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Symphony Orchestra. Welcome to the opening concert of our 2018/2019 Season, Symphonic Journey. The Manassas Symphony Orchestra (MSO) opens its twenty-sixth concert season with music from Rossini and Tchaikovsky. Plus, we are pleased to welcome the wonderful Marcolivia Duo, violist Olivia Hajioff and violinist Marc Ramirez, to play the delightful Double Concerto in E minor, op. 88 by German Romantic composer Max Bruch. www.NOVEC.com The mission of the MSO is to enrich, educate, and entertain you, our audience, and the members of the orchestra in the finest classical symphonic music. I, like some of you, grew up without the experience of live symphonic music. While I still have much to learn about classical symphonic orchestra music, I greatly enjoy every concert. If you share my experience or you have experienced classical music all of your life, I hope you leave here tonight amazed at the artistry of the musicians and wanting to hear more classical symphonic music.

All the musicians that you see in front of you volunteer their time and musical talent to make the MSO a success. Travelling from all around the region, the mission and music of the MSO is a labor of love for all of them. We hope, as you leave through the beautiful Hylton Center Didlake Grand Foyer, that you will have an opportunity to greet our talented musicians and guest artists and thank them for their dedication in bringing you this wonderful concert.

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James Villani has been the conductor and music director of the Symphony since 2004. As a long-time strong advocate for continuing adult music education and volunteerism in the arts, Mr. Villani has been involved in community musical organizations since coming to Northern Virginia in 1986. He was associate conductor and clarinetist for the Reston Chamber Orchestra for 10 years, and has been involved with countless other area performances. He is an active judge and clinician for local music festivals and competitions. He is a member of the League of American Orchestras and the Conductors Guild. Mr. Villani was a semi-finalist for The American Prize for Brobst Community Orchestra Conductors in 2010. Violin Shop A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Mr. Villani began playing clarinet in school at the age of 8. He honed his skills, as many in town did, in the back room of Al Colella’s Fine Violins, Violas, Cellos, Basses and Bows Shoe Store, where Mr. Colella taught a steady stream of clarinetists for decades while servicing the occasional shoe customer. Later, while in high school, Mr. Villani studied with Carl Marks, a noted faculty member at Duquesne University and Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music. Mr. Marks was himself a student of the legendary Daniel Bonade.

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MANASSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Saturday, October 27, 2018 · 7:30 p.m. Merchant Hall of the Hylton Performing Arts Center James Villani · Music Director Marcolivia Duo Olivia Hajioff · Viola | Marc Ramirez · Violin

Overture to William Tell...... Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana...... Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)

Concerto for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra in E minor, op. 88 ��Max Bruch (1838-1920) Andante con moto Allegro moderato Allegro molto

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Suite No. 1 for Orchestra in D minor, op. 43 �� Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Introduzione e fuga. Andante sostenuto—Moderato e con anima Divertimento. Allegro moderato Intermezzo. Andantino semplice Marche miniature. Moderato con moto Scherzo. Allegro con moto Gavotte. Allegro

This performance is copyright © 2018 Manassas Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Audio or video recording without expressed consent from the Manassas Symphony Orchestra is prohibited. Please refrain from flash photography during the performance. Please turn of all electronic devices. No food, drink or gum is allowed in Merchant Hall. Patrons will be seated during appropriate pauses in the music.

2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 5 GUEST ARTISTS MARCOLIVIA

Marcolivia is an award-winning violin and violin/viola duo who performs music from all styles and periods, including Folk Music and Salon/Virtuoso works and their own arrangements. Concerts of Baroque music and works by 20th century composers are also offered, as well as humorous and dazzling “showpieces” for family concerts.

The Marcolivia Duo has been featured many times on NPR’s “Performance Today” and “Front Row Washington.” They have been regular guest artists at the Tokyo College of Music, Japan, and have performed for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC, for the Hungarian American Coalition at the Cosmos Club, and annually at the Phillips Collection (where they are included on several CDs of Series Highlights and Distinguished Performers), also the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Cleveland Museum Of Art, Merkin Hall and Symphony Space, NYC.

In 2011, Marcolivia was invited to be founding members of the Phillips Camerata, based at the Phillips Collection and the National Gallery, Washington DC. and performing annually at the two venues.

The duo also performs double concertos regularly with most of the DC area orchestras as well as several in California’s Bay Area. In 2015, Marcolivia was invited to perform at the National Gallery with the St. Petersburg State Orchestra of Russia and the National Gallery Orchestra.

Marcolivia performed at Chamber Music America’s 25th Anniversary Concert in NYC, alongside groups such as the Juilliard Quartet and were the only chamber music finalists in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 2000. The duo is on the roster of the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center and the Virginia Commission for the Arts Touring Roster.

Marcolivia is also on the roster of Washington Performing Arts. They regularly perform, coach and adjudicate for WPA events. The duo also transcribes works for their own performances, including Mozart’s Magic Flute, among others.

During the summers, Marcolivia has performed and taught abroad at festivals including Adriatic Music Festival (Italy), International Festival of Deia (Mallorca), Costa Rica Music Festival, and Dartingon International Festival (UK). US festivals have included Garth Newel Music Center, Blue Mountain (PA), Las Vegas Music Festival, Middlebury Festival (VT), Shenandoah Performs and the Heifetz Institute. Marc and Olivia teach privately in Vienna, VA.

6 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON Olivia Hajioff and Marc Ramirez enjoy successful individual solo and chamber music careers: Ms. Hajioff, a Fulbright scholar, received a BBC Young Musician of the Year Award and was also a prize winner in the European Violin competition. In her native England she has performed chamber music at the Dartington International Festival with David Owen Norris and Stephen Kovacevich. She has also performed with Edgar Meyer, Awadagin Pratt and Led Zeppelin. She has concertized throughout Europe and the U.S. notably in London’s Wigmore Hall, the South Bank, Cheltenham Festival, Paderewski Hall in Switzerland, and the Kennedy Center. Arnold Steinhardt (Guarneri Quartet) described her as a “compelling performance.”

Mr. Ramirez has concertized throughout Europe and North America, performing at such halls as the Tretyakov Museum in Moscow, Carnegie Recital Hall, and the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, with chamber musicians including Wendy Warner and Christopher Shih. His recitals have been broadcast on many radio stations, including those in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Among his awards are First Prizes in the Henryk Szeryng Competition, the Parisot-Friedman International Competition, and the Cavallaro International Competition for a two-year Fellowship to Yale University. From 1983-1986, he was invited by Henryk Szeryng to study and tour with him, visiting many European cities. The Washington Post has described his playing as “intensely beautiful.”

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illiam Tell, composed for Paris in 1829, was one of the very first grand operas, lavish large-scale productions featuring a pair of star-crossed lovers whose fates are intertwined with historical events, in this case the Swiss struggle for independence in the 14th century. It is the last and most imposing of Rossini’s thirty-nine operas. The conventions of grand opera were still becoming established and William Tell violates what would later be a cardinal rule: it has a happy ending, with the lovers united and the Swiss rejoicing in their freedom. On the other hand, it did make full use of the resources Paris had to offer, with great choral scenes and splendid orchestral writing throughout. The overture is a brilliant showpiece that instantly became a favorite.

The legend of the archer William Tell had been treated in operas before, in Paris notably in 1791 by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. Grétry’s overture is a pantomime in short episodes, beginning with the protagonist’s son playing on his pipe a type of cowherd’s song called a ranz des vaches, the solo in the orchestra being given to the clarinet. Instead of writing a conventional overture, Rossini follows Grétry’s lead; while his overture is not staged, it consists of four linked pictorial episodes, none more than three minutes long.

Given the large orchestra at his disposal, Rossini shows amazing restraint: the opening section, depicting an Alpine sunrise, begins with a solo cello, which is joined by four other cellos, the double basses, and the timpani, and for three minutes they have the show to themselves. Then the mood changes, and the other instruments enter softly, a few at a time, as a storm builds up. Rossini never passed up the chance to compose a storm scene, and this may be his best; he finally brings the entire orchestra together when the tempest breaks. The storm passes quickly, and we hear a cowherd play a ranz des vaches. In 1791 the clarinet was still making the move from the military band into the orchestra and was a suitable choice to imitate a folk instrument. By 1829 the clarinet had developed enormously in construction and technique, and Rossini found a different solo instrument more suited to the role: the English horn, in a duet with the flute. (Like the other Swiss folk melodies used in the opera, Rossini found the tune in a book.) This section is so iconic that it has been quoted countless times in other contexts, particularly in animated cartoons. It leads to the conclusion, which is even more iconic and familiar: a fanfare in the brass leading into a quick-time march as the Swiss charge into battle and victory.

William Tell particularly caught the ear of a young composer who was attending operas in Paris frequently in order to sit near the orchestra and study the way composers used it. He would not only apply the lessons he was learning in his own work but would quite literally write the book on orchestration. He expressed deep

8 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON admiration for William Tell, and paid its overture the supreme compliment in his own first masterpiece, which would create a sensation at its first performance the following year. His name, as you may have deduced, was Hector Berlioz, and the ranz des vaches played by the English horn in the third movement of his Symphonie fantastique is an homage to Rossini.

ike Amilcare Ponchielli, Arrigo Boito, Alfredo Catalani, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, and Umberto Giordano, Pietro Mascagni was a talented Italian musician who is remembered today as a composer primarily for one opera. (Opera buffs should have no trouble naming the one famous opera by each but thinking of a second one can be challenging.) It was their bad luck to have been born in the middle third of the nineteenth century, making them contemporaries of Puccini, and no one was going to do well in competition with him. Mind you, this was not Puccini’s fault; having roomed with Mascagni in their student years, he recommended, fruitlessly, that his publisher Ricordi publish Cavalleria rusticana in advance of its first performance—advice they would regret not taking for decades. Mascagni had written the work for a competition for one-act operas sponsored by Ricordi’s arch- rival, the firm of Sonzogno, and when Ricordi showed no interest in it he entered and won Sonzogno’s competition and published it with them. From its first performance in 1890 the opera was a hit, entering the repertory world-wide, making the 27-year- old composer famous, and making a fortune for Sonzogno. Mascagni would have a long career without ever duplicating his initial success.

Cavalleria rusticana is set on Easter Sunday in front of the church in a village in Sicily. During the Easter Mass two men and two women who are in a romantic entanglement encounter each other and quarrel, with the two men deciding to fight a duel; they go offstage and soon we hear the laments when one of them is killed. The Intermezzo comes between the two scenes of the opera, momentarily breaking the tension. The Mass has just ended; we hear the Regina coeli melody from the service in a setting for a reduced orchestra of upper woodwinds, harp, and strings.

erman Romantic composer Max Bruch is best remembered for his works for solo instrument and orchestra, notably the first of his concertos for violin and the Scottish Fantasy for that instrument and the Kol Nidrei for cello. His style, modeled on that of Mendelssohn and Schumann, changed little over the years; though he retained his gift of melody, by 1890 he was so out of step with the times that his new works aroused little interest. This beautifully lyrical double concerto, composed in 1911 for clarinet and viola, has been infrequently performed.

An oddity of this concerto is that each movement is faster than the preceding one and requires a larger orchestra, though even the last movement does not ask for as large a group as Rossini called for in 1829. The viola opens the concerto with a short cadenza punctuated by chords in the string section; the violin answers and the movement unfolds largely as a series of lightly accompanied duets, with a few

2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 9 PROGRAM NOTES CONTINUED orchestral passages for framing. The break between the quiet ending of the first movement and the quiet bassoon solo that begins the second is barely noticeable. The pace is a bit faster, and the middle section is slightly more active. A fanfare opens the finale, which has a full complement of trumpets and horns, and which gives the orchestra more to say. It is much the quickest part of the piece and brings the concerto to an end with an energy reminiscent of Schumann.

fter the great Fourth Symphony of 1877–78, Tchaikovsky delayed writing a Fifth Symphony for a decade. He composed a great deal in that time, completing an important orchestral work about once a year: the unnumbered Manfred symphony, the violin concerto, the second piano concerto, the serenade for string orchestra, Capriccio italien, 1812, and four suites for orchestra. This suite, which occupied the composer on and off for a year starting in late summer 1878, was the first of these works. Tchaikovsky modeled it on a Baroque suite with several dance movements and calling for an orchestra with no heavy brass. After sending the first version of the work to his publisher Tchaikovsky realized that its five movements were all in duple time—a strange oversight for one of the great waltz composers!— and added the Divertimento to provide contrast. He asked the publisher to omit the Marche miniature, but the publisher very sensibly talked him out of it, and the suite was published and performed in six movements.

A Baroque orchestral suite typically begins with a French overture, consisting of a slow, marchlike opening section leading to a fugal section in quicker tempo. Tchaikovsky’s opening prelude and fugue has the same general idea, but the material is very different. Beginning softly with a melody in the bassoons and rustlings in the muted strings, the introduction at first has a pastoral flavor, but becomes more agitated as it proceeds. The subject of the D minor fugue has a quirky rhythm that suggests that it might once have had words, though there is no clue as to what they might have been. It is worked out using all the expected devices; while Tchaikovsky frequently writes contrapuntal passages in his orchestral works, this movement gives him a chance to demonstrate his skill at greater length. At the end the fugue subject fades away, though we will hear it again later.

The second movement, the Divertimento, begins with a long clarinet solo; only when the strings come in to accompany it does its waltzlike character become fully apparent. It unfolds as a string of waltzes, returning to the first ones after a middle section.

Though called Intermezzo, the third movement is the slow movement and the most serious part of the suite. It begins with a beautiful, sad Russian melody and builds up to a passionate climax later on.

10 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON The Marche miniature is a gem that might have been intended for The Nutcracker (still a dozen years in the future). Tchaikovsky indicates that its inclusion is optional, but it is hard to imagine anyone’s performing the piece without it; it is the most familiar excerpt from the suite.

As one would expect, the Scherzo has an energetic main section that returns after a contrasting section in the middle.

The last movement is a Gavotte, a moderately quick Baroque dance with a cheerful character. As with the preceding movement, there is a middle section followed by a return of the main section. As the return comes to an end, Tchaikovsky picks up the pace and brings back the fugue subject from the first movement, now in D major, to provide a more satisfying ending.

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Contact Us: www.lli-manassas.org [email protected] LLI Lifelong Learning Institute Do You Have Manassas A Business? "Learn as if you were to live forever" ~Mahatma Gandhi We want to give our local businesses the Want to enhance your opportunity to partner with us and be a knowledge? part of the concert experience.

Meet new people with Advertising in our concert program allows similar interests? us to continue to present quality concerts for LLI may be for YOU... everyone. It also reminds our patrons that you generously support the arts along with We are a community of providing quality goods and services. adults, 50+, that participate in social & educational Please contact us for more information opportunities. on advertising in our concert program Lectures, forums, clubs, trips, & more. Classes are held in the Manassas area. 300+ members. Annual Membership $125.

Contact Us: www.lli-manassas.org (703) 853-0749 • [email protected] [email protected] 2015 American Prize Winner - Orchestral Performance, Community Division

James Villani Music Director

OUR 2018-2019 SEASON

Symphonic Journey Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.

All Creatures Great and Small Saturday, December 8, 2018 at 3:30 p.m

Tesoros hispanos Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m

Beethoven Festival Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 7:30 p.m

Adult $20 • Senior citizen - $16 (62+) Military (Act. & Ret.) and Educators $16 - only available at the box office Subscribers (all 4 concerts): Adults $72 • Senior citizens (62+) $58 • Educators $58 (please present school ID when purchasing Educator tickets) Please be sure to request the student and children tickets with the adult subscriptions due to reserved seating. Students, children and college students are free (with student ID) available only at the box office Hylton Center Ticket Office: Tue-Sat, 10 am-6 pm hyltoncenter.org; or by Calling 888-945-2468

20 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON LOOKING TO TAKE LESSONS?

TEACHER INSTRUMENT LEVEL LOCATION CONTACT

Emil Intermediate, Violin Manassas [email protected] Cheytanov Advanced

Beginner, Alexandra Violin/Viola Intermediate, Loudoun County [email protected] DeRosa Adults Beginner, Mary Intermediate, [email protected] Piano, Violin Fredericksburg Garrahan Advanced, (540) 710 7699 Adults Pre-school, Beginner, Kristine Manassas, Gainesville/ Violin Intermediate, [email protected] Harner Bristow/Nokesville Advanced, Adults Pre-school, Beginner, Anna Henke Cello Manassas [email protected] Intermediate, Advanced Pre-school, Beginner, Katara Manassas, Centreville, violin and viola Intermediate, [email protected] Hofmann Fairfax Advanced, Adults Pre-school, Beginner, Manassas, Haymarket, Stephen [email protected] Bass Intermediate, Gainesville/Bristow/ Kelsey (571) 330 6012 Advanced, Nokesville Adults Beginner, Michael Intermediate, Violin Centreville [email protected] Munayer Advanced, Adults

Kerstenn Beginner, Violin/Viola Manassas [email protected] Rodgers Intermediate

Beginner, Andrew Trumpet Intermediate, Centreville, Fairfax [email protected] Sharrock Advanced Beginner, Manassas, Haymarket, Kendrey Violin, viola, cello, Intermediate, Gainesville/Bristow/ [email protected] Trammell bass, piano Advanced, Nokesville Adults 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 21 MSO PERSONNEL OCTOBER 2018

VIOLIN I CELLO Emil Cheytanov, Anna Henke* Concertmaster The Leslie A. Lydick Chair Heather Amico David Boyer Kristine Harner Nyree Brown Jane Hunter Alexandra Geers Ikhyeon Kim Mary Jo Grote Joan Lunsford Rochelle Kidd Robert Mill Emily Knisely Veronica Miller Leslie Lydick Burton Peretti Ed Stephenson Anne Sullivan Alexander Ramirez BASS Chris White Stephen Kelsey* Raegan Fisher VIOLIN II Elizabeth Porter Rebekah Hasbrouk* Susan M. Bardenhagen PICCOLO Dale Baseri Jennifer Bailey Nicole Caputo Betsy Hooper FLUTE Michael Munayer Claire Loerch* Chris Powell Heidi Schuller Gail Sander Melanie Waddy OBOE Alyson Wyckoff Mary Padilla* Connie Tyler VIOLA Asli Gültekin Özek* ENGLISH HORN Steve Fisher Jane Hughes Katara Hofmann Mary Padilla Kerstenn Rodgers Robert Salzberg CLARINET Katie St. Pierre Allen Howe* Steven Darling

22 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON BASSOON TIMPANI Andy Loerch* Matthew Orban Erica Hirt PERCUSSION HORN Carlos Figueiras* Avery Pettigrew* Sarah Clements Michael Cadle Scott Wolcott Sarah Howe Tim Zolandz Connie Pittman Audrey Short HARP Melanie Young TRUMPET Tim Smith PERSONNEL MANAGER Mark Wallendjack Michelle Milligan

TROMBONE MUSIC LIBRARIAN Joe Michel* Kerstenn Rodgers Chris Callier John Heggestad *Principal

2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 23 THANK YOU The Manassas Symphony Orchestra would like to thank the following for their contributions, time and efforts. Because of their support, we continue to bring quality symphonic music to you, our audience members, each season.

Allen Wayne Design Studio Hylton Performing Arts Center staff MasterPiece, LLC Manassas City Schools Payne Publishing Piedmont Music Club Prince William County Schools Prince William County Arts Council Northern Virginia Community College-Alexandria Campus Our Advertisers – please patronize them and thank them for their support Our Contributors & Sponsors – please thank them when you meet them Our Board Members and their families Our Orchestra Members and their families

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allenwayne.com | 703-321-7414 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Robert L. Marsh - President Andrew Loerch, Ph.D. Lt Col, USAF (retired) Associate Professor Prince William County Circuit Court George Mason University (retired) Kim Love J. Timothy Mauk - Vice President Administrative Specialist Principal Northern Virginia Electric DuvallWheeler, LLP Cooperative (NOVEC)

Wes Ballard - Secretary Shirley B. Rice Senior Sales Associate NOVEC Administrative Specialist (retired) Music & Arts Community Volunteer

Helen Madorma - Treasurer Rev. C. Milton Rodgers III CPA, M.T. Minister of Music and Organist Thompson Greenspon CPAs & Advisors Grace United Methodist Church

Diane Bennett Ed Stephenson, Ph.D. Owner Supervisor of the Arts Bennett Insurance Services, LLC Prince William County Public Schools

Andrea Brothers Steven Thompson Applications Specialist Elementary Music Teacher (retired) Tescan USA Manassas Park City Public Schools

Kim Golanski James Villani, Ex-Officio Director, Social Responsibility Music Director Novant Health UVA Health System Manassas Symphony

Carol Hartt ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS Coordinator of GT/AP, World Dr. Molly Lynch, Ex-Officio Languages and Fine Arts Provost, Manassas Campus Manassas City Public Schools Northern Virginia Community College

Lawrence Hughes HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS Manassas City Manager (retired) Joan Van Doren Board Member Emerita Gail Kettlewell, Ph.D Provost (retired), Manassas Campus Northern Virginia Community College Bradley T. White

2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 25 CONTRIBUTION LEVELS Conductor’s Circle “Musica est ancilla Benefactor: $1,000 - $2,999 divinitatis”: $20,000+ Associate: $500 - $999 Grand Patron: $10,000 – $19,999 Contributor: $300 - $499 Sustaining Patron: $5,000 – $9,999 Supporter: $100 - $299 Patron: $3,000-$4,999 Friend: $25 - $99

I WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THE MANASSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA!

❏ Please accept my contribution for $______.

PAYMENT INFORMATION: ❏ Check enclosed (payable to Manassas Symphony Orchestra)

Name

Address

City State Zip

Phone Email

How would you like to be acknowledged in the program?

Make checks payable to “Manassas Symphony Orchestra” and mail to 8665 Sudley Rd #107, Manassas, VA 20110, or visit our table in the lobby of the Hylton Center during intermission. Any contributions received will be included in the next program.

The Manassas Symphony Orchestra is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

26 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 2018-2019 CONTRIBUTORS

Grand Patron: $10,000 - $19,999 Supporter: $100 - $299 • Prince William County Park Authority • Edwin & Susan Powell • Diane Elmore Patterson Sustaining Patron: $5,000 - $9,999 • Mary Sherman • I.J. & Hilda M. Breeden Foundation • Mr & Mrs James E. Cole • Michael F. Ahern Patron: $3,000 - $4,999 • Dale & Ramin Baseri • Insight Wealth Management • Sam Slowinski • Robert & Kathleen Seefeldt Benefactor: $1,000 - $2,999 • Hazel Boyer • Shirley B Rice • Barbara Ondo & John Starsiak • Allen & Lisa Howe • Gail Sander • Dennis Lydick • Frank & Joan Van Doren • Joan & Richard Lunsford Associate: $500 - $999 • Richard & Wenda Travers Friend $25 - $99 • The Bain Family • Karen Nizialek • John & Ann Pucci • Helen Krupp, The Pampered Chef • Tim Mauk & Laura Caperton • Jim & Loretta Baxa

Contributor: $300 - $499 • Pat & Bob Scherago • Karla & Roger Anzzolin • Mary Jo Grote & Joe Wesdock

LESLIE A. LYDICK PRINCIPAL CELLIST CHAIR In recognition of the lifelong musical achievements of long-time MSO cellist Leslie Lydick, the Lydick family has proudly endowed Manassas Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Cellist chair in her honor.

2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON 27 NEED MUSICIANS FOR AN EVENT?

Broad Run Strings Our trio plays a variety of music including light classics, traditional, folk, pop, and fiddling tunes. Broad Run Strings has been playing together since 2003. Available for weddings, corporate events, parties, luncheons, dinners and other events.

Chris White • [email protected] • 703-327-1144

Kings Park German Band A dozen or more members playing typical Oktoberfest music – waltzes, polkas, marches. Mostly play in September and October, but are available to play all year.

Bob Scherago • [email protected] • www.kingsparkband.org

Manassas String Quartet These two violins, viola and cello can enhance any wedding, corporate event or private party with hours of elegant Baroque, Classical, Romantic, contemporary, secular, sacred, folk, pop, Gypsy, Irish, Russian, Romanian, Hungarian music and selections by your special request.

Emil Cheytanov • [email protected] 571-224-4417 • www.manassasquartet.com

Potomac Winds Woodwind quintet comprising graduate students from the University Of Maryland School of Music. Classical, sacred, and Latin style music for recitals, formal concerts, educational programs, receptions, church services, weddings, and more.

[email protected] • 703-463-1349 • potomacwinds.com

28 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON SAT. NOVEMBER 17, 2018 7:00 PM

Trinity Episcopal Church Old Town Manassas 9325 West Street Manassas, VA 20110

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