Back by popular demand, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven & Blue Jeans on Saturday, November 12 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 13 at 3 p.m. at the Robinson Center Music Hall. This concert features Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Leonore Overture No. 3, and the Voodoo Violin Concerto No. 1 by composer and guest artist Daniel Bernard Roumain, DBR. This concert is the third Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Concert and is sponsored by Deltic Timber.
“DBR is a unique artist that defies labels and crosses genres. He is known for his distinctive sound and captivating performances. You don’t want to miss him ‘plug in’ for this electric violin concerto,” said Philip Mann, ASO Music Director.
Concert attendees are encouraged to wear their favorite pair of blue jeans – Maestro Philip Mann and the orchestra will be wearing theirs, too. Special Edition Beethoven & Blue Jeans t-shirts will be for sale in the lobby before, during intermission and after the concert.
“We are extremely excited we received a NEA grant to bring DBR to Arkansas,” said Christina Littlejohn, ASO Executive Director. During his residency, DBR will present “Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes” to students at Central High School, Parkview High School, and the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra. “Rarely do students get the opportunity to work with an artist that has performed with Lady Gaga and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. His Bach to hip-hop series is a hit all over the country for young people.”
In addition to the Masterworks performance, the ASO will host a street party on Markham in front of the Robinson Center beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday. This is a free party for ticket holders that includes free brats (courtesy of Ben E. Keith) and $2 Diamond Bear Beer. All ticket holders can meet musicians, board members, Philip Mann, and DBR while entertainment is provided by The Episcopal Collegiate School Steel Drum Band.
At 6:30 p.m. on Saturday and 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra will perform a free concert on the Robinson stage. Following this ASYO performance, there will be a super-sized Concert Conversation, an interactive informance about the Beethoven & Blue Jeans concert, with Philip Mann, the ASYO, and guests. Admission to this event is free.
Children kindergarten through 12th grade can attend our Sunday matinee performances for free (with the purchase of an adult ticket) using the Entergy Kids Ticket – available for download at www.ArkansasSymphony.org. Adult single tickets range from $14-$52 and can be purchased online at www.ArkansasSymphony.org or over the phone at (501) 666-1761. Student and military tickets are $10.
Concert Program Details
BEETHOVEN & BLUE JEANS
Saturday, November 12 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, November 13 at 3 p.m.
Robinson Center Music Hall
Beer & Brats Street Party: Saturday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.
Beer, brats, Beethoven & Blue Jeans, what could be more fun? FREE party for ticket holders, FREE brats, $2 Diamond Bear Beer, and entertainment by The Episcopal Collegiate School Steel Drum Band on Markham in front of Robinson before the concert. Mingle with Musicians, board members, Philip Mann, and DBR to gear up for this one-of-a-kind concert!
ASYO Free Concert: Saturday at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
Super-Sized Concert Conversation: Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
Hear a special Youth Orchestra mini concert followed by a super-sized Concert Conversation in the Music Hall. Includes an interactive informance by Philip Mann, the ASYO, and guests.
Featuring
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), violin
Philip Mann, conductor
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Program:
BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
DBR Voodoo Violin Concerto No. 1
INTERMISSION
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
Education Residency Details
HIP-HOP STUDIES AND ETUDES
Inspired by Bach’s Well-Tempered Klavier and Philip Glass’ Music in 12 Parts, these twenty-four musical vignettes (one in each key) explain, examine and express aspects of hip-hop music—from rhythm to timbre to form. Hip-Hop Studies and Etudes represent DBR’s compositional view, his “take,” on hip-hop music. DBR discusses his inspiration and performs excerpts of the work on the piano and violin.
Thursday, November 10 at 12:30 p.m.-2:08 p.m. – Central High School
This workshop will take place in the Band Room and will include approximately 90 students.
Friday, November 11 at 2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. – Parkview High School
This workshop will take place in the Choir Room and will include approximately 75 students.
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), violin/composer
Having carved a reputation for himself as an innovative composer, performer, violinist, and band leader, Haitian-American artist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) melds his classical music roots with his own cultural references and vibrant musical imagination.
As a composer, his works range from orchestral scores and chamber pieces to music for film, the theater, modern dance, and electronica. In 2007, DBR premiered One Loss Plus, the first of three works commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for their Next Wave Festival. Showcasing his wide-ranging eclecticism, One Loss Plus is DBR’s evening-length, multimedia work for electric/acoustic violin, prepared/amplified piano, electronics, and video. His latest orchestral work and second BAM commission Darwin’s Meditation for The People of Lincoln is a musical setting of a pocket play by Daniel Beaty that explores an imagined conversation between Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, and the political relationship between England, North America, and Haiti. Following its New York premiere in October 2008, Darwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincoln moves to the University of Connecticut as a special celebratory concert February 12, 2009 - the icons’ shared bicentennial anniversary of their birth.
DBR has collaborated with an array of orchestras and chamber ensembles. He was recently selected by the Sphinx Commissioning Consortium, an alliance between Sphinx and nine other American orchestras (Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville, New Jersey, New World, Philadelphia, Richmond, Rochester and Virginia) to compose a new work for full orchestra that premiered in 2010. Recent performances and commissions include: Five Chairs and One Table, a commissioned work for Imani Winds that premiered at Carnegie Hall; WE MARCH!, a guitar concerto featuring Eliot Fisk and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; The Tuscaloosa Meditations, one of the first commissions of a Haitian-American composer by the University of Alabama composed in honor of Vivian Malone Jones; Voodoo Violin Concerto, a virtuosic handling of DBR’s Haitian heritage premiered by the Vermont Youth Orchestra; Double Quartet: The Kompa Variations, an exploration of Haitian kompa music for the Providence String Quartet and a student quartet which premiered at the First Works Providence festival; and newly commissioned works for the Florida Youth Orchestra, Ahn Trio and Claremont Trio. Other projects include original scores for theater and film. DBR has composed music for Daniel Beaty’s play Resurrection directed by Oz Scott, the feature ESPN television segment E:60 Homeless Basketball in which DBR was bestowed with a Sports EMMY nomination for musical composition, and documentary films - Strange Things by Alexandria Hammond and Off and Running by Nicole Opper (premiered at Tribeca Film Festival) which aired nationally on PBS in 2010.
From Australia’s Sydney Opera House to Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, DBR continues to premiere and perform solo and chamber works off of his debut international solo album etudes4violin&electronix (Thirsty Ear Recordings) in a worldwide tour with Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific. Described as a “demonstration of unquestionable virtuosity and commitment to the violin’s expressivity” (All About Jazz), the album showcases a unified dialogue between DBR and artists from today's contemporary musical landscape including Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto, DJ Spooky, and DJ Scientific. As bandleader of DBR & THE MISSION, a young, multi-cultural ensemble, he presents an electrifying show described as “an evening of chamber music with the accessible feel of a rock concert” (Albany Times-Union). Touring nationwide since 2004, DBR & THE MISSION made its international debut at Australia’s 2008 Adelaide Festival.
DBR serves as Visiting Associate Professor of Composition at his alma mater, The Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University. He’s also the Artist-in-Residence of the Starbucks-sponsored Seattle Theater Group and the Music Director of Seattle’s More Music @ The Moore program for the third consecutive year. Additional positions have included: Chair of Composition/Theory at the Harlem School of the Arts; The Van Lier Composer-in-Residence with the American Composers Orchestra; Artist-in-Residence at Arizona State University (2003-2006); Assistant Composer-in-Residence at the Orchestra of St. Luke's and founder of the OSL’s Young Composers Development Program; Music Director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; and Rankin Scholar-in-Residence at Drexel University.
Proving that he’s “about as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR recently collaborated and performed with Lady Gaga on FOX’s American Idol. His accolades range from being voted as “America’s Assignment” on the CBS Evening News, to receiving praise as one of the “Top 100 New Yorkers” (New York Resident), “Top 40 Under 40” business people (Crain’s New York Business), one of the entertainment industry’s “Top 5 Tomorrow’s Newsmakers” (1010 WINS Radio), and spotlighted as a “New Face of Classical Music” in Esquire Magazine.
A native of Margate, Florida, DBR’s career blossomed when he studied music as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, completing his masters and doctoral work at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom.
For more on DBR, visit http://www.dbrmusic.com.
Philip Mann, Music Director
Hailed by the BBC as a "talent to watch out for, who conveys a mature command of his forces," American conductor Philip Mann is quickly gaining a reputation as an "expressively graceful yet passionate" artist on three continents. Newly appointed as music director of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, he also serves as the San Diego Symphony's Associate Conductor and formerly an American Conducting Fellow/assistant conductor, where he has conducted over 200 performances of Jacobs Subscription Masterworks, Symphony Exposed, family, young people's concerts, Kinder Konzert, pops, and other special programs.
His most recent subscription appearance was described by the San Diego Union Tribune, "Mann was masterful. a skilled musical architect, designing and executing a beautifully paced interpretation, which seemed to spring from somewhere deep within the music rather than superimposed upon it." The winner of the Vienna Philharmonic's Karajan Fellowship at the Salzburg Festival, he has served as cover conductor for the Cleveland Orchestra and as the Schmidt Conducting Fellow of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mann has worked with leading artists such as Joshua Bell, Sharon Isbin, Marvin Hamlisch and given world premiers of major composers including John Corigliano. He maintains a lively schedule as a guest conductor having conducted at New York's Avery Fischer Hall and London's Barbican Center. Active in symphonic, operatic, and new music repertories, he has served as music director of the Oxford City Opera and Oxford Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.
Elected a Rhodes Scholar, Mann studied and taught at Oxford, and won the annual competition to become principal conductor of the Oxford University Philharmonia. Under his leadership, the Philharmonia's performances and tours received international press and acclaim. Mann studied with Alan Hazeldine of London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Colin Metters at the Royal Academy of Music, and Marios Papadopolous of the Oxford Philomusica. He worked with Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.s National Conducting Institute and Michael Tilson Thomas at the New World Symphony. Mentorship with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jorma Panula followed at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Conducting Masterclasses. He has also worked under Imre Pallo, David Effron, John Poole, and Thomas Baldner at Indiana University where he was appointed visiting lecturer in orchestral conducting, and worked as assistant conductor at the IU Opera Theater. Additional studies came under the Bolshoi Theater's music director, Alexander Vedernikov at the Moscow State Conservatory, Gustav Meir, Kenneth Keisler, and with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Robert Ward.
Trained as a violinist, Mann has appeared as a soloist, concertmaster, and chamber player in the USA and abroad. He is the recipient of numerous awards including commendations from several cities, and the state of California.
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 46th season in 2011-2012 under the leadership of Music Director Philip Mann. ASO is the resident orchestra of Robinson Center Music Hall, and performs more than thirty concerts each year through its Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series, ACXIOM Pops LIVE! Series and River Rhapsodies Chamber Series, in addition to serving central Arkansas through numerous community outreach programs and bringing live symphonic music education to over 20,000 school children and over 200 schools.
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