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2014-2015Concert Season

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Thirty Years ofWorld-Class Music

Music at Saint Matthew’s

30 Years of World-Class Music Close to Home

What is your}My dad taught himself to play piano and never read a note of music. He played his own music and some jazz by ear but I grew up mostly listen-ing to recordings of Glen Gould playing Bach. My dad played them over and over and I knew every note. Playing the flute puts me in touch with some magical sound deep down that I can’t explain but I have in my heart. I always try to express that sound. I am not sure what it is.~

— Nancy Marfisi, principal flute

Three Decades of Passion for the Music

Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over 30 years of wonderful music. It’s quite an accomplishment and you should be very proud. As we begin this Anniversary Season, it is clear that all of us involved in the Music Guild – subscribers,

orchestra, board members, and audience – have a passion for music. Your support has trans-formed that passion into thirty years of great music, and we look forward to many more!

So I ask you, what is your musical passion? What is it about music that touches your soul? Why do you come to concerts? Why do you subscribe? What compels you to donate so that we can engage talented soloists and commission and perform new music?

Members of the orchestra gave some interesting and moving responses to this question, and we’ve highlighted some in this season brochure. Many trace their passion for music back to their youth and family traditions. For others, their passion is more idealistic or philosophical.

Please tell us. Share your thoughts when you subscribe by mail or online. Visit our Facebook page or send an email to [email protected]. We would like to know what moves you and, unless you request otherwise, we’d like to share your passion for music with others during our Anniversary Season.

We have a great 30th season for you. Please enjoy the music!

— Tom Neenan, Music Director

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All concerts take place Fridays at 8pm at St. Matthew’s Church, 1031 Bienveneda Ave., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

October 10 n 8pm

Hummel and BeethovenThe Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s

David Washburn, Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Los Angeles Opera Orchestra,

opens the season with the brilliantly virtuosic Trumpet Concerto by Beethoven friend and confidant Johann Hummel.

n Johann Hummel: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major David Washburn, trumpet (right)

n Ludwig van Beet hoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major

n 30th Anniversary Celebration Piece

}Music is a universal language that allows us to communicate

what is in the depths of the human spirit. It speaks to all of us across different generations and cultures. Music helps us to find

connections within ourselves and with each other.~

— Jason Gamer, trumpet, with nephew Sonny

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}I was born to be a Romantic. My mother attended Rachmaninoff’s last public performance three months before I arrived in this world. My family played music all the time because we made up a quartet of violin, viola, cello and piano. I loved playing music by the great Romantic composers and still do. It’s in my DNA.~

—Robert E. Greene, violin

November 14 n 8pm

Beethoven and StravinskyThe Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s

First Prize winner of the 2004 Yehudi Menuhin International Competi-

tion at the age of nineteen, “The Strad Magazine” lauded her “heart-stopping, unrivaled beauty and supremely musi-cal playing.”

n Ludwig van Beet hoven: Violin Concerto in D major Hye-Jin Kim, violin (right)

n Igor Stravinsky: Danses concertantes

Made possible by a generous gift from Sarah and Kwan Seo.

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}Music is the passion that consumes my heart and soul. It allows me to

laugh, cry, celebrate, mourn, and pray anywhere and anytime and helps to eliminate the minutia of my world (if

only temporarily). I can experience a great ‘explosion’ of emotion and

then a ‘calmness’ to my life in a mere moment of time, AND ‘my cello

don’t talk back to me!’~

—Robin Guyett-Neenan, principal cellist

December 12 n 8pm

Handel, Purcell and BachThe Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’sn George Frederick Handel:

Messiah (Part I) The Choir and Soloists of St. Matthew’s Parish

n Henry Purcell: Trumpet Sonata in D major David Searfoss, trumpet (left)

n J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major

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January 23 n 8pm

Tesserae Baroque Ensemble and Choirn Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat majorn Johann Christian Bach: Wedding Cantatan Vocal and instrumental masterworks by J. S. Bach, Buxtehude, and Telemann

}I was 10 years old and had only been playing violin a couple of years when I realized that music is a gift of joy I can give to others. My Grandpa Seiler was a very stoic German immigrant – a man of few words and not much outward emotion. He was very caring, but didn’t show it. My

parents played piano and one Christmas, my father insisted we play a duet, an old German folksong – Wien, Wien, nur du Allein. When we were finished, my Grandpa had tears in

his eyes. I was struck by his emotional reaction to our little performance. I don’t think I really understood it then. All I knew

was that my Christmas gift of music made Grandpa Seiler smile.~

—Lisa Gregory, associate concertmaster

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March 13 n 8pm

Britten, Walker, HoneggerThe Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s

}I never know when – or what – music will hit me. Classical, jazz, rock, or film music.

I can be sitting at a concert, conducting, driving in my car, or watching a movie on TV,

and bam – all of a sudden I get emotional. Sometimes, when I’m just talking about

music, I get all choked up. I’ll never forget the time my wife Robin and I went to see

the children’s film Pete’s Dragon. When the music swelled at the end of the movie, she

looked over at me and I had dissolved into a puddle of tears. Go figure.~

—Tom Neenan, music director

n Benjamin Britten: Concerto for Violin and Viola, with Los Angeles Philharmon-ic members Akiko Tarumoto (left), violin, Dana Hansen (right), viola

n George Walker: Lyric for String Orchestra

n Arthur Honegger: Symphony No. 4 (Delights of the City of Basel)

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April 24 n 8pm

Violin-fest: A Celebration of the Violin and Violin Music from Four CenturiesMaia Jasper (left), Kevin Kumar (right), Yi-Huan Zhao, Alexander Kalman, violinn Brydern:

Concerto for Two Violins

n Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in B minor for Four Violins

n Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite

n Music of Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and Britten

}I am passionate about the music the orchestra commis-sions and premieres. It is new to all of us and we all share learning it together. We make it our own – before anyone else has heard it. Bringing new music into the world is always a journey of discovery and very exciting for all of us.~

—Yi-Huan Zhao, concertmaster

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June 5 n 8pm

The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s and Choir and Soloists of St. Matthew’s Parish



}Growing up in Vladivostok in a family of musicians, I was exposed to a lot of music and learned the importance of

sharing music with family and friends. Shostakovich has a special place in my heart. I love his intensity, pain, sarcasm

and protest. My father was the first violinist to perform his Violin Sonata

in Saint Petersburg. I played it on my graduation recital in his honor.~

—Alexander Kalman, violin, with pianist Hiroyo Hatsuyama Kalman

Thomas Neenan, Music Director

Our 30th Anniversary season concludes with celebratory music for choir and

orchestra by John Rutter, Franz Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn’s most impressive score — the Suite from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

n John Rutter: Glorian Franz Joseph Haydn: Te Deumn Felix Mendelssohn: The Suite from

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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Seraphim Ron Hudson & Allen

Brannigan Concertmaster Chair

SponsorsAnonymous Corporate Gift

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Angel William & Kathy Bitting Principal Cello Chair

SponsorsLynne Brickner & Jerry

Gallard Principal Oboe Chair

SponsorsRichard Cullen & Robert

FinnertyThomas & Lynne Danco

In memory of Elaine & Peter Danco & Marjorie & Bob Larson

Assistant Concertmaster Chair Sponsors

Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Mike and Carol LanningMacTon FoundationRobert & Judy McInturff

In memory of Charlotte E. McInturff

Principal Flute Chair Sponsors

Geoffrey Moyer In loving memory of Mary Lynn Moyer

Principal Bass Chair Sponsor

Margaret L. Neenan Principal Clarinet Chair

SponsorPatricia OppenheimGlenn Ossiander &

Cindy Dunne Principal Bassoon Chair

SponsorsMrs. Hoyt S. Pardee Jacquie Theis Richard Van Duzer

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Gold Patron Robert & Brenda Brown Anne K. Costin Don & Tam Dickerson Fred & Sarah Doering Gorden & Karen Dressler

Julian & JoAnn GanzWilliam & Nona GreeneDaryn & Bill HortonRichard & Heidi Landers Tom & Robin NeenanCarl & June Phelps Kent & Joan Sather Sarah & Kwan SeoGeorge & Ann SmithKlaas & Dede Vlietstra Jean & Charles Warner IIIJohn Warren Jim Webb

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Silver Patron Bryan & Mary Conley Peter Dubrawski Louise Grant GarlandVance & Patricia MeyerJudy & Steaven JonesJohn & Judy O’Reilly John and Cheryly Vigna

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Sponsor Ken & Ann Kerr AdamsKenneth & Jane AndersonJohn & Sheridan BentsonBill & Barbara BlattElizabeth BrooksRobert & Eleanor BundyCharles & Jessie CaleRobert Colton & Linda MoffitAllen & Lois DunneBob & Diane GuyettFrank & Kathleen

Summerland HeuserMar Jennings Chris & Mary Ellen KanoffPete Mann George & Caroline MartinJohn MartineauClark & Audrey McQuay David & Sarah MillerBill & Nancy Mortensen Fred & Alice Blair SimmonsCarl SpringSusan & Peter TortoriciBill & Sally WallaceSam Williams

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Subscriber Tom & Sarah AdamsLiz Ames Arthur Barlow & Judith Jonas

Peter Crosby & Janet DavisJoyce Costello FerrisBob & Evelyn FowlksWhitney & Sue GanzMickey Gompf Lyuba HarrisWally & Maida HastingsMac & Carolyn Holmes Elizabeth and Dan KeatingeCatherine Lanter & John

CarrickSara LatzCarolyn Leacock & Ted Mackie Tom & Chris Liggett Mary Lou and Bill LoperConnie Linesch & Bob LynnRobert & Louise MartinChris & Pam McGranahanHarry & Jacqueline

McMahon Robert & Noel MerzJim & Tracy MetzgerJames & Eleanore MeyerCarol MoravaFrank & Sandra Morton Cynthia MothersoleWilliam and Dorothy Richards William & Alice RichardsonGuilford RobinsonKenneth Roehrs & Sara

McGahThomas SafranEllen Sangermano Per & Agneta SjoforsLinda N. SmithBernard & Reba SofferLinda SternChristine d’Arc TaylorReva & Bill TooleyJohn TormeyElizabeth TroyBruce & Yvette Van DalsemBarbara & Peter VashDavid & Nancy von OeyenMarianne Weil Merelie WhitedJai & Becky WindingRob Wood & Colleen

McAndrewsDoug & Marcia YoungMichael Zatzick

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Member David Billeter Ann Graham EhringerJean EnnsCynthia Marie Gannon

Susan Grigsby Michael GyepesHeather HanunianMichael R. IrwinAnne JaskoskiKatherine KieferIra LowryElisabeth Luttgens Elizabeth MontezJames & Annabel

MontgomeryChris SchetterGeorge SoneffRichard SternbergJoyce WoodfordRoger K. WoodsStu & Rachelle Work

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Special Contributions

We gratefully acknowledge

the following special non-subscription gifts to the Music Guild.Hal & Maribeth Borthwick

(N. E. Barry and L. P. Rees Foundation)

Bryan & Mary ConleyFund for Music OutreachBob & Ann HarterRichard & Heidi LandersFund for Music OutreachPeggy MillerBev Lowe & John RileyFund for Music Outreach

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Music Guild Board of DirectorsFred Doering, PresidentCynthia Gannon, Treasurer William Greene, Jr., SecretaryAnne K. CostinGordon DresslerRobert FinnertyPatricia MasseyJohn O’ReillyGlenn OssianderFred SimmonsCynthia Smith

All concerts take place Fridays at 8pm at St. Matthew’s Church, 1031 Bienveneda Ave., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

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