Musical Notes Preview - Symphony League of Santa Cruz County
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Musical Notes Preview - Symphony League of Santa Cruz County
Musical Notes Newsletter of the Santa Cruz Symphony League SCSL - 2014-15 Season Number 2 League Info: www.slscc.org October, 2014 The 2014-15 Season begins! Preview Friday, October 3, 4:00 p.m. Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz Our soloist, Nicolas Hodges, was born in London and now is a professor at the Conservatory in Stuttgart, Germany. The London Guardian commented: “Hodges’ recitals always boldly go where few other pianists dare ... with an energy that sometimes defies belief.” Maestro Danny Stewart has chosen to begin his second season with the theme of Creation! The first concert will include: Bernstein’s “Overture to Candide” Adés’ “In Seven Days” (a Northern California Premiere) Mozart’s Symphony #41 in C major, “Jupiter” His repertoire encompasses composers from Beethoven and Brahms to Stravinsky. Tempo magazine wrote: “Hodges is a refreshing artist; he plays the classics as if they were written yesterday, and what was written yesterday as if it were already a classic.” Sign up now to attend this wonderful educational afternoon! Join us so that we will have the unique opportunity to learn more about the music and the people involved! Reservations must be made in advance. Checks for $15 may be made out to SLSCC and sent to Cheryl Hammond, 1505 - 42nd Ave. #30, Capitola, CA 95010, or you may register online, using PayPal or your credit card at www.slscc. Roger’s Column Welcome to the first concert. This year promises to be super; check out the symphony schedule! New this year will be an outdoor reception to celebrate the new season, just before the first concert on October 4, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., on the street outside the Civic Center. It will be fun to meet new and old friends and catch up on the summer. The first concert is a good time to remember one of the nicest benefits of League membership – the Symphony Previews. If you haven’t been to one, or not been in a long time, I invite you to come out. A guest artist and Maestro Danny Stewart preview the music for us, play excerpts, and tell us about the music’s origins, significance, structure, and meaning. Sometimes the artists will also describe their instruments. Following this we have a social hour with wine and hors d’oeuvres, and a chance to meet the artists and the music director. You’ll also meet League members and hear about upcoming League activities. Check it out in this issue. We had our second Auto d’Elegance at Canepa in Scotts Valley on September 13. It was a great time. Look at Bill Mowatt’s article in this issue of Musical Notes, and don’t miss the pictures and the list of sponsors and donations. I want to thank everyone who worked on this big event - the Auto d’Elegance committee and all those who, on the committee or not, saw that something needed doing, and did it. Thanks to you all! This is a good time to suggest that we take note of the businesses and organizations that sponsor the League, and support Symphony activities. We can repay their support by giving them our business when we can, and a nice, “Thank you for supporting the Symphony.” That can go a long way to building relationships and friends within the community. We’d like to grow the League membership this year. The best way to attract new people is for current members to tell their friends about the League and ask them to give membership a try. The League raises funds for the Symphony, but it is also very much about making good friends who share a love of great music. - Roger UPCOMING EVENTS FOR OUR SYMPHONY FAMILY! October 3 Concert Preview 4 & 5 Symphony Concerts 18 Bocce Ball BBQ @ Sharon & Bob Bailey’s, 2:00 – 5:00 December 6 & 7, Home Tour 15, Wassail Party, 7:00 - 9:00 @ Marjorie Albright’s January 15 Afternoon Tea at Francine Thomas’ home, 2:00 - 4:00 23 Preview 24 & 25 Symphony Concerts February 24 The Symphony at Shadowbrook March 1 Family Concert 20 Preview 21 & 22 Symphony Concerts Contributions to Musical Notes? Please send articles, pictures or (?) to: [email protected] 29th Annual Home Tour Saturday & Sunday December 6 & 7 Noon - 5:00 We will have • Five unique homes • A gift boutique • Refreshments • Entertainment Tell your family and friends to save the date! How can I participate? Do you have items that can be used for gift baskets? Our baskets may have themes such as: • Coffee • Chocolate • Italian • Christmas • Hannukah • New Year’s Celebration • Martini • Or ???? Thanks to Mary Ann Hobbs and Millie Rossiter! To donate call 466-9524 Make a gift in honor of, or in memory of someone precious to you. Auto d’Elegance Sponsors & Donations Peggy & Tom Ard Barbara Canfield Dr. Arthur Cooley Robert Davidson, Canyon View Capital De Laveaga Motors John & Nancy Dickinson Linda & Dwayne Downing Electric Auto Association Sally & Ralph Griffin Cynthia Killion Margaret Knacke Virginia & Howard Law Julie & Bob Mazurek Gail & Bill Mowatt Maria & Kelly Nesheim Ocean Honda Pat & Roland Rebele Eileen Sambrailo Santa Cruz Nissan, Dodge, Volkswagen Vintage Electric Bikes Bill Winterhalder, North Bay Ford Jerald O’Brien of Silver Mountain Vineyards Eliyxir Distributing, LLC Santa Cruz Ale Works Bruce Canepa and the Canepa Team! Are you looking for a way to honor a friend, or to give a memorial gift? Please send the following information to: Santa Cruz Symphony League, Sheila Vaughn, Treasurer, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. A donation of $ _________ ___ In Honor of ____________________________ ___ In Memory of __________________________ From: Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ ____________________________________ Please notify: Name: ______________________________ Address: ____________________________ ____________________________________ Bocce Ball BBQ October 18, 2:00 - 5:00 At the home of Robert & Sharon Bailey Music for your entertainment You don’t need to be an expert bocce ball player, some have never played before. Come, learn, play, enjoy the fun! Meal includes BBQ, beans & garlic bread Please bring salad or dessert to share and the beverage(s) you would like to drink $30 donation for our Symphony League Our Amazing chef, Bill Mowatt To register send a check to: SLSCC c/o Clyde Vaughn, 1435 Dolphin Drive, Aptos, CA 95003. Or you can reserve by Pay Pal by checking the link at: http://www.slscc.org/special-events/20-x-20-events/ What the 2014-15 Symphony Season has in Store for Us. . . -Ann Haley This forthcoming season our conductor Daniel Stewart has prepared a truly exciting and varied program of five concerts filled with selections predating the early classical, contemporary, and romantic periods of music, which will stimulate all of our senses, particularly when rendered by the most talented young soloists on the international stage and our own outstanding symphony orchestra. The first concert entitled “Creation” will begin with Leonard Bernstein’s sparkling Overture from “Candide,” which most will recall introduced Dick Cavett’s popular TV interview programs. That excellent stimulant will be followed by a contemporary work by Thomas Adés, “In Seven Days,” combining audio with video images and starring its most important piano soloist and original interpreter, Nicholas Hodges, who has performed extensively throughout the world. This piece spotlights our skilled wind section and truly tests the pianist’s virtuosity with passages that are difficult as well as richly musical. The program will conclude with Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony, which later romantic composers sometimes referenced in their own music. The second concert, “Dreams and Vision,” starts off with Bach’s secular “Wedding Cantata,” a cheerful work that precedes the later religious cantatas he wrote for St.Thomas Church in Leipzig. The brilliant young Chinese soprano Ying Fang will sing this cantata as well as the modern Villa-Llobos “Bachiana Brasileira No. 5”, which was structured very much as Bach structured his own music. See if you can find the connections. The soloist will sing with eight cellos for this unusual work. This concert concludes with Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, which Stewart finds changed the course of classical music. Our third concert, “The Muse,” opens with Samuel Barber’s familiar and melodic “Adagio for Strings,” followed by Stravinsky’s mythological “Apollon Musagete” and closes with Tschaikovsky’s very sensual “Serenade for Strings,” another familiar and loved work. The fourth concert, “Pacific Perspective” is a program we have all been waiting for: compositions by our own Daniel Stewart, “Sinfonia,” and Lou Harrison, “Pacifika Rondo,” that are filled with rhythm, beautiful harmonies, and in the second instance, themes that combine Latin and Pacific musical ideas. This exciting program concludes with Beethoven’s highly controversial (at his time) violin concerto, most difficult to perform, but more than finely executed by the young Klein Competition winner, South Korean violinist Youjin Lee. Surely, no one wants to miss this program of new music and new musicians. Our fifth and final concert, which never fails to be the piece de resistance (but with the above performances it must follow, how can that be the case?), is called “Sacred and Profane,” and features our Cabrillo Symphonic Chorus with Cheryl Anderson performing Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”. The cliff hanger is that the soloists are not yet announced! Works by early composers Jean-Baptiste Lully and Tomas Luis de Victoria precede Orff’s ribald display, which just might save us from l’enfer, after all. As ever, buy early and join all of us in this happy musical experience. Pictures from the Merilyn Neher Concert at the gracious home of Helen Jones Michelle Miracle assisted Merilyn by turning pages Thanks to Helen Jones for taking pictures! Second Auto D’Elegance a Success -Bill Mowatt On Saturday afternoon, September 13th, League members and other interested folks, enjoyed our second Auto D’Elegance. New vintage and racing cars had been added, and there was an electric automobile contingent, which included hybrids, completely electric powered cars, and three Teslas, the new electric sensation assembled in Fremont, California. Our gracious host, Bruce Canepa, had on display an amazing collection of elegant and exciting vintage and racing cars including Porsches, Ferraris, Maseratis, and Cobras. Canepa, a local from Scotts Valley, has raced Porsches and restored many vintage cars. Besides marveling at these gorgeous and exciting cars, attendees enjoyed a beautiful day, delicious grilled tri-tip and salmon, live music by the Brian Quinn Quartet, and the conviviality of a happy group. The League would like to thank the generous major sponsors, Roland and Pat Rebele, Eileen Sambrailo, and Kelly and Maria Nesheim. We would also like to thank many other sponsors, Peggy and Tom Ard, Barbara Canfield, Bill Winterhalder, Bill and Gail Mowatt, Margarete Knacke, Ocean Honda, DeLaveaga Service Center, Cynthia Kilian, John and Nancy Dickinson, Kelsi Williamson, Julie and Bob Mazurek, Santa Cruz Nissan, Dodge, Volkswagen, and other contributors. Jerold O’Brien generously donated his Silver Mountain wines, and Santa Cruz Ale Works and Elyxir Distributing donated the beer. Linda Downing and Robert Davidson donated major auction items. Also, thanks to Mary Ann and Peter Orr and their volunteer helpers for organizing and providing a wonderful meal and all those unsung heroes who did the set-up and clean-up. Thanks to all who attended, helped make this event a success, and supported our wonderful symphony. (see pictures on page 8) Santa Cruz Symphony League Membership Guide ROUND ROBIN BRIDGE Chairperson Jan Davis-Hadley 438-4494 Captains Debussy Joyce Sawaya.............................475-5574 Schubert 2014 - 2015 The Membership Guide is in production right now, and will be available at the first Preview, Oct. 3. It will also be available at the concerts, October 4 & 5. Please be sure to pick up your personal copy, it will save us the work and expense of mailing it. If you have had any changes in your address, phone # or email, OR if the listing in our last directory was not accurate, please contact Sheila Vaughn, 831-662-8908, or send her an email at [email protected] When you receive an email from “Symphony League Communications” please open it. At the bottom of the email it will give you an option to “Add us to your address book.” Please click on that link so you will not miss any important information from your League. If you have any changes in your email please notify Clyde at [email protected]. Joyce Sawaya.............................475-5574 Tchaikovsky Sue Robinson ............................ 429-1597 Mozart Jan Davis-Hadley........................438-4494 Brahms Sterling Frost...............................458-2314 Each couple plays with another couple in the section once a month from September through May. A no-host award party is held in the Spring. Prizes are presented to the winners of each section with the highest cumulative scores. CALL JAN DAVIS-HADLEY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2014-15 Season Directors and Officers VP Educational Programs and Previews Cheryl Hammond VP Membership, Recruitment and Directory Dan Rutan VP Public Relations Bill Mowatt VP Communications Clyde Vaughn Corresponding Secretary Kate Miller Treasurer Sheila Vaughn Board Members at Large Fred Dunn-Ruiz Helen Jones Donna Large Patty Lockett Jeanne Shada Eileen Sambreilo Rehearsal Refreshments Dan & Vickie Rutan Housing Musicians Connie Adams Volunteers Danene Forman Historian Marie Tomasi Home Tour Kate Sutherland Round Robin Bridge Jan Davis Hadley 20-20 Chair Clyde Vaughn Santa Cruz Symphony League Past President, Parliamentarian Clyde Vaughn Recording Secretary Ola Monaghan 307 Church Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 President Roger Knacke Standing Committee Chairs
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