NEC Philharmonia + Hugh Wolff: Chen, R. Strauss, Prokofiev

When:
Wednesday, Apr 03, 2024 7:30p -
9:30p

Where:
Jordan Hall
290 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

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Admission:
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Event website:
https://necmusic.edu/events/nec-philharmonia-hugh-wolff-chen-r-strauss-prokofiev

Tonight's concert features performances of Qigang Chen's Wu Xing (Five Elements), Richard Strauss' Death and Transfiguration, and the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 with Changyong Shin '24 AD as piano soloist. Hugh Wolff conducts the NEC Philharmonia.


This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community here: https://necmusic.edu/live


ARTISTS

Changyong Shin '24 AD, piano

Qigang Chen | Wu Xing (The Five Elements) (1999)

Shui (Water)

Mu (Wood)

Huo (Fire)

Tu (Earth)

Jin (Metal)


Program note

“This commission [by Radio France] immediately raised all my interest, for the proposition coincided with a period of personal quest,” Chen wrote. “The challenge pleased me and I took it up as a style exercise, supported by the pressure of the duration [limitation]...

   “Before going further in my process, I undertook to characterize each piece by a different symbol. From there was born the idea of representing the five elements (Wu Xing). Because according to the Yi King, five elements constitute the universe: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth...

   “To characterize musically a symbol in an extremely short time and to present a tangible material in an abstract language were my lines of strength. But even more, to establish relationships between the materials, so that each element generated the next one, as if the last was the consequence of the first.”

   The result was a small suite of five two-minute movements, with the five Chinese elements in an order based on generation (other orders traditionally suggest other themes, such as production or overcoming). According to the foreword in the printed score, water is the strongest element for Chen, but characterized by calmness. Wood is the richest element, with a lot of variations; fire represents life (warm, but not aggressive); earth, a generative principle, is the matrix; and metal refers to strength and light.

   The Five Elements was a finalist in the 2001 Masterprize competition in the UK, and it has been recorded by Didier Benetti and the National Orchestra of France.


Richard Strauss | Death and Transfiguration, op. 24

Largo (The sick man, near death)

Allegro molto agitato (The battle between life and death offers no respite to the man)

Meno mosso (The dying man's life passes before him)

Moderato (The sought-after transfiguration)


INTERMISSION

Sergei Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, op. 16

Andantino - Allegretto

Scherzo: Vivace

Intermezzo: Allegro

Finale: Allegro tempestuoso


ARTISTS

Changyong Shin '24 AD, piano

NEC Philharmonia

First Violin

SooBeen Lee

Hannah Kim

Hannah Goldstick

Hila Dahari

Olga Kaminsky

Sydney Scarlett

Felicitas Schiffner

Peixuan Wu

Passacaglia Mason

Chloe Hong

Emma Boyd

Joshua Brown

Ching Shan Helen Yu

Nathan do Amaral Oliveira


Second Violin

Julian Rhee

K. J. McDonald

Yixiang Wang

Eunha Kim

Gabriella Foster

Caroline Smoak

Joy Wei

Jordan Hadrill

Angela Sin Ying Chan

Claire Thaler

Harin Kang

Yebin Yoo

Célina Bethoux


Viola

Yi-Chia Chen

Peter Jablokow

Chengrong Li

Hyelim Kong

Man To Kwong

Ru-Yao Van der Ploeg

Xinlin Wang

Joy Hsieh

Eunha Kwon

Anna Mann

Adam Newman


Cello

Zac Fung

Lily Stern

Shijie Ma

Jihyeuk Choi

Jung ah Lee

Lexine Feng

Zac Fun

Thomas Hung

Soyeon Koo

Lillian Yim

Sophia Knappe

Michelle Jung

Miruna Eynon


Bass

Cailin Singleton

Gregory Padilla

Yihan Wu

Shion Kim

Isabel Atkinson

Misha Bjerken


Flute

Isabel Evernham

Honor Hickman

Jay Kim

Jungyoon Kim *

Elizabeth McCormack

Yechan Min ‡

Subin Oh §


Piccolo

Jay Kim


Oboe

Robert Diaz

Corinne Foley

Gwendolyn Goble *

Kian Hirayama ‡

Abigail Hope-Hull §

Christian Paniagua


English horn

Corinne Foley ‡

Kian Hirayama *


Clarinet

Xianyi Ji §

Phoebe Kuan

Yi-Ting Ma ‡

Chasity Thompson *


E-Flat Clarinet

Phoebe Kuan


Bass Clarinet

Phoebe Kuan ‡

Yi-Ting Ma *


Bassoon

Garrett Comrie *

Matthew Heldt §

Abigail Heyrich ‡

Wilson Lu

Carson Merrit

Jialu Wang


Contrabassoon

Carson Merrit *

Erik Paul ‡


French horn

Jihao Li ‡

Graham Lovely §

Willow Otten *

Qianbin Zhu  


Trumpet

Ko Te Chen §

Matthew Dao *

Eddy Lanois ‡

Matthew Milhalko


Trombone

Noah Korenfeld

Ethan Lehman ‡

Noah Nichilo *

Kevin Smith §


Bass Trombone

Scott Odou *§

David Paligora ‡


Tuba

James Curto *‡

Masaru Lin §


Timpani

Eli Geruschat §

Jakob Schoenfeld ‡


Percussion

Eli Geruschat  

Doyeon Kim §

Danial Kukuk ‡

Jakob Schoenfeld *


Harp

Yoonsu Cha ‡

Shaylen Joos *


Piano

Kevin Takeda 


Principal players


* Chen

‡ Strauss

§ Prokofiev


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