Music IS Language ~ Come HEAR for yourself!

Language has been around for millenniums, and it is more than
the sound produced by human vocal folds.

Language is communication in many forms. Some language has no sound.

Morse Code

Cuneiform

body Language

Braille

Music is language, too.

Using rhythm, tempo, and volume music can express or evoke any emotion,
create pictures, convey stories,
 change moods, and stimulate imagination and creativity.

Rhythm

It's very simply accomplished, really.

This Saturday, November 17, 
the Muncie Symphony String Quartet
will give FREE interactive performance presentations
demonstrating how music is language.

You can catch us at the Maring-Hunt branch of the Muncie Public Library at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Then try your hand (or mouth) at musical language yourself.

After each presentation, string and wind instruments are 
available for you to make music-
or at least make sounds!  Music students from Ball State University will be there to 
help you coax as much from each instrument as you can.

Music on the Move's Music is Language is presented by Muncie Symphony Orchestra
in partnership with Ball State University School of Music as part of MSO's education and outreach initiatives.

We could not do this without generous support from these businesses:

     

Jungle Book Fun

This event occurs on one of the Muncie Children's Museum's Free Saturdays.

There is no cost to attend. 

Congratulations to Young Artists!

The Young Artist Competition last Saturday was very successful.  Audience members, staff, and judges alike were privileged listen to the music made by seventeen young artists. There were seven competitors in the Junior Division and ten competitors in the Senior Division.

Junior Division

Rob Lorch, French Horn

     Accompanist: Liz Seidel

     Horn Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major K. 447, Wolfgang Mozart

            1^st  movement

Edward Shou, piano

     Accompanist: Sophia Kim Tetel

 Concerto in G minor, Op. 25, F. Mendelssohn

          Molto allegro con fuoco

Rowan Squire-Willey, Piano

     Accompanist: Olga Lukantsov

     Concerto in D Major,  Haydn - Hob XVIII #11

            1^st  movement

Zhixi (Jessy) Tang, Flute

     Accompanist:

     Andante in C Major, Mozart

Christina Yang, Piano

     Accompanist: Jami Scott

     Concerto in F minor, S. 1056, J. S. Bach

Phillip  Shou, piano

     Accompanist: Sophia Kim Tetel

     Concerto No. 23, A major, K488, Mozart

           Presto

Lydia Rhea, cello

     Accompanist: Matthew Rhea

 Concerto No. 1 in A minor Op. 33, C. Saint-Saens

          Allegro

The Ladonna Dingledine Junior Divison was won by Rowan Squire-Willey, piano. She performed the 1^st movement of Concerto in D Major,  by Haydn - Hob XVIII #11.  The level of musicianship was very high this year.  Three Junior Division competitors’ outstanding performances were acknowledged during the awards ceremony.  

Senior Divison

Adrian Kothman, flute

     Accompanist: Philip Blane

       Poem for Flute and Orchestra, Charles Griffes

Cameron Keenan, bassoon

     Accompanist: Adrea Hughes

     Concerto in F Major Op. 75, Carl Maria von Weber

           1^st movement  

Ari Brown, Piano

     Accompanist: Haruka Ostojic

     Piano Concerto No. 1 in C maj. Op. 15, Beethoven

          1^st  movement

Clara Abel, Cello

     Accompanist: Kathleen Strutz

     Concerto in D Minor, Edouard Lalo

          Lento Allegro maestoso

Isabella Hu, Piano

     Accompanist:  Haruka Ostojic

      Concerto no. 1 in E minor op. 11, Frederic Chopin

           1^st movement

Carolyn Ronning, Cello

     Accompanist: Anna Briscoe

     Concerto in D minor, op. 33, Lalo

          1^st  movement

Jiayi (Joey) Wu, piano

     Accompanist: Haruka Ostojic

     Concerto No. III in C minor Op. 37, Beethoven

           1^st movement

Oliver Shou, piano

     Accompanist: Sophia Kim Tetel

     Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin

Austin Huntington, cello

     Accompanist: Daniel Schlosberg

     Sinfonia Concertante in E minor, op. 125, Sergei Prokofiev

           Andante con moto

Benjamin Abel, violin

     Accompanist: Kathleen Strutz

     Concerto in e minor, op. 64, Mendelssohn

          3^rd  movement

Austin Huntington, cello, won The Steve Dingledine Senior Division with his extrordinary performance of the Andante con moto of Sinfonia Concertante in E minor, op. 125 by Sergei Prokofiev.  Austin's bio is below. 

Prism Video recorded all the performances and soon will deliver DVDs of each competitor’s performance for the Muncie Symphony to send to each individual.  The public performance of each winner is not yet scheduled. I will make every effort to post  the dates and times.  I have no doubt you will be pleased to hear both talented young musicians!

AUSTIN HUNTINGTON, student of Richard Hirschl, made his solo orchestral debut at age 10 and has performed as guest soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony, South Bend Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and LaPorte Symphony to name a few. Austin recently made his Orchestra Hall debut with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra performing the Sinfonia Concertante by Prokofiev. He will make his solo debut with the Kalamazoo Symphony, the Northwest Symphony (Chicago), and the Muncie Symphony Orchestra this season. He has performed in Italy, France, Germany, throughout the United States, and celebrated his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 2009. He has been awarded numerous Grand and First Prize awards on the National and International level. Austin has been selected to compete in the 2012 Johansen International String Competition, to be held this March in Washington, D.C.

Austin was awarded the 2011 Stulberg International String Competition Burdick-Thorne Gold Medal, and Bach Award for the best performance of a Bach solo work. He was declared the 2009 National First Place Winner of the Music Teachers National Association Solo String Performance Competition held in Atlanta, Georgia. Austin was selected as one of six cellists representing the United States invited to compete in the 2009 Rostropovich International Cello Competition held in Paris, France. Austin has performed in Masterclass for numerous master clinicians, and has collaborated with such highly esteemed concert artists as Misha Amory, James Dunham, and Itzhak Perlman.

Austin has appeared on NPR's From the Top on their 2011-2012 National Tour taped live at the Music Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey, on stage for a large audience, and was broadcast nationally November 2011. He is the Principal Cellist of the award-winning Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and Encore, CYSO's premiere performing ensemble. During the summer Austin studies cello at the prestigious Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, New York, and during the winter at the Perlman Music Program winter residency in Sarasota, Florida. He plays a cello made by Francesco Ruggeri of Cremona, ca. 1690, and a fine cello bow made by Eugene Sartory, ca. 1930. Austin is seventeen years old and a senior with High Honors at Saint Joseph's High School in South Bend, Indiana. 

The event was made possible by the generous contributions of 

    Psi Iota Xi, Alpha Chapter

    Prism Video

          Ball State University School of Music

Starbucks  

   701 W. McGalliard Rd. 

 Muncie, IN

    Cardinal Corps

All About the New Season

SEASON SCHEDULE         TICKETS

Choices! is the word for 2011-2012

Four Concert Series

Classical Series
The MSO you know.  Three Classical concerts and the Holiday Concert

October

    15             Sursa at Sursa                             Classical Series             Tickets

                    Ann Carney Sursa, Organ              7:30 p.m.

                                                                      Sursa Hall

December      Fisher-Shafer Holiday Concert      Classical Series               Tickets

       3            Special Guests                           4:00 p.m.

                                                                    Emens Auditorium  

March

   31             Romantic Hero!                        Classical Series                Tickets

                    Anna Vayman, violin                 7:30 p.m.

                                                                 Sursa Hall          

28           A Swashbuckling Adventure         Classical Series                  Tickets

                  Mihoko Watanabe, flute               7:30 p.m.

                  Jody Nagle, composer                 Emens Auditorium                       

                     World Premiere



Rattanovy Series
The MSO you don't want to miss.  Two Chamber concerts in unusual venues.

November

     19           Baby You Can Drive My Car!         Rattanovy Series              Tickets

                                                                     9:00 p.m.            Emens B.O. 765-285-1539

                                                                     Toyota Scion of Muncie  

April

    7            Ono Oboe                                 Rattanovy Series               Tickets

                                                                 9:00 p.m.                      Emens B.O. 285-1539

                                                                 Muncie Power Products Pershing Warehouse

Community Series
The MSO Free events.  Outdoor concerts family, fun, food.

June

    9           Festival on the Green                 Family Fun Series              Free/not ticketed

                 Guest Artists                            5:30 p.m.

                  MSO                                       7:30 p.m.

                                                               BSU Arts Terrace Lawn

August

  22       Picnic and Pops!                       Family Fun Series            Free/not ticketed

                 Guest Artists                            5:30 p.m.

                 MSO                                       7:30 p.m.

                                                               Lawn at Minnetrista      

Educational Series


MSO Young Peoples' Concert
This concert is not scheduled due to lack of funding.
Click here to read about the Spring 2011 Young Peoples' Concert

Music on the Move!
Graduate String Quartet visits schools and day care centers   Schedule  765.285.5531
Click here for more about last year's program.

Young Artist Competition

January

     14           Young Artist Competition           Education Series            Free/reservations

                     Application                              2:00 p.m.                      765-285-5531

                                                                  Sursa Hall                     e-mail MSO

Add some fun
The Club
Post Concert Receptions
Postlude

                               

Animals in Music

April 19th over 2000 mostly 4th and 5th grade students will fill Emens Auditorium for the Muncie Symphony Orchestra's Young Peoples Concert. 

The theme is ANIMALS.

Carnival of the Animals composed by Camille Saint Saens in 1886 is among the selections on the program. You might enjoy a preview, but not all the animals will be heard at the Young Peoples Concert. The accompanying YouTube Videos are by Julian Rachlin & friends.  A free copy of the Score is available.  Ogden Nash wrote a series of poems based on the composition. Poems by American writer Ogden Nash

INTRODUCTION

Camille Saint-Saens
Was wracked with pains,
When people addressed him,
As Saint-Saens.
He held the human race to blame,
Because it could not pronounce his name,
So, he turned with metronome and fife,
To glorify other kinds of life,
Be quiet please - for here begins
His salute to feathers, fur and fins.

 THE LION

The lion is the king of beasts, 

And husband of the lioness.
Gazelles and things on which he feasts
Address him as your highoness.
There are those that admire that roar of his,
In the African jungles and velds,
But, I think that wherever the lion is,
I’d rather be somewhere else.

COCKS AND HENS

The rooster is a roistering hoodlum,
His battle cry is cock- a- doodleum.
Hands in pockets, cap over eye,
He whistles at pullets, passing by. 

THE WILD DONKEY

Have ever you harked to the donkey wild,
Which scientists call the onager?
It sounds like the laugh of an idiot child,
Or a hepcat on a harmoniger,
But do not sneer at the donkey wild,
There is a method in his heehaw,
For with maidenly blush and accent mild
The donkey answers shee-haw. 

THE TORTOISE



Come crown my brow with leaves of myrtle, 

I know the tortoise is a turtle,
Come carve my name in stone immortal,
I know the turtoise is a tortle.
I know to my profound despair,
I bet on one to beat a hare,
I also know I’m now a pauper,
Because of its tortley, turtley, torper. 

 THE ELEPHANT

Elephants are useful friends, 

Equipped with handles at both ends,
They have a wrinkled moth proof hide,
Their teeth are upside down, outside,
If you think the elephant preposterous,
You’ve probably never seen a rhinosterous. 

KANGAROOS

The kangaroo can jump incredible, 

He has to jump because he is edible,
I could not eat a kangaroo,
But many fine Australians do,
Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs,
Prefer him in tasty kangaroomeringues. 

THE AQUARIUM

Some fish are minnows, 

Some are whales,
People like dimples,

Fish like scales,

Some fish are slim,

And some are round,

They don’t get cold,

They don’t get drowned,

But every fishwife

Fears for her fish,

What we call mermaids

They call merfish.

MULES

In the world of mules
There are no rules.
(Laughing, In the world of mules
There are no rules) 

THE CUCKOO IN THE WILD

Cuckoos lead bohemian lives,
They fail as husbands and as wives,
Therefore, they cynically disparage
Everybody else’s marriage 

BIRDS

Puccini was Latin, and Wagner Teutonic,
And birds are incurably philharmonic,
Suburban yards and rural vistas
Are filled with avian Andrew Sisters.
The skylark sings a roundelay,
The crow sings “The Road to Mandalay,”
The nightingale sings a lullaby,
And the sea gull sings a gullaby.
That’s what shepherds listened to in Arcadia
Before somebody invented the radia.   

PIANISTS

Some claim that pianists are human,
Heh, and quote the case of Mr. Truman.
Saint Saens on the other hand,
Considered them a scurvy band,
A blight they are he said, and simian,
Instead of normal men and wimian. 

FOSSILS

At midnight in the museum hall,
The fossils gathered for a ball,
There were no drums or saxophones,
But just the clatter of their bones,
Rolling, rattling carefree circus,
Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas,
Pterodactyls and brontosauruses
Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses,
Amid the mastodonic wassail
I caught the eye of one small fossil,
“Cheer up sad world,” he said and winked,
“It’s kind of fun to be extinct.” 

THE SWAN

The swan can swim while sitting down,
For pure conceit he takes the crown,
He looks in the mirror over and ovea,
And claims to have never heard of Pavlova.

THE GRAND FINALE

Now we’ve reached the grand finale,
On an animalie, carnivalie,
Noises new to sea and land,
Issue from the skillful band,
All the strings contort their features,
Imitating crawly creatures,
All the brasses look like mumps
From blowing umpah, umpah, umps,
In outdoing Barnum and Bailey, and Ringling,
Saint Saens has done a miraculous thingling.

Another piece on the program is the Overture from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II
 Die Fledermaus means The Flying Bat.

Can you imagine this 3 pound 6 foot bat? 

Good thing it eats fruits and seeds! 

Giant golden-crowned flying-fox Bat 

Giant golden-crowned flying-fox

Ballet of the unhatched Chickens by Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition)

When Mussorgsky wrote "Pictures at an Exhibition" in 1874 he was inspired by paintings and sketches by the painter Viktor Hartmann.  Hartmann drew 17 costume and set designs for the ballet Trilby, four of which are extant. This is the sketch that inspired Mussorgsky's 

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks.

Trilby was first performed at the Bolshoi in 1871, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Julius Gerber, both celebrities in their day. The plot was loosely based on a short story by the French author Charles Nodier titled "Trilby, or the Elf of the Argyle", published in 1822 (there is no relation to DuMaurier's ballet Trilby, which appeared in 1895). Petipa moved the setting from Scotland to Switzerland, and made other substantive changes as well. The title was changed to "Trilby, the Demon of the Hearth". The ballet featured children from the Russian Imperial Ballet School dressed variously as birds, butterflies and, as in this sketch, chicks still in their eggs. source

You will just have to see this piano playing cat for yourself.

The Catcerto by Mindaugas Piecaitis

The Young Peoples Concert is free and open to the public. If you would like to attend, please call the MSO office for more information.  765-285-5531

Reaching Out With Music

The Muncie Symphony Orchestra has many interests.  Educating the public is a very high priority.  Every year the MSO has a Young Peoples Concert for all the 4th and 5th grade students from the local city and county schools. More about that in another post!

Everyone is invited to attend this free concert. If you are free April 19th at 9:30 am, and would like to come listen, call the MSO office to reserve seats:  765-285-5531  

Music on the Move is another outreach program the MSO offers to the community.  Quartets or quintets visit by request and present cirruculum-based, interactive short concerts to students. Thus far this year, the Graduate String Quartet has 19 scheduled performances.  You might be surprised to learn requests also come from outside traditional educational institutions.  The youngest audience was ages 3-6, and the oldest audience was 60 - 90 years old. 

The theme this season is History of the Dance.

Graduate String Quartet
L-R: Yulia Zhuravleva, violin; Lipeng Chen, violin;
Eun Hey Park, cello, David Blakley, viola (filling in)

I thought you may enjoy these pictures from the Graduate String Quartet's presentation at 

the Alpha Center, an adult day care facility in Muncie.  

                           

                            Alpha Center audience

Yulia is talking about the piece the GSQ is about to play.

A happy tune!  

Concentrating

The musicians enjoy performing as well as interacting with the audience.

Explaining how the Tango developed.

Eun Hey laughing about the explanation.

Enjoying the music

Lipeng listening to an explanation.

Looking over the violist's shoulder.

Eun Hey

Eun Hey playing cello.

Playing 2nd violin today.

Lipeng introducing herself to the ladies.

David is filling in for the violist.
He is the principal violinist of the 2nd violin section in the Muncie Symphony Orchestra.

GSQ at play

Alpha Center Ladies

Fingers Flying

Enjoying music

Intently listening. No she is not asleep. :-)

 Yulie is playing 1st violin today.

Music on the Move is scheduled through the MSO office and is available during the school year.
If you are interested in a visit call 765-285-5531.
Thank you for dropping by!