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Dear Friends, Welcome to Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre! February and March are finally here, which to me means that spring is right around the corner, and with it warm weather, sunshine, and the promise of brighter days to
WALTER COLLEY IMAGES come. At the end of January, the RPO announced important news at the Annual Meeting. After the dark days of the recession that has affected our country over the last two years, the Orchestra announced a balanced budget for the fiscal year that ended August 31, 2010. This milestone was achieved with tremendous sacrifice on the part of our employees and with great generosity on the part of individuals in the region who value the RPO and its mission—and without compromising our commitment to our patrons, to our community, and to maintaining our tradition of artistic excellence. Our musicians, conductors, and staff accepted enormous wage reductions with the knowledge that was a necessary step toward stabilizing the RPO’s finances. And you, our audience and greatest supporters, ensured the success of our Million Dollar Community Challenge and the Annual Campaign. There are other signs of the organization’s improving fiscal condition, including the fact that the RPO has achieved the highest-grossing subscription sales in its 88-year history in 2010- 2011. This is testament to the community’s love and support not only of the RPO, but of our much-loved Christopher Seaman, who shares his final season as Music Director with us this year. Soon we will be announcing Maestro Arild Remmereit’s inaugural RPO season, which will begin in the fall of 2011. Stay tuned! Over the course of the next month, there are several RPO debuts and other signature events on the horizon. First, on February 17 and 19, guest conductor Sarah Ioannides makes her RPO debut, along with violinist Lara St. John, for an exciting program featuring Australian composer Matthew Hindson’s Violin Concerto No. 1, “Australian Postcards,” Stravinsky’s Suite from The Firebird, and Debussy’s La Mer. March marks the return of Israeli conductor Yoav Talmi as he leads the Orchestra in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with Markus Groh as soloist, Sibelius’ Finlandia, and the Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich. On March 20, the acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell joins the RPO and Christopher Seaman for a special one- afternoon-only performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto that is sure to be unforgettable. Enjoy the performance and we hope to see you again soon!
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Christopher Seaman, Music Director Jeff Tyzik, Principal Pops Conductor Michael Butterman, Principal Conductor for Education and Outreach The Louise & Henry Epstein Family Chair, Funded in perpetuity Arild Remmereit, Music Director-Designate 2010-2011 Season VIOLIN I CELLO ENGLISH HORN TUBA Juliana Athayde, Stefan Reuss, Principal Anna Steltenpohl W. Craig Sutherland, Concertmaster The Clara and Edwin Principal CLARINET The Caroline W. Gannett Strasenburgh Chair Kenneth Grant,+ Principal TIMPANI & Clayla Ward Chair Funded in perpetuity The Robert J. Charles Ross, Principal Funded in perpetuity Kathleen Murphy Kemp, Wilfredo Degláns, Assistant Principal Strasenburgh Chair The Harold and Funded in perpetuity Associate Concertmaster Lars Kirvan Joan Feinbloom Chair Min Na Lee Funded in perpetuity Shannon Nance, Christopher Haritatos Andrew Brown Jim Tiller, Assistant Concertmaster Mary Ann Wukovitz Jonathan Han Assistant Principal Perrin Yang Benjamin Krug Alice Meyer Tigran Vardanyan Yu-Wen Wang PERCUSSION Ellen Rathjen Ingrid Bock E-FLAT CLARINET Jim Tiller, Principal Janice Macisak Melissa Burton Anderson Min Na Lee Brian Stotz William Hunt Lindsey Crabb~ BASS CLARINET John McNeill Sabina Slepecki Hilary Glen~ Robert Patterson Andrew Brown Kenneth Langley Jillian Pritchard BASS Lise Stoddard SAXOPHONE Colin Corner, Principal HARP Joanna Owen Ramon Ricker+ The Anne Hayden Grace Wong, Principal Jeremy Hill McQuay Chair BASSOON The Eileen Malone Chair, An-Chi OuYang Funded in perpetuity Abraham Weiss, Principal A Tribute by Mr. and Mrs. Hee Sagong~ Michael Griffin, Charles Bailey Harcourt M. Sylvester VIOLIN II Assistant Principal Martha Sholl Funded in perpetuity Jack Stauber* Barbara Dechario David Brickman, Principal CONTRA-BASSOON Daryl Perlo, Gaelen McCormick Charles Bailey KEYBOARD Robert Zimmerman Assistant Principal Joseph Werner, Principal Eric Polenik HORN Patricia Sunwoo The Lois P. Lines Chair John Sullivan Jeff Campbell+ W. Peter Kurau,+ Principal Funded in perpetuity Lara Sipols Nicholas Jones The Cricket and Cary Ratcliff Nancy Hunt FLUTE Frank Luellen Chair Funded in perpetuity PERSONNEL MANAGER Boris Zapesochny Rebecca Gilbert, Principal Liana Koteva Kirvan Elizabeth Porter, Joseph Werner The Charlotte Whitney Assistant Principal Margaret Leenhouts PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN Allen Chair Jennifer Burch Heidi Brodwin Funded in perpetuity Kim Hartquist David Angus Ainur Zabenova Joanna Bassett Patrick Walle STAGE MANAGER Karine Stone Jan Angus+ Curtis Bradley James Dumm Diane Smith TRUMPET Markiyan Melnychenko Douglas Prosser,+ Principal ASSISTANT STAGE PICCOLO The Elaine P. Wilson Chair MANAGER VIOLA Joanna Bassett Dave Miller Melissa Matson, Principal Jan Angus+ Wesley Nance Michael Larco, Herbert Smith * On Leave Assistant Principal OBOE Paul Shewan Erik Behr, Principal + Full-time faculty at the Marc Anderson TROMBONE Eastman School of Music Elizabeth Seka The Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Chair Mark Kellogg,+ Principal ~ Eastman School of Music Olita Povero Orchestral Studies Diploma Funded in perpetuity The Austin E. Michail Verba* Hildebrandt Chair Intern Lisa Steltenpohl Anna Steltenpohl John Upton Funded in perpetuity Linda Kirkwood Lisa Albrecht Samantha Rodriguez Andrew Chappell David Hult Heidi Stauber
6 7 CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, Music Director
2010-2011 marks summers, he has conducted concerts at the Music Director Aspen Festival and also taught at the Christopher American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. Seaman’s thirteenth Abroad, his schedule includes concerts with season with the all of the London orchestras; the major Rochester Philhar- United Kingdom orchestras including the monic Orchestra. City of Birmingham Symphony, the The internationally Bournemouth Symphony, the Royal renowned, British- Liverpool Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish born conductor has National Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, and
ED CHAPPEL become an integral the various BBC orchestras. He also has led part of the Greater Rochester community and the symphony orchestras of Budapest, Prague, is recognized as having raised the artistic level Warsaw, Trondheim, and the North German of the Orchestra to its present excellence. In Philharmonic, among others, and will make May 2009, the University of Rochester return visits this season to Portugal and the awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Music Czech Republic. degree and in November 2010, the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester He visits Australia annually, conducting the recognized him with a Lifetime Achievement major orchestras there (often including Award. He will conclude his tenure as the concerts in the Sydney Opera House) and RPO’s longest-serving Music Director in June also leading master classes for young 2011, whereupon he will begin a lifetime Australian conductors. appointment as Conductor Laureate. His recordings include performances with the Recognized worldwide as one of today’s Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia leading conductors, he previously served as Orchestra, and the National Youth Orchestra Principal Conductor of the BBC Scottish of Britain. Seaman has recorded two CDs with Symphony and Northern Sinfonia, the RPO, one with pianist Jon Nakamatsu conductor-in-residence with the Baltimore released in 2001, and one with pianist Olga Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of Kern, released in 2003 and hailed by the the Naples Philharmonic in Florida. Democrat and Chronicle as “sensational.” Highly sought-after internationally as a guest His third and final RPO recording project, conductor and noted for his strong command featuring Vaughan Williams’ “London” of a broad repertoire, Seaman has regular Symphony and Serenade to Music, will be engagements in North America, Israel, released on harmonia mundi in 2011. Eastern Europe, the Far East, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as in Great Britain. Recent guest conducting engagements in Visit www.rpo.org North America have included the orchestras for more information of Vancouver, Columbus, Seattle, Omaha, and San Antonio, and the Eastern Music including music clips, Festival in North Carolina. He previously has program notes, concert conducted the orchestras of Pittsburgh, Detroit, Houston, San Francisco, Saint Louis, details, tickets, Utah, New Jersey, Minnesota, Cincinnati, and more! Colorado, Louisville, and Atlanta. For several
8 7 JEFF TYZIK, Principal Pops Conductor
Grammy Award- was premiered by the Rochester Philharmonic winner Jeff Tyzik Orchestra in January 2010. has earned a His compositions and arrangements have reputation as one been recorded by the London Symphony of America’s most Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Erich innovative pops Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, Doc conductors, Severinsen and the Royal Philharmonic recognized for his Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Winnipeg brilliant arrange- Symphony, Summit Brass, and the Eastman ments, original Wind Ensemble.
TYLER BOYE programming, and engaging rapport with audiences of all ages. Tyzik has produced a GRAMMY Award- The 2010-11 season marks his seventeenth winning album, The Tonight Show Band with season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Doc Severinsen, Vol. 1. In May 2007, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He also harmonia mundi released his recording serves as Principal Pops Conductor of the conducting works by Gershwin with pianist Oregon Symphony and the Vancouver Jon Nakamatsu and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra. Philharmonic, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard classical chart. He also has produced Highly sought-after as a guest conductor, and composed theme music for many of the Tyzik’s recent guest appearances include the major television networks and released six of Boston Pops and the Philadelphia Orchestra his own albums. at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. He also has appeared with the Cincinnati Pops, Tyzik lives in Rochester with his wife, Jill. the New York Pops, the orchestras of Dallas, For more information, please visit Detroit, and Milwaukee, and the Los Angeles www.jefftyzik.com. Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, among others. Tyzik made his U.K. debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in June 2010. A native of Hyde Park, N.Y., Tyzik began his COMING life in music at age nine playing the cornet. He studied both classical and jazz throughout SOON! high school and went on to earn both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied 2011-12 composition/arranging with Radio City Music Hall’s Ray Wright and jazz studies with Season Ticket the great band leader Chuck Mangione. Packages An accomplished composer and arranger, Tyzik has written over 160 works for on sale orchestra, including a trombone concerto commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and performed at Carnegie Hall. His newest commission, a timpani concerto,
8 9 MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, Principal Conductor for Education and Outreach The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair
Michael Butterman From 2000 to 2007, Butterman held the post is making his mark of Associate Conductor for the Jacksonville as a model for Symphony in Florida. For six seasons, he also today’s conductors served as Music Director of Opera Southwest and is recognized in Albuquerque, N.M. Prior to joining the for his commit- Jacksonville Symphony, Butterman was ment to creative Director of Orchestral Studies at the LSU artistry, innovative School of Music for five years, and was programming, and Principal Conductor of the LSU Opera audience and com- Theater. Previously, he held the post of
GLENN ROSS munity engagement. Associate Conductor of the Columbus Pro Now in his eleventh season as the RPO’s Musica Orchestra, and served as Music Principal Conductor for Education and Director of the Chamber Opera, Studio Outreach—the first position of its kind in the Opera, and Opera Workshop at the Indiana United States—Butterman is also Music University School of Music. For two seasons, Director for both the Boulder Philharmonic he was also the Associate Music Director of and the Shreveport Symphony orchestras. the Ohio Light Opera, conducting over 35 Beginning in the fall of 2009, he assumed the performances each summer. additional post of Resident Conductor for the At Indiana University, Butterman conducted Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. a highly acclaimed production of Leonard Also in demand as a guest conductor, Bernstein’s little-known 1600 Pennsylvania Butterman has appeared recently with the Avenue in a series of performances at the symphonies of Detroit, Houston, Colorado, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, Oregon, Kansas City, Hartford, San Antonio, receiving unanimous praise from such Syracuse, New Mexico, Louisiana, Spokane, publications as The New York Times, Santa Fe, Mobile, and Peoria, as well as Washington Post, Variety, and USA Today. He Pensacola Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera. subsequently was invited to New York at the Summer appearances include Tanglewood, request of the Bernstein estate to prepare a the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in performance of a revised version of the work. Colorado, and the Wintergreen Music Butterman’s work has been featured in five Festival in Virginia. nationwide broadcasts on public radio’s Butterman gained international attention as a Performance Today, and can be heard on two diploma laureate in the Prokofiev Internation- CDs recorded for the Newport Classics label. al Conducting Competition and as a finalist A third CD, in which he conducts the RPO in the prestigious Besançon International in two narrated works for families, is Conducting Competition. As the 1999 scheduled for release this season. recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa, and shared the podium with Ozawa to lead the Fairy Tales season’s opening concert. In 1997, he was April 3 at 2:00 pm sponsored by UNESCO to lead the National Performance Hall at Hochstein Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova in a concert of music by great American masters. www.rpo.org/orKIDStra
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App: InDesign CS4 Trim: 4.625"(w) x 3.625"(h) Pubs: Bravo Rochester Philharmonic Artist: RK Live: Orchestra Guide Proof #: 03 Bleed: Scale: 100% Color: 4/C Fonts: Helveticas, TradeGothics ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, INC. Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Founded in 1923 - Incorporated in 1930) OFFICERS EX-OFFICIO PAST RPO CHAIRPERSONS Suzanne D. Welch Erik Behr 1930-32 - Edward G. Miner* Chairperson of the Board Orchestra Representative 1932-34 - Simon N. Stein* Charles H. Owens James M. Boucher 1934-38 - George E. Norton* President & CEO Immediate Past Chairperson 1938-41 - Leroy E. Snyder* Patrick C. Burke Jennifer Burch 1941-42 - Frank W. Lovejoy* Vice Chairperson Orchestra Representative 1942-43 - Bernard E. Finucane* Patrick Fulford Douglas Lowry 1943-46 - L. Dudley Field* Vice Chairperson Dean, Eastman School of Music 1946-48 - Edward S. Farrow, Jr. * Ingrid A. Stanlis Charles H. Owens 1948-51 - Joseph J. Myler* Vice Chairperson President & CEO 1951-52 - Joseph F. Taylor* Keith M. Wilson Paula H. Pattison 1952-55 - Raymond W. Albright* Vice Chairperson Chairperson, Volunteer Services 1955-57 - Arthur I. Stern* Elizabeth F. Rice Committee 1957-59 - Thomas H. Hawks* Treasurer Josephine S. Trubek 1959-61 - Walter C. Strakosh* William D. Eggers Chairperson, Honorary Board 1962-63 - Ernest J. Howe* 1963-65 - O. Cedric Rowntree* Secretary HONORARY BOARD James M. Boucher 1965-67 - Frank E. Holley * Josephine S. Trubek Immediate Past Chairperson 1967-69 - Thomas C. Taylor* Chairperson 1969-71 - Thomas H. Miller* BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. James E. Koller 1971-72 - Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens* (Term Expires Jan. 2012) Vice Chairperson 1972-73 - Edward C. McIrvine David W. Ackroyd Dr. John Bouyoucos 1973-74 - Robert J. Strasenburgh* Dr. John M. Bennett Paul W. Briggs 1974-75 - John A. Santuccio William D. Eggers William L. Cahn 1975-76 - Robert J. Strasenburgh* La Marr J. Jackson Catherine B. Carlson 1976-78 - Dr. Louis Lasagna* Elizabeth F. Rice Louise Epstein 1978-80 - Edward C. McIrvine Dr. Friederike Seligman Harold & Joan Feinbloom 1980-82 - Peter L. Faber Dr. Gwen K. Sterns Jay M. Friedman 1982-84 - Paul F. Pagerey Dr. Sidney S. Weinstein Mary M. Gooley 1984-85 - Peter L. Waasdorp Suzanne D. Welch David C. Heiligman 1986-89 - Robert H. Hurlbut Deborah Wilson A. Thomas Hildebrandt 1989-91 - Paul W. Briggs Robert H. Hurlbut (Term Expires Jan. 2013) 1991-93 - Karen Noble Hanson Robert D. Hursh Patrick C. Burke 1993-95 - Ronald E. Salluzzo Dr. Jacques M. Lipson Dr. Steven E. Feldon 1995-98 - A. Thomas Hildebrandt Cricket & Frank Luellen Patrick Fulford 1998-00 - Harold A. Kurland I.A. Morris Marie Kenton 2000-04 - David C. Heiligman Dr. Paul F. Pagerey Dawn F. Lipson 2004-06 - Ingrid A. Stanlis Herbert L. Rees Dr. Kishan Pandya 2006-09 - James M. Boucher Nathan J. Robfogel Anne Sartori * Deceased Jon L. Schumacher Ingrid A. Stanlis Katherine T. Schumacher Keith M. Wilson Norman M. Spindelman (Term Expires Jan. 2014) Betty Strasenburgh The Rochester Philharmonic Patricia C. Wilder Steven Hess Orchestra is a member of Patrick J. Kelly The RPO expresses its gratitude to all Nannette P. Nocon those who have served as Honorary Paula H. Pattison Board members in the past. John K. Purcell Gregory W. Smith Jules L. Smith Jeffrey A. Wadsworth
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16 ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA
David Harman, Music Director The Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra is a symphonic orchestra composed of 100 of Greater Rochester’s most accomplished middle- and high-school musicians. Sponsored by the Education Department of the RPO, the RPYO was founded in 1970 to provide enriching musical ensemble experiences to very accomplished students from varied backgrounds. It facilitates musical, personal, and social development within a challenging and supportive environment and lays an excellent musical foundation for future professional or amateur careers in music. Admitted through competitive annual auditions, RPYO musicians rehearse and perform under the direction of Dr. David Harman and with mentors from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Board of Directors, 2010-2011 David Ackroyd Gregory Parris Ex-Officio Past Board Chairs Chairperson Daniel Stare Susan Basu Joyce Burrell Randall Curren Fred Weingarten David Harman Jeanne Gray Julia Figueras Mary Ellen Womack Charles Owens William Cahn Roselyn Freedman-Baum Grace Wong Josephine Whang Darrell Haynes Darrell Haynes RPYO Music Director RPYO Manager Ruth Messinger David Harman Susan Basu William Munch
GREAT ROMANTIC COMPOSERS Side-by-Side Concert with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 pm • Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre DAVID HARMAN, conductor • CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, guest conductor RPYO Alumni guest artists Daryl Perlo and Vivek Kamath RPYO Concerto Competition winners: Melissa Mashner, flute, and Rosina Curren, violin As part of the year-long celebration of our 40th Anniversary, we are thrilled to welcome back two distinguished RPYO alumni to perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante: Daryl Perlo, RPO Assistant Principal Second Violin, and Vivek Kamath, Violist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. We also are honored that RPO Music Director Christopher Seaman will join us in Kodak Hall to conduct the combined RPO and RPYO in the powerful “Jupiter” movement from The Planets by Holst. The program also includes music by Tchaikovsky, Liptak, Strauss, and Dvorvák. Tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for students and seniors and are available at the RPO Box Office at 454-2100, online at www.rpo.org, from RPYO musicians, and at the time of the performance.
Sunday, May 15 at 3:00 pm TWENTIETH-CENTURY SYMPHONIC MASTERWORKS Hale Auditorium RPYO Concerto Competition Winners Roberts Wesleyan College HINDEMITH Symphonic Variations David Harman, conductor HANSON Symphony No. 2 Tickets are available at the RPO Box Office, from the RPYO at 454-7311, x224, online at www.rpo.org, and from RPYO musicians.
The RPYO is sponsored by the Education Department of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
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CORPORATE PARTNERS, FOUNDATIONS, & ORGANIZATIONS The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following corporate, foundation, and community organizations for their generous support. As we continue our three-year Celebration Beyond Measure, those donors with bold designation have increased their gift by at least 50% for the 2010-2011 Season. Listings are as of January 5, 2011. Please call 454-7311 x244 with questions or corrections. SYMPHONY Glover Crask Charitable Trust Rochester Area Community Bartholomew Health Care ($50,000 & ABOVE) Harter Secrest & Emery LLP Foundation Group ESL Federal Credit Union KeyBank - Castle Fund for Music Billitier Electric, Inc. First Niagara Financial Group M&T Bank Education Brown & Brown Wegman Family Charitable Nixon Peabody LLP - Rufus K. Dryer II Fund Caldwell Manufacturing Co. Foundation Nocon & Associates, - The John F. Wegman Fund Chaintreuil Jensen Stark Wegmans Food Markets An Ameriprise Wealth Spindler Family Foundation Architects LLP Elaine P. & Richard U. Advisory Practice Thomson Reuters The Elizabeth F. Cheney Wilson Foundation Paychex, Inc. Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation The Pike Company Foundation Mary W. Clark Charitable CONCERTO Time Warner Cable Lead Trust ($25,000-$49,999) OVERTURE T.M. and M.W. Crandall Unity Health System ($3,000-$4,999) Bausch & Lomb University of Rochester Foundation Allstate Insurance Inc. Davenport-Hatch Foundation Medical Center Durwood Management Arts and Cultural Council for Eastman Kodak Company USAirports Ernst & Young Greater Rochester G.W. Lisk, Inc. of Clifton Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Fibertech Networks Cornell/Weinstein Family Springs Xerox Gannett Foundation Foundation Joseph Rippey Private The Guido and Ellen Palma SUITE ($5,000-$9,999) Fidelity Investments Foundation Foundation AAA of Western and Central Ann & Gordon Getty MVP Health Care Harris Beach PLLC New York Foundation Wendy’s Restaurants of Hazlow Electronics Bergmann Associates KPMG, LLP Rochester Manning & Napier Advisors Boylan, Brown, Code, Vigdor Macy’s Zimmer Sales & Service Corp. May K. Houck Foundation & Wilson LLP Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a SONATA L&B Worldwide Corning Incorporated Johnson & Johnson ($10,000-$24,999) Kovalsky-Carr Electric Supply Foundation Company M/E Engineering Anthony J. Costello & Son Joseph & Anna Gartner The Louis S. & Molly B. Morning Musicale Bank of America Foundation Wolk Foundation New Horizons Band & The Brown Group - Private Hylan Enterprises Inc PARTNER ($1,000-$2,999) Orchestra Banking & Investment Manning Squires Hennig Co. ALSTOM Signaling Postler & Jaeckle Corp. Group of Merrill Lynch PAETEC Communications, Foundation Rochester Midland Constellation Brands Inc. Ames Amzalak Memorial Trust Corporation Dominion Transmission Riedman Foundation The Gertrude Chanler RPO Clara Baird Charitable Lead Rochester Philharmonic Fund Trust League
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Rubens Family Foundation Insley-McEntee Equipment Current Services Southern Wine & Spirits of Sentry Group Co., Inc. Maureen Dobies Upstate New York xpedx Fieldtex Products, Inc. Doyle Security Studio at Linden Oaks Entercom Carol Tabbone ASSOCIATE ($600-$999) Karpus Investment Management Frontier Time Warner Cable Alleson of Rochester, Inc. Landsman Development Corp. Fabulous Flowers Virtu Cooper-Haims Advisors, LLC Leuze Electronic Georgetown Discount Liquors Youngblood Disposal Fieldtex Products, Inc. Matthews & Fields Lumber Co. Glatley Piano O’Connell Electric Co. MATCHING GIFT Gary & Nancy Penisten Goose Watch Winery Qualitrol Company, LLC COMPANIES Family Foundation Jay Advertising Rochester Homebuilders Bank of America Reimar Piano Tuning Service Ketmar Development Corp. Association ExxonMobil Vanden Brul Foundation Keuka Spring Winery Stantec Consulting Services Inc. Gleason Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Max of Eastman Place Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. IBM Corporation Wegman Nan Miller Gallery Townson Foundation Illinois Tool Works Foundation Onnie’s Closet GIFTS IN KIND Johnson & Johnson SUPPORTER ($300-$599) Outdoor Accents Alliance Barter, Inc. JPMorganChase Anonymous (1) Riverside Catering Bill Pines OppenheimerFunds Inc. Canandaigua National Bank Rochester Linoleum & Carpet Bourbon Street Parade Tauck Foundation and Trust One Clark Moving and Storage Verizon DATROSE Sherwin Williams CMI Exele Information Systems, Inc. Constellation Brands MAESTRO’S CIRCLE The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the generous individuals who help us continue to enrich and inspire the community through the art of music. As we continue our three-year Celebration Beyond Measure, those donors with bold designation have given a special gift in support of Christopher's performances or increased their gift by at least 50% for the 2010-2011 Season. Listings are as of January 5, 2011. Please call 454-7311 x238 with questions or corrections. PRESTO Nannette Nocon & Ron & Sharon Salluzzo Ann M. & Sam R. Huston ($25,000 & ABOVE) Karl Wessendorf Friederike & Joel Seligman Mr. & Mrs. Ernest J. Ierardi Anonymous MJohn & Paula Pattison Jules L. Smith & Marcia Karch Nancy & Harry Beilfuss Fayga Press Alexandra Northrop Norman & Judith Karsten Louise Epstein Kathy & John Purcell Frank M. & Mary Lou Stotz Dave & Mary Alice Kendall Ronald & Donna Fielding Larry & Elizabeth Rice Mrs. Richard L. Turner MRichard & Karen Knowles Sherman Levey & Elise & Stephen Rosenfeld John Urban Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Konar Deborah Ronnen MPaul & Anne Sartori Dr. Sidney & Linda S. Nancy & David Lane Dr. Jacques & Mrs. Dawn Katherine T. & Jon L. Weinstein Joanne Lang Lipson Schumacher Robin & Michael Weintraub Jane & Jim Littwitz Mr. & Mrs. I.A. Morris Ingrid Stanlis & Patricia & Michael Wilder Mrs. Robert J. Macon Betty Strasenburgh Paul Donnelly ANDANTE ($2,500-$4,999) Dan & Kiki Mahar Richard & Gwen Sterns William P. McCarrick Lewis & Patricia Ward-Baker Anonymous (7) Josephine S. Trubek Mrs. Gilbert G. McCurdy Suzanne D. Welch & James T. & Jacqueline Adams Keith & Betsy Wilson Mr. & Mrs. James R. McMillen William D. Watson Mr. & Mrs. George M. Angle Eric I. Zeller Jim & Ginny Morris Louise Woerner & Gail & James Biben John Muenter Don Kollmorgen ALLEGRO ($5,000-$9,999) Allen & Joyce Boucher Dr. & Mrs. Kishan J. Pandya VIVACE Anonymous (2) Barbara & John Burning Bernard & Molly Panner ($10,000-$24,999) Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Briggs Chris & Tom Burns David & Marjorie Perlman Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. & Dr. Eric Dreyfuss William L. & Ruth P. Cahn William & Barbara Pulsifer Steven Hess Joan & Harold Feinbloom Mr. & Mrs. Harlan D. Calkins Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers James S. Badger Gail R. Flugel Paul R. & Mary Allison Sunny & Nellie Rosenberg Carol & John Bennett Jeff & Alleen Fraser Callaway John B. Rumsey Jim & Karen Boucher William B. Hale Margaret Carnall Richard & Vicki Schwartz Patrick & Irene Burke David & Barrie Heiligman Mr. & Mrs. Terrance Carney MGloria A. Smith Louis & Allis D’Amanda Marc & Ann Iacona Betsy & John Carver Janet Buchanan Smith William Eggers & Mr. & Mrs. Cameron Jameson Joan & Paul Casterline MSandra & Richard Stein Deborah McLean MKathleen & Patrick Kelly Tim Eldred Robert C. Stevens Dr. & Mrs. Steven Feldon Harold & Christine Kurland John R. Ertle David & Grace Strong Carolyn & Roger Friedlander Mrs. Frank W. Lovejoy, Jr. Samir & Sato Farid Mrs. Schuyler Townson Jay & Betsy Friedman Marcia & Douglas Lowry James & Catharine Ford Catherine Usandivaras Barbara & Patrick Fulford Allen J. Mardorf Robert & Joanne Gianniny Krestie Utech Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Furman Mr. Lawrence Martling Paul & Carol Goldberg Dr. & Mrs. Burton D. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh Deanne Molinari Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hallagan Robert A. Woodhouse Marie & Charlie Kenton Charles & Rita Myers Karen Noble Hanson Jim & Marianne Koller Charles H. Owens Kathleen Holt & ADAGIO ($1,000-$2,499) Cricket & Frank Luellen Drs. Raman & Savita Qazi, Stephen Lurie Anonymous (9) M.D. Dr. Jack & Harriette Howitt Robert E. & Carol G. Achilles
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Miriam H. Ackley Mr. & Mrs. James T. Englert Dr. Robert J. Holzhauer Sara L. Niemeyer Barbara & David Ackroyd Gerald G. Estes Norman Horton Kathy & Ted Nixon Edward & Joan After Julia B. Everitt Mary Jo & Jack Hultz Drs. Avice O’Connell & Marvin & Frederica Amstey Trevor & Elizabeth Ewell Marjorie S. Humphrey Timothy O’Connor Allan & Polly Anderson Sherman & Anne Farnham Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Hurlbut Mrs. Betty L. Paddock Christian & Courtney Andreach Samuel J. & Marsha R. Fico Bob & Elaine Jacobsen Dr. Paul Pagerey Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Angevine, Jr. MJill Sutton Finan Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz Jane Parker & Dave & Jan Angus Charles Fitzgibbon Daryl & Charles Kaplan Francis Cosentino Dr. & Mrs. James V. Aquavella Ilene & David Flaum David & Mary Jane Kates Patricia & Philip Parr Mr. & Mrs. Mehdi N. Araghi Joseph A. Floreano Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Kennedy Michael & Marybeth Pomeroy Etta K. Atkin Jack & Vera Fogg Richard Killmer Brock & Sandra Powell Reuben Auspitz & John & Sandy Ford Rose-Marie Klipstein Mrs. Frederick I. Price Dawn Goodelk In Memory of Dr. & Mrs. Myrta & Robert Knox Susan A. Raub Dr. & Mrs. Robert S. Bakos Charles R. Fordyce Karen S. Kral Dr. & Mrs. Vincent F. Reale Christopher Barry & Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Fox Marcy & Ray Kraus in loving Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Reed, M.D David Omdahl Dr. & Mrs. Elmar Frangenberg memory of Charlotte Kraus Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce B. Bates Kevin Frick Barbara & Jack Kraushaar Richards Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Bennett Ann & Tim Fulreader Drs. Richard Kreipe & Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Riedman Dr. & Mrs. Robert F. Betts Helen & Dan Fultz Mary Sue Jack Mary Rob Stuart & Betsy Bobry Johanna M. Gambino in Ernest & Sarah Krug Daniel & Nancy Robbins Bob Bradacs memory of Jerry J. Gambino Werner & Susan Kunz Mrs. Stanley M. Rogoff Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Briggs William L. Gamble Ronald Kwasman, D.D.S. Mrs. David Romig Peter W. Briggs Dr. Richard & Josie Gangemi Lane Family Fund Tom & Ellen Rusling Priscilla & Rob Brown Ann S. Garrett John & Alice Leddy Drs. Carl & OJ Sahler Lisa Brubaker Winston E. Gaum Norman & Arlene Leenhouts Drs. Eva & Jude Sauer Josh & Beth Bruner Dr. & Mrs. David Gentile Gay & Don Lenhard William Saunders Doug & Chris Brush Craig & Shirley George Dr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Leone, Peggy Savlov Richard F. Brush Patti & Dick George Jr. James Scanzaroli Sharon & Philip Burke Mr. & Mrs. Wesley P. Ghyzel Dr. & Mrs. Hobart A. Lerner Ruth Schnabel Mary Ellen & Alan Burris Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Gibson T.C. & Pam Lewis Peter Schott & Ann Burr & A. Vincent Buzard Tom & Kelly Gilman John & Dolores Loftus Mary Jane Tasciotti B. Edward Cain Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ginsberg Edith M. Lord Nancy & David Schraver Dick & Marcia Calabrese Warren & June Glaser Arthur E. Lowenthal Steven M. Schwab Alan & Nancy Cameros Rob W. Goodling Harold D. Lowry Mrs. Frederick Schwertz Philip & Jeanne Carlivati Patricia Goodwin Swaminathan & Janice Madhu Anthony & Gloria Sciolino Pam & Ron Castor Marsha R. Gottovi H. Edwin Maier & Gretchen Shafer Tina Chandler Suzanne Gouvernet Barbara-Ann Mattle Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Shea Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Julia Grant Joseph J. Mancini Mary E. Sherman Chapman Jeanne Gray in memory of Mrs. William P. Manry Ginny Skuse & Frank Grosso Thomas Chase Robert C. Gray Kathryn Markakis & Alice & Ken Slining Dr. Lawrence & Mrs. Rita Russell Greenawalt Geoffrey Williams Carol Snook in memory of Chessin Karl Greenhagle Saul & Susan Marsh Richard Snook Dr. & Mrs. Tim Clader George Greer Mrs. Bruce P. Marshall Dr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Sobel Mary Ellen Clark Jean E. Groff Frances & Robert Marx Susan & David Spector Ann & Don Clarke Gaye Gronlund Sandra McDonald Glenna & Norman Lorraine W. Clarke Brigitte & Klaus Carol A. McFetridge Spindelman Sarah H. Collins Gueldenpfennig Melissa McGrain & MDaniel & Susan Stare Dr. John & Carol R. Condemi Patricia A. Guttenberg Andrew Stern Mrs. Andrea Stewart Marj & Wiles Converse Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Pamela McGreevy Dr. Robert & Sally Jo Stookey T. Scott & Constance Coots Haggerty Bruce & Eleanor McLear Eleanor Summers Mary Cowden & Peggy & David Hall John McMath Henry & Ellen Thiede Michael Neary Joan & Alfred Hallenbeck Dr. & Mrs. Neal McNabb J. Russell & Kathleen Thomas Jeff & Sue Crane George & Mary Hamlin Karen Mead Miriam Thomas Joyce Crofton Don & Nancy Hare Marion & Ed Mench Stephen & Shirley Townsend Mrs. Nancy G. Curme Mr. & Mrs. William Z. Harper Dr. & Mrs. Edward Messing Dr. & Mrs. Eugene P. Toy Joseph & Judith Darweesh Alan J. Harris Daniel M. Meyers Marcia & David Trauernicht Horace R. Davis Marguerite Harris & Ken & Nancy Mihalyov Bancroft-Tubbs Family Fund Michael & Anne DeStefano Lawrence Kotowicz Dr. & Mrs. Michael Millard Mrs. Robert van der Stricht Gary DeTaeye Warren & Joyce Heilbronner Duane & Ida Miller Betsy Van Horn Tex & Nicki Doolittle Walter B.D. Hickey, Jr. Richard W. & Joyce K. Mitchell Ann & Robert Van Niel Janis Dowd & Daan Zwick Tom & Nan Hildebrandt Mary & Don Monefeldt Wayne & Anne Vander Byl MMs. Marilyn Drumm David C. & Patricia M. Hinkle Ilene Montana Bill & Jean Vincent-Rapp Dr. & Mrs. James Durfee Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Dr. & Mrs. James E. Moon Dr. Laura von Doenhoff David P. & Margaret M. Durr Hodgman Paul & Helga Morgan Harry & Ruth Walker In Memoriam for Anita B. William & Kathleen Hoeger Mr. & Mrs. Edward Mullen Elizabeth Wallace Dushay by Frederick John & Ginny Hoenig Mrs. Edward T. Mulligan MSkip & Karen Warren Dushay, M.D. Gwendolyn & David L. Ruth & Gary Myers MCarolyn & Jack Weaver Mr. & Mrs. Lester Eber Hoffberg Mr. & Mrs. Philip Neivert Ann Weitzel Maria Echaniz Susan Holliday Elizabeth Neureiter-Seely Stephen Wershing
20 15 MAESTRO’S CIRCLE continued Support the RPO today! Mrs. Timothy J. Westbrook Mrs. Jessie P. Woodward Dr. & Mrs. Tae B. Whang Carol Ritter Wright & Please give today & help make the music Mrs. Frederick C. White William Wright happen. Call Dan House at (585) 454-7311 Mrs. Kay R. Whitmore William & Anne Young Puck & Claes Winqvist MCorporate Matching Gift x252, or donate online at www.rpo.org. Kitty & Sergeant Wise Thank you! Elise & Joseph Wojciechowski
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ADVOCATE ($700-$999) Nancy & Carl Gerard Stephen Matkowsky & Charles & Carolyn Whitfield Anonymous (3) Mrs. Essie Germanow Elzbieta Charchalis Dale & Lorraine Whittington Armando & Leita Acosta Mr. & Mrs. Burton Gordon Kathleen McNamara Ed & Wilma Wieranga John & Mary Bartholomew Janet & Roger Gram Margaret & Bob Mecredy Mrs. John T. Wigg David Bassett Dr. & Mrs William Grammar Carl Mercendetti & Mr. & Mrs. Reyton Wojnowski Hays & Karen Bell Barbara J. Granite Valerie Maresh Cynthia Woolbright & Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Blumenau Alan & Julie Griesinger Ferne F. Merrill William H. Spelman Jeff & Kathy Bowen Helen E. Halligan Dr. & Mrs. William L. Morgan Alan Woy Dr. Mrs. Albert Brault Joan Holub Handfield Mrs. William B. Morse Kevin & Trude Wright Claire M. Brown Marilyn & Dick Hare Ruth I. Morton Mr. & Mrs. Robret Zajkowski Marilyn R. Brown Mrs. Emily V. Harris Harold & Evelyn Munson Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zornow Jane A. Capellupo Timothy & Christine Hassett Dr. & Mrs. R. Joseph Naples BENEFACTOR ($375-$699) Mr. & Mrs. George A. Cefalu Mr. & Mrs. H. Lawrence Helfer Mildred G. Ness Anonymous (30) MChristine Colucci Art & Barb Hirst W. Robert Nolan Mrs. William G. Aldridge MSamuel B., Jr. & Marlene Dattilo Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Suzanne J. O’Brien Dr. Norman Allentoff Linda Wells Davey Hodgman Lorene Osborn Frank & Marina Aloi Jacques & Monique Delettrez H. Larry & Dorothy Humm H.R. Powers Dr. & Mrs. Henry W. Altland Don & Jean Delwiche Gwyneth Hunting Margaret Quackenbush Mr. & Mrs. John D. Andersen Joseph & Marie DeRitis Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. Iwan James & Barbara Reno Peter & Jane Anderson Dr. William W. Destler & Ronald & Martha Jodoin Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Professor & Mrs. William A. Dr. Rebecca Johnson Janet Kemp Rosenbaum Andrews Wendell & Mary Discher Marilyn & David Klass Thomas & Elizabeth Ross Allegra Angus Gail & Douglas Doonan Mr. & Mrs. William Koch Dr. Frank & Elizabeth Salamone Dr. & Mrs. E. David Appelbaum MMr. & Mrs. Richard J. Egan Salvatore & Sandra LaBella Ruth & Sidney Salzman Betsy & Gerald Archibald Carol & Tom Elliott Dr. Paul La Celle Joan & Arthur Segal MDr. & Mrs. Edward C. Atwater Mohsen Emami, M.D. Debby & Elliott Landsman Robert & Nancy Shewan Marion P. Avery Rochelle & Paul Fine Helen Lenhard Daniel & Sarah Singal Jean Boynton Baker Mr. & Mrs. Lee J. Fleckenstein Doris & Austin Leve Mr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Stark Ruth & William Balderston III George & Marie Follett Mr. & Mrs. James A. Locke III Margaret A. Strite Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Balta Richard & Suressa Forbes Sue & Michael Lococo Frank & Rose Swiskey Dr. Betsy Ann Balzano Peter & Nancy Gaess Betty Lohr Mimi & Sam Tilton Elise Banfield John & Miriam Ganze Angela Mambro Dorothy & Marshall Tyler Barbara Bansbach David & Patricia Gardner Karen Marsh Gary & Marie VanGraafeiland Maureen Baran Evelyn J. Garufo Joseph Werner & Diane Smith
Jack & Carolyn Bent Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff Peggy W. Savlov Ellen S. Bevan Helen Greer David G. & Stuart & Betsy Bobry H. Larry & Antonia T. Schantz William & Ruth Cahn Dorothy C. Humm Peter S. Schott & Margaret J. Carnall Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Mary Jane Tosciotti Joan & Paul Casterline Hursh Jon L. & Katherine T. Dr. & Mrs. John J. Condemi Jim & Marianne Koller Schumacher Janis Dowd & Daan Zwick Dawn & Jacques Lipson, Gretchen Shafer The George Eastman Legacy Joan & Harold Feinbloom M.D. Elbis A. Shoales, M.D. Society honors all those who Donald & Elizabeth Fisher Sue & Michael Lococo Ingrid Stanlis & remember the RPO through a Suressa & Richard H. Forbes Cricket Luellen Paul Donnelly bequest or other planned gift. Catherine & Elmar Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mahar Betty Strasenburgh Please let us know if you have Frangenberg Pete & Sally Merrill Ivan L. Town included the Orchestra in your Carolyn & Roger Friedlander Robert J. & Marcia Ann & Robert Van Niel will or other estate plans by Jay & Betsy Friedman Wishengrad Metzger Jean Vincent-Rapp calling the RPO Development Karyl P. Friedman Elizabeth O. Miller Patricia Ward-Baker Department at 454-7311 x238. Patrick & Barbara Fulford Diane Molinari Fred M. Wechsler Anonymous (1) William L. Gamble Suzanne F. Powell Patricia Wilder Nancy & Harry Beilfuss Gerald W. & Mary M. Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers Alan R. Ziegler Carol & John Bennett Gooley Wallace R. Rust & Emily Neece
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Michael Bargmann William Costello Robert & Jeanne Grace Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Jones Tom Bartolini James Craig Mr. & Mrs. William Grason, Jr. Miles & Silvija Jones Susan & Asish Basu Ms. Ann Marie Crilly Barbara Jean Gray-Gotorff John & Carole Joyce Karen Baumgartner Rich & Sue Cringoli Mr. & Mrs. Newton H. Green Jack & Anne Kampmeier Brenda Beal John & Mary Crowe Ed & Terry Grissing Barbara & Robert Kay Bruce H. Beasor Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Curran Marian Griswold Mrs. Maryel Kellogg John & Ellen Beck Roy Czernikowski & Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Griswold Thomas & Ann Kelly Stewart Beecher Karin Dunnigan Mr. Robert C. Grossman Robert J. Kennedy Miss Anne Bell Dr. Salvatore & Joan Dalberth Dr. & Mrs. Robert Gulick Mr. & Mrs. Alvie Kidd Donald Bennett Beth & Tad D’Ambrosio Ann L. Haag Jack & CB Kinsella Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bennett Carolyn & Bill Daniels Eleanor F. Haas Dr. Armin Klein & David M. Berg & Dawn K. Reidy Dr. & Mrs. L. Claude David David & Frances Hall Dr. Grace Harlow-Klein Dr. & Mrs. Paul Bernstein Jerry & Myrna Davidson Mrs. Laura J. Hameister Brunhilde Knapp Chris & Jodi Beyer Dr. & Mrs. H.George Decancq, Jr. William Hamilton, Jr. Glenn & Nancy Koch Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Bielaska, Jr. Ken & Jean DeHaven Nancy & Henry Hamlin Paulina & Lawrence Kovalsky Sandra H. Bierbrauer Bonnie & Duane DeHollander Martin & Sherrie Handelman Dr. & Mrs. Jacob Krieger Eric & Marcia Birken Janis DeMay-Connor Michael Hardy Helen & Peter Kristale Dr. & Mrs. Donald Bishop Jeanne DeNike Mark & Barbara Hargrave Rev. William Laird MRobert & Barbara Blake Dr. Elise dePapp Robert T. & Mary Ann Hargrave Dr. & Mrs. Leo R. Landhuis Lynne & Christopher Blank John J. Devuyst, Jr. Felice Harris Sally & Lou Langie Mary Bodensteiner Josephine Dewey Halbert & Judith Harris Andreas & Linda Langner Don & Peggy Bolger Nancy & Sreeram Dhurjaty Louise B. Harris Craig & Susan Larson Dr. & Mrs. Philip P. Bonanni Jane Dieck David Hartney Diana Lauria Susan & Peter Bondy Donald & Stephanie Doe Art & Pam Hatton Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Lawson Agneta M. Borgstedt, M.D. Warren Doerrer Dr. Allyson Haymes & Edith M. Lehr Larry J. Boudens Mar & Lita Doromal Mr. Robert Vit & family Werner & Sandra Lemke MWilliam & Grace Boudway Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Douglas Barbara & Warren Heiligman James & Kathleen M. Leo Don & Jackie Bowman Jane T. Duerr Mrs. Robert A. Heinle Jennifer Leonard & Judith Boyd Mrs. C.M. Durland Carole & Bob Hendricks David Cay Johnston Nancy & Chuck Boyer Richard F. Eisenberg Richard Henshaw Marion & Lawrence Lewin Mr. & Mrs. G. Sheldon Brayer Larry & Kas Eldridge Ms. Judith Hensley Sarah F. Liebschutz Mr. & Mrs. James T. Briggs Larry & Peggy Elliott MBarbara & Dieter Hentschel Ken & Katherine Lindahl Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Brigman Holly Elwell Bill & Betty Herbert Dr. Erwin Loewen & Dr. & Mrs. George G. Browning Mr. & Mrs. R. Clinton Emery Merrill & Dianne Herrick Anita Rosenfeld Wilma M. Brucker Craig Epperson Stephen & Mary Heveron-Smith Dr. & Mrs. Norman R. Loomis Nancy Brush & John Parker Barbara Erbland Corinne Hickey Mr. & Mrs. John Looney Josephine Buckley Eleanor R. Evans Carol & Michael Hirsh Doris & George Luckey Eileen Buholtz MDonald & Jean Eygnor Art & Barb Hirst Edward J. & Kathleen L. Lynd David J. & Margaret M. Burns Mrs. Walter Fallon Sam & Rosanne Hodgetts John & Judy Lynd Eric & Lee Caine Udo Fehn & Christine Long Paul Hoffman Nancy & Jim MacWhinney Norris Carlson Clara S. Firth John & Barbara Holder Mrs. Daniel G. Magee Mary Carlton Mr. & Mrs. Gordon L. Fiske Sheila & Josh Hollander Chuck & Elaine Maginness Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Carrier Mr. & Mrs. John T.Fitzgerald, Jr. Jack & Nancy Hollingsworth Emma L. Maher Harold Carter, Jr. F. Peter Flihan Audrey W. Holly Ralph Manchester & John & Diane Caselli Holly Foerstch & Ted Wells Andrew & Kathleen Holt Cynthia Christy Diane & Roger Cass Mr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Forget Mr. & Mrs. John B. Hood Jeanne Mandel W.V. Castle, Jr. John & Chris Forken Al & Peela Hooke Ms. Elizabeth Mangerian Robert & Susan Chapman in Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Forsyth Richard & Donna Hooker Sandy & Jack Maniloff memory of Lucille Giglia Ernest & Eleanor Found Carol E. Hopkins Jeffrey & Laura Markwick David & Mary Cheeran Mrs. Richard Freeman Dr. Robert E. Horn Dr. & Mrs. Robert Marquis Peggy & Don Cherr Mrs. Bernard L. Friedman Mrs. Samter Horwitz Dr. & Mrs. Steven M. Marsocci Dr. & Mrs. William Chey Thomas & Barbara Froom Mr. & Mrs. William N. Hosley Dr. & Mrs. Paul Maurer Marilyn Christopher Marjorie & James Fulmer Mrs. Jay W. Howk Mr. & Mrs. William C. Mayer Kathleen Chugg Henry & Isabel Gadjo Mr. & Mrs. Jerome L. Huff Mary Lou Maynard Victor Ciaraldi & Sharon Garelick Dr. Kelly R. Huiatt Judie & George Mayo Kathy Marchaesi Holly Garver H. Larry & Dorothy Humm C. Thomas & Emily McCall Jack & Barbara Clarq Connie Gates & Jenny Lloyd Herbert Humphrey Stuart & Mary Soons McCarty Jeanne Clidas MMr. & Mrs. Darrell Geib James R. Humphrey, Sr. Gilbert Kennedy McCurdy Alan Cohen & Nancy Bloom Richard & Joyce Gilbert Richard & Joyce Humphreys Mr. & Mrs. D. Richard McDougal Gloria & Pincus Cohen Jean & Dr. Al Ginkel Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Husson Richard McGrath David & Donna Cole Robert & Marie Ginther Earl & Mary Ingersoll James & Rita McHale Dwight & Winifred Collin Andrea A. Giuffre Joan Irving Terrence McIntee Mary Ellen Collinge Mrs. Coral T. Glassman Dewey Jackson Brian McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. Gerald E. Collins Mrs. John H. Glavin La Marr J. Jackson Esq. Jim & Ann McMonagle Tom & Michelle Conners John & Roslyn Goldman Bruce Jacobs Katharine M. McNally Dorothy Connors Mrs. Marvin N. Goldstein Stephen & Leslie Jacobs George E. Mercier Walter Cooper Dane & Judy Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Jenkins Pete & Sally Merrill Mrs. Maurice J. Cornell Mr. & Mrs. Julian M. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. John Emmett & Mary E. Miller Barry R. Corwin Jean Gostomski Dr. & Mrs. H. Douglas Jones Hinda & Michael Miller
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You will notice some changes in and around stunning features that will be of great interest the Eastman Theatre this season! Enjoy a to RPO patrons. These include: brand new culinary experience at RPO • The acoustically superb 222-seat Hatch concerts in the new Betty’s Café, located Recital Hall right next to the Wegman Family Gallery. • A new entrance to the East Wing directly You can get refreshments and sit back with across from the East End Parking Garage, friends at one of a dozen tables. The new allowing much easier access to both the new windows in the original solid wood exterior wing and the connected Eastman Theatre doors let in lots of natural light and give you • New restrooms at every level of the wing— a view of what’s happening on Gibbs Street. including the Orchestra level It’s the new space to see and be seen! • New elevators enhancing accessibility to every level of the Theatre and the new There also have been additional enhance- wing, except the top balcony ments to the Ranlet Lounge off the balcony • The spacious multi-story Wolk Atrium, lobby, in preparation for its new function as a featuring a magnificent large-scale, patron lounge on RPO evenings. Box Seat suspended Dale Chihuly glass sculpture. Subscribers and Andante level donors ($2,500+) are invited to enjoy the Ranlet As one of the features of the new Eastman during intermission. School wing, the RPO has moved its Box Office into the Wolk Atrium, with The 32,000-square-foot Eastman School of convenient short-term parking spaces out Music expansion project—now known as the front and a new Theatre Shop located across Eastman East Wing—includes some from the Box Office.
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24 3719 ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR
POPS SERIES A Night Out with the Boys Friday, February 11, 2011, at 8:00 pm Jeff Tyzik, conductor Saturday, February 12, 2011, at 8:00 pm Dee Daniels, vocals Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre RPO Rhythm Section: 2010-2011 Season • Program No. 6 John Nyerges, piano Jeff Campbell, bass Dave Mancini, drums
Selections to include:
Stevie Wonder Isn’t She Lovely and Superstition Duke Ellington Caravan Cole Porter Just One of Those Things Jay Livingston Mona Lisa Eden Ahbez Nature Boy Bobby Troop Route 66 Frank Sinatra Sinatra Medley Charlie Chaplin Smile Nat “King” Cole Straighten Up and Fly Right Irving Gordon Unforgettable Stevie Wonder All in Love is Fair Don Redman Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You There will be one 15-minute intermission
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Dee Daniels’ musical Kingdom, Hong Kong, Japan, throughout career is as varied as her North America, and many countries within four-octave vocal range Europe. is thrilling. She is a Career highlights include an Honorary unique talent who Doctorate Degree of Fine Arts from Capilano transcends musical University in 2009; starring on the theatre borders when she brings stage in the 2009 premiere of New York her jazz styling, infused choreographer Twyla Tharp’s musical Come with gospel and blues Fly Away; receiving the prestigious flavoring, to the stage. Commemorative Medal for the Golden Daniels’ vocal style was born in her Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II stepfather’s church choir in California, refined and induction into the University of through the R&B era, and polished during a Montana’s School of Fine Arts Hall of Honor, five-year stay in Europe in the late 1980s. She both in 2003; induction into the BC has since performed with numerous “Legends Entertainment Hall of Fame with a plaque of Jazz” and orchestras across North America, installed on Vancouver’s Granville Street Walk The Netherlands, and Germany. of Fame in 2002; and receipt of the 1997 University of Montana Distinguished Alumni Daniels’ international career includes Award. performances in 12 African countries, Australia, South America, the United For more information, visit www.deedaniels.com.
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Hindson, Debussy, Stravinksy Thursday, February 17, 2011, at 7:30 pm Sarah Ioannides, guest conductor Saturday, February 19, 2011, at 8:00 pm Lara St. John, violin Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre 2010-2011 Season • Program No. 8
Matthew Hindson Concerto for Violin, “Australian Postcards” 29:00 1. Wind Turbine at Kooragang Island 2. Westerway 3. Grand Final Day Lara St. John, violin Claude Debussy La mer (The Sea) 23:00 I. De l'aube à midi sur la mer (From Dawn to Noon on the Sea) II. Jeux des vagues (Play of the Waves) III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of Wind and Sea) ______Intermission Igor Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird (1919 revision) 19:00 I. Introduction and Dance of the Firebird II. Dance of the Princesses III. Infernal Dance of King Kastcheï IV. Berceuse V. Finale
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A Note from the Music Director now Music Director of two American orchestras, the El Paso Symphony Orchestra We are very glad to welcome guest conductor and Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Sarah Ioannides, making her Rochester debut this week. Some years ago I gave Sarah some All of the music in Sarah’s program is highly coaching as a conductor at the Guildhall descriptive. The concert begins with a new School in London, and always believed she piece: Hindson’s Violin Concerto. The would succeed, which indeed she has. She is composer is Australian, and his work is a 27 25 PROGRAM NOTES, continued series of three pictures (or, as the composer internationally. His music often displays puts it, “postcards”) of features of that influences of popular music styles within a beautiful country. Our soloist tonight is the classical music context. As well as working as Canadian-born violinist and rising star Lara a composer, he is chair of the Arts Music Unit St. John, also making her RPO debut. at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. The remaining two works are also very Violin Concerto No. 1 was commissioned by colorful. La Mer, possibly Debussy’s most Ars Musica Australis through its founder, Fr. popular piece, is a set of three sketches. The Arthur Bridge. The first performance took first portrays the sea at the very beginning of place in Sydney, Australia, on March 27, 2001. the day, with mysterious light over the dark Naoko Miyamoto was the soloist and George waters. The music builds and builds until the Ellis conducted the Sydney Youth Orchestra. whole picture is flooded in glorious sunshine. The composer has written the following The second movement is a gentle scherzo, introduction: “the play of the waves,” where the delicacy and subtlety of Debussy’s writing are very “One of the guiding principles that Fr. Arthur evident. Then the finale—“dialogue of the Bridge outlined when commissioning this wind and the sea”—shows the sea in a much piece was that it reflect in some way ‘the more menacing and awe-inspiring way. Spirit in Australia.’ Amongst the 17 violin concertos lodged at the Australian Music Stravinsky’s Firebird suite ends the concert. Centre are Ross Edwards’ Maninyas and Peter This ballet is a story of good and evil, with Sculthorpe’s Irkanda IV, both of which have good triumphing in the end. The sinister similar intent. opening sets a scene of the supernatural, with the various dances which follow personifying “The approach that I implemented in this the characters—the evil magician Kastcheï’s piece was that of ‘Australian Postcards’—i.e. a dance being the fastest and most dramatic. set of movements that in some way reflected However, in the charming “Princess’s Dance” some Australian place or outlook. I decided and the plaintive “Berceuse,” Stravinsky that each of the ‘postcards’ would portray shows the more lyrical and romantic side of contemporary rather than historical his artistry. And the whole piece has the most Australian culture. wonderful finish! “There are three separate movements in this work. The first of these is based upon a physical object, the wind turbine at ——————————————— Kooragang Island, near Newcastle. This is an enormous windmill-type object that has been Violin Concerto No. 1, “Australian Postcards” constructed by Energy Australia as a showcase Matthew Hindson of the possibilities of wind-generated b. Wollongong, Australia, 1968 ______electricity. There are three enormous prongs on this turbine that move at tremendous This is the first performance by the RPO. speed. When standing underneath this Matthew Hindson AM (Member of the turbine, it seems hard to believe that the General Division of the Order of Australia) is whole thing won’t come apart and decapitate one of the most-performed and most- everyone nearby, such is its power and speed. commissioned composers of his generation. “The turbine has been portrayed His works have been performed by ensembles programmatically as well as metaphorically in and orchestras throughout Australia and this movement. The sense of momentum is
2826 PROGRAM NOTES, continued fast and seemingly never-ending. The solo palpable as I well know, barracking for the violin part must perform some death-defying Geelong Football Team). The final siren leaps and string crossings. On the metaphori- sounds, the club song is sung, all-night parties cal level, different musical elements have been ensue, and life is really worth celebrating!” composed according to relationships of the number three, as there are three prongs to the ——————————————— turbine. (This however is not essential to the La Mer (The Sea) appreciation of the movement). Claude Debussy b. St. Germaine-en-Laye, France / “In 1998, whilst on a visit to Tasmania, my August 22, 1862 fiancée Christine and I had the opportunity to d. Paris, France / March 25, 1918 tour some of the smaller towns in Tasmania. ______One of these, Westerway, is a village near Mt. First performed by the RPO on November 21, Field National Park. Sometimes it would 1930; Eugene Goossens, conductor. Last seem to be an idyllic existence living in a performed on November 12, 2005; Christopher country town—no traffic or parking hassles, a Seaman, conductor. clean environment with a strong sense of community amongst its residents. However Given Debussy’s taste for sparkling colors and unemployment and a general atmosphere of fluid rhythms, the sea seemed a virtually boredom are possibly closer to the everyday inevitable subject for him. Another link lay in reality. In Westerway it seemed that every his past. As he wrote to a friend in 1903, the house had a ‘For Sale’ sign on it. Since the year in which he began La Mer, his most closure or scaling back of logging operations, expansive and luxurious seascape, “You do there were no jobs and high unemployment. not know perhaps that I was intended for the Services such as banks were removed, causing fine career of a sailor and that only the further dislocation and disillusionment chances of life led me away from it. Never- amongst residents. theless, I still have a sincere passion for it.” “This movement is then a tribute and Camille Chevillard conducted the Lamoureux portrayal of such small towns and Concerts Orchestra in the first performance, communities in rural and regional Australia. in Paris on October 15, 1905. Audience The mood is hardly doom and gloom, but reaction divided sharply between Debussy’s largely a reflection upon ‘better times’ and an supporters and detractors. La Mer began to optimistic outcome that can be achieved in achieve widespread acclaim only when the long run through creative thinking and Debussy first conducted it himself in 1908. innovative solutions. The first section, From Dawn Until Noon “Sport is an integral part of Australian life for Upon the Sea, opens quietly, its colors muted most people, and one of the greatest and misty. Debussy builds a gradual celebrations in the yearly calendar is Grand instrumental and emotional crescendo, Final Day. The Grand Final in whatever sport surging ever forward until it reaches a stirring is hyped up to be the greatest game of the climax. Play of the Waves is a flashing, limpid year, a day of high emotions and high drama, scherzo, portraying the quicksilver patterns of of acrobatic feats and legendary skills. Parades light and water which endlessly crisscross the are held before and after the great match. The face of the ocean. Debussy unleashes the full thrill of your team winning the greatest prize resources of the orchestra in the concluding of the year is unsurpassed. (Of course the depression of backing the losing team is
2729 PROGRAM NOTES, continued segment, Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea. It offered the 27-year-old composer a concludes with a majestic coda, portraying the commission for The Firebird. The premiere, sea as a powerful yet benign force of nature. in Paris on June 25, 1910 achieved a glittering triumph, launching Stravinsky into ——————————————— the front rank of contemporary composers. Suite from The Firebird (1919 version) He arranged three suites from the full score of Igor Stravinsky The Firebird, in 1911, 1919, and 1945. The b. Oranienbaum, Russia / June 17, 1882 RPO will be performing the second of these, d. New York, N.Y. / April 6, 1971 ______which is by far the most popular. It contains roughly half the music of the complete score. First performed by the RPO on November 6, It follows the sequence of the original 1924; Eugene Goossens, conductor. Last scenario. With the help of a magic firebird, performed on May 9, 2010; Michael the hero, Prince Ivan, rescues a group of Butterman, conductor. spellbound princesses from the clutches of an Stravinsky’s ballet, The Firebird, belongs to his evil magician, Kastcheï. Stravinsky’s music is first creative period, when his music still highly atmospheric, colorful, imaginative, and showed the influence of the colorful, folk- melodious. It includes two Russian folk based style favored by his teacher, Rimsky- songs, one a lyrical tune for the princesses, the Korsakov. It came into being thanks to other the majestic hymn which closes the impresario Sergei Diaghilev. For the second score. The whirling, nightmarish Infernal Parisian season of his celebrated company, Les Dance performed by Kastcheï and his Ballets Russes, Diaghilev envisioned a lavishly monstrous subjects is a tour-de-force of mounted new dance production, its plot orchestral brilliance. adapted from Russian fairy tales. He © 2011 Don Anderson. All rights reserved. entrusted the scenario and choreography to esteemed dance master Mikhail Fokine. When his first choice as composer, his former music teacher Anatoly Lyadov, was judged Want to hear more? too slow to complete the score on time, Visit Diaghilev cast about for a replacement. www.rpo.org/recordguide Familiar with Stravinsky through the orches- for recommended recordings trations he had contributed to Diaghilev’s ballet Les Sylphides, and impressed with two of the works featured on of Stravinsky’s brief, original orchestral pieces tonight’s concert. (Scherzo fantastique and Fireworks), Diaghilev
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3028 SARAH IOANNIDES, LARA ST. JOHN, violin guest conductor Canadian-born violinist Sarah Ioannides is Music Lara St. John has Director of two Ameri- performed as soloist can orchestras, the El with the orchestras of Paso Symphony Orches- Cleveland, Philadelphia, tra and Spartanburg Minnesota, Seattle, Philharmonic Orchestra, Brooklyn, Toronto, assuming both positions Montreal, Vancouver,
in 2005. She has received PAUL CLANCY the Boston Pops and outstanding press for many more in North America. This is her innovative programming and creative artistic RPO debut. leadership with world premieres, vibrant In Europe, she has played with the Royal multimedia productions, and stunning Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Symphony performances. (Hanover), Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Guest conducting engagements span five Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Bournemouth continents and include such orchestras as the Symphony, Styriarte Festival Orchestra and Flemish Radio Orchestra at the Concert- the Amsterdam Symphony, among others. In gebouw in Amsterdam, Bachakademie in Asia, her solo appearances have included the Stuttgart, Swedish Wind Ensemble in Hong Kong and Tokyo symphonies, as well Stockholm, Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal de as the orchestras of Beijing, Guangzhou, and Caracas, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in Shanghai. Korea, the Naumburg Concert Series in New St. John began playing the violin when she York City, Annapolis Symphony, and Indiana was two years old. She made her first University’s Philharmonic Orchestra. She has appearance as soloist with orchestra at age appeared in special engagements with the Los four, and her European debut with the Angeles Philharmonic, New World Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon when she Symphony, and the London Symphony was 10. She entered the Curtis Institute at 13, Orchestra. This is her RPO debut. and spent her first summer at Marlboro at In 2008, Ioannides’ debut CD was released 16. Her teachers have included Felix Galimir, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and David Takeno, and Joey Corpus. violinist Lara St. John, and features John St. John founded her own record label, Corigliano’s Red Violin Suite, the Matthew Ancalagon Records, in 1999 and has recorded Hindson Violin Concerto, and the Martin with orchestras including the Royal Kennedy / St. John arrangement of Franz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Liszt’s Totentanz. Youth Orchestra of Venezuela and The Born in Canberra, Australia, Sarah Ioannides Knights. She has been featured in People, U.S. grew up in England. She studied violin, viola, News and World Report, on CNN’s Showbiz piano, and French horn at Oxford University. Today, NPR’s All Things Considered, Fox Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1996, News, CBC, and a Bravo! Special: Live At the Ioannides entered the Curtis Institute of Rehearsal Hall. Music as a conductor and subsequently She performs on the 1779 “Salabue” received a master’s of music in conducting at Guadagnini thanks to an anonymous donor The Juilliard School. For more information, and Heinl & Co. of Toronto. For more visit www.sarahioannides.net. information, visit www.larastjohn.com.
2931 Eastman school of music presents a benefit concert featuring america’s favorite soprano
neil Varon, conductor
sunday, February 20 KodaK Hall at eastman tHeatre 3 pm Proceeds benefit the Renée fleming Endowed scholarship fund for Eastman voice and opera students
tickets $100 reserved seating available at the eastman theatre box office, 433 east main street 585-454-2100 and online www.esm.rochester.edu
$500 contribution includes two concert tickets and post-concert reception with renée Fleming ($200 is tax-deductible) call 585-275-7498 for reservations Photography by Andrew Eccles Andrew by Photography Generous support pro V ided by
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You will notice some changes in and around stunning features that will be of great interest the Eastman Theatre this season! Enjoy a to RPO patrons. These include: brand new culinary experienceEncore, at RPO • The acoustically superb 222-seat Hatch concerts in the new Betty’s Café, located Recital Hall right next to the Wegman Family Gallery. • A new entrance to the East Wing directly You can get refreshments and sit back with across from the East End Parking Garage, friends at one of a dozen tables.STAT! The new allowing much easier access to both the new windows in the original solid wood exterior wing and the connected Eastman Theatre doors let in lots of natural light and give you • New restrooms at every level of the wing— a view of what’s happening on GibbsWe Street. applaudincluding the the Orchestra level It’s the new space to seeRochester and be seen! Philharmonic• New elevatorsOrchestra. enhancing accessibility to every level of the Theatre and the new There also have been additional enhance- wing, except the top balcony ments to the Ranlet Lounge off the balcony • The spacious multi-story Wolk Atrium, lobby, in preparation for its new function as a featuring a magnificent large-scale, patron lounge on RPO evenings. Box Seat suspended Dale Chihuly glass sculpture. Subscribers and Andante levelHow donors health care should be ($2,500+) are invited to enjoy the Ranlet As one of the features of the new Eastman during intermission. School wing, the RPO has moved its Box Office into the Wolk Atrium, with The 32,000-square-foot Eastman School of unityhealth.orgconvenient short-term parking spaces out Music expansion project—now known as the front and a new Theatre Shop located across Eastman East Wing—includes some from the Box Office.
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Sibelius, Beethoven, Shostakovich Thursday, March 3, 2011, at 7:30 pm Yoav Talmi, guest conductor Saturday, March 5, 2011, at 8:00 pm Markus Groh, piano Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre Mr. Groh performs on a Steinway piano donated in 2010-2011 Season • Program No. 9 honor of Jon Nakamatsu, a special friend of the RPO.
Jean Sibelius Finlandia, Op. 26, No. 7 8:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 58 34:00 I. Allegro moderato II. Andante con moto III. Rondo: Vivace Markus Groh, piano ______Intermission Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 46:00 I. Moderato II. Allegretto III. Largo IV. Allegro non troppo
Concert sponsored by
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A Note from the Music Director the concert with Sibelius’ Finlandia, a work originally written to inspire a sense of I am very happy to welcome my old friend national pride in the Finnish people. It Yoav Talmi to guest conduct our orchestra certainly did that, and has inspired all music- this week. Well-known and celebrated on lovers ever since! both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Talmi is currently the Artistic Director and Conductor Next, acclaimed German pianist Markus of the Quebec Symphony in Canada and Groh makes his RPO debut with Beethoven’s Principal Guest Conductor of the Israel Fourth Piano Concerto. When this great con- Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv. He begins certo first appeared, people were quite shocked 35 31 PROGRAM NOTES, continued by the opening—the piano enters with no covertly intended them to promote the wider orchestral introduction, and quietly and re- cause of Finland’s right to a free society. flectively rather than with a fireworks display. The centerpiece was a stage pageant that After the piano opening, the strings enter still presented uplifting scenes from Finnish more quietly and in a magically foreign key, history. Sibelius, the country’s foremost making the effect even more original. The composer as well as an ardent patriot, was the first movement is superbly built up from that natural choice to provide incidental music. introduction, with the soloist and orchestra He composed a prelude and six pieces, one to often engaging in intimate dialogue, as with introduce each scene. The grand finale was a chamber music. The second movement stirring work embodying both the Finns’ begins with the orchestra in defiant, almost spirit of resistance and their faith in their aggressive mood, gradually “tamed” by eventual return to democracy. Known as contrastingly peaceful music from the piano. Finland Awakes, it was received with The finale is high-spirited and playful. extraordinary enthusiasm. Revised as a Yoav Talmi ends the concert with separate piece and re-christened Finlandia, it Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. This was premiered at a concert in Helsinki on powerful work is partly a reflection of the July 2, 1900, conducted by Robert Kajanus. difficult life Shostakovich (and many other It won enduring popularity, not only for its artists) had under the repressive regime of stirring musical values, but as an internation- Stalin. In the music we hear defiance, despair, ally recognized anthem of freedom. hope, sorrow, and even a wry ironical humor. Snarling brass and thunderous timpani open Even the apparently triumphant ending is Finlandia in arresting fashion. Woodwinds really celebrating through gritted teeth, as if and strings introduce gentler, more spiritual, being forced to be happy by Stalin’s minions. but still defiant music. Tempo and activity accelerate into an exciting martial episode. A slow, hymn-like theme embodies aspiration. ——————————————— A reprise of the martial theme is followed by a proudly radiant apotheosis of the hymn tune. Finlandia, Op. 26 Jean Sibelius ——————————————— b. Hämeenlinna, Finland / December 8, 1865 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 d. Järvenpää, Finland / September 20, 1957 ______Ludwig van Beethoven b. Bonn, Germany / December 15, 1770 First performed by the RPO on January 9, d. Vienna, Austria / March 26, 1827 1924; Vladimir Shavitch, conductor. Last ______performed on May 5, 2008; Christopher First performed by the RPO on January 16, Seaman, conductor. 1924; Albert Coates, conductor; Frederic Lamond, While Sibelius was a young man, Finland lay soloist. Last performed on October 29, 2005; under oppressive Russian rule. In November Jerzy Semkow, conductor; Orion Weiss, soloist. 1899, with press censorship in full force, a Beethoven created this lovely piece between group of artists in the capital, Helsinki, 1805 and 1806. This astonishingly fertile organized a series of Press Celebrations. period also produced the Fourth Symphony Although the organizers of those events and the Violin Concerto, pieces which share announced them as a gesture of support for the piano concerto’s contented nature. As he those journalists who had taken a stand had done with his three previous piano against the abuses of Russian rule, they also
3632 PROGRAM NOTES, continued concertos, he played the first performance that events in his life influenced his music, himself, in March 1807, before an aristocratic and the nature of the messages he wished to audience in the Vienna home of his friend deliver through his creations. In such a variety Prince Lobkowitz. Listeners responded with of possible interpretations lies one of his only polite applause, and the public debut music’s many fascinations. When all is said proved even less successful. It was only after and done, his compositions stand or fall on his death, when Felix Mendelssohn took it up their musical and emotional values. These are during the 1830s, that it finally began to considerable, and continue to ensure a make its mark. thriving life for his finest works. Its very beginning is one of its most arresting He spent much of his life under the features. The piano, rather than the orchestra, oppressive regime of Soviet dictator Joseph has the first word, and it enters not with Stalin. The brutality of the time naturally left crashing chords (that route would have to its mark upon as sensitive a creative artist as wait for the “Emperor” Concerto), but with he. In 1936, his opera Lady Macbeth of the simple, gentle phrases. The effect is magical, Mtsensk District came under fire from Soviet establishing the opening movement’s tranquil officials as “formalist” music, exactly the sort mood with one brief, telling stroke. of personalized, pessimistic music that the country’s composers ought not to be writing. The brief second movement is another gem. Overnight Shostakovich became persona non It has been compared to Orpheus taming the grata. He recognized how crucial the reaction wild beasts with his lyre. The lower strings to his next symphony, No. 5, would be. begin the conversation, gruffly. The piano Failure would most likely result in his answers with soothing caresses. This dialogue “disappearance,” like those befalling countless continues, until the soloist delivers such an victims of Stalinist purges. impassioned plea for conciliation that the orchestra can only capitulate. The conclud- Yevgeny Mravinsky conducted the premiere ing, high-spirited rondo follows on without a in Leningrad on November 21, 1937, and it break. It is the most conventional part of the won a resoundingly positive reception. Some concerto, but Beethoven still peppers it with officials voiced suspicions regarding the enough individual touches of humor and sincerity of this symphonic apology, but their instrumental color (introducing trumpets and concerns were rapidly drowned in a sea of timpani into the concerto for the first time) praise. Early in 1938, after the symphony had to ensure it is worthy of its predecessors. firmly entrenched itself, the composer broke his silence regarding his intentions by writing ——————————————— (or having his name unknowingly attached to Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 the following): “The theme of my symphony Dmitri Shostakovich is the making of a man. I saw man with all b. St. Petersburg, Russia / September 25, 1906 his experiences at the center of the d. Moscow, Russia / August 9, 1975 composition . . . In the finale the tragically ______tense impulses of the earlier movements are First performed by the RPO on January 29, resolved in optimism and the joy of living.” 1942; José Iturbi, conductor. Last performed on Testimony, the book of memoirs that was January 24, 2009; Jahja Ling, conductor. published after his death, offered a much It becomes ever clearer that Shostakovich was different view, especially regarding the one of the 20th century’s greatest composers. seemingly triumphant finale: “The rejoicing is There has been much debate about the extent forced, created under threat. It’s as if someone
3337 PROGRAM NOTES, continued were beating you with a stick and saying, goose-stepping hurricane has blown itself out, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is the quasi-optimistic flute theme reappears, rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go but only briefly. marching off, muttering, ‘Our business is The following scherzo-like movement is ripe rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’ What with grotesquery and satire. With its heavy- kind of apotheosis is that? You have to be a footed dance rhythms and intentionally complete oaf not to hear that.” schmaltzy violin solo, it demonstrates Is the concluding section “triumphant”? Much Shostakovich’s strong affinity with Mahler, depends on the conductor’s approach. At a whose music he had been studying for more fast tempo, the coda of the Finale does indeed than a decade. After the tragic third sound positive, even festive. At a slow pace, it movement, the finale opens in a mood of becomes a hollow, agonized funeral march. defiance. In the wake of a powerful central More important than finding a “definitive” climax, something of the opening answer to this uncertainty is to appreciate the movement’s wistfulness returns. Then comes searing portrayal of human suffering that the conclusion. See what it says to you. Shostakovich offers in the third movement. © 2011 Don Anderson. All rights reserved. This is the heart and soul of the piece. Its sincerity—as attested by the weeping of the audience at the premiere—is unassailable. Want to hear more? The first movement opens with the starkest Visit and simplest of dramatic gestures. After much desolate rumination, momentarily brightened www.rpo.org/recordguide by themes on violins and solo flute, a raging for recommended recordings emotional tempest is launched by a harsh, of the works featured on machine-like tread in the depths of the tonight’s concert. orchestra, including piano. Once this blazing,
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3834 YOAV TALMI, guest conductor MARKUS GROH, piano
Well-known and Consistently cited for celebrated on both sides his astonishing power, of the Atlantic, Yoav Markus Groh has Talmi is currently the confirmed his place Artistic Director and among the finest Conductor of the pianists in the world Quebec Symphony in today. In addition to Canada and Principal recent debuts with the Guest Conductor of the National Symphony Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv. In the and The Cleveland Orchestra, Groh also has past, he has served as Chief Conductor of the appeared with the symphony orchestras of Hamburg Symphony, Principal Guest Baltimore, Colorado, Detroit, Florida, Fort Conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Worth, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas Music Director of the San Diego Symphony, City, Louisville, Milwaukee, New Jersey, New Music Director of the Arnhem Philharmonic Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, San (The Netherlands), and Music Director of Francisco, and Seattle, among others. This is both the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the his RPO debut. He also makes debuts this New Israeli Opera. season with the Cincinnati Symphony, Houston Symphony, Mozarteum Orchestra, Talmi’s long and impressive guest conducting and the Vancouver Symphony. career spans several continents, including engagements in Europe and Japan. In North Worldwide engagements include the America, he has appeared with the orchestras Bamberg Symphony, Beijing Symphony, of Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, Houston, Berlin Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Dallas, Indianapolis, Montreal, Vancouver, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hague and Seattle, as well as with the Los Angeles Residentie Orkest, Helsinki Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra, the New York Chamber London Symphony, MDR Orchestra at the Symphony, the National Arts Centre Leipzig Gewandhaus, New Japan Orchestra (Ottawa), and the Orchestra of St. Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Luke’s at Carnegie Hall. He was last here with Romande, Osaka Philharmonic, Royal the RPO in 2002. Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, SWR Orchestra (Stuttgart), Also a seasoned recording artist, Talmi has and the Warsaw Philharmonic. collaborated with Chandos, Decca, EMI, Naxos, Teldec, CBC Records, Atma, and Widely acclaimed for his interpretations of Analekta. He has recorded also as pianist, Liszt, Groh released an all-Liszt CD (AVIE , accompanying his wife, flutist Er’ella Talmi. 2006), which was named “Editor’s Choice” in Gramophone Magazine. His all-Brahms CD Born in Israel, Yoav Talmi is a graduate of the was released by AVIE in June 2008. Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and The Juilliard School in New York, where he Groh was born in southern Germany and earned degrees in both composition and was a student of Professor Konrad Richter in conducting with grants from the America Stuttgart and Professor Hans Leygraf in Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF). Talmi Berlin and Salzburg. He gained immediate holds an Honorary Doctorate from Laval worldwide attention after winning the University in Quebec, Canada. prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels in 1995. For more information, visit www.markusgroh.com.
3539 APPLAUSE FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS
Heartfelt thanks to our more than 850 volunteers for their ongoing and vital contributions to education, office, community involvement, special events, and theatre operations. Below is a list of the RPO’s formal volunteer organizations and active committees. For more information on how you can lend your time and talents to the RPO, call 454-7311 x243. Volunteer Services Committee The Committee reports directly to the RPO Board and is responsible for the viability of the entire RPO volunteer program. Committee members represent various areas of RPO volunteer activity. Paula Pattison, Chair Patricia A. Harrison Dawn Lipson Naomi Schrier Diane Baltadonis Kathleen Holt Janice Macisak Anna Steltenpohl Susan Basu Charles Kaplan Margaret-Anne Milne Carole Avery Webster Michele Bello Benjamin Krug Marlene Piscatelli Josephine Whang Roxane Crupi Min Na Lee David Schantz Active Committees Special Events Oversight Committee RPO Archive Committee Provides long-range planning and Archives the history of the RPO with assistance from evaluation for event fundraisers. the Sibley Music Library at Eastman. Paula Pattison, Chair Volunteer Voice Volunteer Enrichment Committee Production of a monthly electronic Plans and presents enrichment programs newsletter for volunteers. exclusive to volunteers. David Schantz, Chair Anna Steltenpohl, Chair “Rear Guard” Volunteers “Need a Lift” Program Provides assistance for RPO rehearsals. Offering transportation to RPO concerts. Jean Webster, Chair Michele Bello, Dispatcher
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