Ravinia 2022, Issue 3

PAVILION 7:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2022 CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MARIN ALSOP, conductor KAYHAN KALHOR, kamancheh DAVID KRAKAUER, klezmer clarinet CRISTINA PATO, gaita (Galician bagpipes) MICHAEL WARD-BERGEMAN, hyper-accordion JANAI BRUGGER, soprano # JAYE LADYMORE, narrator CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS EUGENE ROGERS, guest director CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR JOSEPHINE LEE, president and artistic director JUDY HANSON, senior director GOLIJOV Rose of the Winds * Wah Habbibi K’in Sventa Ch’ul Me’tik Kwadalupe Tancas Serradas a Muru Aiini Taqtiru Tekyah Kayhan Kalhor; David Krakauer; Cristina Pato; Michael Ward-Bergeman; Shofar players from the Highland Park and Glencoe community –Intermission– BERNSTEIN Symphony No. 3 ( Kaddish ) ( performed without breaks between movements ) I. Invocation Kaddish 1 II. Din-Torah Kaddish 2 III. Scherzo Kaddish 3 Finale Janai Brugger; Jaye Ladymore; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Chicago Children’s Choir * First performance at Ravinia # Ravinia Steans Music Institute alum As part of the Breaking Barriers Festival , this performance honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Hillis . Ravinia expresses its appreciation to Dinah Jacobs Castle for her lead sponsorship of the 2022 Breaking Barriers Festival. OSVALDO GOLIJOV (b. 1960) Rose of the Winds Scored for two flutes, alto flute, piccolo, and bass flute, three oboes and English horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, and contrabass clarinet, three bassoons and contrabassoon, four horns (all doubling shofars), three trumpets, piccolo trumpet, and trumpet in D (all doubling shofars), three trombones, bass trumpet, bass trombone, and contrabass trombone (all doubling shofars), tuba, dumbek, maracas, ocean drum, tambourine, water bowls, snare drum, gran casa, bundles of sticks, tubular bell, marimba, Chinese flanged cymbal, anvil, low-pitched field drum, bass drum, harp, sampler (sound of voices praying), strings, and four amplified soloists (bagpipes, accordion, kamancheh, and B-flat and bass clarinets) Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov grew up in La Plata, the capital city of a province just southeast of Buenos Aires, located direct- ly across the Rio de la Plata fromMontevideo, Uruguay. Growing up in an Eastern European Jewish household and in a Catholic country known for its hot-blooded tangos provided a rich cultural experience that continues to en- rich his compositions. Golijov studied with Gerardo Gandini, a former pupil of Alberto Ginastera, before moving to Israel in 1983, where his principal teacher was Ukrainian musicologist and composer Mark Kopytman. After three years, he entered the doctoral pro- gram at the University of Pennsylvania, work- ing with George Crumb. He studied with Lu- kas Foss and Oliver Knussen during the summer at Tanglewood, where he received the Koussevitzky Composition Prize. Since completing his advanced studies, Golijov has received numerous other honors, among them a Paul Fromm Award (1992), two Fried- heim Awards (1993 and 1995), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Stoeger Award for Contemporary Composition (1996), and the Vilcek Foundation Prize (2008). He has received commissions from the Spoleto Festival USA, Lincoln Center, Minnesota Or- chestra, Oregon Bach Festival, and Helmuth Rilling for Stuttgart’s commemoration of the Osvaldo Golijov 250th anniversary of Bach’s death—the widely acclaimed La pasión según San Marcos (The Passion according to St. Mark), whose record- ing won two Grammy Awards. Golijov has been Loyola Professor of Music at the College of the Holy Cross since 1991. He has served several residencies, including a three-week Music Alive residency with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the auspic- es of the League of American Orchestras and Meet the Composers. Honorary positions include Ravinia’s first composer-in-residence (2002), Mead Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2006–8), the first composer-in-residence at the Mostly Mozart Festival (2007), and the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall (2012–13), among others. Rose of the Winds was commissioned in 2006 for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through a generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bucksbaum and The Irving Harris Founda- tion, Joan W. Harris. The CSO, conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the Silk Road Ensemble gave the premiere in Orchestra Hall on April 12, 2007. Golijov ex- plained that this stylistically and geographi- cally diverse composition “is intended to of- fer a snapshot of who we are as people rather than trace a specific journey” The compass rose, seen on many ancient maps, is typically an eight-pointed compass indicating cardinal (N, E, S, and W) and ordinal (NE, SE, SW, and NW) directions. Amore elaborate navigation- al tool, containing as many as 32 points, was developed to track the directions of the eight major winds, eight half winds, and 16 quarter winds—the “Rose of the Winds.” I. Wah Habbibi ( My Love ). This widely trav- eled religious lament traces its roots at least as far back as the early 18th century. Its original 13-stanza French devotional text, “Au sang qu’un Dieu va reprandre” (To the Blood that a God Will Shed), was written by François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (1651–1715), the novelist, educator, and Archbishop of Cambrai. The traditional French melody as- sociated with these lyrics was adapted by Ital- ian comic opera composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–36). More than a century lat- er, Edmund Vaughan, an English Redemptor- ist priest and missionary to Australia, created the three-stanza English text “God of Mercy and Compassion,” which first appeared as a Passiontide hymn in Hymns for the Confra- ternity of the Holy Family (1854). An alternate French text for the Passion of Jesus Christ, “Lorsqu’un Dieu daigne répan- dre” (When a God Deigns to Extend), ap- peared around the turn of the 20th century. This version traveled to the Middle East in an adaptation by Lebanese Christian scholar Father Michel Hayek (1928–2005) called “Wa Habibi” (My Love). The Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church founded by Syriac Christians in Lebanon and Syria, has adopted RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE 45