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Purchase your tickets online at www.victoriachamberorchestra.org

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A PRESENTATION OF THE ISLAND STRING PLAYERS SOCIETY

Yariv Aloni Music Director

Viola

Friday October 17, 2014

20th Anniversary Concert: Then and Now

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The original poster above. Facing page: extracts from the first program, outlining the philos-ophy of the orchestra, those who came together to form it, and some of the influences and supporters of the orchestra. Louis Sherman, celebrated in our Louis Sherman Concerto Competition for Young String Players, is on the left, and Jaroslav Karlovsky, professor of viola at UVic, is on the right.

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THE VICTORIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Violin 1 Yasuko Eastman, concertmaster Anja Rebstock Tyson Doknjas Allyn Chard Theressa Zapach Louise Reid Don Kissinger

Violin 2 Sue Martin, leader Cathy Reader Fiona Millard Gwen Isaacs Leah Norgrove Jennifer Fisher

Viola Alexis More, leader Catheryn Kennedy Jon O’Riordan Mary Clarke Michele MacHattie

Cello Mary Smith, leader Janis Kerr Trevor MacHattie Ellen Himmer Zachary Taylor

Bass Richard Watters, leader Richard Backus

Keyboard Peter Smith

DONORS PLATINUM $500+ Robert Moody, in memory of Marian Moody Victoria Times Colonist Richard Backus Don Kissinger for Raven Baroque GOLD $250-499 Janet Sankey Colin & Kathleen Mailer John Neal John Larsen Music Kim Tipper Fine Violins

SILVER $100-249 Annette Barclay Anonymous Charles Kissinger for Raven Ba-roque Yasuko Eastman Trevor & Michele MacHattie BRONZE $50-99 FRIEND $10-49 Jenny and Peter Coy Janet Furcht

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SPO with Norman Nelson, Music Director

Lord of the Rings Symphonic Suite

Beethoven:"Emperor" Concerto, &

Symphony No.3 "Eroica"

October 25, 26

Tickets and info: www.sookephil.ca

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Yariv Aloni, director of the Victoria Cham-

ber Orchestra since 1995, is also the founder and music director of the Galiano Ensemble of Victoria and music director of the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra. Acclaimed by critics for his sensitivity and virtuosity, he performs in major concert halls around the world. He received his early training in Israel, where he studied viola with David Chen at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and subsequently with the late Daniel Benyamini, principal violist of the Israel Philharmonic. His chamber music studies took him to the United States, where he studied with Michael Tree of the Guarneri String Quartet at the University of

Maryland. A former member of the Aviv and the Penderecki Quartets, he can be heard on CDs issued by the United, Marquise, Tritonus and CBC labels, and has recorded for the CBC, the BBC, National Public Radio, Radio-France and the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Aloni studied conducting with the Hungarian conductor János Sándor, and he participated in conducting workshops with Gustav Mayer and Helmuth Rilling. As a conductor, he has received praise for conducting his impassioned, inspiring and "magnificently right" interpretations of major orchestral and choral repertoire. Reviewers also describe him as "a musician of considerable insight and impeccable taste."

Now... and

Then...

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Programme

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1681-1767) Concerto in G Major for Viola

Largo Allegro Andante Presto

Yariv Aloni—Viola EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907) Suite for Strings in G Major Op. 40 “from Holberg’s Time”

Praelude—Allegro vivace Sarabande—Andante Gavotte—Allegretto, Musette—Poco piu mosso Air—Andante religioso Rigaudon—Allegro con brio, Poco meno mosso

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1947) Rumanian Folk Dances

JOCUL CU BÂTĂ from Mezöszabad BRÂUL from Egres PE LOC from Egres BUCIUMEANA from Bisztra POARGA ROMÂNEASCĂ from Belényes MĂRUNŢEL from Belényes MĂRUNŢEL from Nyágra

Intermission

FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847) String Sinfonia No. 9 in C Major “Swiss”

Grave—Allegro Andante Scherzo Allegro vivace