Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 7:30 pm
The Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax
Presented by the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, Nice Moves, Jules Chamberlain – Red Door Realty, and The Coast
Featuring Holly Mathieson, conductor
Inbal Segev, cello
Symphony Nova Scotia
Thanks to our presenting sponsor, The Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, for partnering with us on this special program. We’re thrilled to partake in the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship’s 20th Anniversary Global Concert Series. Together, we look forward to celebrating the contributions of women as performers and composers of classical music.
| Dinuk Wijeratne (b. 1978) ? Polyphonic Lively I. reels II. air III. two jigs and some fireworks |
13' |
| Anna Clyne (b. 1980) Dance, for Cello and Orchestra I. when you're broken open II. if you've torn the bandage off III. in the middle of fighting IV. in your blood V. when you're perfectly free Inbal Segev, cello |
25' |
| Intermission | |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Symphony No. 5 in C Minor I. Allegro con brio II. Andante con moto III. Allegro IV. Allegro |
43' |
Additional players: Alsu Kamalieva and Lauren Klein, violin; Sibylle Marquardt, flute; Mitch Clarke and Christian Navrátil (contrabassoon), bassoon; Mimisu Lee and Randal Ulmer, horn; Dale Sorensen, David Pell, and Bob Nicholson (bass), trombone; Mark Bonang, tuba; Trevor Brandenburg and Mark Morton, percussion.
This concert feels like the beginning of the future – the first Spotlight concert of our first full season back after so much upheaval. I felt it was even more important than usual to make every note we play meaningful. Dinuk’s music is woven into the story of this orchestra probably more than any other living composer – Polyphonic Lively, which Bernhard Gueller and Symphony Nova Scotia commissioned in 2016, when Dinuk Wijeratne held the position of RBC Composer-in-Residence – felt like the perfect explosion of sound to launch the season!
Our audience had their first taste of Anna Clyne’s beautiful music in the fall of 2021; so, it’s a delight to bring another one of her works to the stage, thanks to generous sponsorship from the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, which is also sponsoring TAKI fellow Barbara Dragan to be our assistant conductor for the week. And, finally, we look back over our shoulder to our European musical lineage, with arguably the most iconic orchestral work in the repertoire: Beethoven’s Fifth. It’s a wonder of challenge, reward, and never-ending discovery to conduct and play. What a way to launch the next period of our orchestra’s life!
Learn some fun and interesting facts about the composers featured in this concert, as well as the music that will be on the program.