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Chamber Players
Divertimento:
Entertaining Music for
Winds and Piano
Saturday, April 20 at 8 pm
Sunday, April 21 at 3 pm
The Santa Cruz
Chamber Players
2012-2013 Season
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Program
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Quintett in E , K452 (1784) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Largo-Allegro moderato
Larghetto
Rondo Allegretto
oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and piano
Cinq Pièces en Trio (1935) Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Allegro vivo
Andantino
Allegro assai
Andante
Allegro quasi marziale
oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
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Suite pour Trio d’Anches (1954) Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986)
Dialogue
Scherzino
Aria
Finale
oboe, clarinet, and bassoon
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PROGRAM NOTES
Divertimento describes a piece of music – and Mozart was baptized on the day after his birth at
sometimes a larger musical event – written to take St. Rupert’s Cathedral as Johannes Chrysostomus
you away from your everyday concerns. During the Wolfgangus Theophilus. The first two names
15th through 19th centuries, most divertimenti took record that 27 January was the feast day of St. John
place outside, so woodwinds were the norm. And Chrysostom, while Wolfgangus was the name of
divertimenti were usually written one-on-a-part. his maternal grandfather and Theophilus a name
Some divertimenti are large compositions. The of his godfather, the merchant Joannes Theophilus
Herzogenberg Quintett is a prime example: its Pergmayr.
structure is similar to a fully realized symphony
in four movements with a grand first movement Mozart sometimes preferred the Latin form,
in sonata-allegro form. And some divertimenti Amadeus, but more frequently Amadè, Amadé
are very small. The Ibert, Cinq Pièces is a collection or the German form Gottlieb. He was the seventh
of tiny gems, more in the style of Haiku: each and last child born to Leopold Mozart and his wife
movement, with a minimum of development, Maria Anna, née Pertl; only he and the fourth child,
creates a clear image. None of today’s music bears Maria Anna (‘Nannerl’), survived.
the title “Divertimento,” but you will find that
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individually and together the various pieces will A masterpiece in every sense of the word, the
provide a nice diversion. Let us take you to a place Quintett in E was written in Vienna after most
free from worry and pain! Carol Panofsky of his string quartets had been completed; all of
the masses except the Requiem; and all of the
numbered symphonies except for the final three. In
Quintett für Oboe, Klarinette, Horn, this piece we hear the work of one of history’s finest
Fagott und Klavier (1784), KV 452 composers, at the very top of his game, literally
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) showing off: a rare and conspicuous treat by any
standard. Enjoy! Jeff Gallagher
(Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
was an Austrian composer, son of Leopold Mozart.
His style essentially represents a synthesis of many
different elements, which coalesced in his Viennese Cinq Pièces en Trio (1935)
years from 1781 on, into an idiom now regarded as Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
a peak of Viennese Classicism.
Ibert’s mother was a pianist who used to play
This mature music, distinguished by its melodic Chopin, Bach, and Mozart, composers that Jacques
beauty, formal elegance, and richness of harmony loved all of his life. He was trained at the Paris
and texture, is deeply colored by Italian opera Conservatory, and it was in a special orchestration
though also rooted in Austrian and South German class that he met Honneger and Milhaud. He might
instrumental traditions. Unlike Haydn, his senior have joined Les Six, but ended up serving as nurse
by 24 years, and Beethoven, his junior by 15, he and a stretcher-bearer in WWI and then won the
excelled in every medium current in his time. Prix de Rome in 1919, which took him away from
He may thus be regarded as the most universal France all together.
composer in the history of Western music.
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Eight years after the composition of Mozart’s In 1866, Herzogenberg married Elisabet von Stock-
stunning Quintett in E , the young Beethoven was hausen, a piano student of Brahms. Through the
trying to get himself established in the musical world years, Brahms, Herzogenberg, and Elisabet car-
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of Vienna. He decided that the perfect introduction ried on a lively correspondence. Even so, Brahms
to himself would be another Quintett in E almost never praised Herzogenberg’s work. It was
Beethoven’s quintet is in the same key as Mozart’s, theorized that he would not do so because he had
uses the same instrumentation, and even the same fancied Elisabet for himself! Towards the end of his
form. And it worked! The young composer attracted life, Brahms grudgingly admitted that Herzogen-
the attention of the Right People. berg “was able to do more than any of the others.”
Carol Panofsky
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In 1888, 104 years after the composition of Mozart’s
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stunning Quintett in E , Heinrich von Herzogen-
berg wrote yet another Quintett in E . But other
than the key and instrumentation, it is a substantial
work, unique unto itself.
,
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The Musicians
Jeff Gallagher, clarinet, has lived in the Santa studying with Thomas LaRatta. Solo appear-
Cruz area for over 22 years. During this time ances in the Bay Area include San Francisco’s
he has greatly enjoyed working regularly with Noontime Concerts, the Palo Alto Performance
a wide variety of musical ensembles including Series, Pacifica Performances, Star Classics, and
the Santa Cruz Chamber Players; the Cabrillo the National Association of Composers USA.
Festival of Contemporary Music with Marin Al- She was pianist for Michael Kimbell’s chamber
sop; the Monterey Jazz Festival; the Carmel Bach opera The Hot Iron in Petaluma and frequently
Festival; San Jose Stage; Ensemble Monterey with appears in collaboration with singers. She has
John Anderson; the Monterey Bay Symphony; been a member of the Trio Arcadia for the last
Carmel’s PacRep Theater; the Western Stage in fourteen years.
Salinas; Cabrillo Stage; New Music Works with
Phil Collins; the Camerata Singers; Cantiamo! Jane Orzel, bassoonist, has a B.S. in Music and
with Cheryl Anderson; Mountain Community Journalism from Indiana University and a M.A.
Theater; the Peninsula Clarinet Quartet; West in Music History from San Jose State Univer-
Bay Opera; Bay Shore Lyric Opera; and the Viole- sity. She has played Principal Bassoon with the
to Trio. Jeff studied clarinet at Ohio State Univer- Monterey Symphony for the last 24 years, and
sity with Dr. Robert Titus, and at Bowling Green also plays Principal for the Santa Cruz County
State University with Ed Marks. In addition to Symphony. She has played with the Tulsa Phil-
clarinet, Jeff also performs on flute, oboe, English harmonic, Tulsa Opera Orchestra, Eugene Opera
horn, bass clarinet and soprano, alto, and tenor Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Santa Barbara
saxophones. Further, Jeff has worked for the Intel Symphony, San Jose Symphony, Carmel Bach
Manycore Testing Lab, working with universities Festival and Bay Shore Lyric Opera Orchestra.
throughout the world enabling them to modern- She has an active private bassoon studio, teaches
ize their software programming curricula. Music Appreciation at Monterey Peninsula Col-
lege, and is the Music Director and organist at the
Elizabeth Lee, piano, trained with Robert Mer- First United Methodist Church in Salinas.
feld (Apple Hill Chamber Players), Debbie Sobol
(Longy School of Music), and Carol Rankin and John Orzel, horn, was born in Redwood City,
Eliane Lust in San Francisco. She is currently CA. He started on the horn at the age of eleven.
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Educated at San Jose State University, California Carol Panofsky, oboe, can be heard in perfor-
State University, Northridge and Chapman Col- mances of the Albany Consort, Jubilate, Santa
lege, Mr. Orzel studied horn with Jack Russell, Cruz Chamber Players, and, on occasion, with
William George, Wendell Ryder, Froydis Ree the Santa Cruz County Symphony, Carmel
Wekre, and James H. Winter. He is currently a Bach Festival, Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra,
member of the Santa Cruz County Symphony and Ragazzi Boys Chorus. As an active free-
and has also been a member of orchestras in lance musician she has been provided with op-
Monterey, San Jose, Santa Barbara, and Los Ange- portunities to perform on both coasts as well as
les. He is also a composer. Mr. Orzel, of primarily in Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech
Eastern European background, is a scholar of folk Republic, Hong Kong, China, and Korea. She re-
music from that part of the world, his concentra- ceived a Masters of Music in the Performance of
tion being on Polish, Hungarian and Romanian Early Music from the New England Conserva-
music. He is also a deeply interested devotee of tory of Music. She performs and teaches early
the music of Anton Bruckner. A lifelong music music, modern oboe, and piano, and has been
educator, Mr. Orzel is currently on the staff of the on the faculties at the Music School of the Uni-
El Sistema program in Salinas. He has appeared versity of Idaho and at U. C. Santa Cruz. She has
with the New Music Works ensemble in Santa many private music students, both children
Cruz and the Worn Chamber Ensemble in San and adults, and is Theory Director of Ragazzi
Francisco, performing various new works. Boys Chorus.
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Santa Cruz Chamber Players
2012-2013
◊ 34rd Season ◊