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NOVEMBER/ CONTENTS DECEMBER 2018
2 From the President 4 In Tempo: News of Note 6 BSO Live: Calendar of Events 7 Orchestra Roster 8 Turangalîla-symphonie Marin Alsop and the BSO take on one of the 20th century’s most monumental symphonic works 10 Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos NOV 9–11
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hank you for joining us, and welcome to this performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Because of your Tsupport, we are proud to present one of the country’s greatest orchestras right here in Maryland.
It was a privilege to highlight our community’s world- class cultural assets during our highly successful tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland in August. This is a time for the organization to reflect on past achievements and look ahead to new and exciting endeavors. With the holiday season upon us and the new year in sight, we are eager to share with you some
of the many wonderful things happening at the BSO. QUIRIN JOHNNY
In January 2019, Music Director Marin Alsop and the Orchestra present the BSO premiere of one of the most remarkable pieces in 20th-century symphonic music: Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie. Because of its technical challenges and broad scope, this work is a rarely performed gem of the repertoire. Audiences have the opportunity to enjoy the full piece as written or in “Off the Cuff” performances that allow for an TURANGALLA in-depth exploration of the music with Marin Alsop.
SYMPHONIE In 2018, the BSO was featured on three new CD releases from the Naxos record label: Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, Handel’s Messiah and a special-edition box set featuring THU, JAN 10 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF the works of Leonard Bernstein conducted by Marin Alsop in honor of the centennial of SUN, JAN 13 | 3 PM STRATHMORE Bernstein’s birth. Included in the box set is the BSO’s recording of Bernstein’s First and OFF THE CUFF Second symphonies, which recently won the prestigious Opus Klassik for Symphonic FRI, JAN 11 | 8:15 PM STRATHMORE Recording of the Year in the 20th/21st-century music category. We are honored to receive SAT, JAN 12 | 7 PM MEYERHOFF this acknowledgement of our work, and this is one of the many ways in which the BSO Marin Alsop conducts more than 100 shows itself to be a leader in the classical music industry. musicians in Messiaen’s rarely-heard masterwork, featuring the eerie Thanks to the support of a very generous friend of the BSO, and in a demonstration keyboard instrument ondes of the importance of increasing exposure to live music performance for young people, Martenot with its otherworldly sci-fi sounds, as well as a dazzling we recently launched our new “Young and Free” ticket program. For the first time this performance by world-renowned season, the BSO is offering free tickets to children ages 7 to 17 to select concerts with the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. purchase of an adult ticket. Through this initiative, it is our hope that we will be able to help foster the growth of a new generation of music listeners and appreciators. The 90-minute Off The Cuff concerts provide more insight into a single work, followed by a In everything that we do at the BSO, it is with a sense of gratitude, knowing that none of question-and-answer session. this would be possible without the support of our community. We would like to thank
Presenting Sponsors: Comcast Xfinity, M&T Bank our patrons, donors, partners and sponsors for their continued efforts to ensure that The appearance of pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the BSO is able to bring music and education to people in Baltimore and throughout made possible through the major support of the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Guest Artist Fund the State of Maryland. On behalf of our Board of Directors, musicians and staff, thank Media Partners: WYPR, Baltimore Magazine you for your attendance, and we hope you enjoy this performance by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. TICKETS FROM $25 BSOMUSIC.ORG Peter T. Kjome President and CEO 410.783.8000 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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Above: Cynthia Erivo and Nicholas Hersh perform Broadway favorites during the BSO’s 36th annual Gala celebration. BSO CELEBRATES 36TH ANNUAL GALA Alsop, Hersh, Erivo and the BSO dazzle with concert performance
n Saturday, September 15, the BSO, Marin Alsop educational and community outreach programs. Eddie and and Nicholas Hersh presented the 36th annual Sylvia Brown served as Honorary Gala Chairs for 2018. Gala celebration concert at the Joseph Meyerhoff Following dinner in the Gala tent, attendees were treated to a Symphony Hall. Hersh and Alsop led a program concert of Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Richard Strauss’ featuring Tony and Grammy Award-winning Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks led by Alsop. Hersh then took over OBroadway star Cynthia Erivo and Baltimore-based hip-hop artist for Cynthia Erivo’s set, which featured Broadway favorites like Wordsmith served as the evening’s emcee. “Home” from The Wiz and “The Impossible Dream” from Man Co-chaired this year by Alan and Claire Jensen as well of La Mancha. Alsop returned to the stage to conclude the concert as Howard and Janet Majev, the Gala is the BSO’s largest with a moving rendition of “Stand By Me,” featuring Erivo and fundraising benefit of the year, supporting innovative artistic, students from BSYO, OrchKids and OrchLab.
YOUNG AND FREE New program makes free tickets available to children
his fall the BSO announced the launch if its new “Young and Free” ticket program. Beginning with performances that took place during the first weekend of October, the T BSO is offering free tickets to children ages 7 to 17 to select Classical and Pops concerts with the purchase of an adult ticket during the 2018–19 season. “Thanks to the generous support of a wonderful friend of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, we are able to make our performances even more accessible to children and families in Baltimore and throughout Maryland,” said BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome. “Through this new initiative, we will increase exposure to live music for young audiences and help engage and inspire the next generation through performances of our great orchestra.” New this season, the Young and Free program includes performances at the Meyerhoff and Strathmore. For more information on Young and Free and to view a full list of concerts covered by the program, please visit BSOmusic.org.
4 UPDATE FROM STRATHMORE AND THE AWARD Monica Jeffries Hazangeles GOES TO… becomes new President Marin Alsop and the and CEO BSO win Opus Klassik for Bernstein recording n September, Monica Jeffries Hazangeles assumed the role of President and CEO at the Music Center at TEMPO I Strathmore. Succeeding Eliot Pfanstiehl, she becomes arin Alsop and the BSO have only the second person ever to hold the position in the been awarded the Opus organization’s 37-year history. Jeffries Hazangeles joined MKlassik for their 2017 Naxos Strathmore in 1994 and was named President in 2011. SHULMAN MARGOT release of Bernstein Symphonies Nos. 1 “From the moment I first walked into the Mansion at Strathmore, I knew this was a special & 2 in the Symphonic Recording of the th st place,” says Jeffries Hazangelels. “For the past 24 years, I have been profoundly motivated by its Year (20 /21 century music) category. mission, people and community. I cannot imagine a greater honor than to serve as its next leader.” Formerly known as the ECHO The BSO became the first symphony orchestra in the country to perform regularly at venues Klassik, the award is Germany’s in two metropolitan areas when Strathmore opened in 2005. most prestigious acknowledgment of “We look forward to our continued work with Monica Hazangeles as she begins her new classical music recording. role,” says BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome. “As the founding partner at Strathmore, the “I’m very honored to have won this BSO is eager to build upon our strong relationship as we collaborate to enrich the lives of people incredible award with the wonderful in Montgomery County.” musicians of the Baltimore Symphony,” says Alsop. “The fact that this recording features the music of my mentor, Leonard Bernstein, is particularly meaningful to me, as his works hold a special place in my repertoire as a conductor.” The recording has been met with great acclaim. The disc was included in the 2018 Naxos release of Alsop’s complete Bernstein recordings and was highlighted in The New York Times’ recent article, “What Leonard Bernstein Should You Listen To?” Alsop and the BSO performed Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety” with Thibaudet in August during their debut performance at The BBC Proms in London. “This award is an important achievement for the musicians of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and LIFELONG LEARNING Music Director Marin Alsop,” said Adult players stretch their musical muscles BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome. “Producing superb recordings is one of with BSO Academy the many ways that our great orchestra demonstrates its place at the forefront n October 20, the BSO was excited to welcome a wind of the orchestra field.” quintet composed of BSO Academy participants to perform From left to right: at The Music Center at Strathmore. Prior to the evening’s Cindy Curtis, William O Jokela, Leslie Jewell, program of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the group, which first Eric Abalahin, Phil performed together during the 2018 Artscape Festival, played Munds and Gerri Hall Eric Ewazen’s Roaring Fork Quintet. Every summer, the BSO Academy brings together adult instrumentalists to perform with BSO musicians. “My amateur colleagues and I always marvel at how much we grow musically during the Academy week,” says longtime member Gerri Hall. This quintet, coached by BSO Principal Horn player Phil Munds, is made up of musicians who began playing their instruments in school bands and continued throughout their lives. While horn player Cindy Curtis is the only member to have ever played music professionally (in the Navy Band), all find time to practice, usually 3–4 times a week. “I started playing regularly in 2017 after my husband lost his battle with cancer,” shares oboist Leslie Jewel. “I experienced so much joy playing with others.”
5 BSO KEY UPCOMING EVENTS JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 events at The Music Center at Strathmore [S] and at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall [M]
OFF THE CUFF Respighi Elgar Cello Leon Fleisher live Turangalîla- Pines of Rome Concerto Symphonie THU, JAN 31, 8 PM S THU, FEB 21, 8 PM M FRI, JAN 11, 8:15 PM S FRI, FEB 1, 8 PM M SUN, FEB 24, 3 PM S SAT, JAN 12, 7 PM M SAT, FEB 2, 8 PM M NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN, cello MARIN ALSOP, conductor MARIN ALSOP, conductor JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, piano COLIN CURRIE, percussion DEBUSSY Rondes de printemps NATHALIE FORGET, ondes Martenot from Images JENNIFER HIGDON Low Brass Concerto ELGAR Cello Concerto (BSO Co-commission) MESSIAEN Turangalîla-symphonie PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6 HELEN GRIME Percussion Concerto (U.S. Premiere) Experience one of the most Narek Hakhnazaryan returns, innovative works of the RESPIGHI Brazilian Impressions RESPIGHI Pines of Rome performing Elgar’s beautiful th 20 century. Marin Alsop and and elegiac Cello Concerto. Jean-Yves Thibaudet discuss Marin Alsop leads the U.S. Led by BSO Associate TURNERFLEISHER: ELI Messiaen’s great masterwork Premiere of Helen Grime’s Conductor Nicholas Hersh, Leon Fleisher’s featuring the eerie keyboard Percussion Concerto featuring this program also features ondes Martenot with its Colin Currie. Respighi’s Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony. Birthday sci-fi sounds. Pines of Rome and the Celebration composer’s lesser-known but infectiously brilliant gem, FRI, JAN 4, 8 PM M FAMILY CONCERT Narek SAT, JAN 5, 8 PM S Music Box: Bugs Brazilian Impressions, form the Hakhnazaryan SUN, JAN 6, 3 PM M centerpiece of this program. SAT, JAN 12, 10 AM PETER OUNDJIAN, conductor & 11:30 AM M LEON FLEISHER, piano Mozart Symphony No. 40 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 Sibelius Violin in A Major FRI, FEB 8, 8 PM M BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Concerto SAT, FEB 9, 8 PM S The BSO celebrates the great SAT, JAN 19, 8 PM S SUN, FEB 10, 3 PM M Leon Fleisher’s birthday in SUN, JAN 20, 3 PM M MARKUS STENZ, conductor an extraordinary concert. MARKUS STENZ, conductor PAUL HUANG, violin Highlighted in the program is BAIBA SKRIDE, violin OFF THE CUFF Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12, CHABRIER España WAGNER Siegfried Idyll KHACHATURIAN Violin Concerto Elgar Cello a specialty of Fleisher’s. SIBELIUS Violin Concerto MOZART Symphony No. 40 in G Minor HAYDN Symphony No. 104, “London” BEETHOVEN “Leonore” Overture No. 3 Concerto FRI, FEB 22, 8:15 PM S Turangalîla- Markus Stenz conducts an Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is SAT, FEB 23, 7 PM M Symphonie eclectic program, including one of the composer’s best- THU, JAN 10, 8 PM M Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, the loved symphonies and Paul NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor Huang takes center stage for NAREK HAKHNAZARYAN, cello SUN, JAN 13, 3 PM S Sibelius Violin Concerto performed by Baiba Skride and Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto. ELGAR Cello Concerto MARIN ALSOP, conductor Haydn’s “London” Symphony. JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, piano Nicholas Hersh provides insight NATHALIE FORGET, ondes Martenot Ravel Boléro into Elgar’s beautiful Cello SUPERPOPS MESSIAEN Turangalîla-symphonie SAT, FEB 16, 8 PM S Concerto, which, written at the Rodgers and SUN, FEB 17, 3 PM M end of World War I, was his last Messiaen’s mind-blowing completed work and reflects his Turangalîla-symphonie takes Hammerstein MARIO VENZAGO, conductor CONRAD TAO, piano sadness over the loss of friends listeners on a journey of extreme THU, JAN 24, 8 PM S and countrymen. dynamic contrasts while Marin FRI, JAN 25, 8 PM M BERLIOZ Le Corsaire Alsop conducts more than SAT, JAN 26, 8 PM M BERLIOZ Le Carnival Romain LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 FAMILY CONCERT 100 musicians and pianist SUN, JAN 27, 3 PM M RAVEL Rhapsodie Espagnole Jean-Yves Thibaudet provides RAVEL Boléro Music Box: a dazzling performance. JACK EVERLY, conductor BEN CRAWFORD, vocalist Mario Venzago leads the All Aboard TED KEEGAN, vocalist Orchestra in Ravel’s hypnotic SAT, FEB 23, 10 AM Jack Everly leads Broadway Boléro and Rapsodie espagnole. & 11:30 AM stars and the BSO in some Conrad Tao returns to the BSO to of the greatest Rodgers and perform Liszt’s breathtaking Hammerstein hits. First Piano Concerto.
6 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org ORCHESTRA ROSTER 2018–19 SEASON MARIN ALSOP, MUSIC DIRECTOR, HARVEY M. AND LYN P. MEYERHOFF CHAIR
Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Hersh, Associate Conductor and Artistic Director of BSYO
FIRST VIOLINS CELLOS E-FLAT CLARINET PERCUSSION Jonathan Carney ∫ Dariusz Skoraczewski † ∫ Lin Ma Christopher Williams Concertmaster, Principal, Joseph Principal, Lucille Ruth Blaustein and Rebecca BASSOONS Schwilck Chair MUSIC DIRECTOR Rosenberg Chair Meyerhoff Chair Harrison Miller** John Locke Audrey Wright † Lachezar Kostov Acting Principal Brian Prechtl Associate Assistant Principal Bassoon Ford Musician Awardee Marin Alsop Concertmaster, Bo Li ∫ Julie Green Gregorian Marin Alsop is an inspiring voice who Wilhelmina Hahn Seth Low Assistant Principal HARP Waidner Chair Esther Mellon Schuyler Jackson Sarah Fuller** believes that “music has the power to Wyatt Underhill* Kristin Ostling Acting Principal change lives.” She is recognized for her Assistant FLEISHER: ELI TURNERFLEISHER: ELI Se-Doo Park CONTRABASSOON innovative programming and for her Concertmaster Lukasz Szyrner David P. Coombs KEYBOARD Boram Kang Lura Johnson** commitment to education and to the Acting Assistant BASSES HORNS Sidney M. and Miriam development of audiences of all ages. Concertmaster Robert Barney Philip Munds Friedberg Chair Her success as Music Director of the Kenneth Goldstein Principal, Willard and Principal, USF&G Wonju Kim Lillian Hackerman Foundation Chair ORCHESTRA Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) Gregory Kuperstein Chair Gabrielle Finck PERSONNEL has been recognized by the extension Gregory Mulligan David Sheets Associate Principal Jinny Kim of her tenure until 2021. In Baltimore, E. Craig Richmond Associate Principal Lisa Bergman Director of Kevin Smith Timothy Dilenschneider Austin Larson Orchestra Personnel Alsop launched OrchKids, for the Ellen Pendleton Troyer Mark Huang Joy Branagan** Matthew Urquhart city’s underserved youth, and the BSO Andrew Wasyluszko Jonathan Jensen Assistant Personnel Academy program for adult amateur Jina Lee** Eric Stahl TRUMPETS Manager Drew Banzhaf ** Andrew Balio musicians. She became Music Director SECOND VIOLINS Principal, Harvey LIBRARIANS of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Qing Li FLUTES M. and Lyn P. Michael Ferraguto in 2012 and becomes Chief Conductor Principal, E. Kirkbride Emily Skala Meyerhoff Chair Principal, and Ann H. Miller Chair Principal, Dr. Clyde René Shapiro Constance A. and of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Ivan Stefanovic † Alvin Clapp Chair Assistant Principal Ramon F. Getzov Chair Orchestra in September 2019. Associate Principal Marcia Kämper Nathaniel Hepler Raymond Kreuger Alsop conducts the world’s major Angela Lee ∫ Matthew Barker Associate Assistant Principal PICCOLO orchestras, including the Leipzig Leonid Berkovich Amal Gochenour TROMBONES STAGE PERSONNEL Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw Leonid Briskin Aaron LaVere Ennis Seibert and the London Philharmonic orchestras. Holly Jenkins OBOES Principal, Alex Brown Stage Manager Julie Parcells Katherine Needleman & Sons Chair Todd Price In 2013, she became the first female Sunjoo Park Principal, Robert H. and John Vance Assistant Stage conductor of the BBC’s Last Night Christina Scroggins* Ryda H. Levi Chair Assistant Principal Manager of the Proms. James Umber Melissa Hooper Daniel Cloutier** Charles Lamar Charles Underwood Assistant Principal Audio Engineer As a protégé of Leonard Bernstein, th Michael Lisicky BASS TROMBONE Mario Serruto Alsop is central to his 100 -anniversary VIOLAS Randall S. Campora Electrician celebrations, and conducted Bernstein’s ∫ Lisa Steltenpohl ENGLISH HORN MASS at the Ravinia Festival, where she Principal, Peggy Jane Marvine TUBA * On leave Meyerhoff Kenneth S. Battye and Aubrey Foard ** Guest musician served as Musical Curator for 2018. Her Pearlstone Chair Legg Mason Chair Principal Performing with an extensive discography includes a highly Noah Chaves instrument (†) or a bow (∫) praised Dvořák cycle with the BSO. Her Associate Principal CLARINETS TIMPANI on loan to the BSO from the Karin Brown YaoGuang Zhai James Wyman private collection of the dedication to new music is demonstrated family of Marin Alsop. Assistant Principal Principal Principal, by her 25-year tenure as Music Director Jacob Shack Lin Ma Levi Family Chair The musicians who perform of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Helen Hess Assistant Principal Christopher Williams for the Baltimore Symphony Peter Minkler Assistant Principal Orchestra do so under the Music and her launching the BSO’s Colin Sorgi BASS CLARINET terms of an agreement New Music Festival in 2017. Delmar Stewart William Jenken between the BSO and the Local 40-543, AFM. Alsop is the only conductor to receive Jeffrey Stewart Mary Woehr the MacArthur Fellowship, and she is Director of Graduate Conducting at the Peabody Institute. She attended the Juilliard School and Yale University, Yuri Temirkanov, Music Director Emeritus Hilo Carriel, BSO-Peabody Conducting Fellow which awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in 2017.
NOV–DEC 2018 / OVERTURE 7 Turangalîla-symphonie Marin Alsop and the BSO take on one of the 20th century’s most monumental symphonic works by Devon Maloney
t’s difficult to put into words exactly “Messiaen’s music tends to be lengthy, and because of this, it isn’t so much a part of the mainstream orchestral repertoire, so what it’s like to encounter Olivier it’s an especially exciting opportunity to hear this great piece. Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie Audiences will experience the full range of sounds an orchestra for the first time. It is an enigmatic can produce and really get a sense of what makes a symphony orchestra a unique live music experience.” auditory experience quite unlike any “The piece is so ambitious in its scope, so over the top,” other that is challenging and even says Alsop. “We wanted to give audiences a sort of maximum perplexing at times, yet also extraordinary and orchestral experience. Messiaen was obsessed with the idea of I love when he composed the Turangalîla-symphonie, and he seems utterly gratifying in its mysterious beauty. to convey in this piece that the overwhelming joy of love that humans are capable of experiencing is sacred and a means by Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its which we can approach the divine. That’s a message we wanted music director, Serge Koussevitsky, in the late 1940s, the large- to share with our audiences.” scale, 10-movement orchestral work by French composer Olivier Messiaen’s music is nothing if not heavenly in its ambitions. A Messiaen requires an orchestra of over 100 musicians and about devout Catholic, he included elements of spirituality and religion one hour and 20 minutes of time to perform in its entirety. In throughout his musical compositions. January, the BSO and Music Director Marin Alsop will give the “Messiaen was known for his phenomenal ear for sound, sonority Orchestra’s premiere performance of Turangalîla during a weekend and harmony, and he incorporated in his music everything from of classical and Off the Cuff programs. birdsong to Indian rhythms to Indonesian Gamelan music,” Alsop “As a BSO premiere, this will be the first time many of our explains. “He was a deeply spiritual figure and gave us a mystical musicians have performed Turangalîla-symphonie, and it will sense that engaging with the beauty around us —through nature, almost certainly be the first time many in our audience will hear through music —could elevate us from our worldly conditions.” it,” says the BSO’s Director of Artistic Planning Ab Sengupta. To achieve such a sublime sonic landscape, Messiaen drew on a characteristically broad and extensive range of influences for Turangalîla. The piece is the second in a group of three works Olivier Messiaen (Harawi and Cinq rechant being the other two) that are associated with the legend of Tristan and Isolde, a story of love and death perhaps made most famous by the Wagner opera. Christopher Dingle and Robert Fallon expand on this in their Messiaen Perspectives: “Messiaen’s declared view of his ‘trois Tristans’ as a group gives us authority to regard them as a kind of trilogy or triptych.…Turangalîla is conceived and written on the largest scale, and clearly embraces the widest sonic and expressive range.…” And Tristan is only the beginning of the list of influences Messiaen turned to for the symphony. “Turangalîla forms the central and largest composition of a musical trilogy, setting the Tristan and Isolde myth within Messiaen’s sound-world,” writes Thomas Barker. “The word ‘Turangalîla’ is derived from a combination of two Sanskrit words: Turanga meaning time… and Lîla, meaning play in the divine sense of cosmic creation and destruction, life and death.” STUDIO HARCOURT
8 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org (Left to Right) ondes Martenot; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Marin Alsop and the BSO take a bow following their performance at the BBC Proms in London; Nathalie Forget, ondes Martenot, will perform with the BSO in January.
One innovation that Messiaen utilized to paint his world challenge! Beyond that, the point is to balance the sound right so of mysticism and transcendence was the instrument known that it fits in with the orchestra — but not too much. It’s supposed as the ondes Martenot, which produces a kind of ghostly, to sound a little out of place, like a visitor from the cosmos.” outer-space sound. For January’s performances, the BSO has engaged Nathalie According to Barbara L. Kelly in her Music and Ultra- Forget, the First Prize-winner in ondes Martenot at the Modernism in France: “In their search for new sonorities and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. Forget also earned a means of extending an exploiting natural resonance, [André] master’s degree in musical philosophy, with a focus on the music Jolivet, Messiaen and [Edgard] Varèse…experimented with of Olivier Messiaen. the potential of the ondes Martenot, which was developed Complementing the ondes Martenot in Turangalîla is the by Maurice Martenot (1898–1980) in 1928 and subjected to solo piano, which will be played by French pianist Jean-Yves successive developments in the following decades. Messiaen Thibaudet for the BSO’s performances. worked closely with the inventor to influence subsequent “Jean-Yves Thibaudet and I have a long musical history of models of this fascinating electronic instrument. Central to friendship and collaboration, and we trust each other musically the attraction of the ondes Martenot was its ability to achieve in everything, from beloved masterworks to more adventurous
CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU (BBC PROMS); MATHILDE ASSIER (FORGET) ASSIER MATHILDE PROMS); (BBC CHRISTODOULOU CHRIS ethereal, melodic and rhythmic effects simultaneously.… works like this one,” says Alsop. “We just returned from a Indeed, there is a clear association of the instrument with the triumphant tour to the U.K. and Ireland, where he performed ethereal and other-worldly in contemporary works.…” the music of Gershwin and Bernstein with us. The orchestra and
“Audiences will experience the full range of sounds an orchestra can produce and really get a sense of what makes a symphony orchestra a unique live music experience.” — AB SENGUPTA, BSO DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PLANNING
“At this time when tape recorders were rare and expensive, the I look forward to adding to our rich partnership with Jean-Yves ondes Martenot provided a ready access to the world of electronic by bringing this seldom-performed gem to Maryland audiences.” sound,” writes Paul Griffiths. “Generated by oscillators, the What might seem a flurry of disparate elements in any other ondes’ tones could be altered in colour, across a range from eerie, work, are in fact somewhat standard for Messiaen. Mythical quasi-vocal wailing to metallic resonances, and it could produce lovers, Sanskrit, divine inspiration and the ondes Martenot might either regular notes, played on a keyboard (but only one at a seem an intimidating and extensive starting point for many. But time), or glissandos, made by moving a ring along a ribbon to combine all the various influences and effects, and what is left is control a variable resister.” a musical masterpiece that ranges from the bizarre to the truly But the use of this rare and distinctive instrument in supernatural. Of course, Messiaen himself was best able to distill contemporary performance poses challenges, according to the explanation of Turangalîa to the purest and most simple of Alsop: “Finding someone who has one and can play it is the first terms: “Turangalîla is a hymn to joy.”
NOV–DEC 2018 / OVERTURE 9 POULENC CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Staatsoper Saarbrücken and Staatsoper Stuttgart. JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL In France, Ryan has worked at the Friday, November 9, 2018, 8 pm Opéra de la Bastille, Opéra de Lyon and Sunday, November 11, 2018, 3 pm the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and in the U.S., the New York MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Philharmonic, Grant Park Festival and Saturday, November 10, 2018, 8 pm the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Houston and New Jersey. In the U.K., Kwamé Ryan, conductor Ryan has worked with the English Christina Naughton, piano National Opera, Scottish Chamber Michelle Naughton, piano Orchestra, Royal Scottish Symphony and the London Philharmonia. Felix Mendelssohn Sinfonia No. 7 in D Minor He is a regular guest conductor of the Allegro Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and has Andante amorevole Menuetto recently worked with the KwaZulu Natal Allegro molto Philharmonic and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as the Francis Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Allegro ma non troppo at London’s South Bank Centre. Larghetto While continuing to conduct Finale: Allegro molto worldwide as a freelancer, Ryan has Christina Naughton dedicated himself to educational and Michelle Naughton community development work as Director of Trinidad and Tobago’s recently founded INTERMISSION National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) at the University of Trinidad Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in D Major, op. 107, “Reformation” Andante - Allegro con fuoco and Tobago. In this capacity, he was Allegro vivace named a 2017 Laureate of the prestigious Andante Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Chorale: Andante con moto - Allegro vivace the field of Arts and Letters.
The concert will end at approximately 9:45 pm on Friday and Saturday Kwamé Ryan last appeared with the BSO and 4:45 pm on Sunday. in December 2006, conducting Schumann’s Symphony No. 2.
PRESENTING SPONSOR: Christina and Michelle Naughton Christina and Michelle Naughton have been hailed by The San Francisco About the Artists Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Examiner for their “stellar musicianship, University. In 1991, he began his technical mastery and awe-inspiring Kwamé Ryan conducting studies with the composer artistry.” They have captivated audiences Kwamé Ryan was born and conductor Peter Eötvös, many of in Canada and grew whose works he has premiered. He
KLAUS FROHLICH FROHLICH KLAUS up on the Caribbean held the position of General Music island of Trinidad, Director of Freiburg Opera between where he received 1999 and 2003, and that of Musical his early musical education. He was and Artistic Director of the National enrolled in boarding school in England Orchestra of Bordeaux Aquitaine at the age of 14 and studied conducting, between 2007 and 2013. As a guest piano, voice, violin and double bass conductor in Germany, he has conducted before moving on to study musicology at the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie,
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A FAREWELL THE GLORY TO ARMS: OF FRANCE A WORLD WAR I March 10, 2019 St. Luke Catholic Church, CENTENNIAL McLean, VA CONCERT In March, The City Choir of November 11, 2018 Washington transports you to France, National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. with a program of works in the great tradition of French choral music, including the Messe Solennelle The City Choir of Washington opens its twelfth season on by Jean Langlais. We will also perform the great Mass, Op. 60 the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Join us by the beloved, Washington, D.C. composer Russell Woollen. as we commemorate this historic occasion with music by Woollen was greatly inspired by the French tradition. Like composers who were all very deeply affected by the Great Maestro Shafer, he was a student of Nadia Boulanger. War. Hubert Parry’s Jerusalem became an unofficial anthem during the war, and Parry himself would succumb to the Spanish flu in 1918. AN ODE We will also present two pieces by Gerald Finzi—A Farewell TO SPRING to Arms and In terra pax—who lost three siblings in the war. May 19, 2019 The highlight of the concert is Vaughan Williams’ stirring National Presbyterian Church, cantata, Dona nobis pacem, written in the turbulent time Washington, D.C. between the first and second World Wars. The City Choir of Washington’s twelfth A military color guard will present and retire the national season concludes with a jubilant ode to spring. The concert colors. Please join us after the concert for remarks and a opens with Purcell’s buoyant and marvelous Come, Ye Sons of Art, Q&A session with Guest Conductor Gretchen Kuhrmann followed by Mozart’s shimmering and exuberant Regina Coeli, and Andrew Woods, Research Historian at the First Division K. 276. The concert concludes with the Kyrie and Gloria from Museum at Cantigny Park. There will also be an exhibit of Bach’s legendary Mass in B minor. These movements were World War I artifacts on display. originally written as an independent mass (the Missa of 1733). In the words of Maestro Shafer, “We need this music now, A TWELFTH more than ever.” NIGHT CONCERT January 6, 2019 National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. Bring the joy of the season into the new year by celebrating Twelfth Night with The City Choir of Washington! Also known as the Feast of the Epiphany, Twelfth Night has a long history of varied traditions from around the world. In addition, we TICKETS: $15-$59. will continue our long-standing tradition of showcasing Group discounts available. another exceptional, local high school choir as our Partner in Song. Join us as we explore the rich musical offerings of P.O. Box 9673, Washington, D.C., 20016 the extended season! 202-495-1613 • [email protected]
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throughout the globe with the unity Festorazzi Prize. They are Steinway Artists engendered by their mystical musical and currently reside in New York City. communication. As quoted by The Wall Street Journal, Christina Naughton has Christina and Michelle Naughton make their said, “There are times I forget we are two BSO debut. people playing together.” The Naughtons have appeared as About the Concert soloists with the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras; the Atlanta, SINFONIA NO. 7 FOR STRINGS IN D MINOR Houston, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Felix Mendelssohn 2018-2019 CONCERT SEASON San Diego, Virginia, Milwaukee and Born in Hamburg, Germany, February 3, 1809; died in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Our BIGGEST & BOLDEST Yet! New Jersey symphonies; the Minnesota Featuring Bach Cantatas and Brandenburg Orchestra; and the Buffalo Philharmonic. November 4, 1847 Concertos, plus works by Handel, Vivaldi, They have also appeared with orchestras John Rutter, Leonard Bernstein, and more! around the world such as the Mahler Felix Mendelssohn was truly a golden child, Performed by the renowned Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg blessed with brains and prodigious talent, Bach Concert Choir & Orchestra Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and a near-ideal environment in which to with vocal soloists in beautiful spaces throughout the Baltimore area. Netherlands Philharmonic (at the cultivate them. His grandfather, Moses Concertgebouw), Royal Scottish National Mendelssohn, had risen from poverty Join us the fi rst Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. through June 2, 2019 Orchestra, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de to become an esteemed Enlightenment Call Strasbourg, New Zealand Symphony and philosopher; his father, Abraham, was one 410.941.9262 the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. of Germany’s leading bankers and had or visit American concert series have had made the family fortune. bachinbaltimore.org the Naughton sisters in such venues as At age 10, Felix began studying the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter, New York City’s Lincoln Center, the a Berlin composer who drilled him Schubert Club in St. Paul, Los Angeles’ thoroughly in the Baroque counterpoint of Walt Disney Concert Hall, Boston’s Bach and the classical style of Haydn and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Mozart. Rapidly, the youngster blossomed and Fort Worth’s Cliburn Concerts. into an even more accomplished composer International recital highlights include than Mozart had been at that age. A series of Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal, Munich’s 13 symphonies for string orchestra, written Herkulessaal, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Beijing’s between the ages of 12 and 15 for Zelter, Forbidden City Concert Hall and Mexico shows Felix’s steady development to mastery. City’s Palacio de las Bellas Artes. The Seventh String Symphony in They have also appeared at festivals D Minor was composed sometime Magnifique such as France’s La Roque-d'Anthéron, between late 1821 and early 1822. He Germany’s Kissinger Sommer, Chicago’s was still a child in appearance, not yet very 10% off Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Summerfest and tall and with long, curly dark hair reaching dinner check Wyoming’s Grand Teton Festival. to his shoulders. But he was already with theater In February 2016, the Naughtons creating music with the technical skill ticket. released their debut record on Warner and assurance of an adult. Classics, entitled Visions, featuring the The vigorous first movement springs music of Messiaen, Bach and Adams. from a wild unison flurry, followed by The album received much critical acclaim, a soft, plaintive response in violins and with The Washington Post hailing them violas. All this energy is eased by the as one of the “greatest piano duos of our lyrical second theme in which the two time.” The record was chosen as “Editor’s violin sections float against each other Choice” in Gramophone magazine. in beautiful slow suspensions over a 904 N Charles St, Born in Princeton, NJ to parents of pattering accompaniment. Baltimore, MD 21201 European and Chinese descent, the Mendelssohn gives the lovely, lilting Bistro: 410-385-9946 Naughtons are graduates of the Juilliard second movement the charming marking Catering: 410-385-9956 Fax: 410-385-9958 School and the Curtis Institute of Music, amorevole — “loving.” It begins as a marielouisebistrocatering.com where they were each awarded the melodious duet between the two violin
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sections with the other instruments was a mature 32 when he created the society, who, like her son, adored music, gradually creeping in. Though the key is contrapuntal genius of the “Jupiter” finale; art, literature and theater. D major, the young composer also makes at 13, he would not have been capable In his late teens, Poulenc emerged strong use of the minor mode and other of pulling off what the pre-adolescent as one of Les Six—a trendy group of harmonic shadings. Mendelssohn achieves here. young composers who thumbed their The third movement is really a noses at the classical establishment and Beethovenian scherzo with a hint of Instrumentation: String Orchestra happily borrowed from popular styles. the demonic inspired by its D minor Assimilating musicians as diverse as key. With its spooky rising motive, Bach, Mozart, Chabrier, Stravinsky and the trio section is even more striking; CONCERTO FOR TWO PIANOS Maurice Chevalier into a style uniquely Mendelssohn gets so caught up in its AND ORCHESTRA IN D MINOR his own, Poulenc rightly described contrapuntal and harmonic possibilities, Francis Poulenc himself as “wildly eclectic.” he never gets back to the scherzo. Born in Paris, France, January 7, 1899; By 1932, when he created his Concerto The exuberant display of fugal died in Paris, January 30, 1963 for Two Pianos, Poulenc was a pet counterpoint is the focus of the astonishing composer of the wealthy French nobility finale. Mendelssohn must have loved Composers are often complex, but few who ran Paris’ most fashionable artistic and carefully studied Mozart’s “Jupiter” could match Francis Poulenc in this salons. Chief among them was the Symphony, for he patterns it closely on respect: part worldly Parisian sophisticate, Princesse Edmond de Polignac, born that symphony’s brilliant display of fugal part sincere, devout Catholic with, as he Winnaretta Singer, heiress of the American invention. Its dashing, effervescent principal said, “the faith of a country pastor.” Born Singer sewing-machine fortune. Over her theme is pure Mendelssohn. But it’s with into a wealthy French family, Poulenc philanthropic career, she championed many the second theme, introduced by the violas, seems to have inherited these two sides of Europe’s leading composers, including that the young composer gets to show off of his personality from his parents. Ravel and Stravinsky. Commissioned by his fugal mastery, which also reappears His father was a man of deep faith; his her and written very rapidly that summer, in the development section. Mozart mother was a cultured leader of Parisian the Double Concerto was designed to be a
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work of pure entertainment to be played have been heard in the 18th century. With his growing celebrity, Mendelssohn by two pianists who were close friends: This slippery chromaticism gradually had every expectation he would be called Poulenc himself and Jacques Février. They eases the music into Poulenc’s world, and upon to compose music for the gala gave the Concerto’s first performance in the middle section becomes dreamily commemoration of the 300th anniversary Venice on September 5, 1932. romantic in the style of Rachmaninoff. of the Augsburg Confession — Martin Wildly eclectic indeed, this sparkling Once again launched by percussive Luther’s declaration of the doctrines of the work merrily combines influences from explosions, the finale is the most antic and new Protestant faith — in Berlin on June Ravel, Stravinsky, popular music-hall diverse movement of all. Brilliant toccata- 25, 1830. Though born into an illustrious entertainment and even the exotic sounds like music for the two pianos runs into a Jewish family, Mendelssohn was baptized of Balinese gamelan music. But strongest succession of brashly orchestrated slapstick at seven and reared in the Lutheran of all is the connection to Mozart, tunes. Near the close, the gamelan music Church. Thus, the Augsburg tercentenary who was Poulenc’s favorite composer; returns again, now brighter and less stimulated the most ambitious orchestral the Concerto’s second movement is an mysterious. However, the Concerto’s last work he’d yet tackled, grand and heroic in enchanting homage to him. notes confirm that this marvelous musical tone and scored for a large ensemble with With two gunshot chords, the first game is not to be taken seriously at all. full brass complement. movement explodes into a series of zany However, by the time he completed the melodies linked together by a four-note Instrumentation: Flute, piccolo, two oboes work in May 1830, Mendelssohn already rhythmic motive. This craziness suddenly including English horn, two clarinets, knew his new symphony would not be subsides into a much calmer middle two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, played at the Berlin celebration. Many section in a slow, entranced tempo, two trombones, tuba, percussion and strings. commentators have claimed the festivities here the two pianos dominate with cool were cancelled, but musicologist Judith melodies over delicate orchestration. Silber has recently produced contemporary After a return to the zany music comes an SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MAJOR newspaper evidence that they did, in fact, abrupt pause. Then, with his two pianos, Felix Mendelssohn take place, with music by the now-forgotten Poulenc conjures the magical, bell-like Eduard Groll. Why was Mendelssohn sounds of Balinese gamelan instruments By the time Mendelssohn began writing passed over for this occasion? No one knows as he remembered hearing them at the his “Reformation” Symphony in 1829, for certain, but it seems that choral music 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition. he was only 20 years old, but had moved to appropriate religious texts was used and Of movement two, Poulenc wrote: “In far beyond child-prodigy status. He that Mendelssohn’s purely instrumental the Larghetto of this Concerto, I allowed had already launched a revival of Bach’s symphony may not have seemed suitable. myself, for the first theme, to return to music with his celebrated performances Antisemitism may also have played a part. Mozart, for I cherish the melodic line and of the St. Matthew Passion and was Over the next two years Mendelssohn I prefer Mozart to all other musicians.” one of the most renowned musicians urgently but vainly sought a premiere in Poulenc’s exquisite opening melody closely in Germany. But this symphony Munich, Leipzig and Paris. Paris dealt him resembles a Mozart slow-movement was to become one of the few major a wounding blow when, after one rehearsal theme, but it contains odd chromatic disappointments in a career marked of the work, he was told the conservatoire (half-step) inflections that would never more by triumphs than failures. musicians found the work “too learned, [with] too much fugato [and] too little melody.” No performance took place, though a cholera epidemic that closed all theaters may have sunk the symphony rather than the musicians’ quibbles. Finally, a belated premiere took place in Berlin on November 15, 1832 to mixed reviews. Gradually, Mendelssohn turned against his ill-starred symphony and declared it a failure. In 1838 he wrote: “I can hardly stand the Reformation Symphony anymore and would rather burn it than any other piece of mine; [it] shall never be published.” And indeed, the work was not published until 1868, two decades after his death. This stirring, richly contrapuntal work, however, has finally come into its own as
14 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org ™ one of Mendelssohn’s most frequently performed scores. Its first movement rises from the low strings in a solemn layering of instrumental entrances that Silber calls “a brilliant orchestral Call for Current evocation of Renaissance polyphony.” Last to enter are the violins, softly singing Availability! the traditional Protestant “Dresden Amen.” Wind fanfares accentuate the ceremonial mood. A bold and militant A Lifestyle of Freedom and Peaceful Enjoyment ascending theme introduces the Allegro main section; marked con fuoco — “with • 94 acre beautifully scenic campus • Stimulating social activities fire”— it seems a musical portrait of the pugnacious Luther and the fierce struggle • Single story Garden Homes • Exceptional dining venues between Catholics and Protestants in the • New Hillside Homes (coming in 2020, • Fitness, aquatic & wellness programs 16th century. Fanfares drive the middle subject to the approval of the MDOA) • Pet friendly campus and more development section, which grows steadily in volume and turbulence. The violins Now offering Life Care and Fee for Service residency options then softly repeat the “Dresden Amen,” and Luther’s fiery theme returns, now For more information call 443.578.8008 or visit broadmead.org subdued and almost gentle. The two middle movements are 13801 York Road • Cockeysville, MD 21030 lyrical interludes, contrasting with the TTY/Voice - Maryland Relay Service 1.800.201.7165 heroic outer movements. First comes the A Quaker guided, not-for-profit retirement community scherzo, a robust German folk dance emphasizing crisp rhythms and including a wonderfully outdoorsy (with trilling woodwind birds) trio section in the middle. Movement three is a lovely song without words for the first violins with discreet orchestral accompaniment. This leads without pause into the finale with a solo flute chastely singing Luther’s great hymn “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott”—“A Mighty Fortress is Our God.” Gradually, other instruments join in, swelling the majesty of the chorale. Phrases of the chorale in different instruments over a galloping rhythm lead to the Allegro maestoso of a movement Silber calls “a hybrid of sonata form and chorale variations.” Throughout, elaborate fugal passages recall another LIVE MUSIC great Lutheran musician, J. S. Bach. A grandly stretched-out reprise of “A Mighty We all have passion. And passion springs from inspiration, which begins with your surroundings. That’s what home is. Family. Friends. A sense of place. Fortress” by the full orchestra makes a An amazing view. It’s what makes a space a home – splendidly triumphant conclusion. because your home is where you truly LIVE.
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Marin Alsop, conductor Katherine Needleman, oboe
Mason Bates Mothership
Kevin Puts Moonlight (Second Concerto for Oboe and Strings) (BSO Commission) Moonlight Folly Air (The Eye Begins to See)
Katherine Needleman
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Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3 Molto moderato, with simple expression Allegro molto Andantino quasi allegretto Molto deliberato – Allegro risoluto
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About the Artists the International Double Reed Society’s Gillet-Fox Competition. She has appeared Marin Alsop with the BSO as a soloist as well as with the For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Soloists Chamber Katherine Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Haddonfield Needleman Symphony, Symphony of Westchester, Katherine Needleman Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the joined the Baltimore Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia. Symphony Orchestra She has performed as guest principal as principal oboist in oboist with the New York Philharmonic; 2003, the same year she won First Prize at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and the
16 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org COPLAND SYMPHONY NO. 3 symphony orchestras of Boston, Atlanta, Devoted to the music of our time, About the Concert Chicago, San Diego and New Zealand. Needleman has premiered numerous works Needleman is a founding member and has commissioned works by Luis MOTHERSHIP of the oboe trio Trio La Milpa, the first Prado, Chia-Yu Hsu and David Ludwig. Mason Bates American chamber ensemble to perform She gave the American premiere Born in Richmond, VA, January 23, 1977 in Greenland; the woodwind quintet of Brenno Blauth’s Concertino. She Astral Winds; and Mico Nonet, an recorded Christopher Rouse’s Oboe Mason Bates’ Mothership is an orchestral improvisational ambient chamber music Concerto with the Albany Symphony work that could only have been born ensemble involving colleagues from and David Alan Miller and gave the in the 21st century. It received its world the Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia West Coast premiere of the work with premiere at the famed Sydney Opera Orchestra, Richmond Symphony and Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival. House in Australia performed by the 1970s synthesizers. Needleman’s other A Baltimore native, Needleman attended YouTube Symphony led by Michael chamber music engagements have taken high school at the Baltimore School for Tilson Thomas on March 21, 2011 and her to Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall the Arts but left early to attend the Curtis was viewed online on YouTube by nearly and the Metropolitan Museum in New Institute of Music, where she received a two million people worldwide. It skillfully York; Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Bachelor of Music degree as a student of merges the usually divergent worlds of Gardner Museum in Boston; and the Richard Woodhams. Needleman is on the classical symphonic music and the driving Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. She faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music’s rhythms of techno and the up-to-the- has appeared at the Verbier Festival in Young Artist Summer Program. She has moment sounds of electronics. Switzerland, Italy’s Spoleto Festival, the released a solo album with pianist Jennifer Bates himself straddles that perceived Alpenglow Festival and the Newport Lim on the GENUIN label. gulf with ease. Holder of a Ph.D. in Music Festival. A participant at the music from the University of California- Marlboro Music Festival, she has also Katherine Needleman last appeared Berkeley and recently appointed as the appeared on two tours with Musicians with the BSO in June 2018, performing Kennedy Center’s first composer-in- from Marlboro. Kevin Puts’ Moonlight. residence, he has also moonlighted as
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a DJ for electronic dance music and a “Immediately following her The second part, Folly, is driving techno artist in Oakland, CA. The title performance of the beautiful Oboe and sinister, at turns threatening and Mothership comes from his conception Concerto of Christopher Rouse at the grotesque, obsessively hanging onto a of the orchestra as a large mothership in Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music repeating two-note motive throughout. hyperspace at which various soloists — in August 2016, I approached Katherine The third part follows a short cadenza featured in virtuoso riffs — continually Needleman about doing a project for the oboe out of which a long-breathed dock throughout the piece. Because together, and, to my great delight, she melody emerges. Theodore Roethke these solo riffs are improvised on was enthusiastic. wrote, ‘In a dark time, the eye begins to the spot, no two performances of The piece was written in the wake of see.’ I continue to strive for vision and Mothership will be the same. the 2016 presidential election during a understanding in the midst of our great time of great upheaval and division in national division. Instrumentation: Three flutes including the country and— for me — a profound My most sincere gratitude and piccolo, two oboes, English horn, two feeling of disillusionment. I floundered admiration go to Katherine Needleman clarinets including bass clarinets, E-flat for several months, searching for for her guidance in shaping the oboe clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four inspiration until the discovery on a part, and to Bette and Joseph Hirsch for horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, cross-country flight of the 2016 film their friendship and generous support electronica, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, Moonlight in the in-flight entertainment for this project. And as always to Marin celesta and strings. guide. I found it exquisitely made, and Alsop for her belief in my work.” the film’s demonstration of tolerance and compassion in the midst of a tough Instrumentation: String orchestra. MOONLIGHT (SECOND CONCERTO environment stayed with me for some FOR OBOE AND STRINGS) time, giving me cause for hope. Kevin Puts My concerto is in three parts, played SYMPHONY NO. 3 Born in St. Louis, MO, January 3, 1972 without break. I call the first movement Aaron Copland (and the whole piece) Moonlight, Born in Brooklyn, NY, November 14, 1900; To celebrate its 100th anniversary in because…why not? Beethoven did it died in North Tarrytown, NY, 2016, the BSO turned to composer —or his publisher did. Anyway, I heard December 2, 1990 Kevin Puts to create a new work, The this opening music every time I thought City (which was also co-commissioned of the film, though it does not sound like Aaron Copland’s music reflected his by Carnegie Hall to salute its own 125th the soundtrack to the film (which I own personality: plain, straightforward, anniversary). Puts was hardly a surprising loved, by the way). honest and idealistic. Born in Brooklyn, choice, for not only has he been on the faculty of the Peabody Institute since 2006, but over that decade he has become one of the nation’s most sought- after composers. And his Network, River’s Rush and Symphony No. 4, “From Mission San Juan,” had already been popular visitors to the Meyerhoff stage. Puts’ opera Silent Night, premiered at the Minnesota Opera in 2011, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music and has subsequently been produced at major houses in the U.S., Canada and Europe. In 2015, he followed this success with another opera for Minnesota, The Manchurian Candidate, based on Richard Condon’s famous novel. This past June, Puts’ new Oboe Concerto, Moonlight, was premiered by Katherine Needleman at the BSO’s New Music Festival and now makes its subscription season debut. Kevin Puts explains how it came into being: WHITE DAVID
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he was a true product of the American melting pot. His parents, Russian Jews, had emigrated from Eastern Europe. His mother, Sarah Mittenthal, who had grown up in Peoria, IL and Dallas, TX, probably first inspired his fascination with the great American open spaces. In his early 20s, Copland traveled to France to receive a European grounding in composition from the renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Upon returning to America, he was initially lured by the modernist international style inspired by Stravinsky. The coming of the Depression, however, ignited Copland’s sense of musical mission. He became part of the group of “New Deal” artists clustered around the photographer Alfred Stieglitz to a climax until the trombones present flute sings a new theme, rocking gently (including Georgia O’Keefe, Ansel the movement’s third theme. In a rising in Copland’s signature Americana style; Adams and Hart Crane) who, taking shape and more assertive in spirit, this this beautifully scored music recalls the motto “Affirm America” as their melody is a harbinger of the Fanfare for the pioneers of Copland’s Appalachian credo, sought to express the American the Common Man. The whole orchestra Spring. Its luminous close leads directly democratic ideal in their art. Copland salutes it with dance-like music of great into the finale. decided to address his music not to the rhythmic energy. A marvelous passage After a soft preview of Fanfare for elite few but to the general music-lover of glittering percussion music leads to a the Common Man, it is blazed forth and “to see if I couldn’t say what I had stentorian climax of brass and drums — by brass and percussion, serving as to say in the simplest possible terms.” the peak of the arch — before a return to dynamic preparation for the work’s Early in 1944, his devoted supporter the opening’s spare simplicity. longest and most dramatic movement. Serge Koussevitzky, music director The crash of drums awakens us with A quick, swirling theme grows out of the Boston Symphony, extended a a jolt as the second-movement Scherzo of it and generates a dancing fugato. commission for a major orchestral work. begins. The horns leap upward with Eventually, the Fanfare joins in the Always a slow and painstaking craftsman, a call-to-action idea that also looks dance. This music grows in frenzy Copland barely finished the Symphony ahead to the Fanfare. The other brass until stopped dead in its tracks by loud, No. 3 in time for its premiere by that instruments imitate their cry in a blazing harshly dissonant chords. Tentatively, other BSO on October 18, 1946. Born military display. Then, horns and violas the woodwinds resume the dance, during World War II, it arrived in time to extend this idea into a true theme, which gradually builds to a powerful celebrate the Allied victory, and its heroic, accompanied by chugging strings and a restatement of the Fanfare. And near the affirmative tone ensured its success. chortling piccolo. Repeated three times, end, we hear again, high in the strings, Adding to the Symphony’s grandeur was this theme evokes ever more exuberant the simple theme with which the his incorporation of his Fanfare for the bursts of orchestral merriment. The symphony began. Shedding his usual Common Man in the finale. slower trio section offers a total love of understatement, Copland closes But the first movement— built in contrast in mood, with a solo oboe his victory symphony with a grandeur the form of an arch — opens with singing a melancholy, romantic melody that must have delighted Koussevitzky, the utmost simplicity and gentleness. reminiscent of one of Copland’s just as it still delights audiences today. Singing in unison, flute, clarinets and Western ballets. violins etch a spare melody of wide- Movement three opens with yet another Instrumentation: Four flutes including two open-spaces intervals. The brass provides extraordinary transformation. As we piccolos, three oboes including English horn, tender commentary as the instruments listen to the violins’ high, ethereal line, two clarinets, bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, two gradually pile in for a first affirmation. we can hardly believe it is the trombones’ bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, four Violas and woodwinds then quietly assertive third theme from the first trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, two introduce a second theme, close cousin movement in airy new guise. Intensified harps, piano, celesta and strings. to the first but more flowing and by counterpoint from other instruments, rhythmically active. This, too, builds it rises to a passionate climax. The solo Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2018
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Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra. He collaborates closely with JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL the Philadelphia Orchestra: since his Friday, November 30, 2018, 8 pm subscription debut in 2013, he has been Sunday, December 2, 2018, 3 pm on the podium over 100 times and served for three seasons as Conductor-in- Residence. Prior to that, he was Associate Conductor for two seasons and previously Cristian Măcelaru, conductor Assistant Conductor for one season. Joshua Bell, violin In Europe, Măcelaru has been Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to May Night in demand as a guest conductor with many orchestras and festivals, Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 4 in F Minor among others the Bayerischen Allegro Rundfunk Symphonieorchester, Royal Andante moderato Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Scherzo Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestre Finale con epilogo fugato Philharmonique de Radio France and INTERMISSION Danish National Symphony Orchestra. The 2018 –19 season sees Măcelaru Camille Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, op. 61 make debuts with the Orchestre National Allegro non troppo de France, Vienna Radio Symphony Andantino quasi allegretto Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Molto moderato e maestoso BBC Symphony, San Francisco Symphony – Allegro non troppo and São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.
Joshua Bell He returns to the City of Birmingham Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie- Maurice Ravel Tzigane Orchester Berlin, Dresden Philharmonie, Joshua Bell Hallé Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony and Detroit Symphony. In January 2019, he brings the National Symphony The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Friday Orchestra of Romania on its first-ever and 5 pm on Sunday. tour to the U.S. in commemoration of Romania’s centennial, culminating PRESENTING SPONSOR: a 7-city tour at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center in performances with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Cristian the 2018 season’s highlights were three Măcelaru was born in Timișoara, Măcelaru world premieres, a record-breaking 16 Romania and comes from a musical Newly appointed composers-in-residence and two tributes to family. The youngest of ten children, Chief Conductor commemorate William Bolcom’s and John he received violin lessons at an early th JAKOB HELMER MØRK HELMER JAKOB Designate of the WDR Corigliano’s respective 80 birthdays. age. His studies took him from Sinfonieorchester, Măcelaru attracted international Romania to the Interlochen Arts Cristian Măcelaru is one of the fast-rising attention for the first time in 2012 Academy in Michigan, University of stars of the conducting world. He takes when he stepped into the breach with Miami and Rice University, where on this new position at WDR, one of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he studied conducting with Larry Europe’s leading orchestras, effective deputizing for Pierre Boulez. The same Rachleff. He then deepened his during the 2019–20 season. year, he received the Solti Emerging knowledge at Tanglewood Music Măcelaru is Music Director and Conductor Award for young conductors, Center and Aspen Music Festival in Conductor of the internationally renowned followed in 2014 by the Solti Conducting masterclasses with David Zinman, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Award. He has performed regularly at the Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Oliver In August 2018, he led his second season in podium of the best American orchestras, Knussen and Stefan Asbury. premiere-filled programs of new works by including the Chicago Symphony Măcelaru was the youngest an esteemed group of composers. Among Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, concertmaster in the history of the Miami
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Cristian Măcelaru last appeared with the BSO in March 2015, performing works of Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky.
Joshua Bell With a career spanning over 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, LISA-MARIE MAZZUCCO MAZZUCCO LISA-MARIE conductor and director, Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era. Since 2011, Bell has served as Music Director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, succeeding Sir Neville Marriner, who formed the orchestra in 1958. Bell’s interests range from repertoire hallmarks to commissioned works, including Nicholas Maw’s Violin Concerto, for which Bell received a Grammy Award. Committed to expanding music’s cultural impact, Bell has collaborated with peers including Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Frankie Moreno and Josh Groban. In spring 2019, Bell joins cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk for a ten-city American trio tour. in the Bell maintains an avid interest in Holidays film music, commemorating the 20th with Baltimore Choral Arts anniversary of The Red Violin (1998) in 2018–19. The film’s Academy Award- Christmas with Choral Arts winning soundtrack features Bell as Tuesday, December 4, 2018 • 7:30 pm | The Baltimore Basilica, 409 Cathedral Street soloist; in 2018, Bell brought the film with Holiday choral favorites with a bold twist – a brass bonanza! Thirteen of Baltimore’s live orchestra to summer festivals and the most talented symphonic brass instrumentalists, two percussionists, and Associate New York Philharmonic. Conductor Leo Wanenchak on organ join the Chorus this season. Tickets: $25-76 An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Bell Christmas for Kids has recorded over 40 albums garnering Saturday, December 15, 2018 • 11 am | Kraushaar Auditorium at Goucher College Grammy, Mercury, Gramophone and Baltimore Choral Arts brings holiday cheer to the entire family, as the ever-popular ECHO Klassik awards. Sony Classical’s Pepito the Clown tells a brand new Christmas story. Tickets: $13 June 2018 release, with Bell and the Sing-Along Messiah Academy, features Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and Violin Concerto in G Minor. Sunday, December 16, 2018 • 3 pm | Kraushaar Auditorium at Goucher College The Baltimore Choral Arts Chorus invites area choruses and YOU to join in and In 2007, a Pulitzer Prize-winning enjoy highlights of Handel’s great oratorio. Tickets: $25 Washington Post story on Bell performing incognito in a Washington, D.C. metro Call 410-523-7070 or visit www.BaltimoreChoralArts.org station sparked a conversation regarding Special thanks to the artistic reception in context. It inspired Rouse Company Foundation Kathy Stinson’s 2013 children’s book,
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The Man With The Violin, and a newly wrote May Night rapidly during 1878–79. the symphonic repertoire. There were commissioned animated film. Bell It premiered at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky no sweet violin solos and none of what debuted the 2017 Man With The Violin Theater on January 21, 1880; one of reviewer Edwin Evans called Vaughan festival at the Kennedy Center, and, in the leading characters was sung by Igor Williams’ “corduroy tunes.” The March 2019, presents a Man With The Stravinsky’s basso father. Fourth was bracing and modern and Violin festival with the Seattle Symphony. May Night is set in a village kept uncompromising. And yet the surprised Born in Bloomington, IN, Bell began spellbound by the presence of an old audience responded with enthusiasm and violin at age four, and at age 12, began ruined castle on a lake, which is believed vociferous applause. Today the Fourth studies with Josef Gingold. At 14, he to be haunted by the ghost of a beautiful is generally ranked as the greatest of debuted with Riccardo Muti and the girl who drowned herself and became a Vaughan Williams’ nine symphonies. Philadelphia Orchestra and debuted at water-sprite. This legend becomes a reality This Symphony’s disturbing, aggressive Carnegie Hall at age 17 with the St. Louis when Levko, the son of the mayor, falls in energy seemed to reflect the apprehensive Symphony. Bell received the 2007 Avery love with Hanna, but is thwarted by his mood of the 1930s, with the world Fisher Prize and has been named Musical father. When the water-sprite appears to gripped by economic depression and America’s 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year him, he is able to solve the ancient mystery the rise of fascism. When World War II and an Indiana Living Legend. that holds her captive, and she in turn erupted, many began to see this work Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman enables him to marry Hanna. as prophetic. But Vaughan Williams Stradivarius violin with a François Tourte The Overture embodies all the aspects disavowed any such intentions. He wrote 18th-century bow. that animate this opera: the yearning to a friend: “I wrote it not as a definite romance, the earthy comedy and the picture of anything external — e.g. the Joshua Bell last appeared with the BSO in spooky tale of the water-sprite ghost. The state of Europe — but simply because it February 2016, performing a fantasy-suite latter element is captured marvelously occurred to me like this — I can’t explain from Bernstein’s West Side Story and in the opening moments when ominous why — I don’t think that sitting down Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. trombone calls punctuate the eerie and thinking about great things ever shimmer of woodwinds and violins. produces a great work of art.” About the Concert The whole symphony is developed from Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes, two powerful thematic fragments that we OVERTURE TO MAY NIGHT two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two hear at the very beginning. The first of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings. these “motto” motives is the screaming Born in Tikhvin, Novgorod, Russia, dissonance heard at the outset — a D-flat March 6, 1844; died in Lyubensk, Russia, clashing violently against a C, one painful June 8, 1908 SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN F MINOR half-step away — and the wailing melodic Ralph Vaughan Williams pattern of notes sinking by half-steps While most concertgoers know Rimsky- Born in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, that follows. Vaughan Williams playfully Korsakov for his spectacular orchestral England, October 12, 1872; died in London, admitted that he liked to “crib” things showpieces Scheherazade and Capriccio August 26, 1958 from other composers, and he borrowed espagnol, he in fact devoted most of his this from the dissonant fanfare that career to writing operas, 15 in all. Still As audiences gathered in London’s opens the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth very popular on Russian stages, these Queen’s Hall on April 10, 1935 to hear Symphony. Unlike Beethoven’s, this is operas are a fantastic blend of Russian the Fourth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan a dissonance that never seems to resolve folklore, fairy tales and mysticism, all of Williams they undoubtedly had some into consonance. The second motto is an which stimulated his gift for exotic and strong preconceptions about what they angular climbing melody that follows soon colorfully scored music. were about to hear. His previous Third in the brass and is echoed more quickly in Based on a short story drawn from Symphony, subtitled “Pastoral,” had woodwinds and pizzicato strings. Gogol’s collection of tales about peasant been the epitome of his unique musical After stirring up some wild rhythmic life in the Ukraine, Evenings on a Farm style: lyrical, contemplative and featuring confusion, this opening music subsides, at Dikanka, May Night was his second haunting modal melodies inspired by and over throbbing horns and trombones opera and the one that really established British folksong. we hear a surging theme in the violins, a template for his future stage works. But the Fourth Symphony turned out derived from both mottos, which The Gogol collection was a favorite of to be something shockingly different, expresses anguish and protest. This is Rimsky’s, and he recalled that he and completely lacking in English reticence. followed by a savage march theme, hurled his wife-to-be had read this particular It began with a dissonant scream played out in unison by the horn section. The story together on the day he proposed to fortissimo by the entire orchestra— screaming motto returns and ushers in a her. Rimsky created his own libretto and one of the most violent openings in brief development section.
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The recapitulation brings back the screaming first motto and drawing in the In sonata form, movement one mixes surging violin theme and intensifies its finale’s march theme as well. But all this drama with lyricism. Over a suspenseful anguish. Suddenly the tension subsides, contrapuntal energy cannot resolve the string tremolo and the rumble of drums, and Vaughan Williams moves into Symphony’s rage. The opening dissonant the violinist opens with big declamatory one of his symphonic innovations: screams return, followed by an angry, gestures in the instrument’s earthy low the hushed, slow-tempo epilogue with triple-forte slam of the door. register and then gradually ascends to its which he closed most of his symphonies, silvery top. Although Saint-Saëns believed but not this one. Despite this music’s Instrumentation: Three flutes including piccolo, the ideal concerto should be an equal gentleness, the lower strings are actually three oboes including English horn, two clarinets, balance between orchestra and soloist, playing that savage march theme in an bass clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, there is no question that in this movement extraordinary transformation. four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, the violinist is the star. Soon silky lyricism Opening with muted brass and tuba, timpani, percussion and strings. takes over in melodies emphasizing the woodwinds intoning the angular, violin’s loveliest singing tone. The music climbing second motto, the is sprinkled with vertiginous leaps onto predominantly quiet slow movement VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3 ethereal, high-altitude pitches that are continues this respite. Though beautiful, IN B MINOR often very soft and sustained; Saint-Saëns this music is not really serene: its grave, Camille Saint-Saëns custom-tailored these feats to Sarasate’s contrapuntal melodies for violins and Born in Paris, France, October 9, 1835; special abilities. various woodwind soloists twist in died in Algiers, Algeria, December 16, 1921 The melodious second movement is chromatic torment above an ominous a lilting barcarole in 6/8 meter, with pizzicato bass line. Periodic jabs of the One day in 1859, a 15-year-old Spanish the violin singing a romantic Venetian climbing motto by the brass further violin prodigy came calling on Camille gondolier’s song above the orchestra’s destabilize it. At the end, a lonely flute Saint-Saëns, then just 24 himself and only rocking-boat accompaniment. Here sings a sorrowful dirge that slowly recently out of his own prodigy years. Saint-Saëns achieves his ideal balance descends; its last note hauntingly misses The violinist was Pablo de Sarasate, and between orchestra and soloist as a series the F that would bring it home. he would become one of the legendary of exquisite woodwind solos echo the The third movement erupts in brutal virtuosos of the 19th century. “He had violin. In an extraordinary closing contrast. Building its initial theme from come to ask me, in the most casual cadenza, he pairs the violin — using both mottos, this rollicking scherzo manner imaginable, to write a concerto for flute-like harmonics to achieve yet higher delights in rhythmic conflict. Its middle him,” the French composer remembered. altitudes — with a deep-toned clarinet in trio section boasts this Symphony’s only “Greatly flattered and delighted at the flights of ghostly arpeggios. robustly British tune. After the scherzo’s request, I gave him a promise and kept my As the finale begins, the violin issues reprise, Vaughan Williams “cribs” again word with the Concerto in A Major [the yet another dramatic challenge to the from Beethoven, this time from the drum Violin Concerto No. 1].” orchestra, and the ensemble rouses itself passage that links movements three and A friendship immediately developed in a series of stormy crescendos. We seem four in his Fifth Symphony. But this between the two artists that would to be in Italy still as the violin launches bridge passage is more disturbing: the continue for decades and inspire a lively tarantella dance. But Saint-Saëns drum beats sound truly warlike. three more major works for Sarasate, has more compelling melodies up his The light at the end of Vaughan including the very popular Introduction sleeve: first, a broad, sweeping melody Williams’ tunnel is not as bright and and Rondo capriccioso of 1863 and Saint- for the soloist expressing passionate joy; triumphant as it was for Beethoven. Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3 of 1880. and later — in the middle development Instead, a fierce descending theme Sarasate was renowned for his elegance section — a radiant chorale first sung (derived from the second movement’s flute and beautiful sound. Another famous by the orchestral violins. After the solo) slams into a relentless march based violinist, Leopold Auer, described it opening music recapitulates, this chorale on the first motto. We also hear a lighter, as “a tone of supreme singing quality,” will return in a very different guise, bustling theme. This music reaches a wild, while conductor Hans von Bülow proclaimed proudly by the brass section. rhythmically unhinged climax. remembered the Spaniard’s “seductive But it is the sweeping theme of joy that It is succeeded by a glimpse of peace: speaking on the violin.” Sarasate’s ultimately carries soloist and orchestra calmly contemplative, slow-tempo music technique seemed effortless, and he over the finish line. for strings. In a conventional Vaughan was able to reach the highest notes with Williams symphony, we might now unerring accuracy. Saint-Saëns exploited Instrumentation: Two flutes including piccolo, expect a drift into a quiet epilogue. all these qualities in the Third Violin two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two Instead, the composer creates an “Epilogo Concerto, bequeathing a formidable horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani fugato”: a big fugal coda based on the challenge to future violinists. and strings.
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TZIGANE Maurice Ravel JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Born in Ciboure, France, March 7, 1875; Saturday, December 8, 2018, 8 pm died in Paris, December 28, 1937 Sunday, December 9, 2018, 3 pm
The prowess of Romani instrumentalists Edward Polochick, conductor and harpsichord gradually assumed legendary status even Jennifer O’Loughlin, soprano in the most aristocratic European musical Diana Moore, mezzo-soprano circles. By the 18th century, the Hungarian Benjamin Butterfield, tenor string tradition had become almost Sidney Outlaw, bass Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale synonymous with Romani fiddling, and it became the rage in Vienna, followed by George Frideric Handel Messiah the rest of the continent. Even a traditional ed. Watkins-Shaw Part I Germanic work such as Brahms’ Violin INTERMISSION Concerto paid tribute to Romani style in its blazing “Gypsy rondo” finale. Part II Part III But tonight we turn to a Frenchman, Maurice Ravel, for a most extraordinary evocation of Hungarian-Romani violin Maestro Ed Polochick will sign copies of his and the BSO's new Messiah CD in the lobby following both performances. playing in his Tzigane (the French word for “Hungarian Gypsy”). In July 1922, Ravel and attended a private musicale The concert will end at approximately 10:30 pm on Saturday and 5:30 pm where the brilliant Hungarian-born on Sunday. violinist Jelly d’Arányi played his Sonata for Violin and Cello. Later in the evening, d’Arányi began playing some Romani PRESENTING SPONSOR: melodies. Ravel was entranced and asked for more, and the music continued until 5 am. Two years later in 1924, memories of what he’d heard that night produced Edward operatic and choral conductor. He has Tzigane. It was dedicated to Arányi, Polochick appeared with ensembles including who gave its first performances in both The current season the Baltimore Symphony, Houston its original violin-piano version and the marks Maestro Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony, the orchestral arrangement. Polochick’s 32nd year Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Tzigane opens as a piece for as Artistic Director of Aalborg Symphony of Denmark, Omaha unaccompanied violin, as the soloist Concert Artists of Baltimore. 2018–19 also Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, rhapsodizes alone on melodies that use marks his 21st season as Music Director Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea, St. the Hungarian “Gypsy scale”. Eventually, of Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra in Petersburg Symphony in Russia and the the harp and the rest of the orchestra join Nebraska. From 1979–99 he was on State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra in the violinist in a passionate dance melody. the staff of the Baltimore Symphony as Toluca, Mexico. Along the way, we hear an astounding array Director of the Symphony Chorus, and Polochick resides in Baltimore, where he of virtuoso techniques. Notice especially since 1979 he has been at the Peabody is often asked to share his knowledge and the bell-like passages in which the violinist Conservatory as Associate Conductor love of music at lecture series, adjudications plays glistening high harmonics against the of the Orchestra, Director of Choral and radio broadcasts. He received the orchestra’s woodwinds and also the intricate Ensembles and Opera Conductor. An Peggy and Yale Gordon Achievement pizzicato sections. accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Award, and in 2000 he was made an he has appeared as piano soloist with honorary member of the Baltimore Instrumentation: Two flutes including piccolo, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Music Club. In 2002 he was awarded the two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Johns Hopkins University Distinguished two horns, trumpet, percussion, harp, Since winning the Leopold Stokowski Alumnus Award, one of only three Peabody celesta and strings. Conducting Award and conducting alumni to be so honored. In 2003 –04 he the Philadelphia Orchestra, Polochick was named Baldwin Scholar at the College Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2018 has attracted attention as an orchestral, of Notre Dame of Maryland, where he
24 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org JOANNE SAVIO PEABODY held lectures, demonstrations and panels on CHAMBER the creative act of music. Polochick is also a regular panelist on Face The Music, a review ORCHESTRA of recordings hosted by Jonathan Palevsky of WBJC-FM. In 2011 he adjudicated the Rosa Wednesday, January 30 Ponselle International Vocal Competition at 7:30 pm in Caiazzo, Italy. Last season Polochick led guest conductor a set of Masterworks Series concerts on the Leon Fleisher, podium of the Charleston (S.C.) Symphony. Tian Lu, piano Yury Shadrin, piano Edward Polochick last appeared with the BSO in December 2017, conducting Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Handel’s Messiah. Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 Jennifer O’Loughlin Concerto for Two Pianos Internationally acclaimed No. 10 in E-flat major, K. 365 American soprano Jennifer O’Loughlin Symphony No. 35 in D major, has performed at Teatro K. 385, “Haffner” Massimo Palermo, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, New National Theater Tokyo, Palau Reserve your FREE seats at de les Arts Reina Sofía, Théâtre du Capitole peabody.jhu.edu/events Toulouse, Wiener Staatsoper, Hamburgische or by calling 667-208-6620. Staatsoper, Bayerische Staatsoper, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Volksoper Wien, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, International George Enescu Festival, Auditorium Rai Arturo Toscanini, Koncerthuset Copenhagen, SING TO YOUR AUDIENCE. Wiener Musikverein and The Salzburg and Bregenz festivals. She has been lauded WITH OVERTURE. by critics for her performances in Maria Stuarda (Maria Stuarda), La Sonnambula (Amina), Les Pêcheurs de Perles (Leïla), Die
JANUARY Entführung aus dem Serail, (Konstanze), –FEBRUARY 2018
–DECEMBER 2017 Don Giovanni (Donna Anna), The Marriage NOVEMBER of Figaro (Susanna), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tytania), Candide (Cunegonde), Ariadne auf Naxos (Zerbinetta), Rigoletto (Gilda), Die Fledermaus (Adele), Martha
ORCHKIDS MARKS ONE DECADE OF GROWTH ( AND SUCCESS (Martha) and Semele Semele). She has BSO TAKES FLIGHT IN THE HANDS OF GUEST MARIN ALSOP AND CONDUCTORS THE BSO CELEBRATE ONE OF MUSIC’S GREATEST ICONS BSO AND BMA JOIN FORCES FOR “IMPRESSIONIST collaborated with Zubin Mehta, James MASTERWORKS” Conlon, Manfred Honeck, Daniel Harding, Roberto Abbado, Kirill Petrenko, Robin Reach over 150,000 patrons of the BSO five times a year in Overture, Ticciati, Edward Polochick, Leopold a program that’s about more than just beautiful music. Hagar and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. O’Loughlin earned a Bachelor of Music RESERVE YOUR AD SPACE TODAY! degree from Peabody Conservatory, Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music and a Herbert von Karajan TO ADVERTISE, CONTACT KEN IGLEHART: Foundation grant to attend International [email protected] Opera Studio Zurich. She has won several CREATIVE STUDIO Call 443.873.3916 prizes including the Maria Callas Prize Now also distributed at Strathmore Music Center in Bethesda
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from Paris Opera Awards, First Prize from built a reputation as a leading exponent of Bethlehem including their annual Anneliese Rothenberger Competition and of English song. In 2007, she devised 2-week Bach Festival. Star of the Year for La Sonnambula from Kathleen Ferrier — Her Life, Letters & Most recently as an interpreter of opera, Munich’s Abendzeitung. She can be heard Music to honor the legendary English he portrayed the role of Mime in Das on Elina Garanča’s Deutsche Grammophon singer, a program that has been endorsed Rheingold with Pacific Opera and was stage recording Revive and the DVD of Rienzi at by the Kathleen Ferrier Society. director for Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi at Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse. the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. Other Diana Moore last appeared with the BSO in operatic roles include Grimoaldo in Jennifer O’Loughlin last appeared with the December 2017, performing Mozart’s Re- Handel’s Rodelinda and Jupiter in Semele BSO in December 2016, performing Handel’s quiem, Marin Alsop, conductor. with Pacific Opera Victoria, Frère Massée Messiah, Edward Polochick, conductor. in Messiaen’s St. François d’Assise with Kent Benjamin Nagano and the Montreal Symphony, Diana Moore Butterfield Tamino in The Magic Flute with the English mezzo-soprano Praised by The New York Toronto Symphony and Don Ottavio in Diana Moore is lauded on Times as, “clarion-voiced Don Giovanni with Calgary Opera. THERESA PEWAL both sides of the Atlantic and vibrant,” Benjamin A prolific recording artist, he has UVIC. PHOTO SERVICES SERVICES PHOTO UVIC. for her “emotional depth” Butterfield is known recorded for Analekta, Dorian, CBC (The Guardian), for his performances throughout North Records, Koch International and Timpani. “thrilling” technical bravura (Gramophone) America, Europe, the Middle East and He has also been featured in Messiah on and “rich, evocative sound” (San Francisco Asia. He has performed with many of the ZDF at the Handel-Festspiele Halle with Chronicle). She enjoys a varied and world’s leading conductors including Sir Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert international career of opera, oratorio and Andrew Davis, James Conlon, Nicholas and on CBC Radio as a guest host for concert performances, and is a popular McGegan, Charles Dutoit, Leonard This is my Music. Recently Butterfield soloist at many major music festivals. Slatkin, Bramwell Tovey, Seiji Ozawa, recorded the St. John Passion with the Bach Moore’s tall and graceful stature has Bernard Labadie, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Choir of Bethlehem (Analekta), the Rhien made her the ideal trouser-role performer. Jeffrey Thomas, Trevor Pinnock, Bruno transcription of Mahler’s Das Lied von der With conductor Nicholas McGegan and Weil and Marc Minkowski. Erde for Yellow Barn and a sixth CD of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Moore In the 2018–19 season Butterfield Ukrainian Art Song for the Ukrainian Art performed the role of Medoro in Handel’s makes returns to the Baltimore Symphony Song Project in Toronto. Orlando in an acclaimed American tour at (Messiah), Calgary Philharmonic In fall of 2018, Butterfield was named the Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center’s Alice (Mendelssohn’s Elijah), and Vancouver a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Tully Hall and the Tanglewood Festival. Symphony (Dvorak’s Stabat Mater). the country’s highest academic honor. Recent concert engagements of note include He makes his debut with the Nashville Associate Professor, head of voice and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony along with Symphony singing Messiah under co-head of performance for the School selections from Mahler’s Des Knaben Giancarlo Guerrero. During the season, of Music at the University of Victoria, Wunderhorn with Royal Northern Sinfonia Butterfield also performs with University he was the 2015 recipient of the UVic. and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at Royal of King’s College Chapel Choir, returns Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Albert Hall and Winchester, Ely, Gloucester to the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Artistic Expression. He has also served as and York Minster Cathedrals. performs in his hometown with Victoria guest faculty for Opera Nuova, the Amalfi As a recording artist, Moore is a soloist Symphony, Victoria Choral Society, Victoria Coast Music Festival in Italy, The Victoria on the premiere recording of Scarlatti’s Philharmonic Choir. Conservatory Summer Vocal Academy, La Gloria di Primavera released in 2016 Recent performances include Carnegie Vancouver International Song Institute, with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Lincoln Yellow Barn and Opera on the Avalon. which was selected as an “Editor’s Choice” Center with American Classical Orchestra, recording in Gramophone. Her recording Utah Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Benjamin Butterfield last appeared with the of Handel’s Parnasso in Festa with King’s San Diego Symphony and Orchestre BSO in November 2017, performing Mozart's Consort and conductor Matthew Halls Symphonique de Québec, L’Orchestre Requiem, Marin Alsop, conductor. was the winner of the Stanley Sadie Handel Lyrique de Montreal and Victoria Recording Prize. Symphony. Butterfield has also appeared at Sidney Outlaw Moore’s charismatic vocal quality and Pacific Baroque Festival under conductor Lauded by The New training place her firmly within the fine Marc Destrubé, Luminous Voices, Elgin York Times as a “terrific heritage of English mezzo-sopranos. She Symphony and the Yellow Barn Chamber singer” with a “deep, is committed to celebrating the music Music Festival in Vermont. He makes rich timbre” and the San and musicians of her homeland and has frequent appearances with the Bach Choir Francisco Chronicle as an
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“opera powerhouse,” Sidney Outlaw was recital appearances include Haydn’s BSO’s Messiah will be the organization’s the Grand Prize-winner of the Concurso The Creation and Handel’s Messiah at celebratory finale concert. CAB wishes to Internacional de Canto Montserrat Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Symphony thank the community for more than three Caballe in 2010 and continues to delight No. 9 at Avery Fisher Hall, Mahler’s decades of support. audiences in the U.S. and abroad. A Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen with The CAB orchestra and chorus graduate of the Merola Opera Program Music Academy of the West and were frequently hired for performances and the Gerdine Young Artist Program at “Wednesday At One” at Alice Tully throughout the region by other Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the American Hall, as John Stevens in the world- organizations, including the Baltimore baritone from Brevard, NC recently premiere concert of H. Leslie Adam’s Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera added a Grammy nomination to his list of opera Blake at the Schomburg Center Baltimore, Moscow Ballet, the Baltimore accomplishments for the Naxos Records for Research in Black Culture in Basilica, Temple Oheb Shalom, Johns recording of Milhaud’s 1922 opera trilogy, Harlem and the world premiere of Hopkins Medical Institutions, McDaniel L’Orestie d’Eschyle, in which he sang the Wayne Oquin’s A Time to Break College, St. Louis Church, The Holocaust role of Apollo. Silence: Songs inspired by the Words and Museum, The Visionary Arts Museum, Last season included Outlaw's Dandini Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Greek Orthodox Church of St. in La Cenerentola with Greensboro Opera; commissioned by The Juilliard School. George, Ballet Theatre of Maryland and appearances with the Charlotte Symphony, Outlaw won Second Prize in the Walter Catholic Charities. When more musicians Bridgehampton Chamber Music and W. Naumburg Foundation’s International were needed, such as when the singers of Colour of Music festivals; his Spoleto Competition and in the 2011 Gerda Concert Artists perform Messiah with the Festival debut as Jake in Porgy and Bess; and Lissner Foundation Awards, National BSO each year, the chorus expanded to the Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park. semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Concert Artists Symphonic Chorale. The Outlaw has been a featured recitalist National Council Auditions, finalist in 2015–16 season featured a collaboration with Warren Jones at Carnegie Hall and both Concours International Musical de with the Baltimore Rock Opera Society at performed Elijah with the New York Montreal and George London Foundation the inaugural Light City Baltimore festival. Choral Society. He traveled to Guinea and grand prize in the Florida Grand The mission of Concert Artists of as an Arts Envoy with the U.S. State Opera/YPO Vocal Competition. He Baltimore was to present classical music Department, where he performed a holds a Bachelor in Music Performance performances of well-known and lesser- program of American music in honor of degree from the University of North known composers by an elite professional Black History Month and in remembrance Carolina at Greensboro and a Master chorus and chamber orchestra, thus of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of Vocal Performance degree from The providing a visceral music experience Outlaw made his English National Julliard School. to audiences in the Greater Baltimore Opera debut in the 2011–12 season as Metropolitan Area. In 2015, Concert Rambo in The Death of Klinghoffer and Sidney Outlaw last appeared with the BSO Artists of Baltimore was one of 20 joined the Metropolitan Opera roster in in December 2017, performing Handel’s Baltimore arts organizations chosen by 2014–15, also for The Death of Klinghoffer. Messiah, Edward Polochick, conductor. the DeVos Institute through a competitive Recent engagements include Dallapiccola’s application process to participate in the Il Prigioniero with the New York Concert Artists of Baltimore “Capacity Building Baltimore” program. Philharmonic and Guglielmo in Mozart’s Founded by Edward Polochick, Cosi fan tutte with North Carolina Concert Artists of Baltimore (CAB), The Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Opera. Other roles include Figaro in a professional chamber orchestra and Chorale last appeared with the BSO in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Atlanta Opera, professional chamber chorus, enjoyed 31 December 2017, performing Handel’s Malcolm in Malcolm X at New York City illustrious seasons as one of the region’s Messiah, Edward Polochick, conductor. Opera, Ariodante in Handel’s Xerxes and premier performing organizations. The Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Symphonic Chorale’s performances in the About the Concert Night’s Dream for the International Vocal Arts Institute, Papageno in Die MESSIAH Zauberflöte and a sensational international George Frideric Handel debut as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte in Born in Halle, Germany, February 23, 1685, both Germany and Israel. died in London, England, April 14, 1759 A sought-after concert singer and recitalist, Outlaw made his Handel’s great oratorio Messiah has Schwabacher Recital debut at the San become such a beloved musical icon in Francisco Opera center with pianist the nearly 270 years since its birth in John Churchwell. His concert and 1741 that it is not at all surprising that
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many myths and legends have grown presented as “entertainment” in secular up around it. We have been told that concert halls. Receiving few subsequent Handel himself compiled its mostly performances, the oratorio went back on Biblical text or, alternatively, that it Handel’s shelf. was sent to him by a stranger; that its By 1749 when Handel was 64, the success transformed him overnight trustees of London’s Foundling Hospital from a bankrupt operatic has-been to invited him to present Messiah there at England’s most revered composer; that a charitable fundraising concert. This at its London premiere the king himself time the oratorio aroused no controversy, rose during the “Hallelujah” Chorus to more than 1,000 people attended and express his approbation. But Messiah’s for the first time, Messiah enjoyed a real story is much more complicated, London triumph. From then on, annual though no less fascinating. performances during the Lenten season In the early 1740s, Handel was became a London tradition, soon indeed in considerable professional and spreading throughout Europe. Handel financial trouble. After emigrating from was finally acknowledged as England’s Germany to England as a young man, words Jennens had prepared. Beginning leading musical citizen, and he lived long he had enjoyed a celebrated career as the work on August 22, 1741, he completed enough—until 1759 — to be able to savor country’s leading composer of operas, the two-and-a-half-hour oratorio in just the success of the work he loved so dearly. sung mostly in Italian and enhanced by over three weeks. Besides inspiration spectacular costumes and scenic effects. from God, he also had a little practical Listening to Messiah But by the end of the 1730s, Handel’s assistance in this huge task: like most Messiah’s heroic journey is divided into serious grand operas were falling out of Baroque composers, he did not hesitate three parts. Part I revolves around the Old fashion. The success of John Gay’s much to borrow from his earlier works. Three Testament prophecies of the Messiah’s simpler, English-language The Beggar’s of the choruses in Part I—“He shall coming and culminates with his birth as Opera fueled a new enthusiasm for purify,” “His yoke is easy” and “For unto told in the Gospel of Luke. Indeed, more popular-style comic operas. Unable to fill us a child is born”— are based on music of Messiah’s text is drawn from the Old London’s opera houses anymore, Handel he’d originally composed as vocal duets. Testament than the New, and, apart from retreated from the field and turned his Messiah was introduced to the world the Nativity story, the Gospel histories genius to sacred dramas, or oratorios. in Dublin, Ireland in 1742 during Holy are seldom used. Thus, the emphasis He was not a novice in this genre. Week (the tradition of performing it falls on the broader meaning of Christ’s Even while writing operas, Handel had during the Christmas season is fairly redemption of the human race rather than composed a number of oratorios, notably recent). At the invitation of the Duke on the details of Jesus’ life. Israel in Egypt and Saul. Typically, his of Devonshire, the Lord Lieutenant of Part II meditates on human sinfulness, oratorios were not so very different from Ireland, Handel had been presenting the Messiah’s rejection and suffering his operas: they told a dramatic story, their concerts of his works there since the and his sacrifice to redeem humankind; soloists played actual characters and they previous November and winning the it concludes with that famous song of were performed in theaters and concert warm response that had been eluding praise and triumph, the “Hallelujah” halls, not churches. But Israel in Egypt took him in London. On that Tuesday, Neal’s Chorus. Finally moving into the New a new musical approach in that the chorus Musick Hall was packed beyond its Testament, Part III tells of the Messiah’s became the central character. capacity; audience members had been vanquishing of death and the promise of And Messiah, while giving the soloists more specifically requested to leave their everlasting joy for the believer. to do, still emphasized the chorus swords and hoop skirts at home in order Handel did not leave behind a for its climactic moments. to fit more people into the hall! definitive version of Messiah; instead, Handel himself did not compile the The Dublin audience responded with he reworked numbers and re-assigned group of texts drawn from the Bible’s enormous enthusiasm to the new work, arias to different voice categories Old and New Testaments for Messiah. and another performance was quickly depending on the soloists available for Instead, this was the work of Charles scheduled. But when Handel brought each performance. Messiah’s solo sections Jennens, a wealthy literary figure who Messiah to London in March 1743, are divided between recitatives, which was a longtime friend of the composer’s attendance was disappointing and the place greater emphasis on delivery of and had created texts for several other critics were unkind. Much of Messiah’s the words, and arias, in which musical Handel oratorios. But Handel, devoutly failure was caused by a heated controversy values and the showcasing of the singer’s religious, responded with a burst of that broke out in the city as to whether technical prowess take precedence. The almost miraculous creative energy to the such a serious sacred subject ought to be tenor’s two opening numbers are a good
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example: “Comfort Ye, My People” is an accompanied recitative and “Every Valley” is an aria. 201819 SEASON Perhaps the most stunning sequence in Part I is the juxtaposition of the bass soloist’s aria, “The people that walked in darkness,” with the beloved chorus, “For unto us a child is born.” In a marvelous example of musical text painting, the bass literally wanders in a chromatically confused maze in the dark key of B minor. The “great light” for which he yearns is then joyfully revealed in G major as the chorus salutes Jesus’ birth. All the choruses demonstrate Handel’s exhilarating technique of mixing powerful homophonic or chordal utterances (“Mighty! Counselor!”) with a more intricate polyphonic style in which each voice part pursues its own elaborately decorated line (“For unto us a child is born”). The origins of the ritual of standing for the “Hallelujah” Chorus are rather misty. Scholars believe that the Prince of Wales may have stood up when he attended that historic London performance in 1749. Certainly by 1780, SUPERPOPS everyone in the audience was following King George III’s lead in rising for Handel’s mighty hymn of praise. CHRISTINA Perhaps even exceeding “Hallelujah” in majesty and joy is the magnificent chorus “Worthy is the Lamb” that closes Part III, the shortest of the three sections but also the one most densely packed with the BIANCO oratorio’s greatest sequences (the soprano’s serenely beautiful statement of faith, “I WOMAN OF A Know that my Redeemer Liveth”; the bass’ hair-raising proclamation of the Final THOUSAND VOICES Judgment, based on First Corinthians, “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” with its glorious trumpet accompaniment). THU, FEB 28 | 8 PM STRATHMORE “Worthy is the Lamb” itself is capped with FRI, MAR 1 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF JACK EVERLY, conductor an “Amen” chorus on an epic scale worthy SAT, MAR 2 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF CHRISTINA BIANCO, vocalist | MEYERHOFF of the masterpiece it closes — unfurling SUN, MAR 3 3 PM in grand sweeps some of the finest, most You'll think you're at a concert featuring Celine Dion, Julie Andrews, inspired choral counterpoint this Baroque Bernadette Peters and more as actress, singer and impressionist Christina master ever devised. Bianco takes center stage with Jack Everly and the BSO SuperPops. Presenting Sponsors: BGE, An Exelon Company, Total Wine & More Instrumentation: Two oboes, bassoon, Supporting Sponsors: RBC Wealth Management, Lord Baltimore Hotel contrabassoon, two trumpets, timpani, Media Partner: Baltimore Style harpsichord, organ and strings.
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NOV–DEC 2018 / OVERTURE 29 CIRQUE NUTCRACKER Nicholas Hersh Nicholas Hersh is MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Thursday, December 13, 2018, 8 pm Associate Conductor of the Baltimore JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Symphony Orchestra Friday, December 14, 2018, 8 pm (BSO) and Artistic Saturday, December 15, 2018, 3 pm Director of the Baltimore Symphony Sunday, December 16, 2018, 3 pm Youth Orchestras. Since joining the BSO as Assistant Conductor in 2014, he continues to make his mark on the Nicholas Hersh, conductor mid-Atlantic region with exciting, Troupe Vertigo innovative programming, notably as conductor and co-curator of the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, op. 71 acclaimed BSO Pulse series, bringing Overture together indie bands and orchestral Act I The Decoration of the Christmas Tree musicians in unique collaborations. March Hersh directs the BSO’s educational Children’s Galop and family programming, including the Arrival of Drosselmeyer celebrated Academy for adult, amateur Grossvater Dance musicians, as well as a variety of classical Scena and popular programs. Hersh made his Scena (Battle) BSO subscription debut stepping in for Scena an indisposed Yan Pascal Tortelier, and Waltz of the Snowflakes has since conducted the BSO in a set of INTERMISSION subscription concerts each season. In the 2018–19 season, Hersh makes Act II his debut with the National Symphony Scena-Confiturembourg Orchestra and the Phoenix Symphony. Scena Highlights of the 2017–18 season Divertissement included debuts with the Houston, Chocolate (Spanish Dance) North Carolina, Alexandria and Coffee (Arabian Dance) Asheville symphonies. He has appeared Tea (Chinese Dance) Trepak (Russian Dance) with the New World Symphony, Flutes National Repertory Orchestra and the Mother Ginger Southern Great Lakes Symphony. Hersh Waltz of the Flowers is a frequent collaborator and guest Pas de deux – Variation II, Sugar Plum Fairy faculty at the Peabody Conservatory as Final Waltz and Apotheosis well as the BSO’s OrchKids program for Troupe Vertigo Baltimore City schoolchildren. Hersh grew up in Evanston, IL and started his musical training on the cello. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Music from Stanford University and a master’s degree in Conducting from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying with David Effron and Arthur Fagen. In 2011 and 2012, he was a The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Thursday and Friday and 5 pm Conducting Fellow with the prestigious on Saturday and Sunday. American Academy of Conducting at Aspen, studying with mentors Robert Spano, Hugh Wolff and Larry Rachleff, PRESENTING SPONSOR: and has participated in master classes with Bernard Haitink and Michael Tilson Thomas. Hersh is a two-time
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recipient of the Solti Foundation Career has gone on to present Nighthawks: A Assistance Award. Film Noir Circus, inspired by American Hersh is a skilled arranger and jazz, Edward Hopper paintings and crime - orchestrator; he has had frequent novels. 2016 brought Tableaux to life at arrangement commissions from the the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. For BSO as well as from the Cleveland Pops, the symphonic stages, Troupe Vertigo the National Repertory Orchestra and has created custom programs for major the Jackson Symphony. His symphonic orchestras, recently presenting Cirque Goes arrangement of Queen’s “Bohemian to the Movies with the Philly Pops and Rhapsody” saw worldwide success as Cirque Goes Broadway with conductor a viral YouTube hit. Jack Everly and the Indianapolis Symphony. Husband and wife team Nicholas Hersh last appeared with the BSO Aloysia and Rex frequently bring their in December 2018, conducting A Swingin' gifts and knowledge to the film and Nutcracker featuring Fly Dance Company. television industry. Recent highlights include working Troupe Vertigo with Rebel Wilson in Pitch Perfect Fusing together elements of cirque 2 and with Reese Witherspoon and acrobatics, classical dance and Christoph Waltz in Water for Elephants. contemporary theater, Troupe Vertigo This season they present Cirque brings audiences on a spellbinding Goes Hollywood with the Baltimore journey through the world of artistic Symphony Orchestra. Future offerings, movement. Consisting of world-class Cirque Dances, Cirque Carnaval, aerial artists, contortionists and ballet Cirque Fantasy, Cirque Fairy Tales and dancers, Los Angeles-based Troupe Cirque Romance are in development Vertigo was founded in 2009 by artistic now. Troupe Vertigo also has a training director Aloysia Gavre, formerly of program and school in Los Angeles the internationally renowned Cirque where “Anybody with Any Body” can du Soleil, and technical director Rex explore the wonders of the circus craft. Camphuis, whose background is with the fabled Pickle Family Circus. The Troupe Vertigo last appeared with the BSO ensemble premiered its first offering, Big in October 2017, performing Cirque Goes Top for a New Generation, in 2010 and Broadway, Jack Everly, conductor.
THU, JAN 24 | 8 PM STRATHMORE FRI, JAN 25 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF SAT, JAN 26 | 8 PM MEYERHOFF SUN, JAN 27 | 3 PM MEYERHOFF Jack Everly leads Broadway stars and the BSO in some of the greatest Rodgers and Hammerstein hits, including memorable songs from The King and I, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma! and more.
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JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Friday, December 21, 2018, 8 pm
Eric Conway, conductor Cece Winans, vocalist Morgan State University Choir
Program to be announced from stage. Eric Conway and the This program will include a 20-minute intermission. Morgan State University Choir Dr. Eric Conway is the director of the Morgan State University Choir and the chairperson of Morgan’s Fine and Performing Arts Department. As director, he has travelled all over the world, directing the choir in the Czech Republic, The concert will end at approximately 10:15 pm. Ghana, South Africa and Colombia, to name a few destinations. Conway is a doctoral graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music PRESENTING SPONSOR: of the Johns Hopkins University, where he majored in piano and conducting and received the prestigious Liberace Scholarship. CeCe Winans Fame, Hollywood Walk of Fame and The Morgan Choir has performed CeCe Winans has released a slew Nashville Music City Walk of Fame, in with several major symphony of duo and solo albums that cross addition to being named a Trailblazer orchestras, including the Philadelphia genres and boundaries and have of Soul by BMI and garnering multiple Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New influenced a generation of gospel NAACP Image Awards, Soul Train York Philharmonic and the National and secular vocalists. Her mantel Awards, Essence Awards and more. Symphony Orchestra. Under Conway’s today holds a staggering 10 Grammy She’s sold in excess of five million direction, the choir has appeared in the Awards, 20 Dove Awards and seven albums in the U.S. alone, topping Grammy-nominated recording of Leonard Stellar Awards. She’s been inducted the Gospel charts repeatedly while Bernstein’s Mass with the BSO. into the Gospel Music Hall of managing to cross over with smashes Conway has led the choir in many like “Count On Me,” her stunning acclaimed performances, including duet with Whitney Houston from the a special performance at the service multi-platinum Waiting To Exhale honoring Rosa Parks, the first woman soundtrack, which sold two million to lie in honor at our nation’s Capitol copies and cracked the Top 10 on the Rotunda. In July 2006, the choir Pop, R&B and Adult Contemporary traveled to Prague for two concerts charts. She touched millions more with the Czech National Symphony with inspirational performances Orchestra. In 2008, MSUC performed everywhere from Oprah to The at Carnegie Hall on two separate White House and even showed off occasions; under the baton of Bobby her acting chops on television series McFerrin with the St. Luke’s Orchestra like 7th Heaven and Doc. In 2016, and with Marin Alsop and the BSO. Winans became a member of the Artist Committee for the prestigious The MSUC last appeared with the Baltimore Kennedy Center Honors. Symphony in April 2016, performing Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Eric Conway
JEREMY COWART CeCe Winans makes her BSO debut. chorus director, Marin Alsop, conductor.
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JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Saturday, December 22, 2018, 3 pm Andy Einhorn Saturday, December 22, 2018, 8 pm Leading Broadway Music Director and Andy Einhorn, conductor conductor Andy Andrea Ross, soprano Einhorn directed Ryan Vona, tenor – Baltimore School For the Arts Dancers concerts in the 2017 18 Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Anthony Blake Clark, Director season with the Utah Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Jerry Herman “We Need A Little Christmas” from Mame Philharmonic Orchestra, National Arts arr. Robert Wendel Baltimore Choral Arts Society Centre Orchestra and the New Jersey Victor Herbert “Hail to Christmas” from Babes in Toyland Symphony. He’s currently the Music arr. Don Wilson Baltimore Choral Arts Society Supervisor and Musical Director for the new Broadway production of Hello Alan Silvestri Concert Suite from The Polar Express arr. Jerry Brubaker Dolly! starring Bette Midler. Einhorn’s Broadway credits include Holiday Inn, Martin & Blane “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” Bullets Over Broadway, Cinderella, Evita, Andrea Ross The Light in the Piazza and Sondheim on Vincent Guaraldi Medley from A Charlie Brown Christmas Sondheim. He recently served as Music & Lee Mendelson Andrea Ross Director and conductor for the Châtelet Theatre’s production of Sondheim’s Passion Alan Menken “A Place Called Home” from A Christmas Carol and made his New York Philharmonic
Andrea Ross debut with trumpeter Chris Botti. Ryan Vona Since 2011, Einhorn has served as Irving Berlin White Christmas Medley Music Director and pianist for six-time, arr. Jack Everly Andrea Ross Tony Award-winner, Audra McDonald, & Fred Barton Ryan Vona performing with orchestras and at venues Baltimore Choral Arts Society including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Various Santa Tap San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Baltimore School For The Arts Dancers Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie INTERMISSION Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Rodgers & “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music Teatro Real, Madrid. They recently Hammerstein II Andrea Ross recorded performances for an upcoming telecast with the Sydney Symphony at Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Selections from The Nutcracker the Sydney Opera House. Einhorn has Jerry Herman “The Best Christmas of All” from Mrs. Santa Claus also served as Music Director for Barbara arr. Wendel Andrea Ross Cook at Feinstein’s and Toronto’s Royal Ryan Vona Conservatory of Music.
Baltimore Choral Arts Society His tour work includes Sweeney Todd, Alan Silvestri “God Bless Us Everyone” The Light in the Piazza, Mamma Mia! & Glenn Ballard from Disney’s A Christmas Carol and The Lion King. Einhorn’s work can be Ryan Vona heard on the current touring production of Kristin Anderson-Lopez Music from Frozen The Sound of Music. Einhorn has worked & Robert Lopez at Goodspeed Opera House, Oregon arr. Bob Krogstad Shakespeare Festival and PaperMill Playhouse. He was principal vocal coach John Williams Three Holiday Songs from Home Alone and pianist for Houston Grand Opera’s An Baltimore Choral Arts Society Evening with Audra McDonald, a double- The afternoon program will end at approximately 5 pm bill of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and and the evening program will end at approximately 10 pm. LaChiusa’s Send. Recording credits include Bullets Over PRESENTING SPONSOR: Broadway, Cinderella, Evita, Sondheim on Sondheim and McDonald’s newest SUPPORTING SPONSOR: release, Go Back Home. He served as the Music Director for HBO’s Peabody
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Award-winning documentary Six by of Joey Montgomery. He has performed as Music Director of Baltimore Choral Sondheim and music supervisor for Great regionally across the country, most Arts Society Performances special Broadway Musicals: recently as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar, For the past 22 years, WMAR A Jewish Legacy on PBS. directed by Terrence Mann. As a singer/ Television has featured Choral Arts in Einhorn is an honors graduate of Rice songwriter, Vona has performed in New its special, Christmas with Choral Arts, University in Houston, TX. York City venues including 54 Below, which won an Emmy Award in 2006. Highline Ballroom, Rockwood Music The chorus was also featured in a PBS Andy Einhorn last appeared with the BSO Hall and Bowery Poetry. You can find documentary called Jews and Christians: in June 2018, conducting An Evening with his debut album Somebody on iTunes A Journey of Faith, broadcast nationwide, Audra McDonald. and Spotify, and updates are available and on National Public Radio’s Special at RyanVona.com. Follow Vona on Coverage in the fall of 2001. The ensemble Andrea Ross Instagram: @ryanvona has been featured frequently on The First Andrea Ross is thrilled Art, Performance Today and VOX. In to be here in Baltimore Ryan Vona makes his BSO debut. Europe, Choral Arts was featured in a singing with The BSO program devoted to the music of Handel for the Holiday Pops! Baltimore School broadcast on Radio Suisse Romande. On Ross grew up in Boston, for the Arts local radio, Baltimore Choral Arts was where she began her stage career and was Dancers featured on Choral Arts Classics, a program the youngest recipient of the prestigious GOLDMAN MEG Baltimore School for on WYPR Radio hosted by Music Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding the Arts (BSA) is a Director Emeritus Tom Hall that features Actress. She caught the attention of nationally recognized the Choral Arts Chorus and Orchestra. Andrew Lloyd Webber, who mentored public arts high school that provides its In 2010, Choral Arts released Christmas her and produced her solo album, Moon students with intensive pre-professional at America’s First Cathedral on Gothic River, with Universal Classics and Jazz. training in the arts in conjunction with Records, recorded at the Baltimore Basilica. Ross has played prominent venues in the a rigorous academic curriculum. BSA A recording with Dave Brubeck, featuring U.K., including the Royal Albert Hall and graduates go on to the most selective arts Brubeck’s oratorio, The Gates of Justice, Wembley Stadium, where she was a guest and university programs nationwide and was released internationally on the Naxos artist for Concert for Diana, honoring achieve prominence in theater, film, music, label in 2004; Choral Arts is also featured Diana, Princess of Wales. She was also a dance and visual arts. Additionally, BSA’s on Introducing the World of American Jewish featured artist at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s highly acclaimed TWIGS program offers Music on Naxos. Choral Arts has two other Sydmonton Festival. Ross originated the free after-school arts instruction to 700 city recordings in current release: Christmas lead role of Swallow in Andrew Lloyd elementary and middle school children with Choral Arts and a live recording of the Webber’s national tour of Whistle Down from schools across Baltimore, as well as Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil. The Wind, and she understudied for the other outreach initiatives to thousands Acclaimed artists collaborating with role of Maria in the national tour of The more. Founded in 1979, the school is an Choral Arts have included Sweet Honey Sound of Music, which was music directed integral and vibrant part of Baltimore’s in the Rock, Chanticleer, Dave Brubeck, by Andy Einhorn. Ross is a graduate educational and cultural communities. the King’s Singers, Anonymous 4, Peter of Pace University with a Bachelor’s of Schickele, Kathy Mattea and others. Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre. She The BSA Dancers last appeared with Baltimore Choral Arts’ innovative wishes you happy holidays and hopes you the Baltimore Symphony in April 2018, programs often feature both choral and enjoy the show! performing Tchaikovsky’s Serenade, orchestral music, stage and theater works. Marin Alsop, conductor, Andrea Ross makes her BSO debut. BCAS last appeared with the Baltimore Anthony Blake Clark and the Symphony in March 2018, performing in Ryan Vona Baltimore Choral Arts Society Vienna to Broadway, Jack Everly, conductor. Ryan Vona is delighted The Baltimore Choral Arts Society, now to be joining the in its 53rd season, is one of Maryland’s BSO for the Holiday premier cultural institutions. The Pops! A Boston-born, Symphonic Chorus, Full Chorus, Brooklyn-based actor Orchestra and Chamber Chorus perform and musician, Vona has performed throughout the mid-Atlantic region, as on Broadway as Andrej in Once the well as in Washington, D.C., New York Musical and in Cirque du Soleil’s and Europe. Conductor and composer Paramour, for which he created the role Anthony Blake Clark is in his second year
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THIS HOLIDAY SEASONu WITHi A GIFT CERTIFICATE TO THE BSO! AVAILABLE AT BSOMUSIC.ORG/GIFTS 410.783.8000 RESOUNDING The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century
Resounding: The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century is a $65 million campaign to build the BSO’s endowment—sustaining the organization’s growth and vitality and expanding the reach of our innovative and ground-breaking artistic and educational programs. Funds secured through the Campaign will enable the BSO to attract and retain our world-class musicians and guest artists, engage new and diverse audiences and expand the reach of our OrchKids and Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras (BSYO) education programs. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is enormously grateful to those who are investing in the future of the organization through their support of the Resounding Campaign. We thank the following individuals, corporations, and foundations who have made endowment, OrchKids, BSYO and increased annual fund gifts totaling $46.2 million between September 1, 2012 and October 31, 2018 in support of this historic fundraising effort.
BSO presents Sandra Levi Gerstung with timpani For more information on Resounding: The Campaign for mallets in recognition of the Hecht-Levi Foundation’s the BSO’s Second Century or to make a gift, contact: establishment of the Levi Family Principal Timpani Chair. Pictured left to right: Sandra Levi Gerstung, Angel Terol, BSO Second Century Campaign Director James Wyman and Marin Alsop at 410.783.8055 or [email protected].
$5,000,000 AND UP The Estate of Albert and Martha Walker Ingrid and Robert Coutts Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Ellen W.P. Wasserman Richard and Rosalee Davison The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Ben and Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation $250,000-$499,999 Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Foundation, Inc. $1,000,000-$4,999,999 Michael J. Batza, Jr. and Patricia K. Batza Kenneth W. DeFontes and Donna C. DeFontes Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Ellen and Ed Bernard Freda Dunn Charitable Funds Mary Catherine Bunting Alan and Carol Edelman Hecht-Levi Foundation The Estate of Sergui and Robinne Comissiona Mr.* and Mrs. Thomas Fallon Sandra Levi Gerstung Nelson* and Sara Fishman Haswell M. and Madeline S. Franklin Mr.* and Mrs. Kingdon Gould, Jr. Ms. Lois S. Hug John Gidwitz Shelter Foundation, Inc. The Estate of John Larsen The Goldsmith Family Foundation Patricia and Mark K. Joseph Catherine and George McClelland Beth Goldsmith Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, MD National Endowment for the Arts The Estate of Hilda Perl Goodwin Pearlstone Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Hamilton, Jr. $500,000-$999,999 Ms. Amy Elias Dr. James and Lynne LaCalle Helmut D.W. Bauer Mr. Richard Pearlstone Jeffrey and Harriet Legum Thomas S. and Barbara M. Bozzuto Arnold and Alison Richman The Estate of Bernice Levinson Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman Middendorf Foundation Foundation Doris W. Sanders Bill and Dottie Nerenberg Bunting Family Foundation Alena and David M. Schwaber Linda Hambleton Panitz France-Merrick Foundation Ms. Nancy E. Smith Scott Phares and Judy Witt Phares Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold, IV Lord Baltimore Capital Partners, LLC Michael* and Priya Pinto Gwynne and Leonard Horwits Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet Eurich The Estate of Lawrence Roberts Constance R. Caplan Terry M. and James Rubenstein, M.D. Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan $100,000-$249,999 The Estate of Henry Sanborn Nicholas Klise Anonymous (2) Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Sarellen and Marshall A. Levine, MD Nancy H. Berger The Honorable Steven Schuh and Ms. Dania Blair Earl and Darielle Linehan Mr. David H. Bernstein Stephen and Gail Shawe The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Richard and Carol Bernstein Sherman Family Foundation Foundation The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation George and Betsy Sherman Susan and Charles Shubin The Estate of Phyllis Brill Joanne Gold and Andrew Stern David and June Trone The Estate of Margaret Cooke The Estate of Ingeborg Weinberger
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$50,000-$99,999 Ms. Betty Ballard Elizabeth Boison The Canticle Singers Of Baltimore Anonymous The Baltimore City Foundation John and Carolyn Boitnott Daryl Caplan and Bob Bryant In memory of James Gavin Manson Dr. and Mrs. Lenwood Ivey Mrs. Barbara Bond Jamie Caplis The Abell Foundation Baltimore County Commission on the John and Elizabeth Bond Benjamin and Myrna Cardin Mrs. Sonia D. Blumenthal* Arts & Sciences Mr. Frank A. Bonsal, Jr. Theodore and Gregory Carski The Estate of Hazel Ann Fox Baltimore Estate Planning Council Boomerang Fund For Artists Ms. Margaret Carlton H&S Bakery, Inc. Baltimore Office Of Promotion And Dr. Jean Boone and Mr. Randy Boone Carrolltowne Elementary Mr. Bill Paterakis The Arts Charles Booth John H. Carter Mrs. Betty Himeles and The Martin S. Baltimore Ravens Adam and Meredith Borden Tyonne Carter Himeles, Sr. Foundation Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle Neal and Winnie Borden The Annie E. Casey Foundation The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation Bank of America - Local Dr. Andrea Bowden Ms. Meghan K. Casey Dr. Thomas Pozefsky Penny Bank Ledley Boyce Ms. Mary V. Cashdollar Barry and Susan Rosen Dr. Mitchell Bard Mr. Gerald Boyd, Sr Mr. Allen Cassity Jacob S. Shapiro Foundation Lee Barker Ms. Winsome Boyd William and Kristina Catto at the suggestion of Ms. Danielle Barner Woody and Sandra Boyd Robert and Penny Catzen Jane Baum Rodbell John and Ruella Barnes Thomas Bozzuto and Robin Madigan Jennifer Cawthra Stanley Rodbell Mr. John I. Barnes, II Stanley and Dorah Brager Matthew Cellini Ms. Mabel Barron Mr. Charles Bragg Ms. Jeanne Celtnieks UNDER $50,000 James and Sheila Barry David and Helen Braitman Juno Chang and Kyungeun Park Anonymous (3) Anjula Batra Boudewien and Paul Brand Ronald McDonald House Charities Herbert and Betty Aaron Ms. Kimberly M Battista Shirley Brandman and Howard Shapiro Ms. Susan Gerrity Chase Dr. Eileen Abel The Kenneth S. Battye Charitable Trust Mr. Thomas Brantigan Ms. Karen Chasen Emile Bendit and Diane Abeloff Dr. Lillian Bauder Ms. Rosemarie Brazeau Mr. James Chen Mr. Harland Abraham Charles T. Bauer Foundation Carolyn and David Braverman Ms. Lenis Chen Eric and Robin Ace Mr. Brian Bayerle Ms. Shirley Braverman Hosea T. Chew William and Dorothy Achor John Beach The Peter David Brendsel Fund For Ms. Rebecca Howell Chew William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Ms. Jane Beard Children Literacy Mr. Wayne G. Ching Foundation Sheldon and Arlene Bearman Ms. Amy Brennan Chipotle Mrs. Marjorie Rodgers Cheshire Ms. Stephanie Bechtel Rebecca and Josh Brenner Mrs. Kristine Cho Ms. Kathryn Adams John and Mary Ann Beckley Mr. Robert Breyer Mrs. Constance Chriss AHS Charm City Chapter Mrs. Sarah Beckwith Paul and Jane Brickman Jean Christianson Mr. Zachary Alberts Claire Beissinger Jeremy Bridges Mrs. Karen Cicmanec George and Frances Alderson Ms. Heidi Bell Dr. Nancy Bridges Mr. George Ciscle Mr. and Mrs. Tedd Alexander, III Harry and Janice Benham Susan Bridges and Bill Van Dyke The Classic Catering People Karl and Kathy Alexander Ms. Eileen Bennett Ms. Jeanne Brinkley Classical Conversations of Ellicott City ALH Foundation, Inc. David Bercuson Ms. Janet Briscoe Clayton Baker Trust David and Bonnie Allan Ms. Lane K. Berk Thomas and Michele Broemmelsiek Sally Clayton and Leslie Graef David Allen Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Ms. Martha Bromberger-Barnea CLD Partners Mrs. Elise Allen Ms. Cynthia Berman Ms. Jenny Bromley Clean Currents Ms. Shirley Allen Gerardine Berman Steven Brooks and Ann Loar Brooks Aris and Jennifer Cleanthous Stephen and Kristen Allen Howard and Deborah Berman Ms. Sarah Brooner Emery and Edith Cleaves Thomas and Carol Allen Bunny Bernstein Brown Capital Management Ms. Tara Clifford Willow and Hollys Allen Mr. Toby Bernstein Brown Memorial Woodbrook The Clinton Family Fund Ms. Marin Alsop Betty Huse MD Charitable Foundation Presbyterian Church Mrs. Mary Close AmazonSmile Ms. Danielle Beyers Karen and Robert Brown Mary Jo and Brad Closs Christoph and Joanna Amberger BGE Kristen Handy-Brown Samuel Parker Clothier American Trading & Production Robert Biagiotti Ms. Lynette Brown Ms. Sybil R Coblenzer Corporation Marjorie Bigham Ms. Amy Bruce Mrs. Anne Codd Ms. Barbara Ames Elizabeth Binford Ms. Jeanne Brush Alan and Deborah Cohen Paul and Donna Amico Judy and Dave Binkley Ms. Sandra Brushart Allen and Ellen Cohen Mr. Will P. Amland William and Martha Bishai Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Player’s Howard and Barbara Cohen Diana Andrews John and Carol Bishop Committee Howard and Nancy Cohen Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Scott and Katherine Bissett Mr. Stephen C. Buckingham Ms. Nancy L. Cohen Ms. Susan Angell Bithgroup Technologies, Inc. Dr. David G Bundy Samuel Cohen and Joan Piven-Cohen The Estate of Ms. Barbara Appell Mr. Black Mr. Peter Van Buren Dr. Steven Cohen Steven and Kristen Appel Mrs. Irene E. Black Ms. Susan L. Burgert Ms. Suzanne Cohen Arnold and Suzanne Applefeld Ms. Katherine Blakeslee Ms. Lori Burghauser Ms. Jill Cohen Mrs. Ruth Aranow Mr. Louis Blank Kathleen and Brian Burr Ms. Corinne Coleman Mr. Paul Araujo Mary and Morton Blaustein Mark and Dana Burrough Paula Coleman Louise Armstrong The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Jeffrey and Ann Burt Mr. and Mrs. Reco Collins Tina and Todd Armstrong Foundation Dr. Nancy Burton-Prateley Philip and Mary Combs Belinda Arrington Nancy Blaustein and J. Patrick Mrs. Amy Burwen The Joseph Mullan Company Ms. Mary Ann Ashcraft Harrington Ms. Kristin L. Bussell Conductors Guild Jill Asman Mrs. Marilyn Bliden Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Butler Constantine Commercial Construction Mr. William Backstrom and Ms. Tracy Miriam Blitzer Aaron Bycoffe Paul Converse and Wienshet Teklu Lambros Rachel Bloch Ms. Sharon Byrd Ms. Mary Cook Calvin H. Baker and Lidia Paz-Baker The Estate of Jean Louise Bloom Charles and Judy Cahn Reverend Ralph Cook Mrs. Carol Lynn Baker Bloomberg Philanthropies Cal Ripkin Sr. Foundation, Inc. Charles and Joan Cooper William G. Baker, Jr Memorial Fund In Honor of Terry M. Rubenstein James Calderwood and Joyce Johnson Ms. Julia Cooper Mr. Gary Baldwin Joyce and Robert Bloor Ms. June Caldwell Mr. Michael Cooper David and Susan Ball Mia Bock Dr. Nathan H. Carliner Mr. Phillip Cooper F.G. Ball Ms. Brenda J. Bodian Ms. Janice Campbell Mark Coplin Ms. Barbara L. Ballard Ms. Carol Bogash Candlelight Concert Society, Inc. Corporate Office Properties Trust
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John Corona Ms. Anna Dopkin Fortineaux Associates Mr. & Mrs. Leslie H. Graef Corrigan Sports Enterprises Mr. James Doran Laurlene Straughn Pratt Foundation Grafton Consulting LLC Ms. Marjorie Corwin Ms. Victoria Dorf Parks & People Foundation Mr. Andrew Graham Frank and Jane Costanzi Mrs. Alice Dorshow T. Rowe Price Foundation Ms. Jean Elizabeth Graham Mr. David Costello Ms. Marcia Dresner William Randolph Hearst Foundation Ms. Betsy Granek Alex and Chrissy Cotsalas Larry and Jane Droppa Mr. Robert Fowler Mrs. Toni Greenberg Mr. Nicholas Coutros Gloria and Lindsay Dryden Stephen and Jayne Frank Mrs. Emily Greene Barbara and William Cowie Mr. L. Dyson Dryden Mr. Stan Frazier Dr. Sue Greene Ms. Erma S. Craig Shaojia Du and Xiaoyin Wang John and Elaine Freeman Mrs. Marlene Greenebaum Ms. Barbara Crawley Norman and Valerie Dubin Arlene and Kenneth Friedman Ms. Peggy Greenman Cristina Creager DuBois Circle Ellen Friedman Mrs. Lauren Greenwald Margaret O. Cromwell Family Fund Craig and Nan Duerling Ms. Judith Friedman Alison Greer Mr. Michael Cryor Elvis Dumervil Mr. Donald Fry Mr. Demetreus Gregg The Honorable Elijah Cummings David and Yehudis Eagle Dr. Jillian Fry Molly Gregory Mr. Max Curran Brian Eakes Mr. David Fu Nancy Gregory Mr. Jackson Curreri Nancy and Alan Eason Mrs. Ann Fugett Mr. J. David Greydanus Meosotis Curtis John and Donna Easton Dr. Erin Fults Ulrike Gross Ms. Raymarlyn Curtis The Estate of William B. Eddisson Ms. Jane Fun Richard and Linda Grossi Ms. Ellen B Cutler Donna Eden Ms. Lisa Gaffney PNC Financial Services Group Carol and John Cyphers Ms. Joyce Edington Marina and John Gaffney Mrs. Donna Lucia Guarino Ms. Maris St. Cyr Edwards & Hill Communications, LLC Kathleen and John Gagnon Leonard and Susan Guberman D’Addario Foundaion Gretchen Edwards Ms. L. Denise Galambos Ms. Claude Helene Guillemard Sophie Dagenais Willem Van Eeghen Mr. Matthew Gallagher Ronald and Cynthia Gunderson James and Anne Dale Dr. Georgia Franyo-Ehlers Ms. Nancy Gallagher Joann Gusdanovic and Lisa Evans Ms. Laurel Damashek Ms. Paula Ferris Einaudi Ms. Christina Gallo Ms. Julia Guth Linwood Dame Mary and James Elliott Ms. Ethel W. Galvin Ms. Adelaide A. Habel Dr. Dallas Dance Todd Elliott Gamma Boule Foundation Miles and Ronnie Haber Irwin Danels Stuart and Margery Elsberg Ms. Barbara Gamse Ms. Stephanie R. Hack Marcia Daniel Mrs. Gabriella Emmett Nona Gandelman Eric Hadaway Patricia Daniel Mr. & Mrs. John H. Engel Jeffrey Gangwisch and Robbye Kenneth and Arlene Haddock Jane and Worth* Daniels Mr. Michael Enright Apperson Ms. Marian Hahn Ron Daniels and Joanne Rosen Epworth United Methodist Chapel Lyle Garitty Kathryn Haller and Jeffrey Johnson Mrs. Sarah David Mr. Raphael D. Erfe Pinkney and Yvonne Garner Fern and J. Edward Hamel Tema S. David Ms. Carol Erhardt Mr. Robert Garnet Carole Hamlin and C. Fraser Smith Mr. Thomas E. Davies Yener and Brenda Erozan Leete and Jamie Garten Brian and Carolyn Hammock Hal Davis and Susan Levine Ms. Karen McNamara Esposito John and Christine Gazurian Robert and Beverly Handwerger Miss Cynthia Dawson Patrick and Janice Eteme Ms. Gail Geller Ms. Lincolnette Handy Douglass and Susan Day Mr. Alan W. Evans Judith Geller and Michael Raitzyk Kristen Handy-Brown Ms. Kathryn L. Day Charles and Beth Evans Ms. Gretchen Genello James Hanes Ms. Jovonne C. Day-Miles Exchange Club of Highlandtown Inc. John Gerwig Taylor Hanex Mr. Eugene M. de Lara Exelon Corporation Phyllis Joy Gestrin Michael and Ann Hankin Lisa DeCamp John Eyring Ms. Vera Gibbs Richard Hannigan Deering Family Foundation Family League of Baltimore City, Inc. Wilson and Jeanne Gildee Dr. Michael Hansen and Ms. Nancy Dorothy and Stephen Degaray Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Farinacci Raquel Whiting Gilmer Randa Mr. James DeGraffenreidt and Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas Susan Gilson James and Linda Happel Dr. Mychelle Farmer Mrs. Kathleen D. Farno Mr. & Mrs. James L. Ginsburg Mrs. Beth Happick Mrs. Marion DeGroff Ms. Carmen L. Farrior Ms. Arlene Gioia Har Sinai Congregation Ms. Camille Delaney-McNeil and Arthur and Eena Feld Mr. John M. Gipson Bernadene Harper Aaron McNeil Mark and Beth Felder Mrs. Suzanne L. Given Ronald and Carol Harrell Judy Delbera Mrs. Katherine Feldmann Corliss and Thomas Glennon Dr. Jacqueline Harris Lisa Delima Sandra Feldman Michael and Jane Glick Ms. Kati Harrison Mrs. Barbara DeLouise Melissa and Ilya Feliciano Ms. Jeanette Glose Ms. Pat Hartley Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Denlinger Mr. H. Stephen Fender Ms. Kayla Gluck Wilbert and Lillie Hawkins Mr. Miguel Dennis Jianhua Feng and Zhibing Chen Mr. Christopher Gocke Dr. Carla Hayden Mrs. Barbara K. Dent Mrs. Allison Ferguson Mr. Adam Goers Joanne Hayes and Deidre Carroll Marie des Jardins and John Park Marlene and Walter Ferguson Mr. Justin Golart Maurice and Lisa Haywood Mrs. Tanya Deshields-Yates Ms. Gladys Fernandez Mrs. Louise Goldberg Donald and Sybil Hebb Kevin and Loretta D’Eustachio Kathleen and Jorge Fernandez Lewis and Louise Goldfine Mrs. Anita Heffernan Mrs. Mariam D’Eustachio Mark Fetting and Georgia Smith Barry and Florence Goldgeier Mrs. Shanna Heilveil Ms. Geraldine Diamond Mr. Stephen Filer David and Eleanor Goldstein John Heinlein Susan Dibs and M. Douglas Baker Bonnie Finch Thomas and Andrea Goldstein David and Linda Hellmann Betty Lee and Dudley P. Digges Matthew Firor Ms. Jenny Good Ms. Rhonda Henderson Memorial Fund Alvin and Hilda Fisher Katherine Goodrich William Henderson Lenox Dingle Frances Fisher Marion and James Goodrich The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Sheila Ann Dixon Morton and Ann Fisher Carol and Russell Gordon Mrs. Hortense H. Henry William Dixon Sara Fishman Ms. Lynne T. Gorman The Herbert Bearman Foundation Miss Sylvia Betts Dodd Frederick Flaccavento The Estate of Dailinia Gorn Mr. Barry Herman Ms. April Dodge Ms. Joanne Flax The Samuel G. And Margaret A. Gorn Ms. Miriam Herman Carol Dodson Jerome and Rosemarie Fleg Foundation Ms. Annalise Heron Leslie Donnelly Kelly Fleming Julie and Stephen Gottlieb Thomas and Sandra Hess Ms. Barbara A. Donohoe Ms. Lois Flowers Ms. April Gottsagen Mr. Martin K.P. Hill Kevin Donovan and Sandra Asirvatham Veronica Foley Dr. Meredith Gould Robert and Sandra Hillman Ms. Harriet Dopkin Eric and Amy Forseter Mr. James Gouldmann Martin and Paula Himeles
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Richard and Margaret Himelfarb Heather Kadel Julie Kurland and Marcia Diehl Joseph and Bette Hirsch Ms. Ann H. Kahan Ms. Bonnie D. Kutch Gina and Daniel Hirschhorn Ms. Helene Kahn Min Kwon and Hyeyon Roh Hoffberger Family Philanthropies Mr. Henry Kahn Mr. Alexander Lacquement Campaign Peter and Lisa Hoffberger Kaiser Permanente Mark and Sandy Laken Barbara Hogan Hinrich and Christine Kaiser Ms. Patricia A. Landis Committee Terry Hogan Paul Kalb and Susan Ascher John Landon Ernestine Jolivet Harvey Kallens and Bonnie Schulman Shannon Landwehr Ralph and Sharon Holzman Ms. Audrey Kallman Col. Stephen Langenberg Homeless Angels Mr. Stratton Kalpaxis Stephen M. and Maria T. Lans Barbara M. Bozzuto Mr. Phillip E. Hooks Mr. Mumtaz B. Kammerer Mr. Jason Lasher Co-Chair Horseshoe Casino Baltimore Mr. Aaron Jordan Kaplan Ms. Donna Lashof Thomas S. Bozzuto Kathleen Vander Horst Kappa Kappa Psi Mr. Bruce Lauber Ms. Jane Houck Dr. and Mrs.* Murray Kappelman Ann-Marie Lawlor Co-Chair House of Musical Traditions Mr. Peter Karpoff Ms. Wendy Lawner Maestra Marin Alsop Angeles de Leon Ms. Nancy Eliza Kass Mr. Jim Lawrence Ms. Susan Hovanec P. Kates Rangini Lawrence Rick Bernstein Walter and Stephen Howard Dr. & Mrs. Eric Katkow Mary and Philip Leaf Ms. Susan Hoye Howard and Marion Katz League of American Orchestras Jonathan Carney Dr. and Mrs. Freeman Hrabowski, III Louis and Minna Katz Mr. & Mrs. John LeBarton Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr. David and Lily Huang Barbara P. Katz Lainy LeBow-Sachs Ms. Jane L. Hughes Jennifer Katze and Anthony Kraus Alexis P. Lecouras Allan Jensen, MD Mr. Sean Hull Mr. Loren Bruce Kayfetz Thomas LeDoux Roger and Linda Hultgren Mr. Steve Kearney Kathleen and Kenneth Lee Fred Lazarus IV Sarah Humphreys and Lawrence Mason Monica Kearns Ms. Paula H. Lee Jonna Lazarus Ms. Dorothy M Hunt Ms. Joyce Keating Brian and Kathy Lee Paul and Jennifer Huston Mrs. Julia Keelty Dr. Jennifer Lee-Summers Lainy Lebow-Sachs Mr. Chris Hutchinson Mr. James T. Kelley, III Ms. Linda Lee David and Susan Hutton Ms. Delores Kerr Ronald Lee Sandra Levi Gerstung Ms. Elisabeth Hyleck Ms. Tatevik Khoja-Eynatyan David and Rebecca Leege Peter T. Kjome Takeru Igusa and Catherine Renggli Ms. Helen A. Kiefert Dr. Sandra R. Leichtman Victor and Jan Ilenda Ms. Genevieve Ann Kiel Ruth and Jay Lenrow Marshall A. Levine, MD Joo Hyun Im Laurie Kim Scott and Laurie Lerman Alan and Karen Ingalls Byron King Margot and Larry Lessans Jane Marvine Gary and Iris Ingber Andrea Kirsch The Letaw Family Foundation, Inc. Catherine McClelland Mrs. Tina Iosue Mr. Stephen Kiser William and Joanne Levasseur Sister Mary Irving Joan G. And Joseph Klein Jr. Ms. Keisha A. Leverette Joseph Meyerhoff II Mrs. Padma Iyer Foundation Leonard and Cynthia Levering Ronna Jablow Michael and Clara Klein Mrs. Sara W. Levi Sen. Barbara Mikulski Ms. Kathleen Jackson Ms. Joan Klein Roger Levin and Janet Siegel Terry M. Rubenstein Mr. Peter Jackson Marcel and Barbara Klik Ms. Emily R. Levitas Hillary Jacobs Edward and Louise Klohr Andrea LeWinter and Stephen Seliger Dan Shykind Richard Jacobs Ms. Kristin Kluge Orville and Marion Lewis Sanford and Ann Jacobson Ms. Regan Knapp Claudia Lewis Lisa Steltenpohl David and Ulrike Jaller Robert and Joyce Knodell Ms. Emily Li James Wyman Wendy and Chris Jeffries Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Li Li Allynnore Jen Foundation Ava Lias-Booker and Earl Booker Mrs. Eleanor Jenks Mr. Martin Knott Frances and Edward Lieberman Brenda Jews William Koerner Ms. Janine Linden Dana and David Johns Mr. Rick Kohr Ms. Jennifer Lindner Mr. Randy Macy Johns Hopkins Hospital Ms. Hillary Kolodner Ms. Lynne Lipsitz Macy’s, Inc. Johns Hopkins University Nicholas and Stephanie Konstant Mrs. Susan Liss Sen. Martin Madden Mr. Adrian Johnson Danielle Koontz Mr. William C. Litsinger, Jr Andrea and Michael Madsen Ms. Kathleen Johnson Sallyann Koontz Joan and David Little Mr. and Mrs. Howard Majev Ms. Mary L. Johnson Dr. Elizabeth Koopman Mrs. Harry R. Locke Ms. Sarah W. Majoros Amy Johnson Mrs. Theresa M. Kopasek Lockhart Vaughan Foundation Maller Wealth Advisors Mrs. Janet Johnson Rita and I.J. Kopin Ms. Joan C. Lockman Ms. Sarah Mallonga Mrs. Mabel Johnson Lawrence Koppelman and Mr. Alan Long Ms. Maureen Malone Sandi Johnson Elizabeth Ritter Mr. & Mrs. Ron Lorentzen Donald and Brigitte Manekin Ms. Janet C. Johnston Dr. Bernard F. Kozlovsky Frank E. & Miriam Loveman Ms. Marsha Manekin Ms. Ernestine Jones Jolivet Mr. James B Kraft Foundation Amy Mann Ms. Diana Jolley Ms. Cynthia Kratz Harold and Judith Lowe Ms. Sara Manning Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Jolley Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Kremen Mrs. Maxine D. Lowy Denise Maple Mary and Dale Jolliffe Julian Krolik and Elaine Weiss Peggy and Chao Lu Mr. Thierry Marbach Mr. James Edward Jones Evan and Toni Krometis Ms. Anna C Luther Shirley Marcus-Allen Arthur Jones, III Sara Krusenstjerna Ms. Jane Lynn Ms. Elizabeth B. Mariani Christopher Jones Kristen Krzyzewski and David Yalowitz Mr. Christopher J. Lyon Marcia Markowitz Ms. Debbie Jones Edmond and Linda Kulp Stefan MacGillis Mrs. Gloria Marrow Ms. Melanie Jones Richard and Paola Kulp Ms. Carolyn Machamer Jake and Jennifer Martin Kristin Jurkscheit Yann and Beatrice Kulp Robb and Barb MacKie William and Carol Martin Angie Jusino Edoardo Kulp Ms. Ellen Macks Virginia Martin Ms. Joanne Juskus Joshua Kulp and Julie Zuckerman Ann and Thomas MacLellan Patrick Martinez Anson and Jonathan Justi Mr. Sunil Kumar and Ms. Sumati Murli Mary MacVey Jason and Andrea Marx
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Mr. Joel Marx Suzanne and Thomas Morgan Mr. Stephen Painter Raymond L. Reed Maryland State Arts Council Mr. Jared Morgan Ms. Ellen-Jane K. Pairo Randi Reichel Julie Masiello Ms. Maureen Morgan Mr. Jonathan Palevsky Elizabeth and Charles Reichelt Mr. Andy Maslar Ms. Paulette Morgan Millie Paniccia Joseph and Judith Reiff Ms. Gloria Jean Mason Terry Morgenthaler and Patrick Kerins Cindy Paradies and Larry Moscow Mignon Reik Lydia Mason and Mark Ingram Shelley and Dan Morhaim Mr. and Mrs. Gazzater Parham Mr. Salem Reiner Jason Mathias Joseph Morra Bruce and Nancy Paris Michael Reisch and Lily Jarman-Reisch Ms. Barbara Matthews Ms. Elizabeth K. Moser Mrs. Young Ah Park Ms. Dee Dee Remenick Lance Matthiesen Ms. Trina Mostyn Jung Park Ms. Karen E Renaud Daniel and Agnes Mazur Mr. Joseph Francis Mrozek Mrs. Marcia Park Mr. William Reuling Michael McCaffery and Mr. Kirk Mullen Ms. Nancy Parker Ms. Amy Rhodes Beverly Wendland Mrs. Joy Munster Edward and Kathleen Patey Carl and Bonnie Richards Mr. Ronald McCallum Mr. William Murphy Maureen Patton Dr. William Richards Ms. Mary Stuart McCamy Mrs. Carrie Murrie Ms. Pamela Paulk Dina Richardson David and Susan McCardell Claire Myer and Robert Schuck Ms. Ana Pavich Mrs. Tona A. Riggio Ms. Valencia McClure Mr. Andrew Myer The Pearl Foundation The Estate of Robert Riley The Estate of Carol McCord Roy and Gillian Myers Ms. Amy Peck Mrs. Lynda Aalpoel Riley Mr. Leo C. McDonagh Margot B. Nadien Ms. LaTasha Peele Stephen Robb and Judy Honig Ms. Jamie McDonald Dr. Sheila Namir Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust Maria Robertson Sen. Nathaniel J. McFadden Mr. Marc Narkus-Kramer Catherine and Luis Penafiel Cecil and Donna Robinson James and Eve McGovern Thomas and Judith Nassau William and Kathleen Pence Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Ms. Kathleen McGuire Ms. Amy Nathan Ms. Margaret Penhallegon Dr. Ann Rogers Mr. Jim McIntyre National Arts and Humanities Kimberly and Aurelio Perez-Lugones Mr. Jonathan Rogers Vatrice McKoy Youth Program Patsy Perlman Mrs. Ashleigh Rohm Ms. Florence A. McLean Ms. Virginia W. Naylor Joan Perrault Roland Park Women’s Club Ms. Bettye J. Meadows Anne and Gerald Nelson Ms. Stephanie Pettaway Sara Rollfinke Jeffrey and Anita Meddin Mr. David Nelson Ms. Jacquie Perry Mr. Edgar Romero Mr. Marcia Medina Netcraftsmen Geraldine Perry Mr. David Ropp Mr. Gary S. Melnick Network for Good Ms. Julie Perry Sondra Rose Menchey Music Service, Inc. Mrs. Cynthia Neverdon-Morton Mr. Lawrence Peskin Bev Rosen and Russ Morris Lauren Mendelsohn Ms. Mariette Hiu Newcomb Mr. Thomas Peter Mr. Benjamin Rosenberg Ms. Michelle N Mendez Jennifer and Thomas Newlin Misha and Lis Petkevich Ms. Barbara Rosenberger Ms. Carol Merrell Miss Alexandra Ng Ms. Ruth Pettus Howard and Michelle Rosenbloom Abel Merrill David Nickels and Gerri Hall Ms. Thien-Kim Pham Mrs. Beth C. Rosenwald Dr. Maria W. Merritt Mr. Ron Nicodemus Jonathan Philipson Gary and Naomi Rosner Mr. Randolph Metcalfe Ms. Arline Nitzberg Ms. Lesley Pierce Phyllis and David Ross Ms. Jill Meyer Ms. Anna Noon Mr. Wendell Pierce Mary Ross and Donna Martin Harvey and Phyllis Meyerhoff Norfolk Southern Foundation Ms. Jo-Ann Pilardi Paul Rothman and Frances Meyer Neil and Sayra Meyerhoff Antonella Nota and Mark Clampin Thomas and Natalie Pilon Ms. Amalie R. Rothschild Joseph Meyerhoff and Dawna Cobb Mark and Alice Notis Audrey and Thomas Pinkney Lissa Rotundo Mr. Lou Mezzanotte Ruth and Michael Notis Michael* and Lisa Pintzuk Roundwood Fund Daniel and Kay Michaelis Ms. Anne-Marie Ntagahoraho Arthur and Judith Pittenger The Jim & Patty Rouse Ms. Susan Middaugh Susan K. Numrich PLDA Interiors Charitable Foundation Gary and Jill Miller Andrew and Sharon Nussbaum Ms. Judith Plott Ted and Lucinda Rouse Herbert and Carrie Miller Mr. Charles Ober Teresa Pollet Suzan Rouse Stephen and Susan Miller Ms. Heather O’Brien Elizabeth Porter Clark and Constance Row Mrs. Barbara Miller David and Laura O’Callaghan Ms. Deborah Lou Potee Ms. Maryann Rozzell Ms. Deborah Miller Mr. Colm O’Comartun The Isaac & Leah M. Potts Foundation, Mr. Michael S. Rubenstein Mr. Stanley Miller Elizabeth O’Connell Inc. Mr. Peter Ruchkin Hilary Miller and Katherine Bent Mrs. Charleen O’Connor Anne and Roger Powell Dr. Janice Marie Rusnak Janis Millete Diane O’Conor William and June Powers Mr. Ira Russcol Carol and Noah Minkin Ryan and Katherine O’Doherty Ms. Jennifer Powers Neil and JoAnn Ruther Elizabeth and William Minkin Steven and Sherri O’Donnell The Estate of Margery Pozefsky The Honorable and Mrs. Boyd Cynthia Minkovitz Antoinette O’Donnell Ronda Pozoulakis Rutherford Mr. Brian Stokes Mitchell Elizabeth O’Gara President’s Committee on the Christine Rutkowski John and Jolie Mitchell III Lee and Marilyn Ogburn Arts and Humanities Ms. Elizabeth Ryan Ms. Patricia J. Mitchell Mr. Garrick Ohlsson Ms. Virginia Probasco Ann Sacks Ms. Peg Mitchell Jerry O’Keefe Mrs. Stephanie Prange Proestel Ruth Sadler and Robert Byrnes Ms. Francine Mittelman Mr. Timothy Thomas O’Leary Herbert and Linda Proper Kelly Sage Herbert and Miriam Mittenthal David Oleynik Daniel Pugh Ms. Keiko Saito Dr. Margaret Mohler-Strahan Mrs. Hannah Elaine Oliver Ms. Toni Purdy The Salmon Foundation Mrs. Deborah Molesworth Miss Chiara Olivi Fangtu Qiu and Emily Li Elise and David Saltzberg Charles and Linda Monk Ms. Elizabeth Olson Mr. Jacob Radin Jeffrey and Diana Samet Wes and Dawn Moore Mr. Steven Oney Sandra Marie Ragusa Jon and Barbara Samuels Ms. Lisa W. Moore Mr. Michael O’Pecko Mr. Chris Rahl Mrs. Jeanne Samuels Daniel Moore and Elizabeth Pierce Kevin O’Reilly Ms. Chris Raitzyk Wendy Sanborn Lisa Moore Ms. Bonnie Orrison The Rales Foundation Ms. Kirsten E. Sandberg Stephanie Moore Dr. Adaora Osakwe Harry and Marian Randall Ms. Maureen Sandberg Claudia Morales Nancy Osborn and Martin Beilin Kathy Randolph Sander and Norma K. Buchman Fund Robert and Lila Mordhorst Mr. Richard Osial Lauren Rausch Dina and John Sarbanes Mrs. Jennifer Morehouse Richard and Lois Pace Mr. William Ray Mrs. Jennifer Sarlin Mr. Ramal Moreland Alexis Pace and Szu Burgess Dr. Bonnie Reagan Ms. Molla Sarros Carolyn and Charles Morgan Ms. Margaret Pagan Erica Reaves David and Ann Saunders
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Ms. Brenda Saunders Barbara and Joseph Skillman Ms. Holly Ann Taylor Mr. Howard Weinberg Mr. William Saunders Dr. and Mrs. James W. Slack Ms. Angel Terol D’Arcy and Bruce Weinberger John and Gioia Sawchuk Jacqueline and Phill Slavney Mr. Andrew J. Tesoro Brian and Karen Weinstein Terrence Sawyer Ms. Beth Slepian Ms. Claudia Tesoro Sheldon and Harriet Weinstock SC&H Group, LLC John S. Slifka David and Carolyn Thayer Ilene and Stephen Weiss Ellen Schaefer Mr. John R. Sliger Ms. Debra Therit Mr. Fred Weiss Susan Scharf Ms. Anne Sloan Ms. Susan Beth Thomas Mr. Joseph Weiss Mr. Wayne R. Schaumburg Jaime Slocum Thomas Wilson Foundation Marie Wells Ms. Irma Schechter The Honorable and Mrs. James T. Dr. Freeda Thompson Ms. Qiana Wells Ms. Ann Scheck Smith Mr. Fred Thomsen Dr. Toni Wengerd Amy Bober-Schenerman and Mark Elizabeth and Claire Smith Ms. Carrie Thornbery Christopher and Anne West Schenerman Karen and Michael Smith Amy and Eric Tich Westhoff Family Foundation Mr. Benjamin Scherer Ms. Nancy E Smith Ms. Karline Tierney Ms. Sheila Wexler Joanne Schmader and Michael Casassa Norman and Rona Smith Maria and Chuck Tildon Calbraith and Aimee Wheaton John and Deborah Schmidt Ms. Patricia M Smith Mrs. Anne Tilmes Marvina Whethers Linda Schmidt Mr. Graylin Smith Sarah Titus Ms. Louise M. White The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke and Mr. James Smith Ms. Elizabeth J. Toole Ms. Rita B. Whiting Dr. Patricia L. Schmoke, MD Dr. and Mrs. William Smulyan Mrs. Normina L. Torres Mr. Kenneth Whitley Greg and Pauline Schneider Lee and Gloryann Snyder Towson University Mrs. Mary Ellen Whitman Ms. Jean Schoenleber Ms. Shirley Snyder Alice Tracy Gerard Whitmore Dr. Hendrik P. Scholl Ms. Stephanie Snyder Carol Traub Scott and Mary Wieler Dee and Robert Schuette Ms. Joan Sobkov Travelers Foundation Mr. Thomas Wilcox Rick and Tracey Schultz Richard and Lorna Solomon Jim and Karen Trennepohl Mr. Eugene Wilkins Fred and Janet Schutzman Alfred and Jill Sommer True Q, LLC Jeri S. Wilkins Jim and Charlene Schwark Joyce and Yeong Song Ms. Carole Trump Mr. R. Adam Williams Eleanor Schwark Ms. Geetika Sood Ms. Kristen Tubman Margaret D. Williams Mr. Neil Herbert Schwartz Southwest Airlines Robin and Harold Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams Frederick and Kathleen Schwarz Courtney Spangler Stanley and Cynthia Tucker Ms. Judith D. Willner Barbara Schweizer Dr. Frank Sparandero Ms. Kelley Tucker Ms. Caroline Wilner Mr. James Scott Ms. Betty Spear Rebecca Tucker Judy and Fred Wilpon Lyndi Scott-Strite Speedwell Foundation Kathy Tugendhat Ms. Felecia Wilson Mr. Wayne Scott Scott and Heather Speert Ms. Kathryn Turner William and Mary Beth Wilson Paula Seabright and Gabriel Hightower Ms. Suzanne Spencer Kristin and Rex Turner Susan Savits Winson Second Presbyterian Church of Baltimore Don Spero and Nancy Chasen Mr. Donald Tynes, Sr Ricco Winters Mrs. Sarah Sedlak Kimberly Spiro Evans and Rose Tyson Mr. Daniel Wise Clair Segal Mrs. Mary T. Sprow Uber Frank Witter and Mary Forbes Witter Dr. Priya Sekar Ms. Teerada Sripaipan James and Therese Ulmer Allen Wolf Valerie Serrall Eric and Karen Stahl Ms. Marlene Underwood Mrs. Melissa Wolf Ms. Alexis Seth Barbara and Frederick Stam United Way Central MD Woman’s Club of Roland Park Maxine Seyboth Terry and Deborah Stambaugh United Way Of Greater Kansas City Mr. Ken Wong Judith Shamir Michael and Katherine Stanka Dana Valery Mr. Ken Woodbury M. Sigmund and Barbara Shapiro Jerrica Stanley Ms. Kathryn Vaselkiv Ms. Sarah Woodson Ronald and Kathryn Shapiro Wilma and Lee Starkey Mr. Eric Veiel Mrs. Sandra Wool Stephen and Anita Shaw Mr. Charles Starkey Venable LLP Ms. Barbara Worsham Ms. Joanne Shea Joan Stearman Eric and Noreen Victor John and Ann Wotell Mark and Lauren Sheehan Ms. Patricia Stephens Marguerite and Umberto VillaSanta Ms. Frances Ann Wright Dr. Louise Sheiner Ronald and Susie Stern Jan and Robert Wagner Wright Family Foundation Ms. Martha E. Shelhoss Ms. Andrea Stern Frank and Jane Walker Dr. Andrea Wurster Ms. Barbara Shelhoss Stephen and Sue Sternheimer Kent and Suzanne Walker Mattie Wynne Stephen Shepard and Peggy Hetrick Deborah Stetson Ms. Doris Walker Nicholas and Ellen Yancich Ms. Patricia Shiflett Alexandra Stevens Mr. Harley Walker Ellen Yankellow and Bill Chapman Ms. Gloria Shin Susan Stewart Ms. Christine L. Wallace Rong Ye and Max Hu Ms. Mary Shine Shale Stiller and Ellen Heller David and Chris Wallace Charles and Carol Yoder Lucia Shoemaker and John Schwab Ms. Carrie Wilson Stockwell Ms. Catherine A. Walsh Ms. Eileen Yoffe Samuel and Josephine Shore Ms. Shirley H. Stokes Ms. Jacqueline Walsh Kyle and Melissa Yoon Mr. Craig Shore Corey Stone Eleanor and Michael Walton Ellen Yorke Burdette and Judith Short Ms. Jacquelyn Stone Ms. Frances Warner Michael and Barbara Young Alexander and Patricia Short Geary L. Stonesifer John and Susan Warshawsky Mr. Neil Young Mr. Sheldon Shugarman Mr. Thomas Stosur Mr. and Mrs. David Warshawsky Pamela Young Mrs. Virginia G. Shuger David and Susan Straus Mrs. Manuele D. Wasserman Paul and Deborah Young-Hyman Richard and Francine Shure Ms. Angela M. Strope Leland and Marjory Watermeier Norman and Mary Youskauskas Leonard and Virginia Siems Jeffrey and Erin Strovel Ms. Tracy Watkins Robert and Miriam Zadek Jean Silber Ms. Harriet Stulman Ms. Barbara J. Watson Ms. Ellen Kahan Zager Rachel Silber Mrs. Bonnie Stump Michelle and Trevin Wear Joanne Zarling Ms. Gillian Silver Ms. Barbara Styrt Elizabeth and John Weaver Ms. Marya Zeigler Morton and Harriet Silverstein Dr. Robert Summe Meg and Paul Weber Mr. Shawn Zeigler Mrs. Alyssa Silverstein Dr. Edward Syron Lisa and Paul Webster Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Zenilman Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Simms Dr. Michael Szedlmayer Lazar Wechsler and Lydia Zieglar Ms. Marjorie B. Simon Ms. Margaret Taliaferro Kaethe Wechsler-Jentzsch Steve Ziger Mrs. Elizabeth Simon-Higgs Ms. Sharron D. Tan The Wednesday Club The Estate of Dr. Mildred Zindler Mrs. Muriel Simon James and Carolyn Tancock Francie Weeks and Scott Shane Jeff Zoller Wendy and Mike Singer Ms. Milagritos Tapia Wen Wei Ellwood and Thelma Sinsky Mr. Benjamin D. Tauber Cara Weiman * Deceased
NOV–DEC 2018 / OVERTURE 41 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SYMPHONY FUND HONOR ROLL JUNE 1, 2017–AUGUST 31, 2018 The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is deeply grateful to the individual, corporate, foundation and government donors whose generosity to the Annual Fund supports our artistic, education and community engagement initiatives. Gifts were received from the following donors between June 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018. Please note that this Annual Fund listing does not include the generous gifts made in support of the Endowment, and/or OrchKids. To donate, please contact the BSO Members Office at 410.783.8124 or visit BSOmusic.org/donate.
THE CENTURY CLUB The Huether-McClelland Foundation Erin Becker $100,000 or more George and Catherine^ McClelland Dr. Emile A. Bendit and Diane Abeloff Marin Alsop Scott Phares and Judy Witt Phares Ellen and Ed Bernard Richard and Carol Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Richman Diane and Leland Brendsel Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation Steven Brooks and Ann Loar Brooks Foundation and the Estate of Ruth Marder Michelle and Howard Rosenbloom Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bunting, Jr. The Bozzuto Family Charitable Fund Hon. Steve Schuh and Family Ms. Mary Catherine Bunting Thomas Brener Dr. and Mrs. Charles I. Shubin Ms. Kathleen A. Chagnon Sarellen and Marshall A. Levine, M.D. Mr.* and Mrs. Gideon N. Stieff, Jr. August and Melissa Chiasera Hecht-Levi Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coutts Mrs. Robert H. Levi * and Sandra Gerstung MAESTRA’S CIRCLE DIAMOND The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family $15,000–$24,999 Ellen and Linwood Dame Charitable Funds Anonymous Chapin Davis Investments Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Mr.* and Mrs.* Alexander Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. H. Chace Davis, Jr. Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman Mr. and Mrs. Jack Biddle III Ms. Margaret Ann Fallon Alena and David M. Schwaber The Bunting Family Foundation Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts Dr. and Mrs.* Solomon H. Snyder Caswell J. Caplan Charitable Joanne Gold and Andrew A. Stern Mr. and Mrs. David J. Trone Income Trusts/Constance R. Caplan LaVerna Hahn Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cowie, Jr. Wendy M. Jachman FOUNDER’S CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Riva and Marc Kahn $50,000–$99,999 Mrs. Lynn Deering Loren Kayfetz and Pat Pannell Mr.* and Mrs. Kingdon Gould, Jr. William La Cholter and Jenny R. Mann Alan and Carol Edelman Dr. and Mrs. Allan Jensen Estate of Richard M. Lansburgh Mr. Ira B. (Bill) Fader Jr. Patricia and Mark Joseph Drs. Yuan and Reiko Lee Sandra Levi Gerstung Ruth Carol Fund Richard Wayne Ley Dr. Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Shawe Macht Philanthropic Fund of the Associated Linda Hambleton Panitz Mr. * and Mrs. William Mulligan Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Morris Shapiro Family Foundation Ellen W.P. Wasserman Elizabeth K. Moser Barbara Katz Dr. Selvin Passen The John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. $25,000–$49,999 The Pete Store, LLC Anonymous (2) Howard Majev and Janet Brandt Majev Mr. Joel J. Rabin and Donna and Paul Amico Virginia West Martin Dr. Nancy Kohn Rabin William G. Baker Memorial Fund Hilary B. Miller and Dr. Katherine N. Bent RCM&D / Albert R. Counselman The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation William and Kathleen Pence Barry and Susan Rosen Robert H. Boublitz Terry M. and James Rubenstein Neil J. and JoAnn N. Ruther “In Memory of Harry A. Boublitz” Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shykind Dr. and Mrs. John H. Sadler The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Richard C. and Julie I. Vogt The Honorable and Mrs. James T. Smith, Jr. Foundation David and Chris Wallace Melissa and Philip Spevak Sara and Nelson* Fishman Ellen Yankellow and William Chapman Mr. Andrew A. Stern and Mrs. Joanne Gold The Goldsmith Family Foundation, Inc. Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund, Inc. The Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust MAESTRA’S CIRCLE PLATINUM Louis Thalheimer & Juliet Eurich Young Artist Sponsor $10,000–$14,999 Mr. and Mrs. Loren Western Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold IV Anonymous Mr. Edward Wiese Mrs. Barbara Gruver “In Memory of Gavin and Mary Manson” Barbara and Mike Young Nancy Hackerman Dr. James Albrecht SC&H Group Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hamilton Jr. Stanley Asrael Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. The Charles T. Bauer Foundation * Deceased Memorial Foundation Andrew and Janet Hartman ^ Governing Members Executive Committee
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Rheda Becker, Patricia and Claire Jensen, Gala Guest Artist Jim Smith with Kristen Morrison Joanne and Walter Doggett III Mark Joseph, Marin Alsop Cynthia Erivo and Dr. Allan Jensen and Peter Kjome. at the 2018 Gala. and Robert E. Meyerhoff. at the 2018 Gala.
BSO AT THE MEYERHOFF Media Support Services Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butler Len and Betsy Homer HONOR ROLL Sheila J. Meyers Mr. and Mrs. S. Winfield Cain Bill and Ann Hughes The following donors contribute to Mr. Charles Miller Walter and Kathy Capp Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jehl support music and music education Jolie and John Mitchell Michael and Kathy Carducci Mollie W. Jenckes throughout the Baltimore community. Dr. and Mrs. C.L. Moravec Marilyn and David Carp Richard and Brenda Johnson Mrs. Joy Munster^ Shaun F. Carrick and Ronald W. Griffin Dr. and Mrs. Hinrich Kaiser MEYERHOFF GOVERNING Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nerenberg Ms. Susan Chouinard Susan B. Katzenberg MEMBERS GOLD Kevin and Diane O’Connor The Clarke Family Charitable Mr. James T. Kelley III $5,000–$9,999 Drs. Erol and Julianne Oktay Foundation David* and Barbara Kornblatt Anonymous (4) Dr. and Mrs. David Paige Joan Piven-Cohen and Samuel T. Cohen Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Kremen Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Allen Dr. and Mrs.* Lawrence C. Pakula Wandaleen and Emried Cole Ms. Patricia Krenzke and Frederick Apfel and Meredith Pattin Helene and Bill Pittler Steven P. Collier and Mr. Michael Hall Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Dr.* and Mrs.^ Marvin M. Sager Dr. Elizabeth H. Jones Ms. Kristen Krzyzewski and Deborah and Howard M. Berman Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Schapiro Mr. and Mrs. John W. Conrad, Jr. Dr. David Yalowitz Bunny Bernstein Francesca Siciliano and Mark Green David and Vivien Coombs Dr. James and Mrs. Lynne LaCalle John and Marjorie Blodgett Jean Silber David and Ellen Cooper Dr. and Mrs. Donald Langenberg Dr. and Mrs. Paul Z. Bodnar Dr. and Mrs. Harris J. Silverstone Charles A. Corson Anna and George Lazar John and Bonnie Boland Carolyn and David S. Thaler Robert Daffer Ruth and Jay Lenrow Cape Foundation “In Honor of Barbara Bozzuto” Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Dahlka, Jr. Doris and Vernon Lidtke Turner B. and Judith R. Smith Dr. and Mrs. Carvel Tiekert Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius Darcy Dr. Frances and Mr. Edward Lieberman Mr. Timothy Chapman John and Susan Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dausch Ms. Louise E. Lynch E. Lee Cole Susan G. Waxter Arthur F. and Isadora Dellheim Donald and Lenore Martin Faith and Marvin Dean Delegate Christopher and Anne West Foundation, Inc. Ms. Beverly Wendland and Mr. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas DeKornfeld Mr. and Mrs. T. Winstead, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Drachman Michael McCaffery Ronald E. Dencker Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Droppa Drs. Edward and Lucille McCarthy Helen P. Denit Charitable Trust MEYERHOFF GOVERNING Bill and Louise Duncan Tim Meredith Kathy and Frank Dilenschneider MEMBERS SILVER Mr. and Mrs.* Laurence Dusold John Meyerhoff, MD and Walter B. Doggett III, E*Trade $3,000–$4,999 Donna Z. Eden and Henry* Goldberg Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff Dr. Sylwester J. Dziuba Anonymous (5) Deborah and Philip English Margot and Cleaveland Miller Dr. Sonia and Dr. Myrna Estruch Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Adams Michaeline Fedder Drs. Dalia and Alan Mitnick Samuel^ and Andrea Fine Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Adkins John and Pam Ferrari Dr. Mellasenah Y. Morris Ellen Bruce Gibbs George and Frances Alderson David and Merle Fishman Rex Myers Sandra and Barry Glass Paul E. Araujo Dr. and Mrs. Jerome L. Fleg Ms. and Mr. Jan Neiman Betty E. and Leonard H. Golombek Jackie and Eugene Azzam Ms. Lois Flowers Roger F. Nordquist, Kenneth L. Greif Mrs. Thomas H.G. Bailliere, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Frederick “In Memory of Joyce C. Ward” Dr. Todd Phillips and The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation JoAnn and Jack Fruchtman “In Memory of the Rev Howard G.” Ms. Denise Hargrove^ Sarah and Cameron Baird John A. Galleazzi and “Norton and Charles O. Norton” Sandra and Thomas Hess Chris H. Bartlett Elizabeth A. Hennessey Ann Norton David and Susan D. Hutton Donald L. Bartling Gale Gillespie Drs. Antonella Nota and Mark Clampin Susan and Stephen Immelt Ms. Franca B. Barton and Laura Gamble and Rob Gillison Anne M. O’Hare Louise and Richard F. Kemper Mr. George G. Clarke Helaine and Louis Gitomer Dr. Bodil B. Ottesen The Ralph and Shirley Klein Hellmut D.W. Bauer Brian and Gina Gracie James D. Parker Foundation, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Mandell Bellmore Toni Greenberg Mac and Helen* Passano Peter Kjome and Kristen Morrison Donna and Stanley Ber Dr. Diana Griffiths Fred and Grazina Pearson Paul Konka^ and Susan Dugan-Konka^ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Berry Jr. Anne and Stephen Hahn Marge Penhallegon^ Miss Dorothy B. Krug Mr. and Ms. Hugh Bethell Carole Hamlin^ and C. Fraser Smith^ Beverly and Sam* Penn L.A. Benson Company Ellen Baron Blaustein and Gary C. Harn David and Lesley Punshon-Smith Mark and Sandy Laken^ Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D. Melanie and Donald Heacock Peter E. Quint Lainy LeBow-Sachs Betsy and John Bond Drs. Ruby and Robert Hearn Dr. Jonas Rappeport and Alma Smith Earl and Darielle Linehan Robert Bowie, Jr. and Susan Chase Mr. David L. Heckman Paul Rivkin M.D. and Karen Jackson Mangione Family Enterprises David E. and Alice R. Brainerd Mrs. Hya Heine Nathan and Michelle Robertson Eileen Mason Dr. Helene Breazeale Barbara and Sam Himmelrich Richard and Diane Roca “In Memory of Joseph H. Mason” Dr. Rudiger and Robin Breitenecker John Hirsch and Rebecca M. Rogers-Wilbur Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Lorie Ann Mayorga Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Broadus III Cowen-Hirsch Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Norfolk Southern Foundation Barbara and Ed Brody Bruce and Caren Beth Hoffberger Jeffrey D. Rothstein MD, PhD and Dan and Agnes Mazur Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown Robert and Marilyn J. Hoffman Lynn A. Bristol PhD
NOV–DEC 2018 / OVERTURE 43 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Robert W. Russell Robert Greenfield Dr. Jeanne A. Dussault and Charles and Mary Jo Wagandt Beryl and Philip Sachs Fritzi K. and Robert J. Hallock Mr. Mark A. Woodworth Mr. and Mrs. Kent Walker Dr. and Mrs. Michael Salcman Lloyd Helt and Ruth Gray Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Elsberg and the Marguerite E. Walsh and Ms. Doris Sanders Betsy and George Hess Elsberg Family Foundation Bernard M. Finn Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Thelma M. Horpel Beth and Mark Felder Drs. Susan and James Weiss Jeff M. Schumer Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hubbard, Jr. Mr.* and Mrs. Maurice R. Feldman Jim and Leslie Wharton James and Carol Scott Max H. Jordan, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. William Fox Ms. Martha Whitty M. Sigmund and Barbara K. Shapiro Judith L. Kahl Dr. and Mrs. Donald S. Gann Jennifer and Leonard Wilcox Philanthropic Fund Drs. Harold and Norma Kanarek George Garmer Dr. and Mrs. E.F. Shaw Wilgis Stephen Shepard and Peggy Hetrick Marcel and Barbara Klik Mr. Price and Dr. Andrea Gielen Christopher H. Winslow Ronald and Carol Sher Andrew Lapayowker and Judith A. Gottlieb Sander L. Wise Thom Shipley and Chris Taylor Sarah McCafferty Mr. Charles H. Griesacker Laura and Thomas Witt Francine and Richard Shure Melvin Lessing Joel and Mary Grossman Dr. Richard Worsham and Ronnie and Rachelle Silverstein Art and Barbara Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gundlach Ms. Deborah Geisenkotter John Singer Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Family Mary Hambleton Laurie S. Zabin Ellwood and Thelma Sinsky Foundation, Inc. Paulette G. Hammond Ms. Leslie J. Smith Marina Macks Kahn and Peter Kahn Mr.* and Mrs. E. Phillips Hathaway BSO AT STRATHMORE Nancy E. Smith Genine and Josh Fidler Mimie and Robert Helm HONOR ROLL Carolyn B. Mills and Ellen and Lawrence Macks Barbara and Michael Hettleman The following donors contribute to Dr. John A. Snyder Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Hunter the BSO at Strathmore Artistic Fund to Gloryann and Lee Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Scott Jacobs support music and music education Dr. and Mrs. John Sorkin Sally J. Miles Honor and John Johnson throughout Montgomery County Anita and Mickey Steinberg “In Memory of Richard Kastendieck” Ann H. Kahan and the DC Metro community. Edward Steinhouse Patricia J. Mitchell Elizabeth M. Kameen Mrs. Dorothea S. Stieff Dr. Eddie Molesworth Dr. Richard M. Katz and STRATHMORE GOVERNING Janice Collins and James Storey Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Petrucci Martha Lessman Katz MEMBERS GOLD Harriet Stulman Mr. and Mrs. Elias Poe Mrs. Shirley Kaufman $5,000–$9,999 Susan and Brian Sullam Mr. and Mrs. John Brentnall Powell Ann and David Keith Anonymous (2) Ruth and Robert Taubman Catherine Renggli and Takeru Igusa George and Catherine Klein Community Foundation for the Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Tolzman Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Robinson Mrs. and Mr. Joan G. Klein National Capital Region Raymond G. Truitt and Mrs. Barbara K. Scherlis Fran and Geoffrey Kroll The Charles Delmar Foundation Mary K. Tilghman Karen and Richard Soisson Allan Krumholz Marcia Diehl and Julie Kurland Ms. Joan Wah Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sponseller Edward and Rebecca Lawson Ms. Marietta Ethier William and Salli Ward Ronald Stiff and Roberta Van Meter Dr. and Mrs. Ronald P. Lesser Mary Martin Gant Dr. and Mrs. Matthew R. Weir Charles Emerson Walker, Ph.D. Cynthia Levering Gerri Hall^ and David Nickels^ Mr. and Mrs. David Weisenfreund Anne Worthington Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Levy John Hanson John Hunter Wells Drs. Paul and Deborah Young-Hyman Ms. Elizabeth Masterson Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan Sean and Jody Wharry Mrs. Kenneth A. McCord Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Keller Ms. Camille B. Wheeler and MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY Jim and Sylvia Mcgill David Leckrone and Marlene Berlin Mr. William B. Marshall SOCIETY SILVER Mary and Barry Menne Marie Lerch and Jeff Kolb Gerald White $1,200–$1,999 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Miller Dr. James ^ and Jill Lipton^ Mrs. Louise S. Widdup Anonymous (4) Herbert and Miriam Mittenthal Susan Liss and Rabbi Fred Reiner Mark and Lisa Wiegmann Phyllis and Leonard J. Attman Lester* and Sue Morss James Lynch and Anne Woodard Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Williams James Ayars Ms. Marita Murray Edgar McCulloch Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Wilson Mr. Edward L. Bednarz Michael and Rosemary Noble Mr. and Mrs. Humayun Mirza Ms. Beverly Winter Arthur and Carole Bell Susan F. O’Connor Dr. William W. Mullins Susan Wolman Roy Birk Mary Beck Patil Mr. Dave Pauza and Ms. Maria Salvato Wright Family Foundation Dr. John Boronow and Dr.* and Mrs. Arnall Patz Jan S. Peterson and Alison E. Cole Chris and Carol Yoder Ms. Adrienne Kols Dr. Mark D. Phillips and William B. and Sandra B. Rogers Dr. Jinmin Zhou and Ms. Han Jin “In Memory of John R. H. and Ms. Samira Saliba Phillips Mike and Janet Rowan^ Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Zurwelle Charlotte Boronow” Mr. and Mrs. James Piper Daniel and Sybil Silver Mr. and Mrs.* Charles R. Booth Mr.* and Mrs. Morton B. Plant John and Susan Warshawsky MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY Ms. Jean K. Brenner Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Prince Elizabeth and Bill Weber SOCIETY GOLD Jean B. Brown Carl and Bonnie Richards Alan and Wendy Williams $2,000–$2,999 Mrs. Robert W. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Rosenberg Dr. Edward Whitman^ Anonymous (3) Chuck and Beth Bullamore Mr. Seymour S. Rubak Clark-Winchcole Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Abrams Dr. Robert P. Burchard John B. Sacci and Nancy Dodson Sacci Ms. Deborah Wise / Edith and Herbert Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Andrew Paula and Peter Burger Benjamin and Margaret Schapiro Lehman Foundation, Inc. Robert and Dorothy Bair Donald and Catherine Burke Peter and Susan Scheidt Amy and Bruce Barnett Family Fund Marilyn and Herb* Scher STRATHMORE GOVERNING Msgnr. Arthur W. Bastress Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Burnett Ronald and Cynthia Schnaar MEMBERS SILVER Richard O. Berndt Mr. and Mrs. David Callahan Mr. and Mrs. Howard Schoenfeld $3,000–$4,999 Harriet and Bruce Blum Marti and Clarence Carvell Burdette Short Alan V. Asay and Mary K. Sturtevant Carolyn and John Boitnott David P. and Rosalie Lijinsky Joan and Edward Sills Leonard and Gabriela Bebchick Loretta Cain Chadwick Ms. Patricia E. Smeton Dr. Nancy Bridges Mr. Matthew S. Cole and John and Donna Cookson Mr. and Mrs. Scott Smith Mr. Vincent Castellano Dr. Jean Lee Cole Mr. and Mrs. Reagan M. Crawford Renate Soulen Collins Family Fund Robert A. and Jeanne Cordes Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Crooks Bruce and Lynne Stuart Dr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Feldman Ernie and Linda Czyryca James Daily Marinos and Sebbie Svolos Anthony and Wyn Fitzpatrick Nicholas F. Diliello Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Darr Bill and Lisa Tate Neil R. Greene and Ellen G. Miles Mrs. Nancy S. Elson Mr. and Mrs. William C. Dee Shelly Briggs Underhill Marc E. Lackritz and Mary DeOreo^ Audrey and Stanford G. Gann, Sr. Dr. Alfred J. DeRenzis Robert and Sharonlee Vogel Burt and Karen Leete^
44 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org INVEST IN INNOVATION AND SYMPHONY FUND HONORBECOME ROLL A BSO MEMBER TODAY!
BSO Members enjoy exciting benefits that bring them even Darrell Lemke and Maryellen Trautman Drs. Charles and Cynthia Field closer to the music, beginning at $75 with a behind-the-scenes Dr. Diana Locke and Mr. and Mrs. Karl Flicker Mr. Robert E. Toense Robert and Carole Fontenrose look at a BSO rehearsal. At higher levels, you can celebrate with R. Noel Longuemare Louis R. Forbrich Jr. and your BSO musicians at cast parties, and our Governing Howard and Linda Martin^ Kathleen M. Forbrich Members (donors $3,000 and above) enjoy priority ticketing Kari Peterson and Benito R. and Mr. and Mrs. Roberto B. Friedman and other exclusive benefits. Ben De Leon Mary and Bill Gibb Lynn Rhomberg Carol and Jerry Gimmel Visit: BSOmusic.org/membership Call: 410.783.8124 Roger and Barbara Schwarz Dr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Glazer Email: [email protected] Don Spero and Nancy Chasen Marlene and William Haffner Alan Strasser and Patricia Hartge Sara and James A. Harris, Jr. Thomas M. Ward Keith and Linda Hartman Sylvia and Peter Winik Ms. Marilyn Henderson and UPCOMING BSO MEMBER EVENTS All events are open to both Meyerhoff and Strathmore Mr. Paul Henderson members, regardless of the host venue. STRATHMORE SYMPHONY Rita Mahon and Richard Henry SOCIETY GOLD Esther and Gene Herman $2,000–$2,999 Ellen and Herb Herscowitz Upcoming Meyerhoff Events: The Adler Family Foundation David A. and Barbara L. Heywood OPEN REHEARSAL Anonymous Linda Lurie Hirsch FRI, DEC 7 Caroline W. and Rick Barnett Madeleine and Joseph Jacobs* 6:30 pm Drinks and Light Refreshments Cecil Chen and Betsy Haanes Ms. Daryl Kaufman 7:30 pm Rehearsal Dr. Mark Cinnamon and Peter Kimmel and Stephanie Jackson Ms. Doreen Kelly Ms. Kathleen Knepper BACH LEVEL MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($75+) Dimick Foundation Anita Difanis and Richard Krajeck Join us for the rehearsal of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, John C. Driscoll R. Noel Longuemare which the BSO recently released on CD. Robert and Patricia Fauver Frank Maddox and Glenda Finley Dr. Edward Finn Michael and Judy Mael Dr. and Mrs. Harvey R. Gold Mr. Mark Mattucci and ON-STAGE REHEARSAL Drs. Joseph Gootenberg and Ms. Judith A. Furash FRI, JAN 4 Susan Leibenhaut Michael McCollum and Jennfier Ricks 9:15 am Light Refreshments David and Anne Grizzle David and Kay McGoff 10 am Rehearsal Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hoefler David and Anne Menotti GOVERNING MEMBERS SILVER AND HIGHER ($3,000+) Fran and Bill Holmes Merle and Thelma Meyer Betty W. Jensen Dr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Milstein Sit beside your favorite musician and celebrate the great Leon Stephen Kramer Ms. Barbara and Fleisher’s birthday as the orchestra rehearses Mozart’s Piano Florentina Mehta Dr. Mortimer Mishkin Concerto No. 12 in A Major and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. Rita and Bernard Meyers Ms. Marita Murray Herb and Rita Posner Margaret O’Rourke OPEN REHEARSAL Donald M. Simonds Kevin W. Parker THU, JAN 10 Karen Rosenthal and M. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Philipps 9:15 am Light Refreshments Alexander Stiffman Thomas Plotz and Catherine Klion 10 am Rehearsal Janice and Richard Tullos Andrew and Melissa Polott Marc and Amy Wish Martin Poretsky and Henriette van Eck BEETHOVEN LEVEL MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($150+) Donald and Carolann Regnell A rare chance to hear your Baltimore Symphony Orchestra STRATHMORE SYMPHONY Richard and Melba Reichard and world-renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet rehearse SOCIETY SILVER Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Rogell Messiaen’s seldom-performed Turangalîla-symphonie. $1,200–$1,999 Mr. and Mrs. Barry Rogstad Anonymous (5) Jo Ellen and Mark Roseman Charles Alston and Susan Dentzer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rosenbaum Upcoming Strathmore Events: Mr. and Mrs. Larry Avrunin Dr. Janice Marie Rusnak Dr. and Mrs. S. Gerald Sandler Mr. William J. Baer and BEHIND THE SCENES Ms. Nancy H. Hendry Estelle Luber Schwalb SUN, NOV 18 Dr. Marilyn Bate Steven and Donna Shriver 1:45 pm Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Bergman Marshall and Deborah Sluyter BRAHMS MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($250+) Sherry and David Berz Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Spero Bea and Roger Blacklow Gary Hartmann and Lori Stone Join Kevin Puts, composer of the BSO-commissioned Oboe Ms. Jane B. Boynton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swerdlow Concerto on this afternoon’s program, in a pre-concert talk. Mr. Richard H. Broun and Dr. Andrew Tangborn Tickets to the 3 pm concert not required to attend the talk. Ms. Karen E. Daly Rev. Joan Taylor Questions encouraged! Gordon F. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Wartofsky Ms. Sharon P. Brown David Wellman and BEHIND THE SCENES Ms. Barbara Brownridge and Marjorie Coombs Wellman SAT, JAN 19 Mr. Thomas E. Walsh Ms. Susan Wellman 6 pm Mr. Nicholas Burger and Ms. Dawn Alley Len Wiener and Edie Herman BRAHMS MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($250+) Frances and Leonard Burka Dr. Ann M. Willis Charitable Fund Lynne Yao Jonathan Palevsky, Program Director at WBJC and BSO Sue Carlton H. Alan Young and podcaster, gives a pre-concert talk. Tickets to the 8 pm concert Mr. Harvey A. Cohen and Sharon Bob Young, Ph.D. not required to attend the talk. Questions encouraged! Mr. Michael R. Tardif Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dante * Deceased EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Mr. and Mrs. David Cohen ^ Governing Members Executive For Meyerhoff events, please RSVP to Chuck Fax and Michele Weil Committee [email protected] or 410.783.8074. For Strathmore events, please RSVP to [email protected] orSEPTEMBER 301.581.5215. –OCTOBER / NOV–DECJAN–FEB 2018 / OVERTUREOVERTURE 45 45 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
LEAD GOVERNMENT FUNDERS The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is funded by operating grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, The Citizens of Baltimore County, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Howard County Arts Council, Carroll County Government, and the Maryland State Department of Education.
The Citizens of Baltimore County
SPONSORS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS THE CENTURY CLUB: $100,000 OR MORE
FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: $50,000–$99,999
$25,000–$49,999
$10,000 –$24,999
$5,000 –$9,999 CITY CAFÉ GEORGETOWN PAPER STOCK OF ROCKVILLE MCGUIRE WOODS COHN RESNICK GORDON FEINBLATT, LLC MILES & STOCKBRIDGE CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST HOWARD BANK RSM US LLP THE FLURY WILLIAMS GROUP KELLY & ASSOCIATES THE IVY HOTEL @ MORGAN STANLEY KRAMON & GRAHAM ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP
$1,000 –$4,999 ADVANCED BUSINESS SYSTEMS EAGLE COFFEE COMPANY INC. ELLIN AND TUCKER, CHARTERED D. F. DENT AND COMPANY EDDIE'S MARKET SUPERIOR TOURS
For more information on joining our team of generous institutional funding partners, please contact the Director of Institutional Giving Gabriella Giannini at 410.783.8022 or [email protected].
46 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org SYMPHONY FUND HONOR ROLL
The Board of Directors of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra established The Legato Circle to honor individuals who have included a charitable gift to the BSO in their long-term financial plans, securing a legacy of musical excellence for future generations.
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING LEGATO CIRCLE MEMBERS: Anonymous (4) Jim Doran Mr.* and Mrs. Richard E. Hug William and Kathleen Pence George and Frances Alderson Freda Dunn David and Susan Hutton Marge Penhallegon Donna and Paul Amico Dr. Jeanne Dussault and The Honorable* and Mrs. Beverly and Sam* Penn Dr. James M. Anthony Mr. Mark Woodworth Christian M. Kahl G. Edward Reahl, Jr. M.D. Paul E. Araujo John and Donna Easton Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan Cornelius Ridgely Michael J. Batza, Jr. and Carol and Alan Edelman Dr. and Mrs.* Murray M. Doris Sanders Patricia K. Batza Margaret A. Fallon Kappelman Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Hellmut D.W. (Hank) Bauer Mr.* and Mrs. Maurice R. Feldman Mrs. Barbara P. Katz Eugene and Alice Schreiber Nancy H. Berger Debra Brown Felser and Jo Ansley B. Kendig Burdette and Judith Short Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Gary Jay Felser Peter Kjome and Kristen Morrison Susan and Charles Shubin Deborah R. Berman Haswell M. and Madeline S. Nicholas Klise Jim and Sandy Smith Mr. David H. Bernstein Franklin Paul Konka and Susan Nancy E. Smith Bea and Roger Blacklow JoAnn and Jack Fruchtman Dugan-Konka Dr. and Mrs.* Solomon H. Ellen Baron Blaustein and John A. Galleazzi and Suzan Kiepper Krannich Snyder Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D. Elizabeth A. Hennessey Miss Dorothy B. Krug Catherine R. Soares John and Marjorie Blodgett Audrey and Stanford G. Gann, Sr. Dr. James and Lynne LaCalle Karen Soisson Sharon P. Brown George and Joan Marie Gebhardt Dr. Sandra R. Leichtman Mr. Edward Steinhouse Ms. Jeanne Brush Sandra Levi Gerstung Ruth and Jay Lenrow Dr.* and Mrs. Harry S. Stevens Dr. Robert P. Burchard Mrs. Norma Goldberg Lynne and Joseph J. Lentz, Jr. Harriet Stulman John Cahill Patrick M. Green Joyce and Dr. Harry Letaw, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Carvel Tiekert Katharine H. Caldwell Bob Greenfield Sarellen and Marshall A. Leonard Topper Mrs. Constance R. Caplan Stephanie R. Hack Levine, M.D. Reggi and Bill Veatch Mrs. Selma Carton Gerri Hall and David Nickels Mr. Richard W. Ley Emmy L. Volenick Hosea T. Chew Dr. Jane Halpern and Constance J. Lieder John Warshawsky Mr. Harvey A. Cohen and Mr. James Pettit Earl and Darielle Linehan Susan G. Waxter Mr. Michael R. Tardif Carole B. Hamlin Joy Mandel and Tim Nehl Jay M. Weinstein Harvey L. Cohen and Ms. Denise A. Hargrove Mrs. George R. McClelland Mark Wiesand Martha R. Krach Kristine Heine Carol O'Connell Minkin W. Owen and Nancy J. Mark D. and Judith* L. Coplin Barbara and Michael Hettleman Charles and Amy Miron Williams, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cordes Mrs. Betty J. Himeles and The Mrs. Joy Munster Rebecca Wingate Mr. and Mrs. William H. Martin S. Himeles, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nerenberg Charles* and Shirley Wunder Cowie, Jr. Foundation Drs. Erol and Julianne Oktay Mr. and Mrs.* Calman J. Anna Weller Dahl Len and Betsy Homer Stanley* and Linda Hambleton Zamoiski, Jr. Athena and Scott Dalrymple Beth R. Horton Panitz Ms. Ethel Zelenske Ronald E. Dencker Gwynne and Leonard Horwits Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pecora * Deceased
WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING DONORS, NOW DECEASED, WHO HAVE PROVIDED A LEGACY GIFT IN SUPPORT OF THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Mrs. Ruth Alsop Roberta L. and Richard Robert and Ryda H. Levi Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Barbara F. Appell A. Davis Ruby Loflin-Flaccoe Randolph S. and Amalie R. Mrs. Claire Beissinger Mildred and Patrick Deering Lauretta Maisel Rothschild Mrs. Alma T. Martien Bond Dr. Perry A. Eagle Mrs. Jean M. Malkmus Dr. Henry Sanborn W. George Bowles Winnie and Bill Flattery Ruth R. Marder Eugene Scheffres and Phyllis Wagner Brill Harvey D. Gold Esther Holden Miller Richard E. Hartt Mrs. Phyllis B. Brotman Douglas and Hilda Goodwin Robert and Marion Neiman Mrs. Muriel Schiller Elizabeth A. Bryan Dailina Gorn Ralph W. Nichols Dr. Albert Shapiro Mr. Walter Budko Mr. Joseph P. Hamper, Jr. Margaret Powell Payne George Steele Mrs. Frances H. Burman Katharine Hoffman Mrs. Margery Pozefsky Gideon N. Stieff, Jr. Joseph and Jean Carando Judith C. Johnson Joan Marie Pristas Howard A. and Rena S. Sugar Clarence B. Coleman Albert D. Keller Thelma T. Randolph Mignon Y. Velie Sergiu and Robinne Richard M. Lansburgh Mr. Robert N. Riley Albert and Martha Walker Comissiona John Christian Larsen Lawrence Melvin Roberts Ingeborg B. Weinberger Margaret Hammond Cooke Bernice S. Levinson Mr. William G. Robertson, Jr. Dr. Mildred Zindler Please let us know if you are planning a legacy gift to the BSO—we would like to thank you! Contact Sara Krusenstjerna, Director of Philanthropic Planning, at 410.783.8087 or [email protected]. Please visit www.BSOmusic.giftplans.org.
SEPTEMBER –OCTOBER / NOV–DECJAN–FEB 2018 / OVERTUREOVERTURE 47 47 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF
BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIRECTORS EMERITI Sara Krusenstjerna Jared Thigpen Juliana Marin DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPIC DIRECTOR OF FOOD & BEVERAGE SENIOR TICKET AGENT Barry D. Berman, Esq. PLANNING FOR STRATHMORE OFFICERS Renee Thornton Laura Burrows Erin Mellott HOUSEKEEPER Peter Murphy ANNUAL FUND MANAGER TICKET SERVICES MANAGER Barbara M. Bozzuto* Constance R. Caplan CHAIR Matthew Urquhart Joanne M. Rosenthal ASSISTANT PERSONNEL MANAGER Michael Suit Peter T. Kjome* Murray M. Kappelman, M.D. DIRECTOR OF PRINCIPAL GIFTS TICKET SERVICES AGENT PRESIDENT & CEO & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Wesley Thompson Catherine H. McClelland CONDUCTOR OF SO, BSYO Lainy LeBow-Sachs* Benjamin H. Griswold IV Richard Spero VICE CHAIR COMMUNITY LIAISON FOR John Waters BALTIMORE SYMPHONY BSO AT STRATHMORE RECEPTIONIST ASSOCIATES Hilary B. Miller* Ann L. Rosenberg Marguerite Walsh VICE CHAIR M. Sigmund Shapiro Dannielle Sturgeon Frank Wise HOUSEKEEPER PRESIDENT Barry F. Rosen * INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Stuart O. Simms COORDINATOR VICE CHAIR Carole Wysocki Barbara Dent SECRETARY The Honorable Angel Terol DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & DIRECTOR, BSO SECOND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Steven R. Schuh* CHAIR LAUREATE Barbara Kelly TREASURER CENTURY CAMPAIGN TREASURER Kathleen A. Chagnon, Esq.* Michael G. Bronfein Tyler Wert Betsy Osterman SECRETARY DEVELOPMENT EVENTS MARKETING & PARLIAMENTARIAN Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr. COORDINATOR PUBLIC RELATIONS Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr. Sandy Feldman Meredith Burke IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT BOARD MEMBERS GRAPHIC DESIGNER FINANCE Rick Bernstein Freddye Silverman BOARD OF TRUSTEES— & INFORMATION Rosie Constantine VICE PRESIDENT, A.G.W. Biddle, III BALTIMORE SYMPHONY TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR COMMUNICATIONS ENDOWMENT TRUST Kelly Cantley Janice Johnson Rafaela Dreisin Jo Kendig Chris Bartlett SENIOR ACCOUNTANT AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER VICE PRESIDENT, EDUCATION August J. Chiasera CHAIR Evinz Leigh Sandra Files Carolyn Lassahn Robert B. Coutts Barbara M. Bozzuto ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATE DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER VICE PRESIDENT, MEETINGS & PROGRAMS Walter Doggett III Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr Kyle Steele Theresa Kopasek DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING MARKETING & PR ASSOCIATE Florence McLean Alan S. Edelman* Peter T. Kjome VICE PRESIDENT, Michael F. Ernst Donna Waring Devon Maloney RECRUITMENT/MEMBERSHIP Joseph Meyerhoff, II PAYROLL ACCOUNTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Sandra Levi Gerstung Helene Breazeale Rick Monfred Jeff Wright Michael Naess VICE PRESIDENT, Dr. Michael G. Hansen* DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND SPECIAL SERVICES/EVENTS The Honorable Steven R. Schuh TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT Joseph Jennings Jr. Larry Albrecht Andrew A. Stern Beth Varden VICE PRESIDENT, SYMPHONY STORE Christian C. Johansson SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr. GENERAL MANAGER Vicki McAdory Robert C. Knott Kaila Willard OFFICE MANAGER Dr. Sunil Kumar * BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Tiffany Bryan ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MARKETING † EX-OFFICIO DIRECTOR OF PATRON SERVICES Marc E. Lackritz Rebecca Cain Sandy Laken† DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA AND HALL ORCHKIDS GOVERNING MEMBERS CHAIR STAFF OPERATIONS Sharniece Adams Marshall A. Levine, MD Shirley Caudle LEAD SITE COORDINATOR HOUSEKEEPER Howard Majev, Esq. Peter T. Kjome Rachel Burbank PRESIDENT & CEO Alvin Crawley LEAD SITE COORDINATOR overture Valencia McClure MANAGER OF FACILITIES Barbara Gourdin Camille Delaney Jay Orlandi EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT PRODUCTION Rose Ferguson ORCHKIDS SENIOR SITE MANAGER E. Albert Reece, M.D. HOUSEKEEPER Devon Maloney Sarah Beckwith April Dodge VICE PRESIDENT & CFO EDITOR Terry M. Rubenstein* Jess Griggs DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OPERATIONS MANAGER Janet E. Bedell Stephen D. Shawe, Esq. Raquel Whiting Gilmer Kay Sheppard EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ORCHKIDS Jessica Harris PROGRAM ANNOTATOR Dan Shykind ORCHKIDS SITE MANAGER ARTISTIC/OPERATIONS Beth Varden Jamie Kelley COORDINATOR James T. Smith, Jr. VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT Nick Skinner SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER ORCHKIDS DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.* Linda Moxley Nicholas Hersh Meredith Burke ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING Dan Trahey GRAPHIC DESIGNER CONDUCTOR OF YO, BSYO David Trone & COMMUNICATIONS ORCHKIDS ARTISTIC LIAISON † Rosie Constantine Marguerite Walsh Tonya McBride Robles Jinny Kim Mollie Westbrook PRODUCTION COORDINATOR PRESIDENT, BALTIMORE SYMPHONY VICE PRESIDENT DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA ORCHKIDS LEAD SITE COORDINATOR ASSOCIATES & GENERAL MANAGER PERSONNEL Baltimore magazine Kerrigan Dougherty Custom Division Peter L. Winik Kimone Kocica ARTISTIC & PROGRAM OPERATIONS 1000 Lancaster Street, Suite 400 † MANAGER OF VENUE SALES COORDINATOR Jeffrey T. Zoller DEVELOPMENT Baltimore, MD 21202 CHAIR, BALTIMORE SYMPHONY Alicia Kosack 410.873.3900 YOUTH ORCHESTRAS Louis Diez MANAGER OF BALTIMORE SYMPHONY DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL FUND AND YOUTH ORCHESTRAS TICKET SERVICES Ken Iglehart DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS DIRECTOR LIFE DIRECTORS Jerry Pedroza Amy Bruce [email protected] Gabriella Giannini PRODUCTION MANAGER DIRECTOR OF TICKET SERVICES Peter G. Angelos, Esq. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF & ANALYTICS 443.873.3916 INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Julia Perry Rheda Becker EDUCATION PROGRAMS Morgan Gullard Michael Tranquillo ART DIRECTOR Yo-Yo Ma Demetreus Gregg COORDINATOR MANAGER OF SPECIAL EVENTS CAMPAIGN & RESEARCH Lynn Talbert ASSOCIATE MaryAnn Poling Harvey M. Meyerhoff Eric Johnson ADVERTISING CONDUCTOR OF CO, BSYO TICKET SERVICES AGENT ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE Robert E. 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