THE COLUMBIA O R C H E S T R A2020-2021

THE COLUMBIA O R C H E S T R A

TCHAIKOVSKY & SHOSTAKOVICHSaturday, March 13, 2021 · 7:30pm

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PROGRAM

Serenade for Strings in C Major Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyI. Pezzo in forma di sonatina: (1840-1893)

Andante non troppo — Allegro moderatoII. Valse: Moderato — Tempo di valseIII. Élégie: Larghetto elegiacoIV. Finale (Tema russo): Andante — Allegro con spirito

Chamber Symphony in C Minor Dmitri ShostakovichI. Largo (1906-1975)II. Allegro molto arr. Rudolf BarshaiIII. AllegrettoIV. LargoV. Largo

Chamber Symphony in C minor by Dmitri Shostakovich presented under license fromG. Schirmer Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, copyright owners.

Columbia Orchestra’s 2020-2021 season is sponsored by Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors and made possible through general operating grants from the Howard County Arts Council, Howard County Government, the Maryland State

Arts Council, the Community Foundation of Howard County, the Rouse Company Foundation – and donors like you!

P R O G R A M

N O T E S

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893)SERENADE FOR STRINGS IN C MAJOR, Op. 48Composed: 1880Premiered: St. Petersburg Russia, 1881

On October 22, 1880 Tchaikovsky wrote to his friend and patroness NadezhdaFilaretovna von Meck, “You can be assured, dear friend, that my muse has been benevolent lately, when I tell you that I have written two long works very rapidly: a festival overture for the upcoming Exhibition and a serenade in four movements for string orchestra. The Overture will be very loud, noisy, but I wrote it without any warm feelings of love and so it will probably be of no artistic worth. But the Serenade, on the contrary, I wrote from inner compulsion. This is a piece from the heart and so, I venture to say, it does not lack artistic worth.”

The Overture Tchaikovsky referred to was his famous 1812 Overture which he was writing at the same time as this serenade, his Serenade for Strings. When he first began writing the serenade, Tchaikovsky thought it would be a symphony or a string quartet. Later he thought it might be a suite for string orchestra, but he finally settled on calling it a Serenade. Tchaikovsky’s former teacher, Anton Rubinstein said it was Tchaikovsky’s best piece. It was one of Tchaikovsky’s favorites. In fact, in a letter to his publisher, Peter Ivanovich Jürgenson, Tchaikovsky wrote “I am violently in love with this work and can’t wait for it to be played.” It is still one of the most popular string orchestra pieces in the Romantic repertoire.

P R O G R A M

N O T E S

DMITRI DMITRIYEVICH SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975)CHAMBER SYMPHONY in C MINOR, Op. 110a (after STRING QUARTET No. 8, Op. 110)Composed: 1960 (String Quartet), 1967 (Chamber Symphony arranged by Rudolf Barshai) Premiered: Leningrad, Russia, 1960 (String Quartet)

The Chamber Symphony in C Minor is a composer-approved arrangement made by Russian conductor and violist Rudolf Barshai of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. Shostakovich wrote the quartet while visiting Dresden, Germany. He was composing the score for a film about the city’s destruction in World War II and while there he wrote the string quartet in only three days.

Written on the score is Shostakovich’s dedication of the music "to the victims of fascism and war." However, in a letter he wrote to friend and literary critic Isaak Glikman, Shostakovich said “I've been thinking that when I die, it's hardly likely that anybody will ever write a work dedicated to my memory. So I have decided to write one myself. The dedication could be printed on the cover: ‘Dedicated to the memory of the composer of this quartet.’"

"The pseudo-tragic side of this quartet," Shostakovich wrote to Glikman, "is so powerful that when I was writing it, tears flowed as freely as water passed after a few beers. Since coming home, I've tried to play it through twice, but again the tears started flowing." Shostakovich shed tears again when he heard the Borodin Quartet perform his work. According to critic Erik Smith’s liner notes on the 1962 recording made by the quartet, "The Borodin Quartet played this work to the composer at his Moscow home, hoping for his criticisms. But Shostakovich, overwhelmed by this beautiful realisation of his most personal feelings, buried his head in his hands and wept. When they had finished playing, the four musicians quietly packed up their instruments and stole out of the room."

JASON LOVEM U S I C

D I R E C T O R

Award recognizing achievement in the arts in Howard County, Maryland.

Love was Artistic Director of the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestras (now the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras) for thirteen years, and Music Director of the New Horizons Chamber Ensemble, a new-music group, for five. He has guest conducted a wide variety of ensembles such as the Baltimore Symphony, Washington Sinfonietta, Hopkins Chamber Orchestra, Bismarck-Mandan Symphony, Maryland Classic Youth Chamber Orchestra, and RUCKUS, a contemporary music ensemble at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he taught conducting for seven years.

As a cellist Mr. Love has performed a wide array of concertos with orchestras including the North Carolina premiere of Tan Dun’s multi-media work, The Map. In recent seasons he has performed Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 with Piedmont Symphony, the Dvořák Concerto with the Frederick Symphony, and concertos by Haydn and Boccherini with the Columbia Summer Strings. His many chamber recitals include work with the Columbia Orchestra Piano Trio featuring Concertmaster Brenda Anna and pianist Nancy Smith, and the Franklin-Love Duo with pianist Rachel Franklin.

A highly respected educator, Mr. Love spends part of each summer conducting at the Baltimore String Orchestra Camp. In his eleven years on the faculty of the Governor’s School of North Carolina he taught Twentieth-Century music, philosophy, and other subjects to academically gifted high school students. He led the McDaniel Orchestra Camp in Westminster, MD for five years and conducted the Repertory Orchestra of the Chesapeake Youth Symphony in Annapolis, MD for four. He has adjudicated and guest conducted at music festivals around the country.

Born in Burlington, North Carolina, Love studied violoncello with Ronald Thomas and conducting with Frederik Prausnitz at the Peabody Conservatory. He is a Past President of the Peabody Alumni Association. His website is www.jasonlovemusic.com.

Conductor and cellist Jason Love leads the Columbia Orchestra in his twenty-second year as Music Director, the fourth person to have held that post in its forty-three seasons. Praised for his “intelligent and innovative programming,” the Baltimore Sun has called the orchestra “Howard County’s premier ensemble for instrumental music,” noting that “Love has the musicians playing not only with verve and passion, but with an awareness to enter into the emotional core of the works they perform.” He has received many recognitions including the American Prize for Orchestral Programming, a Peabody Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Music in Maryland, and a “Howie”

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