presents

JOHN BRUCE YEH, clarinet

Camille Witos, piano

East Meets West Music Arts String Ensemble, Dr. Fengshi Yang, conductor

in collaboration with the Chinese Student and Alumni Services (CSAS)

Auditorium, APS Conference Center, Argonne National Laboratory

Sunday, April 25, 1999 at 3:00 p.m.

Program
Fengshi Yang Romance l'image, Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra (1997)
Olivier Messiaen Abime des oiseaux (Abyss of the birds) for unaccompanied clarinet, from Quartet for the End of Time (1941)
J. S. Bach Suite No. 3 for Cello, BWV1009 (arranged for bass clarinet solo by John Bruce Yeh)
Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for clarinet solo (1919)
Carl Maria von Weber Concerto for Clarinet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 74
George Bizet Seguidilla from Carmen (arranged by Richard Stolzman)
George Gershwin Summertime from Porgy and Bess (arranged by Richard Stolzman)

  • About the Artist

    • John Bruce Yeh, a native of Los Angeles, has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1977. He currently is the orchestra's Assistant Principal Clarinetist. Yeh is also the Director of the chamber ensemble Chicago Pro Musica, which he organized in 1979, and a founding member of the Chicago Symphony Winds.

    John Bruce Yeh performs as soloist with orchestras throughout America and Europe, most recently with the Taipei Symphony and the Haddonfield (NJ) Philharmonic. In April 1998, he gave the American premiere of the Elliott Carter Clarinet Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Yeh has performed several times with the Guarneri String Quartet, the Ying Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Alexander Schneider and Friends. Among his many recordings are two works written for him by Easly Blackwood. Other recordings include works by Stravinsky, Bernstein, Morton Gould, Victor Babin, and Artie Shaw.

    Mr. Yeh was a prizewinner at the 1982 Munich International Music Competition and the 1985 Naumburg Clarinet Competition in New York. As a member of Chicgo Pro Musica, Mr. Yeh was honored with the Grammy in 1986 for the “Best New Classical Artist” from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

    The son of music-loving scientists, Mr. Yeh pursued premedical studies at UCLA prior to entering the Juilliard School of Music in New York in 1975. He was a 1976 Fromm Fellow at Tanglewood, where he studied with Harold Wright of the Boston Symphony, and received the Benjamin H. Delson Memorial Award as Outstanding Instrumentalist.

  • Location

    • The concert will be presented in the Auditorium of the APS Conference Center (Bldg. 402) at Argonne. It is open to the public; no special permit is required to enter the laboratory site.

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  • Tickets

    • Admission to the concert is $15. Tickets can be ordered by phone (630-252-3751; VISA and MasterCard accepted) or by mail (use the ticket request form).

    Remaining tickets will be sold in the lobby of the Argonne Cafeteria (Bldg. 213) during the week of April 19 between noon and 1:00 p.m. The Auditorium Box Office will be open on the day of the performance at 2:30 p.m.

  • Reception

    • The audience is invited to join the artist at a reception following the performance.

  • Chinese Student and Alumni Services (CSAS)

    • This concert is a benefit concert for the CSAS. Since its inception more than 30 years ago, the CSAS Concert Series has brought many noted Chinese/Chinese-American musicians to perform in the Chicago area. For more information, contact the CSAS at P.O. Box 809, Chicago, IL 60690.