MSM CHAMBER SINFONIA George Manahan (BM ’73, MM ’76), Conductor

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018 | 7:30 PM THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2018 | 7:30 PM THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH

MSM CHAMBER SINFONIA George Manahan, Conductor

PROGRAM DAVID NOON Anniversary Fanfare, Op. 141 (b. 1946)

PAUL HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes (1924–1963) by Carl Maria von Weber Allegro Turandot: Scherzo Andantino March

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GUSTAV M A HLER Symphony No. 5 (1824–1896) PART 1 1. Trauermarsch 2. Stürmisch bewegt PART II 3. Scherzo: Kräftig, nicht zu schnell PART III 4. Adagietto 5. Rondo-Finale CENTENNIAL NOTE David Noon was a member of the Manhattan School of Music faculty from 1981 to 2011, teaching music history and composition. He wrote over 90 works that received a first performance at MSM, including four fanfares: Curtain Raiser, Op. 116, commissioned by MSM for the opening concert of MSM’s 75th anniversary season, premiered on October 8, 1993, by the MSM Symphony, Sixten Ehrling conducting; Manhattan Fanfare, Op. 129, premiered on October 7, 1995, by the MSM Philharmonia, conducted by Glen Cortese; Anniversary Fanfare, Op. 141, written to celebrate MSM’s 80th anniversary, premiered on September 26, 1997, by the MSM Symphony, again conducted by Mr. Cortese; and a special composition for the opening of MSM’s newly constructed Andersen Hall in 2001 written for three brass quintets, inspired by the great brass works of Gabrieli’s Venice. –John Blanchard (MM ’89), Institutional Historian and Director of Archives

4 PROGRAM NOTES Anniversary Fanfare, Op. 141 David Noon David Noon’s multifaceted early training in music—clarinet, bassoon, flute, piccolo, and piano lessons together with participation in choirs, bands, orchestras, and chamber ensembles—foreshadowed his equally prismatic later education and illustrious career. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Pomona College, where he not only continued to sing and play bassoon and piano but began the systematic study of composition. Noon studied medieval music with the renowned Gustave Reese at New York University, where he earned his Master’s degree in musicology; received another Master’s degree and his doctorate in composition at Yale University; and furthered his composition skills as a Fulbright Fellow at the Music Conservatory in Warsaw. His composition teachers included Karl Kohn, Darius Milhaud, Charles Jones, Yehudi Wyner, Mario Davidovsky, and Wlodzimierz Kotonski. Noon then combined the career of a prolific composer with that of an inspiring pedagogue. His more than 265 works encompass orchestral, choral, and chamber works, including twelve string quartets, as well as an opera. He particularly relishes writing for percussion and has frequently added to his long-term project of writing pieces for every instrument and standard instrumental ensemble with percussion rather than piano. Noon taught for three years at Northwestern and for three decades at Manhattan School of Music, with overlapping appointments as Chair of the Music History and Composition departments and Dean of Academics. He was named Dean emeritus in 2011. He also held composer residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, and at the famed Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In 2007–08, he was a visiting professor of musicology and composition at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China. Noon is also the author of two books of poetry, seven historical novels, two faux memoirs, and six Nadia Boulanger mysteries. He resides in New York City, Venice, and on the Greek island of Crete. Noon’s lively Anniversary Fanfare, commissioned for Manhattan School of Music’s 80th anniversary, was completed in 1997 during one of several idyllic sojourns in Grass Valley, California. The piece opens with a scintillating chord whose harmonies become elaborated as the piece proceeds. Rhythmically charged passages, scalar runs, and an exploration of many keys bring on a striking section in 7/8 meter, punctuated by bars

5 of 3/4 and 4/4. A recall of the opening leads to a grand pause and emphatic conclusion. Throughout, a plethora of percussion colors contributes to the brilliant, celebratory atmosphere.

Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber Paul Hindemith Shortly after landing in New York in 1940, Hindemith was engaged by choreographer Léonide Massine to write the music for a ballet inspired by Brueghel paintings. When Hindemith produced his draft of a scenario for this ballet, Massine proposed another to be based on works by Carl Maria von Weber. Despite Hindemith’s growing misgivings about Massine, he proceeded to work on both pieces, mainly for the income. Working at his characteristic quick pace, the composer sketched the music for both ballets in two weeks, delivering them on March 31. Unfortunately, Hindemith’s music did not suit Massine and their disagreement led to the termination of their association. Hindemith wrote to his wife Gertrude: The Weber ballet has gone down the drain. I wrote two nice numbers for it, coloring the music slightly and making it a bit sharper. Ever since I gave Massine the music there have been a lot of phone calls between Buffalo and New York. It seems that the music is too complicated for them and that they simply wanted an exact orchestral arrangement of the original Weber. I am not just an orchestrator and furthermore I had already told them what I was going to do. One really cannot work seriously with Massine. Last Monday night he even proposed that Salvador Dali do the scenic designs for the Brueghel ballet. I howled at him and said I was not going to have anything more to do with him. I will write the Brueghel ballet score this summer so he can have it in the fall and pay me for it. The sheepheads can do what they want with it, but without me. The Brueghel score was left unfinished and Hindemith was never paid for any of his preliminary work on either ballet. He made good use, however, of his sketches for the Weber ballet—in 1943 they served as the basis for the Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, composed during the period of his teaching at Yale University. The very characteristics that had brought about Massine’s rejection of the earlier ballet sketches are those that in fact enhance the 6 Symphonic Metamorphosis. More than simple transcriptions, the four movements that comprise the work show Hindemith’s ingenuity in absorbing and developing Weber’s themes in his own style. This work is especially playful and occasionally even raucous, reminiscent in some ways of Hindemith’s own Neoclassic tendencies in the 1920s and those of his French counterparts, Les Six. The high-spirited opening movement actually follows the fourth of Weber’s Eight Pieces for piano duet, Op. 60, fairly closely. The piece gives the effect of a wittily heavy- handed polka, with vivid orchestral colors resulting from pitting blocks of woodwinds against groups of brasses or strings. Hindemith’s originality and metamorphosis of Weber becomes more pronounced in the second movement, which includes an introductory fantasia, a set of variations, and a fugue in jazz style. The main theme had already been adapted by Weber in his Turandot Overture from Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de musique, which in turn had been quoting a melody from the famous Sinologist Father Jean Baptiste Duhalde. The theme, then, is probably a slightly Westernized version of an ancient Chinese melody. Hindemith’s introduction can best be heard with a long-term memory: the chimes intone the first four notes of the theme one at a time in augmentation, separated by flute and clarinet statements. The third movement recalls the second of Weber’s Six Pieces, also for piano duet, Op. 10, in lyric siciliano style. An elaborate obbligato line by the flute enhances the closing return of the main theme. Hindemith again turned to the piano duets, Op. 60, for his finale, basing his triumphant march on Weber’s Marcia, the seventh of the eight pieces. As in the Weber model, Hindemith’s march includes a contrasting central trio section. Symphonic Metamorphosis was first performed by the New York Philharmonic on January 20, 1944, conducted by Artur Rodzinsky, and received enthusiastic praise by critics and audience. At long last the work was used as a ballet, staged by the New York City Ballet in 1952 with choreography by George Balanchine.

7 Symphony No. 5 Gustav Mahler Because of his duties as director of the Vienna Opera, Mahler did most of his composing in the summer months. He began his Fifth Symphony in 1901 at his summer place on the edge of Lake Wörth in Maiernigg, where he composed in a studio in the forest far removed from the main house. That summer he probably laid the overall plan for the Symphony and wrote the Scherzo and possibly the first two movements. Whereas his first four symphonies had reflected his immersion in folk poetry (often pseudo-folk poetry) and song-writing, the Fifth takes a new direction, focusing more on music in the abstract—fueled in part by his studies of Bach counterpoint. Mahler could never completely divorce himself from his folk-inspired tendencies, however, and certain musical quotations, reminiscences, and extramusical ideas still crept into the Fifth. In the summer of 1902 Mahler returned to his summer home with his beautiful and pregnant new wife, née Alma Schindler, who was also a musician and composer. Her own composing urges were soon stemmed by her famous husband; she sorrowfully made the decision to support and assist him rather than lose him. Her assistance in this case included copying the music and advising him to make certain cuts in the orchestration, particularly the percussion parts, so that more of his carefully created polyphony was audible. On August 24, two days before leaving for Vienna, Mahler announced to his friends that the Symphony was completed, and the following day led Alma to the studio where he played it through for her on the piano. He continued to work on the score throughout the year, again thinking he was finished in the fall of 1903. Still dissatisfied, however, he made further revisions after a private run-through with the Vienna Philharmonic and again after the premiere which he conducted in Cologne on October 18, 1904. He continued to revise the Symphony even to the year he died. Mahler typically wrestled extensively with overall structural matters such as number and order of movements. Though he had originally talked to his friend Natalie Bauer-Lechner about a four-movement symphony, the Fifth in its final form became five movements, grouped into three parts. Part I contains the first and second movements, which share motivic material; the monumental Scherzo stands alone as the middle section; and the fourth and fifth movements form the third section, again on account of their thematic connections. In regard to the tonality of the Symphony as a whole, Mahler preferred not to name one, 8 as it might be misunderstood (though we give a common listing here). The Symphony’s carefully considered tonal scheme “narrates” an overall move from C-sharp minor to D major (C-sharp could be considered a leading tone to D). The opening funeral march contains no romanticized notion of death as in the Fourth Symphony. It was perhaps influenced in some way by Mahler’s own brush with death in February 1901 from an intestinal hemorrhage. The trumpet fanfare is one of the last few reminders of Mahler’s childhood when calls from barracks and marching bands filled his ears. This fanfare returns at important junctures in the movement. The second theme, played by the violins, bears some relationship to two of Mahler’s songs from the same period: the first of theKindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) and “Der Tamboursg’sell” of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, which deals with a drummer boy about to be executed. The movement contains two “trios,” one a kind of hysterical outpouring and the second rising to a climax marked “Klagend” (lamenting) before the movement disintegrates, as if all its energy had been sapped. The A minor second movement, which Mahler considered the Symphony’s true first movement (with theTrauermarsch as an introduction of sorts), unfolds in sonata form. After a stormy beginning the “second” theme labeled “Bedeutend langsamer” (distinctly slower) quotes the second “trio” from the march almost literally. The development builds to fevered anguish, while the recapitulation summons a certain optimism toward the end with a brass “chorale,” only to be submerged in hushed scattered fragments. Mahler requested that a long pause be observed before the start of the highly contrasting Scherzo. Part II consists of Mahler’s longest scherzo, one in which his typical sardonic features are held at bay, and which first establishes D major, the key in which the Symphony will end. In a highly sophisticated manner it incorporates elements of the ländler (Austrian folk dance in 3/4, precursor of the waltz) in its main theme and more leisurely waltz elements in the two trios. One of the most striking features, perhaps, is the “obbligato” part for the first horn, beginning with the opening subject and continuing throughout in a soloistic manner. The celebrated Adagietto in F major opens Part III, its lyric strains intoned by strings and harp. The expressive weight of this peaceful interlude has given rise to frequent independent performances. Yet in context it serves as an introduction to the Rondo-Finale due to its motivic connections—twice the Adagietto’s main theme is heard in the Finale but at a faster tempo. The dreamy world of the Adagietto is that of one of 9 Mahler’s Rückert songs, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I Am Lost to the World), to which it bears a certain thematic relationship. The Rondo-Finale begins with a brief introduction given to the winds. The bassoon quotes one of Mahler’s Wunderhorn songs, Lob des hohen Verstandes (In Praise of High Intellect) of 1896, in which a donkey judges the cuckoo a better singer that the nightingale. Mahler’s use of it here may reflect the irony of using “learned” contrapuntal devices in an exuberant final movement, or perhaps may refer to the critics, who, like the donkey, were likely to misjudge his Symphony. The Rondo unfolds in a complex display of Mahler’s contrapuntal techniques and the aforementioned transformations of the Adagietto material. The crown of this movement, and indeed the Symphony, is the return of the chorale that had tried to assert itself in the second movement. Success eluded Mahler at the Cologne premiere of the Fifth Symphony. After the first rehearsal of the Scherzo on October 16, 1904, Mahler wrote to Alma: The Scherzo is the very devil of a movement. I see it is in for a peck of troubles! Conductors for the next fifty years will take it too fast and make nonsense of it, and the public— Oh, heavens, what are they to make of this chaos, of which new worlds are forever being begotten, only to crumble in ruin the next moment? What are they to say to this primeval music, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound, to these dancing stars, to these breathtaking iridescent and flashing breakers? . . . Oh that I might give my Symphony its first performance fifty years after my death! His words were right on the mark: it was approximately fifty years after the premiere of his Fifth, particularly with the Mahler centennial year of 1960, that his music began to receive its due on an international scale. —Program notes ©Jane Vial Jaffe

10 ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR George Manahan, Conductor George Manahan is in his ninth season as Director of Orchestral Activities at Manhattan School of Music, as well as Music Director of the American Composers Orchestra and the Portland Opera. He served as Music Director of the New York City Opera for fourteen seasons and was hailed for his leadership of the orchestra. He was also Music Director of the Richmond Symphony (VA) for twelve seasons. Recipient of Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award, Mr. Manahan was also honored by the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) for his “career-long advocacy for American composers and the music of our time.” His Carnegie Hall performance of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra was hailed by audiences and critics alike. “The fervent and sensitive performance that Mr. Manahan presided over made the best case for this opera that I have ever encountered,” said the New York Times. Mr. Manahan’s guest appearances include the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, as well as the symphonies of Atlanta, San Francisco, Hollywood Bowl, and New Jersey, where he served as acting Music Director for four seasons. He has been a regular guest with the Curtis Institute and the Aspen Music Festival, and has also appeared with the opera companies of Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago, Santa Fe, Paris, Sydney, Bologna, St. Louis, the Bergen Festival (Norway), and the Casals Festival (Puerto Rico). His many appearances on television include productions of La Bohème, Lizzie Borden, and Tosca on PBS. Live from Lincoln Center’s telecast of New York City Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly, under his direction, won a 2007 Emmy Award. George Manahan’s wide-ranging recording activities include the premiere recording of Steve Reich’s Tehillim for ECM; recordings of Edward Thomas’s Desire Under the Elms, which was nominated for a Grammy; Joe Jackson’s Will Power; and Tobias Picker’s Emmeline. He has conducted numerous world premieres, including Charles Wuorinen’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories, David Lang’s Modern Painters, Hans Werner Henze’s The English Cat, Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne, and Terence Blanchard’s Champion.

11 He received his formal musical training at Manhattan School of Music, studying conducting with Anton Coppola and George Schick, and was appointed to the faculty of the school upon his graduation, at which time the Juilliard School awarded him a fellowship as Assistant Conductor with the American Opera Center. Mr. Manahan was chosen as the Exxon Arts Endowment Conductor of the New Jersey Symphony the same year he made his opera debut with the Santa Fe Opera, conducting the American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Von Heute Auf Morgen.

12 MSM CHAMBER SINFONIA George Manahan, Conductor

VIOLIN I Francesca Abusamra, CELLO Ahra Cho, concertmaster Rochester Hills, Laura Andrade, principal, Seoul, Korea Michigan Austin, Texas Marina Aikawa, TaTan Huang, Magali Toy, Fujisawa-shi, Japan Nova Scotia, Canada Toronto, Canada Ziqing Guo, Lily Ye, Phoenix, Arizona Jinn (Ji In) Shin, Luoyang, China Jennifer Ahn, Portland, Oregon You Jin Choi, Omaha, Nebraska Gi Soo Kim, Seoul, South Korea Sookyung Choi, Seoul, South Korea Yerin Kim, Seoul, South Korea Li Pang, Shanghai, China Bucheon, South Korea Min Kyum Kim, Paul Moskalew, Yena Lee, Yeosu-si, South Korea Toronto, Canada Seoul, South Korea Ziyi Yuan, Beijing, China William Laney, Jeehyun Park, Little River, Seoul, South Korea VIOLA South Carolina Tian Qiu, Beijing, China Xue Ding, principal, Liav Kerbel, Clara Hong Ju Jeon, Changchun, China Waterloo, Belgium Daejeon, South Korea Yangzi Wang, Noemie Golubovic, Amos Lee, Qingdao, China Paris, France Astoria, New York Ramon Carrero Martinez, Yeyoung Kim, Caracas, Venezuela DOUBLE BASS Busan, South Korea Joshua Gomberoff, Gabriel Harris, principal, Shiqi Luo, Vancouver, Canada Easton, Pennsylvania Shanghai, China Tal Mcgee, Spring, Texas Eunsol Jo, Jeeyoon Kim, Heejung Yang, Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea Seoul, South Korea Thomas Forletti, Elizabeth Mandic-Nowac, Rui Song, Setauket, New York Hartford, Connecticut Xuzhou, China Xingyuan Weng, Youngsoo Jang, Jarred Cianciulli, Beijing, China Seoul, South Korea Harleysville, Logan May, Pennsylvania Lagrangeville, New York VIOLIN II Dudley Raine, Zachary Merkovsky, Saki Kaneko, principal, Lynchburg, Virginia Dumont, New Jersey Tsukuba-shi, Japan Toby Winarto, Bennett Norris, Maki Omori, Los Angeles, California West Chester, Okazaki, Japan Hao-Yuan Hsu, Pennsylvania Dong Suk Lee, New Taipei, Taiwan Conor O’Hale, Seoul, South Korea Meagan Turner, Maplewood, New Jersey Bin Gui, Qingdao, China Oshawa, Canada Shu Wang, Shijiazhuang, China Yuanxinyue Gao, China

13 FLUTE HORN BASS TROMBONE Alison Fierst,^+ Jisun Oh, Seoul,^ Morgan Fite, Point Pleasant, South Korea Memphis, Tennessee New Jersey Eli Pandolfi,* * Seo Hee Choi, Webster Groves, TUBA Seoul, South Korea Missouri Brandon Cazden,+*^ + Francesca Leo, Sarah Konvalin, Dorval, Canada Pleasant Ridge, Longview, Texas Michigan Liana Hoffman, Julie Nah Kyung Lee, Coral Springs, Florida TIMPANI & Seoul, South Korea PERCUSSION Torrin Hallett, *^+ Oconomowoc, Madison Shake, Indianapolis, Indiana OBOE Wisconsin Tae McLoughlin, * Emma Reber, You Joung Sohn, Maplewood, New Jersey Seoul, South Korea Worthington, Ohio Yi-Chen, Taipei, Taiwan Rajan Panchal,^ Kevin Newton, Los Gatos, California Danville, Virginia Davin Yoon, Irvine, California Michael Dwinell,+ Astoria, New York TRUMPET Cooper Martell, Albany, New York Gustavo Araujo Leite,+ São Paulo, Brazil Riley Barnes, CLARINET Flower Mound, Texas * Tyler Hsieh,+ Changhyun Cha, Santa Clara, California Busan, South Korea HARP ^ Olivia Pidi,^ Martina Morello, + Pordenone, Italy Dumont, New Jersey Minyounh Kwon, Seoul, South Korea Juhyun Lee,* Caleb Laidlaw, Yongin, South Korea Levittown, New York Arieh Soferr, PIANO Beverly, Massachusetts * BASSOON Hanyun Gu, Suzhou, China Cheryl Fries,^* Red Creek, New York TROMBONE * Felix Pinghua Ren,+ Spencer Chapman, GUITAR Shanghai, China The Woodlands, Texas Colton Chapman ^ Wenchao Fang, Kenton Campbell, Garden Ridge, Texas Qingdao, China Lawrenceville, Georgia Kevin Casey,+ Winter Park, New York Ramiro Cortez, Houston, Texas

Brass and Wind Principals * Noon: Anniversary Fanfare, Op. 141 ^ Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber 14 + Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor THE CENTENNIAL PROJECT Manhattan School of Music’s Centennial Project is an ambitious program of improvements to the School’s architecturally distinguished campus. The centerpiece of the Project is the renovation of Neidorff-Karpati Hall, MSM’s principal performance space, which has been transformed into a state-of-the-art venue to showcase our talented students. Built in 1931 and designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the architects of the Empire State Building, the hall has been called “one of the Art Deco treats in the city” by the New York Times. The Project also includes a dramatic and welcoming new campus entrance on Claremont Avenue, new practice rooms, and an expansion of the main entryway and lobby.

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Hosford Red Hook Management/ Christianne Orto Dr. Theo George Wilson Thomas Trynin Dr. John Pagano RIK Electric Corporation/ Naomi Paley $1,000 to $2,499 Richard and Tara Petrocelli The Pfizer Foundation Anonymous Donors (2) Ted and Lesley Rosenthal Henry C. Pinkham Ralph and JJ Allen Michael de C. Rosenfeld Luis Plaza Susan Appel Sabian LTD Dr. Kariné Poghosyan Beekman Housing Ventures Bette and Richard Saltzman Jane L. Polin Joel Bell and Marife Hernandez Eduardo and Antonella Salvati Dr. Bennett Pologe Bellet Construction Morris Sandler Susan L. Quittmeyer and Bond Schoeneck & King Yolanda Santos James Morris Nick and Melissa Borkowski Cynthia D. and Mary Radcliffe Barbara F. and Thomas P. Sculco Reliable Office Solutions/ Timothy A. Boroughs Karen L. Shapiro Christina Gallo Margaret A Boulware Richard W. Southwick FAIA Mary S. Riebold Bright Power Annaliese Soros James S. Ritchie Elizabeth A. R. and Special Risk Consultants/ Saremi Health and Ralph S. Brown, Jr. Rich P. Seufer Wellness Foundation Noreen and Kenneth Buckfire Robert Stackpole Israel Schossev Dr. Robert J. Campbell MD The Stecher & Horowitz Ilse Gordon and Neil Shapiro KCSJ and Sir Cesare L. Foundation Anne Shikany Santeramo KCSJ Jane E. Steele and Dr. Marc Silverman Connor Strong & Buckelew William Sussman Ted Smith Companies Sterling National Bank Paul Sperry Pamela Drexel Linda Stocknoff William M. Stein, Jr. Eagan Family Foundation John Sweeney Kathleen Byrum Suss Epstein Engineering Telebeam Telephone Systems Wendy and Salvatore Talio First American Education Dace Udris Marian Williams Finance Elizabeth R. and Carolyn Zepf Hagner Charles Gardner and Patti Eyler Michael A. Varet General Plumbing Corporation Adrienne and Gianluigi Vittadini Geneva Pension Consultants Ronald G. Weiner 17 $250 to $499 Susan Barbash and Phil Glick An Anonymous Donor Dr. Eric Katz Nancy and Marc Goldberg Roman Bachli Barbara and Alan Barry Judith Uman and Mary Ellin Barrett Linda Dupree-Bell I. Michael Goodman Louise Basbas Evangeline Benedetti Robert Gorman Paul J. Beck Jerome and Judy Benson Dinkin Dr. Richard A. Gradone Kevin M. Bohl Patricia Berman and David W. Granger Ronnie Boriskin Harvey Singer Laura Greenwald Ann and Stanley Borowiec Susan Biskeborn Wendy Griffiths DMA Langis Breton Raymond Bonar Louis Grimaldi Elizabeth Brody Louis M. Bonifatie, Ed. D. Madelon and Jerald Grobman Angela Brown Dr. Carlton and Dr. Grace A. Hackett-Faroul Elizabeth A. Browne Dr. Agnes Boxhill Holly Hall Jennifer M. and Albert Bruno Julianne and Dr. Heather A. Hamilton Dr. Gines-Didier Cano Tallmadge L. Boyd, Jr. Stacie E. Haneline Walid M. Dardir Carlvant and Peter A. Boysen Diane D. and John B. Haney Rita Delespara Joy Hodges Branagan June and Patrick J. Hannan Salvatore and Santa Maria Di Robert Brenner Dr. Carl Hanson Vittorio Ellen and Douglas Brett Dr. Mary H. Harding Elaine Enger Francine R. Brewer Dr. Andrew E. Henderson and Gale Epstein Walter Brewus Mary W. Huff Fay Fernandez Anthony N. Brittin Amy Hersh Marsha and David Britton Peter T. Hess & Debra M. Monroe H. Firestone Frank Bruno Kenyon Family Fund Pam Goldberg Raymond J. Burghardt Fung Ho Laurie Hamilton Louise C. Caldwell Larry Hochman Lawrence Indik Mabel A. Campbell Judith Hunt Robert John Just Sherrie and David Caplan Leon Hyman Andrea Klepetar-Fallek Filis A. and Judith and Leonard Hyman Warren N. Laffredo Alexander M. Cardieri Family Fund James P. McCarthy Nadine and Norman Carey Michael Ibrahim ‘09 and Linda McKnight H. R. Carlisle Alexandra Hamilton ‘08 Carrie Newman Richard Carr Bernard Tamosaitis and Lin-Hou Ng-Cheng Elizabeth S. and Dalmo Carra Sayuri Iida Yahui and John Kenneth Olenik John E. Carranza* Jonathan A. and Rheva K. Irving Dr. Abby O’Neil and Martha Chapo Family Gift Fund Shirley Rosenzweig Jackel Dr. Carroll Joynes Sandy C. Coffin Peter H. Judd Susan S. and Kanti Rai Edward and Annette Cornelius Noreen Kerrigan Saul D. Raw, LCSW Toby and Lester Crystal Ethan Jeon Irwin L. Reese Helen N. Danehower Daniel Kirk-Foster Frederick B. Rosoff Dr. David K. Davis Lorinda Klein Thomas L. Schissler Elizabeth J. de Almeida Lauren and Matthew J. Kluger Mary Schmidt Allan J. Dean Kenneth H. Knight Julie and Allen Schwait Robert J. Dell’Angelo Hae Soon Koh Glenn Schwartz Theresa and Guy Dellecave Jennifer and Jeffrey Kolitch Kira Sergievsky Mark Delpriora Dr. Michael and Rachel Kollmer Walter F. and Anaar Desai-Stephens Michael Kowal Margaret M. Siebecker Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo Gene B. Kuntz Robert and Victoria Sirota Michael and Ursula Kwasnicka Tamara and Michael Sload Catherine Diefenbach Tom Landrum Myrna Tanchoco-Rossen and John Dispenza Robert Laporte Robert Rossen Marjory M. Duncalfe Dr. Ann Lemke Gordon Turk Michael and Marjorie Engber Amy Levine Elizabeth R. Van Arsdel Carolyn J. Enger Dr. Ira M. Lieberman John Walton William R. Evans George Litton Daniel E. Weiss Yingjiu Fan and Zuojun Cao Xin Liu and Hong Chen Noreen and Ned Zimmerman Robert Felicetti Edward Loizides Elsa H. Fine Eleanor and Mort Lowenthal $100 to $249 Alice and Aldo Fossella Carmel Lowenthal Anonymous Donors (4) Paula A. Franklin Melissa M. and Philip Mark Eileen C. Acheson-Bohn Caroline and Shlomo Freidfertig Gunther Marx Meg Lowenthal Akabas Edith Hall Friedheim Meredith Wood McCaughey Cecile Alexis Emanuel A. Friedman Robert D. and Alex Alsup Cameron Bennett and Judith M. McFadden Ari F. Ambrose Esq. Korine Fujiwara Bob McGrath Angelo Badalamenti Catherine A. Gale Eugene G. McLeod 18 John and Hannelore Gerlach Theresa McNeil Robert and Linda Miller Stanley Rosenberg Dr. Barbara L. Tischler Jacqueline R. Miron Chris Rosenberg Jacquelyn Tomlet Nadine Nozomi Mitake Mary Jaccoma Rozenberg Gemma H. Tung Frank Montaturo Reto A. Ruedy Dawn Upshaw Dr. Andrea H. Morris June Sadowski-Devarez Jill F. Van Syckle Mary Anne and Wayne Mueller Frank E. Salomon Mark Vandersall and Kay C. Murray Victoria and Anthony Scelba Laura Mendelson Francisco Nájera and Alan Schaplowsky Jon Verbalis Ileana Ordonez Stanley Scheller Dr. Katharina Volk Norma Nelson Gil Seadale Jason Wachtler Richard Niemann William Shadel Jianlong Wang Rebecca Noreen Julie and Steve Sharp Adam B. Ward The O’Mara Family Nancy Covert Sheftel Doris Joy Warner Frederick and Anna Ostrofsky Angela Allen Sherzer Michael Washburn and Nancy Duncan Patton Amy K. Shoremount Carmichael Gift Fund Myrna Payne Ruth Siegler Patricia Weiss Maria Magliaro Politano Claire Hollister Singer Jack L. Wenger Jill M. Pollack LCSW BCD Alice Jane Sklar Gabriella R. Will Dr. Maria Radicheva Norman Solomon, M.D. Michael C. Wimberly Dr. Jonathan Raskin Jeanne M. and David E. Sperber Carole M. Wolek Mona Reisman Schoen Catherine and Carl Stahl Lam Wong William W. Reynolds James Stalzer Dr. Roy Wylie Joyce Richardson Steve Stalzle Barbara Yahr Amy Franklin Richter Felice E. Swados Zhendai Yang Lindsay Rider Manabu Takasawa Dr. Velia Yedra-Chruszcz Howard G. Rittner Wendy and Salvatore Talio June Zaccone Carol Robbins Sondra Tammam Elda Zappi Lois Roman Bruce Tang and Yi Lu Hongwei Zhou and Alex Romanov Gary Thalheimer Jianlong Wang Roger F. Rose Nickolas Themelis Amy S. Rosen Elaine C. Thomas

*Deceased 19 TRIBUTE GIFTS

In Honor of Glennie Blanchard by Douglas Rask by Dr. Gladstone Atwell by John K. Blanchard Keith L. Wiggs Richard I. Cooper John E. Carranza by David Reismann by Martin Bookspan’s 91st Birthday by John E. Carranza Barbara L. Reissman Dr. and Mrs. Sidney H. Sobel Cheung Ching Chan by Martha Laredo Salomon by Susan Ennis by Noreen Kerrigan Frank E. Salomon Susan S. and Kanti Rai Audrey Chesis by Anthony Smaldon by Hilda Harris by Noémi and Michael Neidorff Alex Alsup Bruce M. Beckwith Dave Conner by Charlie Small by Isaac Kaplan (BM’11, MM’13) by Rod Thorn Norman Small Susan and Robert Kaplan Nicolas Flagello by Lew Soloff by Melvin R. Kaplan, Grandfather by Dianne Danese Flagello Phillip Namanworth Dr. Harriet S. Kaplan Trudy Hochberg Goldstein by Paul Stebbins by Ed and Ilene Lowenthal by Nancy C. Sheftel April Johnson Margaret M. and Shirley Heller by Kathryn S. Jones Walter F. Siebecker Richard S. Hoffman Emily Kronenberg Bill and Patricia O’Connor by Mrs. Ponsie B. Hillman by Frank E. Salomon Tallmadge and Julianne Boyd Michelle D. Winfield Jonathan Strasser by David Rahm by Everett Holland by Ann M. McKinney Larry B. Hochman Stanley Rosenberg Northwestern Mutual Foundation Elizabeth and Michael A. Varet Trudy Just by Richard Porter Robert J. Just David J. Thompson by In Memory of Danny Kopec by John P. Elliott Rose and Edward Joseph Acheson Carolyn and Richard Glickstein Zane Udris by by Eileen C. Acheson-Bohn Mrs. Betty Wright Landreth by Dace Udris C. Erika Alexis by Laurie Landreth Ludmila Ulehla by Cecile E. Alexis Edyth H. Larson by Anthony Scelba Betty Allen by Mary Kay L. McGarvey William F. Vollinger Lorinda A. Klein Michael “Blair” Lawhead by Neil Warner by Cynthia Auerbach by William R. Evans Robert D. McFadden Dr. Bennett Pologe Choon Hwa Lee by Josephine Whitford by Andre Badalamenti by Juna Bobby Edward L. Cornelius Angelo Badalamenti Stephen Maxym by Dora Zaslavsky by Stanley Bednar by Gines-Didier Cano Luisa Guembes-Buchanan Northwestern Mutual Foundation Francis Pincus by Nancy Nagy Sen Leonard Bernstein—100 years! by Bennett Pologe Ann Stahl

20 ANNUAL NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS

College International Advisory Board Harold and Helene Schonberg An Anonymous Flute Scholarship Scholarship Pianist Scholarship Richard E. Adams Scholarship for Janey Fund Charitable Trust Solon E. Summerfield Foundation a French Horn Scholarship Scholarship Joan Taub Ades Scholarship Jephson Educational Trusts L. John Twiford Violin Scholarship The Louis Armstrong Educational Scholarship Foundation Scholarship JMP Musicial Theatre Scholarship Precollege ASCAP/Fran Morgenstern Davis A. L. and Jennie L. Luria CWKH Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Foundation Scholarship Hansoree Scholarship Augustine Foundation Scholarship Ambrose Monell Foundation Ponsie Barclay Hillman Precollege Theodore H. Barth Foundation Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Josephine Luby Precollege Elizabeth Beinecke Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Jordan Berk Scholarship Petercsak Percussion Scholarship Alfred and Jane Ross Precollege Educational Assistance The Presser Foundation Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Dr. Theodore G. Wilson Margaret Enoch Scholarship Sabian/Robert Zildjian Memorial Precollege Scholarship First Initiative Hong Kong/China Percussion Scholarship Scholarship ENDOWED NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS

College Peter J. Kent Scholarship Precollege Joan Taub Ades Scholarship for Marga and Arthur King An Anonymous Jazz Precollege Musicial Theatre Scholarship Scholarship Licia Albanese Scholarship Kraeuter Violin Scholarship Alex Assoian Music Project Cynthia Auerbach Memorial Fund Edith Kriss Piano Scholarship Precollege Scholarship Augustine Guitar Scholarship LADO Scholarship Fund Dr. Michelle Solarz August Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Marquis George MacDonald Precollege Scholarship in Piano Scholarship Scholarship Kate Bamberger Memorial Violin Frances Hall Ballard Scholarship Robert Mann Scholarship in Violin Scholarship Artur Balsam Scholarship & Chamber Music Jordan Berk Scholarship Hans and Klara Bauer Viola B. Marcus Memorial Matilda Cascio Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Fund (Graduate) Scholarship Berkman-Rahm Scholarship Fund Viola B. Marcus Memorial Cuker/Stern Precollege Selma W. Berkman Memorial Scholarship Fund Scholarship Scholarship (Undergraduate) Marion Feldman Scholarship Vera Blacker Scholarship in Piano Clement Meadmore Scholarship Dianne Danese Flagello Carmine Caruso Memorial in Jazz Studies Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Homer and Constance Mensch Rosetta Goodkind Precollege Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship in Voice Samuel and Mitzi Newhouse Andrew Goodman Memorial Helen Airoff Dowling Scholarship Scholarship Precollege Scholarship Baisley Powell Elebash Birgit Nilsson Scholarship Dorothy Hales Gary Scholarship Scholarship Scott Oakley Memorial Jocelyn Gertel Precollege Gart Family Foundation Scholarship in Musical Theatre Scholarship Scholarship Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Constance Keene Precollege Lloyd Gelassen Scholarship Scholarship Piano Scholarship Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Paul Price Percussion Scholarship Patinka Kopec Precollege Violin Scholarship Rodgers and Hammerstein/ Scholarship Michael Greene Scholarship Richard Rodgers Scholarship Mary B. Lenom Scholarship Charles Grossman Memorial Jay Rubinton Scholarship Sassa Maniotis Endowed Endowment Scholarship Leon Russianoff Memorial Precollege Piano Scholarship Grusin/Rosen Jazz Scholarship Scholarship Nana’s Way Precollege Division Adolphus Hailstork-Mary Weaver Scott Shayne Sinclair Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship in Guitar Carl Owen Memorial Scholarship William Randolph Hearst Joseph M. Smith Scholarship Maitland Peters and Karen Foundation Scholarship Elva Van Gelder Memorial Beardsley Precollege Voice Margaret Hoswell van der Marck Scholarship Scholarship Memorial Scholarship in Opera Emily M. Voorhis Scholarship Prep Parents Scholarship Helen Fahnestock Hubbard Rachmael Weinstock Scholarship Rita and Morris Relson Family Scholarship in Violin Scholarship Alexandra Hunt Endowed Vocal Avedis Zildjian Percussion Paul Stebbins Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship in Bassoon Deolus Husband Memorial Jonathan and Conrad Strasser Scholarship for Composition Memorial Scholarship Eugene Istomin Scholarship in Elva Van Gelder Memorial Piano Scholarship 21 ENDOWMENT GIFTS OF $500 AND MORE

An Anonymous Donor Xilun Chen Ortega Family Joan Taub Ades Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Licia Albanese-Puccini Susan Ennis and Dr. Owen Lewis Maitland Peters and Foundation Eric Fisk Karen Beardsley Alex Assoian Music Project Carol B. Grossman Cassie and Billy Rahm Gabrielle Bamberger Susan Anne Ingerman Melody Sawyer Richardson Michael A. Bamberger and The Kevin Kang Nicolas Rohatyn and Honorable Phylis S. Bamberger Yiduo Liu Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Allen H. Berkman & Selma W. Alan Lurie Irene Schultz Berkman Charitable Trust Marquis George MacDonald Dr. Marc Silverman Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation Foundation Ann M. McKinney FACULTY AND STAFF GIFTS Adam J. Arango Lauren Frankovich Dr. Kariné Poghosyan Laworna Bennett David Geber and Julia Lichten Dr. Jeffrey Langford and John K. Blanchard Ruth Golden Dr. Joanne Polk Ronnie Boriskin Stephen Jacobsohn Lucie Robert and Jeffrey Cohen Robert Bucker Phillip N. Kawin Nolan M. Robertson Linda Chesis and John Guiton Patinka Kopec and Chris Rosenberg Peter Christensen and Dr. Jay Selman Ted and Lesley Rosenthal Dr. Monica Coen Christensen Byung-Kook Kwak Laura Sametz Brian Dailey Carmel Lowenthal Kelly Sawatsky and Elizabeth J. de Almeida Carol Matos Dr. Jeremy Fletcher Dr. Susan E. Deaver Dr. Marjorie Merryman Dr. Marc Silverman Glenn Dicterow and Gary Meyer David and Becky Starobin Karen Dreyfus Dr. Solomon Mikowsky Nina Svetlanova Casey Molino Dunn Dr. John Pagano Christina M. Teichroew Daniel Epstein Duncan Patton Delana Thomsen Nell Flanders Luis Plaza Dona D. Vaughn and Ron Raines GALAXY SOCIETY Members of the Galaxy Society ensure the future of Manhattan School of Music through inclusion of the School in their long-range financial and estate plans. We are grateful for their vision and generosity, which helps ensure that MSM continues to thrive into the next century and enables aspiring young artists to reach for the stars.

Anonymous Donors (2) Capt. Kenneth R. Force, Regina Rheinstein Richard E. Adams USMS (ret.) Melody Sawyer Richardson Joan Taub Ades Rabbi Mordecai Genn Mary S. Riebold Louis Alexander Ruth Golden Evelyn Ronell Frank Bamberger Luisa Guembes-Buchanan Ted and Lesley Rosenthal Gabrielle Bamberger Dr. Heather A. Hamilton Cate Ryan Renee Bash Shirley Katz-Cohen Alex Shapiro Peter Basquin Phillip N. Kawin Dr. Marc Silverman William S. Beinecke Alan M. and Amy R. Sperling Yvette Benjamin Karen Schiebler Knieter Carleton B. Spotts Blanche H. Blitstein Doris Konig Jonathan Sternberg Louis M. Bonifatie, Ed. D. Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Hetty Te Korte Carla Bossi-Comelli Shigeru Matsuno Flavio Varani Ellen D. Charney Charlotte Mayerson Dona D. Vaughn and Ron Raines James B. Coker Claire A. Meyer Keith L. Wiggs Alex Davis Warren R. Mikulka Dr. Theo George Wilson Michael P. Devine Charles B. Nelson Jr. Carolyn Zepf Hagner J. S. Ellenberger Barbara and Dermot O’Reilly Jonathan Fey Duncan Pledger

22 FOUNDER’S SOCIETY

The Founder’s Society honors the extraordinary generosity of the following individuals and institutions whose cumulative giving to Manhattan School of Music exceeded $250,000 (as of June 30, 2018). These exceptional donors enable MSM to provide world-class conservatory training to immensely talented students. We are deeply grateful for their special dedication to the School’s mission and culture of artistic excellence and musicianship. $5,000,000 and above William S. Beinecke Rose L. Augustine* and Noémi K. & Michael Neidorff Mary Owen Borden Foundation The Augustine Foundation and the Centene Charitable Estate of Ruth Chatfield Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Foundation The Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Michael R. Bloomberg G. Chris Andersen and Lorraine Gallard and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation SungEun Han-Andersen Richard H. Levy Carnegie Corporation of New York Gart Family Foundation Edgar Foster Daniels $2,500,000 and above Ann and Gordon Getty Ervika Foundation Joan Taub Ades and Foundation Cecilia and John Farrell Alan M. Ades* Michael W. Greene Estate of Ellen G. Fezer Estate of Jacqueline Kacere Marcia and Donald Hamilton Yveta S. Graff* Estate of Dora Zaslavsky Koch Jewish Foundation for Education Estate of Rea F. Hooker Alfred* and Claude Mann of Women Jephson Educational Trusts The Octavian Society Estate of Kellogg Johnson The Stanley Thomas Johnson The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Estate of Marga King Foundation William R. Miller (HonDMA ’11) Estate of Edith Kriss Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Kellen Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Ruth M. Knight Trust $1,000,000 and above Peter Luerssen/ David G. Knott Ph.D. and The ASCAP Foundation Maecenata Foundation Françoise Girard Carla Bossi-Comelli A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Estate of Anna Case Mackay Gordon K. Greenfield* Foundation Linda and Toby Mercuro The Gordon and Harriet Estate of Viola B. Marcus National Endowment for the Arts Greenfield Foundation, Inc. The Andrew W. Mellon New York State Higher Education Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Foundation Capital Matching Grant Board and Estate of Joseph F. Dr. Solomon Mikowsky Henry Nias Foundation McCrindle The Ambrose Monell Foundation Bill and Patricia O’Connor Estate of Homer Mensch The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Sceneworks Studio The Miller Family Foundation Samuels Foundation Melody Sawyer Richardson The Arthur and Mae Orvis Estate of Harold Schonberg Jody and Peter Robbins Foundation The Evelyn Sharp Foundation Susan and David Rahm $250,000 and above Harold and Helene Schonberg The Helen F. Whitaker Fund An Anonymous Donor Trust Annie Laurie Aitken The Starr Foundation $500,000 and above Charitable Trust Surdna Foundation Altman Foundation Estate of C. J. Stuart Allan Patrick N. W. Turner Nancy Terner Behrman*/ Amato Opera Theater Gabe Wiener Foundation The Fund for Individual Potential

*Deceased 23 MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC LEADERSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES Lorraine Gallard, Chair Warren Jones Edward Lowenthal, Vice Chair and Treasurer David G. Knott Noémi K. Neidorff (BM ’70, MM ’72, HonDMA ’17), Linda Bell Mercuro Secretary Bebe Neuwirth (HonDMA ’15) Joan Taub Ades (HonDMA ’14) Bill O’Connor Ed Annunziato Laura Sametz Terence Blanchard (HonDMA ’17) Melody Sawyer Richardson Carla Bossi-Comelli Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA ’13) Delin Bru Trustees Emeriti Susan Ennis Marta Istomin (HonDMA ’05), President Emerita James Gandre, President William R. Miller (HonDMA ’11) Marcia Clay Hamilton David A. Rahm (HonDMA ’07), Chair Emeritus Thomas Hampson (HonDMA ’09) Robert G. Simon Nancy Freund Heller INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Carla Bossi-Comelli, Chair, Switzerland Margot Alberti de Mazzeri, Italy Mita Aparicio, Mexico Margot Patron, Mexico Marcos Arbaitman, Brazil Maria Elvira Salgar, Colombia/United States Delin Bru, United States Chiona X. Schwarz, Germany Alejandro Cordero, Argentina Angel Sosa, Mexico Raul M. Gutierrez, Mexico/Spain Guillermo Vogel, Mexico Michelle Ong, Hong Kong ARTISTIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Terence Blanchard (HonDMA ’17) Marta Istomin (HonDMA ’05), President Emerita Anthony Roth Costanzo (MM ’08) Bernard Labadie (HonDMA ’18) Glenn Dicterow Lang Lang (HonDMA ’12) Peter Duchin Bebe Neuwirth (HonDMA ’15) Richard Gaddes (HonDMA ’17) Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA ’13) Thomas Hampson (HonDMA ’09) Pinchas Zukerman (HonDMA ’93) Stefon Harris (BM ’95, MM ’97) PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL James Gandre, President Amy Anderson, Dean of Enrollment Joyce Griggs, Executive Vice President and Provost Monica Coen Christensen, Dean of Students Gary Meyer, Senior Vice President and CFO Bryan Greaney, Dean of Academic Operations Susan Madden, Vice President for Advancement Christianne Orto, Dean of Distance Learning and Jeff Breithaupt, Vice President for Media and Recording Arts Communications Luis Plaza, Director of Facilities and Campus Safety Carol Matos, Vice President for Administration and Kelly Sawatsky, Dean of the Precollege Human Relations Alexa Smith, Chief of Staff DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND PROGRAM DIRECTORS Linda Chesis, Chair, Woodwinds Christopher Lamb, Chair, Percussion Glenn Dicterow, Chair, Graduate Program in Jeffrey Langford, Associate Dean of Doctoral Orchestral Performance Studies and Chair, Music History Casey Molino Dunn, Director, Center for Music David Leisner, Chair, Guitar Entrepreneurship George Manahan, Director of Orchestral Activities John Forconi, Chair, Collaborative Piano Nicholas Mann, Chair, Strings Reiko Fueting, Chair, Theory John Pagano, Chair, Humanities David Geber, Director of Chamber Music Liza Gennaro, Associate Dean and Director, Stefon Harris, Associate Dean and Director, Musical Theatre Program Jazz Arts Program Maitland Peters, Chair, Voice Andrew Henderson, Chair, Organ Marc Silverman, Chair, Piano David Jolley, Chair, Brass J. Mark Stambaugh, Acting Chair, Composition Margaret Kampmeier, Artistic Director and Chair, Kent Tritle, Director of Choral Activities Contemporary Performance Program Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director of Opera 24 Kathryn LaBouff, Assistant Chair, Voice CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs Jeff Breithaupt Ruth Golden* Vice President for Media and Communications Voice faculty member Susan Madden Bryan Greaney (BM ’08, MM ’10)* Vice President for Advancement Dean of Academic Operations Joyce Griggs* Vice Chairs Executive Vice President and Provost Kelly Hall-Tompkins (MM ’95, HonDMA ’14) John Blanchard (MM ’89) Institutional Historian and Director of Archives Stefon Harris (BM ’95, MM ’97)* Associate Dean and Director of Jazz Arts Nolan Robertson (BM ’05) Dean of Performance (through 8/31/18) Nancy Freund Heller* Board of Trustees Joseph Joubert (BM ’79, MM ’81) Lou Alexander (MM ’79) Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Chair, Alumni Advisory Council Phillip Kawin (BM ’82, MM ’85) Justin Bischof (BM ’90, MM ’92, DMA ’98) Piano faculty member Vice-Chair, Alumni Advisory Council Monica Christensen* Esther Lee (BM ’98, MM ’00) Alumni Advisory Council Dean of Students Noémi K. Neidorff (BM ’70, MM ’72) Sharon Daley-Johnson (BM ’88, MM ’89) Secretary, Board of Trustees Alumni Advisory Council * Katharine Dryden* Bill O’Connor Board of Trustees Director of Instrumental Ensembles Kelly Sawatsky (MM ’02)* Lauren Frankovich (MM ’09)* Dean of the Precollege Associate Director for Alumni Engagement Lorraine Gallard Chair, Board of Trustees James Gandre* President *Steering Committee member

We have made every effort to list MSM donors accurately. If your name is not listed as you wish, or if you notice an inaccuracy, please contact Hilary Purrington in the Advancement Office at 917-493-4434, or at [email protected]. 25 CENTENNIAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

LIST IN FORMATION

Richard Elder Adams^ Russell Granet John Musto^ Former Vice President, MSM Acting President and CEO, Composer and Pianist Kara Medoff Barnett Lincoln Center for the Bebe Neuwirth*+ Performing Arts Executive Director, Tony and Emmy American Ballet Theatre David Grusin* Award-winning Actress Leszek Barwinski-Brown Composer and Pianist Amy Niles CEO, Lang Lang Foundation Thomas Hampson*+ President & CEO, WBGO Sian Beilock, PhD Metropolitan Opera Baritone Elmar Oliveira*^ President, Barnard College Shuler Hensley*^ Internationally Acclaimed Terence Blanchard*+ Tony Award-winning Baritone Violinist Composer and Jazz Trumpeter Howard Herring*^ Susan L. Quittmeyer^ Judy Blazer^ President & CEO, Metropolitan Opera New World Symphony Mezzo-Soprano Broadway Performer Deborah Borda Norman Horowitz James Roe Executive Director, Stecher President & Executive Director, President & CEO, and Horowitz Foundation Orchestra of St. Luke’s New York Philharmonic * Ronald Carter*^ Andrew Jorgensen Ned Rorem General Director, Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer Grammy Award-winning Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Jazz Bassist Jesse Rosen^ ^ Anton Coppola^ Aaron Jay Kernis President & CEO, Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer League of American Orchestras Conductor and Composer ^ John Corigliano*^ Nancy Maginnes Kissinger Democratic Leader Philanthropist Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, and Charles E. Schumer Academy Award-winning Lang Lang*+ Peter Simon Composer Grammy Award-winning Pianist President, The Royal Anthony Roth Costanzo*+^ Margaret Lioi Conservatory; Former President, MSM Metropolitan Opera Chief Executive Officer, Countertenor Chamber Music America Robert Sirota Patricia Cruz Robert Lopez^ Composer and Former President, MSM Executive Director, Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Harlem Stage Academy Award-winning Leonard Slatkin*+ Glenn Dicterow+ Composer Grammy Award-winning Conductor Former Concertmaster, Ron Losby New York Philharmonic President & CEO, Melvin Stecher F. Paul Driscoll* Steinway & Sons Executive Director, Stecher and Horowitz Foundation Editor-in-Chief, Opera News Robert McGrath^ Richard Gaddes* “Bob” from Sesame Street Michael G. Stewart M.D. Founder and Medical Director, Founder and Former General Johanna Meier^ Center for the Performing Artist, Manager, Opera Theatre of Metropolitan Opera Soprano Weill Cornell Medical College / Saint Louis, Former General William R. Miller* New York-Presbyterian Hospital Manager, Santa Fe Opera Alicia Hall Moran^ * Sir James and Lady Galway Limor Tomer Broadway Performer and General Manager of Concerts Founders, Recording Artist & Lectures, The Metropolitan Galway Flute Academy *^ Museum of Art * Jason Moran Paul Gemignani Jazz Pianist and Artistic Tony and Emmy Award-winning Ann Ziff Director for Jazz, Kennedy Chairman, Board of Directors, Broadway Musical Director Center for the Performing Arts The Metropolitan Opera and Conductor James Morris *+ Susan Graham*^ Pinchas Zukerman Metropolitan Opera Bass; Grammy Award-winning Metropolitan Opera MSM Faculty Member Conductor, Violinist, and Violist Mezzo-Soprano

* Honorary doctorate recipient + 26 Artistic Advisory Board member ^ Alumna/alumnus ABOUT MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC Founded as a community music school by Janet Daniels Schenck in 1918, today MSM is recognized for its more than 960 superbly talented undergraduate and graduate students who come from more than 50 countries and nearly all 50 states; its innovative curricula and world- renowned artist-teacher faculty that includes musicians from the New York Philharmonic, the Met Orchestra, and the top ranks of the jazz and Broadway communities; and a distinguished community of accomplished, award-winning alumni working at the highest levels of the musical, educational, cultural, and professional worlds. The School is dedicated to the personal, artistic, and intellectual development of aspiring musicians, from its Precollege students through those pursuing doctoral studies. Offering classical, jazz, and musical theatre training, MSM grants a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees. True to MSM’s origins as a music school for children, the Precollege program continues to offer superior music instruction to 475 young musicians between the ages of 5 and 18. The School also serves some 2,000 New York City schoolchildren through its Arts-in-Education Program, and another 2,000 students through its critically acclaimed Distance Learning Program.

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* Honorary doctorate recipient + Artistic Advisory Board member ^ Alumna/alumnus