THE MAGAZINE OF THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY TAKING A WELL-DESERVED BOW JAXSYMPHONY.ORG Apr-May 2017 Express Yourself! Fill your retirement with fun and provide security for your life! Draw, swim, exercise, dance, sing, laugh, or play an instrument. Discover what Glenmoor residents already know. A host of activities from fitness to the arts, giving you the most exciting, joyful and fulfilling experience you can imagine. Discover a new you at Glenmoor. Pickleball Glenmoor PlayReaders Outing at the Cummer Schedule a personal presentation at Glenmoor to learn how a Life Plan Community will enhance your overall well-being and expand your independent living longevity! To learn more or schedule a personal tour, please call 904-940-4800. www.glenmoor.com 235 Towerview Drive, St. Augustine, FL 32092 Express Yourself! Fill your retirement with fun and provide security for your life! Draw, swim, exercise, dance, sing, laugh, or play an instrument. Discover what Glenmoor residents already know. A host of activities from fitness to the arts, giving you the most exciting, joyful and fulfilling experience you can imagine. Discover a new you at Glenmoor. Pickleball Glenmoor PlayReaders Outing at the Cummer Schedule a personal presentation at Glenmoor to learn how a Life Plan Community will enhance your overall well-being and expand your independent living longevity! To learn more or schedule a personal tour, please call 904-940-4800. www.glenmoor.com 235 Towerview Drive, St. Augustine, FL 32092 WELCOME! Insight As we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Jacoby Symphony Hall this spring, our thanks goes out to those men and women whose generosity and leadership made our world-class performance venue possible. However, as much as the hall has shaped the Jacksonville One hour prior to each Florida Blue Symphony of today, the greatest impact has come from the many talented musicians who Masterworks Series concert, join Music have graced our stage over the past 67 years. Director Courtney Lewis and other Masterworks guest conductors in Robert At the end of this season, nine musicians, who combined E. Jacoby Symphony Hall to hear their have contributed more than 350 years of service to the insight on the program. An open, low-key Symphony, will retire. While all of us at one point will 15 to 25 minute presentation including decide it’s the right time to turn to a new chapter of our question and answer time will provide lives, I’ve always found this a particularly difficult decision the opportunity to learn more about for musicians. Being a musician isn’t a job; it’s a way of the fantastic works performed by the life. It’s who we are. Our instruments are extensions of Jacksonville Symphony. ourselves. So while you will no longer see these nine artists on stage every week, I can guarantee that they will Guest artists often join the conductor continue to be members of the Jacksonville Symphony to give their vision of the works to be family. You will see them in the community, in the hall and presented. Insight is a new angle on the perhaps even back on stage from time to time. concert experience. You’ll never listen to the music the same way after hearing With their departure, auditions for their replacements will Insight. So come early, grab a seat and take place, and you will notice a number of new faces hear what the experts have to say. on stage beginning this fall. The search for Philip Pan’s replacement will take the entire 2017–2018 season, as several qualified candidates compete for the coveted position of Concertmaster of your Jacksonville Symphony. INSIGHT is sponsored by Speaking of next year, we just announced an incredible line-up of Masterworks and Popular Series favorites for the 2017–2018 season. We kick things off with an opening night Fanfare celebration featuring Sibelius’ Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s great Fifth Symphony. Our 2018 annual gala will feature the lovely and talented soprano Renée Fleming. Other Masterworks highlights include the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Debussy, Dvorak, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Prokofiev, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich and Wagner. Our Pops Series will feature the Latin sounds of The Mambo Kings and the swingin’ Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Principal Pops Conductor Michael Krajewski will present The Doo Wop Project, Magic of the Movies and Crazy Arc of Love. We showcase two movies, both featuring the music of John Williams: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Raiders of the Lost Ark. We will continue our New Year’s Eve, Holiday and Memorial Day traditions. The Tickets: 904.354.5547 First Coast Nutcracker, Handel’s Messiah, Symphony in 60 and Coffee Concerts also return. Contributions: 904.354.1473 Administration: 904.354.5479 Finally, we honor our responsibility to be the Symphony of Jacksonville and pride ourselves on serving the entire community through an enhanced roster of diverse programming. JaxSymphony.org While our season will always be anchored by the masterworks of the classical music canon, we are also pleased to expand the palette of repertoire presented on our stage. Encore! Production Publisher – Robert Massey We’re delighted to hear that so many of you are enjoying these new program offerings. Editor – Amy Rankin If you ever do find yourself having a negative experience, please let us know so we can Graphic Designer – Kenneth Shade make it right. Our patron services team is committed to ensuring that you have a positive Advertising Sales – Caroline Jones night at the Symphony. As Abraham Lincoln said, “You can never please all of the people Photography – Tiffany Manning, Renee Parenteau all of the time.” Art is subjective. It pleases our senses, inspires our imagination, piques our Intern – Amy Hadden curiosity, questions our existence, reaffirms our beliefs and yes, stirs our soul. To Advertise in Encore - Call Caroline Jones at 904.356.0426 or email [email protected]. To our subscribers, I hope you take advantage of our incredible renewal offers. If you’re not yet a subscriber, please consider the incredible benefits and savings you get by becoming © 2017 Jacksonville Symphony Association one, and check out the many options we have available. 300 Water Street, Suite 200 • Jacksonville, FL 32202 Thanks for an incredible season. follow us /jaxsymphony . @jaxsymphony . #jaxsymphony is the official piano of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Robert Massey President and CEO 4 JAXSYMPHONY.ORG – APRIL – MAY 2017 THE MAGAZINE OF THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY EnCORE 2016 - 2017 SEASON VOLUME 23 – ISSUE FOUR EVENTS 18 BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL POPS SERIES April 1, 2 21 CANELLAKIS CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH COFFEE SERIES FLORIDA BLUE MASTERWORKS SERIES April 7, 8, 9 18 21 27 BOND AND BEYOND FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL POPS SERIES April 21, 22 35 TCHAIKOVSKY’S SYMPHONY NO. 6 “PATHÉTIQUE” bestbet SYMPHONY IN 60 SERIES FLORIDA BLUE MASTERWORKS SERIES April 27, 28, 29, 30 27 35 39 SGT. PEPPER’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION COFFEE SERIES FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL POPS SERIES May 12, 13 43 JSYO SPRING CONCERT PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS CHARITIES JSYO SERIES May 14 53 MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 “RESURRECTION” FLORIDA BLUE MASTERWORKS SERIES May 19, 20, 21 53 DEPARTMENTS 61 PATRIOTIC POPS COFFEE SERIES 4 Welcome May 26 7 Music Director 8 Symphony Association Board Cover photo from left to right: 11 About the Symphony Back row – Deborah Heller, Jeanne Majors, Peter Wright 9, 25, 58-60 Thank You, Supporters Middle row – Philip Pan, 12-13 Jacksonville Symphony Musicians Merryn Corsat, Claudia Minch, 62 The Cadenza Society Glynda Newton 65 Sound Investment Program Front row – Lela LaBarbera, 72-73 Volunteer Activities and Events Lois Gosa 78 Jacksonville Symphony Administration ENCORE 5 AUGUSTINE ASSET MANAGEMENT CONGRATULATES THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ON A SEASON OF GREAT PERFORMANCES. SKILLFUL INVESTING IS OUR FORTE. THE SCALE OF YOUR SUCCESS IS THE MEASURE OF OURS. 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CFA®, CFA Institute® and Chartered Financial Analyst® are registered trademarks of CFA Institute in many countries around the world. 6 JAXSYMPHONY.ORG – APRIL – MAY 2017 MUSIC DIRECTOR Courtney Lewis Music Director, Haskell Endowed Chair With clear artistic vision, subtle musicality, and innovative programming, Courtney Lewis has established himself as one of his generation’s most talented conductors. The 2016/17 season marks his second as Music Director of the Jacksonville Symphony. Previous appointments have included Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic, where he returns on subscription in the 2016/17 season, Associate Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, where he made his subscription debut in the 2011/12 season, and Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he debuted in 2011. From 2008 to 2014, Courtney Lewis was the music director of Boston’s acclaimed Discovery Ensemble, a chamber orchestra dedicated not only to giving concerts of contemporary and established repertoire at the highest level of musical and technical excellence, but also bringing live music into the least privileged parts of Boston with workshops in local schools. In the 2016/17 season he will make his debut with the Dallas Symphony and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and return to the Colorado Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.