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2 From the President 4 In Tempo: News of Note 6 BSO Live: Calendar of Events 7 Orchestra Roster 8 London Calling The BSO makes its debut at The Proms during summer 2018 tour
10 To Bernstein with Love MAY 4 & 6 15 NPR’s Scott Simon Joins the BSO in a Salute to Bernstein MAY 5
16 Movie with Orchestra: Raiders of the Lost Ark MAY 10–13
18 Mozart and Brahms MAY 18–20
24 Gershwin’s Piano Concerto MAY 31, JUN 1 & 2
29 Bernstein and Shostakovich JUN 7–10
33 An Evening with John Williams JUN 13 8 35 Campaign Donor Roll 41 Honor Roll 47 Board of Directors & Staff 48 Impromptu: Boram Kang, violin 4 5 ▼ ON THE COVER London's Royal Albert Hall, home of The Proms
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hank you for joining us for this performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. As the largest cultural organization in Tthe State of Maryland, we reach more than 350,000 individuals each year through our concerts and educational programs, and we are able to accomplish this because of your support.
As we approach the conclusion of our 2017–2018 Season and look towards the summer months, we have some exciting news that we are eager to share with you. This August, the BSO embarks on its first international tour in 13 years. This nine-day, four-concert tour marks the Orchestra’s first time
performing abroad with Music Director Marin QUIRIN JOHNNY Alsop and includes a debut performance at The Proms, one of the most prestigious music festivals in the world.
This is a significant achievement for our community. As one of only two professional American orchestras appearing at this year’s Proms festival, and as the only professional American orchestra featured at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland, the BSO will be representing not only the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland, but also the United States.
Our concerts at the Edinburgh Festival are especially noteworthy. The Orchestra will perform an all-Bernstein program at the Festival on August 25, the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. This tribute is particularly meaningful to Marin Alsop, who THU, JUNE 7, 8 PM MEYERHOFF counts Bernstein as one of her most important mentors. You will read further about FRI, JUNE 8, 8 PM MEYERHOFF these concerts in the pages to come. SAT, JUNE 9, 8 PM STRATHMORE SUN, JUNE 10, 3 PM MEYERHOFF In this issue of Overture, you’ll also discover some of the many activities the BSO is MARIN ALSOP, Music Director involved with in our community. As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, our JON KIMURA PARKER, piano magnificent OrchKids program has partnered with the Library of Congress in BERNSTEIN // Slava! A Political Overture Washington, D.C. for a special project, and the Baltimore Symphony Associates unveil BERNSTEIN // Symphony No. 2, "The Age st of Anxiety" their 41 Symphony Designers’ Show House, which provides important support for SHOSTAKOVICH // Symphony No. 5 our youth and education programs. in D Minor Join us for the BSO Season Finale concert. We deeply appreciate your concert attendance and your support of the BSO’s numerous The piano plays the protagonist in efforts to enrich the lives of those we serve through music and education. We hope you will Bernstein's sentimental tone poem, "The consider making a financial contribution to enable the many BSO programs and initiatives Age of Anxiety," performed by acclaimed pianist Jon Kimura Parker. Experience that help to make our region so exceptional. On behalf of our Board of Directors, musicians triumph over tragedy in Shostakovich’s and staff, thank you for your attendance and support of our great orchestra. tremendous Symphony No. 5, a work that elicited an overwhelming public response at its premiere.
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BSO OrchKids students and staff after their Coolidge Auditorium concert with BSO President Peter Kjome, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and OrchKids founding donors Rheda Becker and Bob Meyerhoff.
HITTING THE BOOKS OrchKids partners with Library of Congress for Leonard Bernstein project
s part of its 10th-anniversary celebration, the BSO’s OrchKids program partnered with the Library of Congress OrchKids getting things started at the Library of Congress with this spring for an inventive project that brings hands- a pop-up concert in the lobby. on learning to music performance and education. In January, students and staff traveled to Washington, AD.C., where they explored the Library’s Leonard Bernstein collection. After a surprise meeting with Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden, the OrchKids had a chance to pour over an abundance of items related to Bernstein including original manuscripts, letters from BSO Music Director Marin Alsop and even the maestro’s old license plates! “It’s eye opening,” said one student who has been in the program since it began in 2008. “I’m starting to get to know him as a regular person and not just a famous composer.” Using their visit and their time with Bernstein’s possessions as Left: Anne McLean, the Library’s Senior Producer for Concerts and inspiration, the students then had two months to work on an original Special Projects, examines a Bernstein manuscript with OrchKids student Keith and Band Director Jared Perry. Right: Librarian of Congress composition. They returned to the Library of Congress on April 7 Dr. Carla Hayden opens the April 7 concert in the Coolidge Auditorium. to perform their new work in a concert at the Coolidge Auditorium.
4 OAKLAND BSA presents 41st Show House
t’s that time of year —the Baltimore Symphony Associates (BSA) presents the 2018 Symphony Designers’ Show House this May and June. Every spring, Iinterior designers take over a Baltimore-area home and give it a makeover full of unique décor. In a nod to local history, this year’s home, “Oakland,” is the TEMPO former residence of Edgar Allen Poe III, the great, great, great grandnephew of the Baltimore poet. “The Show House is our largest event of the year, and this spring, we have some VENTURAMICHAEL especially exciting plans in the works,” says the BSA’s Marge Penhallegon. “We will THANK YOU, have BSYO and BSO musician performances, opportunities to meet the designers, a ‘Sip ‘n Shop’ in the boutique and an opening-day omelet breakfast with a performance ELIOT PFANSTIEHL! by students from OrchKids. In honor of OrchKids’ 10th anniversary, and of their long association with the youth concerts, Rheda Becker and Bob Meyerhoff are serving as he Strathmore Hall Foundation recently Honorary Chairs for Show House this year.” Guests may visit the boutique, Encore! announced that CEO and founder Eliot Shop and enjoy refreshments in the café, featuring The Classic Catering People. TPfanstiehl plans to retire this August. “Oakland” is open to the public May 20–June 10. Tickets are $25 in advance or Pfanstiehl became the organization’s first executive $30 at the door and may be purchased online, by phone or at local ticket outlets — director in 1983 and oversaw its expansion from please visit BSOmusic.org for further details. All ticket proceeds support the educational the 1899 colonial-style Mansion at Strathmore programs of the BSO, including mid-week concerts, open rehearsals and OrchKids. to becoming the leading arts institution in Montgomery County. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is grateful to Eliot for envisioning the building of the Orchestra’s second home on the beautiful expanse of land next to the mansion. His support in partnering with Baltimore Symphony leadership led to the 2005 opening of The Music Center at Strathmore. A founding partner at Strathmore, the BSO performs a full season of classical concerts, pops concerts and special events. The board, musicians and staff of the Baltimore Symphony thank Eliot for his vision and support, as well as his years of dedication “Oakland” to promoting and supporting the arts in Montgomery County and the State of Maryland!
WATER MUSIC BSO performs pop-up concert at National Aquarium
n Saturday, February 10, Associate Conductor Nicholas OHersh led the BSO in a special pop-up concert at the National Aquarium in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Hersh conducted the musicians through “Hornpipe” from Handel’s Water Music at the Blacktip Reef exhibit before turning the baton over to Aquarium visitors. Each guest conductor had his or her chance to experience the thrill of leading a live symphony orchestra, to the enjoyment Nicholas Hersh kicks off the concert. of visitors and sea creatures alike.
5 BSO KEY UPCOMING EVENTS JUNE /JULY 2018 EVENTS
Audra McDonald Harry Potter and MARINlive ALSOP, CONDUCTOR the Goblet of Fire™ THIERRY DE MEY // TABLE MUSIC in Concert DU YUN // TATTOOED IN SNOW DAN VISCONTI // BLACK BEND THU, JUL 12, 7:30 PM OSVALDO GOLIJOV // MARIEL FRI, JUL 13, 7:30 PM JAMES MACMILLAN // THE EXORCISM SAT, JUL 14, 3 PM OF RIO SUMPUL Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Chamber Jam Harry Potter and Grab your broom and get FRI, JUN 22, 8 PM the Goblet of Fire™ ready for the tasks ahead! Motor House—Graffiti Alley in Concert The Triwizard Tournament Featuring performances by BSO comes to Hogwarts™ in Harry musicians and local New Music Potter and the Goblet of groups including Mind on Fire. Star-Spangled Fire™ in Concert. Relive the Spectacular magic of Harry Potter™ soaring across the big screen in high- Symphonic TUE, JUL 3, 8 PM Audra McDonald definition and experience the Concert WED, JUL 4, 8 PM (Rain Date) BSO performing Patrick Doyle’s AUTUMN DE WILDE(MCDONALD) with the BSO SAT, JUN 23, 8 PM Oregon Ridge Park, Cockeysville unforgettable score live. THU, JUN 14, 8 PM Joseph Meyerhoff NICHOLAS HERSH, CONDUCTOR Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Symphony Hall Enjoy great music and jaw- BSO at Artscape MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR dropping fireworks while the Joseph Meyerhoff ANDY EINHORN, CONDUCTOR KATHERINE NEEDLEMAN, OBOE Symphony Hall AUDRA MCDONALD, VOCALIST Orchestra performs patriotic DU YUN // SLOW PORTRAITS scores and family favorites. Grammy, Emmy and six-time KEVIN PUTS // OBOE CONCERTO, Food trucks on-site serving FRI, JUL 20 Tony Award-winner Audra “MOONLIGHT” (WORLD PREMIERE, BSO COMMISSION) up great local eats. Gates 3–5 PM, lobby McDonald joins the BSO in a DAN VISCONTI // LOW COUNTRY HAZE open at 5 pm. Baltimore City Public Schools one-night-only performance JAMES MACMILLAN // WOMAN performing groups of favorites from Rodgers and OF THE APOCALYPSE Hammerstein, Bernstein and 6 PM, lobby more. The luminous soprano is Baltimore Symphony Musicians as much at home on stage as she perform Handel’s Water Music is in film and television, including Star-Spangled roles in the NBC live telecast Spectacular SAT, JUL 21 of The Sound of Music and 12– 3 PM, lobby Disney's live-action Beauty Performances by Baltimore and the Beast. City schools, BSO OrchKids & BSYO 4 PM, stage BSO New Music Festival BSO Academy Chamber Orchestra Concert CURRENTLY CLASSICAL 6 PM, stage Join Music Director Marin Alsop BSO Academy and composers including Brass Band Concert Kevin Puts and James MacMillan in a celebration SUN, JUL 22 of contemporary music. ); EMILY EAVES(FIREWORKS). 1 PM, stage BSO Academy Chamber Music Chamber Music Ensembles Concert Concert OREGON RIDGE OREGON THU, JUN 21, 8 PM Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory
CO-CURATED WITH CELLIST INBAL SEGEV RICHARD LIPPENHOLZ ( LIPPENHOLZ RICHARD
6 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org ORCHESTRA ROSTER 2017–2018 SEASON MARIN ALSOP, MUSIC DIRECTOR, HARVEY M. AND LYN P. MEYERHOFF CHAIR
Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Hersh, Associate Conductor and Artistic Director of BSYO
FIRST VIOLINS CELLOS E-FLAT CLARINET HARP Jonathan Carney ∫ Dariusz Skoraczewski † ∫ Lin Ma Sarah Fuller** Concertmaster, Principal, Joseph Acting Principal Ruth Blaustein and Rebecca BASSOONS MUSIC DIRECTOR Rosenberg Chair Meyerhoff Chair Harrison Miller KEYBOARD Wyatt Underhill † Chang Woo Lee Acting Principal Lura Johnson** Acting Associate Associate Principal Bassoon Sidney M. and Miriam Marin Alsop Concertmaster, Lachezar Kostov Julie Green Gregorian Friedberg Chair Marin Alsop is an inspiring voice who Wilhelmina Hahn Assistant Principal Assistant Principal Waidner Chair Bo Li ∫ Schuyler Jackson ORCHESTRA believes that “music has the power to Boram Kang Seth Low PERSONNEL change lives.” She is recognized for her Acting Assistant Esther Mellon CONTRABASSOON Jinny Kim innovative programming and for her Concertmaster Kristin Ostling David P. Coombs Director of Kenneth Goldstein Se-Doo Park Orchestra Personnel commitment to education and to the Wonju Kim Lukasz Szyrner HORNS Matthew Urquhart development of audiences of all ages. Gregory Kuperstein Philip Munds Assistant Personnel Her success as Music Director of the Gregory Mulligan BASSES Principal, USF&G Manager AUTUMN DE WILDE(MCDONALD) Rebecca Nichols* Robert Barney Foundation Chair Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) E. Craig Richmond Principal, Willard and Gabrielle Finck LIBRARIANS has been recognized by the extension Kevin Smith Lillian Hackerman Associate Principal Michael Ferraguto of her tenure until 2021. In Baltimore, Ellen Pendleton Troyer Chair Lisa Bergman Principal, Andrew Wasyluszko David Sheets Austin Larson Constance A. and Alsop launched OrchKids, for the Jina Lee** Associate Principal Joy Branagan** Ramon F. Getzov Chair city’s underserved youth, and the BSO Tian Zhao** Timothy Dilenschneider Raymond Kreuger Academy program for adult amateur Mark Huang TRUMPETS Associate SECOND VIOLINS Jonathan Jensen Andrew Balio musicians. She became Music Director Qing Li Eric Stahl Principal, Harvey STAGE PERSONNEL of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Principal, E. Kirkbride Drew Banzhaf** M. and Lyn P. Ennis Seibert in 2012 and becomes Chief Conductor and Ann H. Miller Chair Meyerhoff Chair Stage Manager Ivan Stefanovic † FLUTES René Hernandez Todd Price of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Associate Principal Emily Skala Assistant Principal Assistant Stage Orchestra in September 2019. Angela Lee ∫ Principal, Dr. Clyde Nathaniel Hepler Manager Alsop conducts the world’s major Assistant Principal Alvin Clapp Chair Matthew Barker Charles Lamar Audrey Wright Marcia Kämper Audio Engineer orchestras, including the Leipzig Leonid Berkovich Lauren Sileo** TROMBONES Mario Serruto Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw Leonid Briskin Aaron LaVere Electrician and the London Philharmonic orchestras. Holly Jenkins PICCOLO Principal, Alex Brown Julie Parcells Marcia Kämper & Sons Chair * On leave In 2013, she became the first female Sunjoo Park Acting Piccolo John Vance ** Guest musician conductor of the BBC’s Last Night Christina Scroggins* Performing with an of the Proms. James Umber OBOES BASS TROMBONE instrument (†) or a bow (∫) Charles Underwood Katherine Needleman Randall S. Campora on loan to the BSO from the As a protégé of Leonard Bernstein, th Principal, Robert H. and private collection of the Alsop is central to his 100 -anniversary family of Marin Alsop. VIOLAS Ryda H. Levi Chair TIMPANI celebrations, conducting Bernstein’s ∫ Lisa Steltenpohl Melissa Hooper James Wyman The musicians who perform Mass at the Ravinia Festival, where she Principal, Peggy Assistant Principal Principal for the Baltimore Symphony Meyerhoff Michael Lisicky Christopher Williams Orchestra do so under the serves as Musical Curator for 2018. Her Pearlstone Chair Assistant Principal terms of an agreement extensive discography includes a highly Noah Chaves ENGLISH HORN between the BSO and the Local 40-543, AFM. praised Dvořák cycle with the BSO. Her Associate Principal Jane Marvine PERCUSSION Karin Brown Kenneth S. Battye and Christopher Williams dedication to new music is demonstrated Assistant Principal Legg Mason Chair Principal, Lucille by her 25-year tenure as Music Director ); EMILY EAVES(FIREWORKS). Jacob Shack Schwilck Chair of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Peter Minkler CLARINETS John Locke Sharon Pineo Myer YaoGuang Zhai Brian Prechtl Music and her launching the BSO’s Delmar Stewart Principal Ford Musician Awardee New Music Festival in 2017. Jeffrey Stewart Lin Ma Alsop is the only conductor to receive OREGON RIDGE OREGON Mary Woehr Assistant Principal Jenni Seo** William Jenken the MacArthur Fellowship, and she is Director of Graduate Conducting at the Peabody Institute. She attended the Juilliard School and Yale University, Yuri Temirkanov, Music Director Emeritus Gonzalo Farias, BSO-Peabody Conducting Fellow which awarded her an Honorary
RICHARD LIPPENHOLZ ( LIPPENHOLZ RICHARD Doctorate in 2017.
MAY–JUN 2018 / OVERTURE 7 LONDON CALLING THE BSO MAKES ITS DEBUT AT THE PROMS DURING SUMMER 2018 TOUR
BY DEVON MALONEY
Royal Albert Hall
n invitation to perform at The Proms is one of performed previously in the U.K. in 2001 with concerts in the most prestigious honors a classical musician Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and London. can receive. The annual eight-week festival Appearing as the only professional American orchestra at in London is a summer-long celebration of the 2018 Edinburgh Festival, the BSO performs twice in two classical music performance that culminates consecutive nights. “This is an extraordinary moment in the in the remarkable final concert, known as the history of our great orchestra,” says BSO President and CEO Peter A“Last Night of the Proms,” which Marin Alsop famously became Kjome. “Performing at the Edinburgh International Festival is a the first female conductor to lead in 2013. significant achievement, and we are eager to represent Baltimore, This August, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has its the State of Maryland and, as the only professional American moment in the spotlight, making its debut at The Proms during orchestra, the United States on the global stage.” a nine-day, four-concert international tour. Beginning with “I’m thrilled that we’ve received this prestigious invitation two performances at the renowned Edinburgh International to perform at the Edinburgh Festival,” adds Alsop. “The time Festival in Scotland, the BSO next travels to London for The I’ve spent leading orchestras in the United Kingdom is very Proms and then closes the tour in a third city on August 29. meaningful to me, and I look forward to bringing the musicians The final stop of the tour had not yet been announced at the of the Baltimore Symphony to Edinburgh for the first time.” time that this issue of Overture went to press. This marks the BSO’s first international tour in 13 years and Marin Alsop the first-ever international tour under the leadership of Alsop. The Orchestra last performed abroad in October 2005 during a European tour to Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Austria under Music Director Emeritus Yuri Temirkanov. Alsop led the BSO on a west-coast tour of California and Oregon in 2012. The Orchestra
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USHER HALL, EDINBURGH
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON
Clockwise from left: Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland; Edinburgh skyline; Royal Albert Hall, home of the annual Proms festival; Palace of Westminster, London.
THE FIRST CONCERT in Edinburgh features pianist Jean-Yves “Touring is an important part of the performance schedule Thibaudet, who also performs with the BSO during the 2018–19 for a major orchestra like ours,” adds BSO Board Chair Barbara season, in a program of Gershwin’s Concerto in F, Stravinsky's Suite Bozzuto. “Audiences at these festivals and concert venues come from The Firebird and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. The second from all over the world, so this is a wonderful opportunity and performance, on August 25, takes place on the 100th anniversary of great honor to serve as cultural ambassadors for Maryland.” the birth of Leonard Bernstein, one of Alsop’s mentors. Orchestras Alsop and the BSO launch the tour with a celebratory and festivals around the world are paying homage to the American send-off concert on August 14 at the Joseph Meyerhoff conductor and composer by celebrating his music Symphony Hall in Baltimore. The following this year, so this performance comes at a particularly week, musicians will load their instruments noteworthy time. That concert includes Scottish into trunks and flight cases before they are violinist Nicola Benedetti performing Bernstein’s transported on cargo trucks to the airport. Serenade and features selections from his other “Audiences at these Instruments and equipment will follow the works like West Side Story and On the Town. festivals and concert musicians through the duration of the tour on “It’s very special to me that we are performing venues come from separate flights, trains and trucks. the music of Leonard Bernstein on what would have “One of the trickiest parts of traveling been his 100th birthday,” notes Alsop. “The pieces all over the world, with musical instruments is working with we’ve selected for our programs in Edinburgh and so this is a wonderful CITES regulations,” says the BSO’s Director London showcase the full spectrum of Bernstein’s opportunity and great of Operations Rebecca Cain. “CITES is multi-faceted personality.” honor to serve as the Convention on International Trade in After their second performance in Edinburgh, Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. the musicians travel by train to London on August cultural ambassadors Many instruments have endangered species 26. London’s Royal Albert Hall hosts Alsop for Maryland.” such as ivory, Pernambuco wood and rosewood. and the BSO when they perform for a crowd of Barbara Bozzuto We’ll work with experts to verify that all our over 5,000 at The Proms on August 27. After BSO Board Chair instruments are allowed to travel and then performances of Bernstein’s Slava! A Political submit the paperwork to the U.S. Fish and Overture and Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety,” with Wildlife Service. When the process is done, we’ll essentially Thibaudet, who recorded the work with Alsop and the BSO for their have a passport for every instrument we are traveling with that 2014 Naxos release, the program concludes with Shostakovich’s contains any of the endangered species.” riveting Symphony No. 5. The BSO is one of only two professional The musicians (and their instruments) return home to American orchestras performing at this year’s Proms. Baltimore on August 30 before the 2018–19 season kicks “It is an honor for the exceptional musicians of the BSO to into full gear. After a few weeks of rest, the BSO picks right perform with Music Director Marin Alsop at the Proms,” says back up with the Gala on September 15 before the new Kjome. “We look forward to representing Baltimore and Maryland season launches on September 21 with Beethoven’s “Eroica” in our great orchestra’s debut at one of the most prestigious music Symphony — the perfect selection for the Orchestra’s festivals in the world.” triumphant return to Baltimore.
MAY–JUN 2018 / OVERTURE 9 TO BERNSTEIN WITH LOVE About the Artists JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Marin Alsop Friday, May 4, 2018, 8 pm For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. Sunday, May 6, 2018, 3pm Nicola Benedetti Nicola Benedetti is one of the most
Marin Alsop, Music Director SIMON FOWLER sought-after violinists Nicola Benedetti, violin of her generation. Her ability to captivate audiences with her innate musicianship Various A Bernstein Birthday Bouquet and dynamic presence, coupled with her Luciano Berio: “For Lenny” (LB.AM.LB.M.W.IS.LB) wide appeal as a high-profile advocate for John Corigliano: “For Lenny, with love classical music, has made her one of the —and candor…” most influential classical artists of today. John Williams: “To Lenny! To Lenny!” With concerto performances at the Leonard Bernstein Serenade heart of her career, Benedetti is in Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro great demand with major orchestras Aristophanes: Allegretto and conductors across the globe. This Erixymathus: Presto 2017–2018 season, Benedetti makes Agathon: Adagio her debut with the Orchestre de Paris Socrates - Alcibiades: and collaborates with the Deutsches Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Philadelphia Nicola Benedetti Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Scottish National INTERMISSION Orchestra, Bremen Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, the Dallas Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Atlanta symphony orchestras and Prologue “Somewhere” the New World Symphony. She also Scherzo undertakes a tour of the U.K. and Mambo North America with the Orchestra Cha Cha of the Age of Enlightenment. Meeting Scene Benedetti enjoys working with the “Cool” Fugue highest level of orchestras including Rumble collaborations with the London Finale Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Three Dance Episodes from On the Town The Great Lover Displays Himself Philharmonic, National Symphony Lonely Town (Pas de deux) Orchestra, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Times Square, 1944 Theatre, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Camerata The concert will end at approximately 9:45 pm on Friday and 4:45 pm Salzburg, Czech Philharmonic, Danish on Sunday. National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Join us in the lobby of the Meyerhoff for a post-concert Friday, May 4: Symphony and the Chicago Symphony performance featuring Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival. In addition, Benedetti developed her own education and outreach initiative PRESENTING SPONSOR: titled The Benedetti Sessions that gives hundreds of aspiring young string players The appearance of violinist Nicola Benedetti is made possible through the major support of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Guest Artist Fund. the opportunity to rehearse, undertake and observe masterclasses, culminating in a performance alongside her.
10 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org 41st SYMPHONY DESIGNERS’ SHOW HOUSE
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Winner of Best Female Artist at both Institute for gifted young musicians, and Leonard Bernstein’s compositional 2012 and 2013 Classical BRIT Awards, he subsequently returned there virtually career. In 1957, West Side Story followed Benedetti records exclusively for Decca every summer until his death in 1990 to hard on the heels of Candide (1956). (Universal Music). Her most recent teach the conducting talent of the future. These two works for Broadway were recording of Shostakovich and Glazunov One of his most brilliant pupils was preceded in 1953–54 by one of his finest violin concertos has been met with critical Marin Alsop. works for the concert hall: Serenade for acclaim. Her recording Homecoming: That summer of 1988 there was a four- Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion. A Scottish Fantasy made her the first solo day mini-festival at Tanglewood featuring At its debut in Venice on September British violinist since the 1990s to enter the both Bernstein’s music and the man 12, 1954, with Isaac Stern as soloist Top 20 of the Official U.K. Albums Chart. himself on the podium. On the last day, and Bernstein himself conducting the Benedetti was appointed as a Member a remarkable tribute, A Bernstein Birthday Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, it was of the Most Excellent Order of the British Bouquet—Eight Variations on a Theme universally acclaimed by the critics Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year by Leonard Bernstein, was unveiled under and today is firmly established in the Honors, in recognition of her international the baton of Seiji Ozawa, music director contemporary concerto repertoire. music career and work with musical of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Serenade was commissioned by charities throughout the United Kingdom. the time. It was the creation of eight the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Benedetti plays the “Gariel” Stradivarius famous composers—Luciano Berio, Leon founded by Bernstein’s mentor, the (1717), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds. Kirchner, Jacob Druckman, Lukas Foss, Boston Symphony Orchestra’s revered John Corigliano, John Williams, Toru music director Serge Koussevitzky. Nicola Benedetti makes her BSO debut. Takemitsu and William Schuman—each Koussevitzky had recently died in 1951 of them composing a variation on one of and was still mourned by Bernstein, who About the Concert Bernstein’s most unforgettable themes: for the rest of his life wore “Koussy’s” the song “New York, New York” from his cuff links at every concert he conducted SELECTIONS FROM A BERNSTEIN early Broadway triumph On the Town. and kissed them for good luck before BIRTHDAY BOUQUET The styles of these variations are as going on stage. diverse as the composers themselves. However, Serenade was not a memorial Any year is a welcome time to hear Maestra Alsop has chosen her favorite to Koussevitzky; rather, Bernstein tells music by Leonard Bernstein, the most three to open this concert. The first is us, it was inspired by “a re-reading charismatic and multi-talented musician by the Italian avant-garde composer of Plato’s charming dialogue, The America has ever produced. However, Luciano Berio (1925–2003); the second Symposium.” One of Plato’s shorter and 2018 is an especially fortuitous one by John Corigliano (b. 1938), composer lighter dialogues, The Symposium takes because it is the 100th anniversary of the Pied Piper Fantasy for flute and place at a well-lubricated dinner party of Bernstein’s birth in 1918. And The Red Violin Fantasy for violin; and at the poet-dramatist Agathon’s house, its worldwide celebration will be as the third by America’s most illustrious during which Socrates, Aristophanes prodigious as was Bernstein’s personality. film composer John Williams (b. 1932). and the other guests praise the god Eros In fact, it is lasting not one year but two: And you won’t have to listen very hard and discourse on love in all its aspects. beginning with his 99th birthday on to detect another famous tune besides Bernstein wrote that “there is no literal August 25, 2017 and continuing until “New York, New York.” program” for the work, but by following that date in August 2019. The celebration the basic tone of each speaker, ranging encompasses thousands of concerts Instrumentation: Two flutes, piccolo, two from humorous to elegiac, he created and activities in scores of countries, oboes, English horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, a five-movement work of marvelous including virtually every nation in bass clarinet, alto saxophone, two bassoons, variety and momentum. He wrote North America, Europe, Asia, South contrabassoon, four horns, four trumpets, three gorgeously for an unusual ensemble, America, Australia and New Zealand, trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, consisting of string orchestra augmented as well as South Africa and several others piano, celesta and strings. by harp and a variety of percussion on the African continent. instruments, and equally skillfully for To begin the BSO’s Bernstein the violin soloist, whose virtuosity never celebration, Marin Alsop is remembering SERENADE overwhelms expressiveness. another Bernstein anniversary: his Leonard Bernstein Bernstein provided the following brief 70th birthday in 1988 held at the Born in Lawrence, MA, August 25, 1918; guideline to Serenade: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s bucolic died in New York City, NY, October 14, 1990 “I. Phaedrus; Pausanias (Lento; Tanglewood Festival in the Massachusetts Allegro). Phaedrus opens the symposium Berkshires. In 1940, Bernstein had been The mid-1950s, along with the mid- with a lyrical oration in praise of Eros, one of the first students at its Tanglewood 1940s, were the richest periods of the god of love. (Fugato, begun by
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MAY–JUN 2018 / OVERTURE 13 TO BERNSTEIN WITH LOVE
These are strange words from a musical On the Town —an expansion composer who earlier in his career had of Fancy Free’s scenario — opened on proselytized for the breaking down of Broadway. It was hailed as “the freshest artificial barriers between popular music and most engaging musical show… since and “serious” art music. In West Side Story, the golden days of Oklahoma!,” and it ran he had triumphantly proved that the two for 463 performances. (In 1949, it was can successfully fuse. Many a composer of made into a classic movie, starring Gene symphonies and concertos would give his Kelly and Frank Sinatra.) At this time, eyeteeth to be remembered as the creator of Bernstein was only in his mid-20s, and West Side Story. there seemed to be nothing he couldn’t Opening on Broadway on September 26, do—and do brilliantly. 1957, the musical updated Shakespeare’s Written in collaboration with his friends Leonard Bernstein Romeo and Juliet to contemporary New Betty Comden and Adolph Green, On York City, where prejudice and feuding the Town told a light-hearted story about teen gangs separate the Polish Tony from “‘Cool,’ Fugue (Allegretto) — An three sailors on 24-hours’ shore leave in the Puerto Rican Maria. For this timeless elaborate dance sequence in which the New York City during World War II. As love story Bernstein created music that Jets practice controlling their hostility. Comden and Green wrote, it humorously glorified every twist in the plot— from “Rumble (Molto allegro) — Climactic expressed “the poignancy of young people brash, streetwise dances to the most tender gang battle during which the two gang trying to cram a lifetime of experience of romantic ballads. leaders are killed. into a day.” The sailors start their tour As West Side Story moved on to its 1961 “Finale (Adagio) — Love music [based of Manhattan on the subway, where one movie version (which won ten Academy on Maria’s ‘I Have a Love’] developing into of them is smitten by the poster image Awards), Bernstein saw potential for a a procession, which recalls, in tragic reality, of “Miss Turnstiles,” the subway’s girl of concert version scored for symphony the vision of ‘Somewhere.’” the month. The three decide to go on a orchestra. The orchestral arrangements for search for her. “With the other two sailors the Symphonic Dances were created by Sid Instrumentation: Three flutes including picking off girls en route, On the Town Ramin and Irwin Kostel, but were closely piccolo, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, sings and dances, joshes and handsprings supervised and edited by Bernstein. This E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, its way from Central Park to the Museum work was premiered by the New York two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, of Natural History, from Carnegie Hall to Philharmonic on February 13, 1961. three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, Times Square, from a flock of night spots In the score, Bernstein associate Jack percussion, harp, piano, celesta and strings. to Coney Island.” Gottlieb has provided a brief summary Drawing on the show’s ballet music, of the Dances —which follow each other Bernstein created the concert suite we’ll without pause — and their connection to THREE DANCE EPISODES hear tonight. Its three movements blend the the West Side Story plot: FROM ON THE TOWN high-octane energy of jazz with the gift for “Prologue (Allegro moderato)— Leonard Bernstein writing slow romantic music that Bernstein The growing rivalry between two teenage would later display in West Side Story. A gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. The 13 months from November 1943 prominent trombone gives a jazz edge to “‘Somewhere’ (Adagio) — In a visionary to December 1944 were heady times for “The Great Lover Displays Himself,” as the dance sequence, the two gangs are united Leonard Bernstein. On November 14, sailor Gabey dances a dream fantasy with in friendship. 1943, he made his legendary conducting Miss Turnstiles. The moody “Lonely Town: “Scherzo (Vivace leggiero) — In the same debut with the New York Philharmonic, Pas de Deux” draws on the show’s wistful dream, they break through the city walls, stepping in with less than 24-hours notice ballad of that name, while “Times Square: and suddenly find themselves in a world to replace the ailing Bruno Walter. His 1944” is an extended fantasia on the show’s of space, air and sun. success was front-page news in The New most famous song, “New York, New York” “Mambo (Presto) — Reality again; York Times the next morning. Less than (with which this concert began). competitive dance between the gangs. two months later (January 28, 1944), his “Cha-Cha (Andantino con grazia)— First Symphony, “Jeremiah,” was premiered Instrumentation: Flute and piccolo, oboe and The star-crossed lovers see each other for by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra English horn, three clarinets including E-flat the first time and dance together [music under his baton to warm critical reviews. and bass, alto saxophone, two horns, three based on “Maria”]. On April 18, his ballet collaboration trumpets, three trombones, timpani, percussion, “Meeting Scene (Meno mosso)— with Jerome Robbins, Fancy Free, was piano and strings. Music [solo violins] accompanies their unveiled at the Metropolitan Opera first spoken words. House. And on December 28, his Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2018
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communicating her own excitement about orchestral music. Beginning 15 years ago JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL with The Bernstein Beat, a family concert Saturday, May 5, 2018, 7pm about her father’s music modeled after his own Young People’s Concerts, Jamie has gone on to design, write and narrate Marin Alsop, Music Director concerts for worldwide audiences. Jamie Scott Simon, commentator has created a series of educational concerts Featuring special guest Jamie Bernstein with the New World Symphony designed to attract audiences of all ages. Leonard Bernstein Overture to Candide Jamie travels the world as a speaker and concert narrator, appearing everywhere Three Dance Episodes from On the Town from Beijing to London to Vancouver. In The Great Lover Displays Himself Spanish-speaking locations, Jamie narrates Lonely Town (Pas de deux) Times Square, 1944 in Spanish, thanks to her Chilean-born mother, Felicia Montealegre, who raised “Mambo” from West Side Story her children to be bilingual. In her role as a broadcaster, Jamie has CBS Music produced and hosted shows in the U.S. and Great Britain. She has presented the Various A Bernstein Birthday Bouquet New York Philharmonic’s live national Luciano Berio: “For Lenny” (LB.AM.LB.M.W.IS.LB) radio broadcasts and live broadcasts John Corigliano: “For Lenny, with love from Tanglewood. —and candor…” John Williams: “To Lenny! To Lenny!” Jamie is co-director of a documentary, Crescendo: the Power of Music, which focuses on children in struggling urban communities who participate in youth orchestra programs for social The concert will end at approximately 8:15 pm. transformation inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema. The film has won numerous Join us in the lobby of the Meyerhoff for a post-concert party with live prizes and is now viewable on Netflix. entertainment, CD signing with Marin Alsop and book signing with Scott Simon. Jamie has also directed her father’s chamber opera, Trouble in Tahiti, around the country, including at Tanglewood this summer. About the Artists Morning. Simon received the Order of Jamie’s memoir, Famous Father Girl, Lincoln from the State of Illinois in 2016, will be published by HarperCollins in Marin Alsop the state’s highest honor. June 2018, when the Leonard Bernstein For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. at 100 celebrations are underway around Scott Simon last appeared with the BSO in the world. Scott Simon November 2015, narrating Philip Glass’s Icarus Jamie also writes articles and poetry, Scott Simon is one of at the Edge of Time, Marin Alsop, conductor. which have appeared in such publications
BILL O'LEARY America’s most admired as Symphony, Gourmet, Opera News and writers and broadcasters, Jamie Bernstein Musical America. She also edits “Prelude, having reported from Jamie Bernstein is Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter about issues
all over the world and J. SHERMAN a writer, narrator, and events pertaining to her father’s legacy. many wars. He is the award-winning broadcaster and host of Weekend Edition Saturday. With filmmaker who has Jamie Bernstein makes her BSO debut. over 4 million listeners, it is the most- transformed a lifetime listened-to news program on NPR. Simon of loving music into a career of sharing her About the Concert has written eight books and has one of knowledge and excitement with others. the largest personal media followings on Inspired by her father Leonard For On the Town, West Side Story and Twitter. He also hosts public television Bernstein’s lifelong impulse to share and A Bernstein Birthday Bouquet program specials and creates stories for CBS Sunday teach, Jamie has devised multiple ways of notes, please see pages 12–14.
MAY–JUN 2018 / OVERTURE 15 MOVIE WITH ORCHESTRA: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK About the Artists MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Jack Everly Thursday, May 10, 2018, 8 pm Jack Everly is the JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Principal Pops Friday, May 11, 2018, 8pm Conductor of the Saturday, May 12, 2018, 8pm TAMMARO MICHAEL Indianapolis and Sunday, May 13, 2018, 3pm Baltimore symphony orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa). He has conducted the Los Angeles PARAMOUNT PICTURES Presents Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie A LUCASFILM LTD Production Hall and appears regularly with the A STEVEN SPIELBERG Film Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center. Everly conducts over RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 90 performances in more than 22 North American cities this season. Starring HARRISON FORD As music director of the National KAREN ALLEN Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol PAUL FREEMAN Fourth on PBS, Everly proudly leads RONALD LACEY the National Symphony Orchestra JOHN RHYS-DAVIES in these patriotic celebrations on the DENHOLM ELLIOTT National Mall. These concerts attract Music by JOHN WILLIAMS hundreds of thousands of attendees, and the broadcasts reach millions of Executive Producers viewers and represent some of the GEORGE LUCAS and HOWARD KAZANJIAN highest-rated programming on PBS. Screenplay by LAWRENCE KASDAN Everly is the also music director of the Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration, Story by GEORGE LUCAS and PHILIP KAUFMAN an over-30-year tradition. He led Produced by FRANK MARSHALL the ISO in its first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration, Volume One, Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG which included three of his own orchestrations. Other recordings include In The Presence, featuring the Czech Philharmonic and Daniel Rodriguez; Sandi Patty’s Broadway Tonight's program is a presentation of the complete film Raiders of the Lost Ark with a live Stories; the soundtrack to Disney’s performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the orchestra during the end The Hunchback of Notre Dame; and credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits. Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures Of Jule Styne. “RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK” Licensed by LUCASFILM LTD and PARAMOUNT PICTURES. This program licensed by LUCASFILM LTD and PARAMOUNT PICTURES. Originally appointed by Mikhail Motion Picture, Artwork, Photos ©1981 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor MUSIC WRITTEN BY JOHN WILLIAMS of the American Ballet Theatre for BANTHA MUSIC (BMI) ALL RIGHTS ADMINISTERED BY WARNER-TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORP. (BMI) 14 years, where he served as music ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY PERMISSION. director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows that PRESENTING SPONSORS: Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times SUPPORTING SPONSOR: in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.
16 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, is a recipient of the 2015 Indiana 20172018 SEASON Historical Society Living Legends Award and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. He has been a proud resident of the Indianapolis community for over 15 years and, when not on the podium, you can find Everly at home with his family, which includes Max the wonder dog.
Jack Everly last appeared with the BSO in April 2018, conducting Vegas Nights with Frankie Moreno.
John Williams For John Williams’ bio, please see pg. 33.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Movie with Orchestra– Raiders of the Lost Ark produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/ Schwartz Agency, Inc.
Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Production Manager: Rob Stogsdill Production Coordinator: Rebekah Wood Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Technical Director: Mike Runice
Music Composed by John Williams
Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe THURSDAY, JUNE 14 | 8 PM ANDY EINHORN, conductor The score for Raiders of the Lost Ark has been AUDRA MCDONALD, vocalist adapted for live concert performance. Grammy, Emmy and six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald joins With special thanks to: Paramount Pictures, the BSO in a one-night-only performance of favorites from Rodgers and Lucasfilm Ltd, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, Hammerstein, Bernstein and more. Having starred in many Broadway John Williams, Alan Bergman, Howard Roffman, shows including A Raisin in the Sun, Ragtime and Porgy and Bess, the Chris Holm, Chip McLean, Darryl J. Franklin, luminous soprano is as much at home on stage as she is in film and Dan Butler, Pat Woods, Mark Graham and television, including roles in the NBC live telecast of The Sound of Music the musicians and staff of the Baltimore and Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast. Join us for this special evening. Symphony Orchestra.
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was principal conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Before taking up conducting, Friday, May 18, 2018, 8pm Venzago was a concert pianist at Sunday, May 20, 2018, 3pm Radiotelevisione Svizerra in Switzerland and performed throughout Europe MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE as a soloist and accompanist. Saturday, May 19, 2018, 8pm Venzago has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Mario Venzago, conductor Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Kit Armstrong, piano Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Franz Liszt Les Préludes, S. 97, Symphonic Poem No. 3 Philharmonique de Radio France, the Wolfgang Amadeus Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major Filarmonica della Scala and the NHK Mozart for Piano and Orchestra, K. 482 Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular Allegro guest conductor with internationally Andante renowned symphony orchestras such Rondo: Allegro as the Finnish Radio Symphony Kit Armstrong Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg INTERMISSION Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and prestigious Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major, op. 90 chamber orchestras including the Allegro con brio Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Orchestre Andante de Chambre de Lausanne. Poco allegretto Allegro Venzago has given concerts with the world’s most famous soloists and worked The concert will end at approximately 9:50 pm on Friday and Saturday and with directors such as Ruth Berghaus, Peter 4:50 pm on Sunday. Konwitschny and Hans Neuenfels. Several of his CDs have won international prizes such as the Grand Prix du Disque, the Diapason d’or and the Edison Award. His recordings of the operas Venusâ and Penthesilea and of all PRESENTING SPONSOR: choral works by Othmar Schoeck with The appearance of pianist Kit Armstrong is made possible through the support the MDR choir and symphony orchestra of the Hilda Perl Goodwin Young Artist Fund. received great international recognition and prestigious awards, as did his first film, My Brother the Conductor by Alberto Venzago, which was shown in cinemas About the Artists Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg, across Europe and released on DVD. The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie In the spring of 2015, the collaboration Mario Venzago, Frankfurt (now Bremen), the Graz between Venzago and the CPO label on Mario Venzago is the Opera, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the project The Other Bruckner, with all principal conductor the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the ten Bruckner symphonies, was completed. and artistic director of Basque National Orchestra in San The individual releases, acclaimed by the Bern Symphony Sebastian, the Gothenburg Symphony international critics, are available from Orchestra and artist-in- Orchestra and the Indianapolis CPO, as are the complete CD box and association at Finland’s Tapiola Sinfonietta. Symphony Orchestra. From 2000 to a documentary film. In the capacity either of principal 2003, he was artistic director of the conductor or general music director, Baltimore Summer Fest as successor Mario Venzago last appeared with the BSO Venzago has directed the Musikkollegium to Pinchas Zukermann and David in February 2016, conducting works of Gluck, Winterthur, the Theatre and Philharmonic Zinman. From 2010 to 2014, he Mozart and Schumann.
18 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Kit Armstrong Described by The
JASON ALDEN New York Times as a “brilliant pianist” who combines “musical maturity and youthful daring in his exceptional playing,” Kit Armstrong performs as a soloist with some of the world’s most famous orchestras while maintaining an active career as a recitalist and composer. This season Armstrong performs with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and continues his relationships with Mario Venzago in performances with Berner Sinfonieorchester, Zürcher Kammerorchester and Musikkollegium Winterthur. He also appears with the Konzertahusorchester Berlin, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the Aakademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Armstrong’s recitals take him to the great European recital halls including the Berlin Philharmonie, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Konzerthaus Wien, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and Wigmore Hall. A Concertgebouw recital of the works of Byrd, Sweelinck and Bull, THE WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL which are one of Armstrong’s central interests, was released by Unitel as a DVD: Bach’s Goldberg Variations and its Predecessors (Instrumental Choice, December 2017, BBC Music Magazine). 2016 saw Armstrong’s debut as an organist in Trier’s historic Konstantin- Basilika. In 2018, he performs organ recitals at the Berlin Philharmonie and the Kölner Philharmonie. As artist-in-residence at some of Europe’s most important festivals, MAY 3-JUN 10 including the Mozartfest Würzburg and the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Armstrong enjoys the freedom to design ON SALE NOW! innovative programs. In 2018, as CENTERSTAGE.ORG 410.332.0033 Preisträger-in-Residence at the Festival ASK ABOUT SAVINGS FOR GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE! Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Armstrong
MAY–JUN 2018 / OVERTURE 19 MOZART AND BRAHMS Sophisticated makes his conducting debut in Handel’s About the Concert elegance for Theodora with the NDR Chorus. This season, Alexej Gerassimez LES PRÉLUDES the discerning and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin Franz Liszt premiered Armstrong’s Concerto Born in Raiding, Hungary, October 22, 1811; gentleman. for Percussion and Orchestra. BASF died in Bayreuth, Germany, July 31, 1886 Ludwigshafen commissioned Armstrong to compose a clarinet quintet, which Franz Liszt’s career as the greatest keyboard receives its premiere by Matthias virtuoso of the 19th century began when Schorn and the Armida Quartet. he was only in his teens. By the time he’d Other commissioners include the reached his mid-30s, he had nothing left Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Volkswagen to prove as a performer and was growing Autostadt Movimentos Festival and the weary of endless tours of the musical Philharmonic Orchestra Kiel. capitals of Europe. In 1848, he decided to Armstrong’s solo albums include Liszt: settle in Weimar, the cultured German city Symphonic Scenes (“handsomely that had nurtured Goethe, and devote his demonstrates the startling rich context energies to composition. Soon, his mistress given to the Mephisto Waltz when Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein left heard after the multi-dimensional her Russian husband to join him there. Procession by Night”—Gramophone) The Weimar years (1848–61) were and Bach, Ligeti, Armstrong (“one of a prolific creative period during which the very few CDs that the world was Liszt wrote not only piano and vocal waiting for”— Kulturradio RBB), both works but also turned his radical released by Sony Classical. musical ideas loose on the orchestra. Armstrong transformed the Eglise He produced two large programmatic Sainte-Thérèse, a decommissioned symphonies, Faust and Dante, and Art Deco church in northeast France, 12 “symphonic poems,” of which Les into the home of imaginative concerts Préludes is the third and most popular. and art exhibitions. The 2017 festival A true Romantic artist, Liszt saw featured Renaud Capuçon, with literature and music as intertwined. whom Armstrong regularly plays, and A poem, a play or a novel could inspire the film director Bruno Monsaingeon. a musical work, and music could carry The 2018 festival features Alfred the emotions expressed by words to Brendel, who, along with Armstrong, deeper levels. Liszt’s symphonic poems, engages in a Conversation between however, do not tell detailed stories in Words and Music. music. All he really needed was a broad Born in 1992, Armstrong studied at emotional scenario to set his music in the Curtis Institute of Music and at the motion, and in the case of Les Préludes, Royal Academy of Music in London. there seem to have been two. At seven, he began studying science at When this music was first written universities including the University in 1848–49, it was an overture to Les of Pennsylvania and Imperial College Quatres Éléments (The Four Elements): London. He earned a master’s degree in choral settings of four poems with a pure maths at the University of Paris VI. Mediterranean maritime theme by Brendel, who has guided Armstrong as the Provençal writer Joseph Autan. By teacher and mentor since 2005, ascribes 1854, Liszt had become intrigued with to him “an understanding of the great the Nouvelles Méditations poétiques by The Shops At Kenilworth piano works that combines freshness the French Romantic poet Alphonse 824 Kenilworth Drive and subtlety, emotion and intellect.” de Lamartine. Sensing an expressive Towson, Maryland Their relationship was captured in relationship, he returned to his old 443-652-3218 the film Set the Piano Stool on Fire by overture, sheered off its choruses and Mark Kidel. reworked it to match Larmartine’s themes of love and war with pastoral interludes. www.wilkesandriley.com Kit Armstrong makes his BSO debut. Prefacing the score, he — or more likely
20 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Making Beautiful Princess Carolyne — added an explanatory paragraph that begins: “What is life but a series of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is tolled by death?” Set in one continuous 15-minute movement, Les Préludes is a striking example of music built from Liszt’s principle of “thematic transformation.” at Howard County’s Like his fellow Romantic Hector Berlioz, Premier Retirement Liszt liked to take one evocative theme, or MusicCommunity motto, and use it in many different guises Residences are 99% reserved. throughout a work. We hear this motto Be the first to join the Priority List immediately in the strings. Springing for the first that become available! upward from a dotted rhythm, it undulates moodily; answering woodwinds emphasize its three-note core. Military brass fanfares present its first transformation over rocketing strings. Cellos and violins then smooth it into a lyrically romantic strain. 9000 Fathers Legacy To this, Liszt adds a secondary theme: a Ellicott City, MD 21042 mellow rocking melody for horns. 877-203-7299 | www.MillersGrant.org The motto theme and its rocking companion move through a turbulent, bellicose episode, then a gently pastoral one featuring bright, birdlike woodwinds. Finally, both themes are spurred on to a martial pace, and the brass fanfares and rocketing strings return to fire a blazing, heroic conclusion. Experience the sounds Instrumentation: Three flutes including piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, of happiness. timpani, percussion, harp and strings. PROFESSIONAL HEARING AND BALANCE HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AGES. PIANO CONCERTO NO. 22 IN E-FLAT MAJOR Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born in Salzburg, Austria, January 27, 1756; died in Vienna, Austria, December 5, 1791
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achieve a perfect balance—a dialogue of unaccompanied, varies it; then the equals — between orchestra and soloist. woodwind band introduces the lyrical first Concerto No. 22 was premiered on episode. Notice the little stabs of painful December 23, 1785 at a special subscription dissonance near the close of the strings’ concert to open Vienna’s 1785–1786 winter presentation of the theme. season. It had been preceded by two of With the final return of this theme, Mozart’s most unconventional concertos: Mozart finally unites all his forces in a No. 20 in D Minor and No. 21 in C dramatic variation topped by keening Major. In his guide to the Mozart piano woodwinds. The movement’s closing concertos, Cuthbert Girdlestone surmises coda, introduced by the solo clarinet that with this concerto the composer and bassoon and emphasizing those may have consciously returned to a more stabbing dissonances, is a moment of popular, ingratiating style, lest he get too indescribable beauty. far ahead of his audience. With its playful, almost simple-minded Girdlestone has called this work the theme, the last movement suggests “queen” of Mozart’s piano concertos, and it is going to be just another of those it fills its sovereign length — at about 36 lightweight rondo finales that late- minutes it is one of Mozart’s longest— 18th-century audiences loved so well. with poise, graciousness and a wealth But Mozart has some surprises in store, of melodic and formal invention. Keep and the biggest is his interpolation of a an ear out for Mozart’s superb writing slower-tempo minuet interlude midway for the woodwinds, which play a crucial through the movement. This elegant wind- supporting role to the piano throughout the dominated music returns us partway to the piece. For the first time in his concertos, poignant mood of the second movement. Mozart employed his favorite clarinets It also suggests the opera Mozart had just here to replace the customary oboes. begun composing, The Marriage of Figaro. Undoubtedly, their fruity and sometimes And Mozart has yet a final surprise for the plaintive tones inspired him to new heights. concerto’s last moment: a trick ending in The leisurely and expansive first which the piano wanders off on one last movement opens with a regal flourish flight of fancy. and then unfurls a wonderful variety of different melodies. And when the Instrumentation: Flute, two clarinets, pianist enters, he hardly bothers with the two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, orchestra’s themes. Instead, he has plenty of timpani and strings. ideas of his own to introduce and develop, as well as rivers of rapid passages to show off his agility. After a short but dramatic SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR development section, the recapitulation Johannes Brahms of the opening music is treated with great Born in Hamburg, Germany, May 7, 1833; originality. Now the pianist is finally died in Vienna, Austria, April 3, 1897 willing to play the orchestra’s themes, but only on his own ingenious terms. Most of the major works of Johannes The crown of this queen of concertos is Brahms’ maturity were composed in the magnificent C-minor slow movement: summertime in beautiful rural settings a rueful meditation on life’s sorrows. overlooking tranquil lakes and alpine There is pain, but not a trace of self-pity peaks. But during the summer of 1883, here—rather a calm acceptance that his Third Symphony was written in an suffering is part of humanity’s lot. This is urban location: a lofty studio overlooking a mood we encounter often in Mozart’s the German Rhineland city of later music. With the trumpets and Wiesbaden. The urge to create this work timpani on the sidelines, he separately had come on the composer while visiting spotlights each of his instrumental Wiesbaden, where he decided to stay families. The strings alone introduce rather than lose inspiration traveling to a the poignant theme; the piano, largely vacation retreat. And there was another
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compelling reason to stay —a rich-voiced section, which also features a dark, contralto named Hermine Spies. Brahms brooding treatment of the first theme led had just met her and was captivated by solo horn. The movement’s concluding by her marvelous voice and vivacious coda begins big, but surprisingly the personality. Another of this confirmed masculine theme turns tender and lyrical bachelor’s romantic friendships ensued, for a hushed close. even though Fräulein Spies was young Brahms scholar Malcolm MacDonald enough to be the 50-year-old Brahms’ calls the second movement “one of Brahms’ daughter. He wrote many songs for her, most inspired sublimations of folksong and she became his favorite interpreter style.” Clarinets and bassoons introduce of the Alto Rhapsody. the principal melody “of simple gravity and “ THIS WAS SUBLIME And so, the summer of 1883 was a hymn-like seriousness.” But pay special MUSIC-MAKING” particularly happy one, and the Third heed to the second theme: a melancholy — THE BALTIMORE SUN Symphony, his shortest, was born with ease. duet for clarinet and bassoon emphasizing SUNDAYS @ 5:30PM Although it enjoyed a tremendous success undulating rhythms and accompanied SUBSCRIBE TODAY! at its premiere in Vienna in December of by a persistent short-long rhythm—this ZUKERMAN TRIO that year, today it is the least-often heard of music will appear again in the finale. The Works by Arensky, Kodály, Brahms’ four, although it is by no means movement’s closing coda is exceedingly Beethoven inferior. Indeed, the Third is Brahms’ most beautiful, exploiting the orchestra’s most Sep 23 refined and densely constructed symphony, diaphanous colors. PACIFICA QUARTET one in which he distills the maximum Another intermezzo-style movement, the MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, PIANO Works by Beethoven, possibilities from every motive and theme, Poco Allegretto, features one of Brahms’ Marc-André Hamelin, Schumann even bringing them back in startling new loveliest tunes. Sung first by the cellos, it is Oct 21 guises in later movements. This sturdy a bittersweet mix of romantic yearning and intellectual foundation is overlaid with regret so characteristic of this composer. IMOGEN COOPER, PIANO Works by Haydn, Thomas Adès, some of his loveliest melodies, clothed in Brahms gives it many variants with radiant Beethoven, Schubert exquisite orchestral colors. But it is easier new orchestrations. Nov 11 for conductors and orchestras to dazzle The struggle between minor and major JENNIFER KOH, VIOLIN audiences with the other symphonies than becomes fierce in the sonata-form finale, SHAI WOSNER, PIANO with this subtle creation, in which all four which mediates and resolves all that has Works by Beethoven, Vijay Iyer movements end quietly. gone before. It opens in F minor with Jan 27
The first movement opens with three a mysterious, scurrying theme, capped JOHANNES MOSER, CELLO rising chords that spell out F-A (flat)-F, a with punchy rhythms. This is followed TILL FELLNER, PIANO Works by Stravinsky, Webern, personal motto for Brahms that pervades by a solemn new version of the clarinet- Beethoven, Debussy much of the symphony. Years earlier, bassoon theme from movement two. The Mar 3 Brahms and his close friend, violinist development section tackles the first theme Joseph Joachim, had experimented with and its rhythm in moods both meditative HAGEN QUARTET JÖRG WIDMANN, CLARINET musical mottos symbolizing their bachelor and heroic. However, most of the drama is Works by Dvorˇák, Jörg Widmann, Mozart status. Joachim’s was F-A-E for “Frei aber saved for the solemn theme, its short-long Mar 24 einsam” (“Free but lonely”), and he soon rhythm now grown monumental. In the married. Brahms countered with F-A-F, closing coda, this theme is transformed yet PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, PIANO “Frei aber froh” (“Free but glad”). But now again, played very slowly in the woodwinds Works by Bach, Beethoven Apr 7 in his Third Symphony, the A has become over shimmering strings. From this an A-flat, shifting the F-major home miraculously floats the F-A-F motto and ARCANGELO 2018–19 SEASON tonality to minor. Is there perhaps a hint the work’s bold opening theme. Serenely, it JONATHAN COHEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, HARPSICHORD, ORGAN of ambiguity about his motto as Brahms ripples down through the orchestra like a JOÉLLE HARVEY, SOPRANO Works by Handel, Bach, pays court to Hermine Spies? benediction, stilling all strife. Buxtehude The F-A-F motto spawns a ruggedly May 12 masculine principal theme, striding across Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes, a big range. But soon the music becomes two clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, more subdued and, shifting to three beats, EXPLORE THE FULL SEASON! proposes a romantic waltz, led by clarinet timpani and strings. SHRIVERCONCERTS.ORG and bassoon, as the second theme. This 410.516.7164 melody is later taken up in the development Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2018
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Aspen and his debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival; and a tour with cellist MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Clemens Hagen with performances in Thursday, May 31, 2018, 8pm Philadelphia, Toronto and Montreal. JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Internationally, Gerstein works with Friday, June 1, 2018, 8pm the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in Saturday, June 2, 2018, 8pm Paris and Vienna; the Bavaria Radio Orchestra; the BBC Proms; and the Czech, Rotterdam, Stockholm and Oslo philharmonics. Marin Alsop, Music Director Gerstein’s recent engagements include Kirill Gerstein, piano performances with the Cleveland Igor Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird (1919) and Philadelphia orchestras, the New Introduction and Dance of the Firebird York and Los Angeles philharmonics, Dance of the Princesses the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Infernal Dance of King Kastchei Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Munich Berceuse and London philharmonics, Dresden Finale Staatskappelle, Finnish Radio Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich and the George Gershwin Concerto in F Ochestre National de France. He has Allegro Adagio - Andante con moto performed recitals in Vienna, Paris, Allegro agitato Prague, Hamburg, London’s Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall and at Kirill Gerstein the Liszt Academy in Budapest. European festival appearances include performances INTERMISSION at Verbier; the Salzburg, Lucerne and Edinburgh festivals; The Proms in Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C Major, op. 61 London and the Jerusalem Chamber Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo Scherzo: Allegro vivace Music Festival. Adagio espressivo He recently released Scriabin’s Piano Allegro molto vivace Concerto in F-sharp Minor with the Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko The concert will end at approximately 10 pm. (LAWO Classics) and Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. 2018 brings Gershwin’s Piano Concerto PRESENTING SPONSOR: in F and Rhapsody in Blue with the
The appearance of pianist Kirill Gerstein is made possible through the major support St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and of the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Guest Artist Fund. David Robertson for Myrios Classics, joining previous recordings for the label which include Liszt’s Transcendental Études, selected by The New Yorker as About the Artists and virtuosity. Gerstein’s energetic and one of 2016’s most notable recordings; imaginative musical personality has rapidly Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Marin Alsop taken him to the top of his profession. in the composer’s own final version For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. An American citizen based in Berlin, from 1879; Imaginary Pictures, coupling Gerstein’s career is balanced between Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition Kirill Gerstein the U.S. and Europe. Highlights of his with Schumann’s Carnaval; a recital Pianist Kirill Gerstein’s 2017–2018 season in North America disc of works by Schumann, Liszt and curiosity and versatility include debuts with the Pittsburgh Knussen; and two discs with Tabea have led to an and National symphony orchestras; Zimmerman of sonatas for viola and MARCO BORGGREVEMARCO engagement with a wide re-engagements with the Minnesota piano by Brahms, Schubert, Franck, range of repertoire and Orchestra and the Boston, Chicago Clarke and Vieuxtemps. styles. His playing is distinguished by its and Indianapolis symphony orchestras; Brought up in the former Soviet Union clarity of expression, discerning intelligence summer festival appearances at Ravinia, studying both classical and jazz piano,
24 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org at 14 Gerstein moved to the U.S., where he was the youngest student to attend Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE studied with Solomon Mikowsky in New York, Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. Gerstein won First Prize at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition in 2001. In 2002, he won a Gilmore Young Artist Award and, in 2010, both an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Gilmore Artist Award, which provided the funds for him to commission new works from Timothy Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen and Brad Mehldau. Gerstein taught at the Stuttgart Hochschule Musik from 2007 to 2017 and, beginning in the fall of 2018, will teach at the Kronberg Academy’s newly announced Sir András Schiff Performance Program for Young Artists.
Kirill Gerstein last appeared with the BSO in January 2011, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 1, Marin Alsop, conductor.
About the Concert
SUITE FROM THE FIREBIRD (1919) Igor Stravinsky Born in Oranienbaum, Russia, June 17, 1882; died in New York City, NY, April 6, 1971
Igor Stravinsky’s score for the fairy-tale ballet The Firebird, particularly in its suite adaptation, is far and away his most THE CITY IS popular work. For nearly six decades, the composer conducted it hundreds of IN YOUR POCKET. times, even though he had since moved on to more radical styles. In fact, it GoDowntownBaltimore.com became almost impossible to believe that this fearless modernist had actually once can help you find a place to eat, a place written such a lush and sensual score: to grab a drink, a place to see a show, th a grand summation of the 19 -century and a place to call your own. Russian fascination with fantastic plots and opulent instrumental colors. The Firebird’s music needed to be lush for it was written for Serge Diaghilev’s spectacular Ballets Russes, which was dazzling Paris during the seasons immediately preceding World War I. Diaghilev had a genius for assembling the greatest Russian dancers as well as scenic designers, poets and composers
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from Russia and France to create ballet More earthbound is the “Dance extravaganzas that looked as colorful as of the Princesses,” who, like Ivan, they sounded. In 1909, seeking a composer are ordinary mortals and captives of to replace Anatoli Liadov (dropped after he Kastchei. They dance a traditional failed to meet his deadline), Diaghilev had Russian khorovode or female round the happy inspiration to try the 27-year-old dance, and the Prince falls in love Stravinsky, who had hitherto worked for with the most beautiful of them. Next PLAY ON him only as an orchestrator. The Firebird comes the stunning “Infernal Dance of @PEABODYPREP was Stravinsky’s first major commission. King Kastchei.” Stravinsky’s rhythmic “Take a good look at him,” Diaghilev told vitality is on full display in this brutal SUMMER REGISTRATION NOW OPEN his leading ballerina Tamara Karsavina dance built from syncopations. Summer programs are offered during rehearsals. “He is a man on the In the nick of time, Ivan remembers for dance, guitar, harp, piano, eve of celebrity.” And indeed, when The the magic tail feather and summons strings, and voice, including Firebird premiered at the Paris Opéra on the Firebird. She forces Kastchei and Allegro Strings, Chamber Week, June 25, 1910 to tumultuous applause, his minions to dance until they drop Classical Singers Workshop and Stravinsky immediately became one of the in exhaustion. Lulling them to sleep Peabody Piano Week. hottest composers of the day. with the rocking “Berceuse” led by solo The Firebird is a beloved creature in bassoon, the Firebird tells the Prince that Russian folklore, and she corresponds to Kastchei’s soul lives in a buried egg; if he the Phoenix in classical mythology as a can crush that, he will kill the ogre and symbol of rebirth. The Russian folklorist break the spell that binds the princesses. Afasyev describes her thus: “The feathers The Prince accomplishes this and in peabody.jhu.edu/preparatory of the Firebird are effulgent with silver the majestic Finale weds his Princess. 667-208-6640 and gold…her eyes shine like crystal, Its melody, introduced by solo horn, is and she sits in a golden cage. At darkest another authentic Russian folksong. The midnight, she flies into the garden and melody spreads through the orchestra, and lights it as brightly as if with a thousand the ballet ends in a blaze of bell-tolling burning bonfires. Just one of her tail Russian splendor. feathers holds such magical power that it is worth more than a kingdom.” The Instrumentation: Two flutes including piccolo, scenario of the ballet combines the two oboes including English horn, two clarinets, Firebird with the legends of the evil two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three ogre Kastchei, the Deathless One, and trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, the captive princesses (familiar to us as piano, celesta and strings. the Grimm Brothers’ tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses). Magnifique We will hear the 20-minute suite PIANO CONCERTO IN F Stravinsky drew from his 45-minute George Gershwin 10% off complete ballet score. In the murky and Born in Brooklyn, NY, September 26, 1898; dinner check mysterious Introduction, Stravinsky died in Hollywood, CA, July 11, 1937 with theater conjures the dangerous realm of Kastchei’s ticket. castle with ominous scales in muted low While George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in strings and menacing trombone snarls. Blue of 1924 has become a ubiquitous Soon we hear in the strings the eerie showpiece on both classical and pops sound of the Firebird’s wings. Prince concerts, it is by no means the only work Ivan climbs over the castle wall to try America’s favorite composer wrote for to capture her. He briefly succeeds in piano and orchestra. Every bit as appealing the “Dance of the Firebird”: some of is his longer and more adventurous Stravinsky’s most ingenious music, Concerto in F, which takes the Rhapsody’s 904 N Charles St, glinting with darting rhythms and attractive mixture of jazz and classical Baltimore, MD 21201 prismatic, lighter-than-air colors from elements and builds them into a full- Bistro: 410-385-9946 high woodwinds. The Firebird escapes, fledged three-movement concerto. Catering: 410-385-9956 Fax: 410-385-9958 but leaves the Prince with one of her Although he had only the Rhapsody marielouisebistrocatering.com magical feathers. under his belt as a concert-hall piece,
26 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Gershwin boldly set to work on his Concerto just one year later, completing it with characteristic speed between July SING and November 1925. Commissioned by Walter Damrosch for the New York TO YOUR AUDIENCE. Symphony Orchestra, it represented a far more ambitious step into the world of WITH OVERTURE . classical music than the Rhapsody, written for Paul Whiteman’s congenial jazz orchestra. Originally feeling ill-equipped as an orchestrator, Gershwin had turned the scoring of the Rhapsody over to
Ferde Grofé, but with the Concerto he JANUARY –FEBRUARY 2018 tackled the formidable job of scoring for
–DECEMBER 2017 a large symphony orchestra himself. The NOVEMBER results were felicitous: Gershwin taught a classical orchestra to swing while handling the various instruments with sympathetic skill. The premiere, before a packed house at Carnegie Hall on
ORCHKIDS MARKS ONE DECADE OF GROWTH December 3, 1925 with the composer as AND SUCCESS BSO TAKES FLIGHT IN THE HANDS OF GUEST MARIN ALSOP AND CONDUCTORS THE BSO CELEBRATE ONE OF MUSIC’S GREATEST ICONS BSO AND BMA soloist, was a triumph. JOIN FORCES FOR “IMPRESSIONIST MASTERWORKS” The composer provided us with a helpful roadmap to his creation: “The first movement employs the Charleston rhythm [introduced by winds after the brash opening fanfare]. It is quick and pulsating, representing the Reach over 150,000 patrons of the BSO young enthusiastic spirit of American life.…The principal theme is announced five times a year in Overture, a program that’s by the bassoon. Later, a second theme is introduced by the piano.” That second about more than just beautiful music. theme, a gorgeously romantic Gershwin tune, is the concerto’s signature theme and will return, played grandioso by the full orchestra, to conclude both the first movement and the last. Throughout, RESERVE YOUR we hear Gershwin the great keyboard AD SPACE TODAY! improviser in the piano part. “The second movement has a poetic nocturnal atmosphere, which has come to be referred to as the American blues, but in a purer form than that in which they are usually treated.” With TO ADVERTISE, CONTACT: its first mournful theme introduced by muted solo trumpet, this movement is a Ken Iglehart masterpiece of atmosphere and perhaps [email protected] the highlight of the entire work. “The final movement reverts to Call 443.873.3916 the style of the first. It is an orgy of Now also distributed at Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda rhythms, starting violently and keeping to the same pace throughout.” The piano’s relentless hammering gives way periodically to reminiscences of
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the second movement’s themes and, tormented by phobias —“melancholy main theme, full of nervous struggle. in a spectacular conclusion, to the first bats,” he called them—including fears of Periodically, the violins arc upward on a movement’s big romantic theme as well. high places, sharp objects and medicines, tormented wailing idea, which eventually The Concerto’s last moments express the which he was convinced contained grows into a new lyrical episode for confidence of a young, vital America and poisons. Worse still for a musician were woodwinds and violins. the fearless young genius who gave it auditory hallucinations, described by More agitated still is the second- a voice all its own. Clara Schumann as a “constant singing movement scherzo with its fast, frenetic and rushing in his ears, every noise would music for the violins. So difficult is this Instrumentation: Two flutes, piccolo, turn into a tone.” to play that it is customarily included two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, Eventually, the symptoms lessened, in auditions for violinists seeking an bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, Schumann began to grow stronger, orchestral position. Momentary relief three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, and his creativity revived. First he from this obsessive music comes in two timpani, percussion and strings. completed his popular Piano Concerto. trio sections: the first a dialogue between By December, he had entered one of his woodwinds and strings; the second a manic creative phases and in just three lovely, flowing episode, rich in fugal SYMPHONY NO. 2 IN C MAJOR weeks sketched the Second Symphony, imitation and opened by the strings. Robert Schumann regarded by many as his greatest. It is A loud return of movement one’s brass Born in Zwickau, Germany, June 8, 1810; easy to hear Schumann’s struggle against fanfare closes the movement. died in Endenich, Germany, July 29, 1856 his illness in this symphony, as well as For the slow movement in C minor, the joyous return of health and strength Schumann created one of the most In February 1854 after decades of mental in the finale. Through the alchemy of heartbreakingly beautiful melodies in suffering, Robert Schumann attempted art, the composer managed to transform the symphonic repertoire. Moving from suicide by jumping from a bridge into suffering into great music, especially in one woodwind instrument to another, it the Rhine River. He spent the last the extraordinary slow movement that is seems to grow lovelier and more painful two and a half years of his life in an the emotional heart of this work. with each repetition. When the violins asylum, where he died of self-starvation The sonata-form first movement sing the melody, they twice add a chain at age 46. In 1844, a decade before the opens with a long and mysterious slow of shimmering trills —a sublime stroke. suicide attempt, he endured the worst introduction that contains the seeds from With an upward-rushing scale and a breakdown of his life subsequent to which the symphony will grow. First we joyous wake-up-call of a theme in the that catastrophic final one. Every effort hear a solemn fanfare in the brass, distant woodwinds, Schumann seems to bound exhausted him, and composing became and dreamlike, above strings wandering from his sickbed. The finale is the musical a torment. Writing to a physician friend, in a dark maze. The woodwinds offer expression of the composer’s recovery, he recalled: “For a while I could not a four-note rhythmic idea. When the with no lingering dark shadows. Listen for stand listening to music. It cut into tempo finally accelerates to Allegro, the reappearance of the slow movement’s my nerves like knives.” Schumann was this motive launches the movement’s poignant theme in the low strings, now dancing along in quick tempo. Schumann eventually turns it upside down, creating Marin Alsop leads the BSO a buoyant new tune that drives the music forward for several moments. Yet another melody is introduced by the woodwinds: a soaring and uncomplicated hymn of thanksgiving. So infectious is this melody that Schumann forgets all the others and builds the symphony’s conclusion around this uplifting music. At the end, the opening brass fanfare reappears, transformed into triumph.
Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings.
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JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL - Thursday, June 7, 2018, 8pm Friday, June 8, 2018, 8 pm Sunday, June 10, 2018, 3 pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Saturday, June 9, 2018, 8 pm CURRENTLY CLASSICAL Marin Alsop, Music Director Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Leonard Bernstein Slava! A Political Overture CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety” THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 8 PM Part I The Prologue: Lento moderato PEABODY CONSERVATORY The Seven Ages: Variations 1-7 GRISWOLD HALL The Seven Stages: Variations 8-14 TICKETS $15 Part II Co-curated with cellist Inbal Segev. The Dirge: Largo Featuring a work by James The Masque: Extremely fast MacMillan, conducted by Marin The Epilogue: L’istesso tempo - Adagio - Alsop. Also featuring works by -Andante - con moto Thierry de Mey, Du Yun, Dan Jon Kimura Parker Visconti and Osvaldo Golijov.
INTERMISSION CHAMBER JAM Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, op. 47 Moderato FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 8 PM Allegretto MOTOR HOUSE Largo GRAFFITI ALLEY Allegro non troppo FREE The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday Featuring performances by BSO and 5 pm on Sunday. musicians and local New Music groups including Mind On Fire.
PRESENTING SPONSORS: The appearance of pianist Jon Kimura Parker is made possible through the major SYMPHONIC support of the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Guest Artist Fund. CONCERT FEATURING THE WORLD PREMIERE The BSO gratefully acknowledges both Sandra Levi Gerstung and Tomio Taki for OF KEVIN PUTS’ OBOE CONCERTO, generously underwriting the Parsons New School for Design & Baltimore Symphony “MOONLIGHT” Orchestra collaboration to re-imagine orchestral wardrobe. SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 8 PM JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL About the Artists Parker has performed as guest soloist with FREE OR the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wolfgang PAY WHAT YOU WISH Marin Alsop Sawallisch in Carnegie Hall, toured Marin Alsop, conductor For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. Europe with the Royal Philharmonic Katherine Needleman, oboe Orchestra and André Previn, and Featuring works by Du Yun, Kevin Puts, Jon Kimura shared the stage with Jessye Norman at Dan Visconti and James MacMillan. Parker Berlin’s Philharmonie. Conductors he Known for his has recently worked with include Teddy
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Zhong and Pinchas Zukerman. Parker Island Chamber Music Festival, where he to write some music for him to perform has performed for Queen Elizabeth II, has given world premieres of new works with his new orchestra. In addition to the U.S. Supreme Court and the prime by Peter Schickele and Jake Heggie. two more serious pieces, Songfest and ministers of Canada and Japan. He is Parker has recorded the music Three Meditations from MASS, Bernstein an Officer of The Order of Canada, his of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin responded with the sassy, boisterously country’s highest civilian honor. and P.D.Q. Bach for Telarc; Mozart American Slava! A Political Overture, a kind He performs as duo partner regularly for CBC; and Stravinsky, Mozart, of tongue-in-cheek welcome to the political with James Ehnes, Aloysia Friedmann, Schubert, Schumann, Di Liberto and world of Washington, D.C. Its themes Lynn Harrell, Jamie Parker, Orli Shaham, Hirtz under his own label. His new were taken from his recent, unfortunately and Cho-Liang Lin, with whom he has CD Fantasy features the fantasies of unsuccessful musical 1600 Pennsylvania given world premieres of sonatas by Paul Schubert and Schumann, as well as Avenue, mixed with a pre-recorded tape Schoenfield, John Harbison and Steven the sensational Wizard of Oz Fantasy of cliché electioneering slogans. In its last Stucky. He performs regularly with the by William Hirtz, receiving praise moments, the trombones mix this with a Miró Quartet, and is a founding member from Classical Candor: “The reading quotation from the grand “Slava” Chorus of the Montrose Trio with violinist Martin is riveting. Parker scores with another from Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, a Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith. The favorite recording of the year.” direct salute to Rostropovich and his Washington Post’s review proclaimed the Parker studied with Edward Parker Russian heritage. Trio “poised to become one of the top and Keiko Parker privately, Lee Kum- piano trios in the world.” Sing at the Vancouver Academy of Instrumentation: Two flutes, piccolo, two As a member of the outreach project Music and the University of British oboes, English horn, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, Piano Plus, Parker toured remote Columbia, Robin Wood at the Victoria bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, areas, including the Canadian Arctic, Conservatory, Marek Jablonski at the soprano saxophone, four horns, three trumpets, performing classical music and rock ‘n’ Banff Centre and Adele Marcus at three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, roll on everything from upright pianos to The Juilliard School. He won the Gold piano and strings. electronic keyboards. He was a featured Medal at the 1984 Leeds International speaker alongside humanitarians Piano Competition. He lives in Elie Wiesel and Paul Rusesabagina Houston with his wife, violinist Aloysia SYMPHONY NO. 2, at the 50th Anniversary of the relief Friedmann and their daughter Sophie. “THE AGE OF ANXIETY” organization AmeriCares. Leonard Bernstein An unusually versatile artist, Parker has Jon Kimura Parker last appeared with jammed with Audra McDonald, Bobby the Baltimore Symphony in March 2000, None of the three works Leonard Bernstein McFerrin and Doc Severinsen. Parker also performing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody labeled as symphonies in any way resembles debuted his new project Off The Score in on a Theme of Paganini, Sergiu a conventional orchestral symphony. a quintet with legendary Police drummer Comissiona, conductor. Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah,” includes Stewart Copeland, featuring both original a singer and chorus and is built around compositions and fresh takes on music of About the Concert Old Testament texts. Symphony No. 3, Ravel, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. “Kaddish,” combines choruses, a vocal Parker hosted the television series SLAVA! A POLITICAL OVERTURE soloist and a spoken text to express what Whole Notes on Bravo! and CBC Radio’s Leonard Bernstein is essentially Bernstein’s very personal Up and Coming. His YouTube channel Born in Lawrence, MA, August 25, 1918; argument with God. And inspired by W. showcases the Concerto Chat video series, died in New York City, NY, October 14, 1990 H. Auden’s long poem of the same name, with illuminating discussions of the piano Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety,” is concerto repertoire. The great Russian cellist and conductor a highly dramatic work that resembles both A committed educator, Parker is Mstislav Rostropovich (1927–2007) was a tone poem and a piano concerto. As the professor of piano at The Shepherd School a close friend and inspiration to both of composer himself candidly admitted: “If of Music at Rice University. His students the composers on this program, Leonard the charge of ‘theatricality’ in a symphonic have won international piano competitions, Bernstein and Dmitri Shostakovich. Big- work is a valid one, I am willing to plead performed with major orchestras across hearted in both his personality and his guilty. I have a deep suspicion that every the U.S., and given recitals in Amsterdam, playing, he was known to all his friends work I write, for whatever medium, is really Beijing, New York and Moscow. He has as “Slava,” which, appropriately enough, theatre music in some way.” lectured at The Juilliard School, The means “glory” in Russian. Though not a word is spoken or sung Colburn School, The Steans Institute, When Rostropovich assumed the music in the Second Symphony, it is as much New York University and Yale University. directorship of the National Symphony tied to a literary text as are “Jeremiah” and Parker is also artistic advisor of the Orcas Orchestra in 1977, he asked Bernstein “Kaddish.” Bernstein was an insatiable
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reader, and he was utterly captivated by Part I: Auden’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, “The Prologue finds four lonely characters, which he discovered soon after its a girl and three men, in a Third Avenue publication in 1947. “From that moment, bar, all of them insecure and trying, STUDY PARTICIPANTS NEEDED the composition of a symphony… through drink, to detach themselves from acquired an almost compulsive quality,” their conflicts or, at best, to resolve them. Bernstein remembered, “and I worked on They…begin a kind of symposium on the it steadily…in Taos, in Philadelphia, in state of man. Musically, the Prologue is Study on Genetics Richmond, Mass., in Tel Aviv, in planes, a very short section consisting of a lonely and Facial, Jaw, in hotel lobbies.” The orchestration was improvisation by two clarinets…followed done in the midst of a tour with the by a long descending scale which acts as a & Headache Pain Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, during bridge into the realm of the unconscious, which Bernstein conducted 25 concerts where most of the poem takes place. YOU MAY QUALIFY IF: – in 28 days. As was to happen throughout “The Seven Ages. The life of man is • You are 18 65 years of age • You speak and his life, the need to compose was already reviewed from the four personal points of understand English in conflict with the demands of his view. This is a series of variations, which • You are healthy OR have exploding conducting career. differ from conventional variations in that recently had headaches Bernstein based his hybrid work closely they do not vary any one common theme. or pain in your face or jaw on the six-part format of the poem and its Each variation seizes upon some feature Compensation for participation and focus on the conversations of three men of the preceding one and develops it, parking vouchers are provided and a woman during a long, alcohol-fueled introducing…some counter-features upon night in a wartime New York City bar. which the next variation seizes.… Contact Dr. Colloca’s Lab at “The essential line of the poem (and of “The Seven Stages. The variation form [email protected] the music) is a record of our difficult continues for another set of seven, in which or at 410-706-5975 search for faith. In the end, two of the the characters go on an inner symbolic characters enunciate the recognition of journey…leading back to a point of this faith…at the same time revealing comfort and security. The four try every an inability to relate to it in their daily means…exchanging partners, and always lives, except through blind acceptance.” missing the objective. When they awaken Bernstein explained that “the conception from this dream-odyssey, they are closely of a symphony with piano solo emerges united through a common experience (and THE BSO STORE: from the personal identification of myself through alcohol) and begin to function as • Great gifts with the poem. In this sense, the pianist one organism. This set of variations begins • Beautiful jewelry provides an autobiographical protagonist, to show activity and drive and leads to set against an orchestral mirror.” a hectic, though inconclusive, close.” • Maestra Alsop’s Appropriately, Bernstein himself played complete discography the solo part at “Age of Anxiety”’s premiere Part II: • Music books for children performance on April 8, 1949 with the “The Dirge is sung by the four as they sit • And much more! Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted in a cab en route to the girl’s apartment by his mentor Serge Koussevitzky. for a nightcap. They mourn the loss of the “Age of Anxiety” is an extremely ‘colossal Dad,’ the great leader who can eclectic score in which Bernstein always give the right orders, find the right mingled influences from many solution, shoulder the mass responsibility composers he loved and frequently and satisfy the universal need for a conducted: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, father-symbol. This section employs, in Britten, Brahms and Rachmaninoff a harmonic way, a twelve-tone row out (for the virtuosic keyboard flights). of which the main theme evolves. There More personal were many borrowings is a contrasting middle section of almost from his own earlier scores, as well as Brahmsian romanticism, in which can the exhilarating piano jazz of the fifth be felt the self-indulgent aspect of this movement, “The Masque,” based on his strangely pompous lamentation. flair for improvising jazz at the keyboard. “The Masque finds the group in the girl’s Contact us at 410.783.8160 Here are Bernstein’s own descriptions apartment, weary, guilty, determined to or [email protected] of the Symphony’s six sections: have a party, each one afraid of spoiling the
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others’ fun by admitting that he should words of Russian-music scholar Laurel But the knock never came. And, be home in bed. This is a scherzo for Fay), and this was especially true during the strangely, in 1937 Shostakovich was given piano and percussion alone .… The party reign of Joseph Stalin, who fancied himself a chance to rehabilitate himself by writing ends in anticlimax and the dispersal of the Soviet Union’s supreme arts critic as a symphony for Leningrad’s celebration the actors.…Thus a kind of separation of well as supreme leader. While precariously of the 20th anniversary of the Bolshevik the self from the guilt of escapist living maintaining his balance, Shostakovich Revolution. For his Fifth Symphony, he has been effected, and the protagonist is constantly heard the thud of other leading determined to simplify his language, free again to examine what is left beneath Soviet artists falling to their deaths. His making it more consonant and tonal, the emptiness. mission impossible was to remain true to his more melodic and more pleasing in its “The Epilogue. What is left, it turns out, inner creative voice while paying sufficient instrumental sonorities. is faith. The trumpet intrudes its statement lip service to the regime to stay alive. Nevertheless, in the fierce drama of of ‘something pure’ upon the dying pianino The years 1934 to 1938 were the era of its first movement, the biting sarcasm [upright piano in the orchestra]; the strings the great Stalinist purges, during which of its second, the emotionally wrenching answer in a melancholy reminiscent of the millions of Soviet citizens, from peasants sorrow of its third and the complex Prologue.…All at once, the strings accept to generals, lost their lives. Early in 1934, “triumph” of its finale, the Fifth is as the situation in a sudden statement of the the 27-year-old Shostakovich premiered uncompromisingly outspoken as any newly recognized faith.…The way is open, a daring new opera, Lady Macbeth of the of Shostakovich’s works. In Testimony, but at the conclusion, is still stretching long Mtsensk District, whose harsh dissonances the controversial memoirs purportedly before the [protagonist].” mirrored a lurid tale of lust and murder. dictated to Solomon Volkov, the For two years, Lady Macbeth was a popular composer denied there was any real Instrumentation: Two flutes, piccolo, hit, until one evening in January 1936 triumph at all. “I never thought about two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, Stalin paid a visit to the opera house. The any exultant finales, for what exultation bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, opera’s gritty musical and theatrical drama could there be?...The rejoicing is forced, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, infuriated the Soviet leader, who left the created under threat, as in [Mussorgsky’s tuba, timpani, percussion, two harps, pianino, theatre before the curtain fell. A few days opera] Boris Godunov. It’s as if someone celesta and strings. later, a lead article in Pravda denounced were beating you with a stick and saying, the opera under the heading “Muddle ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business Instead of Music,” and a second scathing is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR article followed in February. Shostakovich marching off, muttering, ‘Our business Dmitri Shostakovich instantly became a non-person. Fellow is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’” Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, September 25, composers spoke out against him, while One of the most powerful of symphonic 1906; died in Moscow, U.S.S.R., August 9, 1975 acquaintances crossed the street to avoid openings launches the work. Played in him. The composer lived in constant fear canon between lower and upper strings, For most of his career, Dmitri of the knock in the night summoning him this rugged theme is the seedbed of the Shostakovich had “to walk a tightrope to his doom; like many Soviet citizens, he movement. Contained in it are two blindfolded without a safety net” (in the kept a suitcase packed in readiness. important motives: descending three-note twists and the initially gentle repeated notes at the end. Both will be developed The BSO with great power, and the repeated notes will dominate the entire symphony. From this, Shostakovich builds a long, melancholy melody sung by first violins. A second theme also appears: a very hushed sustained melody high in the violins. Baleful horns and an aggressive piano hammering out the second theme announce the development section, and the music accelerates into vigorous but slightly mechanical activity. Military snare drums propel a brash march. The music builds to great intensity, and the opening theme returns at a frenzied, driven tempo. But this manic energy eventually dies out in a quiet, haunting coda.
32 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org AN EVENING WITH JOHN WILLIAMS A sardonic sense of humor has saved Russian sanity throughout a brutal history, and it animates the second- JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL movement scherzo with its insolent trills, Wednesday, June 13, 2018, 8 pm satirical slides and crude brass outbursts. This is a rough peasant dance in the style of one of Shostakovich’s favorite Marin Alsop, Music Director composers, Mahler. Shrill scoring, John Williams, conductor Johannes Moser, cello tongue-in-cheek pizzicato strings and a tipsy solo violin leading the middle John Williams “The Flight to Neverland” from Hook trio section suggest defiant mockery— perhaps of Stalin himself. “A Child’s Tale”: Suite from The BFG The magnificent third-place slow movement is as sincere and heartfelt “Out to Sea” and “The Shark Cage Fugue” from Jaws as its predecessor was flippant. “With Malice Toward None” from Lincoln Shostakovich once said, “The majority of my symphonies are tombstones,” Three Selections from Star Wars and this may be a requiem for the many “The Rebellion is Reborn” Russians who died in the purges. At the “Rey’s Theme” Fifth’s premiere, audiences wept openly “Throne Room and Finale” during this music. The strings dominate; INTERMISSION they seem the voices of communal Marin Alsop conducts the first half of this evening’s program mourning. In the middle section, solo and John Williams conducts the second half. woodwinds raise their plaintive voices, expressing individual loss. The music “Harry’s Wondrous World” from reaches an extraordinary climax of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone pain as the strings rise to a chorus “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” from of repeated notes, intensified by the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade xylophone. The great Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, Rostropovich’s Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha wife, described this as “like nails being “Sayuri’s Theme” “Brush on Silk” pounded into one’s brain.” “Chiyo’s Prayer” Now the forgotten brass and “Becoming a Geisha” percussion race into action to launch the finale’s resolute march theme. First we Johannes Moser hear much frenetic musical busyness, “Adventures on Earth” from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial then a poignant reminiscence of the third movement’s sorrow. Music of The concert will end at approximately 10 pm. Slavic grandeur recalls the Coronation Scene in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. At the end, disturbing the proudly pounding timpani and pealing brass are those obsessively painful repeated notes that have dogged the entire work. About the Artists successful composers for film and for “Our business is rejoicing; our business the concert stage, and he remains is rejoicing.” Marin Alsop one of our nation’s most distinguished For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. and contributive musical voices. He Instrumentation: Two flutes, piccolo, has composed the music and served as two oboes, two clarinets, E-flat clarinet, John Williams music director for more than 100 films, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, In a career spanning including all eight Star Wars films, the three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, more than five decades, first three Harry Potter films, Superman, percussion, two harps, piano, celesta and strings. John Williams has JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs TODD ROSENBERG TODD become one of America’s of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2018 most accomplished and Tourist, Home Alone and The Book Thief.
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His 45-year artistic partnership with world’s leading orchestras, including a Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse director Steven Spielberg has resulted in cello concerto for the Boston Symphony Romande, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and Orchestra, a bassoon concerto for the New Los Angeles Philharmonic, Danish successful films, including Schindler’s List, York Philharmonic, a trumpet concerto National Symphony Orchestra, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic for the Cleveland Orchestra and a horn Netherlands Radio, Orchestre National Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, concerto for the Chicago Symphony de Lille, City of Birmingham Symphony the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving Orchestra. In 2009, Williams composed Orchestra, New World Symphony and the Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, and arranged “Air and Simple Gifts” Seattle and San Diego symphonies. War Horse and Lincoln. His contributions especially for the first inaugural ceremony With his newly formed piano trio with to television music include scores for of President Barack Obama, and in Yevgeny Sudbin and Vadim Gluzman, he more than 200 television films for the September 2009, the Boston Symphony tours extensively throughout Europe and groundbreaking, early anthology series Orchestra premiered a new concerto for North America. A dedicated chamber Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television Theatre, harp and orchestra entitled “On Willows musician, Moser has performed with Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well and Birches.” Joshua Bell, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Kavakos, Menahem Pressler, James Ehnes, Mission”), NBC’s Meet the Press and the John Williams last appeared with the Midori and Jonathan Biss. He is also a PBS arts showcase Great Performances. BSO in June 2013, conducting a program regular at festivals including the Verbier, He also composed themes for the 1984, of his film music. Schleswig-Holstein, Gstaad and Kissinger 1988 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games festivals; the Mehta Chamber Music and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Johannes Moser Festival; and the Colorado, Seattle and He has received five Academy Awards Hailed by Gramophone Brevard music festivals. and 50 nominations, making him the as “one of the finest Moser has recently been involved Academy’s most-nominated living person among the astonishing in commissioning works by Julia and the second-most nominated person in gallery of young Wolfe, Ellen Reid, Thomas Agerfeld the history of the Oscars. He has received virtuoso cellists,” Olesen, Johannes Kalitzke, Jelena seven British Academy Awards (BAFTA), German-Canadian cellist Johannes Firsowa and Andrew Norman. He 23 Grammys, four Golden Globes, five Moser has performed with the world’s takes part in the European Premiere of Emmys and numerous gold and platinum leading orchestras such as the Berlin Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto with the records. In 2003, he received the Olympic KOPIE CLASSIC ESSER-HAENSSLER MANFRED Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. In 2011 he Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for his Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago premiered Magnetar for electric cello by contributions to the Olympic movement. Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Enrico Chapela with the Los Angeles He received the prestigious Kennedy at The Proms, London Symphony Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Center Honors in December of 2004. Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Dudamel, and in the following season In 2009, Williams was inducted into the Bayerischen Rundfunks, Koninklijk he continued this relationship with the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Concertgebouworkest, Tokyo NHK orchestra, performing Michel van der Aa’s and he received the National Medal of Symphony and the Philadelphia and cello concerto Up-close. Arts, the highest award given to artists by Cleveland orchestras with conductors Born into a musical family in 1979, the U.S. Government. In 2016, he received including Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Moser began studying the cello at eight the 44th Life Achievement Award from the Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Mariss and became a student of Professor American Film Institute—the first time in Jansons, Paavo Jarvi, Vladimir Jurowski, David Geringas in 1997. He was the top their history that this honor was bestowed Lorin Mazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo prize-winner at the 2002 Tchaikovsky upon a composer. Muti, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Christian Competition, in addition to being In January 1980, Williams was named Thielemann and Franz Welser-Möst. awarded the Special Prize for his 19th music director of the Boston Pops Moser recently won his third Echo interpretation of the Rococo Variations. Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Klassik Award for Instrumentalist of In 2014 he was awarded with the Arthur Fiedler. He currently holds the title the Year, 2017 for his Russian recital prestigious Brahms prize. of Boston Pops Laureate Conductor which disc on the Pentatone label, for which he A voracious reader of everything he assumed following his retirement in exclusively records. His latest recordings from Kafka to Collins, and an avid December 1993, after 14 highly successful include concertos by Dvořák, Lalo, Elgar outdoorsman, Moser is a keen hiker and seasons. He also holds the title of artist- and Tchaikovsky, which have gained mountain biker in his limited spare time. in-residence at Tanglewood. Williams has him the prestigious Preis der Deutschen composed numerous works for the concert Schallplattenkritik and the Diapason d’Or. Johannes Moser last appeared with the BSO stage, among them two symphonies and In the 2017–2018 season, Moser in February 2017, performing Dvořák's Cello concertos commissioned by several of the returns to the Chicago Symphony Concerto, Marin Alsop, conductor.
34 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org RESOUNDING The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century
Resounding: The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century is a $65 million campaign to build the BSO’s endowment—sustaining the organization’s growth and vitality and expanding the reach of our innovative and ground-breaking artistic and educational programs. Funds secured through the Campaign will enable the BSO to attract and retain our world-class musicians and guest artists, engage new and diverse audiences and expand the reach of our OrchKids and Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras (BSYO) education programs.
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Calvin H. Baker and Lidia Paz-Baker Mrs. Marilyn Bliden Ms. Kristin L. Bussell Philip and Mary Combs Mrs. Carol Lynn Baker Miriam Blitzer Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Butler The Joseph Mullan Company William G. Baker, Jr Memorial Fund Rachel Bloch Aaron Bycoffe Conductors Guild Mr. Gary Baldwin The Estate of Jean Louise Bloom Ms. Sharon Byrd Connect2Give David and Susan Ball Joyce and Robert Bloor Charles and Judy Cahn Constantine Commercial Construction F.G. Ball Mia Bock Cal Ripkin Sr. Foundation, Inc. Paul Converse and Wienshet Teklu Ms. Barbara L. Ballard Ms. Brenda J. Bodian James Calderwood and Joyce Johnson Ms. Mary Cook Ms. Betty Ballard Ms. Carol Bogash Ms. June Caldwell Reverend Ralph Cook The Baltimore City Foundation Elizabeth Boison Dr. Nathan H. Carliner Charles and Joan Cooper Dr. and Mrs. Lenwood Ivey John and Carolyn Boitnott Ms. Janice Campbell Ms. Julia Cooper Baltimore County Commission Mrs. Barbara Bond The Canticle Singers Of Baltimore Mr. Michael Cooper on the Arts & Sciences John and Elizabeth Bond Daryl Caplan and Bob Bryant Mr. Phillip Cooper Baltimore Estate Planning Council Mr. Frank A. Bonsal, Jr. Jamie Caplis Mark Coplin Baltimore Office Of Promotion Boomerang Fund For Artists Benjamin and Myrna Cardin Corporate Office Properties Trust And The Arts Dr. Jean Boone and Mr. Randy Boone Theodore and Gregory Carski John Corona Baltimore Ravens Charles Booth Ms. Margaret Carlton Corrigan Sports Enterprises Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle Adam and Meredith Borden Carrolltowne Elementary Ms. Marjorie Corwin Bank of America Neal and Winnie Borden John H. Carter Frank and Jane Costanzi Penny Bank Dr. Andrea Bowden Tyonne Carter Mr. David Costello Dr. Mitchell Bard Ledley Boyce The Annie E. Casey Foundation Alex and Chrissy Cotsalas Lee Barker Mr. Gerald Boyd, Sr Ms. Meghan K. Casey Mr. Nicholas Coutros Ms. Danielle Barner Ms. Winsome Boyd Ms. Mary V. Cashdollar Barbara and William Cowie John and Ruella Barnes Woody and Sandra Boyd Mr. Allen Cassity Ms. Erma S. Craig Mr. John I. Barnes, II Thomas Bozzuto and Robin Madigan William and Kristina Catto Ms. Barbara Crawley Ms. Mabel Barron Stanley and Dorah Brager Robert and Penny Catzen Cristina Creager James and Sheila Barry Mr. Charles Bragg Jennifer Cawthra Margaret O. Cromwell Family Fund Anjula Batra David and Helen Braitman Matthew Cellini Mr. Michael Cryor Ms. Kimberly M Battista Boudewien and Paul Brand Ms. Jeanne Celtnieks The Honorable Elijah Cummings The Kenneth S. Battye Charitable Trust Shirley Brandman and Howard Shapiro Juno Chang and Kyungeun Park Mr. Max Curran Lillian and Don Bauder Mr. Thomas Brantigan Ronald McDonald House Charities Mr. Jackson Curreri Charles T. Bauer Foundation Ms. Rosemarie Brazeau Ms. Susan Gerrity Chase Meosotis Curtis Mr. Brian Bayerle Carolyn and David Braverman Ms. Karen Chasen Ms. Raymarlyn Curtis John Beach Ms. Shirley Braverman Mr. James Chen Ms. Ellen B Cutler Ms. Jane Beard The Peter David Brendsel Fund Ms. Lenis Chen Carol and John Cyphers Sheldon and Arlene Bearman For Children Literacy Hosea T. Chew Ms. Maris St. Cyr Ms. Stephanie Bechtel Ms. Amy Brennan Ms. Rebecca Howell Chew D’Addario Foundaion John and Mary Ann Beckley Rebecca and Josh Brenner Mr. Wayne G. Ching Sophie Dagenais Mrs. Sarah Beckwith Mr. Robert Breyer Chipotle James and Anne Dale Claire Beissinger Paul and Jane Brickman Mrs. Kristine Cho Ms. Laurel Damashek Ms. Heidi Bell Jeremy Bridges Mrs. Constance Chriss Linwood Dame Harry and Janice Benham Dr. Nancy Bridges Jean Christianson Dr. Dallas Dance Ms. Eileen Bennett Susan Bridges and Bill Van Dyke Mrs. Karen Cicmanec Irwin Danels David Bercuson Ms. Jeanne Brinkley Mr. George Ciscle Marcia Daniel Ms. Lane K. Berk Ms. Janet Briscoe The Classic Catering People Patricia Daniel Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Thomas and Michele Broemmelsiek Classical Conversations of Ellicott City Jane and Worth* Daniels Ms. Cynthia Berman Ms. Martha Bromberger-Barnea Clayton Baker Trust Ron Daniels and Joanne Rosen Gerardine Berman Ms. Jenny Bromley Sally Clayton and Leslie Graef Mrs. Sarah David Howard and Deborah Berman Steven Brooks and Ann Loar Brooks CLD Partners Tema S. David Bunny Bernstein Ms. Sarah Brooner Clean Currents Mr. Thomas E. Davies Mr. Toby Bernstein Brown Capital Management Aris and Jennifer Cleanthous Hal Davis and Susan Levine Betty Huse MD Charitable Foundation Brown Memorial Woodbrook Emery and Edith Cleaves Miss Cynthia Dawson Ms. Danielle Beyers Presbyterian Church Ms. Tara Clifford Douglass and Susan Day BGE Karen and Robert Brown The Clinton Family Fund Ms. Kathryn L. Day Robert Biagiotti Kristen Handy-Brown Mrs. Mary Close Ms. Jovonne C. Day-Miles Marjorie Bigham Ms. Lynette Brown Mary Jo and Brad Closs Mr. Eugene M. de Lara Elizabeth Binford Ms. Amy Bruce Samuel Parker Clothier Lisa DeCamp Judy and Dave Binkley Ms. Jeanne Brush Ms. Sybil R Coblenzer Deering Family Foundation William and Martha Bishai Ms. Sandra Brushart Mrs. Anne Codd Dorothy and Stephen Degaray John and Carol Bishop Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Alan and Deborah Cohen Mr. James DeGraffenreidt and Scott and Katherine Bissett Player’s Committee Allen and Ellen Cohen Dr. Mychelle Farmer Bithgroup Technologies, Inc. Mr. Stephen C. Buckingham Howard and Barbara Cohen Mrs. Marion DeGroff Mr. Black Dr. David G Bundy Howard and Nancy Cohen Ms. Camille Delaney-McNeil Mrs. Irene E. Black Mr. Peter Van Buren Ms. Nancy L. Cohen and Aaron McNeil Ms. Katherine Blakeslee Ms. Susan L. Burgert Samuel Cohen and Joan Piven-Cohen Judy Delbera Mr. Louis Blank Ms. Lori Burghauser Dr. Steven Cohen Lisa Delima Mary and Morton Blaustein Kathleen and Brian Burr Ms. Suzanne Cohen Mrs. Barbara DeLouise The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Mark and Dana Burrough Ms. Jill Cohen Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Denlinger Foundation Jeffrey and Ann Burt Ms. Corinne Coleman Mr. Miguel Dennis Nancy Blaustein and J. Patrick Dr. Nancy Burton-Prateley Paula Coleman Mrs. Barbara K. Dent Harrington Mrs. Amy Burwen Mr. and Mrs. Reco Collins Marie des Jardins and John Park
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Mrs. Tanya Deshields-Yates Jianhua Feng and Zhibing Chen Corliss and Thomas Glennon Har Sinai Congregation Kevin and Loretta D’Eustachio Mrs. Allison Ferguson Michael and Jane Glick Bernadene Harper Mrs. Mariam D’Eustachio Marlene and Walter Ferguson Ms. Jeanette Glose Ronald and Carol Harrell Ms. Geraldine Diamond Ms. Gladys Fernandez Ms. Kayla Gluck Dr. Jacqueline Harris Susan Dibs and M. Douglas Baker Kathleen and Jorge Fernandez Mr. Christopher Gocke Ms. Kati Harrison Betty Lee and Dudley P. Digges Mark Fetting and Georgia Smith Mr. Adam Goers Ms. Pat Hartley Memorial Fund Mr. Stephen Filer Mr. Justin Golart Wilbert and Lillie Hawkins Lenox Dingle Bonnie Finch Mrs. Louise Goldberg Dr. Carla Hayden Sheila Ann Dixon Matthew Firor Lewis and Louise Goldfine Joanne Hayes and Deidre Carroll William Dixon Alvin and Hilda Fisher Barry and Florence Goldgeier Maurice and Lisa Haywood Miss Sylvia Betts Dodd Frances Fisher David and Eleanor Goldstein Donald and Sybil Hebb Ms. April Dodge Morton and Ann Fisher Thomas and Andrea Goldstein Mrs. Anita Heffernan Carol Dodson Sara Fishman Ms. Jenny Good Mrs. Shanna Heilveil Leslie Donnelly Frederick Flaccavento Katherine Goodrich John Heinlein Ms. Barbara A. Donohoe Ms. Joanne Flax Marion and James Goodrich David and Linda Hellmann Kevin Donovan and Sandra Asirvatham Jerome and Rosemarie Fleg Carol and Russell Gordon Ms. Rhonda Henderson Ms. Harriet Dopkin Kelly Fleming Ms. Lynne T. Gorman William Henderson Ms. Anna Dopkin Ms. Lois Flowers The Estate of Dailinia Gorn The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Mr. James Doran Veronica Foley The Samuel G. and Margaret A. Gorn Mrs. Hortense H. Henry Ms. Victoria Dorf Eric and Amy Forseter Foundation The Herbert Bearman Foundation Mrs. Alice Dorshow Fortineaux Associates Julie and Stephen Gottlieb Mr. Barry Herman Ms. Marcia Dresner Laurlene Straughn Pratt Foundation Ms. April Gottsagen Ms. Miriam Herman Larry and Jane Droppa Parks & People Foundation Dr. Meredith Gould Ms. Annalise Heron Gloria and Lindsay Dryden T. Rowe Price Foundation Mr. James Gouldmann Thomas and Sandra Hess Mr. L. Dyson Dryden William Randolph Hearst Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Leslie H. Graef Mr. Martin K.P. Hill Shaojia Du and Xiaoyin Wang Mr. Robert Fowler Grafton Consulting LLC Robert and Sandra Hillman Norman and Valerie Dubin Stephen and Jayne Frank Mr. Andrew Graham Martin and Paula Himeles DuBois Circle Mr. Stan Frazier Ms. Jean Elizabeth Graham Richard and Margaret Himelfarb Craig and Nan Duerling John and Elaine Freeman Ms. Betsy Granek Joseph and Bette Hirsch Elvis Dumervil Arlene and Kenneth Friedman Mrs. Toni Greenberg Gina and Daniel Hirschhorn David and Yehudis Eagle Ellen Friedman Mrs. Emily Greene Hoffberger Family Philanthropies Brian Eakes Ms. Judith Friedman Dr. Sue Greene Peter and Lisa Hoffberger Nancy and Alan Eason Mr. Donald Fry Mrs. Marlene Greenebaum Barbara Hogan John and Donna Easton Dr. Jillian Fry Ms. Peggy Greenman Terry Hogan The Estate of William B. Eddisson Mr. David Fu Mrs. Lauren Greenwald Ernestine Jolivet Donna Eden Mrs. Ann Fugett Alison Greer Ralph and Sharon Holzman Ms. Joyce Edington Dr. Erin Fults Mr. Demetreus Gregg Homeless Angels Edwards & Hill Communications, LLC Ms. Jane Fun Molly Gregory Mr. Phillip E. Hooks Gretchen Edwards Ms. Lisa Gaffney Nancy Gregory Horseshoe Casino Baltimore Willem Van Eeghen Marina and John Gaffney Mr. J. David Greydanus Kathleen Vander Horst Dr. Georgia Franyo-Ehlers Kathleen and John Gagnon Ulrike Gross Ms. Jane Houck Ms. Paula Ferris Einaudi Ms. L. Denise Galambos Richard and Linda Grossi House of Musical Traditions Mary and James Elliott Mr. Matthew Gallagher PNC Financial Services Group Angeles de Leon Todd Elliott Ms. Nancy Gallagher Mrs. Donna Lucia Guarino Ms. Susan Hovanec Stuart and Margery Elsberg Ms. Christina Gallo Leonard and Susan Guberman Walter and Stephen Howard Mrs. Gabriella Emmett Ms. Ethel W. Galvin Ms. Claude Helene Guillemard Ms. Susan Hoye Mr. and Mrs. John H. Engel Gamma Boule Foundation Ronald and Cynthia Gunderson Dr. and Mrs. Freeman Hrabowski, III Mr. Michael Enright Ms. Barbara Gamse Joann Gusdanovic and Lisa Evans David and Lily Huang Epworth United Methodist Chapel Nona Gandelman Ms. Julia Guth Ms. Jane L. Hughes Mr. Raphael D. Erfe Jeffrey Gangwisch and Robbye Apperson Ms. Adelaide A. Habel Mr. Sean Hull Ms. Carol Erhardt Lyle Garitty Miles and Ronnie Haber Roger and Linda Hultgren Yener and Brenda Erozan Pinkney and Yvonne Garner Ms. Stephanie R. Hack Sarah Humphreys and Lawrence Mason Ms. Karen McNamara Esposito Mr. Robert Garnet Eric Hadaway Ms. Dorothy M Hunt Patrick and Janice Eteme Leete and Jamie Garten Kenneth and Arlene Haddock Paul and Jennifer Huston Mr. Alan W. Evans John and Christine Gazurian Ms. Marian Hahn Mr. Chris Hutchinson Charles and Beth Evans Ms. Gail Geller Kathryn Haller and Jeffrey Johnson David and Susan Hutton Exchange Club of Highlandtown Inc. Judith Geller and Michael Raitzyk Fern and J. Edward Hamel Ms. Elisabeth Hyleck Exelon Corporation Ms. Gretchen Genello Carole Hamlin and C. Fraser Smith Takeru Igusa and Catherine Renggli John Eyring Generosity Brian and Carolyn Hammock Victor and Jan Ilenda Family League of Baltimore City, Inc. John Gerwig Robert and Beverly Handwerger Joo Hyun Im Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Farinacci Phyllis Joy Gestrin Ms. Lincolnette Handy Menchey Music Service, Inc. Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas Ms. Vera Gibbs Kristen Handy-Brown Candlelight Concert Society, Inc. Mrs. Kathleen D. Farno Wilson and Jeanne Gildee James Hanes Alan and Karen Ingalls Ms. Carmen L. Farrior Raquel Whiting Gilmer Taylor Hanex Gary and Iris Ingber Arthur and Eena Feld Susan Gilson Michael and Ann Hankin Mrs. Tina Iosue Mark and Beth Felder Mr. and Mrs. James L. Ginsburg Richard Hannigan Sister Mary Irving Mrs. Katherine Feldmann Ms. Arlene Gioia Dr. Michael Hansen and The Isaac & Leah M. Potts Sandra Feldman Mr. John M. Gipson Ms. Nancy Randa Foundation, Inc. Melissa and Ilya Feliciano The GiveCorps Foundation James and Linda Happel Mrs. Padma Iyer Mr. H. Stephen Fender Mrs. Suzanne L. Given Mrs. Beth Happick Ronna Jablow
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Ms. Kathleen Jackson Laurie Kim Ruth and Jay Lenrow Ms. Gloria Jean Mason Mr. Peter Jackson Byron King Scott and Laurie Lerman Lydia Mason and Mark Ingram Hillary Jacobs Andrea Kirsch Margot and Larry Lessans Jason Mathias Richard Jacobs Mr. Stephen Kiser The Letaw Family Foundation, Inc. Ms. Barbara Matthews Sanford and Ann Jacobson Michael and Clara Klein William and Joanne Levasseur Lance Matthiesen David and Ulrike Jaller Ms. Joan Klein Ms. Keisha A. Leverette Daniel and Agnes Mazur Wendy and Chris Jeffries Marcel and Barbara Klik Leonard and Cynthia Levering Michael McCaffery and Beverly Allynnore Jen Edward and Louise Klohr Mrs. Sara W. Levi Wendland Mrs. Eleanor Jenks Ms. Kristin Kluge Roger Levin and Janet Siegel Mr. Ronald McCallum Brenda Jews Ms. Regan Knapp Ms. Emily R. Levitas Ms. Mary Stuart McCamy The Jim & Patty Rouse Charitable Robert and Joyce Knodell Andrea LeWinter and Stephen Seliger David and Susan McCardell Foundation Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation Orville and Marion Lewis Ms. Valencia McClure Joan G. And Joseph Klein Jr. Mr. Martin Knott Claudia Lewis The Estate of Carol McCord Foundation William Koerner Ms. Emily Li Mr. Leo C. McDonagh Dana and David Johns Mr. Rick Kohr Li Li Ms. Jamie McDonald Johns Hopkins Hospital Ms. Hillary Kolodner Ava Lias-Booker and Earl Booker Sen. Nathaniel J. McFadden Johns Hopkins University Nicholas and Stephanie Konstant Frances and Edward Lieberman James and Eve McGovern Mr. Adrian Johnson Danielle Koontz Ms. Janine Linden Ms. Kathleen McGuire Ms. Kathleen Johnson Sallyann Koontz Ms. Jennifer Lindner Mr. Jim McIntyre Ms. Mary L. Johnson Dr. Elizabeth Koopman Ms. Lynne Lipsitz Vatrice McKoy Amy Johnson Mrs. Theresa M. Kopasek Mr. William C. Litsinger, Jr Ms. Florence A. McLean Mrs. Janet Johnson Rita and I.J. Kopin Joan and David Little Ms. Bettye J. Meadows Mrs. Mabel Johnson Lawrence Koppelman and Mrs. Susan Liss Jeffrey and Anita Meddin Sandi Johnson Elizabeth Ritter Mrs. Harry R. Locke Mr. Marcia Medina Ms. Janet C. Johnston Dr. Bernard F. Kozlovsky Lockhart Vaughan Foundation Mr. Gary S. Melnick Ms. Ernestine Jones Jolivet Mr. James B Kraft Ms. Joan C. Lockman Lauren Mendelsohn Ms. Diana Jolley Ms. Cynthia Kratz Mr. Alan Long Ms. Michelle N Mendez Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jolley Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kremen Mr. and Mrs. Ron Lorentzen Ms. Carol Merrell Mary and Dale Jolliffe Julian Krolik and Elaine Weiss Frank E. and Miriam Loveman Abel Merrill Mr. James Edward Jones Evan and Toni Krometis Foundation Dr. Maria W. Merritt Arthur Jones, III Sara Krusenstjerna Harold and Judith Lowe Mr. Randolph Metcalfe Christopher Jones Kristen Krzyzewski and David Yalowitz Mrs. Maxine D. Lowy Ms. Jill Meyer Ms. Debbie Jones Edmond and Linda Kulp Peggy and Chao Lu Harvey and Phyllis Meyerhoff Ms. Melanie Jones Richard and Paola Kulp Ms. Anna C Luther Neil and Sayra Meyerhoff Kristin Jurkscheit Yann and Beatrice Kulp Ms. Jane Lynn Joseph Meyerhoff and Dawna Cobb Angie Jusino Edoardo Kulp Mr. Christopher J. Lyon Mr. Lou Mezzanotte Ms. Joanne Juskus Joshua Kulp and Julie Zuckerman Stefan MacGillis Daniel and Kay Michaelis Anson and Jonathan Justi Sunil Kumar and Sumati Murli Ms. Carolyn Machamer Ms. Susan Middaugh Heather Kadel Julie Kurland and Marcia Diehl Robb and Barb MacKie Gary and Jill Miller Ms. Ann H. Kahan Ms. Bonnie D. Kutch Ms. Ellen Macks Herbert and Carrie Miller Ms. Helene Kahn Min Kwon and Hyeyon Roh Ann and Thomas MacLellan Stephen and Susan Miller Mr. Henry Kahn Mr. Alexander Lacquement Mary MacVey Mrs. Barbara Miller Kaiser Permanente Mark and Sandy Laken Mr. Randy Macy Ms. Deborah Miller Hinrich and Christine Kaiser Tracy Lambros Macy’s, Inc. Mr. Stanley Miller Paul Kalb and Susan Ascher Ms. Patricia A. Landis Sen. Martin Madden Hilary Miller and Katherine Bent Harvey Kallens and Bonnie Schulman John Landon Andrea and Michael Madsen Janis Millete Ms. Audrey Kallman Shannon Landwehr Mr. and Mrs. Howard Majev Carol and Noah Minkin Mr. Stratton Kalpaxis Col. Stephen Langenberg Ms. Sarah W. Majoros Elizabeth and William Minkin Mr. Mumtaz B. Kammerer Stephen M. and Maria T. Lans Maller Wealth Advisors Cynthia Minkovitz Mr. Aaron Jordan Kaplan Mr. Jason Lasher Ms. Sarah Mallonga Mr. Brian Stokes Mitchell Kappa Kappa Psi Ms. Donna Lashof Ms. Maureen Malone John and Jolie Mitchell III Dr. and Mrs.* Murray Kappelman Mr. Bruce Lauber Donald and Brigitte Manekin Ms. Patricia J. Mitchell Mr. Peter Karpoff Ann-Marie Lawlor Ms. Marsha Manekin Ms. Peg Mitchell Ms. Nancy Eliza Kass Ms. Wendy Lawner Amy Mann Ms. Francine Mittelman P. Kates Mr. Jim Lawrence Ms. Sara Manning Herbert and Miriam Mittenthal Dr. and Mrs. Eric Katkow Rangini Lawrence Denise Maple Dr. Margaret Mohler-Strahan Howard and Marion Katz Mary and Philip Leaf Mr. Thierry Marbach Mrs. Deborah Molesworth Louis and Minna Katz League of American Orchestras Shirley Marcus-Allen Charles and Linda Monk Barbara P. Katz Mr. and Mrs. John LeBarton Ms. Elizabeth B. Mariani Wes and Dawn Moore Jennifer Katze and Anthony Kraus Lainy LeBow-Sachs Marcia Markowitz Ms. Lisa W. Moore Mr. Loren Bruce Kayfetz Alexis P. Lecouras Mrs. Gloria Marrow Daniel Moore and Elizabeth Pierce Mr. Steve Kearney Thomas LeDoux Jake and Jennifer Martin Lisa Moore Monica Kearns Kathleen and Kenneth Lee William and Carol Martin Stephanie Moore Ms. Joyce Keating Ms. Paula H. Lee Virginia Martin Claudia Morales Mrs. Julia Keelty Brian and Kathy Lee Patrick Martinez Robert and Lila Mordhorst Mr. James T. Kelley, III Dr. Jennifer Lee-Summers Jason and Andrea Marx Mrs. Jennifer Morehouse Ms. Delores Kerr Ms. Linda Lee Mr. Joel Marx Mr. Ramal Moreland Ms. Tatevik Khoja-Eynatyan Ronald Lee Maryland State Arts Council Carolyn and Charles Morgan Ms. Helen A. Kiefert David and Rebecca Leege Julie Masiello Suzanne and Thomas Morgan Ms. Genevieve Ann Kiel Dr. Sandra R. Leichtman Mr. Andy Maslar Mr. Jared Morgan
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Ms. Maureen Morgan Ms. Margaret Pagan Dr. Bonnie Reagan Ms. Paulette Morgan Mr. Stephen Painter Erica Reaves Terry Morgenthaler and Patrick Kerins Ms. Ellen-Jane K. Pairo Raymond L. Reed Shelley and Dan Morhaim Mr. Jonathan Palevsky Randi Reichel Campaign Joseph Morra Millie Paniccia Elizabeth and Charles Reichelt Ms. Elizabeth K. Moser Cindy Paradies and Larry Moscow Joseph and Judith Reiff Committee Ms. Trina Mostyn Mr. and Mrs. Gazzater Parham Mignon Reik Mr. Joseph Francis Mrozek Bruce and Nancy Paris Mr. Salem Reiner Mr. Kirk Mullen Mrs. Young Ah Park Michael Reisch and Lily Jarman-Reisch Mrs. Joy Munster Jung Park Ms. Dee Dee Remenick Barbara M. Bozzuto Mr. William Murphy Mrs. Marcia Park Ms. Karen E Renaud Co-Chair Mrs. Carrie Murrie Ms. Nancy Parker Mr. William Reuling Claire Myer and Robert Schuck Edward and Kathleen Patey Ms. Amy Rhodes Thomas S. Bozzuto Mr. Andrew Myer Maureen Patton Carl and Bonnie Richards Co-Chair Roy and Gillian Myers Ms. Pamela Paulk Dr. William Richards Margot B. Nadien Ms. Ana Pavich Dina Richardson Maestra Marin Alsop Dr. Sheila Namir The Pearl Foundation Mrs. Tona A. Riggio Mr. Marc Narkus-Kramer Ms. Amy Peck The Estate of Robert Riley Rick Bernstein Thomas and Judith Nassau Ms. LaTasha Peele Mrs. Lynda Aalpoel Riley Ms. Amy Nathan Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust Stephen Robb and Judy Honig Jonathan Carney National Arts and Humanities Youth Catherine and Luis Penafiel Maria Robertson Program William and Kathleen Pence Cecil and Donna Robinson Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr. Ms. Virginia W. Naylor Ms. Margaret Penhallegon Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Anne and Gerald Nelson Kimberly and Aurelio Perez-Lugones Dr. Ann Rogers Allan Jensen, MD Mr. David Nelson Patsy Perlman Mr. Jonathan Rogers Netcraftsmen Joan Perrault Mrs. Ashleigh Rohm Fred Lazarus IV Network for Good Ms. Stephanie Pettaway Roland Park Women’s Club Mrs. Cynthia Neverdon-Morton Ms. Jacquie Perry Sara Rollfinke Jonna Lazarus Ms. Mariette Hiu Newcomb Geraldine Perry Mr. Edgar Romero Jennifer and Thomas Newlin Ms. Julie Perry Mr. David Ropp Lainy Lebow-Sachs Miss Alexandra Ng Mr. Lawrence Peskin Sondra Rose Sandra Levi-Gerstung David Nickels and Gerri Hall Mr. Thomas Peter Bev Rosen and Russ Morris Mr. Ron Nicodemus Misha and Lis Petkevich Susan Rosen Peter T. Kjome Ms. Arline Nitzberg Ms. Ruth Pettus Mr. Benjamin Rosenberg Ms. Barbara Rosenberger Ms. Anna Noon Ms. Thien-Kim Pham Marshall A. Levine, MD Norfolk Southern Foundation Jonathan Philipson Howard and Michelle Rosenbloom Antonella Nota and Mark Clampin Ms. Lesley Pierce Mrs. Beth C. Rosenwald Jane Marvine Mark and Alice Notis Mr. Wendell Pierce Gary and Naomi Rosner Ruth and Michael Notis Ms. Jo-Ann Pilardi Phyllis and David Ross Catherine McClelland Ms. Anne-Marie Ntagahoraho Thomas and Natalie Pilon Mary Ross and Donna Martin Susan K. Numrich Audrey and Thomas Pinkney Paul Rothman and Frances Meyer Joseph Meyerhoff II Andrew and Sharon Nussbaum Michael* and Lisa Pintzuk Ms. Amalie R. Rothschild Mr. Charles Ober Arthur and Judith Pittenger Lissa Rotundo Sen. Barbara Mikulski Ms. Heather O’Brien PLDA Interiors Roundwood Fund David and Laura O’Callaghan Ms. Judith Plott Ted and Lucinda Rouse Terry M. Rubenstein Mr. Colm O’Comartun Teresa Pollet Suzan Rouse Elizabeth O’Connell Elizabeth Porter Clark and Constance Row Dan Shykind Mrs. Charleen O’Connor Ms. Deborah Lou Potee Ms. Maryann Rozzell Diane O’Conor Anne and Roger Powell Mr. Michael S. Rubenstein Lisa Steltenpohl Ryan and Katherine O’Doherty William and June Powers Mr. Peter Ruchkin Steven and Sherri O’Donnell Ms. Jennifer Powers Dr. Janice Marie Rusnak James Wyman Antoinette O’Donnell The Estate of Margery Pozefsky Mr. Ira Russcol Elizabeth O’Gara Ronda Pozoulakis Neil and JoAnn Ruther Lee and Marilyn Ogburn President’s Committee on the The Honorable and Mr. Garrick Ohlsson Arts and Humanities Mrs. Boyd Rutherford Dina and John Sarbanes Jerry O’Keefe Ms. Virginia Probasco Christine Rutkowski Mrs. Jennifer Sarlin Mr. Timothy Thomas O’Leary Mrs. Stephanie Prange Proestel Ms. Elizabeth Ryan Ms. Molla Sarros David Oleynik Herbert and Linda Proper Ann Sacks David and Ann Saunders Mrs. Hannah Elaine Oliver Daniel Pugh Ruth Sadler and Robert Byrnes Ms. Brenda Saunders Miss Chiara Olivi Ms. Toni Purdy Kelly Sage Mr. William Saunders Ms. Elizabeth Olson Fangtu Qiu and Emily Li Ms. Keiko Saito John and Gioia Sawchuk Mr. Steven Oney Mr. Jacob Radin The Salmon Foundation Terrence Sawyer Mr. Michael O’Pecko Sandra Marie Ragusa Elise and David Saltzberg SC&H Group, LLC Kevin O’Reilly Mr. Chris Rahl Jeffrey and Diana Samet Ellen Schaefer Ms. Bonnie Orrison Ms. Chris Raitzyk Jon and Barbara Samuels Susan Scharf Dr. Adaora Osakwe The Rales Foundation Mrs. Jeanne Samuels Mr. Wayne R. Schaumburg Nancy Osborn and Martin Beilin Harry and Marian Randall Wendy Sanborn Ms. Irma Schechter Mr. Richard Osial Kathy Randolph Ms. Kirsten E. Sandberg Ms. Ann Scheck Richard and Lois Pace Lauren Rausch Ms. Maureen Sandberg Amy Bober-Schenerman and Alexis Pace and Szu Burgess Mr. William Ray Sander and Norma K. Buchman Fund Mark Schenerman
SEPTEMBER –OCTOBER / MAY–JUN 2018 / OVERTUREOVERTURE 39 39 RESOUNDING The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century SYMPHONY FUND HONOR ROLL Mr. Benjamin Scherer The Honorable and Mrs. David and Carolyn Thayer Sheldon and Harriet Weinstock Joanne Schmader and Michael Casassa James T. Smith Ms. Debra Therit Ilene and Stephen Weiss John and Deborah Schmidt Elizabeth and Claire Smith Ms. Susan Beth Thomas Mr. Fred Weiss Linda Schmidt Karen and Michael Smith Thomas Wilson Foundation Mr. Joseph Weiss The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke and Ms. Nancy E Smith Dr. Freeda Thompson Marie Wells Dr. Patricia L. Schmoke, MD Norman and Rona Smith Mr. Fred Thomsen Ms. Qiana Wells Greg and Pauline Schneider Ms. Patricia M Smith Ms. Carrie Thornbery Dr. Toni Wengerd Ms. Jean Schoenleber Mr. Graylin Smith Amy and Eric Tich Delegate Christopher and Anne West Dr. Hendrik P. Scholl Mr. James Smith Ms. Karline Tierney Westhoff Family Foundation Dee and Robert Schuette Dr. and Mrs. William Smulyan Maria and Chuck Tildon Ms. Sheila Wexler Rick and Tracey Schultz Lee and Gloryann Snyder Mrs. Anne Tilmes Calbraith and Aimee Wheaton Fred and Janet Schutzman Ms. Shirley Snyder Sarah Titus Marvina Whethers Jim and Charlene Schwark Ms. Stephanie Snyder Ms. Elizabeth J. Toole Ms. Louise M. White Eleanor Schwark Ms. Joan Sobkov Mrs. Normina L. Torres Ms. Rita B. Whiting Mr. Neil Herbert Schwartz Richard and Lorna Solomon Towson University Mr. Kenneth Whitley Frederick and Kathleen Schwarz Alfred and Jill Sommer Alice Tracy Mrs. Mary Ellen Whitman Barbara Schweizer Joyce and Yeong Song Carol Traub Gerard Whitmore Mr. James Scott Ms. Geetika Sood Travelers Foundation Scott and Mary Wieler Lyndi Scott-Strite Southwest Airlines Jim and Karen Trennepohl Mr. Thomas Wilcox Mr. Wayne Scott Courtney Spangler True Q, LLC Mr. Eugene Wilkins Paula Seabright and Gabriel Hightower Dr. Frank Sparandero Ms. Carole Trump Jeri S. Wilkins Second Presbyterian Church Ms. Betty Spear Ms. Kristen Tubman Mr. R. Adam Williams of Baltimore Speedwell Foundation Robin and Harold Tucker Margaret D. Williams Mrs. Sarah Sedlak Scott and Heather Speert Stanley and Cynthia Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams Clair Segal Ms. Suzanne Spencer Ms. Kelley Tucker Ms. Judith D. Willner Dr. Priya Sekar Don Spero and Nancy Chasen Rebecca Tucker Ms. Caroline Wilner Valerie Serrall Kimberly Spiro Kathy Tugendhat Judy and Fred Wilpon Ms. Alexis Seth Mrs. Mary T. Sprow Ms. Kathryn Turner Ms. Felecia Wilson Maxine Seyboth Mr. Donald Tynes, Sr Kristin and Rex Turner William and Mary Beth Wilson Judith Shamir Ms. Teerada Sripaipan Evans and Rose Tyson Susan Savits Winson M. Sigmund and Barbara Shapiro Eric and Karen Stahl Uber Ricco Winters Ronald and Kathryn Shapiro Barbara and Frederick Stam James and Therese Ulmer Mr. Daniel Wise Stephen and Anita Shaw Terry and Deborah Stambaugh Ms. Marlene Underwood Frank Witter and Mary Forbes Witter Ms. Joanne Shea Michael and Katherine Stanka United Way Central MD Allen Wolf Mark and Lauren Sheehan Jerrica Stanley United Way Of Greater Kansas City Mrs. Melissa Wolf Dr. Louise Sheiner Wilma and Lee Starkey Dana Valery Woman’s Club of Roland Park Ms. Martha E. Shelhoss Mr. Charles Starkey Ms. Kathryn Vaselkiv Mr. Ken Wong Ms. Barbara Shelhoss Joan Stearman Mr. Eric Veiel Mr. Ken Woodbury Stephen Shepard and Peggy Hetrick Ms. Patricia Stephens Venable LLP Ms. Sarah Woodson Ms. Patricia Shiflett Ronald and Susie Stern Eric and Noreen Victor Mrs. Sandra Wool Ms. Gloria Shin Ms. Andrea Stern Marguerite and Umberto VillaSanta Ms. Barbara Worsham Ms. Mary Shine Stephen and Sue Sternheimer Jan and Robert Wagner John and Ann Wotell Lucia Shoemaker and John Schwab Deborah Stetson Frank and Jane Walker Ms. Frances Ann Wright Samuel and Josephine Shore Alexandra Stevens Kent and Suzanne Walker Wright Family Foundation Mr. Craig Shore Susan Stewart Ms. Doris Walker Dr. Andrea Wurster Burdette and Judith Short Shale Stiller and Ellen Heller Mr. Harley Walker Mattie Wynne Alexander and Patricia Short Ms. Carrie Wilson Stockwell Ms. Christine L. Wallace Nicholas and Ellen Yancich Mr. Sheldon Shugarman Ms. Shirley H. Stokes Ms. Catherine A. Walsh Ellen Yankellow and Bill Chapman Mrs. Virginia G. Shuger Corey Stone Ms. Jacqueline Walsh Rong Ye and Max Hu Richard and Francine Shure Ms. Jacquelyn Stone Eleanor and Michael Walton Charles and Carol Yoder Leonard and Virginia Siems Geary L. Stonesifer Ms. Frances Warner Ms. Eileen Yoffe Jean Silber Mr. Thomas Stosur John and Susan Warshawsky Kyle and Melissa Yoon Rachel Silber David and Susan Straus Mr. and Mrs. David Warshawsky Ellen Yorke Ms. Gillian Silver Ms. Angela M. Strope Mrs. Manuele D. Wasserman Michael and Barbara Young Morton and Harriet Silverstein Jeffrey and Erin Strovel Leland and Marjory Watermeier Mr. Neil Young Mrs. Alyssa Silverstein Ms. Harriet Stulman Ms. Tracy Watkins Pamela Young Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Simms Mrs. Bonnie Stump Ms. Barbara J. Watson Paul and Deborah Young-Hyman Ms. Marjorie B. Simon Ms. Barbara Styrt Michelle and Trevin Wear Norman and Mary Youskauskas Mrs. Elizabeth Simon-Higgs Dr. Robert Summe Elizabeth and John Weaver Robert and Miriam Zadek Mrs. Muriel Simon Dr. Edward Syron Meg and Paul Weber Ms. Ellen Kahan Zager Wendy and Mike Singer Dr. Michael Szedlmayer Lisa and Paul Webster Joanne Zarling Ellwood and Thelma Sinsky Ms. Margaret Taliaferro Lazar Wechsler and Ms. Marya Zeigler Barbara and Joseph Skillman Ms. Sharron D. Tan Kaethe Wechsler-Jentzsch Mr. Shawn Zeigler Dr. and Mrs. James W. Slack James and Carolyn Tancock The Wednesday Club Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Zenilman Jacqueline and Phill Slavney Ms. Milagritos Tapia Francie Weeks and Scott Shane Lydia Zieglar Ms. Beth Slepian Mr. Benjamin D. Tauber Wen Wei Steve Ziger John S. Slifka Ms. Holly Ann Taylor Cara Weiman The Estate of Dr. Mildred Zindler Mr. John R. Sliger Ms. Angel Terol Mr. Howard Weinberg Jeff Zoller Ms. Anne Sloan Mr. Andrew J. Tesoro D’Arcy and Bruce Weinberger Jaime Slocum Ms. Claudia Tesoro Brian and Karen Weinstein * Deceased
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JANUARY 1, 2017–MARCH 31, 2018 The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is deeply grateful to the individual, corporate, foundation and government donors whose generosity to the Annual Fund supports our artistic, education and community engagement initiatives. Gifts were received from the following donors between January 1, 2017 and March 31, 2018. Please note that this Annual Fund listing does not include the generous gifts made in support of the Endowment, OrchKids and/or the BSO Gala. To donate, please contact the BSO Members Office at 410.783.8124 or visit BSOmusic.org/donate.
THE CENTURY CLUB Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Dr. James Albrecht $100,000 or more Memorial Foundation Stanley Asrael Marin Alsop The Huether-McClelland Foundation The Charles T. Bauer Foundation Richard and Carol Bernstein George and Catherine^ McClelland Andrew and Janet Hartman Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Scott Phares and Judy Witt Phares Erin Becker Foundation and the Estate of Ruth Marder Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Richman Dr. Emile A. Bendit and Diane Abeloff The Bozzuto Family Charitable Fund Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bernard Sarellen and Marshall Levine Michelle and Howard Rosenbloom Diane and Leland Brendsel Hecht-Levi Foundation Hon. Steve Schuh and Family Steven Brooks and Ann Loar Brooks Mrs. Robert H. Levi * and Dr. and Mrs. Charles I. Shubin Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bunting, Jr. Sandra Gerstung Mr. and Mrs. Gideon N. Stieff, Jr. Ms. Mary Catherine Bunting Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Ms. Kathleen A. Chagnon Charitable Funds MAESTRA’S CIRCLE DIAMOND August and Melissa Chiasera Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker $15,000–$24,999 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coutts Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cowie, Jr. Alena and David M. Schwaber Mr.* and Mrs.* Alexander Armstrong The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Dr. and Mrs.* Solomon H. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Jack Biddle III Ellen and Linwood Dame Mr. and Mrs. David J. Trone The Bunting Family Foundation Chapin Davis Investments Caswell J. Caplan Charitable Mr. and Mrs. H. Chace Davis, Jr. FOUNDER’S CIRCLE Income Trusts/Constance R. Caplan Ms. Margaret Ann Fallon $50,000–$99,999 The Charlesmead Foundation Joanne Gold and Andrew A. Stern Thomas Brener Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Wendy M. Jachman Mr.* and Mrs. Kingdon Gould, Jr. Alan and Carol Edelman Riva and Marc Kahn Dr. and Mrs. Allan Jensen Mr. Ira B. (Bill) Fader Jr. Loren Kayfetz and Pat Pannell Patricia and Mark Joseph Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts William La Cholter and Jenny R. Mann Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Shawe Sandra Levi Gerstung Estate of Richard M. Lansburgh Mr. * and Mrs. William Mulligan Dr. Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa Richard Wayne Ley Ellen W.P. Wasserman Stanley* and Linda Hambleton Panitz Macht Philanthropic Fund of the AJC Morris Shapiro Family Foundation Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff $25,000–$49,999 Barbara Katz Elizabeth K. Moser Anonymous (2) Drs. Yuan and Reiko Lee Dr. Selvin Passen Donna and Paul Amico The John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. William and Kathleen Pence The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Howard Majev and Janet Brandt Majev The Pete Store, LLC Robert H. Boublitz Virginia West Martin RCM&D / Albert R. Counselman “In Memory of Harry A. Boublitz” Hilary B. Miller and Dr. Katherine N. Bent Barry and Susan Rosen The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Mr. Joel J. Rabin and Dr. Nancy Kohn Rabin Dr. and Mrs. John H. Sadler Foundation Terry M. and James Rubenstein The Honorable and Mrs. James T. Smith, Jr. Ruth Carol Fund Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shykind Melissa and Philip Spevak Sara and Nelson* Fishman Richard C. and Julie I. Vogt Mr. Andrew A. Stern and Mrs. Joanne Gold The Goldsmith Family Foundation, Inc. David and Chris Wallace Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund, Inc. The Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust Ellen Yankellow and William Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Loren Western Young Artist Sponsor Mr. Edward Wiese Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold IV MAESTRA’S CIRCLE PLATINUM Barbara and Mike Young Mrs. Barbara Gruver $10,000–$14,999 SC&H Group Nancy Hackerman Anonymous * Deceased Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hamilton Jr. “In Memory of Gavin and Mary Manson” ^ Governing Members Executive Committee
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BSO musician Matthew Barker, Marin Alsop with Board Chair Joanne Rosenthal with Bob GM Beverly Sager with BSO President Fourth/Utility Trumpet, and his Barbara Bozzuto and Emile Bendit. Hallock, Beryl and Philip Sachs Peter Kjome. wife Alicia Barker. and Fritzi Hallock.
BSO AT THE MEYERHOFF Sheila J. Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butler Bruce and Caren Beth Hoffberger HONOR ROLL Mr. Charles Miller Mr. and Mrs. S. Winfield Cain Robert and Marilyn J. Hoffman The following donors contribute to Margot and Cleaveland Miller Walter and Kathy Capp Len and Betsy Homer support music and music education Jolie and John Mitchell Michael and Kathy Carducci Bill and Ann Hughes throughout the Baltimore community. Dr. and Mrs. C.L. Moravec Marilyn and David Carp Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jehl Mrs. Joy Munster^ Shaun F. Carrick and Susan B. Katzenberg MEYERHOFF GOVERNING Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nerenberg Ronald W. Griffin Mr. James T. Kelley III MEMBERS GOLD Kevin and Diane O’Connor Ms. Susan Chouinard Louise and Richard F. Kemper $5,000–$9,999 Dr. and Mrs. David Paige Joan Piven-Cohen and Paul Konka^ and Susan Dugan-Konka^ Anonymous (4) Dr. and Mrs.* Lawrence C. Pakula Samuel T. Cohen David* and Barbara Kornblatt Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Allen Marge Penhallegon^ Wandaleen and Emried Cole Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kremen Frederick Apfel and Meredith Pattin Helene and Bill Pittler Steven P. Collier and Ms. Patricia Krenzke and Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Dr. Elizabeth H. Jones Mr. Michael Hall Deborah and Howard M. Berman Neil J.and JoAnn N. Ruther Mr. and Mrs. John W. Conrad, Jr. Ms. Kristen Krzyzewski and Bunny Bernstein Dr.* and Mrs.^ Marvin M. Sager David and Vivien Coombs Dr. David Yalowitz John and Marjorie Blodgett Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Schapiro David and Ellen Cooper Dr. James and Mrs. Lynne LaCalle Dr. and Mrs. Paul Z. Bodnar Francesca Siciliano and Mark Green Charles A. Corson Dr. and Mrs. Donald Langenberg John and Bonnie Boland Dr. and Mrs. Harris J. Silverstone Robert Daffer Anna and George Lazar Cape Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Carvel Tiekert Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Dahlka, Jr. Ruth and Jay Lenrow Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Susan G. Waxter Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius Darcy Doris and Vernon Lidtke Mr. Timothy Chapman Delegate Christopher and Anne West Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dausch Dr. Frances and Mr. Edward Mr. and Mrs.* Elbert Cole Laurie S. Zabin Arthur F. and Isadora Dellheim Lieberman Faith and Marvin Dean Foundation, Inc. Darielle and Earl Linehan Dr. and Mrs. Thomas DeKornfeld MEYERHOFF GOVERNING Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Drachman Ms. Louise E. Lynch Ronald E. Dencker MEMBERS SILVER Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Droppa Donald and Lenore Martin Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust $3,000 –$4,999 Bill and Louise Duncan Ms. Beverly Wendland and Kathy and Frank Dilenschneider Anonymous (4) Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Dusold Mr. Michael McCaffery Walter B. Doggett III, E*Trade Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Adams Donna Z. Eden and Henry* Goldberg Drs. Edward and Lucille McCarthy Dr. Sylwester J. Dziuba Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Adkins Deborah and Philip English John Meyerhoff, MD and Lenel Dr. Sonia and Dr. Myrna Estruch George and Frances Alderson Michaeline Fedder and Beverly Winter Srochi-Meyerhoff Samuel^ and Andrea Fine Mr. Paul Araujo John and Pam Ferrari Drs. Dalia and Alan Mitnick Ellen Bruce Gibbs Jackie and Eugene Azzam David and Merle Fishman Dr. Mellasenah Y. Morris Sandra and Barry Glass Mrs. Thomas H.G. Bailliere, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Jerome L. Fleg Rex Myers Betty E. and Leonard H. Golombek The Cameron and Jane Baird Ms. Lois Flowers Ms. and Mr. Jan Neiman Dr. Todd Phillips and Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John C. Frederick Roger F. Nordquist, Ms. Denise Hargrove^ Sarah and Cameron Baird JoAnn and Jack Fruchtman “In Memory of Joyce C. Ward” Sandra and Thomas Hess Chris H. Bartlett John A. Galleazzi and “In Memory of the Rev Howard G. Mr.* and Mrs. J. Woodford Howard, Jr. Donald L. Bartling Elizabeth A. Hennessey Norton and Charles O. Norton” David and Susan D. Hutton Ms. Franca B. Barton and Gale Gillespie Ann Norton Susan and Stephen Immelt Mr. George G. Clarke Laura Gamble and Rob Gillison Drs. Antonella Nota and Mark Clampin Richard and Brenda Johnson Hellmut D.W. Bauer Helaine and Louis Gitomer Anne M. O’Hare The Ralph and Shirley Klein Dr. and Mrs. Mandell Bellmore Brian and Gina Gracie Drs. Erol and Julianne Oktay Foundation, Inc. Donna and Stanley Ber Toni Greenberg Dr. Bodil B. Ottesen Peter Kjome and Kristen Morrison Mr. and Ms. Hugh Bethell Dr. Diana Griffiths Mac and Helen* Passano Miss Dorothy B. Krug Ellen Baron Blaustein and Mordecai P. Anne and Stephen Hahn Fred and Grazina Pearson Mark and Sandy Laken^ Blaustein, M.D. Carole Hamlin^ and C. Fraser Smith^ Beverly and Sam* Penn Lainy LeBow-Sachs and Leonard* Sachs Betsy and John Bond Gary C. Harn David and Lesley Punshon-Smith Mangione Family Enterprises David E. and Alice R. Brainerd Melanie and Donald Heacock Peter E. Quint Eileen Mason Dr. Helene Breazeale Drs. Ruby and Robert Hearn Dr. Jonas Rappeport and Alma Smith “In Memory of Joseph H. Mason” Dr. Rudiger and Robin Breitenecker Mr. David L. Heckman Susan Gerrity Chase Mrs. Lorie Ann Mayorga Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Broadus III Mrs. Hya Heine Paul Rivkin M.D. and Karen Jackson Norfolk Southern Foundation Barbara and Ed Brody Barbara and Sam Himmelrich Nathan and Michelle Robertson Dan and Agnes Mazur Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown John Hirsch and Rebecca M. Richard and Diane Roca Media Support Services Inc. Dr. Robert P. Burchard Cowen-Hirsch Rogers-Wilbur Foundation, Inc.
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Jeffrey D. Rothstein MD, PhD and Mrs. Nancy S. Elson INVEST IN INNOVATION AND Lynn A. Bristol PhD Robert Greenfield Robert W. Russell Frieda and Robert Hallock BECOME A BSO MEMBER TODAY! Beryl and Philip Sachs Lloyd Helt and Ruth Gray Dr. and Mrs. Michael Salcman Betsy and George Hess Ms. Doris Sanders Thelma Horpel Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hubbard, Jr. Marilyn and Herb* Scher Max H. Jordan, Jr. BSO Members enjoy exciting benefits that bring them even Jeff M. Schumer Judith L. Kahl closer to the music, beginning at $75 with a behind-the-scenes Dr. and Mrs. James L. Scott Drs. Harold and Norma Kanarek look at a BSO rehearsal. At higher levels, you can celebrate with M. Sigmund and Barbara K. Shapiro Marcel and Barbara Klik your BSO musicians at cast parties, and our Governing Philanthropic Fund Andrew Lapayowker and Members (donors $3,000 and above) enjoy priority ticketing Stephen Shepard and Peggy Hetrick Sarah McCafferty and other exclusive benefits. Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Sher Melvin Lessing Thom Shipley and Chris Taylor Art and Barbara Lynch Visit: BSOmusic.org/membership Call: 410.783.8124 Francine and Richard Shure Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Family Jean Silber Foundation, Inc. Email: [email protected] Ronnie and Rachelle Silverstein Marina Macks Kahn and John Singer Peter Kahn Ellwood and Thelma Sinsky Genine and Josh Fidler UPCOMING BSO MEMBER EVENTS Ms. Leslie J. Smith Ellen and Lawrence Macks All events are open to both Meyerhoff and Strathmore Ms. Nancy E. Smith Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation members, regardless of the host venue. Carolyn B. Mills and Dr. John A. Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Lee M. Snyder Sally J. Miles Dr. and Mrs. John Sorkin “In Memory of Richard Kastendieck” Upcoming Meyerhoff Events: Anita and Mickey Steinberg Patricia J. Mitchell Mr. Edward Steinhouse Dr. Eddie Molesworth ON-STAGE REHEARSAL Mrs. Dorothea S. Stieff James D. Parker THU, MAY 31 Janice Collins and James Storey Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Petrucci 9:15 am Light Refreshments Harriet Stulman Mr. and Mrs. John Brentnall Powell 10 am Rehearsal Susan and Brian Sullam Catherine Renggli and Takeru Igusa GOVERNING MEMBERS SILVER AND HIGHER ($3,000+) Ruth and Robert Taubman Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Tolzman Mrs. Barbara K. Scherlis ALLEGRETTO DINNER Raymond G. Truitt and Karen and Richard Soisson FRI, JUN 8 Mary K. Tilghman Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sponseller 6 pm Cocktails in the Meyerhoff Lounge Ms. Joan Wah Ronald Stiff and Roberta Van Meter 6:30 pm Dinner in the Second Space William and Salli Ward Charles Emerson Walker PhD SYMPHONY SOCIETY GOLD MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($2,000+) John and Susan Warshawsky Anne Worthington Dr. and Mrs. Matthew R. Weir Drs. Paul and Deborah Young-Hyman $60 per person, meal selections to follow Mr. and Mrs. David Weisenfreund MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY John Hunter Wells CAST PARTY Sean and Jody Wharry SOCIETY SILVER FRI, JUN 8 Ms. Camille B. Wheeler and $1,200–$1,999 Immediately following the performance Mr. William B. Marshall Anonymous (3) Meyerhoff Lounge Gerald White Phyllis and Leonard J. Attman SYMPHONY SOCIETY SILVER MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($1,200+) Mrs. Louise S. Widdup James Ayars Mark and Lisa Wiegmann Mr. Edward L. Bednarz DONOR APPRECIATION CONCERT: Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Williams Arthur and Carole Bell BSO ACADEMY FULL ORCHESTRA Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Berry Jr. SIDE-BY-SIDE Ms. Beverly Winter Roy Birk SAT, JUN 30 Wright Family Foundation Dr. John Boronow and 7:30 pm Chris and Carol Yoder Ms. Adrienne Kols ALL DONORS WELCOME Dr. Jinmin Zhou and Ms. Han Jin “In Memory of John R. H. Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Zurwelle and Charlotte Boronow” Mr. and Mrs.* Charles R. Booth Upcoming Strathmore Events: MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY Ms. Jean K. Brenner SOCIETY GOLD ALLEGRETTO DINNER Jean B. Brown SAT, MAY 19 $2,000–$2,999 Mrs. Robert W. Brown Anonymous (3) Chuck and Beth Bullamore 6 pm Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Abrams Paula and Peter Burger SYMPHONY SOCIETY GOLD MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($2,000+) Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Andrew Donald and Catherine Burke Join us for an elegant dinner with the company of your Robert and Dorothy Bair Family Fund wonderful BSO musicians before the evening performance. Amy and Bruce Barnett Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Burnett Richard O. Berndt Mr. and Mrs. David Callahan Guests are not required to attend the concert to enjoy the Harriet and Bruce Blum Marti and Clarence Carvell Allegretto Dinner. $75 per person. Attendance is limited and Carolyn and John Boitnott David P. and Rosalie Lijinsky Chadwick advanced registration is required. Meal selection to follow. Loretta Cain John and Donna Cookson Mr. Matthew S. Cole and Mr. and Mrs. Reagan M. Crawford EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Dr. Jean Lee Cole Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Crooks For Meyerhoff events, please RSVP to Robert A. and Jeanne Cordes James Daily [email protected] or 410.783.8074. Ernie and Linda Czyryca Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Darr For Strathmore events, please RSVP to Nicholas F. Diliello Mr. and Mrs. William C. Dee [email protected] or 301.581.5215.
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Dr. Alfred J. DeRenzis Shelly Briggs Underhill Neil R. Greene and Ellen G. Miles Sue Carlton Dr. Jeanne A. Dussault and Mr. Mark Robert and Sharonlee Vogel Marc E. Lackritz and Mary DeOreo^ Mr. Harvey A. Cohen and A. Woodworth Charles and Mary Jo Wagandt Burt and Karen Leete^ Mr. Michael R. Tardif Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Elsberg and Mr. and Mrs. Kent Walker Darrell Lemke and Maryellen Trautman Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dante the Elsberg Family Foundation Marguerite E. Walsh and R. Noel Longuemare Mr. and Mrs. David Cohen Beth and Mark Felder Bernard M. Finn Kari Peterson and Benito R. and Chuck Fax and Michele Weil Mr.* and Mrs. Maurice R. Feldman Drs. Susan and James Weiss Ben De Leon Drs. Charles and Cynthia Field Dr. and Mrs. William Fox Leslie and James J. Wharton Lynn Rhomberg Mr. and Mrs. Karl Flicker Dr. and Mrs. Donald S. Gann Ms. Martha Whitty Roger and Barbara Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. Roberto B. Friedman Audrey and Stanford G. Gann, Sr. Jennifer and Leonard Wilcox Don Spero and Nancy Chasen Robert and Carole Fontenrose George Garmer Dr. and Mrs. E.F. Shaw Wilgis Mr. Alan Strasser and Mary and Bill Gibb Mr. Price and Dr. Andrea Gielen Christopher H. Winslow Ms. Patricia Hartge Carol and Jerry Gimmel Judith A. Gottlieb Sander L. Wise Alan V. Asay and Mary K. Sturtevant Dr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Glazer John D. Gottsch, MD and Julia A. Laura and Thomas Witt Dr. Diana Locke and Drs. Marlene and Bill Haffner Haller, MD Dr. Richard Worsham and Mr. Robert E. Toense Sara and James A. Harris, Jr. Mr. Charles H. Griesacker Ms. Deborah Geisenkotter Thomas M. Ward Keith and Linda Hartman Joel and Mary Grossman Sylvia and Peter Winik Rita Mahon and Richard Henry Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gundlach BSO AT STRATHMORE Marc and Amy Wish Esther and Gene Herman Mary Hambleton HONOR ROLL Ellen and Herb Herscowitz Paulette G. Hammond The following donors contribute to STRATHMORE SYMPHONY David A. and Barbara L. Heywood Mr.* and Mrs. E. Phillips Hathaway the BSO at Strathmore Artistic Fund to SOCIETY GOLD Linda Lurie Hirsch Mr. and Mrs. Robert Helm support music and music education $2,000 –$2,999 Madeleine and Joseph Jacobs* Barbara and Michael Hettleman throughout Montgomery County The Adler Family Foundation Ms. Daryl Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Scott Jacobs and the DC Metro community. Nancy and Anthony Abell Peter Kimmel and Stephanie Jackson Honor and John Johnson Anonymous Ms. Kathleen Knepper Ann H. Kahan STRATHMORE GOVERNING Caroline W. and Rick Barnett Anita Difanis and Richard Krajeck Elizabeth M. Kameen MEMBERS GOLD Cecil Chen and Betsy Haanes R. Noel Longuemare Dr. Richard M. Katz and $5,000–$10,000 Dr. Mark Cinnamon and Frank Maddox and Glenda Finley Martha Lessman Katz Anonymous (2) Ms. Doreen Kelly Michael and Judy Mael Mrs. Shirley Kaufman Stanley Asreal Dimick Foundation Mr. Mark Mattucci and Ann and David Keith Community Foundation for the John C. Driscoll Ms. Judith A. Furash George and Catherine Klein National Capital Region Robert and Patricia Fauver Michael McCollum and Jennfier Ricks Fran and Geoffrey Kroll The Charles Delmar Foundation Dr. Edward Finn David and Kay McGoff Allan Krumholz Marcia Diehl and Julie Kurland Dr. and Mrs. Harvey R. Gold David and Anne Menotti Edward and Rebecca Lawson Ms. Marietta Ethier Drs. Joseph Gootenberg and Merle and Thelma Meyer Dr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Lesser Mary Martin Gant Susan Leibenhaut Dr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Milstein Leonard and Cynthia Levering Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan David and Anne Grizzle Ms. Marita Murray Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Levy Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Keller John and Linda Hanson Kevin W. Parker Ms. Elizabeth Masterson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Lans Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hoefler Mr. and Mrs. Peter Philipps Mrs. Kenneth A. McCord David Leckrone and Marlene Berlin Fran and Bill Holmes Thomas Plotz and Catherine Klion Jim and Sylvia Mcgill Marie Lerch and Jeff Kolb Betty W. Jensen Andrew and Melissa Polott Mr. and Mrs. Barry Menne Dr. James and Jill Lipton^ Stephen Kramer Martin Poretsky and Henriette van Eck Tim Meredith Susan Liss and Rabbi Fred Reiner Florentina Mehta Donald and Carolann Regnell Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Miller James Lynch and Anne Woodard Lynch Rita and Bernard Meyers Richard and Melba Reichard Herbert and Miriam Mittenthal Howard and Linda Martin^ Herb and Rita Posner Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Rogell Ms. Marita Murray Edgar McCulloch Mr. and Mrs. Barry Rogstad Jo Ellen and Mark Roseman Michael and Rosemary Noble Mr. and Mrs. Humayun Mirza Donald M. Simonds Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rosenbaum Susan F. O’Connor Dr. William W. Mullins Karen Rosenthal and Dr. Janice Marie Rusnak Margaret O’Rourke David Nickels and Gerri Hall^ M. Alexander Stiffman Dr. and Mrs. S. Gerald Sandler Mary Beck Patil Mr. Dave Pauza and Ms. Maria Salvato Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Wartofsky Estelle Luber Schwalb Dr.* and Mrs. Arnall Patz Jan S. Peterson and Alison E. Cole Steven and Donna Shriver Dr. Mark D. Phillips and William B. and Sandra B. Rogers STRATHMORE SYMPHONY Marshall and Deborah Sluyter Ms. Samira Saliba Phillips Mike and Janet Rowan^ SOCIETY SILVER Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Spero Mr. and Mrs. James Piper Daniel and Sybil Silver $1,200–$1,999 Gary Hartmann and Lori Stone Mr.* and Mrs. Morton B. Plant John and Susan Warshawsky Anonymous (5) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swerdlow Mr. and Mrs. Elias Poe Dr. Edward Whitman^ Charles Alston and Susan Dentzer Dr. Andrew Tangborn Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Prince Clark-Winchcole Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Larry Avrunin Janice and Richard Tullos Carl and Bonnie Richards Ms. Deborah Wise / Edith and Herbert Mr. William J. Baer and Elizabeth and Bill Weber Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Rosenberg Lehman Foundation, Inc. Ms. Nancy H. Hendry David Wellman and Mr. Seymour S. Rubak Dr. Marilyn Bate Marjorie Coombs Wellman John B. Sacci and Nancy Dodson Sacci STRATHMORE GOVERNING Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Bergman Ms. Susan Wellman Benjamin and Margaret Schapiro MEMBERS SILVER Sherry and David Berz Len Wiener and Edie Herman Peter and Susan Scheidt $3,000–$4,999 Bea and Roger Blacklow Allan and Wendy Williams Ronald and Cynthia Schnaar Leonard and Gabriela Bebchick Ms. Jane B. Boynton Dr. Ann M. Willis Mr. and Mrs. Howard Schoenfeld Dr. Nancy Bridges Mr. Richard H. Broun and Lynne Yao Burdette Short Mr. Vincent Castellano Ms. Karen E. Daly H. Alan Young and Sharon Joan and Edward Sills The Clarke Family Charitable Gordon F. Brown Bob Young, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Smith Foundation Ms. Sharon Phyllis Brown Renate Soulen Collins Family Fund Ms. Barbara Brownridge and Bruce and Lynne Stuart Dr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Feldman Mr. Thomas E. Walsh * Deceased Marinos and Sebbie Svolos Anthony and Wyn Fitzpatrick Frances and Leonard Burka ^ Governing Members Executive Bill and Lisa Tate George and Joni Gold Charitable Fund Committee
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LEAD GOVERNMENT FUNDERS The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is funded by operating grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Howard County Arts Council, Carroll County Government and the Maryland State Department of Education.
The Citizens of Baltimore County
SPONSORS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS THE CENTURY CLUB: $100,000 OR MORE
SHERIDAN FOUNDATION
FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: $50,000–$99,999
$25,000–$49,999
WILLIAM G. BAKER, JR. MEMORIAL FUND Creator of the Baker Artist Award, www.bakerartistawards.org
$10,000 –$24,999
$5,000 –$9,999 CITY CAFÉ GEORGETOWN PAPER STOCK LEGG MASON GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST OF ROCKVILLE MILES & STOCKBRIDGE D. F. DENT AND COMPANY THE HARTFORD ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP
$1,000 –$4,999
ADVANCED BUSINESS SYSTEMS IBM NORTH AMERICA S. KANN SONS COMPANY FOUNDATION AMPHION FOUNDATION INDEPENDENT CAN COMPANY AMELIE AND BERNEI BURGUNDER EAGLE COFFEE COMPANY INC. NUMBER TEN FOUNDATION STANLEY BLACK & DECKER ELLIN & TUCKER
For more information on joining our team of generous institutional funding partners, please contact the Development office at 410.783.8022 or [email protected].
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
The Board of Directors of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra established The Legato Circle to honor individuals who have included a charitable gift to the BSO in their long-term financial plans, securing a legacy of musical excellence for future generations.
We gratefully acknowledge the following Legato Circle members:
Anonymous (11) Jim Doran David and Susan Hutton William and Kathleen Pence George and Frances Alderson Freda Dunn The Honorable* and Margaret Penhallegon Donna and Paul Amico Dr. Jeanne Dussault and Mrs. Christian M. Kahl Beverly and Sam* Penn Dr. James M. Anthony Mr. Mark Woodworth Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan G. Edward Reahl, Jr. M.D. Paul E. Araujo John and Donna Easton Dr. and Mrs.* Murray M. Cornelius Ridgely Michael J. Batza, Jr. and Carol and Alan Edelman Kappelman Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Patricia K. Batza Margaret A. Fallon Mrs. Barbara P. Katz Doris Sanders Hellmut D.W. (Hank) Bauer Mr. and Mrs. Maurice* R. Feldman Jo Ansley B. Kendig Harold and Carolyn* Schlenger Nancy H. Berger Debra Brown Felser and Gary Felser Peter Kjome and Kristen Morrison Burdette and Judith Short Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Haswell M. and Madeline S. Nicholas Klise Susan and Charles Shubin Deborah R. Berman Franklin Paul Konka and Jim and Sandy Smith Ellen Baron Blaustein and Audrey and Stanford G. Gann, Sr. Susan Dugan-Konka Nancy E. Smith Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D. George W. Gebhardt Suzan Kiepper Krannich Dr. and Mrs.* Solomon H. Snyder John and Marjorie Blodgett Sandra Levi Gerstung Miss Dorothy B. Krug Catherine R. Soares Sharon Phyllis Brown Patrick M. Green Dr. James and Lynne LaCalle Karen Soisson Ms. Jeanne Brush Bob Greenfield Dr. Sandra R. Leichtman Dr.* and Mrs. Harry S. Stevens Dr. Robert P. Burchard Gerri Hall and David Nickels Ruth and Jay Lenrow Dr. and Mrs. Carvel Tiekert John Cahill Dr. Jane Halpern and Lynne and Joe Lentz, Jr. Leonard Topper Katharine H. Caldwell Mr. James Pettit Joyce and Dr. Harry Letaw, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William C. Veatch Mrs. Constance R. Caplan Stephanie R. Hack Sarellen and Marshall A. Levine, Mr.* and Mrs. William Volenick Mrs. Selma Carton Carole B. Hamlin M.D. John Warshawsky Hosea T. Chew Ms. Denise A. Hargrove Mr. Richard W. Ley Susan G. Waxter Mr. Harvey A. Cohen and Kristine Heine Constance Lieder Jay M. Weinstein Mr. Michael R. Tardif Barbara and Michael Hettleman Earl and Darielle Linehan Mark Wiesand Harvey L. Cohen and Mrs. Betty J. Himeles and Joy Mandel and Tim Nehl W. Owen and Nancy J. Williams, Jr. Martha R. Krach The Martin S. Himeles, Mrs. George R. McClelland Rebecca Wingate Mark D. and Judith* L. Coplin Sr. Foundation Carol O’Connell Minkin Charles* and Shirley Wunder Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cordes Len and Betsy Homer Mrs. Joy Munster Mr. and Mrs.* Calman J. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cowie, Jr. Beth R. Horton Bill and Dottie Nerenberg Zamoiski, Jr. Ann Weller Dahl Gwynne and Leonard Horwits Stanley* and Linda Hambleton Athena and Scott Dalrymple Mr.* and Mrs. H. Thomas Howell Panitz Ronald E. Dencker Mr.* and Mrs. Richard E. Hug Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pecora * Deceased
We gratefully acknowledge the following donors, now deceased, who have provided a legacy gift in support of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra:
Mrs. Ruth Alsop Roberta L. and Richard A. Davis Ruby Loflin-Flaccoe Randolph S. and Amalie R. Barbara F. Appell Mildred and Patrick Deering Lauretta Maisel Rothschild Mrs. Claire Beissinger Dr. Perry A. Eagle Mrs. Jean M. Malkmus Dr. Henry Sanborn Mrs. Alma T. Martien Bond Winnie and Bill Flattery Ruth R. Marder Eugene Scheffres and W. George Bowles Harvey D. Gold Esther Holden Miller Richard E. Hartt Phyllis Wagner Brill Douglas and Hilda Goodwin Robert and Marion Neiman Mrs. Muriel Schiller Mrs. Phyllis B. Brotman Dailina Gorn Ralph W. Nichols Dr. Albert Shapiro Elizabeth A. Bryan Mr. Joseph P. Hamper, Jr. Margaret Powell Payne George Steele Mr. Walter Budko Katharine Hoffman Mrs. Margery Pozefsky Howard A. and Rena S. Sugar Mrs. Frances H. Burman Judith C. Johnson Joan Marie Pristas Mignon Y. Velie Joseph and Jean Carando Albert D. Keller Thelma T. Randolph Albert and Martha Walker Clarence B. Coleman Richard M. Lansburgh Mr. Robert N. Riley Ingeborg B. Weinberger Sergiu and Robinne John Christian Larsen Lawrence Melvin Roberts Dr. Mildred Zindler Comissiona Bernice S. Levinson Mr. William G. Robertson, Jr. Margaret Hammond Cooke Robert and Ryda H. Levi Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg
YOUR MUSICAL LEGACY Please let us know if you are planning a legacy gift to the BSO—we would like to thank you! Contact Sara Krusenstjerna, Director of Philanthropic Planning, at 410.783.8087 or [email protected]. Please visit www.BSOmusic.giftplans.org.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIRECTORS EMERITI Erin Mellott John Waters Peter Murphy ANNUAL FUND MANAGER RECEPTIONIST TICKET SERVICES MANAGER Barry D. Berman, Esq. OFFICERS Joanne M. Rosenthal Frank Wise Michael Suit Constance R. Caplan DIRECTOR OF PRINCIPAL GIFTS HOUSEKEEPER TICKET SERVICES AGENT Barbara M. Bozzuto* & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS CHAIR Murray M. Kappelman, M.D. Carole Wysocki DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & M. Sigmund Shapiro Richard Spero BALTIMORE SYMPHONY Peter T. Kjome* COMMUNITY LIAISON FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PRESIDENT & CEO ASSOCIATES James T. Smith BSO AT STRATHMORE Izabel Zambrzycki Marguerite Walsh Lainy LeBow-Sachs* Latesha Taylor SENIOR ARTISTIC PLANNING MANAGER/ VICE CHAIR ASSISTANT TO THE MUSIC DIRECTOR PRESIDENT DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS CHAIR LAUREATE Hilary B. Miller* COORDINATOR Barbara Dent VICE CHAIR Michael G. Bronfein SECRETARY Angel Terol MARKETING & The Honorable DIRECTOR, BSO SECOND Barbara Kelly Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr. PUBLIC RELATIONS TREASURER Steven R. Schuh* CENTURY CAMPAIGN TREASURER Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr. Meredith Burke Betsy Osterman GRAPHIC DESIGNER PARLIAMENTARIAN Kathleen A. Chagnon, Esq.* SECRETARY FINANCE Rebecca Bute Sandy Feldman BOARD OF TRUSTEES— & INFORMATION DIRECTOR OF MARKETING IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT BALTIMORE SYMPHONY TECHNOLOGY & SALES ENDOWMENT TRUST Freddye Silverman BOARD MEMBERS Janice Johnson Rafaela Dreisin VICE PRESIDENT, AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Rick Bernstein Chris Bartlett SENIOR ACCOUNTANT COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR Sandra Files A.G.W. Biddle, III Evinz Leigh Jo Kendig Barbara M. Bozzuto ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATE DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER VICE PRESIDENT, EDUCATION Kelly Cantley Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr Melissa Hom Carolyn Lassahn Kyle Steele GROUP SALES MANAGER August J. Chiasera DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING VICE PRESIDENT, MEETINGS Peter T. Kjome & PROGRAMS Theresa Kopasek Robert B. Coutts Joseph Meyerhoff, II Donna Waring MARKETING & PR ASSOCIATE Florence McLean PAYROLL ACCOUNTANT Alan S. Edelman* VICE PRESIDENT, Rick Monfred Devon Maloney RECRUITMENT/MEMBERSHIP Michael F. Ernst Jeff Wright ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF The Honorable Steven R. Schuh DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS Helene Breazeale Sandra Levi Gerstung TECHNOLOGY VICE PRESIDENT, Andrew A. Stern Beth Varden SPECIAL SERVICES/EVENTS Dr. Michael G. Hansen* SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr. Larry Albrecht Christian C. Johansson GENERAL MANAGER Kaila Willard VICE PRESIDENT, SYMPHONY STORE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MARKETING * BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Robert C. Knott Kevin Brown Vicki McAdory † EX-OFFICIO OFFICE MANAGER Dr. Sunil Kumar DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES ORCHKIDS Marc E. Lackritz Tiffany Bryan DIRECTOR OF PATRON SERVICES Sharniece Adams Sandy Laken† STAFF LEAD SITE COORDINATOR GOVERNING MEMBERS CHAIR Rebecca Cain DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Rachel Burbank Marshall A. Levine, MD LEAD SITE COORDINATOR Peter T. Kjome Shirley Caudle Ava Lias-Booker, Esq. PRESIDENT & CEO HOUSEKEEPER Camille Delaney ORCHKIDS SENIOR SITE MANAGER Howard Majev, Esq. Barbara Gourdin Alvin Crawley EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT MANAGER OF FACILITIES April Dodge Liddy Manson DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Sarah Beckwith Valencia McClure Rose Ferguson VICE PRESIDENT & CFO HOUSEKEEPER Hana Morford E. Albert Reece, M.D. ORCHKIDS TEACHING Raquel Whiting Gilmer Zoe Fried & LEARNING MANAGER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ORCHKIDS overture Barry F. Rosen* OPERATIONS MANAGER Kay Sheppard Jamie Kelley ORCHKIDS SITE MANAGER PRODUCTION Ann L. Rosenberg VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT Jessica Harris ARTISTIC/OPERATIONS Nick Skinner Devon Maloney Terry M. Rubenstein* COORDINATOR Linda Moxley ORCHKIDS DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS EDITOR Stephen D. Shawe, Esq. VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Nicholas Hersh Mairin Srygley Janet E. Bedell Dan Shykind ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / ORCHKIDS SITE MANAGER Tonya McBride Robles CONDUCTOR OF YO, BSYO PROGRAM ANNOTATOR Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.* VICE PRESIDENT Dan Trahey Beth Varden & GENERAL MANAGER Jinny Kim ORCHKIDS ARTISTIC LIAISON David Trone DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER PERSONNEL Mollie Westbrook Gregory W. Tucker ORCHKIDS LEAD SITE COORDINATOR Meredith Burke DEVELOPMENT Alicia Kosack GRAPHIC DESIGNER Marguerite Walsh † MANAGER OF BALTIMORE SYMPHONY Kerrigan Dougherty PRESIDENT, BALTIMORE SYMPHONY Louis Diez YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ARTISTIC & PROGRAM OPERATIONS ASSOCIATES DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL FUND AND COORDINATOR Baltimore magazine DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS Jeanette Matte Design and Print Division Amy Webb PRODUCTION MANAGER 1000 Lancaster Street, Suite 400 Gabriella Giannini † Baltimore, MD 21202 Jeffrey T. Zoller INSTITUTIONAL GIVING MaryAnn Poling TICKET SERVICES CHAIR, BALTIMORE SYMPHONY COORDINATOR CONDUCTOR OF CO, BSYO 410.873.3900 YOUTH ORCHESTRAS Amy Bruce Ken Iglehart Demetreus Gregg Abhijit Sengupta DIRECTOR OF TICKET SERVICES CAMPAIGN & RESEARCH & ANALYTICS DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PLANNING DIRECTOR ASSOCIATE LIFE DIRECTORS Morgan Gullard [email protected] Jared Thigpen 443.873.3916 Peter G. Angelos, Esq. Annalise Eberhart Heron MANAGER OF SPECIAL EVENTS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DIRECTOR OF FOOD & BEVERAGE Michael Tranquillo Rheda Becker INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Eric Johnson Renee Thornton TICKET SERVICES AGENT ART DIRECTOR Yo-Yo Ma Monica Jilling HOUSEKEEPER ANNUAL FUND MANAGER, Timothy Lidard Lynn Talbert Harvey M. Meyerhoff BSO AT STRATHMORE Matthew Urquhart MANAGER OF VIP TICKETING ADVERTISING ASSISTANT PERSONNEL MANAGER Robert E. Meyerhoff Sara Krusenstjerna Juliana Marin ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPIC Nana Vaughn SENIOR TICKET AGENT [email protected] Linda Hambleton Panitz PLANNING CONDUCTOR OF SO, BSYO FOR STRATHMORE 443.974.6892
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