276 Les Preludes 8-4 - Live at Interlochen

276 Les Preludes 8-4 - Live at Interlochen

276th Program of the 86th Season
Interlochen, Michigan
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FINAL CONCERT (LES PRÉLUDES)
Sunday, August 4, 2013
7:30pm, The Bowl
WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Jung-Ho Pak, conductor
with
GUEST SOLOIST
Molly Fillmore, soprano
Loco-Motion .......................................................................................Stella Sung
(b. 1959)
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde .......................... Richard Wagner
(1813-1883)
Molly Fillmore, soprano
JUNG-HO PAK, conducting
~ PAUSE ~
WORLD YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
INTERLOCHEN PHILHARMONIC
WORLD YOUTH WIND SYMPHONY
INTERLOCHEN SUMMER DANCE ENSEMBLE
Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 .............................................. Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)
JEFFREY S. KIMPTON, conducting
The audience is requested to remain seated during the playing of the
Interlochen Theme and to refrain from applause upon its completion.
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Mild und leise, Isolde's aria from Tristan und Isolde
TEXT
Mild und leise
wie er lächelt,
wie das Auge
hold er öffnet,
Seht ihr's, Freunde?
Seht ihr's nicht?
Immer lichter
wie er leuchtet,
stern-umstrahlet
hoch sich hebt?
Seht ihr's nicht?
Wie das Herz ihm
mutig schwillt,
voll und hehr
im Busen ihm quillt?
Wie den Lippen,
wonnig mild,
süßer Atem
sanft entweht,
Freunde! Seht!
Fühlt und seht ihr's nicht?
Hör ich nur diese Weise,
die so wundervoll und leise,
Wonne klagend,
Alles sagend,
mild versöhnend
aus ihm tönend,
in mich dringet,
auf sich schwinget,
hold erhallend
um mich klinget?
Heller schallend,
mich umwallend,
sind es Wellen
sanfter Lüfte?
Sind es Wolken
wonniger Düfte?
Wie sie schwellen,
mich umrauschen,
soll ich atmen,
soll ich lauschen?
Soll ich schlürfen,
untertauchen?
Süß in Düften
mich verhauchen?
In dem wogenden Schwall,
in dem tönendem Schall,
in des Welt-Atems wehendem All --ertrinken,
TRANSLATION
Mildly and gently,
how he smiles,
how the eye
he opens sweetly
Do you see it, friends?
Don’t you see it?
Brighter and brighter
how he shines,
illuminated by stars
rises high?
Don’t you see it?
How his heart
boldly swells,
fully and nobly
wells in his breast?
How from his lips
delightfully, mildly,
sweet breath
softly wafts
Friends! Look!
Don’t you feel and see it?
Do I alone hear this melody,
which wonderfully and softly,
lamenting delight,
telling it all,
mildly reconciling
sounds out of him,
invades me,
swings upwards,
sweetly resonating
rings around me?
Sounding more clearly,
wafting around me
Are these waves
of soft airs?
Are these billows
of delightful fragrances?
How they swell,
how they sough around me,
shall I breathe,
Shall I listen?
Shall I drink,
immerse?
Sweetly in fragrances
melt away?
In the billowing torrent,
in the resonating sound,
in the wafting Universe of the World-Breath
drown,
versinken,
unbewußt,
höchste Lust!
be engulfed
unconscious
supreme delight!
Translation by Barbara Pothen from The Aria Database
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LES PRÉLUDES
The tradition of ending each Interlochen summer with Les Préludes began with our very first National
High School Orchestra Camp in 1928. For the final concert Dr. Maddy chose a program opening with the
Brahms Symphony No. 2 and closing with Les Préludes by Franz Liszt. The next summer’s orchestra
members asked to play Les Préludes for their final concert also, and the tradition has continued through
all of our 86 summers. Some faculty joined the campers and by 1931, band was included, and in 1933
alumni joined to form an even larger ensemble. That performance was the only “Final Concert” played in
the Bowl on a Tuesday; virtually the entire Camp then left for Chicago to play six concerts at “A Century
of Progress” the last four days of the week. The 1939 season closed with 10 performances at the New
York World’s Fair. That was the only summer Les Préludes was not presented at Interlochen, but only at
the closing concert in New York. Over the next 60 years the spectacle grew to include dancers and
Intermediate Division musicians. Since 2000 our performances have featured about 400 high school
musicians and dancers.
Dr. Maddy conducted the first 38 performances, and the second director of the Camp, George C. Wilson,
conducted the next 14. Upon Dr. Wilson’s retirement, Edward Downing became camp director, later
Interlochen’s president, and led 24 performances also. Tonight, President Kimpton conducts Les
Préludes for the tenth time.
The published score to Liszt’s third symphonic poem begins with the composer’s summary of the preface
to a collection of poetic meditations by Alphonse de Lamartine. The poet saw our lives as a constant
cycle of beginnings, struggles and reflections; those early campers drew the parallel between that idea
and the succession of pastoral and tempestuous episodes in Liszt’s music. Les Préludes is thus a fitting
work to celebrate the achievements of an Interlochen summer as a prelude to their enriched lives.
THE INTERLOCHEN THEME is a fourteen-measure excerpt from Howard Hanson’s second symphony,
known as the "Romantic". Although composed for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 50th anniversary,
the work has a major role in Interlochen history. Mr. Hanson began writing the symphony while teaching
here in 1928 and conducted its first Interlochen performance on Saturday, July 11, 1931, for the first
NBC broadcast of the season. He presented the Theme to Dr. Maddy for use as the Camp’s signature
piece in broadcasts and performances.
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MOLLY FILLMORE is a Grammy award-winning soprano who has sung with The Metropolitan Opera,
San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Washington National Opera, Arizona Opera, Spoleto Festival, and
Oper der Stadt Köln (Cologne Opera). She has appeared as a soloist with Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
Seattle Symphony, and Utah Symphony, and at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Kennedy
Center Concert Hall. Her appearances in the Met’s Ring Cycle and their production of Satyagraha were
shown in movie theaters in 40 countries around the world as part of the Met’s “Live in HD” series.
Upcoming engagements include her debut at Tanglewood Music Festival as a soloist with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra, a world premiere concert at Carnegie Hall, and the lead role in Die tote Stadt for
Theater St. Gallen. She is associate professor of voice at the Michigan State University College of
Music.
JUNG-HO PAK is the music director of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and director of orchestras
at Interlochen Arts Camp since 2003, as well as artistic director and conductor of the Cape Cod
Symphony Orchestra since 2007, and former artistic director and conductor of Orchestra Nova San
Diego. In 2007, he was named music director emeritus of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
Previously, as music director of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Pak led the orchestra from
bankruptcy to a nationally recognized artistic and financial success. He has also served as music director
with the University of Southern California Symphony, San Francisco Conservatory of Music and
University of California, Berkeley, the Emmy-nominated Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra,
the International Chamber Orchestra, NEXT Chamber Orchestra, Colburn Chamber Orchestra and
Diablo Ballet. He has conducted several orchestras in Europe, the Soviet Union, South America and
Asia. Mr. Pak is also a frequent speaker on television and radio about the relevance of art in society and
the importance of music education, as well as a clinician and guest conductor at national music festivals
including all-state orchestras in Texas, Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon and California.
JEFFREY KIMPTON is the seventh president of Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he leads all
aspects of its distinguished programs in arts education, public broadcasting, presentations and
engagement. A graduate of the University of Illinois with degrees in music education and music and arts
administration, Mr. Kimpton has four decades of leadership in arts education, having taught and led
regional and nationally recognized K-12 programs in music and arts education in New York, Minnesota
and Kansas. He served as director of education at Yamaha Corporation of America, leading strategic
planning, program development and publishing in music education, and later as director of research and
professional development in school change and public engagement at Brown University’s Annenberg
Institute. He was director of the School of Music and professor of music education at the University of
Minnesota before coming to Interlochen in 2003. Since his appointment, Interlochen has undertaken
significant change initiatives in futures planning that have led to growth in artistic quality, program and
curricular growth, adding motion picture arts, comparative arts, singer-songwriter and Interlochen
College for adult learners. Interlochen’s engagement with the world has grown through strategic
investments in marketing, communications, technology and media, and the expansion of Interlochen
Public Radio. More than 165,000 square feet of new or renovated buildings have revitalized the campus
infrastructure. Invested assets and endowment have grown from $25M to more than $85M, with
financial aid and scholarship support increasing from $5M to $11M. Interlochen received the National
Medal of Art in 2006 for its leadership in arts education.
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WYSO BROADCAST ON IPR
This performance is recorded by Interlochen Public Radio and broadcast on Classical IPR, at 88.7 FM,
Interlochen; 94.7 FM, Traverse City; 88.5 FM, Mackinaw City; and 100.9 FM, East Jordan-Charlevoix, or
online at classicalipr.org. This concert will be broadcast Sunday, August 11, at 2:00pm.
(schedule
subject to change)
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THE
86th SEASON OF INTERLOCHEN ARTS CAMP
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