Our Next Concert

Sunday, April 28, 4:00 pm

Pasha Sabouri, Violin

Episcopal Church of the

Resurrection

2200 Justin Ln

Austin, TX 78757

Call for Players, Events

and Venues!

We started another orchestra over

the summer, one which plays works

for smaller groups and in more inti-

mate venues. If you know of an adult

musician or group who might be

interested, please have them contact

us. We want to expand our audience

and present more classical music

concerts to smaller groups, other

organizations and Austin events.

Thanks! Rob

Acknowledgements

The BCO thanks the First Unitarian Univer-salist Church and staff for their help and the

use of their beautiful sanctuary.

Promotion: Judy Trejo, Libby Bryer Recording Engineer: Mike Koetting

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through

the Economic Growth and Re-development Services Office/Cultural Arts Division believing that an invest-ment in the arts is an investment in

Austin’s future. Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com

Balcones Community Orchestra

Dr. Robert Radmer, Music Director

Musical Selections for Today’s Performance

April 28, 2013

Episcopal Church of the Resurrection

2200 Justin Ln

Austin, TX 78757

4:00 pm

Overture to Oedipe ̀A Colone (1785) Antonio Sacchini (1730 - 1786) Violin Concerto in D Minor (1822) Felix Mendelssohn Allegro molto (1809 - 1847) Andante Allegro Pasha Sabouri, Violin Symphony No. 1 in C Major (1800) Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio molto - Allegro con brio (1770-1827) Andante cantabile con moto Menuetto Allegro molto e vivace Finale Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace

Cello is a member of the violin family

Four strings tuned in perfect fifths

Our Featured Soloist

Douglas Harvey

Douglas Harvey performed his first concert as a member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra at the

age of seventeen. At the age of eighteen, he won an audition to become the Orchestra’s Acting

Principal cellist and performed his first concert in that position shortly after. In 2002 the position

became his, following a national audition, thus making him the youngest

Principal Cellist in the almost 100 year history of the Orchestra. In 2003

Harvey shared the stage as soloist with celebrated news anchor Hugh

Downs, Peter Bay, and the Austin Symphony, in a performance of Dan

Welcher’s massive oratorio, “JFK: The Voice of Peace,” for solo cello,

narrator, symphony orchestra, and choir. The Austin-American States-

man said, “ASO principal cellist Douglas Harvey, in his first solo ap-

pearance with the orchestra, provided a strong and expressive musical

representation of JFK, choosing to emphasize the more inward, sensitive

aspects of the man.” The success of his performances led to the presen-

tation of a J.B. Vuillaume cello, the JFK Award, presented by the Ama-

tius Foundation, and the world premieres of two additional works, one

of which written for him by the composer (Welcher), in New York’s

Steinway Hall.

Harvey began playing the cello at the age of 9 in the fourth grade public

school program in San Antonio, Texas. Two years later he began private study with Mrs. Annette

DiGiosia, cellist with the San Antonio Symphony, and over the next several years he won numer-

ous first place awards in every local competition that he entered. He began further study at age

thirteen with Emeritus Professor Paul Olefsky of the University of Texas at Austin.

Douglas performed his first concerto as solo cellist with the Youth Orchestra of San

Antonio at the age of 13, and made his debut as soloist with the San Antonio Symphony at the age

of 15. At the age of 15, he began study of the Kodaly Sonata for Solo Cello Op. 8, which he has

performed at two World Cello Congress events in College Park, Maryland. At age 16 he was the

youngest cellist in history to be invited by the University of Texas at Austin to perform a full

recital on its campus. He won first place awards in the 2000 William C. Byrd International Com-

petition, the Idyllwild International Young Artists Competition, and the Corpus Christi Interna-

tional Competition, as well as two first place solo Bach prizes awarded at the Corpus Christi and

Kingsville International Competitions.

Since then he has given performances all over Austin and performs regularly with the

Chamber Soloists of Austin, and in intimate chamber music concerts with the Salon Concert Se-

ries. Harvey has also been the Principal Cellist of the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra since 2005.

Douglas Harvey, as a member of the Tosca Strings, has twice toured through America and abroad

with David Byrne of Talking Heads fame. Live broadcasts from the tours have included, David

Letterman (CBS), On the Record with Bob Costas (HBO), Later with Jools Holland, London

BBC, and Live at the Union Chapel, London BBC DVD. The tour featured performances at Car-

negie Hall, Town Hall, Concertgebouw, Royal Festival Hall, The Walt Disney Concert Hall, The

Hollywood Bowl and many others and was named in the top-ten of live touring shows by Rolling

Stones Magazine, and the number one live show from the Dallas Morning News. Harvey has also

recorded and worked locally with Ray Benson (Beyond Time), David Byrne (Grown Backwards),

Matt Morris and Justin Timberlake (When Everything Breaks Open), Andrew Heller (Christmas

Wonder, Places), Disney’s (Merry Little Christmas), and others.

Douglas plays on the Grand Prize winning “Emperor” cello made c. 1860 in Paris by

Gand Freres, commissioned by the Emperor Napoleon III

Recognizing Our Donors

VIRTUOSO ($2,500+)

City of Austin Classical Artist Development Foundation Richard and Kay Radmer

SOLOIST ($1,000+) Anonymous

CONDUCTOR ($500+)

3 M Ben Gomez Larry and Mattye Keeling Greg Shields

CONCERTMASTER ($250+)

The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Byron W. Gifford Col. Herbert W. Laird Bette Mayfield Michael Radmer

PRINCIPAL ($100+)

Ron and Ruta Baker Paula Blaha Susannah Barnebey David and Michicko Braybrooke Karen Foster Cason Brian Crozier Michael Domjan Zada Downing Mary Lou Dye Michel Farhi-Chevillard Marjorie Feldman David & Roslyn Gutman Sara Hartman Nell S. Hester John S. Howard Jeff Kodosky George Klawitter Mark Kapner National Instruments Fred Newton W.A. Reynolds Walter & Corrine Romanko Doris Scott

FRIEND ($50+)

Fred & Beth Behning Frances C. Brown Marilyn Carr Dyanne Cortez Linda and Paul Eagan Olive Forbes Andrea Gore Nancy Hoagland Mary Jackson Jack Jensen Doug Kent Tamara R. Lahav Patricia Lebo Robbie Leuth Terry Martin Francesco Mastromatteo Younnie Meglino Catherine Mueller Elaine O’Brien Jo Oliver Heather Schulman Ronda von Sehrwald Ann Smith Susan L. Versluys Cathrine Van Zanten Pamela Von Mende Elizabeth Weltzin Melissa Zentgraf

Board of Directors

Libby Bryer, President

Betty Perez, Secretary

Chris Hammel, Treasurer

Walter Laich, Executive Director

Special Spotlights

The Board and Staff of the Balcones Community Orchestra

are pleased to announce the formation of our sister orchestra

The CTMO mission is to provide central Texas medical professionals

with music fellowship and performance outlets that raise funds in

support of local health-related nonprofit organizations. Interested

players and for more information contact: Info@CTMOrchestra.org

www.CTMOrchestra.org

Promote the BCO this summer in a cool musically designed black

t-shirt boasting our web address. $20.00 for each will go toward

helping us bring free classical music concerts to you.

We have a limited number of sizes: small, medium, large, X-large. They

are available for you in the lobby after the concert. Cash or check made out

to Balcones Community Orchestra or order yours by emailing

Libby.BCO@gmail.com

Central Texas

Medical

Orchestra

Program Notes by Dr. Robert Radmer

During the academic year of 1815-16 Schubert had been employed as a lowly schoolmaster yet somehow he had managed to compose three symphonies, four operas, two masses, and more than 150 songs. Friends convinced him to abandon the security and drudgery of his teaching career and devote all his time to music. His Fifth Symphony was composed in September of his first year as a music professional. The first movement revolves around a lilting, climbing five-note motive balanced by a rapid falling scale. The slow move-ment employs a lovely four-bar melody in E-flat major which balances two dramatic episodes in the exotic keys of G-flat and C-flat. The highly-charged Menuetto is set in the key of G minor and its emotional power is balanced by a pastoral tune reminiscent of a Swiss mountainside. The Allegro vivace re-turns us once again to the friendly environs of B-flat with a bouncy rising-then-falling eight-bar tune. Occasional dramatic visits to other key areas quickly find their way back to the simple comforts of home.

The music of Frederick Delius generally dwells in the quiet places of the mind and spirit. It evokes a contemplation upon the transience of things, and the ephemerality of life amongst the sumptuousness of natural beauty. He employs simple melodies over an “irregular ebb and flow of harmony” to depict “The impossibility of realizing youthful dreams of perfect emo-tion.” On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring is based on a gently flowing Nor-wegian folk song given out by the violins above a richly-textured accompani-ment. The wind band joins only occasionally with fragments of counter-melody, and the cuckoo comments as if it had all the time in the world.

The Rococo Variations were written at a time when Tchaikovsky was reach-ing out for new compositional styles and methods. He had been immersed in the nationalism of Mussorgsky and Glinka, and found in the mid-18th cen-tury Classical aesthetic something that satisfied his cravings. The Variations begin with a short orchestral introduction, and the theme, given out by the solo cello, is two short, repeated sections answered by a brief, chromatic woodwind passage, and closed with a sigh in the strings. The first two varia-tions follow quite simply, but the third begins to explore the tune and its structure. It is set in a slow waltz feeling, and its expanded time-frame allows for the cellist to shine in a more romantic virtuosic way. Variation Four re-turns to the opening style but now in a quicker, more lively tempo. In Varia-tion Five the orchestral role increases, while the cellist is featured in an elabo-rate cadenza. Variation Six shows yet more energy in the orchestral/soloist conversation, while Variation Seven is an extended perpetual motion incorpo-rating all the foregoing elements into a charming and captivating conclusion.

Balcones Community Orchestra Members

Mary Brown,

Concertmaster

Judy Trejo

Walter Romanko

Elizabeth Jackson

Melissa Ruof

Cecelia Garcia Gaul

Violin I

Kay Mueller

Nancy Hoagland

Cesar Tomaz Vieira

Andrea Gore

Deb Weltzer

Greg Shields

Violin II

Viola

Mike Domjan

Wendy Devany

Gerald Gaul

Cello

Karen Foster Cason

John Cox

John Walters

Bass

Neal Nuwash

Flute

Carol Patty

Kyndra Cullen

Oboe

Mary Jackson

Fred Behning

Bassoon

Josue Mora

John O’Neill

Horn

Leslie Boerger

Jo Oliver

Special Spotlight

Pre-concert music provided by Lords of the Stringz Nick Hammel - violin Sage Lee - cello Chet Fagerstrom - violin

They are all 7th graders at Kealing Middle School. Thank you!

Clarinet

Byron Gifford

Katie Martinez

Robert Alan Radmer is the founder and Music Director of the Balcones

Community Orchestra, now in its fifteenth season. He has worked with

youth orchestras and adult ensembles in six states, and is currently on the

faculty of St. Edward’s University, conducting the orchestra and teaching

strings. In addition he serves on the faculty of the Austin Chamber Music

Center and as a coach for Chamber Music in the Public Schools

(CHAMPS).

Radmer has performed as a violist with chamber ensembles and orches-

tras in over two thousand performances since 1981 in 21 states and ten

countries. He was awarded the Doctorate in Viola Performance from the

University of Southern Mississippi in 1993, and has served on the music

faculties of Texas State University, the College of Saint Scholastica, Eastern New Mexico

University, and Southwest Texas State University. Radmer was honored by being named

Teacher of the Year in 1996 by the American String Teachers Association (New Mexico

Chapter).

Radmer teaches violin, viola and guitar in his private studio, and in his spare time he is a

composer of concert music and is also an active member of the popular music scene in

Austin. He performs and records as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and improvising

violist.

About Our Conductor

Dr. Robert Radmer

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