Symphonies! Concertos! Overtures! Beards! Enmity!

Music Appreciation Series


7-8:30 PM Mondays Beginning October17


Professor Andy Mead - at the JSO
Symphonies! Concertos! Overtures! Beards! Enmity!

Prerequisite – None!


These Monday night sessions are designed to enlighten and entertain music enthusiasts, especially those planning to attend the JSO’s 2011-2012 subscription concerts. Johannes Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, two giants of the Romantic era, share a birthday and share the stage in JSO concerts this year, but they hated each other’s music. Participants in these classes will fi nd out why — and why we can love them both.


October 17 My Symphony is NOT your Symphony: How do symphonies by Brahms differ from those of Tchaikovsky? What can we admire in each? What made each shudder at the work of the other?


October 24 How can you write a piano concerto when you don’t even play the piano? For that matter, who helped YOU with that violin concerto? This class will examine the thrill of virtuosity in the concertos of Brahms and
Tchaikovsky.


November 7 You call that a waltz? I’ll show you a waltz! Professor Mead will talk about dance music written by each of these masters.


November 14 Sign in a 19th century bar - No discussions of: Religion - Politics - Wagner. Mead will explain!


November 21 You Always Hurt the One You Love: So, where did you get those tunes from, anyway? Brahms, Tchaikovsky, influence and light fingers are the topics of discussion.


$50/person
Registration and info:


517-782-3221


Email: jso2007@jacksonsymphony.org


In addition to teaching at the U of M, Dr. Mead is a composer, church organist, member of the JSO Board of Directors and resident of Brooklyn.

GREAT MOVIES / GRAND PIANOS

Rich Ridenour will be our guest for our first subscription concert of the 2011-2012 Season. Click for more information about Rich and the concert and opportunities to buy tickets.

Jackson Chorale Childrens Choir Seeks New Members

If you are a student in grade 4 or above and enjoy singing, please consider joining Jackson Chorale Children’s Choir. The choir is a community organization composed of singers with unchanged voices.

Choir members are selected by audition and rehearse on Tuesdays at the JSO building from 4:15 – 5:15. First semester begins on Tuesday, September 27.

Cost is $35 per semester/ $50 for both semesters if paid by September 27. Scholarships are available.

The choir has sung at numerous community events in the past few years. Included in the 2011-12 first semester are the following performances:

Jackson Chorale Concert on November 6

JSO Holiday Pops Concert on December 11

Auditions on September 20 may be scheduled by calling 581-0559 or emailing jackielivesay@comcast.net.

JSO Promotes David Schultz

The Jackson Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that Assistant Conductor David Schultz will be promoted to Associate Conductor for the 2011-2012 season. As part of his promotion, he will be directing the entire February 4, 2012, concert – featuring David Adams’s The Chairman Dances and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7 – as well planning and conducting virtually all pops, education and chamber music events. He will also continue in his capacity as Production Manager, Community Music School Director, and Music Director of the Jackson Youth Symphony.

“Over the past two years, David has demonstrated exceptional skills as a conductor and administrator,” JSO Music Director Stephen Osmond said. “He has gained tremendous respect from both the musicians and staff of the orchestra.” Osmond was Associate Conductor from 1977-1978 before being appointed Music Director.

In May, David received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting at Michigan State University under the guidance of Leon Gregorian and Raphael Jimenez. Prior to his doctoral work, he graduated magna cum laude from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Music degree in Viola Performance where he studied with Matthew Michelic. During his time at Lawrence he studied conducting with both Bridget-Michaele Reischl and David Becker, and also spent a semester in Vienna, Austria, where he studied both viola and conducting with Matthias Maurer. Schultz has studied conducting with Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier at the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music, with Harold Farberman and Leon Botstein at the Conductors Institute at Bard College in New York, and with Christophe Chagnard of the Northwest Sinfonietta. He has been a participant at the Aspen Summer Music Festival in Colorado. In 2008 he received his Master of Music degree in Viola Performance at Michigan State University under the tutelage of Robert Dan, with additional studies as a Master’s Conducting Apprentice.

Dr. Schultz is an adjunct faculty member at Michigan State University, serving as Music Director of the contemporary-music ensemble Musique 21. Previously, he held positions with the Mason Orchestral Society as Music Director of the Mason Philharmonic and Assistant Conductor of the Mason Symphony. An active professional violist as well, he is a member of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra; his playing experience also includes the Battle Creek and Jackson symphonies in Michigan, the Green Bay Symphony and Fox Valley Symphony in Wisconsin, and the Northwest Sinfonietta and Tacoma Symphony Orchestra in Washington. Also active as a professional film composer and arranger, he has scored films in Sisbro Studio’s Riddle Solvers series, including Riddle in a Bottle and the upcoming release Shark Riddle.

Music School Open House September 9

The Jackson Symphony Community Music School is throwing a party!

Come to our beginning of the year Open House on Friday September 9 from 6-8 pm.

-Take a tour of our renovated facilities!
-Meet the faculty!
-Receive information about our new programs!
-Listen to performances by music school faculty and students!
-Play music games!
-Refreshments will be served!

All current and potential students and their families are invited to attend!