2020-2021 Season
Classical Concert
Beethoven & Mozart
CONTENTS Theater Staff.......................................................................................................... 2 Whitney Morse on The SharonÂŽ L. Morse Performing Arts Center........................ 3 Program Note.....................................................................................................4-6 March, April, May, & Sept VPO Donors...........................................................7-8 Guest Artist......................................................................................................9-10 Orechestra Roster................................................................................................ 11 VPO Season 2020-21 Donors........................................................................12-13 Coming Soon...................................................................................................... 14
STAFF Director of Operations................................................................... Jason Goedken Artistic Director.............................................................................Whitney Morse Technical Director..................................................................... Kenneth Constant Booking Coordinator & Administrator....................................Elizabeth Constant Executive Administrator.................................................................... Sean Graham Lighting Director..............................................................................David Krupla Assistant Lighting Director.............................................................. Lindsey Young Artist Liaison/Hospitality Management........................................... Leslie Munson Audio/Visual.........................................................................................Luke Bezio Sound/AV Designer.........................................................................Nick Erickson House Manager...................................................................................Heather Ard Director of Ticketing & Customer Relations............................... Yasmeen Stogden Promotion & Marketing...................................... The Villages Sales & Marketing Ad Sales.........................................................................The Villages Media Group
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WHITNEY MORSE on
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Dear Friend
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It’s so lovely to have you back in our beautiful space after a long and difficult break. These last few months have been challenging for all of us. That challenge was no exception for us here at The Sharon. The time we spent with our doors closed felt like an endless cycle. We would plan, rearrange, hope, move dates, cancel shows, create virtual content, move venues, and redesign sets. Then after all of that we would repeat all of the aforementioned steps again and again. We did all of that with the goal of bringing us all back together again in mind. Now, finally, here we are together. I know things are different, and they likely will be for a while. But we will persevere. We will work together to find new ways of creating, new ways to move you, and new ways to exist together in a theater. This innovation will require all of us to do our part. So please, while you are here in our theater, I kindly request that you maintain your physical distance of six feet, wear your favorite mask and sanitize your hands often. The performing arts are the most collaborative art form in the world, but the most important collaborator is you, the patron. You come in at the end of our process and provide us with applause, tears, gasps, and laughter. Now we are also asking that you take care of us, the artists, and each other by following the guidelines above. If we all commit to this together we can continue to enjoy live arts in this new way. Thank you so much for being here today and please enjoy the show.
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PROGRAM NOTE Overture to The Impresario, K. 486 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) The overture to The Impresario is a lightning fast and appropriately comic introduction to the opera that follows. The work is cast in sonata form with the first theme presented immediately in the violins. This section is most notable for its striking, and frequent, contrasts in dynamics. The second theme is a twomeasure fragment that is tossed about the orchestra, and the closing theme is a lyrical statement first presented by the oboe and the bassoon and repeated by the strings. The middle section features the development of the first theme material set in numerous guises, ultimately leading to the recapitulation of the opening three themes rounded off with a brief coda. W. A. Mozart Symphony N.40 in G minor K.550 What at once distinguishes this symphony from some of Mozart’s major earlier pieces is the urgency of the first movement. That begins with the violas’ breathless accompaniment that, for a second or two, emerges before the melody, and it continues through the character of the first melody itself, upbeat leading to upbeat leading to upbeat. We know, too, that Mozart altered the tempo mark from Allegro assai (in a quick manner) to Molto allegro (very fast), which is a change toward the faster. The subtle voicing for instruments is a wonder in itself: the transparency Mozart achieves by never having notes duplicated in melody and accompaniment, the new atmosphere that is generated when the cellos and basses first play sustained notes rather than detached, the stretching of horizons at the first appearance of woodwinds, the discreet supporting chords of oboes and bassoons that make the repetition of the first melody not just a repetition, but a development and a continuation. And all that in just the first half-minute. The harmony in those opening pages is simple, the better to prepare the violent dislocations of the development. Mozart’s mastery of harmonic architecture produces not only this, but also the somber—and so sensual—chromaticism of the Andante, the dizzying journeys of the Finale, and the pathos of the pastoral trio in the Minuet, where for the only time in the symphony Mozart settles in the key of G major (the trio being, as well, the only part of the symphony he did not rescore). In the powerfully polyphonic Minuet, Mozart comes very close to the corresponding movement in Haydn’s Symphony No. 39, also in G minor. The Finale has the most explosive music Mozart ever wrote—listen for the eight measures of rude octaves and frozen silences. The context, though, is music more consistently regular in rhythm than we have heard in the first two movements and in the main part of the Minuet. The normality of most of the Finale, the sense of straight ahead momentum it generates, most markedly establishes the difference between this movement and the first Allegro. The first movement raises questions, 4
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PROGRAM NOTE posits instabilities, opens abysses. The finale, for all of the anguish Mozart still feels—and even though it is here that he brings his language closest to its breaking point—must at the last be a force that stabilizes, that seeks to close wounds, that brings the voyager safely into port. L. V. Beethoven Piano Concerto N. 3 in C Minor Op. 37 The composer introduced his Concerto in C minor at one of those massive allBeethoven benefits – with Beethoven as beneficiary – which continues to boggle the mind more than two centuries after the fact. The date was April 5, 1803, in the Theater an der Wien, the program offering three premieres: the present work, the Second Symphony, and the oratorio Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives), as well as a reprise of the First Symphony, first heard a year earlier. According to Beethoven’s pupil Ferdinand Ries, the rehearsal, the only rehearsal for the entire concert, began at 8am and was a shambles. The orchestra was the Viennese second-string, the city’s best players having been hired by a competing presenter for a performance of Haydn’s The Creation that same evening. “[It] was frightful,” Ries recalled. “At half past two everyone was exhausted and dissatisfied. Prince Karl Lichnowsky [one of Beethoven’s patrons], who was at the rehearsal from its beginning, sent out for large baskets of buttered bread, cold meats, and wine. He invited all the musicians to help themselves, and a collegial atmosphere was restored.” The score of the Concerto was not finished by the time of the rehearsal and indeed it remained a work in progress during the performance, as was noted by another Beethoven pupil, Ignaz von Seyfried, who considered himself fortunate to have been chosen by Beethoven as his page-turner. “I saw empty pages with here and there what looked like Egyptian hieroglyphs, unintelligible to me, scribbled to serve as clues for him. He played most of his part from memory, since, obviously, he had put so little on paper. So, whenever he reached the end of some invisible passage, he gave me a surreptitious nod and I turned the page. My anxiety not to miss such a nod amused him greatly and the recollection of it at our convivial dinner after the concert sent him into gales of laughter.” The C-Minor Concerto had a second “premiere” in Vienna a year later, from the finished manuscript – presumably without hieroglyphs – when the soloist was Ferdinand Ries. The Concerto bridges the divide between Beethoven’s two earlier, more clearly Mozart-derived concertos and a more personal style, while simultaneously showing a keen awareness of Mozart's most Beethoven-like concerto, K. 491, in the same key of C minor. Both open with the strings softly playing an ascending figure, the winds joining in for the first climax. A thematic fragment – C–E-flat–A-flat – of 352-751-7799
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PROGRAM NOTE the theme of the Mozart K. 491 first movement is stated by the low strings in the ninth measure of the Beethoven. Most strikingly, as the late Charles Rosen noted, Beethoven’s solo arpeggios in the coda recall portions of Mozart’s in his work. But here, the ferocious C-minor runs with which the piano subsequently enters are purest, most Beethovenian drama. The slow movement is an oasis of calm amid the agitated outer movements, with the songful expanse of piano melody accompanied by muted strings, after which the piano arpeggios curl around the theme, now stated by strings and woodwinds. There follows a magical passage where piano arpeggios accompany a duet for bassoon and flute. The rondo finale, C minor again, has plenty of spirit but also a good deal of tension and the full bag of Beethoven tricks: a second theme, announced by the clarinet, whereupon the principal theme is transformed into a fugue whose conclusion would seem to signal the return of C minor. But no, it ascends a semitone to A-flat (an old Haydn trick), and then the piano wanders to E major, which may be far from A-flat but not from the slow movement of this very Concerto.
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MARCH, APRIL, MAY, & SEPT VPO DONORS MARCH Avie Abramowitz Ann Marie Acacio Susan Alinovi Charlene Allmen June Amoroso Patricia Anderson Joe Artello Donald Aulick Gail Bailey Janice Barone Ervant & Athalie Berberian Gay Birchard Louis Black Frank & Linda Blews Linda Boese Robert Bollinger Julie Booth William Boucher Gerard & Kathleen Buckley John Bulcroft Barbara Carl Duwayne Carnes Thomas Casey Irma Chernow Jon Churgay Wayne Clark Robert & Charlotte Conway William & Nancy Cook Roger & Julie Cooper Patricia & John Curtin Eleanor Delaplane Don Jesmore Anita Devillegas Joseph Devuono Dorothy E Dobbs Frank Dolence Richard & Jolyne Dufresne Gregory & Mary Feichtel Ann Fender Gail Fraser-Giacchi Lisa French
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John Gates Linda Geaslin Doris Goodwin Joanne Grant Maxine Graves Karyl Green Carolann Guglielm Edna Hackett Betty Hague Joan Hartung Janet Howell Ilene Hyams Alan Iampietro Maurice & Nettie Joy Gabriele Jung Marlene Knopf Mary A Kowalski Diane Kupchak Mary G Lewis Florabelle Lichty Ttee Orville & Maureen Liesman Margaret Lowery Doris Martin Charles Mathay Jack & Janice Mc Clelland Thomas Mccracken Marilyn K Meyers Tommaso/Roselyn Micucci/ Guelli Sharon Mills Terrance Mitchell Peter Moeller George Neal Harriet/Gerald Nelson/Bee Jody Nelson James Nolan Audrey Pabst Bonnie Park Billy Howard Penix John Peterman Thomas Quay Denise Quinn
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MARCH, APRIL, MAY, & SEPT VPO DONORS William & Nancy Cook Roger & Julie Cooper Eleanor Delaplane Barbara Dipol Dorothy E Dobbs Frank Dolence Judi Doran Richard & Jolyne Dufresne Arthur & Louise Elwood William Fecher Gregory & Mary Feichtel Gail Fraser-Giacchi Lisa French John Gates Doris Goodwin Joanne Grant Maxine Graves Karyl Green Carolann Guglielm Edna Hackett Sarah Hewitt Janet Howell Kathleen Ingraham Sarah/George Jordan/Stenz Maurice & Nettie Joy Mary A Kowalski Mary G Lewis Orville & Maureen Liesman Margaret Lowery Doris Martin Jack & Janice Mc Clelland Marion Mcclarin George McEvilly Kathleen McManus Nicholas Meister Marilyn K Meyers Sharon Mills Harriet/Gerald Nelson/Bee Jody Nelson Beatrice Newell John Nickelson Linda Pence
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Billy Howard Penix John Peterman Dale Powers Denise Quinn Doris J Rainbolt Ronald & June Rose Donald & Janet Schlegel Mary Shutts Arthur Sindoris Daniel Sullivan Gordon Temple Nicholas Virgilio Judith Weber Eugene Westhoff Sonya Wilt Ginger Wray Dennis Yanachiki MAY Susan Alinovi Patricia Anderson Gail Bailey Margaret Baker Janice Barone Robert Bollinger John Bulcroft Georgina Burt Duwayne Carnes Thomas Casey Jon Churgay Robert & Charlotte Conway William & Nancy Cook Roger & Julie Cooper Eleanor Delaplane Barbara Dipol Dorothy E Dobbs Frank Dolence Judi Doran Arthur & Louise Elwood Gregory & Mary Feichtel Gail Fraser-Giacchi Lisa French
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GUEST ARTIST DOMINIC MUZZI Hailed for his "mastery, precision, and passion", Dominic Muzzi began training in the art of classical piano at the age of four, having shown keen aural ability before that age. Shortly thereafter, he began performing locally in his childhood home of Central Florida, giving his first fulllength public solo recital at the age of eleven in a local music store. By the age of fourteen, Dominic had earned the American College of Musician’s National Level performance certificate. By age eighteen, he had won the Music Teacher's National Association's Solo Piano Competition for the State of Florida, First Prize in the Florida State Music Teachers Association's Gold Cup Concerto Competition, and Second Prize in the Harold C. Schwartz Foundation Scholarship. Presently, Dominic has performed across the United States and Europe, holding over a dozen additional top prizes in solo piano and concerto competitions. The previous seasons have been immensely successful for Dominic, having earned gold medal and first prize in the 68th Wideman International Piano Concerto Competition, as well as first prize at the National finals of the Music Teachers National Association's Young Artist Competition, sponsored by Steinway and Sons. Dominic also was recognized as a semi-finalist in the Chopin Foundation of the United States' 2020 Competition, as well as a quarter-finalist in the Hastings International Concerto Competition, competing on scholarship after being selected as one of the top three North American candidates. A rising star on the concert circuit, this season Dominic enjoyed immensely successful debuts as featured soloist with the Shreveport Symphony and Symphony New Hampshire, performing the first two piano concerti of Sergei Rachmaninoff. His playing was reviewed as 'breathtaking', 'electric', and 'incredible.' He also performed recitals on the Texas Street Arts Series, as well as two concerts sponsored by the Chopin Foundation of the United States. An avid recitalist, Dominic frequently returns home to Florida to perform concerts in a community outreach capacity, having delivered engaging lectures and promoting an accessible approach to fine art for students and audiences alike. His extensive academic training at top institutions allows him to reveal relatable insight about his programming to both amateurs and connoisseurs, making him a returning favorite on nearly a dozen different concert series. Dominic was inspired to pursue music professionally in the summer of 2010 while in attendance of a pre-college piano festival at Florida State University. He would go on to complete his undergraduate studies there under the tutelage of Dr. Read Gainsford. Seeking to further his education, Dominic graduated summa cum 352-751-7799
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GUEST ARTIST laude with a Masters of Music in piano from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in the Spring of 2018. He now is enrolled in the doctoral program at Indiana University, studying with internationally acclaimed concert pianist Roberto Plano. In addition to being a full-time student, Dominic serves as Assistant Coordinator of Secondary Piano for Indiana University. He also maintains a successful studio, having successfully prepared students for auditions at the Jacobs School of Music, Florida State University, and others. Dominic is also an award-winning collaborative pianist, with over a decade of professional experience performing with choirs, chamber ensembles, and solo musicians at the highest level of musicianship and facility. He has studied chamber music with renowned artists such as Peter Stumpf, Alex Kerr, and Kevork Mardirossian. He has participated in masterclasses and public lessons by Sergei Babayan, Jerome Lowenthal, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Matti Raekallio, Jon Nakamatsu, and others. Outside of music, Dominic enjoys experimenting with new recipes, hiking, and smiling at pictures of Shiba Inus.
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ORCHESTRA ROSTER VIOLIN FIRST Stewart Kitts, Concertmaster Marius Tabacila Jose Guedez Michael De Jesus SECOND VIOLIN Gregory Carreno, Principal Elizabeth Kitts Israel Mendez Joshua Dampier VIOLA Angelo Goderre, Principal Juan Carlos Siviero Daniel Cortez CELLO Paul Fleury, Principal David Calhoun DOUBLE BASS Kevin Gallagher, Principal
OBOE Lora Mac Pherson, Principal Kristen Naigus CLARINET Jason Gibbs, Principal Dominique Sniper BASSOON Chris Eberle, Principal Erika Clippinger FRENCH HORN Hector Rodriguez, Principal Nicole Rodriguez TRUMPET John De Pala, Principal Dan Sopachetti TYMPANI Chris Nolin
FLUTE Nora Lee Garcia, Principal Michelle Territo
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