Oct. 25
family series
Se g e rst ro m cen ter for the a rts
Renée and henry segerstrom concert hall
presents
presents
family musical mornings
The concerts begin at 10 and 11:30 a.m.
alejandro gutiérrez • conductor
Joe Lauderdale • director, script writer, costume and prop coordinator
Rich Wordes • Sherlock Holmes | Stephanie Draude • watson | francisco fullana • violin
A Sherlock Holmes Halloween
This morning’s performance will include excerpts from the following:
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Danse Macabre, Op. 40
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Waltz from Swan Lake, Op. 20
Max Bruch (1838-1920)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
Léo Delibes (1836-1891)
Pizzicato from Sylvia
Overture to Die Entführung aus dem Serail,
K. 384
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)
Arr. Rimsky-Korsakov
Night on Bald Mountain
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
Speech Coach for Maestro Gutiérrez: Andrea Caban
Costumes supplied by: The Rental Bootique, Santa Ana
Education programs are supported, in part, by
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a sherlock holmes halloween
Good morning my dear young friends,
I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to start a new season of Family Musical Mornings
with you today! I couldn’t be more excited for the shows that we are going to share with you this
season. We have been thinking a lot about you over the summer, and have some amazing, new
musical adventures in store!
And speaking of adventures… I hope that you love mysteries, because today my friends from
Pacific Symphony and I need your help in solving one! Ever since back-to-school night we have
been hearing the spooky sounds of a violin coming from all over the concert hall. We can’t
figure out where the sounds are coming from, and we can’t see a violinist playing. In fact, we
think that our concert hall may have a Haunted Violin! Please let me know if you hear these
eerie sounds, we could really use your help.
I have chosen some great pieces of music that feature our Spotlight Instrument, the violin,
for today’s concert. I know that you’ll love hearing the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, the Pizzicato
dance from Delibes’ ballet Sylvia, the Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and the Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto, among others. These pieces are irresistible to violinists, even haunted violinists,
so maybe we can make the Haunted Violin appear!
I have a couple of good friends that are known all over the world for solving mysteries, Mr.
Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Watson. I may call on them if we need their help. In the
meanwhile, I am sure you will enjoy this wonderful music, played by our amazing orchestra,
Pacific Symphony.
Alejandro Gutiérrez
assistant conductor
I look forward to seeing you again in December for our special version of The Nutcracker,
featuring the wonderful dancers from the Festival Ballet Theatre. And don’t forget to keep
you ears open in case you hear the sounds of the Haunted Violin. Let’s see if we can use our
Halloween concert to solve this mystery together!
Pura Vida
Thanks!
Pacific Symphony thanks the
following for their generous
contributions of time to Family
Musical Mornings, Musical Carnival
and Heartstrings
Kelsey Uyeda
Musical Carnival Coordinator
Volunteers from:
Pacific Symphony League
Volunteers in Education
Pacific Symphony Youth
Ensembles Service
Parents from our Class Act Program
Northwood High School
Chamber Orchestra
If you would like to volunteer for
Pacific Symphony Education Programs,
please contact Mary Hawkes at
(714) 876-2339 or
[email protected]
for more information.
* Pura Vida (Pure Life) is the most popular phrase in Costa Rica, meaning wishing
the best, feeling wonderful, looking wonderful, living wonderful, a way of greeting
people, etc.
Alejandro Gutiérrez
Your conductor for Pacific Symphony Family Musical Mornings
Learning More About the Violin
Articulation
Articulation can he
lp to tell a
story through mus
ic! For example,
let’s imagine that
a story has a
character who is qu
ietly sneaking up
behind a ghost in
a haunted house.
The
violinist would se
e the word pizzica
to
above the music no
tes. Pizzicato is wh
en
the violinist uses
his or her right in
dex
finger to pluck th
e strings away fro
m the
violin. It creates a
short sound. Now,
let’s
imagine that the st
ory now has a ghos
t
floating in the haun
ted house. The viol
inist
would see the wo
rd arco above the
music
notes. Arco is when
the violinist stops
plucking the strings
and uses the bow
to
make a smoother,
longer sound. Whi
ch
piece in our concer
t has the violin se
ction
playing pizzicato?
Solo or Section?
Violin players, or violinists,
can play alone or with other
violinists. Just like how you
can play games by yourself,
or with your friends! When a
violinist plays by him or herself
with the orchestra’s support, we call
the violinist a solo violin or soloist.
t.
The spotlight shines on one violinis
in
But the violin can also play in a viol
section, where many violinists play
a.
music together as part of the orchestr
y
man
on
es
shin
light
spot
So, the
violinists. See if you can hear which
tlight
pieces in our concert have the spo
in!
on the solo viol
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Joe Lauderdale
director and writer
oe Lauderdale returns to Pacific Symphony, directing and writing his fourth Family Musical
Mornings concert. Previous concerts have included A Halloween Masquerade, Dinosaurs! and
Under the Sea, as well as the Class Act Youth Concert in 2013. Lauderdale was the youth
theatre director at the Laguna Playhouse from 1988-2005. While at the Playhouse, he was
honored by the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) with the Youth Theatre
Director of the Year Award in 2001. He directed and/or produced more than 70 productions for
both youth and adults. He adapted several popular books for the stage including The Summer of
the Swans, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Tom Sawyer and Cut, as well as the original works Lost
Children and A False Reality. Since he left the Playhouse in 2005, he has directed productions in
Salt Lake City (the premiere of Family Matters by Sandra Fenichel Asher), and various locations in
Los Angeles and Orange County. Currently he is on the board of directors at No Square Theatre
in Laguna Beach and serves as the resident director. Recent productions include The Rocky
Horror Show, Xanadu, Ruthless and Lucky Stiff. In addition to directing and producing, Joe has been
a theater educator, teaching classes in theater games, creative drama, improvisation, acting
techniques and musical theater.
R
ich Worde’s favorite stage credits include Gypsy (Herbie), Annie Warbucks (Daddy
Warbucks), Into the Woods (Narrator/Mysterious Man), 42nd Street (Bert Barry), Fiddler on
the Roof (Lazar Wolf), Meet Me in St. Louis (Alonzo Smith), Sordid Lives (GW Nethercutt),
the concert version of South Pacific (Luther Billis/Narrator), Little Shop of Horrors (Mushnik),
The Retreat from Moscow (Edward), Cabaret (Herr Schultz), Hello Dolly (Horace Vandergelder),
The 1940’s Radio Hour (Johnny Cantone), Scared Money (Sonny); Boomers: The Musical Revue of a
Generation (Miles); Xanadu, The Musical (Danny), Titanic, The Musical (Capt. Smith), Brooklyn Boy
(Manny) and Lucky Stiff (Luigi/Tony).
Rich Wordes
sherlock holmes
stephanie Draude
watson
S
tephanie Draude is thrilled to join Pacific Symphony for A Sherlock Holmes Halloween. Being
a huge fan of mystery herself, Draude is overjoyed to bring one of the greats to life. Draude
has performed in numerous productions throughout Southern California as well as worked
behind-the-scenes for some of Orange County’s premiere theater companies. She currently
works as the front-of-house manager at South Coast Repertory. Favorite credits include Dirty
Rotten Scoundrels (Christine), Seussical (Gertrude), The Redneck Wedding, RENT, The Full Monty
and Dreamgirls. She is a proud graduate of UC Irvine with her B.A. in drama and honors in musical
theater. Draude gives special thanks to Joe Lauderdale and Bree Burgess Rosen for giving her the
opportunity to be a part of today’s concert.
A
cclaimed for his performances in both Europe and the United States, Francisco Fullana
has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras including the Bavarian Radio
Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, “El Sistema” Symphony Orchestra, Spanish Radio
Television Orchestra and Hof Symphony among many others, under conductors such as Sir
Colin Davis and Christoph Poppen. Highlights in 2014-15 include concerto performances under
Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra as well as Brahms’ Double Concerto in the
Spanish National Hall with the Madrid State Orchestra under Victor Pablo as well as his Russia
debut with the St. Petesburg State Capella Orchestra.
A very active chamber musician, Fullana is part of the artist roster of Marlboro Music and
a founding member of Quartet Senza Misura, as well as concertmaster of the San Antonio
Chamber Orchestra. The first prize winner at the 2014 International Johannes Brahms
Competition and the 2008 Pablo de Sarasate National Violin Competition, Fullana was also a
multiple prizewinner at the 2014 “Henry Marteau” International Violin Competition and has won
numerous others competitions in Europe and the U.S.
Francisco Fullana
violin
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Fullana is currently pursuing his studies at USC under violinist Midori Goto and has received
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School under Donald Weilerstein and Masao
Kawasaki. Fullana is a recipient of a 1679 Pietro Guarneri violin, generously on loan from The
Stradivari Society of Chicago.
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Spotlight on the Music
Danse Macabre by
Camille Saint-Saëns
poem, or
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail Overture
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The overture, a musical introduction
to an opera, plays at the beginning of
Mozart’s opera, Die Entführung aus dem
Serail. An opera is a musical story where
characters sing and act what they say
and feel. In this overture, the spotlight
shines on the violin section, meaning all
the violins in the ensemble play together.
Are the violins playing with a pizzicato
or arco articulation?
Violin Concerto No
. 1 by Max Bruch
A violin concerto
is a piece that has
three movements
, or parts, and a so
lo
instrument playin
g with the orches
tra.
Picture in your min
d the solo violin an
d
the orchestra talk
ing to each other
in the
language of music—
music notes!
Pizzicato from the ballet
Sylvia by Leo Delibes
Pizzicato is a musical articulation
where a violinist plucks the
strings away from the violin. The
articulation, or how the music
notes sound, is short and sounds
like someone dancing or walking
on his or her tiptoes. Imagine
pizzicato being like a ballerina, a
dancer who dances ballet, dancing
on her tiptoes.
Spotlight on the Violin
What is small, shaped like a pear, made of wood, has strings
and sings high? A violin of course! The violin is part of the
string family, which makes sound when the strings vibrate as
the bow touches one or more of the strings. The violin has a
body shaped like a pear, which is hollow and made of wood.
The body is very fancy and has two F-holes, which is where
the sound comes out — just like sound comes out of your
mouth. To make sure the violinist, someone who plays the
violin, is comfortable, the violin has a chinrest and shoulder
rest. The violin has a neck just like you and me with a scroll on
top and four pegs sticking out on either side of the scroll. The
pegs can either tighten or loosen the strings.
No violin is complete without its trusty bow, just like you are
not complete without your best friend. The bow is long and
skinny but has horsehair that is held together by the tip and
the frog of the bow. The violinist holds the bow with his or
her thumb, middle and ring finger holding onto the frog. The
violinist moves the bow up and down on the strings to make
sound.
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MEET
the orchestra
CARL ST.CLAIR • MUSIC DIRECTOR
William J. Gillespie Music Director Chair
RICHARD KAUFMAN • PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR
Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair
Alejandro Gutiérrez • ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR
Mary E. Moore Family Assistant Conductor Chair
Narong Prangcharoen • composer-in-residence
FIRST VIOLIN
Raymond Kobler
Concertmaster,
Eleanor and Michael Gordon
Chair
Paul Manaster
Associate Concertmaster
Jeanne Skrocki
Assistant Concertmaster
Nancy Coade Eldridge
Christine Frank
Kimiyo Takeya 30
Ayako Sugaya
Ann Shiau Tenney 20
Maia Jasper
Robert Schumitzky
Agnes Gottschewski
Dana Freeman
Grace Oh
Jean Kim 10
Angel Liu
Marisa Sorajja
Second Violin
Bridget Dolkas*
Elizabeth and John Stahr Chair
Jessica Guideri**†
Yen-Ping Lai
Yu-Tong Sharp 20
Ako Kojian
Ovsep Ketendjian
Linda Owen
Phil Luna
MarlaJoy Weisshaar
Alice Miller-Wrate
Shelly Shi
Viola
Robert Becker*
Catherine and James Emmi
Chair
Meredith Crawford**
Carolyn Riley
John Acevedo
Erik Rynearson
Luke Maurer
Julia Staudhammer
Joseph Wen-Xiang Zhang 20
Pamela Jacobson
Adam Neeley
Cheryl Gates
Margaret Henken 20
Cello
Timothy Landauer*
Catherine and James Emmi
Chair
Kevin Plunkett**
John Acosta
Robert Vos
László Mezö
Ian McKinnell
M. Andrew Honea
Waldemar de Almeida
Jennifer Goss
Rudolph Stein
Bass
Steven Edelman*
Douglas Basye** 20
Christian Kollgaard
David Parmeter 20
Paul Zibits
David Black
Andrew Bumatay
Constance Deeter
Flute
Benjamin Smolen*
Valerie and Hans Imhof Chair
Sharon O’Connor
Cynthia Ellis
Piccolo
Cynthia Ellis
Bass Trombone
Kyle Mendiguchia
Oboe
Jessica Pearlman*
Suzanne R. Chonette Chair
Ted Sugata
TUBA
James Self*
English Horn
Lelie Resnick
Clarinet
Benjamin Lulich*†
The Hanson Family
Foundation Chair
David Chang
Bass Clarinet
Joshua Ranz
Bassoon
Rose Corrigan*
Elliott Moreau 10
Andrew Klein 30
Allen Savedoff
Contrabassoon
Allen Savedoff
French Horn
Keith Popejoy* 10
Mark Adams
James Taylor** 20
Russell Dicey
Timpani
Todd Miller*
Percussion
Robert A. Slack*
Cliff Hulling
Harp
Mindy Ball*
Michelle Temple
20
Piano•Celeste
Sandra Matthews*
Personnel Manager
Paul Zibits
Librarians
Russell Dicey
Brent Anderson
Production
Stage Manager
Will Hunter
Assistant
Stage Manager
William Pruett
Trumpet
Barry Perkins*
Tony Ellis
David Wailes
Trombone
Michael Hoffman*
David Stetson
The musicians of Pacific Symphony are members of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 7.
* Principal
** Assistant Principal
† On Leave
Celebrating 30, 20 or 10 years
with Pacific Symphony this season.
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