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Fire, Feathers
& Flight

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2027

PRE-CONCERT TALK: 6:30 PM | CONCERT 7:30 PM

 

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What to wear? Be comfortable. Dress in a way that works for you. If you feel like dressing up, do it and you won’t be the only one, we promise. If you prefer to be more casual you will fit right in as well.

Beverages served prior to concert and during intermission. You can pre-order your beverage before the concert.


Mobile phones are allowed to be on but must be set to silent.


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This concert opens with Jocelyn Morlock’s Oiseaux bleus et sauvages, a bright and agile work that captures the quick moving sparkle and unpredictability of wild bluebirds. Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite follows, bringing vivid orchestral colours and dramatic storytelling to the forefront. Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 crowns the program with expansive melodies and a triumphant closing movement that remains one of the most uplifting moments in the symphonic repertoire and fitting for a season finale!

GUEST CONDUCTOR: Andrew Crust

PROGRAMME

Jocelyn MORLOCK: Oiseaux bleus et sauvages (Wild Bluebirds)

Igor STRAVINKSY Firebird Suite

Jean SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, OP. 43

Fire, Feathers
& Flight

SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2027

PRE-CONCERT TALK: 6:30 PM | CONCERT 7:30 PM

This concert opens with Jocelyn Morlock’s Oiseaux bleus et sauvages, a bright and agile work that captures the quick moving sparkle and unpredictability of wild bluebirds. Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite follows, bringing vivid orchestral colours and dramatic storytelling to the forefront. Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 crowns the program with expansive melodies and a triumphant closing movement that remains one of the most uplifting moments in the symphonic repertoire and fitting for a season finale!
GUEST CONDUCTOR: Andrew Crust

PROGRAMME

Jocelyn MORLOCK: Oiseaux bleus et sauvages (Wild Bluebirds)

Igor STRAVINKSY Firebird Suite

Jean SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, OP. 43

What to wear? Be comfortable. Dress in a way that works for you. If you feel like dressing up, do it and you won’t be the only one, we promise. If you prefer to be more casual you will fit right in as well.

Beverages served prior to concert and during intermission. You can pre-order your beverage before the concert.

We welcome you to clap when you like what you hear.

Mobile phones are allowed to be on but must be set to silent.

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Andrew Crust
Conductor

American/Canadian conductor Andrew Crust has a versatile international career as a conductor of orchestral, opera, ballet, film, and pops programs.

In his fourth season as Music Director of the Vermont Symphony, Andrew programs and conducts a diverse array of performances throughout the state, collaborates with world-class soloists such as Sir Stephen Hough, Béla Fleck, Bella Hristova, Simone Porter, Joshua Roman, Adam Tendler, Jennifer Koh, Tracy Silverman and conducted the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s “Sounding” in May of 2024.

Under his leadership as Music Director of the Lima (OH) Symphony Orchestra, Crust led collaborations with soloists such as Charles Yang, Amit Peled, Sandeep Das, Awadagin Pratt, and Laquita Mitchell. In his seven years there, his commitment to diversity led to more than a 35% increase in programming of BIPOC and female composers.

Among many prestigious awards, Crust received the Vienna Philharmonic’s Ansbacher Fellowship, which included a residency at the Salzburger Festspiele, and the 2020 Solti Foundation US Career Assistance Award.

In the United States, Andrew has performed as guest conductor with the symphony orchestras of San Diego, Arkansas, Hartford, Memphis, Billings, Mostly Modern Festival and others. Canadian guest conductor performances include National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, and symphony orchestras nationwide from Nova Scotia to Vancouver Island. International performances include l’Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the Moravian Philharmonic, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile.

Jocelyn Morlock
Canadian Composer

Jocelyn Morlock (14 December 1969 – 27 March 2023) was a Canadian composer and music educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] Her piece My Name is Amanda Todd won the 2018 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year.

Morlock was born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba on 14 December 1969.[5] She studied piano with Robert Richardson, Sr. and completed a Bachelor of Music in piano performance at Brandon University (B.Mus. 1994), where her teachers included Gerhard Ginader (electroacoustic music) and T. Patrick Carrabré (composition).[6] She received both a master’s degree and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of British Columbia (M.Mus. 1996, DMA 2002) where her composition teachers included Stephen Chatman, Keith Hamel, and the late Russian-Canadian composer Nikolai Korndorf.

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Igor Stravinsky
Composer 1882-1971

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky  (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.

Stravinsky’s compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913). The latter transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky’s enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. His “Russian phase” which continued with works such as Renard, the Soldier’s Tale and Les Noces, was followed in the 1920s by a period in which he turned to neoclassicism. The works from this period tended to make use of traditional musical forms (concerto grosso, fugue and symphony), drawing on earlier styles, especially from the 18th century. In the 1950s, Stravinsky adopted serial procedures. His compositions of this period shared traits with examples of his earlier output: rhythmic energy, the construction of extended melodic ideas out of a few two- or three-note cells and clarity of form, and of instrumentation.

 

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Firebird Suite
by Igor Stravinsky

The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who collaborated with Alexandre Benois and others on a scenario based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and the blessing and curse it possesses for its owner. It was first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 25 June 1910 and was an immediate success, catapulting Stravinsky to international fame and leading to future Diaghilev–Stravinsky collaborations including Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913).

The Firebird’s mortal and supernatural elements are distinguished with a system of leitmotifs placed in the harmony dubbed “leit-harmony”. Stravinsky intentionally used many specialist techniques in the orchestra, including ponticello, col legno, flautando, glissando, and flutter-tonguing. Set in the evil immortal Koschei’s castle, the ballet follows Prince Ivan, who battles Koschei with the help of the magical Firebird.

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Jean Sibelius

Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 1865 – 20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely regarded as his country’s greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped Finland develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia.

The core of his oeuvre is his set of seven symphonies, which, like his other major works, are regularly performed and recorded in Finland and countries around the world. His other best-known compositions are Finlandia, the Karelia Suite, Valse triste, the Violin Concerto, the choral symphony Kullervo, and The Swan of Tuonela (from the Lemminkäinen Suite). His other well known works include pieces inspired by nature, Nordic mythology, and the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala; over a hundred songs for voice and piano; incidental music for numerous plays; the opera Jungfrun i tornet (The Maiden in the Tower); chamber music, piano music, Masonic ritual music, and 21 publications of choral music.

Sibelius composed prolifically until the mid-1920s, but after completing his Seventh Symphony (1924), the incidental music for The Tempest (1926), and the tone poem Tapiola (1926), he stopped producing major works in his last 30 years—a stunning and perplexing decline commonly referred to as the “silence of Järvenpää“, (the location of his home). Although he is reputed to have stopped composing, he attempted to continue writing, including abortive efforts on an eighth symphony. In later life, he wrote Masonic music and reedited some earlier works, while retaining an active but not always favourable interest in new developments in music.

The Finnish 100 mark note featured his image until 2002, when the euro was adopted. Since 2011, Finland has celebrated a flag flying day on 8 December, the composer’s birthday, also known as the Day of Finnish Music,  In 2015, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Sibelius’s birth, a number of special concerts and events were held, especially in Helsinki, the Finnish capital.

 

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Symphony No. 2
by Jean Sibelius

The Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43, is a four-movement work for orchestra written from 1901 to 1902 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

He began writing the symphony in winter 1901 in Rapallo, Italy, shortly after the successful premiere of the popular Finlandia. Sibelius said, “My second symphony is a confession of the soul.”

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