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February 10, 2020 Download Photos here
National Symphony Orchestra Announces Classical Programming for 2020–2021, Its 90th Anniversary Season
The Season Features:
Music Director Gianandrea Noseda Leading Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, and Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Plus Return to Carnegie Hall in March 2021
Launch of Prism, a New Annual NSO Artist Residency Program, Featuring Composer, Conductor, and Innovator Esa-Pekka Salonen in its First Season
Pivotal Moments, Powerful Voices—a season-long series of five new works by living composers demonstrating how music can reflect broader social and historical relevance
Four World Premieres, Two U.S. and D.C. Premieres, and 17 Works Performed for the First Time
NSO Debuts by 20 Distinguished Guest Artists
(WASHINGTON)—The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), led by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda and Executive Director Gary Ginstling, announces classical programming for the 2020–2021 season, the Orchestra’s 90th anniversary, and its fourth season under the artistic leadership of Gianandrea Noseda.
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The partnership between Noseda and the Orchestra continues to flourish, building on the momentum they have created together that has resulted in widespread critical acclaim; the release of their first album later this month (February 21); the appointment of 16 musicians to the NSO roster; their first overseas tour together to Japan in March; regular concert livestreams on both medici.tv and the NSO’s social media platforms; and, later this year, the release of live recordings of June 2020 performances of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to honor the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. In addition, the creation of its non-traditional club series at The Anthem, the expansion of the Orchestra’s popular programming series to include a wider range of genres and guest artists, NSO-led activities at the REACH spaces at the Kennedy Center, and the broadening of the In Your Neighborhood program to areas of the D.C. region not previously served, have brought new and more diverse audiences to the NSO.
Highlights of the NSO’s 2020–2021 season include:
A celebration of the Orchestra’s 90th anniversary through its continued commitment to commissioning and performing music of our time. Pivotal Moments, Powerful Voices features world premieres of works by Peter Boyer, Michael Daugherty, Jessie Montgomery, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, and the D.C. premiere of a co- commissioned piece by Julia Wolfe—works in which composers have responded to pivotal moments and iconic figures in American history, demonstrating the powerful way that music can reflect broader social and historical relevance;
20 NSO debuts: pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton, Bertrand Chamayou, Conrad Tao, and Anna Vinnitskaya; conductors Fabio Biondi, Michail Jurowski, Michael Sanderling, and Dalia Stasevska; the Lorelei Ensemble; sopranos Genia Kühmeier and Liv Redpath; mezzo-sopranos Marianne Crebassa, Elisabeth Kulman, and Kate Lindsey; tenors Benjamin Bruns, Paul Groves, and John Matthew Myers; bass Neal Davies; and director Peter Sellars;
High-profile returning guest artists, including conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Nathalie Stutzmann, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Krzysztof Urbański, James Gaffigan, Sir Mark Elder, Thomas Wilkins, and John Storgårds; violinists James Ehnes, Hilary Hahn, Leila Josefowicz, Leonidas Kavakos, Anne Akiko Meyers, and Emmanuel Tjeknavorian; cellist Truls Mørk; and pianists Daniil Trifonov, Seong- Jin Cho, Benjamin Grosvenor, Leif Ove Andsnes, and Emanuel Ax;
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The tenth installment—in September 2020—of NSO In Your Neighborhood, a series of performances by the NSO in community settings, this year making its first visit to Ward 4;
Continuing series of concerts at The Anthem at The Wharf;
The Kennedy Center Chamber Players—comprising NSO musicians—perform a series of four Sunday afternoon concerts in the Terrace Theater.
The NSO’s 2020–2021 season brings a broad range of music and a fresh perspective on programming—as has become a defining characteristic of Noseda’s programs over the course of his first three years as NSO music director—as he weaves together programs that include less familiar works by well-known composers and works that are new to NSO audiences.
Music Director Gianandrea Noseda said, “I look forward to the fourth season of my artistic journey with the National Symphony Orchestra to continue as we began, with a commitment to producing the highest quality concerts for our community and performing a diverse repertoire drawn from the past and looking to the future. We will present familiar works and world premieres, along with masterpieces I think should be experienced more often, including Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Casella’s Symphony No. 3, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater. The Orchestra’s 90th anniversary gives us the opportunity to celebrate the NSO’s artistry with some of our closest artistic colleagues and we will do so at the Kennedy Center and beyond, including Carnegie Hall.”
“The NSO’s 90th anniversary is a chance to celebrate the orchestra’s history and also its future,” said Gary Ginstling, NSO Executive Director. “Gianandrea Noseda and the musicians of the NSO have formed a dynamic musical partnership that is being recognized not only here in Washington, but nationally and internationally, as well. Under Gianandrea’s leadership, this season explores new ideas and new partnerships. With Pivotal Moments, Powerful Voices, the NSO celebrates its long history of bringing new works to life, while also exploring how music connects with and is inspired by the world around us.”
Gianandrea Noseda brings his now-signature mix of varied programs to the 2020–2021 season, with broad range of works both familiar and new to D.C. audiences.
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The annual opening night gala, led by Noseda, features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as soloist in selections from Bizet’s Carmen, along with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol, Ginastera’s Dances from Estancia, and Ravel’s Boléro. (September 26)
The NSO continues its celebration of Beethoven’s 250th birthday with the composer’s iconic Violin Concerto featuring two-time Grammy®-winner and one of Gianandrea Noseda’s frequent collaborators, James Ehnes. Noseda closes the program with Schubert’s Symphony No. 9. (October 1, 2, and 3)
Noseda leads acclaimed singers (soprano Genia Kühmeier, mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman, tenor Benjamin Bruns, and bass-baritone Hanno Müller- Brachmann) and The Choral Arts Society of Washington in Beethoven’s mighty Missa Solemnis. (October 8, 9 and 10)
Returning to the NSO after his triumphant appearance in the 2018–2019 season, Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov joins Noseda for Beethoven’s First and Third piano concertos, concluding the NSO’s Beethoven at 250 celebration. Overtures from Mozart’s popular operas Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni complete the program. (December 3, 4, and 5)
Virtuoso violinist Leonidas Kavakos returns to the NSO stage with the raw fury and dark humor of Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto. Noseda leads this all-Russian program with music by Alexander Borodin—his Second Symphony—and his more famous Polovtsian Dances. (February 11, 13, and 14, 2021)
Noseda is joined by Grammy®-winning pianist Emanuel Ax for an early Mozart masterpiece, Piano Concerto No. 9, K. 271, “Jeunehomme.” The program also includes Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony (No. 3), a depiction of Germany’s mightiest river. (February 18, 19, and 20, 2021)
Reinforcing his commitment to leading new American works, Noseda conducts the D.C. premiere of Her Story, co-commissioned by the NSO from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Julia Wolfe, a work that commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Female vocal group Lorelei Ensemble joins the NSO for this new piece. Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical tale of 1,001 nights—Scheherazade—closes the program. (March 4, 5, and 6, 2021)
Noseda and the Orchestra return to Carnegie Hall in 2021 after a triumphant performance there in 2019. Noseda leads music by composers who wrote during times
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of tyranny—Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Alfredo Casella. Both Prokofiev and Shostakovich composed these pieces during the reign of Stalin; Casella changed sides during WWII to oppose Mussolini and Fascism. The program includes orchestral excerpts from Prokofiev’s War and Peace, based on Tolstoy’s epic novel, and Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, featuring pianist Seong-Jin Cho and NSO Principal trumpet William Gerlach as soloists. The program closes with Casella’s Symphony No.3, a work Noseda has championed. (March 11 and 12 in Washington; March 13 in New York, 2021)
Noseda leads Dvořák’s tone poem, The Noon-Day Witch, which was inspired by the tragic legend of the same name in Slavic mythology. Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater follows. Szymanowski felt strongly that to convey the expression and color in the piece, it should be sung in Polish, rather than Latin. Rachmaninoff ’s Symphony No. 3 rounds out the program. (May 20 and 22, 2021)
Noseda leads the NSO and The Washington Chorus in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, based on Sophocles’ tragedy from Greek mythology. The opera-oratorio is paired with Mozart’s final symphony, No. 41, nicknamed “Jupiter” for the Roman god of thunder. (June 3, 5, and 6, 2021)
Noseda concludes the 2020–2021 season with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, followed by Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. (June 10, 11, and 12, 2021)
PRISM, NEW ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM Composer, conductor, and innovator Esa-Pekka Salonen is the first artist to be featured in a new NSO residency program—Prism—that includes a range of activities expanding beyond NSO subscription concerts to include new music readings, chamber concerts, and other activities to be announced. Salonen leads the NSO directly following his inaugural concerts as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Salonen returns to the NSO stage for the first time in 35 years to lead two innovative weeks of programming. He pairs his own Karawane—based on Hugo Ball’s Dada poem of the same name— with the complete ballet score to Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé. The Washington Chorus is featured. (November 12 and 14)
His second subscription program features the world premiere of the fully orchestrated FOG, an NSO co-commission, which was originally a chamber work written in honor of Frank Gehry’s
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90th birthday in 2019. FOG is complemented by Berlioz’s song cycle, Les Nuits d'été, with mezzo- soprano Marianne Crebassa, and a staged presentation of Stravinsky’s mythical melodrama, Perséphone, which the NSO performs for the first time. Award-winning theater director Peter Sellars makes his NSO debut as he joins forces with Salonen to reprise this collaboration, along with tenor Paul Groves, the Children’s Chorus of Washington, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, and four Cambodian dancers. (November 20 and 21)
Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Prism residency will also feature EarShot New Music Reading Sessions for emerging composers and conductors in collaboration with American Composers Orchestra (ACO). The ACO’s EarShot project is a partnership with the League of American Orchestras, New Music USA, and American Composers Forum. The NSO, led by advanced conducting students, will read through a set of new works by emerging composers selected by ACO, and Salonen will offer feedback and mentorship to each EarShot composer and conductor. One of the composers will be selected for a future NSO commission. (November 16 and 17)
Peabody Conservatory Artistic Director Joseph Young will prepare the Peabody Modern Orchestra for a chamber performance in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, led by Salonen, to include two of Salonen’s own works: the original version of FOG for 11 players and Catch and Release, as well as Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat. (November 13)
Salonen’s new immersive installation, Laila, receives its U.S. premiere as part of Prism, and will be open for the duration of the residency. Composed and conducted by Salonen, Laila is a project of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, in collaboration with the Helsinki-based Ekho Collective, dramaturg Paula Vesala, and sound designer Tuomas Norvio in which the audience participates in the making of the visual and musical world of the artwork. The installation brings together music and technology through video mapping and Bluetooth® that create a personalized participatory experience unique to each visitor and visit. Changing visuals react to each visitor’s movement, and to their interaction with each other in a 360-degree immersive dome-shaped space. Up to eight people can experience the ongoing installation at a time; each “performance” is 10 minutes long. There are no age limits or restrictions. (November 10–21, 2020)
Additional Prism events will be announced at a later date.
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PIVOTAL MOMENTS, POWERFUL VOICES In its 90th anniversary year, the National Symphony Orchestra celebrates a rich legacy of performing new music through Pivotal Moments, Powerful Voices. Five new works in the 2020–2021 season, including four world premieres—two of which were co-commissioned by the NSO— celebrate significant moments and iconic figures in American history: the late Toni Morrison, who was born the same year the NSO was founded; the centennial of women’s suffrage; Amelia Earhart, a pioneer in flight; and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who celebrates his 97th birthday in 2020. Pivotal Moments, Powerful Voices aims to demonstrate how various composers create works for orchestra that are inspired by key moments in history or important public figures.
Esa-Pekka Salonen, FOG (World Premiere, NSO co-commission) November 20 and 21 A fully orchestrated version of FOG—originally a chamber work—was co-commissioned by the NSO, and receives its world premiere under Salonen’s baton. FOG are the initials of renowned American architect Frank Gehry, who designed the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s iconic home, Walt Disney Concert Hall—the opening of which was one of Salonen’s achievements during his 17-year tenure as the LA Phil’s music director. FOG was written as a tribute to Gehry for his 90th birthday. It was written as a fantasy around Bach’s E-major Prelude from the Partita in E (BWV 1006), which was the first piece of music Gehry and Salonen heard in Walt Disney Concert Hall while it was still under construction. Much of the of the harmony is based on notes from Frank’s name: F A G E H (H=B natural).
Jessie Montgomery, New Work (World Premiere) January 14 and 16, 2021 One of two world premieres of works by Montgomery in the 2020–2021 season, this piece was commissioned by Classical Movements’s Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program for the NSO, and celebrates the 90th birthday of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Toni Morrison, who was the born the same year of the NSO’s founding.
Julia Wolfe, Her Story (NSO co-commission) March 4, 5, and 6, 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Julia Wolfe honors the trailblazing suffragette women who fought for the 19th Amendment in this large-scale work for orchestra and the all- female vocal group, Lorelei Ensemble. The NSO co-commissioned Her Story along with the Boston, Chicago, Nashville, and San Francisco symphonies.
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Michael Daugherty, The Mystery of Flight (World Premiere) March 18 and 20, 2021 Grammy Award®–winning composer Michael Daugherty wrote this concerto for violin and orchestra for Anne Akiko Meyers, who is the featured soloist in the NSO world premiere. Part of an all-American program, this work was inspired by pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart and her detailed and often poetic aviation records.
Peter Boyer, Balance of Power (World Premiere) May 13, 14, and 15, 2021 Commissioned for the NSO, this orchestral work was written to honor the 95th birthday of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The NSO gives the world premiere performances in the 2020–2021 season.
THE KENNEDY CENTER CHAMBER PLAYERS This four-concert series on Sunday afternoons in the Terrace Theater offers audiences the opportunity to enjoy chamber music performed by NSO musicians.
October 18 at 2 p.m. Ricardo Cyncynates and Heather LeDoux Green, violins; David Hardy, cello; Lambert Orkis, piano
Beethoven Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” Sebastian Currier Ghost Trio Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47, “Kreutzer”
March 7, 2021, at 2 p.m. Ying Fu and Peiming Lin, violins; Daniel Foster and Eric deWaardt, violas; David Hardy and Britton Riley, cellos
Mozart Duo No. 2 for Violin and Viola in - flat major, K.424 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht Mozart String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593
April 18, 2021, at 2 p.m. Anaïs Naharro-Murphy, soprano; Ricardo Cyncynates, violin; David Hardy, cello; Lambert Orkis, piano
Beethoven Folksong arrangements
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Shostakovich Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 Schubert Sei mir gegrüsst D. 741 Schubert Fantasy in C major, D. 934
June 13, 2021, at 2 p.m. Ying Fu, violin; Daniel Foster, viola; David Hardy, cello; Lambert Orkis, piano
Previn Trio No. 2 for Violin, Cello, and Piano Poulenc Sonata for Violin and Piano Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
CONCERTS FOR FAMILIES Three one-hour Sunday afternoon NSO Family Concerts—each with two matinee performances—are designed for young audiences, ages 5 and up, and take place in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The 2 p.m. performances are sensory-friendly.
Halloween Spooktacular (November 1, at 2 and 4 p.m.) The NSO’s annual Halloween tradition continues, with the NSO in costumes performing ghoulish music, both old and new. Trick-or-treating takes place in the Haunted Hall Musical Instrument “Petting Zoo” before each performance.
Sleepover at the Museum (February 28, 2021, at 2 and 4 p.m.) Composer Karen LeFrak has created a musical version of her children’s book, Sleepover at the Museum, which chronicles the adventures of Mason, a young boy who planned to spend the night at a natural history museum. Young audiences can follow him on a musical and scientific expedition as they embark on a scavenger hunt through the many exhibits that make any natural history museum special. A Musical Instrument “Petting Zoo” precedes each performance.
Because (April 25, 2021, at 2 and 4 p.m.) New York Times best-selling children’s author and Kennedy Center Education Artist-in- Residence Mo Willems’s newest book is turned into a delightful symphonic story, with world-premiere music written by Jessie Montgomery. Because chronicles a girl’s life through a series of decisions and the reasons for them, beginning with the seven-year- old’s decision to attend an orchestra concert.
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NSO IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD The NSO maintains a robust community engagement program year-round, anchored by the annual In Your Neighborhood program, which takes the Orchestra and small ensembles into dozens of schools and community venues in a particular neighborhood for a concentrated period of activity. In the 2020–2021 season, the program enters its ninth year, with a focus—for the first time—on neighborhoods of D.C.’s Ward 4, including Petworth, Brightwood/Brightwood Park, Lamond Riggs, Shepherd Park, Manor Park, and Takoma Park. September 2019’s events in Ward 7 and East D.C. attracted more than 2,000 people to a variety of free performances by the full NSO and chamber ensembles in more than 14 venues, such as schools, churches, restaurants, libraries, clubs, and other community locations, including a neighborhood block party.
OTHER NSO SERIES AND PROGRAMS NSO Pops, DECLASSIFIED®, The Anthem series, and programming at the REACH will be announced at a later date.
TICKET INFORMATION Subscriptions for the NSO’s 2020–2021 season are available for renewal or purchase beginning February 5 at the Kennedy Center Subscriptions Office, online at kennedy- center.org/subscriptions, and via phone (202) 467-4600; toll-free at (800) 444-1324. For all other ticket-related customer service inquires, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540.
Available series include options for concerts on Thursday evenings, Friday evenings, Saturday evenings, Coffee Concerts on Friday mornings, and Sunday afternoons. All subscribers are offered the option to exchange tickets into most other Kennedy Center performances, including opera, chamber music, ballet, dance, popular music, and others.
In addition, two series of three Sunday afternoon Family Concerts (at 2 and 4 p.m.) and four Sunday matinees by The Kennedy Center Chamber Players at 2 p.m. are also available as subscriptions.
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Patrons can mix and match seven concerts from any series to create a custom series. Many concerts feature ForeWords pre-concert discussions, AfterWords® post-concert Q&A’s with the artists, or post-concert Organ Postludes; all are free to ticket holders.
In addition, subscribers may purchase non-subscription performances as add-ons, including the season-opening NSO gala on September 26 and Handel’s Messiah, December 17–20.
FIRST PERFORMANCES BY THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2020–2021 Season
Bernstein Excerpts from A Quiet Place March 2021 L. Boulanger D’un soir triste October 2020 P. Boyer Balance of Power (World Premiere) May 2021 A. Casella Symphony No. 3 March 2021 M. Daugherty The Mystery of Flight (World Premiere) March 2021 Kilar Krzesany January 2021 Korngold Suite from The Sea Hawk March 2021 G. Ligeti Violin Concerto April 2021 J. Montgomery New Work (World Premiere) January 2021 J. Montgomery Because (World premiere, NSO commission) April 2021 Prokofiev Orchestral excerpts from War and Peace March 2021 Ravel/orch. Tortelier Piano Trio October 2020 E.-P. Salonen FOG (World Premiere of orchestration, November 2020 NSO co-commission) E.-P. Salonen Karawane November 2020 Stravinksy Perséphone November 2020 Galina Ustvolskaya Symphonic Poem No. 2 May 2021 J. Wolfe Her Story (D.C. Premiere) March 2021
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NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DEBUTS 2020–2021 Season
Conductors Fabio Biondi December 2020 Michail Jurowski May 2021 Michael Sanderling November 2020 Dalia Stasevska January 2021
Singers Benjamin Bruns, tenor October 2020 Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano November 2020 Neal Davies, bass December 2020 Paul Groves, tenor November 2020 Genia Kühmeier, soprano October 2020 Elisabeth Kulman, mezzo-soprano October 2020 Kate Lindsey, mezzo-soprano December 2020 Lorelei Ensemble March 2021 John Matthew Myers, tenor December 2020 Liv Redpath, soprano December 2020
Instrumentalists Christina & Michelle Naughton, pianos October 2020 Bertrand Chamayou, piano January 2021 Conrad Tao, piano May 2021 Anna Vinnitskaya, piano November 2020
Director Peter Sellars November 2020
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RETURNING ARTISTS 2020–2021 Season
Conductors Sir Mark Elder April 2021 James Gaffigan March 2021 Gianandrea Noseda September, October, December, 2020; February, March, May, June 2021 Esa-Pekka Salonen November 2020 John Storgårds April 2021 Nathalie Stutzmann January 2021 Yan Pascal Tortelier November 2020 Krzysztof Urbański January 2021 Thomas Wilkins May 2021
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Singers Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soprano June 2021 Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass-baritone October 2020 The Choral Arts Society of Washington, Scott Tucker, artistic director October, November 2020 The Washington Chorus, Christopher Bell, artistic director November 2020, June 2021 University of Maryland Concert Choir, Edward Maclary, director December 2020, May 2021 Children’s Chorus of Washington, Margaret Nomura Clark, artistic director November 2020
Instrumentalists Leif Ove Andsnes, piano June 2021 Emanuel Ax, piano February 2021 Seong-Jin Cho, piano March 2021 James Ehnes, violin October 2020 William Gerlach, trumpet* March 2021 Benjamin Grosvenor, piano April 2021 Hilary Hahn, violin January 2021 Leila Josefowicz, violin April 2021 Leonidas Kavakos, violin February 2021 Anne Akiko Meyers, violin March 2021 Truls Mørk, cello January 2021 Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, violin May 2021 Daniil Trifonov, piano December 2020
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FUNDING CREDITS
The NSO Music Director Chair is generously endowed by Roger and Victoria Sant.
The Blue Series is sponsored by United Technologies Corporation.
The Centene Charitable Foundation is the Presenting Sponsor of the NSO Season Opening Gala.
NSO In Your Neighborhood is presented as part of The Irene Pollin Audience Development and Community Engagement Initiatives.
Major support for NSO In Your Neighborhood is provided by The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, Linda and Tobia Mercuro, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, and Tina and Albert Small, Jr.
Additional support is provided by Dr. Gary Mather and Ms. Christina Co Mather and Melanie and Larry Nussdorf.
Bank of America is the Presenting Sponsor of Performances for Young Audiences.
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Additional support for the NSO Family Concerts is provided by A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; Anne and Chris Reyes; an endowment from the Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation; the U.S. Department of Education; and the Volunteer Council of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.
The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts are supported by generous contributors to the Abe Fortas Memorial Fund, and by a major gift to the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.
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