Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 8:00 p.m.
Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD
Charles Ellis, conductor - Mariam Adam, clarinet
Rossini Overture to Tancredi
Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
Wagner Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung
Rodgers Victory at Sea: Symphonic Scenario for Orchestra
Beethoven Wellington’s Victory
A concert commemorating the War of 1812. Sponsored in part by the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, Inc.
Single Ticket General Admission: $20, Seniors: $18, Age 18 and under free (ticket required). Single Tickets go on sale the night of the concert beginning at 7 pm, cash or check only. Tickets can be purchased in advance
MARIAM ADAM, clarinet
Mariam Adam, a native of Monterey, California is an internationally distinguished soloist and chamber musician. As one of the last students of legendary clarinetist, Rosario Mazzeo, she developed a colorful career on the west coast soloing with the Sacramento Symphony, Monterey County Symphony amongst others while still an undergraduate. Ms. Adam appeared as soloist with the Eastman Music Summer Festival, toured with Monterey Jazz Festival jazz ensembles (sometimes as the drummer) in Japan and North America, and received such awards such as the Hans Wildau Young Musicians Award, Sacramento Concerto Competition Winner, AFS Scholar, and Bank of America Artists Scholar before moving to the east coast for graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music. She has since performed with Chamber Music Lincoln Center, Prussia Cove Festival in England, 92nd St. Y, Rockport Music Festival, Chenango Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, La Jolla Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Chamber Music Northwest as well as collaborations with such artists as Paquito D'Rivera and David Shifrin.As a founding member of the internationally acclaimed, TransAtlantic Ensemble (Clar, Vn, Pno) she has performed in Europe and the U.S., performing a wide range of music including that of Imani Winds' Jeff Scott and Valerie Coleman. As a soloist she has been invited to give recitals in Spain, Switzerland, and London, and she continues to collaborate with several international pianists celebrating music from different regions of the world. [http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=imaniwinds&aview=bio&bid=724]
Interview from Quarter Notes
Quarter Notes: Thanks so much, Ms. Adam, for taking the time
to talk to us today. We can hardly wait
to play the wonderful Mozart Clarinet Concerto with you! Can you start out by telling us a little
about your training and your current career?
Mariam Adam:
I grew up in the Monterey area in California, an area very rich in
cultural events and potentials. I did my
undergraduate work at University of the Pacific, and then entered the San
Francisco Conservatory of Music. I was
very fortunate to be one of the last students of Rosario Mazzeo, who was then
retired from the Boston Symphony and living in California. After spending some time at the Aspen Music
Festival, I headed for the East Coast and enrolled in the Manhattan School of
Music. That was about the time that
Imani Winds was forming and I’ve been part of that quintet ever since. It was also at that time that I knew that I
would make my career as soloist and chamber musician rather than in a full
orchestra.
QN:
And how did you make the connection with the Prince George’s
Philharmonic?
MA: The Imani Winds were playing in the Washington area a year or
so ago, and Maestro Charles Ellis was in the audience. I think he liked what he heard, and he
contacted me afterwards, and asked me to consider playing the Mozart Clarinet
Concerto with the Prince George’s Philharmonic.
I was delighted to accept the invitation! I enjoy coming to Washington – we’ve played
at the Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and other places, and we’ll be playing
at the Kennedy Center next spring.
QN: And the Mozart Concerto?
MA: I love this concerto! I hadn’t played it for a few years, so I was
happy to get reacquainted with it. I
think that every true clarinetist has this concerto deep in his/her blood and
bones, and it means more and more as one matures on the clarinet. The first and third movements are like
Mozart’s operatic conversations, and the second movement is just too beautiful
to be described.
QN: And we can hardly wait to play it
with you! Do you have any other comments
that might specially interest our audience and supporters?
MA: Well, I have to admit one rather
amusing experience I had with the Mozart concerto. I played it when I was in high school, and
entered a competition, at which I was to play it with piano rather than
orchestra. I was then playing a B-flat
clarinet, and had not yet performed on an A-clarinet. The concerto was written in A, and that was
what the pianist was playing. For a
moment before I realized what was happening, I was surprised by the dissonance,
and marveled at Mozart’s modernity – but I was happily introduced to the
A-clarinet, which I have fallen in love with.
Now I play both the B-flat and the A clarinet.
QN: A wonderful story! Thank you so much – we very much look forward
to playing this marvelous concerto with you on October 11th!
BEYOND THE BATTLE SYMPOSIUM
Bladensburg was more than a battlefield in the War of 1812. What kind of place was Bladensburg during this era? What was life like for its townspeople? How did Bladensburg's residents, white and black, native born and foreign, interact in a time of dramatic political, social and economic change? Find answers to these questions and more at the "Beyond the Battle: Bladensburg’s History in Context” symposium Saturday, October 11, 2014, 8:30am - 4:30pm at R. Lee Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park. Registration is $15 per person and includes lunch.
Register at http://pgheritage.wordpress.com/beyond-the-battle-symposium/
For more information please contact, dmcelrat@umd.edu or mike@arnoldandarnold.net
Scholars, community researchers and artists will share their work on Bladensburg in the era of the War of 1812. Panel topics and speakers include:
African Americans: Maya Davis, Mark Leone, Dennis Pogue
Archaeology: Richard Ervin, Donald Creveling, Noel Broadbent
Art and Interpretation: Peter Brice, Joanna Blake, Mark Hildebrand
Bladensburg in Detail: John Peter Thompson, Susan Pearl, Doug McElrath
Keynote Speaker: Alan Virta
A reception will immediately follow the symposium at the new exhibit, Beyond the Batttle: Bladensburg Rediscovered, in the Hornbake Library Gallery.
This event is sponsored by Prince George's Heritage, Inc. with support from the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area. Please visit our blog at http://pgheritage.wordpress.com/
Prince George's Heritage, Inc. is located at the Magruder House, 4703 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, Md. 20710
Following the symposium, the Prince George's Philharmonic will perform music of the War of 1812 era on Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 8:00pm at the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD. at 8pm. Single price tickets are $20. For more information
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