KIMMEL CENTER

1. KIMMEL CENTER Meet the Orchestra

2. PROGRAM • John Stafford Smith/arr. Ormandy “The Star-Spangled Banner” • Manuel de Falla “Dance of the Miller’s Wife (Fandango),” from The Three-Cornered Hat • Mikhail Glinka Kamarinskaya, Fantasy for Orchestra on Two Russian Folksongs • Li HuanZhiSpring Festival Overture • Aaron Copland Variations on a Shaker Melody, from Appalachian Spring • John Rosamond Johnson/arr. Hale “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

3. The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts hosts the Orchestra’s home subscription concerts, as well as its concerts devoted to youth and family audiences Kimmel Center Tour

5. RossenMilanovAssociate Conductor He currently holds the positions of associate conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra and artistic director of The Philadelphia Orchestra at The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. In addition, he serves as music director of New Jersey’s Symphony in C (formerly the Haddonfield Symphony), one of America’s premier professional training orchestras; and music director of the New Symphony Orchestra in his native city of Sofia, Bulgaria. In June 2009, Mr. Milanov was also named music director of the Princeton Symphony.

6. Lower Strings

7. WHAT ARE THESE INSTRUMENTS? FRENCH HORN

8. WHAT FAMILY OF INSTRUMENTS? STRING

9. “The Star-Spangled Banner” About the Composer Born in Gloucester, England, John Stafford Smith (1750–1846) was a composer, church organist, and early musicologist.

10. About the Lyricist Born and raised in western Maryland, Francis Scott Key (1779–1843).

11. About the Music

12. The melody of the song that would become the American national anthem was first published in England ca. 1778. Officially called “The Anacreontic Song” but more commonly known by the first line of its lyrics,

13. “To Anacreon in Heaven” was the constitutional song of the Anacreontic Society, an 18th-century gentlemen’s club of amateur musicians in London Key wrote thewords on September 14, 1814on board a British warship in Baltimore Harbor where he was being detained.

14. The tradition of performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before baseball games began during World War II;

15. The Philadelphia Orchestra became the first major orchestra to play at a World Series game when they performed the national anthem.

16. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” African-American composer and singer John Rosamond Johnson (sitting; 1873–1954), and his older brother James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), were born in Jacksonville, Florida

17. James Weldon Johnson first wrote the words to“Lift Every Voice and Sing” as a poem and then John Rosamond Johnson set the words to music in 1899

18. Singing this song quickly became a way for African Americans to demonstrate their pride and hope for the future.

19. www.whyy.org/tv12/insideout.html,

20. Fort McHenry http://www.nps.gov/fomc/index.htm Where is Fort McHenry? What war was being fought when Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner?” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore

21. Spain: Let the Rhythm Move You!

22. Manuel de Falla “Dance of the Miller’s Wife (Fandango),” from The Three-Cornered Hat Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) was born in Cádiz, which is located on the southern coast of Spain in Andalusia

23. Spanish dance-song styles are characterized by their strong rhythms, which are most often in triple meter-3 beats permeasure.

24. Spanish classical music based on dance forms, you’ll often hear the strings of the orchestra play an ostinato (repeated rhythmic pattern) imitating the guitar strumming

25. The music is also highly percussive,with the sound of castanets,hand-clapping, and stamping of the feet.

26. THE MUSIC http://imslp.org/wiki/El_Sombrero_de_Tres_Picos_%28Falla,_Manuel_de%29

28. Russia: There’s No Place Like Дом (Home) Mikhail Glinka Kamarinskaya, Fantasy for Orchestra on Two Russian Folksongs

29. Mikhail Glinka (1804-57) Born in Novospasskoye in the Smolensk district of Russia.

30. Listening Guide Start the music from the link: Listen: What do you hear. . .read alongMikhail Glinka Kamarinskaya,Fantasy for Orchestra on Two Russian Folksongs Introduction 0:00 Based on motive from the “Wedding Song”

31. 0:35 First statement of theme by unison strings

32. 0:53 Second statement with melody and accompaniment inthe woodwinds

33. 1:11 Third statement: theme in bass

34. 1:29 Fourth statement:theme in bass continues

35. 2:21 Transition, turning figure in violins“Dance Song”

36. 2:28 Stated first in violin, first unaccompanied and then withviola countermelody

37. 2:40 Ostinato (repeated) variations begin, changingbackground

38. “Wedding Song”3:57 First restatement4:13 Second restatement4:30 Third restatement, interrupted4:49 Transition

39. “Dance Song” (reprise)4:56 More ostinato variations, builds in dynamics and tempo

40. Coda

41. 7:00 Sudden slow statement of the opening phrase, growingsofter

42. The three-measure instrumental dance tune of theKamarinskayais repeated withoutsignificant change nearly75 times in the course of the two Dance Song sections.

43. China: A Community Celebration Li HuanZhiSpring Festival Overture

44. Chinese music is as old as Chinese civilization itself, dating back to about 1766 B.C.

45. Since then, musical performances have been an integral part of Chinese traditions, beliefsystems, and community celebrations, including the Spring Festival (or Chinese New Year).

46. CHINA China is the fourth largest country behind Russia, Canada, and the United States. However, it’s the most populated country with over 1.3 billion people—that’s more than four times as many who live in the United States!

47. Li HuanZhi(1919-2000) Born in Hong Kong

48. He entered the ShanghaiSchool of Music in 1936 and studiedcomposition under Xiao Youmei

49. Li composed the Spring Festival Suite in 1955 and 1956 as anexpression of his own experience of the Spring Festival in Ya’nanin northern China.

50. This suite of four movements was originallywritten for western symphony orchestra but was subsequentlyplayed by orchestras of traditional Chinese instruments as well.