Idil Biret, Piano
Toshiyuki Shimada and John Mauceri, Conductors
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Daniel Schlosberg Small Talk (World Premiere)
Paul Hindemith Piano Concerto (1945)
Sir Edward Elgar Land of Hope and Glory from “Coronation Ode”
Janna Baty, Mezzo-Soprano
Adam Guettel Overture to a Fairy Tale Adventure
Leonard Bernstein (Arr. Mauceri) Celebrations from “Mass”
Kyle Guglielmo, Celebrant
with
Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, Music Director
Elm City Girls Choir, Rebecca Rosenbaum, Music Director
Richard Strauss Festival Prelude
The program of YSO’s 50th season finale is of great historical significance to us. John Mauceri, former music director of the YSO (1968-1974), returns as guest conductor for the concert alongside the Yale Glee Club. The program features works by Yale composers, including a world premiere by YSO alumnus Daniel Schlosberg, Ives’ The Unanswered Question, Guettel’s Overture to a Fairy Tale, and Hindemith’s 1945 Piano Concerto, featuring Idil Biret, who performed with the YSO in Turkey in 2010, and recorded the complete Hindemith Piano Concerti with the orchestra on the Naxos label in 2013. Also featured are Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory from “Coronation Ode,” a work that Yale University established as a graduation processional, as well as Leonard Bernstein’s Celebration from “Mass,” arranged by Mauceri and performed on the Orchestra’s 1972 tour alongside Bernstein himself. Richard Strauss’s Festival Prelude, concludes a year of celebration and marks the commencement of a new era in Yale musical tradition.