UTRGV Performing Arts Complex Saturday, November 20 at 7:00 pm TSC Performing Arts Center Sunday, November 21 at 2:00 pm
UTRGV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Second Program ~ 2021 • 2022 Concert Season
Latin American Ballets UTRGV Performing Arts Complex, Edinburg Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 7:00 pm TSC Performing Arts Center, Brownsville Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 2:00 pm Norman Gamboa, Conductor Juan Pablo Andrade, Piano
Ineluctable… El Tiempo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carlos Escalante-Macaya (b. 1968) Prelude Bourée Scherzo Rhapsody & Sarabande Prelude & Gigue
INTERMISSION Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, K. 537 “Coronation”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Allegro [Larghetto] [Allegretto]
Dances from Estancia, Op. 8a. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983) Los Trabajadores Agrícolas (The Agricultural Workers) Danza del Trigo (Wheat Dance) Los Peones de la Hacienda (The Cattlemen) Danza Final (Malambo)
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PROGRAM NOTES Ineluctable… El Tiempo Carlos Escalante-Macaya
had produced fifteen of them between the years 1782 and 1786. Additionally, during this same period, two of his most prominent dramatic works Die Born in Spain of Costa Rican Entführung aus dem Serail (The parents, Carlos Escalante-Macaya abduction from the Seraglio) and Le studied music at the University of Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Costa Rica School of Music. While still an undergraduate, his Sonata for Violin Figaro) were also written. Composed in February of 1788, Mozart’s Piano and Piano won second place in a Concerto No. 26, has a traditional prestigious competition. His name associated with it that is not compositions include orchestral, Mozart's own, nor was the work written chamber, dance and stage music, and on the occasion for which posterity has even film scores. Ineluctable… El named it. Nicknamed "Coronation," it Tiempo was commissioned in 2009 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of comes from the fact that he performed this work at the time of Leopold II the National Ballet Theater of Costa coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in Rica. According to the composer, the 1790. Less dependent on the harmonic work illustrates through music the tensions within the separate effects of time on dancers and their movements for its structure than all bodies. Escalante and Costa Rican other previous concerti, the choreographer Nandayure Harley worked together to create a ballet that “Coronation” Concerto relies more on its melodic succession to achieve unites modern dance with traditional structural cohesiveness. The first elements such as the symphony movement’s opening ritornello or orchestra. The music is structured in the form of a dance suite, with some of orchestral exposition, contains several transitional passages that serve to the movements flowing seamlessly together. Throughout the work, tempo connect the main sections; many of and meter are important elements that these transitions depart from the traditional role of pivoting from one contribute to the idea of time, with key or harmonic area to another, passages resembling clocks and bells that signify the unavoidable change of functioning instead as simple melodic extensions. One very unusual time. In the words of choreographer Harley: “the internal struggle between characteristic of this concerto is that Mozart omitted the tempi for the the constant changes in all of us lead us to decide about those aspects in life second and third movements. we must surrender, thus allowing us to Furthermore, Mozart also, in several instances, did not write any notes for make the best choices. However, the soloist's left hand in various external changes also impose major sections throughout the work, leaving challenges upon us, pushing our own self-control and affecting the very core large stretches of the solo part simply with nothing at all for the left hand, of our soul.” including the opening solo and the complete second movement. There is in fact no other Mozart piano concerto Piano Concerto No. 26 in D major, of which so much of the solo part was K. 537 “Coronation” left unfinished by the composer. Today, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart most Mozart scholars have assumed that the reconstruction of those During the last decade of his life passages was made by the German while residing in Vienna, Mozart reached supreme mastery of the piano musician, composer and music concerto and in less than five years he publisher Johann André (1741–1799). 3 - UTRGV Symphony Orchestra
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Dances from Estancia Op. 8a Alberto Ginastera
1870s. The storyline of the ballet is familiar and simple; it depicts a day on the estancia (cattle ranch), where boy Alberto Ginastera is without a doubt meets girl and wins her love with his impressive agricultural talents. In the the most recognized Argentinean first movement, Los Trabajadores composer of the XX century. Many of Agrícolas (The Agricultural Workers), his early works display a pronounced influence of the traditional elements of judging by the incessant rhythms, workers are frenetic in their daily Argentina, including folk scales and guitar-like sonorities. He paid especial labors. Next, a soothing lyrical second movement, Danza del Trigo (Wheat attention to the gaucho dance known Dance), breaks the relentless rhythmic as "malambo," a peculiar native male dance that is used as battle ground for activity that permeates the entire gauchos to prove their dance dexterity composition. Shortly, the furor resumes as the cattlemen dance their way into and vigor. Soon after World War II, Ginastera traveled to the United States the third movement Los Peones de la Hacienda (The Cattlemen), a to study with renowned composer Aaron Copland who became the most syncopated dance that maintains its aggressive nature until its conclusion. influential figure in reshaping his Continuous meter changes add to this musical style, thus moving away from movement’s jagged propulsion and his initial direct approach to folk excitement. The final portion is the rudiments and instead adopting a notorious Malambo. Here the gauchos more subtle and refined treatment of compete in a fury to exhibit their virility the nationalistic musical concept, all while embracing the most modern and and endurance, and the music, now featured as a ferocious dance, quickly advanced twentieth-century musical becomes more complex through a stylistic traits. Commissioned by the series of fast episodes that gain Ballet Caravan Company in 1941, momentum and become louder as the Estancia Ballet is based on one of relentless eighth note pulse erupts into Argentina’s national literary favorites, a brilliant climactic ending. Martín Fierro, a poem about gauchos written by José Hernández in the
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Dr. JUAN PABLO ANDRADE Piano include Irwin Hoffmann, Chosei Komatsu, Kaisa Roose, Norman Gamboa, Ricardo del Carmen, Alejandro Gutierrez, Gabriela Mora, Ivan Arguedas, Mathew Troy and Timothy Russel. As a recitalist he has appeared in the United States, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Greece and Spain. Recent solo performances include recitals at the Yehudi Menuhin Forum (Switzerland), and at the World Piano Conference (Serbia). Many of his performances have been recorded and Costa Rican pianist Juan Pablo Andrade broadcasted by the Phoenix Classical maintains a very active career as a Radio Station KBAK, Costa Rican recitalist, concerto soloist, collaborative University Radio and National artist, clinician and adjudicator. He Television. A very active chamber recipient of numerous awards, most musician he is a member of the Aegina notably the Costa Rican National Prize Trio with Dr. Betul Soykan and Dr. of Music, the highest accolade given to Katherine Decker. His recent duo CD a musician by the Costa Rican Ministry War to Peace (Centaur Records 3666) of Culture. Other awards include First recorded together with violinist Betul Prize at the Artlivre International Piano Soykan, features works by Ferguson, Competition (Brazil); and First Prize in Prokofiev and Messiaen and received the Carlos Enrique Vargas National very favorable reviews in Fanfare Piano Competition in (Costa Rica). As a Magazine. Other musicians he has student he received First Prize in the collaborated with include Margaret Concert of Soloists Competition at Lattimore, Kenneth Grant, Bonita Boyd Arizona State University, First Prize at and Frederic St. Pierre. the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Concerto Competition, and Dr. Andrade is a Professor of Piano at Second Prize in the University of Costa the University of Texas Rio Grande Rica Concerto Competition. Valley and has previously served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano at He has appeared as a soloist with the Idaho State University and Lecturer of South Bend Symphony (IN), the Piano at the University of North Carolina Greensboro Symphony (NC), the at Greensboro. He obtained his Powder River Symphony (WY) the Bachelors and Licenciatura in Music University of Costa Rica Symphony, the degrees from the University of Costa Cartago Symphony (Costa Rica), the Rica, Master of Music from Arizona State Central American Symphony, the University, an Artist Diploma from Bolivian National Symphony, the Costa Indiana University-South Bend, and a Rican Youth Symphony, and on many Doctorate of Musical Arts from the occasions with the Costa Rican National University of North Carolina at Symphony. Recent concerto Greensboro. His mentors include performances include Beethoven’s Gerardo Duarte, Robert Hamilton, Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor,” Alexander Toradze and John Salmon. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 26, and Dr. Andrade is also a faculty member at Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3. the SemperMusic International Summer Conductors he has collaborated with Music Festival in the Italian Alps. 5 - UTRGV Symphony Orchestra
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Dr. NORMAN GAMBOA Conductor Municipal de Guatemala, Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado Mérida and Orquesta Sinfónica de Los Llanos (Venezuela), as well as the National Symphony Orchestras of Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. Dr. Gamboa has led numerous joint ventures such as fully choreographed productions of Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye with Ballet Midwest, The Nutcracker Ballet with Aurora Dance Arts and Santa Rosa Dance Theater, Fiesta Mexicana with Fiesta Colorado Dance Company and also several operas with the Topeka Opera Society and Opera on Tap Colorado. Festival appearances include Plzeň 2015, FOSJA Casals Festival, Central American Festival of Chamber Music, Medellín International Music In his second year as Director of Orchestral Activities at The University of Festival, Villarrica Arts Festival, Costa Rica International Festival of Arts, Blue Texas Rio Grande Valley, Norman Lake Fine Arts Camp, Bregenzer Gamboa is in his tenth season as Music Festspiele, Las Vegas Music Festival, Director of the Sonoma County Philharmonic in California and also of the OSESP Orchestra Conductors Competition, and the New York Brass Aurora Symphony in Colorado. In Conference. In 2015 he led the Youth addition, he is also conductor and Symphony Orchestra of Europe, a founder of the Rio Grande Youth Symphony Orchestra at UTRGV. Gamboa project that gathered distinguished is considered one of the most prominent music students from numerous music conservatories all over Europe. Central American conductors, with an active schedule that includes appearances with the San Francisco Civic Previously, he served as Music Director of the Powder River Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Orchestra, Winchester Wyoming, Director of Orchestral Studies Orchestra, Kansas City Philharmonia, at Washburn University in Kansas, Cover Bemidji Symphony Orchestra, Topeka Symphony Orchestra, Bay Area Rainbow Conductor of the Topeka Symphony Orchestra, Associate Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra, Newton Las Vegas Music Festival, Assistant Symphony Orchestra, and Salina Conductor of the Waco Symphony Symphony Orchestra among others. Orchestra and Music Director of the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra in Worldwide engagements include Texas. renowned orchestras such as the Západočeský Symfonický (Czech Republic), Orchestra Filarmonicii Ploieşti (Romania), Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín (Colombia), Orquestra Sinfônica de Ribeirão Preto and Orquestra Sinfônica Estado de São Paulo (Brazil), Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil 6 - UTRGV Symphony Orchestra
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Symphony Orchestra VIOLIN I
Eldaa Hernandez, Concertmaster
Priscilla Espinoza
Assistant concertmaster
Samantha Alvarado Alexandra Hernandez Astrid Herrera Angelica Martinez Joel Sanchez Alex Treviño, II VIOLIN II Maria Ochoa, Principal Nathan Fernandez Jose Anthony Flores Ruben Garcia, Jr. Angela Gonzalez Luis Gonzalez Marifer Guerrero Daniel Santiago Refugio Tristan VIOLA Gamaliel Sanchez, Principal Denise Alanis Hunter Garcia José Salinas* Analuisa Salvador* CELLO Israel Cantu, Principal Sebastian Garcia-Loredo Raul Lara Judith Recio Kimberly Reyes Zubin Solis Robert Zuñiga
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DOUBLE BASS Diego Garza, Principal Michael Farrick Alyssa Gonzalez Isai Martinez David Molina
TROMBONE Carlos Rodriguez1 Brandon Navarro Imanol Ruiz TUBA Azdruball Montemayor1
FLUTE & PICCOLO Sarah Canning2,3 Carlos Hernandez1
TIMPANI Ian Charlton3 Peter Nay1,2
OBOE Lorena Coronado1,2,3 Samantha Salazar
PERCUSSION Marcus Alonzo Ian Charlton Janellie Maldonado Peter Nay Jose Salinas Rebecca Sanchez
CLARINET Angel Aldana1 Guillermo Cavazos Jason Jimenez3 Hugo Lopez
PIANO/KEYBOARD Paola Garcia1,3
BASSOON Ashley Perez1,2,3 Angel Nevarez
HARP Sonia Westberg1*
HORN Rodrigo Barrera2 Daniel Garza1 David Gutierrez3 Josue Juarez TRUMPET Michael Barrera Victor Casas2 Benjamin Gonzalez Ryan Mowers3
ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS Alexandro Lucero-Quintana Manuel Monge-Mata Andrew Stahlman
Denotes principal in Escalante Denotes principal in Mozart 3 Denotes principal in Ginastera *Denotes guest player 1 2
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Tchaikovsky’s 4th Plau • Tuba Concerto Scott Roeder, Tuba
Tchaikovsky • Symphony No. 4 March 10 & 11, 2022
Romantic Symphony Bruckner • Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” 2021-2022 UTRGV Solo Competition Winner April 23 & 24, 2022
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