Letter from the Executive Director...... 5 Elizabeth Schulze Bio Letter from the Music Director...... 7 Staff / Board of Directors...... 9 Letter from the Board President...... 11 Elizabeth Schulze Biography...... 16 The Romantics...... 21 16 About the Artist...... 23

Program Notes...... 24 Andrew Staupe Bio Make the Most of Your Concert Experience...... 33 Acknowledgements...... 36 Endowments...... 37 Friends of the Symphony...... 40

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ear MSO Friends,

DWhile there are still a lot of exciting performances yet to come this season, like the exquisite Mahler Symphony No. 4 next month, or the incomparable guitarist, Sharon Isbin in April, or the amazing LaKisha Jones’ tribute to Whitney Houston in May, here at MSO central we are already putting the final touches on our 39th season! Elizabeth and the artistic team have put together another winner that promises to be as wonderful as any to date.

Since my first concerts in October and with the huge success of Home for the Holidays and our Year End donation campaign, I’m beginning to get a better sense of the level of commitment and loyalty this community has for the MSO. So many of you are supporting us by attending every concert and supporting our Annual Fund! Some are investing in our future with gifts to the MSO Endowment or New Initiative Fund. And every concert welcomes brand new patrons who we hope will become regulars.

Looking at the landscape of patron engagement, we are developing plans to increase engagement, or loyalty, by those at all levels. So if you have only attended once or twice, don’t be surprised if we invite you to come back. If you attend most concerts, we hope we can entice you with a subscription to all of them. If you subscribe and donate, we want to show you how much we appreciate your generous support and demonstrate the impact you are having on our ability to provide great concerts and multiple levels of educational outreach.

At the same time, we hope to achieve more consistency in how we offer subscriptions, flexible packages, and single tickets. Everything is on the table and we welcome your input. You may begin to see some small changes in how we sell the season or price tickets, but know that we are working to create the best concert experience and most sustainable model for the future. Your continued enjoyment and loyalty are our top priority!

Thank you for spending your time with us and for your support now and in the future.

Jonathan Parrish Executive Director

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letter from the music director

reetings and Welcome!

GThis season, my 20th with the Maryland Symphony as Music Director and Conductor, offers me an opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to my brilliant colleagues in the orchestra, our talented and devoted administrative staff, our actively involved and visionary board, our generous volunteers and donors and most important of all, to you, our audience members, who have supported us with your gracious and enthusiastic presence over the seasons.

© Melanie-Anderson © The Art of Music is all about communication between player and listener. It is an active and vital relationship that allows moments of insight, inspiration, excitement and reflection on both sides of the stage. Each season we strive to challenge ourselves to new artistic heights and deepen our relationship with you in the process.

The programming for this season is spectacular and particularly meaningful for me. I have had the pleasure and privilege to choose several favorite works, such as symphonies by Dvořák, Schumann and Mahler, concertos by Grieg, Rodrigo and Rouse, epic warhorses such as Carmina Burana and The Pines of Rome, a new work by Kimo Williams, as well as unfamiliar, but eminently worthy works by Florence Price and Ruth Gipps. I’ve also relished the opportunity to invite distinguished and beloved colleagues to join us this season as guest artists, including our brilliant Concertmaster, Robert Martin, pianist Andrew Staupe, soprano, Martha Guth, Grammy Award-winning guitarist, Sharon Isbin and the stellar voices of Baltimore Choral Arts.

Along with our traditional “Home for the Holidays” featuring soprano Christine Lyons and the children’s choirs of Hagerstown’s First Christian Church, our Pops series brings back our good friends, the ever-popular Time for Three in February and in May, American Idol finalist LaKisha Jones joins us in a tribute To Whitney, With Love.

This season, apart from our subscription series, we will continue to serve over eleven thousand children throughout the year with our educational concerts and masterclasses, culminating in our annual LinkUp programs in partnership with Carnegie Hall.

Our outreach continues with performances in Garrett and Allegany Counties and in late May, we join the City Ballet School for the world premiere of a new ballet, “The Spell,” created and choreographed by Danielle Horochowski, with newly composed music by Arshak Sirunyan.

We are thrilled to call the Maryland Theatre our home, both on stage and now offstage too, with our offices relocated to the fabulous new expansion. The joyous strains of Beethoven’s “Consecration of the House” will inaugurate a new era for the Theatre and the MSO and I have every confidence that your continued presence and support, will ensure that great music will continue to raise the rafters for decades to come.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Schulze

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letter from the board president

ebruary is upon us and what a month it will be! We have two Fconcerts this month. The first is the wonderful “The Romantics” with the lovely music of Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides Overture”. This should put us all in the mood to come on our August trip to Scotland with a chance to see the Hebrides for ourselves. Join us on a special trip with Elizabeth. It should be so much fun!

February also brings us the creative, sparkling music of “Time for Three.” If you didn’t see them when they were with us before you must come. These young men are exceptional musicians and are so vibrant and are having so much fun on stage, it just makes us go along with them. Their music is a blend of classical, blues, jazz and rock. I hope you can come and have a great time together with “Time for Three.”

This is also the time to consider what the Maryland Symphony means to you. The sales of tickets covers less than a third of the cost to provide our Classical Masterworks Series, our Pops Concerts, the Kinder Concerts for 3-5 year olds, the Youth Concert for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders, the Scholarships for Music Students and the Instrument Bank for students who can’t afford to buy an instrument. Please consider helping us provide Excellent Music that Educates and Entertains our region.

Sincerely,

Melinda Marsden, President Maryland Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors

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ith passion, verve and illuminating musicianship, Elizabeth Schulze has been conducting orchestras and opera companies, advocating for music Weducation, and electrifying audiences in the States and abroad for more than two and a half decades.

Recipient of the 2013 Sorel Medallion in Conducting for her adventurous programming, Schulze is the Music Director and Conductor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. She recently completed a nine year tenure as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra.

16 Bravo! Official Magazine of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra In 1996 she made her European debut, leading the Mainz Chamber Orchestra in the Atlantisches Festival in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She appeared in Paris as the assistant guest conductor for the Paris Opera and has also appeared in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Vienna with the National Symphony during its 1997 European tour. Her most recent international work includes conducting in Hong Kong, Jerusalem and Taipei. Her guest conducting work in the U.S. includes appearances with over 20 American orchestras.

Schulze’s recent guest conducting in the States includes performances with the Anchorage and New West Symphony Orchestras and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Her positions with U.S. orchestras include an appointment as associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, music director and conductor of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, a seven-year tenure as music director and conductor of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, cover conductor and conducting assistant for the New York Philharmonic, and assistant conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, an appointment sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Since the beginning of her career, Schulze has been a spirited advocate for music education. Her far-ranging work included an association with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute (SMI). For over decade, Schulze conducted, taught and mentored dozens of young musicians in the SMI at the Kennedy Center. She has also conducted the American Composer’s Orchestra in LinkUp educational and family concerts in Carnegie Hall and throughout New York City. And for six years, Schulze joined her mentor Leonard Slatkin teaching at the NSO’s National Conducting Institute.

Her music education and mentoring work spans from elementary to university students. She was an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and has guest conducted the orchestras of The University of Maryland, the Manhattan School of Music and Catholic University of America and guest lectured at the Juilliard School.

Schulze’s own education includes training in Europe and in the States. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and as an honors student from Interlochen Arts Academy. She holds graduate degrees in orchestral and choral conducting from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was the first doctoral fellow in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University and was selected as a conducting fellow at L’École d’Arts Americaines in France. In 1991, she was the recipient of the first Aspen Music School Conducting Award. At Aspen, she has worked with Murry Sidlin, Lawrence Foster and Sergiu Commissiona. As a Tanglewood fellow, she has worked with Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier and Leonard Bernstein.

Schulze is represented by John Such Artists Management, Ltd.

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The Romantics Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 7:30pm Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 3:00pm

Concert Sponsor: Medical Professionals of Washington County

Elizabeth Schulze, Conductor Andrew Staupe, piano Mendelssohn The Hebrides Overture Gipps Song for Orchestra, Op. 33 Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 Allegro molto moderato Adagio Allegro moderato molto e marcato – Quasi presto – Andante maestoso Andrew Staupe, piano

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Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 Sostenuto assai – Allegro, ma non troppo Scherzo: Allegro vivace Adagio espressivo Allegro molto vivace

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Andrew Staupe handling the virtuosic demands with Piano apparent ease… I was stunned – this was one of the most incredible performances… Pianist Andrew Staupe A once in a lifetime performance!” is emerging as one of the distinctive voices An avid chamber musician, Andrew of a new generation of has jammed with legendary vocalist pianists. Andrew has Bobby McFerrin, played Tangos with appeared as soloist the Assad Brothers, and has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, San Diego with Chee-Yun, Sharon Robinson, Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Martin Chalifour, Jessica Rivera, Desmond Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Colorado Hoebig, James Dunham, and Joseph Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Swensen. Andrew has a keen interest in Utah Symphony, Arkansas Symphony, performing new music and has premiered Tallahassee Symphony, and many other a number of works for solo piano and orchestras throughout the United States. chamber ensemble by composers He has collaborated with distinguished Howard Shore, Sarah Kirkland Snider, conductors Osmo Vänskä, Bobby McFerrin, Christopher Walczak, Christopher Goddard, Jahja Ling, Gerard Schwarz, Andrew Litton, among numerous others. Other notable Cristian Macelaru, Larry Rachleff, Lucas performances include concerts at the Richman, Rossen Milanov, Daniel Hege, Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress and Josep-Caballé Domenech. He has in Washington, D.C., and Steinway Hall in performed across the United States New York City. He has performed twice and extensively in Europe, appearing on American Public Media’s “Performance in Russia, Holland, the Czech Republic, Today,” and on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Austria, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, France, Home Companion” in 2004. Germany, and Bulgaria. On tour in Europe, he has appeared in distinguished concert Deeply committed to teaching, Andrew venues including the Concertgebouw in is an Assistant Professor of Piano at the Amsterdam, Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, University of Utah and gives frequent the Salle Cortot in Paris, and the Ateneul master classes around the country. Roman in Romania. In 2012 Andrew made A native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, he his Carnegie Hall debut to critical acclaim, earned his Doctorate at Rice University in which New York Concert Review stated with Jon Kimura Parker, and studied that “Staupe gave a brilliant performance, at the University of Minnesota with Lydia Artymiw.

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Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture. The Overture was composed Overture, Op. 26 largely in Rome in the fall of 1830. Ferdinand – Felix Mendelssohn Hiller shared Mendelssohn’s quarters in Born February 3, 1809, in Hamburg, Germany Paris during the winter of 1831-32 and he Died November 4, 1847, in Leipzig, Germany published a fine memoir of his friend. In it he relates how Mendelssohn brought him This work was first performed on May 14, the manuscript score of the overture: 1832 in London. It is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, “Mendelssohn had brought with him to two trumpets, timpani, and strings. Paris the draught-score of the ‘Hebrides’ Overture. He told me that not only Much attention is given to the remarkably had its form and color been suggested young age at which Mozart composed his to him by the sight of Fingal’s Cave, earliest works. This has overshadowed but that the first few bars, containing the equally amazing talents of the young the principal subject, had actually Felix Mendelssohn. Mozart was forced to occurred to him on the spot. The same tour Europe as a young child, playing for evening, he…paid a visit at the house kings, popes, and princes. Mendelssohn of a Scotch family. There was a piano in showed his talent at a similarly young age, the drawing room, but being Sunday, so his banker father invested in the best music was utterly out of the question, music teachers available for Felix and his and Mendelssohn had to employ all his musically gifted sister, Fanny (who also diplomacy to get the instrument opened became a composer of mostly salon music for a single minute, so that he…might even after marriage, despite the social hear the theme which forms the germ of expectations of the time). As the young that original and masterly overture.” Felix composed, he regularly heard his music performed by a private orchestra that The Overture begins Allegro moderato, with played in the Mendelssohn’s Berlin home the theme in the low registers. The violins every Sunday. This invaluable advantage take it over and it rises to a climax in a wave- allowed the composer to develop musical like motion, probably representing the identity and adeptness for orchestration play of waves near the opening of the cave. before his age reached double digits. A countermelody appears in the woodwinds Thirteen early “string symphonies” date as the work grows stormier. Ultimately a from this period – all written before he second melody appears for bassoons and composed his first numbered symphony cellos under soft strings, but soon dies away. at the age of fifteen. Soft echoes of the first theme are heard in the flutes, soon to be taken up by the other Felix’s thirst for travel was nearly as great as woodwinds. The lower strings begin a fast his love of composition. In fact, he regularly figure, and the entire orchestra bursts into chronicled his journeys in his music. He was a vigorous section related to the opening profoundly moved by a visit to a grotto in theme, but now wilder. Strings enter Scotland. For over two years he used his softly, almost as a prayer after the storm. visit as his personal muse and produced The main theme returns, followed by the two works in commemoration of his visit – second theme in the clarinet. Almost like the Scottish Symphony and the Hebrides

24 Bravo! Official Magazine of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra program notes a second development section, the coda in 1942 when Sir played fragments the themes, building tension her tone poem, Knight in Armour, on the through added dissonance. After the tumult Last Night of concert. This led subsides, the overture ends quietly. to her Symphony No. 2 in 1946, which drew considerable notice. Gipps’ style ©2019 Orpheus Music Prose & Craig Doolin is conservative with no avant-garde or www.orpheusnotes.com serial techniques. She composed five Song for Orchestra, Op. 33 symphonies, which she considered to be – Ruth Gipps her best work; two piano concertos; other Born February 20, 1921, in Bexhill-On-Sea, concertos for oboe, clarinet, horn, and string Sussex, England instruments; chamber works, art songs, Died February 23, 1999, in Eastbourne, choral pieces, piano works, and shorter East Sussex, England orchestral compositions.

This work was premiered on January 10, However, Gipps experienced considerable 1949, at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall in discrimination as a woman conductor. metropolitan Birmingham, England, by the She was passed over for conducting positions Birmingham Symphony Players conducted because of her gender. In response to this, by George Weldon. It is scored for two flutes, she founded the London Repertory Orchestra two oboes, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two in 1955, which she conducted for thirty-one bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three years. Her other orchestra, the Chanticleer trombones, tuba, timpani, and strings. Orchestra, which she founded in 1961, played Ruth Gipps was a remarkably talented at least one work by a living composer on British composer, oboist, pianist, and each concert. conductor who is becoming better known Ruth Gipps’ Song for Orchestra was in the United States twenty years after completed just a few years after World her death. She was a child prodigy who War II in 1948, which was a difficult period wrote her first composition at the age of rationing and austerity in Britain. It is of 8. At 16 she entered the Royal College of a short, but complex and powerful piece Music where she studied composition with for orchestra that features the oboe. and . Her studies with Vaughan Williams She was equally adept at performing on are apparent, but Gipps’ approach is piano and oboe, a secondary instrument highly original. Song for Orchestra opens that she learned in only two years. However, with a lyrical oboe solo supported by at age 33 she suffered an extensive hand sumptuous strings. The melody passes to injury that ended any possibility of future the string section where it builds into an performances. Instead, she concentrated on overwhelmingly beautiful texture before conducting and composition. passing to horns and woodwinds on its With her compositional pedigree, Gipps’ way around the orchestra. Gipps begins works were performed more often than the faster second section with an imposing those of most women of her day, but figure in the low brass that introduces an still considerably less often than pieces extended solo for the agile bass clarinet. written by men. Her first big break came The opening music returns in an abridged

Bravo! Official Magazine of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra 25 program notes form, but the orchestration has changed. from a composer primarily known for his This time around oboe solo that was so miniatures. Norway’s musical life was placid earlier has become less peaceful and centered on private music making in the has an undeniable urgency. After a brief home, so the public no doubt saw this work recapitulation, the work ends quietly, but as an especially large offering in the academic with a feeling that peace is uncertain. German style. However, into the rigid German framework is squeezed tender ©2019 Orpheus Music Prose & Craig Doolin music of Norse sensibility and freshness. www.orpheusnotes.com Despite Grieg’s confidence in his concerto, Concerto in A Minor he realized that the chances of ready for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 16 acceptance were greater in Copenhagen – Edvard Grieg where his wife, Nina, was residing with her Born June 15, 1843, in Bergen, Norway parents while the composer worked in his Died September 4, 1907, in Bergen, Norway usual artistic seclusion while composing. This work was first performed on April 3, The premiere was one of cheers and 1869, in Copenhagen, Denmark, with adulation greeting the work that would Edmund Neupert as soloist. It is scored for two make Edvard Grieg a national hero. flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, Interestingly, the composer, due to prior four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, commitments with the Oslo orchestra, was timpani, and strings. unable to attend the premiere.

Edvard Grieg was a student of the great The opening measures of the first Germanic tradition of composition, having movement (allegro molto moderato) are studied in the Teutonic musical capital of among the most familiar in all of music. Leipzig. The Norwegian nationalist received Beginning with an assertive timpani roll, the the best training possible, basing even his piano takes over almost immediately with student works on Norwegian folk music a famous motif, descending tempestuously and national tales. After graduation, he through nearly the entire range of the returned home and founded the Norwegian piano. By the time the development Academy of Music in 1867 at the age of section arrives, Grieg introduces more than twenty-four. His government bestowed a half-dozen themes almost all derived upon him an annual stipend seven years from the opening gesture. Filled with later, removing his financial woes and ornamentation and tender complexity, the allowing him to compose full-time. He solo part, despite its almost over-familiarity, preferred composing in smaller forms – art is deserving of yet another close hearing, as song, piano pieces, and chamber music – new details reveal themselves each time. but he also produced large choral works. The cadenza appears after the development section and acts as a second development Grieg’s first success was in 1868, at the age in its reworking of themes, this time of twenty-five, with his Piano Concerto. unaccompanied. A short coda reflects the Modeled after Robert Schumann’s Piano movement’s dramatic introduction, which Concerto in the same key of A minor, Grieg’s function together as musical bookends to work is an unusually large composition the rest of the movement.

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Grieg’s adagio concentrates on harmonic to help the young woman with the seven experimentation and lyrical expressiveness. children. Robert Schumann died at the Foreshadowing (one might even say asylum in Endenich, Germany, in late July inspiring) Debussy’s Impressionist music a of 1856, not long after allowing a short visit generation later, the muted strings and long from the heartbroken Clara. pedal tones create an ethereal atmosphere. This backdrop adds immeasurably to the Schumann’s Second Symphony dates from effect of the piano’s sudden driving and an earlier period in Schumann’s life that agitated rendition of the melody. Based on rivaled the darkness of his final year. The the halling and springdans, both Norwegian year spanning from the autumn of 1845 folk dances, the finale (allegro moderato until late 1846 was plagued with bouts of molto e maestoso) is a mixture of the virtuosic dizziness and a loud ringing in his ears. For a piano figurations of the concert hall and the composer so attuned to the subtle nuances music of a Norwegian village festival. of music, this proved to be debilitating and caused a complete emotional collapse. ©2019 Orpheus Music Prose & Craig Doolin During the infrequent breaks in the www.orpheusnotes.com ringing, Schumann worked feverishly on several projects, most notably the Second Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61 Symphony. During the Christmas holidays – Robert Schumann in 1845, he completed a condensed short Born June 8, 1810, in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany Died July 29, 1856, in Endenich, near Bonn, Germany score, but orchestration did not take place until September and October of the This work was premiered on November 5, following year. Schumann wrote: 1845 in the Leipzig Gewandhaus under the direction of Felix Mendelssohn. The premiere “I wrote my symphony in December of Schumann´s revised version took place 1845, while still in a semi-invalid state; on November 16, 1846. It is scored for two it appears to me that one can hear this flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, from the music. I began to feel more like two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, myself when I wrote the last movement, timpani, and strings. and was certainly much better when I finished the whole work. All the same it Composer Robert Schumann died in an reminds me of dark times.” asylum. After many years of struggling with the effects of advancing syphilis, he Schumann was very concerned that attempted suicide by jumping into the his “dark times” would be apparent Rhine at Düsseldorf in the winter of 1854. to audiences. His fears proved to be It became apparent immediately that the unfounded as this work is one of his disease had progressed to the point where sunniest and most carefree scores. Schumann’s sanity was only periodic. Five Schumann’s introduction to the first days later, he committed himself to an movement, sostenuto assai, begins with a institution near Bonn, where he would pianissimo brass fanfare, seemingly in the not allow Clara to see him in such a state. distance. At the same time, a meandering Composer Johannes Brahms, a family line appears in the strings and casts doubt friend, moved in as a long-term house guest upon the decisive C major sounded by

Bravo! Official Magazine of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra 27 program notes the brass. As the introduction progresses, key interlude during which Schumann the tempo increases gradually and quotes themes from previous movements, dotted rhythms become more prominent. a solo oboe introduces a particularly Eventually the triple-meter allegro ma non significant quote from Beethoven’s song troppo main body of the first movement cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant springs forth with its crisp double-dotted Beloved). Despite the almost celebratory rhythms. This sonata-form movement mood of the symphony, the text of the follows the usual structure of exposition, original song provides a chilling insight into development, and recapitulation, but the Schumann’s mindset as he composed: opening fanfare returns near the end. Take, then, these songs, The allegro vivace scherzo movement is a bit That I to you, beloved, sang, of a surprise, as most second movements Sing them again in the evenings of symphonies of this period have a slow To the sweet sounds of the lute! movement in this position. Schumann reverses this tradition. This lightning-fast When the red twilight then moves movement is a showcase for the strings and toward the calm, blue lake, the momentum does not dissipate until And the last ray dies the two central trios appear – the first of behind that hilltop; which features the woodwind instruments And you sing, what I have sung, in triplet patterns, contrasting also with the What I, from my full heart, contrapuntal figures in the second trio. Artlessly have sounded, The scherzo ends with a return of the fleet- Only aware of its longings. footed opening section, but the fanfare from the first movement is reprised during For before these songs yields, the coda. What separates us so far, And a loving heart reaches Expressive and melancholy, the adagio is one For what a loving heart has consecrated. of Schumann’s most heartfelt movements. Nearly all of the research mentions its The remainder of the work is filled with “plunging intervals,” and that is certainly music of unambiguous triumph and novel a large factor in this music’s effectiveness. invention – advances that Schumann However, the emotional restraint that was only able to achieve by building Schumann imposes on this movement – upon the foundation constructed by his the denial of an overwhelming musical beloved Beethoven. climax – makes the melancholy much more overwhelming. ©2019 Orpheus Music Prose & Craig Doolin www.orpheusnotes.com Schumann’s finale, as he stated, is much “more like myself.” It opens with an upward sweeping scale from which springs a series of triumphant brass chords. After a minor-

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ELIZABETH SCHULZE, CONDUCTOR

First Violins Violas Oboes Trombone Robert Martin – Phyllis Freeman – Fatma Daglar – Wayne Wells – Concertmaster, Principal, Alan J. Principal, Joel L. Principal, Richard T. MSO Guild Chair Noia Chair Rosenthal Chair Whisner Chair Joanna Natalia Owen – Magaly Rojas Seay – Amanda Dusold Jeffrey Gaylord Associate Associate Principal Rick Basehore Kaz Kruszewski Concertmaster Daphne Benichou – Heather L. Austin- Assistant Principal English Horn Tuba Stone – Assistant Sungah Min Rick Basehore Zachary Bridges – Concertmaster Rachel Holaday Principal, Claude J. Lysiane Gravel- Stephanie Knutsen Clarinets Bryant Chair Lacombe – Thomas Sean Lyons Beverly Butts – Marks Chair Alice Tung Principal, John M. Timpani H. Lee Brewster Waltersdorf Chair Andrew Nowak+ Mauricio Couto Cellos Jay Niepoetter Principal Yen-Jung Chen Todd Thiel – Principal, Reis McCullough Meagan Gillis* – Sarah D’Angelo+ J. Ramsay Farah Principal, William J. Megan Gray* Chair Bass Clarinet Reuter Chair Heather Haughn* Katlyn DeGraw – Reis McCullough Catherine Nelson Associate Principal Percussion Brent Price+ Molly Jones* – Bassoons Donald A. Spinelli – Petr Skopek Assistant Principal Erich Heckscher – Principal, Donald R. Open Aneta Otreba Principal, Bennett S. Harsh, Jr. Chair Mauricio Betanzo Rubin Chair Julie Angelis Boehler Second Violins Youbin Jun Scott Cassada Robert Hayden Jenkins Marissa Murphy – Alyssa Moquin Susan Copeland Wilson Principal, J. Emmet Jessica Siegel Weaver Harp Burke Chair Contrabassoon Marian Rian Hays – Ariadna Buonviri – Basses Susan Copeland Wilson Principal Associate Principal Adriane Benvenuti Julianna Chitwood – Irving – Principal, Horn Keyboard Assistant Principal Stuart Knussen Chair Joseph Lovinsky – Open – James G. Pierne Karin Kelleher Michael Rittling* – Principal, Libby Chair Ruth Erbe Associate Principal Powell Chair Teresa L. Gordon Alec Hiller Mark L. Hughes – Personnel Manager Melanie Kuperstein Kimberly Parillo Assistant Principal Magaly Rojas Seay Switaoslaw Kuznik Brandon Smith Chandra Cervantes Mary Katherine James D. Vaughn Librarian Whitesides Flutes Paul Hopkins D. Marianne Gooding Patricia Wnek Kimberly Valerio – Principal, Marjorie M. Trumpets Recording Engineer Hobbs Chair Nathan Clark – Bill Holaday Nicolette Oppelt Principal, Robert T. Elena Yakovleva Kenney Chair * On leave Scott Nelson – + One-year position Piccolo Robert W. Grab Chair Elena Yakovleva Matthew Misener

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make the most of your concert experience

LATE ARRIVALS EMERGENCY EXIT Ushers will gladly seat you during an Please take note of the nearest emergency exit. appropriate break in the program. In the event of an emergency, walk calmly to the exit, do not run. FOOD AND DRINK Food is not permitted in the historic auditorium PHOTOGRAPHY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES during symphony performances and must be Photography, videotaping, and sound consumed in the lobby. Drinks are permitted. recording are strictly prohibited in the theatre. Please help us keep the historic Maryland Additionally, texting, tweeting, and the Theatre clean as we look forward to another 100 recording and distribution of any performance years of entertainment in our community. Thank related content on social media is also you for adhering to our food and drink policy. prohibited. Any patron who fails to comply with this policy may be asked to leave NOISE without refund. Please be considerate of others by minimizing noise that may be disruptive during the PRELUDE performance. Kindly turn off cell phone or set Music Director Elizabeth Schulze and our them on silent. We ask that you enjoy food, guest artist(s) share information on featured drink and conservation in the lobby. You may composers and works during Prelude, a be asked to remove any disruptive children half-hour presentation that will enhance your who accompany you. It is appropriate to excuse enjoyment and appreciation of the concert yourself if you experience a prolonged bout of to follow. Prelude begins one hour prior to coughing or sneezing. each classical performance and is free to ticket holders. SMOKING Smoking is not permitted in the theatre.

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The Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Directors, Staff and Musicians gratefully acknowledge the donation of services and assistance from the following individuals and organizations.

SALUTE TO INDEPENDENCE Ryan Smetzer Citi Antietam Broadband Sharpsburg Area Emergency First Christian Church Antietam Exchange Club Medical Services Friends of the MSO Antietam National Sharpsburg Volunteer Hagerstown Community College Battlefield (ANB) Fire Company Dr. Boyd Michael Antietam National South Hagerstown High School Dr. Stephen Miles Battlefield Volunteers Susan Trail, Superintendent, ANB Jake Caldwell Board of County Commissioners Ted’s Rent It Center Smithsburg High School Orchestra Washington County, MD The PNC Financial Services Washington County Free Library Community Action Council Group, Inc. Williamsport High School Dr. Stephen Miles Wantz Distributors, Inc. Williamsport High School Choir Ellsworth Electric, Inc. Washington County Board of Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall Friends of the MSO Education Hagerstown-Washington Washington County Commuter MEDIA SPONSORS County Convention and Washington County Antietam Broadband Visitors Bureau, Inc. Sheriff’s Office Alpha Media Herald-Mail Media Herald-Mail Media Jericho Staging MASTERWORKS & West Virginia Radio Corporation Manitowoc Cranes SPECIAL CONCERTS Martin Storage Co. Patty F. Enders SEASON TICKETS Maryland Correctional Friends of the MSO SPONSORED BY Training Center Ingram’s Men’s Shop Associated Radiologist, P.A. Maryland National Guard John Wesley United Methodist Salute Battery Church PATRON TRANSPORTATION Maryland State Highway Maryland Theatre Ushers SPONSORED BY Administration Northwestern Mutual, Maryland Sound, Inc. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Edward H. Lough Micah Socks Barbara Ingram School for the Arts National Park Service Board of Education of OPERATIONAL SUPPORT Plamondon Enterprises, Inc. Washington County T/A Roy Rogers Restaurant Asad Ghattas Martin Storage Co., Inc. / Allied Van Lines

36 Bravo! Official Magazine of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra the maryland symphony orchestra endowment funds & heritage endowers’ society

The MSO’s commitment to artistic excellence is well-known, but such a commitment depends on the generosity of community-minded individuals and organizations who gladly shoulder the responsibility of promoting, preserving and supporting the Symphony’s mission. Many MSO patrons have demonstrated this kind of strong personal commitment to our artistic, educational and community-based initiatives through contributions to the MSO Endowment Fund. However, the need for additional endowment support remains. Continuing to build the MSO’s endowment ensures the Symphony’s continued quality and stability.

To recognize contributors of estate planning gifts such as bequests, trusts, charitable gift annuities or insurance policies, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra provides membership in the Heritage Endowers’ Society. Members of the Society are extraordinary contributors, demonstrating their devotion to symphonic music and the MSO thereby guaranteeing the future of both.

Estate planning is often put off until sometime “in the future.” Through careful planning today members of the Heritage Endowers’ Society have the satisfaction of knowing that their own interests and wishes have helped to shape the MSO’s future, and that tomorrow’s audiences will benefit from today’s generosity.

Contributions to the MSO Endowment Funds, as are all gifts to the MSO, are tax-deductible as allowed by federal law. We invite you to make a contribution to the MSO Endowment Funds or become a member of the Heritage Endowers’ Society by including a provision for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in your estate plan. Please visit with your financial or legal advisors or call the MSO at 301-797-4000 for more information.

Invest in the future of your orchestra. The returns are immeasurable!

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Endowment Funds For contributions through June 30, 2019

DISTINGUISHED ENDOWERS MAJOR ENDOWERS SPECIAL ENDOWERS ($100,000 and over) ($10,000 to $24,999) ($5,000 to $9,999) The Estate of Alberta G. Alcorn The Honorable & Mrs. W. Kennedy Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Abdullah Mr. & Mrs. Bennett Rubin Boone, III Mr. & Mrs. John M. Baer Doris H. Thompson C&P Telephone Company of Mr. & Mrs. Allen J. Clopper Dr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Talton Maryland Conservit, Inc. The Estate of Jay L. Troxell Ewing Oil Company Coopers & Lybrand The John M. Waltersdorf Family Hagerstown Trust Company The Samuel Freeman Washington County Board of C. William Hetzer, Inc. Charitable Trust County Commissioners Harvey H. Heyser, Jr. Grove Worldwide The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Kenney PRINCIPAL ENDOWERS Foundation Leslie W. Mills ($50,000 to $99,999) John H. Hornbaker, Jr., M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Robert Nitzell The State of Maryland Mr. & Mrs. James E. Marsden Samuel G. Reel, Jr. USF & G Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. James G. Pierné William J. & Selina A. Reuter The Estate of Mr. & Mrs. John V. Dr. & Mrs. Joel L. Rosenthal PRIME ENDOWERS Jamison, III Sovran Bank / Nations Bank ($25,000 to $49,999) Maryland Metals, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Tischer First National Bank of Maryland Maryland National Mrs. Mary B. Welty Foundation, Inc. The Estate of Florence Hill Graff Maryland Symphony Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Massey PATRON ENDOWERS Orchestra Guild Mr. & Mrs. Dominick J. Perini ($1,000 to $4,999) Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Pitzer Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Byers Mr. & Mrs. Spence W. Perry Mrs. Agnita M. Schreiber Hermione H. Brewer Rust-Oleum Corporation Susquehanna Bank (formerly Michael G. Callas James Schurz Farmers & Merchants Dr. & Mrs. Jack Carey Mrs. Dorothy Slocum Webster Bank & Trust) Mrs. David Cushwa, III Mr. & Mrs. William P. Young, Jr. Mary & Bud Dahbura

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Deloitte & Touche Mrs. Agnes Supernavage In memory of Rosemary G. Vocke Dr. & Mrs. Breese Dickinson Mr. & Mrs. Barry Tuckwell by Peter & Kathleen Clouthier Mr. & Mrs. Merle Elliott Bruce Van Wyk Volvo (formerly Mack Trucks, Inc.) Mrs. Patricia Enders Venice Inn Paul C. & Margaret K. Massey Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Erck, III Mr & Mrs. Robert A. Wantz Children (Curt, Jerry, Judy G.A. Stewart Enterprises, Inc. Weinberg & Green and Alvin) Dr. & Mrs. Carl J. Galligan Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Weeks In memory of Ralph Sharrett Mr. & Mrs. William H. Gelbach, Jr. Captain J. Maury Werth Mr. & Mrs. Richard Meyer Mrs. Lucinda S. Grunberg Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Whisner Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Harsh, Jr. Reverend George A. Limmer HERITAGE ENDOWERS’ SOCIETY Mr. & Mrs. John Hershey, Jr. (For Donors who wish to make gifts or pledges through estate planning; such IBM Corporation ASSOCIATE ENDOWERS as insurance policies, wills or trusts) Mr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kaylor (under $1,000) Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Hose Renee & Fred Kramer Alpha Sigma Chapter of ESA Mr. & Mrs. John V. Jamison, III Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Macon Mrs. Jack Beachley Mr. & Mrs. James E. Marsden Mr. & Mrs. J. Alvin Massey Mrs. Sara Bock Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. Noia Mrs. Victor D. Miller Dr. Edward W. Ditto, III Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Pedersen The Noxell Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Carden, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Spence W. Perry Packaging Services of Jason & Dadra Call Mr. & Mrs. James G. Pierné Maryland, Inc. Karen Jenneke Mrs. Theron Rinehart Mrs. Theron Rinehart Toni & Lee Crawford Dr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Talton In memory of Theron Rinehart Dr. Robert L. Josephs Doris Dillon Pearl & Odell H. Rosen Dr. & Mrs. Michael Anderson Doris H. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. Sharrett Morton & Sophia Macht Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Tischer Statton Furniture Foundation, Inc. Manufacturing Co. Maryland Symphony Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Z. Sulchek Orchestra Guild

The Gold Chair Society represents a unique opportunity for donors to personally sponsor an individual player in the Orchestra for the entire season. Benefits include exclusive engagement opportunities with your selected player, invitations to Conductor’s Circle events and more. For more information on the Gold Chair society, contact the MSO’s Development office at 301-797-4000 ext. 106.

2018-2019 GOLD CHAIR SOCIETY Susan Wood & Stephen Haines Dr. & Mrs. Hugh Talton Mr. & Mrs. James Marsden Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Hood Dave & Karen McKinney Thomas Dahbura

2019-2020 GOLD CHAIR SOCIETY as of publication date Dr. & Mrs. Hugh Talton

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The following listing includes individuals, businesses, foundations and organizations that contributed to the Annual Fund Campaign or made other contributions during the MSO’s 37th Annual Season (July 1, 2018 thru June 30, 2019)

PLATINUM BATON William Hunsberger George & Nancy Mulholland ($7,500 & Above) M&T Bank Charitable Foundation Northwestern Mutual, Antietam Broadband Meritus Health, Inc. Edward H. Lough Beaudoin Family Foundation Nicholas Mohar-Schurz William O’Toole The Mary K. Bowman Historical Florence Murdock H. Edward & Barbara Peters and Fine Arts Fund Mr. Samuel J. Reel, Jr. Elizabeth Schulze Citi Payment Services Scott’s Development Mr. & Mrs. Gary Smith City of Hagerstown Gregory & Ruth Ann Snook Community Foundation of SILVER BATON David & Suzanne Solberg Washington County ($3,000 to $4,999) Dr. Thomas Tarpley County Commissioners of Doug & Beth Beckner-Mills Mr. & Mrs. John Thomson Washington County Mr. & Mrs. Howard B. Bowen John & Lois Unger Electromet Corporation Hagerstown-Washington County Dr. Paul Waldman & The Alice Virginia and Convention and Dr. Mary Money David W. Fletcher Foundation, Inc. Visitors Bureau, Inc. Washington County Arts Council Asad Ghattas Dr. & Mrs. John Newby Howard N. Weeks, M.D. Robert & Marjorie Hobbs Mrs. Theron Rinehart Terry Wills & Christine Parfitt Ronni Lacroute Dr. Tara A. Rumbarger & Mr. & Mrs. William P. Young Michelle Leveque & James A. Schiro Patrick McFadden Agnita M. Stine Schreiber PATRON Dr. & Mrs. George Manger Foundation ($500 to $1,249) Mr. & Mrs. James Marsden Michael & Brian Ward Smith Capt. and Mrs. William Alexander Maryland State Arts Council Mr. & Mrs. Donald Trumble American Legion Clopper-Michael David & Karen McKinney Waltersdorf Family Fund Post #10 Middletown Valley Bank Mr. & Mrs. Mike Young American Legion Clopper-Michael Michael and Noemi Neidorff Post #10 Auxiliary Mr. & Mrs. James Pierné CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Jack & Cheryl Parrott-Anderson William G. Pitzer ($1,250 to $2,999) Michael & Jane Anderson PNC Foundation / The PNC Dr. & Mrs. Michael V. Attardi John & Teresa Barr Financial Services Group, Inc. Stephen Marc Beaudoin & William Beard RBC Wealth Management Joseph Strasser Pieter & Stephanie Bickford Betsy Russell Dr. & Mrs. J. Emmet Burke Gary & Deb Bockrath Mary Ann Schurz Dr. & Mrs. Robert Cirincione Scott & Kim Bowen Dr. Hugh & Mrs. Marty Talton Todd & Debbie Cornell Ron Bowers Truman Heartland John & Ruth Dwyer Donna Brightman Community Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John F. Erath Jake & Diana Caldwell Susan Wood-Haines & Dr. & Mrs. Jay B. Greenberg Jason & Dadra Call Stephen Haines Janice Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Frank Carden Susan Anne Ingerman & Sun & Twila Cheung GOLD BATON Arlene Siegelman Mauricio Couto ($5,000 to $7,499) In Honor of Elizabeth Schulze Wayne & Paula Dennis Jo Ann Bousum Robert & Amy Kerstein Dr. & Mrs. Allen Ditto Mike Cumberland Dr. & Mrs. Ira Lourie In Memory of Charlotte Seibert Thomas Dahbura Brian Lynch Andrew Durham Doris Dillon On Behalf of Cindy Garland Susan Fiedler FirstEnergy Foundation Joseph Marschner Dr. & Mrs. Brendan D. Fitzsimmons The Hamilton Family Foundation, Inc. William & Gaye McGovern Allen Garst Herald-Mail Company Tereance Moore Dr. & Mrs. Eldon Hawbaker Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Hood Paul & Harriet Muldowney Barbara & Tom Henderson

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The John R. Hershey, Jr. and Anna L. Edwin & Lucinda Hawbaker Scott Burgess Hershey Family Foundation Gary & Iris Heichel Barbara Burkhardt Ski & Sheila Holm Roland & Leslie Hobbs Joan Canfield Jean Inaba Jim & Cindy Holzapfel Robert & Jane Chambers The Reverend & Danielle Horochowski Mary Chaudrue Mrs. Stanley B. Jones Ed & Kathy Hose Dana R. Chess Willa Weller Kaal Marc & Priscilla Howard Arlene & Stephen Clendenning J. Wade Kennedy & Sidney Johnson Ruth Ann & Myron Derr Robin Rosenthal Karin & Francis Kelleher Elizabeth Dougherty Stephen Key Judy & Clyde Kernek Thomas & Sandra Druzgal Mr. & Mrs. Rick Kipe Douglas Lane & Kenneth & Pamela Duncan Andrew Kipe & Norman Morse Rebecca Massie Lane Nancy Dunn Doris Lehman William Lawrenson In Memory of Jack Dunn John & Judith Lilga Duane Lawson & Andrew & Maria Durelli Reverend George A. Limmer Susan Alsip-Lawson Darce Easton Ernesto & Dunia Lopez In Honor of Walter Lawson Eldon & Shirley Eichelberger Henry & Mary McKinney Alfred & Claudia Martin Cindy Emmans Leslie Mills David McCain James C. Failor Ella Mose Joseph & Donna McNamara Marvin Fischbaum Varner Paddack Michael & Eileen Hoffman-Meier Theresa Flak Patriot Federal Credit Union William & Cindy Myers Ryan Flurie Peter & Cynthia Perini In Memory of Richard Besecker Richard and Susan Foot Spence Perry Susan & Denis Rocco A. B. & Janet Fulton Jon Pike & Diana Gaviria H. Charles Ruthrauff Stephen & Kathy Garlitz Jim & Yvonne Reinsch William R. Seabrook Carl & Rose Marie Gearhart Kim Reno Robert & Mildred Steinke Deborah & Kevin Geis Sons of American Legion Clopper- Lee & Patricia Stine Ruann George Michael Post #10 James & Colleen Stone In Memory of Wayne Hovermale Frank & Cheryl Stearn Dwight & Nancy Swope Joe & Wanda Gerstner Mary Helen & Robert Strauch John Ulizio D. Marianne Gooding Wantz Distributors, Inc. James & Stephanie Vaughn Judy Graves Sandy Wantz Michael Vaughn In Memory of Charlotte Seibert In Memory of Bob & Gary David H. Wallace Harriet Griffith Joan Weddle Brittany Whiteside Keith & Patricia Grunow Monika & Carl Wertman Terri & Al Gwizdala William Whaley ASSOCIATE Mr. & Mrs. Rick Haislip Jane & Curtis Wilson ($100 to $249) Marian Hays Patricia & William Abeles, Sr. Susan & Ralph Henderson BENEFACTOR Karen Adams Donald & Kathryn Henry ($250 to $499) Michael Ahern Mr. John Hershey III The Benevity Community Stephen & Jennifer Albrecht Dixon & Tracy Hicks Impact Fund Tina Angle Michael Hosier Lorraine & Robert Blaydes Darrell Batson Elizabeth Howe Donald & Mary Bowman Helen Beair Christopher Howlett Karen Boyer Jeannie Beer Douglas & Anna Hutzell Lisa Coblentz Robert Bell Karen Jenneke Mr. & Mrs. Frederic S. D’Alauro Adeline Bloomfield Elizabeth Johns & Don Evason D. Stuart Dunnan Todd & Judy Bolton Jane Jones Cynthia Garland Aileen Boyd Michael Jordan Francis Gift Anthony & Nirmala Britti Meghan Kennedy Jessica & Cory Green Allen & Elizabeth Brown Michael Keppel Thomas Hard H. Wallace & Susan Brubaker John & M. Elizabeth Klein Stephen Hart Shawn Buck Jan & Mary Kochansky

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Chris Kramm David & Mary Seay Harry & Joanne DeMoll Robert & Susan Larivee In Honor of Maggie Seay Patricia & Frank Douglas John & Phyllis Leach Eric & Magaly Seay Andrea Ernest Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lillard Sarah Silverstein Klaus & Becky Hein In Memory of Glenice & Ed Ditto Paul & Kathleen Skidmore Kevin Joyce Virginia Lindsay Wayne Skinner In Memory of Greg Johnson In Memory of Tom Lindsay Ryan Smetzer Frederic and Susanne Kass, III Gail Lowery George & Penelope Smith Ronald & Sue Kershner In Memory of Tina Prensky Bill & Deanna Soulis Karlen Keto Maryanne Ludy James & Patricia Stemmle Laurence & Barbara King Randy & Beckie Martin David & Naomi Styer Lois Kuhn Laura Menard Robert & Sara Sweeney Shirley Leatherman Peter Michael Donnie Swope James Mann Tee Michel William Taylor Marie Martin-Strader Katherine Miller Stanley & Freda Thawley George & Victoria Messner Michael & Catherine Mock Joseph & Christine Tischer Vivian Michael Rev. Dr. Raymond T. Moreland, Jr. Tischer, Christine & Joseph Raquel Orsini & Edward Dolan Lorenz Nowack George Tompkins, Jr. Theresa Norene O’Sullivan Marie Nowakowski David & Henrietta Tyson Judith & Clarence Pharr Emily & Stephen O’Farrell Robert Wade Gary & Marjorie Rohrer Gerald Overdorff Mary Wetzel Dolores Ruskie Ernest & Darlene Palola Sharon & Alvin Wood Barbara Semeraro In Memory of Charlotte Seibert Douglas Zaruba In Memory of Charlotte Seibert Cherie Pedersen & Robert Cook Ida Smith Kathleen Perini FRIEND Stephen & Sheri Specht Thomas & Linda Perry ($50 to $99) Ann Steck Gary & Cheryl Pryor Robert Abdinoor, Sr. Gloria Stevens Wayne Ridenour Susan Anders Deborah Stotelmyer Rick & Kathy Robinson Marian Auer William & Carolyn Suman Rick Rogers Stephen Ayraud Veronica & Robert Tice Mario & Magaly Rojas HRH Princess Consuela Frank & Annette Van Hilst Shirley Rotz Banana-Hammock Cynthia & Lee Weaver Susan E. Roza Richard & Susan Bell William G. George Beverly Schaff Louise Bucco Victoria Willman & Sue Wert Schmankerl Stube Charles Clark Shanon Wolf Bavarian Restaurant Ronald & Emma Jane Cline Bruce Zimmerman Maggie Clopper

Note: While we make every effort to be accurate and thorough, it is possible that we may have accidentally omitted or misspelled a name. Please contact us at 301.797.4000 #106 with any additions or corrections. Only contributions of $50 or more are recognized.

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