2 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Table of Contents Administrative Staff Board of Directors 7 KIMBERLY BREDEMEIER General Information 10–11 Executive Director Orchestra Roster 13 JOSHUA BRITTON Music Director Biography 14–15 Orchestra Personnel Manager Assistant Conductor 17 JEANNE BUNDY Chorus Information 18–20 Director of Sales/Box Office Manager Arrivederci from the Maestro 22–23 VICKI BURCHELL Gospel at the Phil Director of Finance Program — February 16, 2020 25 PHIL FASSETT Artist Information 27 Development Committee Chair JIA-RONG GAN Roger Kalia/Meng Su Orchestra Librarian Program — February 29, 2020 29 Artist Information 30–31 CHRIS HARP Program Notes 32–34 Director of Marketing & Special Events BETSY HEIGER Music and Sports Development Coordinator Program — March 14, 2020 36–37 Director of Publications & Grants

The Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Plastics DANNIECE HENDERSON Director of Operations Foundation is proud to sponsor Chorus Manager The Envelope Please Program — April 4 & 5, 2020 40–41 MICHELLE NUTI Artist Information 43–45 Development Assistant BRIAN ONDERDONK Puccini’s Turandot Alice May Director of Education & Program — April 25, 2020 46–47 Community Programs Artist Information 49–59 KAREN RENNER Program Notes 60–61 Librarian Assistant

CONDUCTING STAFF ALFRED SAVIA Music Director BRIAN ONDERDONK Assistant Conductor/EPYO Conductor LEE VEAZEY EPYO II Conductor ANDREA DRURY Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Conductor RYAN KNIGHT Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Assistant Conductor This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, Ohio 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of Onstage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2020. All rights reserved.

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6 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON The Board of Directors

Mark Powers, Michael Holmes President Becky Malotte Kirsten Wagmeister, Michelle Quinn President-Elect Diane Schroeder Linda White, Jim Spath Vice-President Ellen Spence Don Shymanski, Pat Vaughan Theby Treasurer Susan Vaughn Kevin Wilson, Pat Welborn Secretary Cyrus Williams Julie Erkilla, Cynthia Wolfe Guild President Kirk Wright F. Stephen Sheets, Rita Eykamp, Immediate Past President Life Member Phil Fassett, Phyllis Grimm, Development Committee Chair Life Member Caroline Fairbanks, Ross Erickson, At Large Member Orchestra Representative Fr. Raymond Brenner Ellen Welcher, Jeff Fink Chorus Representative Nicholas Gartner Steve Schaefer, Selby Hinkebein Mayor’s Office Representative

PAST PRESIDENTS

1934–36 Roger K. Becker 1960–68 Alexander L. Leich 1989–91 Carol Abrams 1936–38 Paul H. Schmidt 1968–70 Ted C. Ziemer, Jr. 1991–92 Robert Carithers 1938–39 Robert M. Leich, Sr. 1970–71 N. Keith Emge 1992–93 Nancy Gaunt 1939–40 Milton Greenwald 1971–72 J. Michael McGregor 1993–94 Tom Bryan 1940–42 Raymond H. Goebel 1972–73 Guerin Bernardin, Sr. 1994–95 Joan David 1942–45 John F. Berry 1973–74 Albert A. Woll 1995–96 Tom Topper 1945–46 Fred C. Fischer 1974–76 Helen McKinney 1996–98 Steve Parker 1946–48 Henry B. Walker, Jr. 1976–77 Richard Schlottman 1998–00 Pat Welborn 1948–49 William D. Ingle, Jr. 1977–78 Mell B. Welborn, Jr. 2000–02 Diane Schroeder 1949–50 Richard Schiewetz 1978–79 Remig Fehn, Jr. 2002–04 Philip Fisher 1950–51 August Bergman 1979–80 Gilbert S. Graves 2004–06 Norm Bafunno 1951–52 Roger K. Becker 1980–81 William Suhrheinrich 2006–08 Bill Doty 1952–54 Alexander L. Leich 1981–82 Robert E. Hampel 2008–10 Brian McGuire 1954–56 Bernard V. Rue 1982–83 James R. McKinney 2010–12 Richard Arneson 1956–57 Remig Fehn, Jr. 1983–84 Malcolm H. Forbes 2012–14 Chris Wolking 1957–58 Howard Sandusky 1984–85 Stephen M. Johnson 2014–16 Kirk Wright 1958–59 Bernard L. Schultz 1985–86 Susanne Emge 2016–18 F. Stephen Sheets 1959–60 Louis C. Ruthenburg 1986–87 Malcolm H. Forbes 1959–60 Earl R. Zeisler 1987–89 Robert L. Reid

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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES CONSENT 20 NW 3rd St, Ste 500 Your attendance constitutes consent for use Fifth Third Bank Center of your likeness and/or voice on all video and/ Enter parking garage on 2nd Street, enter or audio recordings and in photographs made building and take elevator to 5th Floor during Philharmonic events. Phone: 812/425-5050 Monday–Friday 9am to 5pm ELEVATORS E-mail: [email protected] Two public elevators make all levels of the Victory Theatre accessible. Both elevators are BOX OFFICE INFORMATION located directly behind the Victory Theatre’s Monday–Friday 10am to 4:30pm Sixth Street box office. 20 NW 3rd St, Ste 500 Open 2 hours prior to Classics & Pops concerts FIRST AID at the Victory Theatre Please contact the nearest usher Single and subscription tickets available online for assistance. Phone: 812/425-5050 FLEXPASS VOUCHERS CAMERAS & CELL PHONES Must be redeemed by Friday before Cell phones are allowed with ring volume the concert. turned on silent and for use as camera without flash during performances, as well as to GROUP RATES tweet and post on social media. No regular The more you buy, the more you save. cameras allowed. Call 812/425-5050 for more information.

CLUB 18|39 HEARING IMPAIRED If you’re between the ages of 18 and 39, you A limited number of electronic listening can get discounted tickets to Classics and Pops devices are available for hearing impaired concerts. Register for FREE on our website. patrons. Call 812/425-5050 at least one week in advance to request. See usher upon arrival. CONCESSIONS Refreshments are available for purchase in the IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Sixth Street Lobby. Food and drink are allowed In the event of fire or other emergency, move in the auditorium (unless otherwise indicated). to the nearest exit where you will be guided to an usher. LATECOMERS STUDENT TICKETS Latecomers must wait in the outer lobby and $10 tickets are available for full time students will be escorted into the auditorium at an with valid ID. Availabilty one week in advance appropriate time. for some concerts.

LOST & FOUND IF YOU CAN’T ATTEND A CONCERT Please approach an usher or call the Ford The EPO has a “no refunds” policy. Pops & Center at 812/422-1515. Classics exchanges are $2 per ticket and must MAILING ADDRESS be requested by 4:00pm on the Friday before PO Box 84, Evansville, IN 47701-0084 the concert. Some exclusions apply. You may donate your tickets back to the orchestra for RESTROOMS distribution to underserved individuals. Restrooms are located throughout the building, and are accessible for VICTORY THEATRE guests with physical disabilities. For a list of prohibited items, parking or general information, visit victorytheatre.com. SECURITY For questions about security, parking or WEBSITE prohibited items, call the Ford Center at www.evansvillephilharmonic.org 812/422-1515. NEW CLEAR BAG POLICY SMOKING Please note the only bags that will be allowed Smoking, including e-cigarettes, is inside the Victory Theatre are: prohibited inside the building. 12″ x 6″ x 12″ clear plastic bag 1 gallon plastic freezer bag ALL PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE Clutch with wrist strap (6 ½″ x 4 ½″ max) Clutch with shoulder strap (6 ½″ x 4 ½″ max)

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The Orchestra Alfred Savia, Music Director Brian Onderdonk, Assistant Conductor

VIOLIN I Isabel Kwon TRUMPET Alan Snow* Alex Krew Timothy Zifer Concertmaster Ricard Li Principal, Elizabeth Drabkin Jennifer Jordan Emery Nagy/Everett Assistant Concertmaster Alex Lavine Northcut Chair Kathryn Savia Timothy Smith Ellen Essig and Dr. & BASS Kevin Wilson Mrs. J. Irwin Essig Chair Greg Olson Sheryl Schuster Principal, TROMBONE Maria Mastropaolo William H. Suhrheinrich Chair Lee Blakeman Henry Jenkins Tiffany Freeman Principal, Jonathan Yi Lee Veazey Clarence C. Clarke Chair Tatiana Dunn Dorian Jackman Matt Calvert Sharilyn Spicknall Joe Tyksinski Greg Downes Nathan Shapiro FLUTE TUBA Abby Fuchs Leanne Hampton º Melissa Williams Sheena Lan Principal, Principal Pauline and Remig VIOLIN II TIMPANI Jia-Rong Gan* Fehn Chair Erin Torres Todd Sheehan Principal, Principal Evansville Philharmonic Jessica Harris Guild Chair OBOE PERCUSSION Anne Fiedler Elizabeth Robertson º Ross Erickson º Elizabeth Heiger Principal Principal Sun Huh Bonnie Farr Michael Launius Lisa Lance Jessica Smithorn Keegan Sheehy Karen Renner Madeleine Wething CLARINET PIANO Hua Zhang Thomas Josenhans Anne Fiedler Marisa Votapek Principal, Principal, Sarah Grace Bindrim Gilbert S. Graves Chair Rossanna M. Enlow Chair Emily Cook VIOLA HARP Mark Hatlestad* BASSOON Mary Dicken Principal, Ed Lacy Principal, Anonymous Friend Chair Principal, Pauline A. Reichmann Chair Elizabeth Doubrawa Wm. C.H. Grimm, Jr. & RECORDING Christopher Alley Phyllis R. Grimm Chair K. Kim Fillingim Enoch Ng Ron Tucker Wooram Kroon Eve Witt STAGE PRODUCTION Lyrica Smolenski IATSE Local 102 Julia Lin HORN Gardner McDaniel Emily Britton º STAGE MANAGER Principal, Paul Nau CELLO Eykamp Family Chair Graham Cullen* Cristian Codreanu SABBATICAL Principal, Tara Johnson Carol Dallinger, Violin Anonymous Friend Chair Barbara Josenhans Jennifer Farny *Eykamp String Quartet member Kristin Roberts º EPO/UE Consortium member

13 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Music Director/Conductor Alfred Savia

Appointed Music Director of the with audiences have been documented in Evansville Philharmonic in 1989, Alfred profiles inMusical America and Symphony Savia celebrates his 31st and final year Magazine. He was recipient of the 2004 with the Orchestra this season. Under his Mayor’s Arts Award. In 2013 he was made leadership the Orchestra has expanded a Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana’s to include a comprehensive Youth highest civilian honor. Orchestra program, the incorporation of the Philharmonic Chorus, and the Savia was Associate Conductor of the Eykamp String Quartet. He has initiated Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra from many new programs including Messiah 1990–1996, and is still a frequent and Nutcracker, Music Alive residencies, guest conductor with that orchestra th orchestra concerts in outlying leading their 4 of July Symphony On communities, and fully staged opera The Prairie concerts each season. His presentations at Philharmonic concerts. North American appearances include The 2005 and 2011 collaborations performances with the Saint Louis, for the opera Brundibar (performed Detroit, Phoenix, Savannah, Columbus, extensively by children in the Terezin Memphis, Portland (Maine), Winston- concentration camp during WW II) with Salem, Roanoke, San Antonio, Spokane CYPRESS garnered unparalleled local, and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony regional and national attention through Orchestras, as well as the Louisville a featured story on CNN. His innovative Orchestra and Dayton, Rhode Island, programming skills and ability to connect Naples (FL), Lexington and Fresno

14 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Philharmonic Orchestras. Internationally, Conducting studies at the American he has conducted the Korea Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra League’s Institute Orchestra (KBS), State of Mexico (Toluca) of Orchestral Studies and the Tanglewood Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Music Center led to his first professional Camera Fiorentina in Florence, Radio & appointment as Assistant Conductor of Television Serbia (Belgrade) Symphony The Omaha Symphony. Subsequently, Orchestra, Denmark’s Aalborg Symphony he served as Resident Conductor of Orchestra, Presidential Symphony the Florida Philharmonic and New Orchestra of Ankara, Turkey, Osnabrück Orleans Symphony Orchestra, Associate Symphony Orchestra in Germany, Conductor of the Florida Symphony Symphony Orchestra of Xalapa, Mexico Orchestra and Music Director of the and the Orchestra Sinfonica della Orlando Opera. He played an integral Provincia di Bari (Italy). He has conducted role in the emergence of the Orlando extensively in South America, appearing Philharmonic, serving as Artistic Director with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile and Principal Conductor from 1995 to in Santiago, the Orquesta Sinfonica 2000. He also conducted the Louisiana Nacional del Ecuador (Quito), and the Philharmonic Orchestra (New Orleans) in Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo one of their first post-Katrina concerts in (Uruguay). Festival appearances have 2006, and returned there the following included Chicago’s Grant Park Symphony, two seasons. In 2013 he conducted Summer Music at Harkness Festival in La Traviata at the “Il Giglio e’ Lirica” New London, Connecticut, Lucius Woods Festival on the island of Giglio in Tuscany Performing Arts Center in Wisconsin, the as part of Italy’s celebration of the 200th Wintergreen Summer Music Festival in anniversary Verdi’s birth. In 2017–18 he Virginia, and The Professional Advantage not only brought La Traviata to the Victory opera program in the Marche region Theatre stage, but also led performances of Italy. He recorded Russell Peck’s of Traviata with the Indianapolis Opera. The Thrill of the Orchestra with London’s He has recently been appointed Artistic Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Advisor of the Indianapolis Opera and will conduct yearly productions there A native of Livingston, New Jersey, Savia each season beginning with Donizetti’s graduated from Butler University’s Elixir of Love this November. Maestro Jordan College of the Arts. He studied Savia will assume the title of Conductor conducting with Franco Ferrara at the Laureate of the Evansville Philharmonic Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, on April 25, 2020. Italy, and privately with Sixten Ehrling and Otto Werner Mueller (Juilliard School).

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Brian Onderdonk, Assistant Conductor and Director of Education for the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, has become well known for his unique versatility on the podium, amassing a repertoire of over 45 opera productions and a wide range of symphonic guest conducting appearances. Maestro Onderdonk joined the Evansville Philharmonic in 2015 when he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. Since his appointment as the Alice May Director of Education and Community Programs, he now directly oversees one of the largest orchestral educational and In 2014, Mr. Onderdonk was invited to conduct outreach programs in the region. David Chesky’s contemporary opera The Mice In addition to his symphonic work, Maestro War in a joint production with Orchestra Onderdonk also served as founding Music Miami and the Florida Grand Opera Resident Director and Principal Conductor for Valley Artist program. Opera and Performing Arts (formerly Center Maestro Onderdonk received his DM at Indiana Stage Opera) during its first 12 seasons, University, where he served as Assistant leading the company in highly acclaimed Conductor for the IU Opera Theatre, assisting staged productions, including Carmen, conductors David Effron and Arthur Fagen. In La Traviata, Rigoletto, Faust, Cosí fan tutte, 2013, Mr. Onderdonk joined The Atlanta Opera Don Giovanni, La bohéme, Madama Butterfly, as Associate Conductor for their production Tosca, Barber of Seville, and Albert Herring. of Tosca, for which he conducted the student Mr. Onderdonk has shown particular outreach performances at the Cobb Energy interest in the field of modern opera and Center. He also had the privilege of performing ballet, recently making his debut conducting with the internationally acclaimed Italian tenor the Evansville Philharmonic for their joint trio Il Volo during their 2013 North American production of Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures Tour, conducting symphony orchestras on in Wonderland in April 2019. In 2011 he such stages as the Gibson Amphitheatre, the conducted the immensely successful World Detroit Fox Theatre, and Radio City Music Hall. Premiere of Philip Westin’s Marie’s Orchard, as well as the workshop premiere of PQ Phan’s new opera The Tale of Lady Thi Kinh with the 2011 Bloomington Summer Music Festival.

17 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON CHORUS CONDUCTOR Andrea Drury

Native Texan, Andrea Drury is thrilled to be returning to the Philharmonic Chorus as their director. She previously conducted the group from 2012–2017. She is currently the Fine Arts Specialist for choral and general music and theatre for the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. She taught applied voice at the University of Evansville and the University of Southern Indiana for two years prior.

Mrs. Drury was the conductor of the North High School Choral Department from 2005–2015 where her choirs placed in the top ten at the state competition for nine of her ten years. Since 2012, she has been the choral director of the Trinity United Education Association and the Repertoire Methodist Church. and Resources Lifelong Coordinator and Community Chair for the Indiana Choral In 2014, Mrs. Drury and her husband were Director Association. awarded the Artist Award presented by the Arts Council of Southwest Indiana. Mrs. Drury Hailing from the state of Texas, Mrs. Drury has been nominated for the Evansville received her Bachelor of Music Education from Courier and Press Teacher of the Year award Baylor University in 1996 and her Master of two times. In 2012–2013, she served on Music in Vocal Performance from The Ohio the ISSMA Organizational Committee for State University in 2000. Mrs. Drury is blessed the state of Indiana. She currently is the with a wonderful and supporting husband and Area 7 Representative for the Indiana Music two amazing sons.

18 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC CHORUS Andrea Drury, Conductor Ryan Knight, Assistant Conductor Thomas Drury, Accompanist Danniece Henderson, Chorus Manager

SOPRANO ALTO TENOR Stacia Ahlfeld Melissa Bethel Arthur Adye Heather Bell Erica Birkner Stephen Best* Kerri Blandford Ann Boyd Chris Carner Angelika Clark Becky Brookman Kenneth Colbert Chavandra Clark Patricia Bunner Colbert* Cletus Davis Mandy Conner Shelby Clark Phil Fassett Jesse Cook Kelly Coppens Chad Hayden Nancy Hart Copley Pam Doerter David Henze Amelia Cottrell Mary Forbes^ Donna Jeffers Janice Evans Diane Hill Michael Miller Amber Ferguson^ Debbie Howell Christopher N. Price Conni Harness Jane Jackson David Pugh Jill Hemminger* Lynda Johnston Nick Rhoades Danniece Henderson Diana Kulenkamp Matt Rundle Susan Henze Sally Lager Ross Sanford Janet Hodge Marilyn Lankford Andy Seibert^ Wanda Kavanaugh Peggy Liberti Kerry Showers Julie Lauer Lorrie Littrell Adam Sokeland Katie Lee Heather Marin Joe Wells Kimberly Lehman Michelle McConnell Libby Marshall Ruth Metzger BASS Jennifer Mason Lydia Moll Kent A. Andrew Wendy Menke Lisa Mosley Brad Betsworth* Erika Miller Dorcas Newkirk Charles Blesch Kim Moors Linda Palmer Phil Boyd Alison Oldham Beth Piper Craig Butler Sally M. Perkins Aleigh Pratt David Coker Anne Pritchett Christie Reagan Don Condon Carolyn Scavone JoAnne S. Reinhardt James Gorman Jillian Shade Chelsea Riley A.Y. Hodge Abagail Suddarth Jana Sallee Ryan Knight Lee Thomas Victoria Schaefer Frank Liberti Shawn Voyle Alex Smith Ben Luttrull Natalie Wade Michele Wagner J.D. Mason Karen Weck Nadia Wilkes Stephen Marhsall Pat Welborn Mark K. Powers Ellen Welcher Robert C. Reinhardt Laura Witte Patrick Ritch Dan Scavone Richard Sprinkle Donald C. Summers^

*Section Leader ^Assistant Section Leader

19 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON CHORUS ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight serves as the Assistant Conductor of the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus. Mr. Knight is the Director of Vocal Music and Technical Theatre at the Mount Vernon Senior High School Fine Arts Academy where he directs multiple choral ensembles and teaches courses in applied vocal music, musical theatre, and technical theatre. As a Level 2 Google Certified Educator, he also serves as a Curriculum Technology Leader, providing technical support and professional development for staff at Mount Vernon High School.

A native of southern Illinois, Knight moved to expanded state-wide by IMEA to become the Kentucky in 2010 and was awarded Kentucky inaugural high school edition of “Circle Colonel in 2015 after serving as a faculty the State With Song.” member of the Governor’s Scholars Program. He has presented at multiple conferences for Knight serves on the state board of the state and local organizations including the Indiana Choral Directors Association as Kentucky Music Education Association, Indiana Area 7 Representative and IMEA Site Choral Directors Association, Kentucky Council Coordinator for the southern region “Circle of Teachers of English and Language Arts, the State With Song” festival. Knight is and Indiana SoWeLEAD. Knight conducted an active member of the American Choral a featured performance of the Murray State Directors Association, Indiana Music Education University Men’s Chorus at the KMEA Association, National Association for Teachers state conference in 2015. of Singing, Indiana Connected Educators, Educational Theatre Association, and the As a performer, Knight was the featured United States Institute for Technical Theatre. baritone soloist for the Christmastime production of Handel’s Messiah at the Knight earned his Bachelor of Music in Henderson United Methodist Church in Education and Master of Music Education 2017. He has also served as a clinician and degrees from Murray State University where adjudicator for regional events sponsored by he studied voice and vocal pedagogy with the Indiana State School Music Association Dr. Randall Black and choral conducting and long-distance adjudication events for with Dr. Bradley Almquist. the Alaska Music Education Association. He created the Southern Indiana Honor Choir Festival in 2017 which was adopted and

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Arrivederci from the Maestro

Daniel Knight Studio B Photography

As I write my last “Message from the play an annual Messiah and Nutcracker, Maestro” it’s hard for me to believe that I and have played run-out and outdoor been doing these—usually one or two per concerts throughout the region (including season—for the EPO program book for New Harmony chamber concerts and 31 years! In that time not only have Kitty Lincoln Amphitheatre). The number of (my wife who is in the 1st Violin section) people in “our Philharmonic family” has and I have seen our family change—our also greatly increased—a two tier Youth two little daughters have become vibrant Orchestra and Evansville Philharmonic young women—but the Philharmonic Chorus were not part of the Philharmonic has changed quite a bit as well. We Orchestra. And the addition of the play in a different hall than we did in Eykamp String Quartet as the nucleus 1989—one that is more intimate and of the orchestra’s string section has immeasurably better acoustically. The contributed significantly to the continued scope of the Orchestra is far more vast— artistic growth of the Philharmonic. we play more concerts on our Pops series,

22 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON And so it is appropriate that—in addition start of another exciting new era for this to the final music director candidate guest wonderful Orchestra. In the meantime, conductor at the February Classics—this I will be taking my passion for opera to program book contains three diverse the Indianapolis Opera, where I serve Pops concerts as well as an opera. as Artistic Advisor and conduct one full The February Pops is a Gospel concert, opera production per season in addition a genre that I helped bring to the stages to Opera in the Park and other activities. of Vanderburgh Auditorium, the Centre I’ll also be continuing my work with and the Victory over the course of seven the Indianapolis Symphony for their consecutive seasons. The March Pops— summer concerts as well as other guest Music & Sports—was also the theme of conducting activities. AND, I am honored our very first concert on the EPO’s Family to be designated as the Evansville Series back in 1990. The April Pops brings Philharmonic’s Conductor Laureate, the the return of Doug LaBrecque, the Pops first Music Director in the EPO’s history vocalist I’ve collaborated with more than to have that title. As such you may any other throughout my tenure here. see me participate in some important I end my tenure as EPO’s Music Director development activities of the Orchestra in April with a presentation of Puccini’s and even return from time to time to the extraordinary final opera, Turandot. podium. So now, rather than bidding all Bringing opera to Evansville has been of you “Addio”, I say “Arrivederci!” one of the great joys of my time here, and this opera is not only a vehicle for superb vocal talent but also a brilliant showcase for the Orchestra and Chorus as well. Alfred Savia By the time we perform Turandot, the Music Director next Philharmonic Music Director will have been named, and that will be the

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CONCERT SPONSOR Old National Bank

GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR Old National Bank

CHORUS SPONSOR Friends of the Chorus

Alfred Savia, Conductor Evansville Philharmonic Chorus & Gospel Chorus Andrea Drury, Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Conductor James Hamler, Gospel Conductor

RICHARD SMALLWOOD Coronation

JAMES HAMLER Let All the People Praise His Name

THOMAS DORSEY Take My Hand, Precious Lord

MOSES HOGAN Old Time Religion

EDWIN HAWKINS Oh Happy Day

ALVIN PARRIS His Eye is on the Sparrow

INTERMISSION

JOSEPH PACE, II The Worship Medley

Arr. Stacey V. Gibbs He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

PIETRO MASCAGNI “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria Rusticana

Arr. Brooklyn Tab Psalm 150

Arr. Brooklyn Tab I Love You

KEITH PRINGLE When All God’s Children Get Together

This project is made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Steinway is the official piano of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. 26 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON GOSPEL CONDUCTOR JAMES LESLEY HAMLER, JR.

James Lesley Hamler, Jr. is a native of Purvis, Mississippi. He is the third of 5 children of Rev. James and Mrs. Fannie Lois Hamler. James started singing at the age of six in his home church, Spring Chapel Baptist Church of Purvis, Mississippi. At the age of 10 he started singing and traveling with D and N Productions of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He also started playing piano at his home church for Sunday School. He served as church musician there for 17 years. James has served as Minister of Music for the Nazarene Baptist Church of Evansville, Indiana for the past 21 years under the leadership of Pastor Larry A. Rascoe, Sr.

After graduating Purvis High School James and traveled across the country singing in attended Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, churches and concert halls. After moving to Mississippi and later transferred to William Evansville, he started James Hamler and Total Carey University, Hattiesburg, Mississippi Grace, who released their Live recording in where he studied Vocal Performance. While 2014. Most recently, James recorded Live with in High School, he started his first singing the Nazarene Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir, group, Love Fellowship. He then became a “God Gave Me A Song.” He wrote 8 of the 10 member of Gospel Music Workshop of America tracks for this recording. and is still a member today. At the age of James Lesley Hamler, Jr. is committed to 19, James became music director for the sharing the Word of God through music and Mississippi General Missionary Baptist State the preaching of the Gospel. Convention. James, also known as Junior, went on to serve as pianist for several choirs and To God be the Glory! singing groups throughout South Mississippi. Then, he started James Hamler and The Voices

27 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON 28 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON MUSIC DIRECTOR FINALIST ROGER KALIA ROGER KALIA, MUSIC DIRECTOR FINALIST MENG SU, GUITAR

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020 AT 7:00 PM VICTORY THEATRE

GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR Deaconess

ZOLTÁN KODÁLY Dances of Galánta

JOAQUÍN RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez Allegro con spirito Adagio Allegro gentile

INTERMISSION

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Op. 56 in A minor, “Scottish” Andante con moto— Allegro un poco agitato Vivace non troppo Adagio Allegro vivacissimo— Allegro maestoso assai

Music Director finalist appearances made possible by our Fanfare Sponsors: Music Director Finalist Sponsors Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp Susan Vaughn Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Franklin Dr. & Mrs. Lee Wagmeister Mark & Shelah Powers Linda E. White

Official Vehicle Provider Official Lodging Kenny Kent Lexus J. Kirk & Sherry Wright

This project is made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Steinway is the official piano of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.

29 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON music director finalist ROGER KALIA

Dynamic and innovative, Indian American conductor Roger Kalia is acclaimed by the press as “one to watch.” A respected collaborator with orchestras and artists alike, in May 2019 Kalia was named Music Director of New Hampshire’s 96-year-old orchestra, Symphony NH (Symphony New Hampshire). Since July 2018 he has served as Music Director of California’s Orchestra Santa Monica. In January 2019, Kalia’s contract with the 40-year-old Pacific Symphony was extended to August 2020, and he was promoted to Associate Conductor, having served a three- year tenure as the orchestra’s Assistant Conductor and Music Director of the Pacific Glenn Dicterow, Nikki and Timothy Chooi, Symphony Youth Orchestra. August 2020 percussionist Lisa Pegher, pianists Fei-Fei Dong marks Kalia’s tenth season as Music Director and Misha Dichter, the B-52s, PROJECT Trio and co-founder of the celebrated Lake George and the Brooklyn-based electronic Indie Music Festival in upstate New York. band Balún.

Recent guest engagements include A native of New York State, Kalia holds degrees the symphony orchestras of Redlands, from Indiana University, the University of Bakersfield, Spokane, Symphony NH, and Houston and SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School Wheeling, the Hollywood and Camarada of Music. Among his honors are serving as Chamber Orchestras, and Poland’s Szczecin the Solti Fellow with Lyric Opera of Chicago Philharmonic. Past season highlights for Rossini’s Barber of Seville, three Solti include engagements with the National Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Awards, Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., fellowships with the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Chicago Sinfonietta, Boise Philharmonic Aspen Music Festival’s American Academy and the symphony orchestras of Long Beach, of Conducting, and Second Prize in the 2011 Adrian, Great Falls and Owensboro. Of note Memphis Symphony International Conducting in summer 2020 is a four-concert tour of Competition, which led to his debut with the the Czech Republic and Austria with the orchestra the following season and launched Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra featuring his professional career. Early on, Kalia held performances in Prague’s Smetana Hall and conducting positions with the Charlotte Vienna’s Musikverein. Symphony, the Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) Debut Orchestra and the Columbus (IN) A versatile communicator, Kalia has Symphony Orchestra. collaborated with a wide range of artists, including singer Shayna Steele, Electronic Dance Music (EDM) duo MAKO, singer/ songwriter Randy Newman, Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster David Kim, violinists

30 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON GUITARIST MENG SU

Multifaceted guitarist Meng Su is captivating audiences around the world with her stunning virtuosity and refined artistry. New York Concert Review called her performance “seemingly effortless and stunningly polished… Add to that a beautiful—and fashionable!—stage presence, and she is poised to be in high demand” while Classical Guitar Magazine wrote that “she has already reached the status of a seasoned artist.”

This season, Meng Su will perform solo recitals in Hong Kong, Glasgow, Baltimore, Houston, Santa Fe, Seattle and Beijing, and with her duo partner Yameng Wang in the Beijing Guitar Duo in a 10-city U.S. tour in Spring, 2020. Born in Qingdao, China, Meng Su began studying the guitar at the age of 5 and Meng Su’s performances and recordings have showed her talents from an early age impressed the public with “an ability and under the guidance of Prof. Chen Zhi at the artistry that exceeds her years.” (Baltimore Central Conservatory in Beijing. Meng Su Sun) Her debut duo CD “Maracaípe” received has won first-prize in numerous important a Latin Grammy nomination for the titled international competitions in Europe, Asia and piece, which was dedicated to the Duo by America, the last one being in the prestigious renowned guitarist/composer Sergio Assad. Parkening International Guitar competition Their second CD, “Bach to Tan Dun,” a “must- in 2015. She obtained a Master’s Degree and listen” according to composer Tan Dun, an Artist Diploma with legendary guitarist has been widely noted for the world- Manuel Barrueco at the Peabody Conservatory premiere recording of his “Eight Memories of the Johns Hopkins University. in Watercolor.” A recording in trio, “China West,” with Maestro Barrueco and the Beijing Meng Su teaches at the Hong Kong Academy Guitar Duo was released in May 2014 to critical for Performing Arts. acclaim. Meng Su’s debut solo recording Meng Su is represented by Tonar Music “Meng,” released in 2016 was called “awe- Management—Asgerdur Sigurdardottir. inspiring” and “this year’s finest debut by far” by Classical Guitar Magazine.

31 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Program Notes Written by Bill Hemminger

DANCES OF GALÁNTA ZOLTÁN KODÁLY

Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer and academic, was born in 1882 and died in Budapest in 1967. With fellow countryman Béla Bartók, Kodály practically created the field of ethno-musicology, collecting and codifying folk melodies and recording traditional musical practices in central Europe. In fact his 1906 Ph.D. thesis focused on the structure of Hungarian folk songs, and in a felicitous linking of professional and artistic abilities, his studies of folk music informed his own musical composition. An indefatigable lecturer and creator of a dynamic music education program for children (the famous “Kodály method”), he later became known as much for his work as a critic and an educator written in 1933 and commissioned by the as for his compositions. Budapest Philharmonic Society, were inspired by Kodály’s catholic musical upbringing in Kodály spent seven of his first nine years of life Galánta. In this composition Kodály takes in the town of Galánta, now a part of Slovakia, what were military band tunes, imbues them and grew up listening to local musicians and with his characteristic orchestration (lots learning folk songs and ditties. At this time he of Klezmer-like clarinet playing), plenty of also began studying classical music, singing syncopation, and intersperses slow and fast in various choral groups, learning to play movements in this tribute to the music and the cello, and performing in string quartets musicians of his youth. in his family home. The Dances of Galánta,

32 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Program Notes

CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ JOAQUÍN RODRIGO

Joaquín Rodrigo, prominent Spanish composer of the 20th century, lived from 1901 to 1999. Blinded at the age of three, Rodrigo began musical studies at an early age, eventually settling in Paris where, for a time, he studied with Paul Dukas. Later he met Manuel de Falla, the doyen of Spanish composers of the time; the two became close and life-long friends.

Rodrigo waited until 1939—with the conclusion of the Spanish Civil War and the restoration of relative peace in his home country—to return to Spain where de Falla had arranged for Rodrigo to take an academic post teaching music in Madrid. Though a pianist by training, Rodrigo chose to set his first major work for guitar and orchestra. He had already begun working on the concerto while in Paris but, escaping from the rumblings of war in France, he then took musical and artistic inspiration from the gardens at the Palacio Real de Aranjuez on the outskirts of Madrid as he completed the work. The concerto is written in three movements, the first and last in D major, and the very well-known second in the relative minor key of B minor. The work was first performed in Barcelona in 1940 and has become a staple of guitar virtuosos since then.

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SYMPHONY NO. 3, “SCOTTISH” FELIX B. MENDELSSOHN

Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, conductor, and teacher, was born in 1809 and died in 1847. One of the most well-known figures of the Romantic period, Mendelssohn nonetheless respected (and had mastered) traditions and practices of the Classical period. It was Mendelssohn who, at the ripe age of 20, re-introduced the music of J. S. Bach to an amnesiac world in his performance at the Berlin Sing-Akademie of the monumental St. Matthew Passion. Yet Mendelssohn, a lover of travel and adventure, also introduced romantic elements into his music and into the musical vocabulary of the west. His much-loved violin concerto omits the typical breaks between movements, and, Mendelssohn met and conversed with unlike earlier concertos, the soloist begins Sir Walter Scott in Edinburgh, hiked in the playing immediately, without orchestral highlands and traveled to the rugged Hebrides introduction. Though a composer of large- Islands; his voluminous letters contain poetic scale symphonies, concertos, and an oratorio, accounts that attest to his love of Scotland. Mendelssohn also favored smaller, personal, “characteristic” musical forms—puckish The “Scottish” symphony, Symphony No. 3 in scherzi, for example, and the small emotional A minor, did not achieve its final form until gems for piano, the “Songs Without Words.” 1842, by which time Mendelssohn had made many trips to Britain. The symphony consists Mendelssohn loved Great Britain, and he of four movements, to be played without made his first trip to England in 1829. In the break; all four develop the thematic material summer of that year, he traveled to Scotland, announced in the slow opening of the first that misty and craggy land much glorified movement. The symphony was dedicated to (and mystified) in Romantic lore, and the Queen Victoria, who—along with most of the musical seeds of what were to become his concert-going population—held Mendelssohn third symphony were planted. A polyglot, and his music in great esteem.

34 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON

MUSIC AND SPORTS SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2020 AT 7:00 PM VICTORY THEATRE

CONCERT SPONSOR Bettye A. Statham

Alfred Savia, Conductor

LEO ARNAUD & JOHN WILLIAMS Buglers Dream/Olympic Fanfare 1984

RANDY NEWMAN Theme from The Natural

JOHN WILLIAMS “The Quiddich Match” from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

VANGELIS/Bill Holcombe Theme from Chariots of Fire

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Music from Breaking Away (Symphony No. 4, “Italian,” Mvt. IV, Saltarello: Presto)

Arr. Steve Rosenhaus Take Me Out to the Ball Game

STEVE REINECKE Casey at the Bat

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36 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON MUSIC AND SPORTS cont’d

JOHN WILLIAMS Summon the Heroes

BILL CONTI/Bob Lowden Theme from Rocky

JOHN WILLIAMS Wide Receiver: Theme from Sunday Night Football

Arr. Richard Hayman “Purdue/IU/Notre Dame Fight Songs” from Indiana Medley

JERRY GOLDSMITH Theme from Rudy

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN New Horizons in Music Appreciation (Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I)

Arr. Peter Kleine Schaars Queen Medley Another One Bites the Dust / We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You

This project is made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Steinway is the official piano of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.

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The Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Plastics Foundation is proud to sponsor THE ENVELOPE PLEASE… Memorable songs from The Oscars, The Tonys, and the Grammys!

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2020 AT 7:00 PM SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2020 AT 2:00 PM VICTORY THEATRE CONCERT SPONSOR Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Plastics Foundation

Alfred Savia, Conductor Susan Egan, Vocalist Doug LaBrecque, Vocalist Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Andrea Drury, Conductor

Arr. John Williams A Tribute to the Film Composer

HAROLD ARLEN “Over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz

ALAN MENKEN “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas

ALAN MENKEN “A Whole New World” from Aladdin

HENRY MANCINI Theme from Pink Panther

JEANINE TESORI Thoroughly Modern Millie

ELTON JOHN Medley from Lion King Circle of Life Can You Feel the Love Tonight King of Pride

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40 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON The Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Plastics Foundation is proud to sponsor

THE ENVELOPE PLEASE… cont’d Memorable songs from The Oscars, The Tonys, and the Grammys!

JOHN WILLIAMS Fiddler on the Roof Alan Snow, Violin Solo

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ “Defying Gravity” from Wicked

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ “For Good” from Wicked

ROLF LOVLAND You Raise Me Up

MARVIN HAMLISCH Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch A Chorus Line Overture What I Did For Love Ordinary Miracles

JOHN KANDER & FRED EBB Cabaret

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER “Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera

This project is made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Steinway is the official piano of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.

41 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Crescent Plastics, Inc.

Cresline Plastic Pipe Co., Inc. Wabash Plastics, Inc. & - Together - Are proud to sponsor this weekend’s Philharmonic Pops Concert in recognition of seventy-one years of corporate citizenship in Evansville.

42 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON VOCALIST SUSAN EGAN

Susan Egan has made powerful impressions in theatre, film, television and music. On Broadway, she headlined as Thoroughly Modern Millie, won critical acclaim as “Sally Bowles” in Cabaret, starred in Triumph of Love and State Fair, and most notably, received Tony Award® and Drama Desk® nominations for “Best Actress” as the original “Belle” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

Regionally, Egan starred alongside Carol Burnett in Putting It Together, Tommy Tune in the national tour of Bye, Bye Birdie, reprised her role of “Belle” for the Los Angeles premiere of Beauty and the Beast, concerts at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and developed works at Yale Repertory, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Baltimore Center Stage, South Coast Bowl, and has over 40 recording credits Repertory, and the Mark Taper Forum. Her including her solo CDs: All That and More, film credits include 13 Going on 30, Gotta Kick So Far, Winter Tracks, CoffeeHouse (Best It Up for the Disney Channel, and award- Vocalist 2004), Susan Egan LIVE, The Secret winning indies seen at Seattle Film Festival, of Happiness, and 2015’s Softly. In 2018, Egan Sarasota Film Festival, Slamdance, the HBO formed a company with fellow Broadway Comedy Festival and beyond. In animation, stars Laura Osnes and Courtney Reed, and Susan voiced the characters of “Meg” in musical director Benjamin Rauhala—they Disney’s Hercules, “Lin” in the Academy are currently touring their award-winning Award-winning Spirited Away, “Gina” in Porco concert, Broadway Princess Party, reaching Rosso, “Angel” in Lady and the Tramp II, “Ginny” theatre and cosplaying fans in kingdoms near in Achmed Saves America, and is currently and far. Originally from Southern California, “Rose Quartz” and “Pink Diamond” on Susan attended the Orange County School Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe. She of the Arts and UCLA, where she received spent two seasons on television with the a Carol Burnett Award in Musical Theatre. WB’s Nikki, and has appeared on Modern She is an accomplished master teacher in Family, HOUSE, NUMB3RS, NYPD Blue, Arli$$, music performance, obsessive gardener, and Drew Carey, Party of Five, Great Performances, happy wife and mom of two daughters… who movies for ABC, CBS, and Disney Channel, have no interest in princesses. and more. Susan has headlined with more than 50 symphonies worldwide, including

@IAmSusanEgan www.SusanEgan.net @BwayPrincessPty Facebook.com/OfficialSusanEgan. www.BroadwayPrincessParty.com

43 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON 44 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON VOCALIST DOUG LaBRECQUE

Doug LaBrecque is one of the most celebrated concert singers of his generation. He has been a soloist with some of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Orchestra. He has appeared with more than 125 orchestras worldwide and every major Pops orchestras in America including the Philly Pops, The Boston Pops and The NY Pops at Carnegie Hall.

Mr. LaBrecque thrilled theater audiences as The Phantom and Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera. He starred in the original cast of the Harold Prince Broadway revival of Showboat, and toured nationally with Les Misérables. He was also featured in Oscar Hammerstein’s 100th birthday celebration at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre. A graduate of The University of Michigan he appeared in the musical adaptation of It’s a Wonderful Life and starred in the premiere revival of Kurt Weill’s Love Life.

In addition to his prolific concert career, Mr. LaBrecque has co-created and produced numerous Symphony programs and Musicals in Concert for Rochester Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Phoenix Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and The Grant Park Music Festival among many others.

Mr. LaBrecque serves a director of Broadway Pops Programming for Greenberg Artists and he was recently appointed Artistic Director of The Oconee Performing Arts Society in beautiful Lake Oconee Georgia.

45 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Turandot By Giacomo Puccini Lyric Drama in Three Acts and Five Scenes SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2020 AT 7:00 PM VICTORY THEATRE CONCERT SPONSOR Martha & Merritt deJong Foundation GUEST ARTIST SPONSOR William E. Schmidt Foundation CHORUS SPONSOR Friends of the Chorus MAESTRO SPONSOR Friends of the Maestro STAGE DIRECTOR SPONSOR Dorothy Parsons

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

The last duet and the final scene of the opera were adapted by Franco Alfano

First Performance Milan, Teatro alla Scala, April 26, 1926

Alfred Savia, Conductor Evansville Philharmonic Chorus Andrea Drury, Conductor University of Evansville Opera Alanna Keenan, Director Laura Savia, Stage Director Dana Taylor, Lighting Designer

Soprano Othalie Graham as Princess Turandot Tenor Matthew Vickers as Calaf, the unknown Prince Soprano Eleni Calenos as Liu, the young slave girl Bass Warren Fremling as Timur, the dethroned Tartar King Baritone Ian Murrell as Ping, the grand Chancellor Tenor Bradley Bickhardt as Pang, the general Purveyor Tenor Andy Flanagin as Pong, the chief Cook Tenor Isaac Cooper as The Emperor Altoum Baritone Adam Smith as A Mandarin

46 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Turandot By Giacomo

Act 1 At the Gates of Peking

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Act 2 Pavilion in the Imperial Palace A Square outside the Palace

INTERMISSION

Act 3 Gardens of the Palace A Square outside the Palace

By arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, Sole Agent in the U.S., Canada and Mexico for Casa Ricordi/Universal Music Publishing Ricordi S.R.L., publisher and copyright owner.

This project is made possible by the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Steinway is the official piano of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.

47 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON 48 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON SOPRANO OTHALIE GRAHAM

Canadian-American soprano Othalie Graham continues to receive acclaim throughout North America and is known for her interpretations of the title roles in Turandot and Aida and her commitment to Wagnerian repertoire. Opera News calls her “a vocally secure Turandot, her gleaming tones well suited to the ice princess’ misanthropic resolve.”

Graham’s 2019-2020 season includes her role debut as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Toledo Opera and Opera Carolina, Serena in Porgy and Bess with the Harrisburg Symphony, performances as soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Mississippi and Delaware Symphonies, Verdi’s Requiem with the Reading Symphony and Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, and a solo performance at the Traverse Symphony Wagner Gala.

Recent performances include the title role in Turandot with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; the title role in Aida with Opera Carolina, Toledo Opera, and at the Teatro Greco di Siracusa; the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos with Festival Opera; covering Elektra at Teatro San Carlo Napoli; and Minnie in La Fanciulla del West with the Nashville and Indianapolis Operas.

Recent concert highlights include all-Wagner programs in Mexico City and Peru, and with the Washington Chorus at The Kennedy Center; Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with The Philadelphia Orchestra; Verdi’s Requiem with the Atlanta and Mississippi Symphonies; Serena in Porgy and Bess with Toledo Opera, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and Jacksonville Symphony; Isolde in Tristan und Isolde in Croatia and with the Washington National Chorus at The Kennedy Center; and the Britten War Requiem with the Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.

Learn more at www.othaliegrahamsoprano.com.

49 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON 50 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON TENOR MATTHEW VICKERS

American tenor Matthew Vickers has been praised for his “brilliant and golden voice” (Die Kleine Zeitung), his “burnished sound and confident acting” National( Post), and hailed as “a gutsy performer whose glowing tenor voice has interestingly dark, baritonal undertones” (Opera Now).

In the 2018-2019 season Mr. Vickers performed the role of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Memphis, was in concert with Sarasota Opera, debuted with the Macerata Festival as Don José in Carmen, and sang Canio in Pagliacci with the Savannah Music Festival. His 2019-2020 season sees a return to Virginia saw him as Rodolfo in Puccini’s La bohème Opera as Cavaradossi in Tosca, Rodolfo in with Penn State Opera Theatre and Turiddu in La bohème with Dayton Opera, Principe Dimitri Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana with Minnesota in Risurrezione with the Maggio Musicale Concert Opera. Fiorentino, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Carmel Symphony, and Sam in Susannah with Annapolis Opera.

The 2017-18 season included his debut as Arnold in Guillaume Tell with Opera Southwest as well as returns to Opera Western Reserve as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Sarasota Opera as Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut, Opera Roanoke as Rodolfo in La bohème, and Opera Delaware as Luigi in Il tabarro. In the 2016- 2017 season, Mr. Vickers performed the role of Don José in Carmen with Opera Western Reserve, covered Canio in Pagliacci with Virginia Opera, sang Avito in Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re with Sarasota Opera, Sam in Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah with Opera Roanoke, Luigi in Il tabarro with the Opera Company of Middlebury, and the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Ashlawn Opera. In the 2015-2016 season, he made his Sarasota Opera debut as Arrigo in Verdi’s La battaglia di Legnano, stepping in for an ailing colleague; took part in the east coast premiere of Faccio’s Amleto with Opera Delaware as Laertes, and performed the title role in Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz with Boston Midsummer Opera. The 2014-2015 season 52 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON SOPRANO ELENI CALENOS

“Internationally acclaimed Greek soprano Eleni Calenos is capturing critics’ and audiences’ admiration for the clarity and warmth of her voice, and her dignified characterizations.” Her operatic repertoire includes more than 25 roles, most of them repeatedly performed. Her roles include: Mimi (La Bohème), Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly), Tosca, Suor Angelica, Giorgetta (Il Tabarro), Liu (Turandot), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (Magic Flute), Fiordiliggi (Cosi fan Tutte), Countess (Le Nozze di Figaro), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Santuzza (Cavalleria Rusticana), Shreveport Opera, Odyssey Opera, Mississippi Antonia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Desdemona Opera, Lancaster Symphony, Mid America (Otello), Medora (Il Corsaro), Gilda (Rigoletto), Productions (Avery Fisher Hall/Lincoln L’Infante (Le Cid), Silvia (Zanetto), Micaela Center), Utah Festival Opera, Annapolis (Carmen), Lia (L’Enfant Prodigue), and Vee Opera, Madison Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Talbot in Bruce Saylor’s contemporary opera Glimmerglass, Phoenicia Festival, LOFT Orpheus Descending. Opera, Zomeropera (Belgium), Athens State Symphony and Thessaloniki State Symphony. She’s also created the role of Saida in the world premiere of the opera Schönerland by Eleni graduated with a Cello Diploma from S.N. Eichberg, on the topic of refugees. the municipal conservatory of her native Thessaloniki. She obtained her masters in Her oratorio repertoire includes Verdi’s Vocal Performance from Queens College City Requiem, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, University of New York, and won a scholarship th Beethoven’s 9 Symphony and Missa Solemnis, from the Opera Institute of Boston University. Handel’s Theodora, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Her recordings include Mascagni’s Zanetto Summer of 1915, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, with Odyssey Opera, and George Tsontakis’ nd Mahler’s 2 Symphony, Rutter’s Magnificat, Mirologhia released under KOCH label. and Poulenc’s Gloria. Upcoming performances include Mahler’s She has collaborated with opera companies 8th Symphony (Athens State Symphony and symphony orchestras such as: Orchestra), Tosca (Eptapyrgion Festival, Glyndebourne, Wiesbaden Staatstheater, Greece), Cio-Cio San in Madama Buterfly the Greek National Opera, Palm Beach (Glyndebourne), and Lady Macbeth in Opera, Austin Opera, Tulsa Opera, Sarasota Macbeth (Opera Idaho). Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Delaware,

53 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON TENOR BRAD BICKHARDT

Tenor Brad Bickhardt is currently enrolled in graduate studies at Indiana University, where he also completed his undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance under the tutelage of Professor Emeritus Andreas Poulimenos. Currently a student of Heidi Grant-Murphy, he is also an Associate Instructor of Voice. Credits with IU Opera Theater include Alfredo (La Traviata), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Tony (West Side Story), Hérisson (L’é toile), and Goro (Madama Butterfly). He has also sung professionally with Wolf Trap Opera, Opera Saratoga, and Charlottesville Opera. This summer he joins the roster of The Glimmerglass Festival. In 2019 he was named an Encouragement Award winner for the Central Region of the MONC auditions. This marks his debut with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra.

TENOR ANDREW FLANAGIN

Missouri-born tenor, Andrew Flanagin is at home on opera, concert, and musical theatre stages alike. Flanagin began his 2019-2020 season as Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro with Indiana University Opera Theatre. Other IU Opera Theatre stage credits include a Street Singer in Bernstein’s Mass and Uncle Billy Bailey in the collegiate premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s It’s a Wonderful Life. Flanagin earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Missouri. In May 2020, Flanagin will graduate from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University with a Master of Music degree in Voice.

54 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON baritone ian murrell

A native of Vandalia, Illinois, baritone Ian Murrell has been praised for his “Powerful, resonant baritone” by Indiana Public Media.

Ian makes his return to Evansville after previously portraying Yamadori in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and more recently Riff in Bernstein’s West Side Story with the EPO. Mr. Murrell is a graduate of the University of Evansville and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he portrayed several operatic and concert roles, including Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Belcore in The Elixir of Love, Harry Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, and Ned Keene in Peter Grimes. He studied with Timothy Noble during his time at IU and currently resides in Chicago, IL.

55 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON BARITONE WARREN FREMLING

Baritone Warren Fremling has enjoyed a varied professional career for 59 years, beginning as a folk artist in 1961. He made his operatic debut as “Masetto” in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in 1965. He has appeared as a guest artist with colleges and universities throughout the Midwest, and with the Chicago Symphony, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Florentine Opera. He was a founding member of the Chicago Opera Theater. He has appeared in opera on National Educational Television twice. His recordings have been broadcast over the Air Force Radio Network. In 1990, he was recommended for a White House recital by Democratic Senator Paul Simon in musicals by Jones and Schmidt, Lerner and Republican Congressman John Porter. and Loewe, and Rodgers and Hammerstein, In addition to opera, recital and oratorio, among others.” Mr. Fremling has appeared as a guest artist

tenor isaac cooper

Isaac is an Evansville native, currently studying vocal performance at the University of Evansville. As part of UE’s opera program Isaac has performed roles such as Orpheus in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld, King Caspar in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors, Count Danilo Danilovitsch in The Merry Widow and most recently Ferrando in Cosi fan Tutte. While a student at UE, Isaac has also participated as a featured soloist with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra as Guisseppe in La Traviata and as Baby John in West Side Story.

56 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON BARITONE ADAM SMITH

Adam Smith is a graduate of the University of Evansville, earning a degree in Music Performance. While at the University, Adam was affiliated with the Opera program, performing the roles of Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Jupiter in Orpheus and the Underworld, and Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte. While earning his Bachelor’s he had the unique opportunity of performing alongside the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra in The Barber of Seville, Bernstein’s Mass, La Traviata, and most recently the concert rendition of West Side Story. Adam is currently working towards pursuing a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance, and continuing to build and refine his technique all the while.

57 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON DIRECTOR LAURA SAVIA

Laura Savia is the Associate Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she is in her ninth season. Directing credits include the world premieres of James Anthony Tyler’s Artney Jackson (Williamstown), Lucy Thurber’s Once Upon a Time in the Berkshires and Orpheus in the Berkshires (Williamstown), Lucy Thurber’s Unstuck (59E59/Throughline), and Bareknuckle (Vertigo Theatre) as well Ryan Haddad’s Hi, Are You Single? (The Public Theater and The Guthrie). Her production of Jonathan Caren’s The Recommendation for IAMA won two Ovation Awards, including Best Production. Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Other directing credits include James Second Stage, Labyrinth Theater Company, Lescesne’s The Absolute Brightness of Ars Nova, Playwrights Realm, Primary Stages, Leonard Pelkey (City Theatre), Adam Rapp’s Rattlestick, and Ma-Yi Theater Company. Red Light Winter (Itself Festival in Poland) and Assistant directing includes Broadway’s Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (Warren Miller The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino. Performing Arts Center). She has directed plays by Rob Askins and Halley Feiffer for Laura spent five seasons on the artistic staff Naked Angels and Living Newspaper plays at Atlantic Theater Company and has taught by Sarah Burgess and Don Nguyen (at A.R.T./ at NYU and Fordham University. She is an Club Oberon, Joe’s Pub, and Le Poisson alum of the Drama League Directors Project Rouge). She has developed work with and Northwestern University. Roundabout Theatre Company, New York

58 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON UE OPERA DIRECTOR ALANNA KEENAN

Alanna Keenan, an associate professor of voice at the University of Evansville, has been the director of UE Opera since 2014. She has collaborated with EPO on many projects including La traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and most recently West Side Story. Recent mainstage productions at UE Opera include Così fan tutte, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and The Merry Widow.

In addition to her directing experience, Dr. Keenan is an active performer in both recital and opera including the roles of Annina and Bertha with EPO. As a teacher, her students have been accepted to graduate Prior to joining the UE faculty, she taught at schools across the country as well as summer Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, music festivals. Dr. Keenan holds a Bachelor where she directed the vocal program and of Music in vocal performance from Simpson taught courses in performance, music history, College in Indianola, Iowa, and Master of Music diction, and aural skills. and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in vocal performance with a minor in musicology from Louisiana State University.

UE Opera Demetria Baker Kathryn Lee Blair Bledsoe Grace Kapelski Gabby Coomes Lucy Martindale Alyssa DeCorrevant Katelyn Miller Griffin Devoy Josie Pigg Allison Enchelmeyer Maddie Powell Madelynn Filson Darwi Sandleben Kristyn Grimwood Rebecca Seaman Kiersten Hill Joseph Shoup Caitlyn Hood Claire Stout Hannah Hunt Rachel Taylor McKenna Laabs Sarah Weithers

59 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Program Notes Written by Bill Hemminger

Turandot

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini lived from 1858 to 1924. Puccini grew up in a family of church musicians. In 1876, after marveling at a La Scala production of Verdi’s Aïda, Puccini decided to devote himself to the writing of operas, and he took the genre successfully well into the 20th century. Puccini was an exponent of “opera verismo,” works whose melodramatic plots often featured characters drawn from ordinary life. His greatest operas include La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), and Madama Butterfly (1904).

Puccini became aware of the story of Turandot in an Italian translation of Friedrich Schiller’s 1801 play of the same name, which itself was an adaptation of an Italian commedia Much drama surrounds the completion of the dell’arte by Carlo Gozzi. Gozzi’s play was opera and who would be appointed to put similarly uninventive, refashioning a tale from Puccini’s musical sketches together without a 12th-century Persian poet. The protagonist spoiling the integrity of the work. These days, of that story was a Central Asian princess, the version of Franco Alfano is regarded as i.e. a king’s daughter (“dokht,” with the /t/ the most acceptable conclusion of the work. pronounced) from the town of Turan. Hence The first performance of Turandot took the name Turandot. place in Milan in 1926 with Arturo Toscanini conducting. One possibly apocryphal account Puccini began work on this his final opera reports that Toscanini conducted until the in 1921. Earlier, he had been given a music end of the music that Puccini had written, at box from an Italian diplomat to China; the which time Toscanini turned to the audience box played a number of traditional Chinese sadly to announce that the maestro’s penhad melodies, several of which Puccini used in gotten no further. the opera. In addition, Puccini had a set of gongs created—likewise with a nod to Turandot today ranks among the top 20 operas verisimilitude—for use in the production of in terms of its public presentations world- the drama set in China. By March of 1924, wide. Offended by the opera’s perceived Puccini had completed almost all of the opera, patronizing characterization of the Chinese save for the very end. He suspended work at and their leaders, the People’s Republic of that time in order to begin a series of radiation China banned performances of the work— treatments for throat cancer, and though until the 1998 epic performance of the opera the cancer seemed to be responding to the with Zubin Mehta at the podium in Beijing. treatment, Puccini had a heart attack suddenly and died in a Brussels hospital.

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Synopsis: A crowd assembles for the Trial of the Three Enigmas. Turandot devised this system to In Act I Turandot, daughter of Emperor avenge her ancestress, Lo-u Ling, who Altoum, has decreed that she will only marry was captured, raped, and put to death by if a suitor of noble blood can answer three marauding invaders. She offers Calaf one riddles. If he cannot, the price shall be his last chance to withdraw, but he stands head. Her most recent suitor, the Prince of firm. The first question is offered: “What is Persia, is to be executed at the moon’s rising. born each night and dies each dawn?” Calàf In the commotion outside the palace a blind correctly answers “Hope.” Slightly taken aback, man falls to the ground, and his companion, Turandot poses the next riddle: “What flares Liù, asks for help. They are aided by Calaf, who warm like a flame, yet it is no flame?” Calaf recognizes the man as his long-lost father, hesitates, then answers perfectly “Blood.” Timur, the banished ruler of his land. Calaf, Visibly shaken, Turandot asks the final like his father, is running from enemies and question: “The ice that gives you fire, what concealing his identity, and is known only can it be?” Calaf tarries, then triumphantly as the Unknown Prince. Liù continues to aid cries “Turandot!” The people celebrate his Timur even in exile because years before, as victory, but Turandot pleads with the emperor she explains, Calaf bestowed a smile upon her. not to be given to this Unknown Prince. Seeing her distress, Calaf offers a riddle of his own: The people impatiently await the beheading. “If before morning you can discover the name As the Prince of Persia enters, the crowd is I bear, I shall forfeit my life.” suddenly moved and pleads with the Princess to pardon him. Turandot appears and Act III opens with the decree that none shall dispassionately confirms the Prince’s sentence sleep, “Nessun dorma,” under penalty of with a silent gesture. Calaf immediately is death, until the name of the Unknown Prince entranced by her beauty. Timur and Liù try is discovered. Calaf expresses his conviction to convince the smitten Calàf that he must that he alone will reveal the secret. Ping, Pang, leave with them, but he breaks away and and Pong offer any prize, including his safe attempts to announce himself as a suitor. escape, if he tells them his name. Timur and The three ministers of the Imperial Household, Liù are captured, and at Turandot’s request Ping, Pang, and Pong, warn him of his folly, Timur is to be tortured until he reveals the to no avail. Liù begs him to listen, but Calaf truth. Liù steps forward and says that she ignores her entreaties and ceremoniously knows the prince’s name but will keep it rings the gong, signifying his challenge for as her eternal secret. Calaf reproaches the Turandot’s hand. Princess for her cruelty. Turandot’s strength and desire for revenge leave her, and she Act II opens as Ping, Pang, and Pong prepare weeps for the first time. Calaf reveals his true for the eventuality of a wedding or a funeral. identity, thereby putting his life in Turandot’s They discuss their misery since Turandot hands. Trumpets announce the arrival of dawn reached marriageable age, numbering the and the assembly of the court. Turandot many noble suitors who have met a deadly addresses the emperor and the people: “I have fate and reminiscing about life in their native discovered the stranger’s name—it is Love!” provinces. Is there truly a man whose passion can melt Turandot’s icy heart? Their hopes —Synopsis notes courtesy of are guarded. The Minnesota Opera, provided by OPERA America

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65 | EVANSVILLE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | 2019–2020 SEASON Recognition of our Generous Donors

The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra depends on its sponsors and donors for 62% of its annual income. The Philharmonic gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following concert and guest artist sponsors and program underwriters, as well as those individuals, businesses, and family foundations whose charitable giving totals $150 or more to the Endowment Fund, Philharmonic Fund or in-kind gifts of $1,000 or more. The Philharmonic Fund encompasses all outright gifts applied to artistic and operating expenses incurred by the Orchestra in pursuit of our mission: “to engage our community in the powerful experience of live symphonic music.” The following recognition categories reflect the cumulative total of each donor’s gifts received or pledged between December 1, 2018 and December 1, 2019 and applied to the most recent appropriate season.

SYMPHONY CIRCLE PLATINUM COMPOSER’S CIRCLE GOLD CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE GOLD ($40,000+) ($10,000-$14,999) ($2,500-$4,999) Estate of Barbara K. Blevins Louis B. Cady MD, Inc. Dick & Diane Arneson Friends of the Chorus Richard P. Curby & Berry Global, Inc. Collynn Pearl/Ira E. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Phil Boyd SYMPHONY CIRCLE GOLD Detective Agency Fr. Raymond Brenner ($30,000-$39,999) The Diamond Galleria (In-Kind) Craig & Tammy Butler Arts Council Phil & Linda Palmer Fassett Deaconess of Southwestern Indiana Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Franklin Dr. David & Kendra Schultz/ Evansville Philharmonic Guild Kenny Kent Lexus Evansville Primary Care Estate of Wilma Orton Koch Foundation Edward & Mary Anne Fox William E. Schmidt Foundation Lewis Bakeries/Bunny Bread Greenwell Chisholm Printing SYMPHONY CIRCLE SILVER Romain Cross Pointe Auto Park Company (In-Kind) ($20,000-$29,999) Thomas A. & Chandler & Jingle Hagey Crescent, Cresline, Sharon K. Ruder Foundation Allison Melton & Mike Holmes Wabash Foundation Patricia H. Snyder Foundation Larry Horton (In-Kind) Martha & Merritt deJong Bettye A. Statham Mary B. Kennard Foundation Trinity United Methodist Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Koch, II Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp Church (In-Kind) Dr. & Mrs. Carl H. Linge Donald B. Korb Trust Linda E. White David & Maribeth Logsdon Helen & Gordon McKinney The Mesker Music Trust, COMPOSER’S CIRCLE SILVER Fifth Third Bank, Trustee Memorial Concert Trust ($7,500-$9,999) Martha Brent Lane Darla J. Olberding D-Patrick Automobile Dr. Kenneth & Moody Trust Dealerships Old National Bank Mrs. Debra Renkens Mark & Shelah Powers CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Alvin C. Ruxer Foundation John C. & Diane Schroeder PLATINUM ($5,000-$7,499) St. Joseph Catholic Church Vectren, A CenterPoint Elizabeth Albon Sauced/Scott Schymik Energy Company Foundation Trust (In-Kind) Casa Finale/J. Kirk & Seek & Find Consignments COMPOSER’S CIRCLE Sherry Wright Spencer County Community PLATINUM ($15,000-$19,999) City of Evansville Foundation Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Anita Doty Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Templeton Mrs. Phyllis R. Grimm Mr. & Mrs. Cedric Hustace Dr. & Mrs. Mell B. Welborn, Jr. Indiana Arts Commission (In-Kind) Joe & Sue Wells League of American Orchestras John & Robyn Musgrave CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE SILVER Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Savia Joann Schwentker Susan Vaughn (1,000-$2,499) Mrs. Leanna M. Thomas Carol & Howard Abrams Dr. & Mrs. Lee Wagmeister Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Cynthia Wolfe of American Senior Communities Indiana, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Ancona Wolfe’s Auto Auction Mrs. Nancy S. Traylor Robert & Marianna Wright Banterra Bank Traylor Bros., Inc. Louis Berman J. Kirk & Sherry Wright Charitable Foundation Biaggi’s Ristorante Italiano (In-Kind) Dr. & Mrs. Richard Bohm

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Business Management VenuWorks of Evansville LLC Scott & Leigh Schroeder Consultants, LP Dr. & Mrs. Emil Lee Weber Beth & Ken Sparks Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Butler West Side Nut Club Deb Kenney & Gary Spaulding BWX Technologies, Inc. Christine E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sprinkle Ed Diamond Mr. & Mrs. William E. Willis Nancy & Jeff Trockman Joyce & Greg Donaldson Mr. & Mrs. Scott Wittman Dr. & Mrs. Jack & Julie Erkilla Betty Worthington Thomas E. VonderHaar Evansville Ballet Theatre Wsi/Barry Cox (In-Kind) Warrick County Community Caroline & Katherine Fairbanks Fr. Joseph Ziliak Foundation, an affiliate of Jeffrey N. & Jo Ann Fink the Community Foundation Phil & Helen Fisher PATRON ($500-$999) Alliance, Inc. Warren & Mary Forbes 14 NEWS Brian P. & Don Shymanski & Kelly Gates Jack Deppe & Shari Barrett Barbara Coyle Williams Anne L. Geissinger Janet & Steve Best Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Wilson German American Bank Kimberly & Dustin Bredemeier Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Wolking Gibson County Community Brinker’s Jewelers Steve & Susan Worthington Foundation, an affiliate of Lynn K. Carrie the Community Foundation William A. Carson SUPPORTER ($150-$499) Alliance, Inc. Foundation, Inc. Dr. & Mrs. Arthur B. Aarstad Selby & Pam Hinkebein Dennis & Angelika Clark Dr. & Mrs. Salim Akrabawi Edward Howard Michelle Cox Jann Allen Elizabeth L. Iber Creative Planning, Inc. Altstadt’s Jane Shafer Jackson Carol J. Dallinger AmazonSmile Foundation Drs. Jane & Nils Johansen Christina Davoust Mr. & Mrs. Edward Anderson Just Rennie’s Catering Richard & Margaret Diemer Oana & Emilian Armeanu K.L. Kleindorfer Dr. Daniel C. Eby - Orthopedic Kenneth F. Arvin Jane Krempp Surgery & Sports Medicine Bruce H. & Carol A. Baker Lensing Building Specialties Suzanne & Robert Farney Jim Bandoli Frank & Peggy Liberti Mr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Fiedler Carolyn Roth & Donna & Tom Lynch Nicholas Gartner Dr. Charles Barber Julie Mallory Gary & Paula Gerling Mrs. David L. Barning Fred & Becky Malotte Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Griffin Derek K. Barton Colonel & Mrs. Carol Grimm Bruce Batts William D. Marshall James & Diane Harris Bauerhaus Catering Meyer Distributing Brandon & Christy Hayes Jean C. Beckman Sara Miller Lisa Hutton Mary Beckman Patricia S. Mitsos Jasper Engines & Mr. & Mrs. R. Brent Beeler Mr. & Mrs. Bill Muller Transmissions Harvey Bennett Dorcas Newkirk Jack & Linda Kinkel Toni Beumer Mr. D. Patrick O’Daniel Dr. & Mrs. E.V. Lacy Dr. Peter & Mary Blanc James W. Palermo Shannon Lamb MD David E. Buck DDS Mrs. Robert L. Parsons Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Lant Dr. & Mrs. Steven W. Buedel Posey County Tim Mahoney Vicki Burchell Community Foundation Maria Mastropaolo/ Mrs. Wilfred C. Bussing, Jr. Michelle Quinn Gardner McDaniel Dr. James Buthod Jim & Julie Rang Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey K. Moore Mr. & Mrs. Jack Buttrum Mr. & Mrs. Roland Reed Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Ozete David & Jami Carlson Dan & Carolyn Scavone Bob & Jackie Patten Donald D. Carrell Mr. & Mrs. F. Stephen Sheets Carol Pettys Nancy & Brian Carroll Mrs. L. Ray Stewart Lewis & Jeanette Plane Susan & Michael Caufield Donald C. Summers Psi Iota Xi/Elsie Sweeney Mr. & Mrs. William V. Talley Eye Institute Indiana Music Fund, a Clippinger Pat Vaughan & William Theby fund of Central Indiana David Coker Jim & Pat Thyen Community Foundation Dr. Mary Ann Bieker & Chris & Niki Traylor Robert & Paulette Reid Mr. Frank Conkling Uebelhor Chevy Cadillac Toyota Rev. Robert & JoAnne Reinhardt Marilynn Costello Dr. & Mrs. Boris Vatel Repro Graphix Inc. Randall K. and Rebecca L. Laurel Vaughn Mike & Camila Scavuzzo Craig Family Foundation, Inc.

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Janet E. Davis Scott & Jane Kempin Dr. Cal Robinson Mrs. Julie A. Deeg Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Kimmel Madeline Roe Ron and Amanda Dempsey Patricia Kishline Rita Rynder Sue W. DeWitt Alvin & LaVonne Kloet Joan Schmitt Carolyn Anne DiLegge Douglass R. Korb Dorothy Schultheis Linda Breese, Grace Bennett, George & Patty Kracht Connie Seifert & Susan Dunaway Landscapes by Dallas Foster Mr. & Mrs. Russ Seiler Angela Lee Duncan Mark & Saundra Lange Randall T. Shepard Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Dunn Alice Larkin Diane & Bill Shinn Eric & Guyneth Dunville Mr. Charles Leich Shoe Carnival Mr. & Mrs. Steve Early Lorrie’s Photography Peggy W. Short Jane A. Eberhart Kathie Loewen Mr. & Mrs. Donald Sobek Dr. Walter & Shirley Everett Lloyd & Carolyn Long Jim & Jan Spath Kathy Ewing Richard & Carol Lynch Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Speer Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Fenner Jim & Jane Magary Thomas & Lisa Spencer Judith L. Fiddick Heather Marin Steve & Jan Stanfill Dr. & Mrs. C. Kenneth Fischer Tracy Martin Mr. & Mrs. David Fritz Mr. & Mrs. Dan H. McEver George Cullen Stanley David & Julie Fuhs Larry Miller Dr. & Mrs. Ruth Gates Margaret & Marshall Miller Theodore J. Stransky Brian Gaultney Robert A. Moody Dana & Jennifer Taylor Nancy Hartley Gaunt Jerry & Ann Moore Drs. Andy & Patty Tharp Bob & Ramona Gehring Kim Moors Dennis & Jenna Tieman Stephen & Julia Georgesen Dr. & Mrs. John E. Moran Cody Matsel & Jeff & Leann Gray Judy Morton Ellen Claire Topper Dr. & Mrs. John and Jim & Mary Kay Muehlbauer William Tortoriello Samantha Greif Steven A. Mussett Mike & Linda Trible Mr. Patrick & Dr. Jill Griffin Tad & Pina Nakamura Todd A. and Kristen K. Tucker Tess Grimm Leanne Nayden Kathryn Turner James R. Gulick Network for Good Linda B. Vanderver Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Guzzo Sylvia Nichols Gayle & Gordon Vogel Timothy Hankewich Steven & Sandra Nixon Mr. & Mrs. Harold Vote, Jr. Dr. William Hardesty Joan Ritter & Matthew Graham & Mr. & Mrs. Bill G. Hazelip Mr. Robert Ouellette Kathryn Waters Delores Hedeman Laura & Scott Parsons Thomas & Jennifer Weber Stephen E. Heeger Dr. & Mrs. Reinaldo Pastora Randy & Karen Weck Carl & Jeanene Heldt Mrs. Sandra Patton Greg & Connie Wedding Danniece Henderson Cameron Gordon Peck Mr. & Mrs. Stephan E. Weitzel Mrs. Mark A. Henry Bruce & Lola Perkett Ellen Welcher David & Susan Henze R. Wayne & Sally M. Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Weller Eldon Hopkins Ludwig & Mary Petkovsek John & Mona Whinrey James & Kelly Hutchins Jay & Suzy Picking Terry Whitworth Rev. & Mrs. Dwight A. Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Mark Prus Drs. Paul & Mary Gail Wilder Donna Jeffers Psi Iota Xi Symphony Fund, Käthe & Jochen Woicke Karla & John Jeffery A fund of Central Indiana Michael & Marla Woolsey Lynda Johnston Community Foundation Douglas Wurmnest Wayne & Kristin Jones Betty Parsons Pytlik Scott Wylie Mary Rita & Don Jourdan Ronald Rann, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Ziemer Gay G. Kavanaugh Doug & Marla Rennie Robert & Rebecca William & Wanda Kavanaugh Drs. Robert & Anabela Rieti Zimmermann Joan C. Keck Jim Rine

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The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra Thoughtful Tributes Program was established for all who wish to make commemorative or memorial gifts to the Orchestra. Gifts to commemorate special occasions such as weddings, anniversaries or to remember loved ones will be gratefully acknowledged in this space. Tributes of $25 or more made between December 1, 2018 and December 1, 2019.

In memory of In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Koch, II Barbara Blevins Jane Grizzell Frank & Susan Lindsey Evansville Philharmonic Guild Betsy McGarvey Barbara Jo May Phil & Helen Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Pete Mogavero Anne L. Geissinger In memory of Jim & Mary Kay Muehlbauer Sharon Bush Tuggle Josephine E. Hastings Dorcas Newkirk Take 5 Seconds Cynthia Nicholson In memory of Carol Dallinger Darla J. Olberding Steven Brackmann Betsy Heiger Pioneer Plastics Catherine Brackmann Lisa Lance Rolling Hills Country Club Karen Renner In memory of Romain Cross Pointe Betty Buck In memory of Auto Park Mr. Alfred E. Buck Mary Heumann Dan & Carolyn Scavone Tess Grimm Mr. & Mrs. In memory of Joann Schwentker G. Michael Schopmeyer Sharon Olberding Edwards Connie Seifert Mary Rita & Don Jourdan In memory of Gene Kennard Alice Shipley Dan & Carolyn Scavone Mary B. Kennard Mark & Denise Shipley Lisa Snyder In memory of In memory of Ralph Mallory June Spillman Judith & Michelle Egan Julie Mallory James C. Thomas William & Phyllis Becker Bob & Mary Ann Walther Beverly, Becky & Kay In memory of Brian Flowers Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Marion In memory of Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Hubele John C. & Diane Schroeder Anna Muriel Pitts Evansville Philharmonic Guild Jane Shafer Jackson In memory of George & Patty Kracht Thomas May In memory of Chesnye Matz Mrs. Marcia Mauer Dorcas Newkirk Jerome Lee Rynder Rita Rynder Rick, Mike, Steve & Jay In memory of Carl & Sandy Sullivan Dr. Ray Nicholson In memory of Sharon Tevault Dr. Peter & Mary Blanc John H. Schroeder Cherie Westfall John C. & Diane Schroeder In memory of In celebration of Robert Parsons In memory of Caroline Fairbanks’ birthday Carol & Howard Abrams James Schwentker, Jr. Ben & Suzi Boyer Dave & Teri Albin Joann Schwentker Kimberly & Dustin Bredemeier Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Bain Mary B. Kennard Victoria Boardley In memory of John Scott, Darla J. Olberding Carol J. Dallinger IATSE Local 102 Production Susan Partenheimer Christina Davoust Kimberly & Dustin Bredemeier Arthur & Kathleen Peterson Ray & Rosemary DeCook Robert & Ruth Townes Robert & Jayne Dillow In memory of Kathryn Turner Gary & Lisa Dum Norma Snyder Linda Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Dunn Mary Rita & Don Jourdan Dr. & Mrs. Lee Wagmeister Phil & Linda Palmer Fassett In memory of Chad & Stacy Garling In Honor of Stephen Vanderver Richard & Janet Hamby Linda Addleman Phil & Linda Palmer Fassett Ms. Betsy Hopkins Darla J. Olberding Linda Breese, Grace Bennett, Mary Jessee & Susan Dunaway Deb Kenney & Gary Spaulding Gaylia Carlton K.L. Kleindorfer Linda B. Vanderver

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ENDOWED ORCHESTRA CHAIRS SPECIAL ENDOWMENT PROGRAMS Principal Second Violin Chair Director of Education & Evansville Philharmonic Guild Community Programs Mrs. Guthrie May Section Violin Chair In honor and memory of Ellen L. Essig Guest Soloist Fund and her parents, Dr. & Mrs. J. Irwin Essig Dayton Hudson Foundation on behalf of Target Stores Principal Viola Chair Anonymous Friend Peppermint Pops Guest Soloist Fund Worthington Family in loving memory Principal Cello Chair of C. Wayne Worthington Anonymous Friend String Program Fund William H. Suhrheinrich Gordon R. & Helen M. McKinney Principal String Bass Chair Mrs. Dallas Suhrheinrich String Quartet Fund Eykamp Family Pauline A. Riechmann Principal Harp Chair Young Artist Competition Fred B. Riechmann Musicians Club of Evansville/Margaret B. and Pauline & Remig Fehn Leo E. Heim Memorial Scholarship Principal Flute Chair Youth Orchestra Fund Mrs. Grace B. Guthrie Dr. Edward L. Brundick, Holley Brundick, Gilbert S. Graves Susan Enlow, Mrs. Clifford A. Kleymeyer Principal Clarinet Chair Mrs. John H. Schroeder Principal Bassoon Chair William C. H. Grimm, Jr. & Phyllis R. Grimm Principal French Horn Chair Eykamp Family Everett Northcut/Emery Nagy Principal Trumpet Chair Students and Friends Clarence C. Clarke Principal Trombone Chair Doris Clarke-Fischer Rossanna M. Enlow Principal Piano Chair M. E. Albon Foundation, Inc.

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FANFARE SPONSORS Maestro Sponsor Music Director Finalist Sponsors Friends of the Maestro Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp Stage Director Sponsor Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Franklin Dorothy Parsons Mark & Shelah Powers Susan Vaughn POPS Dr. & Mrs. Lee Wagmeister Carnaval With Troupe Vertigo Linda E. White Concert Sponsors Kenny Kent Lexus Official Vehicle Provider for Evansville Philharmonic Guild Music Director Finalists Kenny Kent Lexus Peppermint Pops Concert Sponsors Official Lodging Robert & Marianna Wright Casa Finale/Kirk & Sherry Wright Friends of the Chorus Guest Artist Sponsor CLASSICS C. Wayne Worthington Family Laura Jackson, Conductor/Daniel Hsu, Piano Lighting & Stage Décor Sponsor Concert Sponsor & Guest Artist Sponsor Mary Kennard in memory of Gene Kennard Vectren, A CenterPoint Energy Company Gospel at the Phil Scott Seaton, Conductor/Sterling Elliott, Cello Concert Sponsor & Guest Artist Sponsor Concert Sponsor Old National Bank Dr. & Mrs. Louis B. Cady/ Chorus Sponsor Cady Wellness Institute Friends of the Chorus Traylor Bros., Inc. Mrs. Nancy S. Traylor Music and Sports Concert Sponsor Michelle Merrill, Conductor/Richard Lin, Violin Bettye A. Statham Concert Sponsor Koch Foundation The Crescent, Cresline, Wabash Plastics Guest Artist Sponsor Foundation is proud to sponsor D-Patrick Automobile Dealerships “The Envelope Please” Concert Sponsor Charles Latshaw, Conductor/Alan Snow, Crescent, Cresline, Violin/Graham Cullen, Cello Wabash Plastics Foundation Concert Sponsor Romain Cross Pointe Auto Park ADVERTISING SPONSORS Guest Artist Sponsors Tucker Publishing Anonymous Anonymous BUNNY BREAD CANDY CANE EXPRESS Roger Kalia, Conductor/Meng Su, Guitar Concert Sponsor Guest Artist Sponsor Lewis Bakeries Deaconess Chorus Sponsor Friends of the Chorus Puccini’s Turandot Maestro Alfred Savia’s Farewell Concert INSTRUMENT FUND Concert Sponsor Berry Global Martha & Merritt deJong Foundation Guest Artist Sponsor SIGNAGE & PRINTING SPONSOR William E. Schmidt Foundation Greenwell Chisholm Printing Company Chorus Sponsor Friends of the Chorus

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SIGNAGE SPONSOR PROGRAM UNDERWRITING Repro Graphix Inc. Underserved Ticket Underwriting Banterra Bank HELEN M. MCKINNEY YOUNG Central Indiana Community Foundation PEOPLE’S CONCERTS Creative Planning, Inc. BWX Technologies, Inc. Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestras City of Evansville City of Evansville Evansville Philharmonic Guild D-Patrick Gibson County Community Foundation Phil & Linda Palmer Fassett Helen M. McKinney Charitable Trust Chandler & Jingle Hagey Mesker Music Trust John C. & Diane Schroeder Pike County Community Foundation Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc. Posey County Community Foundation Eykamp String Quartet Bettye A. Statham Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Eykamp Warrick County Community Foundation Evansville Philharmonic Chorus West Side Nut Club Friends of the Chorus

LINCOLN AMPHITHEATRE CONCERT FALL CHORAL CONCERT Spencer County Community Foundation Concert Sponsor Friends of the Chorus LOLLIPOP CONCERTS Evansville Philharmonic Guild SEVENTH ANNUAL TENNIS TOURNAMENT PHYLLIS R. GRIMM PRESENTS D-Patrick MESSIAH EVANSVILLE Concert Sponsor TICKET SPONSORS Phyllis R. Grimm Hampton Inn/Dunn Hospitality

MESSIAH JASPER VENETIAN MASQUERADE Concert Sponsors Event Sponsor Reverend Ray Brenner Friends of the Maestro Dubois County Community Foundation Print Sponsor Dr. Daniel C. Eby— Deaconess Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine Diamond Sponsor David & Julie Fuhs Diamond Galleria German American Bank Jasper Engine & Transmission OPERATIONS Kenneth & Jane Krempp Meyer Distributing Alvin C. Ruxer Foundation St. Joseph Catholic Church Jim & Pat Thyen Uebelhor Chevy Cadllac Toyota

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER Daniel Knight of Studio B Photography

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