Experience The Excitement! The 2016 2017 Concert Season

Experience the Excitement! The 2016-2017 Concert Season

New Season! Experience the Excitement!

Experience the Excitement as the Coastal Symphony of Georgia, under the direction of Maestro Luis Haza, celebrates the 34 thseason of bringing exceptional symphonic music to the Golden Isles. There is much to experiencethrough the concert themes of Classical Connections, Romantic Celebration, New Frontiers, andPowerful Emotions.Please join us this season. Your participation as a subscriber allows us to continue to engage, enrichand inspire our community through artistically vibrant musical performances. Consider becoming amember of the Conductor’s Circle with its special benefits. You will help us meet our commitmentin a very important way as you Experience the Excitement of this Season.Sharon FloresPresident, Board of DirectorsThis season will feature the compositional architectural development spanning from 18th CenturyMozart and Beethoven through 19th and 20th Century composers such as Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, Lisztand Ravel. It is indeed a significant landmark for our orchestra to bring you Wagner’s Siegfried’sFuneral March and Gustav Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 1 “Titan” to end our season.For our second concert, it is a joy to have returning to our stage the exceptional dancers ValSalnikov and Bess Chambliss of the Golden Isles Ballet Company. They will join the orchestra fortwo beautiful dances.The 2016-2017 concert season’s repertoire will allow us to affirm the high degree of excellent artisticaccomplishment by our Coastal Symphony of Georgia. This season will be our greatest in thehistory of the orchestra! You, our audience, deserve it.Maestro Luis HazaMusic Director/Conductor

Monday Experience Classical Connections September 26, 2016Brunswick HighSchool Auditorium8:00 p.m.MOZARTSymphony No. 29in A Major, K.201/186aBEETHOVENSymphony No. 1in C Major, Op. 21when the 2016-2017 concert season opens with important, earlyworks of two giants of the Classical Period. Mozart wrote hisfirst symphony at the age of 8, but the 29th, written at age 18,has been described as “a landmark” for the young composer.Stanley Sadie, a respected British 20th Century musicologistdescribed it as “personal in tone – perhaps more individual in itscombination of an intimate, chamber music style with a still fieryand impulsive manner.” Scored for two oboes, two horns, andstrings, the music displays the lightness of a chamber ensemble,but adds passionate and impulsive passages as Mozart spreadshis wings with the symphonic form. Listen for the horns in theMozartfirst movement as the strings introduce a principal theme whichwill be carried throughout the symphony.In Beethoven’s first symphony, he paid homage to hisearly classical predecessors, particularly Mozart and his teacher,Joseph Haydn, but the symphony also served to announce hisown personal talents to Vienna. The form is in accordance withthe established composing tradition for a symphony of its time,but its content, instrumentation and tempi are unusual. Scoredfor winds, brass, strings and percussion, the work gives thewinds a more prominent role, while frequent changes indynamics throughout mark it as a unique, bold work of anadvancing composer. Written in 1801, Beethoven’s First hasBeethovenbeen somewht overwhelmed by his 3rd, 5th and 9th symphonies,but it contains hints of his greatness to come as the predominant musical figure during thetransitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras of music.

Experience Romantic Celebration as the orchestra entertains us with an evening of captivating music which celebrates dance.Invitation to the Dance is a piano piece written by German composer Carl von Weber in 1819and later orchestrated by French composer Hector Berlioz in a concert waltz form meant forlistening rather than dancing. Lucky for us, artists Bess Chambliss and Val Salnikov will bringthe piece to life, giving us the story of a young man’s invitation, her initial refusal, the danceitself and his appreciation. Later, the dancers will return to perform Bolero, French composerMaurice Ravel’s most famous musical composition. It is a one-movement orchestral pieceoriginally composed as a ballet but rarely staged in this classical dance format. Beginning withthe quiet but intense flute and snare drum, the music continues building in a constantcrescendo as the clarinet and bassoon join in thepiece heard in the film “10” with Bo Derek.Val Salnikov has performed nationally andinternationally. He has worked with musiciansMstislav Rostropovich and Winton Marsalis, andchoreographer Georgia Balanchine.Bess Chambliss, owner of Classical Pilates by BessLLC, coproduced and danced in her firstperformance, “From Russia with Ballet,” in 2014.This is their second appearance with the CoastalVal SalnikovBess ChamblissSymphony of Georgia.Following intermission, Die Fledermaus Overture invites us to engage with the music asthe orchestra performs the many tunes that appear during the course of the action of JohanStrauss, Jr.’s popular operetta. The Hungarian March, Rackoczi follows, a piece by Berliozwritten in honor of Ferenc Rackoczi, a Hungarian military hero, and the evening closes with afantasy for orchestra from Tchaikovsky, Capriccio Italiano. Listen for a bugle call that opensthe piece, followed by a stoic, heroic melody from the strings, then music sounding like anItalian street band, a march and finally a tarantella or group of Italian folk dances.MondayNovember 7, 2016Brunswick HighSchool Auditorium8:00 p.m.TCHAIKOVSKYMarch fromThe Nutcracker BalletCARL MARIA VON WEBERInvitation to the DancePIETRO MASCAGNIIntermezzo fromCavalleria RusticanaMAURICE RAVELBoleroJOHAN STRAUSS, JrDie Fledermaus OvertureHECTOR BERLIOZHungarian March, RackocziTCHAIKOVSKYCapriccio Italiano

MondayFebruary 6, 2017Brunswick HighSchool Auditorium8:00 p.m.BEETHOVENCreatures of PrometheusOvertureBRAHMSHungarian Dance No. 5LISZTHungarian Rhapsody No. 2in C Sharp MinorDVORAKSymphony No. 9“From the New World”Experience New Frontiers as we continue our travels through the Romantic Period and on to the “New World” ofmusic. Creatures of Prometheus is Beethoven’s only full length ballet and his first theaterwork. It is the story of Prometheus, “an exalted spirit, who found the humans of his timein a condition of ignorance, refined them through science and art and brought them tocivilized manners, customs, and morals.” Lewis H. Lockwood, considered the leadingAmerican authority on Beethoven, calls the music “easier and lighter than music for theconcert hall. It shows Beethoven exploiting instruments and coloristic orchestral effectsthat would never appear in his symphonies or serious dramatic overtures.” The lustysounds of Hungarian folk music with its unique gypsy scale, rhythmic spontaneity, anddirect, seductive expression follow with Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Liszt’sHungarian Rhapsody No. 2.Following intermission, it is the influence of Native American music and AfricanAmerican spirituals that we hear in Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s symphony,popularly known as the “New World Symphony.” Dvorak called this music “ theproduct of the soil. They are the folk songs of America.” While he was also influencedby the music of his native Bohemia, as well as by Beethoven and Schubert, Dvorakcombined these influences in original themes and used modern rhythms, counter pointand orchestral colors. His work is considered a major milestone in the Americanvalidation of “New World” music and lore as source material for classical competition.Leonard Bernstein called it multinational in its foundations, and the symphony has beenvery popular in the United States, London and Japan. It was composed in 1893 whileDvorak was visiting America, and a recording went to the moon with astronaut NeilArmstrong during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Experience Powerful Emotions .Giuseppe VerdiRichard WagnerGiacomo PucciniGustav Mahleras the orchestra closes the season with stirring music displaying feelings offate, destiny, sadness, love and triumph. Translated as The Power of Fate orThe Force of Destiny, Verdi’s Overture opens with a musical theme of fateintroduced in a short motif or musical idea in the brass, and then becomes arecurring figure throughout the piece. Grandeur and humanity are reflectedin Siegfried’s Funeral March taken from Wagner’s musical dramaGotterdammerung or Twilight of the Gods. A rich, haunting, dark feelingpervades the opening but then the music becomes a hopeful, triumphantmarch. Breathtaking brass and percussion return us to a more somberfeeling and close of the march which represents the heart of the Ring Cycleof four operas written by Wagner. Finally, Puccini’s Intermezzo falls at midpoint in his four-act opera, Manon Lescaut, when everything has begun to gowrong for the materialistic and ultimately doomed heroine. The music runsthe gamut of emotions and serves as a microcosm of the story withglimpses of sweetness, passion, spinning out of control, and wistfulness.Following intermission, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 “Titan”incorporates music from previous works that went through severaliterations before its final form. Mahler was a late Romantic composer whoacted as a bridge between the 19th Century Austro-German tradition andthe modernism of the early 20th Century. Scored for a large orchestra, withseveral instruments used only in the expansive, stormy final movement, thesymphony moves from youthful dreams to the burial of illusions. Just aswe saw Beethoven begin to move classical music into the robust Romanticperiod in our first season concert, Mahler’s work builds a bridge from 19thto 20th Century music in a fitting finale.MondayApril 10, 2017Brunswick HighSchool Auditorium8:00 p.m.VERDILa Forza del Destino,OvertureWAGNERSiegfried’s Funeral MarchPUCCINIIntermezzo fromManon Lescaut, Act IIIMAHLERSymphony No. 1 “Titan”

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