Romantic Brahms Saturday, February 13, 2021 7:30 PM Livestreamed from Universal Preservation Hall Saratoga Springs, New York

David Alan Miller, conductor Lucy Fitz Gibbon, narrator

Welcome to the Albany Symphony’s 2020-21 Season Re-Imagined!

The one thing I have missed more than anything else during the past few months has been spending time with you and our brilliant Albany Symphony musicians, discovering, exploring, and celebrating great musical works together. Our musicians and I are thrilled to be back at work, bringing you established masterpieces and gorgeous new works in the comfort and convenience of your own home. Originally conceived to showcase triumph over adversity, inspired by the example of Beethoven and his big birthday in December, our season’s programming continues to shine a light on the ways musical visionaries create great art through every season of life. We hope that each program uplifts and inspires you, and brings you some respite from the day-to-day worries of this uncertain world.

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Romantic Brahms

Saturday, February 13, 2021 | 7:30 PM Livestreamed from Universal Preservation Hall

David Alan Miller, conductor Lucy Fitz Gibbon, narrator

Sir William Walton Facade: An Entertainment (1902-1983) I. Fanfare II. Hornpipe III. Long Steel Grass IV. Through Gilded Trellises V. Tango-Pasodoblé VI. Lullaby for Jumbo VII. Tarantella VIII. Country Dance IX. Polka X. Something Lies beyond the Scene XI. Valse XII. Jodelling Song XIII. Scotch Rhapsody XIV. Popular Song XV. Fox-Trot: 'Old Sir Faulk’ XVI. Sir Beelzebub

Tyson Davis Distances (b. 2000) (World Premiere)

Johannes Brahms Serenade in D, op. 11 (1833-1897) (nonet reconstructed by Alan Boustead) I. Allegro molto II. Adagio non troppo III. Minuet I - Minuet II IV. Rondo

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ROMANTIC BRAHMS - ORCHESTRA ROSTER

Violin – Jill Levy Clarinet II – Pascal Archer Viola – Noriko Futagami Bassoon – Joshua Butcher Cello – Erica Pickhardt Alto Saxophone – Chad Smith Bass – Bradley Aikman Horn – Victor Sungarian Flute – Matthew Ross Trumpet – Eric Berlin Clarinet I / Bass Clarinet – Shen Liu Percussion – Matthew Gold

Romantic Brahms – Program Notes

Overview: Tonight’s program features, as did December’s concert, works by three young composers. In this case, the German Brahms was the oldest when he wrote his first serenade: 25. Englishman William Walton was only 22 when he composed Façade. But American Tyson Davis turns just 21 this year, and, as the promotional materials for the ASO indicate, he is the youngest person ever to have been commissioned by the organization. Perhaps we might say, as Emerson wrote to Whitman after reading Leaves of Grass, “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.”

William Walton

William Walton (1902-1983) grew up in a musical home: his father was a choirmaster, and his mother sang. Formal musical education continued as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School at Oxford., where his talents were noted by Sir Hubert Parry

His career was essentially made when he came into contact with the Sitwell family, a trio of wealthy siblings (Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell), who hosted him at their homes and exposed him to creative people and new ideas of the day: Berg, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, for example. The Sitwells were, in effect, his patrons for many years.

But they were also writers themselves, and it was the poetry of Edith (1887-1964) that provided the inspiration for Walton’s first piece to achieve prominence: Façade. It started off as a work for speaker and six instruments, and the premiere was given at the Sitwells’ home for a small audience; but three years later Walton orchestrated the music, and today the music (and the arrangement of the poems) exist in numerous versions.

Walton’s subsequent career produced a Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, a Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, two symphonies, the oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast (with Biblical selections chosen by Osbert Sitwell), and two movie scores from the 1940s nominated for Academy Awards (Henry V, Hamlet).

William Walton- Façade: An Entertainment

"Edith Sitwell wrote her Façade poems as studies in word-rhythms and onomatopoeia," writes Michael Kennedy, Walton's biographer.

And the Poetry Foundation website says this about Sitwell: “Sitwell’s early work was often experimental, creating melody, using striking conceits, new rhythms, and confusing private allusions. Her efforts at change were resisted, but, as the New Statesman observed, ‘losing every battle, she won the campaign,’ and emerged the high priestess of 20th-century poetry.”

While listening to a performance on YouTube, I found myself thinking of two other artistic experiences: the work of Lewis Carroll and rap. Why? Well, “Jabberwocky” is a poem that delights in sound, if not much logic; and Alice’s experiences through the looking-glass are strangely both nonsensical and disturbing. As for rap, one can almost feel Sitwell’s internal and end rhymes driving the poem forward, ideas springing from sound instead of sound springing from ideas. When one is searching for a rhyme, oftentimes the content emerges from the structure in unimaginable ways.

Walton’s music, of course, distills the mood of each poem (I can’t imagine that he asked for an explanation of each line, and maybe Sitwell wouldn’t have been able to provide one anyway). Using all of the techniques available to a composer, the 21-year-old Walton must have been charmed to underscore these miniatures with his skill in rhythm, mode, tune, and orchestral color.

The subtitle is “an entertainment.” Enjoy it as such. Because we’ll all be at home, we can sit and have a drink and a snack, as probably the first audience in the Sitwells’ home did. And, as Edith herself might have remarked, “In the main don’t strain your brain.”

- Concert notes by Paul Lamar

Lucy Fitz Gibbon

Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe), Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to the present. She believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the multiplicity and diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future. As such, Ms. Fitz Gibbon has given modern premieres of rediscovered works by Baroque composers Francesco Sacrati, Barbara Strozzi, and Agostino Agazzari, as well by 20th century composers including Tadeusz Kassern, Moses Milner, and Jean Barraqué. She has also worked closely with numerous others, premiering works by John Harbison, Kate Soper, Sheila Silver, David Hertzberg, Reena Esmail, Roberto Sierra, Anna Lindemann, and Pauline Oliveros, among many others. In helping to realize the complexities of music beyond written notes, the experience of working with these composers translates to all music: the commitment to faithfully communicate not only the score, but also the underlying intentions of its creator.

As a recitalist Ms. Fitz Gibbon has appeared with her husband and collaborative partner, pianist Ryan McCullough, in such venues as London’s Wigmore Hall; New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Park Avenue Armory, and Merkin Hall; and Toronto’s Koerner Hall. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, they have been recording from home and local concert halls for performances broadcast around the world. Their discography includes the CDs Descent/Return, featuring works by James Primosch and John Harbison (Albany Records, May 2020) and another alongside artists including Dawn Upshaw and Stephanie Blythe of Sheila Silver’s complete song repertoire (Albany Records, February 2021). The Wall Street Journal praised their recent appearance on PBS’ Great Performances as “breathtaking.”

In concert, Lucy has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra; the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra; the Albany, Richmond, Tulsa, and Eureka Symphonies, and the American Symphony Orchestra in her Carnegie Hall debut. She has also premiered two major works by John Harbison and Shirish Korde with Boston Musica Viva, appeared in concert with the Aizuri Quartet, and will appear on tour with Musicians from Marlboro in such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kimmel Center through the 21-22 season. Debuts with Seattle Opera and the Lexington and Kalamazoo Symphonies, as well an appearance with the Doric Quartet at the West Cork Festival in Ireland and a guest recital at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, to name but a few, were all delayed because of COVID-19.

A graduate of Yale University, Ms. Fitz Gibbon also holds an artist diploma from The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory and a master’s degree from Bard College-Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program; her principal teachers include Monica Whicher, Edith Bers, and Dawn Upshaw. She has spent summers at the Tanglewood Music Center (2014-2015) and Marlboro Music Festival (2016-2019, 2021). She is currently Interim Director of the Vocal Program at Cornell University and on the faculty of Bard College-Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and served as voice faculty for Kneisel Hall’s 2020 season. For more information, see www.lucyfitzgibbon.com.

—February 2021—

Tyson Davis

Tyson Davis (b.2000) began composing at the age of eight years old. He entered the University North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) as a high school freshman, studying with Lawrence Dillon. He has taken advantage of numerous opportunities at the school, writing for Eighth Blackbird, the Attacca String Quartet, UNCSA Cantata Singers and the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra. In the summers, he attended Interlochen Summer Music Camp, where he had works for chorus and percussion ensemble premiered and earned the Fine Arts Award, and Curtis Summerfest, where he worked with David Ludwig. In the summer of 2019 Tyson worked with the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) and Antonio Pappano to premiere his work, Delicate Tension, a piece that was commissioned by the American Embassy in Berlin for the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The work was performed in Berlin, Edinburgh, and Hamburg. Since then, Tyson has started as an undergraduate at The Juilliard School where he continues his studies in composition and is a recipient of the Jerome L. Green Fellowship. His work Delicate Tension recently won the 68th BMI Student Composer Awards as well as the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards.

Tyson Davis- Distances

In this piece, Distances, I explored themes of strong emotions and anxieties that society has been recently affected by due to the almost “New World Order” that living in a pandemic (COVID-19) has caused. The work is full of ambiguity and lingering passages that evoke the emotions of contemporary society. In general, I feel that reflections of society and deep, intense emotions are essential to my work as an artist. A mirror image of who we truly are and what lurks beneath the surface is what this and my other work have and will continue to be about. - Tyson Davis

Johannes Brahms

When speaking of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), many music historians point to his curious place in 19th- century musical development. About his genius--in symphonic, concerto, chamber music, and vocal forms (though not opera)--there is little debate: he is one of the masters.

But, these observers suggest, he is hard to peg. Ever mindful of the Classical tradition from which he sprang, Brahms worked in the accepted structures of, say, Mozart’s and Beethoven’s times. He did not abandon forms or even explode them.

He was not, however, as Hugo Wolf dubbed him, a “mere copyist.” From the beginning of his career, he was considered special. Indeed, when, in the early 1850s, he arrived at the home of Robert Schumann, that great composer was prompted to write in an 1853 magazine article, “…(T)here must… suddenly appear one who should utter the highest ideal expression of his time, who should burst upon us fully equipped, as Minerva sprang from the brain of Jupiter…And he has come…His name is Johannes Brahms.”

Throughout a nearly 50-year career, he did not disappoint, so beautiful were his melodies, inventive his rhythms, and imaginative his harmonies.

Johannes Brahms- Serenade in D, op. 11

Until he wrote this piece—op. 11—in 1858, Brahms had published works for piano, voice, and piano trio only. Originally conceived as a work for eight instruments, he added one to create a nonet and then, a year later, expanded the work for chamber, then full, orchestra. His Serenade No. 2 followed in 1860.

Brahms originally cast the work in four movements. Like so many of Brahms’ early efforts, that original form suggests a young composer wrestling with specter of the greatest of all symphonists, Beethoven, and trying to create a first symphony. Brahms ultimately decided to go in a different direction, adding two scherzos to the work, and calling it a “serenade.” Tonight’s performance affords the listener a unique opportunity to hear the work as Brahms first conceived it, in its four-movement, “symphonic” form.

What is a serenade? It’s a catch-all term for an orchestral piece that isn’t a symphony; that maybe lacks some of the gravitas of a symphony; that contains a number of movements but how many is up to the composer; that can be for strings only (a la the Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings that the ASO performed in January; that can be for winds only (Mozart and Dvorak), or that can be for “devious instruments,” like kazoos and slide whistles (P.D.Q. Bach). Far afield, then, from the origin of the word--”sera,” Italian for “night”--and usually a composition dedicated to the beloved.

The opening allegro is a generous movement, clocking in at about 11 minutes. It contains all of the elements of the sonata form: exposition of two melodies---one in the horn and a sweet one (note the charming triplets) in the strings---, development, recapitulation, and coda. What strikes the ear right off is that horn solo. Brahms’s father was a horn player, and Johannes himself learned to play it. His writing for the instrument (in the four symphonies, in the famous opening to the Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, and throughout the Horn Trio) is brilliant.

The adagio is nearly as long as the allegro, and here is Brahms, still a young man, but already able to create autumnal moods. The dotted rhythm is almost funereal. There are short breaths between phrases: so much happens in the silences. The clarinet lifts up a lovely tune, which the flute takes up. The horn is prominent once again. When the opening melody returns, the strings play pizzicato—such a creative touch.

The minuet, in ¾, opens in the winds. And let’s pause: not only does Brahms do right by the horn, but he gives the bassoon, which is sometimes lost in the shuffle under the bright flute and sweet oboe, some marvelous licks. The strings then take over, followed by the wind team, and then concluding with the strings. A brief movement, full of joie de vivre.

The piece concludes with a rondo. The opening dotted motif is the glue that holds the movement together, reappearing to bracket one section with a big warm tune and bracket another featuring the horn and the bassoon.

Schumann was right about Brahms, though he did not live to hear tonight’s work.

- Concert notes by Paul Lamar

DAVID ALAN MILLER

Grammy Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller has established a reputation as one of the leading American conductors of his generation. As music director of the Albany Symphony since 1992, Mr. Miller has proven himself a creative and compelling orchestra builder. Through exploration of unusual repertoire, educational programming, community outreach, and recording initiatives, he has reaffirmed the Albany Symphony’s reputation as the nation’s leading champion of American symphonic music and one of its most innovative orchestras. He and the orchestra have twice appeared at "Spring For Music," an annual festival of America's most creative orchestras at New York City's Carnegie Hall. Other accolades include Columbia University’s 2003 Ditson Conductor’s Award, the oldest award honoring conductors for their commitment to American music, the 2001 ASCAP Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming, and, in 1999, ASCAP’s first-ever Leonard Bernstein Award for Outstanding Educational Programming.

Frequently in demand as a guest conductor, Mr. Miller has worked with most of America’s major orchestras, including the orchestras of Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, as well as the New World Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the New York City Ballet. In addition, he has appeared frequently throughout Europe, Australia, and the Far East as guest conductor. He made his first guest appearance with the BBC Scottish Symphony in March 2014.

Mr. Miller received his Grammy Award in January 2014 for his Naxos recording of John Corigliano's "Conjurer," with the Albany Symphony and Dame Evelyn Glennie. His extensive discography also includes recordings of the works of Todd Levin with the London Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, as well as music by Michael Daugherty, Kamran Ince, Michael Torke (London/Decca), and Luis Tinoco (Naxos). His recordings with the Albany Symphony include discs devoted to the music of John Harbison, Roy Harris, Morton Gould, Don Gillis, Peter Mennin, and Vincent Persichetti on the Albany Records label.

A native of Los Angeles, David Alan Miller holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from The Juilliard School. Prior to his appointment in Albany, Mr. Miller was associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 1982 to 1988, he was music director of the New York Youth Symphony, earning considerable acclaim for his work with that ensemble. Mr. Miller lives with his wife and three children in Slingerlands, New York.

Façade Lyrics: "And the drinks, You can see Hornpipe Are hot as any hot-to-trot and not Sailors come the goods for me!" To the drum Out of Babylon; Long Steel Grass Hobby-horses Long steel grass - Foam, the dumb The white soldiers pass - Sky rhinoceros-glum The light is braying like an ass. See Watched the courses of the The tall Spanish jade breakers' rocking-horses and with With hair black as night-shade Glaucis, Worn as a cockade! Lady Venus on the settee of the Flee horsehair sea! Her eyes' gasconade Where Lord Tennyson in laurels And her gown's parade wrote a gloria free, (As stiff as a brigade!) In a borealic iceberg came Victoria; she Tee-hee! Knew Prince Albert's tall memorial The hard and braying light took the colours of the floreal Is zebra'd black and white And the borealic iceberg; floating It will take away the slight on they see And free, New-arisen Madam Venus for Tinge of the mouth organ sound, whose sake from far (Oyster-stall notes) oozing round Came the fat zebra'd emperor Her flounces as they sweep the ground. from Zanzibar The Where like golden bouquets lay far Trumpet and the drum Asia, Africa, Cathay, And the martial cornet come All laid before that shady lady by To make the people dumb - the fibroid Shah. But we Captain Fracasse stout as any water - Won't wait for sly-foot night butt came, stood (Moonlight, watered milk-white, bright) With Sir Bacchus both a-drinking To make clear the declaration the black tarr'd grapes' blood Of our Paphian vocation Plucked among the tartan leafage Beside the castanetted sea, By the furry wind whose grief age Where stalks Il Capitaneo Could not wither - Swaggart braggadocio like a squirrel with a gold star-nut. Sword and moustacio - He Queen Victoria sitting shocked Is green as a cassada upon a rocking horse And his hair is an armada. Of a wave said to the Laureate, To the jade: "Come kiss me harder" "This minx of course He called across the battlements as she Is as sharp as a lynx and blacker - Heard our voices thin and shrill deeper than the drinks and As the steely grasses' thrill, quite as Or the sound of the onycha Hot as any hot-to-trot, without When the phoca has the pica remorse! In the palace of the Queen Chinee! For the minx," Through Gilded Trellises Said she, Through gilded trellises Of the heat, Dolores, So Jo put the luggage and the label Inez, Manuccia, In the pocket of Flo the Kangaroo. Isabel, Lucia, Through trees like rich hotels that bode Mock Time that flies. Of dreamless ease fled she, "Lovely bird, will you stay and sing, Carrying the load and goading the road Flirting your sheened wing,- Through the marine scene to the sea. Peck with your beak, and cling "Don Pasquito, the road is eloping To our balconies?" With your luggage They flirt their fans, flaunting though heavy and large; "O silence enchanting You must follow and leave your moping As music!" Then slanting Bride to my guidance and charge!" Their eyes, When Like gilded or emerald grapes, Don They make mantillas, capes, Pasquito returned Hiding their simian shapes. from the road's end, Sighes Where vanilla-coloured ladies ride Each lady, "Our spadille From Sevilla, his mantilla'd bride Is done."...Dance the quadrille and young friend from Hell's towers to Seville; Were forgetting Surprise their mentor and guide. Their siesta," Dolores For the lady and her friend Said. Through gilded trellises from Le Touquet Of the heat, spangles In the very shady trees on the sand Pelt down through the tangles Were plucking a white satin bouquet Of bell flowers; each dangles Of foam, while the sand's brassy band Her castanets, shutters Blared in the wind. Fall while the heat mutters, Don Pasquito With sounds like a mandoline Hid where the leaves drip with Or tinkled tambourine... sweet... Ladies, Time dies! But a word stung him like a mosquito... For what they hear, they repeat! Tango - Pasodoble When Lullaby for Jumbo Don Jumbo asleep! Pasquito arrived at the seaside Grey leaves thick-furred Where the donkey's hide tide As his ears keep brayed, he Conversations blurred. Saw the bandito Jo in a black cape Thicker than hide Whose slack shape waved like the sea - Is the trumpeting water; Thetis wrote a treatise noting wheat Don Pasquito's bride is silver like the sea; And his youngest daughter the lovely cheat is sweet as foam; Watch the leaves Erotis notices that she Elephantine grey: Will What is it grieves Steal In the torrid day? The Is it the animal Wheat-kings luggage, like Babel World that snores Before the League of Nations grew - Harsh and inimical In sleepy pores?- Melons as dark as caves have for And why should the spined flowers their fountain waves red as a soldier Thickest gold honey. Make Don Pasquito And wrinkled as dark as Pan, Seem still mouldier? Or old Silenus, yet youthful as Venus Are gourds and the wrinkled figs Tarantella Whence all the jewels ran. Where the satyrs are chattering, Said QueenVenus, 'Silenus nymphs with their flattering We'll settle between us Glimpse of the forest enhance The nymphs' disobedience, forestall All the beauty of marrow and With my bow and my quiver cucumber narrow Each fresh evil liver: And Ceres will join in the dance. For I don't understand it at all!' Where the satyrs can flatter the flat-leaved fruit Country Dance And the gherkin green That hobnailed goblin, and the marrow, the bob-tailed Hob, Said Queen Venus, Said, "It is time I began to rob." "Silenus, we'll settle between us For strawberries bob, The gourd and the cucumber narrow!" hob-nob with the pearls See, like palaces hid in the lake, Of cream they shake - (like the curls of the dairy girls), Those greenhouses shot And flushed with the heat and by her arrow narrow! fruitish ripe The gardener seizes the pieces, like Are the gowns of the maids who Croesus, for gilding the dance to the pipe. potting-shed barrow. Chase a maid? There the radish roots, She's afraid! And the strawberry fruits "Go gather a bob-cherry kiss from a tree, Feel the nymphs' high boots But don't, I prithee, come in the glade. bothering me!" Trampling and sampling mazurkas, She said - cachucas and turkas, As she fled. Cracoviaks hid in the shade. The snouted satyrs drink clouted Where, in the haycocks, cream the Country nymphs' gay flocks 'Neath the chestnut-trees is thick as Wear gowns that are looped over a dream; bright yellow petticoats, So I went Gaiters of leather And leant, and pheasants' tail feathers Where none but the doltish coltish wind In straw hats bewildering many Nuzzled my hand for what could find. a leathern bat. As I neighed There they haymake, I said, Cowers and whines in showers "Don't touch me, sir, The dew in the dogskin bright flowers; don't touch me, I say, Pumpkin and marrow You'll tumble my strawberries And cucumber narrow into the hay. Have grown through Those snow-mounds of silver that the spangled June hours. bee, the spring, Has sucked his sweetness from, Where at dawn in the box of the sailor, I will bring Blue as the decks of the sea, With fair-haired plants and with Nelson awoke crowed like the cocks, apples chill Then back to the dust sank he. For the great god Pan's high altar ...I'll spill And Robinson Crusoe Not one!" Rues so So, in fun The bright and foxy beer, - We rolled on the grass and began to But he finds fresh isles run in an egret's smiles, - Chasing that gaudy satyr the Sun; The poxy doxy dear, Over the haycocks, away we ran Crying, "Here be berries as As they, watch me dance the polka", sunburnt as Pan!" Said MrWagg like a bear, But Silenus "In my top hat and my whiskers that, - Has seen us... Tra la la, trap the Fair, He runs like the rough satyr Sun. Tra la la la la la - Come away! Tra la la la la la - Tra la la la la la la la Polka La La La!" "Tra la la la la la la la La! Something Lies beyond the Scene Something lies beyond the scene, the encre de See me dance the polka", chine marine obscene Said Mr Wagg like a bear, Horizon "with my top hat In And my whiskers that - Hell (Tra la la) trap the Fair." Black as a bison Where the waves See the tall black Aga on the sofa in the alga seem chiming haycocks mope, his I dance the polka; there Bell-rope Stand Venus' children in their gay frocks, - Mustache (clear as a great bell!) Maroon and marine, - and stare Waves in eighteen-eighty To see me fire my pistol Bustles Through the distance blue as my coat; Come Like Wellington, Byron, the Late with tambourines of Marquis of Bristol, Rustling Busbied great trees float. Foam. They answer to the names While the wheezing hurdy-gurdy Of ancient dames and shames, and Of the marine wind blows me Only call horizons their home. To the tune of Annie Rooney, sturdy, Coldly wheeze (Chinese as these black-armored Over the sheafs of the sea; fleas that dance) the breezes Seeking for horizons And bright as a seedsman's packet Wide; from her orisons With zinnias, candytufts chill, In her wide Is Mrs. Marigold's Jacket Vermilion As she gapes at the inn door still, Pavilion By the seaside The doors clang open and hide shawls, Where the wind died, Elegant parasols Nothing but the Princess Floating are seen. Cockatrice The Amazones wear balzarine of Lean jonquille Dancing a caprice To the winds tambourine. Besides the blond lace of a deep- falling rill; ValseEnglish Through glades like a nun Daisy and Lily, They run from and shun Lazy and silly, The enormous and gold-rayed Walk by the shore of the wan grassy sea,- rustling sun; Talking once more 'neath a swan- And the nymphs of the fountains bosomed tree. Descend from the mountains Rose castles Like elegant willows Tourelles On their deep barouche pillows, Those bustles In cashmere Alvandar, barege Isabelle Where swells Like bells of bright water from Each foam-bell of ermine clearest wood-well. They roam and determine Our elegantes favouring What fashions have been and what bonnets of blond, fashions will be,- The stars in their apiaries, What tartan leaves born, Sylphs in their aviaries, What Crinolines worn. Seeing them, spangle these, and the sylphs fond By Queen Thetis, From their aviaries fanned Pelisses With each long fluid hand Of tarlatine blue, The manteaux espagnoles, Like the thin Plaided leaves that the Mimic the waterfalls Castle crags grew, Over the long and the light summer land. Or velours d'Afrande: ... On the water-god's land So Daisy and Lily, Her hair seemed gold trees on the Lazy and silly honey-cell sand Walk by the shore of the wan grassy Sea, When the thickest gold spangles, Talking once more 'neath a swan- on deep water seen, bosomed tree. Were like twanging guitar and like Row Castles, cold mandoline, Tourelles, And the nymphs of great caves, Those bustles! With hair like gold waves, Mourelles Of Venus, wore tarlatiine Of their shade in their train follow. Louise and Charlottine Ladies, how vain, - hollow, - (Borea's daughters) Gone is the sweet swallow, - And the nymphs of deep waters, Gone, Philomel!" The nymph Taglioni, Grisi the ondine Wear Plaided Victoria and thin Jodelling Song Clementine ‘We bear velvet cream, Like the crinolined waterfalls; Green and babyish Wood-nymphs wear bonnets, Small leaves seem; each stream Horses' tails that swish, Scotch RhapsodyEnglish Do not take a bath in Jordan And the chimes remind Gordon, Us of sweet birds singing, On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day! Like the jangling bells Said the huntsman, On rose trees ringing. playing on his old bagpipe, Boring to death the pheasant Man must say farewell and the snipe - To parents now, Boring the ptarmigan And to William Tell, and grouse for fun - And Mrs. Cow. Boring them worse than a nine-bore gun. Man must say farewells Till the flaxen leaves where the To storks and Bettes, prunes are ripe, And to roses' bells, Heard the tartan wind a-droning And statuettes. through the pipe, And they, heard Macpherson say: Forests white and black "Where do the waves go; What hotels In spring are blue Hide their bustles With forget-me-nots, and their gay ombrelles? And to lovers true And would there be room for me? - Would there be room, Still the sweet bird begs Would there be room for me?" And tries to cozen There is a hotel at Ostend Them: “Buy angels' eggs Cold as the wind, without an end, Sold by the dozen.” Haunted by ghostly poor relations Of Bostonian conversations Gone are clouds like inns (Like bagpipes rotting On the gardens' brinks, through the walls.) And the mountain djinns— And there the pearl-ropes fall like shawls Ganymede sells drinks; With a noise like marine waterfalls. And "Another little drink While the days seem gray, wouldn't do us any harm" And his heart of ice, Pierces through the sabbatical calm. Gray as chamois, or And that is the place for me! The edelweiss, So do not take a bath in Jordan, Gordon, And the mountain streams On the holy Sabbath on the Like cowbells sound— peaceful day- Tirra lirra, drowned Or you'll never go to heaven, In the waiter's dreams Gordon Macpherson, And speaking purely as a private person Who has gone beyond That is the place - that is the place - The forest waves, that is the place for me! While his true and fond Ones seek their graves.’

Popular SongEnglish Round rose-bubbling Victorine, Lily O'Grady, And the other fish Silly and shady, Express a wish Longing to be For mastic mantles and gowns with A lazy lady, a swish; Walked by the cupolas gables in the And bright and slight as the posies Lake's Georgian stables, Of buttercups and of roses, In a fairy tale like the heat intense, And buds of the wild wood-lilies And the mist in the woods when They chase her, as frisky as fillies. across the fence The red retriever-haired satyr The children gathering strawberries Can whine and tease her and flatter Are changed by the heat into But Lily O'Grady, small Keres, Silly and shady, Though their fair hair In the deep shade is a lazy lady; Shines there Now Pompey's dead, Homer's read, Like gold-haired planets, Calliope, Io, Heliogabalus lost his head, Pomona, Antiope, Echo and Clio. And shade is on the brightest wing, Then Lily O'Grady, And dust forbids the bird to sing. Silly and shady, Sauntered along like a Fox-Trot: 'Old Sir Faulk’ Lazy Lady; OLD Beside the waves' haycocks her Sir gown with tucks Faulk, as of satin the colour of shining Tall as a stork, green ducks, Before the honeyed fruits of dawn were ripe, And her fol-de-rol would walk, Parasol And stalk with a gun Was a great gold sun o'er the The reynard-coloured sun, haycocks shining, Among the pheasant-feathered corn the unicorn But she was a goddess black as the shade has torn, forlorn the That time on the brightest lady laid. Smock-faced sheep Then a satyr, dog-haired as Sit trunks of trees, And Began to flatter, began to tease Sleep; And she ran like the nymphs with Periwigged as William and Mary, weep . . . golden foot "Sally, Mary, Mattie, what's the matter, why That trampled the strawberry, cry?" buttercup root, The huntsman and the reynard-coloured sun and In the thick cold dew as bright as I sigh; the mesh "Oh, the nursery-maid Meg Of dead Panope's golden flesh, With a leg like a peg Made from the music whence were born Chased the feathered dreams like hens, and Memphis and Thebes in the first when they laid an egg hot morn, In the sheepskin - And ran, to wake Meadows In the lake, Where, Where the water-ripples seem hay to rake. The serene King James would steer, And Charlotine, Horse and hounds, then he Adeline, From the shade of a tree Picked it up as spoil to boil for nursery tea," said waves of the sea, the mourners. In the (Rocking and shocking the bar-maid) Corn, towers strain, Nobody comes to give him his rum Feathered tall as a crane, but the And whistling down the feathered rain, old Noah Rim of the sky hippopotamus-glum goes again -- Enhances the chances to bless with An old dull mome a benison With a head like a pome, Alfred Lord Tennyson crossing the Seeing the world as a bare egg, bar laid Laid by the feathered air; Meg With cold vegetation from pale Would beg three of these deputations For the nursery teas Of temperance workers Of Japhet, Shem, and Ham; she gave it (all signed in Memoriam) Underneath the trees, Hoping with glory to trip up the Where the boiling Laureate's feet, Water (Moving in classical metres)... Hissed, Like Balaclava, the lava came down Like the goose-king's feathered daughter -- from the Roof, and the sea's blue kissed, wooden gendarmerie Pot and pan and copper kettle Took them in charge while Put upon their proper mettle, Beelzebub roared for his rum. Lest the Flood -- the Flood -- the Flood begin ...None of them come! again through these!

Sir BeelzebubEnglish When Sir Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell Where Proserpine first fell, Blue as the gendarmerie were the

2020-2021 Orchestra CELLO Alan Parshley Roster Susan Ruzow Debronsky Victor Sungarian PRINCIPAL

SPONSORED BY AL DE TRUMPET VIOLIN SALVO & SUSAN THOMPSON Eric M. Berlin Jill Levy Erica Pickhardt PRINCIPAL CONCERTMASTER ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Eric J. Latini LIFETIME CHAIR, GOLDBERG Kevin Bellosa + CHARITABLE TRUST Matthew Capobianco TROMBONE Eiko Kano + Marie-Thérèse Dugré + Greg Spiridopoulos ASSISTANT Catherine Hackert PRINCIPAL CONCERTMASTER Hikaru Tamaki Karna Millen + Elizabeth Silver ^

Jamecyn Morey ^ BASS BASS TROMBONE Paula Oakes ^ Bradley Aikman Charles Morris Funda Cizmecioglu PRINCIPAL PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Philip R. Helm TUBA Mitsuko Suzuki ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Derek Fenstermacher ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Michael Fittipaldi ^ PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Luke Baker Barbara Lapidus ^ James Caiello + TIMPANI ENDOWED BY MARISA Kuljit Rehncy AND ALLAN EISEMANN FLUTE PRINCIPAL Gabriela Rengel ^ Ji Weon Ryu Brigitte Brodwin + PRINCIPAL PERCUSSION Ouisa Fohrhaltz Matthew Ross Richard Albagli Heather Frank-Olsen PRINCIPAL Emily Frederick OBOE Mark Foster Rowan Harvey Karen Hosmer Scott Stacey * + Margret E. Hickey PRINCIPAL Christine Kim Grace Shryock HARP Sooyeon Kim Lynette Wardle Aleksandra Labinska ENGLISH HORN PRINCIPAL Kae Nakano Vacant Yinbin Qian PERSONNEL MANAGER Muneyoshi Takahashi CLARINET Susan Debronsky Harriet Dearden Welther Weixiong Wang +

PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN VIOLA IN MEMORY OF F.S. Elizabeth Silver Noriko Futagami DEBEER, JR. PRINCIPAL Bixby Kennedy HOUSING COORDINATOR ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY Daniel Brye BY THE ESTATE OF ALLAN F. BASSOON NICKERSON William Hestand + UNION STEWARD Sharon Bielik + PRINCIPAL Greg Spiridopoulos ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY Daniel Brye ^ BY THE ESTATE OF RICHARD SYMBOL KEY Carla Bellosa + SALISBURY ^ STATIONARY CHAIR Ting-Ying Chang-Chien + ON LEAVE Anna Griffis HORN * SUBSTITUTE FOR Dana Huyge William J. Hughes 2020- 2021 SEASON Hannah Levinson PRINCIPAL

Joseph Demko ALBANY SYMPHONY MUSICIAN HOUSING PROGRAM

Did you know that many of the musicians of the Albany Symphony do not live in the Capital region? Musicians travel from New York, Boston, Montreal, Nashville, Ft. Lauderdale, and even as far as Texas, to perform with the Albany Symphony. Typically, our musicians are here from Thursday through Sunday of a concert week. Through the generosity of local host families, the Albany Symphony Musician Housing Program was created. Without the support of our host families, we would not be able to maintain the high caliber of musicians who perform with our orchestra. Many of our hosts have created strong bonds with the musicians that stay with them, creating friendships that last a lifetime.

During the 2020-2021 season, due to the global pandemic, musicians are not staying with our generous host families. Instead, the Albany Symphony is providing hotel rooms for our musicians.

The Albany Symphony Orchestra extends a very special thank you to patrons who generously provided housing for musicians during the 2019–2020 season, and we look forward to reuniting our musicians with our hosts when it is once again safe to do so.

Camille & Andrew Allen Catherine & Carl Hackert Dodie & Pete Seagle Jenny Amstutz Debra & Paul Hoffmann Julie & Bill Shapiro Dan Bernstein & Efrat Levy Susan Jacobsen Elizabeth & Aaron Silver Concetta Bosco Marilyn & Stan Kaltenborn Lorraine Smith Mimi Bruce & David Ray Nettye Lamkay & Robert Pastel Onnolee & Larry Smith Charles Buchanan Barb Lapidus Lois & John Staugaitis Barbara Cavallo Eric Latini Harriet Thomas Ben Chi Bill Lawrence & Alan Ray Andrea & Michael Vallance Diane Davison Eunju Lee & Brian Fisher Marjorie & Russ Ward Susan & Brian Debronsky Susan Martula & David Perry Margery & Michael Whiteman Michelle DePace & Steven Hancox Anne Messer & Dan Gordon Carol Whittaker Nancy & John DiIanni Jon & Sigrin Newell Dan Wilcox Star Donovan Helen J. O’Connor Barbara Wiley Bonnie Edelstein Marlene & Howard Pressman Merle Winn Lynn Gelzheizer Reese Satin David Gittelman & Tom Murphy Joan Savage

2020-2021 CORPORATE SPONSORS

The Albany Symphony acknowledges the support of our corporate sponsors whose contributions recognize the importance of the Albany Symphony in building civic pride, educating our youth, and contributing to the cultural life of all people in the Capital Region. As of January 7, 2021.

Howard & Bush Foundation

Celine & Daniel Kredentser John Fritze Jeweler Courtyard by Marriott Schenectady at Mohawk Harbor

Carl E. Touhey Family Foundation John D. Picotte Family Foundation

MEDIA PARTNERS: EDUCATION PARTNER: This concert season has also been made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the City of Albany, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Capital District Economic Development Council, Vanguard-Albany Symphony, and the support of our donors, subscribers, and patrons. HOSPITALITY PARTNER:

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE The Albany Symphony is grateful to the following individuals for their vital ongoing support. Updated February 10, 2021. Joseph Gravini & Beth Cope PLATINUM BATON LEVEL ($25,000+) Ephraim & Elana Glinert Dr. Benjamin Chi Alan Goldberg Jerel & Geraldine Golub Mrs. Ellen Jabbur Sherley Hannay Judy & Bill Kahn Daniel & Celine Kredentser Alexander & Gail Keeler Ms. Faith A. Takes William & Mary Jean Krackeler Sara Lee & Barry Larner GOLD BATON LEVEL ($10,000-$24,999) Mark & Lori Lasch Rhea Clark Georgia & David Lawrence Marcia & Findlay Cockrell Charles M. Liddle III Drs. Marisa & Allan Eisemann Mr. Donald Lipkin & Mrs. Mary Bowen David & Tanyss Martula Steve & Vivian Lobel Bob & Alicia Nielsen Mark J. Rosen & Leslie Newman John J. Nigro Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Older Karen & Chet Opalka Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Maston Dush & Kelly Pathmanandam Richard Messmer John & A.C. Riley Hilary & Nicholas Miller David M. Rubin & Carole L. Ju Marcia & Robert Moss Ms. Christine Standish & Mr. Chris Wilk Dr. Nina Reich Dennis & Margaret Sullivan Dwight & Rachel Smith Merle Winn Mitchell & Gwen Sokoloff Paul & Janet Stoler SILVER BATON LEVEL ($5,000-$9,999) Robert P. Storch & Sara M. Lord Guha & Deepa Bala William Tuthill & Gregory Anderson Charles & Charlotte Buchanan Malka & Eitan Evan CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE VIRTUOSO LEVEL ($1,500- Al De Salvo & Susan Thompson $2,499) The Hershey Family Fund Mr. & Ms. John Abbuhl Edward & Sally S. Jennings Dr. Richard & Kelly Alfred Anna Kuwabara & Craig Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Robert Allen The Massry Family Hermes & Linda Ames Dr. Henry S. Pohl Dr. Nancy Barhydt-Rutledge & Mr. Harry Larry & Clara Sanders Rutledge Rabbi Scott Shpeen Sharon Bedford & Fred Alm Mrs. Jeanne Tartaglia Beth & Rob Beshaw Harriet Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Donald Bourque Dale Thuillez Peter & Debbie Brown Drs. Karl Moschner & Hannelore Wilfert Drs. Melody A. Bruce & David A. Ray Paul & Bonnie Bruno BRONZE BATON LEVEL ($2,500-$4,999) Dr. A. Andrew Casano & Bella Pipas Mr. Leslie Apple Dr. Joyce J. Diwan Michael & Linda Barnas Mrs. Joy Emery Sally Mott Carter Thomas D. Evans Drs. Ellen Cole & Doug North Meaghan Murphy & Nicholas Faso Kirk Cornwell & Claire Pospisil Dr. & Mrs. Reed Ference Mr. David Duquette Roseanne Fogarty & Perry Smith Nathaniel & Virginia Fossner Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Gordon Dr. Thomas Freeman & Mrs. Phyllis Attanasio Karen S. Hartgen-Fisher Gerald Herman Joseph & Linda Farrell Mr. & Mrs. E. Stewart Jones, Jr. Lois V. Foster Wendy Jordan & Frank Murray Thomas Freedman Mr. Robert J. Krackeler John & Linda Fritze Karen & Alan Lobel Charles L. & Elizabeth P. Gerli Judith B. McIlduff The Family of Morton Gould Ms. Sophie Moss Holly Katz & William Harris Patricia & Kevin O’Bryan Michael & Katharine Hayes Henry & Sally Peyrebrune Margaret Joynt Sara & John Regan Herbert & Judith Katz Lee & Donna Rosen Drs. Matthew Leinug & Cyndi Miller Alan & Leizbeth Sanders Dr. & Mrs. Neil Lempert Peg & Bob Schalit Robert & Jean Leonard I. David & Lois Swawite Tom & Sue Lyons Dr. Micheileen Treadwell Richard & Barbara MacDowell Mrs. Jane A. Wait Charles & Barbara Manning Mrs. Candace King Weir Ted & Judy Marotta Michael & Margery Whiteman Mr. Cory Martin Harry & Connie Wilbur Mrs. Nancy McEwan Barbara & Stephen Wiley Stewart Myers Austin & Nancy Woodward Vaughn & Hugh Nevin Bonnie Taylor & Daniel Wulff Sarah M. Pellman Mrs. Brin Quell CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE FRIEND LEVEL ($1,000- Lewis C. & Gretchen A. Rubenstein $1,499) Harriet B. Seeley Wallace & Jane Altes Peggy & Jack Seppi Shannon & Matthew Amodeo Herb & Cynthia Shultz Timothy Burch Mrs. Elizabeth J. Silver Dr. Ellen Mary Cosgrove Virginia E. Touhey Paul Davis F. Michael & Lynette Tucker Ms. Ruth Dinowitz Darrell Wheeler & Donovan Howard Ann & Don Eberle

INDIVIDUAL GIVING:

The Albany Symphony is grateful to the following individuals for their vital ongoing support. Updated February 10, 2021.

SYMPHONY CIRCLE ($500-$999) Jim Caiello & Marvin and Sharon Freedman Marcia Goldfeder Advised Fund Dr. Kenneth S. & Judith Ciccio Mary Gitnick Ms. Elizabeth D. Allen Lynda & Robert G. Conway, Jr. Shirley & Herbert Gordon The Bangert-Drowns Family Dr. & Mrs. William J. Cromie Susan M. Haswell Charitable Fund Jim & Rose Barba Mr. Wilson Crone Nancy Ross & Robert Henshaw Mrs. Ann-Marie B. Pernille Aegidius Dake Lynn Holland Barker-Schwartz Mary DeGroff & Robert Knizek Martin Atwood Hotvet Anne Brewster Ben & Linda English Mr. Andrew Hugos Dorice Brickman Judith Fetterley Howard& Mary Jack Robert G. Briggs Mr. Steven Fischer Ms. Amber Jones Marilyn & Stan Kaltenborn Olga & Elmer Bertch Allen S. Goodman Herbert & Judith Katz Guthrie Birkhead Sonja Goodwin Sally Lawrence Susan & Gus Birkhead Robert & Mary Elizabeth Gosende William Lawrence George Bizer Joyce Grogan Keith Lee & James Gaughan Peter Bogyo Frances Gross Marylouise Ledduke Steven & Susan Bouchey Dorothy & Victor Han Dr. Martha L. Lepow Diane & William Brina Teresa Hansen James Levine Mr. Karl O. Brosch Holly Katz & William Harris David & Elizabeth Liebschutz Wesley Brown Katharine B. Harris Susan Limeri Mr. Kevin Burns Dr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Hart Bob & Nancy Lynk Carol Butt John Hawn Frances T. McDonald Kenneth & Janice Carroll Robert R. Henion III Patrick McNamara Mr. Eric Chan Susan Hollander Alan D. Miller Mr. David Clark Mr. Richard Allan Horan Stephen & Mary Muller Sandy Clark Robert & Ellen Hotz William & Elizabeth Nathan David Connolly Ms. Helen House Heidi Newberg Janet R. Conti Chuong Huang Mrs. Deborah Onslow Jane & John Corrou Marilyn Hunter David M. Orsino Bonnie & Steven Cramer Karen Hunter & Todd Scheuermann Carol & Ed Osterhout Mary Crangle Mr. & Mrs. John & Peter & Ruth Pagerey Cathleen Decrescente Janet Hutchison Donna Sawyer Philip Degaetano Susan Jacobsen Maria N. Serras Ms. Sharon Desrochers Lee Helsby & Joseph Roche Anne-Marie Serre Heather Diddel & Sam House Laurence & Silva Kaminsky Ms. Ronnye B. Shamam Jan & Lois Dorman Donald Kennelly Stephen C. Simmons Family Jill Dorsi Roger & Barbara Kessel Alexandra Jane Streznewski Mr. Robert S. Drew Frederick & Doris Kirk Marie & Harry Sturges Kate & Jerry Dudding Mr. Adam C. Knaust Dr. & Mrs. Frank Thiel David Emanatian Mrs. Margaret Kowalski Avis & Joseph Toochin Hope Engel Greenberg & Robert J. Krackeler Tina Raggio Henry Greenberg Gwen L. Krause Patrick and Candice Van Roey Mr. & Mrs. John J. Ferguson Michael Krempa Jody & John Van Voris Mr. Paul R. Fisk Jennifer & Tod Laursen Mr. Gerhard Weber Lawrence & Susan Flesh Elise Malecki Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Wiest Dr. Arthur Fontijn Charles & Barbara Manning Drs. Susan Standfast & Mr. James Fortino Elena McCormick Theodore Wright Mr. Reg Foster & Hon. Daniel McCoy Estelle Yarinsky Ms. Maryann Jablonowski Peter & Donna Meixner Nancy T. Frank John Mesch Janice & Robert Frost David & Barbara Metz APPLAUSE CIRCLE ($250-$499) Lawerence Gambino Mr. Raymond W. Michaels Elizabeth & John Antonio Ms. Mary McCarthy & Victoria Miller Mr. Lawrence Snyder & Mr. David Gardam Ms. Cheryl Mugno & Mrs. Lynn Ashley Mr. Ronald C. Geuther Mr. William Trompeter Richard & Susan Baker Chuck & Sally Jo Gieser Sarah & Rana Mukerji Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Baggott Barbara P. Gigliotti Ronald Musto Donald & Rhonda Ballou Sandra & Stewart Gill Stewart Myers Diane Bartholdi Dr. Reid T. Muller & David Nichols Laurence & Sharon Beaudoin Dr. Shelley A. Gilroy Ken Jacobs & Lisa Nissenbaum Michael & Harrilyn Beehner Mr. David Gittelman Dr. Arlene E. Nock Dawn Benson Charles & Karen Goddard Thaddeus & Carol Obloy David & Janice Golden Connie & Ned O'Brien Jim & Miriam Parmelee Norman & Adele Strominger Frank Barrie Mr. E Parran John & Sally Ten Eyck Laura Barron Patricia Patrick Jeff Vandeberg Joel Bartfield Eleanor Pearlman John & Sarah Delaney Vero Laurence Beaudoin Linda Pelosi-Dunn Mr. James Vielkind-Neun Sitso Bediako David & Deborah Phaff Janet D. Vine Dr. & Mrs. Thomas & Agatha Pike Marc Violette & Margaret Lanoue Adrienne Begley Ms. Cynthia A. Platt & Stephanie H. Wacholder Anita Behn Mr. David T. Luntz Mr. James Fleming & Lawrence Tyler Christine Berbrick Debra Possidente Waite Elizabeth Bergan Paul & Susan Powers Jeff & Barbara Walton Mr. & Mrs. James & Marie Bettini John Smolinsky & Ellen Prakken Wendy Wanninger James Bilik Mrs. Marlene Pressman Mr. Wolfgang Wehmann Jim & Sara Blake Paul & Margaret Randall Dawn Stuart Weinraub Valerie Bok & Joseph Lomonaco Lenore and Jack Reber Michael & Margery Whiteman Sharon Bonk Dr. Joseph Peter Lalka & Michael L Wolff Ruth Bonn Teresa Ribadenerya Mr. Meyer J. Wolin John Borel Mr. & Mrs. George P. Richardson Anne & Art Young Mr. & Mrs. Joseph & Jill & Richard Rifkin Barbara Youngberg Patricia W. Boudreau John Roberts Dayle Zatlin & Joel Blumenthal Doug & Judy Bowden Steven & Janice Rocklin E. Andrew Boyd H. Daniel Rogers PATRON CIRCLE ($100-$249) Ronald Brach Mr. & Mrs. Harlan & Wilfred Ackerly Mrs. Naomi Bradshaw Catherine B. Root Mr. Robert F. Akland Mrs. Kathleen Bragle Mr. & Mrs. Jay & Aimee Allaud Mary & Bob Brand Adrienne Rosenblum Dr. Edith Agnes Allen Ann & David Brandon Deborah Roth David Scott Alan Charles Braverman & Stuart Rubinstein Ms. Edith Allard Ms. Julia Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Steven & Thomas Amyot Craig Brener Tammy Sanders Dr. Linda E. Anderson Mary M. & David C. Briggs Joanne Scheibly Shirley R. Anderson & Paula H. Brinkman Mr. Robert Scher & Robert Fisher Deirdre C. Brodie Ms. Emilie Gould Suzanne Anderson Lesley Brodie Harry Schofield Ms. Janet Angelis Laura Brodsky Dr. John Schroeder Martin Anneling Ms. Alice Brody Ralph & Dorothy Schultz Susan Antos Marianne Bross Mr. Jim & Mrs. Janie Schwab Joan & Eduardo Anzola Mr. & Mrs. Clifford W. Brown Jr. Walter Scott Milton Architzel Peter & Debbie Brown Howard A Segal Elizabeth Arden Melissa Brown Cynthia Serbent Katherine Armstrong Wesley Brown Dr. & Mrs. Aaron E & Nina K Sher Roger & Judith Armstrong Paul & Bonnie Bruno Susan V. Shipherd Mr. William V Arneth III Crescentia & Bruce Brynolfson Stephen J. Sills, MD Kimberly Arnold Michael Buckman Mr. & Mrs. David Sleeter Jeffrey Asher Colleen Burns Dwight & Rachel Smith James Asmussen Stanley Michael Byer Rosalie Sokol Jeevarathnam Ayyamperumal Victor L. Cahn Ms. Elizabeth Sonneborn Susan & Ronald Backer Richard & Lorraine Carlson Mr. Olaf Stackelberg Dr. Ronald Bailey Charles & Eva Carlson Lee Stanton Anne & Hank Bankhead Duane Carpenter Ms. Amy Jane Steiner Mr. Floyd H. Barber James F. Carriero Sandra & Charles Stern Dr. Nancy Barhydt-Rutledge & Sarah & Patrick Carroll Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Stram Mr. Harry Rutledge Paul & Donna Castellani Lois & Patrick Caulfield Amy Dougherty Gary Gold & Nancy Pierson Mr. Michael J. Cawley Raymond Dowling Deborah & Gary Goldstein Roger Charbonneau Marilyn & Peter Douglas Alan Goldberg Mrs. Jenny Charno Caitlin A. Drellos Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Gordon Mr Thomas Cheles Kevin Dubner Victoria Graffeo Dwight & Leslie Cheu Ms. Susan Dubois B. H. Green Lonnie Clar Ethel Duncan Diane & John Grego Sandy Clark Ms. Priscilla Duskin The Greiner Family Ms. Rae Clark Katherine Duyer Lois R. Griffin John Clarkson Frederick & Barbara Eames David & Marilynn Grimm Lawrence & Patricia Clow Ilze Earner Robert & Pauline Grose Mary Clyne Mr. Seth Edelman Mr. Robert F. Guerrin Mr. Aaron R Coble James Edgar David E. Guinn Fran Pilato & Jim Cochran Dr. Keith R. Edwards Theresa & James Gumaer Ann & William Collins Carl & Joan Ekengren Mr. & Mrs. Carlton & Mrs. Patricia W Corbett Mr. Bryan Ekstrom Susan Gutman Lindsay Countryman Dorothy Ellinwood Mr. Winston J Hagborg Dan Cronin Herb & Annmarie Ellis Scott Halle Mr. Thomas Crowell John Engster Joan Ham Ellen-Deane Cummins Anne Eppelmann Henry Hamlin Constance Cunningham Ari Epstein & Rima Shamieh Stephen Hans Mrs. Barbara Cunningham Donna Faddegon Dianne & Philip Hansen Mr & Mrs. Joseph Cybulski Priscilla Fairbank & Owen Goldfaub Linda Haynes Hardy Dawn & Richard Dana Ms. Rachel Farnum David Harris Mr. John M. Daniels Mr. John Fassett Helen Harris David A. Danner Mark Feldmann Mark Harris John Davis Dr. & Mrs. Reed Ference Kathleen R. Hartley Jenny deBeer Charno Ms. Mishel Filisha Leif & Claudia Hartmark Mr. Dominick DeCecco E Stephen Finkle Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Hartunian Carol Decker Lina Milagros Finlan Harold Hastings Jonathan Deforest Hugh & Susan Fisher William & Gail Haulenbeek Schanck Garrett & Michele Degraff Mr. & Mrs. Dennis & Audrey T. Hawkins Reina Kurrelmeyer Carol Fitzgerald Anthony P. Hazapis Ellen M. deLalla James Flaherty Justin Heller Mr. Joseph Demko Sid Fleisher & Gayle Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Frederic & Ms. Joan Dennehey Joel & Nancy Fox Laura Hellwitz Dr. & Mrs. Anthony J. DeTommasi Connie H. Frisbee Houde Victoria Hesselbacher Mary Devane Roy & Judith Fruiterman Mr. William J. Hetzer Madge Devine Fruscione Family James C. Hicks Deborah Dewey Ms. Diane Fuglein Phyllis & Stephen Hillinger Larry & Christine Deyss Ms. Mary Ellen Fusco Kate Hockford Dr. & Mrs. Frank Dimase Mr. Philip M. Gallagher Joel & Elizabeth Hodes David DiVergilio Robert J. Gallati Edward Joseph Holcomb Justin Divirgilio Shirley Gardam Ms. Terry Horowit Dr. Joyce J. Diwan Wayne Metsch & Lynn Gelzheiser Mr. Charles G Houghton Donna Dixon Mr. Gilbert E Gier Sam House Wendy Dmitri Carol Gillespie Barbara Hrachian Mr. Young R. Do Ms. Wendy Gilman Lucinda Huggins Gregory & Gail Dobkins George Glikes & Rose Leahy Glikes William Hughes Helen Dolan Dr. & Mrs. Ephraim Glinert W. Robert Hunziker Terrell Doolan Gary & Sandy Gnirrep Daniel Hurwitz Robert & Marjorie Dorkin Ms. Jordan Gobrecht John & Janet Hutchison Paul Hyams & Lisa Kwong Linda Leue Lawrence Nelsen Patricia Ilnicki Karen B. Levy Jonathan & Sigrin T. Newell Hon. Irad & Jan Ingraham Janice Fleischner & Daniel Lewis Nancy Newkirk Mr. Thomas Irvin Patricia Liddle Mr. Bill Newman Robert Jacon Karen Lipson Andrew Obernesser Mary James Thomas Locke Timothy Obrien Paul Jamison Enrique Lopez Helen J. O'Connor Ms. Martha M Jarosh Ms. Kathryn Love Diane O'Connor-Easton Mr. Jason Edward Jette Mr. Rudy Stegemoeller Dan Odabashian Annette Johnson David & Francine Lynch Mr. Donald R. Odell Mr. Heath A Johnson Susan Moyle Lynch Ms. Patricia Oleaga Eric & Priscilla Johnson Robert & Nancy Lynk Jeremy Olson Mr. Gary Jones Dr. & Mrs. Richard MacDowell Darren Oneill-Knasick Heather Joralemon Gloria MacNeil Anthony Opalka Victor Juhasz Beverly & Richard Magidson Paul Osterdahl & Deborah Hrustich Stephen & Shelley Justa Marybeth Maikels Mrs. Kathleen M Owens Philip Kahn Claire Malone Ms. Laura Palmer Mrs. Diane M Karol Sean & Mary Jo Maloney William Panitch John & Marcia Rapp Keefe Mr. & Mrs. John Maloy Kathleen Patentreger Paul & Judith Kehoe Irene Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Nancy Patton Carol Keinath Susanna Martin Lucia Peeny John J. & Christine Miles Kelliher Richard & Anne Martula Mr. & Mrs. Robert Edward Pett Mr. & Mrs. William Kennedy Louise & Larry Marwill Bob & Lee Pettie Donald Kennelly Theresa C. Mayhew Henry & Sally Peyrebrune Kent Family Fund Mr & Mrs. Alfred M. Mayou III Christian & Carol Pfister Ronald Kermani Mr. James McClymonds Roberta Place Judy & Gordon Kilby Ellen McDonald Mr. Richard A Platt Edith Kliman James McGroarty Henry & Joni Pohl Mr. Daniel M. Knapp Thomas McGuire Julia Popova Mrs. Nancy Knoll Robert McKeever Jean & Robert Poppei Cheryl Gelder-Kogan & Ms. Beth McLaughlin Mrs. Diane T Poquette Barry A. Kogan, MD Thomas McNutt Maryann Postava-Davignon Dr. Beatrice Kovasznay Mr. Daniel A. Meade Joseph Potvin & Patricia Potvin Geneva Kraus Mr. Sal Medak Diana Praus Mr. Charles Anthony Kristel Benjamin & Ruth Facher Mendel Donald Preuninger Ms. Therese Kundel Carolyn Merrill John & Jennifer Quinn David & Diane Kvam Anne Messer & Daniel Gordon Craig & Dayle Raisig Mrs. Barbara Lapidus & Richard & Beverley Messmer Christopher Rambo Mr. Carl Snyder Ms. Sharen M Michalec Laura Rappaport Ann Lapinski & Fred Barker Mr. Vernon H. Mihill Gary Redhead Roy & Elizabeth Lasky Gerald Miller & Mark & Cheryl Reeder Angela Sheehan & Franklin Laufer Bonnie Friedman Cheryl V. Reeves Peter & Lori Lauricella Michelle Miller-Adams Mr. James & Elaine Regilski Mr. Bryan F. Lavigne Pat Mion Dr. Christopher & Kendall Reilly Georgia & David Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. John Moroney Mrs. Gretchen Resendes Martha Lazarus Scott Morris Ms. Lynn Rhodes Ms. Judy LeCain Mr. & Mrs. Kevin & Susan Riback Ms. Laura Leeds Jennifer Morrow Steven Rich Sharon Leighton Helen Murphy Mr. & Mrs. George P. Richardson Mrs. & Mr. Deirdre & Bill Murray Alexandria Richart Frank Leland Judith Mysliborski Mr. & Mrs. Barry Richman Carolyn & Bill Lemmon Maria Neal Marin Wyatt Ridgeway & Don Ruberg Jacob Shen Edwin & Pamela Taft Kenneth & Susan Ritzenberg Yung Shen Mr. Dale Thuillez Dr. George Robinson Kathryn Sikkink Mr. Michael Tobin Eric S. Roccario, MD Michael & Monica Short Lisa Trubitt & Spiro Socaris Mr. Havidan Rodriguez Wendy Shotsky Alta Turner Ann And Mark Rogan Mr. Bruce Shreffler Mrs. Carol Turner Marilyn & Roger Rooney Mr. Karen & Kenneth Ira Shulman Ms. Josey Twombly & Dr. Ian Porter Rosemarie V. Rosen Brad Silver Daniel & Terry Tyson Anne & Harry Rosenfeld Donna Simms Richard & Rhea Uhl Beth Rosenzweig Mr. & Mrs. Manfred A. Simon Ms. Linda Underwood John Ryan Cathy Sims - O'Neil & Jack O'Neil Michele Vennard & Margaret M. Ryan Diana Skelly Gordon Lattey John Ryan Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Slowe Dr. Elisabeth Vines Mr. William D. Salluzzo Mr. Steve & Marilyn Smith Linda Wagner Alan & Leizbeth Sanders John Smith Spencer Warnick & Robert Sanders Barbara L. Smith Jennifer Amstutz Paul & Kristine Santilli Louis Solano Larry Waterman Mary Kay Sawyer Mr. Norman Solomon Lois D. Webb Henry Scarton Joyce A. Soltis Jerry & Elizabeth Weiss Peg & Bob Schalit Euan F.C. & Patricia Somerscales Ms. Sharon A Wesley Lois & Barry Scherer Mrs. Sue St. Amour Harry & Connie Wilbur Dr. Harvey & Happy Scherer Donald and Morag Stauffer Barbara & Stephen Wiley Dominic Scialdone John Matthew Staugaitis Frederick & Winnie Wilhelm Kendra Schieber Yaron & Katie Sternbach Elizabeth F. Williams Jackie Scholten Ms. Jean Stevens Stephen & Carolyn Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Alice Schrade Margaret Stevens Elliott & Lisa Wilson Martha Schroeder William Stewart & Margaret Wilson Jason Scruton Rose Mary Kingsley Paul Wing Dodie & Pete Seagle Ann L. Stewart Linda Winslow George Jolly & Caroline Seligman Dr. Doris A. Stoll Russell Wise & Ann Alles Valerie Shafer Howard & Margaret Stoner Frank & Beth Woods Elizabeth Shanley Hon. & Mrs. Larry G Storch Austin & Nancy Woodward Anne Shapiro Katherine Storms Bonnie Taylor & Daniel Wulff Jacqueline & Paul Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Martin Strnad Irene Wynnyczuk Patricia & Edward Shapiro Erica Stupp Dr. Shelley M. Zansky Julie & William Shapiro Dr. Erica M. Sufrin Mr. & Mrs. G. William Zautner Mr. Robert L. Sharkey Dennis G. Sullivan Michael & Barbara Zavisky Mrs. Dolores A. Shaw James Sullivan Michael & Katherine Zdeb Paula Shaw Amy & Robert Sweet Julia Zhu Joanne Shay Ben Szaro Patrick & Mary Ziegler Hon. Kathy Sheehan Thomas Taber

IN HONOR, CELEBRATION, & MEMORY As of February 10, 2021

In Memory of Sharon Bamberger Anna Taglieri Joe Bamberger Enid Watsky

In Memory of Neil C. Brown, Jr. In Loving Memory of Frederick S. deBeer, Jr. Thomas Cheles David Scott Allen John Davis Elsa G. DeBeer Dominick DeCecco Adelaide Muhlfelder Robert & Pauline Grose Gary Jones In Honor of Dr. Gustave Eisemann Elinor & Michael Kelliher Alan Goldberg

Kersten Lorcher & Sylvia Brown In Honor of Marisa Eisemann Deborah Mazzone Dr. Heinrich Medicus Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Older Joseph & Patricia Potvin In Memory of Dr. Alvin K. Fossner Robert Joseph & Rosemarie Rizzo Carl & Cathy Hackert Stuart Rubinstein Mary Kay Sawyer In Memory of Allan D. Foster Patricia & Roger Swanson Mrs. Lois V. Foster Lisa Trubitt & Spiro Socaris Maryalice & Bruce Svare In Memory of Rachel Galperin Jody & John Van Voris Margaret & Robert Schalit Sharon A. Wesley Mr. Meyer J. Wolin In Memory of Jane Golub Anne & Art Young Albany Symphony Orchestra Committee

In Honor of Elaine Conway In Honor of Jerry Golub Elaine Verstandig Sara & Barry Lee Larner

In Loving Memory of Adella Cooper In Loving Memory of Roger Hannay Miss Eileen C. Jones Alan Goldberg

In Memory of Elsa deBeer In Memory of Jeffrey Herchenroder Jenny deBeer Charno Linda Anderson Jo Ann & Buzzy Hofheimer Robert Akland Susan Thompson Ann-Marie B. Barker-Schwartz Peter & Rose-Marie Ten Eyck Paula Brinkman Sarah & Patrick Carroll Elizabeth Bunday Charlotte & Charles Buchanan Joseph Demko John J. Nigro Gary & Sandy Gnirrep New York Council of Nonprofits Guilderland Central Teachers Assoc. David Scott Allen Guilderland Music Parents and Friends Greta Berkson Assoc. Mary & Tom Harowski Leif & Claudia Hartmark Mary James Kelly Hill Sally & Edward Jennings Geneva Kraus Leigh & Louis Lazaron Lynwood Elementary Susan Limeri Marybeth Maikels Ann Silverstein Sharen M. Michalec Timothy & Kathleen M. Owens Jocelyn Salada In Memory of Paul Pagerey Jacqueline West Farbman Peter & Ruth Pagerey

In Loving Memory of Beatrice & Robert Herman In Loving Memory of Jim Panton Dr. & Mrs. Neil Lempert Bonnie & Paul Bruno Louise & Larry Marwill Marcia & Findlay Cockrell Nancy Goody In Loving Memory of F. William Joynt Mary Anne & Robert Lanni Dr. & Mrs. Donald Bourque Drs. Marisa & Allan Eisemann David Alan Miller In Memory of Petia Kassarova Julie & William Shapiro In Memory of David Perry Larry Waterman Steven Fischer William Hughes In Memory of Audrey Kaufmann Frederick Luddy Judith & Herbert Katz Richard & Anne Martula James McGroarty & The NYCPGA In Memory of Louise Marshall Robin Seletsky Kimberly Arnold Amy & Robert Sweet Gloria MacNeil Dawn Weinraub Jennifer Marshall Susan Marshall In Memory of Justine R. B. Perry Ann & Mark Rogan Dr. David A. Perry Beth Rosenzweig In Loving Memory of Vera Propp In Honor of Susan Martula Dr. Richard Propp David & Tanyss Martula In Honor of Carole Rasmussen In Loving Memory of Dr. Heinrich Medicus Elizabeth Williams Carol & Ronald Bailey Paul & Bonnie Bruno In Honor of Nancy & Barry Richman Elsa deBeer Jan & Lois Dorman Alan Goldberg Harry G. Taylor In Memory of John Leon Riley Chet & Karen Opalka In Honor of David Alan Miller Lois & Barry Scherer In Memory of Felix Shapiro Susan St. Amour Jacqueline & Paul Shapiro

In Honor of Miranda, Elias, and Ari Miller In Memory of Merle Winn Bonnie Friedman & Gerald Miller Susan Andrea Patricia Donnelly In Honor of Candida R. Moss George Glikes & Rose Leahy Glikes Marcia & Robert Moss Susan Lynch Lynne Nisoff In Memory of Marcia Nickerson Andrew Obernesser Philip & Penny Bradshaw Susan & Robert Obernesser Irene Wynnyczuk Doris Freedman Pock In Loving Memory of Don B. O’Connor Mary Kay Sawyer Helen J. O’Connor Elaine Verstandig In Honor of Anne Older Shannon Older-Amodeo & Matthew Amodeo In Memory of Nancy Winn Merle Winn

FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS, & GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Albany Symphony is deeply grateful to the foundations, corporations, and government agencies whose ongoing support ensures the vitality of our orchestra. This list represents gifts received during the period between July 1, 2019- January 7, 2021.

$100,000+ $5,000+ Empire State Development Alice M. Ditson Fund Capital Region Economic AllSquare Wealth Management, LLC Development Council Atlas Wealth Management Barry Alan Gold Memorial Fund $50,000+ Beekman 1802 New York State Council on the Arts Berkshire Bank Vanguard-Albany Symphony Café Capriccio CDPHP $25,000+ Galesi Group Aaron Copland General Electric Fund for Music The Hershey Family Fund Faith Takes Hugh Johnson Advisors, LLC Family Foundation Mohawk Honda League of American Orchestras New Music USA National Endowment for the Arts Omni Development Company Nigro Companies Pearl Grant Richmans Rivers Casino $10,000+ Stewart’s Shops Amphion Foundation Upstate Coalition for a Fairgame Averill Park Education Foundation The Bender Family Foundation $2,500+ Fenimore Asset Management, Inc. Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust GE Foundation BST and Co. CPAs, LLP. Hannay Reels, Inc. CAP COM Federal Howard & Bush Foundation Credit Union Lucille A. HeroldCharitable Trust Capital Bank May K. Houck Foundation Charles R. Wood Foundation M & T Charitable Foundation Discover Albany Nielsen Associates Ellis Medicine The John D. Picotte Hippo’s Family Foundation Hudson River Bank & Trust Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation LaCorte Companies, Inc. Sano-Rubin Construction McNamee Lochner Titus and Williams, P.C. Stuyvesant Plaza MVP Health Care The Swyer Companies/ The Peckham Family Foundation Stuyvesant Plaza The Robison Family Foundation Carl E. Touhey Foundation Schuyler Companies William Gundry Broughton Sequence Development Charitable Private Foundation The David and Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund,Inc. Wells Fargo Advisors Wine and Dine for the Arts

$1,500+ $1,000+ Albany Chefs’ Food & Wine Festival Adirondack Trust Insurance/Amsure City of Amsterdam Albany Medical Center Dawn Homes Management Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC Firestone Family Foundation John Fritze Jr., Jeweler Lia Infiniti Metroland Business Machines, Inc. National Grid Pioneer Bank NBT Bank Nolan and Heller, LLP Repeat Business Systems Inc. Whiteman Osterman and Hanna LLP

ENCORE SOCIETY To keep orchestral music alive in our community, and to ensure that future generations experience the joy, please consider joining the Albany Symphony Encore Society.

Gifts of all sizes make it possible for the Albany Symphony to maintain our tradition of artistic excellence and innovation and community engagement for generations to come.

There are many options to make a planned gift to the Albany Symphony that enable anyone to leave a legacy of music: - Charitable bequests, including charitable remainder trusts - IRA or 401(k) beneficiary designation - Gifts of life insurance or appreciated stocks - A bequest in a will of living trust

To learn more about the Encore Society, please contact: Sophie Moss Director of Development (518) 465-4755 x144 [email protected]

We invite you to create your own legacy and join the following members of Encore Society:

Anonymous Steve Lobel Matthew Bender IV Dr. Heinrich Medicus Melody Bruce, MD Marcia Nickerson Charlotte & Charles Buchanan John I. Riley Adella S. Cooper Harry Rutledge Susan Thompson & Al De Salvo Gretchen A. & Lewis C Rubenstein Marisa Eisemann, MD Ruth Ann Sandstedt David Emanatian Rachel & Dwight Smith Alan P. Goldberg Harriet & Edward Thomas Edward M. Jennings Micheileen J. Treadwell William Harris & Holly Katz Paul Wing Charles Liddle III ABOUT THE ALBANY SYMPHONY... The Albany Symphony is one of this region’s most revered music and cultural institutions, having won numerous national awards for its adventurous concert programming, recording projects, composer residencies, and innovative educational efforts involving area schools throughout the region. As the premier professional orchestra based in the Capital Region, the Albany Symphony enriches a broad and diverse regional community in upstate New York, Western Massachusetts, and Southern Vermont.

OUR MISSION... The Albany Symphony Orchestra celebrates our living musical heritage. Through brilliant live performances, innovative educational programming, and engaging cultural events, the Albany Symphony enriches a broad & diverse regional community. By creating, recording, and disseminating the music of our time, the Albany Symphony is establishing an enduring artistic legacy that is reshaping the nation’s musical future.

OUR CORE VALUES…

• The power of music to transform perspectives and lives • Excellence in performance, education, and in the audience experience • Championing both our musical heritage and the music and composers of our time • Playing a vital cultural, economic, and social role in our community • Diverse perspectives

OUR VISION… To transform the lives of all people of the Capital Region through the power of music.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES…

• Provide bold, meaningful, and superb experiences through music • Enrich and celebrate the people and history of the Capital Region • Champion the music of our time and its creators in innovative ways • Ensure the Albany Symphony is serving the community through its 100th anniversary (2030) and beyond

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION TASK FORCE CHARTER Incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion best practices in all aspects of the Albany Symphony is a strategic priority to ensure the organization’s longevity and its service to the community.

• A diversity of perspectives creates better art and a better dialogue about art. • Creating inclusive environments helps us to better serve and represent our community. • EDI-friendly environments lead to better business outcomes and financial success.

We at the Albany Symphony stand in solidarity with communities of color against the systemic racism that has created an everyday reality of intolerance, inequity, and violence for many people across the nation and in our community. We support the right of individuals and communities to engage in peaceful protest and add our voice to call attention to the horrific death of George Floyd and the pattern of racial injustice that has become tragically all too familiar.

Anna Kuwabara, Executive Director | David Alan Miller, Music Director | Jerry Golub, Board Chair