2013-2014

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

A T T H E H U N T E R

ADVISORY BOARD

Sherry Keller Brown • Gary Chazen • Darlia Conn • Deanne Irvine • Lavinia Johnston

Karen “Candy” Kruesi, Chair • Sharon Mills • Stephen Rich

PA R T N E R S

S P O N S O R S

G R A N T S

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“all things work together for good to those who love Him” (Romans 8:28)

Transfigured Night (Verklärte Nacht) RICHARD DEHMEL

Zwei Menschen gehn durch kahlen, kalten Hain;

der Mond läuft mit, sie schaun hinein.

Der Mond läuft über hohe Eichen;

kein Wölkchen trübt das Himmelslicht,

in das die schwarzen Zacken reichen.

Die Stimme eines Weibes spricht:

„Ich trag ein Kind, und nit von Dir,

ich geh in Sünde neben Dir.

Ich hab mich schwer an mir vergangen.

Ich glaubte nicht mehr an ein Glück

und hatte doch ein schwer Verlangen

nach Lebensinhalt, nach Mutterglück

und Pflicht; da hab ich mich erfrecht,

da ließ ich schaudernd mein Geschlecht

von einem fremden Mann umfangen,

und hab mich noch dafür gesegnet.

Nun hat das Leben sich gerächt:

nun bin ich Dir, o Dir, begegnet.“

Sie geht mit ungelenkem Schritt.

Sie schaut empor; der Mond läuft mit.

Ihr dunkler Blick ertrinkt in Licht.

Die Stimme eines Mannes spricht:

„Das Kind, das Du empfangen hast,

sei Deiner Seele keine Last,

o sieh, wie klar das Weltall schimmert!

Es ist ein Glanz um alles her;

Du treibst mit mir auf kaltem Meer,

doch eine eigne Wärme flimmert

von Dir in mich, von mir in Dich.

Die wird das fremde Kind verklären,

Du wirst es mir, von mir gebären;

Du hast den Glanz in mich gebracht,

Du hast mich selbst zum Kind gemacht.“

Er faßt sie um die starken Hüften.

Ihr Atem küßt sich in den Lüften.

Zwei Menschen gehn durch hohe, helle Nacht.

Two people are walking through a bare, cold wood;

the moon keeps pace with them and draws their gaze.

The moon moves along above tall oak trees,

there is no wisp of cloud to obscure the radiance

to which the black, jagged tips reach up.

A woman’s voice speaks:

“I am carrying a child, and not by you.

I am walking here with you in a state of sin.

I have offended grievously against myself.

I despaired of happiness,

and yet I still felt a grievous longing

for life’s fullness, for a mother’s joys

and duties; and so I sinned,

and so I yielded, shuddering, my sex

to the embrace of a stranger,

and even thought myself blessed.

Now life has taken its revenge,

and I have met you, met you.”

She walks on, stumbling.

She looks up; the moon keeps pace.

Her dark gaze drowns in light.

A man’s voice speaks:

“Do not let the child you have conceived

be a burden on your soul.

Look, how brightly the universe shines!

Splendour falls on everything around,

you are voyaging with me on a cold sea,

but there is the glow of an inner warmth

from you in me, from me in you.

That warmth will transfigure the stranger’s child,

and you bear it me, begot by me.

You have transfused me with splendour,

you have made a child of me.”

He puts an arm about her strong hips.

Their breath embraces in the air.

Two people walk on through the high, bright night.

(English translation by Mary Whittall)

G l o r i a C h i e n , A r t i s t i c D i r e c t o r

D a v i d F i n c k e l & W u H a n , A r t i s t i c A d v i s o r s

I N PA R T N E R S H I P W I T H L E E U N I V E R S I T Y& T H E H U N T E R M U S E U M o f A M E R I C A N A R T

T H U R S D AY, A P R I L 1 7, 2 0 1 4

5:30 pm Art Connection Visit the Hunter galleries for a discussion of art and music. Former Hunter Museum chief curator Ellen Simak and Maestro Robert Bernhardt, Conductor Emeritus of the Chattanooga Symphony, will explore Homer Boss’ Portrait with Red Chair (Mrs. A. S. Baylinson) [the artwork pictured on the front of this program] and relate this work from the Museum’s collection to the music featured in this evening’s concert.

6:30pm Concert:

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014

JOHANNES STRING QUARTET KIM KASHKASHIAN, viola SOOVIN KIM, violin MARCY ROSEN, celloJESSICA LEE, violinCHOONG-JIN CHANG, violaPETER STUMPF, cello

String Quartet No.2 in a, Op.51, No.2 Brahms (1833-1897) Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Quasi Minuetto, moderato. Allegretto vivace Finale: Allegro non assai. Poco tranquillo. Più vivace

Johannes String Quartet

Verklärte Nacht Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Sehr Langsam Etwas breiter Schwer betont Sehr breit und langsam Sehr ruhig

Johannes String Quartet Kim Kashkashian, viola Marcy Rosen, cello

Cover credit: Homer Boss (1882-1956), Portrait with Red Chair (Mrs. A.S. Baylinson), 1920, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, Collection of the Hunter Museum of American Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smykla, Jr., HMAA.992.20

The Johannes brings together the first American to win the Paganini Violin Competition in 24 years, Soovin Kim; a Concert Artists Guild Competition winner, Jessica Lee; the Principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, C.J. Chang; and the Principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Peter Stumpf. Their collaboration was forged at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and shaped and mentored by the Guarneri String Quartet

whose style was influenced by the Budapest String Quartet decades before. They are continuing the

legacy of excellence. In addition to its recent broadcasts on Performance Today and St. Paul Sunday and a triumphant Carnegie Hall debut, the Johannes has had great successes with audiences and critics alike in Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington DC, among others.The 2013-14 season opens with the quartet’s bi-annual residency at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and is followed by a two-part SPECIAL PROJECT entitled “MOZART MAGNIFIED”, with FRED CHILD of Performance Today as host and narrator. The Johannes follows this with a Carnegie Hall mainstage performance with the NY String Orchestra as well as returns to Philadelphia and a glorious performance of Schoenberg’s Verklarte Nacht with Grammy-winner Kim Kashkashian on viola and renowned cellist Marcy Rosen in Chattanooga. Forthcoming recording: complete Brahms String Quartets. A highlight of past seasons included the group’s collaboration with the legendary Guarneri String Quartet in a program featuring William Bolcom’s Octet: Double Quartet written for them and commissioned by the Music Accord consortium of presenters as well as a newly commissioned string quartet, Homunculus, written for the Johannes by Esa-Pekka Salonen. For their performances of these groundbreaking works, they received acclaim from audiences at the Krannert Center (Urbana, IL), University Musical Society (Ann Arbor, MI), Penn State University, Boston’s Celebrity Series, the Orange County Performing Arts Society, San Francisco Performances, Phoenix Chamber Music Society, UCLA Live, Kansas City Friends of Chamber Music, Hayes University (KS), and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.

Kim Kashkashian, internationally recognized as a unique voice on the viola, was born of Armenian parents in Michigan. She studied the viola with Karen Tuttle and legendary violist Walter Trampler at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Since fall 2000 she has taught viola and chamber music at New England Conservatory.Following Grammy Award nominations for several previous recordings, Kashkashian received a 2012

Grammy Award in the “Best Classical Instrumental

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Solo” category for Kurtág and Ligeti: Music for Viola, on the ECM Re-cords label. Kashkashian’s recording, with Robert Levin, of the Brahms Sonatas won the Edison Prize in 1999. Her June 2000 recording of concertos by Bartók, Eötvös and Kurtág won the 2001 Cannes Classical Award for a premiere recording by soloist with orchestra.Kim Kashkashian is a regular participant at the Verbier, Salzburg, Lockenhaus, Marlboro, and Ravinia festivals. She has long-standing duo partnerships with pianist Robert Levin and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, and played in a unique string quartet with Gidon Kremer, Daniel Phillips, and Yo-Yo Ma.Kashkashian’s musicianship has been well represented on recordings through her association with the prestigious ECM label in a fruitful collaboration that has been continuous since 1985.Kim Kashkashian has taught in Bloomington, Indiana, and in Freiburg and Berlin, Germany, and now resides with her daughter in Boston.

Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music critic Herbert Glass has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout Canada, England, France, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, and all fifty of the United States. A consummate soloist, Ms. Rosen’s superb

musicianship is enhanced by her many chamber music activities. She has collaborated

with the world’s finest musicians including Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Peter Serkin, Isaac Stern, Robert Mann, Kim Kashkashian, Jessye Norman, Lucy Shelton, Charles Neidich and the Juilliard, Emerson, and Orion Quartets. She is a founding member of the ensemble La Fenice, as well as a founding member of the world renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet. With the Mendelssohn String Quartet she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and served as Blodgett-Artist-in Residence at Harvard University. Since 1986, she has been Artistic Director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Maryland. Another important association is with the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Since first attending Marlboro in 1975, she has taken part in 21 of their “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversaries of the Festival.Ms. Rosen is currently Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College where she is also Artistic Coordinator of Chamber Music Live, and Faculty at the Mannes College of Music. Her performances can be heard on recordings from the BIS, Bridge, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical labels among others. www.marcyrosen.com

P I C C O L OJoan Hamner

Patricia Huang

Lisa Mayfield*

Nancy Scruggs

Robert Thomas Wolfe

Gloria Butler & Steve Sherman

Drs. Keith S. Reas & Tomas C. Hernandez

Mr. & Mrs. Morton Center

Mr. & Mrs. John Haile*

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Harris

Dr. & Mrs. Robert Hereford

Mr. & Mrs. Mitch Jordan*

Mr. & Mrs. Sam McReynolds

Mr. & Mrs. David Pope

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Thompson*

First National Bank

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

F R I E N D SClaire Binder

Andrew Copes*

Jose Franch-Ballester

Helen Louise Stout

Arnaud Sussmann

Mr. & Mrs. Keith Barrett

Mr. & Mrs. Paolo Davini*

Dr. & Mrs. Jerome Hammond

Mr. & Mrs. Yu Sing Jung

Mr. & Mrs. Rufus Triplett*

J U B I L O S OLavinia Johnson*

M A E S T O S OSherry Brown

Candy Kruesi

Sharon Mills

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Rich

Lester and Sharon Simerville*

C A N TA B I L EJaqueline Marschak*

Mr. & Mrs. Bob Card

Dr. & Mrs. Wade Chien

E S P R E S S I V OAnonymous 2

Ruth Holmberg

Summerfield Johnston, Jr.

Ellen Whitaker

Dr. & Mrs. Paul Conn

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Chazen

Mr. & Mrs. Nelson Irvine

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Johnson*

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Matthews*

Mr. & Mrs. Olan Mills

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Stout*

Chazen Family Foundation

D O L C EBrenda Brickhouse

Nadine F. Goff

Nancy Jolley

Bruce Stewart & Andra Jurist

Dr. & Mrs. Delton Alford

Dr. & Mrs. Don Aultman

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bernhardt

Mr. & Mrs. Lowry Kline

Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy Logan*

Mr. & Mrs. Spencer McCallie

Mr. & Mrs. Ed McIntire*

Mr. & Mrs. Tom Moore

DONORS

*Donation graciously made at special private concert hosted by Lavinia Johnston for Cleveland residents on 3.9.2014

Please turn off cell phones, beepers, and other electronic devices.Rebroadcast of this concert has been made available through the generosity of WSMC 90.5 FM on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at 7pm