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Monte Perkins, Conductorpresents

“OCTOBER FEST-IVAL”

with Jeannie Yu, piano soloist

October 10, 2010 3:00 PM

Pabst Theater 144 E. Wells

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PROGR A M

Overture to The Magic Flute, K. 620 ......................................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 23, K. 488 .............Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1. Allegro. 2. Andante. 3. Allegro assai.

Jeannie Yu, piano

Intermission

Symphony No. 1, C major Opus 21 ............................................... Ludwig van Beethoven 1. Adagio molto; Allegro con brio. 2. Andante cantabile con moto. 3. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace. 4. Adagio; Allegro molto e vivace.

Festival City Symphony once again welcomes the

“Super Readers”Children who have earned free tickets for themselves and their families by participating in Milwaukee Public Library’s SUPER

READERS program. Congratulations!

***Festival City Symphony is a member organization of Association of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestras, the

Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, VISIT Milwaukee, an affiliate member of UPAF, and a program partner at

the Milwaukee Youth Arts Center. FCS made the Business Journal’s “Book of Lists” 2002 – 2007 and 2010***

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

Festival City Symphony would like to take this opportunity to thank its sponsors, without whom these programs would not take place.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Franklyn and Barbara Esenberg Fund

United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF) for operational expenses

CAMPAC – recipient of “Matching Grant” funds for operational expenses

Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, through in-kind contribution

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CONDUCTOR ’S NOTE “OCTOBER FEST- IVAL”

Good afternoon and welcome to the first concert of the 2010 – 2011 season. This season we’ll be playing a variety of music and hope that you will hear an old favorite and be introduced to composers and pieces that will become new favorites.

If your only knowledge of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) comes from the movie Amadeus you might think that Mozart’s last months were quite unpleasant with worries about money, health, completing compositions and court politics trying to deny his works from being performed. Though his health wasn’t good, 1791 was actually a prolific time for him. He completed two operas, The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito, the Clarinet Concerto and most of the Requiem. In late August he was in Prague for performances of Don Giovanni and the premiere of La Clemenza di Tito (September 6) but returned to Vienna for the September 30 premiere of Magic Flute, an opera deeply steeped in Masonic beliefs. The Overture to Magic Flute was written just two days before the first performance, Mozart, as always, counting on his copyists for quick and accurate work. The three great chords that begin it are thought to have Masonic meaning as they are the only music in the overture that returns in the opera itself.

Many of Mozart’s piano concertos were written for concerts in Vienna during Lent and Advent. The Concertos Nos. 22, 23 and 24 were composed for the Lenten season of 1786. Indeed, No. 23 (K. 488) and No. 24 (K. 491) were both written in March of that year! Mozart acted as conductor and soloist at the premiere. One attendee wrote, “I had never been accustomed to hear anything so great or wonderful…. Even to this day, although a very old man, I can still hear those heavenly harmonies, and die in the firm conviction that there has only been one Mozart”. We are extremely fortunate to be joined today by noted Milwaukee pianist Jeannie Yu as soloist.

In 1787 Mozart had written to his father saying, “Keep your eye on him; he will make the world talk about him some day.” He was referring to a young composer named Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827).

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 was written in 1795, but waited until April 2, 1800, for its first hearing. Mozart had died, but Haydn would live until 1809. To present a new symphony in their shadows was daunting. Critics disliked his use of wind instruments, saying it sounded more like a band than an orchestra, and one condemned the “outrageous effrontery of a young man”. Protectors of the musical faith called it “a danger to musical art”. Opinions changed, of course, and by the time Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869) had championed Beethoven’s third, fifth and ninth symphonies, he would derisively say of the first and second, “this is NOT Beethoven”. Whether listening to the precedents of Haydn and Mozart or the later developments of a mature Beethoven, the Symphony No. 1 retains its humor, charm and power.

We hope you enjoy our season opener and will join us again on January 30, 2011, for “Outlooks on Love”

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ABOUT OUR SOLOIST—JEANNIE YU

Jeannie Yu was awarded first prize in the Frinna Awerbuch Piano Competition in New York, the Flint Symphony International Concerto Competition, the Portland Symphony International Concerto Competition, and the Kingsville Piano Competition in Texas. She also earned the prestigious Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship Award, a full scholarship for the master’s degree program at The Juilliard School of Music where she also received the Bachelor’s Degree. Subsequently she was awarded an accompanist fellowship at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.

Ms. Yu has performed as soloist with the Flint Symphony, Portland Symphony, Marina del Rey-Westchester

Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Des Moines Brandenburg Symphony, the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra in China, Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra. She has been in great demand as a soloist and collaborative artist in live performances on WQXR in New York, WOI, in Iowa, and chamber music series such as the Northwestern University Winter Chamber Music Series, the Rembrandt Chamber Players Series in Chicago, and Chamber Music North in Michigan in addition to her schedule of performances as a member of the Florestan Duo and the Kneisel Trio. Recently she has been asked to join the Rembrandt Chamber Players as an associate member.

Ms. Yu has also participated as faculty in the Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute, the Ohio Wesleyan Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Milwaukee Chamber Music Festival, and the Troy Youth Chamber Music Institute.

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“HOLIDAY PAJAMA JAMBOREE”Wednesday, December 8, 2010

7:00 PM

FREE ADMISSION

Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, Bradley Pavilion(Use the 123 E. State St. entrance)

Join us for this one-hour concert of holiday favorites including the Over-ture to Hansel and Gretel, Mozart’s Sleigh Ride, Frosty the Snowman, and a sing-along of well-known carols. Dress is casual with pajamas welcome

for the very young. Those who wish may bring a nonperishable food donation for Milwaukee’s Hunger Task Force.

For complete 2010 – 2011 program information, pick up a brochure at our reception table or visit us at festivalcitysymphony.org

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MEET C IT Y SYMPHONY MUSIC IAN — ELLEN HOFER SCOT T

ELLEN HOFER SCOTT has played violin with Festival City Symphony for about 18 years, 12 of these years as principal second violin

Birthplace: Peoria, Illinois

Education: Bachelor of Music Performance at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, studying with the Pendereski String Quartet Also studied with the Fine Arts Quartet in Milwaukee

What I enjoy most about playing the violin: Playing chamber music is my first love

What I find most challenging about playing the violin: I find that

intonation and tone quality are the most challenging aspects of playing violin.

Other musical involvements: I have played with many symphonies in the area including Green Bay, Waukesha, Kenosha, Racine, Sheboygan, the Milwaukee Ballet and Bel Canto orchestras. I perform with the Cream City String Quartet, the New String Quartet and Allegro Strings.

Non-musical activities: I enjoy spending time at home in Mequon with my husband and two children aged 5 and 7. I also like to travel and shop for antiques. Music I play on my iPod, CD player: I listen to classical music, classical guitar, early music and jazz mostly for fun.

Favorite musical memory: My favorite musical memory was playing at the Mozart Festival under conductor Hans Graf...an Austrian conductor who was the music director of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg for 10 years. His interpretations of Mozart were amazing and he was a very dynamic and inspiring conductor.

Advice to young musicians: Practice hard and get involved in youth symphony, school orchestras, choirs, and have as many playing opportunities as possible! The more you are surrounded by music the more you will love it!

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MEET FESTIVAL C IT Y SYMPHONY MUSIC IAN — LINDA JONES

LINDA JONES has played clarinet and bass clarinet with Festival City Symphony for 28 years

Birthplace: Denver, Colorado

Education: Master of Music in Clarinet Performance, Colorado State University Post graduate study with Leon Russianoff, then with the Manhattan School of Music, Peter Hadcock , then with the Boston Symphony, and Stanley Hasty, then with the Eastman School of Music

What I enjoy most about playing the clarinet: I enjoy the rich contrast in ‘color’ between the different registers of the clarinet and its wide dynamic range. In the orchestral literature I love the lyrical solos that soar over the orchestra

What I find most challenging about playing the clarinet: Finding the ‘perfect’ reed and maintaining all the nearly perfect ones I actually have to use.

Other instruments I play: recorder, tin whistle, saxophone. I ‘play at’ the piano and am striving to learn the bagpipes.

Other musical involvements: Play clarinet and bass clarinet in the Kenosha and Racine Symphonies, Bel Canto Chorus Orchestra, and Gathering on the Green orchestra. As a faculty member at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music (WCM), I give individual instruction, coach woodwind chamber ensembles, teach through the WCM “Connections” outreach program, and perform with the WCM faculty Woodwind Quintet.

Non-musical activities: I am Executive Director of Festival City Symphony and Personnel Manager of Kenosha Symphony. I love bicycling with my husband and watching movies. We have a collection of over 400 films.

Music I play on my iPod, CD player: Nat King Cole and other ballad singers from all eras, swing band music, rock and roll from all eras, Celtic music, both traditional and Celtic rock.

Favorite musical memory: those goose-bumpy “tutti” moments in orchestra performance when the work has paid off and everything comes together, and from my place in the middle of the orchestra, it feels like a great big hug.

Advice to young musicians: Start early and seek good private instruction. Learn as many different musical styles and play in as many different types of ensembles as you can.

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FESTIVAL C IT Y SYMPHONY

Conductor ................................................................................................................Monte Perkins Executive Director ................................................................................................... Linda E. JonesEducation Director ...................................................................................................Jayne PerkinsArtist and Development Coordinator ................................................ Lesley Conger-HatchLibrarian .......................................................................................................................... Carol WittigAssistant Librarian ....................................................................................................... Mary StryckBoard of Directors ....................................................................Franklyn Esenberg, Chairman;

Theodore Zimmer, Secretary Treasurer; JoAnn Norris, Charlane O’Rourke, Robert Stack

PERSONNEL

FIRST VIOLINPamela Simmons

ConcertmasterCatherine Bush

Ass’t ConcertmasterMarvin SusonTatiana MigliaccioJoAnn HaaslerHeather Broadbent Sharon SlatteryMary StryckKatherine Brooks Al BartosikCarol Christensen SECOND VIOLINEllen Scott

Principal Ruth BryskierLaurie AschNancy MaioRobert MurphyMelissa MannCheryl Ann FuchsEva SzokeElizabeth Teal

VIOLAChristine Treter

PrincipalOlga Tuzhilkov Lynne Fields Jenna DickKorinthia KleinDudley C. PalmerHilary Mercer

CELLOTom Smith

PrincipalIngrid TihtchevaElizabeth BenderBeth Alvarez Martha Kriefall Carol WittigJared Snyder

BASSBarry Clark

PrincipalMichael GudbaurSteven RindtKathryn JursikAliscia Benetti

FLUTELesley Conger-Hatch

PrincipalHeidi Knudsen

OBOEBonnie Cohen

PrincipalSuzanne Swenson

CLARINETFranklyn Esenberg

PrincipalLinda E. Jones

BASSOONLori Babinec

PrincipalSteve Whitney

HORNWes Hatch

PrincipalNancy Cline

TRUMPETGerry Keene

Principal Tom Schlueter TROMBONEKyle Samuelson

PrincipalMichael Dugan Keith Hertig

TIMPANI Robert Koszewski

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