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School of LIZA GENNARO, ASSOCIATE DEAN AND CHAIR

Cabaret MUSIC BY LYRICS BY BOOK BY

, DIRECTOR liza gennaro, CHOREOGRAPHER , MUSIC DIRECTOR FEB 4–6, 2019 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2019 | 7:30 PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2019 | 7:30 PM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019 | 7:30 PM NEIDORFF-KARPATI HALL

CABARET Book by Joe Masteroff Based on the play by and stories by Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb Broadway production directed by Produced for the Broadway Stage by Harold Prince

Don Stephenson, Director Liza Gennaro, Choreographer David Loud, Music Director

Scott Davis, Scenic Designer Sue Makkoo, Costume Designer Shawn Kaufman, Lighting Designer Scott Stauffer, Sound Designer Leigh Walter, Production Stage Manager Tinc Productions, Production Management Original Choreography for “The Telephone Dance” by

Cabaret is presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark.

There will be one 15-minute intermission. THE CAST Jasmine Rogers The Emcee Daniel Lawrence Clifford Bradshaw Chandler Sinks Fraulein Schneider Laura Zimmer Herr Schultz Xander Pietenpol Ernst Ludwig Joseph Zook Fraulein Kost Talitha McDougall Jones Max/Waiter Sam Johns Bobby/Waiter/Telephone Boy Joseph Grosso Victor/Waiter/Telephone Boy/Taxi Man Lars Hafell German Sailor 1/Customs Officer/ Bus Boy/Telephone Boy Austin Prebula German Sailor 2/German Soldier/ Waiter/Telephone Boy Jonathan Saminski German Sailor 3/German Soldier/ Waiter/Telephone Boy/ “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” Tenor Andrew O’Brien

KIT KAT Haley Abbott Cameron Anthony Elizabeth Baxley Grace McGrath Desi Stephens Cat Tron

GIRL ORCHESTRA Gabriella Adickes Rachel Brideau Sarah Denison and Sarah Thorn (“Two Ladies”) Katherine Parrish

MALE ENSEMBLE Spencer Gonzalez Paul Hernandez Steven Martella MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT ONE “” Emcee and

“So What” Fräulein Schneider

“Don’t Tell Mama” Sally and Kit Kat Girls

“The Telephone Song” Company

“Mein Herr” Sally and Kit Kat Girls

“Perfectly Marvelous” Sally and Cliff

“Two Ladies” Emcee and Two Ladies

“It Couldn’t Please Me More” Herr Schultz and Fräulein Schneider

“Tomorrow Belongs to Me” Tenor and Men

“Don’t Go” Cliff

“Maybe This Time” Sally

“” Emcee and Kit Kat Girls

“Married” Herr Schultz and Fräulein Schneider

“Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Reprise)” Fräulein Kost and Ernest and Company

Intermission ACT TWO Entr’acte

“Married (Reprise)” Herr Schultz

“If You Could See Her” Emcee

“What Would You Do?” Fräulein Schneider

“I Don’t Care Much” Emcee

“Cabaret” Sally

“” Cliff, Emcee, Sally and Company ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN I CELLO Yuanxinyue Gao Bourderionnet Student of Isaac Malkin Student of Philippe Muller Rochester, NY

Maithena Girault William Laney Student of Lucie Student of Philippe Muller Laval, Quebec Little River, South Carolina

Anthony Chan BASS Student of Todd Phillips Jakob Messinetti , Student of Jeremy McCoy Lawrence, NY VIOLIN II Carlos Martinez Arroyo REEDS Student of Patinka Kopec Andres Ayola Cabra, Student of James Smith , NY Yixiang Wang Student of Nicholas Mann Justin Brown* Shanghai, China New York, NY

Ally Cho Guy Dellecave Student of Lucie Robert Student of Paul Cohen South , Australia Lake Grove, NY

VIOLA Jared Newlen* Hao-Yuan Hsu New York, NY Student of Karen Ritscher New Taipei, Taiwan Ben Solis* New York, NY Kyran Littlejohn Student of Karen Ritscher HORN , PA Luke Breton Student of Richard Deane Birdsboro, PA

6 TRUMPET Sean Alexander Student of Thomas Smith Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Lieberman Student of David Krauss Commack, NY

TROMBONE Julia Dombroski Student of Colin Williams Ontario, NY

BASS TROMBONE Logan Reid Student of Stephen Norrell Oviedo, FL

PIANO Shane Schag* New York, NY

PERCUSSION Peter Lazorcik Student of John Riley Lebanon, PA

ACCORDION Paolo Perez* New York, NY

*guest artist 7 NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR When Cabaret first opened in 1966 it was groundbreaking. The musical is set in a Berlin , where songs that comment on the circumstances of the play accompany traditional musical numbers. It offers sheer , but with an underlying message about prejudice and political complacency. In this way, it’s the best of its kind. Cabaret is a cautionary morality play about survival against the backdrop of a dark movement in history, the rise of Nazism. It is a story about love and loss and ordinary people who look the other way. There is no better time to be doing it.

Don Stephenson, Director

NOTE FROM THE CHOREOGRAPHER As a young dancer, I was a founding member of The , a company devoted to the preservation of musical theatre dance. One of the show-stopping dance numbers we performed was Ron Field’s “Telephone Dance” from Cabaret, a great example of innovative dance movement at the service of narrative. I’m delighted, with permission from the Ron Field estate, to present the original “Telephone Dance” in MSM’s production of Cabaret. Field’s dance explores male/ female relations in an illicit 1930s German nightclub, as couples dance, kiss, and flirt with disregard for societal mores. The choreography demonstrates the wild freedom and abandon of the time, establishing an environment that was soon to be destroyed by the Nazi regime. Offering MSM students the opportunity to perform Field’s rich choreography, filled with complex movement phrases, expert structure, and dramatic intent, is an educational experience that enhances their understanding of dance as an expressive, narrative form. Special thanks to Michael Miller, Esq. for entrusting me with Field’s choreography, Ron Field’s assistant Bonnie Walker for sharing her expertise, and my assistant Emily Kelly for her tireless work on the dance.

Liza Gennaro, Associate Dean and Director of Musical Theatre

8 NOTE FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking … some day, all of this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed. –Christopher Isherwood, Tonight, we have the privilege of presenting something that has never been seen before: one of Broadway’s legendary masterpieces, Cabaret, in a brand new form, created for this production only, at Manhattan School of Music.

The ever-evolving history of Cabaret, the musical, is a winding road of collaborative change and transformation.

Christopher Isherwood’s novella, Goodbye to Berlin, which was published as part of , debuted in 1945. Set in the early 1930s, Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical collection of interrelated vignettes paints a startling picture of a corrupt and dissipated city struggling on the brink of an abyss, as is coming to power. The character of Sally Bowles appears, with her fondness for green fingernails and other people’s money. She is based on a British singer, , who Isherwood met in 1931.

Inspired by Isherwood’s story, John Van Druten wrote I Am a Camera, a play that appeared in 1951. played the role of Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera, winning the first of her five “Best Actress in a Play” . Harris also starred in the movie of I Am a Camera, which was released, to very little acclaim, in 1955. Harold Prince, the successful Boy Wonder of theatre producers, acquired the rights to both the Isherwood story and the Van Druten play, and he gathered a writing team consisting of bookwriter Joe Masteroff, with whom he had collaborated on (1963), and the young songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb, whose first Broadway outing, (1965), Prince had just produced. Kander & Ebb wrote quickly, and they enjoyed doing it. On a dare, at a dinner party one night, they wrote a song between the entrée and the dessert course. While their host cleared away the dinner plates, John sat down at the piano. Fred asked him what the song should be about. “I don’t care much,” was the reply. “Play a waltz,” said Fred. 9 Five minutes later, they had a song. It turned out to be a good one. The song, “I Don’t Care Much,” was eventually cut from the original production of Cabaret, but it was recorded by . Prince was in the process of reinventing himself as a director-producer. He imagined a surreal theatrical space, divided into different playing areas by tilting of light, achieved with the help of an elaborate system of black velour drapes—an effect he had admired when he attended the Taganka Theatre in . Set designer contributed a trapezoidal mirror in which the audience saw itself reflected. Not content with simply telling the droll story of a “fascinating” cabaret singer and her misadventures with a young writer, Prince wanted to draw a parallel between Berlin in the 1920s and America in the 1960s.

This morning, as I was walking down the Bülowstrasse, the Nazis were raiding the house of a small liberal pacifist publisher. They had brought a lorry and were piling it with the publisher’s books. The driver of the lorry mockingly read out the titles of the books to the crowd: “Nie Wieder Krieg!” he shouted, holding up one of them by the corner of the cover, disgustedly, as though it were a nasty kind of reptile. Everybody roared with laughter. “’No More War!’” echoed a fat, well-dressed woman, with a scornful, savage laugh. “What an idea!” –Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories John Kander describes their meetings with Prince and Aronson as discussions that started with the phrase, ‘What if?’ “’What if’ is a way of that I continue to use today,” says Kander, “I gave it that name because most of it is talking. You sit around and you make a story with your collaborators. Sometimes you have a story that is already written, sometimes you have characters with no story or it is something you are starting from the very beginning, but it always begins with ‘What if?’ What if Sally has an abortion? What if someone throws a brick through the fruit shop window? ‘What if’ is a great game, at least in my experience; it is how you make a musical theatre piece, which is so collaborative.” Together, the four of them devised a new concept for a musical, one in which the action of the book scenes was reflected, and distorted, in the musical numbers that were performed on the stage of the debauched Kit Kat Klub. The writing process was not without its challenges. Kander & Ebb wrote over thirty songs that were not used in the production, most of them for Cliff and Sally, in the spot that eventually held Cliff’s song “Why Should I Wake Up?” 10 John confided in me that whenever he and Fred were out of town with a new musical, and the director asked them to cut a song and write a new one, they would put on an appropriately disappointed and flummoxed little act, to garner as much sympathy and appreciation as they could. Then, as soon as they were safely out of earshot, they would happily search for a piano, thrilled that they could spend the next hour or so creating. The new song, of course, wouldn’t be presented to the director until the next day, as if it had taken all night to perfect. It was director Hal Prince who fleshed out the idea of the master of ceremonies. During World War II, he had served in an Army artillery unit, stationed in Germany, and he had visited a Stuttgart nightclub called Maxim’s, in the basement of a bombed-out church. “There was a dwarf Emcee, parted in the middle and lacquered down with brilliantine, his mouth made into a bright red cupid’s bow, who wore heavy false eyelashes. And there were three very chunky girls in diaphanous butterfly costumes dancing around him, and one drunk at the bar, and one drunk asleep at the table,” Prince recalled. Ron Field was hired to choreograph the decadent Kit Kat Klub numbers, created the elaborate lighting effects that Prince had imagined, realized the director’s vision of the Emcee, as well as the rest of the costumes, and the great Don Walker, at the height of his orchestrating career, created the appropriately seedy, Weimar- inflected .

The resulting musical, Cabaret, premiered on Broadway in 1966, winning eight Tony Awards and running for 1166 performances. It starred as Sally Bowles, as the Emcee, and, in a nifty casting coup, , wife of German expatriate composer , as Fräulein Schneider. Two years later, in the production, starred as Sally Bowles.

In 1972, Bob ’s film of Cabaret (starring Liza Minelli, , and Joel Grey) dazzled audiences, winning eight . Kander & Ebb added three new songs: “Maybe This Time,” “Mein Herr,” and “Money.” In his 1987 Broadway revival of Cabaret, Prince included a version of “Money,” from the movie, and he cut the song “Meeskite.” Kander & Ebb wrote a new song, “Don’t Go,” which replaced Cliff’s “Why Should I Wake Up?” and Prince added “I Don’t Care Much” back into the show.

The long-running 1998 revival of Cabaret at the Roundabout Theatre, directed by and , made further alterations to 11 the score and the script, eliminating “Don’t Go” and “The Telephone Song,” and including “Maybe This Time” and “Mein Herr,” among other changes.

So now, if you want to do a production of Cabaret, you have three options. Venerable publishing house Tams-Witmark licenses the original 1966 version, Prince’s 1987 revival, and the 1998 Roundabout revival. But how to choose? Which one is the real Cabaret? There may never be a definitive answer to that last question, but as I was pondering the choices, I realized that I was in the unique position of being able to get it from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. I have had the unparalleled good fortune to work with John Kander and Fred Ebb on many projects, starting off-Broadway with And the World Goes ‘Round, in 1990, and including the Broadway productions of (1997), Curtains (2007), The Scottsboro Boys (2010), and (2015). Fred, alas, left this world behind in 2004, and Joe Masteroff passed away last year, but John Kander, astonishingly healthy and happy at the age of 91, is still with us. I took advantage of our friendship to ask him, one afternoon, over a long cup of tea, to describe his ideal version of Cabaret, picking and choosing between the three versions. Without hesitation, he worked out the exact path through the three variant scripts that we will be performing tonight, here at Manhattan School of Music, taking a little from this one, a little from that one, and a little from the one in the middle. We’ve informally dubbed it “Das Kandertext.” Welcome to a unique version of a remarkable Broadway classic. We present it with pride, and with a heartfelt Danke schön, Herr Kander, to the man who made it possible.

There was a cabaret and there was a master of ceremonies and there was a city called Berlin in a country called Germany. It was the end of the world...and I was dancing with Sally Bowles and we were both fast asleep. –Christopher Isherwood, The Berlin Stories David Loud, Music Director

12 CAST BIOGRAPHIES Haley Abbott (Kit Kat Girl) Haley Abbott, a junior in the Musical Theatre program, has appeared in Manhattan School of Music’s productions of (Robin Gibson), Tony Awards: The Early Years, That Certain Feeling: Gershwin in New York, and The Songbook. She performed in the New York Pops concert at and in the Gala at the Asia Society. She has also been a backup singer for Jay Leno on tour, Susan Boyle in concert, and Styx in concert.

Gabriella Adickes (Girl Orchestra) Gabriella Adickes, a junior studying with Bob Stillman, was born in and lived in six states before settling in , . Theatre and performing have served as one of the few constants in her life. She is incredibly thankful to be a part of the inaugural class of the Musical Theatre program and to be studying with such an incredible faculty. Gabriella recently sang in the Singing Tree Ensemble in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day , in the New York Pops holiday concert at Carnegie Hall, and on Broadway in : My Love Letter to Broadway. In this past year, she has appeared in As You Like It (Celia) at the Powerhouse Theater (2018) and in (Lina Darling) and The Land Where the Good Songs Go: The Music of (Kitty Carey) at Manhattan School of Music. Gabriella is thrilled to be a part of the first musical on the new Neidorff-Karpati stage.

Cameron Anthony (Kit Kat Girl) Cameron Anthony is a sophomore from Forney, Texas. Her credits include (Garland Civic Theatre); ’Twas the Night Before Christmas ( Children’s Theatre); (Best Actress Nomination, Dallas Summer Musicals HSMT); Addams Family, Pajama Game, Curtains, and Thoroughly Modern Mille (Forney Performing Arts); and Curtains (New York Live Arts).

13 Elizabeth Baxley (Kit Kat Girl) Elizabeth Baxley, a sophomore, recently performed in Manhattan School of Music’s production of Spring Awakening, Stephen Schwartz’s 70th Birthday Gala, and the Oscar Hammerstein Awards Gala honoring and . Her favorite roles include Cinderella in ’s Cinderella, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Julia in The Wedding Singer. She also enjoyed competing at the International Thespian Conference, where she earned the opportunity to perform on the main stage for 4,000 people.

Rachel Brideau (Girl Orchestra) Rachel Brideau is a junior in the Musical Theatre program. Some of her favorites among the roles she has had the opportunity to play are Claudia Nardi in Manhattan School of Music’s production of Nine and Laurey Williams in Oklahoma! She is incredibly honored and excited to be performing in MSM’s new Neidorff-Karpati Hall and hopes you all enjoy this brand new production of Cabaret!

Sarah Denison (Girl Orchestra) Sarah Denison is in her sophomore year, studying under Andrea Green. Originally from the suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky, she was most recently seen in the 2018 Rodgers and Hammerstein Awards and on Broadway in Stephen Schwartz’s 70th Birthday Celebration. Recent productions include and River with TheatreWorks of Southern Indiana. Other favorite roles include Eliza Doolittle, Fastrada, and Sandra Bloom.

Spencer Gonzalez (Male Ensemble) Spencer Gonzalez, a sophomore in the Musical Theatre program, has previously played roles such as in Sweeney Todd and Dr. Watson in Baskerville. He is thrilled to be making his debut in Cabaret as a Kit Kat Klub Patron in Neidorff-Karpati Hall.

14 Joseph Grosso (Bobby/Waiter/Telephone Boy) Joseph Grosso, a junior in the Musical Theatre program, is a Phi Theta Kappa graduate of School of the Arts. Favorite credits include The Land Where the Good Songs Go: The Music of Jerome Kern (MSM), (FSA), Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway, Side Show, and . He is founder of the Phi Sigma Alpha Chapter of Delta Psi Omega and a director/choreographer at TADA! Youth Theatre Company.

Lars Hafell (Victor/Waiter/Telephone Boy/Taxi Man) Lars Hafell, a junior in the Musical Theatre program, is excited to be performing in MSM’s brand new Neidorff-Karpati Hall. Recent productions include (Bert), Footloose (Willard), and The Horror Show (Rocky /) at the Clear Space Theatre and Spring Awakening (Ensemble) here at MSM. He would like to thank the incredible Musical Theatre faculty for helping him come into his own as a performer. He would also like to thank his amazing family for supporting his dream.

Paul Hernandez (Male Ensemble) Paul Hernandez, a junior in the Musical Theatre Program, performed last year at Manhattan School of Music in The Land Where the Good Songs Go: The Music of Jerome Kern and Tony Awards: The Early Years. Other credits include Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway (Lunt-Fontanne Theater) and Hunchback of Notre Dame (). He appeared on the recordings Testimony (Essential Voices USA and Stephen Schwartz) and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. He is a Juilliard Pre-College graduate. Paul will be playing the role of Fiorello LaGuardia in MSM’s upcoming mainstage production of Fiorello!

Sam Johns (Max/Waiter) Sam Johns, a junior in the Musical Theatre Program, has been acting all his life. At Manhattan School of Music he has previously appeared in Smile, Tony Awards: The Early Years, The Cole Porter Songbook, and the New Beginnings showcase. You may also have seen his reprise of ’s “Don José of Far Rockaway” during Manhattan School of Music’s Centennial Opening Day Celebration. 15 Talitha McDougall Jones (Fraulein Kost) Talitha Mcdougall Jones, from Aspen, Colorado, is thrilled to be in her junior year. This is her third mainstage musical at Manhattan School of Music, having appeared in Nine and Smile, and her sixth production. Other credits include (Elle), Fiddler on the Roof (Hodel), Singing in the Rain (Lina), and Shrek (Gingy). She has also performed alongside Megan Hilty with Essential Voices USA and the New York Pops. She sends love and thanks to her family, friends, vocal teacher, and professors.

Daniel Lawrence (The Emcee) Daniel Lawrence is a junior in the Musical Theatre program and is happy to be performing his first role at MSM. Born and raised in , , he has been training in musical theatre since the age of 7 and would like to thank all of his teachers from years past and present for their guidance, wisdom, and support. He spent last summer working with Interlakes Theatre performing the role of Jean Michel in La Cage aux Folles. He sends love to his friends and family.

Steven Martella (Male Ensemble) Steven Martella is a sophomore in the Musical Theatre program and is excited to be making his mainstage debut. He was recently seen in Heathers: The Musical at Firehouse Theatre and he has toured the country in A Christmas Carol and other productions with Virginia Rep on Tour. Steven would like to thank his mom and dad for their constant love and support.

Grace McGrath (Kit Kat Girl) Grace McGrath is thrilled to be playing LuLu the Kit Kat Girl in MSM’s production of Cabaret. Some of her favorite credits are Amber (), Little Red Riding Hood (Into the Woods), and the Spirit of Christmas Past (A Christmas Carol). She is grateful to have performed at the 2017 League Benefit Gala honoring . A current sophomore, Grace was last seen at Manhattan School of Music in That Certain Feeling: Gershwin in New York.

16 Andrew O’Brien (“Tomorrow Belongs To Me” Tenor/ German Sailor 3/German Soldier/Waiter/Telephone Boy) Andrew O’Brien is a sophomore in the Musical Theatre program. Some of his favorite credits are Phineas Taylor in Barnum (Pelham Memorial High School), Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (SOOP Theatre Company), Moonface Martin in (Pelham Memorial High School), Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone (Manhattan School of Music Precollege), and Caldwell B. Cladwell in (Random Farms Kids Theater).

Katherine Parrish (Girl Orchestra) Katherine Parrish, a sophomore in the Musical Theatre program, was most recently seen as Wendla in MSM’s production of Spring Awakening. Originally from Orange County, , Katherine graduated from St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, where she played roles such as Eve in and Lily Craven in Garden, and studied acting at for six years.

Xander Pietenpol (Herr Schultz) Xander Pietenpol, a junior in the Musical Theatre program, recently played Georg in MSM’s production of Spring Awakening. Other roles include Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), Father (Children of Eden), and Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). He has had the privilege of performing alongside Megan Hilty in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year and Kristin Chenoweth in My Love Letter to Broadway. Xander looks forward to working with many other celebrities throughout his career.

Austin Prebula (German Sailor 1/Customs Officer/ Bus Boy/Telephone Boy) Austin Prebula is a junior in the Musical Theatre program. Previous credits include Ernst in Cabaret (Quisisanna Resort) and MSM’s Tony Awards: The Early Years and The Land Where the Good Songs Go: The Music of Jerome Kern. In the spring, Austin will be playing the role of Ben Marino in MSM’s upcoming mainstage production of Fiorello!

17 Jasmine Rogers (Sally Bowles) Jasmine Rogers, a sophomore, is extremely excited and honored to be playing her dream role of Sally Bowles in this production of Cabaret. One of Jasmine’s favorite accomplishments was being named a finalist in the National Theatre Awards () in 2017. Some of her favorite past roles are The Witch (Into the Woods), Mrs. Clackett (Noises Off ), Mimi Marquez (), and Veronica Sawyer (Heathers).

Jonathan Saminski (German Sailor 2/German Soldier/ Waiter/Telephone Boy)

Jonathan Saminski, a sophomore, has appeared in the showcases New Beginnings and The Music of Irving Berlin at Manhattan School of Music. Past productions include Urinetown, , Into the Woods, , and : The Musical, all at Westfield High School.

Chandler Sinks (Clifford Bradshaw) Chandler Sinks, a sophomore from Dallas, Texas, is honored to play Cliff. A student of Bob Stillman, he was most recently seen in MSM’s production of Spring Awakening. He sang with Stark Sands at the Dallas Summer Musical’s Musical Theatre Awards and was nominated for best actor for his portrayal of Curly McLain in Oklahoma!

Desi Stephens (Kit Kat Girl) Desi Stephens’s Manhattan School of Music credits include Lilliane Le Fleur in Nine and Brenda in Smile. Regional credits include Rent and James & The Giant Peach (Theatre Under The Stars), Hairspray (), The Little Mermaid (the Crighton), and Much Ado About Nothing (Houston Shakespeare Festival). TV credits include HBO’s The Deuce (Jennifer Welles). A junior, Desi is a vocal student of Claudia Cantania.

18 Sarah Thorn (Girl Orchestra) Sarah Thorn is a sophomore in the Musical Theatre program. Previous credits include Julia (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Elle Woods (Legally Blonde), Sally Bowles (Cabaret), Cosette (Les Misérables), Fastrada (), and Amy (Company). She has received training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, , and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA).

Cat Tron (Kit Kat Girl)

Cat Tron, a sophomore, previously appeared in That Certain Feeling: Gershwin in New York (Lila), The Music of Irving Berlin, and New Beginnings at Manhattan School of Music. Some past shows include (Mayzie La Bird, dance captain), ! (Killer Queen, dance captain), Pippin (Fastrada), The Addams Family (Morticia Addams), (Louise Bigelow, dance captain), and, her favorite, 13! The Musical (Lucy, dance captain). She has been a dancer with Dance NYAAD for twelve years. She is a student of Andrea Green.

Laura Zimmer (Fraulein Schneider) Laura Zimmer, a junior from Rochester, New York, is extremely excited to be a part of Manhattan School of Music’s mainstage production of Cabaret as Fraulein Schneider. In her previous semesters at MSM, she has been fortunate enough to be a part of the mainstage productions of Spring Awakening, Smile, and Nine.

Joseph Zook (Ernst Ludwig) Joseph Zook, a sophomore from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is excited and honored to be collaborating with his peers to produce this amazing show at Manhattan School of Music.

19 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Don Stephenson, Director

Don Stephenson directed at , Broadway Classics at Carnegie Hall, Of Mice and Manhattan for the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, The Other Place at the , A of Tenors (Broadway World nomination, Best Director of a Play), , Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, and Lend Me A Tenor at Paper Mill Playhouse, The (Broadway World nomination, Best Director of a Musical), The Roar of the Greasepaint –The Smell of the Crowd (Broadway World nomination, Best Director of a Musical), Guys and Dolls at Goodspeed , Buyer and Cellar and Noises Off at Pittsburgh Public Theatre, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and at the , The Cottage at Theatre Aspen, I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with at Theatreworks/Hartford, Lend Me A Tenor at Bay (Broadway World nomination, Best Director of a Play), Titanic at the Muny, the (Broadway World nomination, Best Director of a Musical), and Westchester , Struck at NJ Rep (Broadway World nomination, Best Director of a Play), Deathtrap, Noises Off, and The 39 Steps at the Flat Rock Playhouse, The Mystery of King Tut and Skippy Jon Jones for Theatreworks/USA, and The Great Unknown for the New Festival. Other New York directing credits include The War Party ( Festival), Attack of the Elvis (Theatre Row), A Charles Dickens Christmas (Urban Stages), Buck Simple (Garrick Gaities), When Pigs Fly (Kaufman Theatre), Golden Voices (Symphony Space), and Old Flames (Theatre Studio Inc.) He also directed the critically acclaimed productions of Oleanna, , and Doctors and Diseases at the historic . A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he holds a BA from the University of Tennessee.

Liza Gennaro, Choreographer Liza Gennaro, Associate Dean and Director of Musical Theatre at Manhattan School of Music, choreographed the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of directed by and the Broadway revival of starring . She choreographed Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tin Pan Alley Rag (2010 Outer Critics Circle Nomination, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical) and has choreographed extensively in regional theaters across the country, including Hair at Actor’s Theatre of 20 Louisville, directed by Jon Jory; the world premiere of A…My Name Is Still Alice at the Old Globe in California; and the world premiere of Martin Guerre at Hartford Stage, directed by Mark Lamos; Babes in Arms at , directed by Garland Wright; Kiss Me Kate and The Most Happy Fella at Goodspeed Opera House; Fiorello, , , , and The Secret Garden at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera; Gypsy, starring , and at the Paper Mill Playhouse; and twelve consecutive seasons of musicals at the St. Louis Muny Opera. She collaborated with and on their chamber musical Loving, Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein for the About Face Theatre in , and choreographed the 30th Anniversary tour of . Liza has choreographed and directed the New York Pops Carnegie Hall Christmas concerts How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2010), Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer (2014), Holiday Follies (2015), A Charlie Brown Christmas (2012, 2015), and ’Twas the Night Before Christmas (2016). Her adaptation of A Charlie Brown Christmas was also presented on the San Francisco Symphony Christmas Concert (2014, 2015). She choreographed the 20th Anniversary concert of Titanic: The Musical at Avery Fisher Hall starring and Brian d’Arcy James. A member of the SDC Executive Board and a Tony voter, Liza completed a three-year term on the Tony Award Nominating Committee in 2015. Hailing from a theatrical family, her father was a Tony Award winning choreographer with an extensive career on Broadway, , and film, and her brother Michael Gennaro is the Executive Director of Goodspeed Opera House. Also a writer and scholar, she contributed the chapter, “Evolution of Dance in the Golden Era of the American ‘Book Musical’” to The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical and a new chapter, “Dance in Musical Theatre,” co-written with Stacy Wolf, to the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. Gennaro has taught at Barnard College and Princeton University.

David Loud, Music Director David Loud, Music Director of the Musical Theatre Program at Manhattan School of Music, occupies a unique place in Broadway history: in addition to his distinguished body of work as a music director and vocal arranger, he has also originated three roles as an actor. He 21 most recently served as Music Director for the Broadway premiere of The Visit, starring and . Other credits include the original Broadway productions of The Scottsboro Boys, , Curtains, Ragtime, , Steel Pier, and revivals of , She Loves Me, Company, and Sweeney Todd. He originated the role of Manny in Terrence McNally’s (starring Zoe Caldwell), played Sasha (the conductor) in Curtains, and made his Broadway debut in Harold Prince’s original 1981 production of ’s Merrily We Roll Along. Off-Broadway, David created the vocal and dance arrangements for Kander & Ebb’s And the World Goes ’Round. He has created arrangements for , , Audra MacDonald, , , , Betty Buckley, and . He conducted the incidental music for ’s revival of and collaborated with and on A Bed and a Chair, a interpretation of Sondheim’s music. Other recent projects include The Land Where the Good Songs Go, a concert of Jerome Kern songs at Merkin Concert Hall; First You Dream, a concert of Kander & Ebb songs that was broadcast on PBS; and five programs in the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and Lyricists program, including Let’s Misbehave: The Sensational Songs of Cole Porter, , Lyricist, and A Good Thing Going: The Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince Collaboration. David Loud is a graduate of and has been on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and Fordham University.

Scott Davis, Scenic Designer

Scott Davis’s off-Broadway credits includeRide the Cyclone at MCC and : The Remix at the Westside Theater. International credits include productions with Shakespeare’s Globe, Unicorn Theater (London), the Market Theater (), the Neuss (Germany), Gdansk Shakespeare Theater (), the Cultch (Vancouver), DUCTAC Theater (Dubai), Brice Mason Center (New Zealand), and the Festival (Scotland). Regional credits include productions with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf, Court Theater, Writers Theater, Repertory Theater, Asolo Repertory Theater, Children’s Theater Company, Signature Theater, Walnut Street Theater, Utah Shakespeare Theater, Getty Villa Outdoor Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, Paramount Theater, Victory Gardens, Drury Lane, Northlight Theater, American Theater Company, Marriott Theater, Griffin Theater 22 Company, Windy City Playhouse, Steep Theater, and Dallas Theatre Center, Mercury Theater. Scott Davis is a cofounder of the Chicago based design firm Brass Ink and serves as adjunct faculty at Columbia College, having received his MFA from .

Sue Makkoo, Costume Designer Sue Makkoo’s 25-year career as a well-respected designer and costume director spans the international fashion industry to Broadway. She spent 11 years at the Tony award-winning developing new work for the stage and has participated in sending numerous shows to Broadway, including most recently Summer: The Donna Sumer Musical for which she is the Associate Designer, , Sideshow, Hands on a Hard Body, 33 Variations, and Cry . Her for collaboration is evident though her tenure at the University of California, Department of Theater and Dance MFA program. Of the over 300 productions Sue has been engaged in during the last 10 years, one of her favorites is Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with Des McAnuff and Wayne Coyne, for which she was honored to be recognized as an innovator in American technical theatre. Other shows include Sideshow, with the Oscar-winning special effects team of Dave and Lou Elsey and PaulTazewell; Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed by Scott Schwarz and choreographed by Chase Brock, with music by ; the Tony award-winning Peter and the Starcatcher, directed by Roger Rees and ; the national tour of Xanadu; and Up Here by Bobby and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, directed by Alex Timbers. She is proud to have been a part of the development of the sweeping and emotional , directed by Chris Ashley and designed by Toni Leslie James. Other design work includes Kentucky Shakespeare’s As You Like It, , Julius , and , What Women Want in L.A., Trip to Bountiful, and so many more. Sue Makkoo is currently a lecturer on design and technology at Manhattan School of Music.

Shawn Kaufman, Lighting Designer Shawn Kaufman is an Emmy nominated lighting designer with over 20 years of experience in opera, theatre, television, fashion, and special events. Recently, he founded the design firm ENLUMEN with friend and colleague Pamela Kupper. Shawn worked on the Emmy Award-winning Harry ConnickJr.’s television show and is resident lighting designer for On Site Opera.

Recent opera includes at Portland Opera, Dialogues of the Carmelites at Austin Lyric Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, Orpheus in the 23 Underworld at Glimmerglass Opera, I and Xerxes at Pittsburgh Opera. Clients include Ferragamo, The Row, Lexus, Adidas, Nike, Infiniti, , Estée Lauder, Hugo Boss, Moncler, Marchesa, the Wexner Foundation, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Phillips Auction House, Tiffany, the Museum of Modern Art, Kohl’s, Public School, Greg Lauren, Zimmermann, Isabel Marant, Celine, Givenchy, Chloe, Armani Exchange, Vogue Magazine, St. John, Bombardier, Target, GQ, Hermes, Y3, The Elder Statesman, Microsoft, Halston, Lands’ End, Carolina Herrera, Rockefeller Center, and Zegna. Among his television credits are The Face Finale, CNBC, Wendy Williams, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, Martha Live, and Rachael Ray Live.

Scott Stauffer, Sound Designer

Scott Stauffer’s Broadway design credits include A Free Man of Color, The Rivals, (also in London and ), Marie Christine, Twelfth Night, and Jekyll and Hyde. Off-Broadway he has done sound design for Subverted, Hereafter, Honour, A Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third, Belle Epoque, Elegies, Hello Again, The Spitfire Grill, Pageant, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Among his regional credits are Capitol Rep, University of Michigan, the Hanger Theater, Berkshire Theater for the Performing Arts’ American Songbook (since 1999), and the Actors Fund concerts of Frank Loesser, Broadway 101, Hair, and On the . He was sound designer for the Actors Fund benefit with and Chita Rivera at Carnegie Hall. As sound engineer, Scott worked on , Juan Darien, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Carousel, Once , and, off-Broadway,Little Shop of Horrors.

Leigh Walter, Production Stage Manager Leigh Walter is a freelance director and AEA stage manager based in . Her work has been seen at Lincoln Center, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Park Avenue Armory, Goodspeed, La MaMa, and NYTW, among a myriad of other theaters where she has dedicated herself to developing new works. This work has ranged from nonlinear and abstract plays, to immersive children’s theatre, to puppet folk musicals, and everything in between. She is the co-creator of the Society for Misfit Puppets, where she directed and self-produced over a dozen different theatre events over the last three years. A previous member of the SDCF Directing Observership Class, Leigh Walter is currently a proud company

24 member of Trusty Sidekick. Amanda Joshi, Associate Director

Amanda Joshi’s directing credits include Inch by Inch by Rachel Graf Evans (Theatre for a New City at Producers’ Club); Craig McNulty’s Welcome Home Steve (Players Club); Wilde’s Importance of Being Earnest (14th Street Y); Michelle Markowitz’s Hookups & Hang-ups (Abingdon Theatre); and Jay Hanagan’s Softly Sara Falls (Lookinglass Theatre). As an Associate, she works closely with and Don Stephenson. With Tony she has worked on Noel Coward’s Tonight at 8:30 (Guild Hall); Sir Peter Shaffer’s Equus and The Gift of the Gorgon (Guild Hall); and Stephen Sondheim’s Evening Primrose (John Jay Theatre). With Don, shows include Frank Loesser’s Guys & Dolls, The Roar of the Greasepaint…, (all Goodspeed); and The Producers (Paper Mill Playhouse). Amanda was the Colony Coordinator for the Writers’ Colony at Goodspeed, which develops 30+ new musicals annually; founded and was the Artistic Director of Wizard Oil Productions for five years, and was General Manager of Abingdon Theatre Company for two. She sat on the Lark Play Development Company’s Literary Wing, has been a reader for the Princess Grace Award in Playwrighting, and has been an evaluator for the SDC Observership Program. Amanda Joshi has been nominated for a National Directors Fellowship and an SDC Directing Fellowship.

Shane Schag, Assistant Music Director and Rehearsal Pianist Shane Schag is a faculty member of both the Opera and the Musical Theater Departments at Manhattan School of Music. In this capacity he has served as the music director for several shows including And the World Goes ’Round, , Ragtime, and . He has additionally worked as an assistant conductor on Nine. He has served on the faculty of OperaWorks in , International Vocal Arts Institute in Tel Aviv and Virginia, and the Chautauqua Opera Company. In 2016, Mr. Schag was an inaugural faculty member of Vocal Coach Asia (Singapore) and the Creative Voice Institute (Taiwan). The following year, he collaborated with Lisa Vroman and William Sharp in the original cabaret Kurt Weill’s America presented at the Brevard Music Festival.

Emily Kelly, Associate Choreographer Emily Kelly is thrilled to work with Liza Gennaro and Don Stephenson again! Emily started as Gennaro’s student at Indiana University, then 25 worked as her assistant choreographer on numerous shows at IU as well as at regional theaters, including and Cardinal Stage Company. Other choreography credits include Toast (assistant choreographer to Emily Maltby, Bloomington Playwright’s Project) and (choreographer, IU University Players). Emily made her NYC acting debut in at Encores! NY City Center earlier this year. Endless thanks to Liza for continuous guidance and support. Loving thanks to Don, David, Leigh, Amanda, Whitnee, Tim, and Shane.

Tim Love, Assistant Stage Manager

Tim Love’s credits include The Nap and on Broadway and Dan Cody’s Yacht, Incognito (Manhattan Theatre Club), Kung Fu, stop. reset., Old Hats (Signature Theatre Company), Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout Theatre Company), and Happy Birthday Wanda June off Broadway. Additional NY theatre credits:The Mile Long Opera (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Winners (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Mata Hari (HERE Arts Center), Bend in the Road, Coming of Age (NYMF), and The 39 Steps. Other stage managing credits include Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2018, Future of Storytelling, Photoville, and the World Science Festival. A special thank you to Leigh, Don, Liza, Amanda, Emily, and the rest of the MSM team for including me on such a special project!

Syma Birenbaum, Assistant Lighting Designer Syma Birenbaum is a freelance lighting designer and associate lighting designer in the NYC area. Recent lighting design credits include Marika Brussel Choreography at DMC APAP Showcase, (New Rochelle High School), and (Purchase Opera Company). Recent Associate/Assistant credits include The Shows at Industria, NYFW Fall 2018 (Enlumen LD); Westside Story and The Cunning Little Vixen (Glimmerglass Festival); Smile (Manhattan School of Music); and Godspell (Union Performing Arts).

Jess Gersz, Assistant Costume Designer Jess Gersz enjoys all opportunities to work on a wide range of projects. From strip shows to theme parks, Jess is always looking for new adventures with costumes. Recent highlights include productions with

26 Troika Entertainment, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, NETworks Productions, BC/EFA, Axis Theatre Company, Opera Saratoga and Prospect Theatre Company.

Whitnee Bomkamp, Assistant to the Choreographer Whitnee Bomkamp was recently seen here at MSM in productions of Smile (Cookie Wilson) and Nine (Olga von Sturm). Other credits include Hello, Dolly! (Ermengarde) and The Drowsy Chaperone (Kitty). She recently performed at Carnegie Hall singing with and Essential Voices USA in the New York Pops Under the Mistletoe concert under the direction of Judith Clurman and Steven Reineke. She also sang with Kristin Chenoweth in her Broadway show My Love Letter to Broadway. She would like to thank her teachers and Liza Gennaro for giving her this wonderful opportunity to learn and grow. She also would like to thank her family and friends for their everlasting love and support. Up next, you can see her in Fiorello! in the spring!

Mackenzie Greiner, Assistant to the Director Mackenzie Greiner is a junior Musical Theatre major at Manhattan School of Music and has spent many years working behind and on the stage. She pursued a career in costuming in L.A. when she was fresh out of school working for Keane Designs as an assistant costume designer. Recently she has been working as a wig stylist and designer in L.A. and the greater New York area. She has had many experiences assisting directors here at MSM in years past and has enjoyed her time on Cabaret.

Tinc Productions, Production Management Established in 2007, Tinc Productions, LLC is a technical producing firm, providing experienced production management, technical talent staffing, and event consulting services. Tinc specializes in high-profile theatrical productions, corporate events, meetings, and immersive experiences throughout the world. Recent credits include Puffs, ’s The New One at Cherry Lane, the Chicago production of Heartbreak Hotel, Pip’s Island, Victoria Secret Fashion Show–Shanghai, Part of the Plan, Church and State, Who’s Holiday, Shear Madness, and eight seasons with the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

27 OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS Christina Teichroew, Managing Director Robert Phillip Smith, Assistant Manager Kathryn Miller, Associate

CREDITS FOR CABARET Amanda Joshi, Associate Director Emily Kelly, Associate Choreographer Shane Schag, Assistant Music Director and Rehearsal Pianist Tim Love, Assistant Stage Manager Yichan Wang, Assistant Scenic Designer Syma Birenbaum, Assistant Lighting Designer Jess Gersz, Assistant Costume Designer Whitnee Bomkamp, Assistant to the Choreographer Mackenzie Greiner, Assistant to the Director Sketkh Williams, Technical Director Corey Wissig, Production Electrician Jacob Waldron, Assistant Production Electrician Jeff Englander, Lighting Programmer Kevin Novinsky and Bella Curry, Sound Operators Andres Diaz, Adam Wilson, Robin Margolis, Backstage Crew Cassandra Deveau, Wardrobe Supervisor Sydney Moss, Jenna Miller, Wardrobe Crew Nicole Zausmer, Sharne Van Ryneveld, Jason Fray, Elonna Bettini, Costume Construction Hillbolic Arts & Carpentry, Scenic Construction

MSM PRODUCTION STAFF Brianna Poh, Production Manager Andres Diaz, Production Supervisor Keri Bush, Production Coordinator Alexis Caldwell, Production Coordinator Tyler Donahue, Production Coordinator Pamela Pangaro, Lead Technician Tinc Productions, Production Management 28 Duncan Northern, Tinc Production Supervisor David Beller, Tinc Production Manager for Opera Gage Steenhagen, Tinc Production Manager for the Musical Theatre Sarah Altman, Tinc Associate Production Manager James Hesse, Tinc Associate Production Manager Rebecca Brill Weitz, Tinc Associate Production Manager Zach Longstreet, Tinc Associate Production Manager Megan Garner, Props Coordinator Zach Pizza, Assistant Props Coordinator

PERFORMANCE OPERATIONS STAFF Henry Valoris, Dean of Performance and Production Operations Mark Broschinsky, Orchestra Manager Katharine Dryden, Director of Instrumental Ensembles Devon Kelly, Manager of Patron Services Melissa Magliula, Manager of Scheduling Andrew Ramos, Manager of Jazz Arts Manly Romero, Performance Librarian and Administrative Director of the Contemporary Performance Program Kyra Sims, Performance Operations Associate

29 ABOUT MSM MUSICAL THEATRE Manhattan School of Music, with its 100 years of excellence and its location in New York City, a veritable hub of musical theatre, is an ideal institution for a world-class musical theatre program. Today’s contemporary musical theatre is exploding with fresh ideas, possibilities, and opportunities; musical theater graduates are entering a thriving art form. Broadway is booming with record high attendance and employment opportunities are plentiful. While acting, voice, and dance remain the cornerstones of musical theatre training, contemporary performers must also be trained beyond the “triple threat” model. Now more than ever multifaceted musical theatre artists are in demand. Devised practice workshops and dance labs require performers to be creative contributors to project development. In addition to learning the essential skills—to sing, dance, and act—MSM Musical Theatre students are encouraged to develop their artistic interests and are given the opportunity to investigate areas beyond performing, including directing, choreographing, writing, and composing. The MSM Musical Theatre faculty is a stellar collection of artist- educators who combine exemplary teaching skills with the highest level of professional know-how. We embrace individuality and honor each student’s journey. At MSM we are passionate about the arts and the next generation of musical theatre artists.

30 MUSICAL THEATRE FACULTY Mana Allen, MT Acting Sara Brians, Tap Enrique Brown, MT Dance Andréa Burns, Acting Claudia Catania, Voice Judith Clurman, Voice/Ensemble Singing Marshall Davis, Jr., Tap Peter Flynn, Acting Andy Gale, Acting , Music Theory Liza Gennaro, MT Dance & Intro to Professional Theatre , MT Acting Andrea Green, Voice Yehuda Hyman, Devised Acting Ebone VanityZo Johnson, Hip Hop/Commercial Dance Josh Kight, MT Acting David Loud, MT Acting, MT History Samuel McKelton, Voice Robin Morse, MT Acting Ross Patterson, MT Acting Evan Rees, MT Acting Laura Sametz, Acting Shane Schag, Musical Theory Blake Segal, MT Speech Bob Stillman, Voice Eleanor Taylor, Alexander Technique , Ballet Brandon Yukovic, Speech

31 THE CENTENNIAL PROJECT Manhattan School of Music’s Centennial Project is an ambitious program of improvements to the School’s architecturally distinguished campus. The centerpiece of the Project is the renovation of Neidorff-Karpati Hall, MSM’s principal performance space, which has been transformed into a state-of-the-art venue to showcase our talented students. Built in 1931 and designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the architects of the Empire State Building, the hall has been called “one of the Art Deco treats in the city” by . The Project also includes a dramatic and welcoming new campus entrance on Claremont Avenue, new practice rooms, and an expansion of the main entryway and lobby.

Anchor Gift McKinsey & Company RIK Electric Corporation Noémi K. & Michael Neidorff Margot and Adolfo Patron Nolan M. Robertson and the Centene Charitable Schossev† Foundation Epp K.J. Sonin Dr. Marc Silverman† Robert and Victoria Sirota $2,800,000 $10,000 to $24,999 Dorothy Strelsin Foundation City of New York Joyce Aboussie Yorke Construction Corporation Bill de Blasio, Mayor Louis Alexander Sharon E. Daley-Johnson $2,500 to $4,999 $250,000 to $499,999 Evco Mechanical Corporation Joan Taub Ades David G. Knott Ph.D. and. Capt. Kenneth R. Force, Nick and Melissa Borkowski Françoise Girard USMS (ret.) Jeff Breithaupt† and Donald and Marcia Clay Carl and Aviva Saphier Shelley McPherson Maecenata Foundation/ Dona D. Vaughn† and Bright Power Peter Luerssen Peter Christensen and Bill and Patricia O’Connor $5,000 to $9,999 Dr. Monica Coen Christensen† Melody Sawyer Richardson An Anonymous Donor Brian Dailey† Sceneworks Studios American Bill Delaney Yvette Bendahan General Plumbing Corporation $150,000 to $249,999 Justin Bischof Geneva Pension Consultants Carla Bossi-Comelli and John K. Blanchard† Melissa Kaish and Jon Dorfman Marco Pecori Cynthia Boxrud Harry Tze-Him Lee Lorraine Gallard and Chartwells Dining Services Susan and David Rahm Richard H. Levy Glenn Dicterow and Cassie and Billy Rahm Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Karen Dreyfus† Lucie Robert and Jeffrey Cohen† Dianne Flagello Inesa Sinkevych† $100,000 to $149,000 Hans and Gloria Gesell Steinway & Sons Ed Annunziato Ruth Golden† Telebeam Telephone Systems Dr. James Gandre† and Joan Gordon Mallory and Diane Walker Dr. Boris Thomas Bryan J. Greaney† Linda and Toby Mercuro Luisa Guembes-Buchanan $1,000 to $2,499 Michelle Ong/First Initiative HBO An Anonymous Donor Foundation Limited Holzman Moss Bottino Marcos Arbaitman Architecture Nina and Arkady Aronov† $75,000 to $99,999 IDB Bank Daniel Avshalomov† Alfredo and Mita Aparicio J & J Flooring Bellet Construction Jane A. Gross Warren Jones† Christopher Breiseth Raul M. and Magdalena Gutierrez Phillip N. Kawin† Elizabeth A. R. & Maria E. Salgar Patinka Kopec† and Ralph S. Brown, Jr. Chiona Xanthopoulou Schwarz Dr. Jay Selman Burda Construction Maria and Guillermo F. Vogel Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and Laurie Carney† Nancy M. Kissinger Linda Chesis† $50,000 to $74,999 Esther O. Lee Jeffrey Cohen and Lucie Robert† Mónica and Angel Sosa Mary Lou and George Manahan† Michael R. and Nina I. Douglas Carol Matos† Alan S. Epstein $25,000 to $49,999 Gary Mercer Daniel Epstein† Delin and Abelardo Bru Dr. Marjorie Merryman† Ghent Realty Services Margot Alberti de Mazzeri Gary W. Meyer† Phil Glick Susan Ennis and Dr. Owen Lewis Alexandre A. Moutouzkine† David Goodman Richard Gaddes James Petercsak Thomas Gottschalk Thomas Hampson Luis Plaza† Carol B. Grossman Nancy Freund Heller and Stan Ponte and John Metzner The Stecher and 32 Jeffrey Heller Regina Rheinstein Horowitz Foundation Stephen Jacobsohn and Dr. Adrienne and Gianluigi Vittadini Dr. Kariné Poghosyan† Maura Reinblatt Nina Baroness von Maltzahn Jesse Rosen Wolfram Koessel† and Mae Barizo Ronald G. Weiner Dr. Eduardo Salvati Byung-Kook Kwak Peter Winograd† and Caterina Laura Sametz† Lubrano Ciavarra Architects Szepes† Paul Sperry† Tondra and Jeffrey H. Lynford Chris and Jody Parrish $500 to $999 $100 to $499 Maitland Peters† Robert Bucker Mary Ellin Barrett William Plapinger and Cassie Noreen and Kenneth Buckfire Elizabeth J. de Almeida Murray Paul and Delight Dodyk Merrimon Hipps, Jr. Dr. Jeffrey Langford† and Dr. Duane Morris David Jolley† Joanne Polk† Casey M. Dunn† and Carrie Newman Red Hook Management David Molino Dunn Kelly Sawatsky† and Ted and Lesley Rosenthal† Patti Eylar and Charles Gardner Dr. Jeremy Fletcher Bette and Richard Saltzman David Geber and Julia Lichten† Sybil Shainwald Cynthia D. and Thomas P. Sculco Michael Graff Donna and James Storey Sound Associates Kathy and Arthur Langhaus Christine and Rob Thorn Richard W. Southwick FAIA Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† William Vollinger Sterling National Bank Dr. John Pagano† Jason Wachtler

MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC DONORS (As of June 30, 2018) Manhattan School of Music is deeply grateful to the community of generous donors who support our commitment to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. While space limitations allow us to list only those donors of $100 or more, we sincerely appreciate every gift. For more information about giving opportunities, please contact Susan Madden, Vice President for Advancement, at 917-493-4115 or [email protected].

ANNUAL GIFTS

$100,000 and above David G. Knott Ph.D. and New York City Council Estate of C.J. Stuart Allan Françoise Girard Christopher Preiss Sceneworks Studio Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Leonard Slatkin Linda and Toby Mercuro Mónica and Angel Sosa $50,000 to $99,999 The Ambrose Monell Foundation The Joan and Alan Ades-Taub The Arthur and $5,000 to $9,999 Family Foundation Mae Orvis Foundation Anonymous Donors (2) Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Melody Sawyer Richardson Activist Artist Management/ Lorraine Gallard and The Fan Fox and Selema “Sal” Masekela Richard H. Levy Leslie R. Samuels Foundation The Educational Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Foundation Noémi K. & Michael Neidorff Swantje and George von Werz The Theodore H. Barth and the Centene Charitable Foundation Foundation $10,000 to $24,999 Bloomberg Bill and Patricia O’Connor An Anonymous Donor Chartwells Dining Services Estate of Harold Schonberg Joyce Aboussie Michael R. and Nina I. 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Wiggs Mari and Kenneth Share Ruth Golden† Laura Yang and The Shoshana Foundation Charlotte Gollubier Dr. Ming-Lung Allen Yang Shelley Deal and David Goodman Claude L. Winfield Greg Grimaldi $500 to $999 Lucie Zippolos Roger* and Joanne Greenspun Richard E. Adams Hansoree Orren Alperstein $2,500 to $4,999 Kathleen F. Hegierski The Bagby Foundation for the Joan Taub Ades Marie Theresa Hermand Musical Arts Candace and de Arango Bruce M. Beckwith Frederick Beinecke Dr. Charles Herring Noma Blechman Robert Bucker Holzman Moss Bottino Dr. Juna Bobby Connie Kanako Clarke and Architecture Dr. Vincent Celenza James Clarke J & J Flooring John Chan and Fan Jiang The D’Addario Music Robert and Susan Kaplan Dr. Monica Coen Christensen† Foundation For The Jack and Helga Katz Sharon E. Daley-Johnson Performing Arts Phillip N. Kawin† Bill Delaney Capt. Kenneth R. Force, Theresa and Roosey Khawly Casey M. Dunn† USMS (ret.) Sungrim Kim and Adrienne Stetson Forrest Dr. James Gandre† and Wonsuk Chang Judith Friedman Dr. Boris Thomas Michael J. Kokola Loraine F. Gardner Mira Goldberg Christiana Leonard Stephen Jacobsohn and Jane A. Gross Lubrano Ciavarra Architects Dr. Maura Reinblatt The Arthur Loeb Foundation Jeffrey Lynford Dr. Herve Jacquet Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Thomas Maguire Cecile R. Jim Barbara and Dermot O’Reilly Mary Moeller Dr. Harriet S. Kaplan The Presser Foundation Marjorie Neuwirth Millen Katz Kathleen Ritch Connie and James A. Newcomb Patinka Kopec† and Alfred and Jane Ross Kim and Anthony Papini† Dr. Jay Selman Foundation Margot and Adolfo Patron Chung Nung Lee Gail Sanders Maitland Peters† Alta T. Malberg Robert Seigel and Kalmon D. Post and Susan Olsen Maren Susan Kargman Linda Farber Post Laurie Margolies Christopher W. Welch and Cassie and William Rahm Elissa and Christopher Morris Katherine L. 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Judd Dr. Carroll Joynes Edward and Annette Cornelius Noreen Kerrigan Susan S. and Kanti Rai Toby and Lester Crystal Ethan Jeon Saul D. Raw, LCSW Helen N. Danehower Daniel Kirk-Foster Irwin L. Reese Dr. David K. Davis Lorinda Klein Frederick B. Rosoff Elizabeth J. de Almeida Lauren and Matthew J. Kluger Thomas L. Schissler Allan J. Dean Kenneth H. Knight Mary Schmidt Robert J. Dell’Angelo Hae Soon Koh Julie and Allen Schwait Theresa and Guy Dellecave Jennifer and Jeffrey Kolitch Glenn Schwartz Mark Delpriora† Dr. Michael and Rachel Kollmer Kira Sergievsky Anaar Desai-Stephens Michael Kowal Walter F. and Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo Gene B. Kuntz Margaret M. Siebecker Michael and Ursula Kwasnicka Robert and Victoria Sirota Catherine Diefenbach Tom Landrum Tamara and Michael Sload John Dispenza Robert Laporte Myrna Tanchoco-Rossen and Marjory M. Duncalfe Dr. Ann Lemke Robert Rossen Michael and Marjorie Engber Amy Levine Gordon Turk Carolyn J. Enger Dr. Ira M. Lieberman Elizabeth R. Van Arsdel William R. Evans George Litton John Walton Yingjiu Fan and Zuojun Cao Xin Liu and Hong Chen Daniel E. Weiss Robert Felicetti Edward Loizides Noreen and Ned Zimmerman H. Fine Eleanor and Mort Lowenthal Alice and Aldo Fossella Carmel Lowenthal† $100 to $249 Paula A. Franklin Melissa M. and Philip Mark Anonymous Donors (4) Caroline and Shlomo Freidfertig Gunther Marx Eileen C. Acheson-Bohn Edith Hall Friedheim Meredith Wood McCaughey Meg Lowenthal Akabas Emanuel A. Friedman Robert D. and Cecile Alexis Cameron Bennett and Judith M. McFadden Alex Alsup Korine Fujiwara Bob McGrath Ari F. Ambrose Esq. Catherine A. Gale Eugene G. McLeod Angelo Badalamenti John and Hannelore Gerlach Theresa McNeil Susan Barbash and Phil Glick Robert and Linda Miller Dr. Eric Katz Nancy and Marc Goldberg Jacqueline R. Miron Barbara and Alan Barry Judith Uman and Nadine Nozomi Mitake Linda Dupree-Bell I. Michael Goodman Frank Montaturo 35 Dr. Andrea H. Morris Mary Jaccoma Rozenberg Jacquelyn Tomlet Mary Anne and Wayne Mueller Reto A. Ruedy Gemma H. Tung Kay C. Murray June Sadowski-Devarez Dawn Upshaw Francisco Nájera and Frank E. Salomon Jill F. Van Syckle Ileana Ordonez Victoria and Anthony Scelba Mark Vandersall and Norma Nelson Alan Schaplowsky Laura Mendelson Richard Niemann Stanley Scheller Jon Verbalis Rebecca Noreen Gil Seadale Dr. Katharina Volk The O’Mara Family William Shadel Jason Wachtler Frederick and Ostrofsky Julie and Steve Sharp Jianlong Wang Duncan Patton† Nancy Covert Sheftel Adam B. Ward Myrna Payne Angela Allen Sherzer Doris Joy Warner Maria Magliaro Politano Amy K. Shoremount Michael Washburn and Jill M. Pollack LCSW BCD Ruth Siegler Nancy Carmichael Gift Fund Dr. Maria Radicheva† Claire Hollister Singer Patricia Weiss Dr. Jonathan Raskin Alice Jane Sklar Jack L. Wenger Mona Reisman Schoen Norman Solomon, M.D. Gabriella R. Will William W. Reynolds Jeanne M. and David E. Sperber Michael C. Wimberly Joyce Richardson Catherine and Carl Stahl Carole M. Wolek Amy Franklin Richter James Stalzer Lam Wong Lindsay Rider Steve Stalzle Dr. Roy Wylie Howard G. Rittner Felice E. Swados Barbara Yahr Carol Robbins Manabu Takasawa Zhendai Yang Lois Roman Sondra Tammam Dr. Velia Yedra-Chruszcz Alex Romanov Bruce Tang and Yi Lu June Zaccone Roger F. Rose Gary Thalheimer Elda Zappi Amy S. Rosen Nickolas Themelis Hongwei Zhou and Stanley Rosenberg Elaine C. Thomas Jianlong Wang Chris Rosenberg Dr. Barbara L. Tischler

*Deceased

36 †MSM Faculty/Staff TRIBUTE GIFTS

In Honor of Glennie Blanchard by Douglas Rask by Dr. Gladstone Atwell by John K. Blanchard Keith L. Wiggs Richard I. Cooper John E. Carranza by David Reismann by Martin Bookspan’s 91st Birthday by John E. Carranza Barbara L. Reissman Dr. and Mrs. Sidney H. Sobel Cheung Ching Chan by Martha Laredo Salomon by Susan Ennis by Noreen Kerrigan Frank E. Salomon Susan S. and Kanti Rai Audrey Chesis by Anthony Smaldon by Hilda Harris by Noémi and Michael Neidorff Alex Alsup Bruce M. Beckwith Dave Conner by Charlie Small by Isaac Kaplan (BM’11, MM’13) by Rod Thorn Norman Small Susan and Robert Kaplan Nicolas Flagello by Lew Soloff by Melvin R. Kaplan, Grandfather by Dianne Danese Flagello Phillip Namanworth Dr. Harriet S. Kaplan Trudy Hochberg Goldstein by Paul Stebbins by Ed and Ilene Lowenthal by Nancy C. Sheftel April Johnson Margaret M. and Shirley Heller by Kathryn S. Jones Walter F. Siebecker Richard S. Hoffman Emily Kronenberg Bill and Patricia O’Connor by Mrs. Ponsie B. Hillman by Frank E. Salomon Tallmadge and Julianne Boyd Michelle D. Winfield Jonathan Strasser by David Rahm by Everett Holland by Ann M. McKinney Larry B. Hochman Stanley Rosenberg Northwestern Mutual Foundation Elizabeth and Michael A. Varet Trudy Just by Richard Porter Robert J. Just David J. Thompson by In Memory of Danny Kopec by John P. Elliott Rose and Edward Joseph Acheson Carolyn and Richard Glickstein Zane Udris by by Eileen C. Acheson-Bohn Mrs. Betty Wright Landreth by Dace Udris C. Erika Alexis by Laurie Landreth Ludmila Ulehla by Cecile E. Alexis Edyth H. Larson by Anthony Scelba Betty Allen by Mary Kay L. McGarvey William F. Vollinger Lorinda A. Klein Michael “Blair” Lawhead by Neil Warner by Cynthia Auerbach by William R. Evans Robert D. McFadden Dr. Bennett Pologe Choon Hwa Lee by Josephine Whitford by Andre Badalamenti by Juna Bobby Edward L. Cornelius Angelo Badalamenti Stephen Maxym by Dora Zaslavsky by Stanley Bednar by Gines-Didier Cano Luisa Guembes-Buchanan Northwestern Mutual Foundation Francis Pincus by Nancy Nagy Sen —100 years! by Bennett Pologe Ann Stahl

37 ANNUAL NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS

College International Advisory Board Harold and Helene Schonberg An Anonymous Flute Scholarship Scholarship Pianist Scholarship Richard E. Adams Scholarship for Janey Fund Charitable Trust Solon E. Summerfield Foundation a French Horn Scholarship Scholarship Joan Taub Ades Scholarship Jephson Educational Trusts L. John Twiford Violin Scholarship The Louis Armstrong Educational Scholarship Foundation Scholarship JMP Musicial Theatre Scholarship Precollege ASCAP/Fran Morgenstern Davis A. L. and Jennie L. Luria CWKH Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Foundation Scholarship Hansoree Scholarship Augustine Foundation Scholarship Ambrose Monell Foundation Ponsie Barclay Hillman Precollege Theodore H. Barth Foundation Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Josephine Luby Precollege Elizabeth Beinecke Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Jordan Berk Scholarship Petercsak Percussion Scholarship Alfred and Jane Ross Precollege Educational Assistance The Presser Foundation Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Dr. Theodore G. Wilson Margaret Enoch Scholarship Sabian/Robert Zildjian Memorial Precollege Scholarship First Initiative Hong Kong/China Percussion Scholarship Scholarship ENDOWED NAMED SCHOLARSHIPS

College Peter J. Kent Scholarship Precollege Joan Taub Ades Scholarship for Marga and Arthur King An Anonymous Jazz Precollege Musicial Theatre Scholarship Scholarship Licia Albanese Scholarship Kraeuter Violin Scholarship Alex Assoian Music Project Cynthia Auerbach Memorial Fund Edith Kriss Piano Scholarship Precollege Scholarship Augustine Guitar Scholarship LADO Scholarship Fund Dr. Michelle Solarz August Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Marquis George MacDonald Precollege Scholarship in Piano Scholarship Scholarship Kate Bamberger Memorial Violin Frances Hall Ballard Scholarship Robert Mann Scholarship in Violin Scholarship Artur Balsam Scholarship & Chamber Music Jordan Berk Scholarship Hans and Klara Bauer B. Marcus Memorial Matilda Cascio Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Fund (Graduate) Scholarship Berkman-Rahm Scholarship Fund Viola B. Marcus Memorial Cuker/Stern Precollege Selma W. Berkman Memorial Scholarship Fund Scholarship Scholarship (Undergraduate) Marion Feldman Scholarship Vera Blacker Scholarship in Piano Clement Meadmore Scholarship Dianne Danese Flagello Carmine Caruso Memorial in Jazz Studies Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Homer and Constance Mensch Rosetta Goodkind Precollege Edgar Foster Daniels Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship in Voice Samuel and Mitzi Newhouse Andrew Goodman Memorial Helen Airoff Dowling Scholarship Scholarship Precollege Scholarship Baisley Powell Elebash Birgit Nilsson Scholarship Dorothy Hales Gary Scholarship Scholarship Scott Oakley Memorial Jocelyn Gertel Precollege Gart Family Foundation Scholarship in Musical Theatre Scholarship Scholarship Mae Zenke Orvis Opera Constance Keene Precollege Lloyd Gelassen Scholarship Scholarship Piano Scholarship Rita and Herbert Z. Gold Paul Price Percussion Scholarship Patinka Kopec Precollege Violin Scholarship Rodgers and Hammerstein/ Scholarship Michael Greene Scholarship Scholarship Mary B. Lenom Scholarship Charles Grossman Memorial Jay Rubinton Scholarship Sassa Maniotis Endowed Endowment Scholarship Leon Russianoff Memorial Precollege Piano Scholarship Grusin/Rosen Jazz Scholarship Scholarship Nana’s Way Precollege Division Adolphus Hailstork-Mary Weaver Scott Shayne Sinclair Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship in Guitar Carl Owen Memorial Scholarship William Randolph Hearst Joseph M. Smith Scholarship Maitland Peters and Karen Foundation Scholarship Elva Van Gelder Memorial Beardsley Precollege Voice Margaret Hoswell van der Marck Scholarship Scholarship Memorial Scholarship in Opera Emily M. Voorhis Scholarship Prep Parents Scholarship Helen Fahnestock Hubbard Rachmael Weinstock Scholarship Rita and Morris Relson Family Scholarship in Violin Scholarship Alexandra Hunt Endowed Vocal Avedis Zildjian Percussion Paul Stebbins Precollege Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship in Bassoon Deolus Husband Memorial Jonathan and Conrad Strasser Scholarship for Composition Memorial Scholarship Eugene Istomin Scholarship in Elva Van Gelder Memorial 38 Piano Scholarship ENDOWMENT GIFTS

An Anonymous Donor Xilun Chen Ortega Family Joan Taub Ades Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Licia Albanese-Puccini Susan Ennis and Dr. Owen Lewis Maitland Peters† and Foundation Eric Fisk Karen Beardsley Alex Assoian Music Project Carol B. Grossman Cassie and Billy Rahm Gabrielle Bamberger Susan Anne Ingerman Melody Sawyer Richardson Michael A. Bamberger and The Kevin Kang Nicolas Rohatyn and Honorable Phylis S. Bamberger Yiduo Liu Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Allen H. Berkman & Selma W. Alan Lurie Schultz Berkman Charitable Trust Marquis George MacDonald Dr. Marc Silverman† Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation Foundation Ann M. McKinney

GALAXY SOCIETY Members of the Galaxy Society ensure the future of Manhattan School of Music through inclusion of the School in their long-range financial and estate plans. We are grateful for their vision and generosity, which helps ensure that MSM continues to thrive into the next century and enables aspiring young artists to reach for the stars.

Anonymous Donors (2) Capt. Kenneth R. Force, Regina Rheinstein Richard E. Adams USMS (ret.) Melody Sawyer Richardson Joan Taub Ades Rabbi Mordecai Genn Mary S. Riebold Louis Alexander Ruth Golden† Evelyn Ronell Frank Bamberger Luisa Guembes-Buchanan Lesley and Ted Rosenthal† Gabrielle Bamberger Dr. Heather A. Hamilton Cate Ryan Renee Bash Shirley Katz-Cohen Alex Shapiro Peter Basquin Phillip N. Kawin† Dr. Marc Silverman† William S. Beinecke Alan M. and Amy R. Sperling Yvette Benjamin Karen Schiebler Knieter Carleton B. Spotts Blanche H. Blitstein Doris Konig Jonathan Sternberg Louis M. Bonifati, Ed. D. Dr. Robert Ira Lewy Hetty Te Korte Carla Bossi-Comelli Shigeru Matsuno Flavio Varani James B. Coker Charlotte Mayerson Dona D. Vaughn† and Alex Davis Claire A. Meyer Ron Raines Michael P. Devine Warren R. Mikulka Keith L. Wiggs J. S. Ellenberger Charles B. Nelson Jr. Dr. Theo George Wilson Jonathan Fey Barbara and Dermot O’Reilly Carolyn Zepf Hagner Duncan Pledger

*Deceased

†MSM Faculty/Staff

39 FOUNDER’S SOCIETY

The Founder’s Society honors the extraordinary generosity of the following individuals and institutions whose cumulative giving to Manhattan School of Music exceeded $250,000 (as of June 30, 2018). These exceptional donors enable MSM to provide world-class conservatory training to immensely talented students. We are deeply grateful for their special dedication to the School’s mission and culture of artistic excellence and musicianship. $5,000,000 and above William S. Beinecke Rose L. Augustine* and Noémi K. & Michael Neidorff Mary Owen Borden Foundation The Augustine Foundation and the Centene Charitable Estate of Ruth Chatfield Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Foundation The Baisley Powell Elebash Fund Michael R. Bloomberg G. Chris Andersen and Lorraine Gallard and Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation SungEun Han-Andersen Richard H. Levy Carnegie Corporation of New York Gart Family Foundation Edgar Foster Daniels $2,500,000 and above Ann and Gordon Getty Ervika Foundation Joan Taub Ades and Foundation Cecilia and John Farrell Alan M. Ades* Michael W. Greene Estate of Ellen G. Fezer Estate of Jacqueline Kacere Marcia and Donald Hamilton Yveta S. Graff* Estate of Dora Zaslavsky Koch Jewish Foundation for Education Estate of Rea F. Hooker Alfred* and Claude Mann of Women Jephson Educational Trusts The Octavian Society Estate of Kellogg Johnson The Stanley Thomas Johnson The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Estate of Marga King Foundation William R. Miller (HonDMA ’11) Estate of Edith Kriss Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Kellen Ilene and Edward Lowenthal Ruth M. Knight Trust $1,000,000 and above Peter Luerssen/ David G. Knott Ph.D. and The ASCAP Foundation Maecenata Foundation Françoise Girard Carla Bossi-Comelli A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Estate of Anna Case Mackay Gordon K. Greenfield* Foundation Linda and Toby Mercuro The Gordon and Harriet Estate of Viola B. Marcus National Endowment for the Arts Greenfield Foundation, Inc. The Andrew W. Mellon New York State Higher Education Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation Foundation Capital Matching Grant Board and Estate of Joseph Dr. Solomon Mikowsky† Henry Nias Foundation F. McCrindle The Ambrose Monell Foundation Bill and Patricia O’Connor Estate of Homer Mensch The Fan Fox and Leslie Sceneworks Studio The Miller Family Foundation R. Samuels Foundation Melody Sawyer Richardson The Arthur and Mae Orvis Estate of Harold Schonberg Jody and Peter Robbins Foundation The Evelyn Sharp Foundation Susan and David Rahm $250,000 and above Harold and Helene Schonberg The Helen F. Whitaker Fund An Anonymous Donor Trust Annie Laurie Aitken The Starr Foundation $500,000 and above Charitable Trust Surdna Foundation Altman Foundation Estate of C. J. Stuart Allan Patrick N. W. Turner Nancy Terner Behrman*/ Amato Opera Theater Gabe Wiener Foundation The Fund for Individual Potential

*Deceased

†MSM Faculty/Staff

We have made every effort to list MSM donors accurately. If your name is not listed as you wish, or if you notice an inaccuracy, please contact Linda Perry in the Advancement 40 Office at 917-493-4490, or at [email protected]. MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC LEADERSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES Lorraine Gallard, Chair Warren Jones Edward Lowenthal, Vice Chair and Treasurer David G. Knott Noémi K. Neidorff (BM ’70, MM ’72, HonDMA ’17), Linda Bell Mercuro Secretary (HonDMA ’15) Joan Taub Ades (HonDMA ’14) Bill O’Connor Ed Annunziato Laura Sametz Terence Blanchard (HonDMA ’17) Melody Sawyer Richardson Carla Bossi-Comelli Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA ’13) Delin Bru Trustees Emeriti Susan Ennis Marta Istomin (HonDMA ’05), President Emerita James Gandre, President William R. Miller (HonDMA ’11) Marcia Clay Hamilton David A. Rahm (HonDMA ’07), Chair Emeritus Thomas Hampson (HonDMA ’09) Robert G. Simon Nancy Freund Heller INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Carla Bossi-Comelli, Chair, Switzerland Margot Alberti de Mazzeri, Italy Mita Aparicio, Margot Patron, Mexico Marcos Arbaitman, Maria Elvira Salgar, / Delin Bru, United States Chiona X. Schwarz, Germany Alejandro Cordero, Angel Sosa, Mexico Raul M. Gutierrez, Mexico/Spain Guillermo Vogel, Mexico Michelle Ong, Hong Kong ARTISTIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Terence Blanchard (HonDMA ’17) Marta Istomin (HonDMA ’05), President Emerita Anthony Roth Costanzo (MM ’08) Bernard Labadie (HonDMA ’18) Glenn Dicterow Lang Lang (HonDMA ’12) Peter Duchin Bebe Neuwirth (HonDMA ’15) Richard Gaddes (HonDMA ’17) Leonard Slatkin (HonDMA ’13) Thomas Hampson (HonDMA ’09) Pinchas Zukerman (HonDMA ’93) Stefon Harris (BM ’95, MM ’97) PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL James Gandre, President Amy Anderson, Dean of Enrollment Joyce Griggs, Executive Vice President and Provost Monica Coen Christensen, Dean of Students Gary Meyer, Senior Vice President and CFO Bryan Greaney, Dean of Academic Operations Susan Madden, Vice President for Advancement Christianne Orto, Dean of Distance Learning and Jeff Breithaupt, Vice President for Media and Recording Arts Communications Luis Plaza, Director of Facilities and Campus Safety Carol Matos, Vice President for Administration and Kelly Sawatsky, Dean of the Precollege Human Relations Alexa Smith, Chief of Staff DEPARTMENT CHAIRS AND PROGRAM DIRECTORS Linda Chesis, Chair, Woodwinds Christopher Lamb, Chair, Percussion Glenn Dicterow, Chair, Graduate Program in Jeffrey Langford, Associate Dean of Doctoral Orchestral Performance Studies and Chair, Music History Casey Molino Dunn, Director, Center for Music David Leisner, Chair, Guitar Entrepreneurship George Manahan, Director of Orchestral Activities John Forconi, Chair, Collaborative Piano Nicholas Mann, Chair, Strings Reiko Fueting, Chair, Theory John Pagano, Chair, Humanities David Geber, Director of Chamber Music Liza Gennaro, Associate Dean and Director, Stefon Harris, Associate Dean and Director, Musical Theatre Program Jazz Arts Program Maitland Peters, Chair, Voice Andrew Henderson, Chair, Organ Marc Silverman, Chair, Piano David Jolley, Chair, Brass J. Mark Stambaugh, Acting Chair, Composition Margaret Kampmeier, Artistic Director and Chair, Kent Tritle, Director of Choral Activities Contemporary Performance Program Dona D. Vaughn, Artistic Director of Opera Kathryn LaBouff, Assistant Chair, Voice 41 CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

Co-Chairs Jeff Breithaupt Ruth Golden* Vice President for Media and Communications Voice faculty member Susan Madden Bryan Greaney (BM ’08, MM ’10)* Vice President for Advancement Dean of Academic Operations Joyce Griggs* Vice Chairs Executive Vice President and Provost Kelly Hall-Tompkins (MM ’95, HonDMA ’14) John Blanchard (MM ’89) Institutional Historian and Director of Archives Stefon Harris (BM ’95, MM ’97)* Associate Dean and Director of Jazz Arts Nolan Robertson (BM ’05) Dean of Performance (through 8/31/18) Nancy Freund Heller* Board of Trustees Joseph Joubert (BM ’79, MM ’81) Lou Alexander (MM ’79) Distinguished Alumni Award recipient Chair, Alumni Advisory Council Phillip Kawin (BM ’82, MM ’85) Justin Bischof (BM ’90, MM ’92, DMA ’98) Piano faculty member Vice-Chair, Alumni Advisory Council Monica Christensen* Esther Lee (BM ’98, MM ’00) Alumni Advisory Council Dean of Students Noémi K. Neidorff (BM ’70, MM ’72) Sharon Daley-Johnson (BM ’88, MM ’89) Secretary, Board of Trustees Alumni Advisory Council * Katharine Dryden* Bill O’Connor Board of Trustees Director of Instrumental Ensembles Kelly Sawatsky (MM ’02)* Lauren Frankovich (MM ’09)* Dean of the Precollege Associate Director for Alumni Engagement Lorraine Gallard Chair, Board of Trustees James Gandre* President *Steering Committee member

42 CENTENNIAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

LIST IN FORMATION

Richard Elder Adams^ Russell Granet John Musto^ Former Vice President, MSM Acting President and CEO, Composer and Pianist Kara Medoff Barnett Lincoln Center for the Bebe Neuwirth*+ Performing Arts Executive Director, Tony and Emmy David Grusin* Award-winning Actress Leszek Barwinski-Brown Composer and Pianist Amy Niles CEO, Lang Lang Foundation Thomas Hampson*+ President & CEO, WBGO Sian Beilock, PhD Elmar Oliveira*^ President, Barnard College *^ Internationally Acclaimed Terence Blanchard*+ Tony Award-winning Baritone Violinist Composer and Jazz Trumpeter Howard Herring*^ Susan L. Quittmeyer^ Judy Blazer^ President & CEO, Metropolitan Opera New World Symphony Mezzo-Soprano Broadway Performer Deborah Borda Norman Horowitz James Roe Executive Director, Stecher President & Executive Director, President & CEO, and Horowitz Foundation Orchestra of St. Luke’s * Ronald Carter*^ Andrew Jorgensen Ned Rorem General Director, -winning Composer Grammy Award-winning Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Jazz Bassist Jesse Rosen^ ^ Anton Coppola^ Aaron Jay Kernis President & CEO, Pulitzer Prize-winning Composer League of American Orchestras Conductor and Composer ^ John Corigliano*^ Nancy Maginnes Kissinger Democratic Leader Philanthropist Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, and Charles E. Schumer Academy Award-winning Lang Lang*+ Peter Simon Composer Grammy Award-winning Pianist President, The Royal Anthony Roth Costanzo+^ Margaret Lioi Conservatory; Former President, MSM Metropolitan Opera Chief Executive Officer, Countertenor Chamber Music America Robert Sirota Patricia Cruz ^ Composer and Former President, MSM Executive Director, Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Stage Academy Award-winning Leonard Slatkin*+ Glenn Dicterow+ Composer Grammy Award-winning Conductor Former Concertmaster, Ron Losby New York Philharmonic President & CEO, Melvin Stecher F. Paul Driscoll* Steinway & Sons Executive Director, Stecher and Horowitz Foundation Editor-in-Chief, Opera News Robert McGrath^ Richard Gaddes* “Bob” from Michael G. Stewart M.D. Founder and Medical Director, Founder and Former General Johanna Meier^ Center for the Performing Artist, Manager, Opera Theatre of Metropolitan Opera Soprano Weill Cornell Medical College / Saint Louis, Former General William R. Miller* New York-Presbyterian Hospital Manager, Santa Fe Opera Alicia Hall Moran^ * Sir James and Lady Galway Limor Tomer Broadway Performer and General Manager of Concerts Founders, Recording Artist & Lectures, The Metropolitan Galway Flute Academy *^ Museum of Art * Jason Moran Jazz Pianist and Artistic Tony and Emmy Award-winning Ann Ziff Director for Jazz, Kennedy Chairman, Board of Directors, Broadway Musical Director Center for the Performing Arts The Metropolitan Opera and Conductor James Morris *+ Susan Graham*^ Pinchas Zukerman Metropolitan Opera Bass; Grammy Award-winning Metropolitan Opera MSM Faculty Member Conductor, Violinist, and Violist Mezzo-Soprano

* Honorary doctorate recipient + Artistic Advisory Board member 43 ^ Alumna/alumnus ABOUT MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC Founded as a community music school by Janet Daniels Schenck in 1918, today MSM is recognized for its more than 960 superbly talented undergraduate and graduate students who come from more than 50 countries and nearly all 50 states; its innovative curricula and world- renowned artist-teacher faculty that includes musicians from the New York Philharmonic, the Met Orchestra, and the top ranks of the jazz and Broadway communities; and a distinguished community of accomplished, award-winning alumni working at the highest levels of the musical, educational, cultural, and professional worlds. The School is dedicated to the personal, artistic, and intellectual development of aspiring musicians, from its Precollege students through those pursuing doctoral studies. Offering classical, jazz, and musical theatre training, MSM grants a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees. True to MSM’s origins as a music school for children, the Precollege program continues to offer superior music instruction to 475 young musicians between the ages of 5 and 18. The School also serves some 2,000 New York City schoolchildren through its Arts-in-Education Program, and another 2,000 students through its critically acclaimed Distance Learning Program.

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