SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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page 8 SSO BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

Officers Staff Margaret Elrod, President Lois Robinson, Executive Director Charlton (Havard) Lyons, IV, [email protected] Vice President Robert Crawford, Treasurer *Debbie Graham, Director of Finance Laura McLemore, Secretary [email protected] Margaret Shehee, Member at Large Alison Krepak, Director of Patron Advancement [email protected] Board Members *Elizabeth Miller, Development Associate Eugene Bryson [email protected] Leigh Anne Chambers Anil Chhabra *Crozet Duplantier, Librarian Jennifer Elliott [email protected] Ginger Flournoy Knox Goodman *Brett Andrews, Artistic Operations Manager Rozelle Hahn [email protected] Brian Hebert *Denotes part-time employee Paul Jordan Jazmin Jernigan Erica Ledet Jerard Martin Sharon McGivney Sherry Pendley Rebecca Radford Joe Rice Wendell Riley Holly Roca William Sale Libby Siskron Anne Wilson

Ex-Officio Theresa Bridges Michael Butterman Alyce Labanics Lois Robinson Rick Rowell Lester Wilson

page 9 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

To say that 2020 and this symphony season have been something we’ve not experienced before would be the greatest of understatements.

The year 2020 has been an extraordinarily frightening, exhausting, uncertain, and sad year for all of us. I applaud the musicians, the maestro, and symphony management and my board peers for stepping up to the plate and adapting to the pandemic and its effects in creative and meaningful ways. From parking lot productions to virtual concerts both streamed and televised, they have truly lived up to the mantra of “the show must go on.” I think the pandemic, as tragic as it has been, has caused us to think outside the box and do things that we might not have considered in more normal times.

As vaccines become more widely distributed, we hope to be able, before too long after this writing, to present live concerts while adhering to the capacity, social distancing, and masking guidelines that are a vital part of mitigation measures.

We look forward to being with you physically in the future, but in the meantime, we will continue to be with you virtually. We appreciate your support during these tenuous times. You have shown your faith and confidence in us as well as how much you appreciate the symphony’s value to our community.

We cannot thank you enough for that.

Warmly, WELCOME FROM MICHAEL BUTTERMAN

In this year like no other, the importance of music has never been clearer. It is a sacred oasis from the mundane and chaotic, as well as a way to express that which is otherwise inexpressible. It connects us, spiritually, to a higher plane, and connects us, emotionally, to one another by reminding us of our shared human experience.

The challenges to live music presented by the pandemic are significant, but so, too, is society’s Photo: Rene Palmer need for the benefits it provides. Fortunately, with every crisis comes opportunity—a chance to adapt and reinvent—and we are “leaning in” to the current moment with our re-imagined programming tailored to these unprecedented times. From televised Independence Day and Holiday programs to our re-imagined Willis-Knighton Masterworks Series, we are working to keep the music playing for our community.

We are grateful, once again, to have First Baptist Church as our temporary home. Its video capabilities allow us to take you “inside” the performance like never before, whether you are attending in person or streaming the concert from home. Programming that makes use of more intimate ensembles provides us the opportunity to bring you gems like the brilliant original scoring of Copland’s Appalachian Spring and the splendor of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in a fascinating chamber reduction.

Your SSO is here for you in times of celebration, as well as times of struggle. Great music sustains and uplift us, nourishingour souls and strengthening our resolve. Together, we will ‘keep the music playing’ and look forward to brighter days in the near future.

Yours,

Michael Butterman

page 11 MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, MUSIC DIRECTOR

Making his mark as a model for today’s Mr. Butterman gained international attention conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized as a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev for his commitment to creative artistry, International Conducting Competition and innovative programming, and to audience as a finalist in the prestigious Besançon and community engagement. In addition International Conducting Competition. As to his artistic leadership of the Shreveport the recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, Symphony, he serves as Music Director for he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, whom Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa, and he has led to national prominence, resulting shared the podium with Ozawa to lead the in an invitation to open the Kennedy Center’s season’s opening concert. Earlier, Mr. Butterman inaugural SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras was sponsored by UNESCO to lead the in 2017. He is also the Music Director of National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova in the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, an orchestra a concert of music by great American masters. uniquely focused on music education. He has recently completed a 19-year association For six seasons, Mr. Butterman served as with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra as Music Director of Opera Southwest in their Principal Conductor for Education and Albuquerque, NM. During much of that time, Community Engagement, and a 15-year he was also Director of Orchestral Studies at tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony, first as the LSU School of Music and was Principal Associate, and then as Resident Conductor. Conductor of the LSU Opera Theater. Previously, he held the post of Associate As a guest conductor, Mr. Butterman has led Conductor of the Columbus Pro Musica many of the country’s preeminent ensembles, Orchestra, and served as Music Director of including the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia the Chamber Opera, Studio Opera, and Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Opera Workshop at the Indiana University Symphony and Houston Symphony. In the School of Music. As its Associate Music Director, 2019-20 season, he returns to the National he led the Ohio Light Opera through two Symphony on several occasions for festivals, conducting over 35 performances performances at the Kennedy Center, and leads each summer. the North Carolina School of the Arts Symphony in a program featuring a new work by At Indiana University, Mr. Butterman conducted Grammy-nominated composer Chris Brubeck. a highly acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein’s little-known 1600 Pennsylvania Other recent appearances include Avenue in a series of performances at the performances with the Colorado Symphony, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, receiving Oregon Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, unanimous praise from such publications Kansas City Symphony, Charleston Symphony, as The New York Times, Washington Post, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Variety, and USA Today. He was subsequently Syracuse Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, invited to New York at the request of the Santa Fe Symphony, California Symphony, Bernstein estate to prepare a performance of Louisiana Philharmonic, Spokane Symphony, a revised version of the work. El Paso Symphony, Mobile Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Pensacola Opera, Michael Butterman’s work has been featured Asheville Lyric Opera and Victoria Symphony in six nationwide broadcasts on American (British Columbia). Summer appearances Public Media’s Performance Today. He can be include Tanglewood, the Bravo! Vail Valley heard on two CDs recorded for the Newport Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and Classics label and on a new disc in which he the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia. conducts the Rochester Philharmonic and collaborates with actor John Lithgow. www.michaelbutterman.com

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page 13 KERMIT POLING, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR

Winner of the 2019 Silver Medal from the Global Music Awards, Kermit Poling is an inspiring and passionate voice in American music. The classical music magazine Fanfare wrote, “the Romantic spirit lives, breathes and flourishes in Kermit Poling,” remarking on his “quite natural musicianship” and a “Schubertian gift for melody.” Indeed, Kermit’s talents encompass conducting and composition along with years of virtuoso including Snow White, (originally composed violin performances. for Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet), Peter Pan, Prince Charming, and Beauty and the After 24 seasons as Music Director of the Beast. The Pennsylvania Ballet debuted Fairy South Arkansas Symphony, 34 seasons as Rhymes last season and Ballet Des Moines the Shreveport Symphony’s Associate premiered The Beautiful Mermaid. His work, Conductor, 27 years as SSO Concertmaster, No Sound of Trumpet nor Roll of Drum, was and his many seasons as music director premiered in was featured in Symphony of the Marshall Symphony Orchestra and Magazine. His score to the silent film Tarzan the Shreveport Metropolitan Ballet, few of the Apes and for the documentary audiences in the Ark-La-Tex are unaware of Tarzan: Lord of the Louisiana Jungle won his many talents. accolades across the country. Kermit conducts worldwide, with his Poling received the Outstanding Artist in Music compositions also performed throughout the Fellowship in 2000 from the State of Louisiana world. In January 2017 he conducted his and twice received a Music Fellowship from debut recording with the London Symphony the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. Maestro Orchestra for an album of his compositions Poling studied at the Boston Conservatory of for the Centaur label. Fanfare described Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the the release as “a fabulous disc, splendidly Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied recorded and executed.” He has been with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Gustav featured with the Orchestra Filarmonia Meier and Seiji Ozawa. In 2012, he was Veneta, the Orchestra of the Province of awarded a career advancement award from Lecco in Italy, the Symphony Orchestra of the State of Louisiana. the State of Mexico, the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, the Shenzhen Symphony of Kermit Poling has been a featured conductor China, and many other orchestras across on Performance Today, the Arkansas the world and in the United States. Educational Television Network, the Red River Radio Network, WGBH Boston and has Poling’s compositions have excited audiences appeared as violinist on Louisiana Public everywhere. His Symphony No. 1 “Shreveport Television and PBS in addition to numerous Symphony” was premiered by the SSO and television and radio stations throughout the Michael Butterman in 2016. His string country. He has served on the faculty of quartet, Within the Orb of Glories Wearing, Centenary College, Texarkana Community received its international television debut College, the Boston Conservatory and the in February 2017 on the EWTN cable Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. Away network. Ballet companies throughout the from the concert stage, he is choirmaster and United States such as Ballet Des Moines, the organist at St. George’s Episcopal Church in University of Hartford, Ballet Oklahoma and Bossier City, LA, and is the General Manager The Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia have and well-known classical music voice of Red commissioned and performed his works, River Radio (KDAQ Public Radio).

page 14 SSO ORCHESTRA ROSTER

Violin Clarinet Piano Kirsten Yon, Concertmaster Jake Hale, Principal Robert Cruz Elizabeth O’Bannon, Sandra Clark Gay Grosz Resident Concertmaster Bassoon Harp Rachel Bundy Ann Shoemaker, Principal Janel Hector Henry Edwards Jonathan Castillo Musicians are represented by Christopher Reed Jorge Cruz Local 116, AFM, AFL-CIO Daniel Santelices Janis Adams Teague Saxophone Kristin Campbell Trevor Culp ______Jennifer Carsillo Paul Forsyth Laura Crawford Horn Technician Staff Kermit Poling Thomas Hundemer, Master Audio Engineer (Asst. Conductor) Principal Rob Whited Adam Black Viola Kristine Coreil Master Carpenter Borys Smolaga, Principal James Boldin Syd Hydro Adrienne Gabriel Michael Drobycki Trumpet Master Electrician Michele Gunn Rick Rowell, Principal Matt Dickerson Mike Scarlato Master Flyman Cello Steve Pyatt Courtenay Vandiver Trombone Pereira, Principal Michael Davidson, Property Master/ David Jankowski Principal Technical Director Brett Andrews Adam Johnson Debbie Graham Ruth Drummond Bass Trombone Stage Employees are represented by Eliot Haas J. Mark Thompson, Local 298, IATSE, AFL-CIO Bass Principal Justin Kujawski, Principal Tuba Kirby Nunez Steven Curtis, Principal Lois Robinson Timpani Flute Chandler Teague, Leslie Daniel Newman Principal Sally Horak Percussion Oboe Chandler Teague, Theresa Zale Bridges, Principal Principal Anthony Robinson Abigail Hawthorne Kristin Perry

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Let the music sooth our souls!

The Shreveport Symphony Guild celebrates its 66th year of being in existence with the express purpose of being a supportive organization for the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. The Guild is also proud to be a supporter of the of the Wideman International Piano Competition as well as the owner of the historic Symphony House.

This has been a most unusual year for all of us. The Guild is so thankful for the many ways the Symphony has brought music to our community this year. Music brings joy and enriches our lives. It can be relaxing, exciting and soothing to our souls. Especially this year we need music more than ever and our symphony brings those things and so much more with each performance.

Each year the Guild sponsors one of the Symphony's concerts. This year, the Guild is proud to sponsor the June concert with Wideman Winner, Alon Goldstein, as the guest artist.

The Guild remains active and ready to be of service to the Symphony and the Wideman organizations during this unusual year. The members are looking forward to the time when they will be volunteering with the Discovery Concerts for the school children, hosting a dinner for the participants at the Wideman International Piano Competition as well as many other events.

The Guild's Symphony House, built in 1872, is registered on the National Historic Registry. It is located at 2803 Woodlawn on the Centenary Campus. This historic house is available to rent for various events such as weddings, showers, meetings and other activities. You can learn more by logging onto the Guild's web site at shreveportsymphonyguild.org.

If you are not already a member of the Guild, we invite you to join us. Please contact me for more information.

We look forward to enjoying the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra whether it is by streaming or in person. So sit back and let the music sooth our souls.

Alyce Labanics, President Shreveport Symphony Guild

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2020-2021 Symphony Guild Board

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President ...... Alyce Labanics First Vice-President...... Sandra Harrold Second Vice-President...... Elena Duke Recording Secretary ...... Grace Bareikis Corresponding Secretary...... Jennifer Beason Treasurer...... Kitty Jo Boyd Immediate Past President...... Sherry Pendley Parliamentarian...... Valerie Taylor

COMMITTEES

Assistant to Treasurer - Sally Gardner Guild Membership - Kitty Jo Boyd Guild Newsletter - Jennifer Beason, Lynn Chance, Janet Colbert Hospitality - Carole Lacefield, Sandra Harrold Life Membership - Elizabeth Beck Memorials and Honorees - Libby Gleason Scrapbook - Elizabeth Beck Symphony House Maintenance - Marianne Mosteller, Bonita Hays Symphony House Rentals - Gay Stacy Telephony Committee - Sylvia Beard, Anne Rogers Wideman International Competition Roxanne Bosserman - Chairman Clara Hemmings, Harriet Daggett, Elizabeth Beck, Susan Hardtner, Grace Bareikis, Sandra Harold Membership Event - Kitty Jo Boyd, Donna Densmore, Libby Gleason

PROJECTS

Shopper's Card Jennifer Beason, Lynn Chance, Elena Duke, Alyce Labanics, Maggie Malone, Deborah Monarch, Marianne Mosteller Website/Facebook Chairman - Jennifer Beason Christmas Luncheon and Auction - Janet Colbert, Hollisann Kent, Ann Leitz Guild Annual Meeting - Susan Berry, Ann May, Bonita Hays, Barbara Zerrahn Music Enrichment - Carol Lacefield, Harriet Daggett, Olivia Hiller Future Planning - Marianne Mosteller - Chairman Elena Duke, Barbara Zerrahn

page 18 SSO ANNUAL FUND DONORS

Platinum Baton— Mr. Paul DeTello Col. Shirley Kelley-Heim & $10,000 (+) Mr. & Mrs. William Flanagan Mr. Jesse Heim, III Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Larry Hiller Mr. and Mrs. Glenn V. Kinsey Anonymous Hollisann and Sidney Kent Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Labanics The Alta & John Franks Dr. & Mrs. Charles Moffet Carole & William Lacefield Foundation Cynthia A. Murray Dr. & Mrs. Robert T. Lafargue Access Health Inc. Lois Robinson and Crozet Dr. Jerard R. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Duplantier Dr. & Mrs. Bill McColgan, Jr. Crawford III Dr. & Mrs. Phillip A. Rozeman Mr. and Mrs. Bart T. McDonald Mrs. Ike Muslow Shane Shehee Paul and Betty McDonald Margaret Stagg Sour Foundation Gold Baton— Marion Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. McInnis, Jr. $7,500-$9,999 Laura Lyons McLemore David and Margarett Shehee Conductor Circle— Deborah Monarch Cole $1,000-$2,499 Linda Nall, M.D. Mrs. Pearla T. Despot Mr. Joe M. Badt Mr. and Mrs. George D. The Jack Webster Grigsby Dr. Grace Bareikis Nelson, Jr. Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Shane Barton Stephen and Constance Pajeski Dr. & Mrs. Jack Berg Mr. & Mrs. Carl Pendley Silver Baton— Drs. Ernest and LaWanda Joe & Stella Rice $5,000-$7,499 Blakeney Ms. Dorothy Rivette Anonymous Barbara (Bobbie) Brasher Holly Roca John E. & Lindsay Atkins Sandra Breithaupt Doug Schaumburg Mr. & Mrs. George A. Frank & Suzzanne Bright Mandel Selber, Jr. Baldwin, Jr. The Honorable and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert R. Carl & Shirley Bernofsky Eugene W. Bryson, Jr. Shanley Jr. The Community Foundation - Jane & John D. Caruthers, Jr. Nell Shehee Ann V. and Robert C. Leitz III Mrs. Lo B. Cassidy and The Nelson Foundation Donor Advised Fund Beverly Cassidy Brooke Gay and Al Vekovius The Crow Foundation The Community Foundation - Dr. Holly Wall Mr. and Mrs. James K. Elrod Smith Family Donor Drs. Robert & Lisa Walter Knox M. Goodman Advised Fund Dr. & Mrs. Richard Wigle Sandra K. Hand The Community Foundation - Mrs. J. Woodfin Wilson, Jr. Nellie G. and Charlton Walter-Poljak Donor Wright Family Trust Havard Lyons IV Advised Fund The Magale Foundation Drs. Neera & Anil Chhabra Concertmaster Ken & Sharon McGivney The Cat Doctor Circle—$500-$999 Mrs. J. Frederick Patten Dr. Megan Conway & Mr. Anonymous The J.B. Atkins Foundation Calvin Head Mary & Dick Bremer Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Weir, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stanton Dossett Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Chance, Jr. Marletta Eddy Ms. Ann Spikes Bronze Baton— Dr. & Mrs. John Epling Arthur & Margaret Thompson $2,500-$4,999 Glenn & Ginger Flournoy Linda Dowling Anonymous Ivy and Archer Frierson Debbie Graham Anonymous Gladys & Ed Hurley Reverend Pike Thomas Dr. Dale Bauman and Foundation Dennis and Susan Webb Ms. Paula Leonard Dayne and Kathy Hassell Eileen and Mike Adkins Camellia Trading Company Brian A. Hebert Tookie & Baker Barr The Community Foundation - John Hussey Carolyn W. and Charles T. Flournoy-Courtney Family Dr. & Mrs. Paul A. Jordan Beaird Family Foundation Donor Advised Fund

page 19 SSO ANNUAL FUND DONORS (continued)

Sharon Bennett Rick and Laurie Boswell The Community Foundation - Will Blanchard Kitty and Charles Boyd Katherine S. Tyrrell Fund Drs. Bernadette & Carter Boyd Judith K. Causey Johnette Waterman Colonel & Mrs. Hugh G. Dr. & Mrs. David Cavanaugh Dr. and Mrs. Steven Whited Butterfield Drs. David & Carol Clemons Mrs. Louise Pons Williams The Community Foundation - U. L. Coleman Companies Suzanne Williams Hardtner Donor Advised Doctors Paul and Danielle Susan Wood Fund Cooper Craig S. Woodring Lisa and Alvin Childs, Jr. Brian and Stacey Crawford Jack and Audrey Zahm Jennifer and Dwayne Elliott Jordan & Callie Dean Jaf and Shelly Fielder Mr. & Mrs. Hubert Debo Associate— Charles Gerard Mr. and Mrs Paul Derousse $100-$199 Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Gomelsky Marilyn M. Deupree Mr. & Mrs. W. Michael Adams Mrs. James S. Harrold Dr. Jerry & Ruth Drummond Anonymous Dick and Clara Hemmings Richard Eglin Anonymous Chris and Connie Holoman Sue Ford Mrs. June Applewhite Sarah Kirkpatrick and Grant Mrs. Sally Gardner Ms. Susan Bairnsfather Summers Jeanette and David Garrett Dr. Brian Basinger Scott & Ginger Lowe Greg & Peggy Gavin Mr. & Mrs. Eric Bates Dr. & Mrs. James E. Lusk Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Glorioso Kathryn M. Beaird Geoff and Martha Mangin Dr. & Mrs. Warren D. Grafton Kelly Beaty Jerry & Allison Montgomery Annette and Mike Hall Dr. George Belchic, Jr. Ms. Patricia A. O’Brien Mike and Whittney Harper Gretchen Bell Margaret Leary Oden Mrs. Sam Bailey Hicks III Dr. & Mrs. James R. Bergeron Dee and Carol Peterson Gene and Ellen Huggs Amy Bokenfohr Lt. Col. & Mrs. Michael J. Phil & Virginia Israel Sarah Boswell Petrosh Jr. Mr. Glenn I. Jackson Jeff Brainard Janie Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Johnson Dr. Gale W. Bridger Dr. and Mrs. Rick Rowell Patricia Jones Allyson Brooks Craig & Judy Storer Mrs. Jane Law Lara & David Bryan Martha Storer Kurt & Patti Ley Kenneth Caldwell Col. & Mrs. David Thomson Mrs. Charlton H. Lyons, Jr. Max and Magan Causey Mr. & Mrs. G.W. Van Hoose Andy and Dianne Mapp Dr. & Mrs. Judd H. Chidlow Dr. & Mrs. Seborn Woods Mrs. Ann C. May Sylvia Clayton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas McElroy, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Cochran Principal Circle— Mrs. Lottie M. McGuire Maria Colon $200-$499 Michael and Susan Muse Dr. & Mrs. David Cooksey Ability Air Conditioning, INC Mr. & Mrs. Robert Neff Jr. Jean Cooper Dr. Glen Adkins D. Keith & Cynthia Payne Veronica Czarzasty Anonymous Alex and Rebecca Radford John H. Doak Anonymous Ashok and Sudha Rao Jeanne Street Anonymous John and Joy Ratcliff Dr. & Mrs. Richard Drummond Anonymous Retail Merchants Association Carolyn S. Fleming Judy Austin Herschel and Doris Rice Charles Fowler BancorpSouth Dr. Sandra C. Roerig George Fritze Helen L. Bates Ms. Elizabeth Scalf Peggy Geddes and Sharon Mrs. Oscar Lee Berry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip R. Semon Geddes Mrs. Harold R. Bicknell Dr. and Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron John Goddard Drs. Steven & Diana Bienvenu Elizabeth Stephens Ann and Dave Graham Joseph A. Bocchini Jr. MD Gary A. and Susan Taylor Barbara Gramling

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Laura Gregorio Mr. and Mrs. Curt Mitchell Dicky & Sally Grieder Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Randee Monceaux Deborah G. Griffith Mrs. Marianne Mosteller Dr. Tobin H. Grisgby Dr. Anil and Laura Nanda David and Susan Gross Jane and Dale Olsan Michael & Deborah Hale Mr. & Mrs. O. Michael Owens Minette Haynes Mitzi Perry Dr. and Mrs. Sanders F. Hearne Patricia Pinckard Mr. David Henington Dr. & Mrs. Donald Posner Mrs. E. R. Hensley Joan H. Potter Ms. Blanche Hirsch Amy Quinn and Bill McGill Virginia R. Houston Tommy and Kay Rabon Lisa Hunter Wendell Riley Dorothy Jarzabek Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Sayres, Jr. Jeanette M. and David L. Lay Tommy Seabaugh Merrilee Streun Leatherman Barbara Semon Charles and Diane Libro George Sewell James Lu Beejal Shah Dr. Aubrey & Joan Lurie Mrs. Eleanor S. Shuping Debby Macy Dr. John Todd Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Mathew Sam Medica and Andrew Twyman Mr. and Mrs. Truly W. McDaniel Terry and Kathryn Willis James and Velma McLelland Mrs. James W. Wood Beverly Miller Donna Wyatt Mr. & Mrs. Mansour Mirfakhraee

page 21 SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY AGENCY ENDOWMENT FUND

Held by the Community Founding Donors to Meet the Foundation Of North Carolyn Q. Nelson Louisiana Endowment Challenge In calendar 2016, the Shreveport Maestri Symphony was challenged by the Anonymous Community Foundation of North Louisiana via the Carolyn Q. Nelson Soloists Endowment Challenge to raise Mrs. D. R. James $100,000 to establish a new agency Peggy and Charlton Lyons endowment fund. The terms of the Principals challenge called for a matching Charles, Michael, and Stephen McCord $100,000 donation to be made by and the Rick McCord Family the Community Foundation if the new David and Margaret Shehee Cole fund had a total of $100,000 or more Dr. Rozelle Hahn deposited by December 31, 2016. Mrs. Sybil J. Patten We are thrilled to announce that we Ken and Sharon McGivney met the terms and raised the $100,000 Assistant Principals with the extremely generous support of Nellie and Havard Lyons the following Founding Donors: Berte and Ike Muslow Matching Donor George and Jean Baldwin The Community Foundation of North Dr. Anil and Laura Nanda Louisiana Mickel and Emily Husted Carl and Sherry Pendley Mrs. J. Woodfin Wilson, Jr.

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page 22 MEMORIALS & HONORARIUMS

Memorials Mr. & Mrs. Quintin T. Hardtner, III (1/1/20-1/20/21) Dr. & Mrs. Larry Hiller Dr. & Mrs. Robert T. Lafargue In Memory of William T. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leitz Eleanor R. Sockrider Don & Maurice Wilkins In Memory of Luci Bond In Memory of Alicia Pineda The Doctors Lucienne and Joe Simon Larry and Olivia Hiller In Memory of Ray Boswell In Memory of Larry Pledger Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford III Mr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr. Mr. Scott Green and Robert D. Smith In Memory of Jo Ann Pugh In Memory of Joe Cage Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III Wayne Buckley In Memory of Billy Jean Reasor In Memory of William Carsillo Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert R. Shanley Jr. Jean Banfield Louise W. Epstein In Memory of Peyton Shehee and Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III Virginia Shehee Michael and Judilyn Wise In Memory of Sheila Chumley Mr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr. In Memory of Virginia Shehee The Doctors Lucienne and Joe Simon In Memory of Winburn Curlin Stan Hancock In Memory of Bitsy Smith Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III In Memory of O. Delton Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leitz In Memory of Martha Smith Mrs. Tom Stagg Mr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. O. Michael Owens In Memory of Dr. James S. Harrold, Jr. Barbara Stinson Mrs. Sandra Harrold In Memory of Sam W. Smith In Memory of Bruce Henderson Community Foundation – Smith Family Dr. & Mrs. F. Thomas Siskron III Donor Advised Fund In Loving Memory of Sarah Holland In Memory of Dr. William Teague Harold T. Holland Tookie & Baker Barr In Memory of Mary McCord Drs. Ernest and LaWanda Blakeney Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford III Lisa and Alvin Childs, Jr. Kathleen Ellis In Memory of Carolyn Murov Mr. Scott Green and Robert D. Smith Anonymous Linda Luck Insurance Agency James and Martha Cirilli Janie Richardson Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford III Dr. & Mrs. Rick Rowell Dr. & Mrs. Larry Hiller John M. Shuey, Jr. Mr. Scott Green and Robert D. Smith Madeline Holder In Memory of Dr. William and Lucille Jean Y. Laster Teague Mr. and Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Labanics Janie Richardson In Memory of Donald Zadeck Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Weir, Jr. Mrs. Tom Stagg In Memory of Dr. Ike Muslow In Memory of Carol Zaffater Ms. Elizabeth B. Beck Mr. & Mrs. George D. Nelson, Jr. Dr. George Belchic, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Crawford III

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Saturday, March 27―7:30 PM Sunday, March 28―3 PM First Baptist Shreveport Michael Butterman, conductor Alexander Kerr, violin

DELIUS On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216 Allegro Adagio Rondeau. Allegro Mr. Kerr

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page 26 ABOUT ALEXANDER KERR

Alexander Kerr’s expressive and Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Switzerland, charismatic style has made him one Austria and the Netherlands. He has of the most accomplished and versatile recently launched a collaboration with violinists on the international music scene cellist Eric Kim and the Dorothy Richard today. In 1996 at the age of 26, Mr. Kerr Starling Foundation, showcasing the was appointed to the prestigious position enormous wealth of talent at the Indiana of concertmaster of the Royal University Jacobs School of Music. The Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. “Starling Chamber Players,” a mixture of After nine successful years at that post, faculty and students will tour chamber he left in June 2006 to assume the music venues throughout the nation. endowed Linda and Jack Gill Chair in Music as Professor of Violin at the Mr. Kerr’s CD releases include the Indiana University Jacobs School of Dvořák Piano Quintet with Sarah Chang Music. In addition to his teaching and Leif Ove Andsnes on the EMI label, responsibilities in Bloomington, he music by Dutch composer Julius Röntgen maintains a busy concert schedule on the NM Classics label, and the appearing with orchestras and in Shostakovich Romance on a series recital and chamber music performances of discs, including “Violin Adagios” throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe. In and “Evening Adagios” released by 2008 he began his tenure as principal Decca. A live DVD and CD recording of guest concertmaster of the Indianapolis Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben with Mr. Kerr, Symphony Orchestra and, in 2011, he the RCO and Maestro Mariss Jansons assumed his role as concertmaster of was released in 2005 on the RCO’s the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. own label: RCOLive!

Regarded by the press as a masterful Raised in Alexandria, Virginia, Mr. Kerr virtuoso with an elegant, old-world began his studies at age seven with sound, Mr. Kerr has appeared as soloist members of the National Symphony with major orchestras throughout the Orchestra. He went on to study with United States and Europe, working with Sally Thomas at the Juilliard School, such renowned conductors as Mariss and with Aaron Rosand at the Curtis Jansons, Riccardo Chailly, Peter Oundjian, Institute of Music where he received his Robert Spano, Alan Gilbert, Jaap van Bachelor of Music degree in 1992. Zweden and David Zinman.

An active chamber musician, Mr. Kerr alexkerrviolin.com has collaborated with Martha Argerich, Leif Ove Andsnes, Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Yefim Bronfman, Edgar Meyer, Truls Mørk, Menahem Pressler, Vadim Repin, Alisa Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian and Maxim Vengerov in performances at festivals in Aspen, Santa Fe, Caramoor, La Jolla, Stavanger, and throughout

page 27 MOZART & MORE PROGRAM

FREDERICK DELIUS (1862-1934) orchestra as well as playing first violin. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Yet he still found time that year to compose four violin concertos, one of Delius was born in England and studied which is Concerto No. 3. violin and piano at an early age. His stern father did not consider music to be an Mozart’s work follows the traditional three- appropriate profession, and as a result, movement, fast-slow-fast concerto plan, but the son entered the family mercantile as a product of the Enlightenment, it contains business. However, after a few years rhythmic flexibility, clear phrasing, and Delius persuaded his father to secure contrast between a solo instrument (rather a business position for him in Florida, than several instruments) and the orchestra. where he found the freedom to study music privately and try his hand at Scored for solo violin, strings, and two composing. He soon got a job as a music each of flutes, oboes, and horns, Concerto teacher and church organist. With his No. 3 is charming and spring-like. The father’s financial help, Delius eventually sprightly opening theme comes from an enrolled in the Leipzig Conservatory for opera that Mozart had written the previous an 18-month program and subsequently year, and the composer continues to resided in Paris for a while, where he display an affinity for both opera and made friends with other musicians and symphony by providing operatic recitatives members of the arts community. He for the soloist. married and settled down in a small village near Paris. The lyrical second movement is marked adagio rather than the more typical an- Delius’ best-known composition is the dante. Although there is occasional miniature tone poem, On Hearing the dialogue between the woodwinds and soloist, First Cuckoo in Spring. Like much of the the orchestra is mostly accompanimental. composer’s output, this piece displays an Muted violins and omission of oboes affinity with nature, both by its title and produce a soft, subdued sound, leading by soft “cuckoos” played mostly by the Alfred Einstein to describe this movement clarinet. Marked “in a flowing tempo,” as having “fallen straight from heaven.” On Hearing the First Cuckoo is rhapsodic, The finale is a rollicking rondo in 3/8, but with a lilting lyrical melody borrowed Mozart presents a few surprises for the from a Norwegian folk song (also used listeners. The action suddenly slows down by Grieg in his Op. 66). Characterized in the middle section, which contains two by lush harmonies and late Romantic, dance-like melodies―one in a slow gavotte English pastoral sounds, this work serves style and the other a faster, genuine as a perfect harbinger of springtime. Hungarian folk tune. The movement then resumes in its original jolly style, as if WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART nothing has happened. At the very end, (1756-1791) however, Mozart concludes the Concerto Violin Concerto No. 3, K. 216 not with the usual orchestral flourish but gracefully and softly, with only the woodwinds. Most people think of Mozart as a great piano virtuoso, and he was, but he was also an accomplished violinist. When only 19 years of age, he worked as concertmaster of Salzburg Prince- Archbishop’s orchestra, leading the

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OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936) displays religious and allegorical themes. Botticelli Triptych According to Respighi’s wife, the composer first mentioned writing a work about Respighi studied violin, piano, and Botticelli while the couple was touring composition with his father, and he the United States in 1927. Respighi was worked several years as a performer so taken with the generous patronage of and composer. While a violinist with Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, and with the an orchestra in St. Petersburg, he took beautiful chamber music hall that she had lessons from Rimsky-Korsakov, whose donated to the Library of Congress (site brilliant orchestral techniques proved of Respighi’s Washington concert), that influential, and he later studied violin and he promised to dedicate his next piece composition with Max Bruch in Berlin. to her—the Botticelli Pictures. He began Respighi eventually returned to his native the score as soon as he returned to Rome Italy, where he became a professor of the following month, and the work was composition and the head of Santa Cecilia premiered in Vienna later that year. Academy in Rome. In 1925 he left the Academy to devote himself to composition Each movement of the Triptych is a miniature and touring, and he made four trips to tone poem that seeks to capture the the United States. subject and spirit of a Botticelli painting. “Spring” is a fantasia on several thematic Respighi was profoundly interested in the fragments. There are ecstatic trills and lusty music and art of earlier times, absorbing horn calls with rich sylvan associations; a not just the style of the works of his Italian jolly little tune initiated by the bassoon; and European forebears, but also a bounding ditty in 6/8 meter shared by something of their ethos. In 1932 he was the assembled ensemble; and an one of 10 Italian musicians who issued a antique-sounding trio for woodwinds. document renewing the hallowed traditions “The Adoration of the Magi” is pastoral of the art: “We are against art which and quietly joyful, with a touch of modality cannot and does not have any human that lends it a slightly Asian flavor. Much content and desires to be merely a of the movement’s thematic material is mechanical demonstration and a cerebral derived from the haunting Christmas tune puzzle...A logical chain binds the past O Come, O Come, Emanuel, which was and the future.” based, in turn, on an ancient Church Respighi’s interest in the great traditions chant for Advent. The closing Picture, of Italian art led him to create musical “The Birth of Venus,” is, like Botticelli’s depictions of three paintings by Sandro incomparable painting—rapt, undulant, Botticelli (1444-1510), whose art often and full of exquisite light.

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The Noel Foundation, Inc. Chamber Music Series brings together the talents of world-class guest artists and some of our top SSO musicians in intimate musical settings. With Louisiana in Phase 3, live concerts have resumed. General admission seats for all Chamber Music Series concerts are FREE.

In-person concerts will have socially-distanced seating and masks are required. Concerts will also be live-streamed on our website; no password required.

I-49 BRASS PROKOFIEV AND BRAHMS Friday, April 23, 3 PM Sunday, May 16, 3 PM First Baptist Shreveport First Baptist Shreveport Rick Rowell and Mike Scarlato, trumpets; Yevgeny Yontov, piano; Jake Hale, Thomas Hundemer, horn; Michael clarinet; Jennifer Carsillo and Rachel Davidson, trombone; J. Mark Thompson, Bundy, violins; Borys Smolaga, viola; bass trombone John-Henry Crawford, cello

The I-49 Brass will present a diverse PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew program drawn from five centuries of Themes, Op. 34 brass quintet literature—from Renaissance BRAHMS Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 to Bach to a new commission, “Commute” by Costas Dafnis.

BEETHOVEN’S SEPTET Sunday, May 2, 3 PM First Baptist Shreveport Elizabeth O’Bannon, violin; Adrienne Gabriel, viola; David Jankowski, cello; Justin Kujawski, bass; Jake Hale, clarinet; Ann Shoemaker, bassoon; Adam Black, horn

BEETHOVEN Septet, Op. 20

The Beethoven Anniversary comes to a close with another celebration. The septet calls for a mixed string and wind ensemble, calling for great precision from the performers. Be sure to catch the violin part—it’s a whopper and will be played by Elizabeth O’Bannon, Associate Concertmaster of the SSO.

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