TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 4
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, September 27, 2019, 8 pm
Sunday, September 29, 2019, 3 pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, September 28, 2019, 8 pm
Marin Alsop, conductor
Daniel Bernard Roumain, violin
Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to La forza del destino
Daniel Bernard Roumain Voodoo Violin Concerto
Daniel Bernard Roumain
INTERMISSION
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, op. 36
Andante sostenuto
Andantino in modo di canzona
Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato
Finale: Allegro con fuoco
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately
9:45 pm on Friday and Saturday and 4:45 pm on Sunday.
from the University of Michigan. He is
currently Institute Professor of Practice
at Arizona State University.
An avid arts industry leader,
Roumain serves on the Board of
Directors of the League of American
Orchestras; Association of Performing
Arts Presenters; and Creative Capital,
the advisory committee of the Sphinx
Organization, and he was co-chair of
2015 and 2016 Association of Performing
Arts Professionals (APAP) conferences.
Roumain recently premiered We Shall
Not Be Moved, a chamber opera co-
commissioned by Opera Philadelphia
and Apollo Theater with libretto by
Marc Bamuthi Joseph and direction
by Bill T. Jones. The New York Times
called the work “The Best Classical
Performance of 2017.”
Daniel Bernard Roumain makes his BSO debut.
About the Concert
OVERTURE TO LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Giuseppe Verdi
Born in Le Roncole, Italy, October 9, 1813;
died in Milan, Italy, January 27, 1901
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 6.
Daniel Bernard
Roumain
Daniel Bernard
Roumain’s acclaimed
work as a composer
and performer spans
more than two decades and has been
commissioned by artists and institutions
worldwide. Described as “about as
omnivorous as a contemporary artist
gets” by The New York Times, Roumain
is perhaps the only composer whose
collaborations traverse the worlds of
Philip Glass, Bill T. Jones, Savion Glover
and Lady Gaga.
Known for his signature violin sounds
infused with a myriad of electronic and
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OV E R T U R E / BSOmusic.org
urban music influences, Roumain
takes his genre-bending music beyond
the proscenium. He has written large
scale, site-specific music for public
parks; been nominated for an Emmy
Award for Outstanding Musical
Composition for his work with ESPN;
and been featured as keynote performer
at technology conferences.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut in
2000 with the American Composers
Orchestra performing his Harlem Essay
for Orchestra, a Whitaker commission,
and has gone on to compose works for
the Boston Pops Orchestra, Carnegie
Hall, the Library of Congress and the
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Roumain’s commitment to arts
education has garnered long-term
relationships with countless universities,
orchestras and performing arts centers. He
earned his doctorate in music composition
In 1861, Giuseppe Verdi had not
composed anything for more than three
years since completing his Un Ballo in
maschera and was happily considering
retirement from the high-pressure world
of Italian opera. Then an attractive offer
came from an unexpected source: the
Imperial Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia
requested a new work. He finally settled
on a subject that had been intriguing him
for years: the recent Spanish drama Don
Álvaro o la fuerza del sino (“Don Alavro or
The Force of Destiny”) by Don Ángel de
Saavedra (1791–1865).
Set in 18 th -century Spain and Italy, the
story shows Fate thwarting the lives of its
protagonists as the Peruvian nobleman
Don Alvaro accidentally shoots the
Marquis de Calatrava as he is eloping
with the Marquis’ daughter, Leonora.
The couple flees with Leonora’s brother,
Don Carlo, in hot pursuit. Leonora
and Alvaro are separated during their
flight, and Leonora, determined to