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1 The LSCO wishes to thank our generous supporters. This program and our mission in general could not be realized without your help. When you visit our advertisers, mention you saw their ad in our program. A special thanks to LSRHS faculty and staff: Tom Grandprey, Michael Bunting, Francie Zingale, Diane Kaufman, Paula Leporati, Paul Sarapas, Chuck Despotopulos and the custodial staff. We can be found online at: This program is supported in part by a grant from the Sudbury Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency. Benjamin Vickers, Conductor Presents a Pops Concert Featuring Castelnuovo-Tedesco s Guitar Concerto #1 Dave McLellan Guitar plus Bizet, Bernstein, Joplin, McCartney Hamlisch, Horner & many more June 10, 2018 at 7:15pm Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Auditorium 390 Lincoln Road, Sudbury, MA 01776

Concert Program Carmen Suite Selections Georges Bizet (1838-1875) 1. Prelude 4. Les dragons d Alcala 1a. Aragonaise 7. Habañara (from 2 nd suite) 2. Intermezzo 5. Les Toréadors 3.

2 Concert Program Carmen Suite Selections Georges Bizet ( ) 1. Prelude 4. Les dragons d Alcala 1a. Aragonaise 7. Habañara (from 2 nd suite) 2. Intermezzo 5. Les Toréadors 3. Séguedille Concerto #1 for Guitar & Orchestra Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Dave McLellan, Guitar ( ) I Allegretto II Andantino - alla romanza III Ritmico e cavalleresco ~~~ Intermission ~~~ 007: Through the Years Hamlisch, McCartney, Norman, Arr: Stephen Bulla Barry, Adkins, Epworth When you support our advertisers, mention you saw their ad in our concert program. The Matterhorn Quartet Bohemian Rhapsody - by Queen Alexandra Mattor, Ethan Mattor, Jean Peterson, Donna Lang Lucky String Quartet Jo Manning-Souza, Meagan Whelihan, Karen Pery, Peter Burger Quartet in E major, 3 rd mvnt. - by Boccherini Paragon Rag - by Scott Joplin Fiddle Tunes Padraig O Keeff s Slide Irish Washerwoman Ellie Ferguson Padraig O Keeff Traditional Flute & Piano Alexandra Andrews & Michael Moritz Oblivion, from Enrico IV (1982) Astor Piazzola Irlandaise, from Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano (1973) Claude Bolling Tango, from Four Souvenirs (1989) Paul Schoenfield Somewhere Out There Sara Nicholson, Benny Gammerman J. Horner Arr: Wm Nicholson West Side Story Selections Leonard Bernstein Arr: Jack Mason ( )

LS Civic Orchestra musicians Thanks to our generous donors this season: Alex Andrews Ethan Mattor Anonymous Erik Mollo-Christensen Susan Avery Michael Moritz Molly Bergmann Rhoda Phillips Carolyn

3 LS Civic Orchestra musicians Thanks to our generous donors this season: Alex Andrews Ethan Mattor Anonymous Erik Mollo-Christensen Susan Avery Michael Moritz Molly Bergmann Rhoda Phillips Carolyn Bruse Paul Przybyla Meghan Field Ellen T. Reneau Caroline Graham Ron V. Row Mary Gravely Steven H. Sewall Sally McInnis Barbara Snyder D. Gail Kearns Brian Holland Kathleen E. Marshall Nancy Moore Roy and Helen Herold Heritage Financial Daniel Williams Anonymous Jeannette McLellan YOU our audience Flute: Alexandra Andrews Katherine Farrington Oboe/English Horn: Carolyn Bruse Caroline Graham, (E.H.) Bassoon: Susan Avery Kai Rocke Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Caroline Mondeon Dadurian Michael Moritz Jeff Leiserson (B.Cl.) French Horn: Molly Bergmann Ethan Mattor Jean Patterson Alexandra Mattor Donna Lang Trumpet: Barbara Hall-Siktberg Sarah McInnis Lindsay Louzeau Trombone: Marie Machacek Peter Norton G. Nate Medsker Tuba: Ken Smith Timpani/Percussion Dave McLellan Derek Jameson Ben Gammerman (pno) Max Ferguson (set) William Nicholson 1 st Violin: Brian Holland, Concertmaster Diane Hartung Richard Cass Meghan Whelihan Emil Altschuler Jo Manning-Souza Steven Sewall 2 nd Violin: Paul Przybyla Jillian Smoragiewicz Gail Kearns Claire Arakiki Ellen Reneau Ellie Ferguson Viola: Jacob Bergmann Karen Pery Sean Lee Cello: Seth MacLeod Kimball Murray Rhoda Phillips Helen Montie Paige Ferguson Meaghan Field Peter Burger String Bass: Peter Jubenville Robert Hoffman Aidan Phipps Harp: Ellen Fox To play with the LSCO contact: lscivicorchestra@gmail.com

Dr. Benjamin Vickers A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ben earned a B.M. at the University of New Mexico, and an M.M. at Arizona State, where he excelled in cello performance.

His first break as a conductor came at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, ME as assistant to Kenneth Kiesler, where Ben trained young conductors.

He has conducted throughout the US, including performances in Carnegie Hall, at Disney World, and with well-known performers such as Tim Janis, James Galway, Jane Seymour, Kate Winslet, and Sarah

4 Dr. Benjamin Vickers A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ben earned a B.M. at the University of New Mexico, and an M.M. at Arizona State, where he excelled in cello performance. Ben went on to earn a DMA in conducting at the University of Michigan. His first break as a conductor came at the Conductors Retreat at Medomak, ME as assistant to Kenneth Kiesler, where Ben trained young conductors. He served as cellist of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, while conducting the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras. He has conducted throughout the US, including performances in Carnegie Hall, at Disney World, and with well-known performers such as Tim Janis, James Galway, Jane Seymour, Kate Winslet, and Sarah MacLachlan. He recently served as assistant conductor for the acclaimed premiere of Matthew Aucoin s opera Crossing at the American Repertory Theater in Ben also serves as music director of the Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra in Providence, and is assistant conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, where he recently conducted the Boston premiere of Lera Auerbach s Icarus. Dave McLellan has performed in U.S., South America, Great Britain, and Europe since He has played major concert halls such as Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, and the Wigmore Hall in London. After setting aside a music career for one in software engineering in 1981, he lived a double life as programmer and concert guitarist with duo partner Neil Anderson. The Anderson-McLellan Duo gave numerous concerts throughout the 1980 s, including two concert tours of Great Britain, performing also for festivals in the US and South America. Winning the 1987 Concerts Atlantique competition, they appeared in Geneva, Switzerland. Their farewell performance in November, 1989 in Merkin Hall, New York, was a program of American duo guitar music, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other collaborators include the Serata Quartet, soprano Rebecca Grimes (with whom he participated in the Symphonic Relief for Haiti world-wide series of concerts to raise money for aid to earthquake ravaged Haiti in 2010). The season brought his collaboration with soprano Rebekah Alexander for the This is My Letter to the World series of concerts, and with guitarist/composer Frank Wallace. Contralto Emily Marvosh (Handel & Haydn Society, Lorelei) is a regular collaborator. An early collaboration with guitarist Edward Flower resulted in two full length recordings of duo guitar music for Music Minus One. Mr. McLellan studied classical guitar at The Hartt School, New England Conservatory, and the Aspen Music Festival. His teachers have included Richard Provost, Oscar Ghiglia, Michael Lorimer, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Manuel Barrueco and Frank Wallace. He served on the faculties of The Hartt

5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our musicians come to us from a wide variety of experiences and communities. For their commitment and dedication to the LSCO cause, I sincerely thank them. William. J. Nicholson, Jr., Managing Director It takes a Community The LSCO wishes to thank our supporters for their generosity. Our program today and our mission in general could not be realized without your kind support. Your tax-deductible donation to the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in support of the LSCO is most welcome and greatly appreciated. You may keep informed of LSCO concerts by signing our interest list in the lobby, or sending an to lscivicorchestra@gmail.com School and the University of Connecticut, where he also performed regularly with Edward Flower. Dave is currently is on the faculty of the Performing Arts Center Metrowest in Framingham, MA, and in the Town of Harvard Artist in Residence program. He is the timpanist, publicist, and guitar soloist of the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra, in residence at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. In 1998, he founded Concert in Your Living Room, a pro-bono service dedicated to helping non-profits raise funds. CIYLR will conduct a 20th anniversary tour this fall, celebrating the twenty years of service to non-profits. In 1996, he established the David S. and Margaret McLellan Endowment for Performance Outreach at The Hartt School, supporting excellence in professional training of young classical guitarists. He also serves on the Hartt School Board of Trustees, where he created and curates the Hartt@Home program, a series of off campus performances by students and faculty who seek to reach out to the community at large. Program Notes Carmen Suite Excerpts Georges Bizet ( ) - Parisian composer and piano virtuoso Georges Bizet was in the very last months of his life when his opera Carmen premiered in March of It would, in due time, become the greatest known and most beloved of his works but Bizet had only its original rather tepid reception to carry with him to the grave. Bizet s gifts for melodic economy and spontaneity were never on better display than in Carmen. Each scene, each moment in fact, is so perfectly orchestrated with such a sense of musical aptness that no element of the whole is ever put in shadow by another. Suite No. 1 offers a five-course sampler of Bizet s skill for creating lasting melodies of graceful inventiveness that somehow sound as they have been with us always. Tchaikovsky thought so, as did Debussy and Saint-Saens, even though it would take the reviewers and professional critics a bit longer to realize what a masterpiece the music world had on its hands. by Jeff Counts, Utah Symphony This program is supported in part by a grant from the Sudbury Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

6 Guitar Concerto #1 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ) was a well-known Italian Jewish composer whose work in the 1920 s received significant attention. He was recognized as one of the most promising young European composers of that time. However, under constant fear of the anti-semitic fascist regime that was gaining power, he escaped in 1939 with his family to the United States, with the help of conductor Arturo Toscanini. On his arrival, violinist Jascha Heifetz helped Tedesco land a job at MGM studios, where he scored music for over 200 films. He strongly influenced other great film composers such as Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle and Andre Previn. Two young composers who later became iconic greats, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams were among his dedicated students. During the years until his death in 1968, he worked continually on his growing body of music for the guitar plus many other instrumental and vocal combinations. Tedesco became friends with Andres Segovia in 1932 through their mutual friendship with the great Manuel de Falla. Responding kindly to Segovia s sheepish request for a guitar piece shortly after they met, he produced a series of solo pieces. With Segovia s repeated pleas over a six year period for a concerto, the composer finally relented in 1938 and began writing Opus 99 while still living in Italy. Tedesco composed the first two movements, the second of which was the last composition completed in Italy. He finished the concerto in 1939, and it was premiered by Segovia and the Concierto Sinfonico, conducted by Lamberto Baldi, in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of the same year.. Tedesco described the evolution of his first Concerto for guitar in an interview in 1958 with Los Angeles radio program Music and Sound host Michael Inman. The first movement is classically-inspired, in standard sonata allegro form, recalling Mozart and Haydn, followed by the Schubert-like romance of the second movement. In the third, Tedesco worked in the Spanish style, giving a nod to Segovia s native country, but one can almost imagine the finale heard over a western film, complete with John Wayne or Clint Eastwood riding off into the sunset. The second and third movements employ striking quodlibets, where first and second themes are layered on top of each other with dramatic effect. 007 Through the Years - So many talented composers have delighted us with their scores to the James Bond movies over the years. Represented in this suite are themes composed by John Barry, Monty Norman, Paul McCartney, Marvin Hamlisch, Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth. Every section of the orchestra at one time or another takes their turn in playing a theme from one of five different films scores. West Side Story opened on August 20, 1957 at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.. Now, over 61 years old, the groundbreaking musical that set new standards of excellence in its day is still as vital now as it was then. West Side Story is produced or staged 100 s of times each year around the world by professional and amateur groups alike. In honoring the memory of Leonard Bernstein on the 100 anniversary of his birth, we offer this small tribute to a man who, through his teaching, his conducting and his music, changed the way we listen to and appreciate classical and contemporary music. Our other featured performers: The Matterhorns Ethan Mattor, LSCO soloist & member since 1997 Alexandra Mattor, LSCO soloist & alumni 2017 Jean Peterson, LSCO PT since 1997 Donna Lang, LSCO PT since 2017 The Lucky String Quartet Jo Manning-Souza, violin, North Easton, MA - Wellesley Sym. Orch. (WSO) Meagan Whelihan, violin, Sudbury, MA LSCO alumni, Rivers Sym. Orch. Karen Pery, viola, E. Longmeadow, MA - WSO Peter Burger, cello, Exeter, NH - WSO Ellie Ferguson, Bedford, MA A graduating senior from Bedford High School, Ellie is both a classically trained dancer and an accomplished violinist. Alexandra Andrews, Hudson, MA Teacher, music librarian, gardener & LSCO s principal flutist for 22 years Michael Moritz, Lincoln, MA Engineer, solo/ensemble pianist and clarinetist for the LSCO for 14 years. Sara Nicholson, Lincoln, MA A musical theatre writer & performer originally from Sudbury, Sara earned a BA from the Gallatin School (NYU) & her MFA from the Tisch School at New York University, where she also met her husband Benny. She is a member of ASCAP and the Dramatist Guild. slnicholson.com. Benny Gammerman, Lincoln, MA Composer & pianist originally from New York, Benny studied music, dramatic & musical theatre writing at NYU where he earned a BFA and MFA. Together with co-writer Dylan Hartwell. Benny s works appeared at Lincoln Center, NY Theatre Barn, 54 Below & other NYC clubs. Benny is a member of BMI & the Dramatist Guild. Details at bennygammerman.com. He is married to Sara.

F. Joseph Haydn Bedřich Smetana Robert Schumann

Benjamin Vickers, Conductor Presents F. Joseph Haydn Bedřich Smetana Robert Schumann Jan. 7, 2018 at 3:00pm Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Auditorium 390 Lincoln Road, Sudbury, MA 01776 Concert Program