CONCERT GUIDE Lift Every Voice: Reflections on community through voice and music June 5, 2020 Excerpts from Lift Every Voice concerts 2018-2020 record live at Heinz Hall A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT & CEO

In these exceptionally VII. In this presentation, we will feature Shantanique Moore, flutist, challenging times, there is You think dark is just one color, but it ain’t. who is the Pittsburgh Symphony’s recipient of a two-year precious importance in pausing I would be a fool if I depended on that judgment. fellowship designed to enable one young African American for expression and reflection on Saying something is pitch black is like saying musician the ability to dedicate him or herself to the pursuit of the current issues our country something is green, a disrupting darkness an orchestral career. Shantanique is the eighth recipient of this is experiencing in this time of before the eyes, in the dark. They’re five or six kinds fellowship program—and we know you will be thrilled again a global health pandemic and of black. Some like fingers. And it don’t stay still. by her performance of the Frank Martin Ballade for Flute and dehumanizing racist acts against What kind of green? Green like a grasshopper? Or, Orchestra. our fellow human beings. We green like the sky is just before it breaks into storm? share in our community’s grief I need my breath now. But we can, and must, do better. and pain, and believe that with each other and with our Inspired by and quoting the works of Toni Morrison, Richard We hope for a country of peace and unity. We believe in the community, our heartache might find some solace in the resolve Wagner, Georges Bizet, James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni, strengths of individuals, and we know that appreciation and that we can, and must, do better. you will hear Jessica’s full poem read by Tamara Tunie and empathy can grow when we listen to each other, consider Damon Young. The Lift Every Voice Unity Choir, under the different viewpoints, and take the path of new experience. The The first Lift Every Voice Concert debuted in 2018 as a direction of Nicol Porter and comprising member from 13 area Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is committed to inclusivity, collaborative effort of community leaders, educators, and church choirs, will open the concert with “Lift Ev’ry Voice and free expression, fairness and joy, and the knowledge that sharing musicians. Collaborating with our neighbors to leverage the Sing.” Our amazing host Tamara Tunie celebrates a Pittsburgh great music is a powerful way to come together. power of music to respond to the issues and interests of our legend with Lush Life, and our own Demareus Cooper will sing community is an essential component of this resolve. These Amazing Grace to close the program. Our vision of “Great Music in Every Life” stands for a true and concerts seek to provide a platform for voices and music ambitious future – one that respects and cherishes all members that may not have one. We have been honored to continue But we can, and must, do better. of our community and provides us a path to bring us together in this series the two years since then. We look forward to authentic and meaningful ways. premiering a collaborative, multimedia commission created by three incredible artists Kathryn Bostic, Jessica Lanay, and I ask you to continue to join with us and work with us on this Njaimeh Njie. mission.

But we can, and must, do better. With warmest best wishes,

I am deeply struck by the powerful words of Jessica Lanay’s cento poem, “What You, In Fact, Have,” that was presented at our Lift Every Voice concert just this past February. Following are two of the stanzas: Melia Tourangeau President and CEO, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. I. The state of civilization, which produced that photograph of that white cop in Birmingham, standing on that Black woman’s neck: we’re dealing with human beings; one cannot be romantic about human nature, because the pressures under which you live are inhuman. There is no one to want me—to say my name. Jessica Lanay, Njaimeh Njie, Melia Tourangeau, and Kathryn girl, girl, girlgirlgirl Your woman never fix up your hair? Bostic after the Lift Every Voice concert, February 2020.

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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS LIFT EVERY VOICE: REFLECTIONS ON COMMUNITY THROUGH VOICE AND MUSIC FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2020 AT 8PM Excerpts from concerts recorded live at Heinz Hall on February 29, 2020 and March 2, 2019

André Raphel, conductor Kathryn Bostic “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” Tamara Tunie, host and vocalist Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sander Max Leake, piano Selections from the Cinematic Score With Film Segments from Magnolia Pictures Jeffrey Grubbs, bass (This concert will feature audio only. Thomas Wendt, percussion No film segments will be shown.) Shantanique Moore, flute Portrait 1 – Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am – Damon Young, reader Open credits/Grandfather reads Bible Demareus Cooper, vocalist Portrait 2 – Morning Writer Craft Portrait 3 – African American Women Lift Every Voice Unity Choir Portrait 4 – On Shore Nicol Porter, director and vocalist Andrés Franco, Resident Conductor Traditional Amazing Grace Ms. Cooper Moment of Silence

J. Rosamond Johnson Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (arr. Smith) Lift Every Voice Unity Choir

Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in E Minor The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra thanks its sponsors for their generous Juba Dance support of the orchestra and its Lift Every Voice concerts.

Billy Strayhorn “Lush Life” from Kurt Elling Pittsburgh Tribute The 2020 Lift Every Voice Concert was supported by: (arr. Glickman) Ms. Tunie Classical WQED 89.3 fm, The Pittsburgh Foundation, African American Chamber of Mr. Leake Commerce of Western Pennsylvania, Common Plea Catering, Macedonia Family and Mr. Grubbs Community Enrichment Center, and ACT3 Consultants. Mr. Wendt The 2019 Lift Every Voice Concert was supported by: Frank Martin Ballade for Flute and Orchestra Classical WQED 89.3 fm, the Pittsburgh Steelers, African American Chamber of Commerce Ms. Moore of Western Pennsylvania, California University of Pennsylvania, Rachel Mellon Walton Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, Benjamin Harris Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, Jessica Lanay What You, In Fact, Have Samuel and Carrie Arnold Weinhaus Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, William Ms. Tunie Christopher and Mary Laughlin Robinson Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, Scott Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation, PNC Foundation, Coston Funeral Homes, Inc., Housing Authority Mr. Young of the City of Pittsburgh, La Roche University and Macedonia Family and Community Enrichment Center.

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Phylicia Rashad, host, Kathryn Bostic, composer, and Lucas Richman, conductor, at the Lift Every Phylicia Rashad, host and narrator, Lift Every Voice concert, 2018. Voice concert in 2018, after the world premiere of Bostic’s The August Wilson Symphony.

Adé Williams, violin, performing Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in A minor for Violin and Kiya Thompson and Demeatria Boccella, co-hosts of the 2019 Lift Every Voice concert. Orchestra, Opus 28, at the 2019 Lift Every Voice concert.

4 The Lift Every Voice Unity Choir, comprised of members of 13 Pittsburgh church choirs, was led by Nicol Porter, director and vocalist, in “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” at the Lift Every Voice concert in 2020.

Tamara Tunie joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as host and and vocalist, in “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” at the Lift Every Voice concert in 2020. Tunie is pictured here singing “Lush Life” Shantanique Moore, flute, is the Pittsburgh Symphony’s current recipient of a two-year fellowship from Kurt Elling Pittsburgh Tribute. (EQT Orchestra Training Program for African American Musicians) designed to enable one young African American musician the ability to dedicate him or herself to the pursuit of an orchestral career. Moore is pictured here at the 2020 Lift Every Voice concert playing Frank Martin Ballade for Flute and Orchestra.

5 WHAT YOU, IN FACT, HAVE by Jessica Lanay

I. V. VIII. The state of civilization, which produced that photograph I thought we’d have a little talk.xxxiv What difference My heart is as free as air,lxvi intoxicated of that white cop in Birmingham, standing on that do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?xxxv by the whirlwindlxvii beneath the rhythm of the song.lxviii Black woman’s neck:i we’re dealing with human beings; Where am I? Am I alive?xxxvi Now you. Come on. You may as well just come on.lxix one cannot be romantic about human nature,ii because Entering what one is estranged from:xxxvii Go on. Go on. I got you readylxx for an unaccountable the pressures under which you live are inhuman.iii unbearable equilibrium and duration, beauty.lxxi Some silences were broken:lxxii Tambourines There is no one to want me—to say my name.iv nerve-wracking balance and permanence.xxxviii were keeping time, and the frenzied guitars ground away girl, girl, girlgirlgirlv Heavy...this place is heavy.xxxix under persistent hands.lxxiii That intoxicating thing,lxxiv Your woman never fix up your hair?vi I spent a long time in limbo—xl a hot thing;lxxv be carried away. In the quiet time, we played.lxxvi I don’t want to make somebody else. II. I want to make myself.xli Where are your diamonds?lxxvii Tell me your diamonds.lxxviii Your wounds, show them to me straight.vii It is very difficult for me to say it, Oh—shelter me death—from remembering.viii VI. it can be misunderstood, but you have no idea, Say—where shall I turn?ix I want to draw a map, so to speak.xlii and I can never express to you, to what extent I was even told to fear for my life, but This place,xliii I was looking for this place I could be in.xliv I depend on you.lxxix I just want to dance with you I am no coward and have no intention of running away.x What really brought you where you are?xlv and then go sit at a round table with a lamp on it.lxxx I know what every colored woman in this country is doing— Away over there into the mountains, dying—just like me.xi But, I defy everything.xii away over there you’d follow me.xlvi IX. If we can get this far, we can get further.xiii See? Bet you never saw that far before did you?xlvii I bring thee water:lxxxi It’s echo, shadow, and silent force.lxxxii You don’t just put the fire out.xiv I walked here. A long, long, long, long way. Nobody bring If we had more to drink we could make tears.lxxxiii me.xlviii Oh. I was in the waterlxxxiv—the barely disturbed water.lxxxv I come III. Those woods and that dark would have surely killed me.xlix out of blue water after the bottoms of my feet swim away When, precisely, did the author know Daylight. Have some. Daylight get in.l from me;lxxxvi wade. The open sky, the wandering life, she was in trouble?xv Don’t sound like a question. Here comes the new. Look out.li the whole wide world—your domain:lxxxvii oh, the terror Sound like an answer. Give me the question.xvi There goes the sad stuff, the bad stuff.lii of human freedom,lxxxviii exploring the desire The wound; where is it?xvii I would be a fool to think that there was someplace for a limitless frontier.lxxxix Open up! Open wide there,xviii I could go, where I wouldn’t carry myself with me.liii and accept that this is going to be—it is— X. your life, and to use it.xix Brutal truth:xx VII. Say what you mean.xc History is over, you all, when you are in trouble, when I am in trouble, You think dark is just one color, but it ain’t.liv and everything’s ahead at last.xci That was inevitable— I do not sing.xxi We are in great trouble but— I would be a fool if I depended on that judgment.lv that moment had to come too.xcii Life is not that simple.xciii we have the great advantage of knowing Saying something is pitch black is like saying What you have to do is make it possible for others that we are in great trouble.xxii Terrible Tuesday something is green:lvi a disrupting darkness to be here, that is really the only reason to be.xciv and a wretched Fridayxxiii—we cannot afford to play games.xxiv before the eyes,lvii in the dark.lviii They’re five or six kinds Some want from me, and from you, sympathy and understanding. of black.lix Some like fingers.lx And it don’t stay still.lxi I understand it all too well, and I have all the sympathy IV. What kind of green?lxii Green like a grasshopper?lxiii Or, in the world, for that spiritual disaster, but I have no pity.xcv We’re not obliged to accept the world’s definition.xxv green like the sky is just before it breaks into storm?lxiv What do you suppose I’ll do?xcvi What you wouldn’t accept was that pain, that past I need my breath now.lxv I ain’t going to kill you, honey.xcvii being your present, and still more your future.xxvi But—don’t tell me what to do. Some days you happy, some days you ain’t.xxvii Don’t you never, never, I am strong. Alone, yes, but top-notch indestructible;xxviii tell me what to do.xcviii whatever’s burning in me is mine!xxix I splitxxx—I had to split—otherwise, I would be dead.xxxi I’ll split this town in two—and everything in it— xxxii before I’ll let you put it out. A cento is a poetry form that is made up of quotations from other literary works. The cento presented here directly quotes lines from Toni Morrison’s novels Beloved, Jazz, Song of Solomon, and Sula, as well as her literary criticism Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. It also quotes Richard Wagner’s operas Die Walkure and Tristan and Isolde and Georges Bizet’s Carmen, and from James Baldwin’s Don’t you worry none. Just be still a minute— extraordinary interview with poet Nikki Giovanni, as recorded by Soul! the heart’s right here.xxxiii

6 i Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” liii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxvi Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. ii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” liv Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxvii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. iii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lv Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxviii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. iv Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. lvi Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxix Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” v Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. lvii Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxx Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. vi Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. lviii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. lxxxi Wagner, Richard. Tristan and Isolde, Isolde. vii Wagner, Richard. Die Walkure, Sieglind. lix Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxxii Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination viii Wagner, Richard. Die Walkure, Sieglind. lx Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxxiii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. ix Wagner, Richard. Die Walkure, Sieglind. lxi Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxxiv Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. x Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. lxii Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxxv Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xi Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. lxiii Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxxvi Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xii Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. lxiv Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. lxxxvii Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. xiii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxv Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. lxxxviii Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xiv Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. lxvi Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. lxxxix Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xv Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination lxvii Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. xc Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. xvi Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. lxviii Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. xci Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. xvii Wagner, Richard. Tristan and Isolde, Isolde. lxix Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xcii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xviii Wagner, Richard. Tristan and Isolde, Isolde. lxx Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. xciii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xix Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxi Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xciv Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xx Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxii Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xcv Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxi Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxiii Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. xcvi Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. xxii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxiv Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. xcvii Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. xxiii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” lxxv Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xcviii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xxiv Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxv Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxvi Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxvii Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxviii Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. xxix Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. xxx Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxxi Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xxxii Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. xxxiii Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. xxxiv Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. xxxv Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. xxxvi Wagner, Richard. Tristan and Isolde, Isolde. xxxvii Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xxxviii Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xxxix Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xl Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xli Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. xlii Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination xliii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xliv Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xlv Baldwin, James. Soul! “Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in Conversation.” xlvi Bizet, Georges. Carmen. Carmen. xlvii Morrison, Toni. Sula, Sula. xlviii Morrison, Toni. Beloved, Beloved. xlix Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Pilate. l Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. li Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. lii “What You, In Fact, Have,” by Jessica Lanay, performed by Tamara Tunie and Damon Young at the Lift Every Voice concert in Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Violet. February 2020.

7 recording of Uri Caine’s Passion of Octavius from the University of Miami, and pursued is written and directed by . Tunie ANDRÉ Catto with Raphel conducting has garnered further study at Yale University where he wowed audiences in the AMC hit series RAPHEL acclaim. earned his Master’s Degree. While at Yale, he Dietland as Julia, manager of “the beauty began conducting studies with Otto-Werner closet,” an underground warehouse filled with André Raphel made his European debut with Mueller. He continued studies with Mueller every kind of beauty product imaginable and is the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie and at The Curtis Institute of Music earning a the heart of a mysterious plot. has also led the Moravska Philharmonie. In Diploma in conducting and at The Juilliard A dynamic and versatile conductor hailed the United States he has appeared with the School, where he was awarded the Bruno Tamara was a series regular in Sundance TV’s for his profound musical performances, orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Walter Memorial Scholarship and received an The Red Road as tribal chief Marie Van Der André Raphel is renowned for his technical Houston, Milwaukee, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Advanced Certificate in orchestral conducting. Veen opposite Jason Momoa and Julianne brilliance. An adventurous programmer, he Saint Louis, Seattle, the National Symphony Nicholson. She first gained an international has also developed a reputation as a skilled and Minnesota Orchestra among others. Raphel is the recipient of numerous honors and following in the role of Medical Examiner Dr. communicator. Raphel has led critically He made his Carnegie Hall debut leading awards which attest to his artistry. Melinda Warner on the legendary NBC series acclaimed festivals, world premieres and Robert Shaw and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s In 2012, he was awarded the Distinguished Law & Order: SVU. Recurring guest stars commissioned works by Richard Danielpour, in a concert celebrating the centennial of Alumnus Award from the University of Miami. include such hit shows as , Blue Jennifer Higdon, Kenneth Fuchs, Ellen Taaffe mezzo-soprano Marian Anderson. Raphel’s The Philadelphia Orchestra issued a special Bloods, Billions, Alpha House, 24, Elementary, Zwilich, Uri Caine and Hannibal Lokumbe. international engagements have further commemorative CD featuring William Grant and Survivor’s Remorse. She first came to included appearances with the Auckland Still’s Symphony No.1 with Maestro Raphel national prominence in a contract role in As The Conductor Laureate of the Wheeling Philharmonia, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional conducting. He received the Distinguished World Turns as Jessica Griffin. Symphony Orchestra, André Raphel led the de Columbia and Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional Service Award from Yale University. Raphel orchestra as Music Director for 15 years. de Costa Rica. is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Tunie recently starred in the film Other key positions have included, Assistant West Liberty University. The North Carolina Irreplaceable You, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw Conductor to Kurt Masur at the New York A guest conductor at major music festivals, Senate awarded Raphel the “Order of the Long and Michiel Huisman; Flight, with Denzel Philharmonic for two years. He was Assistant Raphel has led concerts at the Blossom Music Leaf Pine.” The award, presented annually is Washington; The Devil’s Advocate, opposite Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra Festival and Tanglewood Music Center. He the state’s highest honor for a civilian. Charlize Theron;City Hall, with ; for six years. Raphel served for three years has also appeared at the Grant Park Music ...... Snake Eyes; with Nicolas Cage and Gary Sinise; as Assistant Conductor of the Saint Louis Festival, National Orchestral Institute, and The Caveman’s Valentine, opposite Samuel Symphony. Brevard Music Festival, and the Campos do L. Jackson, to name a few. She also made her Jordao Festival in Brazil. TAMARA feature film directorial debut with the indie Raphel enjoys an active career as guest TUNIE romantic comedy See You in September starring conductor. During the 2019-20 season, he Raphel has a strong commitment to education Estella Warren and Justin Kirk. makes his subscription series debut with the and community engagement. Boston Symphony. He also appears with the His commitment to education is reflected in The Pittsburgh native boasts a storied career Pittsburgh Symphony, Reading Symphony his work at leading conservatories and training in theater both as an actor and a producer. and leads the Ann Arbor Symphony. Raphel programs. He has led the Juilliard Orchestra, Tamara Tunie is an award-winning actor, On Broadway, she produced hit shows: Spring returns to Wheeling for a special concert New World Symphony, Kennedy Center director and producer whose body of work has Awakening (winner of the 2007 Tony Award leading Beethoven’s Mass in C as part of Summer Music Institute and Henry Mancini garnered international acclaim and brings to for Best Musical and Drama Desk Award Beethoven’s 250th Anniversary. He has Institute Orchestra. During his tenure with light important social issues. for Outstanding Musical), Magic/Bird, and appeared with most of the major American the Saint Louis Symphony, he served as Music August Wilson’s Radio Golf (2007 Tony and orchestras including Boston Symphony, Director of the orchestra’s In Unison program, She is currently recurring on both Almost Drama Desk Award Nominee for Best Play). Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra a partnership between the orchestra and local Family opposite Timothy Hutton and She produced Frog Kiss: The Musical – a re- and the New York Philharmonic. Raphel has churches. Emergence. Tamara was a series regular in imagined “bedtime story” with a bawdy twist led Germany’s Bamberg Symphony in two the BBC/Netflix drama Black Earth Rising as at Virginia Stage Company. Tunie starred recordings for Bavarian Broadcasting. He Born André Raphel Smith in Durham, North Eunice Clayton, Assistant Director of African in Tony Award-winning playwright Robert made his Los Angeles debut conducting at the Carolina he began formal music lessons at age Affairs, starring opposite of John Goodman Schenkkan’s two-person political suspense gala opening of The Broad museum. A new 11. He received his Bachelor of Music degree and Michaela Coel. The international thriller thriller Building the Wall alongside James

8 Badge Dale at New World Stages. Prior, Max spent time playing in show-bands in the As of January of 2017, Max is an adjunct opportunity to perform as a full-time member she realized the role of Marvelous in Danai Catskill Mountains of New York backing up professor at the Mary Pappert School of Music of that ensemble for two seasons. Gurira’s Familiar, for which she won an Obie; variety acts, comedians and singers. He also at Duquesne University. He also is the musical she brought Kendra to life in the Barrington cruised around the Western hemisphere as director for the actress, producer, and vocalist In addition to his orchestral achievements, he Stage Company’s world premiere production a house pianist in the showbands on many Tamara Tunie. is also an accomplished jazz bassist. In 1986, he of American Son; and portrayed the Lead different Princess Cruises ships. won Downbeat Magazine’s “Dee Bee” award for In October 2019, Max was honored as a Best Collegiate Bass Soloist from a submittal of Detective in Steven Soderbergh’s The Library Pittsburgh Jazz Legend by Manchester at The Public Theatre. She starred as Maggie In 1985 he released his self-produced album a recording of his work with the Youngstown Buns in the Sun on Visionary Records, a record Craftmen’s Guild’s jazz program, MCG Jazz. State University Jazz Ensemble. He has in the first all African American production This honor is given every year to five jazz of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, label started by Max and Mike Hurzon (owner performed and recorded with many touring of the “Tracking Station”, an independent musicians from Pittsburgh, who have spent internationally known jazz artists, including Calpurnia in Julius Caesar opposite Denzel their lives performing and supporting jazz in Washington, and the 20th anniversary post- record promotion company). The album Nat Adderly, Kenny Burrell, Joe Lovano, Diane drew widespread airplay nationally and was the Pittsburgh area jazz scene. Schur, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ira Sullivan and 9/11 benefit concert of Dreamgirls. She also ...... shared the Broadway stage with the late, great reviewed favorably by many newspapers and Joe Williams. Grubbs is currently quite active Lena Horne in the musical Lena Horne: The trade publications. performing in the Pittsburgh jazz community. Lady and Her Music. Max has gone on to produce, compose for and JEFFREY Grubbs has served as a faculty member record with dozens of other artists including GRUBBS of Carnegie Mellon University, Florida Beyond acting, producing, and directing, Mesa Blue Moon recording artist Tim Eyermann International University, Clark-Atlanta Tunie is deeply engaged in several community and East Coast Offering, Heads Up records University, the University of Pittsburgh, the and philanthropic efforts. She has served artist Kenny Blake, Salsamba, Billy Price and the Brevard Music School and Slippery Rock as chair emerita of the Board of Directors Balcony Big Band on Corona Records. University. He also served as associate professor of Figure Skating in Harlem, a nonprofit Jeffrey Grubbs joined the Pittsburgh of jazz double bass at the University of Illinois organization that teaches education and Max has been recording, composing, arranging at Urbana/Champaign and is currently serving life skills to young girls through the art and and performing for 35 years with some of the Symphony Orchestra in 1996 after playing in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the as adjunct professor of string bass at Indiana discipline of figure skating. Tunie also is best jazz and blues artists in the world including University of Pennsylvania. President of the Board of Directors at Harlem Roger Humphries, Stanley Turrentine, Rick Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Grubbs enjoys living in the City of Pittsburgh Stage/The Gatehouse, a board member of Margitza, Dwayne Dolphin, Henry Johnson, Grubbs, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, received God’s Love We Deliver, and she serves on the Rebecca Parris, Billy Price, Joe Negri, Sandy with his wife, Tania, and their three children. his musical training at Youngstown State ...... Advisory Board of Hearts of Gold. Staley, the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild University, The Cleveland Institute of Music ...... Orchestra, Tommy Tedesco, David “Fathead” and the University of Southern California and Newman, Don Latarski, Al Dowe and Etta is a student of Lawrence Angell, Paul Ellison, THOMAS MAX Cox and the Balcony Big Band, just to name a Ralph Jones, Anthony Knight and Tony WENDT few. He was voted “Best Jazz Keyboardist” in Leonardi. LEAKE the In Pittsburgh music awards in 1989, 1991 and in 1995. He started as a violinist at the age of 9 and later switched to the double bass at age 18. Max began composing and performing music With this late start, Grubbs gained a great for websites, videos, planetarium shows deal of experience as a student by working Thomas Wendt has been playing the drums and CD-ROMs for various advertising and professionally since the age of 14. A graduate Max Leake has been a part of jazz piano in very diligently and becoming very active in multimedia production companies with his the Northeast Ohio‑area music community of The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative Pittsburgh since the 1970s. He began his own home-based music production company. and Performing Arts, he has studied with musical training at age six. By the time he was performing with many of the symphony He is currently a multimedia developer for orchestras in that region. While a student master drummers Roger Humphries, Joe 15, he was working with local Pittsburgh bands the WISER Institute, which is a medical Harris, and Kenny Washington. Thomas and backing up national acts in local supper at USC, he won the position of orchestral simulation education facility and actively fellow with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra maintains a busy freelancing schedule with clubs. At the age of 18, Max was traveling performs, composes, arranges and produces for Pittsburgh’s top jazz artists such as Dwayne around the country with acts such as the “Ink through the Music Assistance Fund, now the live performances, multimedia, and recordings. Sphinx Organization, which gave him the Dolphin, Joe Negri, Sean Jones, David Budway, Spots” and the “Marcels”. Kenia, the Latin jazz group, Salsamba, and the

9 newly re-formed Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra. He recipient of a fellowship from the Pittsburgh best books of 2019, called it an “outstanding Greater Allen AME Church has also played with many visiting international Symphony’s EQT Orchestra Training collection of nonfiction” and The Washington Greater Works Outreach artists like David “Fathead” Newman, Donald Program for African American Musicians Post “hilarious” and “unflinching.” Kingdom Light Ministries International Byrd, James Moody, Jimmy Heath, Clark (OTPAAM). Legacy International Worship Center Terry, Benny Golson, Phil Woods, Freddy ...... A native Pittsburgher who attended Canisius Mount Ararat Baptist Church Cole, Monty Alexander, Bill Watrous, Paquito College on a basketball scholarship, Damon New Hope Baptist Church D’Rivera, Curtis Lundy, Wycliffe Gordon, DAMON currently resides in Pittsburgh’s Northside, Pentecostal Temple COGIC Ann Hampton Calloway and Javon Jackson. with his wife and two children. Potter’s House Ministries In 2008, Thomas played on the Emmy Award YOUNG ...... Solid Rock Church winning soundtrack for the PBS documentary, ...... “Fly Boys” and in 2010 he recorded an album DEMAREUS featuring trombonists Jay Ashby and Steve Davis, entitled Mistaken Identity. Thomas has COOPER NICOL also recorded albums with Gene Ludwig, Sandy Damon Young is a writer, critic, humorist, PORTER Staley, Salsamba, David and Maureen Budway, satirist, and professional Black person. and Joe Negri. Recently, he has been working He’s a co-founder and editor in chief of with Jazz legend Hubert Laws and has appeared VerySmartBrothas—coined “the blackest with him at the Litchfield Jazz Festival and thing that ever happened to the internet” A Teacher of Voice at Pittsburgh’s Creative and the Miami Jazz Festival. In 2013, Thomas by The Washington Post and acquired by Performing Arts High School, Ms. Cooper is Recording artist Nicol “Nikki” Porter has performed with pianist Alan Broadbent for the Univision and Gizmodo Media Group to be honored to celebrate tonights iconic women. traveled throughout the United States Nyack NY Library Concert Series. Thomas a vertical of The Root—and a columnist for Performance highlights include: and Europe singing and teaching Gospel has been on the faculty at the Afro-American GQ. His work has been featured in The New music. Annually, she teaches at the Gospel Music Institute in Homewood since 1998 and York Times, The Washington Post, LitHub, Singing Earth for A Gathering of Sons, awarded Connection conference in Assisi, Italy, Duquesne University since 2016. Time Magazine, Slate, LongReads, Salon, Bronze Medal for Pittsburgh Festival Opera’s directing a 350-voice mass choir comprised of ...... The Guardian, New York Magazine, EBONY, “Music That Matters” Series. Alto Soloist for singers from all over Italy. Jezebel, and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Mendelssohn Choir’s acclaimed “Let My People SHANTANIQUE Go” a Spiritual Journey Along the Underground Some of her favorite performances include Damon’s writing—which vacillates from Railroad. “Narrator” for Leonard Bernstein’s singing at Verizon’s How Sweet the Sound MOORE anthropological satire and absurdist racial On The Town in Concert for Resonance Works. pre-Stellar Awards showcase at the Grand Ole insights to razor sharp cultural critique and Guest Artist for Renaissance City Winds Opry Theater in Nashville, TN, touring as unflinching indictments of privilege and “An Evening of Art Songs”. The “Narrator” actress/singer with the hit Gospel musical stage bias—has often generated praise from from his for Aaron Copland’s Lincoln’s Portrait with play The Bold & The Sanctified II featuring peers. Ava DuVernay called his voice “clear and Edgewood Symphony. Since Dec. 2018, Ms. Ruben Studdard, opening for Kirk Franklin Shantanique Moore, flutist, is an accomplished critical.” Micheal Eric Dyson said he’s “one of Cooper has had the honor of presenting “The in Pittsburgh, PA, singing background vocals musician and flute instructor. She has the most important young voices in humor Demareus N. Cooper Encouragment Award” with Grammy-Award winning recording performed with the Detroit Symphony writing today.” And Kiese Laymon called at the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions. artist Common and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony and the his work “the best of American twenty-first ...... Orchestra at Heinz Hall and touring Europe’s Fort Wayne Philharmonic, among others. century writing.” beautiful cathedrals and Opera houses singing Ms. Moore is the winner of First Prize in the LIFT EVERY VOICE Gospel music. Ervin Monore Young Artist Competition Damon’s debut memoir—What Doesn’t Kill You UNITY CHOIR (2016), the Southern Great Lakes Concerto Makes You Blacker: A Memoir In Essays (Ecco/ Nikki is the Minister of Music at Eastminster Competition (2013), and the Wayne State HarperCollins)­— is a tragicomic exploration Amplify Church - East Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA, a cross- Concerto Competition (2012). She is a of the angsts, anxieties, and absurdities of Cathedral of Deliverance cultural inner-city congregation in Pittsburgh’s graduate of Wayne State University (Master of existing while black in America, and was Eastminster Presbyterian Church East End. She has provided oversight of the Music, Flute Performance; Bachelor of Music, selected for a PEN America Literary Awards Friendship Community Presbyterian church’s music department for fifteen years: Flute Performance). Ms. Moore is the eighth longlist. NPR, which named it one of the Church leading singing at worship services, directing

10 the adult and youth praise teams, Children’s and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Worldwide, and Mass Choirs and teaching private he has conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica KATHRYN For the Sundance Grand Jury Winner voice lessons in the church’s after-school de Castilla y León/Spain, the Orquesta BOSTIC Clemency, released with Neon Pictures in music program, The Judah Project, which Sinaloa de las Artes/Mexico, the National December 2019, Bostic provided the original she established in 2005. In addition to her Symphony Orchestra of Peru, as well as the score, wrote and performed the featured musical responsibilities, she was promoted to Bogotá Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica original song “Slow Train,” and served as Head of Staff in 2013. In November 2019, Nacional, Medellin Philharmonic, and executive producer. the YWCA Greater Pittsburgh named Nikki EAFIT Symphony Orchestra in Colombia. Kathryn Bostic is a composer and artist known as their Racial Justice Awards Common He has also appeared at the Cabrillo, Grant for her work on award-winning films, TV, and In the concert world, Bostic most recently Ground Award recipient for her work in Park, OK Mozart, Oregon Bach, Round live theater. She is a recipient of numerous premiered a new work at a Masterworks racial reconciliation at Eastminster and Top, and Texas Music festivals. fellowships and awards including the Sundance concert “Tovaangar: Coronation and Chaos,” throughout Greater Pittsburgh. Institute/Time Warner Fellowship, which in commissioned and performed by the Bangor Andrés Franco formerly served as resident part funded the development of The August Symphony Orchestra. Nikki received her bachelor’s degree in conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Wilson Symphony (along with the Pittsburgh Business Administration from Duquesne Orchestra, and as Leonard Slatkin’s assistant Symphony Orchestra, which premiered it in Bostic has written for Broadway, most University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she also conductor during the 14th Van Cliburn 2018), Sundance Fellowships for Feature Film notably collaborating with the award-winning studied jazz voice with the late Maureen International Piano Competition. Scoring, Sundance/Skywalker Documentary playwright August Wilson on Gem of the Budway and founded the Gospel Choir, Film Scoring, BMI Conducting Fellowship, Ocean and various productions of his last the Gospel Joynotes. Her private music Born into a musical family, Mr. Franco began and Best Music in Film by the African play Radio Golf as well as the Mark Taper studies include piano, voice and flute and piano studies with his father, Jorge Franco. American Film Critics Association. production of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone she attended the Reformed Presbyterian An accomplished pianist, he studied with directed by Phylicia Rashad. Consequently, Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh, PA. Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jose Feghali, In 2016 she became the first female African Bostic was asked to score the PBS American ...... and attended piano workshops with Rudolph American score composer to join the Academy Masters program August Wilson: The Ground Buchbinder in Switzerland, and Lev of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. On Which I Stand. Reflecting on Wilson’s ANDRÉS Naumov in France. He studied conducting career, this documentary inspired her to with Marin Alsop, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Bostic’s scores and songs can be heard in write The August Wilson Symphony, which FRANCO Kurt Masur, Gustav Meier, Helmut Rilling, productions with a lineup of award-winning received its world premiere in January 2018 Gerard Schwarz, and Leonard Slatkin. directors and writers. She scored the critically by the Grammy Award-winning Pittsburgh acclaimed documentary Toni Morrison: The Symphony Orchestra conducted by Grammy Andrés Franco holds a bachelor’s degree Pieces I Am which premiered at Sundance Award-winning conductor and composer in Piano Performance from the Pontificia 2019, followed by a theatrical release with Lucas Richman. The Pittsburgh Symphony Starting his fifth season as Music Director of Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, Magnolia Pictures. The film won “Best Orchestra has commissioned Bostic to the Signature Symphony and his first season as well as master of music degrees in piano Biographical Documentary” at the fourth create cinematic versions from her score Toni as Resident Conductor of the Pittsburgh performance and conducting from Texas annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards. Morrison: The Pieces I Am to be performed live Symphony, Andrés Franco continues to Christian University. Bostic also wrote and performed its end-title to picture in February 2020. delight audiences with his imaginative song “High Above the Water”, which was programming and energetic style. In addition to her work with August Wilson, He is married to Victoria Luperi, associate shortlisted for Best Original Song for the 2020 Bostic’s work on Broadway includes Bengal principal clarinetist of the Pittsburgh Oscars. Her score was nominated for a 2019 A frequent guest conductor in the U.S., Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Pulitzer Prize Symphony Orchestra. Music In Media Award. At the Europe, and South America, Mr. Franco has Society of Composers & Lyricists’ inaugural finalist Rajiv Joseph. Her score garnered appeared with the symphonies of Columbus, ...... awards in January 2020, Bostic was awarded a win in the sound design category for this Dallas, Detroit, Eugene, Elgin, Fort Worth, Outstanding Score for an Independent Film, collaboration. She has been nominated for Houston, Indianapolis, Mississippi, Omaha, while “High Above the Water” was nominated several additional awards including the Springfield, and St. Louis; the philharmonic for Outstanding Original Song for Visual Ovation Award, NAACP Theater Award, orchestras of Boise and Oklahoma City; Media. and Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding

11 Music in a Play. As a solo artist, Bostic toured extensively in festivals and venues worldwide. LIFT EV’RY VOICE AND SING Also a vocalist, Bostic recorded and performed By J. Rosamond Johnson with many artists including Nas, Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, ...... Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise JESSICA High as the listening skies, LANAY Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, Facing the rising sun of our new day begun Let us march on till victory is won.

Jessica Lanay is an art writer, poet, librettist, and Stony the road we trod, short fiction writer. She is a frequent contributor Bitter the chastening rod, to BOMB Magazine and previously contributed Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; to ArtSlant. Her poetry can be found in Poet Yet with a steady beat, Lore, Indiana Review, The Common, [PANK], Have not our weary feet Prairie Schooner and others. Her debut poetry Come to the place for which our fathers sighed? collection am•phib•ian won the Naomi Long We have come over a way that with tears have been watered, Madgett Poetry Prize and will be published We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, February of 2020 by Broadside Lotus Press. Her Out from the gloomy past, short fiction can be found in Tahoma Literary Till now we stand at last Review, Duende, and Black Candies. Also In Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. 2020, the opera she libretted, Virgula Divina, composed by Karen Brown, will premiere at the God of our weary years, Pittsburgh Festival Opera program Fight for God of our silent tears, The Right. She is a 2018 recipient of a Millay Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Colony Residency. Also, in 2018, Jessica Lanay Thou who has by Thy might was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her Led us into the light, poem “Milk. Milk. Milk,” that appeared in The Keep us forever in the path, we pray. Normal School. Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee; Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand. True to our God, True to our native land.

12 ORCHESTRA ROSTER Lift Every Voice – Recorded March 2, 2019

s MUSIC DIRECTOR SECOND VIOLIN Rimbo Wong FLUTE CONTRABASSOON PERCUSSION j s j j j Manfred Honeck Jeremy Black Si Yu Lorna McGhee James Rodgers Andrew Reamer ENDOWED BY THE VIRA I. HEINZ G. CHRISTIAN LANTZSCH & DUQUESNE LIGHT JACKMAN PFOUTS FLUTE CHAIR ALBERT H. ECKERT CHAIR ENDOWMENT COMPANY CHAIR CELLO d Jennifer Ann Steele HORN Jeremy Branson d j HILDA M. WILLIS FOUNDATION CHAIR j ASSISTANT Louis Lev Anne Martindale Williams William Caballero THE MORRISON FAMILY CHAIR PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION p ANONYMOUS DONOR CHAIR Christopher Allen CONDUCTORS Anna Cooper s X CHAIR d Dennis O’Boyle Stephen Kostyniak Shawn Galvin Andrés Franco d p David Premo PICCOLO X Laura Motchalov DONALD I. & JANET MORITZ AND EQUITABLE Zachary Smith Candice Gu Earl Lee WILLIAM & SARAH GALBRAITH CHAIR j p RESOURCES, INC. CHAIR Rhian Kenny THOMAS H. & FRANCES M. WITMER CHAIR Jonathan Milke X FRANK & LOTI GAFFNEY CHAIR FIRST VIOLIN Eva Burmeister Adam Liu Robert Lauver GEORGE & EILEEN DORMAN CHAIR IRVING (BUDDY) WECHSLER CHAIR KEYBOARD Mark Huggins Carolyn Edwards OBOE p ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Mikhail Istomin j Mark Houghton Rodrigo Ojeda BEVERLYNN & STEVEN ELLIOTT CHAIR Andrew Fuller Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida DR. WILLIAM LARIMER MELLON JR. CHAIR Joseph Rounds Lorien Benet Hart Bronwyn Banerdt REED SMITH CHAIR HONORING TOM TODD STRINGS Huei-Sheng Kao d p ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Claudia Mahave Will Chow Max Blair John Bagnato ALICE VICTORIA GELORMINO CHAIR TRUMPET Hong-Guang Jia Michael DeBruyn Scott Bell ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER c DR.* & MRS. WILLIAM E. RINEHART CHAIR j LIBRARIANS Zhan Shu Micah Wilkinson j Alexandra Thompson Lee MARTHA BROOKS ROBINSON CHAIR Lisa Gedris Kelsey Blumenthal Albert Tan Michael Lipman ENGLISH HORN h JEAN & SIGO FALK CHAIR s JANE & RAE BURTON CHAIR jc Charles Lirette p Justine Campagna Ken Johnston Harold Smoliar EDWARD D. LOUGHNEY CHAIR Carrie McCormack Ellen Chen-Livingston Charlie Powers s SELMA WIENER BERKMAN MEMORIAL CHAIR VIOLA Nora Prener Neal Berntsen STAGE TECHNICIANS jc Karissa Shivone Randolph Kelly Chad Winkler Irene Cheng CYNTHIA S. CALHOUN CHAIR CLARINET SUSAN S. GREER MEMORIAL CHAIR Ronald Esposito BASS j r Sarah Clendenning r Michael Rusinek John Karapandi LOIS R. BROZENICK MEMORIAL CHAIR Tatjana Mead Chamis Brandon McLean MR. & MRS. AARON SILBERMAN CHAIR TROMBONE t X d j j Alison Peters Fujito Joen Vasquez Betsy Heston Victoria Luperi Peter Sullivan PRINCIPAL OLGA T. GAZALIE CHAIR UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION CHAIR TOM & JAMEE TODD CHAIR r Marylène Gingras-Roy ACTING PRINCIPAL Ron Samuels h h Rebecca Cherian CO-PRINCIPAL Marta Krechkovsky Penny Anderson Brill Joseph Campagna d MICHAEL & CAROL BLEIER CHAIR E-FLAT CLARINET ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Jennifer Orchard FORD MUSICIAN AWARDEE Jeffrey Grubbs James Nova t RON & DOROTHY CHUTZ CHAIR Victoria Luperi p ACTING ASSOCIATE Peter Guild Julia Dennis PRINCIPAL Laura Fuller X Susanne Park ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL DR. ALAN & MARSHA BRAMOWITZ CHAIR Micah Howard BASS CLARINET BASS TROMBONE p Meredith Kufchak STEPHEN & KIMBERLY KEEN CHAIR j EXTRA MUSICIAN c Jack Howell j c Christopher Wu Jeffrey Dee ON LEAVE NANCY & JEFFERY LEININGER CHAIR Erina Laraby-Goldwasser John Moore s 2018-2019 SEASON Paul Silver BASSOON TUBA Kristina Yoder MR. & MRS. WILLARD J. TILLOTSON JR. CHAIR Aaron White j MUSICIAN s Nancy Goeres j s Paul Matz MR. & MRS. WILLIAM GENGE AND MR. & Craig Knox Jeremias Sergiani Velázquez Stephanie Tretick DR. MARY ANN CRAIG CHAIR p MRS. JAMES E. LEE CHAIR Rachel Renee Stegeman Andrew Wickesberg HARP h p MR. & MRS. MARTIN G. MCGUINN CHAIR David Sogg Ellen-Maria Willis j TIMPANI s Gretchen Van Hoesen r Deanna Badizadegan VIRGINIA CAMPBELL CHAIR Philip A. Pandolfi Christopher Allen s Aaron Mossburg

13 ORCHESTRA ROSTER Lift Every Voice – Recorded February 29, 2020

p MUSIC DIRECTOR SECOND VIOLIN Jennifer Gerhard Jennifer Ann Steele CONTRABASSOON PERCUSSION j p HILDA M. WILLIS FOUNDATION CHAIR j j Manfred Honeck Jeremy Black Patrick Miller p James Rodgers Andrew Reamer ENDOWED BY THE VIRA I. HEINZ G. CHRISTIAN LANTZSCH & DUQUESNE LIGHT Alyssa Pysola ALBERT H. ECKERT CHAIR ENDOWMENT COMPANY CHAIR CELLO HORN d d j PICCOLO j Louis Lev Anne Martindale Williams William Caballero Jeremy Branson RESIDENT CONDUCTOR THE MORRISON FAMILY CHAIR PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION CHAIR j Rhian Kenny ANONYMOUS DONOR CHAIR Christopher Allen Andrés Franco X d FRANK & LOTI GAFFNEY CHAIR d s Dennis O’Boyle David Premo Stephen Kostyniak Shawn Galvin DONALD I. & JANET MORITZ AND EQUITABLE X ASSOCIATE Laura Motchalov RESOURCES, INC. CHAIR OBOE Zachary Smith p WILLIAM & SARAH GALBRAITH CHAIR THOMAS H. & FRANCES M. WITMER CHAIR Candice Gu CONDUCTOR X j Adam Liu Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida Earl Lee Eva Burmeister GEORGE & EILEEN DORMAN CHAIR DR. WILLIAM LARIMER MELLON JR. CHAIR Robert Lauver KEYBOARD c d IRVING (BUDDY) WECHSLER CHAIR p FIRST VIOLIN Carolyn Edwards Mikhail Istomin Max Blair Rodrigo Ojeda c Mark Houghton Andrew Fuller Scott Bell Mark Huggins Bronwyn Banerdt DR.* & MRS. WILLIAM E. RINEHART CHAIR LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Lorien Benet Hart Joseph Rounds BEVERLYNN & STEVEN ELLIOTT CHAIR Will Chow s REED SMITH CHAIR HONORING TOM TODD j Claudia Mahave Nora Prener Lisa Gedris Huei-Sheng Kao ALICE VICTORIA GELORMINO CHAIR Michael DeBruyn JEAN & SIGO FALK CHAIR ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER ENGLISH HORN TRUMPET Alexandra Thompson Lee j Jeremias Sergiani Velázquez j Micah Wilkinson Grant Johnson Hong-Guang Jia c Kyle Mustain MARTHA BROOKS ROBINSON CHAIR ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Albert Tan Michael Lipman JANE & RAE BURTON CHAIR h STAGE TECHNICIANS s CLARINET Kelsey Blumenthal Ken Johnston Charles Lirette Charlie Powers j EDWARD D. LOUGHNEY CHAIR Ronald Esposito p Michael Rusinek c Justine Campagna Koko Watanabe Karissa Shivone MR. & MRS. AARON SILBERMAN CHAIR Neal Berntsen John Karapandi Ellen Chen-Livingston d SELMA WIENER BERKMAN MEMORIAL CHAIR VIOLA BASS Victoria Luperi Chad Winkler EQT OTPAAM FELLOW jc SUSAN S. GREER MEMORIAL CHAIR r Irene Cheng Randolph Kelly Brandon McLean Ron Samuels p Shantanique Moore, Flute CYNTHIA S. CALHOUN CHAIR p Frank Glasson Sarah Clendenning r Joseph Campagna Ryan Leonard LOIS R. BROZENICK MEMORIAL CHAIR Tatjana Mead Chamis TROMBONE t Jeffrey Grubbs E-FLAT CLARINET Joen Vasquez j j Alison Peters Fujito Peter Sullivan PRINCIPAL OLGA T. GAZALIE CHAIR Peter Guild Victoria Luperi TOM & JAMEE TODD CHAIR r Marylène Gingras-Roy > ACTING PRINCIPAL h h Marta Krechkovsky Micah Howard Rebecca Cherian CO-PRINCIPAL Penny Anderson Brill STEPHEN & KIMBERLY KEEN CHAIR BASS CLARINET d MICHAEL & CAROL BLEIER CHAIR j ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Jennifer Orchard FORD MUSICIAN AWARDEE Jack Howell James Nova t RON & DOROTHY CHUTZ CHAIR John Moore MR. & MRS. WILLARD J. TILLOTSON, JR. CHAIR ACTING ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL Susanne Park Laura Fuller Aaron White BASS TROMBONE X c j ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL DR. ALAN & MARSHA BRAMOWITZ CHAIR s BASSOON U Meredith Kufchak Paul Matz j Jeffrey Dee ACTING ASSISTANT Nancy Goeres Christopher Wu Erina Laraby-Goldwasser MR. & MRS. WILLIAM GENGE AND MR. & PRINCIPAL NANCY & JEFFERY LEININGER CHAIR TUBA p HARP MRS. JAMES E. LEE CHAIR EXTRA MUSICIAN Stephanie Tretick j j c Kristina Yoder Gretchen Van Hoesen h Craig Knox ON LEAVE VIRGINIA CAMPBELL CHAIR s p Andrew Wickesberg David Sogg DR. MARY ANN CRAIG CHAIR Dawn Posey MR. & MRS. MARTIN G. MCGUINN CHAIR 2019-2020 SEASON p Philip A. Pandolfi p s Natalie Severson MUSICIAN Perrin Yang Rimbo Wong p TIMPANI p Joseph Merchant r Cristian Zimmerman s FLUTE Christopher Allen Si Yu j p Lorna McGhee Kallie Ciechomski JACKMAN PFOUTS FLUTE CHAIR

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