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6 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON GreetingsTable from ofthe Contents Maestro 9 KIMBERLYAdministrative BREDEMEIER, Staff Board of Directors 11 Director of Operations & Chorus Manager General Information 15 JEANNE BUNDY, Orchestra Roster 17 Director of Sales/Box Office Manager Music Director Biography 18-19 VICKI BURCHELL Director of Finance Beethoven, Brahms & Bluegrass JIA-RONG GAN Program – September 29, 2018 23 Librarian Artist Information 24 CHRIS HARP Program Notes 25-29 Director of Marketing & Special Events BETSY HEIGER Vectren’s Opening Night: Director of Publications & Grants Halloween Bash! BRIAN ONDERDONK Program – October 27, 2018 33-34 Alice May Director of Education Artist Information 36-38 & Community Programs KAREN RENNER Old National Bank presents Librarian Assistant West Side Story In Concert TIM SMITH Program – November 10 & 11, 2018 44-45 Orchestra Personnel Manager Artist Information 46-55 Program Notes 56-57

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SPECIAL THANKS ALFRED SAVIA, MusicConducting Director Staff BRIAN ONDERDONK Assistant Conductor/EPYO Conductor KERRY GLANN Philharmonic Chorus Conductor RYAN KNIGHT Philharmonic Chorus Assistant Conductor LEE VEAZEY EPYO II Conductor

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Maestroebratin l e g 30C Welcome to the Evansville The Saturday night start of Philharmonic’s 2018-19 Years our 2018-19 Pops will be season, the Orchestra’s sure to thrill and chill you with our 84th year and my 30th season second “Halloween Bash.” You’ll hear as Music Director and Conductor. It’s hard music from classics like Psycho to more for me to believe that so many seasons have contemporary film music from Harry Potter and been planned, programmed and brought to life super hero films likeSpiderman , Wonder Woman since I arrived in Evansville in 1989. But here and X-Men. Join in the fun by dressing as your we are, embarking upon another season of favorite Halloween character or super hero! concerts that promise to be as exciting for you to experience as they’ve been for the Orchestra The last concert in this first program book and me to assemble, rehearse and perform. celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the monumental figures in the world of The celebratory gemstones for a 30th anniversary music, Leonard Bernstein. “Lenny”, a musical are Pearls, and I like to think of the 2018-19 figure unlike any other in the 20th century, had season as a “String of Pearls” (to borrow from a profound influence on many young American Glenn Miller’s hit song). And the first “gem” in conductors and musicians, and the EPO will this String of Pearls is our wonderful Opening celebrate him on both the Classics and Pops Night Classics violinist, Tessa Lark. Tessa is the series in November with “West Side Story Silver Medalist of the 2012 International Violin in Concert”. I had the privilege of knowing Competition of Indianapolis and performed Maestro Bernstein who so generously helped Beethoven’s great Violin Concerto with the me at the start of my career. It is a true joy for Philharmonic two seasons ago. To kick off our me to lead this presentation of West Side Story, current season, she performs “Love Letter”, another first for the EPO! a concerto written for Tessa by her fiancé, Michael Thurber. This piece incorporates diverse styles unique to Tessa including classical, bluegrass, and jazz. The Orchestra joins in this folksy mélange with Johannes Alfred Savia Brahms’ settings of Hungarian Dances and Music Director Aaron Copland’s Dances from Rodeo.

9 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 10 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON EXECUTIVEThe Board COMMITTEE of Directors Mark Powers, President Don Shymanski, Treasurer Kirsten Wagmeister, President-Elect Lisa Vaughan, Guild President Louis B. Cady, MD, Vice-President F. Stephen Sheets, Immediate Past President Cynthia Wolfe, Secretary Phil Fassett, Development Committee Chairman

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Timothy Almquist, MD Michelle Quinn Rita Eykamp, Life Member Fr. Raymond Brenner Diane Schroeder Phyllis Grimm, Life Member Richard Curby Dr. David Smith Lee Veazey, Orchestra Mallory Deckard Boris Vatel, MD Representative G. Richard Eykamp Susan Vaughn Michelle McConnell, Chorus Caroline Fairbanks Thomas Washburne Representative Jeff Fink Pat Welborn Steve Schaefer, Mayor’s Peggy Lewis Linda E. White Office Representative Becky Malotte Kevin Wilson

PAST PRESIDENTS 1934–36 Roger K. Becker 1960–68 Alexander L. Leich 1989–91 Carol Abrams 1936–38 Paul H. Schmidt 1968–70 Ted C. Ziemer, Jr. 1991–92 Robert Carithers 1938–39 Robert M. Leich, Sr. 1970–71 N. Keith Emge 1992–93 Nancy Gaunt 1939–40 Milton Greenwald 1971–72 J. Michael McGregor 1993–94 Tom Bryan 1940–42 Raymond H. Goebel 1972–73 Guerin Bernardin, Sr. 1994–95 Joan David 1942–45 John F. Berry 1973–74 Albert A. Woll 1995–96 Tom Topper 1945–46 Fred C. Fischer 1974–76 Helen McKinney 1996–98 Steve Parker 1946–48 Henry B. Walker, Jr. 1976–77 Richard Schlottman 1998–00 Pat Welborn 1948–49 William D. Ingle, Jr. 1977–78 Mell B. Welborn, Jr. 2000–02 Diane Schroeder 1949–50 Richard Schiewetz 1978–79 Remig Fehn, Jr. 2002–04 Philip Fisher 1950–51 August Bergman 1979–80 Gilbert S. Graves 2004–06 Norm Bafunno 1951–52 Roger K. Becker 1980–81 William Suhrheinrich 2006–08 Bill Doty 1952–54 Alexander L. Leich 1981–82 Robert E. Hampel 2008-10 Brian McGuire 1954–56 Bernard V. Rue 1982–83 James R. McKinney 2010-12 Richard Arneson 1956–57 Remig Fehn, Jr. 1983–84 Malcolm H. Forbes 2012-14 Chris Wolking 1957–58 Howard Sandusky 1984–85 Stephen M. Johnson 2014-16 Kirk Wright 1958–59 Bernard L. Schultz 1985–86 Susanne Emge 2016-18 F. Stephen Sheets 1959–60 Louis C. Ruthenburg 1986–87 Malcolm H. Forbes 1959–60 Earl R. Zeisler 1987–89 Robert L. Reid

11 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 12 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON The EvansvillePhilharmonic Philharmonic Orchestra Gives is Back proud to give back to our community. The following is a listing of local organizations, schools, and churches to which the Evansville Philharmonic has recently donated tickets.

Another Chance for Animals Oakhill Baptist Childcare Area 14 Special Olympics Illinois Oakland City University Aurora Evansville Optimal Rhythms, Inc. Boonville Band of Gold Sponsors Club Pike Co Public Library Boys and Girls Club of Evansville Pike Country Progress Partners, Inc. Camp Brosend Plaza Park PTSA Castle Band Boosters Posey Humane Society Castle Elementary School PTO Potter's Wheel Crawford County Catholics Princeton Public Library Deam Center Reitz Home Delta Sigma Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha Int'l Relay for Life Mt. Vernon, IN East Heights Elementary School PTA Sean Roy Hilt Foundation Easterseals Rehab Center Sharon Elementary PTO Evansville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Shelby County Chamber of Commerce Evansville Community Tennis Assoc SMILE on Down Syndrome Farmersville Elementary PTO St. Benedict Cathedral School PTO Friends of Otwell Elementary St. Clement Catholic Church Friends of UE Music St. Mary's School - Mt. Carmel, IL Gibson General Health Foundation St. Vincent Ascension Evansville Good Shepherd Catholic Parish Tell City Marching Marksmen GRANTED The Foundry Center for the Arts Highland PTA The Montessori PTO Holy Rosary Catholic Church Tri-State Food Bank It Takes A Village Canine Rescue U of E Theatre Society Keep Evansville Beautiful Vanderburgh Humane Society Marian Educational Outreach (MEO) Washington Baseball Boosters Mesker Park Zoo - AAZK WNIN New Beginnings Sexual Assault Support Svs Women’s Fund of Warrick County North Middle School- Henderson Youth Resources of Southwestern Indiana

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VIOLINThe I Orchestra BASS TRUMPET Alan Snow* Greg Olson Timothy Zifer Concertmaster Principal, Principal, Mia Laity William H. Suhrheinrich Chair Emery Nagy/Everett Assistant Concertmaster Tiffany Freeman Northcut Chair Kathryn Savia Lee Veazey Timothy Smith Ellen Essig and Dr. & Dorian Jackman Kevin Wilson Mrs. J. Irwin Essig Chair James Sullivan Sheryl Schuster TROMBONE Maria Mastropaolo FLUTE Lee Blakeman Tatiana Dunn Leanne Hampton º# Principal, Sharilyn Spicknall Principal, Clarence C. Clarke Chair Nathan Shapiro Pauline and Remig Matt Calvert Nathan Lowry Fehn Chair Greg Downes Yu-Chen Hsu Erin Torres Mengqi Hong Jessica Prus TUBA Jesse Munoz Melissa Williams OBOE Principal VIOLIN II Elizabeth Robertson º# Jia-Rong Gan* Principal TIMPANI Principal, Bonnie Farr Todd Sheehan Evansville Philharmonic Jessica Smithorn Principal Guild Chair Carol Dallinger CLARINET PERCUSSION Anne Fiedler Thomas Josenhans # Elizabeth Heiger Ross Erickson º Principal, Principal Sun Huh Gilbert S. Graves Chair Lisa Lance Michael Casto PIANO Karen Renner Emily Cook Hua Zhand Anne Fiedler Henry Jenkins Principal, Khelsey Zarraga BASSOON Rossanna M. Enlow Chair Ed Lacy # Principal, VIOLA HARP Wm. C.H. Grimm, Jr. & Mary Dicken Mark Hatlestad* Phyllis R. Grimm Chair Principal, Principal, Ron Tucker Pauline A. Reichmann Chair Anonymous Friend Chair Eve Witt Seido Karasaki Katelyn Hoag RECORDING Elizabeth Doubrawa HORN K. Kim Fillingim Christopher Alley Emily Britton º# Enoch Ng Principal, Eykamp Family Chair STAGE PRODUCTION Gardner McDaniel IATSE Local 102 Ye Jin Goo Cristian Codreanu Tara Johnson Barbara Josenhans SABBATICAL CELLO Martin Long, Bass Graham Cullen* Joe Tyksinski, Bass Principal, Anonymous Friend Chair Jennifer Farny *Eykamp String Quartet member Kristin Roberts º EPO/UE Consortium member Chris Cho # Harlaxton Woodwind Quintet Isabel Kwon Alex Krew Kim Burger Keeon Guzman

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Alfred Savia

Appointed Music Director of the Evansville Savia was Associate Conductor of the Philharmonic in 1989, Alfred Savia Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra from celebrates his 30th year with the Orchestra 1990-1996, and is still a frequent guest this season. Under his leadership the conductor with that orchestra leading Orchestra has expanded to include a their 4th of July Symphony On The Prairie comprehensive Youth Orchestra program, concerts each season. His North American the incorporation of the Philharmonic appearances include performances Chorus, and the Eykamp String Quartet. He with the Saint Louis, Detroit, Phoenix, has initiated many new programs including Savannah, Columbus, Memphis, Portland Messiah and Nutcracker, Music Alive (Maine), Winston-Salem, Roanoke, San residencies, orchestra concerts in outlying Antonio, Spokane and Kitchener-Waterloo communities, and fully staged opera Symphony Orchestras, as well as the presentations at Philharmonic concerts. Louisville Orchestra and Dayton, Rhode The 2005 and 2011 collaborations for the Island, Naples (FL), Lexington and Fresno opera Brundibar (performed extensively by Philharmonic Orchestras. Internationally, children in the Terezin concentration camp he has conducted the Korea Philharmonic during WW II) with CYPRESS garnered Orchestra (KBS), State of Mexico (Toluca) unparalleled local, regional and national Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da attention through a featured story on Camera Fiorentina in Florence, Radio & CNN. His innovative programming skills Television Serbia (Belgrade) Symphony and ability to connect with audiences have Orchestra, Denmark’s Aalborg Symphony been documented in profiles in Musical Orchestra, Presidential Symphony America and Symphony Magazine. He was Orchestra of Ankara, Turkey, Osnabrück recipient of the 2004 Mayor’s Arts Award. Symphony Orchestra in Germany,

18 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Symphony Orchestra of Xalapa, Mexico New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra Sinfonica della Associate Conductor of the Florida Provincia di Bari (Italy). He has conducted Symphony Orchestra and Music Director extensively in South America, appearing of the Orlando Opera. He played an with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile integral role in the emergence of the in Santiago, the Orquesta Sinfonica Orlando Philharmonic, serving as Artistic Nacional del Ecuador (Quito), and the Director and Principal Conductor from Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo 1995 to 2000. He also conducted the (Uruguay). Festival appearances have Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (New included Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony, Orleans) in one of their first post-Katrina Summer Music at Harkness Festival in concerts in 2006, and returned there New London, Connecticut, Lucius Woods the following two seasons. In 2013 he Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin, the conducted La Traviata at the “Il Giglio e’ Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in Lirica” Festival on the island of Giglio Virginia, and The Professional Advantage in Tuscany as part of Italy’s celebration opera program in the Marche region of the 200th anniversary of Verdi’s of Italy. He recorded Russell Peck’s birth. Last season he not only brought The Thrill of the Orchestra with London’s La Traviata to the Victory Theatre stage, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. but also led performances of Traviata with the Indianapolis Opera. This season he A native of Livingston, New Jersey, leads the EPO in a concert presentation Savia graduated from Butler University’s of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Jordan College of the Arts. He studied the American composer and conductor conducting with Franco Ferrara at the who inspired and mentored a very young Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Alfred Savia and whose 100th Anniversary Italy, and privately with Sixten Ehrling is celebrated worldwide in 2018. and Otto Werner Mueller (Juilliard School). Conducting studies at the Maestro Savia has collaborated with American Symphony Orchestra League’s many of the world’s great artists including Institute of Orchestral Studies and the Joshua Bell, Andre Watts, Roberta Tanglewood Music Center led to his first Peters, Edgar Meyer, Garrick Ohlson, professional appointment as Assistant Frederica von Stade, Judy Collins and Conductor of The Omaha Symphony. Doc Severinsen. In 2013 he was made a Subsequently, he served as Resident Sagamore of the Wabash. Conductor of the Florida Philharmonic and

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Candide Overture

L. VAN BEETHOVEN Romance No. 2 in F Major for Violin, Opus 50

MICHAEL THURBER Love Letter Weirdo Bimbleboo Forever You Whiskey Woman

AARON COPLAND IntermissionFour Dance Episodes from Rodeo Buckaroo Holiday Corral Nocturne Saturday Night Waltz Hoe-Down

JOHANNES BRAHMS Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3 & 10 Allegro molto Allegretto Presto

PABLO DE SARASATE Zigeunerweisen, Op 20 (Gypsy Airs)

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Steinway is the official piano of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. This project is made possible by the support of the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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Violinist Tessa Lark, Silver Medalist in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, recipient of a 2018 Borletti- Buitoni Tessa Trust Fellowship Lark and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and winner of the 2012 Naumburg International Violin Competition, is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time. She has consistently been praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. A budding superstar in the classical realm, she is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian highlights include debuts with the Seattle and bluegrass music and inspiring Symphony and the Buffalo Philharmonic, composers to write for her. Ms. Lark has and an appearance with Indiana’s Carmel soloed with dozens of U.S. orchestras Symphony Orchestra featuring the world since making her concerto debut with the premiere of Love Letter, a concerto Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at age written for her by Michael Thurber. sixteen. She has appeared at such venues In January 2019 Ms. Lark makes her as Carnegie Hall, Ravinia, Amsterdam's debut with the Albany (NY) Symphony Concertgebouw, the Gardner Museum Orchestra, premiering a bluegrass- in Boston, San Francisco Performances, inspired violin concerto written for her by the Seattle Chamber Music Society, and Michael Torke. Other season highlights the Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Olympic, and include appearances with the Louisville Music@Menlo festivals. Keeping in touch Orchestra, the Evansville, Binghamton with her Kentucky roots, Ms. Lark performs and South Carolina philharmonics, the and programs bluegrass and Appalachian Atlantic Classical Orchestra, CityMusic music regularly and collaborated with Cleveland, the Indianapolis Chamber Mark O’Connor on his CD “MOC4,” Orchestra, and the Knoxville, Eastern released in June 2014. She premiered her Connecticut, Ridgefield, and Williamsburg own Appalachian Fantasy at Carnegie Hall, symphony orchestras. She is a graduate of where she also gave the world premiere New England Conservatory with an Artist of Michael Torke’s Spoon Bread, written Diploma from The Juilliard School. Tessa specifically for her stylistic capabilities. Lark is represented worldwide by New Ms. Lark’s recent and upcoming concert York-based Sciolino Artist Management.

24 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Written by Bill Hemminger Program Notes As its title suggests, Beethoven, Brahms & Bluegrass blurs the definition of Classics Music somewhat since it programs works in traditional classical forms—an overture (written in sonata form), a romance in rondo form, cowboy music that culminates in a massive orchestral canon— as well as works of a more popular nature. At the same time, some of tonight’s composers were inspired by “exotic,” other influences of melody or rhythm, which they then cast in conventional, traditional forms. In all cases, the result is the same: music defies absolutist definitions. CANDIDE OVERTURE LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) was an of the Inquisition. From the jacket notes of American conductor, composer, pianist, a 1989 release of Candide, Bernstein notes author, and musical promoter. His long that “the particular evil which impelled Lillian career—during which he led the New York Hellman to choose Candide and present it to Philharmonic Orchestra–brought him great and me as the basis for a musical stage work was lasting international fame. Though trained as what we now quaintly, and, alas, faintly recall a composer in classical musical traditions, he as McCarthyism.” The score is Bernstein’s recognized the appeal of popular music and response to McCarthyism and to the Committee wrote symphonies, sonatas, and songs as well on Un-American Activities. as musicals and pastiche compositions like Mass and Candide. Candide premiered in 1956, and the Overture was an instant success. To this day, it is one The score for Candide was written at the of the most frequently performed of Bernstein’s behest of playwright Lillian Hellman, who compositions. In its dizzying forward approached Bernstein in the early 1950s with momentum, the Overture quotes a number of a libretto. Hellman knew that Voltaire’s 1758 tunes from the work: “The Best of All Possible satiric novel had much to say about life in the Worlds,” “Battle Music,” “Oh, Happy We,” America of the day. Voltaire’s satiric novel and “Glitter and Be Gay,” that non plus ultra mocks popular philosophies of his time—such of coloratura arias. As a testimony to both the as Leibniz and his absurdly optimistic view composition and its extraordinary composer, that people live “in the best of all possible the New York Philharmonic performed the worlds”—and skewers the Catholic Church Overture without conductor at the memorial in its justification for the bloody perversions concert for Bernstein.

25 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Program Notes ROMANCE NO. 2 IN F MAJOR FOR VIOLIN LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist. A brilliant and prolific composer, his music marks the transition between Classical and Romantic eras; his body of work includes nine symphonies, concerti for various instruments, 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, an opera, and many other works.

As is well known, Beethoven began to experience hearing loss early (already in his 20s), and he finished his life in almost complete deafness. It is likely that he was fearing this hearing loss when, in 1798, he composed the Company and the Eugene O’Neill Theatre as tender Romance for Violin in F Major, although well as tonight’s work, a concerto for violin the work did not appear in publication until written in honor of Tessa Lark. 1805. The solo violin introduces the work with its lovely, gentle cantabile melody; that Thurber himself describes the four-movement melody recurs twice more in the rondo form concerto as a series of tone-poems, each a —ABACA—that Beethoven adopted for the musical description of a single quality of the work. Parts B and C offer new melodic and soloist’s personality and prodigious musical harmonic material; C in particular moves into talent. Like much of Thurber’s work, Love Letter minor modes before it returns to a restatement blends elements of jazz, rock, and other musical of the melody (A) with the beautiful concluding styles in addition to traditional Kentucky fiddling gesture—as the violin intones three descending in the sonic mix of the composition. pitches that are echoed first by the woodwinds and then all the strings. These are Thurber's own words describing his composition:

LOVE LETTER Out of all of the pieces of music I have had the MICHAEL THURBER privilege of writing in my life, none have brought me more joy than Love Letter. This music A native Hoosier, Michael Thurber is a New is a pure, joyous expression of my endless York-based composer and bassist, with admiration for Tessa both as a musician and classical musical training at Interlochen Arts human being. Academy and The Juilliard School. A versatile musician, he has played bass as part of the Love Letter is constructed in 4 movements, of band on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert which the middle two are seamlessly connected and has worked with numerous classical and without pause. Each movement is a tone popular musicians. He is co-founder and music poem that depicts different sides of Tessa’s director of CDZA, YouTube’s musical collective, personality and musicianship. The piece draws which “translates and remixes the familiar into from a broad and eclectic spectrum of musical one-take music performance videos.” He has traditions including Hip-Hop, Bluegrass, also written music—for the Royal Shakespeare Classical, Jazz, African and Rock.

26 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Program Notes MOV I – “Weirdo” The name explains it all. This movement is an attempt to capture the silly, bizarre side of Tessa’s sense of humor. The simple theme stated in the beginning by the Oboe sets up a pastoral, American sound that is quickly shattered when the woodwinds enter with their 5/8 groove. The whole movement is an abstract conversation between the vocabulary of American fiddle music and the more angular, African influenced groove of the woodwinds/ percussion. This movement also functions as a ‘riddle’ that presents all of the musical material that gets unpacked and developed throughout the rest of the concerto.

MOV II – “Bimbleboo” After the first time through the melody, the solo This movement is lighthearted and childlike. violin takes off into an improvisatory, swirling It draws inspiration from the Appalachian style of middle section. This section evokes a spiritual, fiddle playing that is central to Tessa’s musical pentatonic sound akin to the Native American upbringing in Kentucky. For me, it evokes the songs Tessa and I have heard during our innocence and nostalgia of childhood. experiences in sweat lodges. Eventually, the violin returns to a recap of the melody, this time Musically, I was inspired by the juxtaposition of as a duet with the clarinet. fiddle music that is in the 12/8 time signature and African music that has a 2 over 3 hemiola. MOV IV – “Whiskey Woman” The grooves have many interesting similarities Woo! This movement is a party! Stylistically, and I wanted to try to bring those two it’s somewhere between a bluegrass song and influences together. a rock song. I was inspired by a memory from last summer...I went to visit Tessa at The This really culminates in the middle section, Marlboro Music Festival and we went to “Square where the solo violin rips through different Dancing Night”. Everyone had indulged in triadic patterns over the top of the cymbal and copious amounts of Maker’s Mark whiskey and marimba groove. couldn’t follow the dance steps. Refusing to be deterred, we all passionately staggered around, This movement gradually winds down and trying our best to follow the steps and making dissipates into a trance-like vamp in the strings up our own as we went. This is all depicted by and woodwinds that begins to morph tonally the jagged time-signature changes and odd and lead us seamlessly into Movement III. rhythms you’ll hear. After that night, we found a shirt that said, “Whiskey Woman” and bought it MOV III – “Forever You” for Tessa.She’s worn it ever since. This movement is the heart and soul of the piece. It’s all about showcasing the nuance of -Michael Thurber (Composer b. 1987) color and phrasing that Tessa is able to achieve in her beautiful sound. The melody is lyrical and simple, drawing inspiration from the great American ballads of Duke Ellington.

27 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Program Notes FOUR DANCE EPISODES FROM RODEO AARON COPLAND

Often referred to as “Dean of American composers,” Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900 and died in 1990. He studied in Paris with the renowned Nadia Boulanger, pedagogue of many aspiring composers world-wide. Shedding the atonal, angular style of his earlier compositions, Copland adopted a more approachable musical palette in his work of the 1930s and 1940s. He even called his style “populist,” with familiar harmonies and appealing musical structures. It is in this vein that he produced Appalachian Spring, whose original, chamber orchestra Nocturne,” musically paints the pain—sung version was beautifully performed in the historic by oboes and bassoon—that the overlooked Granary in New Harmony by members of the Cowgirl is feeling. The song “I Ride Old Paint” EPO not many years ago. echoes throughout Episode III, “Saturday Night Waltz,” and the hoopla ends with Head In 1942 the choreographer Agnes de Mille Wrangler going off with the Rancher’s Daughter, asked Copland to write a “cowboy ballet.” the Cowgirl left behind. The final section Relying on folk melodies and a keen sense of finds that the Cowgirl has doffed her farm both orchestration and pacing, Copland created duds for fancy dress, while a traditional tune, Rodeo. The premiere of the work, with de Mille “Bonaparte’s Retreat,” signals the start of the playing the leading role, received 22 curtain “Hoe-Down.” Now the Roper dude is smitten, calls, and the concert version of the work has taken by the transformed Cowgirl. The rousing remained a concert staple until this day. music slows—is there is a kiss?—and the orchestra ends in great and joyous fanfare. There are four sections to the concert version Cowgirl may have gotten her man. of the ballet. In the first section, “Buckaroo Holiday,” the Cowgirl is introduced. The HUNGARIAN DANCES young woman works on a ranch with a herd NOS. 1, 3 & 10 of cowboys, and, despite her tomboyish looks and awkward demeanor, she seeks attention JOHANNES BRAHMS from Head Wrangler or Champion Roper, two Brahms (1833-1897) was a Romantic German of the local studs. The remaining cowboys enter composer and pianist. So great was his oeuvre the stage to the railroad tune of “Sis Joe,” one and influence that Brahms is often considered of the many folk songs Copland uses to situate the third B, in company of J.S. Bach and his music squarely in popular American musical Beethoven in the pantheon of European tradition. Sadly, the Cowgirl fails to attract the classical composers. He wrote four symphonies attention of Head Wrangler, who, like most of and several concerti as well as many works for the others, is taken by the Rancher’s Daughter, piano (he was a piano virtuoso himself), for in her frills. The following section, “Corral voice, for chorus, and for chamber ensembles.

28 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Program Notes The 21 Hungarian Dances were written for piano, 4-hands, and were organized in two volumes; they became immensely popular world-wide and, happily, very profitable for Brahms. The 19th-century was the heyday of parlor pianos, and many people possessed piano-playing skills—before the spread of radio and other media—so that Brahms’ score (although difficult for most people to play) could be enjoyed outside concert halls and music schools. All of the dances were later orchestrated by various musicians, but Brahms himself recast only the three in tonight’s performance. Like many in Europe of the late 19th-century, Brahms was interested in minority cultures and traditions, and the melodies of the Roma people, living in Hungary and Romania, sparkle throughout the Hungarian Dances. ZIGEUNERWEISEN (GYPSY AIRS) PABLO DE SARASATE

The Spanish violinist and composer Pablo de Sarasate lived from 1844 to 1908. Along with fellow violin virtuosi Nicolai Paganini and Joseph Joachim, Sarasate thrilled concert audiences throughout the 19th-century world with his playing and dashing stage presence. These were the rock stars of their era; their glittering careers paralleled those of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt or the American Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

Not unlike Brahms (or for that matter Liszt with his Hungarian Rhapsodies), Sarasate wanted to write music that might “appeal to the predilection for a certain Eastern exoticism in the German and Austrian musical appetites of the day.” Thus, in 1878, Sarasate wrote Zigeunerweisen, a virtuosic composition based on Hungarian tunes and rhythms of the pyrotechnics—trills, glissandi, double stops, csárdás, a traditional Hungarian dance. The pizzicati. As might be expected from the work begins with a heavy theme intoned by stereotype of Hungarian music, Zigeunerweisen the orchestra. The soloist enters and then ultimately speeds off in a new direction, all the reworks the simple melody with all manner of better to display the virtuosity of the soloist as the music spins to a breathtaking conclusion.

CHORUS SPONSOR Friends of the Chorus Alfred Savia, Conductor Evansville Philharmonic Chorus, Kerry Glann, Conductor Brandon Eck, Narrator Legacy Dance Company Angela Paul, Artistic Director

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Phantom of the Opera Overture 1986

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Danse Macabre Alan Snow, Violin

DANNY ELFMAN “This is Halloween” from The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993

BERNARD HERRMANN Psycho: Prelude 1960 Arr. Paul Lavender

Super Heroes Film Music DANNY ELFMAN Music from Spider-Man 2002 Arr. John Wasson

RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS Wonder Woman: From the Arr. Victor Lopez Warner Bros. Soundtrack 2017

JOHN OTTMAN X2: X-Men United Suite 2003

CHARLES GOUNOD Funeral March of a Marionette (Alfred Hitchcock Theme) 1962-65 Costume Parade

Intermission(continued on next page)

33 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Vectren’s Opening Night: CONCERT SPONSOR Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 7:00pmHalloween Bash! Victory Theatre

CHORUS SPONSOR Friends of the Chorus Alfred Savia, Conductor Evansville Philharmonic Chorus, Kerry Glann, Conductor Brandon Eck, Narrator Legacy Dance Company Angela Paul, Artistic Director

DANNY ELFMAN Beetlejuice Suite 1988 Main Title; Obituaries; End Credit

HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS Music from The Chronicles of Narnia: 2005 Arr. Stephen Bulla The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

JOHN WILLIAMS Music from the Harry Potter Films “Aunt Marge’s Waltz” from Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004 “Diagon Alley” from Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone 2001 “Harry’s Wondrous World” from Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone 2001

RUSSELL PECK The Thrill of the Orchestra 1985 Brandon Eck, Narrator

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34 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 35 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON CHORUS CONDUCTOR

Kerry Glann serves as Associate Director of ChoralKerry Activities at GlannBall State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he conducts the Concert Choir and Women’s Chorus, prepares opera choruses, and teaches conducting and graduate choral literature. He previously taught in the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University, conducting choirs, teaching courses in choral music education, and acting as musical director & general manager of opera. A native of Huron, Ohio, he holds a B.M. in music education from Bowling Green State University, an M.M. secretary of the Indiana Choral Directors in conducting from Kent State University, Association, and he taught in the public and a D.M.A. in choral conducting from schools of Ohio for five years. the University of North Texas, where he led the UNT Women’s Chorus, taught An experienced theatre conductor, Glann undergraduate conducting, and was a spent 17 seasons as musical director conducting associate in its nationally- of The Huron Playhouse, a non-profit, recognized early music program. professional-grade summer theatre in Huron, Ohio, where he led performances In recent years, Glann has appeared as a of over thirty productions. He is now guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator on the directing staff of the Bigfork in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Texas, Oregon, Summer Playhouse in Bigfork, Montana. and North Carolina. Choirs under his His operatic conducting credits include direction have performed at conferences of I Pagliacci, Il tabarro, Madame Butterfly, the Indiana Music Education Association The Pirates of Penzance, Trial by Jury, and the Ohio Music Education Association Gallantry, and The Medium. and with the Canton, (Ohio) and Muncie Symphony Orchestras. Major projects Glann holds memberships in the American at Ball State include conducting Rutter’s Choral Directors Association, the National Gloria (2015), Carmina Burana (2017), Collegiate Choral Organization, and the and Chichester Psalms (spring 2018). Indiana Music Education Association.

Glann serves as Conductor of the His conducting teachers include Richard Evansville Philharmonic Chorus and Mathey, C.M. Shearer, and Jerry McCoy. Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church in Muncie. He is also the

36 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON CHORUS ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Ryan Knight is the Assistant Conductor of the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus. Mr. Knight is the Director of Vocal Music andRyan Theatre at North Knight Posey Jr. High School and Sr. High School in Poseyville, Indiana. He conducts four choral ensembles and has several students in his applied voice studio. He also serves as a Site Coordinator for the Indiana Music Education Association. In 2017, he created the Southern Indiana Honor Choir for advanced high school singers.

Recently, his Honor Choir was adopted by Mr. Knight earned his Bachelor of Music in IMEA to become a pilot program for state- Education and Master of Music Education wide installments of “Circle the State With degrees from Murray State University Song” at the high school level. Mr. Knight where he studied Vocal Pedagogy with presented academic research at the Dr. Randall Black and Choral Conducting KMEA state in-service conference and with Dr. Bradley Almquist. hosted an Arts Education workshop for the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English in 2014.

37 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Kerry Glann, Conductor RyanThe Knight, Chorus Assistant Conductor Kristin Jones, Accompanist Kimberly Bredemeier, Chorus Manager

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Stacia Ahlfeld^ Melissa Bethel Stephen R. Best* Kent A. Andrew Angelika Clark Erica Dorfman Birkner Dylan Claywell Daniel Besing Nancy Hart Copley Ann Boyd Kenneth Colbert Brad Betsworth* Amelia Cottrell Rebecca Brookman Cletus Davis Charles Blesch Jean Cox Patricia Bunner Phil Fassett Phil Boyd Amber Ferguson Colbert^ Bruce Goad Craig Butler Stacy Fulton Kelly Coppens David Henze David Coker Megan S Garnett Pam Doerter Nick Hill Donald J. Condon Constance Harness Michelle Egan Al Jacobs Andrew K. Flynn Jill Hemminger Mary Forbes Donna Jeffers James M. Gorman Danniece R. Patricia Heubner Michael Kay AY Hodge Henderson* Diane Hill Christopher N. Price Wayne Jones Susan Henze Jane Shafer Jackson Nicholas Rhoades Peter Kline Jamie Hettenbach- Lynda Johnston Ross Sanford Ryan Knight Barchett Diana Kulenkamp Andy Seibert^ Frank Liberti Janet Hodge Marilyn Lankford* Michael Steckler Ben Luttrull Payton Judd Peggy Liberti Joe Wells Stephen Marshall Kerri Kappler Lorrie Littrell Joshua D. Mason Wanda Kavanaugh Heather Marin Mark K. Powers Julie Lauer Michelle McConnell Robert C. Reinhardt Kimberly M. Lehman Ruth Metzger Daniel Scavone Libby Marshall Lydia Moll Richard Sprinkle Wendy Menke Angela Mullis Donald C. Summers Erika Miller Dorcas Newkirk Keegan Tucker Alison Oldham Linda Palmer David Wright Sally Pack Beth Pieper Ron Youngs Sally M. Perkins Jessica Quates Caitlyn Ricks Vickie Rauch Carolyn Scavone Christie Reagan *Section Leader Lee Thomas JoAnne S. Reinhardt ^Assistant Section Alexis Tindell Chelsea Riley Leader Carrie Ullmer Jana Sallee Shawn Voyles Alex Smith Connie Waters Karen Weck Pat Welborn Ellen Welcher

Old National Bank presents

BasedWest on a Conception Side of JEROME Story ROBBINS Symphony Concert Version Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Leonard Bernstein Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS Originally Produced on Broadway by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince By Arrangement with Roger L. Stevens

CONCERT SPONSOR Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 7:00pm Sunday, November 11, 2018 at 2:00pm GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR William E. Schmidt Foundation Victory Theatre

Alfred Savia, Conductor

University of Evansville Opera Alanna Keenan, Director

Members of the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Kerry Glann, Conductor

Zulimar Lopez Hernandez as Maria Benjamin Adams as Tony Jami Rebecca Rhodes as Anita Ian Murrell as Riff Jose Rubio as Bernardo

44 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Act I Prologue Jet Song Something’s Coming The Dance At the Gym Maria Tonight America Cool One Hand, One Heart Tonight

Act II IntermissionThe Rumble I Feel Pretty Somewhere Gee, Officer Krupke A Boy Like That I Have A Love Finale

West Side Story is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International [MTI]. All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, New York, NY. Tel: 212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684. www.mtishows.com

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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45 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Alanna Kennan, Director University Of Evansville Opera MEN WOMEN Action: Adam Smith Rosalia: Darwi Sandleben Baby John: Isaac Cooper Francisca: Kathryn Lee Big Deal: Griffin Devoy Consuelo: Madeline Cox A-rab: Zachary Schultheis Teresita: Megan Gemmel Snowboy: Joseph Shoup Estella: Alexis Howey Diesel: Benjamin Luttrull* Marguerita: Sarah Weithers Gee-Tar: Clay Steenbergen A Girl: Bailee Bostic Mouthpiece: Nicholas Rhoades*

*Evansville Philharmonic Chorus members

More information about the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus can be found on pages 36-38.

46 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 47 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON SOPRANO

Puerto Rican soprano Zulimar López- HernándezZulimar is celebrated López- for her lustrous timbre and charismatic portrayals of a wide rangeHernánde of roles. This season,z she returns to Utah Opera, singing Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and appears with Dayton Opera for their New Year’s Eve gala performance.

Recently, the soprano joined the Grand Junction Symphony for a suite of music from West Side Story, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra for Haydn’s Creation. Other recent performances in 2008, Radio Choice Audience Favorite in include the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni the 2007 Academy of Vocal Arts Giargiari with Des Moines Metro Opera, Musetta in Bel Canto Competition in Philadelphia, and La bohème with Virginia Opera and Opera 2009 finalist in the Greenfield Philadelphia Memphis, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro Orchestra Competition. with Dayton Opera and Utah Opera, Nannetta in Falstaff with Mannes Opera, Ms. López-Hernández holds a Bachelor Micaëla in Carmen with Knoxville Opera, of Arts degree in Music Education from Rosalba in Florencia en el Amazonas the University of Puerto Rico. There she with Nashville Opera, Despina in Così fan performed the roles of Zerlina in Don tutte with Annapolis Opera, and Beatriz in Giovanni, Gilda in Rigoletto and Olympia Rappaccini’s Daughter with Des Moines in The Tales of Hoffmann, and she took Metro Opera. the stage as soprano soloist in the world premiere of The New Millennium She debuted as Musetta in La bohème Symphony by Raymond Torres-Santos. with the Royal Albert Hall in London, She performed with local opera covered Despina in Così fan tutte for companies and appeared with the Puerto New York City Opera and covered Rico Symphony Orchestra in a Christmas Despina in Così fan tutte with the Los Concert and Handel’s Messiah. Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. She holds an Artist Diploma from the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Ms. López-Hernández was a National While studying there, Ms. López- Semifinalist of the Metropolitan Opera Hernández performed the roles of National Council Auditions in 2006. Poussette in Manon, Despina in Così fan Other awards include Third Place winner tutte and Norina in David Gately’s Wild in the 2010 Palm Beach Opera Vocal Wild West production of Don Pasquale. Competition, Gulf Coast Regional Finalist

48 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON BARITONE

Trained in both Musical Theater and OperaticBenjamin repertoire, Benjamin Adams graduated from the Indiana University, Jacobs SchoolAdams of Music with a Master’s of Music in Voice in 2018. Professionally, Benjamin played the leading role of John Newton (Amazing Grace) with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater as well as appearing in the chorus of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. While in school, Benjamin appeared several times with IU Opera Theater with whom he had been seen in leading and supporting roles such as Tony (West Side Story), Harry Bailey and has appeared with New Voices (It’s a Wonderful Life), Harold Hill (Music Opera, a student created company in Man), Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), Bloomington Indiana, as Charles (Swan’s Dancairo (Carmen), Motorcycle Cop Love). Benjamin is also involved with (Dead Man Walking), and The Painter his local community theater Mill Race (The Last Savage). Theater Company in Columbus, Indiana and has appeared as Joseph (Joseph Benjamin has appeared with the student and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat), led group University Gilbert and Sullivan Bill Sykes (Oliver), Augustus Gloop Society as Grosvenor (Patience), Robin (Willy Wonka), and Albert (The Wind in Oakapple (Ruddigore), Samuel (Pirates the Willows). of Penzance), and Lord Tolloler (Iolanthe)

49 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON MEZZO-SOPRANO

A native of North Carolina, mezzo- sopranoJami Jami RhodesRebecca is an active performer in a variety of genres. Praised for her “impeccableRhodes comic timing” and “lovable and unique” characterizations, favorite operatic roles include Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, Baba in The Medium, Madame de Croissy in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Jo in Little Women, Charlotte in Werther, Lucretia in The Rape of Lucretia, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, The Old Lady in Candide and the title role in Bizet’s Carmen. Frequently seen on the concert Bilitis, Schumann’s Frauenliebe und and recital stage, as well as in operetta leben, and mezzo-soprano soloist in and cross-over repertoire, she can be Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, heard as the Baroness von Krakenfeldt Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, Corigliano’s on the Ohio Light Opera’s recording of Fern Hill, Saint-Saens’ Christmas Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Grand Duke Oratorio, Michael Tippett’s A Child of released by Albany Records in 2003. Our Time, Schoenberg’s Das Buch Her recording of Dinos Constantinides’ der hängenden Gärten, Kodaly’s Marche de Galvez with the Louisiana Te Deum, Haydn’s Paukenmesse, Sinfonietta and Schola Cantorum was Durufle’s Requiem, Dvořák’s Stabat released by Centaur Records in February Mater, and Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil. of 2008. Dr. Rhodes holds the Doctorate of Musical Recent and upcoming appearances Arts degree in voice performance and include the premiere of Michael pedagogy from Louisiana State University, Daugherty’s All I Have to Bring Today, a Master of Music from the University of as well as performances of Dominick South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Music Argento’s Pulitzer Prize winning song from East Carolina University. Dr. Rhodes cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, is currently Associate Professor of Voice Copland’s 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson, at East Carolina University where she Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden teaches applied studio voice, conducts gesellen, Dvorak’s Gypsy Songs, the ECU Concert Choir, and coordinates Falla’s Siete canciones populares the voice science and pedagogy program. espanolas, Debussy’s Chansons de

50 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON BARITONE

Hailed as a “powerful” and “resonant baritone”Ian by Indiana Murrell Public Media, Ian Murrell is from Vandalia, Illinois. He is currently pursuing his Masters of Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana.

Murrell has quickly acquired several operatic and musical theatre credits with both professional companies and educational institutions. Role credits include Enrico Aston in Indiana University Opera Theatre’s production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Harry Bailey while covering Maximilian in Leonard in Jake Heggie’s It’s A Wonderful Life Bernstein’s Candide. Mr. Murrell also with IU Opera Theatre, Ned Keene in covered the role of Hannah Before Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes with in Laura Kaminsky’s chamber opera, IU Opera Theatre, Count Gil in Ermano As One, while appearing on several Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna with concerts and recitals in Chautauqua. University of Evansville’s Schmidt Opera Series, Bob in Gian Carlo Menotti’s In addition to his operatic work, Murrell The Old Maid and the Thief, and excels in operetta and musical theatre Papageno in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, repertoire, having played Anselmo and the each with University of Evansville’s Captain of the Inquisition in Asheville Lyric Schmidt Opera Series. He has also Opera’s production of Man of La Mancha. portrayed Yamadori in Puccini’s Madama He has also played the role of Stewpot in Butterfly in a staged production with addition to covering the role of Emile de the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. Becque in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Ian is an alumnus of the Asheville South Pacific with Asheville Lyric Opera. Lyric Opera young artist program, Aspen Music Festival and School, and This Fall, Ian will be portraying most recently the Chautauqua Opera Le Marquis de la Force in IU Opera Company Studio Artist Program where Theatre’s production of Francis Poulenc’s he performed as a Judge and the Prefect Dialogues des Carmélites.

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Internationally acclaimed Baritone José Rubio Jose has quickly Rubio established himself performing at major and regional venues across the country. Equally comfortable in the concert hall as on the operatic stage, Mr. Rubio's Carnegie Hall Recital Debut was met with great acclaim. The Opera Insider proclaimed that the “...recital was nothing short of stellar,” describing the performance as “...an hour of intensely passionate singing and playing. It could have gone on forever without complaint.”

Mr. Rubio's recent engagements have Marilyn Horne to perform for William and included debuts with Asheville Lyric Opera Catherine Windsor, the newlywed Duke singing Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Duchess of Cambridge, at a high and Skagit Opera singing Guglielmo in profile charity event at the Santa Barbara Cosi fan tutte, as well as a debut with the Polo Club. Rogue Valley Symphony. Internationally, he was seen on tour in China with the He received his Artist Diploma and ISING! International Festival in 2014. Master’s degree from the Cincinnati Other recent engagements have included College-Conservatory of Music, and a return to Portland Opera singing holds a Bachelor’s from the University Morales in Carmen, a reprisal of Le Mari in of Washington. José Rubio is a three Les Mamelles de Tiresias with Brava! time alumnus of the prestigious Music Opera Theater, Tarquinius in The Rape Academy of the West summer festival of Lucretia with Vespertine Opera, and as where he worked closely with Marilyn the Baritone Soloist in Carmina Burana in Horne, Warren Jones, and music staff Seattle with the Spectrum Dance Theater. from the San Francisco and Metropolitan Opera. He has also spent three summers In the summer of 2011, he performed the in Italy performing and studying language title role of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opera Theater and Music Festival with the Music Academy of the West. The of Lucca. Mr. Rubio has been a two LA Times heralded him as a “…Figaro time winner of the Metropolitan Opera with an impressively booming baritone.” National Council District Competition While in Santa Barbara, he was personally and a runner up in the prestigious Marilyn selected by legendary mezzo-soprano Horne Song Competition.

52 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 53 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Stephen Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and Jerome Jerome Robbins is world renowned for lyrics for Saturday Night (1954), A Funny his work as a choreographer of ballets Thing Happened Sondheim On The Way To The as well as hisRobbins work as a director and Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), choreographer in theater, movies and Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little television. He has created more than 60 Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), ballets, which are in the repertories of the Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd New York City Ballet, the Ballet de l’Opera (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), de Paris and major dance companies Sunday In The Park With George (1984), throughout the world. Mr. Robbins has Into The Woods (1987), Assassins (1991), directed for television and film as well, Passion (1994) and Road Show (2008) as with his co-direction and choreography well as lyrics for West Side Story (1957), of West Side Story winning him two Gypsy (1959) and Do I Hear A Waltz? Academy Awards. In addition to his two (1965), and additional lyrics for Candide Academy Awards, Mr. Robbins’s awards (1973). Anthologies of his work include and citations include four Tony Awards, Side By Side By Sondheim (1976), Marry five Donaldson Awards, two Emmy Me A Little (1981), You’re Gonna Love Awards, the Screen Directors’ Guild Tomorrow (1983), Putting It Together Award and the New York Drama Critics (1993/99) and Sondheim On Sondheim Circle Award a National Medal of Arts (2010). He composed the scores of the and a Kennedy Center Honors Recipient. films Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981) Some of his Broadway shows include On and songs for Dick Tracy (1990) and the the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button television production Evening Primrose Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, (1966). His collected lyrics with attendant Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me essays have been published in two Madam and Fiddler on the Roof. Jerome volumes: Finishing the Hat (2010) and Robbins passed away in 1998. Look, I Made A Hat (2011). In 2010 the Broadway theater formerly known as Henry Miller’s Theatre was renamed in his honor.

54 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON An award-winningArthur playwright, screenwriter, MusicMusic Theatre International Theatre (MTI) is librettist, director and producer, Arthur one of the world's leading theatrical Laurents hasLaurents been responsible for creating licensingInternational agencies, granting theatres from the librettos of many Broadway shows around the world the rights to perform including Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle, the greatest selection of musicals from Do I Hear A Waltz?, Hallelujah, Baby! and Broadway and beyond. Founded in Nick & Nora. He wrote the screenplays for 1952 by composer Frank Loesser, and The Snake Pit, Anna Lucasta, Anastasia, orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving Bonjour Tristesse, The Way We Were and force in advancing musical theatre as a The Turning Point. He also wrote the plays vibrant and engaging art form. Home Of The Brave, The Time Of The Cuckoo and A Clearing of The Woods. He MTI works directly with the composers, directed I Can Get It For You Wholesale, lyricists and book writers of these Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, La Cage Aux musicals to provide official scripts, Folles, Birds Of Paradise and Nick & Nora. musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide.

MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students.

55 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Written by Bill Hemminger Program Notes

By Leonard Bernstein WestWhat could Side be Storya more fitting way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein than to perform his arguably best-known and most beloved composition, West Side Story? To claim that Bernstein tapped into the musical pulse of this nation is no understatement, and it would be difficult to overestimate the influence of both the composer and his compositions—on the cultural and social life of America. What person born after the middle of last century aspiring singers and actors have cut who has taken part in school or civic their vocal and acting chops on West choirs has not sung a selection of Side Story’s “Maria” or “Tonight” or tunes from West Side Story or, if that the crazily operatic “Glitter and Be person is really lucky, Chichester Gay” from Candide? Psalms or the grandly-conceived Mass? And I wager that, at the writing The story of West Side Story begins of these words in the midst of a long, in New York City of the 1950s. The sweltering Hoosier summer, a number greatest musical and theatrical of high school marching bands are talents of the time—Jerome Robbins, at this moment preparing a medley choreographer; Stephen Sondheim, of Bernstein tunes or at least blaring lyricist; Arthur Laurents, writer of out the driving beat of “Mambo” plays and screenplays; and of course (from West Side Story) as part of Leonard Bernstein—came together to their half-time show. How many create a dramatic musical portrait of a wedding ceremonies have included slice of life in the Manhattan of the day. a performance of “One Hand, One All men were New Yorkers; all knew Heart” or “Somewhere,” both of which of and were moved by the historical must count very high on a list of go- enmity between Jews and Irish- to wedding ditties? And how many Catholics on the Lower East Side of

56 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Written by Bill Hemminger Program Notes

Manhattan. Thus the first incarnation families and Spanish-speaking Maria of what became West Side Story was and anglophone Tony as their Juliet in fact a sort of East Side story, whose and Romeo. It was then for Bernstein main conflict was religious, not racial to compose the enchanting melodies or ethnic. But at this time in the social like “Maria” or “Somewhere” as well history of Manhattan, the west side as the dynamic danceable rhythms blocks in the 60s near Broadway were of “The Dance at the Gym” or dangerous slums, tenements slated “The Rumble.” for demolition, the streets unsafe because of gang violence. (It continues As a student at Columbia University to be a sad fact apparently not known in the late 60s and early 70s, I got to many city leaders that destroying to know this part of Manhattan in its the site of social problems does not, in upscale dress: the Metropolitan Opera fact, solve those problems). This was building was completed in 1966, The the Lincoln Square neighborhood that Juilliard School in 1969, no Sharks ultimately gave its name to Lincoln or Jets present in the immediate Center. Gang violence was a fact neighborhood. But I didn’t need to of life then, and often that violence look far to see a troubled city with pitted entrenched residents against its grimy tall buildings, dark streets, immigrant Puerto Ricans (among overhanging fire escapes—in other others). So, east side became west words, the backdrop of West Side side; and the writers of West Side Story. Bernstein’s music has brought Story, who had wanted to adapt the great vitality and sad suffering of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to a that city—and of all our cities—alive modern world with modern conflicts, in his gift to music and to the nation, saw contemporary gang clashes in West Side Story. the warring Montague and Capulet

57 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 58 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON adopt musician We launched our inaugural year of Adopt-A-Musician in December, 2017, and people are responding well to it. Wonderful Evansville Philharmonicx supporters are adopting musicians, and we expect many more over the next few months. Remember!! In this inaugural year, your adoption covers the remainder of the 2017-2018 season AND the 2018-2019 season. Some of the perks and benefits of adopting a musician include:

• You acknowledge and honor your musician’s dedication and expertise.

• You will meet your adopted musician personally and attend an exclusive Adopter/Adoptee hosted reception.

• We will display a photo of you and your adopted musician on the EPO web site.

• We will recognize your participation on a Musician Adoption page in the Program Book with your name and your adopted musician’s name.

• You will receive an invitation to an EPO dress rehearsal.

• We will place a chair cover over your musician’s seat at each performance that identifies her or him as adopted.

Adopt the Assistant Concertmaster and Principals for $1500.00

Adopt musicians with 5 years or more of playing with your Orchestra for $1000.00

Adopt musicians with less than 5 years of playing with your Orchestra for $750.00

To honor Maestro Savia in his 30th season with your Orchestra, you may adopt him for $10,000.00

Add your name to the list by calling your Evansville Philharmonic office today and adopting your musician! Remember! Adoptions are on a first come basis, so call right away!

ADOPTED MUSICIANS ADOPTED BY… Lisa Lance Violin II Mr. & Mrs. Bill Muller Lee Veazey Bass Donald C. Summers Ron Tucker Bassoon Ellen Claire Topper & Cody Matsel Barbara Josenhans Horn Mark & Shelah Powers Tim Smith Trumpet Dr. David & Kendra Schultz/ Evansville Primary Care line Cristian Codreanu Horn Dr. & Mrs. Philip C. Fisher

59 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON 60 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON The EvansvilleRecognition Philharmonic of Orchestra our Generous depends on its Donors sponsors and donors for 62% of its annual income. The Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following concert and guest artist sponsors and program underwriters, as well as those individuals, businesses, and family foundations whose charitable giving totals $150 or more to the Endowment Fund, Philharmonic Fund or in-kind gifts of $1,000 or more. The Philharmonic Fund encompasses all outright gifts applied to artistic and operating expenses incurred by the Orchestra in pursuit of our mission: “to engage our community in the powerful experience of live symphonic music.” The following recognition categories reflect the cumulative total of each donor’s gifts received or pledged between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018 and applied to the most recent appropriate season.

SYMPHONY CIRCLE GOLD COMPOSER’S CIRCLE GOLD The Mesker Music Trust, ($30,000-$39,999) ($10,000-$14,999) Fifth Third Bank, Trustee Arts Council of Phil & Linda Palmer Fassett Alvin C. Ruxer Foundation Southwestern Indiana Mr. & Mrs. Cedric Hustace Dr. David & Kendra Schultz/ Evansville Philharmonic Guild (In-Kind) Evansville Primary Care Friends of the Chorus Lewis Bakeries, Inc. Seek & Find Consignments Indiana Arts Commission [Bunny Bread] St. Joseph Catholic Church Helen & Gordon McKinney John & Robyn Musgrave Mrs. Leanna M. Thomas Memorial Concert Trust Patricia H. Snyder Foundation Tropicana Evansville John C. & Diane Schroeder Thomas A. & Sharon K. Ruder Lee & Lauren Veazey Mark & Shelah Powers Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Mell B. Welborn, Jr. Vectren Corporation Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc. CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE SYMPHONY CIRCLE SILVER SILVER ($1,000-$2,499) ($20,000-$29,999) CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Carol & Howard Abrams Crescent, Cresline, PLATINUM ($5,000-$7,499) Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Almquist Wabash Foundation Elizabeth Albon Foundation Trust Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Ancona Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp Dr. & Mrs. Louis B. Cady Mr. & Mrs. Alan Apfelstadt Martha & Merritt deJong Cady Wellness Institute Dick & Diane Arneson Foundation City of Evansville Louis Berman Fifth Third Private Bank Anita Doty Charitable Foundation Mrs. Phyllis R. Grimm The Heart Hospital at BKD, LLP Old National Bank Deaconess Gateway Mr. & Mrs. Phil Boyd William E. Schmidt Foundation Romain Cross Pointe Auto Park Brinker's Jewelers (In-Kind) Joann Schwentker Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Butler COMPOSER’S CIRCLE Traylor Bros., Inc. Karen R. Connelly PLATINUM ($15,000-$19,999) Mrs. Nancy S. Traylor Daus Family Foundation Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Lee Wagmeister Ed Diamond Richard P. Curby & Collynn Pearl/ Joyce & Greg Donaldson Ira E. Clark Detective Agency CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Caroline & Katherine Fairbanks Cecil A & Mabel Lene GOLD ($2,500-$4,999) Phil & Helen Fisher Hamman Foundation American Senior Communities Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Franklin Koch Foundation Norm & Juli Bafunno Linda K. Garrett League of American Orchestras Berry Global, Inc. Anne L. Geissinger On-Site Computer Solutions Fr. Raymond Brenner Hafer & Associates, P.C. (In-Kind) Craig & Tammy Butler Veronica Hamilton Company Wolfe's Auto Auction, Inc. Chatham Financial (In-Kind) Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Wright Deaconess Health Systems Haynie Travel Service Inc. D-Patrick (In-Kind) Dr. Edward & Mary Anne Fox Henkels & McCoy, Inc. Chandler & Jingle Hagey Hilliard Lyons, Inc. Larry Horton (In-Kind) Selby & Pam Hinkebein Mr. Donald B. Korb Edward Howard Frank & Peggy Liberti Elizabeth L. Iber Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Linge Jane Shafer Jackson David & Maribeth Logsdon Drs. Jane & Nils Johansen

61 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON K.L. Kleindorfer PATRON ($500-$999) Chris & Niki Traylor Mr. & Mrs.Recognition Robert L. Koch, II of our14 GenerousNEWS Donors Nancy & Jeff Trockman Kenneth & Jane Krempp Oana & Emilian Armeanu Dr. & Mrs. Thomas E. VonderHaar Lea Matthews Furniture & Jack Deppe & Shari Barrett Thomas & Lynne Washburne Interiors (In-Kind) Bonefish Grill Brian P. & Barbara Coyle Williams Peggy & R. Jack Lewis, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Richard Bohm Christine E. Williams Fred & Becky Malotte Brinker's Jewelers Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Wilson Colonel & Mrs. William D. Holley & Ed Brundick Betty Worthington Marshall Dennis & Angelika Clark Meyer Distributing Bill Cox SUPPORTER ($150-$499) Martha Brent Moody Carol J. Dallinger Dr. & Mrs. Arthur B. Aarstad Mr. & Mrs. Bill Muller Christina Davoust Dr. & Mrs. Salim Akrabawi Dorcas Newkirk Dubois County Altstadt's OBJ Design (In-Kind) Community Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Edward Anderson Darla J. Olberding Dr. Daniel C. Eby - Orthopedic Bruce H. & Carol A. Baker Old National Bank Mortgage Surgery & Sports Medicine Carolyn Roth & Psi Iota Xi/Elsie Sweeney Suzanne & Robert Farney Dr. Charles Barber Indiana Music Fund, Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Fiedler Mr. & Mrs. John Barnard a fund of Central Indiana Gary & Paula Gerling Mrs. David L. Barning Community Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Griffin Bruce Batts Michelle Quinn Carol Grimm Jean C. Beckman Rev. Robert & JoAnne Reinhardt Gary & Lisa Hutton Mary Beckman Dr. & Mrs. Nelson Rivers Raymond James & Mr. & Mrs. R. Brent Beeler Connie & Ronald Romain Associates/Don Minton Harvey Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Savia Jasper Engines & Transmissions Kathy & Jeff Berry Dan & Carolyn Scavone Mr. Steve Roth & Toni Beumer Mr. & Mrs. F. Stephen Sheets Dr. Maritza Jenkins Dr. Peter & Mary Blanc Don Shymanski & Kelly Gates Mary Rita & Don Jourdan Mr. & Mrs. David Blankenberger Dr. David B. & Sarah Smith Mary Kennard Dean & Karen Bosler Donald C. Summers Jack & Linda Kinkel Karla Bowers & John Jeffrey Talley Medical Surgical Earl D. Kirk Catherine Brackmann Eye Care Assoc. PC Dr. & Mrs. E.V. Lacy Frances "Billie" Brakel Andrew & Martha Thieneman Shannon Lamb MD Lucas & Carla Brandt Jim & Pat Thyen John M. Lawrence & Maurita Braun Mr. Cody Matsel & Associates CPA LLC Jean Denton Brubeck Mrs. Ellen Topper Lensing Building Specialties Dr. & Mrs. Steven W. Buedel Tucker Publishing Group Rachel & Ben Luttrull Mr. & Mrs. Jack Buttrum Uebelhor Chevy Cadillac Toyota Tim Mahoney Lynn K. Carrie Dr. & Mrs. Boris Vatel Dr. & Mrs. Spiro Mitsos Mr. & Mrs. Steve Church Laurel Vaughn Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Moore Mr. & Mrs. William V. Clippinger Dan J. Vick, MD Network for Good Mr. & Mrs. William M. Coates Gary & Deborah Wagner Mr. D. Patrick O'Daniel Compass Financial Group Dr. & Mrs. Emil Lee Weber Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Ozete Marilynn Costello Joe & Sue Wells Bob & Jackie Patten Joe & Nan Craig West Side Nut Club Carol Pettys Randall K. and Rebecca L. Craig The Wine Vault (In-Kind) Lewis & Jeanette Plane Family Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Wolking Jim & Julie Rang Joan & George T. David J. Kirk & Sherry Wright Mr. & Mrs. Roland Reed Janet E. Davis Fr. Joseph Ziliak Mike & Camila Scavuzzo Mrs. Julie A. Deeg Joan Schmitt Mr. & Mrs. Steven K. Deig Scott & Leigh Schroeder Mr. & Mrs. Ken C. Dennis Mr. & Mrs. Emmett Schuster Martha Dunbar Trust Connie Seifert Angela Lee Duncan Alan & Susan Shovers Mr. & Mrs. Steve Early Beth & Ken Sparks Jack & Julie Erkilla Dr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Stephens Dr. Walter & Shirley Everett Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Templeton Doretta Faust William Tortoriello Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fenner

62 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON Judith L. Fiddick Sam & Steve Luzader Mr. & Mrs. Russ Seiler David Recognition& Julie Fuhs of ourDick Generous & Carol Lynch Donors Mohit Sheth Bob & Ramona Gehring Julie Mallory Diane & Bill Shinn Jeff & Leann Gray Barbara Matzigkeit Peggy W. Short Mr. Patrick & Dr. Jill Griffin Dr. & Mrs. Brian L. McGuire Simms Painting Co, Inc. James R. Gulick Marcia Meeks Lois and Larry Simon Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Guzzo Henri & Mindy Meijer Mr. & Mrs. Donald Sobek Dr. William Hardesty Margaret & Marshall Miller Mrs. L. Ray Stewart Laurin Hardy Sara Miller Dr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Stransky Delores Hedeman Marilyn Montrastelle Tommy & Sheila Symreng Stephen E. Heeger Jerry & Ann Moore Drs. Andy & Patty Tharp Thomas & Lisa Spencer Dr. & Mrs. John E. Moran Pat Vaughan & William Theby Mrs. Mark A. Henry Jim & Mary Kay Muehlbauer University of Southern Indiana David & Susan Henze Steven A. Mussett Stephen H. & Linda B. Vanderver Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Hoover Sylvia Nichols Susan Vaughn Eldon Hopkins Steven & Sandra Nixon Gayle & Gordon Vogel Robert & Docia Frey Horton Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Mr. & Mrs. Harold Vote, Jr. Rev. & Mrs. Dwight A. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. M. David Paddock Tom & Barbara Waits Ruth Jenkins Dr. & Mrs. Reinaldo Pastora Mr. & Mrs. Jim Ware Wayne & Kristin Jones Mrs. Sandra Patton Greg & Connie Wedding Mr. & Mrs. Frank Kanowsky Bruce & Lola Perkett Bert & Susan Weisheit Gay G. Kavanaugh R. Wayne & Sally M. Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Stephan E. Weitzel Bill & Wanda Kavanaugh Ludwig & Mary Petkovsek Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Weller Joan C. Keck Jay & Suzy Picking John & Mona Whinrey Mark & Cassie Keneipp Mr. & Mrs. Mark Prus James Wiehl Alvin & LaVonne Kloet The Rapp Granary-Owen Drs. Paul & Mary Gail Wilder Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Koch Foundation Bill & Cindy Willis Dr. & Mrs. Phillip Kolb Eric & Martha Reek Käthe & Jochen Woicke Douglass R. Korb Doug & Marla Rennie Michael & Marla Woolsey Jerry & Joyce Lafenhagen Jim & Karen Reynolds Steve & Susan Worthington Marilyn Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Ridley Zeta Gamma Chapter/Psi Iota Xi Landscapes by Dallas Foster Drs. Robert & Anabela Rieti Robert & Rebecca Zimmermann Alice Larkin Jim Rine Kathie Loewen John & Maxine Schroeder Lloyd & Carolyn Long Dorothy Schultheis

63 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON ExpandMatching the impact of Giftyour donation Program with a corporate matching gift! Do you work for a company that will match your If you are not sure whether your company gift to the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra? If matches gifts to performing arts organizations, your company has a matching gift program, it information is usually available through your may match your donation— possibly doubling Personnel, Benefits or Community Relations the value of your gift and increasing the level of Department. Some companies without formal your benefits! programs will match your gift if you ask.

The Philharmonic credits all matching gifts to If you have any questions, please call the the initiating donor, so you get credit for your Philharmonic Development Office company’s gift—and you receive the recognition at 812/425-5050. and increased donor benefits. Listed below are the corporations that have recently matched employee gifts to the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra: Ameriprise Keurig Green Mountain Pfizer Bank of America Mead Johnson Nutrition PPG Industries Bristol-Myers Squibb Merrill Lynch Prudential GE OneMain Financial, Inc. Toyota IBM Peabody Energy Corporation Wachovia

64 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON The EvansvilleThoughtful Philharmonic Tributes Orchestra Thoughtful Tributes Program was established for all who wish to make commemorative or memorial gifts to the Orchestra. Gifts to commemorate special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries or to remember loved ones will be gratefully acknowledged in this space. Tributes of $25 or more made between August 24, 2017 and August 24, 2018.

In memory of In memory of Ralph Mallory In memory of Steven Brackmann Mr. & Mrs. David Blankenberger Jerome Lee Rynder Catherine Brackmann Mr. & Mrs. William Bohlen Anonymous Karla Bowers & John Jeffrey Sandra & John Bolin In memory of Ruth Bromm Evansville Philharmonic Guild Harry & Nancy Clark Marcy Powers Judith Friedes-Craig Phillip & Linda Cummins Doug & Amy Heiman Phillip Gilson & Melanie Helms In memory of Betty N. Buck Mary Kennard Clover Holden Mr. Alfred E. Buck Darrell & Karen LeMond Suzanne & Michael Jordan Barbara Matzigkeit Tim & Rita Prather In memory of Judy Davidson Marcia Meeks Bo & Theresa Rice Marcia Meeks John & Robyn Musgrave Rona & Paul Rothschild Cynthia Nicholson William C. Spaman In memory of Darla J. Olberding Evelyn Sullivan Richard Davoust Susan Partenheimer Mr. & Mrs. Stephan E. Weitzel Anonymous Wally & Barbara Patterson Mary Wuest Oana & Emilian Armeanu Marcy Powers Ziemer, Stayman, Weitzel & Karla Bowers & John Jeffrey Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Savia Shoulders, LLP Gayle Gerling Patricia Singer Darla J. Olberding Sharon Bush Tuggle In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Savia Mary Weyher John H. Schroeder Helen Siegel John C. & Diane Schroeder Dr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Stransky In memory of Kevin Wells Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. In memory of Norma Yoos Marion James Schwentker, Jr. John C. & Diane Schroeder Joann Schwentker In memory of John Henneberger In memory of In memory of Harry Tillman Mary Kennard Dr. Ray Nicholson Dick & Sherry Hamstra Susan Partenheimer Paul & Carol Arnold Dr. Peter & Mary Blanc In memory of In memory of Gene Kennard Evansville Lutheran Family Mary Lou Weidenbener Darla J. Olberding Counseling Evansville Philharmonic Guild Helen Siegel In memory of Kay Reiswig In memory of Sigma Alpha Iota Evansville Michael J. Wolf Alumnae Chapter Lois R. Schmitt

65 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON ENDOWEDEndowments ORCHESTRA CHAIRS SPECIAL ENDOWMENT Principal Second Violin Chair PROGRAMS Evansville Philharmonic Guild Director of Education & Section Violin Chair Community Programs In honor and memory of Ellen L. Essig Mrs. Guthrie May and her parents, Dr. & Mrs. J. Irwin Essig Guest Soloist Fund Principal Viola Chair Dayton Hudson Foundation on behalf Anonymous Friend of Target Stores Principal Cello Chair Peppermint Pops Guest Soloist Fund Anonymous Friend Worthington Family in loving memory of C. Wayne Worthington William H. Suhrheinrich Principal String Bass Chair String Program Fund Mrs. Dallas Suhrheinrich Gordon R. & Helen M. McKinney Pauline A. Riechmann String Quartet Fund Principal Harp Chair Eykamp Family Fred B. Riechmann Young Artist Competition Pauline & Remig Fehn Musicians Club of Evansville/Margaret B. and Principal Flute Chair Leo E. Heim Memorial Scholarship Mrs. Grace B. Guthrie Youth Orchestra Fund Gilbert S. Graves Dr. Edward L. Brundick, Holley Brundick, Principal Clarinet Chair Susan Enlow, Mrs. Clifford A. Kleymeyer Mrs. John H. Schroeder Principal Bassoon Chair William C. H. Grimm, Jr. & Phyllis R. Grimm Principal French Horn Chair Eykamp Family Everett Northcut/Emery Nagy Principal Trumpet Chair Students and Friends Clarence C. Clarke Principal Trombone Chair Doris Clarke-Fischer Rossanna M. Enlow Principal Piano Chair M. E. Albon Foundation, Inc.

66 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON LeaveLeave a Legacy a Legacy of Great Music in Evansville!

If you have a passion for the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, please consider sharing it with “Music is enough future generations.

for a lifetime, Join the Encore Society, a group of individuals who have perpetuated their passion by making but a lifetime a planned gift to the Orchestra.

isn’t enough Let us know if you have included the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in your estate plans for music.” so we may thank you for your generosity and encourage others to make planned gifts. If you —Sergei Rachmaninoff prefer to remain anonymous, your planned gift will be kept completely confidential.

AnonymousEncore – 8 Society MembersEllen Essig* Helen M. McKinney* Jean Denton Brubeck* Linda Palmer Fassett Carol B. Schnacke Dr. & Mrs. Edward Brundick Remig Fehn* Mrs. William Suhrheinrich* Lee F. and *Marilyn C. Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Franklin Leanna M. Thomas Buchtman William C. H. Grimm Jr.* Mary Legler Wilson Mrs. Julie Deeg and Phyllis R. Grimm Evelyn A. Ellis* Charles D. Leich *Deceased

If you have any questions regarding a planned gift, please contact Phil Fassett, Development Committee Chairman at 812/425-5050.

67 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON CLASSICS2018-2019 Sponsors & ProgramPOPS Underwriters Beethoven, Brahms & Bluegrass Vectren’s Opening Night Pops: Halloween Bash Concert Sponsor: Concert Sponsor: Vectren Corporation Martha & Merritt deJong Foundation Chorus Sponsor: Friends of the Chorus Concert Sponsor: Old National Bank Guest Artist Sponsor: Old National Bank Presents West Side Story On-Site Computer Solutions In Concert Concert Sponsor: Old National Bank Old National Bank Presents West Side Story Guest Artist Sponsor: In Concert William E. Schmidt Foundation Guest Artist Sponsor: William E. Schmidt Foundation Fifth Third Private Bank Presents Peppermint Pops Robert Moody, Guest Conductor Concert Sponsor: Fifth Third Private Bank Guest Artist Sponsor: Guest Artist Sponsor: Romain Cross Pointe Auto Park C. Wayne Worthington Family Chorus Sponsor: Lauren & Lee Veazey EPYO Alumni Country Legends Chorus Sponsor: Concert Sponsor: Friends of the Chorus Thomas A. & Sharon K. Ruder Foundation Concert Sponsor: Robert & Marianna Wright Brahms First Concerto & Stravinsky’s Firebird Concert Sponsor: Concert Sponsor: Richard P. Curby & Collynn Pearl Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Guest Artist Sponsor: Concert Sponsor: The Heart Hospital at Deaconess Gateway Cecil A. & Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Guest Artist Sponsor: Berry Global Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Foundation Guest Artist Sponsor: D-Patrick Presents Garland to Gershwin Concert Sponsor: Music of the Spheres Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Foundation Concert Sponsor: Dr. & Mrs. Louis B. Cady/ Indiana Music Legends Cady Wellness Institute Concert Sponsor: Wolfe’s Auto Auction, Inc. Guest Artist Sponsor: Evansville Philharmonic Guild BUNNY BREAD CANDY CANE EXPRESS Beethoven’s Ninth (& First) Concert Sponsor: Lewis Bakeries Concert Sponsor: Koch Foundation Concert Sponsor: Traylor Bros., Inc. INDIANA MUSIC LEGENDS Concert Sponsor: Mrs. Nancy S. Traylor FEATURING THE MUSIC OF Chorus Sponsor: Friends of the Chorus MICHAEL JACKSON This activity is made possible with support by the Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources

68 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2018-2019 SEASON HELEN2018-2019 M. MCKINNEY Sponsors YOUNG & ProgramPROGRAM Underwriters UNDERWRITING PEOPLE’S CONCERTS Student Tickets: City of Evansville Central Indiana Community Foundation Evansville Philharmonic Guild Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestras: Helen M. McKinney Charitable Trust City of Evansville Mesker Music Trust Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp West Side Nut Club Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc Eykamp String Quartet: LOLLIPOP CONCERTS Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp Evansville Philharmonic Guild Evansville Philharmonic Chorus: Friends of the Chorus PHYLLIS R. GRIMM PRESENTS MESSIAH EVANSVILLE BLUEGRASS BALL SPONSORS Concert Sponsor: Phyllis R. Grimm Bluegrass Sponsor: American Senior Communities MESSIAH JASPER Cynthia Wolfe Concert Sponsors: Richard P. Curby & Collynn Pearl Reverend Ray Brenner Dulcimer Sponsor: Tropicana - Evansville German American Bank Jasper Engine & Transmission SIXTH ANNUAL TENNIS Kenneth & Jane Krempp TOURNAMENT Meyer Distributing D-Patrick Alvin C. Ruxer Foundation St. Joseph Catholic Church SPRING CHORAL CONCERT Jim & Pat Thyen Concert Sponsor: Friends of the Chorus Uebelhor Chevy Cadillac Toyota TICKET PRINTING SPONSORS OPERATIONS Hampton Inn/Dunn Hospitality Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Evansville Philharmonic Guild ADVERTISING SPONSORS Indiana Arts Commission Tucker Publishing National Endowment for the Arts EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER Daniel Knight of Studio B Photography OFFICIAL IT SERVICES PROVIDER On-Site Computer Solutions

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