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will insure Wolf Trap's future, I outstanding 12th season. A pride of art lovers everywhere, the know. favorite spot for entertainers and Mrs. Ronald W. Reagan tradition has been sustained, and My thanks to all who are helping the pride of the nation grateful for for that we must all be grateful. in so many ways. a really great idea come true.

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Robert Keith Gray / Chairman, Wolf Trap Foundation WOLF TRAP presents National Symphony Orchestra

MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Music Director FIFTY-FIRST SEASON, 1981-1982

June25 at8:30p.m. June27 at8:00p.m.

MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Conductor DIMITRISSGOUROS, Pianist

ALL-TCHAIKOVSKY PROGRAM

"The Battle of Poltava/' from the Opera "Mazeppa"

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 23 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso Andantino semplice Allegro con fuoco Dimitris Sgouros

Intermission

Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a Miniature Overture March Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Trepak (Russian Dance) Arab Dance Chinese Dance (Chinoise) Dance of the Flutes Waltz of the Flowers Festival Overture, "1812/' Op. 49 Cannons by South Bend Replicas

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THE MEADOW CENTER PROGRAM orchestral interlude preceding the last of the opera's three acts. The general NOTES descriptive style of this "symphonic We did it again! tableau," and one of its actual themes, well remind us that the 1812 Overture "The Battle of Poltava/' from "Mazeppa" may only a year before Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky was composed Tchaikovsky began work on Mazeppa, and Born May 7, 1840, in Votkinsk, Russia the Overture's premiere took place while Died November 6, 1893, in St. Petersburg the opera was in progress. Quoted early in the piece is the "5/ava," the old Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky's sixth opera (or Russian chorus most familiar to us from seventh, if we count the unfinished Moussorgsky's use of it in the Coronation Undine), was composed during a two-year Scene of Boris Godunov (Rimsky- period which ended May 11, 1883, and Korsakov used it with his Overture on was first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre Russian Themes, and Beethoven varied it in Moscow on February 15, 1884. Victor slightly for use as the trio in the scherzo of Petrovich Burenin provided a libretto THREE based on Pushkin's narrative poem the second of his three "Razumovsky" YEARS IN A ROW, quartets). Following this we hear the Poltava, which Tchaikovsky himself AMERICA'S FAVORITE WAY TO FLY. revised extensively with generous helpings Russian hymn Cod Preserve Thy People, of the original Pushkin text. the tune with which the 1812 opens. If the of The portrait of Mazeppa drawn in this remainder the piece also sounds familiar, that simply work is a strikingly different one from the may be because the heroic image painted by Liszt in his material seems to "pre-echo" portions of the ballet Sleeping Beauty, symphonic poem with its depiction of the The which fiery young Pole's wild ride and his Tchaikovsky would take up at the end of triumph as a Cossack chieftain. In the 1888. opera, set in the Ukraine, a middle-aged Editor's Note: This music has been loaned Mazeppa persuades his godchild, Maria, to the National Symphony Orchestra through the courtesy of The Edwin A. to marry him, against the wishes of her There are dozens and dozens of won't come back unless you're Fleisher Music Collection, The Free Library father, Kochubey; he then supervises the airlines in this country and around treated right. of Philadelphia, Logan Square, murders of both Kochubey and Maria's the world who want you to fly So, we have one very clear former suitor, and mounts a revolt against Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 with them. goal: We're going to take care of Peter the Great with the intent of setting That's a lot of competition. Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor for Piano you better than any other airline, himself up as ruler of a separate Cossack and Orchestra, Op. 23 Even so, tor the third year in a anywhere. empire in the Ukraine. When the Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky row, more passengers have flown If you've helped make us insurrection is quashed Mazeppa manages Eastern than any other airline in the America's favorite way to fly, we to escape with his life, but abandons his This Concerto, which is quite possibly the free world. thank you. If you haven't flown wife to end her days in madness. best-loved work in its category ever set be- That's right, Eastern. Eastern recently, give us a try. The dramatic turning point, Mazeppa's fore the public, had a sensationally suc- Why? We'll that really defeat at Poltava, is represented by the cessful premiere, at which the enthusiastic show you we It's us, the people of Eastern. do earn our wings, every day. We know you may fly an airline once hecause you have to. But you ©1982 Eastern Air Lines, Inc. FLINT HTT J , Preparatory School • College Preparatory • Accredited • Academic Excellence • Teacher-Student Ratio: 1-15 • Dress Code • Athletics • Transportation EASTERN Established in 1956 America's favorite way to fly. 3101 Chain Bridge Road • Oakton, Virginia 22124 • (703)273-3873 _ . ,

audience demanded and got a repetition of WQLTTRAFTJ" the entire final movement, and its popular- ity has never receded since that time; but enjoy dinner Tchaikovsky did have a bit of a time getting before it performed, and it would never have oc- ' theperformance curred to him in 1875 that the premiere 2" JUST would take place in the United States, where his name was still almost entirely 10 MINUTES unknown. (He had not yet written any of TO iS FROM. his ballets or major operas; his major orch- estral works at the time were the Second IVANS-FARM-INN Symphony and the overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet—neither, however, in its VMeSiitind Duck Put, final form.) GATHERING Pl>SC£ OP THE 0)MCERt Tchaikovsky's closest associate in Mos- CROWD * 0 • SERVIM6, DINNER 'TIL II p.AA. cow was Nikolai Rubinstein, in whose

home he I ived for a time and at whose Con- Hfr CHAIN Bflt'&E RoAP - RT J23. servatory he served for a much longer time as a teacher of composition. Like his

brother Anton, at whose St. Petersburg Conservatory Tchaikovsky took his formal Special place. training, Nikolai was a celebrated pianist and conductor; in the latter capacity he in- Make this your troduced several of Tchaikovsky's orchest- place for fresh fish ral works, and it was to him, understanda- and other delicious bly enough, that Tchaikovsky intended to specialties. dedicate his first concerto.

When he took it to Rubinstein on Christ- ^1F% mas Eve 1 874, however, he was shocked by the latter's brutal denunciation of the PLACE™ sition of Peter Tchaikovsky, a young pro- Concerto for him. Rubinstein died in 1881 work; he left the stormy encounter shaken fessor Wfca fx kinder lor wsKtiunfi s^tcal at the Conservatory of Moscow. . . before he had a chance to perform that but vowing not to change a single note. . We had the wi Id Cossack fire and impetus Springfield • 6900 Old Keene Mill Rd. work, and Tchaikovsky marked his passing Fortunately, (703) 451-0662 Hans von Biilow—another without stint, but could we ever learn to with the Trio in A minor, Op. 50, which he McLean • 6930 Old Dominion Rd. outstanding figure of his time, who was, love such music?" As already noted, the dedicated "To the memory of a great art- (703) 893-1034 like the Rubinsteins, both a pianist and a very audience of which the writer of Reservations accepted those ist." Major credil cards welcome conductor (also a onetime son-in-law of lines was a member demanded a repetition When Tchaikovsky came to America to Franz Liszt, whose daughter Cosima left of the Concerto's final movement, and conduct concerts of his music for the fes- him for Richard Wagner, whose operas among the many who were to "learn to tive opening of in 1891, this Catch our Biilow continued to conduct while Cosima love such music" was Nikolai Rubinstein Concerto was, by popular demand, on one was bearing Wagner's children)—hap- himself. of the programs. The affectionate reponse to touring pened be Russia early in 1875, Jarring as that Christmas Eve scene was, it has seafood. enjoyed now for more than 1 06 years and interested in he was obtaining new it did not cause a permanent rupture be- complements the affection Tchaikovsky for his music debut season in America that tween Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein. put into the music, which reflects both his fall. Biilow recognized the value of the Rubinstein continued to conduct feeling for the Russian spirit and his abun- Concerto at once when Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky's works (he presided at the dant love for his close-knit family. The showed it to him. The ideas, he declared, premiere of Eugene Onegin in March majestic opening section of the first move- "noble, original, were powerful," the form 1879), and was intrumental in bringing ment (which may have been intended as a BARCLAY "mature, ripe, distinguished in style," and him together (never face-to-face, of tribute to Rubinstein) is built on a big, he introduced the work in on Oc- The restaurant course) with his benefactress, Nadezhda sweeping theme which is entirely M with a fresh catch tober 1875, six years 25, before that city von Meek. After Biilow's success with the Tchaikovsky's own, but the one that domi- had a permanent orchestra of its own Fairfax • 9910 Main Street Concerto throughout Europe, Rubinstein nates the remainder of the movement was review of the premiere, (703) 273-3014 A published in did take it up, after all, and quite enthusias- identified by him as a tune sung by "every the eminently respectable Dwight's jour- tically. For his part, Tchaikovsky did blind beggar in Little Russia" (the Ukraine, Reservations accepted nal of Music, included this Major credit cards welcome comment: change more than a few notes, incorporat- a region whose folk music the composer "This extremely difficult, strange, wild, ul- ing many of Rubinstein's suggestions in his learned on his visits to the estate of his sis- tramodern Russian Concerto is the compo- revision, and he composed his Second ter and her husband). "

The simple, delicate theme introduced though he was scheduled to conduct it story line, but simply selected eight of the never cared for the idea of writing his the flute by to open the slow movement again in St. Petersburg four months later. It most striking sections and presented them 1812, he never learned to love the piece also has a folk-song quality to it, but again was as a substitute for the rejected tone in a sequence that made the best musical (even though he was more or less it is Tchaikovsky's own. The sprightly tune poem that Tchaikovsky created the Nut- sense. The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy compelled to program it in concerts he of the little scherzo encapsulated within cracker Suite during january and February is one of the very last numbers in the ballet, conducted in Europe America), and he this and Andantino, though, comes from a of 1 892; he conducted it for the first time but by placing it earlier in the Suite would probably have been astounded by French song, "// faut s'amuser, danser et in the St. Petersburg concert of March 1 9, Tchaikovsky accomplished the dual objec- the extraordinary popularity it was to rire," which had special claim on the com- some three weeks before the full ballet tive of showing off the celesta and estab- achieve so far beyond its original purpose. poser's affections: it was introduced into score was completed and nine months be- lishing the fairy-tale atmosphere of the That purpose was the consecration of the Tchaikovsky household by a much- fore the ballet's premiere (also in St. work that much sooner. the Cathedral of the Saviour in Moscow in loved French governess and became a fa- Petersburg, December 18, 1892). One might say "enhancing," rather than 1 880. Tchaikovsky was asked to compose vorite of Piotr llyich's younger brothers, The reason for this particular substitu- "establishing," for the exquisite Ouverture a festival piece commemorating the Battle the twins Anatol and Modest, and it was tion was Tchaikovsky's eagerness to show miniature and March which begin the of Borodino, the burning of Moscow and also sung by the singer and actress D£siree off the celesta, a new instrument he had Suite surely evoke the world of fairy-tales Napoleon's retreat from the self-sacrificed Artot, whom Tchaikovsky came close to discovered on a recent visit to Paris. He readily enough. The four remaining "char- city, with cannon firing in the final section marrying. had his publisher, Jurgenson, import a cel- acteristic dances" which follow that of the depicting the Russian victory. He found The vigorous finale, so often character- esta for him, cautioning him that "no one Sugar-Plum Fairy here are all from the the project distasteful ("I am not a ized as a Cossack dance, contains nothing here must know about it. I am afraid grand divertissement in Confiturembourg, concocter of festival pieces," he said), and borrowed from any source, but reminds us Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazounov might in the first part of Act II, wherein the Ara- the cathedral was dedicated without his that, while Tchaikovsky may have been hear of it and make use of the new effect bian Dance represents coffee and the music; but in the same year Nikolai more cosmopolitan in his outlook than his before I could. I expect the instrument will Chinese Dance represents tea. The Waltz Rubinstein offered him a commission for a avowedly nationalistic 19th-century com- make a tremendous sensation." The Voy- of the Flowers, which follows the divertis- similar work, to be performed at the patriots, he was no less thoroughly Rus- evoda was the first work in which he used sement, is not only the grandest single Moscow Exhibition of Art and Industry two sian. the celesta; since he used the instrument number in the entire ballet, but almost cer- years later, and this he did accept, albeit again in The Nutcracker, for the music of tainly the finest of Tchaikovsky's numerous reluctantly. He wrote to Nutcracker Suite. 71 Mme. von Meek Op. a the Sugar-Plum Fairy, he was still able to distinguished essays in waltz form; while it on October 22, 1880, that he was surprise his St. Petersburg audience with it. Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky is not the final number in the ballet, composing "a big solemn overture for the (Another instrumental novelty introduced Tchaikovsky wisely judged that anything Exhibition . . . very showy and noisy, but The Nutcracker Suite, the only concert in the ballet was a pair of toy reed pipes that might have followed it in it the Suite will have artistic I suite no merit because wrote Tchaikovsky himself arranged from called mirlitons, replaced in the Suite and would have been anticlimactic. it without warmth and without love. any of his three ballets, came into being the ballet itself by a pair of flutes in the sec- The Overture was introduced at more or less by accident, the as a sort of tion still headed Danse des mirlitons in Festival Overture, "181 2," Op. 49 Exhibition on August 20, 1882, and emergency measure. On November 18, French but known in English simply as the irritated Tchaikovsky in Piotr llyich Tchaikovsky by scoring a huge 1891 , Moscow, Tchaikovsky conducted Dance of the Flutes.) success and refusing to go away. What he the first performance of his "symphonic The ballet scenario, by Marius Petipa, A composer is usually disappointed when failed to take into account, perhaps, was ballad" The Voyevoda; that work (totally was based on E.T. A. Hoffmann's story The his music fails to succeed with the public, that, no matter what he might have told unrelated, either musically or in subject Nutcracker and the Mouse-King, in the but in some cases a composer may Mme. von Meek and even himself about matter, to the similarly titled opera he com- version by Alexandre Dumas pere. In ar- produce a work that embarrasses him by his 1812, it was virtually impossible for posed 24 years earlier) displeased him, ranging the concert suite Tchaikovsky did becoming enormously popular despite his him to set a note on paper "without and he ordered the score destroyed, even not concern himself with preserving the own lack of enthusiasm for it. Tchaikovsky warmth and without love." Even in this

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Baldwin is the official piano and organ of Wolf Trap. The management reserves the right Biographies on Mstislav Rostropovich to make changes in the program. The use of cameras or recording equipment in the Meadow Center is forbidden. and Dimitris Sgouros follow the program notes for June 26th. THE MEADOW CENTER BIOGRAPHIES With friends like these,

Honorary Memberships in the Academy of St. Cecilia of Rome, Academy of Arts and you've got it all. Sciences of the United States and Royal Academy of Music in England. Maestro Rostropovich has received Gold Medals 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. from the Royal Philharmonic Society of Great Britain and from various cities in Enjoy dinner and the France, , Japan, Israel and Spain, early evening hours and is a Commander of Arts and Letters in with Felix Grant, France. In the U.S.S.R., he was awarded # the Lenin Prize, the Stalin Prize and the Washington's 1 nation's highest honor, the People's Artist music personality of the U.S.S.R. In 1974 he received the Harden & Weaver 5:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Annual Award of the International League Ken Beatrice They keep you on time. And off those of Human Rights. Maestro Rostropovich 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. jam-packed roadways. was also awarded the They keep you on 1976 Ernst von Ken is Washington's encyclo- Siemens top of the news. And from getting under Foundation Music Prize, pedia of sports. During his weather. previously awarded only to the You've also got Paul Harvey Benjamin weeknight show "Sports Call," Britten and Olivier Messiaen. at 9 a.m. and music. Harden & Weaver is He has ~y listeners call him on Washington's most-listened-to institution. received many honorary doctoral degrees, 432-WMAL. And WMAL including those from Harvard, Yale and Tom Gauger is the station to rum to for all Princeton universities, Curtis Institute, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Redskins and University of Cambridge and Sussex universities of Maryland football and England and Trinity University of Dublin. Tom mixes a midday Mstislav Rostropovich ranging from con basketball games. Maestro Rostropovich made his United medley Mstislav Rostropovich, Music Director of States debut with the National temporary songs to famous tunes. His Stage Bill Mayhugh the National Symphony, was born in Baku, Symphony on March 5, 1975. He has led show "On 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. Azerbaijan, March 27, 1927. His father the Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Tonight" tells you where to Soft music, anecdotes was a cellist and his mother a pianist, as Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, The find entertainment in and and warmth are Bill's forte well as his first teacher. The young , around town. Plus, Paul and that's what you Rostropovich began to compose and play Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Harvey's commentary at need in the wee hours. the piano at the age of four. He studied Orchestre de Paris, Toronto Symphony, 12:15 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. with his father from the time he was Berlin Philharmonic and other orchestras. News, Traffic & Weather eight at the Children's Music School in He also makes annual appearances at when you need them most. Moscow, before continuing at the Moscow England's Aldeburgh Festival, of which he Conservatory. He was accepted at the is an Artistic Director. His United States The WMAL award-winning news famous institution in two departments, opera conducting debut was in the fall of staff always keeps you fully informed cello and composition, which he studied 1975 with the San Francisco Opera in four times an hour and any time news under Shostakovich. As a young musician, Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame, starring his happens. Maestro Rostropovich participated in three wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. His Mornings and afternoons, Captain Dan major international competitions where he recordings as a conductor include the spots traffic problems and tells you how to received First Prize: Prague (twice) and complete Tchaikovsky symphonies and avoid them.

Budapest. He concertized for the first time operas Pique Dame and Eugene Onegin, With friends like these you ve got it all. outside the Soviet Union in 1947, and and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by After all, that's what friends are for on since that time he has appeared in recital Shostakovich. Under his baton the Trumbull & Core 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. WMAL AM 63. and with leading orchestras throughout the National Symphony Orchestra has made This friendly duo guides you home with world. Many world-renowned composers two recordings: on the Deutsche wit, wisdom, news, music and an inexhaust- have written cello works dedicated to Grammophon label. Chopin and ible supply of their famed "Boring Facts!' Maestro Rostropovich, including Schumann piano concertos with Martha -VW»A\_ Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Miaskovsky, Argerich; and for CBS Masterworks, the Khachaturian, Kabalevsky, Sauguet, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Isaac Piston, Bernstein and Britten. Among the Stern. From 1 969 to 1 973, at the invitation many honors lavished upon him are the of Maestro Rostropovich and his wife, the «VW63 g AH ABC OWNIO STATION .

writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived in the Symphony Gala Inaugural Concert during Westminster College. Dimitris made his Mieczslaw Horszowski. As winner, when Rostropovich dacha outside of Moscow. the festivities for President . first public appearance in 1981 during a he was 17, of both The Philadelphia Or- After 1970, the limitations placed on the The 1981-82 season is Mstislav "Musical Cruise" featuring young soloists chestra Youth Contest and the Leventritt creative efforts of Rostropovich and Rostropovich's fifth as National Symphony aboard the ocean liner 'Azur.' As a result Award, he made his debuts with The Vishnevskaya grew progressively more Music Director. In October 1981 he of his performance, he was asked to appear Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York restrictive. Cancellations of concerts and received the prestigious medal of Officier at the Festival of Music in in Menton Philharmonic in that same season. It was foreign tours, a complete black-out in the of the of Honor, of France's August 1 , also at Legion one 981 and the Theatre de la 1 950 at the Prades Music Festival founded Soviet press, television and radio, and the highest distinctions. In February of this Ville in March 1982. In September 1982, by that Mr. Istomin first won cessation of all recording (one record was year he took the Orchestra on a highly Dimitris is scheduled to appear at the international acclaim. It was there that he abandoned half-completed), finally forced Festival successful tour of Europe. In April Maestro en Mer with Vladimir Ashkenazy also met violinist , and in 1961 them to write an open letter to Leonid Rostropovich led the National Symphony and Daniel Barenboim. This past April the two artists joined with cellist Leonard Brezhnev denouncing these intolerable in a four-concert Tchaikovsky Festival, Dimitris made his United States debut with Rose to form the Stern-Rose-lstomin Trio. conditions the and requesting permission to April 1 3-1 6, in New York's Carnegie Hall. NSO under the direction of Mr. Istomin has appeared with orchestras travel abroad for two years. At this same Mstislav Rostropovich in a surprise in the United States, Europe and the Far time, Senator Edward Kennedy also spoke performance during the Orchestra's East and under numerous renowned con- with Brezhnev about the future of the Carnegie Hall Tchaikovsky Festival. Next ductors including Bruno Walter, Fritz Rostropoviches, and they were granted month he will open the International Reiner, Artur Rodzinski and Charles exit visas. Four years later, on March 15, Maryland Piano Festival with a solo piano Munch. Mr. Istomin is married to the 1 the 978, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet recital in Tawes Theater. Dimitris Sgouros former Marta Casals, Artistic Director of stripped them of their citizenship for "acts currently lives in Piraeus, Greece, with his the John F. Kennedy Center for the Per- harmful to the prestige of the U.S.S.R." family, where his father is a doctor. forming Arts. His most recent appearance Maestro Rostropovich, one of the world's with the National Symphony Orchestra most outspoken defenders of human and was in September of 1 981 artistic freedoms, now travels with a temporary passport from Switzerland. He has devoted much time and has given numerous concerts and recitals in support of these efforts around the world. In the fall of 1978, at the invitation of President and Mrs. Carter, he performed at the , accompanied on the piano by his daughter Elena. On October 4, 1977, Maestro Rostropovich became Music Wolf Director of the National Symphony, and on August 11,1 978, made his conducting debut at Wolf Trap during the Orchestra's Trap first season in residence at the National Park for the Performing Arts. A highlight of that season was 's Lives! sixtieth birthday concert televised DimitrisSgouros nationally. The Orchestra has toured with several times under Maestro Pianist Dimitris Sgouros was born in your help Rostropovich's leadership, including trips Athens on August 30, 1969. He began his Tax Deductible Contributions through the Northeastern United States, piano studies at the age of seven with maybe sent to: Mexico, Korea and Japan—opening the Madame Georgeopoulos, thereby quickly Wolf Trap prestigious Osaka Festival—and South demonstrating his exceptional talent. By America. In 1980-81 Maestro 1978, when he was only nine years old, Wash. D.C. Rostropovich led the Orchestra in a Dimitris entered the Conservatory of number of special events. Among them Athens where he has been studying under Eugene Istomin 20260 were the Gala Concert opening the Maria Herogiorgon-Sigara for the past four Orchestra's fiftieth season and two years. Upon completion of his teaching Born in New York of Russian parents, your continued support is greatly nationally televised programs—one diploma from the Conservatory in June Eugene Istomin began piano studies at the appreciated

honoring on his 80th 1982, Dimitris plans to further his piano age of six. At 1 2 he entered the Curtis Insti- birthday, and one on July 4th at the studies at the Royal Academy of Music in tute of Music in Philadelphia where he Capitol. He also led the National London and will take general courses at studied under and National Symphony Orchestra National Symphony Orchestra Association MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Mush Director RAFAEL FRUHBKCK DM BURGOS, Principal Guest Conductor Board of Directors HUGH WOLFF, Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductor OFFICERS ANDREAS MAKRJS, Composer-in-Residence Hon. Leonard L Stlverstein. President Mr W. Real Thompson, Treasurer Mr Austin H Kiplinger. Immediate Past President Mr Wesley S Williams. Jr.. Secretary ENDOW ED (HAIRS AND CONCERTS Mr. Henry Strong. Vice President Mr Robert W Alvord. Counsel

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I uba Holly Hamilton Robert El vi Moore. Foundations Frederick Zenone Henry Fogel. Executive Director Director Pro' David Bragunier Hyun-Woo Kim Asst. u'i/( Jenifer Rideout. Special Events Coordinator David Howard Robert J Noerr. General Manager William R Wright Ernestine B. Schor Timpani Rosenthal. Donor Records Loran D Stephenson John A. Berg. Director Finance EliseG. George Marsh Lawrence Bocaner of David A Budd Fred Begun. Barbara R. Sloat, Executive Assistant. Chief C harles R Strother. Director of Public Relations t Virginia Harpham. Yvonne Carulhcrs E-flat I an net Prim mm Marketing Development Officer William Wright Charles Wilkinson. Principal Glenn (Jarlick R Albin R Treciokas. Research Director Douglas G. Trout. Chief Development Officer Donald Radding. Robert Genovese Asst. Principal Contrabass Tricil Van Ryn, Secretary . Major Gifts Ant, Principal Clarinet Percussion H Stevens Brewster. Jr.. Beat Administration Laura Wilson. 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Second Tier seats at $25 each, $25 tax deductible $

TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $

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