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... clurch clen Toclzu Gott gekommen ... (2009) Joshua William Mills(b. 1984)

Winning work in the Macht Orchestral Composition Competition

Chasing Light... (2008) Joseph Schwantner(b. 1943)

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Concerto for OrchestraIntroduction: Andante non troppo-Allegro vivaceGame of the Pairs: Allegretto scherzandoElegy: Andante, non troppoIntermezzo interrotto: AllegrettoFinale: Presto

Bela Bartok(1881-1945)

Joseph Schwantner's Chasing Light ... is part ofFord Made in America

A Partnership Program of the League of American Orchestras and Meet The Composer

Ford Made in America is made possible by Ford Motor Company Fund.This program is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. 00

Additional funding is provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, ii:Y£~Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, and The Amphion Foundation. ;::;:;;:':;

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Notice: For your own safety, LOOK for your nearest EXIT.In case of emergency, WALK, do not RUN to that EXIT. By order of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Meet The Artists

HAJIME TERI MURAl was appointed in 1991 as the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Director of Orchestral Activities and serves as theMusic Director of the Peabody Symphony and Concert Orchestras. This endowed position was established in the summer of1990 as a result of a significant leadership gift to the Peabody Endowment Fund from the Blaustein-Rosenberg-Thalheimer FamilyGroup in memory of Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg.

Mr. Murai has made guest conducting appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Detroit Symphony,Florida Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Indiana Chamber Orchestra, theDiablo Music Festival, and the Summer Opera Theatre Company of Washington, DC. He served on the faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati from 1976-1991, and was Music Director and Conductor of the CincinnatiYouth Orchestra from 1979-1991.

Mr. Murai has been awarded eleven ASCAP Awards for the Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music, including sixawards with the Peabody Symphony and Concert Orchestras. In addition to premiering many new works, Mr. Murai gave thefirst performance in English of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar" (translation by Dr. Robert Evans). In 1987, hewas a semi-finalist in the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition.

Mr. Murai was born in San Francisco and began his conducting studies while attending Lowell High School. He received hisBA and MA degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied with Ronald Ondrejka. He attended theCalifornia Institute of the Arts to study swith Gerhard Samuel, and has also worked with Richard Lert.

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Composer JOSHUA WILLIAM MILLS (b. 1984) is presently a DMA student at the Peabody Conservatory in the studio of MichaelHersch. He also holds a Master of Music in composition from the Peabody Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music in compositionfrom Houghton College. Previous teachers have included Christopher Theofanidis, Derek Bermel, Mark Hijleh, and Sun Mi Ro.

... durch den Tod zu Gott gekommen ... was composed over a two-year period and finally completed in early 2009, and theprocess of its genesis and evolution was complex and varied. As the material developed, something suggestive of a Bach choraleharmonization began to emerge, eventually resulting in the wholesale integration of one such chorale (BWV 406) into the work.This chorale quotation added its own musical material, structure, and expressive content to the score, and as the materials mix,interact, and interpenetrate one another throughout the course of the piece, the distinction between Bach's chorale and the newmaterial looses any meaning - they become effectively one.

The chorale text is as follows:o wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen,die ihr durch den Todzu Gatt gekommen!/hr seid entgangen oller Noth,die uns noch holt gefangen.(Oh, how blessed are you, you righteous, / who have come to God through death! / You have escaped all the troubles / whichhold us imprisoned).

Peabody Symphony OrchestraHajime Teri Murai, Music Director

Violin Cello Clarinet TubaYifan Zhou Ekachai Maskulrat Sheri Zweier Scott Miller

Concertmaster Principal PrincipalJulie Ahn Andrea Casarrubios Jin-Sung Moon Harp

Assistant Concertmaster Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Jasmine Hoganlydia Chernicoff Hong Hong Min Jung Kim Principal

Co-principal Rachel Hsieh John Steman Jr. Shuang liuPervinca Caterina Risto Laura Jekel Associate Principal

Co-principal Jong Bin Kim Bass Clarinet En-Hua ChangMartha Bruce Suah Kim Kaitlin Pucci Laura StokesSeo-Hee Byun YoungEun Lee John Steman Jr.Chih-Le Chang Sarah Markle PianoChiung-Yin Chang Juan Mateo-Revilla Bassoon Michael SheppardYoon Kyoung Cho GoEun Park Lynn MoncilovichMinhye Helena Choi Hee Kyung Park Principal TimpaniRui Du Maria Victoria Pedrero Imani Mosley Juanmanuel LopezMark C. Ericksen Hannah Pressley Associate Principal Georgi VidenovSavannah Praytor Guest Dorotea Racz Sarah McKittrick SethiJakob Hofer Daniel Taylor Percussion .•.Yu-Chia Hsiao Contrabassoon Tomasz KowalczykCharlene Kluegel Bass Imani Mosley Co-principalDae Sui Peter Kwon John Coker Georgi VidenovAnton Lande Principal Horn Co-principalLuri Lee Shawn Alger Joe Hughes Sao AokiSo Young Lee Assistant Principal Co-principal Kei MaedaRichard Chii-Cheng liu Matthew Brvenik Conor Jensen Doug PerryRobert Radliff Gene Crocetti Co-principalKatie Smirnova Duc Minh Tran Jessica Morrison Assistant ConductorAki Tsai Andrew Ferguson Assistant Principal Brandon BrownI-Hsuan Tsai Mary Reed lindsey FalboJessica Tong Maximilian Schwartz

, Joanna Wang Wesley Thompson TrumpetYiFang Patricia Wang Yubing WangDaniel Zink Flute Principal

Elena Yakovleva Christopher ShileyViola Principal Associate PrincipalHana Morford Zachariah Galatis Brandon Norton

Principal Mary Matthews Assistant PrincipalNicholas Citro Rafaela Dreisin

Associate Principal PiccoloInbal Batyonathan Zachariah Galatis TromboneKatherine Harvey Edward LonsingerJenny Huerter Oboe PrincipalRachael Jones Alexandra Dawson Beatty Graham MiddletonEunice Yoon Hee Lee Principal Assistant PrincipalIsabella Mensz lindsay Gomes Kristoffer DanielsenEva Mondragon Assistant PrincipalLouis Privitera Ryan R. Jones Bass TromboneTatiana Trono Hakeem BilolJessica Velez English HornMonica Wentz Ryan R. Jones

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