Monday, Nov. 28, 2022 • 8 p.m.
The Ohio State University School of Music
Weigel Auditorium
Jae Park, conductor
Mathew Kinnear, student conductor
Brittany White
Guest French horn soloist
Student of Bruce Henniss
Miriam Burns, instructor of record
PROGRAM
The Ohio State Community Orchestra is an ensemble open to all members of the Ohio State community, including students, alumni, faculty and staff. We perform one concert per semester, and we are thrilled to share what we’ve been working on this fall!
Special note — as of spring 2023, the Community Orchestra name will change to Campus Orchestra as a large ensemble.
Egmont Overture (1810)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Mathew Kinnear, student conductor
Composed between 1809–1810, Beethoven's Egmont Overture opens for a 1787 play of the same name by Wolfgang Von Goethe. The play depicts the glorious life of Dutch nobleman Count Egmont in his struggles to help the Dutch gain liberty from Spain's imperial rule. Although the play ends with his tragic demise, Egmont becomes a powerful martyr and symbol of heroism for his people. Beethoven composed music for the play during the Napoleonic Wars. when the French Empire held control over most of Europe. Through this powerful piece of music, Beethoven not only brought Count Egmont's dazzling story to life, but also expressed his own political opinions about sacrifice and courage in the face of oppression.
Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" (1808)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
i. Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside (Allegro ma non troppo)
Ludwig Van Beethoven was one of the most prolific composers of the classical period. Throughout his life he slowly lost his hearing, becoming fully deaf by the end of his career. Over the span of his life, he maintained three different iconic periods — early, middle and late. The early period is similar to that of other classic composers such as Mozart and Haydn, but during the middle and late periods Beethoven as a composer started to break from the mold. This is when Beethoven entered his most famous period with pieces such as his violin concerto and his Fifth Symphony. The last era highlighted his more "undiscovered" pieces as they were composed at the end of his life. They differed greatly in their own way from those of his previous era due to Beethoven's deafness.
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, also known as Pastorale and/or Recollections of Country Life is one of Beethoven's very few programmatic works. Written and premiered in 1808, the symphony is composed of five movements. The movement we will be playing today is the first movement Allegro ma non troppo, described as "The awakening of happy feelings on arriving in the country." The movement is written in Sonata form, filled with lots of repetition, and as the movement is played the motifs and themes grow and change as is typical for the form. The movement ends with a simple but strong response to the melody introduced at the start of the movement, to signal the change into the second movement.
Orpheus in the Underworld Overture (1858)
Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer. He enrolled as a cello student in the Paris Conservatoire in 1833 and after several years of playing cello, he became a conductor for the Theatre Francais later in 1849. Growing from that, he opened his own theatre in 1855, The Bouffes-Parisiens. After 1876, several years of directing, he spent the rest of his life focused on music composition.
Orphee aux enfers, widely known as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a famous comic operetta telling the story of Eurydice, composed by Offenbach. Many people know this piece also as "Cancan," which appears in the overture and the final scene. When his operetta first premiered in October 1858, it left the critics in shock because of the plot twist in the end of the piece. Rather than Eurydice dying, as in the original ending scene, she is relocated to the Underworld to be with Pluto — the ruler of the Underworld. Surprisingly, the audience enjoyed it and the operetta gained further popularity, becoming an international success.
Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
I. Allegro moderato
Brittany White, guest soloist
When discussing the world's most talented composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is sure to come to mind. With more than 600 compositions to his name, he has truly left a profound legacy. Mozart's career in music began when he was just a child. He composed his first piece at age 5 and spent most of his childhood performing across Europe alongside his siblings. Mozart is the composer behind several famous operas, such as The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as over forty symphonies and sonatas.
The Mozart piece we will be performing today is his Horn Concerto in E-flat major. This piece was initially composed in 1786 for Mozart's friend, the hornist Joseph Leutgeb. Mozart himself described this piece as "Ein Waldhorn Konzert fur den Leutgeb," or "a hunting horn concerto for Leutgeb." The fast-paced piece challenges the soloist to make skillful, quick movements. which creates a lively, joyful concerto when combined with the string and wind players featured in this piece. Tonight's soloist for this piece is Brittany White.
Capriccio Español (1887)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
i. Alborada
ii. Variazioni
iii. Alborada
iv. Scena e Canto Gitano ("Scene and Gypsy song")
v. Fandango Asturiano
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, born in Russia in 1844, is considered to be one of the "The Five" influential Russian composers during the nineteenth century. He graduated from the naval academy in St. Petersburg in 1862 and was later appointed as a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1871.
Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol was inspired by a variety of Spanish folk songs. The Alborada opens with an exuberant and joyful theme played by the full orchestra, from which a clarinet solo and violin solo emerge. In contrast to the Alborada, the Variazioni is more reserved and melodious, featuring the horn section. Returning to the boisterous theme from the first movement, the third movement contains an energetic violin solo, which is followed by a clarinet solo. The fourth movement opens with a series of virtuosic cadenzas for violin, flute, clarinet, oboe and harp, followed by a decisive melody in the violin sections and a poignant cello solo later in the movement. The fifth movement, the Fandango Asturiano, incorporates themes previously heard in the piece, a final violin solo, and builds towards an emphatic and decisive ending.
ROSTER
VIOLIN I
D, concertmaster
Owen Looker, associate concertmaster
Olivia Jackson, assistant concertmaster
Alex Tuggle
Lauren Sandberg
Kelsey Chen
Rebecca Tepper
Raelene Jiang
Ella Koepke
Zi Lin Chen
Nishanth Kunchala
Analee Kobernuss
Abigail Richardson
Chuyang Deng
Aya Zouggar
Kiya Hailu
Lynna Nasby
VIOLIN II
Bonnie Wu, principal
Eve Saltzman, associate principal
Alexander Steenrod, assistant principal
Zoe Henke
Cynthia Szeto
Yun Yi Amelie Thomas
Nicole Lee
Holly Tomkalski
Rebecca Young
Kayla Uhrlen
Liam Curtin
Jakob Gerhard
Jayne Griffith
Javen Bell
Mia Castro
Stephanie Houser
Mika Nguyen
Aidan Smith
Bart Snapp
Sophia Chan
Xuan Lei
Sariah Echols
Rachel Huffman
Andrew Joseph
Zari Mahmoudi
Naomi Mukka
VIOLA
Megan Rose, principal
Steven Liu, associate principal
Nandini Kasam, associate principal
Aidan Okantey
Emma Furlan
Diana Wendelin
Mason Heithaus
Jamie Hake
Daniele Sabaliunaite
Stephanie Raab
Nikhila Elevarthi
CELLO
Rhea Garg, principal
Joshua Sims, associate principal
Mateo Zevallos
Mia Melde
Nathan Rogers
Ashlyn Thomas
Julia Zhan
Jeff Bonner
Liam Waselko
Mohamed Manaa
Claire Sneed
Sean Whelan
CONTRABASS
Saoirse Hurley, principal
Claire Cornellier
Michael Taylor
FLUTE
Amy Spears, principal
Sydney Cagnon
Hallie Soltis
OBOE
Ryan O'Donnell, principal
Mallory Justus
CLARINET
Louis Malagaya, principal
Lily Tropple
BASSOON
Joshua Bly
HORN
Mirai Nawa, principal
Rory Leonard
Theresa Deever
Eric Ji
TRUMPET
Xinyue Fan, principal
Gavin Newton
TROMBONE
Anthony Frankowski, principal
Ellen Danford
Andric McNabb, bass
TUBA
Patrick Osborn
TIMPANI
Erin Rybinsky, principal
PERCUSSION
Hannah Smith
Adam Quinn
HARP
Josephine Davis
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