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5 Message from the Music Director 7 Message from the Board President 9 Message from the Executive Director 11 Board of Directors & Advisory Council 12 14 Season Sponsors 18 Berkeley Symphony Legacy Society 21 Program 23 Program Notes 35 Music Director: Joana Carneiro 39 Guest Conductor: Christian Reif 41 Artists’ Biographies 49 Berkeley Symphony 55 Music in the Schools 57 2016/17 Membership Benefits 59 Annual Membership Support 66 Broadcast Dates

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January 26, 2017 3 4 January 26, 2017 Message from the Music Director

Dear Friends,

A Happy New Year to all of you!

The first part of our program will include a work by a composer that I photo by Rodrigo de Souza much admire and have followed for years—. In 2014, Bates wrote his for Joshua Roman who is joining us this evening and better than describing it myself, I will use the words of a critic that was present at its premiere with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, “classical lyricism and melody combined fluidly with blues, jazz elements, and techno rhythms that come straight from the 21st-century electronic club scene.”

At our last we played the incredible 4th concerto by Beethoven. Continuing this cycle of fourths, we play Beethoven’s 4th symphony. In the key of B-flat major, it was written in the summer of 1806 and dedicated to Count von Oppersdorff. When we think of Berkeley Symphony, a strong part of our identity is a vision to commission. Count von Oppersdorff felt the same, after listening to Beethoven’s second symphony. He loved it so much, he decided to commission a new one from the composer, and the 4th Symphony was born. This is a gem in the history of symphony, and composer Hector Berlioz was so much in awe of its second movement he stated it could not have been written by a human, but an archangel. I can’t wait for you to hear these pieces with our wonderful orchestra and to share them with you.

I wish you all a very happy and very wonderful new year.

Joana Carneiro

January 26, 2017 5 6 January 26, 2017 Message from the Board President

Welcome to our January concert!

We are quite thrilled to have Christian Reif as our guest conductor this evening. We are also thrilled to photo © Margaretta K. Mitchell welcome Joshua Roman, our cello soloist, and to premier Mason Bates’ cello concerto, written for this wonderfully talented cellist. We continue our tradition of championing new works beside familiar works—this evening, Beethoven’s 4th Symphony.

We are very happy to finally announce the reason for Joana’s absence from us—that she is expecting! Her spirit is with us and ours with her as she prepares for new life in Lisbon.

Without YOU, our loyal audience, we could not bring the innovative program of tonight’s concert to the stage. We hope you will join us for two very important fundraising events this Spring: our Music in the Schools Luncheon on February 6th at the Bancroft Hotel and our Benefit Gala on March 30th at the Craneway.

As always, we are able to continue the fine work of the Berkeley Symphony thanks to your generous support, for which we are grateful every day. Bring your friends and family to sample our exciting programming and artists!

Yours,

Tricia Swift

January 26, 2017 7 8 January 26, 2017 Message from the Executive Director

Dearest Friends,

Welcome to the second half of our 2016/17 season! We’ve eagerly awaited tonight’s

performance as it brings together an photo by Marshall Berman exceptional blend of innovative, new music and a classic work that was just as groundbreaking when originally premiered over 200 years ago. It is indeed a pleasure to have Christian Reif joining us as guest conductor to present the music of two of the most-performed composers of their generations—Mason Bates and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Very exciting things are happening at Berkeley Symphony. I am honored to announce the very recent New Music USA grant we’ve just been awarded, a three-year artist residency with acclaimed composer Anna Clyne. Anna will be joining us and exploring opportunities in music, performance art, and more. Her vivid imagination and creative process will have full expression in Berkeley. Our established relationships in the community will allow us a full complement of opportunity, affording new collaborations with area arts organizations. More on these partnerships will be announced later this year.

Most importantly, please join me in congratulating Music Director Joana Carniero on the upcoming arrival of a new addition to her family! As per her doctor’s orders, Joana has suspended her conducting and travel for the time being. We are filled with joy and happiness for her and wish her and her family all the very best.

Thank you all for joining us this evening.

With all warmest regards in the New Year,

René Mandel

January 26, 2017 9 10 January 26, 2017 Board of Directors & Advisory Council

Board of Directors Executive Committee Tricia Swift, President Kathleen G. Henschel, Vice President for Governance Shariq Yosufzai, Vice President for Development Gertrude Allen, Vice President for Community Engagement John Dewes, Treasurer Brian James, Secretary René Mandel, Executive Director

Directors Advisory Council (continued) Susan Acquistapace Carolyn Doelling Sandra Floyd Anita Eblé Ellen L. Hahn Karen Faircloth William Knuttel Bereket Haregot Janet Maestre Buzz & Lisa Hines Peter Mandell Susan Hone Sandy McCoy Jennifer Howard & Anthony J. Cascardi Ed Osborn Edith Jackson Thomas Reicher Kenneth A. Johnson & Nina Grove Thomas W. Richardson Todd Kerr Deborah Shidler Jeffrey S. Leiter Michael Taddei Bennett Markel Jan McCutcheon Advisory Council Bebe & Colin McRae Jan McCutcheon, Co-Chair Helen & John Meyer Lisa Taylor, Co-Chair Deborah O’Grady & John Adams Marilyn Collier, Chair Emerita Elisabeth & Michael O’Malley Michele Benson Maria José Pereira Judith Bloom Marjorie Randell-Silver & Eric Silver Norman Bookstein Kathy Canfield Shepard & John Shepard Joy Carlin Jutta Singh Ron & Susan Choy Lisa & James Taylor Marilyn & Richard Collier Alison Teeman & Michael Yovino-Young Kathy Crandall Paul Templeton & Darrell Louie Dianne Crosby Anne & Craig Van Dyke Charli & John Danielsen Yvette Vloeberghs

January 26, 2017 11 The Orchestra

Joana Carneiro Music Director Viola Sponsored by Brian James & Shariq Yosufzai Ilana Matfis Principal Sponsored by Helen & John Meyer Sponsored by Marcia Muggli & Ed Osborn Alexander Volonts Assistant Principal Sponsored by Lisa & Jim Taylor Ivo Bokulic Sponsored by Anonymous Patrick Kroboth Kent Nagano Conductor Laureate Keith Lawrence Alessandra Aquilanti Violin I Amy Apel Franklyn D’Antonio Concertmaster Dan Stanley Matthew Szemela Associate Concertmaster Kristen Steiner Candace Sanderson Assistant Concertmaster Hee-Guen Song Cello Stephanie Bibbo Carol Rice Principal Sponsored by Getrude Allen Lisa Zadek Stephanie Wu Assistant Principal Larisa Kopylovsky Wanda Warkentin Ilana Thomas Shain Carrasco Junghee Lee Eric Gaenslen Daniel Lewin Krisanthy Desby Shawyon Malek-Salehi Peter Bedrossian Annie Li Kenneth Johnson John Bernstein Margaret Moores Bert Thunstrom Sylvia Woodmansee

Violin II Bass Dan Flanagan Principal Michel Taddei Principal Sponsored by Tricia Swift Sponsored by East Bay Community Foundation Karsten Windt Assistant Principal Jon Keigwin Assistant Principal Alden F. Cohen David Cheng Mark Wallace Monika Gruber Eric Price Matthew Oshida Corey Chandler Eldar Hudiyev Andrew de Stackelberg Rick Diamond Ann Eastman Flute Kevin Harper Emma Moon Principal Sponsored by Janet & Marcos Maestre Kristen Kline Stacey Pelinka Charles Zhou Quelani Penland Piccolo/Alto Flute Rose Marie Ginsburg Stacey Pelinka

12 January 26, 2017 Deborah Shidler Principal Thomas Hornig Principal Sponsored by Jan & Michael McCutcheon Sponsored by Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes Bennie Cottone Craig Bryant

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Horn Harp Alex Camphouse Principal Wendy Tamis Principal Loren Tayerle Piano/Celesta Michael Shuldes Miles Graber Principal Richard Hall Thomas Reicher Franklyn D’Antonio Co-Orchestra Manager Co-Orchestra Manager Scott Macomber Principal Joslyn D’Antonio William Harvey Quelani Penland Librarian Ari Micich David Rodgers, Jr. Stage Manager

January 26, 2017 13 2016/17 Season Sponsors

Gertrude Allen

ertrude Allen has lived in Berkeley since graduating G from UC more than fifty years ago. She and her husband enjoyed Berkeley Promenade Orchestra— predecessor of Berkeley Symphony—at the UC Art Museum. They have been subscribers off and on ever since. After raising two children and a ten-year period working as a Policy Analyst in the Office of the President of UC, Gertrude has engaged in volunteer work as a docent at Strybing Arboretum, the Oakland Museum and now at the East Bay Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Tilden Park. She is concerned about the future of live music and wants to do all she can to pass it along to future generations.

Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes

athleen G. Henschel, formerly finance manager K at Chevron Corporation, joined Berkeley Symphony’s Board of Directors in 2004, and was President from 2006 to 2011. An active Bay Area philanthropist, she currently serves as Treasurer photo by juliecheshire.com of Chanticleer. John W. Dewes, formerly General Manager of Public Affairs at Chevron Corporation, is an active volunteer in Walnut Creek. He joined the Berkeley Symphony Board in 2015.

Brian James & Shariq Yosufzai

rian James is a member of Berkeley B Symphony’s Board of Directors. Shariq Yosufzai serves on the Advisory Council of Berkeley Symphony, the Board of Directors of the Opera, and the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances, and is a past Chair of the Board of the California Chamber of Commerce.

14 January 26, 2017 Ed Osborn & Marcia Muggli

arl D. Osborn (Ed), now retired, was a E founding partner of Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough (BOS), an investment management and financial planning firm based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. He has been on the Board of Directors of Berkeley Symphony for four years and was formerly the chair of the Finance Committee. His wife, Marcia F. Muggli, has worked for Delta Airlines for over 40 years. When not enjoying the Bay Area (and especially Berkeley Symphony), Ed and Marcia spend part of the year at their second home on Cape Cod.

Thomas W. Richardson & Edith Jackson

homas W. Richardson, Jr. joined the Board T of Directors of the Berkeley Symphony in 2015. Formerly with Blyth Eastman Dillon and Wells Fargo Investment Advisors, Tom has been an independent real asset investor and investment advisor for thirty-five years. Edith Jackson owned and operated a retail Mayan clothing and handicrafts store in San Francisco, and practiced family law in El Cerrito for over twenty years. She is a tennis player, an avid volunteer at Audubon Canyon Ranch, and serves on the Advisory Board of Berkeley Symphony.

Tricia Swift

ricia Swift is a prominent Real Estate Broker in T Berkeley and the East Bay. She has been actively involved in music throughout her life. As a college

student, she was a member of the Harvard University photo © Margaretta K. Mitchell Memorial Church Choir, and she sang with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus for twenty-four years before retiring from singing in 2010. She was also an original cast member of the inaugural production of the California Revels. She has been a member of Berkeley Symphony’s Board of Directors since 2009 and now serves as President.

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January 26, 2017 17 Berkeley Symphony Legacy Society

Legacy giving will ensure that Berkeley Symphony’s music and education programs for children will continue to delight and inspire us for generations. Thank you to those who have made bequests to Berkeley Symphony as part of their estate planning. If you are interested in supporting our long-term future, please contact Mollie Budiansky at 510.841.2800 x303 or [email protected].

Legacy Society Member Lisa Taylor: In her own words . . .

“Growing up in New York City, I was introduced to classical music through Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s and my elementary school’s arts curriculum, which encouraged every third grader to play a string instrument. I briefly played the violin before switching to piano and even studied at the Mannes School of Music while in eighth grade. “When I moved to Berkeley in 1979, I joined the Friends of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, eventually serving as its President for a year. Berkeley Symphony quickly became part of my extended family, and my involvement as a volunteer, Board member, and Advisory Council member has now spanned 35 years. Legacies Pledged “I greatly value the organization’s commitment Gertrude Allen to adventurous programming, its support of Joan Balter emerging composers, and its wonderful Music in the Schools program, which introduces a new Norman Bookstein & generation to the joys of listening to and making Gillian Kuehner music—an important legacy in which I am proud Kathleen G. Henschel to take part.” Kenneth Johnson & Nina Grove Jeffrey S. Leiter Legacies Received Janet & Marcos Maestre Bennett Markel Margaret Stuart E. Graupner Tricia Swift Rochelle D. Ridgway Lisa Taylor Harry Weininger

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20 January 26, 2017 Program III: Relevance

Thursday, January 26, 2017 at 8:00 pm Zellerbach Hall

Christian Reif guest conductor

Mason Bates Cello Concerto Con moto—Grazioso—Con moto Serene Léger Joshua Roman cello INTERMISSION

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 Adagio—Allegro vivace Adagio Allegro vivace Allegro ma non troppo

Tonight’s concert will be broadcast on KALW 91.7 FM on May 15, 2017 at 9pm. Please switch off your cell phones, alarms, and other electronic devices during the concert. Thank you.

Concert Sponsors Tonight’s performance is made possible by the generous support of Ellen Hahn, in memory of Roger Hahn Janet & Marcos Maestre

Gertrude Allen | Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes | Tricia Swift Brian James & Shariq Yosufzai | Thomas Richardson & Edith Jackson Ed Osborn & Marcia Muggli | Peter Mandell & Sarah Coade Mandell

January 26, 2017 21 22 January 26, 2017 Program Notes

Mason Bates (b. 1977) n October 2014, two months I before the world premiere of Cello Concerto Mason Bates’ Cello Concerto, the Baltimore Symphony announced Mason Bates was born on January 23, the results of a study investigating 1977, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. programming trends that season He currently resides in Burlingame, among 22 major American California. Bates composed his Cello orchestras. In that context, they Concerto in 2014 on a commission from found that Bates is the second the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the most frequently performed living Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and composer, after John Adams. the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Just turned 40, Bates has gone with funding from the Johnstone Fund from success to success. Currently for New Music. he is serving his second season First performance: December 11, 2014, as the first-ever composer-in- with Mirga Grazˇinyte˙-Tyla leading the residence at the Kennedy Center Seattle Symphony and Joshua Roman (a post that involves not only as the soloist. With this performance, composing but also imagining and Berkeley Symphony gives the Bay Area curating unconventional concert premiere. In addition to solo cello, the formats). This summer, Santa Fe Concerto is scored for a large orchestra Opera will stage the world premiere of his much-anticipated debut of 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo and opera, The (R)evolution of Steve alto flute), 2 , 2 (2nd Jobs. And Bates’ music has been doubling ) 2 (2nd nominated in two categories for the doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 upcoming 2017 Grammy Awards: , 3 , timpani, finger Best Contemporary Classical cymbals, triangle, crotales, vibraphone, Composition for his “surreal kalimba, almglocken, glockenspiel, symphonic suite,” Anthology of tam-tam, suspended cymbals, piccolo Fantastic Zoology (created during snare drum, tambourine, bass drum, his residency with the Chicago marimba, low Asian drum, woodblock, Symphony under Riccardo Muti); hi-hat, sandpaper blocks, 2 flexible and Best Orchestral Performance switches, crash cymbals, piano for the recording Bates: Works for (doubling celesta), harp, and strings. Orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas Duration: approximately 25 minutes. and the San Francisco Symphony.

January 26, 2017 23 24 January 26, 2017 The latter is the latest fruit of a in an interview shortly before the longstanding close relationship 2014 world premiere. “We were both Bates has enjoyed with those on the program in New York and colleagues across the Bay. A few were scheduled to play later that seasons ago, they even presented a evening at [the club] Le Poisson two-week festival titled “Beethoven Rouge. We had never played together & Bates,” and Tilson Thomas ranks before, but that night we did an among his earliest high-profile electro-acoustic improvisation. advocates. The second stop in our musical relationship was a piece for his series Bates is also famous for his alter at Town Hall in Seattle.” This later ego as a DJ (he goes by the moniker became Carbide & Carbon (named “Masonic”). In San Francisco and for the building in Chicago), “an many other cities, he presents unbelievably difficult piece for solo a counterpart to his orchestral cello which he played from memory performances in the form of a month after receiving the score.” after-hours sessions of immersive electronica. The composer’s For his part, Roman noted that he website (masonbates.com) includes and the composer were in close separate tabs for “classical” and contact throughout the creative “electronica,” but much of his process. Bates, he said, “did a orchestral work innovatively fuses remarkable job of making me feel the two. like the concerto was written for my playing style and fingers.” one of his widely circulated shorter compositions, is a The premiere took place in Seattle— good example: it was commissioned Roman’s former home and the by Tilson Thomas for the pioneering home of the family of Bates’ wife. The composer considers Roman’s YouTube Symphony, which artistry his prime inspiration premiered it in 2011. That project for the Concerto: “It’s about the spawned another significant personality he brings to the cello as musical friendship, which in turn an instrument. He can play any note led Bates to write his Cello Concerto. and make it sound so good. That The friend in this case is Joshua comes from the tone he has, which is Roman, an Oklahoma-born former a combination of absolute precision principal cellist of the Seattle and at the same time an incredibly Symphony who subsequently went musical sensibility. Josh makes you on to pursue a freelance career as forget about the technique, even soloist and new-music advocate. about the instrument. He transports “Josh and I got thrown together in you into the musical world of the a kind of shotgun wedding with the composer. It’s like the line from YouTube Symphony,” Bates told me Yeats [in “Among School Children”]:

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26 January 26, 2017 How’ can we know the dancer from Ludwig van Beethoven the dance?’ He makes it all sound so (1770-1827) natural.” Overall, the Cello Concerto is “more introverted in a way, a piece Symphony No. 4 in B-flat that comes from the inside of the major, Op. 60 cello.” Born on December 16, 1770, in Bonn; died At first glance, the Cello Concerto on March 26, 1827, in Vienna. Beethoven might seem more “traditional”: composed his Fourth Symphony in 1806, not only is it cast in the familiar during an intensely fertile creative period three-movement concerto format during which he also sketched out ideas (fast-slow-fast), but also in terms for the Fifth and Sixth . He dedicated the work to the Silesian Count of instrumentation, Bates doesn’t Franz von Oppersdorff, an admirer of his use any electronica. Still, traces Second Symphony. of that sensibility come through in the exotic sounds of the kalimba First performance: March 1807, in (African thumb piano), which “have a private concert sponsored by one a delicate ringing texture. I thought of Beethoven’s Vienna patrons; the this would lay out an interesting Fourth Piano Concerto (performed on rhythmic bed for the opening December’s Berkeley Symphony concert) theme. And this piece reflects the was also introduced on this occasion. influence of electronica on my The Fourth is scored for 1 flute, 2 oboes, thinking, for example in some of 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 the rhythmic activity in the final trumpets, timpani, and strings. Duration: approximately 35 minutes. movement.”

At the same time, the cello really is well-known instance of the protagonist here. The composer gender stereotypes from the further describes his work: “The A music criticism of the past can piece begins plaintively, with Josh be found in Robert Schumann’s floating over a restless orchestra, attempt to explicate the unique and the lyricism only expands in aura of Ludwig van Beethoven’s the central slow movement. But by Symphony No. 4. Just what is it the final movement the rhythmic that differentiates the Fourth energy wins the day, and at one from the two far-more-famous point Josh even plays with a guitar powerhouse symphonies that frame pick. This is, after all, the same it? Schumann characterized the fellow who played arrangements Fourth as “a slender Greek maiden of Led Zeppelin at [Seattle] Town between two Norse giants.” It’s Hall, so I had to send him out with a curious that he interlaces his gender- bang.” based metaphor with allusions to

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28 January 26, 2017 two separate paganisms—Greek ways of achieving innovation here antiquity versus Nordic myth—and may be less obviously aggressive uses the latter to account both than what we encounter, say, in the for the epic energy of the Third Eroica—but that does not make them Symphony (Eroica) and for the any less robust. condensed drama of the Fifth. The instrumentation, for example, Colorful as this is—and once is more transparent in the Fourth entertained, it is hard to forget—the (which calls for a single flute) than in Fourth-as-Greek-maiden image has its neighbors; yet this “neoclassical” helped reinforce an unfortunate aspect of its sound world allows either/or dichotomy as to the value for startling effects of contrast of Beethoven’s symphonies. A bias between solo passages and full-on has resulted that tends to favor unison outbursts. In the Fourth the works perceived as radical, Symphony, Beethoven transforms trail-blazing, or “Promethean” (the the expressive language articulated odd-numbered symphonies) over by his models—Haydn above all. those often assumed to be more conservative or even reactionary That such transformations are (especially the Second, Fourth, contained within a relatively and Eighth, whose reputation with conservative framework only the general public indeed remains enhances their delightful subtlety. overshadowed by that of their It would be misguided to approach companions). the Fourth Symphony as a “lighter” or less-challenging work. (From Yet, as Schumann himself so the orchestral players’ perspective, perceptively articulated in his parts of this score might well rank writings on his predecessor, among the most technically difficult Beethoven was tirelessly driven by the search for new and different in all Beethoven.) The Fourth is a solutions to compositional symphony for genuine Beethoven challenges. And that drive connoisseurs. It’s also a reminder shouldn’t be predicated on another that the composer’s unparalleled stereotype: Beethoven as the feisty symphonic achievement did not rule-breaker. According to this unfold as a rejection of the past: stereotype, the Fourth Symphony these works were forged in an enacts a return to more-familiar ongoing dialogue with inherited classical patterns, representing a traditions. Like the aspiring artist “relaxation” of the dramatic tension Walther von Stolzing, who wins that is the engine of Beethoven’s the song contest in Wagner’s Die heroic style. That interpretation, Meistersinger, Beethoven synthesized however, overlooks the Fourth’s own spontaneity and craft, innovation astonishing originality. Beethoven’s and tradition, fantasy and form.

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30 January 26, 2017 Consider the long Adagio opening. share this feature of a dramatic On the surface, this marks a return transformation from darkness to the use of a slow introduction, to light; in the Fifth and Sixth which Beethoven had employed Symphonies, Beethoven uses it to in his first two symphonies—and, link the two final movements. by extension, a return to what Simpson suggested that this for contemporary audiences was passage at the beginning of the the obvious model of Haydn’s Fourth represents the composer’s London Symphonies (particularly earlier attempt to work out a the Symphony No. 102, also in solution as to how to stage such a B-flat major). But Beethoven moment of illumination. This helps elaborates his slow introduction explain why routine depictions of into an arresting drama of sustained the Fourth as merely “cheerful” suspense and mystery. His Ninth and “sunny” feel so inadequate. Symphony would later establish a “The music emerges from an new paradigm for the mysterious impenetrable blackness,” according beginning-out-of-chaos, in which to Simpson, “into gleaming sunlight musical forms are heard to come whose vividness is thereafter into being. Still, this earlier example constantly preserved by passing of a kind of sonic groping toward patches of cloud.” The Fourth, it the light is impressive on it its turns out, does contain “as much own terms. (Mahler aficionados drama as the heroics of the Third will notice that he found obvious and Fifth symphonies, albeit of a inspiration here for the start of his more elusive kind.” First Symphony.) That drama certainly comes to The dark harmonies of this Adagio the fore in Beethoven’s exciting cast a shadow—this enhances the manipulation of contrasts of introduction’s sense of suspense— volume and texture. Listen for that intensifies the unequivocal his masterful stretching out blaze of B-flat major with which of the crescendo (in which the the Allegro vivace is launched. That timpanist plays a leading role) in thrilling sense of release (so early the build-up to the recapitulation. in the symphony!) anticipates the Each movement, moreover, has a triumphant outburst of C major in striking rhythmic character that the Fifth Symphony’s finale, as the is used in dramatic ways. In this British composer and musicologist regard, the Fourth also looks ahead Robert Simpson pointed out to the Seventh—Beethoven’s only in his classic, elegant survey of later symphony with a similarly all the Beethoven symphonies. prolonged slow introduction. The Simpson investigated how the Adagio, for example, exploits a Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth in fact all mechanically repetitive rhythmic

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Beethoven’s use of syncopation, dynamic contrast, and harmonic surprise (hints again of the slow introduction’s darkened tonality) make for a characteristically rambunctious scherzo. The regularity of meter in the central trio, which Beethoven asks to be played twice, has an effect of comic naïvete, serving as a foil to the tricksterish rhythms of the scherzo itself.

In the finale, which is based on a churning, perpetual-motion theme, Beethoven pays overt homage to Haydn. Beethovenian humor, though, becomes nearly unbridled, a far cry from the delicately “feminine” charms posited by Schumann’s classical Greek maiden. Instead, the Fourth encompasses yin and yang, shadow and light—all delightfully capped by a final, resounding joke.

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January 26, 2017 33 34 January 26, 2017 Music Director: Joana Carneiro

oted for her vibrant Nperformances in a wide diversity of musical styles, Joana Carneiro has attracted considerable attention as one of the most outstanding young conductors working today. In 2009, she was named Music Director of Berkeley Symphony, succeeding Kent Nagano and becoming only the third music

director in the 40-year history of the photo by Rodrigo de Souza orchestra. She also currently serves as official guest conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, working there at least four weeks every year. In January 2014 she was appointed Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Portuguesa and Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon.

Carneiro’s growing guest-conducting career continues to develop very English National Opera conducting quickly. Recent and future highlights the world stage premiere of John include engagements with the Adams’s The Gospel According to Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, the Other Mary, and recently she Swedish Radio Symphony, conducted a production of La Passion Helsinki Philharmonic, Hong Kong de Simone at the Ojai Festival. Joana Philharmonic and the Gothenburg also works regularly with singer/song- Symphony, as well as a production writer Rufus Wainwright, conducting of Van der Aa’s Book of Disquiet with his orchestral programme in Lisbon the London Sinfonietta. In 2016/2017 and Hong Kong in 2015/16. she will make her debut with the San Elsewhere Joana has previously Francisco Symphony, at London’s conducted the Royal Liverpool Barbican with the Britten Sinfonia, Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and at Theater Bonn in Germany. Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique She continues to be sought after for de Radio France, Ensemble Orchestral contemporary programmes and in de Paris, Orchestra de Bretagne, 2014/15 she made her debut at the Norrköping Symphony, Norrlands

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36 January 26, 2017 Opera Orchestra, Residentie Orkest/ Academy. From 2002 to 2005, she Hague, Prague Philharmonia, Malmo served as Assistant Conductor of Symphony, National Orchestra of the L.A. Chamber Orchestra and as Spain and the Orchestra Sinfonica del Music Director of the Young Musicians Teatro la Fenice at the Venice Biennale, Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los as well as the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Angeles. From 2005 through 2008, Macau Chamber Orchestra and Beijing she was an American Symphony Orchestra at the International Music Orchestra League Conducting Fellow Festival of Macau. In the Americas, she at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has led the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she worked closely with Toronto Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Esa-Pekka Salonen and led several Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, performances at Walt Disney Concert Colorado Symphony, Indianapolis Hall and the . Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber A native of Lisbon, she began her Orchestra, New World Symphony and musical studies as a violist before São Paulo State Symphony. receiving her conducting degree from In 2010, Carneiro led performances of the Academia Nacional Superior Peter Sellars’s stagings of Stravinsky’s de Orquestra in Lisbon, where she Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms studied with Jean-Marc Burfin. at the Sydney Festival, which won Carneiro received her Masters degree Australia’s Helpmann Award for Best in orchestral conducting from Symphony Orchestra Concert in 2010. Northwestern University as a student She conducted a linked project at the of Victor Yampolsky and Mallory New Zealand Festival in 2011, and as Thompson, and pursued doctoral a result was immediately invited to studies at the University of Michigan, work with the Sydney Symphony and where she studied with Kenneth New Zealand Symphony orchestras on Kiesler. She has participated in master subscription. classes with Gustav Meier, Michael Tilson Thomas, Larry Rachleff, Jean As a finalist of the prestigious Sebastian Bereau, Roberto Benzi and 2002 Maazel-Vilar Conductor’s Pascal Rophe. Competition at Carnegie Hall, Carneiro was recognized by the jury Carneiro is the 2010 recipient of for demonstrating a level of potential the Helen M. Thompson Award, that holds great promise for her future conferred by the League of American career. In 2003/04, she worked with Orchestras to recognize and honor Maestros Kurt Masur and Christoph music directors of exceptional promise. von Dohnanyi and conducted the In 2004, Carneiro was decorated London Philharmonic Orchestra, by the President of the Portuguese as one of the three conductors Republic, Mr. Jorge Sampaio, with the chosen for London’s Allianz Cultural Commendation of the Order of the Foundation International Conductors Infante Dom Henrique.

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38 January 26, 2017 Guest Conductor: Christian Reif

York Phil Biennial. Christian Reif is cur- rently a member of Germany’s prestigious Conductor’s Forum (Dirigentenforum). He won the German Operetta Prize 2015, photo by Tomas Loewy awarded by the German Music Council. Highlights of Mr. Reif’s 2015/16 season included leading the Munich Chamber Opera in performances of Mozart’s La finta semplice in Munich’s Cuvilliés Theater and performing with the Meininger Hofka- pelle. As part of efforts to bridge cultures through music, he led the Deutsche Sta- atsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in the world premiere of Mehmet C. Yesilçay’s Lieder aus der Fremde, which addresses the current European refugee crisis. With erman conductor Christian Reif joined this same orchestra, Mr. Reif will make Gthe San Francisco Symphony as their his debut at the international festival Resident Conductor and Wattis Founda- Heidelberger Frühling in April, conducting tion Music Director of the internationally Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony and Mahler’s acclaimed San Francisco Symphony Youth Lied von der Erde with Michelle DeYoung and Orchestra (SFSYO) in the 2016/17 season, Toby Spence. after making a “powerful symphony debut” with the Symphony in fall 2015. Mr. Reif has led several orchestras and ensembles both in the US and abroad For the past two seasons, he was the Con- such as the Lakes Area Music Festival ducting Fellow with the New World Sym- Orchestra, The Juilliard Orchestra, Salz- phony in Miami, assisting Music Director burg Chamber Soloists, Georgian Cham- Michael Tilson Thomas and leading the ber Orchestra, and the Israel Chamber orchestra in a large number of varied con- Orchestra. He has performed with soloists certs. Summer 2015 saw Mr. Reif conduct including Dawn Upshaw, Sanford Sylvan, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Julia Bullock and Barbara Bonney. several world premieres as part of Tangle- wood’s 75th anniversary summer, which His enthusiasm in performing contem- led to his appointment as a Tanglewood porary music has led to many world conducting fellow for the summer of 2016. premieres; among those are Michael During that appointment, he stepped in Gordon’s El Sol Caliente, a city symphony for Seiji Ozawa, conducting the Seiji Ozawa in honor of Miami Beach’s centennial; International Academy Switzerland. He Ted Hearne’s Dispatches, part of the New has also repeatedly worked as assistant Voices project, which Mr. Reif led both in and cover conductor for the Los Angeles Miami and in San Francisco; and also con- Philharmonic, for the Boston Symphony certos for DJ and orchestra, performed at Orchestra, and for Alan Gilbert at the New the PULSE events of the New World Sym-

January 26, 2017 39 phony, when the concert hall is trans- Foundation as a Music Master Teacher. formed into a . In 2014, Mr. Reif completed his Master of A dedicated and enthusiastic educator, Music in Conducting at The Juilliard School he has taught piano, coaches instru- under Alan Gilbert, after studying with mentalists and works with singers as Dennis Russell Davies at the Mozarteum a répétiteur. Mr. Reif also worked as a Salzburg. For his outstanding achieve- Teaching Fellow in The Juilliard School’s ments at The Juilliard School, Christian Ear Training Department and served Reif is the recipient of the Charles Schiff additionally as its Department Assis- Conducting Award. He also holds a schol- tant. The Education Concerts 2014-2016 arship from the German study promotion at the New World Symphony, which he program of the Cusanuswerk and two Kul- hosted and conducted, were also broad- turförderpreise, awards given to promising casted globally online. Christian also has artists of the region who promote cultural been involved in the National YoungArts advancement in their communities.

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40 January 26, 2017 Artists’ Biographies

as part of a residency last spring with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In the second of two performances with the Omaha Symphony, he plays Photo by Bret Hartman Dreamsongs, a cello concerto written for him by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, after a concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Pezzo Capriccioso and Variations on a Rococo Theme. He will also play a solo recital at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Halloween concert (in a New York crypt) featuring the music of composer Gregg Kallor.

Recent seasons have seen Roman Joshua Roman, cello premiere Awakening, his own Cello Concerto, with the Illinois Philharmonic oshua Roman has earned an Orchestra, and subsequently perform international reputation for J it with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra; his wide-ranging repertoire, a make his debut with the Pittsburgh commitment to communicating the Symphony Orchestra playing Dvorák’s essence of music in visionary ways, Cello Concerto; give a solo performance artistic leadership and versatility. As on the TED2015 main stage; perform well as being a celebrated performer, a program of chamber works by he is recognized as an accomplished Lera Auerbach at San Francisco composer and curator, and was named Performances with Auerbach and a TED Senior Fellow in 2015. violinist Philippe Quint; and make During the 2016/17 season, Roman appearances with the Columbus, will play Mason Bates’ Cello Concerto Fort Worth, New World, and Seattle with four different orchestras: the Symphonies as well as with the Moscow Portland, Berkeley, Spokane, and State Symphony Orchestra and BBC Memphis Symphonies. The concerto Scottish Symphony Orchestra. He also served as Alumnus-in-Residence at the is dedicated to the cellist, who gave its prestigious Music Academy of the West “world-class world premiere” (Seattle in Santa Barbara. Times) with the Seattle Symphony in 2014, and has since performed it with Roman has demonstrated inspirational orchestras around the U.S., including artistic leadership throughout

January 26, 2017 41 42 January 26, 2017 his career. As Artistic Director of School of Cello Playing to his dedicated TownMusic in Seattle he has showcased YouTube channel (youtube.com/ his own eclectic musical influences joshuaromancello). In his latest and chamber music favorites, while YouTube project, “Everyday Bach,” also promoting newly commissioned Roman performs Bach’s cello suites in works. Under his direction, the beautiful settings around the world. He series has offered world premieres has collaborated with photographer of compositions by some of today’s Chase Jarvis on Nikon video projects, brightest young composers and and Paste magazine singled out Roman performances by cutting-edge and DJ Spooky for their cello and iPad ensembles. In the 2015/16 season at cover of Radiohead’s “Everything in TownMusic he presented his own song Its Right Place,” created for the Voice cycle, we do it to one another, based on Project. For his creative initiatives on Tracy K. Smith’s book of poems Life on behalf of classical music, Roman was Mars, with soprano Jessica Rivera. He named a TED Fellow in 2011, joining has also recently been appointed the a select group of next-generation inaugural Artistic Advisor of award- innovators who show potential to winning contemporary streaming positively affect the world. He acted as channel Second Inversion, launched curator for an outdoor amphitheater by Seattle’s KING-FM to cultivate the performance at the TED Summit in next generation of classical audiences. Banff in the Canadian Rockies this past The cellist additionally took on a summer. new curatorial role last summer, as Beyond these initiatives, Roman’s Creative Partner of the Colorado Music adventurous spirit has led to Festival & Center for Musical Arts. collaborations with artists outside The same organization sponsored the music community, including his him in April 2016 at the 68th Annual co-creation of “On Grace” with Tony Conference on World Affairs on the Award-nominated actress Anna University of Colorado campus, where Deavere Smith, a work for actor and he contributed his innovative ideas cello which premiered in February 2012 about how classical music is conceived at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. and presented. Roman performed at His outreach endeavors have taken the Kennedy Center Arts Summit that him to Uganda with his violin-playing same month and is a member of the siblings, where they played chamber 2016 Kennedy Center Honors artists music in schools, HIV/AIDS centers and committee. displacement camps, communicating a message of hope through music. Roman’s cultural leadership includes using digital platforms to harness Before embarking on a solo career, new audiences. In 2009 he developed Roman spent two seasons as principal “The Popper Project,” performing, cellist of the Seattle Symphony, recording and uploading the complete a position he won in 2006 at the etudes from David Popper’s High age of 22. Since that time he has

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44 January 26, 2017 appeared as a soloist with the San Bermel and the Enso String Quartet. Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles A native of Oklahoma City, Roman Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, began playing the cello at the age of New World Symphony, Alabama three on a quarter-size instrument, Symphony, and Orquesta Sinfónica and gave his first public recital at Nacional del Ecuador, among age ten. Home-schooled until he many others. An active chamber was 16, he then pursued his musical musician, Roman has collaborated studies at the Cleveland Institute with established artists such as of Music with Richard Aaron. He Andrius Zlabys, Cho-Liang Lin, Assad received his Bachelor’s Degree in Cello Brothers, Earl Carlyss, Christian Performance in 2004, and his Master’s Zacharias, and Yo-Yo Ma, as well in 2005, as a student of Desmond as other dynamic young soloists Hoebig, former principal cellist of and performers from New York’s the Cleveland Orchestra. Roman is vibrant music scene, including the grateful for the loan of an 1899 cello JACK Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Derek by Giulio Degani of Venice.

orchestral writing, the harmonies of jazz and the rhythms of techno, and it has been the first symphonic music

Photo by Ryan Close to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds. Leading conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas, and have championed his diverse catalogue. He has become a visible advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether through institutional partnerships such as his residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, or through his club/ classical project Mercury Soul, which transforms spaces ranging from Mason Bates, composer commercial clubs to Frank Gehry- ecently named the most-performed designed concert halls into exciting, R composer of his generation, Mason hybrid musical events drawing over Bates serves as the first composer-in- a thousand people. In awarding residence of the Kennedy Center for the Bates the Heinz Medal, Teresa Heinz Performing Arts. His music enlivens remarked that “his music has moved imaginative narrative forms with novel the orchestra into the digital age and

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46 January 26, 2017 dissolved the boundaries of classical Naomi Watts, and Ken Watanabe. music.” Complementing the mystical narrative of a man lost in Japan’s suicide forest This season includes several world is a symphonic score recorded at premieres and performances by Skywalker Studios. leading orchestras, as well as the debut of a score for a film by Gus Van Bringing classical music to new Sant starring Matthew McConaughey. audiences is a central part of Bates’ In addition to performances of activities as a curator. With composer Liquid Interface and Garages of the Anna Clyne, he transformed the Valley by the National Symphony Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW Orchestra this season, the Kennedy series into an imaginative concert Center will be premiering a new work experience drawing huge crowds, celebrating the centennial of John F. with cinematic program notes and Kennedy. Scored for mezzo-soprano, immersive stagecraft. Outside the orchestra, and electronica, the work concert hall, his Mercury Soul inhabits juxtaposes the poetry of longtime JFK commercial clubs and extraordinary confidant Robert Frost with excerpts spaces, embedding sets of classical of the President’s own words. Other music into a fluid evening of DJing performances include Alternative and immersive stagecraft. Sold-out Energy with the Philadelphia Orchestra performances from San Francisco’s and a performance by the Fort Worth famed Mezzanine club to Miami’s Symphony of Anthology of Fantastic New World Symphony have brought a Zoology, which was recently recorded new vision of the listening experience by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago to widespread audiences, and the Symphony. project recently returned to San His music’s dramatic realization of Francisco’s DNA Lounge. Mercury Soul narrative forms has attracted the is being presented in October by the attention of artists in the dramatic Kennedy Center, where he works with mediums of opera and film. In July the Center’s broad range of artistic 2017, Santa Fe Opera premieres The constituents, from performances (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, a kinetic and with the National Symphony to emotional exploration of one of the appearances with Jason Moran on most compelling figures of our time. Kennedy Center Jazz, often integrating Staring baritone Edward Parks and electronic artists into the Center’s mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, the opera unique spaces. His new-music series is animated by innovative storytelling KC Jukebox features the eclectic on all levels, from an electro-acoustic programming, immersive production, score to a non-linear narrative to and projected information for which stunning visual effects. The Fall of his curating projects have become 2016 saw the release of legendary known, and this season presents a film director Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of range of artists from Chanticleer to Trees, starring Matthew McConaughey, Thievery Corporation.

January 26, 2017 47 48 January 26, 2017 Berkeley Symphony photo by Dave Weiland

erkeley Symphony is unique Boult, founded the orchestra in 1969 B among American orchestras: as the Berkeley Promenade Orchestra. founded in 1969 in the intellectual and Reflecting the spirit of the times, artistic nexus of Berkeley, California; musicians performed in street dress led by the restlessly innovative Music and at unusual locations such as the Director Joana Carneiro and Executive University Art Museum. Director René Mandel, an actively When Kent Nagano became the performing violinist; committed to music director of the orchestra in premiering and commissioning new 1978, he charted a new course by music, including a disproportionate offering innovative programming amount of music written by women; that included a number of rarely and sustained by the supportive performed 20th-century works and musical environment of Berkeley, the numerous premieres. The renamed East Bay, and the San Francisco Bay Berkeley Symphony Orchestra gained Area. an international reputation for its From the outset, the people behind adventurous programming, and Berkeley Symphony’s culture and became known for premiering the programming were attuned to the music of international composers culturally diverse people and the and showcasing young local talents. heady creative climate of their home During the 30 years he served as city. Thomas Rarick, a protégé of music director, Nagano established the great English maestro Sir Adrian an international reputation as a

January 26, 2017 49 50 January 26, 2017 gifted interpreter of both the operatic contemporary composers such as and symphonic repertoire. Nagano John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, stepped down from his post at Brett Dean, Kaija Saariaho, Edmund Berkeley Symphony in 2008, after his Campion, Gabriela Lena Frank, Mason 30th anniversary season. Bates, Samuel Adams, Mark Grey, Paul Dresher, and James MacMillan, among In January 2009, Portuguese others, while showcasing the classical conductor Joana Carneiro became masterworks. the orchestra’s third Music Director in its 40-year history. She begins her As of the conclusion of the 2015/16 eighth season with the Orchestra season, Berkeley Symphony has in the 2016/17 season. Noted for performed 64 world premieres, 28 her vibrant performances in a wide U.S. premieres, and 21 West Coast diversity of musical styles, Carneiro premieres since the 1980/1981 season. has attracted considerable attention Over the past 35 seasons, nine percent as one of the most outstanding young of the new works were commissioned conductors working today. In addition or co-commissioned by Berkeley to her role at Berkeley Symphony, Symphony. Forty-four percent of the Carneiro has a thriving international music performed in the last 15 seasons conducting career, as principal was written by living or recently conductor of the Orquesta Sinfonica active composers, and 19 percent of Portuguesa, official guest conductor those living composers are women. of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and Berkeley Symphony’s leadership in many other conducting engagements commissioning and performing new for orchestras and opera companies music has been acknowledged with throughout the world. the prestigious ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award in 10 of the past Carneiro and Berkeley Symphony are 12 seasons. continuing the orchestra’s steadfast commitment to presenting original Since it began, Berkeley Symphony’s and unique programs, with a 2016/17 commitment to fostering the work of season that combines time-honored new and established composers has classics with important contemporary brought success and international works and newly commissioned music, prominence. In 1981, the renowned including a commissioned world French composer Olivier Messiaen premiere of an orchestral work from journeyed to Berkeley to assist with Paul Dresher and a co-commissioned the preparations for his imposing West Coast premiere of James oratorio The Transfiguration of Our Lord MacMillan’s Symphony No. 4. Under Jesus Christ. Nagano and the orchestra, Carneiro’s direction, the orchestra has joined by the composer’s wife, pianist maintained the highest standard of Yvonne Loriod, gave a sold-out musical excellence as she continues performance in Davies Symphony Hall. to cultivate new relationships and In 1984, the Orchestra collaborated conduct the work of prominent with Frank Zappa in A Zappa Affair,

January 26, 2017 51 a critically acclaimed production presents Berkeley Symphony & featuring life-size puppets and moving Friends, an annual chamber music stage sets, catapulting Berkeley series in association with the Symphony onto the world stage. Piedmont Center for the Arts.

Celebrated British composer George A national leader in music education, Benjamin was first introduced the Orchestra partners with the to the Bay Area in 1987 when Berkeley Unified School District Berkeley Symphony performed his (BUSD) to produce the award-winning compositions Jubilation and Ringed Music in the Schools program, by the Flat Horizon. Thomas Adès’ led by Conductor and Education opera, Powder Her Face, was debuted Director Ming Luke. Music in the by the orchestra in a concert version Schools offers comprehensive, age- in 1997 before it was fully staged in appropriate music curricula to more New York City, London, and Chicago. than 4,600 local elementary and In 2003, Naomi Sekiya was named middle school students each year. the orchestra’s first Composer-in- Over 200 inclass sessions are led by Residence. Her Sinfonia delle Ombre Berkeley Symphony musicians at and Concerto for two guitars and all eleven BUSD elementary schools orchestra received their world each year. Classroom sessions premieres that year. The orchestra include hands-on music education also commissioned her Manzanar: An and curriculum guides for teachers American History (2005), co-written designed to meet state standards with Jean-Pascal Beintus and David for music education. In the middle Benoit. Berkeley Symphony performed schools, Berkeley Symphony the U.S. premiere of Unsuk Chin’s musicians lead 130 ensemble coaching in 2004; the piece won sessions, 22 master classes, and six one of the world’s most prestigious ensemble adjudications each year. music composition prizes. Recent “Meet the Symphony” and “I’m a orchestra-commissioned works Performer!” concerts take place in include Mark Grey’s Frankenstein BUSD elementary schools, providing Symphony (2016, co-commissioned with young musicians opportunities to Atlanta Symphony Orchestra); Oscar rehearse and perform side-by-side Bettison’s Sea Shaped (given its world with Berkeley Symphony. Four annual premiere in 2014); Samuel Adams’ Family Concerts provide opportunities Violin Concerto (world premiere, 2014), for students, their families, and and Gabriela Lena Frank’s Holy Sisters community members to experience a (world premiere, 2012). Berkeley Symphony concert together. All Music in the Schools programming Under the baton of Music Director is provided free of charge for children Joana Carneiro, the Orchestra and their families. performs four concerts a year in Zellerbach Hall, on the UC Berkeley For more information, please visit campus. Berkeley Symphony also www.berkeleysymphony.org.

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54 January 26, 2017 Music in the Schools

ore than 4,600 school children Meach year benefit from Berkeley Symphony’s Music in the Schools program:

• Over 200 In-Class Sessions are provided photo by Dave Weiland free of charge and include curriculum booklets with age-appropriate lessons addressing state standards for music education. Music in the Schools Sponsors • Over 150 Ensemble Coaching Sessions and (Gifts of $2,500 and above annually) master classes in area middle schools. Anonymous (3) Susan & Jim Acquistapace • Eleven Meet the Symphony concerts are Gertrude Allen performed free of charge in elementary Mark & Cynthia Anderson schools each fall. Berkeley Public Schools Fund • Six I’m a Performer concerts, also free Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Charitable of charge, provide young musicians with Foundation Bernard Osher Foundation an opportunity to rehearse and perform Judith L. Bloom with Berkeley Symphony. California Arts Council • Four free Family Concerts provide an Ronald & Susan Choy opportunity for the whole family to East Bay Community Foundation experience a Berkeley Symphony Ann & Gordon Getty concert together. Jill Grossman Ellen Hahn All Music in the Schools programs are Ann Fischer Hecht provided 100% free of charge to children Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes and their families. We are grateful to the Jennifer Howard & Tony Cascardi individuals and institutions listed on this Mr. & Mrs. Robert Edward Kroll Helen & John Meyer page whose financial contributions help Music Performance Trust Fund make Music in the Schools possible. But more National Endowment for the Arts help is needed to fully fund the program . . . The Rudolph and Lentilhon G. Von Fluegge Foundation, Inc. Please join those making Music in the Dr. Ruedi Naumann-Etienne and Annette Schools a reality! Donate online and Campbell-White designate your gift as “Restricted—Music Betty Pigford in the Schools Program.” Or simply mail a Thomas W. Richardson & Edith Jackson contribution to: Berkeley Symphony, Music Tricia Swift in the Schools Fund, 1942 University Ave. Lisa & James Taylor Suite #207, Berkeley, CA 94704 Union Bank Foundation Shariq Yosufzai & Brian James www.berkeleysymphony.org/mits Thanks also to those giving up to $2,500 annually.

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56 January 26, 2017 2016/17 Membership Benefits Ticket sales cover only a portion of concert expenses. And our Music in the Schools program— offered free of charge to thousands of children each year—is entirely Membership-driven! Your Membership makes Berkeley Symphony thrive, and provides many opportunities to make the most of your concert-going experience. Consider adding a Membership to your subscription—or increase your level of Membership in support of the 2016/17 season.

Friends Circle of Members Supporting Member: $100+ • Advance e-newsletter notice of discounts and special events. • Listing in season concert programs. Associate Member: $300+ (All of the above plus . . .) • Invitation for two to an open rehearsal of the orchestra. Principal Member: $750+ (All of the above plus . . .) • Invitation to select special events including post-concert receptions with Music Director Joana Carneiro, musicians, soloists and/or visiting composers. Symphony Circle of Members Concertmaster: $1,500+ (All of the above plus . . .) • Invitations to two exclusive Symphony Circle Salon Receptions hosted by Music Director Joana Carneiro. • Two free guest concert passes. Conductor: $2,500+ (All of the above plus . . .) • Invitations to all exclusive Symphony Circle Salon Receptions hosted by Music Director Joana Carneiro. • Invitation to an exclusive Musicians’ Dinner and “closed” rehearsal for you and guests. Sponsorship Circle of Members Founding Sponsors: $5,000+ (All of the above plus . . .) • VIP access to Berkeley Symphony intermission Sponsors’ Lounge at Zellerbach Hall. • Opportunities to be recognized as a concert sponsor, musician sponsor, or guest soloist sponsor. • Special “Sponsorship Dinner” opportunities with Music Director Joana Carneiro. • A total of four or more free concert guest passes.

January 26, 2017 57 58 January 26, 2017 Annual Membership Support

Thank you to the following individuals for making the programs of Berkeley Symphony possible. A symphony is as strong as the community that supports it. Thank you to the following individuals for making Berkeley Symphony very strong indeed. Your generosity allows the defiantly original music to be heard, commissions world-class composers, and impacts the lives of thousands of children in hundreds of classrooms each year.

Gifts received between December 15, 2015 and December 15, 2016

Sponsor Circle GIFTS

Season Sponsors Founding Sponsors $50,000 and above $5,000 and above Ann & Gordon Getty Natasha Beery & Sandy McCoy Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes Ronald & Susan Choy Helen & John Meyer Oz Erickson & Rina Alcalay Shariq Yosufzai & Brian James Dean Francis Paula & John Gambs Season Sponsors $25,000 and above Jill Grossman Anonymous Jennifer Howard & Tony Cascardi Margaret Dorfman and the Ralph I. Ditsa & Alexander Pines Dorfman Family Fund Mark & Cynthia Anderson Gertrude Allen Paul Templeton & Darrell Louie Peter Mandell & Sarah Coade Mandell Ed Osborn & Marcia Muggli Thomas W. Richardson & Edith Jackson SYMPHONY Circle GIFTS Jan & Michael McCutcheon Conductor Level Tricia Swift $2,500 and above Anonymous (2) Executive Sponsors Judith L. Bloom $10,000 and above Anonymous Ms. Dianne Crosby Susan & Jim Acquistapace Gloria Fujimoto William Knuttel Gary Glaser & Christine Miller Ellen Hahn Ann Fischer Hecht & Shawn Hecht Janet & Marcos Maestre Bennett Markel Deborah O’Grady & John Adams Patrick McCabe Lisa & James Taylor Michael & Becky O’Malley

January 26, 2017 59 Conductor Level Deborah Shidler & David Burkhart $2,500 and above (continued) Kathy Canfield Shepard & John Shepard Betty Pigford Joy Carlin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Edward Kroll Marilyn & Richard Collier Marc A. Roth Richard & Christine Colton Pat & Merrill Shanks Karen S. Faircloth Alison Teeman & Michael Yovino-Young Buzz & Lisa Hines Fred Jacobson Concertmaster Level Ken Johnson & Nina Grove Gifts of $1,500 or more René Mandel Anonymous Bebe & Colin McRae Sallie & Edward Arens Noel & Penny Nellis Norman A. Bookstein & Gillian Kuehner Ed Vine & Ellen Singer-Vine

60 January 26, 2017 Friends of Berkeley Symphony GIFTS

Principal Level Marianne & John Gerhart David Bradford $750 and above Peggy Griffin Robin Bradley Anonymous Stuart & Sharon Gronningen Tammy Button Ronald and Patricia Adler Bonnie & Sy Grossman Mark Chaitkin & Cecilia Storr Ms. Bonnie J. Bernhardt Sophie Hahn & Eric Bjerkholt Cindy Chang & Christopher Phyllis Brooks Schafer Alan Harper & Carol Baird Hudson Crystal and Craig Bryant Trish & Tony Hawthorne Brian & Cindy Chase Ms. Carol Christ Valerie & Richard Herr Zeo & Terry Coddington Sheila Duignan Richard Hutson Frederick & Joan Collignon Jack and Ann Eastman Richard & Miki Keldsen Dr. Lawrence R. Cotter Anita Eblé Marcy Wong & Donn Logan Franklyn & Joslyn D’Antonio Mary and Stan Friedman Helen Marcus & David Jan Davis Williamson Doris Fukawa & Marijan Dennis & Sandy De Domenico Pevec Carrie McAlister Robert & Loretta Dorsett Daniel & Kate Funk Geraldine and Gary Morrison Beth & Norman Edelstein Theresa Gabel & Timothy Lance & Dalia Nagel Rachel Eidbo Zumwalt Thomas & Mary Reicher Ilse & James Evans Chuck & Olivia Hasty Barbara & Nigel Renton Bennett Falk & Margaret Lynne La Marca Heinrich and Ms. Polly Rosenthal Moreland Dwight Jaffee Tony Schilling Ms. Mary Ellen Fine Jeffrey S. Leiter John Skonberg Tom and Tallie Fishburne Arthur & Martha Luehrmann Geoffrey S. Swift Bruce Fitch—BHS Class of 1968 Lois & Gary Marcus Marta Tobey and Roger Ramey (Member Berkeley High School Band) Marjorie Randolph Sheridan and Betsey Warrick Ms. Brenda Fitzpatrick Robert Sinai & Susanna Nancy & Charles Wolfram Schevill Marcia Flannery Michel Taddei Jeremy Fookes Supporting Level Ednah Beth Friedman $100 and above Julie Gardner Associate Level Anonymous (2) Isabelle Gerard $300 and above Joel Altman Ellen Gierson Anonymous Marian K. Altman Jeffrey Gilman & Carol Reif Angela Archie Karthiga Anandan Judith A. & Alexander J. Glass Catherine Atcheson & Ms. Jane Anderson Christian Fritze Joan Glassey Robert and Evelyn Apte Fred & Elizabeth Balderston Stuart Gold Barbara Armentrout Christel & Jurg Bieri Edward C Gordon Allison Baker George and Dorian Bikle Harold Graboske Joan Balter Carl Blumenstein Steven E. Greenberg William W. Beahrs Stuart and Virginia Canin Elaine Grossberg Ms. Emily H Benner Gray Cathrall Janet Guggenheim Edward Bennett Mary Claugus Ervin & Marian Hafter Michele Benson Victoria Grey Joe & Sue Daly Berkeley Symphony Lisa Delan Elaine & David I. Berland Ms. Catherine A Hebert Elliott and Liz Deloach Sandra Bernard William & Judith Hein Bruce Dodd Elizabeth Raymer & Ragna Sarah S. Hendrickson Gini Erck & David Petta Boynton Florence Hendrix Karen Fagerstrom Cara Bradbury Maj-Britt Hilstrom

January 26, 2017 61 62 January 26, 2017 Supporting Level Eileen Murphy & Michael Gray Steven Scholl $100 and above (continued) Ms. Ruth Okamoto Nagano Brenda Shank, M.D., Ph.D. Deborah & Eric Asimov Ms. Anita Navon James R. Shay & Steven F. Darlene & Ira Holston Ms. Dianne Nicolini Correll Russell & Penelope Mary Lee and John Noonan Jack Shoemaker Phyllis Isaacson John Nuechterlein Jessie Shohara Isaac Kaplan and Sandra Michael & Andrea Pflaumer Timothy Smallsreed Kaplan Schwarcz Lawrance Phillips Carl & Grace Smith Irene & Kiyoshi Katsumoto Therese M. Pipe Ms. Carla Soracco David Kessler & Nancy Manuel & Connie Pires Sylvia Sorell & Daniel Kane Mennel Leslie & Joellen Piskitel Anonymous Laura and Paul Kuhn Evan Painter & Wendy Margaret Sparks Polivka Samuel & Tamara Bruce & Susan Stangeland Kushner Lucille & Arthur Poskanzer David Stull Andrew Lazarus & Naomi Jo Ann & Buford Price Janowitz Maria Tamburrino Lisa and Mark Rafael Frances & Ronald Tauber Catherine Lloyd Dr. & Mr. Megin Scully Reed Randi and Herb Long Minuth Randy & Ting Vogel Kim & Barbara Marienthal Francoise Rees David & Marvalee Wake Martha Mastracci Erin & Mark Rhoades Robert & Emily Warden Alex Mazetis Suzanne Riess David & Pennie Warren Suzanne McCulloch Donald Riley & Carolyn Gerald Weber Serrao Winton & Margaret Dr. George & Bay Westlake McKibben Terry Rillera June Wiley and Bruce Suzanne and William Constance Ruben McCubbrey McLean Julianne H. Rumsey Nancy Wolfe Howard & Nancy Mel Sheila Sabine Mrs. Charlene M. Woodcock Susan Messina Doug Sager Gordon & Evie Wozniak Junichi & Sarah Miyazaki George Scharffenberger Katinka Wyle

We thank all who contribute to Berkeley Symphony, including those giving up to $100 annually and those whose gifts have been received since press time. Recognition levels exclude fundraising event auction item purchases and purchases of base-level tickets to fundraising events. While every attempt has been made to assure accuracy in our list of supporters, omissions and misspellings may occur. Please Please email [email protected] to report errors. We appreciate the opportunity to correct our records.

Honor and Memorial Gifts Thank you for gifts made in honor or remembrance of the following individuals . . .

In Honor of:

Kenneth Johnson & Nina Grove Marilyn & Richard Collier Robin Bradley Elaine & David I. Berland Victoria Grey Janet Maestre Isaac Kaplan & Sandra Kaplan Schwarcz Kevin Bastian & Dolores Dalton Gifts received between December 15, 2015 and December 15, 2016

January 26, 2017 63 64 January 26, 2017 Annual Institutional Gifts

Berkeley Symphony is proud to recognize these corporations, foundations, community organizations and government programs. These institutions are supporting our communities through their commitment to Berkeley Symphony and the arts.

Gifts received between December 15, 2015 and December 15, 2016

$50,000 and above Up to $2,500 (continued) The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation Epicurious Garden Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc. Extreme Pizza Genentech, Inc. $25,000 and above Microsoft, Inc. Berkeley Public Schools Fund Mu Phi Epsilon, Berkeley Alumni Clarence E. Heller Charitable Chapter Foundation Soop The Graybird Foundation Tides Foundation National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000 and above Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Matching Gifts A.V. Thomas Produce The following companies have matched their employees’ or retirees’ gifts to Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Charitable Berkeley Symphony. Please let us know Foundation if your company does the same by con- tacting René Mandel at 510.841.2800 x308 The Bernard Osher Foundation or [email protected]. California Arts Council Anchor Brewing Co. Chevron Corporation Chevron Corporation City of Berkeley Genentech, Inc. East Bay Community Foundation Microsoft, Inc. The Grubb Co. Jill Grossman Family Charitable Fund LaSalle Financial Services

$5,000 and above Union Bank Foundation Wallis Foundation Zellerbach Family Foundation

$2,500 and above Music Performance Trust Fund

Up to $2,500 Amazon Smile Anchor Brewing Co. The Rudolph and Lentilhon G. Von Fluegge Foundation, Inc.

January 26, 2017 65 Broadcast Dates

Relive this season’s concerts on KALW 91.7 fm

KALW is proud to be Berkeley Symphony’s Season 2016/17 Media Sponsor

4 Mondays at 9pm in May 2017

Hosted by KALW’s David Latulippe

Program I: Oct. 13, 2016 will be broadcast on May 1

Program II: Dec. 8, 2016 will be broadcast on May 8

Program III: Jan. 26, 2017 will be broadcast on May 15

Program IV: May 4, 2017 will be broadcast on May 22

66 January 26, 2017 In-Kind Gifts Special thanks to these individuals and businesses whose generous donations of goods and services are crucial in helping Berkeley Symphony produce our concerts and education programs while keeping expenses as low as possible.

Susan & Jim Acquistapace Lama Beans Café Ajanta LaSalette Restaurant A.V. Thomas Produce Alexander Leff Eric Asimov & Deborah Hofmann Jeffrey Leiter Peter Asimov Los Angeles Philharmonic Aurora Theatre Company René Mandel Natasha Beery & Sandy McCoy Peter Mandell & Sarah Coade Mandell Berkeley Repertory Theatre Rivers-Marie Wines Berkeley Symphony Richard Martin Bistro Liaison Jan & Michael McCutcheon George Boziwick Helen & John Meyer Cain Vineyards Mueller Family Vineyards Cal Performances Music@Menlo Kathy Canfield Shepard—Canfield Design Music in the Vineyards Studios Napa Valley Youth Symphony Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café National Geographic Unique Lodges Corison Winery New World Symphony Joy Carlin Mitchell Newman Club Cascadas de Baja Philharmonia Baroque Richard Collier Picante Restaurant Cottage Grove Inn Piedmont Piano Company (Jim Callahan) Carolyn Doelling Simone Porter Dyer Vineyards Portuguese National Symphony Jack & Ann Eastman Quivira Vineyards Anita Eblé Marjorie Randell-Silver—Copper Leaf Extreme Pizza Productions FIVE Restaurant San Francisco Opera Gary Glaser & Christine Miller San Francisco Symphony Anne & Matt Golden Linda Schacht & John Gage Gray Cathrall—Piedmont Post Saga Musical Instruments Green Music Center Deborah Shidler Gulbenkian Foundation Hiram Simon Kathleen G. Henschel & John W. Dewes Jutta Singh—Jutta’s Flowers Buzz & Lisa Hines Tia Stoller—Stoller Design Group Susan Hone Tricia Swift Brian James & Shariq Yosufzai Blair Tindall Jericho Canyon Vineyards Anne & Craig Van Dyke Kenneth Johnson & Nina Grove Yvette Vloeberghs Philippa Kelly The Wild Cat Education and Conservation Todd Kerr—Berkeley Times Fund Brian Koh Angela & William Young William Knuttel Michael Yovino-Young

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68 January 26, 2017 Administration Contact & Creative Staff Tickets available by phone, fax, René Mandel, Executive Director mail, e-mail, or online: Ian Harwood, Associate Executive Berkeley Symphony Director 1942 University Avenue, Suite 207, Sarah Thomas, Director of Operations Berkeley, CA 94704 Andrew Leshovsky, Director of 510.841.2800 Fax: 510.841.5422 Marketing [email protected] www.berkeleysymphony.org Samantha Noll, Patron Services Manager find us on Mollie Budiansky, Development & Marketing Associate Cindy Michael, Finance Director Jean Shirk, Public Relations Consultant James Taylor, Corporate Development Associate Franklyn D’Antonio, Co-Orchestra Manager Joslyn D’Antonio, Co-Orchestra Manager Quelani Penland, Librarian David Rodgers, Jr., Stage Manager Stoller Design Group, Graphic Design Dave Weiland, Photography Elie Khadra, Videographer Johnson Digital Audio, Recording Engineer

Program Andreas Jones, Design & Production Stoller Design Group, Cover Design John McMullen, Advertising Sales Thomas May, Program Notes Calitho, Printing

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