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Coming Events
May 13th, 2014—JCSO Piano Concerto
Mitchell Auditorium 7pm
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For Information on our 2014-2015 season
If you wish to participate in The Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra please contact either Patrick Clark or Bonnie Verdot.
Upcoming JCCA Events
April 4th, 2014
Michael Reno Harrell
May 16th, 2014
Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
featuring
February 4, 2014 7:00 pm
Lincoln University ~ Mitchell Auditorium
Conductor ~ Patrick Clark
Narrator ~ Donald Otto
Vocalist ~ Bethany Kiral Moebes
Pianist ~ Mike Michaelson
And many more local talents!
presents
A Romantic Night at the Symphony
Dear Audience,
Thank you so much for being here this evening. Please take a
moment to thank the Orchestra Musicians who consistently
contribute so many beautiful musical moments for Jefferson
City and the mid-Missouri Community.
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture (1869)….Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Romeo & Juliet (1968)………………………………………………..Nino Rota Arr. Philip Gordon (1911-1979)
West Side Story (1957)……………………………………Leonard Bernstein Arr. Jack Mason (1918-1990)
Intermission
A Tribute to Henry Mancini……………………...….Arr. Calvin Custer (1924-1994)
Salute to Ol’ Blue Eyes…….….………………...………...Arr. John Moss (1915-1998)
What I Did for Love (1976)…………………….………..Marvin Hamlisch Arr. Anita Kerr (1944-2012)
Clair De Lune (1905)………………………………………….Claude Debussy
Arr. Philip Gordon (1862-1918)
Phantom of the Opera (1986)……………………Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948)
Program
A Romantic Night at the Symphony
VIOLIN I Cheryl Nield**
Julie Carr
Julia Cegleski
Elizabeth Komaromi
Jaclyn Reehoff
Natalie Reeves
Crystal Remmel
Shana Smith
Greg Treiman
Hannah Westin
Janna Volmert
VIOLIN II Susan Wallace*
Leslie Andersen
Robin Freeland
Marty Gardner
Tayla Hughes
Hannah Tabor
Rebecca Talbert
Deseraya Thomas
Madjid Vasseghi
Evan Wilde
Evonne Wilson
VIOLA
Eddie Crouse*
E. F. Braun
Laura Eggeman
Janet Mengwasser
Morgan Owen
Logan Richardson
Kirsten Schwandtner
Warren Solomon
Allie Talbert
CELLO
Aimee M. Fine*
Rowan Bond
Shannon Hapgood
Savannah Hoff
Pierce Kennedy
Patricia Koonce
Scott Major
Patrick Ordway
Matthew Pierce
Jonathan Satterfield
Greg Spillman
Rachel Ulm
BASS
Bonnie Verdot*
Izzak Green
Michael Koestner
FLUTE/PICCOLO
Tisha Celada*
Susan Capehart
OBOE/ENGLISH HORN
Don Schilling*
Kailey Campbell
CLARINET
Steven Houser*
Earl Kliethermes
BASS CLARINET David Heise
BASSOON
Karel Lowery*
Kayla Smith
FRENCH HORN
Brandon Orr*
Paul Graham
Laura Griggs
Charles Turner
TRUMPET
Barry Sanders*
Liam Reagan
Heath Thomure
TROMBONE
T.J. Higgins*
Jim Merciel
Max Mollenkamp
TUBA
Bruce G. Connor
PERCUSSION
Kassidy Webb
Mike Stockman
Eric Veile
TYMPANI
Tom Higgins***
HARP
Janna Volmert
PIANO
Jan Houser
CONDUCTOR
Patrick Clark
***JCSO President **Concertmaster *Principal Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass performers, except for the principal, are listed in alphabetical order.
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Patrick holds his Bachelors degree in composition, also from MU where he studied with Thomas McKenney and John Cheetham. Patrick earned his Master’s degree from the University of Arizona, studying with Dan Asia, and his DMA in composition from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University studying with Arthur Gottschalk, Paul Cooper and Ellsworth Milburn. Patrick is a Tanglewood Fellow (1997), participated as a composer at June in Buffalo (1996) and studied with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague in Holland on a Netherlands-America Foundation Grant (1999-2001). Patrick has worked since as a composer, writer for Andante.com, and teacher in Holland, Los Angeles and Albuquerque, NM. Orchestral works by Patrick have been programmed by the Seattle Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and the Nederlands Ballet Orkst Various mixed ensemble works have been performed by the Tel-Aviv-based Kaprizma ensemble, New York-based Dogs of Desire, and Harvey Sollberger’s ensemble Sirius. Saxophonist Leo Saguiguit programmed two of Patrick’s, Departure/Train and Attila, at the International Saxophone Conference in Scotland in July 2012. Patrick’s original composition for big band, After Hours, has been recently recorded by the MU Concert Jazz Band and released on their 2011 CD of new music, Tunnel Vision. Patrick is the recipient of the 2011 Sinquefield Prize in music composition at the University of Missouri, and conducted his own commissioned work, A Fantasy on Themes of Mussorgsky, with the University Philharmonic Orchestra at the March 14, 2011 Chancellor’s Concert, Jesse Auditorium. Patrick was one of eight composers selected to write a work for Alarm Will Sound, performed in July of 2011. The resulting composition, Ptolemy’s Carousel, and many other works by the composer can be heard at http://soundcloud.com/patrick-david-clark.
Our Conductor
Tonight’s Special Guests
Don Otto has been an attorney, lobbyist, and theatre person in
Jefferson City for many years.
He finds stage-directing concert productions such as this almost as challenging as writing in the third-person in order to pretend he did not write this blurb himself. "The key to a production such as this," Otto said out-loud to his computer screen as he was typing this into an email, "is to keep the focus on the singing and the orchestra while still
telling the story in an entertaining fashion. Therefore, my vision was akin to a 1940's radio show where the actors perform before a studio audience, with minimal but meaningful stage action, all while engaging an audience that everybody acknowledges is present in front of them." Also performing tonight as Ko-Ko, Otto relished the opportunity to write his own lyrics for As Someday It May Happen as well as to use he word 'akin' in the above sentence. Otto wants to give full credit to Donna, his wife of 5 1/2 years for putting up with him as well as his parents Virginia and Don Sr. for
inspiring him and his children Katherine and Jackson who, at an early age, gave him the motivation to get out of the house every once and a while....
Bethany Kiral Moebes performed with Sarasota
Opera's Young Artist program, Florida State Opera, Opera in the Ozarks, the Harrower Opera Workshop, Bel Canto Northwest, Show-Me Opera, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Her opera roles include Ann Putnam in The Crucible, Sofia in I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Mimi in La bohème, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, the Sandman, Witch, and the Mother in Hansel and Gretel,
Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and Alma March in Mark Adamo’s Little Women. She was a Finalist for the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the 2011-2012 ensemble. Bethany completed her Doctor of Music degree at Florida State University in Tallahassee. She received a Masters of Music degree from University of Missouri–Columbia, and an undergraduate degree in Sacred Music at Lincoln University of Missouri.
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Tonight’s Special Guests
Mike Michaelson—Piano
Abbigail Doggett—Dancer
Kerry Cordray—Vocals
Cassandra Gal—Vocals
Ian Linenfelser—Vocals
Lacey Williams—Vocals
Ruth Robertson—Vocal Coordinator
Symphony Angels
Dr. Steven & Jan Houser Don Schilling
Sharon & James Merciel Richard Stokes Memorial
Mary Immel Memorial Bonnie Verdot
Nancy Luehrman Charles Turner Laura Eggeman Susan Capeheart
Dianne & Tom Higgins Patrick Clark
Laura Eggeman Patricia & John Koonce
Candace Cheung Cheryl Neild Doug Etter
The Richard Powell Family Robert Mansur Marty Gardner Jackie Natsch
Karel & James Lowery Carmen & Charles Brown
Promenaders
Jefferson City Public Schools Linn High School Lincoln University
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Willie Beatty, Mitchell Auditorium General Manager
Symphony Board of Directors Tom Higgins, President Karel Lowery, Vice President Jim Merciel, Secretary Patricia Koonce, Treasurer Patrick Clark, Conductor Bonnie Verdot, Past President Amiee Fine, JCPS Liason
Susan Capehart Andrea Cheung Candy Cheung T.J. Higgins Crystal Remmel Greg Spillman
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Charlene Elizabeth Mitchell February 19, 1929-January 21, 2014
Charlene is an irreplaceable member of our local musical community. Since the 1970’s she has been involved with the Jefferson City community on many projects including our very own JCSO Choir, serving
as a pianist for many years while also serving as a judge for our yearly piano competition. Graduating from Lincoln University, Mrs. Mitchell taught vocal music for many years at her Alma Mater and was involved with other community programs such as the Lincoln University Vocal Ensemble, the University Choir, and the Little Theater. Please keep her family in your prayers as she is survived by her husband, Robert Lee Mitchell Sr., two sons, and three grandchildren.
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Music Notes
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Mily Balakirev was a well-established founding father of Russian Nationalism in the late 1860s when he recognized a potential new protégé in the young Tchaikovsky. Balakirev’s influence had begun to diminish over the previous years but his helpful and discerning eye was just the sort of validation Tchaikovsky needed at the time. When Balakirev proposed a musical fantasy setting of Shakespeare’s tragic Romeo and Juliet in 1869, Tchaikovsky (a tortured soul even then) took to the agonizing subject matter in earnest. This was the first great thunderbolt to issue from Tchaikovsky’s pen and the best early realization of his incredible potential. The boiled down story of the overture careens between the tension of the clashing Montague and Capulet houses and the heartbreaking beauty of the protagonists’ love. The sum of the parts is pure magic.—Utah Symphony
Romeo & Juliet, Nino Rota Rota pulls together a sweet and masterful piece of art for the score to the 1968 movie Romeo & Juliet. Professor of English and Shakespearean literature scholar Jill L. Leven-son wrote that Rota's score "heightened the sentiment of the lovers' relationship, doing little for their verisimilitude". According to a BBC review, "the suite from Romeo and Juliet is a florid symphony drawing on Rota's classical background for its lush themes – swaggering hunting horn for the amorous swain, mournful lute for the awakening girl." Although the original manuscript was believed to be lost, the music has transcended several generations and continued in it’s popularity.
West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein (music) & Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) Romeo & Juliet for a new generation. The scene is set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1950’s where Maria and Tony, teenagers from two of the neighbor-hoods rival gangs become entangled together in a timeless rendering of Shakespeare’s classic love story. Listen for some of your favorite tunes from the musical such as “I Feel Pretty,” “America,” and “Cool.”
“Romeo & Juliet Before Father Lawrence”
Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker
Music Notes
Tribute to Henry Mancini A fun collection of Henry Mancini’s most popular songs. Mancini was a talented young musician studying at Julliard when he was drafted into the US Army during World War II, once he returned home his good luck landed him with the Glenn Miller Band and then to the Music Department at Universal Studios. His career spanned decades and genres as he recorded his own music and hundreds of movie and television show tunes. Who doesn’t remember the jazzy tune from the “Pink Panther,” the upbeat tempo of the theme to “Peter Gunn” or the little ditty about the “Baby Elephant Walk” from the classic movie Hatari!
Salute to Ol’ Blue Eyes The Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra had dozens of hits, making it hard to sum up his career with a few tunes. In the 1930’s Sinatra got his start with a local singing quartet the, Hoboken Four, and just like kids on American Idol today the group was voted most popular and given a record deal and sent on tour. As they say, the rest is history. After recording with several big name labels Sinatra started his own label, Reprise Records in the 1960’s and the era of the Rat Pack began. “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “That’s Life,” and “The Lady is a Tramp” should take you back in time.
What I Did For Love, Marvin Hamlisch (music) & Edward Kleban (lyrics)
One more musical to add to our selections tonight, “What I Did for Love” is from the acclaimed 1976 A Chorus Line. A simple musical set on an empty stage examines the struggles that artists face when auditioning for a new show. The song focuses on what the auditioning dancers have done and sacrificed for their love of theater, without regret.
Clair De Lune, Claude Debussy For such a popular tune, many are unaware that Clair De Lune (Moonlight) is the third movement of Claude Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque. The rolling melody is sublime and dynamic just like moonlight seeping through the leaves of a tree. Many popular movies feature this expressive piece including the original Casino Royal, Seven Years in Tibet, the famous Bellagio Fountains scene from the new Oceans Eleven movie.
Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) & Charles Hart (lyrics)
A brilliant modern musical based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. The story of a talented young chorus member in the Paris Opera, Christine Daae who is wooed by the “Angel of Music” who turns out to be the Phantom of the Opera. After a series of incidents Christine learns that the Phantom is just a tortured soul that had never received kindness from others before. Songs you may recognize include “Think of Me,” “Music of the Night,” and “Masquerade.”