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12 Boniface Friends of Music Saint Boniface Episcopal Church Join the Friends who make this special music possible. 5615 Midnight Pass Road, Siesta Key, Sarasota, Fl. 34242 Pick up a leaflet “Marvelous Music at St Boniface” Brenda and Jim Albus Phil Hubbell Dr. and Mrs. Vernon Amundson Suzanne and Oliver Janney Suzanne C. Barksdale Charles and Janet Kiblinger Dr. and Mrs. Charles Bollman Jeanene Kortjohn Dor and Bob Meg and Herbert Larrabee Will Brown D’Arlene Llewellyn Leone Buyse flute Johanna Cleary William and Nell Martin Edward D. Cohen Connie and Rooney Mereness John Cooper Fred and Molly Moffat Ann Hobson Pilot harp Judy and Ted Copland Mary and Bruce Mozelle Karen and Steve Dakan Paul and Mary Neuhauser Dorothy Davis Neil & Sue Page Gray Davis Beverly W Parker Sunday, October 26th at 4pm Barbara Diles Fred and Shirlee Parman Bruce Eberlin and Chuck Kelley Muriel Patram David Ellwanger Lou and Ginger Pavloff David and Nancy Evans Bob Phipps Evelyn Ferguson Muriel E. B. 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Extra Ticket $10 special thanks go to our anonymous donors who sponsor Choral Scholarships with Schola Cantorum. www.bonifacechurch.org 941-349-5616 Leone Buyse flute Ann Hobson Pilot harp Leone Buyse flute Ann Hobson Pilot harp ANN HOBSON PILOT, the legendary former Principal Harpist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), retired in 2009 after 40 years. Ms. Pilot has had an extensive solo career PROGRAM performing as soloist with orchestras in the US as well as Europe, Haiti, New Zealand, and South Africa, where she traveled in 1997 to record a video documentary, “Ann Hobson Pilot, A Musical Journey” which aired nationwide on PBS for three years. Sonata for flute and harp Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) After the 2009 Tanglewood concerts and her official retirement, Pilot returned to the stage Larghetto - Allegro as soloist with the BSO opening the Boston Symphony season and the Carnegie Hall season with the world premiere of a concerto written for her by John Williams, “On Willows and Fantasia No. 6 in D minor for solo flute Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Birches”. Dolce – Allegro - Spirituoso The recipient of an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Tufts University in 2010, she has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boston Musicians Impromptu Caprice for solo harp Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Association and from the Talent Development League of the Atlanta Symphony. Her new video documentary—“A Harpist’s Legacy - Ann Hobson Pilot anD the SounD of Change “ - profiles the inspirational life and musical career of a gifted African American Serenade No. 10 for flute and harp (1957) Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) woman’s triumph over barriers of race and gender to become an artist and teacher whom Larghetto - Allegro comoDo - AnDante grazioso - AnDante cantabile many, including John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma and James Levine, revere as one of the world’s Allegretto – ScherzanDo – Adagietto - Vivo great harpists. The documentary will air on PBS stations nationwide through 2017. Ms. Pilot has recorded on the Boston Records label as well as for Koch International, Deutsche Grammophon, New World Records and Denouement Records. Her recording of INTERMISSION “On Willows and Birches” with the Boston Symphony was recently released for download on the BSO website. Her new recording of music by the Argentinian composer, Astor Piazzolla for harp, violin and bandoneon will be released in January of 2015 on the Harmonia Mundi label. The violinist is Lucia Lin of the Boston Symphony and the Muir Song of the Lark for flute and harp (1989) Charles Rochester Young (b. 1965) string quartet and J P Jofre, world famous Argentinean bandoneon player. Song of the Waking Sun – Flight - Into Darkness LEONE BUYSE is the Mullen Professor of Flute at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston. Previously a principal flutist of the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops and member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic, she has Entrac’te Georges Bizet (1838-1875) appeared as soloist with those orchestras and also with the Utah Symphony, the Xalapa Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Mexico City and l'Orchestre de la Suisse Sicilienne Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Romande. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players throughout Europe and Japan, with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Brentano, and Muir String Quartets, and in recital with Jessye Norman and Yo-Yo Ma. A renowned educator, she has taught at the New (1890-1962) Entrac’te Jacques Ibert England Conservatory, Boston University, the University of Michigan, and the Aspen, Sarasota, and Norfolk music festivals, and has presented recitals and master classes across Milonga del Ángel Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Brazil, Chile, France, Italy, the Muerte del Ángel arrangeD by Michael Maganuco Netherlands, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Her solo recordings are available on the Crystal, Boston Records, and Albany labels. In 2010 Ms. Buyse received the National Flute Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to the flute community worldwide. Her former students hold positions at major universities and in many major orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Charlotte, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Florida Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony. She maintains a web presence at www.leonebuyse.com. .