Youth Concert JAZZING UP THE ORCHESTRA Benjamin Rous, Music Director October 18, 2018 with the Free Bridge Quintet Richelle Claiborne, Narrator Jonah Taylor, Actor
CHARLOTTESVILLE SYMPHONY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Benjamin Rous, Music Director YOUTH CONCERTS October 18, 2018 10:00am and 11:30am Old Cabell Hall Richelle Claiborne, Narrator Jonah Taylor, Actor Free Bridge Quintet Program Excerpts from the following works: A Symphonic Picture from Porgy and Bess The Entertainer Ragtime from L Histoire du Soldat Symphony No. 1 Afro-American I. Moderato assai George Gershwin arr. Robert Russell Bennett Scott Joplin Igor Stravinsky William Grant Still Ben s Jazz Trumpet Based on the Caldecott Honor Award-winning book by Rachel Isadora Ben s Trumpet 1979 by Rachel Isadora Majorano Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers It Don t Mean a Thing (If it Ain t Got that Swing) John D earth Duke Ellington Thank you to our Sponsors! The Watterson Foundation The Mr. and Mrs. James L. Brown Fund for Youth Concerts The McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia Charlottesville Symphony Society
JAZZING UP THE ORCHESTRA Music Director Benjamin Rous leads pieces by Ellington, Stravinsky, Bernstein and Joplin composed in the symphonic jazz style. The Free Bridge Quintet partners with the orchestra in the performance of a work based on the Caldecott Honor Award-winning book by Rachel Isadora, Ben s Trumpet (Ben s Trumpet 1979 by Rachel Isadora Majorano, used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers), composed by local jazz legend John D earth. Meet the instrument families and swing to jazz as you listen to a full symphony orchestra performance. September 10, 2018 Dear Students, My name is Elizabeth Roberts. As Director of Youth Education and Principal Bassoon with the Charlottesville Symphony, I write to tell you that the entire orchestra is excited for you to join us at our Youth Concerts on October 18th. Hearing an orchestra perform live is a very special opportunity. When you walk into our concert hall, take a minute to notice what the room looks like, and take note of the colorful shirts we are wearing and how they relate to our instrument families. Going into a concert hall to hear an orchestra should feel special, like when you walk into a room where very important things happen such as a library! The orchestra will perform music written in the style of jazz. During the concert, try to sit quietly and really listen to us. Each instrument produces a different kind of sound. Some blend easily while others might stick out. Instead of a flute and a clarinet, you might hear a flut-inet! Or even vio-horn-pani that s a mixture of violins, horns and timpani playing at the same time! Does one instrument draw your attention more than another? Look at the shapes of the instruments and listen to the many colors of sound. Notice the different moods you feel when you hear the music. You might find some of the music to be just okay or so-so to listen to, but then you might find other pieces really just fill you with energy. Try to remember what you enjoy as you listen and be sure to share this with your friends and family when you get home. Have a great time at the concert! -Elizabeth PROGRAM NOTES By Elizabeth Roberts A SYMPHONIC PICTURE FROM PORGY AND BESS GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937) George Gershwin was born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in New York. His parents bought a piano for his older brother, Ira, but it was George who found his expressive voice on the instrument. Throughout their professional lives, the two brothers collaborated on many projects, George composing the music, and Ira creating the lyrics. They collaborated on the opera, Porgy and Bess, with author DuBose Heyward who wrote the novel, Porgy, on which the opera is based. It is set in 1920s Coastal Georgia at a time when African Americans were officially free from slavery, but were still living under oppressed conditions. The opera shows the lives of the Gullah people who descended from slaves and worked on rice plantations. While the opera is set on a fictitious street, Catfish Row, the composer and lyricists did a wonderful job capturing characteristics of the Gullah people and aspects of their music and culture that they retained from their lives in Africa, some remnants of which still remain strong today. Robert Russell Bennett arranged the music by Gershwin in the version you will hear in our performance. He includes the songs, Clara, A Woman is a Sometime Thing, Summertime and I Got Plenty O Nuttin. 2
Lyrics: Porgy and Bess Summertime Summertime, And the livin is easy Fish are jumpin And the cotton is high Your daddy s rich And your mamma s good lookin So hush little baby Don t you cry. THE ENTERTAINER SCOTT JOPLIN (1867/1868-1917) Scott Joplin (c. 1867/1868? April 1, 1917) is the most famous composer of the style of music called Ragtime. His father was an ex-slave and his mother was a free-born African-American woman. Joplin was born in Texas. His mother helped teach him music in his early years. He worked as a laborer on the railroad before giving that up to travel as a musician in the southern United States. The Maple Leaf Rag is his most famous piece, and The Entertainer, another rag, is also very popular. Ragtime developed from the complex rhythmic music native to Africa and the marches of John Philip Sousa. It is steady in pulse but has many layers and syncopations, or unexpected beats, in the music. This complex sound appealed to African Americans and grew on other people as they got used to hearing it. Syncopation can be difficult to describe with words, but it is easy to hear and feel. It has a steady beat in the background, but there is always something unexpected that makes you smile when you feel it. L HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971) Igor Stravinsky was born in Russia. His father was a famous singer. Stravinsky poured himself into studying music from a very early age. Although his parents made him pursue a law degree in college, he didn t go to law classes very often, and instead put all of his efforts into studying music. The famous Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was an influential teacher, guiding Stravinsky for four years of his training. Stravinsky was a musical revolutionary he composed in a variety of musical languages and his creativity inspired many other composers and performers. He wrote L Histoire du Soldat, which translates as The Soldier s Tale, in 1918. It was written for seven instruments: clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, bass and percussion. Stravinsky used a small ensemble of musicians for L Histoire so that it could be easily played on tours. Performances of the piece also require three actors and a dancer. The portion of the piece you will hear is called Ragtime. L Histoire du Soldat is a parable, or story, that teaches a lesson. The plot tells the story of a soldier who sells his violin to the devil in exchange for lots of money. Compare this piece to the ragtime composed by Scott Joplin. 3
SYMPHONY NO. 1 AFRO-AMERICAN WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895-1978) William Grant Still was born in Mississippi. His father died when he was very young, so his mother moved him to Arkansas. She was a teacher. His stepfather encouraged his musical studies, taking him to performances and buying records for him. He learned to play the violin, and taught himself to play several woodwind and string instruments. His mother wanted him to be a doctor, but he excelled in musical studies in college, receiving awards and scholarships that supported his training as a performer, conductor and composer. After college, he joined the U.S. Navy, then worked as an arranger. In 1936, he became the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra when he led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performance. He was also the first African American to have his own symphony performed by a major American orchestra, his own opera performed by a major American opera company and the first to have an opera performed on national television. In the 1920s and 1930s, African Americans had a cultural awakening in music, art and literature. Still s Symphony No. 1 Afro-American was written during that time. The first movement shows an example of a type of jazz called Blues. Blues music is based on African music and spirituals. It was created to tell people s life stories and the songs are simple. They show emotions of sadness and feelings of hope. Blues music comes in many forms. Sometimes Blues music is even humorous. It fits the African-American expression Laugh to keep from crying, meaning that when things are really hard, it is important to keep a positive attitude. With his Symphony No. 1, Still wanted to raise the Blues to a higher art form. One melody in the third movement sounds similar to the Gershwin tune, I ve Got Rhythm. BEN S JAZZ TRUMPET JOHN D EARTH (B. 1950) John D earth, a world-class performer and composer, is an avid educator and advocate for making music accessible to youth. He composed Ben s Jazz Trumpet which received its World Premiere with the Charlottesville Symphony at Youth Concerts on October 17, 2013. About this piece, John D earth states: Writing the music to Ben s Jazz Trumpet has been a labor of love. The story made me remember how jazz first grabbed me with its energy and mystery when I was a child. And just as Ben found jazz in the midst of the city, jazz exists within the great city of All Music so it is fitting to put jazz and the orchestra together for this piece. The piece is inspired by Ben s Trumpet, written by Rachel Isadora ( 1979 by Rachel Isadora Majorano, HarperCollins Publishers). As a child, Rachel Isadora dreamed of becoming a ballerina. After a successful career dancing ballet, she began to illustrate children s picture books, including Ben s Trumpet, a Caldecott Honor Book. IT DON T MEAN A THING (IF IT AIN T GOT THAT SWING) DUKE ELLINGTON (1899-1974) Duke Ellington was born in Washington, DC. He was a composer and pianist. He became famous for leading his jazz orchestra at the Cotton Club in New York City for most of his career. He composed over 1000 pieces and his jazz orchestra, also called a Big Band, performed many of these works. The complex rhythms based in ragtime and the richness and fullness of the sound from this larger jazz ensemble made his works appeal to many diverse groups of people, which in turn raised jazz to a newly respected form of art. A trumpeter in Ellington s orchestra often said, It Don t Mean a Thing if it Aint Got that Swing, which gave this piece its title. To jazz players, this statement meant that jazz was more important than other styles of music. 4
Lyrics: It Don t Mean a Thing It don t mean a thing, if it ain t got that swing Don t mean a thing, all you got to do is sing It makes no difference if it s sweet or hot Just give that rhythm everything you got Oh, it don t mean a thing, if it ain t got that swing. Special thanks to Stephanie Shonekan, Chair of the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri Columbia, for her contributions to the script and program notes. DEFINITIONS BIG BAND A Big Band is also called a Jazz Orchestra, and is usually made of several trumpets, trombones, saxophones, a clarinet, a piano and percussion instruments. COMMISSION to pay a composer to write a new piece of music COMPOSER a person who writes music. CONCERTMASTER The first chair violinist who serves as a leader within the orchestra and is responsible for tuning the orchestra at the start of rehearsals and concerts is called the Concertmaster. DEBATE TEAM - A Debate Team competes similarly to how a sports team might compete. However, instead of playing basketball or football, the team members use language in creative ways, speaking for and against various ideas. One team is chosen as a winner based on how well its members have argued their position. LYRICIST a person who writes the words to a song MUSIC ARRANGER - A Music Arranger takes music written for one set of instruments and re-writes the music in a way that sounds good played on other instruments. OPERA - An Opera tells a story it is like a play set to music. The main characters are soloists, meaning they usually sing by themselves. There is an orchestra and a chorus to make the entire performance very large in size, and there are costumes and scenery designed to help create different moods and enhance the story. ORCHESTRA An Orchestra is a group of musicians who play instruments from the string, woodwind, brass and percussion families. SYMPHONY A Symphony is a piece of music written for an orchestra, and is usually made up of four big parts or movements. RAGTIME Ragtime is the style of music that led to jazz. SYNCOPATION Music with a strong pulse that also adds notes off the beat in an unexpected or colorful way is called Syncopation. 5
SYMPHONIC JAZZ Symphonic Jazz is also called Orchestral Jazz. It refers to any piece of music that is written for a symphony orchestra and uses the language or style of jazz. WORLD PREMIERE a World Premiere of a performance is the first time a piece of music has ever been played in public. THE ORCHESTRA AND ITS INSTRUMENTS A symphony orchestra is a group of people who play many different instruments and make music together. The instruments of the orchestra are divided into four groups called families : the strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Each family contains instruments that are similar in many ways, yet different in others much like any family. A band has only three of these families it does not have members of the string family. 6 The strings are the largest family in the orchestra. Over half of the players in the orchestra play one of the four stringed instruments: the violin, viola, cello and the string bass. These four instruments look very much alike. Each of them is made of a specially shaped hollow wooden box that has four strings stretched tightly along its length. Each stringed instrument has a bow, a thin stick of flexible wood with horsehair attached at each end. To make the sound, a player draws the hair of the bow across the strings, causing the strings to vibrate. The violin is the smallest stringed instrument and has the highest voice of the family. The violins often play the melody, or tune, in orchestra music. The viola looks very much like the violin, but is slightly larger. It has a deeper, mellower sound. Both the violin and the viola are held under the chin. The cello, which has an even lower voice, is much larger than the violin and the viola so large that it cannot be held under the chin, but must rest on the floor between the player s knees. The string bass is the largest member of the string family, even taller than the person playing it. To play a bass, a person must stand or sit on a tall stool. The string bass rarely plays the melody, but it has an important role. Its deep voice is the harmony and foundation of the orchestra. In most orchestras, the string family sits at the front of the stage, right in front of the conductor. One special member of the string family is the harp. The harp has forty-seven strings, which are plucked with the fingers. Most orchestras use a harp only for certain special pieces. Behind the strings on stage are the woodwinds. As you might guess from their name, all of these instruments are played with wind that is, by blowing into them. However, not all of them are made of wood. The one exception is the flute. A long time ago, flutes were made of wood. Today they are made of metal, but are still in the woodwind family. When a flute player blows across the opening of the flute, the air inside the flute vibrates, making a musical sound. The clarinet is made of dark-colored wood with metal keys. A clarinet has a mouthpiece with a tiny piece of cane, or hard grass like bamboo, called a reed attached to it. When a player blows through the mouthpiece, the reed vibrates, making the clarinet sound. The oboe looks very much like the clarinet. It is hard to tell the two apart unless you look closely at them and listen carefully. Their sounds are distinctive. The clarinet has a smooth tone while the
oboe s tone is more piercing. The oboe has a double reed two pieces of cane that vibrate against each other to make the oboe s unique sound. The bassoon also has a double reed, but sounds much lower than the oboe. Just as with stringed instruments, the bigger the instrument, the lower the voice in the other families of the orchestra. The contrabassoon is the biggest and lowest woodwind instrument. When you unfold the bassoon it is eight feet long, and when you unfold a contrabassoon, it is sixteen feet long. In comparison, the piccolo is the smallest and highest-pitched woodwind. It looks like a baby flute. The brass family sits at the very back of the stage, but it is quite easy to recognize because all the instruments are made of bright shiny metal. Brass instruments are constructed of long metal tubes which are coiled around and around into shapes that are easy to handle. Each brass instrument has a different shape, size and voice. One important brass instrument, the horn, is sometimes considered part of the woodwind family because its tone blends beautifully with woodwind instruments as well as with other brass instruments. The French horn is made of 17 feet of coiled tubing and has a wide flaring bell. A French horn player can use his hand inserted into the bell to change the sound of the horn. Many people think the French horn has the most beautiful sound of any musical instrument in the orchestra. The trumpet is made from a much shorter piece of tubing and has a small bell. The trumpet has a clear and brilliant tone, and is also usually very loud, so the rest of the orchestra never drowns out its voice. It can be heard loud and clear! The trombone is bigger than the trumpet and has a lower voice. It has a slide, which is pulled in and out to control pitch. The tuba is very big and fat, and has an extremely low voice. While the tuba very rarely gets to play the melody, it plays the important bass notes of the music. The percussion family has many different instruments made of different shapes and materials. The instruments produce a variety of sounds. What all of the percussion instruments have in common is that a player must strike them to make a sound. The percussion family stands at the back of the stage where there is plenty of room for all the different percussion instruments and players. The most important percussion instruments are the timpani. These large drums are sometimes called kettledrums because they look like big copper kettles. The timpani player uses three to five timpani of different sizes. The small ones play higher pitches and the larger ones play lower pitches. Timpani are used in almost every orchestra piece. Many other percussion instruments are used only occasionally, depending on what kind of sounds the composer needs for the music. The bass drum is a very large drum about three feet in diameter. It makes a deep, thundering sound. The snare drum is a much smaller drum which has metal wires called snares stretched across the bottom of it. When the drum is struck, the wires vibrate, making a rattling sound. The triangle is a metal rod bent into the shape of a triangle. It makes a bell-like sound. Cymbals are two large metal plates which are crashed together. The cymbals are usually played loudly, so the sound can be startling. 7
OUR ORCHESTRA The Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia is made up of more than 70 people, including university professors, music teachers, local musicians and college students. Some of them are professional musicians, and many of them just play for fun. But all of them work equally hard! They rehearse together every Wednesday and add extra rehearsals during concert weeks. Each year the orchestra performs 13 concerts, plus special Youth Concerts like the one you will hear. The Role of the Conductor The conductor of a symphony orchestra has a very difficult and complicated job. He does much more than stand in front of the orchestra and wave his baton. The conductor must be an interpreter, a teacher, a leader. He must combine these three jobs to achieve his goal of turning a bunch of individual musicians into a symphony orchestra that makes beautiful music. As an interpreter of a piece of music, the conductor works hard to understand the music as well as he can. He must study a piece of music for a long time before he ever conducts it. While each musician in the orchestra learns the part his or her instrument plays, the conductor must learn the parts for all the instruments and know how they fit together. There are many, many details of the music the conductor has to learn. Two of these are tempo (the speed of the music) and dynamics (loudness or softness). The conductor must think about how tempo and dynamics change throughout the piece. The conductor considers how the composer wanted the piece to sound, but he also may use some of his own ideas about what will sound good. Not every conductor will perform the same piece in exactly the same way. When the conductor has learned a piece of music, he must teach what he has learned to the orchestra. He explains the tempo, dynamics and other details. More importantly, he communicates to the musicians what kind of mood or character he wants the music to have. The conductor must be familiar with how to play every instrument so that he can help each musician achieve the sound he wants. When the orchestra practices, the conductor must listen to every note to make sure all the players are playing the correct pitches and staying together. He helps the orchestra work on difficult parts until they sound right. Finally, the conductor must be a leader on stage. During a performance, he uses his hands to communicate silently with the musicians in the orchestra. Usually a conductor will use his right hand, which holds the baton, to mark the beat of the music in the proper tempo. The musicians can watch him to make sure they are playing together. The conductor uses his left hand to communicate dynamics and more subtle variations in the music. Like the rest of the people on stage, the conductor is a musician. His instrument is the whole orchestra. He plays his instrument by guiding the musicians to communicate together what the music has to say. Our Conductor - Benjamin Rous Admired for his dynamism or energy on the podium, Benjamin Rous was recently named Music Director of the Charlottesville Symphony. He started his new position last year and joined the UVA music faculty at the same time. In 2010, Mr. Rous was hired as Associate Conductor of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and quickly became a favorite among audiences throughout southeastern Virginia. Promoted to Resident Conductor 8
of the VSO in 2013, he took on an expanded role, leading the orchestra in a variety of concerts, including Classics, Regional Classics, Pops, and the multimedia VSO@Roper series. Each summer, Mr. Rous pursues his love of education, serving as faculty conductor of Greenwood Music Camp in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts. Mr. Rous has conducted many orchestras, including the National Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Long Beach Symphony and the Charleston Symphony. He is also an excellent instrumentalist, performing regularly on violin, viola and keyboard instruments. Benjamin Rous studied music at Harvard University with an emphasis on composition. His works have been performed by diverse ensembles including the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, the Greenwood Orchestra and the Fromm Players. Mr. Rous is from the very small town of Durham, New Hampshire, which still feels like home to him. Since most orchestras need just one or two main conductors, Mr. Rous often has to move to a new city when he gets hired as the music director. Before he settled into his more recent positions, Mr. Rous lived in 13 different apartments in just 15 years! Mr. Rous s wife, Clara, is a cellist. They have a three-year-old son, Kai, who turns everything he finds into a percussion instrument, and a new baby, Ari. Their family pet is a sweet cat named Jack. In his spare time, Mr. Rous enjoys sailing, playing chess, eating good food and spending time outdoors. Our Narrator Richelle Claiborne was born and raised here in Charlottesville. She is an accomplished singer, actor and poet who has performed at the University of Virginia s Heritage Theater Festival, Live Arts and Four County Players. Most recently, she played the role of Lady Macbeth in Black Mac, a new version of William Shakespeare s Macbeth at the Jefferson African-American Heritage Center. In addition to performing, she works at The Renaissance School as the Director of Admissions and Assistant to the Head of School. Ms. Claiborne loves macaroni and cheese, her cat named Ava and dancing with her eight year-old daughter. Our Special Guests John D earth Jazz trumpeter and composer John D earth was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. As a teenager, he studied with saxophonist Boots Mussulli and trombonist John Coffey (principal trombonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) He also studied arranging with Thad Jones. Mr. D earth attended Harvard University, then moved to New York City where he continued his studies. Mr. D earth has performed and recorded internationally and appeared on over 100 recordings spanning the vinyl-to-digital era, working with many famous jazz and pop artists. He has composed and arranged music for jazz bands, rock bands and orchestras, including our own Charlottesville/Albemarle Youth Orchestra. He has recorded his own music, as a leader, for Vanguard Records, ENJA Records, DoubleTime Jazz and his own Cosmology label. Currently residing in Charlottesville, he is a co-founder of the Free Bridge Quintet. Mr. D earth is a devoted educator. Serving as the Director of Jazz Performance at the University of Virginia, Mr. D earth teaches improvisation and jazz trumpet, and directs the UVA Jazz Ensemble. In his spare time, Mr. D earth enjoys riding his bicycle, playing with his cats and bird watching. His dream is to share his joy of music with others. Music, for Mr. D earth, is like participating in an extreme sport: exhilarating and fulfilling. You don t need an airplane to feel like you can fly! 9
Free Bridge Quintet The Free Bridge Quintet is the official faculty jazz quintet of the University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music. Founded in 1997, it features Jeff Decker on saxophones, Robert Jospé on drums, Peter Spaar on bass, John D earth on trumpet and flugelhorn and Butch Taylor on piano. The quintet is active performing on the jazz scene at UVA and throughout Charlottesville and greater Central Virginia. Jonah Taylor, Actor Jonah Taylor is an 8th grader at Tandem Friends School who loves to sing and dance. Jonah is an active participant in activities at DMR Adventures, a children s theater program, where he recently played Simba in The Lion King. When not on stage, you can find him with his Cheweenie dog Chewie, riding his bike and flipping on his trampoline. Jonah is a HUGE fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has seen all the Marvel movies multiple times in chronological order. His favorite characters are the Black Panther and Captain America. He loves to imagine what will happen in the next film and stays abreast of information on upcoming sequels. Jonah loves spending time with his family and especially enjoys going out to eat. His favorite foods include burgers, burritos, tacos and popcorn which he eats every night! OLD CABELL HALL Old Cabell Hall is located on what is known as The Lawn, the oldest part of the University of Virginia. At the opposite end of the Lawn from Old Cabell Hall are the Pavilions (living quarters) and the famous Rotunda, both designed by Thomas Jefferson. The hall was built in 1898 as part of a university-wide restoration following the great Rotunda fire of 1895. It was designed by Stanford White, a famous architect who also re-built the destroyed Rotunda. Today, Old Cabell Hall houses classrooms for the University of Virginia s Music Department, rooms for practicing and rehearsing, and the beautiful concert hall where the Charlottesville Symphony performs some of its concerts. When you enter Old Cabell Hall for a concert, you will notice two very special features. One is the huge painting that covers the wall behind the stage. It is a copy of a painting called The School of Athens by the famous Italian painter Raphael (1483-1520). The original hangs in the Vatican in Rome. You may also notice the big, gold-colored organ pipes above both sides of the stage. These are part of the university s E.M. Skinner organ, installed in 1907. It has over 1500 pipes, many of which are hidden from view. 10
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WHICH IS THE BEST MATCH Draw a line to connect the words that go together. Tempo Conductor Woodwinds Concertmaster Baton Rehearsal Brass Narrator Dynamics Strings Percussion Cello Storyteller Leader Practice Volume Timpani Speed Right Hand Trombone Oboe Violinist 12
DURING THE CONCERT Please sit quietly and listen to the performance. Enjoy the music. Clap at the end of a piece of music if you enjoyed it. Notice how the music makes you feel. Do you see colors in your mind when you hear the music? What images do you see when you listen to the music? Does the music make you remember something from your life? Notice what parts of the music you like why do you like it? Notice what parts of the concert you don t like what do you not like about it? 13
CONTINUE TO EXPLORE THE ORCHESTRA WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS: Attend the Charlottesville Symphony s Musical Instrument Petting Zoo Meet the instruments in the orchestra one-on-one! FREE!! November 3, 2018, Time to be announced The Ruth Caplin Theater, UVA Arts Grounds. Parking in Culbreth Road Garage Collaboration with Virginia Film Festival Family Day. For more information visit: www.cvillesymphony.org Tell Your Family About the Youth Concert What was your favorite piece of music? What did you hear that you liked? What did you hear that you didn t like? How did each piece of music make you feel? What did you think about while you listened to the music? What instrument would you like to play? Attend the Charlottesville Symphony s Programs at the Virginia Discovery Museum Meet Me on Main Street Series - Meet the Symphony Musician Instrument demonstration, accompanied story and instrument petting zoo www.vadm.org January 12, 2019 Katy Ambrose, Horn February 2, 2019 I-Jen Fang, Percussion Listen to Recordings Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals Britten: Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra Leopold Mozart: A Children s Symphony 14 Debussy: Children s Corner
Read Books Eric Carle I See a Song (K-2) Steven Kellogg Ralph s Secret Weapon (K-2) Valerie Poole Obadiah Coffee and the Music Contest (K-2) Robert Levine The Story of the Orchestra (4-6) Illustrated by Peter Spier The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (K-6) Watch DVDs Peter and the Wolf Fantasia Fantasia 2000 Attend Concerts Charlottesville Symphony: www.cvillesymphony.org Youth Orchestras of Central Virginia: www.yocva.org Charlottesville High School: www.chsorchestra.org UVA Chamber Music Series: music.virginia.edu/uvacms Visit Websites www.sphinxkids.org 15
CHARLOTTESVILLE SYMPHONY CONCERTS Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia 2018 19 Season Please visit www.cvillesymphony.org for more information. Saturday, September 29, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Sunday, September 30, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center Benjamin Rous, Conductor Ayn Balija, Viola BOWEN Viola Concerto in C minor, Op. 25 MUSGRAVE Song of the Enchanter SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 Saturday, November 17, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Sunday, November 18, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center Damon Gupton, Guest Conductor Daniel Sender, Violin ROSSINI Overture to Semiramide BARBER Violin Concerto, Op. 14 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 Saturday, December 1, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Sunday, December 2, 3:30pm, Old Cabell Hall Family Holiday Concerts with the UVA University Singers Michael Slon, Conductor Saturday, February 16, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Sunday, February 17, 3:30pm, *Monticello High School* Benjamin Rous, Conductor Andrew Le, Piano RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major MOYA Siempre Lunes, Siempre Marzo KODALY Variations on a Hungarian Folksong The Peacock Saturday, March 23, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Sunday, March 24, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center Benjamin Rous, Conductor Joseph Lin, Violin BARTOK Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 Italian Saturday, April 27, 8:00pm, Old Cabell Hall Sunday, April 28, 3:30pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center Benjamin Rous, Conductor Jonathan Yates, Piano WAGNER Prelude from Parsifal, WWV 11 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 SHATIN Piping the Earth RESPIGHI Pines of Rome 16
Benjamin Rous, Music Director www.cvillesymphony.org