Spring 2014HarrisburgSymphony.org

FANFAREHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | STUART MALINA, MUSIC DIRECTOR

Spring 2014CONTENTS

HSO STAFF

YOUTH SYMPHONY

The Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra is supported in part by a grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, which is supported by the National

Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

The official registration and financial information of the Harrisburg Symphony Association may be obtained from the

Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within PA, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.

Stuart MalinaMusic Director

Gregory Woodbridge Assistant Conductor

Jeff WoodruffExecutive Director

Susan KlickDirector of Operations and Orchestra Personnel

Darryl HartshorneAssistant Personnel Manager

Leann CurrieLibrarian

Ted ReeseDirector of Development

Kimberly KellerDevelopment Associate

Kim IsenhourDirector of Marketing, PR and Graphic Design

Alice Anne SchwabDirector of Education and Office Manager

Michael MurrayDirector of Finance

Patrick WallenPatron Services Manager

Tom AcriStage Manager

Pasquale FeraAssistant Stage Manager

Tristan Stasiulis Lighting Designer

James LongIntern

Gregory Woodbridge Music Director/Conductor, HSYO

Krista KrielConductor, JYSO

Alice Anne SchwabAdministrator, HSYO

800 Corporate Circle, Suite 101Harrisburg, PA 17110Phone: 717.545.5527

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Mark Your Calendar 3 Stuart and Friends 2014 Youth Orchestra’s Mother’s Day Concert

4 2013/14 Remaining Performances Summer Concerts 2014 Paris-Normandy River Cruise

Spring Highlights 5 Emmelle Fashion Show Community Outreach

6 2014 Orchestras Feeding America Capital 10-Miler Race for the Arts

7 HSO Debut at Messiah’s High Center HSYO collaborates with CPYB

Highlights 8 Patrons keep the music playing Travel Abroad

9 New HSO Musician New HSO Staff member Behind the Scenes Feature

HSO Musician Feature 10-11 Adriana Linares interviewed about her son Andres Sanchez

HSO Annouces 2014/15 Season 12 Masterwork Series Capital BlueCross Pops Series

13 Jeremy Gill World Premiere Rising Stars Competition Winner Forum Improvements

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In what has become a much-anticipated spring tradition, Stuart Malina will join with “friends” from the orchestra

for the annual Stuart & Friends concert on Tuesday, May 13 at 7:30 at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center at HACC. This year Stuart will be joined by HSO Concertmaster Peter Sirotin, Principal Violist Julius Wirth, Principal Cellist Fiona Thompson, and Principal Bass Devin Howell. The program will include a Trio Sonata by Handel, Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3, and the beautiful Piano Quintet by Vaughan Williams. Stuart and Friends is sponsored by Marilynn Kanenson in memory of her husband, Dr. William Kanenson. Tickets are available at HarrisburgSymphony.org.

Jonathan Ragonese’s Democratic Symphony will be given its first performance when some of the mid-state’s finest young musicians take the stage for the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra’s annual Mother’s Day concert on Sunday, May 11 at the Forum.

Jonathan Ragonese is no stranger to the Central Pennsylvania music scene. A native of Cumberland County, the composer, arranger and saxophonist has worked with several noted local and international performers, including Steve Rudolph, Terell Stafford, David Liebman, Jon Faddis, Tim Warfield, JD Walter, Jimmy Heath and James Moody. As a composer, his works have been premiered by saxophonist Steve Wilson, the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra, The Righteous Girls, the Solar Winds Quintet, and the Manhattan School of Music Jazz Orchestra. His debut CD release, Ardent Marigolds, a collaboration with pianist Steve Rudolph, was released last November on R&L Records. For the past six years Jonathan has lived in New York City, where he earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees at the Manhattan School of Music.

The Mother’s Day concert will feature both the Junior Youth Strings conducted by Krista Kriel and the full Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra conducted by Gregory Woodbridge. Red Land High School Senior and HSYO Principal Cellist, David Dietz, won the Youth Symphony’s concerto competition earlier this season and will perform Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C on this concert. Here’s the program:

Junior Youth StringsHaydn – Allegro from “Quinten” Quartet, arranged by Brendan McBrienJohn Williams - Theme from Schindler’s List with Emily Chung and Brian Liu, Violin SoloistsHolst – St. Paul’s Suite, 1st and 4th MovementsBrian Balmages – Point Lookout, Fantasy on Civil War Songs

Harrisburg Symphony Youth OrchestraRagonese – Democratic SymphonyHaydn – Cello Concerto in C, with David Dietz, CelloElgar – Enigma Variations

The concert starts at 3:00 pm and seating is first come, first served. Tickets are only $5 for students and $10 for adults and are available online at HarrisburgSymphony.org.

World Premiere on Youth Orchestra’s Mother’s Day ConcertMay 11

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The 2013/14 season wraps up with a tribute to Judy Garland on April 26-27, the annual Stuart & Friends concert on May 13, and music of Copland, Higdon & Tchaikovsky on May 17-18.

Vocalist Hilary Kole pays tribute to one of the most singular talents of the 20th century when she takes us on a musical journey through the life and spectacular career of Judy Garland on the season’s final Pops concerts. With the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz being observed this year, Hilary gives us her rendition of “Over the Rainbow” and many other memorable songs that made Judy Garland a world famous superstar.

On the final Masterworks concerts of the season, HSO principal percussionist Chris Rose will perform Jennifer Higdon’s spectacular Percussion Concerto. Chris performed this crowd-pleaser six years ago and audiences have clamored for a repeat performance ever since. Also on the program, Stuart Malina conducts Copland’s Quiet City and Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony.

On Tuesday evening, May 13, Stuart will join with HSO colleagues Peter Sirotin, Julius Wirth, Fiona Thompson and Devin Howell for the annual Stuart & Friends concert at the Rose Lehrman Arts Center at HACC. On the program, music by Handel, Grieg and Vaughan Williams.

Tickets for all remaining concerts are available at HarrisburgSymphony.org.

The HSO looks forward each spring to taking a group of patrons to some romantic destination in Europe. Trips in recent years have included the cities of Salzburg/Vienna/Prague, Ireland’s Ashford Castle, a cruise on the Rhine River, and Venice and its environs. This spring, Stuart and Marty Malina and a group of HSO patrons will fly to Paris, France on May 26 where they will embark on a cruise on the Seine River. They’ll combine time in France’s beautiful and bustling capital with discoveries of quaint towns along the Seine and in the picturesque Normandy region,

commemorating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. These annual trips are organized by Mari Atchason of Travel Professionals in Lemoyne.

Continuing a decades-old tradition, the Harrisburg Symphony will perform a series of FREE concerts in various mid-state communities around the Independence Day holiday. This year’s concerts, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of D-Day, will be a “A Celebration of the American Veteran.” Here’s the schedule:

Thursday, July 3 - Lebanon Valley College, Annville Sponsored by Lebanon Valley College

Friday, July 4 - Negley Park, Lemoyne Sponsored by Lemoyne Business Association

Saturday, July 5 – Metro Bank Park on City Island Sponsored by Faulkner Honda and the Dauphin County Commissioners

Sunday, July 6 – Dickinson College Campus, Carlisle Sponsored by the G.B. Stuart Foundation, the Sentinel, the Summerfair Committee and the community of Carlisle

Monday, July 7 – Millerstown Park, Millerstown, Perry County Sponsored by the Lawrence & Julia Hoverter Foundation & First National Bank of Mifflintown

2013/14 Season Heads For Home

Paris-Normandy river cruiseMay 26 - June 3, 2014

Summer Concerts 2014

Community OutreachVision Resources of Central Pennsylvania (formerly known as the Tri-County Association for the Blind) and the Harrisburg Symphony’s Education Department have teamed up to offer quarterly musical encounters for our HSO musicians and Vision Resources clients. A recent such gathering included a presentation of violin music from Bach to Bluegrass with HSO violinist, Carl Iba, at the Vision Resources headquarters in Harrisburg. HSO Principal tubist, Eric Henry, will round out the season with a presentation for Vision Resources clients in June.

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It was a new twist on an old idea. The Harrisburg Symphony Society has hosted many fashion shows over the years; in fact, fashion shows are a regular event every three years. But, they have always been in the spring, and always anchored by a department store.

Joy Dougherty, a Harrisburg Symphony Association Board member, reached out to the Society a year ago with a tempting, exciting and daring idea for a New York style runway show featuring one designer. Joy established a relationship with Mi Jong Lee, the owner and designer of Emmelle Collection.

Mi Jong Lee is an American fashion designer whose luxurious, sophisticated, modern clothes are marketed under the EMMELLE label and manufactured in New York City. She was delighted to contribute to the fund raiser for the HSO and she came to town

to personally participate. Ms Lee also attended a dinner in her honor with the committee and volunteers. This was her first solo runway show and she was as delighted as we were with the results.

Through dozens of meetings, phone calls, emails and trips into the NYC Fashion District, Joy and co-chair Caren Schein put things in motion. Local boutique The Plum came on board and before we knew it... well, not quite before we knew it but after a lot of hard work, THE ART OF PERSONAL STYLE came to fruition at the Harrisburg Hilton.

Joy and Caren led the steering committee of 20 HSS members and garnered 50 volunteers to act as hostesses on the day. Volunteers created the centerpieces, distributed favors and centerpieces in the ballroom, greeted and directed guests, and sold raffle tickets for the 32 baskets of “Favorite Things” compiled by society board members. Another money maker was the seven Premiere Raffle Items which were donated from the community.

And the day? Remember January? It was really a gamble with the weather! There was a major snowstorm on January 22, but Wednesday, January 23 was sunny and dry. Whew! With over 300 guests we really had luck on our side.

The afternoon moved at a quick clip starting with a cocktail reception and trunk show at 11. We moved into a seated lunch by 12:30, which was delicious and promptly served. Premium ticket holders moved to runway seats and The Fashion Show began. After raffle winners were announced, we headed back into the trunk show where a percent of all Emmelle purchases benefitted the HSO. The ART OF PERSONAL STYLE was a triumph on every level, and certainly on the bottom line. After all expenses the Harrisburg Symphony Society netted over $75,000 for the Orchestra. Oh, shucks, it was nothing.

Orchestras Feeding America March Food Drive a plentiful success!During the month of March, orchestras all over America joined together, inviting their concert-going patrons to contribute non-perishable food items to help people in need in their communities.

Harrisburg Symphony concert goers generously offered a total of 1,562 lbs. of food at both the March Pops and Masterworks concerts. Channels Food Rescue assisted us in getting the nonperishables to those in need.

Special thanks to residents of the Green Hill Home and their house family, Scott, Kimberly, Winston and Cassandra Schuyler from Milton Hershey School, who once again assisted the HSO in the food drive collection.

Thanks to you, our wonderful patrons, Channels Food Rescue has already delivered the 1562 lbs. of food to agencies and food pantries throughout our area.

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Capital 10-Miler Race for the ArtsIn spite of a steady rain and a biting chill, close to 600 participants braved the elements to run in the Capital 10-Miler, A Race for the Arts, on the morning of March 30. The race started and finished on City Island.

The event benefits local arts groups including the Harrisburg Symphony, the Art Association of Harrisburg, Gamut Theatre Group, Market Square Concerts, Open Stage of Harrisburg, Susquehanna Folk Music Society, Theatre Harrisburg and Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts.

Thanks to HSO flutist, Mary Hannigan, and HSO Violist, Alice Bish, who participated and organized a group of musicians and friends to raise money for the HSO. THANK YOU MARY and ALICE!

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HSO Debuts at the High CenterMendelssohn’s massive oratorio, Elijah, was the vehicle for the HSO’s debut in Parmer Hall at the High Center for Worship and the Performing Arts at Messiah College on Friday, April 11. The 925-seat hall, which opened in early 2013, was designed in the classic rectangular “shoebox” shape common to many of the world’s finest concert halls. By all accounts the hall’s acoustics handled the 125-voice choir (seated in elevated choral seating behind the stage), five vocal soloists and symphony orchestra with ease. Conductor Stuart Malina and chorus director Linda Tedford were effusive in their praise while audience members used adjectives like “glorious,” “magnificent” and “brilliant” to describe the sound.

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Youth Symphony to Collaborate with CPYBMembers of the Harrisburg Symphony Youth Orchestra will collaborate with Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet as part of the company’s June Series at the Whitaker Center. Gregory Woodbridge will conduct the string players of the Youth Symphony in Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite, set to choreography by Alan Hineline.

Performances will take place on Friday, June 20 at 7:00 pm Saturday, June 21 at 6:00 pm.

Tickets are available at WhitakerCenter.org or by calling 214-ARTS.

Walpurgisnacht Ballet, Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Photo © Rosalie O’Connor Photography

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HSO Patrons keep the music playing…“My wife and I support

the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra because we

find our lives to be enormously enriched to

hear these musicians play such gorgeous music so

exquisitely. We never fail to be excited and moved when we come into the Forum and see the players assembling on

stage. There is something very special--almost sacred--about a community gathering to listen to transcendent music. After the relentless to and fro of our daily lives, it is a sublime thing to listen to this orchestra play this beautiful music. We are very fortunate to have them among us.”

Steve MacDonald

HSO Assistant Concertmaster Matthew Lehmann recently returned from an Asian tour with the New York Philharmonic. The orchestra performed in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan under the direction of their music director, Alan Gilbert. This is not the first time that Matt has toured with the Philharmonic, having gone on tours to Europe in 2013 and the U.S. in 2009. He has played with the Philharmonic off and on since 2000 and has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic, among others. Matt also plays regularly in the pit orchestra for various Broadway shows, including The Book of Mormon, Wicked, Matilda, Cinderella, Motown, and Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark. Matt joined the Harrisburg Symphony in 2003. He lives with his wife, Ann (a member of the MET Orchestra), their daughter Evelyn (4) and son James (2) in Harrington, NJ.

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HSO Assistant Concertmaster Matt Lehmann Tours Asia with the New York Philharmonic

For a limited time, your tax-deductible donation to the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra

will make TWICE the difference! As a fan of the HSO, you already appreciate the positive impact a great symphony can have

on our city. Now the HSO is being recognized with a special grant from The McCormick Family Foundation to grow our family of supporters. The Foundation will match every NEW

and INCREASED contribution to the Annual Fund before the end of our performance season!

The HSO can only benefit from this matching grant if you make your donation first!

How will YOUR GIFT COUNT?

1. If you are making your FIRST GIFT EVER to the Annual Fund, YOUR GIFT WILL COUNT!

2. Already made a contribution to the Annual Fund? Your ADDITIONAL GIFT will count!

3. Time to renew your Annual Fund contribution? Any INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR’S GIFT will count!

Please act now. Your contribution will make TWICE the difference to you and your community! Donate to the HSO before June 30 and your donation will be doubled by the McCormick Family Foundation, which has agreed to match all donations dollar-for-dollar

up to $20,000! Visit HarrisburgSymphony.org to participate!

Whether you are a fan of Masterworks or Pops, we hope you agree that the HSO makes Harrisburg a better place to live, work and visit. Ticket sales cover less than 40% of the HSO’s operating expenses so please donate

to the HSO today so we can reach our financial goals and end the season on a high note. Your gift, in any amount, will bring the very best live performances of symphonic music to Harrisburg.

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Violinist Jeoung-Yin Kim has joined the HSO’s 2nd Violin Section. Originally from South Korea, she has won many awards and has given performances and recitals in renowned concert halls throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Jeoung-Yin came to the U.S. in 2007 to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree at the Juilliard School in NYC. She has worked with many distinguished conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Alan Gilbert, Robert Spano and Vladimir Jurovsky. Jeoung-Yin Kim resides in New York City.

Newest Member of the HSOLeann Currie has taken over the Librarian duties at the HSO, effective at the end of February. Most recently Leann served as the Principal Librarian at the Kilden Theater and Concert House in Kristiansand, Norway. Before that she worked in various library positions at the University of Pennsylvania, as Librarian for the Lower Merion Symphony, and as an intern at the Philadelphia Orchestra library.

The librarian is the person charged with acquiring all the music for each performance and then returning it to its source afterwards, whether it’s to the orchestra’s permanent library or to a rental agency. The Librarian must make sure that the players’ parts agree with the conductor’s score and that all markings, including (but not limited to) cuts, rehearsal numbers and string bowings, are properly entered. Practice parts must be distributed to the orchestra, usually 3-4 weeks before the first rehearsal. It is a job that requires both accuracy and painstaking attention to detail, not to mention good communication skills.

We welcome Leann to the HSO.

HSO’s New Librarian

What audiences see on the Forum stage is often only the “tip of the iceberg” of what it takes to put on an HSO concert. The Capital BlueCross Series, especially, can be technically quite complicated and labor intensive (just think of last spring’s “Cirque de la Symphonie” show, which required special lighting and complex rigging, in a theater that wasn’t designed for it). When it comes to the critical area of sound, the HSO depends on the considerable expertise of Mr. Don Intrieri, whose My Wife’s Sound Company provides all the special equipment necessary to make the sound “right” for each performance. You can often see Don sitting at his sound board placed immediately behind Section 207. From there, Don “mixes” the sound, often balancing a variety of elements, including solo singers, a chorus, electric guitars, a rhythm section, and of course the orchestra itself. We tip our hat to Don, whose experienced and well trained ears help bring each show to vivid, and well balanced, life.

Behind the Scenes Heroes at the HSO

HSO Board member Randy Aires and his wife, Ginny, recently

went on a tour of Southeastern Asia that took them to Cambodia and Myanmar. They’re pictured here astride an elephant in the

Buddhist temple complex at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the largest religious monument in

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Adriana Linares joined the HSO viola section in 2004. She is a product of the remarkable music education program in her native Venezuela known as El Sistema. Her 17 year-old son, Andres Sanchez, is a gifted cellist who was recently accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the most prestigious music schools in the world. We asked Adriana what it was like to raise and nurture such a gifted child.

When did Andres start showing an interest in the cello?Andres’s exposure to music started during my pregnancy when I played/practiced viola up until I was 9 months pregnant. I remember sitting by the piano and talking to him while in my belly. I would play a piano key, he would kick back answering… he was a musical baby from his beginnings!

Andres was born in January 1997. I remember practicing in front of him in preparation for my string juries, competitions and lessons while I was at Indiana University. He not only was exposed to viola, but I also play some piano, violin, guitar and Venezuelan cuatro (his father also is a great amateur singer, pianist and guitar player). From Venezuelan merengues to Cuban Salsas, Mozart and Beethoven symphonies, there was always some form of music making at the household. I remember all of us always dancing to music, humming, singing, tapping, even acting to music! In Venezuela where I grew up, music is a huge part of our lives, so I guess doing the same with my child was a natural thing.

How did you find a good teacher for him?Andres has been very lucky to be surrounded by outstanding musicians through my programs, quartets, camps, etc. Jesus Morales, the cellist of my quartet (the Dali Quartet), was his principal cello teacher for the last 6 years. This was an easy fit because Jesus played chamber music with me, and I trusted him as a colleague already. Jesus is originally from Puerto Rico and comes from a very musical family. I have to say that Jesus was a huge inspiration for Andres, and managed to connect with Andres not only at a musical level, but also personally and culturally.

As far as the early years, when we moved to the Lansdale area, outside Philadelphia, in 2001, we happened to be in

Musician and Motherone of the top public school string programs in the country (without knowing it). Andres joined the string program at Bridle Path Elementary School in 3rd grade with director Ralph Jackson. He started private lessons with the cellist of my quartet at the time, Miguel Rojas, currently the principal cellist of the Puerto Rico Symphony. Four months later Andres played the Bach Suite No. 1 in concert.

Parents often ask professional musicians whether they should make their child practice their instrument. What was your approach to encouraging Andres to practice?

It is hard to say. I did not sit in on every lesson nor did I practice with him all the time. He would of course play for me almost every week, but it was not planned. I would walk in our studio while he was practicing, make a comment or suggest an exercise. As he got more advanced, he actually would ask for lessons, and of course for the Curtis audition, yes, I did help lots with the practicing. To answer your question, I was always there, but I can honestly say that I really NEVER pushed it. I would encourage, support and suggest it, but he practiced and played because he really wanted to. Andres describes it very nicely, he always says that I did it just right, not too pushy but not too relaxed. Whatever that means, it seemed to work. You should ask him!

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Did Andres perform for people when he was young?All the time! He played for family, friends, my program recitals, other master classes, camps, concerts, yes! He was on it all the time. The performance aspect from early ages is so important; I did this with him, and continue to do it with my own students. Another big aspect of performing that I tried to encourage from early on, is that he learned that “performing” is not only about us but also a gift that you give to others by sharing your passion.

Were you able to find a balance between music and academics for Andres, and if so, how, or was he focused solely on music from childhood? What about sports?

Andres was always a really good student in elementary and middle school and the years he did in high school at the North Penn School District. He never practiced more than 1 or 2 hours per day. Last year he was in 10th grade and had to practice so much for the audition to get into Curtis, so it was very difficult because he was taking AP courses and advanced math courses. At that point he knew he wanted to focus more on the audition material and made a decision to study less and practice more. As far as sports, Andres has played soccer since he was 3 years old, and still plays on occasion. He was really good at it too, but at the age of 13 decided not to join the travel team and only did recreational.

Has Andres ever been nervous playing for others? If so, how did you help him overcome that?

Of course, nerves are always there! Seeing him all these years I can see he has a great personality when it comes to pressure and he has some really good ways of controlling nerves, not showing it much, and playing extremely well under those circumstances. We have had endless discussions about the physical and psychological aspects of performance anxiety. He says the more he performs, the less nervous he gets and that the better prepared he is, the less nervous he gets. As far as these past months at Curtis, he says he is even more inspired and tries to think of the music more than anything else and that helps with nerves.

Did Andres ever go through periods where he just wanted to quit playing the cello, and if so, how did he get through that?

He never wanted to quit completely, but he did go through a period of not practicing much, I would say around 12-13 years old. However, he still took lessons and played in orchestras. At that time he was thinking he wanted to be an architect or a doctor. Once he passed that phase, he went back to being inspired and motivated to want to do more cello and music.

It’s often hard for parents to delineate between supporting and pressuring a child to achieve. Was that hard for you?

My words of encouragement were always there, I always told him he had the natural talent, the devotion, the opportunities, the connections, the training, the family support and the right personality for being a performer. It takes so much to be a great musician as you may all know! I would always tell Andres that he had a gift that is unique and is there and if he wanted to pursue music, I will always support him (and/or anything else he wanted to become). The challenge is that even though that was clear in my mind, the drive needed to come from Andres; he always heard words of encouragement from his teachers, friends, conductors and me, but the last word had to come from him. He is the one who needed to get the motivation to choose music as a career, and so he did around the time he turned 14. I am so happy to see this love and passion grow in the last few months at Curtis, he is so devoted, disciplined, serious, motivated and enthusiastic about becoming a better musician and learning from his teachers. I am very proud of him.

Andres Sanchez performing at the Oak Flat Elementary in the Big Springs School District for the Harrisburg Symphony

Musical School Outreach in May 2012.

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An all-Beethoven concert that will include the great German composer’s Eroica Symphony will open a stellar 2014/15 season in a newly-renovated Forum on October 18-19. Written at the dawn of the 19th century, the Eroica redefined

the symphony for the coming Romantic age and beyond. Other favorite symphonies during the season will include Mendelssohn No. 4, Franck’s D Minor Symphony, Kevin Puts No. 1, and Shostakovich No. 5. Other orchestral masterworks will include pieces by Bernstein, Prokofiev, Martinu, Marquez, Enescu, Strauss, and Thomas Adès. As for soloists, Maestro Malina himself will conduct from the keyboard as he performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in January. Pianist Alon Goldstein opens the season in October with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4; clarinet virtuoso Christopher Grymes will be here in November to perform the world premiere of Jeremy Gill’s brand new Notturno Concertante for Clarinet and Orchestra; violinist Augustin Hadelich will play Lalo’s spectacular Symphonie espagnole in February; Rising Stars Concerto Competition winner Kathryn Westerlund will perform Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto in March; and young American violinist Caroline Goulding will be here at the end of the season in May to perform Samuel Barber’s meltingly beautiful Violin Concerto. In April the orchestra will join forces with the Susquehanna Chorale and the Choral Arts Society in two performances of Johannes Brahms’s choral masterpiece, A German Requiem.

The Capital BlueCross Pops series will once again sizzle as we invite you to “feel the force” when Stuart Malina conducts music from Star Wars, Star Trek, and other sci-fi movie favorites on November 22-23. Many of your favorite Star Wars characters will “invade” the Forum in costume that weekend to join in the fun. In January, we bring back favorite vocalists Capathia Jenkins and Darius DeHaas for a salute to the kings and queens of “Classic Soul.” In early March, we welcome back the incomparable Cirque de la Symphonie show of aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers, balancers and strongmen that sold out the Forum in 2013. Then, to bring the Pops season to a rousing conclusion in May, we will present “An Evening of Rodgers and Hammerstein Classics,” featuring immortal songs from The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel, and The King and I, all sung by Broadway stars Ron Bohmer and Sandra Joseph and the Harrisburg Singers and backed by the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.

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Become a Subscriber!The best way to enjoy ALL of this wonderful music is to SUBSCRIBE to one or both series. Subscriber perks include a substantial discount on price and guaranteed seating from one program to the next and from one season to the next. Visit harrisburgsymphony.org for details on how YOU can become an HSO subscriber.

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The HSO will present the world premiere of a new Clarinet Concerto, entitled Notturno Concertante, by Jeremy Gill on November 8-9. Mr. Gill, a 1992 graduate of Red Land High School, is well known to Central Pennsylvania audiences. His music was last performed by the Harrisburg Symphony in May 2009, when Stuart Malina conducted his First Symphony. Elsewhere, his music has been commissioned by Chamber Music America, Concert Artists Guild, the Dolce Suono Ensemble, the

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Market Square Concerts, and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, among many others. He has received grants or awards from Meet the Composer, the League of American Orchestras, and two each ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould and BMI Student Composer Awards. His music is available on the Albany Records label.

Last fall Jeremy was a fellow at the famed

MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where he composed a major solo work for Baltimore Symphony violist Peter Minkler. This season, in addition to Notturno Concertante, Jeremy is composing an oboe concerto for Dallas Symphony principal oboist Erin Hannigan, commissioned by donors of the Dallas Symphony.

Notturno Concertante, written for clarinetist Christopher Grymes and the Harrisburg Symphony, was commissioned by the Lois Lehrman Grass Foundation.

Jeremy Gill World Premiere in November

Lebanon-based pianist Kathryn Westerlund is the winner of the 4th Rodney & Lorna Sawatsky Rising Stars Concerto Competition held this past January 18th at Messiah College. The biennial competition was established in 2007 as a collaboration between the HSO and the college and is open to instrumentalists 19 years of age or under as of the date of the competition. Winners receive a $1,000 cash prize, a Vollmer Music Scholarship to Messiah College (valued at $60,000), and a possible appearance with the HSO on the orchestra’s Masterworks Series. Past winners have included pianists Konrad Binienda and Yen Yu Chen and cellist Julia Rosenbaum, each of whom performed with the Harrisburg Symphony during the season following the competition. Kathryn Westerlund won this year’s competition with her performance of the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Sergei Prokofiev. She will perform the concerto with Stuart Malina and the HSO in March 2015.

Kathryn Westerlund Wins Rising Stars Competition

The Forum will have a new look and, quite literally, a new feel starting next fall. We are very pleased to report that funds have been approved by the commonwealth to replace all the carpeting and all the seats inside the auditorium and to renovate the restrooms throughout the building! The work will be done over the summer. When we open our season in the fall concertgoers will be sitting in wider, more comfortable seats and the restroom facilities will be dramatically improved. Other improvements will

Forum Improvements Coming!include repairs to some of the murals on the ceiling and back wall and the curbing out in front of the building.

The Harrisburg Symphony has been performing in the Forum since 1931! The building is part of the Education Building in the State Capitol Complex and is managed by the Department of General services. The orchestra is very grateful to the commonwealth for committing the funds to undertake these important improvements to one of the Capitol’s most unique and beautiful buildings.

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Easy...Close...Dry HSO Concert ParkingONLY $5 in the Forum Place Garage!Save yourself the frustration of lapping the Forum/Capitol Complex and walking from as far away as Front Street...Park in the FORUM PLACE GARAGE (entrance on the RIGHT side of 5th Street), between Market & Walnut streets for only $5 per car! THIS SEASON AND NEXT SEASON!!

Easy and close! Park, take the elevator/stairs and cross the street to the Forum! Best $5 you’ll spend on a Harrisburg Symphony weekend!

CHANGES TO STREET PARKING: Parking on the street (not within the Capitol Complex) requires meter payment up until 7 pm Monday through Saturday. Be aware they are enforcing the meters on those days. Patriot-News Photo by Dan Gleiter | dgleiter@pennlive.com