2020-2021 Season
Classical Concert
Mozart & Moscardi
CONTENTS Theater Staff.......................................................................................................... 2 Whitney Morse on The Sharon® L. Morse Performing Arts Center........................ 3 Program................................................................................................................ 4 Program Note.....................................................................................................4-6 March, April, May, & Sept VPO Donors...........................................................7-9 Guest Artist....................................................................................................10-11 Orchestra Roster................................................................................................. 11 VPO Season 2020-21 Donors........................................................................12-13
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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.
Whitney Morse
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PROGRAM W. A. Mozart’s "Così Fan Tutte" Overture K. 588 Luca Moscardi: Concertino Op. 13a For Piano and Orchestra
I. Burlesca "Ricordi d’infanzia"
II. Siciliana
III. Berceuse
IV. Tarantella Featuring Antonio Pompa-Baldi, guest pianist W. A. Mozart’s Symphony N. 35 in D Major K. 385
PROGRAM NOTE W. A. MOZART SYMPHONY N.35 K. 385 The “Haffner” Symphony arose from Mozart’s connection with Salzburg’s most prominent family. Sigmund Haffner senior, who built the family’s banking and import-export business into one of the few things in Salzburg (other than Mozart) with any claim to an international reputation, was also mayor of Salzburg until his death in 1772. It was for the 1776 marriage of his daughter that Mozart had written the “Haffner” Serenade. Sigmund junior was a few months younger than Mozart and had been his childhood friend, but they apparently had no contact once Mozart moved to Vienna. Sigmund was known to be a retiring, solitary person who may have suffered from depression and died at 30 in 1787. In 1782, he was officially elevated to the nobility, and it was for that occasion that Mozart was commissioned to write what we now call the “Haffner” Symphony. The request came through Mozart’s father Leopold in Salzburg. Mozart wrote to Leopold that he was swamped: busy with several new compositions, the premiere of his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, preparations for his marriage, and a move to new lodgings. Perhaps there was a subtext in which the younger Mozart was letting Dad know that he had more important things to do than compose music for the provincial burg that he had abandoned over his father’s objections. In any event, Mozart did not finish and send the Symphony until two days after the ennoblement ceremony, and we don’t know whether it arrived in time for whatever celebration it was intended to adorn. Leopold was doubtless miffed at what seemed like disrespect toward an important patron and Salzburg generally, and months later, when Mozart needed the 4
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PROGRAM NOTE Symphony back for a Vienna concert, Leopold showed his annoyance by waiting three months to send it back. “My new Haffner symphony positively amazes me,” wrote Mozart when he finally saw the Symphony for the first time in half a year, “for I had forgotten every single note of it.” For the Vienna premiere he eliminated a march and second minuet, making the work a symphony rather than a serenade, and added flutes and clarinets to the outer movements (there were no clarinets in Salzburg). The Symphony is a fiery and forceful work. The opening movement sets the tone with its bold, leaping principal theme, running scales, and big, slashing chords. An Andante of aristocratic refinement and elegance is followed by a thunderous minuet of regal, if not imperial, pomp, and a rushing, dazzling finale.
LUCA MOSCARDI: CONCERTINO Op.13a, FOR PIANO AND CHAMBER ORCHESTRA During the months of April/May 2020, Italy was experiencing one of the most difficult times of the whole pandemic. The virus was spreading uncontrollably, and the government was forced to impose a total lockdown. It was during these months that I composed the Suite Op.13 for piano duo. The work was premiered by Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Emanuela Friscioni in Cleveland, during a virtual recital for the Tri-C Piano Series on January 24th, 2021. The Concertino Op.13a is an arrangement for piano and chamber orchestra of the 4-hand Suite. I completed it in the first couple of weeks of 2021. The Concertino, like the Suite, is in 4 movements: Burlesca; Siciliana; Berceuse; Tarantella. The Burlesca bears the subtitle “Ricordi d’infanzia” (Childhood memories), which reveals the programmatic intent of depicting in music the lightheartedness of a carefree childhood: games, races, jokes, but also sudden moments of disquiet, and almost gloom. The movement is in Sonata form, with two main themes. The first theme is playful and agile, while the second starts out more martial at first, and then takes a rather lyrical and meditative direction. In the development, the two themes are interwoven polyphonically until the recapitulation, which features the second theme in a climactic, passionate peroration involving all instruments. This is followed by an agile coda to close the movement. The strong allusion to childhood is also expressed by the numerous passages recalling exercises, scales and arpeggios typical of every young pianist's beginning steps at the instrument. 352-751-7799
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PROGRAM NOTE The second movement, Siciliana, is a meditative and melancholy piece in A-B-A form. A lulling motion is present from the start, with the principal theme featuring two phrases mirroring each other throughout the movement. The middle section is slightly more flowing: while thematically strictly related to the outer sections, it features vague suggestions of modality, and some archaisms, which give it the flavor of an ancient popular dance. When the main theme returns, it is enriched and embellished by some of the material from the B section, which gives it a new color. The movement ends with an ascending and dreamy Coda. The third movement is a slow Berceuse that is the gloomiest of the four movements, though still lyrical and elegiac. It opens with a gently rocking, lulling pattern of triplets in the low register of the piano, alternating with woodwinds and strings in the statement of the main theme. The central development is lead by the piano, featuring an expressive arc which takes the theme through modulations to a climax involving the whole orchestra, before gradually subsiding. The theme is then stated again by the piano, this time in canonic form with first and second violins, and violas. The Coda, closed by two piano chords, is sad and translucent. The fourth movement is a spirited and virtuosic Tarantella. Once again, the structure is a simple A-B-A. It opens with a short introduction, a swirling, fortissimo passage which quickly gives way to the main theme, characterized by the typical Tarantella tempo in 6/8. The middle section begins very quietly in the piano, then keeps rising like a big tidal wave until the huge, explosive climax produced by the full ensemble. The last section starts out like the first, but it eventually leads to a moment of reminiscence of the B section, in which the piano plays the second theme emulating a bell-like sound in the high register. After a short Fermata, the piece ends with the same introductory outburst, this time even more thunderous, and with the full involvement of the whole orchestra and the piano. Luca Moscardi (Translated from the Italian by Antonio Pompa-Baldi)
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GUEST ARTIST ANTONIO POMPA-BALDI Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999 and embarked on a multifaceted career that continues to extend across five continents. A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Pompa-Baldi studied with two important exponents of the great Neapolitan School: Annamaria Pennella, and Aldo Ciccolini. He also received great guidance in masterclass settings with Paul Badura Skoda and Jörg Demus. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears at the world’s major concert venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, Milan’s Sala Verdi, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Shanghai’s Grand Theatre, and Paris’ Salle Pleyel, to name a few. He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Theodore Kuchar, Benjamin Zander, Louis Lane, and Keith Lockhart. He has performed with ensembles and colleagues such as Takacs String Quartet, Alison Balsom, Sharon Robinson, and principals of the Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and Juilliard Quartet, among others. With a concerto repertoire including more than 60 works, Mr. Pompa-Baldi recently performed cycles of all the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos, the five Beethoven Piano Concertos, and both Brahms Concertos with various orchestras. He has played recitals in most major venues over the world. In 2019, he was a returning guest at the third edition of the Lang Lang International Piano Festival in Shenzhen, China, continued his honorary guest professorship at the Beijing China Conservatory, and was named honorary professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music. Among the stops on his tours, he performed in Vienna (Austria), Malaga (Spain), Nancy (France), New York, and throughout China (Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Dalian, Guangzhou). Mr. Pompa-Baldi has recorded over 30 CDs to date, for various labels including Centaur Records, Harmonia Mundi, Steinway, TwoPianists, Azica, and Brilliant Classics. Among them, the complete piano and chamber music works of Grieg, the Josef Rheinberger Piano Sonatas, the complete Hummel Piano Sonatas, and CDs dedicated to Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Respighi, and Rachmaninoff. For the Steinway label, Pompa-Baldi recorded a disc of songs by Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf, arranged for solo piano, to commemorate the 50th year of the passing of both French musical icons, as well as a CD titled Napoli, which features new piano versions of famous Neapolitan songs, elaborated by Roberto Piana. His 10
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GUEST ARTIST latest releases feature Concertos for Violin, Piano and Orchestra by Mendelssohn, Haydn, and Hummel. Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist since 2003. He is often invited to judge international piano competitions such as the Cleveland, Hilton Head, E-Competition (Minneapolis), BNDES Rio de Janeiro, and Edward Grieg (Bergen), among many others. He serves as president of the jury and artistic advisor for the San Jose International Piano Competition since 2006. Pompa-Baldi is on the Piano Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. His students have been prizewinners in important competitions such as Marguerite Long, Hilton Head, Isang Yun, and Gina Bachauer. He is regularly invited to teach masterclasses in countless Universities, Music Schools, and Festivals in the US and all over the world. In 2015, Pompa-Baldi founded the Todi International Music Masters festival, of which he is also Artistic Director and Faculty Member. This summer festival takes place every August in the beautiful Italian town of Todi. It features 15 concerts in 15 days, with internationally renown faculty members, and students from all over the world.
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