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Bruce was an Instructor of Fine Arts and the Music Director at Gannon University until July 2011 when he passed away. He was the Director/Conductor of the Erie Chamber Orchestra, the successor to the Erie Bayfront Orchestra which he founded in 1978, and the Director/ Conductor of the Erie Opera Theatre, which he founded in 1983.

Mr. Wright was tremendously active within the Erie Community. He was a past board member of the Martin Luther King Center and Perseus House, a center for delinquent youths. Since 1978 he was active on the board of directors of the Arts Council of Erie. He served on the Minority Panel of the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the Erie Philharmonic Orchestra Board, and the Association of Pennsylvania Orchestras’ Panel of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Mr. Wright also served on the board of the Erie Civic Authority, Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity, the Pennsylvania State Council on Arts Education, and the Florence Crittenton Home. In 1997 he was among the graduates of Leadership Erie and recently served on the Board of Villa Maria Center and the Arts Board of the Glenwood YMCA. A performer and supporter of the Arts throughout his entire life, Bruce Morton Wright was a tremendous advocate for furthering the arts in Pennsylvania and Erie County. The Erie Chamber Orchestra will proudly carry on his mission of “bringing music to the entire community.”

PROFESSOR ANNMARIE GEORGE, PROGRAM NOTES Professor George started teaching at Gannon University in 1973 where she is an Associate Professor of Music. Professor George has served as Chair of the Fine Arts department for six years, founding Director of the Schuster Gallery, the Creative Arts Program and the Alumni Recruitment Program at the university. Professor George holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education from Daemen College (1966), and a Master of Music Education (1970) from S.U.N.Y. at Fredonia with doctorate studies at Case Western Reserve University. She was one of 28 American Ambassadors selected to be in the first group of music educators to travel to China in 1988 to serve as a teacher and consultant in music education to the music educators in China. Her paper was one of six accepted for presentation to the Chinese Music Educators at the University of Beijing and in Inner Mongolia and was the only paper requested by the Chinese for publication in their National Chinese Music Educator publication. In 2008, she was the first music education major chosen as a Distinguished Alumna of Daemen College. Professor George has published several articles in local, state and national journals, serves on three publishing review boards, committees at the university, including President of the Faculty Senate for 2009-2010, and on various boards of directors locally and nationally. Professor George was honored by her colleagues at Gannon University she received the Distinguished Faculty Award for 2010.

MATTHEW KRAEMER, MUSIC DIRECTORRecognized for his “musical sensitivity” and “energized sense of interpretation”, conductor Matthew Kraemer is quickly gaining notice for his inspired performances and versatility. The Buffalo News noted recently, “He presents a tall, dignified and stately podium presence with a quite clear beat, a good sense of shaping melodic lines, and an all business attitude that focused on the music without any histrionics.” Appointed Music Director of the Butler County Symphony and the Erie Chamber Orchestra in 2012, he has reinvigorated both ensembles with innovative programming and elevated artistic standards. His active guest conducting schedule has included appearances with many of the nation’s finest orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Columbus, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Nashville, North Carolina, Saint Louis, Spokane,

and Virginia, as well as Canada’s Mississauga Symphony and Hamilton Philharmonic and in Europe with the Vidin Philharmonic and the Orquesta de Cadaqués. Recent and future guest conducting engagements include the Rochester Philharmonic, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Elgin Symphony, and Syracuse’s Symphoria. In two short years as Music Director of the Erie Chamber Orchestra, the ensemble has flourished artistically. The orchestra is experiencing a rapidly expanding audience base and increased community support, all while maintaining its 36-year mission of providing exceptional classical music free of charge to northwestern Pennsylvania. The Butler County Symphony is experiencing a similar resurgence in artistic output and community support, attracting new subscribers and offering education concerts at no expense to the county’s elementary schools.

Mr. Kraemer recently completed a highly successful, five-year tenure as associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he regularly led the orchestra on each of its concert series, including Classical, Pops, Family, education and community engagement programs. A passionate advocate for new music, he has performed the works of many living composers during his career. He has led composer readings and workshops with several orchestras in the United States, in addition to leading the BPO’s Earshot partnership with the American Composers Orchestra in Buffalo for three consecutive seasons. Increasingly recognized for his committed advocacy of music education and his devotion to young audiences, he has created numerous arts education programs and has taught at several music festivals both in the US and abroad. The Buffalo Philharmonic’s award-winning education concerts grew exponentially under his leadership, expanding to reach over 40,000 students throughout western New York. He played an integral role in the creation of the orchestra’s successful live broadcast concerts with Time Warner Cable, as well as implementing new collaborations with many organizations in the Buffalo community. Prior to his appointment in Buffalo, he served for three seasons as associate conductor of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.

Recipient of the distinguished Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship and the Bruno Walter Career Development Grant, Mr. Kraemer served a residency with the Vienna Philharmonic at the 2006 Salzburg Music Festival.   Equally at home in the ballet pit, he has led fully-staged productions with Virginia Ballet Theatre, Ohio Ballet, First Coast Nutcracker, Neglia Ballet, and Todd Rosenlieb Dance.  He has served as conductor for Broadway superstar Idina Menzel’s numerous engagements nationwide and has collaborated with many other leading artists, including Philippe Quint, Jennifer Koh, Elmar Oliveira, Rachel Barton Pine, David Kim, Awadagin Pratt, Richard Stolzman, Wu Man, Bela Fleck, Mark O’Connor, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Ben Folds, Chris Botti, the Indigo Girls, Wynona Judd, and Natalie Merchant, among many others. He conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic to considerable acclaim when internationally renowned superstar Lang Lang performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at Kleinhans Music Hall in July, 2011.

An Indiana native, Mr. Kraemer studied conducting in Vienna, Austria with Salvador Mas Conde and was twice a fellowship conductor at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen.  He has additionally participated in the National Arts Center Conductor’s Program in Ottawa, Canada.  His conducting teachers include David Zinman, Robert Spano, Stanley DeRusha, and Jorma Panula.  Mr. Kraemer is a graduate of Butler University and the University of Nevada, where he assisted former Cincinnati Symphony concertmaster Phillip Ruder. An accomplished violinist in his own right, he was a member of the Nightingale String Quartet.  Fluent in German and French, his principal violin teachers include Phillip Ruder, Herbert Greenberg, Davis Brooks, and Larry Shapiro.  When he is not performing, Mr. Kraemer enjoys cooking, running, and reading.   He and his wife Megan reside in Buffalo with their son Gabriel.

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mEdia PartnErs

Beethoven

Intermission

Symphony No. 3, op. 55, Eroica

Behind the Score Part 1 First Movement Second Movement

Symphony No. 3, op. 55, Eroica

Behind the Score Part 2 Third Movement Fourth Movement

2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5 S E A S O NErie Chamber OrchestraFebruary 20th 2015 7:30 pm Cathedral Prep Auditorium

Matthew Kraemer, Music Director

MUSIC

“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

- Ludwig van Beethoven, composer

SYMPHONY NO. 3 (EROICA) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

“I don’t want to know anything about your whole system of ethics,” Beethoven once wrote, “power is the morality of men who stand out from the rest, and it is also mine.” And power it was that fueled his symphonies and became the foundation for many of his sonatas and string quartets. Beethoven spanned two eras and managed to equalize the Romantics need for dramatic and heroic focus with the Classics need for balance, unity and clarity. When the rules of traditions of either era got in the way of his writing and need for free artistic expression, he simply re-wrote the rules to give new ways and methods for his then unorthodox means of musical expression. Perhaps the best way to describe the compositions of Beethoven, the music giant who became deaf, is to use the words Paul Bekker did: “In Beethoven a composer arose who completely understood the possibilities of the art and ruled its form with the absolute confidence of an infallible despot. He knew the secret forces of his spiritual kingdom. He worked with unremitting critical consideration, tireless experiment, and a constantly increasing consciousness of his own enormous power. He was artist enough to enforce his will...The might of his inspiration made light of the rules of etiquette. The last secrets of a soul, of an elemental stormy personality, are revealed without reserve. The impulse to self-revelation came from within, not from without. He made himself the subject of artistic exposition, choosing as his medium an art magically expressive of all thoughts and feelings of mankind---wordless instrumental music.”

Only a few composers can make a claim to being responsible for completely transforming the art of music. Beethoven is one of the few. In his music we have a break with old concepts and methods that held the development of music back, and the introduction of concepts

and methods that would help the art of music grow and be more fully realized. Here was a composer who not only had to peak that which was in his heart but also gave voice to the beliefs and ideals that governed his life through his music.

SYMPHONY NO. 3 (EROICA) has often been called the ‘heroic’ symphony not only because of its original intent of honoring what Beethoven once thought was a champion of equality and freedom, but also because it is in this symphony that Beethoven first reveals his own music ideas that have been burning within him for some time but were supressed until he felt that his music was accepted by the general populace. In a very real sense this symphony is the one where “the REAL BEETHOVEN stood up!”

Oddly enough, one of the reviews that appeared in ‘The Harmonicon’ in London of April 1829 read: “The Heroic Symphony contains much to admire, but it is difficult to keep up admiration of this kind during three long quarters of an hour. It is infinitely too lengthy....If this symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse.”As we know, this symphony was not abridged and has certainly not fallen into disuse. Beethoven wrote this symphony three years after he was aware that he was losing his hearing and one year after he wrote his famous Heiligenstadt Testament in which he speaks of his loss of hearing and the depths of despair that he feels and writes, “I live now only in my music and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start another--- with whom need I fear to measure my strength?”This was a time of tremendous productivity for Beethoven with one masterwork following another which carried us right to the threshold of Romanticism. The Second and Third Symphonies were composed just one year apart but the Second Symphony is still holding onto the restrictions of Classicism, while the Third Symphony, right from the first staccato chords, destroys the old symphonic order of composition.

As was mentioned earlier, this Third Symphony was originally dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, but when Beethoven found out that Napoleon was motivated not by a hunger for equality and freedom, but by a lust for power and personal gain, Beethoven removed Napoleon’s name from the original manuscript cover and replaced it with the word “Eroica” (hero)-

---a tribute to the memory of a great man!” { Beethoven scratched out Napoleon’s name so roughly that he tore part of the paper with the quill pen.}

In Symphony No. 3 new compositional ideas abound. Beethoven adds new ideas for harmony, new ways to express accents (stressing of some notes more than others), different ways to change keys, an extended orchestral size, larger development sections (the middle of the movement where the theme’s ideas are developed),the use of a funeral march in a symphonic setting, and a unification of the four movements with a rich emotional and poetic content. Symphony No. 3 had always been regarded by the composer as his ‘favorite’ symphony----probably because it’s the first time he brought his own new compositional ideas forward and it was a success! AND Beethoven also got an opportunity to publicly humiliate Napoleon with the revised dedication that was read to the audience with Napoleon in attendance.

Symphony No. 3 begins with NO introduction but instead immediately presents us with two abrupt chords by the full orchestra. It has been called one of the most unpretentious openings ever! These two chords mark the leaving behind of the 18th century traditions of having introductions, and helped launch to immense proportions, the symphony forms of Haydn and Mozart. After the first two chords, the first main theme is stated. It is a simple theme that is based on the tones/notes of the tonic chord of E-flat major (the key of this symphony is E-flat major). This simple theme is first heard in the cellos, passed to the violins, and then to the woodwinds before it finally ends in a long- held C sharp. Throughout the exposition (the first part of the movement where the main theme(s) are stated) tension is generated and then relaxed many times until a poignant melody in the woodwinds signals the end of the exposition section of movement one.

The development section (the place in the movement where the composer works out his musical thoughts about the theme or themes that were stated in the exposition section) is monumental in size and continues for two hundred and fifty measures where the earlier material is being re-presented in different harmonies and rhythms. Near the end of the development section, Beethoven does use a new concept that made one of his critics think that the horn player was performing the wrong notes. Beethoven has the horns recall the first two measures of the first theme in the tonic chord of E-flat major, while the strings play A-flat and B-flat in a tremolo manner.

The last portion of this first movement (the recapitulation section) restates the music materials heard earlier in new ways and even adds a few new ideas as well. This recapitulation is followed by a long coda which concludes this movement with a feeling of triumph!

The second movement presents us with a funeral march in three-part (A B A) form to put meaning to Beethoven’s changed dedication {“To the memory of a great man”}.The first part (the exposition) is in a minor key in the violins and represents a funeral cortege. In the middle section (the development), the concept changes to a message of faith that is played primarily by the oboes, flutes and other woodwinds. With the closing (the recapitulation) of this movement the funeral theme returns and is done in a layered (fugue-like) manner. The funeral march will return once more in the Coda but the melody will be presented in a broken-up manner to imitate how the voice of a person affected by grief might also break-up.

The third movement (Scherzo) begins with a lively theme that is first presented very softly to release us from the funeral motif to look at a lighter side of heroism. The Trio portion (the middle section of the third movement) presents us with a prominent hunting theme for horns.

Beethoven conquers his own despair in the triumphant Finale(fourth movement) of this Third Symphony. He offers two melodies that he has borrowed from his ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. He uses variations of these melodies before the woodwinds emerge with an exultant hymn of triumph. Beethoven then develops the main theme to an overpowering effect that comes at us with a series of crushing chords.

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