Symphony program for 2006 season

The Lakeside Symphony Orchestra

Lakeside, Ohio

Robert L. Cronquist – Music Director and Conductor
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Wednesday, August 2, 2006

A Program of Light Classics

Bugler’s Holiday…Anderson
Three Dances from the Bartered Bride…Smetana
Polka, Furiant, Dance of the Comedians
Bacchanale from Samson and Dalila…Saint-Saens
Selections from South Pacific…Rogers

INTERMISSION

Slavonic Dance in B-major, op. 72-No. 1…Dvorak
March and Scherzo from The Love of Three Oranges…Prokofiev
Midsommarvaka (Swedish Rhapsody No. 1)…Alfven
Overture 1812, op. 49…Tchaikovsky
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Saturday, August 5, 2006

Iva M. Clark Memorial concert

Point of Departure Ballet Company
Karen Gabay and Raymond Rodriguez, Directors

Disturbing Horizons …Shawn Phillips
(Orchestration – Benjamin Lloyd; Choreography – Karen Gabay)
“World Premiere Performance – Lakeside, Ohio, August 5, 2006”

INTERMISSION

White Swan Pas de Deux from Swan Lake…Tchaikovsky
Black Swan Pas de Deux from Swan lake…Tchaikovsky
Suite from Napoli…Hellsted

Disturbing Horizons, by rock star Shawn Phillips, is his first venture into ballet. Although he has over 17 albums and is a quadruple-platinum artist, this work is an entirely new direction to add to his distinguished 25 year career. Orchestrated by Benjamin Lloyd, Disturbing Horizons depicts events in the life of a prince. It is crafted in eight contrasting sections starting with the birth of the Prince and ending with his ascent to the throne.

I. The World into Which the Prince is Born
II. The Prince’s Birth
III. Through Gothic Windows on a Sunday (A View from his Childhood)
IV. Aimlessly Baroque – Endlessly Broke (Pre-inheritance Adolescence)
V. The Escape of the Fox (His First Foxhunt)
VI. God’s Serene Wedding (The Prince Weds)
VII. Bassoonata (The Death of the King)
VIII. Scherzo (Ascent to the Throne)

Pointe of Departure is a summer ballet company based in Cleveland. During the rest of the year, Karen Gabay and Raymond Rodriguez are principal dancers with the San Jose Ballet. These World class artists return to northern Ohio each summer to present a ballet series.
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

James Braid, Violin

Overture to Rienzi...Wagner
Concerto No. 11 in D major, RV 210…Vivaldi
.....Allegro
.....Largo
.....Allegro
Fantasy on Russian Themes, op. 33…Rimsky-Korsakoff

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95…Dvorak
(from the New World)
Adagio; Allegro molto
.....Largo
.....Scherzo
.....Allegro con fuoco

James Braid, one of three family members in the Lakeside Symphony, is celebrating his 21st year as Concertmaster. Over the years he has performed most of the major violin concertos with the Lakeside Symphony, including the Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Brahms as well as some outstanding works outside of the standard repertoire.

He has also collaborated with other members of the orchestra, as soloists – notably with his wife, Colleen (principal violist) in performances of compositions for violin and viola. He and his family always perform as a group for the Candlelight Showcase home tours to benefit the Lakeside Symphony which, this year, will be held on August 14.

Mr. Braid is a longtime member of the Cincinnati Symphony.
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Friday, August 11, 2006

The Romance of an Evening in Vienna

Overture, Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna…von Suppe
Feuerfest, polka francaise, op. 269…Joseph Strauss
Perpetuum Mobile, Musical Humoresque, op. 257…J. Strauss, Jr.
Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods…J. Strauss, Jr.
Polka, Unter Donner und Blitz, op. 324…J. Strauss, Jr.

INTERMISSION

Rosemunde Overture…Schubert
Polka, Bahn Frei, op. 45…Eduard Strauss
Auf der Jagd, polka, op. 373…J. Strauss, Jr.
Waltz, the Beautiful Blue Danube, op. 314…J. Strauss, Jr.
Radetzsky March…J. Strauss, Sr.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

All-Orchestral Program

Overture to the Abduction from the Seraglio…Mozart
Symphony No. 39 in E flat Major, K. 543…Mozart
.....Adagio; Allegro
.....Andante con moto
.....Menuetto: Allegro
.....Finale: Allegro

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, op. 64…Tchaikovsky
.....Andante; Allegro con anima
.....Andenta cantabile, con alcuna licenza
.....Valse: Allegro moderato
.....Finale: Andante maestoso; allegro vivace
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Saturday, August 19, 2006

“La Traviata” Verdi

Opera Circle, Inc.

Violetta Valery…..Dorota Sobieska
Flora Bervoix…..Amy Scheetz-Tatta
Marquis D’Obigny…..Randall Levine
Dr. Grenvil…..Ken Kramer
Gastone, Vet. De Latorieres…..Robert Davis
Baron Douphol…..Jose Gutera
Alfredo Germont…..Erik Johanson
Annina…..Nicole Boeke
Giorgio Germont…..Ray Liddle
Friends of Violetta: Denise Green, Jan Woda, Linda Allen, Wanda Sobieska, Aleksandra Sobieska, Scott Henning

.....ACT I Violetta’s Drawing Room, Paris
.....ACT II Garden of Violetta’s Country Place
.....ACT III .Scene I: Terrace of Flora’s Villa
.................Scene II: Violetta’s Bedroom

The story of the short life and death of Violetta Valery is taken from the drama “Camille” that was adapted by Alexandre Dumas, the younger, from his novel of the same name. It is a tragic story of lost love amid ‘class’ divisions of the time. Its heroine, Violetta, was drawn by Dumas from life: the life of a young Parisienne courtesan by the name of Alphonsine Plessis, who died of consumption in 1847 at the age of twenty-three and is buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. Verdi completed the opera in 1853 on a libretto by Piave.

Opera Circle is a Cleveland based opera company conceived and directed by Jacek and Dorota Sobieska. It has just completed its tenth season of innovative operatic productions.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Jinjoo Cho, Violin

Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin…Wagner
Concerto No. 5 for Violin and Orchestra in A major, K 219…Mozart
.....Allegro aperto
.....Adagio
.....Rondo: Tempo di menuetto

INTERMISSION

Variations on a Theme by Haydn, op. 56A…Brahms
Capriccio Italien, op, 45…Tchaikovsky

This will be Jinjoo Cho’s third appearance with the Lakeside Symphony. An exceptionally talented young protégé, Miss Cho began her studies at the age of six in her native country of Korea. She made her concert debut at the age of eight and went on to win the Choong Nam Philharmonic contest when nine years old. She attended the Aspen Music School in 2000/2001 onn a New Horizon Fellowship.

In 2002, she moved to the United States to study, on scholarship, with Paul Kantor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2006 she was awarded the grand prize in the Montreal International Musical Competition, she was the gold medal winner of the 2005 Stulberg International String Competition and this fall she will be attending the prestigious Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia.

Miss Cho’s appearance this evening is sponsored by a generous gift from Dr. Jim and Betty Jane Young.
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Friday, August 25, 2006

Yukiko Sekino, Piano

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, op. 30…Rachmaninoff
.....Allegro ma non tanto
.....Intermezzo: Adagio
.....Alla Breva

INTERMISSION

Scheherazade Symphonic Suite after the
“Thousand and One Nights,” op. 35…Rimsky-Korsakoff

Yukiko Sekono is the first prize winner of the 2006 Russian Music International Competition. She has appeared as a soloist and a chamber musician in the US, Europe and her native Japan. She made her debut with the Boston symphony Orchestra at the age of sixteen after winning the BSO’s Youth Concerto Competition, and was a prize winner in the National MTNA Yamaha Competition. She attended Harvard University, appearing as a soloist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and continued her studies at the Juilliard School. Yuki was a 2002 winner of the Japanese-American Association of New Work Competition and in 2005 won concerto competitions held at SUNY Stony Brook and the New World Symphony. Yuki is currently a doctoral candidate at SUNY Stony Brook, where she studies with Gilbert Kalish on a full scholarship.
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Robert L. Cronquist
Music Director & Conductor

This year marks the 43rd anniversary of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra and the 36th year for Music Director, Robert L. Cronquist.

During his 36 years as Music Director, Mr. Cronquist has endeavored to bring outstanding artists to Lakeside to appear with the orchestra including Metropolitan Opera stars: Jerome Hines, Frank Guarrera and Patrice Munsel. Well known Cleveland artists Eunice Podis, Jean Geis Stell, Clive Lythgoe and Joela Jones have performed with the orchestra as well as international celebrities including “Doc” Severinson, Ferrante and Teicher, Florian Zabach, Carlos Montoya and George Shearing.

Ballet performances have been a regular feature at Lakeside with appearances of the Indianapolis Ballet, the Cleveland-San Jose Ballet and recently the Pointe of Departure Ballet Co. Fully staged operas that Mr. Cronquist has presented include Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Lucia di Lammermoor, Cosi fan Tutti and Tosca. This season opera will return to Hoover Auditorium with a production of La Traviata.

Before becoming the Music Director at Lakeside, Mr. Cronquist conducted the Mansfield Symphony for 22 years. During his tenure in Mansfield he brought many world famous artists to perform with the symphony including Jose Iturbi, Itzak Perlman, Robert Merrill, Joseph Fuchs, Leonard Rose, Joseph Gingold, Eugene Istomin, John Browning and Blanch Thebom.

In addition to conducting the Lakeside Symphony, Mr. Cronquist just completed his 16th season conducting the historic Cleveland Women’s Orchestra, the longest continuously performing women’s orchestra in the country. This orchestra performs a variety of special event programs and an annual spring concert at Severance Hall. During his 16 years as Music Director, he has expanded the orchestra’s concert season and established an endowment to ensure the future of this unique ensemble.