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Program
The Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia
present
The String Orchestra & The Concert Orchestra
Seventh Season, 1997-1998
Mr. Duane DeVoe, Orchestra Manager
Musicus Nauticus
at Nauticus Theater, The National Maritime Center
Concerto in G Major (Sinfonia All Rustica) Op. 51, No. 4 Antonio Vivaldi
- Presto
Adagio
Allegro
Romanian Dances Bela Bartok (arr. by Harry Alshin)
Hands on Waist Dance
Romanian Polka
Quick Small-Step Dance
America the Beautiful Samuel Ward (arr. by J. Frederick Müller)
Marriage of Figaro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. by Merle J. Isaac)
Capriccio Italien Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky (arr. by Merle J. Isaac)
March from Symphony No. 6 Peter Ilitch
Tchaikovsky (arr. by Belisario Errante)
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Concerto in G Major (Sinfonia All Rustica) Op. 51, No. 4
Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741) wrote 454 concertos in his lifetime. This representative example opens with a Presto in 3, a slow movement of chordal style in 3 as well, followed by the final Allegro in 2, with first-stand players performing solos in the middle section. Vivaldi's baroque style is popular among young string players because of its liveliness.
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, 2nd Movement
This piece, also known as the Pathetique, is a very emotional work typical of Tchaikovsky's style and was the last piece he wrote before he died at the age of 53 in 1893. He was fascinated with Russian folk melodies and folk dances and tried to include folk melodies in his compositions. The second movement is a waltz written in 5/4 time.
Romanian Dances
Folk songs were at the heart of Bela Bartok's compositions. He collected thousands from Central Europe (including his native Romania), Turkey and North Africa. The syncopated rhythmic patterns of these dances are a challenge for young musicians, but appealing because of their liveliness and variety. Considered a modern composer, Bartok lived from 1881-1945, coming to New York at the end of his life and working at Columbia University
Symphony No. 1 In D Major, Movement 2
Gustav Mahler was famous not only for his composing, but for his conducting. He began his conducting career in Vienna as an opera, and by 1907 he was at the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 1909, he moved to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He died in 1911, cutting short work on his tenth symphony. Still, his First Symphony was one of his most popular. The second movement is in the style of Lander, or Austrian folk dance. The music evokes foot-stomping and rustic good times.
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America, America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life!
America, America,
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream,
That sees beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
With those familiar words, Katherine Lee Bates painted a poignant picture of the feeling captured in New Jersey Musician, Samuel Ward's 1892 work, Materna. Bates, an English Teacher from Wellesley College, wrote her poem in 1893, when she first visited Pikes Peak and was swept away by its grandeur. Ward’s musical score, Materna was married with Bates' poem in 1926 as the result of a contest sponsored by the National Federation of Music Clubs.
Marriage of Figaro
Mozart's three great Italian comic operas to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte are all different from one another, but they all share the composer's extraordinary dramatic insight into human emotion and human weakness. It is an understanding that allows the composer to create human beings, even of characters that in other hands might only be cardboard stereotypes, and to reveal their hurts and their humanity even in scenes that make us laugh at their foibles or sympathize with their sorrows.
The first of these three operas daringly drew its libretto from a French comedy that had been banned from Vienna for political reasons. Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro, produced in 1784, had shown a wise-cracking servant who managed to foil his master's nefarious design on the servant's bride-to-be. In outline it was not greatly different from any number of stylish comedies of the day, but Beaumarchais' characters were far more politically outspoken than had been the case in earlier comedies, and the implications of the drama discomfitted aristocrats and crowned heads especially since only the year before a great colonial empire, England, had lost a war to rebellious colonists on the other side of the ocean, ushering in a generation in which kings sat uneasily on their thrones.
Mozart took Lorenzo da Ponte's adaptation of Beaumarchais' comedy and converted it into one of the great human stories of the musical theater. The characters live in their music as few characters in any opera. They experience "a crazy day" (to translate the subtitle given the opera in Vienna) in which true love triumphs over lechery, but not without ambiguity or ambivalence, and not before we have laughed at delightful scenes of comic invention and sympathized with near-heartbreak. The overture, which was written last (just two days before the premiere), does not quote any material from the opera at all, but its brilliance and non-stop hustle set the emotional tempo for the "crazy day" to follow.
Capriccio Italien
In 1877, Tchaikovsky married Antonina Milyukova. The composer had hoped that the marriage would defuse gossip within his conservative community about his lack of masculinity, but the relationship was doomed from the start, and the couple separated almost immediately. For the next few years, Tchaikovsky was miserable, as his wife refused to agree to a divorce and occasionally threatened to reveal his secret. In 1881, Antonina gave birth to a child that was obviously not the composer's, and Tchaikovsky finally had safe grounds for divorce. Most of the output from this period is of poor quality, lacking the emotional sincerity or compelling lyricism that we associate so strongly with this composer.
The Capriccio Italien, composed in 1880, is a happy exception. Tchaikovsky drew inspiration from Mikhail Glinka's Summer Night in Madrid, which also paints a colorful landscape with characteristic melodies and dances. Tchaikovsky's piece moves freely from one scene to the next: issues of serious drama or structural coherence, which the composer faced unsuccessfully in large-scale works of this period, are not applicable. The melodic invention is as rich as in Tchaikovsky's best music, and the orchestration is consistently brilliant.
Three themes are pivotal during the course of the work. The first is presented by the entire string section after an opening trumpet fanfare and returns at the midpoint of the piece as a psychological landmark. The second, a lazy, sing-song idea that captures the relaxed essence of living the good life, originally appears in the oboes and returns brazenly near the end of the piece in the full orchestra. The final theme is based on a tarantella rhythm: it is first heard in the high woodwinds soon after the first theme fades away for the last time, and it ultimately dominates the entire second half of the piece. A series of faster and faster sections brings the work to a festive conclusion.
March from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky visited Italy in 1880 and while there composed
one of his most popular works: an Italian Caprice based upon folk songs
and dances. The work opens with a bugle call, which develops into an orchestral
fanfare. This is followed by a gentle, somewhat melancholy melody played
by the strings and the clarinets. An oboe duet introduces a folk song,
which is later repeated by various groups of instruments. The mood changes
and vigorous marching music is heard. The work concludes with a lively
tarantella and a brilliant, exciting finale. The Third Movement begins
softly in impressionistic confusion. Indistinct whirling figures appear
and vanish; then, we hear a hint of a distant march. It seems to approach,
grows louder, defiant, and sweeps everything before it. There is a furious
climax, which nevertheless appears far from any triumph. It could equally
well be a crash to destruction.
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String Training & Education Project Director
Mrs. Christina Morton is conducting the Bay Youth String Orchestra for her 4th year. Previously, she taught string orchestra for Norfolk Public Schools after coming to the area in 1983 to teach violin at "Twinklers to Sizzlers... Suzuki Violin." At the same time she joined the Virginia Symphony’s violin section where she has been performing ever since.
Originally from New England, Mrs. Morton began violin studies in public school, participated in youth orchestras, etc. and majored in Music Education at Northwestern University. She became involved in Suzuki Violin training, as well as getting a Master’s degree in Early Childhood Education at Old Dominion University, and presently teaches 40 private students in her home from the ages of 4-adult. She also teaches a Suzuki Violin program to Kindergarten and First Graders at the Hebrew Academy of Tidewater, in addition to teaching her own 2 children, ages 6 and 8. A member of the Suzuki Teachers of Hampton Roads, Mrs. Morton is active in organizing local events for Suzuki students. She also teaches a string ensemble class at Norfolk Collegiate.
String Orchestra Assistant
Mrs. Linda Althoff is an Ohio Native who received her degree from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, New York and has completed additional studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Capital University, the University of Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University. Retiring from school teaching in 1996 after 32 years, she was Supervisor of Strings for Norfolk City Schools for 8 years and taught 24 years at Norfolk Academy, the last 9 years as Director of the School of Arts there.
Mrs. Althoff has performed with the Norfolk Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, Virginia Beach Symphony and the Kadiem String Trio, and was one of the founders and conductors of the original Tidewater Youth Orchestras, which evolved into the current Bay Youth Orchestras. She has been guest conductor for several Regional and All-City Orchestras and guest lecturer at Virginia Wesleyan College. Mrs. Althoff is currently a violist in the Virginia Symphony, and the Organist, Choir Director of Christ Methodist Church in Norfolk, Virginia.
Concert Orchestra Co-Conductor
Jorge Aguirre is one of Hampton Roads’ premiere violinists and teachers. He is a member of the Virginia Symphony and the Virginia Opera Association Orchestras. Mr. Aguirre has a large class of violin students and teaches violin at Old Dominion University.
A native of Peru, Mr. Aguirre has performed professionally with the Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Sinfonietta di Roma in Italy, and the Madrid Symphony in Spain. He also conducted the Chamber Orchestra of the Royal Conservatory in Madrid.
When he first came to the United States, Mr. Aguirre joined the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. In the summers, he usually performs with the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a soloist with the Williamsburg Sinfonietta and plans a series of recitals in South America.
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February 18, 1998 Chrysler Hall, Norfolk
Side-By-Side Concert, The Virginia Symphony and the Bay Youth Symphony
Orchestras
February 24, 1998 Pavilion Theater, Virginia Beach
Bay Youth Symphony Orchestra
April 7, 1998 Chesapeake Convention Center, Chesapeake, Virginia
Concert in the Round, Bay Youth Concert Orchestra and Bay Youth
Symphony Orchestra
May 5, 1998 Harrison Opera House, Norfolk, Virginia
Bay Youth Strings, Bay Youth Concert Orchestra and Bay Youth Symphony
Orchestra
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Violin 1
- Chandler Jarvis, Great Bridge MS, Concertmistress
Virginia Whealton, Home School
Krystal Keeley, Hickory MS
Natalie Koepp, Princess Anne MS
Alice Pellegrino, Norfolk Collegiate
Kathleen Dorshimer, Princess Anne MS
Amanda Glover, Azalea MS
Erica Carrico, Brandon MS
Rebecca Stanfield, Blair MS
Krystle Harris, Oscar Smith MS
Grant Garmon, Lynnhaven MS
Benjamin Kordich, Norview MS
Michelle Imperial, Lynnhaven MS
- Leigh Woods-Section Ldr,. Blair MS
Seth White, Home School
Ruth Yi, Greenbrier Interm.
Katrina Ford, River Rd, MS (NC)
Sidd Mikerji, Kempsville MS
Eric Nguyen, Blair MS
Jay Avila, Home School
Krystal Cook, Ruffner MS
Kelly Hennessey, St. Matthews
Anna McKeon, Great Neck MS
DeJon Williams, Blair MS
Angelo Cruz, Norview MS
Kenneth Fairbanks, Salem MS
- Katie Frampton- Section Ldr., Great Bridge MS
Anna Sosa, Norview MS
Jeff McLaughlin, Kemps Ldg Magnet
Alexis Buettner, Granby HS
Nick Holman, Blair MS
Farley Goodrich, Lynnhaven MS
Sarah Gregory, Norview MS
- Kevin Jones- Section Ldr., Great Bridge HS
Quentin Lawrence, Oscar Smith HS
Sheena Spence, Lynnhaven MS
Laura Richards, Lynnhaven MS
Clinton Boyd, Norfolk Collegiate
- Josh Santos- Section Ldr., Ruffner MS
1st Violins
- Asha Belakrishna, Norfolk Academy, Concertmistress
Summer Cozzens, Hickory HS
S.Megan Haynes, Brandon MS
Jessica Johnson, W.Branch MS
Zachary Gillerlain, W.Branch MS
Laura Fawcett, Brandon MS
Jessica Bradley, Indian River
Edwin Wu, Ocean Lakes Mag.
Courtney Pickford, Atlantic Shores
Edward Ablang, Salem MS
Javonne Tia Johnson, Salem HS
Jessica Wheeler, Governor's School
Esther Diehl, Norfolk Christian
Chad Adkins
Jane Kim, Ocean Lakes Mag.
Loren Evory, Hickory HS
- Key-Yoon Houck, Sect. Ldr., Corporate Landing
Lucy Martinez, Landstown MS
Carolyn Dunn, Salem MS
Kristin Baird, PrincessAnne Elem.
Lauren Boyer, Hickory MS
Cartlin Hennessy, St. Matthews
Joshua Martinez, Western Branch HS
Ashley Dyer, Princess Anne MS
Gemma Thorpe, Indian River HS
Kasie Coccaro, Hickory MS
Leslie Bell, Granby HS
Ashley Nicole Whitaker, Kempsville HS
Vivian St. George, Oscar Smith HS
Timothy R.B. Adkins, Princess Anne HS
Jessica Weil, Norfolk Christian
Marcie Mnahoncak, Cox HS
Jean Lyn Ocean, Lakes HS
Rachel Adams, Norfolk Collegiate
Daniel Pellegrino, Norfolk Collegiate
John R. Coulson, Norfolk Collegiate
Rebecca Jenkins, Kempsville HS
Wendi Strickland, Oscar Smith HS
Edward Patterson, Princess Anne HS
Erica Alexander, Rich Cox HS
- Melanie Hatfield, Sect. Ldr., Great Neck MS
Conrad Hollomon, Kemps Ldg Magnet
Sarah Petersen, Kempsville MS
John W. Poston, Maury HS
Melanie MacKay, Hickory HS
Erin Brady, Western Br. MS
Jerry Davis, Ruffner MS
Vincent Bousquet, Maury HS
- Graham Bryant, Sect. Ldr., Kempsville HS
Grace Huang, Kemps Ldg Magnet
Kevin Barnes, Cox HS
Aaron Schooley, Hickory HS
Benjamin Lin, Brandon MS
Kwang HoHoya Houck, Ocean Lakes Mag.
David N. Peoples, Indian River
Carl Evory, Hickory HS
Earl Clelland, Hickory HS
Sara Gulick, Western Br. MS
Jacquelyn Martin, Hickory HS
Victoria Kurak, Indian River HS
Christopher Epps, Granby HS
- Chrystal Brown, Sect. Ldr., Hickory HS
Jennifer Holden, Hickory HS
Christopher Charles, Norview MS
- Heidi Myers, Sect. Ldr., Tallwood HS
- Diane Pasch, Sect. Ldr., Independence MS
Megan King, Hickory HS
Sarah Kevorkian, Maury HS
Jennifer Raquell Smith, Great Bridge HS
Katie Fox, First Colonial HS
- Elizabeth Betsy Carretta, SL, Tallwood HS
Helen Curtis, Brandon MS
- Stacey Lewis, Sect. Ldr., Tallwood HS
- Christian H. Thomas, SL, Home School
Tyler McLaughlin, Norfolk Collegiate
- Sandra Dunmire, Sect. Ldr., Maury HS
Hope Huynh, Home School
- Paul Curtis, SL, (Symphony) Governor's School
Marie Diaz, (Symphony) Governor's School
- Frank Shearman, Sectn. Ldr., Kempsville HS
- Christian Huynh, Sectn. Ldr., Home School
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BYO gratefully acknowledges these contributors for their gifts:
Silver Circle ($2,500 – $4,999)
- Government:
- Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission
Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission
- Corporate:
- Busch Gardens
Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc.
NationsBank
Virginia Power
Business Consortium for the Arts (Members Are)
- Atlantic Dominion Distributors
Birdsong Corporation
Broudy-Kantor Company
The Camp Foundations
Central Fidelity National Bank
The Colonial Auto Group
Crestar Bank
Empire Machinery & Supply Co.
First Union National Bank of VA
Flagship Group Ltd.
Foundation (Anonymous)
Goodman & Company, CPAs
Kaufman & Canoles
Life Savings Bank
The Norfolk Foundation
Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation
Norfolk Southern Foundation
Resource Bank
Seaboard Investment Advisers, Inc.
Signet Bank
Union Camp Corp.
Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin
Virginia Investment Counselors, Inc.
Virginia Natural Gas
Wilcox & Savage, P.C.
- Foundation
- The Thistle Foundation
- Government
- Norfolk Commission for the Arts & Humanities
- The H. C. Hofhemier II Family Foundation
- Gifts in Kind
- Kinko’s, The Copy Center, Norfolk
James Hollomon (Program Art & Word Processing)
- Ron & Debbie McKeon
- Alfred Magness & Dace Auzins
Francis & Emily Cozzens
- James & Man-Fen Ku Lai
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Wagner
Alex & Mona Tillman
Kevin & Amy Petersen
Jyoti & Mahrookh Mukerji
Harvey & Donna Bryant
J.H. Miles & Co., Inc.
- Terry & Luncinda Lewis
James & Yorey Jackson
Timothy & Judith Cook
Bruce & Debra Anderson
David & Carol Hatfield
Joseph & Sandra Coccaro
Thomas & Victoria Goodrich
Graham & Paula Fox
Dennis & Myong Dorshimer
Mrs Leon Peoples
Patrick & Brenda Corbin
Mr. & Mrs. Jarvis
Craig & Vickie Weil
Donald & Phyllis Johnson
Cheng & Shui Lin
Michael & Beverly Imperial
Mark & June Hecker
Duo & Hang Nguyen
Cynthia Collins Ricks
Cdr. Edward & Linda Whealton
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