48 10 1498 https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/files/original/79431294689af9d2349c14bf038cfeee.pdf 27f0db64fe2705559a9e0adecdb887a3 PDF Text Text School of Music MUS C Faculty of Fine Arts University of Victoria . �UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA • SCHOOL OF MUSIC Clarinet Class Recital Featuring students from the studio of Patricia Kostek Sunday, February 5, 2017 • 2:30 p.m. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria Admission by donation �PROGRAM Trio No.1 Bailey Finley, flute Theresa Mothersill, oboe Samuel He, clarinet Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Solo de Concours Mark Kim, clarinet Matthew Sabo, piano André Messager (1853–1929) Etude No. 11 Larghetto Alyshia Joinson, clarinet Victoria Pereversoff, piano Cyrille Rose (1830–1902) Sonata for clarinet and piano, Op. 167 Allegretto Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Channing Mar, clarinet Emily Liu, piano Three Pieces for solo clarinet Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Liam Pistor, clarinet Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano IV. Forlana I. Prelude Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) Alina Liang, clarinet Tiffany Cheung, piano Concerto for clarinet, No. 2 in E-flat Major Carl Maria von Weber 3. Alla Polacca (1786–1826) Samuel He, clarinet Samuel Pan, piano �UPCOMING EVENTS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Tuesdaymusic A concert of varied repertoire and instruments featuring School of Music students. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Fridaymusic Featuring School of Music piano students in a concert of varied repertoire. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 8 PM ($10-$20) UVic Wind Symphony & The Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy Changing Currents—Building Community Dr. Gerald King & SLt Vincent Roy, conductors The fourth annual collaboration of these two outstanding ensembles. University Centre Farquhar Auditorium MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 | 8 PM (Free admission) Graduating Recital: Sam McNally, horn Sam McNally presents his Bachelor of Music graduating recital in horn performance. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Tuesdaymusic A concert of varied repertoire and instruments featuring School of Music students. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall FEBRUARY 22-23 (Free admission) Orion Series in Fine Arts presents Kornel Wolak, clarinet Kornel Wolak is well on his way to a major career as a soloist and chamber musician in both classical and crossover repertoire. Clarinet Masterclass: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 | 12:30–2 PM Concert: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 | 8 PM With Arthur Rowe, piano Performing Rossini’s Introduction, Theme and Variations and Lutoslawski’s Dance Preludes. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall Tickets available at the UVic Ticket Centre (250-721-8480 / www.tickets.uvic.ca) & at the door. To receive our On the Pulse brochure & newsletter by email, contact: concert@uvic.ca www.finearts.uvic.ca/music/events � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clarinet Class Recital Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Adam Jasieniuk Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 5, 2017 https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/files/original/3181c40f055290d1ae8e5caee34a0372.pdf f0b8e88020bca82565a3234ab0db7d8e PDF Text Text Annual Solo Bach Competition & Concert UVIC Wednesday, February 1, 2017 • 6:30 p.m. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall MacLaurin Building, University of Victoria Admission by Donation Featuring School of Music students performing works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Judges: Tory Lindsay, Kenji Fuse, Alasdair Money Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor, BWV 1003 Adagio Fugue Siciliano Presto Grave Fuga Andante Allegro Linda Donn, violin Jeanel Liang, violin Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008 Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Minuet I and II Gigue Claire Dresselhuis, cello Cast Your Votes! Following this evening’s program, please step into the foyer for 5-10 minutes to cast your ballot and allow judges to confer. Ballots will be counted and results given to the judges. Audience will be invited back into the recital hall for the Presentation of Awards. The winner will receive an honorarium in the amount collected from this evening’s donations. � Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. 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Title A name given to the resource Annual Solo Bach Competition & Concert Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Trevor Naumann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 1, 2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jeanel Liang, violin Claire Desselhuis, cello Linda Donn, violin https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/files/original/1c9b0589844c8bedb96bcec3dd80a70a.pdf 3a3bfe628c5b57003a71f3c7d2fe7cbe PDF Text Text fridaymusic Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria February 3, 2017 • 12:30 p.m. Featuring School of Music string students Novellette Julien Haynes, violin Abigail Takenaka, piano Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) Five Melodies, Op. 35a Sergei Prokofiev II. Andante (1891 - 1953) IV. Andante non troppo Jasmine Mather, violin Liam Pistor, piano Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio III. Galop Cello Suite No. 6 I. Prelude II. Allemande Claude Bolling (b. 1930) Olivia Brotzell, cello Aya Robertson, piano Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Joshua Gomberoff, viola Unaccompanied Suites for Cello I. Prelude II. Allemande III. Sarabande IV. Gigue Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Claire Dresselhuis, cello Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 108 Dmitri Shostakovich I. Allegretto (1906 - 1975) Amy-Lynne Toth, violin Jasmine Mather, violin Jaling Kersen, viola Claire Dresselhuis, cello Upcoming at the School of Music FEBRUARY 3–9 | Tickets $25 / 5 concert festival pass $100 Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets Featuring the Lafayette String Quartet The Lafayette Quartet celebrates its 30th anniversary with the complete cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 String Quartets. The cycle will be presented in 5 concerts along with pre-concert talks and lectures by visiting scholars. All concert programs and times available to view at https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/ Journey through Shostakovich’s life as experienced through his string quartets. With pre-concert talks and lectures by Michelle Assay (Université Paris-Sorbonne), David Fanning (University of Manchester), Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), and Patrick McCreless (Yale University). Phillip T. Young Recital Hall � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fridaymusic Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. 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Title A name given to the resource Fridaymusic Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Trevor Naumann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 3, 2017 https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/files/original/b9f61c219b557401175d0d53dabd9797.pdf 09a846d43f60d8be5d43da568aafcdd2 PDF Text Text School of Music MUS C Faculty of Fine Arts University of Victoria �Orchestra UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA Featuring Margaret Lingas, soprano UVic Concerto Competition Winner Studio of Benjamin Butterfield Zsolt Nagy, Guest Conductor Friday, January 27, 2017 • 8:00 p.m. University Centre Farquhar Auditorium University of Victoria Adults: $20 / Seniors: $15 / Students & UVic alumni: $10 �PROGRAM Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) Carnival Overture, Op. 92 Samuel Barber (1910–1981) Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 Margaret Lingas, soprano soloist UVic Concerto Competition Winner I NT E R M I S S I O N Julio Lopezhiler (b. 1993) Water, stanzas (Premiere performance, Winner of the 2016 UVic Composers’ Competition) Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960) Symphonic Minutes, Op. 36 Capriccio Rapsodia Scherzo Tema Con Variazioni Rondo Please tell us about your concert experience in this quick Audience Survey: https://finearts.uvic.ca/forms/music/audience/ �BIOGRAPHIES MARGARET LINGAS, soprano, was born in Cyprus, raised in Oxfordshire, and is in her final year at the University of Victoria, where she studies with Benjamin Butterfield. Though she had a musical childhood, her serious training began when she joined Oxford Girls’ Choir in 2006. Under the direction of Richard Vendome and Rory McCleery, Margaret made her way from senior to chamber choir, becoming Head Girl in her final year. As well as being a regular concert soloist, she sang several roles in the choir’s operas — notably Belinda in Dido and Aeneas and Apollo in the modern premiere of Giovanni Porta’s Il Ritratto dell ’Eroe. Here in Canada, Margaret continues to enjoy both solo and choral opportunities. She holds a choral scholarship at Christ Church Cathedral, sings with the St. John and St. Christopher Singers, and has been in a number of Pacific Opera Victoria productions, including the 2015 Mary’s Wedding school tour. She has performed as a soloist with various groups, including Fretwork, the Pacific Baroque Festival Ensemble, the UVic Chorus and Orchestra (Haydn’s Nelsonmesse), Capriccio Vocal Ensemble (Fauré Requiem), the Sooke Philharmonic (Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio), and Christ Church Cathedral Choir (Mozart Requiem). Further afield, she sang in Cappella Romana’s world premiere recording of Steinberg’s Passion Week, and joined Cantores in Ecclesia for the 2014 Byrd Festival with Mark Williams. She has sung with Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi since 2010, most recently in a BBC 3 broadcast with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, at the 2015 London Festival of Baroque Music. Upcoming engagements include Vivaldi’s Gloria with Via Choralis, and Bach’s St. John Passion with the Victoria Baroque Players. Margaret’s graduating recital will be on March 13th. JULIO LOPEZHILER (b. 1993) is a creative musician currently living on Coast Salish territory (Victoria, BC) and is pursuing a Master of Music degree in composition at the University of Victoria. Water, Stanzas consists of a tuned moment, repeated. As a listener I am fascinated by the way physical landscapes and soundscapes interact with the more interior spaces of the mind and heart. I am very grateful for the chance to work with the University of Victoria Symphony on this piece. �ZSOLT NAGY was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1957. He began his musical career as a coach and conductor at the City Theatre of Békécsaba (1976/79). At the age of 23 he took up conducting studies with István Párkai at the Academy of Music in Budapest (diploma in 1984). He was thrice awarded a Soros Foundation Scholarship for studies in Milan and Paris (1988, 1989, 1990). He participated in the seminars given by Péter Eötvös during the Bartók Festivals (1985-89) and subsequently worked as Eötvös’s assistant in the Institute of New Music at the Karlsruhe Academy of Music (1990-95). In 1995-97 he served as Music Director of the Institute of Music Theatre. He was a guest lecturer at the International Eötvös Institute in Stuttgart (1995), Cologne (1997), Edenkoben (1998, 2006, 2009) and Budapest (2015) Since 1999 he has held the post of Chief Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Israel Contemporary Players. In 2002 he was appointed professor of conducting at the Paris Conservatory. He was Artistic Director of the masterclasses for conductors organized by the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava and of the Masterclass for Young Conductors for New Music (held at the Music Centre in Jerusalem). Zsolt Nagy has worked with many orchestras and ensembles including the BBC SO, BBC Singers, the BBC SSO, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic (Teatro Colón), The Brno Philharmonic and Choir, the National Hungarian SO, the RIAS of Berlin, the Berliner Sinfonie Orchester, the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Hilversum, the Jerusalem SO, the Geidai PO and the New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, the Finnish Radio SO, the Radio Orchestras in Stuttgart, BadenBaden and Cologne, the RAI orchestras in Milan and Turin, the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble InterContemporain, the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik NRW, UMZE in Budapest, Collegium Novum of Zurich, Ictus in Brussels, and many others. He has over 800 first performances to his credit, as well as numerous radio recordings and CDs. He received a special award for the promotion of new Israeli music and the “Victor Tevah Award” as the best conductor of the “2007 International Season” of the Symphony Orchestra of Chile. Your contribution makes a difference! The arts have always benefited from the generosity of its patrons, and a donation to the School of Music can make all the difference to the future of our students. A scholarship of just $500 a year can change a life forever. For more information about our giving initiatives, please contact Fine Arts Development Officer Samantha Krzywonos. 250.721.6305 | skrzywon@uvic.ca finearts.uvic.ca/music/donations �ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL VIOLIN 1 Amy Toth* Chloe Kim* Jeanel Liang Jilaine Orton Jasmine Mather Linda Donn Isobel Glover Ross Ling Shijin Kim Francine Hsu FLUTE Gillian Newburn* Monica Mun* Rhiannon Jones VIOLIN 2 Aliayta Foon-Dancoes Julien Haynes Emilly MacCallum Jessica d’Oliveira Michelle Hoskin Gary Sun Amanda Steinemann Lucy Toews Serena Jack CLARINET Liam Pistor* Mark Kim* VIOLA Josh Gomberoff* Jaling Kersen Nathalie Dzbik Eric Mitchell HORN Sam McNally* Emily Aford Sarah Mullane James Waddell CELLO Shiun Kim* Claire Dresselhuis* Olivia Brotzel Chloe Kersen Bryan Lin Liam Epp Tara Rajah TRUMPET Ian VanGils* Heather Richardson DOUBLE BASS Mackenzie Carroll* Richard Watters § TUBA Dayna Waller OBOE Berlin Janzen* Anna Betuzzi * ENGLISH HORN Anna Betuzzi BASS CLARINET Alina Liang BASSOON Eric Boulter* Rio Davison § TROMBONE Zachary Power* Erin Marsh Grace Timney PIANO/CELESTE: Ethan Hill HARP: Annabelle Stanley § TIMPANI: Tristan Holleufer PERCUSSION: Kyle MacLean Josh Mulingbayan Hans Verhoeven LIBRARIANS Betty Allison Monica Mun STAGE MANAGERS Tristan Holleufer James Waddell Liam Epp ASSISTANT Shabahang Saffari * Principal § Community member �Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets February 3–9, 2017 The Lafayette String Quartet celebrates its 30th anniversary with the complete cycle of Shostakovich’s 15 String Quartets. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Nos. 1, 2, 3 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Nos. 4, 5, 6 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Nos. 7, 8, 9 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Nos. 14, 15 © L a ind ns Eva All concerts at 8 PM 7 PM Pre-concert talks by visiting scholars Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, University of Victoria UVIC ORDER YOUR TICKETS TODAY! Single tickets: $25 / 5 concert festival pass: $100 UVic Ticket Centre: 250.721.8480 / tickets.uvic.ca finearts.uvic.ca/music is Dav �UPCOMING EVENTS TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Tuesdaymusic Varied repertoire and instruments featuring UVic School of Music students. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 | 6:30 PM (By donation) Annual Solo Bach Competition Featuring the solo suites and sonatas by J.S. Bach performed by UVic string students. The jury will elect three prizewinners and the audience has the opportunity to vote for the Audience Prize. Come and vote for your favourite! Phillip T. Young Recital Hall FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Fridaymusic Featuring string students in a concert of varied repertoire. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 | 2:30 PM (By donation) Clarinet Class Recital Featuring clarinet students from the studio of Patricia Kostek. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Tuesdaymusic Varied repertoire and instruments featuring UVic School of Music students. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 12:30 PM (By donation) Fridaymusic Featuring piano students in a concert of varied repertoire. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10 | 8 PM ($10-$20) UVic Wind Symphony & The Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy Changing Currents—Building Community Dr. Gerald King & SLt Vincent Roy, conductors This is the fourth annual collaboration of these two outstanding ensembles! University Centre Farquhar Auditorium Tickets available at the UVic Ticket Centre (250-721-8480 / www.tickets.uvic.ca) & at the door. To receive our On the Pulse brochure & newsletter by email, contact: concert@uvic.ca finearts.uvic.ca/music/events � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Orchestra Description An account of the resource Since its inception in 1969, the Orchestra has performed most of the standard repertoire, including all nine Beethoven symphonies, most of the later compositions of Haydn and Mozart, as well as major works of Brahms, Schubert, Stravinsky, Bruckner, Schoenberg, and others. Each year, members of the orchestra join with performance faculty to form the "Concerto Orchestra" to present the annual Concerto Concert, which features student soloists selected by competition. 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Allegro maliconico Rhiannon Jones, flute Ethan Hill, piano Shinji Eshima Robert Muczynski (1929 - 2010) Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) Cello Concerto in E Minor Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934) Claire Dresselhuis, cello Maureen Chow, piano Spiegel im Spiegel Olivia Brotzell, cello Aya Robertson, piano Flute Concerto in G Major I. Allegro Monica Mun, flute Ethan Hill, piano Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Carl Philipp Stamitz (1745 - 1801) Three Folksongs from the County of Csik I. Rubato II. L’istesso tempo Theresa Mothersill, oboe Wendy Feng, piano Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945) Upcoming at the School of Music TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Orion Series in Fine Arts presents Chloe Meyers, baroque violin Masterclass: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 | 1:30–2:20 PM | Free admission A string masterclass in violin and period performance practice with baroque violinist Chloe Meyers. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall Concert: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 | 8 PM | Free admission Bach and Before Chloe Meyers, baroque violin Alexander Weimann, harpsichord World renowned baroque violinist and concertmaster of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Chloe Myers will be joined by harpsichordist and conductor Alexander Weimann, in a special recital featuring music of the baroque era up until the time of Bach. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tuesdaymusic Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. 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Title A name given to the resource Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets, part 3 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alex Klassen Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 6, 2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ann Elliott-Goldschmied, violin Sharon Stanis, violin Joanna Hood, viola Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/files/original/4696198918020f9c131e15c1379a14f6.pdf 4e78f51a78f21435ca74aaeb41b9eb92 PDF Text Text Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets February 3–9, 2017 30th Anniversary Celebration Lafayette String Quartet Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, violin Sharon Stanis, violin Joanna Hood, viola Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello © School of Music Li ns Eva nda is Dav �30 Greetings from Ann, Sharon, Joanna and Pam We are so happy you are joining us as we celebrate our 30th year together with performances of all the Shostakovich Quartets. The works you will be hearing during these 5 nights connect us back to our earliest beginnings. Throughout our career together we have been blessed to have the guiding inspiration of our dear late mentor Rostislav Dubinsky, first violinist of the Borodin String Quartet, ever encouraging us to strive for excellence and to “Keep the Quartet”. And 30 years later — here we are — keeping the quartet far beyond what we might have imagined when we first sat down to play and coach Shostakovich’s 8th quartet together with Dubinsky. With memories, recordings and even scores and parts that he marked with his ideas, we have happily taken on learning all 15 of these remarkable quartets. We have often felt him with us in these months as we have been preparing for this cycle. We owe much to so many people for the ways in which we have been supported and inspired to grow as musicians. We recognize every day that these 30 years would not be possible without all of them or you, our devoted audience. We would like to thank the University community — past and present presidents, vice-presidents, deans, directors, colleagues, and staff for giving us a “home base” these last 25 years. We also are grateful to our students, past and present, whose flexibility and energy continually encourage us to grow. We extend special thanks to our colleagues who have been sharing our teaching load this year while we have taken on the extra work of preparing for the Cycle. We are also thankful for the greater Victoria community whose support of music, indeed all the arts, provides the stimulating artistic environment in which we live and work. Many have directly supported and worked tirelessly with us to help put on this Cycle. We extend warmest thanks to our visiting scholars who so kindly have agreed to share their passion for these works and add a most exciting dimension to the week. We are honored to have them here. And last, but not least, we want to thank our dear families and friends whose daily love and support allows us to stay on this amazing track of string quartet life. We are so glad we are all together. Cheers, Ann, Sharon, Joanna, and Pam �FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Pre-concert talks at 7 PM. All concerts at 8 PM. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, B-Wing, MacLaurin Building, UVic Individual tickets $25 / 5 concert festival pass $100 CONCERT 1: FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op.49 String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 CONCERT 2: SATURDAY, FEB. 4 Pre-concert talk with The Lafayette String Quartet String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92 String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPOSIUM: SUNDAY, FEB. 5 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Rm. A168, MacLaurin Bldg., A-Wing Free admission CONCERT 3: MONDAY, FEB. 6 Pre-concert talk with Michelle Assay and David Fanning String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117 CONCERT 4: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Pre-concert talk with Patrick McCreless String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118 String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op.122 String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133 String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 CONCERT 5: THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142 String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op.144 �Message from the President It is a pleasure to extend my sincere congratulations to the Lafayette String Quartet as they celebrate their 30th Anniversary. The University of Victoria has had the privilege of hosting these four incredible women as Artists-in-Residence for 25 years. Our students, our campus and the wider community have benefitted from their dedication, enthusiasm and creativity. Nationally and internationally celebrated, the quartet has engaged in our community with passion and commitment: establishing Quartet Fest West; performing in the Galiano Ensemble; creating the Lafayette Health Awareness Forum to provide free expert health information to the public; and supporting teachers in the public schools. As outstanding educators and superb musicians, they have greatly enriched our Fine Arts program, providing mentorship, giving masterclasses, and helping to recruit some of the finest string players in Canada. In honour of their contributions, they were presented with UVic’s inaugural Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Artistic Expression in 2010. This year, to honour this significant milestone, the quartet will perform the complete Shostakovich Cycle of String Quartets — an ambitious musical journey and a great delight for us all! Jamie Cassels, QC President and Vice-Chancellor �Letter from the Dean of Fine Arts I am delighted to welcome you as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts to Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets. The festival celebrates thirty years of the Lafayette String Quartet and honours the Quartet’s mentor, Russian violinist Rostislav Dubinsky, who first coached members of the LSQ as graduate students at Indiana University and continued to serve as an im- portant mentor for the ensemble. Shostakovich’s cycle of fifteen quartets documents the composer’s life and spans his artistic career from the late 1930s until his death in 1975. These are remarkably complex works. My thanks to Judith Kuhn, Michelle Assay, David Fanning, Patrick McCreless, and the LSQ for sharing their expertise in a series of pre-concert talks that inform our cultural and musical understanding of these works. The festival is a remarkable gift that exemplifies the vital impact of the School of Music in bringing quality performances and scholarship to the Victoria community. My sincere thanks to the Lafayette String Quartet — Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, Pamela Highbaugh-Aloni, Joanna Hood, and Sharon Stanis — for their artistic leadership and vision in bringing the Shostakovich string quartets to us. Congratulations to the Lafayette String Quartet on three decades of beautiful music and mentorship of our students and alumni. Welcome and enjoy the festival! Dr. Susan Lewis Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts �30 In July 1986, four young musicians, based in Detroit and just beginning their professional careers, performed together for the first time as the Lafayette String Quartet. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, the LSQ continues to flourish with its original personnel: violinists Ann Elliott-Goldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violist Joanna Hood, and cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni. For five years, the LSQ prospered in Detroit, where its members taught at the Center for Creative Studies/Institute of Music and Dance, and Oakland University. The LSQ itself received coaching from some of the world’s most esteemed quartets — the Amadeus, Alban Berg, and Cleveland — and from violinist Rostislav Dubinsky, of the legendary Borodin Quartet, who served as their “musical mentor” until his death in 1997. �The Quartet’s extraordinary musicianship was recognized early on. In their first years together they were ranked among Musical America’s “Young Artists to Watch,” won the Grand prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and top prizes at the Portsmouth (now City of London) International String Quartet Competition, and the Chicago Discovery Competition. As winners of the 1988 Cleveland String Quartet Competition, the LSQ had the opportunity to study for two years with the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York. Artists-in-Residence at the University of Victoria’s School of Music since 1991, their dedication and skill has played a major role in building one of the finest music schools in Canada. In addition to quartet performances and collaborating with colleagues in the School of Music, members of the quartet teach individual lessons, coach chamber music groups, and give studio masterclasses on a weekly basis.They have been principal players of the Galiano Ensemble of Victoria since its inception and continue to serve the community promoting strings in the public schools through outreach programs and the strings mentoring course at UVic. In June, they offer Quartet Fest West, an intensive quartet seminar that brings together young musicians from all over the world. Their annual Health Awareness Forum, founded in 2006, offers timely insights from top health experts on a wide range of topics. They received honorary doctorates from University Canada West and were awarded the inaugural Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Artistic Expression from the University of Victoria. Facing page (top left) Marktoberdorf, Germany, Summer 1986 (top right) Letter from Dubinsky, 1996 (bottom left) Detroit, MI, 1986 (bottom right) Rehearsal, Institute of Music and Dance, Southfield, MI, 1989 (left) Early promo photo, Donna Terek, Detroit News, 1988 (right) Thumbs up at Banff, 1992 �The LSQ has performed across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, with concerts often allied with masterclasses and workshops. They had a close and lasting relationship with the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon while playing on the set of Amatis owned by the institution. The LSQ carries a large, wide-ranging repertoire, from the classical period to the present, and has commissioned and premiered music from numerous composers. Since 1990, the LSQ has released numerous CDs on the Dorian, Centrediscs, AdLar, CBC and other labels (including its own). They have been the subject of numerous articles and the book The Four and the One: In Praise of String Quartets by David Rounds, published in 1999. (top) Promo photo, Miles Lowry, 2015 The Lafayette Quartet is represented by Lydia Kasianchuk, artist manager 250.598.7492 / kasianchuk@shaw.ca Sunglasses promo photo, Barb McDougall, Fall 2000 (bottom) Quartet Fest West performance, K. Farkas, UVic, 2015 �The Victoria Chamber Orchestra congratulates the members of the Lafayette String Quartet as they celebrate 30 years of playing together. We are honoured to have such a close association with these marvelous musicians. 2017 VCO concerts Fri. Feb. 17 Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 5 Fri. April 21 & Sun. April 23 Wagner, Concerto Competition Winner, Britten www.victoriachamberorchestra.org 250-598-1966 Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra A Season of Symphonies Yariv Aloni MUSIC DIRECTOR All concerts Sundays 2:30pm University Centre Farquhar Auditorium TICKETS UVic Ticket Centre 250-721-8480 tickets.uvic.ca FEB 26 2017 APR 30 2017 Strauss The Gypsy Baron Overture Adaskin Saskatchewan Legend Brahms Symphony No. 4 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) Smetana Má Vlast: Vysehrad Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No. 2 SEASON SPONSOR Congratulations to the Lafayette String Quartet! Inspiring Victoria’s young musicians… 1611 Quadra St | Victoria BC V8W 2L5 | 250-360-1121 | gvyo@telus.net | www.gvyo.org Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra / February 2017 / greyscale LSQ Anniversary ad / 150 line screen / 4.95” x 3.937” �FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49 (1938) Moderato Moderato Allegro molto Allegro String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 (1944) Overture: Moderato con moto Recitative and Romance: Adagio Valse: Allegro Theme with Variations: Adagio – Moderato con moto I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 (1946) Allegretto Moderato con moto Allegro non troppo Adagio Moderato �PROGRAM NOTES The quartets of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich are often heard as an interrogation on Soviet society and the triumphalism of its socialist-realist aesthetic. The quartets’ engaging folk-like melodies are undermined by uneasy dissonances, distorted waltzes, and, especially in the Stalin-era quartets (1-5), by endings that seem more like questions than triumphs. Far more than political commentary, though, the quartets can also be heard as compassionate examinations of universal human trauma and tragedy that remain profound and relevant today. Shostakovich wrote his Quartet No. 1 in C major in 1938 after a stinging 1936 Pravda denunciation of his opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although the composer redeemed himself with his Fifth Symphony (1937), Stalin’s “Great Terror” purges in 1937-38 took relatives and friends close to Shostakovich; it was a fearsome time. After completing the constrained, four-movement Quartet, Shostakovich switched its first and last movements. In the final version, a wistful Allegro is followed by somber variations and a breathless scherzo, before the louder, more positive Moderato provides a heroic conclusion. It is interesting to imagine how different the Quartet would have sounded, had the wistful Allegro remained as its finale. Shostakovich’s wartime works reflected the devastation and trauma of that violent conflict. By 1944, when Shostakovich wrote his Quartet No. 2, news of the Holocaust had reached Moscow, and the composer included inflections of Jewish folk and liturgical music in the work, most obviously in its cantillation-like recitative. Shostakovich’s use of Jewish inflections gives his quartets an engaging “tang,” and is commonly heard as a protest, not only against the Holocaust, but also against official anti-Semitism in Russia. The Second Quartet’s four movements include a folk-like Allegretto, the recitative-like slow movement, and an ominous waltz. A slow prologue opens the finale, leading to a set of Russian-style changing-background variations, where the theme remains the same and the musical background varies. Here, however, the theme is embattled and struggles for survival. Following the war, in August, 1946, Shostakovich completed his Quartet No. 3. The work was described by both the composer and commentators as a narrative of war, moving from peaceful calm to violence and grief and in the finale, to remembrances of grief that disrupt attempts at recovery — an archetypal examination of trauma and its aftermath. As the quartet ends, the scars are evident, as the first violin is unable, despite repeated attempts, to restate the finale’s main theme, as the music dies away. Notes by Judith Kuhn �SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Pre-concert talk with the Lafayette String Quartet. String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 (1949) Allegretto Andantino Allegretto Allegretto String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92 (1952) Allegro non troppo Andante – Andantino Moderato – Allegretto I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 (1956) Allegretto Moderato con moto Lento Lento – Allegretto �PROGRAM NOTES At no time of his life was Shostakovich’s output of string quartets under more pressure than between the end of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ and the death of Stalin in 1953. At this time the organs of Soviet power, having had other priorities during wartime, returned to the business of keeping artists and intellectuals in line. Authors, film-makers, and finally composers, felt the lash. The crackdown on composers in early 1948 made it plain that Music for the People — such as cantatas, folklike songs and orchestral suites — was the order of the day, whereas high-flown symphonies, sonatas and chamber music were most certainly not. Shostakovich’s own Third String Quartet (1946) was placed on the list of works ‘not recommended for performance’, while his Cantata The Song of the Forests (1949), with its final ringing apotheosis to Stalin, showed how low he was prepared to bow the knee. Not that he stopped composing string quartets: No. 4 appeared in 1949, No. 5 in 1952. But both had to go into ‘the drawer’, awaiting more propitious times for their public exposure. That decision was surely wise. To have put as much Jewish-folk colouring as Shostakovich did into the finale of the Fourth Quartet was already bold enough when he was working on the piece; by the time he was finished, Stalin’s notorious ‘anti-cosmopolitan’ (read anti-Semitic) campaign was in full swing. As for the Fifth, its sheer complexity and emotional range would have been enough to bring down upon him the familiar accusations of ‘formalism’ (read Western-orientated elitism). At its most intense points the Fifth features quotations from the Piano Trio of Shostakovich’s pupil — and object of affection — Galina Ustvolskaya. A personal agenda is again not hard to detect in the Sixth Quartet. By then the unexpected death of his first wife had removed one of the mainstays of his troubled career, and in the summer of 1956 he met and impulsively married Margarita Kaynova, a Komsomol activist in her early thirties. The quartet was composed while the couple were on honeymoon, and the wanly smiling quality of its opening bars could be read as his nervous wish to believe in the possibility of domestic bliss. Or perhaps the ambivalent tone — straightforward simplicity, or a comment on longing for simplicity after periods of strife — is itself the message, more philosophical than anecdotal? Notes by David Fanning �SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPOSIUM Rm. A168, MacLaurin Bldg., A-Wing Free admission SCHEDULE: 9:30 AM Patrick McCreless (Yale University) Musical Topics, Musical Gestures: Means to Ends in Shostakovich’s String Quartets 10:30 AM Michelle Assay (Université Paris-Sorbonne) David Fanning (University of Manchester) Shostakovich and Weinberg: a Musical Dialogue 11:30 AM Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) The Composer as ‘Spin Doctor:’ How Shostakovich Shaped the Reception of His Quartets BIOGRAPHIES Michelle Assay has a PhD from Université Paris Sorbonne and the University of Sheffield with a dissertation on the topic of ‘Hamlet in the Stalin era and Beyond’. Apart from publications in this area and on ‘Shakespeare and music’, she is founder and co-ordinator of an international research group on ‘Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe’. She is also collaborating with David Fanning on a comprehensive lifeand-works study of Mieczysław Weinberg. Born in Tehran, Michelle Assay (Eshghpour) studied in Kiev at the Tchaikovsky Academy, graduating with a ‘Magister’ degree in performance and musicology. She trained and worked as a theatre actor in Canada before returning to Europe to work with Carine Gutlerner at the Paris Conservatoire, where she obtained her Diplôme d’Etat and was laureate of piano competitions. She has performed as soloist and accompanist at various international venues and gives regular pre-concert talks, speeches and lectures. �David Fanning is Professor of Music at the University of Manchester and has a varied career as scholar, pianist and critic. Author and editor of books, articles and critical editions on Nielsen, Shostakovich, Weinberg and the 20th-century symphonic tradition, and editor of a five-volume performing edition of Russian operatic arias, his ongoing research projects include an expanded life-and-works study of Weinberg (in collaboration with his wife, Michelle Assay), a translation and edition of the Selected Letters of Carl Nielsen, an edited volume on Music under Nazi Occupation, and an article on ‘Nielsen and Shakespeare’. As a pianist he performed for 25 years as chamber-music partner of the Lindsay String Quartet, a role he now continues with the Lindsays’ successors as artists-in-residence at the University of Manchester, the Quatuor Danel. He is also critic for Gramophone and The Daily Telegraph. Judith Kuhn is lecturer emeritus in musicology at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a recovering lawyer who earned her PhD from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Her book, Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 (Ashgate, 2010), explored Shostakovich’s use of form and genre in his Stalin-era quartets, and was named one of the best music books of 2010 by Classic FM (UK). She has published articles in Music Analysis, Notes, Slavic Review, A Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich and other periodicals and collections. Patrick McCreless is Professor of Music, and Affiliate Faculty in German at Yale University. He chaired the Department of Music at Yale from 2001 to 2007, and was Acting Chair in the fall semester of 2016. Previously he taught at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. His early work was on Wagner and the chromatic music of the later nineteenth century. In addition to his book, Wagner’s Siegfried: Its Drama, History, and Music, he has published essays on Götterdämmerung and Parsifal, and, with Adrian Daub of Stanford University, he wrote all the articles on the Ring in the Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (2013). He has also published on the history of music theory, rhetoric and music, performance and analysis, musical gesture, and the music of Shostakovich, Elgar, and Nielsen. He has served as President of the Society for Music Theory, and he currently is the Editor of the Journal of Music Theory. �MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Pre-concert talk with Michelle Assay (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and David Fanning (University of Manchester). String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 (1960) Allegretto Lento Allegro – Allegretto String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960) Largo Allegro molto Allegretto Largo Largo I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117 (1964) Moderato con moto Adagio Allegretto Adagio Allegro �PROGRAM NOTES While the Post-Stalin Thaw in Soviet society proceeded on its juddering but broadly positive path, Shostakovich’s personal fortunes mirrored it, but inversely. His first wife, Nina Varzar, died unexpectedly in 1954, to be followed shortly afterwards by his mother; his second marriage lasted only three years (1956-9); in 1958 he began to experience signs of a mysterious weakness of the limbs that would only much later be diagnosed as motor neuron disease (aka ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease); in the middle of 1960 began the process of his induction into Communist Party membership, which in his embattled state he felt unable to resist. Finally in November 1962, in effect stopping the rot, he married Irina Supinskaya, who provided a new bedrock for his life, and who continues to safeguard his legacy to this day. The dedications of Quartets 7 to 9 suggest that all those experiences provided a frame for his creativity, and several aspects of the quartets’ musical content may be read in the same way. The Seventh Quartet — at around 12 minutes the shortest of the cycle — was finished in March 1960. It carries a dedication to the memory of Nina Varzar, whose 50th birthday would have fallen the previous May. An autobiographical narrative of loss is readable in the frequent absence of one instrument or other from the quartet texture, and it is reinforced by what seem to be allusions to works associated with times of special importance during the years of Shostakovich’s marriage. Such vague allusions become explicit quotations in the Eighth Quartet, composed later in 1960, where they suggest flashbacks over a damaged life. Tying them together is the composer’s famous DSCH monogram — the notes D, E-flat, C, B-natural, enshrining his initials as expressed in German nomenclature (where E-flat is pronounced ‘S’ and B-natural is H). No wonder Shostakovich insisted that apart from the printed dedication ‘To the Memory of Victims of Fascism and War’ the piece was also a kind of requiem for himself. In this light it does not seem fanciful to attribute the new streak of determination marked by the colossal 719-bar finale of the Ninth Quartet to the stabilising force of his third wife, to whom the work is dedicated. The creative effort involved is also embodied in the overall Beethovenian trajectory of the work: from uncertainty, through doubt and sardonic grotesquerie, to eventual fist-brandishing energy. Notes by David Fanning �WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Pre-concert talk with Patrick McCreless (Yale University). String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118 (1964) Andante Allegretto furioso Adagio Allegretto String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122 (1966) Introduction: Andantino Scherzo: Allegretto Recitative: Adagio Etude: Allegro Humoresque: Allegro Elegy: Adagio Finale: Moderato I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133 (1968) Moderato – Allegretto Allegretto – Adagio – Moderato – Adagio – Moderato – Allegretto String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 (1969) Adagio – Doppio movimento – Tempo primo �PROGRAM NOTES The Tenth Quartet marks a return, in Shostakovich’s quartet cycle, to a certain conventionality, after the autobiographical Eighth and the edgy Ninth. This generally conservative quartet returns to the traditional four-movement structure of the First, Second, Fourth, and Sixth (allegro—slow movement—dance/scherzo—finale), though with the scherzo and slow movement reversed. The emotional specificity of the tempo marking of the second movement, Allegretto furioso, is unique in the quartets; no other movement is so explicit about emotional character. With Quartets 11-13 we come to the first three of the five late quartets. Here the central issues are Shostakovich’s experimentation with musical form at the highest level — the level of the order and relation of movements — and his innovations on the musical surface. The Eleventh Quartet (1966), in F minor, has seven short movements, each with a generic title (Introduction, Scherzo, Recitative, etc.), and all interconnected — that is, with no inter-movement pauses. Like the other two minor-mode late quartets (the Thirteenth and the Fifteenth), it seems to deal directly with death. Its successor, the Twelfth (1968), which returns to the major mode (D-flat major), is one of the most ambitious works in the cycle. Shostakovich himself said of it, “It’s a symphony! It’s a symphony!” — and we can see why; its monumentality is well earned. Its division into movements is unique in all of Shostakovich’s oeuvre: a six-minute moderato followed by a massive, twenty-minute movement that starts out as a scherzo, then interjects an adagio and moderato of entirely different character, before recapitulating much of the first movement and part of the scherzo. With its introduction of the first twelvetone rows in the cycle (the first of which we hear in the cello at the very beginning of the first movement), its intricate musical argument, and its status as the most technically demanding of all the quartets, it poses challenges that demand the most from performers, critics, and analysts. Finally, the grim Thirteenth Quartet (1970), in B-flat minor, is Shostakovich’s only one-movement quartet. Like the Twelfth, it also opens with a twelve-tone row, and it continues to use eleven- and twelve-note rows as themes throughout. It is the work in which the composer’s innovations in the late quartets are most concentrated, and in which the musical language is the most obtuse and enigmatic. It features the most jarring contrasts of material, the widest range of possible textures, and the maximal exploitation of contemporary string techniques. Perhaps nothing in it is so strange as its ending: the viola ends its last soliloquy on a high B-flat, three octaves above middle C, pianissimo. A moment later, the second violin joins in on the same note, followed by the first violin, also pianissimo. Suddenly, in the penultimate measure, all three instruments crescendo to a quadruple forte on the same note, and, with a joint accent on the downbeat of the last measure, they together bring the work to a bizarre and violent end, high in the stratosphere. Notes by Patrick McCreless �THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142 (1972–73) Allegretto Adagio Allegretto I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 (1974) Elegy: Adagio Serenade: Adagio Intermezzo: Adagio Nocturne: Adagio Funeral March: Adagio molto Epilogue: Adagio Please join us for a reception in the lobby following the concert. �PROGRAM NOTES Shostakovich’s style became gradually more exploratory in his late years, as he was able to hear contemporary works from outside the USSR. In comparison to the early quartets, the later works seem more personal, eventually reflecting a preoccupation with love and death. The Fourteenth Quartet is the last of four (11-14) dedicated to the original members of The Beethoven Quartet, who had been the composer’s “quartet muses,” and had worked closely with him since 1938. In the mid-1960s, the ensemble began to lose its original members to illness and death and, by 1973, only two remained. This quartet seems to share the sadness of that loss. It begins, though, with a cheery dance for dedicatee Sergey Shirinsky, the Beethovens’ cellist. The slow movement features a tender duet for first violin and the cello — then the only two remaining players of the original Beethovens. Here, perhaps, we are eavesdropping on an intimate and affectionate conversation as the composer and his friends comfort one another. Shirinsky’s diminutive name, Seryozha, appears in code at the finale’s beginning, and most obviously as its centerpiece, where the cello quotes a love song, “Seryozha, My Darling,” from the composer’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Shostakovich wrote his Quartet No. 15 just over a year before his death, as he was struggling with illness and pain. Composed only of slow movements, it is nonetheless full of vitality and imagery. Death appears most obviously in the titles of the work’s Elegy and Funeral March, but we can hear its jagged edges in the sounds of other movements. Like the Eighth, the Fifteenth begins with a somber fugue, which opens into a Bruckner-like melody of pure C major. The bizarre second movement — ironically titled “Serenade” — echoes the title and key of one of Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, where Death “harvests” souls from a battlefield, and “serenades” them as they die. One can imagine the quartet’s movement as Death’s distorted idea of a serenade: first, an awful “singing,” and then a rude, strummed accompaniment. The third-movement “Intermezzo” is perhaps a furious distortion of the lovely recitative style used in the Second Quartet, and the Nocturne quotes a lament from Shostakovich’s song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry (1949). In the spirit of remembrance that seems to characterize the work, the finale recalls themes from earlier movements, and ends without comfort — bleak and profoundly sad. Notes by Judith Kuhn �“ The Victoria Summer Music Festival was very excited to launch the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Lafayette String Quartet with their VSMF performance in July 2016. We look forward to the fabulous Shostakovich cycle and to further appearances at our Festival by this esteemed quartet! PROUD TO OFFER OUR CONTINUED SUPPORT TO THE LAFAYETTE STRING QUARTET ON THEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY ” Arthur Rowe, Artistic Director Victoria Summer Music Festival VICTORIA, BC, CANADA PH. 250.661.3784 INFO@VITEKVIOLINS.COM WWW.VITEKVIOLINS.COM Victoria Summer Music Festival July 25 – August 9, 2017 / vsmf.org VSMF-LSQprogramad1701.indd 1 CONGRATULATIONS from the staff at Schell and Associates, CPA. It has been a wonderful experience to watch your success for the last 25 years. We are very proud of your accomplishments and being able to assist you in some small way along this path. We wish you many more years of filling the air and ears with the magic of your music. 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Title A name given to the resource Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets, part 4 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Trevor Naumann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 9, 2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ann Elliott-Goldschmied, violin Sharon Stanis, violin Joanna Hood, viola Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/files/original/95cf1e6148f46a729e7ea2ad3822d7c7.pdf 4e78f51a78f21435ca74aaeb41b9eb92 PDF Text Text Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets February 3–9, 2017 30th Anniversary Celebration Lafayette String Quartet Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, violin Sharon Stanis, violin Joanna Hood, viola Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello © School of Music Li ns Eva nda is Dav �30 Greetings from Ann, Sharon, Joanna and Pam We are so happy you are joining us as we celebrate our 30th year together with performances of all the Shostakovich Quartets. The works you will be hearing during these 5 nights connect us back to our earliest beginnings. Throughout our career together we have been blessed to have the guiding inspiration of our dear late mentor Rostislav Dubinsky, first violinist of the Borodin String Quartet, ever encouraging us to strive for excellence and to “Keep the Quartet”. And 30 years later — here we are — keeping the quartet far beyond what we might have imagined when we first sat down to play and coach Shostakovich’s 8th quartet together with Dubinsky. With memories, recordings and even scores and parts that he marked with his ideas, we have happily taken on learning all 15 of these remarkable quartets. We have often felt him with us in these months as we have been preparing for this cycle. We owe much to so many people for the ways in which we have been supported and inspired to grow as musicians. We recognize every day that these 30 years would not be possible without all of them or you, our devoted audience. We would like to thank the University community — past and present presidents, vice-presidents, deans, directors, colleagues, and staff for giving us a “home base” these last 25 years. We also are grateful to our students, past and present, whose flexibility and energy continually encourage us to grow. We extend special thanks to our colleagues who have been sharing our teaching load this year while we have taken on the extra work of preparing for the Cycle. We are also thankful for the greater Victoria community whose support of music, indeed all the arts, provides the stimulating artistic environment in which we live and work. Many have directly supported and worked tirelessly with us to help put on this Cycle. We extend warmest thanks to our visiting scholars who so kindly have agreed to share their passion for these works and add a most exciting dimension to the week. We are honored to have them here. And last, but not least, we want to thank our dear families and friends whose daily love and support allows us to stay on this amazing track of string quartet life. We are so glad we are all together. Cheers, Ann, Sharon, Joanna, and Pam �FESTIVAL SCHEDULE Pre-concert talks at 7 PM. All concerts at 8 PM. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, B-Wing, MacLaurin Building, UVic Individual tickets $25 / 5 concert festival pass $100 CONCERT 1: FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op.49 String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 CONCERT 2: SATURDAY, FEB. 4 Pre-concert talk with The Lafayette String Quartet String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92 String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPOSIUM: SUNDAY, FEB. 5 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM Rm. A168, MacLaurin Bldg., A-Wing Free admission CONCERT 3: MONDAY, FEB. 6 Pre-concert talk with Michelle Assay and David Fanning String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117 CONCERT 4: WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Pre-concert talk with Patrick McCreless String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118 String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op.122 String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133 String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 CONCERT 5: THURSDAY, FEB. 9 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142 String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op.144 �Message from the President It is a pleasure to extend my sincere congratulations to the Lafayette String Quartet as they celebrate their 30th Anniversary. The University of Victoria has had the privilege of hosting these four incredible women as Artists-in-Residence for 25 years. Our students, our campus and the wider community have benefitted from their dedication, enthusiasm and creativity. Nationally and internationally celebrated, the quartet has engaged in our community with passion and commitment: establishing Quartet Fest West; performing in the Galiano Ensemble; creating the Lafayette Health Awareness Forum to provide free expert health information to the public; and supporting teachers in the public schools. As outstanding educators and superb musicians, they have greatly enriched our Fine Arts program, providing mentorship, giving masterclasses, and helping to recruit some of the finest string players in Canada. In honour of their contributions, they were presented with UVic’s inaugural Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Artistic Expression in 2010. This year, to honour this significant milestone, the quartet will perform the complete Shostakovich Cycle of String Quartets — an ambitious musical journey and a great delight for us all! Jamie Cassels, QC President and Vice-Chancellor �Letter from the Dean of Fine Arts I am delighted to welcome you as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts to Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets. The festival celebrates thirty years of the Lafayette String Quartet and honours the Quartet’s mentor, Russian violinist Rostislav Dubinsky, who first coached members of the LSQ as graduate students at Indiana University and continued to serve as an im- portant mentor for the ensemble. Shostakovich’s cycle of fifteen quartets documents the composer’s life and spans his artistic career from the late 1930s until his death in 1975. These are remarkably complex works. My thanks to Judith Kuhn, Michelle Assay, David Fanning, Patrick McCreless, and the LSQ for sharing their expertise in a series of pre-concert talks that inform our cultural and musical understanding of these works. The festival is a remarkable gift that exemplifies the vital impact of the School of Music in bringing quality performances and scholarship to the Victoria community. My sincere thanks to the Lafayette String Quartet — Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, Pamela Highbaugh-Aloni, Joanna Hood, and Sharon Stanis — for their artistic leadership and vision in bringing the Shostakovich string quartets to us. Congratulations to the Lafayette String Quartet on three decades of beautiful music and mentorship of our students and alumni. Welcome and enjoy the festival! Dr. Susan Lewis Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts �30 In July 1986, four young musicians, based in Detroit and just beginning their professional careers, performed together for the first time as the Lafayette String Quartet. Celebrating their 30th anniversary, the LSQ continues to flourish with its original personnel: violinists Ann Elliott-Goldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violist Joanna Hood, and cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni. For five years, the LSQ prospered in Detroit, where its members taught at the Center for Creative Studies/Institute of Music and Dance, and Oakland University. The LSQ itself received coaching from some of the world’s most esteemed quartets — the Amadeus, Alban Berg, and Cleveland — and from violinist Rostislav Dubinsky, of the legendary Borodin Quartet, who served as their “musical mentor” until his death in 1997. �The Quartet’s extraordinary musicianship was recognized early on. In their first years together they were ranked among Musical America’s “Young Artists to Watch,” won the Grand prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and top prizes at the Portsmouth (now City of London) International String Quartet Competition, and the Chicago Discovery Competition. As winners of the 1988 Cleveland String Quartet Competition, the LSQ had the opportunity to study for two years with the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York. Artists-in-Residence at the University of Victoria’s School of Music since 1991, their dedication and skill has played a major role in building one of the finest music schools in Canada. In addition to quartet performances and collaborating with colleagues in the School of Music, members of the quartet teach individual lessons, coach chamber music groups, and give studio masterclasses on a weekly basis.They have been principal players of the Galiano Ensemble of Victoria since its inception and continue to serve the community promoting strings in the public schools through outreach programs and the strings mentoring course at UVic. In June, they offer Quartet Fest West, an intensive quartet seminar that brings together young musicians from all over the world. Their annual Health Awareness Forum, founded in 2006, offers timely insights from top health experts on a wide range of topics. They received honorary doctorates from University Canada West and were awarded the inaugural Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Artistic Expression from the University of Victoria. Facing page (top left) Marktoberdorf, Germany, Summer 1986 (top right) Letter from Dubinsky, 1996 (bottom left) Detroit, MI, 1986 (bottom right) Rehearsal, Institute of Music and Dance, Southfield, MI, 1989 (left) Early promo photo, Donna Terek, Detroit News, 1988 (right) Thumbs up at Banff, 1992 �The LSQ has performed across Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, with concerts often allied with masterclasses and workshops. They had a close and lasting relationship with the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon while playing on the set of Amatis owned by the institution. The LSQ carries a large, wide-ranging repertoire, from the classical period to the present, and has commissioned and premiered music from numerous composers. Since 1990, the LSQ has released numerous CDs on the Dorian, Centrediscs, AdLar, CBC and other labels (including its own). They have been the subject of numerous articles and the book The Four and the One: In Praise of String Quartets by David Rounds, published in 1999. (top) Promo photo, Miles Lowry, 2015 The Lafayette Quartet is represented by Lydia Kasianchuk, artist manager 250.598.7492 / kasianchuk@shaw.ca Sunglasses promo photo, Barb McDougall, Fall 2000 (bottom) Quartet Fest West performance, K. Farkas, UVic, 2015 �The Victoria Chamber Orchestra congratulates the members of the Lafayette String Quartet as they celebrate 30 years of playing together. We are honoured to have such a close association with these marvelous musicians. 2017 VCO concerts Fri. Feb. 17 Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 5 Fri. April 21 & Sun. April 23 Wagner, Concerto Competition Winner, Britten www.victoriachamberorchestra.org 250-598-1966 Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra A Season of Symphonies Yariv Aloni MUSIC DIRECTOR All concerts Sundays 2:30pm University Centre Farquhar Auditorium TICKETS UVic Ticket Centre 250-721-8480 tickets.uvic.ca FEB 26 2017 APR 30 2017 Strauss The Gypsy Baron Overture Adaskin Saskatchewan Legend Brahms Symphony No. 4 Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) Smetana Má Vlast: Vysehrad Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite No. 2 SEASON SPONSOR Congratulations to the Lafayette String Quartet! Inspiring Victoria’s young musicians… 1611 Quadra St | Victoria BC V8W 2L5 | 250-360-1121 | gvyo@telus.net | www.gvyo.org Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra / February 2017 / greyscale LSQ Anniversary ad / 150 line screen / 4.95” x 3.937” �FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49 (1938) Moderato Moderato Allegro molto Allegro String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 (1944) Overture: Moderato con moto Recitative and Romance: Adagio Valse: Allegro Theme with Variations: Adagio – Moderato con moto I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73 (1946) Allegretto Moderato con moto Allegro non troppo Adagio Moderato �PROGRAM NOTES The quartets of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich are often heard as an interrogation on Soviet society and the triumphalism of its socialist-realist aesthetic. The quartets’ engaging folk-like melodies are undermined by uneasy dissonances, distorted waltzes, and, especially in the Stalin-era quartets (1-5), by endings that seem more like questions than triumphs. Far more than political commentary, though, the quartets can also be heard as compassionate examinations of universal human trauma and tragedy that remain profound and relevant today. Shostakovich wrote his Quartet No. 1 in C major in 1938 after a stinging 1936 Pravda denunciation of his opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Although the composer redeemed himself with his Fifth Symphony (1937), Stalin’s “Great Terror” purges in 1937-38 took relatives and friends close to Shostakovich; it was a fearsome time. After completing the constrained, four-movement Quartet, Shostakovich switched its first and last movements. In the final version, a wistful Allegro is followed by somber variations and a breathless scherzo, before the louder, more positive Moderato provides a heroic conclusion. It is interesting to imagine how different the Quartet would have sounded, had the wistful Allegro remained as its finale. Shostakovich’s wartime works reflected the devastation and trauma of that violent conflict. By 1944, when Shostakovich wrote his Quartet No. 2, news of the Holocaust had reached Moscow, and the composer included inflections of Jewish folk and liturgical music in the work, most obviously in its cantillation-like recitative. Shostakovich’s use of Jewish inflections gives his quartets an engaging “tang,” and is commonly heard as a protest, not only against the Holocaust, but also against official anti-Semitism in Russia. The Second Quartet’s four movements include a folk-like Allegretto, the recitative-like slow movement, and an ominous waltz. A slow prologue opens the finale, leading to a set of Russian-style changing-background variations, where the theme remains the same and the musical background varies. Here, however, the theme is embattled and struggles for survival. Following the war, in August, 1946, Shostakovich completed his Quartet No. 3. The work was described by both the composer and commentators as a narrative of war, moving from peaceful calm to violence and grief and in the finale, to remembrances of grief that disrupt attempts at recovery — an archetypal examination of trauma and its aftermath. As the quartet ends, the scars are evident, as the first violin is unable, despite repeated attempts, to restate the finale’s main theme, as the music dies away. Notes by Judith Kuhn �SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Pre-concert talk with the Lafayette String Quartet. String Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 (1949) Allegretto Andantino Allegretto Allegretto String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92 (1952) Allegro non troppo Andante – Andantino Moderato – Allegretto I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 (1956) Allegretto Moderato con moto Lento Lento – Allegretto �PROGRAM NOTES At no time of his life was Shostakovich’s output of string quartets under more pressure than between the end of the ‘Great Patriotic War’ and the death of Stalin in 1953. At this time the organs of Soviet power, having had other priorities during wartime, returned to the business of keeping artists and intellectuals in line. Authors, film-makers, and finally composers, felt the lash. The crackdown on composers in early 1948 made it plain that Music for the People — such as cantatas, folklike songs and orchestral suites — was the order of the day, whereas high-flown symphonies, sonatas and chamber music were most certainly not. Shostakovich’s own Third String Quartet (1946) was placed on the list of works ‘not recommended for performance’, while his Cantata The Song of the Forests (1949), with its final ringing apotheosis to Stalin, showed how low he was prepared to bow the knee. Not that he stopped composing string quartets: No. 4 appeared in 1949, No. 5 in 1952. But both had to go into ‘the drawer’, awaiting more propitious times for their public exposure. That decision was surely wise. To have put as much Jewish-folk colouring as Shostakovich did into the finale of the Fourth Quartet was already bold enough when he was working on the piece; by the time he was finished, Stalin’s notorious ‘anti-cosmopolitan’ (read anti-Semitic) campaign was in full swing. As for the Fifth, its sheer complexity and emotional range would have been enough to bring down upon him the familiar accusations of ‘formalism’ (read Western-orientated elitism). At its most intense points the Fifth features quotations from the Piano Trio of Shostakovich’s pupil — and object of affection — Galina Ustvolskaya. A personal agenda is again not hard to detect in the Sixth Quartet. By then the unexpected death of his first wife had removed one of the mainstays of his troubled career, and in the summer of 1956 he met and impulsively married Margarita Kaynova, a Komsomol activist in her early thirties. The quartet was composed while the couple were on honeymoon, and the wanly smiling quality of its opening bars could be read as his nervous wish to believe in the possibility of domestic bliss. Or perhaps the ambivalent tone — straightforward simplicity, or a comment on longing for simplicity after periods of strife — is itself the message, more philosophical than anecdotal? Notes by David Fanning �SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPOSIUM Rm. A168, MacLaurin Bldg., A-Wing Free admission SCHEDULE: 9:30 AM Patrick McCreless (Yale University) Musical Topics, Musical Gestures: Means to Ends in Shostakovich’s String Quartets 10:30 AM Michelle Assay (Université Paris-Sorbonne) David Fanning (University of Manchester) Shostakovich and Weinberg: a Musical Dialogue 11:30 AM Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) The Composer as ‘Spin Doctor:’ How Shostakovich Shaped the Reception of His Quartets BIOGRAPHIES Michelle Assay has a PhD from Université Paris Sorbonne and the University of Sheffield with a dissertation on the topic of ‘Hamlet in the Stalin era and Beyond’. Apart from publications in this area and on ‘Shakespeare and music’, she is founder and co-ordinator of an international research group on ‘Shakespeare in Central and Eastern Europe’. She is also collaborating with David Fanning on a comprehensive lifeand-works study of Mieczysław Weinberg. Born in Tehran, Michelle Assay (Eshghpour) studied in Kiev at the Tchaikovsky Academy, graduating with a ‘Magister’ degree in performance and musicology. She trained and worked as a theatre actor in Canada before returning to Europe to work with Carine Gutlerner at the Paris Conservatoire, where she obtained her Diplôme d’Etat and was laureate of piano competitions. She has performed as soloist and accompanist at various international venues and gives regular pre-concert talks, speeches and lectures. �David Fanning is Professor of Music at the University of Manchester and has a varied career as scholar, pianist and critic. Author and editor of books, articles and critical editions on Nielsen, Shostakovich, Weinberg and the 20th-century symphonic tradition, and editor of a five-volume performing edition of Russian operatic arias, his ongoing research projects include an expanded life-and-works study of Weinberg (in collaboration with his wife, Michelle Assay), a translation and edition of the Selected Letters of Carl Nielsen, an edited volume on Music under Nazi Occupation, and an article on ‘Nielsen and Shakespeare’. As a pianist he performed for 25 years as chamber-music partner of the Lindsay String Quartet, a role he now continues with the Lindsays’ successors as artists-in-residence at the University of Manchester, the Quatuor Danel. He is also critic for Gramophone and The Daily Telegraph. Judith Kuhn is lecturer emeritus in musicology at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a recovering lawyer who earned her PhD from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Her book, Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1-7 (Ashgate, 2010), explored Shostakovich’s use of form and genre in his Stalin-era quartets, and was named one of the best music books of 2010 by Classic FM (UK). She has published articles in Music Analysis, Notes, Slavic Review, A Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich and other periodicals and collections. Patrick McCreless is Professor of Music, and Affiliate Faculty in German at Yale University. He chaired the Department of Music at Yale from 2001 to 2007, and was Acting Chair in the fall semester of 2016. Previously he taught at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. His early work was on Wagner and the chromatic music of the later nineteenth century. In addition to his book, Wagner’s Siegfried: Its Drama, History, and Music, he has published essays on Götterdämmerung and Parsifal, and, with Adrian Daub of Stanford University, he wrote all the articles on the Ring in the Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia (2013). He has also published on the history of music theory, rhetoric and music, performance and analysis, musical gesture, and the music of Shostakovich, Elgar, and Nielsen. He has served as President of the Society for Music Theory, and he currently is the Editor of the Journal of Music Theory. �MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Pre-concert talk with Michelle Assay (Université Paris-Sorbonne) and David Fanning (University of Manchester). String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108 (1960) Allegretto Lento Allegro – Allegretto String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 (1960) Largo Allegro molto Allegretto Largo Largo I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 117 (1964) Moderato con moto Adagio Allegretto Adagio Allegro �PROGRAM NOTES While the Post-Stalin Thaw in Soviet society proceeded on its juddering but broadly positive path, Shostakovich’s personal fortunes mirrored it, but inversely. His first wife, Nina Varzar, died unexpectedly in 1954, to be followed shortly afterwards by his mother; his second marriage lasted only three years (1956-9); in 1958 he began to experience signs of a mysterious weakness of the limbs that would only much later be diagnosed as motor neuron disease (aka ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease); in the middle of 1960 began the process of his induction into Communist Party membership, which in his embattled state he felt unable to resist. Finally in November 1962, in effect stopping the rot, he married Irina Supinskaya, who provided a new bedrock for his life, and who continues to safeguard his legacy to this day. The dedications of Quartets 7 to 9 suggest that all those experiences provided a frame for his creativity, and several aspects of the quartets’ musical content may be read in the same way. The Seventh Quartet — at around 12 minutes the shortest of the cycle — was finished in March 1960. It carries a dedication to the memory of Nina Varzar, whose 50th birthday would have fallen the previous May. An autobiographical narrative of loss is readable in the frequent absence of one instrument or other from the quartet texture, and it is reinforced by what seem to be allusions to works associated with times of special importance during the years of Shostakovich’s marriage. Such vague allusions become explicit quotations in the Eighth Quartet, composed later in 1960, where they suggest flashbacks over a damaged life. Tying them together is the composer’s famous DSCH monogram — the notes D, E-flat, C, B-natural, enshrining his initials as expressed in German nomenclature (where E-flat is pronounced ‘S’ and B-natural is H). No wonder Shostakovich insisted that apart from the printed dedication ‘To the Memory of Victims of Fascism and War’ the piece was also a kind of requiem for himself. In this light it does not seem fanciful to attribute the new streak of determination marked by the colossal 719-bar finale of the Ninth Quartet to the stabilising force of his third wife, to whom the work is dedicated. The creative effort involved is also embodied in the overall Beethovenian trajectory of the work: from uncertainty, through doubt and sardonic grotesquerie, to eventual fist-brandishing energy. Notes by David Fanning �WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Pre-concert talk with Patrick McCreless (Yale University). String Quartet No. 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118 (1964) Andante Allegretto furioso Adagio Allegretto String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122 (1966) Introduction: Andantino Scherzo: Allegretto Recitative: Adagio Etude: Allegro Humoresque: Allegro Elegy: Adagio Finale: Moderato I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 12 in D-flat major, Op. 133 (1968) Moderato – Allegretto Allegretto – Adagio – Moderato – Adagio – Moderato – Allegretto String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor, Op. 138 (1969) Adagio – Doppio movimento – Tempo primo �PROGRAM NOTES The Tenth Quartet marks a return, in Shostakovich’s quartet cycle, to a certain conventionality, after the autobiographical Eighth and the edgy Ninth. This generally conservative quartet returns to the traditional four-movement structure of the First, Second, Fourth, and Sixth (allegro—slow movement—dance/scherzo—finale), though with the scherzo and slow movement reversed. The emotional specificity of the tempo marking of the second movement, Allegretto furioso, is unique in the quartets; no other movement is so explicit about emotional character. With Quartets 11-13 we come to the first three of the five late quartets. Here the central issues are Shostakovich’s experimentation with musical form at the highest level — the level of the order and relation of movements — and his innovations on the musical surface. The Eleventh Quartet (1966), in F minor, has seven short movements, each with a generic title (Introduction, Scherzo, Recitative, etc.), and all interconnected — that is, with no inter-movement pauses. Like the other two minor-mode late quartets (the Thirteenth and the Fifteenth), it seems to deal directly with death. Its successor, the Twelfth (1968), which returns to the major mode (D-flat major), is one of the most ambitious works in the cycle. Shostakovich himself said of it, “It’s a symphony! It’s a symphony!” — and we can see why; its monumentality is well earned. Its division into movements is unique in all of Shostakovich’s oeuvre: a six-minute moderato followed by a massive, twenty-minute movement that starts out as a scherzo, then interjects an adagio and moderato of entirely different character, before recapitulating much of the first movement and part of the scherzo. With its introduction of the first twelvetone rows in the cycle (the first of which we hear in the cello at the very beginning of the first movement), its intricate musical argument, and its status as the most technically demanding of all the quartets, it poses challenges that demand the most from performers, critics, and analysts. Finally, the grim Thirteenth Quartet (1970), in B-flat minor, is Shostakovich’s only one-movement quartet. Like the Twelfth, it also opens with a twelve-tone row, and it continues to use eleven- and twelve-note rows as themes throughout. It is the work in which the composer’s innovations in the late quartets are most concentrated, and in which the musical language is the most obtuse and enigmatic. It features the most jarring contrasts of material, the widest range of possible textures, and the maximal exploitation of contemporary string techniques. Perhaps nothing in it is so strange as its ending: the viola ends its last soliloquy on a high B-flat, three octaves above middle C, pianissimo. A moment later, the second violin joins in on the same note, followed by the first violin, also pianissimo. Suddenly, in the penultimate measure, all three instruments crescendo to a quadruple forte on the same note, and, with a joint accent on the downbeat of the last measure, they together bring the work to a bizarre and violent end, high in the stratosphere. Notes by Patrick McCreless �THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Pre-concert talk with Judith Kuhn (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). String Quartet No. 14 in F-sharp major, Op. 142 (1972–73) Allegretto Adagio Allegretto I NT E R M I S S I O N Concession open in the lounge. String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144 (1974) Elegy: Adagio Serenade: Adagio Intermezzo: Adagio Nocturne: Adagio Funeral March: Adagio molto Epilogue: Adagio Please join us for a reception in the lobby following the concert. �PROGRAM NOTES Shostakovich’s style became gradually more exploratory in his late years, as he was able to hear contemporary works from outside the USSR. In comparison to the early quartets, the later works seem more personal, eventually reflecting a preoccupation with love and death. The Fourteenth Quartet is the last of four (11-14) dedicated to the original members of The Beethoven Quartet, who had been the composer’s “quartet muses,” and had worked closely with him since 1938. In the mid-1960s, the ensemble began to lose its original members to illness and death and, by 1973, only two remained. This quartet seems to share the sadness of that loss. It begins, though, with a cheery dance for dedicatee Sergey Shirinsky, the Beethovens’ cellist. The slow movement features a tender duet for first violin and the cello — then the only two remaining players of the original Beethovens. Here, perhaps, we are eavesdropping on an intimate and affectionate conversation as the composer and his friends comfort one another. Shirinsky’s diminutive name, Seryozha, appears in code at the finale’s beginning, and most obviously as its centerpiece, where the cello quotes a love song, “Seryozha, My Darling,” from the composer’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Shostakovich wrote his Quartet No. 15 just over a year before his death, as he was struggling with illness and pain. Composed only of slow movements, it is nonetheless full of vitality and imagery. Death appears most obviously in the titles of the work’s Elegy and Funeral March, but we can hear its jagged edges in the sounds of other movements. Like the Eighth, the Fifteenth begins with a somber fugue, which opens into a Bruckner-like melody of pure C major. The bizarre second movement — ironically titled “Serenade” — echoes the title and key of one of Musorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, where Death “harvests” souls from a battlefield, and “serenades” them as they die. One can imagine the quartet’s movement as Death’s distorted idea of a serenade: first, an awful “singing,” and then a rude, strummed accompaniment. The third-movement “Intermezzo” is perhaps a furious distortion of the lovely recitative style used in the Second Quartet, and the Nocturne quotes a lament from Shostakovich’s song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry (1949). In the spirit of remembrance that seems to characterize the work, the finale recalls themes from earlier movements, and ends without comfort — bleak and profoundly sad. Notes by Judith Kuhn �“ The Victoria Summer Music Festival was very excited to launch the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Lafayette String Quartet with their VSMF performance in July 2016. We look forward to the fabulous Shostakovich cycle and to further appearances at our Festival by this esteemed quartet! PROUD TO OFFER OUR CONTINUED SUPPORT TO THE LAFAYETTE STRING QUARTET ON THEIR 30TH ANNIVERSARY ” Arthur Rowe, Artistic Director Victoria Summer Music Festival VICTORIA, BC, CANADA PH. 250.661.3784 INFO@VITEKVIOLINS.COM WWW.VITEKVIOLINS.COM Victoria Summer Music Festival July 25 – August 9, 2017 / vsmf.org VSMF-LSQprogramad1701.indd 1 CONGRATULATIONS from the staff at Schell and Associates, CPA. It has been a wonderful experience to watch your success for the last 25 years. We are very proud of your accomplishments and being able to assist you in some small way along this path. We wish you many more years of filling the air and ears with the magic of your music. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LSQ: Shostakovich Cycle Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <a href="https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/uploads/faculty/021017-LafayetteStringQuartet/021017-LafayetteStringQuartet_01.mp3">Track1</a><br /><a href="https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/uploads/faculty/021017-LafayetteStringQuartet/021017-LafayetteStringQuartet_02.mp3">Track2</a><br /><a href="https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/archive/uploads/faculty/021017-LafayetteStringQuartet/021017-LafayetteStringQuartet_03.mp3">Track3</a> (encore: arrangement of Shostakovich's first Prelude and Fugue) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dmitri Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets, part 5 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Pond Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 10, 2017 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ann Elliott-Goldschmied, violin Sharon Stanis, violin Joanna Hood, viola Pamela Highbaugh Aloni, cello