Miyumi Miyata, sho
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Muziekcentrum Vredenburg
Utrecht, Netherlands
January 20, 2000

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Alexander Veprik Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 5 (1924); Neal Stulberg, piano

Alexander Veprik "Trauergesang" Op. 20, No. 2 (1933); Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Herford, Germany; Neal Stulberg, conductor)

A. Veprik "Trauergesang" Op. 20, No. 2 (1933); Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie; Neal Stulberg, cond.

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Saminsky "Stilled Pageant" (Poems for Orchestra) Op. 48  I. ("Ozymandias"

Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Three Places in New England I. The "St. Gaudens" at Boston Common (1911-1914)
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
November 18, 2010
Schoenberg Hall; UCLA

Ives included the following poem (which he composed himself) with the score:

Moving,-Marching-Faces of Souls!
Marked with generations of pain,
Part-freers of a Destiny,
Slowly, restlessly-swaying us on with you
Towards other Freedom . . .

You images of a Divine Law
Carved in the shadow of a saddened heart--
Never light abandoned-- 
Of an age and of a nation.

Above and beyond that compelling mass 
Rises the drum beat of the common-heart 
In the silence of a strange and 
Sounding afterglow 
Moving,-Marching-Faces of Souls!

Charles Ives Three Places in New England I. The "St. Gaudens" at Boston Common (1911-1914)

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
"A Survivor from Warsaw" (1947)
Neal Stulberg, narrator
UCLA University Chorus
UCLA Philharmonia
James Conlon, conductor
May 27, 2010
Royce Hall; UCLA

A Survivor from Warsaw op. 46
Text by Arnold Schönberg

I cannot remember everything.
I must have been unconscious most of the time. 
I remember only the grandiose moment 
when they all started to sing as if prearranged, 
the old prayer they had neglected for so many years 
the forgotten creed! 

But I have no recollection how I got underground 
to live in the sewers of Warsaw for so long a time. 

The day began as usual: Reveille when it still was dark. 
Get out! Whether you slept or whether worries kept you awake the whole night.  You had been separated from your children, from your wife, from your parents; you dont know what happened to them how could you sleep? 

The trumpets again
Get out! The sergeant will be furious! 
They came out; some very slow: the old ones, the sick ones; 
some with nervous agility. 
They fear the sergeant. They hurry as much as they can. 

In vain! Much too much noise; much too much commotion and not fast enough! 

The Feldwebel shouts: »Achtung! Stilljestanden! Na wirds mal? Oder soll ich mit dem Jewehrkolben nachhelfen? Na jutt; wenn ihrs durchaus haben wollt!«

("Stand at attention! Hurry up! Or do you want to feel the butt of my gun? Okay, you've asked for it!")

The sergeant and his subordinates hit everybody: 
young or old, quiet or nervous, guilty or innocent. 
It was painful to hear them groaning and moaning. 

I heard it though I had been hit very hard, 
so hard that I could not help falling down. 
We all on the ground who could not stand up were then beaten over the head. 

I must have been unconscious. The next thing I knew was a soldier saying: 
"They are all dead."
Whereupon the sergeant ordered to do away with us. 
There I lay aside half-conscious. 
It had become very still fear and pain. 

Then I heard the sergeant shouting: »Abzählen!« ("Number off!")

They started slowly and irregularly: one, two, three, four 
»Achtung!« ("Stand at attention!") the sergeant shouted again, 
»Rascher! Nochmal von vorn anfangen! 

In einer Minute will ich wissen, 
wieviele ich zur Gaskammer abliefere! 
Abzählen!»

("Quicker! Start again! In one minute I want to know how many I'm going to deliver to the gas chamber. Number off!")

They began again, first slowly: one, two, three, four, 
became faster and faster, so fast 
that it finally sounded like a stampede of wild horses, 
and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, 
they began singing the Sema Yisroel.

[Shema Yisroel - Prayer]

UCLA Phil 5.27.10; UCLA University Chorus, Chamber Singers, James Conlon, conductor; Neal Stulberg, narrator; Royce Hall

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) "A Survivor from Warsaw" (1947)

Ives Three Places in New England III.  The Housatonic at Stockbridge
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
November 19, 2010
Schoenberg Hall; UCLA

Ives Three Places in New England: III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Ives Three Places in New England II.  Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
November 19, 2010
Schoenberg Hall; UCLA

Ives wrote the following program notes to this movement:

Near Redding Center, Conn., is a small park preserved as a Revolutionary Memorial; for here General Israel Putnam's soldiers had their winter quarters in 1778-1779. Low rows of stone camp fireplaces still remain to stir a child's imagination. The hardships which the soldiers endured, and the agitation, of a few hot-heads, to break camp and march to the Hartford Assembly for relief, is part of Redding history.

Once upon a "4th of July," some time ago, so the story goes, a child went here on a picnic, held under the auspices of the first Church and the Village Cornet Band. Wandering away from the rest of the children past the camp ground into the woods, he hopes to catch a glimpse of some of the old soldiers. As he rests on the hillside of laurels and hickories the tunes of the band and the songs of the children grow fainter and fainter; -- when-"mirabile dictu" -- over the trees on the crest of the hill he sees a tall woman standing. She reminds him of a picture he has of the Goddess Liberty, -- but the face is sorrowful -- she is pleading with the soldiers not to forget their "cause" and the great sacrifices they have made for it. But they march out of camp with fife and drum to a popular tune of the day. Suddenly, a new national note is heard. Putnam is coming over the hills from the center -- the soldiers turn back and cheer. The little boy awakes, he hears the children's songs and runs down past the monument to "listen to the band" and join in the games and dances.

Ives Three Places in New England II. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut

Ives Three Places in New England III.  The Housatonic at Stockbridge
UCLA Philharmonia
Neal Stulberg, conductor
November 19, 2010
Schoenberg Hall; UCLA

Ives included the following poem (excerpted from Robert Underwood Johnson) in the score:

"Contented river! In thy dreamy realm--
The cloudy willow and the plumy elm:"...
...Thou hast grown human laboring with men 
At wheel and spindle; sorrow thou dost ken;...
Thou beautiful! From every dreamy hill 
What eye but wanders with thee at thy will, 
Imagining thy silver course unseen 
Convoyed by two attendant streams of green...
Contented river! And yet over-shy 
To mask thy beauty from the eager eye; 
Hast thou a thought to hide from field and town? 
In some deep current of the sunlit brown 
Art thou disquieted--still uncontent 
With praise from thy Homeric bard, who lent 
The world the placidness thou gavest him? 
Thee Bryant loved when life was at it's brim;...
...Ah! There's a sensitive ripple, and the swift 
Red leaves--September's firstlings--faster adrift;..
...Wouldst thou away!...
...I also of much resting have a fear; 
Let me thy companion be 
By fall and shallow to the Adventureous sea!

stulberg

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