"GREATEST HITS"
INTERACTIVE CONTENT

As part of our commitment to arts education, we are once again offering additional content for today's concert. Rather than asking you to keep your phones turned off and out of sight, you can use your device to participate and learn more about the music in real-time.

While you're waiting for the concert to begin, read more about the history of brass instruments below. Later, you'll follow along with live program notes as the music happens, and even test your trivia knowledge.

Flip through the program book to view the welcome letter from our president, a bio for our host Warren Gerds, personnel roster, acknowledgement of our generous season sponsors, and more!

Don't forget to silence your cell phones and refrain from texting, audio/video recording, or flash photography during the performance.

FIRST HALF

BRASS EVOLUTION
Olympic Fanfare & Theme

Today's performance features brass instruments commonly found in the modern symphony orchestra. These include trumpets, horns, trombones, and tuba.

TRUMPET
The origin of the trumpet can be traced back thousands of years. The earliest instruments were made of wood, metal, and even bone! These simple tubes had a limited number of notes or pitches that could be played. Keys were added in the late 18th century, allowing the trumpeter to play a full chromatic scale. In 1818, valves were added, and the modern trumpet was born.

HORN
Like the trumpet, the horn traces its roots back to instruments used to signal across great distances. While the trumpet's roots are largely military, the horn was often used in hunting. In the 1700s, horn players began using different lengths of tubing – called crooks – to adjust the pitch of the instrument. Horns developed a technique called stopping before the invention of valves to change the pitch of a note by placing their hand fully inside the horn's bell. You'll hear some of this in the Mahler later in today's concert.

TROMBONE
The sackbut is the oldest relative of the modern trombone, dating back to the Renaissance. The sackbut's adjustable slide allowed players to play many more pitches than the trumpets and horns of the day, which led to it being the first brass instrument considered "musical." Some modern trombones have additional tubing activated with valves that extend the lower range of the instrument and make certain technical passages easier.

TUBA
The tuba traces its origins to the Renaissance with the serpent, an instrument which used a brass mouthpiece but had openings along the body of the instrument like a bassoon. More recently, the ophicleide was inspired by the invention of the keyed trumpet and looks a little like a big saxophone. The modern bass tuba was patented in 1835 using similar construction techniques as the other brass instruments. One rarely seen relative in the tuba family is the cimbasso, which looks like a mash-up of a tuba and a bass trombone.

LIVE PROGRAM NOTES
Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro

Learn more about the music by following along with our real-time program notes. Start the video below when our conductor Seong-Kyung Graham begins the piece. Go full screen to make it a little easier to read on your device. Note: there may be a delay in the video feed. After all, it does have to go to space and back! (Alternatively, you can view the Mozart notes as a PDF, but you'll need to turn the pages yourself.)

TRIVIA
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5

Start this section when the orchestra plays the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Test your knowledge about the composer and learn a few interesting facts along the way. If your first guess is incorrect, choose another answer until you find the right one.

INTERMISSION

Let's all go to the lobby! Let's all go to the lobby! (Remember that old tune?)

Get up. Stretch. Use the facilities. Visit the lobby to purchase concessions from friendly fundraising committee members. All funds raised at this afternoon's concert will help support music purchases and rentals.

The Civic Symphony of Green Bay will be back after this short break (approximately 15 minutes).

ANOTHER LOOK
Season Photos

Back to your seat early? Swipe through a few photos looking back at our 29th season. Some of us are photogenic.

SECOND HALF

MUSICIAN POV CAMERA
Dvořák's New World Symphony

Ever wonder what the musicians are looking at on stage? (Other than their music, of course!) Enjoy this POV (point-of-view) camera angle of Seong conducting the second movement of Dvořák's New World Symphony. You'll get to see how she directs the orchestra, not just with her beat patterns, but also with the emotions on her face. (There is no audio.)

WATCH & OBSERVE
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4

There are plenty of interesting tidbits about Tchaikovsky and his symphonies, but for this selection, we're asking you to watch the musicians on stage. The strings play the entire scherzo movement without bows, and instead pluck the strings with their fingers. The woodwinds have a very challenging melody in the trio section. The brass got off easy on this one, but they did have their hands full with the John Williams piece earlier and the Mahler coming up next!

piz·zi·ca·to
/ˌpitsəˈkädō/

adverb (often as a direction) plucking the strings of a violin or other stringed instrument with one's finger.
adjective performed pizzicato. "an inspired pizzicato movement by the Civic Symphony of Green Bay"
noun the technique of playing pizzicato.

LIVE PROGRAM NOTES
Mahler's Symphony No. 1

Start the video below when Seong begins the fourth movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 1. Go full screen to make it a little easier to read on your device. Note: there may be a delay in the video feed. After all, it does have to go to space and back! (Alternatively, you can view the Mahler notes as a PDF, but you'll need to turn the pages yourself.)

SPECIAL THANKS
Let us know what you thought

Thank you for participating in our little experiment. We hope you learned something new and enjoyed the experience. Let us know what you liked (or didn't) in our concert survey, and send us your thoughts and ideas for future concerts. Visit gbcivic.org/survey or scan the QR code in your program.

We hope to see you at our wine fundraiser next month or at our airport concert in June. Visit gbcivic.org/events for details. Stay in touch with the Civic Symphony of Green Bay by signing up for our email newsletter and following us on social media.