Lakeside Symphony, 2010 Program

THE LAKESIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

47^th Season

2010 Season

Robert L. Cronquist – Music Director and Conductor

Hoover Auditorium

8:15 p.m.

Lakeside, Ohio

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

A PROGRAM OF LIGHT CLASSICS

Overture to Die Fledermaus --- J. Strauss, Jr.

Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, op. 19 --- Alfvin

Capriccio Espagnole, op. 34 --- Rimsky-Korsakov

Alborada

Variations

Alborada

Scene & Gypsy Song

Fandango Asturias

INTERMISSION

Roses from the South, Waltz --- J. Strauss, Jr.

Suite from the Water Music --- Handel

Allegro

Air

Bouree

Horn Pipe

Allegro deciso

Suite from Gayne --- Khachaturian

Dance of the Rose Maiden

Lullaby

Saber Dance

March Slav, op. 31 --- Tchaikovsky

The audience is invited to a reception for the orchestra in the lobby of Hoover immediately following the concert.

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

IVA M. CLARK MEMORIAL CONCERT

POINTE OF DEPARTURE BALLET COMPANY

Karen Gabay and Raymond Rodriguez, Directors

Pas de Quatre --- Pugni

Prelude & Mazurka from Coppelia --- Delibes

Czardas from Coppelia --- Delibes

Coppelia, pas de deux --- Delibes

INTERMISSION

Les Sylphides, pas de deux --- Chopin

Flower Festival, pas de deux --- Hallsted-Paulli

Grand pas de deux from “Nutcracker” --- Tchaikovsky

Esprit de Paris --- Offenbach

POINTE OF DEPARTURE

Karen Gabay / Raymond Rodriguez: Artistic Directors

Dancers: Karen Gabay, Junna Ige, Erena Ishii, Jing Zhang, Damir Emric, Jurjis Safanov, Maykel Solas, Travis Walker

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

“FAMILY CONCERT”

JINJOO CHO, VIOLIN

Music from Carmen --- Bizet

Prelude

Aragonaise

Intermezzo

Les dragons d’Alcala

Habanera

Chanson du Toreador

Danse Boheme

Dance of the Hours from La Gioconda --- Ponchielli

JINJOO CHO is the First Grand Prize and People’s Choice Award winner of the 2006 Montreal International Musical Competition and the gold medalist of the 2005 Stulberg International String Competition. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and internationally including appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra and many others. A native of Seoul, South Korea, Jinjoo moved to the United States in 2002 and graduated from the Young Artists’ Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She continues her studies at CIM with Paul Kantor.

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Friday, August 6, 2010

DMITRI LEVKOVICH, PIANO

Concerto No. 25 in C major for Piano & Orchestra, K. 503 --- Mozart

Allegro maestoso

Andante

Allegretto

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 6 in D major, op. 60 --- Dvorak

Allegro non tanto

Adagio

Scherzo: Furiant

Finale: Allegro con spirito

DMITRI LEVKOVICH was born in the Ukraine and is a citizen of Canada. He is a graduate of both the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute where he earned a degree in Composition. He is the Second Prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and has appeared as soloist with many orchestras throughout the world.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

DEE DEE GAIN, ORGAN

Overture to Der Freischutz --- von Weber

Spanish Dance No. 1 from La Vida Breve --- de Falla

Overture Fantasy, Romeo & Juliet --- Tchaikovsky

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 3 in C minor (organ) --- Saint-Saens

Adagio; Allegro moderato

Poco adagio

Allegro moderato --- Presto

Maestoso – Allegro

DEE DEE GAIN is Lakeside’s Staff Organist. Her family has been coming to Lakeside for over 100 years – which now adds up to seven generations. Her grandparents, Ray and Mary Etta, bought the cottage at 523 Maple in 1905. In the 1970s Dee Dee’s mother, Cordelia Crout Stephens Fues, bought the cottage which Dee Dee now owns at 1321 Epworth Lane in Island View.

Dee Dee was raised in Springfield, Illinois, where she began her organ studies. She received her bachelor’s degree from Washington Univerisity in St. Louis and her masther’s degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield. From 1976 to 2007 she served as organist in Springfield – 15 years at Westminster Presbyterian Church, then 16 years at Laurel United Methodist Church. Currently she is the organist at First United Methodist Church in Battle Creek in the winter and at Lakeside in the summer. She has 3 grown children and 7 grandchildren.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD

Salute to Cole Porter --- Porter

Selections from Sound of Music --- Rogers

Selections from Phantom of the Opera --- Webber

INTERMISSION

Selections from My Fair Lady --- Lowe

Suite from Star Wars – Williams

Main Title

Princess Leia’s Theme

The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)

Yoda’s Theme

Throne Room and End Title

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

SANTINO ELLIS PEREZ, VIOLIN

Overture to the Flying Dutchman --- Wagner

March Militaire Francaise --- Saint-Saens

Violin Concerto --- Lloyd

World Premiere Performance

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, op. 97 (Rhenish) --- Schumann

Lebhaft

Scherzo (sehr massig)

Nicht schnell

Feierlich

Lebhaft

SANTINO ELLIS PEREZ is a former student of Concertmaster James Braid and Paul Kantor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Peres was a soloist at Arizona State University. Recently, Mr. Peres was a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony under the direction of the late Eric Kunzel.

He is performing the World Premier of Benjamin Lloyd’s violin concerto. Mr. Lloyd is a member of the Lakeside Symphony and the Nashville Symphony.

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Friday, August 20, 2010

EMANUELA FRISCIONI, PIANO

Concerto No. 2 in F minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 21 --- Chopin

Maestoso

Larghetto

Allegro vivace

INTERMISSION

Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite after The Thousand and One Nights, op. 35 --- Rimsky-Korsakov

The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship

The Story of the Kalandar Prince

The Young Prince and Young Princess

The Festival at Bagdad; the Sea

EMANUELA FRISCIONI was born in Cantu, Italy, where she started studying piano at the age of five. She obtained her Diploma in Piano Performance in 1997 at the “Guiseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, with full marks, and then went on to study with famous professor Annamaria Pennella in Naples, Italy. Ms. Friscioni has participated in numerous competitions, both national and international, winning many first prizes. She extensively performs in chamber ensembles as well as piano duets with her husband, pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi.

Ms. Friscioni is an accomplished professor of piano. She is the Director of the Classical Music Performance Academy at Cuyahoga Community College, and is on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She lives in Shaker Heights with her husband and their daughter, Eleanor.

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ROBERT L. CRONQUIST

MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR

This year marks the 47^th anniversary of the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra and the 40^th year for Music Director, Robert L. Cronquist.

During his 39 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, Clive Lythgoe and Joela Jones have performed with the orchestra as well as international celebrities including “Doc” Severinsen, 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, Tosca and Don Pasquale.

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 Blanche Thebom.

In addition to conducting the Lakeside Symphony, Mr. Cronquist just completed his 20^th 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 20 years as Music Director, he has expanded the orchestra’s concert season and established an endowment to ensure the future of this unique ensemble.