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SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Valentine’s Day Concert Saturday, February 14, 2009 At Salisbury University Tickets: $20 Adults • $15 Seniors 60+ $5 SU Faculty and Children 12 and Under SU Students Free with Valid ID Box Office: 410-548-5587 www.salisbury.edu/sso Sponsored by John Proctor Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue FEATURING PIANIST ERIC STREET 8 p.m. Holloway Hall Auditorium
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SALISBURY SYMPHONYORCHESTRASALISBURY SYMPHONYORCHESTRAValentine’s Day ConcertSaturday, February 14, 2009

At Salisbury University

Tickets: $20 Adults • $15 Seniors 60+$5 SU Faculty and Children 12 and Under

SU Students Free with Valid IDBox Office: 410-548-5587 • www.salisbury.edu/sso

Sponsored by John Proctor

Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

F E A T U R I N G P I A N I S TE R I C S T R E E T

8 p.m.Holloway Hall Auditorium

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CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS

Granger & Company, PA

101 WILLIAMSPORT CIRCLE

SALISBURY, MARYLAND 21804

T 410.749.5350

F 410.749.9442

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Eric StreetEric Street is a professor of music and currently serves as the Graul Chair in Arts

and Languages at the University of Dayton. He has won acclaim as a pianist on six

continents and has performed in over 30 countries. He has been widely telecast abroad

and standing ovations followed his debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, Paris, Cairo, London,

St. Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg and Prague. During his

12-concert tour of Japan, Tokyo University News stated “the whole performance was

wonderful and captivated the audience.” He was recently telecast across Russia in

Rhapsody in Blue from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.

Street earned his doctorate in piano performance as a student of Menahem Pressler

at Indiana University, the University of California and Bethany College, where has was

the youngest faculty member in the history of the school to become a distinguished

professor. He is Professor of Music at the University of Dayton, where he has directed the

keyboard studies since 1992. An active ensemble artist, he also tours as part of Side by

Side piano duo, which recently completed a 24-performance world tour, with concerts in

Moscow, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and

Melbourne. Since then they have toured Morocco and South America, with concerts in

Chile, Ecuador and Argentina.

Street’s articles appear in over 30 periodicals. National Public Radio broadcast him

nationwide in a program of Ragtime by Women Composers. Heritage Music Press

publishes two of his ragtime duet suites and a solo suite. Wehr’s Music House has

released two of his vocal compositions, Chocolate Kisses and Tonight I Can Fly.

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Platinum Partner($5,000 - $9,999)Clear Channel OutdoorPeter and Judy JacksonGarrett and Elizabeth Layton

Gold Partner($2,500 - $4,999)C. Richard AndersonExxon Mobil FoundationPennPAT—Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour

Conductor’s Circle($1,000 - $2,499)Michael and Joanna AbercrombieThomas and Mellinda BrandonJennifer Seidel DuheJanet Dudley-Eshbach and Joe EshbachRegina KotowskiMaryland State Arts CouncilJohn and Patricia ProctorSusan PurnellThomas and Theresa RiccioSalisbury Wicomico Arts CouncilPaul ScottMarilyn Cahall Seidel

Player’s Circle ($500 - $999)Charles and Cheryl BrennerDavid and Susanna BuchananJames M. Crouse, D.D.S., P.A.Brent and Amy MillerStephanie Willey

Benefactors ($250 - $499)Maarten Pereboom and Ruth BakerErvin and Donna BowdenGranger and Company, P.A.George and Kathy HayneTom Hehman and Elizabeth HamiltonRobert and Eleanor HoekstraWalter MaternMildred PalmerFrank and Emilie RobinsonGeorge and Nancy RubensonAlan and Margaret SelserHaroldine ShanerKathleen Shannon

Sperry Van Ness,Miller Commercial Real Estate

Trimper’s Rides and PlaylandGeorge and Phyliss White

Friends ($100 - $249)Robert and Nancy AdkinsAtlantic Retina CenterCharles and Ellen BloodsworthMichael and Margaret BuchnessDonald and Lynn CathcartLinda CockeyRichard CulverAnne CuomoRon and Karen DavisGen DeggendorfDelmarva Power, John PetitoGamee ElliottLouise EssickEdwin and Norma FleischerMary Beth GollReba GosleeGrand Bay Properties,MLG Communities

William HooperRobert and Katherine HutchinsonPaul JohnstonPaul and Mary JohnstonAdrianne and Lewis KadushinLawrence and Veronica KnierRod and Pat LaytonRichard and Jane LeavittErnest and Elizabeth MatthewsJim and Cora MitchellMarty and Marilyn NeatSusan ParkerLyubov PaskovaEdward PragerSalisbury Elks Lodge, B.P.O.E. 817Lester and Lillian SimpsonCharles F. and Fran SmithJeffrey Schoyen and Sachiho MurasugiPreston TawesDonald TaylorM. William and Frances TilghmanDebra WelshRonald and Susan WilkinsRichard and Elizabeth WoottenSusan Zimmer

SSO Patrons: 2008-2009 Concert Season

This list reflects SSO Patrons as of February 5. If you have not yet become a Patron, butwould like to join those who support the SSO, please pick up a Patron MembershipBrochure in the lobby or contact the SSO office at 410-548-5587. The SSO extends itssincere appreciation to all of its Patrons and Sponsors for making these events possible!

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SSO Advisory BoardDr. Peter Jackson, chair

Mellinda Brandon, vice chairKimberly Roemer-Granger, treasurer

Dr. Richard AndersonDr. Linda Cockey

Lee KnierElizabeth LaytonDr. Walter Matern

Amy MillerTom HehmanDr. Paul ScottPhyliss White

SU Partners

Dr. Janet Dudley-EshbachPresident, SU

Dr. Thomas JonesProvost and Vice President, Academic Affairs, SU

Dr. Rosemary M. ThomasVice President, SU Advancement,

and Executive Director, SU Foundation, Inc.

Dr. Maarten PereboomDean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts

SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASpring 2009 Concert

Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5Featuring Violinist Kia-Hui Tan

Saturday, May 9Holloway Hall Auditorium, 8 p.m.

Tan performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto in A major, K. 219.

Tan has performed as concerto soloist, recitalistand chamber musician on five continents,including at London’s Barbican Hall

and New York’s Carnegie Weill Recital Hall.

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PROGRAM

Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet (1838-1875)PréludeAragonaise

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin (1898-1937)Eric Street, pianist

I n t e r m i s s i o n

Raymonda, Suite from the ballet, op. 57a by Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)IntroductionHall in Raymonda’s CastleThe TraitoressA fanfare announces the arrival of a strangerEntrance of Raymonda, Evening-MoonlightDance of Arab boysEntrance of the SaracensEntr’acte: The triumph of love and marriage celebration

Carmen Suite No. 1 by Georges BizetIntermezzoSéguedilleLes Dragons d’AlcalaLes Toreadors

SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAAt Salisbury University

Valentine’s Day ConcertSaturday, February 14, 2009

8 p.m.Holloway Hall Auditorium

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SALISBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAAt Salisbury University

Dr. Jeffrey Schoyen, Music Director

Flute*Lesley WeihsSusan Zimmer

Oboe*Amy SterlingGlenda Bates

Clarinet*Otello MeucciDebra Scott

Alto SaxophoneJocelyn Hensley

Bass ClarinetFrank Mahoney

Bassoon*Paul ScottKari Shea

Trumpet*Ron DavisBill Williams

Trombone*Lee KnierKurt LudwickLena Varuolo

French Horn*Charles DohertySeth FrieseNorm Smith

TubaJohn Scott

HarpMonika Vasey

Percussion*Charles F. Smith Jr.Jeanne FeltesJane Mahoney

ManagementDerek Bowden,ManagerMitchell Melton,Stage Manager/Librarian

Violin I*Sachiho Murasugi,concertmistressNathan AndersonAllyson ClarkLeticia HolyokeZeynep KaracalRichard LeavittPage Miller

Violin II*Bobbie ThamertKelly BarnesMary-Beth GollSusan ParkerJenel WatersJohn Yoon

Viola*Daniel McCarthyCassie Stephenson

Cello*Jeremy RiffleDan KotowskiMartha MancusoHyo Bin Sung

Bass*Thomas LongFred Geil

*Principal

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Program Notes

Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin, 1898-1937

George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898 to Russian immigrant parents.

He and his siblings were immersed in music from an early age, and he wrote his

first published song at age 17. George and his brother Ira collaborated on several

musical comedies, among them Lady Be Good, Funny Face and Of Thee I Sing, which

won a Pulitzer Prize in 1931. In 1924 Gershwin composed his most popular

work, Rhapsody in Blue, which premiered in New York City with Paul Whiteman’s

band—Gershwin at the piano. This work defies classification because it contains

elements of pop, classical and jazz music. Gershwin’s strength was in melody, not

structure, which led Leonard Bernstein to say of Rhapsody that it was “not a

composition at all (but) … a string of … terrific tunes … stuck together with a

thin paste of flour and water.” However, it is an original, exciting piece that

reflects the confidence and energy of the “Roaring Twenties.” Gershwin died in

1937 of a brain tumor. He never lived to see the impact Rhapsody had on serious

classical music composers such as Ravel and Stravinsky, who explored jazz in

their works, or pop composers who experimented with classical forms.

The Raymonda Suite from the ballet Raymonda

Aleksandr Glazunov, 1865-1936

Glazunov, Russian composer, music teacher and conductor, was born in St.

Petersberg, the son of a wealthy publisher. He studied under Rimsky-Korsakov

and wrote his first compositions at an early age. For many years, he taught at the

St. Petersberg Conservatory and became its director. Glazunov had a

phenomenal memory and astounded fellow musicians because of his ability to

play whole symphonies after hearing them only one time. During his most

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creative period, he composed the stately and melodic full-length ballet Raymonda,

which premiered in 1898. Glazunov eventually settled in Paris after touring the

United States and Europe. He died at age 70, having enjoyed international

acclaim for most of his career. Raymonda is a story of a young couple separated by

noble knight, Jean de Brienne’s commitment to King Andrei II. Would-be suitor

and Saraceb knight, Abderakhman, attempts to win the hand of Raymonda.

When she rejects him, he threatens to abduct her. When Jean returns,

the conflict is settled in a duel. Abderakhman is defeated, and

Raymonda and Jean are married at the court of King Andrei.

Carmen Suite No. 1

Georges Bizet, 1838-1875

As the young son of two French musicians, Bizet took all the prizes at the Paris

Conservatoire because of his prodigious musical gifts. Unfortunately, he did not

live long enough to bask in the acclaim generated by his opera Carmen. He died

of a heart attack at age 36, only a few months after its premiere at the Opera

Comique in Paris in 1875. Full of color and exciting, forceful rhythm, Carmen

has none of the stylized traditions of classical opera. Although it was not

immediately popular because of its passionate force which shocked the

conservative French audience, Carmen is now one of the world’s most performed

operas. The suite from Carmen, heard in tonight’s program, was extracted after

the composer’s death and contains orchestral settings of some of the opera’s most

famous passages.

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Best Wishes to theSalisbury Symphony Orchestrafrom Dr. Joseph C. Schwartz,Dr. James A. Rial and the staffof the Atlantic Retina Center

Specializing in Diseases and Surgeryof the Retina, Vitreous and Macula

Easton • Salisbury • Dover • Rehoboth Beach• Macular Degeneration• Diabetic Retinopathy• Retinal Detachment• Macular Holes• Macular Pucker• Retinal Vascular Occlusions

Atlantic Retina Center31455 Winter Place ParkwaySalisbury, MD 21804410-742-4100 • 888-316-2020

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T h i s e v e n i n g ’s c o n c e r t

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John Proctor