The Livengoods and The Harlows in Concert

Founder/Director
LESSLIE HARLOW

Artistic Directors
RUSSELL HARLOW

Musicians
Russell Harlow and Lee Livengood, Clarinets
Leslie Harlow, Viola Melissa Jensen Livengood, Piano

Park City Institute Artist Liaison
JENNY KNAAK

Park City Institute Technical Director
HAYDEN CHIPLEY

Program

Sunday April 10, 2022 at 3:00pm

Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, Opus 264 by Carl Reinecke

I. Moderato - Allegro
|II. INTERMEZZO. Moderato
III. LEGENDE. Andante
IV. FINALE. Allegro moderato
featuring Lee Livengood, Clarinet Leslie Harlow, Viola Melissa Jensen Livengood, Piano

short intermission

"Auf dem Strom" (translation: "On the River") by Franz Schubert Poetry by Ludwig Rellstab Arranged for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Concertpiece No. 2 in D Minor Opus 114 by Felix Mendelssohn for Two Clarinets and Piano
Presto.,Andante. Allegretto grazioso. Presto y con fuoco.

"Romanze" from the Opera "Ver Schworenen" (translation: "The Conspirators") by Franz Schubert Libretto by J. F. Castelli Arranged for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

Concertpiece No. 1 in F Minor Opus 113 by Felix Mendelssohn for Two Clarinets and Piano
Allegro con fuoco. Andante. Presto

featuring Russell Harlow and Lee Livengood, Clarinets Leslie Harlow, Viola Melissa Jensen Livengood, Piano

Theater

The Eccles Center is the largest theater in Park City, Utah with 1,269 seats. It is home to Park City Institute's Main Stage Season from October through April each year, presenting a broad range of world-class performing arts from international dance companies to Broadway icons to beloved author/humorists to virtuosos in a host of musical styles from Chamber Music to rock'n'roll.

Health and Safety

The Park City Institute and the Park City School District have taken measures to assure the health and safety of our patrons, staff, and performers. We are constantly adjusting our COVID protocols based on the recommendations of the CDC, directives of local and state health departments. Permanent changes include, updated HVAC, touch-less restrooms faucets, electronic ticketing, electronic programs, enhanced cleaning, and all volunteers and staff to be fully vaccinated. Based on guidance, we adjust the capacity of the theater and reserve empty seats between ticketed groups.

Currently, we are limiting attendance to our chamber music series and recomend that patrons arrive at the theater wearing a mask. Once in the theater, patrons are free to move to the back of the house or the balcony where there is more space between groups. If you don’t feel well, have a cough or a fever we ask that you remain home.

Park City Institute

Presents

Clarinetists Russell Harlow and Lee Livengood with Violist Leslie Harlow and Pianist Melissa Jensen Livengood, in Concert

Since 1984, internationally acclaimed classical solo artists have been converging on picturesque Park City, Utah, working together to prepare unique, vibrant chamber music programs designed to delight intimate audiences that include everyone from first-time concertgoers to lifelong chamber music fans.

Chosen for their dynamic musical personalities, the Beethoven Festival roster artists breathe expression into every Festival performance, making each concert a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the listener.

These exceptional artists perform these programs throughout Utah and beyond, as well as including their work in outreach to lesser served communities, senior living facilities, and schools.

More information and a Full Concert Calendar can be found at:

https://www.pcmusicfestival.com/

PROGRAM NOTES

The Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano by Carl Reinecke is a fully romantic, expressive, and color-filled work with movements in contrasting styles. The composer Reinecke wrote two trios for this combination, taking full advantage of the unique velvety blend created by combining the characteristically distinctive sound of the clarinet with that of the viola.

In the Concert Pieces by Felix Mendelssohn, you'll enjoy dazzling pyrotechnics alternating with beautiful lyrical melodies. Featuring clarinetists Russell Harlow and Lee Livengood and pianist Melissa Livengood, these virtuoso showpieces are sure to delight.

Franz Schubert is known as one of the greatest composers of songs. "Auf dem Strom" (On the River) is a favorite. "Romanze" is from his opera "Ver Schworenen". Using Castelli's work "The Conspirators" gave Schubert a perfect opportunity to expand his skills into designing a full opera. The story is based on soldier'’ wives conspiring to convince their husbands to stay home from participating in "The Crusades".

Text for the Songs:

"Auf dem Strom"
Poetry by Ludwig Rellstab
Translated: "On the River"

Take these last farewell kisses,
and the wafted greetings
that I send to the shore,
before your foot turns to leave.
Already the boat is pulled away
by the waves' rapid current;
but longing forever draws back
my gaze, clouded with tears.

And so the waves bear me away
with relentless speed. Ah, already the meadows
where, overjoyed, I found her, have disappeared.
Days of bliss, you are gone forever!
Hopelessly my lament echoes
round the fair homeland
where I found her love.

See how the shore flies past,
and how mysterious ties
draw me across
to a land by yonder cottage,
to linger in yonder arbour.
But the river's waves rush onwards,
without respite,
bearing me on towards the ocean.

Ah, how I tremble with dread
at that dark wilderness,
far from every cheerful shore,
where no island can be seen!
No song can reach me from the shore
to bring forth tears of gentle sadness;
only the tempest blows cold
across the grey, angry sea.

If my wistful, roaming eyes
can no longer descry the shore,
I shall look up to the stars
there in the sacred distance.
Ah! By their gentle radiance
I first called her mine;
there, perhaps, O consoling fate,
there I shall meet her gaze.

"Romanze" by Castelli

I creep around, anxious and silent,
My heart is beating so heavily,
Life appears to me to be barren and mute,
And the fields and the castle are both so empty,
And each joy speaks mockingly to me
And each note is a note of lament,
Whenever my beloved is far away,
The star of my eye clouds over.

Oh! that which love once bound together
Should never again be separated,
What are looking for in that foreign land
And so far off across the sea?
Even if bright flowers blossom there
No heart will glow more warmly for you,
Oh do not stay away any longer,
You, the star of my life!

The Players

LEE LIVENGOOD Clarinetist

LEE LIVENGOOD Lee Livengood Is a member of the Utah Symphony Orchestra, performing clarinet and bass clarinet with the orchestra, performs extensively in chamber music and teaches clarinet at Utah State University. Mr. Livengood is a Past-President of the International Clarinet Association and regularly performs as guest artist at International Clarinet Association "Clarfests" held worldwide. He also performs regularly at the Grand Tetons Music Festival. Prior to his appointment in Utah, he was a member of the Savannah, Tulsa, and Fresno Orchestras. Livengood earned his Bachelor’s Degree from the Eastman School of Music as a student of Stanley Hasty, and a Master’s Degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with Mitchell Lurie. In much demand as a chamber musician, he has performed at the prestigious Santa Fe Chamber Music, Round Top Music, the La Jolla Chamber Music, the Spoleto (Italy) Festivals, and locally with the Nova Chamber Music Series, Intermezzo Series, and for the Beethoven Festival Park City. In addition to his work as a performer, Mr. Livengood is widely known as a fine mouthpiece maker and refacer, with clients around the world. He began restoring clarinet mouthpieces in 1992, and now has his own line of custom clarinet mouthpieces. When not performing in the Utah Symphony or making mouthpieces, Lee enjoys time in the outdoors with his wife and two sons, drinking great coffee, and playing the electric bass.

Russell Harlow

Clarinetist and Beethoven Festival Artist in Residence Russell Harlow is one of the nation's premiere solo and chamber clarinetists. Mr. Harlow performed the New York Premiere of the Ramiro Cortes Trio (written for him), along with the Brahms Quintet, at Carnegie's Weill Hall in New York. The Sonolumina Ensemble ISOMIKE Label High Definition recording featuring Mr. Harlow entitled "Chamber Music for Clarinets and Strings" has received critical acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe. His most recent recordings for the ISOMIKE Label are "Mozart and Romantic Encores" and "Beethoven by Special Arrangement". These two recordings are featured on the High Definition recording site NativeDSD.com. The Mozart recording was nominated for Chamber Music Recording of the Year on this audiophile site and the Beethoven recording has been labeled as one of the site’s "Best-Selling" albums.

Russell Harlow co-directs the Beethoven Festival Park City and has performed and lectured for International Clarinet Association events throughout the world. His website ClarinetCentral.com is regularly visited by clarinetists worldwide. In addition to performances in Utah with the Beethoven Festival, the Contemporary Music Consortium and Sonolumina Orchestra, Mr. Harlow has performed with the Affetti Festival, Sitka and Anchorage Fall Classics Festivals (Alaska), the Amsterdam Chamber Players, the Puerto Rico Clarinet Festival, the Ars Nova, Lyrica and Piatigorsky Foundation concerts in New Jersey and with the Leonore Trio and Bargemusic in NYC.

Russell Harlow's mentors include Gary Foster, Mitchell Lurie, Harold Wright and violinist Charles Libove, and he was coached in chamber music and attended the masterclasses by cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Harlow is featured on recordings with flutist Laurel Ann Maurer, the Mirecourt Trio, the Beethoven Festival and the Utah Symphony abd has recorded numerous solos for major film scores. He founded and directed Utah's Nova Series until he joined the Beethoven Festival as Co-Director in 1986. He attended both UCLA and USC before joining the Utah Symphony at the age of 21.

MELISSA JENSEN LIVENGOOD Pianist

MELISSA LIVENGOOD earned degrees in Art History and Piano from Willamette University, a Masters in Piano Performance from the University of Oregon, and a DMA in Piano from the Catholic University of America. As a recipient of a Rotary Scholarship, she studied piano in Belgium. Before moving to Utah, Melissa taught piano and theory at Armstrong Atlantic State University, was staff accompanist at Georgia Southern University, and played keyboard for the Savannah Symphony. She now makes her home in Utah, maintaining a piano studio, and working as a freelance vocal accompanist at the University of Utah. Dr. Livengood has performed as guest artist with her clarinetist husband frequently at international clarinet festivals worldwide. She has been featured in many performances with the Beethoven Festival, the Nova Chamber Music Society, the Cathedral of the Madeleine and the Utah Viola Society and often appears with her husband, clarinetist Lee Livengood.

LESLIE HARLOW

Festival Artist in Residence, Violist Leslie Harlow, is the Founder and Co-Director of the Park City Beethoven Festival. She has performed in chamber concerts with a host of the finest artists of this era. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Leslie Harlow performed in masterclasses for William Primrose, Paul Doktor, Donald McGinnis, Heidi Castleman, and Nabuko Imai and her primary teachers were Marna Street, Susan Schoenfeld, Paul Doktor, and violinist Harry Shub with additional lessons with Heidi Castleman, Donald Wright, and Francis Tursi. Ms. Harlow studied chamber music with coaches including Felix Galimer, Samuel Rhodes, David Soyer, Paul Doktor, Charles Castleman, Robert Sylvester, and Julius Baker.

Following graduation from Juilliard, Ms. Harlow moved to Utah with the plan to found a chamber music festival modeled after festivals she had been performing with over the years. She founded the Deer Valley (Utah) Chamber Music Festival in 1984 which has since been renamed the Beethoven Festival. The Festival continues to this day as Utah's oldest classical music festival, as of 2021,

presenting over 800 festival chamber concerts featuring many of the finest classical soloists of this era.

An active recording artist, both in chamber music and in commercial studio work, Ms. Harlow's viola solos have been featured on a number of film and television soundtracks including "Murder in the First”, "Surviving Picasso” and, most recently “Alpha”. She also founded and for many years directed the Park City Film Music Festival, the first U.S. film festival dedicated to the impact of music in film.

Active in teaching, Leslie Harlow is the coordinator and coach for the chamber music program Utah Valley University Department of Music in Orem, Utah. In 2015 Ms. Harlow was invited to present the collegiate level viola master class at the National ASTA Convention and to serve as a judge for the collegiate solo competition.

Representing the Festival, Leslie and clarinetist Russell Harlow perform concerts together with their colleagues throughout the year. They particularly enjoy performing for senior residents in retirement homes and for aspiring young artists at their schools.

Outside of the Festival, Harlows are busy professional performing artists, invited to perform in Utah and beyond, including for the Bargemusic Series in New York. Leslie Harlow’s recording credits also include the critically-acclaimed SACD recording for the ISOMIKE label: Chamber Music for Clarinets and Strings which features works by Karel Husa, Bohuslav Martinu, and Ingolf Dahl.

Chamber Music at the Eccles Center is made possible with the generous support from Bob Shallenberg, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, and Summit County Cultural RAP Tax.