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'v> "' UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL VIOLIN I CELLOS (Cont'd) BASSOONS Marshall J ohnson, Dale Newton John Patton Concertmaster Jon Kozuch John Deppe James Skidmore Cheryl Fippin CONTRA BASSOON Suzanne Kelly Alan Robertson Lynn Doepke Jane Reterstoff Eugene Scholtens Norma Campbell Hubert Ort FRENCH HORNS Dianne Fitzpatrick Jill Hartman John Lindsey John Glover Richard Fuchs BASSES James Keys Carla Lehmann Jon Deak Michael Brickey Helen Schadd Pamela Andrews Marsha Matteoni Jane Smaardyk Christopher Byrne David Parks Paula Eatman Jane Tomisek George Sullivan Jean Kordick James Pacholki TRUMPETS Mary Nicksarlian Bonnie Rosenbaum Dale Day James Darling VIOLIN II Mary Benard John Bauser Sue Chinnell David Tasa Kristin North FLUTES Karla Gustie Ann Kozuch TROM BONES Steven Sterba Cynthia Love Robert Weiss Barbara Lange Ruth Mayland John Sexton Sr. Marion Etzel John Hecker Marthea Ray PICCOLO TUBA Eugenia Frith Ellen Rosen James Plondke Grace Beckett Jo Ann Redman OBOES HARP Jane Franklyn John Dimond Joyce Rosenfield* Linda Cheng Louis Hall Ellen Jacobs Cleve Fenley PIANO AND HARPSICH0I> Charles Kay ENGLISH HORN Karol Sue Gagstetter VIOLAS Benjamin Woodruff TIMPANI Arthur Klima Richard Kvistad Carol Deak CLARINETS Karrell Johnson Mac Cantrell PERCUSSION Linda Vana William Schontz Michael Udow Sharon Brace Robert Quade Robert Rosen Paul Chouinard Dennis Melhouse Jody Van Dresser BASS CLARINET James Nelmes Patricia Shanks William Black James Theobald CELLOS ALTO SAXOPHONE *Faculty Robert Gordon Roger Hallmark COMING EVENTS . h young Thursday, March 6, 8:00 p.m. - Graduate Recital, Sara Spears, Contralto, Smith Music Hall JI h powe ' Saturday, March 8, 8 :00 p.m. - Graduate Recital, Kennet Organ, Smith Music Hall . ter . Win • Sunday, March 9, 4:00 p.m. - Graduate Recital, Manlyn Soprano, Smith Music Hall 'fhe Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Great Hall UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Saturday, May 17, 1969 8:00 p.m. The School of Music presents THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Bernard Goodman, Conductor with Guest Soloists Jon Crain, Tenor and Beverly Wolff, Contralto
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PROGRAM
Adagio for Orchestra 11961) Gordon Binf
Mr. Binkerd has degrees from South Dakota Wesleyan, the University of Roch Iii and Harvard University. Bernard Rogers and Walter Piston have been his teach~ composition. He has received commissions from the Fromm Foundation, thee; Foundation, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. His first two symphonies been recorded, as well as his "Sonata for Piano" and his choral work "Aspe · Jesus." The "Adagio for Orchestra" was written while he was a member of the ~Is. for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, and received its first perfonnan en: the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra on November 17, 1961. He has b;c Guggenheim Fellow, and received an award from the National Institute of Arts en. Letters. He has been a member of the faculty of the School of Music of the Unive: of Illinois since 1949.
As Quiet As 11966)
A Leaf Turning Colors
An Uninhabited Creek
An Ant Walking
Children Sleeping
Time Passing
A Soft Rainfall
The First Star Coming Out
Michael Colgraa
Michael Colgrass was a percussion major at the School of Music of the University Illinois and received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1954. After military service· the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra, he took up the serious study of compositi, He currently resides in New York City, where he is active both as a performer and composer. He has been the recipient of various grants including a Guggenheim Fellow-ship. As Quiet As was commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for the . shire Music Center Orchestra at Tanglewood. It premiered in August 1966, w Gunther Schuller conducting. The work has since been performed and recorded by Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf. This (s th~ performance of As Quiet As in Champaign-Urbana. Mr. Colgrass has contribute following comments:
As Quiet As was inspired by the answers of fourth-grade children asked by their teac:er complete the sentence beginning, "Let's be as quiet as .... " From the twenty-on swers compiled by Constance Fauci and printed in The New York Tim ~s in De:ec 1961, I chose seven that seemed to make a nature study as might be perceived by tilll My purpose was to depict the very nature of each metaphor, as if I were demon~t~,-cn a blind person the essence of a leaf as it changes color, of a creek abandone birds, and of an ant - or many ants - skittering about. .
"Children Sleeping" and "Time Passing" are like a dream sequence. Foil0"~: breathing and heartbeats, a sonatina written by Beethoven as a child ap~ears : .JeS montage of "sleeping sounds," and then re-appears fragmentarily in musical.; ~pe 1800 to the present - Haydn, Sibelius, Ravel, Stravinsky, Count Basie---;-- ~s I roPied taking a fleeting glance at music history moving through time. The jazz ~s inte;."•ar a distant "sound" which ends the dream, and the last setting {Webern) is m P05 c
"A Soft Rainfall" and "The First Star Coming Out" are the spring and summe:ek iJ parts of the autumnal leaf and creek, and are related musically as well. The er
. all, and the leaf a soft blanket of night across which stars flicker like a million rain-• raiJ1f ned to crys ta!.
dtoP5 i\_ur As is dedicated to children, with love and hope. .41'2"'''
Lied von der Erde 11908)
oo• (The Song of the Earth)
INTERMISSION
Gustav Mahler
A Symphony for Tenor, Contralto, and Orchestra
Soloists: Jon Crain and Beverly Wolff
Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde
Der Einsame im Herbst
Von der Jugend
Von der Schonheit
Der Trunkene im Fruhling
Der Abschied
The Song of the Earth, based on Hans Bethges' Chinese Flute, was completed at Toblach in the Tyrol in 1908 after Mahler's return from America. On November 20, 1908, six months after Mahler's death, Bruno Walter conducted the first performance. Tonight's performance is the first in Champaign-Urbana. The following translations from the German are by Steuart Wilson.
The Drinking Song of Earth's Sorrow
See how it gleams, with golden enticement,
But drink not yet, I'll sing you my song!
I sing of sorrow, but laughter
Within your heart must give answer.
When such sorrow comes,
Dry is the soul, its gardens are withered,
Fading and dead the pleasure of our song.
Life is only twilight, so is death.
Host, I salute you,
Your cellar hides a treasure of gold in its veins,
But I have a treasure of my own.
To strike the lute and to drink the wine-cup,
These are the thin"s that best consort together.
brimming cup of wine, when hearts beat faint, Li bc~ter than all the kingdoms of the earth.
fc is only twilight, so is death. }!c blue of heaven is unchanging, An: unchanging the earth rolls onward But blossoms in spring.
\\Vb thou, 0 man, how long livest thou?
In ~tot one hundred years canst thou take pleasure
the rotten fruit of life's long vanity.
In thtbcre! Over there!
c mo I' h 0t'bbc on 1g t, in the churchyard,
It ia rs a ghost with evil in its shape. a monkey! H ear him
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\\\\}4> How his howling sounds strident In our life's sweet scented morning. So raise your cups, the time has come, companions, Empty your golden cups to the heel! Life is only twilight, so is death. Autumn loneliness Grey autumn mists are drifting off the sea And, touched with frost, the grass stands stiff and brittle As if some artist hand had scattered powder, Dusting on every leaf the finest jade. The scent of summer flowers is forgotten, A chilly wind blows crackling stalks together. Soon will the leaves of fading lotus-blossoms Display upon the pond their golden span. I, too, feel weary. See my flick'ring light Bums low and lower, it is time to go to sleep. I come to you, truest house of quiet, 0 give me sleep, for I have need of rest. My tears flow on in lonely desolation. The autumn seems in my heart to be eternal. 0 love's warm sunshine, have you gone forever And will my burning tears be never dried? Youth In the water, on a little island All of green and egg-shell china, Stands a dainty summer-house. Like the tiger's back a-curving Springs the arch of jade to cross it, To this summer-house of dreamland. In the parlor friends are sitting, Clad in silk, and drinking, chatting, Writing endless little verses. How their silken sleeves are slipping. How their silken caps sit perching On those jolly heads a-wagging! In the tiny, tiny pattern's Quiet, quiet pool of water See the world reflected lies In mirror marvelous. All those friends are topsy-turvy In that world of egg-shell china, In that dainty summer-house. Like a sickle moon the bridge is, Vpside down i\_ts arches; while the friends In silk and satm !)rink and chatter. BeGUIY See the maidens picking flowers, Picking lotus flowers by the grassy river banks. In the bushes and leaves they hide themselves, Gathering flowers, Gathering flowers in their laps And calling one to the other in teasing fun. See the sunshine weaves a web around them, Mirrors all their laughing grace in water. Sunshine mirrors all their slender beauty, Mirrors their sweet eyes in water, And the winds of spring with soft caresses Waft on high their flowing silken sleeves, Bear the magic of their pleasing odour through the air. 0, see, a company of lovely lads Comes riding along the bank on prancing horses, Shining far off like the sun at noonday; See, through the leafy lanes of silvery willows Trots that gallant young company! The horse of one of them delighted Wheels and neighs, curvetting round; Over all the flowers trample heavy hoof-beats, As they bruise in sudden storm The tender hidden blossoms. How their manes toss in tangled riot, Breathing fire from steaming nostrils. the sunshine weaves a web around them, ~;ors all\_ their laughing grace in water. Sen the fairest of those lovely maidens (F ds a parting glance of longing love In°~ her proud demeanor is all pretending ) . In~: j arkle of her lustrous glances, 1'ha ar~ess of her flushing cheeks, t Slabbmg pain of love's awakening vibrates still. Ytlne in Spring Since life. . \\Vhy to' I is nothmg but a dream I dtinJc I a~d sweat away? .\\n<f la u~til my belly's full .\\iid Whug the livelong day! I' en ther ' \\te drunk e s no more room inside so h d ' ar and deep, Io?
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\\J I roll along to home and bed And sleep a lovely sleep! What's that I hear that wakes me? Hark! A bird sings in the blue. I'll ask him if the spring has come. (My dream, has it come true?) The twitters answer "Yes, it's here!" The spring is here as fresh as anything! I look and look and listen hard, The birds all laugh and sing. I fill myself another glass And drink with deep content, And sing until the moon lights up The darkling firmament. When I'm too tired to sing my songs I'll sleep, forgetting pain, For what's the silly spring to me? Let me get drunk again! The Farew ell The sun is setting out beyond the mountains And evening peace comes down in every valley And shadows lengthen, bringing cool relief. 0 see, like some tall ship of silver sails The moon upon her course, through heaven's blue sea. I feel the stirring of some soft south-wind Behind the darkling pine-wood. The stream sings as it wanders through the twilight, As evening waxes the flowers grow pale. The earth breathes gently, full of peace and sleep, All our longings sleep at last. Mankind, grown weary, turns homeward, That in sleep, forgotten joy and youth it may recapture. The birds with open eye roost in the branches. The world now sleeps. The air is cool within the pine-wood's shadow; Here will I stand and tarry for my friend. I wait for him to bid the last farewell. 0 how I long, my friend, once more to see thee, To share the heavenly beauty of this evening. Where art thou? I have been long alone. I wander up and down and make my music O'er pathways that are paved with tender grasses. 0 Beauty, 0 life of endless loving. Wild delirious world. He lighted down and proffered him the cup, The parting cup. He asked him whither he was faring And questioned why, why it must needs be so. fie spoke, and his voice was veiled: 0 my friend, while I was in this world MY lot was hard. Where do I go? I go, I wander in the mountains, I seek but rest, rest for my lonely heart. J journey to my homeland, to my haven. I shall no longer seek the far horizon. My heart is still and waits for its deliverance. The lovely earth, all, everywhere, Revives in spring and blooms anew, All, everywhere and ever, ever, Shines the blue horizon, Ever . . . ever ... ...... 11. '-'ciin Your r k • • • • .,.....\_ oc et stub, a s it ma y be checked during ,nterm1ss1an. II of Photag h . · · I h'b't d rap s during pe rform a nces ,s strict y pra 1 ' e · ( Ii
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,\\-y r 113 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ----- BENJAMIN WOODRUFF, CELLO BASSOON Assistant Conductor Robert Gordon John Patton Jon Kozuch John Deppe VIOLIN I Dale Newton Eugene Scholtens Norma Campbell Rotating Principal Lynn Doepke Cello CONTRA BAssooN Marshall Johnson Cheryl Fippin Eugene Scholtens Rotating Concertmasters Alan Robertson Dianne Fitzpatrick Jane Reterstoff FRENCH HORN John Lindsey Hubert Ort J ohn Glover Suzanne Kelly David Jackson J ames Keays Carla Lehmann Michael Brickey Richard Fuchs BASS Marsha Mattconi Jane Smaardyk Jon Deak David Parks Helen Shadd Pamela Andrews George Sullivan Paula Eatman Jane Tomisek Barbara Caron James Pacholki TRUMPET Bonnie Rosenbaum James Darling VIOLIN II Dale Day J ohn Bauser Sue Chinnell Mary Benard David Tasa Kristin North Stephen Sterba FLUTE TROMBONE Rotating Principal Ann Kozuch Robert Weiss Second Violin Cynthia Love J ohn Sexton Karla Gustie Ruth Mayland J ohn Hecker Sr. Marion Etzel Marthea Ray PICCOLO TUBA Barbara Lange Ellen Rosen J ames Plon.dke Eugenia Frith Jo Anne Redman OBOE HARP id' Grace Beckett John Dimond J oyce Rosenfic Ellen Jacobs Louis Hall Mark Schneider Jane Franklyn Cleve Fenley CELESTA AND Pl.AMO John Terdich Linda Cheng ENGLISH HORN Paula f!asernan VIOLA Benjamin Woodruff TIMPANI Carol Deak CLARINET Michael Vdo'~ Karrell Johnson Mac Cantrell CHORAL CONCERTS Arthur Klima William Shontz MANDOLIN filer Linda Vana Robert Quade V . ·a f ar Rotating Principal irguu Viola William Black PERCUSSION Sharon Brace Eb CLARINET Rosen Robert !hO~ Jody Van Dresser Robert Quade Dennis MC bald Patricia Shanks Theo' Paul Luczak BASS CLARINET James Paul Chouinard William Black *FacultY