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April 23, 2013

Lincoln University ~ Mitchell Auditorium

Joshua Charles Pianist

presents

Patrick Clark, Conductor

Bob Priddy, Narrator

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 A Lincoln Portrait

Fanfare for the Common Man Finlandia

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Fanfare for the Common Man (1942)……………...Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

A Lincoln Portrait (1942)……………………………….Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Finlandia, Op. 26, No. 7 (1899)….…………………...….Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Intermission

Piano Concerto No. 3 (1909)…………………..Sergei Rachmaninoff in D minor, Op. 30 (1873-1943)

Program

President

Lincoln

DRAFTS

THE

Emancipation

Proclamation

1863-2013 Sesquicentennial

VIOLIN I Cheryl Nield**

Andrew Bailey

Julie Carr

Anne Cave

Julia Cegleski

Johanna Hobratschk

Elizabeth Komaromi

Natalie Reeves

Evie Pinkley

Crystal Robinson

Janna Volmert

Hannah Westin

VIOLIN II Susan Wallace*

Breanna Buersmeyer

Marty Gardner

Amber Krumm

Richard Stokes

Hannah Tabor

Sierra Tackett

Rebecca Talbert

Greg Treiman

Madjid Vasseghi

Evan Wilde

Evonne Wilson

VIOLA

Eddie Crouse*

Laura Eggeman

Margaret Lawless

Abby Peper

Logan Richardson

Heide Schatten

Warren Solomon

Allie Talbert

CELLO

Aimee M. Fine*

Rowan Bond

Andrea Cheung

Shannon Hapgood

Savannah Hoff

Patricia Koonce

Patrick Ordway

Jonathan Satterfield

Greg Spillman

BASS

Bonnie Verdot*

Candy Cheung

Michael Koestner

Ben Phelps

Tim Weddle

FLUTE/PICCOLO

Tisha Celada*

Susan Capehart

OBOE/ENGLISH HORN

Don Schilling*

Andrew Marjamaa

CLARINET

Steven Houser*

Earl Kliethermes

BASS CLARINET

TENOR SAXOPHONE

David Heise

BASSOON

Karel Lowery*

Kayla Smith

FRENCH HORN

Molly White*

Paul Graham

Brandon Orr

Charles Turner

TRUMPET

Barry Sanders*

Liam Reagan

Heath Thomure

TROMBONE

T.J. Higgins*

Courtney Barker

Jim Merciel

TUBA

Bruce G. Connor

PERCUSSION

Kevin Pierce

Mike Stockman

Eric Veile

TYMPANI

Tom Higgins***

HARP

Janna Volmert

CONDUCTOR

Patrick Clark

NARRATOR

Bob Priddy

***JCSO President **Concertmaster *Principal Violin, Viola, Cello and String Bass performers, except for the principal, are listed in alphabetical order.

Personnel

Joshua Charles graduated summa cum laude with a BM in Piano Performance from the University of Kansas in 2010. He went on to co-author the #1 New York Times Bestselling The Original Argument: The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century with Glenn Beck. He is currently working on his MA in Government from Regent University, and is also a Fellow heading up the Rediscovery Project at the Public Policy Institute at William Jessup University. Joshua has studied under the direction of his teacher and friend James Cockman in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. This is Joshua’s second performance of the famous Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto.

2013 Piano Competition Winner

Joshua Charles

Music Notes Fanfare for the Common Man Eugene Goosens had a habit of collecting Fanfares to begin each concert with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he was the conductor. During World War I he had asked English composers for pieces to begin each of his concerts. Since the US was now involved with World War II Goosens decided that American composers would be appropriate for the task.

In 1942 Goosens contacted Aaron Copland and asked him to write a fanfare. Influenced by Vice President Henry Wallace’s speech “Century of the Common Man,” Copland went to work. After struggling to name the piece, suggestions ranging from Fanfare for Soldiers and Fanfare of Four Freedoms, he settled on Fanfare for the Common Man. The premiere was set for March 12, 1943, to which Copland commented that he was “all for honoring the common man at income tax time.”

A Lincoln Portrait

When commissioned by conductor André Kostelanetz during World War II to compose a portrait of an eminent American, to express the "magnificent spirit of our country," Aaron Copland selected Abraham Lincoln as his subject. Although the choice may seem to us virtually inevitable, the fact is his first selection had been Walt Whitman. It was when Kostelanetz persuaded him that a political figure of world stat-ure would be better suited to the patriotic purpose that Copland settled upon Lincoln.

In 1942, the year of Lincoln Portrait, Copland had already turned the corner from his path of neoclassical abstraction onto what became a highway of Americana, filled with works in which folk materials were freely used and adapted. By no means content only to appropriate traditional tunes, Copland blended them with a full complement of original music that marvelously counterfeited the genuine article, and the combined ingredients came out of his American cuisinart mixed with the extremely palatable spices of jaunty, irregular rhythms, spiky dissonances, as well as simple triadic harmonies, intimate and/or grand orchestral textures - and gallons of spirit.

Of Copland's compositions in the American style that have endeared themselves to a large public, Lincoln Portrait may be the one that has touched most deeply the American consciousness. The work was premiered by Kostelanetz and the Cincinnati Symphony on May 14, 1942, and a radio broadcast with Carl Sandburg as narrator came shortly thereafter. —Orrin Howard, LA Philharmonic

"The first sketches were made in February, and the portrait finished on 16 April 1942. I worked with musical materials of my own with the exception of two songs of the period: the famous 'Camptown Races' which, when used by Lincoln supporters during his Presidential campaign of 1860 and a ballad that was first published in 1840 under the title 'The Pesky Sarpent,' but it is better known today as 'Springfield Mountain.' The composition is roughly divided into three main sections. In the opening section I wanted to suggest something of the mysterious sense of fatality that surrounds Lincoln's personality. Also, near the end of that section, something of his gentleness and simplicity of spirit. The quick middle section briefly sketches in the background of the times he lived. This merges into the concluding section where my sole purpose was to draw a simple but impressive frame about the words of Lincoln himself." —Aaron Copland, note from Boston Symphony performance in 1943

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Music Notes Finlandia Written at the turn of the Twentieth century, Finlandia is the last of seven pieces written by Jean Sibelius as a peaceful protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire. Because of the pieces popularity and then invocation of national pride, Finlandia was often masqueraded under different names to avoid censorship, the most prominent Happy Feelings at the Awakening of Finnish Spring.

The music is animated and turbulent with the struggles of the Finnish people during the era, and then a calm sweeps over ending the piece with a serene melody. Sibelius later reworked the melody into a hymn, which is recognized as one the national songs of Finland.

Piano Concerto No. 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff completed his third piano concerto while on tour in the United States in 1909. In November the new concerto was debuted with Rachmaninoff playing solo with the New York Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Walter Damrosch. In almost immediately Rachmaninoff began to phase the third concerto out of his own solo repertoire, even though it was his favorite. He believed there were other pianists that were much more talented than he at performing the piece.

“The opening theme, according to Rachmaninoff, “simply wrote itself.” The second theme, following unhurried transformations of the first, appears as a full-blown lyric outpouring and then assumes a march character. On these materials Rachmaninoff builds a movement remarkable at once for its intricacy and its apparent spontaneity. “Intermezzo” is the heading for the second movement, but it is a far more expansive episode (or series of episodes) than that title might suggest. A lovely, nostalgic introduction by the strings, with the theme given out by the oboe, expands dramatically before the entrance of the piano, which then takes the lead in a reflective nocturne and builds to a climax of considerable power. In the contrasting second section, a sort of scherzo in waltz time, the clarinet and bassoon give out a variant of the first-movement theme behind the piano’s filigree ornamentation. The second movement leads without pause into the third, a glittering, mercurial piece, for the most part nervous and marchlike, but with lyric contrasts again based on material from the first movement. The sheer drive of this finale is in sharp contrast to what has gone before. The awesome coda begins with a cadence somewhat reminiscent of the corresponding section of Brahms’s Violin Concerto and the piano part at this point may suggest Liszt in his richest vein; the soaring strings and the brass-dominated exultation, however, are wholly characteristic of Rachmaninoff himself.” —Kennedy Center, October 2nd, 2003

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composer and conductor, recently having completed a Masters degree in orchestral conducting at the University of Missouri where he studied with Edward Dolbashian. Most recently Patrick has been commissioned to write an orchestral work for the Illinois Symphony Orchestra in celebration of their 20th anniversary.

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

Symphony Angels

Dr. Steven & Jan Houser Don Schilling

Sharon & James Merciel The Fine Family

Linda Lloyd Bonnie Verdot

Nancy Luehrman Charles Turner

Laura Eggeman Patricia Koonce Candace Cheung

Cheryl Neild Doug Etter

The Richard Powell Family Robert Mansur

Jefferson City Public Schools Linn High School Lincoln University

Willie Beatty, Mitchell Auditorium General Manager

Bob Priddy was born in a town where Abraham

Lincoln briefly lived. He grew up in two small Illinois towns where Lincoln practiced law as a circuit-riding attorney. But he has been a Missourian most of his life. Priddy is the News Director of the Missourinet, a state-wide radio network based in Jefferson City. He is the author of five books, three of them based on

his popular daily radio program “Across Our Wide Missouri.” His most recent book is “The Art of the Missouri Capitol; History in Bronze, Canvas, and Stone.” He and his wife, Nancy, have two grown children and live in Jefferson City with their cat, Frederick, who considers them his staff.

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

Our Narrator Ruth Morse Wilson Senior Award

2013 Recipient About Ben Ben Phelps is a talented musician who has spent the last twelve years studying piano, picked up the bass seven years ago, and even began learning the harp three years ago. Ben has played double bass with the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra since he became a freshman at Jefferson City High School. After graduation from JCHS in May, Ben plans to attend Truman State University in the fall and double major in creative writing and music.

About the Award Ruth Morse Wilson was a very supportive community member of The Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra. The JCSO is very grateful for the financial gift that has created the continuing opportunity to honor a graduating senior, who intends to pursue music study. Ruth Morse Wilson moved to Jefferson City in 1953 and soon became involved in the music activities of the National Federation of Music Clubs, the First United Methodist Church and the Community Concert Association. Her interest in music began in early childhood with studies in piano, which continued through her adult years. Mrs. Wilson served twice as chair of the Community Concert Association Membership Committee and was always a volunteer for the annual membership drive. She had a special interest in the JCSO, the Symphony Chorus, the JCSO annual Piano Concerto Competition and the support and encouragement given by the JCSO to high school musicians. Mrs. Wilson was a Life Member of the National Federation of Music Clubs, a member of The Morning Music Club, Inspiration Point Fine Arts Colony, Advisory Board of the Missouri Arts Council, Capital City Council on the Arts and the Capital City Women's Club.

Woodman-Mansur Senior Student

Service Award 2013 Recipient About Andrew My musical career started in the fourth grade when my music teacher at Cedar Hill Elementary told us about the Children’s Choir. After being in the choir for a year I started playing the violin with the Jefferson City Schools Orchestra program. After picking up violin, I continued in the Children’s Choir for another two years before starting private violin lessons with Mrs. Susan Wallace. During my time at JCHS I spent two years performing with the Show Choir and began playing violin in the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra my freshman year. I have continued private lessons throughout high school and have spent the last four years performing with the JCSO. In the fall I plan on attending Southeast Missouri State University where my intended major will be Music Performance, Violin. I plan to pursue a Masters degree to become a Professor of Music, my dream is to teach in Italy and to someday conduct a symphony. I would like to thank the symphony and everyone who has helped me on my path of becoming a musician. I would not be where I am without you.

About the Award This award is a collaborative financial award from Lawrence Woodman and Robert Mansur. Lawrence Woodman was a lifelong participant and supporter of JCSO, including many years prior to World War II. He was Robert Mansur's teacher and mentor, until Mr. Woodman's passing in 1969. Robert Mansur was, for 46 years, the JCSO's Principal Flautist. Mr. Mansur, along with Mr. Carl Burkel and other musicians, were the significant musicians that rejuvenated the JCSO after World War II. Mr. Mansur was the first post-war JCSO President. This award selection is based on dedication, commitment, years of service, musical excellence and other factors. It consists of $ 500 and a plaque of recognition which is funded by Robert Mansur and memorial contributions on behalf of Lawrence and Grace Woodman, both longtime members of the symphony.

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The Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra would like to thank Dr. Steven Houser for the years of dedicated service as our Conductor. We are pleased that he has decided to stay with us returning as our principal clarinetist and look forward to many more years of making beautiful music together!

A Very Special Thank You

JCSO is proud to recognize the graduating seniors who have consistently participated in the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra. JCSO extends to these seniors our sincere blessings. Should their academic or career paths ever find them in Jefferson City again, we hope they will always consider returning to perform with the JCSO.

Andrew Bailey Abby Peper Ben Phelps Evie Pinkley

Our Graduating Seniors

STEVEN HOUSER, Lincoln University Professor Emeri-

tus, taught woodwinds, band, theory, music history, and World of Music classes. He also served as interim Chair of the Department of Fine Arts and Communications. Although retired, he currently serves on the LU faculty as an instructor in woodwinds, instrumental methods classes, and World of Music classes. He is the immediate past Conductor/Music Director of the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra and a past conductor of the Lake Area Community Orchestra. Presently he is first chair clarinetist in the Jefferson City Symphony Orchestra and

first chair bassoonist in the Columbia Civic Orchestra. He has also performed on bassoon in the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra as well as on saxophone, clarinet and flute in the United States Air Force Band, Wright Patterson Air Force Base. In addition he has performed professionally in Italy, Austria and Egypt.

He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Wright State University where he was chosen as an Outstanding Alumnus for the Department of Music in 2006. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the Ohio State University, and a PhD from the University of Missouri. Dr, Houser was a Fulbright Scholar to Egypt.

He is Past President of the Missouri Music Teachers Association and the Mid-Missouri Music Teachers Association, a Missouri certified adjudicator, past reviewer of woodwind repertoire for The American Music Teacher journal, and past reader/selector for the Missouri Fine Arts Academy. He is an MTNA nationally certified instructor of woodwinds. He was the producer of the Lincoln University Fine Arts production of “Porgy and Bess”. He is a Past President of the Jefferson City Arts Council and has been the music director for numerous Jefferson City Little Theatre productions as well as the joint Broadway Review presented in Jefferson City and Cork, Ireland. He is a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, sings bass in the choir and performs sacred woodwind solos with his wife, Jan, a pianist. He is a past choral director in Methodist, Presbyterian, and Disciples of Christ churches in Ohio and Missouri.

He spends as much time as possible with his grandchildren, Emily and Steven John. His hobbies include walking the dog, “Professor”, feeding the wild birds, fresh and salt water aquariums, landscaping, model trains, practicing, reading and travel. He also holds a Black Belt in Tae Kwan Do.