on the walls of primitive dwellings and Egyptian tombs, and described on crumbling scrolls and clay tablets. They have been made of bone, cane, an animal s horn, and metal. Brass instruments have played important roles throughout history from communicating messages over long distances, to announcing the arrival of dignitaries and royalty, to war, hunting, and celebrations. The members of the brass family are (from highest to lowest) trumpet, French horn, trombone, and tuba. How brass instruments work: A player puts her lips together and buzzes air through them into the metal mouthpiece. This starts the air vibrating through the hollow metal tube, which comes out of the bell at the far end of the tubing, magnifying its sound! You play different notes on a brass instrument by tightening and loosening your lips and by pressing down valves (or in the case of the trombone, by moving the slide in and out!). Power-Packed Percussion! The percussion family includes all of the instruments that are struck in some way. We have no official records of when humans first used percussion instruments, but from ancient times, drums have been used for tribal dances and for communications of all kinds. Today, there are more instruments in the percussion family than in any other. They can be grouped into two types: first, those instruments that make one pitch (snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, tambourine, wood block, gong, maracas, and castanets); and second, those that can play different pitches, even a melody. These include the kettle drums, the xylophone, the orchestra bells, the celesta, and the piano. How percussion instruments work: There are several ways to get a percussion instrument to start vibrating. You can strike some percussion instruments with a stick or mallet (snare drum, bass drum, kettle drum, triangle, xylophone); or with your hand (tambourine). Other percussion instruments are shaken (maracas, tambourine) or scraped (guiro) or crashed together (cymbals)! Chimes are struck with a hammer, and the piano makes its sound when the keys are played, activating tiny hammers inside the piano that strike strings and create vibrations that produce sound.

2 For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3, Lines This concert program combines drama (actors) and music (orchestra!) to tell the story of William Shakespeare s famous work, Romeo and Juliet. The play features the feuding Montagues and Capulets, and the tragic love story of teenagers Romeo and Juliet. Many composers have been inspired to create musical and theatrical works based on Romeo and Juliet. October 9-11, 2018 Education Concerts for Grades 6-8 Vinay Parameswaran, conductor Severance Hall Bernstein Prokofiev Prokofiev Bernstein Prokofiev Prokofiev Bernstein Bernstein Prologue Young Juliet Montagues and Capulets Cha-Cha/ Meeting Scene Romeo and Juliet Death of Tybalt Rumble Somewhere About Romeo & Juliet Teenagers Romeo and Juliet first meet at a masked ball (guests wear elegant masks to hide their identities) and instantly fall in love. Romeo is the son of Lord Montague, and Juliet is the daughter of Lord Capulet. The bad news is that the Montagues and the Capulets have been feuding for years. Because of the ongoing feud between their two rival families, Romeo and Juliet must keep their love a secret. Friar Lawrence, Romeo s former tutor and confidante (someone he can trust), offers to marry the young couple secretly. Meanwhile, Juliet s father is trying to marry her off to another man. In an effort to help the young couple, Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a sleeping drug that will make her appear dead. He sends a messenger to inform Romeo to take Juliet away with him after her fake death. The messenger, however, does not reach Romeo (*they didn t have texting in those days!). Romeo learns of Juliet s death from his servant, and, thinking that Juliet has actually died, commits suicide by taking poison. Juliet, upon awakening from the sleeping drug is distraught at Romeo s death, and kills herself with Romeo s dagger! The forlorn Montagues and Capulets, realizing the tragedy their fighting has caused, agree to end their violent feud. But peace has come at a terrible price. About the Composers On this concert you will be introduced to two musical interpretations of Romeo and Juliet, one by Russian Composer Sergei Prokofiev, and the other by American composer Leonard Bernstein. Prokofiev was commissioned by Russia s famous Kirov Ballet to set this tragic love story to music. His ballet was initially rejected when he tried to write a happy ending to the piece! Prokofiev s music does depict both the love story and its tragic ending, and reflects on the feelings of the older and younger generations. Leonard Bernstein s musical interpretation of the Romeo and Juliet tale is set in 1950s New York City. The main characters, Tony and Maria, (a modern-day Romeo and Juliet) quickly fall in love, but their friends and families belong to two rival feuding gangs the Jets and the Sharks (Montagues and Capulets). It is a both a beautiful love story and a gritty, heartwrenching portrayal of what happens when people let the differences among them give way to hate. LEONARD BERNSTEIN ( ) was born in Massachusetts, and died in 1990, in New York. His parents emigrated from Russia, and made a living selling beauty products. His family was able to afford a piano when Bernstein was 10, who insisted on taking piano lessons over the objections of his father. By age 13 he played piano in a jazz group, and then went to Harvard at 17 to study composition. When a well-known orchestra conductor on a live radio program suddenly became ill, Bernstein filled in for him and became famous overnight. Bernstein felt a great desire to bring classical music to the American people, and made a popular TV series for children called Young People s Concerts. Bernstein s music combined the worlds of popular and serious music, mixing in the sound and rhythms of jazz and urban life. His most famous musical was West Side Story, a modernized version of the story of Romeo and Juliet, set in New York City. SERGEI PROKOFIEV ( ) was a Russian composer. He wrote his first music at the age of 5 and composed his first opera at the age of 9. He entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory at the age of thirteen, where he studied with the composer Rimsky-Korsakov. For twenty years he traveled throughout America and Western Europe as a pianist and conductor of his own music. Prokofiev wrote the ballet Romeo and Juliet in , soon after returning from his travels. It is one of the longest ballets, taking about two and a half hours to perform. The ballet was then adapted into a set of orchestral suites. 2 About the Music The music you will hear on this concert from Leonard Bernstein and Sergei Prokofiev tells the story, without words, of Romeo and Juliet... Bernstein s Prologue from West Side Story, introduces the storyline on our concert. In West Side story, Shakespeare s Montagues and Capulets are portrayed by two rival gangs The Sharks and The Jets. And Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet are depicted by the main characters Tony and Maria. Similar to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, the love interests gangs are on opposite sides. Prokofiev s Young Juliet introduces the audience to Juliet Capulet. In this piece, the music describes Juliet being dressed in her finest gown, and when she sees herself in the mirror she realizes she has become a very pretty young woman. Prokofiev s Montagues and Capulets, in which the music shifts to the sounds of turmoil, describes the feud and strife between the families of the Montagues and Capulets. Bernstein s Cha-Cha/Meeting Scene music expresses the romance blossoming between Tony (the Romeo character) and Maria (the Juliet character) in West Side Story. This fun Latin piece of music allows the audience to hear and imagine the characters captivated with each other as they dance together for the first time. Prokofiev s Romeo and Juliet, named for the title characters, is the moment when Romeo and Juliet realize they must run away together in order to keep their romance and love intact. Prokofiev s Death of Tybalt and Bernstein s Rumble, are the musical selections with the most angst and turmoil. The music in Death of Tybalt is recounting when Romeo takes revenge on Tybalt for murdering Mercutio. This is followed by Bernstein s Rumble, which is the point in West Side Story when Tony kills Bernardo and subsequently Chino kills Tony. In Romeo and Juliet, this is similar to the tragic end of Romeo and Juliet s love story. Bernstein s Somewhere concludes our concert, which appropriately wraps up the Romeo and Juliet love story with the music eloquently portraying Maria (the Juliet character from West Side Story) remembering her love, Tony (the Romeo character).

3 February Education Concerts for Grades 3-5 Vinay Parameswaran, conductor Severance Hall Dvořák Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 1 Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 9, Mvt. 1 Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Mvt. 3 Gounod Petite Suite, Mvt. 4 Gabrieli Canzon per Sonare No. 2 Skidmore Ritual Music Britten The Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra The music on this concert showcases each instrument family separately (strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion) then culminates with all instruments playing together on The Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten. ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK ( ) (pronounced duh- VORE-zshock) was born in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic). Although his family did not have a lot of money, Antonín studied music and played the viola in an orchestra. Dvořák was enticed to move to the U.S. to teach music, but became homesick and happily returned to his beloved homeland. He loved the people and the music of his country, and found ways to combine classical musical style with folk music. One of his most famous works, Symphony No. 9, was written while Dvořák was visiting the United States. He was very impressed with the romance of America, its peoples and its music, particularly African-American spirituals. The symphony is said to be loosely based on Longfellow s poem called Song of Hiawatha, based in the American Indian story of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, his love. On this concert you will hear Antonin Dvořák s Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G-minor. In this dance, he uses lively syncopated rhythms (shifting of normal musical accent) rhythms as he unfolds a melody that switches back and forth between major and minor harmonies. All of the instrument families are highlighted in this piece strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion. CHARLES GOUNOD (pronounced Goo-nō) ( ) was born in Paris, France to a very artistic family. His father was a prize-winning painter who died when Gounod was a young child. His mother, also very talented, was his piano teacher. Gounod received a first-rate education and began composing music to great acclaim during his college years at the Paris Conservatory. He composed several operas throughout his career (of which Faust and Romeo et Juliette were most successful) and many other works for the stage and choral pieces. Later in life, Gounod turned his attention to religious music. On this concert you will hear Charles Gounod s Petite Symphonie, an orchestral piece focusing on the wind family of instruments. In this piece listen for the flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn. GIOVANNI GABRIELI ( ) lived in Venice, Italy and followed in the musical footsteps of his uncle, Andrea Gabrieli, a famous composer and Giovanni s music teacher. He was the organist at St. Mark s Cathedral for many years and often wrote music that used different groups of musicians playing from different parts of the echoing cathedral. Gabrieli liked to write antiphonal music, that is, music where two or more instrument groups take turns playing during a piece, often from opposite sides of the stage. On this concert you will hear Canzon per Sonare No. 2, by Giovanni Gabrieli. It is a piece with two main brass groups that sometimes echo each other, carry on a musical conversation with questions and answers, or play at the same time. There are several sections in this piece, each with its own tempo and sometimes its own meter. You will hear the brass family of instruments including the trumpet, trombone, baritone, and tuba. FELIX MENDELSSOHN ( ) was born in Hamburg, Germany, and was the son of a banker. The Mendelssohn family moved to Berlin, where Mendelssohn was brought up in a cultured circle of family friends. He traveled abroad for his education, spending time in Italy and also visiting England, Wales and Scotland. Mendelssohn was musically gifted as a composer, conductor and pianist. He had already written 10 symphonies for strings at a young age and grew to be an infamous Romantic Era composer. On this concert you will hear String Symphony No. 9 Mvt. 1, composed by Felix Mendelssohn when he was only 14 years old. As you listen to the music you ll notice certain points where it sounds soft and flowing; at other points it will sound loud and fast. The string family of instruments is featured in this piece, including violin, viola, cello and bass. PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY ( ) was born in Viatka, Russia on May 7, He began piano lessons at age 5 and showed both musical talent and interest. He studied law and began a minor job at the Ministry of Justice in St. Petersburg, but left his position at 23 and began to study music full-time at the Conservatory. Tchaikovsky was extremely sensitive by nature, and suffered from extreme highs and lows. Although Tchaikovsky was influenced by his musical training in Western musical styles, he tried to incorporate Russian elements into his music. He is considered one of the greatest Russian composers of his time. His fame led to an invitation to participate in the ceremonies for the opening of Carnegie Hall. On this concert you will hear Tchaikovsky s Symphony No. 4 Mvt. 3. The third movement of this Symphony is fun and lively and you will hear the strings play pizzicato throughout. Pizzicato is when the musicians pluck the strings with their fingers instead of a bow. The major stars of this piece are the strings, winds, and brass. 3 DAVID SKIDMORE (B. 1982) is a Grammy Award winning percussionist, composer, and musical entrepreneur. He was the percussionist with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble from 2007 to 2011, and has been a member of New York-based chamber orchestra Ensemble Signal since He also served for 2 years as a fellow in the Academy a Program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute. Through this fellowship, David performed concerts in Carnegie Hall and other venues throughout New York City, and he was a teaching artist in residence at a public school in Ozone Park, Queens. David s compositions are performed regularly in concert halls and universities across the country. He currently resides in Chicago where he works full-time as a performer and Executive Director with Third Coast Percussion. On this concert, you will hear David Skidmore s Ritual Music. Ritual Music is a unique and energetic piece of tribal music written for percussion instruments. The music, originally written for a dance troupe, has a driving force and intensity. The instrumentation includes marimba, bass drum, tom-toms, bongos, congas, snare drums, a brake drum, a djembe, and tambourines. BENJAMIN BRITTEN ( ) was born in 1913, in England, and died there in Britten began composing at the age of five, began formal composition lessons at age 11, and grew up to be an accomplished pianist and composer. One of his first jobs was writing film and commercial music for the English government. In this busy job he developed an ability to write music quickly in many styles. On this concert you will hear Benjamin Britten s The Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra. This piece of music showcases all of the orchestral instrument families (strings, brass, winds, percussion) and is a very good introduction to all of the instruments of the orchestra.

4 Sym There are THREE WAYS TO ENTER: 1. SOCIAL MEDIA Capture a photo during your trip to Severance Hall and post it on a social media outlet (Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram) Enter for a chance to win 4 FREE TICKETS to a Cleveland Orchestra concert and be featured in next year s SCORE Student Newspaper! Describe the photo as well as your favorite part of the concert you saw. Use #ClevelandOrchestraEducation as a hashtag to be entered into the contest! Special Note: We kindly ask that your photo be taken before the concert starts or after it ends, but NOT during the concert itself. 2. ARTWORK Create a piece of art work describing your experience at Severance Hall! Drawings, paintings, or any other type of descriptive artwork is welcomed! Attach a paragraph describing your piece of art. 3. LETTER Do you have a special memory of your concert experience? If so, we d love to hear about it! Send us a 1 page letter, handwritten, about your trip to Severance Hall to hear! Send Artwork and Letters to: Sandra Jones Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio FIRST VIOLINS William Preucil CONCERTMASTER Blossom-Lee Chair Jung-Min Amy Lee ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair Peter Otto FIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER New Endowed Chair (pending) Jessica Lee ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair Takako Masame Paul and Lucille Jones Chair Wei-Fang Gu Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair Kim Gomez Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Chul-In Park Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair Miho Hashizume Theodore Rautenberg Chair Jeanne Preucil Rose Dr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair Alicia Koelz Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair Yu Yuan Patty and John Collinson Chair Isabel Trautwein Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair Mark Dumm Gladys B. Goetz Chair Katherine Bormann Analisé Denise Kukelhan Zhan Shu SECOND VIOLINS Stephen Rose* Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair Emilio Llinás 2 James and Donna Reid Chair Eli Matthews 1 Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair Sonja Braaten Molloy Carolyn Gadiel Warner Elayna Duitman Ioana Missits Jeffrey Zehngut Vladimir Deninzon Sae Shiragami Scott Weber Kathleen Collins Beth Woodside Emma Shook Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair Yun-Ting Lee Jiah Chung Chapdelaine FRANZ WELSER-MÖST MUSIC DIRECTOR Kelvin Smith Family Chair VIOLAS Wesley Collins* Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair Lynne Ramsey 1 Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair Stanley Konopka 2 Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair Arthur Klima Richard Waugh Lisa Boyko Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair Lembi Veskimets The Morgan Sisters Chair Eliesha Nelson Joanna Patterson Zakany Patrick Connolly CELLOS Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair Richard Weiss 1 The GAR Foundation Chair Charles Bernard 2 Helen Weil Ross Chair Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair Tanya Ell Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Chair Ralph Curry Brian Thornton William P. Blair III Chair David Alan Harrell Martha Baldwin Dane Johansen Paul Kushious BASSES Maximilian Dimoff * Clarence T. Reinberger Chair Kevin Switalski 2 Scott Haigh 1 Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair Mark Atherton Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune Charles Barr Memorial Chair Charles Carleton Scott Dixon Derek Zadinsky HARP Trina Struble* Alice Chalifoux Chair FLUTES Joshua Smith* Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair Saeran St. Christopher Mary Kay Fink PICCOLO Mary Kay Fink Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair OBOES Frank Rosenwein* Edith S. Taplin Chair Corbin Stair Jeffrey Rathbun 2 Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair Robert Walters ENGLISH HORN Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair CLARINETS Afendi Yusuf* Robert Marcellus Chair Robert Woolfrey Victoire G. and Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Chair Daniel McKelway 2 Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair E-FLAT CLARINET Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair BASSOONS John Clouser* Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair Gareth Thomas Barrick Stees 2 Sandra L. Haslinger Chair Jonathan Sherwin CONTRABASSOON Jonathan Sherwin HORNS Michael Mayhew Knight Foundation Chair Jesse McCormick Robert B. Benyo Chair Hans Clebsch Richard King Alan DeMattia TRUMPETS Michael Sachs* Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman 2 James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair Michael Miller CORNETS Michael Sachs* Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair Michael Miller TROMBONES Massimo La Rosa* Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair Richard Stout Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair Shachar Israel 2 EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPET Richard Stout TUBA Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair TIMPANI Paul Yancich* Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair Tom Freer 2 Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair PERCUSSION Marc Damoulakis * Margaret Allen Ireland Chair Donald Miller Tom Freer Thomas Sherwood KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Joela Jones* Rudolf Serkin Chair Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair LIBRARIANS Robert O Brien Joe and Marlene Toot Chair Donald Miller ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair Sunshine Chair George Szell Memorial Chair * Principal Associate Principal 1 First Assistant Princi pal 2 Assistant Principal CONDUCTORS Christoph von Dohnányi MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE Vinay Parameswaran ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair Lisa Wong DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair 4 See the Sounds This is page 1 of the conductor s music for Ludwig van Beethoven s Symphony No. 5. Since it shows all the musicians parts, it is called a full score. This printed page takes only 10 seconds in performance and shows the music for 11 different instruments! Most lines of music show the part for one or two players, but some instruments such as the violins have many musicians playing the same instrument. This page should be played by a minimum of around 40 players. Woodwind Family 8 players 4 Instruments Brass Family 4 players 2 Instruments Percussion Family 1 player 1 Instrument String Family players 4 Instruments Flutes Oboes Clarinets Bassoons Horns Trumpets Timpani Violins I Violins II Violas Cellos Basses

5 Conductor of Cleveland Orchestra Education Concerts Good Audience Member for Live Orchestra Performance DESCRIPTION: Applauds when conductor crosses the stage and steps onto the podium. Watches for the conductor to signal the orchestra to begin. Listens quietly in seat while orchestra performs. Claps when music stops and conductor turns to face the audience. Listens carefully to enjoy the music. Vinay Parameswaran Assistant Conductor, BIRTHPLACE: Walnut Creek, CA FAMILY: My parents live in the San Francisco Bay Area. My sister lives in Vancouver British Columbia. FAVORITE FOOD: My mom s Indian food, specifically her masala dosa! (seriously, it s the best dosa you ll ever have). FAVORITE MOVIE: Too many choices! Just to name a few: Finding Nemo, Home Alone, A Few Good Men, Up, Forrest Gump. FAVORITE BOOK: Again, too many choices! Just to name a few: Siddhartha, Being Mortal, 100 Years of Solitude, Beloved, On The Road. PERFORMERS I ADMIRE: Martha Argerich, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, the wonderful musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra. STUDIED MUSIC AT: I received my undergraduate degree music and political science at Brown University, and an Artist Diploma in conducting at The Curtis Institute of Music. ORCHESTRAS I VE CONDUCTED: Nashville Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Vermont Symphony, North Carolina Symphony and Grant Park Orchestra. MUSICAL ENJOYMENT INSTRUMENTS I HAVE STUDIED: I started playing piano when I was four and then began playing percussion when I was six. MY HOBBIES ARE: Running, Cooking, Exploring new places with my dog Ozzie, being a rabid fan of my favorite (Bay Area) sports teams. phony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 Check us out online! The whole Cleveland Orchestra goes back to school once each year. In recent years, in-school concerts have taken place at John Hay, James Ford Rhodes, John Adams, Cleveland School of the Arts, Memorial School, Mound and Patrick Henry School (all Cleveland public schools), Saint Ignatius, Saint Joseph Academy, Shaker Heights High School, Lakeland Community College, and Firestone High School in Akron. 5

6 Musical Word Find Instrument names and musical terms listed along the side are found in these letters. They may appear forward, backward, up, down or diagonally. F C O N C E R T S B P V Z Q R The names of the composers on the Education Concerts have been scrambled below. See if you can spell them correctly as you unscramble them. ROMEO AND JULIET TRIBENENS bass drum bassoon castanets cello clarinet concert conductor cymbals double bass flute French horn gong harp maracas oboe orchestra piano piccolo saxophone snare drum tambourine taxi horn timpani triangle trombone trumpet tuba viola violin L U B E Q T D A C A I S P C E U R O C X R X P K N C I Q A N T P E M R O S E P L C Q S S I E S Z L P H P L G N O G G T D N R O H H C N E R F L U R A I M C O T N T M N P A O R T N V L N S Q L U B D E T R E P E B E T S S A B E L B U O D N T A P V S S T A X I H O R N H S S R E N I R U O B M A T I A Q S A R T N B W R I Y C E L L O D B A S S O O N M Z G B T N R R U T O V N A H T X J R T B C U S S N W P A E O V M A E W H M L N E M R N R N U M W N R E A A R I X I O T E S O R O C S R B T P R S X Z J D T C T O T A M V A Q Y K T O C R O E N R C Y L N I L O I V O O U P D A A C A P I X O Q R I M R M U T S T R I A N G L E N B R U C I M B C A Y T P A D O O E R T O S A L N M U Z N N A N C T O N L V I O L A N E X P E Q P R A H FOOVIPERK Find the 14 instruments hidden in this picture! MEET THE AWESOME ORCHESTRA! RIKSDMEO HAKYKOCTVIS TRIBETN NUGOOD NONSLEDSHEM BIAGRILE 6

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8 marks the 33 rd season of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and its second season with Vinay Parameswaran as music director. During the season, the 100 members of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra will present three concerts at Severance Hall on December 16, 2018, March 3, 2019 (with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus) and May 10, Youth Orchestra members come from 40 communities across Ohio. It is very possible that someone from your area is in the Youth Orchestra. Most of these talented young musicians have been playing an instrument for at least three years, and some for many more. They became Youth Orchestra members by playing an audition for the music director and members of. The highly acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) provides a unique pre-professional experience for musicians in middle and high school. Players rehearse weekly and perform in Severance Hall, are directed by a member of s conducting staff, and receive coaching from Cleveland Orchestra musicians. Membership is by competitive auditions held in May. For information, please call the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra at (216) or visit CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Children s Chorus A N N U S H E R D I R E C T O R Children s Chorus (COCC) and Preparatory Choruses (COCPC) are open to students in grades 5-9. Members in both groups build a foundation of skills in leadership, vocal production, and musicianship, through weekly rehearsals and regular performance opportunities. The Children s Chorus, founded in 1967 and directed by Ann Usher, performs with and Chorus throughout the subscription and holiday season. The Preparatory Chorus, directed by Suzanne Walters, collaborates with the Children s Chorus on two independent concerts each season. For more information please contact the Chorus Office at (216) or chorus@clevelandorchestra.com. For over 25 years directors of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus have provided choral training of the highest caliber to northeast Ohio high schoolers. Students in grades 9-12 are chosen through competitive audition, and members represent over 40 schools and communities from across the region. Each year the chorus presents a range of independent and collaborative performances throughout the region, including the performance of a major work with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra at historic Severance Hall. For information please call (216) , chorus@clevelandorchestra.com, or visit coyc.cochorus.com. AMERICAN GREETINGS FAMILY CONCERT SERIES This popular threeconcert series, designed for young people ages 7 & up, is a perfect introduction to orchestral music. HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! OCTOBER 28, 2018, SUNDAY at 3 p.m. Ruth Reinhardt, conductor A program filled with musical tricks and treats! Delight in the musical magic of Mussorgsky s Night on Bald Mountain, Berlioz s Witches Dance, and hold onto your witches hats for even more bewitching music! Come dressed in your Halloween best for costume contests for audience members and orchestra musicians! THE MOZART EXPERIENCE FEBRUARY 8, 2019, FRIDAY at 7:30 p.m. Vinay Parameswaran, conductor With special guests Magic Circle Mime Co! A mischievous street musician is caught playing the orchestra s piano. Much to her surprise, the conductor doesn t scold her but instead offers her the chance to be Mozart. Visual theater and music in a program that includes excerpts from some of Mozart s most famous works, including Eine kleine Nachtmusik, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Symphony No. 41 ( Jupiter ), and more. CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS MAY 12, 2019, SUNDAY at 3 p.m. Vinay Parameswaran, conductor With special guests Katia and Marielle Labèque, pianos It s a menagerie of music-making! Saint- Saëns beloved classic, performed especially for our family audiences by the worldrenowned Labèque sisters. This grand zoological exploration is a whimsical and charming work for orchestra and narrator that is sure to delight. Music by Haydn, Anderson, and Stravinsky round out this wild and woolly concert. Free pre-concert activities begin one hour before concert time. Order tickets online at clevelandorchestra.com, or call , or Family Series Concerts are supported by The Giant Eagle Foundation Acknowledgments The Score is prepared by the Education & Community Department of The Cleveland Orchestra. All rights reserved. Photos of by Roger Mastroianni The Musical Arts Association, operating André Gremillet, Executive Director Joan Katz Napoli, Senior Director, Education and Community Programs Sandra A. Jones, Manager, Education and Family Concerts Mollibeth Cox, Manager, Learning Programs Sarah Lamb, Manager, Community Engagement Courtney Gazda, Coordinator, Education & Community Programs Lauren Generette, Manager, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Austin Land, Artistic & Operations Coordinator For COYO and Education Programs s Education and Community Programs are made possible by: ENDOWMENT FUNDERS Hope and Stanley I. Adelstein Kathleen L. Barber Mr. Roger G. Berk In memory of Anna B. Body Isabelle and Ronald Brown Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Roberta R. Calderwood Alice H. Cull Memorial Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Emrick, Jr. Charles and Marguerite C. Galanie Mr. David J. Golden The George Gund Foundation The Hershey Foundation Dorothy Humel Hovorka Mr. James J. Hummer Frank and Margaret Hyncik Junior Committee of Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Alfred M. Lerner In-School Performance Fund Linda and Saul Ludwig Machaskee Fund for Community Programming Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Meisel Christine Gitlin Miles, in honor of Jahja Ling Mr. and Mrs. David T. Morganthaler Morley Fund for Pre-School Education The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund Pysht Fund The Max Ratner Education Fund, given by the Ratner, Miller, and Shafran Families and Forest City Enterprises, Inc. The William N. Skirball Endowment Anonymous, in memory of Georg Solti Jules and Ruth Vinney Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Touring Fund PROGRAM FUNDERS The Abington Foundation Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Blossom Friends of Eva L. and Joseph M. Breuning Foundation Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Foundation The Cleveland Foundation Cuyahoga County Residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation Ernst & Young LLP The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation The Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation Friends of The Giant Eagle Foundation Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation The Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation Martha Holden Jennings Foundation KeyBank The Laub Foundation The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation The Nord Family Foundation Nordson Corporation Foundation Ohio Arts Council Ohio Savings Bank, A Division of New York Community Bank PNC Bank The Reinberger Foundation Albert G. and Olive H. Schlink Foundation The Sherwin-Williams Company Struktol Company of America Weiss Family Foundation Thomas H. White Foundation The Edward and Ruth Wilkof Foundation as of August 2018