Category: e-Notes

March 26 — Imani Winds Concert Program

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Program | Season Listing | Visit Imani Winds site for Bios

Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” — Felix MENDELSSOHN
Arr. F. GABLER

Quintet for Winds op. 43 — Carl NIELSEN
i. Allegro ben Moderato
ii. Menuett
iii. Praladium. Tema con variazioni

Contrabasjissimo — Astor PIAZZOLLA
Arr. Jeff SCOTT

INTERMISSION

“Bruyetes” from Preludes for piano, II no. 5 — Claude DEBUSSY
Arr. J. KOWALEWSKI

The Rite of Spring — Igor STRAVINSKY
Arr. Jonathan RUSSELL

Klezmer Dances — Traditional
i. Khosidl arr. Gene KAVADLO
ii. Freylekh

It’s tradition! – The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Music Director, will close Civic Music’s 84th season on Sunday, May 1st. This is a perfect opportunity to acquaint friends & colleagues with the excitement of CM’s outstanding performances and the incredibly affordable cost of membership. A tradition since 1927, the final concert of the season is a bonus concert for new members. That’s right, a free concert for those who purchase a 2011-12 membership. Read More

Press-Gazette: Imani Winds to play for Brown County Civic Music Association

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greenbaypressgazette.com • March 18, 2011

Imani Winds, a New York-based wind quintet, will make its first appearance before a Brown County Civic Music Association audience March 26 at Green Bay West High School.

Imani means “faith” in Swahili.

The Grammy-nominated group will present repertoire spanning European, American, African and Latin American traditions along with wind arrangements of music composed by Felix Mendelssohn, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky.

Speaking from the stage, members will introduce their program, their personnel and their projects.

Read the complete article at:
www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201103190407/GPG04/103190680

March E-Notes…

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Imani Winds – Saturday, March 26th
The Grammy-nominated chamber ensemble features flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn. The name Imani means “faith” in Swahili, and reflects the African-American and Latin American roots of this New York-based wind quintet. For photos and biographical information you can visit their website.

You may review the program to be performed.

Program book notes:

  • Remember to support the advertisers in our program book. When you visit their businesses, let them know you appreciate their support for Civic Music. Our website, www.bccivicmusic.org has a link to each of our advertisers.
  • Our 2011-12 concert series will be announced in Saturday’s program book.

2008 Civic Music Performer is 2011 Grammy Winner

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Paul Jacobs, Grammy-winning organist
Paul Jacobs, Grammy-winning organist

Paul Jacobs, an organist, who played for the Saturday, April 26, 2008 concert in the Civic Music series a few years ago was awarded a 2011 Grammy Award for “Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra),” the first Grammy ever to a solo organist!

Civic Music is proud to have presented this history-making musician.

See the video interview with Paul Jacobs about his grammy award found on YouTube.

May 1—Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Program Notes

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Program | Program Notes | Season Listing

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Festive Overture, Opus 96

Following a period from 1948 to 1953 when Shostakovich was almost exclusively involved with the creation of film scores and chamber music, he suddenly returned to orchestral composition with Symphony No. 10 and, in 1954, his brilliant Festive Overture. Allegedly written under great pressure of time, the overture was given its first performance on November 7, 1954 at a Moscow concert commemorating the thirty-seventh anniversary of the October Revolution (Soviet celebrations often went on for a long time). Read More

May 1—Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Program

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Program | Program Notes | Season Listing

Dmitri Shostakovich

Festive Overture, Opus 96

Dmitri Shostakovich

Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major, Opus 70

Allegro
Moderato
Presto
Largo
Allegretto

—-Intermission —-

Mikhail Glinka

Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla

Sergei Prokofiev

March and Scherzo from Love for Three Oranges, Opus 33bis

Reinhold Gliere

“Russian Sailor’s Dance” from The Red Poppy

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Waltz from the Suite from The Sleeping Beauty

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Capriccio italien, Opus 45

E-Notes: Fantastic Finale on Sunday, May 1st

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True to tradition, Brown County Civic Music will close the season with the magnificent Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Stuart Chafetz, who has warmly endeared himself to CM audiences. An evening of music by an all-Russian lineup of composers can be nothing less than sensational!

Ralph Holter Auditorium at Green Bay West High
7:30 p.m., doors open at 7:00
Tickets at door, $35, adults; $10 students
Reception following concert at Titletown Brewing Company. Y’all come!

Free bonus concert for new members who join for next season.
Invite family, friends & colleagues to experience live, classical music by professionals from around the world. 6 concerts for a 5-concert price, includes 2 MSO performances!! It will be an especially exciting season for young musicians.

Renew your membership
Renew your membership at the concert by enclosing a check with your membership form OR…renew your membership on our website.

Press Gazette: New season includes collaboration

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by Warren Gerds • greenbaypressgazette.com • April 21, 2011

Action started when Brown County Civic Music Association booked famed pianist Lilya Zilberstein for a concert with her sons.

Zilberstein asked Roger Bintz, who books performances for Civic Music, if any other local organization might be interested in presenting her to make her flight from Hamburg, Germany, more cost-efficient.

Bintz lives four doors away from Mike Stefiuk, executive director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Bingo.

Civic Music will present Zilberstein in concert with her sons on Nov. 11.

The Green Bay Symphony will feature Zilberstein as guest artist in its Nov. 12 concert.

Visit the Green Bay Press Gazette’s site for Warren Gerds’ complete introduction to the 2011-2012 season schedule.

Press Gazette: Milwaukee Symphony zesty in Russian program

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Concert review
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
4 stars out of 4

By Warren Gerds wgerds@greenbaypressgazette.com

“Happy Russian composers” may seem contradictory, but that was the tone of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s concert Sunday night at Ralph Holter Auditorium of  Green Bay West High School. The concert of spirit and zest closed the 2010-2011 season for Brown County Civic Music Association.

From the opening, brilliant moments of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture” to the aural panoramas of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italien” at the end, the program was dominated by exuberance. Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 9” playfully scampered in the opening movement. Driving rhythms grew faster and faster in later movements, with conductor Stuart Chafetz driving the frenzy. The program’s style was right down the alley for Chafetz, who likes to interact with the audience and toss hints. In the midst of a piece, he’ll strike a grand, smiling pose as if to tell the audience, “I’m having a great time, and you should, too.”  For Mikhail Glinka’s overture to “Russlan and Ludmilla,” Chafetz lept to the podium and into action. Music often swirled as it bookended passages of regal bearing.

Familiarity was the mark of selections in the second half. Included was the gliding suite from Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty.” Reinhold Gliere’s “Russian Sailor’s Dance” was laced with such boisterous color that it was easy to envision dancers dipping to deep knee bends followed by dramatic kicks. Chafetz introduced “Capriccio Italien” with flair: “A Russian writing about Italy – It’s so good you can taste the clothing.” Indeed, Tchaikovsky got caught up in  majesty, happiness and romance.

Chafetz and the rock solid orchestra immediately received a standing ovation. Chafetz was called back twice. That brought a sweet encore, French composer Maurice Jarre’s “Lara’s Theme.” While not of Russian birth, the music is from the Russian-rooted “Dr. Zhivago” novel and movie. And beautiful.