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CSO Full Concert Sunday, March 23rd, 2025

Ruth Charloff, conductor Jacques Offenbach: Overture to La Belle Hélène Jesús Guridi: Diez melodías vascas (Ten Basque Melodies) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in Eb major, Op. 55 ("Eroica") Full Digital Concert Program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XFNB... 00:00 Introduction 00:19 Overture to La Belle Hélène 10: 13 Diez melodías vascas (Ten Basque Melodies) 34: 40 Symphony No. 3 in Eb major, Op. 55 ("Eroica") Dr. Ruth Charloff, CSO Associate Conductor Ruth Charloff has been CSO Associate Conductor since 2012. She directs the UCR Orchestra, Chamber Singers, and Chorale at the University of California, Riverside. Her D.M.A. in Orchestral Conducting is from Northwestern University, and her M.A. is from the University of California, Berkeley. At UC Riverside she has taught conducting, instrumentation, 20th-century music history, and Introduction to Western Music. In 1855, Jacques Offenbach, a German cellist playing in Parisian opera orchestras, founded the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens to enact his vision of "true comic opera, that really gay, bright, spirited music—music with real life in it." He would score hit after hit of satiric, irreverent frivolities, setting French comic opera on a new course. La Belle Hélène came in 1864. "Hélène" is Helen of Troy; the opera was a send-up of Parisian aristocracy (including Emperor Napoleon III, nephew of Bonaparte), refracted through the story of Homer's Trojan War. Critics were nervous, but the middle-class audience found it hilarious. Jesús Guridi was the preeminent Basque-Spanish composer of the mid-twentieth century. Having studied abroad with composers in Paris, London, and Cologne, he brought home contemporary techniques to the folk music of his native Basque country. Ten Basque Melodies (1941) is his best-known orchestral work, celebrated for the lush harmonies, imaginative textures, and rich orchestration that Guridi tailored to the character of each folk tune. The tunes themselves cover a wide expressive range from tender to boisterous, including (for movement VIII) the Basque folk dance called Zortziko in a distinctive 5/8 meter. In 1804, Beethoven had recently been through the utter despair and loneliness of losing his hearing, followed by new creativity that drew on his aural memory, boundless imagination, and turbulent inner life. His Third Symphony was of unprecedented scope and ambition, changing the symphonic genre forever. He first dedicated this epic work to Napoleon Bonaparte, who had seemed the embodiment of the French Revolution's ideals of freedom and equality. When Napoleon instead took on the title and powers of Emperor, Beethoven retracted the dedication in disgust, leaving the title Eroica ("heroic") to describe not the man but the music itself. The symphony’s first movement is an exhilarating journey of emotional contrasts, distant keys, and intricate melodic connections. The second is a Funeral March, a heart-rending intersection of public and private grief. The third is a Scherzo ("jest"), a faster, funnier twist on the earlier symphonic minuets of Haydn and Mozart. And the Finale wittily explores how much can be made of how little: first comes a rudimentary bassline, then a lighthearted tune to go with it—and then, on these simplest of elements, a set of variations of immense range, power, and creativity. - Ruth Charloff The orchestra is currently composed of about 70 talented volunteer musicians from numerous locations around Southern California, dedicating their time and talents to provide musically enriching, free concerts for Claremont, the Pomona Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, and the Inland Empire. The Claremont Symphony Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and a member of the Chambers of Commerce for the cities of Claremont, Glendora, La Verne, Pomona, San Dimas, and Upland. The CSO can be reached at (909) 596-5979 or [email protected]. Video & editing production: David Van Brunt Original Audio: Thom Babich