MasterWorks II: Baroque Bash


Saturday, November 11th | 7:30pm

Umstattd Hall | Zimmermann Symphony Center
2331 17th St. NW
Canton, OH 44708

A graphic depicting an empty cathedral bursting with light. Baroque Bash is spelled out in the middle with period-specific flourishes.

TICKETS

$10 / $25 / $37 / $50
All tickets, excluding children and students, are subject to a $2 processing fee.
Student Tickets (18+ with ID): FREE
Children 17 and under: FREE
Veterans, First Responders, Healthcare Workers, & Educators: 20% off
SNAP & Medicaid Recipients: 20% off
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Box Office: 330-452-2094
boxoffice@cantonsymphony.org

DESCRIPTION

This concert will be conducted by Kelly Corcoran.

Long-time Canton Symphony piccolo player, Julie Sarver, is featured on Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto in C Major. Also on this concert is the Overture in C Major by Marianna Martinez, a little-known 18th-century female composer who was an acquaintance of Mozart and Haydn. The concert concludes with Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks,” which was originally used as the soundtrack to an 18th century fireworks display.

PROGRAM

March de Triomphe………………………………….Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Overture in C Major……………………………………………Marianna Martines
Concerto for Piccolo, RV 443………………………………Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 11…………………..George Frideric Handel

Intermission

Ballet Suite…………………………………………………………………….. Jean-Philippe Rameau
I. Menuett aus Platée
II. Musette aus Fetes d’Hébe
III. Tambourin aus Fêtes d’Hébe
Suite from the Royal Fireworks……………George Frideric Handel

Pre-Concert Lecture

There will be a pre-concert lecture that will go over the theme of the concert. Join us in Foundation Hall at 6:30pm to define the  “Baroque,” and learn about this period in music history as we learn about pieces from the concert!

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

JULIE JOHNSON SARVER

Julie Johnson Sarver is a flutist in the Canton Symphony Orchestra, where she has played both flute and piccolo since 1987.  She also plays regularly with the Akron Symphony Orchestra and the Akron Symphonic Winds, and has played with the Pittsburgh Opera, the Cleveland Opera, the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, and three seasons with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra.  She was awarded the Top Virtuoso Woodwind Award at the Mid-America Music Association competition in St. Louis, MO and won third place at the national level of the Music Teacher’s National Association competition in Phoenix, AZ in 1981.  She is an active free-lance musician performing on concerts, shows, recitals and weddings throughout Ohio.  She has adjudicated for the Northeastern Ohio Flute Association competition and was selected to be a judge for the National Flute Association’s Flute Choir auditions in 2003.

Julie is currently the Professor of Flute at both Malone University and The University of Mount Union, where she teaches Applied Flute, Flute Pedagogy, and directs the Flute Ensembles. She also teaches flute at Jackson Memorial Middle School one day a week as part of their band program. She taught for nine years in the Artful Living and Learning Program in the Massillon and Canton City School districts, in addition to operating a large private studio in her home.

Julie holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nebraska and a Master of Music degree in flute performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University where her teachers include James Pellerite, Richard Graef of the Chicago Symphony, Peter Lloyd of the London Symphony Orchestra and William Hebert of the Cleveland Orchestra.

MARIANNA MARTINES

Marianna Martines was born Anna Katharina Martinez on May 4, 1744, in Vienna. Her father was a military officer, giving Martines access to some of the most elite artists in Austria. Martines showed great musical gifts from a young age, so much so that their neighbor Metastasio, an Italian poet and family friend, took responsibility for her education.

Growing up, Martines lived in an apartment block in the center of Vienna. Upstairs in the attic lived the struggling young composer Franz Joseph Haydn. Haydn gave Martines keyboard lessons and accompanied her on harpsichord when she performed as a vocalist. Marianna Martines returned his teaching by introducing the young musician to composers Johann Adolph Hasse and Guiseppe Bono, giving Haydn connections that would make his career flourish. 

Sponsors

THE ROGER E. AND JANET B. BAKER CHARITABLE FUND