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MuSic in the Morning17,000 children in 53 schools throughout the South Coast start every day of the school year by listening to classical music. Five minutes of music, five days a week, for five years. Changing lives through music.

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neW bedford SyMphonySchoolS MuSic!A trio of NBSO musicians performing in schools throughout the South Coast.

Other NBSO educational programs include the New Bedford Symphony Youth Orchestra, Master Classes, and Pre-Concert Talks.



What’s Your Passion?Ours is to share the transforming power of music with the widest possible audience within our communities on the South Coast. Music has the power to change us and strengthen us; it gives voice to our deepest hopes and feelings; and it is a powerful means of cultivating and nourishing the intelligence and creativity of children and adults within our communities. Our passion for music infuses everything we do.

This season will feature Tchaikovsky’s wonderful Violin Concerto and Poulenc’s delightful Concert Champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra, and Edward MacDowell’s richly romantic Piano Concerto No. 2. We also will continue our exploration of great symphonic works with symphonies

by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, as well as Paul Hindemith’s magnificent Mathis der Maler and Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, his iconic “American” symphony. We also feature Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Dances, a truly stunning orchestral tour-de-force.

The season will also spotlight music by a new generation of North American composers – Pulitzer Prize winning Jennifer Higdon’s evocative blue cathedral, Michael Daugherty’s hip and witty Sunset Strip, Michael Torke’s vivacious Bright Blue Music, and Mexican composer Arturo Marquez’s show stopping Danzon No. 2.

We return to beautiful St. Anthony’s Church for two concerts: Brahms’ profoundly comforting A German

Requiem and Handel’s Messiah, which will be paired with Bach’s rich and poignant Cantata 61: “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland.”

Finally, we are pleased to announce that our guest artist for the Family Holiday Pops concert will be Steve March-Tormé. Steve, the son of Mel Tormé, will share some of the great songs of the Holiday season, including his Dad’s classic, The Christmas Song, and he will be joined by some of the region’s most talented young musicians as we guarantee you will Hear the Cheer!

This will be a season rich with possibilities, share our passion!

David MacKenzie has been described as possessing “en-thusiasm that is infectious,

expertise that is a wonder to behold” and as presenting performances that are “interpreted to perfection.” The Atlanta Constitution praised his work with the Sandy Springs Chamber Orchestra, which he helped to found, noting that in just one year he built that ensemble “into one of the treasures of Atlanta’s musi-cal life.” According to the New Bedford Standard-Times “Dr. MacKenzie has im-pressed everyone, onstage and off, with his attention to detail, his comprehensive knowledge of the repertory, and his dedi-cation to making this orchestra better each season.”

This is Dr. MacKenzie’s 6th season with the NBSO. His tenure has been dis-

tinguished by unprecedented artistic growth, the development and expansion of innovative educational programs, and significant audience increases. His pas-sionate commitment to community en-gagement in the South Coast has resulted in a reputation as a visionary and influ-ential artistic leader in the region.

Dr. MacKenzie has served as Principal Guest Conductor of Orquesta Sinfònica del Valle in Cali, Colombia, Associate Conductor of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra in Colorado, Assistant Con-ductor of the Lexington Philharmonic in Kentucky, and Music Director for orchestral programs at The University of Kentucky, the University of Northern Colorado, and Georgia State University. He is entering his 4th Season as Music Director of Mastersingers by the Sea on

Cape Cod. Guest conducting engage-ments have taken him to other orches-tras in South America, Korea and the United States.

Dr. MacKenzie completed graduate studies at the Yale University School of Music, where he received the Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Musical Arts, and Master of Music. He received the Bachelor of Music from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ~Victor Hugo~



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American composer Michael Torke’s music has been called “irresistible,” “utterly captivating,”

“optimistic, joyful and thoroughly uplifting.” Born in 1961, Torke has taken the musical world by storm with compositions such as Bright Blue Music, a work with joyous melodies, shimmering coloristic detail and crackling rhythmic energy. The Los Angeles Times noted that Torke’s music is “bright, bold, original and full of optimism.”

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major is one of the most loved Romantic concertos. It was composed in 1878 and was dedicated to the great violinist Leopold Auer. Unfortunately, Auer rejected it as “unplayable.” Yet played it was, again and again, securing a permanent place in the concerto

repertory and the hearts of listeners. Tchaikovsky uses violin and orchestra to paint a musical landscape of wide emotion – from heroic and triumphant boldness to deep despair and melancholy – with characteristic power, eloquence, charm and grace.

Mark Kaplan has appeared with nearly every major American and European orchestra, including New York, Los Angeles and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. His career in Europe began when he was asked to replace Pinchas Zukerman in a concert conducted by Lawrence Foster in Cologne. He plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari in 1685. It is named “The Marquis” after the Marchese

Spinola, whose family owned the violin for several generations.

Sergei Rachmaninoff ’s Symphonic Dances is considered his finest work. It was also his last composition. “I don’t know how it happened,” Rachmaninoff commented, “it must have been my last spark.” Representing the summation of his entire efforts as a symphonist, Symphonic Dances is bold music of penetrating rhythmic vitality and soaring melodies, yet also music of heartfelt retrospection, and mystery. Rachmaninoff incorporates the dies irae (representing Death) of the Requiem Mass, with music for the Easter Vigil (representing Resurrection) in a sublime struggle of fear and hope. Spoiler Alert: Resurrection wins…he wrote “Hallelujah” after the final notes. It is truly Rachmaninoff at his best.

Michael Torke: Bright Blue MusicPeter Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D MajorSergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances

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claSSical i“bold openingS”Mark kaplan, violin

SepteMber 10, 2011 / 8pM

“Playing from deep inside the music, Kaplan uses his brilliant virtuosity and strikingly beautiful, variable tone to evoke and instantly change mood, character, and expression…”-Strings Magazine

“Kaplan was, to put it succinctly, magnificent. The clarity in his tone, his immaculate articulation, and his deft handling of polyphony were all part of this extraordinary performance.” -Herald News

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13New Bedford Symphony Orchestra2011/2012 SeasonGustav Mahler: Adagietto,

from Symphony No. 5 in C# MinorJohannes Brahms: A German Requiem, Op. 45

The Adagietto is arguably Mahler’s most famous single work. It is a transformational reworking of a

somber melody from the first movement of the symphony into an ethereal, transcendent song of hope, yearning, and acceptance. Scored for just strings and harp, the music’s main musical idea subtly evolves through a magical series of sighing suspensions – chord resolutions that release tension into peacefulness. The work’s conclusion leaves the listener breathless, as the suspensions are prolonged longer and longer.

A German Requiem is Brahms’ largest work in any genre, and demonstrates the composer’s mastery of communicating great depth of feeling. In this work,

Brahms speaks to the living with music of comfort and hope. He sought a universal human perspective. “As far as the text is concerned,” he wrote, “I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human …”

From the first movement’s beautiful use of the harp to the final movement’s glorious climax of sopranos on high A (with the harps returning in a heavenly ascending line), Brahms calls on the full range of his compositional genius to give humanity a work of deep beauty and emotion. The fifth movement, composed after the premiere of the work and inserted for later performances, is perhaps the most intimate writing ever done for soprano and chorus. Brahms’

use of choral texture, harmonic energy, and rhythmic invention throughout this great work is a marvel.

The Rhode Island College Chorus is a select, mixed concert choir that performs a wide variety of literature, from a cappella pieces to large-scale choral/orchestral works, from traditional works to multi-cultural and avant-garde pieces. Dr. Teresa Coffman is Professor of Music at Rhode Island College. She has taught at Peru State College in Nebraska, the University of South Dakota, and the University of Houston. Mastersingers by the Sea is an auditioned chamber chorus based in Falmouth that champions the rich and diverse repertoire for chamber chorus from the Renaissance through the present.

claSSical ii “a univerSal MuSic”

St. anthony’S churchoctober 16, 2011 / 3pM

kelley naSSief, Sopranoand philip liMa, baritone

rhode iSland college choruS, dr. tereSa coffMan, directorMaSterSingerS by the Sea, andMeMberS of other regional choruSeS

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“Kelley Nassief sang gloriously, with enveloping warmth and that special ability to make drama solely through her voice.” -Houston Chronicle

“If the angels in heaven really sing, please let them do it like Nassief. Her voice combines the best of two worlds: It has bel canto size, warmth and height, and yet is svelte, with a youthful sparkle.” -Leipziger Volkszeitung

“Lima is a vibrant baritone and has commanding presence…” -Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Physically imposing, dramatically powerful, and vocally secure.” -The Boston Globe

“Lima struck one of the high notes of the evening . . . his singing was glorious.” -The Boston Globe

Philip Limakelly nassief

15New Bedford Symphony Orchestra2011/2012 SeasonJohann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 61,

“Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland”George Frideric Handel: Messiah, Part 1

claSSical iii“voice and Spirit”

St. anthony’S churchnoveMber 27, 2011 / 3pM

MaSterSingerS by the Sea, and MeMberS of the the Sippican choralSociety and other regional choruSeS

tereSa WakiM, Sopranodeborah rentz-Moore, Mezzo-SopranoMattheW anderSon, tenoranton belov, baritone

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Teresa Wakim Deborah rentz-Moore Matthew anderson anton Belov

It is one of history’s strangest twists that two such profound composers as Johann Sebastian Bach and his

contemporary George Frideric Handel had such opposite life experiences. While Handel was the cosmopolitan bon vivant, basking in the adulation of appreciative London audiences, Bach was effectively unknown as a composer during his lifetime, working in small towns and cities in Germany.

Bach’s genius is on display in the opening of Cantata BWV 61, where he frames the powerful and sturdy melody of a German chorale with the flair of the French Overture style, and then bursting forth with a bright choral fugue to end the movement. The two arias, interweaving

solo voice and instrument ensemble as only Bach can do, capture perfectly the emotional tenor of Advent – a sweet mingling of longing and joy. Bach closes the work with a brief and energetic chorale, “How lovely shines the morning star” giving celebration to the Advent season and the blessings of the coming New Year.

In contrast to Bach, Handel could be considered as the first international musical star. His music reflects a skillful mix of national styles and held broad appeal in his lifetime and to this day. For almost 300 years, Messiah has been one of the most popular and beloved choral works that moves and thrills audiences around the world.

Messiah’s continuing appeal lies in part in Handel’s masterful treatment of word painting, or text painting, a Baroque technique that attempted to portray in sound the meaning of the words themselves. He also was first and foremost on opera composer, and regarded the oratorio as essentially an un-staged opera with a sacred plot, combining the drama of opera with the profundity of sacred themes. His innate dramatic sense allowed him to weave a captivating musical narrative of great scope and significance with richness and variety of musical textures and consistently inspired evocations of universal emotions of pathos, hope, serenity and joy.

“Teresa Wakim has a bejeweled lyric soprano, with an exquisite top register and a delicate feeling for Baroque phrasing.”-The Boston Globe

Deborah Rentz-Moore has a “deep, radiant, clear tone” (Early Music America) and a “deep, honeyed voice” (Ballet.com Magazine).

Matthew Anderson is “vocally stunning” (Berkshire Eagle) and noted for his “impressive singing” (Boston Phoenix).

Anton Belov’s voice has been called “rich and mellifluous” by the New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer calls it “that of an emerging star.”


A beautifully decorated stage,

Santa in the lobby greeting children of all ages, and friends and family enjoying the music and the spirit of the holiday season together – that is what has

made the NBSO’s Hear The Cheer! Family Holiday Pops Concerts a one-of-a-kind Holiday Season tradition on the South Coast. The concert has a family-friendly atmosphere, matinee and early evening performances to choose from, and a one hour program (with no intermission) that is perfect for the kids. It will make the Holiday season sparkle with warm

memories and favorite holiday songs. The concert will also feature an appearance by the New Bedford Symphony Youth Orchestra, playing side-by-side with members of the NBSO, and the SouthCoast Children’s Chorus, whose mission is to provide a joyful, educational choral experience for young singers in grades 3-8 from communities along the South Coast, helping them to develop confidence, responsibility, musicianship, and a passion for excellence in all they do.

This year we are very excited to welcome as our special guest, Steve March-Torme. The son of legendary singer Mel Torme, Steve has carried on the family tradition with a musical career that has brought him from jazz clubs to concert halls throughout the United States and in

Australia, England, Japan, and Canada. In addition to performing with his Dad, Steve has produced and sung on Liza Minnelli’s Tropical Nights, and has recorded several of his own CDs. Also an actor and radio personality, Steve has appeared in TV series and radio programs in the United States and Europe. In 2007, Steve launched a 28 city, U.S. cross-country tour for Columbia Artists Mgt. Inc. (CAMI) entitled Tormé Sings Tormé. Steve is also well-known for his From Broadway To The Beatles, From Mercer to Mel symphony show, an eclectic musical evening that features the greatest hits of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Stevie Wonder, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, the Gershwins and The Beatles.

16 faMily holiday popS“hear the cheer”Steve March-torMé

deceMber 17, 20113:30pM/7pM

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Steve March-Tormé

19New Bedford Symphony Orchestra2011/2012 SeasonArturo Marquez: Danzónes No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in a, Op. 56 (“Scottish”)Paul Hindemith: Symphonie: “Mathis der Maler”

Mexican composer Arturo Márquez gained international attention with his series of

Danzones in the early 1990s, based on a dance style from Cuba and Veracruz that could be considered the northern Latin American counterpart of tango–nos-talgic melodies, driving rhythm and a smoldering sensuality. Danzon No. 2, the most frequently performed from the set, begins, as is traditional, with an elegant main theme, stated in a restrained man-ner by the clarinet, but the underlying sensuality of the style builds throughout the work until erupting into passionate rhythmic urgency at the end.

The idea for Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish” (which actually is the fifth symphony he

composed) was born during a Scottish vacation in 1829, but its completion would be delayed until 1842. Evoking recollections of the land – misty, distinctly Northern and earthy, hushed pianissimos give way to soaring pentatonic melodies and lusty warlike passages, only to return to the mists again. Colleague Robert Schumann commented “…how rich and interesting he can render his details without overloading them or making a display of pedantic learning.”

German composer Paul Hindemith’s Symphony: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) is his most important work. Based on paintings by Matthias Grünewald, Hindemith’s music soars to the highest levels of artistic craft

and sublime expressiveness. Opening with an “Angelic Concert,” drawn from Grünewald’s serene, joyful, and vibrantly colored panel of Mary and the infant Jesus being serenaded by an angelic orchestra, the symphony transforms joy to mourning in the slow movement, “The Entombment,” inspired by Grünewald’s somber panel of Christ being laid in the tomb; then passes, in the last movement, “The Temptation of St. Anthony,” to a depiction of Grünewald’s vision of the saint’s tribulation. The conclusion of the movement delivers us from this vision with triumphant use of the Gregorian chant “Lauda Sion Salvatorem” (“Zion, Praise the Savior”) and a final blazing brass “Alleluia” chorale that declares the saint’s (and our) victory.

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february 11, 2012 / 8pM

“Under MacKenzie’s direction, the symphony seems to go from strength to strength, Saturday’s performance being yet another pearl in the strand.” - The Standard Times


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New Bedford Symphony Orchestra Michael Daugherty: Sunset StripFrancis Poulenc: Concert champêtre for harpsichordLudwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major

Michael Daugherty, one of the most colorful and widely per-formed American composers

of his generation, has been described as possessing a “maverick imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous ear.” Of Sunset Strip the composer says: “I create a musical landscape (of)…sounds and images of Sunset Strip from the 1950s through the 1990s…swank restaurants, beatnik hangouts, Rat Pack nightclubs…Mexican Restaurants, motor inns… gas stations and jazz lounges…I create a feeling of switching lanes back and forth between the present, past and future.”

Francis Poulenc’s Concert champêtre (Rustic Concerto) was a conscious at-tempt to turn French music away from stuffy formality and pompous affect. Poulenc wanted his music to be mys-

terious, whimsical, musing and witty. These characteristics abound in Concert champêtre, where Poulenc creates a robust, musical dialogue between soloist and orchestra. From the jauntiness of the first movement’s opening, through mel-ancholic and sentimental charm of the second, to the driving, muscular energy of the finale Presto, Poulenc’s music is relentless in its search for contrast, color, and interest.

Paul Cienniwa’s harpsichord skills have been called “spot on,” “expert,” and “perfect.” He has appeared in concert at Harvard, MIT, Yale, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, and with renowned vio-linist Rachel Barton Pine. He conducts the Sine Nomine choral ensemble and serves as music director at First Church in Boston.

Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony was con-ceived at the same time as his Seventh, in the summer of 1812. Although far more good-humored than its towering neighbors, the imposing Seventh and the monumental Ninth, it is one of the finest examples of the tightly crafted mas-tery of musical form that characterized Beethoven’s later works.

Filled with joyous energy and bright, playful themes, the Eighth shows us a side of Beethoven we don’t often see. At times it is almost pastoral in char-acter, and its many moments of humor are a touch his mentor Haydn would have appreciated. There is no weighti-ness or darkness at all in the Eighth; it is a delightful excursion into a realm of good-natured appreciation of life’s joys and pleasures.

claSSical v“freSh air and freSh SoundS”paul cienniWa, harpSichord

april 14, 2012 / 8pM

The Bach harpsichord concerto with Cienniwa was “a joyous romp.” The Boston Musical Intelligencer

“Cienniwa’s playing is expert.” EDGE Boston

Cienniwa’s performance was “charming, polished, musically profound and technically brilliant.” The Listening Room

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23New Bedford Symphony Orchestra2011/2012 SeasonJennifer Higdon: blue cathedral

Edward MacDowell: Concerto No. 2 for Piano in D MinorAaron Copland: Symphony No. 3

W ith the compositional craft that won her the 2010 Pulit-zer Prize in Music (as well

as a Grammy), Jennifer Higdon begins blue cathedral with whispering strings and a cautious but gradually hopeful melody. Higdon tosses the melody from one woodwind to another, before a solo violin catches hold of it and brings it to the build-ing intensity of the full orchestra, which rises and falls with it many times through the rest of the piece. If this sounds like it could be describing a day, a week or a year in your life, that is because in blue cathedral Higdon wanted “to reflect on the amaz-ing journeys that we all make in our lives, crossing paths with so many individuals singularly and collectively, learning and growing each step of the way.”

Hailed as “the greatest American com-poser” during his lifetime, Edward Mac-Dowell mastered the art of 19th century European compositional principles by studying in Germany and France (where as a student he performed for Franz Liszt). Although unjustly neglected today, his music firmly established the reputation of American composers on the world stage. The Second Piano Concerto, considered his greatest work, was premièred in New York in 1889 to enthusiastic critical praise as be-ing “so full of poetry, so full of vigor….” In 1904, MacDowell was one of seven mem-bers first elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Janice Weber has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, National Gallery of Art, and Boston’s Sym-

phony Hall. Her world premiere record-ing of Liszt’s 1838 Transcendental Etudes prompted Time Magazine to comment, “…few can liberate the prophetic music they contain as masterfully as Janice Weber…”

Leonard Bernstein described Copland’s Third Symphony as “an American monu-ment.” Completed at the end of World War II, it possesses a heroic and dignified tone, using as a unifying theme his most famous melody, that of Fanfare for the Common Man. Beginning with a peaceful and calm first movement, the music car-ries the listener on a journey of discovery. With masterful artistry, Copland explores our common character, our strength, and our vision – before concluding in a blaze of triumphant exultation.

22 claSSical vi“the MuSic of aMerica” Janice Weber, piano

May 12, 2012 / 8pM

“Weber boasts a fabulous, instinctive, natural technique of the kind you can perfect but never acquire if you don’t have it already. ... Best of all, Weber’s playing has personality; fabulous as the fingers are, you are always listening to someone’s ideas, profound feelings and cascading laughter.” -The Boston Globe




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Unable to attend a concert?Please consider donating your unused tickets back to the Symphony prior to a week before the concert. We will see that music students from the region attend that concert for free. You will be mailed a receipt of your tax-deductible donation.

Concert Parking:Convenient parking is available at the adjacent Zeiterion garage for a fee of $2. Parking is also available on the streets.

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More than 24,000 children are now experiencing classical music through the NBSO’s Music in the Morning

program, the Young People’s Concerts, SchoolsMusic!, the NBSO String Instruction program, Master Classes, and the

New Bedford Symphony Youth Orchestra.

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