Meet the Music!

ALICE TULLY HALL, STARR THEATER, ADRIENNE ARSHT STAGEHOME OF THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

Sunday Afternoon, March 22, 2015, at 2:00 3,418th Concert

Quartet No. 4 for Strings, Sz. 91, BB 95 (1928)Allegretto pizzicato

Quartet in E-flat major for Strings, Hob. III:38,Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke” (1781)

Finale: Presto

Quartet in B-flat major for Strings, Op. 130(1825–26)

Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo

String Thing for Quartet

Quartet in F major for Strings, Op. 59, No. 1,“Razumovsky” (1806)

Theme russe: Allegro

BÉLA BARTÓK(1881–1945)

FRANZ JOSEPHHAYDN

(1732–1809)

LUDWIG VANBEETHOVEN

(1770–1827)

BRUCE ADOLPHE/INSPECTOR PULSE

(b. 1955)

BEETHOVEN

BRUCE ADOLPHE, Inspector PulseAMPHION STRING QUARTET

KATIE HYUN, violinDAVID SOUTHORN, violinWEI-YANG ANDY LIN, violaMIHAI MARICA, cello

Meet the Music!Inspector Pulse Pops a String

This afternoon’s Instrument Petting Zoowas made possible by the generosity of Tulsa Violin Shop and Main Violin Shop.

Please turn off cell phones, beepers, and other electronic devices.Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this performance is prohibited.

The Chamber Music Society’s education and outreach programs are made possible, in part, with support from the Achelis and Bodman Foundations, Colburn Foundation,

Consolidated Edison Company, Hearst Fund, The Frank and Helen Hermann Foundation, Alice Ilchman Fund, Newman’s Own Foundation, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund, Tiger Baron

Foundation, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and The Winston Foundation. Public funds are provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the

New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The Chamber Music Society acknowledges with sincere appreciation Ms. Tali Mahanor’s generous long-term loan of the Hamburg Steinway & Sons model “D” concert grand piano.

www.ChamberMusicSociety.org

Some people say I’m high strung, but the day I popped a string in my piano I realized thatpianos are much more highly strung than any human could possibly be. Did you knowthat there are 230 strings in a grand piano? I never even realized there were any stringsat all inside a piano until one day I opened the lid to look in there for a cheese sandwich Ihad misplaced. The sandwich wasn’t there, but wow there were a lot of strings in there!I counted them and it took me so long that I was even hungrier than when I opened thelid. I found the sandwich later in my banjo case.

Of course, those piano strings are not like the strings you use to tie up a package. Theyare similar to the strings on a violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, banjo, mandolin, or saxophone.Wait! Forget saxophone, because I don’t think there are any strings on a saxophone.

But these piano “strings” are really wires. A piano is definitely not a wireless device likea cell phone. These wires are made from tempered high-carbon steel. You can use themto cut cheese, but it is more interesting to listen to a Beethoven sonata. But you can’t eata Beethoven sonata. However, a Beethoven sonata is better for you than sliced cheese. Ofcourse, had I found my cheese sandwich inside the piano, I could have used the pianostrings (or wire) to cut the cheese into thinner slices and played a Beethoven sonata.

I am interested in all sorts of strings, and so I am goingto study some other stringinstruments, including violin andcello. I already play the banjo (mycousin Billy-Bob Pulse taught me how)

and my banjo has fivestrings, which is one morethan a violin or cello has.So violin and cello shouldbe one string easier to play.

A NOTE FROMINSPECTOR PULSE

Of course, my piano has 230 strings so I should be able to play a four-stringed instrumenteasily. Well, I recently started taking violin and cello lessons, and I soon discovered that Iwould need to practice a lot to play the violin or cello! But practicing is actually the mostfun thing in the world, after slicing cheese with piano wire.

And what about being expressive and musical on a string? I know you can put your fingerdown on a string in different places and get different musical sounds, but I amdetermined to figure out how to make strings sound expressive—sweet, ferocious, timid,nervous, happy, sad—that sort of expressive!

Well, I suppose that takes practice, too. And I willpractice! But first, my cheese sandwich calls.

Inspector Pulse


ABOUT THE ARTISTSWhen he was a child Bruce Adolphe watched both Victor Borge andLeonard Bernstein on television, and after seeing them, he began“playing piano” on the breakfast table and cracking jokes with a Danishaccent. Having no choice, his parents bought him a toy piano, at whichBruce pretended to be Schroeder of the Peanuts cartoons. Soon afterthe toy piano was pecked apart by the family parakeet, Bruce’s parentspurchased a real piano and a larger bird. By age ten, Bruce wascomposing music, and no one has been able to stop him since. As a“tween,” Bruce studied piano, clarinet, guitar, bass, and—as a teen—

the bassoon. All this time, he wrote music and improvised accompaniments to everythingthat happened around him, as if life were a movie in need of a score. His favorite summerswere spent at the Kinhaven Music School and he loved his Saturdays at The Juilliard School’sPre-College Division. Today, Bruce spends his time composing chamber music, playing thepiano, and performing in concerts for people like you. He lives right around the corner onthe Upper West Side with his wife, pianist Marija, his daughter Katja, and his opera-and-jazz-singing parrot PollyRhythm, the same bird he has had since he was 10 years old. Bruceperforms weekly on public radio’s Performance Today, playing his Piano Puzzlers (familiartunes in the styles of the great masters) and you can catch that show on WQXR or on iTunes,or as a podcast from American Public Media. Many great musicians have performed Bruce’smusic, including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, the Brentano Quartet, and over 60 symphonyorchestras around the world, and of course lots of amazing players right here at TheChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where Bruce has been making music since 1992.If you want to check out Bruce’s CDs and educational pieces for all ages, please visit thewebsite of The Learning Maestros. You might enjoy his book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises forImproving the Musical Imagination, published in 2013 by Oxford University Press.

The members of the Amphion String Quartet come from all over the world, as far east asRomania and Taiwan, and as close as right here in the United States. They first got togetherto play Bartók's First String Quartet at Katie’s graduation recital in 2009 at the Yale School ofMusic. Since then they won a few competitions and joined Concert Artists Guild and theChamber Music Society’s CMS Two program. They’ve enjoyed traveling around the globe toKorea and making a recording in England. They've flown all over the United States and haveplayed in Texas, California, Oregon, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, and many, many otherstates! While they enjoy performing for audiences everywhere, they especially love playingfor audiences like this one at home in New York City. Katie and David enjoy taking turnsplaying first violin. They decide who plays first violin by arm wrestling, and Katie wins a lot!

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JOIN US FOR THE NEXT MEET THE MUSIC!INSPECTOR PULSE LEARNS TO REEDSunday, April 26, 2015, 2:00 pm • Alice Tully HallFeaturing music of Debussy, Britten, Carter, and more


LEADERSHIP GIFTS ($50,000 and above)

Contributors to the Annual Fund provide crucial support for the wide-ranging artistic and educational programs of theChamber Music Society. We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals, foundations, corporations, andgovernment agencies for their generosity. We would also like to thank those donors who support the Chamber MusicSociety through the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund.

BENEFACTORS ($10,000 to $24,999)

PLATINUM PATRONS ($5,000 to $9,999)AnonymousRobert C. AckartAnitra Christoffel-PellMr. and Mrs. John D. CoffinColburn FoundationCon EdisonJoseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts

Joan DyerMr. Lawrence N. Field and Ms. Rivka Seiden

Mr. and Mrs. Irvine D. Flinn

Mr. Robert GoldfarbIrving Harris FoundationJudith HeimerFrank and Helen HermannFoundation

Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, in loving memory of Donaldson C. Pillsbury

Paul C. LambertJonathan E. LehmanHelen Brown Levine*Leon Levy Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. H. Roemer McPhee inmemory of Catherine G. Curran

Linda and Stuart NelsonNewman’s Own FoundationMr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr.Mr. Donald Schnabel and Ms. Xiaowei Sun

Esther Simon Charitable TrustJoe and Becky StockwellMartin and Ruby VogelfangerNeil Westreich

Anonymous Mr. James A. Attwood and Ms. Leslie K. Williams

Jonathan Brezin and Linda Keen*Chris and Bruce CrawfordCrum & ForsterThe Gladys Krieble Delmas FoundationJon Dickinson and Marlene BurnsHoward Dillon and Nell Dillon-Ermers*Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Erskine, Jr.Martha Escobar and Sandor Lehoczky

Judy and Tony EvninDavid Finckel and Wu Han

Mr. and Mrs. Peter FrelinghuysenThe Frelinghuysen FoundationAnn and Gordon Getty FoundationFrancis Goelet Charitable Lead TrustsThe Florence Gould FoundationGrand Marnier FoundationJerome L. Greene FoundationThe Marc Haas Foundation, Inc.Rita E. and Gustave M. HauserRobert and Suzanne Hoglund*Shannon Wu and Joseph KahnPriscilla F. KauffJane KitselmanC.L.C. Kramer Foundation

Douglas M. LibbyMike McKoolAnne Akiko Meyers and Jason Subotky

Samuel I. Newhouse FoundationMarnie S. PillsburySandra Priest RoseSeth Sprague Educational andCharitable Foundation

William R. Stensrud andSuzanne E. Vaucher

Elaine and Alan Weiler

The Achelis FoundationThe Bodman FoundationJoyce B. CowinWilliam and Inger G. GinsbergDr. and Mrs. Victor GrannEugene and Emily Grant

Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. GridleyThe Hamilton FoundationLincoln Center Corporate FundMr. and Mrs. James P. O’ShaughnessyBlanchette Hooker RockefellerFoundation

The Fan Fox & Leslie R. SamuelsFoundation, Inc.

Elizabeth W. SmithThe Alice Tully FoundationThe Helen F. Whitaker FundThe Winston Foundation

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS CIRCLE

PATRONS

GUARANTORS ($25,000 TO $49,999)The Chisholm FoundationJoseph M. CohenSidney E. Frank FoundationFlorence A. Davis and Anthony C. Gooch

Elinor and Andrew HooverMr. and Mrs. Philip K. HowardHarry P. KamenMrs. Adler KatzanderJane and Peter KeeganJeehyun Kim

Andrea Klepetar-FallekBruce and Suzie KovnerRobert B. Menschel/Vital Projects FundMetLife FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsNew York City Department ofCultural Affairs

New York State Council on the ArtsTatiana PouschineDr. Annette U. RickelKhalil Rizk Fund

Dr. Beth Sackler and Mr. Jeffrey CohenThe Morris and Alma Schapiro FundJudith and Herbert SchlosserSuzanne and David SimonMr. and Mrs. Erwin StallerThe Starr FoundationJoost and Maureen ThesselingTiger Baron FoundationTravel Dynamics InternationalMr. and Mrs. Jarvis WilcoxKathe and Edwin Williamson

ANNUAL FUND

GOLD PATRONS ($2,500 to $4,999)

SILVER PATRONS ($1,500 to $2,499)

PRESTO ($1,000 to $1,499)

* Special thanks to our Patron Committee members for their tireless efforts as ambassadors for the Chamber Music Society.

Anonymous (5)Harry E. AllanMaurice and Linda BinkowPhilanthropic Fund of the United Jewish Foundation

Judith Boies and Robert ChristmanKenneth P. BrowneMr. and Mrs. Ronald ComptonHester DiamondJoseph A. Fazio

Eunice and Milton Forman, in honorof Suzanne and David Simon

The Gordon FoundationDr. and Mrs. Wylie C. HembreeCharles and Nancy HoppinFrederick L. JacobsonMerrick Family FundMs. Jacqueline L. QuillenCarroll and Ted ReidMichael W. Schwartz

David Seabrook and Sherry Barron-Seabrook

Mr. and Mrs. William G. SeldenSuzanne and David Simon, in memory of Robert Krause

Jeff and Helene SlocumAnnaliese SorosLynn StrausMs. Jane V. TalcottHerb and Liz TulchinTricia and Philip Winterer

Nasrin AbdolaliJacqueline AdamsJordan C. AgeeMs. Hope AldrichJames H. ApplegateDr. Anna BalasBetsy and Robert BarbanellRichard L. BaylesAdele BilderseeJane BlockSusan S. BraddockAnn and Paul BrandowAllan and Carol CarltonDale C. Christensen, Jr. and Patricia Hewitt

Marilyn and Robert CohenBetsy and Alan D. CohnRobert J. Cubitto and Ellen R. NadlerLewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Pierre de VeghHelen W. DuBoisThomas and Suzanne EngelHoward and Margaret FluhrDr. and Mrs. Fabius N. Fox*

Mr. Andrew C. Freedman and Ms. Arlie Sulka

Mr. and Mrs. Burton M. FreemanMr. and Mrs. John F. GeerEdda and James GillenNaava and Sanford GrossmanAxe-Houghton FoundationDr. Beverly Hyman and Dr. Lawrence Birnbach*

Kenneth Johnson and Julia TobeyFelisa B. KaplanEdward KazWilliam S. KeatingPeter L. KennardTom and Jody KingJudy and Alan KosloffHarriet and William LembeckDr. Donald M. LevineRobert Losada, Jr.Justin ManusAlan and Alice ModelRobert J. OsterhusMr. Roy Raved and Dr. Roberta Leff*Dr. Morris RossabiDiana and Michael Rothenberg

David and Sheila RothmanRobert and Margaret RothschildArlene and Chester SalomonMr. and Mrs. Arthur I. SarnoffMrs. Robert SchuurCarol and Richard SeltzerThe Susan Stein Shiva FoundationDr. Michael C. SingerJill S. SlaterDeborah StilesSusan Porter TallJoseph C. TaylorErik and Cornelia ThomsenDr. and Mrs. Alex TraykovskiSalvatore and Diane VaccaMarei von SaherDr. Judith J. Warren and Dr. Harold K. Goldstein*

Janet C. Waterhouse, PhDPaul and Judy WeislogelJohn S. WilsonGilda and Cecil Wray, Jr.Janet Yaseen and the Honorable Bruce M. Kaplan

Edward and Noreen Zimmerman

Elaine and Hirschel AbelsonDr. and Mrs. David H. AbramsonRonald AbramsonJoan and Howard Amron*Mr. and Mrs. Seymour R. Askin, Jr.David R. Baker and Lois A. Gaeta*Mr. and Mrs. Stanley BrezenoffAmerican Chai TrustSally D. and Stephen M. Clement, IIIThe Aaron Copland Fund for MusicNathalie and Marshall CoxSuzanne DavidsonRobert and Karen Desjardins

Mrs. Beatrice Frank*Diana G. FriedmanEgon GerardThe Hite FoundationMr. and Mrs. James R. HoughtonMr. and Mrs. Hans KilianChloë KramerDr. and Mrs. Michael N. MargoliesSR Mathrani Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Leigh MillerBernice H. Mitchell*Sassona Norton and Ron FillerEva Popper

Richard Prins and Corinne SteensmaMr. David Rockefeller, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Joseph RosenThe Alfred and Jane Ross FoundationJames and Mary Ellen Rudolph*Monique and Robert SchweichMr. Peter D. SelmanDr. Margaret Ewing SternMrs. Andrea W. WaltonSally WardwellLarry Wexler and Walter Brown

FRIENDS

Although space allows us to list only contributions of $600 or more, we gratefully acknowledge all donors, whose generous gifts help to make this season possible.

ALLEGRO ($600 to $999)AnonymousMrs. Albert Pomeroy BedellCharles and Barbara BurgerAllyson and Michael ElyMiriam GoldfineMary and Gordon Gould

Abner S. GreenePaul KatcherPeter KrollWalter F. and Phyllis Loeb Family Fundof the Jewish Communal Fund

Edward S. Loh, M.D.

Jane A. MartinezMr. David RosnerPeter and Sharon SchuurMr. David P. StuhrMr. and Mrs. George Wade

Alessio Bax, pianoGloria Chien, piano*Gilbert Kalish, pianoSoyeon Kate Lee, piano*Anne-Marie McDermott, pianoJuho Pohjonen, pianoGilles Vonsattel, pianoShai Wosner, pianoWu Han, pianoBenjamin Beilman, violin/viola*Aaron Boyd, violinNicolas Dautricourt, violin*James Ehnes, violinDaniel Hope, violinBella Hristova, violinAni Kavafian, violinIda Kavafian, violin/violaErin Keefe, violinKristin Lee, violinSean Lee, violin*Yura Lee, violin/violaCho-Liang Lin, violinDaniel Phillips, violinAlexander Sitkovetsky, violin*Arnaud Sussmann, violinAreta Zhulla, violin*Lawrence Dutton, violaLily Francis, violaMark Holloway, viola

Pierre Lapointe, violaMatthew Lipman, violaPaul Neubauer, violaRichard O'Neill, violaNicholas Canellakis, celloColin Carr, celloPatrick Demenga, celloThomas Demenga, celloTimothy Eddy, celloDavid Finckel, celloGary Hoffman, celloJakob Koranyi, celloMihai Marica, cello*Sophie Shao, celloJan Vogler, celloPaul Watkins, celloJoseph Conyers, double bassAnthony Manzo, double bassJason Vieaux, guitarBridget Kibbey, harpSooyun Kim, fluteTara Helen O'Connor, fluteJames Austin Smith, oboe*Stephen Taylor, oboeRomie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet*Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinetDavid Shifrin, clarinetPeter Kolkay, bassoonBram van Sambeek, bassoon*

David Washburn, trumpetLuka Juhart, accordionIan David Rosenbaum, percussion*

Amphion String Quartet*Katie Hyun, violinDavid Southorn, violinWei-Yang Andy Lin, violaMihai Marica, cello

Danish String Quartet*Frederik Øland, violinRune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violinAsbjørn Nørgaard, violaFredrik Sjölin, cello

Escher String QuartetAdam Barnett-Hart, violinAaron Boyd, violinPierre Lapointe, violaDane Johansen, cello

Orion String QuartetDaniel Phillips, violinTodd Phillips, violinSteven Tenenbom, violaTimothy Eddy, cello

ARTISTS OF THE SEASON 2014–15

James P. O’Shaughnessy, Chairman Charles H. Hamilton, Vice ChairmanElinor L. Hoover, Vice ChairmanRobert Hoglund, TreasurerAnthony C. Gooch, Secretary

Nasrin AbdolaliJoseph M. Cohen Joyce B. CowinPeter DuchinPeter Frelinghuysen*William B. GinsbergPaul B. GridleyNaava GrossmanPhilip K. HowardHarry P. Kamen Priscilla F. KauffPeter W. KeeganHelen Brown Levine

Tatiana PouschineDr. Annette U. Rickel Beth B. SacklerHerbert S. SchlosserSuzanne Cohn SimonElizabeth W. SmithJoost F. ThesselingJarvis WilcoxKathe G. Williamson*Chairman 2004–2014

DIRECTORS EMERITIAnne CoffinBarbara ErskineMarit GrusonPaul C. LambertDonaldson C. Pillsbury (1940–2008)Chairman Emeritus

Donald Schnabel (1932–2014)

William G. SeldenAndrea W. Walton

GLOBAL COUNCILJon DickinsonHoward DillonVictor GrannJeehyun KimDouglas M. LibbyMike McKoolJoumana RizkSuzanne E. VaucherShannon Wu

FOUNDERSMiss Alice TullyWilliam SchumanCharles Wadsworth, Founding Artistic Director

DIRECTORS AND FOUNDERS

AdministrationKeith Kriha, Administrative DirectorMartin Barr, ControllerChristopher Alberti, Executive andDevelopment Assistant

Artistic Planning and ProductionValerie Guy, Director of Artistic Planning and AdministrationAdriaan Fuchs, Director of Artistic Planning and TouringMathíeu Chester, Production ManagerKari Fitterer, Operations and Touring ManagerLaura Keller, Program EditorRobert Whipple, Production andEducation Associate

EducationBruce Adolphe, Resident Lecturer andDirector of Family ConcertsDerek Balcom, Director of Education

Development Sharon Griffin, Director ofDevelopmentJanet Barnhart, Manager ofInstitutional GivingJoe Hsu, Development Database andResearch ManagerKimberly Martin, Manager ofIndividual Giving, Friends Fred Murdock, Special Events ManagerAnne Myers, Manager of Individual Giving, Patrons

Marketing/Subscriptions/Public RelationsEmily Holum, Director of Marketingand CommunicationsTrent Casey, Director of Digital ContentMarlisa Monroe, Public RelationsManagerMelissa Muscato, Marketing and Media AssociateDesmond Porbeni, Manager ofAudience and Customer ServicesNatalie Dixon, Subscription and TicketServices Assistant

ADMINISTRATIONDavid Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors Suzanne Davidson, Executive Director

* designates a CMS Two Artist

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