Experience the Excitement! … The 2016-2017 Concert Season

New Season! Experience the Excitement!

Sharon Flores President, Board of Directors

Experience the Excitement …

as the Coastal Symphony of Georgia, under the direction of Maestro Luis Haza, celebrates the 34th season of bringing exceptional symphonic music to the Golden Isles. There is much to experience through the concert themes of Classical Connections, Romantic Celebration, New Frontiers, and Powerful Emotions.

Please join us this season. Your participation as a subscriber allows us to continue to engage, enrich and inspire our community through artistically vibrant musical performances. Consider becoming a member of the Conductor’s Circle with its special benefits. You will help us meet our commitment in a very important way as you Experience the Excitement of this Season.

This season will feature the compositional architectural development spanning from 18th Century Mozart and Beethoven through 19th and 20th Century composers such as Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Liszt and Ravel. It is indeed a significant landmark for our orchestra to bring you Wagner’s Siegfried’s Funeral March and Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 1 “Titan” to end our season.

For our second concert, it is a joy to have returning to our stage the exceptional dancers Val Salnikov and Bess Chambliss of the Golden Isles Ballet Company. They will join the orchestra for two beautiful dances.

The 2016-2017 concert season’s repertoire will allow us to affirm the high degree of excellent artistic accomplishment by our Coastal Symphony of Georgia. This season will be our greatest in the history of the orchestra! You, our audience, deserve it.

Maestro Luis Haza Music Director/Conductor

Monday

September 26, 2016

Brunswick High School Auditorium

8:00 p.m.

MOZART Symphony No. 29

in A Major, K.201/186a

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1

in C Major, Op. 21

Experience Classical Connections …

when the 2016-2017 concert season opens with important, early works of two giants of the Classical Period. Mozart wrote his first symphony at the age of 8, but the 29th, written at age 18, has been described as “a landmark” for the young composer. Stanley Sadie, a respected British 20th Century musicologist described it as “personal in tone – perhaps more individual in its combination of an intimate, chamber music style with a still fiery and impulsive manner.” Scored for two oboes, two horns, and strings, the music displays the lightness of a chamber ensemble, but adds passionate and impulsive passages as Mozart spreads his wings with the symphonic form. Listen for the horns in the first movement as the strings introduce a principal theme which will be carried throughout the symphony. In Beethoven’s first symphony, he paid homage to his early classical predecessors, particularly Mozart and his teacher, Joseph Haydn, but the symphony also served to announce his own personal talents to Vienna. The form is in accordance with the established composing tradition for a symphony of its time, but its content, instrumentation and tempi are unusual. Scored for winds, brass, strings and percussion, the work gives the winds a more prominent role, while frequent changes in dynamics throughout mark it as a unique, bold work of an advancing composer. Written in 1801, Beethoven’s First has been somewht overwhelmed by his 3rd, 5th and 9th symphonies, but it contains hints of his greatness to come as the predominant musical figure during the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras of music.

Beethoven

Mozart

Monday

November 7, 2016

Brunswick High School Auditorium

8:00 p.m.

TCHAIKOVSKY March from

The Nutcracker Ballet

CARL MARIA VON WEBER Invitation to the Dance

PIETRO MASCAGNI

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

MAURICE RAVEL

Bolero

JOHAN STRAUSS, Jr Die Fledermaus Overture

HECTOR BERLIOZ

Hungarian March, Rackoczi

TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio Italiano

Experience Romantic Celebration …

as the orchestra entertains us with an evening of captivating music which celebrates dance. Invitation to the Dance is a piano piece written by German composer Carl von Weber in 1819 and later orchestrated by French composer Hector Berlioz in a concert waltz form meant for listening rather than dancing. Lucky for us, artists Bess Chambliss and Val Salnikov will bring the piece to life, giving us the story of a young man’s invitation, her initial refusal, the dance itself and his appreciation. Later, the dancers will return to perform Bolero, French composer Maurice Ravel’s most famous musical composition. It is a one-movement orchestral piece originally composed as a ballet but rarely staged in this classical dance format. Beginning with the quiet but intense flute and snare drum, the music continues building in a constant

crescendo as the clarinet and bassoon join in the piece heard in the film “10” with Bo Derek. Val Salnikov has performed nationally and internationally. He has worked with musicians Mstislav Rostropovich and Winton Marsalis, and c h o r e o g r a p h e r G e o r g i a B a l a n c h i n e . Bess Chambliss, owner of Classical Pilates by Bess LLC, coproduced and danced in her first performance, “From Russia with Ballet,” in 2014. This is their second appearance with the Coastal Symphony of Georgia.

Following intermission, Die Fledermaus Overture invites us to engage with the music as the orchestra performs the many tunes that appear during the course of the action of Johan Strauss, Jr.’s popular operetta. The Hungarian March, Rackoczi follows, a piece by Berlioz written in honor of Ferenc Rackoczi, a Hungarian military hero, and the evening closes with a fantasy for orchestra from Tchaikovsky, Capriccio Italiano. Listen for a bugle call that opens the piece, followed by a stoic, heroic melody from the strings, then music sounding like an Italian street band, a march and finally a tarantella or group of Italian folk dances.

Bess Chambliss Val Salnikov

Monday

February 6, 2017

Brunswick High School Auditorium

8:00 p.m.

BEETHOVEN Creatures of Prometheus

Overture

BRAHMS Hungarian Dance No. 5

LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

in C Sharp Minor

DVORAK Symphony No. 9

“From the New World”

Experience New Frontiers …

as we continue our travels through the Romantic Period and on to the “New World” of music. Creatures of Prometheus is Beethoven’s only full length ballet and his first theater work. It is the story of Prometheus, “an exalted spirit, who found the humans of his time in a condition of ignorance, refined them through science and art and brought them to civilized manners, customs, and morals.” Lewis H. Lockwood, considered the leading American authority on Beethoven, calls the music “easier and lighter than music for the concert hall. It shows Beethoven exploiting instruments and coloristic orchestral effects that would never appear in his symphonies or serious dramatic overtures.” The lusty sounds of Hungarian folk music with its unique gypsy scale, rhythmic spontaneity, and direct, seductive expression follow with Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Following intermission, it is the influence of Native American music and African American spirituals that we hear in Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s symphony, popularly known as the “New World Symphony.” Dvorak called this music “…the product of the soil. They are the folk songs of America.” While he was also influenced by the music of his native Bohemia, as well as by Beethoven and Schubert, Dvorak combined these influences in original themes and used modern rhythms, counter point and orchestral colors. His work is considered a major milestone in the American validation of “New World” music and lore as source material for classical competition. Leonard Bernstein called it multinational in its foundations, and the symphony has been very popular in the United States, London and Japan. It was composed in 1893 while Dvorak was visiting America, and a recording went to the moon with astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Monday

April 10, 2017

Brunswick High School Auditorium

8:00 p.m.

VERDI La Forza del Destino,

Overture

WAGNER Siegfried’s Funeral March

PUCCINI Intermezzo from

Manon Lescaut, Act III

MAHLER Symphony No. 1 “Titan”

Experience Powerful Emotions ...

as the orchestra closes the season with stirring music displaying feelings of fate, destiny, sadness, love and triumph. Translated as The Power of Fate or The Force of Destiny, Verdi’s Overture opens with a musical theme of fate introduced in a short motif or musical idea in the brass, and then becomes a recurring figure throughout the piece. Grandeur and humanity are reflected in Siegfried’s Funeral March taken from Wagner’s musical drama Gotterdammerung or Twilight of the Gods. A rich, haunting, dark feeling pervades the opening but then the music becomes a hopeful, triumphant march. Breathtaking brass and percussion return us to a more somber feeling and close of the march which represents the heart of the Ring Cycle of four operas written by Wagner. Finally, Puccini’s Intermezzo falls at mid-point in his four-act opera, Manon Lescaut, when everything has begun to go wrong for the materialistic and ultimately doomed heroine. The music runs the gamut of emotions and serves as a microcosm of the story with glimpses of sweetness, passion, spinning out of control, and wistfulness. Following intermission, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 “Titan” incorporates music from previous works that went through several iterations before its final form. Mahler was a late Romantic composer who acted as a bridge between the 19th Century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th Century. Scored for a large orchestra, with several instruments used only in the expansive, stormy final movement, the symphony moves from youthful dreams to the burial of illusions. Just as we saw Beethoven begin to move classical music into the robust Romantic period in our first season concert, Mahler’s work builds a bridge from 19th to 20th Century music in a fitting finale.

Giuseppe Verdi

Richard Wagner

Giacomo Puccini

Gustav Mahler

Season Memberships and Benefits

Conductor’s Circle As a member of the Conductor’s Circle you are demonstrating your commitment to a bright

future for the Coastal Symphony as a vital part of our community. We thank you!

Conductor’s Circle benefits include:

Personal selection of reserved seats for all four season concerts

Program recognition

Invitations to special symphony events

Newsletter subscription

Lost ticket insurance

Maestro (Four Reserved Season Tickets) $1,000

Concertmaster (Two Reserved Season Tickets) $ 600

Soloist (One Reserved Season Ticket) $ 300

Season Subscriber Our Season Subscribers are the heart of our Symphony family. Thank you!

Ticket Subscribers benefits include:

Season Tickets with Assigned Seating

Program recognition at Principal level

Newsletter subscription

Lost ticket insurance

Principal (Two Reserved Season Tickets) $290

Adult (One Reserved Season Ticket) $120

Student/Child (One Reserved Season Ticket) $ 20

The 2016-2017 Concert Season Tickets and Support

Please complete this order form and return with payment to: Coastal Symphony of Georgia, P.O Box 21733, St. Simons Island, GA 31522

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Provide Additional Financial Support to the CSG Ticket sales cover less than 25% of the operating funds needed by the Coastal Symphony of Georgia. Your additional support and generosity is greatly needed. All gifts are tax deductible. I wish to dedicate Music during this Concert Season See brochure for opportunities. Concert Date _______________ Music _____________________________________ Dedication ______________________ $______________ I wish to make an additional financial contribution Gifts of $300 and above will be recognized in the Concert Programs. $______________

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Make this Year’s Performance Personal: Dedicate Music There is no more memorable way to honor a loved one or friend, commemorate a special occasion or offer a memorial than to dedicate a musical selection from this year’s Concert Series. The musical arrangements below may be selected for dedication and either included in your Season Ticket Order Form or requested before the appropriate concert.

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$300 Symphony No. 1 in C Major Ludwig van Beethoven September Bolero Maurice Ravel November “The New World Symphony” Antonin Dvorak February Symphony No. 1 “Titan” Gustav Mahler April

$200 Symphony No. 29 in A Major Wolgang Amadeus Mozart September Capriccio Italiano Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky November Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Franz Liszt February Siegfried’s Funeral March Richard Wagner April

$100 Die Fledermaus Overture Johann Strauss, Jr, November Creatures of Prometheus Overture Ludwig van Beethoven February La Forza del Destino Overture Guiseppe Verdi April

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Executive Board Directors

President Sharon Flores Vice President Linda Muir Secretary JoAnn Frick Treasurer Ben Lee Assistant Treasurer Kay Harrell

Millard Allen M J Choate Orion Douglass Artie Ford Sibby Gruber Bill Gussman Pamela Hamilton Susan Imhoff Janice Lamattina

Sung Hui Lewis Marjorie Mathieu Tom Milburn Karin Mills Susannah Salvatore Dave Snyder Beverly Trainor Joan Wilson Clinton Winne Linda Wright

Concert Production Administration

Music Director/Conductor Maestro Luis Haza General Manager Jorge Peña Librarian Jin Kim-Peña

Office Manager Elizabeth Sundstrom